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Yields on Junk Bonds Reach New Low
As Investors Fight for Returns, Payout on Debt From Weak Companies Takes Its First Dip Below 5%
The stampede into junk bonds passed another milestone, showing investors are casting aside concerns about the health of the U.S. economy for a shot at padding their pocketbooks.
The Barclays U.S. Corporate High Yield index fell to a record low of 4.97% Tuesday, marking the first time the benchmark tracking debt issued by weaker U.S. companies dropped below 5%. On Wednesday, it fell to 4.96%. The yield on the index has lost more than a percentage point this year, in a sign of hefty demand for income-producing securities. Bond...

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Let's play pretend. Basketball legend Shaquille O'Neal announces that he's got a game coming out. Despite a few forays outside the realm of sports (remember the magic of Kazaam and hard-hitting rhymes of "Biological Didn't Bother"?), you assume this venture will have something to do rebounds, layups and fast breaks.
Well, that's partially true of Shaqdown, but the complementing points of the plot are closer to The Walking Dead than SportsCenter. In the game, Shaq is the Justice Bringer, thwarting mutant zombies with slams, uppercuts and laser beams.
You're clearly confused by this intro. But you're also interested in what the heck is going on with this game and how exactly Shaq came to be fighting the supernatural. Read on after the jump to get the gist and to find out if Shaqdown is good for more than just a few laughs. (more…)


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(CNN) — Sen. Marco Rubio will visit Israel and Jordan on a weeklong trip to the Middle East that started Saturday, the Florida Republican announced.
He will meet with President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel as well as Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad. In Jordan, he will meet with King Abdullah, he said.
This trip comes days after he delivered the Republican response to President Barack Obama's State of the Union address on Tuesday.
"On foreign policy, America continues to be indispensable to the goal of global liberty, prosperity and safeguarding human rights," Rubio said in his response. "The world is a better place when America is the strongest nation on Earth. But we can't remain powerful if we don't have an economy that can afford it."
The National Jewish Democratic Council blasted Rubio for not mentioning Israel in his response, though Obama only mentioned Israel once in his speech.
Rubio serves on both the Senate Intelligence and Foreign Relations committees.
He plans to speak with the Israeli leaders about the peace process with Palestinians and Egypt.
"America's friendship with Israel is a truly special one, and we must continue to do all we can to support this beacon of democracy, religious freedom and free enterprise in the heart of an unstable region," he said in a statement Saturday. "As Iran continues its pursuit of a nuclear weapon, we must continue to apply pressure through every possible means in order to prevent a nuclear Iran."
In Jordan, he is "interested in learning more firsthand about the impact the Syrian civil war and how the humanitarian crisis that has resulted is impacting Jordan and the region."
Rubio said his wife would accompany him on the trip but not at taxpayer expense. He has previously visited Israel.


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Depressive Symptoms in Women Aged 65 Years and Older Associated with MCI and Dementia
As I discussed in an earlier blog post this month, the association between behavior and/or personality traits to developing dementia is a growing topic of interest that I am asked to discuss frequently. Depression, in particular, arouses a lot of interest, as many studies have shown an association between depression and poor physical, social and cognitive functioning. The latest study from the Women's Health Initiative Memory Study (WHIMS) examined whether depressive symptoms in post menopausal women would increase the risk of developing mild cognitive impairment and/or dementia.
The Women's Health Initiative (WHI) is a multisite population-based study that assessed the risk and benefits of hormone therapy in healthy postmenopausal women. The WHIMS, was designed to examine the effect of post menopausal hormone therapy on cognition and memory in healthy women aged 65 and older at the study baseline. A total of 7,497 community dwelling post-menopausal women were enrolled in WHIMS. They were aged 65y to 79y at enrollment and were free of Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) and dementia. Analyses for this study were based on the 6,376 ( 85%) WHIMS women who completed: (1) a six item Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D), (2) a two item National Institute of Mental Health's Diagnostic Interview Schedule (DIS) and (3) attended at least one follow up visit.
Typical questions asked on the CES-D were whether (1) the participant felt depressed (blue or down), (2) had restless sleep (3) enjoyed life (4) had crying spells (5) felt sad and (6) felt that people disliked the participant. The two questions from DIS asked whether in the past two weeks or more if the participant felt sad, blue or depressed and whether if they had for two or more years feelings of depression/sadness. Other baseline data included demographic information, medical history, lifestyle variables including physical activity and body mass index (BMI). Cognitive testing was measured using the Modified Mini Mental State Examination (3MS) at baseline and yearly after that.
The protocol for assessing MCI and dementia was divided into four phases that included administering to all participants a screening exam for cognition, a more in-depth cognitive battery, and then an assessment by a physician experienced in diagnosis dementia. If a participant was suspected of having dementia, they underwent the typical "work up" for dementia and that included a brain scan and laboratory blood tests. The physician then provided the final diagnosis of the type of dementia.
Of the 6,376 women included in these analyses, 508 met criteria for having depression. Women with depressive disorder were more likely to be African American, widowed, separated or divorced; had lower education, income, and global cognitive function. A total of 216 participants (3.4%) developed MCI , 102 (1.6%) developed dementia of any type and 285 (4.5%) women developed MCI or probable dementia during follow up. Those women who had depressive symptoms at baseline, were found at follow up (mean 5.4 years) to have a greater risk of developing subsequent MCI and incident dementia compared to those who were not depressed. These associations did not change after controlling for lifestyle variables, cardiovascular risk factors, cerebrovascular disease or antidepressant use.
Few population based studies have examined the association of depression to development of MCI and dementia in women. This study is the first to examine these associations in a large group of post menopausal women. Other notable strengths of this study include its large and multiethnic sample size, drawn from diverse communities across the US. These findings suggest that depression may indeed be a risk factor for dementia in women, and that adequate screening and possible intervention may prevent the onset of cognitive decline and dementia.
Here are 3 articles you can refer to for learning about this particular study or the latest research on depression, women and cognitive impairment:
Goveas JS, Espeland MA, Woods NF et al: Depressive Symptoms and Incidence of Mild Cognitive Impairment and Probably Dementia in Elderly Women: The Women's Health Initiative Memory Study. J Am Geriatr So 59: 57-66, 2011
Dal Forno G, Palermo MT, Donohoue JE et al. Depressive Symptoms, Sex and Risk for Alzheimer's Disease. Ann Neurol 2005; 57: 381-387
Yaffe K, Blackwell T, Gore R et al. Depressive Symptoms and Cognitive Decline in Non Demented Elderly Women: A Prospective Study. Arch Gen Psychiatry 1999; 56: 425-430
Thanks for reading.
Neelum T. Aggarwal, M.D.
Steering Committee Member, ADCS
This post originally appeared in Alzheimer's Insights, an ADCS Blog.
One Response to "Depressive Symptoms in Women Aged 65 Years and Older Associated with MCI and Dementia"
My mom suffered from depression, which developed into alzheimer's. I'm glad to see research on this subject. It's been a very slow and difficult road for us. Thanks for the info.
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2015 Outdoor: Finished her standout career at UMBC with another strong spring season for the Retrievers... Made an appearance in every meet in the 100m and 200m dashes... Set a new school mark in the 200m dash at the America East Championships, taking gold with a time of 23.55... Also won gold in the 100m dash, with a time of 11.36... Qualified for the ECAC Championships, taking second place in the 100m dash... Named Most Outstanding Track Performer at the America East Championships for the fourth time.
2014-15 Indoor: Had another stellar season on the track for the Retrievers... Competed in the 60m dash and 200m dash for the Retrievers at the America East Championships... Set a new school, and America East record in the 200m dash at the championships, en route to a gold medal in the event... Also won the 60m dash with a time of 7.39... Set her season best time in the 60m dash at the ECAC Championships, where she won gold with a time of 7.35... Earned America East Most Outstanding Track Performer and Co-Coaches' Award... Named ECAC Most Outstanding Track Performer.
2014 Outdoor: Named the America East Most Outstanding Female Track Athlete at the 2014 conference outdoor championship meet after winning gold in the 100m dash and silver in the 200m dash… Also led off for the gold medal-winning 4x400m relay team… Matched her career-best and school record time of 23.58 in the finals of the 200m dash… Won the 100m dash on her home track at the Big Dawg Invitational at UMBC Stadium… Qualified for the ECAC Championships in both events at the season-opening FSU Relays in Tallahassee, Fla. … Advanced to the semifinals for the 100m dash at the ECAC meet at Princeton… Named to the America East Commissioner's Honor Roll.
2013-14 Indoor: Swept the 60m and 200m dash events at the 2014 America East Indoor Track and Field Championships and was named the Most Outstanding Female Track Athlete for the meet… Recorded a season-best 60m dash time of 7.41 three times during the winter season, including during the prelims of the conference meet in New York… Set her season-best time in the 200m dash of 24.00 en route to winning gold in the final at the America East Championships… Qualified for the ECAC Championships in both events while competing at the Penn State Relays… Named the America East Female Track Athlete of the Week on Feb. 11 after placing fourth in the 60m dash and seventh in the 200m dash at the Armory Collegiate Invitational.
2013 Outdoor: Earned an Honorable Mention on the All-America Team by the USTFCCCA after advancing to the NCAA Championships for the 100m dash… Placed 23rd overall in the event in Oregon… Reset her own school record in the 100m event four times during the year, trimming it down to 11.46 at the NCAA East Preliminaries at North Carolina A&T… Also reset her own school mark in the 200m dash, cutting it to 23.58 at the America East Championships… Swept the conference titles in both sprint events and was named the conference Most Outstanding Female Track Athlete at the America East meet at Binghamton… Won the ECAC title in the 100m event in a then-school record time of 11.51… Also anchored the 4x100 relay team to a silver medal at the America East meet.
2012-13 Indoor: Named a Second Team All-American by the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA)… Broke her own school record in the 60m dash, qualifying for the NCAA Championships with a career-best time of 7.34 at the Penn State Nationals meet… Became just the fourth Retriever to ever qualify for the national meet… Placed 13th in the 60m dash with a time of 7.38 at the NCAA meet at Arkansas… Also reset her school record in the 200m dash with a new career-best time of 23.98, also at Penn State… Won both the 60m and 200m competitions at the 2013 America East Indoor Championships… Named the America East Most Outstanding Female Track Athlete at the championships in Boston.
2012 Outdoor: Won the 200m dash and finished second in the 100m dash en route to being named the Most Outstanding Female Rookie at the America East Outdoor Championships at Maine... Won the 200m event with a school-record time of 23.80... Set the school standard in the 100m dash by running an 11.66 during a second-place finish at the Morgan State Legacy Meet... Also a part of the 4x100 and 4x200 relay teams which broke school records... Finished 31st in the 200m dash and 44th in the 100m dash at the NCAA East Preliminaries.
2011-12 Indoor: Named the America East Most Outstanding Female Rookie at the conference meet in Boston after winning the 60m dash and earning a silver medal in the 200m dash... Broke her own school record in the 60m dash, along with the facility record, with a time of 7.49 in the event finals... Had initially set the school record in in the 60m dash in her first-ever collegiate meet, the Bison Opener... Also broke the record in the 200m event with a time of 24.00 in both the prelims and finals at the America East Championships.
Background: Helped lead her team to win the state championship… Was a member of the National Technical Honor Society and was an Honor Roll student all four years.
Personal: Daughter of Robert and Beulah Watts… Has one older sister, Jeanine… Majoring psychology and hopes to become a physical therapist… Born Nov. 12, 1993.


