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<title><![CDATA[Your Most Prized Kitchen Tool]]></title>
<link>http://heallyme.wordpress.com/?p=33</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:49:27 +0000</pubDate>
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&#8216;As Dr. Pottenger was wont to say: &#8220;A big stock            pot is the most important gi]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>'As Dr. Pottenger was wont to say: "A big stock            pot is the most important gift a bride could receive."'</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Excerpts of this article were taken from <strong>Why Broth is Beautiful, <a href="http://www.westonaprice.org/foodfeatures/brothisbeautiful.html" target="_blank"> </a></strong> <a href="http://www.westonaprice.org/foodfeatures/brothisbeautiful.html" target="_blank"><strong></strong></a><strong><a href="http://www.westonaprice.org/foodfeatures/brothisbeautiful.html#author">By Kaayla T. Daniel, MS CCN.</a></strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;">I do recommend you read the entire article because there is so much to learn about this wonderful healing food; broth!</p>
<h1 style="text-align:center;">~~</h1>
<p>"Fifty years ago Pottenger pointed out a reason that raw food diets            can be so effective in reversing disease and contributing to rejuvenation.            "Man’s food in the raw state consists largely of <strong>hydrophilic            (water loving) colloids</strong>. (attracts digestive jiuces for rapid and effective digestions-according to SallyFallon) The heat of cooking on the other hand . . .            precipitates the colloids of our diet. This change in colloidal state            alters the hydration capacity of our foods so as to interfere with their            ability to absorb digestive juices." Happily for those who prefer            their food cooked, Dr. Pottenger went on to explain that this digestive            problem could be easily remedied by adding one-half ounce to one ounce            of gelatin to a cooked meal of meat, potatoes, vegetables and fruits."</p>
<h2>Gelatin and the Liver</h2>
<p>"Early research has also indicated that gelatin helps the liver. <strong>This            is plausible in that the liver uses the amino acid glycine for detoxification</strong>,<strong> and its ability to detoxify is limited by the amount of glycine available</strong>.            Back in 1935, Reuben Ottenberg, MD wrote in the <em>Journal of the American            Medical Association</em>: "It has been suggested that the administration            of extra amounts of proteins containing an abundance of glycine (such            as gelatin) will help the work in the liver. This seems particularly            plausible since the recent work of Quick, who has shown that the ability            of the liver to perform this protective synthesis is limited by the            amount of glycine available."</p>
<p><strong>Ottenberg concluded with the recommendation that patients with jaundice            and other liver problems take 5 to l0 grams of gelatin per day either            in the form of food or as a powdered medicinal supplement.</strong></p>
<p>The big question is why so many early studies showing the healing            power of gelatin have languished in obscurity. The easy explanation            is that after the 1930s, pharmaceutical drugs were widely prescribed            for ills that were once healed with gelatin.</p>
<p>Most commercial gelatins today are brewed exclusively from pigskins            or cowhide and so include no cartilage or bones. Years ago, however,            some commercial cartilages came from mystery blends of cartilage, bones,            skin and other junked animal parts. All these combinations differed            in terms of their physical and chemical characteristics and in their            physiologic actions. Gotthoffer reported that even glue was sometimes            sold as gelatin. Complicating matters further, some of the so-called            "gelatin" studies were done with the isolated amino acid glycine."</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">~~~</p>
<p><strong>"Remember also that the amino acids in gelatin, like all amino acids,            can only be properly utilized when the diet contains sufficient fat-soluble            activators--vitamins A and D--found exclusively in animal fats.</strong> So don’t            hesitate to put cream in your broth-based soups and sauces, and include            other sources of vitamins A and D in your diet, such as butter, egg            yolks and cod liver oil."</p>
<p>In your next bowl of broth or soup, whisk in a raw egg yolk for added nourishment.  You won't taste it at all.  Of course make sure you know the source of your eggs, before eating them raw.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">~~~</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">According to Sally Fallon in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Nourishing-Traditions-Challenges-Politically-Dictocrats/dp/0967089735/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#38;s=books&#38;qid=1223303835&#38;sr=1-1" target="_blank">Nourishing Traditions</a>, there are many other important ingredients that go into broth .  Cartilage is one that has recently been shown to be remarkable in treating cancer and bone disorders.  Collagen has been used successfully in treating rheumatoid arthritis and it's especially necessary for those of us with <strong>Lyme Disease</strong>.  Spirochetes feed on collagen, so it's important to nourish your body with broths and to use products with MSM added in like <a href="http://www.drrons.com" target="_blank">Dr Ron's</a> body care products.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><img class="alignnone" src="http://drrons.com/pics/Moisture-Creme.jpg" alt="" width="190" height="205" /> <img class="alignnone" src="http://drrons.com/pics/Facial-Wash.jpg" alt="" width="165" height="300" /></p>
<p style="text-align:center;">~~~</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Cooking bone broth is very easy and effortless.  When our steer is processed for the freezer, we make sure to ask for all the bones.  You can take 2-3 good size bones and throw them in a stock pot of water.  It's recommended to add a dash of ACV (apple cider vinegar), due to it's ability to draw out more minerals and calcium from the bones.  I cook all my stocks, whether chicken or beef, all day (8-10 hrs).  At night I put the pot in the extra frig and pull it out in the morning and cook it another 10 hrs.  I've never had a pot not gel.  Mine gel all the way through.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">When I use one of our chickens for grilling, I collect all the backs and necks in a ziplock in the freezer.  After I have a few then I can make a pot of chicken stock.  It's a bit tedious to pick out all the tiny little bones.  But since they are cooked to the point of almost dissolving, it's not a big deal to get one and chew it up....hey, more nourishment!  And make sure when you get your fresh chickens you request the heads and feet too!  They hold the secret to what is fondly referred to as Jewish Penicillin.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">If I'm planning to make a pot of chicken soup or beef vegetable, I wait until the second day and after cooking another 4-5 hrs, I then add the veggies.  If I want some plain stock then I'll skim some off to freeze.  It's great having nourishing little stock cubes (freeze in ice cube trays), that can be thrown in whatever you're cooking; sauces, rice dishes, veggies.  I spend many a winter day, cooking pots of stock and freezing containers of chicken or beef soup.  They make a great quick meal and are extremely healthy during the winter months, as well as all year.</p>
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<link>http://greenewable.wordpress.com/?p=397</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:39:42 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>greenewable</dc:creator>
<guid>http://greenewable.fr.wordpress.com/2008/10/02/battleship/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[In the old childhood game Battleship, kids would take turns taking shots at five ships on a grid the]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the old childhood game Battleship, kids would take turns taking shots at five ships on a grid they could not see.  The goal was to deduce where the other player's ships were on the grid and to destroy them by taking shots, mostly in the dark.</p>
<p>Today, markets are playing their own version of Battleship, but instead of playing with five plastic pieces, resembling destroyers, friggits and aircraft carriers, current market makers are playing the game with hard-to-value financial assets.</p>
<p>Using David Einhorn's name as representative of the recent past, let's remember that it was a small consortia of well researched investors who began to take shots at the assets on the books of large financial firms.  Much like the game of Battleship, they first had to deduce where the bad assets might be, and then they had to size them up.</p>
<p>Today, most of the planet know what the bad assets might look like, mortgages, CMOs, CDO, CLOs, MBSs, etc, and it may be fair to say that the vast majority of them, at least, have been located.</p>
<p>However, we still have a "sizing" problem on our hands, as long as the size of these assets are allowed to shrink perpetually, beyond their "fair-market-value".</p>
<p>Since I first remarked on the need to consider revising or suspending "fair value" or "mark to market" accounting for the troubled assets in the system, a great number of columns have appeared throughout the mainstream media, and the topic has reach capital hill by lobbyists for the American Bankers Association.  (I'm not taking credit, just pointing out!)</p>
<p>Of course the argument by Bernake and other economists that fair-value accounting is in place to promote transparency and to protect shareholders is a valid one.  In normally functioning markets, assets are priced fairly and appropriately at regular intervals.</p>
<p>Today this is no longer the case.  Markets have seized, many assets no longer trade, except when a firm is in massive distress.  Firms in distress act a lot like people facing personal bankruptcy selling their most valuable assets first to raise as much cash as possible.  (Think of the recent article of Dick Fuld selling his art collection.)  Now imagine selling a wedding ring to a pawn shop.  Sure, you'll raise cash, but first its gonna hurt and then you are only going to get a fraction of the ring's value anyway.  Thus, the end result of that transparency today, if left unchecked, is going to result in full transparency into a growing number of insolvent firms who would raise less and less cash by selling assets whose prices are in perpetual downfall commonly known in business acumen as a "death spiral".</p>
<p>There is even some chatter this morning that FASB is looking into the matter, as a possible part of the revised bailout legislation.</p>
<p>The following two Op-Ed pieces in the WSJ from the other day do a nice job simply summarizing some of the most salient points in the argument to suspend current fair-market value rules for troubled assets.</p>
<p><a title="Fix accounting rules and private money will come." href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122282734447293049.html?mod=todays_us_opinion" target="_blank">How to Start the Healing Now</a></p>
<p><a title="Mark to Mayhem? What would happen if we changed the rules? Let's find out." href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122282674006393009.html?mod=todays_us_opinion" target="_blank">Mark to Mayhem? </a></p>
<p>While the long term effects of such changes are equally unknown to the current plan, and while broad changes to the accounting rules of assets outside the purview of troubled loans might be more than drastic, the current $700 plan is at least equally opaque in its potential efficacy, but a less logical solution considered by itself.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Advice for People Who Are Too Nice [CIO.com]]]></title>
<link>http://clodiva.wordpress.com/?p=75</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:40:58 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>KappaDiva</dc:creator>
<guid>http://clodiva.fr.wordpress.com/2008/09/22/advice-for-people-who-are-too-nice-ciocom/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[This excerpt from CIO.com:
