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Originated in ancient India, Yoga typically means "union" between the mind, body and spirit. It involves the practice of physical postures and poses, which is sometimes referred to as "asana" in Sanskrit. As the name suggests, the ultimate aim of practicing Yoga is to create a balance between the body and the mind and to attain self-enlightenment. In order to accomplish it, Yoga makes use of different movements, breathing exercises, relaxation technique and meditation. Yoga is associated with a healthy and lively lifestyle with a balanced approach to life.
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Saturday, January 09, 2010
Incredible Artist Brings Tears to Fans
Kseniya Simonova is a Ukrainian artist who just won Ukraine's version of "America's Got Talent." She uses a giant light box, dramatic music, imagination and "sand painting" skills to interpret Germany's invasion and occupation of Ukraine during WWII.
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Archive for May, 2011
Everything happens for a reason…and now I know the reason!!
Posted by Sarah Moosani in Personal on May 21, 2011
Life keeps on surprising you, some are shockingly unpleasant news and some surprises are so unnerving that you cannot imagine something that wonderful can be happening. In past couple of weeks, I have learnt one crucial lesson, or maybe it's two: first, never let your faith in Allah waver and second, be patient. My elders […]
My First Mother's Day!
Posted by Sarah Moosani in Personal on May 8, 2011
I wasn't really expecting Ayaan to get me something on Mother's Day, you know with him being so tiny and everything. But he is my baby after all, he managed to make my first Mother's Day special by turning 10-months old today. 🙂
Osama bin Laden Getting Killed!
Posted by Sarah Moosani in News on May 1, 2011
Talk about pressurizing Pakistan with this claim of housing Osama bin Laden in a mansion in Islamabad… Maybe the U.S. is not happy with the amount of drone attacks they are doing in Pakistan. By using this tactic, I think they are trying to increase the number of these attacks!


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Yes, you may be able to sue Zimmer if you had the Durom Cup implanted during hip replacement surgery and afterward suffered serious complications or had to undergo a revision surgery. When a patient suffers significant complications or injuries such as continual pain or worse pain than before the hip implant, and/or forced to have a second surgery due to the defectiveness of a Zimmer Durom Cup, it can give rise to a lawsuit.
In fact, due to Zimmer's failure to warn patients of the defective nature of the medical equipment, and not properly training doctors on how to correctly implant the device, they may be held liable for those who suffer complications. Therefore, patients who suffer complications do have legal rights and can sue Zimmer, the manufacture of the Durom Cup.
These defective metal-on-metal hip implant lawsuits seek compensation for pain and suffering as well as payment of medical expenses incurred due to the defective nature of the hip replacement device.
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'Point of Life is Not Work': CEO Says 5 Hr Workday Better For Business, Workers
Is the White House 'Sitting On' Real DHS 'Border Effectiveness' Numbers?
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Mass. HS Football Player Joins Kaepernick, Kneels in Anthem Protest
Entrepreneur Stephan Aarstol, CEO of Tower Paddle Boards, spoke with Tucker Carlson about his new book, which broaches the idea of a five-hour workday and explains why such a change could result in higher productivity.
"A shorter, condensed day will make society and businesses more productive," Aarstol, author of 'The Five-Hour Workday', said on Fox and Friends.
Aarstol's book says it will allow employees to "Live differently, unlock productivity and find happiness".
"We were operating like a startup, but we're a beach lifestyle company and we needed to live up to our brand more effectively," Aarstol, who appeared as a contestant on ABC's 'Shark Tank', said.
He initiated a three-month pilot program, telling his employees they would work 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. during that time, with no lunch.
"You're going to figure out how to do your job in five hours or you'll be fired."
"The point of life is not work," he said.
Watch the full clip above and let us know what you think in the comments.
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Autumn in the Virginia Piedmont is beautiful. Have you seen the vistas from Miracle Valley Vineyard? They are gorgeous! What better time of year to visit and relax by one of our fire pits enjoying glass after glass of our incredible wine or glasses of our famous Hot Mulled wine.
To add to the excitement of the day, Jerry Irwin will be performing under our pavilion. Jerry knows how to mold his performance to any audience. From light background music to sing-a longs, Jerry reads the crowd and purely entertains!


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The Total Rewards Philosophy contains the position the company declares it provides for employees in order to attract, motivate and retain the best talent.
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You may not be able to find scholarly material about CVS's Total Rewards philosophy per se, however you may be able to incorporate the information you find about its positions and policies regarding similar topics.
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Is It Ethical To Record Your Candidate Interviews?
There are many times when it would be great to have a recording (either audio or video) of an interview with a candidate. You could go back through the interview later to review responses, it could be used afterwards for coaching the candidate, and you could forward recordings of great prospects to the hiring manager/company. We believe there are two major issues to consider when deciding to record:
1) Is it legal to record, and if so under what circumstances?
2) Is it ethical, proper, or "wise" to do so, and under what conditions?
The legal obligations vary by state and country, and rather than try to provide 50+ rules it is best to defer to a legal professional. We've been told that in Canada you must request the candidates' permission in writing. In the U.S. more states than not require at least one-party consent to recording and several states require two or all party consent to recordings. Even in a one-party consent state it may be illegal if the recording equipment is hidden from the candidate (e.g. you are recording a video call on your computer without telling the candidate).
Recording interviews may not be so much a question of ethics as it is a matter of mitigating risk. We suggest you always ask a candidate for permission to record regardless of local requirements. The recruiter or hiring manager could state up-front that he/she is recording the interview for purposes of "recall" later. If you inform the interviewee that the interview will be recorded, and they acknowledge acceptance, then legality should be covered as long as the purpose is clearly limited to selection. It would be interesting if the candidate refuses to be recorded. What would it say about them?
Remember that being recorded cuts both ways. When you make a recording it becomes part of a permanent record, just like comments written on a paper resume. Some recruiters and hiring managers may not ask the right/appropriate questions, or may say something inappropriate and now there would be a record of it. That's okay for coaching the individual, not okay if it is needed as "evidence" at a later date.
Our belief is it is not wise if you fail to tell the interviewee that you are going to record the interview to share with the hiring company, even if you are in a one-party consent state. Hiring is a trust building exercise and a secret recording, even if legal, doesn't feel quite right.
You should explain the entire process to the candidate, beyond just the fact they are going to be recorded. For example, what do you do with the recordings? How long will they be stored? What is the recruiter's privacy policy? If recordings are merely passed on to others involved in the hiring process, and then deleted as a matter of policy, it might be considered more acceptable. Just realize it is not the norm to record interviews. Most HR professionals understand the fluff factor and to use the recording later for other purposes, could cause question.
Recording interviews, done legally, can be a valuable tool. Just be aware of the risks. Have you ever recorded an interview? Do you have any feedback, good or bad?
Alan Fitzpatrick is the co-founder of Vonei LLC, home of the $99/year unlimited usage video interviewing service. Vonei does not store recordings of user sessions. We can suggest tools to allow the parties to record and store on their computers. For more about us see http://www.vonei.com.
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This is a timely article considering the many privacy issues that social media has revealed with regards to Facebook, Twitter, etc. From a video conferencing standpoint, which is how many people are being interviewed these days, it is common practice to record anything that transpires between the parties involved in that interview, session, meeting, etc. However, it does go both ways because depending on the platform, both parties may have the option to record the session. It seems that people are less concerned with privacy on social media platforms as long as the depth of privacy is clearly outlined at the onset.


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What breed is the calico? Why is the female black and orange? Are calico cats sterile? What breed of cats come in calico?
Calico cat names
What breed is the calico cat?
