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Global Stoichiometry: Hetero 2-mer - AB
Global Stoichiometry: Hetero 4-mer - A2B2
Biological assembly 2&nbspgenerated by PISA (software)
3FDL
Bim BH3 peptide in complex with Bcl-xL
DOI: 10.2210/pdb3FDL/pdb
Deposition Author(s): Fairlie, W.D., Lee, E.F., Smith, B.J., Czabotar, P.E., Colman, P.M.
High-Resolution Structural Characterization of a Helical alpha/beta-Peptide Foldamer Bound to the Anti-Apoptotic Protein Bcl-x(L)
Lee, E.F., Sadowsky, J.D., Smith, B.J., Czabotar, P.E., Peterson-Kaufman, K.J., Colman, P.M., Gellman, S.H., Fairlie, W.D.
(2009) Angew.Chem.Int.Ed.Engl. 48: 4318-4322
DOI: 10.1002/anie.200805761
3FDM
Get into the groove: The first high-resolution structure of a foldamer bound to a protein target is described (see picture; foldamer in sticks). The foldamer consists of alpha- and beta-amino acid residues and is bound to the anti-apoptotic protein B ...
Get into the groove: The first high-resolution structure of a foldamer bound to a protein target is described (see picture; foldamer in sticks). The foldamer consists of alpha- and beta-amino acid residues and is bound to the anti-apoptotic protein Bcl-x(L). The overall binding mode and key interactions observed in the foldamer/Bcl-x(L) complex mimic those seen in complexes of Bcl-x(L) with natural alpha-peptide ligands. Additional contacts in the foldamer/Bcl-x(L) complex involving beta-amino acid residues appear to contribute to binding affinity.
Structural Biology Division, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, 1G Royal Parade, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia.
Apoptosis regulator Bcl-X
Gene Names: BCL2L1 (BCL2L, BCLX)
Space Group: C 1 2 1
b = 35.684 β = 111.54
c = 62.760 γ = 90.00
CrystalClear data collection
Type: Refinement description, Source and taxonomy
Type: Source and taxonomy


The church sign on Pleasantville Road has been in use since the early 1980s when it was given by the Nicol family in memory of John Nicol, a long-time member of the church. The 30 year old signs were replaced in the spring of 2016 with donations from the Nichol family and BCC's Women's Society.
Various people have been in charge of the signs over the years and each has done it in their own unique way.
Since 2011, Joan Austin has been the sign lady. She sees the sign as a way to make the public aware of events at the church and to share various interesting and/or amusing thoughts, religious and otherwise, with the public. A former history teacher, Mrs. Austin frequently reminds those passing by of historical anniversaries such as the 800th Anniversary of the Magna Carta. The sign posted after the attacks in Paris in the fall of 2015 quoted Thomas Jefferson's statement that "All men have two countries, their own and France." In recent times, the signs have been posted on Facebook. During the 2015 World Series, the sign that read, "God doesn't take sides. The sign lady does. Let's go Mets!" was passed around from coast to coast.
While placing the letters on the sign can be challenging in inclement weather, it has its rewards. Pedestrians often stop to say how much they enjoy the sign. On one occasion, a friend commented that the sign reading "Hope is a better companion than fear" helped her find her way through a difficult period in her life.
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Suicide machine draws crowds at Amsterdam funeral show
Posted : 2018-04-17 15:18
Updated : 2018-04-17 16:40
The Sarco contains a canister of nitrogen gas.
A controversial suicide pod that enables its occupant to kill themselves at a press of a button went on display at Amsterdam funeral show on Saturday.
Called the "Sarco", short for sarcophagus, the 3D-printed machine invented by Australian euthanasia activist Philip Nitschke and Dutch designer Alexander Bannink comes with a detachable coffin, mounted on a stand that contains a nitrogen canister.
"The person who wants to die presses the button and the capsule is filled with nitrogen. He or she will feel a bit dizzy but will then rapidly lose consciousness and die," said Nitschke, who has been dubbed "Dr Death" for his work to legalise euthanasia.
The "Sarco" is a device "to provide people with a death when they wish to die," Nitschke told AFP.
The inventors put a model of the device on display, together with a set of virtual reality glasses to give visitors a true-to-life experience of what it would be like to sit in the pod, before ultimately pressing the button.
Nitschke said he aimed to build the first fully-functioning pod before the end of the year.
After that, the design will be put online as an open-source document for people to download.
"That means that anybody who wants to build the machine can download the plans and 3D-print their own device," Nitschke said.
Asked about the controversy surrounding euthanasia and legal hurdles, Nitschke said: "In many countries suicide is not against the law, only assisting a person to commit suicide is."
"This is a situation where one person chooses to press a button... rather than for instance standing in front of a train."
"I believe it's a fundamental human right (to choose when to die). It's not just some medical privilege for the very sick. If you've got the precious gift of life, you should be able to give that gift away at the time of your choosing," Nitschke said.
Thousands of visitors flocked to the annual Amsterdam Funeral Expo at the city's famous Westerkerk, where all the latest trends in death, such as biodegradable coffins and a hot-rod funeral hearse were on display.
But the "Sarco" drew large crowds, many of them morbidly curious to try out the device's chair and virtual reality glasses.
"It was really an experience and a strange thing to see. But very pretty and calm. You see the moon, you see the sea. It's very calm," said Piet Verstraaten, 52, from the eastern Dutch city of Venray.
Others, however, were not impressed.
"Well, I think it's quite silly. It's stupid. I don't get it. I'm not interested in a real 'Sarco'. No," said 52-year-old Rob Bruntink. (AFP)
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7 Unmissable Things To Do In Seoul
July 19, 2019James Wan4 min read
Seoul is one of the most well-known and most-visited cities in Asia. With so many things to do and see, it's not hard to see why. The vast transit system allows visitors to get to different places and areas rather easily.
So, from ancient palaces the DMZ at North Korea's border, these are the seven unmissable things to do in Seoul.
Best things to do in Seoul How do these rankings work?
1. N Seoul Tower & Namsan
The N Seoul Tower offers panoramic views of Seoul as far as the eye can see. The Tower lies up on a pretty steep hill and there are two ways to get here. You can either take the cable car up or walk up the stairs that has different viewpoints along the way.
Our advice? Take the cable car up for some pretty nice views and pictures. Walk the stairs on the way back down.
2. Gyeongbokgung Palace
The biggest of the five palaces in South Korea, Gyeongbokgung Palace is a must-visit for tourists. Having served numerous dynasties since the building's completion in 1395, today, Gyeongbokgung Palace is largely a tourist attraction.
Come watch the changing of the guard and take at least half a day, or longer, to explore this sprawling compound of palace.
3. Dongdaemun Design Plaza & Park
For futuristic and cutting edge architecture, you have to come to the Dongdaemun Design Plaza & Park. This plaza features the world's largest three-dimensional structure. The plaza also has multiple shops, galleries, and restaurants to explore as well.
Perfect for when you just want a day of easy entertainment.
4. Shop and eat Street Food in Myeongdong
Myeongdong is known as a tourist trap heaven. Here, is where you will find numerous shops, most of them beauty shops where workers stand outside the store and lure you in with freebies. Tip: decline the freebie and just move on.
Myeongdong is also known for its many different street food stalls. You can find many different Korean foods here as well as BBQ skewers, one-feet tall ice cream, and an great range of drinks.
Myeongdong is a super lively place to come to after dinner, as most stores stay open until midnight.
5. Bukchon Hanok Village
To get a real appreciation for Korean culture, make your way to Bukchon Hanok Village in Seoul. Here, you can easily get lost in this neighbourhood's streets as you admire the 900 hanoks, or, traditional Korean houses.
Be mindful and aware that citizens still live in these homes that date back hundreds of years.
6. Namdaemun Market
Namdaemun Market is the largest market in Seoul with hundreds of clothing, accessories, and food stalls. Be warned, this market is massive. You could easily spend the entire day here and not see it all.
This market is great if you're looking for affordable souvenirs and tasty, authentic Korean food. Make your way to Restaurant Row for a wide variety of different food stalls, each serving unique Korean dishes.
7. Visit the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)
Though technically not in Seoul, the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) is just a short drive from Seoul (less than an hour). The DMZ is the strip of land that separates democratic South Korea and communist North Korea. Technically, these countries are still at war with each other.
A visit to the DMZ is an absolute unmissable thing to do in Seoul. Once at the DMZ, you can feel the tension in the air as you gaze a short ways away into North Korea. With armed guards everywhere, it's a bit surreal to feel that armed combat could break out at a moments notice.
Despite these tensions, visiting the DMZ is a very popular tourist attraction and you can easily find a tour group online.
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Q: Use python to a open web browser (on windows), trigger javascript actions, and get the html contents? Yes that sounds overly complicated.
I am trying to mine data from pages on our intranet. The pages are secure. The connection is refused when I try to get the contents with urllib.urlopen().
So I would like to use python to open a web browser to open the site then click some links that trigger javascript pop ups containing tables of info that I want to collect.
Any suggestions on where to begin?
I know the format of the page. It is something like this:

