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Nurse Survey Shows Longer Working Hours Impact on Quality of CareSep. 22, 2014 Results of a survey of more than 30,000 nurses across Europe show that nurses who work longer shifts and more overtime are more likely to rate the standard of care delivered on their ward as poor, ... full story
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Making Light Work of the Workload for Overworked Healthcare WorkersSep. 22, 2014 Modern hospitals are staffed by overworked and overstressed healthcare workers, according to a research paper. As such, new technology must be implemented to reduce the number of treatment errors ... full story
Impact of Smoking Ban in Homeless Shelter StudiedSep. 22, 2014 Instituting a partial smoking ban at a homeless shelter can lead to a reduction in expired carbon monoxide levels, an indicator of exposure to cigarette smoke, and may have positive effects on ... full story
Narrow Focus on Physical Activity Could Be Ruining Kids' PlaytimeSep. 21, 2014 While public health authorities focus on the physical activity benefits of active play, a new study reveals that for children, playing has no goal -- it is an end in itself, an activity that is fun, ... full story
Possible 6,800 New Ebola Cases This Month, Research PredictsSep. 19, 2014 A possible 6,800 new Ebola cases this are predicted this month, as suggested by researchers who used modelling analysis to come up with their figures. The rate of new cases significantly increased in ... full story
Two Generation Lens: Current State Policies Fail to Support Families With Young ChildrenSep. 19, 2014 Recent two generation approaches to reducing poverty that help children and their parents are receiving increasing attention. By combining education and training for parents, these programs aim to ... full story
Some Patients With Advanced, Incurable Cancer Denied Palliative CareSep. 19, 2014 Many patients with advanced, incurable cancer do not receive any palliative care, reveals new research. The findings are astonishing as they come at the same time as 15 new oncology centres in ... full story
Obesity in Pacific Islands 'a Colonial Legacy' of Settlers Trying to Civilize the LocalsSep. 19, 2014 Scientists have known for some time that Pacific islanders are more prone to obesity than people in other nations. Now a new study has examined why islanders on Nauru and in the Cook Islands in the ... full story
Premature Deaths Could Be Reduced by 40% Over Next 20 Years, Researchers SaySep. 19, 2014 With sustained international efforts, the number of premature deaths could be reduced by 40% over the next two decades (2010-2030), researchers say, halving under–50 mortality and preventing a ... full story
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Fortune 500 Employees Can Expect to Pay More for Health InsuranceSep. 18, 2014 A new survey is the first factual collection of data on how firms have been impacted by PPACA and how they are responding to the rising costs they report. More than 200 responded to this year's ... full story
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- Mother-infant bed sharing messaging should be tailored, according to researcher
- Life, liberty, and the pursuit of healthcare? Privatized medical care scrutinized
- Federal food program puts food on the table, but dietary quality could be improved
- Actions on climate change bring better health, study says
- Think the system for paying U.S. doctors is rigged to favor surgeons? New study may surprise you
- Online ratings influence parents' choices of physicians for their children
- Nurse survey shows longer working hours impact on quality of care
- One out of three severely injured patients undertriaged in the United States
- Making light work of the workload for overworked healthcare workers
- Impact of smoking ban in homeless shelter studied
- Possible 6,800 new Ebola cases this month, research predicts
- Two generation lens: Current state policies fail to support families with young children
- Some patients with advanced, incurable cancer denied palliative care
- Obesity in Pacific islands 'a colonial legacy' of settlers trying to civilize the locals
- Premature deaths could be reduced by 40% over next 20 years, researchers say
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- Why bioethics literacy matters
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- Ebola paper demonstrates disease transmission rate
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- One in five young men unable to purchase emergency contraception
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- Prioritizing pregnant women in malaria endemic regions for bed nets from clinics
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- After generics it's the turn of biosimilar drugs, a budding market
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- Too many kids with asthma, food allergies lack school emergency plans
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When Montgomery police tried to contact the suspects Oct. 15, Colley fled in her vehicle and tried to hit an officer, according to Crime Stoppers.
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Starting off the holiday-shortened week is H&R Block (HRB), which will report earnings on Tuesday after the close.
Ciena Corp. (CIEN) will report Wednesday before the open and Dollar General (DG) reports during market hours at 10 a.m. EDT.
After the close on Thursday, it starts to get busy, with Quicksilver (ZQK), Smith & Wesson Holding (SWHC), Zumiez (ZUMZ), VeriFone Systems (PAY) and Infoblox (BLOX) all reporting earnings.Bell added that Infoblox has doubled in 2013, but according to the options market, still looks to have upside ahead, following the high expectations for this quarter. Although Smithfield Foods (SFD) will report earnings on Friday morning, that's far from most investors' radar, with the nonfarm payrolls report for the month of August due out at 8:30 a.m. EDT. It's the last big economic report before the Fed meeting later this month and could be the pivotal datapoint in the decision over tapering, Krill said. Videos: Earnings Continue Ahead of Jobs, The Week Ahead Jobs Infoblox
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Director Mark Gwyn said after budget hearings at the Capitol on Wednesday that requiring a prescription to buy medicines containing pseudoephedrine could help avoid some of the destructive effects of meth.
"Back in 2005 we passed the Meth Free Tennessee Act and we put pseudoephedrine behind the counter at pharmacies," Gwyn said.
Though the act was to help prevent meth abuse, people were able to get around the law by going to numerous pharmacies to purchase the prime ingredient in both meth and certain cold medicines.
Gwyn is in favor of the proposed new bill that would ban over-the-counter sales of pseudoephedrine and make the purchase of the medication require a doctor's prescription.
"I believe that is the only way we are going to get our arms around the scourge of methamphetamine that has become an epidemic in our state," Gwyn told Nashville's News 2.
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A friend challenged me to take a film photo every day for an entire year. I've not hit every day, and sometimes will go stretches without taking anything with a film camera, but I will end up posting at least 365 frames here for 2014.
This is year No. 5 for the infamous Men of Rivermont Pizza Calendar. It was the first year that I shot it, which means after three times of being in the calendar, I got the chance to put my own spin on it (along with Foster Addington.)
Film photos from my first year in photography.
I went with DuckDuck Collective to Los Angeles and Lake Tahoe for a shoot in August/September of 2013, and had an incredible experience being immersed in commercial production for the first time.
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WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) - Wausau's teachers will be getting a raise.
