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|Dec 12, 2013
Center for Nano-Optics becomes top-level Georgia State University research center
|(Nanowerk News) The Center for Nano-Optics, a research center whose focus on the science of developing tools and instruments as small as 1,000 times thinner than a human hair could lead to major breakthroughs in technology and biomedicine, has been created at Georgia State University.
|"Creation of the Center for Nano-Optics is an important next step for the university," said James Weyhenmeyer, vice president of research and economic development. "Under the leadership of Georgia State Physics Professor Mark Stockman, a group of physics faculty will expand the university's nanotechnology focus and continue the development of two university inventions the spaser and the nanoplasmonic metal funnel."
|The spaser is a laser that is 1,000 times smaller than the smallest laser and also 1,000 times thinner than a human hair. Success in incorporating spaser technology into transistors, something that cannot be done now, may lead to computer processors that operate 100 to 1,000 times faster than today's processors. The spasers may also help biomedical researchers identify and track single cancer cells in the bloodstream.
|The second invention is the plasmonic metal funnel designed with a very thin needle at the end. This technology allows energy to be delivered to very small spaces. The funnel is already widely used in microscopes to give researchers the ability to see on the nanoscale.
|"The center will unite a group of talented physics faculty that has been developing within the department for close to a decade," Stockman said. "This [center] designation will allow us to unite our efforts and significant resources, providing a common vision and general plan for the continued development of our inventions."
|In addition to Stockman, the center faculty includes: Vadym Apalkov, Nikolaus Dietz, Xiaochun He, Alexander Kozhanov, Steven Manson, Ramesh Mani, Unil Perera, and Murad Sarsour. Their combined research efforts have led to the accumulation of more than $11 million in federal funding and publication in premier science journals, including Nature, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Photonics, Physical Review Letters and Nature Communications. They have formed international partnerships with researchers in Germany, France, India, Italy, S. Korea, Taiwan, China and Australia.
|Stockman and the center team have also been named leaders of a $7.5 million U.S. Department of Defense Office of Naval Research Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) grant. In the framework of this MURI grant, the researchers will work with Purdue University, the University of Central Florida, the University of California at Berkeley, Yale University and Cornell University to study random lasers, nano-spasers and optical rogue waves.
|Georgia State's strategic plan places a high importance on the creation of new centers and enhancement of existing collaborative research groups. The university is already home to the Center for Inflammation, Immunity and Infection; and the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience.
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Talk:Church of Romania
I'm a convert in the Church of Romania and am pretty fluent in Romanian, having worked there for some considerable time. I have never heard the Orthodox faith referred to as 'Dreapta credinta' and the only time I've ever seen 'Dreptcredincios' used is as a title for a saint - i.e. 'Dreptcredinciosul Voievod Stefan cel Mare si Sfant' (The Right-Beleiving Voievod - sort of like Prince, but no real translation - Stephen the Great and Holy). Usually, contrary to what is stated in this article, the faith is known as 'Ortodoxie' or 'Crestinism Ortodox' and the Orthodox faithful are known as Ortodox(a) pl. Ortodocsi. I'd cheerfully correct this (I've corrected the odd word of Romanian already where there were problems) but I don't want to step on anyone's toes. If whoever originally wrote the article thinks my comments are incorrect, I'd appreciate it if you'd give me some justification for what I see as problems - perhaps this is normal language in some regions of Romania, but it certainly isn't in Moldova and Bucovina, in my experience.
- Well, the Romanian Orthodox Church is a bit strange in that it uses several words for the same thing. So sometimes it keeps the greek/slavonic word, sometimes it translates it (see the use of both 'slava' and 'marire' for glory). Referring to Orthodoxy as "dreapta credinta" is not very common, unless it's in some context - thus, in a sermon the priest may urge the faithful to uphold "dreapta credinta." The only other context where I know of the translation is in the service itself: at the Great Entrance, when the priest says "May the Lord remember you, orthodox Christians..." he says "dreptmaritorilor crestini." It's similar at the end of Vespers. Otherwise, you're right - the faith itself is known as 'ortodoxie.' I hope this helps. Virgil
- This article as it now stands is largely taken from Wikipedia:Romanian Orthodox Church. I'm the one who imported it the way that it is, and I don't know either way regarding the issue you raise. You'd know better than I and are free to edit the article according to your knowledge. Please feel free to register for an account and help us out! --Rdr. Andrew 10:06, 10 Mar 2005 (CST)
- Thanks Virgil and Rdr Andrew. I've now signed up for an account. What I'd most like to contribute to the site are articles on Romanian saints, monasteries etc. Ethnically, I'm German/Czech by way of Britain but I feel more like an adopted Romanian nowadays, having married into a Romanian family and as I find that there appears to be very little on the web about Romanian saints, traditions etc. when compared to Greek or Russian, I think this would be a worthwhile thing to do. I agree with you, Virgil, regarding the use of dreapta credinta etc. - it simply didn't register with me that way because you could just as easily write 'True Faith' or 'True Christians' in English without it referring to Orthodoxy. Romanian is a second language for me after all. I think maybe the wording of the article should be changed to something along the lines of 'also sometimes called...' rather than 'usually called...'. What do you think? --James
- Your suggestions for contribution sound excellent—the Church of Romania is, after all, the 2nd largest Orthodox Church in the world, and I fear many English-speakers know very little about it. (I honestly wish that there were more of a Romanian ecclesiastical presence in the West.) --Rdr. Andrew 08:43, 11 Mar 2005 (CST)


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All About Baby
Even if your bowels aren't quite regular these days, your baby may be settling into a regular routine — more active at night, for instance, while quieter during the day. All of her internal systems are in place, even if they do need more time to mature. Her vestibular system — the area in the brain responsible for sensing movement — is one of the first parts of the brain to mature and it is already actively sensing all your movements. At the same time, Baby's hearing continues to develop and sharpen. Studies show that infants who are exposed to certain loud noises in the womb (like dog barks or the dryer beeping) are less likely to be startled by them once they are born.
This week marks an important milestone — if Baby were born this week, she would have a chance at survival. According to the March of Dimes, of all babies born at 23 weeks, 25 to 35 percent survive. This number goes up considerably when you add just a couple weeks: roughly 50 to 70 percent of all babies born at 24 to 25 weeks survive. And 90 percent of all babies born at 26 to 27 weeks survive.
All About You
That's not a baby in there, it's an amateur boxer pummeling your guts. Her punches, jabs, and kicks are so frequent now that your family and friends can see them (and your internal organs and rib cage are taking a beating). Since there's still room to move, that little guy or gal is using it all!
Somewhere around now, you may have an internal exam to check your cervix for risk of preterm labor. Don't fret — though that's easier said than done. Pregnancy tends to heighten and rollercoaster your emotions: the worry becomes a full-on anxiety attack, the happy feelings become unstoppable elation. And all these ups and downs (plus the sore ribs) have a not-so-good effect on your sleep, which is why you're reading this at 4:30 in the morning.
This Week: Headed for Bed Rest?
Wait — was that a contraction? Roughly seven percent of all pregnant women experience preterm labor — sometimes in the second but more often in the third trimester. Any contractions that cause the cervix to open before week 37 are considered preterm labor.
A lot of times managing early contractions is as easy as drinking more water and going to bed early. But if your labor pains are more severe — or if you have other complications — you might be headed for bed rest. With your feet raised and your body relaxed, there's less pressure on your cervix. Lying down also aids blood flow, making it easier for your heart to do its thing.
When bed rest alone doesn't prevent preterm labor pains, there are drugs. And if drugs don't work, you may be hospitalized so you can be under constant care.
While it might sound sort of nice to lie in bed all day eating bonbons, watching TV, and checking email, the truth is that bed rest gets old pretty quick. If you find yourself headed for bed rest, be sure to keep our bed rest survival guide by your side.
Got questions about Week 23? Other women have asked this…
Q: I'm pregnant and experiencing some vaginal discharge. Could I have an infection or is this normal?
Pregnancy can induce several different types of vaginal discharge, and most of the time, these discharges are normal. Increased blood flow to your vagina coupled with increased estrogen can cause you to experience a whitish, mucousy discharge known as leukorrhea. Read more about vaginal discharge during pregnancy.
Q: I'm afraid of getting stretch marks. What can I do to avoid them or help them go away?
Stretch marks (or striae) are an unpleasant by product of pregnancy for many women. Rapid stretching of the skin causes these initially red or purple marks. In time your stretch marks will diminish and become silvery or white in appearance. They should also become smaller or less pronounced, but won't ever completely go away. Read more about treating and preventing stretch marks.