blah

    etc

Then a hidden frame becomes visible and the fields in the table within are filled.

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A: First off, I suggest that it's better to figure out what the page needs that JS is providing, and fake that - you'll have an easier time scraping the page if a browser isn't involved.
If it's just Javascript making an XMLHttpRequest, you can find the page from which the Javascript fetches the iframe data and connect directly to that.
But in spite of that you may need a library that does Javascript execution (if the reverse-engineering is too hard or it uses challenge tokens). A web-rendering framework like Gecko or WebKit might be appropriate.
Take a good look at Selenium if you insist on using a true web browser or cannot get the programmatic methods to work.
Once you've gotten the page contents via whatever method, you need an HTML parser (such as sgmllib or [almost] xml.dom). I suggest a DOM library. Parse the DOM and extract the contents from the appropriate node in the resulting tree.

A: The connection is refused when I try to get the contents with urllib.urlopen(). probably means you have to make a post request using python urllib module.I would suggest you use urllib2.You may also need to handle cookies, referrer,user-agent from your python code.
To see all the post request fired from your browser use firefox's live-http-headers.
For the javascript part,
Your best bet is to run a headless browser e.g phantomjs which understands all the intricacies of JavaScript, DOM etc but you will have to write your code in Javascript, benefit is that you can do whatever you want.
As, @phihag mentioned selenium is also a good option.

A: First of all, you should really find out why the connection is refused when you access the page with Python. Most likely, you'll have to perform HTTP authentication or specify a different User-Agent.
Firing up a browser, navigating, and getting the HTML back is a complex task. Luckily, you can implement it using selenium.

A: Consider taking a look at splinter which is a simpler webdriver API than Selenium.

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How does the provider support the children's understanding of emotions?
She asks the children to think about how the mama duck in the song would feel if the little ducks all went away and then how she would feel when they came back, which allows the children to draw on their own experiences and prompts them to practice thinking about how someone else might feel. She also asks them to demonstrate what angry feelings might look and sound like, giving them the opportunity to explore this during a safe experience.
One child is attending to the activity and participating more directly than another child. How is the provider facilitating participation of both children?
The provider asks both children to respond with ideas and respects the ways in which they are moving during the activity by allowing them freedom to move around. She repeats the ideas each child has shared.


It's been a bit of a break since my last post, so I have some catching up to do.
On July 4th, 2013 I ran my first Oregon 5K and placed 1st in my age category! I then won a pair of shoes from the Portland Running Company after they picked my submission to name leg 4 of the Hood to Coast Relay race. Then on Monday the 8th I won 3 pairs of Portland Running Company (PRC) socks in a raffle after their weekly Monday Night Run from the Beaverton location. Needless to say, it's been a good 10 days!
Mia and I also hiked the Maple Trail in Forest Park, which was a total blast and then found a nice bike loop on Sunday! We then hit up Bliss Cupcakes in Bethany Village to end the weekend.
This past weekend was a kind of last minute (which I am learning is the way things seem to happen in Portland) hiking and camping trip on the Eagle Creek Trail. Myself, Mia, Juston, Laurel, Molly and Greg all met up on Saturday morning at Lovejoy Bakery and then drove out into "The Gorge" to hit the trail head.
The plan was to hike in 6-7.5 miles where there were supposed to be plenty of campsites. Along the way were a plethora of waterfalls and swimming holes, plus some stellar sights and interesting trail routing.
Hands down this was a KILLER weekend of hiking and camping. We had perfect weather, awesome food and one heck of a primo campsite. The pictures will not do it justice, but this hike is well worth it. While we could have easily made this a day hike, the camping just added to the fun.
The trail was never steep, but it sure did have some pretty gnarly sections like the one above. Narrow with a 100+ foot drop down to Eagle Creek at times. Never any unsafe areas, more just a few areas to keep focused and not mess around. It could have been a little dicey if it was icy or slick from rain.
The highlight of the hike is seeing and passing through Tunnel Falls. Back in the early 1900's the builders just bored a hole right behind the falls. A very neat little addition to this trail.
We dropped our packs about 6.5 miles in at one of the best campsites we had seen. Then headed out to about mile 9-9.5 to "Inspiration Point" before turning around for a night of camp cooking and s'mores (of course).
Juston and Laurel, the chefs.
It got pretty chilly at night, but nothing we couldn't handle. Then another killer camp meal by Juston and Laurel, ending with the walk out and playing around at Lower Punch Bowl Falls. Totally recommend this hike, and you have to camp. It makes it so much more fun.
WoW!!!! what an edgey hike. Glad to see you made it. That dish of veggies looks yummie too….Thanks for posting.


