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Franchise Roadblocks
Our tips for dealing with the real-life scenarios you'll face when investigating and investing in a franchise
I often get e-mails or phone calls from prospective franchisees, thanking me for the information Dave Thomas and I included in the book Franchising for Dummies. Sometimes they'll recommend topics to include in a future edition, and I frequently respond pro bono to e-mail questions regarding real-life scenarios we couldn't fit into the book.
For most prospective franchisees, the franchise researching and investing process is successful. However, "successful" doesn't always mean without any hitches, as you'll see in a few of these situations.
The Deal Is Different
A couple had been looking at buying a franchise for over a year. During that time, they investigated a number of industries and met with several franchisors. They established the benchmark criteria they felt were important in a franchise, including certain levels of fees, types of services and experienced management. Finally, they made their choice and, full of excitement, went back to the franchisor they had met the prior year to tell them they were ready to invest. Everything was great...until the franchisor sent them a copy of the latest Uniform Franchise Offering Circular, and the couple realized the franchise opportunity had changed. They felt the franchisor was trying to pull a fast one and asked me what to do.
Franchisors routinely and frequently reevaluate their franchise system for ways to improve its performance. Often, a prospective franchisee won't see the changes, since they might impact operating procedures, field services, training or hundreds of the other details related to the franchisor's operation of the business.
Franchisors also modify their franchise offering to reflect changes to the business or competitive changes as they relate to franchise sales. Anytime a franchisor makes those types of changes, they're included in the new UFOC, which is typically published annually. Changes to franchise offerings are routine, and, unfortunately for this couple, the royalty rate and the overall investment requirements had increased since the prior year.
Once we were able to explain what had occurred, we recommended that they reevaluate the franchisor based upon the criteria they had originally established. In addition, we suggested they speak again with some of the existing franchisees to determine what they thought of the changes and whether those franchisees planned to invest in additional franchise units in the future. We also advised them to talk to the franchisor about buying an existing franchise, to see whether the franchisor would allow them to simply transfer the agreement, leaving in place the terms of the original agreement.
Situation No. 2
Improper Earnings Claims
In franchising, with limited exceptions, the only way a franchisor can legally provide you with information about what you can expect to make as a franchisee is to provide that information in writing and include it in the UFOC in Item 19. In this particular franchise, the franchisor had not included earnings claims. During the sales process, the prospective franchisees were informed inadvertently by the franchise salesperson that the average location has a certain level of sales once it reached maturity. The salesman immediately realized his error and told the franchisees he should not have given out that information and asked them not to let anyone know, because that type of slip would cost him his job.
At the closing, the franchise salesperson gave them a lengthy document to sign. The pages were in the form of a questionnaire and dealt with the franchise sales process. Asking a franchisee to sign such a document at the closing is routine, ensuring the franchisor didn't break the rules as they recruited the prospect and also that the franchisee provided honest answers during the selling process. This questionnaire asked the franchisees to state they had not received any information on unit performance, and, if they did, that they would not rely upon the information. While they wanted the franchise, they actually had relied upon the information in making their decision. They didn't want to sign anything that was untrue and refused to sign, then called us and asked us what to do.
Had they followed the advice in the book, they would be working with a qualified franchise lawyer and would have dealt with the matter long before they got to the point of signing the franchise agreement. Since I knew the franchisor personally, I felt fairly comfortable that the slipup was an accident--but that might not be the case all the time, especially if there is no Item 19 disclosure. Since they still wanted to move forward, we put them in touch with a local franchise lawyer who met with the franchisor to seek a solution to the problem.
Prior to closing on the franchise, the prospective franchisees did a very thorough and independent reevaluation of the franchise and created a business plan for the business. They called several franchisees in the system and determined for themselves the range of sales they could likely expect. At that point, while the franchise salesman had made a mistake, the prospective franchisees could honestly say they were no longer relying on that information, because indeed they had gotten the information they relied on from independent sources. They were then able to sign off on the questionnaire honestly and close the sale.
The Salesman Is a Broker
A couple looking for a franchise surfed the Net for information on what was available. They were both schoolteachers who had never bought a business and were intimidated by the pressure they felt in just researching franchise opportunities. Late one night, they discovered the Web sites of a few professional service firms offering to coach them toward the perfect franchise. Even better, they thought, these firms weren't even charging a fee--they were paid by the franchisor only when people actually bought a franchise.
The coaching firms all claimed they had researched thousands of franchise opportunities and selected several that met their criteria for return on investment, failure rate and other important attributes. The couple was sold. Through a lengthy interview, the advisory firm they selected was able to narrow the list of franchises that seemed right for the couple down to a few. The consultant then introduced the couple to the franchisors. During the coaching session, the couple was provided with information on what they should be looking for in a franchise opportunity, so they felt prepared to ask the right questions when they met the franchisor.
Somewhere during the process, they picked up a copy of Franchising for Dummies and saw that Dave Thomas and I had recommended not working with franchise brokers. It was then that they understood that their "coach" was really a "broker," and, while he was advising them, in reality he had been hired by franchisors for the sole purpose of convincing franchise shoppers to buy from his clients.
They truly thought that the broker had helped them and prepared them for the task of buying a franchise, but they were concerned, since they were about to invest their life's saving based upon this broker's advice.
Dave and I had a lot of reasons for making our recommendation about brokers. The most important: Brokers try to appear independent to the prospective franchisees, claiming to be franchise counselors and coaches and even calling the prospective franchisees their clients. They emphasize that they're helping the franchisee make a selection that's right for them, when they work for and are the agents of the franchisor. They typically steer the prospect only to their clients so they can earn a commission on the sale. In the age of Enron, it's obviously dangerous to take advice someone who has a clear conflict of interest.
I looked at the list of franchisors the broker "picked" for the couple. Then I had the couple research all the other franchise offerings in those industries--they were able to do so quickly and cheaply by going to Web sites like this one. I asked them to make their franchise decision based upon complete facts and not only limit themselves to the few companies the broker had recommended.
The broker told them that if they were serious about buying a franchise, they should be prepared to make a decision in two to four weeks. I said they should take their time, and the process, done right, would likely take four to six months from beginning to end. What they found by doing the research themselves was a much broader franchise offering than the broker had led them to. Through their research, they discovered several alternatives that offered different fees, services and brand personalities and, in some cases, a better return-on-investment potential. Some of the franchisors were more established, and some had new and exciting possibilities that the brokers clients didn't. I strongly recommended, however, that they not discount the broker's recommendations entirely, since some of those franchisors were also good candidates for them. Ultimately, the couple made their franchise selection based upon their research.
The moral: You should use an advisor who works for you, not the franchisor. Call local franchise lawyers. And remember, franchise brokerages are fairly unique in the business world in that they try to convince a buyer they work for them, while they're really a commissioned agent of the seller.
If you've had problems during your franchise search, and would like your real-life situation answered or possibly discussed in a future column, e-mail your story to me at mseid@entrepreneur.com.
Michael H. Seid is managing director of Michael H. Seid & Associates, a West Hartford, Connecticut- and Troy, Michigan-based management consulting firm specializing in the franchise industry. Seid co-wrote Franchising for Dummies (IDG Books) with Dave Thomas, the late founder of Wendy's, and serves on the International Franchise Association's Board of Directors.
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When President Obama eased the U.S embargo on Cuba in 2014, tropical prints and Cuban-inspired silhouettes filled the following New York Fashion Week. During the 2008 economic recession, workwear's turn on the trend cycle illuminated an American yearning for a time when unemployment wasn't a national blight. Now, I see '60s and '70s-inspired fashion everywhere: floral dresses on campus, fur-trimmed coats on runways, bell bottoms in my own closet. Why?
I see major parallels between today's events and the most iconic moments of the '60s and '70s. Women's March Instagrams mirror vintage photos of Vietnam War Protests; the Parkland High School activists of last Spring have used their voices similarly to the youth of yesteryear; a sexuality-related revolution seems to be under way, though this time it might be a reckoning of sexual harassment and a wider acceptance of LGBTQ+, as opposed to the more general Free Love Movement of past countercultures.
In her twenties, Leslie Ayvazian ignored the turbulence of the the '60s and '70s yet, in the words of one of her critics, "ended up largely embodying it." She spent her youth riding motorcycles, smoking cigarettes, and having lots of boyfriends. Now, she is an acclaimed playwright and professor at Columbia University. Her play "Mention My Beauty" is about growing from that younger, lost self, into the woman she is today.
What did your life look like during your 20s?
I was the oldest one of three girls. I was given the category of the "pretty one;" my middle sister was the smart one, and the youngest was the athletic one. Although there weren't any outspoken rules about what that meant, it definitely did give us a box as though we were not to intrude on the others' territory. As the pretty one, I was never really sure what that bought me.
Being the pretty one in the '60's and '70s appeared to be an interesting and valuable ticket. But it wasn't just that I was pretty. I felt that I was also not particularly smart, not particularly coordinated. I didn't really know what one was supposed to do about being pretty. What did that mean? Where did that get you? There was an enormous amount of struggle for a pretty girl to benefit in the world somehow, basically on her looks, which is a hollow way to go.
I developed a certain charm, I developed a certain winning personality, a swagger. I smoked cigarettes, I rode motorcycles, I got in trouble. I was very good at getting boyfriends because that's one thing pretty can do for you. I believed that somehow getting boyfriends was an achievement.
How did being deemed pretty affect your female friendships?
I was competitive with other women. I was intimidated by them. I was afraid of the Women's Movement. I thought that Gloria Steinem was a woman with effortless beauty and I was a woman full of effort. I was overwhelmed by the fact that someone could be as smart, as brave, as focused as Gloria Steinem. And also, have that remarkable appearance. So I didn't march with the women in Washington.
I squirreled away in my own life going from job to job, working as a secretary. I was supposed to get married (because that's what girls did in my day) to somebody I went to school with and he was a very decent good guy. My family really liked him. He was my first lover. But I didn't feel that he was the lover that I had been waiting for and so I left him. In 1967, leaving somebody because they weren't a good lover was a very radical thing to do. And I told my parents and my grandparents that's why I was going.
Then I just went off like a gypsy and had a lot of relationships and really sort of was running in circles. Just running all the time, trying to be attractive, trying to be chosen, trying to be wanted, trying to be sparkly. In the end, it just wore me down and I suffered. But along the way, I saw this young man in Southern California and he and I ended up moving into New York City at the same time. I asked him out on a date. Then, I asked him out on another date and on our second date I asked him to marry me. He said no. He was five years younger, he had just gotten out of Harvard, and he wanted to "do the do" and I said, "No, no, no, just please marry me." And he did. We got married in nine months and that was 41 years ago.
How did marriage change your image of yourself?
Once I married him, I basically had a breakdown. I broke down everything I knew about myself and the way I was in the world and lost it all. I became very phobic, unable to be in crowds or ride subways. There was a period in time when I couldn't get off my bed. He, at 23, was in architecture school. He would just sit next to me building his models and doing his drawings, and over a period of time, he soothed me. It was the beginning of me moving into health.
At that point, me at the age of 29, I started in the active job of recognizing that I did not want to be defined by the patriarchy, that I needed to know what women were doing, and talking about, and where they were going. I had become a fierce advocate for women's voices. I have done writing groups just for women for over 40 years and I've worked with hundreds and hundreds of women. I teach and do lectures and series and panels about the kind of language women use for themselves and for others and how that has been co-opted from the patriarchy and it is filled with diminishment. And how to undo that kind of thinking, how to find who you are as a person, not just as a woman, but as a person, and fill that out, test that, move into that.
My life has grown from that girl, smoking the cigarette. I also got in a motorcycle-riding accident which really threw things. I was unconscious for days. I lost my balance and my short term memory and I broke many bones and had a terrible concussion and had to recover from that. That was me living the fast life, the dangerous life, the street life. I took a lot of bumps when I was leading that life.
But it helped forge who I became, which is a woman who is willing to stand up and speak and reveal some of my inner lining, what I've been through, and how I've hit 70 years old standing in gold loafers and a music stand, talking to people, doing my show Mention my Beauty. Repeatedly, people thank me for this show.
Were you happy in your 20s?
I was a kind of happy. I wasn't happy like I am now, because I wasn't confident. It's very hard to be happy when you don't believe in yourself; it's very hard when you're wearing a mask and carrying around a posture and an attitude, when you're trying to fulfill what you think you should be instead of what you are. You get stoned a lot, you smoke a lot of cigarettes, you try to talk yourself into thinking you're happy. Was I happy then? I was lively, I laughed a lot, I was popular. I basically got what I wanted, but I didn't know what I wanted. And what I wanted wasn't right for me.
What was it like being young during the Sexual Revolution, the Vietnam War, the rise of counterculture, etc.?
The '60s were a definite parentheses time. We all knew that we had energy and beauty and hippieness and Bob Dylan and Free Love and marijuana. We all knew that we were real different than our parents. Our parents' generations were suffering from WWII, so they were of the "shut it down and play it close to the chest" mindset. We were in the "well, we're here now. We're exploding into actualization," and that includes love and drugs and big dreams, big, big dreams, and a real remarkable bravery, constant marchings and chantings and believing and uniting and collaborating and feeling like we were a community.
We had the Vietnam War that united us; we all stood up and fought back. We believed in such an ingenuous way that we could have an effect on Washington and we did. We believed we were going to change the world in every way, not just the war. We believed we were gonna stop hunger. We would have meetings about that on college campuses. We would go to different classrooms and cafes and talk about how we were going to stop worldwide hunger. What a remarkable thing! To have that kind of daringness to dream like that.
Our voices were heard so we felt very empowered and very free and things broke down between people. There was free love. People were having sexual relationships with each other; it was much more open, much freer and fluid.
Was sexism more rampant? Do you think there's been a big change since the '60s and '70s?
Sexism was certainly part of that time, and we weren't as alert to it as we are now. We expected our professors to be male, our doctors to be male, our president to be male. We lived like that!
There's been somewhat of a change. There's a great, big distance to go. We are not living in equality. We are not. We happen to be living in a time that is inviting conversation about the way women are secondary citizens in every way, have been made victims over and over by men who just don't really respect the women they're looking at and talking to. Or working with. Or sleeping with. Or marrying. I feel that we have made a distance that we have to hold onto.
We're now in a period where women have chosen to be really brave. The person who had so much impact on my life, more than Gloria Steinem, was Anita Hill. When she came forward and said, "this is the sexual harassment that I have experienced." And she, an African American woman, put herself on the line knowing no one was going to believe her. She was that brave. She was discredited. And now, women are coming forward all over the place and speaking out. I was a product of that. My professors hustled me when I was at school. And I had this motorcycle accident -- I was on crutches being hustled. I couldn't even move fast enough to get away from them. There was nobody to go to about it. You were supposed to take it as a compliment.
Do you see more similarities between that time period and now, or more differences?
I think history does repeat itself, but I never think of us going backwards or even harkening back to the history. I think we have to be very careful and learn a lot about history and let it inform us, but we're going forward. We're hurtling forward. And of course there is the remarkable Dr. Ford. She is heroic. She's had a profound impact. I feel enormous gratitude to her.
What was your favorite thing to wear in your 20s?
I wore the same thing all the time. I wore a pair of jeans, and tight tee shirts, and big, wide leather belts around my hips, and I had huge, long hair down to my waist that was very curly. We were flower children. We carried flowers, we made crowns out of flowers, we wore dresses that looked like flowers, both men and women. It was a feminine looking time. Men had long hair and fringe vests and flowered shirts. I wore my boyfriends' clothes, we wore the same clothes and we loved that.
Speaking of boyfriends, have you kept in touch with any from your younger years?
Do you think you still are?
I was then and I am still. Only then I was trying not to be and now I try to be.
Where are you now, in terms of beauty and life?
I'm nearly 70 years old now. I look good and I'm proud of it. I believe that there is a kind of beauty that has nothing to do with patriarchal definition of beauty, but has to do with health and confidence. I have been summoning those things as I prepare to turn 70. I believe that this approaching decade will be the best decade of my life. Along with that, I'm claiming the fact that I'm still pretty, and I'm pretty as a woman my age, exactly because I'm healthy and well and confident ... I haven't been erased.
I'm about to be a grandma. My daughter-in-law is having a baby in two weeks, so I'm just waiting and hovering. She's having a girl; I want to be around and be here for that. I get to live in New York City in an apartment that looks out at the Hudson River and look at the storm that's blowing in right now and the boats going through it all. I teach playwriting in the Columbia graduate school. I have an excellent life, a satisfying, really wonderful marriage, and a remarkable son and daughter-in-law. I get to do what I want to do, which is gather people and investigate what we've got to offer and how we give it to the world.


