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Monday, March 26, 2012
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Email: Corzine directly ordered transfer of stolen customer funds
Paul Joseph Watson
The media has predictably leapt to former MF Global head John Corzine's defense following the revelation that $200 million dollars in customer funds was stolen, "per JC's direct instructions," by regurgitating the talking point that Corzine was unaware of the fact that the money was taken from clients.
A memo released by the House Financial Services subcommittee contradicts Corzine's claim, made under oath before Congress, in which the former New Jersey governor claimed, "I did not instruct anyone to lend customer funds to anyone."
$200 million dollars in customer funds, part of a $1.6 billion in client money that disappeared, was sent to MF Global's account with JP Morgan by direct order of Corzine, the email reveals.
"The memo released Friday details an email by Edith O'Brien, an assistant treasurer at MF Global, saying the transfer last October 28 "per JC's direct instructions" would cover an overdraft in the London account of JPMorgan Chase. "JC" stood for Corzine," reports Politico.
The fact that the email proves Corzine lied under oath, as well as violating securities law, was almost instantaneously met with an aggressive establishment media effort to defend Corzine, with both the New York Times and Time Magazine claiming Corzine did not know the money was from customer accounts and that the O'Brien email "was not a smoking gun".
To claim that an internal MF Global email which directly implicates Corzine as the instigator behind a transparent attempt to steal customer funds is "not a smoking gun" is a manifestly ludicrous assertion to make.
In attempting to absolve Corzine of blame, the establishment media is trying to confuse the whole story by reporting that Corzine "was told during the brokerage firm's final day of business that a crucial transfer of $175 million came from the firm's own money."
Indeed, the $175 million transfer did come from MF Global's own account, but only after that account had been filled with $200 million in stolen customer funds, which as the O'Brien email makes clear, was by direct order of Corzine.
The NY Times report acknowledges that Corzine could have been told "the origins of the money during a phone call or in person," but still tries to make the argument that, "A transfer of money from a customer account does not in and of itself constitute wrongdoing," as if this portion of vanished $1.6 billion dollars could have been an innocent and routine banking procedure.
It's most likely that the second email in which Corzine was supposedly told that the $175 wire to JP Morgan did not come from customer accounts (even though it did) was deliberately manufactured to provide Corzine with a false alibi so he could carry on with his ridiculous "it wasn't me" act.
The notion that Corzine, as the head of MF Global, would not know that money was being transferred (stolen) from customers in the days before the breakup of the company, is about as credible as Corzine's performance in front of Congress, when his feeble attempt to absolve himself of blame by engaging in convoluted linguistic gymnastics was plain to see.
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2 women found dead in Detroit
Detroit police conducting homicide investigation
DETROIT – Detroit police said two women were found dead Dec. 19 on the city's east side.
The bodies were found in a newer-model Chrysler 300 parked between abandoned houses on Promenade Avenue near Chalmers Street.
Victims' family members said 23-year-old Renesha Landers and her 24-year-old cousin Denesha Hunt went to a party Saturday night at Blackberry on Grand River Avenue. The family reported them missing when they did not return home that night.
Landers, who works at a Chrysler plant, had recently purchased the car.
Detroit homicide said investigators were on the case.
The Wayne County Medical Examiner's Office said the cause of death were pending toxicology reports. After initial autopsies, there were no signs of external trauma, the medical examiner said.
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In the spring of 1962, Prestige Records produced sessions with Dave Van Ronk, singing and accompanying himself on acoustic guitar. It was prestigious enough, for a scruffy denizen of the cafés of Greenwich Village's MacDougal Street, to be recorded by the label that released the work of Miles, Monk, Coltrane and many others. But the […]
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We haven't heard too much from Mike Holmgren since he rode his Harley off into the Ohio sunset, but that could be changing.
According to ESPN.com's Bill Williamson, Holmgren is talking to the Raiders about a "possible leadership role."
Given the reports of his possible interest in a job with only the Cowboys (a rumor that was planted, nurtured, then denied), and then a broadened scope, it's no surprise to hear his name linked.
The Raiders just hired former Holmgren co-worker Reggie McKenzie as general manager a year ago, though they have explored the possibility of adding to their front office, including recent talks with league exec Ray Anderson.
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Dear Readers,
I am writing with some exciting and bittersweet news for you.
I recently accepted a position with the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America to work on its social media and public relations efforts. I have been heavily involved with CCFA for many years, first through its Take Steps community walks and then through its Team Challenge endurance training program. I greatly enjoyed my experiences with these programs and am incredibly excited about this new opportunity to work with the national organization that is working tirelessly to find a cure for Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis and improve the lives of the 1.6 million Americans living with these debilitating diseases.
While this new move is extremely exciting for me both personally and professionally, it is also bittersweet. I will be taking a hiatus from Caring for Crohn's and turning the reigns over to Rosanne in the interim. I will miss engaging with all of you on here but I am confident that I am leaving you in the best of hands.
Once I am more settled in this position, I will update you on the future of Caring for Crohn's.
With love,
Hey New Yorkers: Take Action to Ensure Restroom Access!
I've written before about the Restroom Access Act (Ally's Law) and how important it is to get it passed in states across the country in order to ensure that patients with inflammatory bowel disease and other illnesses are able to access employee only restrooms in stores when a public one is not available.
Well New York, it's your turn to act!
In 2013, the New York State legislature attempted to pass the Restroom Access Act but it was never brought up for a vote. Earlier this year, Assemblywoman Amy Paulin (D-88) and Senator Kemp Hannon (R-Nassau) introduced the bipartisan Crohn's and Colitis Fairness Act in the New York State Assembly and Senate. If passed, this bill would amend New York State public health law to provide individuals with "Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, irritable bowel syndrome, or any other medical condition that requires immediate access to a toilet facility" access to employee-only bathrooms when a public one is not available.
Sounds great, right? It would be, but it won't pass without your help.
On June 17, 2015, the New York State Senate will vote on the Crohn's & Colitis Fairness Act. In order to gain support and ensure that we get as many votes as possible, we need to join forces with the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America to lobby our legislators to support this bill. So if you live anywhere in New York, here's what you need to do between now and June 17:
- Identify who your New York State Senator is here (if your Senator is Senator Hannon or bill cosponsor Senator Simcha Felder, email them and thank them for their support!)
- Either email them, call their office or visit and ask for their support of S4918, the Crohn's and Colitis Fairness Act
- Ask your friends and family to do the same
- Don't live in New York? You can still help by reaching out to New York State Senate Leadership and urging them to support the bill
Taking action takes less than five minutes. To make it even easier, here are two draft emails that you can use to send to your legislator:
Crohn's and Colitis Fairness Act Letter
It's up to you, New York, to make this bill become a law.
Living in the in between
For me, the worst part of being the caregiver of someone with a chronic illness and also a patient myself is living in the "in between"- the grey area straddling the line of good and bad, healthy and sick. I am a bit of a control freak (I know, shocking) and get very agitated when I can't anticipate what's to come and can't adequately plan for the future. Ask anyone who knows me- I am the captain of to do lists (and if they aren't written neatly enough, I've been known to rewrite them) and timelines. Professionally, this makes me great at my job because I am always on top of my work and I can multitask incredibly well. But personally, it is a huge source of angst.
Reblog: Crohn's Kills – Warning This Headline Is Clickbait, but the Message Inside Is Important
Today's post is a reblog from my friend Jaime's blog Pretty Rotten Guts. Last week, one of her best friends, who had Crohn's disease, passed away and this post was written in the days following her passing.
