I am no longer as confident about my hypothesis that 3D systems (DDD) is in a bust phase. The better-than-expected revenue and earnings at competitor Stratasys (SSYS) has buoyed optimism in the space. I am worried that this will turn around the tide of negative perception that has driven DDD lower in recent weeks.
However, I am encouraged by the fact that 3D systems has not made any recent acquisitions. This would seem to fit with the thesis – that as the stock price declines, the ability of 3D systems to trade overpriced stock for companies with real earnings will decrease. Now 3D systems will have to be measured by its organic growth alone, which is not enough to sustain its lofty multiple – a P/E ratio above 70.
Stratasys seems to be at a different place in its own reflexive process. The results reported were better than expected partly due to a large acquisition. However, the boom has not been as strong as 3D systems'. Reflexivity plays a smaller role in Stratasys's earnings – the company does not rely as heavily on stock sales to finance its acquisitions, thus the effect of perception on fundamentals is less direct. In addition, the organic growth rate (i.e. growth rate independent of acquisitions) seems to be larger than that of 3D systems.
For now, I am in wait-and-see mode. But I am edgy. I upped my short position on Friday, after reading 3D systems earnings report and seeing the fall on Monday at a much larger volume of transactions followed by a rise that was sustained by fewer transactions. Thus, I established that the rise was temporary, an effect of smaller-sized market participants, and the big money is still selling the stock.
In addition, I have been killed on my puts for March 14. This was a trading mistake. I never should have bought options that close to expiration, and I have paid for that lesson. The time value depreciation is much larger than the potential gain from a stock fall, unless the stock breaks $30/share before they expire. My May puts are hovering at profitability as well. In the future, I will probably steer clear of options as a tool – my type of reflexive reasoning has been better at predicting eventual results than the timing of those results. I purchased the options to take advantage of the short-sale restrictions that had been in place, and these options should have been replaced by short stock positions at a good opportunity.
As for my other positions, they are not fairing as well as I would have hoped. Though C&J Energy (CJES) finally broke its resistance at $23-$23.50, it is still testing this price, now as a support line. It remains to be seen whether the price will hold. WTI Crude has been in a steady decline for the past few weeks, so I believe that CJES holding above $23 is dependent on WTI holding above $90.
I have more confidence in Core Labs (CLB), because of its dependence on overseas operations. However, Core Labs does not offer an attractive value at this price. I would be willing to trade it for something more undervalued that is exposed to the same trends.
Bassett Furniture (BSET) has been a reliable play in my portfolio, as the housing boom seems to be continuing uninterrupted. It still has not reached a multiple of book value that I would be uncomfortable with, and the housing boom is far from over, so I am sticking with BSET for now.
The banking stocks (BNCC.pk and BBBI.ob) are relatively flat since purchase. They likely will not move much without a major announcement.
But BNCCorp's annual statement provides an insight to a potential weakness in the company. Though it has been making a killing issuing mortgages in North Dakota, profiting off of the Bakken Shale explosion in the region, BNCCorp's interest income has been steadily falling in an environment of low interest rates. If the mortgage banking revenue begins to fall off, the company will not be able to sustain its current level of earnings. At a 40% discount to book value, the stock is still worth owning at this point, but this is something to watch.
PGS (PGSVY) has declined significantly in recent weeks. It released fantastic earnings for 2012, however the guidance was below analyst expectations, and the stock dropped. It is sitting at an attractive price; with Price to Free-Cash-Flow ratio is sitting below 10, excluding expenditures on its MultiClient operations (P/FCF is a useful ratio to evaluate PGS because it has to depreciate those large Multiclient expenditures over time). I have confidence that PGS will be able to find buyers for its current MultiClient projects, since they are in high interest areas like offshore Africa. With Brent Crude prices above $110, offshore Africa will become more and more attractive to the big exploration and production companies. I would be willing to accrue more shares if I can get a price in the low $16 range.
As for Food Technology Services, Inc. (VIFL), I am waiting for the next earnings release and conference call to review the investment.
It is hard to find any other ideas that are as good as CJES, VIFL, or IMAX right now.
VIFL and CJES both provide compelling values right now. VIFL's P/E of 18.88 is still too low for its growth rate, and CJES's P/E of 7.66 is ridiculous.
VIFL is pressed on cobalt prices, but they are loaded up for the next several years (one reason the cash flow was drained last year). They are getting good deals occasionally from Nordion, below market price. One can only hope that their prior relationship allows these sorts of deals to occur. However, even if the capital injections required for the cobalt have a substantial effect on VIFL's cash generation ability, they have so much buffer on their cash flow that VIFL will still beat the market five years from now.
The natural gas prices have me worried. At these rates, E&P companies are pulling their rigs from shale fields. CJES has an advantage in being located in oily plays, but as other fracking companies start pulling their fleets from gas rigs, they will increase the supply of frackers for oily plays. The extra competition may drive day rates lower.
I am continually worried about a supply glut coming in fracking fleets. That is the major concern with CJES. Like I said earlier, there is no sign of that happening yet, given Q3 margins, but the supply glut in natural gas may eventually trickle back to the frackers.
In order to get clarity on the situation, I will have to wait for the conference call. I am sure analysts will ask about this. I will need to hear what management is saying about possible oversupplies in frackers. If they do not guide down, I am likely to stick with this investment until the 10-Q numbers show some sort of warning sign.
I do not believe that CJES will turn completely down within the three month time period between conference calls. No major shift in a fundamental play like this happens that fast. The entire E&P industry couldn't shift that fast. Could it?
Where would they shift to?
The obvious answer is that E&P's are pouring more of their energy into international and deepwater markets. Which makes me lean towards NE or RIG or ESV or SDRL. Wow, I wish I had followed my gut on a RIG speculation at 39. It was trading at book value, with a positive cash flow, share repurchases, and a strong underlying trend. Now I do not feel that my margin of safety is so intact, though I still feel that the stock is going higher.
HAL may be a better play right now. I feel that they are the most innovative in fracking techniques, and they are going to revolutionize fracking before any other company will. There may be some other smaller companies in this space that are being overlooked as well. But HAL is trading at a discount STILL because of its Macondo involvement. This cannot go on forever. Even if there was wrongdoing at HAL, it will not damage the reputation of HAL. Across the industry, it is still trusted. I need to research this more. The perception has been turning positive among some analysts. I need to decide whether or not to get shares before they get expensive.
IMAX may not provide an obvious discount anymore. If we use the income from a previous big year (2010) as a baseline for what they could do in 2012 (since they have many more theaters now, 2010 income should be lower than 2012), then we get a P/E of 28. Not exactly value investment numbers. That P/E was based on earnings that have the tax benefits backed out of them. I don't think those tax benefits will be recurring, because 2010 was the first time I saw tax assets on the balance sheet, and IMAX used those immediately.
Is the margin of safety on IMAX gone? Where is my protection of downside risk? The stock is hovering near the top of the RSI – around 60.
But I can't help thinking that the stock will trade up when the obvious big hits start hitting the screens. The market perception would have to get more positive when the major blockbusters hit the screens. Most of the move should be complete by summer.
Is it worth it to sit and wait?
How could I be wrong about IMAX? Will people really start shunning the more expensive IMAX theaters? Or, alternatively, do studios prefer to work with RealD rather than IMAX?
Just occurred to me that RealD might be a discount at current prices. It is way oversold, and has been for a long time. Star Wars 3D is coming out soon, and I believe it will be very successful. RealD did the 3D technology for this, and it derives its revenue from admissions-based licensing fees. Therefore, I believe that RealD will rake in a nice chunk of change from Star Wars.
RealD is trading SOO low right now. Its 6-month trailing P/E is 25.70. That is insane. And with the Disney movies, and Ghost Protocol, there must have been substantial revenues generated this last quarter.
I will have to come to a decision on this soon. Something will happen to the stock when it announces on Feb 1.
Greece. Wow. What a bad situation. Is there a reflexive process occurring here? The government's implementation of austerity measures might be further fuelling Greece's inability to collect revenue. I am reminded of the Laffer Curve – maybe Greece is edging further into the right-hand portion.
Maybe its economy will never recover.
