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DENVER -- Colorado theater shooting suspect James Holmes has offered to plead guilty and serve the rest of his life in prison to avoid the death penalty -- a deal that would bring a swift end to the sometimes wrenching courtroom battle and circumvent a prolonged debate over his sanity.
Prosecutors haven't said whether they would accept the offer, and victims and survivors of last summer's massacre were divided on what should be done.
Melisa Cowden, whose ex-husband was killed in the theater, said Wednesday she was resolutely opposed to a plea deal.
"He didn't give 12 people the chance to plea bargain and say, 'Let's see if you're going to shoot me or not,'" said Cowden, whose two teenage daughters were with their father when he was killed.
"No. No plea bargain," she said.
The attack during a crowded midnight showing of "The Dark Knight Rises" left a dozen people dead and 70 injured.
Prosecutors have said Holmes planned the assault for months, casing the theater complex in the Denver suburb of Aurora, amassing a small arsenal and rigging potentially deadly booby-traps in his apartment.
Then on July 20, he donned a police-style helmet and body armor, tossed a gas canister into the theater crowd and opened fire, prosecutors said.
The plea offer, made by Holmes' lawyers on his behalf sometime before March 12, was disclosed a defense court filing on Wednesday. It was made public just days before the prosecution was set to announce whether they would seek the death penalty.
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Pierce O'Farrill, who was shot three times, said he would welcome an agreement that would imprison Holmes for life. The years of court struggles ahead would likely be emotionally stressful for victims, he said.
"I don't see his death bringing me peace," O'Farrill said. "To me, my prayer for him was that he would spend the rest of his life in prison and hopefully, in all those years he has left, he could find God and ask for forgiveness himself."
Tom Sullivan, whose son Alex was killed, said he has wanted prosecutors to pursue the death penalty. But he said he wouldn't object to a plea agreement if it avoided a lengthy court battle -- and if Holmes got no privileges in prison.
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Holmes, a former graduate student at the University of Colorado, Denver, had seen a psychiatrist at the school before the shootings.
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Winter cited unnamed law enforcement officials saying Holmes sent drawings that foreshadowed the attack to a psychiatrist. Holmes' lawyers contend that whoever spoke to Winter violated a gag order.
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Dear Chemjobber,
This dialogue has been really illustrative so far, despite only beginning today. I have to admit that I'm surprised by how largely one-sided the responses have been: overwhelmingly it seems clear that chemistry grad school, as it is run in the US, is frequently very, very bad for mental health. It's good that these issues are coming to light, and it seems that there are many chemists who share a common experience.
I admit that I expected more people to jump up in defense of the current system—maybe we'll see more of that this week. From what I've seen, many synthesis labs are stocked with advocates of the old-school style of management: I consider this a scientific Stockholm syndrome. These people brag about the sheer amount of grunt work they can accomplish and the late hours they routinely work, scoff at those having out-of-lab hobbies, and deride physical/analytical/biological chemists as a matter of principle.
It seems that many, many (most!) comments on your first post are written from the "other side" – the promised land beyond the degree. I don't see many remarks so far from current grad students, though at least one grad-school-bound undergrad has expressed how frightening it all seems. Derek Lowe's thoughts on the matter have generated a healthy stream of comments themselves.
My own perspective is a little different, as you anticipated. I obtained my (thesis) M.S. in organic synthesis at one university and at the moment I'm relatively early in my path toward a Ph.D. in organic chemistry at a different institution, where I'm pre-candidacy. As such, my "grad-school crazies" haven't had a chance to set in here yet. We'll see, I guess, but I don't plan on completely sacrificing my twenties on the altar of Science.
Getting an M.S. deliberately before a Ph.D., as I did, is unusual (since a master's is typically considered a 'quitting' degree). But I think it was useful.
At one point during my previous degree, when I was doing research, taking classes, and teaching, my advisor told me frankly that my productivity needed to increase. It needed to double. At that point I already felt that I was at my absolutely limit in what I could accomplish in a week. At that point, I had nowhere near enough data for a paper and barely enough for a mediocre conference poster. Weekends had been given up, as had hobbies. When I mentioned to my advisor the many demands on my time, his response was short: "Sometimes you need to prioritize what's important to you." (The subtext: stop caring about class and teaching and hobbies). It was an existential moment. I managed somehow to increase my productivity and my efficiency, and within a year or so I had three first-author manuscripts. I defended my M.S. and graduated, moving to another (higher tier) school for a Ph.D. But I left with a pre-conditioned bitterness towards graduate work.
The experience wasn't terrible, in retrospect: I learned a lot of techniques, gained facility with the literature, developed writing skills, did a little mentoring, etc. But crucially, my time there observing advisors and Ph.D. students showed me the dark aspects of the system. This was a mid-tier grad program, where JACS articles were few and far between. But 7-day workweeks were expected; dinner was eaten hurriedly at one's desk; stealing was frequent and hoarding of reagents and glassware was necessary. Multiple students wallowed about for seven to ten (!!!) years, probably with undiagnosed depression, and without proper pushing from advisors, they left with (useless) non-thesis master's degrees. One didn't want anything to do with science upon leaving. Another claims on LinkedIn to have a Ph.D. from the department anyway. A Ph.D. candidate in one lab would, on multiple occasions, suffer rapid bouts of anger (on one occasion, he realized after putting a purified column fraction on the rotary evaporator that he had not pre-weighed the flask—in frustration, he took the glassware and hurled it at the wall).
Importantly, it gave me an idea of what to look for on recruiting weekends when applying to Ph.D. institutions. And awareness of the stress and mental trials of graduate work. I think awareness is vital in preventing emotional collapse; if you can see a problem on the horizon, you can plan and maybe circumvent it.
I think a question worth exploring is this: what aspects of the system contribute to the inordinate amount of stress and threaten mental health? I'm going to spend some time discussing my observations, and I invite comment on them.
Work/life balance. I think this is THE biggest thing wrong with organic chemistry that contributes to stress. Professors usually don't want to discuss work-life balance, because it means fewer hours from their students (I must add here that some do; a few that I know recognize that happier students are more productive and encourage their grads to pursue outside interests. These labs have the most funding in our department).
Some examples are in order.
