China December industrial profits up 17.3 percent on year

BEIJING (Reuters) - Profits earned by China's industrial companies rose 17.3 percent in December from a year earlier to 895.2 billion yuan ($143.91 billion), official data showed on Sunday, as a fourth-quarter recovery helped offset poorer corporate results in the third.

The data from the National Bureau of Statistics is the latest sign of a gathering rebound in activity in the world's second-largest economy. The December rise moderated from November's 22.8 percent increase but still marked the third-fastest growth last year.

Industrial profits totaled 5.56 trillion yuan in 2012, up 5.3 percent from a year earlier, China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on its website (www.stats.gov.cn), strengthening from a 3.0 percent increase in profits in the first 11 months of 2012 versus 2011.

China's economy grew at 7.9 percent in the fourth quarter, snapping a streak of seven consecutive quarters of slowdown.

Among 41 sectors surveyed by the bureau, 29 reported rising profits last year, led by a 69 percent jump for power generation firms, a nearly 21 percent rise for food processing firms and an 8 percent rise for electric equipment makers.

But some sectors are still struggling. Profits at steel firms tumbled 37 percent, while earnings for chemical companies fell 6 percent.

According to a Reuters poll, analysts predict China's annual economic growth would rebound a shade to 8.1 percent this year.

The HSBC flash purchasing managers' index (PMI), the earliest indicator of China's industrial activity, saw growth in China's giant factory sector accelerated to a two-year high in January.

($1 = 6.2205 Chinese yuan)

(Corrects December figure to third-fastest growth in 2012, from second fastest, in paragraph 2)

(Reporting By Xiaoyi Shao and Lucy Hornby; Editing by Paul Tait)

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Small Business Owner: The IRS Says You Are Tax Cheat

Small business does a lot for America, accounting for roughly half of private sector GDP and employment.

Their economic contributions probably account for part of the reason that small business is our country?s most trusted group. A recent Pew Foundation survey revealed that 71 percent of Americans held a positive view of small business, 8 percentage points higher than churches and religious organizations and 10 percentage points higher than colleges and universities.

But small business owners aren?t saints. They are also America?s top tax cheats, according to Internal Revenue Service (IRS) taxpayer advocate Nina Olson. Not all of them, of course, but, on average, small business owners are much more likely than other Americans to underpay their taxes.

Their cheating is substantial. The IRS reported that the United States Treasury faced a tax gap ? the amount it was owed less what it was paid ? of $385 billion in 2006, the most recent year data are available. The largest chunk of this gap ? $122 billion ? is unreported business income on individual income tax returns.

But just as we shouldn?t look at the Pew Foundation survey and think that more trustworthy people become small business owners than politicians, bankers, ministers or college professors, we shouldn?t look at the IRS figures and conclude that dishonest types start companies. Small business owners aren?t less honest than the rest of us. They are just better able to get away with cheating on their taxes.

People don?t under report their wages because their employers report their earnings to the IRS. Knowing that, the IRS knows what?s in your paycheck keeps most people from lying about the amount they are paid. Therefore, only 1 percent of wages go unreported.

By contrast, the IRS has no idea how much cash sole proprietors are taking in. That?s why the IRS estimates that a whopping 56 percent of sole proprietors? cash receipts are not disclosed to the tax authorities.

The IRS doesn?t think checking up on most small businesses is worth their time. While they regularly audit giant corporations like Apple or General Motors, coming through the records of a bunch of tiny companies doesn?t yield enough unpaid taxes to justify the costs.

A small business owner earning $155,000 per year faces an average tax rate of 20.5 percent, the nonpartisan Tax Foundation tells us. If the IRS catches the business owner under reporting income by 25 percent, that yields only $7,800 in lost income. Therefore, it?s not surprising that the IRS audits only 1 percent of taxpayers earning less than $200,000 per year, but 12 percent of those earning more than $1 million.

Moreover, the IRS knows that a chunk of small business under reporting isn?t deliberate. It comes from the difficulty of figuring out what one actually owes. Fear of punishment might motivate small business owners not to purposefully misstate their income, but it does little to help them calculate the right numbers under a maddeningly complex tax code.

Finally, our elected officials inadvertently preserve small business tax cheating when they try to avoid burdening small business owners with costly tax reporting requirements. The IRS and many tax experts explain that small business owners would reduce under reporting if third parties provided the IRS with more information. But Congress has repeatedly voted down third party reporting requirements for small businesses as too burdensome.

Whatever the combination of causes, a recent New York Times article summed up the outcome succinctly. The best way to cheat on your taxes is to ?run your own company. More specifically? be the sole proprietor of a Schedule C business.?

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2-D electronic devices, may be possible: Fine patterns made with single-atom-thick graphene and boron nitride

Jan. 27, 2013 ? Rice University scientists have taken an important step toward the creation of two-dimensional electronics with a process to make patterns in atom-thick layers that combine a conductor and an insulator.

The materials at play -- graphene and hexagonal boron nitride -- have been merged into sheets and built into a variety of patterns at nanoscale dimensions.

Rice introduced a technique to stitch the identically structured materials together nearly three years ago. Since then, the idea has received a lot of attention from researchers interested in the prospect of building 2-D, atomic-layer circuits, said Rice materials scientist Pulickel Ajayan. He is one of the authors of the new work that appears this week in Nature Nanotechnology. In particular, Ajayan noted that Cornell University scientists reported an advance late last year on the art of making atomic-layer heterostructures through sequential growth schemes.

This week's contribution by Rice offers manufacturers the possibility of shrinking electronic devices into even smaller packages. While Rice's technical capabilities limited features to a resolution of about 100 nanometers, the only real limits are those defined by modern lithographic techniques, according to the researchers. (A nanometer is one-billionth of a meter.)

"It should be possible to make fully functional devices with circuits 30, even 20 nanometers wide, all in two dimensions," said Rice researcher Jun Lou, a co-author of the new paper. That would make circuits on about the same scale as in current semiconductor fabrication, he said.

Graphene has been touted as a wonder material since its discovery in the last decade. Even at one atom thick, the hexagonal array of carbon atoms has proven its potential as a fascinating electronic material. But to build a working device, conductors alone will not do. Graphene-based electronics require similar, compatible 2-D materials for other components, and researchers have found hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) works nicely as an insulator.