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OAKLAND — BART directors voted Thursday to terminate a perk that gave themselves and their families free travel for life in the rapid transit system.
From now on, BART board members who leave office must turn in their passes, although those who have already left office get to keep theirs.
The 6-2 vote to terminate the benefit followed a spirited board discussion over perks, privilege and public service.
Until the vote Thursday, BART was the only large public transit agency in the Bay Area to give free lifetime passes to board members. Other agencies either did not have free passes for board members or ended the benefit when a board member left office.
Directors John McPartland, of Castro Valley, and Tom Radulovich, of San Francisco, voted no. They said it was a gross misallocation of time to focus on such a small benefit for transit board members who work hard at their part-time elected jobs.
Director Gail Murray of Walnut Creek disagreed, saying the benefit was important as a symbol that BART has richer benefits above those available to regular train riders.
Ending the perk, Murray said, puts the board in a position of leadership in future contract negotiations over benefits with labor unions, she said.


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Columbia Development Companies is a diversified real estate investment and development company specializing in community enhancing commercial, retail, and residential properties throughout the Northeast, and is one of the country's top five medical facility developers.
The company is renowned for its ability to take on the largest scale projects and to creatively resolve site issues where others have failed. And Columbia Development is unique in its commitment to balancing business and domestic expansion in the communities it works within.


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WAG Hosts Video Game Fair
Can art and technology live compatibly together? Can they complement each other? You bet! Come to the Winnipeg Art Gallery's Re:Play- Game Culture and Technology Art Fair on Saturday, June 11 and find out how. The fair runs from noon to 5pm. Admission is by donation (suggested $2 individual, $5 family).
Programmed by local media artist mrghosty (skot deeming), Re:Play explores the impact and influence of video game culture on the lives, careers, and artistic endeavors of the performers. The event features interactive installations, indie game demos, software demonstrations, hands-on workshops, short artist talks, documentary film previews, game themed crafts and publications, live music, and more.
"Video games and game culture have infiltrated all corners of our lives," says mrghosty. "We play games at home, on mobile devices, online, and more. What was once solely a consumer medium produced by the technology industry has become a world-wide creative phenomenon where independent cultural producers create and distribute their own games, art etc, all based on game culture. Re:Play highlights the creative endeavors from Winnipeggers and beyond who have chosen to work in this field and draw from game culture as their primary inspiration."
Participants are: infinite ammo games, glacier games, complex games, tomscomputerworks, the po-mo project, skullspace, New Media Manitoba, Strata Studios, the bit collective, team 20XX, exousia, clint enns, and mrghosty.
Approaching its centenary in 2012, the Winnipeg Art Gallery is Canada's oldest civic art gallery and Manitoba's leading visual arts institution. With a collection of over 24,000 objects spanning many centuries and cultures—including the world's largest collection of contemporary Inuit art—the WAG is constantly moving between the historical and the contemporary in an effort to engage a growing public with the power of art in our lives.
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A corporal, visual and audio exploration of desire and yearning in the forest canopy.
About biome
The Impetus
Through the 'biome' project, we explored the cooperation and communication which occurs between different species in nature. Our show gives audiences a corporal, visual, and audio experience of the great interconnected web within the forest.
The Process and Creative Team
To achieve this, we focused specifically on the cloud forest of Costa Rica where we engaged in a creative retreat in 2006. The dancers and choreographer met regularly with local canopy tree biologists and ecologists who are studying the canopy and the wildlife that interacts there. We used critical scientific information as a portal through which to connect more deeply with the spirit and poetry of the forest. Our show encourages a sense of preciousness and mystery around wild spaces in nature – and potentially a resounding commitment to preservation.
Artistic Director Jodi Lomask worked with Lead Scientific Adviser and Ecologist Dr. Nalini Nadkarni, Costume Designer Kimie Sako, Filmmaker Amy Harrison, Sound Editor Roberto Salvatore, Sound Director Michael Zbyszynski, Video Artist Nate Pagel, Cameraman Daniel Zox, and the Capacitor performers, Cari Delaplane, Oscar Trujillo, Jocelyn Rudig, Nathan Brumbaugh, and Zack Bernstein.
The Experience
Capacitor created a performance which included a modular set that becomes a cutaway of the forest floor, a stand of trees, and the stems of tender new growth. The performers transform from leaf-cutter ants to families of monkeys, from leaves to droplets of water, and insects to tangling vines. The performers live out a fantasy that many audience members wished they could.
Educational Program
biome is often introduced by lead scientific adviser Dr Nalini Nadkarni with a 20 minute talk about the forest canopy.