I talked to another grad student who has a passion for a certain extramural sport. He plays it weekly during the warm and leukwarm months. He's been productive, has several good publications, and is personable and helpful, despite frequently leaving at 5 pm. I asked him why he chose his current lab over another that does very similar work. His reply: "My advisor lets me play [identifying sport]. I don't think [the other professor] would."
In my previous degree work, I found myself at situation where I "worked" even when at home: I'd speculate on my project over dinner, and I'd read manuscripts rather than read books (reverse procrastination). What I hadn't done was compartmentalize or set limits. As it is now, I avoid reading manuscripts or planning tasks after I go home for the day if I can. It's not realistic all the time, but I try to adhere to "work smarter, not harder." That is, I strive for efficiency at work and minimal overlap of work and not-work. Realistically, not everyone is allowed to do this, as bosses have very different demands on time.
An important perspective also came from a friend of mine who we were giving a hard time for owning a fancy set of kitchen knives. "You don't need knives for Ramen noodles," we insisted. He countered honestly: "I like cooking. If there gets to be a time when I can't use my fancy knives, then what's the point? I'll just quit." Since then, I myself have resumed cooking.
I think an important thing is: you need at least one hobby. One non-science hobby. Mine right now is writing (last year I wrote a bad but time-consuming novel). If you don't that kind of time, I think your work and health suffer.
Overall, discussions of work/life balance are absent from chemistry programs; frankly, a student and PI should establish a mutual understanding of what this means, and it should be open to re-negotiation later on. In our departmental orientation, we were handed a list of university counseling centers in an almost embarrassed manner. But no discussion of how to step beyond the lab. Instead, our area head told us: "You should always have something running in your hood."
Nebulosity. The fact that grad school is a weird, highly variable purgatory is a major contributor, I think. There's no end in sight, usually, until less than a year from graduation. Some people take 4 years; some take more than 7. The record here might be 13, with an average of 5.5. Moreover, time-to-graduation keeps increasing. It's a giant chunk of uncertainty. And hours can be uncertain, too. How much is enough? Will 5 more hours a week be useful? Will 5 less be too unproductive? How many papers do I need to get a good degree?
The economy. Because of the down chemistry job market, employment is tougher to find (of course you, Chemjobber, know this). Thus, there's more competition between students. And as grad students grasp the reality of the employment situation, that dangling carrot of a med-chem job they'd been trodding after starts to shrivel and rot. It's one thing to put in 10 years of work for a great, stable, high-paying career. It's another to put in that time for an uncertain future where a career you don't want or care about is a stark possibility.
Advisors and power structure. I mentioned previously a fifth-year grad student who plays a sport. One of his friends, another fifth-year student, plays on the same league. He's a member of a different lab, however. He has to hide his activity from his advisor, who already banned the lab from their routine Thursday-night trip to a local restaurant for dinner (they "weren't being productive enough.").
I think it's fairly obvious that advisors are in a power to be abusive, and though many aren't, a large number are. And oblivious advisors can be as hurtful as malicious advisors. If a student has undiagnosed depression, it may show in their recommendation letters in the form of descriptions of laziness or lack of enthusiasm. Advisors have huge career-altering power. A set of nasty letters from a former boss can sink your chances at good jobs, and there's really no system to avoid this if you happen to accidentally piss someone off.
Grad students. As at least one person mentioned in comments, a certain kind of person goes for graduate school work. We're usually perfectionists or close to it. And quite often workaholics. This leads to long hours and a roller coaster of emotions dependent intimately on each day's reaction's success or failure. No one discourages this line of thought: professors want long hours and high yields.
Another thing: I think grad students are likely to exacerbate each other's poor mental states. This is one reason you see some labs with uniformly high happiness and others with endemic surliness. Generally, your social circle in grad school is confined to your labmates. People swap complaints. These things build, so one person's problems became another's. Bad moods are contagious.
The field itself. Also called the "low-hanging fruit problem." It's frequently argued that a lot of innovation in synthetic organic chemistry is dead; we're in the post-Woodwardian era, where advances take more time and are increasingly incremental rather than truly innovative. This leads to a demand for longer hours in order to get results considered worthy. Plus, organic work involves a high amount of "grunt work"—quasi-thoughtless, repetitive tasks such as setting up the same reaction thirty times to complete a table, running columns, distilling solvents, etc. Some subfields are fresher and more varied in their day-to-day, and I'd suspect these have lower rates of stress and depression. I started (M.S. program) in a synthetic lab; I'm currently (Ph.D. program) in a lab where a minority of the work is synthetic. The chemical biologists here are, in large, much more socially well-adjusted and happy than the methodology-driven synthetic chemists are.
So I guess it's complicated.
I think I had a much clearer picture of the state of organic research going into grad school than do a lot of students, who frequently leap into high-profile labs under the seduction of wedges and dashes without a hard look at what they're really getting into. I started as one of those chemists.
When discussing these aspects of grad school with organic chemist colleagues, I hear a frequent reply: "Yes, it's tough, but everyone knows what they're getting into." "No one goes into Professor Schmorey B. Deathflask's lab without expecting that." "It's what you have to do to get good work done."
I don't know that that's true. And even if it were, I don't think that that absolves those in power of responsibility or justifies the system as it is currently run.
So what do you think? I've got loads of questions on my mind. What aspects contribute to it? What can be done about it, realistically? And interestingly, how does chemistry grad school compare to other high-demand fields: say, getting a DVM or an MD? How does it compare to graduate programs in business (where compensation upon completion is much higher) or the humanities? Is the stress and mental health worth it—does it pay off to stick it out? I look forward to your thoughts!


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Recommendation? This is the rare alphabet book that could appeal to children who have long since learned their ABC's.
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Jim Hurtley is my great uncle – he is my grandmother's brother. He was born about January 1887 to parents James Hurtley and Ellen Paley.
In the 1901 census his occupation is given as 'bobbin turner' and in 1911 he is described as 'manager at hay and straw merchant'. At the time he was living in the village of Cononley near Skipton in Yorkshire.
Jim married Jessie Leeming on 28 March 1910 and their daughter Alice was born on 20 September the same year.
