Like radio stations that play the Flock of Seagulls and barbers who know ? really know ? how to cut the high fade, investing clubs are quickly disappearing.
But is that a bad thing?
According to a recent Reuters article, there are only about 5500 investment clubs in the U.S., down from 60,000 during the tech bubble.
?Oh, the numbers are definitely down,? says Adam Ritt, communications director for BetterInvesting, the Madison Heights, Michigan-based investors? association whose members include clubs around the country. ?It?s been a steady trend downward for a long time.?
The article hypothesizes about the reasons for the investment club?s demise, citing poor stock market returns, online investment research, and less money around to invest.
But these aren?t the real reasons investment clubs are disappearing.
The real reason investment clubs are scarce
Those may be valid reasons ? fewer people are participating in the markets. ?There is a bull market in financial content. And, well, people are feeling the big hurt of the economy.
Oh, plus the fact that investment clubs don?t perform particularly well.
But, there?s a bigger reason that investment clubs are going the way of the do-do: WE DON?T NEED THEM.
Why were clubs so useful? ?They gave a framework to our investing, created accountability for shared research, made investing social, bubbled up ideas from multiple perspectives.
But today?s financial Internet ? with sites like Seeking Alpha and StockTwits?? IS inherently social.
The Tradestream is all about identifying investors with the right information and plugging into their research. ?It?s about collaboration and sharing of ideas. ?It?s about working together to validate ? or disprove ? an investment thesis. It?s about using powerful tools to automate part of the research process (like BorntoSell does with the strategy of selling covered call options).
Today?s financial Web is the largest investment club around.
So, what should we do about dwindling investment club numbers? ?Nothing, but sit back and relax, boot up your computer, log on to Finance 2.0, and plug into the tradestream.
The Samsung Transfix ($159.99 direct) is a midrange, keyboarded Android smartphone?for Cricket Wireless.
The Transfix measures 4.5 by 2.3 by 0.6 inches (HWD) and weighs a surprisingly light 4.4 ounces. The phone slides open to reveal a four-row physical QWERTY keyboard with nicely sized keys, which makes the Transfix a good choice for frequent texters.
The phone is powered by an 800MHz processor, so it should be up to speed for most common tasks. It's also running Android 2.3 (Gingerbead), which should keep things moving smoothly and allows for compatibility with most of the 250,000+ apps in the Android Market.
Like most Android phones, the Transfix should be a good media player, and comes with a 3.2-megapixel camera that can record VGA video. The phone's 3.2-inch display features 320-by-480-pixel resolution. Battery life is rated at nearly four hours of talk time.
The Transfix runs on Cricket's 3G network, which works on the 850-, 1,900-, and 1,700-MHz bands, depending upon your location. Coverage is somewhat limited, so make sure to check the maps at?www.mycricket.com before buying in.
The Samsung Transfix looks like a good choice for frequent texters on Cricket, but make sure to take a look at the Samsung Indulge as well.
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Mobcast? Yes, yes it is. As usual, we have tons to go over this week in the Mobile Kingdom as it continues its quest for global dominance. And we'll have another special guest to add some fresh perspective; this week's honorary podcast crew member is Ian Hardy from MobileSyrup, who will join Myriam Joire, Brad Molen and Joseph Volpe at 5PM ET. And speaking of guests, please be our guests and listen in, won't you?
Note: Don't hesitate to sign up for Ustream before the show so you can join in the chat!
The Samsung Transfix ($159.99 direct) is a midrange, keyboarded Android smartphone?for Cricket Wireless.
The Transfix measures 4.5 by 2.3 by 0.6 inches (HWD) and weighs a surprisingly light 4.4 ounces. The phone slides open to reveal a four-row physical QWERTY keyboard with nicely sized keys, which makes the Transfix a good choice for frequent texters.
The phone is powered by an 800MHz processor, so it should be up to speed for most common tasks. It's also running Android 2.3 (Gingerbead), which should keep things moving smoothly and allows for compatibility with most of the 250,000+ apps in the Android Market.
