The first thing many companies do when they start their cloud initiative is figure out how to lock it down. Too often, the people who own security and governance spend months (sometimes years) trying to figure out how to apply controls necessary to meet their security and regulatory requirements. Meanwhile, developers are not allowed to use the platform or worse yet, they whip out their credit card and build unsecured and ungoverned solutions in shadow clouds.
We need to shift our thinking from "how can we prevent developers from screwing up" to "how can we empower developers" by providing security and governance services that are inherited as cloud resources are consumed. To do this, we need to get out of our silos and work collaboratively. Instead of enforcing security and governance controls by requiring rigorous reviews, we need to bake policies and best practices into the SDLC.
Start with continuous integration (CI). Automate the build process and insert code scans that enforce coding best practices, security policies, and cloud architecture best practices. Fail the build if the code does not meet the appropriate policy requirements. Let the developers police themselves by using automation that relies on policies established by the security, governance and architecture teams. Set the policies and then get out of the way, letting the build process do the enforcement. Developers will get fast feedback from the CI process and quickly fix any compliance issues – they need to or the build will never get to production.
Once applications are deployed, run continuous monitoring tools that look for violations or vulnerabilities. Here's a novel idea: Replace meetings with tools that provide real time feedback.
Ahh, the magic of the perfect Software Development Life Cycle empowered by the perfect DevOps continuous integration. That will surely solve the problems of breaking down silos and collaborative working, right?
Systems can easily be architected for distributed deployment…IF that thought goes into the requirements early on. This may mean messaging and/or event driven architecture instead of real-time web services, even layering internal components to pass events instead of locally calling or instantiating. By doing so the architecture becomes micro-service oriented, which at the macro level means component groups can be bundled into deployment packs and deployed across the various server / resource models as needed.
It's not can we break down the silos between people and teams – which may be appropriate but long and painful and STILL result in unwieldy systems. It's how we model the interaction between and within the silos that will give the flexibility to deploy anywhere and coordinate/communicate/integrate practically automatically.


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Students for Justice in Palestine: Hostility over Justice
With over 200 campus chapters, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) aims to empower Palestinians and allies to advocate for the self-determination and liberation of Palestine.
SJP chapters target Jewish and Zionist students on campus. The intention of isolating Jewish students on campus occurs both online and in-person by vilifying Jews who have a connection to their homeland.
An apartheid wall display by SJP at the University of California, Santa Barbara has a cartoon suggesting Israel and America use the term antisemitism to silence Palestinian voices.
SJPs use components of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement by advocating for their school's withdrawal from Israeli entities, including the government. Both organizations hope pressuring the Israeli government will lead to reformation in Israel and the Palestinian Territories. Although some may argue BDS isn't antisemitic, the organization's guise of advancing human rights allows statements from the founders and subsequently from SJPs to be overlooked. BDS' founders have long desired for the Jewish state to be demolished.
SJP's ideology progresses into antisemitic incidents. On April 23, an SJP protest at Rutgers University drove by Alpha Epsilon Pi, a Jewish fraternity house, calling the residents "baby killers" and "terrorists."
Hatem Bazian, the founder of SJP, has made antisemitic claims. In the 1990s, Bazian accused Jewish students who ran the student newspaper at San Francisco State University of being spies. Bazian also spoke at an SJP protest where he suggested that Jews run universities. Bazian called for an intifada in the US. Advocating for an intifada on American soil is supporting the death of thousands.
Despite this, SJPs have glorified the intifadas, which killed over 6,000 Israelis and Palestinians. SJP DePaul University and SJP UC Davis have amplified the lives of terrorists through posts commemorating Ghassan Kanafani. Kanafani was a co-founder of the terrorist organization Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and was involved with the organization at the time of the Lod Airport Massacre in 1972.
While tabling on campus, Seattle University SJP included a paper that highlighted Kanafani, Leila Khaled and Khalida Jarrar – all members of the PFLP. Khaled was responsible for hijackings of airplanes in 1969 and 1970. Jarrar was arrested for her involvement with the terrorist organization during a 2019 attack which left one dead.
Seattle University SJP tabling on campus with materials that promote members of the PFLP.
It is not only terrorist voices that SJPs uplift; they also frequently tokenize fringe Jewish groups, most notably the Neturei Karta. With around 5000 members, the Neturei Karta is an ultra-orthodox sect of Judaism formed in Jerusalem in 1938. They are anti-Zionists; they believe Jewish sovereignty in the Land of Israel can only be restored when the Messiah comes. Neturei Karta blames Jews for the Holocaust and works with terrorist organizations, including Hezbollah.
SJP chapters frequently share Instagram posts praising Neturei Karta for their anti-Israel views.
Brooklyn College SJP protesting Israel Independence Day celebrations on campus. In the background, members of Neturei Karta hold up anti-Israel signs.
SJPs antisemitism is occasionally condemned by university administrators. The administration at Tufts University has repeatedly condemned their university's SJP chapter. When antisemitism is condemned, SJP places the legitimacy of the claim under the microscope while the administration takes no further action.
The SJP chapter at the University of California, San Diago (UCSD) planned to bring Taher Hertzallah to campus. Hertzallah made excuses for terrorist regimes such as Hamas and called for violence against Israeli Jews. UCSD's administration condemned the choice of speaker and antisemitic vandalization that appeared on campus around the same time. SJP rebutted with a statement condemning the administration, asking the administration to retract its statement.
Through the glamorization of terrorists and the vilification of Jewish students' identity, SJP chapters foster a hostile campus environment for Jews. A Brandeis University study found an SJP presence on campus is a strong indicator of a hostile climate towards Jews and Israel. SJP places double standards, delegitimization and demonization on Israel and subsequently Jewish students.
The Palestinian people deserve justice and equality, but their statehood and identity should not come at the expense of Jewish students and the Jewish state. While SJPs mission is in good faith, the way in which it is promoted on campus has created an aggressive and antisemitic environment that shouldn't be upheld by universities.

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Track electric motor health to identify time of failure.
I am an electrical engineer and I've worked in an industrial setting for 20 years. I see this product as a useful tool for maintenance engineers and technicians who would like to keep a database of electric motors with reliable insulation resistance measurements that have been normalized to a constant temperature for accuracy. The information from the product could be used to help estimate a predicted time of failure. This would aid in budgeting money and scheduling down time.
There are some similar products on the market but none can give the same level of accuracy this invention will.
This patent was awarded in April 2013 and is has never been previously sold. I am the inventor and owner of the patent as well as the web site healthymotors.com.
I am interested in a sale of the intellectual property.
Page created at 2019-04-22 14:13:27, Patent Auction Time.


There's a nice Austrian yodel on Excavated shellac this week !
This great blog is devoted to old 78rpm recordings of music from around the world and for the first time, it goes into yodelland. If you're interested like me in old world music records, it's a very good place to go to every week: the songs are very different and with a precise commentary, it's a good way to understand how the music was before and the influences it has on the expressions of today.


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Antoniadou is the female version of the Greek surname Antoniadis. Notable people with this name include the following individuals:

Eleni Antoniadou (born 1988), Greek public figure
Praxoula Antoniadou, Cypriot politician

See also

Greek-language surnames
Patronymic surnames

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Q: Avoid recursive replacement on a string Assume there is a string:
"I'm a boy."

and some synonyms words (in key-value format):
boy -> "male yong"
yong -> "age under 18"

If I replace the string by synonyms words one by one, it will be:
Step 1, find word "boy" and replace it: "I'm a male young."
Step 2, find word "young" and replace it: "I'm a male age under 18."
Actually I need not recursive replacement, I need only replace the orginal string, in other words the step 2 should find "young" in orginal string:"I'm a boy." not the "I'm a male young." There is a simple solution:
Firstly replace key to %s and add synonyms word to a list:
string: "I'm a %s"
list: "male yong"

Then format string with list:
String.format(string, list)

It works fine but stupid and slow, anyone have more clear solution?

