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RATS I have the wheel bearing howl
Looks like I will be doing a DIY of changing your wheel bearings soon. Started to get a speed related howl that gets worse when hot and that is usually wheel bearings. Hope it's the normal just the rear ones and the front ones look like a real pain to do. 40,000+ KM only
Well good news bad news LOL. Quick checked the wheel bearings without removing the tires and they all seem ok.
So went further and started it up in my car port so all the noises get exaggerated and I can hear the noise from the engine bay.
Checked maybe it was the replacement fan motor but still there with the A/C off.
Maybe a throwout bearing nope still there clutch in or out.
Gearbox ... nope still there in gear or neutral no change.
So it may be the alternator and or idler pulley. Going to have to pull the fan belt to check on some other day as I understand it's a pain in the butt to remove.
So I finally broke down and took it to a local dealer and there is Good News Bad News and even Better Good News LOL.
Went to the dealer and the good news is that my diagnostic skills are still working as they agreed with my assessment. So in goes my baby and I told them to just replace both sides if one was bad. Up on the lift wheels off and a couple minutes later yep bad wheel bearing on the right rear.
OK but now the bad news.............. we can't get a new bearing for a month?????
I said you people are nuts. But more good news they did all this checking and printed out the part number FOR FREE and it's even old and out of warranty.
This place is the place I buy my parts as is is bigger and newer than where I bought my car but they couldn't get the part for a month???????
So back to my original dealer that is located maybe 10 minutes away even in traffic. Took the handy print out and asked in the parts room do you have this in stock?
Nope and I thought cripes it's going to be a month when he piped up we don't have it now but we can have one here tomorrow morning. Great order it.
So here were have two dealers both Honda, a couple miles apart, and one can get the part overnight and the other one says it will take a MONTH?????????? sometimes this place drives me nuts.
But the best news is total, all in, tax, labor, and parts $184.00
Well it sure is nice to have my baby back in tip top condition.
Only took 0.7 of an hour to change the bearing and hub and the huge labor charge was $13.00
All done even cheaper than I thought $167.28 including that whopping labor charge.
Guessing I will have to replace my coilpacks soon.
40,000 + mile wheel bearing
My 2015 FIT started the wheel bearing howl last week (40397 miles). Dealership said it was rare, but happens... but it's covered under the drive-train warranty, so they'll replace both rear bearings tomorrow - free of charge.
The question is: how many Hondas need new wheel bearings at the 40,000 mile mark? Should there be a service bulletin or something?? My 2008 FIT was sold with @200,000 miles & never had a wheel bearing issue.
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A lot of news came out of the Winter Meetings in Orlando, but no transaction was more important than a confrontation in the hotel parking lot, where two agents reportedly threw down after one accused the other of trying to steal his client.
Jeff Passan of Yahoo attempted to get to the bottom of things and even obtained grainy video, shot at a distance, of part of the fight.
While it remains unclear who the men were, context clues from two witnesses to the altercation indicated that the fracas, which featured at least one kick, a handful of wild haymakers and intervention from both a local sheriff and hotel security, happened after one player agent accused another of trying to poach a client.
Stay the [expletive] away from my guy!" one man yelled, according to witnesses who described the chaotic – and amusing – scene to Yahoo Sports in exchange for anonymity.
There was lots of yelling and pushing, including the angrier man upping the ante significantly when he said, according to the witnesses, "I'm gonna burn your [expletive] house down!" One of the men, said the witness recording the video, seemed to be apologizing – and then threw a punch to restart the fracas.
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Tenant advocates and property managers in San Francisco's hyperactive real estate market are fretting about new earthquake safety rules that will spike the cost of repairing older buildings and ultimately increase monthly rents.
On the anniversary of the 1906 earthquake that killed hundreds of people and leveled much of San Francisco, the city approved a new law Thursday requiring thousands of apartment buildings to be upgraded to better withstand tremors.
Owners of about 3,000 multi-unit residential buildings sprinkled throughout the city will have to shoulder the sizeable costs of the seismic retrofits but will be allowed to pass on those costs to tenants, although some may qualify for an exemption.
In a city where a one-bedroom apartment rents for nearly $2,200 per month, any increase to the already sky-high cost of housing prompts a conversation.
"Tenants are struggling already, so paying even an extra $50 on top of that is pretty hard for most people," said Ted Gullicksen, the director of the nonprofit San Francisco Tenants' Union. "The heftiest rent increases will be in the smaller buildings, just because there are fewer tenants to share the costs."
Mayor Ed Lee signed the bill Thursday, saying the measure would better protect the nearly 60,000 people who live or work in those buildings from potential disaster.
"This mandatory seismic retrofit program will protect San Franciscans, protect our housing stock and ensure San Francisco can rapidly recover from the next earthquake," Lee said in a statement. "We renew our commitment to making sure that disasters such as the 1906 earthquake and fire do not devastate our city again."
The retrofitting legislation covers so-called soft-story multi-unit buildings built before building codes were changed in 1978 - that is, those with three or more stories that are wood-framed and have a garage or other similar opening on the ground floor.
Owners of suspected soft-story buildings will receive notices in the mail, which will give them a year to get an inspection to determine whether they need to retrofit.
Authorities estimate the upgrades could cost around $60,000 to $130,000 per building. Lee said banks are developing financing packages for owners to help pay for the work.
As part of a compromise with tenant advocates, the city also tentatively agreed to streamline its process for qualifying those who make less than $78,000 per year for a hardship exemption from the pass-through costs, Gullicksen said.
A separate, pending city ordinance would exempt single parents on welfare or senior citizens from the retrofitting-related rent increases.
While much of the city's real estate market is soaring thanks to a tech boom that has attracted giants such as Twitter to the city's downtown, many apartment owners are limited in what they can charge because most private units are rent controlled, said Charley Goss, government and community affairs coordinator of the San Francisco Apartment Association. That is often the case for owners of the buildings most likely to be affected in the Mission, Western Addition and Marina neighborhoods, he added.
"The owners that can best shoulder the costs probably would have rented their apartments recently, so would be getting their full market value," he said. "Those who haven't will likely have to get a refinance on their building or get a second mortgage or a loan."
Robert Link, who owns a small property management firm, said he would have to spend about $70,000 to retrofit an Edwardian multi-unit building he owns in the inner Richmond.
"The ultimate beneficiary here is not the property owners but San Francisco tenants, because doing these upgrades will preserve rent-controlled buildings," he said. "Really what this requires is managing tenants' needs and expectations of the process, and giving them advance notice of as much as you can of the work to be done."
San Francisco's rents have been climbing in the last several years, leveling off only recently as experts say the market has approached saturation.
Rents average $2,175 for a one-bedroom, one-bathroom apartment, according to RealFacts, a Novato consulting group that tracks apartment complexes with 50 or more units.
After the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989, San Francisco mandated retrofitting of unreinforced masonry, or brick, buildings. But the effort to bolster soft-story apartment buildings was a tougher sell, and was opposed by owners and tenants rights advocates concerned over the rent increases.
Seismologists predict that a significant earthquake in the region - two to three times as strong as Loma Prieta - is likely to occur within the next 30 years.
"When an earthquake happens, these buildings will be vulnerable. If we're going to be able to recover, this is a necessary step," Goss said.


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The Bay Area Science Festival is a 10 day Bay Area wide celebration of the unique science and technology of the region. Scientists from our local universities, companies, and museums will share their stories, passion, and science at over 200 events. Programs will feature hands-on-activities, provocative conversations, electrifying performances, and tours of cutting-edge facilities. Science is heading out of the lab and into our community so it can be accessible for all.
The festival is a collaboration of many local institutions including universities, science museums, professional laboratories, corporations, and community groups. Over the 10 days, there will be a variety of cross-discipline dialogues, star parties, science cafes, laboratory tours and open houses, all culminating with a final science carnival geared to have 50,000 attendees. The festival brings together 3 regions of the Bay: San Francisco, East Bay, and South Bay.
