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Thursday, 11 July 2013 08:15 |
In Monday's edition of the The Goldman Guide we mentioned the interesting axiom that in general, a rise in oil means a rise in the stock market and vice versa, as it's all about the signal of an improved economy and an increase in demand. How do we play oil in the small cap space? There are a bevy of small oil and gas discovery companies that are similar to the bio-tech companies in the space – they are in the development stage and are not profitable yet. Finding a stock and company that is not pure speculation is like finding oil in your backyard! For about 6 months we have watched Hercules Offshore, Inc. (NASDAQ – HERO - $7.55) rise steadily from the $6.00 range to today's level. We think there is more room to run for this stock. The company is profitable and has a multitude of customers in the oil and natural gas space. Hercules is a service provider to oil and natural gas companies providing shallow-water drilling and marine services to exploration companies. Its services comprise oil and gas exploration and development drilling, well services, platform inspection, maintenance, and decommissioning services in various shallow-water provinces. The charts remain bullish in the short term and very bullish in EMA and MACD. Forward earnings estimates put the valuation of HERO under 10, at 9.32. This is a low number regardless of industry. We like the diverse nature of HERO and think the stock continues to rise to the $9.50 level over the next quarter. Have a great day. Disclosure: Goldman Small Cap Research analysts are neither long nor short these shares but may elect to purchase the stock within the next 48 hours. Disclaimer: This Market Monitor blog was prepared for informational purposes only. 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Today, news for people who are surprised by sunrise: The Associated Press reports* that Marie G. Davis Middle School, of Charlotte, North Carolina, when given the chance to segregate itself racially, did. Some federal court, in a fit of intelligence, said that you couldn't force parents to bus children to schools politically acceptable to Washington. The school, 44% white the summer before the court made its decision, was that fall 5% white.
The whites went away. I'm all astonished, like I am when teenagers think about sex.
Of course the school resegregated. Any fool could have told you it would. Fact is, the races just don't want to be around each other. It's plain as a sore toe in tight shoes. If you watch what the races do, instead of listen to what the talking heads say they ought to do, you can see that both sides would rather live with hung-over alligators. But you get fired if you notice it, so we all look the other way and act like we're thinking about something else. ("Naw, I didn't see the sun rise. What sun?")
We talk about the American dream, but the country likes delusions better. We believe things are what we insist they are. If we think a pup-dog oughta be a backhoe, we figure all we gotta do is say he is, and act like we really really believe it, and lie, and make everybody pretend, and maybe put diesel oil in his dog bowl-and he'll sprout a scoop and start cutting underground telephone cables. It doesn't matter if everybody knows it's a lie-if you can make them pretend, and put them in jail if they don't. It's as American as tortillas.
Think about it. Where do black and white get together on purpose? I mean, without the police, national guard, federal marshals, judges, seven thousand laws, and the entire federal government, to make them? Answer: They don't. Give people the slightest say about who they want to be with, and they're gone. That's what happened in Charlotte, isn't it?
People like being with their own. Always have, always will. When you force them to be together instead of giving them the choice, then you get trouble. The less they have in common, the more trouble you get. Then you can holler about racism and squash folks together even more. It's like Prohibition, making people do what they don't want, because you think they ought to want it.
When black kids come into a white college, the first thing they do is want black dorms and black fraternities, and the white kids don't seem in much of a hurry to catch them and bring them back. It's how it always is. When I was a military reporter, the blacks on base wanted soul music at the club, and the whites wanted country and western. The blacks got the club because the commander was afraid of them. The whites went to town to listen to Merle Haggard. Which may or may not have been a reasonable choice, but it's what they did.
Go to a party of a hundred rich, white, unrelentingly good, racially correct people in Washington, and you will find three blacks to shuffle and look embarrassed and be credentials. The ninety-seven white people will make a point of talking awkwardly to them so everybody will know they are not prejudiced. Ask the whites in a loud voice where their kids go to school.
Do you see more whites at black parties? I don't know. I've never been to one. It's a segregated country.
How about at work? It's a snake pit, with the federal government making it hang together, barely. Best I can tell, blacks figure they're getting discriminated against, and oppressed, and enslaved. Whites-regularly, invariably, everywhere, every time-say most blacks don't work, have attitudes, advance entirely on pigmentation, and you have to do their work for them. You could argue about who is right, but that's just it: Neither side gets along well with the other, except when threatened.
Now, the AP story carefully avoided the crucial question about the escape from Charlotte: Why did the white parents instantly withdraw their kids from a black school when given a whiff of freedom? The writer implied that Charlotte, being in the South, was prejudiced, and that racism was behind the flight, snore. Reporters everywhere understand what they are paid to say, but I don't think his heart was in it.
Let me suggest another reason, which I have not verified. Should I be wrong, I will happily say so, and eat Jim Crow. But, knowing as I do the inveracity of the media, I will speculate.
I suggest that the black students at the school were academically far below the whites-that the white parents were trying to do something, anything, to keep their children at an intellectual level consistent with their notions of civilization. I suspect that the black students had no interest in European history, in mathematics, languages, chemistry. I don't say they should be interested, just that they pretty regularly aren't. If I am wrong. I will happily retract. Show me. I'd love to be wrong.
Maybe I am. It may be that academic performance of blacks at Marie G. Davis Middle School refutes the aggregate experience of centuries, of daily experience and common intuition. And Elvis may materialize in my room tonight and sing Heartbreak Hotel. I'd like that. Even stranger things could happen. The Redskins could win.
But I'm not betting the Vette.
Further, I will bet that the black kids ganged up and pushed the white kids around. It may not be universal, but an awful lot of white kids report it.
Now, maybe all this shouldn't ought to be true. And maybe pup-dogs ought to grow exhaust stacks and glow plugs. Thing is, sooner or later "shouldn't ought" runs into "is."
The reality it that if it weren't for unrelenting compulsion and intimidation, the races would separate like newly weds five years later. Without affirmative action and the EEO police, offices would barely be integrated. Schools, if parents were free, would do what Charlotte did. The whole lash-up is compulsory, artificial, contrived, and almost nobody wants it.
If you don't think so, drop the compulsion and wait five minutes.
No, I don't know what to do about it, except hide. My best guess is let people live how they want and hire people on merit. But that's not the American way.
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JimMcc writes: "The Zero Day Blog over at ZD Net has an article describing a PDA sized hand-held device made by Immunity, Inc. which provides automated penetration testing of Wi-Fi networks. It will also, it instructed to do so, automatically launch known exploits. It is designed for use by a novice.
The idea is to give pen testers a tool to launch exploits wirelessly in the most covert fashion. At startup, Silica offers the user the option to scan for available open Wi-Fi networks. Once a network is found, the device connects (much like a laptop at Starbucks) and asks the user if it should simply scan for vulnerable/open ports or launch actual exploits from CANVAS.
