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The Legatum Prosperity Index, 2013
I'm a little busy with my own weekend writing at the moment, so I've only scanned the main tables of the 2013 Prosperity Index report, compiled as always by Legatum. Here's the link to the report and it's normally well worth a full read.
We note Uruguay is top of the LatAm countries, in 30th place. Then comes Chile (35th), Panama (40th) and Argentina at 45th beating out Brazil (46th).
A quiz on the legend of Brent Cook
Iwnattos has your four quiz questions on Brent 'The Legend' Cook right here.
Brokerage desk jocks are kneejerk dumbasses who might read the morning newsflow but don't know what the fuck they're looking at half the time
Evidence here:
IKN's SSRI post from Feb 4th here. Hindsight and all that, it was pretty obvious that SSRI was getting the better end of this Marigold deal. Foresight is the tricky one though, right?
Bear Creek (BCM.v) news
Bear Creek (BCM.v) has taken the formal legal step of starting arbitration proceedings against the country of Peru over the Santa Ana snafu, part of a forward corporate strategy that your humble scribe has commented upon previously. In short BCM may or may not have a case, but their decision to tie the future of Santa Ana to the future of Corani, as the company did last year when announcing the EIA approval of the bigger project was stupidity squared. Also in the same NR, this:
Recent media in Peru have reported false accusations by an individual distant from our communities wherein Bear Creek Mining officials supposedly paid locally elected officials based on an alleged document showing an agreement between the company and politicians in the Corani District. The alleged document is falsified from our duly registered, official agreement as disclosed in April, 2013 (see news release dated April 14, 2013). Police in Peru are investigating these claims and Bear Creek has both encouraged and is cooperating fully in this process.
Just in case you ever wondered if people actually read this humble corner of cyberspace, and all that. You seriously believe they'd bother to write something if it had stayed in Spanish language media only? Anyway, that sounds like a pretty strong response to the bribery accusations we relayed the other day and knowing a bit about how these contracts are drawn up, it's sounds like a situation that's a little strange but certainly not beyond the realms of possibility.
Gold up on the weak jobs number, but...
...it's hardly a massive rush to hide behind the moneymetal, either.
The chart there looks quite dramatic but what we see is a base of 1262, a spike to 1272, and now up $5 from the pre-level at 1267. So, up five dollars...a wash (so far). Frankly, not much compared to the two dimes downspike in the USD on the same news. BLS jobs report NR here
UPDATE ten minutes later. It's still pre-open (22 minutes to go) and gold's given up all the gains, now 1260.
Gold Resource Corp (GORO) news
Breathtaking brass neck from the Reids today. Here's the filing and here below is the body of the text with your author adding a bit of red bold type and underlining, just for funnies:
Item 1.01. Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
On January 31, 2014, the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors of Gold Resource Corporation (the "Company") approved a consulting arrangement with William Reid, the Company's former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer and a shareholder beneficially holding greater than 5% of the Company's outstanding common stock. The Company entered into a written consulting agreement with Mr. Reid, a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit 10.1 and incorporated herein. The Company agreed to retain Mr. Reid on a month-to-month basis for $15,000 per month to assist the Company with identification and development of potential new mining projects. The agreement is terminable at any time by either party.
Item 5.02. Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers
Effective February 1, 2014, and pursuant to approval by the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors, certain executive officers of the Company received an increase in the annual base salary set forth in his respective employment agreement with the Company. Chief Executive Officer and President Jason Reid's annual base salary was increased to $600,000 per year, Chief Operating Officer Rick Irvine's annual base salary was increased to $350,000 per year and Chief Financial Officer Joe Rodriguez's base salary was increased to $250,000.
Or in other words, the person who just retired is being brought back on to look for new mining projects that the company can't afford, while the people now running the shop are fed up with trying to give themselves worthless options, so this time they're simply ripping more cash out of treasury for their own back pockets, despite overseeing a 12 month stock price performance that looks like this...
...and running a company that can't turn a net profit to save its life.
A list of legendary people
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Brent Cook
Wait up? Brent Cook?!?!?!?
Yes indeed, our very own cuddly whitebearded geologist is now part of humanity's great pantheon, thanks to this Gold Report article.
And PDAC less than a month away, too. Gold Report people, you have no idea what kind of shit you've just laid on the poor guy.
Aurcana Corp. (AUN.v): I love these guys
Here's the NR, here's a chart:
Special NR highlights include:
Lots of "We're Great! We're just Great!" at the top.
Production compared to 4q12 but no mention of 3q13, hmmm, wonder why?
Silver equivalent only, we're left to guess just how much of that is copper and zinc and stuff
Then....oh, a fire. And a breakdown. Details, man.
And...errr...we need some money to spend on new machinery.
But we're setting a guidance figure for 2014 AND THIS TIME WE MEAN IT. In fact, Lenic even has the chutzpah to mention a guidance for 2015. You really can't make this shit up.
Waterton the patsies
For more than a few months, PS Dave over at VancVenture has expounded on his theory that Waterton (e.g. Waterton Precious Metals Fund) are a bunch of patsies with a failing business model. I wasn't so sure, took the opposite side and in the end let my end of the discussion drop, privately agreeing to disagree with him. However, it's looking as though he was right and I was wrong on this one and by way of illustration, let's take the case of Atna Resources (ATN.to) in 2014 as a marker. Here's the chart...
...and what we've seen in the period is:
1) The stock rallies along with the market.
2) January 31st ATN announces a $22m loan deal with Waterton, which will be used to pay off the $18.1m ATN loan held by Sprott Resource Lending and leave some working cap in hand.
3) ATN stock drops on the news (and you kinda maybe perhaps and could get the feeling it was already telegraphed to "certain people" on the 30th).
4) Today ATN offers a mediocre 2013 production and 2014 guidance NR.
This isn't really about the trials and tribulations at Atna (their snafu at Pinson is well documented). It's about the way in which the Sprott dudes managed to extricate their cash from the company, which was one of the more obvious sell signals of our time. Today's NR underscores that.
So yeah PS Dave, I'm with you on this one now. Meanwhile, cash strapped juniors looking for a line of credit in order to pay management's bloated monthly paychecks move forward diligently on their exciting drilling prospect should get in touch with Waterton, they seem to be willing to do a deal....just throw them a few cheap warrants or something.
UPDATE: PS Dave has his latest on Waterton, specifically about the ATN deal, here. He goes off on a slightly different tack but it's still a case of liar's poker here. Who's zoomin' who?
This thing the US Dollar has with 81.5
You noticed it too, yeah?
Not surprised.
...silver, dailies:
The consensus in the metalblabbersphere is that silver has bottomed. I agree.
That doesn't mean it has to immediately jump to $25/oz or wherever else you want to pitch it; it could stay in this $19/$20.50 range for quite a while.
The four reasons why there was nothing about Argentina's finances in your EngLang biz media today
1) The official exchange rate strengthened: ArgP$7.95 = U$1.00, six cents up from yesterday.
2) The unofficial exchange rate also improved 10c, to ArgP$ 12.50.
3) The Central Bank's international reserves position improved by U$10m
4) English language bizmedia coverage of Argentina is run by bullshitters, liars and assholes.
Bear Creek Mining (BCM.v) accused of bribing the Mayor of Corani
That's what the report says. Here's a bit of translation:
Puno: Document reveals millionaire agreement between mining company and mayor of Corani, Edmundo Guerra
According to the agreement dated April 15th 2013 in Lima by the mining company Bear Creek Mining, Edmundo Guerra Cáceres and citizen Michel Francois Portier Balland, the second clause states that the company, represented by Elsiario Almiro Antúnez de Mayolo Ramis, commits to pay the persons mentioned the sum of two million Nuevo Soles (approx U$712,000) from 2013 until the project is profitable.
Also, in the third clause of the contract the mining company agrees to pay Guerra Cáceres Michel Portier 2% of profits from the fifth year of production onwards, with this personal benefit being to explain, persuade, induce, convince and give reason to the population affected by the project, as stipulated in clause four of the contract.
The people raising the complaint against the mayor say they have checked out the signature and fingerprint on the contract and attested it to be that of the mayor. Also, according to the reports the contract specifically states that the cash payments are personal ones to the mayor and the other person mentioned, not payments made by the company to community programs or works. If that's not the definition of a bribe to a government official, I'd like to know what is.
Disclosure: No current position in BCM.v, though I have owned the stock at other moments. Last owned in September 2013.
Iron Mountain (IRM) stock may come under pressure today
Iron Mountain (IRM) is a U$5Bn market cap data storage and protection company and owns the warehouse that caught fire this morning in Buenos Aires, Argentina and which caused the death of five firefighters who were battling the blaze. According to the company spiel, the storage facility was fully protected against such incidents, with "total protection against incendiary events, a hydration systam, sprinklers, strict humidity control and an early warning detection system to prevent fires" in all its establishments.
Something tells me that might not have been the case today.
UPDATE: Now confirmed eight dead. Now nine, this is awful.
A question and an answer
The question: I received this mail (redacted a touch to protect both guilty and innocent). This kind of thing happens every now and again. The question comes at the end.
"I am a private investor who does a lot of junior mining stock (Canadian) analysis, has its own database and publishes on SeekingAlpha.com as [redacted]. Recently I met a CEO of a junior mining company [redacted] who referred to your blog as hilarious but very critical as well, he thought I would love it. Boy was he right, and I love your style! Kept laughing over your "owly" comment (o rly) and numerous other things and comments. But your critical comments on a lot of juniors are just about right most of the time (no need to abandon the entire sector though as you suggest one time;) so I think it is of great value to me.
For now, I am planning on building some kind of reputation on SA first, and after that building my own website, as I want to redevelop myself from [redacted] to junior mining research and investment as I think it's a much more fascinating universe. A serious website is priority number one, so no pump 'n dump or "you give me a ton of warrants and some shares and I will write something positive for your IPO" kind of thing. I know a very good writer from SA on O&G, he wants to team up with me with his own site. He makes money by providing custom analysis for funds etc. Not worked out how I'm going to make money out of it but if my quality is good enough this will develop in a natural way I guess, as true quality is scarce in junior mining I noticed. Only Cookie and Kaiser seem to fit the bill IMO.