Last week, one of my very best friends, personal cheerleader, over-the-phone nurse, confidant, and late night infomercial watching buddy passed away. Over the past few years, she fought an extremely long battle against her body. She had Crohn's disease. While many would argue she passed from Crohn's disease… that isn't exactly what took her away from us. I'll explain.
When I was in high school, before my Crohn's got too out of hand to maintain a regular in-class workload, I was on what was referred to as a nursing track. This freshman course consisted of learning basic nursing concepts, terminology and anatomy. I loved it. And one day we got to study diseases. Our instructor, a longtime nurse and college instructor, explained to us how sometimes it's not a disease that kills someone but a complication from that disease.
One example she gave was of an AIDS patient who had cancer. How do you determine cause of death? Sometimes it's as simple as saying cardiac failure. If you need to go into further detail it can be cardiac failure due to end-stage cancer or possibly end-stage AIDS depending on the symptoms leading up to the death. But unless there is an autopsy you go with the general — heart failure.
Many people over the course of this past week have asked the same questions, "How old was she?" and "What did she die from?" and I want to so badly respond the way she would.
It would have gone something like this: "… age? No." And "… die from? Stubbornness!"
Both responses would have been uttered in a thick Boston accent, quickly followed with a laugh and a coy smile.
As for her COD, well I don't think many who knew her would disagree with stubbornness as a cause, but in reality she was in heart failure due to a dangerous clot that eventually dislodged. The clots were caused from an infection. This infection had become her arch nemesis next to Crohn's disease. More than likely her Crohn's and surgeries caused by the disease led to her declining health, but it was the infection and its clots that were too much for her to overcome this time.
I along with a few friends have been on guard for most of the week anticipating people who really didn't know our friend to start positing her face amongst purple ribbons and candles, inspirational quotes, or phrases like Crohn's Warrior, or purple butterflies referencing flying with angels or other butterflies. She hated with a capital H-A-T-E-D that stuff. Thankfully, not too much of that has happened. However, the few who have disrespected our request to remove the purple swag have made it pretty painful to deal with.
Our friend was such a private a person that we didn't learn of her actual age or birthday *gasp* until we caught it on a picture of a hospital bracelet that she forgot to crop out before sending it to us. She accepted defeat graciously.
I truly do not feel right typing this story out; it doesn't feel real. Several friends have texted the question "Is this real?" over the past week, and each time I have to respond back to them, "Yes, very".
I guess I'm writing this for two reasons — partly to diminish the denial that many of us are still feeling; as well as a way to lay the facts out while keeping her dignity intact, because so many people have questions and let their minds wander.
To put it simply we can all agree that the clot caused her death. It wasn't just Crohn's disease alone that took her away.
Whenever a young- and vibrant-looking person with a like disease who is somewhat known in an online health community passes it becomes a very sensitive time for all community members. Even those who didn't personally know the person (who has passed on) take this loss very hard for their own personal reasons. Grief knows no boundaries.
These losses leave everyone (patients, as well as their friends and family members) emotionally raw; vulnerable even. It's not out of the ordinary for them / their loved ones to wonder "Could it happen to me / them too?"
In short, more than likely it will not happen. Crohn's isn't known for taking lives in the same manner many terminal diseases are. Months ago, our friend made a flyby comment that she "could just as easily get hit by a bus instead." I was neither amused nor comforted. This comment came from someone who had beaten the reaper a few times already. So, I would like to emphasize to those of you out there in our Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Community — regardless of having Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis — Crohn's can contribute to someone's death, but IBD doesn't have a high mortality rate. It just doesn't.
So, if you see a post online, or an article floating around that says something like "Crohn's Kills" or "Crohn's has taken the life of another warrior..," go ahead and take what you just saw with a grain of salt and know that there are multiple circumstances involved.
Don't forget to check out Jaime's blog here.
Stuck in the Middle with IBD
When I was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis nearly a decade ago, I was told my case was "mild" and I should go on living my life. I had no idea what I was in for at that point. In fact, I was relieved to find out it was ulcerative colitis (which seems laughable at this point) after being told for more than five years that it was "all in my head" and I just needed to relax. I was told to take Asacol and resume my normal activities.
As it turns out (I'm sure you'll be shocked by this) I couldn't resume my normal activities. Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) turned my life upside down. A few months prior to my college graduation from St. John's University, I found myself unable to travel to take my finals and instead of jumping into the work force that I had prepared so hard for, I was just trying to get by.
Determined not to be slowed down by my disease, I applied to graduate school and got into my dream program at New York University. If I couldn't work, I'd advance my career by getting my master's degree. It was a great goal, but each day I was getting sicker, and I was deteriorating rapidly. I wasn't eating, with fears of an accident during classes.
Four weeks into my program at NYU, I was waiting for the subway I noticed I could not turn my neck to check if the train was coming. I thought it was strange and mentioned it to my parents when I got home. A few hours later, when I got into bed, I couldn't breathe. My family rushed me to the emergency room, where we quickly found out I had developed pneumonia from being so run down due to my flare up.
My return home after a week in the hospital was short lived. After a day or two, I couldn't walk up the stairs without getting winded. A quick chest x-ray showed pneumonia in both of my lungs, which we later found out was caused by a hospital-acquired staph infection. I was rushed back to the hospital, this time to ICU, and was pumped with the strongest antibiotics available.
If you know anything about IBD, you know that antibiotics and digestive diseases make for a messy combination. In short time, I was diagnosed with C. Diff and I was back to the hospital for a third time. I had to withdraw from my semester at school and it took months to recover. I still have PTSD from this experience.
However, that was my only IBD-related hospital stay in a decade with the disease. I never had to have surgery for my IBD. None of my flare ups required an emergency room visit. That's not to say I've had it easy. For a couple of years, I would flare up every three to four months. I would commute with the worst cramping you could imagine and my fatigue was impossible to overcome. I felt at times like a prisoner in my own home. Inflammation has popped up in my ears and eyes at various points. At the ripe old age of 27, I got shingles on my face.
Right before my wedding in 2011, I seriously considered having my colon removed, but it thankfully never came to that. My doctors found the right combination of Ascaol, Remicade and 6MP to manage my symptoms and I'm living a relatively normal life.
So why do I feel like I'm stuck in the middle? Like many patients, I look to the internet for support and a shoulder to cry on. On the internet I find amazing advocates who are doing so much to spread awareness and fight for patients. There is no price that can be put on the value of what they do. Yet their diseases are often significantly more progressed than mine. They are in the ER at a blink of an eye. Their chronic pain requires frequent surgeries and hospital stays. Some of the advocates I've followed through the years have even died from complications due to IBD.
Every time I go online to vent or complain about my symptoms, I find someone who has symptoms 100x worse than I do. I feel guilty…oh so guilty…for even thinking of complaining. I feel like I should be grateful that my disease hasn't progressed beyond a certain point, but instead I am depressed that I don't feel well enough to feel like myself.
I'm here to tell you today that you aren't alone. Yes, you. You, who is well enough to work but feels exhausted all the time. You, whose IBD is progressed enough to be a pain in the ass (literally) but not enough of a pain to allow you to go on disability. You, who is flaring up and is in the bathroom 15 times a day but is still going to school. You, who is afraid to get in a car for fear of an accident.
