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Samena, Swiss bank Reyl plan $250 mln seed fund
Hong Kong's Samena Capital and Swiss boutique private bank and money manager Reyl & Cie SA plan to raise up to $250 million in a seed fund that will invest in hedge funds focusing on Asia, the Middle East and North Africa.
The two firms had committed $25 million to start Samena Angel Fund II, said Samena Capital founder and President Shirish Saraf, adding that Reyl would tap private bank clients to help expand the fund they expect to launch by October.
The firms announced a joint venture combining Samena Asia Managers, Samena Capital's hedge fund seeding business, with Reyl & Cie on Tuesday.
"That's the business we see going forward as a real synergy with REYL," Saraf told Reuters in an interview.
Reyl has bought a 50 percent stake in Samena Asia Managers.
"We have a better story together for how we grow the funds," the London School of Economics alumnus said.
Geneva-based Reyl Group manages $4.5 billion with offices in Paris, Luxembourg and Singapore.
Samena Asia Managers runs a $98 million seed fund — Samena Angel Fund I — which has invested in Chicago-based Asia-focused multi-strategy hedge fund Phalanx and Greater China long/short hedge fund Snow Lake.
The fund gave a 23.12 percent return since its launch in January 2007 to end of March 2011. By comparison, the MSCI AC Asia Pacific index was down 6.3 percent during the period.
Samena Angel Fund II would broaden the scope of the seed fund, said Julius Wang, a managing director at Samena Capital, adding that the fund may expand to managed accounts and create portfolios that might interest clients form Europe.
"We will reach out to a broader audience for Fund II," Wang said.
In May 2009, Samena Capital bought Vision Asia Pacific Ltd co-founded by Wang to create a hedge fund seeding platform.
Samena Capital focuses on Asia, the Middle East and North Africa and manages more than $400 million in private equity assets with a research presence in India and Bahrain, the firm is in the process of launching its second special situations fund with a targeted amount of $700 million.
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By Hedge Funds India	– May 7, 2011
Soros and Paulson move in opposite directions as gold declines
Two of the world's most successful investors have gone head to head over the price of gold, with the man who broke the Bank of England baling out of the precious metal and the man who made a fortune by betting against the American housing market talking it up.
At the end of a week when plunging commodity prices fuelled speculation that the boom might be over, it emerged that George Soros– who made $1.1bn from betting against the pound in 1992 – has sold much of the gold and silver holdings he has built up in the past three years, realising an estimated return of 65% on his investment.
By contrast, meanwhile, John Paulson, who made his hedge fund more than $20bn from betting against the US housing market by "shorting" sub-prime mortgages, this week told investors that he still has most of his personal money invested in gold.
The billionaires' differing stances emerged as the gold price fell by a further 1.6% and silver rounded off its worst week in at least 35 years, dropping another 9.6% to take its losses over the week to a startling 29%.
The week's declines in precious metals probably came as little surprise to Soros, who implied he thought gold was in danger of dropping as far back down as January last year's price, telling the Davos Economic Forum: "When interest rates are low we have conditions for asset bubbles to develop, and they are developing at the moment. The ultimate asset bubble is gold."
Paulson takes quite a different view on price, telling investors that gold could increase from its present, near-record, level of about $1,487 an ounce to as much as $4,000 over the next three to five years.
He believes the gold price will keep rising – after increasing by nearly half in the past three years – in large part, he says, by providing an effective store of value against rising inflation.
That two such successful investors should take such wildly differing views on the price of gold underlines how much uncertainty surrounds the prices of precious metals and other commodities, at least in the short term.
Like many other commodities, the price of gold has surged in recent months as high inflation and low interest rates prompt speculators to move away from US treasuries and other low-yielding assets in search of higher returns.
In addition to the negative real interest rate, investors have been piling into commodities such as gold and silver because the struggling US dollar – in which many of them are priced – has made them cheaper and increased their attractiveness as an alternative currency and investment of value.
Furthermore, demand from manufacturers for the raw materials they need to make their products has been increasing, as the Chinese economy powers ahead and the European and American economies pick up.
As a result, prices of commodities such as gold, silver, cocoa and coffee have hit record, or near-record, highs in recent weeks, prompting speculation that the rally may have been overdone.
Traders and economists are divided about whether last week's rout marks the top of the commodities market, or represents a temporary blip before prices continue to surge.
However, most distinguish between the long term and the short term. At some point in the short term, commodity prices will flatten, or quite possibly fall, but in the longer term, the upward trend must continue. Derek Holt, vice-president Economics at Scotia Capital, in Toronto, said: "In the longer run, we are only in the early days of the commodities boom. Only 15% of households in India have a fridge and while China may now be the biggest car market in the world, it has only a fraction of the penetration of the US or UK. Emerging market growth has a long way to go and will put huge pressure on commodity prices."
Holt believes that commodities have hit the top of the market since they have "run too far ahead of other fundamentals". However, he also thinks that prices will start to rise again at some point in the second half of the year and, subject to the odd fluctuation, predicts that commodity prices from oil to coffee, and copper to cocoa and gold could at least double in the next 20 years or less as increasingly wealthy populations of China, India and other emerging economies demand more consumer goods.
The price rises would put huge pressure on the lifestyles of people in the west, whose slower-growth economies would be less able to weather their impact than those of the fast-growing emerging nations, where breakneck growth would far outstrip rising commodity costs, he said.
After diving by as much as 12% on Thursday – and by nearly another 5% this morning – oil rebounded following the release of strong employment data in the US that strengthened its economic outlook.
Oil was up $0.41, at $111.21 a barrel, late this afternoon, after hitting $126 last week.
Source: Guardian
India-focused hedge funds ranked among world's top performers
Hedge funds investing in India are not making as much headlines as they did during the previous bull run in 2007-08, but they seem to be making money for investors . Good enough to be ranked among the best-performing hedge funds globally, according to analysts at Singapore's fund research house Eurekahedge.
The Eurekahedge Indian Hedge Fund Index returned over 5% in the first eight months of 2010 vis-à-vis 2% gains by benchmark Sensex in the same period. The numbers for September were not available. Asset managers attribute the decent performance of India-focused hedge funds to the buoyant stock market, 'long only' strategies by their managers and gains in mid-cap shares.
Within Indian hedge funds, 68% of the funds employ 'long-short' equity strategy — a mix of buying assets as well as short-selling them — and more than 70% of the funds invest in equities, said experts.
"Hedge funds are active in Indian equities," Farhan Mumtaz, senior analyst, Eurekahedge told ET. "Funds with global and emerging market mandates have also increased their allocations to India," he added.
Longer investment time-frame has helped hedge funds log better returns this year. Funds belonging to asset managers like Q-India, Halbis, FMG, Baer Capital and Insynergy have all outperformed benchmarks and key hedge fund indices during the considered period. The case was different in 2009, when the Eurekahedge Indian Hedge Fund Index returned just 52% against 76% logged by the Sensex.
According to Mr Mumtaz, most hedge funds have turned cautious and the proportion of 'long-short' strategy has come down from 80% in 2008-09 to 68% in 2010.
