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Rough Terrain ForkliftThe rough terrain forklift dates back to about 1946 when a two-pronged lift attachment was placed on a power buggy or tractor chassis. This early machine was used around construction sites and could lift about 1,000 pounds (454 kg) to a height of 30 inches (76 cm). Rapid development of vertical tower forklifts for industrial use was adapted to rough terrain forklifts as well. By the mid-1950s, capacities of 2,500 pounds (1,135 kg) and lift heights of up to 30 feet (9 m) were available.
The new 7FB electric pneumatic counterbalanced forklift from Toyota Industrial Equipment uses the combination of AC power and Toyotas exclusive System of Active Stability (SAS) to provide safe, efficient handling. The SAS feature actively monitors and controls the lift trucks movements to prevent the vehicle from tipping. The built-in system also helps reduce the chance of injuries and product damage caused from falling loads that have been tilted too far forward or backward. The zero-emissions AC motor contributes to the units smooth control, providing greater torque and acceleration than in similar trucks with DC motors. There is no lag time, and the unit offers excellent gradeability, allowing it to perform a broad range of applications. The low-maintenance AC motor system also features battery energy recovery using three forms of regenerative braking; plug braking for when the direction is switched between forward and reverse; coast control when the accelerator is released during travel; and foot braking for whenever the brake pedal is pressed while the unit is moving.

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August 26th, 2008
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Working at home doesnt mean you have to be isolated. Use these tips to stay connected. Home-based business owners have got it made, right? Theres no clock to punch, no boss peeking around the corner and no early Monday morning meetings to attend. But with these perks comes a pitfall–solitude. Its not unusual for many home-based business owners to feel isolated. In many cases, its just you and your computer. But working from home doesnt mean you have to be home alone. There are many ways you can stay connected to the outside world. Here are five ways you can break the silence. * Hold meetings outside your office. While the telephone is an important tool for the home-based entrepreneur, it doesnt have to become your sole means of communicating. Instead of making conference calls, discuss business over a meal.
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Many ideas on how to reduce taxes are simply overlooked deductions that may be brought to mind by a newspaper or magazine article. Other times, the ideas are promoted by tax scam artists. Many erroneous beliefs have been used as justification to avoid federal income taxation; for example, the tax system is voluntary. A less radical idea is that a home-based business can save tax dollars. If a legitimate business based in the taxpayers home incurs an operating loss, then there is a tax savings. Unfortunately, tax scam promoters promise deductions for expenditures that are not legitimately deductible. An activity may be classified by the IRS as a hobby regardless of what the taxpayer calls it. The distinction between a business and a hobby is vitally important. A business may incur an operating loss during a tax year. This loss can offset income from other sources if the taxpayer or the taxpayers spouse works in the business more than 500 hours during the year or works substantially all of the hours required to operate the business. According to the Individual Income Tax Returns Preliminary Data in 2001, taxpayers filed approximately 17.6 million returns that included business or professional activity, and 24% of those returns reported a deductible operating loss.

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Business Editors Travel Writers GUANGZHOU, China–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Jan. 23, 2001 China Southern Airlines (NYSE:ZNH)(HKSE:1055), the largest airline in The Peoples Republic of China, is pleased to announce its new Warm Heart 9000, the airlines new first class service that includes complementary airport limousine service in Guangzhou City. “Passengers who fly first class aboard China Southern Airlines will know the true meaning of service with a smile,” said Li Kun, vice president of China Southern Co. Ltd.
AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-(C)1997-1999 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Virgin Atlantic Airways has extended its limousine service promotion for passengers flying Upper Class on round-trip services between the US and London, UK. Virgin Atlantic Airways will now also drop off and pick up Upper Class passengers within 150 miles of London-Heathrow or London-Gatwick airport or within 40 miles of select regional airports when connecting from a Virgin Atlantic Airways flight.

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August 25th, 2008
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With PTs pressing to make chiropractic a specialty of physiotherapy, the WFC is supporting the Brazilian Chiropractic Associations fundraising campaign to promote chiropractic legislation. At the heart of the battle is the right of Brazilian chiropractors to protect their title and their profession as a separate entity from physiotherapy. Currently, chiropractors in Brazil have no legal protection. The government-approved regulatory body that licenses and regulates physiotherapy, the Council of Physiotherapists and Occupational Therapists (COFFITO), has ruled that chiropractic is a specialty of physiotherapy. As a result, several part-time courses have started up (with the support of COFFITO) that provide a certificate in “chiropractic” to physical therapists after as few as 100 to 300 hours over a series of weekends. Graduates of these courses have formed the Brazilian Physical Therapists Chiropractic Association, hoping to legalize chiropractic, but as a specialty of physiotherapy. One of the ABQs (and the WFCs) biggest fears is that if chiropractic is only legally recognized as a specialty of physiotherapy, the trend may spread to other countries. A chiropractic specialty course is currently being developed in Chile by a physiotherapist, and PTs in Spain, Portugal and Egypt have been encouraged to push for chiropractic as a specialty in their own countries.
My own practice was constructed as a part of the local group of health care practitioners in my community. I sought out the best primary care physicians, physical therapists, neurosurgeons, orthopedic surgeons, and physiatrists to associate with, and referred to them when it was clear that my form of intervention was not helping the patient. In this sense, I was an “integrative chiropractor” because I saw to it that the patients best interests were served in two ways. First, the patient received the best conservative care first (chiropractic) before moving on to procedures of greater risk. Secondly, the patient was free to talk openly with me and with the medical providers about all the practitioners involved, without fear of derision or embarrassment. No one was competing for the business of the patient; we were only working as a team for the patients welfare. My network included the chiefs of staff of local hospitals and spinal orthopedics at Stanford University Hospital, the best orthopedist for knees and shoulders, the best family practice physicians, and so on. Therefore, I could honestly say to the patient that he or she was getting the best care possible. In my interviews with the physicians, I learned as much about their residencies and practice patterns as I could. If they were the best at knees, where did they obtain that specialty? How many knees had they “done” in their residency? How did they currently fit in with the provision of health care in their community? Sometimes a less-flattering side of health care services would emerge from our conversations. Although I had achieved just a glimpse of the overall situation, it was clear I myself was not really a member of this healthcare system that had its own massive structure, credentialing and accreditation framework, hierarchy, rivalries, and troubles with a changing healthcare environment.
At the professional level, the chiropractic identity debate rages on, as it has for more than a century, and nowhere to be found in the discussion is how DCs can do a better job for their patients. Are we spine care, NMS, subluxation-based, or primary care/wellness? How do we survive? How do we increase market share? How do we gain cultural authority? How to we preserve or expand insurance coverage? How do we maintain health care parity/equality? How do we get our agenda through COCSA? For the most part, even our research agenda isnt focused on projects aimed at “improving” chiropractic procedures for our patients. Rather, it is frequently about “proving” something we believe in or developing a product or service we can bill for. The patient - whos that? Reduced to its simplest concept, patient-centered care might simply be the golden rule. But it involves a lot more than the ethical mandate of doing the right thing. It also entails doing the best possible thing. Dont get me wrong; health care, including chiropractic, is a business, and a great deal of energy and resource needs to be put into developing, maintaining and promoting sustainable, profitable, ethical business models. But thats a topic for another day. Much of our chiropractic practice focus seems to be greedily geared toward individual marketing strategies aimed at pulling an individual patient into an individual chiropractors office, despite the fact that research indicates this kind of approach alienates more patients than it attracts.1,2 More than a decade ago, the Pew Health Professions Commission issued a report on patient-centered care, outlining specific knowledge, skills and values involved in providing such care.3 Several areas associated with the doctor/patient relationship were identified for which knowledge, skills and values are critical. These areas included the doctors own self-awareness, his or her appreciation of the patients experience of health and illness, developing and maintaining caring relationships, and effective communication (see Table 1). Although these skills may be modeled in training, dedicated focus to these skills typically is neglected in medical or chiropractic school.

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August 25th, 2008
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Assessment.
I want to help Montessorians with the assessment puzzle. After seeing the Spring 2003 issue of Montessori Life, my mind flooded with reactions as I read the commentary about how the Montessori approach to educating children is validated by current brain research, Goldmans theories of emotional intelligences, and Alfic Kohns warnings about limitations of standardized tests. Then why do we place so much emphasis on high-stakes testing?Standardized academic achievement tests have become very powerful and, unfortunately, are used by many people as the single valid measure of student achievement and educational quality. School quality and test scores have been unsuitably equated because the public isnt well informed on the inaccuracies of such a formula. And somehow we, as educators who know something is seriously wrong, have allowed all of this to happen.As a speaker a few years ago for the AMS Touring Symposium on Authentic Assessment, I heard the cry for help from Montessori elementary teachers who were experiencing tremendous pressure from parents (who were no doubt influenced by the focus of public education) for higher test scores on standardized achievement tests. I felt unprepared to help them. As a result, I started a self-directed journey to learn as much as I could about the tests. Today, I am considerably more assessment literate.