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In addition, FCP is also optimized to handle storage traffic. Unlike protocols that run on top of TCP/IP, FCP is a significantly thinner, single-purpose protocol that generally results in a lower switching latency. It also includes a built-in flow control mechanism that ensures data isn't sent to a device (either storage or server) that isn't ready to accept it. In my experience, you can't achieve the same low interconnect latency with any other storage protocol in existence today.
Yet FC and FCP have drawbacks -- and not just high cost. One is that supporting storage interconnectivity over long distances can be expensive. If you want to configure replication to a secondary array at a remote site, either you're lucky enough to afford dark fiber (if it's available) or you'll need to purchase expensive FCIP distance gateways.
In addition, managing a FC infrastructure requires a specialized skill set, which may make administrator experience an issue. For example, FC zoning makes heavy use of long hexadecimal World Wide Node and Port names (similar to MAC addresses in Ethernet), which can be a pain to manage if frequent changes are made to the fabric.
The nitty-gritty on iSCSI
iSCSI is a storage networking protocol built on top of the TCP/IP networking protocol. Ratified as a standard in 2004, iSCSI's greatest claim to fame is that it runs over the same network equipment that run the rest of the enterprise network. It does not specifically require any extra hardware, which makes it comparatively inexpensive to implement.
From a performance perspective, iSCSI lags behind FC/FCP. But when iSCSI is implemented properly, the difference boils down to a few milliseconds of additional latency due to the overhead required to encapsulate SCSI commands within the general-purpose TCP/IP networking protocol. This can make a huge difference for extremely high transactional I/O loads and is the source of most claims that iSCSI is unfit for use in the enterprise. Such workloads are rare outside of the Fortune 500, however, so in most cases the performance delta is much narrower.


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Forty medals in the span of 10 years-- that's what athlete Antron Shepherd has to show since joining Albany ARC, a center that works with people with disabilities. Every year they put together Special Olympics for members, it promotes sports training and athletic competition in basketball, bowling and several other sports.
"He did hit two home runs Saturday! I don't think anyone was expecting that, so you know, that's why he is really an all around athlete," Special Olympics Director, Chandra Wesley-Carr said.
She also says Shepherd is a team player and always goes the extra mile to make sure no one is left out.
Wesley-Carr continues, "They get together and they don't see each other's disabilities, just one big group, one big family."
Its his positive attitude that attracts his fellow athletes to keep pushing forward.
"Antron is always a friendly, pleasant person to be around and always wants to help doing whatever he can. And I know he's going to be so thrilled when he hears about this. We're real excited for him," Albany ARC Director, Sonja West said.
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In the strict Islamic nation of Iran, it is legal to be transsexual but not gay.
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(2) A plastic or paper diagram that you can put on your keyboard to indicate the meanings of different keys for a particular program.
(3) A sheet of plastic with menus and command boxes drawn on it that you place on top of a digitizing tablet. You can select commands by pressing the digitizing tablet's pen against a command box or by positioning the cursor over a box and pressing one of the cursor keys.
(4) In spreadsheet and database applications, a template is a blank form that shows which fields exist, their locations, and their length. In spreadsheet applications, for example, a template is a spreadsheet in which all the cells have been defined but no data has yet been entered.
(5) In some word processing applications, template is used in place of style sheet.
(6) DOS uses the term template to mean command buffer.
(7) A shortened term for a biometric reference template.
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West Valley City • Glenn Beck gazed upon humanity from some 238,857 miles away — witnessed darkness and light, despair and hope — and concluded that the fate of mankind rests in its own hands.
The conservative media personality, known for his outspoken and often controversial beliefs, used fireworks, dancers, music, a massive robot and a 35-foot-diameter replica of the moon to stage a show that was billed as a way to "help people see America's history from a completely different point of view."
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The "Man in the Moon" show, which played to a sold-out audience at the USANA Amphitheatre in West Valley City on Saturday night, began with two soldiers walking upside-down from either side of the top of the stage, to unfurl an American flag, upside-down.
The accompanying text: "Where were you when the world was turned upside-down?"
Beck took the stage wearing a black tuxedo and told the crowd of roughly 18,000, many of whom were wearing garbage bag ponchos against the rain, "If we don't know where we came from, we'll never know where we're going."
He stressed that the night was about history and culture.
But he said of the story he was about to tell: "I warn you, you are really, really not going to like how it ends."
As Beck began narrating — telling a somewhat biblical version of the evolution of mankind — he took on the role of a watchful moon admiring sister Earth, calling her "Blue," and his face became superimposed upon the giant stage moon.
The moon witnessed mankind, referred to as "the beasts," become greedy and violent and lose its way.
Noah's ark rode out the flood, followed by a Tower of Babel scenario.
Fast forward, and the Man in the Moon touched upon the evils of slavery and praised Abraham Lincoln.
Dancers illustrated man's creation of electricity. And, with the coming of the Industrial Revolution, a giant robot in the corner of the stage began moving its arms and upper body.
War was signaled by the sound of sirens as the stage went dark and fireworks shrieked into the sky.
Images of Hitler, and the Man in the Moon told of World War II ending as an atom bomb exploded on screen.
Beck then took the stage as himself again, saying that is how the story ended, for now, but that new chapters would be written.
The audience then watched video of John F. Kennedy speak of reaching for the stars and sending men to the moon.
A visibly aged and wrinkled moon concluded with an impassioned speech about the "puzzle" that is mankind.
"I cannot tell you how your story ends, because I am not the author. You are," said the Man in the Moon. "Love, love one another. I cannot wait to see what you decide to do."
"I am your moon. And you are my beasts," the moon continued, promising to be there in mankind's darkest hour "to remind you that on the morrow, the sun shall return."
The moon began to spin to the sound of upbeat country music, fireworks once again exploded overhead, and the show was over.
The spectacle was the culmination of Beck's tour through Utah during the July Fourth holiday weekend, which included speeches, panels and museum tours in Salt Lake City.Next Page >
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Urbanna Oyster Festival (November 1 - 2, 2013)
56th Oyster Festival: Good times here are not forgotten
The first time I saw Urbanna was at the Urbanna Oyster Festival in 1987. We walked across the bridge and when I got to the intersection of Cross and Prince George streets I stopped. From this intersection I could see that Urbanna was unlike any place I'd ever been… Click through to download our special Oyster Festival Section or find it inside this week's issue of the Sentinel.
