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For most equity derivatives dealers, 2006 will go down as a good year, in part because of the renewed volatility in equity markets. And among clients, dispersion trading strategies are proving to be money spinners. Hedge funds that spent the summer licking their wounds after the late spring volatility spike are again ready to focus on trading. Jean Haggerty reports.
The late May jump in equity volatility caught out many hedge funds and some dealers that were running short volatility positions. This reduced fund appetite to take risk significantly, resulting in a quiet summer.
A reduced risk appetite was also seen among real money accounts in the wake of the spring spike.
Since mid-June business in selling calls has shrunk because clients are too scared, dealers said, noting that for much of the summer these accounts were simply buying put spreads and collars.
One of the areas where dealers have reported the least reduction in risk appetite is in dispersion trading strategies. This is partly due to the resurgence in M&A activity and because of trading opportunities that could be built around company-specific stock performance.
Dispersion trading strategies typically involve short selling options on a stock index while at the same time buying options on the component stocks to create a short correlation and long dispersion position.
"In general, a lot of clients are pretty confused over the different signals that are coming out of the different regions and asset classes," said Cyril Levy-Marchal, managing director and head of equity derivatives flow trading at JPMorgan in London. This, he noted, is causing many to hold cash.
"This downturn [during the spring] reminded everyone that the equity markets can go south," said David Escoffier, head of equity derivatives at Societe Generale in London. Although equity markets remain positive, market sentiment is not as strong now as it was in March.
As a result [of this downturn] real money accounts, especially pension funds, have been very interested in the "Reverso" product, he said. Reverso is a derivatives strategy developed by SG that plays both the upside and the downside of global equity markets to optimise long term allocations to their equity buckets. The potential of the Reverso mechanism was highlighted in a recently published survey of Swiss Pension Funds made by St Gallen's University business school.
Against this backdrop, some dealers are seeing an increase in market neutral strategies, such as reversals and Palladium-like trades and research driven long/short equity indices. Others are devoting more time to new underlyings or to accessing products that can help investors diversify their portfolios.
"[The move] away from exotic products on simple underlyings to simple derivatives on exotic underlyings is likely to continue…. Clients want exposure to new asset classes, not new packaging [of traditional asset risks]," said Donald Leitch, head of exotic equity derivatives structuring at Commerzbank corporate markets.
The trend towards new underlyings intersects with the move toward dealer-created, customised indices, which hit a new pitch last year. On both counts, dealers are creating an alternative to active management by systematising strategies - either by creating customised indices or by underpinning structured products with algorithmic trading strategies.
These trends are a reflection of the speed at which modelling technology is developing. The ability to copy payoffs is practically instant nowadays, prompting dealers to turn their focus away from payouts to new underlyings.
The push on new underlyings gives investors access to new assets where dealers can then propose systematic strategies. The development of customised indices is an extension of the move into alternative assets and hedge funds that gathered momentum in 2002, dealers say.
Dealer-created, customised indices, such as Deutsche Bank's quantitatively-based CROCI index and Merrill Lynch's fundamentally-driven Europe 1 index, have focused on equities, but more dealer research monetisation indices covering commodities, credit and cross-asset class underlyings are expected in the coming months. Although encapsulating asset classes other than equities, these products are typically viewed as part of equity derivatives product lineups. The term 'equity derivatives' has been a slight misnomer for some time. The range of products included under the heading has always been very large, and more often than not, the investment manager of the equity bucket of any given institution is the manager that gets the mandate for looking into new asset classes.
The market for structured products based on algorithmic trading strategies is deepening, and in Europe regulations including UCITS III and the European Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) promise to usher in even greater use.
For equity derivatives dealers, MiFID, which takes effect in Europe next year, will require more oversight of their businesses and more paper work. However, equity derivatives dealers did manage to convince regulators to accept back testing for investment products. Regulators, notably the UK Financial Service Authority, have long noted that past performance can be misleading.
While this can be true, back testing is often the best way to show the potential performance of an investment product, Escoffier said. Under MiFID, dealers who want to show potential clients an investment product's back testing results must go back as long as possible and show the product's average low and maximum returns to ensure that a fair representation of what can be expected from the product is made.
Having a common way to show clients what to expect from products will be helpful.
"The issue is for retail investors. You want to make sure that they fully understand the product. One of the biggest risks [facing the structured product market] is mis-sold products," Escoffier noted.
The European mutual fund directive, UCITS III, which took effect a year ago, enables dealers to package algorithmic trading strategies into UCITS III funds. Dresdner Kleinwort and its private banking arm, Kleinwort Benson, last month became the first dealer to take this route when it added algorithmic trading-driven equity volatility funds to the Gresham Defined Funds platform, a UCITS III-compliant vehicle.
Dresdner Kleinwort's new funds, the DEVA 80 & 90 Alpha funds, were designed to use an algorithmic strategy to take advantage of differences between implied and realised volatility in the US equity market using the S&P 500 index. In both funds, the underlying asset is equity volatility, which as an asset is not accessible to many market players. Additionally, the funds' use of a dynamic trading strategy means there is no reliance on a fund manager.
Investors are warming to the concept of algorithmic-based products because they have seen that these products have had very consistent performance, are disciplined in their approach and risk management, and have a higher probability of repeatability than more traditional approaches, said James Norman, global head of product management within Deutsche Asset Management's quantitative strategies group in New York, when his firm announced its new algorithmic-based product last month.
