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Published March 2, 1996 by Fawcett .
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The Business Case for Quirkiness
Zappos built a billion-dollar bottom line and a reputation for customer service by letting employees bring their whole, creative selves to work. We go inside.
When Tyler Williams applied for a job at Zappos with a DIY music video, he anticipated one of two things: "They'll either really love it or say, 'This guy is a complete psycho. Don't let him within 100 feet of the building.'"
The 2011 YouTube message to the online shoe and clothing retailer — legendary for its customer service and playful company culture — was direct: "Hey, Zappos. My name is Tyler, and I'm trying to get a job with you guys, so … I wrote a little song based on [your] 10 core values."
Fortunately for Williams — and for the company's "brand aura," which he now oversees — Zappos got it. The video made its way around the Las Vegas headquarters, all the way to CEO Tony Hsieh and the company's head of human resources, who brought Williams in. In June of 2011, he joined the Customer Loyalty Department answering customer phone calls.
Today, Williams, 33 and an Alaskan native, is the company "fungineer," working with marketing and PR to breathe life into company events and, in his words, "uphold irreverence" at Zappos. He is the public face of the brand's quirky, creative spirit that he showcased in his job application six years ago.
The surprising bit about all this? Musicians like Williams and roles like "fungineer" are not as rare at Zappos as its multi-billion-dollar balance sheet implies. In fact, there's reason to believe that the company owes much of its success — it was acquired by Amazon for $1.2 billion in 2009 and regularly tops customer service and best places to work rankings — to its whole-hearted embrace of creativity.
"In a world of disruption, where the need for innovation is constant and unyielding, creativity can be a company's competitive advantage."
– Dorie Clark
THE ROI ON CREATIVITY
"In a world of disruption, where the need for innovation is constant and unyielding, creativity can be a company's competitive advantage," says Dorie Clark, branding expert, author and frequent contributor to the "Harvard Business Review."
In her books "Reinventing You" and "Stand Out," Clark expands on ideas she has evangelized for more than a decade as a speaker and marketing strategy consultant. "In an increasingly competitive business environment, creativity is a must-have skill," she says, citing a 2014 Forrester Consulting study that shows creative companies as dominating market share.
That bottom-line advantage is evident at Amazon, the biggest online seller of apparel and footwear in the United States, laying claim to 20 percent of apparel and 40 percent of footwear sales, fueled largely by its Zappos acquisition. Those results can be chalked up to a host of intangible factors, including the capacity to foster innovation, attract forward-thinking talent and leadership, and establish an invigorated brand identity.
Creative companies are also three times more likely than their less-creative counterparts to be nationally recognized as best places to work, Clark points out, citing the same Forrester study. In 2009 Zappos made its debut on Fortune magazine's "100 Best Companies to Work For" list at number 23, the highest-ranking newcomer. Zappos continued to rank on the list for seven years in a row.
Forrester's research, Clark points out, shows that companies that embrace creativity experience disproportionate revenue growth. In fact, 58 percent of creative companies surveyed by Forrester experienced year-over-year growth of 10 percent or more, compared to only 20 percent of less-creative companies.
None of this is to say that an executive team can snap its fingers and build a creative workplace overnight. Often it runs deep in corporate veins.
WHERE CREATIVITY COMES FROM
At its core Zappos has always been the product of creativity. When founder Nick Swinmurn couldn't find the shoes he wanted at the mall or online, he had the idea for an online shoe store.
Buying shoes online sounds run-of-the-mill these days, but in 1999 consumers were purchasing very little on the web, let alone shoes. Investors were skeptical, but Swinmurn overcame that hurdle with a ladder of appealing solutions: a vast selection of footwear, fast and free shipping and returns, and personalized attention grounded in an ethos that prizes customer service.
The latter is reinforced by a culture that radiates goodwill from the inside. The company's 10 pillars — the same ones in Williams's YouTube video — are ingrained even before employees are hired. Potential recruits encounter the fourth pillar — Be Adventurous, Creative, and Open-Minded — in interview rooms designed for candidates to relax, respond to questions truthfully and reveal their personalities and creativity. These rooms, with themes ranging from Cirque du Soleil to Cher's dressing room, are one part of a broader strategy that aims to disarm employees and free them from the stifling effects of conventional corporate decorum.
"We want everyone to not be afraid to take risks and to not be afraid to make mistakes," Hsieh writes in his 2010 book "Delivering Happiness," about the benefits of spreading goodwill both beyond and inside the company. "Because if people aren't making mistakes, then that means they're not taking enough risks."
Dorie Clark agrees. "Companies can encourage creativity by making it safe to talk about failures and what's been learned from them," she says. "Unfortunately, too many companies have a culture of hiding mistakes and implicitly encouraging employees to act 'perfect' all the time. That diminishes employees' creative potential because creativity involves taking risks — though hopefully small, smart ones."
In "Delivering Happiness," Hsieh cites a 2007 research study he shared with Zappos managers, which found that letting workers swear at will in the workplace can benefit employees and employers alike. The researchers, Yehuda Baruch and Stuart Jenkins of University of East Anglia in the U.K., found that as long as profanity is not used in a negative or abusive way, "swearing is used as a social phenomenon to reflect solidarity and enhance group cohesiveness or … to release stress."
Psychologist Richard Stephens, from Keele University in the U.K., arrived at similar findings in a 2017 study, concluding that swearing can decrease "generalized inhibition."
The goal is not to have employees drop F-bombs left and right, but to set the tone for uninhibited ideation and problem-solving — critical at Zappos as it expands from a shoe and apparel retailer to a service company with multiple business ventures under one marquee brand, like Richard Branson's Virgin.
At a recent company-wide meeting, Hsieh encouraged employees to think of Zappos as more than just the company it is today. He wants them to think bigger, with Zappos' culture and service-focused brand in mind, in brainstorming possible new lines of business, possibly in the hospitality industry.
WHAT CREATIVITY LOOKS LIKE
At Zappos, dress code (or lack thereof) and personal desk space are outlets for creative expression. "Our only policy is, 'Don't offend anyone,'" says John Wolske, Culture Evangelist for Zappos Insights, a department that trains and educates businesspeople in customer service and building company culture. His own standing desk is surrounded by rockstar-themed ephemera and knickknacks, from a giant blue microphone (used for performances and virtual keynotes) to customized guitar picks with sentimental value, nested in a Jessica Rabbit shot glass.
On his wall there's a poster advertising an all-Zappos-employees band he put together for a rock 'n' roll marathon in Vegas. A coworker who sits nearby has a lifesize cardboard cutout of Mariah Carey, his favorite diva.
Early in his call-center training, Wolske learned to connect to the higher purpose of "Deliver Wow Through Service" (number one on Zappos' core values list) by tapping into his love for rock 'n' roll. He took to connecting with callers about music, rather than just responding transactionally.
