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Penn State lacrosse to air on Big Ten Network
Penn State lacrosse to air on Big Ten Network
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- For the second straight year the Penn State lacrosse programs will have live broadcasts on the Big Ten Network and BTN2Go as announced Wednesday morning. The Nittany Lion men's lacrosse team hosts Villanova on Saturday, March 29 for a live broadcast at 2 p.m., while the women's team will have its Friday, Apr. 18 tilt against Johns Hopkins aired live at 6 p.m.
For the men's lacrosse team, the contest against Villanova will be Penn State's Alumni Reunion Weekend game in Happy Valley. The Penn State-Villanova game will be the first televised game of the season and the fourth national broadcast of the Nittany Lions in the past two seasons. Last year, BTN aired Penn State's 10-8 Senior Day win over CAA rival Towson.
On the women's side, the American Lacrosse Conference matchup between Penn State and Johns Hopkins will be shown live under the Friday night lights Apr. 18. It will be the second-straight meeting between the two squads that will receive the national television treatment following Penn State's 15-14 win at JHU last season that aired on ESPNU.
The BTN broadcasts of Penn State lacrosse come a year ahead of the Big Ten's sponsorship of men's and women's lacrosse, which is set to begin next year. With the inclusion of Maryland and Rutgers, who begin their membership July 1, Penn State, Ohio State and Michigan comprise five of the six Big Ten lacrosse-playing schools. Johns Hopkins joins the fray on the men's side as an affiliate member, while Northwestern represents the sixth women's program.
The Big Ten Network is available in more than 90 million homes in all 50 United States and Canada.

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New Mexico Tech Revises Strategic Agreement with SAIC, May 6, 2005
by George Zamora
SOCORRO, N.M., May 6, 2005 – Top officials from New Mexico Tech and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) recently signed off on a revision and extension of a strategic agreement forged in 2003 between the public university and the private company to continue jointly pursuing research and educational opportunities in new and expanding areas of mutual interest.
New Mexico Tech President Daniel H. López signed the document on behalf of the university, and Charles Zang, senior vice president and general manager of SAIC's Engineering, Test & Analysis Unit, signed on behalf of the employee-owned research and engineering company. The formal signing ceremony for the addendum to the original strategic agreement was held on Thursday, May 5, at Brown Hall, the university's main administration building.
One of the immediate objectives as outlined in the revised agreement calls for New Mexico Tech and SAIC to collaborate on increasing the university's U.S. Senator Pete V. Domenici Endowed Faculty Professorship in Science and Technology for National Security into a fully endowed chair. Establishment of the Domenici Endowed Professorship was made possible last year through a donation provided by SAIC.
Other mutual goals agreed to by New Mexico Tech and SAIC include expanding efforts, programs and facilities related to Homeland Security technology and training, international law enforcement and counter-terrorism training, cyber-security issues, and scientific research related to astronomy and directed energy topics.
Established in 1889, New Mexico Tech is a state-supported research university that was recently ranked by The Princeton Review as the nation's second-best overall value available for a college education.
Founded by a small group of scientists in 1969, SAIC, a Fortune 500 company with current revenues of more than $7 billion per year, now ranks as the largest employee-owned research and engineering firm in the United States.


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Mission: Finance Your Education
There are many different ways that you can finance your education while at San José State University. Below is a list of resources to get you started to see what you qualify for:
- GI Bill: The GI Bill can pay a percentage of your educational costs and a housing allowance. To see if you are eligible connect with the Veterans Service Office at San José State University.
- Vocational Rehabilitation: If you have a V.A. disability rating of 20% or more, you may be eligible for Vocational Rehabilitation to help cover many costs of your education plus a living allowance. Vocational Rehabilitation can pick up when the GI Bill runs out for those that qualify. Contact the Veterans Affairs Office to see if you are eligible.
- WorkAbility IV Program: Funded through the California State Department of Rehabilitation, the WAIV program provides individuals with disabilities assistance in completion of their educational and career goals. If qualified for the program, you may receive financial assistance as well as professional guidance.
- SJSU Financial Aid: In addition to your GI Bill and/or Voc Rehab you may also qualify for Federal and State grants, loans and work study benefits. Fill out your application with FAFSA today and connect with the SJSU Financial Aid Office for the next steps. San José State University also offers a wide variety of scholarships to students.
- Working while attending San José State University: There are many opportunities to find civilian employment on and off campus. The Career Center's online job database SJSU Handshake offers part-time, on-campus, temporary, career related, and work study positions. Spartan Shops offers a variety of on campus employment opportunities.


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As most of you know, I am cheap
Always go for FREE (insert OCNA plug here)
After better than 27 years the NCS is on board (she had cable before we met and I had it shortly thereafter)
After some recent frustration with Uverse (2.5 years of service) and much more of TWC previously, we are likely embarking on the free TV market. (OK the newish car purchase helped drive this too)
I watch A LOT of TV and enjoy it. I have purchased and installed an antenna (Ollies $20 amplified rotating version, best deal anywhere, hooked up to the old TWC cable in the house providing all TV's access) Get all the major networks plus others ( looks like about 16+ channels or so with a few of interest)
I have access to Netflix (via WDLive plus) and can chromecast from the desktop. (though I am thinking of adding an old computer for direct access in the same room without obligating another computer)
I have a multitude of saved programming not available in the US on my computer (British and other country shows but the I have seen them)
Most networks that I can't get will put their shows up on their website for streaming which I could view delayed with the extra computer or chromecast. (like The Walking Dead, have to see that)
I find we do usually watch the major networks and access to most other shows I might be interested in are available on their respective websites which I can access. Those few other programs I might be interested in (Game of Thrones etc) that are only shown by cable and the like are available elsewhere but I won't go into that.
Anyone else out there that is Off the TV Grid but actually enjoy TV ?
What do you do?


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Place the cooked cous cous, butter, sugar, pine nuts, raisins, almonds, hazelnuts, and water in a mixing bowl. Thoroughly combine all the ingredients. Cover the bowl and let rest for at least 1/2 an hour. Butter a ramekin to prevent sticking. Firmly pack some cous cous mixture in the ramekin and invert onto an individual dessert plate, so that the form of the cous cous is released from the ramekin. Sprinkle with icing sugar. Repeat for other individual plates and serve.
For the dough: Cous cous is cooked in a special double boiler called a couscousiera. A makeshift couscousiera can be made by placing a colander over a similar-size pot and sealing the two together with simple dough to prevent steam from escaping. To make the dough: Combine 1 cup flour with enough water to create dough. Roll the dough into a long rope and use as a seal.
For the cous cous: Place half the durum wheat in a large bowl. Add splashes of water, salt, cinnamon, and extra-virgin olive oil, while stirring/raking the durum wheat in a circular motion with your hand. You should use approximately 1/2 the quantities of water, salt, cinnamon and extra-virgin olive oil at this point. Continue working in a circular motion, constantly stirring to moisten the grains evenly. Rub the mixture between your hands to remove any lumps that may form. If the mixture becomes too wet, add some more durum wheat, if it becomes too dry, add some more water. The mixture should form into small pellets. If you have not achieved small pellets, rub and rake some more.
Add the remaining durum wheat, salt, cinnamon and extra-virgin olive oil and repeat the process above. Transfer the cous cous to a colander and embed the zest of 1 lemon in the cous cous. Rest the colander over a pot of boiling water. Let the cous cous steam for approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes. Serve with seafood, stewed meats and/or vegetables, or use as a base for Marilu's cous cous dessert recipe follows.