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Your Relationship with Baby
The first few months of fatherhood can often be the most difficult. Your baby arrives, and along with him or her comes expectations of what being a father will be like. Many of these expectations involve holding your baby and immediately feeling a strong connection and a powerful sense of love. While that will undoubtedly happen, it may take a bit longer to connect than you originally thought. Instead of a few days, it can sometimes take a few months.
Even once your baby is born, you might feel a little empty inside. Of course you know the baby you're holding is yours, but he or she may not yet feel like your baby. (You know that you love your baby, but you just may not quite feel it yet.) This isn't unusual, and often fathers find themselves feeling afraid, stressed by financial pressures, and exhausted from lack of sleep. This can all lead to many new dads feeling inadequate or useless as fathers. These difficult feelings can be exacerbated if you're working outside the home while your spouse is taking care of Baby full-time.
The sad truth is many fathers have this experience but are afraid to talk about it. A lack of discussion can foster a sense of shame and may promote a feeling that bonding confirms a "bad" father (or mother). Instead of getting upset and giving up, strive to remain involved and you'll lay the groundwork for developing a bond with your baby. (Know that if you experience these feelings, it doesn't mean you're a bad father or that you don't or can't love your child.)
In time, you and Baby will build a distinct and unbreakable connection. One day, you will look at your little one's face and see a certain expression or hold her, and something will flutter in your chest. Before you know it, you will feel such a strong connection you'll have trouble remembering life when you didn't.


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Children aged one – two years with a family history of allergy, who had a positive skin prick test to house dust mites, had a higher risk of developing asthma later in life. Results showed 75 per cent of these children had asthma at aged 12 compared to 36 per cent of children without a positive skin prick test.
Lead author Dr Caroline Lodge from the University of Melbourne's School of Population Health said the identification of house dust mites as a predictor for asthma in high risk children, is a significant step forward in identifying high risk groups on whom we can trial interventions.
"Our findings provide researchers with a more targeted group of at risk children, for investigating strategies to prevent asthma later in life," she said.
"House dust mite sensitivity amongst wheezy toddlers could be used as a clinical tool to assist parents in understanding the risk of asthma in their children.
"Although currently there is no known intervention to stop asthma developing, identifying children at higher risk may lead to more tailored treatments of wheeze in this high risk group."
The study followed 620 children, with a family history of allergies, from birth to 12 years old. Researchers tested the children at the ages of one and two years, for single and multiple sensitivity to milk, egg, peanut, rye grass, cat and house hold dust mites and then again at the age of 12 for having asthma.
"We found in the children aged one – two years, that whatever the mix of sensitivity, if their skin reacted to house dust mites they had a higher chance of developing asthma later in life," Dr Lodge said.
"Our study did not show house dust mite caused asthma but it highlighted a strong correlation between sensitivity and more severe wheeze and asthma.
"House dust mites are common in our environment. They are something we have to live with everyday. Previous studies have revealed that efforts to eradicate house dust mites have been ineffective."
The study was published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. Collaborators involved in the study are the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Monash University and the Royal Children's Hospital.
The study is part of a broader project to investigate sensitivity and allergy and their link to asthma.
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WASHINGTON -- The American ruling class is failing us -- and itself.
At other moments in our history, the informal networks of the wealthy and powerful who often wield at least as much influence as our elected politicians accepted that their good fortune imposed an obligation: to reform and thus preserve the system that allowed them to do so well. They advocated social decency out of self-interest (reasonably fair societies are more stable) but also from an old-fashioned sense of civic duty. "Noblesse oblige" sounds bad until it doesn't exist anymore.
An enlightened ruling class understands that it can get richer and its riches will be more secure if prosperity is broadly shared, if government is investing in productive projects that lift the whole society, and if social mobility allows some circulation of the elites. A ruling class closed to new talent doesn't remain a ruling class for long.
But a funny thing happened to the American ruling class: It stopped being concerned with the health of society as a whole and became almost entirely obsessed with money.
Oh yes, there are bighearted rich people when it comes to private charity. Heck, David Koch, the now famous libertarian-conservative donor, has been extremely generous to the arts, notably to New York's Lincoln Center.
Yet when it comes to governing, the ruling class now devotes itself in large part to utterly self-involved lobbying. Its main passion has been to slash taxation on the wealthy, particularly on the financial class that has gained the most over the last 20 years. By winning much lower tax rates on capital gains and dividends, it's done a heck of a job.
Listen to David Cay Johnston, the author of "Free Lunch" and a columnist for Tax Notes. "The effective rate for the top 400 taxpayers has gone from 30 cents on the dollar in 1993 to 22 cents at the end of the Clinton years to 16.6 cents under Bush," he said in a telephone interview. "So their effective rate has gone down more than 40 percent."
He added: "The overarching drive right now is to push the burden of government, of taxes, down the income ladder."
And you wonder where the deficit came from.
If the ruling class were as worried about the deficit as it claims to be, it would accept that the wealthiest people in society have a duty to pony up more for the very government whose police power and military protect them, their property and their wealth.
The influence of the ruling class comes from its position in the economy and its ability to pay for the politicians' campaigns. There are not a lot of working-class people at those fundraisers President Obama has been attending lately. And I'd underscore that I am not using the term to argue for a Marxist economy. We need the market. We need incentives. We don't need our current levels of inequality.
Those at the top of the heap are falling far short of the standards set by American ruling classes of the past. As John Judis, a senior editor at the New Republic, put it in his indispensable 2000 book "The Paradox of American Democracy," the American establishment has at crucial moments had "an understanding that individual happiness is inextricably linked to social well-being." What's most striking now, by contrast, is "the irresponsibility of the nation's elites."
Those elites will have no moral standing to argue for higher taxes on middle- income people or cuts in government programs until they acknowledge how much wealthier they have become than the rest of us and how much pressure they have brought over the years to cut their own taxes. Resolving the deficit problem requires the very rich to recognize their obligation to contribute more to a government that, measured against other wealthy nations, is neither investing enough in the future nor doing a very good job of improving the lives and opportunities of the less affluent.
"A blind and ignorant resistance to every effort for the reform of abuses and for the readjustment of society to modern industrial conditions represents not true conservatism, but an incitement to the wildest radicalism." With those words in 1908, President Theodore Roosevelt showed he understood what a responsible ruling class needed to do. Where are those who would now take up his banner?


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Although Congress was not in session today, Texas lawmakers still gave their Twitter followers something to read about.
What was so tweet-worthy? Flag Day, of course.
Texas Sen. John Cornyn gave a birthday shout-out to the Army, accompanied by a thank you to the troops.
Lots to celebrate today. Happy 238th birthday to the US Army, and happy Flag Day. Thanks to all the brave men & women who serve.
— JohnCornyn (@JohnCornyn) June 14, 2013
Cornyn's fellow Texas senator, Sen. Ted Cruz, also paid tribute to those who serve our country and threw in a flag photo for good measure.
This Flag Day & 238th birthday of US Army, celebrate the symbol of our nation & those who fought for liberty pic.twitter.com/VrUFJy0ONg
— Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) June 14, 2013
Texas Gov. Rick Perry also used a photograph to help wish his constituents a merry Flag Day, though his version was emblazoned with his name and title.
Today we honor our Stars & Stripes. Happy Flag Day! pic.twitter.com/wCc5eAtAUq
— Team Rick Perry (@TeamRickPerry) June 14, 2013
Rep. Ralph Hall, R-Rockwall, kept it short and sweet when letting his followers know what Friday was all about.
Celebrating National Flag Day 236 years after the U.S. Flag was adopted.
— Ralph Hall (@RalphHallPress) June 14, 2013
Rep. Randy Weber, R-Friendswood, opted to celebrate the flag of Texas by posting a link that led to his Facebook page.
On this Flag Day, let us also take a moment to honor the Great State of Texas' Flag. "Honor the Texas flag; I… http://t.co/vLnZtJCgIs
— Randy Weber (@TXRandy14) June 14, 2013
The Facebook post included a majestic picture of the Texas flag and the Texas Pledge of Allegiance: "Honor the Texas flag; I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one state under God, one and indivisible."
Rep. Kevin Brady, R-The Woodlands, gave his followers a little something to read to brush up on some Flag Day knowledge and history.
Do you know the history of Flag Day? Good read –> http://t.co/7keyWTV6PS pic.twitter.com/PSCG0wVJh3
— RepKevinBrady (@RepKevinBrady) June 14, 2013
Even former Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich got in on the Flag Day fun, retweeting his wife, Callista Gingrich, after she posted an amusing graphic of the mascot of the GOP, Ellis the Elephant:
RT @CallyGingrich: Ellis and I wish you a happy Flag Day! pic.twitter.com/I0KGduy35x
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Harriet the Spy sips it while studying case files. Comedian Alan King made it as a teenage soda jerk. And Lou Reed eulogized it in song:
When I was a young man, no bigger than this
A chocolate egg cream was not to be missed
Some U-bet's chocolate syrup, seltzer water mixed with milk
You stir it up into a heady fro, tasted just like silk
You scream, I steam, we all want egg cream.
