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I called off tonight and am home involuntarily pawing at my jaw, which is swollen and---I know this is overused, but it's true---feels like it has blowtorch aimed at the roof of it. My oral surgeon said the third day is the most uncomfortable. I'm not accustomed to this kind of euphemism from physicians. Mine would say something more accurate, such as, "It hurts like a motherfucker on the third day." But this one probably works with a more genteel crowd. Anyway, one of my charge nurses sent me the link to this video, which I can't embed, irritatingly, so you have to go ALL THE WAY TO YOUTUBE to watch it.
Why, you ask, would she send me this? Because I was telling everyone recently that I have an issue with inappropriate laughter to the point I can't go to funerals. It's JUST BECAUSE of the fear of inappropriate laughter I am overcome with in front of the casket and begin to have horrible facial palsy and body tics trying to keep myself under control, all because I'm thinking "DON'T LAUGH, FOR FUCK'S SAKE DON'T LAUGH!" I don't actually think funerals are funny. I'm not a total asshole. For some reason I am simply seized with hysterical laughter when I know I shouldn't be, and funerals are the very worst place for it to happen.
I also maintain a mental list of "things that are not funny but you have to laugh at anyway," which MAY make me an asshole, but it seemed related so I thought I'd mention it.


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Partner Accuses Amazon of Being Totally Evil.
06/30/2011 Leave a Comment
Amazon.com/CEO: Jeff Bezos.
After launching an electronic assault on local shops and abusing sick and pregnant warehouse workers, Amazon.com has been sued for ripping off and royally screwing over in every other possible way a partner that made Kindle cases. Maybe the e-tailer's 2011 New Year's resolution was "be evil constantly."
A federal lawsuit filed Thursday by M-Edge Accessories LLC accuses Amazon of all manner of bullying. According to M-Edge, it agreed in Nov. 2009 to pay Amazon a roughly 15 percent commission for the right to sell Kindle cases. That deal was supposed to last three years, but after two months, M-Edge says, Amazon demanded 32 percent and threatened to take M-Edge cases off its website if the company refused. M-Edge refused. About a year and a half later, Amazon demanded it agree to the onerous new terms, this time threatening to bury M-Edge in Amazon search results where "no one will be able to find you." With Amazon providing 90 percent of the company's revenue, it agreed, shelling out $6.5 million in additional fees.
Finally, Amazon just went ahead and violated M-Edge's patent, the company claims, and began making its own Kindle case with a built-in light just like the M-Edge. Then it dropped M-Edge from its list of "Amazon Approved Accessory Vendors," even though M-Edge had been paying for just such a right, and began to falsely list M-Edge cases as "currently unavailable" on its website. Of course these allegations won't come as a huge surprise to anyone who follows how Amazon normally treats its customers, workers, and competitors. But it still sounds surprisingly evil. Maybe when Anderson Cooper tried to warn us about Amazon, we should have listened, mmm?
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This year, the calendar kept us from celebrating the Feast of St. Joseph the Worker. It fell on Divine Mercy Sunday, the day the Church beatified Pope John Paul II, which seemed fitting given the late pontiff's commitment to labor.
But, the Faith & Politics Institute nonetheless held its annual St. Joseph the Worker Breakfast at which Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis gave the following speech:
Remarks as Prepared for Delivery
Labor Secretary Hilda L. Solis
May 5, 2011
The Faith & Politics Institute
St. Joseph's Breakfast
Thank you, Robert. For your work here at the Faith & Politics Institute—and all of your efforts to promote democracy around the world.
Thank you, Rev. Farr. For 14 years, your organization has brought together important national leaders to celebrate the dignity of work.
The St. Joseph's breakfast is such a special event, because it unites political leaders, business leaders, faith leaders and labor leaders for a morning of insight and reflection.
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Today, we remember 9/11 as a wake-up call to do more to protect our homeland.
We can never bring back the 3,000 Americans who lost their lives that day.
