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Friday, August 31, 2012
Canada housing market supported by fundamentals -CMHC
| The Canadian government?s housing agency signaled on Wednesday that it is not concerned about a housing bubble forming, declaring that the market is supported by fundamentals. |
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Researchers Land $1.6 Million Grant to Study Ear Infections ...
Ear infections are a common childhood episode, painful for the patient and worrisome for parents. But most people don't realize how damaging they can be for some young people, leading to permanent hearing loss.
The Medical College of Wisconsin and Children?s Hospital of Wisconsin Research Institute in Wauwatosa have received a five-year, $1.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study will investigate ear infections and explore potential new treatments.
The grant comes through the NIH's National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders.
The principal investigator for the grant study will be Joseph E. Kerschner, professor of otolaryngology and communication sciences, dean of the medical school and executive vice president of the Medical College, otolaryngologist at Children?s Hospital, and researcher at the Research Institute.
Infections of the middle ear are the most frequent diagnosis in pediatric patients in the United States, affecting more than 90 percent of all children by age 5.
They are also the most common cause of hearing loss in young children, which can lead to speech, language, educational and other developmental delays. Treatment in the United States consumes more than 30 million clinical visits each year and more than $5 billion in health care expenditures.?
Kerschner's study will investigate mucins, which are fluids that build up behind the eardrums in some children following ear infections, causing hearing loss.?? Using clinical specimens, animal models and cellular models, molecular techniques will be used to better understand how mucins form in children with chronic ear infections.?
Kerschner is collaborating with the Center for Genomic Sciences in Pittsburgh on the project. Additional collaborators in Kerschner?s laboratory at MCW include Wenzhou Hong, assistant professor of otolaryngology; Pippa Simpson, professor and director of quantitative health sciences; Kristina Keppel, pediatric otolaryngologist at Children?s Hospital; P.J. Khampang, research associate; and Christy Erbe, lab manager.
This research will advance knowledge of this disease toward the long-term goal of developing new therapies to treat ear infections and prevent them from causing hearing loss and other serious complications.
About the Medical College of Wisconsin
The Medical College of Wisconsin is the state?s only private medical school and health sciences graduate school. Founded in 1893, it is dedicated to leadership and excellence in education, patient care, research and service. More than 1,200 students are enrolled in the Medical College?s medical school and graduate school programs.
A major national research center, it is the largest research institution in the Milwaukee metro area and second largest in Wisconsin. In FY 2010?11, faculty received more than $175 million in external support for research, teaching, training and related purposes, of which more than $161 million is for research. This total includes highly competitive research and training awards from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Annually, College faculty direct or collaborate on more than 2,200 research studies, including clinical trials. Additionally, more than 1,350 physicians provide care in virtually every specialty of medicine for more than 400,000 patients annually.
About Children?s Hospital of Wisconsin
Children?s Hospital of Wisconsin is the region?s only independent health care system dedicated solely to the health and well-being of children. The hospital, with locations in Milwaukee and Neenah, Wis. is recognized as one of the leading pediatric health care centers in the United States.
Children?s Hospital provides primary care, specialty care, urgent care, emergency care, community health services, foster and adoption services, child and family counseling, child advocacy services and family resource centers. In 2010, Children?s Hospital invested more than $105 million in the community to improve the health status of children through medical care, advocacy, education and pediatric medical research.
Children?s Hospital achieves its mission in part through donations from individuals, corporations and foundations and is proud to be a Children?s Miracle Network Hospital. For more information, visit the website at chw.org.
Source: http://wauwatosa.patch.com/articles/medical-college-researcher-lands-1-6-million-nih-grant
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Thursday, August 30, 2012
'Nanoresonators' might improve cell phone performance
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Researchers have learned how to mass produce tiny mechanical devices that could help cell phone users avoid the nuisance of dropped calls and slow downloads. The devices are designed to ease congestion over the airwaves to improve the performance of cell phones and other portable devices.
"There is not enough radio spectrum to account for everybody's handheld portable device," said Jeffrey Rhoads, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Purdue University.
The overcrowding results in dropped calls, busy signals, degraded call quality and slower downloads. To counter the problem, industry is trying to build systems that operate with more sharply defined channels so that more of them can fit within the available bandwidth.
"To do that you need more precise filters for cell phones and other radio devices, systems that reject noise and allow signals only near a given frequency to pass," said Saeed Mohammadi, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering who is working with Rhoads, doctoral student Hossein Pajouhi and other researchers.
The Purdue team has created devices called nanoelectromechanical resonators, which contain a tiny beam of silicon that vibrates when voltage is applied. Researchers have shown that the new devices are produced with a nearly 100 percent yield, meaning nearly all of the devices created on silicon wafers were found to function properly.
"We are not inventing a new technology, we are making them using a process that's amenable to large-scale fabrication, which overcomes one of the biggest obstacles to the widespread commercial use of these devices," Rhoads said.
Findings are detailed in a research paper appearing online in the journal IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology. The paper was written by doctoral students Lin Yu and Pajouhi, Rhoads, Mohammadi and graduate student Molly Nelis.
