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Inklings Book Contest Prep Course
Everything you need to know to get ready for the Inklings Book Contest
In this FREE course from Society of Young Inklings, our founder, Naomi Kinsman, walks you through everything you need to know to prepare to submit to the Inklings Book Contest.
In this series of mini-lessons, we walk through everything from choosing the right idea, developing characters, building a story-world, and revising for submission.
Need-to-know dates:
- Early January: The contest opens for submissions! 🎉
- March 31: Last day to submit to the Inklings Book Contest. Please note the new due date! We chose to extend the due date to give time to writers at home due to COVID-19 to take advantage of the Inklings Book Contest opportunity.
Happy writing, Inklings!
Your Instructor
Author of the From Sadie's Sketchbook Series and Spilled Ink, the award-winning Inklings Writers' Notebook, Naomi is passionate about sharing her love of writing and creativity with young writers. Naomi's background in improvisational and story theatre as well as her arts education work in Chicago, Portland, and the Bay Area has convinced her that creative play is a doorway through which learners can find inspiration and transformative learning experiences.
Naomi loves to play in many ways, but some of her favorites are tap-dancing, sketching, experimenting in the kitchen and tag with her Portuguese Water Dog, Turley. Naomi has a BA in Theatre Arts from Seattle Pacific University and has studied theatre with the Piven Theatre Workshop and ACT. She also has a Masters in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Hamline University.
Course Curriculum
StartHow to Create a Character: An Interview Game for Writers (4:31)
StartHow to Create a Fictional World: A Mapping Activity for Writers (5:32)
StartHow to Create a Cast: An Improv Game for Writers (8:29)
StartHow to Create a Plot: A Storyboarding Game for Writers (9:41)
StartShow Don't Tell: A Scene Building Game for Writers (6:04)


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USA :: Montana :: Bozeman
about 1 year agoHome of all things Gallatin Valley Regional NaNoWriMo dwell herein. Please scroll down to access the calendar, the forums, and join the conversations. Let your voice be heard, early and often, regarding dates, times, and locations that work best for you. We hope to meet you in person at one of our community events but between now and then, see you on the forums!
almost 3 years agoDo you want to go somewhere and do something today/tonight, but you have a novel to write? You're looking at the official calendar, but you see nothing scheduled? Scroll down. Check out our regional forum. Chances are, somebody else feels the same way. See if they posted before you had a chance to. Tell us where you'll be writing and when if you want us to join you. Let's get writing!
almost 4 years agoSneak a peek at our regional forum if you haven't in a while. We've added a new thread to encourage remote participation in word sprints and similar writing challenges. Also, if you find your wordcount woefully lagging, do not despair. As long as there is November, there is hope. Avail yourself of our forum-centric writing incentives, keep your eyes peeled for word sprints, and for pop-up gatherings of WriMoose near you. Plan now to attend our final write-in on Wednesday, November 30th. If by that time you have already passed the 50K finish line, you can take that time to write more (if the manuscript is still unfinished), edit, or simply read what you have written. Just a few days remain--you got this!
almost 4 years agoEvents have been scheduled on the calendar, and more will be added as we confirm the details. Your intrepid MLs are finalizing arrangements based on the information we have so far, but we value more input to better serve you. In our regional forum we have posted a few potential days/times for write-ins, so join the conversation now if you would like to have some say in the scheduling.
Talk to us if you have any good ideas regarding write-ins. Suggest locations around town where you like to write, and we'll do our level best to incorporate them into the schedule. MSU STUDENTS: We need expert location suggestions for on-campus write-ins (so please help us out). Feel free to message any of us, or post ideas/questions in the forums.
If transportation is an issue for you, check the Transportation Issues forum thread--you may find someone ready and willing to assist you.
Thank you for joining us, and we hope to see you soon--either at a write-in, or here on the forums!
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Writers from the Gallatin Valley, including Bozeman, Belgrade, Livingston, Manhattan, Three Forks, Big Sky, etc. Bring your self and join us for a 50,000 word adventure like no other!
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A father who drowned during a fishing trip with his son and a friend south of Sydney on Friday was not wearing a lifejacket when their boat capsized, police say.
The man, 73, and his 47-year-old son were fishing with a 61-year-old man at Cape Solander, off Kurnell, about 10.30am when the five-metre boat was "caught out by the waves".
The two younger men swam to shore to get help but the father was unconscious when he was found during the major search operation.
Officers and a lifeguard performed CPR on the man, but he could not be revived.
"They were fishing at the time and have just been caught out by the waves, they've just become too close to the rocks and have capsized," Inspector Darren Wood said.
"We've been informed that they were not wearing lifejackets at the time.
"It is unfortunate ... it is important that all boaters remember to wear their lifejacket when on a vessel this summer. It is your best chance of survival should you be thrown into the water."
Inspector Wood also encouraged all boaters "to understand the conditions and understand where the reefs are and have some local knowledge of where they are fishing".
Police said one of the surviving men's thumb was severed. The man had a few other scrapes but would require surgery for his hand. The other man on the rocks was able to walk to safety and had no major injuries.
The pair were taken to hospital in a stable condition and were interviewed by police.
Westpac Rescue Helicopter chief executive Stephen Leahy said it "doesn't matter what the conditions might be" or how good they are at swimming, people need to wear lifejackets if they were going offshore.
"It's too common: people believe they're reasonably good swimmers, but it doesn't take much for a boat to roll over," he said.
"That's why it's incredibly important: lifejackets are an essential item that needs to be worn."
A report will be prepared for the coroner on the man's death.
Police were calling for any witnesses to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
More to come
Rachel Clun is a journalist at The Sydney Morning Herald.