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August 25th, 2008
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Marilyn Willms Marilyn Willms — has joined the Tom Lane Team as a Realtor associate, along with Tom Lane, Sharon Markley, Michele Loeffler, Wayne Wischropp and John Lane at Realty Executives of Topeka.
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August 25th, 2008
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NEW LANDSCAPE DESIGN By Robert Holden. London: Laurence King, 2003. [pounds sterling]35. Age commonly hardens the arteries but Holdens are in supple shape–as this survey of the best of recent international landscape design happily demonstrates. For people grimly hanging on to the simplistic flower-orientated English Garden tradition so popular with the current rash of television presenters and for Landscape Institute (LI) neo-vernacularists, Holden is dangerously catholic. He is not wedded to the invariability of planting, likes the idea of diversity, is happy with landscape jokes, he deals impartially with formalism and informalism. He has a (rather forlorn) hope that landscape designers might have developed some kind of underlying theory, is comfortable about non-LI people designing landscape and is passionate and inquisitive about the totality of landscape design.
Author: William Cheung Publisher: AVA Publishing, distributed by Sterling [c] 2002
The Language of Landscape. By Anne Whiston Spirn. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1998. viii + 326 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $45.00, paper $17.95. Spirns graceful writing style and sensitivity to the stories places can tell recalls Jonathan Stilgoes Common Landscapes in America, although Spins scope is international. Generously illustrated with her own photographs and landscape plans, Spirns poetic and sensual descriptions of places attempts to bring the reader into direct contact with the features of weather, topography, built environment and cultural values which together constitute the “language” of landscape. “Though human capacity for language may be innate,” Spirn writes, “we learn the language of landscape primarily through living in, building, caring for a place” (p. 193). The strength of this work is in the way Spiro draws upon so many examples, across time and in various places and cultures, to illustrate the ways that humans have interacted with their environments. Although Spirn tells cautionary tales of the mistakes people have made by not attending to the details of landscape, far more of her examples are of positive interactions: from the inner-city transformations of the Westminster Community Garden of the West Philadelphia Landscape Project to the sacred garden at Ryoanji, Japan. By emphasizing humans interactions with the world around them in architecture and garden design, Spirn implicitly rejects the dichotomy between nature and culture that has underpinned so much of western thought.

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Paul Hoffman, a deputy assistant secretary with the Department of the Interior, is looking to take Yellowstone Park off the list of “endangered cultural sites” kept by the United Nations. Yellowstone was placed on the list in 1995 when the area was threatened by a proposed New World gold mine. Hoffman said the gold threat is now gone, therefore the distinction is no longer needed.
Every year, 3 million people visit Yellowstone National Park. But even on a tourist-packed summer weekend, you can unload your kayak at Yellowstone Lake and paddle for 10 minutes and be all alone. If you kayak on Yellowstone Lake, youll go for hours hearing nothing except the soft sound of blades dipping through water. If you keep close to the shoreline, youll see wildlife. Yellowstone offers silence-seekers 110 miles of shoreline. Most of it is pristine and quiet. Even around Grant Village — where there are lodges, cabins, stores, restaurants and 425 campsites — you can find yourself alone on the shore.
FEAR of exploitation and degradation is what inspired Congress in 1872 to set aside 2.2 million acres in three states to preserve the unique volcanic region known as Yellowstone as the worlds first national park. President Ulysses S. Grant signed the measure declaring that the sensitive area, with its roaring geysers and bubbling mud, would forever be set apart “for the benefit and enjoyment of the people.” Sadly, the short shrift given to Yellowstone, that grand old patriarch of parks, is symptomatic of a neglectful policy being applied to our national treasures across the board. At a time of war and tax cuts and huge deficits, something has to give. And under a spending bill recently approved by the House, a big loser is clearly the nations parks, already woefully underfunded.

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August 25th, 2008
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The Warwickshire club, Leek Wootton, are to host the World Left-Handed Amateur Championship on 23-26 July, the week after the Open at Lytham. It is the first time the event has been staged in the United Kingdom.
next year when they stage their first event in Poland. The 72-hole tournament will have a minimum pounds 100,000 prize-money and will be played at the Amber Baltic Golf Club in May.

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August 21st, 2008
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School physicals To celebrate National Community Health Centers Week, Community Health is offering a special rate for school and sports physicals. Through Sept. 1, the physicals will cost $25 - or less for those who qualify for further cost reductions. The usual charge is $71. The physicals are offered from 10 a.m.- noon and 3-8 p.m. weekdays at Community Healths Immediate Care Clinic, 2858 International Circle. No appointments are necessary. For information, call 630-6440, Ext. 6363.
For women only Women can learn about heart disease, menopause, infertility and other health issues at a Womens Health Fair, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday at Chapel Hills Mall. Sponsored by Memorial Hospital, the health fair will include $5 bone-density screenings for osteoporosis for the first 400 women. Women also may talk to a nurse about breast self-exams.
Monday May 5, 2003 will go down in history as a day to remember in employment law. It was the day the long-debated amendments to the Health Safety in Employment Act finally came into effect. Why is this new legislation so important? The term “workplace stress” took on a whole new significance, with new obligations for employers, and potentially serious financial consequences for those who ignore them. Workplace stress is no longer simply a sad fact of life. It is now an officially recognised and legislated “workplace hazard”, with the amendments extending the definitions of “harm” and “hazard” to include physical and mental harm caused by work-related stress. A cursory reading of the new legislation might be enough to instantly treble employers workplace stress, but a deeper understanding goes some way to restoring mental equilibrium. The Occupational Safety and Health booklet, Healthy work, Managing Stress in the Workplace, tells employers that “there is only a requirement to manage work stressors or the individuals stressed situation where you can be reasonably expected to know about the stress. Even then the obligation is only to do what is reasonably practicable in the circumstances.”

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August 21st, 2008
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A PATENTLY PERFECT PROFESSION Still, another option intrigued her-a law career. “I decided I wanted an entire change,” says Feeman, now a patent lawyer for the Silicon Valley law firm Howrey Simon. At the time Feeman looked at the move not as the next step in her engineering career but as a clean break, she says. In fact, she hadnt even planned on specializing in patent law, a route commonly taken by engineers because it allows them to apply their technical skills to the law. Feeman initially preferred more “touchy-feely” law and viewed patent law as merely a fall-back option. As a student at Boston College Law School, she developed a passion for civil rights and public interest work, and outside the classroom became involved in the petition process to get clemency for some battered women who had murdered their husbands.
The aim is only to allow diplomats to carry out their functions with security and confidentiality, and also to recognise diplomats function as representatives of their country. It does not grant them freedom to flout local law, although they may be immune to local jurisdiction to enforce such laws. Contrary to a widespread belief, a diplomatic mission is not “extra-territorial”: it is, however, given the protection of inviolability within the receiving state. This rule refers to its premises and diplomatic dispatches. But all privileges and immunities are solely directed towards facilitating performance of diplomatic missions.
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August 21st, 2008
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Membership includes a subscription to the bimonthly Kiting. Kiters are a restless bunch. Always something new.or old. Here is some of whats keeping kiteniks looking skyward.
ASIAN KITES (2005, $9.95), by Wayne Hosking. Tuttle Publishing, 364 Innovation Dr., N. Clavendon, VT 05759; peripluspublishinggroup.com/tuttle. Kites can be made of many different materials, from thin, veneered wood to feathers. This is a book that outlines the essential features of kites: frame (helps form and keep the kites shape); sail (the surface that catches and deflects the wind); kite line (the cord or tether); and tail (acts as a stabilizer for a kite in flight). The book then goes on to discuss how to fly a kite and where to fly a kite. What then follows are various projects with detailed instructions as to the making of specific kites: butterfly, back, Thai Cobra and fish. Sections are organized around kites from specific areas: China, Malaysia, Thailand, Korea and Japan. A useful listing of kite materials and supplies as well as a bibliography is included.–J.J.H. For information about this publication, circle No. 393 on the Reader Service Card.

