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Rahsaan Patterson has one of the most distinctive voices ever. That tenor of his is insane. There’s no mistaking it. As soon as he opens his mouth, the gloriousness that follows through is soul-stirring and that will never change.
He’s one of the R&B/soul (jazz, electronica and funk influenced as well) singers who always pays homage to those before him. Through his vocality, his techniques, his songwriting and lyricism. You can tell that his spirit moves him from deep down when he brings a song to life. And from jump, I’ve loved hearing him flourish as an artist.
In creating ‘Sent From Heaven,’ I was reminded of how I have been schooled by all the greats and how grateful I am to have been schooled by them. Some songs might have a melody but how many will truly resonate with us 40 years later? As a songwriter and artist, it is important to insert that part of my creativity.
Patterson is celebrating 35 years in the entertainment industry and over the years, he’s garnered much love and admiration from Lalah Hathaway, Ledisi, Chaka Khan and Van Hunt to name a few. From his stellar self-titled album to his latest single “Sent From Heaven”, Patterson’s music has a little something for everyone to enjoy.
“Sent From Heaven” is a smokey joint with an influence from yesteryear that gives me all the feels. However, Patterson always comes with the real when he releases music. This is certainly no different. Leading into the release of his new album Heros & Gods on May 17, 2019, which will be released by Shanachie Entertainment, the single continues to shine the light on Patterson’s talent and mastery. Best believe I’m sure the album will as well.
Now, this is an album that I look forward to hearing.
The single will be available on March 22nd for purchase and streaming on all of your favourite outlets.
See y’all soon…


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I needed a left back for a long time in my team and tried all sorts. Mendy was bad at defending and Robertson was too slow. Rose however was the perfect balance with great skills going forward and in defence and can keep you in games. For 5k I would highly recommend him as you will not find anyone better in the league.
Strength as he out-muscles opponents all the time
Occasionally gets a yellow card but its not a concern as he has never got sent off for me.

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Cosco Offers Unconditional Buying of Cogent Shares
The offer by Cosco Shipping International (Singapore) Co. to acquire all the issued ordinary shares of Cogent Holdings has turned unconditional. The former had launched a cash buyout of the latter recently. Bank of China (Singapore Branch), acting on behalf of Cosco Shipping International, says , the offeror has received valid acceptances representing 440.5 million shares or 92.05% of Cogent. "BOC wishes to announce that the Offeror has received valid acceptances (which have not been withdrawn) in respect of such number of Shares which…
Gulf Navigation Refinances Two Carriers
Gulf Navigation Holding PJSC has announced refinancing 'Gulf Mishref' and 'Gulf Mirdif' petrochemical carriers in less than a month after increasing its capital to AED 1 billion through an Initial Public Offering (IPO). The move underlines the increasing demand for the company’s shipping services, which requires increasing its fleet capacity to meet the demand for its services in the region. Refinancing the two carriers, Gulf Mishref and Gulf Mirdif, is an important addition to the company's petrochemical transportation capabilities.
Norden Reports Holding of Own Shares
Steve Krabbe, the president of Norden A/S, in connection with senior staff’s utilization of share options, announced that the company has sold 23,890 of shares of DKK 20.00. The company’s holding of own shares is now 95,900 shares of DKK 20.00 corresponding to 4.16 percent of the share capital. On March 15, Norden reported in the Annual Report 2003 that the holding of own shares was 119,790 shares of DKK 20.00 corresponding to 5.2 percentof the share capital.
Babcock & Brown to Acquire Bluewater Wind
International investment firm Babcock & Brown (ASX: BNB - News), announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Bluewater Wind Delaware LLC and its parent holding companies, including Bluewater Offshore Holdings LLC and Bluewater Wind Holdings, LLC, in an effort to expand its portfolio of wind energy projects and contribute to its goal of developing offshore wind. Hunter Armistead, head of Babcock & Brown's North American Energy Development Group added that Bluewater will continue with negotiations with Delmarva Power toward executing a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA), in a process that is being overseen by the Delaware Public Service Commission and three state agencies. [Source: PRNewswire]
Shipbuilding and Repair Presence Primorye
Far Eastern Center for Shipbuilding and Shiprepairing is being created in Primorye. The Primorsky Territory Administration hosted a meeting dedicated to this new center. RF President Aide Alexander Burutin and Primorye Vice-Governor Pavel Popov took part in the meeting dedicated to creation of OJSC, which was held in the Primorsky Territory Administration. As the Administration reports, this open joint-stock company (OJSC) will be a sub-holding within the United Shipbuilding Corporation, which is now being founded on the initiative of the RF President Vladimir Putin. The United Shipbuilding Corporation will consolidate leading state…
Pirates Release Tanker and Crew in Gulf of Guinea
Product tanker MT Barrett has been released and all crew are safe following a six-day piracy incident in the Gulf of Guinea, U.K. based Union Maritime has confirmed. Union Maritime said it lost communications with its 11,999-dwt product tanker while the vessel was at anchor off Benin, West Africa on the morning of January 10, after which the company immediately implemented its emergency response plan and alerted regional maritime authorities and other vessels. A resolution process began when the pirates holding the MT Barrett made contact with the Union Maritime late on January 12.
GOGL Acquires New Vessel
Norway based dry bulk shipping company Golden Ocean Group Limited (GOGL) has taken delivery of the second vessel, Sea Monterrey (to be renamed Golden Monterrey). On October 16, 2017 GOGL announced that it has entered into agreements to acquire two modern Capesize vessels from affiliates of Hemen Holding Limited, a company indirectly controlled by trusts established by John Fredriksen for the benefit of his immediate family (Hemen), the Company's largest shareholder, at a purchase price of USD 43.0 million per vessel. The first vessel, Golden Behike, was delivered in November 2017.
O'Gara Wins Navy Satellite Deal
SatCom Group Holdings PLC, a reseller of mobile satellite communications, said its subsidiary O'Gara Satellite Systems Inc has won a 5-year contract, worth 10m in the first year, from the US government to supply satellite airtime to the US Navy. O'Gara, which is one of the five companies in the world certified as a Defense Information Technology Contracting Organization (DITCO) awardee, won the contract following a tender. It has an existing agreement under DITCO to supply the government with other satellite services. SatCom Group Holdings chief executive Source: Thompson Financial
BBM Holdings to Terminate Operations
BBM Holdings which provides broadband services to ships, announced today that it has ceased operations and reduced employment to a small residual force. The Company will seek to maintain its assets (primarily intellectual property and technology), settle its obligation
JFE Consider Takeover of Hitachi Zosen Shipbuilding
JFE Holdings Inc. is considering taking over Hitachi Zosen Corp.'s shipbuilding operations, which are now conducted by Universal Shipbuilding Corp., a joint venture between the two firms, sources said Saturday. The deal would mark Osaka-based Hitachi Zosen's effective departure from shipbuilding. It will instead concentrate on its mainline environment equipment and plants business to try to bolster profitability, the sources said. The acquisition is expected to accelerate reconfiguration of the domestic shipbuilding industry. Demand for shipbuilding has increased amid the strong global economy. However, domestic shipbuilders face cutthroat competition with South Korean and Chinese rivals as well as deteriorating profitability due to rising materials costs.
Russia to Set up Three Shipbuilding Holdings in 2007
The Russian government will soon adopt a strategy for the development of shipbuilding until 2020, which envisions the creation of three major shipbuilding holdings, the defense minister said Tuesday. The minister said one of the holdings will be set up in Russia's Far East to ensure the development of the shipbuilding industry on the Pacific coast. The upper house of the Russian parliament recently discussed the current crisis in the civilian shipbuilding industry and issued a statement urging the government to adopt a comprehensive strategy to lead the industry out of the current quagmire. Members of the Federation Council stated that…
Emerson Acquires Marine Valve Supplier
Engineering firm Emerson Electric Co. has acquired marine valve supplier Damcos Holding AS, the AP reported Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Damcos Holding supplies valve remote controls and tank monitoring equipment to the marine and shipbuilding industries. Damcos will become part of Emerson's process management business, which helps companies automate their production and processing systems. Emerson bought the company from British investor 3i Group PLC, Danish valve manufacturer Danfoss AS and the Damcos management team. Source: AP
L-3 Closes Purchase of Nautronix
L-3 Communications Holdings Inc. has completed its purchase of Nautronix Defense Group, the mine and anti-submarine weapons systems maker, for $65m in cash plus a possible $6m more, depending on financial performance. Nautronix will be renamed L-3 Communications Nautronix Holdings Inc., and will add about $25m to L-3's estimated sales this year. Source: Reuters
Attica Holdings Sells 3 Vessels
According to reports, Attica Holdings announced that, on March 21, 2006, it has contracted to sell to AS Tallink Grupp its ice-class Ro-Pax vessels Superfast VII, Superfast VIII and Superfast IX for a total cash consideration of Euro 310 million. source: Reporter.gr Pending legal and regulatory procedures, the transaction will close within April 2006. Attica will maintain its presence in the Baltic Sea with the operation of its two RoRo vessels that are trading between Rostock, Germany and Uusikaupunki, Finland.
COSCO Intl. Holdings Gets Acquisitive
COSCO International Holdings Ltd is engaged in talks to acquire COSCO Network Ltd., a global transportation, logistics and communications network, from its parent company China Ocean Shipping (Group) Co. COSCO International also said in a statement that it is considering the acquisition of other technology, environmental protection and Internet assets. The shipping container leasing and handling company said it made the announcement in response to newspaper reports on about these possible transactions.
Investor Group To Acquire Aalborg Industries
Headed by Axcel, an investor group has formalized an agreement with the Danish company J. Lauritzen Holding to attain Aalborg Industries. Aalborg, which is one of Denmark's large industrial companies specializing in the field of boilers and other heat generating equipment, agreed to allow investors to set up a new holding company with shares to be distributed among the investor group. The investor group also includes LD, FIH, and Aalborg president and CEO Freddy Frandsen, senior vice president and CFO Svend Ole Aagren, and group vice president Jorn Nielsen.
KPN And Telstra Form Joint Venture
KPN (Royal Dutch Telecom) and Telstra have agreed to form a joint venture company by merging their respective mobile satellite communications businesses. The new company, which will trade as Station 12 - is positioned to be a major player in the global satcom industry. Contributing an approximate combined figure of $145 million in net tangible assets to launch the venture, with KPN holding 65 percent of equity shares and Telstra holding the remainder, the new company has projected an initial annual revenue around $250 million.
Aker In Talks to Sell Aker Base Unit
Aker Maritime is in talks to sell a 32.5 percent stake in its Aker Base unit to supply ship owners Simen Moekster Shipping and Eidesvik Holding. Aker Maritime, which would maintain a 35 percent holding in Aker Base, would book a pre-tax gain of 208 million crowns ($25.5 million) from the deal, including 140 million in 2000. Under the deal, Aker Base, a land-based support group for offshore installations, would also service Moekster's and Eidesvik's supply ships.
Royal Olympic Considering Proposals
Royal Olympic Cruises Lines stated that a special committee of its outside directors has been considering proposals and alliances involving the company and/or its majority shareholder, ROC Holdings. Consisting of Bobby Melnick, Michael Jolliffe and Nicholas Pisaris, the committee is considering proposals such as a sale of a controlling interest in ROC Holdings that would not involve an offer to purchase the company's publicly held shares.
UDL Holdings OKs Restructuring Plan
UDL Holdings Ltd., its subsidiaries and controlling shareholder have reached an agreement to restructure and rescue the group, excluding its unit KEL Holdings Ltd. The proposed reorganization includes a rights issue and the purchase of Hong Kong Asset Co. and Singaporean Asset Co., which would have a fleet of vessels with the necessary critical mass to compete in the marine engineering construction industry. The plan involves the consolidation of 20 shares into one share, capital reduction, disposal of scheme assets and issue of new shares representing 50 percent of the issued capital as enlarged by the issue of new shares and the rights issue.
NCL Expects $5.9 M In Losses After Grounding
NCL Holding ASA reportedly expects losses from the grounding of its Norwegian Sky vessel off Canada last week to total $5.9 million, including $2.5 million from NCL's part in insurance payments and loss of on-board income not covered by insurance plus $3.4 million for cost cuts on future cruises. However, NCL is still reporting solid liquidity. Cash holdings as of September 30 totaled $115 million.
Hornblower to Manage New Ferry Service in Virginia
Hornblower Marine Services and Virginia-based, MetroMarine Holdings have started a new passenger ferry service between Downtown Hampton and Downtown Norfolk. HarborLink - as the service is known - will be operated by Hornblower Marine Services. This service is privately financed by the group and supplemented by CMAQ federal funds. The contract for this new ferry service was awarded to the joint venture partnership in 1998 by the City of Hampton and Norfolk, following an RFP process. CMAQ federal funds were applied for by the City of Hampton and granted in earlier this year. A further two years of federal funding has also been granted. This new ferry service will be the beginning of a more regional service envisioned for this new partnership in the Hampton Roads area.
Attica Holdings Sells RoRo Vessel
Attica Holdings S.A. announces that it has contracted to sell its RoRo vessel Marin, built 1991, trading between Greece and Italy for a total cash consideration of Euro 8,450,000. The delivery of the vessel and final payment will take place in February 2008. At the time of conclusion of the transaction, Attica Group is expected to book capital gains of approximately Euro 2.2mln.

