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The gig is being held to celebrate the release of their Patrick Freyne-approved Eleven Modern Antiquities album.
Guesting on the night is Neil Hannon who features alongside XTC's Andy Partridge and Dave Gregory, Eric Matthews, Nelson Bragg, Michael Penn, The Section Quartet and Jason Falkner on the credits.
We've got an interview with Neil and Pugwash mainman Thomas Walsh in our next issue, out on the day of the gig.
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Thomas "Pugwash" Walsh has put together a supergroup of sorts (Neil Hannon, someone from XTC). Writing a decent Christmas single isn't the easiest of tasks and, while this probably won't end up as one of the standards, the cheeriness behind it all shines through. A suitably uplifting ditty that showcases the breezy approach to songwriting that Walsh makes his own all year round.
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Tales of Thomas Walsh's exquisite, Beatles-esque songwriting bent have already been well-documented on these pages, and this latest single comes up trumps. Walsh is about two degrees of separation (literally) from the likes of Air, Beck, Paul McCartney and Aimee Mann, and boy does it show. Laden with summery strings and plodding with an endearing strain of psychedelia, this single brings to mind the cheerful, sanguine likes of the Beach Boys. It's nice to be nice alright, but it's even better to be brilliant.
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I didn't think I'd get this palette at first, I figured that I had the Book of Shadows III and I didn't need to get the brand new edition. I swatched some of the colors, some of which are similar, but I needed to have it in my life. I got it during the f&f sale and am so glad I did.
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I am obsessed with Urban Decay's BOS IV! Its Amaze! I got this palette as a Christmas/Birthday gift. The colors are gorgeous, great texture, color stays in place all day. The eyeliner is LEGIT. Never comes off. Truly, I had to scrub to get it off the first time I wore it. Urban Decay is so creative in their marketing, i love the names of all the eyeshadows. I am a HUGE fan.
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A recently published study in the journal found that life expectancy for women fell significantly in 702 of the nation's more than 3,100 counties. For men, life expectancy dropped in 251 counties. In 158 counties, life expectancy dropped for both men and women.
The largest declines - by nearly two years - were in Mississippi's Madison County, near Jackson, and eastern Oklahoma's Hughes and Okfuskee Counties, for women. Kentucky's Perry County in Appalachia and Mississippi's Madison had the biggest drops for men.
the study is published here. populationhealthmetrics.
"Conclusions: The US has extremely large geographic and racial disparities, with some communities having life expectancies already well behind those of the best-performing nations. At the same time, relative performance for most communities continues to drop. Efforts to address these issues will need to tackle the leading preventable causes of death."
It would be interesting to juxtappose maps of life expectancy vs. maps of education, religion, and political demographics. My personal bias is that the areas with lower life expectancy would be more christian, more segregated, and less educated - but maybe that's just bias and not founded on reality.
I hear and see every day how lives are getting harder, people are either without jobs or working themselves to death, employers are becoming more harsh, and people are more desparate. Many houses around my average working class neighborhood are empty. Life expectancy is one more place where things are getting harder.
I like the idea of your proposed study, but not the reasoning behind it. Lower income people have a general victimization, lack of responsibility attitude. They blame their obesity (or other unhealthy habits) on heredity, culture, 'the times', stress, you name it. We all dig our own graves to some extent. I believe much more emphasis needs to be paid on health education in schools, but you can lead a camel to water, but can't make him drink. We should encourage critical thinking and responsibility in society and stop encouraging and rewarding victims and weakness.
My mother had open heart surgery at age 35 from a hereditary issue, so I studied health early on. When she got breast cancer at about 60, I studied health even more. When my brother had to have his gall bladder removed at age 35 because he ate McDonald's every workday for lunch, I studied more about diet and health. I am proactive. It was/is a CHOICE. Over 60% of all American illness is preventable. Help empower others by teaching them to empower themselves through self-education and critical self-analysis. Ignorance can be deadly.
When the best thing in your life is a Big Mac (often through no fault of your own), you tend to eat them.
When the state of Mississippi treats you like a dog because you're colored, underfunds your prenatal care, underfunds your schools, and denies you employment because you're colored (and, as we ALL know, racism is dead in the U.S), you're liable to make some poor choices.
Even in rich states, health education is considered a waste of time and money because it isn't tested in our now test-mad educational systems. Reading and math, reading and math.
here are some mapsof the life expectancy data.
here is a map of religion in the US
election map 2008
I couldnt get the maps to download and resize so this is the best I could do.