Culture…what? Reading it for the first time, two words immediately stand out: boarding and culture. Within the field of HR management you could probably guess it has to do with employee onboarding and the company culture. But how exactly do these two elements interlink and how can you make use of cultureboarding?
So what exactly is cultureboarding?
The primary objective is to introduce and integrate the new hire into the company culture in the best possible way. For new employees the first few days are critical as on the one side they need to cope with many new faces and processes, but at the same time are also expected to get up to speed as soon as possible. Creating positive first impressions for the new colleague is vitally important as he or she is more likely to stay with the company. In fact, new hires, who undergo a structured onboarding process are 69% more likely to stay after three years.
Cultureboarding does not solely focus on the new hires and their successful onboarding process, but helps to improve the existing company culture. Every time a new employee joins the company, the company culture is put to the test. A solid culture is the foundation for implementing onboarding processes that value social integration of new hires. In return, the onboarding strategy can help to reconsider the practiced company culture and reflect on the core values of the organisation.
However, implementing and delivering these processes is easier said than done.
Include company culture in onboarding – what are the global players up to?
The article 'Successful onboarding in a nutshell' reveals some effective engagement tools to involve the hire before, during and after onboarding. Below we will look at two more hands-on examples from PepsiAmericas and Washington D.C. Hospital used to optimise their strategies of welcoming new colleagues.
PepsiAmericas, the second-largest beverage producer in the world, realised that the partial program in place did not live up to expectations. Managers were not fully aware of what their stake in the program was. To address that PepsiAmericas shifted their focus to a complete and integrated recognition process.
PepsiAmericas started handing out Pepsi branded key chains to new hires on the first day of their Pepsi career. The key chain represents the key part the employee will play in the company's success. In addition the job was 'officially' presented to the new employee by the respective line manager and accompanied by a message from the CEO.
This is an effective engagement tool to involve new colleagues from their first working day, but what about the time before day 1? This approach does not take into account the pre-onboarding time, which is crucial as a staggering 26% of new hires change their minds between signing contracts and their first day of work, never starting their new job.
Washington D.C. Hospital has identified this issue and counteracted by taking and implementing early stage onboarding measures. The hospital's HR manager now introduces newly hired nurses to their teams before the first day on the job. From that day until the new colleague starts working, the other nurses send personally signed welcoming cards in which they express their excitement about working with the new hire.
It is a cost-efficient and useful strategy to counteract the trend of resigning before starting the job. It also gives current employees the opportunity to show interest and provide the new hire with a warm and welcoming feeling.
Setting up processes such as these alone is not sufficient for successful onboarding strategies. It is equally important to continuously monitor the impact of the measures taken.
If you do not use any, have a look at these commonly used indicators to measure the cultural impact.


I havent tried this yet but plan on it sometime, i thought i would post this "calculator" & instructions so you could draft your own pattern! Just enter you hip measurement and it tells the sizes all your pieces need to be instead of you doing the math yourself!
I found an old canvas picture in my grandfathers barn that was in very bad shape (except the frame), i ripped out the canvas pic thinking to myself "i hope this isn't' a famous million dollar painting' lol, i keep the canvas wood frame intact with the regular frame so it could give more layers and take up more space inside, painted the frame(which was dark wood color) and scratched it up to look old, the wire brush made the gray metal shadowy effect on it too, then stretched my fabric in the back and put my 3 girls' silhouettes on it, before each silhouette was in its own black picture frame.
My husband bought a big roll of black 'pleather' and never used it for what he intended or should i say what he intended me to make lol, so i made a few book bags(from a pattern) and a laptop bag with a kitty cut out.
This was also made for my moms friend who have a springer spaniel, i couldn't find a pattern anywhere except a knit (and i haven't attempted to learn that yet), so just i just made one up. For his nose i painted brown and dabbed some lighter brown over that.
My crocheted Mrs. Piggy that i made for my mom's friend. She was fun to make and she actually stands up by herself!
Also for my grandmothers birthday, all her life her work has been sewing on her old singer sewing machine, baking chicken pies & moravian cookies on a wood burning stove up till about 3 yrs ago when she had to be put on oxygen, so I wanted pieces that resembled all those things, she loved it!
This was for my Grandmothers birthday, so cute! I forgot were i found the pattern for this online, but it can be googled.
I had the board custom made from Lazer Lizard on ebay (they also have a web site lazerlizard.com with good prices), bought the 3-D plastic coke bottle & old opener off ebay too, printed my letters out and put it all together!
Used half of the shutter type closet door, cut out the krispy kreme sign from the doughnut box and a little of the adhesive chalk board (comes in a roll), love krispy kreme since it was started here in Winston-Salem!
This was a regular mirror that already had these vases glued on, it was used flowers flowers, but to me they looked like potion bottles, I didn't have any paint stripper but saw online to use EasyOff stove cleaner to strip the paint,,which works! After I scrapped the paint off, there's the shiny coating, and used half water & clorox(store brand) sprayed in just for a second and got the spots. I did that part over the sink so i could have water to rinse off the bleach real quick. The bottle labels were a templet from online and soaked in concentrated tea to give the old look.
Painted with acrylic craft paint, after it dried I used a wire drill bit (or you could use a coarse wire brush) then sanded a little more.
Found this window on my grandparents farm, (i love scrounging around there), along with the burlap potato sack and a chicken feeder with dried flowers. Thought it would look cute as a window box.
The black is from a couple of lamp shade support rings and a few wire coat hangers I bent and connected them all with some jewelry wire, theres no light in this one.
Soon I will have some of these for sale in my Etsy Shop!


