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WHO Calls H7N9 'Unusually' Dangerous Virus
The World Health Organization warns H7N9 is a highly contagious virus that doesn't only appear to spread through birds. Professor Malik Peiris, a key investigator of the virus, tells us what we need to worry about.
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Jonathan Mann has put together a duet with none other than iPhone 4S assistant Siri. Jonathan is a musician and songwriter who is currently writing one song a day and has been doing it for over 1000 days.
This song is all about Siri, in fact it is a full on duet, with Siri taking its part in the lyrics. Check it out in the video below and let us know what you think. Will Siri just be an assistant forever or do you see a career in the music business?
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Father and Son Charged with Stealing $1.6 Million in Unclaimed Funds from Dozens of Californians
SACRAMENTO — Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced that his office has brought formal charges against a father and son who promised to recover unclaimed funds for dozens of citizens and then "surreptitiously stole" more than $1.6 million from them, using forged documents and fictitious mailing addresses.
"This larcenous pair scoured the Controller's database of individuals with unclaimed property, contacted many of them, and promised to help recover their assets," Brown said. "Instead, employing forgery and fraud, they surreptitiously stole more than $1.6 million."
Thomas Rodine, 56, of Carmichael and Dustin Rodine, 28, of Citrus Heights were arraigned today, following their arrest on July 23. Each is charged with three counts of embezzlement and one count of submitting fraudulent claims to the state Controller. Both face a maximum of seven years, six months in prison. To date, victims have been repaid more than $700,000 and full restitution is expected.
Agents in Brown's Special Crimes Unit initiated an investigation into the father and son duo at the request of Controller John Chiang in January, after the Controller's internal audit identified fraud.
Brown's investigation found that from 2007 to 2009, Thomas and Dustin Rodine used their Carmichael-based asset and heir location business, Rodco & Associates, to locate and solicit individuals with assets in the Controller's unclaimed property fund.
The scheme worked like this: After claimants agreed to have Rodco & Associates seek to recover their funds, the Rodines forged documents to reroute the recovered assets to a network of post office boxes they controlled. The Rodines also forged claim documents to collect funds that were never disclosed to claimants. From the pool of money they collected, the Rodines withheld unauthorized fees and claims totaling $1.675 million.
The thefts ranged from just over $100 to more than $300,000 and involved funds from personal bank accounts, foundation trusts, stocks and other assets in the Controller's unclaimed property fund. Investigators located victims in cities throughout California, including Alpine, Chico, Los Angeles, Nevada City, San Diego, San Francisco, San Mateo, Sonoma and a number of other cities.
After the initial internal audit by the Controller, payment of all claims initiated by Rodco & Associates was halted.
"My office has worked hard to make it easier for Californians to find and claim their lost property, whether it is cash, stocks, valuable jewelry or family photos and mementos that simply are irreplaceable," said Controller John Chiang. "Californians need to know that they can claim their property directly from my office for free. I encourage them to do so."
Following execution of the search warrant, Rodco & Associates established a trust account to repay defrauded claimants. To date, the company has repaid more than $700,000 and authorities expect full restitution for defrauded victims.
The State of California is currently in possession of more than $5.7 billion in unclaimed property belonging to some 11.6 million individuals and organizations.
This property is acquired through California's Unclaimed Property Law, which requires "holders" such as corporations, business associations, financial institutions, and insurance companies to report annually and deliver property to the Controller after there has been no customer contact for three years. Often, the owner forgets the account exists, moves and does not leave a forwarding address or the forwarding order expires. In some cases, the owner dies, and the heirs have no knowledge of the property.
The Controller allows claimants to recover property directly, without the use of so-called "asset locators" or other third parties. To find out if you have unclaimed property and for instructions on how to claim it, visit: www.ClaimIt.ca.gov.
A copy of the complaint, filed in Sacramento County Superior Court, is attached.


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This industry, made up of wine, beer and liquor producers, distributors, and wholesalers as well as liquor stores, tends to lobby Congress on alcohol taxes and regulations -- and little else. But in recent years, the industry also has lobbied on issues including alcohol and drug abuse and trade.
The industry's top two campaign contributors -- National Beer Wholesalers Association and the Wine and Spirits Wholesalers of America -- contributed more than $3.95 million and $1.79 million, respectively, during the 2012 election cycle. Other top contributors included Anheuser-Busch InBev, Brown-Forman Corp., and Silver Eagle Distributors.
The industry reached an all time contribution high of close to $17.8 million, surpassing its 2008 record by more than $3 million. While the majority of the industry's money went to Democrats in 2008, 60 percent of its contributions during the 2012 election cycle went to Republicans, the more usual pattern for this grouping.
The industry spent more than $21.5 million on lobbying in 2013, an uptick from the year before. Its strongest lobbying arm in Washington, D.C., the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States, spent $5.2 million that year to prevent recession-spurred liquor tax increases, and to continue its fight against local "blue laws" that prohibit liquor sales on Sundays.
-- Monica Vendituoli
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Hang out with Spark R&D at Storm Shadow Productions premiere of Water to Wine. There will spark swag given away and a chance to win a pair of the new Blaze bindings as well.
A Montana-made ski & snowboard film! The first premiere is Wednesday, September 8th at MSU's Procrastinator Theater – shows times at 8:30pm, 9:30, and 10:30PM. $10 admission, tickets available at the door.
September marks the long anticipated release of Storm Shadow's new ski/snowboard film "Water To Wine."
Filmed entirely in southwest Montana and featuring some of the area's most innovative skiers and snowboarders, "Water To Wine" offers a rare glimpse of what these mountains have to offer. Highlights include: Collin Collins sun rise pillow line assault, Tizer DeMers's and Luke Tanaka's impressive single session segment shot entirely in one day at Great Divide, Shane Stalling's all terrain destruction of everything shred, and steep and deep days at Big Sky & Moonlight like you have never seen it before!


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Bourbon Mustard Glazed Ham
Ham is soaked in seasoned mustard-bourbon glaze for three hours before searing and cooking through on the grill.