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Here is a list of items you must stock in your pantry to prepare delicious Mexican dishes at the comfort of your home.
Florida, 8th March 2019: Mexican dishes have a fresh, spicy and hearty flavor which will tantalize your senses and make you want for more! Visit a well-known Mexican restaurant and dive into the rich and flavorsome food that you have never tasted before. You can even look for online Mexican seafood delivery in Cape Coral and get your meals delivered at your doorstep.
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• Avocado – Avocados are said to add an irresistible creamy taste to your dishes. They are mild in flavor and adds a nutty and buttery feel to the dishes. You can add this item depending on the consistency of the dish being prepared. Avocados are extremely healthy and they taste excellent when served as the base for your salad dressing, or when whipped into a spicy cream and slathered on various items.
• Chiles – These are one of the most essential items in any Mexican dish. You get to choose from a variety of chilies and the most common one is chile peppers that includes poblano, guajillo, jalapeño, habanero and chipotle. While each of them has a distinct hot, sweet and smoky taste, they are added to different dishes accordingly.
• Mexican oregano – The regular oregano that you will find in your kitchen is mainly belonging to the Mediterranean variety. In the case of Mexican cuisine, you will need to use the Mexican oregano. This ingredient would add a complex flavor to your dishes while remaining mild in nature. It mainly has a citrus undertone which amps a rich and spicy taste to the meals.
• Lime – This ingredient goes great with margaritas and it is a staple item when preparing Mexican meals. This fruit has high acid and sour content, but in spite of that it is said to infuse rich flavors to your Mexican dishes. You can squeeze it over seafood, tacos, soups and even on salad dressings to balance out the spicy quotient.
Visit a special dine in Mexican restaurant in Cape Coral with your family and friends and try out a hearty Mexican luncheon or supper this season. On the other hand, to order food online, simply search for best Mexican eateries with online delivery options and enjoy delicious meals right at home.

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There’s just about nothing more dreamy than tucking into a plate of hot, fresh pasta with your significant other for a date night. Though it may seem daunting, making your own pasta is incredibly easy, and comes with a big sense of pride and accomplishment (and some bragging rights!). This easy recipe for homemade pasta can be done in a food processor, stand mixer, or by hand, and none of the special tools are actually mandatory for making fresh pasta.
You can absolutely make pasta with just your hands, a fork, rolling pin, and a knife. But if you wanted to splurge, these items are helpful:
- Pasta maker – Pasta makers come with a rolling tool and a cutting tool that make easy work of getting your pasta rolled thin and cut.
- KitchenAid pasta attachment – If you own a KitchenAid mixer, you’re in luck! The brand offers several pasta making attachments including a roller, cutter, and extruder.
- Pasta drying rack – Optional, but helpful if you’re making a medium or large batch of long pasta such as linguine or fettuccini.
This is another area where it’s OK to use what you already have on hand, but you can always upgrade to more authentic ingredients:
- All-purpose flour – If this is what you have on hand, by all means, use it! It will still yield delicious, fresh, al dente pasta.
- Eggs – Some recipes don’t use eggs, but most beginner recipes do.
- Olive oil – helps to moisten the dough.
- 00 flour – this is what is used in Italy and many professional kitchens, but it is not mandatory.
- Semolina flour – also used in Italy and restaurants, and can help the sauce stick to the noodle better.
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You’ll follow the instructions here for using either a food processor or stand mixer, both of which yield the dough very quickly. You can also mix it by hand, which will give the same results with only a slight increase in time.
After you’ve created your dough and let it rest, you’ll roll it out using either a rolling pin, pasta maker, or stand mixer attachment until it’s very thin, about 1 – 2 mm. Then, you’ll feed it through the cutter, or fold it in loose, flat cylinders and cut it with a very sharp knife. After the cut pasta has rested for 30 minutes, you’ll boil it in very salty water for seasoning for no more than 90 seconds. Top it with the sauce of your choice (tip: try this simple tomato sauce or this aglio e olio recipe) Bon appétit!


