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Rudy Giuliani makes a habit of referring to "The Godfather" as "one of the best narratives on business management ever produced." An interesting take on the bloody crime classic, but not easily dismissed coming from a two-term mayor of one of the world's largest metropolitan areas and whose official title is now Sir Rudolph William Louis Giuliani, KBE (seriously).
It got us thinking of other celluloid pearls of wisdom that translate to real life. With that in mind, here are 10 films that offer quality financial advice in addition to quality entertainment.
1). "The Family Man" (2000)
Uber-successful investment banker Jack wakes up one morning to find his narcissistic existence completely changed. He now has a wife and kids and a job at his father-in-law's local tire shop. Confused and frustrated by his new surroundings, Jack contemplates an affair with a neighbor. Best-friend Arnie comes up with this classic bit of advice, true in love and in money:
"Flirtation is harmless, but you're dealing with fire here. The fidelity bank and trust is a tough creditor. You make a deposit somewhere else, they close your account—FOREVER."
2). "Boiler Room" (2000)
Vin Diesel as a crooked stockbroker? Puh-lease … If he ain't crashing cars, we ain't watching (and most of America agreed, judging from box office receipts). Giovanni Ribisi is a college dropout who's estranged from his family. But of course he's actually really smart, and gets a job as a broker for an investment firm that turns out to be—surprise—a boiler room.
It's hard to watch, as one client (sucker) is a family man trying to buy a new house. The crooked activity gets the innocent man into an impossible financial situation, and his wife and children leave him. A crisis of conscience from the main character appears to rectify the situation by movie's end:
"I had a very strong work ethic. The problem was my ethics in work."
3). "Changing Lanes" (2002)
The next time you're in an accident while on your way to file court papers in a complicated scheme to defraud high-net-worth clients, don't leave the scene. Ben Affleck didn't follow our advice, and Samuel L. Jackson exacts his revenge, setting off a depressing chain of events as each man tries to destroy the other, only to seemingly cement their tragic fate. In other words, a light-hearted comedy the whole family can enjoy!
Ben Affleck as character Gavin Banek: "Sometimes God likes to put two guys in a paper bag and just let 'em rip."
4). "Working Girl" (1988)
It's doubtful a title that references prostitution for a movie about women and high finance would get the green light today (thank God), but the movie itself did a great job of detailing the challenges women faced when attempting to enter the Wall Street good-old-boys club a quarter of a century ago. We'll try to forget the real-life inspiration for the movie's main character, Tess McGill, was one of the first people convicted in the insider trader scandals that hit New York in the 1980s, which makes the following quote from the movie unintentionally appropriate:
"You can bend the rules plenty once you get to the top, but not while you're trying to get there. And if you're someone like me, you can't get there without bending the rules."
5). "Rogue Trader" (1999)
This fictionalized version of real-life events recounts the exploits of Nick Leeson, a trader in the early 1990s for Barings Bank whose risky bets brought down the 233-year-old institution that, among other assets, housed the finances of the British Royal Family. If, at your own firm, you find yourself in charge of multiple trading accounts that are supposed to act as checks and balances on each other, do the smart thing and walk away, or you'll find yourself making statements like this:
"I, Nicholas Leeson, have just lost 50 million quid … in one day."
6). "Other People's Money" (1991)
A lesson we like much more than anything gleaned from the "Wall Street" franchise, with its spot-on analysis of Reagan-era greed. Who better to deliver the following exhortation than Atticus Finch himself, the late, great Gregory Peck as Andrew Jorgenson, the film's conscience?
"I want you to look at him in all of his glory: 'Larry the Liquidator.' The entrepreneur of post-industrial America, playing God with other people's money. The robber barons of old at least left something tangible in their wake—a coal mine, a railroad, banks. This man leaves nothing. He creates nothing. He builds nothing. He runs nothing. And in his wake lies nothing but a blizzard of paper to cover the pain."
7). "The Game" (1997)
Cold, emotionally distant Michael Douglas learns to open up the hard way in this 1997 thriller. "Ruthless businessman" doesn't begin to describe him. Sure, the plot requires "a willful suspension of disbelief," but it's a fun ride nonetheless. If the following quote is really an indication of how he ran his business, we'd invest with him in an instant:
"And you really believe that just because you publish children's books, people are going to care about my reputation? You can have pictures of me wearing nipple rings … the only thing they care about is the stock and whether that stock is up or down!"
8). "The Firm" (1993)
Crushing student loan debt, a lemon of a car, a brother in jail, a tough childhood in Okefenokee; still no reason to do business with the mob (or the feds, for that matter). Once you're in, you can never get out.
The response by Mitch McDeere, Tom Cruise's character, sums it all up pretty well: "Let me get this straight: you want me to steal files from the firm, turn them over to the FBI, and send my colleagues to jail… breach attorney-client privilege, thus getting myself disbarred for life, then testify in open court against the Mafia… Let me ask you something: are you out of your f***ing mind?"
9). "Trading Places" (1983)
Mortimer and Randolph Duke's explanation of commodities trading to Eddie Murphy's Billy Ray Valentine (and Valentine's reaction to it) alone makes it worth a watch. Spoiler alert: Murphy breaks character by looking incredulously at the camera in response to the Dukes' condescending tone.
Billy Ray Valentine: "No thanks, guys; I already had breakfast this morning."
Mortimer Duke: "This is not a meal, Valentine. We are here to try to explain to you what it is we do here."
Randolph Duke: "We are commodities brokers, William. Now, what are commodities? Commodities are agricultural products … like coffee that you had for breakfast … wheat, which is used to make bread… pork bellies, which is used to make bacon, which you might find in a bacon and lettuce and tomato sandwich."
[Valentine looks at the camera]
10). "American Psycho" (2000)
Think of it as an updated version of "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying", except instead of window washer J. Pierpont Finch, the lead character is serial killer/investment broker Patrick Bateman. Take it at face-value, or for the satire many believe Bret Easton Ellis (author of the book on which the movie is based) intended; either way, it's exceptionally creepy. Get past the murder, torture, blood spatters, profane language, sex and weapons and you're left with a witty (if completely over-the-top) tale of the absolute ridiculousness of American material pursuits in — once again — the 1980s.
Detailed deconstructions of the larger social implications of Huey Lewis and the News and Whitney Houston's debut album stand out while the killer is slicing up a victim. A sample:
"Do you like Phil Collins? I've been a big Genesis fan ever since the release of their 1980 album, Duke. It was on Duke where Phil Collins' presence became more apparent. I think 'Invisible Touch' was the group's undisputed masterpiece. It's an epic meditation on intangibility. Take the lyrics to 'Land of Confusion.' In this song, Phil Collins addresses the problems of abusive political authority. 'In Too Deep' is the most moving pop song of the 1980s, about monogamy and commitment. This is 'Sussudio,' a great, great song, a personal favorite."