But what will happen? Surely the other European countries will not let Greece default. The fear of the consequences to THEIR economies is too great.
There is only one recourse for the Eurozone. Let the printing presses fly.
Perhaps by printing huge amounts of money, and loaning at low interest rates, contagion spreading from Greece can be avoided. But the situation for Greece itself will be awful for years to come.
If the rating agencies devalue Italy's debt, or Italy's creditors themselves get scared and jack up interest rates, Italy could be in danger of a default as well, and also require a bailout. If this occurs, the ripple effects would be enormous. Likely Portugal, and perhaps Ireland, would be next on the list.
No matter what happens, the Euro is going to MASSIVELY devalue over the next several years. The dollar is a possible benefactor, but the obvious benefactors are the currencies of Asia. I am particularly interested in Southeastern Asian countries. Those south of China, with more free currency policies.
I wonder what the impact of the massive influx of Euros will be on the energy industry.
Norway is a strong benefactor here, and perhaps Europe's most important source of oil (1). I was so impressed by the description of integration of 4D technology in offshore Norway – this technology will become a staple of the industry in the future (2).
While (1) points out that Norway oil exports have hit a peak already, I would argue that the integration of new technologies such as 4D seismic will allow for greater recoveries than had ever been imagined in the past, and that Norway's fields still have many good producing years ahead.
I did not realize that Denmark was also a significant producer.
I do not imagine demand will be very high in Europe over the next few decades. It will probably remain at current levels – the only impetus for price increase here is the constriction of supply. Further, increasing demand in other parts of the world also constricts supply.


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But what a deep individual, like he understands the human dynamics so well. So, we had some great conversation. And he's asking me, he was like, So, what's the bootcamp? So, what do you, guys, really do? So, when a person comes into the boot camp, what happens?" And so, I break the whole thing down for him. So, he's like, "Fuck, that's exactly how I think. But you've been able to put it into a system and actually help people do it, too." He's like, "Shit, that's amazing." Anyway, so, great, great, great conversation. It was really cool. I've met him a few times before but never got a chance to like sit and chat and get to really know him. Anyway. So, that was fun, and a bunch of meetings, and dinners, and tequilas, and cigars, et cetera but what I saw... so, yes, a lot of people are opening up and letting go. And, obviously, masks were very, very few and far between. And obviously, the mandates are gone now, which is cool. So, they're, people are not being forced. Some employees, I saw employees in certain spaces being forced, and I'm like, how sad. Where were we, shit, I don't know where we were. And I said, hey, you know why, I think was in an elevator and I asked... oh, this is in somewhere, yeah. Anyway, so, I said, hey, why do you still wear a mask? And he was an employee of the hotel, and that mask on, gets in the elevator. And the guy says, "Well, because it's company policy, we still have to wear masks." And this is the evil comes into play where we force our opinions that are not based on science. And if you were to base this information on science, you actually base it on science, you'll see that masks don't work. And what masks actually do is create disease and sickness inside the body for so many reasons. It's like getting a diaper full of shit and putting it back into the place where the poop came from. So, it's similar to like putting poop back inside of where it came out of. So, getting this oxygen, and carbon monoxide, and etc, back in and out of the body, is inside of a filter is just horrible, horrible for the immune system, for the whole system, it's just not a good thing. Anyway, so, the reason I'm bringing up this world of mask, et cetera, yes, we're at that pivot point where it's about to go away. Airlines are supposed to remove it on the 18th, which is amazing. But then, of course, there's talk of all kinds of other fuckery because they're not yet done with Trump and got to... obviously, there's so much happening in the world, you guys. And this is where the uncertainty is, right? Because you look at the whole thing. And you say, "Man, it's ugly," doom and gloom, right? Because we had so many of these conversations over the weekend, is their doom and gloom? And what is it really? What is really happening? Is it just over? Is the global reset, the Klaus Schwab person and the New World Order thing, is that real? Is it happening? And the answer is yeah, and this is where people don't understand the conspiracy theorists that have been talking about this for 50 years. All of a sudden, everything that these people talked about, sorry, everything that we talked about for the last so many years, all of a sudden, it's like, well, it's happening here, it's happening here, this is coming to be true. This is now happening. Here's this one. And there's constant proof that this is it. There is a new world order. They've been telling us for how many years that a new world order, a new global currency, a new... so, my point is, is that really happening? Yeah, I mean, look around, and it's happening but why is it happening? Why is it happening now? And why do they want Trump out of the way so much and so bad? So, once you understand what's really happening, then you can understand the fight the battle, and this is a spiritual battle. It's at a level that I don't think any of us understand. Even people of... scholars of the Bible don't really understand the level of this thing because I don't think any of us have access to that information up there just yet. Maybe there are people, I don't know, but I've met one of our heard of one yet, anyway. So, there's just a lot that we don't know. And so, in this world of this fuckery and this uncertainty, because it could be scary. Even if you don't know, and there are a lot of people, funny enough, like even over the weekend, we're talking, they're just like, "I just don't, I don't want to know, I just... I needed over there. It just, I know what's happening but I don't want to hear about it, I don't want to talk about it. I don't want it in my space because it fucks me up. So, just let it happen." So, it's a passive way to allow things to happen in the world outside of getting informed, doing something about it, talking to people about, and waking people up. And that's why, this is what we're going through now. It's called the Great Awakening because there was no other way to get this information to people. Like why is the Disney thing happening right now? Right? So, why is Disney who, if you don't know Disney, or if you're a huge Disney fan, Disney is a huge, huge, huge part of the problem. Disney is one of the biggest evils on the planet. And you're like, "Yeah, but I love Mickey Mouse." Well, if you can back up and understand why Disney was invented and created and where the money came from the support and really understand the human trafficking, the child trafficking that happens inside of Disney as a system, not like Disneyland only. But yeah, are there tunnels, are there... like in Disneyland, why is Disney World in Florida, for example, a sovereign entity. Like it doesn't belong to the state of Florida. Ask yourself that question. Just like the Vatican is in Rome. It's a sovereign entity. It doesn't belong to Rome. Just like Washington DC doesn't belong, it's not a part of the United States of America, it's part of the United Nations. Just like City of London inside of London. It has nothing to do with London. It's the City of London inside. So, all these separate entities, like what the fuck is going on? Who's running the show? Why are they separate? And who has power over them? And that's the key. So, once you understand what's happening with Disney, and people are waking up to the fuckery, and how videos are being leaked through various media sources. This is the waking up part. And the more we all pay attention, and get people that have been Disney fanatics for so many years, like, we've been on Disney cruises, when the girls were younger. I have an idea of the concept. I had no idea, like what I know today, holy Lord, we would have never gone. Obviously, but we, for us, we always kept our kids very close, very protected, like maybe even extra and over protective of them for many reasons but Disney is just evil. So, this information coming out today where people are literally banning Disney, ending their relationship with any kind of Disney stuff. They're selling their Disney stock, it's over, no more, blah, blah... Club 33. Yep, at Disneyland. So, they're just a huge part of the problem, whether you want to call it the Illuminati, the Masons, the Freemasons, it doesn't matter how you call it, they're part of that evil club. So, if you look at the logo, Disney, you'll see 666 inside of the the logo, look at how they write, look at the font, and you'll see 666 in there. Oh, I can go on, and on, and on, and on. So, why is Disney happening? Why is Elon Musk buying and taking majority stakeholder in Twitter? Ooh, Lala. Why? Why now? Why didn't he do it six months ago? Why isn't he doing it a year from now? So, you start adding all these things up? You look at what's happening with the media in general. Look what the media is talking about more and more. Look at what they're exposing, look, they're talking about things today that they could not talk about before. Look, the Hunter Biden thing, the Biden thing, the other Biden thing, the Russia, the Ukraine, there's so much happening in this world. And this is where I'm saying, hey, there's so much uncertainty as you look at it. And there are people that know a lot and I think the more you know, nobody likes what's happening, but the more you know, I think the more certain you are because you know there's a plan. There's a plan for both