H-BN looks like graphene, with the same chicken-wire atomic array. The earlier work at Rice showed that merging graphene and h-BN via chemical vapor deposition (CVD) created sheets with pools of the two that afforded some control of the material's electronic properties. Ajayan said at the time that the creation offered "a great playground for materials scientists."

He has since concluded that the area of two-dimensional materials beyond graphene "has grown significantly and will play out as one of the key exciting materials in the near future."

His prediction bears fruit in the new work, in which finely detailed patterns of graphene are laced into gaps created in sheets of h-BN. Combs, bars, concentric rings and even microscopic Rice Owls were laid down through a lithographic process. The interface between elements, seen clearly in scanning transmission electron microscope images taken at Oak Ridge National Laboratories, shows a razor-sharp transition from graphene to h-BN along a subnanometer line.

"This is not a simple quilt," Lou said. "It's very precisely engineered. We can control the domain sizes and the domain shapes, both of which are necessary to make electronic devices."

The new technique also began with CVD. Lead author Zheng Liu, a Rice research scientist, and his colleagues first laid down a sheet of h-BN. Laser-cut photoresistant masks were placed over the h-BN, and exposed material was etched away with argon gas. (A focused ion beam system was later used to create even finer patterns, down to 100-nanometer resolution, without masks.) After the masks were washed away, graphene was grown via CVD in the open spaces, where it bonded edge-to-edge with the h-BN. The hybrid layer could then be picked up and placed on any substrate.

While there's much work ahead to characterize the atomic bonds where graphene and h-BN domains meet and to analyze potential defects along the boundaries, Liu's electrical measurements proved the components' qualities remain intact.

"One important thing Zheng showed is that even by doing all kinds of growth, then etching, then regrowth, the intrinsic properties of these two materials are not affected," Lou said. "Insulators stay insulators; they're not doped by the carbon. And the graphene still looks very good. That's important, because we want to be sure what we're growing is exactly what we want."

Liu said the next step is to place a third element, a semiconductor, into the 2-D fabric. "We're trying very hard to integrate this into the platform," he said. "If we can do that, we can build truly integrated in-plane devices." That would give new options to manufacturers toying with the idea of flexible electronics, he said.

"The contribution of this paper is to demonstrate the general process," Lou added. "It's robust, it's repeatable and it creates materials with very nice properties and with dimensions that are at the limit of what is possible."

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Vonn beats Maze to win World Cup giant slalom

MARIBOR, Slovenia (AP) ? Lindsey Vonn beat rival Tina Maze on the Slovenian's home snow and in her best discipline Saturday, earning a surprising victory in a giant slalom.

Maze had a chance to secure her third giant slalom discipline title with a victory and led after a near-perfect first run, but a poor start to the second cost her valuable time and she finished 0.08 seconds behind Vonn.

Vonn proved again that she is back to her best after an illness by putting down two good runs in what is traditionally her weakest event to win in 2 minutes, 22.2 seconds.

Vonn was third after the first run but overcame several errors to have the fastest time in the second and create a margin that Maze couldn't bridge.

"In the second run I decided, OK, it's all or nothing, I had to go for it," Vonn said. "It's been a rough year for me in GS, so it's just perfect."

Vonn earned her first GS victory since March of last year, and her second win in a week after taking the downhill at Cortina D'Ampezzo.

With her 59th World Cup win overall, she's just three away from equaling Annemarie Moser Proell's record on the women's side.

Austria's Anna Fenninger was third, 0.57 seconds behind Vonn.

Maze extended her lead in the overall standing to 748 points against her closest challenger, Germany's Maria Hoefl-Riesch, who finished fourth. Vonn stands another 66 points back in third, having missed several races while recovering from an intestinal illness that landed her in hospital in November.

The 29-year-old Maze was expected to clinch the GS title in front of a passionate home crowd and was 0.48 seconds ahead of Vonn after dominating the first run.

However, she ran wide at the start of the second, leaving her 0.13 seconds behind her rival at the first checkpoint. Despite the cheers of the fans urging her on, Maze couldn't make up the time and finished with tears in her eyes.

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Consider a Real Estate Practice | Private Practice

Real Estate or Property law covers a lot of ground and often overlaps with Contract Law.? It is regulated by federal and state statutes, as well as common law and encompasses more than just land and structures on that land.? It can also involve interests people may have in the land, the air above the land, drilling rights, or rights to live on the property.

While primarily a transactional field, there may be occasions when a real estate attorney may appear in court to handle zoning disputes or to represent a client threatened with foreclosure, for example.? Of course, attorneys in this field also deal with related issues like landlord-tenant issues, title issues, home loans and foreclosures and more.? It is a very complex area further complicated by inconsistent laws throughout cities and states.

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By Ms. Angy, ECFE Blog Writer

?????????? Like many parents, I have a picky eater.? My daughter, since she began to eat solids, had a strong opinion about what she would or would not put into her mouth.? With a quick shake of her head and a clinching mouth, I was not able to get her to try anything.? She wanted her noodles or fruit.? I continued to introduce her to new foods and slowly she began to try them.? Today, she is still a picky eater, but at least we have a wide variety of food options to choose from since she keeps expanding her cuisine repertoire.? This past year, our Discovery Learning preschool program implemented, The Lana Preschool Program (Introduced to us by Sherburne County Public Health).? We began changing our snacks to healthy choices, introducing the children to many different types of fruits and vegetables, and cooking meals with the children that included diverse food options.? I have seen children who would normally not try new food selections, take part in taste tests, and discovering they actually liked the foods they were anxiously sampling.? It was also fun to see the children scarf down the veggie lasagna; not realizing they were eating broccoli, and lots of it!? The LANA program has great tips for families and resources that you can try at home.? Since we have introduced this program at school, I have made changes in our nutrition in my home.? I have been eating more fruits and vegetables while setting a good example for my daughter.? This summer we planted a vegetable garden.? My daughter loved the process and has eaten and enjoyed every vegetable she picked. ?Since learning about LANA, in my classroom and home I have introduced an assortment of healthy foods in new ways, changed snacks to healthy choices, and made trying new foods FUN!

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Cells 'flock' to heal wounds: Researchers analyze physics of epithelial cell cooperation

Jan. 24, 2013 ? Like flocks of birds, cells coordinate their motions as they race to cover and ultimately heal wounds to the skin. How that happens is a little less of a mystery today.

Researchers once thought only the cells at the edge of a growing patch of wounded skin were actively moving while dividing cells passively filled in the middle. But that's only part of the picture. Rice University physicist Herbert Levine and his colleagues have discovered that the process works much more efficiently if highly activated cells in every part of the patch exert force as they pull their neighbors along.