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KENT, Wash. –Competing in front of friends and family in his home state, popular prospect Caros Fodor earned his fourth straight Strikeforce victory on Friday in the Strikeforce Challengers 16 main event.
Defeating a respected opponent in James Terry (10-3 MMA; 5-2 SF), Fodor (6-0 MMA, 4-0 SF) established himself as one of the promotion's brightest young prospects at 155 pounds.
The victory, which aired on Showtime from ShoWare Center in Kent, Wash., simply was the result of a game plan that worked.
"James is really dangerous," Fodor told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) after the fight. "He likes to pump himself up. He'll throw a combo, then back up and shake his arms out. That's his rhythm. Our game plan was to disrupt that rhythm and make him fight at a pace that he did not want to fight at."
Fodor did exactly that as he aggressively rushed in with punching flurries to open each of the bout's three rounds. The strategy hurt Terry and forced him to retreat.
Fodor's plan was to keep Terry on the defensive and break him down as the fight wore on.
"I was going to try to take him down and look for a submission," Fodor said. "But I was landing some good punches on the feet and some good knees as well when I had an opening, so I kept it standing.
"I'm happy with my performance. James is a really tough guy. I wanted to get the finish, but I'm OK with [not getting] it. I've just got to work on not slowing myself down so that when I'm going forward, I'm throwing strikes to end fights. And when I get in a clinch, [I need to] start catching submissions right away."
Of his reputation as a ground fighter, Fodor maintains that he is a well-rounded and evolving mixed martial artist and that many of his submission victories have come after hurting opponents with strikes.
Looking ahead, Fodor's nickname, "The Future," is appropriate since his future appears bright. However, he is in no rush to jump into fights that he is not ready for. However, he would welcome a spot on an upcoming Challengers card if given the opportunity, especially if it means another headlining slot.
"I'm growing as a mixed martial artist, and I just want to keep winning," he said. "This is definitely my career, and the next five fights are going to be the most crucial in my whole life. I'm very thankful."
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In a note issued on the 24th day of November 2020, the Directorate of Sugar & Vegetable Oils has directed all the sugar mills that have commenced crushing operations in the sugar season 2020-21 to furnish the estimated production of sugar in the month of November 2020 and in respect of their ethanol production from sugar/sugar syrup/sugarcane juice to the Directorate
National Sugar Institute, Kanpur develops biscuits from baggase – a byproduct of sugar industry
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Hello from Chiswick in West London, where the sun has finally come out and it's all systems go in the Current Publishing office.
My name's Carly – I'm the Editorial Assistant for Current Archaeology and Current World Archaeology, and as it's the Day of Archaeology today I thought I'd take you behind the scenes to see how the magazines are put together.
Friday is treats day at Current Publishing, and today the morning got off to a very promising start with advertising maestro Mike earning literal brownie points by bringing in some baked goodies for us to share. We're always excited when cake arrives in the office, and with one team birthday yesterday and two more imminent, there's a lot of it about.
Right now we're slap-bang in the middle of the press cycle. Our sister magazine Military History Monthly was sent to the printers yesterday, so today the full might of the design team has switched over to CWA, which is the next to go (in July).
Designer Justine is currently working her magic on the culture section, making our museum and book reviews look fabulous, while Art Editor Mark is experimenting with options for the next cover. At the moment we have 10 separate designs stuck up on the wall, which certainly brightens things up a bit!
CWA Editor Caitlin is putting the finishing touches to the last couple of features that are going into the next issue (#54), giving them a last polish before they are signed off as 'ready to lay out', while CA Editor Matt is out in the field, visiting an excavation at Oakington in Cambridgeshire where some seriously spectacular Anglo-Saxon burials are being uncovered. We covered the site in CA 261, and it's fantastic to see that there are more stories to reveal. Watch this space for more information in CA 270!
Meanwhile, our boss Rob is tinkering with the 'Flatplan', doing clever things to the system we use to plan the layout of each issue, track the progress of articles and generally organise our lives, and our intern Roseanna is lending a hand with the news section, hunting for breaking stories all over the world. We're always grateful for another pair of hands in the office, and it's such fun sharing what media archaeology is all about with people who are as passionate about the past as we are.
This is the great thing about working at Current Publishing – we're a small team but everyone has a unique and important role to play, and every day is different. Although I work for both magazines, because of where we're at in the schedule I've been mostly focussing on CWA today. It's great fun jumping between UK and international stories.
This morning I finished a two-page article about a site in Peru and wrote a fact box about Phrygians for a feature on Turkey, while this afternoon I've been sourcing pictures and turning around a breaking news story about World Heritage Sites for the CWA website.
Much like digging, you never know quite what each day is going to bring – but that's what makes it so exciting.
Find out more – you can find Current Archaeology on Facebook here, or follow us on Twitter at @currentarchaeo.
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My name is Kurt Bennett and I am currently completing my Masters of Maritime Archaeology degree at Flinders University, South Australia. My thesis research investigates salvage and re-use of abandoned vessel material on Rangitoto Island, New Zealand. Specifically, I am looking into how the material has been used to aid the construction of the islands' baches (holiday homes). Having grown up on the North Shore, Auckland, I have many childhood memories of visiting the island, including hiking the summit, exploring the lava caves and fishing at the Beacon. My research now brings me back to understand cultural interaction with abandoned vessels and to promote maritime cultural heritage on the island. This also includes documenting a disappearing historical resource (the Rangitoto Island bach) before it is too late.
The archaeological investigation is being carried out on the abandoned vessels and baches between the 8th and 20th July 2014. There are 13 known vessels that were abandoned between 1890 and 1947 in Boulder Bay (also known as Wreck Bay), located on the northern side of Rangitoto. The types of vessels range from wooden barques and schooners to an iron-hulled coastal steamer. Methods of abandonment include being beached along the shoreline, burnt or dismantled.
The baches on the island were first constructed c.1910. Leases and construction was halted in 1937 following introduction of new building laws. In the same year leases were renewed for a further 20 years. In 1957, 99 leases for existing baches were renewed, but with restrictions. The baches could not be altered, sold, exchanged or rented. During the 1970s and 1980s many baches were subsequently demolished as many owners passed away. In 1990, 34 leases were renewed for a further 33 years and demolition was temporarily halted while the Department of Conservation carried out an architectural and historical study. In 1997 the New Zealand Historic Places Trust registered the baches as historic areas. The baches are of historical significance that reflects a period of personal freedom in New Zealand's history. This investigation aims to survey all beached vessel remains and all 140 bach sites. The surveys are non-disturbance and non-intrusive.
