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While you could well be right, the one absolute in university-level computing courses is that everything is relative.
Some places have an old-school CS course that teaches strong theory and is quite mathematical. This is probably good for someone who wants to deal with challenging programming work in the future: the kind of person who wouldn't just be writing a web front-end to use a database, they'd be writing the compiler and the database engine. These courses probably won't teach you to program in this week's greatest programming language or web/DB framework. What it will give you is a solid understanding of the principles and exposure to a broad range of ideas. With that sort of perspective, a CS grad should make short work of getting up to a reasonable level of competence in any industrial languages and technologies.
Sadly, it seems like an increasing number of places now run a "computer science" course that is basically just the latest industrial buzzwords. If you're looking at a course that teaches things like VB, XML, Windows/Linux system administration, business studies, web design, and the like, then IMHO that's not really computer science at all, it's just vocational training.
The potential scopes of other courses, such as "Information Technology", "Information Systems", "Software Engineering", are similarly wide-ranging, so it's hard to give advice about which course is best for someone without being able to see the details of what each really covers.
I don't think it's so sad that there are relatively few places that teach the more theoretical forms of CS. Relative to other disciplines, there was an imbalanced excess of programs teaching skills that only a small number of people would need, and the kind of invention you describe will probably be done by people with a graduate education, anyway.
The thing is, I don't think a CS education is something only a small number of people would need. Sure, it provides a deep understanding of some areas that little else does, but it also provides a broad base on which to build anything else you need in less specialised areas.
Put it this way: people who go into writing software without the kind of understanding of database construction and system design that a good CS course would teach are often the reason we get ludicrously slow applications, with ever-increasing hardware requirements, littered with security flaws, and the design behind the code — if it has one at all, instead of misunderstanding the buzzwords and thinking a set of tests is a substitute — is such a mess that no-one can fix it, and you have to either live with it or throw it all away and start from scratch.
(Before anyone replies, please note that I wrote "the kind of understanding
Sadly, it seems like an increasing number of places now run a "computer science" course that is basically just the latest industrial buzzwords. If you're looking at a course that teaches things like VB, XML, Windows/Linux system administration, business studies, web design, and the like, then IMHO that's not really computer science at all, it's just vocational training.
That was also true 20 years ago!!!
Case in point. We needed a practical, fast algorithm to assist in determining when hand-offs for cellu
A good CS major can do any job an IT major can, but an IT major can not do everything a CS major can, so don't limit yourself!
Well, I've never been through the British education system, only the American one. So I'll give you the advice I would give anyone I know in America.
To put this in context, that's pretty much the equivalent for someone asking a question about kernel programming being told:
Well, I've never used C, only the Perl one. So I'll give you the advice I would give anyone I know writing a Perl script.
I.e. it may be good advice, but it is completely irrelevant to the question. The UK and US education systems are very difficult, especially at the university level. The US system regards university as a progression from school, and is based around teaching students. The UK system regards university students as adults who are meant to be responsible for their own learning and is ba
That's a thoughtful post, but the idea in it all that I like best is this: Don't make up your mind so easily.
Unless you're stubbornly sticking to a single path, going through college will probably change your view of where you'd like to be in 10 years. And then after you get out of college, setting out in the real world may change that view again. Working for 10 years on a given career path might make you want to change paths, or even change careers altogether. Things change more often than young people
Do you like math? Are you good at it? What about algorithms? Do self-balancing binary search trees give you a boner? If you answered yes to lots of these questions, stick with Computer Science.
On the other hand, "IT" sounds like a "Microsoft Office with some introductory Java on the side" course. You might want to find some better middle ground if you actually want to do some serious work.
I hold a BA in Computer Science, and would highly recommend its study. The principles you learn are not solely relegated to computer science -- at least, not most of them. I've been able to successfully apply them to the fields of physics and mathematics in college, and continued to do so to problems in my research in the fields of nuclear engineering and fusion energy science today. It certainly has aided my job as a scientist -- a position you may not have considered relevant to CS/IT. Keep it in mind, we always need more bright people!
That said, I'm a bit of a jack-of-all-trades when it comes to IT. It certainly is helpful to be able to solve a problem with the tools at hand. IT problems tend to be a bit more lucrative to solve (or solve more efficiently than those who came before you).
If you plan on being a creative problem-solver in your chosen line of work, seriously consider the perspective a CS background can offer. In my mind, that gives you the ability to pick up whatever the latest nifty tools/utilities that help you solve your day-to-day problems.
If you really want to understand the subject, take overlapping courses from both specialties. You'll need to know how both communities think to do well in either.
I had to do this in math: to understand calculus, you needed both the practical eamples, taught only in the engineering course, and know how the theroms worked, taught only in the "pure" maths courses. So I took one and audited the other, and and aced them both after getting an F in the previous term (;-))
This worked for computer science and software engineering too, and in my current job consulting in IT, I use a lot of science...
I would go for accounting and a minor in computers....
First, all anyone cares about 3+ years down the road is you have a degree in something more technical than basket weaving. I have worked with computers my entire career and have a technical degree but it is not Comp-Sci. When the new manager finds out what the degree is, I get no problems as it is a harder degree to get that Comp-Sci.
Second, by having a degree in something other than computers gives you a business advantage. Say you had accounting, then configuring SAP or some other ERP system and understanding a credit and debit, journal entries etc. will all be simple to you.
One good thing about college/universities is they teach you how to learn... using that you can self learn any I/T skill you will need. In fact, a C/S degree does not adequately prepare people technically anyway, and many with a C/S come into the work force thinking they are prepared when they are not. They soon realize that technical skills development is a life long endeavor in this I/T business.
The other advantage is if you don't like it you have a second career path... I/T is not for everyone. And if you have the smarts to be really good technically in I/T, getting a degree leading to a CA should not be hard at all.
I would pick CS or even EE to start off with, if you have any ability to change later on. Why? Having switched from an IT-esque major (Management Information Systems) up to CS, it's a lot easier the other way around. CS requires, at least in my experience, real math and science courses that more than cover the weak requirements for graduating with a "lower" major, so if you start off there, you're covered no matter what and don't have to take calculus or physics again--whereas with lower majors, you more th
College, and the assortment of majors within, are something of an intelligence test. A hard science, comp sci, or engineering degree demonstrates you're intelligent--an IT or business IS degree suggests, at best, that you preferred to party and didn't really give a shit about your education
I take grave offense to this. Sure, if you go to some no-named school that only has a bachelors in Business Administration, or get a General Business degree, sure. But if you go to a good school, such as the University of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, etc., they all have very competitive Business Schools. Myself, I go to Madison, where getting into the university isn't necessarily the easiest thing to do (didn't have any problems with that), and have been in the Business School for the past year, t
This is something that you are going to have to decide, you can't ask slashdot and get an easy answer that way. Generally speaking you are going to have the CS people telling you to take CS, and IT people telling you to take IT, which really isn't helpful. At the end of the day, you have to determine which road is the one you want to go down. If possible, you may want to take the first year without declaring a major and just explore the two options (plus anything else you think you may want to do, its pe
Where are you most comfortable—talking about things or doing them? If the former, go for CS. Otherwise, you are welcome to join the rest of us in the gritty real world.
Kidding aside, if you really do have a broad range of interests and want room to tinker and explore, you would probably find the narrowness of a CS curriculum stultifying. Tech will give you all the interesting and useful parts of CS and a rich gamut of other topics as well.
Most courses are far too academic and let's face it, behind the times, to be relevant for IT job-seeking. Stuff you learn in the first year of your course will either be mainstream or have sunk-without-trace by the time you graduate. Therefore only stuff you study in the final year will be relevant to employers.
Most IT jobs are sheer dru
if algorithms make your heart beat faster, then go for cs.
if the thought of calculus makes you wince, go for IT.
regardless of the actual presence of math in either field, a CS curriculum will be much heavier on math *stuff*.
another option that is emerging in some colleges in the US are "media" programs [nku.edu] that focus on content for the web. these are creative programs that focus on the web with opportunities to focus on design, graphics, writing, or A/V production for delivery to the web.