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The effect of unlocked iPhones on the wireless industry is perhaps wider than anyone could've guessed, with Synchronoss -- the company that handles AT&T's activations -- reporting that its growth expectations for 2008 have been visibly impacted by the gap between iPhones sold and iPhones activated. The problem stems from the fact that Synchronoss is paid only for iPhones that actually end up tied into AT&T, and since the unlocking phenomenon is pretty widespread within the iPhone community, the company's feeling the heat. Making matters worse, they've lost the premium they get for activating iPhones versus other AT&T devices in the first quarter, so all told, it's a gloom-and-doom report. Maybe they can make some of that cash back by... oh, selling unlocked iPhones. We're just trying to help out here.
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An April 30 trial date was set in Lucas County Common Pleas Court this week for a Toledo man charged with killing his child's mother in a domestic dispute.
Charles Toyer, Jr., 21, of 1527 Western Ave. pleaded not guilty Tuesday to murder and voluntary manslaughter. If convicted of murder, he faces up to life in prison. Police say Toyer stabbed Tiffany Wilborn, 23, a mother of two, during a March 11 incident at the Western Avenue address. She died of a stab wound in the chest, authorities said.


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The answer is -- D) All of the above Welcome to the forum! To answer your first question, there is an iPad User Guide that you can download for free from the Apple website. Hopefully this will answer some of the questions you have. The link is -- Apple - Support - Manuals Just click on iPad User Guide. It is a fairly large .pdf file (154) pages so it will probably take a few minutes to download. But once you download it, you can save the file on your computer so you don't have to download it every time you want to look at it.
Welcome along. I'm new too but if I can help answer any questions I will. I have 64 gb 3G. Why did I choose that? Well I wanted a 3G version and that's all the apples shop had in stock. Didn't want to order online coz I'm impatient and would have had to wait 3 weeks. It's the best gadget I own and well worth looking after with a case and screen protector and bag.
Best answer is for you to go into a store and try one. Until you do you won't appreciate what a remarkable device it is. Basically it's very fast. Instant on and instant loading of programs. Lie in bed and click, swipe, tap, you are online as fast as that. The range of apps is constantly growing and also the range of possibilities. Battery life is 10 hours plus and it's easily portable. My laptop is growing mould and my quad core is filing for divorce on the grounds of neglect........
Data Plans Thanks for the info. I am definitely planning to get one but am having a problem finding out about data plans for a trip I am taking to Germany.do I get a sim and data plan there or do I go with ATT?
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Posted by OnyxShadowWinslow is horrifyingly incompetent. Hardly anyone will argue against that. At the moment when Winslow decides to stop the fight, she has almost zero visibility on Tate. She makes the call to the end the match based entirely on the previous few seconds of knees landing and the fact that Tate goes to her knees. For all she knew, Tate was actually shooting for a takedown. How Not to Ref: By Kim Winslow As far as this stoppage, I'd say it was early. Tate was getting brutalized, but she was clearly still defending herself and was on the ground and so not going to be taking more knees. I've never heard a fighter complain of a late stoppage. Let it at least continue until the fighters are no longer able to defend themselves.Imagine the flame Winslow would of got if she let Zigano destroy Tate for another one or two seconds... The consequences would of never been the same. What exactly do you think was going to occur in the following few seconds sans stoppage? At worst Cat lands a few more punches/elbows while Meisha turtles. It doesn't matter what would have "possibly" happened without the stoppage. Many of the greatest moments in MMA happened after a fighter gets hurt bad enough that many refs would have failed their job and ended the match prematurely. I guarantee you that with Kimmy reffing, Brock never comes back against Carwin, and Edgar loses BOTH of his last two fights with Maynard.
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I thoroughly enjoyed Borderlands, however, I did not enjoy the story. I did come to peace that this game just isn't about the story. I have no experience with Diablo or WoW, the this type of quest based game and loot driven exploration was new to me. This game has enough fun factor packed into it that allows gamers to still become glued to the screen while playing Borderlands. I still had the desire to always want to be playing Borderlands and I couldn't help, but take on another quest because o...
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Kenwood's half-year loss acted as a sharp reminder of the toll the economic situation is starting to take on manufacturers. It sells into markets particularly hard hit by the global economic crisis, and sells at a price the current exchange rate has put out of reach of many customers.
The pound, after a winter dip, is heading back up. So far this year it has gained 3.5 per cent in trade-weighted terms. This is bad for companies like Kenwood, and it is not exactly brilliant for Britain either. Exports form the weak link in the British economy right now. Trade is likely to drag growth lower this year, just as it did last year. And certainly the imbalances in the economy between manufacturing and services, between exporters and consumers, are too extreme.
However, there is another way to look at the trade gap - as a symptom of strength rather than weakness. The UK, with moderate growth and a trade deficit, is in better shape than Germany, with no growth and a trade surplus at the moment.
The US, with its rip-roaring economy, is also experiencing a strong currency and record shortfalls between exports and imports anyone doubt that the US, but nobody would doubt it is in rather healthier condition than Continental Europe, with little growth and a big surplus.
Not everything about a big trade deficit is negative. Consumers get more choice, and it helps to keep inflation low and make industry more competitive and innovative.
Even so, the present situation is plainly not an ideal one. Ideally, Europe would be doing better and importing more, and Japan and the rest of Asia would be climbing out of recession. There is a serious imbalance between the Anglo-Saxon economies and the rest, which is spilling over into the balance of payments.
Trade is the most reliable symptom of sickness in the global economy. Right now there are symptoms galore, both in the widening US and UK deficits, and the recent escalation of trade tensions. We should not be parochial in our gloom and doom.
But neither should we be unduly down in the dumps about it all. Britain's monthly trade gap has never been bigger in absolute terms, but it remains a quite small proportion of GDP which is largely offset by a surplus on investment. The situation was much grimmer in the past, when it was the weakness of the UK economy, not its trading partners, which used to open up the trade gap.
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Kidwelly, Haverfordwest and Pontyberem all have 39 points in a tight battle in the West. Kidwelly's 38-6 victory over Aberystwyth was a great success for scrum half Craig Thomas, who scored five of the six home tries, but the other two clubs also gained victories, while in the East, Brynithel's hard-earned 11-3 win over battling Talywain leaves them six points ahead of Llanishen,
Cwmbran and Senghenydd.
Llanishen fell 13-10 at home to Abergavenny and Senghenydd just held off Cwmbran by 18-13, while Old Illtydians had a good 44-5 away win to Newport
Gilfach Goch and Nantymoel top the South-East with 30 points each as both won away. Gilfach edged out Ynysybwl 13-8 and Nantymoel stopped Nelson's march
by 19-12. Rhydyfelin ran in eight tries for a 55-17 win over Tonyrefail as Scott Perry contributed 17 points.
