2012年10月15日 星期一

When Greg McCoach Picks Mining Stocks

The looming financial meltdown will affect the global economy and the U.S. will not escape, says Greg McCoach in this exclusive interview with The Gold Report. Whatever happens, the precious metals are bound to fly, as investors scramble for tangible cover. Mining stocks will be major beneficiaries of the soaring metals prices, but where mines are situated will be an important factor as governments try to get a bigger piece of the action.We have a wide selection of dry cabinet to choose from for your storage needs.

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The days of being able to fix this are long past. I had a chance conversation with a U.S. senator and, when I asked him about the debts and deficit spending, he admitted that everybody in Washington and New York knows that there's no possible way to pay this back. So, essentially all the politicians are hoping it doesn't blow up on their watch.

I'm a student of history, which shows that no government that has taken on a fiat currency has gotten past the 41-year mark before it ended in inflationary panic and disaster. The U.S. dollar is now going into its 42nd year as a fiat currency and breaking the record. We're right on the cusp of what history says is totally unsustainable and will eventually collapse.

Then there is the derivative problem on top of the debt. There's no historical record of derivatives because they were created in the 1980s for large financial institutions to manage big risks. Unfortunately, the greed in the system overtook them, with everyone trying to make incredibly large returns. Now we have the derivative liability tracking through the world system.

Derivatives are the gigantic pink elephant in the room that no one wants to admit is there. As an example, the sovereign debt of Europe is $70 trillion. The derivative liability, that means the unsecured liability that's associated with that debt, exceeds $700 trillion. It's a ridiculous number. When we're talking about trillion-dollar deficits and derivative problems in the hundreds of trillions, it just shows that there's no possible way this can be fixed.

I think the pressure on Congress to do something is critical. John Mauldin, a very bright economist who writes a newsletter, recently spoke at a conference I attended. He stated that if the U.S. Congress doesn't deal with the deficit problem in the first six months of next year, it's over. He said he would go from being an optimist about America to becoming a pessimist and that we'll go into this death spiral, as he refers to it, of not being able to pay our debt or interest on it. But,Our vinyl floor tiles is more stylish than ever! he believes that Congress is going to do something.

I'm very pessimistic about that, though I'm more of a pragmatic optimist. I don't see how Republicans and Democrats, who are so deeply divided, can handle the amount of deficit spending that would have to be cut out of the budget and how badly taxes would need to be raised just to try to have a chance of warding off what's coming. The chances of that happening, in my opinion, are zero.

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2012年10月11日 星期四

Bruers mark a quarter century of Good Times

Dale and Diane Bruers never exactly planned on owning their own liquor store, but 25 years after purchasing Good Time Liquors in Norwood Young America, they don’t intend to give up the business any time soon.

The couple recently celebrated that quarter century milestone with food, prizes, special deals and a tasting session at the store located on the south side of Highway 212 near the intersection with Faxon Road.

“We opened up a little more expensive bottle of champagne than we normally do. I thought, 25 years, why not?” said Dale.

The couple took over Good Time Liquors, which had previously been owned by Roy and Phyllis Eder, on April 1 of 1987. Dale had previously been employed by Tonka Toys, but after that company closed an area facility and moved away, he found himself searching the newspaper for new job opportunities.

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At the time, the store was located across Highway 212 between the grocery store and the hardware store.

“It was just a little hole in the wall,” said Dale.

As might be expected, the couple has seen a fair number of changes in prices, industry practices and customer behavior over the years. In the early days, a 12-pack of beer was $5.37 and the popular brands were Stroh’s, Old Milwaukee and Schlitz. Some of the Stroh’s 30-packs were only $11.99.

Today, the store doesn’t carry any of those three brands, prices are higher and the popular new beers are Coors Light, Miller Lite, Michelob Golden Light and Budweiser.

“The prices have really changed over the last 25 years. So has the industry. Either you have to go bigger or get out of it,” said Dale. “That’s one of the reasons we built this store, so we could expand and compete with some of the bigger stores. It’s just really hard now to be a mom and pop store because they’re few and far between.”

