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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “lexicon”

 

• The Lexicon of Sustainability

  
  Civil Eats — Authority: 536
  Urban farmer. Heirloom. Food security. Methane digester. These are just a few of the terms you’ll find in the Lexicon of Sustainability , a series of portraits that speak the language of a growing movement. The project began with Douglas Gayeton’s first book, Slow: Life in a Tuscan Town , which portrayed the ...
  12 hours ago

• Options: Did You Catch These Falling Knives?

  
  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page — Authority: 528
  By The Financial Lexicon : A couple months ago, in " Catch These Falling Knives By Selling Puts ," I offered ideas for selling put options on any of six stocks that had declined significantly from their 2011 highs earlier in the year. As a brief review, here are the six trades from the previous ...
  1 week ago

• JNK: A Look Inside This ETFs Trunk

  
  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page — Authority: 528
  By The Financial Lexicon : In recent weeks, Ive written analyses on two popular corporate bond ETFs, the iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond Fund ( LQD ) and the iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond Fund ( HYG ). Since writing " LQD: Do You Know Whats In Your Bond ETF? " and " HYG: Peeking Inside ...
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• The invented languages of Clockwork Apples and Oranges

  
  OUPblog — Authority: 523
  By Michael Adams Belinda Webb ’s futuristic, dystopian novel, A Clockwork Apple (2008), follows Anthony Burgess ’ A Clockwork Orange (1962) closely in many details: the first-person narrator’s name is Alex; the male Alex in A Clockwork Orange has “droogs” named George, Pete, and Dim (‘Dim being ...
  1 week ago

• "Modern Justice"? Yeah, it kind of is.

  
  Lodging in Public — Authority: 100
  Arrestingly creepy headline in the NH&RA lobby groups HousingOnline newsletter : "Modern Justice: Former Federal Courthouse Is Renovated Into Workforce Apartments in Kansas City". The article is behind a paywall but anyway its the headline I want to talk about. "Workforce housing"? How can people in a democracy ...
  2 weeks ago

• Skiing Lexicon pt 1

  
  Snowboarding Skier — Authority: 459
  There are a lot of things that you should do in order to prepare yourself for the slopes this upcoming ski season, and one of those things is to become well versed in the lingo associated with skiing and other winter sports. Here is a skiing lexicon that will help prepare you for the upcoming skiing and snowboarding ...
  2 weeks ago

• URCHINS + AIRWOLF + TRUMPDISCO

  
  manalogue — Authority: 111
  Image stolen from airwolfparadise.com Don’t let the long, wanky intro fool you. This new tune from AIRWOLF is not trance. Grab it on beatport . The tune is a bit of a departure from what Airwolf normally produces, and so is this collab with TRUMPDISCO . www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsw-pX3BsZc Make sure ...
  2 weeks ago

• Patient orientated versus task orientated

  
  Respiratory Therapy Cave — Authority: 111
  Sometimes we medical caregivers become so involved in the task that we forget the patient is a real person.  In a way, its almost as though we are running an assembly line and each patient is simply a part that needs fixing. Yet patients are real poeple.  So this means that we have to focus extra hard on getting ...
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• The Twilight Lexicon Takes a Look Back at Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Playlists

  
  Twilight Series Theories — Authority: 106
  The Lexicon has continued their “Fandom Flashback” segment with a retrospective on the playlists Stephenie compiled for each of the Twilight books and how the idea of having book playlists has spread to other authors: When I first visited Stephenie Meyer’s website back in 2006, there was one list that caught my ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Shit Girls Say meme: friendly prejudice, but prejudice all the same | Thea Lim

  
  top99news - breaking news from the world top newspapers — Authority: 164
  http://www.guardian.co.uk The Shit Girls Say meme: friendly prejudice, but prejudice all the same | Thea Lim This kind of stuff is the verbal equivalent of friendly fire – something that another set of videos rightly skewersThe Shit Girls Say meme, where men in drag make videos saying, well, shit girls ...
  2 weeks ago

• LQD: Do You Know Whats In Your Bond ETF?

  
  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page — Authority: 528
  By The Financial Lexicon : How would you like to invest in a diversified $17.6 billion investment grade corporate bond fund with an incredibly low expense ratio of just 0.15%, a trailing 12-month yield of 4.41%, and over 700 different holdings? Roughly 70% of its holdings have less than 10 years to maturity, and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Profiting From Anomalies In Corporate Bonds

  
  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page — Authority: 528
  By The Financial Lexicon : In the fixed income and equity markets, securities often deviate in price from what the underlying ratings or analyst opinions would suggest should be happening. While its more difficult to definitively state that certain financial metrics and analyst ratings should lead to certain ...
  2 weeks ago

• 6 Investment Grade Corporate Bonds To Explore

  
  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page — Authority: 528
  By The Financial Lexicon : In the never-ending search for yield in a zero-interest-rate environment, one place on the ratings scale worth considering when looking for corporate fixed income securities is the lower reaches of investment grade. The following six corporate notes all have Baa1 or Baa2 ratings from ...
  2 weeks ago

• Stocks Like Presidential Election Years

  
  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page — Authority: 528
  By The Financial Lexicon : As the election cycle kicks into full swing, it is useful to take a look at what history tells us about equity market returns during presidential election years. Given that the popular S&P 500 ( IVV ) first debuted in its current form on March 4, 1957, I took a look at all ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Most Important Stocks In The World

  
  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page — Authority: 528
  By The Financial Lexicon : Stock markets and sovereign bond markets are very powerful. In a world in which debt, leverage, and the "wealth effect" appear as pillars on which economic stability seems to rest, equity and sovereign bond markets have the ability to strike fear into the hearts of politicians, bankers, ...
  3 weeks ago

• 7 Stocks That Survive An In Depth Screen

  
  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page — Authority: 528
  By The Financial Lexicon : In a previous article , I outlined a recent equity screen I ran with the following eight criteria: Market capitalization greater than $5 billion Dividend yield of 2% to 4% Beta between one and two Short interest as percentage of shares outstanding less than or equal ...
  3 weeks ago

• My Stock Selection Criteria, And 5 ADRs To Consider

  
  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page — Authority: 528
  By The Financial Lexicon : For investors who are interested in purchasing individual stocks but are struggling to come up with viable ideas, I’ve run a screen for stocks using eight criteria that I think are important to investors nowadays and/or important to exposure in an equity portfolio. In no particular ...
  3 weeks ago

• Record Breaking Sales Of Bullion Coins Continues

  
  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page — Authority: 528
  By The Financial Lexicon : I recently spent some time digging through data on sales of gold ( GLD ), silver ( SLV ), and platinum ( PPLT ) American Eagle bullion coins by the United States Mint. While delving into the nitty-gritty of the coin sales, I noticed a few fascinating details that might be of interest to ...
  3 weeks ago

• How Occupy occupied our lexicon | Bob Garfield

  
  top99news - breaking news from the world top newspapers — Authority: 164
  http://www.guardian.co.uk How Occupy occupied our lexicon | Bob Garfield Now I know why my gag at an awards dinner speech bombed: the ‘word of the year’ is just too ubiquitous to be funnyA few months back, yours truly was visiting an exotic foreign land called “England”, in the role of emcee at an ...
  3 weeks ago

• History Says Stocks To End 2012 Higher

  
  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page — Authority: 528
  By The Financial Lexicon : How much does history drive your decision making? While past performance is certainly no guarantee of future performance, it seems as though historical returns serve as a core tenet of many investing philosophies. When stocks don’t live up to expectations, this idea is then ...
  3 weeks ago

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