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August 21st, 2008
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by American Infrared Sauna Corp. Features: company will showcase saunas that are designed for easy installation and can be assembled in 20 minutes without tools, per maker; 120V operation Contact: American Infrared Sauna Corp., Anaheim, Calif. (866) 527-8800; Booth 455
Features: locking system in prefab models: 1-by-4-inch paneling; hand-etched glass designs for doors and a selection of Western woods is offered Contact: Finlandia Sauna Products Inc., Portland, Ore. (800) 354-3342

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August 21st, 2008
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When his parents died within six months of each other, Forbes Masson put his career on hold and endured constant comparison with his former comedy partner Alan Cumming. Now, with a part in EastEnders and a rosy future beckoning, the Scots actor is back on top Failing to recognise the slight, red-haired figure being photographed, she shakes her head and wanders off into the bleak spring afternoon. She might not register his ginger goatee beard now, but if she happens to be one of EastEnders 16 million viewers, she will soon. The 36-year-old Falkirk-born actor, best known to Scots as one half of camp comedy duo Victor and Barry, is in the process of being reborn. Months after Caroline Paterson quit EastEnders to go back to her native Glasgow, Masson is staking his reputation on Albert Squares legendary turf.
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August 20th, 2008
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This may be an unpopular position to adopt, but some of us are going to miss him, you know. Of course were aware of his disadvantages - hes got a bit of an obsession with abroad, for example, whether for holidays or invading - but you have only to clock his easy way with the bag containing his Fender Stratocaster to know this is a born entertainer. And he has brought his own unique gifts, whether showing the touch of a Sinatra over his retirement, the ease with a catchphrase - “pretty straight kind of guy”, “45 minutes”, “peerage?” - or the mastery of the telling, colourful and often intriguingly vague detail, whether it be working as a waiter in Paris, or his earlier bid for a free holiday when, as a teenager, he tried to stow away on a jet bound for the Bahamas. Such things cling to him. Fine details around the Miami trip include the hairy landing; the 24 imported privacy protecting palm trees; jamming with the Gibbs; the suggestion that Mrs Gibb, as a bisexual druid, disapproves of tennis, and now, the quiet (presumably in deference to Mrs Gibb) mass in ritzy Palm Beach, complete with Aston Martin. Come on: didnt you also feel an unworthy tinge of regret at promises from the Brown camp of a “humbler”, less showy premiership?
Marked by diversity and range, the entertainment industry comprises producers and distributors of motion picture films, prerecorded music tapes and discs, operas. Concerts, stage shows, and other types of entertainment on a payment or fee admission. Two major segments of the entertainment industry, namely, prerecorded music and entertainment motion picture films, are global pacesetters and import export earners. While the economic recovery has been a contributing factor to the surge in prerecorded sales, equally important has been the proliferation of music video and the emergence of new sound effects. Music that accompany a musical numbeR, have had a great impact on the industry. They have dramatically increased sales of records that received only a mild reception after radio broadcast. Also, the technique has been largely responsible for the successful introduction of new vocals and musical groups to the music industry in general. The outlook for the music industry is one of continued growth, based on a strong economy, the excitement over music videos, the emergence of new artists and groups, and the recent introduction of the compact disk. Some moderating effect, however, may be expected by the changing age composition of the U.S. population, which will contain a lower proportion of young people between 1984 and 1990.
John Osbornes first play, Look Back in Anger, had its premiere in 1956 and he called it a formal, old-fashioned play. His second play, The Entertainer, was set during the Suez Crisis and opened in 1957. What was new about both was that the characters were real working-class people. No real parts had been written about working- class characters before - only “cheeky chappy” roles such as Doolittle in Pygmalion. When asked if I wanted to go to see The Entertainer I was uncertain. Why? I had worked backstage on a brilliant amateur production (by the Tavistock Rep) in 1969 and it had stayed in my mind, with few productions since to affect the fond memories. How wrong I was to hesitate. For me this production, under Sean Holmess direction, ticks all the boxes and putting it on 50 years after it was set is brilliant timing. So much of it resonates in 2007: a misguided war in the Middle East and young men dying needlessly; the obsession with skinny/size zero women; fading performers (or “personalities”) trying to reinvent themselves; feelings against politicians of either party; comments about the Poles and the Irish; and confusion over national identity.

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August 20th, 2008
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Bankers and recruiters give their perspectives on recruiting and hiring the best. “Were very optimistic that some new opportunities will come out of that transaction,” Lapera said. If so many other acquisitions of smaller banks by major regional or national banks are any indication, the PNCMercantile deal will probably frustrate some number of Mercantile staff members, including commercial lenders, if only because PNC is bound to do something differently, something that diminishes someones stature. Lapera would simply like to tailor his pitch to whatever exactly it is that causes dissatisfaction, though he expects that it will relate to additional reporting layers commonly found at larger banks and the relative difficulty that an individual has making a real difference at a larger institution. Its a big issue for Lapera and his counterparts at community banks across the country. Frederick County Bank, has $223 million in assets and was launched in 2001 mainly to serve a business market. At the same time, traditional thrifts arc moving into commercial business, out of recognition that they need to expand beyond savings accounts and residential lending and because they see fee revenue and interest income opportunities in serving businesses that are willing to pay for personal attention.
When looking to finance a new or existing business, independent business owners must look into getting loans, usually through lenders that deal with businesses. Inevitably, business owners will have to deal with uniform commercial codes, which are laws that pertain to commercial transactions and filing those records. Once the UCC is filed, it is valid for five years; at the end of that period, a continuation for an additional five years can be filed. As of July 1, 2001, the secretary of states office became the central filing office, so lenders must file UCCs at the state level instead of the county level. Lenders can also check the secretary of states records to see if other lenders hold liens against a particular property. UCC terminations can still be filed at the county level, Hall said, and her office will hold filings recorded before July 1, 2001, until 2006. Trying to decipher UCCs can be confusing. Lance Elkin, a business lender at Regions Bank of St. Charles, said that at base value, the UCC is simply a law that governs taking collateral. He said that a when a lender is considering making a loan to a small business, that lender will look at that business inventory and accounts receivable, which is considered collateral and on which a lien will be placed.

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August 20th, 2008
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Of 79 men in whom clinical and laboratory examinations revealed no organic cause for their impotence; 20 men received testosterone, 21 received trazodone, 20 underwent hypnosis and 18 served as placebo controls. They were assessed by interview 4, 6 and 8 weeks after starting treatment: the patients reports were verified by interviewing their partners. Placebo men had a 39% improvement in sexual function v. rates of improvement in the testosterone, trazodone and hypnosis groups of 60%, 67% and 80%, respectively, none of which reached significance. COMMENT: Although the improvement was not statistically significant, probably because of the small numbers of subjects involved, the differences were wide, especially in comparison to placebo. Treatment with testosterone and trazodone could be used as an adjuvant therapy in nonorganic male sexual dysfunction, and hypnosis appeared to be the most superior to placebo. A more effective treatment may be obtained by combining these therapeutic modalities. Hypnosis, as I have noted before, continues to be markedly underused, and has great potential to engage and harness the inner pharmacy within each patient.

Hypnotherapy is the therapeutic use of hypnosis. In hypnotherapy, hypnosis is used by psychotherapists to modify a patients behavior. According to the American Association of Professional Hypnotherapists, there is a 75-90% chance of effectively changing behavior with hypnotherapy. Once the patient has seen a hypnotherapist, self-hypnosis can be learned, and is sometimes recommended as part of the treatment plan. Self-hypnosis involves a patient using relaxation techniques and specific signals to clear his mind of extraneous thoughts and sensations.

Preparation

Hypnotherapy requires only that the patient desire to change a certain type of behavior. The hypnotherapist usually prepares for the sessions by asking the subject to stare at an object, suggesting, in a soothing voice, that the eyelids are becoming heavy, that the subject relax, and that he is becoming hypnotized. Then, the hypnotherapist conveys to the subject that it will be effortless to follow the hypnotherapists suggestions

Aftercare

Coming out of the hypnotic state is as simple as entering it. Waking from the hypnotic state slowly is preferable for optimal results. After hypnosis, subjects report changes in bodily sensations and describe an awareness of having gone into an altered state of mind.

Risks

Because hypnosis can sometimes completely remove or distract people from feeling pain, it is important that a doctor, or other appropriate medical specialist, assess the underlying medical or psychological condition. This assessment is important because, when using hypnosis to reduce pain or other physical symptoms, the pain may be alerting the patient to a problem that needs some other form of medical or psychological treatment. As an example, a brain tumor might be causing chronic headaches, and require immediate treatment.

Normal results

Family doctors have begun using hypnosis to treat psychosomatic illness, control appetite, and reduce the need for medication. Because of the utility of using hypnosis to reduce the sensation of pain, it can make it possible for physicians to lower dosages of pain medication in cases of chronic illness. Because hypnosis is actually an intense state of concentration, physicians have now accepted the fact that patients can regulate their own heart rate, circulation, temperature, muscle tension, and other body functions, if necessary.

Abnormal results

Hypnotherapy requires that the patient desire to change a certain type of behavior. Success is greater the more committed the subject is to change. If the patient is reluctant, hypnotherapy may be unsuccessful.

Key Terms

Anesthesia

The absence of normal sensation, especially sensitivity to pain as induced by an anesthetic substance, or by hypnosis. May be induced for medical or surgical purposes topically, locally, regionally, or generally.

