Friday, 26 June 2015

Good Luck to our blog angel..

Our blog girl Emma has surgery today and we wish her best of luck and a quick recovery...
waiting for you in Cologne for the next girls weekend:-)
love you from the bottom of my heart!
you make every moment special!
can't imagine my life without you!!
GET WELL SOON




happy weekend to everybody and see you next week here and on the site! Thank you

Wednesday, 24 June 2015

Pic of the day


Sabrina about The Baker...re reading

The Baker


I think the Baker is one of the loveliest project Damian Lewis has done. It has comedy, romance and a beautiful guy in the title role. I was in love with Milo the first sight. He is a charming sweet man with a longing for a true and honest relationship and that is a thing we all longing for in the end. But Milo has a problem most of us don't have…he is a professional killer and that makes it a bit tough to get a girl.


The slight awkward way he goes through life is funny and attractive the same time, and the fact that he is a bit of a loser in the assassin business doesn’t make the whole situation better because after he made again kind of a mistake the “company ” is ready  to get rid of him, only his father like friend takes his side and allows him to escape to Wales in a nice but small village. It's that kind of village there is nothing to write home about except that the villagers are a little bit quirky but loveable, the  town needs a baker and Milo is happy to take the part and you see a quite funny way to learn to make bread and bake a cake but unfortunately you the villagers get to know about Milo's real job and suddenly almost everyone has a person he would love to kill and orders “a cake” at the new bakery… Everyone is in the view about Milo and the real wishes of the villagers. Everyone except Milo who really start to love his new job and the local vet a tough but nice woman.
 

It’s a sweet British comedy with the focus on charming dialogs and a beautiful landscape. It shows wonderful postcard like Wales moments and it really has quirky but also everyday moments,

that kind of moments every man or woman in the thirties experienced, it's sometimes a funny and kind of awkward road until you ready to settle down with the right person.  


The Baker is a charming production with a sweet and beautiful performance from Damian Lewis and a brilliant totally British humour performance by Michael Gamblon in a guest role. Don't miss it!!     


I think the Lewis brothers with Damian in front of the camera and his brother Gareth behind did a great job.




 

Thursday, 18 June 2015

Book tip...part one

we readingredients  it Mr.Lewis read it so maybe you want to read it too to be best prepared for his upcoming project Billions




From the Inside Flap
In 2002, David Einhorn, the President of Greenlight Capital, gave a speech at a charity investment conference to benefit a children's cancer hospital. He was asked to share his best investment idea, so he did. He described his reasons why Greenlight had sold short the shares of Allied Capital, a leader in the private finance industry. Greenlight bet that the stock would decline because the company's business was in trouble and its accounting was corrupt. Einhorn's speech was so compelling that the next day, when the New York Stock Exchange opened for trading, Allied's shares remained closed. So many investors wanted to sell or short the stock that the NYSE could not balance all the sell orders to open Allied’s trading in an orderly fashion.

What followed was a firestorm of controversy. Allied responded with a Washington, D.C.–style spin-job— attacking Einhorn and disseminating half-truths and outright lies. Rather than protect investors by reviewing Einhorn's well-documented case against Allied, the SEC—at the behest of the politically connected Allied— instead investigated Einhorn for stock manipulation. Over the ensuing six years, the SEC allowed Allied

to make the problem bigger by approving more than a dozen additional stock offerings that raised over $1 billion from new investors. Undeterred by the spin-job, lies, and investigations, Greenlight continued its research after the speech and discovered Allied’s behavior was far worse than Einhorn ever suspected— and, shockingly, it continues to this day.

Fooling Some of the People All of the Time is the gripping chronicle of this ongoing saga. Page by page, it delves deep inside Wall Street, showing how the $6 billion hedge fund Greenlight Capital conducts its investment research and detailing the maneuvers of an unscrupulous company. Along the way, you'll witness feckless regulators, compromised politicians, and the barricades our capital markets have erected against exposing misconduct from important Wall Street customers. You will also discover the immense difficulties that prevent the government from sanctioning politically connected companies—making future Enrons inevitable. This revealing book shows the failings of Wall Street: its investment banks, analysts, journalists, and especially our government regulators.

At its most basic level, Allied Capital is the story of Wall Street at its worst. But the story is much bigger than one little-known company. Fooling Some of the People All of the Time is an important call for effective law enforcement, free speech, and fair play.


Thursday, 11 June 2015

Chuck Rhodes the attorney....


The district attorney (DA), in many jurisdictions in the United States, represents the government in the prosecution of criminal offenses. The district attorney – an elected or appointed official – is the highest officeholder in the legal department of the jurisdiction – generally the county in the U.S. – and supervises a staff of assistant or deputy district attorneys. Depending on the system in place, district attorneys may be appointed by the chief executive of the region or elected by the voters of the jurisdiction.

