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Sunday, June 30, 2013
Alt-week 6.29.13: DARPA's robot finalists, the IRIS solar mission and empathetic computers
Alt-week takes a look at the best science and alternative tech stories from the last seven days.
Sure, DARPA is slightly sinister, but it's so into robots that we're willing to let that slide. In fact, last year it launched the DARPA Robotics Challenge, and it just announced the top six nine seven teams to advance. But if just the idea of figuring out robotics frustrates you, NC State's face tracking program literally gets that, and NASA just launched the IRIS solar probe from the belly of a transport jet. It's Alt-week, baby.
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Saturday, June 29, 2013
Shoptiques: The Perfect Summer Dress for Your Body Type
We have all been "that girl," the delusional dresser, as some may call her. Standing in the mirror of the dressing room, trying on the dress that looked killer on the mannequin, and hey, it kind of looks like that on you, too, right? Next thing you know, you're confidently pulling out your credit card and then slipping into the dress for a night out on the town. The second you step out of your apartment, all of your presumptuous thoughts on this "killer" (so-you-thought) dress are turning into insecurities, as you tug and pull at every hemline and body-hugging area. No one wants to be "that girl," and you don't have to be. Summer is the prime time to wear a dress and show off your favorite parts of your body. It's all about figuring out what looks good on your shape, accentuating what you love about yourself, and feeling confident in what you chose to wear!
Here is our guide to the perfect summer dress for different body types:
Athletic
When you have an athletic build, the greatest thing you can do for your body is to create the illusion of curves. Your straight and narrow shape can be easily feminized with the use of cinches and ruffles. Try choosing a dress that is cinched at the waist or even tie an oversized dress with a belt. The overflow of fabric will create a Marilyn-esque figure. The hemlines are rising with the temperature this summer, show off those athletic legs too!
Full- Figure
A full-figured woman has so many beautiful attributes to play up: a big bust, curvy figure, and a little junk in the trunk. Sometimes, this can make for a difficult time in the dressing room, trying to figure out how to accentuate the right areas while making the waist look small. Finding the perfect summer-time dress for your body should be fairly easy though. Balancing your top half with your bottom half to create an hourglass look is key. Try a dress that nips, or is banded around the waist to form a slim mid-section, while hiding any tummy insecurities you may have. A sexy neckline works wonders for you, especially during the summer. A V-neck will help emphasize your bust, or let your collarbones show with an off-the-shoulder neck.
Petite
5'4' is the magic number that draws the line at 'petite'. Dressing for your petite body doesn't necessarily mean trying to make yourself look tall, it's more about dressing yourself in a way that is ideal for your height and shape. The main rule when it comes to petite women wearing a dress is to make sure you don't chop yourself in half. Always use the 1/3 rule. If there is a belt, cinch, or hem, make sure it is either 1/3 of the way from the top, or 1/3 of the way from the bottom of the dress. Maxis look fabulous on you because they cause the eye to move up and down, creating length. The same thing goes for vertical stripes. In the summer, no one wants a ton of fabric hanging all over them, lucky for you, as a petite woman, you want to stick with the least amount of material you can get away with. Too much causes you to look like you are swimming in fabric.
Hourglass
How lucky are you to have a body that allows you to wear so many different styles! The hourglass shape is what every woman is going for when they are getting dressed. There are only a few rules you need to remember when looking for an amazing summer dress. Steer clear of lots of bulk, embellishments, and heavy patterns. You have such a great bod, but, wearing something really busy can throw off your proportions, and make you look unbalanced or heavier than you actually are. A-lines and bodices are styles that are perfect for you to accentuate your feminine shape. Strapless dresses are made for hourglass figures, which is a major plus for you in the hot months of summer!
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How To Take Care of Your Smartphone Battery the Right Way
Your smartphone is a minor miracle, a pocket-sized computer that can fulfill almost every whim. But none of its superpowers matter a bit if it runs out of juice. With removable batteries becoming more and more rare, you've got to take good care of the one you got. Fortunately, it's not to hard keep the lithium-ion powering your everything machine happy if you follow a few simple rules.
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Total War: ROME II Specs & Panorama
The Creative Assembly has released
a new panoramic screenshot from Total War: ROME II in positively ridiculous 30000 x 4087 resolution (I won't worry about making you feel bad if that's your monitor's native resolution). They also send along the PC specifications for the upcoming strategy sequel:
a new panoramic screenshot from Total War: ROME II in positively ridiculous 30000 x 4087 resolution (I won't worry about making you feel bad if that's your monitor's native resolution). They also send along the PC specifications for the upcoming strategy sequel:
- Minimum:
- OS: XP/ Vista / Windows 7 / Windows 8
- Processor:2 GHz Intel Dual Core processor / 2.6 GHz Intel Single Core processor
- Memory: 2GB RAM
- Graphics:512 MB DirectX 9.0c compatible card (shader model 3, vertex texture fetch support).
- DirectX?:9.0c
- Hard Drive: 35 GB HD space
- Screen Resolution: 1024x768
?- Recommended:
- OS: Windows 7 / Windows 8
- Processor:2nd Generation Intel Core i5 processor (or greater)
- Memory: 4GB RAM
- Graphics:1024 MB DirectX 11 compatible graphics card.
