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Roxio Creator 2011 PRO - the newest version of the software package for the production of multimedia materials, professional-quality editing, writing and publishing their own video content, including records HQ. This is a home video studio with full support for HD-video. In addition to full support for the standard Blu-ray, the new version offers a significant gain in processing speed, the video stream by using the latest ATI Stream technology and NVIDIA CUDA.
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III-2 Case ITS Password Change Policy
Version 1.0
Last Revision Date: March 16, 2012
Approval Date: CANCELLED
Approval Authority: Case Chief Information Security Officer
Case Information Technology Systems (ITS) staff are assigned privileged (root/administrative) access to IT systems and infrastructure as appropriate to their assigned duties. The risk of compromise of the university-provided credentials (Case "Network ID" and password) used by ITS staff leads to an increased impact of disclosure to information managed on behalf of the University by ITS staff.
The purpose of this policy is to establish minimum standards for the frequency of change of passwords.
This policy applies to all ITS personnel who have or are responsible for user and system accounts in Case ITS systems that rely upon or are deemed to interface with the Case authentication systems to connect to Case network-based services. This policy applies to all IT systems managed and operated by the Case ITS department, either by University staff, term staff under contract employment, or student employees. This policy may apply to certain non-ITS systems accounts that provide access to sensitive University information and information systems where the exposure to impact would have significant negative impact on University operations.
This policy does not apply to password-protected files, encryption key passphrases, or local accounts that do not interface with Case authentication systems.
Not applicable.
Policy Statement
The maximum password age for passwords associated with the 'Network ID' of Case users within the Scope statement will be 180 days. Passwords may be changed on a more frequent basis depending upon departmental practices.
The maximum password age for system level passwords (e.g. root, domain administrator, application administrative accounts) is 365 days.
Upon turnover of staff (change of personnel, rotation of job duties, etc.), system level passwords that are affected by such turnover will be changed within 30 days of the staff turnover. If extenuating circumstances exist, a risk-based decision will be coordinated between the appropriate ITS director and the Chief Information Security Officer.
If the account credentials of a user or system are suspected to have been disclosed or otherwise compromised, the ITS user shall immediately take steps to change the password.
If a policy conflict occurs between various Case departments, the smaller value of the minimum password age shall apply.
Guidelines for password attributes such as strength, composition, protection standards, and password management guidelines are defined in a separate policy.
Appropriate steps will be taken by ITS staff in the password change process to ensure the availability of ITS systems during the password change.
ITS staff should compile a list of applications which may cache passwords to be aware of their potential impact on operations if the network passwords have been changed. Examples include:
- email clients (desktops and PDAs)
- Oracle Calendar client
- Oracle Instant Messenger
A password change window is an 15-day interval during which ITS staff may schedule and implement password changes. As a password lifetime approaches its expiration date, the password change window will be appended to the password lifetime. The password age begins counting the day after the password change date.
Technical means may be implemented to ensure compliance with password lifetimes.
Notifications of Changes: Case ITS staff will notify potentially affected end-users of ITS systems approximately 30 days prior to the password change.
Auditing: An audit cycle will be initiated within 30 days of the close of the password change cycle on selected events to identify the level of compliance and potential risk mitigation.
Initial implementation of this policy will take place between October 1 and October 15, 2006, and the 30 day advanced notification is waived for the initial password changes.
Credentials- the combination of a Network UserID (e.g. abc123) and a password
Kerberos principal- the underlying Network authentication mechanisms in the ITS authentication infrastructure that the credentials use for authentication.
Password lifetime- the time, in days, that a password is in effect. A minimum password lifetime of one day will mean that a user must wait until the next calendar day before it can be changed (a technical control to prevent password 'recycling'). A maximum password lifetime of 180 days is the time interval after which the password must be changed.
Policy conflict- when one policy counters another policy. In this case, if localized requirements demand changing passwords on a 30 day maximum password lifetime, this shorter time frame will take precedence over the 180 day requirement.
ITS managers are responsible for implementation, adherence, and feedback regarding this policy.
The ITS staff are responsible for the protection of their credentials. The standard which ITS sets in this policy speaks to the Case IT community in general about the importance of stewardship and protection of the critical IT infrastructure and data.
Policy Review Cycle
This policy will be reviewed every two years on the anniversary of the policy effective date, at a minimum. The policy may be reviewed on a more frequent basis depending on changes of risk exposure.


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Some plants such as succulents have managed to grow very plump leaves. For this to happen, according to a new National Science Foundation (NSF)-supported study by researchers at Brown University, plants had to have evolved a 3-D arrangement of their leaf veins. This is how they could maintain adequately efficient hydraulics for photosynthesis.
To learn more about this research, see the Brown news release How some leaves got fat: Its the veins. [Research supported by NSF grant DEB 10-26611, awarded to Erika Edwards for the study of the evolution of succulence, water relation, and photosynthetic pathway in the plant clade Portulacineae.] (Date of Image: January 2011)


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Introduction to Part 3
Delving into the world of Web 2.0 we have discovered Web 2.0 incorporates a number ideas and concepts including social activities, information re-use, interoperability, remixability, accessibility, usability, innovation and trust which were explored in Part 1 whilst we started to explore technologies and applications in Part 2. This section continues our exploration and attempts to put what we have learned so far into an application context and try and obtain an idea of what the future holds for Web 2.0.
29. Interoperability
With so many different systems, languages, and platforms it can be extremely problematic getting systems to talk to each other. Fortunately, web services combined with the notion of information reuse and remixability allows for a high degree of interoperability between systems and their data. Applications can expose interfaces to allow other applications to utilise their functionality and work together to build a larger application. To attain interoperability, data needs to be highly portable, consistent and standardised and applications need to provide consistent and standard communications interfaces (fortunately XML and JSON can help). We must also remember the standardised protocols providing the glue between applications and data.
30. Accessibility
The notion of accessibility is to provide easy information access to the broadest range of users possible. Accessibility is sometimes confused with usability but accessibility occurs at a much earlier point in the consideration of usability. If a button cannot be clicked upon or a hyperlink cannot be accessed or an alternative to an image is not shown the application will not be used for the purpose under which it is intended.
31. Design
Everyone can design web sites; ask anyone and they can probably "rustle one up in half an hour". We've all heard it and it's probably true to a degree but there is a big difference in producing a site on the web and producing a web site. When starting out with a web design more consideration needs to be placed at the back end and connecting up the pieces, consideration also needs to be given to how the information will be managed and metric reporting. Think about the information and how it may be used, re-used and re-mixed. Consider who may be accessing the information and how and why they may use it.
32. Intelligence
Have you found the needle in the haystack? Or do you have trouble finding the right rainbow to dig under? Finding the right information is more about intelligent data than ever before. Optimisation, ranking, and public opinion all play a part but behind it all needs a good system to organise the network of information providers and the information they hold. XML, JSON and other standards provide ways of standardising data formats. Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is a commonly misunderstood service that at its heart aims to provide a way of organising information to make it more search engine friendly. Remixability allows data to be used more sensibly and design and accessibility provide ways of presenting information consistently and with flexibility.
33. Affiliation
With so much choice on the Internet reputation plays an important part in gaining visitors and affiliation can help to build a reputation and make a web-site stand out. Affiliating with peer sites can help build reputation and is an important part of how search engines and other ranking agents such as Technorati work.
34. Uniqueness
Sites used to try and be all-encompassing and cater for all needs, tastes and interests. Web 2.0 allows smaller sites to prevail and the information from these can be combined into a larger co-operative to provide a detailed body of knowledge. Niche is where the pioneers are at. Why try and develop a generic web site that competes with everyone else, why not instead bring the focus down and become an expert in something in particular.