I overlapped the map of religious adherence with the election, poverty, and graduation rate maps in photoshop and switched back and forth between each one. I can't really find any consistent correlation between religiosity and political party, poverty rate, and education, except that Mormons seem to have high graduation rates and low poverty rates. Democrats in the south seem to have higher poverty rates and lower life expectancies. They are also less religious than the Republican areas of their states.
Iowa and southern Minnesota are very religious, but have high graduation rates and low poverty and are pretty mixed politically.
It is interesting that the Appalachian area of Kentucky is very impoverished, but apparently not very religious. I wonder what qualifies a person as a "religious adherent". Belief in a deity? Going to church?
The two states I can think of which always come up short on the health studies are Mississippi and West Virginia. They also come up short in income, education, etc, etc. If it's a study on something bad, poor old Mississippi and WV come in as the very worse - except for crime. WV has a very low crime rate.
Poverty can cause lack of access to health care or adequate health care. If things can be treated early on or prevented, then a person will live longer. Plenty of people die of things that are completely curable due to lack of health care. For example, I knew two ladies who both got uterine cancer at about the same time in the 1970s. One only had Medicare which would only pay for morphine for her pain. She died rather quickly and painfully. The other had excellent health care, got all sorts of treatment and lived well past 90. If a person has health care, they're going to get that open heart surgery and live while the person without it is out of luck - they're going to die.
The better access to health care the longer people live - regardless of their personal habits. Some people live a very long time with very bad personal habits, because they can afford the doctors and medications to keep them going when someone else just dies.
I find it interesting that the lower Mississippi river basin is kind of nonreligious on the map, but very republican and short lived. That observation may not mean anything, but I was surprised at the decreased amount of religious adherence there. Further away from the river, religious adherence increases. Now to see if I can find a map of MacDonalds for additional research on this topic....
Oh, here's one. Why are so many of these statistical maps of the US from UK? Are they planning to invade? Find America's soft fast food underbelly where people are laying around sated on french fries, and strike our weakest place?
Here's another fast food map. Still no correlation. Damn.
Well, that doesnt correlate with the other maps, so I'll have to keep looking.
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There are "at least 100, possibly more" athletes — including 16- and 17-year-old high school players — who were clients of Biogenesis, the now-defunct Coral Gables wellness clinic at the center of one of the biggest scandals in Major League Baseball history, the whistleblower who exposed the clinic told the Miami Herald on Thursday.
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Porter Fischer, a former Biogenesis employee, investor and client, said that besides pro baseball, basketball, boxing and soccer athletes — collegiate ball players, as well as local police officers, lawyers and at least one judge — are among those who spent thousands of dollars a month at the clinic, which operated out of a storefront across the street from the University of Miami.
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Fischer said a state health investigator opened an inquiry and confirmed through interviews with others at the clinic that Bosch was injecting minors with steroid "concoctions." Yet the investigation went nowhere.
"I just don't understand that — you mean if I was in my garage, giving out tummy tucks, the department of health would just look the other way?"
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"I don't know why law enforcement hasn't gotten involved to be honest," said Fischer's lawyer, Raymond Rafool. "We really can't figure it out. Porter is very upset. You're talking about high school kids getting this stuff from this clinic. For kids who haven't even given their bodies the opportunity to grow to be doing this was really disturbing to him."
In the end, Bosch was fined $5,000 from the state Department of Health for practicing medicine without a license. Rafool said that's where the investigation inexplicably ended. And since there was no criminal case, the Miami state attorney said she had nothing to prosecute.
"No police agency has brought anything to the state attorney to review," said Ed Griffith, spokesman for state attorney Katherine Rundle.
Rafool, a former prosecutor, said that is hogwash.
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Bapa's Bistro
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Bapa's Bistro opened last year inside the Holiday Inn hotel off Interstate 95 in Titusville. The bistro has American and cajun-style dishes for...
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This tiny restaurant serves up American classics, some with a Tex-Mex flair. Although the crab cakes also are a customer favorite. Everything is made...
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The Cajun Cafe of Merritt Square, located in the food court of Merritt Square Mall, has a menu that's full of variety. Take a break from your...
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6000 Universal Blvd., Orlando FL 32819Experience Cajun delicacies and intimate dining from a celebrity chef.