1. Business is competitive. Deal with it.
Edelman interviewed Sam DiPiazz]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This <a href="http://www.cio.com/article/450066/The_Danger_of_Being_Too_Nice_at_Work_?page=1" target="_blank">excerpt from CIO.com</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>1. Business is competitive. Deal with it.</strong><br />
Edelman interviewed Sam DiPiazza Jr., the CEO of PricewaterhouseCoopers, for his book. DiPiazza had this to say about business, according to Edelman: "Business, whether we like it or not, includes competition. It's challenging, aggressive and very demanding. Despite the perception of many, it can also be performed nicely."</p>
<p><strong>2. Sometimes being nice isn't very nice at all.</strong><br />
Edelman also spoke with the CEO of the American Cancer Society, John Seffrin, who believes that when mangers are too nice and are incapable of having honest discussions with others (such as during a performance review) for fear of hurting feelings, they're in fact not being nice at all and they're doing a disservice to the people they manage.</p>
<p><strong>3. Confrontation is not necessarily a bad thing.</strong><br />
Nice people avoid confrontation because it's uncomfortable, says Edelman. If nice people are to be more assertive, they need to understand the business value of confrontation: it allows them to solve problems. Edelman points to a strategy employed by 1-800-GOT-JUNK CEO Brian Scudamore, which Scudamore calls "race to the conflict." The idea is, if a conflict or issue comes up, employees should race to it to get it resolved as quickly as possible. If they don't, they're wasting time.</p></blockquote>
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<title><![CDATA[Performance evaluation is a two-way street]]></title>
<link>http://clodiva.wordpress.com/2008/09/10/performance-evaluation-is-a-two-way-street/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:51:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>KappaDiva</dc:creator>
<guid>http://clodiva.fr.wordpress.com/2008/09/10/performance-evaluation-is-a-two-way-street/</guid>
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[Courtesy of NonProfit Times]
The most important aspect to evaluating an executive is providing tim]]></description>
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<p><em>[Courtesy of NonProfit Times]</em></p>
<p>The most important aspect to evaluating an executive is providing time for thoughtful conversation, according to Donna F. Vickers and Kelly Stevelt Kaser in "Evaluating Your Executive: New Approaches, New Purposes," published by The Academy of Leadership &#38; Governance in Columbus, Ohio.</p>
<p>Grading an executive's performance without conversation about what it means is not useful, according to the authors, who compiled 15 different options for nonprofit boards to evaluate their executives.</p>
<p>One of the options presented, "The Making of an Effective Executive," first appeared in the Harvard Business Review by Peter Drucker, "one of the fathers of American management science." He believes that leaders who are truly effective follow&#160;eight practices.</p>
<p>The first two give them the knowledge they need, the next four help convert this knowledge into effective action, and the last two ensure the whole organization feels responsible and accountable.</p>
<p style="margin-left:15px;">Effective leaders: </p>
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<li><font size="4">Ask, "What needs to be done?"</font></li>
<li><font size="4">Ask, "What is right for the enterprise?"</font></li>
<li><font size="4">Develop action plans.</font></li>
<li><font size="4">Take responsibility for decisions.</font></li>
<li><font size="4">Take responsibility for communicating.</font></li>
<li><font size="4">Focus on opportunities rather than problems.</font></li>
<li><font size="4">Run productive meetings.</font></li>
<li><font size="4">Think and say, "we" rather than "I."</font></li>
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<title><![CDATA[U-M Launches New Information Age Major: Informatics]]></title>
<link>http://clodiva.wordpress.com/2008/09/04/u-m-launches-new-information-age-major-informatics/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:38:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>KappaDiva</dc:creator>
<guid>http://clodiva.fr.wordpress.com/2008/09/04/u-m-launches-new-information-age-major-informatics/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[U-M Launches New Information Age Major: Informatics
University of Michigan undergraduates have a new]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><font class="Box_17115086_Sub_Font"><a class="Box_17115086_Sub_Headline" href="http://www.wwj.com/U-M-Launches-New-Information-Age-Major--Informatic/2900897"><strong><font color="#007dc9">U-M Launches New Information Age Major: Informatics</font></strong></a></font></p>
<p><font class="Box_17115086_Sub_Font">University of Michigan undergraduates have a new major on their list of choices, one highly relevant in this age: Informatics. Informatics is the study of information and the ways people and social systems use it. Experts in this field design information technology tools for scientific, business, and cultural needs, and study how such tools are used.</font></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Retro-grade your Eee PC with Windows 3.11]]></title>
<link>http://windowsnepin.wordpress.com/?p=7</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>windowsnepin</dc:creator>
<guid>http://windowsnepin.fr.wordpress.com/2008/09/03/retro-grade-your-eee-pc-with-windows-311/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Windows 3.11 on an Eee PC When a new piece of technology is released, it’s only a matter of time b]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Windows 3.11 on an Eee PC When a new piece of technology is released, it’s only a matter of time before some tries to get it to run Windows 3.11 - the Eee PC is the latest machine to be dressed up in 15 year old clothes. ...<br>www.electricpig.co.uk</p>
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<title><![CDATA[UK/Britian IN economic CRISIS?]]></title>
<link>http://stephentong.wordpress.com/?p=859</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 23:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>stephentong</dc:creator>
<guid>http://stephentong.fr.wordpress.com/2008/09/01/ukbritian-in-economic-downturn/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[what it credit crunch ? and how that affects the economy directly and housing at the same time? i th]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>what it credit crunch ? and how that affects the economy directly and housing at the same time?</strong> i think instead of being jolly with silly humour, there are knowledge that i think i am obliged to pass on to my readers , especially to my friends and the british people where i owe my tertiary education to, so here it is....soak it up cos these educational post comes once in a blue moon, most of my post are crazyass,nutcase material...</p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="color:#000000;">if you're asking </span>WHAT THE HECK JUST HAPPENED TO THE BRITISH ECONOMY? I DONT UNDERSTAND S*** <span style="color:#000000;">then this post is a must-read for you</span></span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">falling worth of GBP - house prices plummeting - Northern Rock almost went bancrupt-</span></strong><br />
I AM SURE you've heard about them, but <span style="text-decoration:underline;">what the HELL is happening</span>,HOW ?? well i'm going to put them in simple terms so taht even an idiot can understand.<br />
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once upon a time (around 2001) , in a land far far away ( UK &#38; USA especially)  the banks corporations that earns a large proportion of their profits by lending the money to the business and of course mortgages, the cornerstone of profits in banking.... the banks figure out that they are lending out as much mortgages as they can, by X amount and thats the max, and then somehow these banking giants have a thought " hmm...if we can loan money to more people by loosening our strict loan-approval criterion , we can make twice or even treble the <span style="color:#008000;">current amounts of profits = X . </span><span style="color:#000000;">and there it is the birth of this disaster called '' the credit crunch". banks starts to be less cautious and their priority have shifted to amass as much as loans as possible to borrowers esp in mortgages (borrow to buy houses) and they think that is a stroke of finantial genius, now that they can sit back and wait for money to roll-in in the form of mortgage repayments.... but who were these people under credit(owe money to banks) it is a group of people known as <strong>NI/NJ/NA</strong> (no income/no job/no asset) aka the ninja's. more accurately people without a steady stream of sufficient income, without a good stable job and without assets to be 'locked' to banks if you fail to repay' ( remember in the tv we see cars being pulled away by the bank people because you cant pay the borrowed money?).millions are tricked into a loan they cant afford at inital low rates(interest paid to bank).<a href="http://stephentong.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/example-for-internet.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-869" src="http://stephentong.wordpress.com/files/2008/09/example-for-internet.jpg" alt="" width="386" height="85" /></a><br />
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loaning money for  people with poor credit ratings to buy house is called (subprime mortgage market) it started to earn banks money, and they want to raise more money from people to feed into the lucrative subprime market, through CLO's ( collateralized loan obligations) sold to everyone, through bonds/funds/the stock markets/wall street/london stock exchange.....  and the british banks bought tons of these CLOs from american mortgage providers directly or indirectly, heck its traded everywhere , profits up to 18-25% is possible, it sounds too good to be true, doesn't it?<br />
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<div><span style="color:#000000;">who to blame?, first the leaders in bank corporations, second the credit ratings that rate CLOs :AAA ( AAA rating WTF ? why? they are paid by those banking bosses) if i will pay you in proportion to how good you rate my looks, of course you will say i am super gorgeous irresistably handsome because you get paid more for giving me better ratings because i am the one paying you to rate me, kinda . and the credit ratings are so good everybody feel safe to invest in CLO's in the name of trust, its AAA with a turnover of 20% annual return , nothings better than that !!people are fooled by ungenunine ratings.<span style="color:#000000;">so the time bomb ticks,any minor economic shake-ups or rise in mortgage rates and ....2003,2004,2005,2006,2007 , jan , feb......august 2008,'KA-BOWWWWW' the bombs starts to explode,the credit bubble burst, ALAS banks lose money , RBC, HSBC,Halifax,Lloydds TSB,<strong> </strong>Barclays... and Nortern Rock because of its aggresive investment style in short term high risk loans etc.. like CLOs,  so Northern Rockis being beaten up and trashed by <strong>the losses </strong>the most...so badly injured from the credit crunch ( money borrowers cant pay back back the bank, crunch!!!) that it has to be nationalised with the help fo bank of england under the command of Alistair darling , under gordon browns labour party rule.<br />
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<p> <span style="color:#808080;">PS:these two has nothing to do with the credit crunch thing i put them here just to keep you readers awake, delicious two hot bod stars to turn you on. keep reading, this knowledge beneficial. </span></p>