JPMorgan has also recently launched additions to its algorithmic-driven investment product line-up. Its new product, dubbed Yield Alpha, is a non-discretionary, algorithmic-driven strategy designed to act as an alternative to standard money-market or cash investments. Yield Alpha replicates bond, equity, volatility and foreign exchange carry strategies overlaid on a cash investment. The strategy is offered through delta-1 certificates, leveraged certificates, principal-protected notes and in UCITS III fund form.
For the algorithmic-driven structured products' target audience - retail and high-net-worth clients - the end result is a product that promises diversification through investment in an asset that is uncorrelated to traditional assets, dealers say, pointing out that alternative asset diversification was one of the original appeals of hedge fund investing.
Institutional investors, such as pension funds and insurance companies, clearly need and want to diversify. While they are moving to other asset classes, like hedge funds, they also do not want to reduce their exposure to equity markets, particularly if there is a fair chance that equity markets will perform well.
Pure volatility instruments, such as volatility swaps and variance swaps, can make sense for institutional investors because volatility is both a diversifier on the downside and a global hedge on an equity portfolio.
Institutional investors are starting to become aware of their exposure to equity volatility and have become more active users of equity volatility as an asset class. "It is still early days and we are not sure if it will take off as an asset class for quite sometime," said Fred Clatworthy, managing director in equity derivatives at Nomura International in London.
According to some dealers, this is mostly to do with the fact that the process to adopt a new asset class and different trading styles can be lengthy. The interbank variance swap market itself is substantial and constantly getting bigger, they add. "Gone are the days when you buy straddles. You just buy variance now," Clatworthy noted. Options on variance swaps are also starting to trade with greater regularity in the interdealer market.


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Where to go in SeptemberOpinion
September is one of our favorite months to travel in. The summer heat has died down (as have the crowds) and various parts of the world spring to life. From immersing yourself in the unique cultural traditions across the globe to spotting an array of enchanting wildlife, scroll through to discover our top ten destinations that make for a perfect September escape. And if you feel inspired, check out our top itineraries below or get in touch to start planning your trip.
Why you should go: September brings a kaleidoscope of colours to Canada, as autumn paints the vast forests and mountain trails in dazzling shades of gold and crimson. The summer crowds all but disappear after Labour Day (the first weekend in September), so this is the perfect time to visit and enjoy some peace in the National Parks, where the maples and evergreens are looking their majestic best. 'Leaf peeping' is a popular pastime at this time of year, particular in the eastern territories, where the foliage is simply phenomenal. Temperatures are comfortable, making for ideal hiking conditions.
Take a road trip on the Niagara Parkway or 'River Road'; hugging the Niagara River between Lake Eerie and Lake Ontario, it was described as the "prettiest Sunday afternoon drive in the world" by none other than Sir Winston Churchill. And who are we to argue?
Why you should go: September is a great time to visit Italy, most of the madding crowds have thinned out, and it's back to business as usual for the locals, who tend to take the entire month of August off for their summer holidays. The weather remains summer-like through September, though without hitting the heights of August. Pleasant days and cooler nights make for ideal conditions for outdoor activities, such as trekking in the Dolomites, exploring Roman ruins or hitting the beach – picturesque Positano on the Amalfi coast is one of our top Italian spots for this time of year.
As the beginning of the harvest season, September also sees a number of food-related festivals spring up across Italy, celebrating regional and local delicacies – the perfect excuse to head inland. Venice also hosts the famous Regata Storica in September: the colourful pageantry provides a spectacular backdrop to these exciting boat races through the city's landmark canals.
Why you should go: September plays host to two of Mongolia's most famous and fascinating festivals, celebrating customs and traditions entirely unique to this part of the world. Over 80% of the world's eagle hunters live in Mongolia; every year, roughly 40 hunters and their majestic birds of prey take part in the Altai-Kazakh Festival in mid-September to show off their considerable skill, honed over years of intense dedication to this ancient art. As well as hunting-style challenges, camel rides, archery and horseback tug-of-war are on the agenda.
Nomad's Day Festival celebrates the nomadic way of life of the Mongolian people, with challenges and games involving music and dance, cooking and costumes. Mongolia has proudly preserved much of its history and heritage, and September is a great time to celebrate this with the locals – like a local.
Why you should go: The Great Migration is sometimes referred to as the "Greatest Show on Earth" and it's difficult to disagree; over two million wildebeest, zebra and gazelle herd and stampede across the great African plains in a continuous cycle, moving with the rains and seeking fresh pastures to graze.
The migration can be followed year-round, but September is a particularly good time to track the herds as they spread across the northern Serengeti, where they are faced with the mighty Mara River, the biggest obstacle on the entire journey. Watching the herds as they desperately cross the crocodile-infested waters is one of the most tense yet memorable scenes of the entire journey.
Why you should go: The Northern Lights are best seen from September to mid-March, as the days grow ever shorter and darker over the winter. Autumn is a brief but beautiful window in Iceland, and usually the only time of year where you can see two Auroras for the price of one: the days are darkening, and the rivers and lakes remain unfrozen, so you can see the lights illuminating the sky above and reflected on the open water below, painting a mesmerising picture before the waters freeze over in winter.
