David Shing: Razorfish Converge Shingerview: Scott Erickson, Bing

As we continue to dig into the topic of convergence, it is especially important for me to explore the ways in which big brands are juggling the new order. Scott Erickson is brand director for Bing, and the guy behind the "Bing it on challenge". The "Bing it on" campaign exemplifies Scott's focus on delivering the right message in the right place at the right time. As we discuss in this video, all brands are now operating somewhere in the digital convergence spectrum. How they use media, technology and creativity to inform each other is a never ending dialogue - or dare I say a dance.

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Insiders: Syrian Chemical Weapons Use Does Not Yet Justify U.S. Military Intervention

Even though President Obama acknowledged chemical weapons use in Syria, nearly two-thirds of National Journal's National Security Insiders believe the American military should not yet intervene in the bloody fight against Bashar al-Assad.

The argument for military intervention, one Insider said, "has been appallingly astrategic, even by Washington standards. ?

'"Assad is a bad guy and should go' is a dumb argument for war," the Insider continued. "The idea that detection of chemical weapons is/should be a trigger is also moronic. It's not like we didn't have two medium-sized wars that turned into nightmares because we didn't think them through recently. We haven't even had a discussion about what political outcome we're seeking and how aiding the rebels/intervening is supposed to produce the outcome." The war-weary American public is not going to tolerate a full-scale military intervention in the volatile country, which would likely come with heavy casualties, others said.

A 37 percent faction of Insiders, however, said now is the time for the U.S. military to get involved. "Earlier, there was insufficient regional and international support for U.S. military intervention. Now there is, plus Islamic radical involvement is mushrooming and the Syrians are testing the West by beginning to employ lethal chemical weapons (sarin). Moreover, let's remember that defeating the Assad regime will help isolate Iran and weaken Hezbollah and Hamas."

Many had different ideas about how best to proceed. "Military intervention yes, troops on the ground no," one Insider said, calling for "intelligence, sensors, air space control, drone strikes where appropriate, and material support to the opposition forces." Another added: "Military intervention ... could take the form of a no-fly zone or limited operations to secure chemical weapons sites."

One Insider insisted President Obama must back up his words with actions. "The president said that chemical weapons would be a game changer. He must do something to back that up now, in order to preserve U.S. credibility," the Insider said. "That need not be military but it must be qualitatively different from the policy to date. He should have never drawn that red line. But having done so, he cannot just ignore it."

Separately, 88 percent of Insiders were pessimistic about Obama's success in closing the Guantanamo Bay prison, a campaign promise four years ago that Congress blocked. "He will fail, as he has for the past four years. And he deserves to fail. If we didn't have the prison at Guantanamo we would have to stand up one just like it somewhere else. In fact, isn't that Obama's plan? What sense does that make?" one Insider said. "Who really thinks the critics of U.S. detention policy (his and Bush's) are going to be less critical of a prison for terrorists in Illinois than a prison for them in Guantanamo? Does anyone think the critics are that stupid?"

The failure to close Guantanamo during the president's first term has essentially put this question to rest, another Insider said. "There are 50 or so violent extremists at Gitmo who will remain there for the indefinite future, including [Khalid Sheikh Mohammed]." The question "assumes that we take him at his word that he will try to close it," another Insider said. "It would require compromise and arm-twisting with Congress when there are many other pressing issues on the agenda. Not gonna happen."

National Journal?s?National Security Insiders Poll?is a periodic survey of defense and foreign policy experts. They include:

