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they run with spot prices, any given day they'll scoot up .25-.30 cents or down, but the way things are heading, $1100 will be here before Thanksgiving
Add AENP in there, lol
Looking for a in tommorrow on thit one......chart looks great!
what about it? golds up to 1086....and NSU follows....
Just surfing around! Seems to be a lot of negative posts today!
looks like Bob realizes fully reporting is the way to go....
http://www.stockwatch.com/newsit/newsit_newsit.aspx?bid=U-pNY04186-U:LNGT-20091103&symbol=LNGT&news_region=U
its about time, lol
Looking into getting one myself!
4 door version!
They are built to last!
GM............
FORD looking real good!
All good news!
Tommorrow is the big day here!
GL
"As president of the Oil America Group in Texas, Christopher acquired the long-shuttered 19th century mine over the summer. With a small crew at his side, he is already exceeding the 3.5 ounces of gold per 100 yards of dirt that an assay study said he could expect."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2009/10/25/MNFN1A9KBD.DTL
looks like AENP is ON to something....
Things ramping up for the big day here!!!!
I wonder if he is really commimg here!!!!!!
I do it all the time at work or dealing with any foreign speaking people!!!!!!!!
I want to speak to an someone that understands english and speaks english.lol
Big communication issues doing business this way!
Good to know.
Try to remember this EVERY TIME you have to talk to a 'call center' customer service representative whom you cannot understand.
I did not know that we could do this, but I am sure going to try it.
Help bring jobs back to the U.S.A. & Canada..
Ask for an American / Canadian Service Rep.
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How to save some American and Canadian jobs ....
We can help!
Hi Everyone,
I want to share with you some great information that I found out purely by accident. I believe it can also save and create jobs in North America while giving people better customer service.
So, how many times have you called a company's service phone line and found that the rep. Can barely speak English?
Once with a major mortgage company it was so bad I demanded to speak with someone who spoke proper English!
Right at that moment I "broke the code", the "secret password" for customer service.
I came to find out that every American & Canadian company using overseas call center operators must transfer you to an American or Canadian rep. When you say: ........
" I want to speak to a representative in Canada or the USA".
(Don't take no for an answer on this!!)
This was confirmed by the North American reps.... That they must transfer you after you make that request.
I've tried it on a half a dozen major companies including cable, bank, phone and mortgage companies.
It works every time and I actually get my issues taken care of.
got this in a email....interesting
Good to see Jeep wont be eliminated. I have a lifted 88 Laredo 4.2, there isnt much off road that gets in my way, lol.
This why Unions are good. The power of a bunch of good people against the bad controlling people!
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By DEE-ANN DURBIN and TOM KRISHER, AP Auto Writers Dee-ann Durbin And Tom Krisher, Ap Auto Writers – Sat Oct 31, 2:52 pm ET
DETROIT – Ford Motor Co. workers have overwhelmingly rejected contract changes that would have allowed the automaker to cut labor costs, leaving Ford at a disadvantage to its Detroit rivals as it continues its struggle to return to profitability.
The United Auto Workers union had given local unions until Monday to complete voting. But a person briefed on the voting said Saturday that the contract changes have been rejected by large margins. The person asked not to be named because the UAW hasn't announced the results yet.
The UAW and Ford agreed to the contract changes several weeks ago, but Ford workers needed to ratify them. Ford has 41,000 UAW-represented workers.
Two large union locals in Kentucky and Ford's home city of Dearborn rejected the contract Friday, sealing its fate. Those unions together represent 13,000 Ford workers. Exact tallies weren't available, but at least 12 UAW locals representing about 27,500 workers so far have vetoed the deal, many overwhelmingly. Only about four locals with a total of 7,000 members favored the pact.
Ford sought the deal to bring its labor costs in line with Detroit rivals Chrysler Group LLC and General Motors Co., both of which won concessions from the union as they headed into bankruptcy protection earlier this year. Under pattern bargaining, the three automakers usually match pay, benefits and other contract provisions.
