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I've never been a great fan of bundt cakes and have never owned a bundt pan nor baked a bundt cake.
Yet, in a bizarre twist of fate, today I baked an apple kuchen in a springform pan. This is the first time I've ever used a springform pan. I am currently on a mission to reproduce the apple kuchen that my Aunt Martha used to bake many years ago. I was probably about 8 or 10 years old and my parents would visit my aunt and uncle and she'd serve this cake that I absolutely loved. It's easily been over 40 years since I last had one of those cakes but I can still taste it in my mind. Sigh...
She probably baked a great bundt cake too but I don't give a hoot.
lol
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I think it just reaches the point where they're afraid you might start crying. Then they give in if they're a guy ('cause ya can't make a poor helpless girl cry!) or even if they're a female ('cause their boss or their boss's boss is a guy and when he finds out they made a poor helpless girl customer cry he'll have a fit!).
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Ya know, anybody who can get investors to buy shares of a deep-sea salvage company that hasn't found squat---and that's based in the Utah desert!---ought to be able to get investors to buy stock in a copper mine that's actually producing and selling product.
I'm just saying...
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Great....so my comment the other day about the billboards coming back may not be too far from the truth, eh?
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I don't mind the return of O'Hurley. I just hope the billboards don't come back!
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Ya see, that's the benefit of being a girl. If I called about a problem when I was 20 days out of warranty they would have said, "Bwahahahahahhahahahahaha!!!!!!!.....Time to buy a new phone, Sucker!......Bwahahahahahahahaha......<click>".
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Sounds to me like you were just holding the phone the wrong way around and trying to listen at the microphone end.
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I doubt that....
Prove it! I want to see evidence!
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I'm pretty sure (can't find any dated links at the moment) that the Stock Guru article was a cut-and-paste of information that goes back before the merger with Western Utah Copper Company.
In other words, they achieved "...the long-term goal is to sell the project to a major mining operation for shares in their company." by merging with WUCC.
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For the old IBC listeners...
I just learned that Lou Gentile died of cancer on June 28, 2009.
He was only 40.
RIP, Lou.
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Lawn tumbleweeds?
Are you trying to trick me? There AREN'T any lawns in Austin 'cause it's a desert!
Bwahahahahaha!
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Howdy!
Wow! Sure is nice to have a special board for us Austinites!
Oh well, it looks to be another hot one today so I'm fixin' to mosey on over to the Hula Hut for two or three or a dozen of them thar cool 'n tasty mango margaritas.
Yeehaw!
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Not to be picky, but the iBox shows the A/S as being 3,900,000,000 whereas the Nevada Sec of State website shows it as 3,950,000,000.
https://esos.state.nv.us/SOSServices/AnonymousAccess/CorpSearch/corpActions.aspx?lx8nvq=E%252fmUu71R1FPEFvSfYwKQZg%253d%253d&CorpName=COPPER+KING+MINING+CORPORATION
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Well, CPRK may get a discount on imported eggrolls for the buffet table at the company Christmas party.
Other than that, I would suspect a newly appointed US ambassador would actually try to avoid showing any favoritism toward a particular company, county or state (especially his own!). Of course, I suppose he could help the copper trade with China in a way that benefits the industry as a whole, but more likely he'll concern himself with issues like civil rights and tainted dog food. IMO
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Hey, those stock certificates may shortly have a lot of value as collectibles. LOL
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According to that article it was something short of a miracle that that poor woman survived being shot in the head.
However, I didn't see any mention of her hair color. If she was a blonde then the odds of a single bullet passing through the head and actually hitting anything vital is extremely low.
Sometimes news reporters leave out facts to make the story more dramatic.
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Awwwwwww....he still cares about me.
Speaking of D, I think it's cool that the assistant mod on this board is someone who's been booted off iHub for months.
Hahahahahahaha!
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Of course I'm not a bully, you know that. I'm a nut who enjoys the company of wackos and cultists (and other nuts, too).
It's those normal people I'm trying to avoid....
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Can normal people post on this board or is it just for wackos, nuts and cultists?
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A 'Copper Standard' for the world's currency system?
Hard money enthusiasts have long watched for signs that China is switching its foreign reserves from US Treasury bonds into gold bullion. They may have been eyeing the wrong metal.
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Last Updated: 12:33PM BST 16 Apr 2009
China's State Reserves Bureau (SRB) has instead been buying copper and other industrial metals over recent months on a scale that appears to go beyond the usual rebuilding of stocks for commercial reasons.
Nobu Su, head of Taiwan's TMT group, which ships commodities to China, said Beijing is trying to extricate itself from dollar dependency as fast as it can.
"China has woken up. The West is a black hole with all this money being printed. The Chinese are buying raw materials because it is a much better way to use their $1.9 trillion of reserves. They get ten times the impact, and can cover their infrastructure for 50 years."
"The next industrial revolution is going to be led by hybrid cars, and that needs copper. You can see the subtle way that China is moving into 30 or 40 countries with resources," he said.