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Festival 'traditions' continue
Traditions take time to develop. A few years ago Urbanna Oyster Festival visitor Mike Tokarz couldn't find any oyster necklaces he liked. So, last year he made a few necklaces of his own design "to celebrate the oyster." Could Tokarz's mementos be the start of a tradition?
posted 11.06.2013Leigh Harrow crowned Oyster Festival Queen
Leigh Harrow was crowned Queen of the 56th Urbanna Oyster Festival last Friday and Anna Carey was crowned Little Miss Spat. As Urbanna Oyster Festival Queen, Harrow received a $5,000 college scholarship.
posted 11.06.2013Urbanna Oyster Festival poster features 'Oyster Cans of the Past'
"Oyster Cans of the Past" by Jeannie W. Duke is the official 2013 Urbanna Oyster Festival poster. Duke, who is principal of Middlesex High School, has lived in Middlesex most of her life. She loves to spend time on the water with family and friends and is always inspired by its beauty.
posted 10.30.2013Making connections with oysters
Despite the wind and rain, local 4th grade, 7th grade, and high school students have been busy exploring Urbanna Creek and the Rappahannock River aboard the Chesapeake Bay Foundation's deadrise "Bea Hayman Clark."
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This year's 56th edition of the area's premier fall festival takes center stage Friday and Saturday, November 1-2. There'll be bands, dancing, performances, crafts, the queen crowning and two parades. Click through for a schedule so you don't miss a thing!
posted 10.30.2013Festival features two parades
The annual Urbanna Oyster Festival Fireman's Parade is at 7 p.m. Friday. The Oyster Festival Parade, sponsored by Whitten Brothers Family of Auto Dealerships of Richmond, will have about 80 units, and begins at 2 p.m. Saturday.
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More than 20 years ago Captain Bob Jensen had a vision to solve the problem of the diminishing resources of the Chesapeake Bay while also improving water quality. Through his Rappahannock Preservation Society's School of the Bay, Jensen took more than students on Rappahannock River field trips aboard his deadrise workboat "Casey Jean" to see, firsthand, environmental issues.
posted 10.30.2013Francis Hall is festival's Honorary Grand Marshal
Francis Hall, 93, of Urbanna has been named Honorary Grand Marshal of the 2013 Urbanna Oyster Festival. Hall's Texaco was on Urbanna Creek, and the dock was a primary spot for oystermen to raft their boats during the oyster season. "I really enjoyed the host of oystermen who tied their boats up at our dock," said Hall.
posted 10.16.2013Local businessman and pastor is grand marshal of Urbanna Oyster Festival
The Urbanna Oyster Festival Foundation Board of Directors has named Edward P. Harrow Sr. of Deltaville grand marshal of the 2013 Urbanna Oyster Festival that will be held Friday and Saturday, November 1-2.
posted 10.09.2013Retired VMRC oyster inspector is Urbanna Oyster Festival captain
Richard Haynes of Urbanna, a retired Virginia Marine Resources Commission (VMRC) oyster inspector, has been named 2013 Urbanna Oyster Festival Captain by the Urbanna Oyster Festival Foundation.
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Lingam Massage
Lingam Massage or Sacred Lingam Healing. Lingam is the Sanskrit word for the penis. It literally means "wand of light". Lingam massage is the ritual of honoring and healing this part of the body. Touching the penis not from a place of arousal and orgasm but from a joy and wonder of this beautiful part of the body.
You can download the full 2 hour instructional lingam massage video here.
Difficulty with premature ejaculation, or improving male sexual stamina can often be healed through loving nurturing of the lingam. Through this sacred ritual, you learn to release old beliefs that are keeping you from your full potential as a lover, and your full enjoyment of your sexuality.
The Lingam Massage Ceremony
Begin by Creating Sacred Space for your ceremony.
After you have created a beautiful space for the ritual, begin the solo practice of grounding and centering yourself so you can fully come into partnership. A great way to do this is by practicing our Sacred Tree Meditation.
Connecting to your partner
Now that you are deeply connected to your own life force and to the life force of Earth and Sky, begin to connect your roots to your partner's roots, allowing the connection to feel sexual and spiritual at the same time. You may notice tingling, heat, or arousal when you make this connection. Once your roots are connected, imagine that you are connecting your branches also. Inhale and exhale together, synchronizing your breath to help synchronize your energy levels, making it more easy to come into a connection that contains both stillness, mindfulness, and sexual arousal.
Once you have an energy connection, come into a physical connection, holding hands, touching knees, woman sitting in the man's lap, or whatever position is comfortable for the two of you. Keep breathing and feeling your energy connection as you come together physically.
Now that you are connected physically, imagine that your hearts are linking together with vines or energy cords. Really feel that your hearts are connected to each other, and that you could send energy back and forth at this place. Add your eyes next, just gently connecting and looking into each other.
Beginning the Ritual–Creating Relaxation
Now you are ready to move into the first phase of the lingam massage, where you focus on helping your man to relax and drop into the tantric space, where there are no goals. This is sacred ritual, and while sexuality and arousal is welcomed and encouraged as part of the ritual, it is important to stay out of the habits of the past. Rather than being a simple hand job (which of course can be yummy!) this is a ceremony designed to allow a man to experience sexual touch with no need to give back or perform in any particular way.
This may be the first time a man has ever experienced this type of touch, and it is really a gift. Be willing to stay present, as if you are meditating, whether you are giving or receiving in this ritual. If you are giving the massage, let your sexual energy flow as healing energy through your hands, breathing it up from your genitals to your heart, and then out through your arms and hands, into your partner's body and lingam. If you are receiving, really let yourself take in your partner's energy, and let down any walls you may have. Stay present and out of the need to make love or ejaculate by breathing and staying present. This is not about orgasm, and it's not about performance. Any state of arousal that you are in is perfect. The man doesn't have to be hard or soft for any part of this ritual.
See our Tantric Massage ritual for more information on how to perform tantric massage.
Waking up the sexual energy
Have your partner roll over onto his back now, and reposition the pillows so that he is comfortable. You may want to put one pillow under each knee, leaving his legs spread a little bit apart, and another pillow under his head to cushion his neck.
Once your man is comfortable, return to the still touch that you used on his back, and remember to breathe. Gently place one hand over his lingam, cupping the whole penis. While that hand remains still, use your other hand to massage the front of the man's body, beginning with his belly and stomach. Too much tension in this part of a man's body stifles the sexual energy. Relaxing here allows a man to hold more sexual charge and to have powerful sexual arousal.
