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Sunday, September 30, 2012
David Katz, M.D.: A Matter of Minutes
There has been a steady and resonant drumbeat of news lately, rapping out the profound health benefits of even modest physical activity. I think we can, and should, all pick our preferred drummer, and find a way to march to it.
Among the more noteworthy news items was a Lancet paper some weeks ago indicating that physical inactivity now ranks as one of the top causes of premature death globally. We have long known it made the short list here in the U.S., but a marquee role in worldwide mortality was an eye-opening revelation.
We also had recent research telling us that sitting too much was killing us, and just getting up and off our backsides routinely could serve as an antidote. More specifically, an article in the British Medical Journal indicated that reducing daily time on our tushes to less than three hours could add two years, on average, to our life expectancies.
Now comes the news that just 20 minutes of daily physical activity is enough to be the difference between the onset of diabetes or dodging that bullet in at-risk children.
The study, reported in JAMA, randomly assigned over 200 overweight or obese grade school students to 20 or 40 minutes of supervised aerobic activity five days a week, or to a control group in which habitual activity (or lack thereof) was maintained, for a period of 13 weeks. The primary study outcome was insulin sensitivity, a potent marker of Type 2 diabetes risk; and secondary measures included fitness, and fatness.
Both doses of physical activity significantly improved insulin sensitivity, suggesting diabetes prevention over time. The 40-minute dose exerted a greater effect, but 20 minutes a day was clearly enough to matter.
The higher dose of activity was more effective than the lower at reducing weight and body fat, but both were significantly better than control. And in the case of fitness, measured formally with peak oxygen consumption, both doses were comparably effective, and both much better than control, i.e., doing just about nothing.
So while more exercise is better, some -- and a rather small "sum," at that -- can do a remarkable amount of good. If we know -- and it seems we do -- that fitting 20 minutes of activity in during every school day can be enough to prevent diabetes in a large and growing percentage of our kids, it's hard to believe we would fail to act on that knowledge.
That much more so when we consider that a daily dose of exercise is likely to enhance academic performance, rather than interfere with it. "Sound mind, sound body" should sound familiar, because it's the kind of sensible advice our grandparents gave us. Science now points in the same direction, it just took longer to get there.
Getting to 20 minutes a day is not a big hill to climb. My colleagues and I can provide a boost up with a program called ABC for Fitness, freely available to all courtesy of my nonprofit, Turn the Tide Foundation. Designed for just this purpose -- to give all kids enough daily physical activity to immunize them against serious chronic diseases -- ABC for Fitness reconciles the square peg of physical education to the round hole of the modern schoolday by breaking physical activity up into brief bursts throughout the day, doled out right in the classroom. By teaching during the bursts, teaching time can actually be increased.
We studied the program in over 1,000 children, half receiving ABC for Fitness, the other half a standard curriculum. The daily activity bursts were associated with improved fitness, decreased behavioral problems, preserved academic performance, reduced medication use for asthma, and a 33 percent reduction in overall prescriptions for ADHD. Recess is a far better remedy for the rambunctiousness of young children than Ritalin!
We have reason to think benefits are similar for adults. We know, for instance, from the Diabetes Prevention Program that modest improvements in weight, activity, and diet can prevent diabetes almost two times in three among high-risk adults.
We know as well from the largest available database on sustained weight loss, the National Weight Control Registry, that even modest daily activity appears to be a nearly universal element in successfully maintaining weight over the long term. Doing so, in turn, insulates against all of the major chronic diseases for which obesity is a risk factor, including, but not limited to: heart disease, cancer, stroke, and diabetes.
With that in mind, my colleagues and I have a free program to offer adults, to help fit some or all of those minutes in each day: ABE for Fitness.
I find myself tempted to propose a pledge we all take: the 20 minute pledge. There are 1,440 minutes in every day. Of that total, 20 minutes represents less than 1.4 percent. If a day were a dollar, for a penny and half of it you could pay to keep diabetes away from you, and your children. Not with an absolute guarantee, but with something much closer to it than comes with almost any other investment I can think of.
So the question is this: If a day WERE a dollar, would you be willing to spend a penny and a half of it on drastically reducing your family's risk of ever dealing with diabetes? If yes, you are presumably ready to take the 20 minute pledge. In whatever ways you like best, or work best in your schedule, you pledge to get at least 20 minutes of moderate activity in at least five days a week, and make sure your kids do the same.
I really see only one fundamental problem with all of us owning this simple solution. It's the common problem of preaching to the choir. Those who routinely visit the Healthy Living pages here are probably far less likely than the public at large to need this goad. So if you can, pay it forward.
Better still, we might commit in the might of our multitudes -- as loving parents, grandparents, aunts, and uncles -- to insisting that every school in the country offer every young child the minimal, healthful dose of physical activity. We know how valuable it is, and we know it can be done while promoting rather than hindering academic achievement. And it can be done at no cost. Why should we accept any excuses? If we turned this knowledge into the power of routine action, we would be protecting children from chronic disease, while cultivating a healthy habit to last a lifetime and confer benefit across the lifespan.
All this is a matter of mere minutes a day, minutes that can be the difference between diabetes and staying healthy. That is clearly a difference that matters. We all have the same invitation, even if each of us chooses to march to the beat of a different drummer: to make a small investment of our daily time for a big return in health, for our children and ourselves alike.
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Creating a Haunted House - Moms & Munchkins
Your little ones will love creating a haunted house for their friends and family to enjoy. Here are some fun ideas to try at home:
- Create slime (click here for the recipe) and pour into a witch?s cauldron. You can then hide plastic eye balls in the slime mixture. Now here?s the part where you can have fun with your guests! First blindfold the guest, then bring out the slime mixture, have the guest reach in and try to find a ?hidden prize? (the plastic eye) and have them guess what it is. Then remove the blindfold for the surprise!
- Your entrance way to the party can be covered in yellow caution tape. Replace your entrance way light with a spooky colored light bulb like red. You could also set up a motion sensor Halloween statue to
frightenwelcome guests to the haunted house.
- A dark entrance way could be covered in cotton spider webs for the guest to
get tangled inwalk through.
- Have a family member dressed in costume that can pop out of a closet (or from behind a door) to surprise guests upon their entry to the haunted house.
- A dry ice fog machine is a great addition when creating a haunted house.