sides here. There's a plan for the bad fuckers. And there's a plan for the good fuckers. And what I mean by that is, there is no way, then this is how I always look at it, I always come back to the concept that look at what's happening today. And let's back it up 5, 6, 7 years, maybe when the real fuckery began and the stage was set for this global reset, and the global currency, and agenda 2020, agenda 2030. There's a lot of moving, there are a lot of moving parts that most people have no fucking idea what's happening in the world. So, they just think it's doom and gloom but understanding that there's an agenda, and they labeled it as agenda 2030, and what they want to do with population and the world, it's crazy. It's obviously very evil. So, when I said earlier that this is a spiritual battle, you have to understand that this is, this war is happening up in the principalities, or whatever that means, and I, whenever I use Bible stuff, I say that, whatever that means, whatever this is, whatever that is because I don't think we really, really fucking know. So, I always sort of back it up with like, well, whatever it may be, it's over there. So, what are the principalities, whatever that looks like or dimensions, I don't know what that looks like, but what we're going through today is, there's a good side and a bad side. We live in a world of duality. So, understanding that all this bad stuff was planned for a long time. And on the flip side, the good stuff to take the good people taken out the bad people has been planned for a very long time. So, when you're saying but there's nothing happening where the good guys? Where are the Trump people or whoever? and I don't give a fuck if it's Trump or Babaganush. See, what I did there? Babaganush. It doesn't matter who it is. Good people, good people that want good for the world. That want good for humanity. That's it. It doesn't matter who it is. It could have been Obama, it could have been Clinton, it could have been anybody, I don't care. There's a good to this life connected to the gods side, and there's a bad to this life connected to the other side. And whether we call that Satan, the enemy, hell, I don't care doesn't matter. That's not good. So, the good people the good part to all of this journey, the situation, this movie, some people call it, this plan, goes back a long time, and it's here to fix things for us. Anyway, not to get too crazy political, not to make it all about Trump but he did a lot for us. And people say, "Well, what happened? How come he lost?" Well, he'd never lost? There are two entities. There's the United States, and the United States of America. What's the difference? One's a corporation and one's a republic. And you're like, "What the fuck? What does that even mean? How come they didn't teach us this in high school? I went to school for so many years. They've never told me this. They just... so, you're telling me our government, our school system lied to me?" Yes, they did. They are full of shit. They're liars. It's all a setup by the same people creating a false history. And given to us through Hollywood. It's the same identical three letter agency program that has lied to us about everything. Literally everything. Everything's a fucking... everything today that we know, that we, sorry, that we think we know is reality, fake. Fake. Yeah. So, first of all, if you understand the 2020 election, and I'm like, we're not going to get into politics. Fuck it, yes, we are. Yeah. So, if you understand the election process, 2020 had to happen. It had happened the way it happened because how do you fix something? You have to catch the problem. And when you catch the problem, then you're able to fix it. And if you look at what's happened since, and all the lawsuits, and all the Dominion and Fromunion, and all the different companies involved, and all the different people, and different states, Arizona and Wisconsin. If you look at the last, whatever it's been now, there's been a lot of work so the only way to fix future elections is for us to fix 2020. There is no way to do it any other way. We have to expose the fraud, expose the problem, and from there, we can say, all right cool, so if this is the problem, what is the solution? What is the fix? And this is what's happening right now. And you say, "Well, okay," so, some people say, "Obviously, there was fraud, and Biden is really not President." Well, can a person like that place themselves as the leader, the president of a corporation? Yes, they can. So, understanding that there's a corporation in place, every single company in the world, every single corporation has CEO and as a president. So, if that fucker is president of that corporation, is he truly then President of the Republic? And the answer is no. So, then you back up and say, "Then, is the corporation still active? Is that a real Corporation? And how can a country be a corporation? What does that even mean? Who made it into a corporation? What is going on here?" So, we really have to backup all, I mean, we got to backup 100 plus years to get into the history as to how we became a corporation, who made us into a corporation, why, what happened to the Republic? And more importantly, when did this corporation file bankruptcy? So, therefore, a corporation that is in bankruptcy, that file bankruptcy is a null and void entity, therefore, it doesn't fucking exist. So, America as a republic has not existed in a long time until Mr. Donald J. Trump came back into play and he gave us the power back. He gave the power back to the people. And then if you look back at 2020, wasn't he supposed to... oh, that word escapes me now, what's he supposed to do when a president releases power to the office... It'll come to me in a second. There's that word. "Lies are being exposed." Yes, Anastasia. "Truth is shining." Yes. "Everything is delayed narrative to prevent mass psychosis." Yep. "Mass hysteria." Yep. "Public lynching." Yep. "Bezos is gone." Yeah. He's done. I don't know if you're saying done as in done, or gone as in gone. I think he was replaced with clone if you look at the two. So, the latest Bezos that we see as all buff and bald now like a stud, all you got to do is look at the fucking energy of the geek before and in this clone after the fact, I don't give a shit how much you fucking work out, you don't get that kind of comp, the energy shift doesn't happen. You got to change your soul to get that kind of vibration shift. Yeah, you're gonna get more confident, more secure. I got muscles now, I'm worth 100 billion. Yeah, that'll go up a tad. You're still gonna be the fucking geek inside. That doesn't change. Anyway, so, Bezos, yeah, so many... and there's also conversation that Klaus Schwab was arrested last Sunday. So, two days ago. That's conversation. We don't have proof yet. One day we will. "I meant replaced by Elon in a roundabout way." Oh, I see your point. There's so much... and Elon... conceded... no, conceded to... and that's not the word I'm looking for. When a president... fuck, what is the word when a president... jeez, Louise, it'll come. Anyway, so, yes, this is a military activity, action. This whole thing is a military movement. And yes, Trump is all about that. And that's what's happening in Ukraine right now. What's happening with Russia. People think Russia is bad. There's nothing wrong with Russia. Russia is actually helping out the world. They just back the ruble with goldiboo. So, why are we backing the ruble with gold? Oh, so, once you know this stuff, you say, "Whoa, hold on a second. So, all of a sudden, the ruble is backed by gold? Isn't that what we want in America? Isn't that what JFK senior was looking to do? And certain people said, "Fuck you, we're not going to get rid of the dollar and the Federal Reserve." And that's what he wanted to do and back the US dollar with gold, as opposed to just being typical fractional currency, fiat currency. And, of course, you know, the answer to what the did there. And there were two people that wanted to actually get rid of the Federal Reserve, and you got to understand who the Federal Reserve is, and who invented the Federal Reserve. And there were two people that wanted to get rid of it. And both took it to the head, although the JFK who was in the car was not the real one. And that's another story. We don't have time to get into all this shit kids. That was a real, as I said, not the real one. But the real one was just passed about a year and a half ago, 103 years old. Anyway, but both of those people that wanted to take out the Federal Reserve were taken out, technically, with a shot to the head as a message. So, then you say, "Well, who's the Federal Reserve?" Then you say, "Well, a lot of people think, well, the Federal Reserve is owned by the people." Like actually, a brother of mine, we had a conversation, we're talking about... so, we see things differently, just to say. We're both patriots, but we understand things differently. So, I said, well, if you think that's the case, I said, do you know who owns a Federal Reserve? And he's like, "Well, yeah, the American people." And I'm like, ah, here we go. So, the American people do not own the Federal Reserve, the Rothschild family does and leads up all the way to the same group of mofos that control currency globally currently. Won't be here for long. So, there's a lot of stuff moving. There's a lot of good, good, good, good stuff happening. So, when you start questioning, for example, like the Russia and the ruble being backed by gold, and they're collecting gold, and what's happening in Ukraine, and what they're really taking out because people are like, "Oh, my God, pray for Ukraine. And I'm not saying... listen, innocent people getting hurt for any reason, horrible, horrible, horrible. I never condone that. You, guys, know me, but taking out the evil? I condone that. I don't, what do I do? I condone, I don't, I don't fucking know. I'm really tired. Just, I'm keeping it real. So, taking out evil is a necessary thing today, more than ever. So, what's happening in the world is beautiful is what I'm getting at. So, my message to everybody is, please understand, with all this uncertainty in the world, there is a way for you to be certain, there is a way for you to