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World
U.S. to List Libyan Groups and Militant Tied to Benghazi Attack as Terrorists
The State Department was expected to apply the designation to two groups and an individual, the first formal accusations of responsibility for the 2012 attack that left an American ambassador dead.
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World
Police Find Dead Tiger in S.U.V. in Wenzhou
The police report said the authorities suspected the carcass to be of a Siberian, or Amur, tiger, one of the world’s most endangered animals, and had sent samples to be tested.
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Business Day
Nature Enthusiasts Help Foster an Economic Revival in Portugal
Conservation efforts have brought more people and jobs to a poor region badly in need of both.
Birds; Endangered and Extinct Species
It is a great idea. I would happily live that way.
Would you consider worked out coal mines?
The anthracite areas of Pennsylvania seem like a good idea.
I looked for anthracite as stove fuel and found none.
A west flowing river in West Virginia, the elk river took the spill. It drains into the Kanawha river.
This could be one for you.
It is a great idea. I would happily live that way.
Would you consider worked out coal mines?
The anthracite areas of Pennsylvania seem like a good idea.
I looked for anthracite as stove fuel and found none.
Thousands Without Water After Spill in West Virginia
13 hours ago ... Nine counties in West Virginia were told not to drink the water after a chemical spill into the Elk River has spread to the water distribution ...Jan. 10, 2014 - - Us - article - Print Headline: "Thousands Without Water After Spill in West Virginia"Chemical Spill Fouls Water in West Virginia
22 hours ago ... More than 100000 customers were without safe tap water on Thursday after a chemical used to clean coal leaked into the Elk River in ...Jan. 9, 2014 - - Us - article - Print Headline: "Chemical Spill Fouls Water In W.
A west flowing river in West Virginia, the elk river took the spill. It drains into the Kanawha river.
This could be one for you.
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Multimedia/Photos
Video: Times Minute | ‘Polar Vortex’ at Work
Also in the Minute, Liz Cheney quits the Wyoming Senate Race and “Spider-Man” closes on Broadway.
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Science
NASA Extends the Life of the International Space Station
Instead of splashing into the Pacific Ocean in 2020 as planned, the International Space Station will continue circling Earth for at least an additional four years.
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U.S.
Justices Are Asked to Reject Nuns’ Challenge to Health Law
The Justice Department said the requirements for birth control coverage did not impose a “substantial burden” on an order of Roman Catholic nuns who challenged them.
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U.S.
Hanging Onto Cruz’s Coattails With a Tenuous Grasp
Steve Stockman, the man who brought Ted Nugent to the 2013 State of the Union address, is running for the United States Senate on a pro-Ted Cruz platform, but his outlandishness has some worried.
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Business Day
Weight-Loss Companies Charged With Fraud
The Federal Trade Commission said the companies made “unfounded promises” that consumers could lose weight using their products.
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Automobiles
Wheelies: The Vice Presidential Auto Show Edition
Vice President Joe Biden is expected to show up at the Detroit auto show next week; David Strickland steps down as the N.H.T.S.A. administrator.
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U.S.
Tennessee: Pastor Is Cleared in Snake-Handling Case
An East Tennessee grand jury has cleared a pastor who has appeared on a reality television show about snake handling of possessing venomous snakes.
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Business Day
Support at Fed for Slow Stimulus Cuts
Federal Reserve officials say they believe the monthly purchases of Treasury and mortgage-backed securities are effective in stimulating job growth.
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Health
Are Sugary Drinks Fattening? Depends Who You Ask
Studies paid for by beverage industry groups came to different conclusions than studies with no conflicts of interest, a new analysis found.
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Magazine
We Didn’t Eat the Marshmallow. The Marshmallow Ate Us.
How a simple experiment about impulse control became a seductive gospel truth.
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Technology
In Search of the New Smartphone-Connected Boombox
As smartphone speakers stay small, electronic-makers hope to offer wirelessly connected speakers.
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Sports
UConn’s Stewart Honored
Connecticut’s Breanna Stewart earned her second USA Basketball female athlete of the year honor.
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Sports
Penn State Looking for Coach With O’Brien Off to Texans
Bill O’Brien is returning to the N.F.L. to coach the Texans, and Penn State indicated it planned to act fast to find his successor.
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Style
Millennials Want Children, But They're Not Planning on Them
Far fewer millennials than Generation Xers say they plan to have children. Why?
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Business Day
Alcoa to Pay $384 Million to Settle Bribery Charges
Two deals settle criminal and civil accusations that two of an Alcoa joint venture’s subsidiaries bribed officials for years so they could supply raw materials to Aluminium Bahrain.