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On March 15th, researchers and theorists from around the world gathered at the National Geographic Society in Washington, DC to discuss the real possibility of bringing species like the woolly mammoth, the passenger pigeon and the Cuban red macaw back from extinction. This first-ever TEDxDeExtinction conference was considered to be the global introduction to a new field in conservation biology, "de-extinction." By closely examining the DNA of museum specimens, this emerging field of scientists hopes to incorporate the genes responsible for certain traits of the extinct species into the genome of a similar species.[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=TQ8TlUxiqgY]
During Friday's talk, National Aquarium staff and our blue hyacinth macaw, Margaret, were on hand to talk to the 500+ attendees about the immediate changes we can make as a global society to PREVENT species extinction. As exciting as this new concept is, scientists have also voiced concern that de-extinction will distract from the conservation of species like the hyacinth macaw.
Native to the Patanal region of South America, hyacinth macaws are an endangered species. Similar to the Cuban red macaw – one of the species being discussed on stage as a candidate for de-extinction – habitat loss, local hunting practices and the pet trade are all factors contributing to the decline of hyacinth macaw populations in the wild. Unfortunately, more than a century after the extinction of the Cuban red macaw, birds like Margaret are still facing these human-imposed challenges to survival.
Margaret, now 24 years old, came to our organization from a private home. As is the case with many exotic pets, pet owners under-estimate size (from head to the tip of her tail, Margaret is about 3 ft. long!) and cost of care and eventually, can no longer care for the animal. Luckily, Margaret's previous owner worked with the Aquarium to find her a good home. Margaret is now an advocate for the preservation of her species and others like her!
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Hamletmachine is a text by legendary (East) German playwright Heiner Müller, whose friendship with Robert Wilson lead to several acclaimed productions. Originally produced in 1986, with NYU students in New York, and later that year with local students in Hamburg, Germany, Robert Wilson has revived Hamletmachine for the first time since the 80s for the Spoleto Festival of Two Worlds, with students of the National Academy of Dramatic Arts "Silvio d'Amico" in Rome.
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- Speaker: Brian Odom, Northwestern University
- Abstract: Precision of the best molecular spectroscopy is currently orders of magnitude behind atomic ion spectroscopy, owing primarily to challenges in molecular state preparation and readout. Applications of improved molecular spectroscopy would include searches for time-variation of fundamental constants, parity violation studies, and searches for fundamental electric dipole moments. Our group at Northwestern University is developing the necessary tools to perform clock-quality spectroscopy on single trapped molecular ions. We are currently working with species having semi-closed electronic cycling transitions, so that optical pumping into the rotational ground state can be achieved by pulse-shaping of a resonant femtosecond laser. I will also describe a simple readout technique we are developing to map the internal molecular state onto a co-trapped atomic ion, using a pulsed radiation pressure force to excite secular motion.
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Dear Miss Snark,
I had some good news recently--an agent offered to represent my novel. The agent and I had a longish chat about my writing, and I liked him and felt we could work well together. However, he is just starting out (at a well-reputed agency) and has few sales to his credit. Some of my published friends, who have read my novel and are optimistic about its prospects, have advised me to shop the manuscript around, and try for a more prestigious, well-established agent. (yea, mother in law friends...'you can do better, sooo much better.')
My question is this: what sort of benefit might I expect from having a more established agent? I would like someone who has time for me, and for whom I am not their least important writer. Yet, I don't want to give up potential access to better editors, bigger houses, and more lucrative publishing deals. Agent #1 acted as if he expected I would be showing it to other agents, but I also don't want to delay the process any longer than necessary, and perhaps cause his enthusiasm for me to wane.
So, he was ok to ask out but now that he wants to dance you want to check for better looking dates? Oh wait, middle school flashback, sorry.
Your agent knows he's new. He knows you want Binky to phone you and throw herself at you, followed by Flip, Esther and Andrew Wylie.
If that happens, take good notes, you can dine out on that story for years.
You have an agent who likes your work. You can query till the cows come home but you simply may not get any other offers. Binky et al are busy with very very high powered clients who have lots of deals going, and agents like that don't take on a lot of new talent every year.
When I offer someone representation, I give them my best pitch and then I give them a month. If they haven't gotten back to me, I email them once, ask if they've made a decision, and if the answer is anything but "yes Im on the Snark Tobaggon team" I figure it's no, and move on.
And I do move on. I need to sell stuff to keep my sled greased and Killer Yapp looking better than Kate Moss. That means if you aren't on the team now, I'm going to go find the next guy who will be. If you come back in a month, I may very well have room, but maybe not. I can only run a certain number of active projects at a time, and I've learned the hard way that no one is happy when I'm feeling like I've got too much to do and clients aren't getting all the attention they deserve.
A more established agent might, MIGHT, get you a better deal. There's no way to know. And you can't phrase your choice that way, cause that's not the choice you have. Your choice right now is: 1. sign with this guy now OR 2. hold off, query others, hope for another offer and failing that go back and hope guy #1 is still available.
Bottom line: if you think you can get higher up the food chain , have at it, but you better hustle your bustle cause no one is going to hold off the fiddler waiting for you to get in the dance line.