Simply put it will be the best of science by the Bay.
Festival launches in Fall of 2011.
75% of events will be geared to youth/families. Of that group, 33% should be from under served populations who don't typically have access to science.
25% of event will be geared to adults, specifically 18-49, college educated.
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Logo should contain the name "Bay Area Science Festival". Graphics, icons, etc. are up to you. Clean modern fonts encouraged.
Emphasis on a clean, almost elegant look - but still retaining a bit of energy.
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http://www.sciencechicago.com/ (love the iconic Chicago branding along with science)
http://www.sdsciencefestival.com/ (a little youthful for my taste - but enjoy the energy of it)
http://www.calacademy.org/ (As a potential partner, our logo cannot be too similar)
Winner will potentially have more work as we are looking for a web design, t-shirts, and a great deal of print work over the next year.
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This greed includes mistreating former Con-way Freight workers in the United States who are being kept in the dark about terminal closures and layoffs, and the company's illegal refusal to bargain contracts and denying their workers' federally protected right to organize. It also includes port, rail and last-mile drivers around the country and in Southern California fighting wage theft in excess of $200 million because they are misclassified as independent contractors and denied the right to form their union. This greed has caused numerous lawsuits and strikes. Greed also means an unsafe workplace and mistreating its warehouse employees.
XPO's greed extends to Europe beginning with breaking its promise to not layoff any workers for at least 18 months. French workers and the unions have been fighting back against XPO's disrespect, lies and attempts to slash jobs. Similar struggles are taking place in Great Britain, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, and across Europe.
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Events lined up for me yesterday such that the plants were all watered and the husband had a free day, so we went to Cedar Rapids so he could watch me buy plants. Except he didn't even do that, because he stayed out in the car with Sheba, so really it was more like, he drove me to Cedar Rapids and then watched me bring plant-containing bags out of stores. It's apparently more fun than it sounds like.
Sheba, meanwhile, threw up twice during the trip and then once again after we got her back home, which hasn't happened in a long time, and we're all a little confused about why it would have happened on this particular trip. She'd been doing so well with car rides previously. Sheba never seems particularly disturbed about throwing up, but she's also never really happy about it either, unlike some dogs. Mostly, yesterday, she just seemed kind of tired. (In fairness, the trip was cutting into her nap time quite a bit.)
But so anyway, the point is that I didn't have time last night to get a post together, by the time the plants all got unpacked and photographed and added to the spreadsheets and stuff. Ordinarily, I wouldn't have gone out without having a post ready first, 'cause I'm all responsible like that, but I've been working for a couple weeks now on a post about the trip to the Quad City Botanical Center, and it hasn't been going well. Also it might want to be three posts. I don't know. The upshot is that I've been running around a lot, and this could pay off in the form of all kinds of really cool posts about all kinds of great stuff at any moment, so be ready.
Meanwhile, for today, you get a photo from the Menards parking lot in Iowa City, which isn't plant-related but has to do with a plant-buying trip so it's, like, plant related by association, or something.
There's a pretty substantial Amish and Mennonite community around here, mostly south of us, in and around Kalona. And sometimes they need to go to Menards.
This is something one sees occasionally in the area, especially near Kalona, though it's fairly unusual to see horse-drawn carriages as far north as Iowa City. Too much traffic, I suspect, to be horse-friendly. I saw plenty of people doing double-takes in the parking lot. One couple even whipped out a camera and got a photo with the horses in the background. (Yes, I was taking pictures too. But it's different: I'm a blogger. I have to.)
If I can get one together, there will be a plant-related post this afternoon, but I also have to start watering again today, and there are a ton of pictures to sort, so that might happen, and it might not. We'll see.
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Other: Menards Parking Lot
Events lined up for me yesterday such that the plants were all watered and the husband had a free day, so we went to Cedar Rapids so he could watch me buy plants. Except he didn't even do that, because he stayed out in the car with Sheba, so really it was more like, he drove me to Cedar Rapids and then watched me bring plant-containing bags out of stores. It's apparently more fun than it sounds like.
6 comments:
I hope you had a bucket and shovel so you could get some of nature's best fertilizer, delivered by the kindly Amish horses!
- December 2, 2010 at 3:47 AM
- Mark My Words said...
I relieved to hear that somebody else also inventories their plants on spreadsheets :)
- December 2, 2010 at 4:59 AM
- Paul said...
(Kind) laughs to Ginny. I bet horse plop indoors during the winter would be...something. But it worked wonders on my acorn squash.
RE: Dog barfs - some dogs are just weird like that. As long as she doesn't keep doing it or show any other symptoms (shivering, withdrawn apathy, squirts, immobility), she should be ok. My pits have hyperdelicate stomachs and will even reject some new dog foods. My girl is worse, but she had heartworm when first adopted, so that could play into her sensitivity now.
- December 2, 2010 at 6:42 AM
- Peter said...
I hear the odds are now that anyone taking photos in Amish Country being a blogger are 2 to 1.
- December 2, 2010 at 7:51 AM
- Thomas said...
I'm guessing since you didn't mention it, Sheba didn't notice the horses?
- December 3, 2010 at 1:09 AM
- mr_subjunctive said...
No, she did, and was intensely interested for about five minutes, even whining a bit (which she rarely does), but she got over it pretty quickly once she realized she couldn't get to them.
- December 3, 2010 at 5:05 AM


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- "That scumbag McAffrey! He took more bribes than anyone! He thinks he's gonna get an honorable discharge if he turns state's evidence! He just squealed!"
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Ray is angry at Leon McAffrey (his former partner) for ratting on him about his ties with the Yakuza. He instructs Claude to head to Newport and torch McAffrey's safehouse to lure him outside and kill him. Claude is given some grenades to do the job. Claude heads to McAffrey's safehouse and lobs a grenade into an open window. The safehouse is torched and McAffrey attempts to escape in a Sentinel from the garage. Claude manages to kill McAffrey in time with LCPD officers attacking him with AK-47s.
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In these days of war and a struggling economy, local resident Todd Ely has a passion replacing cars with bikes. Every bike that takes the place of a car means less energy wasted and less pollution created. It's a simple philosophy.
Located on Ninth Street in a building it shares with a church, Ely's shop, Basic Cycles, nestles among a car upholstery shop, a car parts store, and a car garage– they should call the street Gasoline Alley. It's in this ironic spot that Ely plies his trade of keeping people on two unpowered wheels.
With his apprentice, Daniel Wilson, Ely serves a very basic need of Charlottesville residents. As I stood in the shop for a half an hour or so, I must have seen at least 10 customers come in with problems ranging from a simple flat tire to more complicated problems like broken spokes.


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You were expecting the Hollywood Foreign Press Association to invite Bane to its party? Probably not. So, no, the fact that "The Dark Knight Rises" didn't figure into Thursday's top nominations for the 70th annual Golden Globes wasn't surprising. But, considering the Batman movie's overall acclaim, it was a snub.
Other quick takes on surprising nods -- and exclusions:
'Les Mis' and 'Lincoln' come up big at Globe noms
1. "Les Miserables"
Wait, didn't it get nominated for Best Comedy/Musical? And didn't Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway get their expecting acting nods? Yes, but if you want to cut a movie off at the knees, then you don't nominate its director, which is what happened to Tom Hooper. A bad Oscar omen? Or just proof that the HFPA really, really, really loves Quentin Tarantino, who was nominated for "Django Unchained"?
2. Richard Gere in, Anthony Hopkins out
With Jackman being nominated on the Comedy/Musical side, there was an opening in the Drama Actor category, an opening you might've guessed would go to "Hitchcock" favorite Hopkins. But it didn't. Gere, who got good buzz for the indie "Arbitrage" and who's been the beneficiary of a diligent awards-season campaign, took the slot instead.