This time of year is also best for exploring the rugged, unspoilt interior of the island; keen horse-riders can head out to the dramatic back-country and take part in the réttir, Iceland's annual sheep round-up and one of the country's oldest traditions.
Why you should go: Bhutan has some of the best trekking in the world, and September is one of the best times to visit. The climate is cool and comfortable, with crisp blue skies providing a stunning backdrop to towering mountains and turquoise lakes. It's a great time of year to visit the famous Tiger's Nest Monastery, perched 900m above the rugged Paro Valley. Don't forget your camera: the dazzling autumnal colours that blanket Bhutan are postcard-perfect.
We recommend the Druk Path trek – it is one of the more popular walking routes in the country (and for good reason), but visiting in September should see you beating the bulk of the crowds, and there is no better way to explore one of the most remote kingdoms on earth.
Why you should go: In September, the seas surrounding Madagascar play host to one of nature's most awe-inspiring spectacles, as hundreds of humpback whales gather in the tropical waters to breed. Males vie for attention with dramatic displays of aquatic acrobatics: watching a 45-ton giant breach clear of the surface is quite unforgettable.
As September marks the end of the migration and mating season, it is a good time to spot new-born calves, making their first journey back to colder waters with their mothers. Ile Saint Marie is the island's whale-watching hot spot – warm and sunny weather throughout the month also makes this an ideal September beach getaway.
Why you should go: Borneo is celebrated for its incredible biodiversity, and September is a prime time for wildlife watching both inland and offshore. It's considered the best time to see orangutans in the wild, which should be at the top of any nature-lover's bucket list. The Kinabatangan River should follow closely behind, where an amazing array of animals can be spotted along its banks and under the water: from monitor lizards to macaques, proboscis monkeys to pygmy elephants, not to mention crocodiles, clouded leopards, even the rare Sumatran rhino. Borneo is also a birdwatcher's bliss, boasting a huge variety of species, including hornbills and kingfishers.
Equally, conditions off the coast are considered perfect for diving: several shark species, barracuda, and countless rate tropical fish species call the turquoise waters home. To top it off, September is the best time to spot endangered turtles on Lankayan Island – also home to some of Borneo's best beaches.
Why you should go: September falls right in the middle of "the crush" – California's grape harvest season – making it a perfect time to point the nose of your car north up to Napa Valley, where farmers markets and tasting tours are in full swing. The south coast isn't short of cultural highlights either – the Shakespeare Festival in San Diego is our pick for September. And in the middle, the Monterey Jazz Festival, one of the world's longest-running, is a must-visit for any music fan.
Newport Beach Wine and Food Festival, featuring celebrity chefs and master sommeliers, is fast becoming a key fixture on the elite foodie calendar. Many of the summer crowds go home after Labour Day, giving you infinitely more freedom on the winding coastal road – a pleasure to drive at this time of year.
Why you should go: September is perfect safari season in Namibia: the long dry months have taken their toll on the landscape, so more desert-adapted animals gather around fewer watering holes, making for ideal game viewing conditions. Zebra and springbok rub shoulders with Oryx and elephants; some camps boast floodlit watering holes where lions and rhinos congregate making for prime night time game viewing.
Etosha National Park, home to four of the Big Five, is particularly worth a visit to see the healthy resident population of black rhinoceros, as well as lion, leopard, giraffe, wildebeest, cheetah … the list goes on. Migrant birds arrive in late September to complete the spectacle.

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Sea Urchins, Capes and Banana Flowers
Here are some interesting pictures...first we've got sea urchins at Nisbett Beach. These ones are pretty small compared to some that I have seen deeper out in the ocean. Don't step on them because they're really sharp! Yesterday we had to go out to pick up our consolation prizes from our "10k" run the other day. Our friends, the chiropractors, Miranda, Knox and Edris, picked them up for us because Jaime was going to be going to the chiropractor on Tuesday so they thought he could just pick them up then. He wasn't able to go so I had to go get them. I happened to be going out to the library in that area that day so I figured it would be easy to swing by and pick them up. I was with a new person in our SOS group, Rebecca. She must have thought I was crazy driving way out into the woods on a double track road in bad need of repair. But we finally got to the place. They have a huge piece of property and lots of fruit trees etc. Julian found a flower from a banana tree. You can see how underneath each pedal there is a small bunch of tiny bananas that would have grown. You have to pop off the flower in order for the bananas underneath to grow. Very interesting. We sat and talked with Knox for a while. He was born and raised in the Bahamas and met Miranda, his wife, at chiropractic school in Atlanta. I asked him if he thought they would stay here forever and he said no that he would like to go back to the Bahamas. He informed me that there are over 700 islands that make up the Bahamas! Some of them are populated only by pirates and drug traffikers. And last but not least there is a picture of Julian in his new cape. Our friend Holly, her guilt of leaving us for 6 weeks last semester getting the best of her, made a cape for Julian. She is quite a clever girl!


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Netherlands: Open call for projects engaging with (migrant) elderly
28/06/2017 - Netherlands - Funding opportunity
Through its programme for the elderly Samen Ouder, the 'Oranje Fonds' invites organisations that are involved in social initiatives dedicated to the elderly to send their project proposal before Friday 14 July 2017 for funding. Are eligible all projects aiming to activate contact between senior citizens of different backgrounds - including of foreign origin - amongst each other but also with other age groups. Successful applicants will receive a grant of approximately 25.000 to 40.000 euros.


