NYU To Remain Closed Through Saturday Due To Hurricane Sandy

New York University announced Tuesday evening that classes will be canceled through Saturday and students at the school's residence halls in lower Manhattan are being evacuated.

Many of NYU's buildings are without power after Hurricane Sandy ravaged New York City during Monday's overnight hours. NYU Langone Medical Center was forced to evacuate the hospital late Monday night, and the storm damage there could put years of research in jeopardy.

NYU president John Sexton cited power outages around NYU buildings and residence halls as reasons to close down academics for the week.

"We did not make this decision lightly, and we understand that significant logistical implications accompany it," Sexton said in an email sent to students Tuesday.

"The electrical outages continue to present significant challenges for us at the Washington Square campus," Sexton said. "We can safely provide food and shelter for our students in facilities that are powered by our Co-Generation facility. However, many of these are the same facilities that we need to carry on the normal rhythms of our academic mission, and the absence of Con Edison power makes it extremely difficult to do both. As a university, we rely heavily on such systems as the Con Edison electrical system and the MTA?s mass transit systems for our daily operations."

Sexton said food service will be provided to all students at Weinstein Residence Hall and Kimmel Center. Another email from senior associate vice president of student affairs Tom Ellet said Kimmel is available 24 hours a day as a charging station for students' electronic devices.

NYU also announced that students at several residence halls -- 2nd Street, 7th Street, 13th Street, Alumni, Broome, Brittany, Carlyle, Coral, Greenwich, Hayden, Lafayette and Rubin -- will need to evacuate for the time-being. If students do not leave Tuesday night, they're required to vacate the residence hall by 3 p.m. Wednesday. As long as the relocation order stands, students will be allowed back into their dorms between the hours of 10 a.m. and 3 p.m.

NYU is making academic buildings available for students who are displaced by residence halls which have lost power.

Other residence halls where students are not required to leave are operating on emergency lighting, and some do not have running water, according to NYU officials. The Student Health Center is open only for limited walk-in hours. Sexton's email also said spring registration for classes may be rescheduled, but no final decision has been made.

According to an email sent out to NYU students from Jules Martin, vice president for global security and crisis management, most residence halls lost power Monday night as the storm barreled down on Manhattan.

NYU has upwards of 45,000 students enrolled. While not all of them live in an NYU dorm, all students are guaranteed a spot to live in university residence halls during their time in college.

Classes at colleges around New York have been canceled as many residents are still without power and the subway system is likely to remain shut down through the week. Power outages have displaced many lower Manhattan residents.

"New Yorkers are always at their best when things seem at their worst," Sexton said, "and once again the citizens of this city and of this university have shown their mettle."

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Pumpkin Hot Chocolate(Vegan) - Food Doodles

by Heidi @ Food Doodles on October 30, 2012

Today is a rainy, cold, miserable day here.? Although I?m sure it is far more miserable elsewhere in the world and I?m keeping those on the east coast in my thoughts.? I did think that some hot chocolate would be a nice thing to share today.? I think we could all use a mug of this

I made this hot chocolate vegan by using almond milk.? And to be totally honest, it was awesome.? I almost think dairy milk would have been too thick and rich unless you use low fat.? Sometimes I really prefer almond milk, and this is one of those instances.? But go with what you enjoy.? The pumpkin in this makes it slightly thick and creamier than regular hot chocolate.? I did use a homemade pumpkin puree though so a store bought pumpkin puree will be thicker.? I?m not sure if I?d want this any thicker, so maybe use less of a store bought pumpkin puree.

Oh and that in the background?? I?ll share that soon.? I may tweak the recipe a little before I share it though.? That?s chai spiced apple butter in the center of those bars though.? Can you say yum?? I?m happy to have to make those again soon to test the recipe out

For now, enjoy some hot chocolate and I hope everyone stays safe over the next couple days!

Pumpkin Hot Chocolate

Serves 2-3

• 2 C milk(almond milk works perfectly)
• 1/4 C homemade pumpkin puree(use less of store bought puree as it?s thicker)
• 3/4 tsp pumpkin pie spice
• 3 tbsp unsweetened cocoa
• 3-4 tbsp maple syrup
• pinch of salt
• dash of vanilla

On the stove in a small pot, whisk together the milk, pumpkin, pumpkin pie spice, cocoa, maple syrup(or honey) and pinch of salt.? Heat over medium heat until it comes to a boil.? Whisk and cook for 2 minutes.? Remove from the heat, stir in the vanilla and cool until ready to serve, or serve immediately with a splash of extra milk, a dollop of whipped cream, marshmallows or your favorite other hot chocolate toppings.

Source: http://fooddoodles.com/2012/10/30/pumpkin-hot-chocolatevegan/

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Social Shopping Network BeauCoo Wants To Help Women Find Clothes That Really Fit

Shopping for cloths online is difficult, especially because one brand's size 10 can be another brand's size 8. BeauCoo, a Calgary-based startup that is launching out of beta today, combines social networking based on women's real body dimensions with mobile photo sharing and shopping to help female shoppers find the clothes that will look good on them. BeauCoo is currently only available on the iPhone, but the company plans to launch web, tablet and Android apps in the next six week. An API is also in the works and is scheduled to launch next year.