—"Egg Cream," Set the Twilight Reeling
The sweet, frothy combination of bubbly seltzer, frosty cold milk and sugary chocolate syrup explains the enduring appeal of the egg cream. But the true origin of this classic American drink remains a delicious mystery. Despite the fact that there's no egg and no cream, most New York natives have a story about the famous potable, and whether it was invented in Brooklyn or on Manhattan's Lower East Side is a source of heated debate.
The "egg cream, an eggless, creamless libation, was invented in a New York soda fountain," writes New York Cookbook author Molly O'Neill, "The annals of time have obscured inventor and the rational and philosophical underpinnings of the drink's name."
"Obscured" origins? More like too many to count.
One theory is that in the 1880s, Yiddish theater pioneer Boris Thomashevsky asked a New York City soda fountain to reproduce a drink he had discovered in Paris, but the French chocolat et crème got lost in translation. Others say the name is an Americanization of echt keem, Yiddish for "pure sweetness," and some suggest it's simply Brooklynese for "a cream."
The most common story is that sometime in the 1890s, candy shop owner Louis Auster concocted the drink by accident. It's said he sold thousands a day. But when Auster refused to sell the rights to the drink to an ice cream chain, a company executive called him an anti-Semitic slur and he vowed to take the formula to his grave. Without Auster's special syrup, other soda fountains relied on a Brooklyn original: Fox's U-bet chocolate syrup, containing water, sugar, corn sweeteners, cocoa and some "secret things."
"The egg cream," says Marty Markowitz, Brooklyn borough president and host of the 2002 Great Brooklyn Egg Cream Extravaganza, "has been Brooklyn's official elixir since the 1920s. Although it has evolved to complement the extraordinary diversity of the greatest borough in the world, Fox's U-bet chocolate syrup, milk and seltzer from the bottle hitting the spoon at just the right angle to produce a beautiful, white head will always be Brooklyn to the last sweet gulp."
To this day, the classic concoction is served at the Gem Spa newsstand in Manhattan's East Village (Second Avenue and St. Mark's Place), or often paired with the world's best tuna sandwich at Eisenberg's Sandwich Shop (Fifth Avenue at 22nd Street).
What's lies ahead for the egg cream? Ask ex-Brooklynite Adam Kurlander. In trying to make the milk-based egg cream shelf-stable, his company's R&D department invented the carbonated dairy beverage category. Founded in 1989, Egg Cream America Inc. ships about a million cases annually, including plenty of its bestseller, a no-fat, no-carb diet chocolate. The bottled egg creams are available in about 20 states, but they sell best in the greater New York area, particularly in Long Island, which, Kurlander notes, is home to many people who grew up in Brooklyn. "The drink is rooted in the ethnic Jewish community, but there was much debate as to how it was created," Kurlander says. "Now people debate whether our bottled egg creams are true to the soda fountain variety. We're the next chapter in the egg cream story."
To make your own authentic egg cream, newyorkfirst.com, purveyor of all things Big Apple-ish, sells a kit complete with a supply of Fox's U-bet. Or just follow the simple recipe from Jewish-American Kitchen: "Pour three ounces of milk in a glass, spritz in eight ounces of seltzer, spoon in two ounces of chocolate syrup and combine with vigorous wrist action."
History never tasted so sweet.


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Cardica To Present At 2012 Wedbush PacGrow Life Sciences Management Access Conference
Aug 08, 2012, 11:29 ET
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Aug. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Cardica, Inc. (Nasdaq: CRDC) today announced that Bernard A. Hausen, M.D., Ph.D., the company's president and chief executive officer, is scheduled to present a corporate overview and update at the 2012 Wedbush PacGrow Life Sciences Management Access Conference on Tuesday, August 14 at 1:20 p.m. Eastern time.
To access the live and subsequently archived webcasts of the presentations, go to the Investor Relations section of the company's website at http://www.cardica.com/. Please connect to the website at least 15 minutes prior to the presentation to allow for any necessary software downloads.
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Cardica designs and manufactures proprietary stapling and anastomotic devices for cardiac and laparoscopic surgical procedures. Cardica's technology portfolio is intended to minimize operating time and enable minimally-invasive and robot-assisted surgeries. Cardica manufactures and markets its automated anastomosis systems, the C-Port® Distal Anastomosis Systems and PAS-Port® Proximal Anastomosis System for coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery, and has shipped over 41,500 units throughout the world. In addition, Cardica is developing the Cardica MicroCutter XCHANGE™ 30, a cartridge-based microcutter device with a 5 millimeter shaft diameter, and the Cardica MicroCutter XPRESS™ 30, a true multi-fire laparoscopic stapling device designed to be used in a variety of procedures, including bariatric, colorectal, thoracic and general surgery. The Cardica MicroCutter XCHANGE 30 and XPRESS 30 products require 510(k) review and are not yet commercially available in the U.S.
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The list of investors who say they were duped in one of Wall Street's biggest Ponzi schemes is growing, snaring some of the world's biggest banking institutions and hedge funds, the super rich and the famous, pensioners and charities.
The alleged victims who sunk cash into veteran Wall Street money manager Bernard Madoff's investment pool include a charitable trust for real estate magnate Mortimer Zuckerman, the foundation of Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, and a charity of movie director Steven Spielberg, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Among the world's biggest banking institutions, Britain's HSBC Holdings, Royal Bank of Scotland Groupand Man Group, Spain's Grupo Santander, France's BNP Paribas and Japan's Nomura Holdings all reported that they had fallen victim to Madoff's alleged $50 billion Ponzi scheme.
The 70-year-old Madoff, well respected in the investment community after serving as chairman of the Nasdaq Stock Market, was arrested Thursday in what prosecutors say was a $50 billion scheme to defraud investors.
Some investors claim they've been wiped out, while others are still likely to come forward.
"There were a lot of very sophisticated people who were duped, and that happens a great deal when you've had somebody decide to be unscrupulous," said Harvey Pitt, a former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, a regulator in charge of monitoring investment funds like the one Madoff operated.
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The extent of the potential damage prompted a leading fund manager in London to lash out at U.S. regulators for failing to detect the fraud earlier.
"I think now it is very difficult for people to invest in things that are meant to be regulated in America, because they haven fallen down in the job," Nicola Horlick, the manager of Bramdean Alternatives, which has 9 percent of its funds invested in Madoff's scheme, told the British Broadcasting Corp.
"All through the credit crunch this has been apparent," Horlick added. "This is the biggest financial scandal, probably, in the history of the markets."
Among U.S. investors, the Boston-based Robert I. Lappin Charitable Foundation, a charity that financed trips for Jewish youth to Israel, sacked its staff after revealing that the money for its operations was invested with Madoff.
New Jersey Sen. Frank Lautenberg, one of the wealthiest members of the Senate, entrusted his family's charitable foundation to Madoff. See video interview with former SEC Commissioner Laura Unger for more on Madoff.
Lautenberg's attorney, Michael Griffinger, said they weren't yet sure the extent of the foundation's losses, but that the bulk of its investments had been handled by Madoff.
Lautenberg's foundation handed out more than $765,000 to at least 100 recipients in 2006, according to the most recent listing on Guidestar, which tracks charitable organization filings.
The foundation helps support a variety of religious, educational, civic and arts organizations in New Jersey and elsewhere, and its contributions range from a gift of than $300,000 to the United Jewish Communities of MetroWest New Jersey to a $2,000 donation to a children's program at the Hackensack Medical Center.
Reports from Florida to Minnesota included profiles of ordinary investors who gave Madoff their money. Some had been friends with him for decades, others were able to invest because they were a friend of a friend.
They told stories of losing everything from $40,000 to an entire nest egg worth well over $1 million.
They join a list of more powerful investors that have come forward, all worried about the extent of their losses.
The roster of names include former Philadelphia Eagles owner Norman Braman, New York Mets owner Fred Wilpon and J. Ezra Merkin, the chairman of GMAC Financial Services, among others.
Among those overseas confirming exposure on Monday, Banco Santander, the largest bank in the euro zone by market capitalization, said its clients have 2.33 billion euros ($3.07 billion) in exposure with Madoff, mostly through a fund called Optimal Strategic US Equity.
HSBC, Britain's largest bank, said a "small number" of its insitutional clients had exposure totaling some US$1 billion in Madoff funds.
It added that it has custody clients who have invested with Madoff, but it did not believe those "custodial arrangements should be a source of exposure to the group."
