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Once again, we've had a great weekend with fellow coffee enthusiasts in Jakarta. We witnessed how our humble kiosk has brought us to many new collaborations.
On Saturday, July 5, Josh Estey, the Daddy of Bear&Co. Pop-Up Coffee Bike, became our Guest Brewer. He brought his awesome custom-built bike to our kiosk, and a tank of cold brew. His signature cold brew was shaken for 45 seconds, creating a foam on the top. It almost looked like a cold stout instead! His cold brew was a big hit.
Moreover, Josh performed his hidden magic skills. He charmed us by juggling a crystal-clear ball with his hands. Meanwhile, his kickass wife Dian and their children Diva, Xenia and Nic also came by bringing free homemade apple crumble for all. They also brought the cool Bear&Co. jerseys to sell. The lovely Esteys truly added strength to the family-bond we always felt in the pasar.
Another unpredictable surprise was the visit of our friend Til from Bonsoy Indonesia. Yes, Bonsoy the magical soy milk! Til, a.k.a. @eetil on Instagram, also became our Guest Barista. Coffee lovers were spoiled by the loveliest Soy Cappuccinos ever! (Oh, if you're wondering how a Soy Cappuccino could taste good, you should really try using Bonsoy. Bonsoy changes e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g!) Please give a five to @BonsoyID on Instagram, too. We are so damn proud to collaborate with Til and Bonsoy!
We brought 500 gr of Bruna Espresso Blend by Roots Bangkok for our first edition of Bangkok Dangerous, and they were finished to the very last bean. Our place went really crowded at the Buka Puasa (breaking the fast) hour, and we were overwhelmed by the love and enthusiasm for coffee shown by our friends. We even ended up running out of water and milk! Luckily, we ran out of them right on the time we planned to roll down the doors.
On Sunday, July 6, we were scheduled to open at 3pm. Yet, first couple of friends already showed up at 1.30pm! They were none other than Movie Geek Rusli "Sly" Eddy and his friend Edwin. Old friends Adinda Simandjuntak and her husband Edwin – the director of award-winning The Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly quickly joined us with their cute little boy Jiri. Soon, we have more friends coming by, including the beloved Honestly Muesli (@honestlymuesli on Instagram).
The day went rather slow as the rain fell quite hard. Our Baristas With Attitude (Problems)™ had a relaxing and quiet day at the pasar, finishing Ceresia Coffee Roaster's Colombia Finca La Falda, and trying out Mecca Espresso's Darkhorse Blend, and Coffee Alchemy's Goodness Galileo. Yet, at around 7.30pm, coffee enthusiasts returned to flock. We finally wrapped up the weekend with a cheerful bunch of friends.
Also blessing our weekend were Fruit Choux-es by @sepotongkue (on Instagram). At Rp7,500 only, this piece of heaven made a great companion for the coffee we serve.
These are collaborations made not out of business meetings but some blending of passions and friendships. In the name of Coffee, we say, "Thank you, thank you, thank you!"


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A user cooperative beamforming approach to PAPR reduction in MIMO-OFDM uplink
ASILOMAR 2016, 50th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, November 6-9, 2016, Asilomar, USA
We consider a scheme for PAPR reduction based on user cooperation in a single-cell multi-user MIMO-OFDM uplink system. The idea is to utilize the unused space-frequency resources induced by collaborative beamforming to transmit dummy symbols, resulting in a transmit signal with reduced per-antenna peak powers. Traditionally collaborative beamforming has been used to acquire beamforming gain, i.e., extended cell coverage and improved rates, while our approach also in addition reduces the transmit signal PAPR of individual user antennas. The reduced PAPR enables the users to allocate more power to data transmission, resulting in a higher system sum-rate for a fixed peak transmit power budget while also relaxing the strict linearity requirements of the user equipment RF components. We also account for the power required to exchange data between cooperating users by utilizing a simple AWGN channel model between users. We formulate the PAPR minimization problem as a convex optimization problem that reduces the PAPR of a given time domain transmit signal provided there are subcarriers with no previous bit allocations, which is a valid assumption especially at mid- and low-SNR regimes.
|A user cooperative beamforming approach to PAPR reduction in MIMO-OFDM uplink
|November 2016
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Betty Kasparek, had family in New Milford
In addition to her husband and children, she is survived by five grandchildren, John Daniels and his wife Melissa of New Milford, Jennifer Wendel and her husband Bill of Southbury, Heather Kasparek and her fiance Rob of Colorado, and Megan and Melanie Kasparek of Trumbull; and four great-grandchildren, Taylor and Johssa Daniels and Maiya and Jack Wendel.
The Larson Funeral Home of Brigeport was in charge of arrangements.
Memorials may be made to the Swim Across the Sound, c/o of St. Vincent's Medical Center Foundation, 2800 Main St. Bridgeport, CT 06605.


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Led by guitar visionary Kevin Shields, My Bloody Valentine were one of the most unique bands of the alt-rock era, introducing a groundbreaking concoction of discordant effects and fragile melodies and kick-starting Britain's late-Eighties dream-pop scene.
After moving from New York to Ireland at age six, Shields befriended Colm O'Ciosoig, who shared his obsession with pop music. In 1984 the two formed My Bloody Valentine, named for a B movie, with singer Dave Conway. It wasn't until 1988's Isn't Anything, however, that MBV locked into its unusual, influential sound, inspired equally by the churning guitars of the Jesus and Mary Chain, the melodic sensibilities of the Cocteau Twins, and the dissonance of Sonic Youth. The album also featured Bilinda Butcher, whose voice alternated with Shields' vocals. (All of their U.K. releases from 1988, including the essential You Made Me Realise EP, were subsequently released in the U.S.)
Sire signed MBV that same year for the States, but it took three years for the band to complete its full-length magnum opus, Loveless, which cost a reported $500,000 and nearly sunk its British label, Creation. (The LP reached only Number 24 in the U.K. and didn't chart in the States.) Despite its difficult birth, Lovelesswas a sensation, setting a new standard for what rock music made with guitar, bass and drums could actually sound like. Onstage, MBV played deafeningly loud but its members were nearly motionless, inspiring the phrase "shoe gazers" to describe the band's (and their followers') passive, introspective demeanor.
