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After some suspense, Veronis Suhler Stevenson's sale last month of construction industry media company Hanley Wood to an investment group led by JPMorgan Partners showed that the b-to-b media mergers and acquisitions market remains robust.
Industry observers say that likely is good news for Gruner + Jahr and Primedia, both of which have high-stakes properties on the market.
The sale price of $650 million includes 2005 performance targets that would eventually make the EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) multiple around 11 times based on 2005 EBITDA.
"That should bode well for other people who may be considering selling into this market," said David Harrington, senior VP-media origination for GE Commercial Finance, Global Media & Communications.
Mike Wood, who will retire as CEO of Hanley Wood once the deal closes but keep a seat on the board, agreed that the deal was not only good news for his company but also for b-to-b media in general. He said a buyer with the brand and financial power of JPMorgan was a strong sign of support for business media. "I'm happy because JPMorgan is a great buyer," Wood said.
DeSilva & Phillips, Credit Suisse First Boston and O'Melveny & Meyers advised JPMorgan Partners on the deal.
The length of time it took to complete the agreement, which was expected to be announced at the beginning of May, spread a vast unease throughout the industry and led to speculation that Hanley Wood was not getting its price or that the roiled bond markets were delaying the deal. Wood said that only the latter was true.
Wood said he was pleased with the trailing multiple, which he calculated at 13.8 times 2004 EBITDA.
Joel Novak, managing director of media investment bank Berkery, Noyes & Co. agreed that the price was robust. "It's a win-win for buyer and seller," he said. "It's a franchise with tremendous potential for growth."
Observers are split on how Hanley Wood plans to continue its growth-the company doubled in size since VSS bought it in 1999. Some say the company will ultimately have to diversify beyond construction; others say Hanley Wood plans eventually to make a bold move in attempting to acquire McGraw-Hill Cos.' or Reed Business Information's construction properties.
Frank Anton, who is Hanley Wood's president and will take over as CEO after the deal closes, said, "The intention in the immediate and foreseeable future is to remain entirely focused on construction." Anton said he expects Hanley Wood, which also plans to grow organically, to begin making acquisitions well before the end of the year.
Meanwhile, other deals are occupying the industry right now. After selling its consumer titles to Meredith Corp., Gruner + Jahr has placed its business titles, Fast Company and Inc., on the block. Insiders say there is great interest in the properties, although industry observers say the properties, both of which are down sharply in ad pages this year, will not draw multiples comparable to Hanley Wood's.
Meanwhile, Primedia saw EBITDA for its b-to-b unit increase last year, but its few powerful brands-Telephony, for instance-appear diminished, industry observers said. Nonetheless, the rich deal for Hanley Wood probably indicates that Primedia may get a satisfactory arrangement for its b-to-b unit.
On the negative side, investment bankers have disparaged Primedia's black book, which outlines the property to potential buyers. "The offering was exceptionally poor," griped one banker, who spoke on condition of anonymity, adding, "getting a double-digit multiple [for this property] is ridiculous."


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Clifford Fox Adds Microsoft, Kellogg, Adobe, More to His Portfolio
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For the first time since Rod Blagojevich began his mega-media blitz in 2009, federal prosecutors have asked the trial's presiding judge to slap a muzzle on the former governor.
The final straw for prosecutors apparently came yesterday, when the former governor spoke to the media about the testimony of government witness Lon Monk.
Blagojevich said Monk's parents would be ashamed of his lies from the witness stand.
"Rod Blagojevich's efforts to manipulate media coverage to gain favorable attention and thereby to, directly or indirectly, influence the jury, has reached a level that requires court intervention," prosecutors wrote in a filing.
Former "Celebrity Apprentice" star Rod Blagojevich, will still be able to speak his mind, at least for now. The prosecution's attempt to slap a muzzle on the former Illinois governor and his attorneys was not approved by federal judge James Zagel. Instead, Zagel says he wants the two sides to talk, and come to an agreement about what can and should be said about the trial.
A federal judge has turned down a request from federal prosecutors to issue a gag order in the corruption trial of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
U.S. District Judge James B. Zagel said he had some concerns about comments Blagojevich and his attorneys made earlier this week, but called a gag order a "last resort" and instead urged the defense to avoid "argument and interpretation" when discussing testimony outside of court.


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The 2010 Honda strikes in China marked a turning point in its labor relations regime, not because they were unprecedented but because they followed several years of rising labor unrest. In some ways reminiscent of New Deal labor law reforms in the U.S., rising collective labor protest has spurred government efforts both to improve labor standards through direct regulation and to institute more participatory and democratic structures for the resolution of labor disputes. Yet China's leaders generally regard collective activity that is outside of and independent of the state as a threat to political stability and Communist Party control, and as a civic wrong rather than a civic right. So for now there is little prospect of China's recognizing workers' own independent labor organizations. Rather, reform efforts focus on reshaping some features of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU), China's only lawful labor union structure.