When the war came he enlisted in the army at Keighley, West Yorkshire on 9 December 1915 at the age of 28 years 11 months. His occupation at the time is given as 'warehouseman'. His service number is 185500. I'm not sure what happened over the next ten months because the next piece of information shows that he had a medical examination in Halifax, West Yorkshire on 14 October 1916 and was appointed to the Royal Regiment of Artillery on 18 October 1916.
Details of Jim's area of action are not recorded in any great detail. I do know that he embarked from Southampton on 17 May 1917. He then embarked from another port (record unclear) on 27 June 1917 and landed in Alexandria, Egypt on 6 July 1917.
Jim was wounded in action on 9 March 1918 but he 'remained at duty'.
There is no more information about his service until he embarked from Port Said on 30 January 1919 to return to England. He was discharged from the army and issued with a 'protection certificate' and certificate of identity on 10 February 1919. However, like many of his comrades Jim was retained in the Class Z Reserve.
Class Z Reserve was authorised by an Army Order of 3 December 1918. There were fears that Germany would not accept the terms of any peace treaty, and therefore the British Government decided it would be wise to be able to quickly recall trained men in the eventuality of the resumption of hostilities. Soldiers who were being demobilised, particularly those who had agreed to serve "for the duration", were at first posted to Class Z. They returned to civilian life but with an obligation to return if called upon. The Z Reserve was abolished on 31 March 1920.
In 1921 Jiim received his British War and Victory Medals.
Jim and Jessie had two further children – Jim (born about September 1920) and Phyllis (born about September 1924).
Jim died at the age of 60 in 1947.


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Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner took their kids to a cake making shoppe the other day, playing the Brange campaign maybe even better than the Brange.
Look at Ben all proud daddy, taking pictures and participating in the fun family activity! At one point, he leans in and gives his wife a loving kiss on the cheek. And she rewards him with a huge, irresistible, American sweetheart smile -- like I said last week, she'd make a perfect political wife, and, as you know, it doesn't get more political than Oscar. Argo topped a weak box office in its third week this weekend, continuing to solidify its lock on award season. Have you seen it yet? It is exactly the kind of film the Academy would want to recognise as the best of the year -- patriotic, an inspiring tall tale come true with a Hollywood twist, and backed by a major studio, Warner Bros, produced by Mr Hollywood himself George Clooney. Did you know that if Argo is nominated for Best Picture - and it's hard to imagine it won't be - George Clooney will be "the first individual to score Academy Award nominations in six separate categories"? (Source)
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Strictly ordered from the outside, the epitome of opulence inside, this monumental structure – one of the first baroque palaces in Germany – towers over the town of Gotha.
Built on the foundations of Grimmenstein Castle and completed in 1656, Friedenstein Palace served as a prestige residence for Duke Ernst I of Saxe-Gotha. The north wing alone is 100 metres in length, and the side wings measure 140 metres – prominent symbols of the duchy's power. For the outward face of his palace, the Protestant duke chose a plain and austere look that does much to make it so appealing. Symmetry, strict forms and sheer scale are the hallmarks of Friedenstein Palace. By contrast, the duke's son Friedrich I had the rooms inside turned into flights of opulence between 1680 and 1687. The ducal apartments and the audience chambers have exquisite marquetry floors and richly decorated stucco ceilings. In the breathtaking main banqueting hall, meanwhile, the ceiling is adorned with sculptured stucco figures framed by lavish garlands of fruits and flowers. Today, the museum at Friedenstein Palace displays a collection of ducal art treasures, paintings, sculptures and crafts covering all periods of history. The grandeur of Friedenstein Palace is matched by its beautiful park – one of Germany's earliest landscaped gardens in the English style. The west wing houses the fully intact baroque theatre In 1683, Friedrich I introduced opera and commissioned the construction of a baroque theatre with a then state-of-the-art stage in the west wing of the palace. This is one of the oldest theatres with original stage machinery still in use today. The auditorium, dating from 1774 , is almost fully preserved. Every summer, the theatre hosts the Ekhof Festival, which 'rediscovers' plays of the 18th century for modern times. Nearby attractions: the New Palace Museum with its 'Mon plaisir' baroque dolls' town is an attraction that no fan of porcelain and historical childhood toys should miss. Friedrichsthal Palace is perfect for a day out, while more simpler pleasures await in Schmalkalden, which boasts an enchanting medieval old quarter with buildings from the 16th to 18th century. The Rennsteig, Germany's best-loved walking trail, lies just nine kilometres from Friedenstein Palace.
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Target-date strategies took a beating when the equity market lost more than half its value in the early part of the recession, but a white paper published in January by Old Mutual Asset Management offers low-volatility strategies to help mitigate some of the risk.
Target-date funds are a useful tool for unsophisticated investors, Mike Raso, head of Retirement at OMAM, wrote in the paper. However, "prepackaged target-date solutions" failed to protect retirees' and pre-retirees' assets when the market crashed.
Raso describes the "equity dilemma": the need to ensure investors don't outlive their assets and are protected against inflation while minimizing the risk of dramatic losses in a severe downturn. Low-volatility strategies are the answer to that dilemma, he wrote.
"Low-volatility, as an investment strategy, is uniquely positioned to provide increased downside protection to weather the financial storms of the future while also permitting participation in market rallies."
Raso referred to studies that have found low-volatility stocks frequently perform better than their higher-volatility counterparts. One explanation is that investors tend to favor risky investments with the potential for a huge payoff, even if the probability of that payoff is low.
Raso listed three ways for plan sponsors to lower the volatility in their equity offerings within a target-date portfolio:
- Utilize defensively oriented value managers.
- Hire managers who use a quantitative approach that looks for the lowest expected volatility for a given set of constraints.
- Use alternative investments like commodities, managed futures, real estate and hedging strategies along with traditional equity strategies to smooth returns and create a low-volatility effect.
Raso noted that alternatives are frequently used to lower volatility, but can be more expensive and have higher liquidity constraints.
Ultimately, low-volatility strategies in target-date portfolios provide downside protection and upside participation, Raso wrote. Unlike bonds, which can also provide downside protection, low-volatility equities can "keep pace and participate in longer-term equity rallies."
As an example of low-volatility strategies' success in protection against down markets, Raso pointed to the MSCI World Index, which fell approximately 54% between October 2007 and March 2009. By comparison, the MSCI World Minimum Volatility Index fell only 43% during the same period.