On the Day of Archaeology 2014, I began the first day of fieldwork, having been delayed for two days due to bad weather which resulted in the ferry being cancelled. I caught up with one of the Islands' rangers, John Duggan, who kindly gave me a ride to Beacon End (McKenzie Bay). I allowed 2 hours to walk one way from the Islington Bay wharf so a ride was a big help.The ferry departed at 0915 and arrived at Islington Bay around 1025. Once I was dropped off at Beacon End I proceeded to start from the south and work my way back up north. The first bach site played hide and seek and was not found until 1115. It was the site of S. Luxford according to the map.
There was no bach left but its footprint in the scrub can still be seen. Amazingly there were still remnants of beehives and evidence that the island at one time contributed to the honey industry—Pohutukawa honey! The second and last site for the day was the Eagles family bach. The bach was amazing and in such an idyllic spot. You could tell it was a happy place full of lasting memories. This was the last site to be visited due to allowing the 2 hours for the trek back to catch the ferry. No ship material was seen on that day, but not to worry as I have over 100 sites still to visit. Also, Rangitoto is deceivingly large, I managed to clock up 13.5km walking today. Not bad for 5 hours of work!
The Day of Archaeology was just the first day of fieldwork for this project. If you would like to follow the rest of the project, please see our blog at http://rangitotoarchaeology14.wordpress.com.


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I spent the day underneath the Ko'olau's for an office retreat. At one point, a beautiful Aunty from Kona was drawn outside of the building. She felt kaumaha from the kupuna who plunged over the Pali during the epic Kamehameha and Kalanikupule battle to unite Hawai'i. We both went outside and found ourselves directly underneath the fatal plunge. We both were moved to tears. Kalanikupule. Kamehameha. Nahiolea. Ka'ahumanu. Ka'iana. We both understood the continuing message for our lahui. Forgiveness. Redemption. On so many levels. We embraced and expressed our love for each other. Our kupuna embraced each other on the other side as well. We felt it. Mahalo Ke Akua.
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Today's parade down Ala Moana Blvd and then down Kalakaua Avenue in Waikiki. I had to march in the parade so it was hard taking photos and I opted for a wide angle lens which limited my options. It was hot. Long. And fun! Lol...
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Thursday, September 22, 2011
One single solitary moment of pure love and joy. Each moment the first in a billion years. Each moment the last in a billion years. Sustain each moment forever by absorbing it with all of your five senses and locking it safely away in the depths of your Soul. For we may never pass this way again...
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The last two Foosball players bake in the heat of the unrelenting scorching Sun. Bound together. One will not abandon the other. They await their fate. Patiently. Painfully. Humiliatingly. But together...
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The footprints in the sand quickly disappear in the wash of the waves. The footprints embedded in the depths of your Heart last forever...
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Monday, September 19, 2011
In Hawai'i, it is believed to be bad luck to announce to people you are going fishing. Hawaiians believe that when asked, you never say you are going fishing. So I hang out near the beach and just follow people who look like this...
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I am not at work today. I took a vacation day to work on my lenten thing. I did a few things for lent this year–
1) I took facebook off of my phone, which has been pretty effective (I use facebook at work and can't get rid of it altogether, but not having instant access has been a good thing)
2) i gave up cheese. Now giving up cheese has been much harder than I anticipated, with a negative side effect that most of my go-to recipes involve cheese. Consequently, we haven't been eating very well. So this morning as part of my vacation day for lent, I did some kid-free grocery shopping and got ingredients for a few things that I can make that are cheese-free or cheese-optional–where Selam can add without me.
3) I decided to do the 40 bags in 40 days thing. So I'm ridding my apartment of 40 bags worth of stuff. This is something that needed to happen anyway. I still hope to move and need to pare down, but being forced to do it within a time constraint and being forced to give it all away has been a decent challenge. I'm not storing things for later. I'm not taking things to the kids resale shop (although I have set aside some things for that–but those don't count in the 40 bags). I am at 17, and hope to hit 25 by day's end. This Saturday, Selam and I will go through her books, and that will add more to the group. Next weekend, I hope to go through my storage unit, if I can. This project is less Lenten than some others but it's good to own less.
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EVERETT — A Marysville man accused of robbing, kidnapping and assaulting his drug supplier is expected to be sentenced to life in prison after a jury on Thursday convicted him of his third-strike.
Jeffrey Brinkley, 34, appeared calm as the verdict was read. Jurors deliberated for a few hours after a three-day trial that relied heavily on the testimony of a drug dealer named "Dirty."
Brinkley faces life in prison when he is sentenced next week. He is expected to appeal Thursday's verdict.
Prosecutors alleged that Brinkley and his buddy Ethan Mattox turned the tables on a man coming to collect on a drug deal in December 2011. Kenny Easley, aka Dirty, told jurors he was knocked to the ground and hauled into the basement of a Marysville house. Once there, the armed men forced him to hand over his watch, wallet and the keys to his car.
Easley also told jurors that the duo made him strip down to his boxers to see if he was wearing a recording device. He said they also forced him to smoke methamphetamine to prove he wasn't a cop. Easley matter-of-factly informed jurors that he was a drug dealer, but explained that he'd given up smoking meth years ago as a business move.
Brinkley and Mattox were accused of pilfering a safe in Easley's car and helping themselves to $4,000, a 9 mm handgun and drugs. The men eventually forced Easley into his car, but not before making him move his child's car seat to the trunk. That's when Easley noticed that someone had put a roll of plastic sheeting in the trunk. Easley said he suspected that the men were going to drive him into the woods and kill him.
The men eventually dropped Easley off at a friend's house. They told him they'd be back.
Easley didn't wait for them. Instead, he called his boss, the drug supplier who had fronted him the meth and money. That call led to a home invasion robbery in Marysville as Easley and his boss tried to recover what was stolen. The retaliation went south after someone in the heavily armed crew mistook one of their own for a rival and blasted the man in the head with a shotgun, according to prosecutors. Patrick Buckmaster ended up in a shallow grave in east Snohomish County.
Brinkley and Mattox were charged in connection with Easley's robbery. Several other men were charged with crimes tied to the home invasion, including Johnathan "Bigfoot" Frohs who is expected to go to trial in June for Buckmaster's murder.