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1490 E. Buena Vista Drive, Lake Buena Vista FL 32830This fascinating complex proves that the blues is also about food.
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Located inside the Melbourne Hilton Rialto, Lafitte's New Orleans Restaurant features Louisiana cuisines, Cajun, Bayou and Creole-style dishes. The...
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Monday, May 13th, 2013Many Americans celebrate Armed Forces Day annually on the third Saturday of May. It is a day to pay tribute to men and women who serve the United States' armed forces. Armed Forces Day is also part of Armed Forces Week, which begins on the second Saturday of May.
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The Graduate Student Association (GSA) was formed in 1969 in order to provide a link among graduate students, the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences' administration and faculty, and the surrounding Philadelphia community. Our goal is to be a voice for graduate students within the University, representing their unique needs and concerns. Monthly open meetings are held to deliver news and information and provide a forum for students to address new issues that arise.
The Graduate Student Association plans programs in four areas: intellectual, professional, social, and community service. Presentations and Conversations in Research (PCR) allow students to present their research in a relaxed atmosphere to other students.
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Initial configuration will deal with Agent Orange applicants
IBM Corp. is on a fast track to help automate part of the Veterans Affairs Department's disability claims system to deal with an anticipated influx of Agent Orange claims later this year.
IBM was awarded a $9.1 contract to collaborate with VA developers to develop and implement the new claims processing system by November, according to a July 2 news release from the VA. The goal is to permit more accurate and faster claims processing due to the anticipated surge in disability claims beginning in late 2010.
The expected sharp increase in disability claims coincides with a new regulation that goes into effect implementing a presumption of service connection for three disabilities: B-cell leukemia (hairy-cell leukemia) associated with Agent Orange exposure in Vietnam, Parkinson's disease, and ischemic heart disease.
VA seeks vendor to automate Agent Orange claims processing
The first use of the new claims processing system will be limited to this set of disabilities, but over time, it will cover other conditions, the VA news release said.
The system being developed by IBM is expected to be more than a digitization of paper processes. Instead, it will implement a new end-to-end processing workflow.
"Automation will substantially reduce processing time and increase accuracy while simplifying the way that veterans interact with the claims process," the news release said.
The new system will guide applicants through automated, program-assisted menus to capture their information and medical evidence. VA estimates the new system, in its initial configuration, may assist as many as 100,000 veterans.
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Stoke 3 Walsall 1 - match analysis and pictures
Ultimately money talked, just as in theory it should, writes Matt Maher.
A Stoke City team which cost tens of millions played a Walsall side which cost not very much at all and eventually the Premier League outfit won through. But that was only after they had been given a severe second-half examination by their League One visitors.
All those zeroes on the end of the Stoke players' transfer fees and contracts counted for little when they were rocking as Walsall pushed for the goal which would have taken the tie into extra-time.
The visitors had been brought back into the game by an Ashley Hemmings strike which came from a move the like of which the high-paid hosts didn't manage all night.
When £8m striker Kenwyne Jones slotted home his and Stoke's third goal seven minutes from time to end any hope of completing the fightback, the relief among the majority of the 11,667 crowd at the Britannia Stadium was palpable.
Pity then, really, that the Saddlers had gifted Jones and the hosts a two-goal advantage.
The otherwise solid Sam Mantom presented his opener on a plate with a sloppy back-pass. With competition for places in the Saddlers midfield fierce, it was an untimely error – particularly when central midfield partner Nicky Featherstone was arguably man-of-the-match.
When Jones then reacted quicker than the visiting defence to fire home the second from Jermaine Pennant's 30th-minute corner, the outlook was bleak.
But against a strong Stoke line-up, the Saddlers rallied and the positives were many. Andy Taylor showed no rustiness on his return from injury while Hemmings took his goal superbly.
Aside from Featherstone, the real standout was Romaine Sawyers.
Handed another start by a recurrence of Milan Lalkovic's hamstring problem, Sawyers once again impressed with his touch, technique and all-round vision. The former Albion man definitely has something and a permanent place in the starting XI needs to be found.
The only criticism of Walsall, aside from the first-half gifts, was the lack of chances – something of a recurring theme in recent games. For all their excellent football, Stoke keeper Thomas Sorensen was not called into enough serious action.
The former Villa custodian might have tasted early action when a Sawyers shot was blocked by Ryan Shawcross.