- When creating a haunted house, you?ll want to make sure the spooky area is dark . Turn off the main lights in the house and replace them with colored light bulbs in lamps (this will help to make the room darker and spookier).
- Plan an ?unexpected? power outage (assign one family member to turn off the electrical breakers) in the party area. Guests will then see the secret messages you left using glow in the dark paint on the walls. A large roll of white paper or an old white sheet can be used as your glowing art canvas to hang on the wall.
Does your family have a tradition of creating a haunted house at home? What are your favorite haunted house tricks or decorations?
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Source: http://www.momsandmunchkins.ca/2012/09/28/creating-a-haunted-house/
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Mayor Greg Davis clears hurdle over city repayment
SOUTHAVEN, MS- (WMC-TV) - Greg Davis cleared a legal hurdle in his fight over spending on city trips, but it is far from over.
A preliminary injunction was signed by Chancellor Dwayne Thomas to stop the state of Mississippi from taking Southaven Mayor Greg Davis' paycheck.
In a statement, the Mississippi auditor's office said it wished the chancellor denied the bond.
Last month, Greg Davis asked a chancellor to grant a preliminary injunction to stop the state from garnishing his paycheck. The state says Davis still owes more than $70,000.
Davis already paid the state almost $100,000 in money the state maintains was misspent city funds.
This injunction prevents the state from asking for the $70,000 from Davis.
Davis' attorney Steve Farese told Action News 5 that he is still in negotiations with the state.
"We're still trying to work a settlement that will make both sides unhappy. That's what a settlement does," said Farese.
It means nobody gets exactly what they wanted.
While the preliminary injunction is in place, Davis does not have to pay the state anything. The chancellor's ruling does require Davis put up a $75,000 bond. The state auditor says that should insure the state gets its money eventually.
The Mississippi state auditor says his office "will continue moving forward to collect money Davis owes to the taxpayers of Southaven".
Farese said he will also continue to work to prove Davis does not owe the city any more money.
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Saturday, September 29, 2012
GSAT-10, Indias heaviest communication satellite launced ...
Bangalore: India?s advanced communication satellite GSAT-10 that is expected to augment telecommunication, direct-to-home broadcasting and radio navigation services was successfully launched early today on board Ariane-5 rocket from Europe?s spaceport in French Guiana in South America.
At the end of a smooth countdown lasting 11 hours and 30 minutes, Ariane-5 ECA rocket injected GSAT-10 into an elliptical Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO), very close to the intended one, after a flight of 30 minutes and 45 seconds, Indian Space Research Organisation said.
At 3,400 kg at lift-off, GSAT-10 is the heaviest built by Bangalore-headquartered ISRO.GSAT-10 project is a Rs 750 crore mission that includes the cost of satellite, launch services by the European space consortium Arianespace and insurance.
Soon after GSAT-10 was hurtled into space, ISRO?s Master Control Facility (MCF) at Hassan in Karnataka took over the command and control of the satellite and declared the launch of Indian space agency?s 101st space mission a success.
?The satellite is in good health?, ISRO said after checks on various subsystems of the spacecraft, adding all its parameters were satisfactory.
Blasting off from the launch pad at 2.48 am (IST), Arianespace?s rocket first injected European co-passenger ASTRA 2F into orbit followed by GSAT-10. With a 15-year design life, GSAT-10 is expected to be operational by November and will augment telecommunication, DTH and radio navigation services by adding 30 more to the much-in-demand transponder capacity, now hit by a crunch.
ISRO Chairman K Radhakrishnan, who was at MCF at Hassan at the launch, said, ?By November 2012, we expect to operationalise GSAT-10 and make it available to the user community.
GSAT-10 is fitted with 30 transponders (12 Ku-band, 12 C-band and six Extended C-Band), which will provide vital augmentation to INSAT/GSAT transponder capacity.
With a scramble for transponders, India is now managing a significant part of its requirement by leasing foreign transponders to meet the domestic demand.
GSAT-10 also has a navigation payload ? GAGAN (GPS aided Geo Augmented Navigation) ? that would provide improved accuracy of GPS signals (of better than seven metres) to be used by Airports Authority of India for civil aviation requirements.
This is the second satellite in INSAT/GSAT constellation with GAGAN payload after GSAT-8, launched in May 2011.
GSAT-10 was originally scheduled for a 22 September launch, but was deferred after scientists detected a small glitch ? one gram of dust ? in the upper part of the rocket.
GSAT-10 Project Director TK Anuradha, Additional Secretary of Department of Space, S Srinivasan and Director of ISRO Satellite Centre SK Shivakumar were among key ISRO officials who were in French Guiana for the launch.
Shivakumar said GSAT-10 would give an impetus to the ?communication revolution? in India.
In the coming five days, orbit raising manoeuvres will be performed to place the satellite in the Geostationary Orbit with required inclination with reference to the equator, ISRO said.
The satellite will be moved to the Geostationary Orbit (36,000 km above the equator) by using the satellite propulsion system in a three step approach. After the completion of orbit raising operations, the two solar panels and both the dual gridded antenna reflectors of GSAT-10 will be deployed for further tests and operations.
It is planned to experimentally turn on the communication payloads in the second week of October, ISRO said.
After the successful completion of all in-orbit tests, GSAT-10 will be ready for operational use by November. GSAT-10 will be positioned at 83 deg East orbital location along with INSAT-4A and GSAT-12.
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ShortcutFoo Trains You to Become a Keyboard Shortcut Ninja in No Time [Shortcuts]
Master the keyboard shortcuts in your most-used programs and you'll reap significant time savings. ShortcutFoo is an online training program that teaches you the keyboard commands in many applications including Gmail, Photoshop, Microsoft Visual Studio, Vim, the command line, and more.
ShortcutFoo is similar to KeyRocket (formerly known as Efficiency), except ShortcutFoo is a dedicated training program whereas KeyRocket teaches you MS Office, Windows Explorer and Gmail shortcuts as you use those programs. ShortcutFoo is kind of like a school for learning shortcuts.
ShortcutFoo offers two learning modes, practice and drill. In the practice mode, the webapp prompts you for the shortcut and reveals the answer after a delay; it's great for learning new shortcuts and, well, practicing them. (Shortcuts are all about muscle memory.) Drill mode is similar, except there are no shortcut hints and your progress is recorded for each one-minute drill.
