Wednesday, 29 February 2012

Kissing: Can It Make or Break A Relationship? ? wedding preview ...

This is my day to just spill it. Warning, I?m a talker and I love to write. I just imagine that you and I are sitting here with our feet up talking about what we like, what we watched last night and what we?re excited about. This is how I decide what to write about. What would we talk about? Let?s chat. The Bachelor and kissing.

Before I even go into how watching The Bachelor makes me feel queasy, I should tell you this about me: I?m a hopeless romantic but I either giggle, get shy or become really nervous in romantic situations. I read chick-lit books where the plot follows a woman who is usually struggling to realize she loves someone and, in the end, they fall in love. There are some steamy scenes in the middle (a la romance novel) and when I read the last page, the whole story is all packaged up and totally unrealistic. I believe that stuff. I watch TV with ZERO educational value and I?m not ashamed of any of this.

I?m a Bachelor fan but I am not a fan of Ben (the current Bachelor -if you?re not a fan). As I start to write, I have to remember that all of the people involved are human beings and have feelings. This is going to be the HARDEST thing to do. I?m ready to unleash. To me, kissing is so hot. There are even health benefits to kissing. Yes, I?ve researched. However, watching Ben kiss the girls on The Bachelor, makes me literally gag. Seriously! Look at the image above. It is so absolutely disgusting watching his sticky frog tongue jut out toward his prey and bring them in like a fly. Almost ALL of them have kissed Ben. I?ve got to know what it?s like.

Do you think kissing can make or break a relationship?

I once (almost) kissed a guy who started the process as if it was a sword fight. I almost puked. For real. I told the poor soul that I was drunk and getting sick. It was a better option than telling him that his kisses made me wretch. Regardless of how he looked, how great of a personality he had, I just couldn?t do it. That relationship was over before it started. Bachelor Ben would be in that category for me. When I see him and Courtney kiss?it?s like a great diet. I lose my appetite completely.

So, now that I?ve taken up all your time talking about mindless (read: interesting to me) information, tell me:

Have you had a bad kissing experience?

Did it make or break the two of you?

Lots of love and unimportant topics,

Tawsha

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Sen. Snowe of Maine not seeking re-election (AP)

[unable to retrieve full-text content]AP - Three-term Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine announced Tuesday that she will not run for re-election, issuing a statement that cited frustration over the current "atmosphere of polarization and `my way or the highway' ideologies."

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Tuesday, 28 February 2012

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A giant little step in cancer treatment opening up new therapeutic horizons

A giant little step in cancer treatment opening up new therapeutic horizons [ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 27-Feb-2012
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A study by the Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology reveals a potential new strategy that could offer an unprecedented key to multiplying treatment options

Barcelona, 27 February 2012. A study headed up by the Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO) heralds a new horizon in the fight against cancer, opening up a parallel dimension to existing treatment options. The data, published today in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, demonstrate that by combining two drugs that had already been used on a patient in the past but had stopped working, they boost each other's efficacy and at the same time manage to break down the patient's resistance to each of them individually, presenting a third potential treatment option for clinically advanced metastatic tumours.

While this may not initially appear to be an innovation, given that combined treatments are used in cancer as a matter of course, it actually represents a radical change in the use of the existing therapeutic weaponry, an extremely practical solution and a source of hope for many patients. "The novelty factor does not lie in the combination itself, but in the combination of two drugs that had already been administered in the past and had each failed", explained Dr Javier Corts, the Head of the Breast Cancer Programme at the VHIO and main author of this work. This not only offers new alternatives for patients with advanced tumours the most important aspect but also opens up a parallel dimension of new therapeutic options to the existing treatments, given that it offers numerous combinations between existing pharmacological treatments that not only boost each other but also counteract patients' resistance to them. "The study focused on HER2 positive breast cancer, although the concept could be applied to the treatment of other tumours", continued Dr Corts.

Breast tumours occur most frequently in Western women. In Spain alone, some 24,000 new cases are diagnosed each year, and it is calculated that one in every eight or nine women in this country will suffer from breast cancer. Although the many advances over recent years in screening, early diagnosis and treatments have dramatically reduced mortality from this disease, there are still breast tumours whose biological characteristics make them more aggressive. Around 15% of breast tumours are HER2 positive and fall into this category. Moreover, they tend to affect younger women. In spite of the fact that this group has benefited tremendously from specific biological therapies targeted at this subtype (monoclonal antibodies), many tumours continue to advance and metastasize. "When a patient with this breast cancer subtype stops responding to the initial drug and the disease progresses, a second drug is administered. It may be that the response to these two treatments is negligible or there may even be no response at all and the tumour continues to grow. If we then treat the patients with the two drugs in combination, even though they ceased to function individually, what we have found is that almost 50% of the tumours responded to this combination and did so very positively, showing a clear improvement or keeping the disease stable for a considerable period of time", concluded Dr Corts.

In the fight against cancer, the combination of treatments is highly common practice. However, the concept described is different: it is not about seeing the results of combining drug A with drug B, but, when A fails to work, B is administered, and if this also fails we return to the starting point and initiate treatment with a combination of the two (A + B). This strategy could offer an unprecedented key to multiplying treatment options.

In the specific case of this study, we administered trastuzumab (the first-choice treatment for HER2 positive breast cancer); when the tumour continued growing we used pertuzumab (currently pending approval) and when the cancer continued to progress we administered the two together. "The results were very positive and highly informative for new studies", said Dr Corts.

