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SACO, Maine ? State championship team members Garet Beal of Jonesport-Beals High School, Krystal Kingsbury of Presque Isle, Allie Clement of McAuley of Portland and McKenzie Worcester of Washburn are among the more than 175 basketball players who have confirmed they plan to participate in the third annual MBNation East vs. West Showcase on Sunday.

The daylong event at the Saco Recreation Center is conducted by MBNation Basketball and showcases the talents of the state?s top players.

?This has, literally, become a preseason all-star game,? said MBNation club director Mike Woodbury of the contests.

More than 200 players were invited to participate and the final tally of who attends will be close to 180, according to Woodbury.

?It gets bigger every year,? he said.

He also expects to have between 30 and 50 men?s and women?s coaches, plus a couple of organizations that evaluate the players? potential and rank them for recruiting purposes.

Some may have already committed to a school. Beal, for instance, verbally committed to the University of Maine on Tuesday. Most have not committed yet, such as Chris Braley, a Newport native now attending Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, N.H., who is also considered to be an NCAA Division I basketball prospect.

The day consists of seven games scheduled to be put on starting at 9 a.m., five boys games and two girls games, primarily for high school-age players.

The boys are split into four games based on high school graduation class (2013-16) plus a futures game for boys who are expected to graduate in either 2017 or 2018. Girls games may be split among two age groups, one game for the 2013 and 2014 graduating classes and the other for the 2015 and 2016 classes.

There is no breakdown into classes based on the size of the schools the players attend.

?We just tried to find the best players regardless of class,? Woodbury said. Players are coming from as far north as Caribou and as far south as York.

Some who have accepted their invitations may not be able to play, however, because of injury or other commitments.

?We don?t allow them to participate if they?re still in season for their high school sport [such as football],? said Woodbury.

The admission fee is $5 per person, but that covers all the games. The players? registration fee is $55.

Woodbury is excited because this year?s gathering is in the newly renovated Saco Recreation Center after two years at Southern Maine Community College in South Portland.

?They?ve put in a new gymnasium floor and it has more seating. And they?re bringing in extra seating,? Woodbury said of the Saco center, which will have a capacity of about 600. The center also has a concessions stand with hot food, an activity room for the players and a hospitality room for the college coaches.

The extra seating probably will be necessary, according to Woodbury.

?I expect that it will be standing-room-only for the games in the middle of the day,? he said. Those are boys games with this year?s juniors playing at 12:45 p.m. and the seniors at 2 p.m.

The futures game is first at 9 a.m. followed by the freshman boys (10:15 a.m.) and sophomore boys (11:30 a.m.).

The freshman and sophomore girls play at 3:15 p.m. followed by the junior and senior girls at 4:30 p.m. The girls games may be combined into one, however, based on the confirmation rate, Woodbury said. Fourteen girls from Western Maine and 17 from Eastern Maine have confirmed, and Woodbury prefers to have 12-player teams.

Other boys taking part include Sam Grindle of Deer Isle-Stonington, a standout guard who also won the state Class C boys individual golf title last month; Tyler Norris of EM Class A champion Hampden Academy; Thiwat Thiwat and Labson Abwoch of state Class A champ Deering of Portland; Brendan Newcomb of Brewer; Ben Walls of Mount Desert Island of Bar Harbor; Nick Guiod and Kyle Bouchard of Houlton; Ben Hughes of Bangor; Mitch Worcester of Washburn; and Isaiah Stone-Patterson of Oceanside of Rockland/Thomaston.

Among the other girls who have accepted invitations are Sydney and Sarah Hancock of Lake Region of Naples, Kelsie and Kylie Richards of Nokomis of Newport, Kennadi Grover of Oceanside, Jillian Woodward of Orono and Lexi Nelligan of Belfast.

The list of committed players can be found at the MBNation website at: thenationbasketball.yuku.com/topic/2468/3rd-Annual-MBNation-East-v-West-Showcase-Info?Invite-List.

Woodbury is expecting that the games will be competitive.

?This is a chance for people who might not have the opportunity to [play against] each other during the rest of the year,? hesaid. ?Hopefully, they?ll all have a good time.?

Source: http://bangordailynews.com/2012/11/09/sports/mbnations-3rd-east-vs-west-showcase-basketball-games-set-for-sunday/

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World stocks sink on US fiscal cliff fears

HONG KONG (AP) ? World stock markets struggled Friday despite encouraging Chinese economic figures as fears persisted over the so-called U.S. "fiscal cliff" that's seen as a big threat to the economic recovery.