Walsall seemed to have more desire in the early exchanges, though chances were at a premium for both sides until Mantom invited Jones to open the scoring in the 21st minute. The midfielder's back-pass into a dangerous area fell between James Chambers and Paul Downing and Jones nipped in, took the ball and fired it past Richard O'Donnell in the Saddlers goal.
Nine minutes later it was two. Jones and Walsall skipper Andy Butler jumped in unison for Pennant's corner, the ball dropped between them and the striker was quicker on the draw to smash it home.
O'Donnell brilliantly denied Charlie Adam as Stoke began the second half in ominous fashion but then came the visitors' moment of brilliance. It began with a superb Featherstone pass; Mantom, racing into the area, squared the ball for Hemmings who couldn't miss.
Suddenly Stoke were in trouble. Huth almost gifted an equaliser to Craig Westcarr with an awful back-pass, while Jones blocked a goalbound Featherstone effort.
The best chance fell to Chambers eight yards out but his shot sailed over. With seven minutes to go, Pennant put Jones clear and he sealed it for the, by then, nervous hosts.
Stoke (4-5-1): Sorensen; Wilkinson, Shawcross, Huth, Muniesa (Wilson 46); Pennant, Whelan, Palacios, Adam (Nzonzi 74), Shea (Assaidi 46); Jones. Subs not used: Kightly, Shotton, Jerome, Butland (gk).
Walsall (4-4-2): O'Donnell 6; Chambers 7, Downing 7, Butler 7, Taylor 7; Baxendale 7 (McQuilkin 81), Featherstone 8 (Morris 87), Mantom 6, Hemmings 7; Sawyers 8, Westcarr 6 (Hewitt 81). Subs not used: Purkiss, Holden, Benning, Roberts (gk).
Referee: Michael Naylor (Sheffield).
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Entry Title: " The Hawaiian Ironman" Name: Donald Miralle, United States Category: Professional, Sports Entry Description: "THE IRONMAN WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS" - KAILUA-KONA, HAWAII - OCTOBER 10: The first Ironman Triathlon was held on February 18, 1978 in Honolulu, Hawaii, and even though the location was moved to the Big Island in 1981 the race format remains unchanged, and the Hawaiian Ironman is still regarded as the most honored and prestigious triathlon event to win worldwide. Although thousands of professional and amateur athletes from all nations compete in an Ironman event each year, only very talented athletes realistically compete for a spot in Hawaii, and just finishing an Ironman race is often the highlight of many triathletes' career. Athletes with disabilities now compete in the event in the physically challenged category, and are required to meet the same cutoff times as able bodied competitors. Considered one of the most grueling races in the world, competitors must endure "ho' o mumuku" crosswinds over 45 mph, 95 degree temperatures in the lava fields and a scorching sun in completing a 3.86 km swim, 180.2 km bike, and a 42.2 km marathon within an 17 hour time cutoff to be called an "Ironman".
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Donald graduated from UCLA with a B.A. in Fine Arts with an emphasis in painting and sculpture. After ten years at Getty Images as a senior staff photographer, he resigned in 2007 from his position at Getty to pursue a freelance career. Donald has covered nearly every major sporting event world-wide including six Winter and Summer Olympic Games, six Super Bowls, three Pan-American Games, The World Series, The Masters, The British Open and the Indianapolis 500 to name a few. His editorial and commercial clients include NEWSWEEK, Golf Digest, Men's Journal, Nike, Gatorade, Adidas, Taylormade, NFL Players Asscociation, and the Discovery Channel. His work has been awarded World Press Photo 2005 & 2006, Pictures of the Year International 2005-2008, NPPA Best of Photojournalism Sports Photojournalist of the Year 2006-2008, Sasakawa World Sports Photography Contest 2002, National Headliner Award 2000, Mobius Awards for his Ad Campaigns in 2008, NFL Hall of Fame 2001-2008 and many other accolades. Donald's work has been profiled in magazines including Photo District News, British Journal of Photography, Better Photography India, The Holland Times, Top Magazine as well as on TV on the Today Show, ESPN, NBC and Vitrine Entertainment Television.


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Jimmy - I just posted an article tonight at 10:50pm explaining the Virginia gas tax. They did not remove it, they reduced it and added 3 tenths of a percent to the state sales tax. It will increase revenue and it is dedicated to transportation needs ONLY.