There's a need to understand how cells cooperate to protect the site of a wound in the hours and days after injury, said Levine, who has introduced the first iteration of a computer model to analyze the two-dimensional physics of epithelial sheets. He hopes it will give new insight into a process with long-term implications not only for healing but also for understanding cancer, a prime motivator in his research since joining Rice under a grant from the Cancer Research and Prevention Institute of Texas.

A paper on the research by Levine, based at Rice University's BioScience Research Collaborative, and colleagues at the University of California at San Diego and in Germany and France appears January 23 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.

Levine and his colleagues create computer models of processes seen by experimentalists to flesh out the rules that govern biological systems. "Here, we're combining experimental observations from single cells with general notions from the physics literature to create an integrated way of thinking about this multicellular system," he said.

The new models were prompted by a recent Harvard study showing "that even in the middle of a sheet, cells were dynamically creating heads and tails and were actively moving rather than being passively carried along," Levine said. "This data convinced us that we needed a different way to start to think about the problem."

The body marshals an astounding array of forces to heal wounds, Levine said. Many have to do with cell biology, the internal and external signals that tell a cell when to move, when to stop, when to split and when to die. His team's intent was to focus first on the cell's physical interactions with its neighbors and study what happened if all those complicating factors are eliminated from the simulations.

"We try to unravel what is physics and what is biology," Levine said. "We want to know which parts of the phenomenon don't require sophisticated signaling networks."

In the physics approach to cell motility, he said, "the first thing to do is see how far we can get if we assume that all the cells are following the same rules. Then the only thing that's creating the dynamics of the system is that they're interacting with each other. This is the type of problem that physicists have studied before, usually in nonbiological contexts."

In the Harvard experiment, he said, "They had taken a millimeter-sized tissue that was spreading and showed it wasn't just cells on the end that were pulling on the tissue while the others were spectators." But that work didn't explain how cells in the center of the tissue knew the direction of the edge.

Levine's team looked to the skies for inspiration. "Birds look around and decide which way all their neighbors are flying," Levine said. "The idea that they would move as independent birds but also coordinate is where the idea of flocking came from. This way of thinking hadn't been applied to epithelial tissue motility in wound healing."

What cells "see" are their sticky neighbors, which pull and tug them as they move on lamellipodia, thin sheets that serve as "feet" powered by actin filaments that act something like the treads on a tank. The overlapping lamellipodia of adjacent cells influence each other. "The cells have to figure out which way to go based on competing tendencies: their own tendency to push on the ground and propel themselves forward, and the tendency of their neighbors to try to pull them in various directions," Levine said. "Our basic notion is that as time goes on, these tendencies become correlated as the cell 'tries' to accommodate its conflicting inputs."

The Harvard experimentalists saw that loosely packed cells in the middle of a growing colony tend to swirl in a disorganized manner, and the simulations confirmed this. These swirls are analogous to what is seen in other examples of flocking. But when a wound is introduced, the swirls disappear and cells begin to match direction and velocity and pull toward a common goal. The ones on the edge immediately know which way to go, and everyone else learns from their example. Surprisingly, Levine said, "stickier" cells tend to push forward unevenly, with finger-like protrusions at the leading edge, much like what experimentalists often see.

The simulation model has a long way to go, Levine said. "It's rough around the edges. Biologists who read this will immediately say, 'You've left out all sorts of interesting things we know are happening.'

"Yes, there will be experiments for which this approach will not be sufficient," he said. "It will teach us that in those cases, biology has to exert a more specific role in creating the structures and the motion."

Levine hopes to match the models to current work by experimentalists on motility in cells related to the metastatic spread of breast cancer. "We're a long way from saying anything about this problem," he said. "But that's my overall agenda -- to push my research to where it can make contact with the cancer community."

Co-authors of the new paper are postdoctoral researcher Markus Basan and senior scientist Wouter-Jan Rappel of the Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, University of California at San Diego; Jens Elgeti, a member of the scientific staff at the Institute of Complex Systems, J?lich, Germany; and Edouard Hannezo, a graduate student at the Curie Institute, Paris. Levine is the Karl F. Hasselmann Professor in Bioengineering at Rice and co-director of the Rice-based Center for Theoretical Biological Physics.

The National Science Foundation and its Center for Theoretical Biological Physics supported the research.

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Watson pulls out at Torrey Pines

SAN DIEGO (AP) ? Masters champion Bubba Watson has withdrawn from the Farmers Insurance Open because of an illness.

Watson is a past champion at Torrey Pines, winning two years ago with a birdie putt on the final hole. He tweeted Thursday, "Pulling out of tourney this morning, don't have energy for golf. Feel the same as Maui." Watson had a stomach illness at Kapalua during the Tournament of Champions, where he tied for fourth.

Watson was to play with Phil Mickelson and defending champion Brandt Snedeker. He was replaced in the field by Billy Mayfair.

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SAP sees profitability rise on new web products

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German business software group SAP said its profit would grow faster than revenues from traditional software and related services, helped by new web software products like cloud-computing and data analysis.

SAP, based in Walldorf, southern Germany, is betting on faster growing, web-based software products that are less vulnerable to the economic downturn as there are no upfront costs for program licenses, hardware or installation.

SAP said on Wednesday it expected operating profit this year to be 5.85-5.95 billion euros at constant currencies, up 12-14 percent from 5.21 billion in 2012, and beating an average analyst forecast for a 6 percent rise in a Reuters poll.

However, revenue growth in software and software-related services as a whole would slow to 11-13 percent this year after a 17 percent jump to 13.2 billion euros ($17.5 billion) last year, SAP said.

Software sales generate high-margin, long-term maintenance contracts and are an important gauge of future profit.

Goldman Sachs analyst Mohammed Moawalla said SAP's outlook implied an improvement of 60-70 basis points in this year's operating margin to 32.3 percent at constant currencies.

"We believe that 2012-13 are peak years of investments and we expect better operating leverage going forward," he said in a client note, rating the shares 'buy'.

SAP shares were up 2.5 percent by 6.00 a.m. ET, partly erasing last week's drop when it announced worse-than-expected quarterly revenue and operating profit and investors feared it was failing to keep up with arch-rival Oracle.

Traders said SAP shares as well as those of software groups Cap Gemini and Software AG, were also helped by strong IBM results, published late on Tuesday.

