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Getting the best deal on the price of a plane ticket increasingly comes down to where you book. Kelli Grant has details on The News Hub. Photo: Getty Images.
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Bouts of low blood sugar can lead to unsafe driving among people with diabetes, new research shows.
In 452 adult drivers with diabetes, 52 percent reported at least one driving mishap when their blood sugar was low, Dr. Daniel J. Cox, at University of Virginia Health Sciences Center in Charlottesville, and colleagues found.
Just as one would pull over to deal with a flat tire, Cox commented in an email to Reuters Health, diabetics with low blood sugar "need to immediately stop driving, eat fast-acting sugar, and wait for blood sugar to rise," before driving on.
Cox's team tallied driving mishaps reported over 12 months by men and women who had type 1 or "insulin-dependent" diabetes for an average of 26 years.
The study participants were about 42 years old on average, and drove about 16,000 miles annually in and around central Virginia, Boston, Massachusetts, and Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Driving with low blood sugar did not appear to cause a large number of collisions in this study. Overall, 22 percent of the drivers reported some sort of collision during the year, but just 2.4 percent were said to be related to bouts of low blood sugar.
Nonetheless, about 35 percent of the time drivers said they had checked their blood sugar 30 minutes prior to having some sort of driving mishap. In 78 percent of these times, blood sugar readings were low-to-normal (less than 90 milligrams per deciliter of blood). In 48 percent of these times readings were even lower, less than 70 milligrams per deciliter.
Moreover, in addition to the half who reported at least one low-blood-sugar-related driving mishap, such as zoning out or becoming disoriented, being stopped by police, or having someone else take over driving, 32 percent reported 2 or more and 5 percent reported 6 or more such mishaps.
Therefore, Cox and colleagues suggest healthcare providers encourage those reporting such events strive for blood sugar levels greater than 90 milligrams per deciliter before beginning to drive.
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RFA offersheet opportunities
The Edmonton Journal had an article yesterday suggesting the Oilers should take a stab at signing Shea Weber to an offersheet. I don't have to go on about it since we all know the story, but the Oilers became famous in the post-2005 CBA world for offersheets by signing Thomas Vanek to an offer sheet. When the Sabres matched, the Oilers eventually went after Dustin Penner, and successfully signed him when the Ducks decided not to match the contract.
So here are the biggest names available in this year's RFA pool (assuming these players aren't offered extensions before July 1st) that the Oilers could choose to target:
Shea Weber (D) – Nashville Predators
Steven Stamkos (C) – Tampa Bay Lightning
Drew Doughty (D) – Los angeles Kings
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The Lakers' next head coach won't be Phil Jackson.
It will be Mike D'Antoni.
"Dr. Buss, Jim Buss and Mitch Kupchak were unanimous that Mike was the best coach for the team at this time," Lakers spokesman John Black said. "He signed a multi-year contract. We will look to hold a press conference as soon as possible later in the week."
The hiring is somewhat surprising considering Jackson was considered the favorite. He had met with Kupchak and Jim Buss on Saturday to discuss the job in what would be his third time coaching the Lakers. Jackson won five of his 11 NBA titles in two separate stints with the Lakers (1999-2004, 2005-2011).
Though Jackson's health has improved since retiring May, 2011, sources close to him had indicated in recent days that he wanted to iron out the extent of his travel arrangements. He had long complained about the grinding NBA schedule, including long flights and late meals. Considering Jackson was considered the favored candidate, it's currently unclear what led to the Lakers passing him over.
Instead, the Lakers signed D'Antoni to a three-year deal worth $12 million. The Lakers have a team option for his fourth season. D'Antoni, 61, coached the New York Knicks last season and the Phoenix Suns before that.
It remains unclear when D'Antoni will start. He's still seeking medical clearance to fly after having knee replacement surgery. The source indicated that process could take at least a day. Meanwhile, Bernie Bickerstaff has served as the Lakers' interim coach.
"He was clearly convinced this was Phil's job to lose," said a source close to D'Antoni who wasn't authorized to discuss publicly about it.
According to sources, the Lakers interviewed D'Antoni over the phone on Saturday and then followed up with him in an interview on Sunday. Following the Lakers' 103-90 victory Sunday over the Sacramento Kings, D'Antoni signed the contract via fax between 11:30-11:45 p.m.
Jackson received plenty of public endorsements, ranging from Kobe Bryant, Pau Gasol, Steve Nash and Dwight Howard. Still, D'Antoni earned public praise from key Lakers figures before and after the Lakers' 103-90 victory Sunday over the Sacramento Kings from both Bryant and Nash.
"They know how I feel about Phil. They know how I feel about D'Antoni," said Bryant, who has played for him as an assistant in the 2008 and 2012 Olympics. "That's the extent of it."
D'Antoni was forced to resign last season with the Knicks after an 18-24 start. D'Antoni compiled a 388-339 coaching record. He led the Suns to the Western Conference finals in 2005 and 2006 with Nash at the helm.
"I love Mike," Nash said, who played four seasons and won two MVP awards under D'Antoni in Phoenix.. "If he were the coach, it would be seamless and terrific for me and the team as well."


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Healthy Start legislation provides for universal risk screening of all Florida's pregnant women and infants to identify those at risk for poor birth, health and developmental outcomes.
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March 29, 2011
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. -
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Oregon's Daniel Miernicki and Jack Dukeminier each shot 4-under par 212 and teammate Robbie Ziegler carded a 3-under par 213 to lead the Ducks to the team championship at the 2011 OGIO-Santa Barbara Invitational at Sandpiper Golf Club in Santa Barbara on Tuesday.
As a team, Oregon easily won the title with a 12-under par 852, 27 shots better than UC Santa Barbara, which finished at 15-over par 879. Fresno State was third at 21-over par 885, while Pacific (+30), Cal State Northridge (+31) and San Jose State (+33) were bunched-up in fourth, fifth and sixth, respectively.
For the Gauchos, it was their sixth top-six finish in their last seven tournaments.