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Behind the NFL's Touchdown Binge - WSJ.com:
"This drive to efficiency may also apply to the people who make the rules. If it's human nature to promote speed whenever the action appears to be slowing down, it's no surprise the NFL decided, in 2004, to tell officials to crack down on the amount of contact defensive backs can have with wide receivers. In scientific terms, the NFL wanted to make the system flow more efficiently. (The fact that touchdowns make for good television might have played a role here, too.)"
A pretty good example of trying to make the facts fit the theory. The league has been tweaking the rules for years in an effort to generate more offense. And why is an NFL offense the only part of the game that is supposedly "more efficient" or "faster"? It's a game of offense AND defense and both have been "evolving". Modern defenses are very fast and VERY big. QB's need to be 6' 5" just to see over the linemen! And this theory kind of distorts evolution. Things evolve to fit their circumstances, their environment, NOT to achieve some ideal. There is no "progress" in evolution, no design, no intelligence. To think otherwise is to miss the point entirely.
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August 10, 2005 - 12:20 p.m.
Crazy Stream of Conscious Entry
(Which means just a lot of shit that has been going on the last few days)
Yesterday, Peyton was scheduled to go in to have the cyst removed from the hollow of his neck. He was born with the cyst and it's fine and all, but we wanted to have it removed before he got much older and kids started messing with it and all that jazz. So we geared ourselves up for the procedure, knowing our first born was going to be going under general anesthesia and all that jazz. We all woke up early and were at the hospital at 6:45 for check in. Peyton though had developed a cough and he coughed and he coughed and coughed some more, so around 8 when the doctor arrived he canceled the procedure. Fuck. I know it was for the best, but I really just wanted it over with. Now it will probably be October before this is done because we are leaving for Alaska in two weeks (!!!) and then my parents are coming the third week of September, and I have NO time left to take off. Damn maternity leave, but not really. So there's that and then the little one who used to sleep all night, so well, that I actually my first full night's sleep in almost 3 years has now decided he wants to eat in the middle of the night. I say has now decided like it just happened last week, when in actuality, it's been about two months and I am so damn sleep deprived and stressed out at work that I don't know which way is up and I truly think I may be losing my sanity one letter at a time and I'm down to just san. I took both kids to the doctor on Monday because Shey has been all congested and we thought Peyton may have pink eye, but he didn't, but Shey did have an ear infection in both ears as well as cutting a new tooth. Poor little guy. I mentioned him wanting to get up in the middle of the night and the nurse practitioner says, "just don't feed him," which is exactly what I've been doing because damn it, there are other people in our house and we need some sleep. So Monday night, I figure I will let Shey cry a bit and sure enough he wakes up at 12:30, but I give him some Motrin and he actually falls back asleep with little fuss. A ha, I think, maybe he has cured himself, but no, last night he woke up at 2, and I was able to get him back to sleep, but then he woke up at 2:45 and cried on and off for a good 45 minutes before I finally gave in after Larry kicked me about 3 times and gave Shey a bottle so we could get some sleep. Surprisingly, Peyton, the child who didn't sleep through the night the first two years and nine months of his life slept through the whole thing until the end when I turned off the hallway bathroom light, which is his security, and I hear him wake up to tell me to turn it back on and that Shey is making noise. I finally get Shey to sleep and then I lie awake thinking of this dumb entry and I think we all know by now that entries thought up at 3:45 in the morning, aren't that good.
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The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland was a beautiful read. The writing was so brilliant and so imaginative. I absolutely loved it.There was a lot of this:One ought not to judge her: all children are Heartless. They have not grown a heart yet, which is why they can climb high trees and say shocking things and leap so very high grown-up hearts flutter in terror. Hearts weigh quite a lot. That is why it takes so long to grow one. But, as in their reading and arithmetic and drawing, different children proceed at different speeds. (It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.) Some small ones are terrible and fey, Utterly Heartless. Some are dear and sweet and Hardly Heartless At All. September stood very generally in the middle on the day the Green Wind took her, Somewhat Heartless, and Somewhat Grown. And it made me feel just like this:There is a place, September, oh, very far from Pandemonium. A place where it is always autumn, where there is always cider and pumpkin pie, where leaves are always orange and fresh-cut wood is always burning and it is always, just always Halloween. That's one of the best feelings in the world right there, and The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland was simply a joy to read.There was a whole host of imaginative characters in The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland, and I loved every single one of them. Even the evil Marquess. September was an awesome little girl to follow on an adventure. I totally fell in love with her, and I cannot wait to start another adventure with her in the second book.I have to say, the ending to The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland is exactly how I wish all books in a series would end. There was enough closure to feel like I was given the entire story, but also a spark of excitement for what's to come.The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making is an imaginative coming-of-age fairy tale that I highly recommend to anyone who is young at heart. It is one I am certain to revisit again and again.
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M & M's
There they are. This is what was left of a full bag of M & M's when i found them under the kitchen table. Who knows how many the kids inhaled after they ripped the bag open while i was putting Reid down for his nap. Recently Cole and Gwen have been getting into food while I put Reid up so I always lock the pantry door when I go upstairs. Well, i guess I shouldn't say "always" because on this day I forgot and this M & M mess and two sugared up preschoolers are what I saw when I came back downstairs. I guess i'll take this over the few times that they have gotten into the baby carrots and spit them out in mounds all over the kitchen floor...