While Good Time relocated to its larger present location 11 years ago, it still maintains its “mom and pop” credentials. Those include a neighborly manner of interacting with customers and the incredible absence of a computer.The oreck XL professional air purifier,

“Our computer system is six recipe card boxes that we’ve used for 25 years and still use today,” said Dale. “We laugh about it. I’ll say to a salesman, ‘Just a minute, I have to get my computer up.’ They know I have to get my cards out. They say, ‘You’re not alone. There are some people out there that still do it that way.’ We’re not the last in the world, but people say they can’t believe we’re not computerized. I just tell them that the next owner can do that.”

In his defense, Dale did take a computer class once.

“When you’re from the old school, change is hard to accept and do. You need to take time to learn, and I think we just never took a few weeks to have someone help us set that up,” he said.Western Canadian distributor of ceramic and ceramic tile, “I did take a computer class. I couldn’t keep the mouse on the pad!”

While the ordering and pricing is done the old-fashioned way, the Bruers have been able to keep competitive prices that are necessary to survive in Norwood Young America’s unique location between the metro area and the rural areas to the west.

“Shopping local can be a hard thing here because we’re close to the big stores right down the highway. So we’ve tried to stay competitive. We are real aggressive on some of the big players and that has helped us to get people coming back,” said Dale.

On the other hand, the highway, coupled with Good Time’s highly visible location, have brought opportunity as well. The couple estimated that up to half of its customers are from out of town, passing through on the way to or from the Twin Cities.

“We have people that come in here from the Dakotas for Vikings games that I’ve known for seven or eight years now,” said Dale. “They’ll come right in behind the counter. We’ve met a lot of nice people from out of state and out of town.”

“We’re actually at the first stop light on the way out of the cities, so they know where the store is now,” said Diane.

Those mobile customers also help the Bruers keep competitive prices.

“We do know that our prices are in line because we hear it on a weekly basis. So we know we’re doing the right thing that way to keep people local,” said Dale.

In general, however, interaction with customers has changed over the years as well. The Bruers remembered the early years when farmers would come to town once a week, stop in to chat, and sometimes leave trails of manure and corn behind from their boots.

“We used to get mad about that back in the old days. Sometimes I actually miss that now, because it was a more fun time,” said Dale. “People stopped in and there was time to talk and they wanted to know the latest news or what was news. Now when some of our customers come in on the weekends they’re in such a hurry. They’re on the headset talking or on a cell phone. They don’t even acknowledge us. That’s my biggest pet peeve, how people have changed and everybody’s in a hurry.”

While the business now includes six part-time employees, the Bruers understand from experience the cost of owning a business, in terms of both taxes and time. Dale said he sometimes feels “more like a tax collector than a businessman,Thank you for visiting! I have been crystal mosaic since 1998.” and finding time away has been difficult. In 25 years, the couple has had a grand total of four weeklong vacations, and for the first dozen years or so, Dale estimated that he worked 65 to 72 hours per week.

Market realities – channel marketing strategies

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Strategic priorities vary according to which stage channels have reached in their development. In the early days of a channel’s life, the crucial thing is to secure as much distribution as possible. For Bruce Tuchman, president of AMC/Sundance Channel Global, a relatively recent entrant in the international channel business, the key priority remains the expansion of the Sundance Channel globally.

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“We also sponsor film festivals all over the world,” says Tuchman,We recently added Stained glass mosaic Tile to our inventory. highlighting the channel’s involvement in the recent launch of the Sundance Festival in London. Inviting distributors to attend the festivals and inviting stars of the channel’s shows to meet affiliates – and Sundance founder Robert Redford has been present at key meetings – are alike part of the company’s relationship-building activity.

In addition to building relationships with affiliates, AMC/Sundance Channel has also engaged in consumer marketing initiatives. For Breaking Bad Sundance highlighted its first pay TV window showing of the series in Asia, generating “a lot of coverage”, according to Tuchman. Singapore’s The Straits Times ran a feature of the show featuring stars Vince Gilligan and Bryan Cranston. Glenn Close recently did several interviews with Spanish media for the launch of Damages. The Sundance Channel has also run sweepstakes where winning audience members are invited to the Sundance Festival in Utah.

Next month Sundance Channel will be celebrating the Busan International Film Festival for the first time with daily coverage produced at the event. There will also be a showcase of films seen at Busan, including the Asian premiere on Sundance Channel of the 2011 film I Carried You Home and the European premiere of the 2011 festival winner Bleak Night.