In addition to their use as future cell phone filters, such nanoresonators also could be used for advanced chemical and biological sensors in medical and homeland-defense applications and possibly as components in computers and electronics.
The devices are created using silicon-on-insulator, or SOI, fabrication -- the same method used by industry to manufacture other electronic devices. Because SOI is compatible with complementary metaloxidesemiconductor technology, or CMOS, another mainstay of electronics manufacturing used to manufacture computer chips, the resonators can be readily integrated into electronic circuits and systems.
The resonators are in a class of devices called nanoelectromechanical systems, or NEMS.
The new device is said to be "highly tunable," which means it could enable researchers to overcome manufacturing inconsistencies that are common in nanoscale devices.
"Because of manufacturing differences, no two nanoscale devices perform the same rolling off of the assembly line," Rhoads said. "You must be able to tune them after processing, which we can do with these devices."
The heart of the device is a silicon beam attached at two ends. The beam is about two microns long and 130 nanometers wide, or about 1,000 times thinner than a human hair. The beam vibrates in the center like a jump rope. Applying alternating current to the beam causes it to selectively vibrate side-to-side or up and down and also allows the beam to be finely adjusted, or tuned.
The nanoresonators were shown to control their vibration frequencies better than other resonators. The devices might replace electronic parts to achieve higher performance and lower power consumption.
"A vivid example is a tunable filter," Mohammadi said. "It is very difficult to make a good tunable filter with transistors, inductors, and other electronic components, but a simple nanomechanical resonator can do the job with much better performance and at a fraction of the power."
Not only are they more efficient than their electronic counterparts, he said, but they also are more compact.
"Because the devices are tiny and the fabrication has almost a 100 percent yield, we can pack millions of these devices in a small chip if we need to," Mohammadi said. "It's too early to know exactly how these will find application in computing, but since we can make these tiny mechanical devices as easily as transistors, we should be able to mix and match them with each other and also with transistors in order to achieve specific functions. Not only can you put them side-by-side with standard computer and electronic chips, but they tend to work with near 100 percent reliability."
The new resonators could provide higher performance than previous MEMS, or microelectromechanical systems.
In sensing application, the design enables researchers to precisely measure the frequency of the vibrating beam, which changes when a particle lands on it. Analyzing this frequency change, allows researchers to measure minute masses. Similar sensors are now used to research fundamental scientific questions. However, recent advances may allow for reliable sensing with portable devices, opening up a range of potential applications, Rhoads said.
Such sensors have promise in detecting and measuring constituents such as certain proteins or DNA for biological testing in liquids, gases and the air, and the NEMS might find applications in breath analyzers, industrial and food processing, national security and defense, and food and water quality monitoring.
"The smaller your system the smaller the mass you can measure," Rhoads said. "Most of the field-deployable sensors we've seen in the past have been based on microscale technologies, so this would be hundreds or thousands of times smaller, meaning we should eventually be able to measure things that much smaller."
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The work is based at the Dynamic Analysis of Micro- and Nanosystems Laboratory at the Birck Nanotechnology Center in Purdue's Discovery Park. Other faculty members and graduate students also use the specialized facility. The researchers have filed a patent application for the concept. The research is funded by the National Science Foundation.
Writer: Emil Venere, 765-494-4709, venere@purdue.edu
Source: Jeffrey Rhoads, 765-494-5630, jfrhoads@purdue.edu Saeed Mohammadi, 765-494-3557, saeedm@purdue.edu
Related Web site:
Jeffrey Rhoads: https://engineering.purdue.edu/ME/People/ptProfile?id=34218
Saeed Mohammadi: https://engineering.purdue.edu/ECE/People/profile?resource_id=3246
PHOTO CAPTION:
This image from a scanning electron microscope shows a tiny mechanical device, an electrostatically-actuated nanoresonator, that might ease congestion over the airwaves to improve the performance of cell phones and other portable devices. (Purdue University image)
A publication-quality photo is available at http://news.uns.purdue.edu/images/+2009/rhoads-nems.jpg
ABSTRACT
Tunable, Dual-Gate, Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) Nanoelectromechanical Resonators
Lin Yu, Hossein Pajouhi, Molly R. Nelis, Jeffrey F. Rhoads, and Saeed Mohammadi, Senior Member, IEEE
Resonant nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) have the potential to have significant impact in mass sensing, signal processing and field detection applications, if the challenges associated with processing, material and geometric variability can be mitigated. The research presented here details a breakthrough in the design and development of resonant NEMS aimed at addressing these challenges. Specifically, the work details the fabrication, characterization, and tuning of dual-gate silicon nanoelectromechanical resonators, which are transduced electrostatically and realized with close to 100% yield. These devices are fabricated on a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrate using only top-down microfabrication techniques and can be easily integrated with SOI-CMOS transistors, enabling the development of fully integrated CMOS-NEMS with highly-tunable nonlinear frequency response characteristics.
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Share ] Contact: Emil Venere
venere@purdue.edu
765-494-4709
Purdue University
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Researchers have learned how to mass produce tiny mechanical devices that could help cell phone users avoid the nuisance of dropped calls and slow downloads. The devices are designed to ease congestion over the airwaves to improve the performance of cell phones and other portable devices.