<p>  large numbers of <span style="color:#ff00ff;">people fails to payup </span>with their mortgage repayments, and so <span style="color:#ff00ff;">defaults</span> happens in large numbers (failure to pay up) , and when that happens <span style="color:#0000ff;">repossession</span> of properties happen ,</p>
<div><span style="color:#0000ff;">the bank take the house you're buying but cant pay and try to sell 'em , <span style="color:#000000;">BUT since repossessions are so high , there are now so much more properties on the market, than people wanting to buy , so the balance between supply and demand is skewed, and house prices starts to drop.. but that is not only the reason ( real estate in UK fell by 10.5% in the last 12 months )<br />
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<div><span style="color:#0000ff;"><span style="color:#000000;"> </span></span><strong>5 reason why prices of real estate is falling, in order</strong><br />
1. with huge losses banks are now so cautious in giving out mortgage loan (ppl harder borrow money to buy house)<br />
2.  less houses for sale/ repossession/auction than demand<br />
3. people go into the ' wait and see' mode, since the house prices are falling they dont want to buy but wait tilll it price-fall to stop before they buy<br />
4. angry britons as well, they welcome it, many britons think that real estate in UK is unaffordable so they welcome this fall, as readjustment to the real worth/value of british real estate than the previously overpriced , unaffordable cost of housing.<br />
5. previously too much stupid loans, people are enticed buy-to-rent mortgages and are making losses, (be realistic, if the rent itself can cover the mortgage and council tax, why not british renters buy their own house instead of renting?they are not stupid, wake up,no easy money , this is a scam,no-money down bullshit, amateur investors lose money, and house being repossesed and the bank,mortgage comps like nationwide earn money again from new borrowers) in my 4 years in tyne and wear at sunderland i've seen houses being bought,tried to be rented out to students or people and being sold because there is too much rental properties than people that wants to rent, plus mortgages that time is so easily approve everybody tries this, things like this also causing the prices of real estate to rise 2000 through 2007 cos there are investors that are owning    5-6 houses, so many people want to own more than one house, so demands are too much than the amounts of real estate properties available hence the rise all these years, and people that rent also want to buy house because , heck! its so easy to get a mortgage, why rent when you can buy. demand demands overinflated demands that are not reflecting the real level of demand, and more houses are build to feed this overinflated  ''phantom'' demands. property bubble burst, value drops<br />
6.  as in the last decade house prices almost doubled in uk , it is partly because of the real estate owners are selling houses at inflated price, and tell people that real estate only increase in value, and never fall, its a myth..and they the government, how? these companies like Morris properties, sell houses to people at say 150K and report to the land registar at value of 175K (then telling the homebuyers just got a bargain) and the land registar get tricked, over time the benchmark for current home price statistics rose due to this fraudulant act to overvalue it, but govt dont have regulatory body for this kind of thing, over time new home houses uses the higher setpoint to sell their houses, homeowners wont report, because why would they , their houses are said to worth more so keep quiet, banks and mortgage providers wont report that too, why? when it cost <span style="text-decoration:underline;">more</span> people have to borrow <span style="text-decoration:underline;">more </span>money from the bank, more potential profits .....so when the bubble burst , value falls<br />
7. not to say the increase in demand by opening up mortgage to ninjas(ni.nj.na) people with poor credit ratings, which will default in large numbers, causing the banks to close-down and be more conservative , around sept 07, suddenly a massive fall in 'demands' by shutting out  people unqualified to get loan now, which is too late, the bomb went off, prices fall</div>
<p>so there it is  real estate bubble burst +credit crunch</p>
<p>if this doesnt get you worrried enough, grab your GTN spray and Inhalers , cos <span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">the</span></strong><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">re might be a SECOND ROUND OF ATTACK,</span></strong>  </span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#ff0000;">here's why -</span> instead of trying to wipe-it off and start new the banking industry in britian and usa is trying to save this subprime mortgage disaster. how they do it ? by trying to convert this shite to chocolate, now the bank throw in the little money they have to buy CDS ( credict default swap) insurance, where the insurance company cover the losses of mortgage defaults with a premium. <br />
analogy : so its like instead of abandoning the old car , and buy a new one ( more expensive fix)<br />
           they are trying to repair the old car (if successsful , fixing the subprime problem will cost less, but if they fail to fix this old car, * WE'RE SCREWED!!! , we british citizens. <a href="http://stephentong.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/1horrific.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-867 alignleft" src="http://stephentong.wordpress.com/files/2008/09/1horrific.jpg" alt="" width="382" height="308" /></a> Cos this time if the insurance companies cant cushion the losses and go bancrupt , the banks that is reliant on the insurance coverage via CDS will go down together , this time BOTH!! if it happens more downsizing, more people willl get laid off, more crimes, more reduced consumer spending, more bankcruptcies, public confidence in economy will fall start selling off their stocks in FTSE,stock market thus crases,  and the Great Britian Pounds worth will fall further,  last time from 1.5 GBP/Euro to 1.2  , this time maybe 0.9 GBP/Euro exchange, means now GBP worths less than euro!!<br />
and its already showing signs that it just might, AIG reported a loss of 5-6 billion in CDS coverage, premium for CDS cover is rising, ... if this 2nd bomb went off it will record a loss of £700 Billion pounds.  economy will collapse, GDP growth will not only go stagnant but even record negative GDP(gross domestic produce)  and that is termed as a 'recession'.</span></p>
<p>  <strong>when will it recover?</strong> my guess is it will reach its bottom in mid 2009 and go stagnant then slowly recovering by march 2010.(IF the 2nd attack does not happen, so keep our fingers crossed and pray that we survive through it) why trust my words? because i am a unemployed 22 year old living in north lincolnshire, credible enough? : P lolz. j/k</p>
<p><strong>why do i write this post?</strong> well to educate people which is my main reason to start this blog but it went too far off, way too far off so this one post i come back to sanity before going insane with craptalk again , and also to better my status so that readers wont think that i am just an overcaffeinated retarded kid on LSD.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Technology tips for improving your work-life balance]]></title>
<link>http://clodiva.wordpress.com/2008/08/22/technology-tips-for-improving-your-work-life-balance/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:06:59 +0000</pubDate>
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<div id="articletitle">I don&#8217;t usually boast anything Microsoft, but thought these thoughts were generally helpful no matter what your platform &#8212; and there are tools out there to accomplish all these things below on ANY platform!</div>
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<p>A few years back, personal coach Maya Talisman and husband Tom Frost, a jewelry importer and distributor, decided to move their his-and-hers businesses and four daughters from Portland, Ore., to Mazatlan, Mexico.</p>
<p>"We chose Mazatlan because we had been there on vacation and knew it would be a friendly, peaceful place to spend our first year abroad and learn Spanish," Talisman says. The family rented an apartment in the historic colonial district and enrolled the kids in school.</p>
<p>Talisman's meditation books and courses are sold online while Frost's company, Swell Products, distributes his brand of magnetic bracelets to hundreds of retailers across the United States. The bracelets are manufactured in China and shipped to the United States. Frost employs a sales manager and part-time bookkeeper, who work from Oregon.</p>
<p>"That experiment worked so well that 10 months later, when school was out, we moved even farther south, to Buenos Aires, Argentina," says Talisman. </p>
<p>How do they pick up their businesses and move wherever they want? By relying on technology, Talisman and Frost have created virtual headquarters for their companies and they operate with a roster of web-based applications.</p>
<p>How technology can save time and money</p>
<p>Certainly, today's always-on-and-available-anywhere technology can lead to addictive work habits. We&#8217;ve all seen examples of that among friends and family.</p>
<p>But having a cheap, convenient, 24/7 global reach through technology can also efficiently enable you to live the life you&#8217;ve always wanted. The choice is yours. </p>
<p>Here are some affordable tools and ideas that harness technology&#8217;s power to save you time and money. Cherry-pick among these solutions to build in breaks, or reconfigure your work-life routines, or, like Talisman and her family, reinvent your life entirely.</p>
<p>1.&#160; Use Voice-over-Internet protocol phone service (VoIP) to create a virtual office. To maintain a professional phone line and still travel, take time off or live abroad, VoIP telephone services are a terrific help. You&#8217;ve probably heard about such affordable services, which, basically, use the Internet to send and receive calls. Usually, you pay only for Internet access and not for calls, much the way e-mail works. </p>
<p>"We have an Oregon phone number in Argentina," Talisman says. Frost&#8217;s Oregon-based manager has a similar setup. The Buenos Aires and Oregon phones ring at the same time.</p>
<p>There are dozens of VoIP providers to choose among. Try a Web search if you don&#8217;t know one.</p>
<p>2.&#160; Use online services for office communications and banking. The Frosts host their company computers on external servers, so they can access all e-mail, files, and financial information or transactions from any Internet café. (Of course, you do want to have privacy safeguards in place when working this way.) </p>
<p>"We have no bank account in Argentina," Talisman says. "We&#8217;re paid in dollars and living on pesos&#8212;enough said!"</p>
<p>3.&#160; Leverage the power of a professional Web site. Setting up a Web site, more than any other technological helpmate, will shave considerable time and effort from your workdays. </p>
<p>With a professional site, you can more efficiently conduct business, fulfill orders, organize contacts, share documents with employees or contractors, and market your wares or services, even when you're out of the office or on the road. </p>
<p>For more about launching a site, see the Microsoft Office Live Small Business offerings. Once your site is up, you can bolster its effectiveness by keeping customers, stakeholders, or media up-to-date with an online media kit.</p>