Hypnotherapist

A professional who uses hypnosis as an adjunct to other techniques in psychotherapy

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Franchising The videocassette rental industry did not exist before 1978, when a company called Video Station opened a small store in California. Says Robert Moffett, who once worked for the company: The first year they had net profit of $98,000, so you knew there was franchise potential. The eight-year boom has been fueled by the runaway market for home video-cassette recorders, which enabled people to see movies when they wanted, in their own homes. Figures are hard to come by–as Byron W. Boothe, chairman of Popingo, Inc., Wichita, Kans., one of the larger video franchise chains, says, One of the things about a new industry is its hard to get your arms around statistics — but various industry estimates put the number of VCR households in the United States at 30 percent.
FRANCHISINGHistorically, franchising was a grant by a king to allow a citizen an exclusive right to sell a product or render a service. For this right, the sovereign protected the exclusivity and the subject paid the government an appropriate tribute in service, food, goods, or money. Franchising in the United States started shortly after the Civil War (1861#x2013;1865), when the Singer Company began to set up sewing-machine franchises. The concept became increasingly popular after 1900 in the automobile industry. Because of this, other automotive franchises developed for gasoline, oil, and tires. In the 1950s, food operations made a dramatic entrance into franchising with the development of McDonalds, currently one of the worlds largest franchise organizations.Franchising operations account for billions of dollars in annual sales, with more than 500 outlets employing millions of people. A new franchise opens somewhere in the United States every six minutes. Franchising accounts for approximately 40 percent of all U.S. retail sales. Because of changes in the international marketplace, shifting employment options in the United States, the expanding U.S. economy, and corporate interest in more joint-venture activity, franchising will continue to increase rapidly.

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In the traditional profession, an architects first responsibility on any building project is to meet with the client to determine the goals and requirements for the building, as well as the overall vision of the building. The architect works with the client to develop a set of requirements for the building called the program. The program spells out each major function and the detailed requirements for each function, such as size and access requirements, as well as the general overall requirements. Similarly, an information architect is responsible for meeting with the client to help determine the overall goals of the project and what the client wishes to accomplish. Together they define the list of functions to be included in the project as well as the general requirements. An example in website design might be determining that a site should include a product catalog, a calendar of events and a newsletter, that it must be accessible by all people with version 3.x browsers and above, and that it must be optimized for an 800×600 size screen. In some instances, a strategist might be hired as a consultant to assist in this development.
THE ARCHITECT BY JAMES WILLIAMSON (COLD TREE PRESS, $16.95) This first novel of Memphis architect James Williamson allows the reader into a specialized world of design, artistry, and building-and to see how tensions rise with money and the subjective ideas and ideals of others. The author-and his main character-also telegraph their strong beliefs in the importance of architecture to a city. “Yes, remarked Ethan thoughtfully, One of my professors in architecture school used to say that a city is a place where a small boy can walk down the street and discover something he will want to do for the rest of his life. ” Hopefully the author will want to write for the rest of his. -WANDA MCKINNEY

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CHERIE Blair is to donate baby Leos clothes to charity as he grows out of them. Support groups for abused children are among the organisations which will benefit. Mrs Blair, a long-standing campaigner for abuse victims charity Childline, is also considering passing on cast-offs to the smaller Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse group. A friend told campaigners: “This is an issue for which she has a great deal of concern and sympathy.”
Each poem is presented as Junior Babys taped, singsong dictation, his response to the call of particular, but typical, events in 1980s and 1990s African American hoods. Seeing TV coverage of two Black garbage men who returned the $4,000 in cash they found to the owner or young black men walking down the street, hearing a woman crying in the next-door hotel room or hip hop sampling on his nephews car radio, overhearing two young black men in the metro talking about using an Uzi to rob Sears, or talking with a group of women in an elevator - to name but a few events - moves Junior Baby to start his tape recorder and record another poem-chapter of his vernacular wit, occasional blues, historical remembrances, and calls to live by the ethical values of a beautiful and powerful black manhood and humanhood.Harriss Junior Baby raises his voice in celebration of the African American communitys love, human connection, and creativity of body and spirit - what Junior Baby calls the Romance between us - and in sorrowful criticism of the violence, pain, and disintegration in urban Black America. Using his open and loving set of eyes, Junior Baby records as many ties that bind the community together as instances of fracturing oppression, prejudice, and either/or thinking. His purpose in responding is to wear his griot clothes, to use his verbal arts to teach, to heal, and to create beautiful African American art. Harriss purpose seems to be the same.Junior Babys contemporary vernacular creates witty and humorous pictures, such as a hefty bag[-]sized brother on the subway wearing red / green polka dots on his blue socks to match the green / tan / purple red ones / blinking across the face of his black shirt and humane thoughts about style, the chewing words of violence practiced by some young men, the fathers wisdom addressed to sons in the form of the aphoristic folk saying You cant have your cake and eat it too, and the homeless brother on the street corner who refuses to eat pork. Harriss Junior Baby poems succeed in painting a vivid portrait of a contemporary African American urban community. What Harris accentuates in this portrait is Junior Babys positive, energetic, African American, male 1980s and 1990s perspective. Harriss Junior Baby is what bell hooks might call a site of resistance, an antidote to the despair and nihilism that both she and Cornel West identify as one of the gravest threats to the health and survival of the African American community today, and particularly to the urban Black male community. While Junior Baby emphasizes the history of oppression, discrimination, and prejudice African Americans share - for example, in his serious punning play on the connections between middle passage and middle men - Junior Baby also celebrates the possibilities for black men to be Breathtaking griot fathers whose words come from the perspective of a mature black mans moral reasoning, experiences, and desire to demonstrate and teach right(eous) behavior.
MT. JULIET, Tenn. — Baby Bee Bright Corporation, (Pink Sheets:BBGT) the developer of a unique prenatal learning system, announced today that the company has launched the Baby Bee Bright clothing line as part of a joint venture with Seventh Avenue New York-based clothing designer and marketer Pretty Look, Inc. The Baby Bee Bright clothing line is comprised of maternity, infant and childrens ware, as well as related products such as crib mattress covers, etc. According to Frederick A. Dahlman, CEO Baby Bee Bright Corporation, It took a long time to develop the clothing line. It had to be right before working out contracts with retailers. We feel we are riding the right horse and look forward to our royalty revenues without any capital out lay. Pretty Look has designed and sourced the outer ware for Oleg Cassini, Hot Kiss, Baby Phat as well as mens ware for Adolf. Everyone we show the Baby Bee Bright clothing line, absolutely loves it. We will launch this new line into the market and retailers with a $10 million marketing campaign. Akay Shiraze, CEO Pretty Look Inc., We are very selective about which clients we work with. Baby Bee Bright sends such a great positive message, that we took on the project. The constant theme of the companys prenatal education is expressed through the designer maternity, infant and childrens ware. All the clothing and additional products make a very profound statement. Mom is saying, my baby is going to be bright, my baby is bright and my child is bright. Our research strongly indicates that this is the unique niche that appeals to retailers. We are now geared up to take the product line to the retail market.

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As your new president, I face a challenging task when it comes to speaking to you about school finance. Let me give you my dilemma. It is the end of the school year as I write this piece and I am reflecting on the uncertain state of school finances in coming months and what these financial challenges mean for us as school system leaders. You will share my frustration that as many as half the nations students may be directly shortchanged of the education they deserve, with the remainder not immune to the impact of belt tightening. As bad as that news is, last year at this time NCSL found 36 states with budget gaps. On the other hand, NCLB and IDEA could be funded retroactively, which would help make up for last years budget shortfalls that resulted from unfunded or underfunded mandates. If you are a school leader in one of the rare districts whose state legislature decided this summer to support quality education with adequate funding for all your schools, the future must look bright, so you can skip the remainder of this column. If youre not in that sunny camp, please continue and let me share my thoughts.
Where Creativity and Capital Meet Using Untapped Collateral and Nontraditional Payment Terms Three significant requirements are needed for a client to utilize monetization financing: 1) an assignment of/or an absolute and unconditional promise to pay from an investment-grade obligor or an acceptable substitute financial instrument backing the transaction, 2) a predictable cash flow, and 3) a date-certain payment. An investment-grade obligor for this program is typically rated by SP and Moodys with an acceptable rating. There are exceptions and substitutes, however, for these rating criteria. If a company is not rated, there are alternate procedures to qualify said obligor. An obligor is typically a customer or other third party who has contractually agreed to make payments to the client or guarantee payments for the client within a term of 1-30 years. In one sense, monetization financing can be viewed as a longer-term variation of factoring without the high cost and other major differences associated with factoring.
Economic development and business financing rolled into one In addition, under the Resources Links section, you can find several Web sites of national organizations that provide financing services. For example, links are provided to the Community Development Venture Capital Alliances and The Coalition of Community Development Financial Institutions–two groups that provide business financing and investments in an economic-development context.

