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Owner of Dance Addiction Studios
UKA Ballroom and Latin American Licentiate qualified teacher and adjudicator, member of the British Dance Council and Dance Promoters’ Association
Toni-Marie grew up in a dance school owned by her parents in the West Midlands and has experience of competing through medal and open competitions up to an international level. From 2005, when she turned 18 Toni-Marie worked on P&O cruises as a dance teacher and social dance host and since moving to Surrey has taught her own private lessons and classes as well as hosting social dances and competitive practices in Surrey. She started to run dance competitions in 2009 as TMFDance and her events are now amongst the best attended and most successful in the UK. Toni-Marie is married to Dan Baxter who is 3 times British Senior Ballroom Champion and they have two beautiful daughters!
Studio Manager & Marketing Manager
John is a current competitor in the senior (O’35) Ballroom category and competes at an international level. He and his partner Sabine are previous UK champions, have been UK and British National finalists for many years, and have represented England at the World Championships 10 times. As a couple they have been dance hosts on P&O cruises and train with some of the best coaches in the world.
Current top level Amateur Latin competitors
As already successful Ballroom and Latin dancers, Leah and Adelmo joined forces in 2012 and have competed at a very high level internationally and are regular top end finalists in all of the UK’s major championships. They are currently ranked 2nd in the UK’s National league. In 2014, they were part of the Latin super group ‘Kings and Queens’, who were in the Semi Finals of ‘Britain’s got Talent’. Leah and Adelmo are also teachers for P&O cruises and performed for her majesty the Queen at the naming ceremony of ‘Britannia’.
Current Professional Latin American Competitor
Victoria began her dancing career aged 10 in styles including Disco, Rock & Roll, Street-dance, Cheer-dance, Ballet, Tap, Modern & Ballroom & Latin. Since then, she has competed worldwide, representing England in both World Open and Closed Championships. Victoria is an associate member of the UKA and adjudicates and trains medallists and competitors. Victoria is engaged to Neil and they have a beautiful boy named Blake.
Djordje Tanasijevic is an award winning Professional Latin dancer (British and Serbian National finalist) and has been studying the art of dance for most of his life.
Djordje, originally from Serbia, started dancing from the age 9. From the age of 10, he began to travel to many competitions abroad representing his country. Later, Djordje moved to Slovenia to train with some of the best coaches in the world, and following that, moved to England.
Djordje has taught from the age of 15 in his home country and abroad. His teaching credentials are impressive and include a wide range of well-known dance schools in the UK and abroad. Also he was a 2012 and 2013 ISTD Congress Lecturer, and 2014 IDTA Congress Lecturer. He has also been involved with TV and films such as Children in Need, Cuban Fury, Comic relief and many more.
He is also part of the team who bring the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing to P&O cruises, and had the honor to dance for the Queen at Britannia's naming ceremony.
IDTA Associate Ballroom and Latin teacher
BA hons in Dance and Culture at University of Surrey
MA in Dance Movement Psychotherapy at Univeristy of Roehampton
ADMP (Association for Dance Movement Psychotherapy UK) qualified DMP.
Mari started to dance for training as a gymnast. She also has training in jazz, jazz ballet, contemporary, classic ballet, African dance and Indian classic dance (Kathak). Mari has taught for many years and has put many pupils through their exams.
Bruce was first introduced to Ballroom and Latin at the age of 21 through Fred Astaire Franchised Dance Studios in South Africa, they held annual national comps in which Bruce and his partner Kathrine came 2nd and 1st in regionals, Bruce also performed in Durban’s longest running Dance production "Shall we Dance" at the Durban Playhouse Company where he was mentored by Neville Letard who also mentored Andrew Cuerden and choreographer Mark Wilson.
Bruce then decided to make a career of Dancing in the U.K but due to unforeseen circumstances had a break from Dancing.
However Bruce decided to pursue his Love and Passion once again and is now currently a student teacher at Dance Addiction Studios and is also pursuing his qualification as a Dance Instructor through the I.D.T.A.
Bruce also has a Beautiful Son by the name of Rielly, who he hopes will one day share the same Passion his Dad has for Dance.
Linda started dancing at the age of 7 and as a junior she took medal examinations and also entered medal competitions. At 16 she took a break from dancing and several years later after raising a family, she returned to Ballroom and Latin American dancing. After a period of time she decided she wanted to start teaching and has been an IDTA Associate qualified teacher since 2011 and teaches pupils at a variety of levels.
IDTA Associate Ballroom and Latin teacher
Marion started dancing at the age of 8 and worked her way through the the medalist system. After a large break she was given the opportunity to train as a teacher and qualified with the IDTA at the Associate level. She has been teaching now for 17 years and has successfully trained pupils in taking their medals too. Recently, she started to compete again and came second in a competition in London.


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The NFL has been in trouble in the public eye as protests have escalated to a point we had never seen previously, where hundreds of players have taken a knee during the national anthem before their games. As a result, ratings have been on a steady decline, fans have boycotted, and the NFL has become one of the most divisive brands in the country.
The ratings for Week 11 dropped 6.3 percent compared to last year’s Week 11, which meant a loss of 1 million viewers. But NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has stood by his decision to allow the protests to continue and not take any action against the players.
Well, it has now been revealed just how this percentage of viewership has had an impact on the NFL’s wallet.

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Nigeria has some of the best hotels you can find in Africa today. The hotels are also of world class standard. The eight rooms listed below are some of the most expensive hotel rooms you can find anywhere and so is the royal treatment that awaits guests. If you are given a free night in any of these eight rooms, where would you like to spend the night? Remember you only live once.
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The Focus On The Arts Gallery at the Galleria at Pittsburgh Mills has chosen my work to be featured in the gallery window throughout the summer. Because it's in the […]
My fine art project - "Images of Israel" will be on exhibit at the FOTA Gallery during the month of September.
My fine art project - "Images of Israel" moves to the the Shaler North Hills Library Gallery for the month of October.
My fine art project - "Journey Through Argentina" will be on exhibit at the FOTA Gallery during the month of October.
Israel, from Dan to Eilat. Join me to see Israel from the north to south (and lots in-between!) through the eyes of a photographer.
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The dining room is by no means done at this point. We have been seriously thinking about painting red like the living room but we just haven’t gotten there yet. I was pretty sick of looking at it with nothing on the walls. I’m thinking about switching the pictures to something else but in the meanwhile here it is:
Well I hope you enjoyed my first time trying to implement some “spooky” Halloween decorations. It’s not perfect but I was pretty excited about it. It has definitely inspired me to try some more next year.


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A column of smoke rises from the blazing ruins of a forgotten, decaying mansion.
In the sleepy, rural parish of Greenford Parva, Gabriel Chase is by far the most imposing edifice. The villagers shun the grim house, but the owner, the reclusive and controversial naturalist Josiah Samuel Smith, receives occasional visitors.
The Reverend Ernest Matthews, for instance, dean of Mortarhouse College, has travelled from Oxford to refute Smith's blasphemous theories of evolution.
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Who — or what — is Josiah Smith? What terrible secrets does his house conceal? And why does Ace find everything so frighteningly familiar?

