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The Maghera and District Genealogy & History Society website is undergoing a bit of renovation!!
Please also have a look at our Facebook group (you can join, chat & look at the pictures & articles!)
http://www.facebook.com/groups/1Whilst the name of this site is is Maghera and District Genealogy & History, it would perhaps be more accurate to say Maghera and a 10-mile radius within the south of the County (but then, that'd be quite a mouthful!). The catchment area will, therefore, include Garvagh, Kilrea, Magherafelt, Moneymore, Draperstown, etc. (although most records currently will probably be from the Garvagh-Kilrea-Maghera Triangle at the moment).
Most of these records are contained in spreadsheet form. You can either just open the file to view the records or download them for further offline perusal. This site is a platform for the sharing of knowledge, both Genealogical and local, because as each generation passes, a little more knowledge gets lost.
I hope, through this website, to preserve and pass on this local knowledge. Unlike many Genealogical websites ran purely for profit, this is a contributory site. Put simply, this is a site for the amateur genealogist or anyone with an interest in the local area who wants to make this knowledge available to anyone interested.. and this knowledge is freely given… so all input and information submissions are welcome and after verification, will be included on the site!
Naturally, as your genealogical research progresses, it should be apparent that genealogy CAN be expensive. Not all information is available locally or at the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) (i.e. FREE information); And if you don't live in Northern Ireland, access to these records becomes the issue rather than cost. Some records can be obtained from the General Register Office of Northern Ireland (GRO) but at a cost. Currently, GRONI are offering access online to Birth, Marriage and Death records for a cost (effectively £2 / $3 US to see a record). However, if you need to check out quite a few, then these costs can mount up! Here at this site, we will TRY to save you some money (and time) by listing as many church and other public records from this area as possible. We have spent MANY hours deciphering and transcribing old church records and other official documents such as the 1831 Census for inclusion on this website. In addition, other sources of genealogical information, such as gravestones have been photographed and, where possible, transcribed. It has been noted that some websites charge €20 (£14.30 / $21.50 US) for the information on EACH gravestone. However, will endeavour to provide this kind of information for FREE!
In conclusion, we hope to be able to provide as much information as possible for you to do your own research. However, since this IS an amateur genealogy site, we are limited by both time and financial constraints. The contributors to this site give their time freely to further the research and make knowledge more readily available to the world. As mentioned earlier, some records cost money (as any of the transcribers will tell you) and, indeed, this website costs money to host, to obtain information and records, etc.. so, if you find some useful information here, or we can help you in any way, we will be happy to help. But, naturally, all donations to continue the work will be appreciated and most useful! However, you can buy us a coffee here!
Of course, we CAN (where records exist) do research for you for a fee if that is what you'd like. Message us through the Facebook group to discuss this (although if your ancestors are pre-1800, it is very unlikely that records exist to help).


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Google I/O Android Sessions
Google I/O is just around the corner and there is certainly a lot of buzz around mobile and Android. Each day has a full track dedicated to Android and there are two Fireside Chats specifically targeting our little green buddy. The sessions range from beginner to advanced, with three sessions still "TBA". I'd be willing to bet that these are reserved to showcase features and development practices for Android 2.2.
The first Fireside Chat is with Android Handset manufacturers: Dino Brusco (Motorola), Bill Maggs (Sony Ericsson), Joon Kang (LGE), Ciaran Rochford (Samsung), Eric Chu (Google; moderator). Oddly enough Peter Chou (HTC) is missing from this line-up. The second chat is with the Android team with Chris DiBona moderating. It's at the end of day two. They probably did this so any Android announcements would have a chance to sink in.
The DroidDog team will be watching the tweet streams and any live coverage that will be available, so we can report the latest and greatest from the event.
Wednesday, May 19th
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|A beginner's guide to Android
|Writing real-time games for Android redux
|The world of ListView
|Casting a wide net: How to target all Android devices
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Thursday, May 20th
|10:15am – 11:15am
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|Analyzing and monetizing your Android & iPhone apps
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WESTFIELD – Seniors and the Council on Aging expect to complete final design of a proposed new Senior Center later this year.
COA director Tina Gorman said ongoing efforts that involve the creation of a Friends Group should result in completion of the design phase for the new center as soon as the city's fiscal 2012 budget is in place and property on Noble Street is cleared as the site.
Mayor Daniel M. Knapik has included $30,000 in his proposed city budget, effective July 1, to assist in financing design of the center.
Budget funding will be added to some $60,000 the Council on Aging already controls through donations and other fund sources for the center.
A new center has been estimated at $6 million. Knapik already has said he will ask the City Council to approve bonding for construction.
The Friends Group, which started forming shortly after Knapik and the COA selected the Noble Street site, is preparing to launch a summer membership drive that will lead fund-raising efforts toward completion and furnishing the new center.
Property on Noble Street is currently controlled by the Westfield Housing Authority through a will request by the late Mary Noble dated 1971.
Gorman said that because the will states the parcel be used for senior housing the document is under review by the city's Law Department. City Solicitor Susan C. Phillips said a review may be necessary by the state's Probate Court to clear the land for the new senior center.
The Senior Center Building Committee has secured the services of Diversified Project Management Inc. of Newton to assist in creation of the new center. That firm is also working with Holyoke to build a new senior center there.
A new senior center on Noble Street is the overwhelming choice of city seniors and when built it will replace the current center located at 40 Main St. which opened in 1983.
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WESTFIELD – Seniors and the Council on Aging expect to complete final design of a proposed new Senior Center later this year.


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SHAKER HEIGHTS, Ohio — The is part of a series of recruiting snapshots we'll roll out leading up to National Signing Day on Feb. 5.
Name: Odell Spencer.
School: Shaker Heights.
Position: DB/WR.
Height, weight: 5-11, 176.
Rivals.com rating: 3-star.
College: Cincinnati.
Others considered: Bowling Green, Indiana, Kentucky.
Major: Communications.
How I fit: I fit right in. Just their offense and their defense is formed to my style of play.
I knew I made the right college decision when… I visited for my official, I got a good feeling from the coaching staff and the players.
My college dream is to… Just to graduate.
What we've written about Spencer
Dec. 9, 2013: Shaker Heights DB/WR Odell Spencer verbally commits to play football for Cincinnati.
What others have written about Spencer
Dec. 7, 2013: Wide receiver Odell Spencer switches to Cincinnati Bearcats (cincyontheprowl.com).
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If residents of East Lake peered out of their windows at about 9 a.m. Saturday morning, they likely would have spotted a roving band of about two dozen teenagers marching up their streets.
There was no need for alarm, though. As high as the morning temperatures were, the teens' spirits were that much higher.
They were on a mission to keep Birmingham's seniors healthy.
YouthServe Birmingham, an organization that empowers youth through community service, teamed with PEER Inc., a nonprofit that runs the East Lake Farmers Market, to deliver boxes of fresh produce to nearby seniors.
In a state where 20 percent of seniors suffer from hunger, nutritious food for the elderly must be a priority, especially when lack of transportation and income are a hindrance. Those findings put Alabama as third worst in the nation, only behind Arkansas and Mississippi, according to the National Foundation to End Senior Hunger.
Birmingham's youth saw the need and they're taking charge.
YouthServe's Youth Philapthropy Council recently awarded PEER a grant to support their outreach efforts but they didn't want to stop there, council member Emma Turner said.
"When PEER applied for the grant, that's how we found out about their program," Emma said. "It was great to see things we fund happen and begin to help people."
That partnership evolved into a full-fledged service day, where members of YouthServe packed 150 boxes with okra, tomatoes, peaches, apples, rosemary and more - a smorgasbord for residents of East Lake House and Villa Maria.
"This was the first service day they ran totally on their own," said YouthServe Executive Director Jennifer Hatchett. "I love the interaction between the youth and the elderly. I think the elderly love the interaction more than the food."
That interaction was just as fulfilling for the teens as it was the elderly.