After a 1992 tour, the band essentially dropped off the face of the earth while trying (unsuccessfully) to complete the follow-up to Loveless. MBV's mystique only became more powerful due to the hiatus, during which Shields would occasionally turn up guesting on other artists' albums (J Mascis, Primal Scream, Gemma Hayes) or contributing music to film soundtracks (Lost in Translation), only to vanish once more.
Without warning, MBV returned to the live stage louder than ever in the summer of 2008, playing its first show in 16 years in London on June 13. Shields curated the American version of the All Tomorrow's Parties festival, which took place in September 2008 and was the setting for My Bloody Valentine's first American show in 16 years. A successful world tour, including an appearance at the 2009 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, followed, as did assertions from Shields that the band would finally release new music in the near future.


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AUBURN, Ala. (WTVM) - An East Alabama community's concern increases each day 19-year-old Aniah Blanchard is still missing.
Many young women said they're now taking special precautions to stay safe after her disappearance and the disappearance of another young female college student in Atlanta.
"It made me feel sick to my stomach," Auburn student Morgan Arnold, said of the fact Blanchard's still missing.
Blanchard was last seen October 23 at a convenience store on South College Street in Auburn.
Her car was found two days later, 50 miles away, in Montgomery, damaged and containing evidence that led investigators to believe she was a victim of foul play.
"I mean, it's absolutely heartbreaking," Reagan Lowden, an Auburn freshman, said.
Many throughout the tree-lined streets of Auburn said Blanchard's disappearance has shaken the community.
"This is a wake-up call," Arnold said.
It's a wake-up call amplified by another college student's disappearance just a week later in Atlanta, 21-year-old Alexis Crawford, who police said was last seen October 30.
"It most definitely makes you change the way you do things," said Iyana Tate, who attends Auburn.
Many young women around Blanchard's age throughout East Alabama are taking special precautions to stay safe, like allowing friends and family to track the location of their phone's GPS.
"I started sharing my location with people so they know where I am all the time," Arnold said.
Lowden said she also shares her location with friends but is particular about how she travels around the area now.
"I'm definitely calling the security shuttle every time I park my car," she said.
Despite the fact their own safety is on their minds, all were also thinking of Blanchard.
"I really just hope she gets found soon," Lowden said. "We're all praying she gets back safe."
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The net becomes centralized.
For years now, platforms have become more and more dominant in the value chains of retailers, e-commerce and other digital industry. First started as enablers for small business to reach a worldwide audience, the relationship between platforms and business partners is no longer on eye level.
This has led to a number of new challenges, responsibilities and market risks for f.e. game and other app developers that they should take to account while building their businesses.
What are the effects of the new role of platform on customers and business partners? (Lock In effects etc)
How can the balance be restored again for a fair market?
Are platform policies a new legislative layer between state and citizens?
This talk wants to sensitize for the topic of platform regulation on national and EU level. First by naming the challenges, then by discussing possible regulation. Germany as an example has published a white book which could be a first step towards national legislation in this area. EU will also come up with legislation. This will be the topic of the coming year/s


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Part 8 • A new enemy
After the Feb. 22 shrine bombing in Samarra, killing Shiites became more important than killing Americans – or guarding Jill.
| Staff writers of The Christian Science Monitor
(J.C.) Blind again under the black scarves – a now familiar routine after one and a half months in captivity – I was herded into a car, headed for yet another change of houses. I didn't know who the two men in the front seat were until I heard a voice I barely recognized, due to the speaker's exhaustion.
"Abu Rasha is very tired. It was a very busy day," said Abu Nour's No. 2, speaking in the third person, as night fell like its own black scarf on the world outside.
Abu Rasha was a large man, one of the organizers of my guards. His house in Baghdad – or what I took to be his house – was one of the first places I'd been taken after being kidnapped. I'd spent a lot of time in his presence. But I'd never encountered him in a state like this.
"Today was very, very bad," he said. "All day, driving here, and driving there, with the PKC and the RPG," he said, referring to Russian-made machine guns and rocket-propelled grenade launchers, which were among the insurgents' most common weapons. It had been a day of hard fighting. But they hadn't been confronting US or Iraqi soldiers. Today, they had had a different target: Shiites.
|SAMARRA: On February 22, 2006, a large explosion destroyed the golden dome shrine of Ali al-Hadi, one of Shiites' holiest shrines.
Two days earlier, on Feb. 22, an important Shiite mosque in Samarra, Iraq, had been blown up. Shiites had attacked Sunni mosques in retaliation – the result being a vicious cycle of attack-and-response that had altered the world of my Sunni Islamist kidnappers.
We arrived back at the place I called the "clubhouse," near Abu Ghraib, later that night. Slumped in a plastic chair in a room lit by the stark half-light of a fluorescent camping lantern, another mujahid told me their new bottom line.
"Aisha," he said, calling me by the Sunni nickname they'd given me, "now our No. 1 enemy are the Shias. Americans are No. 2."
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(P.G.) As editor of the Monitor, Richard Bergenheim was the person who spoke to contacts who required special handling. That meant, for instance, that if FBI Director Robert Mueller called, he answered. And Mr. Mueller did call, early on, to ask if the Monitor was getting the help it needed.
It also meant that as the Jill Carroll hostage crisis dragged on, Mr. Bergenheim found himself at the center of the strange case of Daphne Barak and Sheikh Sattam Hamid Farhan al-Gaood (also spelled Gaaod). The Monitor was simply pursuing every lead, but this would be quite a rabbit hole.
On her website, Daphne Barak describes herself as "one of the few leading A-list interviewers in the world." An Israeli-American syndicated television journalist, her interviewees have included everyone from Hillary Clinton to members of pop star Michael Jackson's family.