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A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
London: John Scott, 1806. 5 volume set, 9 inches tall. A wonderful full straight grain morocco with the ticket of C. Hering, one of the greatest English binders of the period. With gilt raised bands end dense and very finely tooling to the panels and gilt fillets, rolls and corner tools to the boards. Gilt dentelles and all edges. With over 145 superbly engraved portraits. From the library of Evelyn de Rothschild.

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Barça's striker now has six goals in five games, the best goalscoring start in the Spanish top flight this century
Ever since he joined Barça, Lewandowski has shown he has a real thirst for goals. The striker has become the go to guy up front as the season gets under way, with six goals in five LaLiga games - the best goalscoring start in LaLiga this century.
The record was previously held by André Silva with six goals in six games for Sevilla in 2018, one game more than the Polish forward. Lewandowski has hit the ground running for Barça and has the numbers to prove it. He is top of the goalscoring charts in both La Liga and the Champions League after his hat-trick and MOTM performance against Viktoria Plzen.
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Patrick Industries, Inc. (PATK): Price and Financial Metrics
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PATK POWR Grades
- PATK scores best on the Value dimension, with a Value rank ahead of 92.39% of US stocks.
- The strongest trend for PATK is in Value, which has been heading up over the past 179 days.
- PATK ranks lowest in Stability; there it ranks in the 16th percentile.
PATK Stock Summary
- The capital turnover (annual revenue relative to shareholder's equity) for PATK is 5.36 -- better than 91.77% of US stocks.
- PATK's current price/earnings ratio is 3.54, which is higher than merely 5.74% of US stocks with positive earnings.
- With a price/sales ratio of 0.24, PATRICK INDUSTRIES INC has a higher such ratio than merely 6.9% of stocks in our set.
- Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to PATRICK INDUSTRIES INC are FNKO, EEFT, DCGO, UONE, and ECPG.
- PATK's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit PATRICK INDUSTRIES INC's official web site, go to www.patrickind.com.
PATK Valuation Summary
- In comparison to the median Basic Materials stock, PATK's price/sales ratio is 89.47% lower, now standing at 0.2.
- PATK's EV/EBIT ratio has moved up 0.4 over the prior 243 months.
Below are key valuation metrics over time for PATK.
PATK Growth Metrics
- The 2 year net income to common stockholders growth rate now stands at 222.65%.
- Its 5 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at 82.91%.
- Its year over year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at -9.37%.
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PATK's Quality FactorsThe “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.
- PATK has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 39.16% of graded US stocks.
- PATK's asset turnover comes in at 1.81 -- ranking 4th of 60 Construction Materials stocks.
- DOOR, TREX, and GIFI are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with PATK.
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|50-day MA||$48.40||Dividend yield||3.13%|
|200-day MA||$56.68||Market Cap||1.31B|
Patrick Industries, Inc. (PATK) Company Bio
Patrick Industries is a manufacturer of component products and distributor of building products serving the recreational vehicle, manufactured housing, kitchen cabinet, office and household furniture, fixtures and commercial furnishings, marine, and other industrial markets. The company was founded in 1959 and is based in Elkhart, Indiana.
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Patrick Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ: PATK) today announced that on November 10, 2022, its Board of Directors (the "Board") approved an increase in the amount of its quarterly cash dividend on its common stock to $0.45 per share from $0.33 per share. The dividend is payable on December 12, 2022, to shareholders of record at the close of business on November 28, 2022.
Worn out from 2022’s unremitting bear market? Well, good news. According to Bank of America, the scene is set for a 2023 bull run. But more intriguingly, given the current conditions, the market leaders are not invited to this party with those further down the food chain set to the lead the way. Or as BofA’s Chief Investment Strategist Michael Hartnett puts it, "Secular trends of stagflation, reshoring, localization, fiscal stimulus = small cap bull in 2023." Hartnett has history on his side. Si
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What was it that Ralph Waldo Emerson said? “Moderation in all things, especially moderation.” Witty as always, Mr. Emerson, but in there lies a truth: moderation is key—even when you need to moderate your moderation.
Healthy habits can become unhealthy habits when taken to the extreme. Running is great for your body. Running nonstop from the moment you wake up to the moment you crash and burn is great… for injuries. Cake is good for the soul. Marie-Antoinette even said, “Let them eat cake!” Alas, even cake, in excess is not good.
The same philosophy applies to your dog’s supplementation; they’re great for health… in moderation.
When Too Much is Too Much
It’s strange to think that offering vitamins and minerals can have negative downsides. Sure, the cake example made sense. But what if you’re offering your dog a multivitamin, something that’s supposed to be made of pure, healthy ingredients? Unfortunately, even the healthiest of nutrients must be fed in moderation.
To offer some examples of why, here are some vitamins with their benefits and their downsides:
- Vitamin A – The first thing you’ll notice if your dog has a vitamin A deficiency is their skin and coat start to decline. First, it will be dry skin, then clumps of hair might shed off randomly. Continued deficiency and your dog may suffer from muscle deterioration and night blindness. Vitamin A protects against all of these, which may make you want to supplement.
- Too much vitamin A – Vitamin A toxicity takes time to develop (sometimes months), which makes supplementation particularly difficult. The main symptom is stiffness. The increased amount of vitamin A in the system causes new bone to grow around joints, sometimes making it hard for your dog to move its neck entirely.
- Vitamin D – Vitamin D is great for the retention of calcium and phosphorus. This makes it a core building block in the development of healthy bones and the skeletal structure.
- Too much vitamin D – While great in small doses, supplementing too much vitamin D can cause kidney failure and even death.
While there are more vitamins and minerals to add to this list, let’s go from specifics to generalizations.
Fat-Soluble vs Water-Soluble
What do many of the above examples have in common? Most of these (and other supplements that can lead to toxicity) are known as fat-soluble nutrients. These work differently than, say, vitamin C, which is a water-soluble nutrient.
What’s the difference?
- Fat-soluble vitamins – As the name suggests, fat-soluble vitamins can be absorbed through fatty tissue. They can be stored for long periods and build up over time. When taken in large doses all at once or built up over time, hypervitaminosis can occur, which is equivalent to a poison or toxin in the system.
- Water-soluble vitamins – In a similar manner, water-soluble vitamins dissolve in water, thus they dissolve in your body. Because water isn’t stored long in your dog’s body, these types of nutrients can be taken in excess. If your dog “overdoses,” the vitamins just exit your dog’s system through their urine.
If you’re curious whether your supplement contains fat-soluble or water-soluble vitamins, perform a quick online search. This will help you know when giving too much can be toxic.
When Does Supplementing Become Dangerous?
One supplement in your dog’s diet probably isn’t going to be enough to cause harm to your furry friend. It’s when owners provide one supplement for their eyes, one for their liver, one for their joints, and one for good measure, supplementation becomes dangerous.
That’s why it’s important to find a supplement that has everything your dog needs for bio-replenishment. Vetericyn offers the All-In supplement for exactly that reason. All-In offers dogs a supplement that is:
- Age-specific – Puppies and senior dogs don’t need the same nutrients. Supplements should address the age of the dog to give them what they need when they need it.
- Gut-friendly – Probiotics and prebiotics are necessary for a healthy gut biome. This biome is responsible for everything from the proper absorption of nutrients to your dog’s mood to their physical wellness.
- Good for joint health – Puppies’ bones are rapidly growing; senior dogs’ bones are decaying. Both need vitamins and minerals targeting joint health to ensure a happy and healthy life.
- Antioxidative – Antioxidants remove the free radicals from your dogs’ cells which slows down the aging process.
With a single supplement, you don’t have to worry about hypervitaminosis turning toxic. Moderation is built right in.
Reviewed by Dan Richardson, Veterinarian
Dan Richardson has been a practicing veterinarian for over 10 years. He specializes in surgery and orthopedics. Dan is originally from rural western Nevada and attended the University of Idaho for undergraduate study and Oregon State University for Veterinary School. The Richardson Family enjoys camping and spending time on the water fishing, paddle boarding, or digging their feet in the sand somewhere warm.
- FDA. Vitamin D Toxicity in Dogs. https://www.fda.gov/animal-veterinary/animal-health-literacy/vitamin-d-toxicity-dogs
- NCBI. Multiorgan dysfunction syndrome secondary to joint supplement overdosage in a dog. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4357907/