Royal Bank of Scotland—Britain's second-largest bank, which is now 58 percent owned by the British government—said it could lose around 400 million euros pounds ($600 million) through exposure in trading and collateralized lending to funds of hedge funds invested with Bernard L Madoff Investment Securities.
Man Group, the world's largest publicly traded fund manager that reported exposure of around $360 million on Monday, said "it appears that a systematic and comprehensive fraud may have been committed, evading a range of structural controls."
Nomura Holdings said it has 27.5 billion yen ($306 million) in exposure, but added that any losses were likely to be limited compared to its capital base.
On Friday, representatives from major U.S. banks—Bank of America , Citigroup , PNC Financial Services Group and Merrill Lynch —declined to comment on if they had exposure to Madoff's company.
Both BlackRock and Goldman Sachs Group said they had no exposure. Morgan Stanley , Wells Fargo , Comerica and U.S. Bancorp did not immediately return calls seeking comment.


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A fight broke out between Sean Daddy Puffy and J Cole on Sunday night at the VMA after-party. It was over Cassie, Diddy's girlfriend. Who gives a sh-t?
The point of this story is that Beysus was there. And when everyone got all aggro, she apparently started "screaming her head off". Here's what Jay Z did (and f-ck him for removing the hyphen from his name and giving me one more thing to have to worry about correcting):
"It was mayhem. Beyoncé was yelling to stop and Jay Z was separating people and getting people away from Bey."
Please. That would have been my first priority too. It's BEYONCE. It's the precious weave/wig. And I'm not being facetious either. Beyonce is a valuable gossip commodity. We all lose if something were to happen to Beyonce. That's why she emerged as the highlight of this story. You don't care that Diddy was wearing an ugly shirt getting all territorial over his woman. You don't care that people like Leonardo DiCaprio had to be inconvenienced for 10 minutes while people swept up the glass. The most prominent detail from this scrap was that B was there and in harm's way. And that she's replaced the bob with the long curls again. Didn't take long, did it?


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who's that 92 guy with the sack???
i hope we keep this up all day. would love to see a freaking blowout. step on their throats early!
I have the game online, now..........not sure how much lag there is, but better then nothing
so far an excellent start, and the offense hasn't even been on the field yet.
Bench Mendy, take his helmet!
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Michael Underhill, chief investment officer of Milwaukee-based Capital Innovations, argued Tuesday at IMCA's annual conference in Seattle for more real assets in the investment portfolio. The reason, as one might expect, was to combat the effects of inflation.
"Even low to moderate inflation can dramatically impact participants' purchasing power over time," Underhill said. "For example, a 2% annual inflation means that a dollar today will only have the purchasing power of 55 cents 30 years from now."
He added that defined contribution plan investors must manage a real liability—their own expenses in retirement.
"The objective of a defined contribution plan is to generate cash flow in retirement. If the inflation-adjusted value of a plan participant's savings falls significantly; they have to make some hard choices around how to reduce their levels of spending."
In order to protect retirees from significant erosion in purchasing power, it is useful to include investments that mitigate the impact of inflation. Hence, his call to include real assets.
"Unexpected inflation is a change in prices that differs from the consensus view of what inflation is expected to be," Underhill explained. "When we talk about inflation risk, we are commonly talking about unexpected inflation."
While expected inflation must be planned for in retirement budgeting, unexpected inflation causes uncertainty in prices because it represents a surprise to the market. Since it cannot be predicted, he noted, managing the risk of unexpected inflation is critical.
"A real assets strategy should comprise tangible real asset classes, whose values are driven by barriers to supply and rising replacement costs. Inflation-linked assets like agribusiness, timber and infrastructure produce a higher return when inflation rises and help provide unique attributes that contribute to an investment portfolio's overall diversification and income needs while providing for a much-needed inflation hedge. "
He added that recent market turbulence had many participants worried about their retirement savings. Sponsors want to help but don't want to overwhelm participants with too many choices.
"They also want to help participants effectively diversify to manage for inflation, weather volatile stock and bond markets and ultimately achieve the lives they want in retirement. Nontraditional asset classes may help sponsors and participants achieve some or all of these goals."
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SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--With an increased focus on serving middle and upper middle market customers in key markets, Wells Fargo Insurance, part of Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC), has entered into an agreement with USI Insurance Services to sell 42 of its primarily smaller regional insurance brokerage and consulting locations. The sale is part of Wells Fargo's ongoing strategy to focus investments and resources in select markets, including Charlotte, Dallas, Minneapolis and San Francisco, where the insurance business has the greatest growth potential and stronger partnerships with the bank's commercial customers. The terms of the transaction, which is expected to close in Q2-2014, were not disclosed.
"Wells Fargo is 100 percent committed to the insurance business and serving the needs of our customers," said Laura Schupbach, head of Wells Fargo Insurance. "We are focused on strengthening our insurance operations in larger markets where we can partner more closely with the bank to serve more of our core middle and upper middle market customers."
USI is headquartered in New York and is the 14th largest insurance broker in the world. All Wells Fargo team members who are actively working in the select IBC locations at the time the transaction closes will be offered continuous employment by USI.
Through its Insurance Brokerage and Consulting (IBC) business, Wells Fargo provides national resources for property and casualty insurance and employee benefits as well as targeted insurance programs for industries such as real estate, healthcare, energy, special risk, public entity, aviation, and hospitality. The business provides insurance consulting, sales and services to middle market, upper middle market, international and risk management customers. Upon close of the transaction, Wells Fargo's IBC business will operate in 55 locations.
Under the agreement, USI anticipates acquiring the following locations: (Ala.) Birmingham, Tuscaloosa; (Alaska) Anchorage; (Calif.) Fresno, Grass Valley; (Fla.) West Palm Beach; (Ga.) Savannah; (Idaho) Boise; (Ill.) Springfield; (Ind.) Elkhart, Fort Wayne; (Kan.) Overland Park; (Ky.) Lexington, Louisville; (Mich.) Grand Rapids; (Minn.) Grand Rapids, St. Cloud, Virginia; (Neb.) Omaha; (N.M.) Albuquerque; (N.D.) Bismark, Minot, Valley City; (Ohio) Dayton, Youngstown; (Ore.) Eugene, Newport; (Pa.) Erie; (S.C.) Columbia; (Tenn.) Knoxville; (Texas) El Paso; (Utah) Salt Lake City; (Va.) Abingdon, Bluefield, Grundy, Norfolk; and (W. Va.) Beckley, Charleston, Huntington, Martinsburg, Morgantown, Wheeling.
Recently named North America's Best Insurance Broker by Global Finance Magazine1, Wells Fargo Insurance provides solutions for a wide range of customers, including retail consumers, high net worth individuals, small businesses, as well as middle market and large corporate customers. Wells Fargo Insurance writes or places $15 billion of risk premiums annually in property, casualty, benefits, international, personal lines, and life products and also includes the nation's largest crop insurance provider, Rural Community Insurance Services (RCIS).
Wells Fargo Securities served as exclusive financial advisor to Wells Fargo Insurance Services in connection with the transaction.
About Wells Fargo & Company
Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) is a nationwide, diversified, community-based financial services company with $1.5 trillion in assets. Founded in 1852 and headquartered in San Francisco, Wells Fargo provides banking, insurance, investments, mortgage, and consumer and commercial finance through more than 9,000 stores, 12,000 ATMs, and the Internet (wellsfargo.com), and has offices in more than 35 countries to support the bank's customers who conduct business in the global economy. With more than 270,000 team members, Wells Fargo serves one in three households in the United States. Wells Fargo & Company was ranked No. 25 on Fortune's 2013 rankings of America's largest corporations. Wells Fargo's vision is to satisfy all our customers' financial needs and help them succeed financially. Wells Fargo perspectives are also available at blogs.wellsfargo.com.
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Sunday, January 24, 2010
Calling Anonymous Rachel...
2010 books, #1-5
Blood line, by Mark Billingham. London: Little, Brown, 2009.
Mark Billingham read the first, hair-raising, chapter of this at the Winter Wordfest event in November, and it was un-put-down-able. Tom Thorne is a wonderful creation, and this is tightly plotted with a twist in the tail to give you whiplash... As ever, his descriptions are graphic but not gratuitous, and you genuinely care what happens to his characters right from the first few pages...
The people's music, by Ian MacDonald. London: Pimlico, 2003.
A series of collected essays in music, with subjects ranging from Bob Dylan to The Supremes; the essays on Dylan and Nick Drake are particularly fine. The title essay talks about the passage of popular music from the essentially amateur process of folk music to the professionalism of writers such as Cole Porter and Irving Berlin and the manufactured artists of Motown; and then tracking its descent into amateurism again with the Beatles and Stones, and later the punk era. The piece was written in 2002 or so - it would be interesting to hear where MacDonald thinks we're going in the era of The X-Factor...