35. Online and Thin Applications
It seems everybody is jumping on the online applications bandwagon. Google are doing it, Adobe are having a go, even Microsoft have got round to doing it, and the Open Source community have been doing it for ages. Users are no longer tied to the desk and have little need to carry information around in paper form or on electronic media. Work can be carried out anytime anyplace – find a quiet spot with a network connection and you can work. Here-in lies that catch with online applications – they require a network connection. Cached or Offline equivalents will be required until such time as an Internet connection can be made permanent.
36. Usability
Freeing data from visual design makes the information potentially more usable. However, careful consideration needs to be placed on the importance of good usable design under Web 2.0. As any emerging technology it does not come out fully fledged and takes time to develop. Usability is not just design, nor is it accessibility – Usability is information that is useful, convenient and capable of being used (and re-used). Usability allows for remixability and not just the data itself but the navigation and meta-information attached to it. Information is a tool and all good tools need to be easy to use for their intended purpose. If the tool makes it more difficult then it affects usability.
37. Legal Implications and Licensing
What is said on the Internet will pervade for a very long time. Your views and opinions may change over time but things you have typed will stay indefinitely. Also, what is acceptable under the laws of the country where you live may not be acceptable else where. The Internet levels the playing field in many things but law still has a lot of catching up to do. As systems are becoming more open the data itself is becoming an important traded commodity. Obtaining information requires an increasing number of licensing agreements, as information is often copyrighted, and in order to meet these licensing agreements more information needs to be collected.
38. Advertising
Imagine if no one made any money producing data – would the data stop flowing? Probably not, but the web is an ideal place to provide dynamic advertising to a vast audience. This is great news for the advertiser as advertising can be tailored based on individual habits and preferences. This can also be good news for the information provider as it can help fund further site developments, newer articles and research methods, together with contributing to hosting fees. Social networks, Viral (word-of-mouth) Marketing, embedded Ads and Banners are all means of getting the word (and pictures) out – this itself has led to the development of an increasing number of web services and metrics including the measurement of click through rates, bounce rates, pay per click, search engine optimisation and ranking services.
The Future
39. Business Culture, Economy and the Long Tail
The juggernaut of big business is slowly changing its way of thinking – openness doesn't come easy and information is still a vital asset for many businesses. Small businesses do their utmost to appear as large businesses and large businesses do their utmost to appear small and friendly. Fortunately, thanks to the Internet they can meet in the middle and companies embrace customers more by making use of online tools such as blogging. Viral Marketing, the Internet equivalent of word of mouth, and the long tail (providing a broader range of products to smaller focused audience) are opening new avenues for commerce.
40 Rich Internet Applications (RIA)
The Internet experience constantly evolves. First we had linked text documents. Next we added a few images here and there. Not long after, along came Flash, followed by audio and video, and other multi-media services. Add onto that a great deal of interaction and we start to see the rise of the rich Internet application. AJAX is further enabling HTML documents but rich Internet applications are the technology leading to the viability of online applications as the distinction between browser applications and desktop applications becomes even more blurred.
41. Fast Internet
Video streaming, pod-casting and TV on demand would all struggle with poor Internet bandwidth. Faster and more consistent and reliable speeds are required to allow this content into a viable reliable platform. BT is working hard on delivering the 21CN and others are regularly increasing broadband speeds. SDSL is around the corner but the big hurdle is the Last Mile which will need addressing by the roll out the fibre, unless of course the wireless brigade get their act together and finally agree a universal common wireless standard.
42. Web 3.0
Things are constantly changing so whilst we are getting to grips with Web 2.0, what it means and how to do it others are already working on Web 3.0. Will Web 3.0 finally herald the dawn of the semantic web and the Internet as a platform? Perhaps Web 3.0 may even see the Web evolve into an Operating System?
Whilst Web 2.0 is many things to many people, hopefully in this series of articles we have identified some of the more measurable values of Web 2.0 together with gaining an understanding of where Web 2.0 is at in 2008. Certainly, the Internet is a very different place than it was ten (perhaps even five) years ago. The Web 2.0 phenomenon draws parallels similar to those of the home computing explosion of the early 1980's where everyone could be a developer and bedroom programmers could find their fortunes. However we must always remember who the customer is – never compromise the customer and don't just chase hits – work on the content.
One of the key drivers for Web 2.0 has been sites opening up their systems using application programming interfaces (API) so anyone can develop or extend web based applications. One thing for sure is that the Internet has evolved from an information system into a communication system and is now heading towards being a processing platform. The Internet is likely to usurp the desktop operating system in our anywhere anytime world but for this to become a reality improvements need to be made (and are being made) to the local speed of the Internet, the end-to-end reliability of information delivery, Quality of Service, information intelligence and a more open communication architecture. Online applications need to operate in offline capacities and we need to bridge the accessibility gap to really make a platform for all.
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Further Reading
Links to other sites talking about aspects of Web 2.0
- Ten Ways To Take Advantage of Web 2.0
- Web 2.0 Compact Definition: Trying Again
- 10 challenges for web2.0 in organizations : crisscrossed blog
- All Things Web 2.0 – Home
- Web 2.0 how-to design style guide
- Sacred Cow Dung: All Things Web 2.0 – "THE LIST"
- Web 2.0 Definition: TechEncyclopedia from TechWeb
- Web 2.0 Can Be Dangerous (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
- Dive Into Web 2.0 eBook
- 2008: The Year Web 2.0 Hits the Enterprise, Says Forrester …
- » What is Web 2.0 | Web 2.0 Explorer | ZDNet.com
- delicious blog » what is web 2.0?
- 2008: Web 2.0 Companies I Couldn't Live Without
- What is Web 2.0 Design? » Webmaster-Source
- What Are Web 2.0 And Social Networking?
- Tech Spot: What is Web 2.0 ?
- 8 Bold Predictions for Web 2.0 in 2008
- What does Web 2.0 mean for your business? – 10 Jan 2008
- Usability News – Web 2.0 will meet its End in 2008
- IBM Press room – 2008-01-23 IBM Advances Web 2.0 Platform for …
- Business not yet embracing Web 2.0 – Blogs & Content – BizReport
- Business Technology : Will Your Business Embrace Web 2.0 This Year?
- E-Business & Web 2.0 | Computerworld Blogs
- Dashboard: Web 2.0's Effect on Business Intelligence …
- best of web 2.0 – January 16, 2008 – TechLoaf.blog
- Web 2.0 Money: The Money & Business Behind the Web 2.0 Innovations
- The Web 2.0 Show – A podcast about the new web – Recent Episodes …
- What the heck is Web 2.0 anyway? (by Jeremy Zawodny)
- 10 definitions of Web 2.0 and their shortcomings
- Are You Ready for Web 2.0?
- What Web 2.0 means for Public Sector Information at Tobias Escher …
- Good Experience – What Web 2.0 should really be about: the users
- USATODAY.com – What 'Web 2.0' means to us
- AJAX != web 2.0
- Like it or not, Web 2.0 is heading for your network – Network World
- Web 2.0 is Not About Technology, Its About Sharing Information …
- Web 2.0 Is Not Media 2.0 – Publishing 2.0
- Technology News: Strategy: Web 2.0's Fuzzy Boundaries
- Introduction to Web 2.0 on Squidoo
- Some great Web 2.0 Resources for you | ThinkBlogger
- The Real Value of Web 2.0 (Hint: It's not Facebook)
- Fishing for Web 2.0 Gems, Not Laundry Lists » CogDogBlog


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Academic Year – The period in which school is in session, consisting of at least 32 weeks of instructional time. The school year typically includes a Fall Term (from August through December), a Spring Term (from January through May), and a Summer Term (from May through July).
Award Letter – An official document issued by the Financial Aid Office that lists all of the financial aid awarded to the student. This letter provides details of the source and amount of aid you have been awarded. You are not required to sign or return the letter.
Business Office – The COA office that is responsible for the billing and collection of College charges and the disbursement of Federal and State financial aid.
Campus-based Aid – Financial aid programs that are administered by the College. The Federal government provides COA with a fixed annual allocation, which is awarded by the Financial Aid Office to deserving students. Such programs include the Federal Supplemental Education Opportunity Grant and the Federal Work-Study Program. Note there is no guarantee that every eligible student will receive financial aid through these programs, because funding is limited.
