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Midlife obesity is linked to an increased risk for later-life dementia, but the strength of that association may vary according to an individual's age, new research from the Nuffield Department of Population Health at the University of Oxford suggests.
A retrospective cohort study of more than 450,000 obese individuals in England showed that those who were first hospitalised for obesity in their 30s were 3 times more likely to go on to develop dementia than their healthy peers. Read more here.
When researchers at the University of California, San Diego wanted to study an experimental Alzheimer's drug last year, they sought help from an unlikely group: people with Down syndrome.
Researchers have known for years that people who have vision problems as they get older are more likely to die sooner than those who still see well. But they weren't sure why that was so.
To answer that question, scientists looked at data from the Salisbury Eye Evaluation, which tracked the vision and health of people ages 65 to 84 living in Salisbury, Md., from 1993 through 2003. Read more at NPR.org
The Irish Brokers Association (IBA) has carried out a study on the impact of the levy, which suggests that it is hurting those in their 50s and 60s most.
It also shows that more than half of all levy funds collected are being paid by those over the age of 60.
Chief executive of the IBA Ciaran Phelan said: "We believe that the pension levy could cost the Government the private sector 'grey-vote' in the next election."
As people grow older, they often have difficulty falling asleep and staying asleep, and tend to awaken too early in the morning. In individuals with Alzheimer's disease, this common and troubling symptom of ageing tends to be especially pronounced, often leading to nighttime confusion and wandering.
Northern Ireland's HSC R&D Division are accepting applications to its Doctoral Fellowship Awards Scheme.
Applicants are invited to apply by 2pm on 10 October 2014.
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The stress of caring for a family member with dementia may take a toll on health over time, but a new study from Montefiore Medical Center in New York suggests that even one day off can shift caregivers' stress levels back toward normal. Read more here.
The University of Kent is offering a PhD opportunity to work on one of the work packages in the ESRC/MRC funded research programme on Uncertain Futures: Managing Late Career Transitions and Extended Working Life. The programme involves a consortium of research colleagues from 7 Universities, the Institute of Occupational Medicine and the International Longevity Centre UK. The post holder will work with other colleagues at Kent, Edinburgh, Bath, Manchester and Leeds on Work Package 3: Workplace case studies.
The popular narrative that getting old is not just bad news on a personal level but also putting the economy at risk is doing us all a great disservice, leading thinkers told a recent forum. Read more here.
The Minister for Primary and Social Care (ROI), Kathleen Lynch TD, today (14 August) welcomed confirmation that The Atlantic Philanthropies will make grants of €14.7m available to improve the care and wellbeing of people living with dementia in Ireland.
Loneliness is a complex issue but one that has a big impact on the lives of those who experience it, especially older people. A recent research study from the University of Chicago found that the loneliest people were nearly twice as likely to die during their six-year study than the least lonely older people. In this blog CARDI invited Anne Dempsey, Head of Information at Third Age to write about this issue, how it impacts older people and some of the initiatives being taken by her organisation to combat loneliness:


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Well another Cowboys' season has ended in disappointment, (maybe a Lion's fan can be happy with a 9-7 finish but we Cowboy fans are used to the post season).
So the question for the remainder of the post season is who are pulling for? For me, it's the Chargers. Going all the way back to the days of Dan Fouts this team has always been my "B" team or second favorite. Now ad to that my desires to see Norv Turner do well and the Chargers become the natural choice.
Now while there is no way that seeing the Chargers win out could ever compare to seeing Dallas win it's sixth, it would still be nicer than say, seeing the Giants go back to back.


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"Worst Episode Ever!"; The Simpsons Movie
Ever heard of Gilgamesh? He is the hero of the world's oldest epic. Gilgamesh becomes a hero on his journeys. That pretty much sums up the Simpsons movie I went to see with Lisa and about 50 other people yesterday. Sitting in the third row of the Royal English Cinema was a better idea thanks to the fairly big screen and the comfortable seats. A short report of our experience follows below. No spoilers, as usual.
The Simpsons movie is targeted at a broad audience, from children to blockbuster-buffs to members of the mainstream who consider themselves alternative and "politically concerned" and who probably are vegans too… The movie is totally about US-politics and "the environment", a cheap attempt at slipping through the door Al Gore had opened during the academy awards.
The Simpsons-movie is more sassy than the usual episode. For example: Ned Flanders would've never used the word "penis", or neither you would have seen one.
In my opinion there were way too many screenwriters, a team of two would've been enough. The story feels too polished without any striking features that you either love or hate. It's so-so.
"You can't stretch the structure of an episode 22 minutes long to 90 minutes!" Lisa says. She's right. But still I would've liked something in the style of "22 short stories about Springfield". Some characters are just thrown in only for the reason of being in the movie. Hans Moleman has his second, as do Dr. Nick or Otto; Ms. Krabappel and Skinner are just faces in the crowd. Even my favorite character, Mr. Burns, has only a few and not really funny minutes on the screen. Boooring!
The Simpsons Movie. In two-point-five-dee
In the Teaser #2 Moe claims that the movie was totally 2D but even the fucking first shot consists of fucking toon-shaded CGI. What is this? I'd rather settle for some not so realistic 2D than for hyper-realistic CGI where it's not appropriate! Alright, some shots had to be 2.5-D such as the dolly through the angry mob but that's it. Just look at Lion King, Disney's best modern animation movie! Usage of 3D was subtle, barely to make out. That's the way I know The Simpsons from television and that's the way I want to see it in the theater! Jeez…
Moleman Zimmer
The mawkish soundtrack by the German count of epic movie scores himself, Hans Zimmer, sounds exactly as suspected: Like molten butter with sugar and cream and even more butter: Sweet, yes, but it makes you sick after a few sips. The producers probably were afraid of putting Alf Clausen in charge, or even Danny Elfman. Each of them would've given the movie a more ironic twist instead of emphasizing the mood already given by the happenings on screen.