Keep your still hand on the man's lingam for this entire section of the massage, and move to massaging the chest, the nipples, the heart, the neck, the throat. Let your touch begin to be a little more sensual and sexual, bringing the sexual energy slowly online.
Loving the pelvis.
Now that you have loved your man's entire body with your touch, it is time to focus in on the groin and lingam. The muscles in the groin hardly ever receive much touch, and massaging here can release lots of tension for your man. Ask your beloved to open his legs if he feels comfortable, and make sure each knee is supported by a pillow. As you are working with the groin muscles, there is no need to avoid the genitals, but no need to focus on them either. Simply allow your hand to brush them if you happen to be passing by as you massage the hips, groin, and thighs.
Gently massage the hip joints, beginning with the crease between the scrotum and the leg, being gentle and checking in with your partner about what pressure feels good. Continue toward the buttocks, massaging around all the muscles surrounding the front and back of where the thigh bone connects in to the pelvis.
Next massage the thighs again, helping them to loosen up and relax.
Massaging the Lingam and Ejaculation Mastery
Now you are ready to begin focusing entirely on the genitals. During the lingam massage, be sure to connect with the whole penis, all the way down to its root. Also be sure to make contact with the scrotum and with the perineum. or "tweeny" (the place between the scrotum and the anus). Have your oil or lube handy, and use it generously to prevent any abrasion on the lingam. Our favorite oil for this practice is organic grape seed oil, that we buy in the food section of our local health food store.
Start by touching the scrotum, gently stroking it, and perhaps even drawing out and massaging the skin of the scrotum (check with your man to see if this feels good to him. Be careful NOT to squeeze the man's testicles.
Now focus on the penis, and do your best to stay out of old habits of giving a "hand job" to create a sexual release. Instead, massage the lingam as you massaged the man's entire body: slowly, sensually, and with arousal. Use your breath to stay present and feel the energy flowing from your hands into the lingam. You may also find energy flowing back the other way, into you from the lingam! If that happens it is natural, and you can just breathe it in, enjoy it, and continue. If you find that your man is getting close to ejaculation and you would like the lingam massage to continue a little longer, there are some tools you can use to help him enjoy the massage a little while longer. First, ask him to tell you when he is getting close to an ejaculation by saying "yellow" or "red". When this happens, take your hands away from his lingam immediately, and ask him to breathe in very deeply, then breathe out a strong exhale and relax his entire body and belly, and imagine discharging the sexual energy through his feet.
There are a number of different ways to massage the lingam, and most of them involve some kind of stroking on the shaft or the head of the penis. Use your intuition just as you did in the body massage about what feels right to give to your partner. Remember that it doesn't matter if the man is hard or soft for this part, only that he is breathing, relaxing, and receiving your touch. This is a healing ritual, and its only focus is on the man receiving your touch, not on creating an orgasm. If that happens it's wonderful, but is NOT a goal. Men should work on staying out of fantasy and staying in their body, always returning to the breath and focusing on the woman's touch. For them it is a practice of simply seeing what it is like to FEEL a woman's touch without any expectations on where it will go. In general, SLOW stroking allows you to stay more present in your touch and energy.
When you feel complete with this part of the ceremony, then conclude by again placing a still hand on the lingam, cupping it, and place your other hand on the man's heart, or 3rd eye (whichever seems appropriate to you). Breathe together.
Closing the Ceremony
End the ceremony by coming into full body contact with your man. Choose the position that is most comfortable for the two of you to cuddle in. Spend some time breathing together and letting the energy come down.
When you are ready, close your ceremony by thanking your guides, teachers, the directions, and any other forces you have asked to assist you in holding space. Bask in the glow of your ritual, and ground yourselves with food and sharing about your experience.
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love this. just bought the full course. pls consider to put the short version up on youtube so people can directly link to the video. i d like to write a blog post and link to it.
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WASHINGTON, DC – The Administration on Aging (AoA) Assistant Secretary Josefina G. Carbonell today released a solicitation for proposals to bolster state efforts to help consumers make informed choices regarding their long-term care decisions through Aging and Disability Resource Centers (ADRC).
The ADRC grants are part of President George W. Bush's New Freedom Initiative, which brings several federal agencies together to overcome programmatic barriers to community living for the elderly and people with disabilities. ADRC grants help states integrate their varied long-term support programs for consumers into a single coordinated system.
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The ADRC grants are administered through a joint effort of the Administration on Aging (AoA) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the agency that administers the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Under the ADRC program, up to twenty projects will be funded for up to $800,000 over three years.
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Before laying out the 2-foot centers for the base blocks, we snapped a chalk line on the floor. Because the barn walls were so wavy, we let the brackets set the actual distance from the wall.
With the base blocks screwed to the floor for the front of the cover, strips of wood with a ripped bevel set the space between the brackets at the back against the wall. The base blocks then attach to the brackets from the front.
Stock 1x5 boards rest on the base blocks to create the cover face. Perpendicular lengths were glued and screwed together and the corner was installed as one piece.
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To attach the face board of the covers to the base blocks, pocket screw holes were pre-drilled and the screws were driven using an extended bit with a right angle drill.
Blocks are glued and screwed to the top of the face board aligned directly over the base blocks. Butt blocks (visible in the foreground) join the lengths of board to complete the face.
Stock 1x5 boards attach to the blocks in front and the brackets along the wall for the top of the baseboard cover. A small flat trim strip will cover gaps left due to the wavy barn wall.
My New Year's resolution for 2014—besides writing a blog entry every week—is to finish the studio/gallery in my barn in time for Spring. The barn is a story and a half structure that sits about 50 feet in back of my house—bright yellow, with the old barn doors built into the siding during a past renovation (hero). The walls and floors are insulated, and hydronic baseboard heat piped over from the house keeps the place warm enough so that I don't have to wear mittens to work in my upstairs office—All-in-all a pretty cool space.