But after a 10-year manhunt, we can take solace in knowing that justice was finally done on Sunday.
Osama bin Laden will now answer to a higher power for his crimes … thanks to the bravery of our Navy Seals and intelligence professionals.
In the Book of Romans, we are taught, "Be not overcome of evil … but overcome evil with good."
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Apple iPhone 5 ReviewApple iPhone 5
Flaunting a still clean looking camera interface, iOS 6 brings forth a new panorama shooting mode that Apple states as potentially sizing up to as much as 28-megapixels. Aside from that, everything else has is still intact that we know and love by now – like touch focus/exposure, HDR mode, AE/AF lock, swipe to the right to get to the camera roll, and snapping photos by pressing the volume up button. Thankfully, you'll never miss the beat with those unpredictable real-world moments, as the camera launches very quickly and gets us into snapping shots right away. In fact, its shutter speed is impeccable – meaning that fast moving objects are no match for this one.
Armed with an 8-megapixel iSight camera, it doesn't improve upon the megapixel count of its processor, but nevertheless, the addition of an improved backside illuminated sensor combined with a retooled lens coughs up even better visuals with the iPhone 5. We've always been satisfied with the iPhone in terms of taking photos, and rightfully so, we can continue to love it even more – especially when it's an easy point and shoot replacement. Oh yeah, there's also a new Panorama mode that requires us to snap the shot in portrait, where it's then stitched together in real-time for minimal wait. And surely enough, it boasts plenty of visual treats to make it a standout and beloved new feature.
Winning us over is the fair amount of detail with its shots, accurate color reproduction, neutral exposure, and dreamy depth of field. With the latter, it makes for some wonderful macro shots, as the background features enough defocus to place emphasis on the detailed subject up front. Meanwhile, in low lighting conditions, the iPhone 5 continues to shine with its sharp visuals – though, we needed to mess around with its touch focus/exposure to get the best results. Nevertheless, the LED flash is potent enough to properly illuminate the scenery without distorting colors that much. However, our sole qualm with the iPhone 5 is that shots taken in complete darkness can still come out of focus, since the flash doesn't turn on prior to the shot for proper focusing. Regardless, the iPhone 5 proves in more ways than one that it's more than capable of relieving some point and shoots out there.
1080p video recording is also favorable with its balanced quality. Of course, it excels most with outdoor sunny usage, as it has the perfect blend of sharp details, natural colors, gradual exposure, clear audio recording, and smooth capture rate of 29 frames per second to make it highly usable. Still, there's no continuous focus with its recording, and instead, it relies on the tried and true touch focus option that has been a staple of the iPhone. Meanwhile, videos recorded in low lighting are still decent, but some evidence of noise and a lower capture speed of 24 frames per second soften the quality of its results.
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Much like before, there's no change with the style and layout of the photo gallery with iOS 6. Obviously, there are some basic editing functions that are available to tweak them on the go, but this time around, we now find some additional sharing options. Seeing that Facebook is now deeply intertwined with the platform, it's now an available share option as well in the photo gallery – in addition to the already existing options of email, text messages, photo stream, and Twitter.
Five years and counting, it's almost crazy to say that Apple's iPod music player is still one of the best out there on any device. At this point, it's absolutely ready for a new overhaul with its visuals and presentation, but nevertheless, cover flow mode is still one classy looking thing to revisit. For the most part, it follows the conventional approach, but it would've been nice to gain access to the music player's settings within the player – as opposed to going to the general Settings menu. As for the audio quality of its internal speaker, it emits some pleasant tones that don't have too much strain or distortion at the loudest volume, but it lacks enough substance for it to come off as demanding.
Packaged along with the iPhone 5, is Apple's brand new Earpods headphones, which appear mightily strange with its chubby looks. In terms of comfort, we're a bit concerned due to its loose feel in the ear – probably because they're so large in size versus other in-ear headphones. With its audio quality, however, we can't say we're totally blown away by them, but at the same time, we were expected something with more punch with its output.
