Ludo Lefebvre
What are the chances that I could convince Ludo Lefebvre, Krissy, and Ludo Bites America to come to Delray Beach?Read more at www.alzheimersreadingroom.com
How to Look Beyond the Obvious....identify trends, use your peripheral vision, and take action.
Ludo Lefebvre
What are the chances that I could convince Ludo Lefebvre, Krissy, and Ludo Bites America to come to Delray Beach?Read more at www.alzheimersreadingroom.com
There is great confusion about the difference between “dementia” and “AD.” The confusion is felt on the part of patients, family members, the media, and even healthcare providers. This article provides information to reduce the confusion by defining and describing these two common and often poorly understood terms.
Knowing that the day is coming when your loved one -- won't know you-- is the most horrific feeling of them all for an Alzheimer's caregiver......
Credit expansion reversed in 2008, and this is deflation by definition. Despite the talked-up attempts to monetize debt through quantitative easing - a deliberate attempt to stoke inflation fears in order to counteract the psychology of deflation - money plus credit has been in net contraction. Talk of monetary growth based on only the money fraction misses the elephant in the room, since the vast majority of the effective money supply is credit, and the tightening of credit is by far the dominant factor.
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A new iPhone app has created a marketplace for public parking, connecting those vacating a space with those searching for one — for a fee.
Apple After Jobs Still a ‘Buy,’ Analysts Say
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The 13 Most Memorable Quotes From Steve Jobs
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Students who take education classes at universities receive significantly higher grades than students who take classes in every other academic discipline. The higher grades cannot be explained by observable differences in student quality between education majors and other students, nor can they be explained by the fact that education classes are typically smaller than classes in other academic departments. The remaining reasonable explanation is that the higher grades in education classes are the result of low grading standards. These low grading standards likely will negatively affect the accumulation of skills for prospective teachers during university training. More generally, they contribute to a larger culture of low standards for educators.
Mortgage rates hit an all-time low according to Freddie Mac's Primary Mortgage Market Survey.
30-year fixed-rate mortgages averaged 4.15% last week. 15-year fixed-rate mortgages averaged 3.36%.
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This is the desirable West Village apartment block where a 63-year old woman is set to live on a rent of only $400 a month for the rest of her life after she married an 87-year-old man a month before he died.
Drinking moderate amounts of alcohol may lower the risk of dementia, according to a comprehensive analysis of prior studies.
Moderate social drinking significantly reduces the risk of dementia and cognitive impairment, according to an analysis of 143 studies by Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine researchers.
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Many parents work hard to help their kids find careers they will enjoy, dragging them to skills and aptitudes testing, encouraging them to land internships or enrolling them in colleges aligned with their interests. Fueling these efforts is often the hope that our kids will be happier on the job than we are.
But a new study in the Journal of Applied Psychology suggests such efforts may be futile: A tendency to hate your job runs in families.
Being born with certain genes sparks an inclination to be happier at work, while other genes are linked to lower job satisfaction, says the study by Zhaoli Song, Wendong Li and Richard Arvey at the National University of Singapore. This counters conventional thinking, that misery on the job can be blamed on lousy working conditions, low pay, mistreatment by the boss or a poor career fit.
Read more at www.wallstreetjournal.comIn the study of 1,772 people, researchers found that two genetic markers, a dopamine receptor gene and a serotonin transporter gene, are linked with job satisfaction.
One of the most difficult tasks an Alzheimer's caregiver faces is the development of a new set of communications skills. Sooner or later the caregiver needs to come to an understanding that the way they have communicated in the past, before Alzheimer's, won't work in a world filled with Alzheimer's disease.
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You think the housing bubble was enormous? Meet the education bubble. On Wednesday, an article here by Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus explained the debt crisis at American colleges. But some startling statistics will help to make their analysis a little more tangible. The growth in student loans over the past decade has been truly staggering.
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Researchers found a significant positive association between fish oil supplement use and average brain volumes in two critical areas utilized in memory and thinking, the cerebral cortex and hippocampus.
The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased0.5 percent in July on a seasonally adjusted basis, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Over the last 12 months, the all items index increased 3.6 percent before seasonal adjustment.
The gasoline index rebounded from previous declines and rose sharply in July, accounting for about half of the seasonally adjusted increase in the all items index. The food at home index accelerated in July and also contributed to the increase, as dairy and fruit indexes posted notable increases and five of the six major grocery store food groups rose.
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Read more at www.smh.com.auThe moon is 4.36 billion years old, up to 200 million years younger than thought, according to the analysis of lunar rocks.
What’s the secret to marketing campaigns that garner results? Combine strategies that incorporate Facebook’s viral features.
Read more at www.mediabistro.comThe deadliest sin of Facebook marketing is being boring. To gain fans’ attention and keep it, marketers need to create novel campaigns, or put a unique spin on familiar techniques. Otherwise, brands’ efforts are largely ignored or used by fans to score free stuff.
Having had 24 hours to digest the Google-Motorola deal, we're ready to deliver a verdict:
Read more at www.businessinsider.comUnless Google quickly sells off Motorola's hardware businesses, the deal will be a colossal disaster.