Gordon Adams, Charles Allen, Thad Allen, James Bamford, David Barno, Milt Bearden, Peter Bergen, Samuel ?Sandy? Berger, David Berteau, Stephen Biddle, Nancy Birdsall, Marion Blakey, Kit Bond, Stuart Bowen, Paula Broadwell, Mike Breen, Mark Brunner, Steven Bucci, Nicholas Burns, Dan Byman, James Jay Carafano, Phillip Carter, Wendy Chamberlin, Michael Chertoff, Frank Cilluffo, James Clad, Richard Clarke, Steve Clemons, Joseph Collins, William Courtney, Lorne Craner, Roger Cressey, Gregory Dahlberg, Robert Danin, Richard Danzig, Daniel Drezner, Mackenzie Eaglen, Paul Eaton, Andrew Exum, William Fallon, Eric Farnsworth, Jacques Gansler, Stephen Ganyard, Daniel Goure, Mike Green, Mark Gunzinger, Jim Harper, Michael Hayden, Michael Herson, Pete Hoekstra, Bruce Hoffman, Paul Hughes, Colin Kahl, Donald Kerrick, Rachel Kleinfeld, Lawrence Korb, David Kramer, Andrew Krepinevich, Charlie Kupchan, W. Patrick Lang, Cedric Leighton, James Lindsay, Justin Logan, Trent Lott, Peter Mansoor, Ronald Marks, Brian McCaffrey, Steven Metz, Franklin Miller, Philip Mudd, John Nagl, Shuja Nawaz, Kevin Nealer, Michael Oates, Thomas Pickering, Paul Pillar, Stephen Rademaker, Marc Raimondi, Celina Realuyo, Bruce Riedel, Barry Rhoads, Marc Rotenberg, Kori Schake, Mark Schneider, John Scofield, Tammy Schultz, Stephen Sestanovich, Sarah Sewall, Matthew Sherman, Jennifer Sims, Constanze Stelzenm?ller, Frances Townsend, Mick Trainor, Suzanne Spaulding, Ted Stroup, Tamara Wittes, Dov Zakheim, and Juan Zarate.

1. Now that the U.S. acknowledges chemical weapons use in Syria, should it intervene militarily in the conflict?

(60 votes)

NO

"Conditions on the ground remain unclear and uncertain, which makes military intervention more unlikely to succeed."

"Depends on how you define intervention militarily. Should we send arms to the opposition? Yes. Should we establish a no-fly zone? No. Should we send ground forces? No."

"Intervening in the middle of a religious/sectarian civil war will be a disaster for all sides. Sometimes it takes more courage to stay out of a conflict than to enter one; think Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan."

"Let's get past 'tripwires' for impulsive intervention. Decisions to go in with military force should turn on a complex set of factors, of which chemical use is just one. If we intervene, we should do so decisively. Who is really ready for that now?"

"If we define 'intervening militarily' as U.S. combat units, it's not time yet."

"What's the end game? President doesn't have one."

"Whether chemical weapons were used or not says almost nothing about how intervention would affect the course of the conflict and thus whether intervention is a good idea or a bad one."

"Not our problem. Down chicken hawks, down."

"The U.S. needs to take more active steps to contain the impact of the conflict on the neighborhood--but direct intervention would not advance this goal."

"Intervene on whose behalf? There are no 'good guys' in this conflict."

"... Despite the opinion of the people who brought us Iraq."

"Give them the tools, but remember T.E. Lawrence: 'Better the Arabs do it tolerably than that you do it perfectly.' "

"Intervention might be required at some point, but the administration needs both a rationale and a strategy that actually improves upon the status quo. As of now, it only has the rationale."

"Given our experience with Iraq WMD we must be pretty darn sure they were used before we put boots on the ground."

YES

"Punitive strikes on military targets would be appropriate but not full-scale intervention."

"Any intervention would have been far more effective had it occurred two years ago. The administration missed a golden opportunity to get rid of the butcher Assad then. Now we have to carefully weigh what comes next before we intervene militarily."

"Create a no-fly zone of sorts along the Turkish and Syrian borders with Patriot missile batteries to give the opposition some consolidated geography within which they (perhaps) can build some needed institutions and unity."

"According to the press, the president is inexorably moving to intervene by providing lethal support to Syrian forces that are non-Islamist."

"Yes, if one includes establishing a no-fly zone and arming the secular opposition within the definition of 'intervene militarily.' There is, as of now, no need or reason to deploy U.S. ground forces in Syria."

"Only to the extent of providing arms to the moderates among the rebels; something we should have done weeks, if not months, ago."

"It is a year and a half late, and the options are limited, but at least imposing a no-fly zone would show some active support and appear to meet the president's commitment since the 'red line' has been crossed. I also would hope that the president would use covert action, which could make a real difference."

"But not boots on the ground--military assistance in weapons, logistics, etc."

2. President Obama said this week he would try again to close the Guant?namo Bay prison. Will he succeed?

(60 votes)

NO

"The political resistance to housing prisoners in the U.S. is too strong."