You can try ShortcutFoo out now under a guest account or register to save your progress. For a one-time fee of $8.95, you can upgrade your account to unlock unlimited shortcuts and bundles of shortcuts. (The free Gmail bundles, for example, include beginner actions, navigation, and selection shortcuts. Upgraded accounts get more actions and navigation bundles, as well as application shortcuts.)
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Bosnia Warns Syria May Become 'New Srebrenica' :: Balkan Insight
Izetbegovic, Bosniak [Muslim] member of the country's tripartite presidency, told the UN General Assembly that the international community ?failed? to handle the crisis in eastern Bosnia in July 1995 - and was in danger of repeating the same error in Syria.
?The best way to honour the victims of Srebrenica is to learn from the mistakes. Unfortunately, the UN has failed to do that," he said.
"The international community has once again chosen the ?trial and error? policy, which failed in Bosnia,? Izetbegovic added.
?[The use of] resolutions, statements of concern, ineffectual sanctions, observers and lack of a clear mandate to protect civilians ? which result in deaths ? was demonstrated in my country," he recalled.
"Do not make this mistake. If we don't act now, decisively, to help the Syrian people and stop the bloodshed, this tragedy will haunt us, just like Srebrenica,? he continued.
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Izetbegovic was referring to the mass slaughter of Bosniaks that occured under the noses of the UN in the besieged eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica in July 1995.
Although the town was a UN-declared demilitarized zone, Bosnian Serb forces under General Ratko Mladic attacked and overran the town and killed more than 7,000 people.
The International Court of Justice in a ruling in 2007 qualified the massacre as an act of genocide.
At the time of the Bosnian Serb attack, a UN Dutch battalion was stationed in Srebrenica, but it did not stop the slaughter. ?
Izetbegovic said that all UN member states were obliged to help the Syrian people in their quest for freedom.
?Once more we stand idly by while a human tragedy is going on. We must save the Syrian people from tyranny. We must, but we do not," he said.
"The images we are seeing from Syria remind us of the Bosnian tragedy. We in Bosnia and Herzegovina feel the pain the Syrian people as our own, because we too went through the same horrors,? Izetbegovic added.
The Bosnian presidency member recalled that the former and current UN General Secretaries, Kofi Annan and Ban Ki-Moon, had visited Srebrenica to pay homage to the victims, and both men had said that such events should never be permitted in future. ?
?Today, these words ring with the sounds of the failure of this organization [the UN] to respond to the Syrian tragedy,? he maintained.
Speaking about the future of his own country, Izetbegovic stated that it was ?vital to protect the mosaic of ethnicities and cultures? in Bosnia.
?There is a great fight on now between the forces of reconciliation and division in my country today... [and] if the idea of reconciliation does not prevail in Bosnia, then it will have a hard time doing so anywhere else,? he concluded.
There is no settled international consensus on the desirability of direct intervention in the crisis in Syria.
While some Gulf states openly support rebel forces, the government in Damascus has retained strong support from China, Russia and Iran.
Source: http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/bosnian-presidency-member-slams-un-on-srebrenica-and-syria
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Obama calls on Congress to approve refinance plan
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Citing historically low mortgages, President Barack Obama is pressing Republicans to back housing policies the White House says would help struggling homeowners refinance their debts and prevent foreclosures.
Obama is blaming congressional Republicans for not passing legislation he proposed in February that would lower lending rates for millions of borrowers who have not been able to get out from under burdensome mortgages. Republicans have objected, citing among other things the estimated $5 billion to $10 billion cost of the proposal.
"Here we are - seven months later - still waiting on Congress to act," Obama said Saturday in his weekly radio and Internet address.
Congress has recessed and is not scheduled to return until after the November elections.
"Instead of worrying about you, they'd already gone home to worry about their campaigns," the president said.
Obama's push comes as home prices have been rising across the United States. National home prices increased 1.2 percent in July, compared with the same month last year, according to the Standard & Poor's/Case Shiller index released Tuesday.
In the Republican weekly address, Arizona congressional candidate Vernon Parker said the U.S. corporate tax rate is pushing jobs overseas. He said he agrees with GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney and his running mate, Paul Ryan, "that we need to stop all the looming tax hikes and develop a pro-growth tax code that brings jobs home and keeps jobs here."
He also called for the repeal of Obama's health care law.
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New French Budget Taxes Rich at 75 percent | TheBlaze.com
A photo taken on September 27, 2012 shows a balloon with pictures of France's President Francois Hollande during a demonstration of employees of French pharmaceutical group Sanofi hold at the group's plant in Toulouse, southern France. Credit: AFP/Getty Images
PARIS (AP) ? The French government presented a budget Friday that was heavy on taxes ? including a controversial 75 percent income rate on high earners ? but which critics said lacked fundamental reforms that could jumpstart economic growth.
President Francois Hollande?s cabinet defended the spending plan for next year, calling it a ?fighting budget? that would win the ?battle? against joblessness and help growth.
Like many European countries, France must tread a fine line between cutting the debts that dragged them into the current financial crisis and investing in the economy to spur growth.
The French economy, the second largest among the 17 countries that use the euro, has not grown for three straight quarters, the national statistics agency confirmed Friday. Unemployment has been on the rise for more than a year and stands at 10.2 percent.
Economists warn, however, that things could get much worse in France if it doesn?t get serious about slashing state spending and reforming stringent labor laws.
?This is a serious budget, it?s a leftist budget and it?s fighting budget,? Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici told French radio station Europe-1 Friday morning.
Because Hollande promised that he would slash the country?s deficit to 3 percent next year ? a limit required by European rules ? the government must find (EURO)30 billion in savings. One-third will come in spending cuts, with the rest in new or higher taxes on the wealthy and big companies, including a 75 percent tax on incomes over (EURO)1 million.
Among the other measures included are: a new income tax level at 45 percent for those making more than (EURO)150,000, an increase of capital gains taxes to bring them more in line with how salaries are taxed, and a cap on certain deductions for large companies on their income taxes.
The 75 percent tax will last for two years and has always been billed as a symbolic measure since it will bring in very little revenue. Several businessmen and politicians in the opposition have said that?s exactly what?s wrong with the 2013 budget: It sends the message that France doesn?t like the rich and isn?t open for business.
