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TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - Jan. 25, 2017) - Barrick Gold Corporation (NYSE:ABX)(TSX:ABX) ("Barrick" or the "Company") today announced preliminary full-year gold production of 5.52 million ounces for 2016, at the high end of the Company's guidance of 5.25-5.55 million ounces. The Company produced 1.52 million ounces of gold in the fourth quarter. Cost of sales applicable to gold is expected to be at the low end of our guidance range of $800-$850 per ounce for 2016. Full-year all-in sustaining costs1 are expected to be at or slightly below the low end of our full-year guidance range of $740-$775 per ounce of gold.
Preliminary full-year copper production was 415 million pounds, also in line with production guidance of 380-430 million pounds for 2016. Copper production in the fourth quarter was 101 million pounds. Full-year cost of sales applicable to copper is expected to be $1.35-$1.55 per pound for 2016, with all-in sustaining costs2 of $2.00-$2.20 per pound.
"Our portfolio delivered progressively stronger performance over the course of 2016 as we focused on driving improvements in productivity and efficiency across our operations," said Barrick President Kelvin Dushnisky. "Through the acceleration of Best-in-Class initiatives, we are driving down costs, expanding margins, and maximizing free cash flow across the portfolio. This will remain a focus in 2017 as we target step changes in performance."
Barrick will report detailed fourth quarter and full year results on Wednesday, February 15, followed by a conference call and webcast on February 16 at 9:00 am ET.
Toll Free (U.S. and Canada): 1-800-319-4610
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The webcast and presentation materials will be available on Barrick's website at www.barrick.com. The conference call will be available for replay by phone at 1-855-669-9658 (U.S. and Canada toll free), and +1 604 674-8052 (international), access code 1014.
The Company will also hold an Operations and Technical Update on Wednesday, February 22, via live webcast from 2:00-5:00 pm ET. Operational and technical leaders from across the business will provide detailed updates on core operations and projects. The webcast and presentation materials will be available on Barrick's website at www.barrick.com.
Barrick cautions that, whether or not expressly stated, all figures contained in this press release including production levels are preliminary, and reflect our expected 2016 results as of the date of this press release. Actual reported fourth quarter and 2016 results are subject to management's final review, as well as audit by the Company's independent accounting firm, and may vary significantly from those expectations because of a number of factors, including, without limitation, additional or revised information, and changes in accounting standards or policies, or in how those standards are applied. Barrick will provide additional discussion and analysis and other important information about its 2016 production levels when it reports actual results on February 15, 2017.
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Some Comments on the Creation Week: Day 6a
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- Steven J. said...
We know with certainty that all living creatures were initially herbivorous ... [t]here was neither hunter nor hunted prior to the Fall since all living creatures ate plants.
I'm trying to picture a frugivorous boa constrictor or a vegetarian rattlesnake, and it's not quite working. Both have exquisite adaptions for preying on other animals that would be quite useless to an herbivore (would a pit viper use its heat sensors to track leaves and shoots, or a constrictor wrap around a small melon to suffocate it?). The sharp teeth and short guts (adapted to digesting animal flesh, not the harder-to-digest vegetable matter that longer guts are adapted for) of cats large and small also seem optimized for predation, not a vegetarian lifestyle. Were all these animals created pre-adapted for a post-Fall lifestyle (and hence rather ill-adapted for a pre-Fall one), or did God do a lot of retrofitting after expelling Adam and Eve from the garden?
There would have been no difference between a wild or domestic cat. The Bible says that after the Flood, God put an instinctive fear of man into the beasts of the earth (Genesis 9:2).
Typically, the difference between domesticated animals and wild ones is that humans control the breeding of domestic ones (hence, some oft-tamed animals, like cheetahs and elephants, can't really be domesticated because they require either too much time or too much space for their normal breeding cycle).
On the other hand, Dmitry Belaev's work in domesticating the silver fox (between 1959 and today) suggests that indeed, the main work of domestication is first getting animals to stop being afraid of or hostile to human contact, and later to actually enjoy it. But there are side effects of this: the domestic silver foxes are no longer silver, but mottled black or brown and white, and have a number of dog-like features of their behavior that make them very un-fox-like.
This recalls an observation by Charles Darwin that there is scarcely any domestic mammal that does not have spotted varieties (even if the wild type is solid-colored), or breeds with such oddities as folded ears. There are a consistent set of differences between wild and domestic mammals that suggest that domestication selected for juvenile ("childlike") traits in behavior, and this selection resulted in other changes as well that weren't specifically sought but were caused by the same genetic changes as the behavioral alterations. Anyway, all domestic animals have living or extinct (e.g. the aurochs, for cows) wild counterparts from which they appear to have been bred selectively over time.