Go with Computer Science. Theory trumps practical knowledge nearly every time. If you understand the fundamentals of computing, you can use that knowledge and apply it elsewhere with great success.
Of the three really good young people, all with robotics and control experience, who worked on our DARPA Grand Challenge robot vehicle, two are now in financial engineering. One is running a hedge fund out of Santa Fe that's driven by program trading. One is in the Bahamas with an offshore fund. The third is running an iPhone group at Apple.
But these are top people. If you can handle the math, get an undergrad CS degree, then an MBA. If you're further down the food chain, an IT career is an option.
"Information technology" is a lot like stationary engineering [iuoe.org] as a career. Once upon a time, around 1900, stationary engineering was the hot field to get into. People were needed to run the high technology that made the wheels of the world go around - steam engines, generating plants, heavy industrial machinery. It was a new field - vast amounts of machinery were being built and installed, the technology was advancing rapidly, and the world was changing drastically as, for the first time in history, pow
I've never been to Uni, so I'm not exactly in a position to say what the relative merits of one course over the other is. What I will say, from the point of view of someone who reads job descriptions a fair amount, is that most recruiters seem to list a good CS degree as requirement for most programming roles. Whether that's because it's what they actually want, or because that's what they think they want, I couldn't say for certain.
From talking to a friend who works in management, and with various othe
I have BS and MS degrees in CS, but I've worked some jobs that could be described as IT-ish. One nice th
Instead I will make a few really obvious points about which university to choose.
Obviously you will try to get into the best university your test scores allow. If you are e.g. in a position to go to MIT or Stanford or one of the other top universities
Disclaimer: I am prejudiced. I don't have a CS or IT degree, I am a scientist by training. And if I look at the fate of most people with IT degrees in our organization, I can only have pity on them.
If you want to have a real career, then by all means retain your broad range of interests. "Dabbling" is okay, but perhaps you want to specialize a bit -- to consider for a moment to what field you would want to apply these computing skills. If you would enjoy writing financial software, you'll better know some
It may be harder to land that killer job at your dream company right out of school, but if you're like most people, you'll grow and change over the years, and you'll look back and think to yourself that you're so glad you didn't get that job, or even better, how funny it is that you're now running the company that didn't take you as an entry level employee.
Liberal arts are severely underappreciated in this world. The more bright, interesting people who refuse to over-focus too early in their careers, the better the world will be; please do your part.
So study your technology. But this is an undergraduate degree; treat it like a beginning, not an end. The race is a long one, and you really don't need to be going full speed out of the gate.
To get you on the right way, I will ask you a few questions instead...
i've decided that I want a career in the IT industry
Why have you decided upon a career in the IT industry? Why do you want a career in the first place, and not just a job? What do you view as important in a future job? Regular hours? Lots of overtime? High responsibility? Log off, and go on go home to your family/friends/hobby/etc? High pay? Having a work that you find ethically responsible? Male-dominated? Both sexes? Corporate machiner
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"Don't talk unless you can improve the silence". ~ Vermont saying
Vermonters are pretty monosyllabic people as a whole. Conversations with natural born Vermonters are pretty one-sided on the non-native's part. Difficult in fact to call it a conversation. Vermonters are, as a whole, a people of very little words. Unless of course, they have something to say. Something important. Something that needs to be said. Evidently today, when Vermont wanted to talk, a whole nation listened. Today, Vermont's junior senator Bernie Sanders took to the floor of the United States Senate at 10:25 this morning and delivered a speech very specifically setting forth why he was not in favor of the Obama tax compromise for approximately eight and one-half hours. Called a filibuster by some, an impassioned speech on behalf of the voice of down-to-earth America by others, Mr. Sanders impressed a lot of people and became quite the Twitter sensation. If you had the opportunity to peek in at the Twitter feed this afternoon – Vermont and Bernie Sanders were getting an awful lot of attention.
The man, who is neither Republican or Democrat, (he is in fact a Socialist) stood up for 8 1/2 hours and laid out reasons why he thought the Obama tax compromise that the Senate will vote on shortly, was wrong and was bad for this country and its people. He spoke….at length… and a great many people around the country listened.
Unlike others who have gone before him, he chose not to speak just for the sake of speaking (like those filibusters where the telephone book, an encyclopedia or a dictionary are read, just to kill time), in true Vermonter fashion he spoke because he had something to say – to tell his side of the story, his version of what is wrong and what needs to be done – and by doing so he won the hearts of a great many Americans.
Despite which side of the fence you are on – remembering that Sanders is neither Democrat or Republican – it was engaging to listen to him. He begged, he pleaded, he urged Americans to take up the fight and call, email, write – contact their representatives and voice their dissatisfaction. He took the opportunity to throw out statistics, read letters from constituents (his own and others), relay stories about daily life in Vermont and how what happens in Washington impacts the people – remember us? The ones that the government is by and for…you remember that little ditty don't you, big old government?
I know that people scoff at the Vermont Seccession movement with remarks like "really?" "they think they could do that?" …maybe tonight people realize that while the state may be little,with a population less than one county in the State where I came from, it can make a statement when it wants to and maybe it's saying something that a lot of people feel…maybe Washington and the country better watch out.
Vermonters tonight are standing just a little taller…proud of their choice in Congress. Good speech, Mr. Sanders – you improved the silence.
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Matthew E. Kahn, an environmental economist, takes a pessimistic view of climate change--that it's too late to avoid rising sea levels and hotter summers--but believes cities can cope with the changes.
We can't let the expectation that we'll be okay keep us from making the effort now. We'll have an easier time if we start adapting now.
By Alison Hewitt for UCLA Today
CAPITALISM HAS CAUSED climate change — and it will also help the world adapt in order to survive the impending shake-up, UCLA Professor Matt Kahn argues in his new book, "Climatopolis: How Our Cities Will Thrive in the Hotter Future" (Basic Books, 2010).
Kahn, an environmental economist, takes a pessimistic view of climate change — it's too late to avoid rising sea levels and hotter summers, he wrote — but he believes cities can cope with the changes.
"Many people are fixated on how we can reduce greenhouse gases, and acting like adapting to a warmer climate is still in the sci-fi future," Kahn said. "But we've passed the point of no return. Certain urban places — like Los Angeles — will suffer. But I'm optimistic that Los Angeles will also adapt."
Sure, you could hedge your bets and move north and inland, where cities are more sheltered from higher sea levels and warmer temperatures. Kahn predicts that Salt Lake City, Milwaukee, Buffalo, Minneapolis and Detroit may give New York and L.A. a run for their money in the new, warmer world. By his calculations, you could get a real bargain if you buy now: The price of one home in L.A. equals the cost of 100 homes in Detroit.
But Kahn's staying in Los Angeles. It helps that L.A. is where the UCLA Institute of the Environment professor has a house and dual appointments in economics and public policy, but he's also upbeat about L.A.'s future.
"I foresee a lot of challenges for urban cities, but I think they'll reconfigure themselves," he said. "I'd guess that in 2070, Los Angeles will have New York- or Hong Kong-style density, clean air, a working subway and much more development in the city's temperate zones."
The key is the very capitalism that has propagated the jumbo-sized, gas-guzzling American Dream, complete with a house full of energy-hungry air conditioning and two SUVs in the driveway, Kahn said.
"Capitalism is always coming up with new products," he explained. Energy-efficient air conditioners, electric cars and floating houses built to rise with sea levels or flash floods are just a few of the products that he expects will provide a profitable reason for companies to help the world adapt to climate change.