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Tidal risk tool launched
ORE Catapult and Frazer-Nash partnership to reduce marine project risks
The UK's Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult and consultants Frazer-Nash have developed an open source tool for the assessment and reduction of tidal energy project risks.
The companies said the tool and associated guidance documents help to identify key uncertainties in wave and tidal energy and provide a standardised approach to assessing and reducing uncertainty, thus allowing projects to be compared on a like-for-like basis.
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Frazer-Nash group lead Neil Adams said: "Understanding these risks can help project developers, technology developers and researchers to prioritise their activities to reduce uncertainties. It can also help project financiers to understand the importance and potential scale of uncertainties, informing discussion on economic risk."
ORE Catapult renewable technology engineer Ralph Torr said: "This project is another great example of the collaborative approach ORE Catapult is taking to help understand and lower risks associated with the first commercial tidal energy arrays."
He added: "Such collaborative activities are vital to ensuring the tidal industry as a whole maximises the value of both research and commercial activities to date, and over the coming years."
ORE Catapult and Frazer-Nash will perform a live demonstration of the tool at a workshop to be held at next week's International Tidal Energy Summit pre-conference risk and reliability workshop in London on 23 November.
The three guidance documents and the uncertainty management tool can be found on ORE Catapult's website here.
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As if things couldn't get any worse for the Denver Broncos in San Diego, an injury to one of their best playmakers could potentially have more far-reaching implications than the outcome of the game on Thursday. Emmanuel Sanders took a hard hit to the back area while making a reception in the fourth quarter and is questionable to return.
After the hit, Sanders ran off to the sideline and immediately went to the ground, where he was looked at by trainers. The Pro Bowl wide receiver did briefly re-enter to the game, but Nicki Jhabvala for The Denver Post reports Sanders is officially questionable with a hip injury.
Sanders already was back in the game, but after making a reception, he left once again. The hip will be a situation to monitor next week as it will undoubtedly land him on the injury report at the very least.
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Esthetic Education in Soviet Schools.
Soviet Education, v22 n5 p3-88 Mar 1980
This issue of Soviet Education examines esthetic education in Soviet schools, including ways of raising the level of esthetic education, the factor of labor, research on the relationship between the atheistic and esthetic education, ways of amplifying interrelationship between theory and practice in teacher education and psychological principles in the esthetic development of children. (Author/RM)
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MetLife has decided to sell its small and midsize 401(k) business after determining that gaining enough market share to make the business worthwhile would be too costly.
The company announced last week that its Metropolitan Life Insurance would sell the business, which has 300,000 participants and $7.5 billion of retirement plan assets, to Great-West Life and Annuity Insurance, the U.S. arm of Great-West Lifeco of Winnipeg, Canada.
Great-West Life would also get some defined benefit plan business.
MetLife quit the large-plan 401(k) administration business four years ago.
Chris Breslin, a spokesman for the company, said it conducted a "thorough review" of the smaller-plan 401(k) business. "We looked at our market share, the business' impact on our future strategy, and the investments we would need to make in order to grow the business. That, combined with some compelling marketplace interest, made us decide to sell it."
Burt Greenwald, a Philadelphia fund consultant, said the decision reflects how hard it has become to make a meaningful profit in the business.
"Servicing small 401(k) accounts is not a profitable business," he said. "It's difficult to charge a sufficient fee to cover administrative expenses if there is a small number of accounts or small account balances." The deal, expected to close in the fourth quarter, would nearly double the number of plan participants in Great-West Life's 401(k) full-service business.


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Kara (to me after I dropped what I was doing to post a Tweet before I forgot it): I don't even know you anymore. James Robert (4 years old): That's Joseph.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Movies I Hate
My friend Jamie likes to post about things that she likes. She does this weekly. You should read her blog (http://www.jamiebg.blogspot.com/). Actually all of you that read this read hers but it makes me feel more important to write like I actually have an audience. I thought I might blog semi-regularly about things that I don't like. Or things that I am not currently enjoying. Feel free to agree (and be right) or disagree (and be wrong).
Anyway. Here are some movies that I hate.
Million Dollar Baby
Not that this is a bad movie. It is a great movie. It is just the most depressing thing I have ever watched. Ever. I watched it on HBO when Billy was really little and he was up late. He was asleep in my arms as the movie ended. I took him to his crib, put him down, looked at my son and cried for 30 minutes. I wondered if I would ever be happy again. When you finish a movie and wonder deep down if God might hate the world it is a movie that you can do without.
Mars Attacks.
Jack Nicholson. Annete Benning. Michael J. Fox. Sarah Jessica Parker. Danny DeVito. Jim Brown. Tim Burton directed it. How could this go wrong? I went to see this pile in the theatres and was angry that I stayed the whole time. That is 8 hours of my life I will never get back. Ever.
Dumb and Dumberer
When the only thing good you can say about a movie is, "Bob Saget is the funniest thing in it." then you have a craptacular movie. I needed this movie to be good. Or at least 1/2 as good as Dumb and Dumber (which is the greatest movie about friendship and Turbo-Lax ever produced by American cinema). This movie made me cry. Even looking at the poster I think of all the potential that movie had.
