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BJ’s Wholesale does offer a few options when it comes to delivery. If you are a BJ’s club member, you can get 2 day online shipping for smaller household items. The price of shipping will depend on the weight and size of your purchase.

If you are ordering large items online like furniture or appliances, shipping typically takes 7-10 days and prices will vary based on your location. Not all furniture items can be returned, so making sure your order is correct is important. If you’re buying online, some big & bulky pieces or multi-piece sets do have the option for white glove service from BJ’s Wholesale.

BJ’s has also paired with two delivery services to make getting things home for their store even easier. Instacart is now available to deliver your BJ’s groceries home with same day delivery. Instead of planning your trip to BJ’s, get all your groceries from the comfort of your home.

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BJ's furniture Delivery

BJ’s carries top brands in furniture like Sealy, Handy Living, Linon, Picket House, and more. If you’re in the market for TV stands, bookcases, dining sets, bedroom sets, they have something for every room. If you buy furniture from BJ’s online, the cost of shipping is included in the price. Some larger or more expensive items do have a white glove option that adds additional fees to the total bill. White Glove Delivery includes assembly of your new purchase along with setup in the room of your choice.

If  you’re shopping in-store at BJ’s and White Glove delivery is outside of your price range, ask if Bungii Delivery is available at your club location. Affordable same day or next day delivery is just a few taps away. The Bungii App offers reliable and quick delivery for large furniture purchases from BJ’s Wholesale.

Does BJ’s Deliver Mattresses?

BJ’s does offer mattress delivery for their wide range of mattresses including brands like Sealy, Cradlesoft and Berkley Jensen. Styles include memory foam, coil spring, combination of gel and memory foam, and many more options. You can order mattresses online and have them shipped to your house with standard shipping rates.

Or you can buy online and pick up in store. Find the mattress you want and have it sent to your nearest club to save a little extra money on shipping charges.

Returns are also accepted as long as there is no damage and is returned within 30 days of your original purchase.

BJ's WHolesale Near Me

 BJ’s Wholesale Club is a leading warehouse club operating in 16 states on the East Coast. They offer significant savings over traditional grocers and stores. They curate the brands they sell to maximize savings and quality for their club members. Not sure if you have a club near you or are in an area with available shipping? Find out the nearest BJ’s Wholesale by using their Club Locator tool.

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A highlight from SXSW was appearing on the stage at the Dell Experience with Konnie Brown, Amy Heiss, Bryan Kramer and Brian Fanzo. Dell’s event space was a remarkable gathering place for the company’s customers and fans.

By Mark Schaefer

Each year I look forward to attending the annual SXSW conference to push my brain in some new directions. This is my eighth SXSW and to me, this is the most exciting place in the world featuring all the coolest breakthrough thinkers in media, publishing, technology, and marketing convening in one big Austin Texas madhouse. This year 80,000 people attended from every corner of the globe. Some time slots had more than 50 concurrent sessions, not counting the many private offsite sessions going on at the same time.

I did my best to pluck out a few meaningful sessions and here are some interesting highlights I picked up from my trip. This is PART ONE of my report from Austin.

Is there a kill switch that could shut down the Internet?

Representatives from ICANN, Facebook, and others talking about could the Internet be shut down … it already is in certain countries, for instance. Very interesting discussion about the tech, policy, and politics behind the Internet. My major takeaway is that the Internet is certainly vulnerable but also resilient. Every attack makes the Internet a little stronger as coders figure out how to patch things and fight off the bad guys.

Last year in an interview US President Barack Obama said in an interview that if something went wrong with artificial intelligence we would just unplug the Internet. Is there a kill switch? No.

I went to a session on emerging issues with drones. This industry is taking off literally and figuratively but it was interesting to see that VC funding into this industry has dipped two years in a row. Still a lot of safety and regulatory hurdles that might be dampening enthusiasm for the hope of quick adoption.

Chatbots, sales and service

Chatbot developers expressed frustration that they feel like they have something to prove. “Brands claim people want to talk to humans on the phone. Who does that any more? Who wants to be on the phone? Why is this even a discussion?”

Big mistake — companies think they need to solve every single problem and address every consumer question with chatbots or it is a failure. This is the wrong mindset. Customer service has to be a blend of people and bots.

Developers talked about creating a “bot experience” which includes a plan to drive traffic to the bot, optimize sales conversions, build fun into the conversations.

Market tension exists as battles for the best bot platforms are waged. Brands don’t want Google or Facebook negotiating the relationship with their customers. To get everything done, somehow you will need to link all the accounts — Amazon, Facebook, Google and more. This is going to be a huge problem. There will have to be an “HTML for voice search.”

The thing that is missing from chatbot perpetuation is the “killer use case.” The underlying tech has a long way to go, as well as proof of ROI. CEOs don’t get it. Takes support from the top to drive it.

Emoji is becoming the international language. We may not understand language on an Instagram post but everyone can communicate appreciation, support, sympathy now to any one in any language.

Terminator rises?

Session on evil artificial intelligence started with:

“With AI, we are summoning the demon” – Elon Musk.

“AI is the biggest threat to the human race. I can’t believe more people are not worried about this.” – Bill Gates

“Fast machines will eventually get rid of slow humans.” – Steve Wozniak

There are think tanks developing to deal with the ethics of perceiving, sensing, reasoning artificial intelligence. AI is coming fast due to three trends:

  • Explosion of available data
  • Massive increase in computational power, including quantum computing
  • Research breakthroughs in machine deep learning

Experts believe that sometime between 2045 and 2100 we will have emotional, sentient, super-intelligent robots. The panel of AI researchers all agreed that the human race is facing a “significant problem” and that is right for the world to start addressing this now. There is a new profession developing: AI safety.

We are likely to have safety problems before sentient robots. We are already seeing that “thinking” computers are operating in unexpected ways like demonstrating betrayal and aggressiveness. Computers are learning to solve their own problems which may lead to unintended consequences because the robot’s goals may diverge from our own.