Private equity managers have made little secret of their dismay at being forced to appoint a depositary to look after assets which are intrinsically hard to custody, and even harder to misappropriate. The independent private equity administration specialist Augentius endeavours to provide a service which is an inexpensive and unobtrusive as possible.
“The need to have a depositary is one that is going to be with us for the future,” says David Bailey, group head of marketing, communications and product development at Augentius, the specialist private equity and real estate fund administrator. “It is not a one-off.” If there is a temptation to regard 22 July 2014 as a terminus, it is not one at which David Bailey expects to alight. At this point, an assets under management (AuM) figure below the €500 million threshold for private equity funds is the only way to escape registration as an alternative investment fund manager under the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD), and registering as an alternative investment fund manager (AIFM) entails the appointment of a depositary bank. Which is why Augentius set up a depositary company for its clients in March 2013. It took on its first client - the €6½ billion SL Capital Partners - four months later. “We have [ten] clients live now, and a steady flow of take-ons in the pipeline,” says Bailey. Though he does not see the immediate opportunity as massive – he estimates just 100 private equity firms in Europe are unable to escape compliance because they are above the €500 million in total assets under management threshold. Sub-€500 million managers that are not actively fund-raising are exempt. Private equity funds also remain a largely offshore phenomenon.
“If you are a hedge fund manager, and you have leverage at the fund level, the threshold is €100 million, which pretty much catches everybody,” says Bailey. “If you are a private equity manager, where the leverage is in the deal, not in the fund, then the entry point is €500 million in invested capital. You could be running three funds of €150 million each, and not be caught by the AIFMD. Since the threshold is measured by invested funds, and not by capital commitments, you could have two €500 million funds, and if one was not yet invested and the other was only 60 per cent done, you could have €1 billion of commitments but still be under €500 million. That is why only 100 private equity managers, or less, are actually in the marketplace for depositary services today.”
That said, David Bailey does predict the depositary business will continue to grow steadily over the next few years. “Over time, certain institutional investors will invest only in private equity funds that are AIFMD-compliant,” he says. “They will be driven to that conclusion by their political lords and masters. So there will be pressure from limited partners. There will also be managers that want to raise a fund, and see it as advantageous to be seen to be AIFMD-compliant. In addition to that, there are a lot of managers from outside the European Union (EU) that want to raise money in Europe, which will require passporting, which in turn requires a depositary.
”Of course, until the private placement regimes expire in 2015 or 2018, private equity managers are assuming they can continue to raise funds from sophisticated institutional investors in Europe (Germany apart, where the regulator is insisting even private placements be protected by a depositary). Bailey agrees that it is too risky for managers to rely on reverse solicitation. “People are actively trying, very hard, to avoid the use of depositary services and the additional costs that come with them, but within five years all of that will have disappeared,” predicts Bailey. “The private placement regime will have gone, and AIFMD will have become the new norm.”
It is already the norm In France, Germany and Luxembourg, where funds have long had to appoint a depositary bank, irrespective of the size of the fund, although the compliance obligations were not as onerous as those laid down by the AIFMD. Bailey knows this, having spent five years in Luxembourg in the 1990s, servicing fund management clients of the Bank of Bermuda. As it happens, because the AIFMD does not insist that the depositary role be fulfilled by a bank, the Directive has created a new business opportunity for Augentius. “The Directive has opened up that market to administrators,” he says.
It may close other markets, if European investors become expensive to access, but ultimately David Bailey thinks the only funds that will be prevented from fund-raising in Europe by the AIFMD will be emerging market funds. This is because no depositary will be willing to assume the risk in certain jurisdictions. That said, unlike the depositary banks to hedge fund managers, private equity depositaries such as Augentius are not lumbered with strict liability for assets that go missing. This concession reflects the nature of the assets owned by private equity funds. “It is very difficult to fraudulently sell an unquoted asset,” explains Bailey. “It is also very difficult for us to have custody of the assets, and we are not required to do so.”
Indeed, a private equity and real estate administrator like Augentius is not authorised to hold even financial instruments unless it is prepared to put up at least £4 million in capital. Augentius has posted only £125,000, and elected to outsource the safekeeping of financial instruments held by its clients – generally stocks acquired when an asset goes public – to Société Générale Securities Services as sub-custodian. The French bank alone assumes strict liability for their safety. However, even a limited function private equity depositary cannot escape liability for negligence in the performance of its duties, and liability of any sort does change the character of a commercial relationship. The question is: how testing can a relationship get?
David Bailey says Augentius has already resigned accounts when the firm became uncomfortable with the behaviour of the client. “If the depositary decides a manager is in breach of AIFMD, the depositary will in the first instance refer the issue back to the manager,” he explains. “If the depositary does not get an adequate response from the manager – and bear in mind the manager has a legal responsibility under the Directive to provide the depositary with all the information it requires – it will raise its concerns with the regulator. After all, the depositary is liable. If it has concerns, and does nothing about them, then the depositary becomes liable. In a way, the depositary is the eyes and ears of the regulator.”
And what Augentius is expected to watch and listen for is, crudely speaking, unverified ownership of assets, dodgy valuations, excessive executive remuneration and cash flows being siphoned off. Put less plainly, Augentius Depositary Company Limited plies private equity managers with oversight and compliance (monitoring the operational procedures followed by the manager to ensure they comply with the Directive), asset verification (checking the assets are properly registered in the name of the fund) and daily cash monitoring and reconciliation (checking bank statements to ensure cash payments and receipts are legitimate and match invoices) services.
It is a set of duties that bear comparison with the “depositary lite” services offered by fund administrators and custodians to hedge fund managers. Understandably, given that the vast majority of assets held by private equity funds are not susceptible to conventional safekeeping, Augentius does not have to distinguish between clients that want to buy a full depositary service and those that are happy with something lighter. However, David Bailey is at pains to emphasise the services do put a considerable burden of responsibility on the depositary. “The regulators wrote the Directive with substantial compliance and oversight requirements for the regulators themselves to carry out,” he says. “They then put their heads in their hands and said, `Oh my goodness, who is going to carry out oversight to make sure the managers do all of this work?’ They decided to give the job to the depositary, and make the depositary liable for it.”
Of the three duties, compliance and oversight checks are potentially the most onerous. The trick, says Bailey, is to document procedures and then agree with the manager what evidence needs to be produced to prove they are being followed. Valuations are a case in point. These are a notorious challenge in private equity, thanks to the nature of the assets, and are really provided only for institutional investors needing to control their annual asset allocations. “Everybody is locked into the fund for ten years, and any valuation has to be run on the basis of comparables, so it is no more than an indicative finger in the air,” says David Bailey. “No one is trading, and there are no subscriptions. It is to help investors. If they find they are over-allocated, they will reduce their allocation to private equity the following year.” For the fund, the depositary has to identify a documented valuation procedure, assess its reasonableness, and ensure it is pursued consistently. Other oversight duties are similar. The depositary has to check a remuneration policy is in place as well, and that it is being followed continuously. By comparison, asset verification is less relentless, once the initial work is done. Nevertheless, to verify the ownership of assets Augentius had to recruit a team of lawyers to plough through deal documentation and public registers to create a record of all the assets of a fund. Once that is done, says Bailey, it is relatively simple to keep it up to date on an annual basis. Likewise, cash movements can be monitored merely through read-only access to client bank accounts.
They are in any event infrequent. After all, it is an axiom of private equity fund management to minimise cash holdings by remaining fully invested at all times. As David Bailey points out, private equity funds cannot remain open-ended, even in the same way as a hedge fund wary of crowded trades, because the markets in which they operate are not as large or liquid as the publicly traded securities markets. In fact, this is why most private equity funds remain relatively small by comparison with the largest hedge funds. “A private equity manager needs to restrict the amount of capital he or she manages, because if the fund is doing $25-50 million deals, it will not need more than$500 million in terms of commitments,” explains Bailey. “The deal flow is not limitless in the same way that it is in the public markets.”
He says the relatively small size of private equity funds means that managers have a natural bias towards independent providers that can better understand their scale, especially when they are not being offered the assurance of full and strict liability, for which a bank with ostensibly deep pockets is appealing. As David Bailey points out, the pricing of depositary services by large banks is contingent on the bundling of multiple services, which increases conflicts of interest and concentrates risks. “We do not insist on doing the administration as part of the price of providing a depositary service,” he explains. “We are happy to do it on a stand-alone basis. Private equity managers are uncomfortable going to the big banks anyway, precisely because they know the big banks want more than the administration. The big banks have also become very big, and want only the big mandates.” Bailey contrasts that size and scale with the independence and specialisation of his own firm. “There are very few independents who do not do hedge funds as well as private equity and real estate funds, and even fewer independent hedge fund administrators that do private equity,” he says. “We are true specialists. It is all we do.” Bailey reckons banks in particular lack the patience and skills to execute private equity business well. “Banks have people who sit by conveyor belts, and pick things up when they fall off the conveyor belt, and then try and work out why it has fallen off the conveyor belt, and put it back on,” he says. “Private equity does not work like that. Deals are complex, multi-jurisdictional, have complex structures, and close at three o’clock in the morning. They are also highly personalised, to each private equity house, and each transaction. That just does not work for an electronic conveyor belt.”
What is proving hard even for Augentius to avoid commoditising is the price of the depositary services the firm offers. Bailey admits that Augentius provides the service as much to keep existing clients sweet as win new ones, and he is certainly not advancing it as a commercial proposition in its own right. Private equity managers are in any event driving a hard bargain. “Neither limited partners nor general partners perceive economic value in the depositary service,” explains Bailey. “There is no Madoff risk in private equity, so the main reason for appointing a depositary does not apply in this industry. Frankly, private equity managers see a depositary as more of an encumbrance than a service.”
Opportunities to provide additional services on top of the basic product are scarce. Even regulatory reporting, often touted as a value-added service, is really part of what must be provided. But even if they are reluctant buyers of depositary services, regulators do insist each fund affected must go through a proper selection process before making their choice. Augentius, which has acted for some time as a custodian to American managers under the Dodd Frank Act and for even longer as a regulated custodian to private equity funds domiciled in Guernsey, reckons it is well-placed to win any RFP process launched to choose an AIFMD-compliant custodian. “We have worked hard with the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and others to develop a sensible, pragmatic and cost-effective depositray service,” says David Bailey. “It is important that depositaries ensure the proper protection of assets for investors but at the same time do not impose additional work on managers. This is exactly how our depositary service will work.”


