Monday, October 29, 2012

Opel restructuring talks could last into 2013: union

HAMBURG (Reuters) - General Motors' loss-making unit Opel may need between two and three more months to reach a deal with German unions on a restructuring plan that could see thousands of job cuts and the closure of its Bochum factory in 2017, a union spokeswoman said.

Management of Ruesselsheim-based Opel and workers had agreed on Friday to extend a previous October 26 deadline for the negotiations which are being conducted on the basis that all four German plants will be protected from closure through 2016.

This intention could be abandoned at any time though, depending on the course of the negotiations, the union spokeswoman told Reuters on Sunday, without being more specific. There's now no firm deadline on the talks, she added.

Opel has a signed contract with IG Metall that protects the four plants from closure through the end of 2014. Management had said in June that the Bochum plant, which employs 3,300 workers, was "broadly expected to be closed" once that deal expired.

GM's European operations have lost a total of $16 billion over the past dozen years despite repeated rounds of job cuts.

With Europe's car market tumbling, labor representatives at Opel are under increasing pressure to accept deep cuts, even more so after rival Ford's decision this week to close two assembly plants in Europe, reducing capacity by 355,000 vehicles and its local workforce by 13 percent.

One of IG Metall's key bargaining chips in the talks with Opel management has been that it agreed in June to let Opel defer payment of an industrywide 4.3 percent wage increase to its German workers until October 31. That has allowed Opel to hold on to more cash as it tries to return to profitability.

The union spokeswoman said on Sunday that both sides had agreed on Friday that employees would receive all backdated wages for May through October with the November pay cheque.

After that, the 4.3 percent pay raise will be deferred indefinitely, she said, noting that workers at Opel's German plants were notified of the plans at weekend gatherings.

(Reporting By Jan Schwartz; writing by Andreas Cremer; Editing by Hans-Juergen Peters)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/opel-restructuring-talks-could-last-2013-union-181209680--finance.html

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Friday, October 26, 2012

5 Top Things Baby Boomers Must Do Before Starting a Home Based ...

5 Top Things Baby Boomers Must Do Before Starting a Home Business

Don?t quit your day job just yet.If you are a baby boomer looking to start a home business, there are 5 essentials things you must do first.

Leaving the security of a job with an established 401(k) plan, health insurance or other benefits can create a real tug of war for baby boomers who want to pursue their dreams of owning their own business.

Analyze Your Exit Strategy

At the time of this writing, the youngest of the baby boomers are turning 42 and the oldest are turning 60. No matter where you fall into this group, analyzing and preparing your exit strategy from your job will be crucial to your long-term success as a home business entrepreneur. Do you have adequate savings? If you?re married, will you be able to participate in your spouse?s health insurance?

Create a Financial Plan

How much is your salary now? What are your fixed, variable and frivilous expenses? Creating a solid plan so that you and your family will know exactly what the financial picture will be until your business gets off the ground and starts generating revenue.

Choosing a Business Model and Legal Entity

There are several business models to choose from; home party plans, consulting, and affiliate marketing to name a few. You have to make the decision based on your personality and what you are best-suited for. Choosing a legal entity for your business should be discussed with a tax accountant or your attorney. Options are sole proprietor, LLC or Subchapter S- Corp.

Set Business Benchmarks

You wouldn?t travel across the country without a road map, your business is the same. Setting financial and business-building benchmarks will help you to create a focused plan that will help you to reach your success.


Get a Physical

What does getting a physical have to do with your business? Once you leave your job, most likely your health insurance will change and as unfair as it may be, trying to get new health insurance when in your 40?s, 50?s or 60?s can be difficult. While pursuing your dreams of a home business is something you are probably very passionate about, if you do not have good health to enjoy the rewards of your efforts, then not much else is important.

The baby boomer generation is like no other before it or after it. Technically, we are considered middle-aged, but we are anything but middle-aged in mind, body and spirit. We know there is more meaning to life than a commute to an unrewarding 9-5 job, but there are also important steps we must take first. Planning and preparing for your home business now will lead to less headache?s later on.

Source: http://www.cider-stassen.com/5-top-things-baby-boomers-must-do-before-starting-a-home-based-business.html

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Salk study finds diabetes raises levels of proteins linked to Alzheimer's features

Salk study finds diabetes raises levels of proteins linked to Alzheimer's features [ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 26-Oct-2012
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Mouse model may provide clues on mechanism linking diabetes and aging to Alzheimer's

Growing evidence suggests that there may be a link between diabetes and Alzheimer's disease, but the physiological mechanisms by which diabetes impacts brain function and cognition are not fully understood. In a new study published in Aging Cell, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies show, for the first time, that diabetes enhances the development of aging features that may underlie early pathological events in Alzheimer's.

Specifically, the Salk team found increases in two hallmarks of Alzheimer's-accumulations of amyloid beta (Abeta) and tau protein-in the brains of diabetic mice, especially in cells surrounding blood vessels. Abeta, the misfolded peptide that is thought in part to cause Alzheimer's disease, aggregated inside astrocytes, star-shaped brain cells that, upon interaction with Abeta, release inflammatory molecules that can destroy neurons. Previously, this had not been shown in mouse models of type 1 diabetes (T1D).

"Our study supports and extends the links between diabetes, aging and Alzheimer's," says senior author Pamela Maher, a senior staff scientist in Salk's Laboratory of Cellular Neurobiology. "We show that type 1 diabetes increases vascular-associated amyloid beta buildup in the brain and causes accelerated brain aging."

The findings suggest that the neurovascular system may be a good candidate for new therapeutic targets to treat Alzheimer's in the early stages of the disease.

Alzheimer's and diabetes are two diseases that are increasing at an alarming rate within the U.S. population. Alzheimer's affects one in 10 Americans over 65 years of age and nearly 50 percent of those over 85. Similarly, more than 8 percent of Americans (approximately 26 million people) have diabetes, with the vast majority of those individuals being over 60.