The pot should be tall enough so that colander is not immersed in the water. Use the dough as a seal to prevent the steam from escaping between the colander and the pot.


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Wireless LAN Tools: Analyze This (Part 1)
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Wireless LANs based on 802.11 Wi-Fi protocols are deceptively simple to install, but achieving optimum or even acceptable levels of security and performance can be tough. Many operators don't really know how their WLAN is being used, if outsiders are consuming WLAN resources, or whether fine-tuning could improve quality of service.
Traditional traffic monitoring and diagnostic tools used in 802.3 Ethernet LANs are helpful in wireless LANs too--particularly those aimed at the transport and application layers. Utilities like ping and traceroute can still be used to trouble-shoot connectivity, and monitors like MRTG can still be used to measure traffic headed into your wired network from your WLAN.
However, 802.11 protocols are very different at the physical and data link layers. Wireless networks have unique architectures, methods of transmission, modes of operation, packet formats, sources of interference, and vulnerabilities. WLAN-specific tools are therefore needed to provide the same level of insight and support that traditional LAN analyzers have long offered for wired networks.
In this article, we'll take a look at what Wireless LAN Analyzers do and why every WLAN administrator should know how to use them. We'll summarize available open source and commercial products, and use several of them to describe and illustrate common WLAN analysis tasks. Finally, we'll point you to on-line resources where you can learn more about WLAN analysis.
Understanding 802.11
Before you can analyze WLAN traffic, you'll need to get a handle on how 802.11 works. No, you don't need to be a radio engineer or protocol expert to use a WLAN analyzer. In fact, WLAN analyzers are supposed to understand radio networks and protocols for you, crunching captured traffic to present warnings, advice, and statistics that are easier to eyeball and understand.
But if you're a true WLAN novice, the level of detail offered by most WLAN analyzers may overwhelm you. For readers brand new to 802.11 or looking for a refresher on 802.11 basics, we recommend the following resources:
- Real 802.11 Security: Wi-Fi Protected Access and 802.11i (Arbaugh, Edney)
- Wireless LANs (Geier)
- Going Wi-Fi: A Practical Guide to Planning and Building an 802.11 Network (Reynolds)
- CWNP Learning Center
- Wi-Fi Planet Tutorials
In this article, we'll assume that you're familiar with 802.11 terms like station, access point (AP), and service set identifier (SSID); the radio channels used by the 802.11a/b/g standards; the management, control, and data frames exchanged between 802.11 devices; and wireless security measures like Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP), 802.1X Port Access Control, and Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA).
Capturing 802.11 traffic
If you've used a traditional LAN protocol analyzer like WildPackets EtherPeek, Network General Sniffer, Network Instruments Observer, or TamoSoft CommView, then you have a pretty good idea what to expect from their wireless siblings.
Like LAN analyzers, WLAN analyzers are based on packet capture engines that (usually) listen passively for passing traffic. To observe radio networks at a fairly low level -- for example, hearing control frames sent to other stations -- WLAN analyzers require specialized drivers that put the 802.11 adapter used for capture into radio frequency monitoring (RFMON) mode.
WLAN analyzers can operate in "scan mode," stepping through all or designated channels in a given band, dwelling on each for just a short time. Alternatively, they can be tuned to a specific channel or SSID for full-time capture. Scanning provides insight into what's out there, but focusing on a single channel is better for drill-down analysis and trouble-shooting.
In addition, WLAN analyzers offer capture filters to narrow a capture's scope -- for example, recording only packets associated with a given source, destination, or protocol. Some also use configurable "triggers" to observe packets until a specified pattern is detected, then start recording captured packets -- for example, letting you see exactly what happens when a previously-unknown AP shows up in or near your office.


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Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
In this delightful animated feature from Oscar-winner Nick Park, the fate of the annual giant vegetable competition rests in the hands of Wallace and Gromit--their pest control expertise must save the competition from the beast known as the Were-Rabbit.
With only days away to the annual competition at Tottington Hall, and rabbits running wild, business at Wallace (voiced by Peter Sallis) and Gromit's Anti-Pesto pest control is booming. Animal lover, Lady Tottington (voiced by Helena Bonham Carter), who hosts the yearly competition, calls Wallace and Gromit to her home to rid the grounds of the vegetable-eating rabbits, but as compassionately as possible. Of course, Victor Quartermaine (voiced by Ralph Fiennes), the town's hunter and wooer of Lady Tottington, would just like to shoot all the rabbits but that's not Totti's way. So, armed with their Bun Vac 6000, capturing bunnies at 145 RPM's (that's rabbits per minute), Anti-Pesto humanely rids the town of the produce-destroying rodents, while storing them safely in Wallace's basement. But when one of Wallace's inventions to cure the rabbits of their eating habits goes horribly wrong, the town is faced with an oversized vegetable eating Were-Rabbit. He comes alive with the moon, has teeth the size of axe blades, and may be the end to the towns beloved competition. It's up to Wallace--or more to the point, Gromit--to save the contest and capture the beast.
Peter Sallis has been giving voice to Wallace since the first Wallace & Gromit adventure, 1989's Wallace and Gromit: A Grand Day Out and is consistently top notch as the cheese-loving English inventor. Bringing life to the red-lipped Lady Tottington is Helena Bonham Carter, who seems to be making a nice name for herself in the voiceovers these days, having already done Corpse Bride. Her sweet voice is perfect for the sensitive humanitarian. As the gun-loving bad guy, Ralph Fiennes' is the eccentric and formidable voice of Victor Quartermaine, the man vying for Totti's hand in marriage. Whether he is trying to shoot rabbits, or losing his hair piece, Fiennes' comedic skills do shine. But Gromit is the star of the movie, without ever having to say at all. He doesn't have to--clearly, you know what he's thinking. The dog is extremely dedicated to Wallace, solving all his master's problems.
With the help of Chicken Run's Steve Box, creator Nick Park has pinned the tail on the rabbit with Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. Having won Oscars for his short films, Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers and Wallace & Gromit: A Close Shave, he may be looking at another one with this appealing first full-length film featuring the lovable duo. Wallace and Gromit are Park's brain children--and he clearly loves them. With embellished teeth and bad ears, Wallace is appropriately exaggerated, while Gromit gets to give hilarious side glances to the camera every time Wallace screws up. Meanwhile, the buildings, cars, and even the veggies look so real, it's exhausting just to think how much time it must have taken to manipulate all that clay. Park also infuses oh-so-British sensibilities into this characters, so the adults will be entertained. For example, when Lady Tottington tells Victor that he doesn't take an interest in her ''produce,'' she's standing with two enormous pumpkins at her chest. Wink, wink, nudge, nudge, what? Park and Box make this 85 minute film feel like a half hour with its quick moving plot line, making it perfect for children.
Bottom Line
Sure, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit is a children's movie, but it has enough high-spirited comedy to keep the adults entertained as well.


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The supremely confident billionaire hedge-fund manager Bill Ackman has never been afraid to bet the farm that he's right.
In 1984, when he was a junior at Horace Greeley High School, in affluent Chappaqua, New York, he wagered his father $2,000 that he would score a perfect 800 on the verbal section of the S.A.T. The gamble was everything Ackman had saved up from his Bar Mitzvah gift money and his allowance for doing household chores. "I was a little bit of a cocky kid," he admits, with uncharacteristic understatement.
Tall, athletic, handsome with cerulean eyes, he was the kind of hyper-ambitious kid other kids loved to hate and just the type to make a big wager with no margin for error. But on the night before the S.A.T., his father took pity on him and canceled the bet. "I would've lost it," Ackman concedes. He got a 780 on the verbal and a 750 on the math. "One wrong on the verbal, three wrong on the math," he muses. "I'm still convinced some of the questions were wrong."