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This essay is the story of my life, in a way. "A clean heart create for me, God; renew in me a steadfast spirit." Psalm 51:12
I was raised in a close, loving household and went to parochial school. When I began to experience attraction to male peers in junior high school, I didn't know what to make of the feelings. Mostly, I stuffed them down, decided this was an adolescent phase, and went along with my life.
At 13, I began to masturbate daily, often fueled by fantasies of guys in my class. I told myself this phase would pass; however, when friends in high school started dating girls, bragging of their exploits, I couldn't relate. I knew many girls who were my friends, but I'd never felt the slightest spark of romantic interest in them.
Through high school and college, I dated several girls and dutifully "made out" with a few, but never felt that "rush" I got from my attraction to men. Friends from college began to pair off, marry, and have children. I began to realize this adolescent "phase" was not going to magically vanish.
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- Homosexuality is becoming more and more accepted and integrated into today’s society, however, when it comes to homosexuals establishing families, a problem is posed. In most states, homosexuals can adopt children like any other married or single adult. There are many arguments to this controversial topic; some people believe that it should be legal nationally, while others would prefer that is was banned everywhere, or at least in their individual states. There are logical reasons to allow gays to adopt children, but for some, these reasons are not enough.... [tags: Gay and Lesbian Adoptions]
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- Gay Parenting Steve Lofton and his partner, Roger Croteau live in fear each day of having their foster-son, Bert, taken away from them and placed with another family. Steve and Roger can not adopt Bert, who is 10 years old, because a Florida law banning gays from adopting prohibits it. Bert, along with four other children, has been in the care of Steve and Roger since he was an infant. If he is taken away from them, he will lose the only family he has ever known. Since June 1977, Florida has denied gays and lesbians from adopting children on the basis of morality and the supposed danger to the children (“Suit”).... [tags: Expository Adoption Gay Adopting Essays]
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On February 12 and 13, Propeller Dance took to the GCTC Studio for two sold-out shows and the first public showcase of their GCTC residency. FUSE, presented by GCTC, featured three works-in-progress.CONTINUE READING
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Join us on February 12 and 13 for FUSE, presented by GCTC. Tickets are available at the GCTC Box Office. bout the show:
Love, Interdependence, and iPads
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New from Kanye West, J. Cole and Sigur Ros
One of the many striking and often shocking metaphors within "Yeezus," the new album from rapper Kanye West, arrives halfway into the 10-song release, during a song called "I'm in It."
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Beretta Family Farms beef is listed as one of three categories: Natural, Organic, or Grass Fed.
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The main distinction between Organic beef, Natural beef and “Grass Only” beef is the fact that “Grass Only” beef has never been fed grain during its entire life, even during the final 2-3 month period prior to slaughter. Our “Grass Only” beef tends to be leaner and smaller sized than its grain-fed counterparts. Our cattle remain outdoors year-round but are protected from the elements by sheds during the winter months. During this time, they eat stored hay which consists of nothing more than grasses and legumes that were harvested and baled during the summer. This method is in accordance with the standards of Grass Fed Associations around the world.

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If there was anything at the 2014 SHOT show which I deemed utterly unnecessary but highly desirable in my civilian life, it was the Sage Ordnance BML-37. The BML-37 is the first 37mm launching system I've seen in its capacity range without a revolving cylinder (Milkor, Defense Technologies, Penn Arms, etc) or belt (Mk.19). The BML-37's box magazine is fixed in place so you can't change it out quickly, although its top-fed configuration does mean you could reload it faster than either of the other two options. The feed system also permits it to be "topped off" like a pump shotgun, which means you aren't stuck with the decision to either spend an extended time breaking open and reloading your launcher, or continue running with lower capacity. One potential logistical drawback to the BML-37 is the fact it uses the Arwen-37 cartridge system to avoid feed issues which would arise from the rims of conventional 37mm and 40mm munitions. However, Sage does sell reloading components for the Arwen round. The interesting thing about Arwen is that the cases are thick enough to handle being fired without being fully inserted into a chamber, unlike the thin-walled conventional 37mm and 40mm munitions you normally see. If the use of Arwen munitions is an issue, the "Deuce" two-shot over/under launcher can actually use standard 37mm and 40mm munitions (depending on which version you order).
At first impression, anyone who's seen Warhammer 40k weapons will recognize its uncanny resemblance to a Bolter with a buttstock. I wouldn't be surprised to see a mid-budget WH40K movie using these, with a little bit of decoration, as bolters.
And yes, it's pretty much impossible not to grin when you're holding one.
The left side. The magazine shown is single-stack, and holds 6 rounds.
The right side. As is the trend, it accepts standard AR-15 carbine style buttstocks, and has picatinny rails for sights, forward grip, etc.
Immediately below the EOtech (the weapon is pointing barrel-down in this picture) is the top of the magazine. Notice that you can drop a shell right in, like an SKS or Mosin with the bolt open.
Indexing a dummy Arwen-37 round to be inserted into the action.
Pressing it down into the action
The BML-37 is now loaded with a few dummy rounds.
Notice that the trigger is huge - it's designed to be pulled with two fingers, not one. Why? Well, that's because of the fascinating action which the BML-37 uses. When you pull the trigger, you're actually cocking the weapon. The launcher does NOT use recoil energy to cycle - all power involved in cycling the weapon is provided by your trigger pull! This results in a heavy trigger pull which could be an issue in a more precision-critical instrument such as a rifle or a shotgun, but the expected accuracy out of a 37mm system is unlikely to be significantly affected. It is, after all, an area of effect weapon when launching tear gas, etc.
Starting to pull the trigger.
Trigger is almost completely pulled. Notice how the round has moved forward towards the chamber? Resistance is heavy because in addition to moving the shell forward, I'm ALSO charging the spring which will eject the casing after it's fired.
It's fired, and now that I release the trigger, the spent round ejects.
As you can see, this is a rifled bore... and staring down this during an encounter is likely to end very badly.
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Linda Holmes is one of my favorite writers, and has been since she wrote recaps for The Amazing Race on the now-defunct site Television Without Pity. She’s now one of the main hosts of Pop Culture Happy Hour, a podcast I make a point to listen to each week. After the dismaying news that Carrie Fischer and Debbie Reynolds died in late December within a day of each other (December 27 and 28, respectively), Ms. Holmes tweeted this:
I have seen Singin’ In The Rain *conservatively* … 30 times.
— Linda Holmes (@nprmonkeysee) December 29, 2016
The reactions to this tweet included many people offering their devotion to the film, which delighted me to no end. My love for Singin’ In The Rain has been my delicious secret for years, part of a quirky adoration for movie musicals I’ve indulged since I was a child. I would guess I’ve seen it far more than 30 times (at least once a year for much of my life), and each time I love it more. Debbie Reynolds’ charming, energetic performance is a big part of the movie’s success, and it launched her decades-long career in entertainment.
I would tell people it was my favorite movie if asked, but never volunteered the information as I thought I was alone in my enthusiasm; when I saw this tweet and countless others proclaiming admiration for the film I pulled back a chair and joined others at the table of musical fans. One of the reasons I relish Ms. Holmes’ writing is her unabashed appetite for pop culture, for cheesiness and dancing and reality television and, yes, musicals. She never apologizes for her opinions, but shares the ways she discovers meaning and power in what the world often passes off as silly, unnecessary, or unimportant, and she’s built a successful career around it. She reminds me to be myself, do what I enjoy, and claim it with gusto, as does the legacy of Debbie Reynolds. (Carrie Fischer deserves an entire essay herself, as the best part of When Harry Met Sally, another of my favorite films.)