Also known as tricolour or tortie and white the calico isn't a breed rather a coat colour. Calico cats have a white base coat with patches of red and black or red and tabby.
There are four base (solid) colours in cats:
- black
- red
- chocolate
- cinnamon
Why not white? Because a cat with a coloured and white coat has a gene which switches off colour in some parts. The gene responsible for this is the piebald or spotting gene (abbreviated to S), which is dominant, so a white cat is genetically a coloured cat, but the S gene has switched off colour in certain areas.
To understand why calicos are so rare in male cats we need a little understanding of genetics.
The red gene:
The red (actually known as orange and abbreviated to O) gene is only carried on the X chromosome, which makes it sex-linked. The O gene is dominant (all dominant genes are abbreviated in UPPER CASE, all recessive are lower case). The mother's eggs only carry an X chromosome, but the male sperm can carry either an X or a Y chromosome. Each cat will inherit an X from their mother and an X or Y from the father.
- Female – XX (X from the mother, X from the father)
- Male – XY (X from the mother, Y from the father)
Interestingly, the faulty gene for hemophilia, a blood clotting disorder, is also sex-linked and found on the X chromosome. Because females have two chromosomes, the good one prevents her from developing the condition, however as the male only has one X chromosome, he will develop hemophilia. This is the same for colour blindness in human males too.
Female = XX
Male = XY
As the male only has one X chromosome, if it carries the O gene (which remember, is dominant), then he will be an orange/red male. If the X chromosome carries the o (non-orange) gene, then the male will be another colour, usually black.
If however, the female kitten inherits both the O and the o (usually black) gene, then because she has two X chromosomes (instead of an X and a Y like the male), both black and red will show making a tortoiseshell cat. If she also inherits the white spotting gene which is responsible for the white coat colour, she will be black, red and have areas of white.
I like to think of the X chromosome as having four sections (or arms), and the shorter and smaller Y only has three. The extra arm the X chromosome contains additional genes including the O gene. Most genes (except for the sex-linked X and Y) come in two pairs, one from the mother and one from the father. Therefore the male cat only inherits one O gene (which is dominant) from the X chromosome from his mother.
The male only needs one copy of the O gene to be a red cat; however, the female needs two copies of the O gene to be red, which is why female ginger cats are seen less often than males.
Female inheritance:
For the female inheriting the red and black genes from both parents, the following may occur:
O (from mother) O (from father) OO=Ginger cat
o (from mother) o (from father) oo=Black cat
O (from mother or father) o (from mother or father) Oo=Tortie cat
Male inheritance:
In the male cat, orange is dominant over black, so if he inherits one O gene and one o (non-orange) gene, he will be orange. So the following will occur:
O (from mother or father) o (from mother or father Oo=Ginger cat
0 (from mother) o (from father) oo=Black cat
Why are females black and orange?
Females carry two X chromosomes (one from each parent), a process known as x-inactivation or Lyonization occurs during fetal development. Every cell has one active and one silenced X chromosome, this includes the melanocytes, which are the cells responsible for hair colour. Therefore the information contained in the active X chromosome is used, and the information in the silenced X chromosome isn't, this results in both male and females only have one X (active) chromosome per cell.
As this happens in the female carrying both orange and black, the random nature of inactivation means both red and black can appear in the coat depending on which X chromosome has been inactivated in the cell.
Just to complicate things more, the calico cat is essentially a tortoiseshell cat with the addition of the piebald (spotting) gene, this gene turns parts of the coat white by switching off the colours in some areas.
Are calico cats sterile?
We already know that calico cats are almost always female. It is very rare for a male to be calico when he is; he is almost always sterile. But female calicos are as fertile as any other coloured cat.
There are two possible ways for a male to be calico:
If he inherits an extra X chromosome and is therefore XXY, this is known as Klinefelter syndrome.
If two recently fertilised eggs (XX and XY) which have fused, meaning there is one cat, but it has two distinct sets of DNA. This makes him a chimera.
If one fertilised egg develops two distinct cell lines, which makes him a mosaic.
Breeds of cat which can come in calico
The most common type of calico cat is the domestic, or moggy. However, it can be found in some pure breeds of cat too.
- American Bobtail
- American Curl
- American Shorthair
- American Wirehair
- British Shorthair
- Cornish Rex
- Devon Rex
- Exotic
- Japanese Bobtail
- Devon Rex
- German Rex
- Maine Coon
- Manx
- Munchkin
- Norwegian Forest Cat
- Oriental
- Persian
- Scottish Fold
- Scottish Shorthair
- Siberian
- Sphynx
Calico cat names
- Amber
- Butterscotch
- Callie
- Cleo
- Harlequin
- Honey
- Kali
- Melody
- Patch
- Patches
- Pixel
- Pumpkin
- Rainbow
- Spice
- Tortie
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It was a dream come true staying in Amalfi Coast for my 18th birthday this summer. We based ourselves in the local town of Amalfi purely because our hotel was right next to the beach and had the perfect view looking over looking the town. I couldn't tell the difference between the colour of the ocean and sky while swimming in the afternoon. The pebble beaches were filled of vibrant beach towels and umbrellas, I could have spent my days sleeping away on the beach listening to the sounds of the waves. Not to mention my diet was based on only pasta and limonene flavored gelato. We also spend 3 days in a villa on the island of dreamy Capri. The main part of our stay was renting a private boat, which took us around the local sea caves including the Blue and White Grottos. After our amazing trip in Italy, my luggage was filled with souvenirs of limoncello (lemon alcohol) bottles and shot glasses - money well spent.
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As a first of it's kind app, building owners and managers of high-rise office buildings with high populations are using the In-telligent app as the preferred communications tool to reach their tenants in real time, including when emergencies or safety threats occur. The app also keeps tenants in tune with news, traffic and happenings in and around their building, creating a smarter, more informed community. In addition, national and local advertisers are able to provide deal offerings to the tenant base and other app users. JMG has worked with the company from the ground up with developing the brand image and promise. From there the messaging has been crafted to reach this diverse audience of users. That's marketing inside out.
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This is Cami. I have been sick this past week. The sickness that makes every bone and joint hurt, where you just want to sleep for a million years kind of sick. And when my nose runs, it is like a constant drippy faucet that just will not stop no matter how hard I blow. So I carry a roll of toilet paper with me and have wads of crumpled, used tissue surrounding every known "Cami spot" in the house. So my nose is a bright fiery red in a matter of hours. It is gross. I smell gross, look gross, feel gross.
So a few night ago, we finally got all the kids to bed and then Tyson had a church meeting to go to, so he left and I curled up in bed myself, prepared with my roll of tp and a good book.
Next thing I know I am slowly coming out of a sleep haze where I am sprawled across the bed, surrounded by mounds of snot filled tissue bits, face dripping with drool because I'm so tired. And of course my mouth is open because my nose is so stuffed. I look up and there is Tyson standing in the doorway staring at me with the same look he gave me when he sees me all dressed up and scrumptiously sexy.
"Hey Tys," I say, kind of embarrassed at how disgusting I am.
"You are so incredibly gorgeous" is his reply. And I can tell he means it.
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Kirra Jamison: Artist Statement
My work explores an intersection of personal narratives and mythical imaginings. As I begin to mature as an artist, personal narratives are released with less resistance into my work. They do so ambiguously and without a centre.
As if illustrating fairytales, I play out small occurrences or emotional shifts in my life in fantastical scenes through indefinite symbols and archetypes. The resulting paintings are dreamlike and emotionally loaded worlds that invite cognitive interpretations and reveal lost sensations in a mediated epoch. This body of work is evocative of dark yearnings and secret desires coming to the surface.