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By Michael Santoli
The scenario for stocks in 2013 hinges on whether an already mature bull market can find the right combination of supplements and psychology to age gracefully for another year.
In two months, this bull run will turn four years old, having more than doubled since it began on March 9, 2009, with the S&P 500 index (^GSPC) lifting off from a 13-year low of 676. The average duration of all prior bull markets since 1929 is 3.8 years, and the median just 3.6 years. The major indexes have also risen more than the average, albeit from the wreckage of a particularly devastating decline.
Aside from this simple tale of the tape, some seasoned observers are spying wrinkles on the bull. Technical market analyst Mary Ann Bartels of Bank of America Merrill Lynch views fewer and larger stocks leading the tape higher, with unimpressive momentum, as evidence of an aging advance that could culminate sometime this year. Investment firm Leuthold Group also backed off its previous optimistic stock views because of the hazards of mature uptrends.
More fundamentally, much of the benefit from soaring corporate profits and sharply lower interest rates has been realized, this fuel largely spent in propelling stocks to their current levels. Corporate profit margins are near 50-year highs and borrowing rates around half-century lows. There are plausible arguments for why both can remain benignly steady but neither is likely to provide incremental oomph for share prices.
Yet a few factors mitigate the effects of the years on this stock market phase. For one, all prior bull markets at least matched their former all-time high, which now would mean gaining at least another 10%.
Then there is the fact that this bull is uncommonly battle-tested. It has been shadowed by the constant fear that the global economic recovery was faltering, and rattled by the periodic loss of faith in sovereign finances. It has weathered a double-digit percentage decline in each of its three full calendar years, only to prove resilient (with the copious help of central banks' free money acting as "liquid courage," naturally).
Because of this pattern, few of the excesses that typically build up and eventually doom a rising market are apparent. The public has not gotten excited about the market and therefore hasn't driven much speculative froth. Valuations – while not cheap compared to profits – are within roughly the normal band of historical readings, and would not impede a run to new highs should recent signs of economic momentum persist.
Stocks, too, are being flattered by the company they're keeping. The U.S. economy, though it's been growing for more than three years, is still operating well below its potential, with lots of slack productive capacity and idle workers. These are early-stage-recovery traits, and as such are being treated with intense post-recession medicine by a Fed that still views this as a fragile, halting expansion. While the release of minutes from the December Fed meeting showed some policy committee members preferring to end the bond-buying program later this year, the Fed will almost certainly continue to err on the side of easy money and keep rates near zero.
This same Fed suppression of risk-free rates is dragging down yields on all other assets, from mortgage debt to corporate bonds. Set against these alternatives, stocks' valuations are not anomalous at all, even if, in the abstract, shares are not demonstrably cheap.
There are at least two themes to watch in 2013 that should determine whether this bull can keep marching higher: The potential receding of macro/policy influences and the appetite for corporate deal-making and other risk-seeking behavior.
There's a good chance we are now witnessing the peak of partisan polarization and the fiscal frictions driving domestic economic policy anxieties.
Before laughing too hard, consider that, a year ago, the dominant sentiment was that central bankers were at serious risk of losing control of the capital markets, the European Central Bank was not up to the task of holding the euro zone together and a Lehman-like incident was a real risk.
In fact, we saw central banks in 2012 resolutely deploy irresistible monetary firepower to pacify markets and suppress volatility, to the point that today it is broadly taken for granted that they have duly muted the "tail risk" of terrible financial disruptions.
Now that the full "fiscal cliff" has been averted, investors broadly assume the coming debt-ceiling/spending cut debate will prove just as maddening and market-rattling, or even worse. Yet the latest deal took tax rates off the battlefield. And President Obama can use his State of the Union address to invite a broad, legacy-defining fiscal arrangement, becoming flexible to Republican priorities now that his campaign promise on taxes is met.
This should put both monetary and fiscal policy tentatively in the "settled" column, after nearly half a decade in which systemic, macroeconomic and policy threats caused markets to dart and shudder. In a best-case scenario, this would return markets to the boring old elements of gauging the economic cycle and sorting the corporate winners from the losers.
The most bullish handicappers, such as Jim Paulsen of Wells Capital Management, assert that such a policy-risk ebb tide should allow confidence to build among investors and CEOs, extending their time horizons, lifting asset valuations and emboldening hiring and capital spending. Could happen. There's a chance that, even if easy money and a self-sustaining economic recovery can't in themselves inflate stock prices, a spreading sense that the Fed has successfully stretched out the slow-and-steady economic trajectory could be enough to loosen investor and company purse strings.
Either way, the caging of macro/policy monsters could make the market safe again for picking and panning individual stocks and asset classes. The pendulum is overdue to swing back in favor of security selectors, long-short managers and hunters of idiosyncratically mispriced assets. That could mean betting heavily on the auto rebound, loading up on cheap "old tech" stocks or playing possible downside in expensive slow-growth staples stocks.
The second key is deal activity. Mergers and acquisitions volume as a proportion of total stock-market value in 2012 was 20% below the 10-year average. It almost has to accelerate if this market is to resist gravity much longer. This is not just because buyouts enrich the shareholders of the acquired companies. It's because this is the point in the corporate-profit and bull-market cycle when "financial engineering" takes over as a driving theme.
Here, corporate productivity is already high, the rapid demand surge after a recession is past and profit margins near peak levels, while financing is cheap and cash piled high at companies and private-equity funds. Transactional ferment raises the corporate metabolism, enforcing discipline on the active use of capital, leading to purchases, sales, aggressive buybacks, spinoffs and initial offerings – tipping, eventually, toward recklessness.
If such a phase doesn't soon emerge, it will likely mean the post-crisis risk aversion fog refuses to lift, growth globally has sputtered or capital markets have had another unnerving financial accident. Under these circumstances, it would be hard to envision the broad market defying Father Time much longer.
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The Advising Center is staffed by professional and peer advisers committed to providing guidance and information to help undergraduate students have a successful college experience. Information regarding advising programs is available on the university web site (www.sfsu.edu/~advising). Along with general academic advising information, the Advising Center has the following programs:
Undeclared Majors. Academic advisers in the Advising Center help students make informed and satisfying decisions about academic goals that are best suited to their interests and needs. Workshops, resource materials, and appointments are available.
New Student Programs. Orientation is required for all incoming first-time freshmen and is highly recommended for transfer students. Orientations are scheduled during the summer and winter prior to each semester. Academic Advising Days are scheduled each December and May to give incoming and prospective students an opportunity to learn about the university and to talk to faculty advisers. Information materials regarding Orientation and Advising Day are sent to all applicants.
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Reentry and Readmit Students. The Reentry Admissions Program is an alternative admission program available to students who meet certain criteria and who are not otherwise admissible to the university as undergraduates. Students who attended SFSU in the past (readmit students) may make an appointment in the Advising Center to discuss the possibility of readmission.
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I don't consider myself a distro reviewer. My own views on software and usability are so far out of line from the everyday desktop Linux user that my opinions can't help but be twisted and bizarre.
But I do have a long list of distros I've looked over, tweaked, punched, kicked and pondered, and even if I'm harsher on some days than others, I try — really, I do try — to be honest and fair. If I like it, I say so. If I don't, I say so.
This, I really like.
I never was a Linux Mint fan. It won a few points recently in its LXDE rendition by pleasing a neighbor, so in a roundabout way it made me happy too.
And with the release of a Debian-based version, I figured it was time to pause, breathe deeply and take a closer look. So this morning I sloughed off my prejudices (like a snake shedding its skin), installed it and spent the day with it.
I expected no speed differences over the Ubuntu version, and no real super duper changes in the way things worked. I didn't anticipate any usability issues or frustrations, given its history and reputation for making Ubuntu "even easier."
In fact, the only expectation I had really, was an Arch Linux-style rolling release structure, and perhaps a few updates to make after installing.* So this was a shock:
A mere 110Mb, plus or minus, after a cold boot is amazing. I haven't seen a full Gnome setup ride out a startup in under 110Mb since I put together a Gnome skeleton in Arch Linux. And that one was rather sparse.
So a full desktop, with bells and whistles and accoutrements looking at me from about 105Mb out of 3Gb is a bucket of cold water to the face. This is giving Arch a run for its money too.
And really, if anything, this is a complete and absolute vindication for any Debian fan who has ever suggested building a custom system from The Swirl and insisted it would be lighter and/or faster than Ubuntu.
Aye, there's the rub: Ubuntu in its grotesque corpulence, tipping the scales at more than 300Mb just to show a startup screen, is suddenly in a very, very harsh light. Linux Mint Debian is doing as much with only a fraction of the resources.
Even worse, Mint Debian is matching what Lubuntu and its brethren need to get going. The term "lightweight" is suddenly relative.
For a lot of people, resource demand is immaterial; I acknowledge that. And for me, for this machine, it should be also: A core duo with 3Gb of PC2-5300 and a 7200rpm SATA3G drive is hardly a clunker (I hope 🙄 ).
But I don't do my best work on an L2300. I live at 120Mhz and use the fast machine for dull things like checking for spam and streaming audio. (Sue me for wasting resources. I enjoy the irony. 😈 )
So if you tell me that you have a distro that includes almost every heavyweight program available in the Linux software spectrum, to include Firefox with Flash, Java, Gnome, Compiz, MPlayer and VLC and codecs, plus the kitchen sink, and then tell me it'll start up on less than 110Mb … I can't help but be impressed.
And beyond that, I have no higher compliment. Ubuntu, look out: This one offers more, and eats up less. And Arch, look out, because this one can do much the same, with a lot less time spent setting up.
A gold smilie — no, better yet, a green smilie for the Linux Mint Debian crew:
*"A few," by the way, was a drastic underestimate … I had to download about 300Mb in updates and the ISO was released what, 10 days ago? 😯 Be prepared.