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“There are [more than] 30 million Americans who have no health insurance and another 20 million who have inadequate health insurance,” says Rep. Louis Stokes (D0Ohio), chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus Health Brain Trust. “It is mandatory that we begin to try and give Americans–particularly minorities–adequate health care as a right.” The Bush plan would give people not covered by Medicaid tax credits, and families making less than $80,000 a year tax deductions to pay for medical costs. He would also pass laws to ensure that even chronically ill patients could receive health insurance. The plan has received a cool reception on Capitol Hill, and alternate proposals, including a full-scale, government-paid national health insurance plan, are under development. But what does America really want for its health care system? The views are many.
The national survey of more than 2,000 adults was conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality The survey also showed that Americans rely on the recommendations of friends and family more than standardized quality indicators when selecting a health care provider, and people have little confidence that employers will give reliable information about the quality of health care providers. And despite the undeniable draw of the Internet, people still trust doctors and pharmacists more than advertisements and the Web for information on prescription medications, the survey shows.
Developing a “Culture of Safety” A year ago we wrote about the complex process involved in identifying, categorizing, and assessing medical error in health care in the United States (”Assessing Medical Error in Health Care,” Health Progress, November– December 2001, pp. 14-17). That article discussed the 1999 Institute of Medicine (IOM) report on medical error, “To Err Is Human,” and the erosion of public trust in U.S. health care.

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Jose Maria Olazabal, stepping up his comeback after an 18-month lay-off, will play in the European leg of the Andersen Consulting World Championship of Golf at Denham from 19 to 20 May. Olazabal joins Colin Montgomerie, Bernhard Langer, Costantino Rocca, Ian Woosnam, Sam Torrance, Jesper Parnevik and Darren Clarke.
Boon Ruangkit of Thailand beat Australias Jeff Senior at the first hole of a sudden death play-off to win the Myanmar Open in Rangoon, the first professional tournament in Burma.

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Product: Swim Spa Features: two types of systems are available: over-wall and several in-wall models; built-in light options available; designed to work well with new construction or existing pools Contact: Swim Trim Pools, Murray, Utah (801) 330-8007
Swimming pools If any designer or specifier, owner or operator of a swimming pool wishes to know almost anything on the subject which is not covered in the book, the extensive reading lists provide authoritative guidance on where this may be found. Having worked with the author for some years in the Advisory Division of the Cement and Concrete Association, I am not surprised to find the meticulous care taken in providing important details on many aspects of pool planning, design and construction. Swimming pools have to function in an environment aggressive to many of the materials used in their construction and the text provides guidance on avoiding potential problems. The majority of pools have a basic reinforced concrete structure built below ground which, externally, is subject to earth and water pressure and is liable to attack from aggressive ground conditions. Detailed guidance is not provided on reinforced concrete design but pointers to references on design are listed and factors affecting the durability of reinforced concrete are presented in some detail.
Invention There are about 10Om residential swimming pools worldwide, and a South African pool-cleaning company wants a slice of them. APMl Holdings has developed a system called PoolCop to take up the hard work required to keep garden swimming pools sparkling clean. PoolCop is attached to a swimming pools filtering system where it automatically backwashes and sanitises the water, monitors and adjusts the pH level, chlorine content, temperature and water level.

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Clients with fine, weak and/or damaged hair can improve and strengthen their hair with the use of extensions, said Giacomo of Studio 211. This particular new technique uses a thermoplastic tube that shrinks once applied to the clients hair giving it an extremely strong attachment capability without damaging the hair with any kind of adhesive. Studio 211 specializes in working with problem hair. Hair extensions add volume, strength and even highlights and color without further compromising the health of the hair by using harsh chemicals and coloring. Not only can hair extensions add thickness, body and coverage to clients with problem hair but the additional hair also protects the hair, giving it added strength. A clients hair with extensions does not break as easily and isnt as brittle or flyaway. The new thermoplastic bonding technique uses minute cylinders that are visually undetectable and allows the studio to apply extensions without glues thus further protecting their clients hair.

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The things some people will do for a white Christmas.
Get a shot in the arm If you cant remember the last time you got a tetanus shot, you might want to celebrate next weeks National Public Health Week with a visit to the El Paso County Department of Health and Environment, 301 S. Union Blvd. The department is offering free tetanus shots to adults next week, April 3-7. A tetanus booster is recommended every five to 10 years for adults.
School physicals To celebrate National Community Health Centers Week, Community Health is offering a special rate for school and sports physicals. Through Sept. 1, the physicals will cost $25 - or less for those who qualify for further cost reductions. The usual charge is $71. The physicals are offered from 10 a.m.- noon and 3-8 p.m. weekdays at Community Healths Immediate Care Clinic, 2858 International Circle. No appointments are necessary. For information, call 630-6440, Ext. 6363.

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More organisations are submitting themselves to the rigorous processes of the New Zealand Business Excellence Awards. But the applicants are invariably not our major companies. Why not? The public sector and a small en-terprise were to the fore in the New Zealand Business Excellence Foundation awards again this year. In the past two or three years the public sector has shown the private sector it is not afraid to stand up and be counted and to adopt world-class management standards.
Organisations and individuals that help make life easier for New Zealands smaller businesses last month earned some recognition for themselves - and The Open Polytechnics tertiary training contribution proved a winner. Presented at a dinner following The Small Business Expo on July 21, the inaugural Vero Excellence in Business Support Awards were set up to celebrate the best in business support and those organisations that help small business growth. “The awards benchmark and give a mark of quality to organisations which legitimately add value to business owners - be they in banking and financial services, telecommunications, IT, human resources, business mentoring, government, business and advice support or marketing.”

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NINE million Britons now regularly use complementary medicines to ease aches and pains. Growing numbers of mainstream doctors are practising alternative therapies and more than 40 per cent of surgeries now offer access to them. But which medicines have been scientifically shown to work? Today Sunday Mirror Health Correspondent SHARON COLLINS guides you through the most effective treatments.
Sir: The risks of unregulated and irresponsible alternative medicine are rightly highlighted in your report of the article in the New England Journal of Medicine (”Alternative medicine a health risk, say experts”, 17 September). The public may be unaware that in many areas the evidence base for orthodox medicine is non-existent, and the potential for harm substantial. The evidence base for medical homeopathy is far from complete. However, one example of the many supportive studies is as follows. Of a group of 506 outpatients at the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital with a range of conditions including back pain, arthritis and allergies, 81 per cent improved with regard to their main problem and 80 per cent in their overall well-being. Of the 300 who were on conventional drugs at the outset, two- thirds reduced or stopped them.
MORE MENUS OFFERING HEALTHFUL ALTERNATIVES From fast-food outlets to elegant fine-dining establishments, lighter, more nutritious menu alternatives have graduated from fad to standard fare, as operators across the food-service spectrum react to the nations growing awareness that proper nutrition and good health are irrefutably linked. I dont think you can cook today like you did in the 1960s, noted Culinary Institute of America president Ferdinand Metz, a staunch advocate of more healthful food preparations. Restaurant operators must address the subject of proper nutrition now. At least some of that responsibility lies with the industry.

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BISHOP MUSEUM Ongoing: Hawaiian Science Garden. This outdoor, walk-through exhibition recreates part of an ahupuaa, a section of land extending from the mountain to the sea, which was part of the traditional Hawaiian land-division system. Explore ways in which Hawaiians, for hundreds of years, cultivated taro (a root crop) and practiced fishpond aquaculture.
A TODDLER has drowned while playing in his familys back garden. Two-year-old Kynam Alger became the fifth toddler to drown in nine days when he fell into a fishpond. He was the 37th child aged under 10 to drown this year, compared to 33 in the whole of 1998. Kynams distraught mother and paramedics tried to resuscitate him but he died before reaching hospital on Friday.
The old man and the fishpond TRUE AT FIRST LIGHT by Ernest Hemingway Heinemann, 16.99, pp. 319 Reading Hemingway, it is often difficult to suppress the thought of Roy Campbells comment on his contemporaries. You praise the firm restraint with which they write