A: pseudo code (not Tested and function names might be wrong):
String[] arr = sentence.Split(" ");
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(); //can specify size for better results possibly

for (String s :arr ){
   if ( dic.contains(s) ){
       sb.append(dic.get(s));
   }else{
       sb.append(s);
   }
}

sb.toString();//your replaced string

I am not sure what string.format  does internally but it might be doing something similar so I doubt you will get a performance boost.

A: This solution is similar to yours but it does not use String.format
    String s = "I'm a yong boy.";
    Map<String, String> map = new HashMap<>();
    map.put("boy", "male yong");
    map.put("yong", "age under 18");
    // replace all keys with 1 char placeholders
    int i = 0;
    for (String key : map.keySet()) {
        s = s.replace(key, "" + (char) i++);
    }
    // replace placeholders with values
    int j = 0;
    for (String v : map.values()) {
        s = s.replace("" + (char) j++, v);
    }
    System.out.println(s);

output
I'm a age under 18 male yong.

Speed can be improved if we used StringBuilder for replacement but it would be much longer code. It's safe if replacement number is less than 31, after that it will start replacing spaces

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Your kitchen countertops are, without a doubt, some of the most hardworking surfaces in the entire space. When choosing the ideal ones for your kitchen, you need to put a few factors into consideration. Here are a few tips to help you make the right decision.
Every household does things differently, and you want countertops that perfectly meet your specific needs. If you're an avid chef who makes dinner every night of the week and hosts lots of cocktail parties, then you want something that can handle that much work for the longest time. You could go for granite countertops from companies like Accent Interiors due to the material's proven durability.
Talk to a fabricator to get accurate measurements of the area you intend to have the countertops installed before heading out to buy them. Insist that they give specific details regarding the thickness and finish, including the cutouts for the sink and cook top. These details are essential in making decisions when purchasing the countertops.
There are so many countertop materials with unique strengths. Therefore, it's not always easy to choose just one. Well, who says you can't mix it all up? That would make for a unique kitchen, and you end up with a little bit of everything. For chopping, you can opt for a butcher block and go with stone for your baking area.
The amount of money you have will play a central role in determining what options you can work with. Generally, no home improvement project should drive you into bankruptcy. Factor in all costs involved, including installation fees and custom details.
The right countertops can immediately upgrade the appearance and functionality of your kitchen. By taking into account such factors as durability, and amount and cost of the material you need, you can decide what best works for you.


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The opioid overdose crisis is hitting all of Philadelphia, new data show
by Aubrey Whelan, Posted: June 20, 2018
A new analysis of overdose deaths and where they occurred in Philadelphia over the last decade shows that although the Kensington area is by far the hardest hit, few corners of the city are untouched by an opioid crisis that usually kills in private homes, away from the open-air heroin encampments that have received so much attention.
Neighborhoods across the city saw alarming spikes in fatal overdoses, according to data from the Medical Examiner's Office that show that while the epidemic may be less visible in places like South and West Philadelphia, scores of people there are dying.
"It's too easy for people to say, 'That's not our problem.' But if they look close to home, everyone will find it is their problem," said Tom Farley, the city's health commissioner. "I'm alarmed by these numbers everywhere. It's really a devastating increase."
The 19134 zip code, which includes Kensington and Port Richmond, saw 209 overdose deaths in 2017, a 49.3 percent increase over the year before. Just north, the 19124 zip code (Frankford, Juniata Park, Crescentville) recorded a jump in fatal overdoses of 155.6 percent, from 36 in 2016 to 92 the following year.
>> READ MORE: A father and son, evicted from a heroin camp, move on in Kensington | Mike Newall
In the 19145 zip code (Point Breeze and South Philadelphia neighborhoods west of Broad Street), deaths increased by nearly 43 percent from 2016 to 2017. Across Broad, in the 19147 zip code (Bella Vista, Queen Village, and parts of East Passyunk) just nine people fatally overdosed in 2016. A year later, 22 people died of overdoses there — a 144.4 percent increase.
The scope and visibility of the crisis in Kensington — the open-air drug use, skyrocketing overdose rate, and large homeless encampments — have drawn intense attention locally and nationally.
A decade of overdose deaths
But about 75 percent of fatal overdoses in Philadelphia occur in private residences, largely away from public view.
"In South Philly, we don't have a Gurney Street" — the heroin camp in a train gulch in Fairhill that the city shut down last year, said Priya Mammen, the director of public health programs and a physician in the emergency department at Methodist Hospital-Jefferson Health. "We have day laborers, construction workers, people who have become habituated to opiates and have moved into the space of addiction. And they overdose before they go to work and on lunch breaks.
"There is no poster child for the epidemic."
Methodist's emergency room handles most of South Philadelphia's overdoses, and saw the third-highest volume of overdose patients in the city in 2016, Mammen said. Many have the homes and family support systems that those living in Kensington's camps lack. But they still are vulnerable to the effects of the stigma that keeps people from seeking treatment, Mammen said. Some of her patients in addiction assume that because they have jobs and homes, their addiction is manageable, even under control, she said.
>> READ MORE: 'My mind is spinning.' Philly sweeps aside 2 heroin camps in Kensington
One South Philadelphia patient Mammen treated turned to heroin after her doctor tried to wean her off opioid pain pills; she showed up at the Methodist ER after a botched injection.
"She had never shot up before, and she developed a skin infection," Mammen said. "And she was mortified — she said, 'I can't even look at you, I'm so embarrassed that I'm here for this.'"
Farley said the citywide overdose numbers show that fentanyl — the powerful synthetic opioid often used to cut heroin, and present in most overdose deaths last year — is being sold all around the city. "There are more potent drugs which make it far easier to die of an overdose," he said.
One potential bright spot: Overdoses decreased during the last quarter of 2017, and that trend seems to have held through the first quarter of this year, he said. Yet, the death rate is "still substantially higher than previous years," he said. And it's unclear what may have kept those numbers down: increased distribution of the overdose-reversing drug naloxone, more careful drug use among people in addiction, increased treatment, decreased opioid prescribing, or a change in the levels of fentanyl sold on the street all could be involved, Farley said.
>> READ MORE: Love in the time of opioids: Adoption connects drug-exposed kids with new families
"It's a crisis still, the numbers are staggering," he said. "But we're somewhat relieved to see it going in the right direction."
Mammen said it's crucial that the city tailor its approach around its neighborhoods. At a recent forum on the opioid crisis in her hospital's area, the main complaint she heard from neighbors was that the event hadn't been promoted enough.
"The culture of South Philly is very talkative — they're not shying away from it," she said. "There is a community that is engaged and not wanting to have their neighbors die. The return on investment of educating other parts of the city is huge — it's time to broaden the discussion."
Posted: June 20, 2018 - 5:00 AM
Aubrey Whelan | @aubreyjwhelan | awhelan@phillynews.com
Federal judge calls hearing on Safehouse's supervised injection site proposal
Aubrey Whelan
Overdoses in Pennsylvania declined in 2018 — but the state is still losing 12 people a day
Bloomberg announces Pennsylvania projects in its $10M overdose-prevention initiative
Nonprofit behind Philly supervised injection site plan demands its day in court
What to expect when your city is expecting a supervised injection site: Lessons from around the globe | Perspective
Abraham Gutman
Eight months after Kensington's disaster declaration, progress is tempered by the realities of the opioid crisis


