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The recent pullback offers an opportunity for investors in the space. |
Altria Group, Inc. (Altria) (NYSE: MO) today announced that its Board of Directors declared a regular quarterly dividend of $0. |
Today didn’t change that view, although some technology names are now breaking uptrend lines. |
After a decade of back and forth, big tobacco companies including Altria and British American will run anti-smoking ads under a court order. Ads will run during primetime television and in prominent newspapers starting this weekend. |
We're adding Microsoft but removing 3 other names. |
When Will the Indexes Care? |
Trying to find the answer to this often-asked question. |
People also pay attention to banks rolling over. |
Altria Group, Inc. (Altria) (NYSE:MO) is hosting an investor day conference in Richmond, Virginia today. |
Action we're seeing in individual stocks isn't standard. |
S&P 500 board members saw an increase in total director compensation of almost $5,000, climbing to a median of $254,700 in 2016, according to a recent study. |
Altria Group, Inc. (Altria) (NYSE:MO) today announced its 2017 third-quarter and nine-month business results and reaffirmed its guidance for 2017 full-year adjusted diluted EPS. |
Philip Morris Earnings May Have Disappointed, but Watch Those Heets! |
The latest Philip Morris earnings were very disappointing, again. But in Asia, the company is transitioning away from cigarettes and toward next-gen nicotine products, as these figures show. |
Altria Group, Inc. (Altria) (NYSE:MO) will host a webcast of its Investor Day in Richmond, VA, on Thursday, November 2, 2017. |
Put/call ratio for ETFs tops 300%. Wow. |
Asia will be the battlefield for smoke-free nicotine devices, which don't sound catchy but are catching on fast in in the Asian markets where they're available. |
Altria Group, Inc. (Altria) (NYSE: MO) will host a live audio webcast on Thursday, October 26, 2017, at 9:00 a. |
The ads are part of a settlement for a suit brought against firms almost 20 years ago. |
Altria Group, Inc. ("Altria") and Philip Morris USA, Inc. |
Jim Cramer is bullish on General Dynamics, Raytheon, Commercial Metals, Altria and MasTec. |
For Federico Ardila, this Latin American expression epitomizes his approach to life and mathematics. It’s the driving force behind the parties he DJs in venues across the San Francisco Bay Area, where people dance till morning to the beats of his native Colombia. The dance floor is a place “where you have your freedom ... |
He taught the expression to his students at San Francisco State University, where he is a math professor, after giving them a punishingly hard exam. San Francisco State has a highly diverse student body, and Ardila, who just turned 40, is a prominent voice in the mathematics community about how to make students from un... |
“Nadie te quita lo bailado,” Ardila told his students. |
The expression also applies to Ardila’s research, though not always in ways he would have chosen. Four years ago in Portland, Oregon, a thief smashed his car window and made off with a backpack containing, as luck would have it, five years’ worth of work—all of Ardila’s notes from a sweeping new paper he was developing... |
But the thief couldn’t steal the mathematics Ardila had “danced” in his mind. Over the past few years, Ardila and his coauthor, Marcelo Aguiar of Cornell University, have painstakingly reconstructed their work unifying the geometric and algebraic sides of combinatorics—the study of discrete structures like a social net... |
Quanta spoke with Ardila at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, California, where he is visiting for the fall semester, about the mathematics he has danced and taught. The interview has been condensed and edited for clarity. |
Your mathematical talent was identified quite early—in fourth grade, you got the highest score in your age group in a national math competition in Colombia. |
I feel like from a young age, they were paying attention to me. I never enjoyed mathematics in school very much, but my experience through the Math Olympics was much more creative and much more playful. |
Federico Ardila as a child in Colombia with his mother, Amparo, and his sister, Natalia. |
And it turned out that it was, as many of these spaces are, a very male-dominated space, and eventually both my sister and my cousin felt uncomfortable with this space. I mean, they’re doing amazing things now; my cousin is an engineer and my sister is a music pedagogy professor. But I do think it’s kind of interesting... |
You’ve said that you were surprised to get into the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where you did your undergraduate and doctoral studies. What’s the story there? |
I had never heard of MIT. And it hadn’t crossed my mind to study abroad. I was already enrolled in the local university. But my classmate told me MIT had awesome financial aid and said the math there was really good. I wanted to learn more math, so I decided to play along and apply. |
At that moment I was failing most of my classes in high school. It was not clear that I was going to graduate. I had a little bit of an attitude problem. I was very interested in a lot of things but I did not like being told, “Read this” or “Think this way.” I just kind of wanted to do things on my own terms. |
I was failing, I think, six out of eight subjects. Had I known what MIT was, I should have known not to apply. There is no way I should have applied with that kind of transcript. |
I like telling this story to my students because I think we often close doors to ourselves by thinking that we’re not eligible or that we’re not good enough. And especially if you’re somebody who feels “othered” in your discipline or who feels like you’re lacking confidence, it’s easy to close doors on yourself. There’... |
