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Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is an intriguing guy...[he] asks great questions and answers others with style, flair, reason and wit. On the blogroll he goes. Make him a part of your regular blogospheric reading. I certainly will.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Common Sense Junction: Misha @ Anti-Idiotarian never ceases to amaze me. He keeps finding other good blogs. I went over to A.I. this morning for my daily Misha fix and he had found this guy named Morgan Freeberg in Fair Oaks, California, that has a blog, House of Eratosthenes. Freeberg says its "The Blog That Nobody Reads" but it may now become the blog that everybody reads.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
The Heat Is On: From House of Eratosthenes comes yet another enlightening piece on liberals. All I can say is "Dayum, does this guy have libs pegged or what?" Excellent work, Morgan. Here's to ya!
Jaded Haven: Good God, Morgan, you cover a topic from front to back with a screwy thoroughness I find mind boggling. I'm in awe of your thought proccesses, my friend, you're an exceptional talent. You start by throwing in the kitchen sink, tie in someone's syphilitic uncle, bend around a rip tide of brilliance and bring it all home in a neat, diamond dripping package of an exceptionally readable moment of damn fine wordsmithing. I love reading you.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
Pajamas Media: Over at The House of Eratosthenes ("The blog nobody reads"), Morgan Freeberg is taking a candid look at one of America's most indulgent habits.
Philmon: When Morgan meanders, stick with him - he's got a point and it'll be worth it in the end. He's not a hit-and-run snarky quip kind of guy. The pieces all fall into place like tumblers in a lock and bang! He's opened a cognative door for you.
Rightlinx: Morgan at House of Eratosthenes is one of the best writers out there. I read him nearly every day because he manages to provide an interesting perspective, even though I don't always agree.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Keep an eye on her.
Update: I remember many, many years ago I had a boss who did what Eric Holder's doing here…he'd get this look on his face, like what I was explaining to him involved some unreasonably high level of effort on his part to translate it into English. Maybe it was true, but I realized I was past the point of no return when he got that crinkley-eyebrowed look before I had said anything confusing, or even complicated.
There were a couple of times I wanted to just come out and call him on it. Hey…what I just said is pure-plain-vanilla, more or less on par with "nice weather today huh?" Why are you getting this look on your face already? It's early! Wait until I say something that's really hard to figure out, we're not quite there yet. Since he was my boss, I only did this in my dreams…and I sense this exasperation in the Congresswoman.
Holder, along with the entire administration, is wearing out the act. Everything is hopelessly confusing, strange, over-complicated, bigoted…something that cannot be understood and should not be understood. Everything except the softball questions like "So what's it feel like to be so awesome?"
I'm tiring very quickly of this malarkey about the respect that is due Attorney General Holder due to his lofty position. Like I said over at the Hello Kitty of Bloggin' about this…
We have two schools of thought at work here. One sez…if the position held by the person is a very high one, you need to show due respect and not ask any uncomfortable questions…the other one sez, if the position held by the person is a very high one, then the trust that has been placed in him is also very high, and he shouldn't be withholding any answers without a very good reason. I belong to the second one. Wonder if I'm outnumbered.
Holder lacks the same intellectual honesty that litigants on Judge Judy lack…but, people died on this one.- BillW. | 02/21/2012 @ 08:26
I am watching this incompetent, dishonest, evasive buffoon testifying before a freaking CONGRESSIONAL committee, and I keep asking myself the same questions:
– This guy is the Atty General, our nation's chief law enforcement officer?
– Where the hell did Chairman Zero dig up this clown?
– If Holder doesn't know what the hell is going on in his own department, what is he doing running DOJ?
– If the president doesn't fire him when this is over, what is to stop the Republicans from impeaching HIM instead?
Seriously. History has shown that we can impeach a president over issues with Reconstruction, over lying about knowing about a botched burglary, and over lying under oath about a stained blue dress. In none of those incidents did anyone actually die.
Now, we've got a Texas-sized scandal brewing…over a series of incidents that involve guns "walking" across an international boundary, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of innocent civilians (and at least one Border Patrol agent) and we're getting no answers whatsoever about it from the people who are or should be "in the know" about what really happened.- cylarz | 02/22/2012 @ 11:53
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Pharmaceutical Lobbyist Dick Armey Inspires GOP To Obstruct Health Care Reform
On May 20, 2009, former House Majority Leader and current healthcare lobbyist Dick Armey tweeted that he had given a talk to the House GOP about stopping President Obama's healthcare plans.
Dick Armey: Just gave talk to house gop on stopping Obamacare. The team is fired up to stop this mess. [Twitter, 5/20/09]
Dick Armey Is A Lobbyist For The Pharmaceutical Industry
Fact: Dick Armey is registered as a lobbyist for Medicines Co. [Opensecrets.org, Accessed 5/20/2009]
Medicines Co. Has Paid DLA Piper, Dick Armey's Firm, $5,860,000 Since 2005.
In 2009 Medicine Co. has already paid Dick Armey's firm DLA Piper $590,000. [Opensecrets.org, accessed 5/20/2009]
In 2008 Medicine Co. paid Dick Armey's firm DLA Piper $1,530,000. [Opensecrets.org, accessed 5/20/2009]
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The Company markets Angiomax® (bivalirudin) in the United States and other countries for use in patients undergoing coronary angioplasty, and Cleviprex® (clevidipine butyrate) injectable emulsion in the United States for the reduction of blood pressure when oral therapy is not feasible or not desirable. The Company also has an investigational antiplatelet agent, cangrelor, in late-stage development and a serine protease inhibitor, CU-2010, in early-stage development. Through the acquisition of Targanta Therapeutics Corporation, The Medicines Company's pipeline also includes oritavancin, a semi-synthetic lipoglycopeptide antibiotic in late-stage development in the United States and currently awaiting EU regulatory approval. [TheMedicinesCompany.com, accessed 5/20/09]
Other DLA Piper Clients Include Numerous Corporations Opposed to President Obama's Reforms. According to the federal lobbying disclosure database, past and current DLA Piper clients include:
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Though Heart continues its legacy in the hands of 13 year old boys playing Guitar Hero, this was mom and dad's night out and the kids could stay at home raiding the liquor cabinet. This was a night for power ballads, for high kicks, for rape and murder (in a Rolling Stones cover), and a chance to get to know Meatloaf's daughter Pearl, who opened the show.
Pearl had blonde curly long hair and wore a black backless onesie with flared legs that billowed as she did the rock and roll side-step, quickly backing away from the mic between lines only to grab it ferociously for the next phrase. Joined by a supergroup of sorts, her band included husband/Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian, Andy Hurley of Fall Out Boy, Jim Wilson of Mother Superior and Marcus Blake of The Rollins Band.
Her energy blended Janis Joplin with Celine Dion. Her scratchy voice probably comes from training as opposed to Southern Comfort and cigarettes and she hit the high notes with pop fervour and hand gestures reminiscent of that Canadian lady besieged by the "power of love." Not a revolutionary mind-melting sound of tomorrow, but she warmed up the audience with the standards of recent past.
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Then came Heart. When Ann Wilson emerged from darkness carrying a flute, three-quarters of the room forgot how to breathe. She said, "Nothing left to do but open each other up and let our soul sing out. Ok? Ok!" and led us through Heart's discography without missing a hit. There was a time in Heart's career when cameras were all on Nancy, but at this show Ann was center-stage and in focus the whole time, with Nancy preferring to loom in the shadows, hopping and high-kicking. The only time Nancy seized all attention was in the inimitable intro to "Crazy On You." Many of us played along as if a black plastic guitar materialized before us, counting red, yellow, red, blue, red-yellow, blue, red-yellow, green+whammy...
"Alone," "These Dreams," and "What About Love?" brought back the glorious '80s, when the power ballad found its most enduring form. Heart also offered some new songs, such as "Red Velvet Car," which may sound like a euphemism for genitals but actually refers to the person you call when you're super drunk to pick you up.
The highlight of the night belonged to the 1970s, in a back-to-back "Magic Man, "Crazy On You," and "Barracuda" triple slam as well as a badass Led Zeppelin cover during the encore. There was a moment during "Crazy On You" during one those amazingly high notes when Ann reached down and scratched her wrist. She held the attention of thousands transfixed by her voice (which is sounding tip-top), and could still just scratch her wrist like she was waiting in line at the supermarket. It reminds us that humans are capable of wondrous things and still remain human.