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I was just reviewing the material I have for my last remaining FW device -- a DigiTouch/MacNTouch -- and the thought struck me:
What if I cut a recess into my desk that perfectly matches the DigiTouch surface?
I'm thinking I'd have to use a router like this one to route a rectangular recess into my desk. Then I would take the MacNTouch out of its DigiTouch enclosure and drop it into that recess. I would put the USB cable through a small hole and connect it to an extension underneath the desk.
Assuming that I could even do this job in a halfway decent manner, it would be immensely cool to have a touch console completely flat with the desk surface!
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5-Year-Old Girl Weighing Just 19 Pounds Was Kept In A Closet, Starved & Beaten Because She Looked Too Much Like Her Father!
"A five-year-old girl was found weighing just 19lbs - half the average weight for her age - after her mother allegedly forced her to live in a closet because she looked too much like her father. Asusena Marie Gonzales has been charged with child abuse and neglect after allegedly starving and beating her daughter at their home in Oklahoma City. The little girl was severely malnourished. The bones in her joints were visible, her arms and legs were painfully thin and she was covered in marks from being beaten with a cord, police said. Social workers said the 31year-old's other five children appeared healthy, but Gonzales allegedly targeted the little girl because she looked the most like her father, and the couple had fallen out" - DailyMail
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Brazil's foreign minister resigned on Monday over rising tensions with La Paz after Brazilian diplomats spirited away a Bolivian opposition senator wanted for corruption.
"[Brazilian] President Dilma Rousseff has accepted minister [Antonio] Patriota's resignation," a government spokesman told reporters, adding that he would be replaced by Luis Alberto Figueiredo, Brazil's ambassador to the UN in New York.
The announcement came after a meeting between Rousseff and the 59-year-old Patriota late on Monday.
A Brazilian diplomat had said earlier in the day that he helped Bolivian opposition senator Roger Pinto escape to Brazil after he was holed up for 15 months in Brasilia's embassy in La Paz despite having been granted asylum.
Pinto, an opponent of Bolivian President Evo Morales, made his escape on Friday in an embassy car escorted by Brazilian marines, driving 22 hours to the southwestern Brazilian city of Corumba, 1,600km from La Paz.
"I chose life. I chose to protect a person, a persecuted politician, like President Dilma was persecuted," Eduardo Saboia, the Brazilian charge d'affaires in La Paz, told Globo television on his arrival in Brasilia, where he was recalled for consultations.
The diplomat said he made the personal decision to help Pinto escape "because there was an imminent threat to the life and dignity of the senator."
He said Pinto was suffering from depression and was contemplating suicide.
The Bolivian government views Pinto as a fugitive from justice after he was accused of corruption, for which he was sentenced to a year in prison.
He sought refuge at the Brazilian embassy last year, claiming to be a victim of political persecution after he denounced alleged cases of corruption and alleged links between authorities and drug traffickers.
His case strained relations between La Paz and Brasilia. Morales last year said Brazil's decision to grant Pinto asylum was "a mistake."
In La Paz, Bolivian Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca expressed "deep concern over the transgression of the principle of reciprocity and international courtesy."
"Under no condition could Senator Pinto leave the country without a safe conduct pass," Choquehuanca said.
Pinto, who flew from Corumba to Brasilia on Sunday, did not have permission to leave the country.
Brazilian authorities "made a humanitarian decision to ... help me achieve my freedom," Pinto said.
In a letter released by his right-wing National Convergence party in La Paz on Monday, the senator thanked all those who made his escape possible and expressed gratitude to Rousseff for granting him asylum in May last year.
"My exit is proof to Morales that good prevails in the end," the senator said in his "Open letter to the Bolivian people," railing against "the violation of human rights in Bolivia."
Pinto said he would continue speaking out against "narcotrafficking, corruption [and] abuse of power in Bolivia," as well as "against the humiliation of Bolivians" who do not share Morales's leftist politics.
The Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Sunday it was investigating how Pinto was able to leave the embassy and would take appropriate measures.
Meanwhile a Brazilian government statement said Rousseff thanked Patriota for his performance since he was appointed foreign minister more than two years ago and "announced his appointment to the Brazilian mission to the UN [in New York]."