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For further information:

Amanda Wren
Communication Manager
Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO)
Tel. +34 695 207886
e-mail: awren@vhio.net


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A giant little step in cancer treatment opening up new therapeutic horizons [ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 27-Feb-2012
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Contact: Amanda Wren
awren@vhio.net
34-695-207-886
Vall dHebron Institute of Oncology

A study by the Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology reveals a potential new strategy that could offer an unprecedented key to multiplying treatment options

Barcelona, 27 February 2012. A study headed up by the Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO) heralds a new horizon in the fight against cancer, opening up a parallel dimension to existing treatment options. The data, published today in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, demonstrate that by combining two drugs that had already been used on a patient in the past but had stopped working, they boost each other's efficacy and at the same time manage to break down the patient's resistance to each of them individually, presenting a third potential treatment option for clinically advanced metastatic tumours.

While this may not initially appear to be an innovation, given that combined treatments are used in cancer as a matter of course, it actually represents a radical change in the use of the existing therapeutic weaponry, an extremely practical solution and a source of hope for many patients. "The novelty factor does not lie in the combination itself, but in the combination of two drugs that had already been administered in the past and had each failed", explained Dr Javier Corts, the Head of the Breast Cancer Programme at the VHIO and main author of this work. This not only offers new alternatives for patients with advanced tumours the most important aspect but also opens up a parallel dimension of new therapeutic options to the existing treatments, given that it offers numerous combinations between existing pharmacological treatments that not only boost each other but also counteract patients' resistance to them. "The study focused on HER2 positive breast cancer, although the concept could be applied to the treatment of other tumours", continued Dr Corts.

Breast tumours occur most frequently in Western women. In Spain alone, some 24,000 new cases are diagnosed each year, and it is calculated that one in every eight or nine women in this country will suffer from breast cancer. Although the many advances over recent years in screening, early diagnosis and treatments have dramatically reduced mortality from this disease, there are still breast tumours whose biological characteristics make them more aggressive. Around 15% of breast tumours are HER2 positive and fall into this category. Moreover, they tend to affect younger women. In spite of the fact that this group has benefited tremendously from specific biological therapies targeted at this subtype (monoclonal antibodies), many tumours continue to advance and metastasize. "When a patient with this breast cancer subtype stops responding to the initial drug and the disease progresses, a second drug is administered. It may be that the response to these two treatments is negligible or there may even be no response at all and the tumour continues to grow. If we then treat the patients with the two drugs in combination, even though they ceased to function individually, what we have found is that almost 50% of the tumours responded to this combination and did so very positively, showing a clear improvement or keeping the disease stable for a considerable period of time", concluded Dr Corts.

In the fight against cancer, the combination of treatments is highly common practice. However, the concept described is different: it is not about seeing the results of combining drug A with drug B, but, when A fails to work, B is administered, and if this also fails we return to the starting point and initiate treatment with a combination of the two (A + B). This strategy could offer an unprecedented key to multiplying treatment options.

In the specific case of this study, we administered trastuzumab (the first-choice treatment for HER2 positive breast cancer); when the tumour continued growing we used pertuzumab (currently pending approval) and when the cancer continued to progress we administered the two together. "The results were very positive and highly informative for new studies", said Dr Corts.

###

For further information:

Amanda Wren
Communication Manager
Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO)
Tel. +34 695 207886
e-mail: awren@vhio.net


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Monday, 27 February 2012

Are Santorum's comments on higher ed out of step? (AP)

[unable to retrieve full-text content]AP - When Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum calls President Barack Obama "a snob" for urging more Americans to attend college, he may be out of step with the public's overall view of higher education.

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Afghan president renews call for calm

(AP)? KABUL, Afghanistan ? Afghanistan's president has renewed his calls for calm in a televised address to the nation after the burning of Qurans at a U.S. base sparked five days of violent protests.

About 30 people have been killed including four U.S. soldiers since the incident came to light Tuesday. NATO has pulled hundreds of international advisers out of Afghan ministries out of concern that they might become the next targets of anti-foreigner anger.

President Hamid Karzai spoke in a live television broadcast Sunday. Karzai said, "Now is the time to return to calm and not let our enemies use this situation."

He reminded the Afghan people that the Quran burnings are being investigated and asked them to wait for the results of that investigation.

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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) ? A gunman killed two American military advisers with shots to the back of the head Saturday inside a heavily guarded ministry building, and NATO ordered military workers out of Afghan ministries as protests raged for a fifth day over the burning of copies of the Quran at a U.S. army base.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the Interior Ministry attack, saying it was retaliation for the Quran burnings, after the U.S. servicemen ? a lieutenant colonel and a major ? were found dead on the floor of an office that only people who know a numerical combination can get into, Afghan and Western officials said.

The top commander of U.S. and NATO forces recalled all international military personnel from the ministries, an unprecedented action in the decade-long war that highlights the growing friction between Afghans and their foreign partners at a critical juncture in the war.

The U.S.-led coalition is trying to mentor and strengthen Afghan security forces so they can lead the fight against the Taliban and foreign troops can go home. That mission, however, requires a measure of trust at a time when anti-Western sentiment is at an all-time high.

Afghan Defense Minister Gen. Abdul Rahim Wardak called U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta to apologize for the shooting and offer his condolences, Pentagon press secretary George Little said in a statement released in Washington.

"This act is unacceptable and the United States condemns it in the strongest possible terms," Little said.

Security is tight in the capital, which is covered in snow, and foreigners working at the U.S. Embassy and at international organizations have been banned from leaving their compounds.

U.S. officials said they were searching for the assailant, who has not been identified by name or nationality.