Jamie Berry is a journalist at the Sydney Morning Herald


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Erwin Frazier, Norman, Oklahoma
This man cheated on his wife wife with a 23 year old girl at their place of employment. He was ******** her in the bathroom and in residents rooms. They had no contact outside of work until she got knocked up. She then purchased him a go phone and paid for the minutes on it to be able to stay in contact with him. This man found out that she was pregnant in May but didn't tell his wife until July because he had no intention of ever leaving his wife. His wife tried to forgive him and let him stay because he was very remorseful and wanted to save his marriage. On December 26th she told him to get out because she could no longer deal with everything he had done! He is a loser!! Her family paid for the vehicle he drives, paid to get his record expunged, and several other things the four years they were married! Stay away from him, he is a player, and brings nothing but pain to people!


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SEO is an acronym of Search Engine Optimization, and there is nothing mystical about it. SEO is a modified program that sends signals to search engines making your pages available in Google index. Basically, Google uses a mathematical formula referred to as an algorithm to rate every website and search engine to figure out the site to rank best depending on what people are looking for.
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All activities of the company are related to finance (cost, depreciation, turnover, profits, taxes …). Financial accounting is the common language of business. As a startup entrepreneur, you must provide financial accounting information to a variety of audiences, such as employees, customers, suppliers, independent auditors, bank credit officers, tax authorities, boards of directors, investors… These operations are especially important and have an unexpected impact on the existence and development of the business.
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Science & Nature
Women in Science: Ada Lovelace
The titles in the new Women in Science series take a highly visual approach to telling the stories of important women scientists. Each title features bite-sized text telling the story of a scientist's life, groundbreaking work, and legacy in an engaging and accessible way, illustrated with original artwork and photographs. There are multiple entry points, including timelines, maps and captions. The easy-to-read text and vibrant illustrations will appeal to reluctant readers and introduce them to foundational scientific concepts.
Rachel Carson was a 20th century marine biologist and science writer, whose work, including the famous Silent Spring, on the harmful effects of the insecticide DDT, helped to raise awareness about humanity's impact on the natural world and the often-unintended consequences of scientific progress. This book tells her story.
Anne Rooney is a journalist, blogger, and writer of books for children and adults on subjects ranging from physics to medieval literature.
Isobel Lundie graduated from Kingston university in 2015 where she studied Illustration and Animation. She has always been interested in how to make books interactive so children can lose themselves in the narrative . Having worked as an illustrator, she is particularly interested in how exciting, colourful and distinctive artwork can transform stories for children.
Anne Rooney is a journalist, blogger, and writer of books for children and adults on subjects ranging from physics to medieval literature.


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He Died, And I Didn't Know That He Wouldn't Come Back
He Died, And I Didn't Know That He Wouldn't Come Back
My grandpa was born in the early part of the 20th century.
He was not educated. The only thing that he was adept at was creating magic on our patch of agricultural land and our paddy field. All through his life, he felt very proud about owning them.
He cultivated everything – bottle gourd, ridge gourd, cucumber, potato, tomato. The list was endless. Anything that he planted would flourish abundantly. "Some people have a Midas Touch. Nabin da has one!" said Kon Bapu once while sipping tea in our paddy field.
Pineapples grew in abundance back then. My grandfather once said that he used to sell bullock carts full of pineapples to the Gora Sahibs before independence. He would always do this with his father, Domai Daria. These pineapples would be shipped to England.
Times were so different then. No internet. No mobile phones. These things have become a necessity now.
During the rainy season, the paddy fields would be filled with waist deep water. Every morning, I would gaze at the sunlight leisurely peeping through the distant eucalyptus trees which lined the Sunti Pukhuri. The villagers would be busy planting tender paddy into the wed mud.
Small walls called aalis were built on every patch of paddy to fortify it. These aalis demarcated the paddy fields belonging to different villagers. Small gaps were created in these aalis so that water could pass through and reach the other fields.
Every evening, grandpa would place small bamboo traps called sepa or khuka between these water inlet gaps. The next morning, he would inspect each one carefully. Voila! We would find different fishes trapped inside. I would always join him when he went about this morning errand. I would balance my small feet delicately on the wet aalis as I went around with him.
Grandpa was losing his vision. He once brought home a snake trapped in one of the khukas thinking it to be an eel fish. Had it not been for my youngest uncle, he would have cut the snake into pieces along with the other fishes.
The sight of the water-filled paddy fields was too tempting for me to resist back then. I would go solo fishing secretly. I would peep inside the kitchen and quickly grab one of the khorahis (bamboo netted bowls) and dash to the paddy fields at the back of our house. I would catch small fishes and would return home covered in mud with a mind full of fear ready to face my mother's fury. I would store the colourful fishes in one of the empty Maltova bottles. The rest would be on my lunch plate.
When it was time for the monsoons, grandpa bought a multicoloured umbrella for me. I was in the 1st standard at that time.
I would tell him the colours in the umbrella and he would clap for me every time. I would sing rhymes and read out from my school books. Although he didn't understand anything, he would always clap for me.
We had a big litchi tree in our house. All the village folks would come and throw stones or use a stick to bring down the ripe litchis. Honestly, I didn't like it when they did this because I wanted them all for myself. "These are all mine. Don't take any litchis!" I would shout at the villagers but they would never listen to me. They would just ignore my vocal tirade. I would run back crying to my grandpa who would always be seated on the long wide verandah behind our house.
"Kaka, they are plucking the litchis!" I would complain. He would run his hand over my hair and smilingly take out a few ripe litchis and say, "Never mind. They are taking the young unripe ones. I have got the best ones for you." A smile would replace my frown and I would savour them sitting on his lap. That was my grandpa – Nabin Chandra Borah.
He had a mop full of white hair. He had those cute wrinkles. I would affectionately touch them and ask him innocently, "Kaka, you are growing fat. Look how the flesh around your mouth is protruding!" He would laugh and I would join him.