Like most Android phones, the Transfix should be a good media player, and comes with a 3.2-megapixel camera that can record VGA video. The phone's 3.2-inch display features 320-by-480-pixel resolution. Battery life is rated at nearly four hours of talk time.
The Transfix runs on Cricket's 3G network, which works on the 850-, 1,900-, and 1,700-MHz bands, depending upon your location. Coverage is somewhat limited, so make sure to check the maps at?www.mycricket.com before buying in.
The Samsung Transfix looks like a good choice for frequent texters on Cricket, but make sure to take a look at the Samsung Indulge as well.
More Cell Phone Reviews: ??? LG Optimus Slider (Virgin Mobile) ??? Samsung Focus S (AT&T) ??? Apple iPhone 4S (AT&T) ??? T-Mobile myTouch Q ??? T-Mobile myTouch ?? more
A new online guide is available from the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to help hospitals and other health care organizations anticipate, avoid and address problems that can occur when adopting and using electronic health records.
The free tool, called the "Unintended Consequences Guide," was created to provide practical troubleshooting knowledge and resources. Experts from the RAND Corporation, the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Kaiser Permanente-Colorado and the American Health Information Management Association Foundation created the guide. The work was supported by a contract from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
The guide can be found at www.ucguide.org.
"The goal is to provide administrators, technology officers and health care providers with information that will help them successfully adopt and use electronic health records," said Spencer Jones, an information scientist at RAND and a co-author of the guide. "Moving from paper records to electronic records is a major undertaking and the 'Unintended Consequences Guide' is an essential tool to help that migration."
"One of the purposes in funding this effort was to help health IT implementers understand the interactions between humans and technology that are often the source of unintended consequences," said Michael Harrison, a senior social scientist with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and a collaborator on the guide.
"Having recently completed the largest civilian roll out of a national electronic health record system in the United States, we want to share our knowledge about implementation and how electronic records can transform health care delivery," said Dr. Ted Palen of the Kaiser Permanente-Colorado Institute for Health Research.
Use of electronic health records is growing rapidly among hospitals and other health care providers in the United States, spurred in part by major federal investments in the technology. Legislation approved in 2009 eventually may provide as much as $30 billion in federal aid to hospitals and physicians that invest in electronic health records.
The guide was developed for use by all types of health care organizations -- from large hospital systems to solo physician practices.
The creators anticipate that the primary users will be those responsible for adopting electronic health records, including federally designated Regional Extension Centers, chief information officers, directors of clinical informatics, electronic health records "champions" or "super users," administrators, information technology specialists and clinicians involved in adoption of the technology. Frontline users of electronic health records such as physicians and nurses also may also find the guide useful.
The online resource is based on the research literature, other practice-oriented guides for electronic health record adoption, research by its authors and interviews with leaders of organizations that have recently switched to electronic health records. The guide represents a compilation of the known-best practices for anticipating, avoiding and addressing unintended consequences of adopting electronic health records. However, researchers say, this area of research is still in its infancy.
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A new online guide is available from the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to help hospitals and other health care organizations anticipate, avoid and address problems that can occur when adopting and using electronic health records.
The free tool, called the "Unintended Consequences Guide," was created to provide practical troubleshooting knowledge and resources. Experts from the RAND Corporation, the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Kaiser Permanente-Colorado and the American Health Information Management Association Foundation created the guide. The work was supported by a contract from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
The guide can be found at www.ucguide.org.
"The goal is to provide administrators, technology officers and health care providers with information that will help them successfully adopt and use electronic health records," said Spencer Jones, an information scientist at RAND and a co-author of the guide. "Moving from paper records to electronic records is a major undertaking and the 'Unintended Consequences Guide' is an essential tool to help that migration."
"One of the purposes in funding this effort was to help health IT implementers understand the interactions between humans and technology that are often the source of unintended consequences," said Michael Harrison, a senior social scientist with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and a collaborator on the guide.
"Having recently completed the largest civilian roll out of a national electronic health record system in the United States, we want to share our knowledge about implementation and how electronic records can transform health care delivery," said Dr. Ted Palen of the Kaiser Permanente-Colorado Institute for Health Research.