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The Under the Radar Game of the Day heads to Lynchburg, Virginia this evening, site of the re-located US Virgin Islands Paradise Jam, as a pair of upset winners in yesterday’s quarterfinals meet in the first of the two semifinals. Head coach Bob Hoffman’s Mercer Bears knocked off Liberty (the host team) in the first quarterfinal by a score of 63-48. The Bears were led by Jordan Strawberry, who only had 9 points but pulled down 13 boards and dished out 7 assists.
Mercer’s opponents is Zach Spiker’s Drexel Dragons. Drexel upset Houston in the quarterfinal round 84-80. Tramaine Isabell came off the bench to have a huge day, scoring 21 points and pulling down 16 rebounds. Three other players also scored in double-digits for the Dragons. If they can have such a balanced attack today, this team has a great chance to advance to Sunday’s championship game, where they would take on the winner of the second semifinal between Colorado and Drake.


In a culture where it’s hard to find a break in the noise, The Remnant is here. We exist to bring you music worth listening to, topics worth talking about, and a faith worth living out. It’s a responsibility we don’t take lightly. Our aim is to provide quality entertainment that connects to your day to day life through intentional pursuit of Jesus. And regardless of how hard we try, The Remnant will never be perfect. But that’s why we rely on the One who is.
We are: Real Music | Absolute Truth | The Remnant.
The Remnant is largely run by students in the Electronic Media Communication program at University of Northwestern – St. Paul. Under the guidance of UNW faculty members, these students program the station, produce shows, plan events, keep the equipment running, and do many of the other tasks involved in keeping a radio station on air. Students in the university’s Radio Workshop create and host their own shows and are also assigned to a department to contribute to everything that happens off-air at The Remnant. Students can apply for positions on the executive staff and take on more responsibility in running the station. Due to the nature of university life, the executive staff changes frequently as students graduate and new students come in.
Executive Staff 2017-2018
Logan Roush– General Manager
Sierra Rose – Program Director
Robby Bakken – Productions Director
Kayley Field – Music Director
David Pederson – Sports Director
Alec Schafer – News Director
Michael Hutchens – Operations Director
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1. Look at the pictures of food from around the world. Match them with the countries.
1. Brshct (soup) - Ukraine
2. Fish and chips - the UK
3. Couscous - Morocco
4. Pizza - Italy
5. Hamburger - the U.S.A
6.Sushi - Japan
2. What is the national dish of your country
Örnek olarak: Turkish national dish is lahmacun. Turkish national dish is kebab. Turkish national dish is gozleme.
What woult you choose to be your national dish?
Örnek: I would choose the döner kebab as a national dish.
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While poker is a popular game, it does require some basic rules. Before you can begin playing, you must lay the foundation. You must know how to read the cards. The basic terms and concepts of poker can be described in this article. If you are a novice player, read on for helpful advice on the game of poker. Once you have mastered the basics, you can move on to the more complex concepts of the game. The most common poker terms are described below.
The’suck-out’ phrase refers to a situation where your opponents have a better hand than you do. You have a good hand, but your opponent has a much better hand. You can bluff, but you’ll still lose a lot of money if you play poorly. You have to learn how to handle bad cards and fold junk hands. Remember that mediocre hands can lead to recklessness and impatience, and you can end up losing a lot of chips.
Bluffing is one strategy that many amateurs use to win the game. You’ll be amazed at how smooth and confident a professional poker player can be. In fact, it’s easy to feel intimidated by a player with a bad hand. So, if you’re a novice and you want to master poker, watch other players. Observing their actions will help you develop good intuitions. Consider their strategies and the results of the games they have won.
In poker, the “nuts” are two distinct pairs of cards plus the fifth. When the pair is a tie, the highest pair wins. If there are two pairs, the second pair wins. A straight or a higher pair breaks a tie. Besides, the nut is a good hand, as long as you have at least one pair in it. There are other terms for “nuts,” such as “overcard” and “backdoor” that are useful to know.
In a typical game of poker, the player to the left of the dealer has the option to raise or call his bet. If someone has already bet, the player to the left of the dealer must post a small or large blind. The blinds are forced bets in poker that give the player something to chase. In a game of poker, this is the most important part of the game. You need to get the hang of it!
When the betting is over, everyone is all square with the pot. After that, players can discard up to three cards. Brad discards three cards, Charley and Dennis each discard one. Charley and Dennis discard one card and you have two replacement cards. The three-card pair is made up of two cards of the same rank. If the three cards are of the same rank, the hand of the two players with the highest value wins. If they are the same rank, the higher-ranking three-of-a-kind wins.
If the opener does not want to fold, he or she can request to keep the opening hand. After a hand is dealt, a player can declare to split. If the other player is unable to match the discards, the player loses the pot. This situation usually occurs if the player has two or more players and a pair. There are several exceptions to this rule. In some cases, it can happen that both players win the pot and lose the pot.

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Two hours with Gael García Bernal, anyone? The Mexican actor only made one film last year, the Spanish-language No with director Pablo Larraín. Larraín is a well known in his native Chile, which was been the subject of two of his films so far. No is the third in a planned trilogy about his homeland, and it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival this week.
- Who's behind it? Director Pablo Larraín rounded up a group of actors he usually works with, including Antonia Zegers and Alfredo Castro, for the project. Bernal came in as his leading man to round out the cast. Sony Pictures Classics has picked up North American distribution rights for No.
- What's it about? The picture is set in 1988, the year Chileans were able to vote in a referendum for or against continuing the 16-year dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet. Gael plays René Saavedra, an ad man who accepts the potentially dangerous job of spearheading the TV campaign for the people against Pinochet — those who will vote "no" in the election. He's tasked with finding a unique and novel way to get the message across. René also has some family issues and is focused on raising a young son after separating from his wife.
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Will not link anything to Aadhaar until necessary, Omar on SC order
Srinagar: With Supreme Court (SC) staying "mandatory" Aadhaar linking with bank accounts and mobile phones indefinitely till the final judgment is pronounced, former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said that he will not link anything to Aadhaar until he absolutely has to.
Mr Abdullah, who is also the working president of National Conference (NC), asked banks and cellular companies to stop spamming him with emails and messages.
'Dear HDFC, Airtel & others please stop spamming me with emails/messages now. I'm not linking anything to Aadhaar until I absolutely have to,' Mr Abdullah wrote on micro-blogging site twitter.
The comment by the former Chief Minister comes after a five-judge Constitution bench of the apex court, headed by Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra, on Tuesday said the government 'cannot insist' that citizens must provide Aadhaar details for operating bank accounts, holding phone connections and applying for tatkaal passports.