Long-short strategies involve allocating a specific percentage of the corpus to buy securities that are expected to go up while short-selling those expected to decline in value. When balanced correctly, long-short strategies provide absolute returns with low correlation to the benchmark.
Funds are employing broader mandates (such as multi-strategies) in their attempt to not remain dependent of price momentum of stocks. "Hedge fund managers tried complex strategies in 2008 and failed, as a result of which they been reasonably defensive in 2009 and 2010. They have now managed to get some good sectoral and stock calls," said Alok Sama, president, Baer Capital Partners.
According to him, hedge funds have managed to log higher returns by investing in liquid mid-caps. "Most of them have been long-term bets. However, buying Indian shares is a bit difficult now since most counters are trading at expensive price levels. The current market rally has been fuelled by excess liquidity," added Mr Sama.
Steady investment returns have resulted in the swelling-up of asset bases of most India-focused hedge funds over the past few months. Average asset under management of an Indian hedge fund is estimated at $65 million by fund researchers. Most of the money (for India-focused funds) is coming from hedge funds, family offices and high net worth investors.
Source: Economic Times
By Hedge Funds India	– October 23, 2010
Hedge Funds Growth in India
Slowly but surely, India hedge funds are beginning to offer the kind of strategies that can attract big fish such as London hedge fund giant Man Group, whose fund of hedge funds business could make its first direct allocation to an Indian hedge fund within a year, according to Asia business head Patric Gysin.
The entire Indian hedge fund universe is modest at around 50-60 funds. When that universe is boiled down to reveal those funds sophisticated enough to attract larger institutions and marquee fund of hedge funds (FoHF) investment from Europe or the US, it could more appropriately be described as a small planetary system – if one was feeling generous.
The $15bn FoHF portfolio of London-based hedge fund giant Man Group, for example, is 10-15% exposed to emerging markets and 1% exposed to India. None of the latter exposure is achieved through direct investment into dedicated India-based hedge funds, but rather via the firm's global emerging markets or pan-Asia funds, which then allocate a variable portion of their pot to Indian securities.
However, according the firm's Asia business head and senior portfolio advisor Patric Gysin, this is likely to change. Indeed, encouraging signs of life at the more liquid end of the Indian hedge fund market mean Man could realistically make its first direct investment into an India hedge fund within a year, he says.
Currently the firm is working closely with around ten India-based hedge funds – around half a dozen of which Gysin describes as "really serious India hedge funds with a track record and a mandate which suits our needs", and the remainder, which are recently launched funds offering encouraging new levels of flexibility in their approach.
Typically, India-based hedge funds are relatively risk-averse and illiquid equity funds, which fall somewhat short of the highly liquid, short-selling, alpha-generating strategies synonymous with the 'hedge fund' tag. Strategies which can help alleviate the volatility inherent in emerging markets, Gysin says.
"The India hedge fund universe is fairly limited. There aren't many liquid India strategies," he says, noting that the lack of shorting tools available in the Indian market has held its evolution back. "Hedging has been more difficult in India than most Asian markets, which hasn't helped. We are looking at maybe half a dozen liquid long/short India hedge fund managers. If we look at mandate and market structure and tick those boxes, that leaves a really small selection, which is why we don't have a dedicated India manager."
But a recent uptick in the launch of more nimble India-based hedge funds – predominantly from within Asia as opposed to the West – suggest that the hedge fund industry is becoming more aligned to the requirements of sophisticated investors like Man.
"There have been some promising hedge fund launches in the region," says Gysin, who declined to name individual fund managers. "We have come across some interesting managers who have launched liquid strategies in the last two years, which is encouraging. What we've seen in the last six months or so leads us to believe we will have a dedicated India exposure in the next 12 months."
According to Gysin, many of the existing 50-60 India-based hedge funds focus on small/mid-cap, Private Investment in Public Equity (Pipe) and pre-IPO investments as their staple diet. "This doesn't fit with what we are looking for," he says. Indeed, the theme of manager flexibility is paramount to Man's emerging market fund selection process, and the firm broadly avoids the "small, illiquid names" investing in these kinds of transactions.
"There is nothing wrong with Pipe transactions but you need a longer term investment horizon, incorporating three-year lock-ups. Many funds out there are static," he says. "We feel more comfortable with more liquid investors in emerging markets such as India; if things go wrong, which they regularly do in these markets, liquid managers are able to reduce their positions fairly quickly."
According to Gysin, Man's underlying managers have in common a flexible approach in terms of how much market risk their funds can take – some often operating as low as 10-20% net long, and sometimes even net short if necessary.
"[These managers] have proved they can really reduce market risk and take on market risk as well. We think having this flexibility is important in investing in emerging markets – those are volatile growth markets, so we think it is reasonable to have market exposure but to take a flexible approach to managing this exposure," he says. "When these managers think there is a storm on the horizon, they really reduce the exposure and risk in the portfolio, and on the other hand, when they think things are improving, they can take more risk."
If Man does eventually add an India-focused fund to its approved list, investment into the fund is most likely to be done via one of the firm's diversified long/short emerging market or pan-Asian funds, which have remits that allow them to invest in a large number of managers, Gysin says. The firm runs a wide range of products – some of which have limitations on the number of funds they can invest in, and are more likely to invest in regional hedge funds rather than country-specific offerings, he adds.
While Gysin notes that there are certain areas of the India market which he thinks need to improve in order to encourage Indian hedge fund activity – mainly revolving around ease of access and investment flexibility – equities will continue to present the best strategy for India-based hedge funds, and long/short equity investing will continue to form the basis of Man's Indian hedge fund exposure.
"India is pretty much an equity story. Hedge funds can only be as liquid as the underlying market; if the markets are drying up, so do hedge fund investors. The India equity market is fairly developed for local investors, and I would expect equities to be the most interesting way to capture upside," Gysin says.
"But to encourage the Indian hedge fund industry to grow, the regulations for shorting stocks have to improve – it's a headache for offshore managers investing in India through Mauritius entities. Whatever the regulators can do to ease market access for hedge funds will be positive for the markets – if the market has hedge fund participation, it increases liquidity and helps pricing mechanisms," he adds.
"India is still a challenging market to get exposure to," Gysin says, noting that while a massive institution like Man has the global resources to conduct thorough research and get close to the Indian market, smaller firms without a presence in the region will continue to find this difficult.
However, despite the challenges, the Indian bourse continues to appeal, and as India's economic story unfolds it looks increasing likely that Man will find an India-based hedge fund that ticks all the boxes. Indeed, even without allocation to a dedicated India manager, Man's exposure to Indian securities has increased via its regional funds, Gysin says, and the firm's long-term outlook for the market is very positive.
"Our exposure to India has increased in the last couple of months; the elections were important in order to get some clarity around the future of government, ongoing reforms and the expected reduction of India's fiscal deficit, which is all perceived as good news and we feel more comfortable in taking positions in India," he says. "Last year people considered the Indian market to be way too expensive, but the market has corrected somewhat, which has changed opinions a little, and more managers started to increase their Indian exposure over the last couple of months."