But workers weren't convinced they should make more concessions, since Ford avoided bankruptcy and is considered healthier than its rivals. At least two Wall Street analysts are predicting that Ford could report a profit Monday when it announces third-quarter earnings.
Rocky Comito, president of UAW Local 862 in Louisville, said Friday that workers felt they were being asked to sacrifice more than the company's executives. Ford CEO Alan Mulally made $17.7 million last year, although that was down 22 percent from the year before.
"Some want to see management give more at the upper level," Comito said.
Ford was offering workers a $1,000 bonus if they ratified the contract. But the contract also would have frozen entry-level pay, changed some work rules and limited workers' ability to strike.
A message seeking comment was left Saturday for the UAW. UAW President Ron Gettelfinger said Friday that there wouldn't be a revote if the contract changes failed.
"If it fails, there would be no reason to go back to the bargaining table," Gettelfinger said at a community event in Detroit. "We have a democratic process in place. People have a right to express themselves. We recognize there's a lot of misinformation about it out there, but that is what it is."
Factory-level union leaders have known for several days that the deal would be defeated, said one Detroit-area official who asked not to be identified because the voting is not completed.
The union did a poor job of explaining the need to preserve jobs and keep Ford competitive with GM and Chrysler, the official said.
He doesn't believe members will approve any more changes until the 2011 contract, which will leave Ford at a disadvantage and has the potential to knock the company from its position as the strongest financially of the Detroit Three.
"Our goal should be to keep Ford Motor Co. going in the right direction," he said.
Gary Chaison, a professor of labor relations at Clark University in Worcester, Mass., said the vote was a slap to UAW leadership. It's extremely rare for union members to oppose the union's recommended vote.
Chaison said the vote damages the reputation of UAW Vice President Bob King, the chief Ford negotiator, who has been mentioned as a successor to Gettelfinger when the union elects a new president in 2010.
"The sign of a good leader is that you can agree to something and then sell it to the membership," Chaison said.
Chaison said Ford asked for too much too soon after workers already agreed to concessions earlier this year. He also said Ford lacked credibility because its financial situation wasn't as dire as GM's or Chrysler's.
"They made such a strong case about not going to bankruptcy court and turning the corner, so they couldn't go to the workers and say, 'We need this to turn the corner,'" he said.
The no votes came even as Ford reached a similar cost-cutting agreement with the Canadian Auto Workers union Friday. The CAW has agreed to cuts in benefits in exchange for product guarantees, but that agreement must be ratified by Canadian workers.
In addition to the plants in Louisville and Dearborn, workers at factories in Chicago; Claycomo, Mo.; and Livonia, Plymouth, Sterling Heights, Flat Rock, Ypsilanti Township, Mich., rejected the deal. Locals in Wayne, Mich.; Cleveland; Indianapolis and St. Paul, Minn., voted in favor.
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Associated Press Writers Corey Williams in Detroit and Janet Cappiello Blake in Louisville contributed to this report.
Article published November 01, 2009
Industry signs point to solid future for Toledo area Chrysler plants
'The Plan' for automaker retooling will be unveiled on Wednesday
Fiat's need to export Jeeps could mean there would be more business faster at the Toledo Jeep Assembly complex than anywhere else in the corporation, according to one auto industry analyst.
( THE BLADE/DAVE ZAPOTOSKY )
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By LARRY P. VELLEQUETTE
Blade Business Writer
A big chunk of Toledo's economic future lies in a computer in Auburn Hills, Mich. - waiting for Wednesday when Chrysler Group LLC will announce what local workers will build for the 110-year-old automaker.
"The Plan," as Chrysler Chairman Sergio Marchionne's anticipated announcement has come to be known, will lay out an aggressive strategy to completely and quickly revamp the automaker's moribund lineup by introducing vehicles and technology from Italian automaker Fiat SpA.