1 cup yellow mustard
1 cup bourbon
2 tbsp. cracked black pepper
1 tsp. kosher salt
2 tsp. dried tarragon leaves
2 tbsp. Worcestershire sauce
2 tbsp. chopped shallots
1 (10-lb.) boneless ham (Japanese-style kurobuta ham preferred )
1. In baking dish, whisk all ingredients except ham. Add ham and coat with mixture. Cover with plastic and refrigerate 3 hr., turning occasionally.
2. Place ham on preheated grill and sear on all sides. Reduce heat to lowest setting; cook ham 10 min. per lb. or until heated through.
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3/22 5-6:30pm- Pottery Wheel Experience
3/22 5-6:30pm- Pottery Wheel Experience
This is a great class for those wondering about clay and wheel throwing. We keep our class size small 2-4 people so you can get hands on instruction. In this session you will learn the basics of throwing and hand-building. We will use air-dry clay which means you can make it, paint it with acrylic paint and take it home immediately. Package includes 2 lbs of air-dry clay, use of studio sculpting tools and acrylic paint. Age 7+. Package CANNOT be shared. Additional clay and option to fire pottery is available. The instructor will discuss these options prior to the start of class. If paying with a Groupon please enter in all 9's when it asks for the payment.
48 hour notice to cancel or change reservation. We hold back to back sessions so please arrive on time. We will hold your spot for 10 minutes. We require a 3 hour notice to signup for a session. If the session is within the 3 hour window please give us a call to see if it's still available (980)258-8311.


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Small front shore by Fort Sherman's breakwater. Panama Canal Atlantic entrance, clear waters and great views. In the view is a very old steel lighthouse that still works for ships guidance.
Panama, a country in Latin America.Huge diversity of landscapes, animals and botanics.Landscapes of tropical rainforests, hillsides, carrebean islands, modern city and ancient places are only some of the highlights of this country.


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Rebel Runner with the rest of the 7 customed
Be@rbricks for Nike's Windrunner Campaign.
Much luv to my wifey (Sue) for the extra hands.
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Phu! x Nike x Bearbrick = Rebel Runner
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Next-in-line project for Bovinyl
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Next-in-line project for Nike
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Hypethetic Installation
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Phu! in KiToy / Toysrevil
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Phu! @ Sole Obsession
The name Phu in short is a self-created lingo. Entirely imaginative and not based upon adherence to actuality.
3D art is his pursuit, especially in vinyl customizing. Phu's Phuturistic concept is a manifestation through his artistic form of thought and personalized treatment in which he exercises the habit of recycling.
And it's with this Phuturistic niche, Phu's customed vinyls have been commissioned and showcased in various international exhibitions and shows worldwide.
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Mitt Romney Assails Chicago Teachers for Walkout
Washington D.C. – Chicago teachers are letting their students down, Mitt Romney said on Monday.
The Republican presidential nominee said Chicago teachers are turning their backs on thousands of students and that President Barack Obama is rooting for the striking educators. Obama's top spokesman said the president has not taken sides but is urging both the teachers and the city to settle quickly.
Hours before he was set to land in Chicago to raise money for his White House bid, Romney released a statement that promised to "side with the parents and students depending on public schools to give them the skills to succeed." He said he was "disappointed" with Chicago teachers, who walked off the job in Chicago's first schools strike in 25 years.
At the White House, spokesman Jay Carney said Obama was monitoring the situation in his hometown but was not inserting himself in the dispute in the nation's third-largest school system.
"We hope that both sides are able to come together to settle this quickly and in the best interests of Chicago's students," Carney told reporters.
The move by 26,000 teachers and support staff affected almost 400,000 students. It was the latest flashpoint in the public debate over public employee unions that have roiled politics in Ohio, Wisconsin and beyond.
Obama political aides in Chicago criticized Romney for seeking advantage and pointed to Romney's repeated campaign statements that class sizes do not impact students' education.
"Playing political games with local disputes won't help educate our kids, nor will fewer teachers," campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt said.
Romney looked to tap into parents' concerns nationally with the dispute in Illinois, a state heavily favoring Obama in the fall elections.
"Teachers unions have too often made plain that their interests conflict with those of our children, and today we are seeing one of the clearest examples yet," Romney said in his statement. "President Obama has chosen his side in this fight, sending his vice president last year to assure the nation's largest teachers union that 'you should have no doubt about my affection for you and the president's commitment to you.'"
Romney was quoting Vice President Joe Biden's remarks to the National Education Assocation in 2011. But during his appearance, Biden acknowledged "not all teachers are created equal" and urged educators to be accountable.
"Incompetence in my profession — and in yours — reflects upon each and every one of us," Biden said. "So I don't have any doubt about your sincerity. And I don't have any doubt about your capacity. You should have no doubt about my affection for you and the president's commitment to you."
Obama, too, has urged accountability in teachers — moves that union leaders have opposed. For instance, Obama's administration has favored pilot programs that challenge current practices, rewarding schools who try new approaches and has pushed for longer school days.
Obama's education secretary, Arne Duncan, is a former head of Chicago Public Schools who pushed for changes that unions opposed. Obama's first chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, is the Chicago mayor on the opposite side of the teachers' unions.
This story is based on reporting by The Associated Press.
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Jacuzzi Boys in Europe, drawing crowds and drawingsBy Jordan Melnick | April 4th, 2012 | No Comments
Miami garage rockers Jacuzzi Boys are currently having the time of their young lives (presumably) on their 28-gig tour of Western Europe behind the trio's latest LP, Glazin'. The tour's first gig, at London's Shacklewell Arms, drew a tepid review but a pretty cool drawing from The Stool Pigeon's David Z. Greene, whose illustration of the atmosphere at the Boys' performance lines up pretty darn closely with the frenzy of their Churchill's sweatfests, from the frenzied crowd to singer Gabriel Alcala's silly ad-libs ("Boys and giiiirls. Rats and squirreeeels … thank you so much."). Judging by this peek into the band's Europe stomping, it seems like they're doing Miami proud. You can see Greene's full drawing after the jump.