"I'm always happy with a second-place finish," said UCSB head coach Steve Lass. "But I would be even happier if Oregon hadn't been in the field. Seeing them play makes me realize how dominant a team can be. We've had an outstanding winter and spring season, but not dominant. We played with them (the Ducks) for three rounds and I hope we learned something from their approach."
Fresno State's Bhavik Patel tied Oregon's Ziegler for third-place. Ziegler was tied with Dukeminier for the individual lead entering the final round. A pair of Gauchos, Andrew Gunson and Tyler Weir, tied for fifth-place at even-par 216.
Sandpiper is located right along the Pacific Coast north of Santa Barbara and on Tuesday, it was socked-in by fog for much of the day.
"The tournament itself went great," Lass said. "But for a while, I was worried that we were going to have to stop play because of the fog. I really wasn't sure if we could go on, but in the end it worked out and I think it was a great experience for all of the teams involved."
While there were a handful of sub-70 scores recorded in the first two rounds on the par-72 course, there was just one shot in the final round. Dakota Duerr of Cal State Fullerton carded a 3-under par 69 to finish at 12-over par for the tournament.
Glen Scher was the third Gaucho finisher. In his last tournament, the sophomore from Thousand Oaks became the first UCSB player in nearly four years to win an individual title and the first in nearly a decade to win one in the spring season. He followed-up his victory at the Barona Collegiate Cup with a 9-over par 225, tying for 20th-place.
Paul Otte (+12, 228) and Tyler Sterk (+13, 229) tied for 32nd and 36th respectively.
Kei Kita, playing as an independent, tied for 10th with a 3-over par 219. Scott Lewis (+9, 225, tied for 20th), Chris Rendler (+12, 228, tied for 32nd) and Jesse Ferris (+21, 237, tied for 73rd) rounded out the UCSB participants.
The Gauchos return to action on Monday, April 4 when they travel to the Wyoming Cowboy Classic at the Talking Stick Golf Club in Scottsdale, Ariz.
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Santa Barbara, Calif - Last time Santa Barbara played Utah State, 10,000 people harassed Branduinn Fullove every time he touched the ball. Tonight he got his revenge.
In what was the most important game so far this season, the Gauchos handed Fullove the ball and let him go to work. Santa Barbara came away with a 62-50 victory pushing them into a first place tie with Utah State, and Fullove got the last laugh.
The first time they met, UCSB suffered a demoralizing loss to the Aggies up in Utah, and Fullove had one of the worst games of his career. He finished with seven points on 3-of-12 shooting and was antagonized by the Utah fans every time he got near the ball. Tonight, Fullove made it all ok, going 9 for 13 from the floor and finishing with a game high 21 points.
With 3:46 to go in the first half, Desmond Penigar, the Utah State standout, scored his first bucket, a jump shot from the baseline. Fortunately, this would be the only time that Penigar found the bottom of the net during the entire game. The Gauchos had his number all night, shifting players around trying to keep him under control. He finished with two points on 1-of-9 shooting and an obscene gesture towards the crowd.
In the closing minutes of the half Mark Hull hit a three-pointer to move the score to 32-27, Fullove followed it up with a bucket of his own. Then with 0.1 seconds left on the clock, Spencer Nelson was fouled by Bryan Whitehead and sent to the line. Nelson connected on only one of the free throws and the teams went to the locker room with UCSB leading 34-28.
Six points in the first half put Fullove over the 1,000-point mark. He is just the 20th Gaucho with one thousand points in his career.
As the teams came out for the second half, something fired Fullove up. Maybe it was the fact that during the last game against Utah State, he got tangled up with Desmond Penigar on the floor, and appeared to kick his way out of the mess, only to have 10,000 people verbally harass him every time he touched the ball. Or maybe it was knowing that he had just surpassed 1,000 points. Either way, he emerged from the locker room and scored 15 of his 21 points in the second half, burying the Aggies along the way.
Santa Barbara began to mount a lead right as the half began. A basket by Nick Jones followed by a Hull three-pointer and two layups, one by Whitehead and one by Hull, extended the lead to 45-32.
However, the Aggies held tough and came up with a run of their own. Utah State held Santa Barbara at 45 points for 6:11 and cut the lead to 45-42. Spencer Nelson was instrumental in the Aggie comeback hitting a free throw and a layup. Nelson finished as Utah State's leading scorer with 16 points on 5-9 shooting. He also connected on 6-of-9 free throws.
After the Aggies pulled within three, the Gauchos caught fire. Fullove lead the scoring charge and Bryan Whitehead cleaned off the glass. During the last eight minutes of the game Fullove scored 12 points including two three pointers.
With 7:56 left in the game Fullove got open on the wing and Chrismen Oliver delivered the ball, naturally, he drained the three. On the next possession Fullove again found himself alone but this time he drilled a jumper from the middle of the key. After committing a foul on the other end of the floor, Fullove landed outside the three-point line again, and following Oliver's fourth assist, he sunk his second trey. This put the Gauchos up 55-44.
No other Gaucho scored again until 2:57 left in the game when guess who, Fullove knocked down his third three-pointer of the game.
"I just let it come to me tonight, Chrismen got me open for a couple shots and fortunately they went down." Commented Fullove, "It was nice to have them (Utah State) in here and send them away like that." On the difference between this game and the game up in Logan, Utah, Fullove noted, "It definitely helped not having 10,000 people screaming in my face every time I touched the ball."
The game ended with Fullove knocking down a high arching jumper just inches inside the three-point line. This time 3,000 fans were screaming, but in the Thunderdome, that is music to Fullove's ears.
On the game, Santa Barbara held Utah State to 41% shooting from the floor and 54% from the line. Additionally, UCSB equaled Utah State's total of 31 rebounds.
Bryan Whitehead finished with six points and 11 rebounds. Josh Davis chipped in eight points off the bench and Nick Jones finished with six.