Octoling Invasion is the eighth mission in Splatoon's single-player mode, Octo Valley and the first mission with Octolings, the Octarian equivalent of Inklings. It takes place in a modified version of multiplayer stage Kelp Dome.
When Advancing to Area 2, Mission 8 is located on the highest tower on the Western north corner of the area.
Following the Power egg path.
Hop straight down from the spawn point and the grate, then an Octoling will jump from the centre. Taking it out will make it easier to reach the next checkpoint. Follow the line of power eggs and you have reached checkpoint 1.
Follow the line of power eggs to the centre, and another Octoling will come. Again, splatting it will make reaching the checkpoint so much more easier. You will be confronted by another Octoling. Do the same as before. Follow the trail of power eggs round and you will reach checkpoint 2.
Follow the power eggs round to find another Octoling, and splat it. There is another path of power eggs, follow it and you have reached the final checkpoint.
There is a trail of power eggs, follow them round, and an Octoling will try to ambush you from behind a potted plant. Then, climb the inkrail up to the part you can't usually reach and you will find another Octoling. Splat it, then climb the inkrail to the grate and you have reached the zapfish.
Location: Hidden under a ramp, along the western side of the level. Go through the level as you normally would and reach the Zapfish. In its corner facing the rest of the level, head to the closest ramp on the path to the right. Go around the back of it to find the scroll.
Location: The armor is on the centre platform.
Location: After the second checkpoint, on the grating.
The opening cutscene of Octoling Invasion, showing an Octoling on the central platform.
The Italian name for the stage contains a pun on serrato (thight, fierce) and serra (dome).
Because of their similarity to Inklings, if an Octoling touches the Zapfish after the shield has been destroyed, the level is completed as if the player has touched it. However, due to the logistics of this, it can only be performed during this level, by prematurely destroying the shield with an Inkzooka.


