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In a candid new interview on "The Howard Stern Show," Rosie O'Donnell opened up publicly for the first time about her relationship troubles with partner Kelli Carpenter, took aim at "Late Show" host David Letterman and talked about TV talk queen Oprah Winfrey and the gay rumors.
During her interview on Howard's Sirius XM show, the shock jock asked Rosie about why rumors exist that Oprah Winfrey could be gay.
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"I don't know. I think she's never been married and she's exceptionally close to Gayle [King]," Rosie, who was promoting her own Sirius XM show, "Rosie Radio," which stars next Monday, said. "I don't know that she and Gayle are necessarily doing each other but I think they are the emotional equivalent of…"
"A gay couple," Howard chimed in.
VIEW THE PHOTOS: Gay & Lesbian Hollywood
"When they did that road trip, that's as gay as it gets," Rosie said. "And I don't mean it to be an insult either. I'm just saying, listen, if you ask me, that's the couple."
Oprah and Gayle have long denied the rumors.
As far as her own personal life, Rosie also spoke openly about her the recent reports of a split with longtime partner Kelli.
VIEW THE PHOTOS: Rosie O'Donnell
"We're working things out," Rosie noted. "We're trying."
Rosie said she and her partner of 12 years, both of them loving parents to their four children, are making some big decisions presently.
"We have come to a point where we are seeing [if] what will make everyone happiest is maybe to not live together, but continue to parent," Rosie told Howard. "We have different styles of living. I'm very messy. She's very not."
"I thought you two we're going to make it," Howard's sidekick, Robin Quivers, said.
"I did too, honey," Rosie replied.
During the interview, Rosie seemed to suggest she and Kelli are at a crossroads.
"I don't know that we're going to be together," she said. "I think we're working through what's best for all of us."
Rosie and Kelli married in San Francisco in February 2004, but their marriage was nullified by the state. After talking about their marriage ceremony, which was held alongside dozens of other gay couples over five years ago, Rosie said, while she and Kelli are not legally married, they and their children are a family.
"We've been together for 12 years and a family is a family is a family," she said. "Kelli and I are working through a lot of stuff that we have and the children are the priority and we both continue to parent them and we will continue to parent them and you don't know what the future holds. I have to say I never expected to be in this position and I don't think she did either."
Another revelation from Rosie's time with Howard? Years ago, she had a chance to hook up with Angelina Jolie before Billy Bob Thornton and Brad Pitt.
"She… gave me her phone number and we talked on the phone two or three times, but that was that," Rosie revealed.
"There was a tentative plan to have dinner that never came through," Rosie added. "I was a little afraid of her. She's scary in a sexual kind of way. I have dreams about her a lot still."
And Rosie also chimed in on David Letterman's admitted affairs.
"Having been the Rosie O'Donnell of 'The Rosie O'Donnell Show,' it would be easy to do that to any intern at any time," she said. "And I think it's a gross abuse of power."
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Relocation UK – Disney Royalty Comes to London!
That's right – Disney is coming to London, and though it's not for a few months yet, that gives you plenty of time if you're moving to London this summer to settle into your London apartment rental and step out into Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park. No, they won't be setting up the Dumbo ride next to the Round Pond, but this is still pretty cool—following in the wake of one tremendous royal event in London (that would be the Royal Wedding, if you couldn't guess. Derr…) is another:
On October 2nd, Rapunzel will be inducted as the 10th Disney Princess at Kensington Palace!!!

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Hand loses control early in eighth straight loss
Left-hander allows five runs on eight hits over three innings
MIAMI -- If starting pitching indeed sets the tone, it is easy to see what has gone wrong for the Marlins during their losing streak.
Miami was hopeful to get a solid performance out of Brad Hand on Monday, but instead the lefty had a short stint, which led to another long night.
Bryce Harper delivered three extra-base hits, Tyler Moore and Sandy Leon each belted home runs and the Nationals rolled past the Marlins, 9-2, in the series opener at Marlins Park.
"We've talked about it all year, pitching is the key," Miami manager Mike Redmond said. "We've got to go out there and hold them down, and give our offense a chance. We got down early, and just never could recover."
In three innings, Hand was tagged for five runs on eight hits, with six of them being for extra bases. Kevin Slowey held Washington down for three innings of relief, but in his fourth inning, he was tagged for four runs, and Washington broke the game open.
After going winless in their six-game road trip, the Marlins returned to Miami only to see their overall losing stretch reach eight games. Washington, meanwhile, swept in Atlanta over the weekend, improved to 4-0 against Miami.
The frustration level is mounting in Miami. Because of a fast start, the Marlins are 5-9 overall, or the first few weeks could be much worse.
"To get out of this thing, somebody needs to battle and step up," Redmond said. "That's the bottom line."
Hand made his second start in five days against the Nationals, and both times he was hit hard. At Nationals Park on Wednesday, the lefty was not involved in the decision. But he surrendered a three-run homer to Harper and watched a five-run lead turn into a 10-7 loss.
"We all want to win in this clubhouse," Hand said. "I was trying to go out there and turn it around tonight. I just made too many mistakes, and it's really frustrating."
Hand made the team out of Spring Training as a long reliever, but when Jacob Turner went on the disabled list with a right shoulder sprain, Hand took over. Now, the club is weighing what other options may be available for Saturday against Seattle.
"I don't know yet," Redmond said of the rotation spot. "We've got to figure something out."
During the eight-game losing streak, Marlins starters are 0-5 with a 5.88 ERA. The rough outings by the starters are taking their toll on the relievers.
"It's a concern," Redmond said. "It's a definite concern. You can't roll those guys out every night. You've got seven guys down there. We definitely need to be better. Our starters need to get us deeper into games. That takes some pressure off the bullpen. We haven't been able to do that."
Boosted by a big lead early, Washington right-hander Jordan Zimmermann was able to limit Miami to two runs on six hits in seven innings.
Zimmermann had a huge bounceback outing, because five days ago at Washington, the Marlins scored five runs and knocked him out after 1 2/3 innings.
"He looked better tonight," Redmond said. "He had more [velocity]."
In the early innings, Miami leadoff batter Christian Yelich noted that Zimmermann was stronger.
"Yeli had a comment when he came back that his stuff was better than what we saw in Washington," Redmond said. "He looked a lot crisper. I heard in Washington, he was sick or battling the flu or something. He was a lot better today."
Actually, Yelich was one of the bright spots at the plate. He went 2-for-4 to extend his hitting streak to nine games, one short of his career high.
In the second inning, Miami got on the board when Jarrod Saltalamacchia doubled and scored on Reed Johnson's single to left. Garrett Jones belted a solo homer in the sixth inning, his second shot in as many days.
But most of the big hits were by the Nationals. Leon's homer off Slowey was his first career shot. Harper had a triple and two doubles. Moore chipped in with two hits and two RBIs. Danny Espinosa added a double, triple and an RBI. And Anthony Rendon collected a double and triple and drove in three runs.
"I just think a lot of guys on the team are swinging well," Harper said. "When everyone's swinging it, you want to swing it well and try to get good ABs. It's contagious."
Jones' homer in the sixth inning trimmed Miami's deficit to 5-2. But Leon delivered his two-run homer in the seventh, capping a four-run inning.
"We need somebody step up, and say, 'It's over. I'm done with it,'" Redmond said. "We either need a big pitching performance, or a big hit, or a big play to spark us and get us going. Those guys understand that."


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Magicka Sells 30,000 Copies in One Day
"The reception for Magicka has been better than we dared to hope," said Paradox Interactive producer Shams Jorjani in the press release. "Single player and LAN is what most people are currently playing but updating the multiplayer lobby and continuously improving the game is our top priority."
The team at Arrowhead Studios is currently looking into bug reports from the community and promises more announcements to come. The first of its updates came just last night, with a variety of tweaks and improvements.
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Peru: Six miners dead in gold mine accident
The location is the Santa Rosa gold mine in La Libertad, owned by the Comarsa company of the infamous Sanchez-Paredes family. According to initial reports at 11:30 last night a rock fall buried six employees at the mine, including machine operators, two geologists and the shift manager. All are presumed killed in the event, the company is currently in rescue mode but sadly, only expects to retrieve the bodies.
The top three most visited IKN posts this week are...
...in reverse order:
Third Place: "I am Sam", about the very interesting drill hit news from Starcore during the week. The stock was already climbing on the news and added another 20% or so after the post went up. That's not IKN's influence though, that's simply the market recognizing something. More on this tomorrow, subbers.