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COVID-19 vaccines for African countries?
22 January 2021 | Story Benjamin Kagina. Photo Pexels / Sam Moqadam . Read time 6 min.
Key questions about COVID-19 vaccines for Africa need to be answered to dispel prevalent misinformation.
Vaccines for COVID-19 are generating a lot of talk. To shed some light on which vaccines are available for countries in sub-Saharan Africa, and how the process will work, The Conversation Africa's Ina Skosana and Ozayr Patel asked Benjamin Kagina to answer a few questions.
What's immediately available for African countries?
African health regulatory authorities must approve the use of vaccines before they can be rolled out on the continent. National health regulatory authorities around the continent are working closely with regional and global regulatory bodies to ensure the approval processes will be efficient.
The AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine was approved for emergency use by the UK health regulator on 30 December 2020 and will be available for use in Africa once regulators on the continent approve it. It is likely that the approval will be obtained in the first quarter of 2021. This vaccine was also tested in parts of the continent like South Africa.
At the time of writing, South Africa had secured 1.5 million doses of AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine from the Serum Institute of India which is producing these vaccines for low- and middle-income countries. The national regulator is in the process of reviewing the relevant vaccine data in order to grant approval for its emergency use in the country.
The African Vaccine Acquisition Task Team established by African Union Chair President Cyril Ramaphosa recently secured a provisional 270 million vaccine doses for African countries. The vaccines will be supplied by AstraZeneca-Oxford, Pfizer-BioNTech and Johnson & Johnson. The distribution of these vaccines on the continent will likely depend on the population size of each country. Even with additional 600 million vaccine doses promised by the World Health Organisation's COVAX facility, the cumulative total vaccine doses available will only be enough for about half of the continent's population.
Another vaccine that is likely to be available to the continent soon is that manufactured by Moderna. Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines have already been approved for emergency use by the US as well as UK health regulators.
What about offerings from Russia and China?
The Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology in Russia and Sinopharm in China allowed the public use of their vaccines before conducting large-scale clinical trials. This raised huge public concerns.
Conducting clinical trials and openly sharing the data from the trials is the international standard practice. The practice is to conduct three phases, all with smaller scale tests at first. Results from such trials are reviewed to assess safety and efficacy. This always precedes regulatory approval. If this route isn't followed it is unlikely these vaccines will get approval from the national health regulators as there is no data to review.
Nevertheless, countries are buying vaccines from China. The Financial Times is also reporting that countries are buying Russia's Sputnik V vaccine while the two leading Chinese manufacturers, Sinopharm and Sinovac Biotech, have signed deals with more than a dozen countries.
But public safety and scrutiny is critical. Without data from the trials it will be difficult to get the public on board. Sinopharm has submitted clinical data to the World Health Organisation for review.
Which will be easiest to deliver in developing countries?
When Pfizer-BioNTech announced that their vaccine was 95% effective, they also said it had to be stored at a temperature of -70℃. Most low-income countries do not have the necessary cold chain infrastructure for storing and distributing this vaccine.
Vaccines that require standard refrigeration conditions, like many of those used in existing immunisation programmes in these countries, would be easiest to deliver. The AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine is one.
Johnson & Johnson has also developed a vaccine being trialled in Africa. The phase III results for this vaccine will be available in February 2021. If the vaccine is proven to be safe and effective, it will be the easiest to distribute as it requires the standard refrigeration. And more importantly, it requires just one dose, which is logistically easier to deliver.
Will new COVID-19 variants affect roll-out plans?
At present, it is thought that the mutations will not affect the efficacy of the vaccines. But more data is still required to be sure about this. Scientists and vaccine manufacturers are assessing if the current vaccines are effective against the new variants. Preliminary data are encouraging.
The roll-out is therefore continuing and tests will continue to assess if the emerging variants affect the vaccines' efficacy.
Why there is so much concern about how quickly the vaccines were developed?
There is a lot of misinformation and incorrect messaging on social media platforms about the new vaccines. One incorrect message is that the vaccines were short-circuited and that this could have compromised them. It is important to emphasise that due diligence was adhered to and no short cuts were taken. These vaccines were tested properly and are proved to be safe. Additional monitoring of safety is ongoing as the vaccines get rolled out to more people following approval by the regulators. Safety monitoring will remain a key component of the vaccines roll-out.
Benjamin Kagina, Senior Research Officer, Vaccines For Africa Initiative, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town.
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Abstract: This study considers Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Cournot markets with endogenous entry and investigates the effects of CSR on environmental taxation and welfare consequences. We show that the optimal tax under free entry is higher than that under blockaded entry and also higher than marginal environmental damage. We then show that a higher taxation is socially excessive from the viewpoint of socially optimal CSR, which requires an appropriate regulatory framework for CSR promotion. Finally, we show that the environment is less damaged but social welfare deteriorates accompanied with CSR when the fixed cost is low, while pollution abatement activities will reduce the optimal tax and improves both environmental damage and social welfare.


As a blogger, you will always need to upload photos on your blog content. Of course, you have a host of tools that specialise in the task. But, for a simple task like watermarking your photos, you would not need to have a high-end option like Photoshop. That is where a tool like PhotMarks comes quite handy enough.
We are sure when you have a lightweight specialised tool for watermarking your images, you would not look elsewhere for a high-end option like Photoshop unless you actually need the additional features. PhotoMarks from Bits & Cofee is a capable tool that helps you achieve the task through a few simple steps. How does it perform for your watermarking requirements? Let us check out the tool and features.
PhotoMarks - What exactly it is?
PhotoMarks from Bits & Coffe is indeed one of the best options for your watermarking requirements. The tool is available for Mac and PC.
An excellently designed user interface and a simple functionality are what puts it ahead of the most of the competing products in the same genre. There are several options you can use to customise the looks and appearance of your watermarks. In fact, apart from offering you the options to watermark your images, you can also use it for the simple editing functionalities while working with your images. What makes it a great choice is the previews that it offers for each of the steps.
What makes it a good watermark tool?
The tool comes with a multi-core CPU functionality. This will help you watermark hundreds of your images in one go. Just feed in multiple images and engross your self in some other important task. The tool will watermark your images in the background.
PhotoMarks has support for multiple file formats. Some of the formats supported include JPG, TIF, PNG, GIF, and BMP. You can also use the files in the RAW format from your digital cameras.
Upload your images to the site through FTP. The direct support for FTP makes it one of the excellent options. This will reduce your efforts in uploading files separately through the time-consuming options.
Apart from aiding you in adding watermarks to your images, the tool also can help you with a few editing options. Of course, you may not be able to expect extra features as you would expect from a high-end photo editing tools, but you can opt for a few basic editing needs like resizing, rotating and cropping.
As we stated before, the PhotoMarks tool comes with a simple and easy to use interface. Let us check out the functionality through the steps here.
Download and install PhotoMarks tool on your Windows PC.
The functionality invlolves a four step process - Add phots, Edit photos, Setup and Process.
You can either add the photos either through the Add Photos or through the Drag and Drop functionality.
Click on the Edit Photos tab.
You can find the options to Add Filters as per your preferences.
Choose Text option to add watermark. In the next screen, you can configure your watermark details.
Under Text tab, choose your watermark text and placement.
The next tab for Font will let you add change the font type and size.
Once you are satisfied with the settings, you can click on OK. The app lets you preview each of the changes you make so that you can have a clear view before finalising the changes.
Next step is to click on Setup tab. Here you can specify the destination and upload formats for your watermarked image. Click on Destination tab to choose the upload options like whether to upload to Flickr or FTP.
You can also choose the image file formats you want the file to be saved in.
Once you have made all the necessary adjustments, you can begin the process to watermark your image. You may move back and forth to make any further changes depending upon the preview.
Click on Process tab to begin watermarking the image.
That will do it. Your image will be watermarked according to your preferences and saved in defined folder.
Your watermarked image should appear as below depending upon the settings you have used.
That completes the task for you. Wasn't that a simple to follow tutorial to handle the watermarking requirements you have had with respect to your images?
You can opt for the trial plan if you want to check out the functionality if you are interested in getting to know of the tool before you actually go Pro. The trial version will come with the limited features.
You can go Pro at just $ 29.95 per license. The license comes with a lifetime functionality. You will also have access to the Mac version with a single license to Windows variant. Other additional functionalities include priority support through Email and a 60 day Money Back Guarantee.
Well, PhotoMarks from Bits&Coffee is indeed an excellent tool for all your watermarking requirements. The easy functionality should be what would make it the right choice for the newbies and those with a low technical background.
Give it a thought and check the functionality for a better understanding. You can try the free trial before opting for the Pro variant and find it for yourself.


