morphing betwixt: May 2013

Saturday, May 25, 2013

Fidelity 401(k) client account average balances hit $80,900 ...

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Friday, May 24, 2013

World stocks mixed ahead of Fed chief testimony

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/world-stocks-mixed-ahead-fed-chief-testimony-093425564.html

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Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Measles surges in UK years after vaccine scare

LONDON (AP) ? More than a decade ago, British parents refused to give measles shots to at least a million children because of a vaccine scare that raised the specter of autism. Now, health officials are scrambling to catch up and stop a growing epidemic of the contagious disease.

This year, the U.K. has had more than 1,200 cases of measles, after a record number of nearly 2,000 cases last year. The country once recorded only several dozen cases every year. It now ranks second in Europe, behind only Romania.

Last month, emergency vaccination clinics were held every weekend in Wales, the epicenter of the outbreak. Immunization drives have also started elsewhere in the country, with officials aiming to reach 1 million children aged 10 to 16.

"This is the legacy of the Wakefield scare," said Dr. David Elliman, spokesman for the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, referring to a paper published in 1998 by Andrew Wakefield and colleagues.

That work suggested a link between autism and the combined childhood vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella, called the MMR. Several large scientific studies failed to find any connection, the theory was rejected by at least a dozen major U.K. medical groups and the paper was eventually retracted by the journal that published it. Britain's top medical board stripped Wakefield of the right to practise medicine in the U.K., ruling that he and two of his colleagues showed a "callous disregard" for the children in the study. Wakefield took blood samples from children at his son's birthday party, paying them about 5 pounds each ($7.60) and later joked about the incident.

Still, MMR immunization rates plummeted across the U.K. as fearful parents abandoned the vaccine ? from rates over 90 percent to 54 percent. Wakefield has won support from parents suspicious of vaccines, including Hollywood celebrities like Jenny McCarthy, who has an autistic son.

Nearly 15 years later, the rumors about MMR are still having an impact. Now there's "this group of older children who have never been immunized who are a large pool of infections," Elliman said.

The majority of those getting sick in the U.K. ? including a significant number of older children and teens ? had never been vaccinated. Almost 20 of the more than 100 seriously ill children have been hospitalized and 15 have suffered complications including pneumonia and meningitis. One adult with measles has died, though it's unclear if it was the disease that killed him.

The first measles vaccines were introduced in the 1960s, which dramatically cut cases of the rash-causing illness. Since 2001, measles deaths have dropped by about 70 percent worldwide; Cambodia recently marked more than a year without a single case.

Globally, though, measles is still one of the leading causes of death in children under 5 and kills more than 150,000 people every year, mostly in developing countries. Measles is highly contagious and is spread by coughing, sneezing and close personal contact with infected people; symptoms include a fever, cough, and a rash on the face.

Across the U.K., about 90 percent of children under 5 are vaccinated against measles and have received the necessary two doses of the vaccine. But among children now aged 10 to 16, the vaccination rate is slightly below 50 percent in some regions.

To stop measles outbreaks, more than 95 percent of children need to be fully immunized. In some parts of the U.K., the rate is still below 80 percent.

Unlike in the United States, where most states require children to be vaccinated against measles before starting school, no such regulations exist in Britain. Parents are advised to have their children immunized, but Britain's Department of Health said it had no plans to consider introducing mandatory vaccination.

Last year, there were 55 reported cases of measles in the United States, where the measles vaccination rate is above 90 percent. So far this year, there have been 22 cases, including three that were traced to Britain. In previous years, the U.K. has sometimes exported more cases of measles to the U.S. than some countries in Africa.

Portia Ncube, a health worker at an East London clinic, said the struggle to convince parents to get the MMR shot is being helped by the measles epidemic in Wales.

"They see what's happening in Wales, so some of them are now sensible enough to come in and get their children vaccinated," she said.

Clinic patient Ellen Christensen, mother of an infant son, acknowledged she had previously had some "irrational qualms" about the MMR vaccine.

"But after reading more about it, I know now that immunization is not only good for your own child, it's good for everyone," she said.