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A: You can process your tikzpictures as standalone documents and then include them as pictures. E.g., the file myplot.tex might contain
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Golden Star Resources Ltd. operates as a gold mining and exploration company. The last earnings update was 62 days ago. More info.
GSC outperformed the Metals and Mining industry which returned -9.7% over the past year.
GSC outperformed the Market in Canada which returned 3.4% over the past year.
Is Golden Star Resources undervalued based on future cash flows and its price relative to the stock market?
Here we compare the current share price of Golden Star Resources to its discounted cash flow analysis.value.
Below are the data sources, inputs and calculation used to determine the intrinsic value for Golden Star Resources.
The calculations below outline how an intrinsic value for Golden Star Resources is arrived at by discounting future cash flows to their present value using the 2 stage method. We try to start with analysts estimates of free cash flow, however if these are not available we use the most recent financial results. In the 1st stage we continue to grow the free cash flow over a 10 year period, with the growth rate trending towards the perpetual growth rate used in the 2nd stage. The 2nd stage assumes the company grows at a stable rate into perpetuity.
Amount off the current price Golden Star Resources is available for.
For Golden Star Resources to be considered undervalued it must be available for at least 20% below the current price. Less than 40% is even better.
Golden Star Resources's share price is below the future cash flow value, and at a moderate discount (> 20%).
Golden Star Resources's share price is below the future cash flow value, and at a substantial discount (> 40%).
The amount the stock market is willing to pay for Golden Star Resources's earnings, growth and assets is considered below, and whether this is a fair price.
Are Golden Star Resources's earnings available for a low price, and how does this compare to other companies in the same industry?
** Primary Listing of Golden Star Resources.
Golden Star Resources is loss making, we can't compare its value to the CA Metals and Mining industry average.
Golden Star Resources is loss making, we can't compare the value of its earnings to the Canada market.
Does Golden Star Resources's expected growth come at a high price?
Unable to calculate PEG ratio for Golden Star Resources, we can't assess if its growth is good value.
What value do investors place on Golden Star Resources's assets?
* Primary Listing of Golden Star Resources.
Golden Star Resources is overvalued based on assets compared to the CA Metals and Mining industry average.
Golden Star Resources has a total score of 2/6, see the detailed checks below.
How is Golden Star Resources expected to perform in the next 1 to 3 years based on estimates from 6 analysts?
Is Golden Star Resources expected to grow at an attractive rate?
Golden Star Resources's earnings growth is expected to exceed the low risk savings rate of 1.9%.
Golden Star Resources's earnings growth is expected to exceed the Canada market average.
Golden Star Resources's revenue growth is expected to exceed the Canada market average.
Golden Star Resources's earnings are expected to grow significantly at over 20% yearly.
Golden Star Resources's revenue is expected to grow by 8.9% yearly, however this is not considered high growth (20% yearly).
All data from Golden Star Resources Company Filings, last reported 3 months ago, and in Trailing twelve months (TTM) annual period rather than quarterly.
Golden Star Resources is expected to efficiently use shareholders' funds in the future (Return on Equity greater than 20%).
Golden Star Resources has a total score of 5/6, see the detailed checks below.
How has Golden Star Resources performed over the past 5 years?
Below we compare Golden Star Resources's growth in the last year to its industry (Metals and Mining).
Golden Star Resources does not make a profit even though their year on year earnings growth rate was positive over the past 5 years.
Unable to compare Golden Star Resources's 1-year earnings growth to the 5-year average as it is not currently profitable.
Unable to compare Golden Star Resources's 1-year growth to the CA Metals and Mining industry average as it is not currently profitable.
Golden Star Resources's revenue and profit over the past 5 years is shown below, any years where they have experienced a loss will show up in red.
It is difficult to establish if Golden Star Resources has efficiently used shareholders' funds last year (Return on Equity greater than 20%) as it is loss-making.
It is difficult to establish if Golden Star Resources has efficiently used its assets last year compared to the CA Metals and Mining industry average (Return on Assets) as it is loss-making.
It is difficult to establish if Golden Star Resources improved its use of capital last year versus 3 years ago (Return on Capital Employed) as it is currently loss-making.
Golden Star Resources has a total score of 0/6, see the detailed checks below.
How is Golden Star Resources's financial health and their level of debt?
The boxes below represent the relative size of what makes up Golden Star Resources's finances.
Golden Star Resources is able to meet its short term (1 year) commitments with its holdings of cash and other short term assets.
Golden Star Resources's long term commitments exceed its cash and other short term assets.
This treemap shows a more detailed breakdown of Golden Star Resources's finances. If any of them are yellow this indicates they may be out of proportion and red means they relate to one of the checks below.
All data from Golden Star Resources Company Filings, last reported 3 months ago.
Golden Star Resources's level of debt (239.6%) compared to net worth is high (greater than 40%).
The level of debt compared to net worth has been reduced over the past 5 years (357.2% vs 239.6% today).
Unable to confirm if Golden Star Resources has at least 1 year of cash runway based on growing free cash flows without relevant data.
What is Golden Star Resources's current dividend yield, its reliability and sustainability?
Current annual income from Golden Star Resources dividends.
If you bought CA$2,000 of Golden Star Resources shares you are expected to receive CA$0 in your first year as a dividend.
Unable to evaluate Golden Star Resources's dividend yield against the bottom 25% of dividend payers as the company has not reported any payouts.
Unable to evaluate Golden Star Resources's dividend against the top 25% market benchmark as the company has not reported any payouts.
Unable to perform a dividend volatility check as Golden Star Resources has not reported any payouts.
Unable to verify if Golden Star Resources's dividend has been increasing as the company has not reported any payouts.
What portion of Golden Star Resources's earnings are paid to the shareholders as a dividend.
Unable to calculate sustainability of dividends as Golden Star Resources has not reported any payouts.
What is the CEO of Golden Star Resources's salary, the management and board of directors tenure and is there insider trading?
Mr. Samuel T. Coetzer, also known as Sam, has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Golden Star Resources Limited since January 2013 and has been its Director since December 13, 2012. Prior to this appointment, he served the Company as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer from March 2011 to December 2012. Mr. Coetzer is a mining engineer graduate from the University of Pretoria, a Member of the World Gold Council and has over 25 years of international mining experience, having held increasing levels of responsibility in various mining companies including Xstrata Nickel Australasia Pty Ltd, Xstrata Coal South Africa, and Placer Dome Inc. Mr. Coetzer consulted to Kinross Gold Corporation ("Kinross") from February 2009 and was appointed in May 2009 as Senior Vice President, South American Operations for Kinross, serving in this role until September 2010. From June 2007 to October 2008, Mr. Coetzer was the Chief Operating Officer of Xstrata Nickel Australasia Pty Ltd, and from March 2006 to June 2007, he was the Chief Operating Officer of Xstrata Coal South Africa. Mr. Coetzer also has significant experience in Africa, having been with Placer Dome Inc.'s South African and Tanzanian operations, where he was Managing Director - South Africa and the Executive General Manager – Tanzania, from 2003 to February 2006.
Sam's remuneration is higher than average for companies of similar size in Canada.
The average tenure for the Golden Star Resources management team is over 5 years, this suggests they are a seasoned and experienced team.
The tenure for the Golden Star Resources board of directors is about average.
More shares have been bought than sold by Golden Star Resources insiders in the past 3 months.
Golden Star Resources has a total score of 0/6, this is not included on the snowflake, see the detailed checks below.
How Should Investors React To Golden Star Resources Ltd.'s (TSE:GSC) CEO Pay?
Have Insiders Been Buying Golden Star Resources Ltd. (TSE:GSC) Shares?
So shareholders might well want to know whether insiders have been buying or selling shares in Golden Star Resources Ltd. … But logic dictates you should pay some attention to whether insiders are buying or selling shares. … Golden Star Resources Insider Transactions Over The Last Year.
What Kind Of Share Price Volatility Should You Expect For Golden Star Resources Ltd. (TSE:GSC)?
Who Really Owns Golden Star Resources Ltd (TSE:GSC)?
Golden Star Resources Ltd (TSE:GSC): Can Growth Justify Its July Share Price?
In this article I am going to calculate the intrinsic value of Golden Star Resources Ltd (TSE:GSC). … by taking the foreast future cash flows of the company and discounting them back to today's value. … If you are reading this and its not June 2018 then I highly recommend you check out the latest calculation for Golden Star Resources by following the link below.
Does Golden Star Resources Ltd's (TSX:GSC) November Stock Price Reflect Its Future Growth?
Golden Star Resources is available at a price-to-earnings ratio of 11x, showing us it is undervalued relative to the current CA market average of 17.29x , and undervalued based on its latest annual earnings update compared to the metals and mining average of 11.06x. … However, since Golden Star Resources is a high-growth stock, we must also account for its earnings growth by using calculation called the PEG ratio. … Based on Golden Star Resources's predicted 71.56% growth in earnings next year and PE ratio of 11x we see that Golden Star Resources has a low PEG ratio of 0.99x.
Should You Be Tempted To Buy Golden Star Resources Ltd (TSX:GSC) At Its Current Price?
It compares a stock's price per share to the stock's earnings per share. … Formula Price-Earnings Ratio = Price per share ÷ Earnings per share P/E Calculation for GSC Price per share = 0.98 Earnings per share = 0.08 ∴ Price-Earnings Ratio = 0.98 ÷ 0.08 = 9.7x On its own, the P/E ratio doesn't tell you much; however, it becomes extremely useful when you compare it with other similar companies. … GSC's P/E of 9.7x is lower than its industry peers (11.1x), which implies that each dollar of GSC's earnings is being undervalued by investors.
Check out our latest analysis for Golden Star Resources TSX:GSC Ownership Summary Oct 26th 17 Institutional Ownership Institutions account for 38.80% of GSC's outstanding shares, a significant enough holding to move stock prices if they start buying and selling in large quantities, especially when there are relatively small amounts of shares available on the market to trade. … Although GSC has a high institutional ownership, such stock moves, in the short-term, are more commonly linked to a particular type of active institutional investors – hedge funds. … Insider Ownership Insiders form another group of important ownership types as they manage the company's operations and decide the best use of capital.
Golden Star Resources Ltd. operates as a gold mining and exploration company. The company owns and operates the Wassa open-pit gold mine, the Wassa underground mine, and a carbon-in-leach processing plant located to the northeast of the town of Tarkwa, Ghana; and the Bogoso gold mining and processing operation, the Prestea open-pit mining operations, and the Prestea underground mine located near the town of Prestea, Ghana. It also holds and manages interests in various gold exploration properties in Ghana and Brazil. The company was incorporated in 1992 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.
Name: Golden Star Resources Ltd.
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By Pam Hersh | October 17, 2019
On Saturday Nov. 9, 2019, the Highland Park Conservative Temple (HPCT) – Congregation Anshe Emeth will host a special Shirainu Jewish Music concert featuring Ensemble Lucidarium. Founded in 1991 in Basel by Avery Gosfield and is now based in Geneva and Milan, Italy, Lucidarium is on a USA tour, supported by the Canton of Geneva.
Ensemble Lucidarium specializes in bringing little-known repertoires from the Renaissance and Middle Ages back to life in an entertaining, engaging way designed for a 21st century public. Lucidarium's work is currently divided between two different projects: Ars Italica, which explores different aspects of Italy's culture through its music and poetry, and Ars Hebraicae, dedicated to a reconstruction of the sound scape of the Jews in Renaissance Europe.
Lucidarium will perform Sounds from Shylock's Venice, a program created by Lucidarium in commemoration of the 500 years since the establishment of the Venice Ghetto and the 400 year anniversary of Shakespeare's death. Sounds from Shylock's Venice conjures the sights and sounds of a day in the life of Shylock, in and out of the Jewish quarter, in the vibrant, colorful world that was Renaissance Venice.
Shylock's Venice was a crucible of cultures and a magnet for immigration, where – in spite of pervasive prejudice – Spanish and German Jews joined their native Italian co-religionists. Whether escaping repression or coming to find work as merchants or as Hebrew and Kabbalah teachers, Jews profoundly influenced the cultural crossover of 16th century Venice.
This program has been performed in Jewish and Early music festivals from Dresden to Austin. It also has been recorded for radio, has been the subject of documentaries and symposia, and is soon to be released as a CD.
Details of the concert Saturday night Nov. 9th are shown below. A number of related musical events will also be held. On Sunday, Nov. 10, 2019, there will be a lecture: "Invisible Presence – The Jewish Presence in Italy and Jewish Synagogue Song" by Lucidarium co-director Enrico Fink – a cantor, musician and educator. Mr. Fink also will be assisting at the HPCT-CAE Kabbalah Shabbat and Shabbat services during the weekend of Nov. 9-10.
The weekend prior to the concert, Mr. Fink will be in concert in Princeton (without the Ensemble, but with friends Cantor Jeff Warshauer and Deborah Strauss).
The links below should help you learn more about the Ensemble Lucidarium, the HPCT-CAE program information and related events.
Ensemble Lucidarium Website: http://www.lucidarium.com/
HPCT-CAE Program Info: http://hpct-cae.org/events/shirainu-jewish-music-concert-ensemble-lucidarium/
Princeton Jewish Center Program Info: The Jewish Center | Princeton, NJ | Conservative Egalitarian Synagogue
Crossroads Theatre to Host Denzel Washington And Honor Him With The 'Legends Award'on Saturday, Oct. 19
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The Dead Sea Region in southern Israel, where Masada is located is prone to a phenomenon called "sinkholes." A sinkhole is also called a shakehole, sallow hole, doline, swallet and cenote which describe a hole or depression in the ground caused by the collapsed upper surface above an empty space that has formed below ground. This can happen when carbonate mineral rich rocks (Limestone, gypsum, basalt or dolomite for example) dissolve beneath the surface. The rock dissolves because there is a lack of subterranean drainage so that fresh water moves slowly beneath the surface corroding away the soft rock. In the Dead Sea Region cavernous spaces beneath the ground are formed as the level of the Dead Sea drops and subterranean water dries up or when the sedimentary rock is dissolved by rising fresh groundwater.
The sinkholes vary in size from one to several hundred meters in diameter. The chasm left in the ground can be lined with soil or bare bedrock. The holes can open up slowly over time or can suddenly collapse. The ground can appear perfectly safe as the chasm is forming beneath the surface and then for no apparent reason the ground can collapse. An earthquake, heavy rainfall, floods or the steps of a person could trigger the collapse of the surface layer and form a sinkhole. Sinkholes appear is several locations across the globe (UK, Papua New Guinea, Venezuela, China, Mexico, Egypt, Turkey, Russia, USA etc).
Sinkholes have been a hazard in the Dead Sea region since about the 1970s. Reports from 2015 bear headlines like "Looming Environmental Catastrophe", "Sinkholes as Deep as Eight-Story Buildings" and the "Dying Dead Sea." The Dead Sea is evaporating at an alarming rate leaving behind unstable surrounding land where sinkholes could appear at any moment. Water levels in the Dead Sea have dropped by about 30 meters since the 70s. Most experts believe that the sinkholes are the result water from the Jordan River being diverted from reaching the Dead Sea and used for other purposes. Together with the mismanagement of water from the Jordan the mining of Dead Sea minerals has also been blamed for the drop in Dead Sea water levels and hence the appearance of sinkholes. Geologists claim that with the rapid drop in water levels of approximately a meter a year the sinkholes are inevitable. As the water level drops cavernous spaces filled with water beneath the earth's surface dry up and the surface layer collapses into the empty space. Sinkholes are also formed when the Dead Sea water recedes and fresh groundwater rises up dissolving the layers of salt, creating underground chasms. Many of the sinkholes appear along the seismic fault lines of the Jordan Rift Valley where the salts in the earth are less stable and more susceptible to invading freshwater.
The Dead Sea coastline is shrinking and sinkholes are appearing as if out of nowhere on a progressively more regular basis. In 2015 approximately 3,000 sinkholes of various sizes were counted in the Dead Sea Region. The largest sinkhole found in the Dead Sea Region has been 24.3 meters by 39.6 meters but it is possible for smaller sinkholes to join forming a larger chasm.
Environmentalists have warned that the thousands of sinkholes and the receding coastline of the Dead Sea pose a threat to route 90 which runs along the shore of the Dead Sea. The sinkholes also endanger local human inhabitants, animals, the landscape and any future railway line connecting Tel Aviv with Eilat on the Red Sea. The Israeli Director at EcoPeace Middle East, Gidon Bromberg called it "nature's revenge" for human abuse of the natural resources. Experts are looking for ways of predicting where sinkholes may appear in order to avoid accidents. So far no one has died because of a sinkhole but several people have fallen into sinkholes, been injured and needed recuing. There is one point all of the experts agree on and that is that the sinkhole phenomenon in the Dead Sea Region is caused by man and is not a natural occurrence. Although sinkholes may sound frightening and dangerous you have nothing to fear if you stick to the sign posted routes and don't wander off into the desert or along unmarked routes. In areas where there are known sinkholes or where experts think they are likely to occur you can see clear signs and barriers blocking entry by hikers or cars.