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UC Irvine Libraries
The UC Irvine Libraries support the Chancellor's Distinguished Fellows Series by providing a bibliography of the works of each Fellow. The bibliographies are available in print at the Langson and Science Libraries and at each public event.
2001 - 2002 Series
Cleo Parker Robinson
UC Irvine Chancellor's Distinguished Fellow
A Selective Bibliography: The UC Irvine Libraries
Compiled by Lorelei Tanji, Head, Collection Development
The UC Irvine Libraries
Selected Awards
Selected Magazine/Journal Articles
Selected Newspaper Articles
Selected Videotapes
Selected Websites
Cleo Parker Robinson is the Founder and Executive Artistic Director of the Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble, which is an affiliate of the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. CPRD also operates a year-round school, a program called "Season of Schools" that serves the Denver Public School District, an International Summer Dance Institute, a 300-seat Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Theatre, and an outreach program for at-risk youth called Project Self-Discovery (PSD).
Coming Up Taller Award
(http://www.cominguptaller.org/awards-2000/program7.html)
National Council on the Arts, Member
[Appointed by President Clinton and confirmed by U.S. Senate]
Colorado Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts
Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from the University of Denver
Induction into the Blacks in Colorado Hall of Fame
Dance Women/Living Legends project
Anderson, Jack. "The Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble."
Dancing Times 85, no. 1020 (September 1995): 1151, 1153.
Main Lib. Call No: GV 1580 D246
Anderson, Jack and George Dorris.
"New York newsletter [review of 1994 dance performances in New York.]."
Dancing Times (August 1994):1077, 1079.
Broili, Susan. "Reviews, national: American Dance Festival."
Dance Magazine (November 1998): 90, 92.
DeFrantz, Thomas. "The Power of the Drum." Attitude 11, no. 3 (Fall 1995): 78-82.
Eichenbaum, Rose. " A Conference for Blacks in Dance: Legends of African-American Dance - Chuck Davis, Cleo Parker Robinson, Katherine Dunham and Others - Converge in Denver." Dance Teacher 215 (May-June 1999):67-71.
Gagnon, V.R. "Denver and Robinson team up for renovation."
Dance Magazine (March 1988): 12-14.
-----. "'Voodoo' Emperor Jones a dance hit."
Dance Magazine (May 1986):133.
Gastineau, Janine.
"Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble.
(Temple Hoyne Buell Theatre, Denver, Colorado)."
Dance Magazine 70, no. 1 (Jan, 1996):110-111.
-----. "Presstime News: Blacks in Dance conference to be held in Denver."
Dance Magazine (January 1999): 34, 39.
Greskovic, Robert, Gus Solomons Jr., Doris Hering. NYC review.
Dance Magazine (July 1994): 88, 90.
Hering, D. "Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble."
Dance Magazine 68 no. 11 (November 1994):90.
Mazo, Joseph H. "News, national: ADF celebrating a century of modern dance." Dance Magazine (June 1995):27-28.
Murphy, Anthony C. "A dance to Ellington.
(choreographer Talley Beatty's new work, a tributeto Duke Ellington, 'Ellingtonia')." American Visions 9, no. 3 (June-July, 1994):10.
Main Lib. Call No: E 185.5 A437
Oberdorfer, Kathryn.
"Spotlight on Cleo Parker Robinson: Dance is just life out loud."
Dance Teacher Now 18, no. 7 (September 1996): 76-78, 82, 84, 86.
Reiter, Susan. [Review: Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble].
Dance News (September 1979):11.
"Robinson on the Move (Choreographer Cleo Parker Robinson appointed to the National Council for the Arts)." Dance Magazine 73, no. 8 (August, 1999):24.
Schwartzkopff, Jim. "Cleo Parker Robinson visits NYC. (Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble to perform in the Lincoln Center Out-of-Door series, Aug 14-15, 1994)." Dance Magazine 68, no. 8 (August, 1994):15.
Sloat, Susanna. "Review: Dance Women/Living Legends."
Attitude--The Dancers' Magazine 131 (Winter 1997-1998):60-61.
Tobi, Tobias. "Dance Women/Living Legends.
(Majestic Theater, New York, New York)."
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Gastineau, Janine. "A Star shining brightly amid a regional galaxy."
New York Times, 1 October 2000, AR27(N), AR27 (L).
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Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble [clippings]. [1979?]-.
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Dance Women/Living Legends [videorecording] : A celebration of five African American women, their dance companies and their impact on American dance. VHS. Newark, New Jersey: presented by Aaron Davis Hall's Masters Series; co-presented with 651, An Arts Center at the BAM Majestic Theater, Brooklyn, and the New Jersey Performing Arts Center. 13-14 November 1997.
[Leni Wylliams] [videorecording]. VHS. Videotaped in performance at the Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Theatre, Denver, Colo., as part of the 25th anniversary celebration of the Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble, on September 28, 1995.
Robinson, Cleo Parker. Blood River. VHS: Videotaped in performance at the Cleo Parker Robinson Theatre. 1996.
Robinson, Cleo Parker. Run Sister Run. 3/4 in. Producer/director: Margie Soo Hoo Lee. Writer: Schyleen Qualls. Choreography: Cleo Parker Robinson. Music: Gordon Parks. Costumes: Martha Parker. Performed by Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble. Documentary on the creation of the dance work Run Sister Run, inspired by Angela Davis's experiences as a fugitive.
Cleo Parker Dance Ensemble website:
http://www.cleoparkerdance.org/cleo_2000/index.html
Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble Work History: 1996 - 1999.
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class ILogger
{
public:

    virtual void LogUnsafe(const LogPriority& priority, const boost::format& message) = 0;

    virtual void Log(const LogPriority& priority, const boost::format& message)
    {
        if (priority <= logPriority_)
        {
            std::unique_lock<std::mutex> lock(loggerMutex_);
            LogUnsafe(priority, message);
        }
    }

    void Log(const LogPriority& priority, const std::string& message)
    {
        Log(priority, boost::format(message));
    }

    template<typename T, typename... Args>
    void Log(const LogPriority& priority, boost::format &format, const T &v, Args... args)
    {
        Log(priority, boost::format(format) % v, args ...);
    }

    template<typename... Args>
    void Log(const LogPriority& priority, const char *format, Args... args)
    {
        boost::format fmt(format);
        Log(priority, fmt, args ...);
    }
};

Now i need (for easy error detection) include line and function information in every log message (using __LINE__ and __FUNCTION__). Reasonably it should be passed as function argument. And, as usual, I don't want to type all those macros every time I write a log-message. So I'm in trouble here. How can I elegantly pass them to the logging function without writing it explicitly in every log message?
Thanks in advance.

A: I find that the "nicest" way to do this is to use a log object that is created via a macro as Neil explained above. The "nice" thing about it is that it encapsulates all the information available at the site and so it can be passed to different loggers. For example you can have a chain of "loggers" that send it over the network, send it to disk and to a system monitor (like Windows Event Log). Also you can then use a producer-consumer logging thread to boost performance.
class LogEntry{

    LogEntry(const boost::format& traceMsg, const unsigned int lineNumber, const std::string& file){
        //set members
    }

    std::string print(){
        // Do print logic...
    }

    // Getters... Allow the logger instance build its own log from the info.
}

then use macros:
#define LOG( format ) sendToLogQueue( LogEntry( format, __LINE__, std::string(__FILE__) ) );