be strong, there is a way for you to hone in your power. Listening to the news, and you, guys, know this, I talk about this all the time, turn off the TVs, turn off CNN, you walk into the doctor's office or into the gym, and the news is already on blasting through the whole fucking gym or the theater wherever you're at, ask somebody to change it, "Are you cool if we change the channel? Are you cool if we mute it?" I mean, this is literally what I do. I will not accept that information into my space. Once you become responsible for what enters you, it's the same thing with food, right? So, once you take responsibility with your physique, your weight, to your health, then you can do something about it. A lot of people say, "Well, I'm just big boned." Fuck you. Who came out of their mother fat? No, nobody, nobody. Obese, nobody. So, something happened in the process where we put on the weight, right? I put on I was 50 pounds up at one point. I didn't come out of my mom like that. I somehow through my bullshit justified why I'm going to put on 50 fucking pounds, and then justified why I want to release that and have a different reality. So, taking responsibility for what I allow into my system, that's when things can actually change. So, if I understand that what happens to me, or with me, or the environment that I'm in that penetrates my audio system, then now, I can either hear good things or bad things I can hear people that talk about love, and creativity, and business scaling, and helping humanity, and doing great things. And that's one conversation, that stuff feeds the soul, and it creates energy and love from the universe automatically. Here's what happens with negativity. When we are around negative people, negative information, negative situations, negative visuals, even if you watch the TV, and you're watching bombings and car crashes, and people dying, all that shit is entering your being. This is your vessel, you are responsible for this vessel. So, my point is, if we know that we are responsible for this vessel, and I allow visual things to come in that will affect my vessel, my being, in a negative way. That's my choice. If I allow only positive things, and that's also my choice. And you. guys. know the concept that two pieces of matter cannot occupy the same space at the same time, which means what? That I can only have a positive or a negative thought, at any one given moment. And I can only have a positive or a negative emotion at any one given moment. Which means what? It's up to me. Which means what? It's choice, dammit. It's up to me how I feel at every single moment of this life, it is up to me. So, positive energy is abundant because it's based in love. And this universe is created from light. This whole thing is nothing but light and sound. So, it's abundant. Positive energy gives us more energy. It's self-creating, it's never ending, and it's constantly evolving. Where negative energy, so whether it's negative audio, negative video, negative thoughts, negative words, any kind of negativity, actually is poison to the body and it leaks, the energy that we already have, it leaks it out. It costs us. So, my saying is "Positive energy pays, negative energy costs." So you're like, "I feel like shit today. I feel down." Well, backup the last two to four hours. What were you thinking about? Who were you around? What did you listen to? What did you watch? Maybe as you're driving, what did you see, billboards advertisements? Oh, my God, are we being bombarded today with so much shit? So, do inventory. Don't just think, "Oh, my god, I'm just tired. I didn't sleep last night, dammit." Really figure out where your energy is going? Where are you leaking? It's literally just like a hose that's punctured, we leak energy. Just like in your car, if you have a gasket that cracks or breaks and oil starts leaking, it's the same identical thing. So, when you allow a negative to take root into your body, you're going to pop a gasket and you start leaking energy out. It's like, "Oh, my god, I don't have time for the kids. I just don't have the energy..." Back it up. Back it up, and see exactly what you've been around, and change what you've been around, change the people, change the conversations. Stop hanging out with people that complain, stop hanging out with people that gossip. Gossip is such horrible negative evil energy. I mean, if you think about how many hours you have in this life, and you spend an hour a week on gossip, talking about what the other guy did, the other gal the other family, "Oh, look at them." Gossip, gossip, talking shit, talking shit. That's one hour a week, 52 hours a year. Let's say you live 70 years that's what 364 hours of your life you spent on gossip. For the love of God think about it, 364 hours, and I'm playing it small. I'm just saying one little bookie-wookie hour but we know it's more than that. How many people do you know that fucking just gossip, and talk shit, and complain. So, for me, this is a lot of the work that I do with my clients in Badassery Factory. I love doing inventory because a lot of people say, "Well, I don't have time to be happy. I don't have time to be positive. I'm just... my life is consumed. I wake up and... immediately, as soon as I wake up, I'm stressed, and I worry and I gotta do this, and there's a whole agenda, and there's a list of shit to do, and the kids, and the husband, and the wife, and the..." whoo, fuck like, I'm exhausted just listening to it, and I can imagine what's happening here. So, the idea that I don't have time, bullshit. And here's why. It's such a cool little exercise. And I have everybody do what's called inventory. What do you do today? What time do you wake up? And literally, you tell me exactly how you're... everyday Monday to Friday, let's say that's when you work, Monday to Friday, what did you do? 6am, you wake up? Awesome. Let's start at 6am. And I want you to give me play by fucking play exactly what you did. And inside of those schedules, inside of those schedules, this is where we find the bullshit. People don't realize how much time we waste on things that have nothing to do with our well being. And when you start putting down for example, "Oh, I might talk for 20 minutes with this person, but she's a bitch, and this and that. And there was another phone call with this person. And I had to do a zoom with that person and complain, complain. And then I was able to do... I got two hours of watching a movie at night. And then, coffee time with my friends at blah, blah, blah place. And we start doing these pieces of inventory of where..." there are opportunities to release negativity and introduce positivity. And all I'm saying is this. If you say, "Hey, I don't have time to pray in the morning, I don't have time to meditate in the morning. I don't have time to take care of me in the morning." And for those of you, what we do in coaching and everything that we work on, is to figure out where's me time? Because if I don't have time to charge my own iPhone, how am I going to use it during the day? So, there has to be me time, there has to be juicing me up, plugging me in. So, if you learn to start the day, on a positive note, on a note that says, "I'm going in this direction," your life will change. But you say I don't have time to pray, I don't have time to meditate. I don't... like it's just... it's there's so much to do during the day." So, I say, well, you're not prioritizing, just yet. You're making the problems, the situation, the job, the bad people, the bullshit, you're making that a priority, because that's what you're focusing on. But you say, "But I want a better life. I want to make more money, I want to have a better relationship, I want to drop 40 pounds, I want to, I want, I want, I want to..." but you do nothing about it because life is tough, and I'm stuck. And hence, this same conversation is applicable to what's happening in the world. There's so much uncertainty. Well, you see it as uncertain because your life is uncertain. Once you start making you a priority, and start loving yourself, and you start giving yourself a schedule, and I'm using that word schedule for a reason, with somebody here, once you start doing that, then all of a sudden, that means, well, hold on. I'm respecting myself. I'm loving myself. And when you start loving and respecting yourself, and you start now giving you priority, man, I can just tell you how things changed so fast, so fast. But you say, "Hey, I already wake up at six. It's so early and I don't have time to do anything else." Bullshit, get up at five. "But I'm not a morning person." I don't give a fuck. You said you wanted more health. Get up an hour earlier, go to the gym. You don't have money for the gym, go run the streets, do push ups. It doesn't cost any money to get on the fucking floor and do push ups, or squats, or sit ups. There you go. You got a tree, there's a branch do pull ups. You know what I mean? We spend a life of so many excuses. "Well, you know when I can afford the gym, when I can afford a personal trainer," bullshit. Nothing but excuses. All you're doing is procrastinating, and not loving yourself, and disrespecting yourself, and just prolonging the pain because you got addicted to this reality and to this pain. It's addictive. Does that make sense? So, we can all do something different. So, looking at the world, and its uncertainty, you back that up into your life, you'll see that there's a resemblance. Maybe your life is not organized just yet. Maybe you don't have what you want in this life just yet. Maybe, you're not making the money that you feel you deserve. And you got to ask yourself, why not? Maybe you're not as healthy as you feel you deserve. But there's a thought like, "Hey, I need to be healthier. I want to be healthier. I want to drop some weight or have some muscle or look better or tighten the skin or..." whatever it may be, ask yourself why isn't that happened yet? Why not? What's holding me back from that? So, you look at this whole movie of your whole life and you say, hold on, this is resembling what's happening in the world is the same uncertain shit. How can I see it all different? Because perspective is the key to everything we're talking about. So, once you change the