- November 9, 2014 at 2:41 AM
- RKBentley said...
Steven J,
I concede that it is hard to imagine a world without death when our entire frame of reference is limited this world of death. It's probably much harder for you since you can only see the world through the paradigm of evolution and millions of years of struggle and death. It might help if you remind yourself that the animals we observe now are the product of thousands of years of adaptation. The created animals might have be OK hunters or had OK defenses but the best hunters lived to reproduce and the worse hunters starved. They prey that could elude being eaten reproduced and the prey that couldn't died. What we're left with are animals that are the most cunning hunters and the ones with the best defenses.
Remember too that God not only cursed Adam but also cursed Adam's domain. God told Adam that he would earn his bread by the sweat of his brow; that he would plow the ground and it would yield thorns. Things like thorns and venom would not have been exhibited before the Fall but perhaps were present as latent genes which would become expressed after Adam's sin.
I've written before about the Russian experiment with the foxes. In less than eight generations, the foxes began to exhibit similar characteristics to domestic dogs – floppy ears, spotted coats, barking, tail wagging, etc. The reason for the mottled coats among domestic animals are likely two fold. First, there is the removal of selective pressure that selects for solid or well camouflaged coats. Second, there possibly is a connection between the genes that regulate docility and the genes that regulate fur color. When artificial selection selects one, the other also becomes expressed.
Thanks as always for your comments. God bless!!
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"Kids are not too young to use their gifts to serve others. God gives each of us, no matter our age, unique gifts that he calls us to use."
It is with this message in mind that Dan Waddington, director of the diocesan Department of Youth and Young Adult Ministries, hopes to encourage young people to attend this year's Diocesan Youth Conference.
The SEEK2019 Conference Jan. 3-7 in Indianapolis, Ind., gathered upward of 17,000 college students from across the nation for a chance to reconnect with God, discover his plan for their lifelong mission and how to live that plan with enthusiasm.
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"Obnoxious." "Sensitive." "Too Poor." Such are the words written on tape and placed over the mouths of teens in a film produced by and featuring Mater Dei Prep, Middletown, students.
"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God."
The National Stop the Violence Alliance Inc. is one group that strives to live out this Gospel message daily in an effort to bridge the gap between law enforcement and those living in inner-city communities by building trust. The group seeks to provide resources and mentorship opportunities to those living among the threat of daily gun violence and crime.
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Maureen Plover is quick to point out that the three summers she served with the Center for FaithJustice ignited her passion for social justice and working for those in poverty.
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My associate, Maria, and I have been on the road a lot this week working with the Florida Legislature to - we are hopeful - pass a bill establishing a St. Johns River license tag. Florida has more than 100 of these specialty tags and this one will help the St. Johns River Alliance, a 13-county coalition, to pursue its river research and restoration goals.
With all the road trips to Tallahassee (six hours round trip), there hasn't been much time to post.
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The news still remains positive. Paperwork is being circulated but no orders cut for establishing an ETS date (expiration of term of service) for SGT Mark. With all the talk of the 82nd Airborne being the backbone of the upcoming operations in Afghanistan, we, the parental units, are hoping this is resolved soon.
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Both NBC and PBS referred to the soldiers heading over to Afghanistan as "trainers."
I'm sorry, the soldiers of the 82nd Airborne are not trainers. They are infantry. Their new mission may be training but they are not trainers. It's a subtle distinction but an important one.
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3 comments:
- ABNPOPPA said...
Good luck on the license.
Ya, sometimes the media is NOT quite accurate
- March 29, 2009 at 12:13 AM
- MightyMom said...
the MSM gets yet ANOTHER thing wrong....go figure!
- March 30, 2009 at 1:56 AM
Love that cut-throat-ness you've got; way to call it like you see it!
I agree, I've discovered quite a few media details that have been inaccurate recently; which of course bothers the heck out of me.
The media also quoted that President Obama was the direct individual responsible for firing the President of GM.
- March 31, 2009 at 11:37 PM
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I realized Marvel had made an attempt creating Haitian superheroes. Characters such as Papa Jambo (Charles LeJeune), ( Doctor Voodoo, (Jericho Drumm), Daniel Drumm and Papa Legba were all highly skilled sorcerers. But there is more to Haitian culture than just voodoo. – Dorphise Jean


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Foot ulcers in a diabetic patient weaken blood flow, which keep the wound from healing properly. The blood vessels that are needed to heal damaged tissue have difficultly developing in diabetics due to their lack of the protein HIF-1a (hypoxia inducible factor – 1 alpha) caused by blood sugar toxicity.