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Der Wettbewerb um die Coupe de France féminine in der Saison 2012/13 war die zwölfte Ausspielung des französischen Fußballpokals für Frauenmannschaften. Die Teilnahme war nur für die Frauschaften der ersten und zweiten Liga verpflichtend.

Titelverteidiger war Olympique Lyon. Lyon setzte sich auch in diesem Wettbewerb durch und gewann bei seiner sechsten Finalteilnahme den Pokal zum dritten Mal nach 2008 und 2012. Wie bei den beiden vorangegangenen Erfolgen waren Olympiques Frauen auch in dieser Saison zugleich französische Meisterinnen geworden und gewannen somit ebenfalls zum dritten Mal den Doublé. Lyons absolute Dominanz zeigte sich unter anderem auch daran, dass es die ersten vier Runden vor dem Halbfinale mit einem Torverhältnis von 46:0 bestritt. Die unterlegenen Finalistinnen der AS Saint-Étienne standen nach 2011, als sie als Siegerinnen vom Platz gegangen waren, zum zweiten Mal in einem Pokalendspiel.

Der Wettbewerb wurde nach dem klassischen Pokalmodus ausgetragen; das heißt insbesondere, dass die jeweiligen Spielpaarungen ohne Setzlisten oder eine leistungsmäßige beziehungsweise ab dem Achtelfinale ohne regionale Vorsortierung der Vereine aus sämtlichen noch im Wettbewerb befindlichen Klubs ausgelost wurden und lediglich ein Spiel ausgetragen wurde, an dessen Ende ein Sieger feststehen musste (und sei es durch ein Elfmeterschießen – eine Verlängerung bei unentschiedenem Stand nach 90 Minuten war nicht vorgesehen), der sich dann für die nächste Runde qualifizierte, während der Verlierer ausschied. Auch das Heimrecht wurde für jede Begegnung durch das Los ermittelt – mit Ausnahme des Finales, das auf neutralem Platz an jährlich wechselnden Orten stattfand –, jedoch mit der Einschränkung, dass Klubs, die gegen eine mindestens zwei Ligastufen höher spielende Elf anzutreten haben, automatisch Heimrecht bekamen.

Nach Abschluss der von den regionalen Untergliederungen des Landesverbands FFF organisierten Qualifikationsrunden griffen im Zweiunddreißigstelfinale, der sogenannten zweiten Bundesrunde (Deuxième tour fédéral), auch die zwölf Erstligisten in den Wettbewerb ein.

Zweiunddreißigstelfinale
Spiele am 26., 27. und 30. Januar, ausgefallene Matches am 3. bzw. 10. Februar 2013. Die Vereine der beiden höchsten Ligen sind mit D1 bzw. D2 gekennzeichnet.

Sechzehntelfinale
Spiele am 17. und 20. Februar 2013.

Achtelfinale
Spiele am 23. und 24. März 2013

Viertelfinale
Spiele am 27. und 28. April 2013

Halbfinale
Spiele am 11. und 12. Mai, Wiederholungsmatch am 5. Juni 2013

Finale
Spiel am 8. Juni 2013 im Stade Gabriel Montpied von Clermont-Ferrand vor 5.191 Zuschauern

Olympique Lyon – AS Saint-Étienne 3:1 (1:0)

Aufstellungen

Lyon: Sarah Bouhaddi – Lara Dickenmann, Sabrina Viguier, Wendie Renard, Sonia Bompastor  (Corine Franco, 81.) – Élise Bussaglia, Camille Abily, Amel Majri (Megan Rapinoe, 46.), Louisa Nécib – Eugénie Le Sommer, Lotta Schelin (Élodie Thomis, 57.)Trainer: Patrice Lair

Saint-Étienne: Méline Gérard – Charlotte Gauvin (Ophélie Brevet, 81.), Julie Debever (Morgane Courteille, 56.), Charlotte Lorgeré, Amandine Soulard – Aude Moreau , Maéva Clemaron, Amélie Barbetta, Rose Lavaud – Candice Gherbi (Léonie Fleury, 67.), Audrey ChaumetteTrainer: Hervé Didier

Schiedsrichterin: Dorothée Ily

Tore
1:0 Schelin (44.)
2:0 Renard (58.)
2:1 Chaumette (63.)
3:1 Le Sommer (75.)

Siehe auch
 Division 1 Féminine 2012/13
 Coupe de France 2012/13

Weblinks
 Der Pokalwettbewerb dieser Saison auf der Seite von footofeminin.fr (französisch)

Anmerkungen

Coupe de France féminine
Fußballsaison 2012/13

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Draw her legs thick and wear jeans.
Finally color the doctor so she becomes cute. You have a cute female doctor.


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Q: How to force close an application in windows 8 if it is not responding? It sometimes occurs to me that some of the running applications in Windows 8 stop responding. In windows 7 there was an option of going to task manager and right click on a program's icon  and go to its process and then right click on the process and end it. But in Windows 8's task manager only the process shows and then option on the right click is end task. It doesn't end the process if the program is not responding.
Is there any way I can force-close the applications that are not responding (One solution i use is restarting the PC).

A: Do you mean End process tree in Details tab of windown 8

A: You could do this with a command like
taskkill.exe /f /fi "status eq not responding"

Or, turn it into a bat file, create a short cut and execute with just a click of a button. More details
However, this should be possible via Windows 8 and I would try and find out why it isn't!

A: You might want to try Process Explorer, or Process Hacker 2. They not only work very fine on NT operating systems, and let you end anything you want, they would also show many interesting things. Both applications are very safe (not a malware or virus) and they are way way better than the built-in task manager of Windows.
I highly recommend Process Hacker.


