2010 Mercedes-Benz CL600 Coupe

Kaleidoscope based on the 2010 Mercedes-Benz CL600 Coupe.
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Mercedes-Benz, Geometric Art - Index

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2010 Mercedes-Benz S550, Kaleidoscope

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The Friday OT: The Prodigy; No Good (start the dance)

This comes from the days before Keith shaved his head and tattooed his belly, from the days before Liam decided to get serious and stop making tracks that you could actually dance to, from the days before The Prodge had six figure budgets for their videos.

This is an oldskool kickass dance track. Full volume on your audio playback facilities is necessary for fuller appreciation, ladies and gentlemen.

Trading Post (Catholic comestibles edition)

A good fish lunch was had by this author and The Ottoess.

Troy Resources (TRY.to) up 1.5% at $2.08. It's been nothing ToDaMoonAlice, but TRY has put in a good week. Even better in the higher volume Oz market, where last night's A$2.34 close gives a forex adjusted CAD$2.17 and smacks of better things to com in the Canadian listing.

AuEx Ventures (XAU.to) up 0.7% at $2.97. XAU.to continues to tread water on low volumes, but the new Long Canyon resource number due soon should give the trading a little more impetus (either way, of course). One for those who care little for the day-to-day chatter and look for value holdings in junior miners.

TheNewCrystallex (EC.v) down 47.9% at $0.375 on over 6m shares traded. Have you worked out the residual value of current assets yet? I have, and it's lower than this price. For those caught out by these scamsters, it's worth reflecting that it will become money well spent if you learn from the episode and don't make the same mistake a second time in the future. But if you fall for the next company promo scamjob, you've only yourself to blame.

Constitution Scamming (CMIN.ob) up 3.7% at $0.975 and after reading this morning's press release it was fun to note that Stocker actually cares about what's written at this humble corner of cyberspace. Want my home address too, Michael?

Rio Alto Mining (RIO.v) up 4.1% at $0.77, a new 52 wk high and credit where credit is due. Bob Moriarty got this one absolutely right. Here's his Feb 9th note to prove it.

Colombia's Presidential Elections: Latest opinion polls

With a deserved hat-tip to Krupa at LatAm Daily (that site is turning out to be a great blog to follow, folks), here's a graphic of the latest voter intention poll out of Colombia:

It seems as though the race is shaping up in the way envisaged in the "Roadmap" article in IKN46 which was also put up here earlier in the week. We even guesstimated that Santos's numbers would float up to around 35% and his main competition would come from Sanín. So that's working out.

FWIW, I'm sticking with the previous bottom line about this election. The Uribe-backed Santos may look like a shoo-in to outside observers but this one is far too close to call right now. The real election begins on May 31st, the day after the first round when the pacts and deals start getting done. This election is likely to go to the wire.

An eye on the insiders

Three inside trades that caught the eye of this humble scribe while perusing CadInsider this morning.

First up Evolving Gold (EVG.v), the company with good (though at depth) drill results coming from its USA project. Sadly, it's also pumped by über-BSmerchant Peter Grandich, which is enough reason in itself to avoid this stock forever, good rock or not. And lo and behold! we got insiders bailing right now, too:

Evolving Gold Corp. (EVG)						As of March 25th, 2010
Filing Date	Transaction Date	Insider Name	Ownership Type	Securities	Nature of transaction	# or value acquired or disposed of	Unit Price
Mar 25/10	Mar 19/10	Bick, Robert	Direct Ownership	Common Shares	10 - Disposition in the public market	-48,500	$0.960
Mar 25/10	Mar 18/10	Bick, Robert	Direct Ownership	Common Shares	10 - Disposition in the public market	-42,500	$0.970
Mar 25/10	Mar 18/10	Bick, Robert	Direct Ownership	Common Shares	10 - Disposition in the public market	-7,500	$0.980
Mar 25/10	Mar 17/10	Bick, Robert	Direct Ownership	Common Shares	10 - Disposition in the public market	-2,000	$0.980
Mar 25/10	Mar 17/10	Bick, Robert	Direct Ownership	Common Shares	10 - Disposition in the public market	-5,000	$0.960
Mar 25/10	Mar 17/10	Bick, Robert	Direct Ownership	Common Shares	10 - Disposition in the public market	-6,000	$0.980
Mar 25/10	Mar 16/10	Bick, Robert	Direct Ownership	Common Shares	10 - Disposition in the public market	-18,000	$0.980
Mar 25/10	Mar 16/10	Bick, Robert	Direct Ownership	Common Shares	51 - Exercise of options	129,500	$0.230
Mar 25/10	Mar 16/10	Bick, Robert	Direct Ownership	Options	51 - Exercise of options	-129,500	$0.230