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The 20-year-old country superstar recently was named one of the top 100 most influential people in the world by Time Magazine.
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This thesis explores various Nordic archetypes in the architectural and landscape designs of Swedish modernists, such as Sigurd Lewerentz, Erik Gunnar Asplund, and Peter Celsing. Applying the ideas of existentialist and phenomenological philosophers to this exploration, the thesis proposes a particularly Nordic relationship to the originality of the natural and the sacred place. By transcending a visual symbolism and arriving at their essence, the archetypes can be understood as being part of Sweden's collective memory, existentially ingrained in history and a sense of place. The thesis then further analyzes the author's hypothetical design project for an historical park in Göteborg, reflecting on its relationship to these Nordic archetypes and the site's unique history. Through its experiential presence, the park becomes an embodied program of the "serious picnic," in the balance of the natural, the mundane, and the sacred.
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It occurred to me a couple of weeks ago that I gotta do some traveling after I graduate from college and before I "settle down". And what better way than to go around the world. I've got a preliminary agenda figured out. I've never done any traveling like this and would appreciate any advice on what I could change or do to make this a more successful adventure. I've been pouring over every relevant thread on this website for help and ideas.
Also, I had thought about the working holiday in Australia or NZ for a few months , but I couldn't figure out if they offered those visas to Americans.
There are two "legs" to this. Asia and Europe. I know that I want to be in Europe by the end of April as it is very oppressive (crowds and heat) in Greece after that.
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I have just read your article on the sequence of end time events, which I agree with wholeheartedly. However, a friend of mine in the US, who has a remarkable grip on scriptures and the Bible, says that Daniel's 70th week started with Christ's ministry, ending half way through the 'week' when Jesus was hung on the cross. In her opinion there are only 3 1/2 years left of Daniel's 70th week prophecy and that will be the Great Tribulation. Her numbers and dates seem to add up but my own knowledge is not enough to refute her opinion. What do you say?
Sorry, but I don't believe the 70th Week of Daniel was partially completed by the Lord's earthly ministry. Here's why.
Daniel 9:26 says, "After the sixty-two sevens the Anointed One will be cut off and have nothing." (One "seven" equals 7 years, a week of years.)
Since the order of Daniel 9:25 means the first 7 "sevens" would also have been completed, Daniel 9:26 tells us the Anointed One (Messiah) would be "cut off" after 69 of the 70 "sevens". The Hebrew word translated "cut off" means to "cut down, eliminate, or kill".
Then it says, "The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary." This refers to the Roman army burning the city and destroying the Temple 38 years after the crucifixion.
Following that, this ruler will confirm a covenant with many for one "seven"(Daniel 9:27). This is the remaining seven years of Daniel's prophecy
No matter whether you think this final "seven" has already taken place or not, the language is clear that it follows the Lord's death. Therefore His earthly ministry could not have occurred during the first half of the 70th Week.
In addition, the Seal and Trumpet judgments will occur in the first half of the final seven years. Wars, famine, earthquakes, and other judgments will kill 1/3rd of mankind during that time (Rev. 9:15). There's no record of a series of judgments like this taking place during the Lord's time on Earth.


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Koch's AFP Complains about Gas Prices, but Koch Speculation Helps Fuel High Prices at the Pump
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At the Mt. View gas station in Wausau, Wisconsin last week, some motorists were able to secure a gallon of gas for $1.84, thanks to a subsidy from David Koch's Americans for Prosperity. These astroturf publicity stunts have taken place at gas stations around the country in recent weeks as part of AFP's effort to mobilize votes for Mitt Romney by drawing attention to an alleged rise in gas prices since President Barack Obama took office. But since most experts attribute the rise in gas prices to long term trends and crude oil commodity speculation, AFP's hijinks only underscore the role of Wall Street speculators -- including the Kochs themselves -- in jacking up critical commodity prices on average Americans.
AFP Subsidizing Gas to Woo Undecided Voters
The gas giveaway is part of AFP's larger "Obama's Failed Agenda" bus tour criss-crossing the nation from New Jersey to Wisconsin, where the group will spend the final days of the campaign.
AFP says the stunt is an attempt "To show just how bad policies lead to higher costs for American families," and places the blame for the rise in energy prices entirely on "Obama's policies." AFP New Jersey Director Steve Lonegan claims the increase in gas prices is due mostly to Obama's "radical, ideologically-driven 'green agenda' that has driven up gas prices to twice as high as they were four years ago," which is nearly identical to comments made by AFP directors in other states.