Bottom line: is there any possibility to connect my future site to yours, and what would it cost if you of course would allow it in the first place?
Like to hear from you,
The answer: No, fuck off.
UPDATE: Setty is a nicer spirit than I, and offers this link
The Argentina "Dolar Blue" (unofficial dollar forex rate) chart, 2014 year to date
It started the year at ArgP$10.15 to the dollar (all data from @dolarblue and here too)
The day of the Central Bank move, aka "deval day", it was at 12
It shot to 13, then pulled back
It's now 12.60 at time of writing.
The chart is the chart
I've mentioned this on these pages previously, but it's getting a re-airing today anyway. In the Altiplano region of Bolivia and Peru the growing season for the main crop, potatoes, relies on a tight time window before the cold season reappears. It's also dependent on the rainy season (Dec-March) arriving on time, because a late start to the rains would mean the potatoes won't grow quickly enough before the frosts arrive. That would mean a significant yield reduction and although our modern times mean food gets transported around more easily, go back a few years it was often the difference between full bellies and really long periods of hunger, even starvation.
The timely arrival of the rainy season is, therefore, a big thing for Altiplano and there's a lot at stake if the rains arrive late. This means that if the rains don't come on time, the local shamans (or yatiri, as known locally) are called upon to help speed things up. There are several rainmaker/rainbringer ceremonies done by Altiplano shamans, but the classic one is connected with frogs. What people noticed thousands of years ago was that just before it rained, frogs that lived next to lakes etc would all start croaking in unison. It therefore made sense to catch a frog or two and make them croak, as that would bring the rains on. Therefore, the most popular rainy season ceremony is based around shamans making frogs croak because when they do, the rainclouds react in the way they're supposed to. Perfectly logical, right?
And that's all you need to know about charting and technical analysis of stock prices, folks.
Silver Standard (SSRI) (SSO.to) notes
On the Marigold mine deal: I think it's made a smart purchase at the right price.
My interest in the company also went up a notch or two a few days ago, when reading (got to it late) that of its pared down $22m exploration budget for 2014, it was going to spend a chunky $6.5m on the Berenguela project in southern Peru. It just so happens that many mining people in Peru unconnected with SSRI think highly of that project and it's been a bit of a headscratcher for many that the thing has been left undeveloped for so many years. The strong copper kicker from the rock makes the economics solid, the engineering looks simple enough (in theory), political risk and community relations in that microzone of Peru have improved a lot in the last two or three years and it could easily become a very profitable 2m oz Au per year mine.
Pirquitas isn't doing badly and the recent financial upheavals in Argentina will help it on the costs side. Though I need to look more closely, because it's been a while since doing any real work on this thing.
I don't own SSRI, though it probably deserves a revisit and some decent DD work now. Treasury position good enough even after paying cash for Marigold, debt position looks manageable. Looks quite cheap on a first pass.
Re. Argentina (and an excerpt from IKN247)
We note with interest that Argentina's forex is improving against the dollar this morning (8.06 last night, 8.03 over the weekend, 8.01 today), which of course means that it won't make any headlines in your English language bizmedia...can't possibly say anything positive about the country, or anything that might contradict the forecasts of immediate country destruction vomited out by the truckload last week now, can we?
Anyway, this below is an excerpt on the country from IKN247 last Sunday.
I'm not out here defending this government with gusto, sword and shield. I am saying that the coverage has been twisted out of all proportion in the last few days and has the look of a world trying desperately to cause a crisis, rather than report on one. I don't think Argentina is in great shape but it's not that bad, either. If I were a bonds trader I'd be very interested in picking up some of those Argentine BODEN15 dollar bonds, which ended Friday paying 19% on paper that matures next year. On the other hand, those who wait for blood in the streets before buying are going to be disappointed in Argentina 2014 vintage; this country isn't anywhere near its 2001 state of despair yet and isn't going to collapse in the year ahead, no matter how much The Economist would wish otherwise. Meanwhile, if the rumourmill only has a quarter of its facts right (10) (11) (both Spanish language links and only really useful for people who know their Argentine politicos) we're likely to see measures from the CFK government to counteract last week's negativity. There are still plenty of tools at the country's disposal today, which again marks the current situation as very different from the ordeals of 2001/2002.
UPDATE: Your humble scribe immediately receives pushback from those who are expert at reading headlines and then making the media language their own. In this case the line is "BUT THE COUNTRY RESERVES ARE STILL DROPPING!". This was also covered in IKN247 and though I'm not going to paste the whole piece out (it moves to reaction from the mining community, an altogether different and much smaller subject), here's one other segment from the note to illustrate:
Much of the attention is taken up by Argentina's International Reserves position (as although a mere symptom and not the cause it's an easy one to follow, while the real baseline problem of the government's fiscal deficit requires a working knowledge of the country and its day-to-day economy) and the thrust of all arguments against the country (do we have to suffer "Don't Cry For..." headlines every time?) went along the lines of "it gets to zero and the place implodes", or some such.
...the gold etf (GLD) versus the silver etf (SLV), 2014 year to date:
Self-explanatory.
Heard on Wall Street
That special Gold Resource Corp (GORO) moment when...
...the jock Wall Street desk trader jumps in a buys a stack of the company because...
1) he* needs to hedge his port with gold names because his boss just barked at him
2) gotta get me some gold miner exposure, whole market's dropping and that sector's rising, man
3) look, GORO's a gold miner
4) and it has the word 'gold' in its corporate name. Cool.
...but later sees that...
*this time it's "he", as women are never as fucking stupid as these dudes
Gold makes a safe haven move
The tiresome debate seems never ending, but this...
...is undoubtedly money moving into gold for safe haven reasons. If want more evidence see the gold/silver ratio, which busted 65X this morning.
Gold The Fear Trade: it's back.
Next Please! Luna Gold (LGC.to), the latest bought deal
Luna Gold Corp. (TSX:LGC)(LGC.TO)(OTCQX:LGCUF) ("Luna" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with a syndicate of underwriters pursuant to which they have agreed to purchase, on a bought deal basis, 16,950,000 common shares (the "Shares") at a price of $1.18 per share for gross proceeds to the Corporation of approximately $20 million (the "Offering"). The Offering will be conducted through a syndicate of underwriters co-led by Cormark Securities Inc. and Canaccord Genuity Corp.
The net proceeds of the Offering will be etc etc here
And that's a serious discount to market.
The last time this thing traded at $1.18 was July 17th last year.
In Costa Rica, Luis Solis and Johnny Arana have taken the first two spots of the Presidential election, both around 30% and they'll go into a tight-looking run-off for the big job. Villalta and his new movement faded into a distant third (~17%) and is out of the running now, but may have a role to play as kingmaker.
In El Salvador, Salvador Sánchez Cerén is leading in the count (about 25% done and has a shot at winning the whole thing in the first round. If not, he'll go into a run-off with Norman Quijano, in second spot right now. Still SSC will be big favourite for the win if a round two is needed.
In New Jersey, Floyd Mayweather apparently bet $10.4m on the Denver Broncos to win. That's a lot of money. (UPDATE: And now apparently he didn't)
And River beat Boca 2-1
UPDATE: El Salvador's going to a 2nd round. With 80% of votes counted SSC is stuck at a touch under 49%; close but no cigar.
IKN247 has just been sent to subscribers. I'd like to recommend Variety's appreciation of Philip Seymour Hoffman, which you can find here. RIP, sir.
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Posted on July 03, 2009 by Dean Hybl
The Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio is where NFL greats take the next step and become immortal legends. Since opening its doors in 1963, 253 former players, coaches and administrators have received football's greatest honor, but there is a growing list of seemingly deserving players who for one reason or another have been unable to earn a bust in Canton.
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As is the case with all offensive skill positions, the statistical numbers accumulated by running backs has ballooned over the last three decades. Of the top 50 players in career rushing yards in NFL history, only seven played a majority of their careers prior to 1980.
In 1980, Jim Brown and O.J. Simpson were the only members of the 10,000-career rushing yards club. Today, that club includes 24 players.
Among running backs in the Hall of Fame, 16 totaled less than 6,000 career yards rushing, but all of those players completed their careers prior to 1972.
It will probably start to sound like a broken record as I move through this series, but one of the biggest problems with the Hall of Fame selection process is that as the game changes and statistics increase, the Hall of Fame voters have forgotten an entire generation of great players who played most of their careers before the stats explosion.
That is particularly the case for running backs, as the Hall of Fame voters seem to have basically decided to ignore the position despite its obvious value in helping teams win championships. Rather than genuinely comparing stats from skill position players of all generations to determine who legitimately belongs in the Hall of Fame, voters seem to have tossed the entire issue aside by gravitating toward selecting players at positions where statistics have little impact.
Since 1995, only four running backs (Eric Dickerson, Marcus Allen, Barry Sanders, Thurman Thomas) and nine wide receivers have been inducted into the Hall of Fame. Conversely, during the same period, 18 offensive linemen and 10 defensive linemen have received the call from the hall.
So, as I look at the players I consider to be the best eligible player at each position not in the Hall of Fame, career statistics will be just one of a number of factors used to create the lists.
First and foremost, I am looking at the career of each player in the context of when he played. I will look particularly at how he compares against other players (Hall of Famers and non-Hall of Famers) from that era and whether, at the time of his retirement, he was considered a legitimate candidate for the Hall of Fame.
Below is a list of my choices for the top 10 running backs not in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Click here to read more and see pictures of each player in the top 10.
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Bought mine back in the 90s when it was $20 share....with 41 CCL cruises.....it has paid for itself almost twice!
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GORE Trailers is a family owned business located in Whiteville, North Carolina. The same family has been in business for over forty-five years. GORE has always set the highest standards for a Quality Trailer and offer Quality Service. They take pride in their Quality Workmanship and Design on each trailer model. GORE Specializes in Custom Built trailers and strives to do their best to meet the needs of each customer. With a GORE trailer you can rely on Dependability, Durability and Strength in a trailer that will LAST. GORE also offers a wide variety of options on their trailers whether it be a Gooseneck model or a Pull Type model.