"He has no intention of alienating his supporters on the right and will simply let the issue slide, as he has done since taking office. To do more would require putting moral courage over political expediency, something he avoids doing whenever possible."

"There are too many folks who still want the country to have this offshore option for enemy combatants. It will take a lot more years, I think."

"Congress is playing the populist card by refusing to allow transfer of dangerous prisoners to the U.S., but they cannot be released. The alternative is to transfer them to states that likely would torture them."

"Without a clear plan that replaces the functions of Guantanamo, it won't close."

"Congress will block that."

"The only way out is civil trial, and that is not the right legal framework to address these crimes. Reduce the population to those crimes fitting that framework and proceed."

"He talks the talk, but does not walk the walk."

"We should wish him success, but the primitive attitudes on this subject in Congress seem too firmly entrenched."

"The president will have great difficulty closing Guant?namo given the recent activities in Benghazi and Boston. I would hope that he will recognize that holding deadly terrorists where the required international standard of care is met yet the detainees are required to give information can be helpful in preventing attacks."

"A nation at war has the right to hold enemy combatants as long as they continue to represent a danger."

"He fears domestic political consequence of prospect that someone released from Gitmo will commit terrorism or, worse, demonstrably participate in killing Americans. The blowback would be intense. Worries about this trump everything."

"Not in a way that makes us any safer."

"He has no better options than Bush did, and even less interest."

"The Camp Seven high-value targets are enemy combatants. Bringing them to the U.S. will cause sticky legal implications Obama doesn't need right now."

"Hope over experience. A lot of legislators are intent on demagoguing the issue, and the public seem happy to see everyone who is there rot and die."

"Post-Boston, there is no way that Obama gets this through Congress."

"Transferring terrorists into the U.S. is not a winning strategy for the midterms."

YES

"It's more a matter of time and our lack of patience with the legal limbo we put the Gitmo detainees in than anything the president does to close the prison. We really need to reform our laws so cases like these can be handled expeditiously by whatever tribunal is selected to hear the case."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/insiders-syrian-chemical-weapons-does-not-yet-justify-213305361.html

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Iran's presidential race officially opens

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) ? Iranian authorities opened the registration process Tuesday for candidates in next month's presidential election that will pick a successor to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and offer a critical test for reformists battered after years of crackdowns.

The leaders of the reform movement four years ago are now under house arrests and liberal groups have faced relentless pressures since major unrest to protest Ahmadinejad's disputed re-election in 2009. It appears unlikely that prominent pro-reform figures, such as former President Mohammad Khatami, will seek a spot on the June 14 ballot.

That leaves opposition and liberal groups the option of boycotting the election or falling behind one of the candidates cleared by the ruling clerics, who will vet all hopefuls who submit their names during the five-day registration period. Only a handful of candidates are expected to be approved when the final list is unveiled later this month by the Guardian Council, the group that supervises the election.

The slate is almost certainly to be heavily stacked with candidates considered loyal to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has been angered by challenges to his authority by Ahmadinejad and the president's allies. Among the presumed front-runners is senior Khamenei adviser Ali Akbar Velayati, Tehran Mayor Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf and former nuclear negotiator Hasan Rowhani, who formally registered his candidacy in the first hours as the process got underway Tuesday.

The ruling clerics seek an end to the internal political battles opened by Ahmadinejad and more coordination with the presidency in strategies on nuclear talks and efforts to confront international sanctions over Tehran's nuclear program. All key policies are made by the theocracy and its inner circle, including the powerful Revolutionary Guard. But the president is the international face of the country and is responsible for increasingly important sectors, such as the nation's stumbling economy.

Most of the main candidates have vowed to shun Ahmadinejad's bombastic style and seek to reduce tensions with the West and its allies. But all strongly support Iran's ability to maintain a full-scale nuclear program, including uranium enrichment. The U.S. and others fear Iran could eventually develop nuclear weapons, but Iran insists it only seeks reactors for energy and medical research.

Another major subplot in the election is the fate of Ahmadinejad's top political protege, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, who is expected to seek a spot on the ballot. Ahmadinejad has endorsed Mashaei as his personally groomed heir. But Mashaei's reputation has faced severe blows in the backlash over Ahmadinejad's failed attempts to encroach on the Khamenei's powers.

