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Atopic dermatitis, also known as atopic eczema, is an atopic, hereditary, and non-contagious skin disease characterized by chronic inflammation of the skin.
The skin of a patient with atopic dermatitis reacts abnormally and easily to irritants, food, and environmental allergens and becomes red, flaky and very itchy. It also becomes vulnerable to surface infections caused by bacteria. The skin on the flexural surfaces of the joints (for example inner sides of elbows and knees) are most commonly affected regions in people.
Atopic dermatitis often occurs together with other atopic diseases like hay fever, asthma and conjunctivitis. It is a familial and chronic disease and its symptoms can increase or disappear over time. Atopic dermatitis in older children and adults is often confused with psoriasis. Atopic dermatitis afflicts humans, particularly young children; it is also a well-characterized disease in domestic dogs.
Although there is no cure for atopic eczema, and its causes not well understood, it can be treated very effectively in the short term through a combination of prevention (learning what triggers the allergic reactions) and drug therapy.
Since the twentieth century, many mucosal inflammatory disorders have become dramatically more common; atopic eczema (AE) is a classic example of such a disease. It now affects 10-20% of children and 1-3% of adults in industrialized countries, and its prevalence there has more than doubled in the past thirty years.[1]
Causes (Allergy) Edit
Although it is an inherited disease, eczema is primarily aggravated by contact with or intake of allergens. It can also be influenced by other "hidden" factors such as stress or fatigue. Atopic eczema consists of chronic inflammation; it occurs in people with a history of allergy disorders such as asthma or hay fever.
Causes (Biological)Edit
Although it is such a common disease, relatively little is understood about the underlying causes of atopic eczema.[2] While AE is associated with allergic asthma and allergic rhinitis, the connection between the diseases has not been established.[2] Twin studies have consistently shown that the disease has a higher rate of concordance in identical as compared to fraternal twins, which also indicates that genetics plays a role in its development.[2] However, the rate of concordance between identical twins is far from 100%, and the changing frequency of the disease over time points to the environmental factors—nutrition or hygiene, for instance—that also play a role in disease susceptibility.[3]
Genomic research into the cause of multigenic diseases is still in its infancy: few genes have ever been identified that contribute to multigenic human disorders.[3] Researchers have attempted to do this in past whole-genome screens for AE and related diseases, but their results have been inconsistent. A few of the pertinent loci have been validated by replication in further studies (chromosome 2q, chromosome 6p, and chromosome 12q, for example),[4] but most have not been.
Prevention Edit
Since there is no cure for atopic eczema, treatment should mainly involve discovering the triggers of allergic reactions and learning to avoid them.
Diet: Originally controversial, the association of food allergy with atopic dermatitis has now been clearly demonstrated. Many common food allergens can trigger an allergic reaction: such as milk, nuts, cheese, tomatoes, wheat, yeast, and corn. Many of these allergens are common ingredients in grocery store products (especially corn syrup, which is a sugar substitute). Specialty health food stores often carry products that do not contain common allergens.
Environment and Lifestyle: Since dust is a very common allergen and irritant, adults with atopic eczema should likely avoid smoking, as well as the inhalation of dust in general. The dander from the fur of dogs and cats may also trigger an inflammatory response. It is a common misconception that simply removing an animal from a room will prevent an allergic reaction from occurring. A room must be completely free of animal dander in order to prevent an allergic reaction. Anger, stress, and lack of sleep are also factors that are known to aggravate eczema. Excessive heat (especially with humidity) and coldness are known to provoke outbreaks, as well as sudden and extreme temperature swings.
The Scratch Test: An allergy skin-patch or "scratch" test, given by an allergist, can often pinpoint the triggers of allergic reactions. Once the causes of the allergic reactions are discovered, the allergens should be eliminated from the diet, lifestyle, and/or environment. If the eczema is severe, it may take some time (days to weeks depending on the severity) for the body's immune system to begin to settle down after the irritants are withdrawn.
The primary treatment involves prevention, which includes avoiding or minimizing contact with (or intake of) known allergens. Once that has been established, topical treatments can be used. Topical treatments focus on reducing both the dryness and inflammation of the skin.
To combat the severe dryness associated with eczema, a high-quality, dermatologist approved moisturizer should be used daily. Moisturizers should not have any ingredients that may further aggravate the condition. Moisturizers are especially effective if applied within 5-10 minutes after bathing.