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August 17th, 2008
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — Yodlee, Inc. today launched Yodlee MoneyCenter — an integrated suite of applications designed to make managing finances online a true breeze for mainstream consumers who want a personalized, safe and convenient way to be more in control of their finances. Its the next generation of online banking that consumers can expect from their trusted financial institutions. For consumers, Yodlee MoneyCenter provides the ultimate personal appeal — a simple, centralized and secure way to effortlessly manage their money, pay bills, open new accounts, transfer funds, track their net worth, interact with advisors, protect against fraud, and much more — any time, anywhere. For the financial institutions that offer it, Yodlee MoneyCenter helps them become essential to their customers while opening up new revenue opportunities from more effective upsell and cross-sell, and increased transaction and interchange fees. Yodlee MoneyCenter is built on the patented Yodlee Platform, a technology that securely delivers real-time, consolidated balance and transaction details for millions of consumers from thousands of online accounts. Unlike software-based PFM applications that require substantial data input, Yodlee MoneyCenter automatically collects and analyzes financial data from bank accounts, brokerages, 401(k) accounts, bills, mortgages, loans, and more. With integrated PFM, bill pay, and online banking functionality, Yodlee MoneyCenter gives consumers a better way to understand and manage their personal finances, including spending behavior, portfolio performance, new bank and credit card transactions (including payments made that have not yet hit the account), current and projected account balance, budget goals, and checkbook reconciliation, as well as personalized, proactive alerts to guard against online fraud and overdraft or late charges — all in one simple web interface.
The so-called hard money lenders-mortgage lenders who for a price will finance real estate properties that dont meet the specifications of prime lenders have gone mainstream in a way that was virtually unthinkable only a year ago, say executives at Pergolis Swartz Associates. Hard money lenders played a key role last fall when borrowers lost their commitments from Wall Street and needed quick money to rescue their deals. In numerous cases, these hard money lenders stepped into the breach and saved the day. Hard money lenders also have been instrumental in bringing a class of properties to market that prime lenders avoid. Thanks to their financing, millions of square feet of renovated problem properties have been put back into productive use and economic viability. The hard money lenders have become almost institutional at this point, said Jerry Swartz, a principal of Pergolis Swartz Associates. There are so many viable deals our there today that just dont meet the criteria of the prime lenders or the Wall Street conduits, that the hard money lenders have become an extremely important part of the mortgage financing scene.
Making Money: An Insiders Perspective on Finance, Politics, and Canadas Central Bank, by John Crow. Etobicoke, Ontario: John Wiley Sons Canada. 2002. Cloth, ISBN: 0470831804, $25.50. 256 pages. The first part deals with the domestic role of monetary policy and the progressive elaboration of a coherent central banking policy in Canada. This part starts with a historical account of the role of the Central Bank of Canada since its creation in 1934. Then, the author develops an interesting chapter about the proper role of a central bank for financial stability by looking at the Canadian experience regarding bank supervision, settlement management, systemic and liquidity crises, and the lender-of-last-resort operation. The Central Bank of Canada never has been directly involved in the supervision of banks, and John Crow is rightly unhappy with this situation: “The Bank and what it knows cannot be ignored in supervisory decisions regarding financial institutions” (p. 77). The second part of the book analyzes the Canadian experience concerning foreign affairs. The most interesting part concerns exchange rate matters. Canada has a long tradition of a flexible exchange rate regime. The author shows the importance of communicating with financial market actors to limit disruptions in the exchange rate, but he also recognizes that the willingness to be transparent can lead “to confusion instead of clarity” (p. 120).

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August 17th, 2008
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Southeast sales were highest, leaping 39 percent. Centex is a single-family home-building company that also has operations in home services and investment real estate.
THE RAPIDLY RISING AVERAGE PRICE for a home–be it a condominium or single-family house–has led to worries in every county about affordable housing for average workers. For now, annual sales have continued to soar, in spite of rising prices. Miami-Dade leads the counties in total annual dollar volume of condominium sales. But Palm Beach County has the lions share of the dollars spent on single-family homes, bolstered by large spreads with high price points, and the most available land for new development. Broward County, once the single-family home sales leader as its western suburbs developed, is now nearly built out, and has seen its share of the home sales pie decline.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans, worried about their jobs, bought fewer previously owned homes in July. But the level of sales remained healthy, suggesting that the housing market will continue to be a pillar of support for the struggling economy. Existing-home sales fell by 3 percent in July from the previous month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.17 million, the National Association of Realtors reported Monday. “Existing-home sales faded a touch in July, but dont even think that is an indicator that the housing market is finally starting to tank,” said economist Joel Naroff of Naroff Economic Advisors. “The level of activity can be unambiguously characterized as very strong.”

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August 17th, 2008
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — Yodlee, Inc. today launched Yodlee MoneyCenter — an integrated suite of applications designed to make managing finances online a true breeze for mainstream consumers who want a personalized, safe and convenient way to be more in control of their finances. Its the next generation of online banking that consumers can expect from their trusted financial institutions. For consumers, Yodlee MoneyCenter provides the ultimate personal appeal — a simple, centralized and secure way to effortlessly manage their money, pay bills, open new accounts, transfer funds, track their net worth, interact with advisors, protect against fraud, and much more — any time, anywhere. For the financial institutions that offer it, Yodlee MoneyCenter helps them become essential to their customers while opening up new revenue opportunities from more effective upsell and cross-sell, and increased transaction and interchange fees. Yodlee MoneyCenter is built on the patented Yodlee Platform, a technology that securely delivers real-time, consolidated balance and transaction details for millions of consumers from thousands of online accounts. Unlike software-based PFM applications that require substantial data input, Yodlee MoneyCenter automatically collects and analyzes financial data from bank accounts, brokerages, 401(k) accounts, bills, mortgages, loans, and more. With integrated PFM, bill pay, and online banking functionality, Yodlee MoneyCenter gives consumers a better way to understand and manage their personal finances, including spending behavior, portfolio performance, new bank and credit card transactions (including payments made that have not yet hit the account), current and projected account balance, budget goals, and checkbook reconciliation, as well as personalized, proactive alerts to guard against online fraud and overdraft or late charges — all in one simple web interface.
Business Editors, High Tech Writers Banks handle millions of transactions a day, diligently checking each one to ensure that it is done accurately and correctly.

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August 15th, 2008
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans bought fewer homes in October after snapping them up the month before, while home prices reached record levels, the latest sign of a moderating but still vibrant housing market. The Commerce Department reported Monday that sales of new single- family homes dipped by a smaller-than-expected 2.6 percent in October to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 928,000. “New-home sales held up amazingly well in October,” said David Orr, chief economist for First Union. Some analysts were expecting new-home sales to fall by 4.9 percent.
The number of homes for sale in the Colorado Springs area last month soared to an 18-year high as sales slowed for the third time in four months. The 5,985 homes on the market in July was up 34.9 percent from a year earlier and the most since July 1988, the Pikes Peak Association of Realtors reported Thursday. The total is the seventh- highest ever and just 251 homes below the record 6,236 homes on the market in June 1988. As the supply of homes rose, sales in July fell 8.7 percent from a year earlier to 1,211, the second consecutive monthly drop and the third in the past four months. Sales during the first seven months of the year are off 1.6 percent from a year ago to 7,364.
Colorado Springs-area home sales continued their slide last month, although prices climbed slightly. Fewer people bought single-family homes in November: Sales dropped nearly 13 percent from the same time last year, according to the Pikes Peak Association of Realtors. Competition among sellers remained fierce. The number of homes for sale last month rose by almost 30 percent when compared with November 2005.

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August 15th, 2008
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David Fields, marketing channel manager of Hickory Hardware of Nashville, TN, was elected vice president of the Home Improvement Research Institute.
For years, Remodeling magazines annual “Cost vs. Value Report” has offered comfort to homeowners investing hefty dollars into home improvement projects. The high payback on the most popular rehabs - kitchens and bathrooms - has even been the catalyst to spur some homeowners to remodel. They felt confident that if they did good work, theyd get back most of their funds. Does this mean that homeowners should stop renovating? Hardly, especially when they have a distinct vision of how they want their home to look and function - and if they have the funds. But decreasing numbers suggest greater caution: - Never overimprove. Take the value of your existing home, add in the cost of your potential improvements and be sure the new sum doesnt exceed the value of comparable neighborhood homes.
The alliance with Ace will help it supply its stores with more products, say Sodimac officials. Terms were not disclosed. An Ace company official says the deal will allow Sodimac to compete with The Home Depot.

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PORTLAND, Maine, June 26 /PRNewswire/ — Auto Europe, a leader in European car rental services, is now offering a new product line in the USA, Mexico, Spain and France. These products include the largest selection of motorcycles including Harley Davidson, Honda and BMW, ATVs, Snowmobiles and Jetskis at over 40 major tourist destinations, featuring over 100 self drive tours. In addition to the USA, enthusiasts or first time adventurers can also enjoy these products while in Cancun, Mexico, Marbella, Spain and in France. Please call Auto Europe for current pricing on your customized tour by motorcycle or enjoying the outdoors on an ATV, Snowmobile or Jetski.
MELBOURNE, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Dec. 16, 1999–
THUNDER ROADS Motorcyclists contribute much to this community The motorcycling community also does a lot of good for this town. Mayor Lionel Rivera didnt mind associating with us when we donated toys for Christmas Unlimited last November. The motorcycles that delivered those toys are probably some of the same motorcycles that were ticketed recently. If this is such a critical problem, why werent they ticketed back then? We also have rides and rallies for Toys for Tots, Silver Key and Muscular Dystrophy, just to name a few.

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Public attitudes toward the disabled have changed. Since the 1970s, advocates for the disabled have won passage of numerous laws on the federal, state, and local levels aimed at making education, employment, and public accommodation more accessible through the elimination of physical barriers to access, as well as affirmative action in the hiring and professional advancement of disabled people. Whereas many people with disabilities were formerly confined to their homes or to institutions, the current trend is geared toward reintegrating disabled persons into the community in ways that enable them the greatest possible amount of independence in both their living arrangements and their jobs. Wheelchair access at building entrances, curbs, and public restrooms has been greatly expanded and mandated by law. Braille signs are standard in public areas such as elevators.