3. "Beasts of the Southern Wild"
You know how some movies are just not Oscar movies? This movie would be an example of the kind of film that's just not a Golden Globes movie. The no-budget wonder, which many expect will still figure into the Academy Awards, got nothing from the HFPA.
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Yes, he got nominated for "Lincoln," but he was also very good in "Hope Springs," which the Globes saw fit to honor with a Comedy/Musical nod for Meryl Streep.
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Who knew? It got three big nods, for Best Comedy/Musical, Emily Blunt and, in the spot that wasn't taken by "Hope Springs" Jones, Ewan McGregor.
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|This will likely be the first Canon still camera I ever own. Had plenty of Canon video cameras, but I've been a Pentax guy for years (my lens collection has kept me there,) but the video features of the Canon 7D will change that. While the 5D Mk-II produces some awesome looking motion images, the 30.0fps has been a complete pain. We competed against several 5D movies for San Diego's last 48 Hour Film Project, and some of those teams didn't follows the rules and submitted 30.0 masters (we had to convert them all to 29.97 for presentation.) For the 50 teams that submitted, everything was presented at 1080p23.976 except the 5DmkII films -- I'm sure none of those filmmakers wanted to shoot 30p. So the big fix for the 7D, the camera also supports 29.97 and 23.976 -- these frame rates make much more sense for the filmmaker.
Now the 7D is still a heavily compressed I-frame H.264 4:2:0 8-bit, so like the 5D, we will see a huge attach-rate to our Neo product lines (Mac and PC.) The decoder speed of H.264 is poor, so many convert to CineForm just for the improved editing speed.
Now for some speculation, we're hoping the Live View is now full 1080i/p over HDMI, and that the burn-ins can be turned off, as then you would able to capture directly, bypassing the H.264 compression. Fingers crossed! If this came true, the 23.976p mode will likely go out as 60i, with pulldown (for wider display compatibility), fortunately we can remove that on the fly. In addition to removing compression issues, the HDMI preview may be 4:2:2, rather than just 4:2:0, so it will be nicer for keying. It will still be 8-bit -- but for a $1700 camera, with tethering recording with much lighter compression (via BM Instensity or AJA Xena/IOexpress) -- you can't beat it.
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Our aim is to make the record keeping process simple, fast and effective. Records such as Invoices, Expenses, Client details can be managed via our new online application.
As part of the launch we require some graphics to help in the sales and communication process. These graphics do not need to be overly complex...just look professional with some small details to portray the main points across.
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We require x5 graphics/animation to be delivered which are consistent with each other. We do no expect the graphics to be super detailed as the points we are getting across are quite simple. They do not need to large either. I have attached an example (example1) which show the type of detail we want.
1. A graphic which represents SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS, CONTRACTORS OR FREELANCERS. I have attached an example for this graphic.
2. A graphic which represents SIMPLICITY. The idea behind this is to ensure people feel comfortable with using the tool and don't need to learn too much. Maybe something like a man relaxing or a mouse pointer clicking a button...I am open to anything you come up with.
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5. And finally a graphic which can act like a container...see the attached example. This container will be used in the website banner area and will contain some sales text or quotes or press release.
I am free for all suggestions, I have also attached a colour palette which should be used in the submissions.


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Prime-time Cultural Revolution
Cairo's streets were just as deserted as if the national football team had been playing a match, and cafés were packed full of curious onlookers following the sparring on screen: the televised duel between Amr Moussa, former secretary-general of the Arab League and former foreign minister under Mubarak, and Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, a physician and former member of the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood.
Many invited friends over to watch the TV debate at home. At least in terms of the timing and duration of the broadcast, Cairo lived up to its reputation as a city that never sleeps. For four long hours, until two o'clock in the morning, the candidates fought neck-and-neck and at times with no holds barred, especially when it came to trying to discredit their opponent.
Although the debate was strictly regulated according to the US model and broadcast by several independent private television stations, whenever the candidates had the opportunity to question one another outside of their two-minute answers to the 24 pre-defined questions posed by the moderators, the discussion heated up.
Aboul Fotouh, who left the Muslim Brotherhood in 2011 for ideological reasons, citing it as too conservative, and in order to launch his own presidential campaign, was portrayed by Moussa as an Islamist in disguise, with a secret agenda.
Moussa accused Aboul Fotouh of having connections with the so-called "Islamic group" at the university, which later became militant. In the end Moussa warned the audience that with Aboul Fotouh as president the country would return to the days of terrorism and insecurity.
A man of the old regime?
Aboul Fotouh countered by describing Moussa as a man of the Mubarak regime, who as secretary-general of the Arab League had once publicly pushed for Mubarak's re-election. "I would like to hear from you one single word of the opposition you put up against the Mubarak regime back then," said Aboul Fotouh, who was imprisoned several times under Mubarak and his predecessor Sadat. While Moussa often looked aggressive on screen, agitatedly pointing his finger at the adversary behind the podium next to him, Aboul Fotouh maintained his composure.
At other times, the debate was directed forward toward the audience, for example when the candidates were asked to describe the relationship between religion, state and military, and to outline their proposals for dealing with social issues, the health-care system and the role of women.
Moussa consistently presented himself as the candidate with the greater fund of political experience needed to lead the country into a new era. Aboul Fotouh in turn emphasised his role as a man of the revolution, remembering at the beginning of the debate those who lost their lives in the uprising against Mubarak, to whom he wished to do justice as president with a fundamental transformation of the country.
He has forged quite a colourful coalition of followers by now, gaining the support of a portion of the Salafists, the younger members of the Muslim Brotherhood, as well as some liberals and leftists: even the Tahrir youth see him as the best and most promising candidate. It is precisely this contradictory coalition that Moussa continually used as ammunition against him in the debate, asking how he proposed to merge these divergent interests in a coherent programme.
Candidate of the "silent majority"
Moussa for his part has united behind him all those who fear the political influence of the Islamists, as well as the so-called "silent majority" who are hoping less for change than for a return to order.
According to a recent opinion survey conducted by a political consulting institute working for the cabinet, which however took place before the TV debate, in early May, nine per cent of those surveyed would vote for Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, followed by eight per cent for the last prime minister under Mubarak, Ahmad Schafiq, and seven for Moussa. The other ten candidates would obtain a maximum of four per cent of the votes, among them the official Muslim Brotherhood candidate, Muhammad Mursi.
The survey determined that 39 per cent of voters have not yet decided whom they will choose, with a slight majority tending toward Aboul Fotouh. Another 17 per cent said they had not yet decided if they would vote at all on 23 and 24 May, while eight per cent provided no information. It is however unclear how reliable such surveys are in democratically inexperienced Egypt.
The probable outcome is that none of the 13 candidates will collect over 50 per cent of the votes, and that a run-off will follow in June. In Mubarak's day, there was usually only a referendum in which voters could vote "yes" or "no". Opposing candidates were allowed just once, in 2005.
In every case, Mubarak miraculously won some 90 per cent of the votes. As a Tweet commented with regard to the recent four-hour TV debate: "Mubarak is lying in bed somewhere in a Cairo hospital, chuckling to himself and thinking: I didn't have to give even a single interview to get this job!"
Karim El Gawhary
© Qantara.de 2012
Translated from the German by Jennifer Taylor
Editors: Arian Fariborz, Lewis Gropp/Qantara.de


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Although the past few SmackDown Vs. Raw titles have featured special unlockable "superstar" wrestlers from the WWE's past, there has never been a title that focused directly on legendary wrestlers from the WWE's past. That is, until now.
Legends of WrestleMania is the first WWE-based wrestling game to give you WrestleMania-focused gameplay involving classic wrestlers like Rowdy Roddy Piper, Dusty Rhodes, and Bret Hart, letting you relieve their classic WrestleMania fights.