The way people will adapt depends on whether we're all a bunch of Spocks or Homers, Kahn explains. Spocks – named after the rational-to-a-fault Star Trek character — would calculate the risks of climate change and prepare accordingly. Homers — named for the bumbling father figure on "The Simpsons" — would seek instant gratification and find cheap housing exactly where climate change will cause the most damage. Whereas some economists think of the world population as either all Spocks or all Homers, Kahn thinks we're a mix of both — and that's what will save us.
"The Homers will be desperate to survive after the climate apocalypse, and their desperation creates incentives," he said. "The Spocks will respond to that need and profit by coming up with the products that will be in huge demand. The Homers' very existence creates the demand that saves them."
That's not an excuse for people to ignore climate change, Kahn warned. For cities to adapt, households and businesses need to learn about and respond to new data, he said. Climate models being developed in UCLA's Institute of the Environment, where Kahn works, will help give people the information they need to make smart choices about where they live and work, he said.
"My colleague Alex Hall is working on very detailed climate models that turn L.A. into a checkerboard of wildfire risk, flooding risk, average temperatures and so on," he said. "Home prices will rise and fall accordingly, and people will make more climate change-based decisions." Kahn foresees homeowners picking their neighborhoods by checking climate models along with crime rates and school districts.
Accurate information will be vital for people to make good climate decisions, which is why the saving power of capitalism could be derailed by government interference, Kahn argued. Subsidies and assistance can muddy incentives, he said. For example, he's disturbed by the message sent by low water prices in Los Angeles.
"Climate change is going to make water both scarcer and more in demand, but charging so little for water is actually exacerbating the water shortage problems," Kahn said. "People need pricing signals or they won't respond to shortages."
Companies that might otherwise develop water-saving devices have no incentive to do so if tap water isn't priced high enough to make people want to buy the new products, he argued. "Capitalism is much less efficient when pricing signals are artificial."
So while Kahn is generally optimistic about how cities will adapt to heat waves and higher oceans, he does have some qualms. Optimism can lead to complacency, he warned.
"We still need a sense of urgency," Kahn insisted. "We can't let the expectation that we'll be okay keep us from making the effort now. We'll have an easier time if we start adapting now."
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Sebastian Vettel claimed his ninth win of the 2013 season at the Japanese Grand Prix on Sunday, though the championship battle continues to India.
This was a much different win as Red Bull used clever strategy to overhaul team-mate Mark Webber and Romain Grosjean, who had led the race until the final round of pit-stops.
At the start both Red Bull's were slow away on the front row allowing Romain Grosjean to take the lead into the first corner, Lewis Hamilton also looked to capitalise but slight contact with Vettel's front wing on the run to the first corner resulted in a puncture, dropping the Briton to the back of the field before later retiring.
Further down Giedo van der Garde and Jules Bianchi collided in the first corner taking both cars out, while Charles Pic completed his drive-through penalty given after qualifying.
Unable to pass Grosjean the Red Bull's slipped back to save tyres in a bid to attack nearer the pit-stops as the two Ferrari's of Felipe Massa and Fernando Alonso battled for fifth and sixth.
The first stops began around lap 12 with Webber the first car to pit in a bid to close down Grosjean using the undercut, this was unsuccessful as the Frenchman emerged ahead after his stop a lap later.
Mercedes' poor day got worse as Nico Rosberg was given a drive-through penalty for an unsafe release into the path of Sergio Perez arriving for his first stop.
Vettel waited a few laps later than those ahead for his first stop but to no real advantage.
Daniel Ricciardo was on a different strategy from those ahead, starting on the harder compound tyres from 16th, he was upto fourth as those ahead pitted, from there he did a great job of holding Nico Hulkenberg and the two Ferrari's behind.
Alonso used this to pass Massa on the main straight with DRS while Hulkeberg finally passed the Toro Rosso at 130R.
Esteban Gutierrez, Kimi Raikkonen and Sergio Perez also joined the battle and as the Mexican looked to pass Massa ahead he ended up losing out to Raikkonen again at 130R.
Ahead Webber began closing in Grosjean catching by half a second per lap before pitting for the second time as he converted to a three-stop strategy, that allowed Vettel to attack Grosjean before the Lotus man also made his second stop.
Webber's pace after the stops was enough as the Australian moved ahead of Grosjean into the lead.
From there an interesting strategical race developed with Webber making an extra stop needing to build a 25 second lead to stay ahead of Grosjean who had completed his two stops.
Vettel stayed out a lot longer than Webber and Grosjean in a bid to have much faster pace towards the end of the race.
A good battle behind the leading three with Hulkenberg ahead of Alonso and Raikkonen, Ricciardo's strategy was ruined after he was given a drive-through penalty for going off track and gaining an advantage while Massa also slipped back getting a drive-through for speeding in the pit-lane.
After his stop Vettel was much quicker than Grosjean and passed the Lotus with ease using DRS, Webber made his final stop a few laps later and the question was could he close the gap to Grosjean and Vettel ahead?
Alonso was able to move ahead of Hulkenberg for fourth ensuring the championship battle continues to India while the German can be very pleased with fifth. Kimi Raikkonen produced some good overtakes to take 6th while Esteban Gutierrez scored his first F1 points in 7th.
Rosberg and Massa recovered from their drive-through penalties to claim 8th and 9th respectively, Jenson Button completing the points finishers in 10th.
After his final stop Webber very quickly closed on Grosjean ahead but was unable to get past the Lotus until the penultimate lap ensuring a Red Bull 1-2 but also ensuring Vettel's fifth straight win.
Vettel's Suzuka success increases his championship lead to 92 points meaning he needs just eight points more than Alonso in India to finally claim that fourth championship.
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How many and what color shims are you guys putting in your Ninja regs?
How many and what color shims are you guys putting in your Ninja regs?
Xmag, IT Emag
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None in my pro V2. That is supposed to be 950psi from my understanding.
I was told that more shims mean higher output, I rarely get into regs so I have no idea.
yea, 950-1100. 950 is more then enuf for me
Well I added a red shim to the stack....Xmag and the Z-RT mag didn't like it. Zmag felt very soft on the trigger, none of the guts would engage.
are you talking shp or regular hp reg? for my non rt mags i have the hp reg and keep all the shims in which gives me 800. as said above no shims on my shp is 950.
ninja site is hating my phone. I'll have to wait until I can get to an actual computer.
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At roughly $25 a pop, there's good money to be made in supplying the world with plastic traffic poles.
Pexco, a small manufacturing company with 150 employees in Fife, Wash., already ships the poles to 28 countries. If all goes as planned, thousands more will soon be headed to Turkey each year.
"We've got good products; we know there's demand for that," said Peter Speer, the company's vice president of sales.
There's also a danger that foreign customers might not pay, which is why many commercial banks look askance at such deals. But Speer can sleep a little easier knowing the U.S. government will step in if things go bad.
That federal insurance _ which covers $2 million of Pexco's exports _ comes from the little-known Export-Import Bank of the United States, which has set off a big spat over the nation's financing of global trade.
As a federal agency, the bank's job is to provide credit insurance, loans and guarantees to help foreign buyers purchase U.S. goods and services.
Critics say it's corporate welfare, unnecessarily putting taxpayers' money at risk.
As they revive a fight from two years ago, many conservative Republicans in the House of Representatives want the bank disbanded when its funding expires Sept. 30.
Members of the Washington state congressional delegation are among those rallying to save the bank _ often called Ex-Im _ and it's easy to see why. Since 2007, 183 of the state's companies have lined up $111 billion in financing through the bank, with no state benefiting more.
That's nearly half the national total of $232 billion.
"Here's the bottom line: If the bank is allowed to go away, thousands of jobs in Washington state will be lost. That's the fact," said Democratic Rep. Denny Heck of Washington state, a member of the House Financial Services Committee.
Washington state's top ranking _ it's followed by Texas and California, each with $21 billion over the seven-year period _ is due largely to the muscle of aerospace giant Boeing, the nation's largest exporter.
And resentment against Boeing's influence is providing plenty of fuel for opponents, many of whom ridicule the bank as "The Bank of Boeing."