- DirectX?:11
- Hard Drive:35 GB HD space
- Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Source: http://www.bluesnews.com/s/142946/total-war-rome-ii-specs-panorama
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Friday, June 28, 2013
A Father's Genetic Quest Pays Off
Hugh Rienhoff prepared his daughter?s DNA for sequencing at home using second-hand equipment. Image: Colston Rienhoff
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Hugh Rienhoff says that his nine-year-old daughter, Bea, is ?a fire cracker?, ?a tomboy? and ?a very sassy, impudent girl?. But in a forthcoming research paper, he uses rather different terms, describing her hypertelorism (wide spacing between the eyes) and bifid uvula (a cleft in the tissue that hangs from the back of the palate). Both are probably features of a genetic syndrome that Rienhoff has obsessed over since soon after Bea?s birth in 2003. Unable to put on much muscle mass, Bea wears braces on her skinny legs to steady her on her curled feet. She is otherwise healthy, but Rienhoff has long worried that his daughter?s condition might come with serious heart problems.
Rienhoff, a biotech entrepreneur in San Carlos, California, who had trained as a clinical geneticist in the 1980s, went from doctor to doctor looking for a diagnosis. He bought lab equipment so that he could study his daughter?s DNA himself ? and in the process, he became a symbol for the do-it-yourself biology movement, and a trailblazer in using DNA technologies to diagnose a rare disease (see Nature 449, 773?776; 2007).
?Talk about personal genomics,? says Gary?Schroth, a research and development director at the genome-sequencing company Illumina in San Diego, California, who has helped Rienhoff in his search for clues. ?It doesn?t get any more personal than trying to figure out what?s wrong with your own kid.?
Now nearly a decade into his quest, Rienhoff has arrived at an answer. Through the partial-genome sequencing of his entire family, he and a group of collaborators have found a mutation in the gene that encodes transforming growth factor-?3 (TGF-?3). Genes in the TGF-? pathway control embryogenesis, cell differentiation and cell death, and mutations in several related genes have been associated with Marfan syndrome and Loeys?Dietz syndrome, both of which have symptomatic overlap with Bea?s condition. The mutation, which has not been connected to any disease before, seems to be responsible for Bea?s clinical features, according to a paper to be published in the American Journal of Medical Genetics.
Hal Dietz, a clinician at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, where Rienhoff trained as a geneticist, isn?t surprised that the genetic culprit is in this pathway. ?The overwhelming early hypothesis was that this was related,? says Dietz, who co-discovered Loeys?Dietz syndrome in 2005.
Rienhoff had long been tapping experts such as Dietz for assistance. In 2005, an examination at Johns Hopkins revealed Bea?s bifid uvula. This feature, combined with others, suggested Loeys?Dietz syndrome, which is caused by mutations in TGF-? receptors. But physicians found none of the known mutations after sequencing these genes individually. This was a relief: Loeys?Dietz is associated with devastating cardiovascular complications and an average life span of 26 years.
In 2008, Jay Flatley, chief executive of Illumina, offered Rienhoff the chance to sequence Bea?s transcriptome ? all of the RNA expressed by a sample of her cells ? along with those of her parents and her two brothers. After drilling into the data, Rienhoff and his collaborators found that Bea had inherited from each parent a defective-looking copy of CPNE1, a poorly studied gene that seems to encode a membrane protein. It looked like the answer.
But questions remained. The gene did not have obvious connections to Bea?s features, and publicly available genome data suggests that the CPNE1 mutations are present in about 1?in?1,000?people ? an indication that there should be many more people like Bea.
Source: http://rss.sciam.com/~r/sciam/biology/~3/Zo4CABY21Ho/article.cfm
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Camden County Foreclosures - Chapman Hall Realtors Coastal
New Camden County Foreclosure,?just steps from the rivers and waterways.? A large brick ranch in St Mary?s Georgia.? St Mary?s is a small, quiet coastal town located right on the water.? It?s?an easy drive to Jacksonville, Savannah?or The Golden Isles.? This is a three bedroom, two bath home located in Plantation Oaks subdivision.? This home is located on a quiet street. It has a large living room with fireplace and access to screen porch, separate dining room, updated kitchen and laundry room and a?private? fenced backyard. ?All three bedrooms are a decent size and the master bedroom has its own private?bath. Let Chapman Hall Coastal be your one stop shop for all your Coastal Georgia foreclosures. Please call John to set up an appointment to view this home or to see a list of others.
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Peter Buffett: Change Our Story: Escape Velocity
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When I was young, I remember being awestruck at the massive power of the Saturn V rocket as it lifted astronauts into space toward the moon. It took so much effort to get that rocket off the ground. But then I would see animations of what would happen once the stages had been cast off and just the top of the rocket, the Command and Service Modules, were in space. The maneuvering looked effortless.
Specifically, it took over 7.5 million pounds of thrust to get to the first 220,000 feet. Once in space, the Service Module needed about 100 pounds of thrust to change position.
Every day we live our lives in the gravitational pull of our belief systems. And every one of them starts from the inside out -- trailing back generations often without our knowledge. My parents made lifelong decisions based on how they were raised -- and I did the same. Modes of behavior were formed based on what I believed about myself and the world around me. As invisible as gravity, these definitions regarding who I was and what I could become created a pull that seemed as inevitable as the earth turning on its axis. If I were born into another family... or in a far off culture... my center of gravity would have been completely different but just as strong.