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Empathy represses analytic thought, and vice versa: Brain physiology limits simultaneous use of both networks

ScienceDaily (Oct. 30, 2012) ? New research shows a simple reason why even the most intelligent, complex brains can be taken by a swindler's story -- one that upon a second look offers clues it was false.

When the brain fires up the network of neurons that allows us to empathize, it suppresses the network used for analysis, a pivotal study led by a Case Western Reserve University researcher shows.

How could a CEO be so blind to the public relations fiasco his cost-cutting decision has made?

When the analytic network is engaged, our ability to appreciate the human cost of our action is repressed.

At rest, our brains cycle between the social and analytical networks. But when presented with a task, healthy adults engage the appropriate neural pathway, the researchers found.

The study shows for the first time that we have a built-in neural constraint on our ability to be both empathetic and analytic at the same time

The work suggests that established theories about two competing networks within the brain must be revised. More, it provides insights into the operation of a healthy mind versus those of the mentally ill or developmentally disabled.

"This is the cognitive structure we've evolved," said Anthony Jack, an assistant professor of cognitive science at Case Western Reserve and lead author of the new study. "Empathetic and analytic thinking are, at least to some extent, mutually exclusive in the brain."

The research is published in the current online issue of NeuroImage.

A number of earlier studies showed that two large scale brain networks are in tension in the brain, one which is known as the default mode network and a second known as the task positive network. But other researchers have suggested that different mechanisms drive this tension:

One theory says that we have one network for engaging in goal directed tasks. This theory posits that our second network allows the mind to wander.

The other theory says that one network is for external attention, and the second network is for internal attention.

The new study shows that adults presented with social or analytical problems -- all external stimuli -- consistently engaged the appropriate neural pathway to solve the problem, while repressing the other pathway. The see-sawing brain activity was recorded using functional magnetic resonance imaging.

Jack worked with former Case Western Reserve undergraduates Abigail Dawson, now a graduate student at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand; Katelyn Begany, now a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley; and Kevin P. Barry, now a graduate student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Other co-authors are, from Case Western Reserve: former research assistant, Regina L. Leckie and Angela H. Ciccia, an assistant professor of psychological sciences; and Abraham Z. Snyder, MD, a professor of radiology at Washington University in St. Louis.

Jack said that a philosophical question inspired the study design: "The most persistent question in the philosophy of mind is the problem of consciousness. Why can we describe the workings of a brain, but that doesn't tell us what it's like to be that person?"

"The disconnect between experiential understanding and scientific understanding is known as the explanatory gap," Jack said. "In 2006, the philosopher Philip Robbins and I got together and we came up with a pretty crazy, bold hypothesis: that the explanatory gap is driven by our neural structure. I was genuinely surprised to see how powerfully these findings fit that theory." Philip Robbins is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Missouri.

These findings suggest the same neural phenomenon drives the explanatory gap as occurs when we look at a visual illusion such as the duck-rabbit, he continued. The drawing of the head of the animal can be seen as a duck facing one direction or a rabbit facing the other, but you can't see both at once.

"That is called perceptual rivalry, and it occurs because of neural inhibition between the two representations," Jack said. "What we see in this study is similar, but much more wide-scale. We see neural inhibition between the entire brain network we use to socially, emotionally and morally engage with others, and the entire network we use for scientific, mathematical and logical reasoning.

"This shows scientific accounts really do leave something out -- the human touch. A major challenge for the science of the mind is how we can better translate between the cold and distant mechanical descriptions that neuroscience produces, and the emotionally engaged intuitive understanding which allows us to relate to one another as people."

The researchers recruited 45 healthy college students, and asked each to take five 10-minute turns inside a magnetic resonance imager. Meanwhile, the researchers randomly presented them with 20 written and 20 video problems that required them to think about how others might feel and with 20 written and 20 video problems that required physics to solve.

After reading the text or viewing the video, the students had to provide an answer to a yes-no question within seven seconds. Each student's session in the MRI included twenty 27-second rest periods, as well as variable delays between trials lasting 1, 3 or 5 seconds. Students were told to look at a red cross on the screen in front of them and relax during the rests.

The MRI images showed that social problems deactivated brain regions associated with analysis, and activated the social network. This finding held true whether the questions came via video or print. Meanwhile, the physics questions deactivated the brain regions associated with empathizing and activated the analytical network.

"When subjects are lying in a scanner with nothing to do, which we call the resting state, they naturally cycle between the two networks," Jack said. "This tells us that it's the structure of the adult brain that is driving this, that it's a physiological constraint on cognition."

The finding has bearings on a variety of neuropsychiatric disorders, from anxiety, depression and ADHD to schizophrenia -- all of which are characterized by social dysfunction of some sort, Jack said. "Treatment needs to target a balance between these two networks. At present most rehabilitation, and more broadly most educational efforts of any sort, focus on tuning up the analytic network. Yet, we found more cortex dedicated to the social network."