Maher says her team is uncertain of the precise mechanism behind the increase in Abeta and tau in the mouse brain, but their data suggest that changes in astrocytes, as well as other pro-inflammatory processes and the bonding of proteins with sugar molecules (called non-enzymatic glycation), may contribute.

"Astrocytes play a key role in maintaining nerve cells in the brain," says lead study author Antonio Currais, a postdoctoral researcher at Salk. "Both chronic peripheral inflammation and increased non-enzymatic glycation are associated with diabetes, and these changes may act on the brain to alter astrocyte function, which eventually leads to Alzheimer's-like changes."

All nerve cells are closely connected to blood vessels, as they need nutrients---- especially glucose (sugar) and oxygen---- provided by the blood in order to function. Astrocytes facilitate the transfer of nutrients between blood vessels and cells. The buildup of Abeta at sites where astrocytes interact with blood vessels suggest that this could impair the transfer of nutrients. The type of Abeta localization seen in Maher's mouse models is also found in human Alzheimer's patients

To examine the contributions of diabetes to Alzheimer's-related pathology in the aged brain, the Salk researchers induced T1D in two sets of mouse models. One set, known as SAMP8 mice, undergo accelerated aging and develop early deterioration in learning and memory, as well as a number of brain alterations similar to those found in Alzheimer's. The other set, SAMR1 mice, which in this study came from the same gene pool as the SAMP8 mice, age normally.

Using these mice, Maher and her colleagues addressed how T1D interacts with age to contribute to Alzheimer's-related pathology. They showed that T1D elicits a wide range of pathological changes in the brains of both strains of mice, which are exacerbated by premature aging.

The Salk study is the first to show that these modifications are similar to those seen in old nondiabetic SAMP8 mice and to identify unique pathological changes, such as increases in markers for inflammation, in aged, T1D SAMP8 mice. Unlike most mouse studies of Alzheimer's, Maher's mice were not engineered to produce high levels of human Abeta or tau,so all of their observations came from naturally occurringAbeta and tau.

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Other researchers on the study were Marguerite Prior and Professor David Schubert, from Salk's Laboratory for Cellular Neurobiology; David Lo, from Salk's Laboratory of Neuronal Structure and Function; and Corinne Jolivalt of the University of California, San Diego.

The work was supported by the National Institutes of Health, the Fritz B. Burns Foundation, the Bundy Foundation, Fundao para a Cincia e a Tecnologia and the Alzheimer's Association.



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Contact: Andy Hoang
AHoang@salk.edu
619-861-5811
Salk Institute

Mouse model may provide clues on mechanism linking diabetes and aging to Alzheimer's

Growing evidence suggests that there may be a link between diabetes and Alzheimer's disease, but the physiological mechanisms by which diabetes impacts brain function and cognition are not fully understood. In a new study published in Aging Cell, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies show, for the first time, that diabetes enhances the development of aging features that may underlie early pathological events in Alzheimer's.

Specifically, the Salk team found increases in two hallmarks of Alzheimer's-accumulations of amyloid beta (Abeta) and tau protein-in the brains of diabetic mice, especially in cells surrounding blood vessels. Abeta, the misfolded peptide that is thought in part to cause Alzheimer's disease, aggregated inside astrocytes, star-shaped brain cells that, upon interaction with Abeta, release inflammatory molecules that can destroy neurons. Previously, this had not been shown in mouse models of type 1 diabetes (T1D).

"Our study supports and extends the links between diabetes, aging and Alzheimer's," says senior author Pamela Maher, a senior staff scientist in Salk's Laboratory of Cellular Neurobiology. "We show that type 1 diabetes increases vascular-associated amyloid beta buildup in the brain and causes accelerated brain aging."

The findings suggest that the neurovascular system may be a good candidate for new therapeutic targets to treat Alzheimer's in the early stages of the disease.

Alzheimer's and diabetes are two diseases that are increasing at an alarming rate within the U.S. population. Alzheimer's affects one in 10 Americans over 65 years of age and nearly 50 percent of those over 85. Similarly, more than 8 percent of Americans (approximately 26 million people) have diabetes, with the vast majority of those individuals being over 60.

Maher says her team is uncertain of the precise mechanism behind the increase in Abeta and tau in the mouse brain, but their data suggest that changes in astrocytes, as well as other pro-inflammatory processes and the bonding of proteins with sugar molecules (called non-enzymatic glycation), may contribute.

"Astrocytes play a key role in maintaining nerve cells in the brain," says lead study author Antonio Currais, a postdoctoral researcher at Salk. "Both chronic peripheral inflammation and increased non-enzymatic glycation are associated with diabetes, and these changes may act on the brain to alter astrocyte function, which eventually leads to Alzheimer's-like changes."

All nerve cells are closely connected to blood vessels, as they need nutrients---- especially glucose (sugar) and oxygen---- provided by the blood in order to function. Astrocytes facilitate the transfer of nutrients between blood vessels and cells. The buildup of Abeta at sites where astrocytes interact with blood vessels suggest that this could impair the transfer of nutrients. The type of Abeta localization seen in Maher's mouse models is also found in human Alzheimer's patients

To examine the contributions of diabetes to Alzheimer's-related pathology in the aged brain, the Salk researchers induced T1D in two sets of mouse models. One set, known as SAMP8 mice, undergo accelerated aging and develop early deterioration in learning and memory, as well as a number of brain alterations similar to those found in Alzheimer's. The other set, SAMR1 mice, which in this study came from the same gene pool as the SAMP8 mice, age normally.

Using these mice, Maher and her colleagues addressed how T1D interacts with age to contribute to Alzheimer's-related pathology. They showed that T1D elicits a wide range of pathological changes in the brains of both strains of mice, which are exacerbated by premature aging.