Easley pleaded guilty last year in federal court for his part in the home invasion robbery. He faces at least two decades in prison.
Everett defense attorney Mark Stephens attacked Easley's credibility, reminding jurors that Dirty has lied to police numerous times about what happened. Stephens said there was no reason to believe that Easley told the truth on the witness stand.
Stephens suggested it was possible that Easley made up the story of being robbed to cover with his boss, a violent man.
Snohomish County deputy prosecutor Katie Wetmore made no effort to pass Easley off as an upstanding citizen — an impossibility after Easley testified wearing a bright orange jail uniform and shackles. Wetmore, however, reminded jurors that she didn't need to prove that Easley was a nice guy for them to convict Brinkley.
Meanwhile prosecutors on Thursday wrapped up their case against Ronald Brown, Easley's boss, who is on trial in another courtroom for his alleged role in the home invasion robbery. Jurors are expected to begin deliberations in that case Friday.
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By Brian Hayes
A famous story about the boy wonder of mathematics has taken on a life of its own
A famous story about the boy wonder of mathematics has taken on a life of its own
Let me tell you a story, although it's such a well-worn nugget of mathematical lore that you've probably heard it already:
In the 1780s a provincial German schoolmaster gave his class the tedious assignment of summing the first 100 integers. The teacher's aim was to keep the kids quiet for half an hour, but one young pupil almost immediately produced an answer: 1 + 2 + 3 + ... + 98 + 99 + 100 = 5,050. The smart aleck was Carl Friedrich Gauss, who would go on to join the short list of candidates for greatest mathematician ever. Gauss was not a calculating prodigy who added up all those numbers in his head. He had a deeper insight: If you "fold" the series of numbers in the middle and add them in pairs—1 + 100, 2 + 99, 3 + 98, and so on—all the pairs sum to 101. There are 50 such pairs, and so the grand total is simply 50×101. The more general formula, for a list of consecutive numbers from 1 through n, is n(n + 1)/2.
The paragraph above is my own rendition of this anecdote, written a few months ago for another project. I say it's my own, and yet I make no claim of originality. The same tale has been told in much the same way by hundreds of others before me. I've been hearing about Gauss's schoolboy triumph since I was a schoolboy myself.
The story was familiar, but until I wrote it out in my own words, I had never thought carefully about the events in that long-ago classroom. Now doubts and questions began to nag at me. For example: How did the teacher verify that Gauss's answer was correct? If the schoolmaster already knew the formula for summing an arithmetic series, that would somewhat diminish the drama of the moment. If the teacher didn't know, wouldn't he be spending his interlude of peace and quiet doing the same mindless exercise as his pupils?
There are other ways to answer this question, but there are other questions too, and soon I was wondering about the provenance and authenticity of the whole story. Where did it come from, and how was it handed down to us? Do scholars take this anecdote seriously as an event in the life of the mathematician? Or does it belong to the same genre as those stories about Newton and the apple or Archimedes in the bathtub, where literal truth is not the main issue? If we treat the episode as a myth or fable, then what is the moral of the story?
To satisfy my curiosity I began searching libraries and online resources for versions of the Gauss anecdote. By now I have over a hundred exemplars, in eight languages. (The collection of versions is available here.) The sources range from scholarly histories and biographies to textbooks and encyclopedias, and on through children's literature, Web sites, lesson plans, student papers, Usenet newsgroup postings and even a novel. All of the retellings describe what is recognizably the same incident—indeed, I believe they all derive ultimately from a single source—and yet they also exhibit marvelous diversity and creativity, as authors have struggled to fill in gaps, explain motivations and construct a coherent narrative. (I soon realized that I had done a bit of ad lib embroidery myself.)
After reading all those variations on the story, I still can't answer the fundamental factual question, "Did it really happen that way?" I have nothing new to add to our knowledge of Gauss. But I think I have learned something about the evolution and transmission of such stories, and about their place in the culture of science and mathematics. Finally, I also have some thoughts about how the rest of the kids in the class might have approached their task. This is a subject that's not much discussed in the literature, but for those of us whose talents fall short of Gaussian genius, it may be the most pertinent issue.
I started my survey with five modern biographies of Gauss: books by G. Waldo Dunnington (1955), Tord Hall (1970), Karin Reich (1977), W. K. Bühler (1981) and a just-issued biography by M. B. W. Tent (2006). The schoolroom incident is related by all of these authors except Bühler. The versions differ in a few details, such as Gauss's age, but they agree on the major points. They all mention the summation of the same series, namely the integers from 1 to 100, and they all describe Gauss's method in terms of forming pairs that sum to 101.
None of these writers express much skepticism about the anecdote (unless Bühler's silence can be interpreted as doubt). There is no extended discussion of the story's origin or the evidence supporting it. On the other hand, references in some of the biographies did lead me to the key document on which all subsequent accounts seem to depend.
This locus classicus of the Gauss schoolroom story is a memorial volume published in 1856, just a year after Gauss's death. The author was Wolfgang Sartorius, Baron von Waltershausen, professor of mineralogy and geology at the University of Göttingen, where Gauss spent his entire academic career. As befits a funerary tribute, it is affectionate and laudatory throughout.
In the portrait Sartorius gives us, Gauss was a wunderkind. He taught himself to read, and by age three he was correcting an error in his father's arithmetic. Here is the passage where Sartorius describes Gauss's early schooling in the town of Braunschweig, near Hanover. The translation, except for two phrases in brackets, is by Helen Worthington Gauss, a great-granddaughter of the mathematician.
In 1784 after his seventh birthday the little fellow entered the public school where elementary subjects were taught and which was then under a man named Büttner. It was a drab, low school-room with a worn, uneven floor.... Here among some hundred pupils Büttner went back and forth, in his hand the switch which was then accepted by everyone as the final argument of the teacher. As occasion warranted he used it. In this school—which seems to have followed very much the pattern of the Middle Ages—the young Gauss remained two years without special incident. By that time he had reached the arithmetic class in which most boys remained up to their fifteenth year.
Here occurred an incident which he often related in old age with amusement and relish. In this class the pupil who first finished his example in arithmetic was to place his slate in the middle of a large table. On top of this the second placed his slate and so on. The young Gauss had just entered the class when Büttner gave out for a problem [the summing of an arithmetic series]. The problem was barely stated before Gauss threw his slate on the table with the words (in the low Braunschweig dialect): "There it lies." While the other pupils continued [counting, multiplying and adding], Büttner, with conscious dignity, walked back and forth, occasionally throwing an ironical, pitying glance toward this the youngest of the pupils. The boy sat quietly with his task ended, as fully aware as he always was on finishing a task that the problem had been correctly solved and that there could be no other result.