I headed to the fifth floor of East Lake House with She'lah Shreve, Sophie Nadler, Amani Lynch and DeAundria McArthur, pushing a shopping cart brimming with boxes of produce. At first, the teens were hesitant to knock on the doors of strangers to deliver food. But once they saw how grateful residents were, that shyness vanished.
Besides, it's impossible to be timid around seniors with as much personality as Florence Dunning.
An eight-year resident of East Lake House, Dunning gladly accepted her donation - she already had plans for that okra.
"I've got some pinto beans and hamhocks waiting on it," she said.
She also took time to give the girls some hilarious life lessons:
"Don't let these young boys fool y'all. Ease on away from 'em," Dunning said.
She'lah couldn't resist egging her on: "You're right, some of these boys are trouble out here."
"And you've gotta watch out for those hot mamas too!" she added. "Don't pay them no attention either."
It's those connections - and conversations - that nourish the souls of our seniors.
"We all get old and you don't want to forget the people who contributed so much to us," Hatchett said.


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September promises trio of shows at BAC
Variety is the order of the day, or rather the month, throughout September at Bainbridge Arts & Crafts.
Beginning Friday, Sept. 5, the downtown Winslow art gallery will feature three very special primary exhibitions showcasing works done in paint, ceramics and pastels.
First, guests will get a look at "Gretchen Hancock: New York."
As a painter, Hancock possesses an incredible sense of place. Every landscape, forest, lake, building, and street offers a poignant, powerful snapshot of a location in time.
A special artist reception is scheduled during this month's Art Walk from 6 to 8 p.m.
Then, things get a little more physical in "Nana Kuo: Ceramics."
With their serene tones and subtle, intriguing patterns, Kuo's bowls, platters, vases, and teapots emanate elegance.
Finally, art lovers will be treated to a number of works by several artists working in pastels in "Blurring the Lines: Contemporary Pastels."
This special exhibit features striking new work from artists who have made their mark in pastel and oil bar including Gillian Bull, Robin Charters, P.C. Harper, Joan Kinsman, Mary McInnis and K. Robinson.
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MOBILE, Alabama – A Robertsdale man accused of having child pornography is mentally competent to stand trial, a federal judge has ruled.
Chief U.S. District Judge William Steele found Cameron Bryant Harris competent and scheduled his trial for next month.
Defense attorney Buzz Jordan said it was too soon to contemplate possible plea bargaining.
"At the pretrial conference, we'll determine if it's going to go to trial or not," he said.
Jordan had notified prosecutors that he might pursue an insanity defense, which prompted them to ask for a psychiatric evaluation of Harris. The medical staff at the Federal Detention Center in Miami concluded that the defendant understood the nature of the charges and could assist his lawyer in his own defense.
A staff psychologist also concluded that Harris was able to understand the wrongfulness of his actions at the time of the offense.
"The Court has reviewed the report and finds that the testing and evaluation of Defendant appears to be thorough and certainly adequate to generate the findings and opinions expressed by the forensic psychologist who authored the report," Steele wrote in his order.
Harris faces charges of possession and receipt and distribution of child pornography. Authorities contend that he possessed images – including some that a judge referred to as "more unusual that we see from time to time" – on June 10 of last year. He distributed illicit pictures in January of that year, the indictment alleges.
If convicted of the most serious charge, Harris faces a mandatory-minimum sentence of five years in prison.
Jordan said there is no question that Harris has suffered from psychiatric problems over the years.
"He's had a history of mental illness and been diagnosed with a number of conditions," he said.


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BRIDGEWATER — The last time Robin Kenny saw her husband Paul, he was leaving their Flemington condo on a cool November morning eager to get to work. The New Jersey assistant attorney general had an early conference call in Trenton and didn't want to be late. As he limped down the front steps, leaning on the railing, she called out to him.
"Why don't you wear your knee brace?"
It was a casual plea, one that she knew wouldn't change her husband's mind. At 56, the former high school and college baseball player still enjoyed sports, but he'd been hampered of late by a lingering injury. His right knee had already given out once, sending him careening across a room. The brace helped, but because his orthopedist warned him it would cause his muscles to atrophy, he was determined to go without it.
Kenny slowly backed his Honda CR-V out of its parking space, turned up the street, and was gone.
No matter how often the scene is repeated in Robin Kenny's mind, it always ends the same — in a mystery. What she says she's sure of is this: that no one knew her husband like she did, that no one believed in him like she did, and that no one now treasures his memory, or wants to protect it as much, as she does.
So how could anyone say for certain what happened next?
The trip to the Raritan train station is a little over 13 miles. Kenny often took the 5:45 a.m. but there was limited parking there, so when the lot was full he sometimes hopscotched ahead to the Bridgewater station.
No one knows for sure if that's why Paul Kenny was there on Nov. 9, 2006, around 6:20 a.m., or whether he knew the next scheduled train to stop wasn't due until 6:40, or if he was aware the express from High Bridge would barrel through, without stopping, 11 minutes before that.
All that is known is that at 6:29 a.m. he was alone on the eastbound platform of the Bridgewater station as NJ Transit train No. 5700 hurtled down the tracks at 80 mph blowing its horn.
"As (the engineer) approached the station he observed the victim running across the East bound platform from a Southern direction and jump into the path of the train."
These last seconds of Paul Kenny's life come from the only witness to his death, the train's engineer, as recorded by an NJ Transit officer later that day.
Kenny was killed on impact. Police identified his remains from the driver's license in his wallet, which was thrown from his body, business cards strewn along the track and official papers in his briefcase, found on the platform.
Weeks later, a medical examiner listed the cause of death as "multiple blunt force trauma" and the manner of death as "suicide."
It's that last word, "suicide," that haunts Robin Kenny. It has followed her since that awful day in the whispers of the well-meaning and in the dried ink on the last official document of her husband's life. It's also a word she believes is untrue. Her husband was just trying to catch the train, she says. He didn't know the 5700 wasn't stopping, and when he ran toward it, afraid he might miss it, his knee gave out just like it had before, and sent him sprawling into the locomotive's path.
Her husband's friends and colleagues, those who saw him every day at work or in the gym or on the ball field, also don't believe he committed suicide. Which is why, for the past five years, they have supported Kenny as she's taken on the Attorney General's Office and the state medical examiner in her quest to change that single word.
"She's not in it for the money; she's in it for the truth," said Jeffrey Burstein, a friend of Paul Kenny's when they both served in the Attorney General's Office. "She's in it for the purest of reasons. She's just seeking to amend the findings without any financial gain. And the truth is, for people who knew Paul well, he was not suicidal."
Robin Kenny's attorney, Christopher Dalton, says Paul Kenny's life insurance did not stipulate a manner of death, and she has already collected on the policy.
In New Jersey, there are six options for the medical examiner when it comes to listing manner of death: natural, accident, suicide, homicide, pending and undetermined.
What Robin Kenny and her husband's friends say is he was a contented man at home, engaged in the work at his office and even looking forward to eventual retirement. He also had just renewed his subscription to the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey and made travel plans for a trip to Maine with his wife over the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday.
There are also the little things, including the fact that her husband wanted to grit it out with his knee by leaving his brace at home. He'd also recently lost more than 40 pounds and was proud of staying on his diet.
"He had his lunch with him," Robin Kenny said. "Does that sound like a man contemplating suicide?"
There are troubling little things, however. When police came to the scene that November morning, all traces of who Paul Kenny was were scattered along the tracks, except for the briefcase, sitting sentinel-like on the platform.
The 59-year-old widow still lives in the home she shared with her husband during their decades-long marriage. The two met in the 1980s when both were involved in different careers — as English teachers at West Essex High School in North Caldwell. They were a good fit. Both loved books, but they also liked the outdoors and often spent their vacations hiking. In fact, they'd just returned from Maine's rugged coast, one of their favorite spots, and were headed there again in a few weeks.
Over and over, Kenny has tried to make the pieces fit, but nothing she remembers leads logically from her husband's casual chatter over breakfast that morning, to his sudden, violent death an hour later.