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Founded on November 1, 1915 by the Sisters of Loretto, Webster University started with a commitment to the community and to excellence in education. Originally named Loretto College, the school was one of the first Catholic women's colleges west of the Mississippi River. It was progressive for its time, providing higher education to women when this was not generally made available.
In 1962 Webster opened its doors to the first male students and with the commitment to the creation of global citizens, the first European campus was opened in 1978, in Geneva, Switzerland. In 1983, the school was renamed Webster University to reflect this development.
Webster University in The Netherlands was founded in Leiden in 1983. Its ideal location between the cosmopolitan cities of The Hague and Amsterdam means students are within easy access of many non-governmental organizations, multinational companies and important global organizations and agencies. Webster University in Leiden has become the source of education for internationally minded students.
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When you apportion the land into inheritances, you shall set apart a sacred tract of land for the LORD, twenty-five thousand cubits long and twenty thousand wide; its whole area shall be sacred.
Of this land a square plot, five hundred by five hundred cubits, surrounded by a free space of fifty cubits, shall be assigned to the sanctuary.
Also from this sector measure off a strip, twenty-five thousand cubits long and ten thousand wide, within which shall be the sanctuary, the holy of holies.
This shall be the sacred part of the land belonging to the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary, who draw near to minister to the LORD; it shall be a place for their homes and pasture land for their cattle.
Also there shall be a strip twenty-five thousand cubits long and ten thousand wide as property for the Levites, the ministers of the temple, that they may have cities to live in.
As property of the City you shall designate a strip five thousand cubits wide and twenty-five thousand long, parallel to the sacred tract; this shall belong to the whole house of Israel.
of the land. This shall be his property in Israel, so that the princes of Israel will no longer oppress my people, but will leave the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes.
1 Thus says the Lord GOD: Enough, you princes of Israel! Put away violence and oppression, and do what is right and just! Stop evicting my people! says the Lord GOD.
You shall have honest scales, an honest ephah, and an honest liquid measure.
The ephah and the liquid measure shall be of the same size: the liquid measure equal to a tenth of a homer, and the ephah equal to a tenth of a homer; by the homer they shall be determined.
The shekel shall be twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, plus fifteen shekels shall be your mina.
These are the offerings you shall make: one sixth of an ephah from each homer of wheat, and one sixth of an ephah from each homer of barley.
2 The regulation for oil: for every measure of oil, a tenth of a measure, computed by the kor of ten liquid measures (or a homer, for ten liquid measures make a homer).
One sheep from the flock for every two hundred from the pasturage of Israel, for sacrifice - holocausts and peace offerings and atonement sacrifices, says the Lord GOD.
All the people of the land shall be bound to this offering (for the prince in Israel).
It shall be the duty of the prince to provide the holocausts, cereal offerings, and libations on the feasts, new moons, and sabbaths, on all the festivals of the house of Israel. He shall offer the sin offerings, cereal offerings, holocausts, and peace offerings, to make atonement on behalf of the house of Israel.
Thus says the Lord GOD: On the first day of the first month you shall use an unblemished young bull as a sacrifice to purify the sanctuary.
Then the priest shall take some of the blood from the sin offering and put it on the doorposts of the temple, on the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and on the doorposts of the gates of the inner court.
You shall repeat this on the first day of the seventh month for those who have sinned through inadvertence or ignorance; thus you shall make atonement for the temple.
On the fourteenth day of the first month you shall observe the feast of the Passover; for seven days unleavened bread is to be eaten.
On that day the prince shall offer on his own behalf, and on behalf of all the people of the land, a bull as a sin offering.
On each of the seven days of the feast he shall offer as a holocaust to the LORD seven bulls and seven rams without blemish, and as a sin offering he shall offer one male goat each day.
3 As a cereal offering he shall offer one ephah for each bull and one ephah for each ram; and he shall offer one hin of oil for each ephah.
On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, the feast day, and for seven days, he shall perform the same rites, making the same sin offerings, the same holocausts, the same cereal offerings and offerings of oil.
1 [9-12] Besides the land monopoly fostered by royal greed and collusion with the wealthy (⇒ Micah 2:2; ⇒ Isaiah 3:12-15; ⇒ 5:8-10), one grave social evil of preexilic Israel was dishonesty in business; cf ⇒ Hosea 12:8; ⇒ Amos 8:5. Ephah: a dry measure; liquid measure: in Hebrew, a "bath," standardized according to the homer (a dry measure of about 10 bushels, or 80 gallons). In ⇒ Ezekiel 45:12 reference is made to the change in value of the mina: before the exile it was valued at 50 shekels, but afterward, in imitation of Babylonian practice, the 60-shekel mina was adopted. The shekel was a unit of weight slightly less than half an ounce. As a monetary unit, the value obviously differed greatly, depending on whether it was a gold or a silver shekel.
2  Kor: both a liquid and a dry measure, corresponding to the homer.
3  Hin: a sixth part of the liquid measure called a bath.