Shares in UK peer Sage Group bucked the trend after it said conditions in mainland Europe were still challenging.

SAP last year splashed out $7.7 billion to buy internet-based computing companies Ariba and SuccessFactors. These so-called cloud services, which deliver services via the Internet from remote data centers, will approach revenues of 1 billion euros this year.

Profitability will also be boosted by a new product called Hana, which helps firms analyze large amounts of data quickly.

The product will have revenues of 650-700 million euros this year, up from 392 million euros in 2012, and will steal business away from its main competitor Oracle, the company's co-chief executive Bill McDermott told reporters.

SAP said it still saw 2015 revenue above 20 billion euros.

($1=0.7526 euro)

(Reporting by Harro ten Wolde; Editing by Dan Lalor and Helen Massy-Beresford)

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Changing food labels could boost understanding

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Alternative nutrition labels that clearly display the total number of calories and other nutrients in an entire package might help consumers make healthier food choices, according to a new study from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

FDA researchers found people were best at assessing chips and frozen meals - and comparing the healthfulness of multiple products - when nutrition facts were presented for the entire container's worth of food or for both one serving and the whole container.

Those presentations don't require consumers to multiply the nutrition facts listed by the number of servings per package if they plan to eat it all, researchers explained.

"I think people really have a hard time interpreting what food labels mean," said Dr. Eric Matheson, a nutrition researcher from the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston.

"It's almost like there's information overload," Matheson, who wasn't involved in the new study, told Reuters Health - but at the same time a lack of clear, simple messages.

Amy Lando and Serena Lo from the FDA surveyed close to 9,500 U.S. adults, showing them one of 10 different types of food labels that presented calories and nutrients per serving or container in a variety of ways.

Participants were asked how healthy they thought different products were - including how much fat, for example, was in one serving - and then compared two types of chips or frozen meals to determine which was healthier.

Currently, manufacturers are given a lot of leeway when it comes to deciding how much a "serving size" is, according to Gina Mohr, a marketing researcher from Colorado State University in Fort Collins, who didn't contribute to the FDA study.

To make products appear healthier, some companies have started increasing the number of servings listed per container - thus lowering the number of calories per serving. All of that adds to consumers' confusion, she said.

Having a two-panel system that lists the nutrients for one serving and an entire package - as some products do already - would help simplify things, Mohr told Reuters Health.

"It's so important to make the information as transparent as you can make it for consumers," she said.

Nutrition researcher Marion Nestle from New York University, who also wasn't involved in the new study, agreed.

"If you give somebody a big package of potato chips, they're not going to think there are five servings in it, they're going to think it has 100 calories," she told Reuters Health.

"I would like to see the total number of calories in a package on a package," Nestle added. "I don't think people should have to do the math."

Nestle and Matheson both recommended a system like Britain's, in which the front of food products are labeled green, yellow or red based on their healthfulness. Of course, companies might not be so happy about having their packages labeled red, they noted.

It's still not known whether clearer nutrition facts would change what people choose to buy or eat, researchers cautioned. It's also unclear if and when the FDA might issue changes to labeling requirements, based on the new findings and other research.

For now, researchers said consumers should look closely at nutrition information, including serving sizes and where the calories in their food are coming from.

"One thing we urge consumers to do is really slow down and read the information carefully on packaged foods," Mohr said.

"Turn it over, read the ingredients, read the nutrition facts carefully."

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Logitech gambled big on video conferencing, lost

Logitech's PR machine is on the loose this morning, trying to dampen expectations before the company announces its quarterly financial results later in the day. The key message is that we shouldn't expect any great shakes from the video conferencing side of the business. In fact, there'll be a $211 million charge against earnings, which is big enough to wipe out the previous quarter's income four times over, and which stems entirely from this source of pain:

"The enterprise video conferencing industry has experienced a slowdown in recent quarters and consequently, through this period, the video conferencing unit has not sustained the growth Logitech originally anticipated."

That's a blanket statement, describing a whole section of the industry and not just pinning the blame on LifeSize, the video conferencing company that Logitech picked up in 2009 for $405 million. It so happens that Polycom and Cisco have also reported ongoing slides in video conferencing sales, so Logitech's explanation is entirely justified -- not that it makes the LifeSize acquisition look any smarter.

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Eating disorders ? no appetite, vomiting | health and fitness guide

??p>Parents feel the children eat enough, every meal has trouble, should take him to see a doctor.Complain of symptoms are children have no appetite, eat slowly, and every tongue will taste several times repeatedly, hard to swallow.However, all mothers and fears to the contrary he will quiet satisfy this kind of attachment, and the formation of early memory., the children look very healthy, full of vigor.However, the child diet concerning access sometimes also can create, child overall intake of too many.He was dining at the moment I have had intermittent fruit, cookies, drink nutritious beverage.

Look, the mother and the child will always remain.Mothers are forcing children to eat full, they feel it is needed, and catch the opportunity to child mouth stuffed with one mouth, or let him eat food on the table; and the children?s reaction is not smoking not only birth of the enemy, and is one of the infertility caused by.* * *, only in the situation to put food into the mouth, some children even forced him to eat when sick, would take all the food out of all the tools to spit it out.

I became a struggle means.3 years old children have this kind of phenomenon is not accidental.As children, preliminary to seek more independent, and in response to the growing age.

The children in this age only most truly belongs to eating very little.They are mostly poor care, were abandoned children.

Only the most obesity originates from organic disease, mostly because their parents are too fat.They give them too much food or nutrition.Some parents in a child or infant will keep feeding him, even if he is a foundation in not hungry in a vaginal birth canal contraction, extrusion of the fetus, is a useful physical contact, is conducive to the baby in the developing nervous system..In this way, the child to eat is good and uneasy, and this struggle, but also made him unable to properly treat eating problems.Therefore, the child will rely on for support of his mother.If things go on like this, he will become lazy, become a huge monster of a hidden truth, and who made off because he is too fat and very hard with other boys.

The children called ? gloomy belly ? (fat) is and then in addition, some experts think that the root of tongue, tongue to taste induction is a sweet and salty bitter sequence, and were the first to accept is sweet, is bitter end.In particular, because the scene (such as to and loved his people separated) children through eating and drinking to seek comfort.However, if the child have not love, it will continue to eat and drink.