We need to create meaning out of everything we encounter. It tells us who we are -- and what we need to do to navigate in our environment. There is quite a bit of evidence that says that everything happens about a half a second earlier than we perceive it. And in that half a second, our body and mind create the reality that makes sense for us based on everything we know. We are constantly telling ourselves a story. And as our story becomes stronger through time and experience, its pull can become nearly impossible to escape from.
Everything we experience becomes a story we're deciding to believe.
That doesn't mean that outside forces don't count. The economy that we have collectively bought into has created crushing poverty for billions. But that poverty comes from a system that promotes massive inequality -- and defines poverty on its terms. It doesn't have to be this way.
This is why escape velocity requires so much effort. While it's possible for some to wake up and dramatically shift their circumstance by changing their story... for many, it will take all 7.5 million pounds of thrust -- which translates to a collective shift in priorities, one person at a time.
What I'm talking about is a (r)evolution -- remembering that we actually share a common space -- both on this earth and in our hearts. Once we escape the pull of old stories and long-held beliefs that no longer serve our common humanity, it will take very little effort to correct our course. Just like the Service Module in space, a small adjustment is all it will take to stay on course once love and compassion are guiding the ship.
We're trapped in the false gravitational pull of a political structure... an economic system... definitions of power and control... that on the surface seem impossible to change.
But it is possible. We got to the moon in a decade. Why can't we get to our hearts in a minute?
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Jordan's King Abdullah warns of regional conflict over Syria
DUBAI (Reuters) - Jordan's King Abdullah said Syria's war could ignite a regional sectarian conflict unless global powers helped to convene peace talks soon, a pan-Arab newspaper reported on Wednesday.
King Abdullah also said Palestinians could launch an Arab Spring-style revolt if they felt prospects for a peaceful settlement of their conflict with Israel had reached a dead end, the London-based Asharq al-Awsat newspaper said.
Situated near Syria and next door to Israel and the occupied West Bank, U.S.-allied Jordan is affected by instability in the region. Jordan has taken in more than 500,000 Syrians out of a total 1.5 million who have fled the war, U.N. officials say.
"It has become clear to all that the Syrian crisis may extend from being a civil war to a regional and sectarian conflict...the extent of which is unknown," King Abdullah said in an interview.
"It is time for a more serious Arab and international coordination to stop the deterioration of the Syrian crisis. The situation cannot wait any longer," he added.
The Syrian civil war, which has claimed more than 93,000 lives in two years, has increasingly turned into a sectarian conflict. The Iranian-backed Lebanese Hezbollah announced last month it had joined fighting against Saudi-backed, Sunni-led rebels trying to oust President Bashar al-Assad.
U.S. President Barack Obama last week said that Washington, keeping a wary eye on the war, has left about 700 combat-equipped troops in Jordan after a training exercise. The United States had previously decided to leave Patriot missiles and warplanes there.
King Abdullah said that efforts to convene a peace conference bringing together the Syrian government and the opposition remained "the logical and ideal way" to find a peaceful solution to the crisis.
Talks between the United States and Russia in Geneva on Tuesday to set up such a conference produced no agreement, with the powers on either side of the conflict failing to agree when it should be held or who would be invited.
King Abdullah also welcomed efforts by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, but warned of a narrowing window for peace due to Israeli settlement building.
"Fading prospects of peace will explode relations between Palestinians and Israelis in a manner emulating the Arab Spring protests, either through a new intifada (uprising) or a new cycle of violence and counter violence," he said.
(Reporting by Sami Aboudi, Editing by William Maclean and Angus MacSwan)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/jordans-king-abdullah-warns-regional-conflict-over-syria-074752027.html
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Thursday, June 27, 2013
Obama sees a hopeful democratic example in Senegal
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) ? The hopeful story President Barack Obama wants to tell about Africa is represented in the first stop of his weeklong trip to re-engage the continent, in a country where democracy recently overcame an impending electoral crisis.
During his visit to Senegal on Thursday, Obama also will reflect on the ties many African-Americans share with the continent as he takes a tour of Goree Island, Africa's westernmost point. Africans reportedly were shipped off into slavery across the Atlantic Ocean through the island's "Door of No Return."
Thousands of boisterous revelers welcomed Obama's motorcade Thursday morning in Dakar, cheering and waving homemade signs as the first African-American president made his way to the presidential palace for his meeting with President Macky Sall. A large sign outside his hotel gate had pictures of smiling Obama and Sall that read, "Welcome home, President Obama. We wish you a good stay."
Some in the crowd drummed, danced and sang, and many wore white as a symbol for peace. Sall and his wife, Marieme Faye Sall, greeted Obama and first lady Michelle Obama before entering the palace for a bilateral meeting between the two presidents.
Obama and Sall were scheduled to hold a press conference before ferrying to Goree Island for his tour.
It's the first of two island visits where Obama planned to highlight racial atrocities of the past. The second was scheduled for Sunday at South Africa's Robben Island, where anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for 18 years.
But Mandela's condition could affect Obama's plans. The former South African president is gravely ill, and Obama foreign policy adviser Ben Rhodes said it would be left to the Mandela family to decide whether he is up for a visit from Obama this weekend.
Mandela's legacy hangs over the entire trip, with Senegal among many African countries that have benefited from his example of a peaceful transition to power. "So much of the democratic progress that we see across the continent I think can be tied in some way to the inspiration that Nelson Mandela set," Rhodes said.
