29 July

So is there

So is there really no practical way of reducing your gas bill, without altering your lifestyle? Well, if you are not a complete loser when it comes to personal finances, you can take advantage of the promotions major credit card companies are currently running to lure the new consumers in. There are offers from MasterCard, Visa, and Discover that allow you to save between $.15 and $.30 per gallon. You can do your own research, or you can visit PumpAndSave.com, a website that keeps the best gas card offers current. Don?t forget, though, that you will only be able to save if you always pay off your monthly balance in full. For an average driver, the savings will be in the neighborhood of $25-$50 per month.
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29 July

Up – 3M Reports First-Quarter 2010 Earnings Results

3M Reports First-Quarter 2010 Earnings Results

0 Comments | Manufacturing Close – Up, Apr 30, 2010

3M, a provider of adhesives, abrasives, laminates, passive fire protection, dental products, electronic materials, electronic circuits and optical films, reported first-quarter earnings of $1.29 per share on sales of $6.3 billion.

In an April 27 release, 3M reported operating income margins were 22.8 percent, up 7 percentage points year-on-year. Sales and per- share earnings increased 24.7 percent and 74.3 percent, respectively, versus the first quarter of 2009.

Each of the company’s six business segments posted double-digit sales growth and 20 percent-plus operating income margins. Sales growth was strongest in emerging economies, where sales expanded by 47 percent versus the first quarter of 2009. Free cash flow (c) more than doubled to $925 million, a first-quarter record for the company, and free cash flow conversion was 99 percent.

Included in first-quarter 2010 earnings was a one-time, non-cash income tax charge of $84 million, or 11 cents per share, resulting from Medicare Part D changes imbedded in the recently enacted Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Excluding this charge, first-quarter 2010 earnings were $1.40 per share, also a record for any first quarter in 3M’s history
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29 July

Dubai's own 'Caveman' – brand originator Mark Sykes – features

Dubai’s own ‘Caveman’ – brand originator Mark Sykes – features

0 Comments | Al Bawaba, Mar 25, 2010

Outdoor Concepts, the Dubai-based outdoor lifestyle company with its own brand of outdoor lifestyle accessories called ‘Caveman’ (comprising a range of products from barbecues to outdoor torches all built around the theme of ‘making fire’) has teamed up with BeefEater, Australia’s leading barbecue brand, to launch a new series of high quality barbecue units for the Middle East market the BBQ Evolution range.

The new Beefeater range for Caveman has been designed specifically to meet the quality/value demands of younger residents/ households in the UAE and is already available through leading supermarkets and hypermarkets in Dubai and Bahrain. The new product range offers high quality porcelain enamel coated and cast iron grills and hot plates for longer life, quartz start ignition, powder coated steel carts, all built by BeefEater for ‘Caveman’ and backed by a one year warranty. There are three products in the new series three, four and five burner options each with a choice of side burner or steel cabinet.

‘Caveman’ brand originator Dubai-based business entrepreneur, Mark Sykes (who is the caveman model in the advertising materials and actually rides the Caveman racing bike) comments: “The agreement with BeefEater marks a real milestone in the evolution of ‘Caveman’, offering customers great quality and value, at very realistic prices. Caveman is already well established in the local markets of the Gulf and this new range will help us accelerate growth of our market share. We believe Caveman offers a new route for younger consumers to buy into the outdoor lifestyle that the Emirates offers, through a product range that is more in tune with their values and aspirations. The market response and sales results so far have been very encouraging.”

The new range is being launched with a supporting promotion and offer of a ‘grill slinger’ barbecue tool set for every unit purchased during the promotional period.

Launched in 2008, the ‘Caveman’ range consists of gas fired barbecues, outdoor patio heaters and gas torches and a range of fluids degreaser, cleaner and polish
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29 July

It will help you

It will help you remember key points. Patterns are easier to recall than isolated facts. For example, how does the speaker begin and end each topic? With a brief summary of the main idea? What about details or examples? Are they used to make certain points? Can you easily see the relationship between the points presented? It?s likely you?ll find more organization in prepared speeches and seminar presentations than teleconferences, particularly interviews. But presenters almost always start with some idea of structure even if they drift off course. Do your best to find it.

Take Notes.