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Cameron consults the comedians
After a memorable pub meeting with Stephen Fry to discuss the burning issue of LBGTOMG rights in Russia, David Cameron has realised that it will be best if all his policies are formulated by comedians from now on.
Don't touch the food - Fry's with everything.
Naturally, "Dave" is in constant touch with many LBGTBLT activists, and he has lost no time in setting up a "war cabinet" to advise him.
"Ern, I'm very worried about Vladimir Putin."
Since the cause of LBGTBBC rights is paramount, it seems that Cameron will be left with no alternative but to declare war on Russia. Luckily, the army is ready to go.
"I assure you, it will all be over by Christmas, Prime Minister."
Meanwhile, the problem of Gibraltar will not go away, and Britain may find itself fighting wars on two fronts simultaneously (that is, excluding Afghanistan, the Vatican, and any other skirmishes we are currently committed to). Luckily, an expert on Spanish affairs is advising the prime minister.
"I will negotiate with Señor Rajoy, Prime Minister."
Finally (and after all, this is primarily a religious blog), Cameron has now explained why he has refused to take any advice from leading religious figures on matters such as same-sex marriage. Apparently, he found it impossible to take Archbishop Nichols seriously, dismissing him as a "mere comedian". Instead, he consulted a highly-respected Irish cleric, but didn't understand the advice he was getting.
"They've mistaken me for Tony Flannery again!"
Following his lengthy exposure to comedians, "Dave" has been trying to relaunch his own double act in the hope of recovering some of his lost popularity; however, it has been generally received with prolonged booing.
Dave cracks a joke, while Nick keeps a straight face.
Labels: David Cameron, Fr Jack Hackett, Gibraltar, homosexuality, Manuel, Mariano Rajoy, Morecambe and Wise, Nick Clegg, Russia, same-sex marriage, Spain, Stephen Fry, Tony Flannery, Vincent Nichols, Vladimir Putin
Damian Thompson: pulling strings?
Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor writes:
Where it all began to go wrong - Mennini tells me I'm past it.
Nobody could have more respect for Damian Thompson than I do. Like him, I come from beautiful Reading, and dabble occasionally in religious matters. Moreover, I share his passion for custard. But tonight an unusually good source told me that he had read on the Telegraph website that Damian was trying to exert his influence in forthcoming ecclesiastical appointments.
You may think that the life of a retired cardinal is one of idleness - watching Countdown on television, going to church every few weeks, that sort of thing - but in fact I also keep a close watch on activities in Rome, and am very anxious to give this new chap Pope Franklin (memo: check name) the benefit of my experiences.
Why doesn't Damian stick to things he knows about?
I am very dismayed by some of the recent appointments of Catholic bishops in England and Wales. We have seen people like Philip Egan, Mark Davies and Alan Hopes promoted - all nasty traditionalist types who want to bring Christianity back into the Catholic Church. Sometimes I think they prefer the Holy Spirit to the Spirit of Vatican II!
The nuncio, Archbishop Mennini, is to blame here, and I am afraid that Damian Thompson is almost certainly the éminence grise controlling him. (I use the phrase figuratively - Damian is very proud that he has not a single grey hair on his head, and he has won the Telegraph's "best hair" competition five years running.)
The place where Damian Thompson schemes and plots.
Well, the era of Damian's influence is surely coming to an end soon. I've a feeling that many of the top people in Rome - Paolo Gabriele, Battista Ricca, people like that - feel the same way as I do, so I'll be revenged on that nuncio after all!
In my day, they'd even appoint a footballer if I said so!
Labels: Archbishop Mennini, Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor, custard, Damian Thompson, football, hair salon, Kieran Conry, Pope Franklin, Reading, Spirit
A pope's guide to Twitter
Your Holiness,
Many of us are very pleased to see you on Twitter, but I think it's time that some friendly person took you aside to explain that you're not really using it properly.
So far, so good... or is it?
You see the problem here? You are following only 8 people, and they have very similar names, for example, Papa Franciscus, Pape François and البابا فرنسيس. If you are going to use sockpopes, you ought to make them less obvious, Holy Father, and conceal them by following lots of other people as well as yourself. Call yourself something more subtle such as "Geo. Bergoglio", or "Anonymous Holy Man", or perhaps "Vatican Big Cheese", or even just "Happy Catholic". All the names that cry out "I'm holy, and don't you forget it!" such as "Miser Peccator", "Holy Smoke", or "On the side of the angels" have probably been taken already, I'm afraid.
Now, you may think that 2-million-plus followers is something special (after all, Dawkins has less than 800,000 and Justin Welby a pathetic 40,000), but even the Dalai Lama's stuff is read by over 7 million fans; when you leave the realms of religion and go into show-business, you find Justin Bieber, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga and Barack Obama all around the 40 million mark. And Obama can't even sing.
Justin Bieber Welby. The one who sings, anyway.
So what are you doing wrong, your holiness? Well, take your latest tweet: We cannot be Christians part-time. If Christ is at the center of our lives, he is present in all that we do. You're using U.S. English, very good; that will bring in our American friends. A very sound comment, but it does read a little too much as if you're trying to preach to us. When did you last crack a joke? Or post a funny picture?
This man thinks he's a cardinal, but he's just a lunatic. ROFL. Love you all. @pontifex
Yes, that's the sort of thing. Now you should really be following more people and interacting with them. You like football - why not follow Diego Maradona? Then, every time he mentions the "Hand of God", reply with "You're a filthy cheat!" That's the way most people use Twitter.
Or, for a good laugh, follow the Tablet! You've probably never heard of it, but it's a brilliant spoof account, parodying a supposedly Catholic newspaper. It tries to cram in as many heresies, mis-statements and sheer fantasies as it possibly can. You'll love it!
What do you think, folks? Shall I make this chap a saint? Bless! @pontifex
Finally, you need to have a regular circle of Twitter enemies, with whom you swap insults. There's no use talking to Richard Dawkins or Stephen Fry - they get upset too easily. Besides, your natural home is with the Catholics: they like squabbling on Twitter, so join in the fun. Say that you quite like Catholic Voices, and see how long it takes before you're accused of being a sockpuppet living in Brighton!
Is this a sockpope, or the real thing?
Labels: Barack Obama, Brighton, Catholic Voices, Diego Maradona, Gilbert Chesterton, Justin Bieber, Justin Welby, Pope Francis, sockpope, sockpuppet, The Tablet, Twitter
New Hymns 5
In this slot we have previously invited John Henry Newman, King David, Charles Wesley, and Christina Rossetti to attend masterclasses on how to write a good "modern" hymn. Today, we are pleased to welcome William Williams, author of Guide me, O thou great Jehovah (or possibly ...Redeemer). In fact, Bill, you wrote this song originally in Welsh?
WW: Arglwydd, arwain trwy'r anialwch!
Fi, bererin gwael ei wedd...
E: Er, yes, thank you. Of course I speak Welsh fluently, but for the benefit of my readers we'll continue in English, if you don't mind.
WW: Not at all, old fruit.
E: Now, here is the first verse you wrote, in a popular translation:
Guide me, O Thou great Redeemer,
Pilgrim through this barren land;
I am weak, but Thou art mighty;
Hold me with Thy powerful hand:
Bread of Heaven, bread of Heaven
Feed me till I want no more.
WW: Yes, and it's usually sung to the stirring tune of Cwm Rhondda.
E: No good, I'm afraid. Too many ideas crammed into one verse, and the tune is not one that you can clap your hands to. Liturgical dancers also find it a bit tricky to participate.
Strictly Cwm Dancing.
WW: Well, I didn't have the benefit of modern musical scholarship, Eccles. Can you help?
E: Yes. Let's change the tune first. How about a song that people can jump to, like Colonel Bogey?
The best tune for today's hymn.
WW: Is that the one about Hitler's deficiencies?
E: Well, in some traditions, but we can adapt your hymn to this too. Note how we just use the first line, and repeat it several times. Thus we don't overload the hymn with ideas!
Guide me, thou great Re-de-e-mer!
Guide me, oh guide me, guide me,
Oh guide me, guide me, oh guide me, ha-ha!
WW: I don't remember writing "Ha-ha!"
E: Well I would have said "Ch-ch" but Paul Inwood might have complained that I'd pinched one of his deeper theological ideas. We need something clunky to end on.
WW: What happens in Verse 2? "Pilgrim through this barren land" doesn't scan.
E: We can get round that.
I am a jolly pilgrim, Lord!
I am a jolly pilgrim,
A jolly pilgrim, a pilgrim, ho-ho!
Like the surprise ending?
WW: Well, I didn't see that coming.
E: Note that the verse is now mostly about YOU, and not about God.
WW: So would Verse 3 ("I am weak, but thou art mighty") now be better if it were something like I am - a pretty useless chap?
E: No, that's not inclusive language, Bill. Maybe, I don't - feel very well some days. Still about you, of course. But you know what the real problem with your hymn is?
WW: I'd be very grateful if you could tell me, Eccles.
E: It doesn't mention light, sunrise, shining, etc. These are very popular with modern hymnwriters.
WW: Well...
Sunrise - I like the shining light!
Sunrise, I like the sunrise,
I like the sunrise, the sunrise, hee-hee!
Bring me sunshine...
E: Well, we've come a long way from your original hymn, but I'm sure that our new version is a great improvement.
WW: Eccles, thank you very much.
E: My pleasure, Bill.
Labels: Adolf Hitler, Colonel Bogey, Cwm Rhonddha, Guide me O Thou great Redeemer, liturgical dancing, new hymns, Paul Inwood, pilgrim, sunshine, Wales, William Williams
Sherlock Holmes and the poisoned professor
"What do you make of this, Holmes?" I asked, looking up from my laptop, on which I was reading some comments on Twitter. "Richard Dawkins is complaining about something again."
"Watson, this case presents interesting features."
Holmes rose from his chair, from which he had firing bullets into the wall, producing a passable outline of the head of Bishop Kieran Conry (or it may have been Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall) - the revolver shots were annoying, but less painful on the ears than when he played selections from Paul Inwood on his violin. "Let me see now," he said. "Wednesday was insult-Muslims day, and Thursday, being the Assumption, would have been the occasion of a dig at the Virgin Mary. On Friday he just whinges about life in general - recently it was the difficulty of finding a matching pair of socks."
I read out the tweet in question: My daily breakfast includes (unsalted) cashew nuts. My current batch tastes of chlorine. Any (knowledgeable, non-facetious) ideas why?
A feast fit for a leading atheist!
"There is Devilish work afoot here," replied Holmes. "A scientific question that even Richard Dawkins cannot answer! But, if I am not mistaken, here is our client now!"
Mrs Hudson opened the door of our rooms in Tom Baker Street, admitting an aged man, who was accompanied by a younger woman and a strange metal dog bearing the legend "K9". Holmes greeted them warmly.
"I perceive from your right sleeve that you are a retired zoologist, now employed as a world-leading amateur theologian and scourge of the godly," said my friend. "Also, the scuff marks on your shoes indicate that you came here in a large red bus bearing the legend 'Look, I tell you, there probably isn't a God. Now get lost.'"
Our client, looking distinctly unwell.
"Never mind that rubbish, Holmes, you charlatan," replied Dawkins with his well-known charm and bonhomie, cutting short my cry of "Amazing, Holmes!"
The facts of the case turned out to be as Dawkins had already related in his Twitter comment, and my friend had further questions to pose. "Do you have enemies, Professor Dawkins? Are there any people you may have offended in some way?"
"Not really," said Dawkins in a puzzled tone. "Well, the Catholic Church of course. And the Anglicans. The Baptists. The Muslims. Sikhs. Hindus. Hardly anyone, really."
We accompanied our client and his companions back to the scene of the crime, the breakfast room in Castle Dawkins, Oxford. Holmes scrutinised the room carefully, then, with a cry of "Aha!" he pulled a white cap from under the table.
A clue!
"If I am not mistaken," said my friend, "this is a zucchetto. No, Watson, don't try and eat it, it's not a zucchini. This is a skull cap worn by someone very senior in the Catholic Church. I have written a monograph classifying 200 different types of skull cap. Perhaps you have read it, Professor Dawkins?"