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Announcement expected Monday evening
A grand jury in Missouri has reached a decision on whether to indict Darren Wilson, the white police officer who shot and killed unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson in August, a lawyer for the Brown family said Monday.
The prosecutor overseeing the case planned an announcement later in the day, but he gave no indication what it would be.
Benjamin Crump, the lawyer, said Monday afternoon that the family had been notified. He told MSNBC that the family was “praying for an indictment, and they’re trying to put their faith in the justice system.”


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The WSJ piece below profiles Yale finance professor Gary Gorton, who helped Cassano's group (AIG Financial Products) build their risk models. They note that there is still a chance that the models are ok -- that in the long run losses on the securities they insured may not be large. The problem is that the CDS contracts require the insurer to post additional collateral if the market value of the security in question falls. Since all credit related products are oversold due to rampant fear, this forces collateral calls even on good securities (if there are any). I can imagine that triggers might depend on the value of various CDS indices, which have plummeted during the crisis.
If -- and it's a big if -- AIG's actual CDS payouts are limited, the government and taxpayers stand to make a lot of money over the next 3-5 years. When markets return to normal the profitable ordinary insurance parts of AIG can be liquidated to pay off the bridge loan. In that scenario the big losers are AIG shareholders -- the government, as the lender of last resort, will have bought a distressed AIG for a song. In the bad scenario we will enter a long, harsh recession and AIG will end up paying out on much of its $400 billion in obligations, perhaps exceeding even the long term liquidation value of the firm. In that case the US taxpayer will foot the bill.
WSJ: ...AIG itself has been forced to post about $50 billion in collateral to its trading partners, largely to offset sharp drops in the value of securities it insured with the credit-default swaps. These payments have continued to balloon after the bailout -- raising the specter that the government will eventually have to lend more taxpayer money to AIG.
...AIG's credit-default-swaps operation was run out of its AIG Financial Products Corp. unit, which had offices in London and Wilton, Conn. In essence, AIG sold insurance on billions of dollars of debt securities backed by everything from corporate loans to subprime mortgages to auto loans to credit-card receivables. It promised buyers of the swaps that if the debt securities defaulted, AIG would make good on them.
...The swaps expose AIG to three types of financial pain. If the debt securities default, AIG has to pay up. But there are two other financial risks as well. The buyers of the swaps -- AIG's "counterparties" or trading partners on the deals -- typically have the right to demand collateral from AIG if the securities being insured by the swaps decline in value, or if AIG's own corporate-debt rating is cut. In addition, AIG is obliged to account for the contracts on its own books based on their market values. If those values fall, AIG has to take write-downs.
...Mr. Gorton's models harnessed mounds of historical data to focus on the likelihood of default, and his work may indeed prove accurate on that front. But as AIG was aware, his models didn't attempt to measure the risk of future collateral calls or write-downs, which have devastated AIG's finances.
The problem for AIG is that it didn't apply effective models for valuing the swaps and for collateral risk until the second half of 2007, long after the swaps were sold, AIG documents and investor presentations indicate. The firm left itself exposed to potentially large collateral calls because it had agreed to insure so much debt without protecting itself adequately through hedging.
...Early on, Mr. Gorton billed AIG about $250 an hour, which likely would have netted him about $200,000 a year, says a former senior executive at the unit. Eventually, his pay was far greater; another former colleague estimates it at $1 million a year.
Mr. Gorton collected vast amounts of data and built models to forecast losses on pools of assets such as home loans and corporate bonds. Speaking to investors last December, Mr. Cassano credited Mr. Gorton with "developing the intuition" that he and another top executive had "relied on in a great deal of the modeling that we've done and the business that we've created."
...As the debt securities created by Wall Street became more complicated, so did the swaps AIG offered. Around 2004, it began selling swaps designed to provide insurance on securities called collateralized-debt obligations, or CDOs, that were backed by securities such as mortgage bonds. Merrill Lynch & Co., then a major seller of the CDOs, was a big client.
So-called multisector CDOs, in particular, were exceptionally complex, involving more than 100 securities, each backed by multiple mortgages, auto loans or credit-card receivables. Their performance depended on tens of thousands of disparate loans whose value was hard to determine and performance difficult to systematically predict. In assessing their risk, Mr. Gorton constructed worst-case scenarios that factored in the probability of defaults on the underlying securities.
In late 2005, senior executives at the unit grew worried about loosening lending standards in the subprime-mortgage market. AIG decided to stop selling credit protection on multisector CDOs, partly due to "concerns that the model was not going to be able to handle declining underwriting standards," Mr. Gorton told investors last December. But by the time it stopped, in early 2006, its exposure to multisector CDOs had ballooned to $80 billion.


Angular velocity is a measure of the rotational speed of an object, and is described in terms of an angle measure per unit of time, such as degrees per minute, degrees per hour, radians per minute or radians per hour. Angular velocity is not directly related to linear velocity. For example, the tip of a fan blade has a higher linear speed than the inside of the fan blade because it covers a longer distance in the same amount of time, but it has the same angular velocity because it makes the same number of revolutions per unit of time.
Calculate or look up the number of revolutions per unit of time that you're interested in. For example, to find the angular velocity of a fan, you can look up in the owner's manual how many rotations it makes per minute.
Multiply the number of rotations per minute by 360 to find the angular velocity in degrees per minute. For example, if a fan spins at 30 rotations per minute, you would multiply 30 by 360 to get 10,800 degrees per minute.
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Multiply the angular velocity in degrees per minute by 60 to convert to degrees per hour. In this example, you would multiply 10,800 by 60 to get 648,000 degrees per hour.
Multiply the number of rotations per minute by 6.28 (which is roughly two times the value of pi) to find the angular velocity in radians per minute. In this example, you would multiply 30 by 6.28 to get 188.4 radians per minute.
Multiply the angular velocity as measured in radians per minute by 60 to convert to radians per hour. For this example, you would multiply 188.4 by 60 to get 11,304 radians per hour.