Furthermore, the Minimum Volatility index rose 76% to $1,054 in June 2012, compared with the World Index's 77.5% increase to $861.
The goal of plan sponsors and participants should be both to reduce the overall risk in a portfolio and to budget appropriate risk through diversification. Raso described three model portfolios. Each had the same allocation of 6% cash, 7% commodities and 7% global bonds. However, while the portfolio with an 80% allocation to global equity returned 5.3% over 10 years, the portfolio with an 80% allocation to low-volatility global equity returned 7.2%. The more diversified portfolio, which divided the equity allocation between 31% low-volatility global equities and 39% emerging market equities, and added a 7% managed futures and 5% real estate allocation, returned 10.3% over 10 years.
"Even a small allocation to a low-volatility strategy could enable a plan sponsor to allocate a portion of its risk budget to asset classes with higher risk and return profiles such as emerging markets, real estate and managed futures," Raso wrote. He acknowledged that a nearly 40% allocation to emerging markets may be too high for many investors, but "this extreme hypothetical illustrates the significant risk savings that can be achieved through the use of low-volatility strategies within the equity portion of a portfolio."
It's important to balance the need for growth with protecting assets as investors continue to opt for target-date funds, Raso wrote. Indeed, by the end of 2012, target-date mutual funds had $485 billion in assets and "have become the most common way for Americans to save for retirement," according to Morningstar.
For plan sponsors looking to take advantage of target-date funds' popularity, "selectively implementing de-risking and/or risk-budgeting through low-volatility strategies will empower them to create better solutions for their plan participants and better fulfill their fiduciary duties," Raso concluded.


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A majority of active investors say they can match or beat the market this year, according to a poll of Fidelity customers who attended the Fidelity Traders Summit in Seattle on Aug. 27.
The poll found 77% believe the S&P 500 index will remain stable or increase 100 points or more. Seventy-three percent expect a personal return of at least 6%.
About 1,200 attendees responded to each poll question, and the majority said they trade at least 36 times each year.
Eighty-three percent of respondents said they felt they could match or beat the S&P 500 over the next year. Looking back at the past year, though, just 48% of active investors said they matched or beat the index.
"It's great to see investors have faith in the markets and plan more equity participation, but to give themselves a better chance of beating the anticipated market growth, they should take full advantage of their brokerage firm's education and tools, as well as consider consulting with a financial professional," Ram Subramaniam, president of Fidelity's retail brokerage business, said in a statement.
Active investors overwhelmingly favored equities. More than 70% of respondents said that's where they were putting their dollars. Twelve percent of respondents said they were investing in cash and 7% were investing in real estate.
Fidelity found 43% of respondents don't use a hedging strategy in their equity portfolios. When they do, bonds are the most common tools, with 35% of active investors saying they use them as a hedge. Thirty-one percent of respondents said they used options, and 20% said they use conditional orders.
However, 41% of respondents overall said they were concerned about losses incurred with rising bond rates. Just 20% of respondents said the rising in bond prices was an "opportunity."
Although 57% of active investors said they had a defined trading strategy, just 41% actually stick to it.
Respondents were most confident about the health care sector, with 34% of active investors saying they were bullish on that industry. Information technology (21%) and energy (20%) were also favorites.
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Of Valentines, Billboards and the Machine
Driving down the 605 freeway to work today, what wondrous sight should greet my none-too-thrilled-to-be-office-bound-on-such-a-gorgeous-day eyes but this stupendous new billboard! What a lovely Valentine for the fans! Okay, so I actually telecommute three days a week so this billboard could have been up since last Wednesday night and I would have been none the wiser. But I saw it for the first time today, so I'm going with 'lovely Valentine.' Besides, this billboard is so much less ephemeral than roses, doesn't require one to make reservations or deal with crowds and won't take up valuable bed real estate unlike a teddy bear or other stuffed animal. It's perfect! 😉
There are several of these billboards along my commute, a small series of them apparently, because another one a little further down the way had the same design but said "Now Playing" with the Angels logo for the A again. Passing the first one made me giddy with the reminder of the approaching baseball season. Passing the second one made me smile a little wider still. Passing the third one made me swell with pride over my team…and then frown a little as I started to question the whole ad campaign. Are we really only advertising Albert Pujols this season? Seriously?
Not that I'm complaining about featuring Pujols on billboards. I mean, he's only the best or one of the best, depending on who you talk to, player in the game. And it's not like he designed the ad campaign, or even requested such treatment. It's just…well…we have other players too. Other wonderful players who are either already stars in their own right or on their way to becoming so. Guys who kept the team in contention last season right up until the end even though they ultimately fell short of the mark. You know, Jered Weaver. Dan Haren. Mr. Ervin "No hitter – I finally got that Cleveland beast off my back" Santana. Torii Hunter. And, heck, after last season Mark Trumbo. I'd like to see some of these guys on billboards too.
Of course, this is hardly unique to the Angels. Most teams who land a big free agency signing do the same thing. The whole Dodgers Mannywood campaign comes most immediately to my mind, perhaps because those billboards were in the same places on my commute as these new Angels billboards not so very long ago. And I am sure you all could provide me with quite an array of additional examples. But the fact that this is a common, traditional ad campaign style doesn't make it a good one, in my opinion. To me the real story here isn't just that Albert Pujols is an Angel now. For all that he is amazing, Pujols couldn't be a baseball team of one if the rest of the team was ineffective. No, the real story is that Albert Pujols is donning an Angels uniform alongside our existing players, that he has the potential to take an already good team to the next level.
I would prefer to see several different individual player billboards – half of them Albert by all means, but the other half featuring a handful of others. Then, as you actually hit Anaheim, I would like to see a billboard or two with all of the featured players on it together. I think that billboard campaign would tell a more powerful story. …Then again, what do I know about copy, design and marketing? Oh, yeah. Never mind. 😉


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This week in new hires, Putnam announced a new leadership team for its global asset allocation organization; Steve Antonakes became acting deputy director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in the wake of Raj Date's departure; PFM Group named seven new managing directors; four New York Life executives joined the boards of bereavement-focused nonprofits; Henderson Global Investors hired a U.S. team; and Craig Hancock went to Westlake Securities.