The game's main mode, WrestleMania Tour Mode is pretty much this game's selling point, allowing you to relive classic WrestleMania bouts. When you enter the mode, you are invited to either Relive, Rematch, or Redefine classic matches from WrestleMania events past. Before you start each match, a highlight reel detailing the events prior to the WrestleMania match is displayed, and you are treated to about five minutes of classic footage.
If you have chosen to Relive a WrestleMania bout, you will play as the match victor, and your goal will be not only to win the match, but to fulfill a set of objectives to make the match more like it was during the real event. For instance, if you are playing the WrestleMania II steel cage mach between "Hulk" Hogan and King Kong Bundy, you will get extra points if you are able to prevent Bundy from attempting to leave the steel cage mid-match. If you fulfill enough of these extra objectives, you will win a "medal," which will allow you to unlock the next WrestleMania event.
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Journal of the South African Veterinary Association
versão On-line ISSN 2224-9435
versão impressa ISSN 1019-9128
J. S. Afr. Vet. Assoc. vol.82 no.2 Pretoria Jan. 2011
In the article 'Pathology and immunohistochemistry of papillomavirus-associated cutaneous lesions in Cape mountain zebra, giraffe, sable antelope and African buffalo in South Africa' by J H Williams, E van Dyk, P J Nel, E Lane, E Van Wilpe, R G Bengis, L-M de Klerk-Lorist and J van Heerden that appeared in the Journal of the South African Veterinary Association (2011) 82(2): 97-106, the last sentence in the Acknowledgements section (p. 105) should have read as follows:
Professor Kotze of the National Zoological Gardens of South Africa is thanked for logistical support. The United States Fish and Wildlife Service - Africa without Borders Programme provided funds for the histology of Giraffe 2.


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Sliy varr
Posted by David FG on October 28, 2005
In Reply to: Sliy varr posted by Lewis on October 27, 2005
: : : : : I am from Austria and have an argument with a friend (whoes roots are scotish) about the word "shlanzie var", if it is Scotish or Irish. I would be glad to find out if I did the right spelling and where it really comes from.
: : : : : It's spelt Slainte Mhath (plus some accents that I don't know how to reproduce online), and it is both Scots Gaelic and Irish Gaelic, these languages being twins.
: : : Is there any rational method to detect how Irish is pronounced? It's certainly not phoenetic. Is "Mhath" really pronounced "var"? My ancestors were (as the rhyme goes) "men that god made mad/for all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad." And their written language impenetrable.
: : What makes the spelling of Irish (and Scots Gaelic) so apparently irrational is that it is designed not simply to convey the sound, but to show the sound's relationship to the root form of the word, the one you will find in the dictionary. Any word in a Celtic language beginning with an initial M will - under a number of grammatical circumstances - mutate to a V sound, and Irish orthography represents this change by adding an "h". Several other initial letters mutate in the same way, and in each case the mutated sound is represented by that letter plus "h" . Once you have cracked that code it actually makes reading Irish easier because you can see straight away what the root form of the word is. The spelling of Welsh, another related language in which initial sounds mutate similarly, is on the contrary strictly phonetic. E.g. there is a hill in Snowdonia called Moel Famau which means "mother's hill" . "Hill" in Welsh is "moel" and "mother" is "mam"; put together the initial M sound of "mam" mutates to a V sound (a single F is pronounced V in Welsh). Under this system it's easier to see how to pronounce a given word but the connection with the root form is less obvious. (VSD)
: I always thought it pronounced 'sliy varr' - is that near enough to not offend?
: I have some 'made in the hills by a mate of Gerry' poteen in my freezer - as that is where I always keep eau-de-vie like Poire William, Genever, Vodka, etc - is that an offensive practice? I wouldn't put whisk(e)y in the fridge, but the high-strength spirits drunk neat seem very good ice cold.
As an Irishman with a modest acquaintance with Irish (why do the English insist on calling it 'Gaelic' by the way: it is called Irish by those of us who speak it,) I would like to divulge the real reason why the spelling seems (to English eyes) so at variance with pronunciation: it is a part of the ages-old campaign to confuse the English. Simple.
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- How many roads? the question David FG 02/November/05
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Software updates enhance the functionality of the Suunto EON Steel through new features and improvements. We strongly encourage you to install updates as soon as they are available.
To update your Suunto EON Steel:
1. Install DM5 (if you have not done so already) and open it. If the DM5 offers you an update, please do the update before proceeding.
2. Connect your EON Steel to your computer with the supplied USB cable.
3. When update is available, an update button appears on the DM5 devices page. If you are using a laptop, connect it to your charger before proceeding.
4. Click the update button and wait for the installation to complete. This may take 10 minutes or more.
See also the video how to do an update.
The software update 1.1 introduces gas time, rebreather (CCR) support and real-time gas consumption. The update also brings compass bearing lock and further improvements requested by divers.
Gas time
In addition to tank pressure, the new gas time reading allows you to estimate how long you can continue diving with your current tank and breathing rate.
Note that gas time is highly dependent on your current depth. The deeper you are, the less gas time you have.
Rebreather mode
Closed-circuit rebreather (CCR) mode allows you to use Suunto EON Steel as a backup dive computer on rebreather dives. The new CCR mode features configurable setpoints, manual or automatic setpoint switching, diluent and bailout gases, as well as CCR-specific warnings.
Combined with the Suunto Fused™ RGBM, Suunto EON Steel CCR features give you extra confidence on your rebreather dives.
Gas consumption
A first for dive computers, Suunto EON Steel calculates real-time gas consumption (requires Suunto Tank POD). Gas consumption – also known as surface air consumption or SAC rate – is measured in liters per minute (cubic feet per minute). It is equal to the amount of air you would use in one minute on the surface.
As you improve your diving skills, you should see your comfort level reflected in your gas consumption rate – the more relaxed you are, the less gas you consume.
Compass bearing lock
The new bearing lock feature allows you to use the digital compass in Suunto EON Steel for more advanced underwater navigation. The bearing lock helps you orientate yourself underwater and ensure you maintain your direction of travel.
For example, you can set a bearing lock for the direction to the reef before leaving the boat, for mapping a cave or a wreck, as well as for following set patterns when shore diving. The bearing lock can be reset at any time. Each bearing lock is recorded in your dive log.
For full product information, please check out the user guide. Please register in the Suunto DM5 to keep up to date with latest product news.


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Tuesday, September 3, 2013
CICERO, Ill. (AP) — Cops in the Chicago area call it a "track," a stretch of street known for its steady sex trade.
Women in tight, scant clothing stand in high heels on street corners along an industrial strip in suburban Cicero. Customers, usually men, slow their cars and roll down a window.
"How much?" they ask.
Some might see these interludes as exchanges between consenting adults, or at the very least, consenting criminals, if the prostitute is, indeed, an adult and seemingly free to come and go as she pleases. They may call it a victimless crime, seeing domestic prostitution as something very different from human sex trafficking — with its cross-border abductions and brutal coercion — a scourge that's come to the forefront of news in recent years.
But are they so different, after all? Increasingly, experts in the field are saying no, and applying the label human trafficking to homegrown prostitution. And now more lawmakers, police and prosecutors across the country are starting to shift their view on this, too. Increasingly, they are focusing on arresting traffickers and customers (pimps and johns, as it were) and on getting help for prostitutes.
"It's almost similar to a domestic violence issue," says Michael Anton, commander of the Cook County Sheriff's vice unit, based in the Chicago. "A lot of (people) say, 'Well, they can just get out.'
"Well, it's not that easy."
