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The docs for
Control.Monad.Trans.Error provide this example of combining two monads:
type ErrorWithIO e a = ErrorT e IO a
==> ErrorT (IO (Either e a))
I find this counterintuitive: even though
ErrorT is supposedly wrapping
IO, it looks like the error information has been injected into the IO action's result type. I would've expected it to be
==> ErrorT (Either e (IO a))
based on the usual meaning of the word "wrap".
To make matters more confusing,
StateT does some of each:
type MyError e = ErrorT e Identity -- (see footnote)
type StateWithError s e a = StateT s (MyError e) a
==> StateT (s -> ErrorT (Either e (a, s)))
The state type
s has been injected into the
Right side, but the whole
Either has also been wrapped in a function.
To make matters even more confusing, if the monads are combined the other way around:
type ErrorWithState e s a = ErrorT e (State s) a
==> ErrorT (StateT (s -> (Either e a, s)))
the "outside" is still a function; it doesn't produce something like
Either e (s -> (a, s)), where the state function is nested within the error type.
I'm sure there's some underlying logical consistency to all this, but I don't quite see it. Consequently I find it difficult to think about what it means to combine one monad with another, even when I have no trouble understanding what each monad means individually.
Can someone enlighten me?
(Footnote: I'm composing
ErrorT with
Identity so that
StateWithError and
ErrorWithState are consistent with each other, for illustrative purposes. Normally I'd just use
StateWithError s e a = StateT s (Either e) a and forego the
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Master Sgt. Mari Uehara Washington, The United States Air Force Band Air Force Strings concertmaster, rehearses for a flash mob at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum Washington, Dec. 3, 2013. The band played holiday songs to spread the word about their free upcoming holiday concerts in the National Capitol Region. Their mission is to honor those who have served, inspire American citizens to heightened patriotism and service, and positively impacts the global community on behalf of the U.S. Air Force and the United States of America. (U.S. Air Force photo by/ Airman 1st Class Nesha Humes)
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Maddox is acting director of the NIH's National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, and will serve as the keynote speaker during the university's Baines-Woodruff Endowed Lectureship on Health Disparities.
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Movies | Director Jackson fails to develop Lovely Bones' relationships
Life after death is the most interesting thing in The Lovely Bones, director Peter Jackson's big-screen adaptation of Alice Sebold's '70s period novel about life, period. Jackson's movie glories in its depiction of the in-between zone where a murdered 14-year-old named Susie Salmon (Saoirse Ronan) gets stuck on her way from earth to heaven, and it is an admittedly gorgeous place to be.
Neither heaven nor hell nor purgatory exactly, the in-between area is a constantly shifting landscape of Susie's memories and the memories of others killed by her murderer, and some of the images it offers are breathtaking: a giant rubber ball crashing through the surf; a fleet of ship-in-a-bottle models wrecking on the rocks outside a lighthouse; a beautiful montage of everything a little girl in the 1970s might fantasize about.
What Jackson doesn't supply us with is the lovely bones themselves-in Sebold's words (quoted in the movie): "These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections-sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent-that happened after I was gone." Sebold's page-turner gives the reader a bird's-eye view of the lives Susie touched, and helps us to understand the impact-for ill and, surprisingly, for good-of her death.
Jackson is so busy making the movie look cool that he doesn't take time to develop the relationships between the film's characters (except Susie's dad Jack, nicely played by Mark Wahlberg), and so we have a fabulous looking, well-acted whodunit that doesn't really accomplish much. To keep the narrative moving, Jackson and his screenwriters incorporate all of Susie's ghostly intrusions into the natural world, either to show us how Susie is growing to accept her death or to communicate the notion that the beloved dead are watching over us. This may be comforting to some, but it's on the Precious Moments end of the theological spectrum.
It's also a touch dangerous. For Christians, the pressing priority is life before death. How can we become more like Christ here on earth? How can we most effectively represent Him to our neighbors? How can we help other people in His name? We don't know what eternity with God will look like, which is one reason this movie is so alluring, and its extremely expensive vision of heaven so enticing.
One of the movie's most impressive narrative devices is the way Jackson draws our attention to the characters' houses-key scenes are shot through the windows of a dollhouse; the killer builds temporary houses to lure each of his victims; the tensest scene in the PG-13 movie happens when a girl sneaks into the murderer's house. Everyone in the movie is trying to build or repair their home, including heaven-bound Susie-but that misses the point. The reason we don't really have to worry about what heaven will be like is that we know it will be good, and permanent. Sebold used the dead character to provide perspective on life, as Thorton Wilder did with Our Town. For Jackson, Susie's journey rings false, because it's not one we'll ever have to take.


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Luella delivered a super wearable collection. Almost too wearable. Though I quite like the elegant goth influences, I was hoping to see something a little more ridiculous and fun. I like my designer clothes to be precious, dangnabbit! Okay, I'll shut up, seeing as I did like the clothes.
I would totally wear this dress to, um, a tea party.
This flapper-esque dress also caught my attention. It's lovely, no?
Okay, Vivienne Westwood Red Label. The real meat-and-potatos (or if you're like me, soy protein and potatos). Dame Viv is always cheeky and subversive, and she certainly did not disappoint me in any respect. Love how she opened the show with a "Fair trial my arse! Justice for the prisoners in Guatanamo Bay" placard.
On to the clothing. The dramatic asymmetrical skirt hemline was done in true Westwood fashion. I love it, especially with the glamourous coat.
Wait, is that my favourite half-shaved, rich-bitch Alice Dellal? Why yes, it is! I have no idea what is printed on the dress, but Alice is rocking it hardcore.
Okay, last look. I love the sweater with the pins and the 'newspaper' tucked into the elastic garter. But I have the nagging suspicion that I'd be able to thrift a similar sweater without much skin off my ass...
There we go, the two wonderful collections met my ridiculously high expectations. But I wouldn't accept anything less from Luella or Vivienne. Now the only thing I have left to look forward to is Vivienne's Gold Label collection, which (to my knowledge) she is still showing in Paris.
5 comments:
- WendyB said...
I once met a lady with a huge collection of Westwood...she was wearing a couture gown that I wish you could have seen!
- some beeeyotch said...
i love the last westwood look, but you're right. there's usually a great abundance of 80s sweaters in thrift shops. to answer your q, it's usually about 50-60 degrees where i live (it's been the most mild winter ever), so i usually wear dresses/long shirts with tights or leggings! i don't blame you-- this lil southerner has been to quebec in the winter, and her limbs almost fell off.
- Natasha said...
I really liked Luella's collection, but it is definitely different than her other stuff. I liked the stacked ruffles a lot, though.
- Shelby said...
That is some intense eye makeup, my friend. I kind of love the kneesocks-is that wrong?
- yoncto said...
wow, i LOVE luella's! the more wearable, the better, the more i can copy runway looks! xP
hmm... haven't you seen a kinda goth tone to f/w 08? i mean i don't know if it's just me, but really....


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Love for art and architecture was definitely in the air for Valentine's Day. Check out this blog called PORT, which covers Portland area art and news. They also ran a list of 5, theirs is a Valentine for American Architecture. So what tops the list? None other than our very own Frank Lloyd Wright tour de force, Unity Temple. PORT piles on the adulation for one of the most important American architectural treasures we have (and one that needs your help to save!)
