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What's a nap session, exactly? You'll get 45 minutes of uninterrupted time in a "Casper Nook." The Nook, according to Racked, contains a Casper mattress decked out with Casper bedding as well as designer pajamas, socks, and an eye mask — fresh for every napper, of course. Also included: free beverages, a toothbrush set, face wash, and relaxing sleep sounds courtesy of Headspace.
The Dreamery is located in New York City's SoHo neighborhood, and booking a nap session on The Dreamery's website is dangerously easy. Like, Seamless-level easy.
A great place to sleep near strangers!
The Dreamery is built around the notion that everyone needs a little R&R throughout the day and is more than entitled to it. Well, for a nominal fee anyway.
As I sip on my second caffeinated beverage of the day, I do see the appeal of naps on demand. But here's the thing: Naps are free and they should remain so.
While an expertly executed branding endeavor will surely pique the interest of sleepy millennials everywhere, the monetization of naps is just plain weird. Promising people the chance to recharge with a nap à la carte feels like another lame attempt to capitalize on wellness and self-care trends.
Peace of mind and rest aren't things you can truly purchase, no matter what Casper says. You're better off saving your $25 for something worthwhile, and doing your best to get a full eight hours of sleep each night.
He was born into the teeth of the great depression but because his grandfather owned a farm he never went hungry but he was 20 before he ever owned a new pair of shoes. My dad would talk to us about the depression and we would ask childish questions. I remember once asking, “Why didn’t people just sell some of the stuff they had?” I’m sure your wondering by now, what is he prattling on about? Because, that childish question goes to the heart of the financial crises that we face today.
My father explained it to me, “People tried to sell, but nobody had any money to buy anything, until the prices went down to almost nothing.” Ever wonder why the Germans sold Chrysler? They saw the writing on the wall, you can call the Germans a lot of things but stupid isn’t one of them. They got out while the getting was good, the forecast for North American auto sales is abysmal.
I read the newspapers from Australia because when its Sunday morning here in sleepy Powder Springs it is noon on Monday in Sydney. I found this interesting little tidbit, “Bonds issued by Centro Properties Group's American shopping centre business have been downgraded to lower-order junk status, with predictions "significant asset sales" would be necessary to reduce its debts.” Anyone want to buy a shopping centre?
“The ratings move was made after the resignation of Andrew Scott last Tuesday and simultaneous disclosures about problems regarding the classification of debt on its balance sheet and falls in currency hedging. Centro's problems started last month, when it announced it was unable to refinance $3.9 billion in debts. It is working towards a February 15 deadline imposed by its financiers.” It would seem that in this case dead means dead unless one or two of you out there pony up to buy a shopping center or two. Come on, they’ve got over 465 centers to choose from all across America, one of them has got to be right for you.
What did the administration tell us after 9-11? Why to go shopping of course! What is the administrations current remedy for our economic malaise? Why to give every one checks and tell them to go shopping of course. What would you expect from a man whose answer to bankruptcy is to ask some of dad’s friends to bail him out? You don’t have to be an economist or financial expert to understand what is going on, in fact it might even be a hindrance. If you ever set up a lemon aide stand or played monopoly as a child it obvious. After you made the lemon aide and sold a glass to mom, and the mailman and the lady across the street and your best friend you didn’t know anyone else who had any money. Of course unlike Centro you didn’t go to the bank and borrow 3.9 billion dollars to open up a chain of lemon aide stands coast to coast. The moral is however the same, people without income make lousy consumers.
Remember playing Monopoly? How after the money is past out? That for the first few times around the board there is a buying spree? Then after everyone’s cash is exhausted there is a lull while the players recoup their finances. In the real world they just borrow the money from the bank. The end of the game becomes clear long before it comes, the winner has the great properties loaded with hotels and one by one the other players drop out. But in the real world the point is to keep the game going, after you’ve bankrupted everyone you have no more customers! You end up like Centro properties and George W. Bush.
You have to sell all your property just to stay in the game, or as George says, “Here, don’t quit, I’ll give you some money just to keep you in the game. But as we all know, that’s only a temporary fix, it doesn’t change the fact that $200.00 dollars for a trip around the board precludes us from ever being able to succeed in a game that takes more than we can earn.
The game is over when the winners at the top have all the money. But it is over for the winners themselves as well. Without players there is no game and with out game the money becomes as worthless as the monopoly money. The foreign players will take their money and go home. Leaving us sitting in the hot sun with a pitcher of warm lemon aide.