Second Place: "Porter Stansberry tries to gag IKN".Yet another puffed-up ego that loves free speech, right up to the moment it's used against him (and it's always a "him", ever noticed that?). So Porter Stansberry is going to try and gag IKN, in just the same way as Serafino Iacono, Kaare Foy, Daryl Hodges have tried (three off the top of my head, there are others). How's that working out for you so far, shady end of the mining world?
And fwiw I thought the Porter legal action news would be the easy #1 of the week, but as it turns out...
And fwiw I thought the Porter legal action news would be the easy #1 of the week, but as it turns out...
First Place: "The CEO.ca pump and dump scam site: Past, present and future". Just goes to show, one person's legal fun can't compete with a post shining light on an emerging pump and dump scam show. The whole thing about the way sharks feed on greenhorns in the mining stock sector is hardly new, arguably it's been that way since 1849 and probably further back than that. What CEO.ca brings to the table is a digitally switched-on way of fleecing the naive, a new variation of a long-standing trend. No more no less, though IKN reiterates that people devoid of all morals like Tommy Humphreys and his band of sycophants are not a new phenomenon in the sector. It's capitalism baby, caveat emptor.
The Friday OT: Noir Désir; L'homme pressé
The current USA election scenario nudged a memory earlier in the week and I went to check out the song after years away. It's still strong and fresh, quality French rock, good video, I like the boyband bit in the middle.
This was recorded at the height of Noir Désir's fame, before singer Bertrand Cantat fell from grace in 2003*. The music survives.
*If you need to know, Wikipedia has the story. It's not a nice one.
Capitalism at its best
Charting the rising influence of the Shanghai Futures Exchange on copper
The times they are a'changin' and SHFE is now the boss of copper price discovery, it's doesn't matter what the LME would like you to believe. Here's the main chart:
This shows the percentages of the above.
Data from Chile's copper data people Cochilco, right here. We don't include the bonded warehouse figures, those we leave for the market shills and pumpers. Bless you Scotia.
Peru Presidential election run-off: Slight advantage Keiko in the polls
Here's a list of the polls that have been published by the three main pollster companies in Peru since the end of round one voting as we move towards the June 5th run-off vote between Keiko Fujimori and Pedro Pablo Kuczynski:
- IPSOS April: Keiko 40%, PPK 44%
- CPI April: Keiko 43.6%, PPK 41.5%
- Datum April: Keiko 40.4%, PPK 41.1%
- IPSOS April: Keiko 39%, PPK 43%
- CPI May 1st: Keiko 42.3%, PPK 40.1%
- IPSOS May 8th: Keiko 42%, PPK 39%
- DATUM May 12th: Keiko 42.3%, PPK 42.3%
- CPI: Keiko 45.8%, PPK 40.2%
It was basically level pegging for the first few weeks and a technical dead-heat, which is also the message from the survey published by DATUM yesterday, but other polls such as IPSOS last weekend and CPI today show that Keiko Fujimori taking a slight lead.
GLD bullion holdings hitting new highs
The increase in holdings of physical gold bullion at GLD, the world's biggest gold ETF, is impressive:
NB: Please note the cut-down Y-axis, done
to show contrasts not to fool your eye
And it's every day. 845.19 metric tonnes as per yesterday evening. Up over 40 tonnes in less than two weeks.
Rick Rule on BNN's Market Call tonight
Click here for the hour of Rick Rule on Greg Bonnell's Market Call, that went on yesterday evening. Large chunks of smooth delivery on mining stocks and gold.
PS: You can tell Rule's old-school, just note how many times he says "balance sheet".
PS: You can tell Rule's old-school, just note how many times he says "balance sheet".
Regarding Starcore Intl (SAM.to)
Here are three charts put together by your humble scribe last night while playing with the SAM model. Consider them a clue as to significance of yesterday's news from the company:
We'll go into detail on all this in IKN366, subbers. Should be fun and I get to play with numbers for days on end. A wonk gotta like that.
PS: Just to be a tease for the rest of you, here's how the analysis of Starcore Intl (SAM.to) in IKN361, dated April 10th 2016, concluded:
It was 47c that day. It's now a month later and SAM.to is trading heavy volumes at 79c. That's 68.1% up. Have a pleasant Thursday.
PS: Just to be a tease for the rest of you, here's how the analysis of Starcore Intl (SAM.to) in IKN361, dated April 10th 2016, concluded:
"The bottom line is that under present circumstances SAM.to is a cheap purchase, but if things start going well for both company and the macro market, this one has clear-cut chances of being one of your fabled multi-bagger opportunities. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why I'm loading up on Starcore in the days to come."
It was 47c that day. It's now a month later and SAM.to is trading heavy volumes at 79c. That's 68.1% up. Have a pleasant Thursday.
More B2Gold news (BTG) (BTO.to)
Dundee just upped its price target on B2Gold (BTO.to) to CAD$3.50 on the back of its strong 1q16 numbers. No arguments about that call from this humble corner of cyberspace.
The copper price action is way more important than gold
The industry tends to obsess over the moves in the shiny expensive metal and this period of bullish action for the PM miners has concentrated that focus, but what really matters in mining these days is this:
Copper. For one thing, it's a playing field for the really big mining money (BHP, RTZ, Glencore, FCX, even Vale and we can continue). For another, the junior-myopic among us need to keep clear that without significant price support for copper, gold's own moves are always going to be limited (and before you come back with the 'dollar collapse' stupidities, recall that IKN is vaccinated against the asshole end of the goldbug community and lives in the real world).
But back to copper and the repeated failure of the Doctor to break U$2.30/lb is all the signal you need about the asthenic state of the Chinese economy. Get that into your head and chew it over a while.
Morning. Coffee.
Haven't done one of these oldschool market chat posts for a long time. My how the interwebs has changed over the years of IKN.
Today's main mover in the weird world of juniors is the owner of the Coffee deposit Kaminak (KAM.v), which has just been sold to the highest bidder. That's Goldcorp (GG). Hope you own some, nice IKN reader person.
Richmont (RIC.to) is up on its 1q16 results and getting used to trading over CAD$10 these days, even though I thought the financials were a little on the lacklustre side (after the strong production numbers that are already in the price). RIC's probably moving up because of the Coffee Factor, what with TAHO (and others, we now hear) trying to close a deal with M. Marion.
As expected, B2Gold (BTG) (BTO.to) trading well this morning on the back of the strong 1q16 financials we outlined in yesterday's post (not a difficult one, it was a no-brainer to call BTO higher last night. More on these numbers in IKN366 this weekend, subscribers. Disclosure: I own some and holding them.
To the downside, I'm surprised Torex (TXG.to) is only off 6% on the back of losing 15% of its mine life. A case of 'all hands to the pumps' in the brokerages and spinning the bad news as much as possible "but...but...but...look at the cash flow!".
As for Starcore (SAM.to), that one's trading like a beauty as it would seem enough people have done their homework and have realized what yesterday's drill hit may mean for San Martin. More on this story in IKN366 too, subbers. Disclosure: I own some and holding them.
Dilma Rousseff Tchau! Suspended from her job this morning, as expected.
The B2Gold (BTG) (BTO.to) 1q16 financials in two words
Kick Ass.
B2Gold filed its 1q16 financials and MD&A on SEDAR this evening, we'll probably get the NR tomorrow morning. Here's a chart, check out the columns at the end there:
Revenues were pre-announced in the production report so we knew they'd come in there. The big positive in this set of numbers is the costs number, which has dropped to U$101.8m and a simple eye-cast along the line of the last two years' worth of quarters shows how good that looks. Put those two together and the operating revenues comes out at U$42.439m, which is roughly double any recent quarter.
The market will like these numbers, be in no doubt.
Disclosure: I own some BTO.
UPDATE, late night extra: B2 just hit the send button on the NR, right here.
UPDATE, late night extra: B2 just hit the send button on the NR, right here.
The latest from The Dilma Show
The debate in Brazil's Senate has been going all day (if you care enough and want to practice your Portuguese a link to the live feed here) and once all house members have had their say (they get 15 minutes each and normally take every second to say something very similar to their colleagues...so don't expect a ratings smash on that feed) they're going to vote later this evening.
And Dilma is going to lose. Her enemies need 41 votes minimum of the 81 members and there are at least 44 who have declared they'll vote against her (it'll probably be around 50 in the end).
Which means she'll be suspended. And Veep Michel Temer will become interim President as from tomorrow morning.
And as a matter of interest, several news services have reported that Dilma has already removed all her personal photos from the Presidential office. Most newspapers in South America have their front page headlines written already. Stick a fork in this presidency, it's done.