AI-fueled robots will not be appliances. We will develop emotional attachments to our helpful robot companions. We will eventually become over-reliant on these machines (as we are over-reliant on the internet now).

The wildcard in AI is global competition. Even if America addresses the issues, the tech might be running amuck in other nations. This will be the new arms race. We may never be really sure what we are unleashing on the world due to unintended consequences.

The new media

If you were going to build a new media brand from scratch how would you do it? How do you tell the truth in a post-truth age? When the media is under attack, how does it fight back? How do create ads people actually want to see?

The Outline is answering those questions by building a new media platform from the ground up. Its CEO and editor-in-chief Joshua Topolsky explained how also journalism needs to rebuild from the rubble. My notes:

  • Journalism has done a sucky job evolving. They are focused on temporary tech solutions for long-term problems. Journalism is waiting for somebody else to fix the problem. The competition isn’t the other media, it’s Facebook and Snapchat.
  • All traditional media looks the same, feels the same, and is playing for the same audience, which they believe is Internet infinite. Tech people blow stuff up, Journalism people need to blow stuff up, too.
  • The Outline has created multiple re-usable formats to tell stories in different ways. Each article has “cards” about the story you can share and mix. Design is the first mover in the process.
  • Ads have become increasingly bad because they simply do not serve people. It is a foreign object inserted into your experience … but it doesn’t have to be that way. Make the ads very good, make them as good as the content. Make them tell stories, make them playful and interactive. Don’t annoy people. Pop-ups and banners devalue the content. People are spending 3X the time on Outline ads compared to traditional media.
  • You can’t chase The New York Times or Facebook or Buzzfeed. You have to chase what is valuable to your audience. “Millennials” are not an audience. It is an age range. There are 85 million millennials in America. Is that your audience? No. Instead of thinking about how big we can get, think about how small and focused you can remain.  When you appeal to everybody you are a commodity.
  • We are awash in sameness, the same outrage, the same angles, the same stories. Our only editorial driver is to be interesting.
  • Innovation is hard, disruption is hard, content is hard.  If anybody tells you this media transformation is easy, run away.

YouTube and influence

One of the featured speakers was filmmaker and YouTube phenomenon Casey Neistat. He was a very entertaining speaker and basically has built a career from following his whims. His most famous “whim” changed his life. Well, you really have to see it to believe it (25 million views)!

If you can’t see the video above, you can view it on YouTube: Make it Count.

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Freeze in Time that Saved Priority: Lapsed Financing Statement in Bankruptcy

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  • There was a tension as to whether a secured creditor retains its priority when its financing statement lapses during a bankruptcy case.
  • Under the “Freeze Rule,” the Maryland Bankruptcy Court concluded that a senior secured creditor maintains its priority even if its financing statement lapses during the bankruptcy case.
  • The holding is supported by federal law and addresses a conflict between federal bankruptcy law and UCC state law.

 The Bankruptcy Court for the District of Maryland recently ruled that a secured creditor retains its priority over other junior creditors even though its UCC financing statement lapsed during the bankruptcy case.  The case resolves a conflict between federal bankruptcy law and UCC state law. The freeze rule maintains the petition-date priority of the secured creditors throughout a bankruptcy case.

The Case: Firstrust Bank v. Indus. Bank (In re Essex Constr., LLC), 591 B.R. 630 (Bankr. D. Md. 2018)

Essex Construction, LLC filed for bankruptcy under chapter 11. On the petition date, two banks held perfected security interests in the debtor’s assets: Firstrust Bank and Industrial Bank. On the petition date, Industrial held the senior interest. Industrial recorded its UCC-1 financing statement in 2012; Firstrust in 2014. The debtor filed for bankruptcy in 2016. One year later, in 2017, and while the case was still in chapter 11, Industrial’s financing statement lapsed.

The issue centers on the post-petition lapse of Industrial’s financial statement. Neither bank disputed that Industrial held the senior interest on the petition date. They disagreed on the effect of the post-petition lapse. Firstrust argued that state law—Article 9 of the UCC—mandates that it should jump Industrial in priority and that a chapter 11 proceeding should not change this result under state law.  Industrial asserted that the freeze rule in bankruptcy rendered the post-petition lapse inapplicable for determining priority.

Priority Lost: Article 9 of the UCC

Under section 9-515 of Maryland’s UCC, a filed financing statement remains effective for five years. Industrial filed its statement in 2012, and it remained effective until 2017.  Absent the filing of a continuation statement, the financing statement lapses on the expiration date and rendered unperfected pursuant to section 9-322(a)(2), which states that a perfected security interest has priority over a conflicting unperfected security interest.  In short, a secured creditor will lose its place in line if it fails to file the continuation statement.  Under this rational, Firstrust argued that its security interest had priority over Industrial’s conflicting unperfected security interest because of the lapse in 2017.

Firstrust relied on legislative history. It noted that the UCC used to state the following: “[i]f a security interest perfected by filing exists at the time insolvency proceedings are commenced by or against the debtor, the security interest remains perfected until termination of the insolvency proceedings.”  That language was removed in the current version of the UCC.  Firstrust argued that the removal of this language evidenced the legislature’s intent to eliminate the freeze rule. That rational, however, was not supported by the comments to the section 9-515, which explain that the legislature did not intend to eliminate that rule.  Rather, the comments confirm that the effect of the lapse on priority is left to courts to decide based on federal bankruptcy law.

Priority Regained: Freeze Rule in Bankruptcy

In bankruptcy, the freeze rule freezes the priority of a security interest as of the petition date, which will remain the priority throughout the bankruptcy case. This principle has been recognized by the U.S. Supreme Court since at least 1931: “valid liens existing at the time of the commencement of a bankruptcy proceeding are preserved.” Isaacs v. Hobbs Tie & Timber Co., 282 U.S. 734, 738 (1931).