Gas Price Claims Deceptive, Misguided
Throughout the early 2000s oil and gas prices had been following an upward trend, peaking in mid-2008 then plummeting briefly just before Obama took office as the result of the global economic downturn.
More importantly, AFP's energy campaign relies on the false notion that oil prices are determined strictly by the laws of domestic supply and demand: that prices would fall if only, somehow, the supply of oil were increased (perhaps by increased offshore drilling or the Keystone XL pipeline, both of which AFP supports).
In reality, the price of gas at the pump is determined by a host of other factors, particularly rampant speculation in the oil market which artificially drives up the price of oil, creating a new value based not on supply or demand, but on the intricacies of trading at any given time. An internal report published this year by Goldman Sachs estimates oil speculation may contribute as much as $20 to every barrel of crude oil.
Kochs Contribute to (and Profit From) High Gas Prices
While Koch Industries is a privately held company, evidence suggests that Charles and David Koch have profited enormously from the private, unregulated oil exchange market. The brothers are industry leaders in oil speculation and pioneered the first oil trading schemes in the 1980's. They have also artificially restricted the supply of oil by buying up large quantities of crude oil and holding it offshore in tankers -- hardly the behavior of a corporation concerned about "higher costs for American families."
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exponentially increased their wealth] by 58 percent while median family net worth dropped 40 percent. When fully implemented, the new Wall Street reform rules that bring transparency to the derivatives market might show us how much of this profit is due to oil speculation.
It is no wonder the Koch's fought hard to oppose it -- or why they are trying to put the blame for high gas prices elsewhere.
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OK, assuming that 25% of oil rise is attributed to speculators, and carry that forward to the price of gasoline(I know simple viewpoint). Then speculation contributed $1 to the price of gas. What about the other $1+ ??
Simple economic theory tells us that supply and demand are the largest and most important factors affecting the price of commodities. To imply that an increased supply would have no effect on the prices at the pump is very misleading. It that were true then the price would not be affected by everyone in China and India suddenly buying a car a driving around.
The supply/demand has a definite effect on the speculators as well. Let's assume that the Kochs have massive volumes of oil stored at sea. Then suddenly we open up drilling and pipelines at the same time. Add to that the greatly increased MPG of cars and the lowered number of miles per driver in the USA(lowering demand). If all of those factors hit at once(higher supply & lower demand), the Koch s and other speculators would loose everything. Granted the MPG and miles driven are only for half of the worlds demand, but all of these factors DO effect the price at the pump. And government policies and leanings do effect these things including the speculators. To dismiss one factor (supply), and focus mostly on only one factor (speculation) is crazy.
A very large factor in the price of gasoline is the refinery capacity. There can be all the oil stored that you want, but once you hit a certain level of consumption of gasoline in the USA the price will go up simply because the supply of gasoline is limited by the capacity of our refineries. Our operating capacity in refineries is essentially the same as it was in 1982. In 1982 the USA consumed under 2,400,000 barrels in 2011 we consumed just under 3,200,000. As you can see that is a 33% increase in consumption(demand) with no increased in refining capacity(supply). Any government interested in providing low gasoline costs for its people would provide incentives for the building or overhaul of refineries. Instead our government blocks this type of action indirectly and directly.
A true leader takes control and responsibility for all factors, some within our control and on the others it is how we react to things outside our control. They do not take credit for higher MPG and then blame everything else on other factors.
A Great Article
Submitted by Terry Steward (not verified) on November 4, 2012 - 7:48am.
Every single American should read this article and forward it to their representative in Congress. This is a great informative article that explains how the whole world is being ripped off at the pump by the oil manipulation by big oil. I applaud the author for having the courage to put the truth out there for the world to read. Thank you, Terry Steward
GOP Oil Price Stunt
Submitted by FBuckley (not verified) on November 3, 2012 - 2:15pm.
The Goldman-Sachs number is ludicrous. In 2008, when Crude Oil hit $145, then dropped to $32 a Barrel, that Difference is YOUR effing Speculator Payoff. The US Wholesale Payout alone since 2006 is $2.2 Trillion, from a Gross or Net Wholesale Gasoline/Fuelburned out the tailpipe of $3.6 Trillion. This is the USDomestic Number NOT THE WORLDWIDE PILLAGING THESE SPECULATORS HAVE CAUSED WHICH INCLUDES THE ARAB SPRING. Stupid and INSIPID regulators and GOP Love Bunnies are your a__holes. Along with The Goldman-Sachs, et.al. THE GREAT ENERGY ROBBERY CONTINUES AT $1 Billion Per Day for the US. ADD ANOTHER $2.5 Billion per Day for the rest of the World's Economies and you have Pure Economic Servitude. And Collapse.
Global Oil Scam
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on November 3, 2012 - 12:11pm.