I am Sam
SAM I am.
Do you like green eggs and ham?
Do you like ten metres of two ounce gold drill hits?
Disclosure: As subscribers know I'm long this stock, I've been adding to my position recently and I'm not selling any of my shares to you, not today and not for a long while yet.
Porter Stansberry's hypocritical attitude towards freedom of speech
Yesterday we noted how Porter Stansberry had decided to start a legal action against your humble scribe and his humble corner of cyberspace because we've said some nasty things about him. And Frank Porter Stansberry (can I call you Frank? Thanks!) doesn't like that.
Interestingly, this is the very same Frank Porter Stansberry that was found guilty of securities fraud by the SEC and fined U$1.5m. Which he appealed and lost. So when he lost his appeal he decided to take it to the Supreme Court claiming protection under the First Amendment, freedom of speech and all that. Of course the Supreme beaks laughed the case out of its hallowed halls by stating the extremely obvious:
"Punishing fraud, whether it be common law fraud or securities fraud, simply does not violate the First Amendment."
In other words the person you know as Porter Stansberry just loves all that Free Speech concept when it suits him, but as soon as something gets printed about him that makes him feel all squirmy and icky inside it's time to sue. That, ladies and gentlemen, is how hypocrites operate and that's what Frank Porter Stansberry is, a simple hypocrite.
To sum up, we now know three things about Frank Porter Stansberry:
1) He is a securities fraudster. Proven and convicted, case upheld by the highest court in The United States of America.
2) He's a hypocrite when it comes to the cherished American right to free speech.
3) But we also know that he likes to waste his money on legal stupidities that don't stand a chance in the court of law, which brings us to our final point today. IKN can assure its readership that the Stansberry case against IKN isn't going to prosper. His lawyers know that proving actual malice on this one is nigh on impossible and the whole thing is nothing more than a big fat exercise in bullying (but his lawyers will collect a few billable hours off him before they explain the problem, they're laughing at you Frank). What's up Frank, did you think you could throw a case at me then get me to cower and remove a whole bunch of posts with your name on them? Think again, Frankie.
Richmont and Tahoe
Goldman Sachs stopped out of its gold short trade
This received from A. Reader this morning, is the header of today's Goldman Sachs note to clients that announces they're closing their short position at a loss. Oh, doesn't that make me feel sad...
1. As detailed in US Views: Stepping Back, published May 8, 2016, our US economists recently reduced their forecast for Fed funds rate hikes over the next 12 months from 100 bp to 50 bp. Corresponding with this, our global rates team has lowered its forecast profile for 10-year US real rates over the same period (see Macro rates views: Lower Rate Forecasts, But Reflation Theme Intact, published May 10). As a result, we reduce the downside to our gold price forecast, raising the 3/6/12 month forecast profile to $1,200/1,180/1,150/oz from $1,100/1,050/1,000/oz. Our new year average price forecasts for 2016/17/18 are $1,202/1,150/1,150/oz from $1,124/1,000/1,050/oz. Though we forecast that gold prices will decline from spot over the next 3-12 months (with c.5%-9% downside), for reasons which we detail below, the changes to our economists' rates forecasts act to reduce the degree of downside to our modelled gold price profile and thus change the risk-reward of our previously implemented short gold trade recommendation (published February 15), which we close as a result at a c.4.5% loss.
Bad news for Radius Gold (RDU.v)
KCA won't have this money for you so very soon.
For the rest of you, yesterday Monday police in Guatemala arrested four mine workers and confiscated (what they say is) U$1.9m worth of concentrate from the KCA "El Tambor" mine, which is subject to a court-ordered closure order but as police discovered, the company have been mining there all the same. Naughty naughty, Kappes.
As for the RDU connection, they sold the mine to now owner/operator KCA and get a share of the cash flow, with a heavier weighting in the first years of production. Or they did until this week, anyway.
As for the RDU connection, they sold the mine to now owner/operator KCA and get a share of the cash flow, with a heavier weighting in the first years of production. Or they did until this week, anyway.
The CEO.ca pump and dump scam site: Past, present and future
What Tommy Humphreys has put together at his CEO.ca website is a new version of old-time pumping and dumping that caters a new audience of millennials. The concept is fair enough and it's even managed to rope in well-known names in the Canadian mining scene who add to the chat and give the site superficial kudos (e.g. John Kaiser, Brent Cook, Eric Coffin, who are hopefully merely ignorant about the way they're being used) but when push comes to shove there are bills to be paid and the only way of doing that is transferring the cash of its audience into the back pocket of its owner, Tommy Humphreys (mentored and sponsored by Frank Giustra, dontchaknow).
Here are three examples (of many) of how that cash transfer system works.
Past: Exhibit A is the recent pump of Lithium-X (LIX.v), the Frank Giustra lithium thing that set alight a couple of months ago. Its name was pumped at CEO.ca non-stop on the way up, not just by Humphreys but by his band of so-called "independent journalists" who've basically taken their 30 pieces of silver, names such as Kip Keen and James Kwantes. But then, suddenly and after Humphreys' "friends and family" early stage placement shares came out of escrow, the stock peaked and LIX has dropped by a sharp 30% or so. And coincidentally, LIX.v is off the menu at the CEO.ca chat and rarely mentioned these days. The only things you hear on LIX are "Oh it must be hard if you bought at the top but don't worry folks, things'll be just fine" pleasantries to soothe the concerns of the greenhorns who bought badly.
Present: Go over to CEO.ca now and one of the stocks they're talking about the most is IDM Mining (IDM.v), a tiny exploreco which may or may not have some copper to discover way up in the GWN, but is certainly getting an inordinate amount of airtime as the Humphreys squad puts its name in front of the casual reader time and time again. And why would that be? Here a link to today Tuesday's placement filings and here's a extract from the PDF on IDM.v's recent closed placement (just scroll down a bit, you'll find it):
Sheer coincidence, of course.
Future: IKN confidently predicts that one of the next tickers to get the full pumpo treatment will be Golden Secret, another Frank Giustra shell that's about to run its romantic narrative on the great and good of Canada. Here's part of the filing from Golden Secret's recent placement (also on that above link):
Yup, Tommy Humphreys gets another 'friends/family' placement deal. It's highly likely that his squad at CEO.ca are cut in on this one too, that way they'll have plenty of reason to talk the ticker up to the stars come the day the promo gets rolled out.
And of course, be in no doubt as to who will be left holding the bag when Tommy Humphreys and his friends have exchanged their paper for cash, at or near the top of the future pump job. Greenhorns, a warm welcome awaits you at CEO.ca, they're so pleased to meet newbies and will welcome you with smiles and hugs and love. Yes of course they're shameless but don't let that worry you, they mean you no physical harm. They just want your money.
UPDATE: I'm told IDM is a gold play, not copper. Fair enough.
Protest march of miners in Puno
Via the camera of an IKN Special Correspondent here's part of the scene the scene right now, Tuesday 2:30pm local time, as a few thousand miners from the La Rinconada and Ananea mines (nearly all informal type gold mining) descend on the city of Juliaca in Puno region to tell President Ollanta Humala what they think of him. The photo shows just part of the long line of people (at 'Puente Maravillas' a few clicks outside the city centre, if you know your Juliaca well):
What they're singing isn't particularly complimentary about their President either. They don't like the mineworkers' formalization process enacted by this government, which probably means they're in favour of the Keiko Fujimori position of scrapping the current failed plan and starting again (or just kind of forgetting about the whole formalization process altogether).
Porter Stansberry tries to gag IKN
Here's the screenshot of a pleasant little mail your humble scribe received from the nice people at Google last week:
So wonderful when we get a reaction like this from the scumbag end of the mining scam community. After all, we are talking about the very same person that The SEC fined to the tune of U$1.5m for disseminating false stock tip information in order to drum up sales of his tip sheets and when his appeal against the fine was thrown out the courtroom ruled that, "Stansberry's conduct undoubtedly involved deliberate fraud, making statements that he knew to be false".
When a man who gets rich from pumping bullshit stories to the naive starts throwing legal weight around, it's what we in the world of blogging recognize as the strategy of a bullyboy. Porter Stansberry, you just picked on the wrong guy, this isn't the first time this blog has come up against people with money to waste on lawyers fees, it won't be the last. Run along now, you pathetic thin-skinned human, IKN has already taken legal advice on your clumsy heavy-handed attempt to gag this blog and due to that, this post now exists. However your author is open to any further advice from IKN friends (you know the mail address folks, any snippet or thought welcome).
For more on how and why corporate bullies use this type of subpoena, check out this case study (unconnected the IKN and Porter Stansberry, but a decent enough blueprint).