It?s true what they told you back in school. Taking notes enhances listening and recall. When you take notes, though, don?t go overboard with detail or they just become another distraction. Tie them to the patterns and structure you find. Not everything is equally important. Be selective. Think of your notes in terms of review.
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29 July

18) Rhymester?s Shadow With roots and filled-in

18) Rhymester?s Shadow

With roots and filled-in hollow air,

He writes to you poetic obscurities;

He goes, my friend, where

The homeless dare: where

?Beauty is for the few? and into

The boundless cosmos and tombs;

Into and onto exotic landscapes,

Where poems?like bones?

Have decomposed;

Where darkness comes like all shadows:

To lock you in its tombs?.

Dim and gray is his twilight,

As slowly dies his days?

But fate?s poetic obscurities,

Would have it no other way:

For the Rhymester?s shadows?

Never rest.

19) The Executioner of Chan Chan

Writ after visiting Chan Chan, an archeological site in Northern Peru.

Hungry, fearless, in a faceless form,

Likened to a mask, a monster forlorn,

He was the woe, the living dead,

From nightmares he was fed?

The Executioner of Chan Chan.

Bleak was his dawn, cold his heart,

Lulled by those whom would soon die?

Subdued by the temples? mud-baked

Bricks?he decapitated his lot, sacrificially?

This Moche Warrior of Chan Chan.

April 29 2004 [8:00 PM].

20) Mercury?s Demise

(As Semyas meets Azaz?el)

Part of a story?writ a few hours before a flight from St.
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29 July

Think Green

Think Green

0 Comments | Hull Daily Mail, Jul 28, 2010

Business Link Yorkshire and Humber is offering local businesses the chance to save money and boost their green credentials with these tips: Turn off all office equipment when not in use – overnight, at weekends and bank holidays.

A single computer and monitor left on for 24 hours a day will cost more than Pounds 50 a year.

Turn off lights in empty rooms and replace bulbs with energy saving ones.

Lighting costs can be cut by as much as 15 per cent by simply turning off lights in rooms and corridors that aren”t being used.

Reduce water consumption by turning off taps fully and fixing any drips.

A constantly dripping tap can waste 500,000 litres of water per year, which could cost your business about Pounds 400 per annum.

Examine waste disposal costs and consider partnering with a nearby business to recycle your waste.

Look at whether your waste could be turned into another business” raw materials.

Your business can save four to five per cent of its turnover by using waste minimisation techniques.

Keep heating at a constant level and ensure doors and windows are shut when using heating or air conditioning.

Your heating costs will go up by eight per cent each time you increase the temperature by just one degree.

For more tips visit www.businesslink.gov.uk

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29 July

A patient usually experiences strange sensations

A patient usually experiences strange sensations and emotions before the seizure. This is to be considered as a warning of an epilepsy attack and is called an aura. However, occurrence of a seizure does not necessarily mean that a person has epilepsy. When a person has had two or more seizures, doctors view it as a case of epilepsy.

Apart from the common symptom of seizures, each type of epilepsy has its own set of symptoms. A patient suffering from grand mal seizure may stare blankly and will experience severe convulsions, jerking of arms and legs, loss of consciousness and loss of bowels or bladder control.

The symptoms of absence seizure include staring, brief body jerks, mainly involving arms and brief loss of attention and activity. Patients are described as being ” zoned out.” The symptoms of a simple partial seizure include jerking of one part of the body like a hand or foot.
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29 July

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

0 Comments | Daily Mirror, The; London (UK), Jul 24, 2010 | by Graham Hiscott

GEORGE Osborne’s life has been privileged in more ways than one.

Not only born with a silver spoon in his mouth, he’s now been handed economic recovery on a plate.

Labour took the flak for the downturn and were sacked by the electorate yet yesterday’s GDP figures add weight to claims that previous policies were beginning to work wonders.

In the past fortnight we have had confirmation of another fall in unemployment and a surprise jump in shop sales.

Underpinning the recovery is something that’s hard to measure, yet critical: confidence. Confidence is behind 10,000 more job vacancies, confidence is behind families spending (at the right price). In short, confidence helped the economy to bounce back.

Fuelling that confidence is record low interest rates – set to remain low for now – and Labour’s injection of public funds in the depths of the downturn.

Take construction, which soared by 6.6% between April and June
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29 July

REVENGE MISSION

REVENGE MISSION

0 Comments | Hull Daily Mail, Jul 27, 2010 | by CHRIS WILSON

TRACY Waggott believes Shadowtime has a “fighting chance” of achieving further Beverley honours this afternoon.

