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Volume XXVI No. 8 Feb.
22, 2002
The Campus Currents is distributed every Friday.
To submit an item send it to Campus Currents, Unit 9512 or by
e-mail to Campus
Currents. Deadline is Thursday at 8 a.m.
Dr. Gary E. Meek, dean of the College of
Business and Technology, recently had a paper accepted for
publication in the Quality Management Journal.
The paper, "The Impact of ISO Certification
on the Levels of Awareness and Usage of Quality Tools/Concepts: A
Survey of Turkish Manufacturing Companies," was co-authored with
Drs. Ceyhun Ozgur of Valparaiso University and Aysegul Toker of
Bosphorus University in Istanbul, Turkey. The publication is
scheduled for Vol. 9, Issue 2 in April.
Total quality management (TQM) and the
implementation of quality systems have become major initiatives of
companies throughout the world over the last 20 years.
This is especially true for companies that are doing or wish
to do business in the European Union.
For many of these companies ISO certification has become a
prerequisite when exporting their products.
This paper presents results of a survey of 140 large Turkish
manufacturing companies and investigates important relationships
dealing with quality and the implementation of quality tools in
these companies. The
results lead to a greater
understanding of the implementation of
statistical tools and the relationship between their application and
ISO certification in Turkey.
Meek said, "The results were somewhat
surprising in certain areas. There appeared to be significant
differences in usage between ISO certified companies and
non-certified companies on almost all of the basic quality tools but
significant differences between them on only four of the advanced
Overall, the ISO certified companies used more
of the basic tools than non-certified companies. However, with
respect to the 13 advanced tools included in the survey instrument
the ISO certified companies used only four of them significantly
more frequently. One would anticipate ISO certified companies to be
much more likely to utilize the advanced tools as part of their
process to become certified. There
were indications in the responses that some of the certified
companies may be utilizing certain tools incorrectly and that ISO
auditors may be concentrating on a company's stated procedures
rather than its actual practices.
Susan Hove-Pabst will present a faculty recital entitled
"WomanSong: Torch Singers" Sunday, March 24 at 2:30 p.m. at
Jake's Restaurant in Deadwood.
Hove-Pabst will be assisted by Dr. Janeen
Larsen on piano, Dr. Randall Royer on guitar and bass, and
Christopher Hahn on trumpet and flugelhorn. Professors Hove-Pabst,
Larsen, Royer, and Hahn are faculty members in the music department
at Black Hills State University.
In keeping with Women's History Month (March)
the recital will celebrate women singers known as torch singers,
chanteuses, canaries, songbirds, or crushes. They sang in piano
bars, in cabarets, in dives, in speakeasies, and in nightclubs.
Their songs were typically slow, tender, and melancholy, often
reflecting hurtful or lost love. Popular in the 1920s, 30s, and 40s
with such stars as Helen Morgan, Ruth Etting, and Billie Holiday,
the repertoire has
continued to be popular and the songs are
considered standards.
Hove-Pabst grew up singing and hearing this
repertoire. Her first
"career" was earning money performing her renditions of songs
such as "Sugar Blues" and "A Good Man is Hard to Find"
beginning at age three. The
lives of the women singers have been of interest to her for years
and during the last four years she has organized her study of the
women, the culture of which they were a part, and their music.
Students as well as professional teachers will
benefit from a $77,500 Star School Program grant recently awarded to
the College of Education at Black Hills State to develop skills
related to utilizing the Dakota Digital Network (DDN) in the
The grant proposal written by Dr. Dean Meyers,
dean of the College of Education at BHSU, proposes to develop DDN
classrooms in the College of Education to prepare teachers and
faculty to be distance learners. The grant also seeks to develop
exemplary curriculum materials and applications of distance learning
in the education program and provide for pre-service and in-service
education training for K-12 teachers.
Laura Turner, BHSU instructor and grant
coordinator, said, "This grant will allow the College of Education
to receive a VTEL (Videoconferencing Technology) system that will be
used in two classrooms on campus. This system will allow faculty to
teach at a distance as well as supplementing their face-to-face
classes with VTEL supported conferences, resources and sessions."
According to Turner, the university will offer
a one-credit course titled "Teaching Using Video Conferencing "
to support the new system. She plans to develop a video conferencing
resource manual using up-to-date video conferencing resources.
Intended outcomes from the grant proposal
include: 1) students will explore learning theory as it relates to
DDN technology, 2) students will acquire technical expertise related
to DDN technology through the Dakota Connecting Schools Initiative,
3) students will create a telecollaborative learning environment
through DDN, and 4) students will assess the impact of DDN
technology on teaching and learning.
The grant was awarded to BHSU through the South
Dakota Department of Education and Cultural Affairs. Congress
initiated the Stars Schools Program in 1988 and recently under Title
III. The program services more than 6,000 schools in all states. It
is described as a national study of the change process, documenting
the role of technology and telecommunications in school reform at
the local and state level.
Students and science faculty at Black Hills
State University got to strut their stuff for the state Legislature
recently during the annual poster session in the state Capitol
University students from across the state
gathered in Pierre with faculty mentors to display posters related
to their research projects. Some 71 different posters were
presented. BH students and faculty offered seven displays.
Characteristics"; Nathan Stephens, a junior biology
major from Spearfish, with Dr. Brian Smith presented "Sensitive
Herpetofauna of the Black Hills National Forest"; Nicole
Bartscher, a junior biology major from Belle Fourche, and Paul
Colbert, a senior pre-wildlife management major from Sioux
Falls, with Dr. Smith presented "Conservation of the
Antiguan Racer Snake in Antigua"; and Hans Stephenson, a
junior biology major from Rapid City, with Dr. Mark Gabel
presented "An Evaluation of the Effects of Formalin and
Hydrogen Peroxide on the Exterior Egg Membrane of Chinook
Salmon Eggs."