The two American service members were found by another foreigner who went into the room, according to the Afghan official, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to disclose details about the shootings. They were shot in the back of the head, according to Western officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to disclose the information. Authorities were poring over security camera video for clues, the Afghan official said.

Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid identified the shooter as one of their sympathizers, Abdul Rahman. He said an accomplice inside the ministry helped Rahman get inside the compound to kill the Americans in retaliation for the Quran burnings.

"After the attack, Rahman informed us by telephone that he was able to kill four high-ranking American advisers," Mujahid said. The Taliban often inflate death tolls and sometimes claim responsibility for killings they did not conduct.

Little, the Pentagon press secretary, said Wardak indicated that President Hamid Karzai was assembling religious leaders and other senior Afghan officials to take urgent steps to protect coalition forces.

U.S. Gen. John Allen, the top commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, met with Afghan Interior Minister Bismullah Khan Mohammadi, who offered both his condolences to the families of the victims and his apologies, Little said.

Afghanistan's interior and defense ministers are expected in Washington next week.

Allen said he recalled all NATO personnel from the ministries "for obvious force protection reasons" but also said the alliance remains committed to its partnership with the Afghan government. NATO forces have advisers embedded in many Afghan ministries. The advisers are helping to develop the ministries so that Afghans can take the lead by the end of 2014, when foreign combat forces are to transfer control of security to Afghan security forces.

At least 28 people have been killed and hundreds wounded since Tuesday, when it first emerged that Qurans and other religious materials had been thrown into a fire pit used to burn garbage at Bagram Air Field, a large U.S. base north of Kabul.

President Barack Obama and other U.S. officials have apologized for what they said was a mistake, but their regrets have not quelled the deadly protests.

An Afghan soldier turned his gun on foreign troops, killing two American soldiers, during one riot outside a U.S. base in Nangarhar province on Thursday. It was the latest in a rising number of incidents where Afghan soldiers or policemen, or gunmen wearing their uniforms, have killed NATO forces. Last month, France suspended its training program and threatened to withdraw its forces from Afghanistan a year ahead of schedule after an Afghan soldier shot and killed four French soldiers on a base in the east.

Karzai has said that the Afghan people have a right to protest the Quran burnings, but he urged them to demonstrate peacefully and refrain from destroying property. In a statement on Saturday, Karzai urged Afghan security forces to be patient with the protesters.

Hundreds of demonstrators staged peaceful protests in Afghanistan, but ones in Laghman, Kunduz and Logar provinces turned violent.

"The culprits of the burning of the holy Quran should be arrested and hanged to death in public," said Mohammad Karim, one of 1,000 protesters who burned tires and threw stones at Afghan police in Mohammad Agha district of Logar province, south of Kabul. "We don't accept it when they say 'We apologize. We apologize.' We don't want Americans here at all."

Laghman provincial police chief Abdul Rahman Sarjang said about 1,000 protesters threw stones at Afghan security forces, smashed windows of government buildings and tried to attack the nearby governor's house in the provincial capital of Mehterlam.

In Kunduz, the capital of Kunduz province in northeastern Afghanistan, more than 1,000 protesters threw rocks at government buildings and a U.N. office, said Sarwer Hussaini, a spokesman for the provincial police. He said the police fired into the air to try to disperse the crowd. Dr. Saad Mukhtar, health department director in Kunduz, said at least three protesters died and 50 others were injured in the melee.

In a statement, the U.N. mission in Afghanistan said the U.N. had deep respect for the Islamic faith and understood why Muslims were upset about the desecration of their holy book, but urged the demonstrators to exercise self-restraint and not let militants use the protests to foment violence.

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Associated Press writers Patrick Quinn, Heidi Vogt and Amir Shah in Kabul, Robert Burns in Washington and Slobodan Lekic in Brussels contributed to this report.

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5 Free Proven Internet Marketing Techniques For Your Home ...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Marketing your business and products is very important at all times but especially in the early stages because you need to get your new venture established and recognized online. Here are 5 of the most effective free Internet ...

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Apple TV 3 rumored to be readying for March launch

There’s a rumor going around that Apple could be preparing a second product launch to accompany the iPad 3 this March, and the current front-runner is Apple TV 3.


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Sunday, 26 February 2012

Appliance Repair | Cap1sucks Home Improvement | Hollywood ...

Feb 25 2012

Being a landlord can be a difficult task because not only do you need to make sure that the house taken care of, but also the equipment. When a tool is damaged, it can have a major impact on our routine, our comfort and our enjoyment. For large or small appliance repair, contact your local repair experts at the first sign of trouble. In today?s world filled with modern conveniences, you might pick up a dishwasher, washing machine, oven, and refrigerator for granted-until one of them to repair. Whatever type of equipment malfunction, the professionals will be able to get it working again in no time. If you are new to the area served or never need a tool, follow certain steps to find the best company for the job. You will find more detailed information on the Internet.


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Study IDs new marine protected areas in Madagascar

Saturday, February 25, 2012

A new study by the University of California, Berkeley, Wildlife Conservation Society, and others uses a new scientific methodology for establishing marine protected areas in Madagascar that offers a "diversified portfolio" of management options ? from strict no-take zones to areas that would allow fishing.

The methodology looks at existing information on the country's climate, along with dependence on fisheries and marine resources, and applies three different planning approaches to establish priorities for management along the entirety of Madagascar's west coast.

The diversified portfolio approach to marine conservation greatly increases the likelihood of finding and implementing successful management that fits a country's needs while simplifying the process of picking locations and the most appropriate forms of marine management, the authors say.