The Salk study is the first to show that these modifications are similar to those seen in old nondiabetic SAMP8 mice and to identify unique pathological changes, such as increases in markers for inflammation, in aged, T1D SAMP8 mice. Unlike most mouse studies of Alzheimer's, Maher's mice were not engineered to produce high levels of human Abeta or tau,so all of their observations came from naturally occurringAbeta and tau.

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Other researchers on the study were Marguerite Prior and Professor David Schubert, from Salk's Laboratory for Cellular Neurobiology; David Lo, from Salk's Laboratory of Neuronal Structure and Function; and Corinne Jolivalt of the University of California, San Diego.

The work was supported by the National Institutes of Health, the Fritz B. Burns Foundation, the Bundy Foundation, Fundao para a Cincia e a Tecnologia and the Alzheimer's Association.



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I'm Sorry for Cursing - Colon / rectal cancer: This never goes as ...

Eric and I went to UT yesterday for my labs and for me to get the MRI (hopefully to figure out my pesky leg/back pain).

At my labs, my blood pressure was high.? I don't remember what the numbers were, but it freaked the nurse out.? She started?making phone calls, and I ended up with an appt with a doctor who works with my doc.

The MRI was...noisy.? The nurses and techs were all so nice though.? I tried to listen to music, but you can't really hear anything in that tube with all the banging and growling.? After a really long time, it was finally done.

After that, we headed to the doc's office.? I got in right away, believe it or not.? The doc talked about my symptoms, took my blood pressure, and declared that I needed a break from regorafenib and some blood pressure meds.? Then he saw I had an MRI and wanted to check it out.? The doc looked at the scan pics for a few minutes, then decided to see if the techs could give him a quick read.

I was pretty glad to get what would have been about two weeks off the pills.? Eric and I joked around until the doc came back.? He was all serious.?

The MRI showed evidence of lesions (tumors) on my spinal meninges, which I believe are the layers that protect the spinal cord.? The MRI only covered a section of my back, so the doc was not able to say whether the cancer has spread anywhere else, like into my brain.? He suggested a brain MRI to be sure.? If there are tumors in my brain, they can be radiated.

The tumors on my meninges...they best react to Irinotecan.? The doc wanted me on that this week.? Also, I'm out of the trial.

I had a thought in my head that if the trial didn't work, I'd go back to Baylor.? Eric made my wishes known, so the UT doc talked to a doc from Baylor.? After a couple phone calls, I have an appt at Baylor tomorrow morning.

So how bad is this?? It must be pretty bad because even my Baylor doc's nurse sounded sad.? It's so weird because I'm still hobbling around and I don't feel like someone who has cancer right outside my spine.? Processing this is hard, y'all.? I prayed a lot yesterday, prayed for trust and faith.?

I think I need more information, but man, I'm freaked out.?

Source: http://imsorryforcursing.blogspot.com/2012/10/this-never-goes-as-expected-does-it.html

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Thursday, October 25, 2012

Promote Content & Participate in Social Media Marketing

Social media marketing is generating a lot of buzz right now amongst marketers and business owners. Marketers who can leverage social media to help distribute business content and increase the overall community of advocates for their business can experience significant growth. Social media allows your customers and potential customers to communicate directly with you and your employees online, and it allows interesting content to spread quickly.

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While new social media tools launch every day, most businesses really only need to focus on the major players: Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

Monitoring Social Media

An important part of leveraging social media for business is to understand what conversations are happening online related to your industry and recognizing where you should respond. Here are some great tools you can use to easily monitor your business and industry mentions in social media:

? Google Alerts: Set up multiple Google Alerts for your company, brand, products, leaders, industry terms, etc. The alerts will get delivered directly to your email inbox at the frequency you indicate (e.g. daily or as they happen) and is a great way to help you track mentions of your brand and relevant keywords on the web on news sites, in blogs, etc.

? Twitter: Monitor mentions of your brand on Twitter with tools like Twitter

Search or HootSuite.

CoTweet is also a great tool to help manage multiple

users on a corporate Twitter account and allows you to assign particular tweets to the appropriate team member for follow-up.

? Google Reader and RSS Feeds: Set up RSS feeds in Google Reader of searches of your brand or industry keywords in other popular social media sites such as Flickr, Digg, Delicious, etc. Scan the results in your reader daily for mentions.

? Facebook Insights: Stay on top of and participate in discussions occurring on your company?s Facebook Fan Page. Use your Fan Page?s Facebook Insights Dashboard (found in the left sidebar when you?re on your page as an admin) to show you stats such as fan growth and page views to gauge your page?s interaction and engagement.

Getting Started With Twitter for Business

Twitter is a social network on which users share short,

140-character messages with each other. Users "follow" or subscribe to each other and can receive messages from each other via multiple technology devices including desktop computers, smart phones, and text messages. As mentioned previously, for business, it is best to use Twitter?s free search engine, Twitter Search to search for your business, competitors, and industry mentions on Twitter. Understanding how and if people are talking about your business and industry will give you enough information to determine if you should invest the time to start and manage a Twitter account for your business.

If you decide that Twitter is right for your business, visit Twitter.com to sign up for a free account. Here are a few tips for setting up a business Twitter account:

? Use the name of your business as your Twitter username.

? Use your business logo or a picture of the person managing the account as the profile image for the account.

? Create a custom Twitter background that provides additional information about your business.

? Use Advanced Twitter Search to help determine industry influencers and potential customers that your business should follow.

Using Facebook for Business

With more than 1 billion users, Facebook has become the major player in the social media industry. Facebook can serve as a powerful platform for building a community of advocates for your business to help increase word-of-mouth marketing. The first step in leveraging Facebook for business is to set up a business page.