"That's where creativity comes in, even in a call-center job," he says. "One time a guy in a Credence Clearwater Revival cover band called about shoes he needed for one of his shows. I told him I was in bands, too, and that I'd keep an eye out for his next show in Vegas. 'Sounds like I got the right guy,' he told me."
Wolske concedes that all this "culture" could seem odd, even cultish, from the outside. In his newest presentation, the 39-year-old Toronto native preempts that criticism by deconstructing the word's etymological origins: "Before 'cult' had a pagan connotation," Wolske says, "it had the same Latin origin as the word 'cultivate'—to tend to and care for."
Any company or brand, he says, should tend to and care for that which makes it successful: its people. "A cultish association means that the brand has clearly defined what it's all about," he continues. "The suffix 'ure' in 'culture' means 'to show result from,' so that cult-like feeling is kind of the goal. Ask yourself: Do people understand what your brand is truly about? And are you living that to the nth degree?"
BRINGING YOUR WHOLE SELF TO WORK
As Clark describes in her book "Stand Out," one of the best paths to innovation is cross-pollinating different experiences and disciplines. "Employees who are allowed to bring their full selves to work may be talented musicians or speakers of a foreign language or may have extensive experience in an entirely different arena from a past job," she says. "That background can be crucial in helping to uncover new ideas and insights that can benefit their current company."
For Williams and Wolske, music is a big part of what they bring to the table. When Williams was a touring musician, on the road for eight months straight, he got burned out by the grind. Ironically, when he started working at Zappos, music resumed its place in his life as an energizing outlet. "Luckily at Zappos I get to be super creative," he says. "We encourage work-life integration, not separation. You spend at least half of your waking life at work, so you might as well enjoy it and the people you work with."
At monthly Friday night jam sessions, hosted by Hsieh at the Vegas RV park he owns and inhabits, Williams plays with a group of fellow employees. Lit by stringed light bulbs, the crowd gathers around a fire pit in the outdoor living room outside Hsieh's Airstream.
"We're musicians of all different skill levels. Everyone brings instruments and swaps in and out without ego. The sound is anywhere from terrible to amazing," Williams says, laughing.
But good music isn't the point. It's about amplifying rather than suppressing creative inclinations and hoping they carry through to Monday morning at work to drive the business in new, unanticipated directions.
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Pouzdřany
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Pouzdřany (German: Pausram) is a township in Břeclav District in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic, 13 km west of Hustopeče.
3 Population development
Pouzdřany lies on the left bank of the river Svratka in the valley of Thaya-Schwarza. To the south are the Thaya reservoirs of Nové Mlýny. Neighbouring towns are Vranovice and Uherčice to the north, Starovice and Popice to the east, Strachotín to the south-east, Pasohlávky to the south-west, Ivaň to the west and Přibice to the north-west.
Renaissance house in Pouzdřany
Pausram was first mentioned in 1244. Because of the lack of an heir, the town returned to the Emperor[which?] in 1556. He allowed four farmer's markets to be held and the demand of the payment of tolls. In 1593 Pausram received a regulation for the vineyards. In the middle of the 16th century the Anabaptists settled in the town. So the parish became Protestant until during the Thirty years war all non-Catholics were expelled from the town. During the following wars against the Turks Pausram was totally burnt down and looted in 1663. In the years of 1832, 1848 and 1866 the cholera raged in three waves and caused a total of 218 victims in the town. In 1869 a railway station was built in Pausram for the railway line that had existed since 1839. In the years 1928/29 a school for the Czech minority was built. During the time between 1932 and 1935 there was big unemployment, which was provisionally overcome by emergency work like paving roads or planting trees. Parish registers have existed since 1630 and land registration since 1687.
The oldest seal originates from 1581, when the town was given market status. A big recessed renaissance shield shows two oak branches with a leaf and an acorn on each of it. In World War I 35 men of the town fell.
After World War I the multi-ethnic state Austria-Hungary was split up. By the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye Pausram became part of the new Czechoslovakian Republic. Following the Munich Agreement German troops marched into the town in October 1938. From that time onward the town belonged to the Gau Niederdonau until 1945. During the war 68 inhabitants fell or remained missing. On April 16, 1945, Soviet troops invaded Pausram; four days later on April 20, 1945 Czech squatters were brought into town. The remaining German men were detained and the women and children were taken inland for compulsory labour. In this time there were four civilian victims. After the end of World War II the town fell back to Czechoslovakia. As a result of the Beneš decrees the expropriation without any compensation and the expulsion of the remaining people to Germany was carried out. The town was recolonized because there were only 28 inhabitants left. In 1996 the expelled persons of Pausram repaired the damaged roof of the church and renovated the chapel of St. Rosalia and the War Memorial.
Population development[edit]
Census year Population Ethnicity of inhabitants
year German Czechs other
1793 820 - - -
1836 1029 - - -
1880 1236 1229 2 5
1890 1296 1149 140 7
1900 1218 1182 28 8
1921 1143 903 226 14
German literature:
Franz Politzky: Ortsgeschichte von Pausram. 1936
Alfred Schickel, Gerald Frodl: Geschichte Südmährens, Bd.3, 2001, Pausram: Seite 213, 423, 424
Gerald Frodl, Walfried Blaschka: Kreis Nikolsburg von A–Z, 2006, Pausram: Seite 160
Bruno Kaukal: Wappen und Siegel 1992, Pausram S. 179
Erich Mayer: Heimat Pausram. 2004
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^ Historický místopis Moravy a Slezska v letech 1848–1960, sv.9. 1984
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Coordinates: 48°56′N 16°37′E / 48.933°N 16.617°E / 48.933; 16.617
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How to Detect a Scale Infestation
The most obvious sign of a scale infestation is discolored leaves. Scale insects feed on a variety of plants, although most species prefer a particular host plant. Insects may appear on the leaves, branches, stems, bark, or even fruit of a plant. Though a nuisance to ornamental outdoor plants, scales can also threaten crops and vegetables. So, how do you detect a scale infestation? Read on to discover some tips.
Simple scales have additional pitches acquired through transposition. These extra pitches were created by filling up large skips in the scale. Simple scales are commonly used in pop music, but they may have acquired additional pitches through transposition. Learn to recognize and play scales before composing and performing. Once you master the techniques of building and playing scales, you'll be able to make the most of your creativity. If you're an aspiring composer, don't be afraid to use scales in your work.
To identify scales, look for the note names and note intervals. Major scales have semitones of the tonic, such as "C", while minor scales have half steps of C. In Western music, scales consist of seven notes, with intervals of half steps, whole steps, and semitones. The scales listed in Appendix C include the tones of a major scale. These intervals are also known as hemitonic and imperfect scales, and many music theorists agree that they play a large role in sonority.