The Dilma Show
All fun in Brazil. Take a deep breath and follow this:
- April 17th the lower house of parliament in Brazil voted to start impeachment proceedings.
- The debate was set to move to the upper house (the Senate) this week on May 11th (i.e. tomorrow Wednesday).
- Yesterday May 9th midday, the dude who had just taken over as acting head of the lower house decided to annul the lower house vote for procedural reasons (that he basically made up).
- Then last evening the same dude who revoked the April 17th vote decided just a few hours later that he wasn't going to revoke it after all. Because Brazil.
We now suspect the upper house debate and vote will happen tomorrow as previously scheduled and for more on what that means, here's last week's need-to-know post on Dilma's sticky position. But will the Senate vote happen as per expected? This is Brazil, you never know...
Peru mining political risk is rising due to the election run-off
This piece is from the IKN Weekly subscription service IKN365, out last Sunday evening. It's a tight race between Keiko and PPK and both sides are scrambling for every vote they can get, not a scenario that makes for business stability in Peru. What I do know is that due to the sudden appearance of Hernando de Soto on the scene, there re a lot of mining executives in Peru who are getting a quiet and controlled attack of nerves.
Peru: Keiko adds Hernando de Soto to her teamWith the voter intention polls indicating a tight race between Keiko Fujimori and Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, the Peru election campaign is now about finding minor issues and attracting specific sub-sets of voters. Keiko Fujimori is going full populist as well, with the last week seeing her announce that she'd scrap the current mining formalization plan and also saying she opposes "Civil Union" (i.e. not marriage but legal rights of partnership) for homosexual couples. On that one she's simply running the numbers pretty cynically, as she spoke publicly in favour of Civil Union as recently as August 2015.And as this paragraph points out, Keiko's penchant for populist vote-winning policies may be about to land on the mining industry as well. Yesterday Saturday brought confirmation (8) that economist Hernando de Soto was joining the Keiko campaign. As he's one of the very few Peruvian figures known on the world stage, it's a significant fillip for her campaign and adds potential prestige to her eventual government. It's also interesting because De Soto was a strong supporter of her disgraced father when he was President in the 1990's. On the subject of mining, it was De Soto last year who proposed (9) that the "Ollachea Model" of giving at least 5% of any mining project to local populations (in the way Minera IRL has done at Ollachea) should be adopted nationwide. As Keiko's party has also flirted with that idea, it could become a formal policy for the industry and if so, watch out. It's the type of thing that sounds fine on paper but in practice there are a ton of traps waiting for any similar policy and it would only work on some very specific projects, such as a geographically controlled (no geologically, we're talking maps) Ollachea. Imagine for example what would happen when a line is drawn around Antamina/Las Bambas/Toquepala and all those villages inside the deemed "area affected" (be it 10km or 20km or whatever km) get presented with 5% of billions of dollars' worth of production, while those outside the imaginary line get nothing? Not to mention the backlash we'd get from the mining companies, their shareholders and FDI sponsorship people on political risk issues when producing and stable operations are suddenly forced to hand over 5% of their assets and cash flow by law. How "Miner Friendly" would Peru look all of a sudden?Finally, the latest voter intention poll came out today Sunday (10) and it's at the bottom of our lengthening list here:
- IPSOS April: Keiko 40%, PPK 44%
- CPI April: Keiko 43.6%, PPK 41.5%
- Datum April: Keiko 40.4%, PPK 41.1%
- IPSOS April: Keiko 39%, PPK 43%
- CPI May 1st: Keiko 42.3%, PPK 40.1%
- IPSOS May 8th: Keiko 42%, PPK 39%We need to take pollsters in Peru with a pinch of salt because they have their own agendas, but this new IPSOS poll is a departure from the other results because it's the first poll that's changed position. IPSOS was giving PPK a clear lead last week but has swung to Keiko.
The Clive and Panama
A certain Clive T. Johnson is one of the names that's just come up in the Panama Papers name dump today.
Kinda rings a bell...
The Geologists Are Coming!
Your humble scribe thanks with great sincerity reader 'JP', who sent in this Youtube to IKN Nerve Centre this morning:
Unlikely to be real geols, though. As JP and his pal correctly point out, "We think these guys are posers. No geo worth his salt owns a tie".
Breaking: Dilma gets to open the Rio Olympics after all
The lower house vote to impeach her has just been annulled. Brazil, weird world.
Dalradian (DNA.to) is a stock to watch this morning
A simple heads-up on what might become an interesting story. No personal position.
The IKN Weekly, out now
IKN365 has just been sent to subscribers, another 27 pages of guff and nonsense nobody needs to read in order to get rich quick. This humble corner of cyberspace also takes the opportunity to send best wishes to reader 'R', who's not feeling very well today. Que te mejores, mi estimado.
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The top three most visited IKN posts this week are...
...in reverse order during a quiet week for the blog:
Third Place: "The Angry Geologist does Calibre Mining (CXB.v)". Your humble scribe really likes this new blog run by TAG, looks like the esteemed IKN readership does to. There are a couple of new posts out since this one as well, go check them out.
Second Place: "The Desjardins sell call on Argonaut Gold (AR.to)". Highlighting a good piece of anal ysis detective work, though interesting how traders just used to weak price action early week as an excuse to buy in cheaply. Bull market is as bull market does
First Place: "This Thing Isn't Like That Thing, HudBay (HBM) and Alan Hair edition". Out last weekend after the previous "three most post", this got a lot of hits. That's good. HBM down 15% on the week is probably just coincidence, guv.
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Nashville, TN -- Legendary musician Earl Scruggs' Gibson RB-Granada Mastertone banjo will become part of the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum's "Precious Jewels" display, museum officials announced today. This banjo, which was Scruggs' primary instrument and has never before been exhibited, will go on display July 12.
The "Precious Jewels" display, which is located on the third floor within the museum's core exhibition, Sing Me Back Home: A Journey Through Country Music, spotlights a handful of seminal instruments upon which much of the foundation of American music was created. Other instruments on display as "Precious Jewels" include Mother Maybelle Carter's Gibson L-5 guitar, Lester Flatt's Martin D-28 guitar, Bill Monroe's Gibson F-5 mandolin, Jimmie Rodgers' Martin 00-18 guitar and Hank Williams' Martin D-28 guitar.
The Granada was acquired by Scruggs in a trade with Don Reno in the late 1940s, and he used it on the 1949 recording of his composition "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" by Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs & the Foggy Mountain Boys. The song was a showcase for Scruggs' astonishing speed and clarity on the instrument. He continued to use the Granada on the road and in the studio with Flatt & Scruggs and the Earl Scruggs Revue, and he played it for the rest of his life. Over the years, modifications and repairs to Scruggs' favorite banjo included refitting it with nickel-plated hardware, replacing a warped neck, and adding cam-style "Scruggs tuners" to the peghead that were subsequently replaced by mechanical D-tuners. In 1988, Gibson restored the Granada's resonator to its original sunburst finish and installed a curly maple neck in the style of the original.
Another significant banjo in the life of Earl Scruggs was the one upon which he learned to play. This instrument, an open-back 5-string banjo manufactured circa 1900 that belonged to Scruggs' father, will be on display in the Earl Scruggs Center, which is scheduled to open in Shelby, North Carolina, in late 2013.
Few figures loom larger in the history of American music than Earl Scruggs. His revolutionary approach to the five-string banjo transformed an almost forgotten instrument into an immediately recognizable element of a new genre, which later became known as bluegrass. Ultimately, Scruggs demonstrated the banjo's utility as a lead instrument in many musical styles, and he became synonymous with virtuosity, creativity and an untrammeled willingness to experiment and innovate within and beyond a traditional framework. A Grammy-winning member of the Country Music Hall of Fame and the International Bluegrass Music Association's Hall of Fame, a recipient of the National Medal of the Arts and a Hollywood Walk of Fame honoree, Earl Scruggs is remembered as a true American original.
Accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum is operated by the Country Music Foundation, a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) educational organization chartered by the state of Tennessee in 1964. The museum's mission is the preservation of the history of country and related vernacular music rooted in southern culture. With the same educational mission, the foundation also operates CMF Records, the museum's Frist Library and Archive, CMF Press, Historic RCA Studio B and Hatch Show Print®.
More information about the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum is available at www.CountryMusicHallOfFame.org [1] or by calling (615) 416-2001. More information about the Earl Scruggs Center is available at www.EarlScruggsCenter.org [2] or by calling (704) 487-6233.