Custodial Parent – If a student's parents are divorced or separated, the custodial parent is the parent with whom the student lived the most during the past 12 months. The student's need analysis is based on financial information supplied by the custodial parent.
Eligible Non-Citizen – Someone who is not a US citizen, but is nevertheless eligible for Federal student aid. Eligible non-citizens include US permanent residents who are holders of valid green cards, US nationals, holders of Form I-94 who have been granted refugee or asylum status and certain other non-citizens. Non-citizens who hold a student visa or and exchange visitor visa are not eligible for Federal student aid.
Enrollment Status – An indication of whether you are a full-time student (12 credits or more) or three- quarter-time student (9-11 credits), half-time student (6-8 credits), or less-than-half-time student (1-5 credits). This includes Fall, Spring, and Summer semesters.
Expected Family Contribution (EFC) – The amount of money that the family is expected to be able to contribute to the student's education, as determined by the Federal Methodology need analysis formula approved by Congress. The EFC includes the parent contribution and the student contribution, and depends on the student's dependency status, family size, number of family members in college, taxable and non-taxable income and assets. The difference between the Cost of Attendance and the EFC is the student's financial need, and is used in determining the student's eligibility for need-based financial aid.
Federal Work-Study (FWS) – A Federal program that provides students with part-time employment during the school year. Eligibility for FWS is based on need. Money earned from a FWS job is not counted as income for the subsequent year's need analysis process.
Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) – The Form used to apply for Pell Grants and other need-based aid. As the name suggests, there is no fee charged to file a FAFSA. An on-line FAFSA application can be found at The Department of Education's web-site - www.fafsa.gov.
Grace Period - So that you don't have to start making payments on your loan right after you leave school or drop below 6 credit hours, each of your Direct Subsidized and Direct Unsubsidized Loans has a 6 month "grace period" that starts the day after you stop attending classes or drop below half-time enrollment. You don't have to make payments during this grace period; however interest does continue to accrue on any unsubsidized loan. PLUS loans do not have a grace period.
Grade Point Average (GPA) - An average of a student's grades, converted to a 4.0 scale (4.0 is an A, 3.0 is a B, 2.0 is a C, and 1.0 is a D). Grades of W, PA, PB, and PC do not affect an existing GPA. Federal Satisfactory Academic Progress requirements require that all grades be included in the GPA calculation, regardless of Repeats or Fresh Start exclusions allowed by a college, and regardless of the source of payment.
Grant – A type of financial aid based on financial need that students usually do not have to repay. Students that withdraw completely from a semester may have to repay part of their grant, as calculated by the Federal Return of Title IV Funds policy.
Half-Time – The Federal Work-Study program requires that participating students be enrolled at least half-time (6, 7, or 8 credit hours).
Loan Fees (also called Origination Fees) - All loans have loan fees (also called origination fees) that are deducted proportionately from each loan disbursement you receive.
Master Promissory Note (MPN) - the MPN is a legally binding agreement that requires you to repay your loan to the Department of Education. The MPN must be signed by the student borrower before loan funds are disbursed by the lender. It contains the terms and conditions of the loan and explains how and when it must be repaid. Students should keep the MPN and any other loan documents in a safe place for further reference.
Need – the Difference between the Cost of Attendance and the EFC is the student's financial need – the gap between the cost of attending school and the student's resources. The process of determining a student's need is known as need analysis.
Need-Based – Financial aid that is need-based depends on your financial situation. Most government sources of financial aid are need-based.
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Frontrunning: July 9
- Afghanistan
- Bank of America
- Bank of America
- Bank of England
- Barclays
- Boeing
- Bond
- China
- Corruption
- European Central Bank
- Eurozone
- France
- Germany
- Lloyds
- Morgan Stanley
- Morningstar
- Private Equity
- Quote Stuffing
- Reuters
- Switzerland
- Trade Balance
- Turkey
- Unemployment
- Wall Street Journal
- Wen Jiabao
- Euro zone fragmenting faster than EU can act (Reuters)
- Wall Streeters Lose $2 Billion in 401(k) Bet on Own Firms (Bloomberg)
- Eurozone crisis will last for 20 years (FT)
- Chuckie Evans: "Please suh, can I have some moah" (Reuters)
- Quote stuffing and book sales: Amazon 'robo-pricing' sparks fears (FT)
- Situation in Egypt getting worse by the minute: Egypt parliament set to meet, defying army (Reuters)
- Chinese goalseek-o-tron speaks: China's inflation eased to a 29-month low (Bloomberg)
- A contrarian view: "Barclays and the BoE have probably saved the financial system" (FT)
- Flawed analysis: Dealers Declining Bernanke Twist Invitation (BBG) - Actually as shown here, ST Bond holdings have soared as dealers buy what Fed sells: more here
- And all shall be well: Brussels to act over Libor scandal (FT)
- Obama team targets Romney over taxes, Republicans cry foul (Reuters)
- Bank of England's Tucker to testify on rate rigging row (Reuters)
- Another Greek cabinet resignation: Greek Deputy Labor Minister Resigns, State-Run Net TV Reports
Overnight Media Digest:
* Senior euro-zone finance officials, moving ahead on a plan to create a single overarching bank supervisor for all the countries in the 17-nation currency bloc, are settling on a framework that would create a new agency reporting to the European Central Bank to police the largest banks in the currency union, people involved in the discussions said.
* A Mexican cocaine-trafficking cartel used accounts at Bank of America Corp to hide money and invest illegal drug-trade proceeds in U.S. racehorses, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said.
* The scandal over UK banks' manipulation of key interest rates cost the jobs of three senior financial figures last week. On Monday, the deputy governor of the Bank of England Paul Tucker will try to ensure it doesn't derail his own career.
* Leading Internet-service providers said Sunday that they had moved to ensure that computers infected with malware left behind by a hacking spree that started in 2007 continue to access the Internet normally, and expect relatively few Internet users to face a disruption.
* Boeing Co. looks set to start Europe's big air show with orders from at least two leasing companies-deals that should help the U.S. plane maker consolidate its lead in orders over Airbus this year.
* At least 160 U.S.-based mutual funds and exchange-traded funds, including those run by Fidelity Investments, Morgan Stanley Investment Management Inc and OppenheimerFunds Inc, bought shares of Facebook in May, according to monthly disclosures made in June and July compiled by investment-research firm Morningstar Inc for The Wall Street Journal.
Brussels is expected to propose outlawing attempts to manipulate market indices across the EU along with a fundamental review of the rules on how Libor is set.
Top officials in the International Olympic Committee have questioned whether it is appropriate to allow high-calorie consumer brands to continue sponsoring the Games.
British prime minister David Cameron will fight the next election promising real-terms increases for the NHS.
Airbus and Boeing are pushing their large suppliers to buy smaller ones to help with the companies plans to increase production of passenger jets.
ArcelorMittal has refused to rule out further site closures in Europe as the global steel industry enters a slowdown.
Permira, the private equity firm, is planning a 500 million euros ($615.35 million) refinancing of Birds Eye Iglo.
Britain's SFO is set to reopen the investigation in to collapse of one of London's oldest hedge funds during the financial crisis.
China has threatened retaliation against a trade dispute with the EU that is straining commercial relations between the two sides.
- Prices are tumbling across the Chinese economy, according to government data released on Monday, as a flood of goods pouring out of the nation's vast and ever-expanding factory cities exceeds anemic demand from Chinese households and businesses.
- Premier Wen Jiabao of China warned on Sunday of "huge downward pressure" on the Chinese economy, in the clearest expression yet of concern at the top of the country's leadership about a sharp slowdown in recent months.
- Paul Tucker, a deputy governor at the Bank of England, will give evidence on whether senior government officials put pressure on Barclays Plc to lower its submissions to the London interbank offered rate, or Libor.