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Celebrating Motherhood: Why I'm changing

So what causes a farm girl, a food junkie, and a woman that loves to cook comfort foods for her kids want to change to cleaner?healthier eating? Well, it's simple.
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It?started as I was laying in the bed with Cullen my then six year old, him crying of a "horrible headache". All he wanted was the darkness and to sleep.

?I slowly left the room and as the door clicked behind me I felt helpless.

His headaches were few when he was six maybe one or two every month.

When he turned seven they came to visit him more and more and finally we?

were told that he was having childhood migraines and that this was very common in children his age. I didn't buy it. I knew something was triggering them and I just had to find out what. I moved him to the front row of the van, wouldn't let him near a computer or video games.?I started trying to look up home remedies and make him eat more healthy snacks?in case it was a low sugar issue but nothing helped.?

Meanwhile?I went to a doctor in Tennessee, because of adrenal symptoms, who believes that our bodies were created to heal themselves, if we would feed our bodies the right food.?
He put me on a gluten free, dairy free, meat free detox for 28 days.

?Sounds painful, huh??

Well it really wasn't. I did?my homework and was fired up to get started so I wouId start feeling better. I did research on gluten and decided to put my whole family to the test. So, this is the chronicles of living gluten, dairy, meat free for 28 days.

The family did a version of this. Gluten free, no dairy but some meat.
?Here is what I learned through the process.

Day 1. Started my new lifestyle for the next 28 days. I have a headache and feel very tired. The kids are having it rough. The sugar detox is going to be hard on them. They are eating every piece of fruit in my kitchen. I don't know if we can afford this. Channie and Cullen are having the worst detox, very hungry and feeling cranky. They're drinking lots of water and I'm feeding them three meals and two healthy snacks but they're still hungry. They were never this hungry on our former diet. (Lots of butter, cheese, homemade pizza etc.)

?Day 2. Woke up this morning feeling like I had never slept. Ugh....Felt flu like all day. I wake up with a headache and go to bed with one. Took a detox bath and felt better. The kids are still hungry all day. Their appetites have increased ten fold. I know we can't afford this. ?They're eating twice as much now. Listened to a sermon on forgiveness and laid in the sunshine. Hoping my body gets over the hump sooooon.?

Detox Bath:
1/2 cup baking soda

1/2 cup Epsom salt

3 drops of Lavender oil

Day 3. My supper table looks like something out of a magazine. We have beautiful veggies, gourmet salads, incredible fruits. Just no bread and butter.
?Channie says, "can we make get ya married rolls?"
?Not right now baby girl.
She would eat two rolls or more at supper every night with tons of butter. Just because you're tiny doesn't mean you're healthy. Her little body craving the bread.?

When supper time came around everyone ate anything and everything that was put in front of them. They were more excited about trying new foods and came to love things they never had even tried. Cullen has not had a headache at all.

Day 4. Ordered a Berkey water system and walked for 30 minutes today. I am still very tired feeling and this cooking healthy meals is hard. You have to be on top of every meal. Because everyone is always hungry all of our meals have to be planned out carefully so we don't just bag it all and go out to eat. *sigh* I realized that the way I show love is by cooking for them and now because we're changing the way we eat, I feel kind of bad for not feeding them Pioneer Woman.?

Brown rice and roasted potatoes doesn't sound bad though.

Day 5. Cullen has been headache free for 5 days.?
The kids are starting to feel great. No more cravings or very little. Everyone is not so focused on food and more focused on other things. Maybe we will be able to afford this.?I took them to the gym and we all swam for 2 hours. I'm still not feeling great. Flu like symptoms with no fever. The kids have a virus so I'm thankful I get to lay around and hold them and not do too much.?

Day 7. Still not feeling well. Its kind of frustrating. I want to feel better yesterday. Tired, drugged and in slow motion. Come on body, kick in. Cullen is still headache free. Small changes all around and I'm thankful.

Day 8. Still feel yucky..I couldn't go any where even if I wanted to. It's crazy to think I'm going to feel good again. I've lost some weight not sure maybe 5 lbs. Hoping the sun comes out tomorrow. The kids are eating less snacks and eating more at meal time.

Day 9. Feel drugged and slow moving. Learning to cook delicious healthy meals takes my mind off how bad I'm feeling. I always thought I ate healthy enough. Why is my body having to detox so hard? The kids are doing great...I would say adding organic meat and fruit smoothies has truly been the trick for them. I also make banana ice cream with almond milk and honey. It's awesome. I can't have it yet but the kids love it and I didn't have to buy as many groceries this week. ?I have to prepare more and investigate what foods have gluten in them and avoid as many as those foods as possible. They are more expensive but so is the doctor and Cullen is still headache free.

Banana Smoothie:

Freeze 4 bananas

1 cup of almond milk

Handful of almonds

1 tablespoon of organic peanut butter

1 tablespoon honey

ice

Day 10. Felt less clouded today, slept great last night. Felt better overall today. Thankful.

Day 11. Feel much better! I feel a little energetic:)

Day 12. Woke up feeling good. Clear headed, hopefully this will last. The sun is out..Fog lifting.?

Fast forward to day 22. Although I have stuck to a very strict diet (as well as Taylor) the kids have each gotten off on the weekend for special dinners or daddy pizza time. I'm not so naive to think that things won't come up but we get them right back on it at the next meal. ? Cullen is still headache free and Channie is no longer having "stomach issues". She would eat and 20 mins later say, "my stomach hurts"...She has not had a stomach ache in 3 weeks.

Taylor feels better than she ever has. She said she will never go back to eating

the way we did.

I have lost 11 lbs and been swimming 4 days a week with the kids. I have energy again. I feel clear headed. I can think and I feel great!?

Some people don't believe a healthy diet can impact your life others just refuse to change. It's a hard transition and believe me when I say that.

But it's been 22 days and Cullen is still headache free.

I have not had to sneak out of a dark room and wonder what I could do to make him feel better.

So we will continue on our journey of healthy meals. We are learning to cook ?healthy using lots of fruits and veggies.

Example Menu at The White House

Breakfast:

?organic rice cereal, almond milk and bananas?