Working can be exhausting and can somehow be risky especially if you are an employee of a dangerous industry like mining, construction, manufacture, transportation and so on. Safety is a high priority in these kinds of industries, but still, some accidents cannot be avoided. If you are a worker who has suffered from any form of injuries, whether you are at fault or not, and your employer has denied covering for your treatment and medical expenses, then you should get a compensation lawyer. A compensation lawyer is the one who can help you get the appropriate settlement that you deserve from your company. If you are a newbie in this kind of situation then looking for the right lawyer can be hard. The following are some steps on how to find the best compensation lawyer for you.
The first step you should do is to ask for any referrals. Ask your family members, friends or your colleagues if they know someone who works as a compensation lawyer. If they do know someone, ask them about the lawyer's performance and their thoughts on whether or not they will get that particular lawyer again in the future. If not then consider looking for other options. If you know a lawyer who practices in a different field, you can ask them as well. They might know someone who specializes in that area. If you were not able to get a lawyer through referrals, you may opt to look for ads in the newspaper or any website. Before contacting your chosen compensation lawyer, be sure to make a background check to determine his or her success rate and read some reviews first to learn if people were satisfied with the lawyer's services.
If you want to have an excellent chance of winning your case, you must hire a competent and experienced compensation lawyer. Check the lawyer's expertise to verify if he or she is trained in that field of work. You cannot win the case if you hired a lawyer specializing in a different field. Hiring an experienced lawyer will definitely help you overcome any trouble and will give you a higher chance of getting the proper reimbursement from the injuries you sustained. If you are living in Australia and you want to get the best compensation lawyer, then you should look for Compensation Lawyers Sydney. They have the finest and experienced lawyers who will help you along the way.
Since you are a worker, you must check the lawyer's service charge to determine if it fits your budget. You cannot hire someone whose service costs too much while knowing that you do not even have a slight chance at winning your case. You need to hire a compensation lawyer who charges his clients appropriately. If you have any doubts regarding the charges, you can always ask someone reliable or someone who works in the same field to have more details.
Getting a compensation lawyer can be a little tricky but remember that you can always ask for assistance from someone trustworthy. But the most important thing is that you should always be careful. Watch out for yourself and be safe. These are the only preventive measures that you can do to avoid getting any injuries and refrain yourself from encountering any hassles in getting your compensation.