It’s not that anybody did anything to mistreat me or to doubt me or to explicitly make me feel unwelcome, but I definitely felt very different. I mean, my mathematical education was outstanding and I had fantastic access to professors and really interesting material, but I only realized in retrospect that I was extreme... |
There’s a system in place that makes certain people comfortable and others uncomfortable, I think just by the nature of who’s in the space. And I say that without wanting to point fingers, because I think you can be critical about the spaces that “other” you, but you also have to be critical about the ways in which you... |
I think because mathematics sees itself as very objective, we think we can just say, “Well, logically, this seems to make sense that we’re doing everything correctly.” I think sometimes we’re a little bit oblivious as to what is the culture of a place, or who feels welcome, or what are we doing to make them feel welcom... |
So when I try to create mathematical spaces, I try to be very mindful of letting people be their full human selves. And I hope that will give people more access to tools and opportunities. |
What are some of the ways you do that in your teaching? |
In a classroom I’m the professor, and so in some sense I’m the culture keeper. And one thing that I try to do—and it’s a little bit scary and it’s not easy—is to really try to shift the power dynamic and make sure that students feel like equally powerful contributors to the place. I try to create spaces where we’re kin... |
So, for example, I taught a combinatorics class, and in every single class every single student did something active and communicated their mathematical ideas to somebody else. The structure of the class was such that they couldn’t just sit there and be passive. |
I believe in the power of music, and so I got each one of them to play a song for the rest for us at the beginning of each class. At the beginning it felt like this wild experiment where I didn’t know what was going to happen, but I was really moved by their responses. |
Some of them would dedicate the song to their mom and talk about how whenever they’re studying math, they’re very aware that their mom worked incredibly hard to give them the opportunity to be the first ones in their family to go to college. Another student played this song in Arabic called “Freedom.” And she was talki... |
That classroom felt like no other classroom that I’ve ever taught in. It was a very human experience, and it was one of the richest math classrooms that I’ve had. I think one worries when you do that, “Are you covering enough mathematics?” But when students are engaged so actively and when you really listen to their id... |
Mathematics has this stereotype of being an emotionless subject, but you describe it in very emotional terms—for instance, in course curricula you promise your students a “joyful” experience. |
I think doing mathematics is tremendously emotional, and I think that anybody who does mathematics knows this. I just don’t think that we have the emotional awareness or vocabulary to talk about this as a community. But you walk around this building and people are making these discoveries, and there are so many emotion... |
I think one thing that happens is we don’t acknowledge this as a culture—because mathematics is emotional in sometimes very difficult ways. It can really make you feel very bad about yourself sometimes. You can be pushing on something for six months and then have it collapse, and that hurts. I don’t think we talk about... |
Your own research is in combinatorics. And the paper you’ll be presenting at the Joint Mathematics Meetings connects two different ways of understanding combinatorial structures, through the lenses of geometry and algebra. How do those two approaches work? |
When you look at the geometric side of things, suppose, for example, you want to study the permutations (the ways of rearranging a collection of objects). It’s pretty well known that if you have n objects, the number of ways of putting them in a row is n factorial (the product n(n-1)(n-2)…1). So it’s not a very interes... |
The three-dimensional permutahedron, a geometric depiction of the ways to rearrange the numbers 1, 2, 3 and 4. Two permutations are connected by an edge if one can be transformed into the other by swapping two consecutive numbers. |
If you look at when two permutations are related to each other by just swapping two elements, then you start understanding not only how many there are but how are they related to each other. And then, when you say, “OK, let’s take all the permutations, and put an edge between two of them if they’re a swap away,” then y... |
And then you can also think of permutations algebraically—there’s a natural sort of “multiplication” on permutations, in which the product of two permutations is the permutation you get by doing one permutation after the other. |
This is one of the most important objects in algebra, this group of permutations. |
There are these two traditions, to take combinatorial objects and either make them geometric or make them algebraic. This project with Marcelo Aguiar was about trying to bring together these two points of view, and in fact we discovered that polytopes like the permutahedra have an additional related algebraic structure... |
For many, though by no means all, mathematicians, teaching takes a back seat to research. But for you, it seems that teaching and research are very much intertwined. You often give your students open-ended problems, and you’ve co-authored many papers with students. |
I love working with students. And I love sharing the joy of discovery with them. Most of my students are master’s and undergrad students, because San Francisco State doesn’t have a PhD program. I think that has steered my research to things that are more immediately accessible. But still, I need the questions to be ver... |
I’m very excited about my research. I think I’m doing the most interesting research of my life right now. People tell you at 40 you start declining, and I feel like I’m getting good now. |