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The murky online world is full of fake names, ages, identities and photos. Anonymity has led many to act in ways they never would "IRL" — in real life — on message boards, social media and chat rooms, and that anonymity is defended by many experts and casual users alike. It's part of the presumed freedom of the web.
But what if an Internet vigilante bent on unmasking pedophiles released all your personal information, including your real name, social media accounts and activity, email address, even a Google Street View of your house? Academics and police investigators argue that when private citizens release an alleged child predator's personal information they can complicate any investigation and put the suspect in possible danger.
That's what one member of the loosely-affiliated hacktivist group Anonymous did last week, targeting a Lower Mainland man for allegedly tormenting Amanda Todd, the Port Coquitlam teenager who took her own life Oct. 10 after being blackmailed online and bullied at school.
The user, who goes by screen name Anonymous New Jersey, also outed another person in the U.S. known as Viper2323, who may have been involved in Todd's blackmail.
It's called "doxing" — publishing documents — and it's a common practice by those who unite under the Anonymous banner.
Media have covered their daring takedowns of corporate and government websites, but these hacktivists also make a point of policing sites that permit the sharing of child porn.
Anon New Jersey was first drawn to Anonymous in its fight against the Republican-sponsored Stop Online Piracy Act last year. The person behind Anon New Jersey has since doxed anti-gay preachers, neo-Nazis and even the staff at a South African lion hunting outfit, but they mainly target those seeking out underage girls.
"There is not enough police enforcement online stopping pedophiles," Anon New Jersey told The Sun via Twitter. "We are more flexible and tend to have more experience online.
"Some people call us 'The final boss of the Internet.'"
Last year, the wider Anonymous group took credit for disrupting more than 40 child porn sites and outing 1,500 users. At the time, a member of Anonymous posted a video to YouTube announcing Operation DarkNet and declaring "a war on pedophilia." Another video uploaded this month directed at "pedophiles of the Internet" warned "we will hunt you down and exterminate you like cockroaches."
One Canadian expert on Anonymous said revealing personal information is uncommon.
"It's something only a handful of individuals are willing to do, but it's within the realm of past actions," said Gabriella Coleman, a professor at McGill University, adding there is no overarching mandate among Anonymous members. They act in reaction to news like the death of Amanda Todd, or less frequently, in planned operations, Coleman said.
Although their actions court controversy, "they're motivated by some sense of justice," Coleman said. And they have moved away from being Internet provocateurs to drawing attention to certain issues.
Police have said the allegations against the man targeted last week were "unfounded," and some of the information in the dox, including the man's address, age and place of employment, was incorrect.
That didn't stop the Anonymous network's thousands of Twitter and Facebook followers from immediately sharing the information. Some even threatened violence, prompting the man's mother to lash out at the online "lynch mob."
The Vancouver Sun has not identified the man, who appeared in a Surrey courtroom Oct. 15 on unrelated charges of sexually assaulting a person under 16. He told The Sun he knew Amanda Todd, but was not involved in her blackmail and instead tried to stop Viper2323 from terrorizing her.
By tracing the man's digital footprint, Anon NJ claimed to have linked him conclusively to Todd's blackmail and said they erroneously believed the man was in police custody and safe from real-life vigilantes.
"He is in police custody right? Since he was in court? I don't want him to be hurt or killed. He should spend the rest of his life in a jail cell for the lives he has ruined," Anon NJ said in a Twitter message. "My intentions were not for people to threaten him, merely to get the info out that he was involved with the amanda todd situation."
Neither Anon NJ's assertions nor the Metro Vancouver man's claims have been fully substantiated by The Vancouver Sun or police.
Later posts implored followers not to engage in vigilante justice and to let the RCMP investigate. A video posted by Anon NJ on YouTube Oct. 18 asked RCMP investigators to consider the evidence leaked by Anonymous.
Cpl. Mathias Van Laer, with the B.C. RCMP's Internet Child Exploitation investigation team, says police have added tools like the government-sponsored CyberTip.ca reporting centre that help them find and arrest e-predators.
"Are you really doing anyone a service if you're collecting evidence in such a way that can possibly derail an actual investigation?" Van Laer said. "And sometimes it's not even a matter of derailing an investigation, it could be as simple as placing yourself or the public at risk.
"I know that when we do catch our offenders, we're confident the package we bring forward to the court is exactly what they need so justice can be served appropriately."
If a predator resides outside of Canada, Mounties share their information with other police forces through organizations like Interpol.
For pedophiles, Internet chat rooms offer an infinitely easier and less dangerous way of contacting a child compared with approaching kids at a playground. Still, Van Laer argues parents can use the same basic safety principles, namely "don't talk to strangers," to keep their kids safe on and offline.
While police work to catch predators and hacktivists try to expose them, others try to protect girls online in a subtler way.
Sometimes known as Internet "heroes" or "white knights," these activists call attention to the practice of teen girls "flashing" or "showing" on webcam chat sites, only to have a screen grab taken of them nude. Predators then use the revealing pictures to blackmail the girl into showing more and more. It happened to Amanda Todd, and it's happened to other girls as well.
Most webcam sites are unmoderated and anyone can lie about their age to log on, said Anna Thoms. She and a network of 20 others in the U.S., U.K. and Australia patrol many of these webcam sites, reaching out to girls who are being exploited and directing them to people who can help, at websites like webcamsafety.org, and how to gather evidence to show parents and police. They often report what they see to the FBI and RCMP, helping with numerous investigations.
"It's a shame what happened with Amanda," Thoms said. "I think people totally misunderstand everything she went through, being in the chat rooms, and flashing and some sicko getting a hold of it and stalking her with it," she said.
Thoms said she contacted her in 2010 when she saw Todd's photos going around.
"We just try to help them cope. A lot of these kids don't realize some of the people in that chat room aren't kids. They're adults. It only takes seconds for them to record or photograph what they're doing."
She and her online friends, who go by names like MamaBearsCubs and WhiteKnightCat have tried to help hundreds of girls, often at great personal cost. She's personally been stalked and "doxed" herself, and had to step back from activism recently because it was taking a toll on her family, including her own two teenagers.
"It gives you nightmares, it really does," she said.


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Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Ah, Spring: So Much Else To Do
Posted by Pat at 9:45 AM
6 comments:
So I'm guessing you don't expect a winning season from the Buccos?
- March 25, 2008 at 10:33 AM
- Sam said...
Damn straight I'll predict a winning season.
It is kind of sad, although justified, that everyone will be paying attention to the Penguins during what will probably be the only time the Pirates sniff first place in the division.
- March 25, 2008 at 11:20 AM
- Dave Wannstache said...
One of these years, Sam, you'll be right and the Pirates will have a winning season.
My guess? In the year 2059.
- March 25, 2008 at 1:12 PM
Don't be hatin' on Cinci: we have a PARADE to open our season--a parade with ELEPHANTS!!!
- March 25, 2008 at 8:25 PM
make fun of the buccos all you want, but all I ask of the media and every pittsburgh sports fan out there is to just give the pirates their five weeks, and then move on. Take advantage of day games and matinees(sp?), by the way why does the opener have to be at night, that means no missed school. Besides, the pirates could have a very solid rotation, or at least 4 starters at least. andrews is going to be priceless. ya the pens are gonna be amazing to watch, i've already got three computers lined up for 10am friday, the NBA is interesting for those who go to school near Columbus, and the masters has the most overplayed commercial on television, but please give the new pirate mascot a chance, he's not as bad as steely mcbeam. and don't make fun of "raise the jolly roger." probably only one person will understand this post, but thats okay. Let's Go Bucs.
- March 25, 2008 at 10:49 PM
Looks like Staal was drinking again
- March 25, 2008 at 11:55 PM


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A Sandwich a Day: The Falafel Sandwich at Orga Tea Cafe & Grill
Reviews of Chicago sandwiches.
Editor's Note: In this great city of ours, one could eat a different sandwich every day of the year--so that's what we'll do. Here's A Sandwich a Day, our daily look at sandwiches around the Windy City. Got a sandwich we should check out? Let us know!
Albany Park and adjacent North Park make up an area that's well known in Chicago as ethnic melting pot of cultures. Billed as "one of the most diverse zip codes in the nation" (both share the 60625 code), these north-side communities are home to sizable Central American, Indian, Middle Eastern, European and East Asian populations, and boast a food scene that's equally as multi-cultural. Should you find yourself looking to escape the smattering of burger joints, small-plate establishments and taco stands that reign supreme in the more central parts of town, there's, almost literally, another world of cuisines waiting to be sampled at the north end of the Brown Line.