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Tessa Wegert writes about video contests and their power in engaging consumers on Clickz today and highlights a couple cool contests with a Vancouver connection.
The Little Penguin, a brand of Australian wine, based its recent video contest on an issue that's paramount to its feathered spokes-creatures: dating and mating (penguins dedicate their lives to it). The Little Penguin Pick-Up Project invites consumers to submit videos depicting great pickup lines in action for a chance to win a trip for two to Australia. With a more family-oriented theme, Garden State Life Insurance Company is currently asking Internet users to submit videos of their children completing famous proverbs or common sayings in humorous ways (for example, "People who live in glass houses shouldn't...go to the bathroom.") The connection between the contest and the brand lies in the company's dedication to helping families. Read the contest rules and you'll get the hint: "The best part is that this exercise can remind us about the value and importance of loved ones and the need to make sure they are taken care of...After you enter the contest, be sure and visit www.GardenStateLife.com."
Both these contests were developed by memelabs right here in Vancouver. As a spin off of Invoke Media, the folks behind memelabs have been developing online video ads and contests for awhile. memelabs offers a turn-key solution and can pretty much guarantee online traction by creating seeder videos and distributing to blogs and social networking sites. Most importantly, they'll share your contest with their list of 70,000 consumers who have participated in past contests - many of whom are film students eager to showcase their work. Wegert's article is a great endorsement for memelabs - a local start-up that will be on April's Vancouver Start-up Index.


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Scale-invariance in three-dimensional isotropic turbulence
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AbstractWe present a critical review of the Kolmogorov (1941) theory of isotropic turbulence, with particular reference to the `2/3' power-law for the second-order structure function (and the corresponding `-5/3' law for the energy spectrum). We begin by noting that the recent resolution of an associated paradox allows the inertial range to be defined in terms of the scale-invariance of the energy flux (David McComb, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 41, 075501 (2008)), thus permitting the Kolmogorov arguments to be presented independently of concepts such as localness which are themselves counter-intuitive when interpreted in terms of vortex-stretching. If this approach is pursued further, then a simple phenomenological analysis shows that we can regard turbulence as a statistical field theory possessing one nontrivial fixed point (corresponding to the top of the inertial range) and two trivial fixed points at the origin and infinity, respectively, in wavenumber space. Using this framework, various schools of criticism, ranging from the original criticism by Landau (1959), through `intermittency corrections' to present-day analogies with the theory of critical phenomena, with the introduction of `anomalous exponents', are analysed. In particular, we examine the conflict between the recent work of Lundgren (2002), which uses mathematical arguments to show that the `2/3' law must be asymptotically true in the limit of infinite Reynolds numbers; and that of Falcovich which uses mathematical arguments to show that the `2/3' law is incompatible with the observed values for higher-order moments. We conclude by attempting to put forward a picture in which various long-standing contentious issues may be seen as either resolved or at least potentially resolvable.
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U.S. Army Col. Larry Swift, Commander, Ready First, 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division, presents a coin of excellence to Spc. James Mastne, Alpha Battery, 2nd Battalion 3rd Field Artillery Regiment, from Spokane, Wash., on Forward Operating Base Warrior, Iraq, March 9. Swift was congratulating them on election security and warning them to stay vigilant in the aftermath of the voting.
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Funeral Services for Sheldon "Clay" Gourgues, age 16 of Toxey, were held on Tuesday, November 23, 2010 at 3 P.M. from the Butler 1st Assembly of God with Rev. Scottie Fulcher, Rev. Jimmy Watson, and Rev. Mike Rowell officiating. Burial followed in the Corinth Cemetery.
Mr. Gourgues passed away on Saturday November 20th at 373 Ararat Road. He was a 9th Grade Student at South Choctaw Academy.
He is survived by his parents John and Rose Ann Gourgues of Toxey; brother Gabriel "Gabe" Gourgues of Toxey; Paternal Grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Victor Gourgues of Toxey, Maternal Grandfather Horace L. Martin of Toxey; Maternal Grandmother Dorothy C. Williams of Toxey.
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"A Liar's Autobiography : Incredible, yes. Surreal, certainly. True? Who knows? At his memorial service, John Cleese called Chapman "a freeloading bastard". Now, as the film re-unites Chapman with Cleese, Jones, Palin, and Gilliam for the first time in 23 years, he is set to earn a new title -- the most prolific corpse since Elvis. A Liar's Autobiography will be released in the UK by Trinity early 2013. Premiering on EPIX and in select U.S. theatres in 3D on November 2, 2012
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COMPOSITION: Six members of the General Faculty, two staff members, and four students. Three student members shall be appointed by the president in the fall from a panel of names submitted by the Student Government and one from a panel of names submitted by the Graduate Student Assembly. No more than two students may come from any one college or school. In addition, every year the chair of the Faculty Council shall appoint two members of the Faculty Council for one-year terms as members of the committee. The committee shall elect its own chair and vice chair, who shall be members of the General Faculty. The director of admissions, and the registrar shall serve as administrative advisers without votes.
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Watkins, Samuel C. 2004-2006 associate professor, radio-television-film
Faculty Council Appointees: Beretvas, Susan N. 2005-2006 assistant professor, educational psychology Flores, Richard R. 2005-2006 professor, anthropology
Three Students: Geier, Jessica.2 2005-2006 Graduate Student Assembly representative, educational administration Sinha, Siddharth 2005-2006 Student Government representative, liberal arts Torres, Stephen A. 2005-2006 Student Government representative, Mexican American studies Weiner, Eric H. 2005-2006 Student Government representative, business
Administrative Advisors: Allen, Mike 1 ex officio interim registrar Walker, N. Bruce ex officio vice provost and director, Admissions
1Replaced Ted E. Pfeifer, registrar, who retired effective December 31, 2005.
2 On February 21, 2006, Jessica Geier replaced Apurva Borika who graduated in December 2005.


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Chelsea Houska Waxes Her Nose Hair — See the Crazy Pic! (PHOTO)
If there's one thing we know about Teen Mom 2's Chelsea Houska, it's that home girl loves herself some hair care. Chelsea is completely obsessed with her locks of love, but it looks like her passion for silken tresses extends to her nose hair. And, there goes lunch.
We know what you're thinking: Chelsea? Nose hair? NEVER! But turns out this girl struggles with stray strands just like some geriatric old man, and she recently waxed her nose hair — and then took to Twitter with an up close and personal picture!
"My turn #waxingerrthang #nakednostrils," she tweeted along with a photo of herself showing what looks to be a giant lollipop in her nose.
Well, that looks fun! Said no one ever. But are we really surprised that Chelsea cares about her beauty regime to the point where she'd go so far as to wax her own nostrils?
After all, this girl works as an esthetician at Body Sculpting Day Spa — she's literally paid to make people appear perfect, so she might as well look the part!
What do you think of Chelsea's latest hair removal experiments? Is it totally crazy, or cutting-edge? Voice your opinions down below.