- Several securities law experts and some investors say the delay in the BlackBerry 10 and overly optimistic remarks as recently as last week by Thorsten Heins since he took over the top job in January, may also make Research in Motion Ltd , the target of shareholder lawsuits.
- In the most visible sign yet of its efforts to curb its reliance on soda sales, PepsiCo this month will start selling yogurt in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic states.
- Canada has joined a group of U.S.-led international donors in pledging $16 billion in aid for Afghanistan over the next four years, with some of the cash conditional on Kabul fighting widespread corruption.
Report in the business section:
- Bombardier Inc has bulked up the order book for its new C Series airplane with a sale of 15 of the narrow-bodied commercial jets as the Farnborough International Air Show begins in Britain.
- Prime Minister Stephen Harper told a gathering of party supporters that other nations hoping for economic success in the future must "become what Canada is today."
European economic highlights:
- Eurozone Sentix Investor Confidence -29.6 – lower than expected. Consensus -26.6. Previous -28.9.
- Lloyds Employment Confidence -53. Previous -59.
- Switzerland Unemployment Trade s.a. 2.9% – lower than expected. Consensus 3.2%. Previous 3.2%. Revised 2.9%.
- Germany Trade Balance 15.3B – higher than expected. Consensus 14.0B. Previous 14.4B. Revised 14.5B.
- Germany Current Account (euro) 9.0B – lower than expected. Consensus 10.1B. Previous 11.2B. Revised 11.0B.
- Bank of France Bus. Sentiment 91 – lower than expected. Consensus 92. Previous 93. Revised 92.
- Turkey Industrial Production n.s.a. 5.9% y/y – higher than expected. Consensus 2.0% y/y. Previous 1.8% y/y. Revised 1.5% y/y.
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well reading a sample above all is well in the world, now to go and slit my wrist.
Not that I give a shite about the election. But this is a disturbing statement from the democrap spin doctor:
"Americans need to ask themselves why does an American businessman need a Swiss bank account and secretive investments like that?" Schultz said.
There's no lobbying group for ex-pats. When a country wants to put on capital controls, they do so in the name of going after tax cheats. Plus people think that anyone with an offshore account or property is just a rich person anyway so what does it matter if you tax them a little more; they can afford it.
I'll give the smokespoleperson an answer to her question: so statist parasites like you don't steal everything I own.
In reality, I'd love to see them actually question Romney's specific record and holdings. But you don't need them to release the information. Do your own damn digging.


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Cider Summit NW Seattle 2011 Pictures & Slideshow
Cider Summit NW comes back to Seattle on September 10th 2011. 2nd Year and going strong.
Has it been already been a year since the original Cider Summit NW held in Seattle? That is has. The time has flown by and my year has been cram packed with more behind the scenes cider work for the Northwest Cider Association than here on my blog. Coincidentally the NWCA and SBS Imports/Cider Summit NW are about to make a big announcement any Washingtonian is sure to love. So stay tuned here and especially to the NWCA website at NWCider.com.
On to Cider Summit NW.
Once upon a time not so long ago there wasn't an outlet where Northwest suburbanites could enjoy only ciders in a festival scenario. Luckily for us along came Cider Summit NW. Held in Discovery Center Park near right on the edge of Downtown Seattle, Cider Summit was at the core (pun intended) of one of the largest population centers in the West.
Alan Shapiro of SBS Imports tried his best to line up only the best ciders pressed from whole apples and not concentrate and he did a great job. Alongside nearly each and every NW cidermaker poured counterparts from as close as British Columbia and as far as France and England. It was quite the showing of ciders
Cider Summit NW is back again and it is THE place to try out some of our greatest regional and imported ciders, and even meet and chat with the local cidermakers. There is no other place in the Northwest where you find the quantity and quality of cider this festival has to offer. Someone new to cider and looking to try your hand at some new ones will be in heaven. Are you an old hand at cider? Maybe you once had some great cider abroad and were never able to quite match that experience. Well this is the place to restore your faith in one of the World's oldest fermented drinks.
***Midwesterners... On the exact same day at almost the exact same time you could be at The Great Lakes Cider & Perry Festival in St. John's Michigan. While it isn't a sister festival to Cider Summit NW, it should be. If I wasn't going to be in Seattle there wouldn't be much that could stop me from taking a trip to Michigan. See the blog post, or visit the website, and if you have the means CHECK IT OUT!
The Cider Summit NW (SEA) Press Release:
Cider Summit NW Returns to South Lake Union Discovery Center Park "Count Up" Begins to 2nd Annual Event on 9/10/11
(Seattle, WA) August 21, 2011 SBS Imports and the Seattle Beer Collective are pleased to announce the second annual edition of Cider Summit Seattle. The event will be on Saturday, September 10, 2011 from 11am-7pm at Discovery Center Park in South Lake Union near Westlake & Denny Way.
Last year's inaugural Cider Summit was the area's largest-ever tasting of artisanal ciders with over 50 elegantly crafted products from Washington, Oregon, British Columbia, California, England, and France. "We received an enthusiastic response from both the producers and attendees," noted SBC's Ian Roberts. "We are very excited to be back for year two and reach an even wider audience of cider enthusiasts."
The owners and cidermakers will be on hand to inform and guide guests through the samplings which will be available in 3-ounce and 6-ounce portions. Each featured cider is made from 100% pressed apples (or pears) and is made without concentrates or other additives. In addition to the superb range of ciders, the event will feature food from Brave Horse Tavern, ongoing demonstrations of apple pressing courtesy of Ryan's Juice, live music, and even bottle sales to go.
"We believe we've created a unique event," added event co-founder Alan Shapiro of SBS Imports. "The cider selection will be even more diverse this year and the vast majority will be available to taste at $2.00. It should be a great opportunity for attendees to sample many of the best ciders available in the United States if not the world."
Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 (cash only) at the door and are available online via Brown Paper tickets and at many of the area's leading bottle shops. Admission includes a tasting glass and 10 drink tickets. From 11a-12n arriving guests will receive 2 additional "happy hour" tickets. Additional drink tickets will be available for sale onsite at $2 per ticket. The event is 21 and over only. Dogs will be allowed on event grounds. For more information including a list of participating ciders please visit www.cidersummitnw.com.
Cider Summit Seattle benefits Northwest Cider Association (www.nwcider.com) and The Institute for Myeloma & Bone Cancer Research (www.imbcr.org). The Northwest Cider Association promotes awareness of artisan produced ciders among the general public and fosters cooperation within the industry for all producers. IMBCR is one of the world's leading independent research organizations developing effective therapies to increase the quality of life and longevity of myeloma patients. Cider Summit sponsors include Brave Horse Tavern, Click Distributing, Seattle Weekly, and KMTT.
Here are some of my photos from Cider Summit NW 2010.
2011 Great Lakes Cider & Perry Festival
The Great Lakes Cider & Perry Association annual Summer festival is back an scheduled for September 10th at Uncle John's Cider Mill, St. Johns, MI.
I've have the pleasure of touring Uncle John's Cider Mill and some of the gorgeous property that surrounds it. Mike Beck and his family maintain a wonderful multi-generational business and keep it thriving by making their property a family destination and continually diversifying their products. Each season they press loads of fresh apple juice from the apples in their orchards and they also ferment a terrific cider and distill a mean spirit too.
The Great Lakes Cider & Perry Festival have been sponsoring this event for a few years now and continue to out do themselves. As always there will be an astounding array of cider to taste from around the country and this year they are bringing in esteemed cider dignitaries Pete Brown and Bill Bradhsaw from the U.K.
You can read a bit about Bill and Pete here in an interview they generously provided me here.
Festival hours are 12 – 5 with a VIP hour from 11 – Noon
VIP tickets include a special pour of cider from participating cideries and Cheese Station of Local and International Cheeses. Plus, special presentations from Pete Brown & Bill Bradshaw from England & presentation from Dick Dunn, editor of the Cider Digest.