The owner responsible for the last renovation sold floor coverings (mostly carpet) out of the barn. Like any of us, he finished the inside of the barn with the material at hand. So when I bought the place in '05, the first-floor walls were covered with dark grey indoor/outdoor carpet, with caca brown industrial-grade carpet on the floors. In 2010, with a vision of creating a place to display my sculpture and photography, I got a dumpster and started removing the carpet from both the walls and the floor. The carpet on the floor was as gross as it gets, with dog stains and mouse droppings, so removing it required a face mask and a haz-mat suit. Conversely, the carpet on the walls was fairly clean and came down with little effort. The best part was that the wall carpet had been glued to CDX plywood—a perfect wall material for displaying art in a barn. I could hang stuff anywhere! The worst part was that the baseboard heat had gone in after the walls were carpeted. After trying various strategies to remove the bottom section of carpet from behind the covers, I opted to get rid of the dented and rusty old covers while I still had space in the dumpster. I needed to support the heating element that ran along two walls, so I used what I had and what I knew—wood—making T-shaped support brackets screwed to the wall every couple of feet. In the years since then, I've added windows, painted the walls, replaced the entry door, and put in new wide-board pine floors inside, while outside I built a new entry with a ramp and a pergola.
In 2010 I put in new, more weather-tight outswing French doors, as well as a fancier entry with equipment ramp and pergola.
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Which brings us to the present and the real topic of this blog: As of last Sunday morning the bare heating element was still perched on those funky brackets I'd installed years before. I'd decided early on to make custom wooden covers, but didn't finalize the design until the end of last year. In the name of speed and my established "rustic barn aesthetic" (read: quick and dirty finish work), my design combined stock 1x5 boards with simple ripped blocks to create the ventilated enclosure. Randy Patterson, a musician buddy of mine who does remodeling, came to help me with the install last Sunday.
I had all the materials ready and moved stuff like my orange and bay laurel trees away from the wall to give us room to work. Randy pulled up in his old Toyota pick-up at around ten. By four o' clock the enclosures were done except for a light sanding and the band molding that will cover the gaps from the wavy walls (see slide show of the process). In keeping with the unrefined décor, I will keep the #2 pine natural and unfinished and we made all visible attachments with exposed finish-head screws. I'm hoping that our efforts will appear in an On the Job piece for JLC in the near future, not as a lesson in fine finish carpentry, but more as a strategy for building custom hydronic baseboard covers, that could be modified or adapted to any level of finish to fit any type of décor.
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Democracy in Retreat
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Southeast Asia, China; Asian regionalism; public diplomacy; democratization in the developing world.
Joshua Kurlantzick is a senior fellow for Southeast Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Mr. Kurlantzick was most recently a scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he studied Southeast Asian politics and economics and China's relations with Southeast Asia, including Chinese investment, aid, and diplomacy. Previously, he was a fellow at the University of Southern California Center on Public Diplomacy and a fellow at the Pacific Council on International Policy.
Mr. Kurlantzick has also served as a columnist for Time, a special correspondent for the New Republic, a senior correspondent for the American Prospect, and a contributing writer for Mother Jones. He also serves on the editorial board of Current History.
He is the winner of the Luce Scholarship for journalism in Asia and was selected as a finalist for the Osborn Elliot prize for journalism in Asia. His first book, Charm Offensive: How China's Soft Power Is Transforming the World, was nominated for CFR's 2008 Arthur Ross Book Award. He is the author of the recently published book Democracy in Retreat.
Mr. Kurlantzick received his BA in political science from Haverford College.
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The party is far from over. The early-year rally that on Friday took the Dow Jones Industrial Average to within 1% of its record high, set in 2007, could have a lot further to run. For starters, stocks aren't expensive. The Standard & Poor's 500 index is valued at about 14 times estimated 2013 profits and the Dow fetches less than 13 times projected 2013 earnings. At the market peak in 2007, the Dow traded for 16 times forward earnings. Given ultralow interest rates, the market multiple has room to expand even if earnings growth remains modest.
There's a huge amount of money that could shift into stocks because individuals until recently have favored bonds over equities, based on mutual-fund flow data. "If there is a great rotation going on from bonds to stocks, we may be only in the top of the first inning," says Jason Trennert, chief investment strategist at Strategas Research Partners in New York. Trennert cites the TINA -- or "there is no alternative" -- factor, as yield-starved investors move into stocks.
Further impetus to stocks could come from endowments and pension funds that for the past decade have been shifting assets away from stocks and into alternatives, including hedge funds, private equity, real estate, and commodity-oriented investments.
That trend could reverse, because it will be tough for hedge funds and other alternatives to keep pace with a steadily rising stock market. Last year, the S&P 500 returned more than 16%, 10 percentage points better than the average hedge fund tracked by Hedge Fund Research. If big endowments and pension funds see relative returns suffer, there will be pressure for them to boost their allocation to stocks.
"Assuming we breach the old high on the S&P 500, the national conversation and media coverage could shift from a constant discussion of a 'lost decade' for stocks, to 'Are you being too conservative and missing out on the new bull market?' " says Jim Paulsen, chief investment strategist at Wells Capital Management in Minneapolis. A new record for the S&P, he adds, "could start to challenge the portfolio-allocation decisions" among institutional investors.
BARRON'S HAS BEEN BULLISH ON STOCKS, including a cover story a year ago ("Enter the Bull," Feb. 13, 2012) in which we wrote that the Dow could hit 15,000 by the end of this year -- a target that looks increasingly achievable. Barron's was similarly upbeat in a cover story in the fall ("Almost There," Oct. 15, 2012).
The Dow industrials finished the week at 14,009, up 6.9% so far this year. The index is 156 points away from its high of 14,165, set in October 2007. The S&P 500 index has risen 6.1% this year, to 1513, and stands 3% from its 2007 peak of 1565.
Smaller-stock indexes moved deeper into record territory last week, hitting new highs, having already bested their 2007 peaks back in 2011. The S&P MidCap 400 index is up 8% this year, while the Russell 2000 Index has gained 7.3% so far in 2013. As the table shows, mid- and small-cap stocks have outperformed their larger brethren by a wide margin during the past decade.
Federated Investors Chief Investment Officer Stephen Auth had the most bullish 2013 prediction among the 10 strategists in our outlook article for this year, with an S&P 500 target of 1660 ("An Optimistic Outlook for 2013," Dec. 17, 2012). His target -- 10% above current levels -- doesn't look so outlandish now. "You don't need a lot of earnings growth to get there, just a willingness of investors to put a multiple on equities that's remotely reasonable," he says.
Auth argues that as the risk of another financial crisis recedes, investors will put a higher price/earnings ratio on stocks. He recently cited 10 bullish factors, including easy monetary policy around the world, a housing recovery, a U.S. manufacturing revival, a domestic energy boom, and a stronger growth outlook in Brazil and China.
BEARS CITE A HOST OF FACTORS, including minimal progress in addressing structural problems in the federal budget, economic drag from tax increases at the start of 2013, near recessionary conditions in Europe, and a weakening earnings outlook.