Most commercial soaps wash away the oils produced by the skin that normally serve to prevent drying. Using a soap substitute such as aqueous cream helps keep the skin moisturized. A non-soap cleanser can be purchased usually at a local drug store. Showers should be kept short and at a lukewarm/moderate temperature.
If moisturizers on their own don't help and the eczema is severe, a doctor may prescribe topical steroid ointments or creams. Steroid creams have traditionally been considered the most effective method of treating severe eczema. Disadvantages of using steroid creams include stretch marks and thinning of the skin. Higher-potency steroid creams must not be used on the face or other areas where the skin is naturally thin; usually a lower-potency steroid is prescribed for sensitive areas. Along with creams, antibiotics are often prescribed if an infection is suspected. If the eczema is especially severe, a doctor may prescribe prednisone or administer a shot of cortisone. If the eczema is mild, over-the-counter hydrocortisone can be purchased at the local drugstore.
If complications include infections (often of Staphylococcus aureus), antibiotics may be employed.
The immunosuppressant Tacrolimus or pimecrolimus can be used as a topical preparation in the treatment of severe atopic dermatitis instead of traditional steroid creams. However, there can be unpleasant side effects in some patients such as intense stinging or burning.
Some alternative medicines may (illegally) contain very strong steroids. Others are completely harmless such as Oolong tea. [5].
A more novel form of treatment involves exposure to broad or narrow-band ultraviolet light. UV radiation exposure has been found to have a localized immunomodulatory effect on affected tissues, and may be used to decrease the severity and frequency of flares [6]. In particular, Meduri et al. have suggested that the usage of UVA1 is more effective in treating acute flares, whereas narrow-band UVB is more effective in long-term management scenarios [7]. However, UV radiation has also been implicated in various types of skin cancer [8], and thus UV treatment is not without risk.
If ultraviolet light therapy is employed, initial exposure should be no longer than 5-10 minutes, depending on skin type. UV therapy should only be moderate, and special care should be taken to avoid sunburn (sunburn will only aggravate the eczema). It does not necessarily have to be administered in a hospital, it can be done at a tanning salon or in natural sunlight, so as long as it's done under the direction and supervision of a dermatologist.
Many of the same types of treatment are used in domestic dogs with atopic dermatitis. In addition, domestic dogs may be successfully managed with allergen-specific immunotherapy; many are treated with low-dose cyclosporine lipid emulsion.
On August 27, 2007, scientists led by Jeung-Hoon Lee created in the laboratory synthetic lipids called Pseudoceramides which are involved in skin cell growth and could be used in treating skin diseases such as atopic dermatitis, a form of eczema characterized by red, flaky and very itchy skin; psoriasis, a disease that causes red scaly patches on the skin; and glucocorticoid-induced epidermal atrophy, in which the skin shrinks due to skin cell loss.[9]
Future researchEdit
It was less than ten years ago that the researchers discovered the first mouse model to spontaneously developed AE-like lesions, the inbred NC/Nga mouse.[10] These models have been used for tests that would have been impossible in humans, like the administration of Mycobacterium vaccae for the possible prevention of AE-like lesions.[11]
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It was a short and unfortunate dynasty which the Baliols founded, brought to an end by the battle of Bannockburn.
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The only visitors who brave the twists and turns of this cave are hardcore adventurers and scientists like Camp, who has been coming here for six years to count the salamanders that call the dark, rocky crag home.
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WASHINGTON, D.C.Health care spending per privately insured American jumped 9.6 percent in 2002, growing nearly four times faster than the overall U.S. economy, according to a study by the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC) published today as a Web-exclusive article in the journal Health Affairs.
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Despite the slight decrease in 2002 spending growth, employer-based health insurance premium trends rose again in 2003, increasing an average 15 percent-the largest jump in at least a decade. Premium increases would have been even higher in 2003-an estimated average 18 percent-if not for increased consumer cost sharing through higher deductibles, copayments and coinsurance.
"Unless underlying health care cost trends slow significantly, health insurance premiums will continue to rise rapidly and the number of uninsured Americans will increase," Ginsburg said.
The study analyzes per capita spending on health care services-inpatient and outpatient hospital care, physician services and prescription drugs-commonly covered by private insurance, which is primarily employer based. Per capita health care spending trends-also often referred to as cost trends-are important because they largely determine long-term health insurance premium trends.