And though it won't be certain until the words are delivered this week, the Toledo area's Chrysler plants - Toledo Jeep Assembly, Toledo Machining in Perrysburg Township, and Global Engine Manufacturing Alliance in Dundee - will get new products with probably hundreds of additional good-paying jobs for the regional economy.
"Fiat needs to export Jeeps, and that means there could be more business faster [at the Toledo Jeep Assembly complex] than anywhere else in the corporation," said longtime auto analyst Jim Hall of 2953 Analytics in subur-ban Detroit.
PLANTS AT A GLANCE
Toledo Jeep Assembly
4400 Chrysler Drive, Toledo
Products: Jeep Wrangler, Jeep Liberty, Dodge Nitro
Production 2007: 221,195
Production 2008: 120,577
Employment: 1,750 for Chrysler; 1,500 for on-site suppliers Toledo Machining Plant 8000 Chrysler Drive, Perrysburg Township
Products: steering columns, torque converters
Employment: 770
Global Engine Manufacturing
5800 North Ann Arbor Rd., Dundee, Mich.
Products: 1.8, 2.0, and 2.4-liter I-4 engines and 2.4-liter turbocharged engines
Employment: 190
Source: Chrysler Group LLC, United Auto Workers Local 12
Mr. Hall could not comment on specific plans the automaker has for the future. But he noted that along with an estimated $8 billion in planned new technology, Fiat has brought "a global and diffuse distribution network" to its strategic alliance with Chrysler.
"The Jeep brand is so strong and the [potential export] market is so wide," Mr. Hall said, "in a good year, you could be talking about six figures of exports for them."
Just 21,713 Wranglers were sold outside North America last year.
Few people know exactly what the new Chrysler chairman will say or whether he will discuss locations where potential products will be produced. Company spokesmen are mum.
According to Chrysler insiders, the theme of Mr. Marchionne's speech outlining Chrysler's plan for the next several years is "expect the expected, and especially expect the unexpected."
Fiat, after Chrysler filed bankruptcy last spring, agreed to take over the Detroit-area company and inject new management, new technology, and new life, while spending few euros. The American public has a stake in the outcome, as $12 billion in taxpayer money was used to help bail out the struggling automaker, which has just a 9 percent share of the U.S. vehicle sales market.
Effect on area plants
The insiders say Mr. Marchionne will reveal a number of technological advancements, including the introduction of eight-speed transmissions with twin alternators across most of the vehicles in its lineup, and introduction of Fiat-based diesel engines in vehicles other than trucks.
But what does that mean for area plants that build or make parts for Jeep, Dodge, and Chrysler vehicles? Lots and lots of change, if previous court filings, executive statements, and insider leaks are accurate.
Consider:
•In proceedings during Chrysler's rapid trip through bankruptcy, executives said their manufacturing plan called for more fully utilizing fewer plants. Several plants nationwide were jettisoned with the remnants of the old company, but the assembly and component plants in and around Toledo were kept.
•Toledo's assembly plants - among the most flexible and efficient in the company's inventory - are operating at less than full-time. New products that would require additional shifts of workers would mean the callback of all remaining laid-off employees and the addition of hundreds of new jobs.
•Executives also indicated that they planned to utilize the award-winning engine plant in Dundee to manufacture engines for its entire lineup of small cars. Demand for the new engines, which will use Fiat's "multiair" technology to boost power and gas mileage, would mean the plant will soon be running at capacity for the first time since it opened in 2006.
•Fiat executives said this year that the Jeep brand was part of the reason they coveted a strategic alliance with Chrysler.
While Jeep is thought to be one of the most recognized automotive brand names on the planet, sales of Jeep vehicles have been largely confined to North America, leaving untapped potential markets elsewhere. In recent weeks, the Toledo Jeep factory, which makes the Wrangler and Wrangler Unlimited, has produced an unusually large number of right-hand-drive Wranglers for export.