The traditional scale is called heptatonic. It contains seven notes. Each note is a degree, with the tonic being the first. The other six notes are called degrees, and every note in a scale has a relationship with the tonic. Similarly, the scale degree names are assigned to each note in a key. The aeolian scale is the most common minor scale. In the same way, the tonic should be the first degree.
The scale is also known as a music pitch pattern. It consists of intervals that are either minor or major. Minor intervals are smaller than major ones. Major scales consist of intervals of five major seconds. The notes are numbered from the first degree to the highest, and the difference between two major degrees is called a step. The difference between two semitones and one semitone is called a half-step. For example, the distance between C and E is equal to a half-step.
The difference between parallel and meridian scales is the degree of curvature in a particular direction. The meridian scale is characterized by h (lambda, ph) while the parallel scale has k(lambda, varphi).
The most common type of scale infestation is woody plants, such as conifers, broadleaf evergreen shrubs, and shade trees. Houseplants are also susceptible to this pest. However, they can be afflicted on any part of the plant, but you should isolate them for two to three weeks before applying treatment. You might need to repeat the treatment every few days, so you should isolate the infected plants until the scales are gone.
The first step in identifying if your business is a scale-up or a scale-down is to understand the nature of scale. Scaling involves fine-tuning your digital product to be as good as it can be under the current market conditions. It depends on making changes in a fast manner and introducing new features and functionalities. The test users are the ones who determine the scale's suitability. Once you have an idea of which scale your business is in, you can improve its performance.
A musical scale can be anything you'd like it to be, and they are among the most useful tools a musician can learn. A scale is basically just a collection of notes with specific purposes. The most basic scale, or the major scale, is the major scale, and it comes from the major keys. The notes in a major scale will usually sound bright and happy. Generally, the scale of a major key is the first step towards learning the art of playing major keys.
The other step towards understanding the difference between the tonic and dominant notes is to distinguish between the subtonic and the supertonic scale. In a purely harmonic sense, the dominant scale has a note of E, while a natural minor scale has a tonic note of G. The natural minor scale, on the other hand, has an A as its root tone. So, when it comes to scales, it is crucial to understand what they are and how they relate to each other.
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Didnt go snorkeling or did any water activities. Just laze by the beach, chilling and chatting with my colleagues.
Look at the sea..........it really melts me!
Not much people on the island that we stayed in.
Two huts in the middle of the sea for tourist to stay in.
And this is their pool. There's a bar inside the pool! Can sit and drink when u're in da pool.


At first glance, it could be a rock concert—an arena filled with young people in costumes, loud music, and hundreds of cheering fans. Look closer at center stage, and you see robots of various shapes and sizes hurling basketballs trying to score points. From the sidelines, teams of high school students, dressed in wacky costumes—some as mad scientists—use computers and joysticks to manipulate and operate the robots.
It's all part of the Minnesota Regional FIRST Robotics Competitions held every spring at the University of Minnesota Mariucci and Williams Arenas. The annual event—a sort of "varsity sport for the mind" if you will—was conceived by FIRST Robotics Competition founder Dean Kamen, an inventor, entrepreneur, and tireless advocate for science and technology.
Through FIRST (which stands for "For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology")—now a worldwide organization—Kamen is determined to help young people discover the excitement and rewards of science and technology. He believes he can reprioritize society to value inventors the way it values sports heroes.
Helping to put that mission into action is the University of Minnesota's GOFIRST (Group Organization for FIRST) student group, which was founded in December 2009 with six students and four high school robotics teams. Last year, the group's 30 members mentored 11 Minnesota high school teams.
The members of GOFIRST support Kamen's vision by primarily helping high school teams develop a successful robot for the annual FIRST Robotics Competition. They also volunteer at regional events and conduct outreach activities for students in Minnesota. They are passionate about science and technology, and they want to encourage and inspire high school students to pursue education and careers in the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) subjects.
"We're helping young people discover science and engineering is not just for nerds. It can be fun, exciting, and a cool thing," said Bryan Herbst, current president of the group and College of Science and Engineering student majoring in computer science.
Although GOFIRST is open to any University of Minnesota student, most of its members are students in the College of Science and Engineering, who participated in FIRST as high school students. Now as college students, they have a dedication to the program nearly impossible to match.
"I got involved with FIRST after attending the 2005 Championship FIRST Event as an eighth grader. That's where I met my future high school robotics team. My involvement in the program caused my parents to become volunteers. Through the organization, I gained so many skills—confidence, communication, and leadership," said Renee Becker, a recent College of Liberal Arts graduate in scientific and technical communications who served in a leadership role last year and was heavily involved as a student.
Becker, who says she was never much interested in robot design and operation, is an enthusiastic supporter of the program and mentored several teams on the competition's written requirements and team management aspects. She also spent a lot of time leading FIRST workshops, including one session where Girl Scouts could earn a merit badge.
"There is no mandatory amount of time required to participate in GOFIRST. It has a tendency to take on a life of its own," Becker said.
"Typically, you figure how much you plan to get involved, and then double that amount. It draws you in, and I've become pretty passionate about it," she added.
Herbst advised at least two high school teams this past spring, one of which was from Irondale High School in Mounds View, Minn. With his computer science knowledge, he was able to help with the team's website and robot programming.
"Volunteering can take up a lot of time, but school always comes first. We're able to do quite a bit of advising by phone and through email. We also use Skype a lot," Herbst said.
In addition to the robotics, each high school team is responsible for designing its own website and creating an optional animation film. There is also a fundraising component to the competition. Students must raise close to $12,000 before a high school team can even think of competing. The kit of parts alone costs $6,000.
At its core, the FIRST Robotics Competition is an annual engineering contest, with a different objective every year. Each year, student teams design and build a 120-pound robot from a kit of parts made up of motors, batteries, a control system, and a mix of automation components, but no instructions. The teams are given only six weeks to complete the task, which begins in January.
This past year's robotics challenge was called "Rebound Rumble," and it pitted two alliances of three teams each in a game that resembled basketball. The goal was to score as many baskets—arranged at varying heights—in two minutes and 15 seconds. The higher the hoop in which the basketball is scored, the more points the group receives. Groups were awarded bonus points if they balanced on bridges at the end of the match.
The competition isn't just about smashing robots into each other, even though there is a significant amount of "vigorous interaction" involved. Rather it is about such things as "gracious professionalism," communications, cooperation, and the acquisition, use, and sharing of knowledge.
According to a survey conducted by Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass., students who participated in the program are more than three times as likely to major in engineering, and more than twice as likely to pursue a career in science and technology.
Similarly, as the FIRST Robotics program has grown, so have the number of CSE students who participated in the program as high school students. In 2008, 12 CSE freshman students had participated in FIRST when they were in high school and this fall, that number had grown to 76.
In addition, PTC (Parametric Technology Corporation) sponsors two annual scholarships of $5,000 per year available to two students enrolled in the College of Science and Engineering. The scholarships are renewable for a total of $20,000 over four years. CSE students who participated for at least one full season on a FIRST Robotics Competition team in high school are eligible to apply for the scholarship.