Not much has changed in the nearly 28 years since Ackman graduated from high school, except that his hair has gone prematurely silver. He still has an uncanny knack for making bold, brash pronouncements and for pissing people off. Nowhere is that more apparent than in the current, hugely public fight he and his $12 billion hedge fund, Pershing Square Capital, are waging over the Los Angeles–based company Herbalife Ltd., which sells weight-loss products and nutritional supplements using a network of independent distributors. Like Amway, Tupperware, and Avon, Herbalife is known as "a multi-level marketer," or MLM, with no retail stores. Instead, it ships its products to outlets in 88 countries, and the centers recruit salespeople, who buy the product and then try to resell it for a profit to friends and acquaintances.
Ackman has called Herbalife a "fraud," "a pyramid scheme," and a "modern-day version of a Ponzi scheme" that should be put out of business by federal regulators. He says he is certain Herbalife's stock, which in mid-February traded around $40 per share, will go to zero, and he has bet more than a billion dollars of his own and his investors' money on just that outcome. (Ackman declines to discuss the specifics of his trade.) "This is the highest conviction I've ever had about any investment I've ever made," he announced on Bloomberg TV. An interviewer on CNN reminded him that Herbalife had been around since 1980 and had withstood many previous challenges to its business plan. How long was he willing to "sit on this bet"? Ackman replied, "We're not sitting. We're shouting from the rooftops. They've never had someone like me prepared to say the truth about the company. I'm going to the end of the earth. If the government comes out and determines this is a completely legal business, then I will lobby Congress for them to change the law. I had a moral obligation. If you knew that Bernie Madoff was running a Ponzi scheme, and you didn't tell anyone about it, and it went on for 33 years ... "
Ackman says he suspected, when he "shorted" (i.e., bet against) Herbalife, that other hedge-fund investors would likely see the move as an opportunity to make money by taking the other side of his bet. What he hadn't counted on, though, was that there would be a personal tinge to it. It was as if his colleagues had finally found a way to express publicly how irritating they have found Ackman all these years. Here finally was a chance to get back at him and make some money at the same time. The perfect trade. These days the Schadenfreude in the rarefied hedge-fund world in Midtown Manhattan is so thick it's intoxicating.
"Ackman seems to have this 'Superman complex,' " says Chapman Capital's Robert Chapman, who was one of the investors on the other side of Ackman's bet. "If he jumped off a building in pursuit of super-human powered flight but then slammed to the ground, I'm pretty sure he'd blame the unanticipated and unfair force of gravity."
Lined up against the 46-year-old Ackman on the long side of the Herbalife trade were at least two billionaires: Daniel Loeb, 51, of Third Point Partners, who used to be Ackman's friend, and Carl Icahn, 77, of Icahn Enterprises. Along for the ride are some smaller, well-regarded hedge-fund investors—who would like to be billionaires—John Hempton, of Bronte Capital, and Sahm Adrangi, of Kerrisdale Capital.
It's Ackman's perceived arrogance that gets to his critics. "The story I hear from everybody is that one can't help but be intrigued by the guy, just because he's somewhat larger than life, but then one realizes he's just pompous and arrogant and seems to have been born without the gene that perceives and measures risk," says Chapman. "He seems to look at other members of society, even legends such as Carl Icahn, as some kind of sub-species. The disgusted, annoyed look on his face when confronted by the masses beneath him is like one you'd expect to see [from someone] confronted by a homeless person who hadn't showered in weeks. You can almost see him puckering his nostrils so he doesn't have to smell these inferior creatures. It's truly bizarre, given that his failures—Target, Borders, JCPenney, Gotham Golf, First Union Real Estate, and others—prove he's as fallible as the next guy. Yet, from what I hear, he behaves that way with just about everybody."
Another hedge-funder describes the problem he has with Ackman in more measured tones. "There is a saying in this business: 'Often wrong, never in doubt.' Ackman personifies it. . . . He is very smart—but he lets you know it. And he combines that with this sort of noblesse oblige that lots of people find offensive—me, generally not. On top of that he is pointlessly, needlessly competitive every time he opens his mouth. Do you know about the Ackman cycling trip with Dan Loeb?"
It's Not About the Bike
The story of the Ackman-Loeb cycling trip is so widely known in the hedge-fund eco-system that it has practically achieved urban-legend status, and Loeb himself was eager to remind me of it.
It happened last summer when Ackman decided to join a group of a half-dozen dedicated cyclists, including Loeb, who take long bike rides together in the Hamptons. The plan was for Loeb, who is extremely serious about fitness and has done sprint triathlons, a half-Ironman, and a New York City Marathon, to pick up Ackman at Ackman's $22 million mansion, in Bridgehampton. (Ackman also owns an estate in upstate New York and lives in the Beresford, a historic co-op on Manhattan's Central Park West.) The two would cycle the 20 or so miles to Montauk, where they would meet up with the rest of the group and ride out the additional 6 miles to the lighthouse, at the tip of the island. "I had done no biking all summer," Ackman now admits. Still, he went out at a very fast clip, his hypercompetitive instincts kicking in. As he and Loeb approached Montauk, Loeb texted his friends, who rode out to meet them from the opposite direction. The etiquette would have been for Ackman and Loeb to slow down and greet the other riders, but Ackman just blew by at top speed. The others fell in behind, at first struggling to keep up with the alpha leader. But soon enough Ackman faltered—at Mile 32, Ackman recalls—and fell way behind the others. He was clearly "bonking," as they say in the cycling world, which is what happens when a rider is dehydrated and his energy stores are depleted.
While everyone else rode back to Loeb's East Hampton mansion, one of Loeb's friends, David "Tiger" Williams, a respected cyclist and trader, painstakingly guided Ackman, who by then could barely pedal and was letting out primal screams of pain from the cramps in his legs, back to Bridgehampton. "I was in unbelievable pain," Ackman recalls. As the other riders noted, it was really rather ridiculous for him to have gone out so fast, trying to lead the pack, considering his lack of training. Why not acknowledge your limits and set a pace you could maintain? As one rider notes, "I've never had an experience where someone has gone from being so aggressive on a bike to being so hopelessly unable to even turn the pedals…. His mind wrote a check that his body couldn't cash."
Nor was Ackman particularly gracious about the incident afterward, not bothering to answer e-mails of concern and support from others in the group until months later.
In a recent interview on CNBC, the blunt-talking and cagey Icahn hinted there would be a concerted effort to take Ackman down a peg or two in the Herbalife battle, which "could be the mother of all the short squeezes," he said, referring to a technique that can be used by a group of traders who band together to try to clobber a short-seller.
Chapman agrees. "This is like Wall Street's version of the movie Kill Bill," he says. "Bill Ackman has been so arrogant and disrespectful to so many people, presumably on the theory that he would never be in a position where these subjects of his disrespect could actually act on their deserved hatred for him But now, with JCPenney [which is down 20 percent from Ackman's 2010 investment] and Herbalife going against Ackman, his 'stock' has moved down, allowing once again, a decade later, for those holding their Kill Bill puts [i.e., options they have been waiting to cash in] to exercise them against him."
Ackman got the idea to short Herbalife in the summer of 2011 from Christine Richard, who had left a job as a reporter at Bloomberg News to join Diane Schulman at the Indago Group, a high-end investment-research boutique. Schulman and Richard are known around Manhattan as the Indago Girls. They have a handful of hedge-fund clients—among them David Einhorn's Greenlight Capital and Ackman's Pershing Square—who pay around $10,000 a month, plus expenses, for their exclusive ideas.