Perhaps most clearly, the theory makes sense in regards to developmental disabilities such as autism and Williams syndrome. Autism is often characterized by a strong ability to solve visuospatial problems, such as mentally manipulating two and three-dimensional figures, but poor social skills. People with Williams syndrome are very warm and friendly, but perform poorly on visuospatial tests.

But, even healthy adults can rely too much on one network, Jack said. A look at newspaper business pages offers some examples.

"You want the CEO of a company to be highly analytical in order to run a company efficiently, otherwise it will go out of business," he said. "But, you can lose your moral compass if you get stuck in an analytic way of thinking."

"You'll never get by without both networks," Jack continued. "You don't want to favor one, but cycle efficiently between them, and employ the right network at the right time."

The researchers continue to test the theory, studying whether brains will shift from the social network to the analytical when students in the MRI see people depicted in a dehumanizing way, that is, as animals or objects. The group is also studying whether disgust and social stereotyping confound our moral compass by recruiting the analytical network and depressing social network activity.

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1. Anthony I. Jack, Abigail Dawson, Katelyn Begany, Regina L. Leckie, Kevin Barry, Angela Ciccia, Abraham Snyder. fMRI reveals reciprocal inhibition between social and physical cognitive domains. NeuroImage, 2012; DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.10.061

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SMS Vs. SMTP, whats the difference? | Slick Text's Text Marketing ...

Regulated SMS vs Unregulated SMTP messaging

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In this short article we will educate you on them and explore some differences between the two protocols.

What is SMS/SMPP messaging?

SMPP stands for Short Message Peer-to-peer Protocol and was designed in the late 90?s to communication on a peer-to-peer scale which contains just small messages of up to 160 characters.? SMPP is very similar to SMS. SMPP is mainly text communicating with text. SMS stands for Short Message Service, which means phone, web, or mobile communication systems, using standardized communications protocols that allow the exchange of short text messages between fixed line or cell phone. A fancy way of saying, I can text you from a software application and it is still considered a text.

The true SMS protocol was developed by the telecommunications industry specifically for text messaging.?In contrast, the?SMTP protocol was never meant for that. Messages sent through short code and the?SMPP protocol are regulated by the wireless carriers, all the necessary regulation is in place. SMTP is not regulated by the wireless carriers or?Mobile Marketing Association?and does not have the regulation like short codes and SMPP do. The use of SMTP is a loophole in the carrier regulations.

What is the SMTP messaging?

SMTP is way of transporting emails to cell phones in the mid 90?s to allow cellular users to receive directly to their phones in the form of text. SMTP is short for Simple Mail Transport Protocol. Still in use today by many bulk SMS providers and companies it is a slow, complicated and Un-Regulated way of communicating to your customers for marketing purposes. Through each wireless provider, customers have been given the ability to receive emails via text through a unique email that includes the customers cell number.

Example: 18479488574@Verizon.com

What this allows the sender to do is compose a message or full-blown email to be sent and converted in SMS format so it can be read on the receiving end through a text message, for mobile marketing purposes this is highly against the laws and regulations set in place by the Mobile Marketing Association and Federal Communications Commission.

There are many reasons you should not trust or use services with this technology. Communications coming from SMTP source typically come from a long digit code of 7 numbers instead of a carrier approved and regulated short code, which consist of 5 to 6 digits and is necessary for any ethical bulk text provider to have registered for business use. 5 to 6 digit short codes are monitored and legally registered to use for marketing and communications. 7 digit codes being used for marketing and communication purposes for businesses and organizations are against regulations and federal laws. Not to mention receiving a message from an SMPT/email to text message can still charge a small percentage of customers a premium charge on their cellular monthly bill. With SMS/SMPP your message begins as a text, is sent as a text and is received as a text. There is no email involved so messages do not get stuck in spam filters and messages are regulated to 160 characters at the most. Example: You have Verizon and your friend has AT&T. You send him a text and it counts a 1 text on your cellular monthly bill. If you have unlimited texting it wont have an effect at all. Another big reason not to use long codes is that fact that any one can be added to the list and spammed. With short codes this cannot happen. Customers/contacts must add themselves as stated by the Mobile Marketing Association guidelines. This means your customers have to be 100% opting into your campaigns.? Your customers have to want to hear what you have to say. With long codes people can harvest your personal Verizon or other providers emails and spam messages straight to your phone and then you get charged a premium for the conversion of SMTP to SMS delivery. Not cool.

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If your service is not straight SMS then you should consider switching to an ethical up to par service provider such as SlickText.com. For more information please visit https://www.slicktext.com/

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Source: http://www.slicktext.com/blog/2012/10/sms-vs-smtp-whats-the-difference/

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Are cancer patients' hopes for chemo too high?

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Egypt's top court to rule on constitutional panel

CAIRO (AP) ? An Egyptian court on Tuesday asked the country's highest tribunal to rule on whether to disband the body tasked with writing a new constitution. That could give Islamists time to finish drafting the document before a legal ruling.

It's the latest twist in a bitter struggle between Islamists and their secular rivals over the constitution. The Islamists, who dominate the constitutional assembly, are racing to put a draft before a public referendum before the judges rule.