In the South-West, Banwen opened up a five-point lead over Maesteg Quins, as the latter's match was called off. Banwen beat Mumbles 23-8 and Nantyffyllon, who visit Swansea soon in the cup, defeated Ystalyfera 28-9 and are third, just ahead of Glynneath, who edged out Kenfig Hill 13-10.


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Finished up the front triangle on Greg's Track Bike. Things are shaping up on the rear triangle.
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
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I may not be fast, but a hand made bike should look like a hand made bike and that is flat out bitchin....I hope that I can do it justice.
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Awwwww middle aged nerds in fake Black Flag shirts try to stay hip with how the OMGeneration speak these days! What's the haps?
Huh. I always use OTP for On the Prowl. I like that version way better than theirs.
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Japan's finance minister retracts statement on Nazis
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TOKYO — Japan's finance minister on Thursday publicly retracted comments he made this week that appeared to call on Japan's current conservative government to emulate Hitler's takeover of prewar Germany. The gaffe underscored the potential for disputes over Japan's own wartime history to derail its popular prime minister, Shinzo Abe.
The finance minister, Taro Aso, insisted that his comments on Monday, in which he seemed to say that Japan should learn how the Nazi party quietly rewrote Germany's Constitution, were taken out of context. Faced with growing criticism in Japan and abroad, he countered that he had never meant to praise the Nazis. He said he had hoped to prompt debate in Japan over whether to change its current pacifist Constitution to allow a full-fledged military, as many conservatives now seek.
Still, the uproar over the comments by Mr. Aso, an outspoken nationalist who is also known for slips of the tongue, seemed to confirm the fears of some Japanese and other Asians that members of Mr. Abe's government want to revise current views of World War II to present Imperial Japan, an ally of Nazi Germany, in a more positive light. The gaffe was also the latest in a string of recent events, including nationalistic displays by South Korean and Japanese fans at a soccer game, that have raised concerns that disagreements over interpreting the war could isolate Japan from the rest of Asia, where there are still bitter memories of Japan's early 20th-century empire building....
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This is a preview from Marc Emery's autobiography, which he has been working on while in prison. The introductory chapter, called "The Prophecy", is a strange but true story, seemingly foretelling Marc's destiny when he was just 19 years old – even before he knew about marijuana.
Marc first mentioned this in an interview in CC #16, from January 1999. Click here to read "Marc Emery: The Prince of Pot speaks out".
One Saturday in September 1977 at my City Lights Bookshop in London, Ontario, I arrived early and excitedly to work on a huge collection of books from the 1800's and early 1900's. It took two trips in my Chrysler van, completely loaded with at least 750 books in each trip, to bring in this purchase from the estate of a deceased person the night before. I have to say, the best collections were always from people who had just died. Usually the children or heirs had no interest in the books and many other ephemera of an entire life of a collector, and in the era before the internet or eBay, those things were either put in an estate auction or, for most people who were impatiently wanting to settle estate matters more immediately, taken away by a bookseller like me. I would pay a nominal sum, and then haul away everything they wanted disposed of.
In this case it was a lifetime collection of religious books from 1800 to about 1930, with a fair bit of British poetry volumes from 1840 to 1900, and perhaps a few hundred illustrated books from the 1870 to 1945 period, probably the best books in the collection. For the 1,500 books in total, I paid about $1,000. The retail price when I was finished marking each one of them up was going to be $10,000 to $12,000. It was a great business, and I loved the old books, as each one was a treasure that was very profitable over time. On days like this, the next morning after a pick-up, it was the most fun my job could be.
I bought a collection of old, musty, rich smelling leather bound books two or three times weekly in those days, so my store was soaked in the smell of old paper and history and stacked with the 1,500 new arrivals in every available space, on counters, on the floor, rising above the counters three feet high above my head. For me to see anyone that morning I'd have to crane my neck around skyscrapers of old books. Only right by the cash register could I see someone in the aisle way.
Upon arriving at 9:30 in the morning, I put in my classic music tape; I was partial to George Frederick Handel Water Music, or Georg Philipp Telemann Flute Sonatas, gentle soothing period music that was clearly suggestive of old books. I unlocked the front door at 10am and started taking the religious books to their section in the back of the store, as I priced a stack of about 20 or so at a time. My store was 100 feet long, so once I was at the back, all I could hear was the classical music piped into every room, and every section was tight with bookshelves stacked with books and little room to move or maneuver. I would often peer around a corner to see if anyone came through the front door or needed assistance, and tried to stay in an isolated section no more than a few minutes before returning to the front area to do another stack of books and take them to their appropriate section. I was pretty fast, but this collection would take the better of three days to price and distribute throughout the bookshop.
I was so thrilled by this new collection of books that I wasn't particularly concerned that very few customers came in, at least for the first 90 minutes. Around a quarter to noon, my good friend and regular David Hogg came in and said "Hello," with a bit more animation than usual. "You didn't come out to see the woman who collapsed in front of your door?" he immediately wanted to know.
"What?" I said. "A woman collapsed? Where?" I was lost in my world and knew nothing about this.
"Right there," he pointed outside the very door he had walked through, "on the sidewalk."
"No; what happened?" I was surprised.
David looked at me askance. "You mean you didn't see an old woman, her head cracked open, blood all over the sidewalk, right there? That's hard to believe, Marc. She hit her head quite badly, apparently collapsed as she walked by, just like that."
"Wow…" I didn't know what to say. "No one told me."
"Well, I don't know how you'd miss it. Jim was following behind her and saw her fall, and called 911 from his store." Jim Weaver was my neighbor and the owner of Belle Air Music, a guitar and instrument shop two doors over. "That was lucky for her; the ambulance was here within minutes. I showed up just as they were loading her on a gurney to take her to the hospital. Jim got a bucket of hot water and washed the blood off the sidewalk just a few minutes ago. And you didn't see or notice any of this? Where were you?"
"Geez, I'm sorry, I guess I was in the back, with the music playing… you know how this place is."
"But you didn't hear the ambulance when it got here or left? It pulled up just outside your window." David was almost accusing me of negligence or something, and I felt a bit guilty. We went out and looked at bloodstain on the sidewalk, already old-looking and dried, but clearly it was quite an injury. I did marvel that I was somehow oblivious to what had happened. "Really odd that you missed that, Marc," David said. "I hope the old lady is going to be okay, but I don't know, it looked pretty bad."
I changed the subject and showed David some the old treasures I had hauled in the night before. Twenty minutes later, Jim Weaver came in and walked up to my counter, looking subtly like he had done a good deed, and also to query me. "Did you see the old woman who fell on the sidewalk just outside your door?"
"David told me about it, but I didn't even notice. Honestly, I had no idea. I must have been in the back, maybe even downstairs in that time."