All at the same time that Grandich pumps this stock to his sheep. Whatever can it mean?

Next we check out Baja Mining (BAJ.to) which is also flashing a "management think it's a good place to lighten" signal via this filed trade:

Baja Mining Corp. (BAJ)						As of March 25th, 2010
Filing Date	Transaction Date	Insider Name	Ownership Type	Securities	Nature of transaction	# or value acquired or disposed of	Unit Price
Mar 25/10	Mar 24/10	Glanville, Ross Owen	Direct Ownership	Common Shares	10 - Disposition in the public market	-120,000	$0.750
Mar 25/10	Mar 24/10	Glanville, Ross Owen	Direct Ownership	Common Shares	51 - Exercise of options	210,000	$0.350
Mar 25/10	Mar 24/10	Glanville, Ross Owen	Direct Ownership	Options	51 - Exercise of options	-210,000	$0.350

Finally, we have a bit of positive flipside: Apoquindo Minerals' (AQM.v) have a management team that are putting money where their mouths are. This is healthy:

Apoquindo Minerals Inc. (AQM)						As of March 25th, 2010
Filing Date	Transaction Date	Insider Name	Ownership Type	Securities	Nature of transaction	# or value acquired or disposed of	Unit Price
Mar 25/10	Mar 17/10	Lopez, Cesar	Direct Ownership	Warrants	11 - Acquisition carried out privately	100,000	$1.000
Mar 25/10	Mar 17/10	Lopez, Cesar	Direct Ownership	Common Shares	11 - Acquisition carried out privately	200,000	$0.850
Mar 25/10	Mar 17/10	Villarzu Rodhe, Juan Rodolfo	Indirect Ownership	Warrants	11 - Acquisition carried out privately	59,941	$1.000
Mar 25/10	Jan 07/08	Villarzu Rodhe, Juan Rodolfo	Indirect Ownership	Warrants	00 - Opening Balance-Initial SEDI Report
Mar 25/10	Mar 17/10	Villarzu Rodhe, Juan Rodolfo	Indirect Ownership	Warrants	11 - Acquisition carried out privately	59,941	$1.000
Mar 25/10	Jan 07/08	Villarzu Rodhe, Juan Rodolfo	Indirect Ownership	Warrants	00 - Opening Balance-Initial SEDI Report
Mar 25/10	Mar 17/10	Villarzu Rodhe, Juan Rodolfo	Indirect Ownership	Common Shares	11 - Acquisition carried out privately	119,882	$0.850
Mar 25/10	Jan 07/08	Villarzu Rodhe, Juan Rodolfo	Indirect Ownership	Common Shares	00 - Opening Balance-Initial SEDI Report
Mar 25/10	Mar 17/10	Villarzu Rodhe, Juan Rodolfo	Indirect Ownership	Common Shares	11 - Acquisition carried out privately	119,882	$0.850
Mar 25/10	Jan 07/08	Villarzu Rodhe, Juan Rodolfo	Indirect Ownership	Common Shares	00 - Opening Balance-Initial SEDI Report

Also, those with a memory for mining names will note the heavy-hitters that run AQM.v.

Disclosure: no position in any stock, though BAJ.to and AQM.v are part of the IKN Weekly 'Copper Basket' of junior exploration stage copper companies.