"There is not enough radio spectrum to account for everybody's handheld portable device," said Jeffrey Rhoads, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Purdue University.
The overcrowding results in dropped calls, busy signals, degraded call quality and slower downloads. To counter the problem, industry is trying to build systems that operate with more sharply defined channels so that more of them can fit within the available bandwidth.
"To do that you need more precise filters for cell phones and other radio devices, systems that reject noise and allow signals only near a given frequency to pass," said Saeed Mohammadi, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering who is working with Rhoads, doctoral student Hossein Pajouhi and other researchers.
The Purdue team has created devices called nanoelectromechanical resonators, which contain a tiny beam of silicon that vibrates when voltage is applied. Researchers have shown that the new devices are produced with a nearly 100 percent yield, meaning nearly all of the devices created on silicon wafers were found to function properly.
"We are not inventing a new technology, we are making them using a process that's amenable to large-scale fabrication, which overcomes one of the biggest obstacles to the widespread commercial use of these devices," Rhoads said.
Findings are detailed in a research paper appearing online in the journal IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology. The paper was written by doctoral students Lin Yu and Pajouhi, Rhoads, Mohammadi and graduate student Molly Nelis.
In addition to their use as future cell phone filters, such nanoresonators also could be used for advanced chemical and biological sensors in medical and homeland-defense applications and possibly as components in computers and electronics.
The devices are created using silicon-on-insulator, or SOI, fabrication -- the same method used by industry to manufacture other electronic devices. Because SOI is compatible with complementary metaloxidesemiconductor technology, or CMOS, another mainstay of electronics manufacturing used to manufacture computer chips, the resonators can be readily integrated into electronic circuits and systems.
The resonators are in a class of devices called nanoelectromechanical systems, or NEMS.
The new device is said to be "highly tunable," which means it could enable researchers to overcome manufacturing inconsistencies that are common in nanoscale devices.
"Because of manufacturing differences, no two nanoscale devices perform the same rolling off of the assembly line," Rhoads said. "You must be able to tune them after processing, which we can do with these devices."
The heart of the device is a silicon beam attached at two ends. The beam is about two microns long and 130 nanometers wide, or about 1,000 times thinner than a human hair. The beam vibrates in the center like a jump rope. Applying alternating current to the beam causes it to selectively vibrate side-to-side or up and down and also allows the beam to be finely adjusted, or tuned.
The nanoresonators were shown to control their vibration frequencies better than other resonators. The devices might replace electronic parts to achieve higher performance and lower power consumption.
"A vivid example is a tunable filter," Mohammadi said. "It is very difficult to make a good tunable filter with transistors, inductors, and other electronic components, but a simple nanomechanical resonator can do the job with much better performance and at a fraction of the power."
Not only are they more efficient than their electronic counterparts, he said, but they also are more compact.
"Because the devices are tiny and the fabrication has almost a 100 percent yield, we can pack millions of these devices in a small chip if we need to," Mohammadi said. "It's too early to know exactly how these will find application in computing, but since we can make these tiny mechanical devices as easily as transistors, we should be able to mix and match them with each other and also with transistors in order to achieve specific functions. Not only can you put them side-by-side with standard computer and electronic chips, but they tend to work with near 100 percent reliability."
The new resonators could provide higher performance than previous MEMS, or microelectromechanical systems.
In sensing application, the design enables researchers to precisely measure the frequency of the vibrating beam, which changes when a particle lands on it. Analyzing this frequency change, allows researchers to measure minute masses. Similar sensors are now used to research fundamental scientific questions. However, recent advances may allow for reliable sensing with portable devices, opening up a range of potential applications, Rhoads said.
Such sensors have promise in detecting and measuring constituents such as certain proteins or DNA for biological testing in liquids, gases and the air, and the NEMS might find applications in breath analyzers, industrial and food processing, national security and defense, and food and water quality monitoring.
"The smaller your system the smaller the mass you can measure," Rhoads said. "Most of the field-deployable sensors we've seen in the past have been based on microscale technologies, so this would be hundreds or thousands of times smaller, meaning we should eventually be able to measure things that much smaller."
###
The work is based at the Dynamic Analysis of Micro- and Nanosystems Laboratory at the Birck Nanotechnology Center in Purdue's Discovery Park. Other faculty members and graduate students also use the specialized facility. The researchers have filed a patent application for the concept. The research is funded by the National Science Foundation.