However, some caution still remains among Man's investors. "People are still worried – the biggest concerns I hear are over inflation," says Gysin. "Oil price is also a big risk to the Indian economy for obvious reasons, and the other risk I still hear is the geo-political risk regarding Pakistan. But over the medium term we have a positive view – especially with reform, privatisation and infrastructure shaping up."
Moreover, Gysin thinks hedge funds are the best vehicles through which to maximise the phenomenal growth on offer in India's huge, rapidly growing but relatively turbulent economy. "More than 40% of India's population is below 20 years old, which points to very strong demographic trends. The workforce is well educated and developed, and the ingredients are there for this to become a longer term success story. Long term, we are not worried by being long on India," he says. "But that comes with volatility, which is why we think a hedge fund strategy which can reduce downside considerably while participating in upside is the most appropriate strategy with which to approach India, and other emerging markets."
Source: HFM Week
By Hedge Funds India	– July 22, 2010
Kaiser, Caldwell acquire stake in BSE
Despite Dubai Financial Group calling off its plans to sell stake in the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), Toronto-based investment broker Thomas Caldwell and philanthropist George Kaiser have managed to acquire shares in Asia's oldest bourse.
Over the past few months, Kaiser has acquired over 3 per cent in BSE, while Caldwell has increased his shareholding from 3.8 per cent last year to 4.25 per cent through multiple private deals, exchange officials said. They said the shares had been purchased from brokers, as well as some of the institutional investors in BSE.
Along with US hedge fund legend George Soros and private equity firm J C Flowers, Caldwell and Kaiser were in the race to buy Dubai Financial Group LLC's four per cent stake in BSE. Kaiser, through his private equity firm, Argonaut, was the highest bidder and had offered to pay Rs 370 a share. But, looking at the rush, embattled Dubai Financial deferred its stake sale plans in anticipation of higher valuations in the future, said a deal maker.
Taking a cue from Caldwell and Kaiser, Soros and J C Flowers have also initiated talks with broker-members and institutional investors to acquire some stake in BSE.
According to market players, the rush for BSE stake is in anticipation of improved performance and further gains in the coming months. More players are expected to rush in following the BSE board's approval to issue 6.5 million fresh shares.
The valuation of the exchange has seen a sudden spurt in the recent past. Under the new management, BSE changed its derivative trading cycle to compete with the National Stock Exchange (NSE), launched a mutual fund trading platform and is upgrading its technology platform. The exchange has a near-28 per cent share of the equity spot market in India and has been making efforts to develop its derivative trading segment, where NSE is a monopoly player. BSE will launch currency derivatives in June and is also in the process of increasing its stake in Central Depository Services to 51 per cent.
Currently, six foreign investors hold 25.65 per cent of BSE and five Indian institutions hold 12 per cent. A little under 62 per cent of the exchange's shares are widely held.
Kaiser is the majority shareholder of a largely successful Bank of Oklahoma and GBK Corporation, parent of Kaiser-Francis Oil Company (an independent oil and gas exploration and production company) and founder of Excelerate Energy.
Caldwell is recognised as one of the world's foremost investors in securities exchanges and his clients have holdings in Hong Kong, Johannesburg, London, Osaka, Toronto, the Chicago Board Options Exchange and the International Stock Exchange. Caldwell has been at the helm of affairs during every major consolidation of stock exchanges in the US.
By Hedge Funds India	– June 5, 2010
Arcstone's passage to India: picks up 5% stake in Dhanlaxmi Bank
The US-based hedge fund Arcstone Capital LLC has made a passage to India by picking up close to 5% stake in the Kerala-based old generation private sector bank —Dhanlaxmi Bank. The fund has mopped up the shares in the bank through its investment vehicle Passage to India Master Fund Ltd. The Denver-based hedge fund has been scouring for value buys in India for the past couple of years.
Aster Business Research Pvt Ltd is the sole advisor for the US-hedge fund in shaping its India strategy. However, investment in Dhanlaxmi Bank is the first step for Arcstone in India is not immediately known. Aster officials were not available for comment.
According to information available with FE, Arcstone, through its India-specific investment fund Passage To India Master Fund Ltd has bought 30 lakh shares of Dhanlaxmi Bank on the BSE in a single off-market deal on Friday. This translates into roughly 5% stake in the Kerala-based bank.
Arcstone has bought the stake from Mavi Investment Fund Ltd, Mauritius for a consideration of Rs 140 a share, coughing up a premium of Rs 7.15 per share over the closing price of the scrip on BSE at Rs 132.85 on Friday. The total consideration of the deal works out to be Rs 42 crore. This puts the bank's enterprise value at around Rs 840 crore.
It could not be immediately ascertained weather the Fund had informed the banking regulator RBI about the buy. The RBI guidelines stipulates that any investor whose holding is nearing 5% of the total voting capital of a bank should informed the apex bank about the move in advance.
Dhanlaxmi Bank was in the eye of a storm when P Raja Mohan Rao and persons acting in concert (PACs) with him picked over 37% stake in the Bank in 2002. The move created a stir among the minority shareholders who cried foul over Rao group's virtual takeover of the Bank, which was not having any foreign or domestic promoters. Subsequently, banking regulator RBI had stepped in and asked the Rao family to bring down their stake in the bank to less than 10% level. The Rao family has pared their stake in Dhanlaxmi Bank to 10% level in September 2007, following the apex bank's order.
Currently, Raja Mohan Rao holds 9.68% stake in the bank, while Lotus Global Investments holds 4.82% stake.
Source: Financial Express
By Hedge Funds India	– April 24, 2010
Advantages of Mauritius for hedge funds
Global business in Mauritius is active mainly in the area of investment in India, Africa and China. Mauritius is a leading provider of foreign direct investment in India due to favourable treatment under the double taxation agreement between the two countries.
Since the signing of the agreement, many investment and hedge funds have been (and continue to be) incorporated in Mauritius for the specific purpose of investment in India. The benefits of including Mauritius in investment in the Indian market are unparalleled, whether by way of a collective investment scheme, a closed-end fund or other investment vehicle.
Institutions, like individuals, are making more calculated decisions to maximize productivity and reduce risk and unqualified expenses. A more cautious period for hedge funds is thus envisaged, with international clients rethinking large-scale refinancing and extending timeframes for existing projects.
The advantages of setting up a hedge fund in Mauritius include:
the existence of double taxation treaties with countries in, among other places, Asia, Africa and Europe;
taxation benefits – funds are taxed at a rate of 15%, but benefit from a tax credit which is equivalent to the higher of any tax deducted at source or 80% of the tax liability. There is no capital gains tax and no withholding tax on dividends;
a favourable timezone;
its ranking as the 17th best economy of 183 economies in terms of business facilities, according to the "Doing Business Report 2010";
a strong legal framework and regulations;
its qualified and experienced labour force;
excellent IT infrastructure and internet connections;
political stability and effective monetary policies; and
the presence of international banks, accounting firms and law firms.
The Financial Services Commission developed flexible guidelines for the regulation of collective investment schemes, adopting industry best practice from various long-established and well-regarded jurisdictions. This has resulted in the incorporation of more than 439 investment funds and assets worth in excess of $43 billion.