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Online:

Public Health England's Measles website:

http://www.hpa.org.uk/Topics/InfectiousDiseases/InfectionsAZ/Measles/

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AP Medical Writer Mike Stobbe in New York contributed to this report.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/measles-surges-uk-years-vaccine-scare-100011003.html

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Saturday, May 18, 2013

Electric and magnetic characteristics of a material which could be used in spintronics: Promising doped zirconia

May 17, 2013 ? Materials belonging to the family of dilute magnetic oxides (DMOs) -- an oxide-based variant of the dilute magnetic semiconductors -- are good candidates for spintronics applications. This is the object of study for Davide Sangalli of the Microelectronics and Microsystems Institute (IMM) at the National Research Council (CNR), in Agrate Brianza, Italy, and colleagues.

They recently explored the effect of iron (Fe) doping on thin films of a material called zirconia (ZrO₂ oxide). For the first time, the authors bridged the gap between the theoretical predictions and the experimental measurements of this material, in a paper about to be published in The European Physical Journal B.

Spintronics exploit an intrinsic property of the electrons found in semi-conductors called spin, akin to the electrons' degree of freedom. This determines the magnetic characteristics, known as magnetic moment, of the material under study. The challenge is to create such material with the highest possible temperature, as this will ensure that its magnetic properties can be used in room-temperature applications.

To study iron-doped zirconia, they examined its magnetic properties and its electronic structure from both a theoretical and experimental perspective. They then compared theory and experiments to find the most stable configuration of the material. Theoretical work included first-principles simulations. In parallel, their experimental work relied on many different well-established analytical techniques, including X-ray diffraction, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, transmission electron microscopy, and alternating gradient force magnetometer measurements.

Sangalli and colleagues therefore gained a better understanding of doped zirconia, which features oxygen vacancies, playing a crucial role in providing its unique electronic and magnetic characteristics. They have also predicted theoretically how the deviation from the standard structure influences this material's properties. They are currently investigating, experimentally, how the magnetism evolves with changing concentrations of iron and oxygen vacancies to confirm theoretical predictions.

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Davide Sangalli, Elena Cianci, Alessio Lamperti, Roberta Ciprian, Franca Albertini, Francesca Casoli, Pierpaolo Lupo, Lucia Nasi, Marco Campanini, Alberto Debernardi. Exploiting magnetic properties of Fe doping in zirconia. The European Physical Journal B, 2013; 86 (5) DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2013-30669-3

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Movie review: Games with words get tense 'In the House' | The Salt ...

"In the House" ? Fabrice Lucchini plays a writing teacher who's impressed by the work of a student, in Francois Ozon's sexually charged drama.Cohen Media Group

Review ? Thriller plays on tension between fact, fiction.

French director Fran?ois Ozon?s latest, the insidiously creepy domestic thriller "In the House," ties knots in your stomach as it walks its characters through a moral swamp of truth and fantasy.

Mr. Germain (Fabrice Luchini) teaches writing and French literature in a Paris high school, where years of lackluster students and esteem-boosting educational theories have left him jaded. He shares his frustration with his wife, Jeanne (Kristen Scott Thomas), an art gallery manager worried that her gallery?s new twin-sister owners (both played by Yolande Moreau) are too provincial to approve of her sexually frank artists. Ozon?s inclusion of a sexual blow-up doll with Hitler?s face is, presumably, a commentary on artistic overreach, or something.

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?In the House?

A writing teacher takes a student under his wing, but the story that emerges spells trouble for them both, in this sharp French thriller.

Where ? Broadway Centre Cinemas.

When ? Opens Friday, May 17.

Rating ? R for sexual content and language.

Running time ? 105 minutes; in French with subtitles.

Emerging from this sea of mediocrity is Claude Garcia (Ernst Umhauer), a student who not only does his assignments but seems to show a creative spark. In his writing, Claude details how he has befriended a classmate, Rapha (Bastien Ughetto), and insinuated himself in Rapha?s home ? where Rapha?s dad (Denis M?nochet) talks about his ego-deflating sales job, and where Rapha?s still-hot mom (Emmanuelle Seigner) pores over decorating magazines and dreams of a home makeover.