The CSA Council met at Pangburn small dinning
room Feb. 14, 2001. President Nancy Shuck called the meeting to
order. Members present were Sherri Adams, Linda Allbee, Lynn Fox,
Colleen Gustafson, Becky Haak, Cheri Leahy, Lynette Long, Nancy
Shuck and Joanne Wilkening.
Cheri Leahy
read the minutes from the Jan. 17, 2001, meeting. Linda Allbee moved
to accept them as read and Lynette Long seconded, motion carried.
Long gave the treasurer's report: Cheri Leahy moved to accept the
treasurer's report as read and Becky Haak seconded, motion
Allbee gave an abbreviated report on the Strategic Planning meeting
(hard copy available).
Safety and
Facilities: no report
Bags: no report
The 2002
Winter Social was held Feb. 8 in the Hall of Fame room in the Young
Center with approximately 25 in attendance. We assume
weather played
a role in the low attendance. Next year we feel we should stay with
preparing enough for 35-40.
Nancy Shuck will take care of sending thank-you notes to Dr.
Flickema, Dining Services, Steve Meeker and Mike Jastorff.
New Business:
Cheri Leahy
reported Daffodil Day sales are going great and that they can be
delivered either March 11 or 18. It was discovered delivery would be
over spring break, so another date has been setup to accommodate
those folks who will be gone.
discussion was held on the balloon fundraiser discussed in January
but it was tabled due to Krista's absence.
We will
work with the Student Union and Dr. Flickema to setup a date for the
annual CSA Luncheon in April. Discussion
was held on what gift should be purchased for employees reaching 30
years of service. Several
things will be checked on.
Becky Haak
made a motion to adjourn and Joanne Wilkening
seconded, motion carried.
Our next
meeting will be held at Pangburn Hall, small dining room, March 14,
9:30 a.m.
Leahy, secretary
Minutes of University Assessment Committee
Meeting that was held Tuesday, Feb. 19 at 3:30 p.m. in Woodburn
Conference Room 1. Present:
Earley, Siewert, J. Miller, Olson, Altmyer, Valades, Schamber,
Pearce. Absent: Cook, Haislett, Myers, Calhoon, and Turner.
The committee reviewed, made comments upon, and
agreed to accept as is the following reports:
Business Administration
Business Education
The committee agreed that it wants more
statistics and details in next years reports but needs to make
faculty aware of this.
The next meeting will be on March 5 at 3:30
p.m. in Woodburn Conference Room 1 - the reports to be reviewed are
professional accountancy, msbsm, early childhood ed, elementary ed,
special ed, middle school.
Black Hills State
University will host an information session Sunday, March 3 from 2-4
p.m. at the Rapid City Civic Center room 102.
High students and their parents as well as
older workers seeking additional training or desiring a career
change are encouraged to meet with representatives from the
enrollment center, extended services and the Ellsworth base campus.
Information about admissions procedures, financial aid, academic
programs and distance learning will be available.
Black Hills State University, the third largest
state university offers several new courses of study with a total of
more than 90 majors and minors.
Classes are offered at the main campus in Spearfish and
at Ellsworth Air Force Base in Rapid City. Select classes are also
available over the Internet or by correspondence which allows
students an opportunity to continue working while earning a degree.
The education master's degree in curriculum and instruction is now
available entirely online. Many graduate and undergraduate business
classes are also offered online.
The Instructional Improvement Committee (IIC)
encourages, through monetary grants, the application of existing
knowledge to specific teaching situations to improve the quality of
instruction at BHSU.
full-time faculty member, full-time adjunct faculty, or other full-time staff member engaged in student instruction may apply for grant
funds administered by the committee.
Grant funding will normally be available up to a maximum of
$1,000 per project. Priority will be given to projects that will
have a broad-based, visible, continuing impact of instruction across
faculty members and/or disciplines. Funds are available for
development of materials and methods to improve teaching and
learning, equipment to enhance teaching and learning, travel to
conferences or workshops which enhance teaching and learning, and
bringing consulting lecturers and teaching specialists to campus to
offer presentations to
and/or with
faculty and teaching-support staff at BHSU.
members who apply for grants to support travel to a conference or
workshop are limited to receiving no more than one grant every three
years. In the other
categories, priority will be given to those who have not received an
IIC grant in the last academic year.
It is anticipated that successful applicants will request support
for faculty release time, research equipment, travel to research
sites or research support for the production of creative work.
Preference is given to new applicants, particularly in the areas of
The applicants are encouraged to contact the committee members
for advice prior to completing their proposals. The members are John
Alsup, Steve Anderson, Lyle Cook, Tom Cox, Abdollah Farrokhi, chair;
Jim Hess, Kathleen Parrow, Shane Sarver, and Rob Schurrer.
Below are the program materials received Feb.
14-20 in the grants office, Woodburn 218. For copies of the
information, contact our office at 642-6627 or e-mail requests to us
at email@example.com.
Fellowship information will also be posted on the Student
Union bulletin board near the information desk.
American Chemical Society. Various grants with continuous deadlines.
This calendar is also available on the BHSU homepage quick links.
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I wasn't expecting this until the end of the month, but we just keep growing!
Registered 80,030
I wasn't expecting this until the end of the month, but we just keep growing!
Registered 80,030
Didn't we hit 75,000 a few weeks ago?
Seems like it. We were over 76k 30 days ago, and we've been averaging over 100 members/day.
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As of this post - Members: 82,666
Is there a way of telling how many of those 80,000 are active members? And if some are new names for people who used to post, quit and came back?
Zero gallons to the mile
I have a figure for active members, but I don't know how that number is determined, so it's kind of pointless. We did do a purge of members that hadn't logged in for 12-18 months, so it's fairly up to date.
We hit 85,000 today.
Congrats! I noticed as well that there were something like 13,000 logged in at one time. With a number like that, I would assume most are relatively active.