Little face, by Sophie Hannah [audiobook]. Oxford: Isis, 2007. Read by Charlotte Strevens.
Alice returns to her house after the first outing without her new baby, and claims that the baby in the cot upstairs isn't hers. Her husband is equally convinced she's lying, and her very controlling mother-in-law loses no time in weighing in. I don't think I'd have carried on with this after the first couple of chapters if it hadn't been an audiobook; I didn't really feel sympathetic to any of the characters, the final dénouement was a bit of a disappointment (and I couldn't make the reasoning add up), and some of the mental and physical sadism was just unpleasant. Strevens is a good reader though; now we can search the library catalogue by narrator as well as author, I'll be ordering up some more she's read.
Un Lun Dun, by China Miéville. London: Pan, 2008.
One intended for young adults; this is a wonderfully inventive trip through London and unLondon, with some great inventions such as the binja (fighting waste bins), unbrellas (ever wondered where all those broken umbrellas go?) and Webminster Abbey (populated by giant spiders). The style of it is much simpler than Miéville's complex prose when writing for adults, but none the worse for that, and the London cityscape is skewed just enough to make it magical without it becoming unrecognisable.
Scarpetta, by Patricia Cornwell. London: Sphere, 2009.
I didn't have a lot to say about this one, really; it's a Scarpetta. It is, however, less ridiculously angst-ridden and more plot-driven than some of the more recent ones. I keep reading these, despite vowing that I won't; I always come out of them feeling a little bit disappointed...
Saturday, January 16, 2010
BEST foot forward - competition results
On the number of projects knitted:
Actual number: 50
Best guess: 51, by Yvonne. Well done! I'll wait until I see you at IKL sometime - Thursday, maybe?
For anyone interested, and because I hadn't worked this out before, this breaks down as :
8 lace shawls/stoles/scarves
7 children's garments
7 pairs of socks
5 cowls
5 sweaters/cardigans
4 non-lace scarves
3 potholders (crochet!!)
3 washcloths
2 hats
1 baby blanket
1 bag
1 Christmas stocking
1 cushion
1 pair of mittens
1 tea cosy
and 0 partridges in pear trees, although I'm sure the extraordinarily clever Alan Dart has a pattern in development...
Yvonne wins two skeins of CTH Potluck Worsted (4 oz and 280 yards per skein; you'll have to work out what that is in British) in colour scheme Water.
On the metreage knitted up:
Actual figure: 21,120
Best guess: well, actually Yvonne got this one closest too with 21,000m (I'm beginning to think she's slipped some sort of monitoring apparatus into my knitting bag at some stage... that's only one ball of DK out, which is frankly just frightening).
However, I think she's the sort of nice, lovely, public-spirited person who would put her second winning raffle ticket back in the pot, so next closest is anonymous (and first) poster Rachel with 20,513m! I don't have a way to contact you, Rachel - so I'm hoping you're a regular reader. Please e-mail me at liz AT lizmarley DOT co DOT uk and send me your snail-mail address so I can get your prize to you.
For anyone interested; this averages out at 1760m/month; which is, according to Google (and don't you just love that you can put "1760m in miles" into Google and get an instant calculation?) 1.094 miles. I had a vague target for myself of a mile a month, because I was pretty close last year, but didn't calculate whether I'd reached it until the end of the year. My "worst" month was June with 845m and my "best" December with 2945m, but that's because I only count projects once they're finished, so it's all a bit random...
Rachel wins a scarf kit: 3 balls of Schoeller and Stahl's lovely Limbo in the blue/green colourway
and a PDF of my Helter Skelter scarf pattern (which isn't linked on Ravelry yet because I have yet to figure out the becoming-a-designer thing, but is proving very popular at I Knit London, who have been selling them pretty steadily for the last six months or so - I keep seeing people working on them and wearing them when I go to knit there, and it's lovely!).
And the other vital statistic for 2009:
Yarn knitted up this year: 7,659 grammes (equivalent of 153 50g balls; which is only 21g a day, but I'd refer you to the 8 lace shawls/scarves/stoles...).
I started counting up yarn acquired in the course of the year and gave up in mid-February.
However, with UK Knit Camp looming this year, I need to cut down, so I'm going to be counting yarn in as well as yarn out this year. Gifts and purchases will count as yarn in; but destashing and knitting up of yarn will count as yarn out... And I'm probably going to embarrass myself by posting a monthly total here... I shall, as ever, not be counting needles/magazines/books in that total, so IKL shouldn't suffer too badly...
And tomorrow, I vow to start blogging the Christmas Knitting (both given and received).
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
BEST guarantee...
I haven't used a hot water bottle since a very cold winter 22 years ago... They didn't have Dream in Color Classy then... and hot water bottles came wrapped in very bad pseudo-polar-fleece from Boots (one cerise, one turquoise, IIRC)...
Interestingly, three people on the train asked me what I was knitting and said how beautiful the colours were. Dyers, take note - normally I get No Attention Whatever, and I think I usually use pretty yarns...
Monday, January 11, 2010
Ah well... and competition reminder.
And if everyone can Think Good Thoughts to prevent trains hitting people in my local area, that would be good too. I've no idea whether this was suicide or an accident (although I understand you would have to try very hard to end up on the line accidentally at that particular point); but please, let's just hope people stop doing that.
On a more cheerful note, my brother sent me a YouTube clip of Gypsy Girl by Cruella De Ville. At the time, we thought this was a really good video. How times change... In return, I sent him a YouTube clip of possibly the most absurd Christmas recording ever.
And I realised I never gave an end-date for the annual competition. Let's say Sandi-o'clock on Friday (i.e. 6:30pm GMT this Friday, January 15). I'm hoping I'll be enjoying a drink with colleagues at that point, but it's as good a time as any...
Friday, January 08, 2010
BEST comment of the week
Anyway. I got onto the train this evening and removed (a) over-mittens (b) fingerless gloves (c) hat (d) coat (e) scarf and (f) sweater (I still had many layers of clothing, thanks), and piled them all into the gap between seats. The woman in the seat opposite watched this with amusement and said, "you've seen that card, haven't you?" I admitted I had. "So this is sort of Knitters' Revenge Week, then?", she said.
Made me feel ever so much better about the whole thing.
Thursday, January 07, 2010
BEST achievement of last year...
So if you don't have any paint you could be watching dry (or just want to have some reassurance that warmer days will come), or you're trapped under something heavy while reading this, do have a look.
While looking for all the versions, I found the photo below, which I made last year but never posted. It also makes a change from the current state of my small resentful house-mate, who is spending 22 hours a day sleeping next to a radiator in the bedroom at the moment, emerging only to eat or dive briefly into the garden to answer the call of nature...
Keep warm, all.
*Bet you were wondering why I was more positive. I'm not the most disciplined worker-from-home, but after yesterday, only wasting 90 minutes of my day dealing with trains, with the knowledge I was only 10 minutes from home at any time, was just fine and I got a fair amount done.
Wednesday, January 06, 2010
BEST thing said about today...
Apologies - this was not meant to be NaBloPoMoWhinge. Tomorrow I shall Put on My Happy Face. And Ye Shall All Fear Me...
Tuesday, January 05, 2010
One of the BEST and worst things about living in the UK?
Monday, January 04, 2010
BEST behaviour, and not...
Anyway; the best behaviour thing was - look!! I swatched!! (And then I felt very bad about myself. Not, you understand, for the action of swatching - but because actually what I was doing was knitting a tension square; we have a perfectly good phrase for this process in British English... in the same way as, thank you Google Chrome spellcheck, "colourway" is an actual word. Having said that, the spellcheck fails to recognise "Google", "spellcheck" or "swatching" as words either... Anyone know how to turn it off?)
Anyway, I knitted a square, and measured it, and washed and dried and blocked it, and patted myself on the head, and measured it again - and there was absolutely no difference. I did not get gauge because I'd given myself a talking to by then. Sadly I also did not achieve the appropriate tension, as UK knitting patterns used to have it. The tension demanded by the pattern is 24 sts and 32 rows to 4"/10cm. I got 21.5 sts and 34 rows to 4". But look, isn't it a pretty thing? And the fabric feels very nice and wearable. This sample is also done on a 3.25mm (US3) needle - I am not going to be knitting an entire garment for someone with my degree of, let's say, décolletage, on a 2.75mm needle... and anyway, then the row tension would be even more off and it might feel like wearing armour-plating...
I shall, nevertheless, be knitting Nordique Swing - having done the maths, the one three sizes down works with the number of stitches I need; with any luck that means I'll save a bit of yarn and have enough to work the sleeves till they're bracelet-length...
NB: Reading it back, this post sounds like an anti-American rant. For which, apologies - this was not my intention at all.
Sunday, January 03, 2010
BEST things about a lazy Sunday morning...