Mashaei has been denounced as part of a "deviant current" opposing Islamic rule and some critics even claimed he used magic spells to cloud Ahmadinejad's mind. It's possible Mashaei would be rejected for the ballot and force Ahmadinejad ? who still has considerable support around the country ? to align himself with another candidate.

In a live TV broadcast, Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar urged presidential hopefuls to register quickly and not wait until the last moment. Leading candidates usually wait until the last days of the registration period, which ends Saturday evening.

Ahmadinejad is barred by law from seeking a third term due to term limits under Iran's constitution.

Some presidential hopefuls, mostly little known, rushed to register Tuesday morning. Among them were former housing minister Mohammad Saeedikia, former health minister Kamran Bagheri Lankarani and former Vice President Sadegh Vaezadeh.

Reformists in Iran remain in disarray after the relentless crackdowns in the wake of the 2009 protests over claims their victory was stolen by vote rigging. In recent weeks, controls and blocks on Internet traffic appeared to be boosted in possible attempts to limit opposition voices during the election period.

Opposition leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mahdi Karroubi have been under house arrest since early 2011. Top figures such as Khatami and another former president, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, are not expected to seek comeback bids.

The main liberal-leaning candidate considered by the Guardian Council could be former Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref, who served in Khatami's administration.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/irans-presidential-race-officially-opens-081247524.html

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Scientists uncover relationship between lavas erupting on sea floor and deep-carbon cycle

Scientists uncover relationship between lavas erupting on sea floor and deep-carbon cycle

Friday, May 3, 2013

Scientists from the Smithsonian and the University of Rhode Island have found unsuspected linkages between the oxidation state of iron in volcanic rocks and variations in the chemistry of the deep Earth. Not only do the trends run counter to predictions from recent decades of study, they belie a role for carbon circulating in the deep Earth. The team's research was published May 2 in Science Express.

Elizabeth Cottrell, lead author and research geologist at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, and Katherine Kelley at the University of Rhode Island's Graduate School of Oceanography measured the oxidation state of iron, which is the amount of iron that has a 3+ versus a 2+ electronic charge, in bits of magma that froze to a glass when they hit the freezing waters and crushing pressures of the sea floor. Due to the high precision afforded by the spectroscopic technique they used, the researchers found very subtle variations in the iron-oxidation state that had been overlooked by previous investigations. The variations correlate with what Cottrell described as the "fingerprints" of the deep Earth rocks that melted to produce the lavas?but not in the way previous researchers had predicted. The erupted lavas that have lower concentrations of 3+ iron also have higher concentrations of elements such as barium, thorium, rubidium and lanthanum, that concentrate in the lavas, rather than staying in their deep Earth home. More importantly, the oxidation state of iron also correlates with elements that became enriched in lavas long ago, and now, after billions of years, show elevated ratios of radiogenic isotopes. Because radiogenic isotopic ratios cannot be modified during rock melting and eruption, Cottrell called this "a dead ringer for the source of the melt itself."

Carbon is one of the "geochemical goodies" that tends to become enriched in the lava when rocks melt. "Despite is importance to life on this planet, carbon is a really tricky element to get a handle on in melts from the deep Earth," said Cottrell. "That is because carbon also volatilizes and is lost to the ocean waters such that it can't easily be quantified in the lavas themselves. As humans we are very focused on what we see up here on the surface. Most people probably don't recognize that the vast majority of carbon?the backbone of all life?is located in the deep Earth, below the surface?maybe even 90 percent of it."

The rocks that the team analyzed that were reduced also showed a greater influence of having melted in the presence of carbon than those that were oxidized. "And this makes sense because for every atom of carbon present at depth it has to steal oxygen away from iron as it ascends toward the surface," said Cottrell. This is because carbon is not associated with oxygen at depth, it exists on its own, like in the mineral diamond. But by the time carbon erupts in lava, it is surrounded by oxygen. In this way, concludes Cottrell, "carbon provides both a mechanism to reduce the iron and also a reasonable explanation for why these reduced lavas are enriched in ways we might expect from melting a carbon-bearing rock."