"Building robots is not the only thing we're doing. We are inspiring the future roboticists, engineers, educators, and entrepreneurs. Even if we've inspired only a few, we've done our job," Herbst added.
It takes a large and diverse group of volunteers to make the FIRST Robotics Competition successful; mentors and coaches guide the kids on their teams, event volunteers make the hundreds of seasonal events possible, and field volunteers continue to help the organization grow.
Among those dedicated volunteers is Gil Huie, a machinist for the Department of Civil Engineering. For the past five years, he has spent countless hours helping FIRST prepare for the annual competition.
"I enjoy helping the kids. It's fun to see the interesting robot designs they create," Huie said. In a very literal way, Huie's work with FIRST demonstrates his drive to give his best to tool and die making, volunteering, and education.
Huie became involved with FIRST in 2007 when Steven Crouch, Dean of the College of Science and Engineering, asked him to help the college host a regional edition of the national FIRST Robotics Competition. "He asked if I would handle some of the technical aspects by building prototypes of the scoring device, in addition to serving as the machine shop liaison for the local teams," Huie said.
The machinist happily accepted the challenge. He has helped every year since, except in 2009, when a battle with cancer forced him to sit out the competition.
Stunned by the news, he walked out onto the court, received a handshake of thanks and the award from Kamen, the founder of FIRST. "I was so surprised. I knew there were a lot of other people who deserved it just as much as I did," Huie said.
In addition, his volunteerism has drawn attention from the University's highest leaders. In 2008, Huie received the President's Award for Outstanding Service, the highest award given to a staff or faculty member.
Huie credits his love of precision engineering, dedication to helping others, and earnest interest in sharing his knowledge and skills with others. "You don't have to be the best, but be diligent, do your job, and be the person people can count on. Then you'll receive your rewards," Huie said.


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Q: Apache not redirecting as expected I have a virtual host set up on Apache 2.4 on Ubuntu server 18.04
The setup is made of a .conf file for port 80 that contains a redirect to https and a .conf for port 443 that contains all the configuration for the site (like cache, custom 404 and 500 and so on).
I want the same configuration to be ok if the user types the address with or without trailing www
The https part works well.
The http to https redirection works fine with www
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My redirect rule is the following:
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What's wrong with this? I don't get where I am wrong, can you help me?
EDIT: after some testing I have verified that this bug applies only to Firefox on iOs and not to Safari on iOs or from desktop

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Ryan Murphy shares first photo of "icon-packed cast" of Netflix's The Prom
Ryan Murphy has shared the first cast photo from Netflix's upcoming adaptation of The Prom.
Sitting alongside previously announced stars stars such as Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Andrew Rannells and James Corden, the American Horror Story creator wrote: "Meet the incredible icon-packed cast of Netflix's The Prom.
"A group of true troopers who buckled up and finished shooting during COVID so we could give everybody an inspirational aspirational story that we all need right now. Christmas is right around the corner."
The acclaimed musical follows four Broadway actors – played by Streep, Kidman, Rannells and Corden – as they travel to the conservative town of Edgewater, Indiana, to help a lesbian student (Jo Ellen Pellman) who's been banned from bringing her girlfriend to prom.
The star-studded cast also includes Ariana DeBose, Keegan-Michael Key, Kerry Washington, Kevin Chamberlin, Sofia Deler, Logan Riley Hassel, Mary Kay Place, Nathaniel J. Potvin, Nico Greetham and Tracey Ullman.
Murphy previously revealed that the story resonated with him because he was also banned from bringing a boy to his prom. "The Prom is one of the most uplifting, heartfelt and special musicals I have ever seen on Broadway," he said.
"It's truly an original that celebrates the underdog and says in a loving spectacular way that LGBTQ rights are human rights. I feel a special connection to it because it's set in Indiana, and that's where I grew up, too."
There's no set release date yet for The Prom, but judging by Murphy's caption, we can expect this to hit Netflix around Christmas – see below.
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This blog grew out of two rather disparate things, a thread I followed on Twitter and a conversation I had with my second daughter over a cup of tea. Let me explain.
The thread began when somebody said they thought all living creatures had violence in their genes and that human beings were simply responding to the gene. I took issue with this almost at once, feeling instinctively that they were wrong and that there was nothing natural about human violence, although heaven knows there is plenty of it about. I tried to explain that many living creatures are indeed violent but always for a reason, in defense of their young, in competition for a mate – where the rules of the encounter are so obvious that it seems to me they are genetic – and in order to catch and eat prey. It was an interesting thread because we were all exploring the things we believed and testing them against one another's opinions.
At one point one of the participants said that if you were a violent person and had hurt somebody else what you had to do was to say sorry to the person you'd hurt and go somewhere and get some help. 'You are doing something that is perfectly natural' she said. That filled me with horror, for I cannot see anything natural at all in one human being deliberately hurting another and I'm quite sure that all of us have inbuilt into us a tenderness and kindness that we saw during the Blitz and see now whenever there is a major accident or a terrorist attack. People rush to offer their help. They are kind and gentle.
But it wasn't until I had tea with my daughter that my thoughts converged and made sense. We were comparing the behaviour of the men and boys in our family and it occurred to us that one of the nicest things they had in common was their capacity for affection and gentleness. We'd both seen it so often and sometimes in a very young little boy and it was a joy to remember it because we both knew where it had come from.
The two men I have loved most in my life were my son and my old darling and they both had it in abundance and gave it freely whenever it was needed, which is why we loved them so much. So I thought i'd put up a few pictures up of my gentle gentlemen. In this one they talking to one another in their gentle, intelligent way, as they so often did.
And the talk and affection began between them almost as soon as our son was born, I just love the total attention on my old darling's face in this picture. It says it all.
So respec' to all our Gentle Gentlemen. We are not all violent and you show it.
Daily Mail blows the gaff on Tim Heath!
This blog is for everybody who has been struggling to persuade Tim Heath to repair Blake's Cottage.
First let me give you a bit of background information. Please skip this section if you know it already.
The Cottage has 'belonged' to the three man Blake Cottage Trust which is dominated by Tim Heath seen here on our left, for the last two and a half years, or to be accurate since September 2015, when they bought it 'for the nation'. Absolutely no repairs have been done to it, although it is desperately in need of them and over 500 people in Felpham signed a petition to urge Tim Heath to take action.
Now this article, has appeared on page 5 of the Daily Mail this Tuesday and it blows the gaff on the reasons why, showing how little money Tim Heath actually has and what he has been doing since he bought the cottage.