Germain warns Claude about writing mockingly about his classmates, but still finds Claude?s story compelling enough to tutor him through more chapters. But the lines ? between student and teacher, between writer and subject, and between documentation and fabrication ? all become blurry.

Ozon, adapting a Juan Mayorga play, generates maximum tension by burrowing into the deepening t?te-?-t?te between Germain and Claude, in which manipulation and rule-breaking threaten to undo them both. Claude?s depiction of the middle-class paradise of Rapha?s house, and the student?s growing attraction to Rapha?s mom, is intercut with wicked asides from Germain, who enters the scene like a ghostly critic.

The only fault of "In the House" is the ending. Germain tells Claude that a good ending is one that the reader (or viewer) doesn?t see coming, but then can?t see how it could have gone any other way. Alas, Ozon fails to achieve that, with a finale that?s muddled and a bit out of left field.

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Justin Bieber, Frank Ocean To Duke It Out At O Music Awards

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis and Tyler, the Creator are also nominated at the fourth annual awards show.
By Emily Blake

Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1707441/o-music-awards-2013-nominations.jhtml

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Friday, May 17, 2013

Cambodian shoe factory collapse kills 2, injures 7

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) ? The ceiling of a Cambodian factory that makes Asics sneakers collapsed on workers early Thursday, killing two people and injuring seven, in the latest accident to spotlight lax safety conditions in the global garment industry.

About 50 workers were inside the factory south of Phnom Penh, the capital, when the ceiling caved in, said police officer Khem Pannara. He said heavy iron equipment stored on the floor above appeared to have caused the collapse.

Two bodies were pulled from the wreckage and seven people were injured, he said. Rescuers combed through rubble for several hours and after clearing the site said that nobody else was trapped inside.

At a clinic where she was being treated for her injuries, worker Kong Thary cried on the telephone as she recounted the collapse.

"We were working normally and suddenly several pieces of brick and iron started falling on us," the 25-year-old said.

An initial investigation showed the ceiling that collapsed was poorly built and lacked the proper building materials to support heavy weight, said Ou Sam Oun, governor of Kampong Speu province, where the factory was located.

Chea Muny, chief of a trade union for factory workers, identified the factory as a Taiwanese-owned operation called Wing Star that produces sneakers for Asics, a Japanese sportswear label. He said shoes made at the factory were imported to the United States and Europe.

An Asics spokeswoman in Tokyo confirmed the factory was in contract to make Asics running shoes. She said Asics was trying to determine what happened.

"We understand that some people have died, so first we offer our condolences," said spokeswoman Masayo Hasegawa in Tokyo. She said she did not have information on the last time the building structure had been inspected but added, "We want the highest priority to be placed on saving lives."

The factory complex, which opened about a year ago, consists of several buildings and employs about 7,000 people, said Pannara, the police officer. The structure where the collapse occurred was mainly used as a storage warehouse for shoe-production equipment but had a small work area for about two dozen people, Chea Muny said.

The garment industry is Cambodia's biggest export earner, employing about 500,000 people in more than 500 garment and shoe factories. In 2012, the southeast Asian country shipped more than $4 billion worth of products to the United States and Europe.

The accident comes about three weeks after a building collapse in Bangladesh killed 1,127 people in the global garment industry's deadliest disaster.

"This shows that the problem is not only isolated to Bangladesh, and that companies (elsewhere) are trying to drive prices down by taking shortcuts on workers' safety," said Phil Robertson of Human Rights Watch.

Last month, the U.N.'s labor office released a report that called for "urgent attention" to worker safety violations in the Cambodian garment and footwear industry.

The report by the International Labor Organization found "a worrying increase in fire safety violations," including that only 57 percent of factories kept paths free of obstructions. It reported "unacceptable" heat levels, abuse of overtime hours and a lack of worker access to drinking water.