Dawkins explained to us that he never read works by other people, to avoid the risk of being contaminated by their opinions, and Holmes gave us a profile of his prime suspect.
"I suspect someone senior in the Catholic Church, probably a pope. He would need to have some knowledge of chemistry - perhaps he found the subject too difficult, and gave it up to become a pope instead. Now, to judge by the monogram inside the cap, his name begins with F. Have you seen a Pope Fred in the neighbourhood recently?"
Pope Fred (R) prepares breakfast for Richard Dawkins (L).
Alas, the case was destined to remain unsolved. Somewhere my friend had made a vital error, for we were totally unable to track down anyone answering to the name of "Pope Fred". It was one of Holmes's rare failures.
"Watson," said my friend. "If it should ever strike you that I am getting a little over-confident in my powers, kindly whisper 'Dawkins' in my ear, and I shall be infinitely obliged to you."
Labels: Arthur Conan Doyle, cashew nuts, chlorine, Pope Francis, Pope Fred, Richard Dawkins, Sherlock Holmes, zucchetto
Persecuted Archbishop told to "grow up"
Rowan Williams, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, was today told to "grow up" and stop moaning about feeling "mildly uncomfortable".
Thou writest bitter things against me. Job 13:26
After saying a few daft things trivialising the difficulties suffered by faithful Christians in modern Britain (e.g. the loss of their jobs), Archbishop Williams has received a hail of abuse, insults and invective, both on Twitter and on the blogs. Although he is very distressed by this, it has been pointed out to him that his sufferings are minor compared with those of some former Archbishops of Canterbury.
Cranmer. Called "beardie" by his enemies. Also burnt to death.
Archbishop Cranmer himself was very unpopular in his time. Although he became a fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, he never made it to Master, probably because of his silly beard, for which he was remorselessly mocked. "Oh look, it's that leftie druid chap," said the Cambridge students as he walked through the town. In the end he had to go.
Thomas Becket - the authorities said he was a liberal.
Thomas Becket was another occupant of the see of Canterbury who was roundly abused on the Internet (or Plantaga-net as it was called in those days). Although his beard was not widely criticised in contemporary blogs, he was described as "turbulent" by a very senior member of the government (Henry II), and it was not long before he lost his position.
So those who are saying to Rowan Williams, "Chin up! Bear your sufferings like a man!" are probably only being fair. These days, the life of an Archbishop in modern Britain is relatively comfortable, and the persecution he suffers is insignificant.
A home for retired archbishops.
Labels: beard, Henry II, Job, Magdalene College Cambridge, Plantaganet, Rowan Williams, St Thomas Becket, Thomas Cranmer, Twitter
Desert Island Discs
There are rumours that the BBC is planning to change the format of its radio programme Desert Island Discs after a barrage of three complaints from the National Secular Society. At present, "castaways" invited onto the show are invited to take eight records of their choice, together with the Bible, the works of Shakespeare, and one luxury item. We asked Terry Sanderson, president of the NSS, to explain his objections.
By popular request: Terry Sanderson exiled to a desert island.
Explained Terry: "It is assumed that people will want to take with them the works of Shakespeare, but in this modern age few people believe in them. I'm not saying that some of the events portrayed in the book didn't happen - for example, most of us would accept the existence of Henry IV, even if we didn't think he came in two parts - but some of the stories are clearly legends that nobody can be expected to believe."
A ridiculous fairy story.
"This book about a midsummer night's dream," he continued. "Obviously a man can go around with an ass's head on him - my friend Richard Dawkins finds this idea totally reasonable - but there are miraculous elements in the story that reduce it to a fairy story."
Malvolio - imprisoned for smugness and "gay" stockings.
"There are may unsavoury incidents in the work," continued Sanderson. "My other friend Stephen Fry is shocked by the story of Malvolio, imprisoned for being insufferably smug and wearing yellow stockings. Stephen rightly says that if the story is true we should refuse to play any sport with Illyria. But my feeling is that the whole thing is a myth."
Polonius - simply a great teacher?
"I'll say nothing against the character of Polonius, although he is generally regarded as a humourless old fool," he added. "For various reasons I feel a natural affinity with him, and his martyrdom behind an arras is truly unpleasant. But it would be wrong to think of the play Hamlet in supernatural terms, and this nonsense about a ghost strains all credulity."
The "King James" edition of Shakespeare has made it a popular book since the early 17th century, containing as it does a mixture of history, moral teaching, instructive legends and poetry. However with the NSS condemning it, the BBC (which regards the NSS in high esteem) is likely to drop it from the radio programme.
The book of Macbeth is similarly fantastical.
A BBC spokesman said last night that they were expecting to drop Shakespeare, replacing it by a suitable secular work, such as The God Delusion or Whitehead and Russell's Principia Mathematica.
Just the thing for a long stay on a desert island!
Labels: A Midsummer Night's Dream, BBC, Bottom, Desert Island Discs, Hamlet, Illyria, Macbeth, Malvolio, National Secular Society, Polonius, Principia Mathematica, Richard Dawkins, Shakespeare, Stephen Fry, Terry Sanderson
Who was the mystery priest?
When Katie Lentz of Missouri, USA, was trapped in a crashed car, a "mystery priest", appeared from nowhere and prayed with her. The story has miraculous elements, as the priest appears on no photographs of the scene, and later ascended bodily into Heaven (I may have got that bit wrong).
"Hand me down a blanket!" says the mystery priest.
Although in some accounts, the mystery priest was later identified as Fr Patrick Dowling, this is far too improbable a theory, and we suggest some other miracle-working priests.
Father John Zuhlsdorf, with his bus pass.
Father Z, a traditional Catholic and celebrity blogger, is also an experienced miracle-worker, and would have no trouble manifesting himself at a road accident, provided that he was facing east at the time. Known for miraculous deeds such as "turning the water into coffee" and "driving the demons out of the National Catholic Reporter", Fr Z is also prepared to do liturgical materializations, if the instructions are written in red.
Fr Eccles.
Fr Eccles, author of The Pilgrim's Ogress, a biography of his aunt Moly, normally wears a red biretta. However, this week he lent his red hat to Archbishop Vincent Nichols ("I'd just like to try one on and see what I look like in it"), and was wearing a simple black one.
The mystery priest sustained Katie Lentz with a dish of Eccles cake and custard.
Fr Tony Flannery? No, the man looked like a priest.
The "mystery priest" was reported as behaving entirely like a normal Catholic priest in good standing, who did not once moan about how beastly the Vatican had been to him. We must regretfully eliminate Fr Flannery from our list of suspects, even though, as one person put it, "It's a miracle that he's still a priest."
Bishop John Arnold.
Bishop John Arnold is chairman of the allegedly-Catholic charity CAFOD, and credited with a miracle that still leaves people's jaws dropping - the pouring out of gold (£90,000) onto CAFOD's Chief Executive Chris Bain. John Arnold has links with more plausibly Catholic organizations as well, including the Archdiocese of Westminster, an organization which recently hosted a lecture by Tina Beattie. So far he has not denied being the "mystery priest".
Oh all right, perhaps it was Fr Dowling after all.
Labels: CAFOD, Chris Bain, custard, Eccles cake, Fr John Zuhlsdorf, Fr Patrick Dowling, John Arnold, Katie Lentz, Missouri, mystery priest, Tina Beattie, Tony Flannery, Vincent Nichols, Westminster
Are atheists more handsome?
After failing to convince people that atheists were statistically more intelligent than "faith-heads" - which of course would instantly prove that all religion was a load of rubbish - Prof. Richard Dawkins has come up with another devastating argument for his beliefs. Yes, it seems that atheists are more handsome than religious people.
A typically handsome atheist.
We should contrast the above picture with one of a typically ugly Christian. Whoever I choose, I am going to be told off for a lack of gallantry, so let's pick the lovely Dena O'Callaghan, billed as a "woman Catholic priest", whatever that may be.
Dena - she has the Dr Who scarf, but she wasn't chosen as an assistant.
The aesthetic argument does not exhaust the wide array of anti-God logic that Richard Dawkins has at his disposal. Statistically, atheists are better athletes and better cooks, they win more prizes for vegetable marrows at country fairs, and of course they tell funnier jokes.
A giant atheist marrow, probably. (Someone please check!)
Says Dawkins: "Christians, Muslims, Jews and the rest are very much stuck in the dark ages. Many of them can't even read. Trust me, I'm a retired professor of zoology and I know about these things."
A typical Christian - wrote the Bible, but knew nothing of genetics.
However, Richard Dawkins's latest comments to his millions of adoring fans are starting to irritate even moderate atheists. Said one, "Clearly, Christians are uglier and less intelligent than atheists, with the possible exception of Giles Fraser. No Guardian-reader would ever disagree! But when Richard says that they smell funny, refuse to change their socks, and break wind in public, it is hard to translate this into a direct argument for the non-existence of God."
Hmm, there's a funny smell in here. Can it be one of those Christians?
Labels: atheism, Dena O'Callaghan, Giles Fraser, Lalla Ward, marrow, Richard Dawkins, Romana, socks, The Guardian
Nasty things traditionalists do
Sister Modernia writes:
Sister Modernia
I am very grateful to Brother Eccles for giving me the opportunity to draw your attention to some of the nasty things that traditionalists do. I have written at least a dozen letters to Pope Francis about this issue, but so far he refuses to excommunicate anyone.
Mantillas. Ban them!
Why should women be allowed to wear mantillas in church? They only do it in order to be "holier than thou", sneering at me as I come in wearing my "kiss me quick" baseball cap.
Now that's what I call good taste!
There's nothing wrong with being bare-headed anyway - St Paul may have said (in 1 Corinthians 11) that women should cover their head in church, but that was only addressed to the Corinthians. Remember it wasn't in the Vatican II documents, so it cannot apply to us!
Latin. How disgusting!
Up to the 1960s there must have several million Latin Masses celebrated. They were all invalid! I see it as my mission to stamp out the Latin Mass wherever I encounter it. You wouldn't see me attend one, so why should others? And some of those traddies pretend to understand what's going on! No, it's simply elitism! Ban it!
Pius V - may have been a saint, but he didn't know what a proper Mass was.
And here's another nasty habit we need to do something about.
Kneeling! How offensive!
When I go to Heaven - which I surely shall, thanks to my devotion to the Spirit of Vatican II - I shall meet my Creator. Will I kneel before Him? Good Heavens, no! I'll stride up boldly to Him and say "Yo, Dude! Didn't I do well?" He'll be surrounded by His angels, most of whom will probably be former Tablet staff, and they'll all say "Modernia! You told 'em!"
One of God's angels.
No, we don't kneel before God these days. Moreover, it is vital to make sure that nobody else does, even if they want to! If you see a "kneeler", mock them!
Well we've just got time for one more "nasty thing". Pro-life issues!
Mother and baby stuff. Over-rated.
Don't you just hate pro-lifers? Or people who keep going on about how they like children? Some of them even blog on the subject - woeful! They're just doing it to make the rest of us feel bad. However, I read in the Tablet that church teaching is evolving on this issue. Pope Francis may secretly be a "traddy" pro-lifer, but we have friends in Rome who are ready to "spin" what he says.
We shall ban smug, offensive, provocative posters like this!
Finally, I'd like to thank Eccles for allowing me to post on his blog today, and bringing my views to such a wide audience. He's got a long way to go, but we're working on him!
Labels: Clifford Longley, Latin, Madonna and Child, mantilla, modernism, Pope Francis, Pope Pius V, pro-life, St Paul, The Tablet, Vatican II
Just snap out of it!
Jesus never got a Nobel prize
They're changing popes at Vatican Palace
Mass for the Twitterati
Mass for the masses
Bad Hymns 25
Music in church
Eccles Boycott Day
Liturgy for G. K. Chesterton
Adopt a Pope!
Pope Francis takes an aeroplane
"I'm a wally" man claims religious privileges
Famous writer to appear on ten-pound note