Aluminum; Suits and Litigation (Civil)
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Stock Snapshot
| Friday's open | $9.98 |
| Thursday's close | $10.69 |
| 52-week range | |
| 52-week high | $10.90 |
| 52-week low | $7.63 |
| Market capitalization | 10.8B |
| Avg. volume (10-day) | 28.0M |
| Shares outstanding | 1.1B |
| Dividend (yield) | $0.12 (1.19%) |
| Ex-dividend date | 11/06/2013 |
Key Fundamentals
| P/E ratio | n.a. |
| Earnings per share | –$2.14 |
| Revenue | $23.0B |
| Profit margin | –9.74% |
| Return on equity | –19.30% |
Fundamentals are for the trailing 12 months
Quarterly Earnings
Analyst Ratings
| Buy | 2 | |
| Outperform | 3 | |
| Hold | 12 | |
| Underperform | 4 | |
| Sell | 2 | |
| Consensus | Hold |
(As of 01/04/2014)
Watch and see what it does next.
The Russians refine most of the worlds aluminum.
I have avoided the industry.
Corruption makes it unpredictable.
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In A.C.C. Debut, Notre Dame Stuns Duke
Eric Atkins had 19 points, and the Irish handed the Blue Devils their first A.C.C. season-opening loss in seven years.
Basketball (College)
http://www.uconnhuskies.com/sports/w-baskbl/conn-w-baskbl-body.html
Connecticut Huskies
12-3, 9th in American Athletic Conference
today, 6:00 PM on ESPU
Harry A. Gampel Pavilion, Storrs, Connecticut
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| Opponent | Location | Time | Coverage |
| Temple | Webster Bank Arena, Bridgeport, Conn. | W, 80-36 |
SNY/ESPN3.com UConn IMG Radio Network 
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| Baylor | Waco, Texas | 7:00 PM |
ESPN2 UConn IMG Radio Network
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| Rutgers | Piscataway, N.J. | 3:00 PM |
ESPN2 UConn IMG Radio Network
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| Memphis | XL Center, Hartford, Conn. | 7:00 PM |
SNY/ESPN3.com UConn IMG Radio Network
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| USF | XL Center, Hartford, Conn. | 12:00 PM |
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Opinion
In the Name of the Law
A former federal lawyer remembers a brush with ridicule over the naming of a law.
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Electrics are not yet worth the price to me.
Electric cargo bicycles are a project of mine.
I will look to it tomorrow.
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U.S.
Tennessee: Pastor Is Cleared in Snake-Handling Case
An East Tennessee grand jury has cleared a pastor who has appeared on a reality television show about snake handling of possessing venomous snakes.
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Business Day
Support at Fed for Slow Stimulus Cuts
Federal Reserve officials say they believe the monthly purchases of Treasury and mortgage-backed securities are effective in stimulating job growth.
United States Economy; Quantitative Easing; Labor and Jobs
Nothing new in that. There will be no cuts soon.
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/11/a-hammock-in-kentucky/
"January 11, 2014, 3:39 am 74 Comments
Nothing new in that. There will be no cuts soon.
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/11/a-hammock-in-kentucky/
"January 11, 2014, 3:39 am 74 Comments
A Hammock In Kentucky?
National Review has an actually interesting report
by Kevin Williamson on the state of Appalachia, providing a valuable
portrait of the region’s woes — plus an account of how people turn food
stamps fungible by converting them into soda. But the piece also has a
moral: the big problem, it argues, is the way government aid creates
dependency. It’s the Paul Ryan notion of the safety net as a “hammock” that makes life too easy for the poor.
But do the facts about Appalachia actually support this view? No, they don’t. Indeed, even the facts presented in the article don’t support it.
Williamson dismisses suggestions that economic factors might be driving social collapse:
Is it any surprise that people have turned to food stamps?
And what would they do if they didn’t have food stamps? Williamson is too good a reporter to argue that people could find jobs in eastern Kentucky if only they really wanted to work. Instead, he implicitly argues that the “dole” fosters dependency by allowing people to stay in their home counties rather than going someplace else. Maybe — but as he also notes, many people are leaving. Indeed, they’ve been leaving in droves:
So the moral hazard doesn’t look that severe. Mainly this looks like a
story of what happens when a region faces a drastic loss of economic
opportunity.
Oh, and about the soda: things like that will happen when you try to provide aid in kind to very poor people. Give an only moderately poor person food stamps, and she’ll probably be willing to use all of it on food. Give a very poor person, with hardly any other source of income, food stamps and she’ll try to convert part of it into cash to be spent on other things. This doesn’t say that they’re getting too much help; it just says that they’re pretty desperate across the board, not just in their food budget.
Back to the broader issue: My take on Williamson’s report (like my take on Charles Murray’s recent book) is that it basically says that William Julius Wilson was right. Wilson famously argued that the social troubles of urban blacks emerged, not because there was something inherently wrong with their culture, but because job opportunities in inner cities dried up. Sure enough, when the God-fearing (and definitely white) people of Appalachia face a loss of employment opportunity, their region turns into what Williamson calls the Great White Ghetto.