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Ivory Silk Taffeta strapless gown with washed silk organza skirt embellished with self rouched flowers and cotton beaded thread embroidery. Size 6XL which means extra length to accomodate a 5'6″ or taller bride with heels.
This dress is soft, flowing, light weight and completely whimsical. Whether your'e planning a garden, outdoor country, hotel ballroom or modern wedding, this dress can fit the part.
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GARDENA — A visit to the Black House gym shows a training center in transition.
Paint cans are strewn about. Walls are going up. New offices are being carved out.
Life isn't that much different for Black House co-founder Ed Soares. When not running the gym, he's also managing some of the biggest names in mixed martial arts.
And if that weren't enough, a year ago Soares took on the task of becoming the president of the Resurrection Fighting Alliance, an upstart MMA promotion.
Soares' latest endeavor is giving fans in Southern California the opportunity to watch the RFA live. The Redondo Beach native is bringing his product home to the South Bay as the StubHub Center in Carson will host its first MMA show Friday with "RFA 9: Munhoz vs. Curran," which will be aired on AXS TV.
"Man, it's really exciting for me to bring back a nationally televised event here to my hometown. It's like a dream come true. I'm really excited," said Soares, who was born in Inglewood, grew up in North Redondo and attended Redondo and Mira Costa high schools.
"I'm really hoping the local people will come out and support it. We're a show that constantly moves around and I'd really like to make L.A. one of our destinations. And I'm really hoping for the success of this show to keep coming back here two, three, maybe four times a year."
But for all his job-juggling, Soares has no illusions of the RFA becoming something it is not. He knows its place in the MMA landscape, in which the UFC is the top dog and Bellator is trying to make waves.
"The UFC to me is like the NFL. And then you've got Bellator, which is like the CFL to me. And I look at the RFA as college football," Soares said. "And I really hope L.A. can embrace that and come out and support it. I think they're gonna get top-level fights in a more intimate venue and they're gonna be getting everything the UFC gives, but the next future stars."
In case you can't tell, Soares is always on the go, always looking to his next move. His phone is practically attached to his hand.
One minute he could be talking to one of the Black House fighters about making weight. The next minute he's ironing out details for RFA 9. And the next he's talking with UFC president Dana White about getting a rematch for one of his clients.
And while Soares has had a lot of talks over the years with White, only in the past year has it been promoter to promoter.
"The one thing I told Dana after I started doing the shows, 'You know what, Dana? Me being on the other side now? As a promoter? I gotta tell ya, I gotta take my hat off to you guys.' " Soares said with a wide smile. "Because there are so many little things that I didn't realize that as a fighter and as a manager you just walk into that you take for granted. And there are so many little moving parts in a promotion that until you have done it, you have no idea."
Soares rattled off the little moving parts. Food. Ice. Transportation. Logistics. Insurance. Athletic commissions.
All this while negotiating a deal to be the first organization outside the UFC to use of the Octagon. And just Monday news broke of the RFA inking a multiyear partnership with Adidas Combat Sports.
White, for his part, says the unpredictability of the sport makes running a company like the UFC challenging enough. Let alone trying to start your own MMA promotion.
"It's a business that anybody can jump into at any minute, any time. Anybody who has money, people that just wanna raise a little money, you can get into this business. And then it's about knowing what you're doing in this business. But different than anything else, it's fun, it's exciting," White said. "Everybody likes to be in this business because it seems cool. But it's a lot of work and a lot of time, man. The thing that sets us aside from all the other people that got into it after we did, it looks like easy money. But it's not. We're passionate about this, man. We love this sport. It's all we do. It's all we think about."
But if anyone knows hard work, it's Soares. He once lied that he was 10 just so he could land his first job delivering newspapers for the Daily Breeze ("I was an honor carrier," Soares points out).
He watched his mother raise six children by herself, him being the youngest, as she worked factory jobs at night and cleaned homes during the day.
"I remember when my mom would go pay for the groceries, I'd always, 'Hey Mom, I'm gonna go check the magazines,' but the real reason is I was embarrassed to see my mom pay for food with food stamps," Soares said. "But I feel bad that I felt that way as a kid. Now I actually respect her a hell of a lot more now when I sit back and think about it. She was a hard worker. My work ethic and all that is from my mom."
Soares has also known disappointment. When he was 15, he wanted nothing more than to be a fireman.
He enrolled at El Camino College in Torrance and went through the fire science and fire academy programs. And on his 19th birthday, he was hired by the Inglewood Fire Department.
Only to find out three weeks later that, because of a virus he had contracted while in the academy that attacked the insulin-producing cells in his pancreas, he had been diagnosed with diabetes. His dreams were dashed.
"It was a devastating moment in my life. People always say, if you could do anything if you're not doing what you're doing right now, what would you be?" Soares said. "I'd still want to be a fireman. I'd like to still be a fireman and still do what I do."
That led to a series of career paths that somehow moved seamlessly from one to the other. By 1992, he was promoting nightclubs and managing bands. Impending fatherhood had him questioning the late-night lifestyle, so Soares got into the clothing business.
In 1998, he took over Sinister Brand Clothing. As a fan of the burgeoning sport of MMA and looking to promote his apparel line, Soares began to make custom gear for fighters. Signature items like the icicles on Chuck "The Iceman" Liddell's shorts and the flames on Tito Ortiz's beanie were Soares' designs. The company took off.
Soares eventually traveled to Japan with Liddell for the 2003 Pride Fighting Championships Grand Prix. That was where Soares met current business partner Jorge Guimaraes, who was producing an MMA TV show in Brazil called "Passing the Guard." The two decided to try to create the same show here in the states.
Soares pitched it to KDOC-TV in Orange County. With the help of the late Charles "Mask" Lewis, whose Tapout clothing line was being largely manufactured by Soares, the two came up with the funding to make the show a reality. With highlights and fighter interviews, it was the only free MMA-related show on TV.