"Well, it did all happen pretty fast. I was walking right along behind her just ten feet, on the way to get lunch from Between The Bread," (that was our neighbourhood sandwich shop three doors over) "and I saw her just drop face forward like a ton of bricks, not a stumble, just straight as a board fell forward. Oh, and the sound of her head splitting, the 'thunk' sound, just enough to make you sick. Went up to her for a second and then I ran into my store and called 911. Then I came out and knelt beside her and waited. The ambulance was pretty quick but I didn't move her and the blood was pouring out. It was terrible! It's amazing you didn't hear the ambulance or see any of it, it was right there in front of your doorway. I guess no one came in to tell you."
"Not until she was gone in the ambulance, then David came in and told me, and by then you'd even washed away the blood," I said.
"Ian came out with towels," – Ian was his manager – "and a bucket of soapy water and our first aid kit. I didn't want to move her though, in case her head was really badly damaged. I hope she's going to be okay, but she was unconscious, or worse. She didn't move or anything."
Twenty-three days later, on a Monday morning, I was opening my store. I remember the counter was totally clear of books that day. The phone rang.
"Hello, City Lights Bookshop," I said.
"Mr. Emery?" said an old woman's voice.
"Yes, speaking."
"Mr. Marc Emery?"
"Mr. Emery, you don't know me. We've never met. But I know all about you."
"Er… yes?"
"Mr. Emery, I was walking along Richmond Street three weeks ago Saturday, and I passed in front of your store when a terrible, terrible thing happened to me. As I passed in front of your store, Mr. Emery, right in front of your doorway – and I know you were inside there – in the space of an instant, just a fraction of a second, I felt this most tremendous surge of an energy… of a force… this invasion of my whole brain by YOU, Mr. Emery, a terribly painful invasion by your aura, your essence, everything that radiates from you was forced into my brain, and I collapsed and fell on the sidewalk and split my head open. I understand from the hospital, when they explained what happened, that one of your neighbours called the ambulance.
"Mr. Emery, I was released from hospital yesterday. I was unconscious, in and out of a coma for two weeks. In that time, doctors operated on me, and remarkably, I only fractured my skull, had a very bad concussion and required stitches. They don't know why I was in a coma for two weeks, but I was on life support. After I was conscious again, I was kept in there for another week for observation, but yesterday they released me, as they think I'll be all right. But I know why I was in a coma, Mr. Emery. I didn't tell the doctors the reason I was there, but I'll tell you. I only know that the entire experience I went through is all about you, Mr. Emery.
"I know all about you now, Mr. Emery, in very strange ways. It's all I can recall from the moment my brain was attacked with this painful energy that comes from you. I know this doesn't make any sense, Mr. Emery – how old are you, Sir?"
"I'm 19." I was disconcerted by how she frequently called me Mr. Emery with both fear and awe, and she sounded like she was blaming me for her horrible accident.
"All the time I was unconscious, all those weeks in the hospital, the second I fell, Mr. Emery, has all been about you. That's all I've been able to think about. I can't control it. I'm very scared Mr. Emery; I've never met you. I knew nothing about you, I've never heard of you before. I've never been in your store, and now I feel I know too much about you. My husband made me call you to tell you of this, Mr. Emery, he thinks maybe it will stop once I tell you this… what happened to me. Maybe it will mean something one day. But I know you've got to leave my brain, I can't take it anymore. So I'm going to tell you, Mr. Emery, what I saw, and why I believe I fell into unconsciousness in front of you, and your building. I want my life back. My husband and I are so scared and confused, and he thinks if I tell you, it will stop. I don't know why this happened to me. I've never had any psychic experience. I don't even believe in that sort of thing. I want to tell you this and then I want it desperately to go away.
"Throughout the entire unconscious experience I know I was experiencing your life flashing before me. It was just all about Marc Emery, your name, thousands of times repeated to me, with images, and incredible energy and upheaval, like torrents of electricity and power and violent exchanges of energy, but not violence in any way. It was just your life being forced into my mind, so now I have to tell you these things that are coming, Mr. Emery, coming to you. And you need to be prepared."
This was so strange. Customers came in as I listened to this woman, and I even whispered to a woman across the counter, "This is the weirdest phone call ever!" but did not stop listening attentively. How could I not?
"Symbols, Mr. Emery, important and great symbols tell me about your future, your life, you significance to people, to the world, a great mass of people. Noisy masses of people. These symbols are the key to your future, Mr. Emery, and there's more but these symbols are so important.
"I know I'm to tell you that you have a great destiny before you, Mr. Emery. When or how, I don't know. But you will lead a great multitude of people to sanctuary, to a liberation of some kind. There is great joy and rejoicing, with flags and symbols. And it will be trying Mr. Emery, it will be painful, you will have adversity, and you will have one very great obstacle, Mr . Emery, that you must conquer. You must not give into despair on this journey, you must practice patience and not lash out in anger at the adversity that comes, because it WILL come, and that is not the answer. That will undo everything, if you give in to bitterness. There is great power and influence where you are going, Mr. Emery, but if you give in to despair, you will risk ruining all the good you are working for. This was the largest warning I saw repeatedly. You cannot give into bitterness, anger, despair; those are your enemies, Mr. Emery. I am to warn you about this, because those internal personal adversities will be a great challenge to you, more than any other person or group in your way. You will feel deserving of this anger, Mr. Emery, but you must avoid giving in to it.
"I saw three symbols repeatedly, endlessly in my time unconscious, and they are certainly about your life. I don't know what they mean. I only know they are very important to what you must do and will do in the time ahead.
"The first symbol is the symbol of the dollar, Mr. Emery. The dollar sign. The dollar sign is very special in your life. You will rule the dollar. The dollar is a power you can control – it doesn't control you. With this power, you will have no conflict. You will use the dollar to great ends. And it means something very special in your power, different from its use by other men. You have a great gift and ability. It is like magic in your hands, I can't describe it.
"The second symbol that flashed endlessly was your brain, Mr. Emery, your brain in a steel trap. I think it means your mind holds information like a steel trap. It never escapes your mind. But this symbol changed back and forth. It would sometimes be your mind as the steel cage, and then it was like your mind in a cage. It would flash back and forth, so constantly, mind in a cage, the cage in your mind. I kept thinking it all goes in your brain, both experiences or meanings. This is also where I felt terrible premonitions of despair and sadness inside your brain, and I know I'm to tell you to protect your brain, your great and powerful brain, and to use this mind of yours to accomplish the goal of the next symbol.