Suggestion for improvement: The story would've been better when centered
Where's Rainier?
Rainier Wolfcastle is no more. The screenwriters (about a dozen !!exclamation marks from hell!!) changed his hair to brown and his name to the even more awkwardly sounding "Arnold Schwarzenegger", however this is pronounced or whatever this should mean…
The paragraphs above probably came out wrong. It's not a bad movie. It's not the best one out there too. If you like the taste of popcorn, a carefree evening without thinking much about the movie you're watching then it's the movie for you.
And when you sit through the complete credits sequence then the squeaky-voiced-teen appears and says some very true lines that gave us the best laugh in the whole movie. Let's just hope that Maggie is not right with her first word.
Congratulations, Mr Groening. You sold out the Simpsons. May you enjoy the money from now till evermore.


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Support the Adirondack Traverse Film through Kickstarter!
We're excited to announce a future film by Traverse-team cinematographer Grant Sponable documenting the Traverse!
We need your help sharing it all. The story we've been telling, the story of our preparation and fundraising, and the story of our journey. Our journey from middle school day hikers, to climbers, to mountaineers, as well as why we're doing it.
With Grant at the helm, we plan to document every detail of our expedition, through a collection of web-series videos and, at the end, a short film detailing Adirondack Traverse 2013, every step of the way.
Grant has been documenting the lead-up and preparation for the Traverse thus far, and he plans on traveling with us for sections of the trip to record it as a third person. When he's not there, we plan on recording as much of it as possible from our own perspectives. Eventually, the story of us as friends and partners, the story of the Traverse and our climb of Rainier, and all they we do will be compiled into an awesome film highlighting it all.
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We couldn't do any of the things we're doing, even the charity stuff, without help making our expeditions this summer a reality. $2,000 of our $10,000 goal is allocated towards funding the expedition. For example, we have three weeks of dehydrated food to buy, campground reservations, tickets to Washington, etc.
We also need help making the film, and the other ways we're documenting what we're doing, as great as we possibly can! A portion of the funds raised will also go toward the costs of video and other production equipment to be used by Grant and his team, as well as for us to carry to document the part of the trip when we'll be completely alone.
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) _ Oklahoma City Public Schools officials say they have changed their weather cancellation policy to include extreme low temperatures.
The Oklahoman reports (http://bit.ly/19Q6MjS) that Interim Oklahoma City Superintendent Dave Lopez announced at a board meeting on Tuesday that he would decide by 5:25 a.m. on days when extreme cold is expected whether to cancel school. The move would be made if the actual temperature is 10 degrees or below or the wind chill is 5 degrees or below.
Earlier this month, Lopez apologized after he waited until 6:30 a.m. on a bitterly cold morning to cancel classes for the district's 46,000 students.
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I'm developing an application which downloads JPEG pictures via sockets that come from an Internet camera. I'm testing it on Nokia N95 8GB (S60v3) and Samsung i8910 (S60v5).
I'm having troubles with loading big part of JPEG them. Some of them load fine and some of them give Exception (bad image format) on line:
lastImage = Image.createImage(buffer.buf[slot], 0, buffer.len[slot]);
where buffer.buf[slot] is a byte array and buffer.len[slot] is length of the JPEG data in this array (buffers are bigger than images).
The exceptions are not thrown and all JPEG files load ok on the Sun's WTK emulator. I checked the data that are received by the phone by saving them to files with FileConnection API and the erroneous ones are displayed fine e.g. by the Resco Photo Viewer on the phone or by any PC app on Windows, but are not displayed by the S60 gallery.
Here are links to example good and bad image:
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I suppose it's some bug in Symbian JPEG loading lib, but is there any work-around for this? Did anybody experience such issue? Can it be fixed by e.g. changing some bytes in the header? Are there any JPEG gurus here that know exactly what bytes in this JPEG file are not tolerated by the phone?


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The new Rebel – the designers point of view, By Ken Winner
The Rebel remains a 5-line kite, of course, all for all the usual reasons:
First of all for a short depower stroke and a crisp feel. Anyone who rides waves or has short arms or just likes a responsive kite can appreciate the importance of achieving full depower with a minimal movement of the control bar.
Second, the super stability. If it weren't so easy to keep it in the air, you'd be forgiven for thinking it's made of rock.
Third, easy relaunch in light winds. Even riders who like four-line kites often add a fifth line to make relaunch possible in super-light wind.
Fourth, safety. When you need to get total, complete and perfect depower in half a second, nothing else works as well as a 5th line.
Last but not least, the easy self-landing – for people who don't want to always depend on someone on the beach catching their kite. Not the safest way to do it, but possible.
Changes in detail:
Sizes 10 to 14 have been tuned for a very short bar stroke and a maximally crisp feel.
Sizes 6 to 8, which naturally tend to be a bit too crisp and responsive, have been tuned for a crispness and responsiveness that's just right. Not soft and slow; not uncomfortably harsh and fast.
9-meter kites can go either way, a bit slow and soft or a bit fast and harsh. We spent some time tuning this one for what we think is just the right feel in a versatile high performance freestyle kite.
Attention! Rebels work best when inflated to at least 6psi. They lose some performance at lower inflation pressures, but will still fly pretty well. By contrast, many kites on the market these days need 8 or 10 psi to fly correctly.
Aspects of the Rebel's overall geometry have not changed. There are still five struts, with the center strut being a floating strut for momentary depower and luffability. Segmentation is much the same from tip strut to tip strut.