The SRB has also been accumulating aluminium, zinc, nickel, and rarer metals such as titanium, indium (thin-film technology), rhodium (catalytic converters) and praseodymium (glass).
While it makes sense for China to take advantage of last year's commodity crash to restock cheaply, there is clearly more behind the move. "They are definitely buying metals to diversify out of US Treasuries and dollar holdings," said Jim Lennon, head of commodities at Macquarie Bank.
John Reade, metals chief at UBS, said Beijing may have a made strategic decision to stockpile metal as an alternative to foreign bonds. "We're very surprised by Chinese demand. They are buying much more copper than they will need this year. If this is strategic, there may be no effective limit on the purchases as China's pockets are deep."
Zhou Xiaochuan, the central bank governor, piqued the interest of metal buffs last month by calling for a world currency modelled on the "Bancor", floated by John Maynard Keynes at Bretton Woods in 1944.
The Bancor was to be anchored on 30 commodities - a broader base than the Gold Standard, which had caused so much grief in the 1930s. Mr Zhou said such a currency would prevent the sort of "credit-based" excess that has brought the global finance to its knees.
If his thoughts reflect Communist Party thinking, it would explain the bizarre moves in commodity markets over recent weeks. Copper prices have surged 49pc this year to $4,925 a tonne despite estimates by the CRU copper group that world demand will fall 15pc to 20pc this year as construction wilts.
Analysts say "short covering" by funds betting on price falls has played a role. But the jump is largely due to Chinese imports, which reached a record 329,000 tonnes in February, and a further 375,000 tonnes in March. Chinese industrial demand cannot explain this. China has been badly hit by global recession. Its exports - almost half GDP - fell 17pc in March.
While Beijing's fiscal stimulus package and credit expansion has helped lift demand, China faces a property downturn of its own. One government adviser warned this week that house prices could fall 50pc.
One thing is clear: Beijing suspects that the US Federal Reserve is engineering a covert default on America's debt by printing money. Premier Wen Jiabao issued a blunt warning last month that China was tiring of US bonds. "We have lent a huge amount of money to the US, so of course we are concerned about the safety of our assets," he said.
This is slightly disingenuous. China has the world's largest reserves - $1.95 trillion, mostly in dollars - because it has been holding down the yuan to boost exports. This mercantilist strategy has reached its limits.
The beauty of recycling China's surplus into metals instead of US bonds is that it kills so many birds with one stone: it stops the yuan rising, without provoking complaints of currency manipulation by Washington; metals are easily stored in warehouses, unlike oil; the holdings are likely to rise in value over time since the earth's crust is gradually depleting its accessible ores. Above all, such a policy safeguards China's industrial revolution, while the West may one day face a supply crisis.
Beijing may yet buy gold as well, although it has not done so yet. The gold share of reserves has fallen to 1pc, far below the historic norm in Asia. But if a metal-based currency ever emerges to end the reign of fiat paper, it is just as likely to be a "Copper Standard" as a "Gold Standard".
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/5160120/A-Copper-Standard-for-the-worlds-currency-system.html
Just noticed that CPRK raised the A/S by 500 million to 3.5 billion.
https://esos.state.nv.us/SOSServices/AnonymousAccess/CorpSearch/corpActions.aspx?lx8nvq=E%252fmUu71R1FPEFvSfYwKQZg%253d%253d&CorpName=COPPER+KING+MINING+CORPORATION
Happy Birthday elcheapo41!!!!
Yawn....
Is it 2009 already?
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I was napping.
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Power to the mill is definitely a major development as it will allow test runs of the equipment and lead to the actual startup.
Go CPRK!
Hi OKI! Wassup?
Just for the record, when cats are accused of napping all the time they take it as a compliment.
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You need to...
..."pink up" the iBox?
Are you nuts? LOL Isn't it enough that we tolerate those floating pink hearts in your signature pic?
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ergo... No, Alexander Lindale is not a real person, it's just the name of Wilf's company. Apparently he named the company after elementary schools he attended.
It's in the section titled "A Silver Dollar Company in a Penny Stock World"...
http://www.mystockmagazine.com/pdf/2ndQ05.pdf
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It took you almost 2 months to reply?
Hahahahaha......that's a long nap even for ME!
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The US economy just got kicked to the curb...
Boo boo to you, too! Whassup? You sure have been quiet lately. Cat got your tongue?
Bwahahahahahahahahahaha!
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I'm always here.
I lurk.
I observe.
I yawn.
I doze off...
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I can understand them not wanting anyone taking unauthorized photos but what's up with the "no guns or booze"? I mean, where's the fun in visiting an open pit mine if you can't get drunk and shoot the place up?
Oh well, might as well just stay home now.
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I'm sorry but we just got your results back and....you failed!
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Oh yeah, and congrats to what's-his-name for becoming assistant mod.
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Congratulations to Allison for getting the mod position!
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Well, as of today the original name may finally be correct...
There have only been posts here on 3 different days in the past 13 months. Stock Talk Daily? LOL
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