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Eurovision 2019 and 2020 come to Netflix USA
It has been announced that this year's Eurovision Song Contest – along with next year's – will be available for stream in USA through Netflix. Jon Ola Sand: This is perfect timing with plans to launch a US version of the Contest in 2021
By Pedro Santos 19 July 2019
Tags:USAAmerican Song ContestEBUJon Ola SandTel Aviv 2019Rotterdam 2020
EBU has signed a deal with Netflix for streaming all three shows from Eurovision Song Contest 2019 and 2020 – exclusively for Netflix customers in USA. On Monday 22 July 2019, the shows from Eurovision 2019 in Tel Aviv – where Duncan Laurence took the prize to the Netherlands – will be available for streaming in the United States.
Eurovision Song Contest's Executive Supervisor, Jon Ola Sand, says:
– The European Broadcasting Union is thrilled that the world's biggest entertainment show will now be available on-demand for viewers in the USA, one of the biggest TV markets.
It was announced that next year's edition also will be made available in USA following the event.
Back in May 2019, EBU signed an exclusive option with the international production company Brain Academy, to develop Eurovision Song Contest for the American viewers, with the working title American Song Contest
The team behind bringing the contest to USA includes some of the backbones in Eurovision the previous many years, including Christer Björkman and Ola Melzig, who have worked on over 20 Eurovisions between them.
This is perfect timing with plans to launch a US version of the Contest in 2021 Jon Ola Sand, Executive Producer of EBU
In a small talk to eurovision.tv, Jon Ola Sand expresses his excitement about the agreement and went further and discuss the planned US version of the contest in 2021:
– This is perfect timing with plans to launch a US version of the Contest in 2021.
Related storyWhat do Americans think of Eurovision?
Eurovision Asia
In March of 2016, it was announced that a deal between the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and the Australian broadcaster (SBS) had been signed in order to give the latter rights to create a new version of the Eurovision Song Contest for Asia, the Eurovision Asia Song Contest.
One year later, in 2017, the competition was confirmed and SBS was completely hands on the project. A website was created alongside social media for the event. Two years after, we're yet to see developments in this idea as the respective Facebook page hasn't been updated since October 2017 and the entire project seems to be in standby for unknown reasons, and is unlikely to premiere soon.
USAAmerican Song ContestEBUJon Ola SandTel Aviv 2019Rotterdam 2020
Russia withdrew from Eurovision 2017 in Kyiv because the Russian artist Yulia Samoylova was banned from entering Ukraine
In 2008 Russia won the Grand Final with the song "Believe", but only came third in their semi-final
Norway won the contest in 1995 with the song "Nocturne". It contained only 24 words accompanied by long violin solos
Italy boycotted the 1981 Eurovision Song Contest, saying that it was too old fashioned

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• I forgot my text book can we share yours for the lecture?
• Despo case: Guess the others will take time, let you and I complete the assignment for the team?
• If only the windows on my desktop were a window to you.. I'd never need a door in my life..
• Please have my resume it has every detail of why you should choose me.. We can meet in the library to take this forward.
• Come, let me give you a quick briefing on how the ABC(PR,II,PLA) committee works .
• You fill my synapses.. All that I can think of is the copper sulphate like iris of yours.. oh belle do you really have to hit my cerebellum so hard?
• Could you please review my 5 min prepared(ghastly written, grotesquely delivered) speech, My English ain't no good.
• So it's a date?? But only one rule the bill will need to be paid as per ABC. I am not going to pay for your overheads.
• As we tend to infinity, the CSFs would involve the numerator (being the ups) being far greater than the denominators (being the downs) in our integration.
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/*
 * In The Name Of God
 * ========================================
 * [] File Name : Task01.c
 *
 * [] Creation Date : 21-12-2014
 *
 * [] Last Modified : Thu 25 Dec 2014 06:42:02 PM IRST
 *
 * [] Created By : Parham Alvani (parham.alvani@gmail.com)
 * =======================================
*/

/*
 * This task is done just for FUN
 * and like always
 * We love you Dr.Bakshi
*/

#include <linux/string.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/types.h>
#include <linux/netfilter.h>
#include <linux/netfilter_ipv4.h>
#include <linux/netdevice.h>
#include <linux/skbuff.h>
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/printk.h>

#include "NetF.h"

MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
MODULE_AUTHOR("Parham Alvani");
MODULE_DESCRIPTION("This module is netfilter patch");

static struct netF parham;

unsigned int filter(const struct nf_hook_ops *ops,
		struct sk_buff *skb,
		const struct net_device *in,
		const struct net_device *out,
		int (*okfn)(struct sk_buff *))
{
	if (!strcmp(out->name, "lo")) {
		pr_info("[NetF] %s\n", out->name);
		pr_info("[NetF] Packet Len is: %u\n", skb->len);
		pr_info("[NetF] Packet Data Len is: %u\n", skb->data_len);
		pr_info("[NetF] Packet MAC Data Len is: %hu\n", skb->mac_len);
		pr_info("[NetF] Lucky number: %d\n",
				container_of(ops, struct
					netF, nfho)->lucky_number);
	}
	return NF_ACCEPT;
}

static int __init NetF_init(void)
{
	pr_info("[Netf] Setting nf_hook_ops parameters\n");

	/* Fill in our hook structure */
	parham.lucky_number = 3;
	parham.nfho.hook = filter;
	parham.nfho.hooknum = 3;
	parham.nfho.owner = THIS_MODULE;
	parham.nfho.pf = PF_INET;
	nf_register_hook(&parham.nfho);

	pr_info("[NetF] Our nf_hook_ops registered\n");
	return 0;
}

static void __exit NetF_exit(void)
{
	nf_unregister_hook(&parham.nfho);
	pr_info("[NetF] Our nf_hook_ops unregistered\n");
}

module_init(NetF_init);
module_exit(NetF_exit);

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Baba Monir (, also Romanized as Bābā Monīr; also known as Bābā Monir and Baba Munir) is a city in Mahur Rural District, Mahvarmilani District, Mamasani County, Fars Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 1,501, in 351 families.

Baba Monir became the centre of Mahvarmilani District in 1961. Baba Monir was declared a city by the Iranian Interior Ministry directive regarding Fars Province in 2012.