A: The traditional method is to wrap your log calls in a macro and only use the macro in code.
e.g.
#ifdef NDEBUG
#define LOG(priority, message) \
   Log(priority,message)
...
#else
#define LOG(priority, message) \
   Log(priority, message, __FILE__, __LINE__)
...
#endif

void function()
{
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}

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Inflation IS Money Supply Growth, Not Prices Denominated in Money
07/09/2022Frank Shostak
In the recent Wall Street Journal article "Inflation Surge Earns Monetarism Another Look," Greg Ip writes that a recent surge in inflation is not likely to bring authorities to reembrace monetarism. According to Ip, money supply had a poor record of predicting US inflation because of conceptual and definitional problems that haven't gone away.
The head of the monetarist school, the late Milton Friedman, held that inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon. Friedman and other monetarists believed that the key driving factor for general increases in prices is increases in money supply.
This viewpoint has come under scrutiny since the early 1980s because the correlation between inflation and money supply disappeared. According to Ip in 2020, Alan Detmeister, an economist at UBS Group AG and formerly of the Fed, found inflation's correlation to M2 since the early 1980s was weak and its correlation to both the monetary base and M1 was negative. Most economists have stopped using money supply as an indicator for inflation since the early 1980s.
Many mainstream economists have attributed the breakdown in the correlation between the money supply and inflation on the unstable velocity of money. What is it? According to the famous equation of exchange, MV = PT, where:
M stands for money,
V stands for the velocity of money,
P stands for the price level, and
T for the volume of transactions.
This equation states that money multiplied by velocity equals the value of transactions. Many economists employ GDP (gross domestic product) instead of PT, thereby concluding that
MV = GDP = P (real GDP).
The equation of exchange appears to offer a wealth of information regarding the state of an economy. For instance, if one were to assume stable velocity, then for a given stock of money one can establish the value of GDP. Furthermore, a given real output and a given stock of money enables us to establish the price level.
For most economists the equation of exchange is regarded as a very useful analytical tool. The debates that economists have are predominantly with respect to the stability of velocity. If velocity is stable, then money is seen as a very powerful tool in tracking the economy. The importance of money as an economic indicator however diminishes once velocity becomes less stable and hence less predictable.
However, an unstable velocity could occur because of an unstable demand for money. Most experts believe that since the early 1980s, innovations in financial markets made money velocity unstable. This in turn made money an unreliable indicator of inflation.
We believe the alleged failure of money as an indicator of inflation emanates from an erroneous definition of inflation and money supply. This failure has nothing to do with an unstable demand for money, and just because people change their demand for money does not imply instability. Because an individual's goals may change, he might decide that it benefits him to hold less money. Sometime in the future, he might increase his demand for money. What could possibly be wrong with this? The same goes for any other goods and services—demand for them changes all the time.
Defining Inflation
According to Murray Rothbard and Ludwig von Mises, inflation is defined as the increase of the money supply out of "thin air." Following this definition, one can ascertain that increases in money supply set economic impoverishment in motion by creating an exchange of nothing for something, the so-called counterfeit effect.
General increases in prices are likely to be symptoms of inflation—but not always, however. Note that prices are determined by both real and monetary factors. Consequently, it can occur that if the real factors are "pulling things" in an opposite direction to monetary factors, no visible change in prices is going to take place. If the growth rate of money is 5 percent and the growth rate of goods supply is 1 percent then prices are likely to increase by 4 percent. If, however, the growth rate in goods supply is also 5 percent then no general increase in prices is likely to take place.
If one were to hold that inflation is about increases in prices, then one would conclude that, despite the increase in money supply by 5 percent, inflation is 0 percent. However, if we were to follow the definition that inflation is about increases in the money supply, then we would conclude that inflation is 5 percent, regardless of any movement in prices.
Defining Money Supply
Prior to 1980, it was popular to employ various money supply definitions in the assessment of the changes in the prices of goods and services. The criterion for the selection of a particular definition was its correlation with national income. However, since the early 1980s, correlations between various definitions of money and national income have broken down. Some analysts believe that this breakdown is because of changes in financial markets, making past definitions of money irrelevant.
A definition presents the essence of a particular entity, something no statistical correlation could ever provide. To establish the definition of money we have to explain the origins of the money economy. Money has emerged because barter cannot support the market economy. Money is the general medium of exchange and has evolved from the most marketable commodity. Mises wrote:
There would be an inevitable tendency for the less marketable of the series of goods used as media of exchange to be one by one rejected until at last only a single commodity remained, which was universally employed as a medium of exchange; in a word, money.
Since the general medium of exchange was selected out of a wide range of commodities, the emerged money must be a commodity. Rothbard wrote:
In contrast to directly used consumers' or producers' goods, money must have pre-existing prices on which to ground a demand. But the only way this can happen is by beginning with a useful commodity under barter, and then adding demand for a medium to the previous demand for direct use (e.g., for ornaments, in the case of gold).
Through an ongoing selection process, individuals settled on gold as standard money. In today's monetary system, the core of the money supply is no longer gold, but rather coins and notes issued by the government and central bank that are employed in transactions as goods and services are exchanged for cash. Hence, one trades all other goods and services for money.
Part of the stock of cash is stored through bank deposits. Once someone places money in a bank's warehouse, he is engaging in a claim transaction, never relinquishing his ownership of the money. Consequently, these deposits, which are labelled demand deposits, are part of money.
This is contrasted with a credit transaction, where the lender relinquishes his claim over the money for the duration of the loan. In a credit transaction, money is transferred from a lender to a borrower, but the overall amount of money in the economy does not change because of the credit transaction.
The introduction of electronic money seems to cast doubt on the definition of money. It would appear that deregulated financial markets generate various forms of new money. Notwithstanding, various forms of electronic money or e-money, like digital currency, do not have a "life of their own."
Various financial innovations do not generate new forms of money but rather new ways of employing existing money in transactions. Irrespective of these financial innovations, the nature of money does not change. Money is the thing that all other goods and services are traded for. Once the essence of money is established by excluding various credit transactions, one can identify the status of inflation. Changes in prices are not going to be relevant here.
Contrary to popular thinking, inflation is not about increases in the prices of goods and services but about increases in money supply. Following this definition, we can establish that the key damage caused by inflation is economic impoverishment through the exchange of nothing for something. What matters as far as inflation is concerned is not the correlation between money supply and the prices of goods and service but increases in money supply.
Contrary to popular thinking, the essence of money did not change because of various financial innovations. Money is a thing that is employed as a medium of exchange. Furthermore, according to Mises's regression theorem, the historical link between paper currency and gold is what holds the present monetary system together.
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Silver Hammer Engages Drilling Contractor for Near-Term Drill Program at Silver Strand Project in Idaho
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Planned Phase II Drilling at Silver Strand
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, July 07, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Silver Hammer Mining Corp. (CSE: HAMR; OTCQB: HAMRF) (the "Company" or "Silver Hammer") is pleased to announce plans to begin an 11-hole Phase II diamond drill program from the Company's established underground drilling station, before the end of July at its past-producing Silver Strand Project in Idaho.
The Phase II drill program will focus on expanding the known silver-gold zone down-dip and will also assess the potential for additional mineralized chutes (Figure 1). Targets for this program are based on exploration work performed by Silver Hammer in 2021, including a drone supported magnetic survey, Phase I drilling, as well integration of drilling data acquired from previous owners of the Silver Strand Project (see Jan 26, 2022 news release).
"This Phase II drill program will build upon results of the Phase I program completed late 2021, which confirmed that silver and gold-bearing sulphide mineralization extends beneath the historic mine workings," stated President & CEO Morgan Lekstrom. "As with Phase I, we will utilize an existing underground drift and drilling bay, which we rehabilitated last year, to begin to test the depth extent of the known mineralized body as well as to test for additional mineralized chutes in a very cost-effective manner."
Figure 1. Planned Phase II Drilling at Silver Strand
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The Company has signed a contract with Nasco Industrial Services and Supply, which will use HQ, 3.5-inch diameter drill core to obtain good core recovery and relatively large core samples for reliable assays.
Silver Hammer is also progressing exploration of the Eliza Project in Nevada with a detailed follow-up soil grid sampling program, the results of which are expected in late July.
Technical aspects of this press release have been reviewed and approved by Philip Mulholland, a Certified Professional Geologist (CPG) with the American Institute of Professional Geologists, a contractor of the Company and the designated Qualified Person (QP) under National Instrument 43-101 Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects.
About Silver Hammer Mining Corp.
Silver Hammer Mining Corp. is a junior resource company advancing the flagship past-producing Silver Strand Mine in the Coeur d'Alene Mining District in Idaho, USA, as well both the Eliza Silver Project and the Silverton Silver Mine in one of the world's most prolific mining jurisdictions in Nevada and the Lacy Gold Project in British Columbia, Canada. Silver Hammer's primary focus is defining and developing silver deposits near past-producing mines that have not been adequately tested. The Company's portfolio also provides exposure to copper and gold discoveries.
Disclaimer note: Mineralization hosted on adjacent and/or nearby properties is not necessarily indicative of mineralization hosted on the Company's projects.
On Behalf of the Board of Silver Hammer Mining Corp.
Morgan Lekstrom, President and CEO
Corporate Office: 551 Howe Street, Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 2C2, Canada
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Silver Hammer Announces Closing of Oversubscribed Private Placement for Gross Proceeds of Approximately $3,000,000