As of this year, Illinois became one of several states where prostitution is no longer a felony. It's also one of a growing number where a minor cannot be charged with prostitution, even as a misdemeanor. Meanwhile, prosecutors in Cook County, which includes Chicago, have set up a human trafficking unit and, in recent years, have been using new state laws to put more traffickers in jail.
Cook County Sheriff's police also run regular sting operations to ticket customers who proposition undercover female police officers, or who use popular escort websites. The johns must pay a fine. Police also impound their cars.
"Dear John," read billboards the department has posted near various tracks: "If You're Here To Solicit Sex, It Could Cost You $2,150. We're Teaming Up To Bust You."
The money funds a rehabilitation program for prostitutes, and Anton says his vice unit officers have never arrested the same customer twice.
"I'm not saying we've stopped it," he says. "They might be going to other areas. But we haven't seen them again."
Elsewhere, a law passed in New York state in 2010 allows women who can prove they were coerced to have prostitution convictions wiped from their records — a move that advocates say allows them more options for housing and employment.
And in California, voters recently passed Proposition 35, which increases prison terms for human traffickers, as well as fines, which also are to be used to pay for services for victims.
It's progress, experts say. Yet a question often persists: Who is really a victim?
"We've got this idea of an ideal victim — someone who is physically locked in a room, chained up . and who makes no money," says Catherine Longkumer, a Chicago attorney who works with victims of trafficking to help them get their lives back together.
Certainly that classic example of the locked-up trafficking victim exists on our shores, too.
But others, she says, are forced into prostitution with more subtle, yet equally paralyzing coercion. While it's not always obvious to the outside world, intimidation and drug addiction become tools for control.
"The reality is that traffickers are very smart," Longkumer says. "You can use a lot of psychological coercion to keep a person bonded, things like threats, or 'If you try to leave, you'll be deported, or your family will be harmed.'"
But the matter of victimhood can get even murkier than that.
Bridget Carr, a trafficking expert and clinical professor of law at the University of Michigan, sees it all the time. She is director of the law school's human trafficking clinic, where students get credit for representing clients, many of them teens and young women who are trying to break free from traffickers and start new lives.
But can people be "victims" if they sell their bodies for sex — and keep some of that money or trade it for drugs? Are they victims if a pimp provides cellphones, buys them clothes, or even cars, or places to stay? In some instances, a prostitute might even have children with her pimp.
"Do we believe that people who make bad choices are victims?" Carr asks.
Often they are, she believes. But sometimes she says the public — and the people who are supposed to enforce these new laws — still have a difficult time seeing prostitutes as victims, even when they're young.
One recent Friday morning in a stuffy, crowded classroom at the Cook County jail in Chicago, a few women shared stories at a meeting of a group called Prostitution Anonymous. If they agree to get help, the women usually are not charged with prostitution in Cook County, though they may face other charges, from drug use to disorderly conduct.
Sheila Johnson, a 33-year-old inmate, told her peers how she had a difficult time breaking free from a boyfriend who was also her pimp, even though she feared him. She was addicted to drugs — and, she admitted, "the money."
"As a regular person, I wouldn't dare do the things that I did because I was on drugs," Johnson said after the meeting, as tears streamed down her face. "Being sober, I wouldn't DARE prostitute."
Tiffany Schipitz, a 35-year-old inmate, said she eventually escaped from a pimp who threatened to kill her if she didn't work for him.
"I'd never been put out on the street. I'm a white suburbanite girl.. That was unheard of growing up," Schipitz says, describing how she fled the car of the first man who came to pick her up for sex. Eventually, though, she ended up back on the street, high, looking to earn more money for drugs.
"The next thing I know, I'm out on that corner, taking cars — one, two, three — like it's nothing," she says.
These are the sorts of stories Sgt. Craig Friesen, head of the vice unit for the police department in Anaheim, Calif., hears often.
"I never met any prostitute who said, 'This was my ultimate goal in life,'" Friesen says. "They've all been brought into this life by someone. They've been exploited by someone."
When determining who's a victim of trafficking, though, his officers are trained to look for signs of coercion. They might ask a hotel clerk if the prostitute was not allowed to speak, or seemed frightened, when checking into a room. They look for bruises and other signs of abuse and bring in former prostitutes to do the interviews.
"You can dig more deeply and ask specific questions," say Friesen, whose department began working with a local social service agency in 2010 in hopes of getting help for prostitutes and cutting the number of repeat offenders.
Department statistics show that from August 2011 through October 2012, Anaheim police arrested and charged 38 pimps. In that time, the department also got help for 52 women who were determined to be victims of human trafficking — and thus, were not charged. Of those, four are known to have returned to prostitution.
Carr, at the University of Michigan, says she hopes more departments will focus on screening prostitutes, female and male, and training officers to recognize the signs of trafficking.
"Really good screening can't take place 10 minutes after an encounter with a law enforcement officer. The victim needs to be put in a safe place," Carr says.
"There are lots of incentives to not say what's happening to you."
But even when officers determine that help is needed, there's often not much they can do.
"Victims assistance is the weakest link in the chain," says Mark Ensalaco, a trafficking expert who's director of the human rights studies program at the University of Dayton.
He recalls one case, in recent years, when a young woman was rescued after an Ohio state trooper stopped a car on the interstate and recognized that she was a victim of sex trafficking. Beyond abuse, those signs can include malnourishment, having few possessions, avoiding eye contact and not having control of personal identification, such as a driver's license or a passport.
This woman, too, was addicted to drugs, Ensalaco says, but never got the help she needed. Eventually, she committed suicide.
Even in states such as Illinois, long-term help — housing, mental health counseling and trauma services that are survivor-led — are lacking, says Lynne Johnson, the policy and advocacy director for the Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation.
"We have little pockets of progress," she says, noting that much of it is aimed at minors. In Chicago, for instance, there's now a long-term safe home with space for eight girls that is funded by a private donor. A drop-in center for youth on the city's West Side, funded by federal grants, is open a couple days a week, Johnson says.
The Salvation Army, as it does in other cities, also helps for victims of human trafficking through its STOP-IT initiative. Those services might include giving victims cellphones, clothing and food, items traffickers may have provided to keep them dependent.
The victims also have access to counseling, but aren't required to attend.
"We don't tell them what to do. Our goal is to build independence, both from traffickers — and from us," says Elyse Dobney, STOP-IT's volunteer manager in the Chicago area.
Brenda Myers-Powell — a former prostitute who now works as a peer specialist and counselor at the Cook County jail — agrees that independence should be the goal.
Early in the process, it's good for the public to understand that victims are victims, she says.
"But you can't stay a victim forever," she says. "At some point, you become a survivor."
As a hand-made sign on the jail wall where the Prostitution Anonymous group meets says: "It's never too late to be what you might have been."
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The top three most visited IKN posts this week are...
...in reverse order:
Third Place: "Stephan Bogner of Rockstone Research, Zimtu's whore", one of those occasions when I care enough to spend more than four minutes on putting a post together. Whatever way you cut it, people who get paid by junior mining companies to writing glowing reports are just trouser-droppers.
Second Place: "Just when you thought Porter Stansberry couldn't be more of an asshole...", another example of how this proven securities fraudster and arch scamster feeds his personal greed by sucking the blood out of the naive.
First Place: "Ten random predictions for 2017". Not a surprise this side of the screen, this post is a popular one every year.
New Year Spanish Language Spelling Tip
Your humble scribe sees it happen at least once every year so let's take two minutes to mark your collective cards, ladies and gentlemen. If you want to wish good things for 2017 to a Spanish speaker, do not say or write "Feliz ano nuevo".
In Spanish, "Año" means "Year"
In Spanish, "Ano" means "Anus"
Indeed that squiggly little line (the enye) is important, because if you get it wrong you're basically wishing your friend a happy new asshole. Therefore, IKN wishes you...
¡Feliz Año Nuevo!
