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Sunday, December 18, 2011
Saturday, December 17, 2011
Google Music opens up to everyone ... if you're in the US
Google Music has gone and gotten itself an update in the Market, and that Beta tag has finally been lost. That's right folks, invitations are no longer required and Google Music is open to all.
Open to all though still only applies if you're within the U.S., so for the rest of us, there's still no official way of setting up an account.
The application update also brings with it a host of bug fixes, and the seamless integration with the Music store in the Android Market. All your purchases will now automatically appear within the app.
If you're about to start using Google Music for the first time, you'll want to check out our complete guide to using the service.
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9 Insurance Stocks to Sell Now | InvestorPlace
It?s no secret that the financial industry has been hit with hardships during the tumultuous months of 2011. December is no different. Household names like Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) and Citigroup (NYSE:C) have been falling faster than they would like. And, unfortunately, some insurance companies have been struck with the same bout of bad luck.
I watch more than 5,000 publicly traded companies with my Portfolio Grader tool, ranking companies by a number of fundamental and quantitative measures. And this week, I?ve got nine insurance stocks to sell.
Here they are, in alphabetical order. Each one of these stocks gets a ?D? or ?F? according to my research, meaning it is a ?sell? or ?strong sell.?
AFLAC Inc. (NYSE:AFL) is primarily engaged with supplemental health and life insurance. Despite such a recognizable name, AFL is down 25% in the last 12 months. AFL stock gets an ?F? for sales growth, a ?D? for operating margin growth, an ?F? for earnings growth, an ?F? for earnings momentum, an ?F? for the company?s ability to exceed consensus earnings estimates on Wall Street, an ?F? for the magnitude in which earnings projections have increased during the past month, and a ?D? for return on equity in my Portfolio Grader tool. For more information, view my complete analysis of AFL stock.
Allstate Corp. (NYSE:ALL) is involved with personal property insurance, casualty insurance, life insurance and retirement and investment products. Despite a variety of services, ALL stock is down 18% year-to-date. ALL stock gets a ?D? for sales growth, an ?F? for operating margin growth, a ?D? for earnings growth, an ?F? for earnings momentum, an ?F? for the magnitude in which earnings projections have increased over the past month, a ?D? for cash flow and a ?D? for return on equity in my Portfolio Grader tool. For more information, view my complete analysis of ALL stock.
American International Group Inc. (NYSE:AIG) is a major international insurance company that operates in 130 countries. AIG stock is down 60% year-to-date. AIG stock gets an ?F? for sales growth, an ?F? for earnings momentum, an ?F? for the magnitude in which earnings projections have increased over the past month, a ?D? for cash flow and an ?F? for return on equity in my Portfolio Grader tool. For more information, view my complete analysis of AIG stock.
Genworth Financial Inc. (NYSE:GNW) provides insurance, wealth management, investment and financial solutions to its more than 15 million customers. GNW stock has lost 52% since the beginning of 2011. GNW stock gets an ?F? for sales growth, an ?F? for operating margin growth, an ?F? for earnings growth, a ?D? for the magnitude in which earnings projections have increased over the past month, a ?D? for cash flow and a ?D? for return on equity in my Portfolio Grader tool. For more information, view my complete analysis of GNW stock.
Source: http://www.investorplace.com/2011/12/insurance-stocks-to-sell-afl-all-aig-gnw-hig-lnc-mfc-pgr-unm/
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Friday, December 16, 2011
Carbon capture and storage gets a clean bill of health
IT DOESN'T look like we will stop putting out carbon dioxide, but we might at least be able to bury it.
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) could slow climate change by locking up CO2. There are concerns that the gas could leak out of deep geological storage, but two of the largest pilot projects have been given a clean bill of health.
As well as adding to climate change, CO2 leaks would be toxic. In January a family living near the Weyburn-Midale CO2 Project in Saskatchewan, Canada, found unusually high levels of CO2 in their farm's water. An independent report by the International Performance Assessment Centre for Geologic Storage of CO2 has found the gas did not come from the storage reservoir.
Stuart Gilfillan of the University of Edinburgh, UK, who took part in the investigation, has found that CO2 leaking from deep underground has higher levels of helium than CO2 from other sources (International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, DOI: 10.1016/j.ijggc.2011.08.008). That means leaks from storage facilities can be easily identified. The Canadian water samples contained normal levels of helium.
In Australia, the CO2CRC project stored 65,000 tonnes of CO2in a depleted gas field in 2008 and 2009. So far, it reports no signs of leaks (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1107255108).
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In Memoriam: Christopher Hitchens, 1949?2011 | Blogs | Vanity Fair
Christopher Hitchens?the incomparable critic, masterful rhetorician, fiery wit, and fearless bon vivant?died today at the age of 62. Hitchens was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in the spring of 2010, just after the publication of his memoir, Hitch-22, and began chemotherapy soon after. His matchless prose has appeared in Vanity Fair since 1992, when he was named contributing editor.
?Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centered and even solipsistic,? Hitchens wrote nearly a year ago in Vanity Fair, but his own final labors were anything but: in the last 12 months, he produced for this magazine a piece on U.S.-Pakistani relations in the wake of Osama bin Laden?s death, a portrait of Joan Didion, an essay on the Private Eye retrospective at the Victoria and Albert Museum, a prediction about the future of democracy in Egypt, a meditation on the legacy of progressivism in Wisconsin, and a series of frank, graceful, and exquisitely written essays in which he chronicled the physical and spiritual effects of his disease. At the end, Hitchens was more engaged, relentless, hilarious, observant, and intelligent than just about everyone else?just as he had been for the last four decades.
?My chief consolation in this year of living dyingly has been the presence of friends,? he wrote in the June 2011 issue. He died in their presence, too, at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. May his 62 years of living, well, so livingly console the many of us who will miss him dearly.
Source: http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2011/12/In-Memoriam-Christopher-Hitchens-19492011
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011
2 giant pandas fly from China to Scotland (AP)
BEIJING ? Two giant pandas have flown from China to Scotland, where they will become the first pandas to live in Britain in nearly two decades.
The pandas, named Tian Tian and Yang Guang ? or Sweetie and Sunshine ? munched on bamboo at Chengdu airport ahead of their trip and arrived in Edinburgh later Sunday.
The pandas are to stay for 10 years at Edinburgh Zoo, where officials hope they will breed during their stay.
The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland will pay more than 600,000 pounds ($935,000) a year to China for the loan of Sweetie and Sunshine, not including the expense of imported bamboo.
Britain's last giant panda lived in London Zoo until 1994, when it was returned to China.
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Tuesday, December 6, 2011
LaVar Young: Still Waiting: Black Male Achievement in America
The gap in achievement between black males and their white counterparts isn't news -- it's common knowledge, generally accepted, and only sometimes bemoaned. But it seems to me that we should be more alarmed -- four hundred years after arriving in America aboard slave ships, and they have yet to reach academic or socio-economic parity with their white peers. Does anyone see a problem here?
It's hard to believe that four hundred years have passed since slavery ravaged America beginning in the 1600s, and even harder to believe that it's been four hundred years of African Americans fighting unsuccessfully for full equality.
And now that schools and public places are no longer segregated, and legislation exists against discrimination in employment, voting and education, the fight has changed. In the 1950s and 60s, efforts towards equality coalesced into a national movement of sit-ins, bus boycotts, mass voter registrations and marches. Now, the once national response has been replaced by an array of individual and community-specific efforts, which, however beneficial, are too isolated to affect large-scale, national change.
The reality is that the inequalities of the 21st century aren't as explicit as Jim Crow and the Ku Klux Klan, and the law does not sanction them -- which means there is no obvious fix. But, the statistics are tangible and certainly disturbing, and they start immediately at birth. For one, black infant mortality rates are more than twice that of whites, in a country that already has one of the highest infant mortality rates in the developed world.
As they grow into toddlerhood and childhood, the evidence mounts. Two-thirds of black children live in single parent households, which is three times that of white children. And one-third live in poverty, compared with one tenth of their white counterparts.
In school, black males score lower on standardized tests, are nearly twice as likely to drop out of high school, three times as likely to be suspended from school and less likely to go on to a two-year or four-year college.
The unemployment rate is more than twice that for blacks than for whites, 16.7 and 8 percent respectively. And it's been double that of whites since the government started keeping tabs in 1972. And while the unemployment rate surged to its highest since 1984, the white unemployment rate actually dropped slightly.
Fortunately, some leaders are refusing to accept the status quo any longer, and efforts at a large-scale national response are mounting. Back in September, I attended a conference hosted by the Open Society Foundations , where a national call to action was set in motion. Since then, Newark and twenty-five cities throughout the country participated in a Day of Action, where black leaders discussed various solutions to the problem.
And recently, Dr. Warren Farrell proposed the creation of a White House Council on Boys to Men, in response to President Obama's 2009 Executive Order creating a similar council for women, which was written up in Forbes magazine. In his proposal, the Council would focus on the fives areas in which boys are in crisis: education, jobs, emotional health, physical health, and fatherlessness. For Farrell, a national response is imperative, because "the best solutions are holistic ones."
Clearly, some leaders have the right idea. But our society's current laissez faire attitude suggests either apathy, or an assumption that the issue will resolve itself over time. Neither are appropriate responses. We have to decide if we are willing to accept these statistics as a permanent fixture of American society, and if not, what needs to be done. We must make an effort, not only as individuals and communities, and but collectively as a society.
For the first time in history, we have a black president in office. And while his election challenged society's latent bias, the buck doesn't stop there. We must take this opportunity to turn our attention towards the appalling discrepancies in black male achievement on a grander scale.
I've always felt that the absence of legally sanctioned discrimination meant that a national movement was no longer possible. I've since changed my mind -- the statistics I've shared are tangible, appalling, and worthy of a national response. The onus is now on the nation to set the agenda for change. Fifty years after the height of the Civil Rights Movement, and equality among black males is still only a dream. I think it's time to make it a reality.
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Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lavar-young/black-male-achievement_b_1121379.html
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