Multiple segments through the center of the canopy give good profile fidelity, while one straight segment on each side gives a flat profile where it can do the most good in resisting unwanted luffing and flutter. Five struts give needed structure while allowing for good performance at low inflation pressures.
We kept the overall leading edge diameters fairly large right out through the tips to ensure rock-solid stability and tolerance of low inflation pressures.
The Rebel is a high performance freeride kite, so there's no need to try to minimize diameters at the expense of convenience, stability and easy relaunch. A profile of moderate depth gives Rebels excellent low-end power.
We've tuned the bar pressure for the solid feel and reassuring feedback that Rebel riders expect.
The moderately deep and moderately draft-forward profile gives the 2015 Rebel positive upstroke and smooth transit through the center of the wind window.
We have kept our more streamlined, semi-segmented struts from previous years. This gives us low weight and good flexibility.
The Rebel is a mature design with thousands of fans. No rider who likes the Rebel wants to see it change much, so our goal with the Rebel these days is to fine-tune details and ensure that each size works the best it can, for the type of riding it's best suited to.
Aside from free weights and wakeboarding boats, low weight is almost universally desired in sports products. For 2015 we've pared weight from the Rebel without reducing durability in any way.
Our wavy force spread canopy construction has been refined to involve less cloth and weight than in past years, and it has been extended to the tips. This gives good mitigation of flutter and flexing between the dissimilar materials -- hence better durability -- from kite tip to kite tip.
As always in kite design, you want to have the right shape stability and the right shape flexibility in all the right places. Keeping with that imperative, we went more flexible by slimming and tapering the struts a few years ago. Continuing the trend for 2015, we´ve gone even a little more flexible in the Rebel by removing the Cam Battens.
The trailing edge tension of the Rebel has been refined to reduce the potential for wrinkles and flutter while keeping the correct cone and cupping.
Overall, the Rebel stays a Rebel, still you´ll be surprised and impressed while testing it through al the sizes!
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Ken Winner and Sky Solbach´s inside view about the new Neo
Sky Solbach:
The 2014 Neo is a full-on dedicated wave kite. It's got all of the key performance characteristics we felt a wave kite really needs to have and also happens to be a really fun and playful free-ride kite.
1. Quick, "round" turning. Everyone knows quick turning is good for waves because allows you to position yourself exactly where you want to be on the wave and allows you to make small corrections in kite positioning at a moment's notice. But the real key to the Neo is not just the quickness of the turning but the WAY in which it turns. It has what we are calling "round" turning, which means that it really tracks through a turn and generates power immediately and equally all the way through the wind window. This means that when you are on a wave you can generate power whenever you need it, no matter where the kite is in the window. This opens up a lot of new possibilities and really helps to link more turns together with flow.
2. Drift. Drift is super important for surfing waves because it allows you to park your kite and focus on surfing the wave rather than constantly needing to steer your kite and follow it through every bottom and top turn. The Neo's amazing drift gives you more room for error when surfing waves and allows you to recover from those mistakes without dropping your kite. We spent a lot of time testing the Neo's tolerance to slacked lines and optimizing the weight in the wingtips to drift straight backwards and not twist and fall nose down.
3. Lots of low-end power. The low-end power of the Neo allows you to ride a kite 1 to 2 square meters smaller than you normally would. This means you have a small, more compact and faster turning kite in all conditions.
4: Quick relaunch. The compact shape of the Neo makes relaunch super easy and allows you to get your kite up quickly before getting munched by the next wave!
Ken Winner:
The Neo has evolved into a pure wave kite, so Maui is the perfect place for developing it further.
And while the image of Maui involves perfect peeling ground swell and strong, steady sideshore wind, the reality is different. Sure, there are perfect days, but there are also a lot of days days with average waves and gusty wind. And while we test Neo protos at breaks like Lanes and Ho'okipa and Outer Sprecks, we also test at Waiehu, where the waves consist head-high to triple-head-high wind swell, and the onshore wind from 10 to 30 knots.
The 2013 Neo was a great starting point, as it had many great qualities already, so we focused on building its strengths: good power, easy turning and excellent drift.
As everyone knows, one of the most important qualities of a wave kite is its ability to turn quickly and precisely. The easiest and surest way to make any kite design turn quickly is to make it small, so for 2014 we bumped up the power of the Neo. This means riders can ride smaller, faster-turning kites than they may be used to. It's not uncommon for Sky to be riding at a Maui break on a Neo two meters smaller than what other good riders are using.
Quick turning also requires a kite that doesn't luff or flutter a lot on the side that is on the outside of the turn. We kept this luffing and fluttering, which is common on three-strut kites, to a minimum through careful strut placement and profile design. The profiles in the tips are quite flat and even the first profile above the tips struts were carefully tuned to avoid the draggy luffing that can slow turning.The two leech battens on each side help with this also.
Drift is another key quality in a wave kite. This is improved through optimized weight distribution. We had great drift with the zero-strut protos we tried, but surprisingly we had even better drift with the two- and three-strut protos. Something about the lower center of gravity.
Relaunch on the Neo is almost effortless and almost instantaneous, in large part because of the tight cone and increased sweep.
"The process" Episode
EVO 2014, an insight view with Ralf Grösel
Ralf, to start simple, what´s new about the 2014 EVO?
Ralf Grösel: A lot!! The Evo 2014 is not based on the 2013 model but a completely new design coming out of two different prototype directions. This Evo is a kite I´ve been developing for the last two years, this means the first prototypes have already been built parallel to the Evo 2013. Which was kind of strange but necessary to come from a new approach.
What was the challenge about it and why did the development take so long?