LinkedIn: The Social Network for Business Professionals

The social network businesspeople may be most familiar with is LinkedIn. This network of over 101 million business users and more than 1 million business profile pages can be an important resource. To get started using LinkedIn for your business, it is best to set up and complete a personal profile for yourself as well as a company profile for your business. When setting up these profiles, remember to include all important information such as your website and blog URLs. Additionally, it is important to take the time to make the descriptions for you and your business interesting to read and an accurate reflection of your experience, knowledge, and passion.

LinkedIn Groups

Once you have created profiles, LinkedIn has two major features that are of particular use to businesses and their employees. The first feature you should examine is the Groups feature. The Groups feature allows LinkedIn users to create and participate in discussions around a topic within LinkedIn. Groups can be a great way to make potential business connections, but can also be a great place to share relevant blog content.

LinkedIn Answers

The second feature, LinkedIn Answers, allows you to find people publicly stating?they have a specific problem or need that your product or service would solve.?Identifying these questions and responding with a resources or a blog article of?yours that answers that person?s need can offer a great marketing opportunity for?your business. Ultimately, you can generate high-quality traffic to your blog from?LinkedIn Answers, and get some really qualified leads as well.

Source: http://small-business.ezinemark.com/promote-content-participate-in-social-media-marketing-7d37ff1beb78.html

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Cloud Atlas | Movie Reviews | Kelly Vance | East Bay Express

In bringing author David Mitchell's labyrinthine Cloud Atlas to the screen, the directorial tag team of Tom Tykwer, Lana Wachowski, and Andy Wachowski was faced with narrative dilemmas revolving around the novel's length (509 pages), its frequently ornate language, and the complexity of its six interlocking plots. It's a pleasure to say the filmmakers not only solved the low overcast problem, but also that their collaboration is one of the few major releases of the season that lives up to its hype.

Don't worry about those six competing novella-size stories getting in each others' way. There's nothing here the mosaic-wise modern media audience can't handle. The best strategy is to relax, drink in the images, put your brain on cruise control (while still listening to the characters), and let the movie sort itself out.

Chronological order matters, at first. The anchor of the piece is the 19th-century tale of a writer whose chance acquaintance with a "savage" stowaway aboard a ship bound for San Francisco from New Zealand changes the history of the world. Then, advancing in time, we witness: a 1930s contest of wills between a young classical music composer and his tyrannical employer, a crotchety maestro; a reporter investigating a malevolent utility company in the 1970s-era Bay Area; the comic predicament of a man imprisoned in a senior living facility in 2012 England; the grim chronicle of a "fabricant" restaurant worker and her unlikely ally in mid-22nd-century Neo-Seoul, Korea; and, finally, a struggle between peaceful villagers and cannibals on the "Big Isle" of Hawaii sometime "After the Fall."

Instead of presenting each story as a discrete nugget, the co-directors interweave the events in a long, careful crescendo of crosscutting. It takes some getting used to, but we're shepherded by the recurrence of actors as well as by the continuity of Mitchell's persistent theme: rebellion against tyranny. The most compelling narrative centers on Sonmi-451 (played by South Korean actress Doona Bae), a disposable, semi-robotic restaurant waitress whose love story with a human named Hae-joo Chang (Jim Sturgess) awakens her conscience and her social responsibility as an Earth dweller.

As the stories unfold, Bae and Sturgess play multiple roles, as do Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent, Susan Sarandon, Hugh Grant, Ben Whishaw, David Gyasi, and James D'Arcy in the large cast. Hugo Weaving, nemesis of the Wachowskis' Matrix movies, sticks to villainous parts throughout (his Nurse Noakes is a wonderfully hideous piece of work), but Hanks, Broadbent, and Grant all cross back and forth from protagonist to antagonist, with elaborate changes of makeup.

And yet what we can only call the moral thrust of Cloud Atlas remains consistent. Mitchell's novel plays to the Wachowskis' and Tykwer's strengths as creators of characters in conflict with oppressive hierarchies ? check Run Lola Run, V for Vendetta, The International, etc. The lesson of all six fables: Don't be cowed by bullies and bosses. Link up with like-minded folks and resist. Make them pay. (We'd like to see these three filmmakers produce an intelligent screenplay on the Occupy movement. America's urban protestors appropriated the Guy Fawkes mask from V for Vendetta ? it's time to return the favor.) Other major threads: tattoos, masters versus slaves, the notion that women will not be denied, oceans and shores, violence, and reincarnation. Metaphors rebound on each other. The novel's lustrous prose survives in abridged form. The problem with most sci-fi is its limited ambition. Mitchell's fiction, however, has real substance and a beauty of language to go with its universal humanity.

Hanks' "Dermot Hoggins" cockney accent is awful, but his prosthetic overbite in the Dr. Henry Goose role is somehow ingratiating ? he seems to enjoy playing daffy characters. Ditto Broadbent the old pro, growling and whimpering. Grant's underhanded corporate technocrat Lloyd Hooks bears a disturbing resemblance to the Mittens. Berry convinces as the nosy magazine writer and also as the ultimate keeper of the Kona hearth. Whishaw and D'Arcy, playing unlucky lovers Robert Frobisher and Rufus Sixsmith, provide one of the keys that unlock the chain of coincidences.

Bae and Sturgess may be the unlikeliest of lovers, the subdued-but-studious clone and the guy in the fake-looking "oriental" makeup, but their adventures in the bowels of Neo-Seoul provide the necessary Matrix-style shootouts to go with the elliptical workings of Mitchell's time travels. The Wachowskis directed the two futuristic episodes plus the Adam Ewing sailing ship tale; Tykwer handled the composer, reporter, and old folks' jailbreak stories, and also composed the music score, including "The Cloud Atlas Sextet," Frobisher's elusive main musical cue. It's entirely possible to enjoy Cloud Atlas solely for its spectacular visuals and grandiose play-acting, but anyone wishing to get down to the heart of the myth has only to pick up on Sonmi-451's words: "Our lives are not our own. From womb to tomb we are bound together, past and present."