And it was a huge success in Southern California.
"The first season was 13 weeks. By end of the first season, we were the second-highest rated show in our territory," Soares recalled. "The only show that beat us was 'Saturday Night Live.' We were beating repeats of 'CSI,' repeats of 'Oprah.' At that time at the end of the first season, everyone started paying attention to us."
Next thing you know, White was calling Soares to buy advertising for the UFC. Same with Pride. Thus began Soares' relationship with the two premier MMA organizations and their fighters.
With Soares' management background and Guimaraes' presence in Brazil, representing fighters seemed like a natural next step.
"And the rest is history. It was nuts. But I was just always persistent," Soares said. "And I was doing three things at the time. I was managing guys, I was producing the TV show and running my clothing company."
But something had to give. The TV show eventually ceased production at the end of 2006. His top fighter, Anderson Silva, had just won the UFC middleweight championship and Soares' managing responsibilities grew.
Four years later, Soares sold his Sinister clothing line and opened Black House. His stable of fighters included Silva and former UFC champions Lyoto Machida and Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira, along with his twin Antonio Rogerio Nogueira. He also counts highly regarded potential UFC title contenders Glover Teixeira and Cat Zingano among his clients.
But Soares also takes comfort in seeing hungry, less-accomplished Black House fighters — like RFA 9's Pedro Munhoz, Kevin Casey, Brian Ortega, Lew Polley, James Moontasri, Justine Kish and Perceu Friza — show up to grind and absorb as much as they can.
Casey, who graduated from West Torrance High and lives in Hawthorne, got a taste of the UFC when earlier this year he was on Season 17 of "The Ultimate Fighter." While he obviously wants to return to the big time, he's grateful for where he is.
"We're all here to work our way to the top, so now we have the AXS TV deal for the RFA," said Casey, who will fight Casey Ryan in the co-main event. "We have the first L.A.-based show. I'm from Los Angeles. This is my hometown. This is my backyard. I'm able to go into the StubHub Center and make history being in the first MMA show in the StubHub Center.
"We're breaking ground, we're moving forward and I'm very excited."
And Soares is buoyed by the prospects of MMA and the RFA. He acknowledges it's a tough business, but it's a sport that's been good to him as well as his fighters.
"Since I've gotten involved, we've really started to turn it around. We're profiting now, it's not a huge profit, but we still have much to grow," Soares said. "It's still the tip of the iceberg. This show is gonna be a big show for us. We're really hoping that we get the local support that's gonna come out and support this."


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Chairman Baucus, Ranking Member Grassley, and Members of the Committee:
I am pleased to be here today to discuss the Securities and Exchange Commission's perspective with respect to initial public offerings of investment advisory firms that, among other things, manage hedge and private equity funds. As the head of the Commission's Division of Investment Management, I have responsibilities for overseeing and regulating nearly 1,000 investment company complexes with over $11 trillion in assets and more than 10,000 investment advisers that manage more than $37 trillion in assets, as well as administering the federal securities laws applicable to registered investment companies (including mutual funds) and investment advisers.
A number of issues have been raised about the recent IPOs of investment advisory firms that, among other things, manage hedge and private equity funds ("alternative asset managers"), specifically the offerings by Fortress Investment Group LLC ("Fortress") and The Blackstone Group L.P. ("Blackstone"). I am pleased to be able to offer the Committee my knowledge and expertise, especially as it relates to the question of whether alternative asset managers are investment companies and thus subject to the substantive provisions of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the "Investment Company Act").
Relevant Law for Investment Company Act Status Determinations
Congress enacted the Investment Company Act to provide a separate and different regulatory structure for investment companies, as compared to industrial, or operating, companies. Among the Congress's stated goals was to minimize the risk that an investment company might be managed in the interests of its managers or certain shareholders rather than for the benefit of all shareholders. Unlike operating companies, investment companies are subject to comprehensive substantive requirements in areas such as: limitations on capital structure, e.g. borrowing restrictions; limitations on the ability to transact business with affiliates; and limitations on how the investment company must maintain custody of fund assets. Investment companies also are required to maintain specific books and records, which are subject to examination by the Commission. Section 3 of the Investment Company Act has two main tests for determining whether an issuer is an investment company:
The Investment Company Act provides a number of exclusions from these tests for certain companies that appear to meet one or both of the tests but that Congress believed should not be regulated as investment companies. Notably, section 3(b)(1) excludes a company that is engaged primarily in a business other than investing, reinvesting, owning, holding or trading in securities. In addition, section 3(b)(2) excludes an issuer that the Commission declares by order is engaged primarily in a business other than investing, reinvesting, owning, holding or trading in securities, and the Commission has adopted rules under this authority, such as rule 3a-1, which codifies the standards that the Commission has applied over many years in processing individual requests for orders under this section.
SEC Staff Process for Reviewing Investment Company Act Status Issues
Many of the more complex Investment Company Act status determinations arise in the context of companies that view themselves as engaged in an operating business, and not in the investment company business. Consistent with this understanding, these companies file their registration statements and periodic reports with the Commission, and these filings are reviewed initially by the staff of the Commission's Division of Corporation Finance. When an issue arises as to whether a purported operating company should be treated as an investment company, Division of Corporation Finance staff will refer the issue to the Investment Management Division. With regard to the recent IPO registration statements of Fortress and Blackstone, Corporation Finance staff did just that.
The staff reviewed these filings in the normal course and consistent with past review practices. Under the federal securities laws, an issuer of covered securities is strictly liable to investors to assure that a registration statement is in full compliance with the federal securities laws and discloses all material information that a reasonable investor would need to make an investment decision. Consequently, as noted in required legends in all registered public offerings, the Commission does not approve or disapprove of the securities being offered nor does it pass upon the adequacy or accuracy of the disclosure in the prospectus. If the staff is satisfied that the registration statement is in compliance with the federal securities laws, the staff declares the filing effective pursuant to delegated authority by the Commission, which means that the company is allowed to engage in the transaction it has described in that registration statement. However, the issuer remains liable for the statements contained in that statement.