Boeing and four other Washington state companies sent representatives to Capitol Hill to lobby last week, including officials of the Manhasset Specialty Co. in Yakima, which sells music stands, and Janicki Industries, a company in Sedro-Woolley that builds high-precision parts and tooling for aerospace and other businesses.
With so much on the line, the bank won unanimous support from the Washington state delegation when Congress last voted to extend it, in 2012.
"It is trade that unites our delegation more than anything else," said Eric Schinfeld, the president of the Washington Council on International Trade. "And the reason why is that 40 percent of all the jobs in Washington state are tied to international trade. So they get it."
In the House, opponents are led by Texas Republican Rep. Jeb Hensarling, the chairman of the Financial Services panel, who in May called the bank the "poster child of the Washington (D.C.) insider economy." He noted that more than 60 percent of the bank's financing last year benefited just 10 large corporations, including the likes of GE, Ford and Boeing.
"These multi-billion-dollar companies would do just fine without the Ex-Im Bank's corporate welfare," Hensarling said in a speech to the conservative Heritage Foundation.
Hensarling faces opposition in his home state, with Texas leading the nation in exports for the last 12 years, accounting for nearly 18 percent of all the goods sold outside the U.S. Overall, 1,337 Texas companies have had their exports backed by the bank in the last seven years, and many business officials fear they'd stop selling overseas without the federal protection.
"It would be very unfortunate if the Ex-Im Bank would cease to exist. Thousands of jobs will be lost," said Bill Hammond, the CEO of the Texas Association of Business, in Austin. He said Hensarling and other opponents were pursuing "an irrational crusade" but added: "We're concerned about it, absolutely. I mean, the chair has a lot of power."
There's similar opposition in the Senate, where Utah Republican Mike Lee told his colleagues in April that the bank represents "another taxpayer-funded example of distorted public policy" that subsidizes well-connected private companies.
"This kind of public policy privilege, best described as crony capitalism, is a threat to the free market and its moral underpinnings," Lee said.
While acknowledging that most Americans have never heard of the bank, Hensarling said that would change in coming months, calling the debate over its future "a defining issue for our party and our movement."
Democrat Patty Murray, Washington state's senior senator, defended Boeing, saying its production of airplanes creates plenty of other jobs.
"Critics ignore that for every 777X sale backed by the bank, there are parts manufacturers, repair shops and small businesses in places like Everett and Renton that benefit, too," she said.
Heck said Boeing's dominance was "a natural consequence" of what the bank funded, following its charge to operate in markets where traditional financing wouldn't work.
"Who's going to finance Uganda purchasing a $300 million airplane?" he asked. "Wells Fargo, Bank of America or your local community bank is not going to do it." Yet the bank boasted of a default rate of less than 1 percent last year, which Heck said "would be the envy of any commercial bank."
Hensarling said his committee would hold a hearing soon to examine the bank's operations. In his speech last month, he said the demise of the bank this year would be "one of the few achievable victories" remaining in the current Congress. In April, when the Export-Import Bank asked Congress to extend its charter by five years and increase its lending cap by $20 billion, to $160 billion, Hensarling said the bank wanted to "fail upward by requesting more money."
Heck said he was worried about what Hensarling would do at the hearing.
"It's basically an opportunity for him to attempt to eviscerate the bank," Heck said. "He's declared war on the Export-Import Bank. At least he's being upfront and the agenda's known."
Murray, who wrangled with Hensarling when the two co-chaired the "supercommittee" of 2011 that tried but failed to find new ways to cut federal spending, accused the Republican Party of "pushing us toward another avoidable crisis." She likened the effort to last fall's government shutdown, which she blamed on the GOP.
"Every member of the House and Senate should know that Americans are sick of a minority of members in Congress hurting our economy by governing from crisis to crisis," Murray said.
While only 93 House members voted to dismantle the bank two years ago, Heck said opponents had gained momentum. He and other backers expect a tougher vote this time around.
"We all predicted this two years ago: that we were only kicking the can down the road to have the real fight now," Schinfeld said. "So it's not a surprise."
Opponents of the bank include Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines, which says the bank is unfairly subsidizing the airline's foreign competitors.
Many business groups are pushing hard to get the bank's charter renewed, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers. In a letter to Hensarling, they warned that failing to reauthorize the bank "would amount to unilateral disarmament in the face of other nations' aggressive trade finance programs."
In his speech, Hensarling dismissed the concern, saying, "I'm not interested in engaging in a taxpayer-funded subsidy arms race with the rest of the world."
At the Pexco plant in Fife, Speer is hoping that Congress keeps the bank alive.
He just hired a new international sales manager. And after traveling to Turkey to meet with officials of the government in Ankara, he's hoping to seal a deal soon that will be worth at least a quarter of a million dollars each year.
But he said Turkey might be a risky market. A few years back, before Pexco had insurance through the Export-Import Bank, it shipped a container of traffic safety equipment to a Turkish customer who then never paid for it.
"Here's a market where several years ago we took a bath," Speer said. "But the Export-Import Bank can help us connect the dots."


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It is going to be interesting finding out how much of this is hype and how much of this is reality. Initial videos are intriguing. A startup called Leap Motion has announced the development of the Leap 3D motion control device that is sensitive down to 1/100 of a millimeter – that's 200 times better than other sensors (i.e: Kinect). At this resolution, the Leap software is able to resolve the motion of individual fingers, allowing for intuitive gesture controls like pinch-to-zoom, highly accurate virtual drawing, and manipulation of 3D models. Learn more.
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Some good stuff from Begeistert 026, the recurring get-together for BeOS and now Haiku programmers. A lot of work is being done on the debugger, the Auckland Layout Editor (which sounds very impressive), and the Haiku port to ARM. Haiku on ARM is getting closer and closer to booting - for now it ends up in Kernel Debugging Land (a kernel panic).
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RE[3]: What happened?
by smashIt on Mon 5th Nov 2012 20:54 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: What happened?"
"Just because you didn't read about it on OSNews doesn't mean there hasn't been progress..."
How sad is that.
How sad is that.
don't think thom missed one
RE[4]: What happened?
by Narishma on Mon 5th Nov 2012 20:58 in reply to "RE[3]: What happened?"
RE[5]: What happened?
by umccullough on Mon 5th Nov 2012 23:02 in reply to "RE[4]: What happened?"
That last one, the alpha 3, is the one I tried. As I said, not much happened since then (more than a year ago) in terms of releases.
Yes, it's unfortunate that Haiku only prepares a new alpha release approximately once a year - but there are nightly builds released with new features and bug fixes almost every day.
If you're looking to complain about the length of time between "stable" alpha releases, then I really can't argue with your sentiments.
Perhaps if there were more people helping to develop and organize a release, we could do them more often (I'd be satisfied with 6 month cycles).
RE[5]: What happened?
by Morgan on Tue 6th Nov 2012 11:50 in reply to "RE[4]: What happened?"
All the real fun in Haiku can be had with the nightly updates. I've gone from a mostly not working netbook on Alpha 3 to the same netbook fully supported under various nightlies. You just have to read the release notes to figure out where you want to start from.
For me, it was the point they added WPA support soon after the Alpha 3 release. Barring one minor hiccup, I had nothing but improved performance and support when testing nightlies about once a month on that device.
I'm seriously looking forward to a working RPi install; I know that's a long time coming but I have always been patient with Haiku.
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Over two hours of close up magic for the working magician!
Silk In Potato: A potato is shown to be solid and then placed into a paper bag. A black silk is signed and vanished inside a playing card. The performer's hands are shown empty and then the potato is retrieved from the bag. The potato is shown once more and then is peeled until a black spot is seen. The black spot gets bigger and then is pried out of the potato to the realization that it is indeed, the signed silk !!!!