The teak-tough five-year-old has racked up three course-and- distance victories on the Westwood, and again goes for gold in the Wilford Watts Memorial Handicap.

Waggott’s stable-star has only once failed to make the frame in 10 starts at Beverley, and finished third behind the re-opposing Celtic Change in this race 12 months ago.

His proud trainer is again confident of a bold bid in a hot- looking renewal of the one-mile contest.

“He perhaps doesn’t have the pace of some of them, but he loves that stiff uphill finish,” said County Durham-based Waggott.

“Because he’s as tough as old boots, he’s always in a position to win at Beverley because he often grinds them down in a finish.

“Hopefully he’ll be there or thereabouts again.”

Shadowtime has this season shown his zest for racing remains intact – especially in East Yorkshire.

He has already twice tasted glory at Beverley this term, including on his penultimate start when clinically defeating Avonrose by a length and a quarter.

With that rival having trotted up at Ascot on Friday, the form obviously looks watertight.

Indeed, he also lost no caste in defeat on his most recent foray at his favourite track when second behind Ian McInnes’ well- handicapped Carlitos Spirit.

“It’s a hot enough race, but he finished third behind the top one (Celtic Change) last year and that horse is 10lb higher now,” added Waggott.

“He’s firing on all cylinders at home, but I’d have maybe have liked the race to come a few days later as he had quite a hard race last time.

“But he’s definitely got a fighting chance of winning again.”

Shadowtime is not the only Beverley standing dish in the race, with top-weight Celtic Change bidding for a third course success.

Westwood regulars will also be acutely aware of Danehillsundance, who is three times a Beverley scorer.

Other interesting candidates in an absorbing nine-runner field include the hat-trick-seeking Ailsa Craig and Cherry Bee, the Mark Johnston-trained three-year-old who is returning from a 337-day absence.

INSHORT Shadowtime will look to bounce back from coming second behind Celtic Change in the Wilford Watts Memorial Handicap in 2009.

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29 July

Lincoln Financial Group Selects Cohn & Wolfe as Communications Partner

Lincoln Financial Group Selects Cohn & Wolfe as Communications Partner

PR Newswire, July 23, 2010

NEW YORK, July 23 /PRNewswire/ — Lincoln Financial Group announced today that it has engaged Cohn & Wolfe, a leading global communications agency, to support their communications efforts including branding, corporate positioning and executive thought leadership. The appointment follows a four-stage selection process that included presentations to Lincoln’s CMO, CEO and leadership team.

Lincoln Financial, a diversified financial services organization, offers a variety of life insurance, long-term care, annuities and retirement life insurance services and products. As communications partner, Cohn & Wolfe’s Corporate and Digital Practices will work with Lincoln Financial to highlight the company’s role as a leading financial institution. The account will be led by Michael Bayer, EVP and U.S. Corporate Practice Leader and Deputy Managing Director for Cohn & Wolfe New York.

“The global economic crisis continues to have a profound effect on consumer confidence in the financial services industry,” said Bayer. “It’s an environment, however, that represents a tremendous opportunity for Lincoln Financial, a company inspired by a man who embodied honesty and stability in the face of crisis – principles that are critical to a public eager to feel good about their futures again.”

Said Lincoln Financial’s Chief Marketing Officer, Heather Dzielak, “Cohn & Wolfe demonstrated a remarkable understanding of our industry and the nuances of a customer base that stretches across virtually every income bracket. And we were impressed with the way they were able to turn that awareness into something fresh and versatile, but still uniquely Lincoln Financial. We’re excited about the prospect of making new connections with our existing customers and reaching anyone who wishes to face their future with confidence by selecting Lincoln Financial products.”

About Lincoln Financial Group

Lincoln Financial Group is the marketing name for Lincoln National Corporation (NYSE: LNC) and its affiliates. With headquarters in the Philadelphia region, the companies of Lincoln Financial Group had assets under management of $146 billion as of March 31, 2010. Through its affiliated companies, Lincoln Financial Group offers: annuities; life, group life and disability insurance; 401(k) and 403(b) plans; savings plans; and comprehensive financial planning and advisory services. For more information, including a copy of our most recent SEC reports containing our balance sheets, please visit www.LincolnFinancial.com.

About Cohn & Wolfe

Cohn & Wolfe is a strategic public relations agency dedicated to creating, building and protecting the world’s most prolific brands
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