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The Stanford University School of Medicine has developed a skin patch that might solve some of diabetic patients' foot ulcer problems. The drug increases the protein HIF-1a to help with the development of those blood vessels that help heal damaged tissue. The main ingredient in the skin patch is deferoxamine, which has been available as an injectable for years, but has been unable to treat diabetic foot ulcers effectively until a patch could be developed.
In Stanford's research, the patch has had several advantages:
• Wounds healed 14 days faster
• The quality of wound healing improved due to higher collagen levels in damaged skin
• The patch showed great potential to prevent repeat ulcers and maybe even initial ulcers
When will the patch be available?
The drug still needs to be tested in further clinical trials before it can be prescribed to diabetic patients at risk for foot ulcers. But due to its great promise, it is hoped to make it through clinical trials quickly and possibly become a first-line treatment for diabetic ulcers and preventative foot care.
For more on treating diabetic foot ulcers:
How Are Diabetes And Foot Ulcers Linked?
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Easier said than done. Recent moves by industry leaders aimed at promoting the idea of self-regulation of the internet are not very likely to succeed in keeping governments from wanting to regulate Net activities, according to a professor of management and economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
"I don't know of any case where there is successful self-regulation -- unless the government stands behind the self-regulators with a club," Lester Thurow said to reporters after his presentation earlier this week at IDC's European IT Forum here.
But when it comes to even thornier issues such as eventual taxation of cross-border electronic commerce transactions, governments may well find it hard to create revenue streams, noted Thurow. "If you can't monitor the transaction, how can you tax it?" he asked.
Thurow's comments came as world business leaders at the inaugural Global Business Dialogue on Electronic Commerce (GBDe) conference held here on Monday presented their recommendations for the creation of a global policy framework for e-commerce, including protection of consumers' privacy, to representatives of governments and international organisations.
GBDe leaders, however, stressed that they - wherever possible - would prefer to see self-regulation and technological solutions, rather than rigid or conflicting over-regulation by governments.
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Sammy here you said do some bad stuff in humans eyes, well I did and the pack thinks it's great. Mom left Shady and I at Grandmas' house and as usual we were put in our kennels when nobody was watching us. Well we got put in the house loose (all 6 of us), Mom asked Grandma if she should put us in our kennels and Grandma said Dan is home, he'll put them in the kennels before he leaves. Then Dan left and we were still loose. Grandma has a thing she puts in her chair that makes an awful racket (like someone pounding on the door, it used to make the guys bark, but they got told they couldn't bark at it because Grandma could turn it off and on) but it makes her back feel good after playing at the computer or with some of her toys like the sewing and knitting machines or at her office. Being the pack animal I am I decided to kill the massager. Being a bright Lab and having a lot of brains to help (a Poodle, Yorkie, 2 cockers and another Lab) I was careful to only disconnect the wire that went to the controller. Grandpa opened the door and we flew out. I knew the moment he got in the living room by the exasperated yell he let out and Grandma saying what's wrong with fear in her voice (she thought we destroyed the furniture). I made the mistake of trying to take it apart totally, but didn't like the taste, or was it on the advice of a buddy (I'll never tell) so I went right to the source of the problem and chewed the wire in half. Grandpa was very impressed as I didn't touch the live wire and it was definitely a clean cut between the controller and the massager. Grandpa says he will fix it, when he feels sharper (maybe I should loan him my teeth, as they left very nice prints). Bit says he didn't help, as he likes it when it is warm on brisk days. Sammy
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Here's something important. From The Economist:
'The most recent figures show that the top 10% of households own about 91.4% of outstanding stocks and mutual funds, up from 84.5% in 2001. The richest 1% own almost half of all stock and mutual funds.
'No surprise then that the recent jump in consumer sentiment recorded by the University of Michigan was led by the better-off; upper-income households (the top third) had a 15 point increase in sentiment, the bottom two-thirds rose just five points.'
Damn! But don't worry. If you're among the rich, you'll get that other 8.6% of stock and mutual fund wealth.
With Ben Bernanke on the case, it's just a matter of time until you have 100% of America's stock market wealth. (Of course, you'll also be turned into a zombie.)
But you're probably wondering: How does that work, again? Simple. Think of it this way: QE and ZIRP are essentially new forms of wealth. Whoever gets this wealth first gets richer. Everybody else gets, relatively, poorer.