Ackman listened intently to Richard's pitch about Herbalife, but was busy at the time with a highly successful proxy fight for control of Canadian Pacific Railway. He turned the Herbalife idea over to two of his employees, Shane Dinneen, a young Harvard graduate—who bears an uncanny resemblance to Conan O'Brien—and to Mariusz Adamski, whom Ackman had met on the tennis court and then hired as an intern. The two read public documents, reviewed old lawsuits, watched strange selling videos, and learned about Herbalife's bizarre, charismatic founder, Mark Hughes. They discovered that, a few years earlier, Barry Minkow, a convicted felon and founder of the infamous 1980s swindle ZZZZ Best, had in 2008 publicly called into question Herbalife's practices. To avoid a costly legal battle, Herbalife had paid him $300,000. (Minkow is now in prison, for another scam.)
On February 22, 2012, the Indago Girls finished their 100-page report describing how Herbalife had billions in revenues and millions of independent distributors globally (3.2 million at last count, according to CNBC), and claimed to have created millions of jobs in its 33-year existence. But, the Girls summarized, "it would be an impressive American success story if it were not based on a lie. Far from being a shining example of corporate beneficence, Herbalife is a story of stunning deception. It is a pyramid scheme whose revenue comes not from retail sales of its products, as it contends, but from capital lost by failed investors in its business opportunity. Our research has shown that through manipulation and misrepresentation, Herbalife conceals its true business model from distributors and from the investing public. Herbalife is not selling a 'healthy lifestyle' through nutritional supplements and weight management products; it is selling a highly risky financial product: an investment in the business opportunity of recruiting more Herbalife distributors. The merchandise is little more than a vehicle for selling the financial investment in the pyramid scheme."
Dinneen agreed, but Ackman remained cautious. In the best of circumstances shorting stock can be a risky business, even for hedge-fund big shots. To do it, you have to borrow someone else's stock (paying them a fee to do so) and then sell it into the market, collecting the proceeds from the sale. If the stock goes down, you can "cover" your short position by buying it back at the lower price and returning the borrowed stock to its original owner, keeping the profits. While a stock's price can never go below zero—Nirvana for a short-seller—there is no cap on how high a stock can trade. That's what makes shorting so risky. If you are wrong and, instead of going down, the stock price goes up, you can end up having to buy the stock back at a higher price—perhaps a much higher price—than you sold it for originally, making the potential losses nearly infinite when you have to return it to the original owner.
As the old Wall Street saw goes, "he who sells what isn't his'n must buy it back or go to pris'n."
Herbalife had been around for 33 years and had withstood previous attacks from the likes of Minkow and others, as well as the fact that, in May 2000, Hughes—despite his clean-living image—died of a toxic combination of alcohol and Doxepin (an antidepressant he was taking to sleep), causing the company nearly to collapse.
Reeling from Hughes's death and lawsuits related to its use of the stimulant ephedrine—which would be banned in the U.S. from all nutritional supplements in 2004—Herbalife agreed to sell itself, in 2002, to its management, who had joined with two private-equity firms—Golden Gate Capital and Whitney & Co. The company went public again, in 2004, netting the private-equity firms a fortune estimated at $1.3 billion, a return of seven times their initial investment, according to the Indago Girls. Between 2005 and 2012, Herbalife's stock increased 1,000 percent.
Taking on Herbalife would not be for the faint of heart.
The Indago Girls shared their Herbalife short idea with David Einhorn, and he too was skeptical at first. "Short-sellers had dashed themselves on these rocks, like, only 50 katrillion times," says someone who knew Einhorn's thinking. In the end, though, he was convinced by Schulman's passion and detailed analysis, and he urged her to keep researching while he slowly built a short position in Herbalife. "Short-sellers have been attracted to multi-level marketers the way drunken sailors are always attracted to dirty girls at the end of the bar," explains that person. "It's just a match made in heaven."
Einhorn and Ackman were once good friends. They met on a subway platform in 1998 after they both had attended an industry luncheon. In March 2010, when the two appeared together on CNBC, Einhorn said of Ackman, "Bill's a phenomenal investor. . . . His returns are absolutely extraordinary. It shows there are a lot of different ways to go about things. He's a fabulous investor."
Without missing a beat, Ackman replied, "David is my marketing adviser."
The relationship soured, however, around the time the Indago Girls were making their Herbalife pitch to both men. "David and I had what you might call a falling-out," Ackman admits. It happened in June 2011, when Ackman was quoted in The New York Times revealing that Einhorn, a Milwaukee-area native, had wanted to buy the Milwaukee Brewers in 2004 but lost out to Mark Attanasio, another financial heavyweight. At that moment, Einhorn was trying to buy a piece of the New York Mets, and, Ackman says, Einhorn feared if the Mets knew of his previous interest in the Brewers they would conclude he was just another rich hedge-fund guy looking to buy a new toy, as opposed to being a serious Mets fan. Ackman says he was just trying to help show that his friend had a lifelong interest in baseball. There was some back-and-forth on e-mail between the two men, and that was that. "David and I are friendly, but it's like we were boyfriend and boyfriend, and then one day we were just friends, and now we're just friendly," Ackman says. "I have enormous respect for him. But as a result of that, I stopped calling him and he stopped calling me, so that's why I didn't talk to him" about Herbalife. (Einhorn declined to discuss Herbalife or his relationship with Ackman, but lavishly praised Dan Loeb.)
On May 1, Dinneen was listening in on Herbalife's first-quarter-2012 investor conference call when suddenly Einhorn spoke up and started asking questions, mostly about what percentage of the company's sales was merely to distributors, who are required to buy the product each month, and what percentage to genuine consumers. At first, Des Walsh, the company's president, said "70 percent or potentially in excess of that" went to consumers or distributors "for their own personal use." Einhorn pushed Walsh for a clarification, and Walsh said he didn't have "an exact percentage" because "we don't have visibility to that level of detail." This was a surprising answer, since that information should have been readily available. By the end of the day, Herbalife stock had plummeted to $56 per share, from $70 per share.
Had Ackman waited too long to bet against the stock?
Dinneen alerted Ackman that Einhorn was on the call and asking tough questions. "David asks his question, the stock plummets, and then Shane [Dinneen] is all upset," Ackman recalls. "He thinks he's done all this work for nothing. I said, 'No, no, you're wrong. This is great. Clearly David shorted the stock.' "
Now, Ackman believed, Pershing Square didn't have to be the so-called catalyst, the guy who says the emperor has no clothes—which generally causes the company being shorted to go on the attack against the short-seller. "It sounds like David is prepared to go public with it," he told Dinneen. "He'll be the catalyst, and we can be short and we don't have to deal with all the headaches of being the active short-seller."
During the conference call Ackman decided to pull the trigger and started shorting Herbalife shares through Goldman Sachs, Pershing Square's principal prime broker. His position eventually grew to more than 20 million shares. The move took major cojones because with such a large percentage on the short side, around 20 percent, in the hands of one person, those on the other side of the trade—who are betting the stock will go up—can try to orchestrate the aforementioned "short squeeze," by buying up shares. This causes the thinly traded stock's price to trade up, forcing the short-seller to buy back stock at far higher prices than he had hoped, which sends the price of the stock higher still.
In addition, Herbalife would no doubt be able to defend itself by using some of the $320 million or so in cash on its balance sheet to buy back and retire its stock, reducing the number of shares outstanding and potentially adding to Ackman's whiplash. (Since the end of 2012, Herbalife has bought back four million shares at a cost of around $150 million.)