The victory improves UCSB's record to 10-10 overall and 7-3 in league. Next up for the Gauchos is Idaho, Saturday night at 7:00 in UCSB's Thunderdome


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July 3, 1986
As expected, Bruce Bickford, 27, of Wellesley, Mass., Track and Field News's top-ranked 10-kilometer runner in the world last year, won Saturday's well-attended 10K race on Shelter Island, but not in record time as the race director, Cliff Clark, had expected.
. . . It was the second time that Bickford had entered and won at Shelter Island. The last time was in 1981. His 28:58.06 that year stood as the course and Long Island record until 1984 when the Track Athletic Congress required Clark to lengthen the course one-10th of one percent beyond the measured distance in order to have it TAC-certified.
John Ryan, a veteran certified lifeguard, and a trainer and Civil Service examiner of lifeguards, will launch this week an ocean safety course for 11-to-14-year-olds at East Hampton Village's Main Beach.
July 10, 1986
A major shift in East End high school sports schedules, grouping teams according to ability rather than enrollment, as had been the case in the past, will take place this fall.
Richard Cooney Sr., athletic director of the East Hampton School District, and president of Conference Four, which comprises high schools largely on the East End, said the plan "is the first in Suffolk County, perhaps in the State, though Nassau has something similar. . . . We'll be the guinea pigs. The rest of Suffolk will be looking on."
July 31, 1986
Sedutto's softball team, captained by Jeff Bernstein, claimed a forfeit when Haagen-Dazs failed to show up for a game between the two East Hampton Village ice cream stores at East Hampton's Herrick Park Tuesday morning. "They challenged us," said Bernstein, "but obviously when it came down to it, their courage melted."
Not all is peaches and cream at the newly sanctioned windsurfing location at Napeague Harbor. A rubber raft used in windsurfing instruction by Seasonings was riddled with .22 caliber bullets and was sunk sometime between July 23 and last Thursday morning.
The sniper put eight holes in the boat, which was moored in the harbor, about 150 feet from shore. Police have not found the culprit, but believe it may be a disgruntled neighbor annoyed with the windsurfing fleet.
. . . An agreement for the new windsurfing site was reached this summer by the Town Board after regular beachgoers at Little Albert's Landing objected to the windsurfers last year.
Andy Neidnig of Sag Harbor, who at 67 is the South Fork's top senior runner, won the Athletic Congress's national 10-kilometer championship in the 65-to-69 age group at Uniondale on July 18 in 41 minutes and 57 seconds.
It was the first time Neidnig had run on a track in 35 years, and the first time he had competed in a national masters race. He finished third over all in a field that included all male runners 60-and-over, and all women 40-and-over.
. . . The retired steam fitter, who ran the fastest marathon in his age group in the country in 1985, a 3:24.24, finished second in his division in the national 5K race at Uniondale in 20:31, the fastest time he's recorded in that distance this year.
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By now you know that the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) is beginning this coming week in Detroit and the 2015 Corvette Z06 and C7.R are due to be unveiled at the show on Monday, January 13th. Both Corvettes will represent the evolution of the Corvette Stingray, one of three 2014 finalists for North American Car of the Year and industry's most awarded car in 2013.
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Sure, this probably influenced by the visual image I had in my head for the longest time, but I always pictured Isidro to be blond, I realize thats not the official color.
As far as the sharpness of the jaw, I would say Grunbeld has more chiseled (sp) features, while Isidro, while not entirely round either, is more child-like in size and shape. I guess the more obvious reason I said Grunbeld before is the fiery red hair. While Isidro has spiky hair as well, Grunbeld's looks like its on fire.
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I'm gone for a couple of weeks and then I come back to this....YOU GUYS ARE GENIUSES!!!! My hats off to Walter and Aazealh, great job guys!
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I had trouble with this one as well, so I see where you're coming from. However, this is all the time I can spend on it while cooking in the other room.
Congratulations on the Icons, I love them. Will there be a chart of what represents what smiley?
Very detailed. But, it almost feels like cheating. Isn't that from the manga? You cheater! Does it need one?
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Darrin Bush/Las Vegas New Bureau
Friday, Feb. 22, 2013 | 1:43 p.m.
A hotel chain steeped in entertainment is doing a bit of deck shuffling.
In the midst of an uncommonly busy stretch of show openings this month and leading into next ("Million Dollar Quartet" at Harrah's, the new Human Nature production at Venetian, "Pin Up" at Stratosphere, CeeLo Green's "Loberace" show at Planet Hollywood and the return of "America's Got Talent Live" at Palazzo among them) are reports of more entertainment venues closing at Stations Casinos.
The locals-leaning resort chain has already bolted the locks on the old Ovation lounge/showroom at Green Valley Ranch, as its final show was country artist Sam Riddle's performance Nov. 24. But what hardly anyone could have foreseen at the time was that the company's largest venue, Red Rock Amphitheater, also might have staged its final show more than a month earlier, with the Oct. 7 appearance by Jason Mraz. The Amphitheater, with a capacity of as much as 9,000, has no shows scheduled for this year, and the bleacher seats — which were rented by the hotel — have been hauled away.
Also, comic Louie Anderson and his "Big Baby Boomer" comedy show is leaving his eponymous (that means, self-named, kids) theater at Palace Station by April. His last listed show is March 30, and there is strong indication that room will close, too, as nothing is scheduled there in April or beyond. Anderson opened at Palace Station in July 2010. In an e-mail, Anderson spokesman Glenn Schwartz said the comic has been training in Los Angeles for his appearance on the ABC celebrity diving competition "Splash," which premieres March 19.
After finishing the show (and, we expect, drying off), Anderson is hitting the road. He has a May 11 date at Lucky Eagle Casino in Rochester, Wash. There have been quite believable reports that Anderson is looking for a new room in Vegas, specifically showing interest in Shimmer Cabaret at LVH, but nothing has been verified. Schwartz said Anderson would have an announcement about his plans soon after his post-"Splash" tour wraps.
As for plans for Red Rock Amphitheater, Station Casinos spokeswoman Lori Nelson said via e-mail that the resort is focusing on its back-patio pool area for its outdoor concert lineup. An announcement of that schedule should be out soon, certainly before the summer. An announcement is forthcoming on plans for Ovation, too.