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But net earnings continued to suffer from the costs of selling off company-owned restaurants to franchisees in a multi-year strategy to trim overhead costs.
Net income for the quarter to June 30 fell 9.1 percent from a year ago to $1.09 billion, as a solid reduction in operating expenses failed to offset a 3.6 percent fall in revenues.
The company, which is in the middle of an effort to sell off 4,000 company-owned stores to franchise operators, said that comparable sales globally rose 3.1 percent, helped by menu changes.
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McDonald's, which operates 36,504 restaurants across 120 countries, cut its company-operated outlets by 519 from a year ago to just 6,137.
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|RealID support for whisper commands is complete, for the others like group invites will be in the next release, as that's going to take a fair bit of a workaround since group invites are sent by character and not by realID id.
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When getting a group invite UE will check to see if the character inviting is the character of a currently online realid friend, which means as long as the allow friends to use whisper commands toggle is on, and they're a realid friend, it'll accept the group invite (assuming auto-accept group invites is on as well of course).
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OMP Racing are a motorsport equipment manufacturer based in Italy. OMP Racing produce a stunning range of classic, vintage, reclining sport, and FIA motorsport seats which can be found alongside a range of racing harnesses, harness pads and sport seat fitting equipment including side mounts and sliding rails.
The extensive range OMP Racing brings to the market are beautifully crafted and show true Italian flare and style. OMP boast over 38 years of experience, and they are often seen as a benchmark in the racing world which can explain why their motorsport seats and racing harnesses can be found in race cars worldwide.
OMP racing seats are manufactured in compliance with advanced safety tests and are designed with the highest international standard in mind. OMP seats can be used in a wide range of vehicle types, for various types of pursuit including rally, road, karts, offroad, and many others


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tailor-made experiences
We design and dynamise tourist and leisure experiences, according to your orientations and interests, which can include specialized professional support.
| CulturALL Tours: Porto - Douro - Guimarães - Braga - Aveiro
| Group Activities: sports, gastronomy and wine, peddypapers, sensorial experiences (...)
| Kids Activities Funtastic Porto - peddypaper | Porto Zoom - photography tour | Chocolate Workshops (...)
If you have already defined the experience you want to enjoy and you just someone to help you, our guides, which we like to call citypartners, will be available to make your day even better!
We can count with professionals with specific training to provide you tailor-made support.
Guided tours | Mobility Support | Child care | Health care (...)
consulting and training services
Based on our previous experience we have build up specialized knowledge about inclusive/univeral tourism.
training | we promote training for professionals of public and/or private entities involved in tourism and leisure sector, making sure that customer services are an inclusive experience for all.
- Attending/support people with special needs: people with mobility challenges | blind or people with low vision | deaf or people with hearing difficulties | people with multideficiency | elderly.
consulting | we evaluate the accessibility conditions provided in different contexts. After a technical visit, we present some improvement opportunities and share ideas with local work teams, to make places more interesting for people with special needs.
some previous experiences: Futebol Clube do Porto Museum | Portuguese Photography Center | Medieval Journey of Santa Maria da Feira | Douro Museum | World of Discoveries (...)