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Was The Smart Money Right About Best Buy Co., Inc. (BBY)?
Reymerlyn Martin
Out of thousands of stocks that are currently traded on the market, it is difficult to identify those that will really generate strong returns. Hedge funds and institutional investors spend millions of dollars on analysts with MBAs and PhDs, who are industry experts and well connected to other industry and media insiders on top of that. Individual investors can piggyback the hedge funds employing these talents and can benefit from their vast resources and knowledge in that way. We analyze quarterly 13F filings of nearly 823 hedge funds and, by looking at the smart money sentiment that surrounds a stock, we can determine whether it has the potential to beat the market over the long-term. Therefore, let's take a closer look at what smart money thinks about Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE:BBY).
Is Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE:BBY) a bargain? The smart money was selling. The number of bullish hedge fund bets were cut by 4 lately. Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE:BBY) was in 33 hedge funds' portfolios at the end of June. The all time high for this statistics is 40. Our calculations also showed that BBY isn't among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds (click for Q2 rankings and see the video for a quick look at the top 5 stocks). There were 37 hedge funds in our database with BBY positions at the end of the first quarter. Video: Watch our video about the top 5 most popular hedge fund stocks.
So, why do we pay attention to hedge fund sentiment before making any investment decisions? Our research has shown that hedge funds' small-cap stock picks managed to beat the market by double digits annually between 1999 and 2016, but the margin of outperformance has been declining in recent years. Nevertheless, we were still able to identify in advance a select group of hedge fund holdings that outperformed the S&P 500 ETFs by more than 56 percentage points since March 2017 (see the details here). We were also able to identify in advance a select group of hedge fund holdings that underperformed the market by 10 percentage points annually between 2006 and 2017. Interestingly the margin of underperformance of these stocks has been increasing in recent years. Investors who are long the market and short these stocks would have returned more than 27% annually between 2015 and 2017. We have been tracking and sharing the list of these stocks since February 2017 in our quarterly newsletter. Even if you aren't comfortable with shorting stocks, you should at least avoid initiating long positions in stocks that are in our short portfolio.
Ken Heebner of Capital Growth Management
At Insider Monkey we scour multiple sources to uncover the next great investment idea. Last week, most investors overlooked a major development because of the presidential elections: Oregon became the first state to legalize psychedelic mushrooms which are shown to have promising results in treating depression, addiction, and PTSD in early stage academic studies. So, we are checking out this psychedelic drug stock idea right now. We go through lists like the 10 best high dividend stocks to buy to identify high dividend stocks with upside potential in this low interest rate environment. Even though we recommend positions in only a tiny fraction of the companies we analyze, we check out as many stocks as we can. We read hedge fund investor letters and listen to stock pitches at hedge fund conferences. You can subscribe to our free daily newsletter on our website to get excerpts of these letters in your inbox. With all of this in mind we're going to go over the latest hedge fund action regarding Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE:BBY).
Hedge fund activity in Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE:BBY)
At second quarter's end, a total of 33 of the hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey were bullish on this stock, a change of -11% from the first quarter of 2020. On the other hand, there were a total of 31 hedge funds with a bullish position in BBY a year ago. So, let's check out which hedge funds were among the top holders of the stock and which hedge funds were making big moves.
Is BBY A Good Stock To Buy?
Of the funds tracked by Insider Monkey, Cliff Asness's AQR Capital Management has the number one position in Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE:BBY), worth close to $406.5 million, corresponding to 0.7% of its total 13F portfolio. On AQR Capital Management's heels is John Overdeck and David Siegel of Two Sigma Advisors, with a $134.3 million position; the fund has 0.4% of its 13F portfolio invested in the stock. Remaining members of the smart money with similar optimism consist of Ken Griffin's Citadel Investment Group, Renaissance Technologies and Noam Gottesman's GLG Partners. In terms of the portfolio weights assigned to each position MIK Capital allocated the biggest weight to Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE:BBY), around 3.08% of its 13F portfolio. L2 Asset Management is also relatively very bullish on the stock, dishing out 2.67 percent of its 13F equity portfolio to BBY.
Seeing as Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE:BBY) has faced bearish sentiment from hedge fund managers, it's safe to say that there was a specific group of hedge funds who sold off their positions entirely in the second quarter. Intriguingly, Alexander Mitchell's Scopus Asset Management dropped the largest investment of the 750 funds monitored by Insider Monkey, valued at about $10.6 million in stock. Brad Stephens's fund, Six Columns Capital, also said goodbye to its stock, about $4.8 million worth. These bearish behaviors are interesting, as aggregate hedge fund interest dropped by 4 funds in the second quarter.
Let's now take a look at hedge fund activity in other stocks - not necessarily in the same industry as Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE:BBY) but similarly valued. We will take a look at State Street Corporation (NYSE:STT), BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. (NASDAQ:BMRN), Fortinet Inc (NASDAQ:FTNT), Archer Daniels Midland Company (NYSE:ADM), Palo Alto Networks Inc (NYSE:PANW), Genmab A/S (NASDAQ:GMAB), and Dollar Tree, Inc. (NASDAQ:DLTR). All of these stocks' market caps are similar to BBY's market cap.
[table] Ticker, No of HFs with positions, Total Value of HF Positions (x1000), Change in HF Position STT,36,668259,2 BMRN,45,2005739,-9 FTNT,44,1815016,15 ADM,28,606680,-4 PANW,51,3587653,4 GMAB,15,243405,1 DLTR,60,2268495,18 Average,39.9,1599321,3.9 [/table]
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APOCRYPHA CANDIDATE: THE LIGHTHOUSE (2019)
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DIRECTED BY: Robert Eggers
FEATURING: Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe
PLOT: Ephraim Winslow attempts to escape his past and earn good money tending a remote lighthouse for a month under ex-sea captain Thomas Wake; things get desperate when they are not relieved on schedule.
WHY IT SHOULD MAKE THE LIST: What begins as "standard" art-horror keeps shoveling on the madness until you can't think it can go any farther. It does, and ends on a Promethean note that looks like it could have been lifted straight from a sharper-imaged Begotten.
COMMENTS: I sat too far to the front to be able to tell you if anyone walked out of the movie (often a good sign for us), but I can tell you that it passed the next best test: right after it ended, a viewer queried loudly, "What the fuck was that?" I have to admit that that is a fair question. I kept alternating my "Candidate/Capsule" toggle throughout the movie, right up until the soggy, sickly, climax when two compelling things occurred. The first thing: watching Robert Pattinson burn away any mainstream reputation he might have had from his Twilight movies. The second thing: I could not have hoped for a better, more mind-popping final shot.
The first word of dialogue isn't one, really. Ephraim Winslow (Robert Pattinson), recently arrived to as remote an island as possible, makes a muffled grunt when entering his quarters. At the far end of the room, his boss, Thomas Wake (Willem Dafoe), finishes urinating into a chamber pot and pointedly passes gas before beginning to hum. Ephraim, his environment established and his company defined, does his lowly duties, forever pining to tend the beacon that Thomas jealously guards. A one-eyed seagull torments the young man, until one day he responds to its attack by smashing it thoroughly to death against a cistern. This forgivable outburst is the catalyst for a storm that smashes against the island, changing Ephraim's circumstances from mundane and miserable to forlorn and febrile.
Its frame ratio, as far as I was able to observe, is one-to-one1, a presentation typically found only in very old movies. The motion of characters from one corner to the opposite diagonal of the screen just doesn't have the same "punch" when there's a standard panorama to cross, and the screen's confines heighten the cramped nature of the setting. The lighting, too, hearkens back to cinema's early days. The Lighthouse is set in the late 19th century on the edge of a watery nowhere, and the light comes only from occasional, well-diffused sunlight and dim candles. Willem Dafoe's Thomas Wake, illuminated by a flickering light against the black room, was the stuff of comic nightmares. (His dialogue, the credits admit, is largely taken from Herman Melville, and every soliloquy is both bombastic and believable.)
Eggers drives the narrative in the one direction it can go—but while so doing brings in every horrible bit of natural humanity (Aleksey German crossed my mind on many occasions), grappling his characters to the edge before giving them a final shove into the roiling abyss. Knowing Dafoe's filmography, I knew he had the chops; Pattinson, I have now seen, can match him. Dafoe is credited first, but this is Pattinson's breakout-crazy performance (so here's hoping he wanted one). Ephraim explodes in his final rant, its power almost a palpable force in the cinema, silencing the small crowd of hipsters. When the young man posed the question mentioned in the first paragraph, he was speaking for every viewer.
"…a stark, moody, surreal and prolonged descent into seaside madness that will surely not be for everyone."–Lindsey Barr, Associated Press (contemporaneous)
Looking it up afterwards, it's actually 1.19 to 1.
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3 thoughts on "APOCRYPHA CANDIDATE: THE LIGHTHOUSE (2019)"
It's a good movie even if it made me wonder at the end the intention behind everything. Beautifully shot and acted for sure plus it raises more questions than answers so I guess that's always fun for discussions.
Giles Edwards says:
Spot on, Alex. I remember a remark I over-heard as I was heading through the car park after the film. (I believe it was from among the people with the "What the f*** was that?" questioner.) They were discussing the feasibility of what was shown in the final shot. While I was happy enough to write that one up to a mythical vision, it was interesting to hear a more down-to-earth discussion on what was going on.
"Koko-di, Koko-da" had a similar effect at Fantasia–plenty of people I spoke with didn't like it, but everyone seemed keen to discuss it.
Ryan Aarset says:
Grisly ending! may watch it once more. Pattinson was like Daniel Day Lewis channeling drunk Robin Williams while Dafoe was like a pirate on shrooms.