Mr. Gaood, to some US officials, isn't so much a celebrity as he is notorious. "One of Saddam Hussein's most trusted confidants in conducting clandestine business transactions," according to the CIA's 2004 report on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. The same report said Gaood was once the director of El Eman, the "largest network of Iraqi front companies" that smuggled oil out of Iraq and foodstuffs into Iraq in violation of the UN oil-for-food program, but "he has stated that he believed this to be legitimate business."
Sometime in late January, a source at a US television network told the Monitor that Ms. Barak was trying to sell an interview she'd conducted with Gaood – and that Gaood had mentioned helping get Jill Carroll out.
So Bergenheim called Barak. The story was true – or, at least, the part about the interview was.
Gaood had said, in an offhand way, that kidnapping was wrong, and Jill should be released. Pressed, he'd said something to the effect of, yes, he could arrange her freedom, he'd even use his own money, if needed – but so far, no one had asked him to.
(J.C.) The wave of sectarian violence which overtook Iraq following the destruction of Samarra's Askariya Shrine had a huge impact on the nature of my captivity.
That was because the level of activity of the mujahideen group which had seized me greatly increased. Many of its members were out fighting their new war almost every day.
At first, I thought this was a bad thing for me. It was destabilizing the status quo – and under the status quo, at least I was still alive.
I didn't want to be killed just because I was now a burden. And I certainly didn't want to be caught in the middle of a Sunni-Shiite firefight.
But after a while it became clear that this conflict, despite its horrible effect on Iraq itself, might be a good thing for me. Their main mission was now something to which my presence was, politically speaking, only tangential. And they began running out of places to put me, because suddenly, American and Iraqi troops were everywhere, trying to keep the peace.
From my first days in captivity I'd seen evidence that they weren't just kidnappers but also insurgents actively conducting attacks. They didn't much bother trying to hide their firearms and explosives.
For instance, one morning at the location I knew as the mujahideen clubhouse I awoke to find fresh dirt in the bathroom, dirt in the shower, and dirt in the washing machine. I didn't think much of it. Maybe they were washing their shoes.
But I quickly learned that the appearance of dirt meant that someone in the house had been out planting bombs – IEDs, or Improvised Explosive Devices, the mujahideen weapon of choice. I knew from my reporting, and the time I spent embedded with US Marines, that IEDs were now responsible for about half of all US combat deaths in Iraq.
Not all their explosives were offensive weapons. At least one of my guards – Abu Hassan, a serious man – wore a suicide vest inside the clubhouse.
One night, he was leaning over a little gas-powered stove, cooking eggs and potatoes in oil, and then he sat back and pushed the open flame away, saying something like, "Oh, have to be careful!"
The suicide vest was under his shirt, sort of swinging back and forth. He was afraid the fire would ignite the explosives. And if it did, we'd all be dead.
He used to complain about how heavy it was. He'd wear it at night. He would mime for me what would happen if soldiers came, showing how he'd put it on, with shoulder straps, and then how two wires would connect. Then he would move his hands outward in a big motion indicating an explosion, look upward, and go, "BOOM!"
(P.G.) The prospect of help from Sheikh Gaood raised hopes at the Monitor's offices in Boston at a time when other tracks of investigation seemed to be drying up. But it quickly became a serious source of tension at the paper and among the US agencies who were supposedly cooperating to find Jill.
The Monitor's Baghdad correspondents Scott Peterson and Dan Murphy didn't trust Gaood's motives. Was Gaood trying to win favor with the US government – as it investigated violations of the UN oil-for-food sanctions program? And the FBI wasn't happy about it either. They wanted to keep Gaood out of the picture.
US and foreign intelligence sources, on the other hand, said that Gaood had indeed been a powerful figure under Saddam Hussein. And, the CIA's report on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction described Gaood as "linked" to an insurgent network near Fallujah that "actively sought chemical weapons for use against Coalition forces" in 2004. It was possible he had the contacts to release Jill, they said, but there were no guarantees.
Which government agency was right? How should the Monitor advise the Carroll family? And how much should the Monitor invest in pursuing this track?
According to intelligence sources, the CIA checked with the FBI, the lead agency in the Carroll case, before providing the Monitor with more background on Gaood. The FBI replied with a blistering e-mail: the CIA should stay in its own lane, and stop talking to the Monitor about the Carroll case. (Today, the FBI says no such message was sent. But Gaood "was assessed as a complete 'X' factor, which means undemonstrated credibility," says FBI spokesman Richard Kolko.)
To try and settle this intergovernmental dispute, Bergenheim called Mr. Mueller, the head of the FBI. You asked if we were getting the help we needed, he said, in effect. Well, we aren't.
|SATTAM AL-GAOOD: The former senior Iraqi Baath party official, shown here at his house in Amman, Jordan, Monday, Jan. 2, 2006, suggested that he could secure Jill's release.
The FBI response? The Monitor was given two new, higher-level contacts within the bureau, but from then on the paper's editor was given less information about the government's efforts in the case.
Bergenheim decided to tell the Carroll family about the Barak/Gaood connection. Bad move, said the Baghdad Boys. But on Feb. 9, Jim and Mary Beth Carroll went on "Good Morning America" and asked for the help of the "powerful sheikh," without naming him.
A few days later, Gaood issued a statement from his exile in Jordan, calling for Jill's release to prove that the Iraqi insurgency "does not kill innocents."
Nothing happened. And the days dragged on.
(J.C.) There was no mistaking that the mujahideen who held me hated America. "One day, hopefully, one day, America, all of America gone," said one of my guards early in my captivity. He spread his hands out wide as if to wipe America off the map.
"I don't quite understand," I said. "All America?"
My female jailer Um Ali, listening in on the conversation, translated the sentiment into simpler Arabic for me. "No journalists, no people, no nothing," she said.
I could also see that Shiites were high on their list of enemies. Once, when attempting to explain the historical split between Sunnis and Shiites, Abu Nour, the leader of my captors, stopped himself after he referred to "Shiite Muslims."
"No, they are not Muslims," Ink Eyes said. "Anyone who asks for things from people that are dead, and not [from] Allah, he is not a Muslim."
He was referring to Shiites appealing to long-dead Islamic leaders to intercede with God, asking for miracles such as curing the sick. It's a practice similar to that of Catholics praying to saints.