<p>4.&#160; Use your site features to stay in touch with customers. With so many marketing channels and consumer options these days, increasingly, it's the business that quickly responds to customer needs that gains a competitive advantage. You can use your Web site to "listen" and react to what your customers request. </p>
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<p>Set up an online forum so customers can register and post comments to you and to each other. <br />Set up a survey that customers can take online. This can be a focus group type of survey (say, about a new product) or a customer satisfaction survey. <br />Set up a special e-mail address and ask customers for specific feedback or advice whenever you launch a new product, service, or special promotion. <br />5.&#160; Use e-mail software to track schedules and tasks. Software such as Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 can improve your performance. Most people are good at creating to-do or task lists, but often become distracted and don't commit to a scheduled time to accomplish those tasks. </p>
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<p>By utilizing the task and reminder functions of an e-mail program, you can set up a calendar that generates alerts, whether annual, weekly, or daily. Some business owners say that such alerts boost their productivity by 50 percent or more. </p>
<p>6.&#160; Stop thinking you must do everything yourself. "Doing administrative work is necessary, but it can detract from an owner's primary purpose of growing and nurturing the business," says Jennefer Witter, who founded The Boreland Group, a New York City public relations agency, in 2003. </p>
<p>"I've known too many entrepreneurs who are penny-wise and pound-foolish," because they won&#8217;t hire help, she says. "One was working until midnight because her admin work took so much time." The solution, Witter suggests, is to hire virtual assistants. "Be more efficient by getting a qualified, trained person who can handle the chores."</p>
<p>With instantaneous communications and the ability to seamlessly connect from anywhere, virtual assistants can work remotely and provide quality work. "Many of us are in home offices and don't have room for another person," Witter says. "That's another beauty of VAs."</p>
<p>There are lots of job boards and industry associations that list virtual assistant services, if you decide to look for one. Also, check listings at the International Virtual Assistants Association.</p>
<p>7.&#160; Create a sales contact database for your business. Software such as Contact Manager, included within Office Live Small Business, can transform your electronic address book into a sales, contact management, and marketing tool. </p>
<p>Then, when you send out marketing or sales material, instead of hand-addressing envelopes, you can automate the process with labels or envelopes printed from your database list. Similarly, you can use the database to send e-mail marketing messages. Just make sure that the software you use for your database (usually part of a sales contact program) can be integrated with your e-mail program.</p>
<p>Besides mailings to your entire sales list, you can use the database for specific or premium marketing, such as holiday cards, special discounts, and birthday greetings. </p>
<p>8.&#160; Invest in e-mail marketing that yields results. Certainly, consumers now delete e-mail marketing messages faster than you can say "click-through." However, when it&#8217;s done right (which means your consumer really wants your message and knows your brand), e-mail marketing remains relatively cheap and incredibly effective. </p>
<p>You can automate the process of sending and tracking your e-mail campaigns with affordable tools and either off-the-shelf or online software. </p>
<p>Such low-cost services can help you mount campaigns, send out e-mail newsletters or campaign mails, and maintain scrubbed, up-to-date lists much faster and cost-efficiently than you can on your own. </p>
<p>Tip:&#160;&#160; Secure double opt-in permission before adding a prospect to your e-mail list.</p>
<p>Mobile phones and continual access to e-mail now make us available around the clock. So, in the end, all the technology in the world won&#8217;t let you kick back unless you make some rules. </p>
<p>Begin with these, and then move on:</p>
<p>Schedule specific times to check e-mail. <br />Turn off your phone when you&#8217;re home or out with friends.</p>
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<p><strong>By Joanna L. Krotz</strong></p>
<p><a title="Original article posted with Microsoft, writtin by Joanna L. Krotz" href="http://smallbusiness.officelive.com/ResourceCenter/expertadvice/smallbusinesstechnology/Technology_tips_for_improving_your_work_life_balance?xid=B6DF7B44-74FF-484E-A257-CA8F19E31242&#38;ION_CL=007" target="_blank">[Original Link]</a></p>
<p><strong>About the author</strong>&#160;&#160; Joanna L. Krotz is the founder of <a title="" href="http://www.muse2muse.com/">Muse2Muse Productions</a>, a custom content company for business and consumer magazines, newsletters, and digital imprints. Krotz has launched marketing Web sites and e-news portals, as well as created magazines and online marketing for a variety of companies. She is co-author of "The Microsoft Small Business Kit," a 500-page guide to launching and running a business.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Nominatie stokje]]></title>
<link>http://mediawatching.wordpress.com/?p=432</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 22:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Yannick</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[In deze tijden van olympische spelen kreeg ik een stokje aangegeven, niet om aan Kim Gevaert door te]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In deze tijden van olympische spelen kreeg ik een stokje aangegeven, niet om aan Kim Gevaert door te geven maar om aan collega bloggers door te geven. Ik kreeg het stokje door van <a href="http://boomblauwoogje.wordpress.com/2008/08/08/and-the-nominees-are-stokje/" target="_blank">Evy</a> die me nomineerde voor de "Brilliante weblog Awards". Waarvoor dank Evy. De bedoeling is dat ik nu 7 nieuwe nominaties creëer. Ik dacht dat ik daar even over moest nadenken maar gezien mijn blogroll hier rechts maar uit 8 links bestaat waarvan er 1 al maanden inactief is, is de keuze eigenlijk toch niet zo moeilijk.</p>
<p>In alphabetical order:</p>
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<li><a href="http://www.bnox.be/" target="_blank">Bnox</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.buzzingbees.be/" target="_blank">Buzzing Beez</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.communicatiemannen.be/" target="_blank">Communicatiemannen</a></li>
<li><a href="http://janso.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Communication Crap</a></li>
<li><a href="http://jeflovesyou.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Jef’s blog</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.pietel.be/" target="_blank">Pietel</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.sideburns.be/" target="_blank">Sideburns</a></li>
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<p>Nu geef ik toe dat ik eens dringend mijn blogroll moet bijwerken omdat ik dat al meer dan een half jaar niet meer gedaan heb, maar bovenstaande urls zijn in elk geval wel 7 van de pakweg 15 blogs waarvan elke nieuwe post van de eerste tot de laatste letter lees. En dat zijn ook de blogs die ik in mijn reader voorrang geef, als merk dat een van deze sites een nieuwe post heeft dan ga ik niet alfabetisch het lijstje af in de reader maar lees ik eerste deze.</p>
<p>Ik mag er geen acht nomineren, maar als dat wel mocht had ik voor <a href="http://www.ironicsans.com" target="_blank">ironic sans</a> gekozen. Een geweldig creatieve geest, check vooral zijn ideas. Als die man zou meedoen aan de bedenkers wint hij 6 seizoenen op rij en gaat hij met Sophie Van Moll naar huis.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Chesapeake’s Aubrey McClendon is Taking Lake Texoma State Park]]></title>
<link>http://savelaketexomastatepark.wordpress.com/?p=26</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 21:18:59 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>savelaketexomastatepark</dc:creator>
<guid>http://savelaketexomastatepark.fr.wordpress.com/2008/08/11/chesapeake%e2%80%99s-aubrey-mcclendon-is-taking-lake-texoma-state-park/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The following issues of development at Lake Texoma remain unaddressed, as Chesapeake Energy’s ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0 0 10pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&#34;">The following issues of development at Lake Texoma remain unaddressed, as Chesapeake Energy’s “Land Grab” strategy takes hold of another state park. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0 0 10pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&#34;">Federal legislation passed in 1999, the Water Resources and Development Act, authorized the sale of 1580 acres of federal land to Oklahoma, based on a state plan to lease those lands for a limited commercial development to fund the restoration of Lake Texoma State Park. That land has all been sold.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&#34;">Federal law provides that the Corp of Engineers land may not be sold directly for private development. The intent of Congress has been subverted by the Commissioners of the Land Office which did not lease, but chose instead to sell to Pointe Vista Development all of the federal land purchased.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0 0 0 0.25in;"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&#34;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&#34;">This land was originally taken from Marshall County farmers and ranchers by eminent domain in the late thirties and early forties pursuant to the Flood Control Act of 1938.<span>  </span>This may be the reason for the statute prohibiting their later sale to private commercial developers like Aubrey McClendon, CEO of Chesapeake Energy, and Mark Fischer, CEO of Chaparral Energy. </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0 0 0 0.25in;"><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&#34;"><span style="text-decoration:none;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&#34;">The Environmental Assessment performed by the Corp of Engineers was based on a limited commercial and residential development to fund the full restoration of Lake Texoma State Park facilities. The Commissioners of the Land Office (CLO) later accepted a project bid proposing almost four times the number of single-family and mixed-use residential lots addressed in the federal Environmental Assessment. This should have necessitated the requirement for a new Environmental Impact Study.<span>  </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0 0 0 0.25in;"><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&#34;"><span style="text-decoration:none;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&#34;">The Environmental Assessment (EA) found a total of five endangered or threatened species within the boundaries of the proposed private development.