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HYP of Charlotte
Habitat Young Professionals (HYP) is a group of individuals seeking to combat poverty by helping build affordable housing for low-income families, while providing networking opportunities for future leaders. HYP members, consisting of primarily 21-39-year-olds, are motivated to make a positive impact in Charlotte and have fun doing it! HYP empowers its members to make a difference by encouraging a spirit of service, comradery, and honoring the core principles of Habitat for Humanity International. Membership provides opportunities to volunteer, donate, and speak out as Habitat Charlotte advocates.
HYP members are an active voice, connecting Charlotte's community-in-need with young professionals willing to lend a helping hand. Our members come from a variety of backgrounds, sharing their time, talent and resources to advance the mission of HYP. We can help eliminate poverty housing by committing to measurable objectives and through our members spread the vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live.
As an HYP member, you become part of an invaluable effort to help Habitat Charlotte eradicate substandard housing in the Charlotte area. Membership provides a fresh approach to networking and affords you the rare opportunity to serve, while enhancing your leadership skills and helping you develop stronger social networks. Join us and let's change the world together!


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Understanding the potential of a neighborhood involves learning the neighborhood's narrative. The narrative tells the story of the past, present and future. A component of understanding this narrative is the information provided through demographic analysis. Though many narratives exist within a neighborhood, the demographic composite can reveal valuable insight into what a neighborhood is and what it might become in the future. This section explores key demographic information in the target study neighborhoods. For this section, the City of Cincinnati and the neighborhood of Hyde Park were evaluated as a point of comparison.
Vacant parcels constitute land – with or without structure(s) – that is no longer occupied by the owner. The owner has either abandoned the property or, due to tax delinquency or foreclosure, has forfeited ownership to another agent.


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Taylor Swift goes all-out, Will.i.am dishes on Britney, PSY hears nature's call, and more behind the scenes at the BBMAs.
Backstage at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, 2013 Billboard Music Awards performers, presenters and winners made their way to talk to the media, pose for photos and, in one case, find a bathroom. Here are a few things that did not make it onto TV during the 2013 ceremony, which aired live from Las Vegas on Sunday night (May 19).
Taylor Takes Vegas By Storm: Taylor Swift's performance of "22" was by far the most elaborate of the night, involving a taped segment in which Swift was ushered from backstage and into the arena where an enormous cast of characters and dancers took over the entire stage. "It was a concept we felt would work, because in Vegas we had incredible performers at our disposal to make cameos," Swift said, her eight awards of the evening at her feet on the backstage podium. "There were cast members from Ka, Jabbawockeez , different Cirque [du Soleil] performers. I feel so lucky that the Billboard Awards put so much time into allowing me to do that performance on that scale."
Celine's Career Will Go On: Celine Dion would not disclose details about the work under way on her first English album in six years, but she happily explained her unique approach to her career. "Most artists climb a ladder and take one step at a time to reach success [and stay at the top]," she said, explaining her decision to do a second Vegas residency. "I decided to stop at the top and come down and now I'm on the ground. Now I can enjoy singing - I'm doing it because I love it."
A-ha's Surprise 'Moment': After his previously unannounced cameo during Pitbull and Christina Aguilera's performance, A-ha's Morten Harket reflected on the Norwegian trio's 1985 hit "Take On Me" that is sampled in the duo's "Feel This Moment." "It's been treated to a lot of different versions over the last 25 years - a punk version, heavy metal, death metal. Now Pitbull. It's a resilient bugger. The surprise is how it caught on again." A-ha split up in 2010 after a farewell tour, opening the door for Harket to record solo. "As long as A-ha was together, we couldn't commit to anything else," he said, noting he is "deep" into his second solo album, which he is working on with producer-songwriter Peter Kvint.
Post-Pregnancy Prince Fans: Alyssa Milano made it to the awards to promote her new ABC show "Mistresses" -- it premieres June 3 -- and to see Prince, who she last saw perform at the Forum in L.A. when she was eight months pregnant with her son, Milo. "I was in the first row and Prince called me up onstage and I danced with him," she said.
#that (Britney) POWER: Prior to the start of the show, Will.i.am <http://will.i.am> said he has begun work on Britney Spears next album... sort of. "We've had a bunch of lunches," he said on the blue carpet. "We're talking a lot before we ever start recording. I can't wait to start recording."
Sorry For Party Rocking & Gambling: Sky Blu, one half of LMFAO who has his first solo album dropping July 4, had praise for Justin Bieber and advice for Britney Spears when she starts her Vegas residency. For Bieber: "This dude has taken over the world. If you're making people happy because of your music, you've got it." As for Spears, "The first two weeks she's [in Las Vegas], she should get all her gambling out of the way. Do it so you don't need to do it for the rest of your life. That's what I did."
The Royal Visit: Madonna visited the photographers' room after her appearance, which led to the shutterbugs' loudest shouts of the night. After she left, sighs of elation bled from their room into the press room of disappointed journalists.
Loberace Love: During rehearsals, artists were quick to get on and off the stage, so it was a unique site when CeeLo Green took a seat in the back of the arena to watch Jennifer Lopez and Pitbull during a run-through of their "Live it Up" performance.
A Pair of Queens: Backstage near her dressing room, Madonna was snapping photos with a few celebs -- Celine Dion, for one. The two joked about how there was a French-Canadian front between the two of them. Fun fact: Madonna's father is a big fan of Dion.
Come & Get An Introduction: On the carpet, Emblem3 -- who are going on tour with Selena Gomez later this year -- said they still hadn't met the pop princess. Let's hope they hooked up with Gomez backstage somewhere and hashed out those tour details.
The BBMA Jolt: The blue carpet might as well have been renamed the "electric" blue carpet, as static electricity made it a very shocking evening for a lot of guests. Many times when celebs greeted and shook hands with the press, everyone got a slight jolt.
She's Finally Just Being Miley: Miley Cyrus' new single, "We Can't Stop," will be unveiled on Ryan Seacrest's syndicated radio show on June 3, and the pop star shed some insight into her upcoming fourth studio album on the pre-show blue carpet. "I feel like I can really be myself," Cyrus said of her still-untitled full-length. "I really have more of a connection of who I am, and I feel like I can maybe express that more in my music now."
Gentleman's Room:For some unknown reason PSY chose to go to the public men's room minutes before the show started. The line to get in the men's room was no longer people needing to use the facilities -- they were autograph and photograph seekers.