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OUR HISTORY SHOULD TEACH US NOT TO INTERVENE IN SYRIA

EDITORS: Georgie Anne Geyer is taking a one-week vacation and will not file columns dated for May 6 or May 9. Her regular schedule resumes with the column for May 13.

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WASHINGTON -- Turner Classics has been playing and replaying the great film "Lawrence of Arabia" this year. Perhaps this is some backward or perverted honor of the now-aging "Arab Spring," or perhaps it is simply because Peter O'Toole makes such a magnificent T.E. Lawrence, the desert-mad Brit who led the Arabs to moments of grandeur in World War I.

But after catching one's breath at all those camels galloping across the sands of Arabia, there is one short scene after "Awrence" and his devoted Arabs have "taken Damascus and thus Syria" that explains the gnawing problems that even today rip to shreds any real hope for the region.

The new conquerors are meeting in an elegant hall, while the British military waits across town in rage. Lawrence thinks he is doling out tasks and responsibilities in order to keep his own mates out of it. But one tribe will not give up the water plant it controls; another cannot provide oil without the water; and so it goes, until Lawrence realizes that they cannot run even a city they have "conquered" without British engineers, accountants and generals. At this consummate realization, Lawrence calls it all off, the Arabs return to their tribes, and Lawrence returns to Cairo and eventually to England.

In so many ways, this remains the story of the Arab world today. Even great Egypt cannot bring the promise of the Arab Spring, born in its own Tahrir Square, to fruition. Muslims are killing Copts with relish again, police are beating students and the (more or less) ruling Muslim Brotherhood is woefully incapable of putting together a balanced, moderate state.

Even the most stupendously modern city-state in the Middle East -- the skyscraper-mad Dubai -- was designed without a garbage system, so thousands of trucks have to haul the garbage out every week.

Indeed, garbage seems to be a major problem for many Third World countries that take inordinate pleasure in their areas of development. Bangalore is supposed to be India's computer center of advanced modernity, but garbage is stacked in heaps all around that beautiful city.

It is a rather simple story, really, the modern emanation of the ancient Romans, Macedonians and Assyrians. These men, too, were too proud (arrogant, anyone?) to do any practical work. Battling, stealing and building great towers to themselves are what they deem themselves worthy of.

So now we come to Syria, which manages to be in the headlines every day, but only for fighting, destroying and killing. As with the protagonists of the Arab Spring (we'll leave the Assyrians to history), we can't figure out for the life of us what to do with the Syrians. The professional interventionists, who believe we should, and can, solve every moral and military problem on Earth, are trying to shame President Obama into "going in." The Americans who spell problems in terms of B-a-g-h-d-a-d and A-f-g-h-a-n-i-s-t-a-n are horrified that we would be so insane as to repeat the disastrous past.

As for President Obama, he got stuck on his "red line" in case Syrian President Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons -- we don't know yet whether he has -- but Obama also sees western Syria is filled with powerful anti-aircraft resources, almost surely supplied by the Russians and/or Iran, the Assads' two supporters, that could be deadly in any American air campaign.

The U.S. has been trying to figure out which group of Syrian anti-Assad fighters is "moderate," always a tricky business, and there do appear to be some capable moderate leaders. Nevertheless, there are more and more Islamist fighters who are allying themselves with al-Qaida.

Writers and analysts who know Syria, such as David Gardner, who writes for the Financial Times, says that the Assads -- as leaders of the Alawite minority that has led the fissiparous nation since 1969 -- see their country as one huge mega-militia. They now control only half the country and rely on the Iranians to protect them.

President Assad, analysts are saying, is keeping one pathway open to the former mountainous homeland of the Alawites, an offbeat tribe whose form of Islam has some similarities to Christianity. The Assads already have considerable military help from Hezbollah, the militia in Lebanon that has kept that formerly peaceable country at war internally for the last 30 years.

But should the United States do something in Syria or not?

Every argument made for our involvement in Syria is first put forward as a "small step." We would control only the air; we would start with military trainers to help the moderates; we would supply those moderates with weapons, food and strategy. Actually, some on the Obama "Syria page" say they do not even want the rebels to win yet because they are not sure how this could be timed to keep the Islamists out of power.

And that's a good thing, because there is no timing in an internal civil conflict like this. If we haven't learned this from Vietnam and Cambodia, and more recently in Iraq and Afghanistan, what have we learned from them?