In early European trading, the FTSE 100 index of leading British companies was nearly flat at 5,779.20 while Germany's DAX was marginally lower at 7,200.92. The CAC-40 in France was down 0.2 percent at 3,402.13.

U.S. stocks were poised to creep higher. Dow futures were up 0.1 percent to 12,786.00 and broader S&P 500 futures were up 0.2 percent to 1,377.50.

Japan's Nikkei 225 index fell 0.9 percent to close at 8,757.60 and Hong Kong's Hang Seng shed 0.9 percent to end at 21,384.38. South Korea's Kospi retreated 0.5 percent to 1,904.41.

Australia's S&P ASX 200 dropped 0.5 percent to 4,462.00 after the central bank released a downbeat assessment of the country's economy.

Chinese stocks dipped even as a clutch of reports provided signs of a possible recovery in the world's second-largest economy.

The Shanghai Composite Index closed down 0.1 percent to 2,069.07 and the Shenzhen Composite Index edged 0.4 percent lower to 828.46. The benchmarks seesawed between gains and losses throughout the day as investors mulled the data showing factory output rose, investment growth strengthened and inflation eased in October.

Markets have slumped worldwide as investors have refocused on challenges to the world economy following President Barack Obama's re-election. Many worry that gridlock in Washington will prevent the president and Congress from reaching a deal before $800 billion of tax increases and government spending cuts kicks in on Jan. 1.

Investors also have renewed fears about Europe's lingering debt crisis. European Central Bank President Mario Draghi warned that the economy of the 17 nation grouping that uses the euro remains weak and will struggle to grow even with "visibly improved" confidence among the currency union's financial markets.

Asian stocks are "going to be very much driven by the U.S. and Europe," said Peter Esho, chief market analyst at City Index Asia Pacific in Sydney. But "I think things will change in the first quarter of 2013 with a coordinated Chinese response" to the country's painful slowdown, he said.

Australian stocks fell after the country's central bank said in a quarterly report it was trimming growth forecasts as mining companies scale back investment plans because of declining iron ore and coal prices and the strong currency.

In currencies, the euro weakened to $1.2743 from to $1.2750 late Thursday. The dollar was unchanged at 79.38 Japanese yen.

Crude oil for December delivery was down 17 cents to $84.91 in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract rose 65 cents to close at $85.09 on Thursday.

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HA NOI (VNS)? Police in Ha Noi?s Cau Giay District have arrested Dong Pham Nguyen, 26, a resident of central Binh Dinh Province who pretended to be a brain tumour patient to ask the public for money.

Nguyen constantly created virtual nicknames on the internet, lying that he needed a large amount of money to undergo a brain surgery abroad.

After obtaining VND200 million (US$9,800) in HCM City, he came to Ha Noi to try the same trick, but was discovered by the police.

Hospital results show that he is normal. He has two previous convictions for stealing.-VNS

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Disney buys 'Star Wars': Were we wrong about George Lucas all along?

The news that 'Star Wars: Episode 7' is on its way and that Disney has bought the 'Star Wars' franchise from George Lucas raises the prospect that the world is only now beginning to understand his vision for the classic trilogy. Disney buying 'Star Wars' could cause a 'Lord of the Rings'-like universe expansion.

By Mark Sappenfield,?Staff writer / October 31, 2012

'Star Wars: Episode 7' and Disney buying the 'Star Wars' franchise could be only the beginning of a universe expansion for the series.

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For the Gen Xer, this is an existential question. Wookies and tauntauns and Luke's lightsabers are strands in our social DNA. Boring parties spontaneously become enjoyable when we can find someone to join us in mocking Episode I (or II or III, for that matter).

We know "Star Wars" begins with the scroll and pumping brass of "A New Hope" and ends with those annoying Ewoks cheering the blasted filaments of the Death Star in the skies above Endor. Full stop. Other "Episodes," novels, comics, TV series, video games, etc. ? at times enjoyable, at times tragic ? are really only cultural womp rats ? targets for the implacable purity of our derision. We, the real curators of the "Star Wars" legacy, know they are all just fuel for George Lucas's ever-expanding wallet.