Meantime, Station still maintains a busy schedule of shows across its properties. Highlights are the Friday night "Nashville Unplugged" shows followed by Zowie Bowie at Red Rock's Rocks Lounge. On Saturdays at Rocks Lounge, it's Michael Grimm, followed by a singularly cool cover/dance band, The Peelers, out of San Francisco. Brody Dolyniuk's ZUSA Led Zeppelin tribute band is performing March 1 at Boulder Station. The Lon Bronson All-Star Band is back in a regular Friday rotation at Boulder Station beginning March 22.
On a larger scale, Foreigner has been booked at the indoor Sunset Amphitheater at Sunset Station on May 11. And Red Rock has been nominated for an Academy of Country Music Award for Best Casino, which will be announced April 7 (the show is to be broadcast from MGM Grand Garden Arena).
Stations has won four of these ACM Awards (Boulder Station in 1999, 2001 and 2003 and Green Valley Ranch in 2009). The chain's entertainment reputation, if not its lineup of entertainment venues, remains intact.
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According to theses articles Gary Earl Bright was sent to a juvenile detention center in Missouri for the murders of his family. About a year later he was released to his father's care. His farther married Alden Kathleen Webb sometime between 1957 and 1960. In 1960, Gary attacked his step-mother with a wrench and was then sentenced to 15 years in prison for the attack.
Three months after the murders Gary Earl Bright was found sane and then placed in a juvenile detention center in St. Louis, MO.


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There is a conspiracy theory everywhere you look. I read one suggesting the Mets made David Wright captain to divert attention away from the field, where they are projected to be bad. Very bad.
Smokescreens like that never work. Besides, Mets fans are like children and dogs in a way, after awhile, they know when they're getting duped.C'mon. Are you serious? How long do you think that will last? With virtually no hope given to the Mets this year, they'll be coming out to see Wright and the young players such as Matt Harvey, Ike Davis, Travis d'Arnaud and Zack Wheeler. The last two you'll probably see sometime in June.
Besides, if taking the fan's attention away from the team is the goal, they should have done this three years ago as the attendance at Citi Field has consistently dwindled.
Wright is simply the best player the Mets have, and arguably the best player – outside of Tom Seaver – they ever produced. And best, I mean both on and off the field.
As Major League Baseball goes after Ryan Braun and others in a witch hunt over PED's, Wright has publicly stood up against drug users. A long time ago, when I asked Derek Jeter about steroids, he said: "I don't use them, so it's none of my business."
Guess again. It is every player's business for their sport to be clean and Wright, whether or not it comes from his father who is in law enforcement, has always stood for that goal. He should be commended for that alone.
I know some don't feel Wright is clutch enough, but that's nonsense. Baseball is about failing three out every ten at-bats just to be good, and Wright is the best the Mets have in that regard. Who else would you rather see at the plate in the ninth inning of a close game?
Jeff Wilpon said the appointment was for all Wright has done, and will do, for the organization in the future. The Mets have been awful on the field since 2008, and even worse off it with the Ponzi scandal, numerous bad signings and public relations fiascos. With all those around him losing their heads, Wright kept his, to paraphrase Rudyard Kipling.
When it was clear the Mets were about to sack Willie Randolph, Wright spoke out for his manager – and against management – because it was the right thing to do. He blamed himself and the players, not the manager whom management had spied on with Tony Bernazard.
A leader sometimes deals with uncomfortable things, and yes, Wright spoke against Lastings Milledge coming in late. He downplays it now, but it had to be done. Players often take their lead from other players, and when somebody doesn't hustle, Wright lets him know it in a low-key, yet effective manner.
He doesn't get in their faces, just their minds. And, that's what leaders, and captains, do.


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The Inner Asian gap: the Afanasievo breakthrough
If you read this weblog you are aware that I have a fascination with the intersection of human history and human evolutionary genetics. There are many questions I have about the finding from evolutionary genomic studies that light skin evolved at least twice independently in Eurasia within the last 20,000 years or so at the extremities. The selection coefficients are large, so I am confused as to why even minimal gene flow did not result in equilibration and homogenization of the allelic profiles of the populations. I have posited that the answer has to do with very low population densities verging upon nil in Central Asia. From The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World (a book I can not recommend enough!):
…On the Ukok plateau, where the early Afanasievo cemetery at Bertek 33 was found, the Afanasieva immigrants occupied a virgin landscape-there were no earlier Mesolithic or Neolithic sites. Afanasievo sites also contained the earliest bones of domesticated cattle, sheep, and horses in the Altai.
Cemeteries of the local Kuznetsk-Altai foragers like Lebedii II were located in the forest and forest-meadow zone higher up on the slopes of the Altai….
The Ukok Plateau is about 2000 kilometers from the Ural-Volga regions from which the Afanasievo likel originated. It seems that around 3500 BCE they "leap-frogged" across what would become the northern Kazakh steppe for the pine forests of south Siberian fringe. The point though is this: this sort of volkswanderung only became possible with the emergence of the nomadic herder lifestyle. The selective sweeps which one infers from evolutionary studies likely occurred before the Afanasievo trek….
Related: The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World.


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Even as the Federal Reserve holds short-term interest rates near zero for the fourth year in a row, there are plenty of places to find decent income in the U.S. stock and bond markets. You just have to know where to look.
We found eight groups with average payouts ranging as high as 6% without the risk that often comes with reaching for yield. They include municipal bonds, with yields between 1% and 3%; utilities and real-estate investment trusts, at 4%; convertible securities, at 3%; high-dividend stocks, at 3% to 4%; master limited partnerships and junk bonds, at 6%, and preferred shares, at 5% to 6%. There are higher-yielding securities in all of these categories, including mortgage REITs and junk bonds that carry 10%-plus rates, but the rewards here may not be worth the risk.
What looks best for 2013? Given the risks in bonds at historically low-yield levels, it may be best to stick with blue-chip stocks, electric utilities, MLPs, and to a lesser extent, REITs.