But after the Feb. 22 bombing of the Askariya Shrine, and rampant Sunni-Shiite killing, nearly every captor I came into contact with would tell me about their hate for Shiites first. Abu Nour now simply referred to them as "dogs."
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(P.G.) The Monitor and the family still talked almost every day, but they had less to say to each other. There were fewer leads and less information to share.
In Baghdad, a new case officer from the British security consultants had arrived and was proving difficult to work with. Correspondents Murphy and Peterson were irritated by prodding from Boston to rotate out for a rest.
Neither Peterson nor Murphy considered themselves particularly religious. But as Peterson notes, "there are no atheists in foxholes." From the beginning, he drew strength from the book of Psalms, and this passage: "Truth brings the elements of liberty. The power of God brings deliverance to the captive," written by Mary Baker Eddy, who founded this paper.
Some nights, at the end of the last conference call with Boston, the pair would listen to Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" performed by Jeff Buckley. It filled the apartment, and lifted their spirits, with a song that Murphy knew to be one of Jill's favorites.
Eventually, reluctantly, Peterson took a two-week break with his family in Istanbul, Turkey.
In mid-February, Jim notified the Monitor that he had opened a new channel with someone claiming to be an intermediary for the kidnappers. Hopes rose again.
An Arabic interpreter was brought into his home. But under FBI advice, Jim refused to tell Team Jill in Boston or the Baghdad Boys any of the details. Even more frustrating to Murphy and Peterson, Jill's father told them to shut down any other tracks they were pursuing, including talks with Jordanian officials who had just said they would try to help. The Monitor reporters didn't want to be working at cross-purposes to Jim, so they reluctantly sat on their hands.
But after the bombing of the Askariya Shrine, fighting surged between Shiite militias and Sunni insurgents, prompting more curfews. Jim's Iraqi contact stopped answering his phone. Days dragged into a week, two weeks.
Another dry hole.
Discouraged, Jim sent word that Murphy and Peterson could resume their efforts in Iraq. By now, Murphy needed a break and left for Cairo.
(J.C.) On the day in late February that an exhausted Abu Rasha had told me that Shiites were now the mujahideen's top target, he'd told me something else, something chilling.
"We killed an Al Arabiya journalist," he said, his face drawn, his eyes hard. "She said the mujahideen are bad."
It was unclear if he meant that he himself had participated in the killing or if it had been done by men from the larger group of mujahideen.
They'd frequently assured me that I wasn't going to be killed. But clearly there were times when their rules for jihad allowed them to kill women, and to kill women journalists.
As I learned after I was released, the well-known Al Arabiya newswoman Atwar Bahjat and two colleagues were abducted and killed by gunmen while they were interviewing Iraqis near the bombed Samarra shrine.
I bounced from house to house over the next few weeks – mostly between the clubhouse and a new house west of Fallujah – and the guards grew incredibly agitated. They would bitterly complain to me about being stuck with guard duty. Abu Hassan – the guard with the suicide vest – would sleep and eat little. He was always on edge. He would fiddle with his 9mm pistol obsessively and leap to his feet to peer out a window at the first sound of a helicopter or barking dog.
|ATWAR BAHJAT: Jill Carroll's captors said they killed this TV journalist on Feb. 22.
He spent his time on the phone, checking in with others for the latest news on their campaign to kill Shiites. When anyone came to the house, he pumped them for stories about their "work," as they all called it.
In his state of agitation and boredom, he began raising suspicions about the Shiite neighbors. They didn't know I was there. They didn't appear to know that the men at this house were mujahideen. They'd drop off fresh bread or yogurt, or stop to chat outside, just as Iraqis had done for generations.
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On morality and #ifikiewazazi
The past few years have seen an increase in questions of morality in our newsflashes, epitomised by a hastily assembled panel of experts on whatever new atrocity that our young generation has committed. Whatever the often-hypocritical panels are saying to help the situation is not working, as can be seen from the recent #ifikiewazazi hashtag, aimed at exposing the Sodom and Gomorrah reincarnates who parade their young flesh flirtatiously for a thirsty following ready to like and retweet.
For a bunch that was looking to make sure our parents realized what immorality their children were exposed- or exposed themselves- to, I believe the originators of the trend can sit relaxed. However, I have been trying to avoid the lay man's eye, so quick to condemn an act but not concerned with its underlying issue. What really ails our country to this extent?
Our technological achievements as a world and a country are striking and in the last fifteen years, our mode of communication has changed significantly. Today, our patience is on the trial almost daily in a WhatsApp group you were added into by a person you don't know, and coming from an era where you had to walk with a load of coins to make a call, this is pretty forgetful of us. Photography has also taken strides and instead of an appointment with the village photographer patched on a bike, or a visit to a yellow-themed, Kodak-inspired studio, you just have to wear a glowing mask over your miserable face and take a selfie. Of course, before you forget, you have to post it on Snapchat, Instagram, Twitter and Facebook, in that order, with long hashtags that glorify your filtered, freckle-less face while admonishing your haters. However, technology only serves as a medium to reveal the rot in our society.
Kenya is at interesting crossroads pitting a traditional culture that confines us to social hierarchy, moral value and honour, versus a modern age powered by information. Parents find themselves with a duty to bring up children in this confluence and not many can understand it, let alone guide their children through it. If you look, even not keenly, you wouldn't miss a Kenyan in an immoral act, sadly even old enough to be your parent. Where public funds are greedily looted, civilians killed and school children abused, there is little morality to look up to. In our ethnically-balkanised country, intellect and reason have gone underground, insurrection and high-handed anarchy is rife, and any form of civility is in hibernation.
Our moral decadence stinks to high-heavens and even as we castigate our teenagers and call the curses of our forefathers down on them, the rot is deeper than its superficial nature.
Have any thoughts on this column and morality in our country. Hit us up on social media or in the comments below. If you are looking for swimming lessons in Nairobi and not a social discussion, don't hesitate to call.


