"How did it happen? [the imminent collapse of hedge fund Amaranth] Brian Hunter, the 32-year-old Canadian energy trader, had made a fortune for Amaranth in 2005 when he bet that natural-gas futures would rise and then benefited from surging gas prices after Hurricane Katrina. Last year Trader Monthly ranked him the 29th highest-earning member of his profession, estimating his annual income at $75m to $100m. He was named head of Amaranth's energy-trading operations in the spring. This summer no big storms materialised and the same sort of positions—highly leveraged and insufficiently hedged, analysts say— left the fund exposed to falling prices. Natural-gas futures prices have dropped by two-thirds in the past nine months." http://tinyurl.com/l46k4
http://tinyurl.com/zteh9 "Have you heard about that presidential candidate from 2000 -- the guy who claims that some powerful global phenomenon, largely ignored by the mainstream media, is influencing our hurricane seasons? No, not Al Gore. I'm talking about John Hagelin, an Iowa physicist and former candidate from the Natural Law Party, who says this year's quiet hurricane season is due to 1,400 people in Washington, D.C., and Iowa practicing a form of transcendental meditation called "yogic flying." According to "Invincible America," a "research project" Hagelin is directing, this gravity-defying meditation Lollapalooza is creating "an invincible armour for the nation, which automatically repels any negative influence coming from outside." "Even minute changes in people's behavior can precipitate -- or prevent -- a hurricane. The Invincible America Course is raising the quality of collective consciousness -- and behavior throughout society -- to be more harmonious, more life supporting. And Nature is responding more positively. 'As you sow, so shall you reap' is now a scientific phenomenon," Dr. Hagelin said." To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