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The department of industrial policy and promotion (DIPP) is firm on restricting FDI in brownfield pharma to 49%, overturning the current regime where 100% FDI through an approval route is allowed in such cases. In its final note to the Cabinet, the department has reiterated its policy stance despite the finance ministry and Planning Commission opposing such additional curbs on FDI in existing pharma companies.
According to sources, the DIPP plans to go ahead with the draft note it had floated and send it to the Cabinet. DIPP is yet to receive any comments from the department of pharmaceuticals (DoP). However, a senior DoP official said that it was not mandatory for them to give its views.
DIPP, the sources said, would try to convince the finance ministry and Planning Commission that a 49% cap will not necessarily restrict FDI flows into the country.
The department argues that a stringent foreign investment policy in brownfield pharma (acquisition of stakes in existing companies) is necessary to enable people access to affordable medicines.
A DIPP official said: We gave them a fortnights time to comment on the note and the pharma department has not yet responded. So, we will go ahead and approach the Cabinet after which the Prime Ministers Office will take a call.
The DIPP had proposed that foreign buyers should not be allowed to enforce any non-compete clause, giving the existing promoter leeway to foray into the same line of business, a provision it feels can increase competition. Besides, the Cabinet note also seeks to bring down the FDI limit in companies making critical drugs to 49% and calls for putting foreign investment in such facilities on the approval route.
The market share of multi-national companies in the Indian pharma space is 25% and officials say that if four more domestic pharma majors get acquired, this would rise to a level of 40%.
The Standing Committee on commerce had said that foreign investments per se are not bad. The issue was not about promoting FDI... But to promote more investments... So that there is greater research, adequate availability of medicines and more competition which will ensure affordable and accessible medicines, the committee had said.


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be real folks.
This is some jumped up Aussie odd bod trying to make a make for himself by making something out of nothing.
Hammy is treating the issue just right.
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Should we axe the BT series and the T-34.
They are modified off of the American Christie tanks.
Should we Axe the Hetzer, it is built off of the 38t which isn't german.
Maybe the ms-1, which was created off of the Renault.
Also, if the Chinese server got their tanks and the NA server did not, there would be lots of gripe/bitch/moan/whine/complaints and BIAS!BIAS!BIAS!BIAS!
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This storm surge barrier was build between 1991 and 1997. It is part of the Deltaworks. It is made out of 2 giant doors that floot out to close of the Nieuwe Waterweg, the river that runs through Rotterdam. A computer decide to close the barrier when a storm surge is predicted. Last november it closed for the fi...
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Uitzicht vanaf de Wassermann bunker op Schiermonnikoog. Links de Noordzee en helemaal rechts de Waddenzee // View from Wassermann bunker at Schiermonnikoog. Left the North sea, far right the Wadden Sea.
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The fountain was not original designed for the Binnenhof. It is biuld for the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam in 1883. In 1885 it was placed in the Binnenhof. In 2006/7 it was painted in the original colors brown and Gold.
This is a national momument. It is build in 1990. It was the office for the harbour authority and had that function until a few years ago. Now it is rented as an normal office space and is waiting fot restauration. This building can be found in this gigapan gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=3324
This my first attempt to make a 360 gigapan This is an space between Delft,Rijswijk and The hague on one side and the Port of Rotterdam on the other end. There are plans to build an highway though it. But there is a lot of resistance from the people how live there. They fear that on eof the last rural landscapes in th...
This is not the first gigapan i took from The Hague. But it is the first in am satisfied with. It was the first gigapan that i set the white balence to a fixed setting. the colour of the air is now constant over the hole gigapan. The supject of the gigapan was not this skyline but de cloud formation.
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What are everyones thoughts on the Woolies result? Positve? Negative? How is woolies core business trading compared to Coles. are they narrowing the gap?
FMG gives it up to the shorters in the morning then rallies to finish so they can all scramble to cover by days end...showing some strength in the stock price really.
Why would they cover? It has a lot further to fall. Maybe even to zero.
Reminds me of ABC Childcare.
haters gotta hate
"Manhattan Island 2 bed..60m squared = US $195k".....
Everything's cool here in Australia...House prices to continue doubling every 7 years..
I just joined my youngster on QAN's FF program, I hope they keep flying.
Probably another $90 lost with this stock!
When will I learn!
A good w/end to all. Let's hope Vlad takes a chill pill!
onya OX pretty good week all round..avagoodone
@Doglover, Peter, got brain...Funny people that bag my opinion NEVER have counter arguments....You know why? You don't have one, that's why....Yes alarm bells should be ringing if you can't categorically argue against what I've said.
Nobody can argue with 100% confident of being 100% right. There's no scope for negotiation there.....
Your timeframe of 20 years is just ridiculous. So much can happen in 20 years and any argument to be had is pure speculation.
You want a counter argument? Read the column on the left hand side and have a look at what some of these companies are doing. It's not all digging holes in the ground. Some great medical advancements being made, tech developments, international services. The future is right there if you only pulled your head out of the dark place it's stuck in and took the time to have a good look at what Australia is doing..
no window dressing
I can see the lawyers circling round Quantas for a big carve up when that trumped up general manager gets another forecast wrong.
Buy some shares now and join in the riches when promised profits do not eventuate. SUE SUE SUE
Relax. His single goal is to move QAN overseas.
Given all of the previous forecasts that proved to be wrong class-action lawyers should already have been circling like flies around thawing blue-ice but no sign of them, so far.
Can any one of you ladies and gentlemen tell me why Caltex has jumped from around $24 to over $28 ..
Have they struck oil and not told the general public?
Does the overseer ASX know or care that this kind of thing is going on?
As s
Sumner -Miller would ask "Why is it so ?"
There has been a lot of hype around Caltex lately. YMYC spruiked it recently and there was an article in Smart Investor about it too.
Whoa @Pest - you must be an oldie like me if you remember Julius!
The drag on earnings of the loss making Kurnell refinery is dropping away as they concentrate on retail, which is doing well such is my understanding.
"Have they struck oil and not told the public about it?"
Ummmm. They released their results a few days ago, and subsequent to the release the price has jumped $3.