Mauritius remains committed to developing and maintaining conditions which are conducive to attracting international business and has hosted significant investments in India, China and Africa by global business companies. Many such companies (including fund management companies) were formed by large institutional players, attracted by Mauritius's established reputation as a centre of excellence and innovation, supported by responsible asset protection laws and robust anti-money-laundering laws.
Mauritius benefits from its strategic location in the Indian Ocean between India and Africa and has double taxation agreements with several African countries.
The Mauritius Stock Exchange is one of the most stable and effective in the African region. Over the years its operational, regulatory and technical framework has been overhauled to reflect changing standards in the global stock market environment. It is a part of the World Federation of Exchanges.
The stock market was opened to foreign investors following the lifting of exchange control in 1994. Foreign investors need no approval to trade shares, unless investment is for the purpose of assuming legal or management control of a Mauritian company or acquiring more than 15% of a sugar company. Foreign investors benefit from numerous incentives (eg, revenue on sale of shares can be freely repatriated), and dividends and capital gains are tax free.
The opportunity exists to develop new types of instrument and investment vehicle and to plan education and training in relation to the development of new services.
For further information on this topic please contact Malcolm Moller at Appleby by telephone (+2 30 203 4300), fax (+2 30 210 8792) or email (mmoller@applebyglobal.com).
Source: International Law Office
By Hedge Funds India	– March 10, 2010
2 Monsoon India Inflection Hedge Funds Reach $387.9M Total
According to separate amended Reg D filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, two hedge funds managed by Bethesda-based Monsoon Capital have gathered $387.9 million total in pooled investment fund interests.
Monsoon India Inflection Fund LP now has $163.1 million from 93 investors, while Monsoon India Inflection Fund 2 LP has $224.8 million from 167 investors.
Principals named in the filings are MIIF General Partner LLC and its manager, Gautam Prakash, who is also founder and senior managing director of Monsoon Capital.
Source: City Bizlist
Hedge funds get smart to avoid bonus barriers
Hedge fund investors could be left out of pocket as managers conjure up shortcuts to earn once again the lucrative bonuses based on performance fees that were a feature of the industry before the credit crisis.
Despite 20 percent returns last year, big losses in 2008 mean that between a half and two-thirds of hedge funds are below high-water marks — performance levels they must hit before claiming a 20-percent fee on a fund's profits.
This could persuade more managers to move to new firms where they can start earning these bumper fees straight away, forcing clients to decide whether the quality of the managers justifies the additional cost and disruption needed to follow them.
"If certain funds don't reach their high-water marks, not the founders but the number 2s or numbers 3s in a hedge fund firm could start looking at other roles," said one prime broker who declined to be named.
Managers staying put might be tempted to take greater risks to hit high-water marks, or could close a fund to new investors, only to launch a new and similar fund where clients committing new money will pay fees on performance straight away.
Like a mark on a riverbank showing how high past floods have reached, high-water marks are the top net asset value hit by a fund in its lifetime, and below these levels, a manager can't get performance fees even if the fund makes money.
The intention is to stop managers taking fees, beyond standard management charges, simply for making back money lost in previous years.
Firms such as Man Group, Brevan Howard and GLG have launched versions of their hedge funds as Ucits III funds, a more regulated structure that allows them to be sold across Europe, hence opening up the strategy to a wider pool of investors.
Such funds can often earn performance fees straight away, even if the funds they mirror are still 'under water'.
"One attraction of launching a new fund is that managers can immediately begin to earn performance fees on the new vehicle," said Kate Hollis, lead analyst at S&P Fund Services.
With the average fund down 2.7 percent over the past two years, frustration is growing as managers find themselves some way off earning the fees to which they have become accustomed.
"It will create some changes — new openings or some (funds) closing," said Patrick Fenal, chief executive of Unigestion, which runs $3.1 billion in funds of hedge funds.
Moreover, managers who are above their high water marks may be unhappy sharing their bonuses with less successful managers and could leave for a rival.
"The incentive for someone who's performed very, very well to stay in a shop where de facto bonuses will be less than elsewhere (is less). They could create their own fund or go and work for someone else," said Unigestion's Fenal.
GLG star Greg Coffey's departure in 2008 was linked by some commentators to the firm's funds being below high-water marks. A source close to Coffey said on Tuesday: "This is nonsense and it never had anything to do with high-water marks".
GLG declined to comment.
Data from Hedge Fund Research shows just 31 percent of hedge funds hit high-water marks during the fourth quarter last year, and barely half hit it during the whole of 2009.
TAKING RISKS
Regulators' concerns lie elsewhere, and fears have been raised that managers some way off high-water marks may be encouraged to take riskier bets with investors' money.
"There may be incentives to take greater risk," Britain's Financial Services Authority said in a survey of 50 firms, released last week, which showed about half of hedge funds' main share classes were below their high-water mark.
Unigestion's Fenal said checks on such funds were vital.
"Most good managers are above historical high-water marks. All the ones below are more questionable. You have to question in your due diligence your motivation to keep them, to be sure they won't have (risky) behavioural patterns to reach the desired level (to earn fees)," he said.
However, some doubt whether moves such as setting up new funds will really get past investors' watchful eyes.
"Do I think some people are going to do it? Yes, of course some people are going to do it," said David Aldrich, head of securities industry banking at Bank of New York Mellon. "But … I think investors will see through that very quickly."
Standard & Poor's Brings the S&P 500 to India
Standard & Poor's, the world's leading index provider, announced today that it has licensed the National Stock Exchange of India (NSE), the largest stock exchange in India, to create and list Indian Rupee-denominated futures contracts on the S&P 500 (subject to regulatory approvals).
The licensing agreement, jointly from S&P and S&P-licensee Chicago Mercantile Exchange to NSE, is part of a landmark cross-listing arrangement announced today by CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, and NSE that covers benchmark indices for U.S. and Indian equities. The Rupee-denominated S&P 500 futures contracts will be made available on NSE via a sublicense from Standard & Poor's.
Widely considered the single best gauge of the U.S. equity market since it launch in 1957, the S&P 500 is the world's most followed stock market index with nearly $1 trillion directly indexed and $3.51 trillion benchmarked to it.
"Indian investors, like their counterparts around the world, want index products that provide immediate access to the world's equity markets," says Alexander Matturri, Executive Managing Director at S&P Indices. "We are excited to be working with both NSE and CME Group to bring the premier U.S. equity market gauge, the S&P 500, to Indian investors."
"Today's agreement with NSE is a significant milestone in the integration of Indian capital markets with global markets. It represents the first time that Indian investors will be able to directly trade the U.S. equity markets as defined by the S&P 500. It also underscores Standard & Poor's commitment to providing index solutions to all of Asia Pacific, since this is the first time that the S&P 500 will trade as a derivative on a non-US exchange," adds Roopa Kudva, Region Head, South Asia, Standard & Poor's.
For more information about S&P Indices, please visit www.standardandpoors.com/indices.
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Source: PR Newswire
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namespace aquacore
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template <class ContainerAllocator>
struct GetNamedIntRequest_
{
  typedef GetNamedIntRequest_<ContainerAllocator> Type;