My granny (I called her aaita) would shout from the kitchen and say, "Are you waiting for the villagers to empty the entire tree?" Grandpa would grumpily say, "This woman will never change."
After my kaka's demise, the litchi tree was cut down. The villagers stopped coming. I missed my grandpa. My little mind could not decipher that he had left us forever. I had lost my friend.
His body was cremated in the bamboo grove behind our house. Whenever my mother scolded me, I would run to the bamboo grove and cry. I hoped that my dear grandpa would come to take me in his arms and wipe my tears. I waited there till my tears dried up.
Finally, half-heartedly, I would walk back home. But I would keep turning back with the hope that my grandpa would come.
All this happened thirty-four years back. My once innocent world has changed a lot now. Today, I live far away from my hometown. The litchi tree is no longer there. My grandpa is not around anymore.
But somewhere deep down, I am still the same five-year-old kid – ready to watch the villagers pluck the litchis while I ate the ripe ones on my grandpa's lap.
I miss you, grandpa. I wish you had lived for a few more years so that I felt as protected now as I used to then. I would like you to know that no matter where I am or what I am, I will always be your little 'Deu.' Yes, my grandfather always affectionately called me by this name.
Today I can see that my son will always be the same old 'Tuk Tukia' for his old grandpa. Tuk Tukia is leaving tomorrow. I know his grandpa will be fighting back the tears that flow from his 80-year-old pair of eyes when he bids his grandson goodbye. Somehow after thirty-four years, I feel that my son will remember his grandpa in the same way that I remember my grandpa.


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I noticed you ain't been around lately
I recognize there is a sudden change
I notice you haven't been calling me
I'm starting to see, that things are not the same
Lately I have been reaching out to you
Boy you haven't been returning my calls
And even when I say, I love you
I notice there has been a slight pause
Please tell me what do you think it could be.
Headache, tired, or cheating on me?
Said I'm tired of all this up and down mystery
Please answer questions from one, two, three.
Do you love me? Lost Interest? Is he cheatin'?
Oh ladies help me out.
Do you love me? Lost Interest? Is he cheatin'?
Said I'm tired of all these ups and downs
Do you love me? Lost interest? Is he cheatin'?
Fellas tell me what you're thinking
Do you love me? Lost interest? Is he cheatin'?
Here's the reason why I ask these things
I was giving him the best of me
But my best stopped being good enough
I'm telling you I will do anything
Talk about a woman who loves tough
and now he's coming home real, real late
I let him know its starting to bother me
He never once even touched his plate
and no response he just went to sleep.
Used to take me shopping all the time
Used to go club hoppin' all the time
Where you were I would be all the time
Now all you do is leave me (behind boy)
Used to be your best friend, (remember)
We were close like cousins (remember)
Used to give me lovin' (and now)
All you're doing is trippin' (ladies what do you think?)


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"Leadership is influence,
nothing more, nothing less,"
– John C. Maxwell –
Leadership is like mining, where one must filter the tons of dirt to only find that handful of gold.
With more than forty years of experience of leading leaders, the John C. Maxwell leadership programme is giving you the manual to mine your own gold mine with the guidance of the famous book, Leadership Gold. Compiled in the form of leadership gold nuggets in twenty- six different points that are converted into individual chapters, the book is designed to allow leaders to physically apply the lessons learnt for practical use with Application Exercises at the end of each chapter as well as educating and empowering others with the principles learned. Some of these "leadership gold nuggets" include topics like Don't Send Your Ducks to Eagle School; People Quit People, Not Companies; Keep Learning to Keep Leading; For Everything You Gain, You Give Up Something; Best Leaders Are Listeners; and Never Work A Day In Your Life.
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We would also like to take this opportunity to introduce to you our Certified John C. Maxwell Trainer, Mr. Gilbert Ng who had impacted the lives of many business leaders in South East Asia. Mr. Gilbert Ng will soon share his teachings and insights on the Nuggets of Gold in Leadership that was made famous by John C. Maxwell, in his upcoming workshop in Malaysia.
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While some music seems to go out of its way to grab your attention, there's something far more subtle about the music produced by London-based artist, Rozi Plain. Her albums immerse the listener in a sound both experimental and accessible. Listen closely to new album What a Boost and you'll be rewarded.
While tonight will be the third time I've seen Plain and her band, it will be the first time I've witnessed Otley's long-serving, experimental folk oddball David Thomas Broughton. It's going to be difficult to describe Broughton's show but suffice to say he isn't the sort of performer you see every day.
It begins regularly enough; an acoustic guitar, a loop pedal, and Broughton's voice. His voice recalls the haunted tones of Antony Hegarty (Anohni) as the music sets us up for some folky, melancholic reverie. Then, before anyone can get too comfortable, things start to get strange.
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Some discordant and purposely wonky guitar is layered on top of an otherwise hummable melody, an amplifier left on its side allowed to hum throughout entire sections. At times it's like listening to two songs at once, at others, Broughton's voice glides above the noise. The lyrics themselves manage to be beautiful, funny, deep and nonsensical.
The juxtaposition is very much deliberate; a mix of chaos, noise, humour, and beauty. Broughton even manages to eat a banana while simultaneously adding vocal harmonies to his ongoing, uninterrupted, collage of sound. When I head to the bar after the performance I hear someone say, "Bit different". It's something of an understatement.
It might not be as bizarre as Broughton's brand of experimentalism yet Rozi Plain's music remains infused with a quietly thrilling, adventurous spirit. While Broughton's music uses jarring juxtaposition, Plain's music blends its sounds and influences in an impossibly smooth, wonderfully meditative style.
The band opens with 'Quiz' from the new album; woozy synth moans and a lovely, descending melody wrap us up in sonic sheets and lower us, gently yet purposely, into a dreamlike sound. It's a sound you have to immerse yourself in. Plain's music requires your full, unconditional, surrender.