Fairytales are known to be simple and pure expressions of the collective unconscious and thus offer an understanding of the basic patterns of the human psyche. Like many people I am attracted to myths and fables as they enable me to make sense of my own existence in a way that is fluid and not fixed.
I love listening to the stories that are invented by people when they first see a new painting. Each work develops differently depending on the individual encountering it and therefore meanings are always shifting. The interplay between what I offer and what is left open cannot take place without a witness. With every story that is imagined into existence by a viewer the work expands a little more.
Essentially this new work continues to be informed by an interest in how the use of the decorative offers more space for pluralism in meaning; as well as research into the relationship between ornament and the imagination. On a more personal level this body of work represents a moment of transformation and evolution as I define who I am as an artist. I hope that in these paintings you might discover, not only something of my story but also something of your own.


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Milk Carton Games
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Here's a bright idea using old milk cartons.
Submitted by James Elliot from Glen Ellen, California. K-5
Background: Over the years, I have collected and/or designed a variety of "homemade" games that can be used with special needs students and/or regular education students. Here are several ideas for recycling old waxed milk cartons.
Materials Needed:
- Waxed milk cartons and newspaper
- Duct tape and scissors
Prep & Assembly: Rinse out the half-gallon waxed milk cartons. Allow them to dry and then cut along the upper folds of the carton so that each flap can be folded flat. Stuff each carton with old newspaper to add weight and to make the outer shell more rigid. Fold down the top carton and duct tape it down. Make many of these for the following three activities:
Description: Form two lines of equal numbers. For each line, the first two students will begin the relay. Each team is given a milk carton. It is placed and balanced between the two persons' shoulders.
Once both teams are ready, the relay may begin. The two players will walk briskly while holding the carton between the shoulders. They walk to the turning point and back to their team. Once they reach their team, they hand off the carton to the next pair.
Description: Set up the activity by building a pyramid of cartons. Six cartons work best (three on the bottom, two in the middle and one on the top). Stand at least 6 feet away and, using a tennis ball, aim the ball toward the cartons and see how many you can knock down. Beanbags may also be used in place of the tennis balls.
Description: To set up the activity, you'll need a lot of beanbags and a carton for each participant. Divide the gym in two and have equal players on the two sides. Players put down their cartons behind or beside them. They are given one beanbag to start.
On the "go" signal, each player slides a beanbag to knock over the cartons from the opposing team. They then pick up beanbags thrown from the opposing team and continue to knock over the cartons. Once a participant's carton is knocked over, he picks up the carton and goes over to the other side and continues playing on a new side. When all the players are on one side, the game is over.


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New Delhi: Efforts by Uber and three other companies to procure licence to run cab services in the national capital hit another roadblock with Delhi government finding deficiencies in their applications.
The government has asked these taxi providers to furnish all details before it as mentioned in recently introduced "Modified Radio Taxi Scheme (2006)".
Uber, which was banned two months ago after one of its drivers allegedly raped a woman, had applied for licence on January 22 to operate app-based taxi booking service through its subsidiary Resource Expert India Pvt Ltd.
App-based taxi operators Ola Cabs, Taxi For Sure and another operator had also applied for licences.
Delhi government has found "discrepancies" in the applications and asked the companies to furnish all the required documents as mentioned in the Modified Radio Taxi Scheme (2006) which was finalised on January 1 following the outrage over rape of the woman on December 5 allegedly inside the Uber cab.
Sources said that the three app-based taxi providers in their applications did not provide full details for procuring a licence according to laid down rules.
"In Uber's application, certificate/undertaking for parking of radio taxis was not provided. They also did not mention telephone number, e-mail address and address proof of their registered office in Delhi.
"Besides, call centre management details were also not provided in the application," a top source said.
The sources also said that in the application of Taxi For Sure, details of drivers and undertaking of induction schedule were not provided.
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LTYM Does Not Stand For "Look Through Your Makeup"
|The city I love. That's Chicago, by the way.
Or Listen To Your Math Teacher.
Except there is no T at the end.
I literally thought of other meanings for LTYM for a good hour.
This shouldn't come as shocking to those who read this blog with any regularity.
Y'all, I did something really scary a week ago.
Like out of my comfort zone scary.
See that tiny black dot over there ————>>>>>.
That's me.
There is this amazing stage show called Listen to Your Mother.
It is in 32 cities nationwide and it is an amazing tribute to mothers everywhere.
I sat in the audience last May with my bestie Jen and watched 17 amazing women, several of whom were our friends, read their stories, tell their deepest mommy secrets, or tales about their mother's; funny and poignant, sad and devastating.
I scanned the audience while waiting for the curtains to draw up before the show and saw a crowd full of husbands, daughters, and sons, mothers and fathers, aunts and uncles, friends and grandparents.
The looks on their faces could be summed up in one word: proud.
Moms were dressed up anxiously waiting to see their daughter's bare their soul in front of hundreds of people maybe even secretly wishing that there was an outlet like this available for them when they were younger.
Fathers were bursting with pride, pointing at the program and whispering, "that's my girl".
Friends were holding hands in the audience and filled with excitement for their amazing besties and the words they were about to hear.
It was just so amazingly cool.
It was after this show that I secretly hoped that I would someday get the chance to stand up on the stage and tell my story.
So on a cold day in January, I quietly hit SEND and submitted a piece I wrote.
Then on an equally cold day in February, I nervously headed to the city to audition my piece.
There are many reasons why each person auditions and I won't begin to name them because for everyone it is a totally different reason.
Here is why I auditioned:
I am a stay at home mom.
Most days, my kids see me in my uniform of old jeans or leggings, a sweater, and holey socks.
Not Holy socks.
HOLEY socks.
I rarely, if ever, wear makeup.
In fact, when I do happen to put makeup on for the occasional school concert or going to lunch with a friend, my youngest child always ALWAYS gets so excited.
And says "wow mommy you ARE pretty".
Thank you?
|A nervous Jen and Kari. I am so glad I had her next to me in the waiting area or I might have tinkled myself. Or maybe I did.
I am in the audience when my children win citizen of the month, honor roll or for the talent show cheering them on with tears of pride in my eyes.
I am the one on the sidelines rooting for them or coaching them as they drive the ball down the field to the goal.
I am the one driving them here and there to practices, physical therapy and lessons to better themselves.
They know how much I love them and support them on a daily basis.
But for one day, I would love for them to see that mommy is a person too.
Not to say that they take advantage of me, they are children.
If they tuned into my needs like an adult I would be worried.
But how cool would it be for them to be able to see mommy in a dress, wearing heels, WHILE having curls in her hair and lipstick on her mouth?
How cool would it be for them to hear their mommy bear her soul about her faults as a mom admitting that yes, we are human? That it's OK to mess up?
How cool would it be for them to see my name on the program with a little bio, like the ones they have seen at plays they have attended?
How cool would it be for them to get to cheer mommy on from the audience?
|See, normal people practice reading their piece before a big audition. Not take gangsta selfies. BTW, I am not affiliated with any gang. I have no idea what I am doing. So please don't come and kill me.
I did this journey for not only me but for them as well.
To hear mommies and other strong females tell stories about motherhood.
To see that we cry.
We laugh.
We feel.
We struggle.
That we make mistakes. BIG ones. But can laugh about it, cry about it and talk about it.
On a stage.
In a dress.
With our family and friends in the audience.
How amazing would that be?
I am proud to say that I was selected to be a part of the 2014 Chicago Listen to Your Mother cast! You can get your tickets here! Hurry, they go FAST! OR head to the LTYM website and see if there is a show near you! PS- This show is considered a PG-13 show so my youngest will not be attending but my teenager will. And hear me swear. PLEASE, she has heard me swear before. Just not with a microphone. Heh. Heh.