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Brussels Philharmonic
- Beethoven
- Egmont Overture
- Bartók
- Piano Concerto No.3
- Debussy
- La Mer
- Ravel
- Bolero
- Michel Tabachnik
- conductor
- Markus Groh
- piano
The Brussels Philharmonic has performed with leading conductors and soloists and, in the course of its existence, has created new works by world-famous composers such as Stravinsky, Messiaen and Francesconi. Since 2008, Music Director Michel Tabachnik has been a key figure, combining the great orchestral repertoire with music from the 20th century.
Consistently cited for his 'sound imagination' with his playing praised as 'impeccable' (The Guardian), Markus Groh has confirmed his place among the finest pianists in the world today. For this concert he performs Bartók's Piano Concerto No.3, written at the end of the composer's life, perhaps reflected in the more serene and lyrical nature of the work.
Part of Zurich International Concert Series 2012-13.
6.30pm: Pre-concert music by Royal College of Music students
Ravel: Ma mère l'oye Suite (for wind quintet)
Part of Zurich International Concert Series 2012-13
'A new star in the pianistic firmament'
— Neue Zürcher Zeitung


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|Company Name
|G-Resources Group Ltd.
|Registered Office
|Canon's Court
22 Victoria Street
Hamilton HM 12
|Head Office and Principal Place of Business
|Room 1801, 18/F, Capital Centre
No. 151 Gloucester Road, Wanchai
Hong Kong
|Principal Investment Business / Financial Services Business / Money Lending Business /
Real Property Business
|Web Site Address
|Phone Number
|(852) 2283 8200
|Fax Number
|(852) 2283 8210
|Email Address
|Financial Year End
|December 31
|Board of Directors
Non-Executive Director
|Company Secretary
|Mr. Leung Oi Kin
|Principal Bankers
|Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (Asia) Limited
Hang Seng Bank Limited
Bank of Communications Co., Ltd.
|Messrs. Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu
|Legal Advisors
|Hong Kong
Peter Yuen & Associates (in association with Fangda Partners)
|Share Registrars
|Hong Kong
Union Registrars Limited
Suites 3301-04, 33/F.
Two Chinachem Exchange Square
338 King's Road, North Point
Hong Kong
MUFG Fund Services (Bermuda) Limited
The Belvedere Building
69 Pitts Bay Road
Pembroke HM08
|HKEX Stock Code
|Listing Date
|29th April, 1994
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A.I.G. Board Said to Weigh Chief's Future Amid InquiryBy Gretchen Morgenson
The New York Times
Published March 14, 2005
Maurice R. Greenberg, 79, the longtime chairman and chief executive of the American International Group, has been under strain from a number of federal and state investigations. In an effort to grapple with an accelerating investigation into American International Group and its chief executive, Maurice R. Greenberg, the company's board has in recent days been discussing the potential impact on A.I.G. and on Mr. Greenberg's future, according to a person briefed on the matter.
Although the details of the board's talks are not clear, it is likely that the directors were briefed on the role Mr. Greenberg played in a 2001 transaction that regulators say may have been designed to artificially bolster the company's financial position.
Mr. Greenberg, who will turn 80 on May 4, has run American International Group with an iron hand since 1967. Neither he nor the company has ever articulated a succession plan, a matter of concern to shareholders. Mr. Greenberg joined the company, which is based in New York, in 1960.
Officials from the Securities and Exchange Commission and the office of Eliot Spitzer, the New York attorney general, have been investigating whether American International Group used certain insurance deals to make its financial results look better than they actually were.
On Feb. 14, the company disclosed that it had received subpoenas from Mr. Spitzer and the S.E.C. relating to its nontraditional reinsurance transactions and how it had accounted for those transactions. American International Group said it was cooperating with the requests.
A spokesman at the company declined to comment.
Signs of turmoil inside the company have been evident in recent days. On Thursday evening, A.I.G. abruptly canceled a dinner with investors, sponsored by Goldman Sachs, minutes before it was to begin. The company also withdrew from a similar meeting sponsored by J. P. Morgan Chase that was scheduled to take place today.
After the cancellations, shares of A.I.G. fell 2 percent on Friday, to $64.71. Since the disclosure of the subpoenas, the stock has declined more than 11 percent.
Mr. Greenberg has hired a criminal defense lawyer, Robert G. Morvillo, who did not return phone calls seeking comment.
Regulators are questioning American International about a type of insurance, called reinsurance, that can be used to smooth earnings or bolster reserves, which are the funds insurers set aside to pay future claims.
The insurance is broadly known as finite insurance, or financial reinsurance, and subpoenas relating to its use have been issued recently to Ace Ltd., St. Paul Travelers and Zurich Reinsurance.
When used properly, finite insurance allows insurers or corporations to spread their risk of loss on an asset or business over time and also distribute risk among other insurers willing to take it on in exchange for premiums.
The potential problem in such a contract emerges when an auditor concludes that it is not really insurance - in which risk is transferred from one party to another - but a financing arrangement in which premiums paid by the company buying the coverage are seen as a deposit or a loan. In such a case, the beneficial accounting treatment given to insurance premiums disappears.
The specific transaction that investigators are focusing on at A.I.G., according to the person briefed on the matter, took place in the last quarter of 2000 and the first quarter of 2001. The transaction was struck between A.I.G. and Cologne Re, a foreign subsidiary of Gen Re, a company owned by Berkshire Hathaway. Berkshire Hathaway is run by Warren E. Buffett. Mr. Greenberg was personally involved in the transaction, according to the person briefed on the matter, which bolstered A.I.G.'s reserves by $500 million.
Investors monitor the levels of reserves held by an insurance company and do not like to see them fall. To avoid swings in reserves, insurers can enter into deals known as loss portfolio transfers, in which one company buys excess reserves from another. Reserves can also contribute to an insurance company's earnings. If an insurer has more reserves than it needs, for example, it takes those reserves into its earnings.
While the specifics of the transaction with Gen Re are not clear, a person briefed on the matter said that it appeared to fail the risk-transfer test that was necessary for a transaction to receive favorable insurance accounting.
If A.I.G. bought reserves from Gen Re to bolster its financial position artificially, securities regulators could argue that the transaction was designed to manipulate A.I.G. shares, running afoul of securities laws.
Calls to General Re seeking comment were not returned yesterday.
According to another person briefed on the investigation, A.I.G. officials have conducted their own analysis of the transaction with Gen Re and have presented their findings to securities regulators. The company may argue that a transfer of $500 million in reserves was immaterial given A.I.G.'s reserve base of $25 billion.
But since 1999, securities regulators have grown tougher on companies that claim that certain transactions are immaterial. If a transaction's purpose was to make a company's results or financial position look better, a regulatory official said, assertions of immateriality would probably be rejected.
On March 7, A.I.G. announced the appointment of Stephen L. Hammerman to its board. Mr. Hammerman is a former general counsel to Merrill Lynch as well as a former federal prosecutor. He was also New York regional administrator for the S.E.C.
In announcing the appointment, Mr. Greenberg said: "I am pleased that Steve Hammerman has joined the A.I.G. board. He brings a wealth of financial, legal and regulatory experience to our company."
A telephone call made to Mr. Hammerman's home yesterday was unanswered.
The board of A.I.G. has a regularly scheduled meeting on Wednesday.