But now, with Lucas selling his entire franchise to Disney with the open endorsement that the Big Mouse could make "Star Wars" movies for "another 100 years," that entire worldview is up for revision.

Yes, Lucas might be doing this solely for money. If so, he has become the Jabba the Hutt of his own universe.

Yet we must also consider another possibility. That maybe, Episodes IV, V, and VI were never meant to be a part of a sacred orthodoxy. That maybe Lucas is more J.R.R. Tolkien than Stanley Kubrick ? that his vision for "Star Wars" is now and has always been an expansive one. Perhaps it is truly an entire universe in which Luke and Han and Leia occupy only a small but important part.

Are Frodo and Samwise and Aragorn diminished by "The Silmarillion," the Tolkien epic set thousands of years before the events of "The Lord of the Rings"? Or does that book merely give us the full scope of Tolkien's remarkable vision?

The difference, of course, is that Tolkien jealously guarded his own universe. He was the sole creator, and he did not trust it in the hands of others. Lucas, meanwhile, has farmed out the expansion of his universe to others, providing the core inspiration and structure, but allowing other writers to pen his "appendices."

This process can, of course, lead to a dilution of the purity and focus of the original vision. Then again, Episodes I, II, and III suggest that, perhaps, the sanctity of the "Star Wars" legacy might be safest in others' hands.

Indeed, imagine what a true "Star Wars" fan, weaned on the original films and now a filmmaker in his or her own right, might do with Episode VII, which is reportedly slated for release in 2015? A generation of Joss Whedons are salivating.

The inspiration for "Star Wars" came from serials like "Flash Gordon." Lucas, it seems, saw his own creation unfolding in a similar way ? organically and without a defined endpoint or circumference.

In the right hands, that could be an exciting prospect.

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Organizations around the country have learned to take the time to come up with detailed data disaster recovery solutions in order to keep their internal data safe from being lost or stolen. This article will explain some of the most effective data recovery solutions to keep your business from suffering a devastating loss. Data Disaster happens when a business software or storage loses all or vital information due to computer failure, user error, or many times a natural disaster can cause significant damage especially when it directly contacts your server.

A few solutions to make sure these situations are avoided starts with having backups for all your existing files created and saved in more than one place. Choosing to utilize offsite backup to transmit and safely secure important data is a way to stave off future complications. Online data backup is a way to restore information quick and easy with the guaranteed security that a new business is looking for. When searching for backups for your business there are a few key components to pay close attention too. With an offsite solution you will have the luxury during a fire or natural disaster to still be able to retrieve any loss of data if your office is destroyed or damaged.

One feature with an offsite disaster solution is that replication of your data will not need any restoration. Restoration can be time consuming so eliminating this will benefit your company as you attempt to get business back to normal. Outsourcing with a specialized data backup company can be very smart for new businesses who want to be more confident in their data security. Losing data can cause significant damage to a companies financially as well as productivity. This all depends on how long you are down after a disaster occurs. With the correct solution you should have no problems getting your business back up and running in no time.

It is essential that you have backup when coming up with a disaster recovery solution because without your going to shell out a lot of money to restore lost files. For a small business this can become extremely expensive and in many cases sending you down the road to bankruptcy. Having security on your data is vital especially as the use of computers grow and the demand businesses ask our technology to accommodate too. As business expands exploring methods to get rid of data loss will heighten as well. Choosing offsite or onsite backup means you are going in the right direction in securing your business. Over time using both solutions as a way to keep your company safe will be money well spent. Having key records saved to an offsite backup server as well as the countless onsite options is the best way to keep things under your control. There is never any time to take chances on vital information in business. Taking care of your data will lead to greater productivity and potential more money gained.

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Chewing betel quid exposes half a billion people to direct carcinogens

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Chewing betel quid the fourth most popular psychoactive substance in the world after tobacco, alcohol and caffeine exposes its 600 million users to substances that act as direct carcinogens in the mouth, scientists are reporting in a new study. It appears in ACS' journal Chemical Research in Toxicology.

Mu-Rong Chao and Chiung-Wen Hu explain that betel quid (BQ) consists of nuts from the arcea tree, sometimes combined with spices, such as cardamom or saffron, and other ingredients. Available in commercial forms, BQ is popular among people in China, India and other Asian countries, and people of Asian heritage living in the U.S. and other countries. Scientists have known for decades that chewing BQ can lead to oral cancer, and showed recently that the substances in BQ could be changed into carcinogens in the body. The authors of this study explored whether there were any substances in the arcea nut that can cause cancer directly, without any need for the body to change or "activate" them.