Rapid growth in hospital spending-increasingly driven by price inflation rather than increased use of services-accounted for more than half of the overall spending increase (51%) for the second straight year.
Spending on inpatient hospital care increased 6.8 percent in 2002, accounting for 14 percent of the overall spending increase. The continued rapid growth in inpatient spending is especially striking when compared with the mid-1990s when inpatient spending actually decreased.
Spending on outpatient hospital care-which includes services provided by both hospital-based and freestanding outpatient facilities-grew 14.6 percent in 2002, accounting for 37 percent of the overall health care spending increase. Outpatient spending grew at the fastest annual rate of the four major components of overall health spending, surpassing the annual growth rate of prescription drugs for the second year in a row.
After climbing 8 percent in 2001, growth in the utilization of inpatient and outpatient hospital services slowed to 5.7 percent in 2002. The slowdown is likely a result of increased patient cost sharing, which leads to less use of services, and the completion of the transition to more loosely managed care.
Hospital prices increased 5.1 percent in 2002, the largest increase in a decade. As a result of higher prices and the slowing trend of increased utilization, price inflation accounted for almost half of the increase in inpatient and outpatient hospital spending in 2002, compared with about a third in 2001.
"Recent evidence from our site visits suggests hospitals continue to use their formidable negotiating leverage to seek large payment rate increases from health plans-in part to reverse the effect of discounted hospital payment rates in the mid-1990s," said Bradley C. Strunk, an HSC research analyst and study coauthor.
Hospitals also may be seeking to pass through higher wage increases granted in response to labor shortages, particularly for nurses. Growth in hospital wage rates slowed in 2002 but continued to be high, growing 5.5 percent, down from 6.1 percent in 2001.
Other key findings include:
Spending on prescription drugs rose 13.2 percent, slowing for the third year in a row and contributing 22 percent to the overall spending increase. Several factors help explain the slowdown, including increased use of three-tier copayment structures, a reduction in new drug introductions and greater availability of generic drugs.
Spending for physician services increased 6.5 percent, accounting for 27 percent of the overall spending increase. Both higher prices and greater use of physician services played a role, but growing utilization was the more important factor.
The study and the findings
also are detailed in a new HSC Data Bulletin-Tracking Health Care Costs: Trends
Stabilize but Remain High in 2002-available online at www.hschange.org. A webcast
of a National Press Club briefing on the study will be made available online
by kaisernetwork.org, a free service of the Kaiser Family Foundation, after
12:30 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, June 11 at www.kaisernetwork.org/healthcast/hsc/11jun03.
Along with the webcast, speaker bios, a transcript and related resources will
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Stakeholder Comments on the HSC Study
Gail Shearer, director
of health policy analysis, Consumers Union, www.consumersunion.org
"The continued rapid rise in health care costs is bad news for consumers and means more Americans will have trouble affording health coverage. The growing financial burden of health care costs continues to fall disproportionately on people with low incomes and people who are sick. This study should remind policymakers of the need for system-wide reforms that will get more bang for our health care dollar and distribute the costs of health care more fairly."
Helen Darling, president,
Washington Business Group on Health, www.wbgh.org
"Corporate America is still struggling with a sluggish economy, low consumer confidence and soft consumer spending, worsened by falling prices for many of the goods and services they produce. Businesses can't continue to absorb the rapid increases in health care costs. Modest increases in cost sharing have been a part of employers' benefits strategy for the past two years, and employers will have to continue to share the burden of higher health costs with workers. At the same time, many firms are working to provide employees with more information to help them make more informed choices about their health care. Nonetheless, increased cost sharing, while modest on a percentage basis, will be seen as costly to employees whose wages are virtually flat or increasing at low levels, even if they still have a job."
Rick Pollack, executive
vice president, American Hospital Association, www.aha.org
"Today's hospitals face a severe workforce shortage and escalating costs for medical liability insurance, pharmaceuticals and technology. The cost of caring for patients is growing faster than payments and hospitals' financial health is declining. In contrast, insurance premium increases continue to outpace health care expenses with the profitability of insurers on the rise. This demonstrates that hospitals are not the ones in the driver's seat."