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(NEW ALBANY, Ind.)–Susanna Crum, assistant professor of fine arts and her partner, Rudy Salgado, are blending art, reminiscence and a sense of place to boost morale in Louisville, Kentucky.
Crum and Salgado are reproducing and distributing a found artifact: pledge badges from the Great Flood of 1937.
Printed on camvas and pinned to a line in front of the couple’s studio, Calliope Arts, in the Smoketown neighborhood, the badges recall the resilience of past generations of Louisvillians to inspire the city’s inhabitants of today, who are coping with the global coronavirus pandemic.
For Crum, a Louisville native whose work reframes local history to inform the way we inhabit our lived spaces, the flood resonates far more vividly than the 1918 flu pandemic.
“My whole life I’ve heard about the 1937 flood as a significant test for Louisville and Southern Indiana residents,” Crum said. “I’ve seen flood maps and markers showing that floodwaters rose right up to our 135-year-old home and studio in Smoketown.”
In January, 1937 the rain-swollen Ohio River rose to 57 feet above flood stage, inundating large parts of Louisville, Jeffersonville, New Albany and Portland. According to the Filson Historical Society, roughly 60 percent of Louisville was flooded, and some 66 percent of the population had to be evacuated. Recovery was long and arduous. Many neighborhoods had to be rebuilt. Some were lost forever.
During the long recovery, Louisville Mayor Neville Miller created a Committee on Morale, which produced pledge badges to help residents stay positive and focus on helping one another.
The wearer pledged to be giving, unselfish and friendly, and to refrain from complaining and spreading bad news.
The final line was a rather unique exhortation: “I dare you to catch me not smiling.”
Crum first learned of the badges through a magazine article drawing attention to versions that had begun to appear on telephone poles in Louisville during the early days of the pandemic.
Crum translated the image to a format for screenprinting. Then she and Salgado printed several hundred badges by hand, and began attaching them to their front fence by safety pins.
Judging by how often Crum and Salgado have restocked the fence, the badges are catching on.
“We’ve loved seeing people come by to take packs or individual badges, and have even had socially-distant conversations with them from our third-floor windows,” Crum said. “Some people have left small handmade gifts and flowers in return.”
For Crum the artist, the experience recalls the days after the 9/11 attacks, when people flocked to museums, galleries, theater and concert halls in search of solace and community.
“Visual, literary, and performing arts offer a distraction during dark times, but they also provide a connection to other people, a release valve for emotions, and unique answers to questions that you might already have,” Crum said.
Crum sees in this project the ability of art and artists to provide continuity with the past, hope for the future, and an aesthetic experience to share (though remotely) with others.
“The badges connect us to Louisvillians who were doing the best with what they had, in a very different time,” Crum said. “It’s a reminder that communities get through things together.”


Victorian patients in urgent need of colonoscopies will receive them sooner following a funding boost from the Andrews Labor Government.
Minister for Health Jill Hennessy today announced a $12 million injection into Victorian hospitals to fast-track access and cut waiting times for colonoscopy procedures.
The colonoscopy blitz will provide colonoscopies for 6,635 of the patients across Victoria who are in the most urgent category and who have been waiting the longest.
Faster access to colonoscopies will deliver better patient outcomes, with patients able to get a quicker diagnosis and the treatment they need sooner to fight bowel cancer.
Ninety per cent of bowel cancer is curable if it is found and treated early, before it has had the chance to spread.
Demand for colonoscopies is rising sharply across Australia due to an ageing population and increased screening from the Commonwealth’s National Bowel Cancer Screening Program putting pressure on our hospitals.
Victorian public hospitals have experienced a 23 per cent increase in demand for colonoscopies between 2014-15 and 2016-17, when more than 54,000 colonoscopies were performed in Victorian public hospitals.
By 2020, all Australians aged 50-74 will be invited by the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program to screen every two years. This means the number of Victorian colonoscopies from this program will more than double.
Despite the Labor Government taking action for Victorian patients, the Turnbull Government has failed to provide any funding to meet this soaring demand.
In fact, Malcolm Turnbull continues to owe Victorians $104 million – the equivalent of 57,503 colonoscopy procedures – which he refuses to pay. This blow is in addition to his intentions to short-change Victorian hospitals to the tune of $2.1 billion – which will only further put Victorian patients at risk.
In 2016, 3,863 Victorians were diagnosed with bowel cancer and 1,372 died from the disease. It is the second most common cause of death to cancer.
From 1 July 2018, the new Colonoscopy Guidelines for Victorian Patients will come into force, with a target to ensure all Victorian patients in urgent need of colonoscopies receive them within 30 days.
Quotes attributable to Minister for Health Jill Hennessy
“People at risk of bowel cancer are waiting too long for a colonoscopy due to Malcom Turnbull’s cuts and inaction.”
“While Malcolm Turnbull sits on his hands, we’re delivering crucial funding so the most urgent patients get the care they need sooner.”
“This colonoscopy procedure blitz will get patients off the waiting list and diagnosed sooner right across Victoria.”
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A British institution.
Based on the original two-seat AC Ace, the Aceca was a hand-built grand tourer moulded in the British tradition of an ash wood and steel tubing and most importantly, a hatchback rear – making the Aceca only the second car, following the Aston Martin DB2, to incorporate the svelte, hatchback exterior.
Which goes some way in explaining why the AC Aceca-Bristol remains so spectacular today, as it was an original innovator. What adds to the car’s allure is the fact that along with 151 Acecas, there was only 169 Aceca-Bristol’s ever built before production ceased in 1963.
This particular 1958 AC Bristol rolls up to auction via RM Sotheby’s upcoming Amelia Island series on the 12th March 2016, and it boasts the Bristol’s exclusive ‘luxe coupe’ bodywork and exhilarating six-cylinder engine. The model has been beautifully restored across its relatively long-life span, and accordingly is presented as a near faultless of example of pioneering British design.
The last three decades has provided the Bristol with a distinct ‘rich patina’, complemented by a full luxury red leather interior alongside pristine conditioned interior trims in a black lacquer finish. What is more, the Bristol is up for sale with a near complete original tool kit and original owner’s handbook. After all, it’s the little things that contribute to the endearing appeal of nostalgia.
Fully restored, the Aceca-Bristol presents the opportunity to own one of the most charming cars in the world. Ready and waiting to hit the track once more.
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First things first — Immortals is not 300. True, it shares some producers and it’s a swords-and-sandals epic packed with tons of visual effects, but that does not mean it’s not its own creation entirely.
Immortals — particularly the 3-D version — is an ambitious adventure in epic, myth-fueled filmmaking and in visual effects. The R-rated movie, which opens Friday, is prettttty. Problem is, it’s hard to tell if that’s a good thing or a bad thing.
Using brilliant strokes, director Tarsem Singh (The Cell) has painted an intricate canvas that combines the world of Zeus and the other Greek gods with that of the grimy, war-ravaged world of mere mortals. From the hyper-realistic deaths by sword to the pristine marble worlds of the heavens above, it’s gorgeous.
Unfortunately, at times it’s all just a little too much.
(Spoiler alert: A few more minor plot points follow.)
The tale of Immortals is, well, old. Hundreds of years before the common era, a peasant named Theseus (played by Henry Cavill) is secretly trained by Zeus to be a great warrior. Theseus ends up leading his people in a massive battle against King Hyperion (Mickey Rourke), who is essentially at war with humanity and searching for the magical Epirus Bow to unleash a wave of destruction.
Cavill looks the part of a brooding hero and even manages to bag the lovely Phaedra (Freida Pinto), an oracle who knows the dangers ahead. There is a lot of awesome swordplay, sweatiness and chest-thumping (thank the gods for Stephen Dorff, who plays Theseus’ comrade at arms Stavros). Blah, blah, blah.
Then there are the standard-issue mortal coils: Theseus doesn’t really want to fight for his fellow Hellenics. At least not until after Hyperion kills Theseus’ mother and the reluctant human hero has his tryst with the wise Phaedra (oh, now it’s on). Even though Zeus has trained Theseus in secret, he insists the gods should not involve themselves in the wars of humans — no matter how sad-face they all get looking down on the mortals’ trials from their perfectly set-designed heavens. Zeus’ resolve remains true even though Hyperion threatens to unleash the Titans, who have been locked away waiting for war with the gods for centuries.
Also, you get to see the Wrestler beat the pulp out of the next Man of Steel. As Hyperion starts making good on his threats we’re led to the movie’s final, monumental battle scene. And, really, this is what makes Immortals worth the price of admission. You’ll see fast-then-slow, blood-spattered stabs and jabs of all varieties. In-your-face hammers. Cavill doing some serious nostril-flare work. It’s extremely cool to take in.
The bottom line is that Immortals is a great battle epic — well-acted, gorgeously shot, etc. — which is cool if you’re into that sort of thing. It’s an interesting take on what can be done with 3-D visual effects: The things done with multidimensional sunbeams and heavenly battles are incredibly cool to look at — if you’re into that sort of thing. Also, you get to see the Wrestler beat the pulp out of the next Man of Steel, who, for what it’s worth, is so cut that shots of his abs make the movie appear to be in 4-D. And that’s amazing — if you’re into that sort of thing.
What you don’t get is anything more than that. Immortals is excellent Friday-night popcorn fare that one day will look brilliant on your 70-inch flatscreen TV. It’s a cool step in the evolution of mythic storytelling with modern effects. Go see it with your friends. But don’t be surprised 10 years from now — after many more evolutionary clicks in visual effects, which seem less revolutionary each time — when Immortals looks more like 300 than ever.
WIRED Wonderful visual effects and 3-D; badass fight scenes.
TIRED Fairly standard-issue swords-and-sandals plot; slightly overwrought.