Considering the need to develop a management regime for the reefs and mangroves of Madagascar that factors in the impacts of climate change, the methodology recommends a range of conservation areas with strict no-take protection as only one type of management recommendation.

The paper appears in the February 16th issue of the open access journal PLoS One. Authors include: Thomas Allnut, Merrill Baker, and Claire Kremen of the University of California, Berkeley; Tim McClanahan, Caleb McClennen, Andry Rakotomanjaka, and Tantely Tianarisoa of the Wildlife Conservation Society; Erwann Lagabrielle and Serge Andrefouet of the Institut de Recherche pour le D?veloppement; and Reg Watson of the University of British Columbia.

The authors say the process provides a more efficient and comprehensive way to plan on a large scale and found that several marine areas in Madagascar come out as conservation priorities across all methodologies. Specifically, these included reefs in the vicinity of the Barren Islands, the large shallow banks to the northwest and southwest, and the reefs of Juan de Nova.

The study highlights the differences in the country's regional patterns. These include heavy human pressure in the south and areas of high climate variability intermixed with lower vulnerability but high biodiversity in the northwest. Areas of particularly high biodiversity value include the islands, reefs, and bays of the northwest; the fringing reefs of the southwest; and the barrier reefs and islands of the central west coast.

Madagascar is one of the poorest countries on Earth yet has proposed to create over 1 million hectares (3,861 square miles) of protected areas to provide for the long-term conservation of its marine resources.

"It behooves countries, in the face of impending fisheries and climate crises, to plan and implement intelligent management that will increase the resilience of their natural marine resources," said co-author Tim McClanahan of the Wildlife Conservation Society, "This paper will provide a roadmap for Madagascar to plan and manage these resources and the methods should prove affordable and useful for the poorest countries where adaptation to climate change will make marine spatial planning a critical part of a successful response."

Co-author Caleb McClennen, WCS Director for Marine Programs, said: "Creation of protected areas is a key conservation strategy to safeguarding marine resources, but one size doesn't fit all. This study demonstrates the need for a comprehensive portfolio of management solutions from community based coastal fisheries to fully protected marine parks."

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Hemp ? Just The Right Resource For Nutrition | New Health and ...

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Utopia is merely a dream that is distant that a novelist just like James Hilton (?Lost Horizon?) can pray for or simply think of. It is really the perfect time when love and peace reign and also the planet turns into an ever-developing, living, breathing world. It would be wonderful when the whole world looked like Shangri-la more, but reaching that stage might take awhile. Slowly but surely however, the entire world is getting much better solutions to breathe new life to an ailing planet by means of the usage of natural resources much better so we cut down our composite carbon footprint. Producing hemp bestows us with this option.

This notably uncomplicated plant carries a legacy spanning thousands of years. Like various other environmentally friendly plants, this plant produced anything and everything. Prior to when the US outlawed its production, it was utilised in more than 25,000 products and goods from textiles to foodstuff. It was cultivated to take advantage of fibers, seed, and also oil. It used to be tremendously desired considering that its fibers were longer, stronger, and more absorbent compared to cotton. The U.S. Army along with the Department of Agriculture actually had a campaign called ?Hemp for Victory,? which was intended to inspire farmers to plant more of the crop. This crop is recognised to generally be extremely resilient that it was actually put to use in sails and also ropes for ships.

By 1938, the magazine Popular Mechanics referred to it as the ?New Billion Dollar Crop.? In spite of its proven value in every single sector, from food to construction, the crop was banned in the US These days, on the other hand, a number of countries such as Canada and the whole European Union have allowed the cultivating of this once-distinguished crop. Australia awaits approval of legal guidelines about the usage of hemp products. There can be, nonetheless, areas in Tasmania and some in the East and West Coasts of Australia where tourists can pay a visit to farms that cultivate this crop for study, building, and animal bedding applications.

The common disbelief regarding this crop is the fact that it is going to give you a ?high,? which is caused by the fact that it?s produced from the Cannabis sativa L plant. Researchers have tested and proven that the THC (tetrahydrocannabinol) levels in oils and seeds from this crop are at a paltry 0.05% to 1% when compared to the 3% to 20% of the recreational cannabis. Therefore no, a bag manufactured from hemp fiber will not get anybody stoned.

From an industrial powerhouse plat to a nutritious nosh, the by-products of this particularly everlasting crop are fantastic sources of good fats and fiber content. Hemp seeds are regarded as an excellent resource for fiber and they are consist of Omega-3 and Omega-6, which help us take in nutrients much better. Meanwhile, hemp oil is known to be the richest source of polyunsaturated essential fatty acids (also known as the good fats). The oil also includes gamma linoleic acid (GLA), a hard-to-find nutrient found in mother?s milk.

It is actually said that 50 percent of the world?s pesticide is sprayed on cotton, while hemp crop is produced organically without having to use pesticide as this wonder crop is naturally immune to almost all pests. With the hopeful return of this magnificently beneficial crop, there is certainly a very good possibility that maybe someday Utopia will be accomplished if we all purchase ecological products and eat healthy. We could start out with a bottle of hemp seed oil.

Looking to find the best deal on hemp seed oil, then visit www.HempStore.com.au to find the best advice on hemp products for you.

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What kind of business license do I need for an internet business or ...

I am planning a business. I will start out with baskets for new babies and if all goes well I will make the extra investment for wedding baskets, and then so on and forth. By baskets I mean gift baskets. I have researched local business license, but I am not sure if a local Business is the right way to go, so I am thinking internet or Ebay. What kind of license do you need for these types of businesses.