There, that's one ASX investigation saved.
Buyer Beware, This will probably be loaded to the gills with debt. http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/medibank-private-sale-by-end-of-year-govt-20140829-3ek67.html
Gerry Harvey is on the business channel... lol @ his reaction to being asked about Kogan. Refused to answer!
And on the topic of Kogan. I just bought a 28" LED TV and let me tell you, I wont be making that mistake again. Flimsy remote & possibly the worst speakers I've ever had on any device. I think even an Iphone's speakers would be better quality!
Go Gerry!!!
Correction: 32"
and the moral of my story... you get what you pay for!
How interesting that Barry Lambert doesn't list CUP among his shareholdings. For doglovers only?
CUP had a big unexplained intra-day price drop in the weeks leading up to the results announcement. Who knew what beforehand. Should be easy enough for ASIC to work out.
so does anyone have any good graphite stocks to play ? Im in ton axe and bux , however i do also like knl too.
woof! Try UNX and FAR. Keep your eye on the ball - it moves very quickly and the downs can be brutal.
actually FAR is oil. Other graphite stocks : SYR, LMB. TLG, VXL.
thx... UNX I'll check out FAR seemed more an oil play when i had a brief look at their announcements
thx im watching those and as i understand it VXL is actually producing ? yeah they move fast lol bux down heaps today . thx for replying , syr is too big now i reckon re: forward price appreciation compared to the juniors , i like tlg as well. thx again , i didnt knwo about UNx
Whats this, WBC turning negative first again!!!!
That we would even consider importing foreign workers at 10% cheaper rates than Australian workers tells you all you need to know about our government and whose interests it serves.
(Hint - it is not Australia)
Our PM has the hide to talk about 'Team Australia', all the while selling Australia out at every opportunity.
I step back up on my soapbox to declare it all about serving the interests of the rich becuase bang for buck they are the biggest single influence on a lot of aspects of our ecomony.
Google search our PM' secret society memberships. I'll back off now as people will think im a crackpot
Barry Lambert has got it about right with those 5 shares. would have made him a lot of money this year.
article at 2.41 pm
Obviously Barry Lambert doesn't think that CBA is 37% overvalued and I tend to agree with him!
This is Friday? Right!!
With N.A.T.O going into crisis meeting and Putin slowly building his access corridor in east Ua to access Crimea, why are people piling in today?
Do you not get it? this is serious stuff
Painfully sold all my major holdings today
ANZ at 33.42 after waiting all day for 32.49
You are so right. You have to be mad to be long going into this weekend with troops entering Ukraine. And we are around a short term top too. The cards are surely set for a fall over the next week or two. The odds certainly point to a fall rather than a rise in the market next week.
I too sold my NAB Calls mid afternoon, even though I would normally have held on for another 2 days or 3.
But Putin is denying any link with that supposed incursion. So if the US destroyed the lot with a few well-aimed cruise missiles there couldn't possibly be any repercussions.
buy gold!!
I think Bathhouse Barry will give in on this one. The US can't afford to go to war.
Agree. Moved some profits to cash today. Had a good week and I don't want to push my luck. Happy to miss Monday gains and enjoy my weekend. Holding a couple of goodies so they will get a kick up if things turn sour.
@Dr No, when has being unable to afford to go to war stopped one. Wars are good for business. Supply the weapons to blow everything up then supply the materials for re-building afterwards.
the big money piled in at the end and the banks went green, we will see
What a contrast:
@2:23pm GDP growth for the June qtr in the US revised to 4.2% with a 7 year LOW in unemployment.
Meanwhile in Australia as we "contract our way to prosperity"
@10:42am GDP growth in Aust expected to slow to 0.2% q-on-q & +2.8% y-on-y. And we are approaching a 7 year HIGH in unemployment.
Yes the US is piling on more debt to achieve its good results but that debt is producing economic growth to help to pay that debt back. Here in Australia we are slipping further into debt from falling tax revenues and higher unemployment benefits as our growth rate slows because the gov't is not spending to compensate for the falling away of private sector expenditure from the mining boom.
"BIS Shrapnel has predicted tough times ahead for the Australian economy, forecasting that domestic consumption and investment expenditure will experience its weakest four-year run since the early-1990s recession"
Housing boom!
As noted by Mitch yesterday 27% FF dive over next 2 dividend payments. 2 only at this stage.
Picked a few shares up yesterday.
Chart looks good too. Fast MMA's busting up through the slow MMA's on the weekly chart. MACD up and SF nice and high. There may be a break out in my opinion.
Speculation by the market of more div's in the future? My opinion only.
@ 2:03pm - Remember when a few years ago they said "it is the end of double digit growth for banks and its never coming back" ? I laugh when I read articles like this. Until regulatory change occurs the Banks have it nice n easy.
And considering how the gov't rolled over to have its tummy tickled by the banks on FOFA, there is absolutely no chance of adverse laws affecting the banks.
Good news about Harvey Norman. Hopefully Gerry will stop whinging.
that won't happen!
Still a basket case??
Scandinavian news just out: 4,000 staff gone at Malaysia Airlines and now offer free flights.
BHP & RIO oversold, both have 20% for the taking. BHP is worth $45 and RIO $80 in my humble!
With a bit of help from the banks that will bring us close to the big 6000!
Hear, hear free piss-up at QAN, Alan is buying soon all the lovely share options will be gold in Alan's pocket. Hurrah for the survival King.
Meanwhile at an airport in Straya. "Not again, please don't tell me the flight is delayed again....."
RET $22b down the drain, invest in coal we are Straya.
Good Morning Happy Traders!
Somebody forogt to tell MTU to stop and consolidate around $7, nope where she stops no one knows 26%. Unbelievable, FY is off to a flyer.
Nice lift time to take some profit?
Very close to locking in, MTU and CAJ have smashed my FY target, pretty happy, although do have to reduce weightings from now on, heart pumping rides ;)
does anyone know when MMS goes XD, on a roll again today!