Free regular admission for MLBA members and TAM trained staff. (MLBA = MI Licensed Beverage Assoc. TAM = Techniques of Alcohol Management)
Regular Admission includes commemorative glass and 10 free pours
Regular Admission: $15 dollars
VIP Admission: $25 (includes regular admission)
Group Sales: $25 for 2 tickets - $40 for 4 tickets - $75 for 10 tickets
Group sale tickets add $10 each for VIP admission
For more information and ticket purchasing visit the Great Lakes Cider & Perry Association's website. http://www.greatlakescider.com/ciderfest.html
Robinette's Cider Haus & Winery Tour
After lunch at The Green Well, the first cider stop was Robinette's Cider Haus & Winery. I've wanted to visit Robinete's for a long long time. When I started the North American Cider Map Project they were one of the first handful of cidermakers I was able to find and add. That was just over 3 years ago and since then they've been on my radar as a place I had to visit. I was delighted to hear we were headed to Robinette's. I couldn't wait to check out their facility.
In Grand Rapids when it comes to apples, orchard fresh fruit, and apple juice... Robinette's is it and has been playing the game for quite a while. Locals consider them an institution, even our guide Paul Vander Heide used to come here with his family as a kid.
Robinette's is a family destination with something for just about everyone. 2011 actually marks the Robinette family's 100th year in business the apple business at this location. They have 40 acres of orchards on 120 acres of land and sell their orchard fresh fruit seasonally and their apple juice year round. Besides apples they grow peaches, nectarines, cherries and apricots. In the 1970's the Robinettes added a cider mill and bakery setting the stage for a complete destination sweet cider mill. This is the sort of cider mill that many folks reminisce about but few can find these days. Fortunately for residents of the Mitten State, Michigan seems to still have their share.
Robinette's is just plain charming inside and out. While the main building was not 100 years old it was farmtastically rustic and had a bounty of memorabilia and decor from the good ole days. We were warmly welcomed by the equally friendly and charming Alicia Robinette. In fact fellow cider compadre Al Yelvington preceeded our visit and thanks to him of all the folks that were with us they seemed most excited to meet Heather. A quick look around the bakery and we were joined by Ed Robinette and taken into the building's central area that connected the pressing room, apple sorting station and apple cold storage. From there we caught our first glimps of the cider press.
The apple press was probably my favorite part of our visit. The press room was just big enough to comfortably house an incedibly large looking red framed 24 inch rack and cloth hydraulic press, apple grinder, pumps, filters, collection tanks and accompaniments. While a 24" press is considered moderate sized, the frame for this sucker was pretty big. Compared to my decidedly small 12 inch hydraulic rack and cloth I was completely envious.
Old school horizontal rack and cloth presses aren't as fast or efficient as other presses, but I find a lot of appeal in the traditional artisan process of crafting each and every layer and pressing. For me this form makes me think about just how many cidermakers before you have done nearly the exact same thing, the exact same way. I know there are a few folks that would say this their preferred way to press cider.
You can a video of Robinette's cider press in action right here.
Robinette's only ferments a small portion of the juice they press. The majority of it is made and sold fresh for most of the year thanks to the miracle of fruit storage. The stuff they do ferment becomes Barzilla's Brew Hard Cider, Cherry Hard Cider, Apple Wine, or Cyser; all of them award winning.
I was able to visit three different cidermakers when in Michigan. I found it inspirational that all three had their own ways of accomplishing each cider task and showed a wide variety in equipment size and theory. Robinette's ferments in the smallest batches that we saw on our trip. Since they press apples close to year round they are able to start their primary fermentations anytime. Conveniently they are able to roll the tanks from the fermentation room, outside and into the cider mill, fill them up and then take them back to the fermentation and storage building. The fermentation and bottling room was no-nonsense and effiicient with some left over space for a little temp controlled cider bottle storage.
From there we were walked over to their tasting room which is housed on the ground floor of a very cool 1881 barn. The old rough log timbers and stone walls offered plenty of oldtime atmosphere. Robinette's offer a fair number of wines, fruit wines, ciders and fruit ciders, about 17-18 by my count. I stayed close to the cider realm with the Barzilla's Brew Hard Cider, Apple Cherry Cider, Apple Wine, Cyser, and strayed once with their Harbour Demi-Sec a semi-sweet German style white wine.
Robinette's Cider Haus and Winery is an absolutely terrific family run family destination. I was so glad that we were able to visit them. They are the nicest folks. I can only imagine how great it must be there during the height of the Fall season chock full of visitors out for a day in the orchards to watch cider pressing, experience a hayride, walk the corn maze or even just taste some good ole Michigan ciders and wines. I'm sure they will be there sharing their place for a hundered years more.
Thanks again to Ed and Alicia and the rest of the Robinette's crew for hosting us, and to Mike and Paul for touring us, and to The Great Lakes Cider & Perry Association for setting it all up.


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Have your handbag and eat it too! Let celebrity cake designer Elisa Strauss teach you to sculpt and decorate an unbelievably realistic couture handbag from cake.
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Share a little about the materials, processes and techniques used to create this cake: For this cake, I made a double chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream. I made this to stand up to the weight of the cake and ease of shaping. I covered this in white fondant, scored my lines with a ruler and stitch tool, then gave it 3 coats of black edible air brush colour. I then put this aside to dry completely for 3 days. I then sprayed the cake with clear glaze to give it the shine. whilst this was drying, I proceeded to make the chain and the logo, which took me another day to make, the chain was pretty fiddly. I then put the handbag on a 14" board and draped fondant to look like fabric and sprayed gold spray for the material effect, added some chanel sandals and Iphone to the board.
How did u make the chain?
I tried several ways to make the chain, individual links, but they kept breaking, so in the end I bought a mould off ebay which was pretty expensive for a one off cake. I then cut small pieces of black paste, and poked them into the chain links to look like ribbon going through. Hope this helps.
I did try making individual rings but as u have experienced, they kept on breaking! Thanks for your sharing!!


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Beverly Hills Wedding
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michelle & eric were wed in style at the beautiful four seasons in beverly hills….xoxo
a little more sweetness...
Apr 24-2009 , 07:49AM
I am in love with the decorative marriage certificate in the middle picture... at least I'm guessing that's what it is. Do you have any idea what that would be called or where she got it? If so, would it be possible for you to email me? firstname.lastname@example.com
Apr 24-2009 , 08:44AM
The white flowers are gorgeous!
Apr 24-2009 , 09:28AM
Wait a minute, is that a papercut ketubah?! SWOON!!!!!!!!!
Apr 24-2009 , 12:11PM
Absolutely beautiful! And I'm with Maggie - that ketubah is GORGEOUS. I'm guessing made by Rob Ryan? Such a wonderful idea for a ketubah!
Apr 26-2009 , 11:17AM
It's really hard to decide which of your posts to comment on. All of your work is so beautifully feminine and distinctive. I know how much work it is to write a great blog and I am really glad your doing it in spite of your busy schedule. I just love checking in to see what you've been up to.
Nov 15-2009 , 01:56PM
Your pictures are beautiful...and I love the look of this wedding. I am dying to know where this ketubah is from....I want to get one for my wedding next year!! If you could email me, I would so appreciate it. Thanks!


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Probably you haven't heard music band One direction. A band consists of four teenager boys who are veeery popular among teenage girls.
As it happens one of the boys has Islamic back ground, Zayn Malik. A muslim boy popular among teenage western girls. What would you think a Islamaphobe think or do. Yeah you are right, American "right wing" infamous blogger Debbie Schlussel accused Zayn of "enticing jihad" and "pimping Islam" to young female fans.
Schlussel's blog here
The sad part is the woman in question is not doing this for humour she is dead serious and people like her is living among us.
The following concerns a question in a physics degree exam at the University of Copenhagen:
"Describe how to determine the height of a skyscraper with a barometer."