HI, Yes, my storage shed (10x12) has solar panels, and a small 400 watt wind turbine. I have added 3 more panels since that pic was taken. Now have 1200 watts of solar. It's an off grid system, but it runs the home office (thus this computer). If I were to do it all over again, I would certainly go with a grid tied system. Balancing the load on this off grid system is a real pain.
Hey buddy, I was just reading today about the fallout from that Nuke plant in Japan. The entire Paciffic ocean is now polluted. There is no clean up possible. Makes me wonder if one should start taking Iodien tablets.
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Superstitious folks, beware! Friday night is one of those "once in a blue moon" evenings, due to the presence of the full moon for the second time this month.
This is the last time until July 31, 2015 that you will have the pleasure of seeing two full moons in one month. There is a blue moon on average once every 2.7 years.
The rarity of a blue moon is due to the orbit of the moon around the Earth. It takes the moon about 29.5 days to revolve around the Earth, and because most months have more than 29 days, sometimes there will be two rotations within the same month.
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Police have charged a man with murder after the death of a man found in Clyde yesterday.
Paramedics and police found the victim at a George Street business with a stab wound, about 5.45am yesterday, after receiving a call that a man had been injured.
Police allege the man, 48, was the victim of an attempted robbery.
He was taken to Westmead Hospital but died from his injury, police said.
A 22-year-old man was arrested at Hurstville Police Station about 6.30pm, the same day, and was charged with murder and armed robbery over the victim's death.
Anyone with information about the alleged murder is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.


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Why is running the only sport where mediocrity is not only accepted but praised? It reminds me of the courtesy clap that is given to all of the runners who just finish the race. This may be the reason that Americans cannot compete on the world stage.
Note: this is not a jab at people who train hard for their own personal goals, but the mindset of races having a lot of swag, chip timing and getting praised just for showing up.
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2 of 10 on the troll scale. Too obvious. Keep trying, you'll get the hang of it.
2013 goals: Somehow get healthy again.
"If you want to be a bad a$s, then do what a bad a$s does. There's your pep talk for today. Go Run." -- Slo_Hand
"Determined is what I am. Maybe a little sick in the head? Ok who am I kidding ALOT sick in the head" -- rockenmamaof5
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There are more bad golfers than bad runners .
pr's 5k 20.08, 5 mile 31:20, 10k 41.19 all done in the 80's
2013 goals 1500 1000 miles , 190 pounds get to 100 miles a month or more and stay there
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10 miles (unofficial) 1:16:44.
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I run races to give the rest of you someone to pass at the end.
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Races in 4 countries, 4 provinces, 3 states
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Fit smoothing spline to bond market data
CurveObj = IRFunctionCurve.fitSmoothingSpline(Type, Settle,
Instruments, Lambdafun) CurveObj = IRFunctionCurve.fitSmoothingSpline(Type, Settle,
Instruments, Lambdafun, 'Parameter1', Value1, 'Parameter2',
Value2, ...)
Note: You must have a license for Curve Fitting Toolbox™ software to use the fitSmoothingSpline method. |
Type | Type of interest-rate curve for a bond: Forward, Zero, or Discount. |
Settle | Scalar or column vector of settlement dates. |
Instruments | N-by-4 data matrix for Instruments where the first column is Settle date, the second column is Maturity, the third column is the clean price, and the fourth column is a CouponRate for the bond. |
Lambdafun | Penalty function that takes as its input time and returns a penalty value. Use a function handle to support the penalty function. The function handle for the penalty function which takes one numeric input (time-to-maturity) and returns one numeric output (penalty to be applied to the curvature of the spline). For more information on defining a function handle, see the MATLAB® Programming Fundamentals documentation. |
Knots | (Optional) Vector of knot locations (times-to-maturity); by default, knots is set to be a vector comprised of 0 and the time to maturity of all input instruments. The default is for the spline type to be cubic but you can specify any spline type by explicitly specifying the knots. User-defined knots can be specified using the following command, wherek is the order: augknt(knots,k). |
Compounding | (Optional) Scalar that sets the compounding frequency per year for the IRFunctionCurve object:
Basis | (Optional) Day-count basis of the interest-rate curve. A scalar of integers.
For more information, see basis. |
For each bond Instrument, you can specify the following additional instrument parameters as parameter/value pairs. For example, InstrumentBasis distinguishes a bond instrument's Basis value from the curve's Basis value.