Obama's focus in Senegal will be on the modern-day achievements of the former French colony after half a century of independence. Sall ousted an incumbent president who attempted to change the constitution to make it easier for him to be re-elected and pave the way for his son to succeed him. The power grab sparked protests, fueled by hip-hop music and social media, that led to Sall's election.
But such people-powered democratic transitions are not always the story of the African experience. Fighting and human rights abuses limited Obama's options for stops in his first major tour of sub-Saharan Africa since he took office more than four years ago. Obama is avoiding his father's homeland, Kenya, whose president has been charged with war crimes, and Nigeria, the country with the continent's most dominant economy. Nigeria is enveloped in an Islamist insurgency and military crackdown.
Obama's itinerary in Senegal was designed to send a message, purposefully delivered in a French-speaking, Muslim-majority nation, to other Africans in countries that have not made the strides toward democracy that Senegal has. Obama plans to meet with civil society leaders at the Goree Institute and visit the Supreme Court to speak about the importance of an independent judiciary and the rule of law in Africa's development.
"It's not enough to have elections, it's not enough to have democratically elected leaders," Rhodes said. "You need to have independent judiciaries. You need to have confidence in the rule of law. You need to have efforts to combat corruption. Because, frankly, not only is that good for democracy and respect for human rights, but it's critical to Africa's economic growth, because where you have clear rules of the road and efforts to combat corruption, businesses will invest, and jobs will be created and growth will take off. And that's what we want to see."
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/obama-sees-hopeful-democratic-example-senegal-044328472.html
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Friday, June 21, 2013
Forever Lost: Episode 2 SD for iPhone/iPad 1.0
Forever Lost is a first-person adventure game inspired by classic point & click titles. The game has a haunting atmosphere, engaging storyline and lots of challenging puzzles to solve.
Forever Lost features an innovative in-game camera which allows you to take pictures of clues and locations. You can even write on the photos to help you remember things.
Requirements:
? iOS 4.3 or later
? Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad
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Thursday, June 20, 2013
Lifesaver? BMW helps drive new automated car-to-car and car-to ...
The success of a recent mobility project could pave the way for new in-car and motorcycle safety technology that could help drivers avoid potential accidents a block away. ?
The technology, called Car-to-X communication, enables vehicles to directly communicate with one another as well as traffic infrastructure such as traffic light signals using a wireless LAN or mobile network connections.
The project, known as simTD (Safe and Intelligent Mobility ? Test Field Germany), involved four years of research by Car-to-X as part of a joint venture with companies from the automotive, motorcycle, ?telecoms and research sectors.
BMW engineers developed two driver assistance systems based on Car-to-X communication for the project ? the Cross Traffic Assistant and the Traffic Sign Assistant, according to an official press release.
The Cross Traffic Assistant relies on shared data among vehicles on the basis of received data concerning road users in the area, warning drivers and riders of potential hazards such as stopped congested traffic, vehicles entering intersections, roadway obstructions (especially pertinent for motorcyclists), red lights and more. Watch BMW?s numerous videos here.
?The system evaluates all incoming data, such as the speed, distance from the intersection and direction of travel of other road users, along with information generated by the driver?s own vehicle. If the driver does not react to an intersecting vehicle, he will be warned by visual as well as acoustic signals,? explains Dr Christoph Grote, Head of BMW Group Research and Technology, in a press release statement.
The Traffic Sign Assistant shares data relating to road and traffic situations, such as current speed limits or congestion warnings.
More than 120 test vehicles were used in the project in driving conditions in and around Frankfurt am Main including an analysis of roughly 4,000 crossings of intersections.
?The investigations proved that, with the current close-to-production positioning technology, the Cross Traffic Assistant function already has the potential to prevent many accidents at intersections,? says Grote.
The BMW Group was the only project partner to involve both cars and motorcycles in the field trial.
Other simTD project partners included Adam Opel AG, AUDI AG, Daimler AG, Ford Research Centre Aachen, Volkswagen AG to name a few.
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Food & Drink Blog ? Spicy Lime Grilled Shrimp - Food And Drink Buzz
This delicious dish will be ready in just half an hour.
Ingredients
Deveined and peeled shrimp of medium size ? 1 pound
Lime in the juice form ? 1
Vegetable oil for cooking ? 1 tablespoon
Cajun seasoning ? 3 tablespoons
Method:
- Take a plastic bag which is resealable. Within it, mix the lime juice, Cajun seasoning as well as the vegetable oil very well.
- Now, add the shrimp to this mixture and mix well so that each shrimp is properly coated with the mixture.
- After that remove the surplus air from the bag by squeezing it and seal it properly.
- Keep the bag in the refrigerator for at least 20 minutes.
- Now take an outdoor grill and preheat it on medium temperature. Coat the grate with a little oil.
- Take the bag containing marinated shrimp out from the refrigerator and take the shrimp out from the bag.
- Shake the shrimp well in order to remove excess marinade.
- Now put the shrimp on the grill and cook it for about 2 minutes till the outside of each becomes bright pink. Then flip the other side and cook for another 2 minutes.
- Your spicy grilled shrimp with lime juice is ready to serve.
Source: http://www.foodanddrinkbuzz.com/recipes/spicy-lime-grilled-shrimp.html
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North America reclaims crown as home to the most ... - Financial Post
North America reclaimed the top spot with the most millionaires last year as the world?s ultra-rich led the way in raising global wealth to a record high, according to a report by Cap Gemini SA and Royal Bank of Canada.