Source: http://www.eastbayexpress.com/ebx/cloud-atlas/Content?oid=3371999

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Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Glen 2961 / SAOTA | ArchDaily

? Adam Letch

Architects: SAOTA?- Stefan Antoni Olmesdahl Truen Architects
Location: Oranjezicht, Cape Town, South Africa
Design Team: Philip Olmesdahl, Stefan Antoni, Kate Del Fante
Year: 2012
Photographs: Adam Letch


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The clients who lived in an existing house on the property needed to rebuild the house in order to suit the demands of their family. The site on Glen Avenue in Higgovale faces in a Northerly direction, with its boundaries on the South East. Although the wind conditions are tough, the site?s moderate slope allows the design to engage with different levels of the garden adjacent to the areas of the three level lounge.

? Adam Letch

The client appointed SAOTA ? Stefan Antoni Olmesdahl Truen Architects to complete the design of a new home. The clients bravely followed their architect?s advice to see the bigger picture and re-start on a clean slate. The new home was to respond to the site and garden closely, to allow enough space for the family?s diverse requirements ? whilst create separate private spaces within the house, and respond to the fierce winds which seasonally hurtle down Table Mountain yet provide a relaxed, homely character in the spirit of Higgovale. The clients selected to proceed with the Design Development and project construction with Three14 Architects. The principal objectives in the design approach was to screen the heart of the home from the South Easterly and create large semi-enclosed gardens which allow the 2 lower levels of the house to seamlessly connect to garden and terraces at all times.

? Adam Letch

SAOTA relied on robust uncluttered finishes of off-shutter concrete for soffits and various walls, painted bagged brickwork, specialized polished concrete topping and oak cabinetry and ceilings. To amplify the sense of openness of the rooms and the gardens, the living rooms have large openings of sliding aluminium doors?? this openness is further enhanced by glass handrails to successfully blur the boundaries of interior and exterior. The kitchen remains the focus of the first floor area, and the main outdoor braai terrace is a generous layout with outdoor sitting and dining areas. The upper level of the house ? to which one approaches on arrival at the property ? accommodates 4 en-suite bedrooms with good views and a large study / library area.?The garage screens the courtyards from the street.

Ground Floor Plan

Source: http://www.archdaily.com/283932/glen-2961-saota/

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Florida fungal meningitis cases rise to 19; newest case in Marion



An image through a microscope of the Exserohilum rostratum fungus involved in the current meningitis outbreak. It's a common mold found in soil and on plants. (AP Photo/CDC)

Published: Tuesday, October 23, 2012 at 2:14 p.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, October 23, 2012 at 2:14 p.m.

The Florida Department of Health on Tuesday confirmed a 19th case of fungal meningitis associated with contaminated steroid injections.

The latest case is a 66-year-old Marion County woman who received an injection six weeks ago from the Florida Pain Clinic in Ocala.

Officials have determined that the medicine she received was from one of the contaminated lots manufactured and distributed by the New England Compounding Center (NECC).

Almost 300 patients nationwide have contracted fungal meningitis attributed to tainted methylprednisolone acetate, which is a steroid used for epidural back injections. There have been 23 deaths, three of them in Marion County.

Dr. John Armstrong, the state?s secretary of health, said the average age of affected patients in Florida is 70. Nationwide, it?s 65.

In Florida, the average incubation period for the fungal meningitis is 14 days, with a range of seven to 81 days.

Nationally, the average is 22 days with a range of four to 89, Armstrong said during a Tuesday afternoon news conference.

He said the state has not spent additional dollars on this investigation; rather, the cost has been covered through the Department of Health?s regular budget.

Source: http://www.ocala.com/article/20121023/articles/121029916

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Awesome Book Layout's eBook Packages for New Writers | Release ...

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Source: http://www.releasewire.org/10/2012/arts-entertainment/books/awesome-book-layout%E2%80%99s-ebook-packages-for-new-writers/

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Monday, October 22, 2012

Enough already: voters hit with ads, calls (cbsnews)

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THE MAN WHO TRIED TO ?SCARE THE PANTS OFF AMERICA ...

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Ahh, October is here. The leaves are turning, there is a crisp bite in the air and?the theaters are filled with scary movies. Unfortunately, most subscribe to the credo ?The more (blood and gore) the merrier.? During an earlier era of fright flicks it was a little bit different.

Those of us who grew up on the horror films of the 1950s and 1960s, whether we realize it or not, owe our goose bumps and nightmares to primarily one man, William Castle.

William Castle was the PT Barnum of cheap horror flicks. His films were the drive-in specials and the Saturday Afternoon kiddy matinee staples. The long list of his movies includes THE TINGLER, HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL, 13 GHOSTS, MACABRE and STRAIT JACKET.

William Castle didn?t just produce scary movies, he PRODUCED scary movies. To him, filming the movie was one thing, but marketing it was quite another. His promotional innovations (or ?gimmicks? for you less romantic souls) earned him the title ?The Schlockmeister? and he reveled in his reputation. Like a carnie barker, Castle would appear in a filmed segment before the start of each of his movies to hype the special ?icing? associated with that particular film.

If it wasn?t for the enterprising mind of William Castle, the following promotions would never have come into being (and the world itself would have been poorer for it):

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?EMERGO? ? This was used during the run of HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL. In selected theaters a guy wire was hooked up that ran the length of the theater from the projection booth to the screen. During a frightening scene when a skeleton makes his appearance on the screen, an inflated skeleton was sent flying over the audience on the wire.