Google the "$2.5 Trillion Oil Scam - slideshare" and google the "Global Oil Scam. The US is a victim of this scam. The Koch brothers are "silent partners" in the IntercontinentalExchange(ICE). Plug your electric car into your household, solar power battery.


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See my pretty felted fleece egg? (Thank you Deni, for making it for me) See that it is resting on a finished front with a built in button band? Ha! Despite Aubergines reservations and the fact that I just broke with tradition, threw caution to the wind and boldly knit an attached button band...without even burning a skein of mohair at midnight under the full moon...everything is ok.
No locusts, no plague, no rain of fire or hailstones. In fact, it is a bright and lovely spring day. I'm taking that as a sign. The band is even, lovely and does not flare or pucker. I really think I'm on to something here. This could be goodbye to button bands forever.
I've put pins where I want button holes on the other side, and as long as I can work out a button hole I like, today should be the end of the boring cardie. Anybody know a buttonhole that looks particularly good in twisted rib? I hate button holes in rib. They always look wonky.
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-Giving the sweater a name I'm sure it finds objectionable.
-Mocking button bands openly, and within hearing of the yarn.
-Saying "this should be quick" out loud.
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According to a report from CVG, Rocksteady has confirmed that it intends to continue developing Batman games following Batman: Arkham City.
While that isn't a massive surprise given the popularity of Batman: Arkham Asylum and the hype proceeding Batman: Arkham City, but it is nice to hear that Rocksteady has enough confidence in its upcoming Batman title that it is already looking beyond to the next project.
"I mean I think as long as we're still enjoying it and as long as we feel we can contribute to the Batman universe," Rocksteady's Dax Ginn told CVG when asked how long they could continue churning out Batman titles. "That's how it feels.
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a dark, british street. silence. suddenly you hear confident footsteps rattling on the cobblestone. Tack tack tack. The rain was (of course) pouring down while Frank Sinatra heads back to his mark. AAAAND ACTION! and what is he wearing? A tailored suit and Oxfords, of course.
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A former student at a central Indiana high school has agreed to a $150,000 settlement of her lawsuit claiming school officials failed to stop bullying by a male classmate.
Neither the Bartholomew Consolidated School Corp. nor the male student admit any wrongdoing in the settlement, which calls for a $100,000 payment from the district's insurance company and $50,000 from the male student's family insurer, The Republic of Columbus reported Wednesday.
The federal lawsuit filed last year and dismissed Nov. 22 claimed the male student at Columbus North High School spread sexually explicit rumors about the girl.
Cheryl Sobieralski said that her daughter, who is now 20 and in college, was bullied and intimidated by the boy throughout the 2008-09 school year and the following summer during band camp. She said that led to her daughter having panic attacks and talking about suicide.
"We had meetings with the school, sent letters to every member of the school board and the superintendent, and the school simply would not do anything about it," Sobieralski said. "We didn't know what to do."
School district Superintendent John Quick said a district review of the bullying claims "found that folks acted in an appropriate manner."
Quick said the district was one of the first in the state to train all administrators in bullying prevention and that it has an active anti-bullying task force.
"I do think that we have good policies and procedures in place, and our folks do follow those," he said. "We don't ignore (bullying). We follow up, and we investigate. We try to take appropriate action."
Joseph O'Connor, an attorney for the male student, said that his client "vigorously denied the allegations."
"Purely to avoid the expense of a federal jury trial, my clients' insurer agreed to pay a settlement, which specifically stated that our clients denied any wrongdoing," O'Connor said.
Sobieralski said the family had never wanted to file a lawsuit and was relieved simply to resolve the matter.
"We never went into this for a monetary reason," she said. "It was always to make a point and to try to change people's reaction to bullying in (the district) in the future."


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When two Canadian lesbians broke up in 2006 they divided all their assets, but forgot about the 13 tubes of sperm they had stored in a sperm bank. Later one of the women re-partnered and asked to use the leftover sperm, but her ex wanted it destroyed.
The first woman went to court to fight for sperm ownership, and recently a judge ruled the women should divide the sperm, just as they had everything else.
Let's listen in as two figures directly involved in the case react to the decision.
Ernie: Finally.
Harold: Yes, all this waiting around was getting me down. I think I was even losing my will to swim.
Ernie: Don't worry, boy. Soon as they unfreeze us, you'll be off like a shot.
Harold: I do hope so. I hope my tail feathers remember which way to go.
Ernie: They will, but I gotta tell you, once we're let loose, it's every gamete for himself. I'm on a mission.
Harold: Roger that, Rambo. Isn't it amazing, Ernie, the path we've traveled? Why, we were brought into this world during the last millennium!
Ernie: By a guy with a dirty magazine.


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Manners must be very marked indeed before they cease to be interpreted by preconceptions either confident or distrustful.