People in North America with at least US$1-million in investable assets climbed 11.5% to 3.73 million in 2012, regaining the No. 1 ranking after being overtaken in 2011 by the Asia-Pacific region, according to Tuesday?s 17th annual World Wealth Report. High-net-worth individuals in Asia-Pacific increased 9.4% to 3.68 million.
The combined wealth of the world?s millionaires rose 10% to a record US$46.2-trillion last year, after declining 1.7% in 2011. North America remained the richest region with US$12.7-trillion of high-net-worth assets, compared with US$12-trillion in Asia-Pacific, according to the study.
?North America?s lead in both population and wealth is likely to be eclipsed again in future by Asia-Pacific,? Jean Lassignardie, chief sales and marketing officer for Paris-based Capgemini Global Financial Services, said in a statement. Asia-Pacific?s total wealth increased 12.2%, outpacing North America?s 11.7% growth, he said.
The increase in global wealth was led by the super-rich, those with at least US$30-million to invest, whose assets and numbers rose by about 11% following declines in 2011, according to the report. A global recovery in stock markets and real estate fuelled the increase, the study found.
Latin America
The MSCI AC World Index, which tracks global stocks in developed and emerging markets, climbed 13% in 2012 and the MSCI AC Asia Pacific Index jumped 14%.
All regions had strong gains in high-net-worth populations and wealth except Latin America, which faltered amid slow economic growth and ?challenged? equity markets, according to the report.
The population of millionaires worldwide rose 9.2% to 12 million, according to the report.
Global wealth will grow at 6.5% annually over the next three years, led by the 9.8% increase from the Asia- Pacific region, the report shows.
The dominant source of wealth for the world?s richest people is from entrepreneurship rather than inheritance, according to a separate report Monday by London-based Barclays Plc. Wealth is being created twice as quickly in developing regions such as Asia-Pacific and Africa, where it took rich people an average of 12 years and 16 years, respectively, to accumulate their assets, the Barclays study found.
Cautious Wealthy
A Pew Research Center study in April found that while the U.S. economy has recovered for households with net worth of US$500,000 or more, the recession continues for almost everyone else. Wealthy U.S. households boosted their net worth by about 21% between 2009 and 2011 as the rest of America lost 4.9% of household wealth during that period, the Pew study found.
The world?s affluent remained cautious in 2012, with a focus on preserving assets, according to the report from Capgemini and Royal Bank?s RBC Wealth Management unit, which surveyed more than 4,400 high-net-worth individuals. A third were primarily focused on preserving wealth, while 26% sought to increase assets. Almost 30% of high-net-worth wealth was held in cash and deposits, the report found.
?Despite a marked focus on capital preservation and high cash allocations, high-net-worth individuals achieved a record level of wealth in 2012, suggesting further growth lies ahead if trust and confidence in the markets increases further,? George Lewis, group head of RBC Wealth Management and RBC Insurance, said in the statement.
Asset Allocations
Millionaires in the Middle East and Africa were the most focused on wealth accumulation, with about 42% making asset growth a priority compared with 33 percent seeking preservation, the study found.
North America?s wealthy held most of their assets in equities, at 37%, while those in Latin America and Asia- Pacific, excluding Japan, preferred property. Latin America?s rich had 30% of their portfolios in real estate, compared with 25% for Asia-Pacific. Millionaires in Europe favoured cash and real estate, allocating 27% to each.
Capgemini and RBC Wealth Management compiled data from 71 countries accounting for 98 percent of global gross national income. Toronto-based RBC Wealth Management manages more than $369-billion for customers globally.
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Vdio, The TV & Movie Streaming Service From Rdio, Launches To Public
Vdio, the video streaming service which launched into public beta this April as a complement to Rdio's subscription music service, is today becoming available to all. Earlier, the service was available for preview in the U.S. and U.K., but only to those who were already paying Rdio Premium or Unlimited customers.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/lVgH5nVMZnI/
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Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Storytelling program helps change medical students' perspectives on dementia
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Treating patients with dementia can be viewed as a difficult task for doctors, but Penn State College of Medicine researchers say that storytelling may be one way to improve medical students' perceptions of people affected by the condition. Participation in a creative storytelling program called TimeSlips creates a substantial improvement in student attitudes.
Daniel George, assistant professor of humanities, tested the effects of the TimeSlips program in an elective course he teaches at the college. Fourth-year medical students worked with patients at Country Meadows, a Hershey-based assisted living community. These patients are affected by advanced dementia and live in a memory-support unit requiring a locked environment.
Medical students commonly perceive persons with dementia as being challenging to work with.
"We currently lack effective drugs for dementia, and there's a sense that these are cases where students can't do much to benefit the patient," George said. "The perception is that they're hard to extract information from, you don't know if that information is reliable, and there are often other complicated medical issues to deal with."
TimeSlips is a non-pharmacological approach to dementia care that uses creative storytelling in a group setting and encourages participants to use their imagination rather than focusing on their inability to remember chronologically. Pictures with a staged, surreal image --for example, an elephant sitting on a park bench -- are shared with all participants, who are encouraged to share their impressions of what is happening in the picture. As part of George's elective, medical students spent one month facilitating TimeSlips with groups of five to 10 residents and helping the residents build stories in poem form during their interactions.
"All comments made during a session -- even ones that do not necessarily make logical sense -- are validated and put into the poem because it is an attempt to express meaning," George said. "The sessions become energetic and lively as the residents are able to communicate imaginatively, in a less linear way. In the process, students come to see dementia differently. It is very humanizing, revealing personality and remaining strengths where our culture tends to just focus on disease, decline and loss."