The work and the composition of the 100-member constitutional assembly have been the subject of a fierce debate. The focus is the potential for stricter implementation of Islamic Shariah law and empowerment of religious scholars that liberals fear could signal a turn toward an Iran-style theocratic state.

Along with the contentious role of religion in the nation's affairs, Islamists and liberals are haggling over other proposed articles relating to women rights, freedom of worship, presidential powers, immunity for the military from civilian oversight and undercutting the powers of the Supreme Constitutional Court.

Supporters of the panel say it was set up by an elected parliament and broadly represents Egypt's political factions. Critics counter that the process is dominated by majority Islamists, such as the Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt's new president, Mohammed Morsi, and more radical groups.

A new constitution would be a key step in establishing a democracy to replace the regime of longtime President Hosni Mubarak, who was ousted last year in an uprising led by progressive, secular activists. They rallied public anger over poverty, Mubarak's tight grip on power, rampant corruption and widespread abuses by security and intelligence agencies.

But in the nearly 20 months since then, Islamists have emerged as the strongest political force. Morsi was elected president after the Brotherhood and the even more conservative Salafis party swept parliamentary elections, leaving the liberals with minimal representation. The parliament was later disbanded.

Instead of ruling on a petition submitted by liberals challenging the legitimacy of the panel, Judge Nazih Tangho of the High Administrative Court on Tuesday sent the case to Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court.

The decision sets up a new showdown between the Supreme Constitutional Court, packed with secularist judges, and Egypt's ruling and powerful Brotherhood. The same court dissolved the Brotherhood-led parliament, ruled the election law unconstitutional and turned down Morsi's attempt to restore it upon his election in June.

Last week, the Constitutional Court criticized the panel's move to strip the court's power right to rule on laws passed by parliament. The proposed articles also maintain the president's grip over the court, as he appoints its head and members.

It was not known when the top court would rule on the petition. However, the ruling could come after the people have voted on the constitution.

Tangho said he referred to the case to the Constitutional Court to look into a law Morsi passed in July that gave the constitutional panel legal immunity.

"The law was meant to prevent the High Administrative Court from looking into appeals ... against the panel," he said.

A senior Brotherhood member, Ahmed Abu Baraka, said, "the court here is saying that this is not my business and I am not interfering in the writing of the constitution nor its panel, in respect to the principle of separation between powers."

"This is a realistic decision and ends political maneuvers that dragged courts and judiciary in the middle of it," he said.

The Muslim Brotherhood's political arm, Freedom and Justice Party, praised the ruling as ushering "a new meeting point to all spectrum of the Egyptian society." In a statement, the party called upon its rivals to get involved in the writing of the constitution.

The constitution panel was disbanded once before, in April, after the High Administrative Court ruled against inclusion of lawmakers as members.

With the nation increasingly polarized, and mistrust between Islamists and other groups growing, Egypt's judiciary has emerged as a final refuge for settling key disputes.

More than 40 legal challenges have been presented to the top administrative court demanding the dissolution of the panel writing the charter.

"We are going to witness a new phase of confrontation between the Muslim Brotherhood and the Constitutional Court," said Ziad Abdel Tawab, a legal expert with Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies. "The process will linger, for sure."

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The Interview Show- We Love Indy Wrestling | The National Sports ...

It?s a two hour jumbo sized edition of the show this week as Jerome Cusson is talking to a smorgasbord of guests on the show. First, it?s Dave Prazak and Allison Danger talking all about Shimmer, which is forthcoming this Saturday and Sunday afternoon/evening in Berwyn, Illinois. Then Tom Green talks the first ever School of Roc show taking place in LaFayette, Indiana. For those who have never seen the competitors this is a great opportunity to learn about a wonderful project in indy wrestling. Then it?s Jake Manning?s turn to discuss the Dynamite Kid Kickstarter. If you like supporting indy wrestling, this is the show for you.

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France seeks Peugeot board seats in return for aid: paper

PARIS (Reuters) - France wants PSA Peugeot Citroen to appoint government and worker representatives to its board, reduce job cuts and guarantee plants in return for a lending bailout, the country's industry minister told Liberation.

In an interview with the French daily, published on Tuesday, Arnaud Montebourg also said the struggling automaker should cancel "hundreds" of planned job cuts and guarantee the future of domestic plants.

Peugeot is weighing a state-backed rescue for its lending arm, Banque PSA Finance (BPF), which funds Peugeot and Citroen dealers and car loans. Montebourg had already warned that any help would come with strings attached.

In his newspaper interview, the minister detailed some of the undertakings he is seeking from the carmaker.

"I want workers to sit on the supervisory board, to bring more balance to strategic decisions," Montebourg was quoted as saying. "I also want an independent administrator on the board to liaise with the government."

The French state has no stake in Peugeot, which in July announced 8,000 additional job cuts and the closure of an assembly plant to halt spiralling losses.

Unlike domestic rival Renault , where the government has two board seats and a 15 percent holding, Peugeot has been slow to shift production from France to lower-wage countries.