The Friday OT: Beethoven, Symphony No.9, opus 125, Riccardo Muti, Chicago Symphony Orchestra
It's been called so many things over the years. The most innovative symphony ever written, the most important, the world's most widely recognized piece or quite simply, the best musical work ever. Whatever it is for you, it's a rousing end to the year and an underlying message of joy and optimism that will serve us all well in 2017.
It's tough to choose a version, so many good ones out there, but I've gone for Muti and the CSO in 2014. But what you do get today isn't the greatest hits snippets or a cut straight to the big choral finish, you get the whole thing because to truly appreciate #9 you need the full experience.
Youtube here. Magical.
Chart of the day is...
...the SPDR Gold Trust (GLD), the world's biggest gold bullion ETF, 2016 year-to-date, versus the S&P500 index:
The broad markets beat you again, goldbugs. Live with it.
Ten random predictions for 2017
Here we go with the IKN Never-Fail Forecasts* for the year to come. As per the last three years we're sticking to the same general format and a mix of financial, politics and sport. After scoring 5.5/10 in 2013, 6/10 in 2014, 5.5/10 in 2015 and 6/10 in 2016 (financials good, sport mediocre, politics bad) the trend is intact, I'll need to keep up that kind of result number and break the 50/50 barrier again, but as always part of the deal is to go for a real left-field call or two and try hard to fail in a few:
*some restrictions apply
So to business:
*some restrictions apply
So to business:
1) Gold to break through U$1,400/oz in the course of 2017. I'm setting a higher bar this time, $1.4k looks a long way away here at the back end of 2016, but once the Trump Honeymoon wears off and people realize his macro policy is dollar bearish money is going to return to gold. That's the call and it also means IKN expects an excellent year for the precious metals stocks.
2) Copper to break through U$3.10/lb this year. This is also a weak dollar play in part, but it's more about China and the way its economy will pick up as 2017 goes on. I've gone for U$3.10/lb (spot price) to make it just a little more interesting than the more obvious $3.00 line.
3) Uranium will finally put in a rally and move back above U$30/lb. It's been such an easy call to fade the U-Permabulls these last three years, but even stopped clocks get it right twice a day and the one thing we can comfortably predict from a Trump presidency is a new focus on uranium. If you discount the way it turns glass those pretty green colours it only has two real uses and both are likely to get more play from this new Prez.
4) Goldcorp (GG) to merge with Agnico Eagle (AEM). Because Garofalo and Boyd are BFFs, because one has cash and a shitty asset book, because the other has assets and a lack of cash, because GG has been an abject failure in the last three years and David needs to do something before the activist shareholders come around begging for his head.
5) Colombia to become the LatAm mining success story of 2017. The country is finally getting its formal mining ducks in line, FDI will like the roll-out of the peace deal, there are already some good stories there that will get better.
6) Venezuela's government to implode. This is a repeat prediction from last year and one that failed me, but Maduro can't hold on much longer and the oft-delayed recall election is going to be difficult to put off for another year. Once again the acid test of this call will be the ousting or resignation of Maduro, if that happens I win the point.
7) Mauricio Macri and his government to lose heavily in the Argentina mid-term elections. Some happen in August, the big batch in late October/Early November (final date not set yet) and we expect Macri to be a lame duck president once it's all finished. Sergio Massa the likely beneficiary.
8) Juan Martín Del Potro to win at least one Grand Slam tournament in 2017 (Oz, R.Garros, Wimbledon, US). After years in the injury wilderness Delpo returned in style in 2016, first from his near-miracle run in the Olympics, then improving on the Tour, then leading Argentina to its first ever Davis Cup. Now we await the consecration and the long-overdue second GS win.
9) Barcelona to win the 2017 Champion's League and Spanish Primera double. Real has a decent head start on Culé in the league right now, but In Leo We Trust. And by the way, no half points available on this call, both have to happen else it's zero points for me.
10) The UK will not invoke Article 50 before the end of March 2017, the way its PM May said it would just a few weeks ago. The sooner you realize Brexit is one big red herring, the better.
There you go, our Ten For The Prize in 2017, expect the usual postmortem post around next Christmas.
The five most popular Friday OT posts of 2016
It's the back end of 2016 and time for the Friday OT review post (other places do look-back reviews of their fave or most popular posts in the year, we stick to the music). Here are the top five Friday OT posts by hit popularity during the year, all of which can be accessed by clicking on the names:
To begin I'll note that The Friday OT segment got more popular this year and the 5th place song got more hits than last year's winner. Second, it's great to see the variety that made the top five, with a big fat 2016 smash hit (Sugar), a Spanish language track (Hasta el techo) and neo-classical (Nils Frahm) all featured. The only tinge of sadness is the number two top hit post, for obvious reasons. As for numero uno, her impeccable music and that all-time great video is a combo for a worthy winner.
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Gold will rally into the New Year
Expect gold to touch U$1,180/oz before my eldest child's 13th birthday*. That's what TIPS is telling us and here's the famous TIPS/Gold correlation chart (TIPS 10 yr inverse yield) for visual proof:
Since this was taken last night, TIPS has rallied further and the yield is 0.52%. Lots of room for gold to bounce now.
UPDATE: Gold up U$13/oz since this was published, which is a nice start to the rally. But there's more to come.
UPDATE: Gold up U$13/oz since this was published, which is a nice start to the rally. But there's more to come.
*Not telling you the exact date, but it's early January.
Just when you thought Porter Stansberry couldn't be more of an asshole...
..this happens.
Here's the text of the mailer that the proven securities fraudster Porter Stansberry sent out to the list of greenhorns who were stupid enough to give his Casey Research (now a branch of Agora) their e-mail address at some point over the last 20 years and try as they might, can't stop these serial scam merchants from sending them spam:
Dear Reader,The most common complaint we get from our readers is that we advertise too much.Perhaps you think this is true...It may surprise you, but I wish we didn't advertise so much as well.Though I'd never apologize for aggressively getting the word out about Casey Research, I'd prefer to devote all our resources to financial analysis... in an ideal world.Here's the thing, if I did that we'd quickly go out of business and everyone would lose out. So it will never happen.However, there is a way for you to "switch off" 99% of our advertising...I can't guarantee the odd ad won't slip through somewhere, but the vast majority of our advertising will be banished from your inbox with this...You simply need to become a Casey Platinum member...With Platinum, you get everything we publish, for life... and for a massive discount on what we normally charge for our research.What that means is, there's nothing more you can buy from us, and that means no ads.In fact, this could be the last ad you ever read from us...But no advertising is a tiny benefit compared to everything else you get as a Platinum member...The real value of Platinum is that you get all of our moneymaking research, every single alert, issue and recommendation... plus much, much more...See for yourself, right here.Regards,
Justin Spittler
Editor, Casey Daily Dispatch
(And on the words "right here" at the end is a link to the Casey Platinum service advert). In other words all that spam you get from these assholes isn't their fault, it's yours for giving the your mail address at some point. And if you want to turn off the incessant noise you pay them $3,500. Never mind that there is anti-spam laws that Porter Stansberry should adhere to, such as giving clear links and ways to opt out of all unwanted e-mail. Jeez, what a complete moneygrubbing, lowdown asshole he truly is.
PS: We remind readers of the true intentions of this scumbag fraudster Stansberry, via the previous series of posts "Casey Research, now with Stansberry/Agora, will market you to death", which includes excerpts from the Stansberry secret internal dossier on how to extract as much money as possible from anyone stupid enough to hand over their e-mail address to this company of scammers.
PS: We remind readers of the true intentions of this scumbag fraudster Stansberry, via the previous series of posts "Casey Research, now with Stansberry/Agora, will market you to death", which includes excerpts from the Stansberry secret internal dossier on how to extract as much money as possible from anyone stupid enough to hand over their e-mail address to this company of scammers.