They discovered that compounds in the arcea nut can "alkylate" the genetic material DNA, causing changes that increase the risk of cancer, and they are present in betel quid in amounts high enough to do so. "Our study showed that these alkylating agents are present at levels sufficient to cause DNA damage and could potentially have adverse implications to human health, particularly in the case of the development of oral cancer for BQ chewers," they say.

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Chewing betel quid the fourth most popular psychoactive substance in the world after tobacco, alcohol and caffeine exposes its 600 million users to substances that act as direct carcinogens in the mouth, scientists are reporting in a new study. It appears in ACS' journal Chemical Research in Toxicology.

Mu-Rong Chao and Chiung-Wen Hu explain that betel quid (BQ) consists of nuts from the arcea tree, sometimes combined with spices, such as cardamom or saffron, and other ingredients. Available in commercial forms, BQ is popular among people in China, India and other Asian countries, and people of Asian heritage living in the U.S. and other countries. Scientists have known for decades that chewing BQ can lead to oral cancer, and showed recently that the substances in BQ could be changed into carcinogens in the body. The authors of this study explored whether there were any substances in the arcea nut that can cause cancer directly, without any need for the body to change or "activate" them.

They discovered that compounds in the arcea nut can "alkylate" the genetic material DNA, causing changes that increase the risk of cancer, and they are present in betel quid in amounts high enough to do so. "Our study showed that these alkylating agents are present at levels sufficient to cause DNA damage and could potentially have adverse implications to human health, particularly in the case of the development of oral cancer for BQ chewers," they say.

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The authors acknowledge funding from the National Science Council, Taiwan.

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Job ID: 11222204 Position Title: OEM Business Development Sales Manager - West Coast Region Location(s): Los Angeles, California, 90001, United States ?

Posted: October 24, 2012 Company Name: Allstate Entry Level: No

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Develop national sales strategies and sales pipeline to grow the Auto wholesale and Allstate Products through contracting of new partners. Responsible for achieving operating plan targets for new sales revenue for the division.

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Independently identify, prospect, negotiate and close agreements with new partners.

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BBC ripped for handing of sex abuse scandal

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BBC Director General George Entwistle leaves Parliament on Tuesday after giving evidence to a select committee where he denied charges of a cover-up.

By Peter Jeary, NBC News

The predatory pedophilia of a former British radio and TV celebrity has shaken the BBC to its foundations, as the broadcaster struggles to reconcile itself to charges of mismanagement and allowing an "unacceptable culture" of sexual abuse to go unchecked for decades.

Jimmy Savile, who died in October 2011 two days before his 85th birthday, rose to fame in the 1960s as a dance-hall promoter and later BBC radio disc-jockey. In the 1970s, 80s and 90s, he was a regular fixture of the BBC TV schedules, where his popular, family-oriented shows attracted top ratings. He was honored by the queen, networked with politicians and celebrities and was feted for his charity fundraising and good works.

But in the months since Savile's death, a catalog of accusations has emerged, stretching from 1959 to 2006, in what London's Metropolitan Police described as "abuse on an unprecedented scale."

It has also come out that Savile's sexual exploitation of children may have been known to some people at the time, including former colleagues and managers at the BBC, who failed to report or act upon the rumors and accusations. What's more, it has been revealed that in late 2011, the BBC axed an investigative news item into Savile's pedophilia at the same time that it was planning a Christmas tribute program to him.

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The head of the BBC denied on Tuesday helping to cover up the allegations but accepted that it had been damaged by the crisis.

In a BBC TV documentary broadcast Monday night, Panorama investigated the original news item, which was to have aired on BBC TV's Newsnight program until it was shelved by the Newsnight editor.

By accessing the original Newsnight video and interviews, Panorama drew a portrait of Savile as a shrewd, calculating and devious predator who preyed on vulnerable young people. Among the accusers were some victims who said Savile had sexually abused them in his BBC dressing room after he recorded his TV shows.

Panorama also looked into the circumstances that led to the Newsnight item being dropped.

Suggestions that it was dropped as part of a BBC cover-up were refuted in a blog by the program's editor, Peter Rippon,?who wrote, "I was told in the strongest terms that I must be guided by editorial considerations only and that I must not let any wider considerations about the BBC affect my judgement."