Now that the iPhone 5 is sporting a widescreen display, it's more ideal for watching videos than ever before. Throw in the fact that its display is wickedly sharp for the occasion, it simply makes for a resounding experience – albeit, it doesn't quite have that polarizing experience found with some of the smartphones out there with ridiculously large displays to reel us in. Moreover, its support out of the box is fairly limited, as we're only able to load videos encoded in MPEG-4. Despite those minor issues, we're still content with the iPhone 5's offering.
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Headphones output power (Volts)
Higher is better
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Higher is better
With the introduction of iOS 6, Apple decided to chuck Google Maps in favor of its own home-brewed maps app. Aptly titled as "Maps," it's by in large somewhat not as comprehensive as to what Google Maps for iOS had to offer. Sure, it runs smoothly and has all the basic elements we require, but it's missing some important features as well – in this case, it's transit directions. Instead, the Maps apps directs us to the App Store to select one of the featured third party offerings that provide it. In addition, there's no longer street view available with the new Maps apps, but rather, we're sometimes given an image of the location. However, we find comfort in knowing that there is now free voice guided turn-by-turn directions with iOS 6 – though, it's fairly primitive in comparison to other offerings out there. And lastly, we have to admit that we're impressed with the Flyover mode available with the Maps app, which beautifully recreates some popular cities with the aid of its 3D models. Some stay, some go, but for what Apple has to offer with this first time go, we're content with the offerings, but we're hoping for a quick and aggressive approach to get it up to par with the competition.
Also gone with iOS 6, is the native YouTube app of previous versions of iOS. Luckily, Google is kind enough to make a dedicated app , which can be downloaded from the App Store. Employing the same distinctive interface found with Android's version of the YouTube app, we're able to quickly forget about the aging iOS YouTube app from before, as this one coughs up enough versatility in getting us to watch some of our favorite viral videos. Oh yeah, the sharing function has been extended to many things – even Google+ if you have it installed!
Knowing that Apple has decided to forgo incorporating NFC technology with the iPhone 5, some might be scratching their heads wondering what the alternative solution is for them. Well folks, there's Passbook! Basically, it's Apple's way of providing a virtual wallet to its users, since it populates stored content like movie tickets, gift cards, coupons, passes, and much more. We didn't get too much time checking it out, since there are only a handful of supported apps and services right now, so we're curious to see how it'll be adopted by users in the long run.
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1. dr_fajardo12 (Posts: 118; Member since: 26 Aug 2012)
102. Connie.Linghus (banned) (Posts: 32; Member since: 14 Aug 2012)
No worries, the review is just biAsed iCaca.
292. PAPINYC (banned) (Posts: 2315; Member since: 30 Jul 2011)
That's right Miss-A-Linghus, you tell em'!
321. AppleHateBoy (unregistered)
Hear me out folks. According to PA's measurements:-
Volume of iPhone 4S:- 62.78 cc
Volume of iPhone 5 :- 55.14 cc
Even though I hate Apple(due to their lawsuits), I have to commend them for this improvement.
347. Jigar99 (Posts: 2; Member since: 26 Feb 2013)
I have a white iphone 5. I want this iphone wallpaper please......
219. Kevin0988 (Posts: 12; Member since: 22 Sep 2012)
iPhone had aluminium design much better than galaxy s3 plastic.
264. amir1975 (Posts: 22; Member since: 18 Aug 2012)
this is not a big advantage buddy! Satisfaction talks : 9.3 against 9. it means Apple sucks!!
290. furious00 (Posts: 2; Member since: 23 Sep 2012)
Ummm...both The Verge and Engadget have the iPhone 5 scoring higher. So suck on that.
265. amir1975 (Posts: 22; Member since: 18 Aug 2012)
Yes it's a truth! you have paid MUCH more than any other phone, but you've got LESS.
it's APPLE !!