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The LuLac Edition #1024, Nov. 30th, 2009
Okay, when I heard the Tiger Woods story the first thing I thought of was the old saying "that nothing good happens after 2AM". The fact that Woods left his house at 2:25AM prompted a few theories from my mind. Here they are:
THE GIRLFRIEND CALLED: When one is stepping out on the wife, in order for the step action to work an understanding must be established with the girlfriend. She either gets the holiday with you or she doesn't. No middle ground, no dual visits, no bi polar family sharing responsibilities. Get the agreement up front with the girl friend for no drama or get the excuse you're going to use with the wife outlined and then stick to it. I'm thinking the girlfriend called in the middle of the night singing the blues about being alone on the holiday and Tiger stepped out for a quart of milk. But as Kevin Lynn said on the radio today, "people like Tiger pay people to do that for him". So I'm thinking he was distracted then wrecked the car navigating said car, street and phone.
THE WIFE FOUND OUT: Tiger and his wife (a saucy blonde) might have had a drag down fight most likely precipitated by statements made by him like, "It's me, not you", "I'm tired of my life", "I fell out of love with you", or "She completes me". I'm thinking that if he was stupid enough to say this she took after him with a golf club chasing him out the house. Bum knee or not, Tiger made it to the car and the wife took out the back window. Terrified he crashed himself into the woods. (No pun intended).
THE WIFE GREETED HIM: Tiger might have spent part of Turkey day with the honey. The wife might have been waiting up for him and beat the crap out of him with said putter or 9 iron. Tiger then was planted (where's Marc Furman when you need him?) in the vehicle and Mrs. Woods expressed disbelief at his sad state.
Those are my theories. Bottom line is this: holidays are a dangerous time for a wife and girlfriend. One must be adept if they are to survive the combined minefield of love, lust and dual relationship maintenance.
For those of you trying to access your unemployment benefits, there has been a 48 meltdown of the systems used by the Department of Labor and Industry. The computer system has not worked since the Thanksgiving holiday and the toll free number used (The PAT system number 1 888 255-4728 is constantly busy or when you do reach the automated system, immediately dumps your call or disconnects you. When I spoke to a representative in the Department of Labor Industry press office yesterday, I asked them about back up systems in the Aspect phone lines and/or the computer access system. They thanked me for my input but never answered the question. Anyway, here's the message you get on the website:
We are currently experiencing technical difficulties. Please try again later or call Pennsylvania Teleclaims--PAT at 1-888-255-4728 to file your claim.
And of course that number doesn't work. And there is no way to access your claim since there are no employment offices that do that anymore. My suggestion if you have a complaint is to tell the Governor and see if this might change. In no way should this reflect on the people working in the call centers because the tools they use to do their jobs are not working. Ask the Governor what can be done to prevent this 48 hour outage again.
Not a big Notre Dame fan but you have to feel for the Irish and the big guy Charlie Weiss. Weiss was supposed to be an offensive genius but the defense this year let him down. Let's hope he reemerges somewhere else with more success and Notre Dame returns to its former glory.


