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That's not a clarification
I, and everyone else, already know that you think it's not a complete 43-101. Again, please show me EXACTLY where it's incomplete.
I'll repeat the second question, and try not to answer it with a question.
it is a criminal act in canada for minimar to state that there is 1.4 million ozs of gold reserves on that property.
Could you clarify?
that is incomplete. it is not a NI43-101. 17 through25.
it is a criminal act in canada for minimar to state that there is 1.4 million ozs of gold reserves on that property.
The NI43-101 report qualifies and SEDAR accepted it
I challenge anyone who says it's not a real 43-101 to put up or shut up so we can finally end this. This time though, just saying "it's not real" or "call them yourself" won't suffice.
Here's my proof, show me yours if you can. I doubt it.
Filed with SEDAR April 20th 2005:
http://www.sedar.com/GetFile.do?lang=EN&docClass=13&issuerNo=00013827&fileName=/csfsprod/data55/filings/00767365/00000001/r%3A%5CSEDAR%5CFilings%5CYSV%5CTechnicalReportDec92004.pdf
5.1.1 National Instrument 43-101
Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects, Form 43-101F1 and Companion Policy 43-101CP
http://www.cim.org/committees/NI_43-101_Dec_30.pdf
Part 4.3 Required Form of Technical Report
A technical report that is required to be filed under this Part must be prepared in accordance with Form 43-101F1.
FORM 43-101F1 - TECHNICAL REPORT Rules and Policies
http://www.cim.org/committees/NI_43-101_FormF1_Dec_30.pdf
CONTENTS OF THE TECHNICAL REPORT
Item 1: Title Page
Item 2: Table of Contents
Item 3: Summary
Item 4: Introduction
Item 5: Reliance on Other Experts
Item 6: Property Description and Location
Item 7: Accessibility, Climate, Local Resources, Infrastructure and Physiography
Item 8: History
Item 9: Geological Setting
Item 10: Deposit Types
Item 11: Mineralization
Item 12: Exploration
Item 13: Drilling
Item 14: Sampling Method and Approach
Item 15: Sample Preparation, Analyses and Security
Item 16: Data Verification
Item 17: Adjacent Properties
Item 18: Mineral Processing and Metallurgical Testing
Item 19: Mineral Resource and Mineral Reserve Estimates
Item 20: Other Relevant Data and Information
Item 21: Interpretation and Conclusions
Item 22: Recommendations
Item 23: References
Item 24: Date and Signature Page
Item 25: Additional Requirements
Item 1: Title Page - Include a title page setting out the title of the technical report, the general location of the mineral project, the name and professional designation of each qualified person and the effective date of the technical report.
Item 2: Table of Contents - Provide a table of contents listing the contents of the technical report, including figures and tables.
Item 3: Summary- Provide a summary that briefly describes the property, its location, ownership, geology and mineralization, the exploration concept, the status of exploration, development and operations and the qualified person’s conclusions and recommendations.
Item 4: Introduction - Include a description of
(a) who the technical report is prepared for;
(b) the purpose for which the technical report was prepared;
(c) the sources of information and data contained in the technical report or used in its preparation, with citations if applicable; and
(d) the scope of the personal inspection on the property by each qualified person and author or, if applicable, the reason why a personal inspection has not been completed.
Item 5: Reliance on Other Experts - If a qualified person preparing or supervising the preparation of all or a portion of the technical report is relying on a report, opinion or statement of a legal or other expert, who is not a qualified person, for information concerning legal, environmental, political or other issues and factors relevant to the technical report, the qualified person may include a disclaimer of responsibility in which the qualified person identifies the report, opinion or statement relied upon, the maker of that report, opinion or statement, the extent of reliance and the portions of the technical report to which the disclaimer applies.
Item 6: Property Description and Location -To the extent applicable, with respect to each property reported on, describe
(a) the area of the property in hectares or other appropriate units;
(b) the location, reported by an easily recognizable geographic and grid location system;
(c) the type of mineral tenure (eg. claim, license, lease) and the identifying name or number of each;
(d) the nature and extent of the issuer's title to, or interest in, the property including surface rights, the obligations that must be met to retain the property, and the expiration date of claims, licences or other property tenure rights;
(e) how the property boundaries were located;
(f) the location of all known mineralized zones, mineral resources, mineral reserves and mine workings, existing tailing ponds, waste deposits and important natural features and improvements, relative to the outside property boundaries;
(g) to the extent known, the terms of any royalties, back-in rights, payments or other agreements and encumbrances to which the property is subject;
(h) to the extent known, all environmental liabilities to which the property is subject; and
(i) to the extent known, the permits that must be acquired to conduct the work proposed for the property, and if the permits have been obtained.
Item 7: Accessibility, Climate, Local Resources, Infrastructure and Physiography - With respect to each property reported on, describe
(a) topography, elevation and vegetation;
(b) the means of access to the property;
(c) the proximity of the property to a population centre, and the nature of transport;
(d) to the extent relevant to the mineral project, the climate and the length of the operating season; and
(e) to the extent relevant to the mineral project, the sufficiency of surface rights for mining operations, the availability and sources of power, water, mining personnel, potential tailings storage areas, potential waste disposal areas, heap leach pad areas and potential processing plant sites.
Item 8: History - To the extent known, with respect to each property reported on, describe
(a) the prior ownership of the property and ownership changes;
(b) the type, amount, quantity and general results of exploration and development work undertaken by any previous owners or operators;
(c) historical mineral resource and mineral reserve estimates in accordance with section 2.4 of the Instrument, including the reliability of the historical estimates and whether the estimates are in accordance with the categories set out in sections 1.2 and 1.3 of the Instrument; and
(d) any production from the property.
Item 9: Geological Setting - Include a concise description of the regional, local and property geology.
Item 10: Deposit Types - Describe the mineral deposit type(s) being investigated or being explored for and the geological model or concepts being applied in the investigation and on the basis of which the exploration program is planned.
Item 11: Mineralization - Describe the mineralized zones encountered on the property, the surrounding rock types and relevant geological controls, detailing length, width, depth and continuity, together with a description of the type, character and distribution of the mineralization.
Item 12: Exploration - Describe the nature and extent of all relevant exploration work conducted by, or on behalf of, the issuer on each property being reported on, including
(a) results of surveys and investigations, and the procedures and parameters relating to the surveys and investigations;
(b) an interpretation of the exploration information; and
(c) a statement as to whether the surveys and investigations have been carried out by the issuer or by a contractor and, if the latter, identifying the contractor.
INSTRUCTION: If exploration results from previous operators are included, the qualified person or author must clearly identify the work conducted by, or on behalf of, the issuer.
Item 13: Drilling - Describe the type and extent of drilling including the procedures followed and a summary and interpretation of all results. The relationship between the sample length and the true thickness of the mineralization must be stated, if known, and if the orientation of the mineralization is unknown, state this.
Item 14: Sampling Method and Approach - Provide
(a) a brief description of sampling methods and relevant details of location, number, type, nature and spacing or density of samples collected, and the size of the area covered;
(b) a description of any drilling, sampling or recovery factors that could materially impact the accuracy and reliability of the results;
(c) a discussion of the sample quality, including whether the samples are representative, and any factors that may have resulted in sample biases;
(d) a description of rock types, geological controls, widths of mineralized zones and other parameters used to establish the sampling interval and identification of any significantly higher grade intervals within a lower grade intersection; and
(e) a summary of relevant samples or sample composites with values and estimated true widths.
Item 15: Sample Preparation, Analyses and Security - Describe sample preparation methods and quality control measures employed before dispatch of samples to an analytical or testing laboratory, the method or process of sample splitting and reduction, and the security measures taken to ensure the validity and integrity of samples taken. Include
(a) a statement whether any aspect of the sample preparation was conducted by an employee, officer, director or associate of the issuer;
(b) details regarding sample preparation, assaying and analytical procedures used, the name and location of the analytical or testing laboratories and whether the laboratories are certified by any standards association and the particulars of any certification;
(c) a summary of the nature and extent of all quality control measures employed and check assay and other check analytical and testing procedures utilized, including the results and corrective actions taken; and
(d) a statement of the author's opinion on the adequacy of sample preparation, security and analytical procedures.