"The spot iron ore market is sinking under the weight of new supply."
Not looking good for FMG's heavily discounted, inferior grade ore.
Maybe that's why the majors didn't want to spend billions developing it.
looking great for $3.75
come on down!
The theme of the last 2 days... punish stocks in the lead up to their ex-div date :/
Often the price-gain made in the lead-up to ex-div is preferred to the dividend, even with full franking, rather than suffering the ex-div effect. That can cause the price to fall by 2x to 3x the amount of the dividend. Also the actual payment date of the dividend can be a month or two away and then there's the long, long wait for the ATO to refund franking credits. Give me the cash NOW so I often sell immed pre-ex-div and buy the next dividend payer coming up. There's a flock of property and other trusts due to go ex-distribution on 26th Sept, most with good yields. Don't stay long in stocks. Move the cash around and multiply the yield. taking profits instead of dividends.
Speaking of property, when do we receive our REIT div statements from last financial year? I want to do my tax return! Last year was the first time I bought into them and now I'm told the div statements I received aren't the actual statements we need for a tax return. I was told sometime in Aug. Got nothing yet :/
@GS. re REITs. I think mainly September for the tax statements. Some of mine have come through late this month but expect most next month.
Cheers Pete! Not long to go then :)
@GS I look after the accounting and personal and SMSF tax returns for my extended family. I have quite a few Annual Tax Statements, as they are called, outstanding. Most statements accompany the payment of the June distribution and there are still some yet to be paid with payment dates towards the end of September.
and thanks to you too Mitch!
I'll be selling REITs in future before div. Not worth waiting & being held up lodging your tax return for. I've had everything ready for 5-6 weeks apart from these statements. Lesson learnt!
'Household credit growth was predictably stable'
and you know that stability leads to crashes right? right! Yeah c'mon you know.
I get the impression all these personalities one on here that are blaming the government, 2008 GFC or other more successful traders for their current situations are deeply unhappy. Now I want to take the time to say, stop..... think, think of all the loved ones in your life, stop obsessing over money and status. Who cares if people are making money hand over fist in a bull market and you somehow always manage a loss. Maybe it's time to stop, spend time with your family and cherish this short time we have with them on this big wonderful planet. Money isn't everything, let's not constantly fret over the end of the world, get out of the house and away from the computer instead of spending all day here bickering with words on a screen, go smell some flowers, have a chat with the barista or the butcher down the way ;) Hugs x x
Love Boom!
right on man!
Last short on ARI was closed for 29%.
Oh dear!
JP Morgan says 'sensitive information' was stolen in a massive hack. Given that it was seen as so sophisticated that it's felt a government had to be responsible, some have speculated the attack was carried out by Russia as retaliation for trade sanctions. Or maybe China.
J.P. Morgan won't elaborate on what that 'sensitive information' is. It sounds like a big deal though, and a massive attack.
Yeah, I like massive attack too.
"sensitive information" ...
I hope they've managed to get hold of documents proving J.P. Morgan's far-reaching funding of radical left-wing causes and organisations in the US.
Someone claimed renewables make up only 3% of Germany's electricity consumption/ Still waiting for the proof.
Who do you get when you want a predetermined outcome to an inquiry?
I know!
Dick Warbleyourtune. Of course!
Dick "director of an RBA-linked firm that sought to sell bank notes to Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in 1998 in a breach of United Nations sanctions" Warburton
Dick "there's huge debate about whether carbon dioxide is the cause" Warburton
Campbell Newman did pretty well with Peter Cutshello.
Whoever pays the piper calls the tune.
The Great Sting!
Govts loves rising house prices 1./ it makes people who own homes feel richer 2./ psychology if your home is going up everything else is so the theory is you should get inflation …
This old economic model unfortunately is now flawed
…. The new world order means developing nations provide cheap labour pools mean wages are not going up in the 1st world and more jobs are going overseas… and 1st world government debt going up to manage the growing welfare state to service A./ the growing number of the unemployed ( especially youth ) and b./ its growing developing world immigrant population who need housing and over services when they arrive..
Illuminati Zietgiest Extravaganza! I can't believe people feel the need to understand and regurgitate this snot. When you are born you must learn your place in the world. The runty lion doesn't live a great life why should any of us? Let the lions have their day, the best we can do is sit back and admire their greatness :)
@ Go back to bed .. stop associating economic reality with theorist paranoia ..
in the end everything has to be paid for and not even Aslan can save you and your fancy words!
i would like to refer go back to bed to the leaked circa 2006 citibank analyst report that first coined the term plutocracy....go have a read then tell us about peoples place in the world.....
correction * plutonomy* not plutocracy is what i meant to type
easy. no your place! peasants, you make me laugh, squabbling over who has the best stocks, who is out performing whom. hunched over your keyboards all day, neglecting your life that should be lived. very productive, sitting on a computer all day trying to scratchy together a few percent on your pittance.
asx 200, quintuple top at 30. jeez this market is impossible to trade intraday atm.
Serious? intraday vols is great for business
i don't even know what that comment means. the market has moved in a 10pt range all day, most of the time not even moving 1 pip.
great for business huh?
GID up nicely today. One of my dogs wagging it's tail for a change instead of trying to rip my throat out. Product that is effective in weight reduction and diabetes treatment. This can only be a good thing.
Woolworths huge profits in food and liquor to compensate for Masters and Big W means only one thing. We the consumers are being totally ripped off when we buy food and liquor from Woolworths.
How is this any different from any other business that makes huge profits? Banks would have branches that trade at a loss and are covered by profits from other branches. Most retail businesses would be the same. It's very simple, if you don't want to pay their prices don't shop there.
Is anyone long on ARI, just wondering if 76c is a good entry? Watched it go up the last few weeks only to come all the way back :/ Any possibilities of and further price falls?