He and his two brothers have been at loggerheads over the division of their mother's estate since October 2015 when she died. She left her estate to be divided equally between her three sons, Jeremy aged 65, Timothy aged 62 and Dominic aged 53, it should be straightforward but the in-fighting about it has gone on for over two years and has finally ended up in court, where Tim's two brothers had taken legal action against him to ask that he be removed as an executor of his mother's will due to an 'inherent conflict between his duties as an executor and his own personal interests.' During the course of the trial some very interesting facts emerged.
For a start it transpires that Tim Heath has lived in the family house since he was ten, in other words for 52 years, and for 44 of them i.e. since he was 18, he has lived rent free and sponged off his mother. His brothers say he has never done a day's work in his life, which annoys them because they are both doctors and have worked extremely hard. He calls himself a 'self-employed creative' but another term for it would be an idle scrounger. Now he wants to take a larger share of the inheritance than his brothers explaining that he 'looked after his mother' when she was very old, although as the court also heard, she had two £45,000 a year, live in carers, so he can hardly claim to have been her only carer.
I was very glad to read when I got to the end of the article that the judge had ordered Timothy to step down from his position as executor and to be replaced by an independent solicitor. It cost his brothers £25,000 each in legal fees but it was a very good result.
So now we all know that Tim Heath has no income because he has no job, that when his mother's house is sold he will have nowhere to live, that he has no money to repair Blake's Cottage, no matter what any of us might say and just look at the state of it.
I hope that as many people in the locality and especially those in the Felpham Village Conservation Society will take advantage of the six open days at the cottage which have been organised and will presumably be run not by the Blake Cottage Trust and Tim Heath but by the National Trust (thank God!). The number to ring to book your ticket is 0344 249 1895.
It really is high time that Tim Heath stopped pussyfooting around with this prestigious property, admitted that he can't afford to repair it, and handed it over to the National Trust, which is the only organisation in the country who could.
Pipe dreams and shilly-shallying have gone on long enough. I for one am heartily sick of them and I hope you are too.
We can get inside Blake's cottage at last!
This blog is for all those people in Felpham and elsewhere who have been waiting in vain to visit Blake's cottage so that they can see for themselves what a parlous state it is in. It was bought 'for the nation' two years and four months ago and since that time it has stood empty and apart from putting in steel supports to prop up the roof and the rafters, which were in danger of caving in and falling into the cottage, absolutely nothing has been done to repair the place. The three man trust who now 'own' the cottage, have held two open days during that time which was nowhere near enough to enable all the people who wanted to look at it to get inside.
Now, however, there is an exhibition of Blake's paintings in Petworth House curated by a man called Andrew Loukes who works for the National Trust and under the auspices of that organisation the cottage is now going to be open on six days – no less! – during the running of the exhibition at Petworth.
Here are the dates and the link which will enable you to book your entry. There is no entry fee.
Please don't be conned by the BCT propaganda about the 'wonderful, half a million pound, state of the art' building they're going to erect in the garden. From the tiny model on display at the exhibition it looks like two buildings, one a single-storey display area, the other far too much like a house. But then, they have always said that this new building would be a display area and RESIDENCE. The important thing, which they keep pushing to one side, is that Blake's cottage needs repair urgently.
I shall be interested to hear what your opinion of the state of the cottage is.
Since the publication of Michael Wolff's Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House and the excerpts published by it by the Guardian, there is now little doubt that the President of the United States is a very, seriously maladjusted man. The Guardian headline puts it very neatly 'Paranoia, fear of germs, burgers in bed and extra TVs: Trumps habits revealed.' But the book itself makes it frighteningly clear that this is a man to be feared. He has his finger on an appalling nuclear trigger.
Bob @huntthesnark has given us all the chance to laugh at the man with his Gilbert and Sullivan lyric and I'm putting it up now because we need to be able to laugh.
You can trust me 'cos I'm orange and I have the most amazing hair.
I am the very model of a Very Stable Genius!
But laughter will not save us if he decides to declare war on North Korea. What is needed if it can be legally and safely done, would be for this dangerous president to be impeached and as quickly as possible. Bandy Lee who is a world authority in psychiatry says 'paranoia and feelings of inadequacy make powerful weapons very tempting to use.' She says 'to make a diagnosis one needs all the relevant information… but to assess dangerousness, one only needs enough information to raise alarms, it is about the situation and not the person' and goes on to say 'it does not take a mental health professional to see that a person of Trumps impairments, in the office of Presidency, is a danger to us all'.
I am extremely glad that the threat of demonstrations against him, should he visit this country, has persuaded him to change his mind about the visit to London to which he was invited by Mrs May and which was to take place next month. It shows that the threat of a massive demonstration still has power. And we should all be paying great attention to this presidency and protesting against the man and his actions whenever and wherever we can.
Our NHS is very near its final destruction.
Our NHS is very near its final destruction and yet there are still far too many people who simply do not know it and/or if they hear about it would prefer not to but to go on believing the government's propaganda. So I'm devoting this blog to a few very necessary facts about our NHS and the government's planned and deliberate destruction of it.
He couldn't have put it more clearly, although the big boys at KPMG tried to make light of it and claimed that he hadn't said any such thing when the The Observer let the cat out of the bag.
So let's knock this insulting idea that the NHS is a freebie which we do n't deserve right smack on the head. From its outset our National Health Service was carefully costed. A special tax called 'National Insurance Contributions' was set up and began as soon as the NHS was created. We all paid that tax if we were in work and continued to do so from 1948 all through our working lives, accepting it as a sensible way to fund this great organisation so that we could use it whenever we needed to without the fear of not being able to pay for it which had been a powerful deterrent to a very large number of people before the NHS came in. Far too many doctors in those old heartless days insisted in their guinea or half guinea before they would even look at the patient. That is the truth about a) why it was needed and b) how we paid for it. Don't let this government tell you that we are parasites getting treatment for free. That simply isn't true.
What Mark Britnell said on the other hand has been proved true. We are now having to accept that costly private health provision has been allowed in secretly and by the back door and people like Richard Branson have already bought great chunks of our NHS or at least the profitable parts of it. That's another fact. And here's another one. Virgin Care Services have paid no corporation tax on their profits from the 400 NHS contracts he now holds. The turnover from these contracts is £200 million.
We also have to accept that the Tory Ministers of Health have been steadily running the NHS down, closing beds, maternity wards and A&E departments and sacking nurses and doctors. The result of all this destruction are now plainly obvious in the crises hitting our hospitals. These are not the result of too many people asking for help or health service departments not being properly organised, both of which excuses are heavily touted in propaganda statements, but are the direct and inevitable result of all those deliberate government cuts.
The thinking behind the governments activities is simple and simplistic. 1) Run the national health service down, 2) point out how inefficient it is and claim that it isn't working, 3) announce that because it failing it will have to be privatized, 4) sell it off cheaply to your mega rich friends so that they can make a profit out of it.
Those of us who know what's going on, and there are many of us both in and out of the NHS, have been struggling to keep the public truthfully informed, by demonstrations, letters and protests of every kind, like the demonstrators in these pictures.