?France is sick from a model that isn?t viable,? said Guillaume Carou, CEO of Didaxis and president of the Club of Entrepreneurs, which represents 15,000 small businesses. ?But (the government has) chosen to keep it, that?s what the 2013 budget reveals.?
Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault rejected that characterization, however, insisting that the budget would win the battle against unemployment.
?It?s a budget that aims to inspire confidence and to break the debt spiral that keeps growing and growing,? he said after the budget was presented to the Cabinet.
The budget is built around an expectation of 0.8 percent growth for next year. If growth misses the projections, more cuts could be needed later.
Moscovici conceded that most economists predict the French economy will grow just 0.5 percent, but said that if the European debt crisis stabilizes, France would meet its targets.
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Friday, September 28, 2012
Hospital observation units could save the health care system $3.1 billion
ScienceDaily (Sep. 28, 2012) ? New research suggests that maximizing the potential of observation units in hospitals could result in significant cost savings for the both the hospital and the healthcare system.
Previous research has shown that observation units in a hospital can be an efficient way to care for certain patients, but only about one-third of hospitals in the United States have such units. Now, researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) estimate that maximizing the potential of an observation unit in a hospital could result in $4.6 million in savings annually for the hospital and $3.1 billion in overall savings for the health care system in the United States. These findings are published online by Health Affairs and will also appear in the journal's October issue.
"We believe that this is the first attempt to quantify the financial impact of an observation unit," said Christopher Baugh, MD, lead researcher on the paper and a physician in the Emergency Department at BWH. "Wider use of observation units may play a significant role in saving cost for the health care system and future policies that are focused on doing so should include support for observation units as an alternative tin short-stay inpatient admission," Dr. Baugh said.
An observation until, a dedicated space typically near or within the emergency department, is an alternative to inpatient admission and is dedicated to caring for patients, usually for a 24-hour period, who have been discharged from the emergency department (ED) but require further observation and are not ready to safely leave the hospital. Previous research has shown that care in these units is equal or better in quality compared to inpatient care for certain patient populations.
Researchers used national survey data and published research to determine the average cost saving per observation unit and the number of hospitals that would benefit from an observation unit. They created a simulation model by using a method frequently used to evaluate risk in business when there are many uncertain variables.
Based on their model, researchers report that the average amount saved per patient, after adjusting for inflation could be $1,572 per visit to the observation unit when compared to an inpatient admission. Overall, the national cost savings could be up to $3.1 billion annually if the potential of observation units were maximized. This savings is due largely to avoiding 2.4 million inpatient admissions. Additionally, researchers report that for hospitals with large enough volume to justify the operation of an observation unit, the annual cost saving for that hospital would be $4.6 million, resulting from approximately 3,600 inpatient admissions avoided. Hospitals that would fit into this category include all those with more than 50,000 annual ED visits and many hospitals with 20,000-50,000 annual ED visits.
"In the wake of health care reform and increased scrutiny on the cost of health care, the health care system is under pressure to maintain quality care while decreasing cost. Observation units represent a feasible way to achieve this goal and merit further evaluation as model for acute care redesign to increase the value of care provided throughout the country," Dr. Baugh said.
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Network Marketing Success ? Tips For Growing Your Business Quickly
Network marketing is not brain surgery; it just takes a little time to learn the basics. This article presents tips on how to get further in your network marketing campaign.
The financial experts agree that the calculation you should be using is your monthly spending times nine, the total being what you need to have on hand in case of emergency. Network marketing can give you that money and much more!
Make sure meetings are less than an hour. If you speak with a client for more than an hour, they may not want to work with you for fear that the business will take too much effort and time.
It is completely natural for people to like talking about themselves and what they want. Use this human trait to your advantage, and let people go on and on about themselves. While doing this, avoid saying too much about your own life. You want to come across as trustworthy, so let your customers feel like they are in control.
Making sure you put your customers first is a must in network marketing. Without it you?re nothing; the customers are what make you successful. Your business will tank if your customers aren?t happy. Set a goal to listen for at least 80% of the conversation and talk the other 20% of the time.
If you want to be professional as a business owner, take the time each day when you get out of bed to shower, fix your hair and apply makeup if you wear it. It is easy to work and act professionally if you are dressed for the part; this also allows you to quickly leave for a business meeting if needed.
When talking to a client about your network marketing project, make them believe that you are only there to help them. Tailor your presentation so that it?s only about them, making them money, making their life better, and alleviating their worries.
If you want to be successful at network marketing, consider participating in relevant online communities. These forums can provide valuable tips and information on network marketing, and as a bonus, they are free. Use an online search engine to discover forums about network marketing, and post in them every day to get as many tips as you can.
Continue using successful strategies and weed out the programs that aren?t working. Get advice from professional marketers. Try to establish the same business approach and mindset that led to their success. Copying them will assist you in finding your spot at the very top. Of course, you know to learn from your mistakes, but also try to emulate other people?s successes.
Outsourcing can be a great way to get all of your company?s network marketing done. Particularly if you do not have enough resources to invest in this form of advertising, an outsource company can be very beneficial. When you outsource the work, you have time for more pressing matters and get a fast turn around from the advertiser.
Do not take any shortcuts when using a network marketing approach, since this can hurt you in the long run. Even though you could be tempted to take shortcuts, the way to truly being successful with a network marketing campaign is to put in the proper time and effort into it. When you produce solid work, the payoff is inevitable.
Short term goals should be the building blocks to long-term success. You will probably have a long-range goal in mind for your business, perhaps three or five years out. However, with smaller goals as your focus immediately, you can build a foundation for these larger goals. This will assist you in tweaking your marketing methods so you can stay on track with your overall marketing plan.
One way to progress in your field is to learn as much as possible from your failures. Analyze what you did wrong and take measures not to repeat these mistakes. By looking at your failures, you are able to eliminate strategies that do not work and concentrate even harder on the things that do.
Invite your down line to engage in conversation and activity. Is it possible they?re shy? Could they be having an issue with the product or in their personal life? Create an open line of communication with your downline and make sure they know that they can ask you questions and interact with other network members. When everyone is participating, your team will work the best.
When you meet someone new, find out who is in their circle of friends and acquaintances. Ensure your audience will tell other people about your products, and make them eager to do so. The only time it is acceptable to spend your time discussing business with a person who has no desire to buy is if that person happens to have an impressive network of contacts.