InstrumentPeriod | (Optional) Coupons per year of the bond. A vector of integers. Allowed values are 0, 1, 2 (default), 3, 4, 6, and 12. |
InstrumentBasis | (Optional) Day-count basis of the bond. A vector of integers.
For more information, see basis. |
InstrumentEndMonthRule | (Optional) End-of-month rule. A vector. This rule applies only when Maturity is an end-of-month date for a month having 30 or fewer days. 0 = ignore rule, meaning that a bond's coupon payment date is always the same numerical day of the month. 1 = set rule on (default), meaning that a bond's coupon payment date is always the last actual day of the month. |
InstrumentIssueDate | (Optional) Date when an instrument was issued. |
InstrumentFirstCouponDate | (Optional) Date when a bond makes its first coupon payment; used when bond has an irregular first coupon period. When FirstCouponDate and LastCouponDate are both specified, FirstCouponDate takes precedence in determining the coupon payment structure. If you do not specify a FirstCouponDate, the cash flow payment dates are determined from other inputs. |
InstrumentLastCouponDate | (Optional) Last coupon date of a bond before the maturity date; used when bond has an irregular last coupon period. In the absence of a specified FirstCouponDate, a specified LastCouponDate determines the coupon structure of the bond. The coupon structure of a bond is truncated at the LastCouponDate, regardless of where it falls, and is followed only by the bond's maturity cash flow date. If you do not specify a LastCouponDate, the cash flow payment dates are determined from other inputs. |
InstrumentFace | (Optional) Face or par value. Default = 100. |
Fcurve = IRFunctionCurve.fitSmoothingSpline(Type, Settle, Instruments, Lambdafun, 'Parameter1', Value1, 'Parameter2', Value2, ...) fits a smoothing spline to market data for a bond. You must enter the optional arguments for Basis, Compounding, and Knots as parameter/value pairs.
Settle = repmat(datenum('30-Apr-2008'),[6 1]); Maturity = [datenum('07-Mar-2009');datenum('07-Mar-2011');... datenum('07-Mar-2013');datenum('07-Sep-2016');... datenum('07-Mar-2025');datenum('07-Mar-2036')]; CleanPrice = [100.1;100.1;100.8;96.6;103.3;96.3]; CouponRate = [0.0400;0.0425;0.0450;0.0400;0.0500;0.0425]; Instruments = [Settle Maturity CleanPrice CouponRate]; PlottingPoints = datenum('07-Mar-2009'):180:datenum('07-Mar-2036'); Yield = bndyield(CleanPrice,CouponRate,Settle,Maturity); % Use the AUGKNT function to construct the knots for a cubic spline at every 5 years CustomKnots = augknt(0:5:30,4); SmoothingModel = IRFunctionCurve.fitSmoothingSpline('Zero',datenum('30-Apr-2008'),... Instruments,@(t) 1000,'knots', CustomKnots)
To create the plot:
plot(PlottingPoints,SmoothingModel.getParYields(PlottingPoints),'b') hold on scatter(Maturity,Yield,'black') datetick('x')
[1] Nelson, C.R., Siegel, A.F., (1987), "Parsimonious modelling of yield curves", Journal of Business, 60, pp 473-89
[2] Svensson, L.E.O. (1994), "Estimating and interpreting forward interest rates: Sweden 1992-4", International Monetary Fund, IMF Working Paper, 1994/114
[3] Fisher, M., Nychka, D., Zervos, D. (1995), "Fitting the term structure of interest rates with smoothing splines", Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Federal Reserve Board Working Paper 95-1
[4] Anderson, N., Sleath, J. (1999), "New estimates of the UK real and nominal yield curves", Bank of England Quarterly Bulletin, November, pp 384-92
[5] Waggoner, D. (1997), "Spline Methods for Extracting Interest Rate Curves from Coupon Bond Prices", Federal Reserve Board Working Paper 97-10
[6] "Zero-coupon yield curves: technical documentation", BIS Papers No. 25, October 2005
[7] Bolder, D.J., Gusba,S (2002), "Exponentials, Polynomials, and Fourier Series: More Yield Curve Modelling at the Bank of Canada," Working Papers 02-29, Bank of Canada
[8] Bolder, D.J., Streliski, D (1999), "Yield Curve Modelling at the Bank of Canada," Technical Reports 84, Bank of Canada


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Last month, I presented a general overview of the pedalboard I use on tour and discussed how to reconcile varying volumes between guitars with different pickup outputs in a live setting. In this column, we'll explore some important aspects of tone that are often overlooked and have nothing to do with effects at all.