Item 16: Data Verification - Include
(a) a discussion of quality control measures and data verification procedures applied;
(b) a statement as to whether the qualified person has verified the data referred to or relied upon;
(c) a discussion of the nature of and any limitations on such verification; and
(d) the reasons for any failure to verify the data.
Item 17: Adjacent Properties - A technical report may include information concerning an adjacent property if
(a) such information was publicly disclosed by the owner or operator of the adjacent property;
(b) the source of the information is identified;
(c) the technical report states that its qualified person has been unable to verify the information and that the information is not necessarily indicative of the mineralization on the property that is the subject of the technical report;
(d) the technical report clearly distinguishes between mineralization on the adjacent property and mineralization on the property being reported on; and
(e) if any historical estimates of resources or reserves are included in the technical report, they are disclosed in accordance with section 2.4 of the Instrument.
Item 18: Mineral Processing and Metallurgical Testing - If mineral processing or metallurgical testing analyses have been carried out, include the results of the testing, details of the testing and analytical procedures, and discuss whether the samples are representative.
Item 19: Mineral Resource and Mineral Reserve Estimates - A technical report disclosing mineral resources or mineral reserves must
(a) use only the applicable mineral resource and mineral reserve categories set out in sections 1.2 and 1.3 of the Instrument;
(b) report each category of mineral resources and mineral reserves separately and if both mineral resources and mineral reserves are disclosed, state the extent, if any, to which mineral reserves are included in total mineral resources;
(c) not add inferred mineral resources to the other categories of mineral resources;
(d) disclose the name, qualifications and relationship, if any, to the issuer of the qualified person who estimated mineral resources and mineral reserves;
(e) include appropriate details of quantity and grade or quality for each category of mineral resources and mineral reserves;
(f) include details of the key assumptions, parameters and methods used to estimate the mineral resources and mineral reserves;
(g) include a general discussion on the extent to which the estimate of mineral resources and mineral reserves may be materially affected by any known environmental, permitting, legal, title, taxation, socio-economic, marketing, political or other relevant issues;
(h) identify the extent to which the estimates of mineral resources and mineral reserves may be materially affected by mining, metallurgical, infrastructure and other relevant factors;
(i) use only indicated mineral resources, measured mineral resources, probable mineral reserves and proven mineral reserves when referring to mineral resources or mineral reserves in an economic analysis that is used in a preliminary feasibility study or a feasibility study of a mineral project;
(j) if inferred mineral resources are used in an economic analysis, state the required disclosure set out in subsection 2.3(3) of the Instrument;
(k) when the results of an economic analysis of mineral resources are reported, state “mineral resources that are not mineral reserves do not have demonstrated economic viability”;
(l) state the grade or quality, quantity and category of the mineral resources and mineral reserves if the quantity of contained metal or mineral is reported; and
(m) when the grade for a polymetallic mineral resource or mineral reserve is reported as metal equivalent, report the individual grade of each metal, and consider and report the recoveries, refinery costs and all other relevant conversion factors in addition to metal prices and the date and sources of such prices.
INSTRUCTION: A statement of quantity and grade or quality is an estimate and should be rounded to reflect the fact that it is an approximation.
Item 20: Other Relevant Data and Information - Include any additional information or explanation necessary to make the technical report understandable and not misleading.
Item 21: Interpretation and Conclusions - Summarize the results and interpretations of all field surveys, analytical and testing data and other relevant information. Discuss the adequacy of data density and the data reliability as well as any areas of uncertainty. A technical report concerning exploration information must include the conclusions of the qualified person. The qualified person must discuss whether the completed project met its original objectives.
Item 22: Recommendations - Provide particulars of the recommended work programs and a breakdown of costs for each phase. If successive phases of work are recommended, each phase must culminate in a decision point. The recommendations must not apply to more than two phases of work. The recommendations must state whether advancing to a subsequent phase is contingent on positive results in the previous phase.
Item 23: References - Include a detailed list of all references cited in the technical report.
Item 24: Date and Signature Page - The technical report must have a signature page at the end, signed in accordance with section 5.2 of the Instrument. The effective date of the technical report and date of signing must be on the signature page.
Item 25: Additional Requirements for Technical Reports on Development Properties and Production Properties
-Technical reports on development properties and production properties must include
(a) Mining Operations - information and assumptions concerning the mining method, metallurgical processes and production forecast;
(b) Recoverability - information concerning all test and operating results relating to the recoverability of the valuable component or commodity and amenability of the mineralization to the proposed processing methods;
(c) Markets - information concerning the markets for the issuer's production and the nature and material terms of any agency relationships;
(d) Contracts - a discussion of whether the terms of mining, concentrating, smelting, refining, transportation, handling, sales and hedging and forward sales contracts or arrangements, rates or charges are within industry norms;
(e) Environmental Considerations - a discussion of bond posting, remediation and reclamation;
(f) Taxes - a description of the nature and rates of taxes, royalties and other government levies or interests applicable to the mineral project or to production, and to revenues or income from the mineral project;
(g) Capital and Operating Cost Estimates - capital and operating cost estimates, with the major components being set out in tabular form;
(h) Economic Analysis - an economic analysis with cash flow forecasts on an annual basis using proven mineral reserves and probable mineral reserves only, and sensitivity analyses with variants in metal prices, grade, capital and operating costs;
(i) Payback - a discussion of the payback period of capital with imputed or actual interest; and
(j) Mine Life - a discussion of the expected mine life and exploration potential.
Not Applicable
Only if it's a Development or Production Property
http://www.cim.org/committees/NI_43-101_FormF1_Dec_30.pdf
FORM 43-101F1 - TECHNICAL REPORT Rules and Policies
Item 25: Additional Requirements for Technical Reports on Development Properties and Production Properties
-Technical reports on development properties and production properties must include
(a) Mining Operations - information and assumptions concerning the mining method, metallurgical processes and production forecast;
(b) Recoverability - information concerning all test and operating results relating to the recoverability of the valuable component or commodity and amenability of the mineralization to the proposed processing methods;
(c) Markets - information concerning the markets for the issuer's production and the nature and material terms of any agency relationships;
(d) Contracts - a discussion of whether the terms of mining, concentrating, smelting, refining, transportation, handling, sales and hedging and forward sales contracts or arrangements, rates or charges are within industry norms;
(e) Environmental Considerations - a discussion of bond posting, remediation and reclamation;
(f) Taxes - a description of the nature and rates of taxes, royalties and other government levies or interests applicable to the mineral project or to production, and to revenues or income from the mineral project;
(g) Capital and Operating Cost Estimates - capital and operating cost estimates, with the major components being set out in tabular form;
(h) Economic Analysis - an economic analysis with cash flow forecasts on an annual basis using proven mineral reserves and probable mineral reserves only, and sensitivity analyses with variants in metal prices, grade, capital and operating costs;
(i) Payback - a discussion of the payback period of capital with imputed or actual interest; and
(j) Mine Life - a discussion of the expected mine life and exploration potential.
Thanks nice link
Try this one - bs free
Level II Snapshot
NI43-101 Technical Report - New Millennium Property SEDAR LINKS
Toronto, Ontario: April 20, 2005. YSV Ventures Inc. (“YSV”) is pleased to announce that it has filed today
In January 2005 the Company submitted a technical report prepared in accordance with National
"Bye Bye Blackbird" program
USDA found to be poisoning bird populations, causing mass die-offs involving millions of birds
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
(NaturalNews) Not all the mysterious bird die-offs that have been witnessed around the globe recently are due to unexplained causes. A recent mass die-off event witnessed in Yankton, South Dakota was traced back to the USDA which admitted to carrying out a mass poisoning of the birds.
After hundreds of starlings were found dead in the Yankton Riverside Park, concerned citizens began to investigate. Before long, a USDA official called the local police and admitted they had poisoned the birds. "They say that they had poisoned the birds about ten miles south of Yankton and they were surprised they came to Yankton like they did and died in our park," says Yankton Animal Control Officer Lisa Brasel, as reported by KTIV.
The USDA then confirmed the story and explained it was all "part of a large killing" in Nebraska. Some of the birds that ate the poison apparently flew all the way to Yankton before succumbing to the poison.
Watch the video yourself, as reported from KTIV:
Rules and Policies - FORM 43-101F1 TECHNICAL REPORT
FORM 43-101F1 TECHNICAL REPORT
INSTRUCTIONS
(1) The objective of the technical report is to provide a summary of scientific and technical information concerning mineral exploration, development and production activities on a mineral property that is material to an issuer. This Form sets out specific requirements for the preparation and contents of a technical report.
