Rumors and Opinions Wednesday Evening

Rumors and Opinions Wednesday Evening

08/06/2014

Stage3Alpha:

omegaman August 6, 2014 at 5:52pm ok, this is FYEO...that is, those who truly believe; the others can discount it as rumor and go on with their dull mundane, day-to-day, routine, boring, life...

First time I've heard on multiple sources that the USN/ TRN (which is indeed the CRUX of the delay) is indeed live; Platforms are now trading, as the mt760 was released from administrative block for months; mt -103 has been effected; funding has begun; next step: release FOREX/GCR (prob. on a weekend); PBX following day at all tier one Banks;;;;bond sellers/owners to finally be paid out as per contract;;;starting wed...

if you've heard what i've heard from multiple and independent sources, not exo, then yall'd be excited, not, negative;..:.+ {;}[ x (::::;:::;:::;;;) / the sum o de negative....means that all of the negative regarding delays, is false...
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wilbur grodan August 6, 2014 at 7:51pm

Market action today highly suggestive of international upheaval tonight

Expect big moves in commodities/currencies

USDX/UUP bearish in multiple time frames today

This could be IT!

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Guesses to Exogens Picture Clues 7:30 PM EST Wednesday

Exogen: TGIF….Just sayin’
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carden > Clues say: BASEL III is catching the spiders in their webs. Their time is up. THEY LOSE!
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GT August 6, 2014 Answer to Clues ......

No More Waitng for Iraq and the U.S. to announce the Reset

The world's not waiting for any rebuilding

The sprint's on for Basel III compliance.

Looking to have it done by Friday (I thought it was to be donetomorrow from last Clues)

Big 4 Banks have Live TRNs

Iraq is Ready to move at lights speed
Additional Clues.......

Bonds are exchanging at High Rates TODAY

TRNs are Live

Private Exchanges are Starting Tonight

Santa's Gettin' Ready (Elv's are checking the list for Delivery)

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Vinman August 6, 2014 at 8:04pm

Reset not waiting for Iraq and the U.S. to announce winner.

The rest of the world is not waiting to rebuild.

It is a sprint for last minute action...there is no time to lose for Basel III compliance.

NO days left.

TRNs are live and sailing through the major banks.

Iraqi parliament actions are accelerating.

Breaking news....unconfirmed report that the new PM will be announced tonight

Oh boy!  Santa is getting ready to hop in his nitro-powered sleigh!

Getting ready to deliver our gifts.

Private exchange being put together for the groups and it's ready to start.

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Springs >  Private exchange going on right now
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Jeff :The big 4 banks have the TRNs waiting on deck and the Iraq Parliment is revving their engines to get going.
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nana7 >  BAM!!!! There it is...CONFIRMED!!


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I4U:

[SpecialAgentGibbs] There are clzaims that the TRN's are rolling their way through

[SpecialAgentGibbs] I heard rumor that there might even be some pictures floating around

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Bailey2:   [Poppy3] SOMETHING TO LISTEN FOR FROM HERE FORWARD THIS WEEK: DID THEY VOTE OR DISCUSS THE BUDGET, HCL AND TARIFF LAWS TODAY? WHEN ARE THEY SCHEDULED? THESE ARE HOT ITEMS AND THEY KNOW THEY ARE NEEDED ASAP AND HAVE PUT URGENCY ON THEM. THEY CAN'T BE FUNDED AND IMPLEMENTED UNTIL THEY GET THE RV BUT THEY CAN PASS THEM AND HOLD THEIR IMPLEMENTATION.

Landons Nana: BGG  They are fairly close to naming a PM in Iraq.  Sometime in the next couple of days we will see that.  Maliki in as the PM for a 3rd term is a rumor and far from true for many reasons, one is it is not constitutional.  Another rumor is that Jaafari is nominated as the NA candidate for PM...that one may be true.  The 8th is Friday & if  they are going to stick to any kind of constitutional framework on their deadline they have to have their PM named this week & I think they will probably get it done.  They are on the doorstep of having a new PM and they should have a vote before Sunday.