One student replied:
"You tie a long piece of string to the neck of the barometer, then lower the barometer from the roof of the skyscraper to the ground. The length of the string plus the length of the barometer will equal the height of the building."
This highly original answer so incensed the examiner that the student was failed immediately. The student appealed on the grounds that his answer was indisputably correct, and the university appointed an independent arbiter to decide the case.
The arbiter judged that the answer was indeed correct, but did not display any noticeable knowledge of physics. To resolve the problem it was decided to call the student in and allow him six… Read more
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And an old one:
It was autumn, and the Indians on the remote reservation asked their new Chief if the winter was going to be cold or mild. Since he was a new Indian Chief in a modern society, he had never been taught the old secrets, and when he looked at the sky, he couldn't tell what the weather was going to be. Nevertheless, to be on the safe side, he replied to his tribe that the winter was indeed going to be cold and that the members of the village should collect wood to be prepared. But also being a practical leader, after several days he got an idea. He went to the phone booth, called the National Weather Service and asked,
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Iraqi Star Tours U.S. And Sings Of Baghdad
By NEIL STRAUSS
Published: February 26, 2003
LAS VEGAS, Nev., Feb. 23— In ''Beauty and His Love,'' the singer Kazem al-Sahir confesses to his girlfriend that there is someone he loves more than her, someone whom he sleeps with every night, someone whom he dreams of daily. His distraught girlfriend begs him to reveal the name of this lover. Her name, he finally tells her, is Baghdad.
''It is one of my most popular songs,'' Mr. Sahir said, sitting in a restaurant at the Palms Casino Resort here for his first in-person interview since arriving in the United States from a video shoot in Morocco. ''Whenever I sing it, the audience asks that I repeat it, again and again. But I will only sing it twice in a concert.''
Mr. Sahir, 41, is not only Iraq's biggest pop star but also one of the most popular singers in the Arab world, a dashing romantic who has sold about 31 million albums. And as Iraq and the United States prepare for war, he has chosen to do something that almost any thinking person would say was foolish. He is starting an American tour.
It began on Saturday night with a private performance for the Maloofs, the Lebanese-American family that owns the Palms, and their guests. Mr. Sahir is scheduled to perform in Manhattan on Friday night at the Beacon Theatre.
''My friends, they didn't want me to come here now,'' Mr. Sahir said, conducting his first interview mostly in English since hiring a tutor two years ago. ''It's a difficult time.''
Brian Taylor Goldstein, the arts attorney who obtained Mr. Sahir's work visa, said: ''Getting an Iraqi singer in right now was not the easiest thing in the world. And the V3 category of visa, for culturally unique performers like Kazem, has been especially difficult, because it often means the artist is coming from a non-Western culture.''
It helped that Mr. Sahir had a Canadian passport, because his children and his wife, from whom he is separated, live there. Though he left Iraq in the early 1990's and has become a Canadian citizen (he has homes in Cairo, Dubai, Paris and Toronto), he still says that Iraq will always be his home. He said he felt compelled to tour so that he could ''show another face of my country'' and inspire Americans to ''think good thoughts -- not all bad thoughts -- of my people.''
When he sat next to Kofi Annan, the secretary general of the United Nations, on a flight recently, Mr. Sahir said, he handed him a CD and wrote on it, ''Don't forget about Iraqi children.''
Fans of his long, symphonic, sinuous songs of romantic love include two Grammy winners: Carlos Santana, who has arranged to meet Mr. Sahir after the Iraqi singer's Berkeley show next week, and the soprano Sarah Brightman, who sang a duet with him, ''The War Is Over,'' for her next album.
When the BBC World Service asked its listeners to come up with the ''world's Top 10 favorite'' songs, Mr. Sahir's ''Ana wa Laila'' (''Me and Laila') was No. 6, two places above Cher's ''Believe.''
With close-cropped black hair, a stocky build, a chiseled face, a hooded sweatshirt and blue jeans, Mr. Sahir looked more like a soccer player than a pop singer. He moved through the casino without bodyguards or an entourage, said he was not worried about his safety while in the United States, did not believe that the government here was monitoring his movement and seemed surprised when asked if it was difficult for him to get obtain a work permit.
In fact, to some degree, he seemed almost unaware that being an Iraqi in the United States today was far different from what it was 17 months ago, a change that has prevented many Middle Eastern musicians from obtaining work permits and visas. ''He has no fear,'' said Dawn Elder, his manager in North America and Europe. ''He says if something is going to happen to him, it's going to happen. He believes in living life to its fullest. And I agree: you need to not be afraid of life.''
For others, to see him perform is to make a statement. Leigh-Ann Hahn, a world-music presenter who flew in from Los Angeles for the show, said: ''When I told my mother I was going to an Arabic-owned resort to see an Iraqi musician, she was aghast. But I told her that he was a renowned vocalist, he was carrying a message of peace, and it was important that I have the opportunity to see him perform.''
Iraq is considered by some to be the cradle of classic Arabic poetry and music, a tradition carried on by the Musical Institute of Baghdad, where Mr. Sahir studied. Born in northern Iraq, he lived in austerity with nine siblings. At age 10 he sold his bicycle to buy a guitar and started inventing romantic stories for his girlfriends. By age 13 he was not only writing love letters for his older brothers to send to girlfriends but also composing classical-based songs for his own girlfriends.
Known primarily as a songwriter for other musicians, he worked for several years to persuade the music establishment there to let him both compose and sing his own songs. And when he finally appeared on television with his own ''Ladghat el Hayya'' (''The Snake Bite'') in 1987, it was banned for lyrics that discussed Baghdad's atmosphere of fear and restriction near the end of the Iran-Iraq war.


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Madina Lake haven't had a chance to catch their breath from all the activity bustling around them this summer! Currently wrapping up the last leg of this years' Projekt Revolution tour featuring Linkin Park, My Chemical Romance and Mindless Self Indulgence, the band have been hard at work connecting with fans throughout the US. From sales spikes to radio airplay, to TV appearances, to winning a hugely prestigious music award, these four guys from Chicago are on a trajectory straight upward.
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Three Market Factors Which Citi Says Are Worse Now Than In 2007
When it comes to the current state of the market, everyone knows - whether they admit it or not - that it is broken. And we aren't talking HFT which while rigging price discovery, generally does so on a microburst momentum basis which at most lasts for the duration of the trading day. The real culprit of the broken market is the Fed, a Fed which as we have explained over the years, is simply seeking to compensate for the collapse in stock (and flow) from the unwind of shadow banking which was nearly crushed in the days after Lehman.
Citigroup's Stephen Antczak admits as much: "QE has obviously created a huge distortion in the marketplace, pushing risk-free rates and risk premiums well through many "fair value" metrics. But that said, doesn't every credit cycle seem to have distorting factors of some sort? For example, one can easily argue that back in the pre-Lehman era the shadow banking system was every bit as much of a distorting influence as QE is now. (Shadow banking is defined as forms of intermediation that create credit without being subject to regulatory oversight, i.e., unlisted derivatives, hedge funds, etc.)"
However, the silver lining at least to Citi, is that while massive Shadow Banking, peaking at over $20 trillion in 2008, was inherently unstable and subject to liquidity runs (which did in fact happen in September 2008 when first money markets, and then other shadow conduits, froze up), the Fed is far more stable. Antczak's amusingly quips that "we are not going to see a BWIC from the Fed anytime soon." Which to be sure is yet another "certainty" among the economist community - just like every economist saw the US economy picking up in 2014, and 67 out of 67 economists polled in April expected higher bond yields in 6 months. If there is one thing we know about a unanimous opinion share by economists is that it is always wrong. All we have to say here is: "subprime is contained", and, "housing prices can not possibly ever go down." Nuf said.
But let's ignore the "improbable" end game unwind for the time being.
A more practical concern, and one which Citi's credit guru Stephen Antczak focuses his attention on, are the factors that in 2014 are as bad as or worse than during the heyday of the last credit bubble in 2007.