(2) Terms used in this Form that are defined or interpreted in National Instrument 43-101 Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects (the “Instrument”) will bear that definition or interpretation. In addition, a general definition instrument has been adopted as National Instrument 14-101 Definitions that contains definitions of certain terms used in more than one national instrument. Readers of this Form should review both these national instruments for defined terms.
(3) The qualified person preparing the technical report must use all of the headings of the items in this Form and may create sub-headings. If unique or infrequently used technical terms are required, clear and concise explanations must be included.
(4) No disclosure need be given in respect of inapplicable items and, unless otherwise required by this Form, negative answers to items may be omitted. Disclosure included under one heading is not required to be repeated under another heading.
(5) The technical report is not required to include the information required in Items 6 through 11 of this Form to the extent that the required information has been previously filed in a technical report for the property being reported on, the previous technical report is referred to in the technical report and there has not been any material change in the information.
(6) The technical report for development properties and production properties may summarize the information required in the items of this Form, except for Item 25, provided that the summary includes the material information necessary to understand the project at its current stage of development or production.
(7) The technical report may only contain disclaimers that are in accordance with section 6.4 of the Instrument and Item 5 of this Form.
CONTENTS OF THE TECHNICAL REPORT
Item 1: Title Page
Item 2: Table of Contents
Item 3: Summary
Item 4: Introduction
Item 5: Reliance on Other Experts
Item 6: Property Description and Location
Item 7: Accessibility, Climate, Local Resources, Infrastructure and Physiography
Item 8: History
Item 9: Geological Setting
Item 10: Deposit Types
Item 11: Mineralization
Item 12: Exploration
Item 13: Drilling
Item 14: Sampling Method and Approach
Item 15: Sample Preparation, Analyses and Security
Item 16: Data Verification
Item 17: Adjacent Properties
Item 18: Mineral Processing and Metallurgical Testing
Item 19: Mineral Resource and Mineral Reserve Estimates
Item 20: Other Relevant Data and Information
Item 21: Interpretation and Conclusions
Item 22: Recommendations
Item 23: References
Item 24: Date and Signature Page
Item 25: Additional Requirements for Technical Reports on Development Properties and Production Properties
Item 26: Illustrations
http://www.cim.org/committees/NI_43-101_FormF1_Dec_30.pdf
NI43-101 Technical Report for claims 1166839 3004267 3017697
Technical report on the New Millennium Property
I posted the NI43-101 on Monday
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=58862687
It's been a while since I've looked at this stuff
But here are some of the reasons for the bi-monthly/daily discrepancy. They might be outdated though.
"Tape reports are submitted to FINRA for public dissemination by the appropriate exclusive Securities Information Processor (‘‘SIP’’), while non-tape reports are submitted to FINRA, but are not submitted to the SIP for public dissemination. FINRA will not be including non-tape reports in either the daily short sale volume file or the monthly short sale transaction file."
"Accordingly, in those instances where the short sale indicator is only included in the related non-tape report, the short sale data published in the daily and monthly files may be under-inclusive. Similarly, the published figures will not include odd lots since these transactions are not disseminated to the consolidated tape."
"Once the Daily Short Sale Volume File is made publicly available at the end of each trading day, FINRA notes that users of such data should not expect the daily and monthly data to reconcile because, among other things, monthly transaction data will include reporting through the end of FINRA transaction reporting hours that terminate as late as 8:00 p.m., while daily volume reports will only include volume reported during regular trading hours."
"FINRA will not incorporate trading information into the daily short sale volume file that has not been executed and reported within the trading day. While members generally are required to report trades in equity securities to FINRA within 90 seconds, a firm could improperly delay reporting of short sales until well after the close, which would result in the under-reporting of over-the-counter short sale volume."
http://www.sec.gov/rules/sro/finra/2009/34-60807.pdf
REPORT ON GEOLOGIC MAPPING AND DRILLING
AT THE ALCONA-SPLIT LAKE GOLD PROPERTY, SIOUX LOOKOUT AREA, NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO
September 20, 1991
William C. Hood, P.Eng.
Beausejour, Manitoba Consulting Geologist
CONCLUSIONS
Previous work on the Alcona-Split Lake property has shown the presence of high-grade gold values, often in excess of l oz gold/ton, within all of the known Alcona veins. Substantial silver, copper, lead and zinc values have also been returned, indicating the polymetallic nature of some of these veins. Several shoots of potentially economic mineralization have been outlined in surface sampling, especially in the No.l, No.2 and Central veins.
Hole SPL-91-5 cut a much different type of gold-bearing intersection at 96.2-98.5' where a narrow shear zone hosted vein with flakes of visible gold assayed 0.46 oz gold/ton across 2.3'. This mineralization is coarse-grained and clearly free-milling, unlike the galena-associated mineralization which has been previously known on the property.
It should be noted that in 1939. Alcona Mines drilled a narrow vein, returning 2.44 oz gold/ton over 1.0' near L1800W immediately south of the Central vein, almost 2000' southeast of hole SPL-91-5. While there is no clear evidence that these veins lie along the same structure, the possibility that the property may host narrow high-grade veins with significant strike length should not be discounted. Shearing in the Alcona area has been traced for over 3000' and it is not unreasonable to suggest that these structures maybe quartz veined and variably mineralized for much of that strike length. The production performance of the Golden Patricia mine, located about 80 miles (130 km) northeast of Sioux Lookout, clearly indicates that the economic potential of narrow high-grade veins cannot be disregarded.
The 1991 program of geologic mapping and diamond drilling has identified several features which are considered indicative of a promising geologic environment for economic mineralization. The Alcona-Split Lake property shows good potential for the discovery of economic mineralization. Further exploration is considered justified and is herein recommended.
http://www.geologyontario.mndm.gov.on.ca/mndmfiles/afri/data/imaging/52J04SE0003//52J04SE0003.Pdf
Why refer to the Drayton report?
Why the actual report was not linked, I will leave to anyone's speculation.
Ga. man awarded $404,000 for libelous Internet postings
By Rhonda Cook
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Metro Atlanta / State News
Thursday, January 20, 2011
In just a few days, Gene Cooley lost his fiancee, his job, his future in-laws and his home.
It started with the murder of Cooley's fiancee by the woman's ex-husband. While still reeling from that loss, he became a target of Internet postings from someone he barely knew. The anonymous poster went on a community website for Blairsville, where Cooley lived at the time, and accused him of being a pedophile with a criminal record and a drug addict. None of it was true.
A Union County jury last week said the damage those postings did to Cooley was worth $404,000, the largest award ever handed down in this North Georgia county. The case itself, in which the poster was identified through her computer's numeric IP address, is believed to be unique for Georgia as well as the rest of the nation.
"She absolutely ax-murdered this boy's life," said Russell Stookey, Cooley's lawyer.
Cooley barely knew his web attacker, a woman who worked at a Blairsville store where he sometimes shopped. Had it not been for the willingness by the website, Topix.com, to out Sybil Denise Ballew, her identity may never have been known.
Stookey took an infrequently used route to find Ballew's identity. He used a subpoena to get the IP address, which is something unique to every computer, behind the libelous postings on Topix.com. The website, which acts as a news aggregator for local communities, readily complied.
"She [the poster] might have said these things in the past, but you write it down and it can be traced back to your computer," said Topix.com CEO Chris Tolls. "People are going to find it's hard to have complete anonymity."
Cooley's saga began with the murder of his fiancee, Paulette Harper, at the hands of her ex-husband in September of 2008. A few days later, the postings on the Blairsville page of Topix.com started showing up.
The poster wrote Cooley was a "pervert" and drug addict with a lengthy criminal record, a man who had been in prison and rehab. Harper’s daughter, who was 9 at the time, must be protected from Cooley, the poster wrote.
“I didn’t really even know the woman. I knew her in passing,” Cooley, 44, told the AJC. “She worked at two places [where] I was a customer.”
Cooley had a criminal background check run on himself showing that he had no such past, but people didn’t seem to care. Eventually he had to leave Blairsville, where his mother, sister and two sons lived, to find another job. He now lives in Augusta and works as a hairdresser.