You aren't alone. You're allowed to be in pain and you're allowed to be pissed about it. Every day is a struggle for you. You learn to expect the unexpected with IBD. You may not live with a j-pouch or an ostomy, but you're sick too, and it's OK to grieve about your disease. CCFA's "Escape the Stall" campaign wasn't egregious to you because that's the life you live every day.
I hope that I could be your voice. Thank you, Rebecca Kaplan, for inviting me to blog about IBD here. I hope that I do this group (that's stuck in the middle just like me) justice. I invite you to let me know what you think in the comments section below or connect with me on Twitter @RoeMoPR.
Introducing New Caring for Crohn's & UC Contributor!
Keeping a blog current takes a lot of work and content. As many of you know, I've had a lot of trouble writing as often as I should in order to keep the blog up to date. After a lot of thought, I decided that I could use help writing on the blog and interacting with Caring for Crohn's readers.
So I am incredibly excited to announce that my friend Rosanne will be joining Caring for Crohn's as a new contributor!
I first met Rosanne in 2013 through the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America's Greater New York City Chapter's Communication's Committee (man that's a mouthful). Rosanne was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis in 2006. She is very active in the IBD community, not only on the communications committee with me but also as a volunteer with Staten Island support groups and a Take Steps participant. She is a public relations professional, a Disney enthusiast, and a new mom to an adorable five month old baby boy.
Rosanne will be blogging here about her experience with ulcerative colitis and as a new mom with an inflammatory bowel disease as well as general information about IBD. You can follow her on Twitter at @RoeMoPR.
Please join me in welcoming Rosanne to the Caring for Crohn's family!


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NEC's blue laser hits 300mW output power
Scientists at NEC's research laboratories have fabricated the world's most powerful 405 nm continuous-wave GaN laser.
As semiconductor manufacturers look towards volume production of blue lasers for next-generation DVD applications, NEC researchers have developed a powerful GaN source that ought to boost the writing speed of rewritable drives based on the technology.
Developed at the Japanese company's System Device Research Laboratories, the 405 nm laser emits a world-record 300 mW in continuous-wave mode.
Fabricated using NEC's proprietary technology, the laser diode features a planar structure with a buried AlN inner stripe. The structure is grown using "multiple epitaxy technology", the research team told Compoundsemiconductor.net.
With a threshold current of 35 mA, the output power of the laser reaches around 200 mW at a drive current of 150 mA.
NEC demonstrated the laser at the recent CEATEC Japan 2004 technology exhibition, at which several companies from both the Blu-ray Disc and HD-DVD industry groups showed off their next-generation DVD technology.
Its subsidiary NEC Compound Semiconductor Devices will have a prototype laser ready for sampling to customers in 2005, and volume manufacturing will take place at the company's Kansai plant in Otsu, Japan.
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Don Woosley won his first national event when he upset Dale Armstrong in the finals of the 1975 Sportsnationals in his home state of Kentucky. Don, who had already beaten Ken Veney, John Carter and Jim Archer, stunned the low qualifier in the final round when he ran 7.17 to Dale's losing, but much quicker, 705. After the race he said, "I knew those other guys were quicker but I always knew I'd be able to cover them." And cover them he did.
For his career Don won a total of ten NHRA national events and went to another ten final rounds. He won the NHRA World Championship in 1982 and had four other top ten finishes. He also won the sportsman All Star competition and seven Division 3 championships. And as good as he was on the national level he was even more devastating at the divisional races where he went to forty final rounds and won twenty-nine of them. Along with his partners Bill Sharp and Bill Reynolds, they ran a blown alcohol dragster that was as good as any in the class in the 1980's and they were a familiar fixture in the late rounds at any event they attended. On a personal note, I used to go to Ohio Valley Raceway several times a year, and whenever the Ale8-One car would appear I knew we were in for a great day.
Don is survived by his sons, Lowrey, Jason and Chris, two grandsons and three brothers and he will be missed by drag racing fans everywhere.


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Joe Flacco is soaking up all the opportunities that come with being a Super Bowl champ, including nabbing a front row seat at New York Fashion Week.
The Baltimore Ravens quarterback and his wife, Dana Grady, had prime real-estate for Tommy Hilfiger's ever-preppy menswear collection Friday at the Park Avenue Armory.
"It was pretty cool. It was a lot quicker than I thought it would have been," said Flacco after watching his first fashion show.
As a brutal Nor'easter raged outside, the Hilfiger men on the runway bundled up in hefty coats with plush fur collars, cozy argyle sweaters and patterned turtlenecks.
If there's one takeaway from the fall collection: Houndstooth is a man's best friend.
It came down the runway in subtle waves - just peeking out from the lining of a coat or scarf - and in bold explosions, including a head-to-toe ensemble of houndstooth trousers and trench. Hilfiger also mixed and matched his pattern du jour with plaids and argyle.
Flacco, who led the Ravens in a 34-31 victory against the San Francisco 49ers at the Super Bowl in New Orleans, gave a nod of approval as a model passed by in a fitted navy blazer, layered under a dark, shearling car coat.
So what would his teammates say about his fashion week cameo?
"You know they'd probably pick on me a little bit, but it was a lot of fun," said Flacco.
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Thought you would enjoy this fine mess of a uranium company's story: UEC.
It appears that the company, for whatever reason, without publicizing the fact, stopped mining, and has been publishing sales numbers based solely upon inventory sales.
The link below details how that was discovered.
So the stock is down 33% today as a result, and shareholder lawsuits are being filed.
I see that the CEO of UEC is also the CEO of Brazil Resources, so if any of your readers/clients are invested or thinking of investing, perhaps a word of caution, which you are so subtly adept at giving, would be in order. :)
UPDATE: Several of you have forwarded the latest June 2015 edition of the Louis Lobito Little Wolf James International Speculator, published (oh what a surprise) by Casey Research that's basically a long pump for UEC.
And you want me to be surprised? Scumbags pumping scumbags, period.
UPDATE 2: UEC responds:
CORPUS CHRISTI, TX, June 19, 2015 /PRNewswire/ - Uranium Energy Corp (NYSE MKT: UEC, the "Company" or "UEC") is responding to recent press releases relying on the unfounded allegations of a third party.The subject press releases have absolutely no merit and are comprised of unfounded allegations made by a third party whose motives are questionable. The Company has reviewed the referenced article. The Company's SEC disclosure is very clear and we will not comment further on the possibility of groundless, frivolous litigation. UEC is in discussions with counsel with a view to doing whatever is necessary to bring these parties' motives to light and to seek such legal and equitable relief and any and all damages suffered by the Company and any of its shareholders as a consequence of these unfounded allegations.
full NR here
Editorial note
This Modern World: A Confederacy of Denial
Tom Tomorrow has given permission to distribute this new 'toon to one and all. So here it is.
Since we last spoke about copper...
A January rant that's still good today
- Canadian brokerages continue with a coverage universe recommendation 95% buys, 4% holds, 1% sells.
- Mouthbreather central websites run by and for the corrupt rich folk in Vancouver (yes CEO CA that's you, but sadly you're not the only ones out there) tell you that fame and riches are just around the corner, not just now today but in September 2012, March 2013, August 2014 etc etc ad infin.
- Places at the very bottom of the foodchain such as the unreadable waste of time that is Stockhouse band together the losers and if anyone dare tell them anything that doesn't suit their fantasy narratives they're immediately branded "bashers" and placed on ignore.
- Company IR departments are all yeah for sure it's been tough but hang in there guy, things are getting better and...you know the rest.
- Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
BMO on six gold miners
BMO Research is initiating coverage of six of the North American-based gold miners. After two years of cost cutting, balance sheets are showing positive improvement and debt is less of an obstacle toward a new stage of growth focused on return that will drive the next cycle.
1. We have moved toward a more constructive view and believe that the senior miners looks to begin to screen more constructively in early 2016 when viewed by generalist investors.
2. We recommend that investors position in advance of this catalyst, taking advantage of seasonal weakness through the summer.
3. ABX and GG are rated Outperform: ABX on execution of strategy, GG on delivery of growth. AEM, AUY, ELD, and KGC are rated Market Perform but have catalysts that could change our view.
Fortuna Silver (FVI.to) (FSM): Everybody loves Mario
Well, not quite true. Better said is juuuuuuuuuust enough people love Mario.
He got 57.0% approval last year. Slipping there Mario. Slipping.
Don't say we didn't try to warn you
The IKN True Gold (TGM.v) lunchtime Tuesday post here.
True Gold's Wednesday morning puffball spin here.
Result Thursday afternoon here.
Franco Nevada (FNV): Ten months on and Pierre is still smarter than you
And don't you forget it:
If you do, phone Pierre. He'll remind you personally.
Know your place, prole
Your savings choices expand if you happen to be the Chair of Niocorp (NB.to)
So, let's see now...here come the choices:
1) Put your U$1.5m in cash into a time deposit paying an annual compound of four lynx's farts.
2) Put your U$1.5m in cash where it earns
U$225,000 U$187,500* in one flat year
NioCorp Developments Ltd. ("NioCorp" or the "Company") (TSX:NB)(OTCQX:NIOBF)(FRANKFURT:BR3), is pleased to announce that the Company has arranged a loan agreement dated June 17, 2015 in the amount of USD $1.5 million from Mark A. Smith, Executive Chairman of NioCorp, which will serve to further improve and refine the Elk Creek Niobium Project. These funds will contribute to work done on the Preliminary Economic Study (PEA), additional hydrological testing of the planned mine site, and additional hydrometallurgical work necessary to keep the project on its original timeline for completion of the Company's Feasibility Study. The one year term loan will bear an interest rate of 10%, is secured by the Company's assets pursuant to a concurrently executed general security agreement, and is subject to both a 2.5% establishment fee and 2.5% prepayment fee. continues here
*read the 2.5% pre-pay thing too quickly. Still, 187k is still handy moolah
Argentina Presidential election: The stage is now set
PS: For Ricardo, Abel and anyone else who might care. The last 48 hours have shown one main thing, that CFK is in charge. She's chosen Scioli and she's chosen correctly. Two points:
1) Randazzo never was, is or ever will be 'presidenciable', that special secret sauce a politico needs to make it to the top of the greasy pole. Scioli is, period. In the eyes of the wider electorate, Daniel Scioli has paid his dues and won't ruffle feathers as the Head of State. However, if Randazzo became the chosen one, Macri would be offered an open door to the election. It was only a matter of time and timing for the Randazzo retirement and what's more, his decision to do (or not do) what he wants in the election cycle this time around is unimportant. There's only one job that matters, folks, and it isn't the governorship of Buenos Aires province. Not this time, at least.
2) On the question of timing, that's now and that's CFK pulling the trigger via her decision to pair Scioli with Zannini and her decision to have a little chat with Florencio Randazzo. With these moves she states that a) she is in charge and b) a vote for Scioli is a vote for the continuation of the project. And it may come as a surprise to those outside looking in who only get to note Argentine goings on via mainstream English language press coverage, but both a) and b) are distinct advantages for Daniel Scioli. Despite what you might have heard, CFK is a popular president in Argentina and Argentina's not doing badly at all right now. That may pain you politically, that may go against your preconceived ideas of what inflation is, but that's also true.
Scioli's only weak point for October is the potential for accusations that he's the chameleon candidate, that he'll take Kirchnerism away from its path and pull it to the right thereby alienating its grassroots. The people who feel this way are some of the most vociferous in social media complaints about the way Randazzo has been treated today, which is another reason why CFK has acted early. By clearing the field today in June, long before the PASO comes around in August, she gets the time needed to rally the whole FpV, from the wishywashy Scioli faithful to the hardcore Campora, around the same flag. On this score, the choice of Zannini (by CFK, not Scioli) is inspired and hints at the rise in ambitions of Maximo Kirchner.
I digress, but the basic point is that CFK is much better at Argentina politics than all of us and she's now played the main cards. She's named Scioli (which changes nothing, he was always going to win the FpV nomination over Randazzo) but she's done it in a way that will assuage the doubts of the hardcore K members. Scioli is the one that is deemed 'presidenciable' by the wider population, he's now had the Kirchnerist collar fixed firmly round his neck. And he's your new President come December.
PPS: Life is a lottery
The solution: Armed guards in every church
It's what Jesus would have wanted.
Rob McEwen starts paying himself at McEwen Mining (MUX) (MUX.to)
1) He draws no salary
2) He owns 25% of the company's shares.
Four lines on Lawrence Williams of Mineweb (all he deserves)
TAHO was inflated before the GG secondary, you say?
Hans Peter Black of Williams Creek Gold (WCX.v) and Tyhee Gold (TDC.v), busted
Washington D.C., June 17, 2015 —The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced fraud charges against a Massachusetts-based investment advisory firm and its owner for funneling more than $17 million in client assets into four financially troubled Canadian penny stock companies in which the owner has undisclosed business and financial interests.The SEC alleges that clients at Interinvest Corporation may have lost as much as $12 million of their $17 million investment based on the recent trading history of shares in the penny stock companies, some of which are purportedly in the business of exploring for gold or other minerals. Interinvest's owner and president Hans Peter Black has served on the board of directors of these companies, which have collectively paid an entity he controls approximately $1.7 million. Black's involvement with these companies and his receipt of payments from them created a conflict of interest that he and Interinvest failed to disclose to their advisory clients.
Sometimes it's what's not in the news which is more interesting
Frank dude, whoever's running your personal PR, sack them now. Whoever told you it was a bright idea to put out a press release is an idiot, whoever got you to agree to a Q&A with the NatPost guy is a moron. Stop talking to the press about being annoyed over your links to the Clintons. It doesn't matter if they're totally true, totally false or somewhere in between. It doesn't matter how innocent you think you are, or how wonderful, or how successful, just STFU and stay that way
Andy Home on copper
Corvus (KOR.to) releases a PEA
There's a reasonable chance that True Gold (TGM.v) rallies today...
PS: No, I don't own any. Not planning to, either.
The short thing about Nevada Copper (NCU.to) in IKN318 last Sunday plus The Doors in 1970
This was two days ago, it's down even more now.
Copper (NCU.to): No amount of hype can save a marginal project. Since the Nevada Copper (NCU.to) feasibility study NR came out on May 28th, the change in price trend has been as abrupt as it is obvious on that 2015 year-to-date chart. We've also had NCU's management team aggressively marketing the project in both Nevada Torontoand in the post-NR period, so the reception for the message among professionals is clear; not buying. New York
I'm aware that Pumpkin Hollow is "one of the last big copper projects not in the hands of a major" or whatever other line they use to sell the thing. Well folks, perhaps one day it'll dawn on people just why no major has bought it in the years it's been shopped around. Or perhaps that fact is finally dawning on people this month. It's about time it did.
Everybody loves my baby.
Chart of the day is...
New mining law in Burkina Faso
Goldcorp (GG) sells its Tahoe (TAHO)
I'm trying to think of something to say that isn't "not surprised" and failing.
