| Three years waiting for a pension ... then £118,000 turns up
You did in fact telephone me to request that I secure the names of parties involved and send any documentation available. I have been active to broker some kind of agreement. At the moment, though, there is no sign of the missing money. Perhaps you could lend your authority to persuade Nationwide to conclude this matter satisfactorily. RD, Sutton Coldfield, W Midlands. In 2005 you opened an Isa (individual savings account), but didn't have any documentation for it. You signed the application form and a member of your local branch filled in the name and address details on your behalf. Unfortunately, these were copied from an old passbook which featured your previous address. Consequently, the documentation for the Isa was sent to the incorrect address. It was returned and a "no trace" was put on it so that no further mailings were sent.
Hypoglycemia Alert Dogs Offer Assistance to People with Diabetes
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Glucose monitors, test strips, and lancets: people with diabetes are all too familiar with the equipment used to test their blood glucose (sugar) levels. Now some people are adding a different kind of aid to their diabetes management regimen. The March 2008 issue of Diabetes Forecast, the consumer magazine of the American Diabetes Association (ADA), features an article about assistance dogs that are trained to sense episodes of human hypoglycemia, or low blood glucose, and sound a life-saving alert. According to the article, these dogs seem to sense a dangerous drop in blood glucose before it begins, allowing the people they work with to prevent an episode altogether. Some dogs seem to sense high blood glucose, too.
Briefly in Tompkins
Following a short meditation, Ven. Tenzin Gephel and Sidney Piburn will talk about the courses Namgyal Monastery will offer this spring. All are welcome to enjoy refreshments and meet instructors, monks, students and staff of the monastery. Ithacans seek to form West Hill forum A meeting to organize town residents from the West Hill will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 24 at Lehman Alternative Community School, 111 Chestnut St. The organization plans to be a forum to discuss development, traffic, safety, sustainability and any other issues of interest to West Hill residents. All Ithacans are welcome. Democrats sponsor presidential forum The Tompkins County Democratic Committee has scheduled a Democratic Presidential Forum at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 24 at the Women's Community Building in Ithaca.
ORU alumni support sought
Uncertainty remained Saturday about what effect Richard Roberts' resignation as president will have on Oral Roberts University, but some observers said it was a step toward improvement.
"I think people are going to be waiting and watching: OK, can it survive without a Roberts at the helm?" said Donald R. Vance, professor of biblical languages and literature.
Vance said he thinks alumni need to support ORU as it undergoes this transition, after being led for 42 years by a Roberts. ORU professors are committed to the school's evangelical Christian mission, but that might not be obvious without a TV minister as president, he said. Christian colleges across the country are led by non-ministers -- "it will just be different for us."
ORU leaders have not addressed what role, if any, Roberts will have at the university.
Rush Gives Up?
His vision of a universal health care system is one that will be sufficiently generous that even families in, say, the 89th percentile of the income distribution never feel inclined to make private expenditures for additional services on top of what the government provides and that won't involve any potentially innovation-starving price controls. That, I'm inclined to agree, really would be very expensive. "And if you could really pay for such a system by severely means-testing Social Security benefits I wouldn't have a particular objection to that." I'm declaring Fallows-style victory (which is not necessarily the same thing as having won). ... 10:51 P.M Maybe Jeff Jarvis is Right: I've resisted kicking Dell when it's down--I've been a relatively happy Dell customer for several years.
Willy Northpole and the Phoenix hip-hop scene explode
The George S. May Company is going to join Magedson's corporate advocacy program. (Kushnir declined to say how much he's paying.) Basically, Kushnir will pay Magedson to reveal the complainants against the company, and then Kushnir can do what he would have wanted to do all along address them. Good news for Magedson. But not such good news for the people who had anonymously blasted George S. May. After all, Magedson will be giving them up. And if they're current employees, they're probably going to be in trouble with a capital T. Kushnir says he won't sue anybody he's learned his lesson but if it's a disgruntled secretary who called the founder a pedophile, it's hard to imagine things will end happily for her. Kushnir says he's happy with how things ended. But the incident does raise some ethical questions.
Unwrap something sweet this season
Nutrition: "I stick to whole wheat everything, stay away from refined sugars and I read the label on everything. When I eat something, I ask myself, `What can my body use from this?' if the answer is nothing ... I just don't put it in my mouth. Oh, and I eat all day... little bits all day. The body is like a stove, if you want to keep the fire burning calories all day, keep it going." What drives you: "Dancing is my all- time favourite way to work out. It's such a release. You get to be creative and expressive and energetic, and in striptease, even sexy. You sure can't get all that from a treadmill." .
Teens using steroids cheat themselves and their health
The measure of success in any sport is how well you use what you have to win, says Ken Locker, a certified athletic trainer at Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas. "It's easy for someone to cheat and win," he adds. "With steroids, you're tricking your body. You're creating something that's not you, and that's why you're cheating." But in the sports world, from high school on up, the focus often is more on competition and less on following the rules. "It's not just the kids," says Mr. Locker, who knows of a freshman at a small university who tested positive for steroids. Regulations required the school to tell his parents what had happened. They weren't surprised. "The parents admitted to giving it to him," Mr. Locker says. "They wanted him to get a scholarship." Is there a way to get a scholarship without going the steroid route? Sure, Mr.
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