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Just Jen
I love you, my sista, and I am so proud of you!
Kari at A Grace Full Life
I love you too my sista and I am always proud of you.
Shannon from Deepest Worth
I. Love. You.
I am so happy for you and I know, truly, deeply know what you are talking about here.
It will be amazing and I cannot wait to witness it.
Sidenote: My kids ask me where I am going whenever I put on makeup. And they ask who is coming over when I am cleaning the house.
Kari at A Grace Full Life
I. Love. You. Too.
Laugh during the awkward silences, promise??
Oh, now this IS super awesome news! Congratulations, my friend! Oh, and your gangsta selfie made me blow coffee thru my nose. Just so you know, coffee smells way different when blown thru the nose. I do not recommend it.
Kari at A Grace Full Life
Thank you!!
I will take your word for it on the whole coffee nose thing.
I know I may be a bit biased, but I have a feeling your piece is going to MAKE LTYM this year. Not that I ever play favorites… 😉
Kari at A Grace Full Life
I love that I am your favorite.
Thoughts by Beth
You rock girl!
Kari at A Grace Full Life
Thank you Beth!!
Kristi Wolff
Congratulations! I think all of your reasons for doing this are just spot on. And kudos to you for representing all the moms out there.
I wish I could make it up there to check out the show. That's just a little far from Texas. 😀
Kari at A Grace Full Life
I wish you could be there too!
If you live close to a city that has a LTYM show, you really need to go.
It is AMAZING.
We have a 3year olds ballet recital weekend but for any other weekend I would TOTALLY be there. Plus. See a baseball game whilst in the greatest city ever. Rock on Mama!!
Kari at A Grace Full Life
Ballet TOTALLY trumps this!
Come another time for baseball and to eat pizza with me and Jen!
Joules (from Pocketful of Joules)
I am so incredibly happy for you and I know you're going to rock it!
Kari at A Grace Full Life
Thanks friend!
I think you should schedule your girl trip the first weekend in May…..;)
Lizzy @ Minnesota Night
Kari, this is so exciting! How wonderful to have the courage to step out of your comfort zone – congrats!
Kari at A Grace Full Life
Thanks so much Lizzy!
That is SO exciting, Kari!!! Congratulations!!!! My friend + neighbor did LTYM in Milwaukee last year and I was so proud of her. And my other friend casts people for LTYM in DC. I think its such a fantastic show!
Kari at A Grace Full Life
It is an amazing show!
A bunch of us are road tripping to Milwaukee to see the show!
We can't wait to see you on stage!! So proud of you!
Kari at A Grace Full Life
I am so happy you all will be there! 🙂
Lisa Noel
It was the scariest and BEST thing I've ever done. You'll do awesome! Really hope I can work things out to be there!!!
Kari at A Grace Full Life
I can't even imagine.
Oh I really hope you can be there!!
So excited to have you on the cast this year, and I LOVE recaps of any LTYM Chicago experience. You should write one daily.
Kari at A Grace Full Life
Thank you for this.
Words for Worms
Wahoo! Congratulations, you're going to be amazing!
Kari at A Grace Full Life
Come up and see me!!!
Thanks Katie!
Laila @OnlyLaila
WOO HOO!! So happy for you. I've never seen the show, but I may just come now. 🙂
Kari at A Grace Full Life
Thanks Laila!
Yes come!!
Then I can give you one of those tight hugs. 🙂
tracey becker
Welcome! You are going to rock the show.
Kari at A Grace Full Life
Thank you Tracey!
I am so excited!
Wonderful! Congratulations!
Kari at A Grace Full Life
Thank you Tracy!
Teri Biebel
Congrats! Wish I lived closer, I'd be front row cheering you on!
Kari at A Grace Full Life
I wish you did too!!
Thanks Teri!
That is fantastic!!!!!
Kari at A Grace Full Life
Thank you Andrea!


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Public Health Ministry permanent secretary Dr Narong Sahamethapat revealed that the number of people with dengue fever exceeded 5700 people during [1 Jan-5 Feb 2013].
According to Dr Narong, the number of patients with dengue fever has increased 5 times compared to that reported during the same period last year [2012]. He said the number could rise to around 100 000 - 120 000 people.
According to the Permanent Secretary, people who are at risk of contracting the fever include adults, overweight people, and teens. He cautioned that 90 percent of the patients have mild fever while red rashes on their bodies are not visible which, to the doctor's 1st diagnosis, might not appear to be the symptoms of dengue fever.
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Thai people are also encouraged to keep all containers closed to prevent mosquitoes from using them as their breeding ground. A war room has been set up to devise a strategy to reduce the number of deaths and contain the outbreak.
According to the Thai Ministry of Public Health, Bureau of Vector-borne Disease report on the situation of dengue infection in Thailand, on week 5 [ending 5 Feb 2013], a total of 5739 cases and 4 deaths were reported. The attack rate was 8.96 per 100 000 population. The case fatality rate (CFR) was 0.07 percent. The numbers of dengue cases have increased by a factor of 5.4, compared with the same period in 2012 -- 1056 cases and one death. The attack rate was 1.65 per 100 000 population, with a CFR 0.09 percent.
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The 5 provinces with the highest attack rates of dengue infection (per 100 000 population) were Songkhla (58.19), Krabi (56.03), Phatthalung (35.45), Surat Thani (34.20), and Rayong (34.15). The highest percentage of cases was reported in the 15-24 year old age group (27.14 percent), followed by the 10-14 year old age group (20.33 percent) and the 7-9 year old age group (11.55 percent).
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Health officials report the dengue fever outbreak is taking place in Mandera District [North Eastern province], along the Ethiopian and Somali borders. Local health workers say there have been some 300 cases since the outbreak began in January [2013]. 3 suspected dengue deaths have been recorded, and there are fears that more cases have gone unreported.
"We can't term it as a big outbreak now, but we have sent a disease surveillance and response team there to help the facilities there and to also take specimen for further tests," said Ian Njeru, director of disease surveillance and response at the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation. "Some 100 specimens we collected tested negative for malaria, and we have started to diagnose to see if they can be dengue fever infections."
"Most of the patients are seeking treatment in private clinics," said one official. "The district hospital is not treating the matter seriously. The poor are suffering, and they are the most affected." A nurse at a government hospital told IRIN that they lacked the antibiotics and fluids needed to help manage the dengue outbreak. "No intervention measures are in place now. No special team has been formed to deal with the dengue cases since an outbreak was reported mid-last month [January 2013]," she said. "An anaemic and expectant [mother] died at a clinic in town; she had both malaria and dengue. A police sergeant based in Elwak [a town in Mandera] died on 29 Jan 2013, while another man who contracted the disease died in Mandera last week [week of 11 Feb 2013]."
In 2011, an outbreak of dengue fever infected up to 5000 people.
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|Square Dance - 7.5" x 7.5", watercolour on Fabriano Artistico extra white paper
Watercolor fine art with subjects including flowers, landscape, still life, animal & wildlife and portraiture. Created by English artist Ruth S Harris.
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Last Year's Iris
We're suffering miserable spring weather in the UK at the moment, it has been cold and wet and miserable and I think the flowers are sulking! I went through my photos from previous springs and found a lovely iris to cheer me up. Finances being tight at the moment I need to sell more and figured small work would be more affordable, so I'm working on a series of small square works.... fingers crossed this strategy works!
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Labels: bearded iris, iris, lilac, small format, square, watercolour
7 comments:
- Sadami said...
~(*o*)~! ʚ(ˆ◡ˆ)ɞ·.•*•♫°•♫·.•ʚ(ˆ◡ˆ)ɞ!!