Did you get this new money, dear reader? You may have, without realizing it. It feeds corporate profits and equity prices. The new money is not designed to create wealth. It just transfers more resources to rich people.
Small businesses create new jobs and new wealth. But small business can't borrow at today's low rates. They're lucky if they can borrow at all. Instead, almost all the new credit goes to banks, big businesses and the government.
In the normal course of investing, you win some and you lose some. That's what keeps the rich from always getting richer. Wealth goes both ways. But along comes the Bernanke Fed with zero interest-rate lending…and even bad businesses can refinance their mistakes. If they're big enough that is.
So you end up with an economy full of giant, lumbering zombies…protected by the government and nourished by the Fed.
Here's The Wall Street Journal on the subject:
'Companies add jobs more slowly, even in good times. Investors put less money into new ventures. And, more broadly, Americans start fewer businesses and are less inclined to change jobs or move for new opportunities.
Zombies to the right of us. Zombies to the left of us. Zombies everywhere. And they're getting richer all the time.
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St. Patrick's Day is celebrated on March 17, the saint's religious feast day and the anniversary of his death in the fifth century. The Irish have observed this day as a religious holiday for over 1,000 years. On St. Patrick's Day, which falls during the Christian season of Lent, Irish families would traditionally attend church in the morning and celebrate in the afternoon. Lenten prohibitions against the consumption of meat were waived and people would dance, drink and feast--on the traditional meal of Irish bacon and cabbage.
Saint Patrick, who lived during the fifth century, is the patron saint and national apostle of Ireland. Born in Roman Britain, he was kidnapped and brought to Ireland as a slave at the age of 16. He later escaped, but returned to Ireland and was credited with bringing Christianity to its people. In the centuries following Patrick's death (believed to have been on March 17, 461), the mythology surrounding his life became ever more ingrained in the Irish culture.
Since around the ninth or 10th century, people in Ireland have been observing the Roman Catholic feast day of St. Patrick on March 17. Interestingly, however, the first parade held to honor St. Patrick's Day took place not in Ireland but in the United States. On March 17, 1762, Irish soldiers serving in the English military marched through New York City. Along with their music, the parade helped the soldiers reconnect with their Irish roots, as well as with fellow Irishmen serving in the English army.
Originally, the colour associated with Saint Patrick was blue. Over the years the colour green and its association with Saint Patrick's day grew. Green ribbons and shamrocks were worn in celebration of St Patrick's Day as early as the 17th century. Saint Patrick is said to have used the shamrock, a three-leaved plant, to explain the Holy Trinity to the pagan Irish, and the wearing and display of shamrocks and shamrock-inspired designs have become a ubiquitous feature of the day. In the 1798 rebellion, to make a political statement, Irish soldiers wore full green uniforms on 17 March in hopes of catching public attention. The phrase "the wearing of the green", meaning to wear a shamrock on one's clothing, derives from a song of the same name.
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Today, people of all backgrounds celebrate St. Patrick's Day, especially throughout the United States, Canada and Australia. Although North America is home to the largest productions, St. Patrick's Day is celebrated in many other locations far from Ireland, including Japan, Singapore and Russia.
In modern-day Ireland, St. Patrick's Day was traditionally been a religious occasion. In fact, up until the 1970s, Irish laws mandated that pubs be closed on March 17. Beginning in 1995, however, the Irish government began a national campaign to use interest in St. Patrick's Day to drive tourism and showcase Ireland and Irish culture to the rest of the world. Today, approximately 1 million people annually take part in Ireland 's St. Patrick's Festival in Dublin, a multi-day celebration featuring parades, concerts, outdoor theater productions and fireworks shows.
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JSE-listed 4Sight Holdings has signed an agreement with Chinese company Shenzhen Rongmei Science and Technology (RM) to establish a 50:50 joint venture (JV) in China.
4Sight said in a statement on Monday that it aims to expand its business operations, opportunities and customer footprint in the underserved Asia Pacific areas with a specific focus on the Chinese market.
It currently derives only 1% of its revenue from the Asia Pacific region.
Both companies have earmarked a strategy to combine the roles of marketing, sales, operations and technology delivery through the JV, which will focus on targeting the telecommunications, mining and energy sectors.
4Sight will enable the JV with its Industry 4.0 know-how, implementation experience and technology offerings in the selected vertical markets, while RM fund the JV, provide loan funding, identify local acquisitions and take responsibility for local business development.