Mining PRs and the Ottotrans™, Part 96
It's number 96 in our occasional series and this time it's over to Nolan Watson and his merry crowd at Sandstorm (SAND) (SSL.to), with the top block of today's NR up first and the Ottotrans™ underneath:
VANCOUVER, Dec. 28, 2016 /PRNewswire/ - Sandstorm Gold Ltd. ("Sandstorm" or the "Company") (NYSE MKT: SAND, TSX: SSL) is pleased to provide an update regarding activity under its normal course issuer bid ("NCIB") as well as exploration and development progress at a number of assets underlying the Company's streams and royalties.NORMAL COURSE ISSUER BIDSandstorm previously announced a NCIB (see press release dated March 30, 2016), providing the Company with the option to purchase its common shares when management believes that the common shares are undervalued by the market. The fourth quarter of 2016 has seen significant declines in the price of gold, impacting Sandstorm's share price and market valuation. As a result, the Company has recently purchased some of its common shares. Since December 15, 2016, the Company has purchased 545,977 common shares at a weighted average price of C$4.56 per common share.
And this is what it means:
We had a deal planned but it fell through and we didn't have anything else to do with the cash.
Stephan Bogner of Rockstone Research, Zimtu's whore
Okay, let's make this clear, I have nothing against prostitutes and no particular beef against what's sometimes called the world's oldest profession. That those who practise the trade tend to be women and even if they're not, that the vast majority of clients are men is also beside the point. Also in the sidebar is the way that most prostitutes don't enjoy the luxury, high-class high living ideal (or get picked up and then married to Richard Gere, or kindly help out then fall in love with a guy who later corners the market in frozen concentrated orange juice in a movie) but usually suffer a hard life and come from a difficult family background.
No, what we're talking about here is the financial hooker, the business prostitute, the analyst whore who pretends to be something he (or she, but oddly this sub-sector tends to be male) is not. Take for example Rockstone Research, an outfit that writes up Canadian junior companies in both English and German for audiences in North America and Europe, plus its lead analyst Stephan Bogner. Bogner, along with other names connected to Rockstone such as John P. Barry, pretend to offer up sound investment ideas and carefully researched company fundies. Sadly, it's not the case because these people aren't just common whores but much worse than that, they're sneaky fakes who are in the pocket of those flaming rip-off Vancouver scam merchants, Zimtu Capital.
Evidence: If we check on the top core holdings of Zimtu (i.e. the companies they set up and own using other people's money, most of which also pay heavily to the owners of Zimtu) we get this list:
According to the Zimtu website Voltaic Minerals (VLT.v) is its top holding. This company happens to be covered by Rockstone Research and its coverage is paid for by Zimtu Capital.Next comes Commerce Resources (CCE.v). Somewhat by coincidence this company is also covered by Rockstone Research with coverage paid for by Zimtu Capital.Number three on its list of top holdings is Equitas Resources (EQT.v). And shock! Covered by Rockstone Research, coverage paid for by Zimtu Capital.Then ALS Uranium (AL.v): Covered by Rockstone Research, coverage paid for by Zimtu Capital.Then Electra Stone (ELT.v): Covered by Rockstone Research, coverage paid for by Zimtu Capital.Then Arctic Star (ADD.v): Covered by Rockstone Research, coverage paid for by Zimtu Capital.Then MGX Minerals (XMG.cse): Covered by Rockstone Research, coverage paid for by Zimtu Capital.Then 92 Resources (NTY.v): Covered by Rockstone Research, coverage paid for by Zimtu Capital.Then True Leaf Medicine (MJ.cse): Covered by Rockstone Research, coverage paid for by Zimtu Capital.
And the list goes on. Now, is this purely coincidence, or is Rockstone Research a pumphouse bullshit merchant that is trying to sell complete crap to naive greenhorn investors in exchange for cash from the companies it's pumping? You be the judge.
More Argentina: Why Cristina won't ever go to prison
We now know why Macri chose this post-Christmas period to dump his FinMin. In-country the chatter about Prat-Gay lasted all of two days, right up to the moment when Judge Ercolini published his 800 page charge against Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and her friends (notably Baez, De Vido, López) regarding charges that basically add up to "ripping off the State using public works contracts".
The charges are heavy and they're going to be difficult to counter too, for her friends. CFK's defence will be 1) it's all politically motivated against her, which may be partially true but the evidence is between strong and overwhelming no matter who was/is/will be in charge and 2) it was in the time of her husband rather than her, which is a better defence though it drops her pals right in it. However, the 1) argument should be enough for her to beat any prison time because in 2017 there are two sets of legislative elections in which she'll be able to run for Congress. When she does she'll have more than enough hardcore vot to be elected under the Argentine system, which means she'll then enjoy immunity from prosecution. In short, we're looking at a Carlos Menem type of situation in which she sees out her days of declining power from the back rows.
Argentina: Fallout from Macri's sacking of the FinMin
As reported here yesterday, President Mauricio Macri has decided to lay blame for the underperformance of Argentina's economic recovery at the door of his now-ex FinMin, Alfonso Prat-Gay. The country's chattersphere has been in overdrive about the decision and commentary, as you'd imagine, has been split down party lines (haters gotta hate, bootlickers gotta lick boots) but out of all the noise, this humble corner of cyberspace picks the comments made by Guillermo Nielsen as some of the most insightful and balanced. For a bit of background and in as few words as possible Nielsen was Finance Secretary (i.e. number two to the FinMin) in the first Nestor Kirchner government, then fell out with the Kirchnerists (and Cristina in particular). These days he's aligned with Sergio Massa, the right-ish wing Peronist. Here's what Nielsen said about the departure of Prat-Gay:
"...it's showing that the sectors of the international community who were prudent about Argentina ('s economic recovey potential) are right. The fact there has been no large influx of dollars as the (Macri) government expected indicates there was a certain amount of mistrust. The sacking (of Prat-Gay) ratifies this lack of confidence. We're going to see an Argentina that will probably be more volatile than it was this year. The challenges are going to be greater."
This humble corner of cyberspace, one that has been a lone voice of warning against the crazy bullish screaming about Argentina in the mining sector throughout 2016, fully agrees. Your humble scribe also wonders how the "Argentina Mining Get On Now" rah-rah boys are feeling this morning. At what point is Fortuna Silver a short?
Reality bites: Results of the IKN "Ten random predictions for 2016"
On December 27th 2015 we ran our annual "Ten random predictions" post for the year ahead, the usual mix of biz, politics and sport that blend serious and left-field calls that we don't expect to become reality. Here we are at the back end of 2016, it's time for the results so here below come the original calls, the result and the score for each call (1 for a win, 0.5 for "close enough for my taste", big zero for anything else). And by way of reminder of previous years' results:
- In 2013 we scored 5.5/10
- In 2014 we scored 6/10
- In 2015 we scored 5.5/10
...which means our mediocrity is at least consistent. On with the show:
1) Gold to break through U$1,250/oz in the course of 2016.
SCORE: 1 point: It didn't even need a quarter, let alone a year. And by the way, we may seem all worldly wise and "Ahh, but that was an easy call Otto!" now, but this time last year with gold deeply under U$1,100/oz and most of the mainstream telling us with their serious voices that gold was certain to drop under one thousand, it was a call made in a very different market.
2) Silver to rally against gold and the gold/silver ratio will finally break under 70/1.
SCORE: 1 point: Again, hindsight makes this one sound easy. Again, it wasn't so obvious back then. I'll scoop up my point and move on.
3) Uranium to go nowhere yet again.
SCORE: 1 point: Just so easy to fade the idiot uranium permabulls. While they were predicting the same rally they predict this time every freakin' year, IKN called it the way it is and then sat back and watched Uranium spot prices drop by 50% in 2016. Chau, losers.
4) Goldcorp (GG) to buy Lake Shore Gold (LSG).