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Cheltenham Town play host to League One leaders Plymouth Argyle at Completely-Suzuki Stadium on Boxing Day, looking to extend the gap between themselves and the relegation zone.
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Sam Cosgrove To Score: Yes
While the hosts have not played for over two weeks since they defeated Chelsea U21 4-0 in the EFL Trophy, the visitors eased past AFC Wimbledon in the same competition, in a rescheduled fixture on Wednesday.
After their promotion to League One last season, Cheltenham Town will be looking to improve on a 15th-placed finish, the highest in the third tier in the club's history.
Manager Michael Duff has since left the club after he helped them to win the League Two title and secure that record finish, allowing former Burnley midfielder Wade Elliott earn his first senior coaching role.
The Robins are currenntly sitting in 17th place, five points above the relegation zone despite having scored the fewest goals in the division this season.
Meanwhile, Plymouth have been rampant in League One this season, sitting at the top of the table, locked in a tussle for the tittle with Ipswich Town.
After a run of seven victories in eight matches, Plymouth have hit a slightly trickier patch of form in November and December, winning just one of their last five league games, before falling to their first home defeat of the season to Port Vale.
Steven Schumacher's side also made hard work of League Two side AFC Wimbledon on Wednesday, as a second-half hat-trick from Sam Coasgrove saw the Pilgrims come from three goals down to force extra time and penalties, against a side 35 places below them in the English football pyramid.
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Cheltenham Town Team News
Cheltenham will continue to be without Taylor Perry and Will Ferry, as they both near a return to fitness from hamstring and back injuries respectively.
Following a brace in the EFL Trophy last time out, Charlie Brown could be given a chance to impress here, alongside Dan N'Lundulu and May.
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Plymouth Argyle Team News
Plymouth Argyle's defender James Bolton has resumed full-contact training after breaking his foot bone back in March, although this contest could come too soon.
Fellow centre-back Brendan Galloway will be out until at least February with a hamstring tear, while midfielder Finn Azaz targets a late January return.
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There are loads of things to do in Prague making it such an easy city to visit without planning ahead too much.
But, take a look at photos of the city and one of the most glaring things you'll notice is the number of spires and towers everywhere. After all, this isn't called the City of One Hundred Spires for nothing.
What many travelers don't realize is that many of Prague's towers and spires can accessed for a small fee. The views from the top of each one is unique and without a doubt, spectacular. And, if you're after that quintessential Prague photo, climbing one of the many towers is a must-do.
The first, and possibly best tower to visit is the Old Town Hall tower right on Old Town Square. This tower offers arguably the best 360-degree view of the city and it's the heart of everything. At the top you'll find four balcony sides each with a unique perspective of Prague. Of course, you get a fantastic bird's eye view of the square below, but you can also see the Jewish Quarter, Prague Castle, Nove Mesto and other notable spots from here.
After Old Town Hall, I would recommend the two towers on Charles Bridge. Both towers offer incredible views of the bridge, historical exhibitions inside and many other views that you would never get from walking the crowded sidewalks. In fact, the tower on the Old Town side of Charles Bridge gives you access to the roof adding a bit of a thrill to your picture taking.
In Mala Strana, or Lesser Town, another tower worth visiting is the Baroque bell tower of St. Nicholas' Church. This tower was built in 1755 and inside you'll get a flashback of history as you see the original tower bells, wooden rafters and a superb view of Mala Strana. But that's not all. As you climb to the top of the tower, visit the room where the secret police once used to spy on citizens below. It's an authentic replica right down to the cheesy decor.
Lastly, the tower on Petrin hill might be the most notable in Prague. It's a replica of the Eiffel Tower and begs to be climbed for the pristine views. The local story says that Hitler gave orders to have this tower torn down, but thankfully it's still with us standing high above the city, just waiting for your footsteps.
These towers are just a few examples of seeing Prague from a different perspective. Visit any of these for a break from the crowds and to get those postcard views for your camera.