The undeniably gorgeous melodies are almost misleading, the music bubbling with unconventional rhythms and ideas. Plain's guitar playing and the bass interweave to create hypnotic, playful grooves. The jazz-like drumming, the dreamy synth swells and the folk-indebted banjo playing of Rachel Horwood each bring an essential ingredient to the overall sound.
The whole band chimes in for the meditative mantras that punctuate the songs. A sense of unity and a natural bond as they all step in time to the quietly joyous 'Symmetrical'. Plain's voice acts as an understated and comforting guide as she sings, "a dream/ a dream/ a realistic dream".
'Swing Shut' finds Plain urging the music to speak to her heart and that's exactly what tonight's performance does. I've loved 'Actually' from the first time I heard it but tonight it seems to go that one step further, a beautiful and powerful piece of music that pulls you into the moment, "don't get over it/ this is actually it".
The jazz influences are acknowledged with the band's lovingly crafted, Sun Ra cover. The band eases us into an "eternal sea of darkness" with a minimalistic, thoroughly blissful take on 'When there is no Sun'. Like the rest of tonight's set, it's a therapeutic and somewhat magical submersion.
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U.S. Bank's ultrahigh-net-worth wealth management unit is branching out.
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It will be the sixth office to open since Ascent Private Capital Management, the bank's ultrahigh-net-worth business, launched in 2011.
As a regional managing director, Kelly Thomson will lead business activities in the Southern California region and develop and manage a multi-disciplinary advisory team that serves families of significant wealth, according to Ascent.
The new office in La Jolla will serve individuals and multigenerational families "who aspire to make an impact with their wealth," Ascent said.
While at Magee Thomson Investment Partners, Thomson was responsible for business development, investor relations and investment strategy. He co-founded the investment advisory firm, which dealt with large public and corporate pension funds, in 2002.
Prior to Magee Thomson, Thomson was with Duncan-Hurst Capital Management, where he was a member of a team that grew assets under management from $1.5 billion to $8 billion, according to Ascent.
"Kelly brings to Ascent an entrepreneurial spirit and hands-on experience in building teams and businesses that will be critical to launching and building our La Jolla office," Michael Cole, president of Ascent, said in a statement.
Ascent has offices in Cincinnati, Denver, Minneapolis, Seattle and San Francisco. At the end of 2013, it had $5.3 billion in assets under management and today manages more than 140 families nationwide. The firm declined to provide updated AUM numbers.


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Summary: This page looks at the possible approaches that a potential investor can pursue if they want to perform due diligence on a hedge fund.
There can be little doubt that hedge fund due diligence is very difficult to do. Very difficult.
As a private or institutional investor, it may not seem overly important to research the management and company structure of Fidelity, Standard Life or other large fund managers. In the world of the hedge fund, however, it is much more important, but much more difficult.
As far as we can see, there are three main avenues to understand about a hedge fund. They are the structure, the people and the trading strategy.
The Structure: Hedge funds are designed to fall through the cracks of financial services legislation. In technical and government policy jargon, this is known as regulatory arbitrage. This means that the owners and managers of a hedge fund will deliberately use the most friendly location for different aspects of it's setup.
What does that mean?
An example might be a hedge fund with managers that work in an office on Wall Street and are regulated as individuals in the United States. The money might be held in a bank account in the Cayman Islands, in a bank from the Virgin Islands, with a custodian from Bermuda. The fund might be domiciled in Jersey and clients could be from around the world.
Readers will note that the majority of those jurisdictions have some form of 'financial confidentiality' in place. In the modern world, there are very few jurisdictions that offer secrecy, but still, solid confidentiality can be difficult to penetrate.
This means that a potential investor is essentially reliant upon disclosures from the fund manager as to how the company is structured. This will be done voluntarily as part of the marketing material.
However, it will be difficult to actually verify. Enquiries into the ownership of parts of this structure in the relevant jurisdictions may receive an acknowledgement that the fund or company exists but little more. More often than not, even this acknowledgement to a private individual will be rare.
Thus, much of the company structure will be something taken on
trust. It ought to be noted that the structure will almost certainly
place the fund management team in a position of very limited or no
financial liability.
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The People: A great many hedge funds are started by experienced fund managers. Often they have been working for some years at a well known and respected investment bank or asset management firm.
They will use this experience and these connections to help them raise the existing funds required to launch. For a fund manager with a good to great record, the starting capital will be in the hundreds of millions of US dollars.
The thought process behind why they do this is actually quite simple. For a conventional asset manager, they might be earning hundreds of thousands or perhaps even one or more million dollars per year. Nice, huh? However, the fee structure of most hedge funds is such that managing the same fund performance for their own fund might yield tens of millions or perhaps even over one hundred million per year.
This is the difference between living very well and creating a multi-generational financial dynasty.
Therefore, when performing hedge fund due diligence on the management team, there usually is something to look into. The managers will generally have been employed in a regulated role onshore and the track record of their fund has been published years into the past.
However, this is not really all that helpful. After all, if the managers had not been successful in the past, they would find it hard to raise the initial capital to launch their own hedge fund. Thus, any research will likely yield information about their above benchmark or above index returns. You knew that BEFORE you looked!
The annual reports of the funds will almost certainly reveal some information about the investment or trading strategy that they used in these funds. Investment managers will rarely switch very far from a successful formula.
No checks can help to determine the character of the managers though. As
this conviction in 2011
of a leading hedge fund manager proved, no matter how rich and successful, temptation exists for us all.
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The Strategy: This is almost certainly the hardest part of any hedge fund due diligence to actually do. Why? Because if a hedge fund has found a 'secret' in the stock and currency markets of the world that gives them an edge, they will not tell anyone! Ever!