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Feb 13, 2019
Forex Trend Following Strategy
Trend trading is a strategy that is very common in market technology trading. Trends can be up or down. Strictly speaking, trends in courses are always present. Even a sideways phase represents a trend, it is only called not as a trend but as a consolidation. How to do this will be presented in another article. This is about the classic trend.
Trading up or down trends?
Trends all show similarities; they only differ in their volatility from asset class to asset class. Since foreign exchange is the largest and most liquid capital market and global trade takes place 24/5, even currency pairs are volatile, i.e. fluctuation-wide. Nevertheless, they often show stable trends.
Whether you trade up or down depends on your own preferences. Although downward trends are usually more dynamic in stock markets, both currencies' upward and downward movements can be very dynamic. While stock sales are one-way, currency pairs depend on which currency is sold. If the US dollar is sold against the euro for relevant reasons, it can mean a dynamic increase and thus a trend in the EUR/USD currency pair.
How do you identify a trend?
Forex trends are usually influenced by many factors. Each currency has its own weighting in the factors. Some are extremely dependent on commodity prices, others on the economy in China and others on political and monetary policy decisions. It is advisable to know these characteristics, even if you strictly act according to the market technique.
How do you act trends?
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Okay, so question: If you wanted a commissioned portrait of you, by me, along the lines of this, how much would you pay, realistically? I'm curious.
And, it's not content, so much — describe his work by content, and you pretty much get 'horror' –it's the shape of his stories, how they kind of wyrm their way into the back of your brain, and spell it like that while they're doing it, which is somehow worse, and better, and more permanent…
For me, what horror hopes to do is scare the reader, to instill dread or terror, to plant a seed of fear in them that they can't shake. Which is very honorable. Those few times you zing your arrow past all the baffles and obstacles and get it right in the reader's head, such that they leave the lights on at night? That's what it's all about You've changed them, you're a part of them now, and, and: horror, I wonder if it's one of those genres that's functionally incomplete without closing the circuit, without getting a reader? I mean, if I write something, it's not scary until it scares somebody, right? Anyway, horror's dynamic, its intent, it's similar to weird fiction's, I think, but … I think what weird fiction tries to do, it's unsettle you to some degree. But it also wants to make the world bigger than you ever thought it was, or could be. And, sure, Lovecraft's the standard-bearer for all this, but it's still happening, too. Just in less tentacly ways. And sometimes with tentacles intact.
Stephen Graham Jones, from his interview with Weird Fiction Review
I maintain, it's a funny thing, this paranormal field.
After GHI producers let me go in the spring of 2010, I met Callea Sherrill and started to work at the Stanley Hotel, leading the public ghost hunts on the weekends and did this for about a year, ending this past November, where I was again without a team or opportunity to investigate.
So I finished up my penultimate semester of college and dove headlong into my seven-year novel project Hallowtide, doing a full rewrite of the work I started in high school. This took me a good three months of the winter, writing late into the morning hours, before sleeping until noon and going to classes in the afternoons. Just this week, I finished the rewrite and now intend to let it sit for a few weeks before diving back into revisions when I have free time.
But in the way that doors open when another closes, as I've found is especially prevalent in the paranormal field, after the Stanley and then the chance to write the latest update of my novel, I've now signed to a new offer, to write the Colorado installment of Clerisy Press's America's Haunted Roadtrip series, which is a fantastic series of books exploring the cooler locations in your favorite states across the country. Whether you're road tripping it with some buddies or you want a tour of the sites from your own living room, these books do both. Already the series has some fourteen installments. If you'd like more information on it, you can check out Clerisy's website here; https://www.clerisypress.com/
The book is tentatively due out Fall of 2013, end of the world or not!
Which means that this summer and into the fall I'll be traveling about Colorado, laptop in one hand, voice recorder in the other, crawling about in and researching some of Colorado's most haunted and interesting public locations.
But now I also need your help. I've been compiling a list of notorious and little-known Colorado haunts and I always love good personal recommendations. Whether the coolest, prettiest, tastiest, or most importantly; most haunted, I want to know if you have a cool Colorado haunt. Fill me in by leaving a comment, sending an @reply on twitter, hitting up my facebook, or contacting me through my website. The only requirement is that it's haunted, awesome, and open to the public.
Got around to watching the controversial GHI episode a bit earlier tonight, and despite the late hour, felt the need to chime in.
If you didn't see the episode, the team went to investigate some Mayan ruins in Belize. Due to reports of activity escalating after a bloodletting ritual (the site was a place of ancient human sacrifice thousands of years prior), the team decided to repeat the ritual to see if that activity would increase the way it did in the reports. The ritual involved cutting the volunteer, Susan, with an obsidian blade on her forearm to draw a bit of blood that was then mixed in an incense bowl and lit aflame.
When the episode aired, Twitter blew up. Concerned parents expressed their distaste, Kris Williams spoke out about her thoughts and people supported and rebutted and the team seemed divided and general drama ran downhill.
But it's never so simple. Here's my breakdown on what needs to be considered:
Cultural Differences.
This is an international team of Ghost Hunters studying different cultures, ancient history, and various supernatural occurrences.
We in the West have this inherent popular notion that we know better, that our science is more accurate, and that other cultural customs are barbaric and uncivilized, by our own lenses and standards in how we view the world. (It's this kind of thinking, I might add, that leads to the eradication of culture in western colonialization of such continents as Africa and Australia and the Americas.) But there's more than one way to make an omelette. And some seem pretty strange to us, yet may well be no less valid.
We cannot call unfamiliar thinking ridiculous or inappropriate simply because we do not understand it.
So when you take a team of western investigators and look into different cultural traditions and beliefs, we have to considers them as valid as our own. We have to consider that indeed, we may well (in fact, do not at all) know everything. (In fact, what we know as science will be turned on its head in another hundred to five hundred years. Already Newtonian mechanics and Euclidian geometry have been radically modified by the work of mathematicians like Albert Einstein).
The team even stated that they intended to compare the different ways, the modern versus the more ancient, and see which got more activity. This is the work that needs to be done, especially as it applies abroad.