References

Populated places in Mamasani County
Cities in Fars Province

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About 5,300 years ago, a man now known as Ötzi had a very bad day. Nobody knows exactly how things unfolded but it all ended with an arrow to the shoulder, a blow to the head and a cut—perhaps a defensive wound—to one hand. Either way, Ötzi wound up dead and was soon buried and preserved in a glacier in the Ötzal region of the Alps at the border of Austria and Italy. There he lay until two hikers found him in ice melt in 1991—a much warmer year in a much warmer era than the one in which he lived.
Ötzi—also known simply as the Ice Man—has been an object of both fascination and study since, and well he might be. Everything from his clothes to his quiver to the tattoo markings on his freeze-dried skin to the contents of his stomach (red deer and Alpine ibex appear to have been his final meal) have been preserved and offer a rare look into how Ice Age humans lived.
But the clothes have been a mystery. Clearly made of some kind of leather, they appear to be a patchwork of different hides stitched together at different times, suggesting regular patching and re-patching as one part or another wore out. What researchers have never been able to figure out, however, is just what species of animal lost their hides to keep Ötzi warm. Now, investigators have the answer, and as a study just published in Nature reveals, they went about their work in a resourceful way.
There are a lot of things that make ancient leathers difficult to study. For one thing, even the best-preserved samples are highly degraded, destroying the grain patterns in the skin that might identify the animal. And while DNA might survive millennia in a glacial deep freeze, the very process of making leather—scraping, heating, treating the skin with acids—destroys genetic material. The DNA that is identifiable often as not turns out to have come from the human handlers who performed the tanning.
But while nuclear DNA—the kind found in the nucleus of the cell—is destroyed, the DNA found in the cell's energy-generating mitochondria might survive, provided you can recover enough of it. To do that in the Ice Man study, a team led by archaeologist Niall J. O'Sullivan of University College in Dublin, used a technique known as mitochondrial enrichment. As the name suggests, the method involves harvesting the mitochondrial DNA that's available and using reagents and enzymes to concentrate and amplify it.
O'Sullivan and his colleagues harvested mitochondrial DNA from Ötzi's coat, leggings, hat, shoelaces, quiver and loincloth—which is as close as you get to underwear if you're stuck in the Copper Age. They were able to enrich the available DNA anywhere from four- to 620-fold, depending on the particular sample. What the subsequent genetic sequencing revealed was that Ötzi relied on a lot of different critters to keep himself clothed.
Ötzi's shoelaces, meantime, came from cattle—similar to the leather laces in modern-day hiking boots—and the quiver was roe deer. The hat was the garment the Ice Man likely had to work hardest for: it came from a brown bear, suggesting Ötzi and his friends weren't afraid to tangle with large carnivores if they had to.
The genomes of the cattle, sheep and goats are consistent with present day animals across most of Europe. The roe deer and brown bear, similarly, have contemporary kin in the Alpine region.
How Ötzi died remains a matter of speculation—a crime of passion, a fight over goods, a ritual sacrifice or some other ugly end. But how he lived—and how his Copper Age community lived too—is now at least a little clearer.


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How I passed out on hearing of Kujore's death – Shina Peters
Following the death of juju musician, Dayo Kujore,his close ally, veteran Afro-juju singer, Sir Shina Peters , has disclosed how he lost consciousness when he was informed of Kujore's death.
Recall that Kujore died at the age of 69 on Monday, January 10, 2022, at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, after a brief illness.
Describing his relationship with Kujore, he said, "I was the first person Kujore's son reached out to on the phone immediately after his death. I screamed and lost consciousness when he broke the sad news to me. It took the help of those who were with me in Abuja at the time to revive me after I fainted. I had to abandon all I was doing in Abuja and headed to Lagos immediately because I knew that we, members of the Association of Juju Musicians in Nigeria, have so much to do in memory of him. I reached out to our President, Queen Ayo Balogun, so we could begin to make plans. Dayo and I had a very close relationship, and this makes the whole thing seem like a dream to me. It has been difficult for me to accept the reality that Kujore is gone. I will surely miss him for his talent and our friendship because we grew up together and we both performed alongside Prince Adekunle. Also, we started our bands around the same time. We had so much in common. Until Kujore's demise, I had only felt that way when Michael Jackson died."
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In Django, middleware is a lightweight plugin that processes during request and response execution. Middleware is used to perform a function in the application. The functions can be a security, session, csrf protection, authentication etc.
Django provides various built-in middleware and also allows us to write our own middleware. See, settings.py file of Django project that contains various middleware, that is used to provides functionalities to the application. For example, Security Middleware is used to maintain the security of the application.
middleware is a class that takes an argument get_response and returns a response.
It must accept the get_response argument because Django initializes middleware with only it. It calls only once whereas __call__ executes for each request.
To activate middleware, add it to the MIDDLEWARE list of the settings.py file.
A Django project does not require middleware, the MIDDLEWARE list can be empty but recommended that have at least a CommonMiddleware.
Middleware applies in the order it is defined in MIDDLEWARE list and each middleware class is a layer. The MIDDLEWARE list is like an onion so each request passes through from top to bottom and response is in reverse order (bottom to up).
Apart from request and response, we can add three more methods to add more features to our middleware.
It takes HttpRequest object, function object, list of arguments passed to the view or a dictionary of arguments respectively.
This method executes just before the calling of view. It returns either None or HttpResponse, if it returns an HttpResponse, it stops processing and return the result.
It takes two arguments first is a reference of HttpRequest and second is HttpResponse object. This method is called just after the view finished execution.
It returns a response object which implements the render method.
This method takes two arguments, first is HttpRequest object and second is Exception class object that is raised by the view function.
This method returns either None or HttpResponse object. If it returns a response, the middleware will be applied and the result returns to the browser. Otherwise, the exception is handle by default handling system.