Recent downgrades to Peugeot's credit rating threaten to relegate the financing arm to junk status, further widening the competitiveness gap with rivals such as Volkswagen by making its car loans more expensive.

A support package under discussion with the government and French banks would reportedly include postponed repayments on some bank debt and a state loan guarantee, reducing the division's financing costs.

Montebourg also vowed to "weigh the consequences" of Peugeot's alliance with General Motors .

The government is seeking "a commitment from Peugeot to preserve all of its French plants, so the kind of restructuring plan announced in July does not repeat itself", he said.

(Reporting by Laurence Frost; Editing by Helen Massy-Beresford)

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Sentencing in Richmond today in $485 million insurance fraud ...

A former Costa Rican insurance executive convicted in a $485 million fraud scheme is about to learn whether he has any hope of ever getting out of federal prison.

Sixty-one-year-old Minor Vargas Calvo is scheduled for sentencing today in U.S. District Court in Richmond. A jury in April convicted Calvo on 10 counts for lying to clients and investors about the financial stability of his company.

Prosecutors are asking for a sentence of 170 years ? essentially a life sentence. Calvo's lawyers say 20 years would be sufficient punishment.

Calvo was president of Provident Capital Indemnity. The company sold bonds guaranteeing funding for life settlement firms, which buy life insurance policies from insured people at less than face value and collect the benefits when those people die.

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Fact-checking the final presidential debate (cbsnews)

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Princeton, New Jersey ? The experienced Mercer County criminal defense attorneys at Lependorf & Silverstein are proud to announce that the West Windsor Township Resource Center, which provides much needed information to those accused of crimes in New Jersey, is now live on their website: www.lependorfsilverstein.com/.

After being arrested for a crime in New Jersey, it is important to be informed of existing legal rights and the steps available to resolve a situation. Finding quality legal information quickly and conveniently can make a big difference when the clock is ticking after an arrest for a serious crime.

A criminal accusation can be very overwhelming and confusing. Once a person understands that charges will be brought against him or her, finding accurate information quickly is essential. Having some understanding of what is on the horizon and what can be done are steps often overlooked due to intimidation and fear; however, quality information is made easily accessible in the new resource center. You don?t have to call the firm, submit a form online, or go through any other extra steps to get this information. It?s right there online for you to read. It?s important for a person accused of a crime to know what consequences they are facing and be aware of what they can do. The West Windsor Township Resource Center aims to help them get that information.

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Driving under the influence (DUI) of drugs and/or alcohol and drug crimes are some of the most aggressively prosecuted crimes in New Jersey. Being aware of the legal rights in place when it comes to such charges can go a long way in protecting a person from unjust prosecution and/or excessive penalties. By getting a good knowledge base online, an individual will be in a position to make an informed decision about how he or she wants to proceed.

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Dating After Sixty: My second time around | Boomers and Books

by Guest Author Johanna van Zanten

?I have used matchmaking sites on the Internet off and on for a number of years and have had several good dates. ?I started a relationship with a new partner from those sites twice. ?The first one lasted 4 ? years, during which we broke up once and had a half year hiatus from the relationship. ?The second one lasted a few months. ?This post is about my experiences, but rather than sharing the problems I had, I will look at the positive side of things and project the ideal date, from my point of view. ?Anybody with other ideas can jump in and comment; it might make for a fun and interesting discussion.

This man is very likely over 60, as I am, and I already would have screened out anybody below the age of 55-ish, although I do peek at those over 50 who contact me on my online website. ?Anybody that I would want to meet would look quite trim, has looked after himself and works out regularly to stay healthy and fit, and enjoys some forms of physical recreation?walking, golfing, skiing, and what have you.? He has a reasonable standard of living, at least as far as one can determine that in the early stages of dating.? This man would contact me with an email and not just by sending me a noncommittal ?wink? (which I believe can be extended for free). ?In this age group, it?s wiser to leave the initiative to the man, although I have occasionally taken the initiative, but never with positive results.

He makes some positive remarks on my profile, photos, or activities and is quite articulate in his writing. ?He has actually read my profile and compared the details on my site with what he likes, and these are overlapping at least on a few areas. ?He is educated, independent, and not looking to replace a lost partner with a similar person. ?He can take a compliment, as well. ?He is interested in finding out what kind of a personality I have and accepts me for who I am.? He takes no offense at our differences, but instead enjoys uniqueness in each person. ?He is relaxed and tolerant, regardless of his political colors.

He would like to meet soon and is not interested in endless correspondence. ?This means that he is not afraid to travel if he lives some distance away. ?In time, I would also take my share of the travel, if we hit it off and mutually agree to continue a relationship. ?No, he doesn?t expect me to move in after the first date to take over his housekeeping duties.? This man wants to develop a friendship first and get to know each other, but not too long thereafter, possibly by the third date?that old standard?we will have sex. ?Why waste time?