A close friend of the author works in telephone sales for a hedge fund based in Malta. The company operates in the forex environment and runs three separate funds with different levels of risk and potential return. He tells me that even internally, only four people know how the funds make their money. It seems that they are very successful, but when a potential client calls them and asks for details, they tell them, "We don't know how they do it, they won't tell us either!"
In The Quants by Scott Patterson (published in 2010 by Random House Business Books), he describes Renaissance Technologies - one of the most successful hedge funds ever. "The fact is, no one outside the offices of Renaissance Technologies knows the answer to how it detects nonrandom price movements. Few people who have joined Renaissance have ever left. Those who have aren't talking."
This kind of secrecy is very understandable, and if we were in their position, we would do the same. But it does make any form of due diligence or even basic understanding near impossible. Of course, some funds such as Renaissance use such complex methods that the vast majority of humanity could not understand it anyway!
If all this leaves you with the impression that understanding how and where a hedge fund works is not easy, you are quite correct. In fact, as has been shown since the start of 2007 and then into the financial crisis of 2008 and beyond, most national regulators have very little understanding of how and what they do.
This means that investing in a such a fund comes down to salesmanship, greed and trust. Needless to say, greed is the overriding factor. If the investment strategies themselves were not high risk (which many are), the additional risks associated with very little understanding or legal recourse means that hedge funds ought not to be an investment for most private investors - and most financial institutions and asset managers!
If you have plans to make a substantial investment, there are services that perform hedge fund due diligence services and a wide range of background checks. Unsurprisingly, there are companies and analysts that specialise in this kind of work.
Know Your Client And Anti-Money Laundering
Despite the situation described above, hedge funds need to be careful about performing due diligence on their clients to ensure that the investment funds are not accepting proceeds of crime. This means that international hedge funds still need to conduct KYC and AML procedures on their investors. This kind of task is often administered by the funds in a lower cost jurisdiction. In fact there is substantial cross-over with some other sectors. A great example is the island of Malta in the EU that has well developed fund management and gaming sectors. The KYC and AML procedures are quite similar. This means that staff can sometimes switch between sectors and move to compliance online gaming jobs in Malta.
If you would like to read more about hedge funds, please follow these links:
How Do You Define A Hedge Fund?
What Are The Best Hedge Funds?
Is There Any Regulation Of Hedge Funds?
Why Invest In A Hedge Fund Of Funds?
What Do Forex Hedge Funds Do?
How Do Real Estate Hedge Funds Work?
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In our first episode of 2020, we talk about Baby Yoda having a name, there being a new Ring privacy control panel, more progress being made with the James Webb telescope, and there's new bathroom tech! Plus SP reviews AI Dungeon 2.
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Workers, schoolchildren and students were set to stage a series of walkouts in protest at the "outrageous" military action in Iraq, anti-war campaigners predicted today.
The Stop The War Coalition (STWC) predicted that workplaces, schools and colleges across the UK would be affected by the action.
Lindsey German, the group's convenor, said there had already been sit-down protests during the morning rush hour in some parts of the country, including Bradford, Leeds and Manchester.
Civil servants, including those working in the office of Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott, were due to be among those taking action during their lunch break.
The campaign group said at a London press briefing that it was a "day of shame" for Britain now that the war had begun.
Chairman Andrew Murray said: "The war has started which is an outrage against world peace, against the population of Iraq and against law and democracy in Britain. This is going ahead without the support of British people. This is a day of shame for Britain.
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The coalition said it was expecting huge numbers of people to join a demonstration in London on Saturday which Mr Murray predicted would be the biggest show of opposition from the public while a war was in progress.
The coalition expects tens of thousands of people across the country to join demonstrations being held at town and city centres at 6pm "against what has been done in their name".
Hundreds of protesters, including many schoolchildren, gathered in Parliament Square outside the House of Commons this morning to protest at the start of military action. About 50 teenagers staged a sit-down protest in Parliament Square directly opposite the House of Commons. They chanted "Sit Down, Stop The War" and were later persuaded by the police to move off the road and onto a grass area next to a statue of Sir Winston Churchill.
Traffic was brought to a standstill by the demonstration, with queues of buses, cars and lorries stretching across Westminster Bridge and down the embankment.
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To help us all celebrate the opening of the Backhill Lane Tunnel leading from the A4130 into Milton Park right by the Innovation Centre, the Milton Park team are hosting one last Bike 2 Work event of 2017.
When: Friday 17th November
Where: Cafe Metro at the Park Centre
Time: 7.30 - 10am
The Backhill Lane Tunnel is a disused tunnel that has recently been restored to allow pedestrian and cycle access from the A4130 into Milton Park. The Milton Park team have worked with Oxfordshire County Council, Network Rail and the Oxfordshire Local Enterprise Partnership to enable this opening.
The new connection will improve journey times for people living in West Didcot who choose to cycle or walk to work, it also connects the Milton Park community to Milton Gate amenities using a newly installed footpath alongside the A4130.
Make best use of the new tunnel by cycling to work on the morning of Friday 17th November and receive a free breakfast for doing so! There are choices of granola and yogurt, bacon or sausage baps and a free tea or coffee!
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Continuing with DC Comic News' Comic Con coverage from this past week, I had the opportunity to attend the DC Collectibles panel early Thursday morning where one of the highlights there was the announcement of new Gotham City Garage statues as well as an upcoming comic book based on these characters and their love of these vehicles.
The major announcement regarding statues revolved around the addition of a Supergirl and Batgirl statue which you can see right here:
Executive Director of DC Collectibles Jim Fletcher was on hand to talk about these new statues and revealed that they're trying out something new with regards to Supergirl and her lack of a motorcycle. The move, according to Mr. Fletcher, is to try to keep costs down for these statues. He admits that it's a different strategy being used from the other statues but they are curious to see how collectors will react to the final product which they are confident will do well.
Fletcher also teased the fact that a comic book based on this version of these characters is in development but would not divulge any further details or who is attached to work on the book at this time.