However, on Monday Rippon "stepped aside" from his post as the BBC issued a correction?to his blog, in which it became clear that Rippon had made factual errors about what the BBC had known. In particular, the correction clarified that there were "some allegations of abusive conduct on BBC premises."

'Broader cultural problem'
BBC director-general George Entwistle was quizzed on Tuesday about all of this by a parliamentary select committee?into the BBC's handling of the affair.

Although he denied the BBC was facing "its worst crisis in 50 years", Entwistle said Savile's alleged behavior had been possible only because of a "broader cultural problem" at the BBC.

When pressed by parliamentarians for detail, Entwistle told them, "We are looking at between five and 10 serious allegations relating to activities over the whole period in question, the Savile period." He added the allegations included claims of sexual harassment made against people still working at the BBC, but could not say how many.

The director-general's grilling created an impression of BBC management out of touch with the broadcaster's day-to-day running.

Instead of evidence of management interference in editorial matters, committee members described themselves as "astonished" at the "lack of curiosity" exhibited by senior management into rumors and "water-cooler" revelations.

The BBC has announced two independent reviews into the Savile affair: one looking at how the abuse he is accused of could have been allowed to happen, and the other looking into the circumstances of the shelved Newsnight item.

Meanwhile, the police enquiry into Savile's activities has developed into a criminal investigation which has yet to establish the full extent of his crimes. Police are following more than 400 lines of enquiry involving more than 200 potential victims.

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Exxon Mobil Receives Green Cross Safety Award

The National Safety Council has announced that Exxon Mobil Corporation is the recipient of its 2013 Green Cross for Safety medal. The company was awarded the prize "for its comprehensive commitment to safety excellence," the council stated. Here are the details.

* The Green Cross for Safety medal, established in 2000, is awarded annually to organizations who demonstrate a commitment to "improving safety and health in the workplace and beyond," the National Safety Council explained.

* According to the council, Exxon Mobil -- the largest publicly traded international oil and gas company -- has accomplished safety, security, health and environmental performance through clearly defined policies and practices.

* In spite of the award, Exxon Mobil acknowledged in its 2011 Corporate Citizen Report, released in June, that there were some undesirable outcomes for the year found in its performance data.

* Once of the undesirable performance trends indicated in the report was 484 spills involving oil, chemical and drilling fluid not from marine vessels. These incidences were a dramatic increase from the 210 spills Exxon Mobil reported in 2010.

* The company also reported that it had nine fatalities of contractors in 2011, while there were only three in 2010. The fatal accident and lost-time incident rate for the total workforce increased last year over 2010 levels.

* "This year, some of the trends in our safety and environmental performance did not meet our expectations and we are taking action to address them," stated Rex W. Tillerson, Exxon Mobil Chairman and CEO in the 2011 Corporate Citizenship Report. "We will not stop working to achieve our goal of driving accidents and incidents with a real impact to zero."

* Exxon Mobil currently has operations on six continents, the company reported, stating that it strives to become part of local communities and economies in addition to supplying energy.

* The National Safety Council plans to honor Exxon Mobil for its achievement at an April 2013 event in Houston, Texas.

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MCGRUDER DEPARTS WDAF-FOX4 ON EVE OF SWEEPS ...

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October 22nd, 2012

Sources have told Bottom Line Communications that Bryan McGruder, Vice President of News at WDAF-Fox 4 for nearly 10 years, is no longer with the station.

No reason was given for his sudden exit.

What is particularly surprising with the move is that the all-important November TV sweeps is starting this Friday.? Not having a someone in that key position could severely impact the Fox station?s results.

McGruder, 52, ?joined the station in December 2002 after serving about two years as the VP of News at Fox affiliate WHBQ-TV in Memphis.? He also spent a year as news director at?WJCL/WTGS TV in Savannah, GA, and 10 years as an anchor/reporter/producer and executive producer at WHNT-TV in Huntsville, AL.

Following graduation from the University of Missouri in 1982 McGruder spent two years at WTOK-TV in Meridian, MS, ?as a reporter for four years?and then moved to to WAPT in Jackson, MS, for two years before moving on to WHNT.

McGruder served from 2006-2011 on the Board of Governors of the National Association of the Arts & Sciences as a VP-Trustee.