"The most dominating symbol of all, the one that was always dominant in my mind the entire time, that never left, is the most mysterious to me because I don't understand it. It is a symbol of a leaf, Mr. Emery. It's like a maple leaf, but it's not a maple leaf – it's different from a maple leaf, but I also thought the Canadian maple leaf was there too, and I'm confused about this. Because the leaf I saw had several fronds, each part of the leaf was similar in varying sizes, and the leaf has uniform ridged fingers around its stem. I can't tell you what colour it is, only that this is the most powerful symbol, it is what all the other symbols and messages I received were devoted to. This leaf is in all your banners, all the parades, all the conflicts, the great liberation, the people, whoever they are, are all bound together by this leaf, and you are leading them, to what I don't know, I just know it's your destiny and it will happen and you will do it. Does any of this mean anything to you, Mr. Emery?"
I had listened to her desperate and anxious story quietly, hardly interrupting, out of politeness to an old woman who, after all, had nearly died because something about me had laid her out on the concrete sidewalk and put her near death. I felt guilty about that, but I felt she was disturbed, possibly nuts, too.
"I'm sorry, it doesn't mean anything to me," I said. "I'm sorry I'm involved in this… terrible thing that's happened to you." I thought she was delusional, what else could I think?
She gulped. "Well Mr. Emery, I'm going now. I hope I never think of you again. I hope this all goes away. It's been the most draining, painful, exasperating thing I've experienced in my whole life, and I'm 65. I am so frightened by what happened. I can't make sense out of it. Why me? All I know is that I saw these things and I know I was meant to tell you, to warn you, to prepare you. But now I want these thoughts gone and my life back. So goodbye, Mr. Emery, and remember, you have a great destiny important to millions of people somewhere, but don't give in to despair – that word was imprinted in these visions, don't give into it, Mr. Emery, that is so important. It will be hard but you have to get through the difficulties and then it will all be fine. Goodbye, Mr. Emery."
I said goodbye, and after she hung up I sighed. I didn't get her name and I never heard from her again. And then I didn't think about it for years.


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World championship leader Jenson Button captured a crucial pole position for tomorrow's Spanish Grand Prix.
The last eight winners at Barcelona's Circuit de Catalunya, and 13 of the last 14 overall, have all started on pole, underlining how notoriously difficult it is to overtake on this track.
It was Button's sixth pole of his career, and third this season, snatched in the dying moments ahead of Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel, with Brawn GP team-mate Rubens Barrichello third.
Felipe Massa epitomised Ferrari's improvement this weekend as he will start from a season-high fourth, with Mark Webber in his Red Bull fifth.
The bottom five, though, was equally as remarkable as it proved to be a bad day for Finland with Kimi Raikkonen and Heikki Kovalainen failing to make it into Q2.
Reigning champion Lewis Hamilton faired little better as he will start from 14th, the worst position of his F1 career in the dry.
With a degree of understatement, Hamilton said: "I guess it's a bit of a disappointing qualifying for us.
"We did the best we could, but the laps weren't fantastic. We had hoped to be higher up.
"But it's not last, and there's lots that can happen. It's a long tough race, so I hope we can get a point, that would be great."
With regard to Raikkonen, it was yet another dreadful error of judgment from Ferrari because as with Massa in Malaysia the team felt he was safe with his time after running for just five laps.
But as he sat in the garage his name slowly slid down the timing screen until coming to rest at 16th, his worst performance since Australia last year.
Even more galling for 2007 champion Raikkonen is that Massa topped the timesheets at the end of the opening 20-minute session.
At least Ferrari had the good grace to hold their hands up as they conceded they "miscalculated," but the mistakes continue to mount up and cost them dear.
Raikkonen said: "It's really disappointing because the car was looking in good shape this weekend.
"I was not too keen to go out again either really because I thought the time we had done would be enough."
Behind Sebastien Bourdais in his Toro Rosso, Kovalainen will start a woeful 18th, his lowest grid slot since joining McLaren prior to last season.
Afterwards, Kovalainen revealed he "didn't have the grip and...no confidence to push it (the car) whatsoever".
Ahead of this race the team had warned their car would not suit the circuit, but it is almost certain they did not expect to be in such miserable positions.
Kovalainen only narrowly finished ahead of the Force India duo, with neither Adrian Sutil nor Giancarlo Fisichella making it into Q2 for the 23rd consecutive race as they will start 19th and 20th.
The top 10 was rounded out by the Toyotas of Timo Glock and Jarno Trulli in sixth and seventh, Fernando Alonso eighth for Renault, with Nico Rosberg ninth in his Williams and Robert Kubica 10th for BMW Sauber.
In the mid-field, Williams' Kazuki Nakajima starts 11th, followed by the Renault of Nelson Piquet who came within 0.095secs of out-qualifying Alonso.
Sandwiching Hamilton are Nick Heidfeld in his BMW Sauber and the Toro Rosso of Sebastien Buemi.
"It could have gone very wrong," said a relieved Button after a pulsating qualifying performance.
"But it was by far the best lap I've had this weekend, so I'm very happy. It was a bit of a surprise.
"When I heard the shouts I had qualified on pole, it felt very good.
"The package is a good step forward. We have to work with it a bit more, and get the most out of it - I hope we can anyway.
"But I'm excited. I didn't expect to be sat in this position at the moment."
Vettel, who has qualified in the top three in each of the five races this season, said: "We have a very strong car.
"This weekend it has worked pretty well, but not good enough to beat Jenson.
"I would have loved to have had the pole, but second position is great."
Like Button, Barrichello is also happy with the car, but knows he has to do more if he is to beat the Briton.
"A great effort from Jenson," said Barrichello.
"He is doing a really good job and deserves to be there. I just have to try harder and harder to get him."
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The Economic Data calendar for the week of the 14th of February through the 18th is full of critical releases and events. Attached below is a snapshot of some (though far from all) of the headline numbers that we will be focused on.
Conclusion: While we certainly don't intend to make light of a serious global issue (food inflation), we'll use today's media focus as a platform to cook up some emerging market "food for thought" for you to digest over the weekend.
It has taken riots in Egypt, Tunisia, India, Bolivia and other countries worldwide for consensus to notice the price action in many emerging markets equities and bonds since the announcement of Quantitative Guessing Part II. Since November 3rd, the MSCI Emerging Market Index, a collection of over 2,600 EM equities spanning 21 countries, has dropped (-3.8%) on the product of a very simple equation which we introduced back in early November:
QG2 = accelerating inflation globally = policy tightening globally = slower growth globally
Needless to say, we've been bearish on emerging market equities and bonds ever since.