<span>  </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0 0 0 0.25in;"><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&#34;"><span style="text-decoration:none;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&#34;">The Corp of Engineers solicited input from both public and private sources. In the Final EA, an official from the Land and Water Conservation Fund replied, “Our records indicate that there are five projects that were funded with federal funds under the Land and Water Conservation Fund at Lake Texoma State Park.” </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&#34;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0 0 0 0.25in;"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&#34;">“Any use of land within this park for other than park and recreation purposes would be a conversion and would be prohibited under Section 6F of the Land and Water Conservation Act.” </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0 0 0 0.25in;"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&#34;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&#34;">The Tourism and Recreation Department’s primary function is to support tourism and maintain and improve their inventory of public recreational property. Not only have they facilitated the sale of all of the former federal lands at Lake Texoma State Park, they have refused to produce a project plan. </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&#34;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&#34;">Their only interest now is to buy as much federal land as was originally authorized in the WRDA 99 bill. Furthermore, they have failed to address the problem of conversion and abandoned their original purpose of restoring Lake Texoma State Park.<span style="text-decoration:underline;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0 0 0 0.25in;"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&#34;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&#34;">Lake Texoma State Park is now being completely displaced by the private developers working in collusion with several state agencies</span><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:&#34;">, including the Tourism and Recreation Department.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0 0 10pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&#34;">Stephen Willis</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0 0 10pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&#34;">Friends of Lake Texoma State Park</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0 0 10pt;"><a href="http://www.friendsoflaketexomastatepark.org/"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&#34;">www.FriendsOfLakeTexomaStatePark.org</span></a></p>
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<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 04:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>joer1986</dc:creator>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>            </span>Right now we are in one of the worst times for financial institutions. A perfect storm has come about leading to a precarious situation for most banks and investment firms. While much has been said about the sub-prime market and the precipitous rise in interest rates, little is remembered of one of the first events that marked the beginning of the end—the Structured investment vehicles. The CDO and CLO markets also saw downturns at about this time.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>            </span>Structured investments were one of the biggest sources of debt financing. These items were modeled after the mortgage backed securities and were an extension of financial theory that had moved its way through the markets over time. Mortgages were one of the first extensions of an academic view that all investment opportunities could be analyzed as a risk vrs. Reward prospect. In this case for the debt issuers, the goal was to minimize risk with respects to a fixed reward. The long standing idea was that these debt obligations could be packaged together into a larger group of which pieces of that group could be sold. While I might not be able to give my neighbor 500,000 dollars loan for his house, I could own a piece of his mortgage and 30 other guys that fit his profile.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>            </span>Interestingly enough, many people didn’t mind being far removed from the actuality of their investment and liked the ability to easily understand the analytics of what they owned. At the same time, the glut of liquidity in the markets caused people to be less risk averse and offer more supply for some of the riskiest securities. The problem, however, came with the amount of abstraction done concerning the mortgages. While banks and sellers of mortgages had an obligation to pass through the important information concerning the mortgages, they increasingly had less incentive to insure that the little information they did give out was accurate.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>            </span>One thing that is interesting is how the debt markets here diverged strongly from the equity markets. While these two markets have different outlooks and security, the changes taking place between the two accentuate why the SIVs and debt markets would see a huge change. It would seem incredibly odd for banks to try this with equities. In this case, they would package together these “stock portfolios” that grouped together a certain set of companies with similar risk profiles. While this might sound like a mutual fund, it differs in one key aspect—similarity of risk. While a mutual fund will spread themselves amongst a set of stocks with different risk profiles, SIVs and debt markets would create smaller portfolios of similar profiles which meant that diversification was not really occurring. At the same time, the debt portfolios had less oversight into what they actually owned, while stock portfolios will pay close attention to the items within the portfolio.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>            </span>The important thing is where things will go into the future. The SIVs and debt markets are an important source of liquidity for businesses. While debt was too freely given before, it is now unrealistically hard to get. SIVs typically were using short term payments to cover more long term investments which was probably a poor choice in terms of liquidity since they would have to pay back money far in advance of making it back on the investments they would have to sell. While financial engineering has helped us to understand that all securities are similar in key respects such as risk and return, they have often blinded us to the reality that truly good investment comes from the intangibles. If we only analyzed companies as cash in/cash out vehicles with differing volatilities of earnings, it would be hard to determine which ones held true value. While debt is more secure than equity, it does not mean that diligence is not as important for the investor. Sometimes we underestimate a person or companies willingness to file bankruptcy.</p>
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<dc:creator>Gerald Pasquier</dc:creator>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">La titrisation permet une structuration des risques qui n’est pas sans impact sur le financement des LBO.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>1. Finance structurée : le management du risque</strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">La titrisation peut porter soit sur des <a title="LBO 2" href="http://geraldpasquier.wordpress.com/2008/07/10/lbo-et-titrisation-2-operations-de-titrisation-envisageables-dans-un-lbo-classique/">créances se rapportant au financement bancaire d’un LBO</a>, soit sur des <a title="LBO 3" href="http://geraldpasquier.wordpress.com/2008/07/17/lbo-et-titrisation-3-la-titrisation-des-actifs-de-la-societe-cible-par-un-securitisation-buy-out-%c2%ab-sbo-%c2%bb/">actifs de la société cible dans le cadre d’un SBO</a>.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Une autre série de distinctions peut être établie s’intéressant à la structuration financière des risques opérée par la titrisation. Tout d’abord, s’agissant de l’actif du véhicule <em>ad hoc </em>(en France le FCC), nous nous attacherons à la nature des risques qui lui sont transmis, ce qui amène à distinguer la titrisation simple de la titrisation synthétique (a) ensuite, s’agissant cette fois du passif du véhicule <em>ad hoc</em>, nous nous intéresserons aux titres que ce dernier émet, ce qui concerne au premier chef les CDO (b).</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>a. Titrisation simple et titrisation synthétique</strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Les effets de la titrisation sur le plan financier (i) permettent de distinguer l’utilisation des titrisations classiques (ii) des titrisations synthétiques (iii) se rattachant à un LBO.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>(i) Intérêts financiers de la titrisation. </strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Une opération de titrisation a pour l’initiateur (c'est-à-dire dans un LBO, les banques ou la société cible dans le cas particulier d’un SBO) deux effets essentiels sur le plan financier :<strong></strong></p>
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<ul style="margin-top:0;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal">elle constitue une <em>source de financement</em>,      les titres de créances cédées par l’initiateur lui permettant d’obtenir      des liquidités ; et/ou</li>
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<li class="MsoNormal">elle est <em>déconsolidante</em>, c'est-à-dire      qu’elle fait disparaître du bilan de l’initiateur un actif généralement      risqué ou n’étant pas en rapport avec le niveau des capitaux propres -      c’est particulièrement le cas d’un initiateur bancaire qui pourra ainsi se      conformer plus facilement aux ratios prudentiels imposés par le droit.</li>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Pour le véhicule <em>ad hoc</em> - et indirectement pour l’initiateur bancaire s’il contrôle le véhicule <em>ad hoc</em> comme c’est souvent le cas - la titrisation présente un troisième intérêt :</p>
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<li class="MsoNormal">Elle permet un <em>arbitrage</em>, c'est-à-dire une      spéculation sur la valeur des titres faisant l’objet de la titrisation.      L’arbitragiste, c'est-à-dire le véhicule <em>ad hoc</em>, a identifié des      titres qu’il considère comme sous-évalués. Il va les acquérir à ce prix      qu’il considère comme avantageux en finançant l’acquisition par l’émission      de titres de créances adossés sur les titres sous-évalués. Lors du      dénouement de l’opération, l’arbitragiste, en revendant les titres qui      auront entre temps pris de la valeur, va bénéficier de la plus-value      résultant de la sous-évaluation des titres acquis, puisqu’il les aura      acquis grâce à un financement peu coûteux. Ce type de titrisation dite      d’arbitrage est pratiqué par les véhicules <em>ad hoc</em> pratiquant la      gestion alternative, et ne concerne qu’à la marge les opérations de LBO      qui ont davantage recours à des véhicules <em>ad hoc</em> dits ‘de bilan’,      c'est-à-dire non spéculatifs.</li>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>(ii) Titrisation classique</strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Dans le cadre d’un SBO, l’objectif des investisseurs est de permettre un refinancement de la cible à moindre coût - les fonds levés par la titrisation étant moins coûteux qu’un prêt bancaire de LBO, afin notamment de diminuer le coût du financement bancaire en augmentant la solvabilité de l’emprunteur. En effet, plus la cible aura une trésorerie importante, plus elle offrira de garanties financières, ce qui permet au LBO de s’endetter davantage et à moindre coût. Ce sont donc bien les liquidités dégagées par la cession des créances au véhicule <em>ad hoc</em> qui motivent la titrisation : cette titrisation est une titrisation simple également dénommée titrisation en <em>cash</em>.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>(iii) Titrisation synthétique</strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">S’agissant des banques voulant titriser les créances résultant du LBO, la problématique est différente. Leur objectif n’est pas à proprement parler d’obtenir des liquidités : le but essentiel qu’elles poursuivent est une déconsolidation, objectif qu’elles peuvent atteindre par le truchement une titrisation synthétique.