In November 2006, even the New Jersey Attorney General's Office said there should be an investigation.
"I spoke with Anne Milgram, who at the time was first assistant AG to Stuart Rabner," Burstein said of a conversation he had within days of his colleague's death. "She said to tell Robin the office would be investigating thoroughly and it would be of the highest priority."
Over the next 13 months, Kenny provided the state with her husband's medical records and statements from his friends and colleagues, just so Victor Weedn, then acting state medical examiner, had "all the facts."
In response, she was told that Weedn, who requested psychiatrists at UMDNJ conduct a psychological autopsy, would "consider fully" her position.
No further response came from the ME's office, although Kenny repeatedly sought updates on the investigation, and not until two months ago did Kenny finally get to read the two-page psychological autopsy report, after her attorney filed an Open Public Records Request.
A panel of four psychiatrists, including the group's chair, Cheryl Ann Kennedy, spent more than five hours interviewing a handful of people: Robin Kenny, her husband's personal physician, a close friend and a colleague.
"After careful review and discussion," the final report reads, "the Psychiatric Group has concluded, within a reasonable degree of medical certainty, that Paul R. Kenny did not commit suicide."
The report goes on to say that the group determined that it was "highly likely" that Kenny was running on the platform, missed a step because of his "unstable knee joint injury," and stumbled into the path of the train.
Weedn, however, said he was unhappy with the report and ordered a more thorough one, but before it was ever approved he resigned his position as state ME.
"They just never followed up on it," he said recently.
After that, it was difficult for Kenny to get any information at all. Weedn, who is now with the Maryland medical examiner's office, explained why.
"Basically, the Attorney General's Office said not to respond, not even to talk to Kenny's attorney."
All of which has left Kenny angry, bitter and confused.
"I don't want to sue, embarrass or criticize anyone," she said. "I just want people to take a look at the facts, to at least consider changing the manner of death to undetermined. But no one has been willing to take a second look. No one wants to talk to me."
Dalton, her attorney, was a member of the New Jersey Attorney General's Office from 1998 to 2001 and remained close with Paul Kenny even after Dalton left to open a private practice.
"It hit me like a rock," he said about the day of his friend's death when he learned NJ Transit officials were calling it a suicide. "I was really upset by it. He was salt of the earth. One of the nicest guys."
Kenny says her husband was not depressed that day, or in the days and weeks leading up to it, and that if he had been, she'd likely have known.
"Paul had gone through a depression years ago," she said, and had taken medication for six months. "We'd seen him depressed, but he went through therapy and benefited from it."
At that time, only a couple of years into their marriage, says Kenny, her husband had voluntarily checked himself into a hospital, "grappling," she said, with suicidal thoughts. The brief stay, medication and therapy all helped — so much so, that afterwards her husband often counseled others in crisis, urging them to get professional help.
Moreover, Kenny says, since her husband's death "nothing has ever emerged from the woodwork that would lead one to think that his death was intentional."
Alan Berman, executive director of the American Association for Suicidology in Washington, D.C., says suicides are rarely completely "silent."
"Overwhelmingly, people who do commit suicide 'seep,' " Berman said, "that is, they show one or more signs that are associated with acute risk of suicide. Is that 100 percent? No. There are individuals who are extraordinarily private."
Dalton, who now represents Kenny and is trying to force the state to answer her questions, says his late friend was one of the more outgoing people he knew.
"He was always very accommodating, very friendly," Dalton said. "He was a mentor to everyone."
For Berman, who has performed psychological autopsies for years, "it's very, very rare to gather as much information as is possible and not find anything," to indicate suicide. And if the only evidence is what an engineer saw, he said, "then you make your best guess, or you leave it 'undetermined.' "
In June 2009, Kenny took the state of New Jersey to court asking either for an amended death certificate or the completion of the investigation that had been promised shortly after her husband died. The state argued she failed to appeal the ME's finding within the legal limit of 45 days. Kenny countered that she was never informed of the deadline, and in any case she was told many times well past that 45-day limit that the state was still investigating the case.
Andrew Smithson, the Superior Court judge who heard Kenny's case in October 2009, was sympathetic but could not find a basis for ruling in her favor and so felt forced to send the case to the Appellate Division.
The appellate court subsequently ruled in favor of the state and granted its request for dismissal. However, in a rare move last month, the state Supreme Court, to which Kenny and her lawyer appealed, granted their petition and sent the matter back to the appellate court for reconsideration.
"It's a victory," Dalton said. "Probably they will send it back to the ME for reinvestigation. … They could say this case has been going on long enough and check the box that says 'undetermined.' I hope it will move quickly. This has been a terribly long and drawn out ordeal for Robin."
A spokesperson for the Division of Criminal Justice said no one in the Attorney General's Office could comment because of the pending litigation.
Milgram, who left office in January 2010 and is now a senior fellow at NYU Law School's Center on the Administration of Criminal Law, also declined to comment.
For Kenny, it's the silence that disturbs her most.
"I am shocked at the doors that have been closed on me," she said. "My husband, who was a very good state worker, has been ignored."
Wednesday will mark the fifth anniversary of her husband's death, but for Kenny her sense of abandonment by the state remains acute. She no longer wishes for the unknowable, though. She has embraced it, growing accustomed to words like "loss" and "death" — words everyone must learn to live with at one time or another. She does not ask for the impossible, either, only that one word be exchanged for another.
It's a small change, from "suicide" to "undetermined," just a wrinkle, really, in the vast fabric of time. Kenny knows that. But in a world where nothing stays motionless for very long, it's a change she can live with, she says.
Not much has changed on the Raritan Valley Line. The NJ Transit train, the 5700, that could not stop in time to save Paul Kenny's life, is now the 5710. But it is still an express, and every weekday it still stops at the Raritan station at 6:22 a.m., then Somerville three minutes later, before finally coming into view of Bridgewater a little before 6:29.
No one waited there last week as it clanged down the track and streaked past the station as it always does, never stopping. No one occupied the bench or stood on the platform where a briefcase, and nothing more, was left behind five years ago.
But the train seemed to punch a hole in the morning, sucking in so much air around it that it left the platform trembling.
In the 1,827 days since Paul Kenny last kissed his wife goodbye, more than 120 other souls have lost their lives on New Jersey's train tracks. Some were accidents, many were suicides — all were mysteries for someone.


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Six gifted oddball students qualified for "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee," and while they will indeed spell plenty of words, they'll also sing a song or two.
The musical, which opens on February 13 at Hershey Area Playhouse, also includes a few participants from the audience. But while the contest itself can certainly be dramatic, the real drama stems from the student's home lives and their varying drives to succeed.
The cast of Hershey Area Playhouse's production includes Joel Bauman, Joseph Chubb, Steve Dincau, Aubrey Kyler, Kaytee Moyer, Kirstyn Schaeffer, Scott Schmittel, Valerie Schrader, and Travis Zimmerman.
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Jerry Manuel had his ace, Johan Santana, on the mound, and his newly promoted setup man, flame-throwing Bobby Parnell, warmed and ready to go. And yet, Pedro Feliciano had no doubt that he would be the one to get the Mets through the treacherous eighth inning Tuesday against the arch rival Philadelphia Phillies.
So when the call came, Feliciano was most definitely ready.
"I was excited,'' Feliciano said. "I was thinking I was going to go in in the eighth, because (Chase) Utley was leading off. But I was ready; I mean, I was waiting for my time to go in. Finally, they called me and they said, 'Are you ready?' I said yeah. I went in -- from the bullpen gate to the mound, it was something different. I was like, 6-7. I felt big, and I just said, 'Let's go. Let's do it.'''
Santana, who battled through a different kind of night for him, had started the eighth with the Mets up, 6-4, and surrendered a home run to the left-handed hitting Utley to make it 6-5. Manuel, the Mets manager, then brought on Parnell to pitch to right-handed-hitting Jayson Werth. After Werth singled off Parnell, Manuel went to the left-hander Feliciano to face lefty sluggers Ryan Howard and Raul Ibanez. Those two had homered, back-to-back, in the fourth inning off Santana.