The requirements vary according to your state. Call the business license office for your county and just ask them if you need a business license to operate an internet store. I live in Georgia, and in my county, you do.

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Saturday, 25 February 2012

Pro-Rick Santorum Super PAC Goes on the Air in Ohio (ABC News)

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QuickBooks Preferences: Payroll and Employees: Company ...

QuickBooks offers many different options to users who are looking for a neat andQuickBooks Preferences Payroll Company Preferences organized way to manage their employee expenses. ?Most of the options for employees are in the Payroll and Employees?section. Here are some of the options that are offered in the Company Preferences?tab.

  • QuickBooks Payroll Features
    • Full Payroll
      • Choose this option if you intend to use QuickBooks to deal with payroll and employees in any way at all.
    • No Payroll
      • Choose this option if you have no payroll or employees or if you do not use QuickBooks to manage this aspect of your business.
    • Complete Payroll Customers
      • Choose this option if you use Intuit?s Complete Payroll service.
  • Set Preferences for
    • Pay Stub and Voucher Processing
      • This option will open another window with a large selection of options for how to print pay stubs and vouchers.
    • Workers Compensation
      • This button opens a small dialog screen with options regarding workers compensation and whether or not you would like to track it. Depending on your business type and other options, this may be grayed out.
    • Sick and Vacation
      • This button will open a dialog screen with options concerning the default amount of hours for sick and vacation leave that your company gives to employees.

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BP, Anadarko liable for U.S. spill damages (Reuters)

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Reuters - BP Plc and Anadarko Petroleum Corp are liable for civil damages under federal pollution laws over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, a U.S. judge ruled, exposing them to billions of dollars in potential fines.

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Friday, 24 February 2012

From Our Files: Iwo Jima, Feb. 23, 1945

Iwo Jima, a tiny volcanic island in the Pacific between the Marianas Islands and mainland Japan was the site of one of the most historic battles of World War II in which the United States captured the island from Japan.? By the end of the campaign 6800 Americans and 20000 Japanese died between February 19 and March 26, 1945.? The battle is recognized by the iconic photograph of U.S. Marines raising the American flag at the summit of Mt. Suribachi on February 23, 1945.
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?John Beaufort was a reporter for The Christian Science Monitor who covered the Pacific theater during World War II. ?He landed at Kwajalein atoll with the Marines, accompanied the landings at Okinawa, and covered the invasion of Iwo Jima. ?Here is Beaufort's account, originally published in the Feb. 23, 1945 issue of The Christian Science Monitor. ??Leigh Montgomery, Librarian

ADVANCE PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS, Guam. Via Navy Radio, Feb. 23

With Mt. Suribachi now in the possession of the United States Marines at a cost of 5,372 casualties, the invaders at last have a substantial foothold and the technical advantage of their first high terrain.

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That the Japanese were able to withstand the persistent and terrific preinvasion bombardment of Iwo and yet put up the toughest resistance experienced anywhere in the Pacific is proof that they mean to fight tenaciously for every inch of the Island.

The toughness of this island fortress is emphasized in figures released by Admiral Chester W. Nimitz covering bomb and shell tonnages expended prior to the landings.

PREINVASION ASSAULT

During the 72 days between December 7 and February 19, Iwo Jima was subjected to a furious air and sea assault which is believed to have set a record for this type of attack.

In five naval bombardments, exclusive of the final preinvasion ship-to-shore barrage, surface forces fired 2,100 tons of explosives into the tiny isle. ?In daily consecutive air raids, Army Liberators dropped approximately 6,000 tons of bombs of various types. ?Five raids by Superforts of the 21st Bomber Command added an estimated 1,500 tons of bombs.

OTHER BOMBINGS

In the final bombardment, and in the ships' artillery support through Feb. 20, battleships, cruisers, and destroyers fired an additional 8,000 tons.

To this now could be added the tremendous weight of bombs dropped by carrier planes, thousands of rockets unleashed from planes and gunboats, plus shells fired by ships, as well as by heavy artillery landed within 36 hours after the beachhead was established.

A conservative estimate would be that at least 20,000 tons of high explosives were poured into the island, which is a little more than eight square miles in area - about 2,500 tons a square mile.

No wonder reconnaissance photos, even before invasion, could show 5,000 bomb craters within an area of one square mile.

Devastating as this assault has been, craters are not the entire measure of permanent damage. ?Kiska and Tarawa were notable among the numerous examples of how sandy or absorbent soil, combined with reinforced dug-in defenses, can modify or nullify the effect of persistent bombing and bombardment.

At least part of the reason for the unusually high effectiveness of bombing and bombardment at Roi and Namur in the Marshalls lay in the fact that the Japanese were caught with their defenses unfinished. ?It was estimated that one third to one half of the Roi and Namur defenders were killed before the invasion bombardment.

IWO NATURAL FORTRESS

As is more often the case with Japanese island forts, Iwo Jima was strongly prepared. Judging from reports so far, this gritty volcanic rock combines many of the worst features of Tarawa's pillboxes and Saipan's terrain.

Although Iwo Jima's 500 - 600-foot Suribachi Yama crater is only about one third as high as Saipan's Mt. Tapotchau, Iwo's rugged formations of terraces and rocky bluffs offer positions which give the defender every advantage.

The Tarawa battle lasted 72 hours at a cost of 3,000 United States casualties, including 1,000 killed. ?Tarawa casualties were about 20 percent of the total Marine attacking force. ?Makin, which was simultaneously won, cost less than 200 casualties, including about 60 killed.