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NSRA Street Rod Nationals Plus In LouisvilleWritten by Brian Brennan on February 15, 2013 Contributors: Henry Z. DeKuyper Classic Instruments hosts the judging at the NSRA Nationals
The staff at Classic Instruments, under the direction of John McLeod, sponsors and hosts the Pros Pick at all NSRA events. According to McLeod, "The Pros Pick gives us the opportunity to recognize the best of the best." At this past summer's NSRA Street Rod Nationals in Louisville, Kentucky, there were 12 cars selected by a panel of industry personalities (builders, manufacturers, and journalists) with Bobby Alloway of Alloway's Hot Rods acting as the chief judge (or as we like to refer to him as the Grand Pooh-Bah of the Loyal Order of Water Buffaloes, ala Fred Flintstone!).
This year even the spotty wet weather couldn't dampen the spirits, as plenty of hot rodders turned out with a mix of cars and trucks, subtle to wild, and a wide variety of years now representing what the Nationals have become—an event for all makes and manners of hot rods. Shown is a combination of winners and others who could have easily won, given there were so many outstanding rods.
Pros Pick Recipients
Eddie Bauman for his '29 Ford highboy roadster
Phil Becker for his '46 Ford Woody
Gary Brown for his '57 Chevy 150
John Denison for his '55 Cadillac coupe
Kenny Fredrick for his '57 Chevy 210 sedan
Homer Hudson for his '37 Chevy coupe
Bill Kilkeary for his '40 Ford coupe
Larry Olson for his '40 Ford DeLuxe
Henry Richards for his '32 Ford sedan
Jack Sterneman for his '34 Ford three-widow coupe
Dale Stuban for his '69 Camaro
Frank Tetro for his '55 Ford convertible
Industry Judges
Bobby Alloway (Chief Judge) of Alloway's Hot Rods
Brian Brennan of STREET RODDER
Jonathan Goolsby of Goolsby Customs
Jesse Greening of Greening Auto Company
Josh Henning of Goolsby Customs
Alan Johnson of Johnson's Hot Rod Shop
Dave Lane of FastLane Rod Shop
Steve Legens of Legens Hot Rod
Rick Love of Vintage Air
George Packard of Vintage Air
Tim Stange of Strange Engineering
Tracey Weaver of Recovery Room Hot Rod Interiors
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Jack Sterneman received a Pros Pick for his turbocharged, Flathead-powered '34 Ford three-widow coupe. You have to look closely to see and appreciate the workmanship on this hot rod.Larry Olson received a Pros Pick for his black-and-flamed '40 Ford coupe. (Look for a feature in a future issue of SR.)Another "post" Tri-Five is the fire red '57 Chevy 210 belonging to Kenny Fredrick who took home Pros Pick honors for his Ram Jet–powered big-block Chevy; four-wheel disc brakes with drilled and slotted rotors are hiding behind the Billet Specialties wheels.The resto rod is alive and well as Mike Belmont's '32 Ford three-window can attest. The car sat in a garage from 1955 to 1996 before it was resurrected.Henry Richards took home Pros Pick honors for his very cool '32 Ford highboy sedan. Watching this sedan come at you just screams hot rod!Gary Brown received a Pros Pick for his black '57 Chevy 150 "post" car that's outfitted with Wilwood disc brakes.Robert Wyman was on hand and competing with his '55 Chevy pickup. Brilliant yellow exterior is complemented by the red steelies and wide whites; red interior also accents well.


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On The Rise Of ETFs As A Driver Of Bond Returns
The seemingly inexorable rise of corporate bond ETFs (most specifically HYG and JNK is the high-yield market, and LQD in investment grade) have been discussed at length here as both a 'new' factor in the underlying bond market's technicals (flow) as well as their correlated impact on equity and volatility markets. Goldman Sachs' credit team delve deep into the impact of these relatively new (and rapidly growing) structures with their greater transparency but considerably higher sensitivities and conclude that not only are they here to stay but the consequences of ETF-inclusion (dramatic outperformance bias relative to non-ETF bonds) are deepening the liquidity divide (and relative-value) of what is already a somewhat sparsely-traded market. Our concern is that, as the divide grows (and liquidity is concentrated in ETF bonds), given the crowding tendency we have witnessed, (even with call constraints at extremes thanks to low interest rates), this is yet another crowded 'hot potato' trade hanging like a sword of Damocles over our markets (courtesy of Bernanke's repression).
Via Goldman Sachs: The "ETF Bid" - A Robust Driver of Bond Returns.
The dramatic growth of credit mutual funds over the past five years has been something of a paradigm shift for the US corporate bond market. According to data from Lipper, IG and HY mutual funds manage roughly $1.3tr and $279bn, respectively, up from $525bn and $126bn at the end of 2007. Even when scaled by the overall size of the US corporate bond market, these figures suggest a bigger ownership share of credit mutual funds. Perhaps more impressive is the growth of corporate bond ETFs, whose size for IG and HY has increased to $105bn and $31bn, respectively, from just $12bn and $288mn at the end 2007.
Despite all-time low yields, the appetite for corporate bonds remains firm, with net inflows to IG and HY mutual funds still running at a robust pace.
Inflows to the HY market have been steady all year with the exception of a brief episode of outflows from mid-May to mid-June, while IG inflows have remained firm, having been positive for all but two weeks this year.
As we often point out, the strength of the inflows is by and large a reflection of sluggish growth, which has maintained a friendly outlook for inflation as well as a challenging outlook for growth expectations, trends we expect to persist.
In the past we have extensively analyzed the price impact of mutual fund flows, showing that fund flows provided a significant boost to bond returns in the early months that followed the crisis and gradually normalized afterwards. In this Credit Line, we focus on the ETF market and use bond-level data to quantify the impact of ETFs on the cross-section of IG bonds returns.
Despite their recent growth, ETFs remain a relatively small subset of the mutual fund complex, but they are of particular interest to us, for two reasons. First, unlike mutual funds, ETFs generally try to track an existing bond index and are thus more transparent in terms of their composition. Second, unlike institutional investors, ETF managers need to be fully invested, and thus need to put money to work "urgently" when inflows increase. Intuitively this should make returns on ETF bond constituents more sensitive to flows.
The ETF factor: Is it really there?
Our primary goal is to determine whether, all else equal, the bid for ETFs has boosted the return on their bond constituents, both in absolute terms and relative to the broad market.
More specifically and using the bond constituents of the iBoxx USD domestic index and its sub-index the LQD IG index, which is tracked by one the largest IG ETFs, we investigate the following questions:
- Controlling for maturities, ratings, sectors and liquidity, how do the bond constituents of the LQD ETF perform relative to those bonds that are not part of the ETF? Put differently, how do two otherwise identical portfolios of bonds, one with ETF constituents and the other with non-ETF constituents, compare in terms of performance.
- To what extent is this relative performance related to ETF flows?
To address the above questions, we use a factor approach and construct hypothetical portfolios, one with only ETF bonds and the other with non-ETF bonds, that have otherwise identical compositions. These portfolios are constructed using the constituents of the iBoxx USD domestic index of which the LQD ETF is a sub-index.
One immediate challenge that such an exercise raises is that our 'ETF' factor might be hard to disentangle from a 'liquidity' factor. In the extreme case where the ETF only include on-the- run bonds, the ETF factor might just be an arte fact for the on-the-run/off-the-run premium. Partly to address this issue, we include an "on-the-run" dummy variable in our regressions.