So, not surprised. NR here
PS: The full SEC filing is here. It includes the ostensible reason why GG wants to dump its THO:
Bart Simpson has a message for Argonaut Gold (AR.to)
Argonaut's message here.
Bart's message here.
Chart of the day is...
The IKN Weekly, out now
Brent Cook does Vanessa Collette live on air in front of cameras for over ten minutes
Right here
They talk about mining stocks, too.
Greenwald on The Sunday Times on Snowden
This is the very opposite of journalism. Ponder how dumb someone has to be at this point to read an anonymous government accusation, made with zero evidence, and accept it as true.
UPDATE: Zelo Street gets in on the act and points out factual errors in the ST story. Good job of fact checking from one of the smartest UK media-watch blogs out there.


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Relay for Life of Morgan County presents "The Roaring 20's" at its kickoff celebration brunch.
The event is on Saturday, Jan. 12 from 9 to 11 a.m. at the Fort Morgan Elks Lodge.
The American Cancer Society is celebrating 100 years this year.
The kickoff will feature team fundraisers, a purse and accessory silent auction, food and opportunities to get involved in the fight against cancer.
Survivors who wear a Relay for Life Survivor shirt will receive a discount that day, and anyone who comes in a Relay shirt will be entered in a prize drawing.
Those signing up a team at the kickoff will save $75 on the team fee.
The Relay for Life kickoff is open to the public. For more information about Relay for Life or the kickoff, contact Kim Grennan, publicity chair, at 380-4807.


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|We are starting to see a range of cool new 3D consumer cameras, like the Sony HDR-TD10 and the JVC GS-TD1, both great companion units to a GoPro 3D Hero setup. ;) The new Sony and JVC cameras record to a single 3D file in a Multiview Video Coding format (MVC) which is very cool, yet it currently has limited video editing compatibility. MVC simplifies the capture down to one video file for 3D, yet doesn't compromise resolution, like side-by-side 3D formats which squish the left and right view it one HD frame. MVC stores two full frames of 1080 HD, not that unlike CineForm's own 3D format. For editing only Sony Vegas 10.0d has any native MVC support and currently only for the Sony camera.
CineForm is planning conversion utilities for all common 3D sources, yet today there aren't any license-able MVC decoders available (we expect this to change soon.) At CineForm we develop our own compression technologies, yet license the standard based ones like MPEG2, H.264 and soon MVC. So what does a new MVC camera owner do in the meantime?
The developer of StereoPlayer has a solution suitable called MVC to AVI Converter for Windows, and it does exactly as it name suggests. While it is not a fancy utility, it has all the needed functionality -- you can select the "CineForm HD Encoder-2" with any CineForm Neo or Neo3D install, and even set the compression level and frame format (to match your source.)
The output will be a left and right CineForm AVI files that can be quickly Muxed into a new CineForm 3D using FirstLight. While this is one more step, the muxing process is completely losses and very fast, as is simply adds left and right eye views into a new file without re-compression. With your new CineForm 3D AVI or MOV file, you can now edit 3D within common video editing tools, adding 3D corrections with key-framing within FirstLight.
Please send me your youtube.com 3D link in the comments with you first successful use of this technique.


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Rodent Infestation Signs:
- Droppings. Typically left behind in kitchen cabinets and pantries, along walls, on top of wall studs or beams, near nests, and in boxes, bags, old furniture and other objects.
- Noises. Rodents often make scurrying sounds most often at night as they move about and nest.
- Gnaw marks. New gnawings tend to be rough to the touch and are light colored.
- Tracks/footprints. These along with tail marks are easily found in areas where the rodents travel.
- Burrows. Inside, rodents often nest in various materials such as insulation, and they prefer nesting areas that are dark and secluded.
- Damaged food packages. Mice prefer seeds or cereals while Norway rats prefer meat, fish and dry dog food.


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Korsun Pocket
During the second half of 1943, after the failure at Kursk, Germany's Army Group South fell back from Russia under repeated hammer blows from the Red Army. Under Erich von Manstein, however, the Germans were able to avoid serious defeats, while at the same time fending off Hitler's insane orders to hold on to useless territory.
Then, in January 1944, a disaster happened. Six divisions of Army Group South became surrounded after sudden attacks by the first and second Ukrainian Fronts under command of generals Nikolai Vatutin and Ivan Konev around the village of Korsun (near the larger town of Cherkassy on the Dnieper). The Germans' greatest fear was the prospect of another Stalingrad, the catastrophe that had occurred precisely one year before.
This time, though, Manstein was in control from the start, and he immediately rearranged his Army Group to rescue his trapped divisions. A major panzer drive got underway, led by General der Panzertruppen Hans Hube, a survivor from Stalingrad pocket, which promptly ran up against several soviet tank armies. Leading the break-in was Franz Baeke with his Tiger and Panther-tanks. Due to both weather and ferocious resistance, the German drive stalled. Ju-52s still flew into Korsun's airfield, delivering supplies and taking out wounded, but it soon became apparent that only one option remained for the beleaguered defenders: breakout.
Without consulting Hitler, on the night of February 16, Manstein ordered the breakout to begin. Led by the strongest formation within the pocket, SS Wiking, the trapped forces surged out and soon rejoined the surrounding panzer divisions who had been fully engaged in weakening the ring.
When dawn broke, the Soviets realized their prey was escaping. Although the Germans within the pocket lost nearly all of their heavy weapons and left many wounded behind, their escape was effected. Stalin, having anticipated another Stalingrad, was left with little but an empty bag, as Army Group South - this time - had pulled off a rescue. In The Korsun Pocket, Niklas Zetterling - a researcher at the Swedish Defense College since 1995 - and Anders Frankson have provided a highly detailed and often breathtaking account of one of the most dramatic battles of World War II. From grand strategy to soldiers' voices on the ground, including expert statistical analysis, the action, and the stakes, of the battle at Korsun are made vividly clear.
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- Joseph
- 16/04/2013
A wonderful historical narative
Any additional comments?
As a historian and a professional soldier I found this book to be fascinating on so many levels. It could have been written by a general of WWII. It has depth, strategic insight and explanation and a cold calculated analysis of why it all went so wrong so fast for the German Army. Well recommended.
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- S.C. James
- 22/03/2015
needs auxiliary media
Hard to follow with no map. Audible needs to figure out how to have maps come up on the media player to facilitate the story.
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- Andrew
- 09/05/2014
Dry as a whale bone in the Sahara.
Would you try another book from Niklas Zetterling and Anders Frankson and/or Dick Hill?
Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Dick Hill?
John FitzGibbon would have been much better. The narrator seemed to be constantly running out of breath and he stumbled a great deal with the names of places, people, and even vehicles. It was hard to remain interested when the narrator sounds like he has just finished climbing a dozen flights of stairs before the reading.
If this book were a movie would you go see it?
Yes indeed.
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- Albert Chapman-layland
- 05/07/2016
Well done
Interesting topic. The description of the senior commanders deciding to leave behind the wounded was gripping.
Sometimes struggled to follow without a map. I found a map of the pocket on the interest and got a sense of the relative location of various villages.
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Nashville, Tenn. --- Associate head athletic trainer Patrice Elder was selected to attend the 2012 NCAA/NACWAA Institute for Administrative Advancement.
The National Association of Collegiate Women Athletics Administrators (NACWAA) is the premier advocacy organization that empowers, develops, assists, celebrates, affirms, involves and honors women working in all fields of intercollegiate athletics and takes a pro-active role in advancing women into positions of influence.