The engine of prosperity that existed in post war America was predicated on strong currency with an emphasis on wage growth and price control. True, there weren’t as many millionaires created but then again millions weren’t losing their pensions, healthcare and homes either. The idea was to keep people in the game, the best for the most rather than the most for the least. To separate savings from speculation or as momma used to advise, you never gamble with money that you can’t afford to lose.
Ah but, I remember it well, George W’s plan to privatize Social Security, why should you settle for a paltry 3%? You could invest in the stock market and retire as a potentate! You could invest in Centro Properties or Ambac or Citi gambling with money that you can’t afford to lose. But W’s plan was defeated, but W needed more money for wars and tax cuts, the answer? Just print more! Even those who have shown a profit in this market are earning fiat dollars worth 40% less against the Euro than six years ago.
George had to keep printing money to keep the game going, a 7 trillion dollar trade deficit and 1 trillion more for wars and tax cuts left no money on the monopoly board, that money was percolating in foreign economies creating prosperity else where. But now the jigs up, Bernanke’s speech to Congress was an admission of that. Bush’s sudden willingness to work with Congress tells us just how serious it has become. The frenzied press conference with Treasury Secretary Paulson puts an exclamation point on it. When was the last time you saw a treasury secretaries press conference that looked like a Super Bowl locker room?
Electronic health insurance cards which should have been introduced last year will ultimately not be launched at all; contracts for the failed project amounted to €18 million.
The scrapping of e-health cards stems from an amendment to the law on the national health information system approved at the Cabinet session on November 2. The deadline for introducing electronic health insurance cards has been postponed several times. Finally, the Health Ministry has proposed scrapping the idea altogether.
Instead, insured people will use ID cards with microchips for health care as well. “People who have been issued an ID card with a microchip will be eligible to use this kind of ID to access the data of their electronic health file as well as to identify themselves to their health insurers,” the draft proposal suggests, as quoted by the TASR newswire.
Those who do not have an electronic ID card will be able to use their personal identity numbers for the electronic health care until the end of 2021. These people will continue to use their current common health insurance cards at doctors’ offices.
Moreover, health insurers will issue “old-style” health insurance cards only to insured people who do not possess ID cards with microchips. The option of issuing European health insurance cards remains unchanged.
The entire process of the electronisation of health care has been postponed several times. According to previous legislation, the National Health Information Centre (NCZI) was supposed to start issuing electronic health insurance cards as of June 2017.
Former NCZI director Igor Serváček signed a contract worth €18 million for the information system and for issuing and managing the e-cards, shortly after the general election in March. Health Minister Tomáš Drucker scrapped the contract immediately after he was appointed to his post.
In connection with the electronisation of health insurance, Interior Minister Robert Kaliňák said that children aged under 15 should be issued with ID cards without photos in the future. The ID cards should serve for their identification for electronic health care, TASR learnt.
the minister did not specify the exact date for introducing ID cards for children under 15, who so far have not been required to have ID cards. If interested, parents could provide their children an ID featuring a photograph for a short period of time. According to Kaliňák, such an ID could serve as their travel document in Europe, thus replacing passports. It could be issued for two years.
“We’d like to enable this (option) also for Slovaks living abroad who keep our citizenship,” said the interior minister.
Video footage shows a man screaming and being knocked out by officers while being forcibly removed from a plane.
United Airlines is making headlines once again.
Sunday night, on a flight from Chicago to Louisville, a man was knocked out and forcibly dragged off an overbooked United Airlines plane. According to another passenger, the man was an older doctor. Video footage from Jayse D. Anspach shows the man screaming, while other passengers yell at the officers in shock.
“Flight 3411 from Chicago to Louisville was overbooked. After our team looked for volunteers, one customer refused to leave the aircraft voluntarily and law enforcement was asked to come to the gate.
The Courier Journal also obtained an account of the event from a passenger on UA3411, Audra D. Bridges. Bridges said passengers were told at the gate the flight was overbooked. United was offering $400 and a hotel for a passenger to take a later flight to Louisville on Monday afternoon.
All passengers were allowed to board the plane, but when boarding was complete, the flight crew announced four people needed to give up their seat to standby United employees.
The employees needed to be in Louisville for a flight on Monday. Bridges recounted the flight crew said the plane would not take off until the standby United employees were on the plane and bumped the offer up to $800. No one volunteered.
Bridges said a manager then boarded the aircraft and announced a computer would determine which four people were taking the later flight. A couple was selected first and they departed, then the man in the video was approached.