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Монарда трубчаста () — багаторічник, типовий вид. роду монарда родини глухокропивові. У дикому вигляді росте у Північній Америці, культивується у субтропічних районах планети.

Ботанічний опис

Багаторічна рослина висотою до 110 см.

Від кореневищ відходять добре розвинені мочки придаткових коренів.

Численні чотиригранні пагони, тонкі, добре облиствені, зелені, світло-зелені або червонуваті до коричневих.

Листки довгасто-яйцеподібні, тонкі, зубчасті, чергові. За забарвленням ідентичні пагонам.

Квітки двостатеві, зібрані у суцвіття типу головки діаметром 3-5 см, розташовуються на кінцях гілок. Віночок та квіти від білих до темно-червоних.

Застосування
Монарда трубчаста використовується як медонос, лікарська та декоративна рослина.

Хімічний склад рослини
Ефірна олія монарди трубчастої було проаналізоване за допомогою мас-спектрометрії та було виявлено вміст цимолу (32.5%), карвакролу (24.0%), тимолу (12.6%), аліфатичного альдегіду (6.3%), диметилового етеру карвакролу (5.5%), α-pinene (3.5%), β-pinene (2.9%), гідрату сабінену (1.9%), терпинену (1.7%)та ін..

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Посилання
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Джерела

трубчаста
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Q: Authentication in email forwarding between SMTP servers I am writing a Mail Relay Server in PHP for Newsletter mailings.
This server encodes all links in the e-mails so that they point to an accompanying website for tracking (click count only) and redirecting.
This Mail Relay Server will run as a service for multiple customers sending Newsletters.
Each customer has it's own credentials for the Mail Relay Server.
The newsletters may go to a great amount of recipients.
As of this, I can't forward all mails through my own mail account (would bring my webhoster on the blacklist).
This is why I thought of forwarding them to the recipients' mail server myself, using the techniques used in e-mail forwarding all around the world.
My question now is: Is there a way to forward e-mails from an own SMTP server to another, for which I don't have a mail account and cannot send credentials?
Thanks in advance for any help and clarification on this.

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A hospital fee, minus the hospital
By Liz Kowalczyk Globe Staff,January 27, 2013, 12:00 a.m.
Robert Reed looked at the $1,525 bill for "operating room'' and hospital "facility'' charges from Lahey Clinic at his home in Marblehead. The doctor had billed $354 for her services.(Matthew J. Lee/Globe Staff)
Robert Reed's visit to a suburban dermatologist's office last year seemed ordinary: He was led into a small exam room with a scratchy paper-covered table, where the doctor inspected his skin and squirted liquid nitrogen onto three pre-cancerous spots.
The statement he received a month later appeared anything but ordinary: It included $1,525 in "operating room'' and hospital "facility'' charges. Surely, Reed thought, it must be a mistake. There had been no hospital, no anesthesia, no surgical nurse.
And these charges were far more than what the doctor billed for her services — just $354. "I feel like I've been taken advantage of," said Reed, a 57-year-old financial analyst. "They need a reality check on what they are charging.''
To many people this may be the equivalent of billing for oral surgery after a teeth cleaning. But Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, which owns the dermatology practice, said Reed's insurer allows the Burlington hospital to charge patients an overhead fee when they are treated by doctors it employs — even when their offices are not located in the hospital but in a medical building 1½ miles away.
A photo of the bill that Robert Reed received from Lahey Clinic for the use of an operating room he didn't visit. (Matthew J. Lee/Globe staff)
This practice is common and has become more widespread in the past several years as hospitals across the United States buy up physician practices in the community. Now, facility fees for off-site care are drawing scrutiny from Medicare, some insurers, and consumers, who say that they are unfair and that hospitals are collecting more revenue and driving up health care costs.
"We're trying to save money in our system and now we're generating additional costs to the consumer,'' said Dr. Paul Hattis, a member of the Health Policy Commission that oversees implementation of Massachusetts' new health cost-control law. He said the panel should examine the issue.
The federal Medicare program, which covers 47 million people and is under pressure to cut costs, is taking a look at the practice. An independent agency that advises Congress concluded last year that the charging of facility fees at hospital-owned medical practices is costing Medicare millions of dollars a year. For a 15-minute office visit, for example, the federal health insurance program paid $44 more at a hospital-owned office in 2011 than at an independent office. Medicare patients pay more too: Their share of the bill for this standard visit was $11 more when they went to a hospital-owned office.
The facility fee can cause an even larger difference for some procedures, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission found. Laser eye surgery, for instance, costs Medicare 90 percent more — $738 — in a hospital-owned facility than in an independent doctor's office.
The advisory panel is recommending changes that would require Medicare to pay a single rate for a variety of medical procedures performed by doctors and for basic office visits, regardless of the site.
David Spackman, Lahey's general counsel, pointed out that Medicare permits hospitals to bill facility charges for care in a physician's office as long as they inform patients in advance. At the Wall Street dermatology office in Burlington where Reed had his procedure last January, signs posted in the lobby tell patients, "The offices at this location are operated as part of the main hospital facility. Because of this, the care you receive may have a hospital facility charge in addition to a provider charge.''
Reed said he did not notice the warning — which, he pointed out, gave no indication of the size of the fee.
His share of the Lahey fee is $678.91, which he has appealed repeatedly to his insurer, Cigna. Patients such as Reed, who is covered under a new high-deductible health insurance plan at work, are increasingly responsible for at least a portion, if not all, of these facility fees.
"Of course he's upset,'' said Spackman, a former state assistant attorney general.
Erik Rasmussen, a senior associate director at the American Hospital Association, said the extra fees are a way to have patients served at all of a hospital's locations cover overhead costs unique to hospitals, such as having emergency room staff available 24 hours a day.
Many doctors' practices are losing money and would be forced to close if a hospital did not step in to support them, said Timothy Gens, general counsel for the Massachusetts Hospital Association. "One of the greatest challenges for hospitals is to find the resources to subsidize physician practices so they stay in their communities,'' he said, explaining that facility fees help pay for technology and staff and meeting regulatory requirements in these offices.
Insurers have long paid facility fees for care that occurs in a hospital to help cover overhead costs. Eliminating these fees for hospital-owned off-campus practices can be hard, because hospitals do the billing and often do not indicate where the patient was treated. Insurers — and consumers — also are charged facility fees for care at outpatient surgery and urgent care centers that are in hospital-owned networks. Partners HealthCare and Steward Health Care, two large hospital networks, said they charge facility fees at some doctors' offices.
Dolores Mitchell, head of the Massachusetts Group Insurance Commission, which insures 375,000 state employees and retirees, said she is working with health plans to eliminate these fees. Meanwhile, the commission advised members in a newsletter to question doctors about whether a visit will generate a facility fee; if yes, let the doctor "know you are not happy about'' it, it said.
Consumers should at least know ahead of time if they are going to have to pay a facility fee, said Eric Linzer, spokesman for the Massachusetts Association of Health Plans. Eventually providers and insurers will have to make detailed price information, including facility fees, available to consumers under the state's new cost-control law.
Cigna spokesman Mark Slitt said he could not discuss Reed's case because of patient privacy laws. But the insurer is talking to providers about limiting facility fees in contracts, he said. Meanwhile, members can log on to the company's website to compare costs for certain procedures at different sites, including whether they will be charged a facility fee.
Reed, who has been trying to untangle his dermatology bill for nearly a year, said he did not research the procedure on Cigna's website, because he did not know he was going to have it until he was in the exam room. When he looked it up after the fact, there was no cost information on the Wall Street location. And even the prices listed for the main Lahey campus were difficult to understand and seemed far below the amount of his bill, he said.
Since his family has a history of skin cancer, his primary care doctor had recommended he see a specialist. The Wall Street practice is near his office, so he made an appointment with Dr. Ava Khosraviani, who is no longer employed by Lahey and could not be reached for comment.
The first bill Reed got was the $354 for her services, of which his share was $210.59. The second bill was for the operating room and facility charges. When Reed complained to Cigna about the bill, saying he never had an operation, he received another bill that called the $1,525 charge just a facility fee.
However, the amount he owed grew, because Cigna's negotiated discount had shrunk with the change. Now he has complained to his employer, which is appealing the bill to Cigna and Lahey.
"If I had known it would have cost $1,500 to have my face squirted, I would have walked out,'' Reed said. "This is a doing-business-with-Lahey charge. They're saying we get a premium because we're Lahey Clinic. It doesn't have to do with the cost of the facility.''
Liz Kowalczyk can be reached at kowalczyk@globe.com. Follow her on twitter @GlobeLizK
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On Priorities and Focus
28 October 2016 on Priorities, 7 Days Writing Challenge, Focus, Productivity, Success, Decisions
The world has infinite amount of options for us. Instead of reading this you might be doing a million different things. What's the opportunity cost here?
This is what you loose by not doing the other things. By deciding to do one thing you give up - consciously or not - doing the 999 999 things that are possible. Have you thought about it this way?
By reading this you're telling me you're not plowing your garden, not coding a new app or not making music, etc. That's why deciding is called deciding which comes from latin and means "cutting-off". You're cutting off all the other options in favour of the one you decide to do.
The Successful vs. The Rest
Have you noticed that some people seem to get 10 times more things done within the 24 hours than others? Or have a happier life, or are wealthier or have more of whatever you call success.
Well, guess what. It's not that they're working faster. It's not that they put in more hours or that they're talented beyond comprehension. No. What it means is they're focused on what they want.
Focus Is The Antidote
Out of the 1000000 things you could be doing there's very little you can actually do. There's so much you need to ignore that it's mindblowing.
The danger here is that out of the gigantic space of possible things random stuff will get onto your todo list. Just a tiny percentage of those can wipe your real goals out. It's enough to forget where you're going for a second and you're toast.
That's why you need clarity about your priorities. The less the better and having 1 is best. It's OK to change them, but you need to do it consciously and not too often. Between those changes keep an eye on the priorities and work on them.
Update: I just realised I've "written this post" before. Just from a different angle.
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Iyal, a newly established trust, is planning to publish an anthology of some of the best of tamil short stories translated to english. Your input is needed. What are the best short stories in tamil literature, in your opinion? Any genre is welcome. This thread will also help people to get an introduction to the best short stories in our literature and read them.
i forgot to add this. i'm sure iyal people already know this.think carefully what will appeal to your audience. that may not be the same as what appeals to the tamil lit circles including small magazines and other award-giving organisations like ilakkiya sindhanai.