Saipan's 72 square miles of mountainous terrain were taken in 24 days by one army and two Marine divisions. ?United States casualties amounted to more than 25 percent of the Marines and Army troops involved.

But the gains were very great. ?Saipain, Guam, and Tinian furnished the needed system for B-29 bases, plus the advance headquarters from which the remainder of the Central Pacific war could be fought.

Gains represented by conquering Iwo Jima already have been presented in considerable detail. ?By converting this link of the inner Japanese defense chain into an advance base of the American offensive system, fight coverage can be given to B-29s attacking Japan, relieving defending fighters and antiaircrft weapons on Saipan for uses elsewhere.

Poor in anchorage facilities and without a harbor, Iwo Jima can hardly serve for amphibious staging purposes. ?But it it expected to justify its high cost.

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Ex-lacrosse player at UVA convicted of murdering (Reuters)

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Reuters - A jury on Wednesday found former University of Virginia lacrosse player George Huguely V guilty of second-degree murder in the 2010 death of his ex-girlfriend, and recommended he serve 25 years in prison.

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Unpaid bill from years ago leads to hospice gift

MURRAY, Ky. (AP) ? A Chicago businessman who insisted on paying an unpaid bill dating back some 25 years has instead donated the money to a Kentucky hospital.

Zee Enix once ran a home furnishings business in Murray, Ky. He says the man called him and said he wanted to pay a $600 bill he had found.

The Paducah Sun reports (http://bit.ly/A5gjN5 ) that Enix told the man ? who did not want to be identified ? that he didn't owe anything. But the businessman persisted.

So Enix agreed that the man could instead make a charity donation to the Murray-Calloway Endowment for Healthcare, which is working to build a hospice.

Keith Travis oversees endowments for the Murray-Calloway County Hospital. He says that the gift stands out as unusual.

Travis says $1 million has been raised so far for the hospice.

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Information from: The Paducah Sun, http://www.paducahsun.com

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Thursday, 23 February 2012

RESEARCH REPORT ON TOP 50 COMPANIES IN CHINA'S REAL ...

In 2010, China?s commercial housing sales area was 1,043 million m2, increasing by 10.1% over 2009, of which commercial housing increased by 8%, office building increased 21.9%, commercial buildings for business increased by 29.9%. In 2010, China?s commercial housing sales amount was CNY 5.25 trillion, increased by18.3% YOY.

From January to September 2011, the sales area and sales amount of commodity housing in China was 712.89 million m2 and CNY 3,931.2 billion, increased by 12.9% and 23.2% YOY respectively.

As China?s economic growth is decreasing and government regulation policy is unceasingly tight, in 2011and 2012, Chinese real estate development enterprises will face market, financial and other pressures. The growth rate will decline though the sales performance is expected to keep increasing. Along with the market?s further adjustment, a number of dominant enterprises will actively adjust their enterprise development strategies to make accurate positioning of market prospects. Financing innovation, strengthening brand strategies and adjusting product strategy, will effectively disperse operation risk and enhance the competitiveness of enterprises. Real estate development enterprises that lack a clear development strategy will be increasingly difficult to adapt to the changing market environment, with a shrinking market, going to close down finally.

This report selects 50 leading enterprises from China?s real estate enterprises, providing these enterprises? history, operations, development strategies and other information.
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Table of Contents

1 China Vanke Co., Ltd
1.1 Corporate Profiles
1.2 Business Operations

2 Guangzhou R & F Properties Co., Ltd
2.1 Corporate Profiles
2.2 Business Operations

3 Zhejiang Zhongda Group Holding Co., Ltd
3.1 Corporate Profiles
3.2 Business Operations

4 BBMG Corporation
4.1 Corporate Profiles
4.2 Business Operations

5 Gemdale Corporation
5.1 Corporate Profiles
5.2 Business Operations

6 SOHO China Limited

7 Longfor Properties Co. Ltd?

8 Youngor Group Co., Ltd

9 China Merchants Property Development Co., Ltd

10 Hopson Development Holdings Limited

11 Greentown Real Estate Group Co., Ltd?

12 China Calxon Group Co Ltd

13 Evergrande Real Estate Group Limited

14 China Overseas Land & Investment LTD

15 Poly Real Estate Group Co Ltd

16 Country Garden Holdings Co., Ltd?

17 China Resources Land Limited

18Agile Property Holdings Limited?

19Shenzhen Overseas Chinese Town Co Ltd

20 Jinhui Holdings Company Limited

21 Jiangsu Zhongnan Construction Group Co.,Ltd

22 Shanghai Waigaoqiao Free Trade Zone Development Co., Ltd?

23 Citychamp Dartong Co.,Ltd

24 Xinhu Zhongbao Co., Ltd

15 Financial Street Holding Co., Ltd

26 Beijing Capital Development Co., Ltd?

27 Kaisa Group Holdings Ltd?

28 KWG Property Holdings Ltd?

29 Glorious Property Holdings Ltd?

30 Tianjin Teda Group Co., Ltd

31 RiseSun Real Estate Development Co., Ltd?

32 Beijing Capital Land Ltd?

33 Hangzhou Binjiang Real Estate Group Co., Ltd?

34 Huafa Industrial Co., Ltd

35 Central China Real Estate Ltd?

36 Yuexiu Property Company Limited

37 HuBei FuXing Science and Technology Co., Ltd

38 Beijing North Star Industrial Group Company

39 Franshion Properties (China) Co., Ltd?

40 Suzhou New District Hi-Tech Industrial Co., Ltd

41 Shui On Land Ltd?

42 Beijing Urban Construction Investment & Development Co Ltd

42 Cinda Real Estate Co., Ltd?

44 Shenzhen Catic Real Estate Co., Ltd

45 Shanghai Chengtou Holding Co., Ltd

46 Xinjiang Guanghui Industry Co., Ltd?

47 Fujian Sanmu Group Co Ltd

48 Zhonghong Holding Co., Ltd

49 Beijing Vantone Real Estate Co., Ltd?

50 Ningbo United Group Co., Ltd

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Belly Rings: Sexy is as Attractive Does | Submit Article for Free

Body piercings have been the object of a lot controversy ? besides being an artistic expression and a celebration of one?s physical endowments. The belly ring is such a piece of jewelry.