We also have to consider the efforts of teams to recreate circumstances of eyewitness experiences. Where the event happened, what time of day, who was present, what was happening. Here, a ritual was taking place that might well have drawn the activity, if it's harmless, why not recreate it?
Which leads to my next point,
Was it harmless?
Physically, for Susan, it was only a small cut. They weren't sacrificing the poor girl.
Is conducting cultural occult rituals that we don't know much about possibly dangerous? Quite likely. But such is the risk you run not only as an international investigator, but a ghost hunter in general. You are absorbed in a world quite possibly very dangerous to yourself and your family. This fact has been exploited by many shows and popular representations of the field, but just the same, taking personal protective precautions are always important, and mindset and intention are key when exploring unknown territory.
And I happen to know personally that Barry is a very aware and safe investigator when it comes to darker forces in the field, and is someone I feel very comfortable with standing over my shoulder.
But what about the children?
Many parents expressed objections that such a ritual was shown on a family television show. Also valid.
Teenagers are likely enough to hurt themselves, one twitterer said, why give them another reason?
The sorry fact of teenagers hurting themselves these days has little to do with the occult and more to do with acceptance, community, self-image, respect, and mental disorder. Watching a ritual for bloodletting on GHI won't effect that.
If your children now decide to hurt themselves to call upon spirits, well, that's certainly very dangerous and likely situationally inappropriate. But this is really not so different from any other part of a ghost hunting program. Controversial techniques are often used. Provoking being one of them. Opening one's self up to possession or other various forms of witchcraft or occult methods that might make appearances can lead to harmful consequences.
The consequences that come from (your children, or even you yourself) doing these actions at home (or anywhere else for that matter that is not safe), come not from the awareness of these actions happening on their television sets, but from the misunderstanding of their purpose.
If your children watch this episode and think that cutting themselves is a great way to contact their great uncle, then they probably shouldn't be watching the show in the first place.
But harming yourself is stupid.
Indeed it can be. Blood is gross and makes many people very uncomfortable, and if they want nothing to do with being a part of, or being around, such a ritual, that's of course fine.
But that's a big difference from objecting to it on principle. The principle of it is a very layered debate that can take a deeper form in any of the categories I listed above.
I beg you think though, that if it's only the fact of a bit of blood for an otherwise good cause (granted, debatable on the spiritual safety, yes), then what's so bad about that? We give blood by day in the west to save people after various tragedies and accidents. If you're not into blood, fine, but don't condemn the act.
Because then people get upset
If people want to express their opinion over it all on twitter or facebook, that's also fine. It's just a shame when it gets personal and people feel attacked or thrown under busses or whatnot,
but as with everything, there are deeper reasons, deeper considerations begging to be mentioned, and it's never as simple or as personal as it might look.
But those are just my thoughts.
Think I'm off base on any one of my points? Sound off in the comments down below.
Read this article today http://www.aikenstandard.com/story/0315Followup-with-school–3862406 over at the Aiken Standard.
Not sure how many of you are familiar with the young adult novel, Ender's Game, but it's, in a word, fucking brilliant. (Two words. Sue me). About a kid who was genetically engineered to be a genius, taken from his home to live in a space station and learn how to become one of the greater military commanders of all time.
It's a book about finding a deep inner will and strength of character when the entire world is out to break you. It's about cleverness and leadership– in fact, I often argue, it's THE book on leadership. Hands down, your one stop shop.
Many would disagree with me, finding it difficult to read about children treated in such a way, and that it's not leadership but barbarism. A debate not for my blog, but I find it wonderful, and at least intellectually enriching.
So I read this article, which has a teacher being investigated by the police and the school board in South Carolina for reading parts of this book to his middle school class.
I'm appalled. This is ridiculous, and speaks not only to the way the school system has been forced to tiptoe around every single word they teach our kids, but in the way that we're raising our kids to begin with.
They called this book pornography, which are concerned adult-types most favorite buzz-word. Pornography is explicit description of sexual organs or activity DESIGNED TO TITILATE. There are no sex scenes in Ender's Game. Children run around naked, SO WHAT?
(This post is going to spawn a series of blogs this week, blogs that have demanded to be written and might now see the light of day, and I'll link them here as I go, if you're reading this later. But this goes back to these bigger issues of American's terror about nudity, the way we're coddling our children and not letting them grow any toughness at all, and the problem with our public school system)
I give you John Green, famous children's novelist, on a similar situation of his book a few years ago:
We're conflating minuscule and overblown issues here to instead ban books, and not only regular paper and glue books, but BRILLIANT books too, that teach our children how to be strong in this painful place that is our world. And that's so inappropriate, it's deeply offensive to me.
More to come on Saturday.
Tuesday. Need to blog. Just wrote five thousand words through the big climax of Hallowtide and am le tired. But I wanted to get a blog up.
And I thought, I tell people all the time in vague and mysterious (and usually sexy) tangents about how my two biggest passions, the supernatural and storytelling go hand in hand (Yep. Super sexy, that), and I never wind up accounting for this connection. Naysayers say they go hand in hand because the supernatural is just a bunch of made up stories, but I'll do you one better.
And I'll explain it in terms of how I arrange part of my bookshelf. Ready? Ready.
Alright, let's start with Astrophysics. From that we go to Quantum Theory and to parallel universes to a little bit of science and religion to paranormal technology to ghost hunting to GHOSTS to ghost stories to destructive haunting to possession to interdimensional beings to men in black to aliens to crop circles to astrology and tarot to psychics to meditation and astral projection to mystical experiences to philosophy of mysticism to alchemy to Taoism and Buddhism and Hinduism to philosophy of religion to Christianity to Islam and Judaism to Jungian theory to classical mythology to mythological structures, to Joseph Campbell to (side section here on all my research on Hell), to literary theory to deconstructionist theory to WRITING!, books on writing, how to write better, theory of writing, etcetera. (From there to how to write poetry to poetry to plays to canonical literature to fiction and off to all the directions that fiction will take us)/
Paranormal study is connected beyond events simply being odd, I trace through them and then start to make the link to mysticism, which lies at the heart of religions; the stories of religion are myths (which are not, as is commonly believed, necessarily fictitious; see "a traditional story, esp. one concerning the early history of a people or explaining some natural or social phenomenon, and typically (but not necessarily) involving supernatural beings or events") and from myths we get into storytelling and writing.