DAMAGES: What am I entitled to when injured due to another's negligence?
DAMAGES: What am I entitled to when injured due to someone's negligence?
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This is a valid question that's often on the minds of victims dealing with personal injury. An accident and injury can often be a life-changing event that places a person's life in turmoil overnight. In Nebraska, the goal of damages is to put the injured person in the same position as he or she would have been had there been no injury. While nothing can put the injured party back to exactly where they were prior to the injury, special and general damages can certainly help.
The reasonable cost of obtaining substitute domestic services.
The plaintiff's (husband's, wife's) loss of consortium. Consortium means those things to which a person is entitled by reason of the marriage relationship. Includes affection, love, companionship, comfort, assistance, moral support, and the enjoyment of (sexual, conjugal) relations.
In the determination of economic and non-economic damages, the fact finder must consider the nature and extent of the injury, including whether the injury is temporary or permanent, and whether any resulting disability is partial or total.
See Nebraska Jury instructions on damages; NJI2d Civ. 4.00; General instruction on Damages in a Tort Action – Economic and Noneconomic Damages.


Here's clutch of reports about the successful rescue on 5th May 2012 of a sea-kayaking couple that was significantly aided by a well-prepared group lead by Richard Janes.
It shows the benefit of planning, training with the kit, and most of all communication – both in advance by filing a Passage Plan with the Coastguard, being alerted to a situation by them and assisting the RNLI with both the rescue and the tidy-up operations.
So here's the links to the Maritime & Coastguard Agency's press release, which thanks Richard's group for their help; the BBC report which summarises the advice, although it didn't credit the RNLI for their video stills; and Richard's own write-up of the situation.
I'm sure you'll join me in praising Richard's group for both their timely assistance, and the planning & fore-thought that put them in such a good position to help. Well done to you all.


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Q: Continue Mega download I was downloading a file from mega but the browser(Chrome) freezed.
As I was not using an account so I cannot continue downloading or from there.
Is there any way I could do the same or do I have to download again. The file is pretty big so I was thinking maybe there was another way

A: As you weren't logged in & your session was broken by the crash, the chances of you re-discovering it are extremely slim. Best you can hope is that the partially-downloaded file in the browser has a resume button & it manages to auto-negotiate.
The general rule for any large file download is, 'Don't use a browser, use a downloader'.
This is less important these days than it used to be, because ISPs don't cache files en-route as much as they used to, but it still affords some kind of protection for such as this situation.
For Mega specifically…

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*Get an account. That will save you all this trouble.
Basic is free. If you use them a lot, pay for their services, same as any other service you need.

*Use their own downloader [see 1 above].