A new lace project (stealth, so just visible on the right)...
Saturday, January 02, 2010
BEST laid plans
I do have some things I'd like to do this year
- I'd like to keep the garden under control, and plant some more things in it rather than just hacking back. (Having said that, after the couple of weeks we've just had, I'm glad I didn't plant anything which needs much care this year - it was all under several inches of snow for over a week...)
- I'd like to tame the back bedroom which is the pit of hell. It's so bad that I won't be posting "before" pictures (although I will be taking them) until there are at least "during" pictures to show!
- I'd like to knit something steeked - this was also on my mental list last year (along with knitting something from the top down, which I achieved with the February Lady Sweater in January). I got as far as taking an Alice Starmore class at the I Knit Weekender and seeing how it's done; and found a very lovely pattern. However, I'm also intending to continue losing weight, and making a cardi in 4-ply which can't be unravelled once steeked doesn't seem very sensible until that's done. Sometime later in the year, maybe; meanwhile I've seen some nice patterns for cushions and rugs which are steeked.
- I'd like to finish St Brigid - I only have the front to go, and she's been in my WIP pile longer than I've had this blog!
- I'd like to knit from my stash more. This is rather difficult with both the wonderful I Knit on my doorstep at work, and rumours of a lovely new yarn shop in Ely. However, I've just shelled out for classes and accommodation for UK Knit Camp in August, and will want to go to the I Knit Weekender in September (10th and 11th, I believe). So I'm not promising anything because that would just be foolish.
So, nothing dramatic - I rather like my life at the moment and have no desire for radical change.
Being able to get into the back bedroom without a block and tackle would be good, though...
Friday, January 01, 2010
BEST wishes for the New Year, and a competition...
I've signed up to NaBloPoMo again - a few people have commented to me over the holidays that they liked the daily blogging, and actually I quite liked doing it too. Sometimes the theme for the month doesn't grab me (and I know you're not required to follow it anyway), but this month's theme is "BEST", and we all really need something to celebrate in January...
I had a very good Christmas - the best one for a while. Here are some of my fambly - Dad, SIL, Mam and Nephew - opening presents on Christmas Day.
I was allowed to cook Christmas dinner, and it seemed to go well...
OK; the competition. I will be doing 2 prizes this year, and simplifying it a bit. There are only 2 questions:
1. How many finished objects did I produce this year (NB this blog is not an accurate guide and nor is Ravelry - you probably just need to make a guess)?
2. How many metres of yarn did I knit this year (NB for visitors from North America, add approx 10% to a yardage estimate...)?
For some sort of idea - this was the roundup of last year's stats...
Happy competitioning... I won't bother doing an anonymous e-maily thing this year, just leave answers in the comments if you're so inclined!


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I'd love to work with SRK, Salman again: Sana Saeed
Sana Saeed, the little girl who played Shah Rukh Khan's daughter in 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai', is all grown up now and says she would love to team up with SRK and Salman Khan again
'I am very biased when it comes to Khans. I would love to work with all the Khans. Who would want to miss such a golden opportunity? But I was lucky enough to work with Shah Rukh and Salman in my first film and I would love to work with them again,' Sana told IANS. She was last seen on the big screen in Salman Khan-starrer 'Har Dil Jo Pyar Karega...' (2000).
In between, she appeared on the small screen in shows like 'Babul Ka Aangann Chhootey Na' and 'Lo Ho Gayi Pooja Iss Ghar Ki'. Sana was just 10 when Karan Johar's directorial debut 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai' came out and at 24-year-old she made a comeback in movies with KJO's 'Student Of The Year' as Tanya.
She plans to do some good films in Bollywood. 'Right now I am not doing any films. I would love to do some good films but nothing interesting has come my way yet. It would be stupid to jump into any film just for the heck of it,' she said.
'Right now I am looking at some ad films. I am going for lot of auditions. Besides, I don't see any difference in parallel cinema and commercial cinema. These days both kinds of films work in Bollywood,' she added. Sana had lot of fun while working with Karan again and calls him 'a wonderful director'. 'Hopefully if I get a chance, I would love to work with him again.'
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Don't Use Mobile Phone During Storms, Warn Doctors
Moblie Phone and Health
Injury from lightning strike while using mobile phone
Three doctors in this week's BMJ warn of the risk of using mobile phones outdoors during stormy weather.
They describe the case of a 15 year old girl who was witnessed being struck by lightning while using her mobile phone in a large park in London during stormy weather. She was successfully resuscitated, but one year later she suffered complex physical, cognitive, and emotional problems.
If someone is struck by lightning, the high resistance of human skin results in lightning being conducted over the skin without entering the body, explain the authors. This is known as flashover and has a low death rate. Conductive materials such as liquids or metallic objects disrupt the flashover and result in internal injury with greater death rates.
To their knowledge, no similar cases have been reported in the medical literature. They found three cases reported in newspapers in China, Korea, and Malaysia, all resulting in death.
"This rare phenomenon is a public health issue, and education is necessary to highlight the risk of using mobile phones outdoors during stormy weather to prevent future fatal consequences from lightning strike injuries related to mobile phones," say the authors.
"The Australian Lightning Protection Standard recommends that metallic objects, including cordless or mobile phones, should not be used (or carried) outdoors during a thunderstorm," they add. "We could not find any advice from British telecommunication companies."


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Wikipedia is joining the movement of protests against the SOPA/PIPA bills. Quoting their page linked to from every article today (Wednesday January 18):
What are SOPA and PIPA?
SOPA and PIPA represent two bills in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate respectively. SOPA is short for the "Stop Online Piracy Act," and PIPA is an acronym for the "Protect IP Act." ("IP" stands for "intellectual property.") In short, these bills are efforts to stop copyright infringement committed by foreign web sites, but, in our opinion, they do so in a way that actually infringes free expression while harming the Internet. […]
Wikipedians have chosen to black out the English Wikipedia for the first time ever, because we are concerned that SOPA and PIPA will severely inhibit people's access to online information. This is not a problem that will solely affect people in the United States: it will affect everyone around the world.
For the record, I fully support Wikipedia's protest — and so does Mozilla. However, this blog post isn't really about that.
Update: Asa Dotzler pointed out that there's an even easier method than what I explain below: just replace the "en" part of the address of the article you're visiting to "m" and you're done — that will take you to the mobile-optimized version of the Wikipedia article. Example: change http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet_paper_orientation to m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet_paper_orientation. That's it!
The original instructions were:
- In Firefox, navigate to the Wikipedia article you want to read. You'll see something like this:
- Press Alt on your keyboard to reveal the classic menu of Firefox:
- Click View > Page Style > No Style. You'll then see a somewhat crudely formatted version of the original article:
This setting is not remembered in Firefox, so when you're done reading the article, just close the tab and things will go back to normal when you open it the next time. (Wikipedia itself will also go back to normal, tomorrow. In the meantime, take action!)


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"If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast."
Begun in the autumn of 1957 and published posthumously in 1964, Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast captures what it meant to be young and poor and writing in Paris during the 1920s. A Moveable Feast is considered by many to contain some of his best writing.
A correspondent for the Toronto Star, Hemingway arrived in Paris in 1921 with his young wife, Hadley, and baby son, Bumby (John), and the ambition to be a great writer. In that small tranquil world there was no need for a formal introduction. Everybody frequented the same cafés and ate in the same restaurants. Acquaintances were easily made and in a very short time Hemingway knew everyone who was someone÷or destined to be.
This was three years after the trauma of the Great War and at the beginning of the transformation of Europe's cultural landscape: Braque and Picasso were experimenting with cubist forms; James Joyce, long living in self-imposed exile from his native Dublin, had just completed Ulysses; Gertrude Stein held court at 27 rue de Fleurus, and deemed young Ernest a member of une génération perdue; and T.S. Eliot was a bank clerk in London.
According to Hemingway, there was nothing lost about his generation. There was no movement, nor any tight bands of pot-smoking nihilists wandering around looking for a cause. There were a lot of people of the same age who had been through the war, and they came to Paris to write or compose or do whatever they had in mind. Paris gave them the freedom they needed.
His territory ran the length of the Boulevard Montparnasse from the Closerie des Lilas at the Observatoire to the Restaurant du Petit Trianon opposite the railway station, and by one route or another down to Saint Germain-des-Prés and the Seine.
Among these small, reflective sketches are unforgettable encounters with the members of Hemingway's rag-tag circle of artists and writers, some also fated to achieve fame and glory, others to fall into obscurity. Some of the prominent people to make an appearance in the book include Aleister Crowley, Ezra Pound, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ford Madox Ford, Hilaire Belloc, John Dos Passos, James Joyce and Gertrude Stein.