ARI is not a pure steel company. They mine IO too and sell on the market. They are under the pump too in regards to IO Price. A post here yesterday was asking why their share price is struggling. That's why.
But what I am asking is why the price fall after such a massive ramp up in investor activity at the profit announcement? Was this a shorters squeeze?
article at 11.27 am
The largest increases in shares sold short were in Coca-Cola Amatil, Arrium and Incitec Pivot (in large caps), and Decmil, Bradken, BC Iron and Webjet (in small caps)
Longs on ARI in trouble, oh dear!
When is FMG going Ex Div?
When is CBA dropping again? Looking to pick up under $81.05, I have been waiting for months now. ROE on cash basically not invested is 0?
good luck with that, lets just say you wouldn't want to be short CBA!
Yup. I've been waiting of WPL to drop below $42.05. ROE also 0. What can I say I like dog stocks :P
According to the daily high-low charts, you should've been able to pick CBA up below $81 on at least 10 days in the past 3 months. Put your order in, good till cancelled, and wait for those daily dips!
Shorters getting a "touch up" in HVN.
JBH gets belted and HVN goes other way...
music to my ears - "go, harvey go!
But Gerry will still find something to complain about. Think how much better HVN would be doing if people weren't importing their lounge & bedroom suites and large-screen TVs GST free.
I suspect there is not one long investor in QAN over the last 2 days.
I personally see only downside to owning its shares.
How many times are we going to accept the word of the short Irish one that his plan will succeed before we realise there really is a wolf and let the little git get eaten.
With further credit downgrades in the pipeline, why would you be bidding the stock up unless you're looking for a quick churn.
Lovely post Joe. Made me laugh....the wording. But yes, your sentiments are true too
Geez I dont' know -- I was just thinking that with my buy in price at $1.05 average I was kicking myself for not risking more. Qantas isn't going anywhere -- certainly not under ...
Jezza, don't tempt fate. QAN has in the past been a dog for me, but loss in confidence re management's decision to fly A380's when Air NZ went down Boeing path with 777's. U can see where QANTAS has gone wrong. A few more years like this and it will be curtains!
Climate science rejectionists, appointed by a government that also rejects climate science, release a report finding what the government who appointed them wanted to hear.
Gee, that was a good old taxpayer funded gravy train if ever I've seen one. How much did the taxpayer have to fork out to Dick 'Ostrich' Warburton for his pre-determined report?
Nice work if you can get it!
Australia, the only country in the world winding back its carbon reduction and renewable energy programs. What are we going to do when our trading partners start slapping carbon tariffs on what's left of our non-mining exports.
So official evidence of Putin crossing the line in Ukraine with about 1000 troops and guns & tanks. As the Americans could tell him from their experience in Vietnam and so many other places, it doesn't stop there. Soon he will be in up to his chin. More uncertainty for world market, more tit-for-tat trade sanctions.
Oh? When did the 'official evidence' come out? I saw some grainy aerial images of artillery inside Ukraine that NATO says are Russian (though not how they know that). I hadn't seen evidence of 1000 Russians actually crossing the border. Not that they Russians aren't up to their necks in this ... but there seems to be a lot suppostion and accusation and very little in the way of 'evidence'.
Why would the Ukraine army point guns sited just over the border from Russia into Ukraine. If the evidence is released by the US gov't and they say what it is and are prepared to accuse Russia over it in the Security Council then that's about as official and evidentiary as it takes. The US went to war with Iraq in 2003 over flimsier evidence on WMD
I think you just made my point. The US went to war over plainly concocted 'evidence' consisting of cartoon drawings of maps and info known to have been false. It wasn't EVIDENCE at all. Didn't stop them as presenting it as such in an august body like the UN. US also said they had evidence Russia shot down the Malaysian Airlines plane but never produced it.
Just sayin is all. You can still swear on a bible and lie in a court of law.
Since SWM are screwing me over, I've averaged down by buying into its little bro Prime Media (PRT) again. I'm back for the glorious boredom of Prime! 7% yield though (franked to 10%)
Now watch it tank after I post this lol
I'm holding PRT in the expectation that the relaxation of media ownership rules sometime soon will boost the share price.
Trust it to drop the day I get back in! Prime you achieve dog status again! When it's not boring me, it's being a dog!
Go Harvey!
Retail turnaround has begun?
The housing market is doing well with all of that new construction and when you buy a new house you have to furnish it. I've done well out of my housing-related stocks.
Well done @Mitch!
Housing has one of the best multiplier effects for the economy and you can thank the Government for that, again!
"The flood of Japanese economic data is in, and it doesn't paint a pretty picture."
Housing boom!
All that money-printing doesn't seem to work out for them. Who would have thought?
Yes, im after some free advice. Maybe someone can help.
In Feb of this year there was some news articles about the federal government investigating the extant to which foreign real-estate investors are pricing locals out of the market. If the government was to act on this and pass laws to stop foreign investment in property would this likely be done at state level through Property Law Act 1969 or new federal laws like the Corporations Act? Thanks
Couldn't say, but there are already plenty of laws that potentially limit foreign purchases. CheckOut http://www.firb.gov.au/
The issue for some is that the existing laws aren't being properly enforced and too easy to get around. its very debatable how much effect foreign investment is having and it seems to mostly affect the very high end of the market.
According to someone on here yesterday, it was going to crash yesterday........
TRY another miner with asset impairments 59 million loss pushed down by Guyana after a year of record production.
The BCI friendly takeover of IOH had two conditions, one being that the iron ore price not drop below $90 for 20 consecutive days.
I think it now 4 in a row.
Good! I hope they can withdraw & make BCI pop back above $3 afterwards!
jumped outta NAB at 35.14
cant get a fill on FMG @ 4.04...yet
Got a big pile of cash here waiting for FMG to hit $3.75.
Just hope the Chinese can keep up the charades with the iron price for a few more days!
@twiggy, you need a help from Chinese short seller to push the price down. I got fund ready.