Writer: Emil Venere, 765-494-4709, venere@purdue.edu
Source: Jeffrey Rhoads, 765-494-5630, jfrhoads@purdue.edu Saeed Mohammadi, 765-494-3557, saeedm@purdue.edu
Related Web site:
Jeffrey Rhoads: https://engineering.purdue.edu/ME/People/ptProfile?id=34218
Saeed Mohammadi: https://engineering.purdue.edu/ECE/People/profile?resource_id=3246
PHOTO CAPTION:
This image from a scanning electron microscope shows a tiny mechanical device, an electrostatically-actuated nanoresonator, that might ease congestion over the airwaves to improve the performance of cell phones and other portable devices. (Purdue University image)
A publication-quality photo is available at http://news.uns.purdue.edu/images/+2009/rhoads-nems.jpg
ABSTRACT
Tunable, Dual-Gate, Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) Nanoelectromechanical Resonators
Lin Yu, Hossein Pajouhi, Molly R. Nelis, Jeffrey F. Rhoads, and Saeed Mohammadi, Senior Member, IEEE
Resonant nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) have the potential to have significant impact in mass sensing, signal processing and field detection applications, if the challenges associated with processing, material and geometric variability can be mitigated. The research presented here details a breakthrough in the design and development of resonant NEMS aimed at addressing these challenges. Specifically, the work details the fabrication, characterization, and tuning of dual-gate silicon nanoelectromechanical resonators, which are transduced electrostatically and realized with close to 100% yield. These devices are fabricated on a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrate using only top-down microfabrication techniques and can be easily integrated with SOI-CMOS transistors, enabling the development of fully integrated CMOS-NEMS with highly-tunable nonlinear frequency response characteristics.
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Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Oprah Winfrey Is Hollywood's Highest-Paid Celebrity
For the fourth year in a row, Oprah Winfrey is the highest-paid celebrity in Hollywood. The real question is whether she can hold that title for a fifth year, though.
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Felix Sturm and Daniel Geale Press Conference ? Boxing News
WBA middleweight super champion Felix Sturm and IBF middleweight super champion Daniel Geale were present at a press conference for their title unification bout, which will be taking place coming Saturday at the KoenigPilsener-Arena in Oberhausen, Germany.
Contrary to the usual, Sturm and Geale were quite respectful towards each other. When asked about the showdown, Sturm revealed he had been dreaming about it for years and it is finally here.
?I?ve been dreaming about this fight for many, many years,? said Sturm.
?Now I?m here and my dream is coming true. I will do my best to impose my tactics on him and make him pay for his mistakes. He is a great fighter but I?m quite sure that I?ll win on Saturday night.?
On the other hand, Geale was more relaxed and not as much excited.
?I love fighting over here,? said Geale, ?(Strum) He is one of the best fighters in the world but I?m sure that I can and will beat him.?
Most of the time, both fighters were calm until Sturm was asked about Arthur Abraham, who recently grabbed the WBO super-middleweight title from Robert Stieglitz.
?He fought the worst of the titleholders at 168,? said Sturm for Abraham. ?As soon as he will fight another top guy, he will lose again. They are using my name to get attention but I don?t care, I know I?m the better fighter. Besides, I don?t believe he would fight me anytime soon.?
Furthermore, Sturm added that his mind is set on fighting Geale but he admitted that if offered the chance, he would fight Abraham any day.
For now, Sturm and Geale are excited for the Saturday night title unification showdown. Both fighters are at their best right now. Sturm stands with 37 wins, 2 losses and 2 ties in his portfolio, whereas Daniel Geale stands with 27 wins, 1 loss and 0 ties in his portfolio.
Sturm believes the fight is going to be exciting and enthralling for fans. He is hopeful of winning the showdown, as he wants to be the one to unite the titles.
Source: http://blogs.bettor.com/Felix-Sturm-and-Daniel-Geale-Press-Conference-Boxing-News-a183171
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Tuesday, August 28, 2012
US home prices post first 12-month gain since '10
FILE-This June 13, 2012, file photo, shows a house for sale in San Diego. US home prices rose in all major US cities in June, further evidence of housing rebound. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)
FILE-This June 13, 2012, file photo, shows a house for sale in San Diego. US home prices rose in all major US cities in June, further evidence of housing rebound. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? U.S. home prices rose in June from the same month last year, the first year-over-year increase since the summer of 2010. The increase is the latest evidence of a nascent recovery in the housing market.
The Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller home price index released Tuesday showed a gain of 0.5 percent from June 2011.
The last time the year-over-year index increased was in September 2010. For much of that 12-month period, the government was offering a home-buying tax credit.
The report also showed that all 20 cities tracked by the index rose in June from May, the second consecutive time in which every city posted month-over-month gains. And all but two cities posted stronger gains in June than May.
Detroit, Minneapolis, Chicago and Atlanta recorded the biggest one-month gains.
"The combined positive news coming from both monthly and annual rates of change in home prices bode well for the housing market," said David Blitzer, chairman of the S&P's index committee.
Jonathan Basile, an economist with Credit Suisse, said improving home prices should boost home sales further in the coming months.
"Persistent news of rising house prices should start convincing prospective home sellers that it's not just a buyers' market," Basile said. "And when Americans become more comfortable with selling their home, they also become more comfortable with buying another one."
The S&P/Case-Shiller monthly index covers roughly half of U.S. homes. It measures prices compared with those in January 2000 and creates a three-month moving average. The June figures are the latest available.
The increases partly reflect the impact of seasonal buying. The month-to-month prices aren't adjusted for seasonal factors.
Still, a measure of national prices rose for the third straight month. Home prices jumped nearly 7 percent in the April-June quarter compared to the previous quarter.
The housing market is making a modest but steady recovery in part because homes are more affordable: Mortgage rates have fallen to near-record lows. Housing prices are about one-third lower than at the peak of the housing bubble in 2006. Those trends have helped lift sales of both new and previously occupied homes.