The preceding tips should have given you the confidence you need to get out there and start prospecting. Always bear in mind that network marketing will never be fully learned overnight. It is a field where the more you know, the more successful you will be and that takes time.
Debbie Clark
Lovin? Life
Source: http://www.debbieclarkonline.com/network-marketing-success-tips-for-growing-your-business-quickly/
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Barnes & Noble Nook HD, HD+ vs. Nook Tablet: what's changed?
When William Barnes and G. Clifford Noble set up their first bookstore in 1917, neither of them could have conceived of an e-reader or tablet, let alone trying to sell one of 'em. Their historical lack of foresight aside, the company outed a pair of second generation slates this morning, and it's our job to see what technical nips and tucks have been made from version one. If you love to start the day with a spec chart comparison, then why not grab a bowl of cereal and join us after the break?
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Researchers discover what vampire squids eat
Thursday, September 27, 2012
About 100 years ago, marine biologists hauled the first vampire squid up from the depths of the sea. Since that time, perhaps a dozen scientific papers have been published on this mysterious animal, but no one has been able to figure out exactly what it eats. A new paper by MBARI Postdoctoral Fellow Henk-Jan Hoving and Senior Scientist Bruce Robison shows for the first time that, unlike its relatives the octopuses and squids, which eat live prey, the vampire squid uses two thread-like filaments to capture bits of organic debris that sink down from the ocean surface into the deep sea.
It's easy to imagine the vampire squid as a nightmarish predator. It lurks in the eternal midnight of the deep sea, has a dark red body, huge blue eyes, and a cloak-like web that stretches between its eight arms. When threatened, it turns inside out, exposing rows of wicked-looking "cirri." Even its scientific name, Vampyroteuthis infernalis, means "vampire squid from hell."
In reality, the vampire squid is a soft-bodied, passive creature, about the size, shape, and color of a football. A "living fossil," it inhabits the deep waters of all the world's ocean basins at depths where there is almost no oxygen, but also relatively few predators.
A few previous researchers have caught vampire squids in nets, hauled them up to the surface, and tried to figure out what they ate by examining the contents of their stomachs. The results were generally inconclusive. The stomachs typically contained bits and pieces of tiny, shrimp-like animals, microscopic algae, and lots of slimy goo.
In a recent article in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Hoving and Robison show that vampire squids eat mostly "marine snow"?a mixture of dead bodies, poop, and snot. The dead bodies are the remains of microscopic algae and animals that live in the waters farther up in the ocean, but sink down into the depths after they die. The poop consists of fecal pellets from small, shrimp-like animals such as copepods or krill. The snot is mostly debris from gelatinous animals called larvaceans, which filter and consume marine snow using mucus nets.
In addition to looking at the stomach-contents of vampire squids from museum collections, the researchers used MBARI's remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) to collect live vampire squids and study their feeding habits in the laboratory. They also examined high-definition videos of vampire squids taken by MBARI's ROVs. Finally, they examined vampire-squid arms and feeding filaments under optical and scanning electron microscopes.
One key to Hoving and Robison's discovery was that they used MBARI's ROVs to collect living vampire squids, and were able to keep them alive in the laboratory for months at a time. Hoving soon found that if he placed bits and pieces of microscopic animals into a tank with a vampire squid, the food particles would stick to one of the string-like filaments that the animal sometimes extends outward from its body. The vampire squid would then draw the filament through its arms, removing the particles from the filament and enveloping them in mucus. Finally, the squid would transfer the glob of mucus and particles to its mouth and consume it.
Using MBARI's video annotation and reference system (VARS), Hoving also identified every MBARI ROV dive over the last 25 years during which researchers had seen a vampire squid. He then pored over 170 of these video clips (over 23 hours of footage) to look for additional clues as to what and how the animals ate.
The videos showed that vampire squids often drift motionless in the water, extending one of their thin filaments?up to eight times as long as the animal's body?like a fishing line. In many cases, Hoving saw bits of marine snow sticking to the filament. He also saw vampire squids slowly pulling in their filaments and scraping off the accumulated marine snow using their arms. Other vampire squids had globs of marine snow and mucus dangling from their mouths.
Under the microscope, the researchers observed that the vampire squid's suckers were covered with cells that produce mucus, which the animal apparently uses to collect and glue together individual particles of marine snow. Their filaments are covered with tiny hairs and a dense net of sensory nerves, which makes them extremely sensitive to touch.
When looking at vampire squids' stomach contents, the researchers did not see bones or pieces of individual animals that would indicate the vampire squids had captured live prey. Instead, they saw mostly amorphous bits of broken-up organic debris. The only prey they saw that might have been eaten alive were the remains of tiny crustaceans that sometimes "hitchhike" on sinking mucus nets or clumps of the marine snow.
After considering all the evidence, Hoving and Robison conclude that, "the vampire squid's filament is likely a multifunctional organ that is deployed to detect and capture detrital matter but at the same time may detect the presence of predators and perhaps small living prey."
The organic detritus that forms the bulk of the vampire squid's diet would not seem to be particularly nutritious. However vampire squids complement their frugal diet with an extremely energy-efficient lifestyle and unique adaptations. Their bodies are neutrally buoyant, so they don't have to expend energy to stay at a particular depth. Even better, they don't have to swim to find food, but simply extend their filaments to collect food that drifts past them.
Finally, vampire squids don't have to expend much energy avoiding predators, because they live at depths where there is so little oxygen that few other animals can survive. Conveniently, these deep, low-oxygen zones are often found where there is an abundance of life near the sea surface, which in turn creates lots of marine snow for vampire squids to eat. Hoving explains, "Because of its unique adaptations, the vampire squid is able to permanently and successfully inhabit the center of the oxygen minimum zone, an otherwise hostile environment where the vampire squid's predators are few, and its food is abundant."
Even though Hoving and Robison's research shows that the vampire squid is a "detritivore" rather than an active predator, its sinister appearance and stealthy habits will no doubt continue to fascinate both researchers and the general public.
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Karl Grossman: The Affable, Consensus-Seeking Bill Lindsay ...
Bill Lindsay, the affable, consensus-seeking presiding officer of the Suffolk County Legislature since 2006, is a victim of occupational exposure to asbestos.? It happened not during his government service but in his prior work as an electrician and as an official of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers inspecting job sites at which fellow electricians suspected they were being exposed to asbestos.