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, June 02, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — (CSE: HAMR/OTCQB: HAMRF) Silver Hammer Mining Corp. (the "Company" or "Silver Hammer") is pleased to announce that it has closed its previously announced brokered and a concurrent non-brokered private placement (collectively, the "Offering") for gross proceeds of $3,007,048.68. The brokered portion of the Offering (the "Brokered Offering") was led by Echelon Wealth Partners Inc. (the "Agent") and consisted of the sale of 7,325,286 units (the "Units") for aggregate gross proceeds of $2,783,608.68 at a price of $0.38 per Unit (the "Offering Price"). Each Unit consisted of one Common Share (each, a "Common Share", and collectively the "Common Shares") and one-half of one Common Share purchase warrant, (each whole warrant, a "Warrant" and collectively, the "Warrants"). Each Warrant entitles the holder thereof to acquire one Common Share at a price of $0.50 per Common Share for a period of 24 months from the closing date of the Offering.
Under the non-brokered portion of the Offering the Company raised gross proceeds of $223,440.00, through the sale of 588,000 Units at the Offering Price. The Offering was announced on May 16, 2022.
The Warrants were issued pursuant to a warrant indenture dated June 2, 2022 entered into between the Company and Endeavor Trust Corporation, as warrant agent.
As consideration for Agent's services in connection with the Brokered Offering, the Agent received a cash commission of $182,145.95, a cash advisory fee of $8,900.00, and 502,831 broker warrants, each exercisable to acquire one Common Share at the Offering Price for a period of 24 months from the closing date of the Offering.
All securities issued pursuant to the Offering, including any underlying securities, are subject to a four-month-and-one-day hold period in accordance with applicable Canadian securities laws.
The net proceeds of the Offering will be used for the exploration of the Silver Strand Project in Idaho, the Eliza Silver Project in Nevada, the Silverton Silver-Gold Project in Nevada, and for general and working capital purposes.
Directors and officers of the Company purchased an aggregate of 77,600 Units in the Offering. The participation by such insiders in the Offering constituted a "related party transaction" as defined under Multilateral Instrument 61-101 – Protection of Minority Security Holders in Special Transactions.
The securities offered pursuant to the Offering have not been, and will not be, registered under the U.S. Securities Act, or any state securities laws, and, accordingly, may not be offered or sold within the United States, or to or for the account or benefit of persons in the United States or "U.S. Persons", as such term is defined in Regulation S promulgated under the U.S. Securities Act, unless registered under the U.S. Securities Act and applicable state securities laws or pursuant to an exemption from such registration requirements.
This release may contain forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are statements that are not historical facts and are generally, but not always, identified by the words "expects", "plans", "anticipates", "believes", "intends", "estimates", "projects", "potential" and similar expressions, or that events or conditions "will", "would", "may", "could" or "should" occur. Forward-looking statements may include, without limitation, statements relating to the Offering and the use of proceeds therefrom. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are expressly qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement. All forward-looking statements in this press release are made as of the date of this press release. The forward-looking statements contained herein are also subject generally to assumptions and risks and uncertainties that are described from time to time in the Company's public securities filings with the Canadian securities commissions. Although the Company believes the expectations expressed in such forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions, such statements are not guarantees of future performance and actual results may differ materially from those in forward looking statements. The Company expressly disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
Kristina Pillon, President, High Tide Consulting Corp.
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Dolly Varden Silver Mobilizes Three Drill Rigs to Commence an Initial 30,000 Meters of Resource Expansion, Upgrade and Exploration Drilling
VANCOUVER, BC, May 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ – Dolly Varden Silver Corporation (TSXV: DV) (OTC: DOLLF) (the "Company" or "Dolly Varden") is pleased to announce the initiation of field activities on its Kitsault Valley Project, located near tidewater in northwest British Columbia. Objectives of the 2022 Program include: upgrade current Inferred Mineral Resources to Measured and Indicated classification, expand known deposits and to discover new silver and gold mineralization along the Kitsault Valley trend of multiple deposits and historic mines.
Shawn Khunkhun, President and CEO comments, "With a robust $25 million treasury, a discovery-focused technical team and a target-rich environment, 2022 is setting up to be an historic year for Dolly Varden Silver. With strategic and technical input from our supportive corporate shareholder: Hecla Mining, it is our goal to make new silver and gold discoveries as well as to dramatically grow and upgrade resource at our current deposits, setting the Company up to be the next development Project in the Golden Triangle."
Three diamond drill rigs are being mobilized by barge to the village of Alice Arm to complete an initial 99 drill holes Program totaling 30,000 meters along the Kitsault Valley Trend. Camp expansion and infrastructure upgrades are underway to accommodate our expanded exploration team, with a significant contingent of team members of the Nisga'a Nation.
Dolly Varden's Kitsault Valley Project currently hosts Indicated Resources of 34.7 million ounces of silver and 166 thousand ounces of gold with additional Inferred Resources of 29.3 million ounces of silver and 817 thousand ounces of gold within multiple outcropping deposits in the 163 square kilometer Property. Resource upgrade and expansion drilling will begin at the Torbrit silver deposit, initially targeting step-outs at the Wolf Mine and between the Torbrit and North Star silver Deposits.
In late spring, drilling will commence at the Homestake Main and Homestake Silver deposits with the purpose of expanding mineralization along strike and down-dip as well upgrading current Inferred Resources.
Through integration of excellent detailed geological mapping integrated with innovative geochemical, geophysical and remote sensing methods, Dolly Varden's strong technical team has identified new greenfield target areas along the Kitsault Valley trend. Additional surface mapping and sampling coupled with IP geophysical surveys will help refine drill targets to be tested during the 2022 Program. Twenty exploration targets have been initially identified, eight of which have been classified as Priority 1.
Figure 1 recently consolidated Kitsault Valley Project with Exploration potential between known deposits (CNW Group/Dolly Varden Silver Corp.)
Figure 2 Homestake Ridge Deposits long section with infill and resource expansion project pierce points (CNW Group/Dolly Varden Silver Corp.)
About Dolly Varden Silver Corporation
Dolly Varden Silver Corporation is a mineral exploration company focused on advancing its 100% held Kitsault Valley Project (which combines the Dolly Varden Project and the Homestake Ridge Project) located in the Golden Triangle of British Columbia, Canada, 25kms by road to tide water. The 163 sq. km. project hosts the high-grade silver and gold resources of Dolly Varden and Homestake Ridge along with the past producing Dolly Varden and Torbrit silver mines. It is considered to be prospective for hosting further precious metal deposits, being on the same structural and stratigraphic belts that host numerous other, on-trend, high-grade deposits, such as Eskay Creek and Brucejack. The Kitsault Valley Project also contains the Big Bulk property which is prospective for porphyry and skarn style copper and gold mineralization, similar to other such deposits in the region (Red Mountain, KSM, Red Chris).
This release may contain forward-looking statements or forward-looking information under applicable Canadian securities legislation that may not be based on historical fact, including, without limitation, statements containing the words "believe", "may", "plan", "will", "estimate", "continue", "anticipate", "intend", "expect", "potential", and similar expressions. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance, or achievements of Dolly Varden to be materially different from any future results, performance, or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Forward looking statements or information in this release relates to, among other things, completion of the Offering, TSX Venture Exchange approval of the Offering, the use of proceeds with respect to the Offerings, the results of previous field work and programs and the continued operations of the current exploration program, interpretation of the nature of the mineralization at the project and that that the mineralization on the project is similar to Eskay and Brucejack, results of the mineral resource estimate on the project, the potential to grow the project, the potential to expand the mineralization and our beliefs about the unexplored portion of the property.
These forward-looking statements are based on management's current expectations and beliefs and assume, among other things, the ability of the Company to successfully pursue its current development plans, that future sources of funding will be available to the company, that relevant commodity prices will remain at levels that are economically viable for the Company and that the Company will receive relevant permits in a timely manner in order to enable its operations, but given the uncertainties, assumptions and risks, readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements or information. The Company disclaims any obligation to update, or to publicly announce, any such statements, events or developments except as required by law.
For additional information on risks and uncertainties, see the Company's most recently filed annual management discussion & analysis ("MD&A") and management information circular dated January 21, 2022 (the "Circular"), both of which are available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com. The risk factors identified in the MD&A and the Circular are not intended to represent a complete list of factors that could affect the Company.
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX-V) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this news release.
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New York (CNN Business)Move over GameStop, Reddit mania is spreading to the precious metals market.Silver futures surged as much as 8.5% above$29 Sunday evening, touching five-month highs. That follows a 6% rally last week.Meanwhile, retail sites warned customers over the weekend they could not meet skyrocketing demand for silver bars and coins. And "#silversqueeze" is trending on Twitter.In more recent trading, silver futures were up 6.5%.The moves provide another example of the power of a group that has captivated Wall Street and Main Street: WallStreetBets. The Reddit forum sent GameStop (GME), AMC (AMC) and other heavily shorted stocks skyrocketing last week, roiling markets and crushing some hedge funds that had bet against those stocks. Robinhood, the free-trading app, came under fire after restricting trades in GameStop and other stocks.People on WallStreetBets set their sights on silver and theiShares Silver Trust ETF (SLV) last week, with some suggesting it could be a way to hurt big banks they believe are artificially suppressing prices."SLV will destroy the biggest banks, not just some little hedge funds," one WallStreetBets user wrote.
It's not just GameStop. Market bubble fears are risingAnother claimed JPMorgan Chase has been "suppressing metals for a long time. This should be epic. LOAD UP."Several noted that JPMorgan (JPM) paid a record $920 million fine last year to settle charges that it engaged in manipulative trades of futures tied to precious metals as well as Treasuries.The Winklevoss twins, who famously sued Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and were early backers of bitcoin, both tweeted support for the push by WallStreetBets into silver."The #silversqueeze is a rage against the machine," Tyler Winklevoss tweeted."If silver market is proven to be fraudulent, you better believe gold market will be next," Cameron Winklevoss tweeted.Leading retail sites posted warnings over the weekend that they faced heavy demand.