310. efdalemre (Posts: 1; Member since: 24 Sep 2012)
more like Half an Apple :)
327. Miley_3d (Posts: 16; Member since: 02 Oct 2012)
i agree with U.
285. AppleHateBoy (unregistered)
They just have to change the design, software UI and maps and PA will give it a 10. No offence but if other phones are getting so low scores (like Optimus G, International One X, Lumia 920) this is what I have to say.
According to me they only need to change the Design of the Phone, Change the software UI, replace Apple Maps with Google Maps, Make the UI more customizable and they will have a real winner on their hands.
Plus also add a microSD slot and a universal USB connector instead of that dopey proprietary connector.
287. AppleHateBoy (unregistered)
I did not mean the Optimus G(it hasn't been reviewed yet). And I meant Lumia 900.
322. AppleHateBoy (unregistered)
I just thought of something.
Moto RAZR MAXX => Apple iPhone 5 MAXX with a bigger battery and 8.6 mm thickness.
2. satanrules (Posts: 19; Member since: 22 Sep 2012)
The best iPhone yet. However you wanna look at it.
9. nnaatthhaannx2 (Posts: 820; Member since: 19 Oct 2011)
Like we were expecting it to be the worst?
12. XPERIA-KNIGHT (unregistered)
o we know its worse....
10. PhoneArenaUser (Posts: 5498; Member since: 05 Aug 2011)
I agree, this one is better than 4 or 4S.
71. binerry (Posts: 99; Member since: 16 Mar 2012)
I would hope so.
253. Retro-touch (Posts: 279; Member since: 24 Oct 2011)
Award for the most obvious comment!!!!
But not the best phone in the world, I still think the SGS2 is better than SGS3 (cheap plastic) and if the 3 looked like the HTC One X with the features and specs it has it would be the ultimate phone, removable battery and sdcard of course
268. satanrules (Posts: 19; Member since: 22 Sep 2012)
Isn't there always something missing?
3. Carlitos (Posts: 557; Member since: 23 Oct 2011)
Wow, i was really expecting some solid news for the battery and it does not seem good. If the battery is just the same as the 4s on 3g, 4g LTE is going to take its hit. Its going to be rather ironic, that up to a year or so ago, iphones had pretty solid battery performance compared to many android and it now seems to be switching places.
26. binerry (Posts: 99; Member since: 16 Mar 2012)
Engadget tested with an LTE looped video, with wifi and Bluetooth on, and it got 10 minutes less than the Droid Razr Maxx.
35. KingKurogiii (Posts: 5713; Member since: 23 Oct 2011)
what are you talking about? you're gonna have to link us to that one.
44. Berzerk000 (Posts: 4275; Member since: 26 Jun 2011)
It's true
"On our standard battery rundown test, in which we loop a video with LTE and WiFi enabled and social accounts pinging at regular intervals, the iPhone 5 managed a hugely impressive 11 hours and 15 minutes. That's just 10 minutes shy of the Motorola Droid RAZR Maxx."
77. KingKurogiii (Posts: 5713; Member since: 23 Oct 2011)
wow, and this has what? a pair of 32nm cores? is there any word on what the mAh-age is? imagine how good the MAXX HD is going to be...good googly moogly, it's simply mouth watering.
92. Berzerk000 (Posts: 4275; Member since: 26 Jun 2011)
A pair of 32nm cores at 1 GHz and a tri-core GPU; the battery is 1,440 mAh if I'm not mistaken.
I haven't seen you around here lately King, and I just mentioned you in a comment not too long ago!