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West recognized with Wilks Award
December 27, 2011
Story Highlights
- Dr. Bruce West, ARL Fellow, is recent percipient of the U.S. Army Wilks Award.
- West was honored for his pioneering contributions to the development of non-stationary, non-ergodic statistical modeling techniques applicable to broad classes of adaptive phenomena and complex networks.
- West is co-author of 10 books and nearly 400 peer-reviewed publications, and serves in key editorial posts for three journals.
Dr. Bruce West, ARL Fellow, is the 2011 recipient of the U.S. Army Wilks Award, presented during the Army Conference on Applied Statistics held in Annapolis, Md., in October, 2011.
The award was established in 1981 to commemorate the career of Samuel S. Wilks and his service to the Army. It is given periodically to a "deserving individual who has made a substantial contribution to statistical methodology and application, impacting the practice of statistics in the Army through personal research in statistics or application of statistics in the solution of Army problems."
West was honored for his pioneering contributions to the development of non-stationary, non-ergodic statistical modeling techniques applicable to broad classes of adaptive phenomena and complex networks.
He is the Chief Scientist (Mathematics) in the Information Sciences Directorate of the U.S. Army Research Office (ARO). He led the development of the Army's basic research program on Network Science (NS), culminating with the formation of the Army Research Laboratory Director's Research Initiative on NS in 2007 and the establishment of a new ARO Division on NS in 2008.
Additionally, his research directly supported the creation and application of new analytical methods for detecting and assessing soldier injury, disease, and physiologic pathologies.
West earned his doctorate in physics from the University of Rochester in 1970. His research, in academic settings and after joining the ARO in 1999, has focused on modeling complex phenomena: physical processes whose evolution cannot be described simply by differential equations or other definitive mathematical formulations; applications of discontinuous statistical processes (Levy distributions) to quantum chaos, non-equilibrium statistical physics, and biomedical time series; fractional calculus for stochastic processes; and fractals and power-law distributions.


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Keble College is one of the largest of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford with 410 undergraduate and 250 graduate students. Keble is a vibrant community whose students excel not only academically, but also in music, drama, and sport. They pride themselves on their traditions, but are forward looking, as shown by their exciting plans for enhancing graduate provision on the recently acquired Acland site within a few minutes walk from the main College site.
The academic year at Oxford consists of three terms: Michaelmas, Hillary and Trinity. Students are slotted into the 2nd year curriculum for Keble College students within their major. Students receive the equivalent of 10 WU credits per term for a total of 30 WU credits.
Instruction at Keble is organized around weekly tutorial meetings supplemented by lectures. The tutorial system, which is at the heart of Oxford University's educational process, entails 20-25 hours of extensive, highly critical reading and research towards the submission of a paper for analysis and discussion. The student will then meet his or her tutor alone, and be examined on the work submitted. This intensive, one-on-one, Socratic approach is both challenging and highly profitable and permits a level of depth and insight incapable of being achieved by other methods of teaching. Students at Oxford must be prepared to work independently and to write an enormous number of papers.
Read more about Keble's English program here.
Keble College is one of the many independent colleges within the University of Oxford. Little more than a century old, Keble is one of the few Oxford colleges built of brick. Oxford is a medium-sized university town that is home to over 30,000 students and has an overall population of just over 150,000. Beautiful and historic architecture sits alongside all the main high street stores, numerous coffee shops and restaurants, and a thriving bar and club scene. Oxford also has beautiful riverside walks and the oldest Botanic Garden in the country. Approximately 62 miles from Central London, Oxford is easily accessible by air, bus, train, and car.
Students accepted in the program at Keble live in the college, in rooms that are unusually comfortable by British university standards. Most of the 360 rooms are within the College itself. Meals are included during the academic term.
Student Life
Academic life consists of a mixture of one or two tutorials conducted usually in pairs, sometimes alone, with a Keble tutor, or with another tutor whom he or she arranges for the student. With support, students learn how to think critically, write forcefully, and accept criticism, and the validity of other points of view.
Students will be part of Keble College with full privileges. Within the college, students are welcome to participate in Keble's tradition in many different sports, at both College and University level. There is a very high level of participation among the student population, not only in sports but also in drama and music. Off campus, Oxford provides a wonderful environment, too.
Program Dates
The Keble College program is for the full academic year only. The first term begins in early October and the third term ends in late June.
Application deadline: February 1
There are only two places for English majors each year in the Keble program and admission will be quite competitive, but it offers an extremely challenging educational opportunity and an unparalleled opportunity for full integration into university life at Oxford.
Minimum 3.7 GPA; English major who has taken intermediate level courses for the major. Samples of written work required with application.
For more information, click HERE or contact Carrie Canham in the Overseas Program office (firstname.lastname@example.com, 314-935-7695).


