Stanford

Assessors at the Gifted Children's Information Centre in Solihull said Oscar, with an IQ of at least 160, is one of the brightest children they have every come across.

He has been ranked in the 99.99th percentile of the population and has been ranked off the scale as the Stanford-Binet test cannot measure higher than 160.

Oscar's father Joe, 29, an IT specialist from Reading in Berkshire, said: "Oscar was recently telling my wife about the reproductive cycle of penguins.

"He is always asking questions. Every parent likes to think their child was special but we knew there was something particularly remarkable about Oscar.

"I'm fully expecting the day to come when he turns around and tells me I'm an idiot."

Three women were sitting around and bragging about their children.

The first one says, "You know, my son, he graduated first in his class from Stanford. He's now a doctor, making $250,000 a year in Chicago."

The second woman says, "You know my son, he graduated first in his class from Harvard. he's now a lawyer, making half a million dollars a year and he lives in Los Angeles."

The last woman says, "You know my son, he never did too well in school. He never went to any university but he now makes one million dollars a year in New York working as a sports repairman."

The other two women ask, "What is a sports repairman?"

The woman then replies, "He fixes games... you know, hockey games, football games, baseball games, cricket games...."

http://www.nytimes.c...

While most universities are struggling to ensure that any research supported by industry remains free of corporate control, it is shocking to find Virginia Commonwealth University going in the opposite direction. It has signed a contract to do research for Philip Morris that gives the company the final say over what results, if any, can be published.

The contract also stipulates that the university cannot respond to any news media inquiries about the deal and must promptly notify Philip Morris. That effort to hide this unsavory bargain fell apart when The Times’s Alan Finder obtained a copy under Virginia’s Freedom of Information Law.

A lady in a faded grey dress and her husband, dressed in a homespun suit walked in timidly without an appointment into the Harvard University President's outer office.
The secretary could tell in a moment that such backwoods, country hicks had no business at Harvard and probably didn't even deserve to be in Harvard.
We want to see the President,' the man said softly. 'He'll be busy all day,' the secretary snapped. 'We'll wait,' the lady replied.

Twitter porn-name game sparks privacy warning
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May 15, 2009 04:30 AM

Nicole Baute
Staff reporter

Twitterers twittering into the great abyss should be careful about the games they play, Canada's privacy commissioner warned this week after catching on to a new trend.

The privacy commissioner's office expressed concern about a game that has found its way onto the micro-blogging site: combining your first pet's name with the first street you lived on to discover your porn star alter ego.

Before you Twitter that, think about protection.

The information could be used to hack into your email or online banking account, where security questions such as, "What was your first pet's name?" are used for authentication.

Just got this from the HR dept. of my company

One of our colleagues is in dire need of your help. Nick Glasgow in Pleasanton, needs a bone marrow transplant. Nick was a healthy 27 year old when he came down with what was at first believed to be strep throat about nine to ten weeks ago. Eight weeks ago, he was informed that he has Leukemia and was admitted to the hospital immediately for chemotherapy. Nick has endured two rounds of chemotherapy, and received blood, platelet, saline, and antibiotic infusions. These have all failed to put Nick into remission. Nick's white cell blood count is too low for another round of chemo, and has been sent home as antibiotics have been stopped and his immune system is compromised.

As we discussed at the beginning of this year, hope alone is not a prudent basis for planning or investing; however, it is often the genesis of great things.

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." ~ Mahatma Gandhi

In the face of populist rage against large financial firms and corporate executives -- an attitude that I believe feeds upon itself and makes an economic recovery all the more difficult -- I stumbled over a wonderful ray of light amidst the pessimism, uncertainty and rage -- a recent BusinessWeek article, written by Jack & Suzy Welch, called "Put Your Rage on the Back Burner."

I'm sure this won't be the last....greed; greed and more greed!

http://news.bbc.co.u...

US tycoon charged over $8bn fraud

Sir Allen is a US businessman and a cricket promoter
Texan billionaire and cricket promoter Sir Allen Stanford has been charged over a $8bn (£5.6bn) investment fraud, US financial regulators say.

The Securities and Exchange Commission said the businessman had orchestrated "a fraudulent, multi-billion dollar investment scheme".

US investigators earlier entered the Stanford Financial Group Texas office.

The SEC said the fraud was "based on false promises and fabricated historical return data".

Three of Sir Allen's companies have been charged as well as several executives of the companies.

This should be It- Sania's 1st WTA Singles Title

PATTAYA (Thailand): Sania Mirza will have to beat world number five and top seed Russian Vera Zvonareva to claim the second WTA singles title of h
Sania Mirza
Sania Mirza reacts during her semi-final against Magdalena Rybarikova at the PTT Pattaya Women's Open tennis tournament on February 14, 2009. (Reuters Photo)
er career as the two players set up the summit clash in the $220,00 Pattaya Open on Saturday.

Sania edged past world number 51 Magdalena Rybarikova in the first semi-final 6-4, 5-7, 6-1 while Zvonareva beat Shahar Peer of Israel 6-1, 6-4 in the other last-four clash.