120. KingKurogiii (Posts: 5713; Member since: 23 Oct 2011)
only 1,440mAh? there must be some special sauce at work here. yeah, i saw that article. it's believed to be a PowerVR SGX543(MP3) if i'm not mistaken. i didn't even know there was such a thing... xD
i've been here and there. i don't really participate in a lot of the over active articles surrounding the iPhone but i do like to give my 2 cents in the articles like this that really matter.
oh yeah? i think we think a lot alike Bezerk. c:
127. Berzerk000 (Posts: 4275; Member since: 26 Jun 2011)
Apple advertised in their announcement that they made some special software optimizations to improve battery life, they didn't exactly specify, but it sure did work whatever it was.
Neither do I, I actually tend to stay away from PA when there's an Apple product release, to bypass the iDevice flood. But this time around I decided to stick around and straighten some people up where I can. A mans work is never done...
140. KingKurogiii (Posts: 5713; Member since: 23 Oct 2011)
true dat, this site needs more people like you.
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|4.0 inches, 640 x 1136 pixels (326 ppi) IPS LCD
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Lea Michele Projects Light, Beauty + Strength in 'Cannonball' Video
Lea Michele shows her emotions, her beauty and her strength in the video for her first single, 'Cannonball.'
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'Glee' creator Ryan Murphy envisioned the last scene of the show and the series finale long before star Cory Monteith unexpectedly passed away.
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We're only two episodes into Season 5 of 'Glee' and already, it's action-packed and full of Beatles songs. It also marked Demi Lovato's debut as Dani in a six-episode arc.
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National Instruments Adds OS X DAQ and GPIB DriversMore options for data acquisition and instrument control on Mac OS X (January 11, 2005)
Engineers and scientists now have more options for data acquisition (DAQ) and instrument control on Mac OS X with the new National Instruments DAQ and GPIB drivers for Mac OS X.
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The NI-DAQmx Base driver for Mac OS X supports popular NI data acquisition hardware, including the PCI and PXI E Series DAQ devices, the DIO-96 digital I/O device and the new low-cost NI USB DAQ devices. The NI-488.2 driver, which provides Mac OS X GPIB support, works with the NI PCI-GPIB and the GPIB-ENET/100.
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Michael Walrath will assume the role of senior vice president of Right Media Exchange, reporting to Yahoo!'s President, Susan Decker. Mr. Walrath offered, "We share Yahoo!'s vision of a more empowered marketplace, where efficiency, transparency and accountability in online advertising become the norm. We are very excited by the prospect of becoming part of Yahoo!, the market leader in display advertising, as it looks to revolutionize the media buying and selling landscape."
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|Conrad Messerly
|1750 Pennsylvania[1]
|possibly August 27, 1776
Conrad Messerly
Also spelled Conrod, Coonrod, Meserly, Messerley.
Soldier in the Revolutionary war. Mustered in on May 11, 1776. Possibly killed in action during the Battle of Long Island. Served in the "The Pennsylvania Regiment of Rifle" (possibly 2nd Pennsylvania Regiment[2]) in the company commanded by Capt. Lewis Farmer (later promoted to Major). Missing after the Battle of Long Island New York, as recorded in the muster taken from Sept 1, to October 1, 1776. The pictured documents lists members in Conrad's company.
The battle was a heavy defeat for the Continental Army and in particular Conrad's unit. All lieutenants, half the sergeants are reported as missing after the battle (no reports of killed- presumably the practice was not to delare dead. The captain of the unit was seriously wounded and unable to continue command of the regiment. Since all those on the muster noted as missing are at the same date, August 27, 1776, and because the Army was forced to retreat rapidly leaving the dead and injued, it is much more likely it was injured possibly fatally due to this battle. [3]
Conrad's pay was "6 and 2/3 dollars per month", and was to provide his arms and clothing.
Search for the familyEdit
Only Messerly's known in Pennsylvania who could have been fathers are Daniel Messerly (c1717) and Jacob Messerle, who both appeared in 1749 in the Pennsylvania census.
Research projectsEdit
- Possibly examine the dates of other fellows who mustered in on the same day as Conrad.