Student attitudes were measured before and after the TimeSlips experience using a validated instrument called the Dementia Attitudes Scale. A significant improvement in overall attitude was observed over the course of the program, and students also demonstrated significant increases on sub-scales measuring comfort with people with dementia and knowledge about interacting with and treating these patients. Results were reported in the journal Academic Medicine.
"In talking with my students, they consistently express their anxieties about medical school training them to see patients as a diagnosis rather than as a fully-fledged person," George said. "An activity like TimeSlips, which emphasizes the creative spirit in people with fairly advanced dementia, helps give students a richer sense of who the person was and what made them tick."
At Penn State College of Medicine, which emphasizes the humanities in medical care and established the first Department of Humanities at a medical school in the nation, George hopes to expand TimeSlips volunteer opportunities to include all medical students and not exclusively fourth-year students. By reaching students earlier in their education and exposing them to a creative activity involving people with dementia, he hopes that TimeSlips could help nudge more trainees into geriatric medicine.
"As the incidence of dementia-related conditions is rising globally, the demand for high-quality, humanistic geriatric care is becoming more urgent," George said.
There has already been an effort to extend TimeSlips volunteer opportunities to nurses, faculty, staff and patients.
"Several patients from our hospital, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, have already begun taking part in the program," he said. "Even though they are experiencing their own illnesses, they are able to find purpose in helping another vulnerable population through creative storytelling."
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Co-authors of the study are Heather Stuckey, assistant professor, Department of Medicine, and Megan Whitehead, research assistant, Department of Humanities, both of Penn State College of Medicine.
George has volunteered on an advisory board for Timeslips with no financial stake in the project. No funding was provided for this study.
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Treating patients with dementia can be viewed as a difficult task for doctors, but Penn State College of Medicine researchers say that storytelling may be one way to improve medical students' perceptions of people affected by the condition. Participation in a creative storytelling program called TimeSlips creates a substantial improvement in student attitudes.
Daniel George, assistant professor of humanities, tested the effects of the TimeSlips program in an elective course he teaches at the college. Fourth-year medical students worked with patients at Country Meadows, a Hershey-based assisted living community. These patients are affected by advanced dementia and live in a memory-support unit requiring a locked environment.
Medical students commonly perceive persons with dementia as being challenging to work with.
"We currently lack effective drugs for dementia, and there's a sense that these are cases where students can't do much to benefit the patient," George said. "The perception is that they're hard to extract information from, you don't know if that information is reliable, and there are often other complicated medical issues to deal with."
TimeSlips is a non-pharmacological approach to dementia care that uses creative storytelling in a group setting and encourages participants to use their imagination rather than focusing on their inability to remember chronologically. Pictures with a staged, surreal image --for example, an elephant sitting on a park bench -- are shared with all participants, who are encouraged to share their impressions of what is happening in the picture. As part of George's elective, medical students spent one month facilitating TimeSlips with groups of five to 10 residents and helping the residents build stories in poem form during their interactions.
"All comments made during a session -- even ones that do not necessarily make logical sense -- are validated and put into the poem because it is an attempt to express meaning," George said. "The sessions become energetic and lively as the residents are able to communicate imaginatively, in a less linear way. In the process, students come to see dementia differently. It is very humanizing, revealing personality and remaining strengths where our culture tends to just focus on disease, decline and loss."
Student attitudes were measured before and after the TimeSlips experience using a validated instrument called the Dementia Attitudes Scale. A significant improvement in overall attitude was observed over the course of the program, and students also demonstrated significant increases on sub-scales measuring comfort with people with dementia and knowledge about interacting with and treating these patients. Results were reported in the journal Academic Medicine.
"In talking with my students, they consistently express their anxieties about medical school training them to see patients as a diagnosis rather than as a fully-fledged person," George said. "An activity like TimeSlips, which emphasizes the creative spirit in people with fairly advanced dementia, helps give students a richer sense of who the person was and what made them tick."
At Penn State College of Medicine, which emphasizes the humanities in medical care and established the first Department of Humanities at a medical school in the nation, George hopes to expand TimeSlips volunteer opportunities to include all medical students and not exclusively fourth-year students. By reaching students earlier in their education and exposing them to a creative activity involving people with dementia, he hopes that TimeSlips could help nudge more trainees into geriatric medicine.
"As the incidence of dementia-related conditions is rising globally, the demand for high-quality, humanistic geriatric care is becoming more urgent," George said.
There has already been an effort to extend TimeSlips volunteer opportunities to nurses, faculty, staff and patients.
"Several patients from our hospital, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, have already begun taking part in the program," he said. "Even though they are experiencing their own illnesses, they are able to find purpose in helping another vulnerable population through creative storytelling."
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Co-authors of the study are Heather Stuckey, assistant professor, Department of Medicine, and Megan Whitehead, research assistant, Department of Humanities, both of Penn State College of Medicine.
George has volunteered on an advisory board for Timeslips with no financial stake in the project. No funding was provided for this study.
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Court: Ariz. citizenship proof law illegal
WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Supreme Court ruled Monday that states cannot require would-be voters to prove they are U.S. citizens before using a federal registration system designed to make signing up easier.
The justices voted 7-2 to throw out Arizona's voter-approved requirement that prospective voters document their U.S. citizenship in order to use a registration form produced under the federal "Motor Voter" voter registration law.