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Female feticide as a business (2007)
Posted in Blogs (Articles) on December 7th, 2008 by Rajesh Kochhar – Be the first to comment
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Commentary: Female feticide as a business
By Rajesh Kochhar
New Delhi, India — Technology can be as effective in killing conscience as in killing human beings. It has permitted India and China to graduate from female infanticide to female feticide.Murder of the girl child had been prevalent in India. It was however restricted to certain caste groups in some parts of India, but female feticide is now cutting across caste and geographical boundaries. In the past, there might have been some remorse or sense of guilt in murdering a baby after birth, but technology-assisted murder before birth is seen as no more than a procedure.
A generation ago, both India and China convinced themselves, assisted by the international wisdom of the day, that their, and the world's, biggest problem was their large population. In 1971, as part of its family planning program, the Indian government bestowed legal status and social sanction on abortion, permitting its hospitals to determine and disclose the sex of the fetus. In India, families were balanced because they were large. It soon became clear that for people in general a small family meant a girl-free family, and only female fetuses were being aborted.
Accordingly, the arrangement was discontinued in 1978, but now private players were ready to fill the vacuum. India's first commercial sex-determination clinic opened in early 1979. The era of the ethics-free greed-driven medico had begun. The same year China introduced its one-child policy, effectively meaning a son-only family.
The development in the West of ultrasound imaging technique, though primarily meant for detecting genetic disorders, provided a convenient and non-invasive way of sex-determination. In 1990 the American General Electric Medical Systems set up an ultrasound machine production unit in Bangalore in collaboration with vegetable oil maker turned software giant WIPRO. About the same time GEMS made its appearance in China. A comment on the corporate strategy of GEMS may not be out of place here. Its units in the United States are meant to produce "leadership products" for advanced university hospitals, while Japan provides machines for top as well as smaller hospitals in Europe and Japan.
India and China are the hub for "low-cost segment, mainly aimed at the mega-markets in Asia." As the technology has become more and more user-friendly, cheaper and impersonal, the cult of the murder of the girl child has assumed alarming proportions.
We are better informed on the Indian rather than Chinese efforts to curb feticide.
In 1996, the Indian government banned the use of ultrasound for determining the sex of the fetus, but the 2001 census data showed that the law had been ineffective. Finally, responding to public interest litigation, the Supreme Court issued orders for overhauling the earlier act and ensuring its enforcement. The modified law, which came into effect in 2003, absolves the pregnant woman of any crime, but seeks to punish the husband or relatives who pressure the woman. It asks the clinics to maintain proper records and specifically bans sex determination and sex-selective abortion.
There have been some success stories in implementing the law: Nawanshahr in Punjab and Hyderabad have earned well-deserved praise for their efforts. But these successes have been personality-driven rather than systemic.
Female feticide is a crime that is socially acceptable. The criminals are not social riff-raff, but respectable members of society whose education, affluence, social and political connections make it difficult if not impossible to touch them. The law asks the district medical officer to discipline erring radiologists. It would be better to vest this power in administrators rather than doctors.
The administration has a difficult task at hand. The sex determiners and the fetus exterminators are merrily doing their work, while the government officials and the social activists have to be on high alert all the time. The extant laws are based on the assumption that ultrasound technology is sacrosanct and only administrative forces can be marshaled to combat its misuse. This assumption is not valid. Ultrasound no doubt is a powerful diagnostic tool in the hands of a doctor. It is nobody's case that the technology be banned because it is being misused. At the same time its wide applicability should not be used to condone or divert attention from its abuse as a murder weapon.
It is quite obvious that abortion economy is driving the low-tech end ultrasound industry. The mega-market GE and other companies are targeting in India and China is the sex-determination market and not the health care market. There is a need to make a distinction between the two. A high-powered commission comprising medical scientists and other experts should ascertain the need for ultrasound machinery for genuine purposes and suggest steps for regulating and even controlling the machinery's technical specifications, manufacture and installation. Sufficiently high minimum academic and professional qualifications should be laid down for opening an ultrasound clinic. It can even be mandated that stand-alone clinics will not be permitted and that they must necessarily be part of a hospital or a polyclinic. There is a need to continually assess the genuine need for and the economics of ultrasound and other medical technologies, especially because rapid technological developments can quickly overtake legal and administrative measures.
The universal outrage at the large-scale female feticide in India and China is fully justified. But let us not forget that barely 20 years ago, the world was lauding these two countries for using technology to control their population growth.
(Prof. Rajesh Kochhar is the former director of India's National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies and former professor at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics in Bangalore. ©Copyright Rajesh Kochhar.)