Use of electronic health records is growing rapidly among hospitals and other health care providers in the United States, spurred in part by major federal investments in the technology. Legislation approved in 2009 eventually may provide as much as $30 billion in federal aid to hospitals and physicians that invest in electronic health records.
The guide was developed for use by all types of health care organizations -- from large hospital systems to solo physician practices.
The creators anticipate that the primary users will be those responsible for adopting electronic health records, including federally designated Regional Extension Centers, chief information officers, directors of clinical informatics, electronic health records "champions" or "super users," administrators, information technology specialists and clinicians involved in adoption of the technology. Frontline users of electronic health records such as physicians and nurses also may also find the guide useful.
The online resource is based on the research literature, other practice-oriented guides for electronic health record adoption, research by its authors and interviews with leaders of organizations that have recently switched to electronic health records. The guide represents a compilation of the known-best practices for anticipating, avoiding and addressing unintended consequences of adopting electronic health records. However, researchers say, this area of research is still in its infancy.
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RAND Health, a division of the RAND Corporation, is the nation's largest independent health policy research program, with a broad research portfolio that focuses on health care costs, quality and public health preparedness, among other topics.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) ? Blackberry manufacturer Research In Motion's Indonesia CEO will be charged with negligence after a sale last month of its smart phones turned into a stampede, police said on Monday.
The police said Andrew Cobham was responsible for the promotional event on November 25 in Jakarta, which attracted a crowd of about 5,000 people. Police halted the sale after dozens passed out in the crush.
"The suspect has been banned from travelling overseas. He must go through the legal process here," said police investigator Budi Irawan.
Cobham has not been detained. The maximum penalty for negligence is nine months in jail.
Police also named a security consultant hired by RIM, an event organizer and a manager of the sale's shopping centre venue, as suspects who are likely to be charged.
RIM was offering a 50 percent discount to 1,000 people at a launch of its latest phone in Jakarta, with people starting to queue since before midnight.
Indonesia is one of the fast growing markets for the Blackberry, with about two million users.
The strong demand reflects booming consumption among an emerging middle class in Indonesia, Southeast Asia's largest economy, with the country having been a bright spot for a firm that capped a dismal year with a profit warning last week.
There was no immediate comment from either RIM or Cobham.
(Writing by Olivia Rondonuwu; Editing by Neil Chatterjee and Jonathan Thatcher)
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) ? Voters in Los Angeles, home to the U.S. porn industry, could soon be asked to decide whether condoms should be required in adult films to reduce sexually transmitted diseases. The AIDS Healthcare Foundation said on Monday it submitted far more than the required number of signatures on a petition for a public ballot that could go before voters in June 2012.
Chavez laughs off Obama-kiss Benetton advert
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez laughed off a Benetton advertisement that showed him kissing his ideological adversary and U.S. counterpart Barack Obama, guffawing on Tuesday that it was a "good joke." The photo was part of a controversial campaign by the Italian fashion company that showed political and religious leaders kissing each other on the mouth.
Pampered pandas flown into Scotland
EDINBURGH (Reuters) - A pair of pampered giant pandas arrived in Scotland on Sunday to a reception of cheering and flag-waving crowds while British officials said the 10-year loan of the bears by China strengthened ties between the two countries. Tian Tian and Yang Guang -- whose names in English are Sweetie and Sunshine -- arrived at Edinburgh airport after flying in from Chengdu, Sichuan province, and were later greeted at Edinburgh zoo by around 450 people waving Chinese and Scottish flags.
Protester shaves year-old beard with new Belgian government
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A Belgian radio presenter who grew a beard for almost a year in protest at protracted talks to form a government finally shaved on Monday with new coalition about to take office. Koen Fillet and almost 800 others joined the call for a beard protest by actor Benoit Poelvoorde in January 2011, when negotiations had already dragged on for more than six months after a June 2010 election.