Ballew is the woman who wrote the posts under the pseudonyms Mouth, Calvin, Bugs, Yuck, Rebel and Slim. She admitted in court that she also had conversations with herself, posting her concerns on the site under one name and then agreeing with the posts under another persona.
When asked in court why she wrote those things about Cooley, Ballew answered, “I watched him and I can tell a pervert. Every time a pretty girl walked by, he would look at them. I get a feeling.”
Even after the jury of five men and a woman ruled in Cooley's favor, he knows he's unlikely to collect much of the $404,000. Stookey, the lawyer, says he is now researching Ballew's assets in hopes of getting some of the money for Cooley.
Ballew could not be reached for this story. Calls to phone numbers that public records have connected to her name were unsuccessful.
Ballew never hired a lawyer, according to records, even though Stookey and the judge in the case, Union County Superior Court Judge David Barrett, urged her several times to hire one.
“This young man was getting his life ruined because this woman didn’t like him. She went out of her way,” Stookey said.
It began Sept. 11, 2008, when Harper and her ex-husband were found shot to death in her home on Marie Way in Union County. Police ruled that Steven Harper had first shot his ex-wife, firing a gun under her chin, and then himself.
Days later, Cooley took Paulette Harper's body to South Florida so she could be buried near her parents’ home.
The first night he was there, Cooley said, Harper’s father asked him about a drug addiction.
“I’ve never had a drug addiction. I’ve never been in rehab,” Cooley said. “Then he was wanting a [criminal] background check. So I … got a background check and it came back with a clean bill of health.”
Cooley said he has never owned a computer, so he was unaware of the Topix site. Then his sister called with news of the postings, and only then did he know why Harper’s parents were asking such questions.
They asked him to leave their house and to come to the funeral only at the end of the service. They also wanted him to sit in the back of the church.
Cooley said he slept in his rental car for two nights before returning to Georgia.
Once home, the owner of the hair salon where Cooley worked fired him because “all this stuff had come into the salon. A woman that fit the description of Denise Ballew came in and said if ‘Gene Cooley’s here, I’ll never come back in here again.’ "
He got a similar reception around town.
"I wasn’t able to find anywhere to work in Blairsville,” he said. “What little shred of anything I had left she [Ballew] took.”
A Sept. 18, 2008, exchange on Topix.com started with “Calvin” asking if anyone knew Gene’s last name because he wanted to warn Harper’s family of his past.
“Keep that creep away from the children,” wrote “Mouth,” who was Ballew.
Ballew responds as “Calvin,” -- Thank you very much!!! I cant thank you enough. I will notify the family as soon as possible. If you know or have any more information, please let me know… Mouth -- If you don't mind me asking, how do you know all this about Gene???”
Moments later, “Yuck,” also Ballew, writes, “keep gene away from that little girl!! hes not even qualified to have the children hes got. yes, he is a boozer and a pot user, and a nutcase. he has gotten fired from every salon hes worked at...he is so gross!!”
Others tried to defend Cooley but then another Ballew persona, “Slim,” posted, “sometimes the truth hurts. … I am not one to sugar coat anything. If people get mad at me [for] what I think , then they certainly have that right. .. Everyone on this earth has a decision how they're going to live their life. If it 's not right then they will pay for what they done as we all will when we stand at judgement.”
And the posters who defended Cooley were insulted.
“you stupid a$$...you are a few bricks shy of load… GROW UP YOU LITTLE TWIT,” Mouth wrote.
Cooley said after last week's verdict, he got calls from others who feel they have been targeted. “She has trash-talked them,” he said.
Stookey, the lawyer, said he and the local district attorney and a legislator were drafting a bill to make this kind of libel a crime and not just a civil matter. In the meantime, he will look for others who anonymously post false allegations.
“We’ll find them, we’ll get them,” Stookey said. “Mean and dumb is a bad combination. I will catch them and I will put them into bankruptcy.”
http://www.ajc.com/news/ga-man-awarded-404-809868.html
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Mr. Pang has more than 30 years of experience in various business ventures including Real Estate Brokerage/Investment and business consultations to start up companies. He holds a B. Sc. degree from the University of Ottawa. Mr. Pang has served on the board of a number of resources companies as independent director in the private sector and on public sector companies listed on both Canadian and US exchanges.
In 1982, he started working in the Real Estate market and in July 1991 formed his own Real Estate Brokerage specializing in Commercial and Industrial real estate. He commenced his business consultation services for start-up companies in Canada in August, 1991 and joined Harbour Capital Management Group(1999) Inc. from September 1999 until December 2008 as Managing Director for the Far East Market. Mr. Pang?s duties included assisting clients to develop marketing plans, raising seed capital and restructuring companies to become public listed companies through the process of Reverse Take Over.
In September 2007, Mr. Pang acquired ownership of Sanford Exploration Inc. and restructured the company. The company acquired a computer green technology company and changed its name to Angstrom Microsystems Inc. He continues to serve on the management team as Chief Financial Officer and Director of the company. Mr. Pang served as the board member of public companies from July 2002 as independent director for Talware Networks Inc. until November 2007 and YSV Ventures Inc. from February 2003 until November 2007.
Since March 2008 Mr. Pang has served as a director of District Gold Inc., which has acquired a number of resource properties in gold and base metals in Canada and the US and is currently seeking a Canadian listing on CNSX. He is currently providing interim management to assist with the application.
TECHNICAL REPORT ON THE NEW MILLENNIUM PROPERTY ZARN LAKE AREA, PATRICIA MlNING DIVISION ONTARIO FOR YSV VENTURES INC.
DISTRICT Canada Inc
August 30, 2010
A CANADA FOCUSED RESOURSE DEVELOPMENT COMPANY
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http://districtgold.com/DistrictCanada.pdf
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Independent Technical Report prepared to NI43-101 standards
Technical report on the New Millennium Property
INTERPRETATIONS AND CONCLUSIONS
The systematic exploration work completed to date on the New Millennium Property has been confined to the Alcona Mine and the northwest extension.
The gold showings also occur in association with extensive alteration phenomena that may be associated with substantial gold deposits.
To date there are no known records of modern multidisciplinary exploration work outside of the mine area. Even the showings unearthed by prospector Joe Riives could be further opened up and more systematically sampled by channel rather than grab sampling.
It is therefore apparent that the New Millennium Project has significant untested exploration potential that may be readily evaluated by as yet untried modem methods. The favorable location of the property vis a vis accessibility and exploration expertise should allow such work to be completed inexpensively by Canadian standards.
MPH concludes that the New Millennium Property of the Company represents a good opportunity to explore for gold in an area containing several known showings. Two of the three main showings and the intervening areas between them have not been explored by state of the art methods. It is concluded that the application of such methods is fully warranted and justified.
Technical report on the New Millennium Property
Stripped Area 5-99
The exposed area is 60 meters long by 8 meters wide and bears N87 degrees E. It consists of discontinuous quartz carbonate veins in a narrow shear zone intersecting occasional zones of quartz feldspar porphvrv. A zone of a dark altered rock, possibly ultramafic, was exposed at the northwest end.
The best assay was from sample #21058:
Au- 178150 (5.19 oz./ton) and 167521 ppb (4.8 oz./ton)
Ag- >1000ppm
Cu- 3770 ppm
Mo- 778 ppm
Pb- >10000 ppm
Zn- 6837 ppm
Technical report on the New Millennium Property
December 9, 2004
This report is formally an Independent Technical Report prepared to Canadian National Instrument 43-101 standards.
INTERPRETATIONS AND CONCLUSIONS
The systematic exploration work completed to date on the New Millennium Property has been confined to the Alcona Mine and the northwest extension. Two other gold bearing zones some distance away from the mine area have been located and sampled. This sampling was not all carried out or confirmed by the author. Location maps and analytical certificates are available for most of these samples and the undersigned has visited and located many of the sample sites. Individual sites were not re-sampled by MPH so these specific samples results, although considered reasonable, are unconfirmed. The gold showings also occur in association with extensive alteration phenomena that may be associated with substantial gold deposits.
To date there are no known records of modern multidisciplinary exploration work outside of the mine area. Even the showings unearthed by prospector Joe Riives could be further opened up and more systematically sampled by channel rather than grab sampling. It is therefore apparent that the New Millennium Project has significant untested exploration potential that may be readily evaluated by as yet untried modem methods. The favorable location of the property vis a vis accessibility and exploration expertise should allow such work to be completed inexpensively by Canadian standards.