Putting aside "smaller" countries like Egypt and Tunisia and focusing on the major "engines" of developing nation growth, emerging markets have largely fallen victim to the Starvation Trade since 11/3:
Meanwhile (since QG2's official announcement):
For reference, the Starvation Trade is going long foodstuffs and agricultural commodities and shorting the large populations that need to tighten monetary policy in order to eat and maintain price stability in basic goods. As tactless as it may be to make light of something that's actually not funny at all, we too have been guilty of gambling in The Ber-nank's Casino. On January 14th, we offered up a few ideas in a collection of our best inflation plays in a note titled "Ten Ways to Play the Spike in Global Inflation" (email us if you need a copy):
Now that consensus' best idea is the "short EVERYTHING emerging markets and get long the Dow," we'll use their sentiment and combine it with price action to form more actionable investment ideas. The "flows" don't produce alpha; last week's $7B outflow from emerging market equity funds was the largest since January 2008 – NOT a bullish data point for global growth right; we don't buy the "US decoupling from the rest of the world" argument.
Given, we've assembled a collection of seven emerging markets we've done some work on recently that we think you need to consider as it relates to your exposure to growth and inflation trends – both domestically and globally. We'll keep these updates short; email us if you'd like to see copies of the relevant reports and/or if you have any follow up questions:
China – The news flow regarding China eerily quiet of late; it seems perma-bulls only mention the world's second-largest economy when they need to engage in storytelling around accelerating global growth. With the S&P at the top of a +96.5 rally from the March '09 lows, it appears the bulls no longer need what they dubbed: "the engine of the world's growth". Chinese growth is slowing. How much Chinese growth overshoots the bottom of consensus estimates over the next two quarters remains to be seen.
India – India has been far and away our favorite short idea since early November. Nothing has changed but price (down -15.3% since we turned bearish on November 9th). Even to a value investor (which we are far from), India still looks iffy: SENSEX shares trade at 16.8x NTM P/E vs. 13.2x in China, 10.4x in Brazil, and 7.2x in Russia. Broken on all of our core durations (TRADE, TREND, and TAIL), we see more downside here.
Korea – Korea has certainly gotten the benefit of the US growth story. An inflated Q4 US GDP number has certainly given this export economy a nice boost until today's (-1.6%) decline – yes, the GDP deflator is being understated and downward revisions to NTM S&P 500 earnings will create a massive divergence between the US government's reported growth numbers and corporate profits in the coming quarters. If the commentary provided on CSCO's earning call is any indicator, it's decidedly bearish for Korea (and Japan) in the coming quarters. That's on top of slowing growth and accelerating inflation at home on the peninsula. The market didn't like the Bank of Korea's decision to keep rates on hold today (down -1.6%).
Thailand – Thailand has been an interesting story in and of itself. While we recently covered our short position in the THD for a +5.28% realized return, we still remain bearish on the economy that is setup to slow from growth perspective and heat up from an inflation perspective. Serious compression (both margin and multiples) a'cometh for Thai equities. Mean reversion alone should keep this trade working over the intermediate term (up +36.5% in the past year).
Brazil – Today's +1.8% move in the Bovespa reminds us all that there are pockets of value out there. The consumer and infrastructure stories in Brazil are the kind of long term bull theses that keep a smile on Mark Mobius' face. Unfortunately, pockets of value can easily turn into Value Traps, as investors get sucked into buying good IDEAS not good INVESTMENTS. If you're bullish on Brazil, patience will allow you to buy exposure at a discount to today's price. The fight with inflation is far from over for the rookie president and central bank president duo. Growth will continue its deceleration in 1H11 as well.
Mexico – Much like Korea, Mexico is getting the benefit of the doubt from the US growth story (in addition to positive exposure to crude oil prices). Even if US growth was, in fact, robust in 4Q10, that's in the rear view. Of the leading indicators we track, none are signaling an acceleration of growth for this US's 70% household consumption-based economy. WTI's lackluster performance over the past few weeks of heightened geopolitical risk is an explicitly negative US demand signal.
We need to see much better employment data than the last two payrolls misses to get us constructive on US growth. And one can make a very compelling argument that the COGS inflation being felt by companies like KO, PEP, SYY, CSCO, NKE, F, and GT is definitely NOT bullish for CFO's increasing their labor expense in 2011. Add in the impact of rising interest rates on the bottom line and companies will be forced to take up price on a weak US consumer. Margin compression will come from slower traffic or sitting on rising input costs. Either way, Mexico loses from a lack of pricing power here (80% of its exports go to the US).
Argentina – Alongside Zimbabwe, Argentina wrote the book on modern-day emerging market inflation. Just over 20 years later, President Fernandez and company have taken the liberty to sue private economists who report inflation – many of which are 250% of the government's official reading of +10.9% YoY. No country in the world has a more suspect CPI calculation – not even the US. The Merval Index is up +7.7% since QG2 was announced on the strength of the parabolic moves in soybeans, corn and wheat prices (Argentina's main exports). Apparently Argentineans themselves don't have to eat. Social stability or stock market performance – something's going to give here.
Don't be swindled by the statements of our Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke:
"Indeed, prices of many commodities have risen lately, largely as a result of the very strong demand from fast-growing emerging market economies..."
- The Ber-Nank, Feb. 3, 2011
From our purview, the slope of demand growth in emerging markets is falling like a "BRIC".
Keep your head on a swivel and have a great weekend.
Darius Dale
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Position: Long Sweden (EWD); Short Italy (EWI), and Euro (FXE)
We're seeing a meaningful inflection in the CHF-EUR, down -5.0% year-to-date, an added benefit for a country whose exports represent 55% of GDP. With an expedient gain of +19.3% in the CHF versus the EUR in 2010 -- and considering that the Eurozone is Switzerland's main export partner -- the weakening in the currency comes as a great relief to exporters, but also the Swiss National Bank (SNB) that attempted to weaken the CHF last year, but ran into snags with 1.) the inability to cut below its main benchmark interest rate of 0.25%, and 2.) sovereign debt fears in the Eurozone that buoyed safe haven currency plays like the CHF.
Although the inverse correlation between the CHF-EUR and Swiss Market Index (equity) is not extremely high (-0.34) since 12/31/09, the trend line suggests a positive bias in the equity market to a weaker CHF.
[Of the major currencies versus the EUR, only South Africa's Rand is down more than the CHF year-to-date, at -10.2%.]
Yesterday, Swiss CPI declined sequentially to +0.3% in January Y/Y versus +0.5% in December, bucking the trend of rising inflation we're seeing across Europe. From a comps perspective, CPI should remain benign in 1H2011.
4Q10 GDP has yet to be released, however average Bloomberg forecasts suggest +2.6% Q/Q, a sequential slowing from +3.1% in Q3. We're cautious on the country's growth profile given that its main trading partners in Europe are working through austerity programs that are cutting spending, increasing taxes, and dampening confidence, whereas an important export market like Germany is showing fundamental signs of rolling over. Comps get increasingly more difficult beginning in Q1, and Bloomberg consensus forecasts +1.7% annual GDP growth in 2011.