Here they are:
1. Valuations
With regard to valuations, spreads are still north of the levels seen in '07 in an absolute sense, but to a large extent the extra spread represents compensation for factors that have evolved since '07. These factors include higher dollar prices (typical HG non-fin trades at $109 now vs. $103 in early '07) and lower liquidity, among others. After adjusting for such factors, spreads in many parts of the market are more or less equivalent to '07 levels.
In fact, it is not all that difficult to find names that now trade through '07 levels. IBM on-the-run 10-years are trading at 76 bp, or 7 bp through '07 levels (in OAS terms). And KO 10-year benchmarks are now at 65 bp, or 13 bp through '07 levels (Figure 2).
But for those of you who worry that these examples may be the exception rather than the rule, we looked at the distribution of the spread change of name matched on-the-run 10-year bonds since Jan '07 (Figure 3). It's almost shocking that the proportion of credits that are tighter now than they were in '07 is only a hair shy of the proportion of those that are wider. What this tells us is that it wasn't really all that hard to find names like IBM and KO – pick out of a hat and 1 in every 2 are trading through '07 spreads.
2. Liquidity
Liquidity, defined as the bid / ask for a given trade size, is far less ample now than it was in the pre-Lehman era. This is in part due to how dramatically dealer balance sheets have shrunk — back then dealer B/S totaled almost 4% of corporate bonds outstanding, relative to only 1% now (Figure 4).
But that said, it's very easy to overlook how problematic liquidity was back then. The reason is because everyone seemed to take abundant liquidity as a given back then, and trading strategies were based on this expectation — negative basis trades, CPDOs, SIVs, leveraged loans in TRS form, etc. all fit this profile. But this is certainly not the case anymore. In fact, if investors assume anything about liquidity at this stage, it's that it won't be there when it's needed, in our view. And investment strategies have been adjusted accordingly.
To illustrate in real world terms, consider the triple-A CLO market then vs. now. In early '07 triple-A CLOs traded in a 1 to 2 cent market for sizes in the 10 mm to 20 mm range. Now the bid / ask is about 25 cents for the same size. So in this context the advantage obviously goes to '07. But as we know, the ability to actually transfer risk in '07 at these levels was fleeting.
Figure 5 shows that the typical triple-A fell over 30 pts when the banks prop books that owned the vast majority of this "liquid" paper had to unwind their positions and a new buyer had to be discovered. Conversely, the biggest downturn in recent years was approximately -$2.2 pts.
3. Rates
Treasury yields are low and the consensus expectation is that they will rise at some point. The problem is that mutual fund holdings of corporate bonds are higher now than they have ever been — 15% of the market (Figure 6) — and if outflows occur in response they could overwhelm dealer balance sheets.
We did not have this problem in '07 for three reasons. First, rates were higher than they are now (they averaged 4.6% then vs. 2.7% now), so it wasn't a given that yields would move higher. Second, mutual funds only accounted for 8% of the corporate market, about half as much as now. Third, as noted above, dealer balance sheets were much larger, providing more cushion for risk transfer activity.
But that said, how much pressure could we see as a result of a rates-induced selloff? We built a framework to estimate mutual fund flows given various Treasury yields, and we find that a yield of 3.5% by year-end would cause an outflow of about $15 bn. Certainly not good, but potentially manageable, in our view.
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Among the factors that Citi doesn't think are as bad as they were in 2007 are corporate leverage (which is ironic because as we won't tire of showing, corporate leverage has never been higher), Investor Leverage (before one agrees, take a quick look at this chart of Prime Broker-enabled hedge fund leverage), and Treasury Curves (considering the Fed is sitting on the front end, if only until the time of the "dots" arrives, we wouldn't assign much value to yet another manipulated metric).
But all of the above is completely meaningless in its own factual vacuum: at the end of the day all that matters is what traders and investors think and believe. And a perfect indicator of what said belief is, we paraphrase a statement a Portfolio Manager made to Citi:
"You're picking up pennies on a train track. You are not getting paid much but you are sure that there will be a very negative surprise at some point. The risk / reward profile is as bad as '07."
Judging by recent comments by such hedge fund luminaries as David Tepper this is increasingly the norm. Which is why anyone expecting the same 30% return in 2014 as in 2013, will certainly be very disappointed on December 31 of this year.
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That's enough to get the market positive. assholes
only THREE??? I would have thought only THREE Factors are better now than in 2007 while THREE THOUSAND Factors are worse off.
So help me here, ZH and the Tylers have written extensively on Citi and companies like them and their penchant to lie to the muppets.
So this article tells me that I'm to believe what Citi is spewing?
Methinks Not!
ARSEWHOLE PROPAGANDA ! Flush all these experts down the toilet.
Nickels in front of steamrollers!
Spread levels on 10 year stuff don't even look that bad. Spreads on short-end corporates in some instances are single digits. That's just crazy.
Here's how the Chicoms do it with steam rollers.
And the Fed keeps pumping QE? WTF
The reason for high valuations is QE.
The reason for less liquidity is taper.
The reason for higher long rates was the QE and the reason for lower long rates is the taper.
Anyone that believes they have actually tapered can kiss my hairy bunghole!
It's spectacular how these bailed out bum banks which for some reason are 'TBTF' are now ringing the alarm bells...far as I'm concerned they're just lying in order to further rob the general public. They probably know the Fed is about to launch a huge new QE or some shit.
Remember, I said up 100bps by mid-afternoon. A little late, but now moving in the right direction.
You can always count on these clowns to relentlessly try and increase their "wealth" at every opportunity... ironically, this will also destroy their wealth at some point. They gotta learn the hard way
and look at all the Fraud markets rocket up from the dead in the last hour of frauding...
fucking doomed this country is..
looks like something wonderful occured at 240pm edt. they must all want to split a little early today
S&P went down a whole 2% this week That was scary!!!!!
who fucking cares. as long as we got the dutch behind us, what possibly can go wrong?
a country made up of 12 provinces and 3 islands, 16 million people and is rankd #23 in terms of GDP.
give me chocolate and waffles or give me death
yellen is a fucking criminal
And give me the beer!
..The Dutch? You mean the Belgians right?
Lehman is not a good basis for comparison. It was programmed to fail before that. Blame Greenspam as the local firestarter, Nixon before that.
Oops, have to start the post with normal next.
"You're picking up pennies on a train track. You are not getting paid much but you are sure that there will be a very negative surprise at some point. The risk / reward profile is as bad as '07."
Good analogy overall, but actually things are much worse now, in 2007 we didn't even realize we were on a track and we'd never seen a train there (and we were picking up dimes!), today we KNOW we are on the track, we were SENT here by the Fed, and it's the Fed who is driving that train, high on cocaine.
To illustrate in real world terms, consider the triple-A CLO market then vs. now. In early '07 triple-A CLOs traded in a 1 to 2 cent market for sizes in the 10 mm to 20 mm range. Now the bid / ask is about 25 cents for the same size. So in this context the advantage obviously goes to '07. But as we know, the ability to actually transfer risk in '07 at these levels was fleeting.
I count this as excellent progress, advantage 2014! The 1 to 2 cent markup meant that no risk was perceived, the 25 cent markup acknowledges the risk, somewhat. The ability to *transfer* risk is JUST ABOUT ZERO in any case, these premiums are predictions, not effective hedges.
(this is actually talking about market spread, not the yield premiums, and it's really the premiums that needed to be boosted by about 2500 points: liquidity of a market in shit, is not a feature!)
It should be a class three felony to include on any prospectus that the aggregation of rocks turns them into fluffy clouds, that tranching "transfers risk". It does not. Any theory that says so, is crap, crap for the muppets, but even more than that crap for the regulators.
"Which is why anyone expecting the same 30% return in 2014 as in 2013, will certainly be very disappointed on December 31 of this year."
Or not.