Our definition of on-the-run bonds uses the following rule. We group our universe of bonds into three buckets in terms of their original maturity: 1- to 7-year, 7-to 15-year and 30-year and longer. Within each of these buckets and for each issuer, we rank the bonds according to their age. The most recently issued bonds are considered on-the-run while the remaining ones are treated as off-the-run.
Exhibits 5 and 6 plot the cumulative total return and spread change since January 2009 for these two otherwise identical portfolios of ETF and non-ETF bonds. The plot shows that after controlling for maturity, rating, sector and the on-the-run/off-the-run premium, ETF bonds outperformed their non-ETF counterparts from the second half of 2009 to the first quarter of 2011. They subsequently underperformed in the second half of 2011 as the European crisis intensified only to resume their outperformance during the LTRO rally and then more recently following Draghi's speech in July.
Compared to January 2009 and as shown by Exhibit 6, a monthly rebalanced portfolio of ETF bonds trades 268 bps tighter while an identical portfolio of non-ETF bonds trades 200 bps tighter. This suggests that the bid for ETFs has acted as a tailwind for its bond constituents since the economy turned the corner in the second half of 2009.
Exhibit 7 addresses our second question—the relationship between the relative performance of ETF bonds to ETF flows—showing a simple scatter plot of the monthly return on a long ETF vs. non-ETF bonds against the flow 4-week moving average into IG ETFs.
Our estimates indicate that the correlation is decent with every additional $1 bn worth of weekly average inflows to IG ETFs translating into 60 bp of additional monthly return on a strategy that is long/short two otherwise identical portfolios of ETF and non-ETF bonds.
In sum, the above evidence suggests that fund flows to ETFs are likely to remain an
important driver of credit spreads for the foreseeable future.
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There is an absolute (relatively non-quantifiable) assumption built into Goldilock's analysis which is that the existence of ETF's in and of them selves leads to increased demand for the underlying product.
To state unequivocally (or assume such) that there is a bias in favor of ETF's relative to underlying assumes that if the FT were to not exist then demand for the underlying likewise dissipates which is essentially backwards/fallacious and illogical.
I'd personally assume that if one wished to hold bond (as in this case) one would choose between 3 alternatives: the bonds themselves, a mutual fund which holds said bond or close facsimiles thereof, or and ETF.
For any variety of reasons any of the three decisions might be made but nonetheless only represent differing venues to access the bond market... that being the aggregate demand function for bonds has not shifted but transforms itself through differing vehicles to access the marketplce.
Likewise the other day there was an article that cast the ETF TLT (20+ yr treas) as somewhat suspect by virtue of holding cash in short term funds raised through securities lending activities.
Guess what? Just about every single mutual fund engages in such activity thus bequeathing no greater risk to the /an ETF than already existent in its comparable brethren, the mutual fund.
Risks such as those can only be eliminated via direct holdings which in many cases, may not make sense... e.g. the inability to properly diversify say, a $10,000 portfolio of high yield bonds... just practically ain't gonna happen.
This really comes down to the risk preference function of each investor... what form of holding (counter party, manager, custodian, etc) risks does one wish to assume, which can only be identified by reading prospectuses, etc. ie doing one's own research or relying upon a professional tooled to provide such.
There are a whole host of risks out there that most are not the least bit aware of from the standpoint of the type of investment vehicle employed.
Perhaps the best example would have been the multiple families of utility mutual funds (telecom/water/gas/electric as in public utility) that invested in dot.com stocks during the dot.com rallies to goose returns... in securities which they were never meant to be allowed into.. but they were telecoms... and so Ma and Pa kettle in Dubuque got screwed when the bubble burst .... and their safe, high dividend utility mutual fund went to hell in a handbag.. even after the manager got his big ass performance related bonus...
Hey Knuckles? Stolper T/P on his eur/usd long. He's batting 1001 now! I'll bet he's fading Cable right now!
Every Termite finds some frozen wood! Point being, I agree with ya!
Very well written and logical response.
High Yield mutual funds have been available for twenty years. ITF's havve simply expanded the options, not caused a diversion of assets.
If there has in fact been an illogical amount invested in the asset class, it is a result that comes from the manipulated Fed low rate policy, not from misuse of ETF's as an investment vehicle.
That same low rate policy has the apperance of removing some the economic risk that affects the operations of the issuers, increasing the percieved "safety" in the junk.
"In sum, the above evidence suggests that fund flows to ETFs are likely to remain an
important driver of credit spreads for the foreseeable future."
....until a stampede starts of people trying to lock in gains....
a regression analysis of post race rectal temperatures for $4k claimers at monmouth would be more useful imo
QQQgree Buzz! I just got back from the ultimate "ETF", helping my mother do some shopping! [ Mall Wart] . She hates that basket of goods, yet buys it?
Tyler every "Douche Bag", financial wanabe is chasing "beta" right now! As soon as the elections are over, regardless of policy, the ( Jack Boots) and whips, are gonna get cracked!
If I had to venture a guess about about bond etfs I'd guess that they were designed to move your money from you to the bankers that created them. Just a guess.
I do this. Rather than buying bonds directly which is not as liquid I prefer to buy bond ETFs to spread our my risk. The yield is not as high as I would get if I buy from one company directly, but the liquidity more than compensation for the lower yield. Plus bonds is a place to park short to medium term cash, I'm not investing for capital gains.
I rotated out of BLV and into BSV and TIP a couple of months ago. I would not go back into the longer term bonds anytime soon. Again, this is short term cash parking place. It is NOT an investment or growth vehicle.
Due to recent central bank intervention and short covering spikes, these daily charts are extremely overextended and significant correction expected very soon:
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Online marketplace Snapdeal.com today announced its foray in the hardware products segment with the launch of lighting, paints and sanitary fittings categories.
This launch further strengthens Snapdeal's leadership as a shopping destination for all kinds of products for the home and office, including kitchenware, furnishings, furniture, appliances and home decor, Snapdeal said in a statement.
With this launch, customers can choose from over 100 brands including Jaquar, Kohler, Hindware, Parryware, Grohe, Hansgrohe, Cera, Asian Paints, Dulux and Black & Decker among others, it added.
"The paints, lighting and sanitary fittings market in India is large but highly fragmented and with this launch, customers can now buy these products in the comfort and convenience of their homes," Snapdeal.com SVP (Electronics and Home) Tony Navin said.
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Overseas benefits and pensions* (including periodical allowances) are deductible from New Zealand entitlements if they are paid under a programme that:
- pays benefits and pensions for similar purposes as those paid in New Zealand, such as old age/retirement, survivor's and disability pensions
- is administered by, or on behalf of an overseas government.
You and your spouse/partner are legally obliged to apply for any overseas benefit and pension that you may be entitled to if you want to receive New Zealand benefits and pensions.
*Any reference to benefits and pensions also refers to periodical allowances.
Eligibility for overseas benefits and pensions
The rules for getting overseas benefits and pensions are different for each country. Some countries have social security agreements with New Zealand which:
- may make it easier for you to get an overseas benefit or pension from that country
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- allow you to get benefit or pension from both countries.
If you've spent time living in a country that New Zealand has a social security agreement with, it may be counted as New Zealand residence to allow you to get a New Zealand benefit or pension.