? ?gluten free oats with honey and raisins

smoothies

Snack:

fruits?

applesauce

hummus with veggie sticks

kale chips

Lunch:?

sweet potatoes and quinoa?

green beans and steamed cabbage?

gluten free pasta with sauteed mushrooms and onions

Snack:

banana ice cream

apples and organic peanut butter

chips (homemade from organic corn tortillas) and salsa

Dinner:

Mexican Night

(black beans, homemade salsa, homemade chips, guacamole, mexican rice)

Ratatouille over rice pasta

Garlic roasted potatoes with carrots, green beans and apple pecan salad

Source: http://www.celebratingmotherhoodeveryday.com/2013/01/why-im-changing.html

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French military advances toward key Mali town

DIABALY, Mali (AP) ? About 200 French infantrymen supported by six combat helicopters and reconnaissance planes advanced Monday on the town of Diabaly, seized one week ago by Islamic extremists including fighters under the command of the mastermind of Algeria's recent terror attack.

Diabaly, a small bucolic town in central Mali, has been the scene of the first major battle in the war to retake northern Mali from bearded fighters who have occupied the region for nine months.

"The operation in Diabaly is currently ongoing," said Capt. Romain, the deputy in charge of France's 21st Marine Infantry regiment, positioned in the town of Markala about 85 miles (140 kilometers) from the front line.

Malian military officials reported late Saturday that they had recaptured the town after Islamists fled the town on foot, but French officials later said Sunday that the town had not been retaken.

As of midday Monday, Associated Press reporters said the town appeared to be under the control of Malian and French forces.

In the nearby countryside, life was returning to normal as well. Women here washed children in an irrigation canal, while others washed clothes and placed them to dry on the banks. Families with suitcases and bags headed north in donkey-drawn carts, apparently returning home after fleeing the conflict.

Residents of Diabaly have said that the Islamists fled the town of 35,000 people late last week following days of French air strikes targeting the militants.

The French military, which began its offensive on Jan. 11, said it again used fighter planes and helicopter gunships to carry out a dozen such operations in Mali over the weekend, targeting "terrorist vehicles" in half of those strikes.

In an interview with France-5 TV, French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said the airstrikes had caused "significant" ? though unspecified ? losses among the jihadists, and only minor skirmishes involved French forces on the ground.

Meanwhile, the extremist group behind the deadly hostage crisis in Algeria threatened more attacks against foreign targets if France does not bring an immediate halt to its military operation in Mali.

In a statement, the Masked Brigade warned of more such attacks against any country backing France's military intervention in Mali.

"We promise all the countries that participated in the Crusader campaign ... that we will carry out more operations if they do not reverse their decision," it said, according to a transcript released by SITE Intelligence Group.

France has said that African nations must take the lead though it could be some weeks before they are ready to do so.

On Sunday, France said that some 400 troops from Nigeria, Togo and Benin had arrived Sunday in Bamako to help train an African force for Mali. Troops from Chad, who are considered hardened fighters familiar with the desert-like terrain of northern Mali, also have arrived, Le Drian said.

A top official with the West African regional bloc said Sunday the cost of the African intervention could top $500 million.

ECOWAS Commission President Kadre Desire Ouedraogo, who gave an interview to state television in Ivory Coast, said the initial estimate "may vary depending on the needs" of the mission and the situation on the ground.

About 100 American trainers also have been deployed to Niger, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Senegal, Togo and Ghana "to discuss training and equipping and deployment needs of those countries in the interest of getting them ready to go into Mali," said United States State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland.

The Islamists first seized control of the major towns across northern Mali following a coup last March that was led by mutinous soldiers in the distant capital of Bamako.

Over the last nine months, the Islamists have solidified their grip on the region, imposing their version of strict Islamic law known as Shariah and forcing hundreds of thousands to flee.

In scenes reminiscent of Afghanistan under Taliban rule, the Islamists have carried out public executions, amputations and whippings. Women have been lashed for venturing out without veils, and girls have been forced to sit at the back of classrooms.

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Associated Press writers Krista Larson in Segou, Mali; Jamey Keaten in Dakar, Senegal; and Robbie Corey-Boulet in Abidjan, Ivory Coast contributed to this report.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/french-military-advances-toward-key-mali-town-110159994.html

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Celebrities, special interest groups gather for own soirees

WASHINGTON (AP) ? While most Americans caught distant glimpses of President Barack Obama's second inauguration festivities from their living room TVs and on the Internet, a privileged set of celebrities and special interests got pampered access Monday at exclusive soirees just blocks from the ceremonies.

The parties are a January tradition, where high-powered lobbying shops and law firms open up their offices for clients, legislators and officials, affording opportunities to renew ties and lay the groundwork for lobbying and deal-making. The gatherings in K Street and Pennsylvania Avenue suites offered catered buffets and even balcony views as the commander in chief's caravan rolled by, venues supplemented by high-priced hotel rooms, gala balls and invitation-only parties.

As the A-listers streamed in Monday, Washington's political world had already adapted to a scaled-back version of the festivities of four years ago, when more than 1.5 million people packed the National Mall. Lobbying shops got fewer ticket requests from corporate clients and office parties shrank to appeal to smaller crowds.

Four years ago, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips held its traditional inauguration day party for clients at its downtown D.C. offices. On Monday, the firm opened its doors early as a "launch pad" for guests, a pit stop to warm up, drop off bags, recharge IPhones and toss down a bloody Mary before heading out into the morning chill.

The 9th floor balcony at the K&L Gates law offices on 16th Street offered a pristine view of the parade route during the inauguration, but guests preferred the party on the first floor, avoiding the cold by snacking on chili and cheese while watching the proceedings on four wall-length video screens. A life-sized cardboard Obama replica was available for photos while the real Obama launched into his second inaugural speech.

"The second inaugural's always much more subdued so your events have to be subdued as well," said firm partner Emanuel L. Rouvelas, who has hosted or attended inauguration parties dating back to the Nixon era.

Downtown Washington's hotels were jammed, though not to capacity, and its closed-off streets were invaded with hundreds of gleaming limousines. Nearby Dulles International Airport anticipated roughly 300 private aircraft for the weekend, though significantly fewer than the 700 planes from last time. Hotels offered top-dollar packages with views of the day's events, and some guests asked staffers to clear out excess furniture so they could pack in more friends.

At one end of Pennsylvania Avenue ? at the Willard Intercontinental, overlooking the White House ? corporations and associations booked many of the rooms with the best views to entertain clients. The 165-year-old hotel boasts that President Abraham Lincoln stayed there before his 1860 inauguration.

"Seize every moment to surprise and delight our customers," manager James Ryan told his team during a planning meeting to which The Associated Press was invited.