My bet is minimum SnP 22xx as of December 31 this year. But more likely 23xx. With a healthy correction into summer first. After first - for everybody clearly to see - again new ATHs.
With all the sheeple again on the wrong side - fueling also the coming rallies.
Markets - and market makers - can remain insane much longer than you might think.
myeh-myeh-myeh, blah-blah-blah, buy buy buy!
Dow 20 berjillyun, bitchez!


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While fulfilling titular obligations, "Six Sex Scenes and a Murder" provides tepid titillation as various suspects produce carnal alibis around the slaying of a handsome ne'er-do-well. Writer-director-producer Julie Rubio's first feature was inspired by her own experience of a boyfriend killed by a gangland hit. That story is likely more interesting than this fictionalized form, a quasi-1940s noir mystery that hasn't enough style, intricacy or excitement to accomplish the job. Local production booked a week at San Francisco's Lumiere starting May 30, but further hardtop prospects look remote.Shot outside an S.F. nightclub, Nick Hamilton (Richard Anthony Crenna Jr., a buffed-up version of his late dad) had plenty of potential enemies, having been involved in vague criminal activities for some time — recently with a big mob boss. Onetime true love Regan (Kristin Minter) is among the many grilled by Detective Reece (Jasper Watts) the next morning. Their last-night confessions encompass several Kinsey Scale points but are awfully mild (some pecs/breasts exposed) as erotica. Thesps seem mostly cast for looks. Writing and pacing are flat, while tech/design aspects suggest low-end cable as the likeliest destination. — Dennis Harvey
An East Meets West production. Produced by Julie Rubio. Executive producer, Rob Meadows. Co-producers, Ramona Torres Maramonte, Justin Barber. Directed, written by Julie Rubio.
Camera (color, HDcam), Marty Rosenberg; editor, Anthony Lucero; music, John Pratt; art director, Christine Gilb. Reviewed at Dolby Labs Screening Room, San Francisco, May 21, 2008. Running time: 114 MIN.
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In the IBM Cognos Insight User Guide, the topic that is titled "Importing and mapping dimensions or cubes" is missing some information about importing reports that include prompts. The corrections to this topic are addressed in this technote.
Resolving the problem
This topic should read as follows:
Only reports that were created in IBM Cognos Report Studio can be imported. If the report contains prompts, you must answer the prompt before you can import. Single-value prompts offer a list of possible answers to select from. For other prompt types, such as text or date prompts, you must enter a value by typing it in the format that the prompt expects. For cascading prompts, all prompts except the first needs to be resolved by typing in the value in the format that prompt expects.


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Thinking Worlds authoring tool now Live!March 31, 2009
The Thinking Worlds authoring tool is now live and available for download from http://www.thinkingworlds.com
Go to the site for demos, tutorials and movies.
Here are some vids of the tool in action:
Learning in your sleepFebruary 12, 2009
There has been a lot of conjecture on the role of sleep in memory formation and consolidation. New research indicates that – in animals at least – that sleep is crucial for consolidating memories at a biochemical level. Donald Clark is a big proponent of 'spaced practice' in learning – taking breaks for consolidation and optimal performance. Well, its official, take a break for a kip and you'll do yourself right. Neuroscience gets better every day. Red wine, chocolate and now sleep helps learning performance.
"If you ever argued with your mother when she told you to get some sleep after studying for an exam instead of pulling an all-nighter, you owe her an apology, because it turns out she's right. And now, scientists are beginning to understand why.
In research published this week in Neuron, Marcos Frank, PhD, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, postdoctoral researcher Sara Aton, PhD, and colleagues describe for the first time how cellular changes in the sleeping brain promote the formation of memories.
"This is the first real direct insight into how the brain, on a cellular level, changes the strength of its connections during sleep," Frank says.
The findings, says Frank, reveal that the brain during sleep is fundamentally different from the brain during wakefulness.
"We find that the biochemical changes are simply not happening in the neurons of animals that are awake," Frank says. "And when the animal goes to sleep it's like you've thrown a switch, and all of a sudden, everything is turned on that's necessary for making synaptic changes that form the basis of memory formation. It's very striking."
The team used an experimental model of cortical plasticity – the rearrangement of neural connections in response to life experiences. "That's fundamentally what we think the machinery of memory is, the actual making and breaking of connections between neurons," Frank explains
See full article at http://www.physorg.com/news153578717.html
Online Educa Virtual Worlds and Serious GamesDecember 8, 2008
Just got back from Online Educa in Berlin. The snow and the wonderful Christmas decorations in Berlin lifted everyones spirits and I think contributed to a great show. Serious Games and Virtual Worlds were big features on the talk circuit – although less so in the exhibitors. Generation Y was the other big theme for me. Caspian gave two talks and our tech featured in a couple of others.
We were right next door to Second Life and Crisware which made us feel at home. We had our camera at the ready at the stand and in our talks. We asked a number of people about their thoughts on 2009 and what it held for Serious Games and Virtual Worlds for learning. Views included: more of the same; no uplift; focus on defence and public with budgets not affected by credit crunch; need for rapid development tools; scorm; and web delivery.
The videos are linked below – Clive Shepherd; Donald Clark; Adrian Hall (x DFES); Euan Mckenzie; Birgit Reiser (EU); Rolf Neilsen; SecondLife x 2. Enjoy.


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Ok, hands up if you just spent the last minute or two peering closely at your monitor trying to see if there are any "nice" bikes in there!!
"the bus came by and I got on, that's when it all began...there was Cowboy Neal at the wheel of a bus to never-ever land."
me too cant see one tho???
haaha, me2. but i don't see a single mtb that looks decent. they all look like they're from k-mart.
You might be able to sell them all and maybe buy a good bike.Originally Posted by alumrock12
Police impound. I bet somewhere between the $100 kmart bikes there is a $3,000 XC beast.Originally Posted by WannaGetGood
Anyway why is MTB chained?
you gotta love those plastic wheels on the one bike (8th from the front in the middle row) and the sweet fork.
I'll take the sweet oragne moped.
Yeah I got caught lookin'.
Nice old Schinn roadie 2nd bike far left. Is that a yellow 04-05 Specialized Rockhopper, middle row about 1/3 of the way back? The all black fork doesn't look like the usual X-mart crap with lots of loud paint and stickers.
EDIT: When to they have their auction?
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was I looking? duh.
Descend like Basso, Climb like Cav and sprint like Schleck.
Story of my life.
I take the orange croutch rocket.Originally Posted by DylanTremblay
Yup, I was looking too. My eyes were drawn to that Schwinn also. Drivetrain looks a bit rusty. Horizontal drops???Originally Posted by roccobike
look a bit closer ... looks like a small motorcycle to me.Originally Posted by free_pizza
current ride: 2003 norco vps fluid 3.0 (custom build).
I'll take that schwinn roadbike.
I also see a Giant MTX 225
I dig the road bike (the motorized one)
I just noticed the 4 or 5 pink bikes.
And you probably wanted each one.Originally Posted by Pheard
Only if they are made by hello kitty.Originally Posted by KonaRider24
Yea I was lookin.
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Me, Raleigh Grand sport
wife, Huffy 10 speed
1st step son, schwinn continental
2nd step son, schwinn Varsity
3rd step son, Peugeot c105
Daughter, Huffy girls 10 speed
Son, mostly rides in a trailer
Most likely getting bikes ready for police auction.Originally Posted by WannaGetGood


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The PRCA has announced that individual memberships will become available this week, in a new category of membership joining its existing offer of consultancy, in-house, international and freelancer memberships.
"When the PRCA was founded, individual membership was on offer for 30 odd years," says chief executive Francis Ingham. "It had stopped for no particular reason – so the board decided it was time to bring it back."
The PRCA represents UK PR and communications professionals, and will provide its new members with access to its services such as training, conferences, awards, and thought leadership events. It launched freelancer membership this summer, and the successful uptake convinced the board that individual membership would be well-received.
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...it's La Toya!
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