And this in turn says that the problem isn’t that we’re becoming a nation of takers; it’s the fact that we’re becoming a nation that doesn’t offer enough economic opportunity to the bottom half, or maybe even the bottom 80 percent, of its citizens."
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/11/the-raleigh-experiment/
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But do the facts about Appalachia actually support this view? No, they don’t. Indeed, even the facts presented in the article don’t support it.
Williamson dismisses suggestions that economic factors might be driving social collapse:
If you go looking for the catastrophe that laid this area low, you’ll eventually discover a terrifying story: Nothing happened.But he almost immediately contradicts himself, noting that employment in eastern Kentucky has fallen with the decline of coal and what little manufacturing the area once had. True, there was no sudden moment when the town’s main employer closed up shop; it was a gradual process. But so what? The underlying story of Appalachia is in fact one of declining opportunity. Here’s the unemployment rate for Owsley county:
And what would they do if they didn’t have food stamps? Williamson is too good a reporter to argue that people could find jobs in eastern Kentucky if only they really wanted to work. Instead, he implicitly argues that the “dole” fosters dependency by allowing people to stay in their home counties rather than going someplace else. Maybe — but as he also notes, many people are leaving. Indeed, they’ve been leaving in droves:
Oh, and about the soda: things like that will happen when you try to provide aid in kind to very poor people. Give an only moderately poor person food stamps, and she’ll probably be willing to use all of it on food. Give a very poor person, with hardly any other source of income, food stamps and she’ll try to convert part of it into cash to be spent on other things. This doesn’t say that they’re getting too much help; it just says that they’re pretty desperate across the board, not just in their food budget.
Back to the broader issue: My take on Williamson’s report (like my take on Charles Murray’s recent book) is that it basically says that William Julius Wilson was right. Wilson famously argued that the social troubles of urban blacks emerged, not because there was something inherently wrong with their culture, but because job opportunities in inner cities dried up. Sure enough, when the God-fearing (and definitely white) people of Appalachia face a loss of employment opportunity, their region turns into what Williamson calls the Great White Ghetto.
And this in turn says that the problem isn’t that we’re becoming a nation of takers; it’s the fact that we’re becoming a nation that doesn’t offer enough economic opportunity to the bottom half, or maybe even the bottom 80 percent, of its citizens."
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/11/the-raleigh-experiment/
"January 11, 2014, 9:33 am 64 Comments
The Raleigh Experiment
North Carolina is an interesting place
these days, and I mean that in the worst possible way. It’s a southern
state, but one with a major technology complex, growing foreign
investment, and what seemed until recently to be a moderating,
increasingly sophisticated political culture. But then came the
Republican wave of 2010, and NC was taken over by right-wing radicals,
who have — among other things — taken the nation’s hardest line in
cutting benefits to the unemployed.
So how’s it going? Not well. Others have taken this issue on before me, notably Evan Soltas here and here, but I wanted to put up my own version for future reference.
The idea behind cutting benefits is that we are “paying people to be unemployed”, and that tough love will force them to go out and create jobs. It’s never explained exactly how greater desperation on the part of the unemployed will, in fact, lead to higher overall employment. Still, you could imagine that an individual state might gain some competitive advantage against other states by cutting wages. What you actually see in North Carolina, however, is nothing — employment growth tracked the national average both before and after the benefit cuts:
The unemployment rate did fall — but this was due to a large drop in
the labor force, as the number of people looking for work fell. Why?
Well, a likely explanation is that some of the unemployed continued to
search for work, and were therefore counted in the labor force, despite
low prospects of finding a job in a depressed economy, because such
search is a requirement for those collecting benefits. Take away the
benefits, and they drop out. Now, labor force participation has fallen
nationally as well as in North Carolina, and the state’s labor force
began dropping before the benefit cuts, so that the case for claiming
that reduced benefits actually reduced job search isn’t ironclad. Still,
it’s worth emphasizing just how extraordinary the changes have been.
North Carolina’s labor force drop has been much larger than the national
change:
And it has also been unprecedented in historical terms. There’s been
nothing like the recent North Carolina decline — taking place at a time
of modest recovery, not recession — in the state’s previous history:
Again, if there were anything to the theory that cutting unemployment
benefits encourages job search and somehow translates into higher
employment even in a slump, harsh policies should work better at the
state than at the national level. But there is no sign at all that North
Carolina’s harshness has done anything except make the lives of the
unemployed even more miserable."
So how’s it going? Not well. Others have taken this issue on before me, notably Evan Soltas here and here, but I wanted to put up my own version for future reference.