Two leading cases explain how the freeze rule works. In Halmar Distributors, a debtor moved its inventory to Massachusetts. The senior secured creditor filed proper financing statements in New York, but the junior filed in both New York and Massachusetts. Under the UCC, the senior had to file in Massachusetts within four months to maintain its position. It failed to do so. Yet the court found that the senior maintained its position because the lapse occurred after the debtor filed for bankruptcy. The senior secured creditor’s position was frozen in time on the day of the petition.

The second case is Chaseley’s Foods. It also involved the effect of a lapsed financing statement on a secured creditor’s priority. Again, the court found that the secured creditor maintained its status despite failing to file a continuation statement during a bankruptcy case. The court also addressed the effect of the UCC. It concluded that a bankruptcy case maintains the priority of a secured creditor regardless of whether a provision in the UCC reaffirms this principle. The lapse makes no change.

That is what happened here. Before bankruptcy, Industrial had priority over Firstrust. On the day of the bankruptcy filing, Industrial had priority over Firstrust. Throughout the bankruptcy case, Industrial had priority over Firstrust. Nothing changed when Industrial’s financial statement lapsed shortly after the bankruptcy filing. Under the UCC, Industrial would have lost priority. But the freeze rule maintained Industrial’s priority—a result that the drafters of the UCC affirmed in their comments to Article 9. A senior secured creditor in bankruptcy need not file a continuation statement to maintain its priority.

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fourth of july + other summertime BBQ ideas

July 3, 2012

I hardly need a reason to have a backyard BBQ – a summertime Saturday is good enough but the little thing that gets in the way most of the time is that I do not have an actual backyard. I guess that is sort of an inconvenient problem but it doesn’t stop me from showing up at the door of a friends’ house with some sort of baked good the minute someone says grill.

The Fourth of July just another day in Europe but if I was going to show up at a party to celebrate the holiday here are some things I would bring.

Do you know what is pretty much summer in frozen form? Root beer float popsicles. They also happen to be one of the easiest recipes on this site. All you need is root beer, vanilla and a popsicle mold. No mold? Use little paper cups instead!

Potato chips are practically a BBQ requirement so why not crush them up and roll peanut butter cookies in the crumbs. Fill the centers with your favorite jam and you have super cute little crushed potato chip pb + j thumbprint cookies.

Everyone needs a good bundt cake in their baking repertoire and this is a perfect cake to make with any berries or bits of fruit. Brown sugar and buttermilk make everything better and this brown sugar buttermilk bundt cake is no exception.

Give your bar cookies a makeover with a batch of rosemary and fig crumble bars. Chopped rosemary and sweet jam gives these cookies the illusion of being super fancy but you and I will know they are super easy to make. No worries, your secret is safe with me.

One dozen frosted vanilla cupcakes can be made festive for the fourth with white frosting and topped with a blueberry and strawberry slice. That counts as a serving of fruit, right?

If you are hosting, make a batch of soft stout cookies then set them out next to a container of vanilla ice cream so everyone can make their own ice cream sandwiches.

Last but not least, whip up a cobbler cake with your favorite summer fruit. This cake is easy to transport and even easier to eat. Happy Fourth of July my friends!

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Carrie July 3, 2012 at 9:03 am

With goodies like these, you can come to one of my bbqs anytime, lady!

Riley July 5, 2012 at 2:35 pm

Those thumbprint cookies are right up my alley! Yum!

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A warm bed, a loving family and a secure upbringing is something that we tend to take for granted. It is only when you step out of your comfort zone and into the shoes of someone less fortunate that you realise, what you take for granted is considered a luxury for a little orphan.

For Mandela day we visited Ray of Sunshine House which offers a secure home for orphaned and abused children. These children were in dire need of new bedding as their current bedding has worn thin and could no longer keep these precious little angels warm on cold winter nights. The Byte Orbit team clubbed together and we managed to buy each of the children a new pillow and a warm fleece blanket.

Visiting Ray of Sunshine House was an eye-opener to an alternative reality which is often overlooked. Thank you to Ray of Sunshine House for the good work you do, and for not only giving these children a place to call home but also for giving them the love and care they need so that they can look to the future with new hope.

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By Jerry Dias

The real threat of Uber goes well beyond taxis and how we hail a cab.

It goes to basic respect for the laws of the land, the willingness or ability of governments to enforce those laws, and to the responsibility we all bear to pay our taxes to support the kind of society we want for ourselves and our families.

At its heart, the problem with Uber is not only that it breaks the law, but that it does so with the tacit approval of our elected leaders - while those most directly hurt by Uber's intrusion are held to a higher standard.

Last week, Toronto narrowly escaped traffic chaos with cancellation of a strike timed to the NBA All-Star game. The strike was called off when Toronto cabbies chose to respect the public by postponing their protest. It's just too bad our governments refuse to show the same respect for the cabbies.

Take Toronto Mayor John Tory, who continues to act irresponsibly by saying that Uber is here to stay and that industry and government must adjust - effectively encouraging the company to continue operating illegally while his council rewrites the laws to accommodate it.

Not only that, Tory warned that the full force of the law would be brought to bear against any drivers who participated in the planned protest against Uber.

Here we have the elected head of Canada's largest municipality taking his time to consult on ways to rewrite the regulations so that one company, operating in open violation of his city's own bylaws, can operate legally, while threatening legal action against those who work within the confines of the law.

And Tory is not alone. Across Canada, our elected leaders are rewriting laws to accommodate Uber, while largely refusing to act when it or its drivers break the law.

In no other industry would it be acceptable for a company to continue breaking the law while the government fiddles.

If taxi drivers stopped paying fees, going for safety and environmental inspections, and started charging riders more than their regulated rates, they'd be taken off the road immediately. The laws and regulations governing the taxi industry evolved over time to reflect to reflect real safety needs and to protect riders - needs that still exist whether a cab is dispatched by an app on a phone.

Pricing is a good example. Cabbies are told how much they can charge as a protection for consumers against gouging when demand is high, or other situations. But Uber is permitted to use surge pricing whenever it sees fit and suddenly double or triple its prices - or even more.