Sales of previously occupied homes increased in July from June, the National Association of Realtors said last week. Sales have jumped 10 percent in the past year.
Builders are growing more confident after seeing more traffic from potential buyers. Last month they applied for the largest number of building permits in nearly four years last month.
The housing market has a long way to go to reach a full recovery. Some economists forecast that sales of previously occupied homes will rise 8 percent this year to about 4.6 million. That's still well below the 5.5 million annual sales pace that is considered healthy.
Sales have been held back by a low supply of homes on the market and tight credit standards, economists said. Many would-be buyers are having trouble qualifying for loans or can't afford larger down payments being required by banks. A Federal Reserve report last month showed that many banks tightened their mortgage credit standards this summer.
Still, the housing market is steadily improving and is poised to contribute to economic growth this year. Modest economic growth and job gains are encouraging more Americans to buy homes.
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SOCIAL MEDIA GAINS REAL HEADWAY IN COMMERCIAL REAL ...
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At Marketing Through Graphics we are seeing the trend firsthand in the marketing and design work we do for the commercial real estate industry. More and more, clients have looked? for our assistance in creating and managing their social media content. Call Peter Burke, who heads up MTG Social, to speak in greater detail about ways in which we can help you.
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Monday, August 27, 2012
Breast Reduction Procedure To enhance Posture : : Critical Care 2011
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US stocks modestly higher as investors look to Fed
NEW YORK (AP) ? U.S. stocks nosed higher in quiet trading Monday, with many traders still on summer vacation and investors waiting for signals from the Federal Reserve about help for the economy.
All three major stock indexes were up, but only slightly. Trading volume was light, typical for August.
Investors were looking ahead to Friday, when Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke speaks in Jackson Hole, Wyo. Investors will look for clues about whether the Fed will buy government bonds or take other action to speed the economic recovery.
In the absence of major economic developments, investors have been hanging on the chairman's every word. On Monday, with no Fed news, Apple played an outsized role in the market's performance.
Apple was up after a California court on Friday ruled that South Korea-based Samsung had copied some of the features and designs of Apple's iPhone and iPad. Apple stock rose $14.18, or 2.1 percent, to $677.40.
Earlier in the day, the stock hit $680.87, an all-time high. Last week, Apple became the biggest company in U.S. history by market value. It makes up more than 13 percent of the Nasdaq composite index, and 4.4 percent of the Standard & Poor's 500.
On Monday, the Nasdaq was up 11 points, or 0.4 percent, to 3,081. The S&P 500 was up four points, or 0.3 percent, to 1,415. The Dow Jones industrial average, which does not include Apple, languished. It was up five points, just 0.03 percent, to 13,163.
"The market is kind of on hold until Jackson Hole," said Randy Warren, chief investment officer of Warren Financial Service outside Philadelphia. "Probably Apple is the only thing that's moving the market today. It's stunning, how big they are."
Many investors are still on vacation until after Labor Day, and the ones who aren't have had to scrounge for developments to read the market.
With many European lawmakers on summer break, the debt crisis there has trudged along. The U.S. economy is sluggish, but not dramatically improving or worsening. China has shown signs of a slowdown, but not a recession.
Of 18 trading days this month, the Dow has moved more than 1 percent only once. On five days it has been virtually flat, moving less than one-tenth of a percentage point.
Still, reminders of the underlying strain in Europe were clear, even without any major developments.
Over the weekend, Germany's economy minister and finance minister both said they wouldn't give Greece a break on deadlines for adopting spending cuts that Germany has asked for.
On Monday, Germany's central bank head said that he opposed a bond-buying plan that could lower borrowing costs for countries like Spain and Italy but that would require Germany foot most of the bill.
French President Francois Hollande, usually a little more lenient with Greece, said Saturday that Greek leaders should be willing "to go all out" to meet the spending cuts and other obligations they agreed to for bailouts.
Bigger events lie ahead. German courts will decide next month whether Germany is constitutionally allowed to keep participating in bailouts. And an important debt report on Greece isn't due until late September at the earliest.
Shares of Hertz and Dollar Thrifty both rose after Hertz announced it would buy its rival. Hertz shares jumped 13 percent, or $1.64, to $14.79. Dollar Thrifty jumped $6, or 7.4 percent, to $87.
Best Buy, which has struggled to adapt its bricks-and-mortar stores to an online-shopping world, rose after announcing that the company's founder could pursue his plans to buy it.
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Mass murderer Anders Breivik jailed for 21 ... - World News Tomorrow
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WORLD NEWS TOMORROW ? MASSACRE monster Anders Breivik grinned as judges jailed him for 21 years for taking the lives of 77 people.Breivik, who admitted the killings, was declared sane by the court ? and told he must serve a minimum of only ten years.
The 21-year sentence is the maximum term that can be imposed in Norway but officials can prevent his release indefinitely and are expected to do so if he still poses a threat.? Breivik, 33, flashed a clenched-fist salute as he appeared in Oslo District Court to receive his judgment and smiled as it was read aloud.
Was Anders Breivik a MK Ultra project of the CIA ?