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The Advisory Committee on Corporate Responsibility in Investment Policies (ACCRIP) considers issues of ethical and moral responsibility in the investment policies of Brown University. Committee members include students, faculty, staff and alumni of the University. ACCRIP examines all proxy resolutions concerning issues of social responsibility that are presented to the University as a shareholder, and has developed guidelines for voting on such resolutions.
Meetings are open to all. Groups or individual members from the Brown University community -- students, faculty, staff, alumni -- are encouraged to bring to the attention of ACCRIP ethical and moral issues or issues of alleged social harm with respect to the activities of corporations in which the University is an investor. (For details on the jurisdiction of the committee, see the committee's charter.)
As a first step, such groups or individuals should contact the committee's chair and clearly identify in writing the issue(s) that they would like ACCRIP to consider. This narrative should also indicate what action(s) the individual or group would like to recommend to ACCRIP and be accompanied by documentation that substantiates the claims and recommendation included in the narrative. Normally such individuals or groups will first meet with the committee's chair in preparation for a presentation before the full committee. ACCRIP may recommend divestiture and/or other actions when they will likely have a positive impact toward correcting the specified social harm.
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3 slices Ezekiel Cinnamon Raisin toast with organic whipped butter and organic jelly/Apple butter without added sugar = 350 calorie Ezekiel Diet breakfast for weight loss (leave off butter -50 calories) or maintenance mode. And a quick meal when you don't want to cook. Remember Ezekiel lived off this bread recipe, given to him by God, for 2 years in the dessert.
1/3 cup Quinoa Flakes (131) maple syrup (50) 2 tbsp toasted almonds (100) – 300 calorie weight loss meal on the Ezekiel Diet. Quinoa, like Ezekiel Bread also has an excellent nutritional profile, it's a great source of protein that contains all 8 amino acids.
2 – 40 calorie Natures Own Honey Wheat (80) Vanilla Cinnamon (20) butter (20) cup cantaloupe (54) 1 egg (70) Walden Farms zero calorie syrup = 250 calorie weight loss on the Ezekiel Diet – use an extra egg/or Ezekiel Bread and real maple syrup or organic jelly in maintenance mode for 350 calories. This is the breakfast for those who use carbohydrates to regulate serotonin dumps.
(NaturalNews) Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, but many people skip this meal. In fact, studies have shown that less than 40 percent of Americans eat breakfast every day. Most people have very busy schedules, and that leaves little time to eat breakfast. However, you should try your best to eat a nutritious meal before you start your day. There are a number of benefits that you can reap from eating breakfast.
Researchers have found that people who skip breakfast are more likely to be overweight. There was a study done that analyzed the dietary habits of 2,200 adolescents. The results of the study showed that the adolescents who ate breakfast on a regular basis were less likely to be overweight. The researchers also found that the subjects who ate breakfast were more likely to engage in physical activity on a regular basis.When you skip breakfast, you are much more likely to overeat during lunch and dinner. Additionally, you encourage your body to store calories when you skip breakfast.
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Celebrate Cambridge: What challenges lie ahead for the transport system in our city?
In a city of maverick voices, and off-beat, imaginative solutions are always being offere
Josh ThomasLocal Democracy Reporter
Some residents and campaigners think more imaginative solutions are needed to tackle the city's transport problems
While there are a lot of things Cambridge does well in terms of transport provision, there are many things that need improvement to make the city the best it can be.
Following the recommendation of a second busway to ease congestion, what else can be done as Cambridge gets bigger and busier?
But this is a city of maverick voices, and off-beat, imaginative solutions are always being offered.
In a recent article, Peter Dawe, who is seeking to become the first Mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, set out a number of alternative transport plans for the city.
He suggested a four-phase method to tackle congestion.
Proposals include luxury mini-buses replacing the majority of taxi and mini-cab services, providing "community self-drive mini-bus services" for neighbouring communities, narrower "Slight Cars" allowing for more vehicles without widening roads, and self-driving "Slight Vans" to take goods to and from the kerb.
Residents' associations in particular have been vocal in their opposition to proposed schemes under the Greater Cambridge City Deal to widen roads to make way for bus lanes.
Speeding up the buses on 'radial routes' into the city such as Histon Road, Milton Road and Madingley Road are key to the City Deal's strategy, so public transport does not get caught up in traffic.
But these proposals have provoked anger among residents given the impact remodelling the roads will have on neighbourhoods – while campaign group Smarter Cambridge Transport says bus lanes will not work.
£1.5 billion revamp of A14 will start in November
Cllr TIm Bick said: "I am the council leader who negotiated the City Deal transport investment funding with the government. At £500m, it was a spectacular commitment to the promise of the Cambridge area as a place to live and work. But the City Deal is now in danger of making big mistakes by riding roughshod into schemes some of which don't appear to be properly joined up and could be counterproductive.
"I am concerned about the priority that road engineering schemes, such as on Milton Road, are being given over measures to encourage people to switch from private cars to buses and bikes. I am worried that in an already-expensive area to live, there is no plan to make our bus services much more affordable and comprehensive.
"As everywhere else in the world, this will take public subsidy. The City Deal leaders, by failing to tackle this, risk excluding those on low incomes from the city's future.Whilst I welcome the future emphasis on public transport, I think we badly need a plan for how we accommodate that inside the tiny, fragile area of the historic city centre."
Campaign boss Edward Leigh said the bus lanes on Milton Road and Histon Road would "make a trivial three or four-minute saving on some journey times".
A14 revamp: News readers react to development plans
There have even been calls to investigate the possibility of building a tram network in the city, with underground tunnels forming a "Cambridge metro".
UK Tram, the trade body for all UK light rail and other guided transport systems, has identified the city as a prime location for a light rail public transport alternative.
Colin Robey, managing director of UK Tram said: "There are a number of things that make Cambridge particularly attractive. Trams are a very good way of getting people around in large numbers. Cambridge is attractive in as much as it is a small city that has major developments on the way.
However, Tanya Sheridan, programme director at the City Deal, said: "It is above and beyond the City Deal budget. In an area like Greater Cambridge, I don't think you would have the patronage to cover the costs. You might even lose some cycle journeys. It would also be expensive to construct the underground stations."
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/*jslint nomen: true, browser: true*/
/*global define*/

// Prepares the lifeline data to be displayed as a tree
define([
    'jquery',
    'underscore'
], function ($, _) {
    'use strict';
    var Node;

    // Every bucket is a group of nodes that we will be aligning vertically
    // because their timings are similar
    Node = _.makeClass();
    Node.prototype.init = function (pname, pid, tid, vistime,
            time, tagname, children) {
        children = children || [];
        this.pid = pid;
        this.pname = pname;
        this.tid = tid;
        this.time = time;
        // Vis time is the time used for visualization (scaled or translated
        // real time)
        this.vistime = vistime;
        // for visualization of different tags in the tree
        this.tagname = tagname;
        this.children = children;
        this.bucketLevel = 0;

        // This is the weight of the edge from this node to the parent. A
        // weight of X means that there were X identical edges found while
        // building the tree.
        this.numConnections = 1;
    };
    Node.prototype.addChild = function (childNode, grandchildren) {
        this.children.push(childNode);
    };

    // finding a parent - check all nodes on the level
    function findParent(node, bucket) {
        return _.find(bucket, function (bNode) {
            return node.pid === bNode.pid && node.tid === bNode.tid
                && node.tagname === bNode.tagname;
        });
    }

    function findNode(node, container, nodeLevel) {
        return _.find(container, function (cNode) {
            return node.pid === cNode.pid && node.tid === cNode.tid &&
                node.tagname === cNode.tagname && nodeLevel === cNode.bucketLevel;
        });
    }

    function addToBucket(buckets, level, node) {
        buckets[level] = buckets[level] || [];
        buckets[level].push(node);
    }

    function parseLifelineData(lifeline, resolution, mode) {
        var minTime, treeLifeline, buckets, dummyNode;

        if (typeof lifeline === 'undefined') {
            throw {
                name: 'Parser Error',
                level: 'Error',
                message: 'Error: No lifeline provided for time graph',
                htmlMessage: 'Error: No lifeline provided for time graph'
            };
        } else if (lifeline.length === 0) {
            return new Node();
        }

        treeLifeline = [];
        buckets = [];

        lifeline = _.sortBy(lifeline, function (node) {
            return node.time;
        });

        minTime = _.min(lifeline, function (node) {
            return node.time;
        }).time;

        // Save original time and copy a scaled version of it so that we
        // can deal with smaller numbers.
        _.each(lifeline, function (node) {
            node.vistime = node.time / minTime;
        });

        _.each(lifeline, function (node) {
            var existingChildren, existingNode, existingParent, childNode,
                parentNode, childLevel, parentLevel, tree, bucket;

            childNode = new Node(node.dstProcessName, node.dstProcessId, node.dstThreadId,
                    node.vistime, node.time, node.tagName);

            // Technically, the 'vistime' and the 'time' here would be wrong
            // since they are at the parent. However, this node will only
            // be used if we are not able to find an existing node in the
            // tree to act as parent. Child nodes have the correct time on them (the time
            // at which a tag was received)
            parentNode = new Node(node.srcProcessName, node.srcProcessId, node.srcThreadId,
                    undefined, undefined, node.tagName);