Federal law "precludes Arizona from requiring a federal form applicant to submit information beyond that required by the form itself," Justice Antonia Scalia wrote for the court's majority.
The court was considering the legality of Arizona's requirement that prospective voters document their U.S. citizenship in order to use a registration form produced under the federal "motor voter" registration law. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said that the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, which doesn't require such documentation, trumps Arizona's Proposition 200 passed in 2004.
Arizona appealed that decision to the Supreme Court.
The case focuses on Arizona, which has tangled frequently with the federal government over immigration issues involving the Mexican border. But it has broader implications because four other states ? Alabama, Georgia, Kansas and Tennessee ? have similar requirements, and 12 other states are contemplating such legislation.
Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented from the court's ruling.
The Constitution "authorizes states to determine the qualifications of voters in federal elections, which necessarily includes the related power to determine whether those qualifications are satisfied," Thomas said in his dissent.
Opponents of Arizona's law see it as an attack on vulnerable voter groups such as minorities, immigrants and the elderly. They say they've counted more than 31,000 potentially legal voters in Arizona who easily could have registered before Proposition 200 but were blocked initially by the law in the 20 months after it passed in 2004. They say about 20 percent of those thwarted were Latino.
But Arizona officials say they should be able to pass laws to stop illegal immigrants and other noncitizens from getting on their voting rolls. The Arizona voting law was part of a package that also denied some government benefits to illegal immigrants and required Arizonans to show identification before voting.
The federal "motor voter" law, enacted in 1993 to expand voter registration, requires states to offer voter registration when a resident applies for a driver's license or certain benefits. Another provision of that law ? the one at issue before the court ? requires states to allow would-be voters to fill out mail-in registration cards and swear they are citizens under penalty of perjury, but it doesn't require them to show proof. Under Proposition 200, Arizona officials require an Arizona driver's license issued after 1996, a U.S. birth certificate, a passport or other similar document, or the state will reject the federal registration application form.
Arizona can ask the federal government to include the extra documents as a state-specific requirement, Scalia said, and take any decision made by the government on that request back to court.
The case is 12-71, Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc.
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/court-ariz-citizenship-proof-law-illegal-143112344.html
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Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Owner: Joe's team now
It was an eventful weekend at PFT headquarters.? Among several other developments I won?t bore you with here (in part because one of them served as the official annual reminder of my eventual demise), I learned that I?m the devil.
Yes, according to Terrell Owens, I am Satan.
In fairness, Owens didn?t single me out specifically.? He used a broad brush, calling the entire website Satan.? But since it?s my website, I?ll gladly wear the hooves.
It?s unclear why T.O. is upset.? The Friday item from MDS regarding T.O.?s recent Bruce-Willis-at-the-end-of-The-Sixth-Sense-style realization that it?s over didn?t take any shots at Owens, other than to point out the obvious fact that he continues to deal with a reputation for being a bad teammate. Which is hardly breaking news.
And my follow-up regarding Owens? current eligibility for the Hall of Fame in 2016 points out that he?ll inevitably make it.? But I also mentioned that the way he conducted himself could slow him down by a year or two.? (Many of you disagreed with me, amazingly finding Owens unworthy of Canton.? He definitely should be there.)
A day later, Owens took to Twitter with this inspiring message:? ?I have the victory in the name of Jesus.? Satan (@ProFootballTalk) is under my feet.? I am not moved by adverse circumstances.?
It was humorous, but also typical or T.O. and thus, ultimately, a little sad.? The man who perfected the art of externalizing blame still continues to do so.
Never is anything his fault, except when he sees the potential benefit of swallowing a small chunk of his pride and admitting he has made mistakes as part of a last-ditch effort to continue his career.
Somehow, the media has poisoned every NFL General Manager into thinking that Owens is unfit for employment.? Yes, his absence from an NFL roster at a time when there are nearly 2,900 available spots have nothing to do with Owens? age or his declining skills or his attitude or his history.? He has been involuntarily exiled for two full seasons and counting because of all the things that demons like us have written and said about him.
My knee-jerk response came on Twitter, with a link to one of my favorite TV scenes of all time. ?Peter King of SI.com was intrigued by T.O.?s allegation, possibly since King has to deal with me on Sundays during football season.? (He now knows not to accept any apples I may offer him.)? So Peter asked for a more detailed response, which he published today.
?I realize Terrell is frustrated about the fact that no one is interested in giving him a roster spot,? I told King.? ?If my willingness to point that out or to analyze the possible reasons for it or to mention some of the many ill-advised things he has done throughout his career for which he since has expressed remorse makes me the devil, then give me my pitchfork and feel free to play ring toss on either or both of my horns.?
Actually, I should have said this:? ?Like my boy tells me:? ?If it looks like a devil and smells like a devil, by golly, it is a devil.??
So, yes, in the mind of Terrell Owens, I am the devil.? Which means that this is hell.
Welcome.? And don?t worry, it?ll only feel like an eternity.
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Monday, June 10, 2013
Victims of Saddam-era gas attack seek French probe
PARIS (AP) ? Twenty victims of Saddam Hussein's 1988 chemical weapons attack on the Kurdish town of Halabja, requested a judicial investigation of French suppliers on Monday, saying executives knew what they were sending to the Iraqi dictator and bore some responsibility.