It will take another general election like the one in 1945, to put things right. Are you with us?
If you are, you might like to join the 'Save our NHS rally' on Saturday the 3rd of February. It will start at 12 noon and the assembly point is Gower Street Central, London, WC16.
The latest news about book 27 'Everybody's Somebody' and book 30.
Two bits of news about book 27 (cover picture alongside) and it's sequel Citizen Armies, which is book 30.
Endeavour Ink sent me a message this morning to tell me that Everybody's Somebody will be on a special offer of £0.99 for the next four days. The link is: http://amzn.eu/1gIGJYA So if you haven't read it yet and want to, maybe this is the time to snap up a bargain.
They've also put up an excellent review of it which I've copied here.
Reviews can make or break a new book, so I'm always very grateful for a good one. Thank you Laurenae.
For those of you who have been asking if there is a sequel and saying they're looking forward to it, if there is, the answer is yes there is and it's now over half written and should be completed in the next fifteen weeks. I have called it 'Citizen Armies' because it covers the period in WW2 and the Blitz of London when citizen armies were formed and ends in 1945 when those self-same citizen armies ushered in the only bloodless revolution there has ever been, as far as I know. They didn't look much like an army as you can see from my picture, but an army they undoubtedly were. Respec'!


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Philip Morris International meets with FDA to make its case for Iqos in patent dispute
Philip Morris International shows an iQOS electronic cigarette, which heats tobacco sticks but does not burn them.
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Philip Morris International met with the Food and Drug Administration on Friday afternoon to present its argument for why the tobacco giant and Altria should be allowed to import and sell Iqos devices in the U.S., CNBC has learned.
A person familiar with the company's meeting said Philip Morris told the FDA that Iqos is unique, both in its design and ability to convert smokers. Additionally, the company is arguing that the U.S. International Trade Commission overstepped its bounds, given that the FDA is in charge of regulating which tobacco products and alternatives can be sold, this person said.
The meeting with regulators is the latest development in a patent dispute with rival R.J. Reynolds, a subsidiary of British American Tobacco. In late September, the ITC ruled that the Iqos device infringed on two of Reynolds' patents. The Biden administration is conducting a 60-day administrative review until Nov. 29 to decide if the sale and import of the cigarette alternative will be banned.
Altria launched the Iqos device in the United States two years ago, but it began development of the product more than a decade ago before Philip Morris International was spun off from the company. The device heats tobacco without burning it, which is meant to give users the same rush of nicotine without as many toxins as smoking a cigarette.
Philip Morris sells the device in dozens of international markets and has granted Altria a license to sell it in the U.S. While Iqos don't represent a large portion of Altria's U.S. business, it's part of the company's shift away from traditional tobacco products, which have seen falling demand.
The U.S. Trade Representative will make a recommendation to President Joe Biden after listening to input from a number of agencies, including the FDA, which regulates tobacco products.
"The presidential review process can disapprove of the ITC's final determination on a few counts, and we believe there is a pretty strong case for that," said Deepak Mishra, head of Philip Morris International's Americas region, in an interview with CNBC Thursday.
The company's argument to keep selling Iqos includes the public health benefit of the device. Altria said it counts 20,000 U.S. consumers as users of the device, and say they could revert back to cigarettes if Iqos disappears from shelves.
"We are pretty convinced that the vast majority will go back to smoking cigarettes," Mishra said. "… It actually comes close to the taste and ritual of a cigarette, which is why we have a very strong conversion of smokers that switch to Iqos."
Mishra said this was an argument the company planned to make as it urges the Biden administration to overturn the ITC ruling.
The next step in the administrative review is a Trade Policy Staff Committee meeting, which will likely happen this week, the person familiar with the meeting said. The group includes a number of federal agencies, including the FDA, U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Department of Commerce.
If the administration sides with R.J. Reynolds in the dispute, Iqos could be off of U.S. shelves for months as it waits for a decision on a separate claim from Reynolds with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, according to Mishra. That process is expected to take another six to 12 months, but Mishra said the company is more optimistic about the outcome given its success in similar cases outside the United States. British American Tobacco has already pursued similar legal action against Philip Morris in 11 international markets and the European Patent Office.
In the worst case scenario for Altria and Philip Morris, the two companies would have to go back to the drawing board, moving production to the U.S. or changing up the design enough to avoid patent infringement claims.
"Infringement of our intellectual property undermines our ability to invest and innovate and thereby reduce the health impact of our business," Reynolds American spokesperson Kaelan Hollon said in a statement when the ITC ruled in its favor. "We will therefore defend our IP robustly across the globe."
Shares of Philip Morris have climbed 12% this year, giving it a market value of $145 billion. Altria's stock is up 9% in the same time, raising its market value to $83.1 billion.


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Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World
De (autor) William D. Cohan
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William D. Cohan's Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World is a chronicle of the most successful, iconic bank on Wall Street, from the firm's founding in 1869 to the present day.
Goldman Sachs are the investment bank all other banks - and most businesses - want to emulate; the firm with the best talent, the best clients, the best strategy. But is their success just down to the gilded magic of the 'Goldman way'?
William D. Cohan has gained unprecedented access to Goldman's inner circle - both on and off the record. In an astonishing story of clashing egos, backstabbing, sex scandals, private investigators, court cases and government cabals, he reveals what really lies beneath their gold-plated image.
'The best analysis yet of Goldman's increasingly tangled web of conflicts'
'Startling ... lifts the lid on Goldman's pivotal role in the meltdown'
'Cohan portrays a firm that has grown so large and hungry that it's no longer long-term greedy but short-term vicious. And that's the wonder - and horror - of Goldman Sachs'
'Cohan's book tells of bitter power struggles and business cock-ups'
'A definitive account of the most profitable and influential investment bank of the modern era'
William D. Cohan was an award-winning investigative journalist before embarking on a seventeen-year career as an investment banker on Wall Street. His first book, The Last Tycoons, about Lazard, won the 2007 Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award and was a New York Times bestseller. His second book, House of Cards, also a bestseller, is an account of the last days of Bear Stearns & Co.
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William Cohan is an award-winning journalist and Wall Street veteran. His first book, The Last Tycoons, about Lazard, won the 2007 Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award and was a New York Times bestseller. His second book, House of Cards, also a bestseller, is an account of the last days of Bear Stearns & Co, described as "gripping...high drama" by Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times. He is a regular on the pages of the Financial Times, is a contributing editor at both Vanity Fair and Fortune, and is an online columnist for The New York Times.