At the end of the hour the slates were turned bottom up. That of the young Gauss with one solitary figure lay on top. When Büttner read out the answer, to the surprise of all present that of young Gauss was found to be correct, whereas many of the others were wrong.
Incidental details from this account reappear over and over in later tellings of the story. The ritual of piling up the slates is one such feature. (It must have been quite a teetering heap by the time the hundredth slate was added!) Büttner's switch (or cane, or whip) also made frequent appearances until the 1970s but is less common now; we have grown squeamish about mentioning such barbarities.
What's most remarkable about the Sartorius telling of the story is not what's there but what's absent. There is no mention of the numbers from 1 to 100, or any other specific arithmetic progression. And there is no hint of the trick or technique that Gauss invented to solve the problem; the idea of combining the numbers in pairs is not discussed, nor is the formula for summing a series. Perhaps Sartorius thought the procedure was so obvious it needed no explanation.
A word about the bracketed phrases: Strange to report, the Worthington Gauss translation does mention the first 100 integers. Where Sartorius writes simply "eine arithmetischen Reihe," Worthington Gauss inserts "a series of numbers from 1 to 100." I cannot account for this interpolation. I can only guess that Worthington Gauss, under the influence of later works that discuss the 1-to-100 example, was trying to help out Sartorius by filling in an omission. The second bracketed passage marks an elision in the translation: Where Sartorius has the pupils "rechnen, multiplizieren und addieren," Worthington Gauss writes just "adding." I'll have more to say on this point below.
If Sartorius did not specify a series running from 1 to 100, where did those numbers come from? Could there be some other document from Gauss's era that supplies the missing details? Perhaps someone to whom Gauss told the story "with amusement and relish" left a record of the occasion. The existence of such a corroborating document cannot be ruled out, but at present there is no evidence for it. None of the works I have seen makes any allusion to another early source. If an account from Gauss's lifetime exists, it remains so obscure that it can't have had much influence on other tellers of the tale.
In the literature I have surveyed, the 1-100 series makes its first appearance in 1938, some 80 years after Sartorius wrote his memoir. The 1-100 example is introduced in a biography of Gauss by Ludwig Bieberbach (a mathematician notorious as the principal instrument of Nazi anti-Semitism in the German mathematical community). Bieberbach's telling of the story is also the earliest I have seen to specify Gauss's strategy for calculating the sum—the method of forming pairs that add to 101. Should Bieberbach therefore be regarded as the source from whom scores of later authors have borrowed these "facts"? Or is this a case of multiple independent invention?
If you think it utterly implausible that two or more authors would come up with the same example and the same method, then Bieberbach himself is disqualified as the source. A full millennium before Gauss and Büttner had their classroom confrontation, essentially the same problem and solution appeared in an eighth-century manuscript attributed to Alcuin of York.
Furthermore, in the years since Bieberbach wrote, there is unmistakable evidence of independent invention. Not all versions agree that the sequence of numbers was the set of consecutive integers from 1 through 100. Although that series is the overwhelming favorite, many others have been proposed. Some are slight variations: 0-100 or 1-99. Several authors seem to feel that adding up 100 numbers is too big a job for primary-school students, and so they trim the scope of the assignment, suggesting 1-80, or 1-50, or 1-40, or 1-20, or 1-10. A few others apparently think that 1-100 is too easy, and so they give 1-1,000 or else a series in which the difference between successive terms is a constant other than 1, such as the sequence 3, 7, 11, 15, 19, 23, 27. (The example series chosen by various authors and other features of the versions are tabulated in the table above.)
Perhaps the most influential version of the story after that of Sartorius is the one told by Eric Temple Bell in Men of Mathematics, first published in 1937. Bell has a reputation as a highly inventive writer (a trait not always considered a virtue in a biographer or historian). He turns the Braunschweig schoolhouse into a scene of gothic horror: "a squalid relic of the Middle Ages run by a virile brute, one Büttner, whose idea of teaching the hundred or so boys in his charge was to thrash them into such a state of terrified stupidity that they forgot their own names." Very cinematic! When it comes to the arithmetic, however, Bell is one of the few writers who scruple to distinguish between fact and conjecture. He doesn't claim to know the actual numerical series, but writes: "The problem was of the following sort, 81297 + 81495 + 81693 + ... + 100899, where the step from one number to the next is the same all along (here 198), and a given number of terms (here 100) are to be added." (Personally, I'd have a hard time even writing that problem on a small slate, much less solving it.)
It's a challenge to sort out patterns of influence and transmission in such a collection of stories. When a later author mentions the series 81297 + 81495 + ..., we can be pretty sure those numbers came from Bell. When the example given is 1-100, however, it's not so easy to trace the line of inheritance—if there is one. And the dozen or so other sequences that appear in the literature argue for a high rate of mutation; every one of those examples had to be invented at least once.
Tellers of a tale like this one seem to work under a special dispensation from the usual rules of history-writing. Authors who would not dare to alter a fact such as Gauss's place of birth or details of his mathematical proofs don't hesitate to embellish this anecdote, just to make it a better story. They pick and choose from the materials available to them, taking what they need and leaving the rest—and if nothing at hand suits the purpose, then they invent! For example, several authors show a familiarity with Bell's version of the story, quoting or borrowing distinctive phrases from it, but they decline to go along with Bell's choice of a series beginning 81297, falling back instead on the old reliable 1-100 or inserting something else entirely. Thus it appears that what is driving the evolution of this story is not just the accumulation of errors of transmission, as in the children's game "whisper down the lane"; authors are deliberately choosing to "improve" the story, to make it a better narrative.
For the most part, I would not criticize this practice. Effective storytelling is surely a legitimate goal, and outside of formal scholarly works, a bit of embroidery on the bare fabric of the plot does no harm. A case in point is the theme of "busywork" found in most recent tellings of the story (including mine). It seems we feel a need to explain why Büttner would give his pupils such a long and dreary exercise. But Sartorius says nothing at all about Büttner's motivation, nor do any of the other 19th-century works I've consulted. The idea that he wanted to keep the kids quiet while he took a break is entirely a modern inference. It's probably wrong—at best it's unattested—and yet it answers a need of readers today.