Younger people might laugh and think: ?Duh! ?But unencumbered sex between older people is not a given, might even be a feat, something which is clear to anybody who has survived that many years and experienced trouble with hormonal, metabolic, or circulatory functioning that shows up as erectile dysfunction or as pain with intercourse. ?Of course, the benefits of Cialis and the little blue pill, Viagra, are advertised widely enough, and women can resort to Vagifem, but those solutions are not in every case suitable or addressing the problems. ?

Surgery for prostate problems might end up in permanent ED and essential meds can cause it as well. ?So let?s assume that no other problem exists with his health that is chronic or permanent or worse, terminal. ?So far, so good. ?He smells nice, is healthy, has great personal hygiene and dresses well, has healthy, nice teeth and not to forget, changes his clothes at least daily.

I don?t think many people will admit up front to having any of the above problems. ?I wish they did, as it might prevent awkward and painful situations and lousy dates.

Imagine we passed the third date with success. ?That would have been a date where we spent more time together, possibly on a short trip. ?He needs to do the driving, but can also relax and let me do some of the driving (or whatever needs to be done). ?He is not a workaholic!? He likes hot weather and is adaptable, is open to exploring foreign and exotic foods and different cultures with an open mind.

This man can freely talk about the ending of his past marriage but not too much or too often?I really do not need to know what he thought, felt, or did with her every time we do something together.? He can listen to my story without fear that I would become clingy or dependent on him for all my needs, without me needing a commitment from him or needing to commit myself. ?He can stop me when I ramble or take off on a pet peeve (I will, at times), and he is open to stating his own fears, hesitations, and wishes. ?No, I don?t need a girlfriend to discuss and analyze everything in a relationship?I have those already and will keep them, too?but want a man who can admit to his faults and express some basic thoughts/feelings.

Eventually, we would meet his friends and my friends and do the social interaction thing as a couple in groups. ?He would introduce me to his friends and not hide me, and not ignore me completely while he is entertaining his friends, nor would he cling to me every minute of the event. ?He spends time on his own and I do too, plenty of it, actually. ?He enjoys music and we enjoy some concerts together. ?We would feel comfortable doing some socials together and doing some of our activities on our own. ?His children would accept me for whom I am and I would his.

If we get past these stages in good shape and still like each other, we might start talking about living together at some point. ?I am completely unsure about that stage and have not yet gotten to that point after my divorce more than a decade ago. ?The glitches can be many, and boy, oh boy, you need to forget all those to still want to continue in the dating game after 60. ?Yet, I, as well as millions of other 60-plus women and men, am out there looking for a partner to share my senior years. ?Still crazy after all those years, I guess?.

Book Info:???

On Thin Ice: short stories of life and dating after 50 by Johanna van Zanten is a novel-in-stories about the adventures of boomer Adrienne?her life, her relationships, and the chances she took.? Her journey in this book spans both time and distance, from her 20?s to her 50?s, from Europe to Western Canada.

For more info, check the novel?s website: http://babyboomerwrites.com/.

This is Johanna?s debut novel and was published earlier this year as an ebook.? Her next novel is scheduled for publication in March 2013 with the title Losing Dad, Finding Dad.

Author Info:

Johanna van Zanten grew up in the Netherlands and came of age in the late sixties. ?She graduated from the Rietveld Academy for applied arts in Amsterdam, after which she worked in a therapeutic group home for drug addicts. ?She immigrated to Canada where she also obtained a Bachelor?s degree in social work. ?Since then, she has worked in child protection.??

She discovered her passion for creative writing three years ago when she completed intensive summer courses with authors Laisha Rosnau at UBC-Okanagan and Dona Sturmanis at Okanagan College.? Johanna?s stories have been published in online and printed magazines.? She received an honorary mention in the Glimmer Train contest for new authors, and one of her stories was short-listed in the short story contest in 2011 with CBC/UBCO/OC.?

Johanna has a blog where she writes about what interests and moves her in the world. http://www.babyboomerwrites.wordpress.com.

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Ex-Goldman banker: 'It's absolutely worse since the financial crisis ...

FORTUNE -- The muppet show is just getting started.

Greg Smith, author of a new Wall Street tell-all that accuses Goldman Sachs, his former firm, of ripping clients off, says the financial crisis and new regulations have done little to curb bad behavior on Wall Street. In fact, in Smith's opinion, they've done the opposite. "It's absolutely gotten worse since the financial crisis," Smith told Fortune when we caught up with him before a ping-pong match in one of his first interviews since finishing the book.

You probably remember Smith, or have read about him recently. He's the former Goldman banker, who, earlier this year, quit his job via the New York Times. In an opinion piece, Smith wrote that the culture at Goldman had turned "toxic," and no longer one he could be a part of. He said bankers at the firm openly talked of abusing clients, who Goldmanites called "muppets" behind their backs.

But the piece was light on details. Smith's new book, which is titled "Why I Left Goldman Sachs" and comes out on Monday, elaborates on the op-ed some. Smith says during the financial crisis, Goldman charged clients a huge fee, up to 20%, when they wanted out of an investment that was pitched as ultra safe. He says in the summer of 2011, when the European debt crisis was at its worst, Goldman regularly pushed its clients into, and out of, investments tied to banks in France and Spain. Often the firm was taking the opposite position of what it was telling clients. Goldman's best accounts were told to steer clear entirely.