4Sight's key technology capabilities that will initially be focused on as part of the JV include the optimisation of telecommunications networks through the application of dynamic tariffing services for revenues management and network optimization for active and passive telecommunications networks; real-time optimization to optimize the efficiency and profitability of mining, manufacturing and energy provisioning processes; and prescriptive maintenance to monitor, analyse and instruct planned maintenance actions on component levels for process equipment through artificial intelligence (AI) agents.
Other technology capabilities will include simulation software and services to assist with the redesign and optimisation of mining, manufacturing and energy processes for digitisation purposes; digitization and automation of physical processes through sensors, instrumentation, system integration, automation and control of manufacturing and mining processes at the plant floor level; and cybersecurity of the sensors, commercial Internet of Things (IoT) and industrial IoT and operational networks.
These algorithms and services will be provided by various 4Sight subsidiaries, including Digitata DTS, Digitata Networks, BlueESP and Age Technologies and will be coordinated and driven by the enterprise project management team from Sakhu.
RM's vision is to extend its current industry focus in government and financial services to that of smart factories, -health and -cities; backed by the Chinese government's drive to integrate the Internet, big data and AI in the next few years.Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor Online


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Carthage Takes Class 3A Region III Quarterfinal Series Lead with 2-0 Victory Over China Spring
MESQUITE -- JayDon Day delivered again Friday for the Carthage Bulldogs.
The senior right-hander pitched a three-hit shutout to lead Carthage to a 2-0 victory against China Spring in Game 1 of a Class 3A Region III quarterfinal baseball series at Tillery Field.
Day, who entered the game with a 1.67 earned run average, improved to 9-4 this season. The shutout was his third of the year and his seventh complete game. He struck out six and walked none in the win, which pushed Carthage's record to 28-7.
Game 2 is 2 p.m. Saturday at Tillery Field. If China Spring (26-10) wins, Game 3 will follow soon after Game 2's conclusion. The series winner plays Silsbee or Orangefield in the 3A Region III semifinal round. Silsbee won Thursday's Game 1, 5-1, but Orangefield won Friday's Game 2, 5-3. The teams play a deciding Game 3 at 2 p.m. Saturday in Vidor.
Carthage's Tyler Musgrove provided an RBI double in Friday's win, while Blake Bogenschutz had two hits. Bogenschutz entered the game hitting .429 in the Bulldogs last 14 contests.
Junior right-hander William Rittenberry is Carthage's likely starter for Saturday's Game 2. Rittenberry is 8-1 with a 0.67 ERA.


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Greening: UK will focus on frontier economic development
Britain to increase investment in emerging economies and partner with leading companies to improve business conditions in Africa and South Asia.
Britain will more than double its investment in growing emerging frontier economies to end their dependency on aid, International Development Secretary Justine Greening has announced.
The UK government will also agree a series of new partnerships with leading British and international companies to improve business conditions in Africa and South Asia, kick-start embryonic capital markets and drive more investment into frontier economies.
In a keynote speech at the London Stock Exchange this morning, Justine Greening set out the Department for International Development's new approach to support growth and create jobs in developing countries.
She also met the first delegation of East African businessmen, civil servants and regulators to be trained in managing capital markets through the DFID-backed London Stock Exchange Group Academy.
Justine Greening said:
Economic development is, without question, the only way countries can leave behind enduring and chronic poverty for good.
I have restructured my department to focus on jobs and growth and can now commit to more than double the amount we will invest in this crucial area.
Working with world-class businesses ensures frontier developing economies get the best support, advice and expertise they need to grow and Britain is well placed to benefit from this growth.
DFID's new approach, outlined today in Justine Greening's speech, means DFID will:
More than double aid spending on economic development.
In 2015/16 DFID will plan to target £1.8 billion of its budget on economic development, more than doubling the amount spent in 2012/13. This is on top of indirect funding through core contributions to multilateral organisations
Partner with 12 UK high street names to improve working conditions and job opportunities for more than 700,000 workers and smallholder farmers in Kenya, South Africa and Bangladesh.
This will include working with Sainsbury's to help workers gain qualifications; Marks and Spencer to develop leadership and management skills for farm workers; Debenhams, Primark, Asda, River Island, John Lewis Partnership, C&A, M&Co, Next and Morrisons to improve management in Bangladeshi garment factories; and Tesco and Asda to invest in young fruit farm workers from disadvantaged backgrounds in South Africa.
De-risk business investment in frontier economies by backing investment insurance in frontier economies including Burma, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe and Nepal.