In your New Zealand benefit or pension application form you must advise us of any:
- time you and your spouse/partner have spent living overseas
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If you or your spouse/partner have lived overseas and are unsure about eligibility, contact us.
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The direct deduction of an overseas state-administered benefit or pension reduces New Zealand Superannuation, Veteran's Pensions and other New Zealand social security benefits on a dollar for dollar basis (section 70 of the Social Security Act 1964). This means that people receive an amount that is equivalent to the amount of one state benefit or pension.
Overseas benefits or pensions funded by voluntary contributions may be deductable under section 70 of the Social Security Act 1964. We assess deductions of overseas pensions on a case by case basis.
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We assess clients entitlements on a case-by-case basis. In most situations we will request that clients apply for any overseas benefit or pension that they may be entitled to. The majority of overseas benefits and pensions paid into New Zealand are from countries with which New Zealand has a social security agreement. More information can be found by clicking on the following links:
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There are some situations where you will not be asked to apply for an overseas benefit or pension.
If you have lived or worked in an overseas country for less than one year, you do not need to apply for an overseas benefit or pension. This is because most countries require a period of at least one year of residence or contributions before a person becomes entitled to a minimum pension rate.
Similarly, you will not be asked to apply for an overseas benefit or pension when we have determined that:
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Villanova to Visit @PUSoftball at '95 Field Tuesday
The Princeton softball team will host Villanova Tuesday in the first of two non-league contests this season at the Class of 1895 Field. The single-game afternoon will start at 4 p.m.
Princeton (17-9) vs. Villanova (12-16)
Tuesday, Apr. 2, 4 p.m. at Class of 1895 Field, Princeton, N.J.
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All-time series: Princeton leads 21-14-1
Streak: Princeton 3 overall, Villanova 4 in Princeton
Last meeting: Princeton defeated Villanova 2-1 in a Maryland-hosted tournament on Mar. 19, 2011.
At the plate: Princeton is outhitting Villanova .315 to .260 this season.
Top hitters: Princeton has three hitters batting over .400, led by Alyssa Schmidt (29-65, .446). Villanova's top hitter is Valerie Ortega (31-96, .323).
In the circle: Princeton's staff ERA is 2.27, Villanova's is 2.69.
Top pitchers: Alex Peyton (5-3) has thrown a team-high 61 2/3 innings for Princeton, accruing a 1.93 ERA. Villanova's top pitcher is Kate Poppe (12-9), who has a 2.10 ERA while throwing 126 2/3 of the team's 195 innings.
• Each team has players from eight different states on its roster.
• Princeton and Villanova have five common opponents (St. Bonaventure, Penn, Georgetown, Rutgers, Lafayette), but only two that they have both faced at this point. Both teams defeated St. Bonaventure and lost to Georgetown.
• Villanova is the third of four Big East opponents for Princeton this regular season, following Seton Hall and Georgetown and before Princeton faces Rutgers next week.
• Since divisional play began in Ivy League softball in 2007, the best league record has been the 18-2 mark Princeton posted in 2008 and Harvard equaled in 2011. The weakest record to host the ILCS was by Harvard in 2007 at 14-6, and the weakest record to win a division was 12-7 by Cornell in 2011.
• Princeton's 17-9 record is its best through 26 games since the Tigers were also 17-9 in 2006.
• Princeton's 3-1 record through four Ivy games is its best since starting 4-0 in 2008.
• Senior Alex Peyton hasn't allowed an earned run in 22 1/3 innings.
• When the Tigers resume Ivy play this weekend at Harvard and Dartmouth, Princeton and Penn will co-lead the Ivy South division at 3-1, one game ahead of Cornell (2-2) and two in front of Columbia (3-1) with 16 games to play.


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EPA Names Top 20 Green Power Producers
For the first time, the Environmental Protection Agency's Green Power Partnership recognized 20 partners for generating the most green electricity on site. Combined, the top 20 partners are generating and consuming more than 736 million kilowatt hours (kWh) of on-site green power annually. The partners' contributions are helping to expand America's renewable energy portfolio, improve the nation's energy security, and reduce their organizations' greenhouse gas emissions.
The top five partners from the list of 20, Kimberly-Clark Corporation, Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts, City of San Diego, San Jose/Santa Clara Water Pollution Control Plant (Calif.), and CalPortland, consumed and generated the greatest amount of on-site green power. By using more than 535 million kWh of on-site green power, these partners prevented carbon dioxide emissions equivalent to the emissions from more than 70,000 passenger vehicles per year.
Green power is generated from renewable resources such as solar, wind, geothermal, biomass, biogas, and low-impact hydropower. On-site green power is deployed directly at energy users' facilities rather than at central power plants. Green power electricity generates less pollution than conventional power and produces no net increase in greenhouse gas emissions.
EPA's Green Power Partnership works with more than 1,100 partner organizations to voluntarily purchase green power to reduce the environmental impacts of conventional electricity use. Overall, the partners are buying more than 16 billion kWh of green power annually, equivalent to the carbon dioxide emissions from electricity use of more than 1.6 million American homes.
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The percentages always add up
I have experienced throughout my business (and now professional speaking) career that there are three types of people in the world. That 10% who will ALWAYS disagree with what you say or do. Save your breath and energy on these people as you will never win. That 10% who will ALWAYS agree with what you say or do. Use their energy to lift you to greater heights. Then there's the 80% in the middle who will go for or against you depending on how they perceive what you say or do. So what's the secret to getting them to go your way???n
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Be authentic about what you say and do. Be clear about what you believe and what you know, and formulate an opinion based on your personal experiences. I talk of the many ways Laughter Yoga is used throughout the world. From Senior Citizen groups to prisons, businesses to schools, hospitals to hospices, and most importantly personally. Your enthusiasm and passion will win them over every time…regardless of what they may think or believe beforehandn
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Too often we are looking for OVERWHELMING acceptance and affirmation and when we don't get it are disappointed. When I present Laughter Yoga to groups I am trying to change just one person and not all of them. For that reason when that one person comes up to me after a presentation, or writes an email, or gives me a phone call to tell me how their life has been changed as a result of my efforts, I am NEVER disappointedn


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Kahil ElŐZabar is one of the leading exponents of todayŐs AACM. The percussionist has recorded eight Delmark CDs in the last few years with his Ritual Trio (466, 477), Ethnic Heritage Ensemble (496, 517) and featuring Pharoah Sanders (519), Archie Shepp (514), Joseph Jarman (507), Billy Bang (533)...Here Kahil is in trio setting with two of the most exciting jazz musicians associated with the avant-garde. David Murray needs no introduction since he burst on the scene in the early '80s with his octet. Contains the very last recording of bassist Fred Hopkins who passed away before the album could be released. Contains eight original compositions.
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Unplug! 8 Apps, Hacks and Tips to Keep Your Business Running While You Recharge
Dec 17th
By Kerry Gorgone, {grow} Contributing Columnist
Think the online world can't get by without you for a while? Place your arm into a bucket of water. Now, pull it out. See how the water immediately regains its perfect, glassy surface? That's the size of the hole your temporary absence from your blog, Facebook or Twitter would leave!
Mental health professionals, parenting experts, your significant other, and just about everyone else will agree that you need to unplug every once in a while—step away from your online activities and recharge your spiritual batteries.