Lowered expectations may be keeping away some big spenders. Washington's W Hotel, which boasts prime parade-watching real estate on 15th Street near the White House, touted its $50,000 "E-Wow" suite for a minimum four-night stay, complete with butler's pantry, virtual fireplace and $100,000 worth of jewelry on loan for the weekend. But as of Sunday night, the suite had not been booked.

Washington power-players have dozens of unofficial balls to pick from, and they're usually thrown by state parties or interest groups. The official inaugural committee is banning corporate sponsorships, but that hasn't stopped big companies and other interests from headlining events elsewhere: Household names like AT&T Inc., Merck & Co., the Sierra Club and Greenpeace are all sponsoring events, according to an AP review of invitations collected by the nonprofit Sunlight Foundation.

Obama's second-term inauguration can't compete with the historic appeal of his 2009 swearing-in. But some lobbying veterans blame the lowered profile of corporate parties on his administration's self-proclaimed ethics stance. Four years ago, Obama tightened regulations on "revolving door" officials and inveighed against excessive lobbying.

Even with tougher rules, the White House has still hosted corporate interests and lobbyists at times, but officials say Obama's ethics efforts have had a strong impact. "President Obama has done more in the past four years to close the revolving door of special interest influence than any president before him," said White House spokesman Eric H. Schultz.

"Many of the lobbyists I know are far less warm on Obama than they were four years ago," said Wright H. Andrews Jr., a former president of the American League of Lobbyists. "They're understandably displeased with his vilification of lobbyists."

Limousine rentals were still doing brisk business, judging by the elegant stretches clogging downtown streets. Several limousine services advertised inaugural specials at as much as $140 an hour, touting plush 20-passenger Lincolns and Humvees equipped with large-screen televisions and minibars stocked with champagne. The D.C. Taxicab Commission expected to process 1,500 special inauguration chauffeur permits, as far away as Florida and Oklahoma, said spokesman Neville Waters.

He said limo companies typically import hundreds of extra sedans for the inauguration from outside Washington, mandating a need for special permits. But Waters said the city expected fewer limos navigating downtown D.C. this weekend compared to four year ago.

"I guess it's kind of a been-there, done-that kind of thing," he said.

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Associated Press writer Nedra Pickler contributed to this report from Washington.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/special-interests-gather-own-inaugural-parties-154716968.html

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Samsung LED Lamp Review: Just Like a Normal Light Bulb, Except It Lasts a Generation

Television-based web browsing, Facebook-integrated refrigerators, iPad-enabled potties—this multifunctionality craze is getting out of hand, often at the cost of a device's performance. Samsung's latest LED bulb however does the one thing it was designed to do really, really well. More »

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East Greenwich Basketball Association MLK Tournament - in East ...

East Greenwich High School serves students in grades 9-12. It is regularly ranked as one of the highest performing public high schools in Rhode Island.

Located on Avenger Drive, the local public high school has been here since 1967. Last year, the high school underwent significant renovations, which added a new science lab, a new entrance and a new athletic field complex. There are 759 students and 76 teachers.

Joe Millitelo is the interim principal, and Michael Podraza is the vice principal.

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A Message from Mike Tryon ? Part 3 ? Satellite TV Tax & New Office ...

The conclusion of an email from State Rep. Mike Tryon:

Mike Tryon?s new office on the south side of Crystal Lake.

SB 402 and HB 5440: Satellite Television Tax

These controversial bills were very similar, and both attempted to impose a 5% tax on satellite television providers, like the Dish Network and DIRECTV.

Proponents of the bill claimed it would level the playing field between cable TV providers, who pay franchise fees to counties and municipalities, and satellite TV providers, who do not.

Opponents, mainly the satellite TV industry and consumers who utilize satellite TV services, claimed the cable tax was fair since cable TV companies utilize land easements to run lines while satellite providers do not require any land or easements for their service.

It was estimated that the tax would generate between $65-$70 million per year in revenue. In House Bill 5440, 100% of the funds generated from the tax were to be allocated for the Education Assistance Fund, and in SB 402 the proceeds would have been split between the Education Assistance Fund and the Capital Projects Fund. Neither bill was called for a vote during the lame duck session.

Inauguration of the 98th General Assembly

Where Mike Tryon?s new office is located off Randall Road on Village Road.

On Wednesday, January 9th I was sworn into office for a fifth term in the House of Representatives. On this day, the new legislative map took effect and my district number changed to 66 from 64. The majority of the constituents I served under the old map will remain in my new district, but I will now also serve the needs of residents from Northern Kane County. The following communities fall within the boundaries of my new legislative district:

This map of the 66th State Rep. District was prepared by Elgin political consultant Drew Veeneman.

• Algonquin
• Carpentersville
• Crystal Lake
• East Dundee
• Elgin
• Gilberts
• Huntley
• Lake in the Hills
• Lakewood
• Sleepy Hollow
• West Dundee

If you are no longer going to be a part of my new district, please know I enjoyed representing you and appreciate your support.

If you will be a new constituent, know that I am looking forward to getting to know you and your community so that I can ably represent your priorities in Springfield and at home. I look forward to these next two years and recognize there is much work to be done in the legislature.

I appreciate your ongoing support and confidence, and will do my best to represent the priorities of the people of District 66.

With the new map, I have decided to move my legislative office more into the center of District 66.

Beginning Tuesday, January 23, my office will be located off of Randall Road near the Crystal Lake/Lake in the Hills border, between Village and Ackman Roads. My new address will be: 1500 Carlemont, Suite D, Crystal Lake, IL 60014. My phone number and email address will remain the same.

As always, if my staff or I can assist you in any way, please do not hesitate to call my office at 815-459-6453.

Sincerely,

Michael W. Tryon
State Representative, District 66

Source: http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2013/01/21/a-message-from-mike-tryon-part-3-satellite-tv-tax-new-office-location/

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Nuts From the Family Tree: Libster Blog Award Coming My Way!

I checked out a comment to one of my posts here at Nuts to find that Jenny Lanctot at the blog, Are My Roots Showing? nominated me for an award, the Libster Blog Award. You can see her post and her own acceptance of the Award here.? Jenny gave me the award for my post, Cousin Bait Strategy Needed.

Here's what Jenny wrote about the award when she won it:
I've been awarded the Liebster Blog Award! (Liebster means "favorite" or "dearest" in German, apparently) The premise behind this award is that when you are nominated, you are supposed to answer 11 questions about yourself (chosen by the person who nominated you), and then nominate 5 bloggers with less than 200 readers and provide 11 questions for them to answer.