•Steven Landry, the company's now-former head of sales and marketing, revealed this year that the slow-selling Dodge Nitro, which shares the Toledo Jeep assembly line with the Jeep Liberty, would be phased out by 2012, the same time the Liberty would be due for a redesign. Without the Nitro, that part of Toledo Jeep would have ample capacity and flexibility to build the Liberty and other vehicles.
Such vehicles, experts have speculated, could include a replacement sedan for the slow-moving Chrysler Sebring and Dodge Avenger, both of which are built at Chrysler's Sterling Heights, Mich., plant, which is slated to close.
Union looks forward
Officials from United Auto Workers Local 12, which represents nearly 4,000 people locally whose livelihoods are tied to Chrysler's SUV production at Toledo Jeep, would not speak specifically about what they've been told of Fiat's plans for Toledo.
But they say Fiat has noticed the productivity of the local work force, the flexible nature of the plants themselves, and the commitment by local union officials to work with the automaker to get things done.
Toledo Jeep and its workers have grabbed top efficiency honors the past two years from a widely respected industry study of all vehicle assembly plants in the United States and Canada.
"Our guys have done a fantastic job over there," said Local 12 President Bruce Baumhower. "They've been called the most productive plant in North America, combined with the fact that we've got Chrysler's most modern facilities in North America, and we know we're going to be a big part of Chrysler's future going forward."
Tracy Handler, who studies Chrysler for IHS Global Insight in suburban Detroit, said Toledo Jeep's Liberty and Nitro factory "is directly competing" with Chrysler's small-vehicle factory in Belvidere, Ill., for future work. Belvidere is where the fuel-efficient Dodge Caliber, Jeep Patriot, and Jeep Compass are manufactured.
Mrs. Handler said that while the Wrangler facility's future is solid, the Liberty and Nitro factory's future is less certain.
"Even if you add some Alfa-Romeo and other Chrysler-based product, if you only have the Liberty built at that plant, that's probably not enough," she said.
She said it "is a good sign" that Toledo Mayor Carty Finkbeiner was invited to attend Chrysler's announcement this week. Public officials from other towns also were invited, but Mrs. Handler implied such invitations likely were offered to those whose cities would hear good news.
Some things associated with Chrysler's Toledo operations won't change in design - specifically, the Jeep Wrangler - but are likely to change in terms of worldwide distribution, analysts say.
"The Wrangler is the ultimate icon of the Jeep brand, so clearly the Wrangler stays in the Jeep plan," said Joseph Phillippi, a longtime industry analyst with AutoTrends Consulting in Short Hills, N.J. "That aspect of the Toledo complex should be in good shape. I assume that the Liberty will stay in the portfolio in some way, and that the Nitro will go away."
Mr. Phillippi said he was invited to Chrysler's secluded testing grounds in Chelsea, Mich., last month, where he saw a test vehicle for what he said "might be the next Liberty." He said the vehicle, albeit cobbled together, "looked more like a crossover than something that would be trail-rated."
Dealers hopeful
No group may be as financially invested in Chrysler's product future as its beleaguered dealer network.
With sales of Chrysler-made vehicles down 40 percent this year, while the rest of the industry is off 27 percent, Chrysler has dropped market share and slashed 789 dealers from its sales network to try to improve sales at remaining dealers.
Yet even after two years of turmoil, dealers say they can still have faith in the company, especially if they see hope on the horizon this week.
"A look into the future is what all the dealers want to see," said John Yark, of the Yark Automotive Group in Sylvania Township. "The product that they're going to have is the most critical piece of the future."
Toledo is one of the largest metro areas in the country where Chrysler-built vehicles maintain a leading market share, but a lack of technological investment by Chrysler's two previous owners, German-based Daimler AG and private-equity firm Cerberus Capital Management Inc., has exacted a toll on Chrysler's product lineup, Mr. Yark said.