            // Decide which bucket the child should be in based off of how
            // many time periods (buckets) fit before it.
            parentLevel = childLevel = Math.round(node.vistime * resolution);

            // find parent process: look through each level down to roots
            while (parentLevel > 0) {
                // Levels represent tree depth (based off time)
                parentLevel -= 1;
                // select bucket and ensure one exists
                bucket = buckets[parentLevel] || [];
                // there might exist a prent already
                existingParent = findParent(parentNode, bucket);
                if (typeof existingParent !== 'undefined') {
                    parentNode = existingParent;
                    break;
                }
            }

            // If we're not using the existing parent, there is additional
            // setup to do for the new parent
            if (typeof existingParent === 'undefined') {
                parentNode.bucketLevel = childLevel - 1;
                addToBucket(buckets, parentNode.bucketLevel, parentNode);
                treeLifeline.push(parentNode);
            }

            if (mode) {
                existingChildren = parentNode.children;
                existingNode = findNode(childNode, existingChildren, childLevel);

                // If we find a node, this means we have found a duplication
                // parent-child relationship, so we'll just increment the
                // weight of the edge
                if (typeof existingNode !== 'undefined') {
                    existingNode.numConnections += 1;
                } else {
                    parentNode.addChild(childNode);
                    childNode.bucketLevel = childLevel;
                    addToBucket(buckets, childLevel, childNode);
                }
            } else {
                parentNode.addChild(childNode);
                childNode.bucketLevel = childLevel;
                addToBucket(buckets, childLevel, childNode);
            }
        });

        dummyNode = new Node();
        _.each(treeLifeline, function (tree) {
            dummyNode.addChild(tree, tree.children);
        });

        return dummyNode;
    }

    return { parse: parseLifelineData };
});


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Western Australia shortlists bidders for Perth Waterfront development
23 January 2012	(Last Updated January 23rd, 2012 18:30)
Western Australia has shortlisted contractors John Holland, Leighton/Broad and a consortium of Brookfield Multiplex and Georgiou Group for the construction of the A$200m ($209.5m) Perth Waterfront inlet and public spaces.
Western Australia planning minister John Day said that the three shortlisted groups are all suitably experienced and qualified contractors and were selected for the high quality of their submissions and comprehensive understanding of the Perth Waterfront project.
"Perth Waterfront is part of the state government's city regeneration programme and, together with Perth City Link, Riverside and revitalisation of the Perth Cultural Centre, will help to position Perth as a contemporary, international city," Day said.
The project includes construction of the new inlet, the creation of future development sites as well as new internal roads and public spaces including parks, promenades and an island with a connecting bridge. The project also involves the construction of a 2.8ha inlet that will bring the city to the river and create a destination for locals and visitors surrounded by landscaped terraces, boardwalks, shops, cafes, restaurants and bars.
Once the city regeneration projects are completed, they will have added 1,700 residential buildings, a hotel and serviced apartments and more than 180,000m2 of office and retail space for Perth's central business district.
"This is a significant milestone in delivery of the project, which is well underway and is on schedule – major work is due to commence in the coming months," Day said.
The shortlisted bidders will now be invited to submit detailed proposals. The final developer of the project is expected to be announced in the coming months, ahead of major works commencing in April. The state of Western Australia sought expressions of interest (EOI) for the completion of the design and construction of the inlet and its surrounding public space in November 2011.
Image: The project includes construction of the new inlet and will feature 1,700 residential buildings upon completion. Image copyright: Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority.
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Here is my attemt to play Tarleton's Resurrection by the great John Dowland.
very nicely played Anders, and a lovely tone throughout.
Thank you for posting this great little piece.
therebelartist wrote: very nicely played Anders, and a lovely tone throughout.
Thank you and yes it's a very nice little piece.
This nice piece is on my Dowland-to-do-list for quite some time. Your performance has motivated me to try it as soon as possible!


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With borrowers facing billions of dollars in education-related debt due to the rising cost of higher education over the past few decades, student loans are already a hot topic. The topic has gotten even more attention lately due to the discovery that billions of dollars – $5 billion to be exact – in student loan debt may vanish completely due to missing paperwork and poor recordkeeping on the part of private lenders. While that might be great news for indebted students, it's terrible news for these lenders.
How could anyone let such an expensive mistake happen? Well, student loans are bought and sold among lenders all the time, so while a student does choose the bank they borrow from initially, their loan may change hands among other banks and investors many times throughout its life.
Naturally, loans being passed around increases the risk of losing important accompanying paperwork – if you've ever lost something in a move to a new home, you'll know exactly what that's like. But without a paper trail that proves the loan's chain of ownership, the debt collection can't be enforced. Collections cases brought against borrowers with defaulted loans have even been thrown out in court, forcing lenders to forgive thousands in dollars in debt because they couldn't prove they owned the loans.
Moral of the story: don't lose important documents. Losing track of your organization's critical paperwork may not cost you billions like it might for these private student loan lenders, but there are still plenty of potential legal and financial ramifications to it, like the risks of non-compliance and not passing audits. So we're sharing a few solutions that can prevent a disaster like this from happening to you.
The best insurance against losing paperwork is to not keep any paperwork to begin with. You should seriously consider going digital with your organization's records using document scanning and indexing.
Document scanning eliminates the hassle of maintaining a paper filing system with heavy boxes or bulky filing cabinets by creating digital images of every document, and indexing allows you to search for your documents using criteria of your choice. That means you'll be able to find the document you're looking for instantly by searching a date, barcode, customer name or ID number, or even a keyword. Being audited? No longer a problem. Just search for the files the auditor requested, zip, and send.
And it's not only your typical 8.5" x 11" documents that can be scanned and indexed – a good document scanning partner will have the right technology and expertise to scan and digitize any kind of document you have, even oversized engineering prints and microfilm/fiche.
Digitizing and indexing all your documents means they're safe and secure, protected from the types of threats that affect paper files, like the risk of losing them in a move or potential damage by fire or flood.
Okay, so your files are digitized and indexed. Now you need a simple way to organize them, and for this we recommend implementing document management software. Document management software allows you to easily maintain an organized file structure without having to fuss with cumbersome file naming conventions or a cluttered desktop.
You'll be able to securely access your digital documents from any computer or mobile device, and if you're in a situation where you need to securely share files (say some of the student loans you own have been purchased by another bank, for example), it can be done instantly right from a computer. No one will have to worry about the logistics of moving paper files or asking administrative staff to scan them all manually.