  GetNamedIntRequest_()
    : name()  {
    }
  GetNamedIntRequest_(const ContainerAllocator& _alloc)
    : name(_alloc)  {
    }

   typedef std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, typename ContainerAllocator::template rebind<char>::other >  _name_type;
  _name_type name;

  typedef boost::shared_ptr< ::aquacore::GetNamedIntRequest_<ContainerAllocator> > Ptr;
  typedef boost::shared_ptr< ::aquacore::GetNamedIntRequest_<ContainerAllocator> const> ConstPtr;

}; // struct GetNamedIntRequest_

typedef ::aquacore::GetNamedIntRequest_<std::allocator<void> > GetNamedIntRequest;

typedef boost::shared_ptr< ::aquacore::GetNamedIntRequest > GetNamedIntRequestPtr;
typedef boost::shared_ptr< ::aquacore::GetNamedIntRequest const> GetNamedIntRequestConstPtr;

// constants requiring out of line definition

template<typename ContainerAllocator>
std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream& s, const ::aquacore::GetNamedIntRequest_<ContainerAllocator> & v)
{
ros::message_operations::Printer< ::aquacore::GetNamedIntRequest_<ContainerAllocator> >::stream(s, "", v);
return s;
}

} // namespace aquacore

namespace ros
{
namespace message_traits
{

// BOOLTRAITS {'IsFixedSize': False, 'IsMessage': True, 'HasHeader': False}
// {'sensor_msgs': ['/opt/ros/indigo/share/sensor_msgs/cmake/../msg'], 'geometry_msgs': ['/opt/ros/indigo/share/geometry_msgs/cmake/../msg'], 'actionlib_msgs': ['/opt/ros/indigo/share/actionlib_msgs/cmake/../msg'], 'std_msgs': ['/opt/ros/indigo/share/std_msgs/cmake/../msg'], 'aquacore': ['/home/2014/tko4/robotAss1/src/aquacore/msg', '/home/2014/tko4/robotAss1/devel/share/aquacore/msg']}

// !!!!!!!!!!! ['__class__', '__delattr__', '__dict__', '__doc__', '__eq__', '__format__', '__getattribute__', '__hash__', '__init__', '__module__', '__ne__', '__new__', '__reduce__', '__reduce_ex__', '__repr__', '__setattr__', '__sizeof__', '__str__', '__subclasshook__', '__weakref__', '_parsed_fields', 'constants', 'fields', 'full_name', 'has_header', 'header_present', 'names', 'package', 'parsed_fields', 'short_name', 'text', 'types']

template <class ContainerAllocator>
struct IsFixedSize< ::aquacore::GetNamedIntRequest_<ContainerAllocator> >
  : FalseType
  { };

template <class ContainerAllocator>
struct IsFixedSize< ::aquacore::GetNamedIntRequest_<ContainerAllocator> const>
  : FalseType
  { };

template <class ContainerAllocator>
struct IsMessage< ::aquacore::GetNamedIntRequest_<ContainerAllocator> >
  : TrueType
  { };

template <class ContainerAllocator>
struct IsMessage< ::aquacore::GetNamedIntRequest_<ContainerAllocator> const>
  : TrueType
  { };

template <class ContainerAllocator>
struct HasHeader< ::aquacore::GetNamedIntRequest_<ContainerAllocator> >
  : FalseType
  { };

template <class ContainerAllocator>
struct HasHeader< ::aquacore::GetNamedIntRequest_<ContainerAllocator> const>
  : FalseType
  { };

template<class ContainerAllocator>
struct MD5Sum< ::aquacore::GetNamedIntRequest_<ContainerAllocator> >
{
  static const char* value()
  {
    return "c1f3d28f1b044c871e6eff2e9fc3c667";
  }

  static const char* value(const ::aquacore::GetNamedIntRequest_<ContainerAllocator>&) { return value(); }
  static const uint64_t static_value1 = 0xc1f3d28f1b044c87ULL;
  static const uint64_t static_value2 = 0x1e6eff2e9fc3c667ULL;
};

template<class ContainerAllocator>
struct DataType< ::aquacore::GetNamedIntRequest_<ContainerAllocator> >
{
  static const char* value()
  {
    return "aquacore/GetNamedIntRequest";
  }

  static const char* value(const ::aquacore::GetNamedIntRequest_<ContainerAllocator>&) { return value(); }
};

template<class ContainerAllocator>
struct Definition< ::aquacore::GetNamedIntRequest_<ContainerAllocator> >
{
  static const char* value()
  {
    return "string name\n\
";
  }

  static const char* value(const ::aquacore::GetNamedIntRequest_<ContainerAllocator>&) { return value(); }
};

} // namespace message_traits
} // namespace ros

namespace ros
{
namespace serialization
{

  template<class ContainerAllocator> struct Serializer< ::aquacore::GetNamedIntRequest_<ContainerAllocator> >
  {
    template<typename Stream, typename T> inline static void allInOne(Stream& stream, T m)
    {
      stream.next(m.name);
    }

    ROS_DECLARE_ALLINONE_SERIALIZER;
  }; // struct GetNamedIntRequest_

} // namespace serialization
} // namespace ros

namespace ros
{
namespace message_operations
{

template<class ContainerAllocator>
struct Printer< ::aquacore::GetNamedIntRequest_<ContainerAllocator> >
{
  template<typename Stream> static void stream(Stream& s, const std::string& indent, const ::aquacore::GetNamedIntRequest_<ContainerAllocator>& v)
  {
    s << indent << "name: ";
    Printer<std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, typename ContainerAllocator::template rebind<char>::other > >::stream(s, indent + "  ", v.name);
  }
};

} // namespace message_operations
} // namespace ros

#endif // AQUACORE_MESSAGE_GETNAMEDINTREQUEST_H

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My second week training has gone well. Last week I managed 2 runs and 1 gym session and felt great! Today I attended my second cardiac rehab class and enjoyed the company. It was humbling to hear the stories of others who had suffered heart attacks. Several people described the psychological impact of coming to terms with an unexpected cardiac event. I compared my experience to theirs and certainly feel lucky that my heart condition was easy to resolve. I know I did nothing wrong in terms of lifestyle, diet etc to cause the defect so there is no guilt for me to deal with. All my focus has been on returning to my level of fitness. I am so grateful that I have no heart disease and hopefully never will have!
My main concern this weeks is a very sore neck. This is likely muscular pain following my surgery and is a bit of a pain! I have reduced most of my painkillers down and I am keen to stop them completely. I had a reflexology session on Monday which was fascinating and very accurate about my problems! I am trying Indian head massage on Friday so I am hoping this will relieve the ongoing pain.
I have dropped back on my walks in favour of runs, I completed 2.3 miles today. The endorphins I get from running are incredible. I almost had forgotten what they felt like! It all feels real now, and I am not afraid to tell people I am training for a marathon and fully intend to have a good triathlon season next year. I have even had my first offer of sponsorship from the cardiac rehab team.
3 more weeks until I can get back on my bike and into the pool!
Me and my healing scar!