In occasions of old, body piercings had been treated differently, based on the culture. As most body piercings had ritual or ceremonial value, a lot of cultures prohibited distinct sorts of physique piercing that were purely for the sake of adornment. The warriors of old Central and South American civilizations sported physique piercings, especially in the nose location, in order to seem much more intimidating to their enemies. On the other hand, lip piercings and decorations were meant to increase attractiveness, specially among girls of the day and age.

And even though body piercings had been a lot more or much less frequent in ancient Egypt, the ancient Egyptian pharaohs truly appropriated distinct types of piercings. For example, no 1 BUT members of the royal family ought to wear a belly ring, on discomfort of death! Speak about the value of vanity.

Today there is still some stigma related with body piercings, specially amongst young females. It may possibly be correct that piercing is not often a protected practice, but far more and much more tattoo parlors are adopting measures that will make certain that infection is at least avoided. The increasing popularity of physique jewelry can not be ignored, especially given that things like the belly ring and lip ring are generating their way to MTV!

Yes, we?re talking about Britney Spears and her belly rings. We?re talking about the famous ?stars and moon? dangling belly ring she wore to the MTV music awards last year. We?re also talking about Christina Aguilera and her ?Nirvana nipple ring,? amongst lots of other unconventional accessories ? produced slightly much less unconventional by their look on international Television.

Belly rings are well-known among young men and women who like to get together and dance. Dancers on Television are popularizing it as a sexy accessory. There are no pharaohs presently who would want to lop off Britney Spears? head for donning this spectacularly alluring piece of jewelry. From a status symbol to a sexy fashion accessory, the belly ring positive has come an extended way.

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49 killed, 100s hurt in Argentina train crash

A packed train slammed into the end of the line in Buenos Aires' busy Once station, killing 49 people and injuring hundreds of morning commuters in Argentina's worst train accident in decades.

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Federal Police Commissioner Nestor Rodriguez said Wednesday's dead included 48 adults and one child.

Officials said more than 600 people were injured out of more than 800 people who were reportedly on the train.

The death toll was Argentina's highest from a train accident since 1970, when 200 were killed.

Officials said the train was unable to stop and it slammed into the buffers inside the centrally located station.

"The train entered the Once station at 26 kilometers per hour (16 mph)... we suppose there was some flaw in the brakes," Transport Secretary Juan Pablo Schiavi told state news agency Telam.

"The train was full and the impact was tremendous," a passenger named Ezequiel told local television, AFP reported.

Hundreds of thousands of people travel into Argentina's capital from the suburbs every day. The dilapidated and overcrowded rail services, run by private companies and heavily subsidized by the state, are plagued by accidents and delays.

"There are people still trapped, people alive," Schiavi said, according to BBC News.

One car penetrated nearly 20 feet into the next, Schiavi told reporters at the station.

PhotoBlog: Passengers carried to safety after Buenos Aires train crash

Most damaged was the first car, where passengers make space for bicycles. Survivors told the TeleNoticias channel that many people were injured in a jumble of metal and glass.

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Passengers said windows exploded as the tops of train cars separated from their floors.

The trains are usually packed with people standing between the seats, and many were thrown into each other and to the floor by the force of the hard stop.

Helicopters and more than a dozen ambulances took the most seriously injured to nearby hospitals.

"This machine left the shop yesterday and the brakes worked well. From what we know, it braked without problems at previous stations. At this point I don't want to speculate about the causes," Ruben Sobrero, union chief on the Sarmiento line, told Radio La Red.

The train operator has been hospitalized and the union hasn't been able to speak with him yet, Sobrero added.

In September of last year , nine people were killed and more than 200 injured in a crash in Buenos Aires involving two passenger trains and a bus.

PhotoBlog: Rescuers work to free survivors of September crash

In February of last year, four people died and 120 were injured when a long distance train struck a suburban passenger train, according to the AFP news agency.

Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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QuickBooks: Multiple Currencies: Company Preferences ...

As you can tell by the title of the section, Multiple Currencies?holds the options that have toQuickBooks Multiple Currencies Company Preferences do with dealing with more than one currency. Here are some details you should know about this screen and its options.

  • Track Multiple Currencies in this Company File
    • There are two options here, and the default is set to ?No? if you use multiple currencies, set the option to ?Yes?, but be aware that once you turn on this option you cannot turn it off.
  • Select the home currency you use in transactions
    • This is only available if the first option is set to ?Yes?. From this drop down, you can choose your main currency. If you do not see your main currency in the drop down, you can search for it by selecting ?<View More Currencies> in the drop down menu.

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Wednesday, 22 February 2012

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Technique creates piezoelectric ferroelectric nanostructures

ScienceDaily (Feb. 21, 2012) ? Researchers have developed a "soft template infiltration" technique for fabricating free-standing piezoelectrically active ferroelectric nanotubes and other nanostructures from PZT -- a material that is attractive because of its large piezoelectric response. Developed at the Georgia Institute of Technology, the technique allows fabrication of ferroelectric nanostructures with user-defined shapes, location and pattern variation across the same substrate.