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More recently, Smith says, Goldman and others, have been trying to sell pension funds a complicated derivative that carries high fees, but offers little more than the asset allocation advice you would get from a run-of-the-mill financial planner for much less.

In general, Smith paints a picture of Goldman as used-car salesman. Clients who didn't verify prices often paid much more than they needed to. When clients made mistakes, Goldman corrected them to the firm's advantage. The result is that Smith says Goldman's least sophisticated clients, which Smith says are often the managers of pension and mutual funds, who invest money on behalf of firemen, teachers and regular individuals, get the firm's worst products at the worst prices. Hedge funds, which typically work for the 1%, get Goldman's best advice.

But while there is plenty that appears ethically wrong, no where in the 250-page book is any real evidence that either Goldman or anyone at the firm broke the law. Goldman says its own investigation following Smith's March op-ed piece turned up no evidence of wrong-doing. In the week leading up to the publication of Smith's book, Goldman leaked an internal report that Smith had asked for a million dollar bonus and a promotion said a few months before leaving the firm. Both were denied.

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Smith calls Goldman's allegation that he quit over pay a total fabrication. He says his bonus was hundreds of thousands of dollars, and that it was more than most of his peers. "Of course, I asked for more," says Smith. "Everyone does."

Smith says the fact that Goldman can claim it did an investigation and found nothing wrong is a problem with the law, not his account. "The frustrating thing is that much of the behavior that I describe in the book is legal. Unethical, but not illegal."

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Smith says things have gotten worse since the financial crisis. According to Smith, many of the activities that took advantage of clients paid off during the financial crisis for Goldman. As a result, he says, many of the people who took that road have wound up in leadership positions at the firm. What's more, at a time when investment banks are seeing their profits pinched, firms are more willing to turn against their clients for a buck.

New regulations may also be adding to the problem. Before Dodd-Frank, Wall Street firms used to wall off their proprietary trading groups - the divisions that make risky trades with the firm's own money. Now that activity has been relocated to the desks that are supposed to be focused on buying and selling orders for clients, in order to hide prop trading from regulators. That gives the firm's own traders more direct access to client information, and a greater ability to abuse it.

"A lot of people are caught up in a system that asks for morally dubious decision making," says Smith. "I wrote the book about Goldman, but it's really about the industry as a whole."

Source: http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2012/10/22/greg-smith-goldman-sachs-worse/

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The endogenous definition of money (business accounting view ...

What?s money? According to Hyman Minsky (emphasis added):

?Modern capitalist economies are intensely financial. Money in these economies is endogenously determined as activity and asset holdings are financed and commitments of prior contracts are fulfilled. In truth, every economic unit can create money ? this property is not restricted to banks. The main problem a ?money creator? faces is getting his money accepted?

Does everybody agree? No. According to a very recent ECB study about international liquidity (emphasis added):

The concept of monetary liquidity attempts to capture the ability of economic agents to settle their transactions using money, an asset the agents cannot create themselves. Money is typically seen as the asset which, first, can be transformed into consumption without incurring transaction costs, and second, has an exchange value that is not subject to uncertainty in nominal terms, rendering it the most liquid asset in the economy. Strictly speaking, these characteristics apply only to currency. The question of which other assets can be defined as money depends on the degree of substitutability between currency and these other assets. In practice, the definition of money in an economy generally includes those other assets which can be easily converted into currency: short-term bank deposits are an obvious example.

Who?s right? According to business accounting: Minsky.

Main stream economists define money as a combination of a

* unit of account (which by the way existed long before currency)
* means of payment
* store of value

Which means that the ?receivables? on the balance sheets of companies are money, too.

An example: company A buys stuff from company B and promises to pay within six weeks (which happens all the time and provides the liquidity which make markets work). According to the law, according to business accounting and, last but not least, according to the the tax man this is a legal and binding transaction ? even if the debt is not settled you will have to pay taxes and you have to add it to your turnover data. The unit of the ?receivable? (might be Euro 15,79 but that?s a unit, too) enters the balance sheet and the profit and loss account (as it?s a store of value) and was used as a means of exchange. It?s money. Temporary money, yes, but that?s money too. So, Minsky is right, according to business economics ? and the fact that transactions create payables (the debt which serves as the collateral of the receivable) means that transactions lead to money creation. Minsky is right and the ECB isn?t, which makes these ECB economists misunderstand the deeply financial nature of our economy. Money is an social act, not a good.

And this is not a measly amount of money. I?ve checked the balance sheets and profit and loss accounts of five large Dutch companies, ?receivables? alone are 90 billions of Euro?s and sometimes over 20% of total sales.

P.S. ? the idea that using money does not involve transaction costs is bonkers. Last time I checked interest on my mortgage was still 4,6%, money which I have to pay as I once needed money to use money to buy a house. And see also this recent ECB study, which estimates that making retail transactions alone cost us about 1% of GDP, not counting transport costs to and from the shops (those are market and not paying transactions costs).
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Source: http://rwer.wordpress.com/2012/10/21/the-endogenous-definition-of-money-business-accounting-view/

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Zero cost Internet Promotional Approaches | Traffic Secrets

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Any internet marketer worth his salt knows that backlinks from other websites ? when they are authority sites, even better ? can give any site an excellent boost up the search engine rank. Eventually, if you get enough links back to your site, you are guaranteed a top ranking on google.