Much of AMC/Sundance Channel’s activity on the marketing front is designed to compensate the disadvantage the channel suffered by being later to market than many of its rivals. “We were late to the game and there are a lot of channels taking a good share of available revenue. In DTH, capacity is limited and the capacity to add channels costs money. That’s the challenge,” he says. However, says Tuchman, Sundance Channel benefits by filling a gap in the market, with content that can also showcase the merits of HD.

CAC presents 'Wild Horses

In a tradition presenting unique art exhibitions while helping to further the cause of other non-profits, the Cultural Arts Council of Estes Park (CAC) Fine Art Gallery opens "Wild Horses -- Wild Lands" on Friday, Oct. 12. This show celebrates the wild American horse in its majesty and mystique, while hoping to bring a greater awareness to The Cloud Foundation, whose mission is to prevent the extinction of Cloud's herd in the Pryor Mountains of Montana and to protect other wild horse herds on public lands, especially isolated herds with unique characteristics and historical significance.

Wild Lands" will include works by artists from Arizona, Montana, Tennessee and Colorado. Paintings in oil and watercolor, photography, drawing in watercolor and gouache, bronze sculpture and jewelry will portray the daily lives and beauty of the wild horse or mustang. Working closely with Estes Park resident Linda Hanick, who serves on the board of directors of The Cloud Foundation, the CAC has put together a collection of artists who not only produce works of art depicting the wild horse, but also in several cases, adopt/rescue animals or use their artistic talents to further educate the public about the plight of the wild herds in America.

The Cloud Foundation is a Colorado 501(c) 3 non-profit corporation that grew out of Ginger Kathrens' knowledge and fear for not only Cloud's herd but also other wild horses in the West.

"I began to realize that we were losing America's wild horses," Kathrens says. "They are rounded up by the thousand, losing in an instant what they value most -- freedom and family. I realized that even Cloud and his family were in danger."

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Virginia Taulane, Colo., has donated an original oil, "Wild West," with 100-percent of the sale benefiting The Cloud Foundation. Some of the other artists are donating a portion of their sales, and the Cultural Arts Council will set up a donation area for the duration of the exhibition, with all contributions benefiting The Cloud Foundation.

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2012年10月9日 星期二

The Naked Truth

Gustav Klimt, one of the art world’s original rebels, is at the centre of global celebrations,The TagMaster Long Range hands free access System is truly built for any parking facility. as art lovers gather in their thousands to mark the master’s 150th anniversary from this summer until the end of the year. As a founding member and president of the Vienna Secession movement, he strived to shock the public with his overtly sexual, sinuous paintings.HOWO trucks are widely used and howo spareparts for sale, Klimt’s contribution to this radical movement was pivotal in inspiring a number of artists, including his protg, Egon Shiele, to veer from the traditional and somewhat archaic style that dominated Austrian Art at that time.

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Hosted by the Lazarides art gallery in Soho, the exhibition was made up of the works of nine internationally renowned street artists who produced Klimt-inspired pieces, in front of a live audience in London’s Grosvenor Gardens on the 21st of August. In the spirit of Vienna’s rich cultural diversity, the event was freely open to the public, with the aim of showcasing the city’s modern art scene and imperial heritage. The event was said by one London magazine to be a “superb parallel universe that would make you feel like flying straight to Vienna to see Klimt’s original paintings.”

Echoes of Klimt’s unique panache resonate in each of the works, often through the imitation of his outline shape of the figures depicted in “The Kiss”. The artists added something of themselves to their pieces, but held true to the “curves, spirals, mystical whirlpools and bright assorted shapes” of Klimt’s work, that one French art critic, Gilles Neret, dubbed as the rebel master’s artistic hook, with the purpose of “enticing the viewer towards the depths of the unconscious and the labyrinths of the mind”.

One piece even included a telescope piercing into a landscape painting, giving acknowledgement to Klimt’s own practice of viewing scenes through a telescope as his way of escaping the hectic city of Vienna and the turmoil of World War I. The showcase was an extraordinary testimony to Klimt’s bravery and determination to break down restricting societal norms through expressive Art, for which modern artists owe a great deal.