While there's plenty of food options to choose from in the area, I recommend a further trek along Kimball Avenue to North Park's Orga Tea Cafe & Grill for a Falafel Sandwich ($3.75). Deep fried to order, this hole-in-the-wall Middle Eastern spot's falafel strikes that perfect balance of crunchy on the outside and dough-like on the inside. It's flavorful, too, as it's packed with loads of parsley (hence the greenish tint) and all the standard Middle Eastern spices. It's some of the best I've had in Chicago. The rest of the sandwich, though, isn't particularly noteworthy. On my visit, the pita was a little stale, and the vegetables were rather soggy. Still, I left Orga feeling more than satisfied—both intestinally and gustatorily.
Orga Tea Cafe & Grill
3401 W. Bryn Maur Ave., Chicago, IL 60659 (map)
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It was locked because Steel Shades felt it necessary to report me to the mods because I don't bash our OC.Originally Posted by Djfan
It was locked because Steel Shades felt it necessary to report me to the mods because I don't bash our OC.Originally Posted by Djfan
No, it was locked because you chose to begin a childish name calling rant instead of engaging in a rational debate. When I reminded you of the TOS, you justified your behavior with a misinterpretation of a portion of the TOS. If you have issues with how the moderators control this forum maybe you should take it up directly with them.Originally Posted by sd steel
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity
Name calling -- that'll cause the lock
Tomlin: Let's unleash hell and "mop the floor" with the competition.
Originally Posted by Djfan
That happens to me all the time
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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. George Orwell
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Sorry, Marvel is a FA and cannot be included in such a deal. You will have to hope that KC is willing to accept Arians and Larry Z even up for Albert and Dorsey.....I think they might.Originally Posted by Mel Blount's G
I used to call my brother 'Names'. Hed get upset and tell our Mom, "He's calling me Names again!" She would laugh at him cause she heard the whole thing and he'd always end up crying. Then my Dad would come up from the basement and say in a calm, cool voice, "Flip, please stop calling your brother Names." (Flip was my nickname, sorry Flippy) I havent called my brother Names for at least 20 years but thanks for the memory!Originally Posted by jhansle1
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Kevin McCarthy made his move with just over a lap remaining to leave the field and win the men's one-mile run at the 2012 NCAA Division III Indoor Track and Field National Championship meet.
With the victory, McCarthy became the first Wabash College athlete to win a national title since Tom Puschak '89 capture the men's hammer throw title in 1989.
With the victory, McCarthy became the first Wabash College athlete to win a national title since Tom Puschak '89 capture the men's hammer throw title in 1989.
McCarthy started at the back of the pack, moving up to second place in the final 400 meters. Coming out of the final corner before the start of the last lap, the Wabash senior made his move to take the lead, then pulled away from the rest of the field to win with a time of 4:08.93 to win by nearly two seconds. His time was just off the NCAA indoor championship record of 4:08.19 set in 2007 and easily beat the Grinnell College Bear Recreation and Athletic Center fieldhouse record of 4:13.06 set last year.
"I really kept to the plan," McCarthy said. "I stayed pretty steady throughout the race, working to get to the front near the end. I knew it was all up to me heading into the final lap. If the other guys were going to go with me, they were going to be in for a fight. The mile has such a weird strategy anyway because you start kind of slow, then you have to come back really hard at the end.
"This is totally awesome. I'm just thankful for getting here. This is my fifth All-American (award) but it's my first one in the mile. It's cool to be able to do this, it's cool to be able to bring another cap to our awesome middle distance squad that's at Wabash College and show the young guys that we've got what the capabilities are."
"That was perfect execution," assistant track coach Roger Busch, an All-American during his running days at Wabash, said. "Kevin did exactly what we talked about heading into the race."
McCarthy experienced the highest of highs less than 24 hours after suffering heartbreak in the distance medley relay. The Little Giants were one of the favorites in that race, with McCarthy running the anchor lap. However, a bumb at the starting line knocked the baton out of the hands of the lead Wabash runner, eliminating the Little Giants from contention.
Wabash head coach Clyde Morgan helped McCarthy use that at motivation for Saturday's mile race.
"I've watched Kevin race his entire college career. When he got the the baton in the DMR, I saw something I've never really seen — an angry and disappointed Kevin McCarthy. I told him after the race to harness that anger and that passion and run it out on Saturday. I think that's what he did on those last two laps.
"He's the perfect example of our motto — Men Of Wabash, Nothing Breaks Us. He just never seems to get a break. Last year in the 800-meter run he got boxed out in the prelims and missed qualifying for the finals. He's battled health problems in several meets and then the incident in the DMR last night. He never let any of those things get him down. He just dug deep and found a way to run even harder and faster."
Jake Waterman nearly added a second national title, finishing second in the 800-meter run nearly an hour after McCarthy's winning effort. Waterman, the runner-up at the 2011 meet, took the lead in the final lap and held it until the final straightaway. Mike Hutton from St. Thomas passed Waterman in the final 60 meters to capture first place with a time of 1:52.26. Waterman crossed the finish line in 1:52.55.
Waterman earned indoor All-America honors for the third straight . He raced to All-America honors at the 2010 indoor meet with a second place finish, and finished seventh as a freshman at the 2010 indoor championship meet. Waterman also finished sixth in the 800-meter run at the 2011 outdoor championship meet.
Wabash finished 11th in the final team standings with a total of 18 points. North Central claimed the team championship.


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While many were reeling in surprise that Google executive Marissa Mayer will take the reins as Yahoo's new chief, more probably don't know that Mayer is pregnant and due in October.
Mayer, the former Google vice president of local and location services, is married to lawyer-turned-investor Zachary Bogue, and both are expecting a boy Oct. 7, according to Fortune. Mayer dated Google chief executive Larry Page in the search engine's early days, and was a valued executive at the company before being dropped from Page's inner circle last year.
As for hiring a pregnant chief executive, Mayer said that Yahoo showed no trepidation.. "They showed their evolved thinking," Mayer said.
Local news from across Southern California
Mayer told Yahoo she was pregnant in late June and met with the full board last week. She was offered the job on Thursday. However, being six months pregnant does bring up the subject of maternity leave, but Mayer said she doesn't expect it to be long.
"I like to stay in the rhythm of things," she told Fortune. "My maternity leave will be a few weeks long and I'll work throughout it."


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Today I went to the Fred Hollows Eye Clinic at the hospital here in Madang. You may have read about my paranoia concerning the near certainty of losing or misplacing my eyeglasses. Silly as it seems it was of so much concern to me that I was compulsively checking my one pair of multi-focal glasses to make certain that I knew where they were at all times if I didn't have them on. The resulting behaviours would have been comical had it not been for the fact that merely thinking about misplacing them and having to call a friend to search my house would set me trembling. I blame it on stress. I have to blame it on something.
I had gotten three pairs of glasses to replace my one varifocal pair. While I'm yakking on about pairs of glasses I want to ask you why is it a pair of glasses? I know it's because there are two lenses, but it still doesn't sound right. It's a little like a pair of pants or a pair of pliers. Are there objects called a pant or a plier? I don't think so. I can see a pair of socks. That makes sense; there are two separate socks. Together they make a pair. However if there are not two things called a pant, then how can you have a pair of pants? Same goes for pliers. I couldn't say, "I had gotten three glasses", because that might be confusing if the context was not clear. You might think I was talking about drinking glasses. No, I had to say three pairs of glasses so you would know that I'm talking about . . . Okay, this is getting silly. I'd better move on. I have to admit, however, that this is something which has bothered me for years. I feel better now that I've gotten it off my chest.
Anyway, I got a +4 for distance, a +5 for computer work and a +6 for close-up work like reading in bed. What I discovered is that after a while the distance formula was not working any more. It was too strong. Things a bit close were fine, but when I was driving the distant objects were fuzzy. I went back today and got a pair of +3.5 glasses. That did the trick. Now when I'm driving everything from the gauges to infinity is in perfect focus. I'm happy with that, considering that these eyeglasses cost me only about $8.00.
Okay, that was not very interesting, I admit. Nevertheless, I wish to report to myself here in my journal that I can now see perfectly at any distance. The only problem is that I have to carry around four pairs of eyeglasses. Also, most of the time my eyes feel as if they are about to pop from their sockets. Am I giving myself eye strain? Hey, I'm blessed. Some people can't see at all.
So, here are some things I have seen lately. By the way, I wasn't wearing any of my pairs of glasses. I have a prescription dive mask. It is perfect underwater. Unfortunately, it doesn't work out of the water. Otherwise, I would just wear it instead of buying so many pairs of glasses.