Pascoe's found where we can all retain the highest wages and house prices in the world...The servicing economy....We're all going to service the consumers....Every one of us...It's a good plan...It's never worked anywhere, but we're different....Man, we're in a whole lot of trouble.
Ever been to Singapore?
70% of Singapore's population live in government subsidised flats.
Yep...Walk 500m out of the centre and you can get a fabulous meal for $2.50..A beer for $2..Good accommodation for $35 a night...Singapore is the hub of the world. Low population all concentrated in a tiny place....Highly productive land, very close to other Asian countries that produce for next to nothing.....We're doomed.
I have been to Singapore and I disagree that you get "good accommodation" for $35!
A beer for 2 bucks in SIN. Tell him he's dreamin! In Thai and Phils ok but not SIN!
@50BahtLeo, yep i agree SIN is expensive to have a beer, but a case of San Mig for about 12 bucks and a nice beach. Thats living
What are everyones thoughts on the Woolies result? Positve? Negative? How is woolies core business trading compared to Coles. are they narrowing the gap?
Woolies are gaining as usual...Destroying everything in its' path......They donate over $100k to politicians....Nothing's going to change until our entire economy is stuffed.
Narrowing the gap? Commsec shows a return on equity for WOW at 26% for 2013. For WES it is 8.7%. There is no more obvious differentiator between these two businesses than this. For every $ I invest in WOW it produces 26c, while WES would produce 8.7c. I don't own WES, even though they have improved Coles.
When you go into a Safeway/Woolworths store and see gaps on the shelves where stock should be and boxes littering the floor, aisle after aisle, where people have given up trying to restock the shelves, and then can find no one actually serving the customers, well ....
Compare Coles or Safeway/Woolworths to a Sainsbury, or a Tesco from the UK and you realise how weak an outfit they are. Their supply chain is poor, their attitude to their customers is, take what we offer, and their produce is at best acceptable.
We shop there as a family for packaged items only.
Woolies/Safeway are worse than Coles, and they are bad enough, so not a good prospect for the future, except their Pokie assets.
I understand the ROE for WES is much poorer than WOW. WES is also a conglomerate with many other businesses other than Coles in their stable. I purely want to compare the Coles results to Woolworths. Who is coming out on top at the moment.
I agree with most of you in regards to WOW store comments. We dont shop there anymore. Find it more expensive than Coles.
One word ALDI
JohnBB' on fire today....
Often trades go though at thousandth of a cent e.g. price of 20.845. I presume these are bots or ?
Has anybody been successful with a buy or sell price set at a third decimal place?
The exchange sometimes averages trades if someone is willing to trade within a price range. Eg, sell between 20.84 and 20.85 might see that statistic.
I have not been able to buy for a half a cent increment, though penny dreadfuls push the decimal place out, but you are talking a $20 share, so not possible a half cent there.
No. Have also noticed that transactions go through at 0.002 when you can only put through bids at 0.000 or 0.005....
There are two exchanges,,,ASX & Chi-Ex. Chi-Ex trades at these increments I understand.
Hi Harry. It happens to me sometimes. Yesterday i bought VLW at 2.180393. I had set my buy "Set Point Limit" of 220.5 and later at 217.5 and got hit as the market fell through my price and the spread widened.
I like trading at "Set Point Limit" as you are effectively dark on the Iress screen and not visible to buyers or sellers.
They're trades going through on Chi-X -which unlike the ASX - allows trades at those smaller increments. Just another example of how we poor retail investors are being "had" by the big players. We can't place an order at those levels, nor can we see the market depth on that exchange, at least not through retail brokers like commsec or directshares.
Thanks all ....pretty much as I thought.
Unless you are an ASX or ChiX member you seem to be at the whim of those exchanges.
Maybe 10m shares sell/buy a one thousandth and as "Its all about..." comment maybe one millionth would make a difference but seems pretty silly why not just say all trades must be 2 dec points.
Not wanting to make uneducated comments, I had a look for myself...So here's what I found on Manhattan Island...The most expensive real estate on the planet (except Sydney and Melbourne (and Adelaide of course)....
Manhattan Island 2 bed..60m squared = US $195k...Far from the cheapest I found..There's tens of them........Short of selling all our real estate, land and business's to foreigners...Just where is the money coming from to run Australia and provide our growing population in the way we're accustomed? We're doomed.
Doomed? Between your ears maybe. But no doubt your orediction of doom will be proved right, eventually.In the meantime, IFM has risen from about 95c to $1.09 on the back of some great results. I will go with that (got 10,000 at $1.015) while you contemplate doom. Cheers.
@billyw....BTW, my net wealth has increased over 40% in the past 18 months by understanding what's going on. .That doesn't stop me having a dire opinion of where we're heading. I'm 100% confident I'm right..Whenever I've been 100% confident, I've been 100% right. We're doomed...It might take 20 years but Australia's got a whole lot of pain coming our way.
"I'm 100% confident I'm right..Whenever I've been 100% confident, I've been 100% right. We're doomed"
I laughed so hard tears rolling down my eyes.
"I'm 100% confident I'm right"
Them's there are warning bell words.
@got brain...Don't exaggerate please. Go back to using "LOL" if you have to....
@JohnBB : I don't think that got brain was the only one laughing. LOL
@Doglover, Peter, got brain...Funny people that bag my opinion NEVER have counter arguments....You know why? You don't have one, that's why....Yes alarm bells should be ringing if you can't categorically argue against what I've said.
Good buying support kicking back in after ex div. About 50% more buyers than sellers!
It is a great counterpoint to the banks in Australia and offers true diversity in my opinion.
The increasing price has the potential to increase the buyback price but also the savagery of the scale-back. My figuring shows that the buyback is only going to be of real benefit to those in a non-tax situation and SMSFs, particularly those in pension mode. That benefit will be offset by the long, long wait for the refund of the franking credits component by the ATO. Others may be better off selling on market.
Thanks for the excellent analysis you did on the buyback recently. I will make my mind up towards the end of the allocated time. I have TLS in my SMSF so good to get back the franking credits.