Bailey2: [wmawhite]   There will be only 1 nomination and that will go to the floor of Parliament and will have come from the largest bloc and that 1 will be voted on.  He then has 30 days to form his government.  The Jaafari nomination was a surprise but considering he is the head of the NA and without him it would have been a slam dunk for Maliki.  I am impressed that they are plowing ahead and they want to get this done.

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KTFA:

DLR » August 6th, 2014, True liberty ensures no one infringes upon your right to be wrong, unless your wrong infringes upon another's liberty.

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moneytalks1 » August 6th, 2014, Hi Delta,
Just saying...between tomorrow and this Sunday should be very exciting and very telling for the family. It will happen as fast as you can say RV!!!! Best window of all time for our investment IMO. Chow for now.

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Fact Checker: I doubt any of us will be taking up residence in Iraq, so it really doesn't matter whom they put in as the PM IMO. It will matter to the Iraqi citizens, but the rest of us not so much.

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Gfulcher66:  I agree. IMO M is the next pm, but EITHER WAY as long as we see a GOI, (hopefully good progress on this Sunday like Frank thinks) we will move fwd with an IR

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boxman : I have a few minutes so i want to offend everyone...

I believe Christine Laguards entrance song should be ....wait for it........

" She's a Bric's house" .....ok, maybe not funny...but made myself chuckle..

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK4af03OUQc Hormonelmom : But seriously, you have offended me because now I am going to be singing that first line of the song for the rest of the afternoon

 

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Electrifying whale sightings in Monterey Bay (gallery)

Posted on Tuesday, August 5 at 6:00pm | By Tom Stienstra

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Monterey whale sightings

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Giancarlo Thomae / Sanctuary Cruises

A whale photographer on the beach appears to get swallowed

At the dock at Moss Landing, you could smell whale breath in the air. It was like a mix of fermented broccoli and rotten anchovies.

“They’re here and they’re close,” said Giancarlo Thomae, a marine biologist and my kayak partner for the day, as we pushed our kayak from the dock at Elkhorn Slough.

It was warm and muggy, like a morning in the tropics. The air was thick with a high fog. We were paddling   out to see giant humpback whales in Monterey Bay.

At the mouth of the harbor, we sighted whale spouts, which looked like little puffs of smoke rising from the sea,  within a mile. A moment later, we saw a giant whale tail emerge.

“There’s at least 50 whales in Monterey Bay already and the season is just starting,” said Thomae, who has pioneered whale watching from a kayak out of Moss Landing and Capitola, and is a biologist for Sanctuary Cruises. “At peak season last year in late summer and fall, there were more than 200.

“In the past week, a mother and calf have come right into the harbor. People are watching from the jetty, in kayaks, (stand-up paddleboards), inflatables and on boats. Nobody can believe what they are seeing.”

The big humpbacks are the most social of all whales. When the boats, big and small, get within range — easy to locate by spouts, diving birds and acres of feeding sea lions — you simply stop paddling or turn off your engine: The humpbacks often swim right up to you and put on a show.

It’s like parting the curtains and getting a glimpse of a secret world. At close range, the big whales can spout, lunge feed, spy hop, wave at you with a fluke or tail salute, or give you the big show with a full breach, pirouette and crash into the calm sea.

On the gentle paddle out to the harbor mouth, we saw about 50 harbor seals, 100 sea lions and a dozen sea otters, including one that swam right up alongside, and then a moment later, an estimated 50,000 terns swirled overhead. Earlier in the week, a cloud of sooty shearwaters extended for four miles along the shore of Monterey Bay.

As we hit the open water, millions of  anchovies schooled for miles around us and straight ahead on the edge of the Monterey Bay Submarine Canyon. Many of the  baitfish were just 1 to 4 inches, so many, that at times, the calm surface look dimpled like a golf ball. At other times, small pools from anchovies flicking the surface made it look like rain drops.

The anchovies and other marine feed have lured sea creatures from across the ocean to feast in Monterey Bay. In the past 10 days, it’s become one of the richest marine regions in the world.

Trips have ventured here from Santa Cruz to Monterey, but the closest launch point is Moss Landing. The Submarine Canyon starts 100 feet outside the Moss Landing Harbor, and then just a mile offshore, plunges to 800 feet deep; within a few miles, to 1,400 feet deep.