Karen Ignagni, president, American Association of Health Plans, www.aahp.org
"The impact of rising prices for health care services is being felt throughout our society, and we are encouraging policymakers and candidates both to seriously address the question of how to make coverage more broadly available and affordable. Our members are doing their part. These new data show that health plan chronic care/pharmacy programs are having a favorable impact on cost trends at the same time that other new data demonstrate their impact on quality."
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Zack Snyder Unveils Superman 75th Anniversary Animated Short
The Big Blue Boy Scout grows up
Warner Bros. Animation have teamed up with Man Of Steel director Zack Snyder to create a special two minute cartoon short in honour of Superman's 75th Anniversary, touching on (almost) every incarnation you can think of - from Siegel and Shuster's original Action Comics cover to Henry Cavill's British Blue Boy Scout - and making its viewers long to rewatch S**uperman II j**ust one more time in the process.
Bruce Timm was the animation guru in charge of it all, a veteran of such shows as Batman: The Animated Series and Justice League Unlimited, and the man who had to work out what was worthy of the cut and what wasn't. In short: no Brandon Routh, and no Dean Cain, but somehow an 1978 Atari 2600 video game snuck in, as did Jimmy Olsen's time as Turtle Man.
Still, despite the absence of Teri Hatcher's Lois Lane or Peter Cook's Nigel from Supergirl, the piece is a highly rewatchable triumph - if only because of the bit where Supes is in a boxing ring.
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Councils are closing a growing number, only to have them open up elsewhere, writes Robert Wainwright.
The woman in the smart grey business suit didn't look twice at the young man in the sloppy white singlet pacing up and down Windsor Road in Merrylands on Wednesday morning.
Nor did she notice the middle-aged man sitting in his berry- coloured sedan with the door ajar to take the edge off the mid-morning summer heat as she walked her young child to the front door of the Gumnut Grove child-care centre.
The two men were both waiting for the front door of a nondescript grey fibro house five doors from the childcare centre to be unlocked for business.
The rented house at No. 7 is allegedly being used as an illegal brothel, specialising in Asian girls and open from 10am to 9pm each day. The girls are bused in each morning and leave after dark in one of several vehicles which come and go, often with accompanying "guards".
Residents across Sydney are confronting similar scenes as councils grapple with an explosion in illegal brothels. The Carr Government legalised the sex industry when it came to power in 1995, but the seamy underside continues to flourish almost unabated.
The Windsor Road brothel opened four weeks ago after being forced from a shopfront around the corner.
Holroyd Council has begun an investigation, but says it will take months and thousands of dollars to have the brothel closed, only to have it open up again nearby.
In the meantime, the two child-care centres it owns in the same street continue to operate with 75 children each day, unaware of the existence of the brothel and its customers until contacted by the Herald.
The investigation is one of 16 begun by the council in the past month alone, prompting fears that the illegal industry is spreading into the suburbs because of efforts to clean up areas like Kings Cross.
Holroyd is not alone. Parramatta council has investigated 45 alleged brothels so far this year, shutting 36, pursuing six others through the courts and still investigating three. Sutherland has investigated 34 cases, closing 13, with four others still facing legal action, while in Bankstown there have been 28 investigations, including 15 closures, and in Hurstville 24.
To the north, Hornsby has investigated and shut down 18 brothels this year. Even Baulkham Hills, Sydney's bible belt, has acted against 10.
John Brodie, a Holroyd councillor, says the State Government has resisted repeated calls to give councils the power to issue 48-hour show- cause notices to suspected brothels and massage parlours.
"At the moment, the process means we have to investigate and find evidence that the premises is being used as a brothel, then mount a case, which costs money and time," Cr Brodie said.
"One of two things then happens: either the brothel shuts down and moves just before the case or it shuts after we win. Either way, they just pack up and move to the next place."
Holroyd's Mayor, Malcolm Tulloch, has renewed an appeal to the State Government. "We're crying out for help here, and the problem is getting worse."
A spokesman for the assistant planning minister, Di Beamer, said councils got extra powers last year to deal with illegal brothels, including the ability to prosecute on the basis of "circumstantial evidence". He suggested the councils make joint submissions to the Attorney-General, Bob Debus, and Ms Beamer.
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It wouldn't surprise me one bit if you were to walk by and look up at the Woodsworth Building on Broadway this weekend you'd see lights on in the offices where the most senior Crown prosecutors toil.
'What should we do about the Grant case?,' I bet they're wondering, asking each other.