way you look at things, then the things that you look at change. That was Mahatma Gandhi. You're Welcome. So, when you change the way you look at things, the things that you look at change. So, perspective is a beautiful thing. So, if you see something like, "I don't have time," so change the way you look at it. What does that mean, you don't have time? Do you really not have time? Or are you wasting time in 100 places over the week? And this is maybe a homework for everybody here, I challenge everybody to literally start doing inventory of your every single day, from the moment you open your eyes to the moment you lay down. And even if you lay down and pray for an hour or read a book, whatever, put that in the schedule. You should really figure out how much, what you do every single day because we're so busy, and so, "Got to go, got to pick up the kids, got to fly to the next city." We don't realize how much time we're wasting on things that are not just not bringing us the things we want but they're bringing us things we don't want. There's constant manifestation people think, like one of the topics for the show today that I wrote up above is, Is positive thinking bullshit or is it real? Does it work to have this positive thinking system inside in order to manifest the things that you want? And obviously, you, guys, know, I'm a huge proponent of that and it's the core of my business. It's everything that we do. Everything that we stand for, is positive thinking. We manifest every single moment that we're alive. And people think that they're... let's say, I want to have a Porsche. And so people say, "Well, I want a Porsche. I would like a Porsche but it's expensive. And the guys that have the Porsche or the girls that have the Porsche, they have a lot more money than me." Well, see, what just happened is, is that a positive thought? Well, so, people say, "Well, yeah, because I'm always positive, dammit, I'm always positive. I always have positive thoughts about the Porsche, but the other people that have it, they have more money than I do. And I don't have that kind of money. Bbut I'm still positive." So, what happens is, we are constantly, literally, at every thought, and every word, and every time we have an emotion, we are creating more of the same. So. if we're saying, "Yeah, I want the Porsche but I can't afford it." You're putting that into the universe into this field, this ether, this matrix, you're putting exactly that out there in the universe, God, matrix, vibration, energy, field, ether, whatever it is, says, "Yep, here you go." Because that's the alignment, we align... what we put out, we get back. So, some people call it karma. What we put out, we get back. There's a constant immediate connection to everything that we put into this ether. Pop, there's an immediate connection. So, the people that say, "I want the Porsche but I can't afford it." What are they going to get? More opportunities for them not to afford the Porsche. That's what they asked for. That was their prayer. Every single thought and word is a demand on the system. Listen to me. Every single word and thought that you put out, every single piece of vibration, every single piece of emotion that you put out as waves into this field, into this space of nothingness, we think it's nothing, it's just oxygen, air. No, no, no, no, no, we're all connected. We are connected to this infinite being. And we get from it what we think, speak, and believe. It gives it to us immediately. I don't have enough money. You are correct. I am wealthy, I am abundant. You are correct. And here's what happens. People say but yeah, but I say it all the time. I say I'm rich. I'm rich. I'm rich. Yes, you do say it. And what happens, the alignment when the conscious mind, because we're consciously saying I'm rich? Oh, I'm rich. But when the actual magic happens when the conscious mind aligns with a subconscious mind, which means what? We repeat, I am rich, I am rich, I am rich, I am rich, I am rich, to the point to where it becomes a belief in the subconscious mind. So, when we align the conscious mind with the subconscious mind, magic. That's when manifestation happens. So, I can say I am rich a thousand times, a million times. It goes into the universe. It's there. It's preparing all the stuff. It's out there. It's like yeah, the universe gets it. Like Andre said I'm rich, Andre said I'm rich, and it's like closer, closer, closer, closer, closer, but when it becomes an emotion, when it becomes a place in the foundational system called the subconscious mind, poof, alignment, Andres rich. But remember, we are all very, very taught by society, and this is why complaining is a motherfucker. Complaining, we're all so good at it. Gosh, darn it, the heck, we're so good at complaining. When we talk about our problems, listen to me, when we talk about our problems, what emotion do we put behind it? What emotion shows up in the chest, in the belly when we talk about our fucking bills, and that fucking neighbor, and that son of a bitch over there, and the fucking Democrats, and the fucking Republicans, and look what they're doing? Ha..." what happens in the chest? Well, here's what happens, kids. The reason we keep manifesting more bills, not enough money, problems at home, problems in the relationship is because we've already given it a belief. We've already given it emotion. How many times have you thought of? I don't have enough money. I don't have enough money. I don't have enough money, emotion, emotion, emotion. The Universe says, bam, there you go. Not enough money. Not enough money again. Not a problem. Bam. Here's Friday again. Not enough money. There's more week left at the end of the fucking paycheck. Why? Because you're begging for it. You're saying, God, universe, please give it to me. And prayer, as you guys know, prayer is very specific and very special people... and look... and I told you, we've been lied to about fucking everything, everything. Everything's a lie. Like question everything. But so, are there prayers formed by the churches, by whoever, so, if the three letter agencies infiltrated Hollywood, and the Scholastic system in the world, and the food system, and the history, and so everything that we know today is controlled by a narrative and an agenda, how far back does it go? I'm just asking. I'm just asking because a lot of people here are like, and when I bring up the Bible, people freak the fuck out, man. And I get it. There's a fear there. And I had it, as growing up, I had the fear because I was brought up Catholic. And if you question the Bible, if you question God, whoo, there's doom and gloom, and you're going to upset God. And I'm like, so I grew up with this thing of why not, why can't we question it? So, if everything's been a lie, everything's been painted as this bullshit, and we're finding out today that it's all bullshit, could it be that the Bible was manipulated somewhere, somehow? Who the fuck was King James? Tell me that. How did King James get his own fucking version of the Bible, dammit? And you got to keep going, and keep going, and back it up even more, and back it up even more, and back it up even more. There's a lot there. Anyway, I digress. So, I don't even know how we got to the Bible that was just left field. How are you, guys? What do we got here? Sher, "The Bible's a mirror to discover yourself." Yeah, I think there's a lot of beautiful beauty... beautiful beauty, is that redundant? There's a lot of beautiful beauty... in the Bible. Yeah, it's gorgeous. But I also feel that... and I struggle with it. I'm just being honest, I struggle with... I don't struggle with God. And there's a must that there is a God, a creator. This intelligent, phenomenal, intelligent being. Like this thing that made the human body and have a heartbeat, and the vein system, and the meridian system, chakra system." Like, whoa, cool. Good job, right? And then we have a spirit, and a conscious mind, the subconscious mind. So, I know there's a phenomenal system that was created, and that maybe is created, maybe it's created every single moment, maybe it's a matrix, we don't know. But again, we don't know. But there's a lot of stuff in the Bible that's like, huh, there are 12 apostles, there are 12, so many twelves. And we have here 12 zodiac signs, and then we have 12 apostles and then you got this Age of Aquarius, and the age of the Pisces before, then Jesus fed them fish. And there's just so much astrological connection to the Bible. And I know there are a lot of people out there that actually say the Bible is nothing but a astrological story. Anyway, I'm just saying like, where does the lie fucking stop? That's all I'm saying. I'm not. I'm saying I don't know. And I don't know the reality of any of this. Like, for me, like one big thing. And this is where people like, "Oh, you don't say these things because we don't know." Well, here's the thing. Why did Jesus, in the Bible, never say I'm the son of God, he only said I am the Son of Man? The fuck, huh? So, then people say, well, then the Son of God is actually the sun over there because I am the light of the world, the actual sun that's up in the sky. And again, so these are all just questions. And for me, I'd been like, from childhood, I've been asking these things and looking for them. And it's amazing as people get so nervous about this topic that you can't really have these conversations. And they get to a place where, "I don't know," and these people that really know the Bible, "I don't know, I don't have an answer for that." And so, that's one of them. Like, he never claims that I am the Son of God, which for me is bizarre because the whole Bible is based, the whole New Testament is, the Christianity is based on that. Why are we all asking that question? The core principle character of the New Testament that we, as Christians believe is it never said "I am the Son of God" but He is the Son of God to all Christians? The fuck. Anyway, I'm just saying, hey, let's get an answer. And like, to this day, what proof do we have, and I'm saying it and I'm asking it, ahat proof do we have today that Jesus, as a human being, existed on this earth? What do we have? And I've had this conversation hundreds of times, and nobody has shit. I'm