The Sohn and the Fury
The annual Ira Sohn Conference, in Manhattan, is where the leading hedge-fund managers share their investing ideas. With the 2012 edition scheduled for May 16, Ackman suspected that Einhorn would use his presentation there to tout his short in Herbalife and become the catalyst for the trade. It's a tried-and-true strategy, and smacks of insider trading, but stays just this side of legality. Ackman, Icahn, and Einhorn, among others, have all used appearances at Sohn to tout their short or long positions, after having already accumulated them, knowing that their very words will move the market in their favor. Talking your book, as it's known on Wall Street, is not exactly kosher, but it's done all the time.
According to Ackman, just before his presentation, Einhorn put up a slide with the letters "MLM" on it. The audience, he believes, immediately took this as an indication that he was about to slam "multi-level marketers," such as Herbalife. But Einhorn's presentation turned out to be about Martin Marietta Materials, a company with the stock symbol MLM. When the market realized this, Herbalife stock moved smartly to finish up more than 10 percent.
"He did that kind of as a joke," Ackman says.
Einhorn wasn't going to be the Herbalife catalyst after all, so over the summer and fall Ackman and his team worked tirelessly to put together their version of the Herbalife story. Ackman wanted to unleash his monster on the world before Thanksgiving, but his team wasn't ready, even though it had been working around the clock. So Ackman arranged with Douglas Hirsch, a co-chair of the Sohn Research Conference Foundation, for a special session to present the Herbalife idea on December 20.
"I go back to first principles for me, personally," Ackman says. "The single most important thing to me, personally, is the ability to speak my mind. I'm a change-the-world guy, and I know that sounds like bullshit or whatever. I don't like to make investments that are not good for America. You can say I'm self-righteous. You can say that I'm disingenuous. I have more money than I need. I don't need to work for a living. I do this because I love what I do."
After graduating from Harvard College and following a stint working for his father at the family's commercial-mortgage real-estate business, Ackman went to Harvard Business School, the only program to which he had applied. As he had in college, Ackman rowed crew. He was co-captain of the business-school team that generated national controversy by wearing
T-shirts with dollar signs on the backs and painting dollar signs on the oars. At the annual Head of the Charles race, spectators booed the H.B.S. crew boats, causing Ackman to defend the decorations in an opinion column in the Harbus, the business-school newspaper. "Let's face up to what Harvard Business School represents," he wrote. "We spend 90 percent of our studies at HBS pursuing the maximization of the dollar."
At Harvard, Ackman met David Berkowitz, who had studied engineering as an undergraduate at M.I.T. After graduation Ackman and Berkowitz formed Gotham Partners, their own hedge fund, in a windowless office in Midtown Manhattan. Starting with $250,000 from Marty Peretz, a college professor of Ackman's and the then editor and owner of The New Republic (and the father of V.F. contributing editor Evgenia Peretz), they raised $3 million. "We did incredibly well for five years," Ackman recalls. Most important, in 2002, Ackman made a huge bet that M.B.I.A. Inc., the publicly traded municipal-bond insurer, was fatally overvalued. The company protested that Ackman was trying to manipulate its stock price. Both the S.E.C. and Eliot Spitzer, then the New York State attorney general, investigated. "Not to put it too impoliticly," Spitzer told The New York Observer in 2011, "but we put [Ackman] through the wringer."
Ackman recalls he told the investigators, "If you guys don't pursue M.B.I.A., and you allow it to continue, there will be a financial crisis of unbelievable proportions. That's what will happen." No charges were ever filed against Ackman, and he was proven correct after M.B.I.A. nearly collapsed during the financial crisis. Ackman and his investors made around $1.4 billion in profit. By that time, though, he and Berkowitz had parted company, and Gotham was dissolved.
On his own in 2004, and then with people he had met serendipitously—one sharing a cab in a rainstorm, another while bone-fishing in Argentina—Ackman started Pershing Square, named after the area just south of Grand Central Terminal. Over the years, Ackman has had some notable wins—with Canadian Pacific Railway (doubling his $1.4 billion investment in less than a year), Fortune Brands, McDonald's, Burger King, and General Growth Properties—and some notable mistakes, namely Borders (which went bankrupt) and the call options of Target Corporation, an investment that declined, at its nadir, 90 percent, according to Ackman, costing him and his investors some $1.5 billion. The loss caused Ackman to issue a rare apology: "Bottom line, [the Target investment] has been one of the greatest disappointments of my career to date," he wrote his investors.
Faced with the hedge-fund firepower lined up against him—to say nothing of Herbalife's wrath—someone with a lesser ego might have had some doubts. Not Ackman. Although Herbalife is his first activist short since the M.B.I.A. war—which took nearly seven years for him to win—he claims he is not even remotely worried that he might be wrong. "By the way, there is no other investment in my portfolio about which I feel better," he says. "I can give you all the concerns I have about everything else we own. JCPenney … Canadian Pacific has gone from $46 to $117 a share. O.K.? Are there risks? Absolutely, absolutely. Every one of my other investments. Not this one."
The day before Ackman's presentation at Sohn, he called CNBC reporter Kate Kelly. "We wanted the right people there," he says. "We wanted the right people to listen. And if you don't know what company it is, you're not going to just go [to a presentation] randomly. But I wanted everyone who owned Herbalife stock watching, and I wanted people who were interested in the story, and I wanted Hispanic media there. They're not going to come to some hedge-fund presentation."
By around two p.m. on December 19, Kelly was reporting on-air that Pershing Square had "a major new short position," and, she explained, Ackman would be making a full presentation the next day. Ackman's media ploy worked. Some 500 people assembled at the AXA Equitable Center, in Midtown Manhattan—along with another 1,300 people watching online—as Ackman, Dinneen, and David Klafter, Pershing's general counsel, denounced Herbalife for more than three hours, without interruption, using some 330 slides. The title of the presentation was "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?"
Ackman was smooth, confident, and unrehearsed. "Tennis, I practice," he tells me. "Presentations, I don't. Never."
Onstage, Ackman said he would donate any money he personally made from the trade—"blood money," he called it—to his foundation, the Pershing Square Foundation, which gave $7 million to Andrew Youn and his One Acre Fund, to relieve hunger and poverty in East Africa, and $25 million to the Newark, New Jersey, public schools (to which Mark Zuckerberg gave $100 million). Ackman also announced—on the spur of the moment, he says—that he would donate $25 million to the Sohn foundation, which supports pediatric cancer care and research. "You know what?" he says he told Douglas Hirsch. "It's time for me to do something for cancer." He later explained to me, "By the way, I was diagnosed with skin cancer. Within a week of the event. Basal cell carcinoma, and I had it removed. You've got to see this scar."
Throughout the presentation, CNBC's Kate Kelly kept ducking out to report what Ackman was saying, and after it was over Ackman himself hit the airwaves, talking up a storm to Andrew Ross Sorkin, on CNBC, and on Bloomberg TV. He positioned himself as the champion of the victims of the alleged scheme. "You've had millions of low-income people around the world who've gotten their hopes up that there's an opportunity for them to become millionaires or hundred-thousand-aires or some number like that, and they've been duped," he told Sorkin. "We simply want the truth to come out. If distributors knew the probability of making $95,000 a year—which is the millionaire team, as they call it—was a fraction of 1 percent, no one would ever sign up for this. And we simply exposed that fact. The company has done their best to try to keep that from the general public."