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Dear America, I Saw You Naked
And yes, we were laughing. Confessions of an ex-TSA agent.
On Jan. 4, 2010, when my boss saw my letter to the editor in the New York Times, we had a little chat.
It was rare for the federal security director at Chicago O'Hare to sit down with her floor-level Transportation Security Administration officers—it usually presaged a termination—and so I was nervous as I settled in across the desk from her. She was a woman in her forties with sharp blue eyes that seemed to size you up for placement in a spreadsheet. She held up a copy of the newspaper, open to the letters page. My contribution, under the headline " To Stop a Terrorist: No Lack of Ideas," was circled in blue pen.
Story Continued Below
One week earlier, on Christmas Day 2009, a man named Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab had tried to detonate 80 grams of a highly explosive powder while on Northwest Airlines Flight 253. He had smuggled the bomb aboard the plane in a pouch sewn into his underwear. It was a masterpiece of post-9/11 tragicomedy: Passengers tackled and restrained Abdulmutallab for the remainder of the flight, and he succeeded in burning nothing besides his own genitals.
The TSA saw the near-miss as proof that aviation security could not be ensured without the installation of full-body scanners in every U.S. airport. But the agency's many critics called its decision just another knee-jerk response to an attempted terrorist attack. I agreed, and wrote to the Times saying as much. My boss wasn't happy about it.
"The problem we have here is that you identified yourself as a TSA employee," she said.
They were words I had heard somewhere before. Suddenly, the admonishment from our annual conduct training flashed through my head—self-identifying as a government employee in a public forum may be grounds for termination.
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I was shocked. I had been sure the letter would fall under the aegis of public concern, but it looked as though my boss wanted to terminate me. I scrambled for something to say.
"I thought the First Amendment applied here."
She leaned back in her chair, hands up, palms outfaced. Now she was on the defensive.
"I'm not trying to tread upon your First Amendment rights," she said. "All I'm saying is: Couldn't you have run those First Amendment rights past the legal department first?"
She dismissed me with the assurance that we would discuss the matter further at some point in the future.
Most TSA officers I talked to told me they felt the agency's day-to-day operations represented an abuse of public trust and funds.
I never heard anything more about it during the next three years of my employment at the TSA, save for some grumbling from one upper-level manager ("What's this I hear about you writing letters to the New York Times? You can't do that here.") It was the last time I would speak out as a government employee under my real name.
But it was by no means the last time I would speak out.
My pained relationship with government security had started three years earlier. I had just returned to Chicago to finish my bachelor's degree after a two-year stint in Florida. I needed a job to help pay my way through school, and the TSA's call-back was the first one I received. It was just a temporary thing, I told myself—side income for a year or two as I worked toward a degree in creative writing. It wasn't like a recession would come along and lock me into the job or anything.
It was May 2007. I was living with a bohemian set on Chicago's north side, a crowd ranging from Foucault-fixated college kids to middle-aged Bukowski-bred alcoholics. We drank and talked politics on the balcony in the evenings, pausing only to sneer at hipsters strumming back-porch Beatles sing-a-longs. By night, I took part in barbed criticism of U.S foreign policy; by day, I spent eight hours at O'Hare in a federal uniform, solemnly carrying out orders passed down from headquarters.
I hated it from the beginning. It was a job that had me patting down the crotches of children, the elderly and even infants as part of the post-9/11 airport security show. I confiscated jars of homemade apple butter on the pretense that they could pose threats to national security. I was even required to confiscate nail clippers from airline pilots—the implied logic being that pilots could use the nail clippers to hijack the very planes they were flying.
Once, in 2008, I had to confiscate a bottle of alcohol from a group of Marines coming home from Afghanistan. It was celebration champagne intended for one of the men in the group—a young, decorated soldier. He was in a wheelchair, both legs lost to an I.E.D., and it fell to me to tell this kid who would never walk again that his homecoming champagne had to be taken away in the name of national security.
There I was, an aspiring satire writer, earnestly acting on orders straight out of Catch-22.
I quickly discovered I was working for an agency whose morale was among the lowest in the U.S. government. In private, most TSA officers I talked to told me they felt the agency's day-to-day operations represented an abuse of public trust and funds.
Charges of racial profiling by the TSA made headlines every few months, and working from behind the scenes we knew what was prompting those claims. Until 2010 (not long after the TSA standard operating procedure manual was accidentially leaked to the public), all TSA officers worked with a secret list printed on small slips of paper that many of us taped to the back of our TSA badges for easy reference: the Selectee Passport List. It consisted of 12 nations that automatically triggered enhanced passenger screening. The training department drilled us on the selectee countries so regularly that I had memorized them, like a little poem:
Syria, Algeria, Afghanistan
Iraq, Iran, Yemen
and Cuba,
Lebanon-Libya, Somalia-Sudan
People's Republic of North Korea.
People holding passports from the selectee countries were automatically pulled aside for full-body pat-downs and had their luggage examined with a fine-toothed comb. The selectee list was purely political, of course, with diplomacy playing its role as always: There was no Saudi Arabia or Pakistan on a list of states historically known to harbor, aid and abet terrorists. Besides, my co-workers at the airport didn't know Algeria from a medical condition, we rarely came across Cubanos and no one's ever seen a North Korean passport that didn't include the words "Kim-Jong." So it was mostly the Middle Easterners who got the special screening.


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Standout Prints and '70s Silhouettes Rule at Marc by Marc Jacobs Fall '13
With nods to '70s silhouettes, Marc Jacobs lit up Lincoln Center tonight with his Fall '13 Marc by Marc Jacobs collection. True to form, you'll find new iterations of the designer's all-over prints — brilliant hues dotting dresses and checks taking over smart blazers. Altogether, he crafts a cool balance between a lineup of statement prints and more understated, menswear-inspired suiting, which means there's something for just about everyone in this playful set. Watch on for every look straight from the catwalk.


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Pick up massive guns as you pile up defeated robots in your mission to build the tallest Kill Hill.
Defend the city from the invading zombies!
Help the robot hero to win the war against the evil robots!
Disable the threat to the world in this action packed FPS game.
Use your bionic arm to protect your robot from troublesome bubbles.
Get rid of the cybertrash!
Your mission is to attack the enemy bases. Use the rivers to your advantage!
Annihilate the alien infestation before it's too late!
The missions of your H.A.D.E is to destroy all threatening life forms!
Destroy the buildings and collect money!
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Deciding If You Need Life Insurance in Canada
Building your estate is one way to ensure that your family will be taken care of — life insurance is another. Though life insurance is needed by some Canadians, others can go without it if their estate will easily cover the expenses related to their death. Do you need a life insurance policy? Here are some tips to help you find out.
You need life insurance if:
Someone you support will still need your income when you're no longer alive to earn it.
You're likely to die leaving a large debt and you want it paid without eating into the capital of your estate.
You want to create a fund to pay funeral costs, taxes, and probate fees.
You want to leave money you wouldn't otherwise have to a family member, friend, or charity.
You don't need life insurance if:
You don't have anyone who depends on you for support.
You have no large debts or expenses.
You have plenty of cash or property in your estate to pay funeral expenses, taxes, and probate fees.
You don't need or want extra money to leave to family, friends, or charities.