In the bond market, junk still looks appealing, even as the average yield fell to 6% from about 20% at the start of 2009, when Barron's highlighted the market's appeal in a cover story. Junk may be the best house in a dangerous neighborhood.
The tax legislation passed last week favors equity sources of income, which will be taxed at a top rate of 20%, plus a 3.8% Medicare surcharge. Most taxpayers, including couples earning less than $250,000, will still pay a top dividend rate of 15%. The top rate for ordinary income rises to 39.6% from 35% for couples earning more than $450,000. That rate also applies to interest income on taxable bonds, as well as distributions from master limited partnerships and REITs. It should be noted that investors can often defer taxes on MLP distributions.
It's hard to make a case for two of the lowest-yielding parts of the bond market -- Treasuries and mortgage securities -- because yields are in the 1% to 3% area, and both sectors could be hit hard if rates rise. Perhaps the best that can be said for Treasuries is that they're one of the few asset classes that are negatively correlated with stocks, meaning they tend to appreciate when stocks fall, and thus offer a hedge against a stock-market downdraft.
BlackRock favors dividend-paying stocks and junk bonds, while warning about the danger in Treasuries. "We believe dividend stocks look attractive," wrote BlackRock chief investment strategist Russ Koesterich last week. "With current payout ratios near historic lows and balance sheets quite strong, companies have ample ability to raise dividend payments to compensate investors for any changes in tax treatment." As for Treasuries, he wrote that interest-rate risk is high, as underscored last week when prices fell 4% as stocks rallied.
Here is an overview of the eight income sectors in order of their appeal.
High-Dividend Stocks
As more companies get serious about dividends, it's possible to put together an increasingly diversified portfolio of stocks yielding 3% to 4%. The obvious appeal of stocks versus bonds is that investors can benefit from rising dividends over time. Many big companies now have dividends that exceed their bond yields.
Blue chips with 3%-plus yields include drug makers Pfizer (ticker: PFE), Merck (MRK), and Novartis (NVS). In the consumer sector, there's PepsiCo (PEP) and Procter & Gamble (PG). And technology, a former income wasteland, now offers many 3% yielders, such as Microsoft (MSFT), Intel (INTC), and Seagate Technology (STX). Energy giants Chevron (CVX), Royal Dutch Shell (RDSA), and ConocoPhillips (COP) all yield more than 3%.
There are dozens of income-oriented mutual funds and exchange-traded funds. Some of the largest ETFs are Vanguard High Dividend Yield (VYM), iShares Dow Jones Select Dividend (DVY), and SPDR S&P Dividend (SDY).
Electric utilities were the only loser in 2012 among the major sectors of the S&P 500, with a 2.9% drop -- and a 1% return after dividends. This year could be better because utility dividends look appealing at 4%-plus in much of the industry.
Major utilities trade at an average of 14 times projected 2013 profits, compared with about 13 times for the faster-growing S&P 500. Yet utility earnings are relatively predictable, in the low- to mid-single digits each year.
The three largest electrics (by market value), Duke Energy (DUK), at $65; Southern Co. (SO), at $44; and Dominion Resources (D), at $53, all yield 4% or more.
The Utilities Select SPDR (XLU), which holds the electric utilities within the S&P 500 index, yields 4.1%.
The group started the year strong, as the benchmark Alerian MLP index, which is heavy in energy pipelines, rose 4% over the first two sessions of 2013. More gains could follow after a tough 2012, when the AMZ fell 1% and returned 4.8%, including distributions. Reflecting strong historical returns in the sector, 2012 marked the only year in the past 13 in which MLPs trailed the S&P 500 in total return.
Credit Suisse analyst John Edwards has been bullish, pointing out that the yield on the AMZ index, now 6.5%, looks appealing relative to most other income securities. While weak prices for natural-gas liquids have hurt some MLPs, much of the sector that is involved in domestic energy transportation has experienced little or no impact. Growth in distributions industrywide is expected to average about 7% this year.
The two largest MLPs, Enterprise Products Partners (EPD), at $52 a share, and Kinder Morgan Energy Partners (KMP), at $84, yield 5% and 6.3%, respectively. Kinder Morgan's twin, Kinder Morgan Management (KMR), trading around $79, is a corporation. It has a similar dividend paid in stock, allowing investors to avoid the tax hassles of K-1 partnership tax forms.
There are many MLP-oriented mutual funds and ETFs, including the Alerian MLP (AMLP) and an exchange-traded note, the JPMorgan Alerian MLP index (AMJ).
Junk Bonds
Wall Street generally expects subdued returns of about 7% this year after another strong year in 2012, when junk returned more than 15%. The challenge is that yields are low, at 6%, and prices are high, averaging about 105% of par value. This limits upside because most issues can be redeemed at par prior to maturity.
While many junk investors are reaching for yield in order to get higher returns, it may be best to play it conservatively and avoid debt-laden companies like Caesars Entertainment (CZR) and Clear Channel Communications (CCMO).
J. Matthew Philo, manager of the Mainstay High-Yield Corporate fund (MHYIX), generally is steering clear of lower-rated credits in favor of better situations. "This is a tale of two markets," he says. "The larger part of the market is very resilient with strong asset coverage and free cash flow."
Thanks to the wide disparity in the individual returns of junk debt, management matters, arguing for open- or closed-end funds rather than ETFs like the SPDR Barclays High Yield Bond (JNK) and iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate (HYG), which track broad indexes.
Convertible Bonds
Convertibles are an overlooked asset class because of limited issuance of new bonds and complexity, including securities that automatically convert into equity. Less than $25 billion of converts have been issued in each of the past two years because most corporate treasurers can offer low-rate "straight" debt without giving investors an equity kicker.