The idea behind cutting benefits is that we are “paying people to be unemployed”, and that tough love will force them to go out and create jobs. It’s never explained exactly how greater desperation on the part of the unemployed will, in fact, lead to higher overall employment. Still, you could imagine that an individual state might gain some competitive advantage against other states by cutting wages. What you actually see in North Carolina, however, is nothing — employment growth tracked the national average both before and after the benefit cuts:
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Health
Are Sugary Drinks Fattening? Depends Who You Ask
Studies paid for by beverage industry groups came to different conclusions than studies with no conflicts of interest, a new analysis found.
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Magazine
We Didn’t Eat the Marshmallow. The Marshmallow Ate Us.
How a simple experiment about impulse control became a seductive gospel truth.
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Technology
In Search of the New Smartphone-Connected Boombox
As smartphone speakers stay small, electronic-makers hope to offer wirelessly connected speakers.
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Sports
UConn’s Stewart Honored
Connecticut’s Breanna Stewart earned her second USA Basketball female athlete of the year honor.
Basketball (College); Awards, Decorations and Honors
http://www.uconnhuskies.com/sports/w-baskbl/conn-w-baskbl-body.html
http://www.uconnhuskies.com/sports/w-baskbl/conn-w-baskbl-body.html
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| Temple | Webster Bank Arena, Bridgeport, Conn. | W, 80-36 |
SNY/ESPN3.com UConn IMG Radio Network
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| Baylor | Waco, Texas | 7:00 PM |
ESPN2 UConn IMG Radio Network
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| Rutgers | Piscataway, N.J. | 3:00 PM |
ESPN2 UConn IMG Radio Network
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| Memphis | XL Center, Hartford, Conn. | 7:00 PM |
SNY/ESPN3.com UConn IMG Radio Network
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| Opponent | Location | Time | Coverage |
| USF | XL Center, Hartford, Conn. | 12:00 PM |
CBSSN UConn IMG Radio Network
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Sports
Penn State Looking for Coach With O’Brien Off to Texans
Bill O’Brien is returning to the N.F.L. to coach the Texans, and Penn State indicated it planned to act fast to find his successor.
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Style
Millennials Want Children, But They're Not Planning on Them
Far fewer millennials than Generation Xers say they plan to have children. Why?
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Fashion & Style
At a Bay Area Club, Exclusivity Is Tested
The Battery seeks to bring a dash of British decorum to the land of billionaire geeks.
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Health
The Well Smoking Quiz: Who Looks Older?
A new study provides photographic evidence for the claim that smoking ages a person prematurely.
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Science
Video: ScienceTake: Fluorescing Fish
From sea horses that glow red to bright green eels, researchers have discovered 180 species of fish that fluoresce under blue light.
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World
Germany Charges Former SS Member in Wartime Killings
The 88-year-old man was charged with 25 counts of murder in a 1944 massacre in France, while the murder case of another former SS member was dropped.
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Sports
Swimming Coach Absent as Georgia Conducts Inquiry
Jack Bauerle, Georgia’s swimming coach, was not with his team for a meet while the university conducted an academic review of the sophomore Chase Kalisz.
Swimming; Colleges and Universities
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/search.php/?q=Chase+Kalisz&s_it=header_form_v1
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/search.php/?q=Chase+Kalisz&s_it=header_form_v1
Georgia swim coach Jack Bauerle held out of meet
Jan 4, 2014... will not be with the team for its meet against North Carolina State while the
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Georgia swim coach Jack Bauerle held out of meet - Huffington Post
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Europe leads US at Duel in the Pool by 14 points
Dec 20, 2013 ... In the men's 400 IM, Americans Conor Dwyer and Chase Kalisz finished 1-2.
Dwyer touched first in 4:01.76 and Kali...
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Missy Franklin Wins Record 6th Gold Medal At 2013 Swimming ...
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Spain -- Missy Franklin stands alone. Franklin claimed her record sixth
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US safely through in relays on last day of worlds - Huffington Post
Aug 4, 2013 ... Chase Kalisz of the U.S. led the way in the men's 400 IM, while teammate Tyler ...
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Duel in the Pool Results - Huffington Post
Dec 21, 2013 ... 3, Chase Kalisz, United States, 1:54.26. 4, Marco Koch, Germany, 1:54.61. 5,
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World
100 Years After the Great War, the Bad Guy Is Still Elusive
Blaming German expansionism is simplistic in today's debate, in which historians think the war's roots were far more tangled.
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Banished for Questioning the Gospel of Guns
A longtime columnist for a gun magazine questioned when the regulation of guns became infringement of the right to bear arms. He was quickly fired, squelching any debate.
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Opinion
The Commish, the 2nd Time Around
Can Bill Bratton, the old and new police commissioner, stop the “Bonfire of the Vanities” predicted by the Bloombergians?
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Video: Times Minute | ‘Polar Vortex’ at Work
Also in the Minute, Liz Cheney quits the Wyoming Senate Race and “Spider-Man” closes on Broadway.
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