Revelatory, engrossing, penetrating ... Cohan revels in a good bust-up
The best analysis yet of Goldman's increasingly tangled web of conflicts
Startling ... lifts the lid on Goldman's pivotal role in the meltdown
Cohan portrays a firm that has grown so large and hungry that it's no longer long-term greedy but short-term vicious. And that's the wonder - and horror - of Goldman Sachs
Cohan's book tells of bitter power struggles and business cock-ups
A definitive account of the most profitable and influential investment bank of the modern era
Wall Street has always been a dangerous place. Firms have been going in and out of business ever since speculators first gathered under a buttonwood tree near the southern tip of Manhattan in the late eighteenth century. Despite the ongoing risks, during great swaths of its mostly charmed 142 years, Goldman Sachs has been both envied and feared for having the best talent, the best clients, and the best political connections, and for its ability to alchemize them into extreme profitability and market prowess.
Indeed, of the many ongoing mysteries about Goldman Sachs, one of the most overarching is just how it makes so much money, year in and year out, in good times and in bad, all the while revealing as little as possible to the outside world about how it does it. Another— equally confounding— mystery is the firm's steadfast, zealous belief in its ability to manage its multitude of internal and external conflicts better than any other beings on the planet. The combination of these two genetic strains— the ability to make boatloads of money at will and to appear to manage conflicts that have humbled, then humiliated lesser firms— has made Goldman Sachs the envy of its financial- services brethren.
But it is also something else altogether: a symbol of immutable global power and unparalleled connections, which Goldman is shameless in exploiting for its own benefit, with little concern for how its success affects the rest of us. The firm has been described as everything from "a cunning cat that always lands on its feet" to, now famously, "a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money," by Rolling Stone writer Matt Taibbi. The firm's inexorable success leaves people wondering: Is Goldman Sachs better than everyone else, or have they found ways to win time and time again by cheating?
But in the early twenty- first century, thanks to the fallout from Goldman's very success, the firm is looking increasingly vulnerable. To be sure, the firm has survived plenty of previous crises, starting with the Depression, when much of the firm's capital was lost in a scam of its own creation, and again in the late 1940s, when Goldman was one of seventeen Wall Street firms put on trial and accused of collusion by the federal government. In the past forty years, as a consequence of numerous scandals involving rogue traders, suicidal clients, and charges of insider trading, the firm has come far closer— repeatedly— to financial collapse than its reputation would attest.
Each of these previous threats changed Goldman in some meaningful way and forced the firm to adapt to the new laws that either the market or regulators imposed. This time will be no different. What is different for Goldman now, though, is that for the first time since 1932— when Sidney Weinberg, then Goldman's senior partner, knew that he could quickly reach his friend, President- elect Franklin Delano Roosevelt— the firm no longer appears to have sympathetic high- level relationships in Washington. Goldman's friends in high places, so crucial to the firm's extraordinary success, are abandoning it. Indeed, in today's charged political climate, which is polarized along socioeconomic lines, Goldman seems particularly isolated and demonized.
Certainly Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman's fifty-six- year- old chairman and CEO, has no friend in President Barack Obama, despite being invited to a recent state dinner for the president of China. According to Newsweek columnist Jonathan Alter's book The Promise, the "angriest" Obama got during his first year in office was when he heard Blankfein justify the firm's $16.2 billion of bonuses in 2009 by claiming "Goldman was never in danger of collapse" during the financial crisis that began in 2007. According to Alter, President Obama told a friend that Blankfein's statement was "flatly untrue" and added for good measure, "These guys want to be paid like rock stars when all they're doing is lip- synching capitalism."
Complicating the firm's efforts to be better understood by the American public— a group Goldman has never cared to serve— is a long-standing reticence among many of the firm's current and former executives, bankers, and traders to engage with the media in a constructive way. Even retired Goldman partners feel compelled to check with the firm's disciplined administrative bureaucracy, run by John F. W. Rogers— a former chief of staff to James Baker, both at the White House and at the State Department— before agreeing to be interviewed. Most have likely signed confidentiality or nondisparagement agreements as a condition of their departures from the firm. Should they make themselves available, unlike bankers and traders at other firms— where self-aggrandizement in the press at the expense of colleagues is typical— Goldman types stay firmly on the message that what matters most is the Goldman team, not any one individual on it.
"They're extremely disciplined," explained one private- equity executive who both competes and invests with Goldman. "They understand probably better than anybody how to never take the game face off. You'll never get a Goldman banker after three beers saying, 'You know, listen, my colleagues are a bunch of fucking dickheads.' They just don't do that the way other guys will, whether it's because they tend to keep the uniform on for a longer stretch of time so they're not prepared to damage their squad, or whether or not it's because they're afraid of crossing the powers that be, once they've taken the blood oath... they maintain that discipline in a kind of eerily successful way."
Anyone who might have forgotten how dangerous Wall Street can be was reminded of it again, in spades, beginning in early 2007, as the market for home mortgages in the United States began to crack, and then implode, leading to the demise or near demise a year or so later of several large Wall Street firms that had been around for generations— including Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, and Merrill Lynch— as well as other large financial institutions such as Citigroup, AIG, Washington Mutual, and Wachovia.
Although it underwrote billions of dollars of mortgage securities, Goldman Sachs avoided the worst of the crisis, thanks largely to a fully authorized, well- timed proprietary bet by a small group of Goldman traders— led by Dan Sparks, Josh Birnbaum, and Michael Swenson— beginning in December 2006, that the housing bubble would collapse and that the securities tied to home mortgages would rapidly lose value. They were right.
In July 2007, David Viniar, Goldman's longtime chief financial officer, referred to this proprietary bet as "the big short" in an e-mail he wrote to Blankfein and others. During 2007, as other firms lost billions of dollars writing down the value of mortgage- related securities on their balance sheets, Goldman was able to offset its own mortgage- related losses with huge gains— of some $4 billion— from its bet the housing market would fall.
Goldman earned a net profit in 2007 of $11.4 billion— then a record for the firm— and its top five executives split $322 million, another record on Wall Street. Blankfein, who took over the leadership of the firm in June 2006 when his predecessor, Henry Paulson Jr., became treasury secretary, received total compensation for the year of $70.3 million.
The following year, while many of Goldman's competitors were fighting for their lives— a fight many of them would lose— Goldman made a "substantial profit of $2.3 billion," Blankfein wrote in an April 27, 2009, letter. Given the carnage on Wall Street in 2008, Goldman's top five executives decided to eschew their bonuses. For his part, Blankfein made do with total compensation for the year of $1.1 million. (Not to worry, though; his 3.37 million Goldman shares are still worth around $570 million.)
Nothing in the financial world happens in a vacuum these days, given the exponential growth of trillions of dollars of securities tied to the value of other securities— known as "derivatives"—and the extraordinarily complex and internecine web of global trading relationships. Accounting rules in the industry promote these interrelationships by requiring firms to check constantly with one another about the value of securities on their balance sheets to make sure that value is reflected as accurately as possible. Naturally, since judgment is involved, especially with ever more complex securities, disagreements among traders about values are common.
