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A column which highlights Suicide Girls and their fave groups.

This week, Haydin Suicide takes us for a spin around SG’s Ballet Group.

Members: 317 / Comments: 776

• WHY DO YOU LOVE IT?: The dance world is small, so having a group of people who are just as passionate about ballet as myself to mingle with is wonderful. I also love the diversity of the group. There are people who simply love to watch ballet as well as new and experienced dancers. This offers a wide range of information for any ballet dancer or ballet fan out there.







• DISCUSSION TIP: Have an interest in Ballet!



• BEST RANDOM QUOTE: “As we jumped into second position the girl in front farted like really loud. I had to go out for a few seconds to compose myself.” – Yes I picked a fart joke! It made me laugh because I’ve seen it happen in class ha ha.
  
  
• MOST HEATED DISCUSSION THREAD: Black Swan. The issue that provided cause for argument was the fact that Natalie Portman did not do all of her dancing in the movie so as a dance movie it seemed slightly over rated to those looking for something strictly ballet based. I can understand why this might upset some, however the fact that she didn’t do all her own dancing really didn’t bother me. The way I see it is in most movies there are stunt doubles for action shots, so why not dancers for dance scenes that an actress cannot do. Unfortunately Hollywood is about appealing to the general public and the dance world is relatively small. Personally, I thoroughly enjoyed the movie for the dancing as well as the story behind it.






• WHO’S WELCOME TO JOIN?: Anyone and everyone who has had ballet cross their mind at some point in life.

by A.J. Focht

Wednesday August 31st marked the beginning of the DC universe relaunch. The first edition of Justice League was released with mixed reviews. Regardless of what the critics thought about DC’s decision to reboot, thanks to healthy pre-orders, Justice League #1 is was the best selling comic of the year before it even went on sale. The first issue managed to sell out in a few days; the second order only lasted another couple of days. DC has now called for the third printing of the comics.

The DC reboot isn’t the only place that Superman’s costume got an overhaul. Close ups of Henry Cavill’s suit from Man of Steel reveal it looks a little like a scaly diving-suit; honestly, if you removed the crest and painted it orange and blue, it would make an excellent outfit for Aquaman. The images are missing the traditional cape, meaning director Zack Snyder is either going sans cape, or it’s going to be done in CG.

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By Nicole Powers

Harry Markopolos has a way with numbers. It’s this innate ability that led him to uncover Bernie Madoff’s epic Ponzi scheme almost a decade before market forces ultimately leveraged a confession out of the spectacularly crooked investment fund manager.

In 1999, while working as a portfolio manager at Rampart, a Boston based investment management company, Markopolos had been asked to reverse engineer a fund offered by Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC so his firm could compete by offering a similar product. After studying Madoff’s marketing material for a mere 5 minutes, Markopolos realized that the results the fund claimed to achieve were highly improbable, a further 4 hours of mathematical modeling proved the stated returns were categorically impossible by legal means.

Smelling a rat, Markopolos assembled an informal investigative team to probe Madoff’s operation further. In May 2000, when Madoff’s scheme was only a $3 to $7 billion fraud, they submitted their first whistleblowing report to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). It was summarily ignored. Frustrated but undeterred, Markopolos’ tenacious group, dubbed The Foxhounds, submitted numerous subsequent memos (in 2001, 2005, 2007 and 2008) offering even more evidence, to no avail. A 2005 missive had what one might consider to be an attention-grabbing title -“The World’s Largest Hedge Fund Is A Fraud” – but even this failed to get an appropriate response from those charged with policing Wall Street.

It was only following the crash of 2008, when Madoff’s investors were clamoring to liquidate their assets and he was unable to meet their demands, that the man responsible for the largest act of financial fraud in world history was forced to fess up. By then, Madoff’s “fund” had grown on paper to a value of $65 billion. In the following days, the complete and utter failure of the SEC came to light, as press outlets – who had also been alerted by Markopolos, but by and large had declined to report his findings before Madoff’s arrest – competed to interview the “Madoff whistleblower.” With egg on their faces, the government also sought out Markopolos’ knowledge and expertise, and on February 4, 2009 he delivered some riveting televised testimony in front of the House of Representatives’ Financial Services Subcommittee.

In March 2010, Markopolos published a book chronicling his investigations into Madoff and the utter incompetence he bore witness to during his dealings with the SEC. Called No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller, it became a New York Times bestseller. A new film, Chasing Madoff, based on the book is currently in cinemas. SuicideGirls caught up with Markopolos, who now works as a freelance investigative accountant exposing Fortune 500 wrongdoing, to talk about Madoff and the current state of play in our financial markets. We also asked him to focus his considerable financial acumen our nation’s balance sheet and assess the future prospects of our economy. Given Markopolos’ track record, his conclusions about America’s should-be junk status are indeed cause for concern, if not outright alarm.

Read our exclusive interview with Harry Markopolos on SuicideGirls.com.

Rydell Suicide in Dreams

• INTO: Helping to make the earth a better and happier place to be, Craves Cupcakes, cooking with someone I love, the smell of vector files in the morning, dancing around my house like an arse, reading, organization, learning languages, smelling yummy, drinking tea in my underwear, astronomy, and meditating.
• NOT INTO: Chocolate, bad moods, pants & socks, smell of patchouli, small talk (I suck at it), animal testing or cruelty, flaky friends, repeating myself, people who are blind to the world around them, shitty work ethics and laziness.
• MAKES ME HAPPY: My Weimaraner, loud music, my Mac, being barefoot, cleaning the house, fresh sheets, tulips, meditation, expanding the mind, target practice, muscle cars & grease, great pair of jeans, sexy heels, laying in a hammock, legwarmers traveling, pubs, Sunday walks, someone cooking for me, just sharing space with someone I love, watching the stars, strong connections and talking with friends.
• MAKES ME SAD: No one to snuggle, ignorance, fur, authority, self deprecating people, perpetual downers, being told what to do, no new ink, missing people I love, the state of our world, and vivisection.
• HOBBIES: Killing time…anyone know how to get blood out of the carpet?
• 5 THINGS I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT: LaLicious Body Scrub, fresh ink, silence, meditation, my heart on my sleeve.
• VICES: Tattoos, boys with a lot tattoos (hand tattoos, sleeves), my bed, cheesecake, and CocaCola/Boylands Ginger Ale.
• I SPEND MOST OF MY FREE TIME: Working, meditating, swearing, playing with my Mac, hula hooping, and watching horror movies.

Get to know Rydell better over at SuicideGirls.com!