At the start of this year, Lindsay was diagnosed with mesothelioma, a form of lung cancer caused by asbestos. This came shortly after he was unanimously re-elected to a seventh term as the legislature?s presiding officer, after county executive the Number 2 position in Suffolk County government.
Lindsay was an electrician for 15 years and for 23 years business agent and business manager of Local 25 of the IBEW, which covers electricians in Nassau and Suffolk Counties.? In working as an electrician, ?a lot of the time? he recounted last week, he had to ?scrape off the asbestos fireproofing? from beams before attaching electrical conduits to them. ?You ended up breathing in asbestos.?
And although ?asbestos was outlawed in 1972,? he noted, there were still large amounts of it in existing structures. As an IBEW official he would regularly go to where ?my members? were concerned about being exposed to asbestos. ?I implemented a program for my members in which a sample of the fireproofing would be sent to a laboratory for examination.?? This was needed because ?a lot of landlords lied about asbestos??claimed it didn?t exist in their buildings. The tests presented the proof.
But, in going repeatedly to the scenes of likely asbestos contamination, Lindsay was exposed, too, in addition to his exposure when he worked as an electrician. Of mesothelioma, he noted, ?You only get it from asbestos.?
Indeed, the website www.MesotheliomHelp.net opens under the heading ?Mesothelioma?The Cancer Caused by Asbestos,? with information on the connection including a 2010 National Academy of Sciences study. ?Asbestos is a known carcinogen and is proven to cause mesothelioma,? it states. ?Often called ?asbestos cancer,? mesothelioma is highly aggressive and is resistant to many standard cancer treatments.?
?The good news,? said Lindsay last week, ?is that on August 11 the doctor told me I was cancer-free. The bad news is that they took out my lung.?
His remaining lung has ?really picked up functionality and is operating at 94 percent,? he said. He?s generally ?feeling good?It depends on the day.? ?Lindsay will be 66 in November. He plans to continue on the legislature through the end of next year when its term-limit of six two-year terms kicks in for him. He then intends to retire. If there is a medical downturn before that, ?I would retire immediately.?
Lindsay, a Holbrook Democrat, has been popular with his peers as presiding officer. His approach as the legislature?s leader, he explained, has been to ?have a personal relationship with every legislator and work together to make a better government.?
What Lindsay has been hit with is mirrored in the millions of people similarly struck by cancer. The World Health Organization determined in 2010 that cancer had become the world?s leading cause of death, overtaking heart disease. Why the cancer epidemic? Report after report attributes it mainly to the toxic substances in the water we drink, the food we eat, the consumer products we use, the air we breathe. As the President?s Cancer Panel stated in a 2010 report, ?Reducing Environmental Cancer Risk: What We Can Do Now,? we are ?bombarded continually with myriad combinations of these dangerous exposures.? ?It urged President Obama ?most strongly to use the power of your office to remove the carcinogens and other toxins from our food, water, and air that needlessly increase health care costs, cripple our nation?s productivity, and devastate American lives.? It emphasized that there are safe ?alternatives? to cancer-causing agents.
The U.S. government has generally failed to act because of the power of those poisoning people. I wrote a book on this in 1982, ?The Poison Conspiracy.? Asbestos, for example, was known as a carcinogen as far back as 1929 and nothing was done?and safe alternatives were always available. As to the corporations responsible, consider Johns Manville, the global giant in manufacturing asbestos products. In 1982, faced with thousands of asbestos injury lawsuits, it declared bankruptcy.
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Karl Grossman has covered Long Island politics for over 50 years.
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Thursday, September 27, 2012
Shared serve row sparks no confidence vote at Cornwall Council ...
IT and business process outsourcing is controversial. The process of transferring internal work to a third party leads to redundancies and if it goes wrong CEOs often lose their jobs.
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Senior political figures are aware of this and tread carefully around the subject.
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Senior political figures are aware of this and tread carefully around the subject.
A story on www.thisiscornwall.co.uk this week has revealed that the leader of Cornwall Council faces a no confidence vote in relation to a proposed shared services deal, with either BT or CSC to provide services such as libraries, benefits, payroll and IT services.
A petition for the removal of the council leader has been signed by 41 councillors who believe "such a fundamental change should be decided by the full council and not just ten members of the cabinet."
Earlier this week I blogged about trouble at another local government outsourcing arrangement, when the "shambolic accounting" of the Southwest One shared service was revealed by CW contributor Mark Ballard.
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Amazon Could Be Working On A Square Competitor
Rumors have been coming in that Amazon is readying a mobile payments product that could compete with Square, Intuit GoPayment and PayPal Here. A tipster and an industry source both tell us that Amazon is going after smaller chains of retailers for the product, and could be offering significantly lower credit card processing fees for merchants. Rumors are that Amazon could be offering a rate as low as 1.9 percent. Current offerings include fees of around 2.7 percent. So what could this mean? It would make sense for Amazon to enter this market and transition from powering online transactions and checkout to in-store transactions. Amazon already has a payments infrastructure in place with its own PayPal competitor, Amazon Payments. Of course, it's important to note that PayPal has much more reach and usage from independent online sites than Amazon Payments. It will also be interesting to see whether Amazon will go after smaller, individual merchants, which would play right into Square's bread and butter.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/DP5E5uBNTdY/
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Rowling not ruling out another Harry Potter book
LONDON (AP) ? J.K. Rowling plans to return to writing for young people ? and the author says she doesn't rule out another book set in Harry Potter's magical world.
Rowling became the world's most successful living writer with her seven novels about a boy who discovers that he is a wizard and is pitched into battle against the forces of evil.
Rowling's first book for adults, "The Casual Vacancy," is being published Thursday, five years after the release of the last volume in the Potter saga.
The 47-year-old author told the BBC that her next book would be "for slightly younger children than the Potter books."
And she said that while "where Harry's story is concerned, I'm done," she was considering a new story set in the same universe.
"I don't want to go mechanically back into that world and pick up a load of odds and ends and glue them together and say, 'Here we go, we can sell this,'" Rowling said in an interview broadcast Wednesday. "It would make a mockery of what those books were to me.
"But ... if I did have a great idea for something else, I probably would do it. I am very averse to the prequel-sequel idea. A sidestep could maybe ... well, we'll see."