- Research the battle on August 27, 1776
- ^ Ancestry.com reveals a single record from Godfrey Memorial Library, American Genealogical-Biographical Index. This info cited as from "vol 117, page 63." Source: "Ten "Series" of "Pennsylvnia Archives" have been so far published in from 5 to 31v. Ea. Philadelphia and Harrisburg. 1852-"
- ^ 2nd Regiment is assumed because searches on Lewis Farmer and Pennsylvania Regiment turn up only mentions of the 2nd. However, the WP article does not mention participation in the Battle of Long Island.
- ^ Many mentions in the muster rolls, see especially page 417 & page 432. Pennsylvania Archives Fifth series vol.2. Edited by Thomas Montgomery. Under the direction of Pennsylvania Secretary of the commonwealth, Pennsylvania State Library, Pennsylvania General assembly, Pennsylvania Dept. of Public Instruction online copy of entire book downloaded as pdf


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Following the Capitals' 5-1 loss to the Colorado Avalanche Saturday night, the players who spoke to reporters weren't looking to make excuses nor to identify a single play or part of the game that went awry. They spoke out against their team's work ethic and after a 1-4-0 start are concerned that Washington must get the situation under control.
Troy Brouwer, who has yet to score a goal this season, was notably frustrated and didn't hold back on his critiques.
"It's looking at yourself and wanting to win. It's about wanting to work hard, wanting to help your teammates out, wanting to win," Brouwer said. "That's all it comes down to. Our talent level's there, our effort's not.
"It's concentration, it's work ethic, it's focus, it's a lot of things," Brouwer added. "It starts in practice and it continues over into warmups, we shoot high on our goalie sometimes when we shouldn't be and then we're sloppy during the game and then we wonder why we are sloppy and can't make the breakout passes. We've got to be better, all around."
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In economics a financial market is a mechanism that allows people to easily buy and sell (trade) financial securities (such as stocks and bonds), commodities (such as precious metals or agricultural goods), and other fungible items of value at low transaction costs and at prices that reflect efficient markets.
Financial markets have evolved significantly over several hundred years and are undergoing constant innovation to improve liquidity.
Both general markets, where many commodities are traded and specialised markets (where only one commodity is traded) exist. Markets work by placing many interested sellers in one "place", thus making them easier to find for prospective buyers. An economy which relies primarily on interactions between buyers and sellers to allocate resources is known as a market economy in contrast either to a command economy or to a non-market economy that is based, such as a gift economy.
In Finance, Financial markets facilitate:
- The raising of capital (in the capital markets);
- The transfer of risk (in the derivatives markets); and
- International trade (in the currency markets).
They are used to match those who want capital to those who have it.
Typically a borrower issues a receipt to the lender promising to pay back the capital. These receipts are securities which may be freely bought or sold. In return for lending money to the borrower, the lender will expect some compensation in the form of interest or dividends.
The term Financial markets can be a cause of much confusion.
Financial markets could mean:
1. organisations that facilitate the trade in financial products. i.e. Stock exchanges facilitate the trade in stocks, bonds and warrants.
2. the coming together of buyers and sellers to trade financial products. i.e. stocks and shares are traded between buyers and sellers in a number of ways including: the use of stock exchanges; directly between buyers and sellers etc.
In academia, students of finance will use both meanings but students of economics will only use the second meaning.
Financial markets can be domestic or they can be international.
Types of financial markets[edit]
The financial markets can be divided into different subtypes:
- Capital markets which consist of:
- Stock markets, which provide financing through the issuance of shares or common stock, and enable the subsequent trading thereof.
- Bond markets, which provide financing through the issuance of Bonds, and enable the subsequent trading thereof.
- Commodity markets, which facilitate the trading of commodities.
- Money markets, which provide short term debt financing and investment.
- Derivatives markets, which provide instruments for the management of financial risk.
- Futures markets, which provide standardised forward contracts for trading products at some future date; see also forward market.