A Walk to Remember
There was about 5 minutes where the dude in the movie (I can't even remember his characters name. Shane West was really good on ER.) drives around in his Mustang and looks sad. No dialogue. Not even any screaming at God for the injustice that is his life. Just driving and being sad. None of the scenes in the movie are longer than the average music video. And the love of the girl changes the boy in the end of the movie. I would rather be hit in the face with a framing hammer than have to watch this again. I imagine it would be different if I were a teenage girl.
Little Women
I'm sure that this is the most important book that many of you have read. And I know that Joey had to put it in the fridge because it scared him so bad. But I hated this movie when I saw it. I was flying from Paris to Cincinnati. This was the only in-flight movie being shown. And it has Susan Sarandon in it overacting and being stupid. I don't think there has ever been a movie with her in it that I like. And it is not because of her politics either. Her husband shares those very same politics and he is in one of my favorite movies, The Shawshank Redemption. And he was very good as Public Television News Anchor in Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgandy. I really hate this movie.
The Piano
I watched this with my mother. This is the worst movie ever made as far as I am concerned. People got hurt in this movie and I liked it. The only regret for me is everybody lived. If they could have died within the first 10 minutes then I wouldn't have wasted that much time of my life. The people that made this movie should be put in jail.
So here is my list of movies that I hate. I hope that you disagree and let me know about it. I live for disagreement.
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- Shawn Stinson said...
I will comment on this list, but It's gonna take me a while to stop laughing out loud first and organize my thoughts. Good stuff.
Also, as I see that in order to comment on this I have to fill out one of those security "word verification" things.
Where you type the word that is in the picture all scrambled looking. The word they put on your blog Joseph... testules.
I'm just sayin'.
- February 16, 2009 at 9:18 AM
- Joseph said...
Testules? Does that rhyme with Hercules. If so that would be a great name for a band.
- February 16, 2009 at 9:50 AM
- Ben Hamaker said...
Testules: The Joseph Kinnaird Experience?
- February 16, 2009 at 1:11 PM
- Jamie said...
Let's start with the Oscars clearly disagree with you on a couple of counts...
My only real disagreement is with the following (no surprise):
1. A Walk to Remember: Shane West is cute enough to carry this movie. Don't knock the dream.
2. Little Women: Claire Danes does sick so well. But I will say, who picks Gabriel Byrne over Christian Bale? (pre-f*word-ranting)
- February 17, 2009 at 10:12 AM


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Rangers bankruptcy filings reveal perks, sale efforts
Rangers bankruptcy filings reveal perks, sale efforts
Brendan Case and Gary Jacobson – The Dallas Morning News
Each of the Texas Rangers' 320 full-time employees gets 120 game ticket vouchers a season.
Twenty-two thousand Lexus vehicles park free during the season thanks to a sponsorship between the auto brand and the team.
The club's preferred provider health plan has an annual premium of $2.1 million, with about $367,000 coming from employees and the balance from the team.
And the Rangers pay seasonal employees a total of about $62,500 per home game in hourly wages, not including overtime.
Those are some of the details of the Rangers' business operations on display in court filings in the organization's Chapter 11 bankruptcy, filed Monday in Fort Worth.
There's also a detailed peek at the effort to sell the team, launched last year by owner Tom Hicks after his Hicks Sports Group defaulted on $525 million in loans to the Rangers and the Dallas Stars.
At least 15 prospective buyers and investors executed confidentiality agreements to learn more about the Rangers, according to a court filing by Kellie Fischer, chief financial officer of Texas Rangers Baseball Partners.
Beginning July 2, information packets were distributed to at least 10 parties that received approval from Major League Baseball to participate in the sale process.
The Rangers received six initial nonbinding bids by the Aug. 18 deadline, and Hicks and his advisers selected three bidders to advance to the second round. The Rangers and HSG also were exploring "a variety of other financing transactions," according to Fischer.
On Nov. 20, the three bidders submitted final binding bids. During negotiations over the next two weeks, two of the bidders decided "to substantially enhance their original offers," Fischer said. The filings did not identify the unsuccessful bidders.
On Dec. 15, Hicks chose a group headed by Pittsburgh attorney Chuck Greenberg and Texas Rangers president and Hall of Fame pitcher Nolan Ryan.
"As the negotiations continued, the purchaser increased its offer by $10 million," Fischer said.
The Greenberg-Ryan group includes two leading North Texas businessmen.
Billionaire Ray Davis is the former co-chief executive of Dallas-based energy companies Energy Transfer Partners and Energy Transfer Equity.
Bob Simpson is founder and chairman of XTO Energy Inc., an oil and natural gas producer in Fort Worth. Irving-based Exxon Mobil Corp. agreed to buy XTO in December in an all-stock transaction valued at $41 billion. XTO shareholders are scheduled to vote on the deal June 25.


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The minute I spotted this darling camera fabric at Hobby Lobby,
I knew that I had to get some.
It's so cute, but the print was large enough that the only thing
I could think to make with it was a pillow.
So here it is. . .
in all its glory with its lovely red trim.
I enjoy making pillows because they're so easy.
I cut my panels from different parts of the fabric so my front and back would be different.
It's a great addition to the other pillows on my door couch.
What else could make with this fabric?
Thanks for stopping by and God bless.
Oh, send out Your light and Your truth!