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AP writers Jocelyn Gecker in Bangkok and Malcolm J. Foster in Tokyo contributed to this report.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/cambodian-shoe-factory-collapse-kills-2-injures-7-042837834.html

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Thursday, May 16, 2013

Patience & Persistence when it comes to diet, exercise & health

I felt?I needed to address a problem that I see more and more in my practice.? People? you have to know, understand and accept that getting healthy takes patience and persistence.? Bottom line is you didn?t get to where you are overnight, nor will you recover overnight. There is no pill to swallow to suddenly make you healthy nor does simply making the decision to get healthy make you healthy overnight, BUT it?s a huge first step.

The first issue?is a lack of persistence.? Usually I see people who either go all in, cold turkey, all or nothing and fail because who can sustain that kind of pressure?? Or, I see people who start trying to say eliminate?food from a box or gluten.? It gets uncomfortable for them.? You actually have to think outside of?the box for lunch if you eliminate boxes and bread. People don?t like to be uncomfortable. Problem is it?s in this uncomfortable place that real change, growth and healing happens. I?ve heard Yogis say, Yoga begins when the pose gets hard.? Your job is to breath and hold the pose.? You see, for change to occur you have to get comfortable with being uncomfortable.? It is the only way to change, grow and heal. The same example goes for exercise.? I either try to?get people to join group fitness (your best option), get a trainer or follow?an at home workout circuit. It?s like pulling teeth to get people to stick to it.? If you aren?t used to working out or you are trying a new kind of workout, you get uncomfortable and quit.? Is there a learning curve to a new sport or activity? Yes.? Are you going to be sore if you try something new? Of course. That is no reason to quit.

So whether it?s exercise or food, change is hard.? You have to get ok with being uncomfortable and frustrated on occasion.? It is the only way to change and get healthy. You have to have persistence to push through the uncomfortable bits.? They will get easier.? A month from now or a year from now, you will wonder what you were complaining about!

The second problem I see is lack of patience.? You didn?t get to your current state in a week, a month or even a year ago, so why do you think it should take a week to find your way back to health?

I have had patients who have come for acupuncture who have previously been seeing a variety of western doctors for years to no avail.? They give me 1-2 weeks to ?cure? them. Really?? You have had?a chronic condition for 6 years and you want it gone in 2 weeks?? You need to be patient.

I have had patients who come in on a dozen different medications. Usually I see a combination of blood pressure, diabetes, pain, cholesterol and anxiety meds.? Some have been amazingly dedicated to changing their lives.? They want the freedom to live a long happy drug free life.? We work on changing diet, stress levels and exercise.? It is a slow process.? They make huge strides over 6 months to a year. Yet, they get chronically disappointed that they aren?t ?there? yet.? I can?t emphasize enough that you have to see, acknowledge and reward those small victories along the way.? Feel pride in what you have accomplished.? It is a long road on the return to health. Just because you are not where you ?want? to be doesn?t mean you are failing.

Be proud and persist and you will get there. Problem is that when you get ?there? you will have learned so much that your destination will have changed. You see, people assume they know what they need to know to be healthy, but you should never stop learning and in that your destination will be ever changing, and that?s ok.? Enjoy the journey, the learning and the healing.? Never give up, but celebrate and reward the progress that you make along the way.

Small changes lead to revolutionary health changes. Never forget it. And? as Maya Angelou says, when you know better, you do better.

Share your struggles and success below in the comments.? You might just inspire someone on the verge!

Source: http://www.acupunctureinwestchase.com/blog/index.php/2013/05/patience-persistance/

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Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Paralysed British men fight right-to-die case in court

By Estelle Shirbon

LONDON (Reuters) - Two paralysed British men who want to die but cannot kill themselves went to court on Monday seeking protection from prosecution for those who could help them end their lives.

The case is one of the most high-profile attempts to change the law on the right to die in Britain, where assisted suicide is illegal.

"I'm constantly thinking, 'how on Earth can I do it without getting someone into trouble?'" said Paul Lamb, who was left paralysed by a car accident in 1990.