- Insurance markets, which facilitate the redistribution of various risks.
- Foreign exchange markets, which facilitate the trading of foreign exchange.
The capital markets consist of primary markets and secondary markets. Newly formed (issued) securities are bought or sold in primary markets. Secondary markets allow investors to sell securities that they hold or buy existing securities.
Raising capital[edit]
To understand financial markets, let us look at what they are used for, i.e. what is their purpose?
Without financial markets, borrowers would have difficulty finding lenders themselves. Intermediaries such as banks help in this process. Banks take deposits from those who have money to save. They can then lend money from this pool of deposited money to those who seek to borrow. Banks popularly lend money in the form of loans and mortgages.
More complex transactions than a simple bank deposit require markets where lenders and their agents can meet borrowers and their agents, and where existing borrowing or lending commitments can be sold on to other parties. A good example of a financial market is a stock exchange. A company can raise money by selling shares to investors and its existing shares can be bought or sold.
The following table illustrates where financial markets fit in the relationship between lenders and borrowers:
|Relationship between lenders and borrowers
|Financial Intermediaries
|Financial Markets
Insurance Companies
Pension Funds
Mutual Funds
Stock Exchange
Money Market
Bond Market
Foreign Exchange
Central Government
Public Corporations
Individuals do not think of themselves as lenders but they lend to other parties in many ways. Lending activities may be:
- putting money in a savings account at a bank;
- contributing to a pension plan;
- paying premiums to an insurance company;
- investing in government bonds; or
- investing in company shares.
Companies tend to be borrowers of capital. When companies have surplus cash that is not needed for a short period of time, they may seek to make money from their cash surplus by lending it via short term markets called money markets.
There are a few companies that have very strong cash flows. These companies tend to be lenders rather than borrowers. Such companies may decide to return cash to lenders (e.g. via a share buyback.) Alternatively, they may seek to make more money on their cash by lending it (e.g. investing in bonds and stocks.)
Individuals borrow money via bankers loans for short term needs or longer term mortgages to help finance a house purchase.
Companies borrow money to aid short term or long term cash flows. They also borrow to fund modernisation or future business expansion.
Governments often find their spending requirements exceed their tax revenues. To make up this difference, they need to borrow. Governments also borrow on behalf of nationalised industries, municipalities, local authorities and other public sector bodies. In the UK, the total borrowing requirement is often referred to as the public sector borrowing requirement (PSBR).
Governments borrow by issuing bonds. In the UK, the government also borrows from individuals by offering bank accounts and Premium Bonds. Government debt seems to be permanent. Indeed the debt seemingly expands rather than being paid off. One strategy used by governments to reduce the value of the debt is to influence inflation.
Municipalities and local authorities may borrow in their own name as well as receiving funding from national governments. In the UK, this would cover an authority like Hampshire County Council.
Public Corporations typically include nationalised industries. These may include the postal services, railway companies and utility companies.
Many borrowers have difficulty raising money locally. They need to borrow internationally with the aid of Foreign exchange markets.
Derivative products[edit]
During the 1980s and 1990s, a major growth sector in financial markets is the trade in so called derivative products, or derivatives for short.
In the financial markets, stock prices, bond prices, currency rates, interest rates and dividends go up and down, creating risk. Derivative products are financial products which are used to control risk or paradoxically exploit risk.
Currency markets[edit]
Seemingly, the most obvious buyers and sellers of foreign exchange are importers/exporters. While this may have been true in the distant past, whereby importers/exporters created the initial demand for currency markets, importers and exporters now represent only 1/32 of foreign exchange dealing, according to BIS.[1]
The picture of foreign currency transactions today shows:
- Banks and Institutions
- Speculators
- Government spending (for example, military bases abroad)
- Importers/Exporters
- Tourists
Analysis of financial markets[edit]
Much effort has gone into the study of financial markets and how prices vary with time. Charles Dow, one of the founders of Dow Jones & Company and The Wall Street Journal, enunciated a set of ideas on the subject which are now called Dow Theory. This is the basis of the so-called technical analysis method of attempting to predict future changes. One of the tenets of "technical analysis" is that market trends give an indication of the future, at least in the short term. The claims of the technical analysts are disputed by many academics, who claim that the evidence points rather to the random walk hypothesis, which states that the next change is not correlated to the last change.
