Scott's : Trends: Apr 30, 2008

Scott's : Trends

5:12 PM

Current News for April 30, 2008

NEW JERSEY BUSINESS NEWS (The Star-Ledger)

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:20:43 PDT
Biz Buzz NJ Market reports and Jersey business news. (Weekdays) Your email address: You must respond to a confirmation email to activate your subscription.

Paying Upfront for Treatment

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:46:52 PDT
The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday on a growing trend in hospitals: requiring payment upfront. Hospitals across the country are starting to require patients with limited or no health insurance to pay before they’re treated.

This doc hip hops to the top of the world (winnipegsun.com)

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:04:46 PDT
One hundred Inuit teens. Ten hip-hop dancers. Five days. Sheesh, we just have to start getting more sleep. But wait, this isn't a really weird dream after another cherished soiree of beer and extra saucy wings.

Modern Trends In Logo Design

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:14:00 PDT
The question arises, how to design a logo that is not only eye-catching and unique, but also modern? Well, the answer is to keep up with the latest trends of designing.

RC-12 wireless mini video camera can record itself get lost

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:57:39 PDT
We've seen a number of cameras mounted on RC vehicles before, but if you're looking for a more out-of-the-box solution, you may want to consider this so-called RC-12 camera now available from Japan Trend Shop, which is not only smaller than most, but able to be used underwater as well. Apparently, the 2.7 megapixel camera will work up to 30....

Upfront Hospital Payments on the Rise / findingDulcinea

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:39:49 PDT
The case of a leukemia patient told to pay before receiving chemotherapy at a Texas hospital highlights a growing trend among nonprofit hospitals.

CBC: It’s a “bungle”! No it’s a “blunder”! Hang on: it’s a “gaffe”!

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:28:14 PDT
It ain’t good, that’s for sure! Just yesterday I had to update my Monday blog entry because the fair and balanced state-owned CBC Newsworld kept changing its mind about the Conservative government’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Maxime Bernier, and how to officially describe his, um, verbal malfunction. On Monday I showed you how Canada’s cable news networks—the state-owned one and the citizen-owned one against which they compete—instructed us to think of the Conservative Minister of For

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3:58 PM

Albert Hofmann the inventor of drug LSD has died aged 102

Register, UK

Discoverer of LSD dead at 102

Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann, who in 1943 accidentally discovered the hallucinogenic effects of Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), has died at the age of 102, Reuters reports.

Hoffman passed away at his home in Basel on 29 April as a result of a heart attack, according to the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies.

The chemist had in the late 1930s been working on possible medical applications of alkaloid derivatives of the fungus ergot and subsequently synthesised a number of such derivatives, including LSD. It wasn't until 1943, however, when a small amount accidentally leaked onto his hand that the compound's mind-blowing capability was revealed.

Hoffman recounted a "remarkable restlessness, combined with slight dizziness", elaborating: "At home I lay down and sank into a not unpleasant intoxication-like condition, characterised by an extremely stimulated imagination.

"In a dreamlike state, with eyes closed (I found the daylight too unpleasantly glaring), I perceived an uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with intense, kaleidoscopic play of colours. After some two hours this condition faded away."

The rest is history. While the CIA infamously experimented with the mind-control possibilities of LSD during the 1950s and 60s in its Project MK-ULTRA, it was Timothy Leary and his "turn on, tune in, drop out" mantra who popularised the substance among the hippy movement and brought it to the attention of the wider world.

Hoffman maintained the movement had "hijacked" the drug and insisted he'd produced it "as a medicine and not as a substance to be abused". He continued to defend its possible use "in analysis of how the mind works, hoping it could be used to recognise and treat illnesses like schizophrenia", long after it was banned in the 1960s. �