Hemingway spends a great deal of time in the cafes, drinking and eating rather well for a pittance. His kindest comments are about Sylvia Beach, the American who ran an English bookstore called Shakespeare and Company — it was a hangout for English-speaking authors and others, and was an oasis for individuals seeking English-language books.
He depicts his genteel poverty and his obsession with gambling on horse races. He is deeply in love for most of the book with Hadley, who loses all of his manuscripts at a train station. He courts influential people such as Ford Madox Ford, who is described very unfavourably, and has great admiration for war veterans. His artist friend Pascin invites him to share his models, but he declines.
His friend Ezra Pound is trying to get up a collection for T. S. Eliot to rescue him from mundane bank work. He teaches Pound boxing. He cuts off his friendship with Gertrude Stein, repulsed by her lesbian relationship with Alice B. Toklas. He debates the merits of Dostoevsky with poet Evan Shipman. Ezra Pound charges him with delivering opium to the addicted poet Ralph Dunning, but Dunning rejects the help. Hemingway devotes three chapters to the very annoying F. Scott Fitzgerald and his hawkish and manipulative wife Zelda.
In the bittersweet final chapter, he describes an idyllic time spent in the Austrian Alps with Hadley. Pauline Pfeiffer arrives and an affair develops which eventually destroys his marriage.
It was during these years that the as-of-yet unpublished young writer gathered the material for his first novel, The Sun Also Rises, and the subsequent masterpieces that followed.
"You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil."
This is the Paris that Hemingway knew as a young man – a map drawn in his distinct prose of the streets and cafés and bookshops that made up the city where he, as a young writer, sometimes struggling against the cold and hunger of near poverty, honed the skills of his craft.


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What is Alzheimer's?
Alzheimer's is a specific form of dementia, and the most common such brain disease. It is a progressive degreneration of brain cells that causes a decline in cognitive ability, loss of memory, and mood and emotional disorders. Doctors use a global deterioration scale to measure the seven stages of the disease, from no or mild memory lapses, to late-stage Alzheimer's where patients have severe cognitive impairment and memory loss, limited vocabulary and lose the ability to move, eat or use the bathroom independently, needing 24-hour care.
Sixty-three per cent of those with dementia have Alzheimers, while other forms of the progressive neurodegenerative disease include Vascular Dementia, Frontotemporal Dementia (Pick's Disease), Lewy body Dementia and Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease. Although some drug therapies can slow progression and mitigate symptoms, the disease can't be halted or reversed and there is currently no cure.
It was named for German psychiatrist Dr. Alois Alzheimer who discovered in in 1906. The disease is not a normal part of brain aging, but causes protein plaques and fibrous tangles in the brain making it difficult for nerve cells to communicate with each other. The plaques and tangles in the brain are thought to be the result of oxidative stress, which has a toxic effect on cells in the body and brain. In Alzheimer's once a certain threshold is reached, the body can no longer metabolize and remove materials that then build up in the brain and interfere with nerve cells and therefore brain function. The disease is ultimately fatal within seven to ten years as the body is weakened by inactivity and muscle wasting and low immune response leaves people open to infections like pneumonia. There is currently no cure while its progressed can't be reversed, some drug treatments, like the use of cholinesterase inhibitors, have been shown to slow the rate of decline.
Who is at risk?
Risk factors include high blood pressure, high cholesterol levels and diabetes. Poor diets high in saturated fats that can lead to clogged arteries and strokes are also a problem.Head injuries can play a role, as can depression and obesity. Smokers are also more likely to develop dementia.
But genetics also play a role. Having a parent or sibling with Alzheimer's increases your risk two to three times. A form of Alzheimer's called Familial Alzheimer's Disease, which accounts for up to seven per cent of Alzheimer's cases, occurs at an earlier age.
And a primary, unavoidable risk factor is simply age. The number of Canadians aged 60 and older with Alzheimer's in 2008 was seven per cent. But by age 90, 49 per cent of Canadians had Alzheimer's.
Another risk factor? Being female. According to Rising Tide, women have both higher incidence and prevalence rates of Alzheimer's and dementias.
In fact, a recent University of California study found that fully half of Alzheimer's cases worldwide -- some 33.6 million people living with the disease -- could be traced to just seven common, preventable risk factors: smoking, physical inactivity, depression, high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes and low education, which is related to lack of mental stimulation.
The disease does not discriminate. Among the famous names of people believed to have Alzheimer's or a related dementia are Winston Churchill, Rita Hayworth, Ronald Regan, Rosa Parks and Norman Rockwell. Former Canadian Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean has watched her mother struggle with the disease.
What areas of the brain are affected, by Alzheimer's, and when?
Alzheimer's is an insidious, progressive disease, affecting the brain. Here is what happens to sufferers as the disease progresses:
1. Nerve cells start to die in the limbic brain, causing small memory lapses, and affecting emotions, possibly triggering anxiety.
2. Recognition of objects, places and people is affected as the disease spreads to the parietal lobe.
3. Speech and language and awareness of time suffer as the disease progresses to the temporal lobe.
4. Sight begins to fail as the occipital lobe becomes involved and patients lose peripheral vision and have trouble following motion.
5. Walking, balance, sitting and gross motor coordination deteriorate as the motor cortex and then the prefrontal lobe are affected.
6. The disease-ravaged brain now loses the skill of reason, thought and judgment as the frontal lobe is impaired.
7. The body begins to shut down and sufferers come close to death as the cerebellum -- which controls heart, lung and digestive functions -- succumbs.
What can you do to prevent Alzheimer's and dementia?
There is no cure, but a healthy lifestyle is your best defense against the onset of Alzheimer's and related dementias.
Maintain a healthy diet rich in anti-oxidants like the Medditerranean diet. Try taking selenium and folic acid supplements. Drink a moderate amount of red wine, which has been linked to reduced dementia risk. Try spices like turmeric, as one of its components, curcumin may have some protective effects. Increase your intake of Omega-3s from sources like cold water fatty fish, which may help the brain.
Try to stay active, exercising your body and brain. IIncrease your physical activity levels, have an active social life, maintain intellectual activities and protect your head from injury. Stop smoking, find ways to cope with stress and depression, stay connected and engaged. And don't forget to schedule regular check ups with a family doctor you know, and bring up any concerns with memory or mental functionl They can arrange cognitive screening tests as needed.
I've been diagnosed with Alzheimer's or dementia. Now what?
After diagnosis, connect with support groups thought the Alzheimer Society of B.C. which can offer guidance to people with dementia and their families and help them find resources and assistance. Programs like FirstLink, which connect families and people with Alzheimers with community programs and provides education programs and strategies for care. Your doctor may prescribe a cholinesterase inhibitor to reduce memory and cognitive declin symptoms.
Think ahead. Make sure you have enduring Power of Attorneys set in place for when you can no longer make your own financial or legal decisions (it does not cover health decisions). If you are unable to make your own health care decisions, that power falls to your closest relative, your spouse or children. You can draft a Representation Agreement in advance designating someone to look after your health care and personal care affairs, if you wish it to be someone else. Make all your wishes known in a will and end-of-life plan well in advance. And it's important to make sure when arranging life insurance that you are covered for dementia under critical incident insurance.
What programs and resources are out there for Alzheimer's and dementia patients and their caregivers?
The Alzheimer Society of B.C. offers free workshops and seminars for family caregivers, for people living with dementia, and on life after diagnosis.
Among them is First Link, a program that links people newly diagnosed with dementia and their caregivers with programs and services to help them cope. The program runs in Richmond, Victoria, Nanaimo, Burnaby, Kelowna and Prince George. Email email@example.com to learn more.
Another new program, Minds in Motion, is a fitness and social program for people in the early stages of memory loss due to dementia established this year at two sites in Richmond and in Vancouver. It encourages people with early diagnosis to come with their caregivers and learn to establish healthy living patterns to help slow the progression of the disease. Call the Alzheimer Society of B.C.'s Dementia Helpline toll-free province-wide at 1-800-936-6033 to learn more.
How can we cope?
The needs of people with Alzheimer's vary depending on what stage of the disease they are in. But all patients would benefit from certain improvements in the system, experts say, including more early intervention programs and public awareness, comprehensive dementia education for family doctors, more funding for dementia research, more support for caregivers, and an expansion of available long-term care facilities to provide for spaces for patients.
As people can live 10-12 years with the disease, much of dementia care needs to focus on improving their quality of life once diagnosed.
"The numbers are astounding," said Dr. Roger Wong, a geriatrics specialist at Vancouver General Hospital and a professor in UBC's department of medicine. "We're seeing a lot more people with dementia symptoms and Alzheimer's. Prevalence has gone up and is projected to increase over the next three decades unless we do something different."