Current-year profit estimates for the S&P 500 have been coming down, and profit growth last year in the index probably was only 5%. This year, S&P earnings are expected to rise about 6%, to $108, based on strategist estimates. The profit expectation based on "bottom-up" analyst estimates for individual companies is a more robust $112.
Paulsen argues that the stocks and profits often don't move together, noting that earnings have doubled since 2000 but the S&P 500 is unchanged. During some periods, stocks outpace profit growth, and this could be one of those periods.
Trennert, too, cites a host of market-valuation measures that support higher multiples for the S&P 500, including a proprietary model based on interest rates and inflation, the so-called Rule of 20, and the Fed Model. The Rule of 20 suggests a market P/E of 18, based on 20 less the current inflation rate, while the Fed Model, popular in the 1990s, points toward a very high P/E of 50, based on the idea that the market-earnings yield (the inverse of the P/E) should be in line with the 10-year Treasury yield, now 2%.
As the nearby table shows, the current bull market, dating back to March 2009, is one of the strongest in the past 50 years. The S&P is up 124% from its low of 676. The bull run is well shy of the extended upturn in the 1990s, which resulted in a quadrupling of the S&P 500.
IT HAS BEEN DURING THE PAST "lost decade" for stocks that the best-performing institutional investors have focused on alternative investments like hedge funds, private equity, real estate, and commodities.
Influential big investors are light on stocks, notably the Harvard, Yale, and Princeton endowments and the Ford and General Motors pension funds. Yale represents an extreme example, with just 6% of its portfolio in U.S. stocks and a 14% equity exposure over all, including foreign shares. Following Yale and Harvard, big university endowments with $1 billion or more of assets had just 27% of their assets in stocks last year, down from 45% a decade ago, while holding 61% in alternatives, according to the National Association of College and University Business Officers. That's a far cry from the old 60/40 mix of stocks and bonds favored by big institutional holders.
Yale endowment director David Swensen is one of the most successful and influential institutional investors in the country -- thanks to alternatives, which now account for more than 70% of the $19 billion endowment.
However, the alternatives-heavy investment mix of the past 10 years may not be such a great idea in the current decade if stocks continue to do well. The alternatives space is crowded, as private-equity firms sit on hundreds of billions of dollars of "dry powder," or client investment commitments, while the ultracompetitive hedge-fund industry is having a harder time generating excess returns, or "alpha," as thousands of funds scour the stock market. The high fees on both private equity and hedge funds act as another drag.
A hedge fund charging a 1.5% base fee while taking 20% of investment profits might have a net exposure to stocks of just 50%, reflecting a mixture of long and short positions. Only the best managers can overcome that impediment to beat stocks in a rising market. Warren Buffett made a bet with a fund manager a few years ago that the S&P 500 would beat a group of hedge funds, and so far he's proving correct.
Top stock pickers should find ways to beat the market. Just look at the huge disparity in returns of the 30 stocks in the Dow industrials since 2007. Home Depot hd 0.2714735584754045% Home Depot Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD92.34 0.25 0.2714735584754045% /Date(1411160452795-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 11573245 AFTER HOURS USD92.2 -0.140000000000001 -0.15161360190599957% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 925589 P/E Ratio 21.881516587677726 Market Cap 124282432280.559 Dividend Yield 2.0359540827377085% Rev. per Employee 220997 More quote details and news » (ticker: HD) is up 98%, while Alcoa aa 0.06172839506172839% Alcoa Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD16.21 0.01 0.06172839506172839% /Date(1411160587361-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 18698291 AFTER HOURS USD16.21 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1283876 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap 19089559389.3668 Dividend Yield 0.7402837754472548% Rev. per Employee 377633 More quote details and news » (AA) and Bank of America bac -0.528169014084507% Bank of America Corp. U.S.: NYSE USD16.95 -0.09 -0.528169014084507% /Date(1411160644904-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 85797118 AFTER HOURS USD16.93 -0.0199999999999996 -0.11799410029498525% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 2657931 P/E Ratio 26.076923076923077 Market Cap 178243840981.949 Dividend Yield 1.1799410029498525% Rev. per Employee 395876 More quote details and news » (BAC) are down more than 75%.
It's telling that in recent years there have been few start-ups of traditional long-only equity-investment managers and not many new mutual funds outside of the biggest shops. Why start a traditional fund when operating a hedge fund can be so much more lucrative?
BONDS, WHICH HAVE OFFERED a good alternative to stocks in recent years, aren't keeping pace in 2013, as investors fear stronger economic growth, potentially higher inflation, and a curtailment of the Federal Reserve's massive bond-buying program. If weak bond returns continue, it may spur individual investors to shift more money to stocks.
The problem with bonds is that it's mathematically tough for them to produce good returns starting at current rates. And the setback in the Treasury market this year shows the impact of a relatively small rate increase. Long-term Treasuries are down 2% to 3% so far this year, erasing a year's worth of income, while broader bond indexes that include high-grade corporates are about flat.
Even famed managers are finding it difficult to maneuver now. The giant Pimco Total Return fund (PTTAX), headed by Barron's Roundtable member Bill Gross, managed to generate a 10% return last year despite super-low rates, but it's finding fewer ways to score this year and was down slightly in January.
Junk bonds, which kept pace with the S&P 500's 16% gain last year, are up just 1% this year, and sizable returns are unlikely, with the average junk issue yielding only 5.8%. The earnings yield on the S&P 500 is above the junk yield, marking a rare such occurrence. That suggests that stocks look appealing relative to junk.
Within the stock market, large-cap stocks may offer the best value. As the table shows, the P/E ratios on the S&P 400 MidCap and Russell 2000 indexes exceed those of the Dow industrials, with the MidCap index trading for 16 times projected 2013 earnings and the Russell 2000 carrying a 2013 P/E of 18.