- May 10, 2012 at 9:50 AM
- Maria Emilia Moreira said...
Ficou uma maravilha essa aguarela . Que manchas preciosas.Parabéns.
M. Emília
- May 10, 2012 at 10:37 AM
- Sonia Aguiar said...
Preciosa acuarela. Te felicito!!
- May 10, 2012 at 12:29 PM
- Marja's Stamp Addiction en Marja's Creativity said...
Marvelous painting. Love this flower and the colors. great and beautiful work. Lovely greet Marja
- May 10, 2012 at 4:11 PM
- renate said...
Hello Ruth:) What a very nice painting! Love the colors and the way you painted the flower. Great job!
- May 10, 2012 at 7:22 PM
- Ruth S Harris said...
Thank you Sadami, Maria, Sonia, Marja and Renate, irises are my absolute favourite flowers so I hope to paint more this year!
- May 15, 2012 at 6:25 PM
- Helen H Trachy said...
So very delicate! Nice work Maria Emilia. Have a great weekend!
- May 19, 2012 at 12:55 PM
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… and see some of my favorite pre-Geneva show press photos of the Toyota i-Road in the photo gallery at the bottom of this post.
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On February 9, 2007, a company called Fortress Investment Group began trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Fortress, which both runs hedge funds and makes private-equity investments, was part of the seemingly miraculous wave of money begetting more money, in which people who managed others' fortunes made even greater fortunes for themselves. Those who thought they'd found a way to get in on the miracle snapped up Fortress's shares. The stock had been priced at $18.50 the day before and promptly shot up to $35 when trading began in the morning. By the end of the day the five principals of Fortress—all youngish men who were present on that winter morning to ring the bell at the N.Y.S.E.—were worth a combined $10.7 billion.
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While the $10.7 billion the five principals made with the I.P.O. was only paper wealth, that didn't really matter, because they'd already made fortunes from the business before they sold it to the public. They did so in three ways. First, they borrowed money, used $250 million of it to pay themselves a dividend, and used part of the I.P.O. proceeds to pay back the loan. Second, they sold a 15 percent stake to the Japanese bank Nomura for $888 million right before the I.P.O. Last, from 2005 until the date of the I.P.O., they distributed to themselves hundreds of millions from the accumulated fees that investors had paid. In other words, each man got an average of $400 million in cash even before the I.P.O. But the Fortress men are big believers in their own prowess. They say they took all that money—and more—and put it into the funds and investments they managed. And they still own 77 percent of the company's stock. "We have invested more than we have taken out," says Edens, in a rare interview. "We have bet on ourselves more than anyone else has."
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Truth be told, in the hedge-fund universe, about the only thing that makes Fortress unusual is its publicly traded stock. The entire industry is reeling as investors pull billions from funds that have lost billions. (While private equity has its own severe problems—maybe more severe—investors don't expect to get their money back for years, thereby delaying the day of reckoning.) According to the Chicago-based firm Hedge Fund Research, 2008 was by far the worst year for hedge funds since it began tracking the industry, in 1990. The average fund fell 18 percent—and for many top names, the numbers are even worse. The flagship hedge fund run by Steve Mandel of Lone Pine Capital, one of the most respected managers, was down 32 percent last year. "So many 'smart' guys had their heads handed to them," comments one knowledgeable observer. Or as famous hedge-fund manager George Soros told Congress in testimony last fall, "Many hedge-fund managers forgot the cardinal rule of hedge-fund investing, which is to protect investor capital during down markets."
Today, the burning question for most hedge-fund managers isn't whether their industry will contract but, rather, by how much. Soros told Congress that the amount of money hedge funds manage would shrink by 50 to 75 percent.
The industry's problem isn't just bad performance. Regulators in both the U.S. and the U.K. made headlines by charging that short-selling by hedge funds—in which a manager bets that a stock will decline in value—helped cause the market's crash. There's also outright fraud, for which the poster boy is Bernie Madoff. While his operation wasn't actually a hedge fund, the scandal has infused another dose of what-are-they-actually-doing-with-my-money fear into investors. Add to that Arthur Nadel, the Florida hedge-fund manager who allegedly bilked investors out of $300 million before fleeing. (The not-so-reassuring headline in Forbes: POOF! ANOTHER FUND MANAGER DISAPPEARS.) While fraud may not be exactly the norm, the underlying paranoia is this: Are hedge funds just a legal scam, in which investors pay through the nose for something that isn't what it's cracked up to be?
There are many managers who argue that the industry's problems are at least in part of its own making. Says Leon Cooperman, who founded the $3 billion hedge fund Omega Advisors in 1991, after a 25-year career at Goldman Sachs, "Hedge funds have shot themselves in the foot. They have not treated investors correctly." Atop his list of sins: refusing to allow investors to take their money out, which is known in the industry as "gating" investors. Cooperman is not alone. Says Brooke Parish, senior managing director at the $9 billion hedge fund York Capital Management, "Someone worked hard for that money, and it's someone else's money. You give their money back when you promised it. I'm upset with the hubris, the lack of humility, the arrogance. It gives this industry a black eye, and it will take a long period of time to work through."
Another manager tells me a story about Morgan Stanley's annual hedge-fund conference at the Breakers, in Palm Beach, which was held the last week of January. In years past, every hedge-fund manager wanted a plum spot on a panel, so they could present themselves to prospective investors. This year, Morgan had to beg its clients to participate. Managers were reluctant not because they didn't want—or need—the money, but because "no one wanted to be subject to a Q&A from strangers about why we all suck so bad," as this manager put it. And those who worried were right to do so. "It was open warfare," he says. He adds that the attitude from wealthy families was "Who are these bourgeois pigs who ripped us off?"
Another manager describes the mood at the Breakers as "pure, unbridled anger." A source says one foreign investor at the conference declared, "These hedge-fund managers are like the Somali pirates!"—and he wasn't kidding.
Contrast the Breakers with a scene from just a few years ago, when Goldman Sachs held its annual conference, this one aimed at so-called emerging managers—those who were supposed to be the industry's new rock stars—in Miami, Florida. Over cocktails at the pool, there was chatter by those who had never run hedge funds of raising billions for their start-ups. After all, Eric Mindich, who made partner at Goldman Sachs at 27 before quitting that plum perch to start a hedge fund called Eton Park, had begun with $3.5 billion. The air at the conference, says one attendee, was a mixture of "money lust, arrogance, and am-I-going-to-get-mine anxiety." (This year, Goldman Sachs canceled its conference.)
While hedge funds all manage money, they do so in very different ways. Some may invest solely in stocks, while others make bets on the direction of currencies around the globe. Many don't actually "hedge" at all. What unites them is the way that managers are paid. Like Fortress, all hedge funds charge investors a certain percentage of assets under management, plus a cut of the net profits. The standard is "2 and 20," or 2 percent of assets annually plus 20 percent of any profits. (As recently as five years ago, the standard was 1 and 20.) Some charge much more. Citadel, a well-known Chicago-based hedge fund, used to charge not 2 percent but whatever its expenses were, which could be as high as 8 or 9 percent of assets, plus 20 percent of profits. (Even after these fees, however, investors got an annualized return of 22 percent from 1998 through the end of 2007.)
For investors, it was supposed to make sense to pay so much more than the 1 percent of assets that a mutual fund might charge, because hedge funds were supposed to offer something that a mutual fund couldn't. The macho hedge-fund men scorned the mutual-fund boys, who measured themselves by the wimpy "relative return"—how their numbers stacked up against the S&P 500. In contrast, hedge funds, including Fortress, aimed for "absolute return"—positive numbers no matter what the S&P 500 did. The idea was that a hedge fund limited your "exposure to market risks," as Fortress puts it in financial filings. The setup was supposed to make so much sense that another industry—"fund of funds"—sprang up. Funds of funds sold investors a collection of hedge funds, and charged another layer of fees—usually 1 and 10—on top of the manager's fees.