This year my accountant let me put my return in first week of July. It was great it brought forward the franking credit returns. You probably already do this being an accountant? so I imagine the franking credits could be claimed July 2015 which isn't too bad?
My original post was about the the diversity TLS gives to a portfolio where banks predominate. But a good side issue for sure regarding the buy back affecting the share price.
The market is on the last leg of this bull run, stay long before it's over.
According to someone on here yesterday, it was going to crash yesterday........
I chased the yields in BCI & SMW and now paying the price! :'(
Find it difficult to understand how WOW can increase their margins on the food items they sell. Fair enough with higher margins on alcohol as DM is almost a monopoly, but food? How long will this last with increased competition from the likes of ALDI?
presumably they've increased their margins by screwing down the suppliers more rather than increased price to consumer
Perhaps part of the explanation for WOWs margins and ongoing opportunity is that Goodman F revealed recently that it cost them more to deliver a loaf to Woolworths than it did to produce it. WOW has the gun supply chain, as reflected in their ROE - more than double the ROE of Wesfarmers. I have about 5000 shares that owe me $15 cash, and remain a long term holder.
WOW are cutting staff hours as well and giving preference to automated checkouts. Those are much slower than check-out chicks so long queues form. Several times in busy periods I have seen people dump their carts or baskets and walk out.
U can only squeeze a lemon (suppliers) so many times.Food inflation is out of control...case in point, at my local Woolies spuds are $4.98kg, up in Adelaide Hills they are $1.99kg! Mr Woolworths/Coles is having a lend!
I grow my own spuds in quite a small plot. I get enough to last 3 months for FREE. I even have potato sprouts growing under cover ready for planting out after the last of the frosts. I don't know how old the potatoes we buy in the supermarkets are but the fresh-picked home-grown ones are much denser. But you do need space and most new houses these says occupy the entire block. Not even space for a shrub.
"iron ore price plumbs five-year lows "
Housing boom!
Still got a long way down to go. $30 per tonne is the long-term average.
Hire Foreign workers for 10% less than
Aussie workers. Sounds like another
and...introduce metadata laws that will identify the trouble makers...Accuse them of something and ruin them...The plan's being executed as we speak...
More own goals from NAB, just when you would have thought that there was a case for growing overseas and stop putting more dollars into bricks in Australia, the new CEO of NAB has come up with the super smart idea of getting rid of the Great Western Bank in the USA through an IPO. Well, I have news for you, GWB is today worth less than what NAB bought it for, so good luck with this brilliant idea.
And no mention of the bleeding in the UK?
Chinese property owners protest against developer due to falling property price. Can't wait for Australia to follow the same path! Wheeheee.
"Looking ahead, ANZ says September is typically a stronger period for steel demand and prices."
That is like me saying 'normally' a certain month is supportive of the share market.
The reality is that there is little demand for steel and hence iron ore, because China do not need to build anymore apartments. Got that? This means that it is very likely that the iron price will continue to fall.
Not really. Steel production is weather related so some months are likely to be more popular than others (apparently its September).
I think ANZ overall agrees with you that prices will continue to slowly fall but there is evidence (such as reduced inventories) that suggests it will be slow and may be nearing the bottom.
GXL trading halt pending...a company thats gone from market cap of 174mill 2013 to 1.1 billion 2014 quite a ride.
UXC back to 3c divd report looks great growth into 2015,market will decide.
@BSB....HOW DO YOU PICK THE STOCKS SO WELL!?! my stocks have all grown but not as significant as that
Got cold feet holding OTM calls on WOW for earnings. Looks like the right call now. Terrible decision to compete against Bunnings with the Masters brand - all ego and not a solid business case. Has all the low lying fruit been picked on this one?
There is and never will be a real hardware outfit is this Country
For us people in building, no matter what you are building, there is no timber, hardware in plastic, instead of 50lb cases
Wander into Lowes or Building Supply Depot or a decent Bouwmarket (SP) in De and you can buy any darned thing you want there is an opening here for a good U.S.A outfit


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CHICAGO (AP) — After months of keeping his decision-making close to the vest, Gov. Pat Quinn is poised to sign legislation on Thursday that would make Illinois the 20th state nationwide to legalize marijuana for medical use.
The Chicago Democrat's public schedule said he's going to take up an issue affecting veterans and people fighting chronic illnesses Thursday at the University of Chicago. Advocates for medical marijuana and the bill's sponsor state Rep. Lou Lang, a Skokie Democrat, confirmed that they had been invited to a bill signing.
Among those attending will be Army veteran Jim Champion, who suffers from a progressive form of multiple sclerosis and says that cannabis has helped him reduce the number pills he takes. At one time he was taking nearly 60 a day.
"I feel finally vindicated in a way," said Champion, who has met Quinn before. "All this time I've been telling people it helps me, but I've been living with the stigma of being a disabled veteran and also a criminal."
Quinn has been reticent for months about what he was going to do, only saying that he was "keeping an open mind."
The measure outlines a four-year pilot program that requires patients and caregivers to undergo background checks and sets provisions for state-regulated dispensaries. The proposal says seriously ill patients can be allowed up to 2.5 ounces of marijuana. But it's only for patients who have a relationship with their doctor and who suffer from the more than 30 specifically-listed medical conditions in the bill.
After it's signed, the law takes effect Jan. 1.
"It's gratifying to be in a situation where after a significant amount of work we were able to finalize a bill that will provide so much relief and a better quality of life for people in the state of Illinois," Lang said.
The bill is HB1.
Online: http://www.ilga.gov


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Shumway — The 2011 graduating class of the Vancouver School of Arts and Academics posed in front of a mural that was installed at the school June 16.
The tile and glass mosaic was dedicated to the 55-member class. The mural is one of six panels that will eventually be installed on the school's outer west wall.
The panels are VSAA's contribution to the Columbia River Confluence Project.