MPH concludes that the New Millennium Property of the Company represents a good opportunity to explore for gold in an area containing several known showings. Two of the three main showings and the intervening areas between them have not been explored by state of the art methods. It is concluded that the application of synch methods is fully warranted and justified.
Technical report on the New Millennium Property
Report on Sioux Lookout Area
GEOLOGIC MAPPING AND DRILLING AT THE ALCONA-SPLIT LAKE GOLD PROPERTY
New Millennium Property:
The gold showings on the New Millennium Property have been sampled by several unrelated parties including the prospectors, the Ministry of Mines and Northern Development, 1179785 Ontario Ltd. (the optionor of the property), and MPH Consulting. In all instances there is general agreement between the sample sets with individual samples being obtained by all the parties that are anomalous to highly anomalous in gold content.
The systematic exploration work completed to date on the New Millennium Property has been confined to the Alcona Mine and the northwest extension. Two other gold bearing zones some distance away from the mine area have been located and sampled with analyses indicating gold values ranging from trace to several ounces/ton. The gold showings also occur in association with extensive alteration phenomena that may be associated with substantial gold deposits.
Drilling and trenching/stripping activities have been undertaken in the Alcona Mine and northwestern extension by Alcona Mines Limited and by Cream Silver/ Valerie, and by early unknown prospectors and in 1999 to 2002 by Joe Riives in the “99” Trench and Trench Lake areas. 1179785 Ontario Ltd. completed four new trenches near the Alcona shaft in August 2003. The trenches were dug using a Kanats T-150 tracked excavator and the exposures were then washed with a Wajax portable fire pump. Trenching exposed a complex series of foliated volcanic rocks, quartz porphyry and numerous sulphide bearing quartz veins. Minor chalcopyrite, pyrite and galena was noted in the veins and to a lesser extent the adjacent wallrocks. Two trenches were dug on the Central Vein immediately southeast of the shaft, and two trenches exposed the Number 1 and Number 2 veins immediately northwest of the shaft. All trenches encountered mineralized veining and sheared mineralized host rocks with analytical results in the range of 0.015 g Au/t (trace oz Au/T) to 5.74 g/t (0.17 oz/T). A total of 23 samples including a combination of channel and grab samples of bedrock were taken during the program.
The 1999 and 2000 trenching by Joe Riives opened up historic trenches discovered in the course of prospecting the current claims. Approximately 200 grab samples have been taken by several parties from various parts of the property including the Alcona area with analytical results in the range of 0.003 g Au/t (trace oz Au/T) to 178.15 g/t (5.2 oz/T). No drilling has been completed in these areas.
The 2003 Alcona Trenches were mapped in detail and marked for sampling by John Wakeford, P.Geo, the geological consultant for the Optionor. Similarly there are no detailed maps of the 1988-1990 trenches in the same area. All of the marked sites were sampled using a portable masonry saw with diamond cutting blades. The sample records are kept in duplicate in a field notebook and a numbered sample book. Two numbered tags were then placed inside the sample bags. These were submitted to the Accurassay Laboratories in Thunder Bay, Ontario for gold and other analyses.
Sample preparation at the various laboratories was done according to standard industry practice by crushing, splitting and pulverizing the core or rock samples to obtain pulps for assay and/or geochemical analyses. Gold determinations were made for the most part using one assay ton portion fire assays with atomic absorption finish (“FA+AA”). A rigorous series of in-laboratory duplicate, reference and blank sample analyses were carried out. One MPH sample was tested for 34 elements by aqua-regia acid digestion and conventional ICP-AES analysis.
MPH is unable to comment on sample security other than for those samples collected by Mr. Coates in September 2002 in connection with the predecessor report. The 6 grab samples were taken by MPH from outcrop, and were continuously in the possession of Mr. Coates from collection in the field until delivery to the laboratory. MPH was given full and unrestricted access to the property, and project database.
To date there are no known records of modern multidisciplinary exploration work outside of the mine area. Even the showings unearthed by Joe Riives could be further opened up and more systematically sampled by channel rather than grab sampling. It is therefore apparent that the New Millennium Property has significant untested exploration potential that may be readily evaluated by as yet untried modern methods. The favourable location of the property vis-à-vis accessibility and exploration expertise should allow such work to be completed inexpensively by Canadian standards.
Thanks and there's more
Those maps are from this report
ASSESSMENT REPORT
http://www.mci.mndm.gov.on.ca/Claims/Cf_Claims/clm_cssm.CFM?Claim_View__Claim_Number=3004267
http://www.mci.mndm.gov.on.ca/Claims/Cf_Claims/clm_cssm.CFM?Claim_View__Claim_Number=1166839
http://www.mci.mndm.gov.on.ca/Claims/Cf_Claims/clm_cssm.CFM?Claim_View__Claim_Number=1166848
Geomagnetic Reversal
Satellites Spy Changes to Earth's Magnetic Field
April 11, 2002 - Though the process can take nearly 5,000 years, the earth's magnetic field periodically reverses. According to a report published today in Nature, scientists may have detected the beginning of the field's next such reversal.
Motion of the earth's liquid core, the so-called geodynamo, generates its magnetic field. Gauthier Hulot of the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris and his colleagues used satellite data recorded 20 years apart to track changes in this field. In two regions of the boundary between the earth's core and the overlying mantle, the researchers detected a reversed magnetic field. In a section lying beneath the southern tip of Africa, the magnetic field points toward the center of the earth opposite to the dominant outward-pointing field of the Southern Hemisphere. And a second congregation of reversed-flux patches exists near the North Pole. Having modeled the growth and movement of these inverted-flux sections, they can now account for nearly the entire decrease in the main dipole field of the earth over the past 150 years.
The new findings reveal variations in the earth's magnetic field over the shortest time scales yet but are far from straightforward. According to Peter Olson of Johns Hopkins University, the "results confirm some long-held tenets of dynamo theory but contradict others." He cautions in a commentary accompanying the report that it remains too early to tell if the planet is in the early stage of a polarity reversal. "But the rapidly evolving reversed-flux patches suggest that an attempt at reversal may be under way," he adds. Indeed, the study authors assert that if "this asymmetric state was reached often in the past, it might account for several persistent patterns observed in the palaeomagnetic field."
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=satellites-spy-changes-to
Headed South?
Earth's fading field could mean a magnetic flip soon
March 31, 2003 - Birds and compasses know north from south because, like a giant bar magnet, the earth's magnetic field has two poles that line up closely with the planet's axis of rotation. That's simple physics.
Less widely known is that this global dipole has been diminishing precipitously for the past 150 years and at this rate could disappear entirely sometime early in the next millennium. With the world's protective magnetic shield severely disabled, intensified doses of cosmic and solar particles could knock out satellites--the least of humanity's concerns under this deadly shower of radiation.
The good news is that any disappearance of the dipole will be temporary, the halfway point along a southward swing that would leave compass needles pointing toward Antarctica rather than the frozen North. Magnetic minerals trapped inside ancient rocks have recorded hundreds of these so-called polarity reversals in the past 500 million years. But no known pattern exists in the timing or duration of these events, making them impossible to predict.
Most geophysicists have long assumed that a 2,200-kilometer-thick layer of molten iron swirling deep inside the core creates the planets self-sustaining field. But until about six years ago, no one had written computer code sufficiently complex to simulate core motion and its magnetic effects. Now several programs can simulate not only motion but even polarity reversals, some of which require only 1,200 years--a wink of geologic time.
Other investigators have seen real-world hints of why the reversals might occur. Earlier this year Gauthier Hulot of the Paris Geophysical Institute and his colleagues used satellite measurements to track changes in the field’s behavior near the top of the core. Far below the southern tip of Africa they found a small region where the magnetic field lines point peculiarly toward the center of the earth instead of toward the surface, as do the dominant lines in that region. A clump of similar patches exists near the North Pole.
Hulots team argues that the growth of these reversed patches, presumably eddies that are working against the primary motion of the core, can explain the current decline in the dipole field. What is more, the rampant growth of such patches has caused full-blown reversals in some computer simulations.
As for what life would be like at a time of flip-flopping polarity, Paramount Pictures new geophysical thriller The Core suggests that birds will lose their way and that humans will live under frequent radiation alerts. In the movie, world governments unite to build a manned craft that can burrow through 2,900 kilometers of solid mantle rock and survive the cores scorching heat--comparable to that at the surface of the sun. The mission: to set off nuclear explosions that could revive the cores natural flow and fight the magnetic fields tendency to reverse.