Wearing a dark suit and sporting a thin beard, the killer smirked as he walked in to the court room and raised his fist. Breivik, blew up the Oslo government headquarters with a fertiliser bomb, killing eight, before gunning down 69 at a summer youth camp.? Breivik had rejected prosecutors? arguments that he was mad, and had said he would appeal if he were ruled insane.
Judge Wenche Elizabeth Arntzen said: ?In a unanimous decision ? the court sentences the defendant to 21 years of preventive detention.??? If Breivik had been declared insane he could have been detained for life in a mental hospital.He will be kept in isolation inside Ila Prison on the outskirts of Oslo inside relatively spacious quarters that include a separate exercise room, a computer and a television.
People of the world wake up ! He murdered 77 people.? Whats going on here in Norwegian ? What is the Norwegian court hiding?
Criminal guilt was never an issue as Breivik acknowledged and described in horrific detail his murders.? He told the court that he did not recognize their authority as he pleaded not guilty to the massacre in Norway last July. He admitted he was behind the twin terror attacks but said that he carried them out in SELF-DEFENCE. His 10-week trial focused on his sanity, with prosecutors arguing he should be declared insane and held in a mental hospital, not jail.
Throughout proceedings he showed no emotion when the chilling details of his 77 victims? horrific injuries and deaths were read out. The court heard the racist maniac was a vain metrosexual who used make-up and modeled himself on David Beckham.
What is the Norwegian court hiding?
Source: http://www.worldnewstomorrow.com/?p=3018
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Refinery blast kills 39 in Venezuela, dozens hurt
A large fire rises over the Amuay refinery near Punto Fijo, Venezuela, Saturday, Aug. 25, 2012. A huge explosion rocked Venezuela's biggest oil refinery, killing at least 24 people and injuring dozens, an official said. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
A large fire rises over the Amuay refinery near Punto Fijo, Venezuela, Saturday, Aug. 25, 2012. A huge explosion rocked Venezuela's biggest oil refinery, killing at least 24 people and injuring dozens, an official said. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
Fire and smoke rise over the Amuay refinery near Punto Fijo, Venezuela, Saturday, Aug. 25, 2012. A huge explosion rocked Venezuela's biggest oil refinery, killing at least 24 people and injuring dozens, an official said. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
Members of the Cespedes's family stand on the street after they evacuated their house, while fire rises over the Amuay refinery near Punto Fijo, Venezuela, Saturday, Aug. 25, 2012. A huge explosion rocked Venezuela's biggest oil refinery, killing at least 24 people and injuring dozens, an official said. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
The Rojas family pack their belongings onto a truck as they evacuate their home located close to the Amuay refinery near Punto Fijo, Venezuela, Saturday, Aug. 25, 2012. A huge explosion rocked Venezuela's biggest oil refinery, killing at least 24 people and injuring dozens, an official said. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
A large fire rises over the Amuay refinery near Punto Fijo, Venezuela, Saturday, Aug. 25, 2012. A huge explosion rocked Venezuela's biggest oil refinery, killing at least 24 people and injuring dozens, an official said. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
PUNTO FIJO, Venezuela (AP) ? A huge explosion rocked Venezuela's biggest oil refinery and unleashed a ferocious fire on Saturday, killing at least 39 people and injuring more than 80 others in one of the deadliest disasters ever to hit the country's key oil industry.
Balls of fire rose over the Amuay refinery, among the largest in the world, in video posted on the Internet by people who were nearby at the time. Government officials pledged to restart the refinery within two days and said the country has plenty of fuel supplies on hand to meet domestic needs as well as its export commitments.
The explosion shattered walls of nearby shops, ripped out windows from homes and left the surrounding streets covered with rubble and twisted scraps of metal.
President Hugo Chavez declared three days of mourning and ordered an investigation to determine the cause of the explosion. "This affects all of us," Chavez said by phone on state television. "It's very sad, very painful."
Vice President Elias Jaua, who traveled to the area in western Venezuela, said on state television late Saturday that at least 39 people were killed by the explosion, up from the earlier death toll of 26. He said that the dead included 18 National Guard troops and that six of the bodies had not yet been identified. Other officials said earlier that the dead included a 10-year-old boy.
In a neighborhood next to the refinery, shopkeeper Yolimar Romero said she was at her computer when a shock wave swept over the area shortly after 1 a.m.
"At that instant, the whole house shook as if it were an earthquake," she said. "The windows went flying off with their frames and everything."
Electricity was knocked out, leaving Romero in the dark and her house filled with smoke. She found a flashlight and started looking for her husband and three children.
Outside on the street, the family saw scattered hunks of brick walls and ruins of a National Guard post and about 20 other homes. Bodies were being pulled from buildings down the street.
At least 86 people were injured, nine of them seriously, Health Minister Eugenia Sader said at a hospital where the wounded were taken. She said 77 people suffered light injuries and were released.
Flames reaching nearly 100 feet into the night air still crackled almost 20 hours after the explosion occurred, giving off searing heat felt by the residents of the neighborhood located approximately 1,000 feet from the refinery.