In place of regulations that evolved over time, we now have a big multinational company coming in and deciding that the laws of the land don't apply to it, and governments scrambling to accommodate it rather than enforce their laws.

No company should have that power. We have laws, and they must be enforced.

Cities across Canada are scrambling to come up with a patchwork of responses to Uber. That's not good enough. To truly take this on, we need all sides in the issue - municipalities, the provinces, the federal government, cab companies and drivers - to come together and jointly develop a process to ensure a level playing field for both taxis and Uber in this country.

Municipalities regulate taxis. The provinces set the rules that municipalities work under and give them the tools to enforce their bylaws.

Ottawa has a stake in this, as well. Uber and its drivers are part of the underground economy, denying governments the revenue they need to fund health care and education, and to build the roads that both cabbies and Uber drivers use.

This underground economy in Canada takes $42 billion a year out of Canadian pockets. Allowing Uber to break the law not only adds to the underground economy, it legalizes the underground economy - and we can't tolerate that as Canadians.

Taxes go to pay for such things as health care, law enforcement and all the things that make Canada such a great place to live. When big companies don't pay their taxes, they put all that at risk.


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June 2, 2018
The Canadian Press

The Trudeau Liberals have laid out the environmental test that new transit and water systems will have to go through in the hope cities and provinces choose greener construction options.

Infrastructure Minister Amarjeet Sohi has long talked about applying a green lens to the projects the government will fund under a 10-year, $81.2 billion spending plan, but exactly how it would work had been unclear.

In a document made public Friday, the government asks cities and provinces to measure the increases or decreases in pollution from a project starting with construction through to the end of its anticipated lifespan.

The test will also assess any downstream or upstream effects, such as reduced electricity consumption, and feed into federal calculations about how close the country is to meeting its climate change targets.

A price will also be put on each tonne of greenhouse gas emissions reduced as part of work so the federal government can figure out how efficient it is with its spending.

Not all federally funded projects under the $33 billion in spending over the next decade overseen directly by Sohi will be scrutinized through the climate lens.

Nor will money for projects be tied to the results of the climate test, even if they show a net increase in greenhouse gas emissions because there are other considerations the Liberals will take into funding decisions, Sohi said.

Construction of a bridge, for instance, may cause greenhouse gas emissions, but the bridge itself could help more easily move goods through a major trade corridor.

What the Liberals hope is the requirement to report on environmental impacts will act as an incentive for cities and provinces to think green when building and make it a regular part of planning for all manners of projects, including those that don't receive federal funding.

"It saves money in the long run, because if you're building infrastructure today that is resilient to the impact of climate change then you end up saving money at the back end when you don't have to do the repairs or the necessary upgrades to deal with climate change," Sohi said in an interview Friday from Halifax.

Canada's environment commissioner has repeatedly warned in recent years that the federal government has an unclear picture about whether infrastructure funding is having its intended environmental effects.

In a 2016 report, Julie Gelfand pointed to a lack of information after a decade of gas tax transfers to cities aimed at improving the environment and last year chided Sohi's department for not having a full picture of the threats climate change poses to infrastructure across the country.

The Liberals hope the new rules will address the concerns raised by Gelfand.

For instance, most projects over $10 million will be tested to see if they could prevent, withstand or recover from extreme weather linked to climate change, be it extreme weather events like storms and floods, or longer-term changes like rising sea levels or more frequent and prolonged droughts.

The guidelines for the climate lens include earthquakes as one of the natural hazards that cities and provinces should consider when they design projects, an issue Sohi's officials highlighted last year.

A February 2017 email written as part of discussions with Sohi's office about disaster mitigation funding cited "some credible research" that extreme weather linked to climate change, such as hurricanes or torrential rains, "can potentially trigger earthquakes."

"Seismic events are one of the top hazards in Canada in terms of potential impacts," the email said, noting areas prone to earthquakes include parts of British Columbia, Quebec and Ontario.

The Canadian Press obtained a copy of the email and related messages under the Access to Information Act.


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Gold is the traditional safe haven in volatile markets. But silver prices tend to rise even faster on a percentage basis - and so do the best-performing silver stocks.

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Precious and base metals have become popular in this era of inflation, war in Europe, and a possible U.S. recession down the road (as hinted at by the recent inverted yield curve). Gold gets the most attention as a popular safe haven for multitudes of investors who have serious misgivings about the global economic outlook, and with the war in Ukraine and global supply chain shortages still at a fever pitch, safety demand for gold isn’t likely to wane anytime soon.

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Silver began its bull market around the same time in late 2008 but saw a far more impressive 400% gain in the ensuing three years before its run was over. Due to its lower price relative to gold, silver has always attracted a much bigger following among small investors, and for that reason has been called the “poor man’s gold.” Yet in the last decade, institutional participation in the companies that mine silver has also dramatically increased.

One important takeaway from past precious metal bull markets is that whenever gold demand is persistently high, silver sooner or later tends to outperform gold in percentage terms. Since more participants can afford to buy large quantities of the white metal, its volatility factor is magnified and the aggregate force of buyers push its price to far greater heights in percentage terms. So, whenever gold is in high demand, it’s usually just a matter of time before silver joins the parade.

One of the best ways to leverage a precious metals bull market is to own shares of the strongest silver mining and exploration companies. While silver’s price tends to outperform gold in a bull market, the best-performing silver stocks can dramatically outperform the physical metals.

For instance, while the silver price gained 400% during the 2008-2011 bull run, some silver miners (Coeur Mining, for instance) gained 850% or more in that same time, while even smaller exploration stage firms saw gains well in excess of 1,000%. This illustrates that if you’re bullish on gold and silver, you should always consider having at least some exposure to the companies that mine the metals.