Offshore, west-bound currents hit the edge of the Submarine Canyon, and as it narrows near shore, deep, nutrient-rich water rises to the surface. The upwelling ignites the marine food chain, from tiny plankton to krill, anchovies, squid, herring, sardines and other feed, and then is crowned by the giant humpback whales that are feasting on anchovy riches. The whales dive, their tails often high in the air to help propel them to the depths, and then after an underwater loop, rocket to the surface and lunge feed through the small anchovies.

The scene is so electric that Michael Sack, co-owner and captain of Sanctuary Cruises, spent his day off last Sunday to see the whales from his surfboard.

“I was surfing off the South Jetty (outside Moss Landing Harbor) and the ocean flattened out and then a few whales suddenly showed up 50 yards away,” Sack said. “Some pelicans started diving, and next thing I know, this mass of anchovies, about eight-foot diameter, were on the surface right next to me.

“Two, three seconds later, this giant wide-open mouth of a humpback whale came up 20 yards from me. The mouth was five feet open. The whale came out of the water 10 feet high, right next to me. I couldn’t believe it.”

As news of the whales circulated this past week, Dave Grigsby, owner of Kayak Connection at Elkhorn Slough in Moss Landing, said he rented nearly all 100 of his kayaks for all daylight hours by advance reservation for the weekend. He, too, finds the show irresistible.

“On Monday, my family (wife Jess and daughters Samantha and Gwen) went out in tandem kayaks inside the mouth of the harbor,” Grigsby said. “Suddenly, thousands of anchovies were teeming all around us. My daughter Gwen started yelling, and then two seconds later, a mother humpback whale erupted out of the water 15 feet away.

“Gwen really started screaming,” he said with a grin. “Then the calf came up right between our kayaks and its mother, right next to us. None of us could believe it. Every hair on my body was standing on end.”

Humpback Whales Play Around in California Bay

Ten humpback whales swam circles around boaters whale watching in Monterey Bay, California.

You can see the show by driving to Moss Landing and  walking out on the North Jetty, which provides a good view of the harbor entrance and inshore coast out to the canyon. For a more formal presentation, whale watching trips with naturalists are available on large charter boats out of Moss Landing, Santa Cruz and Monterey.

You can rent a kayak or bring your own and paddle the flat water to the harbor entrance.  Those who rent kayaks are not permitted outside the harbor into the open sea, except on guided trips with professionals; you can need pro-level expertise to deal with the breaking surf at the mouth of the jetty, and reading wind and swells.

The big humpback whale show started three years ago in late summer and lasted into fall. Last year, the whales moved within two miles of the harbor, and in October, often closer just off Moss Landing and Capitola near Santa Cruz.

“Here it is the start of August, and it’s already full on,” Thomae said. “They’re even closer to shore than last year and more are arriving every week.”

As we paddled out, I dipped a hand into the sea, where little anchovies darted around just under the surface. I was stunned at how warm the water felt, another harbinger that an El  Niño is taking shape on the Pacific Coast. “It was 68 degrees at the Monterey Weather Buoy, 10 miles out,” Thomae said. “For Aug. 1, it’s usually like 59, 60 here.”

For those coming to watch the whales,  polarized sunglasses are a good way to cut the ocean glare.  In addition, a wet suit and personal floatation device are necessities in a kayak on the ocean. With temperatures in 60s, and muggy this past week from tropical flow, wear shorts, Under Armour, sandals and a wide-brimmed hat.

Sea kayaks are stable yet sleek, allowing users to propel themselves forward quickly with each paddle stroke. In a half hour on the open ocean, as we ventured toward the spouts and tail sightings, we were above the southern edge of the Submarine Canyon. At one point, the water was 1,200 feet directly beneath our small boats.

In the span of a minute, an acre of sea lions, amid a massive school of anchovies, swirled directly ahead of us. About 75 yards to our left, a whale spout shot 15 feet into the sky, and a moment later, the whale’s tail rose high into the sky. Again, you could smell whale breath.

“Stop paddling,” Thomae shouted, “Watch what happens next.”