With current technology falling far short of this Jules Verne-esque solution, scientists can offer other reassurances: The shrinking dipole doesn’t guarantee an imminent reversal. Only a random few of the fields myriad natural fluctuations actually mushroom into an all-out switch. Recent computer simulations also indicate that the planets peripheral magnetic fields, which constitute only 10 percent of the total, may get stronger as the dominant dipole field weakens.
Most comforting of all may be that no major species extinctions correlate with past polarity reversals. As geophysicist Joseph L. Kirschvink of the California Institute of Technology says, "If there is a biological effect, were evolved for it."
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=headed-south-2003-03-31
Movement of North Magnetic Pole is accelerating
December 9, 2005 - After some 400 years of relative stability, Earth's North Magnetic Pole has moved nearly 1,100 kilometers out into the Arctic Ocean during the last century and at its present rate could move from northern Canada to Siberia within the next half-century. If that happens, Alaska may be in danger of losing one of its most stunning natural phenomena – the Northern Lights.
But the surprisingly rapid movement of the magnetic pole doesn't necessarily mean that our planet is going through a large-scale change that would result in the reversal of the Earth's magnetic field, Oregon State University paleomagnetist Joseph Stoner reported today at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, Calif.
"This may be part of a normal oscillation and it will eventually migrate back toward Canada," said Stoner, an assistant professor in OSU's College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences. "There is a lot of variability in its movement."
Calculations of the North Magnetic Pole's location from historical records goes back only about 400 years, while polar observations trace back to John Ross in 1838 at the west coast of Boothia Peninsula. To track its history beyond that, scientists have to dig into the Earth to look for clues.
Stoner and his colleagues have examined the sediment record from several Arctic lakes. These sediments – magnetic particles called magnetite – record the Earth's magnetic field at the time they were deposited. Using carbon dating and other technologies – including layer counting – the scientists can determine approximately when the sediments were deposited and track changes in the magnetic field.
The Earth last went through a magnetic reversal some 780,000 years ago. These episodic reversals, in which south becomes north and vice versa, take thousands of years and are the result of complex changes in the Earth's outer core. Liquid iron within the core generates the magnetic field that blankets the planet. Because of that field, a compass reading of north in Oregon will be approximately 17 degrees east from "true geographic north." In Florida, farther away and more in line with the poles, the declination is only 4-5 degrees west.
The Northern Lights, which are triggered by the sun and fixed in position by the magnetic field, drift with the movement of the North Magnetic Pole and may soon be visible in more southerly parts of Siberia and Europe – and less so in northern Canada and Alaska.
In their research, funded by the National Science Foundation, Stoner and his colleagues took core samples from several lakes, but focused on Sawtooth Lake and Murray Lake on Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic. These lakes, about 40 to 80 meters deep, are covered by 2-3 meters of ice. The researchers drill through the ice, extend their corer down through the water, and retrieve sediment cores about five meters deep from the bottom of the lakes. The 5-meter core samples provide sediments deposited up to about 5,000 years ago. Below that is bedrock, scoured clean by ice about 7,000 to 8,000 years ago.
"The conditions there give us nice age control," Stoner said. "One of the problems with tracking the movement of the North Magnetic Pole has been tying the changes in the magnetic field to time. There just hasn't been very good time constraint. But these sediments provide a reliable and reasonably tight timeline, having consistently been laid down at the rate of about one millimeter a year in annual layers.
"We're trying to get the chronology down to a decadal scale or better." What their research has told Stoner and his colleagues is that the North Magnetic Pole has moved all over the place over the last few thousand years. In general, it moves back and forth between northern Canada and Siberia. But it also can veer sideways.
"There is a lot of variability in the polar motion," Stoner pointed out, "but it isn't something that occurs often. There appears to be a 'jerk' of the magnetic field that takes place every 500 years or so. The bottom line is that geomagnetic changes can be a lot more abrupt than we ever thought."
Shifts in the North Magnetic Pole are of interest beyond the scientific community. Radiation influx is associated with the magnetic field, and charged particles streaming down through the atmosphere can affect airplane flights and telecommunications.
http://www.physorg.com/news8917.html
Earth's Core, Magnetic Field Changing Fast, Study Says
June 30, 2008 - Rapid changes in the churning movement of Earth's liquid outer core are weakening the magnetic field in some regions of the planet's surface, a new study says.
"What is so surprising is that rapid, almost sudden, changes take place in the Earth's magnetic field," said study co-author Nils Olsen, a geophysicist at the Danish National Space Center in Copenhagen.
The findings suggest similarly quick changes are simultaneously occurring in the liquid metal, 1,900 miles (3,000 kilometers) below the surface, he said.
The swirling flow of molten iron and nickel around Earth's solid center triggers an electrical current, which generates the planet's magnetic field.
The study, published recently in Nature Geoscience, modeled Earth's magnetic field using nine years of highly accurate satellite data.
Flip-Flop
Fluctuations in the magnetic field have occurred in several far-flung regions of Earth, the researchers found.
In 2003 scientists found pronounced changes in the magnetic field in the Australasian region. In 2004, however, the changes were focused on Southern Africa.
The changes "may suggest the possibility of an upcoming reversal of the geomagnetic field," said study co-author Mioara Mandea, a scientist at the German Research Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam.
Earth's magnetic field has reversed hundreds of times over the past billion years, and the process could take thousands of years to complete.
Upper Atmosphere Radiation
The decline in the magnetic field also is opening Earth's upper atmosphere to intense charged particle radiation, scientists say.
Satellite data show the geomagnetic field decreasing in the South Atlantic region, Mandea said, adding that an oval-shaped area east of Brazil is significantly weaker than similar latitudes in other parts of the world.
"It is in this region that the shielding effect of the magnetic field is severely reduced, thus allowing high energy particles of the hard radiation belt to penetrate deep into the upper atmosphere to altitudes below a hundred kilometers (62 miles)," Mandea said.
This radiation does not influence temperatures on Earth. The particles, however, do affect technical and radio equipment and can damage electronic equipment on satellites and airplanes, Olsen of the Danish space center said.
Keep Watching
The study documents just how rapidly the flow in Earth's core is changing, said Peter Olson, a geophysics professor at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, who was not involved with the research.
By using satellite imagery, researchers have a nearly continuous measurement of changes, he said.
"They provide a good rationale to continue this monitoring longer," Olson said.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/06/080630-earth-core_2.html
North Magnetic Pole Moving Due to Core Flux
December 24, 2009 - Earth's north magnetic pole is racing toward Russia at almost 40 miles (64 kilometers) a year due to magnetic changes in the planet's core, new research says.
The core is too deep for scientists to directly detect its magnetic field. But researchers can infer the field's movements by tracking how Earth's magnetic field has been changing at the surface and in space.
Now, newly analyzed data suggest that there's a region of rapidly changing magnetism on the core's surface, possibly being created by a mysterious "plume" of magnetism arising from deeper in the core.
And it's this region that could be pulling the magnetic pole away from its long-time location in northern Canada, said Arnaud Chulliat, a geophysicist at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris in France.
Finding North
Magnetic north, which is the place where compass needles actually point, is near but not exactly in the same place as the geographic North Pole. Right now, magnetic north is close to Canada's Ellesmere Island.
Navigators have used magnetic north for centuries to orient themselves when they're far from recognizable landmarks.
Although global positioning systems have largely replaced such traditional techniques, many people still find compasses useful for getting around underwater and underground where GPS satellites can't communicate.
The magnetic north pole had moved little from the time scientists first located it in 1831. Then in 1904, the pole began shifting northeastward at a steady pace of about 9 miles (15 kilometers) a year.
In 1989 it sped up again, and in 2007 scientists confirmed that the pole is now galloping toward Siberia at 34 to 37 miles (55 to 60 kilometers) a year.
A rapidly shifting magnetic pole means that magnetic-field maps need to be updated more often to allow compass users to make the crucial adjustment from magnetic north to true North.
Wandering Pole
Geologists think Earth has a magnetic field because the core is made up of a solid iron center surrounded by rapidly spinning liquid metal. This creates a "dynamo" that drives our magnetic field.