Pay Pal founder and early Facebook investor Peter Thiel has given $1.25 million to an initiative to create floating libertarian countries in international waters, according to a profile of the billionaire in Details magazine.
Stop Coddling the Super-Rich
Warren Buffett paid $6.9M in taxes last year.
While that sounds like a lot of money, it was only 17.4% of his income, about half as much as the average person who works for him paid and Buffett, unlike most people at the top - believes that is not fair. In his plainly worded NY Times Editorial, "Stop Coddling the Super Rich" the $47 Billionaire states:
My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress. It’s time for our government to get serious about shared sacrifice.
Read more at www.datadiary.com.auIt’s just that the charts don’t support this view. In fact looking through the commodity complex and those stocks that are most exposed to its demeanour, there is a real sense that further weakness is on the horizon. A simple indicator to gauge this view is the Chinese equity market.
For more than two decades, a pair of sisters in rural Kentucky have lived without Social Security numbers, doing odd jobs like bartending and making jewelry to earn cash under the table. One of them even posed as their mother to gain employment.
Now Raechel and Stephanie Schultz want steady, legitimate work, yet the federal government has refused to issue numbers to the women, saying they need more proof the pair were born in the U.S. The predicament prompted the women, who have lived for years on society's fringes, to sue.
"I'm proud to be American but they don't want me," 23-year-old Stephanie Schultz told The Associated Press in an interview at their lawyer's office in southeastern Kentucky.
LONDON, Ky. (AP) -- For more than two decades, a pair of sisters in rural Kentucky have lived without Social Security numbers, doing odd jobs like bartending and making jewelry to earn cash under the table. One of them even posed as their mother to gain employment.
Now Raechel and Stephanie Schultz want steady, legitimate work, yet the federal government has refused to issue numbers to the women, saying they need more proof the pair were born in the U.S. The predicament prompted the women, who have lived for years on society's fringes, to sue.
"I'm proud to be American but they don't want me," 23-year-old Stephanie Schultz told The Associated Press in an interview at their lawyer's office in southeastern Kentucky.
The earliest years for the Schultz sisters were nomadic. The family traveled through 42 states, never staying too long in one place. Their father found occasional work in construction or at restaurants and the children picked up cans to make a few bucks. They stayed in motels or camped and the sisters' grandparents sent money to help.
"They didn't have no life plan," 29-year-old Raechel Schultz said of her parents, now in their 50s. "It was just all like free hippie style, do what you can to get by. Gypsies."
Raechel was born at a home in Madison County, Ky., near where the family lives now; Stephanie was delivered in the back of a Dodge van in southern Alabama. The births were recorded in a family Bible but were otherwise undocumented.
Their mercurial parents settled into a hardscrabble existence about 14 years ago along the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, where the family car broke down. The girls were home schooled by their college-educated parents.
The sisters still live with their parents in a weather-worn mobile home in the tiny enclave of Lily. The trailer is perched close to a strip of blacktop winding through the hilly backcountry.
It wasn't until five years ago that they tried to register with the Social Security system. They waited until Stephanie turned 18 because their parents feared truancy charges, Raechel said.
"The first couple years of our life, Dad didn't get our Social Security numbers, and he said once you don't do that right off the bat, they won't let you do it," Raechel said. "So they just went on with it."
Everyone else in the family has a Social Security number, including an older sister now living in New Orleans who got her Social Security card as a teenager on her second try. She had a birth certificate and a baptismal record.
When the sisters first went to get their Social Security number, "we thought it would be easy," Stephanie said.
This isn't the first time the sisters have gone to court over personal documents. In 2009, the women sued to get birth certificates, took a DNA test to prove they were born to their parents and a judge's order won them the records.
"The Court has no reason to not believe the testimony and finds no reason to suggest the plaintiffs are seeking this relief for an illegal or immoral purpose," Circuit Judge John Knox Mills wrote in his 2010 order.
Despite their lack of Social Security numbers, the sisters have found ways to supplement their family's meager income. Stephanie makes jewelry and paints old furniture to sell at a flea market. Raechel held down work at a couple of area restaurants by posing as her mother. She was at one eatery for seven years, rising to associate manager, but eventually quit out of fear her supervisors would discover her secret.
According to their lawsuit, the Social Security Administration indicated it denied the women's request for numbers because they "have not given us documents we need to show U.S. citizenship." The agency has declined to comment on the suit.
The sisters' attorney, Douglas Benge, said he was told by a Social Security official that the agency doesn't accept birth certificates issued so many years after birth.
"Our complaint with the government is, what else do these girls have to show?" he said.
On its website, the Social Security Administration lists documents that may be used to prove identity, age and citizenship. The accepted records include a birth certificate, driver's license, state-issued identification card or U.S. passport, and it's not entirely clear why they have been denied.
Robert Bruce, who retired as a district manager after 31 years with the Social Security Administration, said recently that the age of the women combined with the lack of official documentation raises a suspicion of fraud.
The sisters see their dilemma as a government overreaction since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Their maternal grandfather said they just want a chance to work.
"My view is, we're so caught up in administrative procedure, nobody has any common sense," said Norman Turchan, who lives in Indianapolis. "There's a common sense way out of this situation."