"There are some good opportunities," says David King, manager of the Columbia Convertible Securities fund (PACIX). He's partial to a Chesapeake Energy 5¾% convertible preferred (CHKVZ), which recently traded at about $900, below its $1,000 face value, for a 6.4% current yield. The Chesapeake convert offers a lower-risk way to play a revival in natural-gas prices than the company's common shares. King also is partial to a 2⅞% convert from biotech company Dendreon (DNDN), recently trading below 75 cents on the dollar and a 13% yield to maturity in 2016. Dendreon developed a novel treatment for advanced prostate cancer that has had disappointing revenues. The company isn't far from cash-flow break-even and could be a takeover target.
There are many open-end and closed-end convertible funds, plus a sizable ETF, the SPDR Barclays Convertible Securities (CWB).
After another strong year in which the sector returned 18%, investors may want to tread cautiously because REIT valuations aren't cheap in absolute terms or in relation to the S&P 500 index.
But REITs now trade for about 16 times 2013 funds from operations, a cash-flow measure favored by the industry. That compares with a multiple of 13 for the S&P 500. REITs look even more expensive at about 20 times adjusted funds from operations, a more conservative calculation of cash flow than FFO that subtracts certain recurring expenses like office-leasing costs.
REITs, now yielding an average of 3.6%, still look good relative to Treasuries. Industry fundamentals are favorable amid higher rents and limited new construction, while financing costs are low. "REITs are trading below private-market values, and they remain a haven for people concerned about inflation. Real estate is a hard asset," says Alex Goldfarb, an analyst at Sandler O'Neill.
Goldfarb is partial to Simon Property Group (SPG), the mall operator and the largest REIT by market value, at $50 billion. He says that Simon is one of the best-managed companies in the business, generating more than $1 billion of free cash annually beyond its dividend requirements. Simon, at $158, trades for 19 times projected 2013 FFO. While third-tier malls may be struggling, those owned by Simon and others like Taubman Centers (TCO) are in good shape.
Apartment REITs lagged behind the group last year, and Goldfarb is partial to Post Properties (PPS), which has a good position in the Sunbelt and low financial leverage. He also likes Essex Property Trust (ESS), which has about half of its portfolio in Southern California, a region now reviving.
Municipal Bonds
With yields on top-grade munis similar to those on Treasuries, the relative appeal of the $3.7 trillion market is good, but absolute yield levels in the 1%-to-3% range aren't great with inflation running at about 2%.
Munis got a break when the congressional budget deal lifted top tax rates on the highest earners and thus heightened the appeal of tax-free income. To top it off, legislators chose not to tax the muni-bond interest of the highest earners, as some had feared.
That helped produce a rally on Wednesday, as long-term munis gained about 1% even as long-term Treasuries declined 1%. "While we are unlikely to see significant capital appreciation in municipal bonds, their after-tax yields are attractive, and munis remain a solid source of income," wrote BlackRock strategist Koesterich.
The idea of taxing muni-bond interest is dormant but not dead. If enacted, such a tax on munis likely would cut their demand, potentially lifting rates as much as half a percentage point and crunching long-term bonds. Many state and local governments face a large and festering pension problem. Given the risks, muni buyers might want to avoid long-term issues and stick with a fund like the Vanguard Intermediate Term Tax-Exempt fund (VWITX), which has low fees. Many investors favor individual bonds, but the downside is limited liquidity if holders ever need to sell.
Preferred Stock
With banks solidly profitable and the bond market strong, the preferred market has rallied sharply since the financial crisis, dropping yields on most bank issues to less than 6% from double-digit levels during 2009. Barron's has written favorably on preferred several times in the past four years.
Issuance has surged as banks have taken advantage of lower rates to lock in long-term equity financing. Issuance totaled about $33 billion in 2012, including several big retail-oriented deals priced at $25 a share from JPMorgan (JPM), Wells Fargo (WFC), and BB&T (BBT). While dividends look safe and remain tax advantaged, most preferreds don't look attractive thanks to their interest-rate risk.
The typical $25 retail preferred usually has a bad combination of a perpetual maturity and a five-year redemption feature at the issuer's option. "The risk-reward profile of these securities does not appear attractive; their upside is capped by the call option, but they could sell off significantly in a rising rate environment," wrote Barclays credit analyst Shobhit Gupta in a recent report.
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"Gender & Science Fiction": The Novels
I previously discussed how I used The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction in the "Gender & Science Fiction" course I taught this past term, and promised to discuss the novels in another post. Well, here we are!
The students had to read five novels: four that we all read together, and one of their choice from a list I gave them.
The four we read together were:
Babel-17 by Samuel R. DelanyThe list of novels they needed to choose one from was:
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
Wild Seed by Octavia E. Butler
Shadow Man by Melissa Scott
The Wind-Up Girl by Paolo BacigalupiI chose these texts for a variety of reasons -- the four we read together are all books I thought offered a good variety of approaches to gender, with two (Babel-17 and Wild Seed) where gender is not really at the forefront and two (Left Hand of Darkness and Shadow Man) where it very much is. The length of the books was also important -- none of them are particularly long, and because I was trying to squeeze a lot of stuff into a fairly limited amount of time, this was a major limiting factor when I chose texts. Length isn't everything, though -- complexity is just as important: the books had to be complex enough to offer us something to talk about through a few class sessions, but couldn't be so complex that we couldn't cover them in a few class sessions. Much as I would have loved to have used Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand, that book would require at least half a semester of its own.
Ammonite by Nicola Griffith
Native Tongue by Suzette Haden-Elgin
Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson
Life by Gwyneth Jones
China Mountain Zhang by Maureen McHugh
Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor
The Female Man by Joanna Russ
Air by Geoff Ryman
City of Pearl by Karen Traviss
Just before reading Babel-17, we made our way through Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree, Jr., reading the stories in chronological order, skipping a couple of the longer ones for the sake of time. By the end of this Tiptree intensive, most of the students, I discovered, found her work really depressing, and a few of them were openly hostile to it because of that. Babel-17 was, then, a nice change of pace -- of of the students, a linguistics major, said she thought it would make a perfect "beach read".