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Principes.</strong> La déconsolidation est motivée par des raisons réglementaires, la banque initiatrice cherchant à faire une économie de fonds propres réglementaires afin de maintenir son ratio de solvabilité. Or les modalités de calcul de ce ratio sont telles qu’une banque peut valablement maintenir son ratio en conservant des actifs à son bilan, mais en transférant certains risques se rattachant à ces actifs au véhicule <em>ad hoc</em>.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Ainsi, alors que la titrisation simple repose sur le transfert de la propriété juridique des créances à une entité <em>ad hoc</em> en contrepartie du versement de liquidités, la titrisation synthétique se contente de transférer les risques de crédit associés aux créances. Le risque de crédit, également appelé risque de contrepartie, correspond au risque de défaut de paiement par le LBO de ses dettes bancaires. Les créances n’étant pas juridiquement transférées sur le compte du véhicule <em>ad hoc</em>, la titrisation synthétique a notamment pour intérêt d’épargner les coûts d’un tel transfert, qui peuvent s’avérer conséquents dans le cadre de titrisations internationales.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><strong><em>Credit Default Swap.</em></strong> L’outil juridique permettant le transfert des risques de crédit est un contrat conclu entre le vendeur de protection, et l’acheteur de protection, ici l’initiateur de la titrisation, c'est-à-dire la banque ayant financé le LBO. Ce contrat formalise un produit financier entrant dans la catégories des produits dérivés : il s’agit d’un <em>credit default swap</em> abrégé en CDS.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">L’équilibre contractuel d’un CDS s’établit comme suit:</p>
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<ul style="margin-top:0;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal">l’acheteur de protection verse une prime au vendeur      de protection durant toute la durée de vie du contrat, en l’échange de quoi</li>
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<ul style="margin-top:0;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal">le vendeur de protection s’engage à couvrir le      risque en cas de survenance d’un évènement de crédit, généralement défini      au contrat comme un incident de paiement. Lorsqu’un tel évènement de      crédit survient qui affecte l’obligation dont les risques sont couverts      par le CDS, le vendeur de protection peut soit se faire livrer      physiquement l’obligation défectueuse à la valeur nominale de l’emprunt -      les titres sont alors transférés sur son compte, soit opter pour un      dénouement financier, il versera alors à l’acheteur la différence entre le      nominal de l’emprunt et sa valeur après survenance de l’incident de      paiement.</li>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Lorsque le CDS est vendu par une compagnie d’assurance, on sort du contexte de la titrisation synthétique, qui est une qualification applicable seulement au schéma dans lequel le vendeur du CDS est un véhicule <em>ad hoc</em>.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Le CDS est un produit financier réglementé qui doit correspondre à des critères de notations imposés par les agences de notation et par les autorités bancaires. Pour pouvoir faire face à d’éventuels incidents de paiement, et en raison des contraintes réglementaires ci-dessus évoquées, le véhicule <em>ad hoc</em> va devoir détenir des actifs liquides et cessibles. Les véhicule <em>ad hoc</em> vendant des CDS ont ainsi pour pratique d’acquérir un portefeuille d’obligations très bien notées générant un <em>cash flow</em> quasi sans risque, généralement des obligations étatiques telles que les <em>US T-Bonds</em>. Pour financer cette acquisition d’obligations à faible risque, le véhcule <em>ad hoc</em> émet lui-même des titres de créance sur le marché financier (voir b) ci-dessous).</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Titrisation synthétique en droit français.</strong> Il est remarquable que la titrisation synthétique a longtemps été impossible en France en raison de la réglementation qui interdisait aux FCC de conclure des contrats constituant des instruments financiers à terme en tant que vendeurs de protection : les FCC pouvaient seulement couvrir leur exposition à un risque en se portant acheteurs de protection. La plupart des véhicules vendeurs de protection étaient alors constituées dans des juridictions <em>offshore</em> dont la souplesse de l’environnement juridique était appréciable - et, il faut bien le constater, le demeure dans une large mesure.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Depuis la publication du décret du 24 novembre 2004, il est possible pour les FCC de vendre des CDS. Cependant cette liberté reste relative puisque :</p>
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<ul style="margin-top:0;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal">les contreparties éligibles sont limitées - mais      les établissements de crédit sont compris dans la liste, et peuvent donc      acheter des CDS, ce qui leur permet de mieux financer les LBO,</li>
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<ul style="margin-top:0;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal">l’effet de levier est proscrit, et</li>
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<ul style="margin-top:0;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal">une autorisation spécifique doit être délivrée par      l’AMF à la société de gestion du FCC selon l’article R 214-115-IV du CMF.</li>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">On relèvera enfin que le FCC restant, contrairement à ses cousins anglo-saxons, privé de personnalité morale, il est d’utilisation peu commode dans le cadre de titrisations synthétiques internationales en raison de son exotisme, qui ressortit d’ailleurs sur la nature juridique des titres qu’il émet.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Après avoir pris en considération l’actif des FCC, il s’agit de considérer son passif au travers des titres qu’ils émettent sur le marché pour se financer.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>b. Les titres structurés émis par le véhicule <em>ad hoc</em> - CDO, CLO et CBO</strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Les titres issus d’une opération de titrisation et émis sur le marché sont regroupés sous l’appellation de <em>collateralised debt obligation</em>, abrégé en CDO. Cette catégorie recouvre les CLO (<em>collateralised loan obligations</em>), c'est-à-dire les titres adossés sur des créances d’emprunts et les CBO (<em>collateralised bond obligations</em>), c'est-à-dire les titres adossés sur des créances obligataires.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Si les principes financiers gouvernant la structuration des CDO sont intangibles (i), certaines adaptations sont notables en droit français (ii).</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><strong>(i) Principes gouvernant la structuration du passif des véhicules de titrisation. </strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Le principe de la titrisation est, sur le plan financier, de pouvoir re-packager les risques transmis au véhicule de titrisation par l’initiateur, c'est-à-dire de les structurer. Dans la mesure où l’actif du véhicule correspond à des créances de risques variés - ainsi qu’illustré plus haut, le véhicule aura à son actif des créances peu risquées, par exemple des obligations étatiques, et des créances plus risqués, par exemple des créances bancaires relatives au financement d’un LBO, voire très risquées, par exemple des <em>Mortage Backed Securities</em> californiennes c'est-à-dire des créances bancaires hypothécaires dont le sous-jacent est un immeuble dont la valeur s’est évaporée en quelques mois.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Les titres que le véhicule va émettre seront également structurés selon les risques qu’ils présentent. Mais le savoir-faire des gestionnaires va permettre d’optimiser les actifs de telle manière que le risque global attaché au portefeuille du véhicule, appelé risque de corrélation, sera de structure plus avantageuse que le risque moyen qui ressortirait de la simple juxtaposition des titres composant l’actif du fonds. L’un des mécanismes utilisés par les fonds<span> </span>pour améliorer la structure du risque de leur portefeuille est le rehaussement de crédit, qui est un mécanisme d’assurance. Le rehausseur de crédit - en anglais <em>monoline credit insurer</em> - est une société bénéficiant d’un profil de risque exemplaire, c'est-à-dire que le plus haute note lui est attribuée par les agences de notation. Le rehausseur apporte son crédit aux CDO émis par le fonds, en lui procurant des garanties légales sur ses actifs : schématiquement, le rehausseur se porte garant du fonds. Grâce à ce rehausseur, les agences de notations vont accorder des notes très favorables aux CDO émis.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Ces CDO sont, de même que la structure du passif d’un LBO, découpés en tranches se répartissant souvent comme suit:</p>
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<li class="MsoNormal">Dette senior très bien notée : 90 % des CDO      émis</li>
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<li class="MsoNormal">Dette mezzanine éventuellement de nature      spéculative : 8%</li>
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<ul style="margin-top:0;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal"><em>Equity credit</em> (titre de créance de      dernier rang bénéficiant des éventuels boni de liquidation, <strong>il ne      s’agit pas d’un titre de capital</strong>): environ 2%</li>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Il est à noter que la tranche <em>equity</em> est dans la pratique souscrite par l’initiateur de la titrisation - c'est-à-dire dans un LBO la banque qui a financé l’opération - afin de démontrer qu’il apporte son crédit à l’opération en en souscrivant la tranche la plus risquée.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><strong>(ii) Particularités du droit français</strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">En droit français, la nature exotique du FCC emporte des adaptations au schéma ci-dessus décrit. En effet, si un FCC peut émettre des titres de créances, il est dans l’obligation d’émettre au moins deux parts afin d’assurer la réalité de la copropriété exigée par la Loi. Ces parts correspondent à la tranche <em>equity</em>, et sont donc souscrites par l’initiateur de la titrisation. Notons que dans la mesure où les titres de créances émis par le fonds peuvent être sujets à un droit étranger, la plupart des CDO français sont distribués sur les marchés luxembourgeois et irlandais.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Dans la mesure où les FCC ne sont pas autorisés à utiliser l’effet de levier, leur structure financière est très différente de celle des fonds de créance américains, qui l’utilisent de manière extensive. Ainsi certains fonds de créances gérés par Merill Lynch avaient un ratio dette sur fonds propres égal à 15, l’effet de levier étant ici considérable. Ceci explique certainement que les FCC n’aient pas été concernés par la crise des <em>subprimes</em>.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><strong>2. Contraintes et risques de la titrisation dans le contexte d’un SBO</strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Existent, tout d’abord, des contraintes de calendrier, car les délais de mise en place d’une opération de LBO et d’une opération de titrisation divergent.