"I'm really excited and proud of Patrice being selected to attend the NACWAA conference," said Head Athletic Trainer Monroe Abram. "I see this as a growth opportunity to expand her horizons within the athletics profession. Most people don't realize the amount of administrative work that goes into athletics or the amount we athletic trainers do daily. Patrice has gained knowledge and experience in her years here. This program will enable her to have continued success in the future."
In 1979, in the midst of gender-equity conflicts in intercollegiate athletics, a group of female administrators formed the Council of Collegiate Women Athletic Administrators (CCWAA), an organization with the goal of enhancing opportunities for women in athletics.
Since its creation, the main objective of the organization has not changed, but the roles and responsibilities have increased along with the increased exposure of women's athletics. In 1992, in order to better represent its diversified members, the CCWAA changed its name to the National Association of Collegiate Women Athletic Administrators (NACWAA). Expanding from its moderate beginnings, NACWAA now boasts nearly 1,700 members from universities, colleges, conferences and affiliated organizations across the country.
"I thank God for the blessings he has bestowed to me this year in my profession", said Elder. "It is an honor to be chosen for this Institute and I am looking to gain great insight on leadership in athletics. I thank God for the administration at TSU for being so supportive in my professional endeavors. I look to bring back information to apply to my current position and the sports medicine department."
The NACWAA Institute will be held June 3-7 in Atlanta, Georgia.


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Last updated November 2017
You may go for months without getting anywhere closer to your bank than its website, smartphone app, or ATM. But eventually you'll need a real person to help you change an account, handle an unusual transaction, report a problem. And just like the bank's automated functions, you want these service encounters to be convenient, pleasant, quick, and competent.
While many area consumers are highly dissatisfied with their banks, the news is not all bad: We've also found that you can still obtain high-quality service at some banks. Our Ratings Tables show the results from our surveys of area consumers (primarily Checkbook and Consumer Reports subscribers) who were asked to rate banks and credit unions they have used "inferior," "adequate," or "superior" on the following aspects of customer service: "knowledge of staff"; "speed of service"; "pleasantness of staff"; "convenience of hours"; "reasonableness of fee policies"; "clarity of written communications"; and "overall service." For each of these aspects of service, our Ratings Tables report the percent of customers who rated each institution "superior" (as opposed to "adequate" or "inferior"). We have reported results for all banks and credit unions for which we received at least 10 ratings. (For more information on our research methods, click here.)
As you can see, we found huge bank-to-bank differences in service quality. For example, for "knowledge of staff," some banks were rated "superior" by more than 80 percent of their surveyed customers while others received "superior" ratings for this aspect of service from fewer than half of their surveyed customers.
You'll notice from our Ratings Tables that none of the area's largest banks rates tops for service, and also that several small banks and credit unions got relatively high ratings. But not all small banks and not all credit unions scored so well. Even among the area's largest banks, there is substantial bank-to-bank variation.
Many banks received their lowest scores for "reasonableness of fee policies." With banks relying increasingly on special fees to boost profits, before opening a new account carefully review the bank's fees—and consider taking your business elsewhere if your current bank begins imposing unreasonable fees.
Our Ratings Tables also report our count of the number of branches each bank has in the area, and in which parts of the area the branches are located. Keep in mind that locations open and close frequently. Also be aware that at many credit unions, customers can use "shared branches" to make deposits and withdrawals, transfer funds, etc. When we made our counts of branch locations for each bank, we did not take into account shared branch arrangements.
In general, credit unions earn higher customer satisfaction scores than banks. Although some credit unions narrowly restrict membership, others have very loose requirements. For example, although Pacific Service Credit Union originally was set up for just PG&E employees, now anyone who lives, works, worships, or attends school anywhere in the Bay Area can join.


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We've just updated our WidowX and ScorpionX Robot Turret from the DYNAMIXEL RX line to the new MX line. These new servos have almost 4 times the resolution of their predecessors! That's .088° resolution! These turrets have silky smooth movement and still sport impressive torque. And because the new MX servos have a full 360 rotation you get more pan coverage than ever before!
Since all our turrets are built with the Arduino compatible Arbotix Robocontroller, you can leverage the power of the Arduino environment to customize your turret. You can control the turret using a PC, a XBee device (like the Arbotix Commander), or even make it fully autonomous! And because these servos run at 12v and use a 3-pin TTL connection, they're fully compatible with AX-12 and AX-18, making expanding your turret even easier.
These turrets are perfect for projects ranging from photography to Paintball Turrets and more! With our open source software, the sky is the limit!


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Home Page Chess Life Online 2014 August Cleveland Public Library Hosts Chess Challenge
|Cleveland Public Library Hosts Chess Challenge
|By Paul Swaney
|April 16, 2013
The non-profit organization, Progress With Chess (http://www.progresswithchess.com/) hosts a chess tournament for over 550 students from the Cleveland Municipal Schools Chess Program at the Cleveland Public Library. This tournament titled "Chess Challenge" has been a positive outlet for the students to come test their skills against each other for the past 12 years.
Progress With Chess not only runs the tournament, but all the participants get a free lunch, participate in simultaneous events, receive t-shirts honoring the event, receive trophies at the awards ceremony, and even play chess against local Cleveland police officers and detectives. The Cleveland Public Schools also sponsor the event by providing transportation for all the students. This year's edition took place on March 27 and 28.
The Cleveland Public Library (http://www.cpl.org/) is very supportive, lending the hands of their staff to help setup for the two day event. The Library hosts the event one floor below the famous John G. White chess collection that is known all over the world. If you are ever in Cleveland make it a priority to visit this collection! The library staff is friendly and will bring you any item that you wish to research!
This year, International Master Calvin Blocker donated his time in honor of his brother to give a simultaneous exhibition. Calvin was fun, energetic, and gave all the students one on one time after the game. A real treat for all of the students!
All of the students enjoyed having a chance to play against local Cleveland police officers!
Progress With Chess sends instructors into elementary and middle schools throughout Cleveland. These instructors go into various classrooms during the regular day time school hours to teach the finer points of the game. For more information on these successful programs please visit the website.
The excitement and joy on all the students' faces made this year's event a wonderful success for everyone. I always enjoy seeing how the game of chess can bring a community and the youth together. Please take the time and visit progresswithchess.com to find out more about this non-profit organization and all of their activities.


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Sorry, boss, but I've got a CoD.
If you're an employer, you may have noticed some of your staff called in sick; if you're a girlfriend, you may be waiting by the phone for your boyfriend to call; and if you're a teacher, you might have only half of the class present; but if you're a gamer, you know that November 9th marks the release of the highly expected shooter Call of Duty: Black Ops. Thankfully, Black Ops is worth neglecting your daily responsibilities.
[image1]For starters, the story in the single-player campaign in Black Ops is one of the better storylines in the CoD series, if not the best. One of the roles you take on is Alex Mason, who is being held in an interrogation room with his clothes covered in dried blood and whose memory is strangely haunted by numbers. Once you dive into the story, the interrogator forces you, as Alex, to remember the significance of the numbers and you begin to fall in and out of consciousness.