"This does not seem to be getting any better, I see and feel more and more flames," said Francisco Rojas, a 29-year-old taxi driver from the neighborhood as he loaded some of his belongings into a truck.
"I have a young daughter and my wife, and we don't want to take the risk of dying here," Rojas added.
Officials said firefighters had largely controlled the fire at the refinery on the Paraguana Peninsula, where flames were still visible on Saturday night after billowing dark smoke all day.
The blast occurred about 1:15 a.m. when a natural gas leak created a cloud that ignited, Oil Minister Rafael Ramirez said.
"That gas generated a cloud that later exploded and has caused fires in at least two tanks of the refinery and surrounding areas," Ramirez said.
Images shortly after the explosion showed the flames casting an orange glow against the night sky, and injured survivors on a stretcher and in a wheelchair. The bloodied bodies of victims were loaded onto pickup trucks.
Ramirez said a panel of investigators was being formed to determine the cause of the gas leak. A prosecutor was appointed to lead the investigation and troops were deployed to the area.
While the cause of the disaster remains unclear, some oil workers and critics of Chavez's government have recently pointed to increasing numbers of smaller accidents and spills as an indication of problems within the state-run company.
"We warned that something was going to happen, a catastrophic event," said Ivan Freites, secretary general of a 1,200-member union of oil and natural gas industry workers in Falcon state where the refinery is located. He spoke in a telephone interview from an area near the refinery, where he could see the flames raging in the distance.
The refinery complex's general manager, Jesus Luongo, denied that a lack of maintenance was to blame, saying in the past three years more than $6 billion has been invested in maintaining the country's refineries.
Ramirez said the explosion hit an area of storage tanks, damaging nine tanks.
"All of the events happened very quickly," Ramirez said. "When we got here in the middle of the night, at 3 or 3:30 in the morning, the fire was at its peak."
The oil minister said that supplies of fuel had been cut off to part of the refinery and that firefighters were using foam to extinguish the flames in one of the remaining tanks.
"This regrettable and sad event is controlled, is under control," Ramirez said on television, while plumes of smoke continued to billow.
Amuay is part of the Paraguana Refinery Complex, which also includes the adjacent Cardon refinery. Together, the two refineries process about 900,000 barrels of crude per day and 200,000 barrels of gasoline. Venezuela is a major supplier of oil to the U.S. and a member of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.
Ramirez said the state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela SA should be able to "restart operations in a maximum of two days."
"We want to tell the country that we have sufficient inventories of fuel. We have 10 days of inventory of fuel," Ramirez said. He said the country's other refineries were operating at full capacity and would be able to "deal with any situation in our domestic market."
An official of the state oil company, known as PDVSA, said the country also has enough supplies on hand to guarantee its international supply commitments. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to speak publicly about the matter.
In terms of international oil markets, the disaster is not likely to cause much of a ripple, said Jason Schenker, an energy analyst and president of Austin, Texas-based Prestige Economics LLC. Noting that other refinery accidents and shutdowns regularly occur around the world, he said: "There's likely to be relatively limited impact on global crude or product pricing."
"The real tragedy," he said, "is that these events continue to happen, not just in Venezuela but everywhere. It is a dangerous business."
Gustavo Coronel, an energy consultant and former PDVSA executive, called the tragedy "probably the worst one the oil industry has had in many years."
"Accidents happen, of course, although the problem with PDVSA is the inordinate amount of accidents that have taken place during the last years," Coronel said. Considering the overall record, "we are not talking about bad luck but about lack of maintenance and inept management," he said.
The labor leader Freites, who has worked at the refinery for 29 years, said workers had repeatedly alerted state oil company officials to problems that they feared could lead to an accident. "We've been complaining about problems and risks, including fires, broken pipes and a lack of spare parts," Freites said.
One opposition group comprised of former PDVSA employees, Gente del Petroleo, or Oil People, said it could not yet pass judgment on the cause of the explosion. But it but noted there had been ample concerns about lack of maintenance and poor management.
The group said in a statement that since 2003, 79 other serious accidents have been reported at the Paraguana Refinery Complex, collectively killing a total of 19 workers and injuring 67 others.
Opposition leader Henrique Capriles, who is challenging Chavez in the country's Oct. 7 presidential election, expressed condolences to the victims and their families.
"We Venezuelans are one, and we grow in the face of this type of situations," Capriles said.
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Jorge Rueda reported from Punto Fijo and Ian James reported from Caracas. Associated Press writers Christopher Toothaker and Fabiola Sanchez also contributed to this report from Caracas.
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Ian James on Twitter: http://twitter.com/ianjamesap
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Meditation May Help Fight Loneliness, Study Says - Health Nutrition ...
Researchers also looked at its effect on stress and inflammation in older adults.
By Maureen Salamon
HealthDay Reporter
FRIDAY, Aug. 24 (HealthDay News) ? A simple form of meditation can help stave off feelings of loneliness and may cut the body?s inflammatory response ? which can trigger serious illness ? to distressing emotions, a small new study suggests.
Researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles and Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh found that older adults who participated in an eight-week program of mindfulness-based stress reduction ? which attunes the mind to the present and avoids dwelling on the past or projecting into the future ? reported a reduced sense of loneliness on an established ratings scale. Blood tests also indicated a significant decrease in the expression of inflammation-related genes.