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Best-Performing Silver Stock #5: Freeport-McMoRan (FCX)

Freeport-McMoRan (FCX) mines copper, gold and other commodities in four continents and is the world’s third-largest copper producer. Through one of its Indonesian subsidiaries, Freeport also mines one of the world’s largest copper and gold deposits in the prolific Grasberg minerals district in Papua, Indonesia. In addition to copper and gold, PT-FI produces silver, which the company sees (along with copper) as essential to filling global “green metals” demand. In the latest quarter, Freeport topped earnings estimates thanks to copper prices that were 40% higher from a year ago and sales volumes of over a billion pounds. Per-share earnings soared to 96 cents from 48 cents in Q4 of 2020, while revenue increased 37% to $6.2 billion. Freeport is also focused on shareholder returns, with up to 50% of free cash flow dedicated to it (with the rest used for growth and balance sheet improvements), and recently announced a $3 billion share repurchase program, plus the addition of a variable cash dividend. Analysts see the top and bottom lines increasing 16% and 27%, respectively, in 2022.

FCX is one of the best-performing silver stocks today.

Best-Performing Silver Stock #4: Texas Minerals Resources (TMRC)

Texas Mineral Resources (TMRC) an exploration company with a heavy focus on rare earths, technology metals and a variety of industrial minerals. Most of its activity is centered around its Round Top Mountain project in Texas. The company recently announced favorable preliminary results of baseline silver samples taken from its historic Alhambra Mine in New Mexico. In 2020, Texas Minerals entered a partnership with Santa Fe Gold to jointly explore and develop a targeted silver property within the Black Hawk Mining District in New Mexico. Black Hawk is well-known for a vein that contains small but very high-grade ore-shoots containing native silver, as the principal ore mineral, with potential for cobalt recovery as well.

TMRC is one of the best-performing silver stocks.

Best-Performing Silver Stock #3: BHP Group (BHP)

BHP Group (BHP) is an Anglo-Australian diversified mining company that produces a broad array of commodities, including coal, petroleum, potash, copper, nickel and iron ore. BHP owns a majority stake in the Chile-based Escondida mine, which is the world’s largest producer copper concentrates and cathodes, accounting for 28% of global output. (The mine is also an important part of Chile’s economy, accounting for several percentage points of GDP.) In addition to copper, the Escondida mine also produces gold and silver. Among BHP’s beneficial attributes are a shareholder-friendly corporate policy and low-cost production. And if you’re an investor focused on sustainability, BHP sports one of the lower carbon footprints among major miners.

Best-Performing Silver Stock #2: SSR Mining (SSRM)

SSR Mining (SSRM), formerly Silver Standard Resources, is an established intermediate gold-silver producer and exploration company, with operations throughout North and South America. While the company has become more gold focused in recent years, it’s still heavily involved in silver production through its Puna (Argentina) mine, and through its San Luis and Pitarrilla (Mexico) development projects, as well as through its Amisk (Canada) exploration project. SSR believes it can produce around 750,000 gold equivalent ounces annually over the next five years and says that Puna remains on track to exceed the latest production guidance. SSR also sports a healthy balance sheet featuring a comfortable cash cushion of more than $1 billion. Additionally, it recently initiated a 5-cent quarterly dividend (1.3% yield) and approved a $150 million share repurchase program. It’s a solid story.

SSRM is one of the best-performing silver stocks today.

Best-Performing Silver Stock #1: Glencore PLC (GLNCY)

Glencore PLC (GLNCY) is a well-known multinational commodity trading and producing firm, with exposure to oil and gas, minerals like coal, ag commodities and metals like copper, zinc and nickel. In other words, it’s an across-the-board natural resource play and, as such, allows investors to capitalize on broad commodity market strength. Recent strength in the energy sector is responsible for much of Glencore’s outperformance vis-à-vis more metal-focused stocks, but its industrial metals business is also doing well. (Glencore’s CEO recently told the Qatar Economic Forum that world copper supplies need to double by 2050 in order to meet the growing demand for renewable energy, and the firm is well positioned to benefit from this demand explosion.) But Glencore also participates in silver production through its 23% stake in Peru-based Volcan Compania Minera S.A. Management also recently said it remains focused on being one of Australia’s leading producers and exporters of the green metals that underpin the global transition to a low-carbon future, including silver.

If you want even more ideas for the best-performing precious and industrial metals stocks and ETFs right now, please consider subscribing to my Sector Xpress Gold & Metals Advisor, where I regularly provide you with some of the market’s strongest metals and mining stocks/ETFs from both a technical and a fundamental perspective.

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Plant Medicine & Coronaviruses – What We Already Know

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With new headlines out about how cannabis might be a weapon against covid-19, it seems our pharma loving world has managed to forget what has already been learned. When it comes to plant medicine and coronaviruses, we already know a good bit from previous research. The better question isn’t whether something like cannabis can help, but why isn’t anything already learned, being used today?

Plant medicine has already shown to be a useful tool against coronaviruses. If only that information was made more accessible to the public! Unfortunately it has not. We’ve got you covered in this growing industry, so make sure to check out The THC Weekly Newsletter for all the most pertinent stories related to cannabis, and exclusive deals on flowers, vapes, edibles, and many other products! We also offer big savings on cannabinoid compounds like HHC-O, Delta 8Delta 9 THCDelta-10 THCTHCOTHCVTHCP HHC . Find them in our “Best-of” lists, and enjoy!

What is plant medicine

Plant medicine simply refers to medical traditions that use plant compounds as the main source of medication given. Plant medicine generally fits under the term ‘Eastern medicine’ which denotes pretty much anything outside of standard pharma medicine (or, Western medicine) of today. Whereas standard pharma medicine is a newer invention, along with the chemicals it uses to medicate, plant medicine traditions go back sometimes thousands of years.

While different cultures across different time periods have had their own medical traditions, and while some of these traditions have intricate written records, most of the time there was no communications across places, and through time periods, meaning the different traditions were not communicating with each other.

This is an interesting point because much of the time, the same conclusions were come to regarding how a plant could be used, across these distant locations and periods in time. Which speaks volumes to their efficacy, and the known attributes of medical properties, or dangers that exist for each one. It would be very hard otherwise, without communication, for so many different traditions to establish the same opinion on specific plants, throughout so many different parts of history.