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text: I've always wondered what happened to the "Strawberry Fields" Mellotron. The book Recording The Beatles describes this particular Mellotron Mk. II as being hired or rented from the Mellotron company office. It did not belong to EMI or any of the Beatles (I imagine it was probably inconvenient for any of them to bring thier personal Mellotron to the studio). As far as I know this "hired" Mellotron was featured on only two Beatles tracks: the aforementioned Strawberry Fields Forever and the MMT instrumental, Flying. The Beatles Gear book does a great job detailing the provenance of many of the instruments the Beatles used but there is no mention of this Mellotron after EMI acquired their own (two FX Console models) in 1968. Does anyone know the rest of the story?

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Most passenger cars were lettered with the railroad name or company along the - you guessed it - letterboard. "Great Northern", "Northern Pacific", "Union Pacific", "Canadian Pacific", or even "Seattle Lake Shore and Eastern" are documented in period photos. Coach 218 operated on a railroad jointly owned by the Northern Pacific and the Great Northern called the Spokane, Portland and Seattle. Fortunately, a photograph held in the collections of the Oregon Historical Society revealed what that looked like in 1912. Paint sample found along the edges of moldings allowed an accurate color match too.
Lettering in era it was built was usually gold leaf, which were actual thin sheets of gold attached to the side of the car with an adhesive. Gold leaf could have been applied to the 218, but it is a skill set not resident at the Northwest Railway Museum. Fortunately, modern metallic paint can give an appearance very similar to gold leaf by using a paint mask over a pre-painted metallic gold surface. So the artisans in the Museum's Conservation and Restoration Center were able to create the stencils and paint mask required to reproduce that look, and earlier this fall the lettering made its first appearance.
You can visit and RIDE on coach 218 at the Northwest Railway Museum . Your next opportunity are the Halloween Steam Train rides on October 25 and 26. See you there!