Do you have a satisfying collection of paranormal books or theory of how it all starts to link together? Think mine is bunk? Fill me in down below in the comments:
Back to work on another night of principle photography for Crocotta last night. If you don't know about the project by now, my buddy AJ, who's directing the film for his senior thesis, is keeping a running blog over here.
Last night we lit up the forest with a couple floodlights running of a generator, got some more wonderful shots that AJ will likely post in the coming days, and got the cops called on us.
And I shot some vloggity;
And of course, if you haven't read my short story that started it all, Dreamland Crocotta, you can download it here, for free.
It was short enough to tweet, but I thought it deserved a blog in itself, since most of my posts are about industrial disappointment.
Damien Walter over at the Guardian is, with hope in hand, calling for weird fiction stories from the dregs of the growing wasteland that is indie digital publication online these days. He believes that there may be some gems. To find someone out there, published, who people listen to, who supports indie digital weird story publishing, well,
that's a hero in my book-
well; blog. Still.
The article is here; http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/mar/09/weird-fiction-electronic-universe-ebooks?commentpage=last#end-of-comments and Walter welcomes input from you guys, the fans of the genre, to find them. Godspeed.
This debate is still happening?
If you're not familiar, the debate is between highbrow academic types who like to pick out canonical works of realism and call it "literary," of having intellectual merit, and condemning "genre" work, that of horror, fantasy, and sci-fi as being for the masses, moneymakers whose only purpose is to entertain and is so the work of the lesser folks. Which of course is bullshit, always has been, with many "genre" works defined in the canon as literary (see, Dracula, Frankenstein, 1984, Slaughterhouse Five, and more), and many modern "genre" works serving deep, powerful, intellectual value.
It's a popular argument amongst we college undergrad types who fell in love with the work through such genres and are now met with academic professor types who belittle the works.
Neil Gaiman tweeted today, pointing me toward an Atlantic article on just this distinction.
He linked to this article here; http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/10/how-zombies-and-superheroes-conquered-highbrow-fiction/246847/2/?single_page=true#slide3
In this article a highbrow type expresses his surprise at the success of genre and pats us on the head as intellectuals finally branch into these, apparently once hollow genres waiting for fulfillment by the edumacated.
How Zombies and Superheroes conquered highbrow fiction… they've always been there.
In the article Benjamin Percy says that of "the best literary fiction, you see three-dimensional characters, you see exquisite sentences, you see glowing metaphors."
I believer what we have here is a failure of labels.
Wait, labels failing, I'm so surprised.
Literary fiction is not a genre, it's a way a text functions; in the best of ANY fiction, you see three-dimensional characters, exquisite sentences, glowing metaphors, and should I go so far as to add, a kind of deep running cultural or philosophical commentary that speaks towards the times and the human race, and our existence as a whole.
Literary fiction is then a success, to which any genre can hold.
We fell into a rut of the eighties and nineties where, at least according the article's author Joe Fassler, realism hit its stride, echoing Hemingway in the likes of Foster Wallace, and the genre, enjoying it's literary success, became synonymous with its poor label. It's not.
The best horror novel can be literary. The best sci-fi novel can be literary. And it's damn presumptuous to say that "literary novels" can still be literary even if they suck.
I propose a redefining of terms, or even better, to throw these labels out entirely. After all, culturally, there is no literary genre, and never has. You walk into a Barnes and Noble and there is no "literature" section. Wallace is found in fiction. A couple aisles down from King. And both are most excellent.
We watched you last night, they said.
I said, wait what?
My roommates said, on Ghost Hunters.
Last night I was writing until three in the morning at that place with paintings on the ceiling and where they serve coffee and stay open all night. At home, we don't have cable, nor were there reruns of old GHI episodes on a Tuesday night. On YouTube then? My roommates? Who care as little about ghost hunting as my couch does? Going out of their way to watch me, their moody, socially uncomfortable friend who lives in the basement, on TV?
On Netflix, my roommates said.
On Netflix, I repeated. Old GHIs are on Netflix?
Indeed they said. And we watched.
So, it seems, can you. Like me. Every day, should I have only a mirror. And an England to wander about in.


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The 38th Annual EG POW Open Invitation
Now you've done it. This hideous golf tournament is expected to return on 2020. If you know some bad golfers that have never played in this tournament and are very naive then please invite them. Their looks of regret and remorse will be well worth it.
The 37th Annual EG POW Open Invitation
The 37th Annual EG POW Open will be upon us sooner than you think. When you are invited to this hideous event you should make it a priority to come. You will see 20 plus old geezers pretending they can still make it onto the LPGA Tour. It is inexpensive compared to a colonoscopy and almost as much fun. Circle the Saturday after Labor Day on your calendar and make it happen. No excuses allowed. Be there or be square. The Grand PooBah knows where you live. Be afraid of not attending, be very afraid. MMR.
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Art is healing, and to me an invaluable form of therapy. I am so inspired by my friend Ranae and her work. Always. But this tribute to her mother touched me as I know it helped her process some feelings! Check her out please! Love. Heal. Create. ❤
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How often does your muse turn to you during those melancholy stages? Do you allow it to come forth and inspire you artistically?
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3.A Concealed Alarm based security system for intelligent building.
4.RTC based alarming system using i2c protocol
5.Temperature level monitoring and automatic control in boiler
6.PC based power management system for hotels
7.RF based wireless direction control robot
8.Stepper motor speed and direction control using PWM technique
9.Home power saving and security system using RC5 protocol
10.Smoke alert system for industries using microcontroller
11.Temperature monitoring using adc0804 for industrial application
12.Dc motor speed and direction control using PWM technique
13.Smart card based petro card management system.