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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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How a fish 'broke' a law of physics

ScienceDaily (Oct. 21, 2012) ? Silvery fish such as herring, sardine and sprat are breaking a basic law of physics, according to new research from the University of Bristol published October 21 in Nature Photonics.

Reflective surfaces polarize light, a phenomenon that fishermen or photographers overcome by using polarizing sunglasses or polarizing filters to cut our reflective glare. However, PhD student Tom Jordan and his supervisors Professor Julian Partridge and Dr Nicholas Roberts in Bristol's School of Biological Sciences found that these silvery fish have overcome this basic law of reflection -- an adaptation that may help them evade predators.

Previously, it was thought that the fish's skin -- which contains "multilayer" arrangements of reflective guanine crystals -- would fully polarize light when reflected. As the light becomes polarized, there should be a drop in reflectivity.

The Bristol researchers found that the skin of sardines and herring contain not one but two types of guanine crystal -- each with different optical properties. By mixing these two types, the fish's skin doesn't polarize the reflected light and maintains its high reflectivity.

Dr Roberts said: "We believe these species of fish have evolved this particular multilayer structure to help conceal them from predators, such as dolphin and tuna. These fish have found a way to maximize their reflectivity over all angles they are viewed from. This helps the fish best match the light environment of the open ocean, making them less likely to be seen."

As a result of this ability, the skin of silvery fish could hold the key to better optical devices. Tom Jordan said: "Many modern day optical devices such as LED lights and low loss optical fibres use these non-polarizing types of reflectors to improve efficiency. However, these human-made reflectors currently require the use of materials with specific optical properties that are not always ideal. The mechanism that has evolved in fish overcomes this current design limitation and provides a new way to manufacture these non-polarizing reflectors."

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Natural process activating brain's immune cells could point way to repairing damaged brain tissue

ScienceDaily (Oct. 21, 2012) ? The brain's key "breeder" cells, it turns out, do more than that. They secrete substances that boost the numbers and strength of critical brain-based immune cells believed to play a vital role in brain health. This finding adds a new dimension to our understanding of how resident stem cells and stem cell transplants may improve brain function.

Many researchers believe that these cells may be able to regenerate damaged brain tissue by integrating into circuits that have been eroded by neurodegenerative disease or destroyed by injury. But new findings by scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine suggest that another process, which has not been fully appreciated, could be a part of the equation as well. The findings appear in a study that will be published online Oct. 21 in Nature Neuroscience.

"Transplanting neural stem cells into experimental animals' brains shows signs of being able to speed recovery from stroke and possibly neurodegenerative disease as well," said Tony Wyss-Coray, PhD, professor of neurology and neurological sciences in the medical school and senior research scientist at the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System. "Why this technique works is far from clear, though, because actually neural stem cells don't engraft well."

Neural stem cells can endure essentially unchanged for decades in two places in the mammalian brain, replicating just enough to meet the routine needs of those regions. In most parts of the brain, they aren't found at all.

While of critical importance to maintaining healthy brain function, true neural stem cells are rare. Far more common are their immediate progeny, which are called neural progenitor cells, or NPCs. These robust, rapidly dividing cells are poised to travel down a committed path of differentiation to yield new brain cells of several different types including neurons.

It's known that treating humans with radiation or drugs that prevent NPC replication causes memory deficits ("chemo brain") and, in children, IQ losses of up to 20 points. Conversely, studies are being initiated to see whether infusing neural stem cells into brains affected by Alzheimer's disease can enhance patients' memory function.

One category of brain cells, microglia, descends not from neural stem cells but from an immune lineage and retains several features of immune cells. "Microglia are the brain's own resident immune cells," Wyss-Coray said. Unlike most other mature brain cells, microglia can proliferate throughout adulthood, especially in response to brain injury. They can, moreover, migrate toward injury sites, secrete various "chemical signaling" substances, and gobble up bits of debris, microbial invaders or entire dead or dying neurons.

Microglia normally are distributed throughout the brain -- rather small, quiescent cells sprouting long, skinny projections that meekly but efficiently survey large areas that, taken together, cover the entire brain. But if this surveillance reveals signs of a disturbance, such as injury or infection, the microglia whirl into action. They begin proliferating and their puny bodies puff up, metamorphosing from mild-mannered Clark Kent-like reporters to buffed Supermen who fly to the scene of trouble, where they secrete substances that can throttle bad actors or call in reinforcements. Within these activated cells, internal garbage disposals called lysosomes form in large numbers and start whirring, ready to make mincemeat out of pathogens or cellular debris.