Ralf Grösel: Since the introduction to the market in 2008 the Evo was very Delta-oriented. This concept direction offers a lot of positive aspects, but also a lot of limiting factors. Over the years I really pushed the kites' overall performance to the absolute limit in-between the concept, until I really came to the point where I just could not improve the Delta-shape anymore in 2013. I already saw that coming in 2012 and therefore needed the time to work in time on the new concept and be ready after these two years for a new direction.
What do we have in our hands now?
Ralf Grösel: At the end of the day, a completely new kite, which offers some of the typical Evo genes, but also is a completely different construction and direction. The Evo is trimmed to maximum performance combined with perfect handling. Developed to fit perfectly to a 4 line bar, I found a perfect match for the geometry combining stability with flexibility of the whole kite construction. Not to mention several prototypes…
Sounds a bit like a conflict…
Ralf Grösel: On the first view, yes. But I can explain it easily:
The higher aspect ratio and the flatter radius, which are even similar to a Rebel, have been optimized on the other hand to a very very stiff and compact system through several small changes. A lot of flexibility in the tip area to achieve that great handling, stiffness in the profile for bomb proof stability. But it is indeed tricky to combine these two characteristics, which pull in opposite directions!
Any other changes?
Ralf Grösel: Several, just to mention the changed panel layout, remarkable thinner struts to reduce weight, a different tip geometry and a new bridle system with to rolls at both sides to depower efficiently.
Where in the North Kiteboarding Range is the Evo seen in your view?
Ralf Grösel: The Evo is and will stay the all-round talent inbetween the North Kiteboarding range. But, the Evo made a huge step forward regarding the overall performance. Steady is the extremely easy water relaunch and the brilliant stability.
What does that mean in detail for the pilot?
Ralf Grösel: The general speed of the kite in the wind window has increased, the upwind ability is just insane and the depower is now massive. Jumping is super easy, anybody can boost highest jumps with smooth landings with this kite. Compared to last years models flight time and height has increased a lot.
NKB: Where is the Evo´s position next to the completely new Dice?
Ralf Grösel: The Dice is nothing more or less then the jackpot. We never had a kite which started this fast and with so many good feedback from team riders and customers at the same time, never sold several thousand pieces of one kite model in the first year.
Still, the Evo is a different concept with 5 struts and all the benefits which come with it and the potential to surprise, especially Evo lovers! The Dice is a specialist´s kite for advanced freestyle/wakestyle and advanced wave riding. The Evo´s jumping ability for classic moves and classic riding are just easier and more stable. As mentioned, the Evo jumps high, wide and long!
Test one, you´ll be surprised!!
Thank you Ralf for this inside you of your perspective!


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News: Common's "Just Wright" Faces Delay After NYC Shooting, "It's A Little Freaky"
Monday, Aug 17, 2009 1:11PM
Common and Queen Latifah's upcoming Just Wright movie is facing a possible delay after gunfire erupted around the film's set Sunday (August 16) evening in New York City.
One of film's reps confirmed the shooting and described his reaction.
Feliberto Rivera, 36, was hanging no-parking signs in advance of a shoot for the sports-themed romance Just Wright when he heard gunshots at the opposite end of the block. Rivera said he turned around to see what happened and saw a man sprawled out on the street in front of the Fulton Houses. "I was waiting for him to get up, but he did not," Rivera said. "He yelled, 'Help! Help!'" The shooting took place shortly after the unidentified victim parked his car in front of the Fulton Houses around 6 p.m., witnesses said. (New York Daily News)
Additional accounts were given on the unexpected shooting.
"We doubt it's connected to the film," a source close to the movie exclusively told RadarOnline.com, "But it is a little freaky. Things might be delayed a bit." The shooting happened while the crew prepped for a scene in New York City Sunday night for the movie. Police confirmed to RadarOnline.com that the shooting took place at 419 West 19th Street in the Chelsea area around 5:45 p.m. Sunday near the Fulton Houses, a low-income housing development. Latifah was to start filming with rapper co-star Common Monday. (Radar Online)
Common was tagged for the film earlier this summer.
Fox Searchlight has tapped rapper-turned-actor Common (Terminator Salvation) as the lead opposite Queen Latifah in sports romancer Just Wright, with Sanaa Hamri directing. Paula Patton has also been cast. Latifah, Shakim Compere and Debra Martin Chase are producing. Shooting starts in mid-July in New York for a release next year. (Variety)
While details are still developing, the film will reportedly center on the life of a basketball player.
Script, penned by Michael Elliot, revolves around a sports trainer who finds herself falling in love with a professional basketball player while rehabilitating him from a career-threatening injury. (Theater Mania)
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By Mirembe Martina
A man is facing charges of hurting the religious feeling of people after questioning the origin of holy catholic water.
There is miraculous water flowing from the bottom of Christ's statue in Our Lady of Velankanni Church in Mumbai, India but Sanal Edamaruku did not believe the water was miraculous so he started asking what the origin of the water was.
In response to his questioning remarks, two Catholic laity organizations filed a case against him for "deliberately hurting religious feelings and attempting malicious acts intended to outrage the religious sentiments of any class or community," as stated in Section 295A of the Indian penal code.
People have been going to the area in question hoping to take the water and get healed but Edamarku was not pleased about it. He started talking against the people's beliefs casting doubts in the believers by telling them the water was not religious at all. Edamarku said the water isn't "holy" and it could actually pose a danger the health of the people because it comes from a clogged drainage system.
Edamaruku is founder and president of Rationalist International, president of the Indian Rationalist Association, and an honorary associate of the UK Rationalist Association. He was called in to investigate the source of the water and reported the water oozing out from under the statue isn't miraculous. Edamaruku even documented his visit to provide evidence in court.
He went on to add that he regrets nothing in intervening in the beliefs of the people because all he wanted to do was help them open their eyes to reality and be more rational in understanding the things around them.