The dark side of the "flexible work" coin is that clients and connections expect you to be accessible and on top of things every day. Of course no one expects you to be "on" all day every day, but they do expect a response to an email, text, or even a social mention reasonably quickly.
So how can you keep things humming for your business while you take a little downtime? Here are some apps, hacks, and tips that will help.
1. Delete social media apps
This might seem silly, but given that will power is largely a myth and you can certainly become addicted to social media, you need to make it as difficult as possible for you to succumb to the siren call of social media.
Your mind will try to convince you that you need your phone "for emergencies" (even if everyone you'd be concerned bout is on vacation with you), so satisfy your need to be accessible in the event of a true emergency by keeping the phone on, but strip it of all recreational apps.
2. The mobile phone isn't the only way people can reach you.
This comes back to the way our minds trick us into thinking we "need" our smartphones on. But your mobile phone isn't the only way for people to reach you. More than half of homes still have an actual, plug-into-the-wall phone, and all hotels do.
Share the landline phone number for the place you'll be staying, and give it to a handful of people you trust not to bother you with anything other than a true emergency.
Then, leave your smartphone on the charger and relax by the fire (or on the deck, or wherever), secure in the knowledge that your family or business partners can reach you in the event of an actual catastrophe.
3. Set expectations.
Send a tweet letting people know you'll be offline for a week (or two, or whatever). Pin that tweet to your profile, so people who mention or DM you while you're taking a break know not to expect a quick reply.
You can also post updates to Facebook, Google+, Instagram—wherever you're active. You probably don't need to do this for LinkedIn, unless you regularly publish posts there and the disruption might cause your connections to worry (although they most likely would not notice).
If you moderate any groups, try to shift those responsibilities to another admin during your vacation. If that's not an option, let group members know you're off the grid for a bit. They'll understand!
4. Recharge by scheduling what you can.
Some people, like Calvin Lee and Scott Stratten, reject the idea of scheduling social posts. You're either online or you're not, and if you're not, don't post. Otherwise, people will try to converse with you, thinking you're online, and receive no response.
Others, like Sean Gardner and Ann Tran, schedule posts to ensure that they connect with people in other time zones, or to keep their blog on schedule while they're occupied with client work or business travel.
If you fall into the pro-scheduling category (or could at least deal with it temporarily), use Buffer, Hootsuite, or another service and schedule blog posts or other content to post while you're offline. There are plenty of social media management options!
Coming back to how our mind manipulates us, we might tell ourselves that we have to stay connected in order to maintain our publishing schedule, because our blog drives traffic and leads for our business. We might think it's "irresponsible" to neglect it while we're away, but the fact is that we will not perform our jobs as well as we could if we're always on. Everyone needs a break!
In order to maintain consistency in terms of your publishing schedule, set your blog post to publish on the usual day, even if you're away, and use your service of choice to schedule social posts promoting that content.
Of course, you'll need to pay bills while you're away, but before you resign yourself to firing up your computer or tablet for this, look at your options for scheduling payments through your bank or your vendor. Many banks enable you to schedule electronic payments in advance, and many companies let you link a bank or credit card account and enable automatic payments when your bills come due.
5. Automate social (if you're trusting enough).
Part of our online networking involves sharing the content our contacts publish. If you have people you routinely support and you trust that any content they post will be relevant and appropriate, you might use IFTTT (If This Then That) or other tools to helo you automate social media management.
I don't personally do this, because I like to review each piece of content I share before I share it, but if you trust certain people implicitly, and you want to continue helping them while you're away or on vacation, this might work for you.
You can set very specific formulas for what to share, with whom, and where. IFTTT is an incredibly versatile tool.
6. If you're a worrier, write it down. Then forget it.
I use Trello, an online productivity and organizational tool, to keep track of my to do list, my podcast episodes in production, projects underway, and more. You can attach documents, create checklists, share cards—all with a few clicks!
One board I've set up is for "Ideas and Inspirations." If I have an idea or a thought I'm afraid will slip away, I type it there on a new virtual card, save it, then close out of Trello. I am now free to be fully present in the moment again.
7. Minimize the impact on your inbox.
If you must check email, use apps or services to move newsletters, marketing emails, and other less important correspondence into a "Later" folder. I use SaneBox for this, but you could also try Mailbox or any number of other apps, or just Gmail filters.
Start using the tool several weeks before your planned hiatus, so it learns which contacts and subjects are truly important based on your behavior.
This way, anytime you check your email inbox, you'll see just a handful of messages from your important contacts, rather than taking the time to wade through hundreds of emails. Letting an app like SaneBox file the stuff that can wait also helps keep you from diving down digital rabbit holes, when you should be relaxing!
8. Take photos, but post them later.
Use a camera connected to WiFi, a tablet, or your phone (if you must) to take vacation photos, but post them later.
Use Dropbox or Picturelife to automatically sync with your camera, phone or tablet.
When you get back, your entire vacation in pictures will be waiting for you, so you can craft the perfect blog post or assemble your choicest pics into an album for Facebook, Google+, Tumblr, or any other site.
This gets you more bang for your buck if clicks and social engagement are your objective: multiple-photo posts get 1290% more clicks than single-photo posts on Facebook. Plus, you're not flooding people's streams with multiple posts (especially when you're supposed to be "unplugging").
This approach is also safer. You won't be alerting people to the fact that your house is empty by posting photos of your three-week tour of Europe online while you're still away. Even if you limit vacation posts to "friends," realize that "friends of friends" can include thousands of people you don't know at all, and social network privacy settings are far from reliable in terms of doing what we expect.
The tools and apps that giveth us the ability to stay connected 24/7 can also taketh away in terms of our ability to remain present in the moment. Using this same technology to enable a temporary retreat from the digital world seems fitting.
Unplug and recharge! We will miss you (if we even notice you're gone before you get back), but we will survive.
What tools and apps help you to stay productive even while you're away from your tech?
Kerry O'Shea Gorgone is a writer, lawyer, speaker and educator. She's also Instructional Design Manager, Enterprise Training, at MarketingProfs. Kerry hosts the weekly Marketing Smarts podcast. Find Kerry on Google+ and Twitter.
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5 social media tools to kickstart your business
Jan 8th
By Ian Cleary, Contributing {grow} Columnist
As we start into a new year it's a great time to reflect on how we can improve our marketing efforts online. One area that we can always consider is emerging tools to help us be more productive and efficeint. Social media is a moving beast and we need to keep moving with it!
Here are 5 great tools that you can kick-start your business in 2013:
Convert Facebook Fans to customers with Agorapulse
It's very easy to get caught up with the number of fans you have on Facebook but we're in the business of selling our products and services and your time spent on Facebook needs to be rewarded.
If you're on Facebook and you want to take it to the next level invest in a Facebook marketing platform that will help.
Agorapulse is a Facebook Marketing platform which contains a broad range of functionality, including page management, 14 applications and the facility for building up a profile of your fans to help turn these fans into leads and ultimately sales.
Here are three highlights of Agorapulse:
Fan Profiling – As Fans interact with your content and applications, Agorapulse records it and builds a profile. Having this profile allows you to segment your fans so you can target your offers.
Suite of Applications – There are 14 useful applications for a broad range of functionality you can use to interact with your fans and further enhance build the fan profile.
