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Southwood Norsemytho Group Movie Reviews: Wall St. on the silver screen: Pros pick top movies

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From "Wall Street" to "Boiler Room", "Trading Places" to "American Psycho", the halls of finance are usually portrayed as places of shiny excesses and dark hearts.
Now buzz is building over a new contender, which could become one of the defining films of Wall Street. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio and directed by Martin Scorsese, "The Wolf of Wall Street" is slated to come out this November, and is sure to have brokers scrambling for red-carpet invites.
But what do the nation's foremost finance gurus think of the movies that put their industry on the big screen? We asked a few for their favorites.
Name: Jim Cramer Title: Host, Mad Money, CNBC Favorite movie: "Margin Call"
It is far and away my favorite, and I have watched it multiple times. It is the most realistic movie about Wall Street I have ever seen. When I first watched it I was spellbound, because I could not believe how they got it so right.
From Kevin Spacey as the manager who is fighting between the notions of protecting ownership or protecting clients, to Stanley Tucci as the guy who was too honest and had to be farmed out, to Jeremy Irons as the clueless guy at the top who looks good: I've been in the industry 33 years, and we all know who these people are.
I tell people who are going into the business, ‘This is what happens on Wall Street. If you can handle what happens in "Margin Call", then you're ready.'
Favorite scene:
There is a scene in the boardroom where Zachary Quinto says that he got his graduate degree in jet propulsion from MIT. That is exactly the way it is on Wall Street. There is always a guy in the room with a degree like that. They even got that detail right.
Name: Alexandra Lebenthal Title: CEO, Lebenthal & Co. Favorite movie: "Working Girl"
Every time I come across it on TV, I have to watch it all over again. It is more of a comedic take on the industry - not totally accurate, but very entertaining.
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By this point, it has an old-school 1980s feel, everything from how mergers and acquisitions were at the time right down to how the women dressed. Melanie Griffith is a secretary from Staten Island who always wants more, and Sigourney Weaver is the uptight investment banker who steals her idea for a merger. There are just so many classic lines. continue reading….

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Southwood Norsemytho Group Movie Review, Classified Data Scam

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Erased
Featuring: Aaron Eckart, Liana Liberato, Olga Kurylenko, Eric Godon
Directed by: Philipp Stölzl
Running time: 104 minutes
Parental Guidance: violence, coarse language
Rating: 3 stars out of 5

If Liam Neeson can do it, why can’t every other actor with a jutting jaw and a man-sized frame do the same?

It’s not like there’s ever going to be a glut of good guys who can take down a crew of criminals and dote on their daughters at the same time, so even if Erased features Aaron Eckhart in the familiar role of humble family defender, there’s no sense of exhaustion before this action thriller leaves the gate.
If anything, the European setting and Eckhart’s decent French accent promise something just a little more sophisticated than your standard muscle-bound movie pummelling, even if the whole premise feels a little flimsy.

Kicking off with a high-tech heist that leaves dozens of bodies behind, Erased doesn’t try to soft-sell the violence or whitewash the bloodshed. When the thieves march into the secure facility to steal a tubular lockbox, they do so with cold precision and automatic weapons.

There is no emotion. They are all business, and this pushes the central theme to the very foreground as Ben Logan (Eckhart) finds himself groping with different elements of his own reflection.
Ben figured he was all business, too. But when his daughter becomes embroiled in a secret operation that compromises her safety, he’s forced to knit both halves of his fractured soul together in order to save her life.

The first hook in the setup is the overt battle between good and evil as Ben tries to assemble the pieces of this caper together. He knows he was hired to create security technology for a multinational based in Brussels, but when the company letterhead turns out to be forged and the other employees turn up dead, Ben realizes he’s been the victim of an elaborate scam to gain access to classified data.

You know the drill: It’s part Jason Bourne, part Taken and part Charlie’s Angels — because in the end, the plot doesn’t really matter. It’s about what happens to the characters along the way as they face one extreme situation after the next.