Some hedge-fund managers defend the loss of 18 percent of investors' money as trouncing the S&P 500, which lost 37 percent in 2008. True, but that wasn't supposed to be the goal. Cooperman calls hedge-fund compensation an "asymmetric fee structure": "If I make a lot, you pay me. If I lose a lot, I don't give anything back."
"Do the math," says another veteran Wall Streeter. What he means is this: Assume you give a manager $100 million and he doubles it. The manager gets $20 million. The next year, he's down 50 percent. Your $100 million is now $90 million, but the manager has $20 million.
Unfortunately, in flush times few did that particular math, and so, for wealthy investors, endowments, and pension funds, hedge funds became the new luxury must-have. And for smart youngsters—or those who thought they were smart—coming out of Harvard Business School, or with a few years on Wall Street, well, how else could you get rich so quickly? "The shocking thing was how easy it was to get in from 2002 to 2006," says one longtime manager. "All you had to do was raise your hand and say I'll take 2 and 20. That was the barrier to entry. It boggled my mind."
In mid-2008, there were some 10,000 hedge funds, according to Hedge Fund Research—more than five times the number of companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange, and up from just 3,000 funds a decade earlier. Assets mushroomed from around $400 billion to about $2 trillion. Everyone wanted to be the next Eric Mindich—or the next Kenneth Griffin, who started trading when he was a sophomore at Harvard, and after graduation founded Citadel with $1 million of backing from a wealthy investor. At its peak, Citadel had some $20 billion in assets; Griffin's estimated net worth of $3 billion made him 117th on the 2007 Forbes Four Hundred.
Such wealth didn't make Griffin unique—on the contrary. By 2006 you needed to make at least $50 million to make *Trader Monthly'*s list of the top 100 traders, ranked by pay, on the Street. You needed $1 billion in annual earnings to crack the top five—and the top five were all hedge-fund managers. That year, the magazine—which suspended operations this February—gave up capping the number of hedge-fund managers who could make the list, because, the editors wrote, "we could no longer ignore the ever-widening chasm between hedge fund traders and the rest of the pack." By the following year, the bottom-of-the-list haul had risen to $75 million. "The size of paychecks as they relate to performance got out of control, particularly in the last few years," says Brad Balter, who runs a hedge-fund advisory firm called Balter Capital Management. "The numbers in many cases were staggering, and this is particularly frustrating in cases where performance ceased to matter." As Balter points out, if a fund with billions under management took the standard 2 percent fee on those dollars, managers could earn fortunes regardless of their returns.
One requisite toy of the newly rich hedge-fund managers was expensive art. Steven Cohen, who runs the multi-billion-dollar fund SAC Capital, became the trendsetter when he paid $8 million in 2004 for British artist Damien Hirst's shark in formaldehyde. He also owns two de Koonings that he bought from DreamWorks co-founder David Geffen for $63 million and $137.5 million, respectively, as well as works by Picasso, Warhol, Pollock, and Munch.
The other was expensive offices. In New York, the place to be was "the Plaza District"—the area stretching from Park Avenue to Sixth Avenue, just south of Central Park. A view of the park was coveted: "The park means power," says Ben Friedland, a senior vice president at the real-estate company CB Richard Ellis, who does most of his business with financial-services firms. And the higher the floor the better. Evan Margolin, a managing director at Studley, another real-estate firm, which helps tenants with their commercial-real-estate requirements, says that over the last four or five years rents increased between 50 and 100 percent or even more in the Plaza District, depending on the building. At the peak, the most coveted space rented for more than $200 per square foot. (By this measure, Fortress was relatively conservative. Its offices on the 46th floor of 1345 Avenue of the Americas, four blocks from the park, cost some $8.4 million in rent in 2007, but the building is considered more corporate than high hedge-fund style.) After the crash of last fall, however, the Manhattan rent increases of the last few years have been all but erased, says Friedland.
Bankers once lined up to pitch hedge funds on selling shares to the public. One successful manager says he had no fewer than nine investment banks urging him to do an I.P.O. Cooperman, for his part, says he gave some advice for those funds that did go public: "I said to all of them, within five years you will buy yourself back at 20 cents on the dollar." Indeed, while the few other funds that followed in Fortress's footsteps have fared a tiny bit better, they certainly haven't fared well. Both the Blackstone Group, a private-equity firm, and the hedge fund Och-Ziff Capital Management have seen their stocks fall more than 80 percent from their highs.
For old-timers, it was all a shock. "When I started a hedge fund, people asked me what I did. I said, 'I run a hedge fund,' and they said, 'What's that?' This included people on Wall Street," says one manager, who started his now multi-billion-dollar fund over a decade ago. "We got to a period in the late 1990s where if someone said to me, 'Do you work at a hedge fund?' I would have said, 'Not as you know it. We hedge.'"
Jamie Dinan, C.E.O. of York Capital Management, says that, when he started, most of his friends thought he was nuts. If you graduated from Harvard Business School, as he did, you worked as a banker, not as a low-class trader. Initially, he operated out of a windowless office and figured that if things went well he might one day net some $200,000 annually from his management and performance fees. "I never dreamed this," he says.
The Secret Sauce
It all begs a fairly simple question, which is: How could there have been as many great investors as there were hedge funds being started?
The short answer is there weren't.
In the later years of the hedge-fund explosion, there weren't any serious tests of a manager's prowess, because it was so easy to make money. In addition, David Kabiller, a principal at AQR Capital Management—a roughly $20 billion hedge fund founded by Goldman Sachs alums Kabiller, Cliff Asness, John Liew, and Robert Krail—points out that there isn't any way to measure most hedge funds. While any investor in a mutual fund can glance at the S&P 500 to get a yardstick of how well his fund manager is doing, a hedge fund with a more esoteric strategy is harder to measure. "If there aren't any benchmarks, then you can't be discovered," says Kabiller.
As money flooded in, even those managers who did something unique soon found billions of dollars copying them. That reduced the available returns. In response, some managers began to hunt off the beaten paths and buy more exotic stuff—stakes in private Chinese companies, or securities based on mortgages, for instance—that wasn't as "liquid" (meaning it couldn't be sold as easily) as a stock.
And there was a secret sauce that washed away all sins: debt. The cost of borrowing money was so insanely low that a hedge-fund manager could make a trade that would earn only a sliver of a return, and then juice that return by using a truckload of borrowed money. As the money rolled in, many young managers thought they were geniuses. Or as Keith McCullough, who sold a hedge fund he founded and then started a research site for investors called Research Edge, says, "Some of them actually thought it was due to their intelligence, and not just the cycle."
While some funds resisted the siren call of debt, Fortress, for the most part, wasn't one of them. Its financial filings note that "the funds we manage may operate with a substantial degree of leverage.… This leverage creates the potential for higher returns, but also increases the volatility."
As another hedge-fund manager tells me, Warren Buffett brilliantly predicted that there would be a day of reckoning: "You only learn who has been swimming naked when the tide goes out."
A Series of Unfortunate Events
Fortress's stock, which had sunk to $10 by August 2008, should have been a sign that the tide was going out. But few hedge-fund managers were adroit enough to head for shore.
"You know the children's books 'A Series of Unfortunate Events'?" Jamie Dinan asks me. "Horrible, horrible things happen in those books. That's how I feel about last fall."
Another manager tells me that his fund was down 2 percent at the end of August. By October, he was down 26 percent. "We have great confidence in our analytical ability, and when the world is panicking, we stand up," he says. "In retrospect, I should have panicked."