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Les deux nécessitent, effectivement, la mise en place des « <em>due diligences</em> » préalables a la lancée des opérations  proprement dites.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Mais le timing d’une titrisation se trouve rallongée par rapport à un LBO par divers autres contraintes: la constitution d’un véhicule <em>ad hoc</em>, les études de faisabilité sur les modes et les structures de cession des actifs titrisés, les négociations avec des agences de notation de risques et des rehausseurs de crédit etc.<span> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Tous ces éléments sont susceptibles de décaler la réalisation d’une titrisation par rapport au LBO et, donc, retarder l’afflux de liquidités.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Pour faire concorder le départ des deux opérations, le calendrier de la mise en place de la titrisation devra avoir une avance considérable sur le LBO.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Un risque de conflits d’intérêts existe également. Deux types de  fournisseurs de financements interviennet dans un tel schéma : d’une part les banques et les <em>mezzaneurs</em> qui sont bailleurs de fonds au sens propre du terme, et d’autre part les véhicules <em>ad hoc</em> qui procurent de la trésorerie en achetant les éléments d’actifs de la cible.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Or, il se trouve, qu’il est fréquent que les fournisseurs de la dette senior grèvent les éléments d’actifs de la société cible de garanties, ce qui est susceptible de compliquer ou même de rendre impossible la sortie de ces biens de l’actif de la cible et, donc, de procéder a une titrisation.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Pour ne pas faire face à de telles complications en cours de l’opération, il est de bonne pratique d’anticiper ces conflits d’intérêts, et d’opérer une distinction préalable entre les actifs grevés de sûretés et les actifs titrisables.</p>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>In all the hub-bubb of our daily lives, I wanted to share this bit of reading with you:</div>
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<p><b><font color="#ff9933">Time Shifting vs Time Management, Stephan Rechtschaffen</font></b></p>
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<p>"I've observed over the years that many people in our culture experience not having enough time in daily life. The feelings: frustration, anxiety, panic, pressure, stress. It's as if somebody yelled "Fire!"-and although we could get out of the room, we don't. This is the way we live in relationship to time, all day long responding to the subtle message, "fire, fire, fire, fire ..." </p>
<p>Many cultures, however, have a completely different experience of time. What is a moment in New Guinea, for example, where there are no words for hours or minutes? Maybe a moment lasts all morning. But for those of us who live in nanosecond time, a moment becomes very, very short, and in each moment we ask how much we have gotten done. How much did I cram into it? Was I successful in multitasking? As one woman in a class I was working with said to me, "I have finally figured out how to relax. When I go from my job teaching to my consulting job and I'm driving in my car, I listen to a self-help tape, I eat lunch on the way, I talk on my cellular phone, and I relax at the same time." </p>
<p>This approach to time management simply turns up the speed on the treadmill of our lives. I propose we evolve beyond time management to "timeshifting"-which is different from merely "downshifting." The practice of timeshifting recognizes that every single moment has a particular rhythm to it, and that we have the capacity to expand or contract an individual moment as appropriate. One way to shift what's going on in our world is not to try to rush to do more, but to allow ourselves to go deeper into that moment of being present. Our ability to shift gears, to shift our rhythm to meet that moment and be present in it, is what allows us to experience the fullness of life - to create our life in the way we want it to be."</p>
<p>--<a href="http://www.drredwood.com/interviews/rechtschaffen.shtml" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Stephan Rechtschaffen</a>&#160;(click to read full interview)</p>
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<title><![CDATA[LBO et Titrisation (2): Opérations de Titrisation Envisageables dans un LBO Classique]]></title>
<link>http://geraldpasquier.wordpress.com/?p=40</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:57:31 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Gerald Pasquier</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[LBO et Titrisation (2): Opérations de Titrisation Envisageables dans un LBO Classique
 
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<p class="MsoNormal">Il s’agit ici de présenter les raisons de recourir à la titrisation dans les montages LBO classique (1) ainsi que le mécanisme spécialement institué en France pour répondre aux besoins des banques de retrouver de la liquidité (2).</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>1. Le principe de la titrisation</strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Les opérations de LBO reposent sur la dette bancaire qui représente 60% à 80% du financement de l’opération. Les banques qui participent à ces opérations investissent des sommes importantes dans l’espoir d’effectuer une plus-value à court terme. En effet, la dette senior est remboursée prioritairement à la dette mezzanine et reçoit l‘essentiel des <em>cash flows</em> dégagés par la cible dans les premières années du LBO. La rémunération d’une dette senior est d’environ 2,25% sur 7 ans tandis que cette rémunération passe de 10% à 15% pour la dette mezzanine sur 8 à 10 ans. Cette différence s’explique essentiellement par la différence des risques encourus par chaque catégorie d’investisseurs.<span> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">La dette bancaire est le financement le moins risqué au sein du LBO puisqu’elle est remboursée en premier. Elle pose cependant un problème de liquidité sur une période relativement longue. Pour palier cet inconvénient, certaines banques décident d’intervenir en <em>pools</em> et autre <em>consortiums</em> afin d’éviter un investissement massif dans une seule opération de LBO. Mais d’autres solutions sont envisageables, telles que la revente de la cible avec accord du ou des fonds partenaires de l’opération, la mise en place d’un LBO secondaire faisant intervenir d’autres banques ou, c’est l’objet de cette étude, procéder à une titrisation de la dette bancaire.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">La titrisation est donc l’une des réponses données par les banques pour résoudre le problème de la liquidité en LBO, mais elle constitue également un moyen pour ces dernières de respecter les règles prudentielles établies par les accords de Bâle.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Les banques ont pour objectif d’accorder un maximum de crédits pour augmenter leurs actifs. Les accords de Bâle exigent des banques de disposer d’un ratio de fonds propres en rapport avec leur exposition au risque des crédits qu’elles ont accordés. Le ratio Cooke exige des banques une détention en fond propre représentant 8% des actifs inscrits en compte. Depuis l’accord de Bâle II, c’est le ratio McDonough qui a pris le relais. Il est calculé sur la base de l’exposition au risque de chaque établissement de crédit.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Les banquiers sortent de cette contrainte en titrisant les créances bancaires. L’opération de titrisation fait sortir du bilan de la banque les créances soumises à l‘opération. La banque augmente ainsi son ratio MacDonough ce qui lui permet de retrouver de la liquidité et d’accorder d’autre crédits. On comprend vite l’intérêt de cette technique dans une opération de LBO. Les dettes bancaires en LBO sont importantes, ce qui contribue à faire diminuer le ratio MacDonough des établissements de crédit.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">La titrisation a donc deux vertus pour la banque: elle permet d’une part de rendre liquide une créance initialement échelonnée sur 7 à 9 ans, elle permet d’autre part un réemploi des liquidités dans d’autres opérations en allégeant le bilan.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">La titrisation des créances issues de LBO sont faciles en raison de la sécurité procurée par ces créances et de la confiance dont-elles jouissent aux yeux des investisseurs. Les créances titrisées sont en effet choisies en raison de la qualité de leurs garanties, or les dettes seniors de LBO bénéficient généralement des meilleures appréciations par les agences de notation.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">La titrisation des créances de LBO est née outre atlantique avec la mise en place d’entités juridiques <em>ad hoc</em>. Plus exactement, ces véhicules de titrisation en droit américain sont :</p>
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<li class="MsoNormal">les CDO (<em>collateralised debt obligation</em>) constitués      de créances obligataires titrisées ; et</li>
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<li class="MsoNormal">les CLO (<em>collateralised loan obligation</em>) constitués      de créances nées de prêts, ce sont donc les véhicules choisis, en droit      américain, pour titriser les créances nées en LBO.</li>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">En France la pratique de la titrisation a nécessité la création d’un véhicule approprié : le fond commun de créance (FCC).</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>2. Le <em>special purpose vehicle</em> de titrisation en droit français: le FCC</strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Le législateur<span> </span>a crée les fonds communs de créances (FCC) par la loi n°88-1201 du 23 décembre 1988 relative aux organismes de placement collectifs en valeurs mobilières et portant création des fonds communs de créances. Elle a ainsi introduit en France la technique de la titrisation. Les créances titrisées sont transmises au FCC par bordereau.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Google ventures into virtual reality with 'Lively']]></title>
<link>http://clodiva.wordpress.com/2008/07/09/google-ventures-into-virtual-reality-with-lively/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:39:34 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>KappaDiva</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[In the latest expansion beyond its main mission of organizing the world&#8217;s information, Interne]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><font face="Arial">In the latest expansion beyond its main mission of organizing the world's information, Internet search leader Google Inc. hopes to orchestrate more virtual socializing on the Web. </font><font size="2">Google debuted a free service Tuesday in which three-dimensional software enables people to congregate in fantasy rooms and other computer-manufactured versions of real life. The service, called "Lively," represents Google's answer to an already well-established site, "Second Life," where people deploy animated alter egos known as avatars to navigate virtual reality. Google thinks "Lively" will encourage even more people to dive into alternate realities because it isn't tethered to one Web site like Second Life, and it doesn't cost anything to use. After installing a small packet of software from lively.com, a user can enter Lively from other Web sites, like social networking sites and blogs. <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/T/TEC_GOOGLE_VIRTUAL_REALITY?SITE=WWJAM&#38;SECTION=HOME&#38;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT" target="_blank">More.</a></font></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Oakland CC adds 'early college,' eases transfers to Wayne State]]></title>