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He received his Bachelors in Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur and was awarded an Institute Silver Medal.
He holds an M.S. from Stanford University.
An MBA degree holder from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was named a Siebel Scholar.
He worked in Applied Materials & McKinsey Co.
Sundar Pichai joined Google in 2004.
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Tales of the Double: My Second Self Leads a Workshop Years Ahead of Me
I was attending a conference in the Boston area when I was approached by a pleasant-looking couple who might have been in their early forties. The husband, David, introduced himself as a medical equipment salesman from Connecticut; his wife as a registered nurse. They seemed intelligent, articulate, and well-grounded; they had brought a cooler full of provisions they offered to share over lunch. The only oddity was that they seemed unusually deferential to someone who was simply another conference attendee.
"We want to thank you for that workshop we attended last fall," David said. "You changed our lives."
"Which workshop do you mean?"
"The weekend workshop in upstate New York."
"What was I teaching?"
David looked puzzled as he told me how my workshop had brought shamanism and dreamwork together. "You showed us how to journey through the images from our sleep dreams."
I was flabbergasted. I had been thinking about going public with the approach I now call Active Dreaming. I had dreamed on several nights of leading workshops in shamanic dreaming. But I had not yet held one in physical reality — at least, not in my physical reality.
I told David, "You must have confused me with someone else."
David looked at his wife, who knitted her eyebrows.
"That's impossible," she protested. "Your voice, your white hair, your whole way of being — "
"You're a pretty hard guy to mistake for someone else."
"And we spent the whole weekend with you," his wife came back.
"I'll never forget it."
"That's very interesting," I told them. "I've dreamed of holding a workshop like the one you describe. But I haven't done it yet, not in this reality."
"You're kidding."
I shook my head. David looked at his wife, who made a face and tugged at his arm. As they walked away, she scowled back at me, obviously convinced that I was toying with them.
Later in the day, when David passed me on the way to the cooler, he gave me a conspiratorial wink and said in a stage whisper, "Shamans are tricky characters."
What was going on here? Did my dream reality somehow become waking reality for that earnest couple from Connecticut? Dreaming, could I have projected a double who seemed solid enough — un hombre de carne y hueso — to students at a holistic center? Were we caught up in some kind of time loop, so that in their reality the Connecticut couple went to a workshop that I gave two years later in my physical reality (in which they were not present — at least, not yet). Or were the three of us somehow caught up in a collective, confusing hallucination?
If I had been quicker off the mark, I suppose I might have asked the Connecticut couple if they had a receipt for the workshop they attended. Maybe the center where it was held owes me money!
There are doubles and doubles. St. Augustine left us the intriguing story of a philosopher who urgently wanted to consult a colleague living several hundred miles away. To his great delight, his friend called on him that night, and they had a long conversation in which the philosopher was able to clarify his thinking in areas critical to his work. He wrote to his colleague afterward to thank him for his providential visit — and was astonished to receive a letter back in which his friend told him that he had never left his hometown, but remembered conversing with the philosopher in a dream.
The Capuchin monk Padre Pio rarely left his cloister but reportedly turned up on scores of occasions at other locations in a second body to preach sermons or counsel those in need. He attributed these feats to what he called "prolongation of the personality."
St. Anthony of Padua was credited with similar gifts. As he lay on his deathbed, he appeared to a friend hundreds of miles away, in seemingly corporeal form, and informed him that he had left his "donkey" — his physical body — in Padua.
In her remarkable book, Dancing in the Shadows of the Moon, Machaelle Small Wright describes her experience of a "split molecular process" resulting in bilocation in two separate orders of reality. "My soul operates out of two separate, but related physical bodies." One is her own; the other belongs to a servicewoman who was killed in World War II and now lives with a group headed by "Eisenhower" in an (astral?) locale called the Cottage. Machaelle says the Cottage is situated in the "England equivalent" of "a planet that exists in a sister dimension of reality…within a band of form identical to our own." She travels there by picturing the locale and willing herself to go. She insists that this is something distinct from a dream or an "out-of-body" experience, because "real" time elapses, she eats "real" food, and she is subject to "real" pleasure and pain.
While the sight of one's energy double, or doppelgänger, arouses fear in many cultures — especially the fear of impending death — the double may be something more. In Charles William's novel, Descent into Hell, Pauline goes in fear of her "double" all her life — so terrified she avoids walking alone — only to discover it is no horror, but her spiritual self, her "unfallen self" as originally conceived in heaven. When the two come together, she can begin to live her true destiny, which includes helping to release earthbound souls.
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Q: I cannot limit Java heap size I've set java heap size limit with Xmx128m in "idea64.vmoptions" file of Intellij. However, even though I'm allocating gigabytes of memory in my code, the program still works, I don't get any not enough memory error.
What is the explanation of this behaviour.
PS:Intellij reads the file "idea64.vmoptions", I checked it, that is, when I set it to Xmx16m, even the Intellij cannot start.
Thanks

A: I think, idea64.vmoptions sets the options required for running IntelliJ Idea itself. It does not control the options for running java programs inside IntelliJ.
Check the Edit Configurations of the your respective project type. For example, in configuration of a jar application: VM options box is present to set the java options required to run the jar file. Setting -Xmx128m in this box should work for you.

A: vm options declared in idea64.vmoptions is only used for intelliJ to lauch. For project specific configurations can be done through
Editing "Run"->"Run/Debug COnfigurations" in intelliJ idea.

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The Contemporary Blacksmith, brings together over 500 works by nearly 200 artist-craftsmen from 16 countries to illustrate the unprecedented activity in modern ironwork. Meilach shows how metal work has blossomed into a serious art form over the past twenty five years. She introduces some of the men and women who are fascinated by smithing, and why and how the act of manipulating metal becomes such a powerful muse. You could easily be inspired to pick up a hammer and try your hand at this ancient art form gone modern.


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Thanks for all the effort you put into making this guide. The build looks good, going to give it a try in Delve League.
Is it possible to drop a 6-link setup for Kaom's heart? If so, wouldn't tornado shot be decent for both single target and clear?
Very nice guide, I was looking for a build revolving around Voidfletcher.
You could if you wanted to. Ice shot is better for clearing but tshot is certainly still reasonable with it too, even without the enchant. And Voidshot picks up some of the slack too.
Tbh I don't think the extra life would be worth it unless you're doing HC, I got by just fine with 4.8k, with most of the deaths coming from endgame bosses (mostly uber elder or the occasional bugged invisible eradicator).
I suppose if you're really desperate for some more defense, you could do something like socket a Vigil jewel (in the duelist's jewel socket) and use Vigilant strike (+ancestral call for usability) on your weapon swap; you'd get a ~30-35 second fortify that'd give you about as much ehp as using kaom's while giving up just one jewel socket instead of your entire chestpiece and 6L. That'd be enough to protect against the few hard-to-avoid things that approached a oneshot on me (like uber elder's tentacle slam or purifier's exploding weapon throw).
The new Caustic Arrow might be better than Tornado Shot for this build now that it shotguns. Damage should be more consistent too as you wouldn't have to worry about secondary projectiles missing. You don't need an expensive helm enchant for caustic arrow either.
Yup, I saw the reveal and I thought the same thing, it's very possible I'll change it up.
Right now Tshot with 5 projectiles without the enchant is usually around 3 hits for me, give or take a bit. At 109% base damage at level 20, that'd be 327% damage per attack.
New Caustic should be around 73.6% base damage at level 20, with potential for 5 overlaps, meaning 368% damage per attack even without piercing. If I have a source of piercing I can fire through the target and have them explode behind, so I can get one additional hit per use, so 6 hits for 441.6% total damage per attack.
Even with dying sun adding a couple projectiles (and aoe), it would likely affect both in roughly comparable way.
I think Tshot would be better with the enchant, but without it I think Caustic would win out (and be more consistent). Plus I'd then convert away 100% of my phys damage on my single-target skill, which would make me able to run phys reflect maps safely (previously I had to be careful using tshot vs phys reflect... it wouldn't 1shot me against a boss, but it would chip me down faster than i could leech). It wouldn't get rid of ALL my phys (void shot still has 10% unconverted), so i'd still trigger phys thorns mobs unfortunately, but it'd be enough to ignore phys reflect.
Now that Rain of Arrows includes the ''projectile'' tag in its skill gem, do you think this is a substitute for tornado shot?
RoA having a projectile tag affects almost nothing, it just means that "+2 to socketed projectile gems" mods will affect it... tags do a lot less than people think they do, determining what gems work with +gem mods like that are one of their only impacts. Actually, I'm wondering why they didn't so something similar for ALL bow gems, it seems odd to just cherrypick RoA to get that tag.
Anyway, RoA would be a bad replacement for Tshot, RoA is very much not a good single target skill... it could be a replacement for ice shot if you wanna use it for clearing instead though, it should feel fine for that.
Where the hell did you get perma blind? Cant find on the build.
Pandemonius. Blind chilled enemies on hit. Everything gets chilled (even if not by hits, ice shot's ground does the trick), so enemies get blinded as soon as they're hit a second time, if they live that long.
Oh, I missed linking it in my 'full' setup, that explains that. I'll add it in.


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Mr. Rajan Brito has a LLB (University of London) and MBA (London City Business School) degrees and is a Fellow of both Institutes of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka and England and Wales. Presently Mr. Brito is the Deputy Chairman and Managing Director of Aitken Spence PLC.
Mr. G.C. Wickremasinghe started his career in 1954 on an Aitken Spence managed plantation. He has therefore had an unbroken association of nearly 60 years with the Company.
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Giselle Andrea Kañevsky (née le  à Buenos Aires) est une joueuse de hockey sur gazon argentine.