Chapman counters, "If anybody buys this 'He's out to save the little guy' routine, they're just outright gullible and naïve. Arguably, the number of Herbalife employees, suppliers, and their employees, and of course non-complaining distributors who may be harmed by Ackman's quest for profits massively outnumber those distributors who fail to succeed as they had hoped." (As for Chapman, Ackman says, "He's a lunatic. And I think, by the way, that he's proud to be a lunatic, and he's even said as much, that it's part of his strategy, as an activist, to make the other side think you're crazy.")
But the presentation did work as Ackman had planned: Herbalife's stock went from $42.50 per share on December 18 to a low of $26 on Christmas Eve.
Not surprisingly Herbalife began fighting back. "Herbalife operates with the highest ethical and quality standards," the company wrote in a press release. "Herbalife also hires independent, outside experts to ensure our operations are in full compliance with laws and regulations. Herbalife is not an illegal pyramid scheme." (The company's C.E.O., Michael Johnson, declined an interview request.)
The Long and Short of It
Dan Loeb watched the December 20 presentation with amazement and thought the entire hedge-fund industry would look at Ackman's highly promoted announcement as an opportunity to take the other side of the bet. Loeb met with me in his serene, art-filled Lever House office, on Park Avenue. He is a yoga enthusiast and surfer from California, a cool customer, and more than a tad condescending. "It took us a little while to do our work, because we had no reason to think he was right or wrong," Loeb explained. "We just wanted to understand the company. And we weren't like super-focused on it, but sometime during the holiday we got very, very focused on it."
Most of Loeb's Third Point enterprise is based in Manhattan. But one of his key partners, Jim Carruthers, works in Silicon Valley, where he and an analyst, Scott Matagrano, research potential short ideas. "They have a massive fucking budget for research and analysis," says an observer, who knows them. "They are deepwater shorts," meaning that, when they get a conviction about a short idea, they put a lot of money behind it and stick with it. As the Indago Girls had during the summer of 2011, Carruthers and Matagrano studied the multi-level-marketing industry in depth. "Their opinion is very point-blank," says the observer, adding that the "industry is shot through with lies, deceit, and fraud." At the end of their research, they decided to short two publicly traded multi-level marketers, Nu Skin and Usana, but they weren't sure what to do about Herbalife, in part because it appeared others had lost money shorting the stock in the past. When they heard that Einhorn had shorted it, they decided not to join him. "They backed off of Herbalife because it's just too big, and once Einhorn started sniffing around it was going to become a very crowded trade immediately," this person continues.
But on December 20, when the Herbalife stock fell to $26, Loeb decided that Ackman had created a unique opportunity for him and other hedge-fund investors to go long Herbalife—in part because Herbalife was a cash machine that had been around for 33 years, in part because even if the Federal Trade Commission closed down Herbalife's U.S. business (a prospect that Loeb considered highly unlikely) it represented only 20 percent of the company's total, and in part because of the short-squeeze opportunity on Ackman.
Loeb consulted with Carruthers, who told him he didn't like Herbalife but didn't hate it enough to want to short it. "This is a company that should be a normalized $40 to $50 stock trading in the 20s," Loeb argued, according to the observer. "And Ackman has created a situation where if this company buys back stock and declares a dividend or two it can run up into $60 or $70." With the understanding that Loeb was just looking to make some quick money for his investors, Carruthers endorsed Loeb's plan.
There was also the matter of the growing antipathy between Loeb and Ackman. "My understanding is that they dislike each other profoundly," the observer says. In 2007, with the market booming and Third Point's assets growing considerably, Loeb invested around $200 million of Third Point's $6 billion in a blind pool of money that Ackman had assembled. Ackman had promised investors it would be as successful as his McDonald's investment, which had earned hundreds of millions of dollars, but it turned out to be the notorious Target loss of nearly 90 percent, leaving many unhappy investors, especially Loeb. He says he had invested with Ackman, who was coming off a super-hot hand with his McDonald's investment, because he trusted Ackman's judgment and process. In retrospect he believes he was crazy to do so and has vowed never to do anything like it again.
Loeb's funds eventually lost around $175 million with Ackman, and today Ackman remains contrite. "Dan was very unhappy, as he should be, when the thing went down," says a person who knows both men. He adds that Loeb was the angriest of Ackman's investors about the Target debacle and got out of it as soon as Ackman made that possible; had he been more patient and stayed in he would have gotten most of his money back as the investment rebounded.
Loeb says his decision to invest in Herbalife was not about getting revenge on Ackman. "Everything I do is driven to generate returns for my investors, so the fact that Bill is involved here is coincidental," he claims.
On January 9, Loeb filed a 13-G report with the Securities and Exchange Commission, announcing that he had acquired 8.9 million Herbalife shares, or 8.24 percent of the stock—making him the company's second-largest shareholder—at a cost of around $300 million. That same day he wrote a letter to his investors explaining he had acquired most of the stock "during the panicked selling that followed the short seller's dramatic claims."
In his letter, Loeb refuted them and wrote that he believed the stock "could easily" return to its April 2012 price of around $70 per share. At a minimum, he wrote, the stock should be valued at between $55 and $68 per share, offering Third Point "40–70% upside from here and making the company a compelling long investment."
The market took notice of Loeb's purchase and sent the stock up around 10 percent.
Sahm Adrangi was one of the traders who agreed with Loeb. "After you'd done your work on Herbalife and you viewed Ackman's three-and-a-half-hour presentation, you could see the holes in his argument," says Adrangi. "Ackman has three points: the F.T.C. is going to shut it down because they're in regulatory violation of pyramid-scheme laws, distributors are going to jump ship because they're going to realize that they're being duped, and you're going to see an unwinding of the business because of the 'pop-and-drop' dynamics [where sales shoot up when Herbalife enters, and then quickly subside]. Those three points are very easy to debunk. Is the F.T.C. going to shut it down? MLMs have been around for 30 years. There's really no evidence that Herbalife is the worst of the bunch, and the government would also have to shut down Amway, Avon, Tupperware. The second point, that distributors are going to view his video and quit in droves—I mean, 80 percent of the business is outside the U.S., so to think that lower-income Brazilians and Paraguayans and Malaysians will view his video and decide to quit becoming Herbalife distributors is very silly. And his third thesis, that the pop-and-drop dynamics are going to cause an unwind internationally, is also absurd. The reason Herbalife and these other global MLMs are very sustainable businesses and grow year after year at impressive rates is because they're very diversified."
Ackman was on his private Gulfstream 550 jet, on the way to Myanmar for some exotic scuba diving, when he got the news of Loeb's purchase, via the onboard high-speed Internet. "I had no idea Loeb was about to do that," he says, though he could have had an inkling something might be up, because, the day before, Chapman, who had also built a long position in Herbalife equal to "35 percent of his fund" (the size of which is unknown), had had an exchange with Charlie Gasparino, of Fox Business, in which Chapman had claimed there would be "big news" coming shortly on Herbalife—about which Gasparino tweeted.
Ackman thought Loeb was in Herbalife merely to make a quick buck: "While Dan's investment letter gave the impression that he's in Herbalife for the long term, I think he's too smart for that. I think it's just a trade." Within weeks he said he suspected Loeb had already started selling his stake. "I don't know if it's true," he said. "I have no idea. But I think if he's selling he's got problems." Ackman was too diplomatic to say on the record he meant that Loeb could be accused of a "pump and dump" scheme, in which a prominent investor talks up a stock he owns, then sells it, making good money. (Loeb declined to comment.)
Grudge Match
Matters got even more interesting on January 16 when news reports claimed that Carl Icahn, whose net worth has been estimated by Bloomberg to be $20.2 billion, had acquired a "small" stake in Herbalife, joining forces with Loeb in the battle against Ackman.