We're not currently invested in Switzerland and remain cautious on Europe's underlying debt and deficit imbalances. This week showed a reversal in European equity market performance, with the PIIGS underperforming their European peers after an exuberant start to the new year, whereas the credit markets continue to reflect a heavy risk premium to own Europe's periphery.
The European Summit on March 24-25 remains a main catalyst that we're managing risk around in Europe. Stay tuned.
Matthew Hedrick
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POSITION: No position in SPY
No matter where you go, here we are again – testing higher-highs for both the intermediate-term cycle and the YTD. With the prior closing high of 1324 established on Tuesday, February 8th, it looks like The Mu-barak wants to be the latest huckleberry for the bulls.
I've been talking about the probability if seeing either my 2.5 or 3.0 standard deviation lines of 1330 and 1340 (or both) tested to the upside in the immediate-term. That's why I'm not short the SPY and have been leaning long with 2 of the 9 S&P Sector ETFs (XLV and XLU) all week.
That doesn't mean I won't start selling longs on the way up to my immediate-term TRADE lines of resistance (1331) and then start re-populating my short exposures however. The inverse relationship between the VIX and the SPY remains a very dominant one and we are approaching a big level of support for the VIX that held in both mid-April 2010 (before the 15% correction we called for in our May Showers call) and mid-January 2011.
My immediate-term TRADE line of downside support at 1315 has held like a champ all week. If they break that, there's no support down to my intermediate-term TREND line of 1233. And I don't think many people are positioned for that kind of drawdown in price.
Trade this market tight – the rest of the ride won't be for the faint of heart,
Keith R. McCullough
Chief Executive Officer
Keith shorted JNY again in the Hedgeye portfolio today. I had three people ping me this morning on the rationale. Each of them had a similar message; "Don't you think that the cat's outta the bag?" Simply put, the answer is "No."
JNY's Guidance looks like the start of a game of Chinese water torture. Check this out…
"Our goal and the corresponding plans that we have put in place are focused on our achieving gross margins approximating last year. If the business climate deteriorates, we believe that full-year gross margins could decline by 50 to 100 basis points. Comparisons in the first half of the year are more difficult than the back half of the year. We faced near ideal conditions in the first half of 2010 and posted near record gross margin percentages. In 2011, we are facing distinctly different conditions regarding rising product costs and continued uncertain consumer spending as unemployment stays high and the cost of consumer staples continue to rise. Keeping all this in mind, we expect first-quarter gross margins will be down by approximately 200 to 250 basis points and second-quarter margins down about 150 basis points. As we get to the back half, it's much tougher to forecast, but as price increases have a more significant impact and we benefit from tighter controls of inventory, third-quarter margins could be flat to up slightly and fourth-quarter could be up sharply."
So our interpretation of that is "Margins should be flat, with a hockey stick trajectory leading to a strong finish to the year. But if things erode further, margins could be down by 50-100bps off a record 2010."
So did they say that "if the unknown occurs in 2H, it will cost us 50-100bps in margin."
Why not 200bps? Why not 500?
The Street is at $1.37 for the year. We're having a tough time getting over $1.10.
Brian P. McGough
Managing Director
February 11, 2010
Puma and Undefeated to Release Clyde Collection - This spring, Puma's Clyde is going Undefeated. German athletic brand Puma is expected to announce Friday that it has partnered with seminal Los Angeles sneaker shop Undefeated for a collection of the brand's iconic Clyde basketball style. The first shoes in the collaboration, unisex styles retailing for $110, were designed by Undefeated cofounder Eddie Cruz and will deliver to Undefeated and other top-tier sneaker shops on April 10. A second delivery of $65 styles to the same channel will drop on June 10. Further releases are planned throughout 2011 and beyond. <WWD>
Hedgeye Retail's Take: While collaborations are nothing new in the world of sneakerheads, the focus on basketball from Puma is certainly noteworthy. While not a strongpoint of Puma's heritage, we suspect the overall hoops resurgence is influencing this grassroots effort.
American Eagle Speculation about Retail Takeover - American Eagle Outfitters Inc. surged the most in almost two years in New York trading on speculation the Pittsburgh-based teen-clothing retailer may be a takeover target. The shares rose $1.34, or 9.1 percent, to $16.03 at 4:01 p.m. in New York Stock Exchange composite trading for the largest gain since April 2009. "It's the takeover rumors starting up again," said Brian Sozzi an analyst for Wall Street Strategies Inc. in New York. A deal would make sense for private equity because American Eagle has "a good brand and generates lots of cash," he said. The clothier, led by Chief Executive Officer James O'Donnell, faces increasing competition from teen retailers like Abercrombie & Fitch Co. and Aeropostale Inc., both of which reported gains in same-store sales last month. <Bloomberg>
Hedgeye Retail's Take: If every "good brand with lots of cash" was for sale, then we'd be certainly be more bullish on retail. We point out that at various times over the past four years, AEO has been rumored to be for sale.
Lindsay Lohan Looses Shelf Space - While Lindsay Lohan's legal woes are taking center stage once again, the actress' apparel and accessories brand, 6126, has quietly receded from the shelves of department and specialty stores, according to checks by WWD. Initially a leggings brand, 6126 made a splashy debut in 2008 and 2009 at upscale stores such as Nordstrom, Macy's, Bloomingdale's, Neiman Marcus and Limited Brands Inc.'s Henri Bendel, but representatives from those stores said this week they no longer carry the line. <WWD>
Hedgeye Retail's Take: With Lohan in the headlines for all the wrong reasons, this hardly comes as a surprise. Let this serve as a reminder that celebrity licensed product lines are not without risks. Lohan's latest theft snafu may actually land her in jail for a prolonged period of time. Jumpsuit endorsement perhaps?
Stride Rite Lands Marvel License - Stride Rite has added another big license to its stable. The brand, a division of Topeka, Kan.-based Collective Brands Inc., has signed a multi-year licensing agreement with Marvel Entertainment to create a collection of children's shoes inspired by Marvel's cast of iconic superhero characters, including Spider-Man, Iron Man and Captain America. The collection, available in toddler and youth sizes, will include athletic styles, sport shoes and casual sandals. <WWD>
Hedgeye Retail's Take: Good timing with many of the Marvel characters making splashes on the big screen. We wonder if Captain America shoes will be ready for the July release.
Retailers Switch to iPads from Conventional Kiosks - City Sports and Things Remembered have unveiled a new system from mobile retail software provider Global Bay Mobile Technologies that turns off-the-shelf iPads into kiosks to enhance the in-store experience for shoppers. The iPads are securely mounted to kiosk-like stands throughout the stores. The bottom button on the iPad, which takes users to the iPad home screen, is covered so shoppers can only use the app running on the screen, called iPad Kiosk. The app, linked to a retailer's information systems via Wi-Fi, can be customized to present any information a retailer selects. <InternetRetailer>
Hedgeye Retail's Take: With no moving parts and a relatively low cost, the growth of the Ipad in an enterprise setting is likely to continue. Check out Square (https://squareup.com/) which actually turns your Ipad into a cash register.