Also on the panel, tattoo artist Katherine Brannock revealed some of her thought process when working on these charactesr and developing unique tattoos for each one. All the characters in the series so far have tattoos that were designed by Brannock and she revealed that she treats every character like a real life client.
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Here's some images of the other statues in the line in case you missed them. They include Wonder Woman, Harley Quinn, and Catwoman:
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I made a few of these bobble (puff) stitch trees for Christmas using a sparkly white yarn, but you could easily use them as a woodland themed decor for a party or bedroom. They look great on their own, but you could also single crochet them together to make a garland.
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Not all doom and gloom for mining industry
Regulatory certainty and Ramaphosa's administration could spell a new dawn for mining sector despite challenges
While it has been the main driver of the South African economy for many decades, the mining sector is under increasing pressure from rising costs, regulatory uncertainty and waning investor confidence. Yet there is hope that President Cyril Ramaphosa's government will usher in a new dawn for the industry.
The tough operating environment for South African miners is evidenced by subdued merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in the sector, which has plateaued over the past few years – not only locally, but also across the continent.
A total of 188 M&A deals were concluded across all industry sectors in Africa last year, worth $17bn, including five deals worth at least $1bn. This was the lowest value of M&A activity registered on the continent since 2009, when 179 deals, worth $14.5bn, were recorded.
The energy, mining and utilities sector was the most active across the continent last year, with a total of 41 M&A deals, worth $5.5bn, announced. Of this total, 19 were African mining deals, falling well short of the post-economic crisis high of 37 seen a year before.
The South African mining industry is not nearly as robust as it was 20 years ago and only a handful of local companies with large market capitalisation remain operational today.
Much of this can be attributed to the historical characteristics of the local mining sector. For many years, SA held the top spot among the world's gold and platinum producers. However, the country's known precious metal resources are dwindling and many of the gold and platinum mines are reaching the end of their lives, as deep-level mining is generally not financially sustainable.
At the same time, there has been a lack of the exploration expenditure necessary to identify the new mines of tomorrow. It was, however, heartening to note in the minister's speech at the Mining Indaba recently that he had instructed the Council for Geosciences to enhance the mapping of SA's ore bodies.
In addition, the costs of starting new mining operations, coupled with regulatory and social hurdles, dictate that only extremely attractive prospects stand any chance of attracting investors. Internationally, investors have left the mining sector for new, more lucrative opportunities and raising capital has become extremely difficult.
Numerous factors have contributed to the decrease in mining M&A in SA last year. First is the uncertainty around the mining charter, which was published by the government in June 2017, without any consultation with the industry players. This took the industry by surprise and damaged investor confidence. While a new mining charter has since been published, the guidelines to the 2018 Mining Charter were only rolled out in December 2018, meaning that any regulatory certainty it may have brought to market wasn't reflected in M&A activity last year.
Second is the mining industry's dependence on public utilities for the supply of water and electricity. Eskom's proposed electricity tariff increases would be highly detrimental to mines. In other jurisdictions, there have been amendments to legislation, such as increases in taxes on mining companies in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania and Zambia. This affects M&A activity throughout Africa, not just in SA.
Mining M&A activity, particularly in the gold and platinum sectors, is not expected to recover in 2019 but is likely to remain at last year's levels. A slight uptick in M&A activity might be seen among bulk commodity miners, such as those in the iron ore, manganese, chrome and coal sectors. Those sectors fared well in 2018, but the overall mining sector in SA saw an aggregate loss of about R11bn, including impairments in gold and platinum.
Recent court judgments have also complicated the operating environment for miners, placing greater emphasis on social licence to operate. A recent Constitutional Court judgment made it clear that full and informed community consultation was required. A subsequent ruling by the high court found that full and informed consent of customary communities, whose rights in land are protected under the Interim Protection of Informal Land Rights Act of 1996, is required for mining rights to be granted in terms of the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act of 2002 in relation to the land they occupy.
Previously, miners were able to negotiate with the head of a community to conclude a transaction, but will now have to obtain the consent of the entire affected community, which may consist of opposing factions. This will be highly problematic and place new mining development in a state of stagnation. The department of mineral resources has appealed against the high court judgment.
In addition, the Competition Commission and Competition Tribunal have recently placed increasing emphasis on public-interest aspects of mergers, which significantly delays M&A deals.
But there are positives. There is hope for the mining sector in the regulatory certainty brought in by the new mining charter. There has also been a recognition by the government that mining is a great contributor to the economy and to the country's foreign exchange reserves. Mining contributes about 40% of SA's foreign earnings.
The Ramaphosa administration has brought about a fundamental shift, creating a greater degree of trust between the government and the mining industry. At the recent Mining Indaba, both the minister and the president stressed the importance of cooperation between mining companies and their host communities.
However, there is also the recognition that in order to contribute to community upliftment, mines must be profitable and cannot be hamstrung with overly burdensome taxes, royalties and regulatory prescripts. There is now a shared vision that mining can be developed and can contribute significantly, both socially and economically.
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Today, September 3, the longest stage of the Pyrenees Stage Run has passed, with 47.5km of course and a positive drop of 2.600m. The participants ran from Puigcerdà to Encamp, entering Andorra through the spectacular Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley (World Heritage by UNESCO). It was a very hot day: the constant presence of the Sun has made the stage harder and, as a result, two teams have retired.
In women's category, the first ones were "Deeside Ladies", a team formed by Katie Henderson and Samantha Rendall, with a time of 8h38min. In second place, with 9h6min, "Deeside Divas", with Sarah Dunn and Ros Baxter. And the third team in crossing the finish line was the one formed by Melissa Witteveen and Natura Richardson, with a time of 10h14min.