Four pitches later, it was over. Feliciano got Howard to ground into a double play on the first pitch he threw, which should be no surprise. Lifetime, Howard has just four hits in 25 at bats (.160) with nine strikeouts, zero walks and one home run. Ibanez followed with a harmless grounder to second to end the inning.
"I think he was waiting for either a cutter, or a slider, and I just threw the fastball and I got him rolling over and he hit a ground ball to second base,'' Feliciano said of Howard.
Feliciano said the key to his handling of Howard and the other Philadelphia stars (Utley is 5-for-26 -- or .192 -- lifetime, with two homers and 12 strikeouts against Feliciano; Shane Victorino is 3-for-18; Jimmy Rollins is 5-for-20) is that he mixes things up. He speeds up his motion; he slows it down; he tries to confuse the hitters to disguise his fastball and slider.
Feliciano, who is 2-1 on the season, with a 2.25 ERA and 10 holds in 31 games, was asked if he feels lucky every time he gets the big-hitting Howard out. Or, does he feel like he owns the Phillies' scariest slugger?
"I just throw the ball and I just want him to hit it at somebody,'' Feliciano said. "If he hits it up, maybe he hits a home run, or if he hits under it, maybe he hits a fly ball. Just hit it to somebody. I don't want to trick him, I don't want to be too much on the black and then I walk him, or I get behind 2-0, and then I have to throw it down the middle. Just throw it and get lucky that he hits it at somebody.''
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Skylight comes alive with beautiful 'Sound of Music'
In one of many emotionally charged scenes in Skylight Music Theatre's "The Sound of Music" - a production I will cherish as long as I live - Maria congratulates Captain von Trapp and Frau Schraeder on their engagement, only to learn that this mismatched pair has just called it quits.
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In the first scene of Richard Kalinoski's "Beast on the Moon" - now on stage in a beautiful and nuanced production at In Tandem's Tenth Street Theatre - 19-year-old Aram Tomasian learns that his newly arrived child bride is not the girl he'd been promised.
"I ordered the girl in this picture and they sent me someone else," Aram pouts. Yes, 15-year-old Seta replies, but "I am the same girl who wrote you." Eager to please but also slightly impish, Seta can't resist adding that she is also prettier than the pictured girl. »Read Full Article


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The jury's still out on internal reforms to ensure prosecutors in Orleans Parish District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro's office follow the law in turning over exculpatory evidence, according to a recently published academic report. The report in the fall edition of the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics recommends that Cannizzaro adopt an "open-file discovery" policy, which the district attorney has declined to do.
The report, by law professor Ellen Yaroshefsky, chronicles several black eyes for the office during former District Attorney Harry Connick's nearly three decades in office, and reforms that First Assistant District Attorney Graymond Martin claims the office has made to prevent violations of Brady v. Maryland.
That 1963 U.S. Supreme Court ruling requires the state to turn over all evidence favorable to the defense.
Among the reforms, prosecutors in Cannizzaro's office must now sign affidavits declaring they have turned over evidence required under the law -- although critics say the measure is designed more to shield the office from blame when failures get unearthed than it is to produce evidence for the defense.
"The New Orleans system's history -- and many would argue its current structure -- is 'rife with conflicts of interest, political corruption and incestuous behavior,'" writes Yaroshefsky, director of the Jacob Burns Ethics Center in the Practice of Law at Yeshiva University.
She relied largely on interviews with Martin and some anonymous interviews with defense attorneys and former prosecutors.
She concludes that while Cannizzaro's office has put in policies to prevent the kind of failures that have led to U.S. Supreme Court reversals and other embarrassments, pressure on prosecutors to win remains a deterrent to full disclosure of evidence.
The office "needs to implement changes in protocols, training and enforcement mechanisms. It also must focus on ... a change in prosecutors' overall understanding of their role in the criminal justice system."
Ultimately, Yaroshefsky thinks Cannizzaro's office should establish a "Conviction Integrity Unit," to review overturned cases.
It also should adopt open-file discovery, in which the DA turns over its complete file to the defense, Yaroshevsky writes.
Cannizzaro's office has refused to do that, partly because of witness security issues.
Christopher Bowman, a spokesman for Cannizzaro's office, criticized the report, saying it unfairly slaps the office for cases in which it has revealed exculpatory evidence late. Among them, Yaroshefsky notes the case of Jamaal Tucker, who was convicted in the 2008 murder of David Sisolak Jr.
Cannizzaro's office in March agreed to grant Tucker a new trial after the DA turned over a letter from a key witness, demanding "the incentives I'm entitled to" for his testimony in the case.
Bowman said the reforms in the office mean more mistakes are turning up now, instead of 15 years down the road.
"You're never going to have a perfect system. The question is, how do you deal with mistakes, how do you deal with misconduct?" Bowman said. "In a perfect world, we don't have any Brady violations. The fact we're throwing the flag on ourselves, that's the difference between this office and Connick."


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Stephanie Meadow is through to the last 16 of the British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship at Royal Portrush after beating the leading qualifier Camilla Hedberg, the Spanish Champion, at the 19th hole in a second round match this evening.
Meadow, who is a member of the host club, is the only Irish player left in the Championship after second round defeats this afternoon for Deirdre Smith and Victoria Bradshaw.
Earlier today, Smith pulled off a surprise victory over Lisa Maguire in the first round.
Lisa's twin sister Leona was another first round casualty losing to Perrine Delacour of France on the 20th hole while Danielle McVeigh, Emma O'Driscoll and Charlene Reid also lost in the opening round.


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It is very common for me to see a new client with a number of old 401(k) accounts held by various former employers. Many people don't know what to do with the accounts when they leave a job, but you actually have several options, including the three listed below:
1. Leave the account with your old employer. If your balance is at least $5,000, you are entitled to do this, and your former company must allow it. If your balance is below $5,000, your employer is not obligated to let you leave your money in the plan. Your best bet is to contact your old employer's plan administrator to learn what options you have upon terminating employment.
Why might you leave your 401(k) with your former employer?
2. Roll the balance into an IRA account. You are free to roll your 401(k) balances (and balances of most other plans) to an IRA at a mutual fund company, bank, brokerage firm, and so on. Assuming you want to retain the tax-deferred nature of the account, be sure to do a trustee-to-trustee transfer. This means a distribution is not made to you, but rather it is made to the new custodian of the account. If you do take a distribution, your employer is obligated to withhold 20 percent federal tax. If you then decide you would like to roll the money over to an IRA, you have 60 days and you must come up with the 20 percent that was withheld in order to preserve the full tax-deferral of the account.
Why would you want to roll your 401(k) into an IRA?
Please note that if your desire is to ultimately roll your old 401(k) balance into a plan at your new employer, you can still roll your old plan into an IRA. However, you need to ensure these dollars and any earnings from them remain completely separate from any other money. If the funds are "tainted," then you lose the ability to roll them into a new 401(k) plan.
3. Tax considerations for your 401(k)All contributions made with pre-tax dollars (income on which you have never been taxed) are subject to taxation at ordinary income tax rates upon withdrawal. In addition, if you are under 59 ½ and do not meet the specific exceptions to this rule, your withdrawal will be subject to an additional 10 percent penalty upon withdrawal from your retirement plan.
Other retirement account considerations
This is not an exhaustive list. Dealing with a retirement plan account from an old employer is complex. If you are in this situation, this is an excellent time to engage the services of a qualified financial advisor. If you choose to go it alone, make sure you do your research and know the rules.
Roger Wohlner, CFP® is a fee-only financial advisor at Asset Strategy Consultants. Roger provides advice to individual clients, retirement plan sponsors and participants, foundations, and endowments.