Two major pieces of federal legislation have protected the rights of the disabled: a 1975 law guaranteeing disabled children a right to public education in the least restrictive setting possible and the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which extends comprehensive civil rights protection in employment and access to public areas. Title I of the ADA, which prohibits discrimination by private employers on the basis of disability, is intended to ensure that the same performance standards and job requirements are applied to disabled persons as to persons who are not. In cases where functional limitations may interfere with job performance, employers are required to take any necessary steps to accommodate reasonably the needs of a disabled person, including adjustments to the work environment or to the way in which the job is customarily performed. The ADA also contains provisions ensuring nondiscrimination in state and local government services (Title II) and nondiscrimination in public accommodations and commercial facilities (Title III).

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• Davis, Lennard J. Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness, and the Body. New York: Verso, 1995.

Society and the Disabled IN THE LAST 20 YEARS and especially since 1981, the International Year of Disabled Persons, the integration of disabled young people into the ordinary education system has become widely accepted and is now a prominent goal of educational planning in many countries. The concept of “handicap has been greatly modified in the last two decades. It is now distinguished from that of “impairment or “disability and is defined as a disadvantage for a given individual, resulting from an impairment or a disability, that limits or prevents the fulfilment of a role that is normal, depending on age, sex, social and cultural factors, for that individual. Handicap is therefore a function of the relationship between disabled persons and their environment. It occurs when they encounter cultural, physical or social barriers which prevent their access to the various systems of society that are available to others. Thus, handicap is the loss or limitation of opportunities to take part in the life of the community on an equal level with others.

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August 11th, 2008
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Retiring. University of Michigan coaching legend, Jon Urbanchek, who has guided the Wolverines to 13 Big Ten Conference team titles and one NCAA crown in his 22 seasons, announced his retirement after the 2003-04 season. he will remain with the team through the entire summer swimming season, which includes preparation for the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens.In 1995, after winning the NCAA team title, Urbanchek was named the NCAA and ASCA Coach of the Year.Appointed. Leigh Nugent, the highly-respected former national youth coach, has been appointed Australias national head coach for 2004. Nugent is charged with the responsibility of preparing the Australian team for the Olympics and the 2004 FINA World Short Course Championships in Indianapolis.
Coaching Alabama. Arthur Albiero has been named associate head coach at the University of Alabama, head coach Don Wagner announced. Albiero joined the Tide at the same time Wagner took over the program in the spring of 1999. In addition to overseeing the Tides middle distance and stroke athletes, Albiero helps direct all areas of the program, from recruiting to strength and conditioning. Nebraska. Nebraskas Pablo Morales has named Jeff Bro and Doug Humphrey as his assistant womens coaches. Humphrey will assist with the swimmers, while Bro will serve as the diving coach. Both Bro and Humphrey have served as interim coaches since the 2000-01 season, and both have been associated with the Husker swimming and diving program for many years. Nebraska cut its mens program last year.
One of Americas most successful swim coaches has returned to coaching after a hiatus of several years. Randy Reese, former head coach at the University of Florida, has accepted a position as head coach of the newly-formed Circle City Swim Club in Austin, Texas. Reese is the brother of Ed Reese, mens coach at the University of Texas and head coach of Texas Aquatics, also in Austin. Circle C has a 50 meter x 25 yard pool and is building another in January. Reese is currently looking to hire one or two assistant coaches. Stephen Leal, former head coach of the Rio Salado Swim Club in Tempe, Ariz., is the new head coach of the Blue Fins in Encinitas, Calif. Steve Heaston, USA Water Polos Technical Director and head coach at the University of California, passed away at the age of 50 on July 15, after a long battle with brain cancer. His death occurred just two days before his induction into the Water Polo Hall of Fame.

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August 11th, 2008
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> Lexington Insurance Co. has announced a first-of-its-kind insurance policy to protect commercial and residential real-estate developers and lenders from losses due to changing zoning ordinances. Zoning Restriction Protector Insurance has been designed for commercial and multitenanted residential real-estate owners and lenders who may incur significant damage to their property and cannot rebuild to the same size due to zoning issues.
Terry Simnitt Terry Simnitt has joined Coldwell Banker Griffith Blair, Realtors. He will be active in real estate auction and residential sales with his wife, Ruth, who also is an associate at Coldwell Banker Griffith Blair.

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August 11th, 2008
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–Gail Sider, Pelham, NY
FOR YEARS the magic industry has managed to protect intellectual property without any recourse to patent, copyright, or trade secret law, according to a study by Jacob Loshin of Yale Law School, to be published next year in Law and Magic, a forthcoming anthology from Carolina Academic Press. But the usual legal means of protecting ideas dont work for magic. You cant copyright a method for pulling off a trick. Patenting, which some magicians tried in the 19th century, requires revealing the secret in a public forum. And since magicians have a culture that includes a fair amount of sharing among themselves, trade secret law, which is mostly aimed at protecting ideas from competitors in the same field, doesnt work well for magic either.
On one level the MPs have good cause for their euphoria. They have ditched an incompetent leader and replaced him with one who is more rounded and much wiser. Michael Howard will win many bouts against Tony Blair at Prime Ministers Question Time, especially at a time when the Prime Minister has got a lot to answer for. Already the right-wing newspapers are cheering him on. For the past 13 years these powerful propagandists have been screaming in a political vacuum. Now they have a leader that they admire and will help to present in the most attractive light possible. In 1975 when Margaret Thatcher became leader the Daily Mail re-christened her “Maggie”, making her sound immediately more accessible and ordinary. Now the Mail is working hard to project Mr Howard as a new political hero. Perhaps he will be known as “Mike” Howard before very long. Tony Blair, who never knowingly underestimates political opponents and usually overestimates them, will have noted uneasily that The Sun has welcomed Mr Howard and published his first newspaper interview. The media tide swung against the Government long ago. At the very least Mr Howard will enjoy a honeymoon in the newspapers, an important boost that neither William Hague nor Iain Duncan Smith enjoyed. Mr Howards ascendancy is well timed. I have a theory that a leader of the opposition who takes up his post at the beginning of a parliament is almost bound to lose the next election. Voters and the media tire of leaders who can do little more than make speeches and score political points. Neil Kinnock, William Hague and Iain Duncan Smith all became leaders of the opposition immediately after an election. None of them became Prime Minister. Harold Wilson, Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair all got the job more or less at the mid-term point in a parliament with the next election moving into view. They all won. Like the victorious trio Mr Howard will still be something of a novelty by the time of the next election, at least in his new role. All of these are positive developments for a party that was falling apart one week ago, but they do not in themselves amount to a giant leap forward. Let us stand back from the intoxicating magic and consider how the conjurers performed their feat. They replaced one Eurosceptic right-winger with a far more accomplished Eurosceptic right-winger. With his usual candour Ken Clarke announced that he would not stand because he did not think he could win. He did not say that his support for Mr Howard was based on a complete agreement with him over how the Tories should move forward. The former Chancellor praised his old friends qualities, pointed out that the two of them had known each other since they were teenagers and looked forward to helping the Conservatives in the future.

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August 11th, 2008
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-Adds Unsecured Facility of $25 Million- Raymond Brandstrom, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, commented, The new unsecured credit facility, a reflection of our strong cash flows, offers us greater financial flexibility at attractive borrowing rates. It will allow us to continue to maintain a strong balance sheet, while providing us an additional source of capital for general corporate purposes.
Business Editors Thermwood Corp. (AMEX:THM), a pioneer in advanced high-tech machinery for the furniture, woodworking, plastics and aerospace industries announced today that its revolving line of credit has been increased from $3.5 to $5 million.
OKLAHOMA CITY (JR) — GMX Resources has increased its credit line with Local Oklahoma Bank. The money will be for drilling one well per month in east Texas to the Cotton Valley zone at 10,000 feet. GMXs borrowing base was increased to $10 million at New York prime rate, making an additional $3.7 million available for borrowing for the development plan. GMX expects that the review will result in additional funding assuming production and drilling results continue as planned and commodity prices do not decline significantly, said Ken L. Kenworthy Sr., GMXs chief financial officer.

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Real estate is a popular investment among Canadians. There are several advantages to investing in real estate. Real estate is leveraged. You may pay only a fraction (as low as 10%) of what the property is worth when you buy it. Real estate has utility. If you buy stocks or bonds, you cannot do anything with them; but when you buy real estate, you can use it until you sell it. For example, you can live in a house.

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August 11th, 2008
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Business Editors/High-Tech Writers ASHLAND, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sept. 24, 2002 Interactive Media Corporation today announced the release its new DVD Duplicator, a device that enables users to create duplicate DVDs or CDs without the use of a computer.