That Icahn would do so was clearly sport for him. He and Ackman first met in 2003, when Ackman was in the process of liquidating Gotham Partners. One of the companies in which he owned a large stake, Hallwood Realty, was trading for around $60 per share. Ackman believed the stock was worth $140, but he decided to sell, and he approached Icahn with a deal. "I checked him out," Icahn told The New York Times in 2011. "He was in trouble with the S.E.C.; he had investors leaving him. A few of my friends called me up and said, 'Don't deal with this guy,' " but, Icahn says, he ignored their advice.
He and Ackman agreed to a deal for $80 a share for Hallwood, along with a contract that gave Ackman "schmuck insurance" in the form of a written agreement to split any profit above a 10 percent return for Icahn if Icahn sold Hallwood within three years. In April 2004, Icahn merged Hallwood Realty with HRPT Properties Trust for nearly $138 per share in cash—surprisingly close to what Ackman thought Hallwood was worth in the first place. Under the terms of their agreement, Ackman believed he was owed another $4.5 million. He waited a few days and then called Icahn to try to collect.
"First off, I didn't sell," Icahn told him. He said he had voted against the merger, but his shares were cashed out anyway.
"Well, do you still own the shares?" Ackman asked.
"No," Icahn replied, "but I didn't sell."
Ackman threatened to sue Icahn for the money.
"Go ahead, sue me," Icahn told him.
Ackman did, in 2004. The case was finally resolved in Ackman's favor in October 2011, and Icahn paid Ackman $9 million, including several years' worth of accrued interest.
Speaking at a conference in March 2012, Ackman mentioned Icahn and said he didn't respect him. Icahn returned the favor later that day in an interview with The Wall Street Journal: "Any criticism from Bill Ackman I consider a compliment."
On January 24, after taking his stake in Herbalife, Icahn went live on Bloomberg TV. "It's no secret to the world and Wall Street that … I don't like Ackman," he fumed. Telling Trish Regan, the anchor, that he didn't approve of Ackman's approach, he elaborated: "I think if you're short, you go short, and, hey, if it goes down, you make money. You don't go out and get a roomful of people to bad-mouth the company. If you want to be in that business, why don't you go and join the S.E.C."
He said he was also critical of Ackman's announcement at the Sohn Conference that he would give any profit he made on the short to charity, because Ackman's limited partners would still benefit, which would then accrue to Ackman's benefit as well. "I dislike the guy," he continued. "I don't respect him. . . . I don't think he did this in the right way Don't be holier than thou and say, 'Look, I'm doing this for the good of the world and I want to see sunshine on Herbalife.' I mean, that's bullshit."
The gloves were off.
The next afternoon on CNBC, when Ackman was defending himself against Icahn's claims, Icahn called in to the show, and the CNBC producers, realizing they had all the makings of cable-TV fireworks, patched him in. Suddenly Icahn and Ackman were going at it live, causing electrified trading floors all over New York to stop dead in their tracks as the traders whistled, stomped, clapped, and guffawed at the two billionaires mixing it up on national television.
"I've really sort of had it with this guy Ackman," Icahn said. "He's like the crybaby in the schoolyard. I went to a tough school in Queens, and they used to beat up the little Jewish boys. He was like one of these little Jewish boys, crying that the world was taking advantage of him. He was almost sobbing, and he's in my office, talking about this Hallwood, and how I could help him."
Einhorn announced in late January that he had made money on his Herbalife short, but, tellingly, he added that he had closed out the position in 2012.
But Ackman says he is in it for the long haul. On January 29, he told me he was just days away from sharing with the world several bombshell announcements that would blow the lid off Herbalife once and for all and send its stock to zero. But on February 20, he softened his language some, saying he believes there will be more market-moving news to come.
His convictions, though, are as strong as ever. "Every day is a happy day for me," Ackman tells me. "You don't know me well enough. But I know Herbalife is a pyramid scheme. It is a certainty. It's just a question of when the rest of the world figures it out."
Adrangi is not persuaded. "We have high-conviction ideas, and, oops, it doesn't work out," he says. "But what's important is to pay attention to what the other side is saying, and to revise your thesis. . . . Since Ackman's presentation, more information has come out. Bob Chapman put together a very good, five-page letter on why Herbalife is a long. Dan Loeb has done the same thing. The company's response presentation was excellent Ackman is making this moral," Adrangi continues. "He runs a hedge fund, right? His duty is not to the world. If you want to save the world, go donate some money to charity. I'm pretty confident that if he does not cover his short position his fund will be smaller, materially, in two years' time."
Icahn seems to be doing his best to make Adrangi's prophecy come true. On February 14, Icahn announced that he had accumulated a surprisingly large, 12.98 percent stake in Herbalife and that he intended to meet with the company's management to discuss "enhancing shareholder value," including possibly a going-private transaction. Herbalife's stock soared throughout the day on the Icahn news and traded as high as $46.22, a 21.4 percent increase from the previous day's close. "Carl Icahn just delivered Bill Ackman a valentine he'll never forget," Chapman gleefully e-mailed me. The soaring stock price allowed some of the more risk-averse traders to make some money. Chapman, for one, sold his entire Herbalife position in mid-February at a tidy profit, while Loeb, who had been selling Herbalife stock for weeks, his spokesman admitted, also sold another portion into the Icahn-induced rally.
But Ackman, who knew some of his biggest hedge-fund rivals were still lined up against him, remains unflappable. We'd been sitting together in the conference room just off his spacious office. Grabbing a banana from a bunch on a table, he said of Herbalife's stock, "I'll be happy at zero," and smiled.
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Robert Galvin, 89, who over nearly three decades as Motorola's chief executive transformed the maker of police radios and TVs into one of the world's leading electronics companies, died in his sleep Tuesday in Chicago, his family said.
Galvin oversaw Motorola's pioneering efforts in the cellular industry, including the creation of the first commercial cellphone in 1973 and the construction of the first cellphone network in the early '80s.
He was named chief executive in 1959 upon the death of his father, Paul Galvin, who had founded the company in 1928. Robert Galvin, known as "Bob," remained in the post until 1986 and stayed on as chairman until 1990. He retired from the board of directors in 2001.
Galvin led the company into China with a $100-million investment in 1987. The country is still a major market for Motorola's phones.
Motorola Inc. split into two companies in January. Motorola Solutions makes police radios, bar code scanners and other products for corporate and government customers. Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. makes cellphones and has agreed to be acquired by Google Inc.
In retirement, Galvin founded an investment firm with his sons and established two think tanks focused on energy and transportation issues.
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Patricia Breslin Modell, 80, an actress who gave up her career when she married former NFL team owner Art Modell in 1969, died Wednesday in Baltimore, where she had been hospitalized for several months, the Baltimore Ravens announced. She had pancreatitis.
During a 22-year acting career as Patricia Breslin, she performed in theater, movies and television. She starred in the "People's Choice" television sitcom with actor Jackie Cooper in the late 1950s and played nurse Meg Baldwin in the daytime drama "General Hospital" and Laura Brooks on the prime-time soap opera "Peyton Place."
In the 1950s and '60s she made dozens of TV appearances on "Twilight Zone," "Alfred Hitchcock Presents," "Perry Mason," "Maverick" and many anthology programs.
She had a handful of movie parts, highlighted by her starring role in the 1961 suspense film "Homicidal."
In 1969, she married Art Modell, former owner and president of the Cleveland Browns and Baltimore Ravens. He adopted her two sons from her first marriage to actor John McDearmon, which ended in divorce.
She retired from acting and immersed herself in her family and community improvement. She was active in many
Born March 17, 1931, in New York City, she was the daughter of Edward and Marjorie Breslin. Her father was a special sessions judge in New York. After attending the College of New Rochelle, she began acting in summer stock productions before moving to Hollywood.