Asia Fuels Sales Growth at Prada - Prada Group closed the year with a bang, with sales exceeding 2 billion euros, lifted by gains across all geographical markets. In the fiscal year ended Jan. 31, the Italian luxury house reported revenues of 2.04 billion euros, or $2.69 billion, up 31 percent compared with the year before. In particular, sales in Asia rose 48 percent. At the end of last month, Prada said that it planned to go ahead with an initial public offering on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. "These results confirm that the retail network expansion is a winning strategy and exceeding the threshold of 2 billion [euros in] revenues is a target which now allows us to set further challenging goals," said Patrizio Bertelli, chief executive officer of the company. <WWD>
Hedgeye Retail's Take: With less than 18 stores domestically and the company's plans for an IPO forthcoming, expect to see considerable store expansion domestically this year.
E-Commerce up in 2010 - Total U.S. e-commerce spending reached $227.6 billion in 2010, up 9% versus the previous year, according to the comScore 2010 U.S. Digital Year in Review report released this week. Travel e-commerce spending grew 6% to $85.2 billion, while retail (non-travel) e-commerce spending jumped 10% to $142.5 billion for the year. The annual report recaps key trends in the U.S. digital media landscape, including e-commerce, social networking, online video, search, online advertising and mobile, with an emphasis on how digital marketers can capitalize on these trends in 2011. "2010 was a very positive year for the digital media industry, highlighted by a strong rebound in e-commerce spending , significant innovation and increased demand for online advertising, and an explosion in digital content consumption across multiple platforms," said comScore chairman Gian Fulgoni. <SportsOneSource>
Hedgeye Retail's Take: e-commerce outperformance is not new news, but the category is likely to be off to a solid start again early here in 2011 with consumers intermittently housebound in January. At this point, the callout is those companies not participating – HIBB is one of the few retailers that comes to mind that still lack a platform.
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Wed Jul 17 15:09:00 MDT 2013
By Bruce Auchly
FWP Region 4 Information Officer
Snakes alive.
I have seen more snakes in and around the vegetable garden in the last week than I can ever remember. Garter snakes, mind you, but still snakes.
Snakes. The very word can make grown men shudder; women and children run for cover.
That's too bad, though to a certain extent understandable. To some people there is something repulsive about an animal that slithers along the ground, unseen in tall grass.
And then there's that whole Adam and Eve in the Garden, biblical thing. Didn't that story end with no paradise on this planet for humans, and snakes condemned to crawl on their belly eating dust? Yuck.
Here's the good news, snakes are among a gardener's best friends. No, really.
Garter snakes will eat nearly anything. Near water that means frogs, tadpoles and fish. In my garden their menu runs to grasshoppers, beetles and small mammals; all pests I would gladly be rid of.
Montana hosts three species of garter snakes: Common, terrestrial and plains. All three are found in central Montana. All three have stripes that run the length of the body. Apparently they resembled garters when garters were in style.
The terrestrial garter snake is found border to border, west to east, north to south. It has three yellow stripes running the length of the body with a series of black spots between and on the stripes. If it hunts in my garden, however, I haven't seen it.
My visitors are mostly plains garter snakes with the occasional common species. Plains garter snakes are the easiest to identify. They have an orange stripe that runs along its back flanked by greenish-yellow stripes on each side.
Plains garter snakes can run up to three feet long, maybe slightly longer. I found none that big. But 24 inches plus, yes.
The common garter snake has three yellow longitudinal stripes. They, too, can grow to 40 inches. That's a big garter snake.
While garter snakes in the garden help rid it of pests, they have their predators, too. Raptors will drop from the sky like a bolt of lightning and make a meal of snake.
So in the big circle of life, snakes fill a niche, whether we like them or not.
Of course, not everyone is a snake lover, or even tolerates them. If that's your mindset and you want to rid them from your property, then remove what makes them comfortable. Snakes in the summer need cover to escape the heat. Cover can be a pile of old boards or tall grass or a junk car. Clean up the lot, mow the grass short and your snake problem will likely disappear.
Oh yes, pigs are death on snakes. So maybe buy a pig.
But really, snakes can be our friends, even rattlesnakes, which are wonderful mousers. A rattlesnake in the field across the road eating mice? Fine, go for it.
But not in the front yard by the house. That has happened. One time, I scooped the reptile up with a shovel, put it in a cooler and took it down the road to a rocky cliff, where it lived to slither another day.
Then again, another time a rattler went to snake heaven.


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ANDRADE, Rosilene Viana de et al. The use of polymerase chain reaction to confirm diagnosis in skin biopsies consistent with american tegumentary leishmaniasis at histopathology: a study of 90 cases. An. Bras. Dermatol. [online]. 2011, vol.86, n.5, pp.892-896. ISSN 0365-0596. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0365-05962011000500005.
BACKGROUND: Cutaneous leishmaniasis is a chronic, infectious disease caused by protozoa of the genus leishmania. The incidence of this disease is high in Brazil, with 19,746 new cases having been detected in 2008. The presence of amastigotes in the cytoplasm of histiocytes constitutes diagnosis of the disease; however, their presence is rarely found in late lesions, making histological diagnosis difficult. Polymerase chain reaction has been shown to represent a highly sensitive and specific technique for the diagnosis of cutaneous leishmaniasis. OBJECTIVES: To use polymerase chain reaction to evaluate paraffin-embedded skin biopsies with histopathological features consistent with cutaneous leishmaniasis. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Polymerase chain reaction amplification of a 120-base-pair fragment of Leishmania kinetoplast DNA (kDNA) minicircles was performed on 90 skin biopsies. The male/female ratio was 75/15. Mean age was 32.36 years, with a median of 31 years, range 4-72 years. Samples were histologically compatible with cutaneous leishmaniasis but a definitive diagnosis could not be made since amastigotes were not found. All cases were histologically classified according to the patterns described by de Magalhães. RESULTS: According to the de Magalhães classification, the most common histological pattern was type IV (exudative granulomatous reaction), which was found in 65.6% of cases (56/90), followed by type I (exudative cellular reaction) in 21.1% of cases (19/90) and type III (exudative and necrotic granulomatous reaction) in 12.2% of cases (11/90). Leishmania DNA was found in 96.7% of the biopsies (87/90). CONCLUSION: Polymerase chain reaction performed by amplifying kDNA is able to confirm a diagnosis of cutaneous leishmaniasis with a high degree of sensitivity in cases in which histopathology is consistent with a diagnosis of cutaneous leishmaniasis but not definitive.
Keywords : Leishmaniasis, cutaneous; Polymerase chain reaction; Skin.


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