Because just how to proceed in the suddenly-reopened prosecution of Mark Edward Grant for the murder of Candace Derksen in 1984 is not a simple matter in 2013.
Nor will it be in 2015 or 2016, when it's more likely the case might get heard again if Manitoba Justice elects to retry him.
The case wasn't a simple one in 2007, when Grant was arrested — nor in 2011 when he was finally put on trial by jury, who convicted him of second-degree murder.
That alone was a head-scratcher, as Grant was tried for first-degree murder.
The Crown's theory was that Grant killed Derksen by unlawfully confining her in the shed where she was ultimately found frozen to death weeks after she disappeared. Killing someone in the course of confining them is considered first-degree murder (Phoenix Sinclair was an example, albeit factually very different, of this).
That the jury convicted Grant of second-degree murder puzzled many.
But their decision was the decision. And many thought that was the end of it. A little girl taken from the world in a horrific manner. The terror she must have felt. It chills me to this day.
But not everybody thought it was the end. Especially Saul Simmonds and Vanessa Gama, Grant's lawyers. Neither likely did Manitoba Justice either. An appeal was expected, and was filed in short order after Grant was sentenced to life with no chance at parole for 25 years in May 2011.
Strictly viewing the defence's appeal as an observer, it was nothing short of fascinating.
Mostly because Simmonds had commissioned a veteran former FBI forensic investigator, Dr. Bruce Budowle, to review the Crown's key evidence in the case: a mitochondrial DNA profile worked up from a microscopic amount of forensic material located on twine used to tie the little girl up. Budowle is a renowned genetics expert.
Budowle's review, along with that of other defence experts, one of whom testified at the trial, argued — credibly, I personally thought — that the work done by the private DNA lab police used to conduct the testing after reopening the Derksen case in 2006 was lacking.
In any event, the defence asked the Court of Appeal to find the DNA evidence called by the Crown led to an unreasonable verdict.
While the court didn't find this was so, it made some observations about the DNA evidence which, seen in the light of the decisions Manitoba Justice must now make in the case, are likely giving prosecutors pause as they ponder next steps.
Remember: This case is nearing 30 years old. There is no new forensic evidence to be had, one would reasonably think. When it comes to the DNA implication the Crown has against Grant, it is what it is.
And it's contentious, to say the least.
First: The appeals court found there were "concerns" with the verdict given the DNA evidence called by the Crown. That's serious.
Then: Consider what Justice Michel Monnin wrote when dismissing the defence's "unreasonable verdict" ground of the appeal — which related solely to the DNA and the so-called 'battle of experts' which the trial saw.
"There was evidence, if believed, and it was, on which a properly instructed jury could convict and just because I may view it differently, I cannot conclude that the jury's decision was unreasonable."
Yes, the court ultimately sides with the verdict in this instance. But for Monnin to obliquely signal that he himself views the DNA as lacking — could this be anything but a sign of potential trouble for the Crown down the road?
Budowle, the defence expert, didn't testify on Grant's behalf the first go-around. One would bet that he will at the next, should that happen.
It's not hard to project from this that what was a strenuous attack on a "crucial" element of the Crown's case (Monnin's word) would only get stronger at any retrial.
Looking at that through the Crown's lens, it seems to create a major issue. Perhaps not an insurmountable one, but it would give the defence yet another kick at the can both at trial and at the appeal stage following that, should a conviction result once again.
Then, there's the whole issue of the "boxcar phantom" defence Grant was barred from putting before the jury — a prohibition which the Appeals court found compromised his defence to the point his conviction should be overturned. No small thing.
Simply put, the story goes like this, according to Monnin.
"The accused contended that some nine months after the deceased was found, there was a strikingly similar event perpetrated on another girl... at a time when the accused was in custody. The police never arrested a suspect in connection with that event. It was argued before the judge that the modus operandi and other physical evidence suggested that the same person abducted both (the other girl) and Candace Derksen."
To corroborate the girl's (known only as P.W.'s) story were certain similarities between the two crime scenes, a statement from a now-deceased adult witness who found the girl and police reports about the "intensive" investigation into what happened.
And then this (also from the appeal decision):
"Finally, the judge heard testimony from P.W. herself.
P.W.'s evidence was problematic for two reasons, which might or might not be related to one another.