The Essex County Surrogate's Court empowers residents to make the right decisions for their families at every stage, from birth through adoptions and guardianships, to death through will validation and estate management. We touch the lives of every resident across our community. Here, we will outline the previous year’s successes and progress, as well as our goals for the upcoming year.
In 2021, we successfully relocated to new facilities in the Dr. Martin Luther King Building — Justice Complex.
In an effort to educate the community and to spread awareness of the services of the Essex County Surrogate’s Court, we hosted over 50 webinars to inform the public of our work.
For the first time ever, we partnered with Rutgers Law School to host a 2-Credit CLE workshop that outlined the nuts and bolts of adoption and provided attendees with a comprehensive overview of what to expect and common pitfalls when they take on the process.
For National Make-A-Will Month in August, we partnered with award-winning actor, star of the Matrix franchise, and star of ABC’s hit show Lost Harold Perrineau to host a webinar on will and estate planning. We were also joined by Judge Bernice Toledo, Passaic County Surrogate, and Crystal W. Edwards Esq., Principal of Porzio Bromberg & Newman P.C. to discuss the importance of making a will.
We updated our website and created the Surrogate's Corner to provide the public with important updates about our events and initiatives, messages and announcements from the Surrogate, as well as past webinars.
In October, we partnered with the City of Newark for the annual 18-mile Newark Bike Tour against Domestic Violence to raise awareness of domestic violence and funds for the Shani Baraka Women’s Center.
Essex County Surrogate Alturrick Kenney published “Foster to Adopt: How You Can Help Neglected Children Have the Bright Future They Deserve,” an op-ed in Blavity, which identifies the need for more people of color to be involved in every stage of the adoption process.
Essex County Residents Served
2021 has been one of our busiest years in recent memory. Because of our ongoing efforts to educate the public on the breadth of services that our office provides—through a variety of events, webinars, media coverage, and more—we’re proud to share that we experienced a 16% increase in our caseload, which means we’ve provided more Essex County residents with the support they need to make the right decisions for their families.
Taxpayer Dollars Saved
The Essex County Surrogate’s Court provides invaluable support services to the Essex County community at little to no cost to our taxpayers. In 2021, the revenue generated from our services covered 98% of our budget, making our office efficient, impactful, and most importantly, self-sustaining.
Starting in 2023, we will embark on the goal to digitize all public records from the 1700s to 2016. Currently, most of the court’s records are on microfiche/microfilm and books. We will digitize them in a format that will allow us to upload them to our Bluestone Database, with the ultimate goal of making them accessible online.
This project is expected to take 3 years and cost approximately $1 million. Because of the pandemic, we recognized that in the future, physical access to these records may be limited due to varying circumstances. Digitizing the records will ensure that the public can access them regardless of their physical availability. Additionally, it will account for the deterioration of the paper records from the 1700s and 1800s.


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Investigation Discovery (ID) has teamed up with Khloe Kardashian for a docuseries about “Twisted Love” and also greenlit a Jeffrey Epstein special as the first in its upcoming, tentatively titled “Who Killed…” series.
“Who Killed Jeffrey Epstein?” will feature exclusive interviews and in-depth investigations into new clues about their titular subjects. When it comes to Epstein, the project will explore his “seedy underworld, privileged life and controversial death.”
“This story has everything: famous names, wealth, sex, tragedy and suicide — or murder,” said Henry Schleiff, group president of Investigation Discovery, Travel Channel, American Heroes Channel and Destination America. “Indeed, when deaths as high profile as Epstein’s come to light, people have questionsand that is why ID will seek to provide viewers with additional new information — and, perhaps, answers.”
Epstein was first accused of trafficking young women to his Palm Beach estate in 2005 but escaped relatively unscathed from the law enforcement system. This pattern repeated through seven civil cases, until this past year, when Epstein was finally arrested and placed in a holding cell as he awaited trial. Epstein was found dead in his cell on Aug. 10, 2019, in an apparent suicide. But the media swarmed with speculation, and now this new special will dig into his political connections, philanthropic ties and famous friendships to explore whether his death really was by his own hand or part of a larger conspiracy/cover-up.
“Who Killed Jeffrey Epstein?” will launch sometime in 2020 and is produced by Jupiter Ent. with Patrick Reardon and Tim McConville as executive producers. For ID, Pamela Deutsch is executive producer, Sara Kozak is senior vice president of production, Kevin Bennett is general manager and Schleiff is the aforementioned group president.
“Twisted Love” is a six-part series that explores how “at any moment, a trusted love can turn into a treacherous fate.” Premiering on Feb. 3 at 9 p.m., “Twisted Love” follows stories from across the country to dive into the darker side of affection for episodes centered on what happens when parents disapprove of a child’s partner, who gets burned when a workplace romance goes awry, and who is to blame when an affair turns lethal.
“I love the idea of love, but these stories will stun even the most hopeless romantic. I’ve been a long-time ID fan, and I’ve never encountered stories as shocking as these crimes of love and passion,” said Kardashian, executive producer of the series, along with Stephanie Noonan Drachkovitch of 44 Blue Prods.
Added Schleiff: “Khloe is a repeat offender — of the best kind. We are thrilled to expand the ‘Twisted’ franchise with Khloe and her team. With her ‘killer’ instinct for storytelling combined with these jaw-dropping cases, ‘Twisted Love’ is set to be our most striking love-gone-wrong show of the year.”
Additionally, ID set the premiere of its Aaron Hernandez docu project for Jan. 20 at 9 p.m. Part of the “Murder Mystery” franchise, “Aaron Hernandez: An ID Murder Mystery” will explore whether Hernandez, a former pro football player who was celebrated for his talents on the field, was “acting out of unexplainable malice, or were more deep-seated impulses at play?” when he committed murder.
“The case of Aaron Hernandez is, perhaps, one of the most stunning and perplexing criminal stories of this century,” said Schleiff. “Hernandez was in all ways, America’s golden boy, but this tragic case proves that no amount of money or fame can hide the true nature of a person.”
The special features one-on-one interviews with those closest to the case, including an interview with Hernandez’s childhood friend Dennis Sansoucie, who provides insight into Hernandez’s formative years and the secrets that he shielded in his final days. The project is produced by Jupiter Ent. with Allison Wallach and McConville as executive producers.
And finally, ID announced its upcoming documentary film entitled ‘In Memoriam” will air Feb. 8 at 9 p.m. This documentary sets out to tell the stories of survivors and first responders from recent gun violence attacks and mass shootings, including the Las Vegas Route 91 Harvest music festival, the Sutherland Springs Baptist Church and Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., through emotional, in-depth first-person interviews.
“Gun violence can no longer be categorized as just pervasive–it is a devastating issue plaguing our country, where victims and survivors of mass shootings have often been overlooked as the news moved on,” said Schleiff. “This film is our first step to shed a klieg light on this epidemic, and one which we hope will serve as a catalyst to ignite awareness and sensible action around the true cost of these preventable tragedies.”
“In Memoriam” is produced by Top Hat Prods. At Top Hat, Ben Steele is creative director, Darren Kemp is executive producer and Sarah Foudy is producer. For ID, Jeanie Vink is executive producer.