A lack of adequate and affordable insurance prevents promising business investment in fragile states. A £20 million investment in the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency will enable it to support up to £270 million of new private investment in fragile countries.
Appoint Novastar, a venture capital fund based in East Africa, as the first beneficiary of a CDC-managed fund that will provide capital to promising businesses which benefit the community.
The fund will invest up to £9 million in Novastar to allow it to support more entrepreneurs and businesses and in East Africa which provide low-cost schooling, healthcare, energy, housing and safe water.
Sign the UK's first Memorandum of Cooperation with the London Stock Exchange Group to support emerging capital markets in Africa.
This will allow the LSEG Academy to expand its training in Tanzania and, in time, across East Africa
Notes to editors
In 2015/16 DFID plans to target £1.8 billion of its budget on economic development. In 2012/13, DFID spent £620 million on economic development.
The Trade and Global Value Chains initiative was first launched in January 2012. A total of 9 projects will now bring together business, government, and civil society to improve working conditions in the developing world and support the long-term resilience of global supply chains.
CDC has selected Novastar Ventures to receive £6.12 million ($10 million) from the DFID Impact Fund. An additional £3.07 million ($5 million) will be provided if the Fund Manager raises additional private investment.
The MIGA Conflict-Affected and Fragile Economies Facility (CAFEF) will provide political risk insurance to foreign investors in DRC, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Zimbabwe, Afghanistan, Burma, Nepal, Yemen and the OPTs. DFID will contribute £20 million to the first loss layer, alongside at least 2 other donors. Donor funding will mobilise up to £270 million ($450 million) of insurance to support investments in sectors such as manufacturing and infrastructure.
Quotes from participating UK brands:
Katharine Stewart, Ethical Trade Director, Primark Stores Ltd.
Primark is committed to the on-going development of our business relationships in Bangladesh, and we are proud to be part of the BBW initiative in Bangladesh, working with stakeholders to improve conditions within the garment industry. The BBW initiative complements our existing range of long-term programmes in Bangladesh, from structural building inspections to empowerment of female garment workers.
Judith Batchelar, Director of Sainsbury's Brand
As part of Sainsbury's commitment to creating a positive impact in the countries we source from, we are proud to be partnering with DfID on two new projects in Africa.
An innovative radio show will give thousands of small scale farmers, workers and communities in Kenya access to vital education and skills to address challenging social issues. Coupled with the delivery of a training programme for fruit supply chain workers in South Africa, both projects will contribute to securing healthier lives and more sustainable livelihoods for those that need it most.
By investing in nurturing skills, supporting development and encouraging healthier lives, Sainsbury's is ensuring our customers will have the best quality fresh products today and in the years ahead.
Adam Creasey, Trading Director, Global Sourcing, Debenhams
Being part of this collaborative project is an exciting step for Debenhams. In our global supply base, we need to source from competitive & productive businesses which provide good jobs for workers, and BBW is a great way to do this in Bangladesh.
Louise Nicholls, Head of Responsible Sourcing, Marks & Spencer
We are delighted to be working with DFID on these projects. The DFID partnership/ funding will help create real impact and scale leading to a better trained workforce and networks of leaders who will drive change in their communities, ultimately this will lead to more resilient businesses and communities.
This innovative approach makes firm business sense for us while delivering real benefits to workers and their communities.
Giles Bolton, Director of Ethical Trading, Tesco Plc
We're pleased to be working with DFID to help improve the lives of young people in South Africa and Bangladesh. We understand that a sustainable agricultural system in South Africa is built on fair working practices and opportunities for farmers to learn and grow.
We're committed to further improving the working environment there, which is why we have launched a mentoring and leadership programme. In Bangladesh and India our work with DFID and other retailers on skills has meant that 67,000 Bangladeshi garment workers have received an extra £3.4 million in pay.
Jane Coppen, Head of Sourcing and Quality, M&Co
BBW is a practical and cost effective training model which delivers real change in factories – enabling better jobs and more profitable businesses. Taking part for us means that we can harness this collaborative force and Impactt's experience on the ground in Bangladesh to contribute to the industry as a whole.
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Iron Man 2 Fact Check: Yes, You Can Build a Particle Accelerator at Home
In Iron Man 2, industrialist Tony Stark needs to create a new element -- so he builds a particle accelerator in his workshop. Is that really possible? The answer may surprise you.
The palladium that powers Tony Stark's arc reactor -- and, by extension, his Iron Man exoskeleton suit -- is slowly leaking into his bloodstream and killing him. And the fast-talking industrialist has exhausted the rest of the periodic table looking for an element that is a safer power source than palladium. Stark's only option is to create a new element -- which he does by constructing a particle accelerator in his workshop out of some metal tubes.