--from Chapter II
For surely all must admit that a man may be puffed and belauded, envied, ridiculed, counted upon as a tool and fallen in love with, or at least selected as a future husband, and yet remain virtually unknown -- known merely as a cluster of signs for his neighbours' false suppositions.
--from Chapter XV
One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find depreciated.
Certainly, small feet and perfectly turned shoulders aid the impression of refined manners, and the right thing said seems quite astonishingly right when it is accompanied with exquisite curves of lip and eyelid.
Many men have have been praised as vividly imaginative on the strength of their profuseness in indifferent drawing or cheap narration -- reports of very poor talk going on in distant orbs, or portraits of Lucifer coming down on his bad errands as a large ugly man with bat's wings and spurts of phosphorescence, or exaggerations of wantonness that seen to reflect life in a diseased dream. But these kinds of inspiration Lydgate* regarded as rather vulgar and vinous compared with the imagination that reveals subtle actions inaccessible by any sort of lens, but tracked in that outer darkness through long pathways of necessary sequence by the inward light which is the last refinement of energy, capable of bathing even the ethereal atoms in its ideally illuminated space. He for his part had tossed away all cheap inventions where ignorance finds itself able and at ease; he was enamoured of that arduous invention which is the very eye of research, provisionally framing its object and correcting it to more and more exactness of relation; he wanted to pierce the obscurity of those invisible thoroughfares which are the first lurking-places of anguish, mania, and crime, that delicate poise and transition which determine the growth of happy or unhappy consciousness.
--from Chapter XVI
* Lydgate-- A young doctor recently arrived in Middlemarch. A central protagonist.
Lydgate: Don't you think men overrate the necessity for humouring everybody's nonsense till they get despised by the very fools they humour? The shortest way is to make your value felt so that people must put up with you whether you flatter them or not.
Farebrother*: With all my heart. But then you must be sure of having the value, and you must keep yoyurself independent. Very few men can do that. Either you slip out of service altogether and become good for nothing or you wear the harness and draw a good deal where your yoke-fellows pull you....
Farebrother: I don't translate my own convenience into other people's duties.
--from Chapter XVII
*Farebrother-- A reflective pastor in the Middlemarch area. A supporting character.
A sense of contributing to form the world's opinion makes conversation particularly cheerful.
--from Chapter XXII
The dreamlike association of something alien and ill-understood with the deepest secrets of her experience seemed to mirror that sense of loneliness which was due to the very ardour of Dorothea's* nature.
--from Chapter XXXIV
*Dorothea-- The young woman at the center of Middlemarch's drama.
There was something horrible to Dorothea in the sensation which this unresponsive hardness inflicted on her. This is a strong word, but not too strong: it is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted until men and women look around with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made and say the earth bears no harvest of sweetness-- calling their denial knowledge.
--from Chapter XLII
She was always trying to be what her husband wished and never able to repose on his delight in what she was.
--from Chpapter XLVIII
It seemed clear that where there was a baby, things were right enough, and that error, in general, was a mere lack of that central poising force.
--from Chapter L
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
but with regard to critical occasions, it often happens that all moments seem comfortably remote until the last.
--from Chapter LI
For the egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.
--from Chapter LIII
The spiritual kind of rescue was a genuine need with him. There may be coarse hypocrites, who consciously affect beliefs and emotions for the sake of gulling the world, but Bulstrode* was not one of them. He was simply a man whose desires had been stronger than his theoretic beliefs. If this be hypocrisy, it is a process which shows itself occasionally in us all, to whatever confession we belong, and whether we believe in the future perfection of our race or in the nearest date fixed for the end of the world; whether we regard the earth as a putrefying nidus for a saved remnant, including ourselves, or have a passionate belief in the solidarity of mankind.
There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men.
For religion can only change when the emotions which fill it are changed, and the religion of personal fear remains nearly at the level of the savage.
--from Chapter LXI
*Bulstrode-- The chief Middlemarch bigshot. Not a member of the landed gentry, but a self-made man, of sorts.
Lydgate certainly had good reason to reflect on the service his practice did him in counteracting his personal cares. He had no longer free energy enough for spontaneous research and speculative thinking, but by the bedside of patients the direct, external calls on his judgement and sympathies brought the added impulse needed to draw him out of himself. It was not simply that beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectably and unhappy men to live calmly; it was a perpetual claim on the immediate fresh application of thought and on the consideration of another's need and trial.
--from Chpater LXVI
His mind was crowded with images and conjectures, which were a language to his hopes and fears, just as we hear tones from the vibrations which shake our whole system.
It was more bearable to do without tenderness for himself than to see that his own tenderness could make no amends for the lack of other things to her.
--from Chapter LXIX
It was only the common trick of desire, which avails itself of any irrelevant scepticism, finding larger room for itself in all uncertainty about effects, in every obscurity that looks like the absence of law.