As the investment banks that provided the debt began to fight for their own survival, those hedge funds that depended on it were faced with margin calls. But even funds that weren't debt-laden were hit with problems from the banking panic. To reduce their risk, many funds began to sell their positions and move to cash. For example, the stock holdings of Atticus Capital, whose co-chairman is Nathaniel Rothschild, fell from $8.1 billion at the end of June to just $510 million by the end of September. In addition, just as you wouldn't want your money at a bank that goes under, hedge funds didn't want to be trapped at a firm that went under, so they moved their money to banks they thought were safer. In order to do so, they had to sell their long positions and get out of the short positions, driving down the price of the former and driving up the price of the latter—thereby exacerbating the selling pressure.
In a way, hedge funds were eating one another alive. As managers sold their positions, some discovered, as one manager puts it, that "all our names were owned by the same guys. We had become the market. When I ran for the exits, all the buyers who should have been there were doing the same." During the third quarter, a Goldman Sachs index which tracks stocks that are heavily owned by hedge funds lost 19 percent, more than twice the decline of the S&P 500, while another Goldman Sachs index that tracks stocks which hedge funds were likely to sell short actually gained 2.4 percent, according to a Cambridge Associates LLC report. "Hedge funds were shooting at each other," says one manager, meaning that some funds would make bets against stocks that were heavily owned by other managers.
And then there was the September 2008 bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers. Not only did that roil the market further—it caused a particular problem for hedge funds. Because the U.S. actually has fairly strict rules about the amount of debt you can use, many funds had set up offshore accounts—sometimes with Lehman London—where the rules were far laxer. What they failed to understand was that bankruptcy rules are also different in London, and that they wouldn't be able to get their money out. One manager estimates that roughly half of the hedge funds in existence had at least some exposure to Lehman London.
At the same time, hedge funds found themselves becoming a scapegoat for the problems in the market. "We are the whipping boys," says one executive. The C.E.O.'s of investment banks including Bear Stearns, Lehman, and Morgan Stanley blamed short-selling by hedge funds for the declines in their stock—no matter that these banks had previously made a lot of money from the industry, and that Morgan Stanley's C.E.O., John Mack, had once worked as the chairman of a hedge fund—Pequot Capital. On September 18, New York attorney general Andrew Cuomo announced an investigation into whether traders illegally spread rumors to drive down the stock prices of financial firms, and likened the activity to "looters after a hurricane." On September 19, the S.E.C. temporarily banned short-selling in a list of almost 1,000 finance-related stocks. A few days later, the agency ordered more than two dozen hedge funds to turn over records as part of an investigation into whether traders were spreading rumors to manipulate share prices downward.
Although Cuomo was careful to single out illegal short-selling, some managers took it as a criticism of the industry. So one manager was surprised to get a call from Cuomo's office, shortly after the announcement, inviting him to lunch at the Core Club (a Manhattan venue opened three years ago for "leaders" willing to part with a $50,000 initiation fee). The suggested campaign donation: $1,000. When he arrived, he battled for elevator space with other hedge-fund managers. "It was the hedge-fund community of New York," he recalls. Cuomo told the assembled managers that, if he were an investor, he would have sold housing-related stocks short as well. He also told them that they needed a Washington lobbyist because the industry lacked a voice. (One manager who was at the event emphasizes that Cuomo had targeted only illegal short-selling, and was right to launch an investigation into that.)
By mid-October, rumors that Citadel—which also depended on debt—was in trouble began to sweep through the market. On October 24, more than 1,000 listeners crowded onto a conference call in which Citadel said that its two largest funds were down 35 percent due to the "unprecedented de-leveraging that took place around the world," as C.F.O. Gerald Beeson described it. Citadel finished the year with its two main funds down over 50 percent (although smaller funds were up more than 40 percent), and it told investors it would suspend redemptions in them until the end of March, at which time it would re-evaluate market conditions. (Citadel did reimburse investors for most of the fees they paid in 2008.) Other big-name funds, including Thomas Steyer's Farallon and Paul Tudor Jones's BVI Global, also limited redemptions. Even Über-trader Steve Cohen's SAC Capital put a chunk of investors' money in a "side pocket," meaning that they can't take it out, although SAC did say it would try to get people their money in 2009.
Managers who employ gates defend the practice on the grounds that it's within their legal rights, and that selling their positions to meet redemption requests would be unfair to those investors who wanted to stay. But the widespread impression among investors is that managers broke a social contract and are doing it to save their own skins. And there may be another reason for the gates. Fortress's documents, for instance, disclose that "our funds have various agreements that create debt or debt-like obligations … with a material number of counterparties. Such agreements in many instances contain covenants or 'triggers' that require our funds to maintain specified amounts of assets under management." (The firm says it renegotiated those deals, and has already returned 70 percent of investors' money. The rest of it will be paid out over the next 18 months.)
Other hedge-fund managers who do not employ gating are outraged, in part because the practice has hurt them. "It is the stupidest thing I have ever seen my industry do," says Jim Chanos, who runs a well-known hedge-fund firm called Kynikos Associates, which specializes in short-selling. "It's given rise to the worst fears—that hedge funds are a roach motel." He also says that, while his fund was up more than 50 percent last year, he has gotten redemption requests for 20 percent of his assets—not because investors want to cash out, but because they can't get money anywhere else. "I am an A.T.M. machine," he says, in a comment that was repeated to me by many other managers.
Others in the industry also say that preventing investors from taking their money out is nothing short of an admission that the assets in the fund can't be sold as they are currently valued. One manager tells me that he has a debt security that he is valuing at 50 cents on the dollar. He knows another fund that is marking the identical security at 90 cents on the dollar.
This means that the headline number for the industry—down 18 percent—may not be an accurate read. (In fairness, this is probably not an issue for hedge funds that deal mostly in actively traded securities.) One manager laughs when I ask him if 18 percent is really the right number. "It's way worse," he says. "Way worse."
Whether they're down 18 percent or more, many managers are subject to so-called high-water marks, according to which they agree to waive performance fees until they have made back investors' money. This can make it hard for a fund to stay in business, because there's no money coming in to pay employees. As Fortress's filings note, some of its funds "face particular retention issues with respect to investment professionals whose compensation is tied, often in large part, to performance thresholds."
You might ask where these people are going to go. "There is a purge on Wall Street," says York Capital's Parish. "The new dream job is a salary, health care, and Jamie Dinan buys you lunch every day."
"Five years ago, if you'd gone to start a fund, people would have fought over you," says another manager. "Now they won't return your phone call."
Nor is it clear when the purge will be over. In the coming year, private-equity firms will ask investors to pony up more capital, which will force more redemptions from hedge funds. People may also try to redeem in order to pay their taxes. "No silver lining in any of this cloud," says a hedge-fund trader. "The first quarter of 2009 is going to be another eyepopper for the industry."
As another manager says to me dryly, "The new $500 million is $50 million."
It isn't clear what the future holds for Fortress. In my admittedly 100 percent unscientific survey of the industry, I found that redemption requests are usually unrelated to the size of a fund's losses, and may have more to do with how investors feel about a particular manager, or about their need for cash.
While there are complaints that the Fortress principals are arrogant, there are clearly a lot of people who are willing to trust them with their hard-earned cash. Even during the meltdown of 2008, the firm raised a net $6.2 billion in new capital for its funds, a figure that includes $3 billion Briger raised during the tumultuous month of November.