SCORE: 0.5 point: I'm taking half points here for two reasons. First up LSG sold all right, but to Tahoe and not Goldcorp. Second up, as subscribers know very well, a few weeks after this call I changed the buyer to Tahoe in The IKN Weekly and then even managed to pre-empt the merger announcement by scooping it here on the blog a couple of days before it happened.
5) Copper to go under $2/lb early year and to rally to $2.50/lb by the end of the year.
SCORE: 1 point: No bones about it, this is my favourite prediction win of the year because I made it hard for myself, needing a bottom and a top call to come in (and in the right order), but score it did.
6) Venezuela's government to implode.
SCORE: 0 point: It was looking likely for a while, especially in the first couple of months of 2016. Also, as we leave the year the country is in an awful state and making headlines on a daily basis (hyperinflation, de-stocked supermarkets, political upheaval, whole nine yards) but the plain fact is that my main criteria, Maduro out by now, hasn't appeared. Therefore, nul points.
7) Keiko Fujimori to become the next President of Peru.SCORE: 0 point: Again, close but no cigar because by a thin 0.14% margin Keiko lost the second round run-off to Pedro Pablo Kuczynski. I could cheat and give myself a half point for being that close, I won't. Fail.
8) Usain Bolt to break the world record for the men's 200 metres in the final at the Rio 2016 Olympics. Because hero (and I'll be taking half points for a gold without a record that day).
SCORE: 0.5 point: I get the half point for the bit in brackets. In mitigation, it poured down with rain an house before the final and scuppered all chances of the record falling, so Usain did enough for the gold without threatening the record.
9) England to win the Euro 16 European Football Championships.SCORE: 0 point: Abject fail. I mean, beaten by Iceland. Embarrassing.
10) Christopher Froome to win the Tour de France and retain his crown.SCORE: 1 point: Oh yeah. Froomy pwned them Frenchies.
And so...roll on the drums...
GRAND TOTAL: SIX OUT OF TEN. That's half a point better than last year, which is good. Even better is that the "serious calls" about metal and money things were damned close this time. On the other hand, I've sucked at politics in this continent for at least the last year and a half.
And that's that for 2016 but fear not, in the next couple of days you'll get the IKN Ten Random Predictions For 2017, your next opportunity to laugh at my stupidity.
Primero Mining (PPP) (P.to) has fallen so far...
...that it's now getting stuffy letters from the NYSE:
"TORONTO, ON--(Marketwired - December 27, 2016) - Primero Mining Corp. ("Primero" or the "Company") (TSX:P.TO) (PPP) today announced that is has received formal notification from the New York Stock Exchange ("NYSE") of its non-compliance with the exchange's continued listing standards for minimum trading price."
Translation: The share price is under a dollar and if it stays there, the NYSE will de-list this dog*. Here's the funny thing, though. In order to regain compliance, PPP decided to write a nice letter to the NYSE and explain what it's going to do. The three point plan is (and I quote)...
- Reducing costs and returning operations to industry-leading profitability as historically reported at its flagship San Dimas mine;
- Delivering increased cash flow from its Black Fox mine with production focus on the high-grade Deep Central Zone;
- Exploring and identifying high quality mineral resources in and around our current mines and projects.
...in other words, all the things it's abjectly failed to do for the last two or three years. Hey, maybe the NYSE should send out more letters to these pathetic mining companies run by self-serving mediocrities who try to pass themselves off as smart businessman. We may get a few more delivering bottom line profits that way.
*Don't let me stop you guys, sooner the better as far as I'm concerned.
Gold: a pulse
Not exactly a definitive breakout, but there were eager buyers as the markets opened up:
Semi-related, here's a question: Who is more stupid?
- The technical analyst that studies gold and will tell you with exact certainty all the reasons why gold has performed the way it has in the past, then continue with a confident prediction that gold may go up, down or perhaps remain unchanged in the future.
- The idiot who pays attention to these charlatans and keeps them in business.
Argentina: Papering over the economic cracks only works for a while
Big economy news out of Argentina today, as President Mauricio Macri asked for and received the resignation of his Finance Minister, Alfonso Prat-Gay. Macri's spokesperon, Marcos Peña, trotted out the the official government line that (translated), "The President asked for his resignation. It's a question of political differences. It's not about the (upcoming) mid-term elections, but about a vision of how to organize the work inside the ministerial government", which is basically a large mouthful of nothing-speak.
What's clear is that Macri is now worried about the 2017 mid-term vote, because if that goes against his political line his government becomes very lame duck very quickly. The economic benefits he has promised Argentina after they've suffered through his austerity plan are not appearing and citizenry patience is wearing thin. All this means that Prat-Gay, as orthodox an economist as you could imagine, has taken the fall and we're likely to see Macri switch to a nearer-term, more populist stance in order to bring quick benefits to the country...in order to save his own hide.
UPDATE: Top Argentina political blogger Abel adds his dos centavitos: Excerpt:
UPDATE: Top Argentina political blogger Abel adds his dos centavitos: Excerpt:
"...that the exit of Prat-Gay was inevitable due to the friction caused by the recession, the rate of inflation, the exchange rate lag, the frustration of a economic policy that isn't showing the results that were expected."Full thing here.
Global Mining Observer is about to make Michael O'Keeffe into a mining superstar
Here's the main story of the latest edition of Global Mining Observer and if it really is the first in a series, you're going to be hearing a lot more about O'Keeffe from other media outlets too. The intrepid AW with another scoop.
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Envelope Drawings by Mark Powell
London-based artist Mark Powell has chosen the backs of old envelopes as a canvas for these delicately rendered portraits of the elderly, using nothing more than a standard Bic Biro pen to create the delicate folds and wrinkles of their skin. I love everything about these. See much more of his work here and he sells a number of art prints over on Society6. If you liked this also check out the photography of Lee Jeffries.


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The Office Special
After only two seasons (twelve half hour episodes total) The Office returned for two more final episodes that beautifully wrap up the short-lived British series. The series had a massive influence on television, spawning a still on-going American version and made its star and creator, Ricky Gervais, into an instant comedy guru (he co-wrote and directed every episode with his partner, Stephen Merchant). Season Two ended on a rather depressing note. In the office of Wernham Hogg Paper Company blowhard boss David Brent (Gervais) had been fired. Everyman Tim (Martin Freeman) turned down the offer to take David's job, leaving it open for David's toadie, Gareth (Mackenzie Crook). Also Tim's pursuit of Dawn (Lucy Davis) came to a fizzle as she and her fiancé, Lee, headed off for the United States. With The Office Special we pick up some time later. The Office had been a minor blip on the BBC TV schedule. David, by day, is now a cleaning supplies salesman, but in the evenings he is using his new minor fame (or infamy) to break into show business, doing the washed-up reality TV star circuit. Unfortunately it means appearances at rowdy bars with ex-Big Brother cast member types for a hostile crowd (they hate him). Not working at the office but spending much of his free time there, with Gareth's help, he is also pursuing a relationship on an Internet dating site (so he can score a date to the Office's Christmas party). David trying to find reasons to be back at the office is David at his most pathetic - all one can do is pity the man.
The Office has always been about the slow burn. The humor is not in the immediate joke but in what the characters say, it may only be a funny line to someone who already understands the character, their motivations, and their insecurities. Like the influences Gervais has cited for his humor, the films of Christopher Guest (the one good one, Waiting For Guffman), This Is Spinal Tap (Guest co-wrote and co-starred in it, but it was actually directed by Rob "Meathead" Reiner), and the most obvious influence Garry Shandling's brilliant inside Hollywood, character-driven The Larry Sanders Show. Both are giddy in the burning humiliation of their characters, but unlike the cruelty of much cynically spirited humor, it's obvious that Shandling and Gervais both have hearts and affection for the men they play and the characters around them.Continue Reading


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