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This brochure for victims of identity theft was provided by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies. Click image to enlarge.
TWO OFFICERS OF of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department have just left my home after taking and logging a report that my identity has been stolen.
Don't let this happen to you. It is frightening indeed.
All forms of identity theft in California are crimes under the California Penal Code, Section 530 et seq, according to state Attorney General Kamala D. Harris.
"Identity theft is someone taking personal information like your name, Social Security number, or financial account number and using it for an unlawful purpose," Harris says on her web site. "Everyday people, business owners, well-known celebrities, and children are prey to it. In California, all forms of identity theft are crimes."
I was first alerted that something was amiss on Friday afternoon Aug. 22 when a mysterious message from a friend appeared on my Facebook timeline.
The message, an image of which you see here with the sender's name removed to protect HIS identity, purportedly was in response to a text message sent to the poster's assistant – with whom I have never had any contact at all; I don't even know his name, certainly not his telephone number.
This is the Facebook message that alerted me on Friday Aug. 22 that something was amiss. Click image to enlarge. © SGE, Inc. All rights reserved.
The message also referred to some event on Sunday afternoon, and I checked my calendar to see what was on it.
What WAS on it was a motorcycle ride up the Angeles Crest Highway with the Oedipus motorcycle club.
My concern grew; the sender of the message is not a motorcycle rider, nor could I have ever conceivably messaged him about the event and "meeting him there."
I checked the log of messages sent and received in my phone. I have never sent this recipient – or his assistant – a text message, ever!
Immediately I contacted him through another channel. Facebook is far too public – and insecure – for important personal and private messages.
In fact, during the next several hours I contacted the sender through every available channel; we are both very widely connect on many channels. Each contact, including, finally, a voicemail on his mobile phone increased my level of urgency.
This text message represents itself as if it is from me. It is not. It was sent from an unidentified phone number Click image to enlarge. © SGE, Inc. All rights reserved.
THIS MORNING in my email inbox, was his response.
The image you see here he scanned from the screen of a smartphone. It was one of a series of messages from phone number (323) 509-xxxx (we of course know the number, it is not mine and I have never heard of it before).
The entire series of messages has now been handed over to the police.
I quickly did some investigative reporting. According to the T-Mobile web site, this number is "available" … in other words, it is not in service at this time.
The web site of California Attorney General Karmala Harris regarding identity theft. Click image to enlarge.
However, T-Mobile is wrong.
The first thing I did was dial the number and got a recording: "Please leave your name at the tone and we will attempt to connect your call."
I hung up immediately.
I little later, I called the same number from my local pharmacy, down the street. I gave my name as "James" and then got the voicemail. "The party you are trying to reach is not available at this time. Please leave a message after the tone."
I hung up.
The volunteer at the Altadena Sheriff's Department front desk, after conferring with an officer out of sight behind reflective glass panels, asked several probing questions about the potential damage that could result (because, clearly, at this point there has been little actual harm … a missed bogus date I never made.)
But the potential is enormous. After I explained it the volunteer began to get more serious about it. Then, after making arrangements for an officer to visit my home this afternoon and take a statement, he added: "They [the intake officer] view this as possibly a civil matter."
Knowing this could not possibly be correct, I raced home and within seconds found the web site of the California Attorney General cited above.
I WISH TO ALERT anyone and everyone that communications purportedly from me should be examined with great care, especially text messages, which I use infrequently.
If you have any doubt about any electronic communications from me, please contact me at once and we shall investigate.
And, be aware yourself that this can happen to you.
"Identity theft does not discriminate," says AG Harris. "There were 12.6 million U.S. adult victims in 2012, or one victim every three seconds. That figure represents 5.3 percent of U.S. adults, including over a 1.6 million Californians.
"Identity theft is also expensive. The total cost of identity theft in 2012 was $21 billion."
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What's new: John Hancock has allotted 50 bibs for runners representing Tufts University in the 2023 Boston Marathon on Monday, April 17, 2023.
Fundraising is a requirement for Tufts runners.
The minimum amounts are $3,000 for students and $10,000 for all others (alumni, staff, parents and friends of Tufts).
Gifts will support research at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy.
A distribution system will be used to determine which students will receive bibs, with special preference for those nearing the end of their time at Tufts.
With limited space, staff, alumni, parents and friends with high fundraising ambitions will also be given special preference to receive a slot.
All interested runners can register here: https://tufts.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2nPeAYwN6uHvfgy
Those interested in joining the team can participate in training runs and meet other runners starting on Sunday, September 25, 2022 at 8:00 a.m. The team will meet in front of the Steve Tisch Sports and Fitness Center on the Medford/Somerville campus.