Viral Sharing – All apps support Facebook Open Graph. This means that more friends of your fans will see your content. When you're using applications getting access to friends of fans is where you will reap the benefits and Agorapulse has the necessary functionality to allow you to do this effectively.
Be more social using Nimble
Traditional CRM (Customer Relationship Management) systems are dated. More and more of our interaction is with current and potential customers through social media channels. It's important to have a CRM system that reflects that.
Nimble is a Social CRM tool which is tightly integrated with social media channels and helps you manage and grow relationships with your contacts to ultimately leads to sales.
What's particularly nice about Nimble is how it builds up a profile of each user by retrieving their social details across a range of networks including Facebook, twitter, LinkedIn and Google +.
Would you like to see your contacts activity across all these social networks in one place and then have the ability to interact within Nimble? Yes, I thought you might!
Monitor your brand more effectively with Mention
Google Alerts is a well-known, free application that allows you to track mentions of keywords on the web. It's useful but it's not very comprehensive.
Mention is one of the best and most cost effective solutions I have come across. With a small team they have done amazingly well to deliver a web-based app, an iPhone app, and a desktop app that you can use to monitor keywords that are relevant to your brand.
You set up filters based on keywords you want to track and through a really nice interface it displays what it finds.
When you click on any item you see additional information related to the user and the item.
The following shows a filter based on my name that was mentioned on blogs. This identified an article on Mark's blog {grow} that was featured on a blog post from Aaron Lee, based in Asia.
Mention is a very powerful tool with a reasonable price.
Grow Pinterest with Pingraphy
Pinterest was hot in 2012 and is destined to be even hotter in 2013. As you build your presence on Pinterest you'll need some tools that will help.
Pingraphy allows you to upload your pins (pictures you put on a board) in bulk, schedule these items and then view statistics related to how they progress.
If Pinterest is a growing platform for your business check out Pingraphy.
Automate Actions with IFTTT
IFTTT (If this then that) is a useful tool for automating some tasks related to social media. If a particular event happens than another event is triggered.
Most tasks within social media cannot be automated but there are some that make sense. For example, when you create a new blog post it makes sense to automatically share this out on twitter.
Within IFTTT you create a 'recipe'. This recipe contains the source and the destination. When a trigger happens an action configured kicks off.
So for this recipe the trigger is when a new post is published on the blog and the action is a tweet generated which includes the title of the post and a link to the post.
There is a selection of recipes already built that you can use or customize and you can also build your own recipe with a broad range of applications supported.
Social Media is not free. Your time is your most precious asset and Social Media eats into your time. Using the correct tools is only part of your social media strategy but it's an important part.
Are you using the right tools for your business? What are your tool tips for 2013?
Ian Cleary is founder of Razorsocial, a website that provides sharp insight on on social media management tools. Follow Ian on twitter @iancleary
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Is this not a young Bill Walton......LOL! I had to share when I saw this.
I apologize if you go to the site and they've changed the picture on you.
Yeah, very close.
The dude in the mask is really creepy too.
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Lol great pic.
22 - how do you post a thumbnail like that?
He looks more like Bill Walton than Luke Walton does...
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Lol great pic.
22 - how do you post a thumbnail like that?
Just upload the pic from your PC.
You need to be in the advanced reply mode. Scroll down and use the "Manage Attachments" option. Works very well.
Gotcha. I guess I usually just use the quick reply or quote, so I never saw the add attachment feature.
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Q: When Does "Koch" Come out on DVD? A: The official US DVD release date for "Koch" has been set for August 27, 2013.
Former Mayor Ed Koch is the quintessential New Yorker. Still ferocious, charismatic, and hilariously blunt, the now 88-year-old Koch ruled New York from 1978 to 1989—a down-and-dirty decade of grit, graffiti, near-bankruptcy and rampant crime. First-time filmmaker (and former Wall Street Journal reporter) Neil Barsky has crafted an intimate and revealing portrait of this intensely private man, his legacy as a political titan, and the town he helped transform. The tumult of his three terms included a fiercely competitive 1977 election; an infamous 1980 transit strike; the burgeoning AIDS epidemic; landmark housing renewal initiatives; and an irreparable municipal corruption scandal. Through candid interviews and rare archival footage, Koch thrillingly chronicles the personal and political toll of running the world's most wondrous city in a time of upheaval and reinvention.
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You would probably guess that other music stores might be a tad bit jealous that iTunes still has exclusivity over The Beatles digital content, and we are sure you'd be right. On Wednesday, The Beatles announced that, for the first time, ringtones can be purchased for the Beatles' 27 U.K. and U.S. No. 1 hits, also exclusively from iTunes.
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The 30-second ringtones are available for $1.29 each. That's exactly the same price that you would pay to download the entire song track. The maximum length of a ringtone on iOS is 30 seconds.
The full list of 27 songs that are available as ringtones are:
- "A Hard Day's Night"
- "All You Need Is Love"
- "Can't Buy Me Love"
- "Come Together"
- "Day Tripper"
- "Eight Days a Week"
- "Eleanor Rigby"
- "From Me to You"
- "Get Back"
- "Hello, Goodbye"
- "Help!"
- "Hey Jude"
- "I Feel Fine"
- "I Want To Hold Your Hand"
- "Lady Madonna"
- "Let It Be"
- "Love Me Do"
- "Paperback Writer"
- "Penny Lane"
- "She Loves You"
- "Something"
- "The Ballad of John and Yoko"
- "The Long and Winding Road"
- "Ticket to Ride"
- "We Can Work It Out"
- "Yellow Submarine"
- "Yesterday"
Notably, if you've already purchased one of these songs, either from iTunes or from some other retailer, or ripped it from a CD you bought, you don't really need to buy a separate ringtone.
In short, on your desktop take the file, strip out 30 seconds of it or less that you want to use as a ringtone, rename the extension .m4r, and double-click on it in iTunes so it will be recognized as a ringtone.
Then, sync your iTunes library with your iPhone and make sure that ringtones sync. It'll be on your iPhone now and you can select it as a ringtone in the appropriate locations.
There are, of course, free apps in the App Store that will take a music file on your iPhone and perform the same operation on-device, as well (such as this one).
Frankly, no one should be paying for their ringtones if they have any technical expertise --- and not that much -- at all.


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The Steve Catoe Memorial Fund was created to honor Steve's memory and keep alive his passion for helping improve the lives of heart defect patients through peer support and advocacy. Donations to the Steve Catoe Memorial Fund will support ACHA's legislative advocacy efforts and online support services including our discussion forum and blog.
I want to tell you a little about my dear friend Steve. I can't remember where or when I first encountered Steve, but I do remember what he said - "Don't take any wooden nickels," and what he handed me - a wooden nickel, emblazoned with his diagnosis and information about heart disease. And what struck me most was: here is a person who wanted to give back. In my job as the president of the Adult Congenital Heart Association, it is my privilege to meet many people around the country living with serious congenital heart problems. Often their first questions to me are about themselves – their problems, their needs, and how ACHA can help them manage their difficult situation. Not Steve. All he wanted to know is: how can I help?