The resulting structures, which are 100 to 200 nanometers in outer diameter with thickness ranging from 5 to 25 nanometers, show a piezoelectric response comparable to that of PZT thin films of much larger dimensions. The technique could ultimately lead to production of actively-tunable photonic and phononic crystals, terahertz emitters, energy harvesters, micromotors, micropumps and nanoelectromechanical sensors, actuators and transducers -- all made from the PZT material.

Using a novel characterization technique developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the researchers for the first time made high-accuracy in-situ measurements of the nanoscale piezoelectric properties of the structures.

"We are using a new nano-manufacturing method for creating three-dimensional nanostructures with high aspect ratios in ferroelectric materials that have attractive piezoelectric properties," said Nazanin Bassiri-Gharb, an assistant professor in Georgia Tech's Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering. "We also leveraged a new characterization method available through Oak Ridge to study the piezoelectric response of these nanostructures on the substrate where they were produced."

The research was published online on Jan. 26, 2012, and is scheduled for publication in the print edition (Vol. 24, Issue 9) of the journal Advanced Materials. The research was supported by Georgia Tech new faculty startup funds.

Ferroelectric materials at the nanometer scale are promising for a wide range of applications, but processing them into useful devices has proven challenging -- despite success at producing such devices at the micrometer scale. Top-down manufacturing techniques, such as focused ion beam milling, allow accurate definition of devices at the nanometer scale, but the process can induce surface damage that degrades the ferroelectric and piezoelectric properties that make the material interesting.

Until now, bottom-up fabrication techniques have been unable to produce structures with both high aspect ratios and precise control over location. The technique reported by the Georgia Tech researchers allows production of nanotubes made from PZT (PbZr0.52Ti0.48O3) with aspect ratios of up to 5 to 1.

"This technique gives us a degree of control over the three-dimensional process that we've not had before," said Bassiri-Gharb. "When we did the characterization, we saw a size effect that until now had been observed only in thin films of this material at much larger size scales."

The ferroelectric nanotubes are especially interesting because their properties -- including size, shape, optical responses and dielectric characteristics -- can be controlled by external forces even after they are fabricated.

"These are truly smart materials, which means they respond to external stimuli such as applied electric fields, thermal fields or stress fields," said Bassiri-Gharb. "You can tune them to behave differently. Devices made from these materials could be fine tuned to respond to a different wavelength or to emit at a different wavelength during operation."

For example, the piezoelectric effect could permit fabrication of "nano-muscle" tubes that would act as tiny pumps when an electric field is applied to them. The fields could also be used to tune the properties of photonic crystals, or to create structures whose size can be altered slightly to absorb electromagnetic energy of different wavelengths.

In fabricating the nanotubes, Bassiri-Gharb and graduate student Ashley Bernal (currently an assistant professor at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology) began with a silicon substrate and spin-coated a negative electron-beam resist material onto it. A template was created using electron-beam lithography, and a thin layer of aluminum oxide was added on top of that using atomic layer deposition.

Next, the template was immersed under vacuum into an ultrasound bath containing a chemical precursor solution for PZT. The structures were pyrolyzed at 300 degrees Celsius, then annealed in a two-step heat treating process at 600 and 800 degrees Celsius to crystallize the material and decompose the polymer substrate. The process produced free-standing PZT nanotubes connected by a thin layer of the original aluminum oxide. Increasing the amount of chemical infiltration allows production of solid nanorods or nanowires instead of hollow nanotubes.

Though the researchers used electron beam lithography to create the template on which the structures were grown, in principle, many other chemical, optical or mechanical patterning techniques could be used for create the templates, Bassiri-Gharb noted.

In studies done in collaboration with researchers Sergei Kalinin and Alexander Tselev of the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the devices produced by the soft template process were analyzed with band-excitation piezoresponse force microscopy (BPFM). The technique allowed researchers to isolate properties of the AFM tip from those of the PZT sample, allowing analysis in sufficient detail to detect the size-scale piezoelectric effects.

"One of our most important observations is that these piezoelectric nanomaterials allow us to generate a factor of four to six increase in the extrinsic piezoelectric response compared to the use of thin films," said Baassiri-Gharb. "This would be a huge advantage in terms of manufacturing because it means we could get the same response from much smaller structures than we would have had to otherwise use."

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  1. Ashley Bernal, Alexander Tselev, Sergei Kalinin, Nazanin Bassiri-Gharb. Free-Standing Ferroelectric Nanotubes Processed via Soft-Template Infiltration. Advanced Materials, 2012; DOI: 10.1002/adma.201103993

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General: Iran will strike pre-emptively at foes (AP)

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FILE - In this Sept. 2007 file picture an anti-aircraft gun position is seen at Iran's nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz, Iran. Iran has put finishing touches for the installation of thousands of new-generation machines at a cavernous underground bunker that would allow it speed up production of material that can be used to arm nuclear warheads, diplomats tell The Associated Press, Saturday, Feb. 18, 2012. While saying that the electrical circuitry, piping and supporting equipment for the new centrifuges was in place, the diplomats emphasized that Tehran had not started installing more efficient centrifuges at its Fordow facilty and could not say whether it was planning to. (AP Photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian, File)AP - A semiofficial Iranian news agency quotes a senior military commander as saying that Tehran will strike pre-emptively at its enemies, if it feels it is in danger.


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