Pig challenges Putin party in ballot-spoiling bid
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Vladimir Putin's United Russia party faces an array of Communists, nationalists and liberals in a parliamentary election Sunday, but one of its ardent opponents is a more peculiar political animal: a cartoon pig named Nakh-Nakh. Pushed to the margins since Putin came to power 12 years ago, some of the prime minister's fiercest foes are urging Russians to reject the political system he has put in place by spoiling their ballots in Sunday's State Duma vote.
Mayans never predicted world to end in 2012 - experts
PALENQUE, Mexico (Reuters) - If you are worried the world will end next year based on the Mayan calendar, relax: the end of time is still far off. So say Mayan experts who want to dispel any belief that the ancient Mayans predicted a world apocalypse next year.
Blind French eaterie seeks to conquer New York
PARIS (Reuters) - A French restaurant where diners cannot see what they are eating, often spill their wine and must conduct conversations while staring into pitch darkness has proved such a success in Europe that it is making a foray into the Americas. After expanding from Paris into London, Moscow, Barcelona and St. Petersburg, the "Dans Le Noir" chain, staffed by blind waiters, will open an outlet in the neon-lit tourist hub of New York's Times Square this month.
U.S. professor is dumpster-diving urban Robin Hood
FORT WORTH, Texas (Reuters) - University professor Jeff Ferrell is something of a U.S. urban Robin Hood, although what he gives away is not stolen but the result of dumpster diving. The Texas Christian University (TCU) professor of sociology sifts through dumpsters and gives the vast majority of what he finds to the needy or to friends.
Gold ATM offers convenience, not glamour, to India jewellery
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Teenage girls pose for pictures beside the latest arrival in Mumbai's modern Phoenix Mills mall -- a gold ATM machine selling jewellery and $600 (382 pound) gold coins -- but for more than just window-shopping, it faces stiff competition from traditional stores. India's first such machine may be grabbing the attention of passers-by in the world's biggest bullion market, but upstairs in an air-conditioned store, the sparkling gold and silver bangles offered by smiling sales assistants have customers grabbing their credit cards.
iPhone surpasses celebs, news as most searched on web
(Reuters) - Apple's iPhone edged past major news events, celebrities and pop stars as the top searched term on the Web in 2011, according to Yahoo! The digital media company said the smartphone proved more popular than reality television celebrity Kim Kardashian, pop star Katy Perry and singer and actress Jennifer Lopez, who placed in the top five.
Kazuo Okawa's luckless career as a "nuclear gypsy" began one night at a poker game.
The year was 1992, and jobs were scarce in this farming town in the shadow of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. An unemployed Okawa gambled and drank a lot.
He was dealing cards when a stranger made him an offer: manage a crew of unskilled workers at the nearby plant. "Just gather a team of young guys and show up at the front gate; I'll tell you what to do," instructed the man, who Okawa later learned was a recruiter for a local job subcontracting firm.
Okawa didn't know the first thing about nuclear power, but he figured, what could go wrong?
He became what's known in Japan as a "jumper" or "nuclear gypsy" for the way he moved among various nuclear plants. But the nickname that Okawa disliked most was burakumin, a derisive label for those who worked the thankless jobs he and others performed.
Such unskilled contractors exist at the bottom rung of the nation's employment ladder, subjecting themselves to perilous doses of radioactivity.
Solicited from day labor sites across the country, many contractors are told little of the task ahead.
"The recruiters call out their windows that they have two days of work; it's not unlike the way migrant farm workers are hired in the U.S.," said Kim Kearfott, a nuclear engineer and radiation health expert at the University of Michigan.
"Many are given their training en route to the plant. They're told: 'Oh, by the way, we're going to Fukushima. If you don't like it, you can get off the truck right now.' There's no such thing as informed consent, like you would have in a human medical experiment," she said.
After an earthquake-triggered tsunami deluged the Fukushima plant in March, a disaster that cascaded into reactor core meltdowns, activists are calling for better government regulation of what they call the nuclear industry's dirtiest secret.
For decades, they say, atomic plants have maintained a two-tiered workforce: one made up of highly paid and well-trained utility employees, and another of contractors with less training and fewer health benefits.