Greg Gonzalez of Grupo Fantasma: Something Else! Interview
Preston Frazier is joined by Greg Gonzalez, one of the original founding members of Grupo Fantasma. Over the years, Gonzalez has worked in a variety capacities with the band, including songwriter, producer, mixer and engineer, while also working with Brownout, Money Chicha and others. He joins us for a Something Else! Sitdown to discuss Grupo Fantasma’s new album Problemas, the band’s origins and his own beginnings of such a multi-faceted talent …
PRESTON FRAZIER: Problemas, your new album, was released in the U.S. five years after its predecessor, El Existential. Why the long span between albums?
GREG GONZALEZ: We finished the album in January 2013 and were ready to release it when we were informed that the record label which had agreed to finance and put it out [Nat Geo Music] had been shut down by decree from the corporate overlords over there. We were stuck with an album that we loved, but without any avenue to release it. We shopped it around, but were late in the release schedule and all the offers we got were shitty. We had worked very hard on it, and were all adamant that we wouldn’t release the album until we found a worthy partner who was serious about putting it out. In the meanwhile, many of the band’s members released another album with our band Brownout called Brownout Presents: Brown Sabbath. It got picked up by Ubiquity and we toured heavily in support of that project for a year and a half. When that cycle had finished, we circled back to the Grupo album. We had an offer to release the album in Japan so we took it, hoping that it would generate enough buzz to get us over there. That didn’t pan out but shortly thereafter we received word that a label in Houston called Blue Corn Music was interested in the album. They made us a great offer and seemed highly motivated to promote the record so finally we felt like we had an interested and motivated partner to work with.
PRESTON FRAZIER: For Problemas, Grupo Fantasma bought in producer and Los Lobos sax player Steve Berlin to produce. What did Steve bring to the project?
GREG GONZALEZ: We didn’t want to simply try and replicate the sound and approach we took on El Existentialand we felt that, having won a Grammy, we were ready to work with an outside producer. Up to that point, all of our efforts had been self produced. We looked around for a good producer whose work we all admired and respected, and we got the interest of Steve Berlin. We were honored when he told us he was a fan of our music, as many of us had grown up emulating his band’s approach and success. Steve did a great job of managing all of the input and opinions and talents of the band, as well as helping to push us out of our comfort zones to be creative.
PRESTON FRAZIER: Was there a theme or concept the band was after for the new project?
GREG GONZALEZ: We just wanted to create a great album which was immediate and compelling. The goal was to strip away anything too extraneous and to let the uniqueness and essence of the songs and songwriting shine. In the past we had been guilty of over doing it, layering horns and percussion and guitars and keyboards etc., to the point that the original emotional thrust of the music was blunted. This time the goal was to let the rawness and urgency of the music speak.
PRESTON FRAZIER: I discovered Grupo Fantasma when I saw you guys on an Austin-based TV show a few years ago. The band’s history goes back much further than that. Tell our readers how Grupo Fantasma was formed.
GREG GONZALEZ: Beto [Martinez] and I had a band in Laredo, along with the original drummer and singer for Grupo Fantasma, that was called the Blimp — or, at other times, the Blimp Trio. We played a blend of funk-rock-psychedelia and occasionally some cumbia songs. We all moved to Austin together to play music and, along the way, we met another Laredoan, Adrian Quesada, who was a guitar player in a band called the Blue Noise Band. The two bands started playing together as a college party band called the Young Silly Bitches, playing funk jams and classics — and we all really enjoyed the big sound we got when we joined forces doing a two guitar, two drumset and horns with bass sort of formation. One night, we stayed up late listening to a compilation of classic Colombian cumbias from Discos Fuentes called Cumbia Cumbia 2. We loved every song on the disc and daydreamed about booking a gig where we would play covers of all these songs with our expanded lineup. The next morning, Adrian called to tell us he had booked us a gig at a new club called the Empanada Parlor on a Friday night. We hadn’t even rehearsed once, and we had our first gig booked. Thus was born Grupo Fantasma.
PRESTON FRAZIER: Grupo Fantasma’s music seems to be a combination of a lot of Latin American styles, with a strong infusion of funk and rock. How has the band’s style changed since your self-titled debut?
GREG GONZALEZ: Our first album was a very spirited effort with a very minimal effort to capture the music we had been playing so successfully at our shows up to that point. We still didn’t know much about Latin music, aside from being huge cumbia fans with some experience playing rock and funk. We didn’t have the traditional instrumentation, nor did we fully understand the styles we were attempting to play. Over the years, we’ve learned and studied and had the privilege of working with real Latin musicians and musicians who were classically or university trained. As a result our repertoire has grown and we’ve come to embrace and understand a lot more of the styles and sounds which are part of Latin music: The different kinds of percussion, the various rhythms, and the song forms of many of the classics of the form. As a result, our fusions have become more authentic and effective over the years — and we’ve all improved as instrumentalists and songwriters.
PRESTON FRAZIER: Talk about the writing process for the band.
GREG GONZALEZ: The writing process varies. Generally, one of the band’s songwriters brings a song to the group, either as sheet music or as a demo created using music software and then the horns are arranged by an arranger — generally our trombonist Mark Gonzales, these days — and if the lyrics are written by one of our singers, we then practice the song and everybody contributes to tweaking their own parts. We adjust the form and tempo/style, until it sounds right. Sometimes, however, we write songs in the studio, taking a riff or melody or idea and then developing it as we go with each of the players who’s around contributing to the process.
PRESTON FRAZIER: Where were you born and raised? Were you parents musicians?
GREG GONZALEZ: I was born in Corpus Christi and raised all over the Mexico/Texas border in south Texas. Mostly in Laredo, Texas, but with some time spent living in Brownsville, McAllen, Los Fresnos, Olmito and Harlingen. Neither of my parents were musicians, although my father played trombone briefly in high school, and was a big fan of ’60s- and ’70s-era rock and roll. My mother was more a fan of Simon and Garfunkel and Jim Croce-style folk music.
PRESTON FRAZIER: Tell our readers about your musical upbringing? When did you start playing? What was your first instrument? Did you receive any formal lessons?
GREG GONZALEZ: I began playing bass when I was 13 years old. I had begged my parents for a drum set, but they weren’t gonna have it. When I moved back to Laredo, Texas, to stay in my 13th year, I met Beto Martinez. He wanted to start a band to play Metallica covers and was looking for someone to play bass. My brother had a bass which was being severely neglected: It was used for target practice. I took the poor two-stringed, bullet-riddled thing and started playing. My parents saw how committed I was to the sad bass and, after about six months, my father agreed to buy me my first bass and amp. Over the years, I studied theory and jazz band in high school, later taking some music/bass lessons at Austin Community College.
PRESTON FRAZIER: Today, what are your primary bass, amp and effects for touring and in the studio?
GREG GONZALEZ: My main touring bass is a Fender Jazz 5 string custom shop bass with alder body and maple neck and active electronics using flatwound strings. My main amp is a Markbass, the Lil’ Mark II, with Markbass 108 8×10 cabinet. In the studio, I also use a made-in-Mexico Fender bass VI reissue, a 1967 Ampeg Baby Bass electric upright, a 1976 Gibson Ripper bass and an Epiphone Jack Cassady bass with tapewound strings — in addition to any basses that might be lying around the studio. For effects, I use a variety of fuzz pedals including a DOD vintage fuzz, a fender Sublime pedal, MXR Graphic Fuzz and an electro Harmonix Big Muff, I also use a Boss OC-2 octave pedal, a Markbass synth bass pedal and a Behringer Synth bass pedal.
PRESTON FRAZIER: What’s next for Grupo Fantasma?
GREG GONZALEZ: We’re in the process of organizing tours to promote this album, club shows, festivals, etc. Right now, our focus is on this album and we haven’t started discussing our next project, although we have begun writing new music and incorporating it into our live shows.
PRESTON FRAZIER: Finally, my standard closing question … what are your top 5 albums?
GREG GONZALEZ: This is an impossible question but I’ll mention the five that come to mind first … Jimi Hendrix, Are You Experienced?; Various artists, Cumbia Cumbia 2; Miles Davis, Sketches of Spain; Beastie Boys,Check Your Head; and Mr. Bungle, California.


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There might be a few different droids in J.J. Abrams' future.
In addition to reportedly signing on to direct “Star Wars Episode VII,” the “Star Trek” director will also have a presence on the small screen with a new sci-fi pilot.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Fox has ordered Abrams’ untitled buddy cop show about police officers who are partnered with highly evolved androids.
“Fringe” executive producer J.H. Wyman will write and executive produce the series, which is set in a near future, THR reports.
Despite Abrams telling Entertainment Weekly in November that he turned down the opportunity to direct the next installment of “Star Wars,” the publication has confirmed The Wrap's report that he will, in fact, helm the anticipated film.
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The Association of Division III Independents recently named Illinois Tech pitcher James Tarala baseball player of the week for competition during the week of March 18-25.
The senior started the first game of a doubleheader against the Raiders, throwing eight shutout innings. The Crown Point, Indiana, native finished with seven strikeouts and gave up just five hits and one walk to lead the Scarlet Hawks to a 2-0 win. Tarala now holds an impressive 1.50 ERA with a 3-0 record on the season.
Illinois Tech will be back in action on Saturday, March 31 on the road at Carthage. The Hawks will play a doubleheader beginning at noon in Kenosha, Wisconsin.