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?PERCEPTO? ? The premise of THE TINGLER was that each of us has a tiny little creature living at the base of our spine that looks, surprisingly, a little bit like a lobster and a little bit like the Baby Back Ribs served at Chili?s. When we become frightened, the creature grows and causes the tingling sensation on our spine. The only way to make the Tingler shrink again is to scream. If you don?t scream it will snap your spine. Anyway, through a complicated turn of events in the movie a Tingler breaks free and enters a movie theater. At that point in the film, the screen goes dark and a voice announces ominously, ?The Tingler has escaped in this theater. We need everyone to scream and scream loudly RIGHT NOW!?
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Of course the theater would erupt in screaming as the audience went along with the gag, but little did they know, small electrical shock devices had been attached to several seats in the audience and they provided a mild, but surprising jolt to the seats? occupants. This was the magic of ?PERCEPTO.?

Remember, these were simpler times.
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William Castle?s Introduction to ?The Tingler?

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?ILLUSION-O? ? How, you ask, can such a ?shocking? effect like ?PERCEPTO? be topped? Why, with ?ILLUSION-O,? of course. ?ILLUSION-O? was used in the movie 13 GHOSTS. It consisted of some tricky camera work and pieces of colored plastic. A ?ghost viewer? was given to each audience member before the start of the movie. The viewer was basically a piece of cardboard with two oblong holes cut in it. One hole was covered with a sheet of transparent blue plastic and the other had a piece of red plastic. During the course of the movie, a warning was given just before the appearance of a ghost. The viewer had an option at that time. If they wanted to see the ghosts on screen they would look through the red plastic. If they were ?chicken? they could look though the blue plastic and see nothing.

William Castle?s Introduction to ?13 Ghosts?

Castle used several other gimmicks?excuse me?promotional innovations? during the height of his popularity. For the movie, MACABRE (starring that terror of the silver screen, Jim Backus), he offered viewers $1000 ?Fright Insurance? from Lloyds of London, payable to the family of anyone who died of fright while watching the movie. In HOMICIDAL audience members who found the film too scary were offered a ?Fright Break? (basically a money-back guarantee) and in STRAIT JACKET (starring that faded cinema queen, Joan Crawford) audiences were give plastic axes.

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All of Castle?s antics were part of a larger effort by Hollywood to lure people away from that new-fangled invention, television. This effort brought us Vista Vision, Cinemascope and, laughingly, on the other end of the technical spectrum, 3-D movies (hmmm? d?j? vu, anyone?).

But William Castle put them all to shame with the sheer brazenness of his stunts.

In attempting to ?scare the pants off America,? as he was fond of saying, he carved out a small part for himself in the history of Hollywood cinema.
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Happy Halloween, Mr. Castle, wherever you are!

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Natural Keyboard Brings the Outdoors Right to Your Desk [VIDEO]

Hunching over a desk all day at work may make you yearn for the great outdoors. Artist Robbie Tilton aims to remedy that by creating a computer keyboard made from organic materials.

Laser cut from an Apple wireless keyboard template, the ?Natural Keyboard? has a plywood body, with a layer of imitation moss on top.

?Surrounded with tech gadgets made of glass, metals and plastics ? I believe that as a society ? we are constantly removing ourselves from nature,? Tilton writes on his blog.

For more on the keyboard, check out the video above. Then, tell us in the comments: Would you prefer the Natural Keyboard over your metal or plastic one?

Source: http://mashable.com/2012/10/20/natural-keyboard/

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Sunday, October 21, 2012

Video: White House denies a deal on US-Iran talks

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Observations on film art : Animation in Vancouver

Kristin here:

I didn?t manage to see all the animated films at the Vancouver International Film Festival, but I saw three. That is, I saw two animated features and one documentary about an ambitious and lengthy project that never saw the light of day except in butchered form. The films differ widely in subject and will probably appeal to quite different audiences.

The young

Ernest et C?lestine (2012, co-directors Benjamin Renner, Vincent Patar, and St?phane Aubier) is one of those irresistible cartoons based on a well-loved children?s book series. From 1982 to 2004 , Belgian artist Gabrielle Vincent (1928-2004) created this series, based on the unlikely friendship of a little-girl mouse and an adult bear.? The film?s imagery replicates the style of the books? water-color illustrations (see above). Although the series is not well known in the English-language markets, a few translations have appeared. Most are out of print and apparently very collectible, though there is an English-language volume coming out on November 1. This film version might well foster the popularity of the books internationally.

Bears and mice are here assumed to be dire enemies, a premise set up in the opening as C?lestine and her fellow orphans are told a cautionary tale by an elderly lady supervisor. It turns out, however, that mice are Tooth Fairies, and that occasionally involves their visiting bear families to exchange coins for the baby teeth of cubs. Such a mission leads to C?lestine visiting a bear family (in the candy shop pictured above) and meeting Ernest, a large bear who vainly attempts to make a living as a street musician. The pair become unlikely friends, and as a result become outcasts living together in Ernest?s cottage in the forest. Eventually each is tried in court for having transgressed the natural boundaries between their species.

Visually the film is charming, though narratively it clearly is intended for small children. Unfortunately the screening I attended had an audience mainly made up of adults, only a few of whom brought children with them. Children accustomed to the break-neck pace of anime and contemporary television cartoons may not have the patience for the calm, leisurely narrative pace in Ernest et C?lestine. Young children and those with more appreciation for traditional narratives will delight in it however, and it would be worth seeking it out in art-house screenings and, with luck, in video release. Its message of tolerance and understanding among widely different sorts of ?people? is simple but effective.

A book of the art of the film, with illustrations by Vincent, is soon to be released in France.