Also, Groom Law Group welcomed Edward Meehan; F. Barry Nelson retired from Advent/Claymore Closed-End Funds; C. Ian Anderson joined the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board; Scott Estill became a partner at Heidrick & Struggles; and Whitney Dow went to Bandon.
Putnam Announces New Global Asset Allocation Leadership Team
Putnam Investments announced a new leadership structure on Friday for its global asset allocation (GAA) investment organization, which manages specialized multiasset class portfolios for retail and institutional clients. Effective immediately, the team will be led by co-heads James Fetch, Robert Kea, Robert Schoen and Jason Vaillancourt. Jeff Knight, who previously led the group, has left the firm to pursue other opportunities.
Fetch, who has been in the investment industry for nearly 20 years, joined in 1994, and continues to lead portfolio construction and risk. Kea, a 25-year industry veteran, joined in 1989 and drives top-down equity efforts. Schoen, who has nearly 25 years of investment industry experience, joined in 1997 and oversees equity process and risk. Vaillancourt, who brings 20 years of investment industry experience, has been with the firm since 2000 and manages global macro efforts.
Antonakes Named Acting Deputy Director of CFPB
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced Steve Antonakes will serve as acting deputy director while the agency continues its search for a replacement for departing Deputy Director Raj Date. Antonakes will continue to maintain responsibility for his current duties as associate director for supervision, enforcement and fair lending at the CFPB.
Antonakes has more than 20 years' experience as a financial services regulator. He first joined the CFPB in November 2010 as assistant director of large bank supervision, and was named associate director for supervision, enforcement and fair lending in June 2012. He began as an entry level bank examiner with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Division of Banks in 1990, and served in numerous managerial capacities before being appointed by successive governors to serve as the commissioner of banks from December 2003–November 2010, only the second career bank examiner to ever serve in that capacity. He also served as the first state voting member of the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC), as the vice chairman of the Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS), and as a founding member of the governing board of the Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System (NMLS). PFM Group Names Seven New Managing Directors
The PFM Group announced Monday that seven senior professionals have been promoted to managing directors of the firm. CEO John Bonow announced the promotions of Jeremy Bass, Jay Glover, Daniel Hess, Tracey Keays, Tim Kiley, Jessica Cameron Mitchell and Brent Wilder.
Bass, who serves municipal clients and those in the higher education sector and is based in the firm's Boston office, joined in 2001. Over the past twelve years, he has expanded his business from a general government practice to one that increasingly focuses on the highly specialized higher education sector; he works with clients throughout the northeast.
Glover, who joined about 13 years ago, works in Orlando. He serves major government clients throughout Florida, with responsibility for large and small cities, counties and school districts, as well as helping to develop the State's PACE environmental finance program.
Hess, who joined in 2001 after spending over three years as an auditor at PricewaterhouseCoopers, is head of fund accounting in Harrisburg, Penn. He oversees fund accounting, reporting and quality assurance for PFMAM's 14 local government investment pools and 2 SEC-registered money market funds, and previously served as PFMAM's compliance manager for six years; he remains a principal of its broker-dealer subsidiary.
Keays, who provides financial advisory services to clients in the New York market, joined in 2008 after a 28-year career as a public finance investment banker, working at EF Hutton, Bond Investor Guaranty and JP Morgan. Her responsibilities include working on the financial advisory team for Nassau County, New York City Transitional Finance Authority, Dormitory Authority of the State of New York (DASNY), Empire State Development, New York State Thruway, Westchester County, and other New York state and local issuers.
Kiley is an attorney, investment advisor and banker with over 30 years of experience. He joined PFM in 2009 after positions as investment banker at Morgan Stanley and SunTrust, and serves clients primarily in the healthcare sector; he is based in Orlando.
Mitchell joined with the acquisition of Evenson Dodge, where she had been employed since 1997. She is based in Minneapolis, and her practice is focused both on local (upper Midwest) and national (State Revolving Fund) clients.
Wilder joined in 2009. He is a professional with more than 24 years of finance experience, serving over half of those years as both a financial advisor and an investment banker with SunTrust and Citi in the Florida marketplace. He is responsible for the firm's school district and community development district practices, as well as its business with certain state-level agencies, cities and counties.
Four New York Life Execs Join Boards of Bereavement-Focused Nonprofits
New York Life announced recently that Angela Kyle, senior vice president, and Thomas Krach, Mark Madgett and Frank Scarpa, managing partners, have joined the boards of nonprofit organizations focusing on childhood bereavement.
Kyle was named to the board of Comfort Zone Camp (CZC), which serves children age 7–17who have lost a parent, sibling or primary caregiver. She is chief marketing officer of the company's insurance group; she joined the firm in 2009. Earlier, she held key positions with TIAA-CREF, Bank of America and Wachovia.
Madgett, managing partner of the Seattle general office, was named to the board of The Moyer Foundation, which created Camp Erin, another free camp for children and teens who are grieving a loss. He has been with the firm for 25 years, starting as an agent in 1986 in Denver, Colo. He held positions of increasing responsibility and was named managing partner in Seattle in 1998.
Krach, managing partner of the Columbus, Ohio, general office, and Scarpa, managing partner of the northern Ohio general office, were named to the board of Cornerstone of Hope, a support center for grieving children, teens and adults in Ohio. Krach began his career with the firm in 1997 as partner of the northern Ohio general office. He was promoted to senior partner in 2000 and was named managing partner of the Columbus general office in 2009. Earlier, he held positions of increasing responsibility at Prudential. Scarpa has been with the company for 15 years, starting as a partner in Saddle Brook, N.J. He held positions of increasing responsibility and was named managing partner of the northern Ohio general office in September, after serving as managing partner of the Manhattan general office.
Henderson Global Investors Hires U.S. Team
Henderson Global Investors has hired credit manager Kevin Loome and five U.S. credit specialists. The team joins from Delaware Investments, and has worked together for more than five years.
The new team consists of Kevin Loome, head of credit, U.S.; Charles Devereux, head analyst; Devon Everhart, senior analyst; Douglas Zinser, senior analyst; Matthew Fanandakis, analyst; and Gregg Gola, trader/analyst. The team will be based in Philadelphia, and Loome will report to Stephen Thariyan, global head of credit, with the others on the team reporting to Loome. Westlake Securities Welcomes Craig Hancock
Westlake Securities LLC announced the recent addition of Craig Hancock to its capital markets team. Originally from Katy, Texas, Hancock has worked in securities for over a decade, in Los Angeles with Wedbush Morgan and in San Francisco with BlueFin Research Partners, before moving to Austin in 2010 with BlueFin. His specialty is institutional equity research sales.