Though hundreds of traditions, or even thousands, might have existed through history, two of the bigger, more well known ones are Ayurvedic medicine out of India, and Traditional Chinese Medicine from China. Some traditions have been nullified by time, or the death of all participants, but these two traditions are still used widely and practiced by people all over the world.

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Plants are great at fighting so many illnesses because the mechanisms used to help humans, are the same ones the plants use to protect themselves from viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites. These are natural plant defenses that allow the plants to fight off microbial intruders, and they have shown throughout millennia of time to be useful to humans as well.

What is covid?

The problem with a subject like this is that it gets out of hand, especially when there are commercial interests at play. And like it or not, whatever side of this you fall on, there are indeed commercial interests at play. This part is undeniable, as pharmaceutical companies are at the helm of medication production. How much you assume controlling bodies always want the best for you, is up to each individual to decide for themselves.

Having said this, covid-19 or ‘severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2’, or SARS-CoV-2, is a virus from the Coronaviridae family, under the sub-heading of Orthocoronavirinae. There are at least 45 different species within this category of viruses as of 2020, including about 15% of all common colds, making it slightly less ‘novel’ than headlines would indicate. These viruses have a range in how destructive they are, with common colds being generally thought of as non-deadly, versus SARS, which was reported as having approximately an 11% death rate.

How long have we known about them? The name ‘coronavirus’ was established in 1968 when June Almeida and David Tyrrell started studying coronaviruses in humans that year. The name was officially instituted in 1971, however there is a history of coronavirus cases going back to the 1920’s.

How deadly is it for real? Well, that seems like a point of much debate, even within the medical community. If you believe every headline, then we’re all doomed to die from it. If you look around at life, it should be logically clear that this is nothing like past super detrimental pandemics, with what seems like a death rate within range for yearly deaths, or at the least, nothing to stop the world for. And that’s going by death statistics, as well as the lack of flu testing that makes it incredibly difficult on a legal level to prove these deaths are corona-related and not flu-related.

Plant medicine and coronaviruses – what we already know

While headlines now blare that cannabis can be used for covid-19, the question arises of what happened to the previously done studies specifically on coronaviruses, that already point to several plant compounds as being effective for fighting them? Could it be that it was never cared about, since those plant compounds won’t help sell vaccines? It should be remembered that not only will they not help sell vaccines, but public knowledge of these compounds could stymie pharmaceutical vaccine sales altogether.

In 2005, this study was done: Identification of natural compounds with antiviral activities against SARS-associated coronavirus, during a separate outbreak of a coronavirus. The study investigators used more than 200 plant extracts from Traditional Chinese Medicine in the study to test for antiviral properties that could be used against that form of the virus at the time, as well as all other severe acute respiratory syndrome-associated coronavirus infections.

Four plants in particular were found to be particularly good at dealing with these viruses at a 50% concentration. The most potent was found to be a plant called Lycoris radiata. Because of its strength, this compounds was looked into further to figure out exactly which part of it was being useful against the viruses. Through fractionation, purification, and CPE/MTS assays, the active component was found to be a compound called lycorine.

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The four plants that showed a useful response against the viruses, include: A. annua (Sweet wormwood), L. radiata (Red spider lily), P. lingua, and L. aggregata. The study authors sum it up by saying:

“In conclusion, the compounds extracted from A. annua, L. radiata, P. lingua, and L. aggregata have been identified to show antiviral activity against SARS-CoV in Vero cell-based CPE/MTS screening. Further structure and activity study has determined that lycorine is an active component in the alkaloid portion of the herbal plant L. radiata. The results from our study provide strong support for the usage of these herbs to treat SARS-CoV infectious diseases. Our results also demonstrated that lycorine is a good candidate for the development of new antiviral medicine.”

Still more that we know on plant medicine and coronaviruses

That study wasn’t even the first to investigate the topic, and cited other studies related to how plant compounds can fight coronaviruses. In 2003, this study came out: Glycyrrhizin, an active component of liquorice roots, and replication of SARS-associated coronavirus, because of yet another coronavirus outbreak. The study investigated a few plant compounds like ribavirin, 6-azauridine, pyrazofurin, mycophenolic acid, and glycyrrhizin, against two coronavirus isolates: FFM-1 and FFM-2.

According to researchers, “glycyrrhizin was the most active in inhibiting replication of the SARS-associated virus. Our findings suggest that glycyrrhizin should be assessed for treatment of SARS.” Yet, we never heard about any of this again…

Nor do many people know about this study from 2003, Treatment of SARS with human interferons. Interferons are signaling proteins that are released by a host cell when it gets invaded by a virus. These signals are meant to warn neighboring cells, and this allows those neighboring cells to increase their anti-viral defenses. They get their name from the ability to interfere with viruses. There are more than 20 interferons that have been discovered in humans and other animals.

The study investigators “assessed the antiviral potential of recombinant interferons against two clinical isolates of SARS-CoV–FFM-1”. Their findings concluded that, “Interferon beta could be useful alone or in combination with other antiviral drugs for the treatment of SARS.” This doesn’t have to do with plant medicine, so much as finding something within our own bodies that can be used to better fight things like coronaviruses.

Why isn’t plant medicine used more?

This can be a very polarizing question, and its not one for which there is a hard, fast answer. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t plenty of information that can be analyzed. For anyone paying attention, Eastern medicine and Western medicine can often run counter, which is itself, counter to the idea that so many medical traditions through time have been in agreement, even without having contact.

Another thing to understand is that Western medicine is very much corporate medicine, or medicine where the outputs are entirely run by pharmaceutical companies, which are also known for taking large amounts of money from the government (and this is true nearly anywhere that large pharma companies exist). Eastern medicine, on the other hand, operates more like mom-and-pop stores, and is not known for bringing in the massive amounts of money as pharma companies. Eastern medicine also doesn’t mandate medication, or work directly with governments.