Federico Ardila DJing at the 2017 Life Is Living Festival in Oakland. |
Almost a decade ago you founded a DJ collective based in Oakland. How does that tie into your work as a mathematician and teacher? |
When I DJ I’m really looking for joy, and I’m looking to create an atmosphere where people can build bridges and connect. My professor side comes out a little bit, because I play a lot of stuff that people don’t know, and I try to play music from many places that they haven’t thought about. |
I also see music as a tool for social change. Some of the events I do are social benefits—it’s about music, but it’s also about feeding the soul and getting ready for the change that you want to make in the world. It feels very similar to the kind of atmosphere that I try to create in a classroom. I see all of these th... |
Seventeen-year-old Catherine Ray just received a $100,000 Thiel Fellowship. Armed with a B.S. in computational physics, the mathematics whiz is planning to fix everything that’s wrong with wheelchairs. Get to know the teen technorati. |
TODAY (Thursday, March 1) Greenslade Taylor Hunt stages its monthly antiques sale at The Octagon Salerooms, East Reach, Taunton. |
Both sales have much to appeal to both the connoisseur and the casual collector. |
Today’s sale features a number of high calibre furniture items including this decorative Dutch walnut and floral marquetry cabinet. It adorns the front of the catalogue and is guided at £400-£600. |
A other attractive piece is a George III mahogany linen press. The frieze with carved pinecone and fan motifs, above panelled doors. It has a pre-sale estimate of £300-£500. |
Tomorrow attention will turn to the quarterly collectors’ sale put together under the expert eye of collectables aficionado Peter Rixon. |
As ever the range of this sale is vast. It will get underway with a coin section. Among highlights from this part of the sale is an Elizabeth II gold proof set from 1980 comprising five pounds, two pounds, sovereign and half sovereign, in case of issue. This is guided at £1400-£1500. |
There is a strong militaria section. Of local interest is a 19th Century portrait of a British Army officer. The oil on canvas, has a label verso which identifies the sitter as Charles Jeffreys Watson Allen (1832-1893), son of John Roy Allen of Lyngford (Taunton), The picture has come to auction via the family of the s... |
The UK government is pushing a new CYOD (choose your own device) program to 2,000 civil servants in the Cabinet Office, Department of Culture, Media and Sport and the Crown Commercial Service, removing old and expensive technology contracts. |
Apple, Dell and Lenovo will be offering a selection of laptops for work, including the 11-inch and 13-inch MacBook Airs, the Dell XPS 13 and Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga S1 or ThinkPad X1 Carbon. |
It follows a small 250 civil servant trial in June last year, which showed the benefits of having consumer products with additional security services, instead of building a custom product for the government. |
"We have installed secure Wi-Fi and allowed users to choose their own devices and collaborate on documents," Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude said. "We're expecting this to deliver a minimum of 40 per cent cost savings on IT across government." |
Maude is also hoping for all large scale technology controls to be removed by 2020, in favor of these smaller and flexible CYOD contracts with various large technology companies. |
The move towards Google apps has also lowered overall costs on services, allowing government workers to collaborate on Drive, Docs and Gmail, instead of hiring a team to create workplace services. |
"We are building up the capacity to develop and manage our own services for ourselves," he said. "That means we can change things quickly if we need to and won't have to wait another five years or more before we can make significant improvements." |
It is not clear if the CYOD program will move to all departments in the government. It seems some departments are still unsure on the safety of the new products and services. |
Antonio Conte becomes fourth Italian manager to win Premier League… but who was the best boss? |
ANTONIO CONTE has become the fourth Italian manager to win the Premier League. |
And it means Italy now sit way in front of another nation. |
With Scotland the only other country to produce more than one, in Sir Alex Ferguson and Kenny Dalglish. |
Chelsea started the mould of getting an Italian, when they made their then striker player-manager in 1998. |
There have been 11 in total — with five bagging at least one trophy. |
Here, we take a look back every Italian manager. |
In just two-and-a-half-years, he led the Blues to League Cup, FA Cup (twice), Cup Winners' Cup and Uefa Super Cup glory. |
Sacked after a difficult start to the 2000-01 season and replaced by Claudio Ranieri. |
A Champions League winner with Juventus in 1996, and a class act. |
Took over midway through the 1997-98 season with Eagles already bottom — and with little hope of survival. |
Left at the end of the season with Palace relegated to Division One. |
His time at Stamford Bridge yielded no major trophies— but his biggest mistake was just not being Jose Mourinho. |
Led Chelsea to their first Champions League semi-final in his final season, eliminating Arsenal’s Invincibles along the way. |
Was sacked despite a then record-high second place finish. |
Yet, it was completely different at Leicester. |
Ranieri took over a side tipped for relegation, but miraculously led them to a first-ever top-flight title. |
The fairytale soon turned into a nightmare as he was again sacked with champions battling the drop, despite having reached the Champions League last-16. |
Surprise choice as replacement for Alan Curbishley. |
He started off well — leading the Hammers to ninth. |
However, West Ham survived by the skin of their teeth the following season and Zola was sacked. |
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