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The old

At the opposite end of the age range is Wrinkles (2012, Ignacio Ferreras), a Spanish animated feature about an elderly gentleman, Emilio, whose adult children become fed up with caring for him as he slips into the early stages of Alzheimer?s. They consign him to a slick, soulless care facility and visit him only rarely at holidays. Discouraged and unhappy at first, Emilio gradually comes to appreciate the small pleasures and support the other ?clients? at the home can bring each other (see bottom). His roommate, a cynical long-term resident who practices minor con tricks on vulnerable, disoriented neighbors, nevertheless provides humor and support. A still-healthy wife who has nevertheless come to the facility to take care of her husband, an advanced Alzheimer?s patient, shows that love can bring a trace of reaction even from a seemingly unresponsive person.

The story is touching, and the opening provides a surprise moment that conveys Emilio?s encroaching confusion well. The animation, though fairly limited, is well designed and attractive. The endings for the various patients seem to put a distinctly cheerier spin on the grim advance of Alzheimer?s than one would imagine to be appropriate to the subject. Still, the film looks at the subject compassionately and manages several touching scenes.

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The ghost

Vancouver was the venue for the world premiere of Kevin Schreck?s documentary, Persistence of Vision (2012). It deals with animator Richard Williams, who made a successful career running a studio?primarily making animated commercials and credit sequences. Back in the 1980s and 1990s I must have passed it?on London?s Soho Square?dozens of times completely unawares.) One of Williams? employees also devised the technique for merging live-action and cartoons that was used for Robert Zemeckis? Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988), and perhaps the best-known achievement of Williams? studio was the animation in that film.

Schreck does a good job of presenting an overview of Williams? career, but his real fascination is with the one doomed project that Williams pursued for about twenty-five years: a feature-length, absurdly technically complex feature to be called The Thief and the Cobbler. The scene above showing one of the characters performing an elaborate card trick is dazzling to behold. It takes place against a neutral background, but a battle scene, a substantial portion of which is shown in Persistence of Vision, goes much further, combining dizzying shifts through convoluted settings with mind-boggling movements of figures.

Williams? studio worked on the film from 1964 to 1992, but only part-time, fitting it in among their various commissions. Schreck has tracked down several of the main animators who worked for Williams during substantial stretches of this period, and they give invaluable information about what became a legendary epic. Williams refused to participate, but there is quite a bit of historical documentary footage of him. Much of the original material from the film was destroyed, but Schreck, often with the help of his interviewees and others, tracked down original material in various degrees of completion. Several shivery animated sequences consisting of simple pencil tests are included, as are other scenes in later stages of animation. The result is a precious glimpse into the film that might have been.

Ultimately Warner Bros. committed to finance and release the film. This might possibly have worked, but by one piece of misfortune, design elements for The Thief and the Cobbler made their way to Disney and were, putatively (and plausibly) used for the Genie and other components of Aladdin (1992). This was a blow to the commercial viability of Williams? film. That, in combination with Williams? failure to complete it by the contractual deadline meant that The Thief and the Cobbler was turned over to a completion insurer. Somehow (in a deal not explained in Persistence of Vision), Miramax ended up with the project. They stitched together the existing sequences using new footage, including Disney-style musical numbers, something that Williams had been determined to avoid. In 1993 Miramax released a highly revised version of The Thief and the Cobbler.

Williams seems to have been one of those artists who works best when kept on a very tight leash. The man was brilliant when it came to making TV commercials, some of which are shown in Persistence of Vision. He created some memorable credits sequences, also shown. I vividly remember seeing Tony Richardson?s The Charge of the Light Brigade in 1968. That was two years before I took my first film course, but even then I realized that the credits were better than the film they graced:

Williams did some of the late Pink Panther ones, too. Clearly, given a short, immutable length, he could come up with a gem. Similarly, when he worked as a collaborator on another director?s film, as with Roger Rabbit, he apparently didn?t become overly ambitious and unrealistic in his goals. It was apparently this one mad vision that slowly drew him to overstep the bounds of feasibility.

Williams? legacy will not rest simply in these credit sequences and ads. Nor will it reside only in the images in Persistence of Vision, ranging from jumpy pencil tests to semi-finished sequences (and the sequences included in the unfortunate Miramax version). Williams wrote a book, The Animator?s Survival Kit, initially published in 2002, and, coincidentally, released in an expanded edition just last month. It is considered one of the basis books in the field and is used by amateurs and pros alike. Williams discusses the new edition in a brief clip, and one can see his sincere enthusiasm and also his restless energy. He also gives master-classes in animation.

Whether Williams could ever have created a narrative structure to pull together the brilliant set-pieces on display in Persistence of Vision is another question. Clearly his colleagues still regard him with a mix of admiration, devotion, and exasperation. Schreck?s film hints at a masterpiece that was mutilated and yet also suggests that the masterpiece itself was a elusive vision that was problematic from the start.

We enjoyed meeting Kevin and line producer Sarah Timberlake Taylor at the festival. During the introduction to the second of three screenings, Kevin expressed his surprise at the fact that the first and second screenings were both better attended than he expected. From the Q & A, I gathered that the audience included some animation buffs well acquainted with Williams? career. The Thief and the Cobbler is clearly well known in the world of academic animation history. Buffs will be delighted that Schreck has pulled together so much material and given us as full a look at this lost film, masterpiece or not, as we are ever likely to have.

One problem that Kevin explained is that he cannot release the film into theaters (or presumably on DVD or? VOD). It contains extensive clips of copyrighted material, including the various credits sequences and ads by Williams? studio, short segments from Aladdin and other Hollywood films, as well as The Thief and the Cobbler in its version released by Miramax. This seems a tremendous pity. Given the historical and critical nature of Kevin?s film, it seems possible that such clips could be justified as fair use.

Much has been made of Room 237, the analytical documentary about Kubrick?s The Shining, which was also shown at Vancouver and other festivals. It has a theatrical release in the USA through IFC. Apparently no permissions were obtained from the owners of the copyrights for The Shining and other Kubrick films excerpted in the documentary, with fair use being claimed. As usual, no court cases have so far been filed, and so it is not clear whether fair use actually applies to such extensive uses of clips in historical and analytical studies. Persistence of Vision seems another clear-cut case of fair use, and it would be encouraging to see a distributor courageous enough to release it outside the festival circuit without ?permissions? being sought.