Scientists had long suspected that, since the molten core is constantly moving, changes in its magnetism might be affecting the surface location of magnetic north.
Although the new research seems to back up this idea, Chulliat is not ready to say whether magnetic north will eventually cross into Russia.
"It's too difficult to forecast," Chulliat said.
Also, nobody knows when another change in the core might pop up elsewhere, sending magnetic north wandering in a new direction.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/12/091224-north-pole-magnetic-russia-earth-core.html
Evidence of second fast north-south pole flip found
September 6, 2010 - The Earth's magnetic poles flip around every 200,000 years or so, with north becoming south and vice versa. Normally, the process takes 4-5,000 years and it ought to be impossible for the flip to be much faster, if models of the Earth's core are correct, but now for the second time evidence has been found of a flip that appears to have taken only a few years.
The first time evidence was discovered of a rapid geomagnetic field reversal was in 1995 when well-preserved lava flows were found at Steens Mountain in Oregon in the US. Research on the rocks by a team led by geologist Scott Bogue of the Occidental College in Los Angeles revealed the lava flow had an unusual magnetic pattern that suggested the magnetic field had been shifting over 10,000 times faster than normal, at six degrees a day. The magnetic patterns are preserved within the magnetic crystals in the lava, formed as the lava flow cooled.
The first findings remained controversial and many scientists have challenged the fast flip-flop theory, but now Bogue and colleague Jonathan Glen of the US Geological Survey have found evidence in ancient lava rock in Battle Mountain, Nevada of a second fast flip, dated around 15 million years ago.
The record in one particular lava flow in Nevada suggests the magnetic field moved by 53 degrees in a single year. The lava started to cool, but was then heated again within a year as it was buried under fresh lava. The crystals in the rock were re-magnetized by the fresh lava, producing a shift of 53 degrees. This finding could mean the poles swapped over a period of only four years, but Brogue said it could also suggest there was a rapid acceleration period within the steady movement of the field.
According to some geologists a polarity reversal is overdue, since the Earth’s magnetic field has been weakening for the last century, and the last stable reversal was about 780,000 years ago. Even if it was a super-fast flip-flop, however, it would not be noticeable to most people. No one is certain why such reversals take place, although many scientists believe they are connected in some way with the convective movements of the liquid iron in the Earth’s outer core.
http://www.physorg.com/news202971192.html
Tampa airport runways renumbered due to magnetic north movement
January 10, 2011 - The magnetic north pole is slowly moving, and the shift is affecting runways at airports in Tampa, Florida, with the major runway at Tampa International Airport closed until January 13th to allow for the signage to be changed and numeric designators at each end of the runway to be repainted.
The primary runway at the airport is designated 18R/36L, which means the runway is aligned along 180 degrees from north (that is, due south) when approached from the north and 360 degrees from north when approached from the south. Now the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has requested the designation be changed to 19R/1L to account for the movement of the magnetic north pole. Similar changes are also taking place at the Peter O. Knight airport in Tampa. Later in the month Tampa International Airport’s east parallel and east-west runways will also be closed to allow their signage to be changed. Over 100 sign panels and 40 signs will need to be changed, along with painted signs on the runways.
The magnetic north pole is always slowly moving and is currently heading towards Russia from its current position in far northern Canada. The magnetic north pole moves by around 64 km (40 miles) a year because of changes within the Earth’s core (unlike the true north pole which moves very slowly due to tectonic plate movements). It has moved from extremes of around 10 degrees east in the late 16th century to 25 degrees west early in the 19th century, and is now at around 3 degrees west. The north and south magnetic poles can also switch places, and this last happened about 780,000 years ago.
According to FAA spokesman Paul Takemoto changes at other airports may not be required because magnetic fields vary from place to place. Takemoto said re-designation is rarely required. Such changes are not that unusual, however, with Stansted Airport in London having to do the same thing in 2009, redesignating its 3,000 meter runway 23/05 as 22/04. Stansted airport officials said they would have to renumber the runway again — in another 56 years or so.
Kathleen Bergen, also from the FAA, said runway designations were based on geomagnetic information, and that aviation uses information on latitude, longitude, and the magnetic poles. She said that the magnetic poles are constantly changing, and movements of more than three degrees can affect runway designations and numbering. In far northern areas, where the relative difference in location between true north and magnetic north has a greater effect, aviators tend to use true north as their reference instead of magnetic north.
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-01-tampa-airport-runways-renumbered-due.html
Earth's magnetic pole shift unleashing poisonous space clouds linked to mysterious bird deaths
January 13, 2011 - Following the unexplained deaths of several thousand birds over the last two weeks, events are now emerging that may offer a physics-based explanation for the mysterious deaths. It all begins on a runway in Tampa, where airport officials recently closed that runway in order to change the numeric designators painted there. Why are those numeric designators being changed? Because the Earth's magnetic poles are shifting and the numbers previously painted on the runway no longer match up with the magnetic measurements of sensitive airplane instruments.
As Physorg.com explains:
The primary runway at the airport is designated 18R/36L, which means the runway is aligned along 180 degrees from north (that is, due south) when approached from the north and 360 degrees from north when approached from the south. Now the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has requested the designation be changed to 19R/1L to account for the movement of the magnetic north pole.
This brings us to our first physics fact of this article:
Physics Fact #1: The Earth's magnetic poles are shifting. (And not just a little bit, but enough to affect airport runways on the scale of human observation.)
The role of Earth's magnetic field
The Earth's magnetic field is extremely important for protecting the planet from so-called "solar wind" and other electromagnetic influences from space. The magnetosphere, which is driven by the Earth's magnetic field, serves as a kind of electromagnetic barrier to prevent dangerous rays from reaching the surface of the planet.
Physics Fact #2: The Earth's magnetic field has flipped hundreds of times in the past.
The Earth's magnetic field "flips" (or reverses polarity) every few thousand years. This is called a geomagnetic reversal. In between these flips, the magnetic field can become quite weak and chaotic, causing "turbulence" in the field, which can effectively cause weaker gaps in the magnetosphere.
These magnetic gaps or weaknesses can allow outside influences that normally would not penetrate the magnetosphere to reach deep into that magnetosphere, theoretically all the way down to where birds fly at very low altitude.
Last week, a report from the Russia's Ministry for Extraordinary Situations (MCHS) warned that the weakening Earth magnetosphere was allowing "poisonous space clouds" to enter deep into Earth's atmosphere where it is coming into contact with birds.
These "space clouds" are called Noctilucent clouds which exist at very high altitudes (roughly 50 miles) and accumulate space dust from micrometeors and other sources.
What's really interesting here is that these Noctilucent clouds exhibit very high radar reflectivity. This means these clouds create a very large radar signature on weather tracking systems.
Physics fact #3: Noctilucent clouds have very high radar reflectivity.
Weather radar tracks phenomenon during bird kill
Now here's where this story gets really interesting: On New Year's Even when birds began falling out of the sky in Arkansas, the National Weather Service in North Little Rock documented an unusual phenomenon on their radar monitors.
"There are some indications that we're picking up a non-precipitation target," said Science and Operations Officer Chris Buonanno at the NWS. He went on to explain that the radar signature definitely was not indicative of a cloud or rainstorm. It was something altogether different.
At or around the same time this radar image appeared, birds began falling out of the sky.
Over the last several weeks, hundreds of thousands of birds and fish have been found dead across the globe. This same data is also reflected in an image compiled by Matt from www.GoAskMatt.com who gave us permission to post this image:
http://www.naturalnews.com/gallery/articles/BirdFishDeaths.jpg
A theory of what might be happening
The working theory in all this, at least for the birds, is that deadly space clouds are reaching into the lower atmosphere and killing these birds in flight, after which the birds fall to the ground. The reports of the birds experiencing "blunt trauma" are likely from the birds hitting the ground.
What, exactly, would be found in these deadly space clouds that might be killing the birds? One possibility is that these clouds might be moving along with gaps in the magnetosphere that would invite deadly radiation to "fry" the birds in flight, as one possibility (although this explanation seems unlikely, see below). I'm not aware whether tissues tests have been done on these birds to determine whether they died of intense radiation poisoning. It would also seem that if radiation reached so low into our atmosphere, it would have killed many plants and trees in the area, and there's no evidence of that occurring, at least not that I'm aware of.