Babel-17 really was a good choice as our first novel, because it fit perfectly within my complexity/difficulty matrix -- complex enough to give us lots to talk about, but not so complex as to be overwhelming. I played the students the first 20 minutes of The Polymath to give them some sense of Delany during the time he wrote the novel (they'd also previously read "Aye, and Gomorrah" in The Wesleyan Anthology), and we were able to have productive discussions of class structures, the social construction of perversity and obscenity, assumptions about body modification, etc. Gender and sexuality, of course, are present in all of this, and one of the reasons it worked out well to have our first novel be one that is not primarily "about" gender was that it gave the students the opportunity to put some of the methods of analysis they honed through discussion of all the short stories to work in more subtle and complex ways. They had gotten good at questioning and analyzing ideas of "normal" when such ideas attached themselves to gender in the short stories, but Babel-17 helped them see that normative forces are present in all sorts of different aspects of society and culture.
The Left Hand of Darkness
I included this novel because so many people said it had been an important part of their growing understanding of both gender and science fiction, so I went against using something else by Le Guin that I personally like more (e.g. Four Ways to Forgiveness), and I think this was a good decision, but I'm also utterly indebted to Will Alexander for suggesting the idea of following the novel with a read og Le Guin's essay "Is Gender Necessary? Redux" and her story "Coming of Age in Karhide". These gave us a great way to see one person's ideas about gender and language develop, and I think that was helpful to the students, who often wanted a writer to be either a hero or a villain (this was a disastrous element of their study of gender theories, about which more in a moment). Left Hand of Darkness was also a really vivid example of how powerful pronouns are -- if you think "he" is a gender-free neutral, reading that novel ought to cure you of such a delusion if you actually reflect on your reading experience. I know of few novels that provide a more vivid experience of how ordinary language can unconsciously shape assumptions (Stars in My Pocket would be another), and it provided us lots of good fodder for discussion.
I don't think, though, that most of the students liked the book very much, and this surprised me. I know plenty of folks, habitual SF readers and not, who cite reading that book as a life-changing experience. I think using it in a non-SF-specific course, and particularly a course not focused on gender, might have produced different results, but these students seemed generally indifferent to the book, and at least one quite passionately hated it for its masculine and heterosexual bias; indeed, she seemed only vaguely mollified by "Coming of Age in Karhide", which presents, it seems to me, a pretty radical view at least of sexuality, if not gender.
I wonder if the ability of Left Hand of Darkness to blow your mind depends at least to some extent on your generation -- for people who grew up in the 1990s and later, does it seem a bit ... well ... dusty? It certainly did to my students, but they're not a representative lot: they had self-selected to take a course called "Gender & Science Fiction". Given some of the discussions in one of my other classes this term -- where a student seriously and quite innocently told me that doing a research project on female serial killers had made him see that maybe it would be okay for a woman to be President one day -- I expect that certainly had something to do with it, but I do wonder if people under, say, age 30 find Left Hand to be as affecting as did folks who are older.
Wild Seed
I knew I wanted to include a book by Octavia Butler in the course -- not only because I think she's goshdarn amazing, but because she had a pretty complex approach to various kinds of determinism (cf. some of the essays in Science Fiction Studies 112, among others), and I think in any course looking at gender, determinism and essentialism are important topics. But which book? I was close to choosing Parable of the Sower, but then went with my gut instinct and chose Wild Seed, a book I just unreservedly love (the Parable books are marvelous in many ways, but I don't much like the poems in them). I had no idea what the students would make of it.
Thankfully, my love of the book was shared by at least some of the students, and nobody seemed to dislike the novel -- a rare occurrence in any class! I was worried that they would find the setting or history remote, but they fascinated by it, and they found the characters truly compelling: a few students finished the book well ahead of schedule because they didn't want to stop reading it.
Wild Seed also let us look more closely than we'd been able to before at the interplay of race and gender. One of the things I think Wild Seed does brilliantly is dramatize what scholars have been discovering for a while now: that the rise of race-based slavery shifted the discourse of race from one that was pretty much always exoticizing but not always dehumanizing or objectifying to one that was fundamentally dehumanizing and objectifying -- the discourse must become one promoting the assumption that these people aren't just "different" or "weird", but are potential property. But this isn't all, because, as Butler also quite vividly shows, gender has its own systems of regulation, privilege, and knowledge that intersect with those of race, with the discourses sometimes singing in harmony and sometimes in atonal cacophony. Butler brings this all together through her portrayal of embodiment -- the ways the bodily changes of Doro and Anyanwu affect so much else in their social lives.
It's a rich, wondrous book, and we could have easily spent twice as much time discussing it as we did.
Shadow Man
I have previously said I think Shadow Man is "one of the great science fiction novels of the past 25 years", but I also think it is one of the best introductions to some of the ideas of folks like Judith Butler, because what the book gives us is a world in which there are two quite distinct ways of interpreting the meaning of bodies, and those different interpretations have consequences for the characters.
The novel seems clearly influenced by Ann Fausto-Sterling's 1993 essay, "The Five Sexes: Why Male and Female Are Not Enough", first published in The Sciences. It gives us a future world where intersex conditions seem to have become more common because of interstellar travel, and one planet where the old two-sexes model is still held as the norm. (In addition to the five sexes in Shadow Man there are also nine sexual orientations.) Thus, we have a science fiction novel informed by an article published in The Sciences, but it's not exactly what you might expect from your average "hard sf" tale. (See also Fausto-Sterling's 2000 follow-up, "The Five Sexes, Revisited", and, of course, her book Sexing the Body.)
One of the things I particularly appreciate about Shadow Man is that it doesn't present the Concord Worlds -- the group that categorizes with five sexes -- as a utopia of enlightened and liberated gender gods. It is clear that both ways of interpreting anatomy have their benefits and drawbacks -- the many choices of identities (5 sexes, 9 sexual orientations) can themselves be limiting when people decide that those identities are more important than their desires.