October 21: David Cairns has kindly written to point out that there is an epic fan edit of the original footage of The Thief and the Cobbler. It?s incomplete, of course, but it?s 96 minutes long?and obviously a labor of love on the part of Garrett Gilchrist.

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Afghanistan: Taliban level food warehouse for US

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) ? An Afghan police officer and cook poisoned their colleagues at a checkpoint in an assault coordinated with insurgent fighters that left six dead in the country's south, officials said Saturday.

It was the latest in a string of attacks from inside the Afghan army and police that are threatening to undermine both the partnership with international troops ? which have been the target of many attacks ? and the morale of Afghan forces, who have suffered equally heavy casualties from such strikes.

The police officer and the cook worked with outside insurgents in the assault, which hit police manning a checkpoint in the Gereskh district of Helmand province, the governor's office said in a statement.

They poisoned two of the officers and then the militants attacked from outside, killing the remaining four officers, provincial spokesman Ahmad Zirak said. He did not say how the officers were poisoned. The police officer was captured as he fled, but the cook escaped and remains at large, Zirak added.

The insurgent gunmen escaped by motorcycle with weapons and ammunition, the governor's statement said.

A recent upsurge in the number of insider attacks on coalition troops by Afghan soldiers or police ? or insurgents disguised in their uniforms ? has further undermined public support for the war in the West. So far this year, at least 52 foreign troops ? about half of them Americans ? have been killed in insider attacks.

The Afghan government has not provided statistics on the number of its forces killed in insider attacks. However, U.S. military statistics obtained by The Associated Press show at least 53 members of the Afghan security forces had been killed by the end of August.

Meanwhile, a Taliban attack elsewhere in Helmand killed two district community council members, while Taliban-fired rocket-propelled grenades destroyed a warehouse full of food destined for the main U.S. base in Afghanistan.

Insurgents ambushed the council members while they were driving to a tribal meeting in the volatile Sangin district, the governor's office said in its statement, adding that the attackers escaped and police are pursuing them.

The attack against the council members is a reminder of the other worrying trend in insurgent tactics this year ? a shift toward more targeted killings of those affiliated with the government. The United Nations has recorded a sharp increase in such killings in the first six months of 2012 as compared with the same period of 2011.

In the warehouse attack, insurgents fired rocket-propelled grenades at a compound used by military contractor Supreme Group to store food and other supplies destined for Bagram Air Field, the main U.S. base in the country. A warehouse inside the compound caught fire in the assault and burned through the night.

"The local fire brigade attended the scene and brought the fire under control, but the warehouse itself and all contents were destroyed," Victoria Frost, a spokeswoman for Supreme Group in Dubai, wrote in an email. She said no one was injured and staff at the site did not have to evacuate.

The fire could still be seen burning Saturday morning, said Mohammad Asif, the deputy administrator for Bagram district, where the compound is located. He said the Supreme compound encompasses about five hectares (12 acres).

Frost said the fire was contained much earlier.

"As with any major fire, there are some areas still smoldering but there is no current danger to any of the staff or the other buildings within the compound," she said.

Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said in an email that the fire at the Supreme Group compound destroyed a "large stock of food meant for U.S. troops."

Frost did not say how much material was destroyed though she did say it was "primarily food supplies," adding that the company was working to make up the loss with inventory from other warehouses.

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Vogt reported from Kabul. Associated Press writer Rahim Faiez contributed to this report in Kabul.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/afghanistan-taliban-level-food-warehouse-us-090532218.html

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Saturday, October 20, 2012

Node modular iOS sensor hands-on

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With the spate of bad publicity surrounding all those Kickstarter projects that never make it beyond the funding stage, there's a certain surreality to actually holding a crowd-funded device in your hands. But here it is, the Node, a project we highlighted in its infancy, way back in February. The whole thing blew way past its funding goal, scoring $76,000 out of a requested $50,000. And now, roughly eight months later, the product has been shipped out to enthusiastic supporters all over the place, inside an unassuming white box. Since its inception, the Node's been an interesting (if not particularly easy to explain) proposition. Now that we've got our hands on one, not all that much has changed -- which is to say, in its early stages, there's a lot of potential, but its still a bit of a hard sell.

Hardware-wise, the Node's a solid proposition -- the size and shape of a roll of quarters. The body is made of a white plastic, with Node logos indented on either side. Next to one, you'll find a micro-USB port for charging, and by the other, you get the power button, which also serves to turn on the flashlight module. Inside the body, you've got the battery (which should give you 12 to 14 hours with Bluetooth on), an accelerometer, magnetometer and gyroscope.

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Self-Serve Ad Platform SiteScout Now Has 5,000 Customers, $20M In Revenue

sitescoutDigital ad startup SiteScout has mostly stayed out of the tech press for the past couple of years, but the company says it has been growing quickly in that time, and now it's ready to share some of the numbers around that growth. Specifically, SiteScout says that it has now powered 30,000 campaigns for 5,000 advertisers, and that its revenue has grown 375 percent year-over-year compared to 2011. The company isn't sharing the actual revenue numbers, but I hear from a source that SiteScout's revenue was $20 million for the fiscal year running from the third quarter of 2011 to the same period in 2012.

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SEO in Toronto: Next Big Thing for Business | One Way Links Site Blog

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You can Google for SEO firms in Toronto and you will learn how they work with a team of freelance writers and specialists who know how to optimize websites. They will also collect resources to write articles that is search engine friendly and keyword optimized so that your marketing message is more effective. In the process, the client also learns the technique and begins to apply in any new developments, there for internal links and Meta tags get stronger and raise the page ranking.

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