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Each box comes with 5 different colors which are black, clear, red, blue, purple.
Three O-rings of each color, which are in different sizes, are in one bag.


With One Voice describes over 100 years in the history of Manitoba from a municipal perspective, covering such topics as daylight saving time, income and property taxes, rural electrification, the war waged on gophers and other animal pests in farm fields, the colour of margarine (it was not always yellow!), and video lottery terminals. Woven through the story are sidebar articles on the history of parking meters, pioneering women in politics, Manitoba ghost towns, Sunday shopping, and much more. With One Voice is, quite literally, a history of everyday life in Manitoba.
With One Voice: A History of Municipal Governance in Manitoba was published in fall 2008 by the Association of Manitoba Municipalities, in commemoration of its tenth anniversary, and launched at a ceremony at its annual convention.
Gordon Goldsborough is a member of the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Manitoba. He is a water quality specialist concerned with the impacts of humans on lakes and wetlands. He is the Chair of the Lake Manitoba Stewardship Board, a member of the Manitoba Water Council, and a representative for Canada on the International Joint Commission's International Red River Board.
Besides his scientific interests, Goldsborough is involved in the Manitoba heritage community, being the Webmaster and a Past President of the Manitoba Historical Society, an editor of Manitoba History magazine, and a member of the Management Committee for Dalnavert Museum.
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