In the men's category, the first ones to reach the finish line were Andre Purschke and Matthias Dippacher, team "Dynafit Team" with a time of 5h59min. At 6h30min. Alex Urbina and Javi Pons arrived, the "Sphere Pro Nutritape"; and in third place the "Trcarestacampbasegrimpacims" team, formed by Michael Henderick and Jordi Delgado, arrived with a time of 6h36min.
Finally, the results in the mixed category were as follows: first, the "Monkazelle", formed by Michaell Brent and Emily Sullivan, with a time of 7h45min.; second, the "High and low up and down", formed by Christoph and Anne Gerlach, with a time of 7h49min; and third parties, with 8h03min, the "Tortilla & Burrito", team composed of Tara Bassili and Martin Daignault.
After the third stage, and with four more stage to run, the first classifieds of the Pyrenees Stage Run 2019 are: in female category, "Deeside Ladies" (Katie Henderson and Samantha Rendall), in men's category, "Team Dynafit" (Andre Purschke and Matthias Dippacher); and, in mixed teams, the first in the classification is "High and low up and down" (Christoph Bellings and Anne Gerlach).
Tomorrow, the fourth stage of the PSR 2019 is the shortest in the entire race: 20km and 1,900m of positive difference across the valleys of Andorra d'Encamp in Arinsal.
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Dierks Bentley to Play Michie Stadium at West Point
Another huge country star is making their way to the Hudson Valley.
This summer we had a great line up of artists like Chris Stapleton, Brett Eldredge and Tim McGraw drop by the Hudson Valley. It looks like this string of awesome shows will continue into the fall.
On Tuesday, August 26th, West Point Family and MWR announced that Dierks Bentley will bring his Burning Man Tour 2019 to Michie Stadium at West Point. Dierks, along with Dustin Lynch, will hit the stage at Michie Stadium stage (or field) on October 18th.
Think about it, Dierks Bentley and Dustin Lynch with the beautiful Hudson Valley foliage behind them. It doesn't get much better than that.
This is the first-ever concert to be held at the historic U.S Military Academy stadium.
According to the announcement post on Facebook, tickets are available to the "general public with pre-sale access to West Point employees holding a .edu or .mil email domain beginning Wednesday, August 28, 9 a.m. through Thursday, Sept 5, 10:00 p.m."
Tickets for the general public will go on-sale Friday, September 6th at 10am, online only, at Army Online Ticket Office.
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Was the Earth formed 'in a day'?
Vol: 22 Issue: 3 Monday, April 3, 2017
According to the Bible, in the beginning, the earth was without form and void. According to Holy Writ, God created the earth in a day. On the third day, He separated the waters and the dry land, and brought forth grass, 'herb yielding seed', fruit trees, etc.
Among Bible believers, the only issue of any dispute is the length of a 'day'. Is it a standard, 24 hour day? Or is it a thousand years, as Psalms 90:4 and 2 Peter 3:8 certainly seem to indicate? But as to the creation of the earth by a sovereign act of God, there is no dispute.
Within the scientific community, there is a well-meaning effort to understand the universe apart from the existence of God.
Science generally views the universe as a cosmic accident. The existence of the earth's atmosphere, water, etc., and the evolution of mankind from a primordial soup is simply a happy coincidence.
Following this logic, science has developed the Big Bang Theory, the Reverse Big Bang Theory, the theory the universe is expanding, the theory the universe is contracting, quantum physics, quantum mechanics, evolution, punctuated evolution, 'sudden appearance' and dozens of other conflicting 'theories' but through it all, secular science has a faith in itself that, if directed toward God, truly could move mountains.
According to most secular science models, the earth was at one time a hot, molten mass that slowly cooled down over millions of years. It wasn't created in a day, or even in a thousand years, science insists.
So strong is the faith of secular science in itself that when presented with contradictory evidence it is simply ignored.
Robert Gentry of Knoxville, Tennessee, does amazing research on radio-polonium halos in granite rock. Polonium is a rare element that is radioactive; it breaks down or decays like uranium. But polonium only lasts a few minutes.
As it breaks down, it sends off little particles that fly a certain distance. An analogy would be a hand-grenade exploding under water that produces a sphere of fragments in the water that only lasts a fraction of a second before it collapses.
Different elements have fragments that fly different distances, each radioactive element has a particular "signature" (how big a circle it can make in the rock as it decays like a more powerful hand grenade would produce a bigger sphere in the water).
Radio-active polonium, when it decays in a solid rock, makes a perfect sphere as it decays because all its fragments fly about the same distance from the center.
If it decays in solid rock, the circle is preserved. But if it decays in a hot molten rock, the circle disappears. All over the world radio-polonium halos exist in granite, indicating the earth was never a hot, molten mass.
The half-life of the polonium halo of just a few seconds also argues strongly in favor of an abrupt creation of the earth, so there is little scientific discussion about what the polonium halo might actually mean to all the contradictory theories out there.
Gentry's research was published in many major science magazines until someone realized that it was proving the big bang theory to be a big dud.
The censorship of his valuable material by mainstream science magazines is incredible but predictable. Evolution is a very carefully protected state religion in this humanist world today.
Scientific discoveries that lend themselves to the argument that the universe was created tend to get little or no coverage.
I wasn't surprised to find a report in the Seattle Post Intelligencer that didn't make a big splash on the wire services.
University of Washington astrophysicist Tom Quinn works on NASA's astrobiology project. That's a relatively new NASA effort aimed at understanding how planets evolve and, in the case of earth, give rise to life.
While conventional science believes that giant planets like Jupiter take more than a million years to form, Quinn says it may happen in as little as a few hundred years.
(But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. [2 Peter 3:8] A few hundred years is just about right, according to the Genesis model)
The standard model of planetary evolution in the universe assumes that these giant gas planets are rare and take at least a million years to form as they orbit around their star. The planets form by collecting a star's gas and dust through gravitational accretion.