like, how's that possible? We got fucking, we got ruins, and mummies, and shit from 5, 10, 20,000 years ago, and we find caves with these bugs from millions of years ago but we don't have shit from 2000 years ago? Come on, come on... like we're.... So, what I'm suggesting is, and again, I'm not saying I know, I'm saying I'm questioning because it doesn't make sense. It doesn't make sense. I'm saying it again. It doesn't make sense. So, in this journey of awakening, and all of us asking questions, and I know right now this conversation is getting some of you in the chest, and fears kicking in, and you're judging me. And like, "How dare he asked these questions? How dare he possibly say that? This was not real, or they're lying to us?" I'm just saying ask the fucking question. Find your own truth because only truth will set us free. That's all. Anyway, man, this conversation went everywhere, dammit. But back to manifestation. You get from life, what you are. And once you really understand what I just said, life will change drastically. So, when I work with my people, my clients, obviously, there's exercises and conversations and techniques, etc. that we use, but we really focus on understanding who you are as a vibration, as a vibratory system. Because, here, and I'll wrap with this, if you think, if you just, for a moment, understand that life is in 10 levels, right? And let's say that the things that you want are up on level eight, so I want that kind of money. So, let's say at level eight, it's a million dollars a year, it's a Lamborghini, and $2 million home. So, level eight holds those things. But you say, okay, cool. So, I asked you through our conversations and exercise, etc, like, hey, where do you feel you're at? As a human being today where do you feel you vibrate? So one being "I'm a piece of shit," 10 being, "huh, I got this," where are you at? Where do you reside every single day on average? So, you might wake up at this number but then kick ass and get sort of do life at about this number, but then you go back to bed and thoughts kick in again. Just give me an average, right? So, a lot of people will be around the five, some four, some three, some six and seven. But there's a lot of five in this world. But it's like, "I want number eight, and I'm working so hard, and I can't seem to get ahead, and there's a Lamborghini and I'm supposed to have it because I dream about and I focus on it. But the Lamborghini exists on level eight, and the million dollars a year is on level eight, and the $2 million home is on level eight but if you're hanging out at five, you're between four and six, which means gives you a medium score of five, but the stuff you want is up there. So, what do you have to do? Do you think the Lamborghini and the money is going to come down to your level? The answer is no. How can you raise your vibration? It's that conversation around, can your net worth be bigger than your self-worth? And the answer is no. When you believe you are the Lamborghini, when you believe you are the $2 million home, when you believe that you are a million dollars a year is when you'll have it. So, working on you, self-developing. I don't care how you do it. I don't care how you develop. There are... listen, you guys, I've had, over the years outside of the going to Tony Robbins, and paying buku bucks, and joining programs, and groups, and coaching and events, and bootcamps, and seminars, and retreats, I mean, fuck, I mean I've had thousands upon thousands of hours of developing me, loving me, respecting me, making me the best that I can be. And that never stops, by the way. But outside of that, what I'm telling you is YouTube, I have gotten so much schooling from YouTube that's free. Go search some shit, how to be happy, click, click, pop, pop. Maybe one of my videos will pop up, I don't know. But my point is, there's so much information out there, get involved, make you better, make you happy, make you confident, make you sexy, make you fucking amazing, make you phenomenal, make you important, make you number one. And as you start to believe in yourself that, "Yes, I do deserve and because I love me and I am made by this God, this entity, this intelligent thing. I'm perfect. I am made perfect." Does my heart still beat? Boom, perfect, check mark. I have a meridian system still flowing? Check mark, fucking perfect. So, the concept that you are not perfect, come on. Anyway, we talked about this one before, but that's a totally different tangent I can go on but not going to happen now. Also Tasha's saying, just got them all over the place but Tasha's saying, so I'm just going to tell them because you're bringing it up. So, Tasha, yesterday, her and I had a session. She did book the call session with me, which is on my website, plug. Anyway, so, we had our 40-minute session. And in that conversation, we did exactly what I just talked about where I said, okay, cool. So where are you at? One to 10, where are you at? And she said, "I'm on average, I'm three to four. I'm three to four." And anyway, so we did some things, some quick little conversation pieces and some tools in specific conversation pieces, future paths. There's a thing that we do where you trigger the brain, you trigger emotion, etc., and you're able to release things really quickly. Anyway, so today, she's saying she's a five to six. So, 24 hours, she went from three to four to five to six, so that right there, my badass Tasha Chapman, congratulations, that is huge. And this is my point, you guys, stay on this. Tasha whatever you do, stay on this. Don't fucking stop, you cannot stop loving you. You cannot stop loving you. I cannot tell you this enough. So, if you can't afford a coach, a group, a thing, go to YouTube. There's so much help, learn to meditate, learn to quiet the mind, learn to tell this thing to shut the fuck up because this thing is the enemy. The egos the enemy. Love is right here. This is the god Center. This is the fourth chakra, the heart center, the subconscious mind that spirit. So, every time this is in control, it's saying no to God. But they didn't teach us this in church, dammit. 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Hitachi Rail's $883m Monorail Project Crosses Panama Canal
A rendering of Hitachi's monorail for Line 3 of Panama Metro.
Global Mobility Giants Hitachi Rail and Mitsubishi Corp. to Deliver Metro de Panama's Line 3
25 km Elevated Line will Reduce Inner City Congestion and Tackle the Region's Steep Mountainous Terrain
Features Trains that Use Re-generative Power and 14 New Stations
Panama City, October 30, 2020 —– Hitachi, Ltd. (Hitachi), Hitachi Rail STS S.p.A. (Hitachi Rail) and Mitsubishi Corporation have signed an USD $883 million contract with HPH Consortium, the prime contractor for Panama Metro Line 3. Line 3 is a 25 km, elevated double-track monorail system, which will include 14 new stations and trains that use re-generative power. Hitachi and Hitachi Rail will provide 28 six-car vehicles (168 cars), the signaling systems, telecommunication systems, power systems, control center, platform screen doors and depot equipment for the monorail while Mitsubishi Corporation will manage the administration of the project.
When it opens in mid-2025, Line 3 of Panama Metro will transform the way people in Panama move, work and live. The monorail will move its passengers through the urban core and fast-growing west side of Panama City with ease before crossing the Panama Canal to tackle the route's many hills and steep grade. With breathtaking panoramic views, this line is expected to serve hundreds of thousands of passengers per year. Approximately 800 local jobs are expected to be created during the development of Line 3.
"At Hitachi, innovative technology underpins our product range and transportation solutions. In order to provide efficient and cost-effective means of transportation for passengers and operators, we are very pleased to be a provider of cutting-edge railway systems," said Jason White, Executive Officer for the Americas, Hitachi Rail Group. "With high-performance and energy-efficient vehicles, the new monorail will deliver a greener future with better mobility for all."
As traffic congestion in big cities has become a universal problem, there is a growing demand for transportation systems with low environmental impact. Hitachi develops systems to help with urban-flow and energy efficiency, maximizing valuable natural resources, while minimizing operating costs to project stakeholders.
"In Panama, as in many urbanized areas of the world, heavy traffic congestion impacts economic activity, public health and quality of life," said Enzo Carpanetti, Director of Sales & Project Management for Latin America, Hitachi, Ltd. Railway Systems Business Unit. "This line will reduce traffic and carbon dioxide emissions, and the trains themselves are designed of energy-efficient materials."
Working alongside its global customers to find innovative and creative new ideas, Hitachi's B-CHOP (Energy Storage for Traction Power Supply) system will be used to harness the train's re-generative power, substantially reducing energy consumption throughout the railway system. When the train is in braking mode it can produce regenerative power, reducing CO2 emissions while providing power for future use that does not need to be drawn from a central power grid.
About Hitachi Rail
Hitachi Rail is a fully integrated, global provider of rail solutions across rolling stock, signalling, service & maintenance, digital technology and turnkey solutions. With a presence in 38 countries across six continents and over 12,000 employees, our mission is to contribute to society through the continuous development of superior rail transport solutions. We are proud of our global achievements, from our world famous 'bullet trains', to our signalling solutions and turnkey projects, state-of-the-art traffic management and digital solutions. Drawing on the wider Hitachi Group's market-leading technology and research-and-development capabilities, we strive for industry leading innovations and solutions that can deliver value for customers and sustainable railway systems that benefit wider society. For information about Hitachi Rail, visit www.hitachirail.com.
About Hitachi Ltd.
Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501), headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is focused on its Social Innovation Business that combines information technology (IT), operational technology (OT) and products. The company's consolidated revenues for fiscal year 2019 (ended March 31, 2020) totaled 8,767.2 billion yen ($80.4 billion), and it employed approximately 301,000 people worldwide. Hitachi drives digital innovation across five sectors – Mobility, Smart Life, Industry, Energy and IT – through Lumada, Hitachi's advanced digital solutions, services, and technologies for turning data into insights to drive digital innovation. Its purpose is to deliver solutions that increase social, environmental and economic value for its customers. For more information on Hitachi, please visit the company's website at https://www.hitachi.com.


Q: We are ready to increase the insulation in our older home, but we have been told that we need to air seal first. What do they mean and what is involved?
A: Before we add insulation to our attics or floors, we need to air seal our homes. Most homes can loose 20% to 50% of their heat through air movement passing through openings and holes in the envelope of our heated living space.
New homes, and ones built by conscientious builders in the last few years, address most of these issues. However, since most of our housing stock is over five years old, there are many areas that can be addressed and improved. Typically, the older the home the higher the return and the faster it pays for itself.
oversized holes at the plumbing pipes and electrical fixtures.
poorly fitting fireplace dampers, gaps at the wall and brick fireplaces as well as the gas pipe penetration below manufactured fireplaces will let a lot of air into or out of the house.
We typically have negative air pressure in our homes. Unbalanced heating systems, dryers and exhaust fans all pull air out of our heated space. Additional heat loss through ill fitting attic access panels, older versions of recessed lighting fixtures, and poorly sealed exhaust fan penetrations, allow the warm air to escape through finished ceilings. This causes a vacuum that pulls cold air in through our plumbing pipe openings, floor register gaps and wall outlet openings. This results in hot air rising, which pulls colder air in. This is called the Stack Effect.
A cubic foot is roughly the volume of a basketball, so when a dryer can draw 200 cubic feet per minute (cfm), picture 200 basketballs worth of air leaving your house every minute. A good reason to open the laundry window a crack in order to prevent a vacuum drawing cold air from your crawlspace and attic, into the house and clean clothes.
So back to air sealing, prior to adding insulation, it is very wise to have someone seal all the various openings from the crawlspace and attic into your house. Think about the quality of air from these places, it's not very good! All the more reason to seal them up. The exterior walls need attention too with doors, windows, chimneys, and fans providing air intrusion points.
Many of the gaps and openings are very accessible before we add insulation and are therefore less expensive to locate and block. Often there is very little one can do to better the attic if its already filled to the gills with insulation, limiting access and room to move.
Close all of the windows and doors in the house and turn on all of the exhaust fans; kitchen, bathroom, and laundry fans as well as the dryer. Then start walking around the house checking the exterior walls, top floor ceilings, and bottom level flooring. Use some incense near the drywall penetrations, seams of dissimilar materials, windows, doors, and fixtures to see where the smoke indicates airflow. Professionals use blue painters tape and seal them as they go. This helps identify the places for corrections and increases the tightness of the house, making it easier to find the smaller openings. This is a great tool, unless your older home has too much air leakage to create negative air pressure to begin with.
After you have tried this you may find that having a professional crew come in and do a blower door test makes sense. They use a strong fan to depressurize the house and locate the openings. Your money is much better spent if you have the same people doing the testing and also sealing things up as they go. Someone coming in to test and write you a report, followed later by a separate crew to seal things up, leaves much to be desired. They may not be able to locate all of the places or know if they sealed them well as they go.
Another tool that trained crews use is duct blasters. They pressurize our heating ducts to test and locate leaks in seams and fittings. Most homes with furnace ducting in their attics and crawlspaces are heating these uninhabited areas. Although the mice appreciate the expense, the result is a tremendous amount of heat loss from poorly installed and sealed furnace systems. If your furnace is located outside of the heated envelope of the house, chances are very good that there are gaps at the seams as well as uninsulated ducts heating your garages. This is not only a heat loss area but makes your heating system very inefficient due to different pressures inside and outside of the home. If our furnace is trying to force air into the house while loosing air into the attic and crawlspace, it ends up sucking air in from outside of the house to balance the demand of your return air system.
Another advantage of hiring a professional crew is that they should be trained to prevent indoor air quality problems due to potential back drafting furnaces and water heaters. One of the worst situations is a gas water heater located in the laundry room. Back to the 200 cfm of air needed to dry the clothes– if the room can't provide enough air it will pull exhaust fumes into the house from the water heater or furnaces. Remember to install those carbon monoxide detectors.
Although air sealing and insulation don't initially seem to improve the appearance of our homes, we get a far larger return on our investment than we would buying those new windows that every magazine, newspaper and TV add tell us we need. As a result, our money can go a lot further. Start out with air sealing, move on to upgrading your insulation and then consider buying those new windows. You will be more comfortable and save far more money on your heating bills.
Now is a great time to act with the tax credits available. We can save energy, make our homes more comfortable, save money and lower our carbon foot print all at the same time. Most of these improvements pay for themselves in 3 to 5 years.
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dutch royals caught revising wikipedia
from ap: A Dutch royal couple acknowledges altering a Wikipedia entry about a 2003 scandal that forced the prince to renounce his claim to the throne.
Prince Johan Friso, son of the reigning Queen Beatrix, and Princess Mabel of Oranje-Nassau are the latest to be embarrassed in a spate of discoveries of vanity changes to Wikipedia entries. Such self-serving amendments are frowned upon in the Web encyclopedia that "anyone can edit."
The original scandal broke in 2003 when Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende refused to support the prince's marriage to the princess, then known as Mabel Wisse Smit.
The prime minister said he objected because she had given him "incomplete and incorrect information" about a romantic liaison she once had with a druglord. Wisse Smit later conceded knowing the drug dealer but denied any sexual relationship.
With government approval of the marriage withheld, the prince had to choose between Wisse Smit and his place as second in line to the throne. They married in 2004.
On Jan. 8, 2006, someone using a computer at Huis ten Bosch, the royal palace in The Hague, altered the Wikipedia entry on Wisse Smit that had said she "gave misleading and false information" to Balkenende. The new entry removed the words "and false."
Wikipedia shows the time and IP address — the numerical identifier of each computer on the Internet — of edits made by someone who doesn't sign on with a user name.
After the connection between the 2006 edit and the palace recently circulated in the Dutch media, Friso and Mabel acknowledged they were the revisionists.
"They both made the changes together in order to make the entry match the letter which they sent to the prime minister (explaining why they misled him) in 2003," spokesman Chris Breedveld said Thursday. The couple feel that due to repeated mistakes in the media, an "incorrect version of events has arisen," he said.
Similar self-interested Wikipedia edits have popped up for years in government and business. The finds accelerated this month after a U.S. graduate student developed an online "Wikiscanner" to more easily track the sources.
listen to an interview with virgil griffith, the creator of wikiscanner, on the alex jones show from august 30, 2007.
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LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–
NOTICE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS
Bucharest, Romania – January 6, 2010 – A&D Pharma Holdings N.V. (the "Group", the "Company", or "A&D Pharma"), the Dutch holding company that owns the largest integrated pharmaceutical wholesale, sales and marketing services, and retail business in Romania provides notification, in accordance with articles 24, 25, 26, 30 and 33 of the articles of association of the Company (the " Articles of Association"), that an Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders of the Company (the "EGM") is to be held on January 25, 2010 at Hilton Hotel, Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, Schipholboulevard 701, 1118 BN Schiphol Centrum in The Netherlands, at 14:00 CET. The EGM agenda is as follows:
1. Opening.
2. Taking note and confirmation that the EGM agrees with the appointment by the Board of Directors of Mr. Robert Popescu, as Chief Executive Officer of the Company, having full powers of representation for representing A&D Pharma in connection with the entering into and performance of the documents relating to the share acquisitions by the Company in Arishop Pharma AD and its subsidiary in Bulgaria, Ozone Laboratories Polska and Ozone Laboratories Polska Services in Poland, Ozone Laboratories Magyarorszag Kft. in Hungary, Ozone Laboratories Slovakia s.r.o. in Slovakia and Ozone Laboratories Czech Republic s.r.o. in the Czech Republic and any other agreements or documents contemplated thereby or in furtherance thereof and with possibility to delegate such power of representation to other persons.