Carrière
Avec l'équipe d'Argentine de hockey sur gazon féminin, elle est médaillée de bronze aux Jeux olympiques d'été de 2008. Elle remporte aussi la Coupe du monde en 2010.

Notes et références

Joueuse argentine de hockey sur gazon
Naissance en août 1985
Naissance à Buenos Aires
Joueuse de hockey sur gazon aux Jeux olympiques d'été de 2008
Médaillée de bronze olympique argentine
Championne du monde de hockey sur gazon


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Q: NLTokenizer fails to enumerate words when text starts with Unicode "Other Symbol" followed directly by word I'm trying to tokenize a string into words in a Cocoa app, but ran into a problem with NLTokenizer.
When the input string starts with a symbol from the Unicode category "Other Symbol" or the block "Specials", like the NSTextAttachment.character, tokenizing fails (i.e. returns empty list).
The problem only occurs when the symbol is followed directly by a word without a space (see examples below).
Use case:
I have an NSAttributedString that can contain images anywhere in the text. Those are represented internally by the Object Replacement Character (U+FFFC). When a document starts with an image followed directly by a word, not a space, tokenizing fails.
To reproduce:
/// Splits by natural language words.
static let tokenizeByWord:(String)-> [String] = { input in

    let tokenizer = NLTokenizer(unit: .word)
    tokenizer.string = input

    var tokens = [String]()

    tokenizer.enumerateTokens(in: input.startIndex..<input.endIndex) { tokenRange, _ in
        let token = input[tokenRange]
        tokens.append(String(token))
        return true
    }
    return tokens
}
//  These all fail: (string starts with symbol, followed by word)
XCTAssertEqual(tokenizeByWord("\u{FFFC}hello world"), ["hello", "world"])
XCTAssertEqual(tokenizeByWord("©hello world"), ["hello", "world"])
XCTAssertEqual(tokenizeByWord("®hello world"), ["hello", "world"])
XCTAssertEqual(tokenizeByWord("|hello world"), ["hello", "world"])
XCTAssertEqual(tokenizeByWord("\\hello world"), ["hello", "world"])

// ✅ These all pass: (space after symbol)
XCTAssertEqual(tokenizeByWord("\u{FFFC} hello world"), ["\u{FFFC}", "hello", "world"])
XCTAssertEqual(tokenizeByWord("© hello world"), ["©", "hello", "world"])
XCTAssertEqual(tokenizeByWord("® hello world"), ["®", "hello", "world"])
XCTAssertEqual(tokenizeByWord("| hello world"), ["|", "hello", "world"])
XCTAssertEqual(tokenizeByWord("\\ hello world"), ["\\", "hello", "world"])

// ✅ These all pass: (no space, but symbol rigth before second word)
XCTAssertEqual(tokenizeByWord("hello \u{FFFC}world"), ["hello", "world"])
XCTAssertEqual(tokenizeByWord("hello ©world"), ["hello", "world"])
XCTAssertEqual(tokenizeByWord("hello ®world"), ["hello", "world"])
XCTAssertEqual(tokenizeByWord("hello |world"), ["hello", "world"])
XCTAssertEqual(tokenizeByWord("hello \\world"), ["hello", "world"])

// ✅ Emoji pass with and without space:
XCTAssertEqual(tokenizeByWord("hello world" ), ["", "hello", "world"])
XCTAssertEqual(tokenizeByWord(" hello world"), ["", "hello", "world"])

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Treinta de Agosto, aussi stylisé 30 de Agosto, est une localité argentine située dans le  de Trenque Lauquen, dans la province de Buenos Aires.

Histoire
L'origine de la localité de Treinta de Agosto est due à la Colonia La Fortuna, l'une des plus anciennes du district. L'administration était dirigée par Miguel Llambías, qui représentait les propriétaires par l'intermédiaire de la société Coelho y Cía, qui en 1905 a vendu les champs à Justo G. de Urquiza. Plus tard, le , dans le  de Lomas de Zamora, le  Justo G. de Urquiza vend à MM. Julio Doblas et Roberto Urquiza les terres de sa propriété située dans le district de Trenque Lauquen. L'enregistrement de l'acte a été effectué à Mercedes le . Et dix mois plus tard, les nouveaux propriétaires du terrain demandent au gouvernement de Buenos Aires d'approuver le tracé de la ville et de la colonie de Treinta de Agosto, qui est réalisé par le géomètre E. Cadet.

Le nom proposé pour la localité indiquait la date à laquelle le Ferrocarril Oeste de Buenos Aires, le premier chemin de fer d'Argentine, a commencé à fonctionner, point de départ du système de communication qui finirait par s'étendre pour unir une grande partie du pays. Enfin, le , le pouvoir exécutif de Buenos Aires a approuvé le plan d'aménagement de la ville avec , sur un total de  qui comprenait le secteur des fermes, et a accepté l'imposition du nom de Treinta de Agosto, qui commémore la date d'inauguration du Ferrocarril Oeste en 1857.

L'approbation du Ferrocarril Oeste pour la pose des rails pour Pehuajó - Tres Lomas qui traverserait les champs du  de Trenque Lauquen, dans la zone : Duhau, Corazzi, 30 de Agosto et La Porteña, a valorisé ces terres et c'est ce qui a conduit les derniers acquéreurs à réaliser le mesurage et la vente ultérieure de la nouvelle ville. Les terres ont été vendues aux enchères par lots, tels que des quintas, des fermes et des parcelles de terre.

Démographie
La localité compte  (Indec, 2010), ce qui représente une augmentation de  par rapport au recensement précédent de 2001 qui comptait .