Rowling also acknowledged that she wished she had had more time to work on a couple of the Potter novels ? she did not name them ? which had been written "on the run."
"And I read them, and I think 'Oh God, maybe I'll go back and do a director's cut,'" Rowling said. "I don't know."
"The Casual Vacancy" is the story of a local election that exposes deep rivalries and dark secrets in a seemingly picture-perfect English village. It's decidedly grown-up in theme and subject, touching on issues including drug addiction, poverty and self-harm.
Rowling ? who has spoken of her own financial struggles, anxiety and depression ? said she anticipated that some of her fans would not like the new book. But she is not worried.
"Harry Potter truly liberated me in the sense that there's only one reason to write, for me ? if I genuinely have something I want to say," she said.
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The McGill Daily ? Doughnuts of delight
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Dueling speeches: Obama, Romney offer different foreign policy visions
President Obama and Mitt Romney both spoke at the Clinton Global Institute's annual meeting in New York. Their presence showed the event's growing clout.
President Obama waves as he departs the stage with former President Bill Clinton after speaking during the final day of the Clinton Global Initiative 2012 in New York on Tuesday.
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President Obama was in town to speak Tuesday morning at the United Nations, and Mitt Romney made a quick stop before heading out on a campaign bus tour of Ohio. But both candidates acknowledged by their presence that the former president?s annual confab on global development, timed to coincide with that other Manhattan gathering of world leaders (the UN General Assembly), is now a must-do for presidential aspirants.
Former Massachusetts Governor Romney ? whose speech was almost simultaneous with Mr. Obama's UN address ? offered a blueprint for a revamped foreign aid program. When his turn came, Obama focused on the scourge of human trafficking and what to do about it. In both cases, the appearances were about projecting gravitas and vision in the realm of foreign policy.
The two candidates will meet face-to-face to spar on foreign policy in their final debate on Oct. 22.
Romney, reflecting his business roots, made the case for foreign aid that focuses on the private sector and builds entrepreneurship. In his speech a few hours later, Obama said it is time to call the scourge of human trafficking what it really is: ?modern slavery.?
In Romney?s critique of US foreign aid, the former CEO said Americans are generous and want to help the world, but have come to have little faith in foreign assistance. One reason the current model is not working, he said, is that it is designed for a world that no longer exists.
?Too often our passion for charity as a people is tempered by our sense that our aid is not always effective,? Romney said. ?Perhaps some of the disappointments are due to our failure to recognize just how much the developing world has changed.?
Romney said that a much larger share of developing countries today are growing democracies with better-educated people and entrepreneurial communities. And he said that the most effective thing the US can do is to tap into this change and foster the same spirit that drives America?s prosperity.
?The aim of a much larger share of our aid must be the promotion of work and the fostering of free enterprise,? he said. ?Nothing we can do as a nation will change lives and nations more effectively and permanently than sharing the insight that lies at the foundation of America?s own economy ? and that is that free people pursuing happiness in their own ways build a strong and prosperous nation.??
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Green Day's ¡Uno! And The Death Of The Party
How Billie Joe Armstrong's substance abuse transformed an album ... and a band, in Bigger Than The Sound.
By James Montgomery
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Playful gender-bending at the Paris fashion shows
PARIS (AP) ? Blurring the lines between the masculine and feminine is as old as Shakespeare.
Wednesday's fashion week previews in Paris ? the second of eight days on the spring-summer 2013 calendar ? showed that, over the centuries, playful gender-bending has lost none of its creative allure.
Dries Van Noten, who cut his teeth as a men's designer in Antwerp, produced the day's strongest show, mixing traditional menswear cuts with his own floral signature in a harmonious play on color.
Damir Doma, meanwhile, who also trained in Antwerp, fused masculine-tinged Cossack gear, martial arts dress and buckles alongside more feminine touches.
Black, an unusual color for spring, also featured highly on the rotation list ? with London's Gareth Pugh channeling a dark hard, masculine femininity that seemed to indicate the 31-year-old designer was coming of age.
Thursday's shows include Manish Arora, Balmain and Nina Ricci.
DRIES VAN NOTEN
Dries Van Noten once said: "The more clashing it is, the more that I like it!"
This statement should have been proven true by the Antwerp designer's patterned and flowery ode to spring ? a commanding show that mixed up wildly divergent textures, styles, cuts and shapes.
He presented ruffled 3-D flower appliques and floral prints mixed with blown-up Prince of Wales check, plaid, tartan and beaded denim. Those were pursued eccentrically down the catwalk by sheer organza shirts, metallic menswear jackets and oversized peplums.
Yet the preview, incredibly, was of the most harmonious Van Noten shows in some time, owing to its fine tonal color palette. Traditional tartans blended softly into a haze of faded orange, peach, rose, nude, russet, silver and duck egg blue.
It felt like spring was in the air.
DAMIR DOMA
Croatian-born designer Damir Doma went East in an ambitious show that included Russian Cossack garb, Oriental kimono-sleeve jackets and even white belted karate tops.
Tight, high-waisted looks and a peppering of leather Obi-belts were followed by baggier silhouettes with dropped centers of gravity. Colors ranged from black, brown and navy to turquoise blue and cobalt.
If there was one theme that brought cohesion to the motley ensemble it was this: deconstruction. Almost a signature style for any graduate of Belgium's avant-garde fashion capital Antwerp ? like Dries Van Noten ? Doma exposed paneling, buckles, zips and fastenings on his clothes.
"Of course I am avant-garde, I'm from Antwerp," Doma said backstage. "I just cut things up, break and put them together: A collage."
GARETH PUGH
"Hard femininity," was how Gareth Pugh described his show, inspired, he says, by the rawness of Latin American cockfighting.
Sure enough, black nappa kimono looks opened the collection swirling stiffly and authoritatively ? with one model in a two-foot mourning veil.
However, the raw shock-factor ? Pugh's signature ? was short-lived for once. It soon gave way to a series of softer, elegant and more mature looks in sweeping vermilion, black fringing and pale dove gray.
The Latin feel was captured in a series of textured 3-D ruffles reflecting a coiffed, full-breasted cock, ready for the fight.
The designer's introspection was tangible, from the simplicity of the decor to Rebekah del Rio's haunting a capella singing to the clean, highly wearable silhouettes. Could Wednesday's show have been a coming of age for London's enfant terrible?