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According to a lot of the books paleo/primal has gone from a small niche community to mainstream recognition. This might be true to some degree, I don't know, but it's clearly it is not achieved general recognition even if I only go by the amount of blank faces if I dare utter the word 'paleo' in general conversation. However, looking at the so called 'eatwell plate' today, which is the government guidelines as to what constitutes a 'healthy balanced diet' in the UK, I was pleased to see a lot of criticism of it in the comments below it:
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At least a lot of the criticism comes down too many carbs. I've also come across several people recently on low carb diets - on some variations of paleo/primal. So I think that there is some sort of growing awareness against grains and too many carbs in general if not perhaps the paleo/primal diet in particular. I just wondered what people thought about this, if you think that paleo/primal or a version of it might go more mainstream in the future and if so how long? I know that Cordain said in an interview that if it were to grow more it would have to be a bottom-up approach as there would be no way that government authorities would massively u-turn on previous recommendations. If you have any opinion on the matter I would be interested to read it, thanks.


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The liberal pundits of this great nation rose as one last week to announce that Paul Ryan's proposed budget cuts are too severe.
Nonsense. His cuts are certainly a step in the right direction. But they don't go nearly far enough.
Ryan is right to insist that the nation is poised on the precipice of a Greek-style debt crisis. But if you accept that premise, then you also have to accept that we need a whole lot more budget-cutting than he is proposing.
I would urge all of Ryan's liberal critics to read the 100-page "Path to Prosperity" handout that accompanied his proposed budget for the current fiscal year. If they did, they might find out the real failings of the economic school of thought embraced by Ryan and his running mate, Mitt Romney.
That school of thought is called supply-side economics. And if Ryan's plan is any indication, that approach is literally and figuratively bankrupt.
When the supply-side approach first surfaced in the election of 1980, no Republican could get through a primary election without promising to balance the budget. The Old Right viewed deficit spending and communism as two sides of the same debased coin.
Ronald Reagan was confident he could balance the budget by reducing spending. But the inside-the-Beltway crowd — in his cabinet and in Congress — turned out to like cutting taxes a lot more than it liked cutting spending. That eventually led to the first trillion-dollar deficit, which came in George W. Bush's final budget.
Still, belief in a balanced budget remained a requirement for Republican presidential contenders. That's changing this year. When he appeared before a business group the other day, Romney said he plans to balance the budget "within eight to 10 years" — a polite way of saying "never."
As for Ryan, he sounds good on paper. That document argues that "ever-rising debt will trigger an inevitable crisis and a state of decline that will be difficult, if not impossible, to reverse once it takes hold."
But what's his solution? Ever-rising debt. He projects that Obama would give us a trillion-dollar deficit in 2015. But his own budget for that year includes a deficit of a half-trillion dollars. When would the Ryan budget finally come into balance?
"Even under the most optimistic scenario, this supposedly radical plan does not balance the federal budget until my 1-year-old great-granddaughter will be in college," said Rep. Ron Paul when he spoke against the plan on the House floor last year.
I interviewed Paul during a campaign stop in Trenton around that time, and his contempt for the supply-siders was obvious.
"If they were worried about the deficit and the huge debt, they'd do something about it," he said. "But they have no intention of doing anything about it."
Paul lost that primary race. But he's winning the argument against the supply-siders. Let's imagine Romney wins the election. He'd have to go hat in hand to Congress and beg for the same sort of increase in the debt ceiling that conservatives have been trying to deny President Obama.
So much for supply-side economics. Like the neoconservative approach to foreign policy, this new theory of economics turns out to be quite liberal in practice.
This was obvious from the beginning, at least to David Stockman. After resigning from his post as budget director in the Reagan administration, Stockman told a congressional panel in 1985, "The basic fact is that we are violating badly, even wantonly, the cardinal rule of sound public finance: Governments must extract from the people in taxes what they dispense in benefits, services and protections."
Stockman added: "The debt is compounding; we will indeed in time be borrowing abroad to pay interest owed abroad."
That time is long past. In a recent New York Times op-ed, Stockman argued that neither Republican is willing to make the cuts needed to balance the budget. Therefore, he argued, they should raise taxes. He suggested a national sales tax but added, "Mr. Romney and Mr. Ryan don't have the gumption to support it."
They don't have the gumption to cut spending enough to balance the budget either. But that seems to be a political impossibility anyway, given all the grief Ryan got for proposing even a few minor cuts.
Even with all its flaws, however, the Romney-Ryan approach is vastly preferable to the current administration's approach. Conservatives will just have to hope that all of this can be sorted out after the election — preferably by a new right that rediscovers the virtues of the Old Right.


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5 Reasons Manchester United Can Still Win The Title
United's hopes of back to back Premier League titles were shaken following a 4-1 defeat in the Manchester Derby last weekend. Today Alex Hess tells us why they can still win the title.
#1 - The Hard Run Is Over
Whether or not you believe that Manchester United's derby humiliation confirms their fans' worst worries about the state of their club or can simply be disregarded as an off-day, the silver lining to the defeat is that it marks the end of the club's early run of fixtures from which several points were always likely to be dropped.
The maxim that 'the season begins now' is likely to be repeated ad nauseum around Carrington this week as David Moyes does his best to convince his players – and himself – that United's substandard start to the season doesn't signify a dearth of pedigree at the club, either on the pitch or in the dugout.
In reality, though, there's a compelling argument to be made that this is exactly the case: Take away the fearsome aura and preposterous motivational skills of Ferguson, and Manchester United suddenly look little more than a sum of their parts. And when those parts include a creaking backline, a manager desperately lacking pedigree, and Ashley Young, then their sum total looks a long way from being a title-challenging one.
That's the doubter's view. An optimist, though, would tell you that United have already visited their two toughest away grounds, taken points from another title hopeful and knocked in six goals in their other two games, just as they embark on a run of fixtures that represent much plainer sailing.
An optimist would also argue that a plodding United team is still one that should have little trouble doing away with most sides outside the top five, and accomplishing that successfully could all that's required of this year's title winners. Speaking of which…
#2 - The Rest Of The League
Perhaps, despite United's much-discussed early string of heavyweight clashes, it's fair to say that we'll learn far more about David Moyes now that run is over. In stark contrast to their recent schedule, United's next five league fixtures see them facing West Brom, Sunderland, Southampton, Stoke and Fulham. Anything significantly short of a full house from those games – with some enriched goal difference to boot – will present further question marks over Moyes to add to the existing ones regarding his overly cautious big-game mentality.
That accusation of conservatism on the big stage was not something Alex Ferguson found himself immune to in recent years – most notably, aptly enough, after the derby at Eastlands in April 2012 – but the imperious Scot always made sure to anchor United's league campaigns in the swatting aside of the division's lower- and mid-table sides with routine ease, and as a result rarely finished the season outside of the top two.
That West Brom, a team that could plausibly find themselves in a relegation struggle this year, ended last season in 8th place says everything there is to know about the paucity of strength within the league's lower two-thirds – and United should be beating each and every one of them home and away. Having already made little trouble of taking six points from games against Swansea and Crystal Palace, there's been little so far to suggest Moyes will struggle with this. Despite the fact that United, in their current guise, seem not to possess the players nor – yet – the manager to triumph over the league's elite in toe-to-toe encounters, dispatching the division's minnows is a different task altogether, and doing so with the requisite ruthlessness could easily see United retain their place around the division's apex.
#3 - United's Young Wingers May Displace Their Winger Young
Despite their plethora of competition, chief among United's incompetents on Sunday were their wingers. While Antonio Valencia, when not penetrating in flashes, has been exposed as a one-trick pony over the past two years, it is Ashley Young who truly seems to have embarked on a week-by-week project of redefining mediocrity. With Moyes apparently untrusting of both Nani – though surely he will come in sooner rather than later – and Shinji Kagawa (a footballer who improves with every game he doesn't play), surely it's a matter of time before either Wilfried Zaha or Adnan Januzaj are given more game time with which to reform Old Trafford's sacrilegiously invention-free wide zones.