Back in Time: A card is selected from a shuffled deck. The cards are placed back into the case and a piece of the selected card is torn and handed to the spectator. The remaining pieces are then burnt to rubbish. The deck is handed to the spectator to be seen sealed back in it's "store bought" condition. The cards are brought out of the case to be back in order with the selected card face down in it's appropriate location. The card is brought out of it's location with the piece matching that of the spectator's possession.
Color Changing Deck with Paint Your Card: The deck changes color in a most visual and simplistic way. A card is signed and placed on top of the deck. Half of the deck is waved over the card in a fanning motion and the card changes color, and then into your business card which is then handed out. Gorgeous and visual.
Quarter Thru Plastic: The protective cellophane is slid down the card case half way. A borrowed quarter is tossed toward it and immediately penetrates the plastic....,HIGHLY VISUAL. The quarter is then immediately plucked back out of the plastic, and tossed back in once again. The deck is turned over, the plastic pushed back flush with the deck. The quarter is rubbed on the plastic and penetrates it once more. Everything is handed back except for the deck....., that belongs to the magician.
Sponge Ball Routine: No other sponge ball routine can top this one !!! So much magic in just three minutes. Balls are produced, change color twice, multiple production in the spectator's hand, turns into a 3" ball and then a 6" ball. A 5" coin is produced from the ball after examination and then the spectator's watch is handed back to them...., that was stolen somewhere in the routine.
Chips Are Down: The performed borrows a bill and tears off a corner and hands it out to the spectator. The remainder of the bill is burnt in stunning flash of flame. The bag of chips is never touched but the spectator, but the borrowed bill is seen to appear inside. The piece matches perfectly of course. Everything can be examined.
Sharpest Razorblade in the World: Remember the razorblade and signed card in a card case. In all those versions, the entire deck is cut into little pieces except the signed card. How about this version in which the razorblade IMPALES the signed card? Awesome and highly visual.
Watch the Pockets: Four signed cards travel to the performer's pockets in less than forty seconds. Then as fast as they are placed back into the deck they reappear inside the pockets again...,with the performer's hands shown empty before the productions. Then the entire deck vanishes and reappears in the spectator's pocket. No side steals, if you can palm a card, you can do this routine !!! You'll also need to master a four card exchange, a bottom control and a gamblers cop, but who's counting? This one is worth your efforts, believe us when we tell you......
Razorblade Prediction: How about a bendix bombshell wallet and razorblades with a stunning climax of a signed card inside the zippered compartment, under the closest scrutiny? Magicians are fooled with this one!! Blades are eaten, thread swallowed, etc.....
The best egg bag routine out there!!! Don't believe us? How about a full series of moves and effects with the egg...., then a glass of water produced out of the bag, completely surrounded and while standing up.
Production of a live goldfish with a deck of cards and then eating him (supposedly)?
PH's Uncanny...., need it be said that Paul Harris wrote about Brian's idea in his book, "Art of Astonishment"? Highly visual and wait till you see Brian's idea about the can.....
Magician's Triumph in the hands, no table needed if you don't want one. Will fool the magicians. All you need is a half pass and a force!!!!
Rubberband penetration of the finger...So visual, and guaranteed you'll use this one.
Salt and pepper effect; The pepper vanishes from the spectator's hands using something so ingenious, you'll wish you had thought of it!!!
These and many more....Riffle/Classic force is worth the price of the entire DVD, also a marker or pen vanishes and reappears in your pocket with no pulls....,the list goes on and on.....
So that's all? So much magic that you will do. Commercial, hard hitting, and not too difficult! What more can you ask for? Have fun and perform often.
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Ah yes, those sweet walk-off wins…
Credit: Frank Franklin II/AP
Yesterday, before the game, I had seen a She-Fan comment that the Yankees never hit rookies very well and the Phillies were starting rookie J.A. Happ (who has taken Chan Ho Park's spot in the rotation). I am in complete agreement as the Yankees usually struggle with lesser-known pitchers. And of course, yesterday was no exception. For six innings, Happ gave the Phillies a solid four-hit, two-run performance. He did not give up any walks, and struck out four. He departed with a 4-2 lead and in position to get the win.
The Yankees were unable to get anything going against reliever Chad Durbin and Ryan Madson for the next two innings, so it set the stage for the 9th inning.
Three outs from defeat…star closer Brad "Lights Out" Lidge on the mound…it didn't look good…
From The Phillies Zone Blog, philly.com
Johnny Damon got it started by drawing a walk from Lidge, and advanced to second on a steal. Mark Teixeira struck out, but was followed by Alex Rodriguez. After working the count to 3-2, A-Rod hit a right field homer to tie the game.
Credit: Frank Franklin II/AP
Robinson Cano came up next, and singled. Like Damon had done earlier, he advanced to second on a steal. That brought Melky Cabrera to the plate…
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On May 15th, Melky had hit a two-run single in the bottom of the 9th inning to beat the Minnesota Twins (the first of three walk-off wins that weekend).
Credit Antonelli/NY Daily News
Melky also had a game-winning home run against the Oakland A's in April, ending a 14-inning affair.
Credit: William Perlman/Star-Ledger
Saturday night, once again, he delivered. A hit to right scored Cano, and the Yankees had emerged the victors with a 5-4 win over the Phillies…
Credit: Brian J. Myers/US Presswire
Credit: New York Post
Some interesting facts…
The last Yankee with three-game winning hits in a season was Claudell Washington in 1988.
The Yankees current ten game streak with no errors hasn't been done by the team since 1995.
Brad Lidge has blown three saves this year after not blowing any during the Phillies championship season. His ERA is now 9.16. So, to the Phillies' defense, this is not the same Lidge. The implosion by his former Astros teammate allowed Andy Pettitte to escape with a no-decision.
From MLB Pro Blog, Alyson's Footnotes
John Mayberry, Jr. made his major league debut and hit a three-run homer off Pettitte. His father hit the final home run of his career at the old Yankee Stadium in 1982, as a member of the Yankees. I guess it's in with the new, out with the old…
Credit: Frank Franklin II/AP
With both Mayberry and Nick Swisher playing, the game definitely had a 1970's "feel" to it…
Xavier Nady, Jorge Posada, and Jose Molina will head to Tampa to get ready to their impending returns. While it will be great to see Xavier and Jorge, I have to admit that I like what Francisco Cervelli has done while both Posada and Molina have been out. It's too bad that the team can't find a way to move Hideki Matsui to open up the DH spot for Jorge, and allow Cervelli continued playing time.
Finally, I saw a piece in the Star-Ledger yesterday about the attempts by fans to save "Gate 2" of the old Yankee Stadium. If Gate 2 is the most complete original part of the stadium (prior to the 1970's renovations), why doesn't the city preserve it as a memorial to the old Stadium and the legends who played there? The article gave an artist's rendition of the proposed park, and I think it is not only a terrific idea but one that the city must do. I always wanted to see the old parks like Ebbetts Field and the Polo Grounds, but I can't…they don't exist. If nothing is done to save part of the old stadium, my children's children will never know the existence of the House That Ruth Built. This idea makes way too much sense, and I hope that the city realizes it before it's too late…
Star Ledger/Courtesy of Richard Lillard
Hey Julia, who is Omir Santos?
Jonathon Papelbon was cruising in the 9th inning last night. Although he had walked former Yankee Gary Sheffield, he punched out both David Wright and Jeremy Reed with pure heat. With two outs, Mets catcher Omir Santos (called up from Triple A Buffalo in April when Brian Schneider was placed on the DL) was the last hope. He drilled the first pitch from Papelbon off the top of the Green Monster. It was initially ruled a double, but instant replay (its first use at Fenway Park) showed that it was a two-run homer which gave the Mets' a 3-2 lead.
Credit: Winslow Townson/AP
J.J. Putz, in place of Francisco Rodriguez who was hospitalized due to back spasms, closed out the game to preserve the victory for the Mets.