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Russian Super Cup
The Russian Super Cup (Russian: Суперкубок России) is a one-match football annual competition. Its official sponsored name is TransTeleCom Russian Supercup (Russian: ТрансТелеКом Суперкубок России). The two participating clubs are holders of the Russian Premier League champions title and the Russian Cup. If the Russian Premier League championship and the Russian Cup are won by the same team, then the other participant is the runner-up of Russian Premier League. The match is played at the beginning of the season, typically in July.
Number of teams
Lokomotiv Moscow (3rd title)
Most championships
Lokomotiv Moscow (3 titles)
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The trophy has been contested since 2003.
Details Lokomotiv Moscow
Winner of 2002 Russian Premier League 1 – 1 (a.e.t.)
4 – 3 (p) CSKA Moscow
Winner of 2001–02 Russian Cup Lokomotiv Stadium,
Moscow 15,000
Details CSKA Moscow
Winner of 2003 Russian Premier League 3 – 1 (a.e.t.) Spartak Moscow
Winner of 2004 Russian Premier League 1 – 0 Terek Grozny
Winner of 2005 Russian Premier League
and 2004–05 Russian Cup 3 – 2 Spartak Moscow
Runner-up of 2005 Russian Premier League Luzhniki Stadium,
Details Zenit St. Petersburg
Winner of 2007 Russian Premier League 2 – 1 Lokomotiv Moscow
Winner of 2006–07 Russian Cup Luzhniki Stadium,
Winner of 2007–08 Russian Cup 2 – 1 (a.e.t.) Rubin Kazan
Winner of 2008 Russian Premier League Luzhniki Stadium,
Details Rubin Kazan
Winner of 2009 Russian Premier League 1 – 0 CSKA Moscow
and 2009–10 Russian Cup 1 – 0 CSKA Moscow
Runner-up of 2010 Russian Premier League Kuban Stadium,
Krasnodar 26,000
Winner of 2011–12 Russian Cup 2 – 0 Zenit St. Petersburg
Winner of 2011–12 Russian Premier League Metallurg Stadium,
Samara 16,000
Winner of 2012–13 Russian Premier League
and 2012–13 Russian Cup 3 – 0 Zenit St. Petersburg
Runner-up of 2012–13 Russian Premier League Olimp-2 Stadium,
Rostov-on-Don 16,000
Winner of 2013–14 Russian Premier League 3 – 1 FC Rostov
Winner of 2013–14 Russian Cup Kuban Stadium,
Winner of 2014–15 Russian Premier League 1 – 1 (a.e.t.)
4 – 2 (p) Lokomotiv Moscow
Winner of 2014–15 Russian Cup Petrovsky Stadium,
Saint Petersburg 17,337
Winner of 2015–16 Russian Cup 1 – 0 CSKA Moscow
Winner of 2015–16 Russian Premier League Lokomotiv Stadium,
Details Spartak Moscow
Winner of 2016–17 Russian Premier League 2 – 1 (a.e.t.) Lokomotiv Moscow
Runner-up of 2017–18 Russian Premier League[note 1] 1 – 0 (a.e.t.) Lokomotiv Moscow
Winner of 2017–18 Russian Premier League Nizhny Novgorod Stadium,
Nizhny Novgorod 43,319
Winner of 2018–19 Russian Cup 3 – 2 Zenit St.Petersburg
Winner of 2018–19 Russian Premier League VTB Arena,
Statistics by teamEdit
Years won
CSKA Moscow 7 (2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2013, 2014, 2018) 4 (2003, 2010, 2011, 2016)
Zenit St. Petersburg 4 (2008, 2011, 2015, 2016) 3 (2012, 2013, 2019)
Lokomotiv Moscow 3 (2003, 2005, 2019) 4 (2008, 2015, 2017, 2018)
Rubin Kazan 2 (2010, 2012) 1 (2009)
Spartak Moscow 1 (2017) 3 (2004, 2006, 2007)
Terek Grozny – 1 (2005)
Rostov – 1 (2014)
Statistics by playerEdit
Igor Akinfeev 7 (2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2013, 2014, 2018) 4 (2003, 2010, 2011, 2016)
Sergei Ignashevich 7 (2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2013, 2014) 3 (2010, 2011, 2016)
Vasili Berezutski 6 (2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2013, 2014) 4 (2003, 2010, 2011, 2016)
Sergei Semak 3 (2004, 2010, 2011) 3 (2003, 2009, 2012)
USSR Super Cup
^ CSKA replaced 2017–18 Russian Cup winners FC Tosno as Tosno was dissolved after the season.[1]
^ Информационное сообщение (in Russian). Russian Premier League. 15 June 2018.
Russian Super Cup at the RFPL website
‹See Tfd›(in Russian) Department of professional football of the Russian Football Union
Russia - Cup Finals, RSSSF.com
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Crocodile Profile
Crocodiles are large reptiles that habitat the tropics of the Americas, Australia, Africa and Asia. Europe is the only continent that they don't natively live in.
They are members of the order Crocodilia, which also includes alligators, caimans, and gharials.
Crocodile Facts Overview
Habitat: Wetland areas – Freshwater rivers, or lakes. Or saltwater – residing in estuaries, lagoons, or mangrove swamps.
Location: Africa, Asia, The Americas, Australia
Lifespan: 35 – 75 Years
Size: 4.9 – 23 ft (1.5 m – 7 m)
Weight: 40 – 2,600 lb (18 – 1,200 kg)
Color: Dark green when adult. Yellow with black striples when young.
Diet: Fish, Amphibians, Birds, Reptiles, Mammals
Predators: Other crocodiles. Big cats, such as jaguars and leopards. Anacondas and pythons. When small, large birds, such as heron or shoebill.
Top Speed: 35 Kph (22 Mph) Swimming
No. of Species:
4 Species Endangered: Orinoco, Philippine, Cuban, Siamese
2 Species Vulnerable: American, Dwarf.
Crocodiles are semi-aquatic and live in wetland areas, freshwater rivers or lakes, or saltwater – residing in estuaries, lagoons, or mangrove swamps, rather than far out at sea.
There are 14 species of crocodiles, which vary in lifespan between 35 – 75 years, and considerably in size. The smallest, the Dwarf Crocodile, grows to an average 4.9 feet (1.5 meters) in length, and weighs 40 – 71 pounds (18 to 32 kg, or 3 to 5 stone).
The largest crocodile is the Saltwater Crocodile, which can grow up to 23.0 ft (7.0 m) in length, weighing 2,200 – 2,600 lb (1,000 to 1,200 kg, or 150 to 190 stone).
Some species are active during the day, while other species are only nocturnal. Crocodiles mostly hunt at night, are carnivorous animals and very efficient hunters, with excellent hearing and eyesight.
They are aggressive, ambush predators, waiting for their prey to venture close to their hiding position, before rushing to attack. A crocs diet mostly includes other animals, reptiles, birds and fish.
Interesting Crocodile Facts
1. Crocodiles are carnivores, which generally means they eat only meat. However, a recent study proved they also enjoy an occasional taste of fruit.
The 2013 study concluled "there is little doubt that on occasion, fruit is deliberately consumed, often in large quantities", along with their normal meat-heavy diets of mammals, birds, and fish.1
2. Crocodiles can go through 4,000 teeth over a lifetime.
Crocodiles have between 60-110 teeth. When a crocodile loses a tooth, there is a small replacement already on standby. They are able to replace each of their 80 teeth up to 50 times over their lifespan. 2
3. A crocodile's jaws can apply 5,000 pounds of pressure per square inch – the strongest bite of any animal in the world.
A human's jaw only produces 100 pounds of pressure per square inch in comparison. A crocodiles bite is 10 times more powerful than a great white shark.3
4. Crocodiles have relatively weak jaw opening muscles, which can be held shut with just a rubber band, or your bare hands.
Although, that's not advisable! However, it has enabled scientists to study them closer!
5. An easy way to tell the difference between a crocodile and an alligator, is when a crocodile closes it's mouth, all teeth are visible – as the upper and lower jaw are the same width.
Whereas an alligator possesses small depressions in the upper jaw for the lower teeth, meaning they are not visible when their mouth is shut.4
6. Another key difference to an alligator is snout shape. Alligators have wider, U-shaped snouts, while crocodiles are more pointed and V-shaped.
Crocodiles are generally a little more aggressive, and often larger and stronger, too.
7. The longest crocodile captured alive measured 6.17 m (20.2 ft) and weighed at 1,075 kg (2,370 lb) by a National Geographic team in Agusan del Sur Province, Philippines.
'Lolong' was a saltwater crocodile and the largest ever in captivity.5
8. Crocodiles don't sweat. To keep cool, they open their mouths which is known as "mouth gaping," very similar to panting.
They are not displaying aggression when you see them with their mouths wide open! They often sleep with their mouths wide open to release heat.
9. Crocodiles are extremely fast in the water, swimming up to speeds of 35 kilometers per hour (22 mph).
They use their powerful tails to propel themselves through water, and their feet as rudders to steer.6
10. It's a common myth that crocodiles can run fast on land. They can 'belly run' up to 17 kilometers per hour (11 mph) for short distances.
Crocs tire easily on land and prefer to stay in water, coming ashore only to bask in the sun, or to lay eggs.
11. Crocs can hold their breath underwater for more than an hour.
Cambridge researchers have shown that this ability depends on a tiny fragment of the animal's haemoglobin, which is the protein that carries oxygen from the lungs to the rest of the body. 7
12. Crocodiles swallow small stones to improve digestion. These stones help grind up the food in their stomachs.