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If you’re wondering why pharma companies don’t just use plants if they’ve shown to be so useful, its best to keep in mind that they literally can’t. Plant compounds are not legal to patent, simple as that! So while pharma companies quite often base their medicines on the structures of these well-working plant compounds, they don’t make that clear to the masses, or encourage the masses to just use the plant. Instead, they talk down the very plant medicine they themselves depend on, and sell synthetic versions, often with dangerous added chemicals, creating dangerous medications.

One thing to know about the growing medical cannabis industry, is that it represents the first big entrant of natural medicine into Western medicine. Whether consumers actually put it together or not is one thing, but that the use of cannabis indicates natural medicine, is not deniable, meaning even as big pharma and today’s world of Western medicine continually talk down Eastern medicine, the biggest trend of today is to use it!

Though the media often makes it sound like it, we didn’t enter this covid pandemic without information. In fact, plenty of it exists. When it comes to plant medicine and coronaviruses, this is not a new subject, which makes it head-scratching and frustrating when such useful information gets suppressed so that the masses never know that better options than their pharmaceutically offered one, actually do exist.

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If you have a legal dispute with another person, whether a family dispute, or entailing an agreement or customer issue, litigation is finest stayed clear of preferably. Going to court can be excessively pricey, extremely difficult, and take a long time. Alternatives to head to court are working out a settlement- and alternative dispute resolution such as mediation.

What is mediation?

Mediation is a process where an independent, unbiased mediator is appointed to help the parties come to an agreement. Mediation does not, however, assure any type of resolution or settlement.

Most importantly, both events should accept mediation. One party can not force the other to become part of the mediation procedure. If one celebration does not intend to go to mediation, you will need to either attempt to settle the dispute or go to court.

When is mediation not suitable?

Numerous contractual events are required to enter mediation in the event of a dispute under a mediation stipulation in the agreement, mediation is not constantly proper. If either event does not have the legal right to get in into an agreement to mediate; if you need instant injunctive alleviation; or if the constitutional rights of one of the celebrations are affected; or if there is no authentic commitment to deal with a dispute, mediation will certainly not be available.

That is the mediator?

If you as well as the other side agree to go into mediation, you require to assign an appropriate independent mediator. It is necessary to consider their experience, competence and expert history as you will need a mediator that recognizes the subject matter at issue. Mediators are commonly solicitors, but may be otherwise trained at mediators.

The mediator will usually be shielded versus violation of agreement or oversight by an exclusion of obligation clause in a mediation contract. After the consultation of an independent mediator, you as well as the various other party to the dispute will be required to enter into a mediation contract with a mediator.

What is the mediation procedure?

At the start of the mediation process, the celebrations ought to settle on some sort of framework or structure that mediation should adhere to, consisting of a proper schedule. An appropriate place needs to be selected, preferably a neutral location. There must be a sufficient number of rooms offered for every party to talk about the problems in private and in confidence.

If a dispute is intricate, the celebrations will require to settle on some directions prior to the mediation begins. Each event may be called for to prepare and submit a kind of ‘statements of situation’ to the mediator so that the mediator has advancement notice of each party’s placement.

The parties may likewise be called for to prepare a package of appropriate records to be revealed to the mediator, and to each various other, prior to mediation commences. The celebrations must after that determine that will certainly participate in the mediation (eg. the representatives of each event).

The mediation typically starts with a ‘plenary’ session. The mediator will certainly introduce the nature of the dispute, as well as recognize and also clarify the goals of mediation. The mediator will additionally deal with other concerns, for example, impartiality, procedural rules, discretion and also opportunity, as well as lawful status of the agreement got to.

Each party will offer their instance to the mediator without interruption by the other celebration. The events will certainly after that try to get to settlement, and each event might make its very own proposition for settlement. The mediator might attempt to tighten down the problems to help with the settlement between the events.

What is the outcome of mediation?

The result of the mediation may be a complete or a partial settlement- or one or both of the events (and even the mediator) can end the mediation. If mediation is not successful, the parties can after that litigate.

If a complete resolution is gotten to, a settlement agreement will be prepared. Usually, this is prepared by a lawyer yet can be done by a mediator. If the settlement was just partial, a settlement agreement will certainly be prepared, yet only in connection with those settled and also settled matters.

Just how is a settlement agreement enforced?

A settlement agreement can only be applied if the events enter into a legally binding agreement. For this factor, the mediation contract need to make it clear that the celebrations intend to be bound by any type of settlement agreement following the mediation.

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The benefits of mediation in resolving – family conflicts

Today marks completion of family mediation week. In this blog we recaps the mediation procedure as well as, as thought about in our historical blog sites, take a look at the key advantages of mediation and other techniques of dispute resolution as a method of fixing the useful plans adhering to splitting up.

The family mediation procedure

Call – mediation typically begins with the mediator having a brief preliminary call with each of the events. The function of this call is to talk with the celebrations concerning the mediation procedure as well as consider separately with them whether there are any type of problems which would indicate that mediation is not ideal.
Individual conferences – complying with the preliminary telephone calls, the mediator will certainly have a conference with each party independently (this is often called a Mediation Info Analysis Meeting (MIAM)) to review the background briefly as well as clarify a bit much more about the mediation process. The first conferences are confidential and so the material will not be discussed with the other event.
First joint conference – complying with the individual conferences, if the events want to wage mediation, they will certainly prepare a joint session with the mediator. The initial meeting is utilized to undergo the Agreement to Mediate kind, deal with any kind of interim or pushing problems and to set the program for future sessions.
Further joint conferences – the emphasis of future meetings will rely on the concerns the events want to cover however this will generally entail conversation around the plans for the kids complied with by a testimonial of the events’ financial disclosure and an expedition of feasible financial settlement.
In the event that an agreement is gotten to, the mediator can videotape the pertinent details and also decisions in a number of files called:

Open Financial Statement- this documents the parties’ monetary info as set out in the financial disclosure given. This is an open as opposed to without prejudice paper.
Memorandum of Recognizing- this documents the conversations in mediation as well as the total choices got to. This is a without prejudice paper and can not be divulged in any type of court proceedings.
Parenting Strategy- this records the plans for the youngsters and any other matters moms and dads wish to record in regard of the everyday care of their youngsters.
Any type of agreement gotten to in mediation is not legitimately binding till the parties have actually had independent legal recommendations on it. When this has actually occurred, one of the celebration’s attorneys will generally turn the Memorandum of Understanding into an order which can be lodged at court for authorization by a judge.