He spent five years in active duty military service and achieved the rank of captain in the U.S. Air Force before entering the securities markets.
Edward Meehan Joins Groom Law Group
Groom Law Group, Chartered, announced Monday that Edward Meehan has joined the firm's ERISA litigation group. Prior to joining Groom, he spent 23 years at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, where he was a partner in the litigation group.
Meehan is an experienced litigator, having tried several dozen cases and hundreds of contested hearings before courts, arbitrators, and administrative agencies. He has substantial experience in disputes involving employee benefits, including pension and health plans, often in the context of Chapter 11 or other corporate restructurings. In addition to his work on employee benefit matters, he has defended class actions and other complex disputes across a wide range of industries. He also has represented clients in connection with Department of Labor and SEC investigations.
F. Barry Nelson Retires From Advent/Claymore Closed-End Funds
F. Barry Nelson retired from Advent Capital Management LLC, effective Feb. 1, after nearly 17 years with the firm, and stepped down as a co-portfolio manager on the Advent/Claymore Enhanced Growth & Income Fund (LCM), Advent Claymore Convertible Securities and Income Fund (AVK) and the Advent Claymore Convertible Securities and Income Fund II (AGC). All three funds will continue to be managed by co-portfolio managers Tracy Maitland, Advent's chief investment officer, Paul Latronica, a managing director, and Anthony Woodson, also a managing director.
Douglas Teresko replaces Nelson as a co-portfolio manager on LCM. Teresko, a managing director, has been working on the fund since 2011. He will join the other co-portfolio managers in overseeing its management. Teresko joined in 2011, and has been serving in an array of portfolio management capacities on Advent's closed-end funds and long-only convertible strategies. Prior to joining, he worked in global proprietary trading at Credit Suisse. Earlier, he was a portfolio manager at Citadel and DKR. He has also held various investment positions at Houlihan Lokey and JPMorgan. PCAOB Names C. Ian Anderson New York Regional Associate Director
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) announced Monday that C. Ian Anderson has joined the organization as regional associate director, a new position in the division of enforcement and investigations, where he will lead the board's enforcement work in its New York office.
Prior to joining, Anderson served as senior trial counsel in the division of enforcement in the Miami office of the SEC, where he prosecuted cases involving accounting fraud, registration violations, failure to supervise trading activity, and other federal securities law violations. Before joining the SEC, he worked as an associate at the law firms of Chadbourne & Parke LLP and Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP. He has also served as a law clerk to Judge Emilio Garza on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Scott Estill Joins Heidrick & Struggles as Partner
Heidrick& Struggles International announced recently that Scott Estill has joined the firm as partner within the financial services practice. He is based in New York.
Most recently, Estill was a founding member and director at investment banking firm Coady Diemar Partners. Previously, he spent five years in the investment banking divisions of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and Credit Suisse First Boston, where he worked on a variety of financing projects. He began his career at Hambrecht & Quist as a junior portfolio manager.
Bandon Welcomes Whitney Dow
Bandon Capital Management recently announced the addition of Whitney Dow to its management team. As managing director, he will be responsible for spearheading the firm's marketing and relationship management efforts.
Dow brings more than 15 years of investment management experience in marketing, business development and relationship management. He spent nearly six years as a director with Russell Investments, responsible for the expansion of its distribution footprint in the U.S. by building strategic relationships with national, regional, and independent broker-dealers and other intermediaries. Prior to that, he served for five years in consulting and analytical roles with Financial Research Corp. (FRC).
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A Saturday afternoon breakout session at the FPA Retreat 2013 in Palm Springs, Calif., titled "Financial Planning in the Age of Uncertainty: Welcome to the 21st Century!" was a rapid-fire delivery of all the change that is upon us.
Presented by Elizabeth Jetton, CFP, the session covered everything from longevity to Social Security, Medicare/health care, policy, regulation, technology and nanotechnology.
"We have to deal with policies and conditions as they are and use our crystal ball for what they're going to be," Jetton (left) began. "For instance, you may not agree with the notion of man-made climate change, but you at least have to consider it, because you don't have a right to your opinion and running with it. You have to consider the possibility you are wrong because the price of not considering it is too great."
She noted that the chance of being "directly impacted by a terrorist event is one in 28 million, but the chances of being directly impacted by a nature-related event is one in six."
"It's because we can put a face on terrorism and the uncertainty it brings, so all the money goes there," Jetton added. "One in six people still believe Bernie Madoff was the sole cause of the 2008 financial crisis. Why? Because we can put a face to it, so it makes it easier to deal with."
In addition to the items mentioned above, she included all of the possible change brought about by demographic shifts, the shift to retirement self-reliance and the shift "from three utilities to what can now be up to 10."
"So change is coming. I think in 50 years kids will have thumbs that are shaped differently," she added to laughter.
Jetton said that although advisors are not experts in "behavior, brains and emotions, this is the world we are living in."
"It would have been nice 10 or 15 years ago to know that 'Why?' questions put clients on the defensive and shut them down emotionally, and that "Tell me about…" questions get them to open up. It would also have been nice to know that some people's brains derive pleasure from planning and delayed gratification, and others don't."
She implored audience members that "if there is one thing you get from this session, it's why I refer to some planners as '20th century planners.' It's if you still call it retirement planning. It just doesn't make sense. You just ripped the joy and fulfillment rug right out from underneath your clients."
By that, she continued, she believes workers now younger than 40 won't work and retire, but rather work in clumps—meaning they'll take sabbaticals and then go back to work.
"I'm fascinated by nanotechnology," Jetton explained. "It will deliver healing and medicine and synthetic blood to all of us eventually. If clients live to age 120, they'll get pretty bored with retirement at age 70."
Echoing a similar complaint made by industry executive Sallie Krawcheck at last week's Envestnet Advisor Summit in Chicago, Jetton said she's happy with this "new focus on women, but really, where have we been? Women are not new and they are not a niche."