It's an extraordinarily complex book, rich with details. I'm glad we did it last, because the students really needed to work up to it. We are really just thrown into the world, and it takes a while to get any bearings. Also, the characters are deeply involved in all sorts of political and economic negotiations, and though the details really aren't very important to readers, they're hugely important to the characters, so readers who try too hard to understand the ins and out of the politics and economics get bogged down. The effect, though, is breathtaking in the second half, as we become accustomed to this world and begin to be able to think in new ways. It was an enlightening experience for the students -- they realized how much the book had rewired their brains.
The Final Novel
With the novel chosen from the list, the students had to do a few activities. They first had to choose one of the gender theories outlined in the little book Gender and Anthropology to study in more depth and to apply to their novel. This proved much, much harder than I had expected. First, I assigned pairs of students to the various gender approaches the book outlines (evolutionary, materialist, structuralist, etc.) and asked them to create a short presentation to help educate their peers. These were mostly awful, and a lot of it was my fault. I had assumed the book was pretty comprehensible to the average undergraduate; I was wrong, at least for these undergraduates. I think part of the problem was that they didn't read carefully -- we'd been reading lots of fun stories, and they were pretty good at reading those, but when it came time to read an informational text, they let their eyes drift over the pages. If I had given them more direction in how to make sense of such things, they might have been better off, but this was an upper-level course and I didn't figure I needed to do the sort of reading instruction I do in lower-level courses, where I expect students to be unable to read informational texts.
So the presentations weren't very informative, and in most cases the students misinterpreted the book's section on critiques of the theory to be a conclusion. Thus, many of the presentations were, "Why this theory is stupid," rather than a description of the theory's basic principals, the major theorists, and how it approaches gender.
I did my best to try to fix this as we went on, but it was difficult because I hadn't scheduled enough time to work through the theories, since I'd assumed the Gender and Anthropology book would be more comprehensible than it was, and I'd wanted the students to use it as a resource for themselves.
I'm a member of the University's Women's Studies Council, and one of the things we've discussed is that we want Women's Studies minors to be able to demonstrate more of an understanding of the coneptual bases of Women's Studies than they've been able to demonstrate until now. We certainly expose them to a lot of different approaches, but we haven't yet done a good job of getting them to understand how those approaches differ, what their various arguments are, etc. So I thought I'd try to do that a bit with this course, since the stories and novels we read offered such a wide variety of ideas about gender, society, culture, and biology.
By the time the students had done some research and written their papers, they were better at understanding at least one gender theory, but it was still by far the weakest part of the course.
There were, by the end, nine students in the class, and the books they chose to read were The Wind-Up Girl (1), The Female Man (2), Starship Troopers (1), Life (1), Who Fears Death (1), and Ammonite (3).
Despite the students' struggles to understand the gender theories, some of the papers were really excellent, and only one didn't work out at all (alas, the student who wrote about The Wind-Up Girl had a bit of a senior-year-final-term meltdown, but at least she really loved the novel). When we discussed the papers, everyone said they loved their novel and would recommend it to other readers, which was not what I had expected, but I was certainly pleased that everybody ended up with a book they enjoyed, and in some cases utterly fell in love with. (The Female Man's readers were especially passionate. I was pleasantly surprised that a book as old as I am was able to win the hearts of the youth of today!)
The students had investigated the books themselves, reading reviews and online descriptions mostly. I gave them a brief overview of each novel, as well. And then they were on their own. The linguist read Who Fears Death and did an insightful analysis of the importance of language in the novel (an interest of mine, as well, though she didn't seem to know I'd written about the book or interviewed the writer). The student who wrote about Life looked at the book with a post-structuralist lens and compared the novel to Frederik Pohl's story "Day Million". The student who wrote about Starship Troopers had a lot of fun with it -- she really enjoyed reading it, and then had to work through how she could enjoy reading a book she found profoundly disagreeable from a political point of view (a great experience for anybody, I think). The three students who read Ammonite all looked at it in different ways, but I was pleased that they all at least understood that it complicates and, as we academics sometimes are wont to say, problematizes the idea of utopia and undermines any monolithic understanding of women and men.
All in all, the books worked out very well. Certainly, there are things I would change and tweak in the future, but my primary changes would be to how I used Gender & Anthropology, which, though far from perfect, is a useful book for introducing the idea of different approaches to understanding gender.


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Google Inc., the world's largest Internet search engine, settled a lawsuit on the brink of trial over the company's plan for a stock split that shareholders claimed would unfairly allow founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin to strengthen their corporate control.
Lawyers for a Massachusetts pension fund and other investors were scheduled to begin presenting testimony tomorrow in a Delaware court about a stock reclassification to create a new class of nonvoting shares, court filings show.
Under the tentative settlement, which must be approved by a judge, amendments of stock policies will require advance warning, increases in voting control for Page and Brin will trigger enhanced scrutiny, and plaintiffs' lawyers will get "reasonable" fees and expenses.
Unhappy shareholders contended Page and Brin were wrongly trying to entrench their control of Google, one of the world's five largest companies by market value, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Google's market capitalization reached a record $278 billion in March and its shares were trading above $883 each today. Shares rose 1.22 percent to $855.72 at 10:54 a.m.
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Google's lawyers said in pre-trial court filings that the new shares were designed to increase the company's flexibility in making acquisitions and rewarding employees while properly allowing Page and Brin to maintain control of the company they started in 1998. Google first publicly sold $1.67 billion in shares in August 2004. At the time, it was the largest IPO for a Web company.
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It's not uncommon for celebs to tip off the paparazzi about their whereabouts or their destinations before they arrive. It's a measure of trying to control the snappers -- what images they get, and where. In essence, it helps dictate the kind of press a star gets. Rumor has it that the plethora of images of country star LeAnn Rimes looking killer in bikinis or hanging out with hubby Eddie Cibrian and his kids are no accident. Sources suggest Rimes has a deal in place with photographers.
Radar Online reports that Rimes, 30, is the subject of "set up" photos. Ever notice how she is almost always snapped while doing things like shopping or entering restaurants? It's because she tips the paps off in advance, according to sources. That way, the photos are flattering and never depict her in a questionable light.
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