So, this morning finds the Yankees sharing second place with the Red Sox. A certain friend of mine had predicted that this morning would find the Yankees two games behind the Red Sox. Alas, it wasn't meant to be. The Jays also lost (4-3 to Atlanta) so the Yankees are now just ½ game behind the AL East Leaders.
Do we need any more evidence to show how much Alex Rodriguez means to this team? His return has led to the resurgence, and the Yankees are now clearly in the thick of things.
I am so looking forward to June 9th through 11th! Are you ready, Julia? Game on! J
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Is there some convention or common sense (which I appear to lack) when it comes to choosing which sides you will assign to which variables? I assumed it didn't matter, but I've come across many cases where I come up with very different answers.
For instance, in problems where 3 sides are given I was provided 5, 11, and 9 as the length of the sides. If I say a = 11 b = 9 and c = 11 I wind up with the incorrect answer but if I use 9 for a, 5 for b and 11 c then I can get the correct answer.
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The title says it all, What ever happened to "Crimson Skies?" I LOVED that game and it had to have been the best Airplane Dog Fighting game ever made, it was just so fun. Anyways, Does anybody have the answer to that or at least a hunch?
Microsoft would do well with a rerelease in HD on the Arcade platform. It would be a good test bed for judging a sequel.
I dont know if they did an HD version but they did have it on the marketplace arcade. Me and my cousin downloaded it out of excitement but we were the only ones IN THE WORLD that was playing it lol. I was just wondering what ever happened to a sequel or something, it was one of the top games out at the time along wit Project Gotham Racing.
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March 29, 2012
For the 25 individuals on our annual ranking of the top-earning hedge fund managers, success was often a mix of size and performance.
By Stephen Taub
Call it the year of the management fee. In 2011 no fewer
than 11 individuals garnered a spot on AR's 11th
annual Rich List ranking of the 25 top-earning hedge fund
managers despite delivering only single-digit investment gains
in their funds for the year. They can thank their
firms' sizable coffers: Although these managers
couldn't bank much from the 20 percent-plus
performance fees for which hedge funds are famous, they found
that management fees — originally designed to cover
basic operating costs — have become a major profit
center as firms' assets have grown
significantly larger.
Altogether the 25 highest-earning hedge fund managers earned
a combined $14.4 billion last year, down from more than
$22 billion in 2010 and the lowest sum in three years. The
median earner made $235 million, down from $400 million in 2010
and $500 million in 2009, while the average earner reaped $576
million, down from $883 million in 2010 and nearly
half the $1.1 billion average in 2009. Still, the total
rose 24 percent from 2008.
The managers at the very top of this year's
Rich List bucked the trend of lackluster performance. Seven of
the eight highest earners steered their respective hedge funds
to double-digit net gains, while all eight generated
double-digit gross returns — an impressive
accomplishment given that the average hedge fund lost more than
2 percent last year, according to the HedgeFund Intelligence
Composite Index.
Bridgewater Associates founder Raymond Dalio tops this
year's list with a $3.9 billion payday for 2011.
Bridgewater is now the largest hedge fund in the world, with
some $70 billion in hedge fund assets under management (and
$120 billion in total assets). In the past two years, the
63-year-old Dalio has made $7 billion.
Dalio was not the only hedge fund manager to rack up
spectacular gains in the market last year. Carl Icahn, the
second--highest earner, brought home $2.5 billion from
aggressive activist battles with companies such as natural-gas
producer El Paso Corp. Renaissance Technologies Corp. founder
and nonexecutive chairman James Simons earned $2.1 billion
after his two largest funds earned mid-30 percent returns.
Tiger Global Management's Chase Coleman rode the
boom in Internet stocks to a 45 percent net return; the $550
million he made won him the No. 6 position on the list.
But many others posted gains in the low single digits. That
explains why a manager needed to earn only $100 million to
qualify for this year's Rich List — the
lowest minimum in four years. Of those managers who made the
list thanks to management fees, most also have a large sum of
their own money invested in their funds; this combination of
gains from their own capital on a modest return plus their
share of the fees was enough to put them on the list. Those who
qualified in this manner include SAC Capital
Advisors' Steven Cohen, who made $585 million even
though his main fund was up just 8 percent net of fees; Viking
Global Investors co--founder O. Andreas Halvorsen, who earned
$300 million despite the fact that his flagship fund was up 7.6
percent; and Tudor Investment Corp.'s Paul Tudor
Jones II, who earned $175 million after his main fund, Tudor
BVI Global, gained less than 3 percent.
This year's list also features eight newcomers:
Greg Jensen and Robert Prince of Bridgewater, Peter Brown and
Robert Mercer of Renaissance, Elliott Management
Corp.'s Paul Singer, Jeffrey Ubben of ValueAct
Capital, Coatue Management's Philippe Laffont and
Boaz Weinstein of Saba Capital Management. These managers
proved that even in extremely difficult market conditions, it
was still possible to deliver outsize returns.
Fifteen individuals who were on the 2010 Rich List failed to
qualify this year. They include George Soros, who returned
outside capital in 2011; Caxton Associates founder Bruce
Kovner, who just missed making the list, having earned close to
$100 million; and John Paulson — the top hedge fund
money earner one year ago after making a Rich List record of
$4.9 billion in 2010.
1 Raymond Dalio
$3.9 billion
In 2011, Westport, Connecticut–based Bridgewater
was said to benefit mostly from investments in U.S. Treasuries;
it was shrewdly bearish on the U.S. economy early in the year
and participated in the subsequent rally in Treasury prices,
German bonds and the Japanese yen. This year Bridgewater is
looking for gold to rise, figuring several countries will
intentionally inflate their money supplies to help reduce debt.
Bridgewater is also looking for strength in emerging-markets
currencies and lower yields in what it deems to be high-quality
government bond markets, according to reports.
Dalio attributes Bridgewater's controversial
corporate culture, which encourages blunt honesty among all
employees, for a big part of the firm's success,
even though it has received a fair amount of criticism.
Bridgewater has made about $50 billion for its investors since
Dalio founded it in 1975 from his two-bedroom New York
2 Carl Icahn
$2.5 billion
Carl Icahn's activism paid off big-time in
2011. While more than half of all hedge funds were in the red,
the 76-year-old onetime corporate raider racked up a 34.5
percent gross return. As a result, he personally earned $2.5
billion even though he returned all money to his outside
investors last April. Icahn generated nearly half of his gains
in the fourth quarter, led by natural--gas company El Paso
Corp., which agreed to be acquired by Kinder Morgan some three
months after Icahn began building his position. His other big
winners: biotech company Biogen Idec, communications companies
Motorola Mobility Holdings and Motorola Solutions, and
Chesapeake Energy Corp. In a recent regulatory filing, Icahn
calculated that over the past few years his actions have
boosted aggregate market value by more than $55 billion for
shareholders at well over a dozen companies he's
targeted. Last year, when he announced his plan to return all
outside investor money by April 2011, Icahn stressed that he
was not predicting a big drop in the market. However, he did
not want to experience another year like 2008, when his fund
lost 35 percent and he did not restrict investors from pulling
their money. "Given the rapid market run-up over the past two
years and our ongoing concerns about the economic outlook, and
recent political tensions in the Middle East, I do not wish to
be responsible to limited partners through another possible
market crisis," he wrote. At the time, fee-paying assets
represented one quarter of the roughly $7 billion Icahn managed
in the funds.
3 James Simons
$2.1 billion
RIEF pursues a net-long investment strategy, going roughly
150 percent long and 50 percent short, trading U.S. and
non-U.S. equity securities listed on U.S. exchanges.
Renaissance's legendary Medallion strategy, which
was up about 35 percent last year, employs a short-term
quantitative trading strategy and has been closed to outside
investors for many years.
On March 1 the firm launched a new vehicle, the Renaissance
Institutional Diversified Alpha Fund, which will trade stocks
listed on U.S. exchanges as well as futures and forwards.
