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Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Is This What the Next iPad Will Look Like?
Fossil Fuel Free Investing at Trillium
Fossil Fuel-Free Investing at Trillium
The frequency and severity of extreme weather systems continues to impact the lives of people around the globe and increasingly in our own communities. Following Hurricane Sandy, many investors are becoming acutely aware of the presence of fossil fuel companies in their own portfolios. It seems clear that climate change is no longer solely a threat to future generations. The damage to the environment, economy, homes, and lives is happening today.
The Trillium-managed Green Century Balanced Fund (Ticker: GCBLX) has been fossil fuel-free since 2005. In 2008, Trillium launched its Sustainable Opportunities strategy, which has been fossil-fuel free since inception.
You can read more about Trillium?s fossil fuel-free investment options here.
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Monday, January 28, 2013
Sam Edelman Louie
Sam Edelman Louie in Whiskey
Over the past couple of years, my go to shoe company has been Sam Edelman. The price point is higher than say, Steve Madden or sometimes Dolce Vita but the quality and fit have always been spot on. I don?t mind paying a little more if I see the value in it. I currently own 10 pairs of Sam Edelman shoes ? booties, flats and sandals. I would branch out to their heels as well but so far everything is 3 inches and above. I am a kitten heel kind of women, I walk everywhere. I don?t like to wear anything higher than 2 1/2 inches (for mobility and comfort) but I still want the sex appeal of a high heel (JCrew is my go to for kitten heels).
One of my favorite booties from Sam Edelman is the Louie, a suede ankle boot with upper ankle cuffs and tassels, and a 2 1/4 inch heel. I love the western/boho look, and they work well with skinny jeans, leggings and dresses. I am amazed with how comfortable they are to walk in for long extended periods of time, even with the 2 1/4 inch stacked heel. I?ve trekked 7+ miles in these booties many times in a day without any issues.? They have a nice cushioned fabric foot bed with a fabric lining and the best part is, they run true to size.
I love these booties so much, that I own two pairs ? in whiskey and taupe.? These are so popular now, that I doubt they will discontinue them anytime soon. In fact they?ve been coming out with new seasonal colors. The Louie?s typically retail for $160.00 ? click here for more information.
Sam Edelman Louie in Taupe
Source: http://ingalicious.com/blog/sam-edelman-louie/
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Skin, soft tissue infections succumb to blue light
Jan. 28, 2013 ? Blue light can selectively eradicate Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections of the skin and soft tissues, while preserving the outermost layer of skin, according to a proof-of-principle study led by Michael R. Hamblin of the Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Harvard Medical School, Boston.
The research is published online ahead of print in the journal Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.
"Blue light is a potential non-toxic, non-antibiotic approach for treating skin and soft tissue infections, especially those caused by antibiotic resistant pathogens," says Hamblin.
In the study, animal models were infected with P. aeruginosa. All of the animals in the group treated with blue light survived, while in the control, 82 percent (9 out of 11) of the animals died.
Skin and soft tissue infections are the second most common bacterial infections encountered in clinical practice, and represent the most common infection presentation -- more than 3 percent -- in patients visiting emergency departments, says Hamblin. The prevalence of skin and soft tissue infections among hospitalized patients is 10 percent, with approximately 14.2 million ambulatory care visits every year and an annual associated medical cost of almost $24 billion (equivalent to $76 for every American), says Hamblin.
Treatment of skin and soft tissue infections has been significantly complicated by the explosion of antibiotic resistance, which may bring an end to what medical scientists refer to as the antibiotic era, says Hamblin. "Microbes replicate very rapidly, and a mutation that helps a microbe survive in the presence of an antibiotic drug will quickly predominate throughout the microbial population. Recently, a dangerous new enzyme, NDM-1, that makes some bacteria resistant to almost all antibiotics available has been found in the United States. Many physicians are concerned that several infections soon may be untreatable."
Besides harming public health, antibiotic resistance boosts health care costs. "Treating resistant skin and soft tissue infections often requires the use of more expensive, or more toxic drugs, and can result in longer hospital stays for infected patients," says Hamblin.
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- T. Dai, A. Gupta, Y.-Y. Huang, R. Yin, C. K. Murray, M. S. Vrahas, M. Sherwood, G. P. Tegos, M. R. Hamblin. Blue light rescues mice from potentially fatal Pseudomonas aeruginosa burn infection: efficacy, safety, and mechanism of action. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 2012; DOI: 10.1128/AAC.01652-12
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Saturday, January 26, 2013
Smashed Lamborghini, insurance fraud charge the latest legal ...
David Juntunen (Courtesy of Hennepin County Sheriff's Office)
The gray Lamborghini must've looked as tempting as it was fast.
So tempting, prosecutors allege, that one night last March, the businessman entrusted by a customer to store the sports car over the winter squeezed into its bucket seats with a lady friend and took the car for a very fast spin.