Inside the Reddit army that's crushing Wall Street"Due to unprecedented demand on physical silver products, we are unable to accept any additional orders on a large number of products, until global markets open Sunday evening," APMEX, which calls itself the world's largest online retailer of precious metals, wrote in a notice atop its website.SD Bullion warned that "due to unprecedented silver demand" it would also be unable to accept orders until Sunday evening. Similar notices were posted by Money Metals and other websites."It's not surprising to see the sharp and abrupt uptick in consumer demand overwhelm the physical supply of silver coins held by dealers in the short term," Ryan Fitzmaurice, a commodities strategist at Rabobank, told CNN Business in an email.However, unlike GameStop and other unloved stocks targeted by WallStreetBets, silver futures have been strong of late. Hedge funds and other institutional investors had been bullish on silver futures and the precious metal was trading near multi-year highs."It is a dramatically different market setup," Fitzmaurice said. "I am not sure how well this new Reddit trading strategy will fare in futures markets and especially the notoriously volatile commodity markets."
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Using the "Thule - Triebwerk"
Donar Kraftstrahlkanone
(Do-Stra = DOrnier-STRAtosph�renflugzeug)
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The HAUNEBU DISC
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The SS E-IV (Entwicklungsstelle 4), a development unit of the SS occult �Order of the Black Sun� was tasked with researching alternative energies to make the Third Reich independent of scarce fuel oil for war production. Their work included developing alternative energies and fuels.
This group developed by 1939 a revolutionary electro-magnetic-gravitic engine which improved Hans Coler�s free energy machine into an energy Konverter coupled to a Van De Graaf band generator and Marconi vortex dynamo (a spherical tank of mercury) to create powerful rotating electromagnetic fields that affected gravity and reduced mass.
It was designated the Thule Triebwerk (Thrustwork, a.ka. Tachyonator-7 drive) and was to be installed into a Thule designed disc.
Since 1935 the Thule Gesellschaft (Society) had been scouting for a remote, inconspicuous, underdeveloped testing ground for such a craft. Thule found a location in Northwest Germany that was known as (or possibly designated as) Hauneburg. At the establishment of this testing ground and facilities the SS E-IV unit simply referred to the new Thule disc as a war product- the �H-Gerat� (Hauneburg Device).
For wartime security reasons the name was shortened to Haunebu in 1939 and was briefly designated RFZ-5 along with Vril�s machines once the Hauneburg site was abandoned in favor of the more suitable Vril Arado Brandenburg aircraft testing grounds.
The early Haunebu I craft of which two prototypes were constructed were 25 meters in diameter, had a crew of eight and could achieve the incredible initial velocity of 4,800 km/h, but at low altitude. Further enhancement enabled the machine to reach 17,000 km/h.
Flight endurance was 18 hours. To resist the incredible temperatures of these velocities a special armor called Victalen { Frozen Smoke } was pioneered by SS metallurgists specifically for both the Haunebu and Vril series of disc craft. The Haunebu I had a double hull of Victalen. {Frozen Smoke developed in the 30�s}
The Experimental KSK Gun
The early models also attempted to test out a rather large experimental gun installation- the twin 60 mm KSK
(KraftStrahlKanone, Strong Ray Cannon) which operated off the Triebwerk for power. It has been suggested that the ray from this weapon made it a laser, but it was not. The Germans called it an �anachronism� gun - not belonging to that time period or out of place.
When a Vril 7 was downed by the Russians in 1945 a similar underbelly mounted KSK gun was destroyed with debris recovered from the battle site. Postwar the strange metal balls and tungsten spirals that made up
the weapon could not be identified. But recently it has been speculated that the Triebwerk-connected balls
formed cascade oscillators that were connected to a long barrel-shrouded transmission rod wrapped in a
precision tungsten spiral, or coil to transmit a powerful energy burst suitable to pierce up to 4 in (100 mm) of enemy armor. The heavy gun installation, however, badly destabilized the disc and in subsequent Haunebu models lighter MG and MK cannon were supposedly installed.
The Series Prototypes
The Haunebu I first flew in 1939 and both prototypes made 52 test flights. In 1942, the enlarged Haunebu II of 26 meters diameter was ready for flight testing. This disc had a crew of nine and could also achieve supersonic flight of 6,000 to 21,000 km/h with a flight endurance of 55 hours. Both it and the further developed 32 meter diameter Haunebu II Do-Stra had heat shielding of two hulls of Victalen. The craft were constructed and tested between 1943-44. The craft made 106 test flights.
By 1944, the perfected war model, the Haunebu II Do-Stra (Dornier STRAtospharen Flugzeug/Stratospheric Aircraft) was tested. Two prototypes were built. These massive machines, several stories tall, were crewed by 20 men. They were also capable of hypersonic speed beyond 21,000 km/h. The SS had intended to produce the machines with tenders for both Junkers and Dornier but in late 1944/early 1945 Dornier was chosen. The close of the war, however, prevented Dornier from building any production models. Yet larger still was the 71 meter diameter Haunebu III. A lone prototype was constructed before the close of the war. It was crewed by 32 and could achieve speeds of 7,000 to 40,000 km/h. It had a triple Victalen hull. It is said to have had a flight endurance of 7 to 8 weeks. The craft made 19 test flights. This craft was to be used for evacuation work for Thule and Vril in March 1945.
Further plans for a 120 meter diameter Haunebu IV were in the works but no such craft is known to have been
constructed before the end of the war.
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In 2021, Daga Bożek published a well-received book entitled "Polarniczki. Zdobywczynie podbiegunowego świata" ("Polar female pioneers. Conquerors of the polar world"). The polarniczki.pl website is the book's continuation, where Daga publishes interviews with female participants of expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic. Daga herself also wintered at research stations on both sides of the globe (in 2012-13 at the Hornsund Polish Polar Station on Spitsbergen and in 2015-16 at the Polish Antarctic Station named after Henryk Arctowski on King George Island); she is a popularizer of knowledge on polar research.
Kuba Witek, a director and traveler, has been visiting the North regularly for several years. He cycled around Iceland, then directed a film about Polish people that live in the land of ice and fire. He spent almost two years in the Faroe Islands, where he directed two films and a documentary series. He participated in two scientific expeditions to Spitsbergen, organized by the Institute of Oceanology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Sopot. His latest documentary "Zwykłe Życie" ("The Ordinary Life") tells the story of Adam Jarniewski, a Pole who has been living in Greenland for almost fifteen years.
Daga and Kuba met in November 2021 at the Nordic Focus Festival, organized by the University of Gdańsk. Soon they decided to make a film inspired by the Polarniczki.pl project, focusing on the oldest living female participants of polar expeditions.
The shooting set off in February 2022. The premiere of "Ant/Arctic Women" is planned for spring 2023.
Maria Agata Olech
The first female polar lichenologist in Poland, participant of scientific expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic, the first woman to lead a year-round expedition to the Henryk Arctowski Polish Antarctic Station (1991-92), a member of the prestigious Explorers Club. In 2012, as the first Polish polar explorer in history, she crossed the Northwest Passage, participating in an international research expedition on the yacht Marguerite 1.
Anna Krzyszowska
Waitkus
An ecologist who in the 1980s participated in various expeditions to Spitsbergen to the Hornsund Polish Polar Station, where she conducted pioneering research on the impact of humans and their activities on the polar environment. She also took part in the Greenpeace expedition to Antarctica and to the Arctowski Station on King George Island. She still returns to Svalbard, participating in scientific projects conducted by the Institute of Oceanology of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
Anna Kolakowska
Biotechnologist, specialist in the research on lipids, oxidation processes and antioxidants. Participant of two year-round expeditions to the Arctowski Station in 1983-84 and 1985-86, the first Polish woman to winter twice in Antarctic. She was awarded the West Pomeranian Nobel Prize in 2002 for her research.
Wieslawa Ewa Krawczyk
A geographer chemist who in 1979 set up a chemical laboratory at the Hornsund Polish Polar Station on Spitsbergen, and in 1986 was the first woman to lead the scientific group during the 8th glaciological expedition of the University of Silesia to Spitsbergen. She took part in 10 summer expeditions to Svalbard, and she is one of the main characters of the documentary "Zimny Ląd" ("Cold Land") directed by Kazimierz Błahij.
Joanna Pociask-Karteczka
A hydrologist who in the 1980s participated in two expeditions to Spitsbergen, organized by the Jagiellonian University, during which she dealt with hydrographic mapping of a large part of the unglaciated part of Sørkappland. In addition to vast research and numerous scientific publications, she is also the author of volumes of poetry, including "Ocalenia" ("Salvations") (2005), "Twarze Gór" ("Faces of Mountains") (2008), and "Przebudzenie Ewy" ("Eve's Awakening") (2018).
The film's soundtrack will be created on the basis of sounds recorded by scientists studying glaciers and the "underwater life" of the Arctic and Antarctic, and then combined with recordings of Polish female instrumentalists and artists associated with various musical genres. The whole project will be overseen by Łukasz Palkiewicz – a composer nominated twice for the Fryderyk Awards, author of film soundtracks and producer of electronic music who has performed at the largest music festivals in Poland.
The soundtrack will take the form of a concert accompanying the premiere of the film, enriched with visuals, and later it will continue to exist as an independent music/multimedia project shown on the occasion of different cultural and scientific events related to polar regions.
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Resolution: Polokwane resolved that the state and mandated entities should exercise "their legal right" to expropriate property in the public interest for public purpose. At the conference it was decided that compensation should be awarded in accordance with the Constitution, with special emphasis on equity, redress and social justice.
It also called for the abolishment of the market-driven land reform and immediate review the principle of willing seller, willing buyer to accelerate equitable distribution of land.
Progress: The government has discarded the willing-buyer, willing-seller policy.
On November 7, just a month before the Mangaung conference, the Cabinet approved the policy on the establishment of the office of the valuer general.
This office is an institution proposed in the green paper on land reform.
Spokesperson for the rural development and land reform department, Mtobeli Mxotwa, said this office would help the department in dealing with the problem of inflated land prices in the land reform and reclamation process.
He said the valuer general would decide the "equitable" price when there is a land sale using section 25(3) of the Constitution. This section states that the amount of the compensation and the time and manner of payment must be just and equitable, reflecting an equitable balance between the public interest and the interests of those affected, having regard to all relevant circumstances.
Rural Development and Land Reform Minister Gugile Nkwinti has indicated that he would like to see the office established in the first quarter of 2013.
But state institutions are established through Parliament, and this might take longer than Nkwinti wishes.