--from Chapter LXX
Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was than simply to know it, for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge and had a more liberal allowance for the incompatible.
--from Chapter LXXI
The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character.
--from Chapter LXXVI
Pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compasion.
--from Chapter LXXVIII
Certainly those determning acts of her life were not ideally beautiful. They were the mixed result of young and noble impulse struggling amidst the conditions of an imperfect social state, in which great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion. For there is no creature whose inward being is so strong that it is not greatly determined by what lies outside it. A new Thersa will hardly have the opportunity of reforming a conventual life, any more than a new Anitgone will spend her heroic piety in daring all for the sake of a brother's burial: the medium in which their ardent deeds took shape is forever gone. But we insignificant people with our daily words and acts are preparing the lives of many Dorotheas, some of which may present a far sadder sacrifice than that of the Dorothea whose story we know.
Her finely touched spirit had still its fine issues, though they were not widely visible. Her full nature, like that river of which Cyrus broke the strength, spent itself in channels which had no great name on the earth. But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive, for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts, and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life and rest in unvisited tombs.
--from the Finale
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David Stevenson takes a short ride on the ETF train and sees the industry landscape changing as competition intensifies, providers grow in number and the range of products gets broader.
The Federal Reserve's interest-rate normalisation process, the UK's 'Brexit' referendum and the extent of China's slowdown have been weighing on investors' minds. Yet passive exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have still grown in popularity. So, how exactly have they prospered in these uncertain times?
Let's start by going back to the beginning of last year. When the European Central Bank (ECB) introduced quantitative easing (QE) – its asset-purchase programme aimed at buying sovereign debt to support recovery – its actions gave European equity ETFs a shot in the arm.
In January 2015, investors pulled $24.9 billion (€22 billion) from US equity funds and put $22.8 billion into their European equivalents. Investment gurus such as George Soros and Robert Shiller also sought to ride the new wave in Europe, in what was described by many as "the only game in town".
Then the V8 engine of emerging market growth, China, stalled.
Last summer, investors got the jitters when the Shanghai Composite Index saw a third of its value wiped out in the course of a month – though ETFs still managed to finish 2015 with a record level of inflows.
But this was only the first time that China stalled. There were global repercussions once again on the opening day of 2016, when trading was suspended on China's main exchanges. Next day, Europe's second-largest ETF provider, Deutsche Bank's db X-trackers, saw its Harvest CSI 300 China A-Shares ETF slump nearly 9% in US midday trading.
Recent headline figures suggest that European investors are focused on safe-haven assets such as fixed income: in April, there were inflows of $3.7 billion into fixed income ETFs, according to BlackRock, and outflows of $2.5 billion from European ETFs. But this doesn't tell the whole story.
April also saw inflows of $1.3 billion into broad emerging market ETFs and $1.67 billion into US equities.
"European ETF investors have made an important distinction between buying US and emerging market equity exposures on the one hand and selling domestic equity exposures on the other," says Ursula Marchioni, chief strategist for iShares, Europe, Middle East and Africa.
While there were continued flows into fixed income ETFs in April, she adds, the funds attracting the most money were those tracking European corporate bonds and emerging market exposures. Figures from BlackRock show that European investment grade debt ETFs saw inflows of $1.5 billion in April, while emerging market debt funds had inflows of $1.3 billion.
The ECB's extension of its asset-purchasing programme in March – to include corporate bonds – probably bolstered that asset class. It means investors now have a buyer of last resort. Traditional safe havens such as government bonds have seen outflows. European sovereign ETFs suffered $1.5 billion in outflows in April; it seems that investors are tired of paying governments for the privilege of lending to them in return for negative yields.
But what about providers? New entrants in Europe over recent months include WisdomTree and Fidelity. The European ETF train is hard to stop.
"You really need to get an ETF business to $15-$20 billion in order to have scale going forward. Also, you need breadth of funds and not just one idea," says Lee Kranefuss, executive chairman of ETF provider Source, who came up with the idea of starting iShares at Barclays Global Investors.
Source is fast gaining market share. In March, it came second in terms of new money into its products, gaining €567 million, according to market data provider ETFGI. Kranefuss credits its independence.
"In times of market stress, independence [from a bank] takes worries off people's minds," he says. "In times of market turbulence, people worry about banks – it's the nature of beast."
But banks with ETF offerings think these fears are groundless. Andrew Walsh, head of ETF sales at UBS for the UK and Ireland, says that, as a fund, ETF assets are ring-fenced and not owned by the bank sponsor. Any kind default by the issuer should note be a problem.
"If you have a fear of banks, then you could argue that you'll be scared of anything they offer, not just ETFs," add Walsh.