The joyride that David Norman Juntunen and Pamela Jean DuPont took came to an abrupt end when Juntunen slammed the 2007 Lamborghini Gallardo into three trees, knocked over a light pole and tore off a front wheel, causing more than $84,000 in damage to the car.
Hennepin County prosecutors say that what followed was a string of lies to investigators that resulted in both Minneapolis residents being charged Friday, Jan. 25, with insurance fraud and unauthorized use of a motor vehicle.
Juntunen, 39, is in jail in lieu of $80,000 bail and is to make his first court appearance Monday. DuPont, 40, was charged through a summons; no court appearance has been scheduled for her yet.
Juntunen -- who sometimes calls himself "Superdave" -- runs Top Gear Autoworks on Minneapolis' East Lake Street. The business services and provides storage for exotic foreign cars. A message left at the business was not immediately returned Friday.
"Top Gear was started by David 'Superdave' Juntunen who has garnered local acclaim as a responsible, experienced and trustworthy automotive specialist," proclaims the company's website, adding "What makes us different? In a word ... ethics."
But
cops in nine Minnesota counties know him as something else: a convicted sex offender, drunken driver, repeat traffic offender and a guy who'll flee. State records show that before Friday's criminal complaint was filed, Juntunen had been charged with 59 crimes in 30 court cases; 38 of the charges involved driving-related offenses, including 13 counts of driving after his license had been revoked and 10 counts of driving while impaired.His state record includes convictions for criminal sexual conduct, driving after cancellation (five times), driving while intoxicated (two times), reckless driving and, most recently, fleeing a police officer in 2010.
He's due in court in Ramsey County on Feb. 11 on a charge of reckless driving filed in November -- a charge filed eight days after he pleaded guilty to driving 83 mph in a 70-mph zone in Freeborn County. A week after he was charged in that speeding case, he pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct in Hennepin County.
In the new criminal complaint, Assistant Hennepin County Attorney Paul Scoggin wrote that in November 2011, a man identified in the complaint only as "J.K.C." contracted with Juntunen's business to service and provide winter storage for two cars, including the Lamborghini.
A month later, the man emailed Juntunen and told him that since the cars were in storage, he had suspended their collision insurance.
The first Gallardo rolled off Lamborghini's Sant'Agata Bolognese, Italy, assembly line in 2003. Various online sources put the value of a 2007 Gallardo (depending on appointments) as between $178,550 to $200,000.
It has a top speed of nearly 200 mph and as one online reviewer noted: "This thing is so quick, so fast, so loud, and sounds so angry at full-throttle that it may scare kids, old people, pets, and livestock. But that's just part of its charm."
The complaint says that on the night of March 8, Juntunen took the Lamborghini out of storage.
About 1:45 a.m. March 9, a Fridley police officer had stopped a suspected drunken driver on University Avenue and was having the car towed when a Lamborghini sped by "at a high rate of speed," Scoggin wrote.
The tow truck driver got part of the license plate number.
About 15 minutes later, residents near B.F. Nelson Park on Main Street East in Minneapolis heard a crash. A car had struck three trees and knocked over a light pole. But when Minneapolis Park Police were called to the scene the next day, there was no car.
What followed was old-fashioned police work, said Lt. Robert Goodsell, who heads investigations for the park police.
He said there was no telling what speed the sports car was going when it hit the trees, but it was fast.
"I would say the damage to hit the trees, to take down the trees and the light poles and rip the wheel off the car, I would say that would take some velocity," said Goodsell. "For parts like that to be removed, it's hard to say what speed it was going. What does it take to rip a front wheel off a car?"
According to the criminal complaint, Juntunen had the car towed back to his business and didn't report the incident to police. Later that day, he filed a claim with Top Gear's insurer, whose adjustor determined it would cost $84,480.12 to repair the car.
Juntunen initially told the insurance company that he'd been driving the car to another Top Gear storage facility, but he apparently later said the car was being driven by DuPont, who had started working at Top Gear a few weeks before the crash, the complaint said.
When police spoke to Juntunen and DuPont, they claimed DuPont had been driving and "swerved to avoid striking an animal and went off the road where the vehicle hit trees and light poles," Scoggin wrote.
The insurance company didn't think their stories added up. The insurer told Juntunen and DuPont that they'd have to give sworn statements about the crash, but neither showed up on the scheduled date.
The insurer refused to pay the claim.
Scoggin said that on Dec. 13, Juntunen met with the vehicle's owner and admitted he took the Lamborghini out without permission.
The owner asked him why he wouldn't go back to the insurer and ask them to pay for the damage, and "Juntunen said, 'If I ask them to pay based on the statements I gave, I'm going to prison. It's insurance fraud,' " Scoggin wrote.
The owner had only storage insurance on the vehicle and, as Scoggin noted, "To date, the damaged Lamborghini has not been repaired."
The criminal complaint notes that because of Juntunen's driving-related convictions, "any vehicle he operates is required to be equipped with ignition interlock."