As well as the post humorous lessons he has been able to teach many a modern artist, during his lifetime, Klimt mentored a number of younger artists, with a great deal of his time focused on Shiele, who too had “had enough of censorship”, as put by Gilles Neret. Klimt and Shiele wanted to be free of state interference, wanting to escape the claustrophobic rigour of Vienna. In his support of Shiele, Klimt bought some of the young artist’s drawings, introduced him to potential patrons and brought him to the Wiener Werkst?tte, the major art workshop connected with the Secession.

His guidance led Shiele to found the “New Art Group”, which connected other disillusioned students of the traditional Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Klimt’s influence on Shiele’s life is typical of the encouragement that he gave to other artists like him, striving to deviate from the norm in a time where nothing but conformity was acceptable.

Quite naturally, Klimt’s artistic style was met with an icy reception by those who wanted to uphold the more orthodox pillars of Vienna’s art scene. Despite this, at the turn of the century, Klimt fell into a “Golden Phase” (1899-1910), where his work was positively received and most known for his use of gold leaf. During this period, he created “The Kiss” and was greatly inspired by his trips to Vienna and Ravenna.

Departing from the tortured artist clich, Klimt lived a simple life, involving little more than a robe, sandals and a paintbrush. He avoided personal scandal and public affairs, advising anyone who wished to know anything about him to “look at [his] paintings”. One of his final paintings, “Death and Life”, created in 1911, won first prize at the world exhibitions in Rome, demonstrating the progression of his work as viewed by the public and his momentous impact on global artistry.

Klimt’s colourful artistic career is still celebrated 150 years on. The city of Vienna held various exhibitions and remembrances to demonstrate the influence that Klimt’s work continues to hold over modern day artists.

The Belvedere, home to the largest collection of Klimt’s paintings, is hosting “Masterpieces in Focus: 150 years of Gustav Klimt”, curated by Dr.Find detailed product information for sino howo tipper truck. Stephan Koja,Choose from our large selection of cable ties. author of Gustav Klimt Landscapes (2002). The exhibition explores each year of his life, including all negative and positive public receptions of his work.

At the turn of the century Klimt’s work has become much more than a mere visual medium. For the general public who secretly shared his desire to break away from structure and regimented order, his work stood for change and the possibility of social liberation.

The most recent insight into Klimt’s life and artwork can be found in his last standing studio in the 13th district of Vienna, Feldmühlgasse, which recently underwent renovation for the first time since 1918. The abandoned studio is where he created most of his works during the last six years of his life. It still contains two of his paintings, “The Bride” and “Lady with a fan”, just resting on their easels. A fascinating insight into some of the strange patterns in his paintings was realised on closer observation of some of the unusual gowns discovered around the room and curtains covering the northern facing windows.

Klimt’s studio has now been reopened, after almost 15 years of political struggle. Various plans including secret demolition schemes kept cropping up in order for the property to be sold to Russian developers.

Banker Herb Allen to Put a Monet on the Block

In another sign that the smart money set is selling art this auction season, investment banker Herb Allen said his family is planning to auction off a Claude Monet painting of a water lily pond for between $30 million and $50 million next month in New York.

The planned sale comes as prices for Monet's watery scenes continue to climb, buoyed by interest from emerging collectors in China and Europe who think values for name-brand artists will hold up during times of economic uncertainty even if prices for lesser-known painters plummet.

Monet's Water-Lily series—the artist painted more than 160 views of his garden pond at Giverny, France between 1905 and his death in 1926—seem particularly popular. Five of the artist's priciest paintings at auction depict his garden, including "The Lily Pond," a 1919 example that Christie's auction house sold to a European buyer for $80.4 million at the peak of the last market in 2008.

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Christie's specialist Conor Jordan said Chinese interest is already piqued by "Water Lilies," so he's shipping it to Hong Kong next week so potential bidders can take a closer look.

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Mr. Allen said he's settling her estate by auctioning off the Monet and another pair of Impressionist paintings by Camille Pissarro and Alfred Sisley.

Pissarro's 1895 landscape, "Apple Trees and Haymakers, Eragny," shows a pair of women using pitchforks to rake hay into piles in an apple orchard near Pissarro's home in Eragny, France. Christie's estimates the work will sell for at least $2.5 million.TBC help you confidently buymosaic from factories in China.