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Dedicated to the collection of paleontological, botanical and anthropological specimen , this museum boasts more than one hundred thousand exhibits.While some are type specimen, some others are rare and precious treasures such as the
Upstream Yangchuanosaurus, Tsintaosaurus, Psittacosaurus specimen and some well-preserved dinosaur egg fossils and footprint fossiles. The carnivorous Yangchuanosaurus from the later Juraasic era sustained a body length of over 8 meters and body height of 4 meters; the Herbivorous Tsintaosaurus from later cretaceous ear sustained a body length of 6.
62 meters and a body height of 4.9 meters while the Herbivorous Psittacosaurus had a body of only 70 centimeters. Some imported collections include :the Moa fossils from New Zealand,sloth, Echidna, Lyrebird from Australia, La Diman fish from Africa. Some exhibits are taxidermy ,some others are fossils .
All play a very important role in the evolutionary link and have very important academic value.
Here you will find the exhibition in four sections : the Paleontology Section, the zoological section , the botanical section and the anthropological section. Diversified and advance techology like slides projector, video technology are employed to illustrate the evolution process from the single cell life to a diversifed world, from the lowest level to the highest, from water-born life to the modern world.
In the paleontology hall you can see the 22 meters-long Mamenchisaurus from 140 million years ago and the 6 meters long and 2 meter tall Lufengosaurus from 180 million years ago. Some reptiles that had the ability to fly are also on display. Pterosaur and Ichthyosaur that lived in water are on display.
They went into extinction with the dinosaurs at the same time. The zoological and botanical hall try to use the systematic evolution of life on earth to make the public aware that it took millions of years for life to be so diversified on this planet and we should try to preserve them and protect the habitat we lived in.
Anthropology hall aims at illustrating the human evolution by using paleo-anthroplogical, anthropological, anatomy and archeological materials.
Opening dates : Only closed on Mon.
Opening Hours : 9:00--17:00.
Attrations : Paleo reptiles, paleo mammals, dinosaur world and aquatic life forms.


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Fantastic Fugitives: Criminals, Cutthroats, and Rebels Who Changed History (While on the Run!) (The Changed History Series)
Written by: Brianna Dumont
Published by: Sky Pony Press (January 5, 2016)
MG Non-Fiction
I'm not a fan of what I call the classic "middle-grade sarcastic" language. I get that it's supposed to lure kids into reading non-fiction by keeping it real. Totally my opinion- but I don't like it. It shortchanges kids into thinking if it doesn't sound like another kid talking to them then it isn't interesting. The tone of this book is not all sarcastic- but it has its moments.
Anyhow, each chapter contains the story of a person who changed history by rebelling against society. The timeline of individuals ranges from Spartacus to Nelson Mandela. The profiles are listed in order of actual appearance and have nothing in common except that they were fugitives on the run. Good guys (and girls) and evil have their stories highlighted as to how they changed history.
For reluctant readers who respond to this style, this might be the nudge into reading full biographies. For more well-read kids it's going to seem a bit young and a little gross in some sections.
Bottom Line: Go to the Library for this one.


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Here we are almost at the end of 2013, and I'm regaled you with my lists of Top Tens in a variety of categories for the better part of the year. It's been a really fun experience, and I'm considering whether to do it next year. (What do you think of that idea?
But I want to be sure I hear from you, too. I'm eager to know what you have loved and to read your Top Ten lists. So I'm issuing a little challenge . . . with a prize.
For the next two Fridays – December 13th and December 20th – I'd like to share your Top Ten books in any category you'd choose. Maybe you want to write about young adult novels or books with strong, female protagonists. Maybe you know a lot of Laotian literature (wouldn't that be cool?) or especially enjoy books set in Antarctica?
Whatever you like to read, I'd like to invite you to make your Top Ten list and share it with me. (If you'd like some suggestions of list topics, Goodreads has a great list of topics with titles in each.) You can either post your list as a comment to this blog, create your list on your own blog and post the link in comments, or email me your list – andilit-at-gmail.com.
Then, I'll include your lists – either in their entirety or as partial lists with links to your blog – in my Friday posts for the next two weeks.
Now for the competition part of the sharing, I'll draw one randomly selected contributor's name, and that person will win a $20 gift certificate to the bookstore of their choice.
So start compiling your Top Ten lists and get them over to me. I can't wait to see what you've read.
(Oh, and be sure to pull together your titles for the "More than 20/21st Century Caucasian North Americans" Challenge. We'll be talking about your reading for that challenge on the 27th. 🙂 )
Just a reminder, that today at Noon EST, I'll be hosting a Google Hangout to talk about The Slaves Have Names, the people enslaved at Bremo, and the history and legacy of slavery in our world. If you'd like to attend, please RSVP to this link. If you're not able to make it, please feel free to post a question and then check out the video on my YouTube channel at a later time.


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that I didn't blog for sooo long.... again.... And not only did I not blog, I didn't even read the last 15 or so comments... Why? Just to much going on I guess. With last school days, goodbye musicals, korfball camp, the last couple assignments before vacation, several birthdays in our family, my DD Anne turning 14 a.s.o.
Anyway, by not reading the comments I totally missed that Alma, Marianne, Miranda and Karola all gave me the Brillante Weblog Award!!! Wow, girls... I feel sooo honored!! Thank you all so much!!!