The offset is that mid- and small-cap companies are expected to show stronger profit growth than larger ones. And betting against the MidCap index in particular has been a losing strategy, because it has consistently beaten the S&P 500, and it's now 20% above its 2007 peak. The MidCap index seems to catch companies when they are on fast-growth trajectories -- before they graduate to the S&P 500. The S&P MidCap index has no dominant member; its largest company is the little-known Regeneron Pharmaceuticals regn -1.0530958813475217% Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD358.92 -3.82 -1.0530958813475217% /Date(1411160400155-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1569828 AFTER HOURS USD358 -0.920000000000016 -0.25632452914298454% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1065266 P/E Ratio 89.73 Market Cap 36274629094.7657 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 1067900 More quote details and news » (REGN), at only a 1.1% weighting. ExxonMobil xom 0.5278956629748474% Exxon Mobil Corp. U.S.: NYSE USD97.12 0.51 0.5278956629748474% /Date(1411160437691-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 17086791 AFTER HOURS USD97.21 0.0899999999999892 0.09266886326194398% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1091686 P/E Ratio 12.371974522292994 Market Cap 414186888510.201 Dividend Yield 2.841845140032949% Rev. per Employee 5295050 More quote details and news » (XOM) and Apple aapl -0.8154042636801258% Apple Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD100.96 -0.83 -0.8154042636801258% /Date(1411160403081-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 63125991 AFTER HOURS USD101.16 0.200000000000003 0.19809825673534073% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 7776415 P/E Ratio 16.20181660622011 Market Cap 604535065767.944 Dividend Yield 1.8621236133122028% Rev. per Employee 2214380 More quote details and news » (AAPL), the two leading stocks in the S&P 500, each weigh in at about 3% of the index. Other big stocks in the MidCap index are Equinix eqix -0.743918579708822% Equinix Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD217.48 -1.63 -0.743918579708822% /Date(1411160400317-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1094425 AFTER HOURS USD217.48 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 84502 P/E Ratio 77.12056737588652 Market Cap 11568630945.8264 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 652870 More quote details and news » (EQIX), HollyFrontier hfc 0.3689236111111111% HollyFrontier Corp. U.S.: NYSE USD46.25 0.17 0.3689236111111111% /Date(1411160429032-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 2157213 AFTER HOURS USD46.245 -0.00500000000000256 -0.010810810810810811% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 213000 P/E Ratio 19.432773109243698 Market Cap 9183075962.06665 Dividend Yield 2.7675675675675677% Rev. per Employee 7662130 More quote details and news » (HFC), and Kansas City Southern ksu -0.35286394222878714% Kansas City Southern U.S.: NYSE USD121.43 -0.43 -0.35286394222878714% /Date(1411160635019-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 761224 AFTER HOURS USD121.43 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 49633 P/E Ratio 29.330917874396135 Market Cap 13398221699.0927 Dividend Yield 0.9223420900930577% Rev. per Employee 398450 More quote details and news » (KSU).
WHAT LOOKS BEST among big-cap stocks? During 2012, energy was a big industry laggard in the S&P 500. The two Super-Majors, ExxonMobil and Chevron cvx 0.5316578057032383% Chevron Corp. U.S.: NYSE USD124.8 0.66 0.5316578057032383% /Date(1411160660067-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 9653657 AFTER HOURS USD124.94 0.140000000000001 0.11217948717948718% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 436328 P/E Ratio 11.830056685688286 Market Cap 236986720248.206 Dividend Yield 3.4294871794871793% Rev. per Employee 3232450 More quote details and news » (CVX), offer exposure to higher oil and gas prices plus secure dividend yields, with Exxon yielding 2.5% and Chevron, 3%. Exxon trades at about $90, or 11 times projected 2013 profits, while Chevron, at $116, fetches 10 times estimated 2013 net.
Activist investor Paul Singer's move to shake up Hess hes -0.22510999693031822% Hess Corp. U.S.: NYSE USD97.51 -0.22 -0.22510999693031822% /Date(1411160719494-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 2861243 AFTER HOURS USD97.5 -0.0100000000000051 -0.010255358424776945% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 206316 P/E Ratio 8.629203539823008 Market Cap 30006266002.5253 Dividend Yield 1.0255358424776946% Rev. per Employee 1980120 More quote details and news » (HES) is a sign of investor frustration with exploration-and-production companies, whose stocks have badly trailed the market in recent years. There's frustration with high exploration spending and little-or-no cash returns to shareholders. Other depressed E&P companies include Apache apa -0.5154107823935676% Apache Corp. U.S.: NYSE USD96.51 -0.5 -0.5154107823935676% /Date(1411160780062-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 2424278 AFTER HOURS USD96.51 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 141704 P/E Ratio 31.13225806451613 Market Cap 36912469269.5041 Dividend Yield 1.0361620557455187% Rev. per Employee 2905280 More quote details and news » (APA) and Devon Energy dvn -0.8244829513694801% Devon Energy Corp. U.S.: NYSE USD70.97 -0.59 -0.8244829513694801% /Date(1411160563298-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 3862229 AFTER HOURS USD70.97 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 243217 P/E Ratio 17.654228855721392 Market Cap 29033827932.5562 Dividend Yield 1.3526842327744117% Rev. per Employee 2494750 More quote details and news » (DVN).
The financial sector has rallied in recent months, but valuations aren't excessive, with many major companies trading for 10 times projected 2011 earnings or less, including JPMorgan Chase jpm -0.3424657534246575% JPMorgan Chase & Co. U.S.: NYSE USD61.11 -0.21 -0.3424657534246575% /Date(1411160489622-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 17631684 AFTER HOURS USD60.88 -0.229999999999997 -0.37637047946326296% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1108795 P/E Ratio 15.669230769230769 Market Cap 229851884563.77 Dividend Yield 2.6182294223531337% Rev. per Employee 404867 More quote details and news » (JPM), Citigroup c -0.3354453969437197% Citigroup Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD53.48 -0.18 -0.3354453969437197% /Date(1411160519557-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 21550919 AFTER HOURS USD53.35 -0.129999999999995 -0.24308152580403888% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 603849 P/E Ratio 17.534426229508195 Market Cap 162139215936.383 Dividend Yield 0.07479431563201197% Rev. per Employee 349582 More quote details and news » (C), MetLife met 0.1431383073895151% MetLife Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD55.97 0.08 0.1431383073895151% /Date(1411160671452-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 6493064 AFTER HOURS USD55.97 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 109807 P/E Ratio 14.133838383838384 Market Cap 62950858256.5002 Dividend Yield 2.501340003573343% Rev. per Employee 1073600 More quote details and news » (MET), and Wells Fargo wfc 0.22539444027047334% Wells Fargo & Co. U.S.: NYSE USD53.36 0.12 0.22539444027047334% /Date(1411160539348-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 21447821 AFTER HOURS USD53.36 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1105991 P/E Ratio 12.953028280131084 Market Cap 278560932795.659 Dividend Yield 2.623688155922039% Rev. per Employee 334220 More quote details and news » (WFC). Dividends typically aren't generous at about 2%, but they probably will rise as the Federal Reserve loosens restrictions on capital returns to holders.