Some of those familiar with Fortress say that while in the good times the people who worked there got along—who wouldn't, when the money is flowing?—the culture has turned brutal. "Hell," one hedge-fund manager puts it succinctly. Just before things turned truly rotten, Fortress committed more than $300 million to the film finance company, Grosvenor Park, which last summer released the genre spoof Disaster Movie. "I think they are starring," jokes a former investor.
But, for now, it appears that the principals are sticking together. Fortress's filings note that several of its funds have "keyman" provisions, meaning that if one or more of the principals ceased to be actively involved in the business, that could give investors the right to get their money out—and, in the case of some of the hedge funds, might result in the acceleration of the debt. There are rumors that the principals might, as Cooperman predicted, buy their company back from the public. But it isn't clear how they'd repay the $675 million in debt on the balance sheet at the end of the third quarter.
Fortress, for its part, denies any issues. "I have known Pete [Briger] for 15 years. I talk to Pete 20 times a day," says Edens. "Any notion of divisiveness or a split is absurd." Nor, in truth, does Edens seem like the kind of guy who would give up easily. He comes in early in the morning, works until late at night, and often spends his weekends at the office. He'd be the first to say that he doesn't cure cancer or teach kids to read, but as he puts it, "I do take pensioners' money and try to give them back a good return."
For those basking in Schadenfreude—and, oh, it's hard not to—it is unlikely that hedge funds are going away. "Our cynicism has bounds," says AQR's Asness. "We don't think that no one has skill. It's just that skill is more scarce than the hedge-fund industry sold it as." There are plenty of funds, from the well known to the not so well known, that did just what they promised, even last year. Star manager Bruce Kovner's Caxton fund returned a reported 13 percent. The tiny Bearing Fund, which is managed by Kevin Duffy, returned 72 per-cent in 2007 and 134 percent in 2008—net of fees.
And even for the funds that did lose big sums, some have loyal investors who have made enough over time that they're willing to forgive one bad year. One manager, who posted a loss of more than 20 percent last year, says that 82 percent of his investors have been with him for more than five years. "I have gotten more handwritten notes saying, 'Hang in there,'" he says. Another manager points to Steve Mandel, of Lone Pine Capital, who lost money last year—but got requests for only a sliver of the capital he manages. "That says it all," says another manager.
Says Cooperman, despite his criticism of the industry, "They weren't the gods you made them into, but they aren't the whale turds they're being portrayed as now."
It's also worth noting that, despite all the problems in hedge-fund land and the clamor for more regulation (and there will be more regulation), you don't see any hedge-fund managers in Washington with their hands outstretched for a piece of the bailout pie.
Some managers, like Edens, even argue that, for those who survive the current shakeout, the future is more golden than ever before. After all, many hedge funds are gone, as are the in-house trading desks at many Wall Street firms that served as competitors to hedge funds. Meanwhile, opportunity abounds.
The hedge-fund king is dead. Long live the hedge-fund king.
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AV Club: Beginners Guide to Harold Ramis
Ramis is a name that afns of film and comedy know really well, but I don't know if it's ever been as popular or well known as a Murray or Akroyd (his often collaborators) or even a Landis. I've always loved the man's work, and this is a great look as to why.
Oh boy, here we go...let's get this one out of the way.
Six Sci Fi Movies with Unaddressed Problems
Ungh, alright, here's some issues I have with each entry of this article. And keep in mind, we're trying to find logic in movies about ESP and Time Travel…so…yeah.
#6: The whole "bomb" thing in The Dark Knight Rises was just a Macguffin if anything: a plot device at best. But the only good point out this entry is why build a functioning reactor if its use and practicality is still up in the air? You can show the data and prove something working without having to actually build the thing.
#5: Except that they wouldn't. This isn't established on how the holographic ads work in Back to the Future II, so you can't poke holes in it if we still aren't entirely sure how they work in the first place. As far as we know, they only occur when someone is on the ground and looking at the title of it and it can only be seen from their perspective.
Not only that, we aren't sure if it's an ad in the first place. It could just be something that particular movie theater set up and is only available to see at that particular spot, not when you're flying around in a car.
#4: This one starts well: putting criminals in a stasis doesn't help the system, but ends poorly. I don't know, but while I agree that the whole "stasis" thing in sci fi doesn't make lot of sense, the path this entry goes down seems all over the place as though it can't quite decide what it wants its argument to be. I would have just stayed with the "stasis doesn't make practical sense" argument. It's broader and easier to justify.
#3: Out of all the questions about the time travel (like, how do they exactly zap them to a tarp in a field?), you're asking why they make Loopers kill themselves? This was explained in the movie: they get their final payment. If they're assigned to a certain region to kill people that are sent back to them, they have a contract and when that contract is done, they have 30 years to live freely before "closing their loop." They get their final big pay day. The future folks need to know where to send that last batch of money, and the only way to logically do it is to send the future self back to be killed by their former selves.
Also note, the movie shows that extra care is supposed to be given to the older selves, who are bound better than the usual ones and are dressed exactly the same so they are indistinguishable. And they can't "confirm" that someone was killed. The movie says it's a one-way street. There' going back, but no going forward or sending messages forward.
#2: Surrogates did a horrible job explaining the workings of its world. This is just one of many issues, but a valid one.
#1: Except when they're not. This entry I've read three times and it makes no sense. What is the point the writer is even trying to make? That blasters aren't as good as bullets? How is that an "Unaddressed Problem?"
A fun arcade game that a lot of people probably never even played. If you can, whether it be MAME or what haveyou, you should check it out.
Insane Office Escape
Get ready to have your mind blown.
Bioshock Under the Sea (Animated)
As one of my favorite video games ever, I truly enjoyed the parody song full of inside jokes and fun animation.
Someone made a He-Man sword. You know, because why not?
Kotaku (yes I'm posting a Kotaku article): Adam Sessler
"The Sess" has been around for a while, and he knows his shit when it comes to video games. While I can't say this isn't an incredibly written piece, it does feel nicely comprehensive on the man's career. If you're a gamer, you should know him.
Gamesindustry: Entitled Gamers, Corrupt Press and Greedy Publishers
Yeah yeah, you're probably tired of this. I write about all of the above quite a bit, but now read all that only by someone else. The title is pretty self-explanatory, and it makes me wonder how much longer the game industry can sustain it.
Beetlejuice Coaster in Minecraft
Some people write, some draw, some spend their free time in mine craft.
Cracked: True Stories Behind Famous Songs
Not surprising there's a lot of Beatles on there, but it's a fun little set of info from Cracked users.
Here's a picture of someone's art as they succumb to LCD. Oh, science...
I was going to post it, but it's rather lengthy with all the different pictures. So click the link and see a pretty acculturate visual representation of someone losing their mind.
Since I can't post that pic, here's this one: Ready. Set. Nerd.
Ooh, and why not...the real reason Hannibal was insane. He was an otaku (and apparently a broney)
Mr. Oldman celebrated his birthday last week, and this is a great tribute to him. He's only one of the finest actors of his generation, even when he's super-hamming it up.
YCPT: Importing Games Part One
A far better fit at retroware than at That Guy With the Glasses/Blistered Thumbs/Whatever the hell they're doing these days, JewWario gives us a nice instructional video about importing games.
Oh, and J-dub, people watch because you're a good host,
Six Very Disturbing Moments in Videogames
You know, I never played Condemned. I've heard nothing but good things about it, maybe I should track it down.
Here's a pick for the Wreck it Ralph spinoff coming soon.
Though I noted the Wii was a fine system in an old blog, shovelware is going to be the biggest thing people remember. Not amazing, but it covered its grounds…at least in terms of Nintendo games. What it'll be most remembered for, sadly, is shit like this.
The Best Opening Scenes in Movie History
I feel like they just did this to cover every single great opening scene.
And let's end with another pic...
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