?I think meditation training can help [people] develop a new relationship to feelings of stress,? said study co-author J. David Creswell, director of the Health and Human Performance Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon. ?It puts a brake on this process ? and turns down the chronically stressed state people may be in, thereby turning down the pro-inflammatory cascade. I think it may be targeting the stress component of loneliness such that it doesn?t blow itself out of proportion.?
The study appeared online recently in the journal Brain, Behavior, and Immunity.
Previous research has linked feeling lonely to a heightened risk of heart disease, Alzheimer?s, depression and premature death, and higher levels of inflammation in the body may play a role. The study authors said the new research was the first to show that a psychological intervention that decreases loneliness also cut pro-inflammatory gene expression.
Forty adults (mostly women) between the ages of 55 and 85 were randomly assigned to either a mindfulness meditation group or a control group that didn?t meditate. At the beginning and end of the two-month study, all participants were assessed for their feelings of loneliness and blood levels of gene expression for inflammation markers.
The meditation group participated in weekly two-hour group sessions, a daylong retreat later in the study and 30 minutes of daily home mindfulness practice. Group sessions consisted of an instructor leading participants in guided mindfulness meditation exercises, yoga and stretching, and discussions designed to foster awareness of participants? moment-to-moment experiences.
The research provided additional clues as to how this form of meditation may affect the health of lonely older adults, the study authors said, although it did not assess whether the reduction in pro-inflammatory gene expression translated into meaningful differences on disease outcomes.
?It didn?t measure inflammation directly and didn?t really tell you whether their bodies are producing any more or less inflammation,? said Dr. Jeremy Koppel, a geriatric psychiatrist and research scientist at Zucker Hillside Hospital in Glen Oaks, N.Y., and the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research in Manhasset, N.Y. But, ?the study is suggestive of a very interesting and novel approach to the problem of loneliness ? and broadens the potential benefit to other diseases of late life.?
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Sch?uble wary of Irish debt plan
irishtimes.com - Last Updated: Friday, August 24, 2012, 06:46
DEREK SCALLY in Berlin
Germany has said it will oppose any Irish debt-relief proposal it believes sends a negative signal to financial markets.
Finance minister Wolfgang Sch?uble has said Ireland?s ?massive? reform progress should not be compromised by anything that would halt the ?winning back of trust?.
His doubts pose a challenge to the Government, which expects a political agreement by October on relieving Ireland?s ?64 billion bank debt burden.
?We cannot do anything that generates new uncertainty on the financial markets and lose trust, which Ireland is just at the point of winning back,? said Mr Sch?uble in an interview with The Irish Times.
?Naturally we want to help each other but I am not yet convinced, by any means, that some of the measures which are mentioned would not have the opposite effect.?
Irish Government officials begin a tour of European capitals next week to discuss technical details of debt relief. Those talks now face the added hurdle of the public doubts of the EU largest member.
EU leaders meeting in June, as part of agreement on support for Spanish banks, promised to look again at technical measures to ?further improve the sustainability? of the Irish programme.
Taoiseach Enda Kenny said the final arrangement would amount to a re-engineering of Ireland?s bank debt deal and ?lessen the debt burden on our people?.
To win support, officials will tell European partners in the coming weeks that lower bond yields at recent debt auctions indicate both market satisfaction at Ireland?s reforms to date, but also a market expectation of a debt deal in October.
Mr Sch?uble agreed lower interest rates showed markets were honouring Irish reform efforts. But there was a risk, he said, that markets would take a negative view of the need for further funding for Ireland.
?We will have to avoid generating a headline like ?Aid programme for Ireland topped up?, because then investors in California or Shanghai might not understand that this top- up is a reward for Ireland, but might be tempted to conclude that what was agreed two years ago for Ireland was not enough. And that is surely not what we want.?
Irish officials insist leaders have committed to agreeing a political deal by October. One proposal would involve European bailout funds providing ?20 billion-?30 billion to take direct stakes in AIB, Bank of Ireland and Permanent TSB, and to replace expensive State-funded promissory notes in Anglo Irish Bank.
Any further funding for Ireland, from the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF), or its permanent successor the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), would require parliamentary approval in many countries. Opposition has been signalled in Finland, the Netherlands and Germany in the face of rising anti-bailout sentiment.
Mr Sch?uble dismissed the idea that, with a general election looming in Germany next year, it was in Berlin?s interest to support a deal for Ireland to retain market confidence .
?It?s not about the German federal elections,? he said.?We don?t want that Ireland does worse but that the winning back of trust continues. That is the measure of all decisions we will take.? He said a similar situation applied to Greece?s reform programme.
German leader Angela Merkel said she would tell her Greek counterpart Antonis Samaras in Berlin this morning that it was ?important that we all stay true to our commitments. ?But we will, and I will, encourage Greece to continue on its path to reform, which has demanded a lot of the Greek people,? she said.
French president Fran?ois Hollande, in Berlin for talks, said Greece?s euro zone future depended on ?Greeks making the effort? to meet reform commitments.
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