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The technology sector trades at a market multiple based on 2013 profits, and the industry has a better-than-average earnings outlook. Some of the cheapest tech issues are some of the biggest, including Microsoft msft 1.7994858611825193% Microsoft Corp. U.S.: Nasdaq USD47.52 0.84 1.7994858611825193% /Date(1411160404175-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 136546128 AFTER HOURS USD47.33 -0.190000000000005 -0.3998316498316498% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 65980408 P/E Ratio 17.86466165413534 Market Cap 391557610803.153 Dividend Yield 2.6094276094276094% Rev. per Employee 677570 More quote details and news » (MSFT), Cisco Systems csco -0.07930214115781126% Cisco Systems Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD25.2 -0.02 -0.07930214115781126% /Date(1411160402260-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 41291573 AFTER HOURS USD25.13 -0.0700000000000003 -0.2777777777777778% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 6052114 P/E Ratio 16.8 Market Cap 128499922640.383 Dividend Yield 3.015873015873016% Rev. per Employee 636693 More quote details and news » (CSCO), Intel intc -0.995166334944555% Intel Corp. U.S.: Nasdaq USD34.82 -0.35 -0.995166334944555% /Date(1411160404128-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 42557173 AFTER HOURS USD34.84 0.0200000000000031 0.05743825387708214% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 4302969 P/E Ratio 16.82125603864734 Market Cap 172393818489.075 Dividend Yield 2.5847214244686962% Rev. per Employee 501041 More quote details and news » (INTC), and Apple. All four trade for about 10 times projected current-year profits, yield 2% or more, and have strong balance sheets. Their effective P/Es are lower after stripping away cash. Apple's cash and marketable securities of $145 a share are equal to almost a third of its share price of $455. Microsoft has $6 a share in net cash, or 23% of its $27 stock price, and Cisco has about $5 in net cash, or almost 25% of its share price at $20. Pressure is likely to build on these companies to return more cash to holders through dividends.
Even after the long run-up in stocks since the 2009 low, the S&P 500 is still below its 2000 high. With both individual and institutional investors light in stocks, there's plenty of money to fuel further gains at a time when P/E multiples look appealing. Alternative investments starred in this century's first decade. The current decade may belong to stocks.
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Alaska has been on my bucket list for a long time. This year we took the plunge and booked a 7 night Vancouver Round Trip cruise to Alaska on the Celebrity Century - myself, my husband and our four kids ages 10, 13, 14 and 16. It was a wonderful family adventure enjoyed in different ways by all of us.
As we live in Victoria on Vancouver Island, we traveled by ferry to Vancouver. As walk on passengers we then took public transit (one bus and then sky train - fairly easy even with large suitcases)to Canada Place. Embarkation was very smooth - the only slow area was through US customs, a long line but lots of agents working so it went fairly quickly. Before we knew it we had gotten our sea passes and were on board.
I had read many things about the Century, but as a first time cruiser I found it to be a lovely ship, with beautiful woodwork and bright, spacious public areas. It was spotless throughout and crew could be seen cleaning and polishing around the ship at all times. The large staircase mid ship is beautiful, and the many areas of the ship like rendezvous square, the crystal lounge, hemisphere and the main pool deck provided ample space - it never felt overly crowded, even though the ship was close to full. Yes, there was some wear and tear and updating could be done, but overall it was in very good repair and because it was always so clean it was nice to be anywhere on the ship.
We had booked an outside cabin and an inside quad cabin across the hall from each other on deck 5. These were surprisingly spacious, with lots of room for storage - even for the kids sharing the quad. The beds were comfortable - although a mattress topper should be standard when moving two beds together to form a double bed. The kids found the lower and upper berths in their cabin to be comfortable and big enough to fit even our 5'10" son. They were kept very clean and our cabin steward Urban was fantastic - friendly and very helpful.
All of the crew were attentive, responsive to any request, and very friendly. Officers were everywhere - and very approachable. They participated in a number of activities, from Dancing with the Stripes to a Polar Bear plunge, and always had a friendly word for everyone. The crew really makes this ship a pleasure to be on!
There were a wide variety of activities for all ages. Our kids actually enjoyed the jr and sr teen programs - there were 100 or so kids on our cruise. Lots of different activities and a place to connect with other kids was a great break for everyone!! We adults enjoyed the art auction and lectures, scrapbooking, fitness activities and just relaxing in one of the many comfy chairs around the ship. Cova Cafe was a great place to hang out with a book and a latte. Everyone enjoyed the naturalist, Milos, who was funny and informative.
The entertainment was mixed - the Stars of the Century programs were good - great dancers and singers, especially the aerial flyers, but very, very loud - we saw some older people leaving because it was just too much sound for the small theater. The comedian was not enjoyed by us, but the magician was good. We missed the special group Wildfire, but others we met really enjoyed them. The party band was just average, the jazz trio was fantastic.
The food was incredible - delicious, great variety, wonderful presentation. Most everything we ate was delicious with a few exceptions - which were quickly replaced with something else. Our servers, Candida and Azhari, were exceptional, making us feel very much at home, and helping our kids to select new foods to try and enjoy. The service was very, very good, and the variety and abundance of food overwhelming at times. The Islands Cafe food was also generally excellent, and although none of us really liked the sushi, the pizza, served hot and fresh all day, was yummy! Seating could sometimes be a problem, we learned to go at slightly off hours to avoid high traffic. We did not dine at the specialty restaurant.
We enjoyed all of the ports we visited- Icy Strait, Juneau and Ketchikan- they are described in more detail in the port review section.
A true highlight of the trip was our visit to Hubbard Glacier. We were so fortunate to have perfect weather and conditions, and the Captain was able to get the ship to less than a half mile from the glacier - the closest ever for the Century. It was sunny, clear and utterly spectacular. We witnessed multiple calving events of varying sizes - the sounds and sights were incredible.
When it was time (sadly) to disembark, things went very smoothly - we had an 8:50 am time and were off the ship and at the Tsawwassen Ferry terminal via bus and sky train by 10:15 am.
Overall, it was magical family vacation with something for everyone, and so much that we could all enjoy together. I would happily sail to Alaska on Century again - both Alaska and the Century were perfect for this first time cruiser!