When he flips the switch, two beams of light collide, creating a third beam that Stark steers (using a wrench, and with much destruction to the walls of his workshop) into a brand new arc reactor. It all seems very easy, at least for someone like Tony Stark.
"Particle accelerators have been in the zeitgeist for a couple of years now because of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland," says Todd Satogata, a physicist in the Collider-Accelerator Department at Brookhaven National Labs. "There are good things and bad things about the portrayals of particle accelerators in media."
According to Satogata, particle accelerators are built to accelerate and collide neutrons, protons and other the subatomic particles at very high speeds. And while they are turned on they can create new elements -- an event that occurs every 5 or 10 years. But it doesn't happen exactly as Iron Man 2 portrays it.
"You smash the nuclei of particles together, and sometimes enough of them stick together that a new element is created [with] a new nucleus of an element that's heavy enough to be stable," Satogata says.
"But it's not really stable. Most of the new elements that get created like this last billionths of a second before they disintegrate." Because of this instability, it's very difficult to store elements as Stark does in his arc reactor: They need to be moving at nearly the speed of light.
But could someone build a particle accelerator in his home (or tiny lab), like Tony Stark does? The answer might surprise you.
"People have," Satogata says. "As a matter of fact, occasionally you get a really smart teenager building one." (Fun fact: The first particle accelerator, called a cyclotron, was 5 inches in diameter -- small enough to hold.) You'd need a beam tube with a large vacuum, charged particles, magnets to bend the beam, and radio frequency oscillators, or RF cavities, to accelerate the particles.
"For the types of things he's doing, he'd probably need much bigger magnets -- I didn't even see any magnets," Satogata says. "So that's a little bit unrealistic unless he's got really, really strong magnets." There's nothing to accelerate the particles, either, but Satogata says the RF cavities could be offscreen.
For more on building the impossible in your living room, see the full story at Popular Mechanics.


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Languages: Urdu (National Language)- Punjabi - Sindhi - Siraiki- Pashtu - Balochi- Hindko- Brahui- English (official) Literacy Rate: 43.9%
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American consumers are in an abusive relationship with our economy, more often than not. We hand over our money, accept mostly mediocrity in return, and either complain about it amongst ourselves or sublimate our dissatisfaction and turn it against ourselves and each other, instead of reminding companies (big and small) that it's their job to serve our needs, not the other way around.
Most Americans these days are consistently making due with less, and getting less for their dollar, while the economy continues to flounder and jobs continue to be scarce and/or inadequate in terms of pay and benefits – even as profits remain high and the rich remain well-paid despite having screwed a whole lot of stuff up.
The prevailing messaging coming through The Screen continues to minimize and deflect us from this reality. For the past several decades, while we were absorbing a predominantly one-way narrative controlled increasingly by special interests, those same interests were squeezing more and more out of us. And now we're nearly juiced and still they squeeze and still they trust that their narratives will keep us docile and subservient so long as they continue to control the messaging.
Sure, there's a vocal minority out there who demands more from life than simple consumerism, but we shouldn't be a minority. To be honest, I'm not even as vocal as I used to be in this fight – not because I've given up, but because, as often as I can, I just stop. As much as I can help it, I only open my wallet for, and pay attention to, companies and professionals that earn it.
Okay. Perhaps my wallet is also pretty light on the disposable income, but that's not the point (though it's partially the point).
The crucial point, though, is that too many of us seem to have forgotten – though it looks increasingly as if some good people are waking up – that the decisions we collectively make or don't make every day are our power in this conflict between us (average Americans) and them (the wealthy in control of The Screen).
An advertisement only wins your attention and your dollar if you choose to ignore the fact that your lens is being focused for you – on a one-way narrative designed most often for no other purpose other than to part you with your money. Spend what you want on what you want, of course, but I think we owe it to ourselves to respond to most advertising messaging with more in the way of initial distrust.
With all apologies to those for whom it isn't so simple – though many of us could stand to spend less on the distractions and diversions and foods engineered primarily to keep us distracted and sated and quiet – money only leaves your hands if you let it. We need so much less than we buy and consume. That's an American pastime as well, but it's one we may have to let go of a little bit if we want to regain our freedom. We're as complicit in our own repression as those who lord over us, until and unless we change the narrative of our economic lives away from one steeped purely in sales and consumerism and back to one of reasonable, community-centric supply and demand.