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Making PEIA Worse, Not Better
Striking teachers and school service personnel are demanding West Virginia legislators “fix the PEIA.” To many of the education employees, that seems more important than pay raises.
PEIA stands for Public Employees Insurance Agency, and it provides health insurance for nearly 80,000 active and retired state workers.
All of us who do not have coverage through programs such as Medicaid understand the school employees’ concern. Increases in health insurance premiums and cuts in benefits are a constant worry.
But the PEIA can’t be fixed, certainly not on the current path.
Unless someone has a magic wand — and presidents and members of Congress have been looking for it for years — there is no way to reduce or even hold steady the cost of health care. That means there is no way to keep health insurance costs under control.
Legislators and Gov. Jim Justice have done what they would. They have agreed to take $29 million out of the state’s Rainy Day Fund to avert PEIA premium increases until at least July 2019. That isn’t good enough, say the strikers and their union leaders.
Now, state senators are looking at something else. As you probably know, a bill granting a pay increase to school personnel already has been signed into law. It would provide a 2 percent boost the first year, with 1 percent more in each of the two ensuing years.
Union leaders had demanded 5 percent the first year, and the House of Delegates has approved a bill to that effect. Adding 3 percent would require about $58 million, money the governor says will be available. Senate Finance Committee members are checking his figures today.
But something else is afoot. Some senators are talking about leaving the first-year pay increase at 2 percent, and pumping the $58 million into the PEIA stabilization fund. That account’s exists to use taxpayers’ money to avoid premium increases for PEIA clients.
That could stretch the premium freeze out as far as 2021. Some senators hope the union members would consider that a “fix.”
It isn’t. Insurance costs would keep going up. Someone — taxpayers — would have to cover them.
That approach can’t continue forever. Taxpayers already cover 80 percent of PEIA premiums, leaving the insured employees’ share at 20 percent. That costs the state somewhere between $450 million and $500 million a year — well more than one-tenth of our entire general revenue budget.
So the current approach amounts to what we’ve done for so many years in West Virginia: Don’t try to solve a problem. Just throw more money at it.
What happens if we continue down that road? Taxpayers will have to cover higher and higher shares of PEIA costs. Half a billion a year may seem like the good old days.
Justice has established a task force to look for PEIA solutions. Let’s hope realistic ideas — such as privatizing public employees’ insurance — are considered. It worked for the workers’ compensation system, which for years was an expensive fiasco. Now, under privatization, injured workers get help and employers pay lower premiums.
Other ideas ought to be considered. For example, the PEIA wellness program canceled at the demand of strikers should get another look. It could help by keeping PEIA clients healthier.
Here’s the thing: If PEIA premiums are frozen forever, the cost to taxpayers will increase at a faster rate than might have been the case. Why? Because PEIA clients will have little “skin in the game” to hold health care and insurance costs down. If you never have to pay any more for insurance, what’s the incentive to make it less costly for the insurance company or state agency?
A genuine “fix” for the PEIA is impossible. As matters stand, however, we seem determined to break it even more.
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Not many realize that this breakout hit for Joan Jett was actually a cover tune.
A UK band called the Arrows wrote and released the song in 1975. According the Arrows songwriters the song was inspired by Mick Jagger. By the mid 70’s the Rolling Stones were now apart of the social elite and Jagger was hanging out Princes and millionaires.
The Arrows caught the Rolling Stones TV performance of “I Know It’s Only Rock n Roll”, to which they took as Micks an apology for rock music to his new more cultured friends.
This song was in answer to that.
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Lone Star is an American drama television series which originally ran on Fox from September 20, 2010 to September 27, 2010, airing Monday nights at 9 pm ET/PT. Fox announced Lone Star's cancellation on September 28, 2010 after two low-rated episodes.


My research focuses on the security of computer networks. In particular, I work on solutions which leverage recent advances in network programmability to make networks able to detect and mitigate attacks and to provide more security and privacy. Part of my work is funded by armasuisse and the Zurich Information Security & Privacy Center (ZISC).
The recording of my talk for the CyCon Student Award is now available:
Check it out: YouTube.
The new website of our group is online!
Check it out: nsg.ee.ethz.ch.
I feel honored to be awarded with the NATO CCD COE Student Award 2017.
My talk at CyCon 2017 is available here.
The website about our iTAP-project is online: https://itap.ethz.ch.
Check it out to learn how programmable switches can provide anonymous communication!
“iTAP: In-network Traffic Analysis Prevention using Software-Defined Networks”
accepted at ACM SOSR 2017
I'm humbled to receive an ETH Medal for my Master thesis “SDN-based Network Obfuscation”.
My talk at the Master ceremony is available here.
Simple path tracing tools such as traceroute allow malicious users to infer network topologies remotely and use that knowledge to craft advanced denial-of-service (DoS) attacks such as Link-Flooding Attacks (LFAs). Yet, despite the risk, most network operators still allow path tracing as it is an essential network debugging tool.
In this paper, we present NetHide, a network topology obfuscation framework that mitigates LFAs while preserving the practicality of path tracing tools. The key idea behind NetHide is to formulate network obfuscation as a multi-objective optimization problem that allows for a flexible tradeoff between security (encoded as hard constraints) and usability (encoded as soft constraints). While solving this problem exactly is hard, we show that NetHide can obfuscate topologies at scale by only considering a subset of the candidate solutions and without reducing obfuscation quality. In practice, NetHide obfuscates the topology by intercepting and modifying path tracing probes directly in the data plane. We show that this process can be done at line-rate, in a stateless fashion, by leveraging the latest generation of programmable network devices.
We fully implemented NetHide and evaluated it on realistic topologies. Our results show that NetHide is able to obfuscate large topologies (> 150 nodes) while preserving near-perfect debugging capabilities. In particular, we show that operators can still precisely trace back >90% of link failures despite obfuscation.
Organizations increasingly rely on cyber threat intelligence feeds to protect their infrastructure from attacks. These feeds typically list IP addresses or domains associated with malicious activities such as spreading malware or participating in a botnet. Today, there is a rich ecosystem of commercial and free cyber threat intelligence feeds, making it difficult, yet essential, for network defenders to quantify the quality and to select the optimal set of feeds to follow. Selecting too many or low-quality feeds results in many false alerts, while considering too few feeds increases the risk of missing relevant threats. Naïve individual metrics like size and update rate give a somewhat good overview about a feed, but they do not allow conclusions about its quality and they can easily be manipulated by feed providers.
In this paper, we present FeedRank, a novel ranking approach for cyber threat intelligence feeds. In contrast to individual metrics, FeedRank is robust against tampering attempts by feed providers. FeedRank’s key insight is to rank feeds according to the originality of their content and the reuse of entries by other feeds. Such correlations between feeds are modelled in a graph, which allows FeedRank to find temporal and spatial correlations without requiring any ground truth or an operator’s feedback.
We illustrate FeedRank’s usefulness with two characteristic examples: (i) selecting the best feeds that together contain as many distinct entries as possible; and (ii) selecting the best feeds that list new entries before they appear on other feeds. We evaluate FeedRank based on a large set of real feeds. The evaluation shows that FeedRank identifies dishonest feeds as outliers and that dishonest feeds do not achieve a better FeedRank score than the top-rated real feeds.
Advances in layer 2 networking technologies have fostered the deployment of large, geographically distributed LANs. Due to their large diameter, such LANs provide many vantage points for wiretapping. As an example, Google's internal network was reportedly tapped by governmental agencies, forcing the Web giant to encrypt its internal traffic. While using encryption certainly helps, eavesdroppers can still access traffic metadata which often reveals sensitive information, such as who communicates with whom and which are the critical hubs in the infrastructure.
This paper presents iTAP, a system for providing strong anonymity guarantees within a network. iTAP is network-based and can be partially deployed. Akin to onion routing, iTAP rewrites packet headers at the network edges by leveraging SDN devices. As large LANs can see millions of flows, the key challenge is to rewrite headers in a way that guarantees strong anonymity while, at the same time, scaling the control-plane (number of events) and the data-plane (number of flow rules). iTAP addresses these challenges by adopting a hybrid rewriting scheme. Specifically, iTAP scales by reusing rewriting rules across distinct flows and by distributing them on multiple switches. As reusing headers leaks information, iTAP monitors this leakage and adapts the rewriting rules before any eavesdropper could provably de-anonymize any host.
We implemented iTAP and evaluated it using real network traffic traces. We show that iTAP works in practice, on existing hardware, and that deploying few SDN switches is enough to protect a large share of the network traffic.