The comic, collectibles and gaming shop had its soft opening Aug. 15 before the grand opening on Sept. 1.
Maitland isn't a city known for its comics culture, but three entrepreneurs are looking to change that.
BAMF Comics & Collectibles, a new comics and games shop at 500 E. Horatio Ave., had its soft opening Aug. 15 before a grand opening on Sept. 1. The enterprise, a joint effort between owners Enzo Garza, Maitland resident David Craig and his wife, Candice Falkner-Craig, looks to stand out with a mixture of comic books, board games, collectibles and more.
Their origin story began when David, a longtime owner of a construction company, became so stressed with his job that it led to health issues. He decided it was time to chase his dream — but he'd need some help.
He partnered both his wife and Garza, a kindred spirit who shared his love for comics and actually ran a comic shop himself. Together, they took over the former Melting Pot location last fall. David said the long-vacant spot was filled with debriswhen he first visited but that the location more than made up for it.
He called in a few of his construction connections to expedite the process and work began on the location in earnest at the end of April. The store's name itself refers to an onomatopoeia that the X-Men character Nightcrawler makes when he teleports.
Comics always have been near and dear to David and Candice. The couple met picking up issues of Todd McFarlane's Spawn in the early 1990s. Together, the couple estimates they have more than 6,000 single issues, a large number of which have been donated to the shop for sale.
Of all the things Garza learned in his eight years managing a comic shop, welcoming all fandoms is high on the list.
In addition to the 14,000 comics coming to BAMF, Garza also is donating his 400-plus collection of VHS tapes. He said there will be a checkout system in place where customers can take a VHS home for a few days before returning it — all without paying a dime.
Something the co-owner is particularly excited to sell is, on top of books from Marvel, DC, and smaller companies, are do-it-yourself comics created by everyday people.
"If they're in a garage with a printer making a comic and stapling it over the weekend. we will check it out and sell it here," David said.
Candice, a fifth-grade teacher at an Oviedo elementary school, often uses young-adult graphic novels as gateway books to encourage reading and wants to extend that outlet to her new store.
"We want families knowing they can bring can their children in here and find those books, we're going to have a large selection of children's graphic novels," she said.
She hopes to have reading sessions for children at BAMF each month. On top of that, the trio aims to host sketch nights, book clubs, painting classes and more in the coming months. BAMF will be offering a 20% discount for new readers looking to pick up monthly comics as well as civil servant discount days during which police officers, teachers and others will receive discounts.
David and Candice haven't been the only family members pitching in at the store. Their two daughters have created the pop-culture artwork lining the walls. Piper and Parker, 16 and 14, modeled a wall-sized painting of Final Fantasy characters from the artist Skottie Young and a mural of characters from the comic "Saga" by artist Fiona Staples. The two young artists took a few days to put the artwork together.
OPENING: Soft opening is Aug. 15. A grand opening will take place Sept. 1.