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Friday, 24 May 2019
Last updated 1 year ago
May 21 2012 | 8:33am ET
By Sam Diedrich
Associate Director, Pacific Alternative Asset Management Company (PAAMCO)
The European Central Bank's long-term refinancing operation (LTRO) has had a profound effect on risk assets and global financial markets during the first quarter of 2012. Prior to the liquidity provision, markets had been experiencing high volatility and correlations due to uncertainty regarding the burgeoning sovereign debt crisis in Europe and its possible contagion effects on global financial markets. However, with the provision in place, pressure on banks to reduce their balance sheets in Europe has been reduced (at least temporarily), risk aversion in global markets has been alleviated, and investors have shifted their focus back to economic fundamentals which, at least in the U.S., have been showing some improvement.
While this is good news, it has left many investors wondering where to invest today. The outlook in the U.S. has improved markedly in recent months, but equity prices have already appreciated substantially with the S&P 500 up over 10% in 1Q12. Though corporate default rates are low, they are unlikely to go much lower and the Credit Suisse High Yield Index has already returned 5% for 1Q12. Additionally, though economic figures out of the U.S. have been mostly positive, a weak March jobs number caught many by surprise. Meanwhile, though the LTRO provided much needed liquidity to the European banking system, long-term sovereign solvency questions remain and are likely to reassert themselves on investor risk appetite in the future. Thus, although fundamentals have improved, asset prices today appear to already reflect the improvements, which means potentially lower returns to investors going forward.
However, the non-agency mortgage market remains dislocated and is one segment of the fixed income market that continues to offer compelling risk-adjusted return potential despite the recent rally. Non-agency mortgages are attractive because of the high cash-on-cash yields available, the alpha potential due to the opaqueness of the market, the self-liquidating amortization feature of the bonds, and the opportunity to own high-yielding fixed income instruments with very low interest rate sensitivity.
Non-Agency Mortgages Offer High Yields Due to Distressed Pricing Levels
At issuance in 2007 and earlier, these bonds were rated investment grade and traded near par. At par, senior tranche bonds offered yields equivalent to their coupons which were generally around 5 to 6%. At par, these bonds were highly exposed to slight increases in mortgage default rates, severity rates, and even interest rates. In short, at par these offered low yield relative to the risk exposure.
Today, however, those same bonds trade at around 50 cents on the dollar, which alters the risk and return profile of the securities. The coupon of 4 to 6% effectively doubles when purchased at half of par value. At par, many senior bonds are vulnerable to losses when default rates are greater than 10 to 20%. However, now-discounted senior bonds are available at low double-digit yields even when incorporating lifetime default rates of the underlying mortgage pool of up to 75% or more into the valuation model. In fact, senior non-agency bonds are currently priced assuming further declines in home prices, further increases in default rates and further increases in severity rates, but still offer yields nearing double to that available in high yield corporate bonds. The reason these factors are modeled with such dire prospects is that those dire scenarios may in fact occur as the housing market is far from fully recovered. However, for many investors these risks are attractively priced and the yields are sufficiently high to warrant an allocation.
Another very attractive feature of non-agency mortgage bonds is that they are self-liquidating. In most credit instruments, such as high yield bonds or commercial mortgages, a coupon is paid periodically and a bullet principal payment is due at maturity. In order for the issuer to repay the loan, the issuer often must roll the debt, relying on prevailing financial markets to issue a new loan near the time of the debt maturity. In periods of extreme financial stress such as in 2008, the new issuance market for most types of credit can quickly evaporate, posing a large problem for any issuer hoping to roll their maturing debt obligations. However, residential mortgages are self-liquidating due to the amortization feature of the bonds, which receive both principal and interest payments every month. The non-agency mortgage market is currently about $1.1 trillion in size and receives approximately $100 billion in repayments each year.
Potential for Alpha Through Trading
In addition to the distressed prices of non-agency bonds being an attractive allocation from a cash flow yield perspective, the non-agency mortgage market is also an attractive allocation due to the potential for alpha through trading. The non-agency market is dislocated and opaque. Unlike equities or most other credit markets, there is no pricing transparency through an exchange or pricing service. There are tens of thousands of different CUSIPs in the market and complex models are required to value and evaluate each bond. Furthermore, in the new regulatory environment, investment banks have retreated from the market, leaving more opportunity for hedge funds to extract returns through trading.
Low Sensitivity to Interest Rates
Finally, non-agency bonds are attractive in today's record low interest rate environment due to their low sensitivity to interest rates. This is, again, a function of the current distressed pricing; non-agency mortgages have extremely low duration. In fact, many believe the bonds have negative duration because an increase in interest rates would likely correspond to improving inflationary expectations which would be positive for underlying home prices. Though deflationary pressures have weighed on interest rates in recent years, inflation expectations have been on the rise this year and an increase in rates could pose large losses for high-duration instruments such as Treasuries or investment grade corporate bonds.
Asset prices have benefited tremendously so far this year from the LTRO issued by the European Central Bank, as well as improved economic fundamentals in the U.S. economy. However, asset prices today largely reflect this change in outlook and many investors are left scrambling to find remaining attractive risk-adjusted yield. The non-agency market is compelling in this respect in that it still incorporates a negative economic outlook in current pricing and offers high cash-on-cash yields. The market is dislocated, the securities complex, and there is large potential for trading gains. In short, yields are still high even with conservative expectations and the market offers a rich hunting ground for alpha.
Sam Diedrich, MBA, MS, CQF, is an Associate Director and Portfolio Manager for the Fixed Income Relative Value strategy at PAAMCO. He is responsible for manager research and portfolio construction within the strategy. In addition, he also serves as the main point of contact for certain institutional investor relationships. Prior to joining PAAMCO, Sam worked as an electrical engineer for the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (Laurel, MD). Sam received his MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, his MS in Electrical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University, and his BS in Electrical Engineering (Distinction) from the University of Washington.
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of the work of Canada's Diversity Advantage's
Regional Teams
The Canadian Youth in Halifax, Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, and Vancouver had the opportunity to paint a mural for their city on one or all of the three themes that are part of Canadians' shared heritage: "Community Building"; "Civic Engagement"; and "Healthy-Active Living". Drawing on their research and community mapping exercises, youth utilized paintings to demonstrate Canadians' history over time and the process of creating a shared heritage by the peoples of Canada.
Resources for Students and Leaders
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Percival The Piano
by Mary Perkins
Percival hasn't been played for years. Can Ben and Granny mend him before the Naw-Rúz party?
A story for Naw-Rúz.
Percival hasn't been played for years. Will Ben and Granny be able to mend him in time for the Naw-Rúz party?
A delightful story sensitively illustrated by Wendy Thomas. For children from 4 to 9 years old.
A good introduction to the themes of consultation. Assembly decisions and mutual support in the community.
32 pages, illustrations
25.5 x 17.6 cm. (l0 x 7 in)