This is a very cute little Blackspotted Puffer (Arothron nigropunctatus):
I call them them "puppy fishes", because they look like . . . mmmm, puppies.
Okay, this is not going so well. I seem to have forgotten how to write tonight.
This is a colony of sea squirts called Lissoclinum patellum:
I could think of several things which I'm reminded of when I see these and none of them are pleasant, so I won't trouble you with that. I find it amusing that something as lowly as a sea squirt can be placed in the phylum, Chordata, which is the same phylum to which I belong. Or maybe it's not so surprising when I think hard about it. Sea squirts have something like a spinal column only while they are mobile juveniles. As adults they form colonies and lose all of their backbone. They become blobby and are plastered solidly in place. Come to think of it, that's not so different from me after all. I'm a giant sea squirt. I've become rooted into immobility and have lost my backbone. I'm going to double up on my calcium pills and see what happens. Is that a wild goose I hear calling to me?
Okay, there goes what I so laughably call my brain again. It's off on a tangent, slipped a gear, got its wires crossed, blew a fuse. Little purple sparks are coming out of my ears. I'm unable to escape the chorus of Frankie Laine's old hit Cry of the Wild Goose:
My heart knows what the wild goose knows,
I must go where the wild goose goes.
Wild goose, brother goose, which is best?
A wanderin' fool or a heart at rest?
Let me fly, let me fly, let me fly away.
Where does a moody hankering for change cross over into the realm of escapism? I remember a time not so long ago when I would have hopped a plane to Kathmandu if only that wouldn't have left such a big mess behind. I could get a job as a dishwasher somewhere. I'd be the best dishwasher in the business. You could eat off my plates. Yeah, I wanted to run. Recent events have made many of us flinch. The flinching continues. Today a friend and I voiced it in the same moment, "How much can we take?" I'm reminded of the line from Monty Python and the Holy Grail when the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog viscously attacked King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table. Run away!
Well, I don't really want to get all sombre tonight. I've felt that way all day and now I need to cheer up a bit. A little balance is in order, eh? Sometimes situations are so miserable that you can find nothing resembling humour. However, you can always stand back a bit and laugh at your own reactions.
This bizarre critter is a kind of sea slug or Bêche-de-mer, a Bohadschia argus:
This one has a single incredibly sticky white filament trailing out of its . . . uh, unpleasant end. Often there are many filaments. It is a defence mechanism. This individual was angry and defensive because I accidentally disturbed it while I was photographing something else. I know from experience that you do not want to allow these filaments to come into contact with your skin or anything else for that matter. If scientists could develop a glue as efficient and durable as this stuff, they would see big bonuses in their pay-checks.
This strange wormy thing with an all-over beard is a kind of nudibranch called a Pteraeolidia ianthina:
I'm reasonably sure of the identification, but if I'm mistaken I'll blame Rich Jones. He recently took back his giant nudibranch field guide upon which I had been drooling for the last few months. So many nudibranchs to photograph, so little time.
Here is another nudi, one of my favourites. It's an Electric Swallowtail (Chelidonura electra):
What an utterly charming name. It dredges up visions of Unicorns, Ashwinders, Mermaids, Mooncalves, Murlaps and Kneazles. (that should keep you Googling for a while).
This is the only balding Magnificent Anemone (Heteractis magnifica) which I have seen:
I have no idea what has caused it to lose its tentacles in this spot. It is not something which I have observed before. It seemed otherwise healthy. I once fed a Magnificent Anemone half of a banana. It took it about fifteen minutes for it to transport the banana treat across its tentacles, passing it along the tips like a rock star being carried along on the up-stretched hands of fans. The banana finally ended up in the anemone's mouth. I didn't stick around long enough to ask it if it liked it.
This shot is my pick of the day. It's a very common Cushion Star (Culcita novaeguineae) which is most uncommonly beautiful:
It takes things such as this to remind me of the incredible riches of my life. People pay vast sums of money for the privilege of doing the things which I enjoy every week. I'm still able to see these things as privileges which are not to be taken for granted.
I must accept that Madang is not my eternal home. Some day I will have to leave this place. Maybe my body will stay here in the ground and my spirit will depart. Or perhaps while body and spirit are still merged circumstances will arise which require me to leave and I'll be led to another place. The future is very fuzzy.
I think that even that fuzziness is a blessing. I'm listening. And I'm leaving plenty of room for surprises.
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Your battery has been depleted past a chargable state. This is a due to a bad design in the phone that doesn't monitor the battery power state well enough. It actually allows the battery to be taken under the minimum amount needed to recharge the battery.
You can fix this, but do so at your own risk.
You can simply purchase a new battery, that will work, just been sure not to let it deplete the battery totally anymore.
Now, on to the fix
-Take out the battery.
-Get any usb cable you can find sitting around. (any usb wire will do, an old printer cable, anything with a usb end that can plug into your computer)
-cut one end of the plug off. You need to leave the side on that connects to your computer. Cut off the side that plugs into a device (printer, camera, web cam, etc)
-Strip the rubber off the wire and expose the wires inside.
-Separate the wires from each other. You will only be using the BLACK and RED wires.
-strip the very end of the black and red wires carefully using a wire cutter exposing the metal wire inside the red and black covering.
-Plug in your home made battery charger to your computer. Careful not to touch any exposed metal, as it will give you a small shock.
-now carefully hold the black wire to the negative terminal on the battery (it should be noted with a black circle with a - in the middle). Then touch the red wire to the positive terminal (it will be noted with a red circle with a + in the middle).
Hold the 2 wires there for 20 seconds. Then quickly plug the battery back into the phone, and then plug it into a regular charger. Give it little bit of time, if you've done everything correctly the charge light should come on.
I had to repeat the last step again to get the light to turn on indicating it was charging.
You must not hold the wires to the battery for too long, 20 seconds should do it. You can overload a battery with this trick and actually make it explode if you hold it there too long. You are well within the few minutes needed to detonate the battery due to overcharging by sticking very strictly to 20 seconds.
Just be careful and you'll be fine.
One you get a charge light give it a few minutes in the off position, then try powering up the device and keep it plugged in until you get 100% charge.
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Thursday, August 26
TGIF Foods: Kid-Friendly Lemonade Cookies!
Lots of kids are back in school already across the country, and they're going to need something to cheer them up this weekend. Forget lemonade stands and soft serve ice cream cones. It's time to pull out the big guns: cookies.
Get the kids in the kitchen and bake a big batch of these sweet-tart lemonade cookies. They're easy to make and can be frosted, an activity universally loved by kids. I first posted on these cookies a year ago, and they're so fabulously fun I had to share them again.
Oh, and don't forget to pack a cookie in your little one's lunch box on Monday morning. It may be as healthy as an apple, but it's guaranteed to bring happiness.
Lemonade Cookies
Makes approximately 30 cookies
Printable recipe.
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
2/3 cup softened unsalted butter
3/4 cup sugar
2 tablespoons lemon zest
1 large egg
1/2 cup lemonade concentrate, thawed
Lemonade icing, optional:
1 1/4 cups confectioners' sugar
2 tablespoons lemon zest
1 tablespoon lemonade concentrate
a few drops of whole milk
1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Whisk flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a medium bowl and set aside.
2. Using an electric mixer cream butter, sugar, and lemon zest on medium speed until light and fluffy. Add the egg, and mix until combined. Alternate adding the flour mixture and the 1/2 cup lemonade concentrate, mixing until just combined.
3. Drop tablespoons of dough onto an ungreased cookie sheet at least 1 1/2 inches apart. Bake for 8-10 minutes. Remove and allow to cool on wire racks for at least 30 minutes if frosting.
4. For the icing: Whisk the confectioners' sugar, lemon zest, and lemon concentrate in a small bowl. Add a few drops of milk and continue whisking until the icing is smooth and opaque and clings to the back of a spoon. Taste it, and adjust flavors as desired. When it's ready, pour icing through a fine mesh sieve to remove any tiny clumps of confectioners' sugar. For easy clean up, place a sheet of parchment paper under the cookie rack before frosting. Dip the top of the cookie in the icing and place on rack. Allow to dry completely before storing in an air-tight tin or plastic container. Place wax paper between layers to protect the icing.
Note: The cookies are delicious plain; however, the icing adds an extra layer of tang that'll make you pucker. My only caveat is that icing on cookies prefers chilly winter weather to hot summer weather. So if you ice them, be sure to let them dry thoroughly in an air-conditioned room.