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Does disk storage and bandwidth matter when you're choosing a web hosting provider? How do you know if a web hosting provider is any good? What kind of tricks and gimmicks should I look out for? These are probably some of the questions you are asking if you're in the market for a new web hosting provider and don't know where to start.
Choosing a web hosting provider can be a tricky business, so it's best not to dive in immediately before you learn what you should be looking for. This article will walk you through all the elements of choosing a web hosting provider and how to choose the web hosting provider that's best for your needs.
What Do You Need?
It is best to start out knowing exactly what you need from your web hosting provider. So before you do anything else, take a moment to consider exactly what you will need for your website. These are some of the questions you may ask yourself:
- What kind of website will you be building?
- Do you plan to use a content management system like WordPress?
- If the answer to the question above is yes, what are the requirements for the content management system to be set up properly?
- Will you need any Windows apps?
- Do you have any scripts you need specific support for?
- Will your website require any special software?
- How much traffic will you need to be able to support?
Imagine what your website will be like a year from now, and plan ahead based on that vision. If you're completely new to building websites, you can skip over this and simply make sure you're choosing a good web hosting provider that provides shared web hosting. Shared web hosting is a great place to start a new website. Since you're sharing the server with other websites, you can get an attractive shared hosting account rather inexpensively that will handle most of your beginning web traffic fast and efficiently. The web hosting provider takes care of all the server side maintenance so you can just focus on building your website. If your website outgrows shared hosting, you can easily upgrade to a VPS or dedicated hosting account.
The other web hosting options you could consider are website builders. While there are a lot of options to go for, Wix and But which one is better? Well, you may find your answer this Wix vs Weebly comparison article.
But that's enough for the website builders. Now we're going to get into how to find a good shared web hosting provider!
Good web hosting providers keep their servers up 24/7. Since you will have visitors from all over the world, you definitely don't want your website to be down when they try to visit your page. This can result in a loss of visitors, as well as search engines ranking your website lower in searches because it isn't constantly up.
99.95% is considered the standard uptime, while anything below 99% is considered to be unacceptable. Make sure your web hosting provider has an uptime guarantee which they back up with money back guarantee if they do not meet this commitment. Pay attention to the fine print as well, since many web hosts will guarantee this upfront but leave loopholes in the terms of service that allows them to get away with not upholding that guarantee. Make sure the guarantee is thoroughly explained in the terms of service – how to redeem it, what time frame it's good for, how to get in contact with your web hosting provider, etc. Ask questions like if there's a trial period during which you can get a full money-back refund, if you can get any money back after the trial period has passed, and if there's any cancellation fees.
You definitely will want upgrade options if your website outgrows your current account. Think ahead to the future and consider if you will need to upgrade, then make sure the options are available to upgrade to what you believe your future traffic may be like. Shared hosting is pretty powerful nowadays, but even the best shared hosting can only support up to 30k-40k visitors a month.
Addon Domains
Domains are so cheap nowadays it is almost impossible to resist owning more than one. Even if you only want one domain for now, that may change in the future. So make sure you pick a web host that allows you to have plenty of addon domains. The best web hosting providers will allow you to have 25-50 addon domains or more. Don't get parked domains confused with addon domains, either – parked domains only mean the web hosting provider will hold that domain for you without it being actively used.
Renewal Pricing
Some web hosting providers will offer you a fantastic deal for your first 1-3 years of web hosting, then jack up the price when it's time for you to renew. They will offer as much as an 80% discount on your first 1-3 years. Be aware of this, and be wary if the pricing seems too good to be true – it probably is. Look for the fine print to find out what the normal cost of renewing is. If the host jacks the price up more than 50%, look for a web hosting provider that is a little more reasonable in how they approach hosting renewal fees.
Essential Features
There are some essential features you want to look for in a shared hosting plan that make managing your website a lot easier. While file management and site stats are pretty standard, your web hosting provider should offer a lot more than just a stat counter and file manager. Here are some of the features you should be looking out for in your web hosting provider's services:
One Click Installer
Your web hosting provider should have a one click installer for various web apps. While this isn't an absolute necessity, it does make installing web apps a lot easier. These one click installers are capable of installing apps like WordPress, Joomla, e-commerce tools, and more with minimum fuss. They also can make full automated backups of your web app installations.
This is a necessity. Your web hosting provider should provide you with FTP/SFTP access to your website so you can manage large numbers of files with ease. Sometimes web hosts try to get away with only providing an online file manager, but this is not sufficient if you need to work with a large number of files.
Your web hosting provider should also give you access to the .htaccess file in your file directory. This file controls everything administratively on your website from redirects to password authentication and management. At some point it will become vital that you have access to edit this file.
If you're running an e-commerce website, you will want to pick a web hosting provider that supports your needs. You will want to have an SSL certificate (which is offered for free with many good web hosting providers), one-click shopping cart installation, and a dedicated IP. Look for web hosting providers that specifically state their hosting plans are set up to support e-commerce out of the box.
Control Panel
You will also want to make sure that your web hosting provider has a user friendly control panel. You can find out whether a web hosting provider has an easy to use control panel or not by searching for screenshots of it in an image search engine, or by going to a web hosting provider review website like Hosting reviews to see what user reviews have to say about the navigation.
You also will want to know what the web hosting provider's hosting limitations are before your account becomes suspended. Even web hosting providers that claim you get unlimited bandwidth and disk space have a limit on how much you can use before your account reaches the suspension level. You can find out these details by going over the terms of service.
If you care about protecting the environment, you will want to make sure you use a web hosting provider that is using some percentage of renewable energy sources, like solar powered generators to power their servers. Web hosting produces a huge amount of carbon dioxide, so choosing a web hosting provider that uses renewable energy can help to greatly reduce your own carbon footprint in the services and products you use.
If you plan on sending email from your domain, you will definitely want to make sure your web host includes email addresses as part of your hosting service. While most web hosting providers provide a healthy amount of email addresses as a part of your hosting, there are still a few that don't. So make sure if you want to send emails from your domain that this is included as part of your hosting package.
Any number of things can happen to corrupt your website's data. This is why it's important to make sure you choose a web hosting provider that makes regular daily backups of all their servers. Also make sure that you too can make backups of your website as part of your hosting plan. Some web hosting providers make you pay for backups or limit the amount of backups you can make.
Make sure your web hosting provider gives 24/7 support in the medium you're most comfortable using – phone, chat, or email. The last thing you want is for your web hosting provider to be unavailable when you run into a major problem with your website.