Of course, the very fact that the introduction of two players with a total of 23 Premier League minutes between them can be considered a viable upgrade speaks volumes about the current crop, but it's no exaggeration to say that neither could do any worse right now that the woeful Young. In fact, the blooding of some tricky, youthful talent could be exactly the sort of act to garner Moyes some faith from an Old Trafford crowd growing in scepticism.
#4 - The Rest Of The Title Contenders
Already five points off of top spot with as many games played, he may not feel like doing so on Monday morning, but in the grand scheme of things David Moyes can count himself a very lucky man indeed. As he struggles to meet his predecessor's impossibly high standards, that his two most obvious rivals for the title are facing similarly turbulent transitional seasons is perhaps the biggest factor in United's favour this term.
Much as they purred on Sunday, Manchester City's form seems to be continually lurching between absorbing and abject, and they've been made to look pedestrian by both Cardiff and Stoke already this campaign, taking only a single point from the two matches. Such inconsistency is likely to remain a theme as Manuel Pellegrini goes about his project of reinventing a far from flawless squad in his image.
Chelsea, meanwhile, are falling victim to an identity crisis, possessing a manager and playing staff who are about as well-matched for each other as Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau – and with similar slapstick potential. Like City, they've already dropped points to an ostensibly weaker side on account of failing to possess a single halfway competent centre forward. United, however…
#5 - Robin Van Persie And Wayne Rooney
One of the few unequivocal positives for Moyes so far this term has been the dynamic form of Wayne Rooney, whose unhappiness with managers old and new and general air of discontent had been the subject of many a speculative summer muttering. Having already provided the single ray of life-giving hope during the otherwise soul-sapping draw at Stamford Bridge, Rooney was again his team's only adequate performer in Sunday's embarrassment and he has four goals in as many starts so far.
He might have cast away his chance of being truly adored at Old Trafford with the double-sagas of 2010 and 2013, but Rooney remains a player who, for all his criticisms and misgivings, is one of the division's most potent forwards. Robin Van Persie, meanwhile, as we are all very much aware, is perhaps the most clinical striker the country has seen since Van Nistelrooy, and even the most belligerent of Arsenal fans would probably accept that he is the land's finest footballer.
As the Dutchman demonstrated last season, having one in-form striker capable of engineering as well as finishing chances is enough to paper over even the deepest cracks and propel a defective side to league titles. United currently have two.
Current Premier League Title Odds - Odds as at 24th September 2013.
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|Man City
|Man United
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Financial News 2014 Awards for Excellence in Institutional Hedge Fund Management
Here we profile the firms shortlisted for glory at our awards ceremony in London on May 7.
• Best Hedge Fund Manager Overall
Caxton Associates
Caxton's $7.5 billion global macro fund gained 18.7% last year, during which it was positioned for a sell-off in US bonds on tapering concerns and participated in the Japan trade. London-based Andrew Law took over as chief investment officer from founder Bruce Kovner in 2011.
Egerton Capital
John Armitage's global hedge fund was up 27.7% last year with an average net exposure of 72%. Egerton's assets grew from $6.9 billion at the end of 2012 to $13.2 billion 12 months later. It recently closed the long-only fund to new money. The hedge fund has annualised at 15.6% since 1994.
Jabre Capital
Philippe Jabre, founder of this $2 billion Geneva-based boutique, piled into European and Japanese stocks last year, driving his JabCap Global Balanced fund to a gain of 48% in 2013. Meanwhile the JabCap Multi Strategy fund, which trades equities, convertible bonds and other strategies, was up 43%.
Lansdowne Partners
The flagship $13.8 billion Lansdowne developed markets strategy gained 33.1% last year, while the European hedge fund was up 21.5% and the financials hedge fund gained 23%. Chief executive Alex Snow took over following Sir Paul Ruddock's retirement, and firm assets grew from $11.8 billion to $17.2 billion during 2013.
The Children's Investment Fund
Chris Hohn's $7.9 billion leveraged net long strategy gained 47% in 2013, with big gains from Australian rail freight operator Aurizon, French Airbus (EADS) and Porsche. The activist investor is now one of the biggest shareholders in the newly privatised Royal Mail, after buying up shares on the secondary market.
• New Hedge Fund of the Year
AlphaGen Volantis Catalyst fund
Led by Henderson's Rob Giles and Adam McConkey, the AlphaGen Volantis Catalyst fund launched in May 2013 to take advantage of opportunities in the less liquid end of the UK small-cap space. The fund, which runs about $150 million, gained 39.1% in its first nine months.
Cheyne Global Credit Enhanced fund
Run by co-heads of corporate credit, John Weiss and David Peacock, Cheyne launched this $30 million strategy on May 30 and it returned 18.3% in its first seven months. The fund invests in credit default swaps and uses leverage. London-based Cheyne runs $6.5 billion.
CQS European Equity Long/Short fund
The launch of this fund in August marked a foray into European equities for Michael Hintze's $13.1 billion credit specialist, CQS. It is managed by a team led by David Morant, who joined CQS from SAC Capital in May 2012. The $115 million fund gained 5.53% in the remaining five months of last year.
TT Long/Short Focus fund
Run by Vikram Kumar, this fundamental European mid-cap fund launched on July 1 and gained 12% in the remaining six months of 2013. Performance was driven by long positions in recovery names in media and peripheral Europe. Assets have roughly doubled since launch to almost $200 million.
Zebedee Growth fund
Zebedee Capital raised $100 million in a founder's share class and is eyeing a soft close at $500 million for the Zebedee Growth fund, a pan-European long/short equity strategy that focuses on the mid-cap universe. The fund, which is run by Domingo Hormaeche, gained 34.5% last year.
• Most Influential Woman in the European Hedge Fund Industry
Leda Braga, president, BlueCrest Capital Management
It has been a tough couple of years for managed futures strategies and Geneva-based Braga has not been immune. Her $10.8 billion BlueTrend strategy lost 11.5% last year after two years of flat performance. However, it has annualised at over 10% since it launched in April 2004 and Braga is well respected by her peers and by investors.
Kristen Eshak Weldon, co-head of London office, Blackstone
Eshak Weldon is co-head of Blackstone's London office as well as head of commodities. She sits on the executive committee of Blackstone's women's network and is also the London chair of the 100 Women in Hedge Funds professional network. With $56 billion under management, Blackstone is the world's largest discretionary allocator to hedge funds.
Kathryn Graham, head of strategy co-ordination, Universities Superannuation Scheme
Graham left the BT Pension Scheme and joined USS in February with responsibility for making sure the pension scheme's trustees' asset-allocation divisions are implemented, including overseeing the scheme's external fund managers. USS, with £40 billion under management, is one of the two biggest pension funds in the UK.
Anita Nemes, global head of capital introduction, Deutsche Bank
In 2013 Nemes was named European head of hedge fund consulting, in addition to her role as an intermediary between hedge funds and prospective investors. She is in charge of the bank's highly regarded alternative investment survey, which this year questioned more than 400 investor entities, representing over $1.8 trillion of hedge fund assets.
Galia Velimukhametova, portfolio manager, GLG Partners
Kazakhstan-born Velimukhametova cut her teeth at JP Morgan. She set up the London office of US credit manager King Street Capital before joining GLG in 2008. Her $700 million-plus GLG European Distressed Debt fund was up 12.4% in 2013, after gaining 17.6% in 2012. It is closed to new money.
• Best Hedge Fund Manager in Long/Short Equities (Fund over $3 billion)
Egerton Capital
John Armitage's global hedge fund was up 27.7% last year with an average net exposure of 72%. Egerton's assets grew from $6.9 billion at the end of 2012 to $13.2 billion 12 months later. It recently closed the long-only fund to new money. The hedge fund has annualised at 15.6% since 1994.
Lansdowne Partners
Successful bets on airlines and financials helped Peter Davies and Stuart Roden's Lansdowne Developed Markets fund to a gain of 33.1%, with about a third of the net exposure of the S&P 500 index. Despite rising equity markets, a substantial part of Lansdowne's outperformance came from its short book. The developed markets strategy runs $13.8 billion.