<link>http://clodiva.wordpress.com/2008/07/07/oakland-cc-adds-early-college-eases-transfers-to-wayne-state/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:47:53 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Oakland Community College and the West Bloomfield School District last week announced the opening of]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><font face="Arial">Oakland Community College and the West Bloomfield School District last week announced the opening of Oakland County's first "early college" high school, Oakland Early College. OEC is a public school open to all Oakland County students, regardless of district of residency. Early colleges blend secondary and post-secondary education, adding a year to high school in a college preparatory curriculum. Students graduate with a high school diploma plus an associate degree in five years instead of the usual six. </font><a href="http://www.wwj.com/Oakland-CC-Offers--Early-College--High-School-Prog/2545243" target="_blank"><font face="Arial">More.</font></a><font face="Arial"> Also, Oakland CC announced a new program to make transferring to Wayne State University easier after two years. </font><a href="http://www.wwj.com/Oakland-CC-Offers--Early-College--High-School-Prog/2545243" target="_blank"><font face="Arial">More.</font></a>
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<title><![CDATA[An Anniversary Poem]]></title>
<link>http://lynnel.wordpress.com/?p=138</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2008 14:07:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Lynne</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[If memory serves, and my calculations are correct, today is Cathy and Jason&#8217;s 5th wedding anni]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If memory serves, and my calculations are correct, today is Cathy and Jason's 5<sup>th</sup> wedding anniversary.  I thought about doing a five for five, but I've already done that for someone else, and I don't want to feel like I'm copying myself.  So, I regressed to my first day of ninth grade and devised a name poem in honor of this momentous occasion.  Hopefully, the words have meaning to them (I've supplied explanations below for the rest of us saps).</p>
<p>C - Cookies<br />
A - Anachronistic<br />
T - Troubadour<br />
H - Honeymoon Suite<br />
Y - Yummy Food</p>
<p>A - Adamant<br />
N - Napa<br />
D - Data Mining</p>
<p>J - Jamestown<br />
A - Affinity<br />
S - Sugar Mouse<br />
O - Olive Garden<br />
N - North Carolina </p>
<p>Cookies: Cathy has always been a great baker.  She made cookies for us at least once a week.  I knew this match was perfect when she came home (all dreamy-eyed) from the first time Jason made dinner for her and announced that he had his very own cookie recipe.<br />
Anachronistic: Their wedding was medieval themed.  The entire wedding party (except the priest) was in medieval garb.  To further crash the eras together, Jason and his groomsmen performed a parody of Wild Cherry's "Play that Funky Music (White Boy)" - it became "Play that Funky Music (Knight Boy)"<br />
Troubadour: Because this was a medieval wedding, they hired a troubadour to entertain us during the reception.<br />
Honeymoon Suite: The hotel lost their room reservation for the first night of their married life.  I still can picture the scene of Cathy in her wedding gown on the phone in the lobby with the reservation office trying to track a room down.  In the end, they got a totally appropriate room and lots of champagne.<br />
Yummy Food - Excellent reception food, complete with make your own pasta bar.<br />
Adamant: Cathy's ring is set with a polished emerald.<br />
Napa:  Jason proposed at a spa in Napa.  The funny side to this sweet story is that he managed to trick Cathy about where they were actually going.  What makes this even FUNNIER is that this is the second time he managed to do this...to the same spa.<br />
Data Mining: This is my favorite sweet story.  Jason designed and made Cathy's wedding ring.  Cathy is a musician (he is not); her ring is two eighth notes encircling her finger.  The two note bodies overlap, which is where the stone is set.  He attended a jewelry-making course one night a week for a semester and told her he was taking a course in "Data Mining."<br />
Jamestown: The town where their wedding was held<br />
Affinity: Do I need to explain this? So, no explanation, but my wish that they have many more happy years together. <br />
Sugar Mouse: My second favorite sweet story.  Cathy's favorite childhood book was called <em>The Sugar Mouse</em>.  It's this wonderful story about friends going to extremes to help each other succeed.  It is out of print.  Her mom stalked eBay until she won a copy.  The wedding cake designer copied the cake from the book (complete with sugar mice) for their cake.  It was amazing!<br />
Olive Garden: This was where the rehearsal dinner was held.<br />
North Carolina: The state where they were married.</p>
<p> And oh, all right, one for the road.  The night before the wedding, Cathy and I (as Maiden of the Moat) were sharing a hotel room.  I was having a hard time sleeping (as I often do in hotels).  I also was trying VERY hard to not wake up the bride.  At some point during the night I got up during the night to use the restroom.  While trying to find my way back to bed in the dark, I tripped over my suitcase.  I then tried to climb into bed from the foot (to avoid tripping over anything else) and misjudged where the edge was causing me to fall unceremoniously to the floor with a loud "thunk", hitting the night stand on the way down.  Cathy swears that she slept through the entire thing.</p>
<p>Today is also Cathy's birthday.  While she thinks she's turning an unlucky number, I think it's cool because the second number is a power of the first number.  PLUS she can divide the first digit of her age not only into the year of her birth but also into both digits of the year.  Happy day!</p>
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<title><![CDATA[zbozi z USA a clo/dan]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:20:41 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>majecek</dc:creator>
<guid>http://majecek.fr.wordpress.com/2008/04/25/zbozi-z-usa-a-clodan/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Jiz delsi dobu se zbyvam otazkou jak legalne privezt zbozi z USA v ramci legalnich moznosti a vlozit]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jiz delsi dobu se zbyvam otazkou jak legalne privezt zbozi z USA v ramci legalnich moznosti a vlozit si naklady (cenu/clo/dan)  na firmu. Abych pravdu rekl, nez jsem zacal podnikat, tak jsem to neresil, naopak clovek hleda zpusoby jak to mit nejlevnejsi a  musim rict ze ten nejlevnejsi zpusob je i bezstarostny.</p>
<p>Asi vite ze existuji firmy, ktere vam ulehci nakup v USA. Prevazne postup je stejny:</p>
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<li>predplatite si rocni pouzivani</li>
<li>dostanete fiktivni adresu v USA</li>
<li>koupite si zbozi pomoci kreditky a nechate si to poslat na vasi fiktivni adresu</li>
<li>tam jsou lide, kteri vas upozorni ze vam prisel "balik" a po vzajemne dohode vam ho preposlou do CR</li>
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<p>Pokud se ptate proc rovnou si to nenechate poslat do CR, tak odpoved je ta, ze hodne firem v USA nechce posilat zbozi mimo USA kontinent.</p>
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<li><a href="http://zasilkovasluzba.com/">zasilkovasluzba.com</a> - presne popsany postup</li>
<li><a href="http://www.shipito.com/">shipito.com</a> - oproti zasilkove sluzbe maji tu vyhodu, ze kdyz natrefite na obchodnika, ktery bere jen US kreditky, tak vam tato firma umozni pouzit jejich US kreditku ke koupi vaseho zbozi</li>
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<p>CLO / DPH</p>
<p>Kdyz Vam takto poslany balik prijde postou do CR,  tak celnici jej zabavi a upozorni Vas ze tam mate zasilku. (Po dohode s zasilkovasluzba.com / shipito.com se da domluvit aby neposilaly faktury pribalene k baliku). Nasledne Vas vyzvou aby jste napsali cenu za kterou jste to koupili (kdyz celnici nenajdou faktury) a vy uvedete cenu. Pozor, oni nejsou blbi :)</p>
<p>Nasledne se zjisti zda se plati nejake clo na Vase zbozi. Vim ze na elektroniku/notebooky dovazene z USA je clo 0,- Kc. Takze Vam vymeri jen DPH. Vy je zaplatite a pokud jste platcem DPH tak se Vam zpatky vrati.</p>
<p>Avsak co delat, kdyz Vam znamy priveze elektroniku a nikdo ho nikde nezastavi? Po par dnech zjistovani jsem nasel legalni zpusob:</p>
<ol>
<li>s fakturou zajet na celnici  - nejblizsi v Ostrave je v Paskove</li>
<li>poprosit DHL at vam pomuze vypsat celni doklady (pry to delaji za 100)</li>
<li>zajit za celnikama s americkou fakturou. (pozor faktura musi byt na Vase jmeno a nejlepe i na vasi ceskou adresu, ale pry jsou tolerantni a berou i ty americke adresy :) (tady je problem jak dat fakturu s americkou adresou do ucetnictvi)</li>
<li>Vymeri clo pres <a href="http://www.cs.mfcr.cz/CmsGrc/Clo-online/tariccz.htm">TARIC </a>(je to oficialni soft na vymereni cla pro celniky)  zde je jednodussi <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/dds/cgi-bin/tarchap?Lang=CS">zpusob</a> - jinak notebook je pod cislem 8471300 (trida XVI -&#62; Kapitola 84 -&#62; 8471 -&#62; 8471 30)</li>
<li>Vymeri DPH</li>
<li>K vymereni clo/dph se pocita kurz ze stranek <a href="http://www.cs.mfcr.cz/CmsGrc/Clo-online/Kurzy.htm">Celni spravy Ceske republiky</a></li>
<li>no a stakto vymerenym clem/DPH jdete rovnou za ucetni</li>
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<p>No a nakonec nejake <a href="http://www.dovoz-z-usa.cz/clo-z-usa-a-dph/">odkazy</a> a taky <a href="http://www.dovoz-z-usa.cz/postovne-z-usa/">postovne</a> od shipita</p>
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<link>http://selerwil.wordpress.com/?p=539</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:36:36 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Selerwil</dc:creator>
<guid>http://selerwil.fr.wordpress.com/2008/04/18/darf-ich-zu-dir-kommen/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Ein schöner Tag heute
Genau richtig um mal wieder Shoppen zu gehen. Natürlich darf dabei der ]]></description>
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<p>Genau richtig um mal wieder Shoppen zu gehen. Natürlich darf dabei der "kulinarische Aspekt" nicht vergessen werden. Und klaro, Dessert muß auch sein, also anschließend beim "Eismann" noch ein Frozen-Yoghurt mit Früchten geordert ...<br />
... und dann war's soweit!<br />
"Under Pressure" sozusagen. Also - wo ist das nächstliegende Klo?<br />
Ah ja, Toy-Land. Nix wie hin. Ersten Stock rauf. Boxen-Check: sauber, Klopapier vorhanden ... UFF!<br />
Ich saß also da auf der Toilette und erledigte "mein Geschäft". </p>
<p>Da hörte ich plötzlich von nebenan: "Hallo, wie geht's ?"<br />
Hmmm, für gewöhnlich bin ich eigentlich nicht der Typ, der ein Gespräch auf dem Männerklo anfängt, doch weiß der Teufel was mir einfiel, als ich antwortete: "Es geht super".<br />
Der andere fragte: "Was machst du denn?" :P<br />
Na klasse - was für 'ne Frage.<br />
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Zu der Zeit fand ich, daß es ein bißchen zu bizarr war, und ich antwortete: "Also, ich glaube, dasselbe wie du ..."<br />
Jetzt versuchte ich mich zu beeilen, doch prompt kam die nächste Frage: "Darf ich zu dir kommen?"<br />
OK, diese Frage war jetzt schon merkwürdig. Ich dachte aber nur daran, freundlich zu sein und das Gespräch zu beenden. Deshalb sagte ich nur: "Nein ... ich bin wirklich im Moment sehr beschäftigt".<br />
Und dann hörte ich ihn sagen: "Du, hör mal, ich rufe später wieder an, irgendein Idiot sitzt nebenan und antwortet immer auf meine Fragen."</p>
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