You recall when you were involved in an assassination attempt during the Bay of Pigs invasion, in the uprising in Vorkuta Labor Camp, and in a battle against the NVA at Khe Sanh Village—just to name a few. You've been to places, seen things, and are minutes away from being responsible for the death of millions if you don't comply with the interrogator's demands. Not only do you have different settings to immerse yourself into, there are also profound action scenes – guiding yourself away from jagged rocks as you freefall to escape from an avalanche, or evading SAMs and RPGs while piloting a hind helicopter.
The story is notable, especially for a shooter, but the gameplay itself has its flaws. One that's obvious is that the game tries to incorporate unimportant quick-time events (or sometimes dull-time events). In one scene, as enemies close in on your position, you jump into a car hoping for a quick getaway and you expect a cutscene, but instead of taking a breather, a command pops up telling you to squeeze the left trigger in order to reverse the car. You obey and the car does too… but that's it. The scene continues on while you wonder what the point of that was. Instead of it being effective, it feels more like a desperate, half-ass attempt from developers to force some interplay between the story and the player.
Second, the AI is your typical CoD AI: Your allies generally push you out of cover or they are busy shooting circles around the enemy. The AI enemies are not a challenge, unless you choose to play on veteran difficulty. However, veteran difficulty doesn't make the AI smarter—as it never has. So if you expected an innovative change here, you won't find.
[image2]But of course, the CoD franchise is known for online multiplayer, and the developers have spent some time improving the mode. Unlike before, you can customize weapons and even etch your clan tag on it. You will also notice you have a Playercard where your Gamertag is displayed as well as a fully customizable emblem, for which you can unlock and buy different shapes and pictures, rotate them, change their colors, and so on. Now when you watch the killcam, you not only see yourself being owned, but you get a chance to look at the enemy's Playcard and admire their creativity… or lack thereof. There is an option to adjust your character's appearance, but the options are much more limited than what you can do with your Playercard. It's just some face paint and some preset warfare suits.
In order to use all these customization options, Black Ops incorporates a currency system called CoD points, which are earned by playing multiplayer, completing contracts, or competing in Wager matches. They are then used to buy camo, attachments, perks, weapons, and even killstreaks, which unlock after you gradually level up by gaining experience points. So instead of unlocking weapons outright as you level, you now have to buy them too. This is, of course, frustrating because you will want to jump into multiplayer guns blazing, but with the currency system, it slows you down. It also makes you think, "Do I really want to spend these points for a noob tube, especially when I can spend them on something else worthwhile later?"
As mentioned earlier, another way to earn CoD points is through Wager matches, where up to 10,000 CoD points can be put on the line. Considering that weapons range from 2,000 to 4,000 points and the more desirable but hard-to-get killstreaks are 5,000 points and up, you will think twice before betting your points away carelessly. If it weren't for the Wager matches, the currency system would prove to be more or less a lackluster addition, but this particular game mode makes multiplayer much more exciting since these are your points.
That said, Wager matches are mainly for the skilled. Players will act as if real money were on the line, so be cautious. There are six players total: The top three walk away with earnings with the first player earning the highest pay of course, while the bottom three leave the match with absolutely nothing. So you best know what you're doing or you'll end up in the poorhouse. It's ultimately up to you to decide if betting your hard-earned points is worth risking losing. Fortunately, developers have added different money tiers, with one where the most you can win is 30 points. This allows everyone to at least get a feel for this game type.
[image3]If you don't think you got what it takes to try out the Wager matches, let alone multiplayer, try Combat Training. This impressive mode allows you to familiarize yourself with the maps while also playing against AI bots. You can figure out spawn points and get a general idea of where enemy players will likely come from throughout the terrain of each map, which prepares you well for online multiplayer. You can set up to nine bots, with each bot named after a Gamertag from your friends list, so it can make it feel entertaining, as though you're actually gaming with a bunch of friends. The difficulty of the AI bots can be changed, anywhere from recruit to veteran, offering more of a challenge, and it proves useful in preparing you for the fast-paced action of online multiplayer.
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DENVER -- Snow and cold will be the lasting memories from the Mets' 10-game road trip through Philadelphia, Minnesota and Denver, forcing three postponements, one doubleheader, several games in frigid conditions and one tired, chilled team.
But most impactful were the losses. The Mets dropped an 11-3 game to the Rockies amidst freezing temperatures Thursday at Coors Field, punctuating the icy disappointment of a once-promising trip.
"We're glad it's over," manager Terry Collins said after losing a third straight game to the Rockies. "We know that the weather's going to start changing. It's going to start being baseball weather."
With that, the Mets hope for a similar change of fortunes.
It was not one significant hit that sunk starter Jon Niese to his first loss of the season, but a series of timely ones. Second baseman Josh Rutledge struck the loudest blow with his solo homer in the fourth inning, but Carlos Gonzalez also contributed an RBI single in the first and Troy Tulowitzki added a run-scoring single in the sixth.
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"This is a hot team right now," Niese said of the Rockies. "They made us pay for all our mistakes."
Colorado put the game out of reach an inning later, batting around in a six-run attack. Wilin Rosario singled home two runs and Todd Helton doubled in two more against reliever Scott Atchison, before Chris Nelson and Reid Brignac added RBI singles to open a seven-run lead. Two of the runs were charged to lefty Josh Edgin, who has given up six in his last two outings, recording three outs over that span.
"I have no explanation," Edgin said. "Overall, I'm almost there, but I guess you could say I'm not where I want to be."
The Mets took an early lead on David Wright's RBI single in the first inning, tying the game on Wright's run-scoring infield hit in the sixth. Both of those hits plated Daniel Murphy, who singled and doubled in four at-bats.
The highlight for the Mets came when shortstop Ruben Tejada, who entered the day with a league-leading six errors, made a sensational defensive play to rob Tulowitzki of a hit in the third inning. Ranging to his right, Tejada stabbed the ball in the hole, turned, jumped and fired to first in one motion, beating Tulowitzki to first base by a step.
But despite that effort, and despite putting runners in scoring position with less than two outs in the third and seventh innings, the Mets could not come from behind twice in the same game. Rockies starter Jon Garland was efficient in seven innings, striking out four and scattering six hits.
"We didn't swing the bats that good today," Collins said. "It wasn't just our pitching. We didn't get a lot of opportunities, so we need to get it going offensively."
Collins chalked some of that up to the snow and frigid temperatures in Minneapolis and Denver, preventing the Mets from taking batting practice for five consecutive days. But he and his players were careful to note all week that the Rockies played through identical circumstances. The difference was that once the snow melted, the Rockies executed. The Mets did not.
Perhaps a return to New York will change things. Warmer temperatures may thaw a frozen offense. A return to routines can only help. Playing every day will give the Mets a sense of stability.
But back in New York, three of the best teams in baseball await. The Nationals will counter Matt Harvey with their own pitching phenom, Stephen Strasburg, on Friday night, before the Dodgers and Phillies fly their own formidable starting staffs into town. For the Mets, the road grows only more difficult.
They will need to handle that adversity better than they did in Denver, in a series they would prefer to forget.
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Parsing, CFGs, and Type Hacking
This is what I have been playing with for the last day or so.
Haskell has a very nice monadic parser library for predictive parsing (parsec), and a decent lex/yacc-style parser and lexer generator suite (happy and alex). That said, though, it's more fun and educational to write code than to worry about what's already been written, I set out to do something similar. In particular, my goals are:
- Write an LR parser, like that generated by parser generators.
- Write readable grammars directly in Haskell source files, with no external parser generator utilities.
- Let the type checker do its job by checking and inferring types for semantic rules.
I haven't written the parsing code yet, but I did squeeze out something that I'm nearly happy with for the first two goals.