Marshall Wace
Co-founder Paul Marshall's Eureka fund was up 21.6% in 2013, while the market-neutral TOPS strategy gained 18.6%. Firm assets grew from $8.3 billion to $15.5 billion during the year and now Marshall Wace plans to expand its presence in the US.
Pelham Capital
Former Lansdowne partner Ross Turner's Pelham Capital, a European long/short equity hedge fund, gained 16.9% in 2012 and was up 32.5% last year. The fund is now closed to new money, other than replacing redemptions, at $3.5 billion. Recently Pelham sold a minority stake to the Goldman Sachs Petershill fund.
The Children's Investment Fund
Chris Hohn's $7.9 billion leveraged net long strategy gained 47% in 2013, with big gains from Australian rail freight operator Aurizon, French Airbus (EADS) and Porsche. The activist investor is now one of the biggest shareholders in the newly privatised Royal Mail, after buying up shares on the secondary market.
• Best Hedge Fund Manager in Long/Short Equities (Fund under $3 billion)
Carrhae Capital
In a year of turmoil for emerging markets, Ali Akay's $730 million emerging markets hedge fund gained 14.9% in 2013 with 5% volatility and 0.03 beta to the MSCI Emerging Markets index. Akay, a former portfolio manager at SAC Capital Advisors, recently raised over $130 million for a long-only fund.
Clareville Capital
Clareville's $160 million Pegasus fund, which is run by Angus Donaldson and David Yarrow, gained 63.8% in 2013, driven by positions in UK companies such as Thomas Cook, Ashtead, Rightmove, EasyJet and Ocado. This followed a 1.1% gain in 2012 and a 1.2% loss in 2011.
Odey Asset Management
Founder Crispin Odey's $2.4 billion Odey European fund was up 25.8% last year, after gaining 30.7% in 2012. Meanwhile, the over $1.5 billion CF Odey Absolute Return fund, run by portfolio managers James Hanbury and Jamie Grimston, was up 45% in 2013, after gaining 36.3% in 2012.
The UK activist fund ToscaMid Cap, run by founder Martin Hughes, gained 44.4% in 2013, while Johnny de la Hey's Toscafund, a global financials hedge fund, gained 30.5%. Toscafund's assets roughly doubled to $2.5 billion during the year, boosted by the launch of a UK commercial property fund.
Verrazzano Capital Management
In 2013 the Verrazzano European Opportunities fund gained 12.7% with 33% net exposure, while the more concentrated Verrazzano European Focus fund was up 19% with 58% net exposure. Assets at Guillaume Rambourg's Paris-based Verrazzano have grown from $280 million at launch in January 2012 to $750 million.
• Best Hedge Fund Manager in Event-Driven and Distressed
Amber Capital
Joseph Oughourlian's Amber Global Opportunities fund gained 13.6% last year, with 0.05 correlation to the Euro Stoxx 50 index. The $900 million strategy was boosted by corporate activity in the telecoms sector and bank restructurings. Amber took activist stances in French cable manufacturer Nexans, and Parmalat, an Italian dairy and food company.
Astellon Capital Partners
Set up by Bernd Ondruch and Christian Vogel-Claussen, Astellon's event-driven fund gained 17.6% last year with an average net exposure of 26%, following gains of 14% in 2012. The fund, which is focused on investing in German-speaking Europe, is soft-closed to new investors at just under $700 million.
GLG Partners
Galia Velimukhametova's GLG European Distressed Debt fund was up 12.4% last year, after gaining 17.6% in 2012. The strategy runs over $700 million and has annualised at over 20% since it launched in September 2009. Before GLG, Velimukhametova worked at King Street Capital and JP Morgan.
Oceanwood Capital
Led by former Tudor Investment Corporation portfolio manager Chris Gate, Oceanwood's event-driven fund made almost 22% last year, following gains of 25.2% in 2012. The strategy made money in equity and credit last year, and profited from bank de-leveraging. Firm assets grew from $950 million to $1.3 billion during 2013.
York Capital
The $680 million York European Focus fund was up 17.5% last year, while the $1.8 billion York European Opportunities fund was up 12.6%. The European arm of James Dinan's firm made money from distressed financials in peripheral Europe. In December York raised just short of $700 million for a European distressed credit fund.
• Best Hedge Fund Manager in Managed Futures and Quantitative
Brummer & Partners Lynx
This Swedish firm's roughly $5 billion managed futures strategy gained 12.1% in 2013, in what was a tough year for managed futures. The strategy, which trades around 65 futures markets, has annualised at 12.6% since it launched in 2000. It employs five portfolio managers, 21 researchers and six traders.
GSA Capital
Jonathan Hiscock's roughly $2 billion quantitative investment firm GSA Capital saw strong performance across the board last year. The multi-strategy GSA Capital International fund gained 13.3%, its equity market-neutral GSA Capital Alpha fund was up 3.3% and the directional multi-strategy GSA QFF gained 29.5%.
LMR Partners
Backed by Donald Sussman's Paloma Partners, LMR's multi-strategy quantitative-focused hedge fund was up 10% last year with a Sharpe ratio of 3, following gains of 8.5% in 2012 and 38% in 2011. The strategy, which combines systematic equities, short-term discretionary global macro and managed futures, now runs $1.6 billion.
Man Group
Last year Man Group overhauled the management of its quantitative division, AHL, changed the division's corporate structure and diversified its range of strategies. AHL Evolution, a newer strategy that trades more esoteric markets, from German electricity to iron ore for delivery in Singapore, gained 16.9% in 2013.
Winton Capital Management
Led by managed futures pioneer David Harding, the $10 billion Winton Futures fund gained 9.4% last year, helped by a higher weighting to cash equities. The smaller $220 million Winton Evolution fund was up 14.6%. Now Hammersmith-based Winton, which runs $25.3 billion, is planning to open an office in the US.
• Best Hedge Fund Manager in Credit
Alcentra's structured credit fund that focuses on secondary collateralised loan equity paper was up 48% last year. It runs over $750 million across three credit-focused hedge funds and manages $7.2 billion in European loans. Alcentra chief investment officer is Paul Hatfield, while the chairman is David Forbes-Nixon.
Chenavari Investment Managers
During 2013, Chenavari Investment Managers' multi-strategy fund gained 20.6%, its long/short corporate credit strategy was up 15.5% and its European asset-backed securities strategy gained 32.9%. Loïc Fery's firm grew assets from $3.2 billion to $4.4 billion during the year and Chenavari expanded its Asian footprint, hiring Hong Kong-based team mCapital.
Cheyne Capital
The Cheyne Total Return Credit fund was up 49.2% last year, while the Cheyne High Income Regulatory Capital fund returned 15.3%. The Cheyne Global Credit Enhanced fund, which launched in May, gained 18.3% in its first seven months. Cheyne was set up in 2000 and manages $6.5 billion.
Michael Hintze's CQS Directional Opportunities fund gained 16% in 2013, following gains of 36% in 2012. The CQS ABS fund was up 9.6% and the CQS Diversified fund, which allocates across its in-house range, rose 6.4%. The $13.1 billion firm launched a long-only credit multi-asset fund and a collateralised loan obligation.
JPS Alternatives
Led by chief investment officer Fahad Roumani, the JPS Credit fund spun out of JP Morgan in October 2011. The Europe-focused relative-value fund gained 10.8% in 2012 and was up 8.3% last year. The roughly $615 million strategy has annualised at 18.5% since it launched in September 2008 inside JP Morgan.
• Best Hedge Fund Manager in Global Macro
BTG Pactual
Over half of emerging markets specialist BTG's investment team is based in London. BTG's global emerging markets and macro fund gained 9.7% last year, with credit strategies driving 80% of the returns. Its most profitable single position was its Greek government bond exposure. The $5.5 billion fund is closed to new money.
Caxton Associates
Caxton's $7.5 billion global macro fund gained 18.7% last year, during which it was positioned for a sell-off in US bonds on tapering concerns and participated in the Japan trade. London-based Andrew Law took over as chief investment officer from founder Bruce Kovner in 2011.