Pissarro's performance at auction has been patchy lately, with several works going unsold, but collectors tend to pay a premium for scenes like this one that show Pissarro's signature way of painting long, afternoon shadows.

Christie's also expects to get at least $2.5 million for Sisley's "Alley of Poplars at Moret on the Bank of the Loing," an 1890 view of a poplar-lined path near a riverbank in the French town of Moret. Sisley's auction record is similarly hit and miss these days, but his poplar series still seems to find plenty of takers: Seven of the artist's priciest works at auction feature riverbank views of Moret—including an 1891 example that broke the artist's auction record when it sold for $5.7 million at Sotheby's five years ago.

It all begins on Oct. 20 with the “Main Street Paint Out” on 89A in uptown Sedona from 1:30 to 4:00 p.m. This opening event is sponsored by the Sedona Main Street Program. Finished paint-out paintings are then displayed and sold in front of the Sedona Arts Center at 4:30 p.m.

The Main Street Paint Out is immediately followed by the opening reception in the Arts Center’s Special Exhibition Gallery and Theatre Studio space, which are designated as the “Plein Air Galleries” for this event. Wine and food are being provided at 5:30 p.m. by the Sedona Arts Center’s Board of Directors as a special welcome to the artists. The public is invited to both opening events making for a wonderful afternoon adventure in the arts.

On Sunday and Monday the artists will paint on their own and in small groups throughout Sedona, the Verde Valley and Oak Creek Canyon. The Jerome Chamber of Commerce and Jerome Artwalk are hosting the artists on Tuesday morning. Check in at the tent at Middlepark to see where particular artists are located, or just walk the streets of Jerome where artists will be painting all morning. Wednesday evening features Keynote speaker and noted plein air artist Kathryn Stats, whose presentation “Its Only Paint!” takes place at 7 p.Kitchen floor tiles at Great Prices from Topps Tiles.m. at the Arts Center’s Theatre Studio.

On Thursday Oct. 24, the artists will engage in a 2-hour “Centennial Quick Paint,” a timed event from 10 a.m. to noon at the Sedona Heritage Museum, 735 Jordan Road in uptown Sedona. There will be models in period costume, historic equipment and stunning landscapes for the artists to paint. The finished pieces will be framed and on display for judging and sale at 12:30 p.m.

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What I was originally going to write about is the fact that when it comes to certain types of consumer services, the providers of such services may proactively require customers, who have personal smartphones and tablets, to use specific types of “mobile apps.” While health care and financial services may initially dominate such activity, government, education, applications etc., will also jump on the mobile consumer bandwagon to facilitate their service responsibilities.

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UC is not just for contacting and socializing with people, although one can obviously do that too, using IM chat and SMS messaging. Because people are now more accessible, and can communicate more flexibly with mobile devices, there has been a tremendous increase in person-to-person messaging rather than phone call attempts. However, what we are really talking about is for people to interact with ANY kind of important operational process that they are involved with, without necessarily going through other people to do so. It’s really about where mobility is taking consumers in the new world of “cloud-based,” self-service applications.

When we talk about “self-service” applications, we mean an informational function that an end user can do directly by himself or herself by accessing online portals. Whether it is inputting transactional data with voice or text or retrieving information from a database, the automated application will be cost-efficient and easy-to-use and can satisfy the user's need for on-demand access from anywhere, any time.

Mobile self-service apps for consumers will increasingly replace or supplement tasks that only customer-facing staff could perform in the past because there was little or no direct access to such functions without authorized and knowledgeable use of desktop or laptop computers. Now that smartphones and tablets make access to such applications more flexible, simpler, and location independent, there should be no question in anyone’s mind that UC enablement can help maximize effective usage of inbound and outbound mobile self-service applications, along with the options for “contextual” live assistance in various forms.

With traditional person-to-person communications, there was always a need to first accommodate the contact initiator’s circumstances or preferences in communicating with another person. UC flexibility, however, allows recipients to selectively receive and respond to contacts independently of the contact initiator’s choice. A good example is voice message-to-text services that allow a caller to conveniently leave a voice message that the recipient can efficiently retrieve in text form. The reverse is also true, where text messages can be listened to eyes and hands-free when driving a car. That flexibility makes for fewer failed contact attempts and more efficient and timely person-to-person communications, recognized as increased end-user “productivity” and “responsiveness.”

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