Wong, the president of the Canadian Geriatrics Society warns that we also need to think about who is going to care for these dementia patients: there is already a shortage of geriatricians in Canada, and a lack of health professionals trained in caring for the elderly and their conditions will only exacerbate the stress on our health care system in the coming years.
Rising Tide advises Canada create a national dementia strategy, including more funding for research, more work on prevention and early intervention, increasing the number of medical staff and specialists in the field, and adding and more integrated care and support for caregivers. It hopes that the report can provide a basis for that plan. In terms of public health, they suggest several interventions to try to stem the impact of dementia -- getting alrady active citizens to increase their physical activity by 50 per cent, try to delay the onset of dementia in several key areas, improve caregiver support and training, and make it easier for patients and caregivers to navigate the system as they look for help, by assigning them caseworkers. Overall, a dual focus on integrating community care and improving disease prevention and management is needed, the report concluded.
What is the impact on our health system and on home caregivers?
Over the next 30 years, the Rising Tide report predicts that the demand for long-term care for patients will increase over 10 times.The report predicts the number of long-term beds fordementia sufferers to increase from about 280,000 beds in 2008 to 690,000 in 2038, but that will still leave the system about 157,000 beds short. Many of these patients are expected to lean on home caregivers: seniors living at home with dementia are expected to jump from 55 per cent to 62 per cent of all cases. Experts see the trend to home-based community care continuing, placing a burden on families and outpatient-type services.
"Individuals with dementia are not the only people affected by the disease," the report states. "Dementia also places a long-term progressive burden on those who care for them," the report states. "Dementia usually implies not only a long period of profound disability and suffering for the person, but also severe strain and financial burden on the person's family and caregivers, as well as on health providers, the health care system, the business community and society in general."
What is Canada doing?
In Canada, the federal goverment has increased funding for dementia research through the Institute of Aging at the CIHR, from $4.5 million to about $21 million per year over the past decade. In 2009, the government committed another $15 over four years to fund a population study on neurological conditions like Alzheimer's and their impact on the country.The Alzheimer's Society funds roughly $3 million of research a year. It calls for the government to at least triple research spending to meet the future dementia epidemic.
Many provinces already have dementia strategies: B.C. has a Dementia Service Framework, as do Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Newfoundland.
B.C.'s framework, created in 2007, identified several key gaps in care including a lack of trained medical staff with expertise in elder and dementia care, limited knowledge of best practices for dementia care, inability of acute care facilities to meet the needs of people with dementia, and poor integration of services across care settings.
What are other countries doing?
Around the world, there are more than 35 million people currently living with dementia. Estimates expect that number to reach 115 million by 2050.
Governments in Australia, France, the UK and Scotland, Norway and the Netherlands have recently created plans for dealing with the rising tide of dementia patients in their aging populations.
Australia, for instance, has set up a helpline, funded more research, trained home caregivers and increased the availability of psychogeriatric consultations.
The Netherlands has created programs like peer-support Alzheimer's Cafe groups, created respite programs for home caregivers and patients so they can get away on holidays to recharge, and provided transportation to help patients get to medical appointments.
Norway has introduced national standards to improve services in nursing homes.
France has brought in a thousand new case managers to deal with Alzheimer's patients, launched a helpline and created specialist teams that make in-home visits to people with Alzheimer's so they can get medical care in place. The UK and Scotland have also increased funding for dementia research, launched early-diagnosis and prevention programs and worked on improving palliative care for patients.
What does the latest research say?
A vaccine was developed, but testing on humans was cancelled in 2002 after patients showed brain swelling. There are three main cholinesterase inhibitor drugs which can help promote clear-headdedness, but can't reverse the disease.
Some studies have shown that intense exercise can help protect the brain from dementia.
A Columbia University study published in Neurology in June found that the MRIs of subjects who exercised vigorously showed a 40 per cent lower risk of developing a kind of brain damage linked to strokes and dementias, as blood vessels in their brains were less likely to become blocked.
And Canada is also building a network of Alzheimer's research. The Canadian Institute of Health Research, for instance, recently organized an International Collaborative Research Strategy for Alzheimer's Disease (ICRSAD) which will drawn in research and expertise from many countries in the study of the disease.
Other research shows that denial about the disease seems to be waning, and as public awareness grows people report being more willing to seek out early treatment.
A recent Harvard School of Public Health survey of attitudes in five countries -- the U.S., France, Spain, Poland and Germany -- suggest that although Alzheimer's was the second-most feared disease behind cancer, eight out of ten respondents said they would go to a doctor for a diagnosis if they experienced memory loss, and almost all would take a family member.
Where can I turn to learn more?
Learn more about Alzheimer's and related dementias at:
Alzheimer Society of Canada: www.alzheimer.ca
Alzheimer Society of B.C.: www.alzheimerbc.org
U.S.-based Alzheimer's Disease Education and Referral Centre: www.nia.nih.gov/alzheimers
Alzheimer's Disease International: www.alz.co.uk
Learn more about life planning at:
NIDUS: Personal Planning Resource Centre and Registry: www.nidus.ca
Public Guardian and Trustee of B.C.: www.trustee.bc.ca
Want to do more research? Here are some online resources:
A List of 10 early warning signs of dementia.
Guide to how to deal with your diagnosis.
A news feed of dementia and drug research.
The Rising Tide report.
A UBC Brain Research Centre guide to the disease.
The Canadian Study on Health and Aging which studied dementia nationally.


text: "Mistaken Identity" — Danny and Baez investigate a local bombing, but meet with tension and resistance from the community during the investigation. Meanwhile, Frank must deal with the political fallout when a man punches an officer who was overly aggressive in his questioning, on BLUE BLOODS. Pictured: Donnie Wahlberg as Danny Reagan. PHOTO CREDIT: GIOVANNI RUFINO/CBS © 2013 CBS. All Rights Reserved.


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Eduardo Munoz / Reuters
Tennis fans shelter from the rain while play is suspended at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York City on Tuesday.
The remnants of former Hurricane Isaac brought heavy rain and strong winds -- and the risk of localized flash flooding -- to the East Coast overnight and into Tuesday.
New York City can expect up to three inches of rain Tuesday and Wednesday, NBCNewYork.com reported. High humidity will make temperatures feel like the high 80s, it added.
Torrential downpours were forecast for the Northeast and South Atlantic states, while thunderstorms were possible across the Midwest.
The system follows a humid, damp and windy end to the Labor Day weekend in many parts, including Delaware, where strong thunderstorms and winds of up to 60 mph ripped through Kent County, Del., on Monday, damaging homes, according to NBCPhiladelphia.com.
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The Weather Channel said the turbulent weather was caused by the merger of the remnant low pressure of Isaac with a frontal boundary across the Midwest.
"That low and that front are still with us, and will be poking into the Northeast by Wednesday," wrote the Weather Channel's Nick Wiltgen. "They'll interact with rich tropical moisture to bring the threat of tropical downpours up and down the eastern seaboard Tuesday and Wednesday."
"These will be the kind of downpours that can put down an inch of rain in less than an hour and reduce visibility to a few hundred feet," he added, "so drivers and air travelers can expect occasional delays. Localized flash flooding is possible."
Around 20 homes in Camden, Del., were damaged during Monday's storm there.
Those who saw it coming ran into their homes and ducked for cover.
"When we went in, I shut the sliding doors and something hit the house so hard and we just dropped to the floor," Jean Hanacek told NBCPhiladelphia.com. "My whole garage is gone and my two cars are in there."
In the Midwest, rain brought about by Hurricane Isaac has quenched fields parched by months of drought. Whether the rains have helped remains to be seen. NBC's Diana Alvear reports.
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Atheist Alliance International has launched the international Atheist Census. It's kinda neat to watch the map update, as news of the census spreads internationally (Australia was recently overtaken by Brazil, as home to the most atheists–but it only launched today, so numbers are greatly in flux).
Spread the word, and stand up and be counted!


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put (one's) thinking cap on(redirected from put our thinking cap on)
put (one's) thinking cap on
To begin thinking very hard about something, especially a solution to a problem. If we all put our thinking caps on, I'm sure we can come up with a way to earn enough money to go to the baseball game this weekend. A: "Well, boss, what do you think we should do?" B: "Just let me put my thinking cap on for a minute."
put one's thinking cap on
Fig. to start thinking in a serious manner. (Usually used with children.) It's time to put our thinking caps on, children. All right now, let's put on our thinking caps and do some arithmetic.
put your thinking cap onor
get your thinking cap on
If you put your thinking cap on or get your thinking cap on, you try hard to solve a problem by thinking about it. We need to put our thinking caps on and decide what can be done to prevent the problem. We've got five pairs of boots to give away, so get your thinking caps on and answer the following questions. Note: This expression may refer to the cap which judges used to wear when passing sentence or judgment.