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How to Thrive in the New Economy
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Future Money Trends: Today, we are going to cover how to thrive in the new economy. Our guest has been featured in the "Fortune" magazine. He is on the Casey Research NexTen list, as well as their Ten Bagger Club. He has attracted top investors like Rick Rule and Li Kashing, the richest man in all of Asia. He is the founder and CEO of Uranium Energy Corp and the founder and Chairman of Brazil Resources. Amir Adnani, thank you for joining us.
Amir Adnani: Thank you for having me.
Future Money Trends: Amir, I want to start off the first one with somewhat of a haymaker question, where we put you back on your heels a little bit. You were building Uranium Energy Corp; it's now a uraniumproducing company, one of only five in the nation. I want to recall that shortly after you announced production, maybe even within days, Fukushima happened. I just want to go back to that moment. You're a young businessbuilder. You accomplish something that was enormous for anyone, for any CEO of a resource company.
As you know, nearly all of them do not go into production, yet UEC did. Then you have this disaster that you just can't control. A lot of people run into things like these and setbacks.
If we could go back to that time, you make this major announcement, and then Fukushima happens. What's going through your head, and what are some of the things that you focused on shortly thereafter?
Amir: I'm just going back in time, trying to remember all of that. First of all, we had started initial production in late 2010, so really just about three months before Fukushima happened on March 11, 2011.
The time was that we were basically a few months into initial production from our Palangana mine. March 11th was a Friday. March 14, 2011, Monday, was actually when our first ever quarterly production results were due.
Leading up to that, there was a lot of enthusiasm and excitement, both on our part, to come out and show the progress we were making as an up and coming producer at the time, really the newest uranium producer in the U.S. in almost seven or eight years.
The uniqueness and scarcity of being a uranium producer is part of the appeal of being in this business. Anyway, that was an important date. A lot of work had gone into it, not just the quarter's worth of work, but the five years worth of work prior to that to take this company from, really, concept and exploration development into that production.Just looking back, what was going through my mind is really twofold. You have to remember that the events around Fukushima on March 11th really initially had way more to do with the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan and was responsible for thousands of lives that were lost as a result of it, which obviously had nothing to do with the nuclear accident.
Clearly, it was just a very traumatic experience. Really, just as a human being, watching and seeing what's happening there, in Japan, and the devastation that was caused by this natural disaster, the two natural disasters, the odds of which happening back to back were like 1 in 1,000, when you look back at the commentary at the time.Then, of course, over the weekend is when we started to see the news start to unfold and come out more about the damage that had happened to Fukushima and the nuclear issue around it.Obviously, it was a very flat moment for us, on Monday, when we put out our quarterly results, which we were very proud of because we had very lowcost production results. It really didn't matter because including ours was cut in half on Monday, March 14, 2011. You just looked back, and it was very extraordinary circumstances. Just the timing of it visàvis what we were trying to deliver was just very difficult, but there are just so many other problems layered on top of that. Puts our problems into perspective. That's how we felt, at the time and even now, about the whole thing.
Future Money Trends: It's still something that lingers in the uranium market. The uranium spot price is ridiculously low, as you know. It's caused some companies to pull back, scale production back, or not go into production with a mine. What is the state of the uranium market, and how closely does it affect UEC?
Amir: When you look at the uranium market today, maybe the best way to characterize it or think of it is that, especially from a pricing point of view, it really feels like it's become a coil to a spring. Every month that goes by and prices keep falling and dropping lower, the tighter this coiled spring is getting. That's why you've had people like Rob Chang, the well followed uranium analyst at Cantor Fitzgerald, talk about how there's violent upward moves coming in uranium prices.
It's what we see in commodities all the time. Historically it's when you end up in this scenario where prices get so low, to the point that mines are being put on hold. Mines are being put on care and maintenance, and standby projects are being deferred. We're seeing that almost every week now. There's some news of that from some part of the world in the uranium business. You just know the writing is on the wall. You just know that uranium prices right now at $28 a pound are so low. They're below the marginal cost of production. They're well below what reports suggest if price is to see uranium production come back online.
Reports by the likes of JP Morgan, McCrory have talked about incentive prices to see new mines get developed, large scale conventional mines around $75, $80 a pound being the incentive price. Here we are, spot prices at $28 per pound. Marginal cost of production for existing mines is probably somewhere around $35, $40 per pound. We're even below that. This is your classic situation where prices have just fallen so low it's not economic.
You look at someone like Rick Rule, who's involved with our company. He's said things like, "Well, two things are going to happen. Either people are going to stop using uranium or prices are going to have to go back up." With over 400 nuclear reactors operating in the world, I don't think it's the case that people are stopping using uranium.
There's a fundamental demand profile and customer base for uranium. It goes back to that coiled spring and that's the best way to think about the uranium situation right now. It's taken a long time. We're over three years post Fukushima today. I believe that even when you look back even as far as my own expectations go, the expectations of the uranium mining industry goes, the bigger companies in the industry, everyone has expected prices could have recovered or improved maybe a year ago, maybe a year and a half ago. But the recovery has taken longer.
Future Money Trends: For sure. If you like electricity and you want to turn your lights on and watch TV or use your computer or have the Internet, you've got to have uranium. You mentioned Rick Rule, and Rick Rule says that you are a force of nature. Doug Casey says you're the next great one when it comes to resource CEOs. I imagine this is both humbling and it also sets a pretty high expectation for you. I was wondering, when it comes to Doug Casey, Rick Rule, and Marin Katusa , if you could just speak on your relationship with them and how you met them in the first place in the resource sector…I know it's kind of a small world, but a lot of people follow these guys on a daily basis, and these guys have given you quite an endorsement.What are your thoughts on the other side when you hear things and comments that you've probably heard by now coming from Rick Rule and Doug Casey regarding yourself.
Amir: First of all, it's extremely humbling to have guys who are really legendary in terms of their careers and existence and persona and track record in the national resources business be positive and endorse not just what I'm doing but the companies that I'm involved with…and it's not just me. We have teams at both Uranium Energy and Brazil Resources that are the best at what they do. But to receive that kind of endorsement from the likes of the people you just mentioned, the Rick Rules, the Doug Caseys, etc, is really humbling, it's great. But at the same time, then, these are the types of supporters that any natural resource entrepreneur would love to have.
These are the types of individuals and investors who understand the longterm nature of this business, understand the inevitable cyclicality of this business, and understand that when markets are down, when uranium prices are down, when gold prices are down, these are actually the best times to grow, the best opportunities in terms of looking at assets and valuations. If you're not afraid to be a contrarian and step up and really hit behind the management teams and companies that deal really light.
It really all goes handinhand. The entrepreneurs and the sector people like myself need to be able to draw the attention and support of investors like that that have that contrarian approach that are long term in nature. As we perform and we deliver more value and results for those shareholders the more you continue to have their support. It's just this ongoing situation and a relationship where you really all work together. At the end of the day, you know how it is, when you have a small business or when you're building a small company, when you have bigger aspirations. At the end of the day, Uranium Energy Corp., Brazil Resources we're small companies. We're not an IBM yet or Exxon, Volvo. You need shareholders that really think and act like business owners.
You want a chunk of this company, you want shares in this company, be a part of that business. That's what is really key about having the backing and support of people like this. They really think like you and with you as an entrepreneur who wants to grow and create value.
Future Money Trends: As an entrepreneur, a lot of people especially in the business world they'll find themselves in a difficult experience and many of them just throw in the towel or they allow their environment to become their excuse. I've noticed especially with Brazil Resources and UEC, but with Brazil Resources you launched it, I want to say, in the spring of 2011. That was when silver peaked in the spring of 2011 and gold shortly thereafter. Of course, we all know what's happened to the gold exploration companies after that. A lot of people have thrown in the towel.
If you could just talk on how do you build a gold company when this headwind…Because a lot of people can apply that to a lot of other things and businesses in life where I've talked to real estate investors where their best years were in 2008 when real estate was falling apart. Or financial advisers like Peter Schiff, for example where his business thrived and boomed in 2008 and 2009. If you could just talk about basically how you've been running this gold exploration company, yet this entire time the headwinds for the junior stocks and the headwinds for the actual gold price has been quite heavy.
Amir: Again, it starts really with the team that we have. You look at Brazil Resources, we've got a fabulous team there. The management, the board of directors, we've got the right people on the ground in Brazil, we've got the partnership with a Sao Paulo based merchant bank, Brazil Invest. It's really unique to see a junior company form that kind of partnership and have that kind of local sponsor and partner.
It really gives you strategic access to capital, deal flow, relationships, and government access. The foundation around the right people, the right board members, the right shareholders, the right local partners. With that foundation, we really have positioned ourselves to be opportunistic two and a half, three years. To take advantage of a very distressed…but to me, it's like being a kid in a candy store. This is a very capital intensive business. When it's as capital intensive as exploration and mining is you need to have those cycles and those periods where you can buy things 10 cents on the dollar, etc. You need those opportunities because otherwise then all the capital it takes to acquire assets and gather assets if you're are always paying full value full price it's going to take a lot of capital.
If you look at even how some of the deal making, some of the ways to be nimble and entrepreneurial has helped Uranium Energy fast track. You look at the fact that we went from concept to production in five years. We were optimistic in 2009. Coming out of the 2008 financial crises, uranium prices hadn't recovered yet. In fact, uranium prices were almost a year behind the recovery curve that we saw in other metal prices. In 2009, while uranium prices were flat out of favor, that's when we went and cut a deal with a uranium mining company at the time and we acquired their entire portfolio in South Texas that had a lot of synergy with the portfolio that we had, but most importantly came with a processing plant, the Hobson plant that's now the heart of our South Texas hubandspoke production strategy.
You look at that asset just on the books of Uranium One versus the company we bought it from which was a public company, that and the portfolio that we acquired from them had almost a $96 million, $98 million books value in late 2008. In late 2009, we acquired everything for what amounted to be about $12 million in cash and stock. These types of deals are almost paramount to be able to do because if you're always paying full prices and you're growing these companies in an extremely capital intensive longer and it can cost a lot more.
When you look at the trajectory of growth that both Uranium Energy and what's being vent off at Brazil Resources, some similarities. But then again at the end of the day you can acquire and gather the best assets but you still got to be able to advance them and deliver results with those assets. That's why it's not just being able to buy things at an attractive valuation it's also picking the team, why I emphasized that right at the getgo, having a team in place that can then advance those assets up the value curve, derisk them appropriately and then ultimately be able to produce and generate cash flow.