Last year, 88% of the 83,000 workers at the nation's 18 commercial nuclear power plants were contract workers, according to Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, a government regulator.
A study by the Citizens' Nuclear Information Center, a Tokyo-based watchdog group, found that contractors last year accounted for 96% of the harmful radiation absorbed by workers at the nation's nuclear power plants. Temporary workers at the Fukushima plant in 2010 also faced radiation levels 16 times higher than did employees of the plant's owner-operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co., because contractors are called in for the most dangerous work, according to the government's industrial safety agency.
"This job is a death sentence, performed by workers who aren't being given information about the dangers they face," said Hiroaki Koide, an assistant professor at Kyoto University's Research Reactor Institute and author of the book "The Lie of Nuclear Power."
Okawa, who was off work from the plant the day of the tsunami, immediately quit the job and the "suicidal work" he performed there: mopping up leaks of radioactive water, wiping down "hot" equipment and filling drums with contaminated nuclear waste.
He described an unofficial pecking order at most nuclear plants among contractors, with the greenest workers often assigned the most dangerous jobs until they got enough experience to question the work or a newer worker came along.
"In the beginning, you get a little training; they show you how to use your tools," said Okawa, 56. "But then you're left to work with radiation you can't see, smell or taste. If you think about it, you imagine it might be killing you. But you don't want to think about it."
Okawa, a small man with powerfully built hands, said contractors knew they faced layoff once they reached exposure limits, so many switched off dosimeters and other radiation measuring devices.
"Guys needed the work, so they cut corners," he said. "The plant bosses knew it but looked the other way."
Biography of cancer wins Guardian First Book award
From Guardian:
An oncologist has won the Guardian First Book award for his "biography" of cancer, The Emperor of All Maladies, which traces the disease from the first recorded mastectomy in 500BC to today's cutting edge research. Siddhartha Mukherjee has called his book ? a mix of history, memoir and biography, of science and the personal stories of cancer patients ? "an attempt to enter the mind of this immortal illness, to understand its personality, to demystify its behaviour". The only non-fiction title on the shortlist, it beat four novels to win the ?10,000 award, narrowly seeing off Amy Waldman's The Submission, set in post-9/11 America. Stephen Kelman's Booker-shortlisted novel Pigeon English was also in the running. The chair of judges, Lisa Allardice, editor of Guardian Review, said Mukherjee's "anthropomorphism of a disease" was a "remarkable and unusual achievement".
"In the end it came down to a very difficult decision between a first novel [The Submission] and a first book of tremendous research," she said. "They were so different ? both incredibly impressive achievements in their own rights, but in the end the Mukherjee was felt to be the more original. "He has managed to balance such a vast amount of information with lively narratives, combining complicated science with moving human stories. Far from being intimidating, it's a compelling, accessible book, packed full of facts and anecdotes that you know you will remember and which you immediately want to pass on to someone else."
More here.?(Note: Congratulations to Sid...dear friend, brilliant colleague and fantastic writer who is great at everything he does including all the bone marrows on my patients.)
New Yorkers got a sneak peek at the Verizon LTE flavor of the Galaxy Nexus at the Samsung Experience in Columbus Circle today, and we dropped by to spend a few minutes with the Ice Cream Sandwich handset in the Manhattan showroom. Samsung had just four pre-production Nexus models on hand, which were running Android 4.0.1 -- not the final 4.1 version we're expecting to see shortly, with a baseband update in tow. None of the samples included SIM cards, so we were only able to test them using the built-in WiFi module. A security alarm sounded when we attempted to remove the back cover to install a SIM, though the battery was also superglued in place, further inhibiting our access.
We did take the unit for a speed test spin using our Verizon LTE MiFi, and achieved download speeds ranging from 5000-7000kbps and upload speeds of 300-2000kbps when connected to LTE over WiFi. These results don't represent what you'll see with the built-in module, but considering there was no way to get these running on the Verizon network, connectivity was limited to the MiFi and in-house WiFi. Still, this is your best shot at getting your hands on a device ahead of Verizon's official launch, so if you happen to be anywhere near NYC, head on down to the Samsung Experience to get your Nexus fix. Or hop past the break for our hands-on video.