The staff carefully considers whether a company is an investment company in light of the definitions of investment company under the Investment Company Act and consistent with the Commission's long-standing interpretations of these definitions. The staff considers the status of the relevant entity prior to offering, as well as giving effect to the offering. They also monitor the Investment Company Act status of certain companies on an ongoing basis. In some cases, the staff will determine that the company properly is treated as an operating company. Often, these companies will include risk disclosure in the offering documents about their status under the Investment Company Act, and the consequences to their businesses if they were required to register as investment companies. In other instances, the staff may disagree with a company's investment company status analysis, and request that it either register as an investment company or restructure its business or securities holdings so as to no longer be an investment company. The Commission will bring an enforcement action against the company in appropriate circumstances.
SEC Staff Views on Investment Company Act Status of Fortress and Blackstone
The staff carefully reviewed the registration statements and other information provided by Fortress and Blackstone to determine whether they were investment companies and required to register as such under the Investment Company Act. I am pleased to provide you with the details of our analysis. As described earlier, the Investment Company Act includes two relevant tests for determining Investment Company Act status: one for orthodox investment companies, and one for inadvertent, or prima facie, investment companies.
Orthodox Investment Companies Test
As a general matter, under the orthodox investment company test, the focus is on the investment of the issuer's own assets, not the assets of others (otherwise, all investment advisers might be deemed to be investment companies).
As is described in detail in the registration statements, neither Fortress nor Blackstone is an orthodox investment company. Fortress and Blackstone are engaged primarily (and hold themselves out as being engaged primarily) in the business of providing asset management and financial advisory services to others and not primarily in the business of investing in securities with their own assets. In its registration statement, Fortress described itself as a "global alternative asset manager ... We raise, invest and manage private equity funds, hedge funds and publicly traded alternative investment vehicles." In its registration statement, Blackstone described itself as a "global alternative asset manager and provider of financial advisory services" whose "businesses include the management of corporate private equity funds, real estate opportunity funds, funds of hedge funds, mezzanine funds, senior debt vehicles, proprietary hedge funds and closed-end mutual funds" and whose business also includes the provision of "various financial advisory services, including corporate and mergers and acquisitions advisory, restructuring and reorganization advisory and fund placement services."
The Commission traditionally assesses the "primary engagement" of a company by examining the composition of its assets, sources of its income, the investment activities of its officers and employees, the company's public statements, and its historical development in order to compare the securities and non-securities businesses of the company. Also, the Commission traditionally considers the nature of the assets and income to be the most important factors in this analysis.1
Based on the analysis described in the section below (see "Inadvertent Investment Companies Test"), we determined that the assets of Fortress and Blackstone are primarily indicative of an operating, and therefore non-investment company, business.
We believe that the other factors that form the basis for the "primary engagement" test provide further evidence that Blackstone and Fortress are engaged primarily in the business of managing money for others, and are not primarily in the business of investing for themselves. In each case, their income and revenues are primarily derived from their asset management business and not from their own investments; they hold themselves out as money managers and not as investors or investment companies; and they spend most of their time managing others' money, not their own.
As a result, the staff concluded that Fortress and Blackstone appear to be primarily engaged in a non-investment company business.
Inadvertent Investment Companies Test
With respect to determining whether Fortress or Blackstone would constitute an inadvertent investment company, the key test established by Congress in the Investment Company Act is whether more than 40% of a company's assets are investment securities.2
Alternative asset managers typically have a variety of assets. In the case of Fortress and Blackstone, as is described in their registration statements, the main assets relevant to the inadvertent investment company test are the general partnership and limited partnership interests in their underlying funds. While limited partnership interests are treated as investment securities, under existing law, general partnership interests are not securities, if the profits relating to those interests generally come from the efforts of the general partners, as opposed to the efforts of others.3 In the case of Fortress and Blackstone, the issuers maintain control over the day-to-day management of the underlying funds, with senior employees exercising such management through wholly owned subsidiaries. The profits to the general partnership interests result from the efforts of the managers, not others, and the general partnership interests would thus not constitute securities. The fact that the public investors in the securities sold by Fortress and Blackstone have no voting rights with respect to the management of the underlying funds would not change this conclusion. Thus, the general partnership interests would not be securities and therefore not "investment securities" for Investment Company Act purposes.
After determining which assets should be treated as securities and which as non-securities, a value must be assigned to each. The Investment Company Act requires that in making these valuations, an issuer must assign a fair value to general partnership interests like those at issue in the Fortress and Blackstone filings. In order to make such a valuation, an alternative asset manager may consider, among other things, its right to "carried interest" in the underlying funds. This right, which is part of the compensation for managing the underlying funds, entitles the manager to share in the profits of the underlying fund. Typically, an underlying fund must return the capital given to it by limited partners plus any preferential rate of return before the manager can share in the profits of the fund. The manager will then receive a carried interest, which is calculated as a percentage of the profits. Fortress and Blackstone calculate the fair value of their general partnership interests in the underlying funds to include their rights to receive carried interests because such rights are inexorably linked to the general partnership interests.
Applying the principles laid out above, the Division of Investment Management staff concluded that neither Fortress nor Blackstone appears to hold investment securities with a value exceeding 40% of total assets. Put another way, in the context of both Fortress and Blackstone, the value of their "investment securities," (i.e., their limited partnership interests in the funds that they manage and their other securities investments) is less than 40% of total assets. Conversely, the value of the assets that are not "investment securities," (i.e., the general partnership interests, including the right to receive carried interests in the underlying funds) is more than 60% of total assets. This asset composition is indicative of an operating company business, rather than investment company business.