In addition to their part patrol-officer, part cleanup-crew status, microglia can also secrete substances that help neurons thrive. They also contribute to the ongoing pruning of unneeded connections between neurons that occurs throughout our lives.

But like immune cells elsewhere, said Wyss-Coray, microglia can be a force for evil if they engage in too much or inappropriate activity. They might, for instance, start to remove healthy cells (as occurs in Parkinson's) or stop cleaning up garbage strewn about the brain (for example, Alzheimer's plaque).

In a series of experiments, Wyss-Coray and his colleagues have shown that NPCs secrete substances that activate microglia. First, the researchers observed that microglia were uncharacteristically abundant and activated in the two regions in the mammalian brain where NPCs reside and new neurons are formed. Wondering whether the NPCs might be causing this increased microglial activity, the investigators incubated mouse microglia in a culture medium in which NPCs had previously been steeped. Two days later, they saw that the microglia had multiplied more, expressed different amounts of various signal molecules and featured more lysosomes. "The microglia were ready for action," said Wyss-Coray.

So they injected NPCs into an area of mice's brains where these cells are normally not found. In the same area in the opposing brain hemisphere, they injected a control solution. Again they found significant differences in microglial proliferation and activity, and more microglia in the NPC-injected side had assumed a "Superman" as opposed to a "Clark Kent" body shape. When they repeated this experiment using only the NPCs' "discarded bath water" rather than NPCs themselves, they got similar results.

Clearly NPCs were secreting something, or some things, that were spurring microglia to action.

Using sophisticated lab techniques, the team monitored purified NPCs plus several other cell types found in the brain and assessed nearly 60 different substances known to have powerful cell-to-cell signaling properties. Several such substances, it turned out, were secreted in much larger amounts by NPCs than by the other cell types: most notably, vascular endothelial growth factor, or VEGF -- a well-known molecule produced by many cell types throughout the body. VEGF stimulates the formation of blood vessels and exerts a beneficial effect on neurons. Conversely, drugs that block VEGF (such as Avastin) are frequently used to combat cancer because tumors require an immense blood supply in order to grow quickly.

VEGF is also known to boost microglial proliferation. Because it is produced in such volumes by NPCs, Wyss-Coray's team wanted to see if VEGF alone could mimic any of the changes wrought by NPCs or their culture-medium-borne detritus. So they injected VEGF into mice's right brain hemisphere, and saline solution into the left -- again with the same outcomes. Taking the opposite tack, the team injected NPC-saturated medium devoid of the cells, as they had done earlier. But this time they first used various laboratory techniques to deplete the fluid of the VEGF secreted by its former inhabitants. Doing this almost completely reversed its microglia-activating effects.

"All of this strongly suggests that VEGF produced by NPCs is playing a strong role in influencing microglial behavior," said Wyss-Coray. "This is important, because in all neurodegenerative diseases we know of we see microglia out of control." The new finding may open the door to reprogramming misbehaving microglia to play better with other cells.

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Pope creates first Native American saint

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A statue of St. Kateri Tekakwitha in Auriesville, New York, seen on Friday.

By Claudio Lavanga, NBC News

VATICAN CITY - She was known as Lily of the Mohawks, or the Pocahontas of the Catholic Church. But on ?Sunday, Kateri Tekakwitha went down in history as the first Native American saint.

Born more than 300 years ago in the Mohawks village of Ossernion - today Ausierville, forty miles from Albany NY - she was one of seven people canonized by Pope Benedict XVI Sunday in an open-air ceremony held in Saint Peter?s Square.?

One of the remaining six was also American: Mother Marianne Cope, a 19th century Franciscan nun who cared for leprosy patients in Hawaii.

Kateri had a short life ? she died at 24 ? and yet, as for most saints, her devotion to Christianity, sacrifices and ?heroic virtue? were so inspirational that her legacy survived for generations.

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Pope Benedict XVI kisses the altar as he celebrates a canonization ceremony, in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Sunday.

Her mother was a Christian Algonquin woman who was captured during a raid and given as wife to a Mohawks tribal member. She was born in the middle of the 17th century, a time of infighting between rival American tribes, deadly diseases and colonization. And a time when French Jesuit priests preached in the area, trying to convert locals to Christianity.