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The criminal views you as a prospective victim. He looks at your "victim potential", on two separate bases. First, do you have the type of car he wants, are you wearing expensive watches and jewelry, have you flashed a roll of cash, do you fit his rape victim profile? We think of this as, "Do you have what I want?" If the answer is, "Yes.", he moves to the next question.
Then he evaluates you as a threat to him. First and foremost, are you paying attention to your surroundings? Are you aware of his presence? Do you look like you might be a physical problem? Do you look like you might be armed? I assure you he goes through these questions. We think of this as, "Can I get what I want from you, safely?"
If the answer to either question, "Do you have what I want, and can I get it from you, safely?" is "NO", then off he goes, in search of easier prey. Thugs are not looking for a fight. What they're looking for is the easy mark. Someone they can get to, get what they want from, and get away from, without being hurt and without being caught.
Several years ago, a fascinating study was conducted by some psychology students. They took photos of ordinary people as they came and went from a downtown business area. They then planned to show these to criminals and ask them to identify the people they would choose as victims, and identify the people they would choose to bypass. In the preliminary write-up, they said that they expected to see a 10-15% correlation among the "victim" and "non-victim" groups.
They then went to a state prison and got a very large number of career violent offenders (rapists, muggers, etc.) to enter a room one at a time and view these photos. Time after time, the thugs said "I want that one", and pointed to others and said, "But I don't want that one!" When it was over, the psychologists were shocked. There was a 95% correlation rate!
Ninety-five times out of a hundred, individual thugs, with no communication among them, picked the same people to be victims, or to bypass. How did they do that? Body language. The only thing available from these photos was body language, but that was enough for the thugs to instantly identify the true victims as well as the people they would not risk a confrontation with.
Whom did they choose as victims? Gender, size, and age were surprisingly not the keys. Instead, they looked for people who shuffled along, head down, avoiding eye contact, unaware of their surroundings (Condition White).
In contrast, they avoided choosing people, even small females, if they were alert, confident, head up, and looked like they knew what was going on around them (Condition Yellow). Remember what he really wants. He wants to get to you, get what he wants from you, and get away from you, without being hurt or caught.
There are signs that you are being evaluated by a potential attacker. They include:
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The hotel is a bit far from old Havana but it's a great location and nice neighborhood so I didn't really mind that aspect. The place s reasonably price and it costs just 10CUC to get to old Havana so it wasn't that bad. It is a quiet and calm neighborhood so it's good for relaxation and the area is safe as well. The rooms here are quite clean and large enough for a Cuban hotel and had goo standards so I can't complain. The rooms are somehow basic but its great especially if you are not looking for anything fancy, this will do. The service here is okay, straightforward and attentive from the staff. Some of the staff members understood and spoke English to some descent extent so communication wasn't hard for me as I could get across to them what I needed without much ado. The area is a no tourist place and for such area, the hotel was pretty nice and qualified for a 4 star hotel in my opinion. There was internet service in a room with a computer so if you need, you can buy service per hour which cost like 6CUC per hour so it's average. The rooms had air conditioner which was working all the time for such a hotel that was pretty top notch. On arrival, the place looked liked a university dorm but the services and the staff made it better. Check in was fast and I was in my room and the rest of my stay was great.


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This brilliantly disturbing photo (no, she's not dead, just sleepy) was captured last week by the ribald red-hatted rebel rousers who call themselves The Fightins.. No, it's not uncommon to find Phillies fans grossly intoxicated and laid out on the ground, but it is a wonder how this poor girl actually managed to keep one of her flip-flops after this spilll.
The Phillies' offensive explosiveness can have that affect on people; after running off a week of epic run-scoring, it's amazing that more and more fans aren't having similar reactions.
Phillies fans , please take into account what you eat for the rest of this homestand and make sure you have extra support for your summertime footwear should you happen to take a similar tumble.
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I was told to activate the transbrake with no rpm limit and see how high the rpms go then set the launch rpm 500 below this. I always thought that it was better to flash the converter ex. if your converter has a 5500 stall launch at 3000. this way the converter will hit 5500 much harder.
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Re: trans brake launch rpm
My personal experience is that ET will improve slightly with a stepped launch rpm, and RT will improve with no step or high step. I think the characteristic of the fast engine acceleration against the converter stall helps the engine and chassis to improve the 60 ft., but when you are running against a pro .400 tree, you need to shock the front tires out of the lights and the high or no stall seems to help that. This was with a small block, I don't think the big block cars are as sensitive. If you can run a lower rpm on the brake, it will probably save your converter some grief. I think the converter temps go up about 100 deg per sec at full stall, so lower rpm with less initial load will probably extend your converter life. JMO
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We all know how the media likes to jump on every new 'weird' starbaby name, predicting dire consequences down the road for the likes of poor little Moxie CrimeFighter, Pilot Inspektor, Bronx Mowgli, and Apple. Well, only time will tell how these kids will actually meet that particular challenge as they grow up, but it might be instructive to look at the previous generation of oddball-named celebrity babes who are now young adults and see how they've handled it–which ones think these names have made them feel special and which have felt damaged, how many have held on to their bizarre appellations and how many have dropped them.
CHASTITY BONO. Mom Cher used the name of dad Sonny's film "Chastity," but though her daughter has hung onto it, she has said "most of the time it's been a pain." Seems when she complained about it, Sonny would say "Be thankful we didn't name you Dweezil." Which brings us to:
DWEEZIL ZAPPA. When the hospital refused to register this name, the birth certificate read Ian Donald Calvin Euclid–the names of Zappa's then-bandmates. But Dweezil, always called Dweezil, later made it his legal name. Older sister MOON UNIT has frequently insisted that she likes having an unusual name like Moon rather than something more ordinary, and presumably their other siblings AHMET EMUUKHA RODAN and DIVA THIN MUFFIN PIGEEN agree.
PEACHES HONEYBLOSSOM MICHELLE ANGEL VANESSA GELDOF, daughter of rocker-activist Bob, has bemoaned "My weird name has haunted me all my life." Wouldn't be surprised if her sisters FIFI TRIXIEBELLE, PIXIE and HEAVENLY HIRAANI TIGER LILY–exhibitionists all–felt the same way.
SATCHEL FARROW. The son of Mia Farrow and Woody Allen was born Satchel Ronan O'Sullivan Farrow, named for one of his father's baseball heroes, Satchel Paige. Following a bitter custody battle, he became known as Seamus, and now, having been a prodigy who graduated from college at 15 and become a human rights activist and journalist, he has settled on the name Ronan Seamus Farrow. His sister also took three steps, going from DYLAN to ELIZA to MALONE.
ZOWIE BOWIE. Like Satchel–Seamus–Ronan, has had multiple identities. He was born Zowie Duncan Heywood Bowie and, although he says he loves his distinctive moniker, he first called himself Joey Bowie, and then changed his name to Duncan Jones, saying he didn't want to be in the shadow of famous dad David.
STRAWBERRY SAROYAN. When fruitily-named Apple Martin was born in 2004, the granddaughter of William Saroyan gave a long interview about her name to the New York Times . Since she grew up among kids named Cream, Wonder and Raspberry, she didn't exactly feel like the odd girl out, and after some ups and downs, now definitely sees the benefits of her unusual name.
TALLULAH BELLE WILLIS, sister of RUMER GLENN and SCOUT LARUE, though still a young teen, has already had dad Bruce announce on the Letterman show that she plans to legally change her name to (nickname) Lula.
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