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September 3: The Treasury Department and IRS today released for publication in the Federal Register final regulations (T.D. 9634) that adopt "with no substantive change" regulations that were proposed in 2011.
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Supply and Demand
Driven by Energy Demand
Our industry is driven by energy and electricity consumption, which continues to increase. Since 1980, global electricity consumption has tripled, and is forecast to increase by 70% over the next two decades. The largest growth is coming from countries with rapidly expanding economies, like China and India. To put it in perspective, of the seven billion people on the planet, there are almost two billion people who do not have access to electricity. Many more only have access to a fraction of what we use in the western world, and demand among those consumers continues to increase.
Nuclear is an Important Part of the Energy Mix
Nuclear power is a clean, reliable, affordable and, most importantly, baseload energy source. The areas of the world where we're seeing the most growth in new nuclear construction is in regions where baseload power is needed – that fundamental, 24-hour power that is required to have healthcare, education, transportation and communications systems.
But it's also important to provide that energy reliably and affordably. Nuclear reactors can run on a single load of fuel for 12 – 18 months, helping to shield utilities from possible fuel cost swings and supply interruptions.
New Reactor Construction
As a result of the many benefits of nuclear power, we are seeing a level of new reactor construction unparalleled in decades: approximately 70 reactors are under construction around the world, right now, with a total of 524 operating reactors expected by 2023, up from today's 433. More reactors mean more demand for uranium. Cameco estimates world uranium consumption will increase from 170 million pounds today to about 240 million pounds by 2023.
Secondary Supply Challenges
Secondary supply – uranium in various forms that is already out of the ground and sitting in stockpiles around the world – has been filling the gap between consumption and production for more than 20 years. For example, in 2013 world consumption was 167 million pounds, while there was only about 156 million pounds of fresh uranium production. The largest contributor to secondary supply has been the Russian Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU) agreement, which provided approximately 24 million pounds of uranium to the market every year. However, secondary supplies in general are decreasing and the HEU agreement came to an end in 2013, removing the equivalent of a mine the size of McArthur River from the market. These challenges will put more pressure on an already strained primary supply.
Primary Supply Challenges
There are two key challenges to primary supply: timeliness and cost. The long-lead nature of uranium mine development means that our industry is unable to respond quickly to sudden increases in demand or significant supply interruptions – bringing on new production can take between seven and 10 years. And now with recent lower uranium prices, we're seeing delays and cancellations as new projects become uneconomic.
Supply-Demand: Putting it Together
An Expected Gap
When we put the expectations for demand together with the expectations for supply, we see a growing gap between the two as more new reactors increase the demand for uranium, while at the same time secondary supplies diminish and primary producers experience economic challenges that will make it difficult to bring on new production. These long-term fundamentals are the drivers behind Cameco's strategy over the coming years.
Near- to Mid-term Uncertainty
While the fundamentals of the market remain strong over the long term, the near- to medium-term outlook for the growth of nuclear power has been complicated by the decisions of some countries to move away from nuclear over time and the slow return to operations of Japan's nuclear fleet. This has reduced the demand outlook over the next few years from what was previously expected. At the same time, utilities' needs have been well covered in the near term, so there has not been pressure to contract for new material. These are the issues that need to be addressed before we start to see significant positive movement in the market.
We believe that Japan will resume restarts of their reactor fleet as nuclear power is important to Japan for industrial, economic and clean air reasons. And as inventories are absorbed by the market and utilities are less covered and need to begin contracting in a significant way, we expect the market will respond. The big question – and an unanswerable one at the moment – is when.
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A father-of-three from Bradford has been banned from driving for 18 months after he tried to run a red light and got his vehicle trapped between barriers at a level crossing, sparking scenes of "panic and chaos" as a train approached.
Elderly people and children were among up to six people who got out of the vehicle when it got stuck on Kildwick crossing at Cross Hills, near Keighley, with the automated barriers down.
Jawad Hassan, who has three young children, was sentenced for driving dangerously at the busy crossing on Saturday, August 20, last year.
Bradford Crown Court heard how a family outing to visit relatives turned to "panic and chaos" when Hassan, 32, of Lister View, Manningham, Bradford, tried to run the red flashing lights at 2.14pm in his full people carrier.
CCTV footage showing children and elderly people fleeing from the Seat Alhambra and Hassan smashing the vehicle through the barriers to safety were shown in court.
Prosecutor Howard Shaw said motorist Stuart Shackleton, who had stopped at the crossing, helped Hassan's elderly passengers to safety.
It cost £2,195 to repair the barriers.
Hassan told the police: "I did not mean to cross the barriers. I knew it was wrong. It just happened."
His barrister, Khadim Al'Hassan, said he was of positive good character, without even a speeding ticket.
His wife was in poor health and one of their children was disabled.
"He had a full car of passengers and, immediately they got out, panic set in," Mr Al'Hassan said. "It was silly and foolish but not deliberate."
The judge, Recorder Michael Smith, sentenced Hassan to nine months' imprisonment, suspended for 12 months, with 150 hours of unpaid work.
He was banned from driving for 18 months and must take an extended retest before getting back behind the wheel.


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Another Wrestler transitioning to MMA!!
Could a former two-time NCAA heavyweight champion be on the verge of crossing over to mixed martial arts? If sources are to be believed, yes.
FiveOuncesOfPain.com has learned that Cole Konrad, who finished first in the NCAAs in 2006 and 2007 in the 285 lbs. division and proceeded Brock Lesnar on the University of Minnesota wrestling team, is set to make his MMA debut early this year. And according to sources close to the fighter, his debut could come as soon as this month.