14.Auditorium power saving system with visitor counting
15.IR based intelligent railway gate controlling system
16.College security system with PIR and LDR monitoring system
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18.IR based automatic traffic navigating system
19.Temperature and fire monitoring system and controlling in commercial applications
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21.Automatic meter reading(AMR)for prepaid electricity billing
22.Paddy crop field monitoring and pumping system using humidity sensor
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35.Electrical devices controlling using TRIAC with opt-isolation mechanisms
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10.Accident identification system.
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12.Adaptive differential pulse code modulation a (APCM).
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86.Battery monitoring system.
87.Blood dripping system.
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By Edwin Exaus
"Hi Mom, I got tested for STIs last week and just found out I had chlamydia."
"I think I might experiment with ecstasy this weekend at my friend's house party, Dad."
Or how about, "I spent that $500 you gave me for school books on clothes and shoes."
It sounds a little peculiar, but we all have tough conversations with our parents, especially when it comes to sex, social activities and finances. Perhaps these are the toughest conversations you've had thus far, and to give mommy and daddy the impression that you're still their little angel, it's best you leave something's unsaid.
It is apparent that what we talk about with our close friends is completely different from what is discussed with our parents. With friends you're more likely to talk about someone you're crushing on or the crazy party you went to this weekend, as compared to your parents, you'll bring up topics about career goals and your future self—unless you have that weird Gilmore Girls relationship where your parent is your best friend and you guys talk about absolutely everything under the sun (which is completely unrealistic, like come on).
Sex, social activities and finances are the hardest conversations that many people have with their parents because they are the most uncomfortable and awkward. How many times has your mom or dad tried to have "the talk" with you, typically by starting with "when two people love each other…" or "just making sure you're being responsible." And all you want to do is cringe and immediately change the subject.
Parents shouldn't have to be aware of your every sexual encounter, but you also shouldn't be afraid to go to them either—especially when it matters. Sexually transmitted diseases are very much real and shouldn't be played with. Make sure you're getting tested if you're sexually active to avoid that awkward "I have herpes" talk with mom and dad. The same goes for social activities, such as drinking and engaging in potentially illegal activity (minus the herpes…hopefully).
Finances can be a gray area, especially when you're in college and are financially dependent on mom and dad. You want to break away from their firm financial control, but you're not ready just yet to flap your money wings. So the best thing to do, is follow his or her rules, no matter how crazy, until you can make it on your own. No questions, no problems, should be the motto.


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From 2010 to 2014 the European Land Registry Association (ELRA) carried out two projects to develop a simple conveyancing process for the purchase of foreign real estate that provides confidence in sufficient legal protection.
CROBECO: a future-proof system to support cross-border conveyancing
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Interoperability solutions for land registries
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Wim Louwman ELRA President Introduction As the European organization of Land Registers, we welcome this vision document as a good step forward. Improved awareness of the different roles of Land registers and Cadastres can increase support on the European level. Cooperation with other specialists can help each of us to find the right answers to […]


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Day 191, May 27: My partner in geocaching (see previous entry to learn more about our geocaching). This is her first find. She's been with me before, but never found one on her own (with only a hint from me)
Day 192: I'm directing the skits for our church's VBS in a couple of weeks. This is skit practice, near the end of the practice, when kids get a bit goofy.
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Teacher Evaluations in New York Decoupled from Student Test Scores [Democrat & Chronicle]
The bill will no longer require schools to use test scores as part of a teacher's evaluation. Instead, it would make that optional by districts and subject to collective bargaining.
It unanimously passed the Senate and was approved 125-6 in the Assembly. The bill will now head to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's desk for his signature.
We are clearly saying, work it out in the district," said Senate Education Committee chairwoman Shelley Mayer, D-Yonkers.
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October 23, 2019 - Vancouver, B.C. - International Montoro Resources Inc. (TSX-V: IMT), (Frankfurt: O4T1), (the "Company").
Montoro is pleased to announce that we have signed a Property Acquisition Agreement with Falcon Gold Corp. (TSX.V: FG) to acquire a 51% interest in five claims comprising 109 cell units (approx. 2,250 hectares/5,559 acres) in the Red Lake mining district in Northwestern Ontario.
The claims are contained within the Birch-Uchi-Confederation Lakes greenstone belt which host the world-renowned Red Lake gold deposits and includes the Dixie project currently being drilled by Great Bear Resources Ltd.
The Camping Lake properties are located approximately 20 km southerly, of Great Bear Resources recent Dixie Lake high-grade gold discoveries. Great Bear Resources has recently reported exciting drill results with mineralized intersections commonly returning bonanza gold intersections in association with coarse visible gold grains.
Throughout 2010 to 2013 the Camping Lake property area saw extensive programs completed by Laurentian Goldfields Ltd., Kinross Gold Corporation, and Anglo Gold which included petrographic studies; diamond drilling; rock, soil, and lake sediment samples; IP/Ground Geophysics, etc.
"We are pleased to have been able to sign an Agreement in the Red Lake mining district, one of the most active exploration areas in Ontario at this time", stated Gary Musil, Chief Executive Officer/Director. The Company intends to immediately compile all of the available assessment work to assist in the planning of its inaugural exploration program.
Option Agreement Terms:
To earn a 51% interest, Montoro agrees to issue 1,000,000 million common shares upon TSX Venture Exchange (the "Exchange") approval; and 500K shares on the first anniversary of Exchange approval. Montoro will also assume Falcon Gold's payments totaling $65,000 over a four-year period.
Montoro also agrees to complete $100,000 in exploration expenditures - on or before October 31, 2020; and a further $200,000 (total $300K) in exploration on or before October 31, 2021. Any additional work completed in the first year will be credited to the 2nd year work commitment.
Upon Montoro acquiring the initial 51%, they have the option to acquire a further 24% interest (total 75%) for $500K in cash.
The Agreement contains a 2% NSR, with the original vendor holding 1.5% and Falcon Gold 0.5%.
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The technical content of this news release has been reviewed and approved by Robert T. Chataway, P.Geo., who is a member of the Association of Professional Geoscientists of Ontario and is a qualified person as defined by National Instrument 43-101, Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Properties.
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