Goldman Sachs prides itself on being a "mark- to- market" firm, Wall Street argot for being ruthlessly precise about the value of the securities— known as "marks"—on its balance sheet. Goldman believes its precision promotes transparency, allowing the firm and its investors to make better decisions, including the decision to bet the mortgage market would collapse in 2007. "Because we are a mark- to- market firm," Blankfein once wrote, "we believe the assets on our balance sheet are a true and realistic reflection of book value." If, for instance, Goldman observed that demand for a certain security or group of like securities was changing or that exogenous events— such as the expected bursting of a housing bubble— could lower the value of its portfolio of housing- related securities, the firm religiously lowered the marks on these securities and took the losses that resulted. These new, lower marks would be communicated throughout Wall Street as traders talked and discussed new trades. Taking losses is never much fun for a Wall Street firm, but the pain can be mitigated by offsetting profits, which Goldman had in abundance in 2007, thanks to the mortgage- trading group that set up "the big short."
What's more, the profits Goldman made from "the big short" allowed the firm to put the squeeze on its competitors, including Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch, and Lehman Brothers, and at least one counter-party, AIG, exacerbating their problems— and fomenting the eventual crisis— because Goldman alone could take the write- downs with impunity. The rest of Wall Street squirmed, knowing that big losses had to be taken on mortgage- related securities and that they didn't have nearly enough profits to offset them.
Taking Goldman's new marks into account would have devastating consequences for other firms, and Goldman braced itself for a backlash. "Sparks and the [mortgage] group are in the process of considering making significant downward adjustments to the marks on their mortgage portfolio esp[ecially] CDOs and CDO squared," Craig Broderick, Goldman's chief risk officer, wrote in a May 11, 2007, e-mail, referring to the lower values Sparks was placing on complex mortgage- related securities. "This will potentially have a big P&L impact on us, but also to our clients due to the marks and associated margin calls on repos, derivatives, and other products. We need to survey our clients and take a shot at determining the most vulnerable clients, knock on implications, etc. This is getting lots of 30th floor"—the executive floor at Goldman's former headquarters at 85 Broad Street—"attention right now."
Broderick's e-mail may turn out to be the unofficial "shot heard round the world" of the financial crisis. The shock waves of Goldman's lower marks quickly began to be felt in the market. The first victims— of their own poor investment strategy as well as of Goldman's marks— were two Bear Stearns hedge funds that had invested heavily in squirrelly mortgage- related securities, including many packaged and sold by Gold-man Sachs. According to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rules, the Bear Stearns hedge funds were required to average Goldman's marks with those provided by traders at other firms.
Given the leverage used by the hedge funds, the impact of the new, lower Goldman marks was magnified, causing the hedge funds to report big losses to their investors in May 2007, shortly after Broderick's e-mail. Unsurprisingly, the hedge funds' investors ran for the exits. By July 2007, the two funds were liquidated and investors lost much of the $1.5 billion they had invested. The demise of the Bear hedge funds also sent Bear Stearns itself on a path to self- destruction after the firm decided, in June 2007, to become the lender to the hedge funds— taking out other Wall Street firms, including Goldman Sachs, at close to one hundred cents on the dollar— by providing short- term loans to the funds secured by the mortgage securities in the funds.
When the funds were liquidated a month later, Bear Stearns took billions of the toxic collateral onto its books, saving its former counter-parties from that fate. While becoming the lender to its own hedge funds was an unexpected gift from Bear Stearns to Goldman and others, nine months later Bear Stearns was all but bankrupt, its creditors rescued only by the Federal Reserve and by a merger agreement with JPMorgan Chase. Bear's shareholders ended up with $10 a share in JPMorgan's stock. As recently as January 2007, Bear's stock had traded at $172.69 and the firm had a market value of $20 billion. Goldman's marks had similarly devastating impacts on Merrill Lynch, which was sold to Bank of America days before its own likely bankruptcy filing, and AIG, which the government rescued with $182 billion of taxpayer money before it, too, had to file for bankruptcy. There is little doubt that Goldman's dual decisions to establish "the big short" and then to write down the value of its mortgage portfolio exacerbated the misery at other firms.
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Platforms: Nintendo 64, GameBoy Color
Editor Rating: 6/10, based on 2 reviews
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Rally fans should know Kemco's T6R 2 has a few tricks up its sleeve, most notably a track-generation system capable of creating courses on-the-fly. The fledgling system could theoretically produce an infinite amount of roadways. In addition, 15 cars and loads of licensed parts and upgrades are included. No word if the vehicles will be licensed. This Safflre-created game is a winter '99 release.
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TGR 2 is a mixed bag of tricks. On one hand it's clearly arcade-fortified, loose and wild stuff. On the other it inspires to be sim-like by imposing lots of micro-management of the vehicles and parts. The graphics are cartoony, the physics unrealistic and the cars non-licensed, but oddly the nature of the game dictates that you drive very carefully so as not to break anything. Each car has about 14 failure-prone systems. The problem is, some of the breakdowns seem completely random. It's damned annoying to lose a time trial to a mysterious and unavoidable tire blowout. So essentially you're playing an arcade racer with sim rules. It'd be nice if it went one way or the other, be it full sim or fully arcade like its distant cousin Top Gear Overdrive. If you can overlook the schizophrenic nature of the title, it has several good points. The cars are extremely maneuverable and are easily thrown around corners in full power-slide glory...that's fun. Also, the difficulty is balanced nicely. Since each race consists of three legs, you don't actually need to beat the other cars, just their times from checkpoint to checkpoint. Multiplayer, especially four-player, suffers from some slowdown but it's still playable. Overall, Saffire (the game's new developer) did a pretty good job with Kemco's baby, still, it's nothing to get too excited about.
It's a weird one this...it's like they wanted to do an arcade racer, but also wanted to make it a bit of a 'sim' hybrid. The result isn't particularly effective as the sim elements actually drag down what could be a reasonably playable arcade-style game. The graphics are a bit odd--all of the cars look a bit too 'toy like' for my liking and in places the environments leave a little to be desired. The whole thing handles OK...but it's certainly not the best racer on N64.
The N64 needs some serious racing sims, and I mean right now! Each month, we get a handful of N64 racers that: 1) all look alike 2) all play alike 3) all suck. Top Gear Overdrive was a decent racer last year, but I hardly recognize it for what it was. It's like Saffire wanted TGR2 to be a sim, but didn't take the time to do the homework. So what we have is a game that controls like an arcade racer, with all the dressings of a sim. Not fun, not pretty, not for me.
Arcade-style gameplay in driving games is what I like. Top Gear Rally 2 plays very much like an arcade racing game. Everything about the control is arcade-style. But unlike a true arcade racer, damage is counted sim-style, and it's way too easy to damage your car. Running through license tests are pretty fun, but the mix of sim and arcade styles just does not feel right in races against the CPU. An average racer in a crowded genre.
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