UBS is fourth in the ETF league table, having carved out its own niche in the ETF market. Last year, before the equities markets imploded, it offered the broadest range of currency-hedged equity ETFs in Europe. This year, fixed income products are making headway.
UBS offers the Barclays US Liquid Corporates ETF suite, which has seen assets grow to £417 million, up from £232 million six months ago. Its one-to-five-year version of this fixed income ETF has seen assets grow by £124 million to £382 million during the same period.
As Walsh notes, while currency hedging was of great importance to clients last year due to fears over a potential Brexit, it is now less of a concern. Investors are choosing UBS's unhedged versions of European Monetary Union (EMU) ETFs.
Lyxor, the third-largest ETF provider in Europe, has also seen a big change over the year. Head of ETF sales in the UK and Ireland, James Waterworth, says Q1 of 2016 was one of the least productive asset-gathering periods for some time, with €5.7 billion raised compared to €29.3 billion the previous year. "The run rate is somewhat muted, uncertainty is due to weakening growth," he says.
By offering a range of products to satisfy the shifting risk appetites of investors, big players dominate the ETF market. As Waterworth says, investors like scale – but there's room for niche providers, such as specialist equity houses or smart beta players, where firms may be able to get on to buy lists and attract flows.
It's said that the ETF industry has low barriers to entry but high barriers to success. As Marchioni notes: "It will be key for investors to be active with their passive exposures and pay close attention to asset allocation both tactically and strategically." To aid this, economies of scale are surely needed.
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I only did an NMEeeeeeh the other day, I know. But time has moved us on, has it not? If you want to read my most recent blog, with new music from Rihanna, Little Mix and The Artist Formerly Known As Cheryl Cole then click on this text right here that is underlined. If you want to read today's YOU ALREADY ARE HOW NICE FOR YOU. YOU LUCKY DEVIL.
Vince Kidd - Sick Love, feat. Lady Leshurr
Released 4th November
The chances are you don't know who Vince Kidd is. The reason that I do is that two of my good friends watched The Voice UK (meaning they made up roughly 18-20% of its TV audience). Having only watched the "grand" finale, I can safely say that Vince Kidd was the only remotely interesting thing on the entire programme. He actually had something about him.
Unfortunately for Vince he only managed to come fourth in the final (probably because Jessie J picked the most boring song in all of her back catalogue for them to duet to and then kept doing that weird "HUP!" thing when Vince was singing). Well done all concerned.
Vince has bounced back now and has just released the video for his upcoming debut single, entitled Sick Love. It's a song about shagging which is something we can all enjoy (unless you are one of them Jonas Brothers obviously) (except the one who is now married, cos he can have sex whenever he likes, the lucky devil), particularly Vince himself who sounds like he definitely needs a good shagging.
"Dirty. Twisted. Crazy. Nasty...Sick Love", sings Vince in the chorus to the song, which actually puts me in mind of Lady GaGa's The Fame album, but a little bit NAUGHTIER, so well done Vince you've made a good song.
What lets the song down is the rap in the middle, which seems to come from nowhere and literally adds nothing to the song. Other weakness is that the song, while it is good, isn't actually all that sexy. Which is a bit of a letdown when you're singing about giving someone a right good rogering, n'est-ce pas??? Mind you, I'd definitely still let him-- would you not...????
Inspired by the fact Vince Kidd was mentored by Jessie J on the CULTURAL PHENOMENON that was The Voice UK, today's rating scale is the "strange faces pulled by Jessie J in her Domino video". But the question is: how many "strange faces pulled by Jessie J in her Domino video" out of 5 has Vince Kidd managed to score with his debut single..?
Solange - Losing You
Available right this second
It's hard constantly being in the shadow of a sibling, but I imagine it's 10 times as hard when your sister is one of the most recognised faces on the entire planet, and is pretty much acknowledged as one of the most talented women in the music industry. And that's life for Solange Knowles.
Luckily, she's a lady with an ace up her sleeve with her newest single Losing You, which set Twitter gays abuzz yesterday when its music video was unveiled. Musically, it's Pet Shop Boys meets Rihanna, meets Robyn (an unusual but fabulous mix) with mournful lyrics about fearing that she's "losing you for good".
And that's basically it. There isn't a terrible lot to say about the song. Admittedly it's a tiny bit repetitive, but that's not always a bad thing really is it. Here's the video:
It's ironic that with this song about losing someone, Solange is going to be gaining a lot of new fans.
Actually is that ironic or is it just coincidental. Whatever. Here's some Jessie J faces:
Adele - Skyfall
Released 5th October
OK so I'm basing this on a preview clip, the song won't be heard in all of its glory until this Friday. What are you gonna do? Are you gonna sue me? ARE YOU GOING TO SUE ME FOR REVIEWING A CLIP INSTEAD OF A FULL SONG?? OBJECTION!!!!!!!!!!!