3 December 2011Last updated at 19:10 ETBy Richard BlackEnvironment correspondent, BBC News
Thousands of demonstrators have marched through the South African city of Durban demanding faster action on climate change.
The annual UN climate summit is being held at the city's convention centre.
Protesters were particularly angered by the stance of rich countries such as the US and Canada.
In London former UK Deputy Prime Minister Lord Prescott said the approach of these nations was "appalling".
Halfway through this summit, some progress has been made, but a few countries including the US, Canada and Saudi Arabia are holding out on important issues such as the future of the Kyoto Protocol.
Fourteen years ago, Lord Prescott played a leading role in the UN summit in Kyoto that brought the protocol into existence.
Speaking to the BBC, he was scathing about nations trying to delay progress now.
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Adaptation
Action that helps cope with the effects of climate change - for example construction of barriers to protect against rising sea levels, or conversion to crops capable of surviving high temperatures and drought.
"Let's have a reassessment of it by 2015." he said. "But if you don't finish in time for the ending of Kyoto Two, which is next year, 2012, then, you know, it will actually wither on the vine and that's what Canada and America wants - and one or two other rich countries.
"It's a conspiracy against the poor. It's appalling. I'm ashamed of such countries not recognising their responsibilities."
The European Union wants talks on a new global agreement covering all nations to start as soon as possible.
It is backed by most of the world's poorest countries and small island states vulnerable to rising sea levels.
But even if resistance from the US and others can be overcome, it is hard to envisage anything being agreed that can start to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions before 2020.
And that is the timeframe science suggests is necessary if the most dangerous climate impacts are to be avoided.
WASHINGTON (AP) ? The threat of a costly national railroad strike during the busy holiday season has been averted after the freight rail industry settled labor disputes with two of its unions and agreed to extend talks with a third.
Without the agreements, the railway unions could have begun striking as early as Tuesday, when a federal "cooling off" period was set to expire. Retailers warned that a rail strike would cost businesses and consumers $2 billion a day and prove especially damaging during the most important shipping season of the year.
The National Railway Labor Conference, which represents the railroads in bargaining talks, said its negotiators would try to reach an agreement with the final union before Feb. 8.
The agreements late Thursday with the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen and the American Train Dispatchers Association came just hours after Republican House leaders said they would move to vote Friday on emergency legislation to prevent a work stoppage.
The group of more than 30 railroads ? including Union Pacific Corp., CSX Corp. and Burlington Northern Santa Fe ? has been trying for more than a year to reach collective bargaining agreements with 13 unions representing about 132,000 workers.
President Barack Obama appointed a five-member emergency board in October to mediate the dispute. The White House action averted a strike for at least 60 days, ending Tuesday at 12:01 a.m.
With the help of federal mediators, the railroads have now settled with 12 of the 13 unions in the current bargaining round. The only unsettled union is the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees, which has about 25,000 workers.
"Everyone wins when we reach voluntary agreements," said Kenneth Gradia, chairman of the National Carriers' Conference Committee, which bargains on behalf of the railroads. "In a tough economy, these agreements offer a terrific deal for rail employees. They lock in well-above market wage increases of more than 20 percent over six years, far exceeding recent union settlements in other industries."
The last time a freight railroad strike occurred, in 1991, Congress quickly passed legislation that ended it within a day. A 1982 strike lasted four days.
ATLANTA ? Health officials say only 1 in 4 Americans with the AIDS virus have the infection under control with medications.
Part of the reason is that about 20 percent of those infected with HIV don't know it. People can be infected with the AIDS virus for years without developing symptoms.
An infection was once considered a death sentence. But medications that have been available for 15 years can reduce the amount of virus to low levels.
However, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found only a small fraction of those infected are being successfully treated.
Of the nearly 1.2 million people with the infection, about 40 percent are getting medications regularly. Worse, only 28 percent have the virus under control at low levels.
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