They have used the Langmuir and Freundlich isotherm model to check the equilibrium behavior of the system, the main advantage of this technique is the reuse of adsorbent material.
United States-based CycloPure, Incorporated has launched its first adsorbent material, CD-PFAS, that removes perfluorooctanoic acid and perfluorooctanesulfonate from water to below Federal and State limits.
Therefore a search for a more cost effective adsorbent material is of immense interest in waste water treatment.
The main aim of this study was to investigate the possibility of using powdered eggshells as adsorbent material.
It's the best adsorbent material that you can think of.
This has the disadvantage, though, that only selective contact exists between the adsorbent material and the component.
It will establish state-of-the-art testing procedures, develop reference materials for adsorbent material testing, create an online data base of adsorbent material properties and serve as an impartial testing and validation facility.
m] when compared with other adsorbents used on MB dye (Table 5) showed that raw melon husk could also beta good adsorbent material for MB.
Among specific topics are the effect of milling time on the production of herbal nanopowders, flow behavior in the resin infusion of a glass-fiber-reinforced polymer wind turbine blade, mechanical properties of chitosan-modified montmorillinite-filled tapioca starch nanocomposite films, fabricating and characterizing ceramic membrane by a gel-cast technique for filtering water, and zero-valent iron supported by nano-clay as an efficient adsorbent material for arsenic.
34% for thorium at initial thorium concentration of 1 mg/l, so adsorbent material was found to be efficient to thorium removal from SSAS and wastewater.
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The tests ranging the mass were carried out to verify the ideal adsorption conditions, using increasing amounts of adsorbent material (0.


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Michael Hooper publishes research on forced eviction and involuntary resettlement
Michael Hooper, assistant professor of urban planning, together with Stanford's Leonard Ortolano, recently published the results of a study of forced eviction and resettlement in Tanzania. Their paper, in the Journal of Planning Education and Research, responds to an increasing hope that grassroots mobilization can help marginalized groups address development-related challenges, such as involuntary resettlement.
The paper investigates how participation in an urban social movement—the Tanzania Federation of the Urban Poor, or TFUP—influenced resettlement success following evictions in Dar es Salaam. The paper draws on detailed pre- and post-eviction interviews with slum dwellers in the city's Kurasini ward.
Forced evictions and resettlement rank among the most widespread human rights violations. According to the Center on Housing Rights and Evictions, 4.31 million people were affected by implemented or threatened evictions in 2007-08. Despite the large number of evictions taking place worldwide, there has been limited research on involuntary urban resettlement, especially in the developing world. By tracking a group of extremely poor evictees (with an average household income of 2.93 U.S. dollars per day) from before eviction to after resettlement, Hooper and Ortolano's research seeks to improve understanding of both the dynamics of social movement participation and the consequences of evictions.
Their surprising results show that the majority of interviewees reported improved post-eviction housing, but adverse employment impacts not anticipated in the movement's mobilization strategy. This mirrors the preparation by planners and community leaders in other resettlement scenarios, where the focus is typically on housing impacts, and employment outcomes get only limited consideration.
TFUP members, expecting TFUP to secure housing for them, delayed finding accommodation. This led to resettlement farther from their former homes and employment. Women were especially vulnerable following eviction, with their post-eviction pay falling because of the nature and location of their pre-eviction work.
The findings confirm key results from the limited prior research about the impact of evictions on the employment prospects of evictees in the developing world, and may hold more widely, particularly in the rapidly growing cities of Sub-Saharan Africa.
This poses considerable practical challenges to urban planners, policy makers and movement organizers. The expectations of marginalized groups can be strongly shaped by the rhetorical and strategic focus of a mobilization effort, which alone may be insufficient to provide them with an effective means of adapting to rapid urban change. Despite the growth in civil society groups in cities in the developing world, there remains a strong need for planners to ensure that the needs of marginalized groups are considered in formal planning procedures and that efforts are made to support communities in their efforts to cope with highly disruptive events.