In the same spirit, many authors confront the question that got me started on this quest: How did Büttner do the math? Bell is adamant that Büttner knew the formula beforehand; others say he learned the trick only when Gauss explained it to him. An example of the latter position is the following account written in 2001 by three fifth-grade students, Ryan, Jordan and Matthew:
When Gauss was in elementary school his teacher Master Büttner did not really like math so he did not spend a lot of time on the subject. One of the problems his teacher gave the class was "add all the whole numbers from 1 to 100". His teacher Master Büttner was amazed that Gauss could add all the whole numbers 1 to 100 in his head. Master Büttner didn't believe Gauss could do it, so he made him show the class how he did it. Gauss showed Master Büttner how to do it and Master Büttner was amazed at what Gauss just did.
Am I being unfair in matching up Eric Temple Bell against three fifth-graders? Unfair to which party? Both offer interpretations that can't be supported by historical evidence, but Ryan, Jordan and Matthew are closer to the experience of classroom life.
As with the identity of the series, the details of how Gauss solved the problem remain a matter of conjecture. The algorithm that I suggested—folding the sequence in half, then adding the first and last elements, the second and next-to-last, etc.—is not the only possibility. A related but subtly different algorithm is mentioned by many authors. The idea is to write down the series twice, once forward and once backward, and then add corresponding elements. For the familiar series 1-100 this procedure yields 100 pairs of 101, for a total of 10,100; then, since the original series was duplicated, we need to divide by 2, arriving at the correct answer 5,050. The advantage of this scheme is that it works the same whether the length of the sequence is odd or even, whereas the folding algorithm requires some fussy adjustments to deal with an odd-length series.
A third approach to the summation problem strikes me as better still. The root idea is that for any finite set of numbers, whether or not the numbers form an arithmetic progression, the sum is equal to the average of all the elements multiplied by the number of elements. Thus if you know the average, you can easily find the sum. For most sets of numbers, this fact is not very useful, because the only way to calculate the average is first to calculate the sum and then divide by the number of elements. For an arithmetic progression, however, there is a shortcut: The average over the entire series is equal to the average of the first and last elements (or the average of any other elements symmetrically arrayed around the midpoint). If this was Gauss's secret weapon, then his mental multiplication was not 50 x 101 but 100 x 50½.
All three of these ideas—and a few more besides—have been presented by one author or another as the method that Gauss discovered during his first arithmetic lesson. Expressed as formulas for summing consecutive integers from 1 through n, the three rules (folding, double rows, average) look like this:
Mathematically, it's obvious they are equivalent: For the same value of n, they produce the same answer. But the computational details are different and, more important, so are the reasoning processes that lead to these formulas.
There is yet another way of thinking about the summation process: n(n + 1)/2 has been known since antiquity as the formula for the triangular numbers, those in the sequence 1, 3, 6, 10, 15, 21.... Thus some authors suggest that Gauss was thinking geometrically, forming an n-by-n + 1 rectangle and cutting it along the diagonal.
So much for how the prodigious Carl Friedrich Gauss solved the problem. What about the rest of the students in the class? Let me invite you to take a sheet of paper and actually try adding the numbers from 1 to 100.
Finished? Already?
What I discovered when I tried this experiment is that it's really hard to do it the hard way. You may set out to plod dutifully through all the addition operations, but shortcuts present themselves even when you're not looking for them. Suppose you adopt the standard primary-school algorithm, writing down all 100 numbers in a tall column and then starting work on the units digits. After the first 10 digits, the partial sum is 45; the next 10 digits add another increment of 45, bringing the partial sum to 90; then 45 more makes 135, and so on. How far would a student get in this process before recognizing a repetitive pattern? On turning to the tens digits, the pattern is even harder to miss: There are ten 1s followed by ten 2s, then ten 3s, etc. Surely any student who has the skills to complete this task at all would not add those repeated numbers one by one. A more likely strategy would be the one Sartorius implied when he wrote "count, multiply and add"—the phrase that Helen Worthington Gauss reduced to mere "adding."
On a small slate or a sheet of paper, it's difficult to write 100 numbers in a column, and so students would likely break the task down into subproblems. Suppose you start by adding the numbers from 1 to 10, for a sum of 55. Then the sum of 11 through 20 is 155, and 21 through 30 yields 255. Again, how far would you continue before spotting the trend?
Admittedly, these shortcuts can't match the elegance and ingenuity of Gauss's method. They are tied to the decimal representation of numbers, and they also don't generalize as well to arithmetic progressions other than lists of consecutive integers. But they do remind us that there's usually more than one good way to solve a problem.
I suspect that only one kind of student would ever be likely to add the numbers from 1 through 100 by performing 99 successive additions—namely, a student using a computer or a programmable calculator. And for that student, the simplest strategy might in fact be the best one.
We can hope that a modern Büttner—deprived of his whip, of course, and teaching in a classroom where computers have replaced slates—would not be drilling students on skills of such dubious utility as adding up a long series of numbers by hand. But the new Büttner just might ask his pupils to write a program to calculate the sum of any arithmetic progression. A new Gauss, with the same keen insight, could create a very efficient program based on the pairing idea—and that feat still deserves the highest admiration. But the modern Gauss might not be the first to fling his or her laptop on the table and cry "There it lies!" Writing that clever program—and testing and debugging it, and proving its correctness—would be no quicker than writing the straightforward step-by-step version. In this respect, technology may be something of an equalizer.
The story of Gauss and his conquest of the arithmetic series has a natural appeal to young people. After all, the hero is a child—a child who outwits a "virile brute." For many students, that is surely an inspiration. But I worry a little that the constant repetition of stories like this one may leave the impression that mathematics is a game suited only to those who go through life continually throwing off sparks of brilliance.
On first hearing this fable, most students surely want to imagine themselves in the role of Gauss. Sooner or later, however, most of us discover we are one of the less-distinguished classmates; if we eventually get the right answer, it's by hard work rather than native genius. I would hope that the story could be told in a way that encourages those students to keep going. And perhaps it can be balanced by other stories showing there's a place in mathematics for more than one kind of mind.
In collecting versions of the Gauss anecdote I've been helped by dozens of librarians as well as friends and others. I particularly want to thank Johannes Berg of the University of Cologne; Caroline Grey of the Johns Hopkins University libraries; Stephan Mertens of the University of Magdeburg; Ivo Schneider of the Bundeswehr University, Munich; Margaret Tent of the Altamont School in Birmingham, Alabama, and Mary Linn Wernet of the Northwestern State University libraries in Natchitoches, Louisiana.
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The overall record between the sides sees England boasting 62 victories compared to Scotland's 48 with 18 draws since their first meeting in Edinburgh in 1871 when Scotland won by one goal.
Scotland have beaten England just three times since the turn of the millennia and just once in their last five encounters. However shoot-outs have become increasingly close affair in the last two seasons. England edged out Scotland 22-16 at Twickenham in March while Dan Parks secured a 15-15 draw at Murrayfield the previous year.