The scale of changes in price over some unit of time is called the volatility. It was discovered by Benoît Mandelbrot that changes in prices do not follow a Gaussian distribution, but are rather modeled better by Lévy stable distributions. The scale of change, or volatiliy, depends on the length of the time unit to a power a bit more than 1/2. Large changes up or down are more likely that what one would calculate using a Gaussian distribution with an estimated standard deviation.
Financial markets in popular culture[edit]
- Gordon Gekko is a famous caricature of a rogue financial markets operator, famous for saying "greed ... is good".
Only negative stories about financial markets tend to make the news. The general perception, for those not involved in the world of financial markets is of a place full of crooks and con artists. Big stories like the Enron scandal serve to enhance this view.
Stories that make the headlines involve the incompetent, the lucky and the downright skillful. The Barings scandal is a classic story of incompetence mixed with greed leading to dire consequences. Another story of note is that of Black Wednesday, when sterling came under attack from hedge fund speculators. This led to major problems for the United Kingdom and had a serious impact on its course in Europe. A commonly recurring event is the stock market bubble, whereby market prices rise to dizzying heights in a so called exaggerated bull market. This is not a new phenomenon; indeed the story of Tulip mania in the Netherlands in the 17th century illustrates an early recorded example.
Financial markets are merely tools. Like all tools they have both beneficial and harmful uses. Overall, financial markets are used by honest people. Otherwise, people would turn away from them en masse. As in other walks of life, the financial markets have their fair share of rogue elements.
Financial markets slang[edit]
- Big swinging dick, a highly successful financial markets trader. The term was made popular in the book Liar's Poker, by Michael Lewis
- Geek, a Quant
- Nerd, a Quant
- Quant, a quantitative analyst skilled in the black arts of PhD level (and above) mathematics and statistical methods
- Rocket scientist, a financial consultant at the zenith of mathematical and computer programming skill. They are able to invent derivatives of frightening complexity and construct sophisticated pricing models. They generally handle the most advanced computing techniques adopted by the financial markets since the early 1980s. Typically, they are physicists and engineers by training; rocket scientists do not necessarily build rockets for a living.
See also[edit]
- Financial instrument
- Stock investor
- JessX java Experimental Simulated Stock Exchange
- ^ Steven Valdez, An Introduction To Global Financial Markets
- Steven Valdez, An Introduction To Global Financial Markets, Macmillan Press Ltd. (ISBN 0-333-76447-1)
- Hagen Kleinert, Path Integrals in Quantum Mechanics, Statistics, Polymer Physics, and Financial Markets, 4th edition, World Scientific (Singapore, 2004); Paperback ISBN 981-238-107-4 (also available online: PDF-files)
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I've done research in the forums but haven't found much that is helpful.
We just purchased some netbooks for some of our service guys in the field. They all run XP Home, and will be connected via VPN when their users are not in the office (of course, being XP Home, they are not members of the domain). I am trying to scan these in Spiceworks, but all I get is the correct IP and "Unknown Device".
I know the issue is authentication, somehow, due to the Spiceworks error message in the device properties. However, I have tried several things to fix the login, with no luck. I've tried the username, both with and without the "computername\". I've tried enabling and disabling the Guest account. I've tried the admin and user IDs. The firewall is turned off, and the WMI permissions match the other Windows XP (Pro) machines on our network.
Any ideas?
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So, apparently XP Home ULCPC doesn't do WMI, despite the fact that the WMI controls are located in the Management Console.
My apologies for not catching that sooner.
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