Future Money Trends: You're obviously a natural born entrepreneur. I just want to know how did you become attracted to the resource sector. Why not tech stocks or why not some other type of private business that never goes public? How did you find yourself building publicly traded resource companies?
Amir: It's a number of reasons. I think that the natural resource business and the natural resource sector really is a phenomenal way of creating wealth and making money in the sense that this is one of the oldest industries in the world. This is an industry that we're always going to need. We're always going to need the raw material and goods that the mining industry produces. It's not the type of industry where all of a sudden a new website gets launched and people stop using the old one and jump on to the new one and your business is wiped out. I'm referring to the technology and to the dotcom. It's a bricks and mortar business. It's easy to understand. It's one of those businesses where you really got to work hard at it and you can get results.
I grew up around it in that my father was in the commodities business. That was some very early exposure to the idea of commodities and being around commodities. But then after that, growing up in Vancouver, going to the University of British Columbia, coming out of UBC, you find yourself in junior exploration companies more than any other city in the world. Truly this is the epicenter. This is the Silicon Valley of junior mining, the way Silicon Valley is for technology companies. You find yourself here combining all those different reasonsthe natural desire to be in it, being in the right city, having the right background, having early exposure to the sector to the commodity business. To bring it all together and those entrepreneurial juices get going and you really feel that this is an area to really execute and go out there and deliver value for people. As you do, you develop a following in a city that understands and appreciates junior mining.
Having said that, I find that where I've done business now for the last nine years down in Texas, I find that when it comes down to jurisdiction…When we're down in Texas building our business, here is a state that is entrepreneurial. You look at the tax rates, you look at how there's more Fortune 500 companies in Texas than anywhere else, the energy boom, the fact that it's the energy capital of the U.S. It's fantastic as a mining natural resources entrepreneur to really also be in the right jurisdiction, which that environment around you is also what helps lift you. When I look at how we're positioned in Texas, when I look at how we're positioned in Brazil. You look at Brazil, it's the B in BRICS countries the amount of entrepreneurship and the amount of energy that's down there. The emerging class and the emerging wealth that's being created amongst that country's entrepreneurs it's inspiring being down there and seeing that.
Being in the mining business is much about being in the environments that you're in where you're either raising capital or developing assets. When you look at places like Vancouver, places like Texas, places like Brazil I also think that it's also about being in the right places and getting more of that inspiration and energy to do a better job and to be able to advance a better company.
Future Money Trends: That's very interesting because Texas, as you probably know since you are familiar with that state, has seen a huge migration from the coastal states, California and New York. People are heading to Texas because of this. Of course they do have a shale boom going on right now and so the jobs are there. I want to move on to the stock price of UEC lately because I just want to give people an inside perspective of what it's like to run one of these publicly traded companies. I'd like you to touch on a very important shareholder that lives in your house.
You told me a great story at the Casey Summit. I believe Casey only invited 10 or 12 publicly traded CEOs, you were one of them. You had told me a great story about a very important shareholder. We might be even able to talk a little bit about some principles that you plan on teaching that specific shareholder later on in life. If you could just tell the audience what we're referring to as far as an important shareholder in your house.
Amir: Are you talking about my six year old son?
Future Money Trends: I am. I am talking about that shareholder. The one that trumps all.
Amir: He was actually on my case this morning. He's really fascinated with rocks and the mining business as a result of just asking and inquiring about what daddy does. Basically, he also learned a little bit about the idea that there's such a thing as stocks and they go up and down. There was about maybe $10 or $20 worth of investment. Initially, he handed to me a $20 bill and said, "Buy me some of your stock."
Amir: Every morning in conversations that I have with him, "Love you. I'm going to work." His response would be, "What's the stock doing? Is it up or down?" He really gives me a hard time when it goes down. It was just hilarious.
Now he's got a rock collection, Dennis. He's out prospecting. He shows me the different rocks and asks me what next thing to potentially prospect it for, what I think they're worth. When I offer to buy it from him, he asks me if I think that price is good and he immediately backs away and says he's not selling. He's gotten nervous about selling to me because he thinks I'm going to get a good deal out of him.
Future Money Trends: That is a great story. My son just the other day he said, "Dad, we're writers," because I told him that I write for a living. He goes, "We're writers." I was so proud. My heart melted. I said, "Yeah. We are writers. Of course I want to teach you the family business." It seems like your son is definitely possibly a resource executive or maybe even a geologist with his enjoyment of those rocks.
Amir: It's great.
Future Money Trends: Has he got a chance to see any of the ones that have been minted into coins? Because my kids have some silver coins and I've even showed them a gold coin. There's just a natural human fascination with gold and silver.
Amir: He has the nuggets. You'd be very impressed with his collection. He's got gold nuggets, he's got rock specimen. He's a bit of a rock junkie. He's a rock hound at the age of six.
Future Money Trends: Let's touch on UEC stock price. It's been a wild ride just this last month. It's a pretty consistent stock. It has a lot of attention. You've got a lot of big insiders, big institutions. People like Rick Rule supporting that company and part of the business.
When I look at buying businesses, I really do look at the business. For example, when I go to fill up my gas tank at Exxon Mobil I will often tell my four year old son that we own part of this business. I know people can become…Maybe they look at the stock price too much…Anyone who looks at a chart may ask, "Hey, Amir. What happened over the last 30 days?" Are you allowed to comment on that?
Amir: Overall, there are a number of factors at play here. Obviously, again, it goes back to the price of the commodity. We're a uranium company so we're extremely sensitive to the price of uranium especially because we're one of the only, if not the only, pure play uranium producer that is unhedged. So we're extremely sensitive to the whole thing. Unfortunately, the volatility in the uranium prices this past few months really went one way and that one way has been on the way down. Clearly we've seen some selling pressure on Uranium Energy, UEC shares as a result of that.
It's been as volatile as basically seeing the stock at around $2 in early March and then going from $2 all the way down to 95 cents two weeks ago and now back at $1.60. The volatility really number one goes to the fact that uranium prices are continuing to go down and have been soft. This could reverse as we go into the second half of this year on the back of hopefully some more positive news coming out of Japan with respect to nuclear reactor restarts in Japan, which is widely believed and expected by a lot of people in the industry and analysts to be the catalyst event that could put a bit of reverse soul and some positive momentum into the uranium prices and then the uranium companies. We're obviously watching that as well.
Over the last two or three weeks we've made a point also of getting out, communicating with our shareholder base, communicating the fundamentals about the company. The fact that the company is really sitting in a position where we've proactively reduced a lot of our cost structures and have cut back on spending as a way of preserving a stronger balance sheet, having financial flexibility, perhaps even looking at selling noncore assets. Texas is our hubandspoke production strategy but outside of Texas we're sitting on close to 20 uranium properties with resources estimates, with tremendous of historic work that has been done. Another thing that we can do during a downturn is that if we're not getting full value for some of our noncore assets, we could potentially look at asset divestitures. We've had this in mind as a way of further strengthening the balance sheet.
Getting out and communicating with our shareholders at the same time as having had a couple of bigger sellers that we have in the stock now being gone, the overlap of these effects have seen us go and make a quick reversal from 95 cents up to where we are now. But even at $1.60, we're still shy of where we here at $2 around the TDAC. Our last equity financing at the end of last year was then at $2.10. Let's not even talk about where we were preFukushima. But just for fun, preFukushima, we were at $7.50. We hadn't even put out any production results and we had a third of the in ground resources that we have today.
Fundamentally you have to appreciate the fact that from a fundamental point of view, Uranium Energy Corp. has spent not only the last eight or nine years since inception, but even the last two years postFukushima. We've been investing in acquiring assets, we have made acquisitions that have helped grow our total acreage, total resources, historic information in our possession, decades worth of historic uranium mining and development exploration activity, which is the company's intellectual capital.
Extracting big names to the company. Names like Spencer Abraham, who was U.S. Secretary of Energy from 20012005. We share Spencer Abraham with companies like Occidental Petroleum where he's the ViceChairman in that company. Attracting big names like Li Kashing, the wealthiest man in Asia, who's gotten behind us along with Rick Rule of Sprott.
These are all things that have happened in the last three years that have been three of the toughest years the nuclear and uranium industry has had since going back to some of the nuclear problems in the '80s and '90s with Three Mile Island and Chernobyl. These have been tough years for this industry. Despite these three tough years, just look at the fundamental progress that UEC is still making. Not sitting idle, just looking at the screens, wondering why uranium prices are going over.
That type of some new shareholders and investors resonates with people. If it didn't resonate, you wouldn't see the stock pick up and rally so rapidly as it has over the last two weeks. Again, relative to where it's been as recent as March, as recent as the end of last year you still realize that we're still in that depressed valuation range, in that basement valuation range. But we're making the progress. That's the way I see things in terms of how things have panned out in the last few months.
Future Money Trends: It's great, Amir. This interview has really brought to my mind just moving forward even in a downtime. There are definitely some principles people can take away here. I want to give you a quick note on the stock. My father, who's 60 years old, he bought his very first stock. He has some mutual funds in a 401k, his very first stock he purchased was UEC. Of course, it was only about a month or two ago because he's always been against doing things outside of his retirement…
I pleaded with him. Anyway, he finally did it. I just think it's funny. Even though, obviously, he's had an amazing experience going from about $1 to $1.60, you could say he's almost had the worst experience. Now, he's asking me, "Can we just do one of these a month?"
Amir: Maybe we should put my six year old and your father in touch.
Future Money Trends: Yeah.
Amir: They both seem to be very high maintenance.
Future Money Trends: Amir, thank you so much for your time. I really appreciate you taking the time to talk about building businesses, especially in a downtime. If somebody would like to partner with you, where is the best place for them to go learn more about either one of your companies?
Amir: Uranium Energy, that website is uraniumenergy.com. That's www.uraniumenergy.com. Brazil Resources is www.brazilresources.com.
Future Money Trends: Dang, uraniumenergy.com. I've got to say…You know because you're also a guy who is of the age of the Internet, basically. The Internet has been around our whole lives
Future Money Trends: That is a damn good domain name "uranium energy." You would think that domain would have been bought up by somebody.
Amir: I was actually quite amazed, eight or nine years ago, that it was available when we got it. I think that is a good domain name. There you go. Add that to the list of important assets the company has.
Future Money Trends: Thank you so much, Amir for your time. You have a good day.
Amir: Thank you Daniel.