Renaissance also has a little-known fund of funds called
Kaleidoscope that invests in the firm's other
A noted philanthropist, Simons, along with his wife,
Marilyn, donated $150 million late last year to Stony Brook
University — one of the largest gifts ever made to any
institution of public higher education. Simons is a former
chairman of the school's math department; his
wife, who has a Ph.D. economics, is an alumna of the
4 Kenneth Griffin
$700 million
It took nearly three years, but Citadel founder Kenneth
Griffin can finally say that he and his funds are above water.
The firm's multistrategy funds Kensington Global
Strategies and Wellington — which account for the bulk
of the Chicago-based firm's $11 billion in assets
— netted gains of more than 20 percent in 2011,
overcoming the 55 percent they lost in 2008. (The fact that the
funds are back above their high-water mark means that Citadel
can start charging performance fees again.)
This strong showing placed Griffin, 43, among the top
performers as well as the highest earners last year. Although
Kensington and Wellington were profitable across all
strategies, they were said to have done especially well in
equities, energy and convertibles. In addition, the Citadel
Global Equities Fund was up more than 21 percent in 2011. In a
recent letter to clients, Griffin boasted that his Global
Equities team had posted its tenth consecutive year of
Griffin famously launched his career trading convertible
bonds from his dorm room in Cabot House at Harvard College,
graduating in 1989 with a BA in economics. He launched Citadel
the following year. Griffin and his wife, Anne Dias-Griffin,
who runs hedge fund Aragon Global Management, are ramping up
their spending on political candidates and the Republican
Party. In the third quarter of 2011 alone, they gave $300,000
to American Crossroads, a political action committee that seeks
to defeat President Obama.
5 Steven Cohen
$585 million
SAC Capital Advisors founder Steven Cohen, 55, is known as
the consummate trader, delivering double--digit returns for the
better part of two decades. Although last year's 8
percent net return by SAC's flagship multistrategy
fund was among Cohen's worst annual results, apart
from its 19 percent loss in 2008, the fund's gross
return of 16 percent was easily among the best hedge fund
performances of 2011. The fund, which charges a whopping 50
percent performance fee, did especially well in discretionary
long-short equity, earning most of its gains from the energy,
retail and technology sectors.
Cohen, whose firm operates out of plush offices in Stamford,
Connecticut, decorated with works from his vast collection of
contemporary art, has a proclivity for making headlines. He is
in the running to buy the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team and
is rumored to be plunking down $20 million to purchase a small
piece of the New York Mets as a hedge in case he loses out on
the Dodgers.
But Cohen garnered embarrassing publicity from the federal
government's wide-ranging, ongoing investigation
of insider trading activities: No fewer than seven former SAC
employees ran afoul of regulators. Two of them pled guilty to
criminal charges, in part for actions that took place while
they worked at SAC; the rest settled civil claims made by the
Securities and Exchange Commission.
Earlier this year two other former SAC employees were
arrested — Anthony Chiasson, who co-founded Level
Global in 2003 with SAC alum David Ganek — and Jon
Horvath of SAC affiliate Sigma Capital Management. Neither
Cohen nor SAC has been accused of any wrongdoing.
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Full length please!
He looks great with his hair naturally grey- I wish I would be so bold! Are those Ray Bans that he is wearing?
how handsome..love this shot, very personal.
nice wayfarer!more ideas for awesome glasses?¡
Wow. He looks exactly what I would want my husband to look like when we're both older.
I'd like to see the essence of this look on a woman. On the right woman it could work so well, even though it is so quintessentially masculine.
I just got some new glasses like these. They seem to be the same style as the girl in green a few days ago. I felt I was going out on a limb with them, but these posts make me feel better about my (gasp) bifocals.
where was this picture taken?
one good reason to be grey - makes you ageless - any ideas on how the hair is kept back?
I'm in love!
Absolutely perfect
I want to have a coffee and ciggies with him!!!
Thank you for the beautiful and inspiring pictures on your blog.
love the ray rays as eyeglasses
This picture is great. I love the glasses with the hair.
I hope to look that good when I go grey.
pretty guy!
Very beautiful, the coat is woooooo
Nice coat and specs, inviting beard and lovely warm coat. I like winter.
Love that watch. It tops it off perfectly.
yeah. beautiful.
gray hair is fabulous if you wear it right ;)
Um, Yes.
talent for the guys who are white.
As one of the yellows, difficult for me to find such balance between the clothing, skin, and hair.
I like his glasses. Very handsome. Love the coat too!
Not exactly an exciting response to mid-winter is it?
But it says "adult" and "responsible" very clearly.
This guy looks like a distinguished uncle. I love his coat too, and I agree with Anonymous that a full-length photo would be great.
This picture has very good looking jacket he is wearing. It looks like a cold morning and he is warm while hiding his stylish wardrobe he plans to expose when he reaches his destination.
I love this look, and I feel this encapsulates what it means to be style conscious.
Love the hair! (and the glasses and coat and...)
So cool.
I've always disliked guys who try to dress too 'young' and guys who dye their hair - they always look like they're wearing a wig to me.
Erm....my inner nerd revealed but, hey Sawyer!
(I know it's not him, but come on)
His peppery tweed coat enhanses his grey hair.
there is something very intriguing & sexy about long grey hair (on a man or a woman), especially when its worn with style like this.
Im feeling this
I've been searching for this coat! Where can I find one for my husband?
Very interesting looking man!
very tasty glasses!
Love the glasses too!
love the look so far?
Lovely details—watch, wisps of gray hair around his face, scarf. Glasses, but also think they're maybe slightly too large. Just a quibble. This is a lovely man.
Nice, I just ordered these glasses the other day!
where does one pick up a pair of glasses like his. i live in london, uk but cannot find them anywhere! i can see they are ray-band wayfers but r there any other brands which are better/comparable?
I love the lighting in your pictures, how do you get it so beautiful?
Take one gray-haired man, dress him in black, clothe him in confidence to create majesty.
This man reminds me of my grandfather, who had the same sort of presence. When I was very young, I thought he was God. Of course, he scared the hell out of me.
An American in Paris?
Very very Cool.. Love the watch:-)
love the all black, especially the wayfarers. the silver hair and watch bezel give the perfect pop. you can tell this man has very good quality hair. --CAL
yea i concur...i need the full length...
Veddy, veddy nice.
Not trying too hard. Just right.
I'm all for monochromatic, it is timeless, but this is just awesome:
(PS - is that the Pantone color of the year "Mimosa?")
I love this whole series of Grey you have been showing us.
I love this look, and I like the Wayfarer frames used for spectacles.
He has a special allure...
I wear those same glasses. Now if only I could get this look!
what a gorgeous man
great face, nice hair and beard spiced up by the specs. this works for me. a small request would be to give me more ethnic in euro style.
He is sooooo attractive! I am in love.
And where is this?
Beautiful coat. Silver fox.
Well, this guy is officially the coolest-looking person I've ever seen.
Amazing...he's not smoking.
I don't seem to me that he is actually that old - apart from the grey hair, nothing about him suggests it. Some people's hair just turns grey fairly early.
nice picture. I really mean it!
I think everybody looks beautifull in your photos no matter what. It`s actually amazing!
who is this man? I want his phone number hahaahah
I'm not feeling it. Hair messily pulled into a pony tail, Buddy Holly specs, and a gray coat buttoned all the way up? He doesn't look bad, but he's not particularly noteworthy here. But I like the building in the background and the composition of the photo.
Casual chic, love the watch he's wearing, too.
I agree... apart for the awsome grey hair, he doesn´t look old at all!!!
he's gorgeous.
maybe he's got a son? ;)
So very charming. He is elegant and understated.
He's very hansome but the wayfarers are so played out.
Wow! I love the glasses. :)
Hey, Scott, how about a shout-out to Updike (R.I.P.)? Dude had style back in the day.
I think if he shaved his beard and dyed his hair he would look quite young. However he looks good as is!
he looks great
charcoal is so underrated
There is something so attractive about this men, that age quickly fades in the distance.
simple beauty
The wayfarers are a great way to keep the grey hair and coat from being to sober while retaining maturity and the whole classic look.