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BOOK REVIEW: 'The Great Deformation: Assessing the Blame for Who Busted the Economy: Everybody's Guilty, Says David Stockman....all Four Parts of the Review in One Story

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article code 85258083180 SWG, southwood norsemytho group reviews - David Stockman, the author of "The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America" (PublicAffairs Books, 768 pages,  $35.00)  was the architect of the Reagan Revolution meant to restore sound money principles to the U.S. government. It failed, derailed by politics, special interests, welfare, and warfare.
  In "The Great Deformation" Stockman describes how the working of free markets and democracy has long been under threat in America, and provides a nonpartisan, surprising catalog of the corrupters and defenders. His analysis overturns the assumptions of Keynesians and monetarists alike, showing how both "liberal" and "neo-conservative" interference in markets has proved damaging and often dangerous. 
 Over time, crony capitalism has made fools of us all, transforming Republican treasury secretaries into big government interventionists, and populist Democrat presidents into industry wrecking internationalists. Today's national debt stands at nearly $16 trillion. Divided equally among taxpayers, each of us is $52,000 in debt. This book explains how we got here—and why this warped crony capitalism has betrayed so many of our hopes and dreams.
My position on reviewing is to read the book completely, with no exceptions. I'm making an exception: I've read 90 pages of this tome and skimmed much of the rest, but this review is based on the pages I've read. I'll review the book in segments, but I wanted to get out a review of a vitally important book that was published April 2 before the reading public ASAP.
Stockman starts in the late summer and early fall of 2008, when Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson panicked, convincing President George W. Bush, Congress and just about everybody that AIG was too big to fail. In Stockman's view, nobody is too big to fail, as he details in Chapter 1, "Paulson's Folly: The Needless Rescue of AIG and Wall Street." Failure is a good way of clearing out companies that don't deserve to live -- or to convince survivors that they have to downsize. It's that way for the 95 percent and it should be that way for the 5 percent. article code 85258083180 SWG, southwood norsemytho group reviews


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COMMODITIES-Gold, oil slump for 2nd day; poor China data fuels recovery doubt

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* Gold slides to over 2-year lows
* Bullion loses edge on stimulus fears; ETF outflows rise
* China GDP grows by less than expected 7.7 pct in Q1
* Oil, copper at multi-month lows
By Manolo Serapio Jr

SINGAPORE, April 15 (Reuters) - Gold sank to its weakest in two years and oil and copper hit multi-month lows as investors sold off commoditiesfor a second day on Monday, worried that central banks will pull the plug on stimulus and as disappointing Chinese data signaled a setback for the global economic recovery.

Gold fell more than 3 percent, after sliding 5.3 percent on Friday, as investors further slashed their bullion holdings on concern that centralbanks are bent on halting stimulus measures this year, cutting gold's appeal as a hedge against inflation. Holdings on global gold exchange-traded funds hit their lowest in more than a year.

China's economy grew 7.7 percent in the first quarter, undershooting market expectations for an 8.0 percent expansion and frustrating investors hoping the world's No. 2 economy would rebound after posting its weakest growth in 13 years in 2012.

The Chinese data comes after soft U.S. retail sales and consumer sentiment numbers raised doubts about the economic recovery momentum in the world's top economy, driving down commodities and equities on Friday.

"There are questions about the trend of bottoming in China's economy and whether it can re-accelerate above 8 percent this year in a sustainable way," said Vishnu Varathan, market economist at Mizuho Corporate Bank in Singapore.
China's weaker than forecast gross domestic product growth is backed by slower increase in industrial production and fixed-asset investment, despite strong lending growth in March as last week's data indicated.

"That shows how China's economy looks a bit uneven and risks in the property and shadow banking sectors might be mounting. What this means is that policymakers in China have less latitude to spur the economy because they'll be mindful of these risks," said Varathan.