So we put him to work – early, and often. At this time, Steve had already established himself as a tireless "Warrior" for all of us living with congenital heart disease, through his Funky Heart blog and online connections. Steve quickly started helping read every one of the hundreds of messages posted on ACHA's online forum, greeting new members, and making sure that every person there received the compassionate response and accurate information they deserved. It was immediately apparent that behind Steve's "Aw shucks" demeanor lay a brilliant mind, capable of taking the most complicated medical information and translating it into a down-home style that anyone could understand. I also saw the effect that his calm, upbeat presence had on others in crisis. Steve was just great at making people feel like, if he could do it, they could do it – and leading the way.
But Steve's vision was not just to give people hope and comfort – it was to change the system to ensure that every person born with congenital heart disease could live a long and healthy life. Despite freezing rain, in 2007, Steve flew to Washington DC to meet with his lawmakers to persuade them to pass the Congenital Heart Futures Act, a law mandating more research and education to improve long-term outcomes for those of us born with this country's No. 1 birth defect. It was a long day, filled with long walks down long corridors, but Steve just charged along, charming every legislative aid with his southern graces, hiding the fact that, as someone living life permanently breathless, each conversation must have taken increasing effort. This spring I again got to lobby with Steve – this time pushing for funding for the legislation he helped pass. Steve's failing health now made walking even more difficult – but rather than complain, Steve designated himself Congenital Heart Lobby's day's official "tweeter," interviewing attendees and sending out blogs, Facebook updates, and tweets trumpeting the day's accomplishments.
When ACHA needed someone to testify on why the Social Security benefits system does not work well for congenital heart patients, we turned to Steve. I had to talk him into doing it, since Steve loved to stress the positive, and focus on all that he could do despite his disability. But what we really needed him to do this time to describe the negatives as well, and make the SSI staffers understand what it was like to have to struggle for each breath and each step. The room was filled with more than 200 mid-level bureaucrats, all visibly bored to be wasting their day at such useless proceedings. But as Steve rose and began telling his story of living life with his funky plumbing, his combination of humor, honesty, and eloquence brought them to tears and a standing ovation. This fall, the Institute of Medicine recommended social security rule changes for those of us living with CHD that started with Steve's gentle tale of living with half a heart.
Thanks to his computer, Steve was able to touch the hearts and lives of congenital heart patients and families all around the country. But even as Steve travelled widely, he always brought along a little piece of you all. I learned about how much Steve loved not just US history, but the history of his region, and how he volunteered at the local historical society. I heard about this church community, and how much it meant to Steve and his family. I heard about Steve's family – funny things his nieces said, how sad he was to lose his precious grandmother. And I heard lots about his parents, and it was clear that this lovely man was part of a loving community and a loving family, that enabled him to grow despite the many reasons he had to shrink. He could not have made the difference he did to so many people without you all holding and cherishing him in your hearts.
I can't tell you how sad and shocked I was when I got the call that Steve had left us – I had just exchanged emails with him in the days before, and had been exceptionally inspired by his recent blogs about the need for congenital heart community to go beyond hope into action: action to establish the funding and research to vanquish the kinds of cardiac woes that still start killing congenital heart patients once they reach their twenties and thirties. ACHA had just invited Steve to be our featured blogger at our new website, because we knew that there was no one better than Steve for inspiring our community to action. What comforts me is that I know he died doing what he loved – at his computer, having just posted his last Funky Heart blog.
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Dominic Power explains to Soaplife how desperate Cameron is to keep Alex's body hidden, but how he also knows he's going to have to kill again in Emmerdale!
How shocked is Cameron when he hears that Declan is going to dig up the land where Alex's body is buried?
"Can I use rude words? It's absolutely 'Oh s***!' It comes totally out of the blue. Cameron never thought about Alex's body being discovered - or at least not so soon. He thought the moment that anyone found the body it would be dust, totally decayed.
So what's he going to do?
"Dig it up!"
And do what with it?
"Basically just move it off that land and to another location somewhere. But maybe he'll think twice about burying it again - maybe he'll burn it. Right now, he's just panicking about getting the body out."
And he does - but just as Declan's workmen turn up with diggers…
"Cameron's like a rabbit caught in the headlights. Literally. He has to quickly cover the body up again, but it's a shoddy job and he knows he's got to go back… and soon."
Could you imagine Cameron ever confessing to Chas?
"At some point he'll want to confess to her. His biggest guilt is that he can't truly be happy with her until he can truly be honest with her. But right now all he wants to do is get that body moved. It would only take someone walking in the woods to kick a leaf and they would see something. He's very worried."
Worried enough to kill again?
"Definitely. It's Emmerdale for goodness sake! Of course there's going to be another murder. And, of course, Cameron is going to do it!"


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E! Online is reporting that singer Deborah Cox will be "providing the vocal tracks" for Lifetime's upcoming Whitney Houston biopic, which is being directed by Angela Bassett (her debut).
Essentially, the star of the upcoming telepic, Yaya DaCosta Alafia will in fact not be singing Houston's songs; Cox will.
I was actually expecting that Houston's original music (with her voice) would be used in the film, and Yaya would simply lip-synch, which is common (Bassett did just that when she starred in "What's Love Got to Do with It," playing Tina Turner). It looks like Yaya will still lip-synch, but to Cox's recordings of Houston's songs.
E! Online adds that music rights and clearances are still being worked out.
DaCosta stars as Houston, and is joined by Arlen Escarpeta as Bobby Brown.
The telepic will chronicle the headline-making partnership between the iconic singer, actress, producer and model, and singer, songwriter Bobby Brown - from the time they first met at the very height of their celebrity, to their courtship and tumultuous marriage.
Bassett is directing the film, which is tentatively titled "Whitney Houston," from a script penned by Shem Bitterman ("Betty & Coretta" - the Lifetime Original Movie that Bassett starred in last year).
Larry Sanitsky (who produced "Betty & Coretta") will do the same for "Whitney Houston."
Joining Alafia and Escarpeta in front of the camera is Yolonda Ross, playing Whitney Houston's longtime good friend and assistant, who was also rumored to be her lesbian lover - Robyn Crawford.
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The town of Oriental getting in on the action this weekend with the Dragon Boat Festival.
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Taking strong objection to the government announcing its intent to increase the cap on subsidised LPG, senior BJP leader M Venkaiah Naidu on Wednesday said it amounted to privilege of the House to say it outside when Parliament was in session.
Raising the issue in Rajya Sabha, Naidu said there were reports regarding Petroleum Minister M Veerappa Moily announcing the government's intent to increase the cap on subsidised LPG.
He said making such an announcement outside the Houseis a matter of privilege.
When Parliament is in session, how was it done? It is a matter of privilege of the House, he said.
Moily had yesterday stated that the decision to raise the cap will be taken by the Cabinet very shortly and that he has had two rounds of discussions with Finance Minister P Chidambaram on the impact of the decision.


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MESA, AZ - Mesa police say a 16-year-old boy has been arrested in connection with his mother's death early Saturday morning.
Police spokesman Tony Landato said officers responded to a home near east Juanita Avenue and Gilbert Road around 4 a.m. He said some sort of altercation had reportedly occurred inside the home.
Landato said when officers arrived, they found 36-year-old Tina Helms Spencer deceased inside the home
Authorities said they are not looking for any other suspects at this time.
No other details were released.
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