Firstly, P.W.'s recollection of the events in 1985 was, to a certain degree, vague and seemed to contradict the statements that she had provided to the police at the time of the incident. She often indicated that she could not remember and that she had dreams and not real memories. When provided with an opportunity to review her 1985 statement during the course of her testimony, she declined. In her cross-examination, she agreed with a suggestion put to her by the Crown that the 1985 incident had never occurred.
Secondly, P.W. was interviewed at her home by two police officers several days before she was scheduled to testify. It was a lengthy interview. A reading of the transcript of that interview indicates that despite persistent and unrelenting questioning by the police doubting the veracity of her story, she maintained that the abduction had occurred. Indeed, this prolonged and persistent questioning fairly raises the concern that the nature and manner of the inquiry may well have been the cause of her subsequent recantation. Furthermore, on the day that she was to testify, P.W., notwithstanding the fact that she was being called upon to testify by the accused and not the Crown, was brought to the courthouse by the same police officers who had interviewed her previously. When questioned about this, she testified that they gave her no option."
Trial Justice Glenn Joyal ruled the incident never happened after the woman came to court and testified to this.
Joyal thus barred Grant from putting any of the above before the jury for his defence, and so they heard not a word about it. This wasn't fair to Grant, Monnin wrote. All he needed to show was that there existed "some evidence" that there was an air of reality to the P.W. case.
The question is now: Would he be able to put this up at any subsequent retrial? If yes, then maybe the Crown's going to run into some serious problems.
Does a more strenuous attack on the DNA and a potentially plausible third-party suspect defence bode well for the likelihood of another conviction beyond a reasonable doubt?
I keep wondering about this. I don't know.
The Crown can do three things. None of them seem particularly great or palatable options and the third seems unthinkable given the intense public interest in this case.
- 1. Retry Grant for Derksen's murder, even in light of the above. Again try to get the third-party suspect "boxcar phantom" material kicked before the jury hears it and has to factor it into their decision.
- 2. Find an error in law in the appeal court's decision and fight to get it overturned by the Supreme Court of Canada.
- 3. Elect to drop the case on the basis there's no reasonable likelihood of conviction.
Which one they'll choose is anybody's guess. I don't envy them the task.


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North Carolina cut the deficit to four points in the second half before Texas sealed the victory.
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Texas attempted 46 shots in the first half. North Carolina had only 30.
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Investors flock to Venture Capital and earn poor returns because they're fixated on the kind of astounding returns generated by a Facebook rather than understanding the high risks associated with it
Venture capitalists (VCs) hardly make tonnes of money, except one or two cases of great successes. Not everyone predicts the next Facebook or Google. Statistics show that venture capitalists hardly create much wealth as a whole, much less return the original amount to investors. Kaufman Foundation, an institution that invests in venture capital, that less cash has been returned to investors than has been invested in VC since 1997 and only 20 out of 100 venture capital handily outperforming the market by more than three percentage points. Moreover, half of these were created prior to 1995. Read it here.
A reason for the failure of VCs to outperform market can be squarely blamed on an investor's poor financial literacy, or lack of it, when investing in a venture capital fund. It is important to understand where savings are going and how the firm managing your savings will utilise it. Unfortunately, investors are ignorant of the basics of VC and their average track record. They invest because they're fixated on the kind of astounding returns generated by a Facebook rather than understanding the high risks associated with it. What if Facebook had failed? What would have happened to the initial funds invested? Some of these questions are rarely asked, let alone answered. The Kauffman Foundation study says, "Our research shows that LPs regularly accept the risks of investing in a "black box" of VC firm economics. It is common for institutional investors to make investments in VC funds without requiring information about general partner (GP) compensation, carry structure, ownership, and firm-level income, expenses, or profits. The "black box" in this context refers to the unknown parameters of a VC firm. Much like its hedge fund counterparts which make scant disclosures to their investors, the VCs are opaque in structure, disclosures and such.
Even intelligent investors are conned into investing by VCs as latter sell the idea of "J Curve" a fancy investment jargon and metric that makes VCs look tempting to invest. Shaped like the letter J, venture capitalists hard-sell the idea by starting that the biggest profits come at the end of the investment period, usually 5-10 years. Usually, the returns will be negative during the initial years as money is spent on developing an idea before it becomes a product or services ripe enough for market wherein the profits are huge. However, this was all an eyewash! According to Kaufman Foundation, instead, it found out that its VC portfolio resembles an 'n' curve, where the internal rate of return (IRR) peaks once VC has raised enough funds to move to the next fund or create a brand new fund. It said, "The 'n-curve' we found in our portfolio suggests that many VCs have moved from professional risk-taking and investing to professional fundraising." The whole incentive behind this is that most VCs are always in search of many ideas, often most of them failing, until they hit the jackpot, which is hard to come by, if statistics mentioned earlier is anything to go by.