Religion

Notes et références

Ville dans la province de Buenos Aires


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Yongli Wang
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PhD in Economics, University of Leicester
MSc Financial Economics, University of Leicester
BSc Finance, Wuhan University, China
Yongli achieved his PhD in economics at the University of Leicester in 2020. He worked as a lecturer at the University of Essex since October 2019 before he joined the University of Birmingham on March 2022. Prior to joining the Birmingham Business School, Yongli heavily involved in teaching economics modules in macroeconomics and econometrics, and administration duties at Essex, such as the deputy director of the undergraduates' final project and the deputy director of the PGT dissertation. His research interest is on the time-series forecasting under uncertainty and structural breaks and inflation modelling.
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Science Fiction and Fantasy New Releases: 11 December 2021
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Malfunctioning armadas, culinary orcs, and ancient rebel angels fill this week's new releases.
Acheron Redemption (Federation Chronicles #3) – Ken Lozito
Sentinel warships were the answer to the Federation Wars. They brought peace and stability…or so they thought.
The Sentinels are a menace, terrorizing spacers across the galaxy in their hunt. But change is coming, and spacers across the galaxy will have to choose whether to fight for their future.
Quinton thought the Sentinels were malfunctioning fleets of warships left over from the Federation Wars, but they're much worse. They're an instrument of control meant to hold the galaxy stagnant in its development.
With Sentinel fleets preparing a major incursion, Admiral Quinton Aldren must get the new Alliance space navy into fighting shape. But how can he build an armada when most spacers believe he's the enemy?
Quinton will fight. All that remains is how many spacers will join him to fight for humanity's future.
Alchemist Arcanist (The Alchemist #5) – D. K. Holmberg and Dan Michaelson
The Nighlan have been defeated but the real danger begins.
Now that Rasan Tel has revealed his plan, Sam must find a way to seal him back into his prison. The barrier has weakened, and only Sam's vrandel serves as a lock holding him back.
When an attack nearly severs Sam from the source, he must find a new way of stopping Rasan Tel. The key rests in what he's learned during his time in the Academy—if only he's strong enough to find it.
Alchemy and the arcane arts must combine to stop the war, but without a way of reaching the source, how can Sam stop the threat?
Cleaver's Edge (Morcster Chef #1) – Actus
Adventurers seek dungeons for riches. Heroes storm great fortresses. Gods clash far above.
Arek cooks lasagna and tops it with a dash of finely chopped basil.
An orc who has seen more than his fair amount of fighting, Arek wants nothing more than to spend the rest of his days cooking and away from the chaos of combat.
However, when Ming and her group of adventurers hire him as their full-time chef, his plans of avoiding violence crumble. He longs to leave his blood-soaked mistakes in his past, but old friends and foes have different ideas.
House Omega (Marshals of Rhea #1) – Gus Harris-Reid
Mechs, Machine-magic, and Monsters…
For over a hundred cycles, the Marshals of Rhea have defended their strongholds against the wastelands' many dangers, from vicious raiders to mechanical beasts. To fight these foes they pilot Chargers: eighteen-foot mechs engineered by the secretive Armorers' Guild.
At Clarion, the ancient stronghold of House Omega, anticipation is high as the Marshals gather for a major hunting expedition. But when disaster strikes and House Omega is left leaderless, it falls to no-nonsense Head Cook Xanthe to investigate. She's not alone, however, and is aided by an unlikely group of individuals including a haughty young noblewoman, a world-weary Armorer, a fastidious bodyguard, and a whimsical assassin.
As they endeavor to solve this tragic mystery, they unveil truths about their world, themselves, and each other that perhaps should have stayed hidden—for what they ultimately discover will shake their techno-feudal civilization to its very foundations…
Leviathan's Last Battle (Battleship: Leviathan #3) – Craig Martelle
The Vestrall fight back, but Leviathan stands in their way. And Major Payne opens a new front in the war.
His goal is nothing less than turning the Vestrall's allies against them to bring peace to the galaxy.
The Vestrall exist, and they have secrets. The war will continue because it suits them.
Humanity must confront the real enemy. They must win or the war will continue for another thousand years. There's only one ship that can do what needs to be done.
Leviathan goes on the offensive, traveling deep into Vestrall space to find them and eliminate their ability to make war.
An attack the likes of which the galaxy has never seen.
One last battle to determine humanity's fate.
New Galaxy (The Survivors #18) – Nathan Hystad
A second Recaster. A dangerous ally. The end of all.
Dean Parker is looking to take charge of the Alliance of Worlds, but when Shimmal's new leader decides otherwise, they're left with one less partner.
Jules is on the trail of the Planner, an ancient entity determined to claim the title of Recaster from Dean.
When Dean visits Orlin, the Planner's home world, he finds a trail of manufactured portals, taking him on the ride of a lifetime.
All paths converge in space and time for the most exciting Survivors tale yet.
Not Far from Eden – J. Manfred Weischel
When angels lie with women, the fate of man hangs in the balance!
The angelic Watchers of antediluvian earth have one God-given mission – to educate the primitive human population. But Edna has more interesting things to do than schoolwork. When she notices that Samyaza, the leader of the Watchers, has taken a prurient interest in her, Edna comes up with a plan: flirt with him to get better grades. After all, what does it matter? Angels just aren't built for that.
But angels have powers Edna is unaware of. When the men are exiled to the mountains, the women of earth are left in the clutches of the Watchers. Can she resist their advances and keep from becoming the mother of great evil?


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Q: Able to upload, download, and delete but not list in Azure Blob Container I have a service in C# where I try to list all the files in a directory.
CloudBlobDirectory dir = container.GetDirectoryReference(path);
var res = await dir.ListBlobsSegmentedAsync(continuationToken); <-- Error is thrown on this line

I have confirmed that the directory exists, that the path is correct, and that it has files in it.
However, I'm getting this error: The requested URI does not represent any resource on the server.
I am accessing the blob with a SAS key that has all permissions (read, write, delete, list). Listing files works perfectly fine when I use the storage emulator, but not when I'm connected to an actual azure resource. What could be the issue?

A: Turns out I can only list when I have account-level access, instead of container-level like what I had before. I generated a new SAS key off the Azure portal, for https://<accountname>.blob.core.windows.net/ instead of https://<accountname>.blob.core.windows.net/<containername>, and was able to list. I have no idea why as this wasn't written in the docs anywhere.


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Epaminonda Nicu ()  un fotbalist român care în prezent evoluează la echipa . A fost cel mai vechi jucător al echipei Unirea Urziceni, promovând din Divizia C în Divizia B și până în Liga I, cu care a și luat titlul în sezonul 2008-09 și pentru care a jucat în Champions League și Europa League. A apărut în peste 200 de meciuri pentru ialomițeni. Deține un Seat Leon Cupra.

Cariera
Epaminonda Nicu a debutat la Unirea Urziceni în sezonul 2003-2004, pe când formația ialomițeană evolua în Liga a II-a.
În primul său sezon la Urziceni, formația sa a terminat sezonul ligii secunde pe un loc rezonabil, șase, iar Epaminonda a evoluat în 21 de partide, marcând și un gol. Evoluțiile sale au fost din ce în ce mai bune, iar în cel de-al doilea sezon formația sa a terminat pe locul cinci, iar Nicu a marcat 4 goluri. Unirea Urziceni se anunța ca o favorită la promovare în următorul an competițional.

Nicu a evoluat în 27 de partide în sezonul 2005-2006, marcând și trei goluri. A deschis scorul în ultimul meci petrecut de Unirea Urziceni în Liga 2 înainte de promovarea pe prima scenă fotbalistică a țării, împotriva formației Minerul Motru. Unirea a învins cu scorul de 6-0.
Epaminonda a evoluat în primul meci al Unirii în Liga I, debutând în primul eșalon în același meci cu echipa sa pe data de 29 iulie 2006 pierdut cu 2-0 în fața Politehnicii Iași. La finalul sezonului, Unirea Urziceni a încheiat pe locul 10, iar Nicu era unul dintre ultimii fotbaliști care evoluaseră cu Unirea atât în Liga a II-a, cât și în primul eșalon.

Sezonul 2007-2008 a fost unul dintre cele mai bune petrecute de Nicu la Unirea. Echipa sa a terminat pe un loc care i-a asigurat participarea în ediția 2008-2009 a Cupei UEFA, iar el a ajuns cu aceasta până în finala Cupei României, pierdută însă în fața celor de la CFR Cluj. Epaminonda nu a evoluat în finală, rămânând pe banca de rezerve pe durata întregii partide.

În toamna anului 2008, Epaminonda a debutat în cupele europene, evoluând în ambele partide ale dublei manșe din ultimul tur preliminar al Cupei UEFA, în care Unirea Urziceni a întâlnit una dintre cele mai bune formații ale acelei ediții, Hamburger SV. Echipa germană s-a calificat în grupele Cupei UEFA.

A jucat pentru Unirea Urziceni în grupele UEFA Champions League 2009-10, contabilizând trei meciuri în această competiție. De asemenea a strâns șapte meciuri în Europa League.

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 Profilul lui Epaminonda Nicu pe romaniansoccer.ro
 Profilul lui Epaminonda Nicu pe transfermarkt.de

Nașteri în 1979
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Fotbaliști ai FC Unirea Urziceni
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