Yet as an industry, only 23% of the 67,000 CFPs are women, and the number hasn't changed in 10 or 15 years.
"It's not whether I'm right or wrong with all of this," she concluded. "Let's at least have a conversation. And it might not be a pleasant conversation; it could be tough."
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There are numerous tools available to advisors looking to help their clients chart a prudent course on the road to a comfortable retirement. An often useful but sometimes misunderstood vehicle in this regard is the variable annuity (VA). In this and the following series of blog posts, we hope to help advisors better understand how VAs work, how to get the most out of them and where they fit in client portfolios.
If advisors have some confusion about VAs it's not surprising. The majority of variable annuities are loaded up with all kinds of guarantees and riders, making these products both complex and expensive.
On top of that, every provider has put its own spin on the variable annuity as it strives to separate its product from those of its competitors. Those product differentiators are primarily on the surface, and once you dig down to the bedrock layer, it becomes obvious that all VAs share certain fundamental traits. Once advisors understand the mechanics, discerning the differences between competing products and fitting them into portfolios should be a much simpler process.
Many advisors have sold VAs because they have income guarantee features. These are mostly either Guaranteed Lifetime Withdrawal Benefits (GLWB) or Guaranteed Lifetime Income Benefits (GLIB). We will dive deeper into the mechanics of each type in the next two posts, but for now let's just say that when advisors recommend VAs to their clients, many are purchased as accumulation products with retirement income a possible future option. The general idea is that one day the client will have to take that income, but in the interim, they are guaranteed a specific return annually for some number of years.
Although many of the VAs that are now in the market were originally purchased as accumulation vehicles, for many investors it is now time to start thinking about the withdrawal side of the equation. Unfortunately, too many advisors whose clients own VAs have not really considered how the products work beyond the return guarantees and don't really understand how all the withdrawal benefits work.
The most obvious mistake made regarding VAs is thinking that the guaranteed withdrawal rate is the same as a rate of return. A 5 percent lifetime GWB is not the same as a 5 percent yield, because for many years that withdrawal benefit is simply a return of your client's money. At its most basic, the way a guaranteed withdrawal benefit works is that the owner of the VA is withdrawing the set percentage of the high-water mark from the actual annuity account value each year and paying himself an allowance from his own money. He's also paying the insurance company for its management of the annuity out of that same bucket of funds. The issuer of the annuity, the insurance company, doesn't actually make any payments until all of the contract holder's actual account value is gone.
The tax deferral benefits available through VAs may have been the primary reason that most investors purchased them, and under the right circumstances, a variable annuity can be a valuable component of a client's portfolio. But in order to know if it's the right vehicle for any particular client, you have to understand how they work and how to get the most out of them. Over the next few installments in this series, we will take a much deeper look at the mechanics of variable annuities, explain how GWBs and GLIBs work, the current state of VAs and how best to utilize VAs when constructing client portfolios.
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Posted: Tue 10 Jan 2012, 05:46
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Puppy 528: ALSA sound stopped working
puppy is great,
but i have problem with the sound.
i'm running puppy for first time in my computer, and everything going normally, sound work as well. but after running in my notebook, i try to play some music and the audio not work,
i was shocked,
i try to running in my computer again but the sound is lost.
run alsaconf and this is the log
ALSA lib conf.c:3467:(snd_config_hook_load) /etc/asound.conf may be old or corrupted: consider to remove or fix it
ALSA lib conf.c:3326:(snd_config_hooks_call) function snd_config_hook_load returned error: Invalid arguement
ALSA lib conf.c:3713:(snd_config_update_r) hooks failed, removing configuration cannot open mixer: Invalid arguement
why this happen ?
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Posted: Tue 10 Jan 2012, 05:54
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There was a sound problem in Lupu-528 if/when there was a lupusave in use on a Flash Drive [or an internal HDD, but the Lupu was configured to treat it as though on a Flash Drive].
This problem was fixed in
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hmm i find the answer for alsa audio problem and found this
Only for Kernel 184.108.40.206 ! (Lupu 528)
i installed .pet and > alsaconf > reboot > now the sound work
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Good result!
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Great 528.004 quick upgrade fixed the sound issue. . .
oh but wait now my GNOME Mplayer has no audio CD disk button only DVD. But hey at least the sound works every time I reboot and the PCD player is working fine. F.G.
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GNOME Mplayer has no audio CD disk button only DVD
I'm running in Lupu-528.004 right now, and my GNOME Mplayer is the same.
I assume that player isn't designed/intended to play audio CD's.
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I did have an Audio CD button in that small gap above the three DVD buttons on my prior versions of GNOME Mplayer. That is why I mentioned it being gone. Case in piont Puppy Linux 5.2.8 just minutes before upgrade. . .II was running NOME to Muscan as as I down loaded the upgrade.
I will try down loading the ISO and burn a CD to see if that helps me any.
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Sorry for the slightly garbled post above
The difference noted between 5.2.8 and 528.004 Puppy Linux GNOME Mplayer I can see:
Original GNOME Mplayer has 8 options in pop up window under file/disc, the newer version Mplayer dropped it down to 4. Original had Open Audio CD at the top then there was a divider. After the divider there was 6 opening options for DVD from assorted sources (all Good). The later version of GNOME Mplayer dropped the DVD section down to 3. Then after the last divider Open VCD brought up the tail end of the list on both versions of GNOME MPlayer.
Oh as a side note I am downloading the 528.004 full ISO on another system while playing an audio CD in the older version GNOME Mplayer. Surprisingly the sound works fine on that system while booting up original 5.2.8. Only a few of my workstations around the facility have the "no sound" related issue. I hope to have them all running the same version with good result after a good load. F.G.
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1. I had found there to be no sound problem in Lupu-526.
Now, I was running a "live" CD-RW with a lupusave on an internal HDD.
But here is the important part:
2. I had made a change to the isolinux.cfg file on the ISO used to make the CD-RW...
So that the lupusave on the internal HDD was treated as though it was on a Flash Drive.
So think of it as a
lupusave on a Flash Drive
3. By Lupu-528...
problem with sound had been introduced
But only
IF a lupusave was in use that was held on a Flash Drive
There would be no sound problem if you were not using a lupusave on a Flash Drive.