Air conditioning is the process of removing heat from a confined space, thus cooling the air, and removing humidity. Air conditioning can be used in both domestic and commercial environments.
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The compressor is the place where the Freon is stored, the condensers are meant to cool the indoor air, the fans help to circulate the air indoors and the metal fins are placed so that the heat can dissipate rapidly.
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Many of the portable air conditioning units are built to have energy saving capacities that automatically monitor the temperature. At one time the units were only capable of being set on one temperature and stayed at that temperature no matter how cool the room got.
This is no longer the case. Built in thermostats help regulate how much the unit cools and how often. If you want to get more knowledge about portable air conditioners then you can hop over to this website.
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When looking for a portable air conditioner, think about certain factors such as the size of the area you wish to cool, energy consumption, and maintenance requirements. Four-hundred-fifty square feet is a good-sized area and one of the portable AC units will handle that space very well.
Some energy efficient models also will feature a heater that can be used instead of air conditioning. These types of portable AC units give you value for your money no matter what time of year it is.
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Revealing the history of The Waddington Shank
Written by Mark Hamnett
History of the Waddington Shank
Salmon fishing in the early 1800’s was done exclusively using blind-eyed hooks where the cast (of plaited horsehair or gut) was whipped onto the shank of the hook and later would have been attached with a gut loop that had been dressed as part of the fly. In or around 1845 steel-eyed hooks made their debut and to the annoyance of many in his book Practice of Angling O’Gorman clearly states his intense dislike of “the newly invented hook . . . with an eye in the shank. It is another Scotch invention, and its usefulness may be placed on a par with the newly invented method of breeding salmon. Any fly tied on a hook of this description must be clumsy.” Trout hooks with a ringed-eye first came onto the market much later around 1875, their invention being attributed to H. S Hall.
Early Salmon Hooks
Early Salmon hooks were huge by today’s standards with sizes 3/0 to 10/0 being used for fishing in strong and gusty winds since they were fished at the bottom. The weight of a good salmon iron was useful in getting the fly down to the fish. However, as Gorman stated when taken by a Salmon, large hooks are clumsy and prone to being levered out of the fishes mouth.
The first tube fly has been attributed to British author and angler Alexander Wanless, whom in his book The Angler And The Thread Line shares for the first time his tube fly patterns and their use. Wanless was an avid spin-fishing angler but wanted to bring the superior properties of the fly into his own style of fishing. To do so he devised a pattern that could be fished using a thread (spinning) line. He outlined various other fly innovations in his book Thread Line Salmon Fly all with one thing in common they could all be tied using smaller hooks so would not work as levers when salmon took them, improving his catch rate.
Tube Flies and Waddington Shanks are related insofar as both evolved from the introduction of eyed hooks and the mass production of small treble hooks.
The Waddington Shank
British angler Richard Waddington (b.1910 – d.1999) first conceived the idea of what we now call the Waddington Shank in the 1940s. It should be mentioned that Waddington was no ordinary angler and not merely a fly dresser – he was possibly the most eminent salmon fisherman of the twentieth century. He challenged contemporary thinking and related available material to fishing method and practice of the day. His study of salmon biology, life-cycle and migration led him to rethink the techniques of the day to achieve more successful results.
His intelligent interpretation of fish physiology has changed our approach to modern salmon fishing and his theories are at the very heart of our fishing techniques today.
In his book Salmon Fishing, A New Philosophy published in 1947, he wrote;
I surmise that this fly will look more natural in the water; that the small triangle is less obvious than a large hook and that once the fish is hooked it will give a better hold. The link in the shank will obviate much of the strain and movement in the hook.”
No doubt Albert Partridge became interested when both ghillies and their customers were waxing lyrically in the press about their increased bag of Salmon on the new style of fishing!
Early production was a single shank and only later on manufactured by with double wire shank construction we fish today. Today Shanks have found favour once more with modifications that Richard Waddington would have approved for the tying of Intruder Patterns when targeting Atlantic and Pacific Salmon, Steelhead and a wide variety of Predator and Sea species.
Waddington’s theory about the shank design overcame the problems of leverage experienced when using large single hooks, which caused so many problems in the 1940’s. Shortening the length of the shank decreased the leverage on the Waddington Shank.
The treble hooks could also be replaced easily because of the construction of the tail end of the shank; opening up the loop replacing the treble and closing the loop. The shanks having a fine diameter would also allow the flies to sink more quickly and also slim bodied flies to be created.
Partridge got involved in the manufacture of Waddington Shanks in the 1960’s, producing them by hand on a bowing machine initially, in time these were produced on an automated bowing machine and these days on CNC Machines ensuring that they are all the same size and shape and configuration.
The resurgence of shanks and the rise and rise of Intruder patterns in North America has fuelled a series of imitators on the market and a number of developments at Partridge of Redditch, first in 2013 with the introduction of Intruder Shanks, where the trailing eye is oriented vertically so that it can be used to mount double and single hooks (rather than the original treble) and most recently a straight-eyed version designed specifically with predator fishing in mind – Predator Shanks are for those looking for articulation when they are linked together.
|Inch||Metric||Treble Hook Size||Salmon Single Equivalent|
|2 ⅜ in||55 mm||2 to 4||6/0 to 5/0|
|1 ¾ in||45 mm||4 to 6||4/0 to 3/0|
|1 ⅜ in||35 mm||6 to 8||1/0 to 1|
|1 in||25 mm||8 to 10||2 to 4|
|¾ in||20 mm||10 to 14||6 to 8|
|⅝ in||15 mm||12 to 16||8 to 10|
|⅜ in||10 mm||18 to 20||12 to 14|
- O’Gorman – Practice of Angling, 1845
- Alexander Wanless – The Angler And The Thread Line, 1932
- Eric Taverner – Salmon Fishing, 1945
- Richard Waddington – Salmon Fishing, A New Philosophy, 1947
- Richard Waddington – Salmon Fishing, Philosophy and Practice 1959
- Richard Waddington – Waddington on Salmon Fishing, 1991
With thanks to Paul Slaney for the images of the flies tied on Waddington Shanks.
Richard Waddington – born 21 January 1910, died 2 November 1999
Richard Waddington, who revolutionised the way that Scottish grouse moors were run commercially in the post-war era, gave his name to the Waddington Lure for salmon fishing, and who had a total of nine books on outdoor gaming subjects published, has died at his retirement home in Findhorn, Moray, at the age of 89.
War veteran Mr Waddington was a member of an Anglo-Chilean diplomatic family, his grandfather having served as that South American country’s ambassador in Britain, while his father had a similar post in Belgium, where he met Richard’s mother who was studying music at the Brussels Conservatoire.
Richard was educated at Marlborough School and had intended going to Trinity College in Oxford until his stepfather, James Marshall, who owned a 14,000-acre estate now under the control of the National Trust at Coniston Water in the Lake District, persuaded him to go to Aberdeen University, the only institution at that time offering a science degree in forestry.
Richard married Elspeth Grant of Monymusk, Aberdeenshire, whom he met as a student, and on graduation went to London, where he worked as a freelance journalist in the immediate pre-war era. There was a strong military tradition in Richard’s mother’s family – her uncle David, the first Earl Beatty, having served as Admiral of the Fleet, while two of Richard’s uncles on his mother’s side, were Generals.
During the war, Richard was seconded to the Intelligence Corps and saw service in North Africa, Sicily, and Italy (where he was wounded twice). After a further spell of active service, Richard was commissioned as a Major in the Scots Guards, before being de-mobbed.
Recovering from his exertions, he rented a farmhouse at Advice, on Speyside, where he met Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke, who at the time was fishing on the productive Tulchan beat of the Spey. Through that connection, he was introduced to Hilda, Duchess of Richmond and Gordon, and subsequently rented a property on her estate, something that worked in his favour when he negotiated a 30-year lease of Blairfindy Lodge and its surrounding grouse moor from the Commissioners of the Crown Estate in 1947.
Before long he was able to rent two neighbouring grouse moor properties on the same Glenlivet Estate from the Crown, Strathavon and Kylenadrochit. He was able to start off with a favourable rental of #500 a year because the Crown Factor warned him that there were very few grouse as the moors had been largely untended from 1939-1945.
Indeed, during the first three years, Waddington and his keepers killed 2000 foxes. As the moor was restored to its pre-war glory, he organised it in a way whereby enthusiasts were able to hire a quality shoot for a week, rather than being there as guests of the Laird, the common practice at the time.
Among those shooting, there were American industrial giants Henry Ford and Nelson Rockefeller, as well as members of the Dupont chemical family, who were all treated to five-star-quality food and drink in the lodges as part of the deal.
His volume Grouse Shooting – Moor Management, which was published in the late 1950s, became the standard reference book on the subject. Another book, Salmon Fishing – A New Philosophy, became extremely influential, and Mr Waddington, whose prowess as an angler was renowned on the Spey, invented the Waddington Lure, a triple-hooked device with long heron feathers, still in regular use in salmon rivers worldwide.
Mr Waddington leaves a daughter, Frances, by his first wife, who died in the 1960s, and only last year saw his first great-grandson born.