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White House prepared to meet one-on-one with Iran

FILE - In this Jan. 11, 2012 file photo, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks to a gathering at the University of Havana, in Havana, Cuba, The White House says it is prepared to talk one-on-one with Iran to find a diplomatic settlement to the impasse over Tehran's reported pursuit of nuclear weapons, but there's no agreement now to meet, Saturday, Oct. 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes, File)

FILE - In this Jan. 11, 2012 file photo, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks to a gathering at the University of Havana, in Havana, Cuba, The White House says it is prepared to talk one-on-one with Iran to find a diplomatic settlement to the impasse over Tehran's reported pursuit of nuclear weapons, but there's no agreement now to meet, Saturday, Oct. 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes, File)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? The White House says it is prepared to talk one-on-one with Iran to find a diplomatic settlement to the impasse over Tehran's reported pursuit of nuclear weapons, but there's no agreement now to meet.

National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor said Saturday that President Barack Obama has made clear that he will prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon and will do whatever's necessary to prevent that from happening. Vietor said Iran must come in line with its obligations, or else faced increased pressure.

"The onus is on the Iranians to do so, otherwise they will continue to face crippling sanctions and increased pressure," Vietor said in a statement. He noted that efforts to get Iran back to the table with the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and Germany ? the so-called "P5+1" ? continue.

Iran has been a recurring issue in the presidential election campaign and Vietor's statement was released shortly after The New York Times reported Saturday that the U.S. and Iran have agreed in principle for the first time to negotiations. The paper said Iran has insisted the talks wait until after the Nov. 6 election.

Vietor, however, denied that any such agreement had been reached.

"It's not true that the United States and Iran have agreed to one-on-one talks or any meeting after the American elections," he said. We continue to work with the P5+1 on a diplomatic solution and have said from the outset that we that we would be prepared to meet bilaterally."

Obama and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney will meet Monday night in a debate focusing on foreign policy and Iran's nuclear ambitions will likely be a topic. Obama has said he'll prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. He hopes sanctions alongside negotiations can get Iran to halt uranium enrichment. But the strategy, which began during President George W. Bush's administration, hasn't worked yet. Obama holds out the threat of military action as a last resort. Romney has accused Obama of being weak on Iran and says the U.S. needs to present a greater military threat.

Despite unprecedented global penalties, Iran's nuclear program is advancing as it continues to defy international pressure, including four rounds of sanctions from the U.N. Security Council, to prove that its atomic intentions are peaceful.

Those sanctions, coupled with tough measures imposed by the United States and European nations are taking their toll, particularly on Iran's economy. Iranian authorities have in recent weeks been forced to quell protests over the plummeting value of the country's currency, the rial. The rial lost nearly 40 percent of its value against the U.S. dollar in a week in early October, but has since slightly rebounded.

U.S. officials say they are hopeful that pressure from the sanctions may be pushing Iran's leaders toward concessions, including direct talks with the United States. But several said on Saturday that they did not believe such discussions would happen any time soon.

If one-on-one talks are to occur, they would likely follow the model that the U.S. has used in six-nation nuclear disarmament talks with North Korea, the officials said.

In those discussions, U.S. negotiators have met separately with their North Korean counterparts but only as part of the larger effort, which also involves China, Japan, South Korea and Russia. Direct U.S.-North Korean talks are preceded and followed by intense consultations with the other members of the group.

However, the direct talks with North Korea have yet to bear fruit and U.S. officials warned that talks with Iran may not yield anything either. If U.S.-Iran talks do occur, they would likely be part of the P5+1 process, which groups the Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the United States and is overseen by the European Union. The group has met numerous times with Iranian officials but has yet to achieve any significant progress.

In late September, the group instructed EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton to reach out to Iran's top nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili, to organize another meeting. No date had been set for the possible resumption of talks.

Iran says its program is for peaceful energy and research purposes but Western nations fear the Islamic republic is determined to develop nuclear weapons and fundamentally reshape the balance of power in the Middle East. That would pose a grave threat to Israel.

Israel has threatened to strike Iran's nuclear facilities if Tehran doesn't stop uranium enrichment a process that can be a pathway to nuclear arms. Israel could decide to strike Iran's nuclear sites on its own, and Israeli leaders say time to act is running out. They have also hinted they would like U.S. support for any such attack.

An Israeli strike on Iran with or without Washington's involvement would likely draw retribution from Tehran including possible attacks on U.S. and Israeli interests overseas or disruptions to the transit of tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, which could send oil prices skyrocketing.

Obama has counseled patience as public as American public support for another Mideast conflict is low with the Iraq war over and the conflict in Afghanistan winding down.

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Associated Press writers Matthew Lee and Andrew Miga contributed to this report.

Associated Press

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