4. Lupu-528.004 fixed the above problem.
So now, even if using a lupusave on a Flash Drive...
There will be no sound problem whilst running Lupu-528.004.
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I will agree 220.127.116.110 did fix the sound issue. . .
It did introduce several new issues into my systems. one being odd grub boot errors and the GNOME Mplayer loosing its capability to open Audio CDs.
There was the browser issues too, so I went back to 5.2.8. Not an easy process.
My TV media system computer has good sound on 5.2.8, where some of my other work stations have to be manually activated using the ALSA Sound Wizard. I guess that is the price I pay until I find a ISO version that works better for me.
I must say Puppy Linux 5.2.8 has been a real sweet operating system so far.
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I hard patched my "/etc/init.d/10alsa" file with the correct sound card chip info and everything work great now. Full details post else were. HP Pavilion laptop running dual boot Puppy Linux 5.2.8 "Lucid"
5.2.8 the best, quick loading, small package Linux ever now that my sound issues are fixed. F.G."
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Post subject: USB flash drive is the reason why lucid 528 has no sound ?
Subject description: Alsamixer only flashes and dies
Hello. Hard to explain in english when you dont understand well the problem in french.
OK sound good with the CD on my computer ACER aspire 3000 ( without USB boot)
I made an USB DD with it and tried to run it on my new computer Medion AKOYA.
All is ok excepted sound. I hear a far sound which demands to exist. Alsamixer shut down just appearing (it's a flash !)
I get installed the alsa pet mentionned above. The result is the same.
Sure i can use different distros, Tell me when you know how to do, so it's works all the time. Merci a lot. Pelo
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Subject description: It's the same with CD
USB flash drive is the reason why lucid 528 has no sound ?
Subject description: Alsamixer only flashes and dies
It's the same with CD
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Hi Pelo,
Does the sound work when you boot from CD?
helping Wiki for help
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Post subject: Sound works with alsa ...24 pet but only for the session
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Sound works with alsa ...24 pet but only for the session
Thanks to this forum there is a progress
But when you reboot you loose the thing
I will test with the CD if result if the same.
Would'nt we black list the original sound card ?
Look at the grammatical formula 'would'nt we' learnt at school, not bad ? If i don't progress in computing, i improve my english, isn't it ?
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"I am very upbeat. The clouds are lifting."
Red meat was on the menu Monday afternoon at FSI's OneVoice Conference in San Diego, as Greg Valliere delivered a generally upbeat assessment of the political environment and its impact on the economy this year.
However, Valliere (right), chief political strategist with Potomac Research Group and a contributor to CNBC, did note that "I've been introduced recently as a Washington insider, which has made me nervous; I was afraid people would throw things at me."
Blaming much of the sensationalism surrounding high profile issues on "the media," he noted that later in February, "We will hear about sequestration. I'm probably biting the hand that feeds me but I believe the media would put rooster fighting on TV if it got ratings. There was no fiscal cliff, there will be no government shutdown, there will be no debt default and the end of the world according to the Mayan calendar did not happen."
He implored attendees to focus on the fundamentals, which he said look "extremely good."
"GDP is growing," he argued in rapid succession. "Unemployment is down and I predict it will be at 7 percent by the end of the year. Corporate balance sheets are the greatest in our lifetime. State budgets are also great (except for Illinois and California). Housing is great. The automobile sector is great. Manufacturing, who would have believed, is coming back. And in the energy sector, we are actually on track to be self-sufficient.
Balancing his enthusiasm with some pessimism, Valliere did say incoming SEC Chairwoman Mary Jo White "will not help the regulatory story."
"She was a tough prosecutor and I think her role will be adversarial with the industry. It's reflective of the administration as a whole. With Geithner gone and Jake Lew coming in, who is more of a traditional liberal Democrat, it will be tough for the industry and FSI."
Turning to the fiscal situation, Valliere said he believed tax increases would not occur for the foreseeable future. If it does happen, he said that any tax reform would be revenue neutral, but that the chances of it happening at all were below 50 percent.
He also said he believed any kind of deficit reduction legislation would not happen for the following reasons:
- "There is no leadership. The president is not a very good negotiator. He has spoken with Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid maybe seven times this year. Bill Clinton would talk to Congress seven times a day. LBJ would talk to them from the bathroom. What does it say about the negotiating climate in Washington when Joe Biden was the best negotiator of the past two months?"
- "Markets are fat and happy due to the policies of the Fed and as a result are not demanding deficit reduction. The Fed will remain accommodative for a very long time. Even when Ben Bernanke retires, he will be replaced by someone even more dovish, most likely Janet Yellen."
- "Nobody knows what prescription we should take. They couldn't even reform the post office last summer. What makes anyone think some kind of reform will happen without the markets demanding it?"
Noting that many of his Republican friends and colleagues were disappointed with the election and the direction of the party, he offered a number of areas in which they can take heart.
"Consider the following: 98 percent of the Bush tax cuts were preserved," he said. "Also, believe it or not the budget deficit is falling and falling fast. The deficit as a percentage of GDP is currently 6 percent and could soon be at 3 percent, the historical average since World War II. The dollar amount is still high but as a percentage of GDP it is falling."
He also noted that a "culture of spending restraint has taken hold, not so much austerity, but restraint."
Continuing resolutions on spending will continue, he added, which means spending will remain flat.
"Solyndra put the brakes on any major new spending initiatives," he said.
Turning to the next presidential election cycle, he noted that Hillary Clinton has had health problems, which makes one wonder if the concussion she recently suffered was more serious than reported.
"If Hillary doesn't run, the only person they have left is Joe Biden; there's no one else after that. The only other person that might be a possibility is Elizabeth Warren. She might have a shot in Iowa, which has a history of reporting the extremes on both the left and right. Remember, it was Michelle Bachmann that won the Republican straw poll."
By contrast, on the Republican side, he believes Marco Rubio is the strongest possibility at the moment, and that the "bench is deep."
Tempering his enthusiasm a bit further, he said the one thing that was keeping him up at night was the situation between Israel and Iran.
"Iran could have a crude bomb by this summer. Israel could move in 2013. The only thing preventing some sort of military action will be another effective computer virus that would shut Iran's nuclear program down."
"But with the exception of Israel and Iran," Valliere concluded, "I think it will be a good year."
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