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August 11th, 2008
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IT STARTED as a small dress shop and a gun store in a Stockholm suburb, inspired by cheap post-war American fashion. Almost 50 years later, the fashion company HM is poised to overtake Marks Spencer as Europes largest clothing retailer. It is all a far cry from 1947 when a humble salesman called Erling Persson went to America and was impressed by the low-cost clothing stores he saw there. He returned to Sweden and opened a shop called Hennes (meaning “hers” in Swedish) in the Stockholm suburb, with the slogan “fashion and quality at the best price”. The company grew slowly through the 1960s and opened its first store in Britain in 1978. It had a reputation for providing good, cheap, if slightly unadventurous, high street fashion. But in 1998, Mr Persson handed control of the company over to his son Stefan, and suddenly the profile of HM began to rise through word of mouth and increased mentions on the fashion pages of glossy magazines.
Amid all the glitz, glamour and endless hype of London Fashion Week, which ended yesterday, there have been clothes for real women that will make their way into the shops this autumn. Many of the clothes - particularly the more extravagant items designed to catch the eyes of the photographers - do not make it on to shop rails. Between now and autumn an intricate series of events will determine what will be “the fashion”, and what will not. Rita Britton, from designer emporium Pollyanna in Barnsley, was in London all week buying the clothes her working customers in Yorkshire will want. “What people who read fashion pages dont realise is that half the clothes shown dont even go into production.” A typical fashion show will have between 300 and 1,000 guests. Half of the guests will be press, and will either write about the clothes, or use them in fashion shoots. These people will determine The Trends. The other half of the audience will be fashion buyers from stores all over the world, who determine what we actually buy by shaping The Trends into real clothes. Buyers are the designers bread and butter. Without them, clothing like McQueens and Rochas, for example, would remain a fantasy. As well as these two designers, Lynette White, fashion buyer for Liberty, is responsible for buying Hussein Chalayan and Helmut Lang. For her, the catwalk presentation is incidental, the real decisions will be made in the showroom. “The amount we buy from a particular designer depends on their performance last year, and we only take risks with new designers if they are exceptional,” she said. When a buyer selects clothing it must be wearable and sellable, but not necessarily commercial. You will not find an Alexander McQueen dress in the shops that consists of just a collar with tassles to cover the breasts. Nor will you find a fuscia pink faux snakeskin jacket by Antonio Berardi. However, McQueen bumster trousers have sold at Liberty, as have intricate coats by Yohji Yamamoto. Lynette White said: “We dont aim to buy watered down fashion that people will easily understand, our aim is to educate the customer, to give them the ideas and opportunities to wear exciting clothes.” Rocha admitted that he was not a good salesman, but with his annual turnover now approaching pounds 5m and selling to 20 countries, he has hit on a formula. ” My designs come from the heart, and fortunately the buying public understands what Im trying to say.” He knows that what he does essentially is to “put clothes on backs”. McQueens clothes are aimed at a different customer, so Lynette White takes a different approach. You will not see McQueen g-string denim shorts or peak-shouldered breast-baring garments like the ones shown on Thursday in Liberty. She will be buying McQueens belted cowhide coats, cut-out leather dresses, skin-tight jeans and sharply embroidered suits. “Things are going more and more `streety,” she said. “McQueens show was a breath of fresh air, and proved that its not important to have the essential black tailored suit anymore. That is not what people want from McQueen.” So, next time you see a model on the catwalk wearing a seemingly unwearable outfit, remember, there is an army of people out there whose sole aim is to translate what they see on the catwalk into something you can wear, and that is true purpose of London Fashion Week, despite all the hype. Supermodel Naomi Campbell was in hospital with suspected appendicitis yesterday after falling ill during London Fashion Week. She has had tests after developing abdominal pains in the early hours, according to her Elite Premier modelling agency.

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August 11th, 2008
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The day after the worst blackout in U.S. history, Verizon Wireless came out boasting. ATT Wireless and Sprint both reported widespread service outages thanks to a combination of power failures to back-up systems and a huge spike in phone usage. Verizon Wireless, however, reported that its network is fully operational, although customers in the New York City and other impacted areas are asked to be patient if their calls do not go through on the first attempt due to very heavy calling.
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Business Editors/High-Tech Writers HEILBRONN, Germany–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Feb. 25, 2003 Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq:ATML) announced today the availability of a new intelligent stepper motor driver IC, the ATA6830. The new device is manufactured using Atmels 0.8-micron BCDMOS process technology, which supports operation of up to 45 Volts. This technology is optimized for applications in harsh environments such as automotive systems.
* Devices Integrate Comprehensive Driver, Protection and Sensorless Position Feedback Capabilities in NQFP Package * Dramatically Reduces Component Count, Board Space and BOM Cost Each of the new mixed-signal ICs features two embedded H-bridges capable of driving two-phase stepper motors with currents up to 1600mA. Speed and load angle outputs allow a host microcontroller to detect blocked rotor and end-of-run conditions without the need for additional switches, Hall sensors or optical encoders. In addition to stall detection, these functions allow the designer to program the microcontroller to calculate rotor position, and to dynamically adjust current or speed as required to prevent step loss. As a result, noise and vibration at end-stops can be eliminated and motion control accuracy and reliability improved without additional components.
POCATELLO, Idaho — Green Parts in near Chip Scale Package Save Space and Deliver Increased Functionality for Automotive, Industrial, Security, and Medical Applications Both the AMIS-30621 and AMIS-30622 integrate a bus connection, positioning and control electronics and a motor driver in a single 32-pin, near chip scale NQFP package with a profile of under 1mm and a footprint of just 7mm x 7mm. As a result, they require eight times less volume than previous devices and can be mounted on just a third of the PCB area. Small package size also facilitates direct mounting onto the motor for further space saving and reduced circuit complexity. By employing an exposed die pad design that significantly improves thermal resistance, the new AMIS ICs also offer more efficient heat dissipation from IC to PCB than was previously possible. Providing 800mA two-phase motor control, the AMIS controller ICs are ideal for small-positioning automotive applications such as headlamp leveling and swiveling, cruise control, idle control, and HVAC systems. The devices also suit industrial applications such as X, Y, Z tables, robots, climate control and process control, and security and surveillance systems requiring camera positioning. Designers of medical electronics will find the devices useful in areas such as fluid control and laboratory equipment.

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August 11th, 2008
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Americas Cosmetic Doctors Dentists: Second Edition
SEATTLE — Dr. Rhys Spoor, DDS, FAGD, an international expert in Aesthetic and Restorative Dentistry, has been selected by his peers as one of the Top 10 Dentists for Cosmetic Dentistry in the Puget Sound region, as published in the January 2006 edition of Seattle magazine. The rankings are based on dentists who received the most votes. In addition, all dentists were verified as being in good standing with the Washington State Department of Health.
They can provide either comprehensive preventative, cosmetic, or emergency care, or specialize in a single field of dentistry. This report covers the scope, size, disposition and growth of the industry including the key sensitivities and success factors. Also included are five year industry forecasts, growth rates and an analysis of the industry key players and their market shares.

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August 11th, 2008
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Yellowstone Denied
Every year, 3 million people visit Yellowstone National Park. But even on a tourist-packed summer weekend, you can unload your kayak at Yellowstone Lake and paddle for 10 minutes and be all alone. If you kayak on Yellowstone Lake, youll go for hours hearing nothing except the soft sound of blades dipping through water. If you keep close to the shoreline, youll see wildlife. Yellowstone offers silence-seekers 110 miles of shoreline. Most of it is pristine and quiet. Even around Grant Village — where there are lodges, cabins, stores, restaurants and 425 campsites — you can find yourself alone on the shore.

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August 9th, 2008
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The Business, Steve Morris and Graham Willcocks, Hodder Stoughton, 2001, paperback, 134 pages, L9.99, ISBN: 0 340 78911 5. Tel: 020 7873 6247. Published under the Business Dynamics banner by Hodder Stoughton, this business resource book is bulging with challenging questions and real world references. It is intended for students in the 14-19 age range. The books handling of business principles is dynamic. It takes a fresh approach to the basics and provides evidence on which to base investigations. It makes use of case studies to draw students into concepts and explain how companies operate and how they contribute to the economy. The book is organised into four interesting sections, categorising key concepts and illustrating the application of these concepts through discussion of various organisations within relevant industries.
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Rieter Sells Cabling, Twisting and Texturing Machine Business Rieter has sold its business in cabling, twisting and texturing machines to Co-Martin of France retroactive from October 31, 2006. The new owners have many years of experience in the man-made fiber business, and are taking over all activities at the location in Valence, France. Both sides agreed not to disclose the selling price. After careful examination of all possible options, the Board of Directors and Group Management decided to sell subsidiary Rieter Textile Machinery France SAS in Valence with all three business fields to Co-Martin. The Rieter subsidiary in Valence employs 153 persons, and achieved a turnover of approximately 50 million euro in 2005.

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August 7th, 2008
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