If Scotland are to maintain their run of reaching the quarter final of every World Cup, they must beat England by eight points or more. However they have not achieved that feat since Murrayfield in 1986.
England v Scotland
All-time record: Played: 128, England won 68, Scotland won 42. Drawn 18
Biggest winning margin: Eng: 40 (43-3 Twickenham 2001), Sco: 27 (33-6 Myrrayfield 1986)
Highest score: Eng: 43 (43-3 Twickenham 2001) (43-22 Twickenham 2005); Sco: 33 (33-6 Myrrayfield 1986)
Most tries: Eng: 7 (43-22 Twickenham 2005); Sco: 6 (28-19 Murrayfield 1931)
Most points (individual): Eng: 105 Jonny Wilkinson; Sco: 78 Chris Paterson
Most tries (individual): Eng: 6 Jason Robinson and Cyril Lowe; Sco: 9 Ian Smith
Previous World Cup meetings: One (Sco 6-9 Eng, Murrayfield, 1991)
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I'm still in a foul mood.
My disposition wasn't helped by Masterchef last night either. Out of the three finalists there were two I wouldn't have minded winning, the wiry 18 year old posho whose talents were without exception (pssst, she should've won, she'll get her chance, she's a wee lassie) or the jowl heavy 'single father of two' (Christ didn't they wheel that out at any opportunity) Belfast fellow who, for some reason, I kept expecting to say 'it's got spunk in it' when introducing his sauce-heavy comfort food.
I didn't have anything against the winner, apart from his 'Dancing in the Moonlight' haircut but, without any good reason, resented his being able to jack in his ££££ job as a barrister in order to engage in an early evening TV cook-off. Obviously his gamble paid off, Masterchef has enjoyed unprecedented viewing figures this time round and I'm sure bubble locks will fulfil his dream of owning and running a beach side eatery which may well enjoy Michelin star status within 5 years, the cunt.
Myfwt has maintained her new status as a non-smoker, which is of course great (for her). In order to show support for this wilful, I mean, commendable, act of tenacity I'm having to smoke surreptitiously, as if my habit is like some dreadful sexual deviancy that I wish to shield from my loved ones for fear of serious reprisals. Subsequently, last night, I had one tab, one, leaning so far out of my kitchen window it was only my toes preventing me plunging to my death. Furthermore, to ensure the smoke went out of the room and didn't blow back in I forced the delicious fumes from my face with such ferocity I could've powered Cornwall. It was like being 15 again and living with my parents.
Having a close relationship with a person who has just quit requires Ghandi-level diplomacy. This isn't surprising, even David Bowie said giving up smoking is harder than giving up smack, but that is of small comfort to both parties when one is looking at the other as if they've just done a shit in a cot for blinking too quickly. Any misdemeanour -this can include sitting loudly or having hair- on the part of the person brave enough to maintain their loyalty to Messrs.
B&H in the face of the newly manumitted fumier must be counted with profuse and fawning regret or punishment, nay death, will be swift. This may require the smoker to act out some sort of penance of their own volition, don't wait to be asked, calmly push the broken wine glass into your liver smiling gratefully. Anything to save the other testicle.
The weekend beckons culminating in Mothers day on Mothers day. I have minor plans before that, some unresolved but the important thing is that I don't have to be in this fucking office for a couple of days.
Right, the (edited) Friday list followed by an unapologetic offing from a band I loved years ago before going right off them. The singer couldn't sing (though lyrically there is some merit) the drummer was useless but somehow they managed to pull this off. It's 10 minutes long and stunning. There I've said it. I expect condemnation for this but please give it a shot (bear in mind the song comprises of two very different halves). The video is effective too, mainly because you can't see the band themselves. Note 'The Wall' footage…
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Folks on the other side of the pond can consider themselves quite lucky. Unlike at&t's less-than-generous data plans for iPad ($25 for 2GB), users who subscribe to 3UK's data plans for the iPad can get anywhere from 10GB to 15GB for UK£15 and UK£25 respectively. Stated otherwise, 10GB costs you roughly $25 per month (1UK£ equals roughly 1.5 US$) – five times the data for the same price!
No wonder that the 3G version of the Apple iPad was the most popular among UK shoppers during the Christmas shopping season, according to the latest stats from market research firm Context. The firm found that 80 per cent of UK iPad sales recorded in November were for the 3G version, due to mobile network operator stores being a major outlet for sales of the device.
But at&t should watch out – rumors are swirling that Apple is planning to announce not 2, but 3 versions of the second-generation iPad including a CDMA version for Verizon Wireless, come April 2011. It will be quite interesting to watch how Verizon Wireless prices the data plans for the iPad 2!


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Among recent enforcement actions taken by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) were charges in a $50 million Nevada real estate investment scam and CDO fraud charges that resulted in $23 million in settlement costs.
The SEC also zeroed in on a broker who stole client funds and used them to pay for his own personal expenses, including groceries and a mortgage, and three brokers who churned away $2.7 million in client money.
Broker Uses $600,000 in Client Funds to Pay Mortgage, Grocery Bills: SEC
The SEC on Thursday charged a broker and his company based in Danbury, Conn., with stealing at least $600,000 from clients and using the money to pay for his mortgage, grocery bills and other personal expenses.
The SEC alleges that Stephen B. Blankenship persuaded about a dozen clients—including some retirees and others he met at church—to withdraw money from their brokerage accounts he managed at other firms and instead invest with him directly. As part of his scheme, he assured them they could obtain a greater rate of return on their money by transferring it to his firm, Deer Hill Financial Group.
According to the SEC, Blankenship claimed he was investing their money in established securities such as publicly traded mutual funds. But in reality he made no investments and merely transferred customer money to his own bank account, and he misused it to pay his mortgage, travel and grocery bills among other personal expenses. Blankenship also paid some business expenses and made Ponzi-like payments to other customers who requested a return of all or part of their investment.
In a parallel action, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Connecticut on Thursday announced criminal charges against Blankenship.
"Blankenship took advantage of fellow churchgoers and senior citizens who relied on their savings for retirement and placed their trust in him," said David P. Bergers, director of the SEC's Boston Regional Office, in a statement. "He betrayed that trust by using their money to make personal credit card payments and home improvements."