The advantages of family mediation

There are a number of benefits to the mediation process, a few of which are set out below. Mediation is wrong for every person and also the mediator and also an event’s very own solicitor will certainly consider any issues which may make mediation hard or inappropriate. The advantages consist of:

The mediator will urge the events to set the program and confirm what they want to cover in mediation. You can attend to issues vital to your own family as well as those which may not otherwise be relevant in a court process.
Mediation sessions can be scheduled a time as well as place practical to you and the mediator. You choose the size of time between sessions as well as manage its speed. You won’t need to wait months for the following day as can take place in a court process, and equally you can guarantee you each have enough time to look at economic disclosure and also review recommendations made.
Choices got to in mediation can be tailored to fit your family. This remains in contrast to court imposed choices where the judge may not have the power to enforce similar arrangements or has not appreciated the subtlety of why a particular suggestion might be better.
When a decision is made together in mediation, it is a lot more most likely that events will be content with and also stick to it. Mediation is designed to advertise communication and also an on-going co-parenting connection.
Privacy – mediation is a private as well as confidential procedure which means that events are motivated to be open concerning choices they want to take into consideration. This generally causes celebrations making tips they would certainly hesitate to make in court proceedings. For high profile customers, it is likewise a method of keeping information of your partnership out of the general public eye.
Prices as well as speed – if effective, mediation can be less costly and also quicker than court proceedings. By setting the program and also picking the number of sessions you have, parties have far more control over the process than when they are part of court procedures. The mediator will additionally handle the process as well as make sure that mediation does not proceed if it is ineffective or making matters worse.
Although family mediation has actually been in focus today with #FamilyMediationweek, in suitable cases it can supply an important method of dealing with family disputes properly and agreeably as well as it should be something that is motivated all year.

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What Does Mediation Price?

If you are eligible for lawful help, family mediation will certainly be complimentary. If your partner has legal aid for family mediation, you will certainly be charged only for the second and also any type of succeeding mediation sessions- the information and also assessment conference, and also initial mediation session will certainly be free for you, too.

If you need to pay for mediation, ask your FMC Registered Mediator what their fees are when you initially contact them. You may wish to telephone a couple of neighborhood mediators to compare costs, as these can vary.

As a guide, FMC Registered Mediators charge approximately ₤ 140 each per hr for mediation sessions and also preparing documentation, but this will vary depending upon the where in the nation the mediator is based, and the kind of issues you need to talk about.

At the first conference (typically known as a MIAM), the mediator will certainly let you recognize if they think you may qualify for lawful help. Mediators that have a contract to provide Legal Aid will have the ability to perform an official evaluation. You can locate an FMC Registered Mediator who provides legal help by searching below.

The mediator will certainly likewise be able to provide you a more accurate price quote of how much mediation is likely to cost (based on the variety of sessions that the mediator believes that you will need to get to an agreement), and the price of drafting any kind of essential documents.

Can I obtain legal aid?

If you get on a reduced earnings, you might have the ability to get lawful aid to help pay for several of:

  • The Mediation Info & Evaluation Satisfying (MIAM).
  • Mediation sessions.

Lawful assistance in assistance for mediation.
If your instance isn’t suitable for mediation, in some situations you might get legal aid for various other sorts of legal aid.

Lawful aid may be readily available to one or both of you, and everyone will certainly be analyzed individually. Even if only one individual can get lawful help, the cost for the MIAM as well as the expense of the very first complete mediation session will be covered for both people.

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Exactly how to Prepare For Your Initial Mediation Session

We’ve talked about in this blog site whether you must or should not use mediation, what it is, how it can assist, etc. Let’s assume that you’ve determined to go through with the process. Where do you start? Divorce Mediator Michelle Nix recently shared these 8 things you should do before your initial mediation session, and also we wish to share them here with you:

  1. Bring organized economic papers. This includes a checklist of your assets, equilibriums of your savings account, retired life funds, and so on. For your financial debts, you require to know the equilibrium and also month-to-month settlement of each. Bring evidence of all accounts and also financial debts. Attempt making a spread sheet to maintain your assets/debts organized.|For your debts, you need to understand the balance as well as monthly payment of each. Bring evidence of all accounts and also debts.}
  2. Obtain your emotions controlled. This is NOT the time to be upsetting, terrible, rude, and so on. An effective mediation will be carried out in one of the most positive light that both events can bring.
  3. Prepare to work out, not suggest. Arguing is not going to get either event anywhere. Let the mediator help you bargain.
  4. You can ask to speak privately with the mediator. If you have concerns that you can’t share in front of your partner, you have choices. Don’t allow that obtain the very best of you, yet instead, ask to speak to your mediator separately.
  5. Select a qualified lawyer to suggest you. Select a family divorce lawyer who will certainly have your benefit in mind and also totally comprehends your objectives is having a brief, affordable hassle-free divorce procedure.
  6. Strategy a budget plan. If you don’t know just how much money you require as well as how much you spend, it will be difficult to have a solid understanding of what you’re bargaining for.
  7. Discover your rights/obligations. Inform yourself on the procedure. Your attorney must be able to help you in becoming well-informed concerning what you’re undergoing as well as what you need to be familiar with.
  8. Place your concerns on the table. You could do this in creating, as a matter of fact, it’s advised. Just because you’re not wanting to argue doesn’t imply you should not include a listing of things that you highly believe you should not back down from.

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