While Conrad's entry into professional mixed martial arts may sound rushed, the 26-year old Wisconsin native has actually been training MMA for the past two years. Soon after Marty Morgan resigned as a coach with the University of Minnesota wrestling team to join Lesnar as his full-time wrestling coach, he recruited Konrad to serve as a full-time training partner to the current UFC heavyweight champion.
After college, the four-time All-American's initial goal was to follow in the footsteps of fellow former NCAA heavyweight champion and current New England Patriots All-Pro OL Stephen Neal and make it in the NFL. Despite not having played football in college, Konrad was invited to try out for the New York Jets prior to the 2008 regular season.
Now a full-time resident of Minnesota, Konrad splits his time training at Greg Nelson's Minnesota Martial Arts Academy in Minneapolis and also at Lesnar's home training facility in Alexandria, Minn. In addition to training with Lesnar and also sharing a similar pedigree, Konrad is also co-managed by Lesnar's manager, Brian Stegeman.
Sources also have revealed to FiveOuncesOfPain.com that Konrad is already drawing significant interest from both DREAM in the United States as well as the upstart Bellator Fighting Championships, which could conduct its first-ever heavyweight tournament this August.
(Props: Fiveouncesofpain.com)
Konrad won a gold medal at the 2005 Pan-American Championships. He also won the NCAA wrestling championships in 2006 and 2007 at 285 pounds and finished third at the 2006 World University Championships at 120 kilograms. Many believe wrestling is one of the best if not best pedigree to transition into MMA and I'm going to keep my eye on Cole, I beleive he may be a name we hear in the future. And you know if he trains with Lesnar he trains as hard as anyone, will he be a Lesnar? I doubt it Lesnar is one of a kind but i beleive Cole with the help of Lesnars camp will be a force in the future.


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• Clip Searches
• Experts (academic or organization)
• Data/Statistics/Rank (government, company, industry)
• Reports/Documents
• People finding (personal stories about the effects/fallout of the hard numbers)
Identify a trend or development and examine what is likely to happen next and what impact it will have.
(Source: Reuters Handbook of Journalism)
"Interpretation" — coming up with a "meaning," an "explanation" or a "significance".
(Source: Beyond News: The Case for Wisdom Journalism, Mitchell Stephens, Professor of Journalism and Mass Communications, New York University; Fellow at Harvard University, Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, Spring 2009)
Public companies have shares available to the public and have issued securities
through an initial public offering (IPO) and are traded on a stock exchange or market.
Public companies are required to file with the Securities and Exchange Commission,
and financial statements and other company information is available for public view.
They are required to file specific information: financial, ownership, management, legal issues, strategy.
NYC's Top Public Companies (2013) from Newsday
Searching for Public Company Info
Five Key SEC Filings for Reporters
• S-1 Registration Statement: Often referred to as the Form S-1, this registration statement is a requisite for all new companies. Loaded with useful information
• 8-K Current Report: Reports on all matters of importance in the current life of the corporation
• 10-K Annual Report
• 10-Q Quarterly Report: More valuable content than the company's published Annual Report. SEC rules require much greater detail & fuller disclosure of company's financial and other activities, including legal proceedings.
• 13-D Beneficial Ownership: Any outside investor who purchases 5% or more of a company's stock is required to complete a Form 13-D.
• 14-A Proxy Statement: Loaded with useful information: executive compensation, agenda issues for shareholders' meeting, board members' compensation.
IF A REQUIRED DOCUMENT IS NOT FILED ON TIME OR AT ALL, THIS IS A RED FLAG. Check the online publications library in either Nexis or Factiva to see if there is news associated with this event. Further investigation is called for.
Company Research Databases
• SEC Filings Search — Search the SEC Database for company filings.
• Factiva — Search for news on a company or go to Companies/Markets tab, on top for Company snapshot page and associated links.
• Nexis — Can search for news on a company and view Company Dossier (see Company button on left)
• Mergent Online — Company's history, acquisitions, officers and directors, in some cases going back over 50 years. Also had complete history of financials and financial reports, including Mergent Equity and industry reports.
Other Sources of Information on Public Companies
Annual Reports to Shareholders
You can almost always find these on company website, search in the investor relations or corporate page. They don't have to represent the true condition of a company, although most do. They will tell you how the company wants to be viewed. Photographs can be an important source of information.
Conference Call Transcripts
Free conference call transcripts
Wire Stories
1. Press releases that come from the company itself can be distributed via Business Wire or M2 Presswire or PR Newswire. No context is provided by an outside editor.
2. Newswires such as Associated Press, Reuters, Dow Jones Newswire, Agence France Press, and UPI are published based upon information that is released by the company. This is edited by someone outside the company who may add context or other relevant information.
Company Websites
This can be a public relations tool by a company, just as the annual report to shareholders. Be analytical when evaluating information coming from the site. If you cannot locate anything on a company except on its own website, beware. Phony site www.mcwhortle.com (site set up in 2002 by the Securities and Exchange Commission and other regulatory agencies to warn investors of dangers of investing online via a company's website.)
Non-US Companies
Other countries have their own institutions for company filings. For example, UK has Companies House, Canada has Corporations Canada. There is some basic information on private companies here. Some international companies that raise funds in the US must file 20F filings annually.
Industry Information on Companies
• Hoover's Academic for industry description, data and indicators
• Factiva Industry (under Companies/Markets Tab on top)
• Trade Associations (via Associations Unlimited)
Free Online Databases with Info on US and International companies
• Yahoo! Finance — abs include Investing, News & Opinion, Personal Finance and My Portfolio
▪ Investing has a stock research center with company financials
and SEC filings, annual reports, historical quotes, bonds, options, and other tools
• Wall Street Journal Online's Market Data Center
Private companies have no obligation to make their financial information public and do not file with the SEC. It is at the discretion of a private company if, and what, they want to disclose about themselves, with the exception of requirements of legal agreements, such as the leasing of equipment (UCC filings) or ownership of property (a public record).