Psalm 43:3
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This photo was taken at the Rhyll in Phillip Island. It has a very spectacular looking beach and we were lucky that the sky and clouds were very nice. I snapped this shot of the two girls while I was walking across the beach. They seemed to enjoy playing and walking in the mud, maybe since they feet are already dirty. Post processing was done to bring out the sky contrast and colour adjustment. "Chillingly Muddy" was given as the title as I felt it had described the nice feeling of the cool and soft mud and on the other hand, the shock look when their parents saw that.
Mud is a liquid or semi-liquid mixture of water and some combination of soil, silt, and clay. Ancient mud deposits harden over geological time to siltstone or solid, mudrock lutites. When geological deposits of mud are formed in estuaries the resultant layers are termed bay muds. Mud is similar to muck, except in that mud lacks significant quantities of humus, and often contains higher proportions of sand.
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Mud, in the construction industry, refers to wet plaster, stucco, cement or other similar substance. Mud is closely related to slurry and sediment.
In the preparation of materials for making ceramics, the making of liquid mud (called slip) is a stage in the process of refinement of the materials, since larger particles will settle out of the liquid.
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|The Abbaye de Semanque over their lavender fields (not in bloom now unfortunately)
|The Alpilles hills going northeast from Arles
|A closer view of the Abbaye
|Narrow art gallery filled "streets" in Gordes
|Honoree and Walt with their new purchase and the artist
|A new look for Walt
|Every gateway has a view
|The red ivy adds a colorful touch of Autumn
|Many of the structures were not vertical
|Looking over the valley at the hillside and it's bricked caves
|Many flowers added color
|Another steep cliffside built up with houses, walls and
under them all, caves
|A view of Gordes as we left town
|Dramatic entry up to the Fort
|That gets even more dramatic!
|The caretaker's Fairy tale Cottage and garden welcomes you to the steep path up to the Fort
|I wanted to move right in.
|Honoree looks into the Fort's entrance
|Rock climbers on the steep cliffs opposite
|A close up of some of the climbers
|Restoration work was ongoing
|The Fort and it's surrounding walled community spread
out on the long ridge.
|Looking down at the Secret Staircase
|The views over the mountains showed this Fort commanded
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|We stayed very close to the wall on the trip
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|Looking up as Walt and Honoree begin their
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The process of deciding where to plant Restoration Christian Church was a genuine struggle for me. I had met families from French Lick, and I really enjoyed spending time with them. But it was difficult for me to discern if this was the right place for me to plant.
Maybe you have felt this tension in your life. I want to serve God, I'm just not sure where or how?
As I wrestled with the question of where I should serve, one day I was reading from Isaiah chapter 61. As I read these verses, an amazing clarity came over me. Isaiah 61:1-4 reads:
"The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn, and provide for those who grieve in Zion - to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair.
They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord for the display of his splendor.
They will rebuild the ancient ruins and restore the places long devastated; they will renew the ruined cities that have been devastated for generations."
These verses from Isaiah resonated powerfully within me. As I read them, I pictured the town of French Lick. I knew there were many brokenhearted people here. I knew there were captives to sin and prisoners of addiction in this community.
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After reading these verses, I also knew what my personal dream is for this church... to be a planting of the Lord for the display of His splendor!
My prayer for Restoration Christian Church is one day people will look at this planting and say, "Only God could have done that!"
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Post-run endorphins today are making me grin stupidly in my cubicle while I attempt to wrestle my Technical Diddley into submission (both literally and figuratively). "Settle down, margins! You just stop your whining, word processor! I will put my numbered list there if I want to, darn you!"
*ahem* the joys of my job.
I'm just feeling happy, content, and blessed and had to share it with everyone. No other reason for this post than that, I think. *checks reasons to blog* Yup, it is allowed.
I met up with a new friend Allee from http://runningawaywithmyself.blogspot.ca/ for a quick lunchtime run. I ran to meet her, then we did a short loop around Parliament Hill, and I ran back to the office while she continued on for a longer run downtown.
Seriously folks, I get to run in one of the most awesome places, downtown Ottawa. It is beautiful, accessible, and has loads of pathways and interesting places. I feel so lucky sometimes as I run through some of our most historic locations, past statues, revered buildings, or interesting nooks and crannies of our Nation's Capital.
Part of the reason for the run meet up was so she could gift me with a new running jacket, which I tried out on the run. It is a Reflective Jacket from Running Room, and has been on my wishlist forever! It didn't fit her anymore and she wanted to pass it along. It now has a very appreciative home with me! I gave her a donation to her Team Diabetes race goal as a thank you.
Kind of a personal thing, that, so ROCK ON Allee! Diabetes sucks. Check her blog out, send her a message, donate to her cause, yo!
The best part of this new jacket is that its almost the same colour my Mustang was, which made me happier than I can describe (*sniff-sniff*. I miss my big, bad-*#$ car sometimes). I may or may not be wearing my new jacket right now on my coffee break, typing away, chair dancing because I am that happy right now (It is also cold in this here office, Brrr).
Running with a skiff of snow everywhere, seeing all the other bundled up folks running along, was also motivating. I am now part of that group of runners that layer up, go outside in winter, and run. I felt proud of myself for being out there, I was happy with myself for my achievements this year to be able to do so, and above all else, I felt immensely thankful for having somewhat salted and cleared surfaces to run on. It was Me and my friend, me in my hot neon pink hat and neck warmer, bopping along, my new merino wool socks making me so thankful, and realizing I have been running in the wrong sock all summer (except for my rainbow socks, those still rock).