"I just want my wishes to be respected, that's all I want," Lamb, 57, told reporters outside the courtroom.

He is immobile except for limited movement in his right hand, requires 24-hour care and is constantly on morphine to relieve pain.

Judge Igor Judge, speaking at the start of the hearing in the Court of Appeal, said he was aware of the men's "desperate situation" and he was sympathetic.

"But they must surely know that we cannot decide this case as a matter of personal sympathy. We have to decide it as a point of law."

Lamb was in court in his wheelchair as the judge spoke.

The other man, named only as Martin, is a 48-year-old who was left unable to speak or move after a stroke four years ago. He can communicate only through movements of the head and eyes.

"It is their experience that their life has become unbearable," said Paul Bowen, a lawyer representing Lamb.

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The details of the two men's cases are different, but in essence both are seeking help from the courts in ensuring that anyone who helps them to die will not be prosecuted.

Bowen cited a report to parliament last year that concluded that British law in the area of assisted dying was "inadequate, incoherent and should not continue".

The issue of whether or not to decriminalise assisted suicide for people whose lives are unbearable to them is a matter of debate in many countries.

Right-to-die advocates say people capable of making that decision should be allowed to die with dignity. Opponents say liberalising the law could leave vulnerable people at risk.

Switzerland and the U.S. states of Oregon, Washington and Montana are among places where some forms of euthanasia or assisted suicide are legal under certain circumstances.

By coincidence, Monday's court hearing started two days before a bill is due to be presented to the British parliament that would legalise assisted suicide in certain circumstances.

But Bowen said that even if that bill were to become law at some point, it would not be enough for Lamb.

Lamb's case was originally brought by a man with locked-in syndrome, Tony Nicklinson. A court dismissed both Nicklinson's and Martin's cases last August on the grounds that it was for parliament and not for a court to change the law in this area.

After being told the court's decision on August 14, Nicklinson refused food and medication and died on August 22.

Lamb, who was not involved at that stage, has since been allowed to take up the legal battle where Nicklinson left off.

(estelle.shirbon@thomsonreuters.com, +44 207 542 7947)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/paralysed-british-men-fight-die-case-court-142508632.html

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Email Deliverability Ninja Trick - ShoeMoney Internet Marketing Blog

Email deliverability is a lot like SEO. Actually measuring results it is even worse. Some people still believe stats like opens and clicks are an indicator? thats a shame.

In Email you are totally guessing unless you use something like our?Spamguard system. We are the only company to quantify our email deliverability but its not like we are doing anything revolutionary. Any email platform could do it? but they know the results would not be pretty. Those guys believe its much better to leave you in the dark thinking your clicks and opens is what matters. Not actually getting into the inbox.

But I digress?

One thing everyone can agree on that has a major factor is getting someone to add your contact information to their address book.

Lemme explain quick what this is for those who don?t know. Everyone has a list of contacts or ?address book? in your email program. Whenever you email someone they are automatically added to that address book. People who are in your address book will override any sort of spam filter and from our experience if you have someone added to your address book then you will receive 100% of their emails.

In the Mass Email Deployment Industry this has always been the holy grail. Spammers have been coming up with unique ways hack in or manipulate systems to get their spam domains and accounts added to users address books so they can drastically increase revenue.

But lets take this to a legit company.?Like one of our clients. How do we get customers to add their email address without doing anything shady?

We simply get them to reply to an email. Thats it? And you want to get them to do it right away. ?Because when I write all the email copy for you I start to build a relationship. ?But when the copy gets more salesy and could trip spam filters that is when we are already added to the contact list and bypass those.

Here are 2 simple tricks you can do:

Double Opt In ? instead of making them click on a link just have them reply to the email.
Offer a discount ? After you welcome them to your list offer them a discount if they just reply to the email and keep the subject intact.

There are a lot of other ways but those are 2 ways everyone here should be able to implement right away 100% automated programatically. I am sure your email provider will be able to do this for you at no charge. If not maybe its time you get on board with a?enterprise level platform?that works intimately with your company and really helps you grow in more ways then just email marketing.