Twitter is an example of a private company that went public.
America's Largest private companies (2013) from Forbes.
Searching for Private Company Info
How to find info on a private company [this is all self-reported, so verify with company].
Finding Principals, Address, Phone, Total Revenue and History
• Start with a Google search, check company website
• Clip Searches in Factiva, Lexis or ABI/Inform
• Domain Tools domain name registry search
• D&B Private Company Database Search via Mergent subscription. All info is self-reported by company and needs to be confirmed. You can sometimes find principals, number of employees, years in business, history. Check the box for D&B at the search screen.
• Hoover's Academic
• RefUSA — NOTE: Use Ref USA for Contacts, neighbors and info on principals of business. The info provided on revenues and number of employees, etc are estimations, and generally not reliable or useable unless you confirm.
• Each company must file with the state's secretary of state office. This should have basic address and filer information, but no financial disclosure is required.
Other information on businesses.
Civil Lawsuits
• Search federal courts in PACER (ask for access in Research Center),
state courts eCourts or SCROLL and local courts for filings
• Search LexisNexis US legal tab; federal and state cases search (on right): has some NY Supreme Court case decisions
• Regulatory agency
Ex: BUSNET System agency operator profile reports
• Capital New York Contract Tracker
• GuideStar — view IRS 990 filings
• Charity Navigator — good financial evaluations of nonprofits
Corporate Influence on Political Campaigns
• NYS Campaign Finance Disclosure
• NYC Campaign Finance on NYC Campaign Finance Board site
• Federal Donor Lookup on OpenSecrets
• New York City Lobbyist and Client Database
• Federal Election Commission — Tracks contributions to and expenditures by campaign committees. Has filings for all PACs. Also includes press releases, reports, etc.
• PoliticalMoneyLine
• Campaign Finance Information Center — seminars, training, and national, state and local news
Selected Economic Data Resources
• FedStats — Links to statistics from 100 federal agencies
• NYC Economic Development Corp — NYC Economic Data page
• NYS Current and Historical Employment by Industry and Unemployment Rate
• NYS Data Center — economic and demographic data
• Crain's NY CityFacts — NYC economic facts and trends
• NYCEDC StatsBee — Statistics from Economic Research & Analysis department of NYCEDC's Center for Economic Transformation.
Additional Information on Research for Business Reporting
• What Has Become of Business Journalism, The New Yorker Currency Blog, Feb. 5, 2014
• How to write better business stories, from Journalist's Resource
• A flashy and simple Beginner's Guide to Business Research courtesy of Baruch College, another one from Rutgers, and some online audio tutorials, including Covering Private Companies, SEC Filings, and Understanding Financial Statements from the National Center for Business Journalism at Arizona State University (it will prompt you to log in using your school email address, but that is all that is required.)


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By: Dorothy Sherman
AUBURN, AL - The BCS championship game is the biggest college football game of the season. This year Auburn University will take on Florida State, and people are willing to fork over a lot to go to the game.
"Maybe a kidney, left foot. I've heard of people doing a lot of crazy things," Auburn fan, Phil Greene said. "All expenses paid for I'd probably pay a few thousand dollars for a ticket," Auburn fan, Kayla Wrolson said."I'd probably sell my car for some box seats or something," Auburn fan, Brandon Moody said.
But, what if you didn't have to pay at all? Erik Schuman from Fountain Valley, California isn't selling BCS tickets, he's giving them away on Craigslist. The catch? a job.
"I'm looking to get a new position and I figured this gives somebody an incentive to look at me when they might not other wise," Schuman said.
Schuman, a high school basketball referee who sells electronics, put up the listing over 72 hours ago. An idea he's considered a while.
"All my friends tell me one of my major assets is my resourcefulness and creativity and I thought you know we have a high profile event where tickets are probably going to run four figures and that's expensive and so this was just something where it's a chance to get my name out there a little more high profile and it's something different," Schuman said. "I'm marketing, I do things differently and this is just a chance to do something different and stand out one way or another."
Though some Auburn fans find the listing a little far fetched. It's something they can wrap their heads around.
"It's pretty wild. You know, money only gets you so far, but something like a job or a commodity. You know, you can't really put a price on that. I'd probably give him my job for some good seats," Moody said. "I think it's a good idea. I don't know if people will," Greene said. "More power to this guy trying that," Wrolson said.
So far Schuman said he has had a few hits, and said that it might be a long shot that he'll actually get a job, but no more unlikely then Auburn attending the BCS championship this year.
Schuman is looking for a job in either writing, marketing or management. He said if he could get a job doing all three that would be come true.
Schuman's Craigslist posting: http://auburn.craigslist.org/tix/4234031132.html
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Department of Emergency Management
The Department of Emergency Management offers a major and minor in Emergency Management at the undergraduate level. The minor options include Comprehensive Emergency Management, Preparedness and Response, Mitigation and Recovery, and International Emergency Management. Emergency Management is a growing profession and discipline of study addressing all phases of disaster and risk management. The mission of the major is to develop graduates with extensive theoretical and applied knowledge in emergency management and disaster research. The program is based on an all hazards approach which includes natural and technological disasters as well as other human made hazards.