Bridges told Courier Journal the man was “very upset” and that he was a doctor who needed to be with his patients in the morning. The manager told the man security would be called if he did not leave voluntarily and the man said he was calling his lawyer. Security then removed the man.
According to Bridges, the man was allowed on the plane after his removal and medical personnel came to check on him.
A statement from United Air's CEO was tweeted out Monday afternoon.
How his base yelled they wanted her jailed.
On her personal server gov. business e-mailed.
--my prior comment that the hypocrites on the alt right should be held to the standards they seek to impose on others.
--I read a review of a book written by 2 U of C profs on the end of constitutional democracy that stated that autocrats don't abolish government institutions but undermine them, such as elections, judiciary, and law enforcement. While they said they were talking about Poland and Turkey, it sure sounds like a certain orange one to me.
Arrrrgh! But thank you for helping to keep a spotlight on it.
The new medical school will feature a host of innovations aimed at fostering a dynamic learning environment, said Michael E. Cain, MD, during his state of the school address.
In a year marked by significant growth, the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences added 35 faculty positions in 2013, launched a new department and graduated the largest number of medical students choosing to remain at UB for residency.
Those were some of the highlights that Michael E. Cain, MD, underscored during his annual state of the school address, Jan. 17 at the UB Clinical and Translational Science Institute.
Cain, vice president for health sciences and medical school dean, also looked to the future during his address, providing additional details about the new medical school, which is set for completion in December 2016.
The number of medical school faculty increased “dramatically” over the last two years, Cain said — from 688 in 2011 to 747 in 2013.
That increase aligns with key objectives of the UB 2020 strategic plan and allows the medical school class to grow from 140 to 180 students when the school relocates to the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, he explained.
As UB has added faculty, increased federal research dollars are channeling into the school, Cain said.
In 2013, investigators were awarded 175 federal grants, excluding those received by faculty at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Hauptman-Woodward Institute. That’s up from 131 in 2012.
UB faculty received $36.4 million in federal grant money last year, nearly $2 million more than in 2012.
“Both the number of investigators who are being funded and the number of grant dollars are moving in the right direction despite tightened NIH funding and the effects of sequestration, which are still very real,” Cain said.
With the architectural plans for the new medical school complete, UB has begun inviting construction bids for the project and will soon select a firm, Cain said.
Construction is expected to begin this March.
As he described the building, Cain noted several features that will foster a dynamic teaching and learning environment.
In addition, a new Structural Science Learning Center, housed on the seventh floor, will focus on the computational analysis and teaching of human structure in anatomy and human cell biology. The SSLC will combine the work of investigators and teachers in biomedical sciences and engineering to restate human structure in computational terms.
Under the direction of Timothy F. Murphy, MD, senior associate dean for clinical and translational research, UB’s CTRC expanded its capabilities last year, opening a facility to support high-impact clinical research and offering state-of-the art imaging equipment for preclinical studies.
The center will house the Clinical Trials Office, originally in the Department of Medicine. Within the CTRC, the office will evolve into an institution-wide resource, providing comprehensive support to UB faculty for clinical research supported by all funding sources, Cain said.
The CTRC’s Molecular and Translational Imaging Center opened last fall and is directed by John M. Canty Jr., MD, Albert and Elizabeth Rekate Professor and chief of cardiovascular medicine.
The center houses a PET CT scanner supported by a National Institutes of Health shared instrumentation grant and a 9.4 Tesla Micro magnetic resonance imager purchased with funds from the medical school and the Hunter James Kelly Research Institute.
Through a collaboration with the Department of Neurosurgery and Toshiba, the center will add a 3 Tesla MRI to its inventory in 2014, as well as a 320-slice computed tomography scanner — one of the most advanced medical imaging devices available.
“These are remarkable facilities for conducting clinical and translational research that are open not only to researchers in the school of medicine and our other health science schools but to our partners at Erie County Medical Center and on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus,” Cain said.
The CTRC continued to help the medical school attract highly regarded clinical and translational investigators to Buffalo in 2013, Cain noted.
The medical school launched the Department of Biomedical Informatics in 2013, naming Peter L. Elkin, MD, inaugural chair, Cain said.
The new department will advance translational medicine by providing the data infrastructure needed to perform translational and clinical genomic research more efficiently. This will position UB to more rapidly advance the scientific understanding of biomedicine and more rapidly translate that knowledge into new, safe, effective treatments.
The department will offer master’s and PhD programs, replacing the current certificate program. Plans are underway to eventually offer a bachelor’s degree program in biomedical informatics.