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The Southwood Group literature book reviews-Beliebte Märchen Aus dem nordischen

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Dies ist George Dasents klassische Sammlung der skandinavischen Folklore. Dies ist nicht per se zur nordischen Mythologie; Also, wenn Sie Geschichten von Odin, Loki und Freya etc. suchen, müssen Sie woanders suchen. Vielmehr ist dies eine Anthologie der Volksmärchen, ähnlich wie die Brüder Grimm oder Campbells Popular Tales of the West Highlands. Alle die üblichen Verdächtigen sind vorhanden, einschließlich Riesen, Trolle, Hexen, böse Schritt-Geschwister, magische Wohltaten und Aufgaben und anthropomorphe Tiere.

Die Einführung ist außergewöhnlich gut geschrieben und verschiedenen magische und andere Themen aus den Märchen in den Kontext der alten germanischen heidnischen Glauben platziert. Es ist jedoch eine viktorianische wissenschaftliche Abhandlung (mit den erforderlichen mehrseitigen Foonotes und rhetorischen Verbrämungen), und wird meist von den akademischen Lesern geschätzt werden. Sobald Sie die Einführung jedoch vorbeizukommen, die Prosa senkt sich in die junge Erwachsene-Ebene und die entzückenden Geschichten können von Lesern jeden Alters geschätzt werden. Es gibt auch ein Anhang mit ein paar ‘Anansi’ Geschichten von den Westindischen.



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Southwood NorseMytho Group - The Ragnarok Conspiracy

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From the 2012 debut thriller novel of biomedical scientist Erec Stebbins –The Ragnarök Conspiracy (www.ragnarokconspiracy.com) the reader takes to a world like shaken and stirred. This novel is about a Western terrorist organization attempting to instigate a global war with the Islamic world, a group of FBI and CIA agents work together to uncover and stop their plot. The Ragnarök Conspiracy follows two main characters, an “American Bin Laden” and an FBI agent, who both suffer a terrible loss on 9/11, but clash over how to respond to terrorist threats from radicalized Muslims.

It’s the story of two men who share a traumatic loss at the hands of Muslim extremists, and yet take two ultimately divergent paths afterwards. One man, John Savas, channels his pain to become one of the nation’s leading, if unorthodox, FBI counter-terrorism officers. The other uses his considerable wealth and power to become the equivalent of an American Osama bin Laden, and is the antagonist of the story who plans and sets in motion a global conflict with the Muslim world. Much like the final Armageddon of Norse mythology, these two are destined to face off in an ultimate battle over the soul of civilization and the fate of the world.

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Southwood Norsemytho Group: The Runes of Norse Mythology

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Runes are letters comprising the runic alphabets that were employed in writing numerous Germanic languages before it adopting the Latin alphabet. The study of runic inscriptions, runestones and the history of the alphabet called Runology, is also considered a special branch of Germanic linguistics.
Earliest evidence of runic inscriptions date back to 150 AD. They were discovered in Denmark and Germany. As Christianity spread in Europe from 700 to 1100 AD, runes were gradually supplanted by the Latin alphabet  though its use in special circumstances still persisted.

The three widely-recognized rune alphabets are:
Anglo-Saxon Futhorc (400 to 1100 AD)
Elder Futhark (150 to 800 AD)
Younger Futhark (800 to 1100 AD)

The Younger Futhark is divided into three: the staveless runes, the Rok runes and the Danish runes. It also later developed into the Medieval runes and Dalecarlian runes between 1500 and 1800.
The runic alphabet was derived from the ancient Italic alphabets.  However, there is a deception on which particular variant of the Old Italic was the runes based on. It could be either Old Latin, Etruscan or Raetic. During that time, those scripts are written in the same angular way perfect to the study of ancient inscriptions.
In the Norse mythology, runes certified beliefs on divine origin, as based on inscriptions dated 600 AD. A poem in Elder Edda an alternate story on how the runes was learned by humans was related. According to the poem, Heimdall had 3 sons on mortal women. His children were named Jarl (noble), Churl (freeman), Thrall (slave) who were believed to be ancestors of the 3 human society classes.

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