One of the ways to demystify VC is to do the 'homework'. Without doing proper due diligence on VCs, one cannot be sure of their performance. Investment managers must make all the efforts to ensure that information is gathered vis-a-vis consultation with VC partners and the companies they've invested in it. It is hard work, but it is the only way to ensure that savings goes into the right hands. Of course, the other alternative is to pray that regulators mandate VC to disclose everything (which is unlikely ever going to happen—whether in America or rest of the world).
Another solution is to have a metric by which one can measure and compare VC performance. This is much like comparing any HDFC Bank mutual fund to the NSE Nifty stock market index. The study suggests taking a benchmark while acknowledges certain limitations by stating, "despite some statistical limitations, [public market equivalent] (PME ) is the most informative measure of VC fund performance. " The reason for the limitation is that not all publicly traded small-cap companies behave the same way as early-stage start ups that VCs invest in. However, using a small-cap benchmark is the closest approximate measure and could be used as a proxy for VC performance. This could enable a fund manager to see where VCs stand vis-a-vis other investment classes.
At the end of the day, it is the investor's responsibility to ensure that financial literacy prevails and thorough homework is done before an investment is made, keeping in cognizance of risk involved. At the moment, the odds of finding the next 'Facebook' (or for that matter Google or Microsoft) are slim or next to none and heavily stacked against the investor and venture capitalist. An investor, according to the study, would be far better off investing in a basket of small-cap equity shares or a small-cap index fund that tracks publicly listed small-cap companies.
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The Vijay Mallya-owned airline offered to pay one month's salary soon and promised to expedite payment of the remaining six months as soon as the company gets recapitalised. However, striking employees rejected this offer
Mumbai/New Delhi: The crisis in debt-ridden Kingfisher Airlines worsened on Wednesday as reconciliatory talks between its management and striking engineers and pilots over payment of seven-month salary backlog failed with the protestors rejecting the offer of part payment and vowing to continue their agitation, reports PTI.
With no end to the deadlock, a question mark hung over the airline's plans to resume operations from Friday, after a four-day partial lockout and complete suspension of all operations since Monday night.
"Our strike will continue as management has failed to give any commitment on payment of salary," a representative of striking Kingfisher engineers and pilots, Capt Vikrant Patkar, told reporters after a brief meeting in Mumbai.
On its part, the management offered to pay one month's salary soon and "expedite the payment of the remaining six months as soon as the company gets recapitalised," an airline official said on condition of anonymity.
But this offer was rejected by the employees. "There is no money and they can't give any commitment also. The engineers and pilots will continue with their agitation," Patkar said.
He said the management "offered us one month salary and that too 10-15 days later. We are not going to work unless we are paid for seven months. So we have rejected their offer."
Top Kingfisher officials had promised aviation regulator DGCA that they would hold meetings with various sections of the staff in an attempt to end the strike and the process began today.
Airline CEO Sanjay Agarwal and UB Group's Chief Financial Officer Ravi Nedungadi attended the meetings with the commercial staff as well as engineers and pilots in Mumbai.
They are expected to meet the employees in Delhi tomorrow.
Earlier in the day, Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh said the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) would submit an interim report on the situation facing Kingfisher, including the safety issue as aircraft engineers were on strike.
Kingfisher has been saddled with a huge loss of Rs8,000 crore and a debt burden of another over Rs7,000 crore, a large part of which has not serviced since January.
Several of its aircraft have been either taken away by its lessors or grounded by the Airports Authority of India for non-payment of dues during the past few months.


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Homeowners living within one kilometer of shale gas wells appear to be at higher risk of having their drinking water contaminated by stray gases, according to a new Duke University-led study.
Duke scientists analyzed 141 drinking water samples from private water wells across northeastern Pennsylvania's gas-rich Marcellus shale basin. Their study documented not only higher methane concentrations in drinking water within a kilometer of shale gas drilling -- which past studies have shown -- but higher ethane and propane concentrations as well.
