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Auto insurance and the car-sharing schemes | Plus Size Fashions
Everyone is used to the idea that, if you don?t own a big ticket item, you can still get one even though you don?t have the cash to buy. This may involve a loan or some other credit arrangement, or you can rent. We have moved from a society in which people used to save until they could afford to buy, to one where you can satisfy your wishes instantly with a good credit score and proof of your identity. When it comes to vehicles, it?s either been a case of talking nicely to neighbors to borrow their car in an emergency or go to a rental agency. Now we have moved beyond the carpooling arrangements into car-sharing. This is both good news and bad. At a community level, there are an increasing number of self-help groups who are making their vehicles available to each other. At the top end of the market, established renters like Hertz are making vehicles available on demand. New organizations like Zipcar also leave vehicles in designated places and anyone with a card can get in and drive them away.
The established renters are simply using the existing fleet in a more flexible way to generate money. Satisfactory insurance cover is already in place. But problems have been emerging in the less formal market. If you put your own vehicle into a pool and anyone can drive it, what happens to your own insurance cover? The answer is simple. If you do this on a regular basis and you are paid, this is a commercial use. As a private owner, this invalidates your policy.
Now states like Washington, Oregon and California are producing laws to clarify the insurance situation. In Washington, for example, we now have HB 2384 which requires all organizations offering car-sharing services to carry a minimum of $180,000 liability cover, and at least enough comprehensive and collision cover to pay fair market value should the shared vehicle be a total loss. This protects vehicle owners who can make additional money during tough times without losing their own auto insurance cover. It also imposes tough new requirements on the sharing organizations to ensure the vehicles are properly maintained and safe to drive. The public not only need auto insurance cover, they need to know the vehicles they drive away are safe.
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Wall-mounted interactive robot mimics emotions, follows you around, wants to be friends (video)
Not every robot is here to make our food, clean our floors or perform interstellar maintenance for us. Some automatons are there to simply be admired... or in the case of GIA (Gestural Interactive Automaton), to admire us. GIA's a robotic sculpture created by Daniel Jay Bertner that is essentially a projector, projection sphere and a webcam attached to a trio of servo-controlled articulating arms. A human face is projected on the sphere, which follows around folks who view it and changes its facial expression according to viewer reactions. Why? In order to "emulate and socially engage" them and facilitate a better understanding between man and machine, of course. The magic happens through open source motion tracking and facial recognition software, but you don't have to take our word for it -- see for yourself in the video after the break.
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Hot sauce ingredient reduces 'beer belly' fat as a weight-loss surgery alternative
ScienceDaily (May 9, 2012) ? According to research from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), the ingredient that gives hot sauce its heat could play a role in the future of weight loss.
Ali Tavakkoli, MD, BWH Department of Surgery, and his team have published a study investigating whether two surgeries called vagal de-afferentation-which uses capsaicin, the component responsible for the chili pepper's burning sensation-and vagatomy can achieve weight loss and reduce the risk of obesity-related diseases with fewer side effects when compared to today's bariatric surgical options.
The study is published in the May issue of Digestive Diseases and Sciences. The study is accompanied by an editorial by Edward A. Fox, PhD, Purdue University.
After testing the two surgeries in the lab, the researchers found that vagotomy significantly reduced total body fat, as well as visceral abdominal fat-the "beer belly" fat that pads the spaces between abdominal organs. Vagal de-afferentation also reduced these fats, but to a lesser degree. However, according to the researchers, the reduction is still remarkable.
"The reduction in visceral fat is particularly important," said Tavakkoli. "High visceral fat volume is a marker of obesity and obesity-related diseases, such as diabetes. Preferentially lost visceral fat after vagal de-afferentation highlights the potential for this procedure."
Vagotomy involves removing the vagus nerve, which sends information between the gut and the brain. Vagal de-afferentation also involves the vagus nerve. But rather than removing the nerve completely, surgeons use capsaicin to destroy only certain nerve fibers.
Capsaicin destroys the nerve fibers that take signals from the gut to the brain, leaving intact the nerve fibers that send signals in the opposite direction, from the brain to the gut.
Between the two surgeries, vagal de-afferentation is associated with fewer side effects.
The researchers note that more work needs to be done on whether these surgeries can be used on humans, and whether capsaicin could be applied directly to human vagal fibers. The study results, however, provide promise of what the future can hold.
"As demand for surgeries that reduce weight and obesity-related diseases increases, procedures that can achieve success in a less invasive fashion will become increasingly important," said Tavakkoli. "This is an important and developing surgical discipline, especially as diabetes rates soar worldwide, and people try to find effective therapies to fight this epidemic."
This research was supported by Harvard Clinical Nutrition Center, Berkeley Fellowship and George Herbert Hunt Travelling Fellowship, and Nutricia Foundation Fellowship.
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Tuesday, May 8, 2012
The Voice Recap: Tony Lucca Has 99 Problems (and Xtina IS One)
The four finalists on the second season of The Voice - Jermaine Paul, Tony Lucca, Chris Mann and Juliet Simms - gave their last performances Monday.
The winner will be announced this evening, based solely on audience votes. No coaches' input. Who will emerge victorious on the singing competition?
Not Tony Lucca, if Christina Aguilera has anything to say about it.
Tensions continued to flare between Christina Aguilera and Adam Levine's protege, a former Mousketeer who Xtina has had it out for all season.
After Tony Lucca offered a bluesy take on Jay-Z's "99 Problems" for his final performance, Xtina criticized him over the hip hop classic's lyrics.
The chorus? "I got 99 problems but a b!tch ain't one."
"Your beautiful wife and daughter and family are here and I just thought, you know, the lyrical connotation was a little derogatory towards women."
"It's called a metaphor," Levine responded, insisting that the line was referring not to women, but "life getting at you, things bringing you down."
"We're not referring to women. We're referring to everything."
Interestingly, it is also widely believed that Jay-Z, in addition to that metaphor, was referring to a literal b!tch - a dog of the drug-sniffing variety - that he narrowly avoided being busted by back in his drug-dealing days.
In any case, Aguilera had the last word.
"This is a real man [who] respects women," she said of her own team member, opera singer Chris Mann, who performed her song "The Voice Within" before closing out his run on The Voice with Josh Groban's "You Raise Me Up."
Team Blake's Jermaine Paul chose R. Kelly's "I Believe I Can Fly" for his swan song.
Paul, who gained experience as a backup singer for Alicia Keys, gave an impassioned performance that left his mentor, Blake Shelton, "speechless."
"My heart is in my throat right now," Shelton said. "My job on this show ... is to be a coach, but I continue to feel like I learn things from you."
The last performance of the evening came from Juliet Simms, who was battling "throat and health issues," according to coach Cee Lo Green.
Simms tackled Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Free Bird" to close out the show, after Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy" and Steppenwolf's "Born to Be Wild" (with Green).
Will it be enough? It's all in America's hands now.
What do you think? Was Christina Aguilera off base, or does she have a point? Would she be proud of her own song lyrics and videos at all times?
More importantly, who will win The Voice? Vote below!
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