What does this have to do with The Screen? Well, how else can we be expected to band together? The economic reality I've been discussing exists in direct correlation with a now "normal" way of life wherein the majority of our consumer population lives out most days shackled to jobs that, for us, remain linked to sustenance (money for food, shelter, transportation, health care). But for them (the intransigent old guard), our continued participation as workers and buyers only islinked more importantly to the bottom line. As has been established, the wealthy and privileged special interests that run our country aren't interested in matters of livelihood. Many of today's wealthy don't even understand livelihood. They only know privilege and power, and want to maintain both, again, at all costs.
Should we blame them for that impulse? Not entirely, in my opinion. Human nature is what it is. But human nature isn't only defined by greed and opportunism, a combination which historical precedent has shown invariably always gives way to subjugation and oppression. At the end of the day, we have to stop pretending that we aren't collectively responsible for the mess these machinations have created. In very real terms, they have caused – and continue to cause – the deaths of a large numbers of Americans that our crumbling social compact has left behind.
Beyond this, I think we need to shake off the narrative we've been indoctrinated in for decades (that America's past successes came about because of individualism and free-market capitalism only) and remember that human nature is also about community. More importantly, in terms of the task that faces us, human nature is also about emotional expression.
That's where, for me, it all comes back around to what the proliferation The Screen, and of social networking in particular, means to our prospects for deliverance. I believe Facebook and Twitter and the like emerged and rose to such importance because of a symptomatic need on the part of everyday people to free ourselves from the one-way narratives that have failed us in life, and on which we have mostly soured as a result of their near-total corruption. I believe we turn to The Screen in part because it has always been there, talking to us, but that we fill it now with our own faces and the faces of our kindred because we crave the authenticity and connection that we have lacked for so long while we were bombarded with agendas on the television at night and were pushed in front of computers, often in service of similar agendas, during the day.
Even those of us who fail to understand this in any way, our privileged white whiners and our imitative hipsters, they turn to The Screen and the internet for the same reason the rest of us do. It's not just about attention in their case. It's about the intense sadness that is their life. It's about the emotional neediness that pervades an existence that has been defined by the lie that life is anywhere near as shiny and fatigable as it has historically been shown to be on The Screen, a lie that has been blasted into our faces since we were children. The lie lords over the lives of such people even as they purport to exist in total opposition to it, because in doing so they ignore the fact that they are realigning their point of view using reactive rather than active energy.
I believe it's crucial that we acknowledge all this, and that, further, we act upon it by attempting to share our experiences and our collective pain and broaden our perspective. It's, admittedly, confusing. We are used to a world where The Screen speaks and we process and respond mostly from our own point of view and for ourselves. Now that The Screen has been paired with the internet and has proliferated into more evolved iterations, and we have begun to speak more frequently back to it in earnest, we need to engage with one another, more often, on real and honest terms. And we should do so with actual people, especially those who we were previously led to believe were different from us (they aren't).
We should reserve our online energy for, and wield our own little versions of The Screen in service of, the real-world fight. Most important of all, we must remember when we interact with one another, that we are all in the same predicament. We can all, myself included, do a better job of remembering the crucial difference between the old narrative of The Screen and the new one: that the new narrative is a dialogue, and that we have a say the conversation.
Take it from someone who's spent the last ten years stumbling after a means of engaging in a more honest cultural dialogue through his work. A two-way conversation is, admittedly, infinitely messier and more difficult than a one-way conversation. But it's also truer, more human. Dialogue equalizes us, and we need so much more of it if we're to ever bring validity back to the increasingly hollow claims we put forth in this country: that we're all equal, and entitled to our fair shot at fulfillment and happiness.


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Early Announcement of 2013 Minnesota State Fair Grandstand Performances Includes Macklemore and Cat Videos
If you absolutely can't wait for the Great Minnesota Get Together, the first batch of State Fair Grandstand events/concerts for 2013 have been announced The initial lineup is certainly eclectic.
Four acts have been announced on the Minnesota State Fair website, with more to come in the months leading up to this year's fair - which is August 22 through September 2 this year.
2013 Grandstand Concerts/Events
- Depeche Mode - Tuesday, August 27 at 7:30
- 2013 Internet Cat Video Festival (Presented by the Walker Art Center) - Wednesday, August 28 at 7:00 pm
- Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - Saturday, August 31 at 7:30 pm
- Tim McGraw - Monday, Sepetember 2 at 7:30 pm
To get in the mood, here's Macklemore's video for the hit song "Thrift Shop"


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