Methane concentrations were six times higher and ethane concentrations were 23 times higher at homes within a kilometer of a shale gas well. Propane was detected in 10 samples, all of them from homes within a kilometer of drilling.
"The methane, ethane and propane data, and new evidence from hydrocarbon and helium isotopes, all suggest that drilling has affected some homeowners' water," said Robert B. Jackson, a professor of environmental sciences at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment. "In a minority of cases, the gas even looks Marcellus-like, probably caused by faulty well construction."
The ethane and propane contamination data are "new and hard to refute," Jackson stressed. "There is no biological source of ethane and propane in the region and Marcellus gas is high in both, and higher in concentration than the Upper Devonian gas found in-between."
The team examined which factors might explain their results, including topography, distance to gas wells and distance to geologic features. "Distance to gas wells was, by far, the most significant factor influencing gases in the drinking water we sampled," said Jackson.
The peer-reviewed findings will appear this week in the online Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Hydraulic fracturing, also called hydrofracking or fracking, involves pumping water, sand and chemicals deep underground into horizontal gas wells at high pressure to crack open hydrocarbon-rich shale and extract natural gas. Accelerated shale gas drilling and hydrofracking in recent years has fueled concerns about contamination in nearby drinking water supplies.
Two previous peer-reviewed studies by Duke scientists found direct evidence of methane contamination in water wells near shale-gas drilling sites in northeastern Pennsylvania, as well as possible connectivity between deep brines and shallow aquifers.
A third study conducted with U.S. Geological Survey scientists found no evidence of drinking water contamination from shale gas production in Arkansas. None of the studies have found evidence of contamination by fracking fluids.
"Our studies demonstrate that distances from drilling sites, as well as variations in local and regional geology, play major roles in determining the possible risk of groundwater impacts from shale gas development," said Avner Vengosh, professor of geochemistry and water quality at Duke's Nicholas School. "As such, they must be taken into consideration before drilling begins."
"The helium data in this study are the first from a new tool kit we've devised for identifying contamination using noble gas isotopes," said Duke research scientist Thomas H. Darrah. "These tools allow us to identify and trace contaminants with a high degree of certainty."
Co-authors on the new study are Nathaniel R. Warner, Adrian Down, Kaiguang Zhao and Jonathan D. Karr, all of Duke; Robert J. Poreda of the University of Rochester; and Stephen G. Osborn of California State Polytechnic University. Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment and the Duke Center on Global Change funded the research. "Increased Stray Gas Abundance in a Subset of Drinking Water Wells Near Marcellus Shale Gas Extraction," Robert Jackson, Avner Vengosh, Thomas Darrah, Nathaniel Warner, Adrian Down, Robert Poreda, Stephen Osborn, Kaiguang Zhao, Jonathan Karr. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Online week of June 24, 2013.
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In this interview, the final take of a four-part series for Smart Portfolios Season 2, Phani Sekhar, fund manager-PMS at Angel Broking, reconfirms his trading strategy while sharing his experience with Smart Portfolios to Rex Cano. Sekhar's net returns till date stand at 10.8 per cent with a portfolio value of Rs 11.08 lakh. Meanwhile, the S&P CNX benchmark's networth is at Rs 11.83 lakh, up 18.3 per cent. Other fund managers Amar Ambani, Ajay Parmar and Vinay Khattar have logged gains of 51.3 per cent, 42.2 per cent and 26.5 per cent, respectively. Excerpts:
You have held on to the first three investments in Smart Portfolios — viz Axis Bank, RIL and Reliance Infrastructure. What is your outlook on these stocks?
I am positive on the outlook of all the three stocks among the large caps from a long term point of view. RIL and Reliance Infrastructure have underperformed the index in the last 12 months. However, it is difficult to time equity investments. We continue to stay invested as we find value and growth in both these businesses and over a 1-2 year time frame, we are confident of the relative outperformance of both these stocks.
In your previous interview in January, you had mentioned this year may not be for extraordinary gains. So far we have seen marginal gains, but with heavy FIIs flow, would you like to change your outlook for the rest of the year?
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What stocks/sectors would you recommend for short- and medium-term investment?
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In this volume an endeavor has been made to combine, in a practical manner, the subjects of surgical anatomy and operative surgery, because a knowledge of the one is essential to the proper study of the other. Diagrammatic drawings have been used largely for the purpose of illustration.
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