According to the SEC's complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut, most of the investors deceived by Blankenship became his brokerage customers at Santa Monica-based Syndicated Capital and later at Melville, N.Y.-based Vanderbilt Securities. Some had been his customers for as long as two decades. Beginning in at least 2002, Blankenship took advantage of those longstanding relationships and began persuading customers to withdraw money from their brokerage accounts at those firms with promises that he could achieve a greater rate of return for them directly by investing their money through Deer Hill.
The SEC alleges that in order to conceal his scheme, "Blankenship often created fake account statements that falsely represented that he had invested their money in a variety of investments. The purported account statements were printed on Deer Hill letterhead and provided to customers." In all instances, the investments described on the account statements did not exist, the SEC says. The SEC's complaint alleges that Deer Hill and Blankenship violated the antifraud provisions of the federal securities laws and acted as unregistered brokers. The complaint seeks disgorgement of ill-gotten gains plus prejudgment interest, monetary penalties, and the entry of a permanent injunction against Deer Hill and Blankenship, who lives in New Fairfield, Conn.
Based on the same misconduct, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Connecticut charged Blankenship with criminal violations. The Connecticut Department of Banking's Securities Division has obtained, by consent, a revocation of Blankenship's registration and has barred Blankenship and Deer Hill from operating in Connecticut.
Investors Lose $50 Million in Real Estate Scam
The SEC announced an asset freeze against a San Diego-based firm, Western Financial Planning Corp., and its owner, Louis V. Schooler, accused of running a real estate investment fraud that raised approximately $50 million from hundreds of investors nationwide.
According to the complaint filed in federal court in San Diego, Western and Schooler sold units in partnerships Western had organized to buy vacant land in Nevada and hold for sale at a profit at a later date.
The SEC alleged that, since 2007, Schooler and Western not only failed to tell investors that they were paying an exorbitant markup on the land, sometimes more than five times fair market value, they also failed to disclose that often the land held by the partnerships was encumbered by mortgages Western used to help finance the land's initial purchase.
Western and Schooler provided comparative prices or "comps" of supposedly similar plots of land that had sold for prices higher than those offered by Western. However, the comps were not at all comparable to Western's plots. The SEC also alleges that since the spring of 2011, Schooler paid "hush money" to silence investors who discovered they had been defrauded, allowing the scheme to continue.
Judge Larry A. Burns of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California granted the SEC's request for a temporary restraining order and asset freeze against Schooler, Western and all entities under Western's control, and appointed Thomas C. Hebrank as a temporary receiver over Western and the entities. A hearing has been scheduled on the SEC's motion for a preliminary injunction.
$23 Million Settlement Reached Over Fraudulent Management of CDOs
The SEC announced that it has reached a settlement with New York-based investment advisory firm ICP Asset Management, and its founder and president, Thomas Priore, over charges that they defrauded several collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) they managed.
In June 2010, the SEC had filed a case against them in federal court in Manhattan, alleging that they engaged in fraudulent practices and misrepresentations that caused the CDOs to overpay for securities and lose millions of dollars. Priore and the ICP companies also improperly obtained fees and undisclosed profits at the expense of the CDOs and their investors.Settlement terms were approved on Sept. 6. The final judgment orders Priore to pay disgorgement of $797,337, prejudgment interest of $215,045, and a penalty of $487,618. ICP and its holding company, Institutional Credit Partners LLC, were ordered, on a joint and several basis, to pay disgorgement of $13,916,005 and prejudgment interest of $3,709,028. ICP also is ordered to pay a penalty of $650,000.
An affiliated broker-dealer, ICP Securities LLC, is ordered to pay disgorgement of $1,637,581, prejudgment interest of $301,893, and a penalty of $1,939,474. Priore also agreed to settle an administrative proceeding against him. Without admitting or denying the SEC's allegations, Priore and the ICP companies also consented to permanent injunctions enjoining them from future violations of the securities laws they were alleged to have violated.
3 Brokers Charged With Churning Through $2.7 Million in Client Funds
The SEC announced Monday that it has charged three former brokers at an Atlanta-based brokerage firm, JP Turner & Co., for "churning" the accounts of customers with conservative investment objectives, causing the customers to lose $2.7 million.
The SEC says it also charged the head supervisor, Michael Bresner, as well as the firm's president, William Mello, and the firm itself for compliance failures.
JP Turner and Mello agreed to settle the SEC's charges, while an administrative proceeding will continue against the three brokers and the supervisor.
In settling the SEC's charges without admitting or denying the findings, JP Turner agreed to hire an independent consultant to review the firm's supervisory procedures in order to prevent future violations. The SEC's order censures JP Turner and requires payment of $200,000 in disgorgement, representing JP Turner's approximate share of the commissions and fees generated by the fraudulent churning, plus $16,051 in prejudgment interest and a $200,000 penalty.
The order suspends Mello from association in a supervisory capacity with a broker, dealer or investment advisor for five months and requires him to pay a $45,000 penalty.
The SEC's Enforcement Division alleges that the brokers Ralph Calabro, Jason Konner and Dimitrios Koutsoubos engaged in churning while they worked at JP Turner, collectively generating commissions, fees and margin interest totaling approximately $845,000 while the defrauded customers suffered aggregate losses of approximately $2.7 million.
"Broker-dealers' supervisory systems must provide customers with reasonable protection from churning and similar abuses. JP Turner's supervisory systems failed to do that," said William P. Hicks, associate director of the SEC's Atlanta Regional Office, in a statement.
According to the SEC's order instituting administrative proceedings against the three brokers and the supervisor, Calabro lives in Matawan, N.J., and Konner and Koutsoubos live in Brooklyn, N.Y. They all work at different firms now. While at JP Turner, they collectively churned the accounts of seven customers with conservative investment objectives and low or moderate risk tolerances. The churning occurred between January 2008 and December 2009.
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One person killed in Ga. tornado (Video included)
The fire chief in Bartow County, northwest of Atlanta, says at least one person has been killed by storms that roared across the area.
Fire Chief Craig Millsap said authorities confirmed the death of the person, whose body was found in the storm damage.
The fire chief did not have further details on the circumstances. Millsap said the person died in Adairsville, which was hart-hit by the storms.
A fire chief says a storm also has left overturned vehicles on Interstate 75 northwest of Atlanta, and crews are responding to reports of people trapped in storm-damaged residential and commercial buildings.
Bartow County Fire Chief Craig Millsap tells The Associated Press that there are reports of some injuries, and crews were trying to get into the damaged areas to further assess the situation.
Atlanta station WSB-TV aired footage of a large manufacturing plant in the Adairsville area which had been demolished in the storms.
Georgia Power said 8,540 customers were without power in the wake of the storms -- with 6,800 of them in northwest Georgia -- as of 1 p.m.