When word of their plight appeared on the Internet and in newspapers, their attorney received emails from some questioning the sisters' motivation, saying the Schultzes just wanted government assistance. But both women said they want to work, and that their family has never taken welfare.
"I don't want to bum off the state," said Raechel, who would like to sell real estate.
Stephanie dreams of running a no-kill animal shelter and dabbling in interior design.
"If you have a Social Security number, you can do anything you want," Raechel said.
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Barrouquere reported from Louisville, Ky.
Raechel was born at a home in Madison County, Ky., near where the family lives now; Stephanie was delivered in the back of a Dodge van in southern Alabama. The births were recorded in a family Bible but were otherwise undocumented.
The sisters see their dilemma as a government overreaction since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.Read more at hosted.ap.org
Deficits, Debt and the Downgrade: Implications for Financial Markets and the U.S. and World Economies
Was Standard & Poors justified in downgrading the U.S. credit rating to AA+ from AAA? Not at this point, says an analysis by Ross DeVol, the Milken Institute's chief research officer.
Ross C. DeVol
"The mistake would be inexcusable for anyone completing Macroeconomics 101, let alone the credit agency that is considered the top expert in the default risk of sovereign debt."
But with the rating downgrade already done, what's ahead for the jumpy financial markets and economies at home and abroad?Read more at allamericaninvestor.blogspot.com
On this day in 1981, IBM launched the “Personal Computer.” Revealed at a press conference at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City, the 21-pound PC cost $1,565, boasted 16K of memory, and had the ability to connect to a TV set, play games and word process.
While IBM wasn’t the first or only company with a personal computer on the market (the Apple II was launched in 1977), it kick-started the home computing revolution. A year later, the personal computer was selected as Time Magazine‘s “Man (or rather, Machine) of the Year.”
Fast-forward 30 years and the IBM Personal Computer is a relic from another era, almost unrecognizable in comparison to the slick devices on which we compute today. From those earliest machine beasts to today’s tablets, we’ve taken a look at some historical highlights of the personal computer. Take a look through the gallery, and share your PC memories in the comments below.
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Today’s new Beta channel release brings big improvements to Chrome’s web platform capabilities, enabling developers to build more powerful and more immersive apps and games for the web.
Top 10 Unpretentious Rooftop Bars in Manhattan
La Quinta Inn/Me Bar, 17 West 32nd St. (Koreatown)
The Delancey, 168 Delancey St. (Lower East Side)
The Heights Bar & Grill, 2867 Broadway (Morningside Heights)
Novotel/Broadway Bar and Sky Deck, 226 West 52nd St. (Midtown West)
Bar 13, 35 East 13th St. (Union Square)
Sutton Place, 1115 Second Ave. (Upper East Side/Midtown East)
Rare View, 303 Lexington Ave. (Murray Hill) or 152 West 26th St. (Chelsea)
Local Café, 1 Penn Plaza (Midtown West)
230 Fifth, 230 Fifth Ave. (Flatiron District)
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Zabar's, the famous gourmet emporium on Manhattan's Upper West Side, is in hot water after being caught selling lobster salad that contains absolutely no lobster, according to DNAInfo.
A survey of over 100 developers, previously posted here on Hacker News, aimed to determine which external APIs were the most difficult to integrate into developers’ projects. The winner…or rather, the loser? Facebook. Developers mentioned the Facebook API the most in terms having bugs, poor documentation, never-ending API changes, slow response times, and other headaches.
CNBC's Rick Santelli and Meredith Whitney, Meredith Whitney Advisory Group debate over munis, in a heated exchange.
Though it may sound like a premise of a science-fiction show or reality-TV series, the research and development arm of the U.S. military is launching a study to find the technologies necessary for interstellar travel.
What will it take to build a spaceship capable of traveling to the stars? And what if you wanted it to be ready to launch in just 100 years?
It may sound like the premise of a science fiction show or reality TV series. But these are serious questions being asked by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the research-and-development arm of the U.S. military.
This fall, DARPA intends to award up to $500,000 in seed money to a group that proves it would do the best job of developing the necessary technologies — whatever they may be — for interstellar travel. The proposals had better be good — if none of them are up to snuff, the agency won't hand out the money. To stimulate discussion on the research possibilities, DARPA officials will hold a symposium that brings together astrophysicists, engineers and even sci-fi writers so they can brainstorm what it would take to make this starship enterprise a success.Read more at www.latimes.com
I could not resist.
Shaquille O’Neal walking with his girlfriend, Nikki “Hoopz” Alexander.
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Shaquille O’Neal and Nikki “Hoopz” Alexander.
Shaquille O’Neal and Nikki “Hoopz” Alexander. |
To promote the ongoing economic recovery and to help ensure that inflation, over time, is at levels consistent with its mandate, the Committee decided today to keep the target range for the federal funds rate at 0 to 1/4 percent.
The Committee currently anticipates that economic conditions--including low rates of resource utilization and a subdued outlook for inflation over the medium run--are likely to warrant exceptionally low levels for the federal funds rate at least through mid-2013 -- FOMC
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