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Home Motorcycles BMW Motorcycles BMW motorcyclists once again ride for a greener future
BMW motorcyclists once again ride for a greener future
Over 600 owners of BMW GS bikes registered 600 trees to be planted in partnership with Food & Trees For Africa
Midrand. BMW Motorrad, the motorcycle business of BMW South Africa, will this weekend host more than 600 owners of BMW GS motorcycles in Clocolan, Free State, to experience the second annual BMW GS Eco. The event takes place from today until Sunday, 21 October.
The BMW GS Eco event is a celebration of on- and off-road motorcycles for customers who own BMW GS bikes. Over the past few weeks, hundreds of BMW GS riders have been plotting and planning a combination of on- and off-road routes to ensure they achieve the most scenic, memorable and challenging routes, depending on their own style of riding. All this planning will culminate in an adventure of a lifetime with riders travelling from various BMW Motorrad dealerships and through some of the Free State's magnificent roads.
"The "BMW GS" concept has always embodied riding pleasure and the desire for adventure. With the BMW GS Eco event we are offering our customers the opportunity to be adventurous and explore some of the most remote corners of our country," says Rob Holder, general manager of BMW Motorrad in South Africa.
He says the event also enables riders to experience and contribute towards the sustainability of South Africa's eco system. "As part of the event, BMW Motorrad will donate one tree for every motorcycle entered to the Food & Trees For Africa's program "Trees for Homes."
BMW Motorrad, together with the participating riders, will donate 600 trees to the community of Kanana in the Grasmere area of the Vaal region. The handover will take place today (Friday 19, October) in Clocolan while at the same time Food & Trees For Africa (FTFA) will start their training workshop in Kanana.
"The success of the BMW Group has always been built on long-term thinking and responsible action. Therefore our organisation established ecological and social sustainability throughout the value chain, comprehensive product responsibility and a clear commitment to conserving resources as an integral part of our strategy. As a result of our efforts, we have once again been ranked as an industry leader in this year's Dow Jones Sustainability Index – making us a leader for the last eight consecutive years," adds Holder.
Edwin Makushu, an Ecopreneur at FTFA and also in charge of the BMW Trees for Homes project, says the area selected is a newly built settlement within the Grasmere area that is in desperate need of trees. "There are only 300 houses presently occupied in Kanana and the department of housing is still in the process of allocating more units to the community and we hope that the units will be occupied before December 2012."
Makushu says 300 trees will initially be distributed to launch the BMW Trees for Homes project in that area and thereafter another distribution will be done for the remaining 300 trees once the other houses are occupied.
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Christmas, time, and eternity
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I need to begin with a confession: I'm one of those people who gets his Christmas cards done way ahead of time. This year I started a couple of weeks before Thanksgiving, which is more or less what I always do.
Why so early? Because this is how people with a compulsive streak do everything. Granted, our obsession with punctuality makes us pains in the neck, but remember – we compulsives are the ones who arrive on time for appointments, meet our deadlines, and make the trains run on time.
Time. That was what I was thinking about during one of those long Sunday afternoons when I was laboring over Christmas cards: "Why am I spending my time doing this when everybody else is watching football?"
Social convention was the first, obvious answer. Sending Christmas cards is expected of you, no? But then it occurred to me that my reasons for devoting time to this activity go way beyond social convention. In fact, they have a lot to do with nostalgia – with remembering people and places and times past, and telling those people, some of them anyway, "I can't be with you now, but I remember you with affection just the same." (Call me the greeting card Proust.)
And as I thought about all that, Charles Dickens and his Christmas Carol also occurred to me, as they sometimes have before. People go back to that story year after year, apparently never tiring of its peculiar charm. But what charm is that? Surely this isn't one of its author's masterpieces, no David Copperfield or Great Expectations. Truth to tell, it's psychologically shallow and unspeakably sentimental. So why does it matter so much to so many?
The answer, I've decided, is time – or, more precisely, how A Christmas Carol, first published in 1843 and a tremendous hit from the start, handles it. Dickens may not have been aware of it, but what we have here is a marvelously intuitive parable about the human experience of time. Time past (warm and glowing and joyful). Time present (full of problems and anxiety). Time yet to come (dark and foreboding – for people of a certain age, somewhere you'd rather not go).
Like the best fairy tales and Greek tragedies, the tale of Scrooge and the Cratchits, especially Tiny Tim, and the three spirits touches people at a very deep level of universally shared experience. A person no more tires of hearing it than a small child tires of hearing his mother sing him to sleep.
A Christmas Carol by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1857)
American popular culture has another artifact like that – Frank Capra's greatly loved 1946 film It's a Wonderful Life. Here, too, a man's life is replayed for him, and then comes a twist – he's shown the ugly hypothetical future of Bedford Falls as it might have been if he'd never lived. Although to the best of my knowledge the word is never used, this movie may be the best depiction of a life lived as vocation that's ever been filmed. And like A Christmas Carol, it comes to a close – what else? – on Christmas.
Dickens and Capra both give their stories happy endings. George Bailey gets to keep his bank, Tiny Tim gets better, and from now on it's said of Scrooge that he knows how to keep Christmas well. As artists aiming to reach and please mass audiences, the creators of Scrooge and Bailey could hardly have done otherwise.
But a moment's reflection should make it clear that the happy endings are phonies. Sooner or later Bailey's rinky-dink bank will get swallowed up by a corporate behemoth. Christmas spirit or not, Scrooge will end in that dismal graveyard. So, for that matter, will Tiny Tim. That's how it is with time. Life moves on. Life ends. Is there any answer to that?
The question brings us to the greatest Christmas text of Christianity, which treats the feast as a celebration not only of time but also of eternity. I refer of course to the Prologue of St. John's Gospel. The Church in her wisdom proposes it to us as the Gospel reading for Mass on Christmas Day.
No doubt the infancy narratives in Matthew and Luke are more accessible. Along with circumstantial information about events and insights into the interior lives of Jesus' mother and foster father, they conjure up recollections of Christmas cribs under scores of Christmas trees and of people near and dear to us who were with us then.
Still, for sheer theological grandeur, nothing comes close to John's Prologue:
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came to be through him, and without him nothing came to be. What came to be through him was life, and this life was the light of the human race; the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it." (John 1.1-5)
The inspired words are a paean to eternity's entrance into time through the Incarnation. And to the astonishing fact that, with this incarnation event, time-bound human beings have been given the opportunity to participate in a life after this life – a life that will never end because it's life in eternity. As John puts it, "To those who did accept him he gave power to become children of God." (John 1.12)
Time and eternity. Christmas celebrates the special moment in history when eternity reached out to time, raised it up, redeemed it, and illuminated it as the gateway to a life beyond life. In a Christmas prayer, St. Bernard of Clairvaux says, "You have come to us as a small child, but you have brought us the greatest of all gifts, the gift of your eternal love." That's the real message of my Christmas cards.
Russell Shaw is former Secretary for Public Affairs of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops/United States Catholic Conference. He is the author of more than twenty books, including Eight Popes and the Crisis of Modernity (forthcoming from Ignatius Press).
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NSF Announces 2020 Graduate Research Fellows
The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently announced recipients of its Graduate Research Fellowship, including three students from the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences (ICS): Alex James Boyd, Derenik Haghverdian and Lucy Pei.
The Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in STEM disciplines across the United States. Support comes in the form of a three-year annual stipend of $34,000, as well as $12,000 paid directly to the university to cover tuition and fees. The GRFP has a history of selecting recipients who go on to achieve high levels of success, and these three ICS recipients show great potential.
Alex James Boyd is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Statistics whose research focuses on the intersection of machine learning and statistics in deep probabilistic models. "My overarching focus is on improving these methods for sequential data," he says. "More recently, my efforts have centered around developing novel ways of personalizing predictions for sequences generated by different users (such as messages in a conversation or purchase history) and better deep probabilistic modeling techniques for sparse event data." Boyd is grateful for the fellowship and the reliable source of funding it provides. "Because of this fellowship, I am largely free to steer my own research goals toward making the biggest impact, both within and outside of research communities." He plans to pursue a research-focused industry job after obtaining his Ph.D.
Derenik Haghverdian is also a statistics Ph.D. student. His research focuses on developing efficient and scalable methodologies to tackle computational challenges encountered in Bayesian statistics — more specifically, in Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) and its variants. "Scalable HMC algorithms will significantly decrease the modeling time for big data problems by taking away the computational burden and will help create more complex models that capture the true nature of the problems studied in multiple disciplines," he explains, adding that it is an honor to receive this fellowship. "It will significantly facilitate my path toward reaching my potentials, fulfilling my dreams, and being an impactful member of the scientific community." Those dreams include pursuing a career in academia and becoming a professor of statistics. "This will give me the opportunity to mentor the next generation of graduate students," he says, "and also participate in cutting-edge research that will have a significant impact on the society."
Lucy Pei is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Informatics whose research involves technology interventions aimed at helping minoritized communities. "This research is based on fieldwork I did at a community literacy center serving resettled refugees and immigrants," says Pei, who was humbled to learn she had received the fellowship. "The application I was able to put together was the product of a great deal of mentorship and investment from family members, friends and professors who have believed in me and my work and have encouraged me to pursue my evolving definitions of scholarship that matters." She says that the funding will allow her to perform richer fieldwork and more outreach activities. She is also working with her adviser Roderic Crooks, fellow graduate student Bono Olgado, and a team of undergraduate researchers to understand how and why community organizations are engaging with data in their advocacy. "My future research will involve critically analyzing how people who carry out projects under the banner of 'tech for social good' or 'tech for development' understand their work." She aspires to continue this work through a career in academia.
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