Even if the staff concluded that Fortress or Blackstone held investment securities with a value exceeding 40% of total assets, those entities may have been able to rely on certain exclusions from the definition of investment company under section 3. In particular, section 3(b)(1) of the Investment Company Act excludes a company if it is engaged primarily in a business other than investing in securities. Under section 3(b)(1), the analysis of the entity's primary engagement is similar to that discussed above.4 In addition, Commission rule 3a-1, which modifies the traditional 40% asset test in certain ways, may also have been available to these entities.5
Two final notes about the analysis performed by the Commission's staff: First, both Blackstone and Fortress included disclosure in the risk factors section of their offering documents regarding potential uncertainty relating to whether they might be deemed to be investment companies under the Investment Company Act, and the impact that registration under the Investment Company Act could have on their businesses. Second, each has an opinion of counsel stating that it is not an investment company.
Finally, it is important to consider that the public investors are buying a share of the entity managing these funds, rather than a share in the underlying funds. Thank you for this opportunity to appear before the Committee. I look forward to working with you to meet the needs of our nation's investors, issuers, and markets, and I would be happy to answer any questions you may have.
1Tonopah Mining Company of Nevada, 26 SEC 426 (1947).
2Although the meaning of "securities" under section 3(a)(1)(A) is different than the meaning of "investment securities" under section 3(a)(1)(C), those differences are not relevant to the analysis of Fortress and Blackstone.
3See, e.g., Williamson v. Tucker, 645 F.2d 404 (5th Cir. 1980). For example, a general partnership interest can be designated a security if the investor can establish that: (1) an agreement among the parties leaves so little power in the hands of the partner that the arrangement in fact distributes power as would a limited partnership; (2) the partner is so inexperienced and unknowledgeable in business affairs that he is incapable of intelligently exercising his partnership powers; or (3) the partner is so dependent on some unique entrepreneurial or managerial ability of the manager that he cannot replace the manager of the enterprise or otherwise exercise meaningful partnership powers. See id.
4See Fortress registration statement, at p. 48 (Feb. 9, 2007); (Blackstone registration statement, at p. 60-61 (June 25, 2007).
5See Fortress registration statement, at p. 48 (Feb. 9, 2007).


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What do you get when you put together a seasoned Boulder entrepreneur and a dogged Denver PR man? In the case of Dave DuPont and James Wall, the result is a growing Internet startup with a story to tell.
Boulder-based TeamSnap is an online service that helps sports teams and other groups communicate, manage schedules, share photos, track game statistics and coordinate refreshments and other activities
The 2-year-old company said today that it has raised $910,000 in new funding from a group including Silicon Valley-based Trinity Ventures and Denver-based eonBusiness.
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The Sixth Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology drew over 300 attendees to Santa Clara, California, Nov. 13-15, 1998, to get the latest results in molecular nanotechnology from 44 speakers and 43 posters. Only one year had elapsed since the previous conference, and the progress reported was striking.
Five major advances in the race to the atomically precise control of matter were announced. From nanostructured materials to biological motors, these advances are on the pathway to fully developed molecular manufacturing, molecular computing and electronics.
Bucky Horns: Sumio Iijima of NEC Corporation, Japan, announced the ability to grow this new class of carbon nanostructures, the next step beyond buckyballs and buckytubes.
Biopowered Nanomotor: Carlo Montemagno of Cornell University announced success in building biological-motor powered mechanical devices. All the tools are now in place to make this happen within a living cell.
Nanomanipulator: MinFeng Yu of Washington University generated excitement by showing the first-ever movies of interactive 3D manipulation of carbon nanotubes, obtained with scientists at Zyvex LLC with a new research device designed and built in collaboration between Zyvex and the Novel Carbon Materials Lab at WU.
Nanotube Transistor: Cees Dekker of Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, presented work on buckytubes as a new kind of molecular quantum wire and a field effect nanotube transistor, called TubeFET.
Single-Molecule Tape Measure: Mark Akeson of University of California, Santa Cruz, announced the use of a molecular pore able to electrically "read" long molecules at high speed, even differentiating among RNA bases in groups as small as thirty. Next goal: rapidly read DNA base-by-base.
Illustrations and movies of some discoveries are available at http://www.foresight.org/Conferences/MNT6/pixlist.html.
Keynoted by Nobel Prizewinning physicist Steven Chu of Stanford, the three-day meeting brought together representatives from nanoscale projects throughout academia, national laboratories, Fortune 500 companies, and nanotechnology startups drawn from seventeen countries across four continents.
In opening the Conference, Co-chair Al Globus observed that the two most notable developments of the past year have been:
In summing up the Conference, Co-chair Deepak Srivastava concluded that all of the results presented on materials, properties, and techniques to control and make new materials came down to the fact that molecular nanotechnology is now an accepted goal; the focus of discussion now is: How do we get there?
Conference Chairs, Deepak Srivastava (left) and Al Globus (right) enjoy the successful conference.
In the longer term, nanotechnology is expected to bring atomic precision to fields ranging from medicine to manufacturing, curing most diseases and eliminating chemical pollution. Also anticipated are superstrong, superlight materials for aerospace and ultrasmall processors for information technology.
Both the trade and technical media have covered Nanotechnology advances presented at the Conference. The December 7th issue of Business Week, page 101, under "Developments to watch" has a one-column piece on "The cell of a new machine" discussing the Conference presentation of Dr. Montemagno "Constructing Biological Motor Powered Nanomechanical Devices". The January 1, 1999 issue of Science contains a news focus article "Nanotechnology: borrowing from biology to power the petite" that also describes Dr. Montemagno's presentation along with that of Dr. Vogel ("Guiding Molecular Shuttles by Nanoscale Surface Topologies ") on harnessing biological motor molecules to power nanodevices. An article in the Nov. 23, 1998, issue of Chemical and Engineering News ("Nanotube forced into a jerky form of dance") and an article in the Nov. 27, 1998, issue of Science ("AFMs wield parts for nanoconstruction") both describe the Conference presentation of Mr. Yu "Manipulation of Carbon nanotubes using Scanning Probe Microscopes". [Subscriptions are required to access C&EN and Science Web sites]
The winners of the 1998 Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology were announced on Friday, November 13, at the Sixth Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology. As was done last year, the prize was divided into one prize for experimental work and one prize for theoretical work. Each prize was in the amount of $5,000, and was awarded to the researchers whose recent work has most advanced the development of molecular nanotechnology.