I mean, my toes don't hurt AT ALL afte my run. Not one peep out of my piggies. I am in Heaven!
I grabbed onto the happiness I felt inside as soon as I got back to work, having such a fun lunchtime sojourn away from my desk.
Today is a good day.
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Now when again the debate regarding this matter has been heated up due to the statement of attorney general, the operators of these slot machine games are eyeing much bigger market for their products ie New York. Greentrack which owns a casino in Green County is going full speed ahead to open a new casino in Catskills. It should be remembered that Greentrack had faced the brunt of Alabama law enforcement offices in 2011 in which many of the slot machine games operating on their premises were confiscated.
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Bruce Willis comes out fighting for Iraq's forgotten GI heroes
Sarah Baxter, Washington
ANGERED by negative portrayals of the conflict in Iraq, Bruce Willis, the Hollywood star, is to make a pro-war film in which American soldiers will be depicted as brave fighters for freedom and democracy.
It will be based on the exploits of the heavily decorated members of Deuce Four, the 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry, which has spent the past year battling insurgents in the northern Iraqi town of Mosul.
Willis attended Deuce Four's homecoming ball this month in Seattle, Washington, where the soldiers are on leave, along with Stephen Eads, the producer of Armageddon and The Sixth Sense.
The 50-year-old actor said that he was in talks about a film of "these guys who do what they are asked to for very little money to defend and fight for what they consider to be freedom".
Unlike many Hollywood stars Willis supports the war and recently offered a $1m (about £583,000) bounty for the capture of any of Al-Qaeda's most wanted leaders such as Osama Bin Laden, Ayman Al-Zawahiri or Abu Musab al- Zarqawi, its commander in Iraq. Willis visited the war zone with his rock and blues band, the Accelerators, in 2003.
"I am baffled to understand why the things I saw happening in Iraq are not being reported," he told MSNBC, the American news channel.
He is expected to base the film on the writings of the independent blogger Michael Yon, a former special forces green beret who was embedded with Deuce Four and sent regular dispatches about their heroics.
Yon was at the soldiers' ball with Willis, who got to know him through his internet war reports on www.michaelyon.blogspot.com. "What he is doing is something the American media and maybe the world media isn't doing," the actor said, "and that's telling the truth about what's happening in the war in Iraq."
Willis is likely to take on the role of the unit's commander, Lieutenant-Colonel Erik Kurilla, 39, a Bruce Willis lookalike with a chest full of medals, more hair than Willis and a glamorous blonde wife.
He was injured in August after being shot three times by insurgents "in front of my eyes", Yon recorded in his blog: "He continued to direct his men until a medic gave him morphine and the men took him away."
Kurilla now has a titanium plate in his leg. He met Willis at the ball and said that his men were "very excited and appreciative that he was there". "
Monday, November 28, 2005
Bruce Willis comes out fighting for Iraq's forgotten GI heroes
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Kenya Commercial Bank RFC (3) v Impala RFC (4)
Lions Den, Ruaraka
Howard Okwemba's KCB began the calendar year 2012 as the league's only unbeaten side, boasting a 100% record. Nakuru exposed the chinks in their armour, rallying from 13-25 to draw 25-25 against the Lions at the Lions Den on Saturday 7 January before Mwamba RFC inflicted their first defeat of the season, a 22-10 win on Saturday 14 January at the RFUEA.
KCB will be out to end their two match winless streak against an Impala RFC side that are the second highest points scorers in the league and has won two matches on the trot, rising to fourth in the latest league standings. With just two points separating these two sides, a win for the Gazelles would see them leapfrog the Lions and enter the Kenya Cup's top three.
The Cubs play Impala II from 3pm at the same venue.
Another potentially explosive encounter.


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Contessa said the decision, made in tandem with owner Chip McEwen - who races under the moniker Wounded Warrior Stable - was to go with a more experienced rider and was "no knock whatsoever on Pablo Morales," Contessa added.
[ROAD TO THE KENTUCKY DERBY: Prep races, point standings, replays]
Nakatani, 43, has ridden 3,687 winners but is winless with 16 mounts in the Kentucky Derby. Morales, 25, has never ridden in the Derby.
"Nakatani rides for Wounded Warrior in California," Contessa said. "We have no complaints with Pablo. Nakatani's been there, he's a good friend of mine, a good friend of the owner. Hopefully, we picked somebody who can stay with him all the way through."
Uncle Sigh, a New York-bred son of Indian Charlie, has 1 win from 3 starts. He was beaten one length by Samraat in the Grade 3 Withers Stakes on Feb. 1.
Contessa said he is hoping to work Uncle Sigh on Monday or Tuesday, depending on condition of the Belmont Park training track. Inclement weather has forced the New York Racing Association to cancel training from Thursday through Saturday.
"As hard as this horse ran in the Withers I don't feel like he's missing anything," said Contessa, who added that he doesn't want to miss too much more time or else he might have to skip the Gotham and point for a race out of town like the Tampa Bay Derby or Rebel Stakes at Oaklawn Park.
Meanwhile, Withers winner Samraat worked four furlongs in 49.30 seconds Saturday morning at Palm Meadows. Trainer Rick Violette said he wanted to work the undefeated colt one more time before deciding where Samraat would make his next start.


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Halou's "Wholeness & Separation" can be streamed here until June 3.