An Iraqi official said the case serves as a warning to anyone who may still try to sell chemicals to tyrants, touching on a central concern in Syria's civil war.
The March 1988 attacks in Halabja, Iraq, which killed up to 5,000 people, marked the deadliest chemical weapons attack against civilians. Saddam ordered the poison gas strikes to crush a Kurdish rebellion in the north, which was seen as aiding Iran in the final months of its war with Iraq.
Kamil Abdulqadir Wais Mohammed, who was 14 at the time, said his father and five sisters died in the gas attack. He himself was left with about 20 percent lung capacity, he said at a news conference after filing the complaint. He and others who fled Halabja were blinded as they ran away, recovering their eyesight only months later. He described hearing the sounds of chaos around him ? even after he finally reached help, he said, he could still hear bombs hitting his city.
"There are hundreds of people who are still suffering from the attacks," he said. "Their health is deteriorating, their medicine is running out."
Gavriel Mairone, a lawyer for the group that filed the complaint in France, said those who survived the attack continue to suffer health problems and are demanding the companies that knowingly supplied Saddam with the raw materials and equipment needed for chemical weapons take responsibility. Among other things, the victims want a health clinic and advanced medical care, he said.
The complaint names no specific companies, and Mairone said he first hopes an investigating judge will agree to open the case to allow for more specifics. The attorney said he expects to file additional cases in Germany, the U.S., Holland and potentially elsewhere.
Mairone said it took 25 years to file the complaint because of the difficulty in documenting the cases first while Saddam was still alive and then in the chaos of post-war Iraq.
Many Kurds harbor aspirations of one day forming an independent country, and remembering Saddam's ruthless Anfal campaign ? of which Halabja was just a part ? has become a part of the national identity.
In April, a Dutch court ordered a businessman convicted of selling Saddam raw materials for mustard gas to pay compensation to Halabja victims. That victory was largely symbolic because the broker is in prison and believed to be destitute. Mairone said the companies involved "know who they are" and called on them to take responsibility.
The minister of the Kurdish regional government's Martyrs and Anfal Victims Affairs Ministry, Sabah Ahmed Mohammed, said lawsuits like that being pursued in France act as a deterrent. He said Kurdish authorities offer some financial help to victims but do not provide regular pensions.
In January 2010, Saddam's notorious cousin Ali Hassan al-Majid was convicted for his role in gassing some 5,000 people in Halabja ? the fourth death sentence handed down against the man known as "Chemical Ali" for crimes against humanity.
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Associated Press writers Mohammed Jambaz in Irbil, Iraq, and Adam Schreck in Baghdad contributed.
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/victims-saddam-era-gas-attack-seek-french-probe-122846366.html
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Cooking a pot of beans
Bean are as comforting as they are simple. And sometimes that's the best kind of meal you can prepare for your family.
A simple meal is pinto beans over rice (or roasted potatoes or corn bread) with condiments such as, shredded cheese and cabbage, salsa, finely chopped onions and peppers, chopped kale, hot sauce, crushed tortilla chips, sometimes a fried egg.
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I told her I'd been wanting to cry about the devastation in Oklahoma, and then the I-5 bridge in Washington collapsed. Yancey and I both cross that bridge several times a week, and we'd been on it the day before.?
I won't be scared to cross bridges in the future or scared to drive. But I am thinking about the fragility and unpredictability of life. I'm thinking about the illusion of control I love to nurture and how much comfort I take in my plans.?
And then I hear Jack Kornfield saying:
"The unawakened mind tends to make war against the way things are."
Things are messy, unclear, unfair. They're unpredictable and often beautiful. Things are sad, violent, and hard. They're also heartbreakingly tender and full of possibility. And the challenge for all of us (especially for my orderly self) is to accept what is. Our home has not been devastated by a tornado, but our commutes to work south of us may be increased by several hours a day for a year until the bridge gets fixed. My spiritual director said, "What if you think of the bridge collapse as the collapse of your ideas about God and yourself that aren't working for you anymore?"?
I've found I haven't had bandwidth this week for much beyond daily tasks and feeling sad. I haven't felt motivated to blow through my to-do list or start anything new. Instinctively, I knew this week was a "pot of beans" week. When I dumped the pinto beans into a bowl to soak, just the sound of them falling out of the jar was comforting. I know exactly what to do with them, I know my family will be nourished for days, and I know we'll be able to devote our energies to things other than cooking for awhile.
If you've been reading this blog for any length of time, you know my attachment to dried beans. I'm a huge fan and seem to have endless energy for cooking them and advocating for them. I always come across folks who need an introduction, though. They've never cooked them before and are unsure how those hard little legumes become soft and flavorful. So I thought I'd stop saying, "Oh, just soak 'em and boil 'em" and give a little more instruction. (I love you "measure-twice-cut-once" folks. I'm not one of you.)
The most common way my family eats beans is pinto beans over rice (or roasted potatoes or corn bread) with condiments ? shredded cheese and cabbage, salsa, finely chopped onions and peppers, chopped kale, hot sauce, crushed tortilla chips, sometimes a fried egg. I set all the condiments in the middle of the table, and we each do it our own way. Wyatt mixes his rice and beans together, then adds salsa and sometimes cheese. Loretta keeps her rice and beans separate and puts hoisin sauce on her rice. Yancey and I take a lot of vegetables and keep the whole bowl layered. And we'll eat this for several nights in a row until the beans are gone. My kids have never tired of it.
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