Quinn, along with team leader Lucio Mayer at the University of Zurich and others, plugged astronomical observations and the existing body of knowledge on planetary formation into a sophisticated, computerized mathematical model simulating the "fluid dynamics" of protoplanetary evolution.
What they found surprised them. "We have this prejudice that planet formation has to take a long time, but now it looks like if the gas giant planet doesn't form relatively quickly it won't form at all," Quinn said.
If planet formation goes too slowly, he said, the gas and dust burns off and does not accumulate.
Giant gas planets like Jupiter form moons, and some of their moons, such as Jupiter's Europa, have water.
"These terrestrial planets like Earth will form as dry planets," Quinn said. "You need those gas giants in the outer solar system to fling in the volatile materials if you're going to get water on Earth-like planets."
The formation of a solar system is a violent event.
As the planets cool, the gas and dust thrown off from larger planets are attracted by gravity to planets like Earth.
It's too much of a stretch, he said, to argue from their mathematical model of giant planets that more Earth-like planets must also exist.
But it certainly doesn't hurt the argument, he added.
"It just shows that there's still a lot of fundamental knowledge about the planets that we don't understand yet," Quinn said.
One would have to agree with Dr. Quinn, but the reason that fundamental knowledge eludes him is because he is looking in the wrong place.
"But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned," Paul explains in 1 Corinthians 2:14.
Further, Paul explains, "For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness." (1 Corinthians 3:19)
Science, by its defiant opposition to the things of God, inadvertently prove the validity of the Biblical model by that often unreasoning and unreasonable opposition.
If science, as a social institution and professional community, were truly interested in uncovering the truth, why would Dr. Quinn or Dr. Gentry or any other scientist whose discoveries favor the Creation model get so little funding and attention?
The answer is simple enough. Recognizing evidence pointing the existence of God would mean further research that might inadvertently 'prove' the existence of God. As it stands, the absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence, and nobody can disprove a negative.
As an object of scientific neutrality, then, God must, by default, be assumed to exist unless there is evidence to the contrary. So the 'evidence' (in the form of steadily discredited theories) 'disproving' God gets all the attention.
Why is that, do you suppose? Well, for one thing, once the existence of God is posited as a scientific reality, a decision is immediately forced.
If there IS a God, then what? Clearly, it becomes choice time, and many would prefer to remain comfortable with their unbelief and therefore unaccountable to a Supreme Judge.
To accept the existence of God as a scientific fact means accepting the indictment of humanity and the acceptance of the existence of eternal consequences for sin.
The world system does not respond well to criticism of its' operation, since it takes its cue from the prince of the power of the air, whose desire to be worshipped above all else is jealously protected by the secular scientific community.
That is not to say that all scientists are demoniacs or evil in the standard understanding of the term. They are just part of the rest of unregenerate humanity, seeking its own path to redemption, rebelliously denying their need for a Saviour by rebelliously denying any accountablity before a Living God.
Paul, writing under the inspiration of God, knew that the two worldviews would clash. He cautioned Timothy, "O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:" [2 Timothy 6:20]
Every day we discover something new for which science has to find an alternative explanation apart from God. It is quite a job. It was recently discovered, for example, that dogs are genetically predisposed to need human companionship.
Science is seeking a way to understand how that curious bit of genetic information got written there in the first place. The concept of a living, compassionate, intelligent God programming that information for the express purpose of making our human existence that much more bearable never entered the equation.
Instead, conventional scientific wisdom concludes ancient man inadvertently programmed that information at the genetic level himself through an unprovable tens of thousands of years of dog breeding. Does that make ANY sense at all?
We are living in the last days; a time of explosive knowledge. The prophet Daniel's vision of the last days, recorded in the Book of Daniel, so terrified him that he demanded an explanation of what it all meant.
The revealing angel told him to "shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased." [Daniel 12:4]
When Daniel persisted, the angel rebuked him, saying, "Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end." [Daniel 12:9]
The unsealing of the Books of Daniel and Revelation in this generation was accomplished mostly through the agency of scientific discoveries during the last half of the 20th century, beginning with the invention by Bell Labs of the transistor chip in 1948 that made possible the Computer Age.
While science seeks ways to invalidate God, it continues to inadvertently prove His existence, forcing an immediate effort to cover up the evidence lest it raise to many questions.
The words are unsealed, this is the time of the end. Knowledge increases on an exponential level. Moore's Law dictates the doubling of computer processing speed, and consequently, the capacity for human knowledge, every eighteen months.
Will you trust science, with its ever-changing face and sea of contradictory revelations and theories? Or will you trust Jesus, the Creator of all things, including scientific law (and scientists, whether they believe it now or not)?
Because the Bible is true, and man is by nature a sinner in need of salvation, God Himself stepped out of space and time and took on human form. He lived the sinless life I should have, and paid the penalty for my sin (and yours) at Calvary's Cross.
Jesus said, 'it is finished' Scripture says, translating from the Greek word 'tetelestai' meaning 'paid in full'. By this act, Jesus procured a Pardon with your name on it.
All you need do is ask for it. Trust Jesus for your salvation, surrender to Him, and let Him make the changes in your life He sees fit.
"For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:" Ephesians 2:8 says. God extends the grace and grants the gift of saving faith. Just ask.
You needn't clean up — that's a myth. Jesus said 'whosoever will' may come unto Him. There is an old hymn that says, "Just as I am, without one plea, but that my God has died for me".
Salvation is not a performance issue, but rather is one of trust. The burden of performance is placed on the same Shoulders that procured the Pardon.
"Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:" {Phillipians 1:6]
All the scientific evidence says we're running out of time. On this point, science and Scripture agree, although for different reasons.
"I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:" [Deuteronomy 30:19]
Don't let the sun go down on your sin. There is a way out set before you. Choose life, and live.
This Letter was written by Jack Kinsella on November 29, 2002
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