You might also enjoy these kid-friendly cookie recipes:
Cowardly Lion Cookies recipe from Sweetnicks
Oatmeal Everything Cookies recipe from Food Blogga
Classic Snickerdoodle Cookies recipe from Pinch My Salt
Fluffernutter Cookies recipe from Two Peas and Their Pod
Big and Dense Chocolate Chip Cookies recipe from Cookie Madness
Reese's Peanut Butter Cup and Chocolate Chunk Cookies recipe from Food Blogga
14 comments:
- Lydia (The Perfect Pantry) said...
Oh, I hope you don't need to be a kid to have these! They look delicious.
- August 26, 2010 at 7:53 PM
- Rosa's Yummy Yums said...
I love the way those cookies look. They must have a great texture and heavenly flavor!
- August 26, 2010 at 11:54 PM
- Valerie Harrison (bellini) said...
These sound refreshing Susan!!Thanks for reminding us to add them to our lineup!
- August 27, 2010 at 3:31 AM
- Jessica @ How Sweet said...
Lemonade cookies sound so creative and delicious!
- August 27, 2010 at 3:36 AM
- Jacqueline Meldrum said...
Those sound great and I was thinking "oh, I am defnitely going to make these", then I got down to lemonade concentrate and that was the end of that. Oh well :S
- August 27, 2010 at 5:11 AM
- lisaiscooking said...
I'm afraid I wouldn't share these cookies with anyone. These would be all for me. I love lemon cookies, and these sound fantastic!
- August 27, 2010 at 6:12 AM
- ann said...
I love lemon in baked goods! ann
- August 27, 2010 at 7:15 AM
- The Teacher Cooks said...
Lemon cookies are one of my favorites.
- August 27, 2010 at 8:32 AM
- Joanne said...
I'm going back to school on monday and I think I definitely need these to get me through this weekend. Off to the kitchen!
- August 27, 2010 at 11:21 AM
- We Are Not Martha said...
TGIF foods are excactly what I need today! These are perfect for kids and adults... And especially by the pool :)
Happy weekend!!
- August 27, 2010 at 12:10 PM
- City Share said...
I love anything lemon flavored. These look delicious. I like the name of Lemonade cookies. Thanks for the recipe.
- August 27, 2010 at 12:21 PM
- Susan from Food Blogga said...
lydia-Nope, adults can have them too, especially if they're kids at heart. ;)
rosa-Thanks so much! I love the bold lemon flavor.
val-No problem!
jessica-They're too fun!
jacqueline-Don't you hate it when you don't have an ingredients after you're all psyched about making a recipe?
lisa-It's a definite possibility. ;)
ann-I love lemon anything too!
teachercooks-Me too. They're never too sweet.
joanne-See? Already you're feeling happier!
sues-Perfect! Have fun!
cityshare-I love the name too. It's just so happy.
- August 27, 2010 at 5:07 PM
- Anna@Tallgrass Kitchen said...
These sound great! There's just something about lemonade concentrate that really gives things a sweet tart flavor, and is more reminiscent of childhood than just lemon juice and zest. I bet limeade would be interesting too...maybe with a bit of Grand Marnier in the icing? It could be a margarita cookie--but perhaps no longer suitable for lunchboxes.
- August 28, 2010 at 7:37 PM
- Susan from Food Blogga said...
anna-I'm coming over your house! ;)
- September 6, 2010 at 4:01 PM


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While remote compromises are preferred by attackers and most feared by defenders, local privilege escalation can be equally as dangerous and even harder to uncover. A buffer overflow in the passwd program used in Sun Microsystems' Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 Operating Environments can be silently exploited by a valid local user to gain root privileges.
Solaris Patching: Problems, Solutions, and Open Issues by Julie Baumler - December 13, 2003
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FONTANA >> For days, Murrieta has been a flash point in the debate over illegal immigration sparked by the arrival of Central American immigrants at a Border Patrol processing center in that city.
The attention may now be shifting to Fontana where on Thursday a group of 46 women and children arrived at St. Joseph Roman Catholic Church.
The group arrived on a Department of Homeland Security bus and consisted of mostly children and some teens accompanied by a parent or guardian, said John Andrews, spokesman for the Diocese of San Bernardino.
"This is a transition center here to provide the basics — food, water, clothing, medical care — and help them make a connection," Andrews said.
By early Thursday afternoon, some with anti-illegal immigration sentiments had begun to make their presence known.
At one point a pickup truck drove slowly through the church parking lot and a passenger inside held up a sign that read "Send them home."
The immigrants will be staying at a former convent at the church that has sleeping accommodations, showers and space for members of Catholic Charities of San Bernardino and Riverside Counties to collect information from the new arrivals and help them contact relatives in the country, Andrews said.
The immigrants will be at St. Joseph 24 to 48 hours before they move on, he said.
The first of the immigrants to be on their way — a women with two children — left about three and a half hours after arriving but Andrews did not know their final destination.
Most of the immigrants at St. Joseph "are going to locations in the Midwest and the East Coast," Andrews said.
The federal government is not paying any of the expenses associated with the immigrants' stay at St. Joseph, he said.
Petra Alexander, who works with Latino communities in the diocese, was working with the immigrant families Thursday.
The majority of the families came from El Salvador and Honduras but some from Guatemala are also part of the group.
"They all look good, they are just very tired," Alexander said in Spanish. "They all say they came from a place that was very cold and are glad to be here."
A team of about 50 people consisting of church volunteers and Catholic Charities personnel began working with the immigrants as soon as they arrived.
The diocese received calls from people offering to put families up in their homes but the offers were turned down because it's not able to screen the people making the offers, Andrews said.
"We don't want to be in a position to screen and make sure they are qualified to work with these families," he said.
For some time, the diocese had wanted to help some of the immigrants and had been trying to determine what the best way to do that would be, Andrews said.
Last week diocese representatives met with federal authorities.
After that meeting diocese officials began looking around and saw they had some resources to work with such as St. Joseph, which not only has space but has a parish congregation that was more than willing and enthusiastic about helping out, Andrew said.
Two other parishes — St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church in Rialto and St. Catherine of Alexandria in Riverside — are also prepared to accept immigrants if necessary, Andrews said.
At St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church, parishioners came intermittently to the church to drop off diapers, water, food, toys and pillows, among other things. Some volunteers sat nearby, ready to lend a hand to any heavy packages or donations that came through the church doors.
Deacon Gonzalo Sotelo said community members donated cans of food and bedding.
The church is not really asking for clothing, Sotelo said. It is seeking monetary donations to purchase what's needed, such as clothing in different sizes for the children.
Sotelo was unsure if St. Catherine of Siena would be receiving immigrants at its location.
"We're ready to receive families here, if that happens," Sotelo said.
Checks can be made out to the Diocese of San Bernardino with the words "humanitarian fund" in the memo line and sent to the mission office of the Diocese of San Bernardino, 1201 E. Highland Ave., San Bernardino, CA 92404.
Lending a hand to immigrants is part of living the Catholic faith, Andrews said.
Catholics are called up to reach out to the traveler and the stranger, he said, pointing to the parable of the good samaritan who aided the injured traveler he found on the side of a road.
This isn't just a tenet of Catholicism, said Helene Slessarev-Jamir, Mildred M. Hutchinson professor of urban studies at the Claremont School of Theology.
"It's certainly embedded within Christianity, within Judaism and within Islam," she said, adding the parable of the Good Samaritan "is one of the most famous parables of the New Testament."
Other groups are not as supportive of the immigrants' arrival. Robin Hvidston, executive director of We The People Rising, said her organization is making calls to members of Congress and encouraging them to take action and secure the border.
"These children coming to our country are facing extremely dangerous and perilous situations," Hvidston said, citing a recent statement by a congressman about the high rate of sexual assault in young girls who immigrate from Mexico. "We think it sends the wrong message to facilitate their movement. Once they're here, they should be treated for any illness and treated completely humanely and kindly and then reunited with their families in their home countries."
Hvidston said the churches helping the immigrants should be focusing their efforts on helping people in their native countries.
"They are enabling these countries to continue to abuse and neglect their citizens," Hvidston said. "We're all for helping people in their countries. To have a "Guatemalan dream" in Guatemala. This is going to enable the problem rather than changing their government and helping their people. They rely on the U.S. taxpayer and citizen to do what those governments refuse to do."
Hvidston said she hopes Congress will send the National Guard to the border to secure it.
"These people should utilize the legal immigration system and come here legally and following our laws," Hvidston said. "We feel like if the National Guard is deployed, that we can stop this right at the border."
Photo Editor Rick Sforza and Staff Writer Grace Wong contributed to this report.