"Chrysler needs technology, and at the end of the day, Chrysler needs product," Mr. Yark said. He is encouraged about the rumored advances expected to be announced by Mr. Marchionne.
"Frankly, it's kind of exciting that they're going to get this infusion of Fiat technology, especially in the small cars."
While analysts believe Chrysler's regional operations are secure for now, the tumult in the global automotive market will require patience as the industry rebounds.
"The new operations in Toledo are well-protected, and the [Dundee engine] plant is very efficient. They're not going to just throw those away," said David Cole, director of the Center for Automotive Research in Ann Arbor.
"The real question is, can [Fiat] turn Chrysler around and be profitable without a lot of new products coming right away while their competitors have all kinds of new products coming?
"My advice would be to hang in there."
Contact Larry P. Vellequette at:
lvellequette@theblade.com
or 419-724-6091.
This is why Obama helped Chrysler!
http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091101/BUSINESS02/911010304
OK! Since no one wants to know!
Rumor has it President Obama will be at our facility on Wednesday!
They will not refuse to give you care!
Hire a lawyer if the hospital refuses to provide additional care! Most lawyers work for a third of the settlement and are just waiting for you to walk through their doors!!!!
How many people have you seen walking around with a broken limb?
I guess what i'm saying is it's not our fault we are in this position, to have to use the sysyem this way, but what are we going to do??????????
We already have free health care!!!!!!!!
Just what its like in a Dodge Challenger!
http://www.youtube.com/user/NiGhtKids1982#p/f/2/te3faDRn5Cs
Hmmmmmm!
Something don't look right hear!
http://www.youtube.com/user/NiGhtKids1982#p/f/0/z2Dm4SX-N5M
Goodmorning!!!!
Got me one heck of a hangover going on! Excellent party though!
O my hy head!!!!.lol
This don't happen much!
Getting up this early for work on Saturday is for the birds..lol
My mistake on that one P BO!
I can remember a while back that it would be worth a quarter by now!
Things are looking do south!
Maybe they didn't like the music!
His first name begins with an O!
Could be a VERY BIG VIP that his position starts with a P showing up on the Nov 4th here at work!!!!!!!!
No supervisor today, so now it's a inhouse vacation day!lol
Just kidding!!!!
Will still work hard for them!
Ya PVX is lightening its load, spinning off properties, trimming the excess. Their sp has nearly tripled since March along with Oil
And I haven't forgotton to add to my PVX either!
Who has a kidneystone? Maybe I can help!
I have over 100 stones worth of experience!!!!!!!!
THEY FING HURT!
Can I get into trouble for over posting on my own board?
Yes I'm a little bit bored right now! Maybe I should play my drums!!!!!
Any requests tonight?lol
Suppose to get a update on CHRYSLER/FIAT plan Nov 4th, should be interesting!
Pray for no more job cuts!
He came around after a couple of cups off coffee!lol
Gets harder to think straight correctly at 6 AM sometimes. Some computor softwares are hard to learn and always getting new updates makes it harder...... continous learning.......
Good for the brain!!!!
Picked up some more EXM and lowered my hold today. I was shitteng my pants monday and tuesday as it was dumping!!!!!
Shipping is always a great play!
Checkout last years chart!!!!!
Are their any Amyway/Qixstar victims out their?????
Sorry for taking a long time to get back with you! Very busy here at work again! lol
I'm glad I bought some!
AENP needs Oil to be over $90.00 a barrel for it to be profitable and they are at 20% operational capacity on that placer mine they LOI'd on. Greeneyedhawk spoke to JC last week, they're producing 1 ounce of gold for every 100 yards of earth processed. Given they just recieved approval to mine an additional 160 acres adjoining the 40 acres they are on now, thats going to be one hell of a operation. If weather conditions allow it, they have the ability to yeild $5000 a day, or $110,000 a month at 20% capacity. Fully operational that would work out to $1.5 million a quarter.....
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