"Some things happened to me recently," Pugh said. "Sometimes you just can't help changing, some things are out of control."
GUY LAROCHE
"I love Frank Gehry," Guy Laroche designer Marcel Morongiu said after his uber-refined collection, which channeled the famed U.S. architect's buildings.
What the collection pulled off was no small feat: Downsizing with panache the spirit of Gehry's sculptural lines and volumes to fit the svelte female form. Long silhouettes slinked by with panels that flapped stiffly and with on-trend angular cutouts ? replacing the house DNA's vibrant colors with streamlined elegance.
Another lofty reference was to Brazil's master architect Oscar Niemeyer ? whose landmark contemporary art museum in Rio that features bold central paneling was evoked by outfits with strapped or sexily exposed midriffs.
Sex appeal is from the waist and above and long is back ? the show seemed to declare.
In addition to the architecture master class, the Guy Laroche team also hit the science lab.
A fantastic new material was made especially for the show: A double crepe, silk and viscose Nutty Professor concoction that gave a curious stiffness to the clothes, including a show-stopping, knee-length, laser-cut navy coat.
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Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Video: MS Wealth Management Could Make a Pile Off Deposits
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PFT: NFL says Packers can't appeal outcome
APThe good news in the wake of last night?s very bad news at the end of the Packers-Seahawks game is that the NFL and the locked-out officials spent a fourth straight day negotiating on Tuesday.
The bad news in the wake of last night?s very bad news at the end of the Packers-Seahawks game is that the NFL doesn?t seem to recognize that it has gambled with the use of replacement officials ? and it has lost.
Per multiple reports (including one from Peter King of SI.com and one from Nancy Gay of FOXSports.com), the NFL has opted to stand firm on certain key issues.
First, the NFL wants a bench of replacements (they?ll need a better word than that) to serve as in-season understudies for officials who aren?t performing at an acceptable level.? King reports that the NFL won?t guarantee that the officials will work at least 15 games.
Second, the pension issue continues to prevent an agreement.? The league wants to change from a defined-benefit pension plan to a defined-contribution system.? The difference, per King, is roughly $3.3 million per year.? The officials don?t believe they should have to tighten belts at a time when the NFL continues to grow fat.
Third, the amount of the raise for the officials remains in dispute.? The officials want an eight-percent bump.? The NFL has offered an increase of 2.5 percent.? Again, the discrepancy comes from the fact that the officials believe that, as the league?s pie grows, their slice of it grows commensurately.
The NFL remains stubborn, oblivious (at least externally) to the fact that the performance of the replacement officials underscores the value of the regular officials, who operate far more efficiently and reliably in the crucible of 60,000 fans and foul-mouthed coaches and big, strong, fast players and millions of eyeballs.? The performance of the replacements demonstrates the value of the regulars, and yet the league refuses to relent.
As King explains it, the league wants to ?wrest back control of the officials? performance week to week in an NFL season.?? But the ritual of collective bargaining requires a party that wants something to give something.? It seems like the NFL wants plenty, and that the NFL likewise isn?t willing to bend.
Sure, a raise has been offered.? Why shouldn?t it be?? Everybody connected to the NFL is making more and more money.? The officials should get more and more, too, especially if the NFL wants to emerge from the talks with new powers.
When it comes to the power the NFL has amassed over player discipline, the league is quick to point out that the NFLPA has sacrificed those rights through collective bargaining.? Regardless of whether it makes sense for the league to have a bench of officials, the NFL has in past negotiations allowed the current system to emerge.? To change it, the NFL must make real concessions.
But the NFL doesn?t want to make real concessions.? The NFL never wants to make real concessions.? That?s fine, but the NFL can?t then pretend that everything is fine.
As King writes, ?Ihe NFL is willing to look at the dispute as something like a game of chess vs. a game of checkers.? The league believes that the short-term pain of a football nation up in arms will be worth it two to four years down the road if they can improve the overall quality of officiating by adding what would be a taxi squad of three additional crews.?
Or the NFL can acquire that right by paying for it.? Instead, the NFL is willing to alienate fans, anger players, and tarnish ?the shield? in order to get its way, hoping that half of the locked-out officials plus one eventually will vote to take the deal.
The NFL is taking us all for granted.? In the end, there?s a good chance the NFL is guessing right.? But that doesn?t make it right.
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Facebook Inc. has had a rocky initial public offering of stock. There were trading glitches on its first day of trading and concerns since then about Facebook's revenue potential. Facebook also is facing dozens of lawsuits from disgruntled shareholders. In recent weeks, some early investors became eligible to sell additional shares.
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Enjoying The Nightlife At A Power And Light Hotel
Each city has its own entertainment district where the best restaurants and nightclubs in the area can be found. The city of Kansas City is no different. When you are looking for the nightlife in Kansas City, you are looking for the Power and Light District. It is where people from all over the area gather to listen to live music and enjoy a festival atmosphere. When you book a room at a Power and Light hotel for the right time of year, you can get yourself involved in a party that never seems to end. This is the place you and your friends want to go to celebrate a bachelor party or when you just want a place to go that is fun all year round.
The best time of the year to book a room in a Power and Light hotel is the summer. This is when the Power and Light District shuts down the street and turns it into a week-long festival. There are live bands playing on huge stages set up in the streets and there is also live music in the clubs lining the streets. The Power and Light District has live music seven days a week throughout the entire year. But when the summer festivals start, the music never ends. All of the businesses that operate in the Power and Light District get together and develop pricing promotions that help you to save money on meals and other activities that are going on all summer long.
The Power and Light District comes alive with energy when the sun goes down, but there is also a fun atmosphere during the day as well. Some of the best restaurants in Kansas City are located in the Power and Light District, and these restaurants offer a wide variety of cuisine for lunch and dinner. When you get a room at a Power and Light hotel, you will never need to worry about finding a great place to eat. Just about every restaurant on the strip has a lunch and dinner special that will help you save money on trying some of the best food in the Midwest.
When it comes to the hottest entertainment spot in the city of Kansas City, the only place to go is the Power and Light District. When you get a room at a Power and Light hotel, you will be right in the middle of one of the top entertainment districts in the Midwest. With the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts on one side and the Sprint Center on the other, you will never run out of things to do.
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When you get a room at a Power and Light hotel, you will be right in the middle of one of the top entertainment districts in the Midwest.
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