Pickup Height
Pickup height makes a huge difference in both your guitar's tone and overall volume. Every little change in pickup height will change your guitar's volume dramatically. If you find yourself really liking the sound of a guitar's bridge pickup, but you don't really care for the neck pickup (or vice versa), try adjusting the height of the pickup you're unhappy with. You'll be surprised at how much you can change the personality of your instrument through pickup height adjustments.
In general, you will want to get the volumes of your pickups equal. Having your pickups set at the same height does not necessarily mean they will be the same volume, so you will need to experiment and listen closely. A few months ago, Paul Reed Smith and I were having a conversation about several different aspects of the technical side of guitar tone, and he made a really interesting analogy. He said, "The guitar is the singer and the pickups are the microphones." Imagine how vocalists pull the microphone away from their mouth to create a drop in volume. You can apply the same concept to a guitar by moving the pickup further away from the strings.
Pickup height can also help cure a very common problem associated with single-coil pickups. Often times, if you play an E chord in the bridge position on a single-coil guitar with the volume cranked on your amp, the treble strings will produce an offensive, shrill sound that will make listeners wince. I've solved this problem on my single-coil bridge pickups by lowering the height on the treble side just a touch. The volume on the treble strings drops a little bit when I do this, and I also notice that a tiny amount of high end disappears on the attack of the notes, but the shrillness vanishes.
Position a Shure SM57 mic between the speaker's dustcap and cone to capture the most energetic sound waves.
Why is this? If you look at a bridge pickup on a Stratocaster or Telecaster, you'll see that it's angled toward the bridge on the treble side. This means that the pickup senses the treble strings at a different point than on the bass strings. The closer the pickup is to the bridge, the twangier the strings will sound. In addition, more high end will be translated by the treble strings because the string is tauter close to the bridge and therefore moving less. So before you roll the tone knob back or dismiss your bridge pickup as "too bright," try adjusting the pickup height and see if you can make its tone more attractive to your ears.
Speakers and Mic PlacementWhen it comes to speakers, I use CelestionVintage 30s and Mesa/Boogie BlackShadows (the latter are 90-watt speakers).I like to place a Shure SM57 microphonebetween the speaker's dustcap and thecone, as shown in the photo. This place-ment works well on both the 30s and BlackShadows. I asked Randall Smith, founder ofMesa/Boogie, why that particular locationsounds so good. He explained that it wassimilar to creating a ripple in a pond. Themost energy resides in the place of impactand the ripples get weaker the furtherthey travel from that point. In the case ofa speaker, the ripples are sound waves,which are created by the speaker's coil.The coil is located behind the area whereI place the mic, which produces the besttone, in my opinion.
Another tip you might find useful: The Shure SM57 is the industry standard for mic'ing a guitar amplifier, but we must remember that an SM57 was created as a vocal mic, so aspects of its design have a singer in mind. If you remove the cap on the capsule, you'll discover a piece of foam between the windscreen and the diaphragm. This foam is installed because it prevents moisture from a singer's mouth from getting into the mic diaphragm. If you're using the SM57 strictly for mic'ing a speaker, you can pull the foam out. When you remove it, you'll notice a little more clarity on the top end, as well as more definition in the notes' attack.
As you experiment with mics and mic placement, remember that every player's approach and playing style is different, so you will want to experiment with different techniques in different situations. If you have a wireless system or a long cable, go to the front of house during sound check and listen to how your guitar tone is translating. Then walk back onstage and move the mic an inch or two, or change the angle slightly, and go back out to the front of house and take note of the changes in your rig's sonic character.
I hope you find some of these techniques useful. I'm constantly educating myself on how to control and improve my tone, and I encourage you to do the same. Please send me an email if there are any topics you would like to see covered in an upcoming Tone Tips column. See you next month!
Paul "TFO" Allen is a multi-instrumentalist who has worked with Big & Rich, Sebastian Bach, 112, Jake Owen, Montgomery Gentry, Larry the Cable Guy, and many others. He also has his own project called Ten Finger Orchestra, and can be reached at email@example.com.


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