3. Amendment of Article 15(2) of the Company's Articles of Association.
Old text Article 15(2):
"The Board of directors may appoint one or more of the Executive Directors as Vice – Chairman of the Board of Directors for such period as the Board of Directors may decide. If the Chairman is absent or unwilling to take the chair, a Vice-Chairman shall be entrusted with such duties of the Chairman entrusted to him by these articles of association as the Board of Directors may decide."
Proposed amended Article 15(2):
"The Board of directors may appoint one or more of the Non-Executive Directors as Vice – Chairman of the Board of Directors for such period as the Board of Directors may decide. If the Chairman is absent or unwilling to take the chair, a Vice-Chairman shall be entrusted with such duties of the Chairman entrusted to him by these articles of association as the Board of Directors may decide."
4. Closing.
All documents prepared for the purpose of the EGM including the agenda, a shareholder circular containing draft resolutions and an explanation thereto, a description of the proxy-voting procedure through the proxy form provided by the Company, draft voting instructions, the form of proxy and other documents required by the applicable provisions of Dutch law and other relevant rules and regulations relating to the EGM (including the Dutch text, which prevails over the English translation, of the proposed amendments to the Company's articles of association) will be:
made available to the registered shareholders via email; made available to the Global Depositary Receipt holders (the "GDR holders") by Citibank N.A. (the "Depositary"); and made available for inspection by shareholders, GDR holders and others who have a right to attend the EGM as defined in the Articles of Association at: (i) the Company's offices in The Netherlands in Delft, Martinus Nijhofflaan 2, 2624 ES; (ii) Citibank, N.A. Shareholder Services, P.O. Box 43099, Providence, RI 02940-5000, U.S.A; (iii) the Company's subsidiaries offices in Romania, A&D Pharma 133 Ciobanului St., Com. Mogosoaia, Ilfov county, Postal Code 077135, Romania; and (iv) the Company's website.
In accordance with article 30 of the Articles of Association and subject as set out below, only shareholders and GDR holders have a right to attend the EGM. The term 'shareholders' also refers to others with a right to attend the EGM under the Articles of Association and other relevant documents. Each shareholder may participate in the EGM and exercise his voting rights in person or by an authorized proxy, including a proxy indicated by the Company, provided that prior notification of authorization of a proxy must be given to the Company in writing in accordance with article 30.4 of the Articles of Association and must be received by the Company by no later than the deadline for registration at the address set out below. Holders of the global depositary receipts (GDRs) issued in accordance with the prospectus of the Company dated 19 October 2006 (the "Prospectus"), who register in accordance with the instructions of the Depositary, may participate in the EGM and exercise voting rights as set out in the Prospectus in person or by an authorized proxy in accordance with the information and instructions provided by the Depositary.
Every ordinary share with €1 nominal value entitles its holder to one vote and every GDR represents 6 ordinary shares and entitles its holder to 6 votes. Registration of shareholders for the EGM will commence on the date hereof until January 22, 2010, 17:00 CET by advising the Company in accordance with article 30 of the Articles of Association at the following address:
A&D Pharma Holdings N.V.
Martinus Nijhofflaan 2
2624 ES DELFT
Registration of GDR holders for the EGM will commence on the date hereof until January 15, 2010, 10:00 AM New York time by advising the Depositary in compliance with the instructions of the Depositary and in accordance with the terms and conditions as per the Prospectus at the following address:
Citibank, N.A. Shareholder Services
Information on the EGM will also be available via the Company's website: www.adpharma.ro. Shareholders and GDR holders are advised that they should address all queries with respect to the EGM to the Company, attn Company Secretary, telephone +4021 301 7474 or +31 10 201 3600. GDR holders are advised that they should address all queries with respect to the EGM to the Depository, Citibank, N.A.- GDR Shareholder Services, telephone +1 877-248-4237. Delft (The Netherlands).
For further information, please visit www.adpharma.ro or contact:
A&D Pharma
Claudiu Manolescu
claudiu.manolescu@adpharma.ro
Romanian Press Relations
Veronica Burlacu
presa@adpharma.ro
Shared Value Limited
Investor & Media Relations
Nicolas Duperrier / Mark Walter
adpharma@sharedvalue.net
A&D Pharma Holdings N.V. is the Dutch holding company of A&D Pharma Holdings S.R.L., the leading pharmaceutical wholesale, marketing and sales services and retail business in Romania. Founded in 1994, the Group owns Romania's leading pharmaceutical wholesale, sales and marketing services for CHC and Rx products network "Mediplus", and Romania's largest national branded chain of pharmacies "Sensiblu".
The Group's consolidated sales increased at a compound annual rate of 39% between 2003 and 2008, amounting to €501.5 million for the twelve months ended 31 December 2008. A&D Pharma's shares have been traded in the form of Global Depositary Receipts ("GDRs") on the regulated market of the London Stock Exchange since October 2006 under the symbol 'ADPH'.
This release is not an offer for sale of the GDRs of A&D Pharma, or any other of its securities, in the United States or in any jurisdiction where any offer, sale or solicitation in respect of such securities is not permitted. Securities may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an exemption from registration under the US Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or in any jurisdiction where such offer or sale is not permitted.
Certain statements made in this release are forward looking statements. Such statements are based on current expectations and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual events or results to differ materially from any expected future events or results referred to in these forward looking statements.
This release should not be construed as the giving of advice or the making of a recommendation and should not be relied on as a basis for any decision or action. In particular, actual results and developments may be materially different from any forecast, opinion or expectation expressed in this presentation and the past performance of the price of securities must not be relied upon as a guide to their future performance.
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Multigene Test Improves Breast Cancer Prognosis
News Dec 10, 2018 | Original story from the University of Munich
Multigene tests have been used in breast cancer treatment to assess the risk of metastasis for several years. A team at the Breast Cancer Center at the Technical University of Munich's (TUM) Klinikum rechts der Isar has now presented results based on data collected in its routine clinical work. These results show that the multigene test used at the university hospital is indeed helpful in making more targeted use of chemotherapy treatments and thus improves prognosis of breast cancer patients.
Since November 2011, the Gynecological Clinic at Klinikum rechts der Isar has used a multigene test for patients with early hormone receptor-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer. Using tissue samples and other clinical indicators, the test helps to determine a patient's risk of metastasis. "Based on the test results, which combine molecularbiological properties of the tumor along with the individual factors of tumor size and the presence of cancer in lymph nodes, doctors decide whether chemotherapy is recommended in addition to the surgical removal of the tumor followed by anti-hormone treatment," explains Prof. Marion Kiechle, the Director of the Gynecological Clinic. "In case of a low metastasis risk, chemotherapy may place an unnecessary burden on the patient. But in case of a high risk, it may prevent tumors from relapsing later."
At the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium in the USA, one of the world's most important congresses in that field, Dr. Johannes Ettl, Head Physician of the Gyneco-Oncological Outpatient Clinic, Technical University of Munich, Germany has now presented the results of an independent study not commissioned by a test manufacturer of the test used at the Breast Center.
373 PATIENTS TESTED
For the study, Dr. Ettl and his team tracked 373 breast cancer patients from the start of initial treatment and the related multigene test. The test indicated a low risk for 238 patients (63.8%) and a high risk for 135 (36.2%). After a median follow up of 3.5 years, the risk for disease recurrence was twice as high in the high-risk group as in the low-risk group. Similarly, high risk patients were at five-fold increased risk of developing metastases in other organs. The low-risk and high-risk patients who received chemotherapy in addition to anti-hormone tablets had three-year disease free survival rates of 96.6% and 96.3%, respectively. By contrast, for high-risk patients who did not receive chemotherapy despite the doctors' recommendation based on the test results, the rate was only 91.5%.
"Our health care study has delivered the first data from routine clinical practice indicating that the test does, in fact, provide useful input when deciding on chemotherapy," says Prof. Kiechle. "Gene signature tests are important tools that help us to make more targeted use of chemotherapy treatments, both by limiting unnecessarily stressful treatments and avoiding the potentially serious consequences of rejecting chemotherapy in case of high metastasis risks."
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