The title "district attorney" is used by several jurisdictions of the United States, including Massachusetts, New York, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, Oregon and Texas.
The United States Judiciary Act of 1789, Section 35, provided for the appointment of a person in each judicial district to prosecute federal crimes and to represent the United States in all civil actions to which it was a party. Initially, there were 13 districts to cover the 11 States that had by that time ratified the constitution. Each State was a district, except for Massachusetts and Virginia which formed two. Districts were added when additional States were admitted. The statute did not confer a title upon these local agents of federal authority, but subsequent statutes and court decisions referred to them most frequently as “district attorneys.” In 1948, the Judicial Code adopted the term “United States attorneys.”[1]

This term for a prosecutor originates with the traditional use of the term "district" for multi-county prosecutorial jurisdictions in several U.S. states. For example, New York appointed prosecutors to multi-county districts prior to 1813. Even after those states broke up such districts and started appointing or electing prosecutors for individual counties, they continued to use the title "district attorney" for the most senior prosecutor in a county rather than switch to "county attorney."

At the local level in other jurisdictions, officers such as the commonwealth's attorney, state's attorney, county attorney, circuit solicitor, or county prosecutor carry out functions similar to those performed by a district attorney.

Wednesday, 10 June 2015

Bobby Axelrod

Bobby Axelrod….
I‘m sure many fans around the world were thrilled when the news came out Damian Lewis
would return to Showtime for a drama pilot called Billions so was I and all the fans I talked to as
well as my girls from blog and site.

 Once the pilot was finished everyone was waiting for good or bad news, of course no really wanted to hear bad news but there was a chance it’s a tough business isn’t it?!
I was in worry…well actually I was exactly the same wreck when the Homeland pilot was in the waiting lineJ

Sometimes Selene and I joke about the fact that I always reclaim myself as Miss Worry.
But this time I kept my fingers crossed the whole time because I was convinced the moment I read the plot and ask Emma and Selene I am not easy to convinceJ


But no other network approached the theme of high finance yet and that was the same with Homeland it was something new a bit risky and Damian Lewis has given PTSD a face and showed
us the effect that war has to our young men we send out to fight there for our countries.
And now again a plot of temporary premise surely not for everyone but so very new and interesting.
Bobby Axelrod will brings us the world of high finance into our living rooms which means we invite
Him again to be our guest and to be part of our daily life with a new series.
A series people will talk about….again…;

Bobby Axelrod a hedge fund titan a king in the world of money will be another step in Damian Lewis’s
career and a figure we haven’t seen before and frankly I really expect and hope for a bad guy because I doubt you can reach a Billionaires status without some dirty tricks in the pocket but I’m
also sure there will be something under the surface to discover….

Actually I cant wait!!  

The Devil is an ass RSC 1996






Tuesday, 9 June 2015

NEW Queen of the Desert picture update

Please visit our website damian-lewis.com
to see brand new stills from #QOTD
just beautiful.....
thanks for visiting both sites!!

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Thursday, 4 June 2015

Bobby Axelrod is a hedge fund titan...but what is a hedge fund king..

A hedge fund is an investment vehicle and a business structure that pools capital from a number of investors and invests in securities and other instruments.[1] It is administered by a professional management firm, and often structured as a limited partnership, limited liability company, or similar vehicle.[2][3] Hedge funds are generally distinct from mutual funds as their use of leverage is not capped by regulators and from private equity funds as the majority of hedge funds invest in relatively liquid assets.[4][5]

Hedge funds invest in a diverse range of markets and use a wide variety of investment styles and financial instruments.[3] The name "hedge fund" refers to the hedging techniques traditionally used by hedge funds, but hedge funds today do not necessarily hedge.[1]

Hedge funds are made available only to certain sophisticated or accredited investors and cannot be offered or sold to the general public.[1] As such, they generally avoid direct regulatory oversight, bypass licensing requirements applicable to investment companies, and operate with greater flexibility than mutual funds and other investment funds.[6] However, regulations passed in the United States and Europe after the financial crisis of 2007–08 were intended to increase government oversight of hedge funds and eliminate certain regulatory gaps.[7]

While hedge funds have existed for many decades, they have become increasingly popular in recent years, growing to be one of the world's major investment vehicles and sources of capital.[8]

Hedge funds are most often open-ended and allow additions or withdrawals by their investors (generally on a monthly or quarterly basis).[1] A hedge fund's value is calculated as a share of the fund's net asset value, meaning that increases and decreases in the value of the fund's investment assets (and fund expenses) are directly reflected in the amount an investor can later withdraw.

Many hedge fund investment strategies aim to achieve a positive return on investment regardless of whether markets are rising or falling ("absolute return"). Hedge fund managers often invest money of their own in the fund they manage, which serves to align their own interests with those of the investors in the fund.[9][10] A hedge fund typically pays its investment manager an annual management fee (for example 1% of the assets of the fund), and a performance fee (for example 20% of the increase in the fund's net asset value during the year).[1] Some hedge funds have several billion dollars of assets under management (AUM). As of 2009, hedge funds represented 1.1% of the total funds and assets held by financial institutions.[11] As of June 2013, the estimated size of the global hedge fund industry was US$2.4 trillion.


Wednesday, 3 June 2015

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