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Celebaby: Sneak-Peek And Alicia Takes A Tumble
In today's Celebaby we get a first look at Ethan Edward Smith with his parents, Dannii Minogue and Kris Smith, and four-inch heels on stage when you're preggars are not such a good idea for Alicia Keys.
My respect for Dannii Minogue shot through the roof this week; like her sister she's very dignified under the glare of the constant media spotlight and appears to be very unpretentious.
The first pictures of her new son, Ethan Edward, were released yesterday but not by OK! Magazine, not in a 10-page glossy spread shot by Hello but a family snapshot posted on her Twitter page! HURRAH!
Dannii has reportedly turned down offers of around £100,000 for the exclusive rights to the first photos and good for her! The photo is lovely! Dannii looks stunning, and about 10-years-old, with not a scrap of makeup on and baby Ethan is all wrapped up and set to go home.
Even if there are magazine spreads and the usual staged family shots to come, I will always admire the family for not selling-out the first ones.
Stage Tumble for Alicia Keys
If you've ever been pregnant you'll know that at some point you have to admit defeat and pack the high heels away for a while.
Alicia Keys may just have reached this point as she tumbled off an enormous pair of four-inch heels on stage this week.
She's five months preggars now and there were gasps from the audience when she stumbled backwards and fell over.
The show went on however, and mum and baby are both fine.
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Market and regulatory reforms are forcing buy side firms to look for new ways of accessing collateral, funding and liquidity, according to a new report from BNY Mellon and PWC.
Based on a survey that 120 buy side respondents with a combined $12 trillion in AUM participated in, the report claims that “access to high-quality collateral, funding and liquidity is not only a pressing concern, but has emerged as the essential new performance driver for the buy side”.
The current challenge with accessing these is twofold. On the one hand, new margin requirements for non-centrally cleared derivatives agreed by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) and the International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSC) will increase buy side collateral obligations.
Indeed, in the survey, 93% of respondents said that they expect new regulations to increase both the amount of margin calls they have and the amount of high quality collateral that they will need to cover them.
On the other hand, it is becoming harder for the sell side to supply liquidity and collateral to the market due to capital and liquidity constraints under Basel III.
“Dealer balance sheet constraints are reducing short-term liquidity and limiting access to transformation trades,” observes the report, noting that this issue is particularly acute for tier two and tier three asset managers, which the survey defines as having between $500 billion to $1 trillion AUM and less than $500 billion AUM, respectively.
Whereas only 15% of tier one asset managers – those with over $1 trillion in AUM – expect to face challenges sourcing short-term liquidity/financing, this figure almost doubles to 29% for tier two and three asset managers.
The problem isn’t a lack of high quality collateral in the market, but rather being able to access it, according to James Slater, head of securities finance and global collateral services at BNY Mellon Markets.
“The buy-side firms reported that there’s a lot of collateral out there, the question is: how to access it? If you’re relying on a bank or a broker-dealer as your primary intermediary into the marketplace then you’re acutely aware now that they don’t have unlimited balance sheet and that they might not be able to intermediate liquidity in the way that they used to, and that’s really been the call to action,” he says.
The report itself actually warns that buy side market participants expressed concern that this inaccessibility of collateral in the financial system could precipitate the next big market stress event.
In response to this “call to action”, the report highlights two different approaches being taken by buy side firms to this problem of sourcing liquidity, funding and collateral.
The first approach is to develop centralised collateral, funding and liquidity functions within their organisations. The fact that 60% of the buy side firms in the survey mentioned plans to move to an integrated model of collateral, funding and liquidity that can operate as an “internal capital market” shows the popularity of this approach.
The second approach being adopted by the buy side is to develop new sources of liquidity, with buy side survey respondents highlighting expanding dealer relationships, engaging non-dealer counterparties, centrally clearing and participating in peer-to-peer platforms as the four liquidity options that they are evaluating.
The report says that buy side firms “are nearly unanimous in their preference for expanding their existing relationships to additional banks/dealers”, but notes that this is only likely to provide marginal benefits as it propagates the challenges that already exist with the current dealer relationship. Meanwhile, it also points out that expanding the number of bank/dealer relationships will likely require a premium as flows have to be continually routed to these new relationships in order to maintain them and secure access to liquidity.
“I think the significance of this survey is that it really confirms the buy-side is taking action in terms of sourcing liquidity, funding and collateral challenges in the new regulatory landscape. And while many of these firms are looking to expand the number of counterparties that they transact with, this study shows that they recognise that it’s not enough to simply add another bank or dealer. As a result, they’re looking at more innovative solutions, like central clearing and peer-to-peer lending through platforms such as DBVX,” comments Slater.
While Slater says that the survey broadly validated his expectations regarding buy-side activity in response to these liquidity, funding and collateral challenges, he confesses to being surprised by the trend amongst hedge funds towards focusing on consolidating their existing dealer relationships.
The survey showed that 79% of hedge funds plan to consolidate their existing dealer relationships, in comparison to 43% that plan to expand them.
Giving his take on these results, Slater observes: “My impression is that there was a period after the financial crisis where hedge funds were diversifying and adding additional primes, but what’s coming out loud and clear in this research is that they are now actually consolidating in order to become more important to their prime brokers.”
The report also notes that more than 70% of hedge funds prefer traditional prime brokerage models and are willing to pay a premium in order to secure balance sheet access.
“Hedge funds have experienced an increase in their cost of funding. These increases range from 35 to 150 basis points based on the size of the fund, the trade flow routed through their prime broker and the investment strategy being pursued,” says the report.


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LONG ISLAND OPINION
LONG ISLAND OPINION; SEDUCED BY BOOKS, FROTHY ROMANCES TO TRUE ADVENTURE
By JUDI CULBERTSON; Judi Culbertson lives in Port Jefferson.
Published: July 12, 1987
WHEN I was growing up, reading was considered, by parents, as a necessary evil. It ranked above listening to the ''Make Believe Ballroom'' or talking on the phone, but below saving laundry instructions from new clothes or cleaning the bathroom. Most parents believed -naively - that a book wouldn't attack you in the back seat of a car.
The back seat of a car was where I first did most of my reading. We were forced to accompany my parents while they visited hospitalized friends, met trains or looked at real estate. I read when the car was moving, and read when we stopped and went into people's homes.
If the visit was brief, I brought my own book. If it was for the evening, I read whatever I found in the house -most often Reader's Digest condensed books or cartoon collections about skiing or having babies.
At 11, I joined my friends reading in church. Our tiny Presbyterian library barely filled our shelves. It contained a complete set of Grace Livingston Hill romances, a gory, descriptive tome called ''Fox's Book of Christian Martyrs'' and how-to books on living the Christian life.
The manuals didn't teach you how to be popular and attract boys (our only objective in reading them), but I was taken with one that promised that if I ''stayed pure, some arrow-straight lad would come marching into my heart.'' Purity seemed a small price to pay for a steady date.
I read in church during the sermon, discreetly shielding the book in my lap with the Sunday bulletin. But as my habit grew, I became skilled at surreptitious reading everywhere. I did it in school assemblies, Girl Scout meetings and during spelling tests.
When my seventh-grade class discovered ''Gone With the Wind'' and my parents forbade me to read it, I read secretly in my room. I kept the book hidden under my bed and hung over the side to read it, ready to shove it back at the slightest sound. For years my ribs ached whenever I thought of Scarlett and Rhett.
My parents had been right in banning ''Gone With the Wind.'' It made Caddie Woodlawn and the Moffits seem suddenly childish, beloved younger cousins of whom I was fond but could teach me nothing further. I had discovered a new purpose for reading: information. I was not allowed to take adult books out of the library, but there were no signs posted that forbade me from moving in.
Every summer day I sat in a blond wooden lounge chair or curled up against the metal of the stacks. I kept expecting an irate librarian to grab ''Pink Magic'' or ''I'd Rather Be Kissed'' out of my hand and order me back upstairs to the Children's section. But that never happend, and by July 1 I had started to relax.
From frothy romances, I moved to true experience stories. Hunched over uncomfortably, I was assaulted by hundreds of frail voices: a young Southern bride exiled to Carville for leprosy, a mother whose daughter had died of an unknown disease, a multitude of souls lost in schizophrenia and bereavement. I came out blinking in the hot summer dusk, startled to find that I was still only myself.
When the true stories ran out, I went back to fiction. I read about people who would never be good Presbyterians. And I learned, all too soon, what my parents had feared: that life offers no security underfoot, but wonderful chances to fly.


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