In presenting the awards, IMM Chairman Neil Jacobstein noted that incentive prizes and awards have played a pivotal role in the advance of science and technology. Likewise, the Feynman Prizes are expected to play a pivotal role in the development of molecular nanotechnology, a technology that will be crucial for our future.
The 1998 Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology, Theoretical, went to Ralph Merkle (Xerox Palo Alto Research Center) and Stephen Walch (ELORET at NASA Ames Research Center) for their computational modeling of molecular tools for atomically-precise chemical reactions.
Neil Jacobstein (right) congratulates proud Feynman Prize winners (left) Ralph Merkle and Stephen Walch (center)
This year's experimental Feynman Prize was awarded to M. Reza Ghadiri of Scripps Research Institute for groundbreaking work in constructing molecular structures through the use of self-organization, the same forces used to assemble the molecular machine systems found in nature.
M. Reza Ghadiri (left) gladly accepts his Feynman Prize award in experimental nanotechnology from IMM Chairman, Neil Jacobstein.
For more information on the prize-winning research, see http://www.foresight.org/about/1998Feynman.html
The Foresight Institute Distinguished Student award provides a $1500 grant to the college graduate or undergraduate student whose work is deemed most notable in advancing the development and understanding of nanotechnology. The award was presented on November 13 at the 1998 Foresight Institute Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology. John Michelsen of Zyvex LLC, winner of the first 1996 Distinguished Student Award, selected the winner, with consultation from the Foresight Board of Directors.
This year's award went to Fotis Nifiatis for his work on metal-mediated self-assembly of large arrays and tapes. Nifiatis, originally from Greece, is now at Hunter College, CUNY. The work of Nifiatis and his coworkers was featured in the cover article from the June 8, 1998, issue of Chemical & Engineering News.
Jim Von Ehr (left), president of Zyvex, enjoys a moment with Fotis Nifiatis, winner of the Distinguished Student Award in Nanotechnology.
The just-completed Foresight conference illustrates both how far we've come and how far we have yet to go.
From the articles in this issue, you'll see that technical progress is right on track, and it's breathtakingly fast to those of us trying to monitor it. Interest in nanotechnology is intense. Use of "nano" terms is everywhere -- it's a buzzword. Even the US federal research funding agencies are getting into the act in a big way. From the words they use, and the future applications they cite, it's clear that the Foresight message has reached the research community -- partially.
Among leading researchers, most now see that nanotechnology is coming, and that it's going to be very important. They also understand that the big payoff comes from molecular nanotechnology, rather than from the collection of miscellaneous work often thrown together under the "nanotechnologies" umbrella term. Inexplicably, even achievements in micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) still show up under the term nanotechnology, though that confusion is fading.
But we still have some educating to do, and one powerful way to do it is with the terminology we use. As our message gets more precise, so do our terms. From "nanotechnology" to "molecular nanotechnology" to "molecular manufacturing," we've continued to refine our terms as the memetic educational task evolved.
Now it's time to start focusing on a yet-more-precise term - molecular machine systems. Why this phrase?
What happens when we leave one word out? We get "machine systems," "molecular machines," and "molecular systems" - all interesting but not sufficient to reach our goal of complete control of the structure of matter. Not enough to, say, end chemical pollution, as we could with working molecular nanotechnology.
Join us in this ongoing task of educating researchers, the public, and policymakers about our goals: try using the term "molecular machine systems" and see how it works for you. Then, let us know, so we can continue to evolve our memetic strategy.
For an example of applied memetic strategy in action, join me at the Dynamic Visions conference if you can, this February 12-15 in San Jose. Eric Raymond of Open Source software fame, Virginia Postrel of Reason, I and many others will be speaking on the rapid rate of change now in progress, and how to not merely tolerate it but benefit from it. Visit the conference website at http://www.reason.com/dynamic.html. If we're very lucky, there may be a webcast as well.
Meanwhile, you can watch Eric Drexler's talk on "The New Future" from the Cato/Forbes ASAP meeting on November 21; see http://www.novell.com/webcast/98/cato/drexler.ram. It got great reviews from Foresight members in the audience; I think you'll enjoy it too.
Until the end of January, every new dollar you donate to Foresight will be matched one-to-one by a Challenge Grant. Take advantage of this to make your donations do twice the work for nanotechnology. Visit http://www.foresight.org/about/Matching4.html to check our progress and help us reach the goal.
You can trigger Amazon.com to donate to us every time you buy any book, music CD, or video they sell. To make this happen, go to Amazon via this URL: http://www.foresight.org/nano/Bookstore.html
That's it for now - when you next see Foresight Update, we'll be well into 1999, with the millennium fast approaching. The next century means many things to many people, from Y2K concerns to ethnic warfare. Foresight will keep its focus on our charter: preparing for nanotechnology, and for other powerful technologies on the horizon.
--Christine Peterson
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Foresight's 1st Brainstorming-Planning-Actionfest & NanoSchmoozathon. How many revolutions can you cope with? Here's what's coming -- nanotechnology, radical life extension, cryptomoney, targeted info/bio/warfare, hardware with far more MIPS than we have, and opening the long-promised space frontier. Most of us will try to live through these changes. We invite you to trade ideas with some allies -- individuals who can examine these prospects without undergoing mental shutdown.
200 of the most forward-looking minds on the planet -- leaders and visionaries in emerging technologies, freedom, and dynamic change.
May 21 evening through May 23, 1999
Palo Alto in Silicon Valley, the eye of the technological hurricane, and not in some boring hotel, but a unique group-augmentation environment: KnOwhere Palo Alto
Not podium-based talking heads. We're using a highly-evolved process for group genius -- the DesignShop, a group-achievement process so powerful, so seductive, that it lured two key Foresight leaders away to write a book about it.