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College of the Ozarks to host guest artists, Khemia Ensemble, to perform Wednesday, Jan. 18
POINT LOOKOUT, MO. — College of the Ozarks will host members of the Khemia Ensemble Wednesday, Jan. 18, at 7:30 p.m. in the Newman Recital Hall at Gittinger Music Building.
The event is free and open to the public. Seating is first come, first served.
“Khemia’s innovative programming and enthusiastic support of new music is inspiring. Our composition majors are thrilled to work with these talented musicians,” said Dr. Luke Carlson, associate professor of music. “Our students will make valuable professional connections, learn about the craft of composition, and hear their music played by professionals. It is an invaluable experience for all involved.”
Khemia Ensemble is Amy Petrongelli (soprano), Mary Matthews (flute), Thiago Ancelmo (clarinet), Er-Gene Kahng (violin), Eli Lara (cello), Annie Jeng (piano), Shane Jones (percussion), and Chelsea Tinsler Jones (percussion).
“Don’t Beat a Word” – composed by Nina Shekhar
“The Beauty Been” – composed by Luke Carlson, text by Gerard Manley Hopkins
“Constellations” – composed by Emma O'Halloran
“Visual Abstract” – composed by Pierre Jalbert
“In a field of stars” – composed by David Biedenbender, text by Robert Fanning
More about Khemia
Khemia is an innovative group of artist educators who represent a diverse range of voices in contemporary classical music.
Hailed by the Columbia Daily Tribune as adding a “fresh dimension” to the concert experience, Khemia Ensemble is dedicated to reflecting broader perspectives in contemporary classical chamber music. With its dynamic instrumentation (soprano, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, two percussion), Khemia’s unique sound world encompasses the presentation of new classical music with a mix of acoustic chamber works, multimedia, and multi-genre influences.
Khemia has been featured in venues and festivals including National Sawdust (Brooklyn, NY), the Mizzou International Composers Festival (Columbia, MO), Strange Beautiful Music (Detroit, MI), New Music Gathering (Bowling Green, OH), Latin IS America (East Lansing, MI), the Missouri Summer Composition Institute, and the Biennial New Music Festival (Córdoba, Argentina). Passionate artist educators, Khemia has held residencies at more than a dozen universities in North and South America. The ensemble's eight members hold faculty positions at seven academic institutions across the U.S., including University of Georgia, Tennessee Tech University, Utah State University, University of Arkansas, University of Missouri, University of North Carolina-Greensboro, and Utah Valley University.
Committed to expanding the chamber music repertoire, Khemia has commissioned and premiered over 60 works by professional, collegiate, and high school composers. Recent collaborators include Nicolas Lell Benavides, David Biedenbender, Stefan Freund, Phillip Sink, and Nina Shekhar. Khemia’s sophomore album, Intersections, can be heard on Ravello Records.


Firms run by O'Donnell paid €330k in settlements for underdeclared taxes
Businesses run by a councillor at the centre of a corruption storm have made settlements with the taxman totalling over €330,000.
The companies, which were run by Independent councillor John O'Donnell, appeared on Revenue tax defaulter lists earlier this year and in 2011.
A preliminary review of Cllr O'Donnell's conduct was launched yesterday by Donegal County Council after he was secretly filmed seeking a payment in return for agreeing to help a company with a planning issue.
This may lead to a full investigation by the council.
A similar process is underway at Sligo County Council, where Cllr Joe Queenan resigned from Fianna Fáil after being filmed agreeing to secretly work for a fictitious windfarm investment company.
But no review has been announced to date in relation to the conduct of Monaghan county councillor Hugh McElvaney, who was recorded demanding a Stg£10,000 payment to help with a planning issue.
Revenue records show companies run by self-proclaimed entrepreneur Cllr O'Donnell made three settlements after audits by the taxman found they had underdeclared VAT.
None of the settlements related to the councillor personally.
The first settlement, amounting to €107,670 in taxes, interest and penalties, related to building contracting company Kilmac Formwork Ltd in 2011.
The company has since gone into receivership.
A second settlement involving the same company, totalling €184,523 in taxes, interest and penalties, was published last June. The same month, another company run by Cllr O'Donnell, wool dealer K&F Sarolla Teo, made a settlement of €41,152 in taxes, interest and penalties. The firm is now dissolved.
The independent councillor for the Letterkenny area was filmed agreeing to "work quietly" behind the scenes to help the company with a zoning issue. He pledged to lobby other councillors and said he wished to be paid through another individual, explaining the arrangement would be for his "protection".
The councillor has denied any wrongdoing and has threatened to sue RTÉ, alleging he was entrapped.
Donegal County Council confirmed yesterday it was examining matters raised by the 'RTÉ Investigates' programme "as an issue of urgency and priority".
"This examination is being conducted in the first instance by the ethics registrar in the council," a spokeswoman said.
Under local government procedures, the registrar would have to notify the chairperson and chief executive of the council of any issue of concern and they in turn can recommend a full investigation by the council. That investigation would have the power to refer a file to the Director of Public Prosecutions.
It is only when this process is completed that the matter can be referred to the Standards in Public Office Commission. The commission also has powers to refer reports to the DPP.
In the immediate aftermath of the broadcast, Sligo councillor Joe Queenan resigned from Fianna Fáil.
He was filmed agreeing to work behind the scenes for the fictitious company. He did not ask to be paid, but said he was looking for investors for a future project.
A letter issued by his solicitor denied he was corrupt.
In a statement, Sligo County Council said its ethics registrar was conducting a review and that further consideration would be given to the issue when that review is complete.
It was unclear last night what action was being taken in Co Monaghan in relation to Cllr Hugh McElvaney. He has denied any wrongdoing, claiming he was aware of the RTÉ sting and "played along" as he wanted "the opportunity of showing RTÉ up".
Calls to the council's spokesperson and ethics registrar on Monday and Tuesday were not returned.
Defence Minister Simon Coveney urged gardaí to investigate, describing some of what was broadcast as "blatant corruption and self-centred greed".


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Tim Gray channels six tracks of lushest ambient techno as Ethernet on his 2nd full length album for Kranky. Much like predecessor '144 Pulsations Of Light', his 'Opus 2' inescapably draws comparison with AFX's seminal 'SAW' volumes, which is never a bad thing in our ears. It's especially apparent in the pulse-through-the-pillow bass and gloomy melodies of 'Correction' or the haunting buried melodies in 'Cubed Sun', and to a darker extent on the sepulchral 'Dodecahedron', whereas the likes of 'Monarch' maybe shares more in common with BVDub's padded drifts and 'Dog Star' finds a serene sweet spot between Echospace and Pye Corner Audio. We can imagine quite a few ambient techno heads will be getting wet for this album.


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The early (1815-1850) Hammonds' public records in Scott County, Virginia are complicated because
there are 2 Absalom Hammonds/Hammons. One of the Absaloms signed the petition to form Scott
County in 1814. Scott County became a county in 1815 & was formed from parts of Russell,
Lee & Washington Counties.
In the 1820 federal census, they were designated as Absalom Sr. and Absalom Jr. An easy assumption
would be to say that they are father & son. However in some older records, Sr. & Jr.
are actually uncle & nephew or any older and younger person with the same name.
Here, I am assuming that the two Absaloms are father & son with the first 2 deeds involving the
older Absalom Hammonds, who was a Revolutionary War Soldier.
Absalom Hammonds (1754-1847) (Harry's 4th great grandfather)
1820 - Absalom Hammons bought 30 acres from John Penly/Penley
Deed - Absalom Hammons from John Penly
1825 - Absalom Hammons & his wife Mary sold those 30 acres to John McIver
Deed - Absalom Hammons & his wife Mary to John McIver
Absalom Hammonds, Jr. (abt 1784 -1870) (Harry's 3rd great-grandfather)
1829 - Absalom, Jr. bought 30 acres from Alford/Alfred Prewett & his wife Nancy
Deed - Absalom, Jr. from Alford/Alfred Prewett
1836 - Absalom, Jr. bought 50 acres from James Fulcher
Deed - Absalom Hammons from James Fulcher
1851 - Absalom & his wife Peggy Hammons sold 35 acres to Thomas W. Templeton
Deed - Absalom Hammons & his wife Peggy to Thomas W. Templeton
1854 - Absalom bought 100 acres to Ira & Ann Penley
Deed - Ira & Ann Penley to Absalom
Anderson Hammonds (1820-1900) (Harry's great-great-grandfather)
1853 - Anderson Hammons bought 150 acres from William & Mary Ann Hammons
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|Breed:||Belgian Draught x Thoroughbred|
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The wound healed well and after regular physiotherapy, there is now no signs of any issues from the nerve injury.
Oakie needs to be hard fed as he is always going through growth spurts and needs good nutrition for his big growing body and joints.

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