Swallowing stones (known as 'gastroliths') is especially beneficial for crocodiles that eat their prey whole, or for tougher animals with shells and bones. A gastrolith can remain inside the stomach for years.
13. The expression to cry 'crocodile tears' (to display insincere or a false display of emotion), derives from crocodiles shedding tears, while they eat their prey.
While this was originally an ancient belief, studies have shown that crocodiles eyes do water while they eat, but not with remorse – for biological reasons, due to the hisses and huffs during feeding.8
14. Crocodiles have acute senses, an evolutionary advantage that makes them highly successful predators.
Crocodiles are mainly nocturnal hunters and have excellent night vision. Their sense of smell and hearing are also extremely well developed.
15. Crocodiles have been known to occasionally cannibalize smaller crocodiles.
There have been recorded cases of larger crocodiles eating smaller, or younger crocs.9
16. Crocodiles are ambush and opportunistic predators, capable of preying upon large mammals, such as smaller elephants, hippos, sharks or big cats.
Some species like the freshwater crocodile will mostly eat fish, while larger species like the saltwater crocodile or the Nile crocodile, will consume buffalo, zebra, deer and wild boar.
17. Crocodiles have the most acidic stomach of any vertebrate.
This allows them to dissolve and digest bones, hooves and horns or shells from their prey.
18. Crocodiles perform a 'death roll' to overcome prey, clamping on using their jaws, and spinning around powerfully.
The spinning motion of the roll disorientates the prey, dragging them under the water and helps separate limbs from the body of larger animals to easily ingest.
19. Crocodiles vocalize to communicate. The young of some species squeak and grunt, while adult crocs can growl, hiss or roar at each other.
Many species will also respond to other noises, such as engine noise, gun shots or even people mimicking crocodiles.
20. Crocodiles can sleep with one eye wide open.
Only some other reptiles, birds and dolphins can do the same. They generally sleep with two eyes closed, though.10
21. Larger crocodiles can go for over a year without eating a meal.
A croc's metabolism is super efficient, using and storing nearly the entirety of the food it consumes. In extreme circumstances, they are able to shut down and live off their own tissue for a long period of time.
22. Worldwide, crocodiles are estimated to kill about 1,000 humans per year.
Hundreds of those crocodile attacks occur in Africa, often in small commuinities where they not widely reported. 11
Crocodile Fact-File Summary
Class: Reptilia
Order: Crocodilia
Family: Crocodylidae
Subfamily: Crocodylinae
Species List & Habitat
Species Name Habitat
American Crocodile South Floria & Caribbean Basin
Slender-Snouted Crocodile Central & Western Africa
Orinoco Crocodile Colombia & Venezuela
Freshwater Crocodile Northern Australia
Philippine Crocodile Philippines
Morelet's Crocodile Mexico, Belize & Guatemala
Nile Crocodile Sub-saharan Africa
New Guinea Crocodile New Guinea
Mugger Crocodile Indian subcontinent
Saltwater Crocodile Southeast Asia, Northern Australia
Cuban Crocodile Islands Of Cuba
Siamese Crocodile Indonesia, Brunei, East Malaysia & Indochina
West African Crocodile Western & Central Africa
Dwarf Crocodile Western Africa
Fact Sources & References
S. G. Platt, R. M. Elsey, H. Liu, T. R. Rainwater, J. C. Nifong, A. E. Rosenblatt, M. R. Heithaus, F. J. Mazzotti. "Frugivory and seed dispersal by crocodilians: an overlooked form of saurochory?" Journal of Zoology, 2013.
Poole DFG (1961). "Notes on tooth replacement in the nile crocodile, crocodilus niloticus". Proc Zool Soc Lond 136:131–160. Wiley Online Library.
Gregory M. Erickson (2012), "Crocodiles Have Strongest Bite Ever Measured", via National Geographic.
J. Bryner, 'What's the Difference Between Alligators and Crocodiles?' Via Live Science.
C. Dell'amore, 'Giant Crocodile Breaks Size Record—Suspected in Fatal Attacks' Via National Geographic.
Molnar, J. L.; Pierce, S. E. & Hutchinson, J. R. (2014). "An experimental and morphometric test of the relationship between vertebral morphology and joint stiffness in Nile crocodiles", Journal of Experimental Biology.
G.Vines (1995), "Why crocodiles rarely come up for air", New Scientist.
B. Handwerk (2007), "Crocodiles Really Shed Tears While Eating", National Geographic
A. Jones (2015), "Crocodile cannibal caught on camera in 'horrifying' attack", BBC News.
K.Knight (2015), "Slumbering crocs keep an eye out for threats", Journal of Experimental Biology
M. Hogenboom (2015). "Why do crocodiles attack humans?", via BBC Earth.
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Hedge fund's settlement with FTC highlights limits to HSR investment-only exemption
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USA August 27 2015
On August 24, 2015, the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") announced a proposed settlement to a civil complaint against three Third Point hedge fund entities (collectively, the "Third Point Funds") and their management company, Third Point LLC, related to alleged violations of the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act ("HSR")1 by Third Point. The complaint, which the U.S. Department of Justice ("DOJ") brought on behalf of the FTC, alleged that Third Point had inappropriately relied on the investment-only HSR exemption and failed to comply with HSR premerger notification requirements when it acquired shares of Yahoo! Inc. ("Yahoo") in 2011.2 The FTC decided not to seek civil penalties, but the proposed judgment imposes a 5-year restriction on Third Point's ability to rely on the investment-only exemption for acquisitions where Third Point takes specific actions to influence the issuer. Two FTC Commissioners dissented from the proposed judgment, stating that the HSR Act should not capture acquisitions of the type made by Third Point.3
This enforcement action highlights two important points for investors that are considering the investment-only exemption in connection with a minority acquisition. First, the enforcement action reaffirms the antitrust agencies' consistent approach to interpreting "investment-only" intent narrowly. Second, the dissenting statement by two FTC Commissioners, paired with certain public statements by the FTC's Bureau of Competition, suggests that the FTC may be open to rethinking whether the current interpretation of the investment-only exemption is being applied effectively.
The Third Point Funds are affiliated hedge funds founded by Daniel Loeb, a former board member of Yahoo. Yahoo is a technology company engaged in providing Internet search, communications and digital content.
According to the complaint, the Third Point Funds made multiple open market acquisitions of Yahoo voting securities between August 8, 2011 and September 8, 2011. The complaint also alleged that between August 10, 2011 and August 30, 2011, each Third Point Fund acquired Yahoo shares exceeding $66 million, which was the applicable HSR filing threshold at the time. However, none of the three Third Point Funds submitted an HSR premerger notification form for their respective acquisitions of Yahoo shares prior to exceeding the HSR threshold. The Third Point Funds relied on the "investment-only" exemption to the HSR filing requirement because each fund would hold less than ten percent of Yahoo's outstanding shares and the shares would be held solely for investment.
On September 8, 2011, Third Point LLC filed a Form 13 D with the SEC publicly disclosing Third Point's holdings in Yahoo. Third Point also filed a letter it sent to the Yahoo board, criticizing its management decisions and stating Third Point's intention to present a slate of directors at Yahoo's next annual meeting. In addition to the Form 13 D filling, Third Point also, among other actions, made public statements about proposed changes to Yahoo's board. On September 16, 2011, each of the Third Point Funds filed HSR forms for the acquisitions of Yahoo shares. The waiting period for each filing subsequently expired on October 17, 2011.
The HSR Act and HSR Rules provide certain filing exemptions to acquisitions of voting securities that otherwise meet the applicable thresholds. This includes an exemption for stock acquisitions made "solely for the purposes of investment," as long as the acquirer does not hold over ten percent of the issuer's voting securities as a result of the acquisition.4 The HSR Rules limit the exemption by making it available only if the acquirer has "no intention of participating in the formulation, determination, or direction of the basic business decisions of the issuer."5 Further, the FTC's rationale for the exemption at the time the HSR Rules were implemented note that certain types of actions are inconsistent with holding securities solely for investment, including nominating a candidate for the board of directors, holding a board seat, proposing corporate action that requires shareholder approval, soliciting proxies, or being a competitor of the issuer.6