Have we learned that the Iraq war, which was going to "pay for itself" with the oil wealth we would open for the Iraqis, and the Afghan war have together cost us $6 trillion, including the care for wounded GIs in the years to come? Have we figured out that, since most of the countries in those regions are filled with men who bitterly resent Americans on their ground, our presence causes the local men to fight us? Have we not figured out that all the talk about only-getting-in-at-the-start is exactly what began in Vietnam and soon led, step by step, to 500,000 Yankees in Indochina?

Should we get into Syria? Good Lord Almighty -- NO!

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/history-teach-us-not-intervene-syria-213046312.html

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The health and wellness fair provides tips for students | The ...

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Dr. Diane Morgenthaler, director of the Wellness Center at SCSU, said that if one was to judge the success of the Annual Health and Wellness Fair in terms of attendance then it could be considered a wild success.

?It just seems to be growing every year,? she said. ?Based on how many students keep coming back it seems like they really enjoy it.?

The Health and Wellness Fair brought vendors from across the New Haven area to the Adanti Student Center Ballroom at Southern on Wednesday April 25 to show students the available options they have to stay healthy.

Nicole Martins, a senior public health major, who helped set up the event, contact the vendors, and get together the giveaways; said she has seen how much students really enjoy the event first-hand.

?It?s a really big event ? the biggest that the Wellness Center puts on all year,? she said.

?There are a lot of incentives and giveaways to make the students want to come and that really seems to work.?

Martins said that she believes the event is a success, because it is so ?interactive.?

According to her, food vendors were giving out free samples to students, the participating Zumba group was allowing students to come dance with them, and The Girl Spot, a group of pole-dancing instructors offering classes, were letting people try out some moves.

As for giveaways, she said, Bickram Yoga New Haven was giving away free classes and hoodies and Healthy Coffee was giving out gift baskets of organic coffees and teas.

Morgenthaler said the surveys given out to students at the Health and Wellness Fair have helped them better understand what students want out of the event.

?Based on the suggestions we?ve gotten it seems like students really enjoy the more exercise related areas,? she said.

?Fortunately, we take those surveys with heavy consideration and we are expanding on outside vendors every year.?

She said that the Wellness Center and Health Services try to get vendors from a variety of areas including ?fitness, nutrition, and general mental health.?

?We just want to give all of the vendors an opportunity to share as much information as possible with the students,? said Morgenthaler.

?We want to make students more aware of options for healthy living on and off campus.?

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Diane Morgenthaler, the Wellness Center Director, provided information to students on how to stay healthy at the Health and Wellness Fair on April 25.

Brigitte Stiles, director of Health Services at SCSU said that she was a part of the first event in 2005 that combined the efforts of the Wellness Center and Health Services.

It is now both the Wellness Center and the Health Services biggest event.

?We just thought it would make sense for it to be a group effort,? she said, ?and based on the attendance of the last few years students really seem to like it.?

Stiles said the main message she wanted students to get from attending the event was how to still eat right, sleep right, and manage their sexual health despite the stresses of college.

?It?s really about general safety concerns,? she said.

Martins, also a student worker for the Wellness Center, said that she hopes the Health and Wellness Fair shows students that there are fun ways to keep active and stay healthy.

She said, ?I just hope that this shows students that staying active and healthy is a lot easier than you may think.?

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Stocks drift mostly higher; Pfizer weighs on Dow

NEW YORK (AP) ? Stocks are drifting mostly higher on Wall Street, but poor results from Pfizer are holding down the Dow Jones industrial average.

The Dow was down three points to 14,814 at midday Tuesday, a decline of 0.02 percent.

Pfizer fell the most in the Dow after reporting weaker earnings than analysts were expecting. The stock fell 90 cents, or 3 percent, to $29.54.

The Standard & Poor's 500 edged index up two points to 1,595, an increase of 0.1 percent. That's slightly above the record high close the S&P reached the day before.

The Nasdaq composite rose 13 points, or 0.4 percent, to 3,319.

Avon Products' loss wasn't as deep as analysts had expected. The stock rose 68 cents to $22.92, a gain of 3 percent.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/stocks-drift-mostly-higher-pfizer-weighs-dow-160206560.html

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