Another possibility is that the deadly space clouds could have frozen the birds in flight with blasts of extremely cold air. But such an event also would have seemingly impacted the trees and plants at ground level, and there's no evidence of that occurring either.
The most likely explanation is that the birds were killed in-flight by changes in the composition of the air they were breathing. And as it turns out, Noctilucent clouds are largely made of a poisonous gas known as Hydrogen Cyanide. For all you chemists reading this, as the EUtimes.net website explains:
Hydrogen Cyanide is also formed in interstellar clouds through one of two major pathways: via a neutral-neutral reaction (CH2 + N -> HCN + H) and via dissociative recombination (HCNH+ + e- -> HCN + H). The dissociative recombination pathway is dominant by 30%; however, the HCNH+ must be in its linear form. Dissociative recombination with its structural isomer, H2NC+ produces hydrogen isocyanide (HNC), exclusively.
Could humans be next?
The really concerning part about all this is the sudden realization that if these poisoning clouds of Hydrogen Cyanide could reach into our lower atmosphere, they could also theoretically reach ground level. That's where humans live, of course, and if such a poisonous cloud reached down into a major city such as New York, it would cause the mass instantaneous death of potentially millions of people.
Nobody is prepared to survive a sudden cloud of Hydrogen Cyanide -- not even the preppers. I own stored food and some emergency gear, but even I probably wouldn't survive a sudden Hydrogen Cyanide gas attack from outer space. Notably, Hydrogen Cyanide has been used as both a rodent killer and as a chemical precursor in the manufacture of pharmaceuticals (gee, why doesn't that surprise me?)
As Wikipedia explains, Hydrogen cyanide is extremely deadly:
A hydrogen cyanide concentration of 300 mg/m3 in air will kill a human within about 10 minutes. It is estimated that hydrogen cyanide at a concentration of 3500 ppm (about 3200 mg/m3) will kill a human in about 1 minute. The toxicity is caused by the cyanide ion, which halts cellular respiration by inhibiting an enzyme in mitochondria called cytochrome c oxidase.
Interestingly, a key chemical use of Hydrogen cyanide was developed by none other than IG Farben, the Nazi war era criminal pharmaceutical giant that was later broken up to become today's pharmaceutical giants, including Bayer.
Hydrogen cyanide is widely recognized as a chemical weapon and is even used on the tips of whaling harpoons to murder whales.
Physics fact #4: Hydrogen cyanide kills birds and humans very quickly.
Is this the result of a weapons test or attack?
That it is used as a chemical weapon might make some people wonder whether all this is fallout from some kind of weather control weapons experiment. It's not a crazy idea: Scientists in Abu Dhabi have experienced tremendous success bringing rain to that city through the use of weather control systems engineered in Europe (I'll be posting a full story on this shortly).
In the United States, meanwhile, the HAARP experimental program projects high-energy beams directly into the ionosphere.
Although we have no direct evidence of this, it is conceivable that HAARP technology could be altering the magnetosphere in ways that are contributing to the invasion of our lower atmosphere with these Noctilucent clouds compose of Hydrogen cyanide. This is just a wild guess at this point, however. We don't have any evidence that this is really happening.
But if it were, that would be a very clever weapon, indeed: Aim your weapons at the atmosphere above an enemy city, fire it up and wait for Hydrogen cyanide gas to kill off everybody in a minute or two. Then you turn off your beam weapon and play it all off as some sort of "freak natural disaster" or unexplained atmospheric mystery.
There is speculation, of course, that these bird deaths occurring in North America right now are really a test of precisely the weapon system I've described above. But this is just speculation, of course. We don't have any hard evidence that such a system is being used, nor even that it is possible.
The official HAARP website describes itself as a "facility for the study of ionospheric physics and radio science." It then displays a diagram showing HAARP waves bouncing off the ionosphere, beaming through "irregularities" and finally reaching a satellite in high orbit. These satellites are typically placed in geosynchronous orbits at roughly 26,000 miles above the Earth -- far higher than the 50 miles or so at which the Noctilucent clouds are located.
The HAARP home page, by the way, also contains a "security message" with the following warning:
This is a U.S. Government Computer System. This computer system operates as a world wide web server to provide information to the public concerning unclassified programs only. ...Unauthorized attempts to upload or change information; to defeat or circumvent security features; or to utilize this system for other than its intended purposes are prohibited and may result in prosecution under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 or other applicable statutes and regulations.
When Governor Jesse Ventura tried to ask questions about HAARP, he was met with extreme resistance and stonewalling by government officials.
Does this mean HAARP is a weapon being used to cause poisonous space clouds to enter the lower atmosphere and kill the birds? Not at all. That would be a leap at this point until we know more. But we do know that HAARP isn't talking about what it does, and that it is more than just a "radio science experiment."
We also know that weird things are happening to our planet's magnetic poles and weather systems. We know that birds are literally falling out of the sky dead. These facts are not to be taken lightly. They might be caused by "natural" events, or conceivably they could be influenced by man-made events.
In either case, something that could very easily threaten life on our planet may be afoot, and there's no logical reason to conclude it will be limited to birds and fish.
I've seen reports of some doctors chiming in on all this and blowing it off as "normal" deaths of birds and fish. Conventional doctors, of course, are the world's most experienced experts at missing the big picture, and they seem to haphazardly discount the most important fact about all this: Sure, birds and fish die every day. But not en masse.
They don't usually fall out of the sky by the thousands, in other words. These are obviously not normal events where birds are dying of normal causes. That much is obvious to everyone... except the doctors, it seems.
In conclusion, I can't explain these mysterious deaths with any high degree of confidence at this point. But I do know that thousands of birds don't fall out of the sky for no reason. There is an underlying cause that seems extremely important for us to observe, document and understand. There are many possible explanations that merit attention: Some of them might be attributable to natural phenomena, but others may be far more insidious.
It is important for the future of life on Earth that we solve this mystery sooner rather than later. Because if we don't understand this, we may sooner or later become victims of it.
http://www.naturalnews.com/030996_bird_deaths_pole_shift
Mass Animal Deaths Google Map
Actually it's boosting growth with CO2
There are several conditions that must be met for the plants to be able to use the increased CO2 levels properly. The most important is lighting. Light levels must be very high (more than 20 watts per square foot) or there will be little or no increase in plant growth rates. The plants will like slightly higher temperatures than normal (approx. 3 - 5 degrees higher). The plants will also metabolize water and nutrients faster, so reservoirs may need a little more attention.
Plants can absorb and process very large amounts of CO2. There is usually about 300 to 600 p.p.m. (parts per million) of CO2 in the atmosphere. Most plants can use 1500 p.p.m. in optimum growing conditions. When using elevated levels of CO2 the growth rate can be increased by as much as 100% to 200%. Most studies report increases in the 40% to 50% range.
There are several ways to get extra CO2, the two most common are using bottled CO2 and using CO2 generators. These are the automated ways to add CO2 to the growing environment. Getting precise control of the CO2 levels in your growing environment can be rather expensive, CO2 monitors are the best method, these monitors keep a constant reading of the C levels and automatically adds gas when needed. These monitors are fairly expensive so most people opt for a more inexpensive method (like timers).
http://www.simplyhydro.com/using_co2.htm
http://www.gchydro.com/C.A.P.+Electronic+Ignition+CO2+Generators.html
Thanks for the link
That didn't take long...nice
Listing of U.S. Industries
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As a service to our employees, FDA has developed this edition of the Listing of U.S. Industries, a listing of all U.S. Companies publicly traded on stock exchanges within the United States.
The listing is broken down into two categories:
Acceptable
Significantly Regulated
Employees are reminded that criminal statute, Title 18 U.S.C. 208(a), prohibits all Federal employees from participating personally and substantially in an official capacity in any particular matter in which, to his knowledge, he or any person whose interests are imputed to him (spouse, minor children, etc.) has a financial interest, if the particular matter will have a direct and predictable effect on that interest.
Therefore, regardless of a company's rating, it may be a prohibited holding for an employee based on the nature of the employee's official duties. If this is the case, it is important for the employee to recuse him/herself from matters affecting the financial interest in question, and to seek guidance from the Ethics and Integrity Staff.
http://www.fda.gov/AboutFDA/WorkingatFDA/Ethics/ucm079482.htm
This is the only one I've seen with five digits
http://www.bloomberg.com/flashsrv/chart.swf?ticker=WLSI%3AUS