Numerous career opportunities are available to those graduating with an Emergency Management major. Positions are available at all levels of government including city, county, state, federal and the military. A wide variety of local, national, and international voluntary organizations routinely hire graduates educated in emergency management for humanitarian relief efforts and related activities. Finally, there is increasing need in the private, business sector for emergency management and crisis management to address business and operational continuity. There has been an upward trend in the consequences of natural and technological disasters in the last 30 years. As a result, emphasis is being placed on the vulnerability and risk reduction to natural disasters such as Hurricane Sandy, tornado outbreaks in Missouri and Oklahoma, the cascading earthquake, tsunami and nuclear incident in Japan, the Haiti earthquake, Hurricane Katrina and human made incidents and disasters such as the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
Emergency Management Minor
The Department of Emergency Management offers a minor with a variety of options to enhance the educational background and career opportunities for students from various majors. The Comprehensive Emergency Management option covers all of the disaster phases and includes an elective course. The Preparedness and Response option focuses on those activities that compliment majors related to planning activities and responder engagements. An additional two elective courses round out this minor. The Mitigation and Recovery option focuses on structural as well as social and behavioral aspects of minimizing disaster impacts as well as recovering from them. Courses that deepen the student's knowledge of these functions are included in the elective category. The International Emergency Management option covers the disaster phases of response and recovery as they typically involve collaboration and intervention from international partners. Specific international issues courses and electives are also included in this minor.


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Bournemouth defender Stephen Purches is making good progress in his recovery from a double leg break.
The 32-year-old broke his tibia and fibula during February's 1-0 defeat at Rochdale and was set a rehabilitation period of between six to nine months.
But the early stages of that lengthy recovery have gone well and Purches is on the right track.
"I went to see the specialist recently and he said I have to come off the crutches for the next four weeks and wear the air boot when I walk around," Purches told the club's official website.
"I'll then come out of the air boot and back on the crutches again for two weeks and then hopefully at the start of pre-season I'll be able to walk freely."


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Linda Sarna, RN, PhD, FAAN
Dr. Linda Sarna, Professor and Lulu Wolf Hassenplug Endowed Chair at the UCLA School of Nursing received her doctorate from the University of California, San Francisco, and her baccalaureate and master's degress from UCLA. She is recognized for her scholarship promoting nursing involvement in tobacco control and in oncology nursing research focused on quality of life and symptoms of patients with lung cancer. In collaboration with Dr. Stella Bialous, Dr. Sarna has led research efforts to increase nursing interventions to help smokers quit using web-based educational programs and resources in the US, currently working with nurses in Kentucky and Louisiana. She is testing these methods in studies involving nurses in China, the Czech Republic, and Poland. Drs. Sarna and Bialous initiated the Tobacco Free Nurses initiative to help nurses quit smoking and to increase nursing education, research, and leadership in tobacco control.
She has received numerous honors for her work, including recognition from the Oncology Nursing Society as a Distinguished Research Professor and the International Society of Nurses in Cancer Care with a Distinguished Service Award. She has collaborated with national and international nursing organizations on policies related to tobacco control, and with the National Cancer Institute on a research agenda regarding tobacco and cancer. Drs. Sarna and Bialous have monitored smoking among nurses in the U.S. as well as the changes in tobacco use among nurses using data from the Nurses' Health Study. She and Dr. Bialous co-edited the 2009 Annual Review of Nursing Research focused on nursing scholarship in tobacco control. She recently co-authored a monograph for the World Health Organization on the role that nurses can play in reducing non-communicable diseases. Dr Sarna is the Chair of the UCLA Tobacco-Free Policy Steering committee.
Professor Sarna, has been appointed acting dean of the School of Nursing as of July 1, 2014. She will serve a one-year term while Dean Courtney Lyder is on leave.
MacDonald DJ, Sarna L, Newman Giger J, van Servellen G, Bastani R, & Weitzel JN. Comparison of Latina and Non-Latina White Women's Beliefs About Communicating Genetic Cancer Risk to Relatives. Journal of Health Communication. 2008 Jul-Aug;13(5):465-79.
Sarna L, Swann S, Langer C, Werner-Wasik M, Nicolaou N, Komaki R, Machtay M, Byhardt R, Wasserman T, Movsas B. Clinically Meaningful Differences in Patient-reported Outcomes with Amifostine in Combination with Chemoradiation for Locally Advanced Non-small-cell Lung Cancer: an Analysis of RTOG 9801. International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology & Physics. 2008 Dec 1;72(5):1378-84. Epub 2008 May 22.
Sarna L, Cooley ME, Brown JK, Chernecky C, Elashoff D, Kotlerman J. Symptom Severity 1 to 4 Months After Thoracotomy for Lung Cancer. American Journal of Critical Care. 2008 Sep;17(5):455-67; quiz 468.
Sun VC, Sarna L. Symptom Management in Hepatocellular Carcinoma. Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing. 2008 Oct;12(5):759-66.
Chan SS, Sarna L, Danao LL. Are Nurses Prepared to Curb the Tobacco Epidemic in China? A Questionnaire Survey of Schools of Nursing. International Journal of Nursing Studies. 2008 May;45(5):706-13. Epub 2007 Mar 2.
Cooley ME, Sipples RL, Murphy M, Sarna L. Smoking Cessation and Lung Cancer: Oncology Nurses Can Make a Difference. Seminars in Oncology Nursing. 2008 Feb;24(1):16-26
Sarna L, Bialous SA, Cooley ME, Jun HJ, Feskanich D. Impact of Smoking and Smoking Cessation on Health-related Quality of Life in Women in the Nurses' Health Study. Quality of Life Research. 2008 Dec;17(10):1217-27.
Sarna L, Bialous SA, Jun HJ, Wewers ME, Cooley ME, Feskanich D. Smoking Trends in the Nurses' Health Study (1976-2003). Nursing Research. 2008 Nov-Dec;57(6):374-82
Helping Smokers Quit Website, Dr. Linda Sarna Principal Investigator
Brown J, Sarna L, Cooley M et al. (2007) Analysis of Symptom Clusters in Women with Lung Cancer. Meeting abstracts. Oncology Nursing Forum, 34, abstract # 63, 192-193


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