As we floated, the sound of a whale exhaling, a loud, sustained whoosh, broke the silence. Whale breath enveloped us. To our left, 20 yards off, a giant humpback whale, 50 feet and 40 tons, emerged on the surface. The  whale seemed to look at us for a moment, then gave us a fluke salute.

A moment later there was another whale, which did the same. The spray of its blowhole nearly hit us.

“They come right up,” Thomae shouted again. “Wildlife ethics say you can’t do anything to change their behavior. You have to keep a respectful distance. They are playful, curious animals and they can be fascinated with us. They are the size of a Greyhound bus and they swim right up. It’s incredible.”

In the next two hours, we sighted more than a dozen whales, saw 100 tails, hundreds more spouts, and moments where the backs of whales emerged high above the sea surface nearby. In a dozen encounters, the whales chose to circle in an arc just ahead of us.

Then, just off to our left, one of the humpbacks rocketed out of the water at 45 degrees, cleared the sea in a full breech and then landed with a giant crash. In the wake, the sea foamed bright white.

People pay thousands of dollars for whale encounters along Alaska’s Inland Passage or Mexico’s whale breeding grounds. Yet here at Moss Landing,  you might have the same experience for roughly the price of a dinner at a restaurant.

As we paddled back to the harbor, an easy trip with an incoming tide and the Moss Landing power plant towers onshore guiding the way, I asked Thomae how long these humpback encounters could continue.

“As long as there is food to eat, the whales will stay here,” he said. “The best is yet to come, in late summer.”

Last year, peak sightings were from mid-September to mid-October. And mother humpback whales and their calves stayed in Monterey Bay into early December.

“Many biologists believe so many are also being sighted because there is a significant increase in the population of humpback whales across the Pacific,” Thomae said. “Their population is coming back, big-time. With such a rich marine food chain set off by the Monterey Submarine Canyon, we think it is possible that humpback whales could stay in Monterey Bay year-round.”

As we docked our kayaks at the harbor, Thomae smiled and remarked, “I can’t think of anywhere else in the world I would rather be than right here for the next three months.”

Tom Stienstra is the Chronicle’s outdoor writer. Daily twitter at: @StienstraTom. E-mail at tstienstra@sfchronicle.com.

Safety & ethics

• Safety: Do not venture into the open ocean in a kayak or any boat from Moss Landing unless you are expert paddler with a seaworthy craft, or with a professional local guide to keep you safe. Though calm this past week, the mouth of Moss Landing Harbor can turn treacherous; an outgoing tide and an onshore wind can create large standing waves that can swamp small boats.
• Ethics: Your behavior cannot influence the behavior of wildlife you hope to view. In the vicinity of whales, most easily found by whale spouts, feeding and hovering birds, and masses of sea lions, allow your craft to float motionless (turn your engine off, whether hand-powered or gas-powered), and the humpbacks often choose to swim nearby within close range.

If you want to go

• Whale watching boats: Sanctuary Cruises, Moss Landing, (831) 917-1042, www.sanctuarycruises.com; Monterey Bay Whale Watch, Monterey, (831) 375-4658, www.montereybaywhalewatch.com; Santa Cruz Whale Watching, Santa Cruz, (831) 427-0230,www.santacruzwhalewatching.com; Princess Monterey, Monterey, (831) 373-2203,www.montereywhalewatching.com; Fast Raft, Monterey, (800) 979-3370,www.FastRaft.com.
• Kayak rentals: Kayak Connection, Moss Landing (also a Santa Cruz location), (831) 724-5692, www.kayakconnection.com; Monterey Bay Kayaks, Moss Landing (also a Montery location) (831) 373-5357, www.montereybaykayaks.com; Blue Water Ventures,(831) 345-2417,www.bluewaterventures.org; Venture Quest Kayaking, (831) 425-8445,www.kayaksantacruz.com; Blue Ocean Whale Watching, (831) 600-5103,www.blueoceanwhalewatch.com.
• SUP rentals/whale tours: Sup Shack, (831) 428-2378, www.supshacksantacruz.com.
• Whale photography: Giancarlo Thomae, kayakwhalewatching@gmail.com.
• San Francisco: Oceanic Society, (415) 256-9604, www.oceanicsociety.org.

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