The insurance fraud claim against both alleges that they conspired to defraud the insurance company by lying about the crash and concealing facts about it. The maximum sentence for insurance fraud is 20 years in prison and a $100,000 fine.
The second count each faces accuses them of taking the car without the owner's consent. That crime carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a $20,000 fine.
David Hanners can be reached at 612-338-6516.
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Time for Global Learner Voice | Royal Reports
The great thing about the event is that anyone attending the live streaming can participate through chat and social media. My choice has been Twitter, and I?ve found the organizers extremely responsive in presenting my questions and thoughts to the student and adult panelists. For more on #EFF6, the Education Fast Forward debate, you can download a #EFF6 Agenda PDF and learn about guest presenters, where you can also learn a bit about TakingITGlobal. And if you can?t attend the live video streaming, use the links in this post to check back for the archived event. This experience, live or archived, really is something worth sharing in class with your students, as well as at a faculty meeting?or other education leadership meetings.
Teachers using technology with students need to think globally. By that I mean reference the world, beyond just local, in class practice and daily conversation. Notice that I said ?daily? and not just during a specific class or specific geography or citizenship lesson. Along with that, educators should give students what my UK educator colleagues refer to as Learner Voice.
So what is Learner Voice? Well, it?s when learners/students actually take control of their own learning, and help shape that learning. Now, that can be an amazing leap for many educators, especially those who have never taught away from the front of the room, and never relinquished the education stage to students.
Learning should be, after all, not about what the teacher knows and can present?anymore. It is certainly not about what the student can restate from the recitation of the teacher, either. If you ask a student to talk intelligently on topic, today, appropriately, technologically equipped students have a tremendous advantage. As an educator, you don?t have all the knowledge; a textbook or reference book, no matter how recent won?t either. Students get this without us telling them. Educators, who can do this, empower students.
Students know they can get more recent information using a laptop, a tablet, or a smartphone. Teachers know, or should know, that the information they?re getting may not be completely accurate. Now, that?s where the teaching is. I believe it has always been there?since the slate and chalkboard times, but today all educators, and not just the Library Media Specialist, are on point when it comes to helping students interpret digital information.
Students, who at one time, may have completely turned off and tuned out?aren?t. Instead, they continue to seek opportunities to learn?outside the classroom?and in areas not part of a district?s prescribed curricula. Today, these students are becoming a force for education change. Technology makes it possible for students in all parts of the world to band together seeking their Learner Voice. Get your students, staff, and community involved in the debate.
Source: http://www.royalreports.com/2013/01/24/time-for-global-learner-voice/
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Halliburton 4Q tops Wall Street expectations
HOUSTON (AP) ? Halliburton's net income for the fourth quarter declined 26 percent on pricing pressures in the North American market and one-time charges from the Deepwater Horizon disaster, as well as acquisitions.
Yet adjusted results beat Wall Street expectations, and shares rose 4 percent before the opening bell Friday.
The oilfield services company earned $669 million, or 72 cents per share, for the three months ended Dec. 31. That's down from $906 million, or 98 cents per share, a year ago.
Removing one-time charges and gains, earnings from continuing operations were 67 cents per share.
Revenue increased 3 percent to $7.29 billion from $7.06 billion, bolstered by international growth ? particularly in the Middle East, Asia and Latin America. The company said that its quarterly revenue performance was the highest in its history.
Analysts surveyed by FactSet expected earnings of 61 cents per share on revenue of $7.06 billion.
The entire sector is under pressure due to a glut of natural gas in North America. Schlumberger, another oilfield services company, has pushed operations overseas, and while Halliburton had traditionally kept its focus closer to home, it is looking increasingly abroad.
And it's expertise in the epicenter of hydraulic fracturing could give the company cache in countries desperate to use the same technology to ease their energy dependence.
While revenue fell in North American during the fourth quarter, it rose in Latin American, Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia.
"The company's international growth strategy continued to benefit the top and bottom lines," said Scott Gruber, an analyst with Bernstein Reseaerch. "In fact, following spectacular 20 percent (year-over-year) revenue growth abroad and 39 percent income growth, Halliburton generated 57 percent of its income abroad."
Halliburton's stock added $1.14, or 3 percent, to $38.95 in premarket trading.
While the final quarter of the year was exceptionally slow, company officials indicate the environment in North America will remain subdued this year.
"In 2013, we anticipate the North America rig count will improve from fourth quarter levels but will be down slightly compared to 2012," said Chairman and CEO Dave Lesar.
For the year, the Houston company earned $2.64 billion, or $2.84 per share. In the prior year it earned $2.84 billion, or $3.08 per share.
Earnings from continuing operations were $2.78 per share.
Annual revenue rose 15 percent to $28.5 billion from $24.83 billion.
Shares of Halliburton Co., based in Houston, rose $1.52 to $39.33 in premarket trading.
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