So, yeah. Adele has recorded the Bond theme for the upcoming film Skyfall. And it's everything you'd expect Adele doing a Bond theme to be- it's dramatic, it's big-sounding, it's brooding. The one thing it's not, which I think is quite unexpected, is sad. It's not a sad song, it's actually a love song about standing by someone and taking on the world together.
"Let the sky fall, when it crumbles we will stand tall and face it all together", Adele sings, which is a lovely message indeed and a welcome change from her usual schtick of "You have hurt me, now I'm pissed in a taxi rank at 4 in the morning, wanted to dial your number but accidentally called your mam and now I'm crying into my kebab".
It's also a lot more of a traditional Bond theme than more recent efforts from Madonna or Jack White, it seems she's taking it back to the days of Shirley Bassey or Carly Simon with this one, which I definitely approve of because at the end of the day who doesn't love a bit of Diamonds Are Forever???
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6 Stocks from a Quant Master's Strategy
04/16/2012 7:15 am EST
Focus: STOCKS
Joel Greenblatt made quantitive investing accessible for individual investors, and his simplified system is still effective, writes John Reese of Validea Hot List.
Anyone who has ever put cash in the market knows that making money in stocks is hard. But what a lot of investors don't realize is that while it is difficult, it doesn't have to be complicated. You don't need incomprehensible, esoteric formulas and you don't need to spend every waking hour analyzing stocks—Joel Greenblatt has proved that.
Back in 2005, Greenblatt created a stir in the investment world with the publication of The Little Book that Beats The Market, a concise, easy-to-understand bestseller that showed how investors could produce outstanding long-term returns using his "Magic Formula"—a purely quantitative approach had just two variables: return on capital and earnings yield.
To choose stocks, Greenblatt simply ranked all stocks by return on capital, with the best being No. 1, the second No. 2, and so forth. Then, he ranked them in the same way by earnings yield. He then added up the two rankings, and invested in the stocks with the lowest combined numerical ranking.
The slightly unconventional ways in which Greenblatt calculates earnings yield and return on capital also involve some good common sense—and are particularly interesting given the recent credit crisis.
For example, in figuring out the capital part of the return on capital variable and the earnings part of the earnings yield variable, he doesn't use simple earnings. Instead, he uses earnings before interest and taxation. The reason: These parts of the equations should see how well a company's underlying business is doing, and taxes and debt payments can obscure that picture.
In addition, in figuring earnings yield, Greenblatt divides EBIT not by the total price of a company's stock, but instead by enterprise value—which includes not only the total price of the firm's stock, but also its debt. This give the investor an idea of what kind of yield they could expect if buying the entire firm—including both its assets and its debts.
In the past few months, we've seen how misleading conventionally derived P/E ratios and earnings yields could be, since earnings had been propped up by the use of huge amounts of debt. Greenblatt's earnings yield calculation is a way to find stocks that are producing a good earnings yield that isn't contingent on a high debt load.
In my Greenblatt model, I calculate return on capital and earnings yield in the same ways that Greenblatt lays out in his book. We added the Greenblatt portfolio to our site in January 2009, but have been tracking its performance internally for several years, and its underlying model has factored into our Hot List selections for the past four years or so.
So far, the model has been a strong performer, with some big ups and downs. Since we began tracking our ten-stock Greenblatt-based portfolio in late 2005, the S&P 500 has gained just 11.1%; the Greenblatt-based portfolio has gained about 46%—that's 6.2% annualized, vs. 1.7% annualized for the S&P.
The portfolio beat the market in 2006 and 2007, and then did what few funds have done: limit losses in what for stocks was a terrible 2008, and handily beat the market in the 2009 rebound. It fell 26.3% in 2008—not good, but much better than the S&P 500's 38.5% loss—and surged 63.1% in 2009, vs. 23.5% for the S&P.
It beat the market slightly in 2010, had a rough 2011 (losing 15.3%), and has lagged so far this year. Greenblatt stresses that the strategy won't beat the market every month or even every year, however, which is important to remember. Over the long haul, though, it should produce excellent returns.
One note: Because of the way financial and utility companies are financed (i.e. with large amounts of debt), Greenblatt excludes them from his screening process, so I do the same. He also doesn't include foreign stocks, so I exclude those from my model as well.
Here's a look at some of the current holdings of my Greenblatt-based portfolio. Among the holdings are four firms from the much-maligned for-profit education industry, a sign of how the strategy isn't afraid to head into rough waters to find bargains:
- Bridgepoint Education Inc. (BPI)
- Apollo Group Inc. (APOL)
- ITT Educational Services (ESI)
- GT Advanced Technologies Inc. (GTAT)
- Strayer Education Inc. (STRA)
- C&J Energy Services Inc. (CJES)
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