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Kateri was only four years old when a smallpox epidemic spread among the Mohawks tribe. Her parents and younger brother were killed and although she survived she was left with permanent scars on her face and an impaired vision. The Jesuit priests were held accountable for having brought the disease, and three of them were slaughtered.

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A faithful wearing Indian headress attends a special mass to name seven new saints in St Peter's square at Vatican on Sunday.

And yet, at the age of 20, Kateri swapped the Totem for the Crucifix.

She converted to Catholicism after living close to French Jesuit priests, something her family and village saw as a betrayal for siding up with colonizers. She soon became a pariah in her own tribe after refusing to marry a Mohawk man, and was forced to leave the village to practice freely her new faith. She walked hundreds of miles to Quebec, Canada, to join a community of Christian women, and took a vow of lifetime chastity.

Soon her devotion led to self-inflicted painful penances. She is believed to have walked barefoot in show, for whipping herself bloody with reeds, praying hours in an unheated chapel on her bare knees on a cold stone floor or for sleeping on a bed of thorns.

In the end, the punishing penances are believed to have contributed to the weakening of her health, until her premature death at 24 years old. And it was immediately after her death, the legend goes, that it became clear she would be on her way to sainthood. Her smallpox scars, witnesses claimed, miraculously disappeared minutes after her death.

Although the petition for her canonization was filed in 1884, she was only blessed ? the first step to become a saint ? by Pope John Paul II in 1980.

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The miracle that sealed her sainthood came in 2006, when Jake Finkbonner, then a 5-year old boy from Ferndale, WA, miraculously recovered from a flash-eating bacteria, allegedly through Kateri?s intercession. Jake contracted Necrotizing fasciitis, a potentially deadly infection, after cutting his lip on a baseball field. In a matter of days, his condition became so critical his parents gave him his last rites and discussed donating his organs.

When medical help seemed hopeless, his father Donny, a Catholic member of the native American Lummi tribe, turned to Kateri, already an icon in the local catholic community and the subject of many stories he heard as a child. His congregation prayed Kateri and his mother even placed a small relic, a small piece of Tekakwitha?s wrist bone, on his body. ?Soon after, Jake recovered.

On his website, Jake also remembers the role played by doctors: ?Please don't confuse the issue which is that my survival is a miracle?, he writes.? ?We thank the doctors at Children's Hospital for all that they did to save my life.? I wouldn't be here without them?.

Pope Benedict's XVI former butler took the stand in a Vatican courtroom and admitted to stealing private documents from the papal apartment, but ?Paulo Gabriele said he didn't feel guilty of aggravated theft.? He also said he feels guilty of betraying the pontiff's trust.? NBC's Claudio Lavanga reports.??

The canonization of Kateri has been welcomed with mixed feelings in the 2.5 million-strong Native American community. While most of the 680,000 catholic Native Americans are thrilled to finally have their own saint and icon, others still resent the role of Catholicism during the colonial era and the way it affected the indigenous traditions, culture and customs.?

Some traveled to Rome to see the ceremony.?Dressed in a traditional Indian Squaw brown dress and braided hair, Valery Moran had come from Saskatchewan, Canada, to support her hero. ?I am honored to witness the canonization of our first aboriginal saint?, she told NBC News.

"She is my role model, I named my baby after her. My baby is called Kateri."

Bill Volker, a falconer and sole representative of the Comanche Nation, had mixed feelings about the canonization. "It?s bittersweet, but I am delighted. It?s the right direction after all these years,? he told NBC News in St. Peter?s Square. ?Our relationship with the all churches have not always been the best in the Americas, but I think this heralds a new day for us?.?

The Vatican's complicated saint-making procedure requires that the Vatican certify a "miracle" was performed through the intercession of the candidate ? a medically inexplicable cure that can be directly linked to the prayers offered by the faithful. One miracle is needed for beatification, a second for canonization.?

The five other new saints are: Jacques Berthieu, a 19th century French Jesuit who was killed by rebels in Madagascar, where he had worked as a missionary; Giovanni Battista Piamarta, an Italian who founded a religious order in 1900 and established a Catholic printing and publishing house in his native Brescia; Carmen Salles Y Barangueras, a Spanish nun who founded a religious order to educate children in 1892; and Anna Schaeffer, a 19th century German lay woman who became a model for the sick and suffering after she fell into a boiler and badly burned her legs. The wounds never healed, causing her constant pain.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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