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use Zend\Form\Form;
use Zend\InputFilter;

use Zend\Db\Adapter\AdapterInterface;

class SalesForm extends Form {

    protected $dbAdapter;

    public function __construct(AdapterInterface $dbAdapter){

        $this->setDbAdapter($dbAdapter);

        //ignore the name passed
        parent::__construct('sales');

	    $this->add(array(
            'name' => 'sale_id',
            'attributes' => array(
                'type'  => 'hidden',
            )
        ));

        $this->add(array(
            'name' => 'cantidad',
            'attributes' => array(
                'type'  => 'text',
                'id' => 'txt-qty',
                'class' => 'form-control',
            ),
            'options' => array(
                'label' => 'Cantidad',
            ),
        ));

		$this->add(array(
            'name' => 'producto',
            'attributes' => array(
                'type'  => 'text',
                'id' => 'txt-product',
                'class' => 'form-control',
            ),
            'options' => array(
                'label' => 'Producto',
            ),
        ));

		$this->add(array(
            'name' => 'precio',
            'attributes' => array(
                'type'  => 'text',
                'id' => 'txt-price',
                'class' => 'form-control',
            ),
            'options' => array(
                'label' => 'Precio Unitario',
            ),
        ));

		//type select
        $this->add(array(
            'type'  => 'Zend\Form\Element\Select',
            'name' => 'tipo',
            'attributes' => array(
                'id' => 'txt-tipo',
                'class' => 'form-control select',
            ),
            'options' => array(
                'label' => 'Tipo de venta',
                'value_options' =>  array(
					0 => "Crédito",
					1 => "Contado"
				),
                'empty_option'  => '--- Tipo---',
            )
        ));

		//client select
        $this->add(array(
            'type'  => 'Zend\Form\Element\Select',
            'name' => 'client',
            'attributes' => array(
                'id' => 'txt-client',
                'class' => 'form-control select',
            ),
            'options' => array(
                'label' => 'Cliente',
                'value_options' =>  $this->getOptionsForSelect('clients'),
                'empty_option'  => '--- Seleccione un cliente ---',
            )
        ));

    }

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        $sql       = 'SELECT t0.client_id, t0.firstname FROM '.$table.' t0 ORDER BY t0.firstname ASC';
        $statement = $dbAdapter->query($sql);
        $result    = $statement->execute();

        $selectData = array();

        foreach ($result as $res) {
            $selectData[$res['client_id']] = $res['firstname'];
        }

        return $selectData;
    }

    public function setDbAdapter(AdapterInterface $dbAdapter){

        $this->dbAdapter = $dbAdapter;

        return $this;
    }

    public function getDbAdapter(){

        return $this->dbAdapter;
    }

}


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The average commercial electricity rate in Carrollton is 7.85¢/kWh.
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I'm new to the forum and am looking for information on the translation of US documents that have the appropriate apostilles (birth certificate and affidavit to marry) for use in Venezuela. It's been quite difficult finding information about the typical cost of translations, beyond that of the corporate apostille websites, and where one could get this done. I'm also unsure of whether or not said documents should be prepared in duplicate for use in Venezuela, as stated by the official US Department of State website on Venezuela in regards to 'Obtaining Evidence in Civil and Commercial Matters' . I'm also unsure if this refers to a copy of said documents or a duplicate set of said prepared documents .
I'd appreciate if you could help answer these questions because it's been a very confusing process without an appropriate point of reference.
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