{-# LANGUAGE MultiParamTypeClasses #-} {-# LANGUAGE UndecidableInstances #-} {-# LANGUAGE NoMonomorphismRestriction #-}
All the language extensions I'll be using. This is the bare-bones list; the original list was eight or nine lines.. So, if you were wonder whether this is a good post for new Haskellers just learning the language, there's your answer!
I need some way to represent variables (in the CFG sense). In order to ensure that everything is well-typed, I need some way to keep track of the type of the semantic value associated with each variable. Here's what I did.
data Var a = Var String
And a right-hand side of each rule will have a sequence of variables and terminals. Again, to keep the type information around, I'll need a sort of
cons operator at the type level. Here is that. I defined a type, and also an operator that makes the type easier to use.
data RHS a b = RHS a b (&) = RHS -- a convenient operator infixr 5 &
And next, things get hard. I'm using a multiparameter type class, in the fine tradition of Haskell type hacking, to represent a relation between types. My relation is defined in the following comment:
{- (Action a b c) means the following: A production with a right hand side of type: a may be associated with a semantic rule of type: b to produce a rule with semantic result type: c -} class Action a b c | a b -> c, a c -> b
In other words, the
Action class will be used to ensure that the result type of a grammar production, the right-hand side of the production, and the type of the associated semantic rule are all consistent with each other. The functional dependencies simply assert that if you know the types of the right-hand side and the semantic rule, this is enough to determine what the result will be after applying the semantic rule; and that if you know the right-hand side and the result type, this is enough to determine what the type of the semantic rule needs to be.
There are a three base cases for this relation:
instance Action (Var x) (x -> y) y
This says that if a production has the form
A -> B, where
A has semantic values of type
y, and
B has semantic values of type
x, then the semantic rule must have type
(x -> y). If you think about it, this should make sense.
instance Action Char y y
This rule says that if the right-hand side of a production is a signle character (a terminal, not a variable), the semantic rules should be a constant that matches the semantic type for the left-hand variable.
instance Action () y y
This describes the situation for empty productions (sometimes called epsilon or lambda productions). Since leaving out any terms on the right-hand side of a rule isn't an option, I use
(), called "unit" to represent an empty right-hand side.
Those are the base cases. (As a side comment, only the last one is strictly necessary; the first two are basically just syntactic convenience. See below.) Here's how rules with more than one symbol on the right-hand side are handled.
instance (Action a b c) => Action (RHS (Var x) a) (x -> b) c
RHS operator defined earlier is used to build a list of sorts. This rule says that adding a variable to the beginning of the right-hand side of a rule requires adding a parameter to the beginning of the semantic action, and that the result type stays the same. This case handles right-hand sides that begin with a variable.
instance (Action a b c) => Action (RHS Char a) b c
Finally, this case handles right-hand sides that begin with a terminal (a character). The types of the semantic rule and result don't change, since a terminal is known in advance, so there's no need for it to carry semantic information.
Some more syntactic convenience makes it easier to write grammars. Here I abuse monads to take advantage of the special syntax.
{- The RuleSet monad is used to define rules of a grammar in a convenient 'do' notation. -} data Rule = forall a b c. (Action a b c) => Rule (Var c, a, b) data RuleSet x = RuleSet ([Rule], x) instance Monad RuleSet where a >>= k = let RuleSet (r1, v1) = a RuleSet (r2, v2) = k v1 in RuleSet (r1 ++ r2, v2) return x = RuleSet ([], x)
So a rule consists of a left-hand side, a right-hand side, and a semantic rule. They are constrained to match each other by the
Action class defined above. A
RuleSet is basically just a writer monad for lists of rules, but I defined it by hand just for the fun of it.
Now time to define an operator for building rules inside the monad:
(==>) :: (Action a b c) => Var c -> a -> b -> RuleSet () (==>) lhs rhs sem = RuleSet ([Rule (lhs, rhs, sem)], ()) infixr 4 ==>
It took a while to pick this. All the good arrow-like operators seems to be taken! Nevertheless, it does the job we want fairly well. Notice that even though I'm using an infix operator, there are three operands. The normal usage looks like this:
lefthand ==> righthand $ semanticrule
You'll see examples coming up.
The formal definition of a context-free grammar includes four things: a set of variables, a set of terminals, a set of productions, and a special start variable. We've got three: variables are values of type
Var a. Terminals are values of type
Char. Productions are values of type
Rule. Next, I need a start symbol. This is defined once, outside of the monadic environment in which rules are defined. At the same time, I through away the result value of the monad, which is useless since I was just exploiting the syntax rather than building a real monad.
{- Grammar. A grammar is a set of rules together with a start symbol. -} data Grammar a = Grammar (Var a) [Rule] grammar s (RuleSet (rs, x)) = Grammar s rs
And that's it! Here's a sample grammar so we can see it work.
{- Sample grammar. The parentheses in the let bindings are required: they force the rules to be monomorphic, which is needed for type checking to work properly. -} g = let ( expr ) = Var "expression" ( term ) = Var "term" ( termmore ) = Var "term operator" ( fact ) = Var "factor" ( factmore ) = Var "factor operator" ( digit ) = Var "digit" ( digits ) = Var "digits" in grammar expr $ do expr ==> term & termmore $ \\x y -> y x termmore ==> () $ \\x -> x termmore ==> '+' & term & termmore $ \\x y z -> y (x + z) termmore ==> '-' & term & termmore $ \\x y z -> y (x - z) term ==> fact & factmore $ \\x y -> y x factmore ==> () $ \\x -> x factmore ==> '*' & fact & factmore $ \\x y z -> y (x * z) factmore ==> '/' & fact & factmore $ \\x y z -> y (x / z) fact ==> '(' & expr & ')' $ \\x -> x fact ==> digit & digits $ \\x y -> y x digits ==> () $ \\x -> x digits ==> digit & digits $ \\x y z -> y (10*x + z) digit ==> '0' $ 0 digit ==> '1' $ 1 digit ==> '2' $ 2 digit ==> '3' $ 3 digit ==> '4' $ 4 digit ==> '5' $ 5 digit ==> '6' $ 6 digit ==> '7' $ 7 digit ==> '8' $ 8 digit ==> '9' $ 9
(This is a modified grammar I had laying around from a set of compiler course notes. It happens to have left recursion removed, but that's immaterial really.) There are no type declarations in the entire grammar. Ask GHCi for the type of
g, though, and it answers.
g :: (Fractional a) => Grammar a
It correctly inferred that the result type of
expr must be
Fractional. How? Because the third production for
factmore uses the
/ operator. This means that
factmore must be
Fractional, and the type ripples upward all the way to the start variable of
The only thing I don't like at the moment is the need to use an explicit monomorphic binding (the parentheses) to declare non-terminals. If that's not done, then the compiler thinks non-terminals can have different result types when used in different places, and the types it infers tend to be several pages long! A nice solution to that would be good, but I'm happy with everything else!
Please comment if there's something that can be improved.
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newsham / Jul 19 2007 7:38 pm
pretty! What kind of parsing engine do you intend to write? What about precedence rules?
I would love having a scannerless GLR parser embedded directly in haskell.
Andy / Jul 21 2007 3:38 am
Very nice, Chris! I'm just getting into Haskell and it's great to see really nice examples like this.
I was just wondering – which license does the example grammar use? Is it public-domain? Cheers –
– Andy
Etna / Dec 17 2008 2:45 pm
Useful. Thanks.


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