For your organization, your career, your family, and your personal future. For the human species, the space frontier, freedom, and the biosphere. For moral support in looking fearlessly ahead at a world very different from what we know today. And, for fun! (But not for the media -- it's off the record.)
Check out: http://www.foresight.org/SrAssoc/99Gathering/
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To contribute, obtain a donation form on the Foresight Institute web site at http://www.foresight.org/SrAssoc/ or Institute for Molecular Manufacturing web site at http://www.imm.org/SrAssocLetter.html, call 650-917-1122, fax 650-917-1123, or email email@example.com.
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Foresight Executive Director, Chris Peterson (left) explains the benefits of becoming a Senior Associate to Thomas McLaughlin (center) with Conference Planner, Marcia Seidler (right).
Senior Associates, Chris Hibbert (left) and Ravi Pandya (center) chat with IMM Recent Progress reporter Jeff Soreff (right).
From left: Senior Associates: Drexler, Forrest, Krummenacker and Freitas enjoy schmoozing at the Senior Associate reception in November.
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How was your weekend? Was it a winning one, like the weekend that Chevrolet Racing had this past weekend? At Long Beach, Corvettes and Chevy-powered IndyCars scored wins…as the Chevy SS did on NASCAR's "Track too Tough To Tame."
On the 1.96-mile Long Beach, California street course, the Corvette C7.R scored 1st and 2nd in the GT class—and the Corvette Daytona Prototype came home second and third overall in the IMSA-sanctioned, Tequila Patron Sports Car Showcase at Long Beach. That's along with a win at the weekend's signature event, the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach, where Chevrolet-engined IndyCars finished 1-2.
After avoiding a huge pile-up of the leading cars on lap 56 of the 80-lap event on the 1.96-mile Long Beach street circuit, Mike Conway edged Will Power for the LBGP win by less than a second, with fellow Chevy-engined Dallara drivers Juan Pablo Montoya (who finished fourth) and Sebastian Saavedra (9th) rounding out the Top Ten.
Also in Saturday's sports-car race, the #10 Corvette Daytona Prototype of Ricky and Jordan Taylor finished less than a second behind race winner Scott Pruett, with the #5 CDP of Joao Barbera and Christian Fittipaldi less than five seconds behind the winner.
Across the U.S.A. on Saturday night, Chevys pulled off a 1-2-3 sweep, led by Kevin Harvick in the #4 Budweiser Chevrolet SS, in NASCAR's Bojangles Southern 500 at Darlington (SC).
Harvick scored the win after a late-race pass of Dale Earnhardt Jr. on the second try at a green-white-checker finish, caused by a Kurt Busch crash on lap 369 (of 374).
The win was Harvick's second Sprint Cup Series victory this season, while Earnhardt Jr's second-place finish in the #88 National Guard Chevy, was his best-ever finish at Darlington.
Jimmie Johnson, in the #48 Lowe's/Kobalt Tools Chevy SS, finished third, while other Chevys in the Top 10 included Jeff Gordon (7th), Kyle Larson (8th), Tony Stewart (9th) and Ryan Newman (10th).
Gordon leads the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series points chase after Darlington, with fellow Chevy drivers Earnhardt in fourth, Johnson in fifth, Ryan Newman in ninth and rookie Austin Dillon in tenth.


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WASHINGTON — You can call it a snowstorm of historic proportions. You can call it the return of New England's blizzard of 1978. You can call it simply dangerous. And you can even call it Nemo.
But don't call it hype.
The new director of the National Weather Service says some might be getting carried away in describing the winter storm bearing down on the Northeast. But he says the science is simple and chilling.
Louis Uccellini is an expert on snowstorms. He says meteorologists are telling people that this is a dangerous storm because it is.
Jeff Masters, meteorology director of the private Weather Underground, said the storm deserves the attention it's getting.
"This is a serious, life-threatening storm if you're trying to travel in it and getting stuck," he said.
One of the big differences between this one and the 1978 blizzard is that back then, it caught people by surprise, leaving many stranded on the highways, said Keith Seitter of the Boston-based American Meteorological Society.
This time, preventive steps such as closing schools and an order for people to be off Massachusetts roads before dark should save lives and make road-clearing easier, experts said.
For more than a week, forecasters have seen this one coming. Meteorologists put it in the category of those that earned nicknames like the East Coast "storm of the century" in 1993. In size, that one topped the 1978 blizzard. The Weather Channel has given the storm a name: Nemo.
The National Weather Service has rejected the cable-TV network's naming system. The Weather Service uses names for hurricanes and tropical storms created by the World Meteorological Organization but not other types of storms.
Snowbound MIT meteorology professor Kerry Emanuel agrees that forecasters are telling it like it is. But he adds that extreme weather like this fascinates not just weather geeks but everyone.
"People sort of like it," said Emanuel, who is stuck in his Lexington, Mass., home. "It's the 'weather porn' phenomena. There are people glued to the Weather Channel."
Experts aren't too worried about future weather warnings being ignored if this storm fizzles because fizzling seems unlikely.
Decades ago, storms like this would come with at most a day or two of warning. Now, because of satellite technology, high-powered computers and better data and modeling, forecasters see storms several days in advance, said Uccellini, co-author of two books on snowstorms.
Computer-model forecasts accurately predicted last fall's Hurricane Sandy about a week in advance. With this blizzard, the first models were showing trouble brewing 10 days out, Uccellini said.
With so much warning, there are days of waiting for a storm with little news to report, sometimes leading to exaggeration. On occasion, someone will overemphasize one of the scarier computer-model simulations — there are dozens— while the Weather Service and others use a combination that's more conservative and has more scientific consensus, Uccellini said.
"The longer you to have to watch the storm, the more anticipation you're going to get, the more interest it's going to generate," Masters said.
In that way, the lead-up to the storm has been the atmospheric equivalent of the week before the Oscars or the Super Bowl.
The name "Nemo" was getting significant use, trending Friday on Twitter. But it was an easy target for jokes, too. CBS News' Major Garrett mused on Twitter: "I thought only Dairy Queen named Blizzards."