The FTC concluded that the Third Point acquisitions of Yahoo shares did not qualify for the investment-only exemption because of direct evidence that the Third Point Funds intended to become actively involved in the management and direction of Yahoo's business. Specifically, the complaint alleged that the Third Point Funds, Third Point LLC and/or their agents: (i) took steps to gauge certain individuals' interest to become Yahoo's CEO; (ii) took other steps to assemble an alternate slate of board of directors for Yahoo; (iii) drafted correspondence to Yahoo to announce that Third Point was prepared to join the Yahoo board; (iv) internally deliberated the possible launch of a proxy battle for directors of Yahoo; and (v) made public statements that they were prepared to propose a slate of directors at Yahoo's next annual meeting.
In light of these actions, the FTC alleged that each of the Third Point Funds violated the HSR Act by failing to submit a timely HSR form and observe the HSR waiting period, before acquiring Yahoo shares in excess of the $66 million threshold. The penalties for HSR violations are civil penalties of up to $16,000 for each day that an acquirer is in violation of the HSR Act. Therefore, in the aggregate, Third Point's fine could have been over $2.8 million ($16,000 per day for the periods between August 10 and October 17, August 17 and October 17 and August 30 and October 17, the HSR waiting period expiration for each fund).
However, per the stipulated settlement, the government did not seek civil penalties. Instead, the settlement prohibits the Third Point Funds from making an acquisition of an issuer without filing and observing the HSR waiting period, if during the preceding four months, the Third Point Funds engage in certain conduct, including the following:
nominate a candidate to the board of directors of the issuer;
propose corporate action requiring shareholder approval;
solicit proxies with respect to the issuer;
are a competitor of the issuer;
inquire a third party as to his or her interest in the board or management of the issuer;
communicate with the issuer regarding board or management representation; and
assemble in writing a board or management slate of the issuer.
The final judgment has to be approved by a district court judge; however, the court's entry of judgment should be straightforward.
This HSR enforcement action marks the second time in three years the agencies have alleged that certain acquirers failed to file an HSR notification and could not avail themselves of the investment-only exemption.7
As part of the proposed settlement, the FTC's Bureau of Competition issued a release on its Blog supporting the rationale for the alleged HSR violation.8 The Bureau noted that the FTC has "long made clear that the investment-only exemption is a narrow exemption." The limitations on the exemption have been communicated consistently through speeches and previous enforcement actions relating to conduct that was inconsistent with investment-only intent. Interestingly, the Bureau noted it was willing to consider changes to the HSR Rules to make the "rules better or more clear."
Commissioners Maureen Ohlhausen and Joshua Wright (whose last day as a Commissioner coincided with the release of the proposed settlement) dissented and noted in their dissenting statement that while an HSR violation occurred, an enforcement action was not in the public interest.9 Rather, they contended that acquisitions by activist investors such as Third Point raise a very low risk of potential competitive harm and often generate well-documented benefits to the market. Importantly, minority acquisitions by activist investors could easily be remedied by a post-consummation divestiture and did not involve concerns of "unscrambling of assets" that led to enactment of the HSR Act.
In their dissenting statement, Commissioners Ohlhausen and Wright proposed two options for modifying how the HSR Rules are applied to share acquisitions that do not exceed 10% of the issuer's outstanding voting securities. Their first suggestion was to consider a new exemption for any share acquisitions that do not result in the acquirer holding greater than 10 percent of an issuer's outstanding voting shares. The second suggestion was to link investment-only intent to specific conduct outlined in the Statement of Basis and Purpose that was written when the HSR Rules were first issued.10 E.g., nominating a candidate for the board, soliciting proxies, being a competitor of the issuers, etc. Such rules, the Commissioners contend, would provide clear guidance for what conduct would disqualify an acquirer from relying on the investment-only exemption.
The government's action reaffirms the FTC's consistent guidance that stock purchasers, including private equity firms and activist shareholders, intending to influence the direction of a business should keep in mind the HSR premerger notification thresholds and filing requirements.
The action highlights the relatively high bar to claiming the investment-only exemption. Additionally, the prohibited actions enumerated in the proposed settlement provides further clarification of, and potentially expands, the existing enforcement precedent and informal interpretations on the investment-only exemption.
Finally, investors should understand that the agencies' decision of whether to seek civil penalties is based on a highly fact-specific analysis. The lack of a fine in this enforcement action should be viewed in conjunction with the $850,000 fine that Biglari Holdings, Inc. paid in 2011 to settle similar allegations of failing to file an HSR notification without being able to rely on the investment-only exemption. In both instances, defendants were first time violators involved in transactions that did not raise serious anticompetitive concerns. Taken together, these enforcement actions demonstrate that the agencies have enforcement discretion, but being a first time violator does not guarantee a settlement without significant fines.
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Hotel Del Rey - Tica Secrets Exposed!
Hotel Del Rey – Costa Rica Tica Comes Clean!
If you ever want to know the truth about how a Costa Rica tica operates, why not ask her yourself? That's my theory, anyway. And after talking to hundreds of them, I feel like an authority on the Costa Rica tica!
Not that I can read their mind, or anything. I mean, let's be honest here they're still women! But the Hotel Del Rey tica isn't typical. In fact, I can paint you a very detailed picture of what to expect when you enter this particular establishment known for being a hub of working Costa Rican girls.
As any regular here knows, the Hotel Del Rey is far more than a typical Costa Rica brothel. It lavishes visitors with a full-service casino, sports bar, and more girls than you can shake your stick at. In fact, Costa Rica's Hotel Del Rey might be the largest meat market in Central America.
So why not just set up shop at the Del Rey for your entire stay, and ravage all the Costa Rica ticas you can? Well, let me dispel some rumors and set the record straight on the ole Del Rey.
The biggest rookie mistake for punters is to bite on the first bait. When you first enter off of 9th street, the bar and sitting area is not to be even considered. Simply walk on through, don't make eye contact, and whatever you do. . .don't stop. This area is rife with scoundrels, who are either working without a license or enjoying the good "first shot at tourists" position, complete with a nearby exit to escape. Do yourself a favor and keep walking through.
Straight ahead and above is the epicenter of flesh traded, the "Blue Marlin" bar. If you're looking for quick action, this should be your only stop. The girls in the side areas will sing to you like sirens, don't be tempted unless you feel like wasting time & buying drinks. Best bet is to avoid the other flash in the pan distractions – Little Marlin, Monkey Bar, Key Largo, it's all just one cheap carnival ride. Anyway, once you make it into the Blue Marlin, you'll find the girls there don't waste any time. Open 24 hours (but the top girls work evenings), the BM bar won't disappoint if you're not picky. The girls often approach you, are open to touching (in fact I swear some of them have 4 hands!), and will often begin whispering propositions into your ear. If you want quick action, for $100-$200 depending on class of girl, this is probably the easiest place to recommend. I personally have moved past the Del Rey Hotel, and if you've read my Costa Rica Prostitution Guide you understand why!
Enjoy your time in Costa Rica Hotel Del Rey, if that's your destination. And I hope the insider information I've shared helps to make the most of it!