The medical school also established the interdepartmental Genetics, Genomics and Bioinformatics program last year, directed by Richard M. Gronostajski, PhD, professor of biochemistry.
The program offers degree tracks for master’s and PhD candidates.
In addition to Elkin, new department chairs announced in 2013 were Leslie J. Bisson, MD, June A. and Eugene R. Mindell, MD Professor and Chair of orthopaedics, and Elad I. Levy, MD, chair of neurosurgery.
The school is actively recruiting chairs for the departments of biochemistry, family medicine and surgery, Cain said.
Searches will soon begin for chairs in the departments of physiology and biophysics, radiology and structural biology.
The medical school created a new deanship in 2013, Cain said, naming David P. Hughes, MD, senior associate dean for clinical affairs.
In July, Anthony A. Campagnari, PhD, was named senior associate dean for research and graduate education.
In a vote of confidence for the school’s residency programs, 50 percent more graduating UB medical students chose to stay at UB for their training in 2013 than in 2012, Cain said.
Additionally, a majority of graduating residents — both UB medical school alumni and alumni from other medical schools — elected to remain in Buffalo to practice.
In keeping with the school’s commitment to diversity, the Office of Medical Admissions initiated a holistic review process for medical school applicants in 2013, Cain said.
When reviewing applications, the committee assesses academic performance and MCAT scores in the context of many other factors, such as life experiences, leadership roles and community engagement.
“As we continue to build a stronger, more diverse and brighter class, we recognize that certain groups of students do better on standardized tests than others,” Cain said.
The Office of Inclusion and Cultural Enhancement continued to build upon its mission in 2013, Cain noted.
Under the leadership of Margarita L. Dubocovich, PhD, professor and chair of pharmacology and toxicology, the office has formed a council dedicated to inclusion in medicine and science. Members make recommendations about such issues as faculty and staff diversification, medical and graduate trainee recruitment and development, and community engagement.
The office also helps lead several university-wide initiatives. These include CLIMB, a program Dubocovich founded that develops students and junior investigators into leaders in science, and the Institute for Strategic Enhancement of Educational Diversity, which promotes a culturally and academic inclusive community at UB.
A death row inmate's execution was halted at the last minute after the Alabama Department of Corrections ruled that there was not enough time to carry out the lethal injection.
Christopher Lee Price was sentenced to death in 1993 after fatally stabbing pastor Bill Lynn during a robbery in 1991.
But just hours before his scheduled execution, the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling delaying Price's execution by 60 days after his lawyers argued that Alabama's three-drug lethal injection protocol was likely to cause severe pain.
Price said he would prefer to be executed by nitrogen hypoxia. Alabama is one of three states to legally allow death by nitrogen, but the method is yet to be used.
Methods ranging from a gas chamber to a gas mask have been put forward.
The death warrant for Price's execution was due to expire at midnight on Thursday. Less than half an hour before the expiration of the warrant, the Alabama Department of Corrections announced that there would not be time to carry out the execution, even if the court stay was lifted.
Secret Chat is a chat room that requires messages to be read with a decryption key stored in a user’s mobile device, Daum Kakao, the South Korea-based operator of the service, said in a release.
That means the messages cannot be intercepted by outsiders, even if they’re going through servers, it said.
Users can initiate Secret Chat with others and keep them open even when the app itself is closed. One to one chats are supported in the secret mode, with secret group chats to follow in the first quarter of 2015.
The move comes after media reports in October saying that users were abandoning the app after South Korean President Park Geun-hye vowed to prosecute people spreading rumors about her on Kakao Talk.
In an apparent move to allay fears, the company reduced the amount of time chat histories are stored on its servers to two or three days from three to seven days.
“The recent rise in interest in privacy concerns in turn increased requests from our users for the option to chat in even stronger privacy,” a company spokeswoman said in an email when asked about the reasons for the new Secret Chat function.
Daum Kakao said Monday that it responds to legal warrants for access to information that are issued by South Korean courts or prosecutors, she said, adding the company does not comply with censoring requests by China.
The Secret Chat feature, as well as a decline group chat invites feature, is available with the latest version of the app, 4.7.0, for Android devices, with the corresponding iOS version to follow.
Kakao Talk now claims 164 million users around the world, with about 93 percent of smartphone users in Korea using the app.
After back-to-back winning months pulled them into position to finish strong, the Mariners have hid a September wall much harder than they hit the baseball.
They’ve gone 6-11 so far this month and now sit at 70-80 with 12 games remaining in 2012.

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