He looks powerful and enlightened.
Doug, if you looking for a style like this of glasses in london, there is a great shop in covent garden area, on the long acre street.
talk about sliver fox!
its great to see that older men dont give up on their looks and apperance. i only wish i could look this handsome when im older.
i would love to meet a man like that. he looks very interesting.
also, i have those glasses.
Very handsome...
Never thougt of rayban that way before
Oh my.. How natural and wild he is..
wow...a beautiful man!
He looks like an old boyfriend of mine! Rawr.
that coat is fantastic and the glasses..wow
Brilliant glasses.
my art teacher keeps his hair grey, and it looks great. he can wear all kinds of colors(pink and orange constantly) and darker shades of grey always look cool with it.
I absolutely agree- he is a handsome man. Hmmm..
The charcoal gray suits him well.
Please marry me sir.
I like his look very much.
I want him as my lovely husband!)
He looks so god with the gray hair, wow! Those glasses are just amazing!
Masculine, chic, and and untamed. This is what a man his age should look like like- at least in my dreams they do!-. Love the hair, love the coat and the retro watch. Pure personality.
He is absolutely stunning. A beautiful photograph.
This Time Now
Well, he's just way hot. He's got that effortless quality that people spend hours trying to replicate.
Mine are Jean LaFont, a French brand, and the model is called Tibere in their retro line.
These glasses (Ray Ban's Wayfarer) organise entire look which is just perfect;-)
Hi look like an polish actor Michal Zebrowski
Hi look like an polish actor Michal Zebrowski
A grayer "Sawyer", definitely! And how charming is he?
he looks like an older josh holloway from lost
He looks amasing....put together....yet was not his major focus
awesome vintage and "new" vintage glasses - great service and awesome prices: optometristattic.com - check it out. the guy running it is super cool and great to deal with. he's got lots of dead stock and new stock. Try the Criss Yank or Apollos if you want really tough glasses - I drop my Apollos daily and they've barely got a scratch. Enjoy.
perfection.. gorgeous man, i'm swooning :)
love those wayfarers and his grey hair! i would love my husband to look like him!
Handsome man. With a different haircut, no facial hair and no glasses he would probably look 10 years younger.
He looks so sexy
grey long hair is so sexy!!!!! ^^
and his glasses!
He the sexiest guy i have ever seen in that blog!!!!!!!!
striking!!! grey/gray is my current favourite shade!!
he is just so perfect.
Sooo captivating!!!
I can't believe it!
Why havn't we met?...yet.
Are you married or unavailable?
Anne from Sweden.
Classic look of the old rebel!Wayfarer Sun Glasses,coat and his thinking eyes!Men from the dream!
He looks very much like Sawyer from ABC's "Lost" its crazy! Very handsome :)
He is absolutely beautiful..
salt and pepper hair never looked this good. the face is a plus too. my kind of guy. :-)
do you know where i can contact him?
Simple yet so smart..
i love it!! the grey and black contrast..
a little bit Ringo. i am in love with this photo and this man!
He looks so handsomeee!! His hair are wonderful...and his glasses too!! He's very very hot...I love him!!!!
Mo domè...ma p piacer!!!!
Some men just know they created the world. I could ease up and ask about his mind, just to see.
those glasses...inextricable from Johnny Depp's image in Secret window. nice salt n' peppa.


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By Pilar Suarez | Barcelona Correspondent
Former Barcelona striker Steve Archibald says Lionel Messi's lack of fitness meant the Blaugrana played with 10 men during the 4-0 defeat to Bayern Munich last week but is confident the Argentine can inspire his side to a comeback in the Camp Nou return.
The 25-year-old started in Munich but was a shadow of his usual self as he and his team-mates toiled at the Allianz Arena and eventually lost 4-0 to Jupp Heynckes' side.
"It was surprising but it is easy to see what happened to Barca," the Scot exclusively told Goal.com.
"Messi wasn't on form. To play against Bayern, in Germany, you need a whole team and all of them on form and strong - it's difficult. But you can't go there and play with 10 men - and that's what Barcelona did.
"They took a risk with Messi and it didn't work. It affected the other players and it ended up affecting the result as well."
Nevertheless, the former Tottenham forward does not believe Barca rely too heavily on the Argentine.
"Everybody says that Barcelona don't have a Plan B, but up until now they haven't needed one," he explained. "It's like any big club - the biggest clubs depend on one, two or three players.
"Madrid are the same with [Cristiano] Ronaldo, but Barcelona play a different way to all the others and they truly need Messi to be functioning so the system can work correctly at that level."
Great Scot | Archibald in action for Barcelona against Juventus
"It's reasonable to think they can [come back]," he continued. "Messi has scored lots of goals. He has scored three or four in many games on his own, so it's not unreasonable to think that if Messi is on form, Barcelona can go through."
The former striker, who also had a spell at Espanyol, also claims a fit Messi could have influenced the result in Germany last week.
"Bayern pressed high up the pitch and that was very risky. If Messi had been on form and strong, he would have driven them crazy, but they pressed to test him and Barcelona, and they saw he wasn't on form. There's no going back now."
Nevertheless, Archibald would like to see Barcelona sign a traditional centre-forward like Borussia Dortmund's Robert Lewandowski, a player he previously recommended to many clubs.
"I have said it for a long time: Barcelona would benefit from having a typical No.9. But you can't criticise them because they have been the most successful team on the planet and scored lots of goals.
"The time will come when they will change system and play with a classic No.9. They could use Lewandowski, for example: a No.9 with good movement, who is strong, scores goals and is good in the air."


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Bush: The Dream Campaign
The main message of the reelection strategy devised by Karl Rove, the President's chief political adviser, is to present Bush as a strong and successful wartime leader. The war in Iraq was expected to work in Bush's favor, and the Bush people planned to emphasize it more than any other issue. The adverse turn of events in Iraq has therefore been the greatest setback for Bush's reelection effort, and the recent revelations of torture by American troops have caused a political crisis for the President. But well before these revelations, the horrors of the "postwar" period for American troops and the Iraqi people were seen by Bush and his team as a political misfortune. The failure to find weapons of mass destruction has also been a disaster. The public, according to the polls, finds Bush less and less convincing in his claims about Iraq. He continues to insist that the US occupation will end well—but he cannot talk away the news about Americans and Iraqis being killed every day and the horrifying pictures from Abu Ghraib prison.
Well before the pictures of sexual and other humiliations were published, a close ally of the White House told me, "The war was supposed to be a huge asset for the President; it was supposed to sweep everything else aside. The game plan was that we'd find the weapons of mass destruction and destroy the careers of those who opposed the war." Karl Rove, this person said, "is concerned that the wea-pons haven't been found. We were supposed to be crushing the other team on this, and we're not. We took a big risk. We assumed that the reason Saddam threw the inspectors out and wouldn't let them back in until the UN forced him to was that he had weapons of mass destruction. This outcome is a widespread concern among the President's friends."
The Bush reelection campaign officials use many of the same tactics the Bush administration has used to justify the war and to govern the country: they are determined to preempt, neutralize, undermine, and destroy the opposition. To counter the perception of failure in Iraq, the President asserts that weapons of mass destruction "could still be there." Largely as a result of Bush's rhetoric equating the war in Iraq with the war on terrorism, more than half of the public continues to believe—the lack of evidence notwithstanding—that Saddam Hussein had a direct part in the attacks of September 11, 2001.
With the occupation going badly and the numbers of dead and wounded rising, the President set out to undermine his opponents by challenging their patriotism. He is seeking to exploit the concerns Democrats expressed about the USA Patriot Act, passed by Congress in the emotional and fear-ridden weeks following September 11. Several Democrats and even conservatives pointed out that some provisions of the act trample civil liberties, for example allowing searches…
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