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Aetna Individual: Advertising
Products for Individuals Launch
Products for Individuals Launch
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Editors Note: This blog post was written by Flordeliz T. Bugarin, Eleanor King, Mark Mack and Arvilla Payne-Jackson of Howard University. It is an expanded version of their article appearing in the November 2010 Anthropology News (51:8[28]).
On September 23, 2010, the President of Howard University, Dr. Sidney A. Ribeau announced his recommendations for academic renewal. In regards to the Anthropology Program in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, he stated in an email sent to all departments:
Close the Major, and include in an Interdisciplinary Program or a Specialization within the Sociology Major. Significant additional resources are needed for faculty, library materials, artifact collections, software, and lab and field equipment to achieve excellence. The number of majors is too small to be a separate, stand-alone major.
Along with other programs throughout the university (including the B.A. in African Studies), anthropology is on a list that identifies degree programs recommended for closure, consolidation or restructuring. While he is recommending to the Board of Trustees a vetting period or extended period of review for the respective schools and colleges, he states that, "In all but a handful of cases my default assumption is that the named program will be closed." He has asked for future recommendations by December 1, 2010. After this, he will make the final decisions, and a program closure or consolidation protocol will be announced to the faculty.
This announcement is largely a result of the work done over the past year by the Presidential Commission on Academic Renewal (PCAR). The PCAR initiative developed as a result of a two-year (2007-09) in-house review for reaffirmation of accreditation by the Middle States Commission for Higher Education (MSCHE). Although MSCHE reaffirmed the accreditation of Howard University without condition, they encouraged our institution to complete the academic renewal process.
The President acknowledged this recommendation and responded by emphasizing the need to improve the quality of Howard's degree programs. To advance the competitive standing of Howard University, the PCAR commission set forth to gather data from both new and already established sources regarding programs and departments. The committee reviewed over 170 degree programs, visited each department, and produced recommendations for academic renewal based on perceived strengths and weaknesses. Categories were evaluated based on a scale: exceptional, strong, adequate, fair, and weak.
In comparison to other programs, the overall final rankings of the Anthropology Program seemed strong enough to merit continuation of the program. There was only one category, "enrollment," that was defined as "weak". Rankings for the other categories were as follows: (1) Overall evaluation = adequate; (2) Academic centrality = strong; (3) Academic Quality = adequate and strong; (4) Research = strong; (5) Sustainability = adequate; and (6) Tie to Mission and Vision = strong.
Apart from reaffirming the need for more resources and majors as stated in the quote above, no other explanations for why the program received these rankings were provided to the department. We can only surmise their meaning based on the definitions provided for each category. Sustainability refers to the ability of the program to access resources, obtain external funds, and cost effectiveness. It seems closely related to the category of research, since research also entails the ability to fundraise for projects. Given a positive ranking for research seems to suggest that we should have received a similar review for sustainability. Despite our small faculty of four, we bring in more research funds on a regular basis than some of the other unaffected programs and departments.
Academic quality refers to student success rates and seems closely tied to enrollment. Despite low numbers in majors, we have a significant percentage of our students who attend graduate school, obtain fellowships (such as Fulbrights), and find jobs immediately after graduation. In addition, many of our students have double majors and are only recognized by the major that they list first in their administrative records. Unfortunately, the increase in majors recorded this year is not considered in the PCAR evaluations. Overall, the potential closing of the program seems to rely on numbers of majors during the time of evaluation and need for more resources.
The backdrop to this situation revolves around a few issues. First, the anthropology faculty includes four full-time members and one recent adjunct member. Over the past ten years, the size of the faculty has dwindled to about a third of its original size. Many of the previously available lines have been closed or filled by non-anthropology faculty.
Second, in order to increase majors, we have made many attempts to add new courses to the department and change the curriculum. We have completed our own assessment of the program, formed focus groups with students, and have modeled a new program based on student suggestions for new classes and recommendations for current courses. The new curriculum involves a two-year class rotation that allows us to fulfill our general education responsibilities while offering new classes on current issues to our majors. Despite these proposals and new class submissions over the last 5+ years, we have been unable to obtain approval to implement the changes. Most of our time is spent on teaching many sections of the same class that service a wide variety of other majors from different departments. Old classes taught by faculty members long gone remain on our books despite our efforts to update the program. Even individual class proposals have been passed-over or stalled in the pipeline. This situation strangles all efforts to grow the department and service our own majors.
Third, the PCAR evaluation seems to overlook the potential of a program to address areas of weaknesses and the importance of a multidisciplinary department to distribute resources equitably. Despite highlighting the need for more infrastructure and support (i.e., more hires, lab and field equipment, software, and library materials) through our own self-reflexive analysis, the anthropology faculty has also demonstrated a well-established record of winning grants to address these same needs over time. In addition to developing creative programming, we have encouraged our colleagues to support the need for more anthropology faculty through recommendations. These initiatives seem to have been overlooked in the PCAR process.
Undoubtedly, these challenges (lack of infrastructure and new hires) are issues that concern a number of anthropologists in their own departments throughout the United States. For the Anthropology Program at Howard University, the situation is particularly dire for a number of reasons. The consequences of a closure will not only negatively impact students and faculty at our institution, but it will also have a bearing on the discipline of anthropology overall, the African American community, and other peoples of African descent. This decision will affect our abilities as a discipline to recruit minority students and give students of African descent exposure to current anthropological research. The outcome will also impact current projects involving collaborative efforts between faculty, local communities or descendants, people from developing countries, marginalized communities, and under served populations. Nine projects involving national and international communities of these kinds, two more pending projects, and prominent lab collections will be affected by the President's decision. They include:
- New York African Burial Ground Project
- Buffalo Soldiers Archaeological Project(s)
- The James Island, Gambian Slave-Trading Site Project
- The Xhosa Cradle of Resistance South African Project
- Nicodemus, Kansas, Birth of an African American Town Archaeology Project
- Mayan Maax Na Archaeology Program
- Walter C. Pierce Park African American Burial Ground Project
- African American Youth, Gun, and Domestic Violence, Service Learning Project(s)
- Project on Linguistic Analysis in South Africa, Tanzania, and Kenya
- W. Montague Cobb Human Skeletal Collection
Without a program at Howard U., anthropology stands to be further distanced from the African American population. Of 105 HBCUs nationally, only 36% offer anthropology courses. Out of these, the vast majority (87%) has only a few classes, and most of the offerings primarily service sociology programs, with no degree option. Two colleges (Coppin State College and Morgan State University) offer minors in anthropology. Three institutions offer a major: Lincoln, Spelman, and Howard Universities. Lincoln and Spelman only bestow degrees in cultural anthropology. Howard's program is unique among HBCUs in requiring students to take classes in all five sub-fields, including applied anthropology. It has launched a number of professionals in all these fields and is singularly well positioned to make further contributions to the discipline because of the nature of the University itself.
Howard has a wide-diversity of black students from all over the world. Approximately 11,000 students enroll at the university on an annual basis. Out of that student body, about 9% come from Washington, D.C.; 75% come from states throughout the United States; 11% are international students that represent 91 countries and U.S. possessions; and 5% are international students who are permanent U.S. residents (http://www.howard.edu/facts/facts.pdf, accessed October 1, 2010). In addition there is a huge variation in socioeconomic background that adds to that diversity. In any given year, the University witnesses a gamut of students graduating, from the homeless to the children of millionaires. It is the perfect place to recruit and train minority students; and it is the ideal place to encourage black students to give back to under-served black and other populations around the world. Regardless of major, our program offers Howard students the ability to be more culturally aware in a global community, develop explanations about cultural similarities and differences, and create better solutions to the world's most challenging problems.
Perhaps the state of anthropology at Howard University is a microcosm of the status of the discipline overall. Until recently the American Anthropological Association (AAA), in keeping with its stance on race, has not kept track of minority members. However, sections and interest groups can give some idea of the overall numbers. As of 2008 all sections and interest groups with significant numbers of minority members made up less than 16% of the 11,000 registered members (King 2008). The actual number was and is still undoubtedly much lower as many of the groups have a significant number of majority members as well. The Association of Black Anthropologists, for example, had 329 members in 2008, or 3% of the total, but a number of them were of other ethnicities (King 2008).
What accounts for the lack of diversity within our profession, especially given the fact that our disciplines' forefathers and mothers advocated for social equality and founded our discipline on studies that embrace cultural differences on a global scale? While there are many answers to this question, the collective response from the anthropological community to the situation at Howard U. will be a telling tale.
The answers not only lie with how we go about encouraging minority students to join the ranks of professional anthropologists, but also how anthropology is perceived by other scholars and a wider non-academic community. A few misconceptions regarding anthropology as a discipline may be influencing our future directions. Within President Ribeau's quote itself lays a belief shared by some of our colleagues at Howard U. – the idea that anthropology is essentially the same or an area of specialty within sociology and the notion that anthropological contributions are not unique enough to warrant a stand-alone program. The implication is that anthropology is merely a handmaiden to a wider umbrella of social sciences, and that it can be carved into bits that are better placed in other disciplines.
Louis Eugene King was one of the first anthropologists to study African American communities in the United States and emphasize the significance of cultural vindication. He was an undergraduate student at Howard University and later a graduate student under Franz Boas and Ernest E. Just at Columbia University. When Louis Eugene King expressed the desire to return to Howard U. to teach, Franz Boas wrote him a letter of recommendation. In it, he wrote:
It seems to my mind that the opportunity for applying his knowledge is not unfavorable. I understand there is a good opportunity that he may be appointed at Howard University but I imagine that other Negro Universities will hardly be able to get along very long without some work in this line (In Harrison, African-American Pioneers in Anthropology 1999:73).
Many years later, Howard University is the only HBCU with a full, five-field anthropology program, and yet the recommendation is to close the major and incorporate what is left into other areas of the university. We have gone from Boas' shear confidence that there would be a place for anthropology at the HBCUs, that these universities could "hardly be able to get along", to a situation where there is no place at HBCUs for anthropology.
The administration seems to be saying that other programs can better meet the vision for Howard University, the vision being that:
Howard is unique with a special mission in higher education that addresses the national and international educational needs of our nation, the African-American community and under-served populations. Since its founding 143 years ago, Howard University has played a unique role in the definition and building of our nation, especially as it relates to the democratization of the public space, human rights, and enhanced concepts of humanity, pluralism and diversity in higher education. At each stage of the development of our nation and the African-American community since the Civil War, Howard renewed and restructured itself to address, at the highest level of excellence and quality, the changing needs of our nation and African American and underrepresented communities.
President Ribeau would like to enhance the University's status in research, teaching, and service. His goal is to expand the "University's international footprint and role in world affairs; providing an environment of open discourse where great questions can be posed and solutions found (Think Tank for the Nation); and expanding the University's public service role through engagement with local, national, and international communities."
This vision seems to echo the mission of many anthropologists. How does an institution mirror the goals of anthropology without an active and vibrant anthropology program or department? A collective voice from the anthropological community may help stave off the impending death of anthropology at an HBCU.
King, Eleanor M. 2008 Buffalo Soldiers, Apaches, and Cultural Heritage Education. Heritage Management 1:2:219-242.


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