North Asset Management
This boutique's Europe-focused North MaxQ Macro fund gained 8.2% last year, driven by short positions in emerging markets and currency trades. This followed on from a 15.5% gain in 2012. Assets in the strategy increased during 2013 from $195 million to $530 million. North's managing partners are Nick D'Onofrio and George Papamarkakis.
Pharo Management
Founded by Guillaume Fonkenell, Pharo's $3 billion emerging markets-focused Pharo Macro fund gained 18.5% in 2013. Profitable themes included long European peripheral sovereign debt, long the Chinese renminbi and short the South African rand, as well as tactical trading around Federal Reserve policy announcements. The fund raised almost $1 billion last year.
Stone Milliner Asset Management
Led by former Moore Capital Management portfolio managers Jens-Peter Stein and Kornelius Klobucar, and backed by Moore, Stone Milliner's global macro fund gained 11.2% in 2013, following on from 8.1% in 2012. Firm assets grew from $1.25 billion to $1.9 billion in 2013.
• Best Multi Hedge Fund Manager
BTG Pactual
BTG's $5.5 billion global emerging markets and macro fund gained 9.7% last year, while the roughly $355 million BTG Global Equity Opportunities fund, which focuses on equity derivatives, was up 8.7% last year.
The CQS Diversified fund, which allocates across its in-house range, gained 6.4% last year and has annualised at 12.2% over the last three years. Founder Michael Hintze's CQS Directional Opportunities fund gained 16% in 2013, and the $13.1 billion firm expanded into equities, launching a European long/short equity fund.
Cheyne Capital
The Cheyne Multi-Strategy fund, which allocates across its range of funds, gained 11.2% in 2013, with notably the Cheyne Total Return Credit fund up 49.2% in 2013. The $6.5 billion hedge fund manager's range of regulated Ucits funds has grown to $575 million from under $30 million two years ago.
Marshall Wace
Co-founder Paul Marshall's Eureka fund was up 21.6% in 2013, while the market-neutral TOPS strategy gained 18.6%. Firm assets grew from $8.3 billion to $15.5 billion during the year and Marshall Wace plans to expand its presence in the US.
The UK activist fund Tosca Mid Cap, run by founder Martin Hughes, gained 44.4% in 2013, while Johnny de la Hey's Toscafund, a global financials hedge fund, gained 30.5%. Toscafund's assets roughly doubled to $2.5 billion during the year, boosted by the launch of a UK commercial property fund.
• New Hedge Fund Management Firm of the Year
Argentière Capital
Deepak Gulati, the former global head of equity prop trading at JP Morgan, heads a 15-strong team. They raised $280 million for Argentière – based in Zug, Switzerland – which has grown to $530 million since launching in June. The equity relative value strategy, which is long volatility, gained 2.5% in the remainder of 2013.
Camares Capital
Former Deutsche Bank trader Antoine Cornut secured seed capital from Dan Stern's Reservoir Capital and former boss Boaz Weinstein to launch Camares last March with $150 million. His European relative value credit strategy gained 6% in its first 11 months with 2% volatility and assets have grown to $400 million.
Canosa Capital
Former Rubicon Fund Management portfolio managers Tim Attias and Santiago Alarco secured $250 million from Sweden's Brummer and Partners for a global macro hedge fund. It launched in May with $272 million, including Brummer's investment, and gained 9.35% in the remaining eight months of 2013. Assets have grown to more than $880 million on March 1.
Makuria Investment Management
Mans Larsson left the London office of Canyon Capital Advisors after five years to set up Makuria, where he leads an eight-strong team. In April Makuria launched a long/short value-driven fund, focused on European sub-investment grade credit. The fund gained high single digits in its first 10 months. Assets have grown from about $60 million at launch to over $200 million.
Salt Rock Capital Partners
Mark Painting left Caxton Associates, where he was a senior managing director, to set up Salt Rock, where he leads an eight-strong team. Salt Rock launched a global macro fund in July. It has grown from $40 million at launch to over $350 million.
• Best Allocator to Hedge Funds
Axa Investment Managers
Axa Investment Managers has restructured its hedge fund investments into a concentrated portfolio of about 30 funds. It has been working with managers to customise structures, gain better transparency, negotiate terms and try to give them more flexibility. Assets grew from about $6 billion at the end of 2012 to almost $9 billion and Axa Investment Managers' low beta multi-strategy fund was up 9% last year.
Cardano runs £5 billion in hedge funds, invested across all hedge fund strategies from $100 million to $30 billion. A long/short equity manager it seeded was up over 20% in 2013 with 10% net exposure. Cardano is working to encourage public pension funds to invest up to 70% of their portfolios in hedge funds. Cardano's composite portfolio was up 10% last year with 3% volatility.
Church Commissioners
The Church of England's investment arm is increasing its allocation to alternatives from a quarter to a third of the portfolio. The £6 billion endowment has been adding opportunistic investments to its alternatives bucket, including US residential property and non-performing loans. It is looking to add mortgage-backed securitisations.
Kedge Capital
The family office for the Bertarelli family, Kedge runs about $6 billion in a concentrated portfolio of 20-25 hedge funds. Its hedge fund portfolio was up about 9% last year and made money in 2011, when the average hedge fund lost over 5%. Led by chief investment officer François-Serge Lhabitant, Kedge invests chunky tickets of between $250 million and $650 million in each manager.
Oxford University Endowment Management
Backed by long-term capital, this endowment uses hedge funds to implement its investment themes. It likes to hunt in geographies or areas that others wouldn't hunt in, such as sub-Saharan Africa or financing small-cap companies. The Oxford Endowment fund, which has about £400 million invested in hedge funds, gained over 15% last year.


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Late Bloomer to Watch: Martin Ifedi
Memphis football has been struggling for many years now. Last season, the Tigers went 3-9 overall with just one conference win. But one defensive player is trying to turn around the program — redshirt senior Martin Ifedi.
The 6-foot-3, 265-pound defensive end from Houston has been a driving force for the Memphis defensive line. For the last two seasons, he led the team in tackles for loss and sacks. In 2012, he had 11 tackles for negative yards, including 7.5 sacks. He helped the Tigers earn 29 sacks that year, more than doubling their 2011 total.
When the 2013 season arrived, Ifedi only got better with 52 tackles for loss and 14.5 of those coming off a sack.
Ifedi can thank current Memphis head coach Justin Fuente for his success. Fuente moved Ifedi from defensive tackle to defensive end during 2012 spring practice. Ifedi had recorded only one sack at defensive tackle the previous year.
That move by Fuente turned Ifedi into one of the best pass-rushers in college football. Ifedi was named to the first defensive AAC All-Conference team this past season. He also puts in the work outside of football, landing a spot on the AAC All-Academic team.
What makes Ifedi one of the best in college football is his ability to keep his outside hand free, which allows him to force the play back inside. That means quarterbacks stay in the pocket more, and halfbacks would have to run in between the tackles. Normally, that allows linebackers to come up and make the play.
Ifedi also has good strength and can drive offensive tackles back, putting pressure on the quarterback. And when Ifedi gets his hands on the ball carrier, the offensive player most likely is going down.
"I just know that every time I looked up, 97 was in the backfield," said Fuente to NFL.com, referring to a regular season game against Arkansas State in 2013. "He has really played well thus far [...] He's a smart, heady player and seems to get back there a lot."
With a basketball background, Ifedi brings another style of athleticism to the field. Plus with long arms and a 40-yard dash clocked in at 4.76 seconds, Ifedi shows that he can be among the elites.
And with spring practices under way, Ifedi is proving to be a leader for the Tiger defense. He set the tone in practice last week by sacking quarterback Paxton Lynch on the first series as the team's first stringers faced off.
Memphis still has a long way to go before getting to the top of the AAC, but with Ifedi on their side, opposing teams are going to have second thoughts on running plays his way.


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