I'm honored, and thanks Jenny! Who doesn't like an award? She commented that at the very first she felt like she got a spam when she got the award, and I did feel a tad silly like I was participating in a chain letter, but what the heck, that can be fun! Then I started answering the questions and thought how cool it will be to pass on the award and find out more about other bloggers.

I know some folks out there looked on these awards in the past as a way to drive traffic to a blog, but I see it differently. I like knowing about other genealogy bloggers - we are a community -?and since we're always blogging about our ancestors, here's a time to share something about ourselves... and have some fun.

Here are Jenny's questions for me. Let the Silly begin!!

1. What is your favorite time of day and why?
Morning. I'm a morning person. Now, where the heck is my coffee??

2. How and when did you first discover your passion, whatever that passion is?
Art?was my first passion to appear on the scene, then a couple of years ago Mom hooked me on genealogy. Discovered art on a Friday afternoon in 3rd grade. Discovered the ancestors when Mom told me a story about the counter fitting twins.

3. Hopefully, you?re familiar with The Breakfast Club for this question. When you were in high school, in which social group did you best fit?
Oh, I'm gonna cry: am too old for Breakfast Club! But I'll go ahead and answer about the high school social groups: my high school graduating class was 124 so everyone was always in every one's business. I longed for the protection of a group. High school was so painful! UGH!

4. Where do you write your posts and why did you choose that place?
In my pajamas;) It's comfy! Actually my desktop is in the corner of the art studio. I badly need a new laptop!

5. What always makes you laugh and why?
My dog. He's 16 and still acts like a pup. Mixed breed vigor, or so the vet says and?my dog's?got it.

6. If you could appear on a televised talent show, what would your talent be?
Ha! Bob Ross! Love it when he paints those "happy trees"!

7. Which flower reminds you of happiness?
All of them even the "ugly ones". But I'm a sucker for orchids. Grew them when we lived in Florida and grow them here in SoCal. My house isn't complete without an orchid in bloom.

8. What is your favorite book and why?
I hardly ever met a book I didn't like. Ask my loaded bookshelves, and the stacks next to the bed! I love historical novels especially about areas and time where my ancestors were participants. I've learned a lot from them. Most recently enjoyed, How Green Was My Valley, a 1939 novel?by Richard Llewellyn about a family in the coal fields of Wales. I learned a lot by reading that one, and I could see my ancestors on every page.

9. It?s important to eat your vegetables, but which vegetable do you always resist/avoid eating?
Wow, that's a difficult one. We love veggies in this house. From beets to leeks, on to kale and Brussels sprouts, whatever is in season at the local farmer's market... I'll take it! PS: I love to cook too.

10. What is your favorite thing to do on a rainy day?
Either watch an old movie or do genealogy. Toss up!

11. Who is the one celebrity, past or present, you would like to meet ? and what would you ask that person?
Andy Warhol! Met him once and this next time I'd like to ask him all the questions I should have asked the first time.

OK, the drill is that after answering these question I can nominate five blogs and ask my own questions, and that's the main reason I'm doing this: I'm curious and this seems like a way to get interesting people to answer stuff;)

Here are the five blogs I nominate:

Family History Fun by Sue Scott. I love the way she uses photos and the stories that they tell. Thanks so much, Sue! Maybe my Welsh coal miner ancestors worked for her Oldham coal merchants:) Maybe.

Ancestors Live Here by Leslie Ann. I really enjoy Leslie Ann's down home and personal tone. There one today that talks about sewing kits here. I clearly remember Grandma Kelly's tin box of buttons and the magic it held for me! Thanks Leslie Ann.

Countryfolk by Rhonda. Love reading about Rhonda's problem solving and thinking. Gives me ideas about how to go from one thing out to find solutions... or more questions!

Forgotten Faces and Long Ago Places by Teresa Wilson Rogers. Details in photos: what's not to love about this blog! Get a look at this wedding dress right here!!?Thanks Teresa!

Trails Into The Past by Lisa Suzanne Gorrell. I get a real feeling for her family from Lisa's posts and I appreciate the way she gives her posts texture drawing me in. And, she also participating in the Family History Writing Challenge!

And here are my 11 questions for these nominees if they so choose to participate, and I really hope they do:

Credit for Questions 1 - 5:?Tell us?five important things?about how you get interested in genealogy and why you blog? (Please make it juicy cause it's credit for?five big questions!)

Question 6: Do you watch TV and if so what are your favorite shows/ types of shows?

Question 7: Please tell us about your journey of genealogy education? I'm self-taught and that can be dangerous. I'm curious,?how did you learn what you know, and do you have recommendations (or cautionary tales) for the newbie?

Question 8: When you're not doing genealogy, what's your fav thing to do?

Question 9: Please share your pain: tell us about one of your brick walls and how long you've been working on it. (I need to feel better about my own brick walls;)

Question 10: Has there been one person, web site, or class that was the most beneficial to you?

Question 11: What's the funniest story you can tell us about your interest in genealogy?

Source: http://nutsfromthefamilytree.blogspot.com/2013/01/libster-blog-award-coming-my-way.html

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It really is Essential That University Record Maintaining is Effective ...

Schools and universities deal with thousands of students and millions of files. It is vital that university record maintaining is efficient simply because there are usually times when student records need to be accessed. Most information is kept electronically, but nevertheless there are usually paper files to deal with. Whether it be in the university administrative office or the professors, a document management software program program is useful.

If any of this information was to turn out to be lost or misplaced, that could cause a range of issues, some of which may have an effect on the future of students needing crucial information from their records.

Archaic systems truly cannot cope with today?s modern education method. Universities provide such a wide variety of subjects that it is impossible to preserve up with them. If you have to find a certain file in a storeroom complete of dusty old files, it could take forever.

It is essential that all schools, colleges and universities have an efficient document management program in place that is user-friendly and enables every file to be effortlessly positioned. Qualifications are vital for particular jobs and information might want to be verified by prospective employers before hiring a person.

Some students study at much more than one university more than the course of their life. Teachers could require to confirm details about the student such as grades, diplomas and degrees or other pertinent details with employees at a previous university employees. A modern day, computer-based filing program will speed up this procedure enormously.

Records retention guideline policies need to be followed. Proper record maintaining practices make sure that all university records, whether they?re digital or paper based, are simple to find, retrieve, and are credible. To attain this, files need to be maintained by the best feasible document management program. These practices also apply to inactive records that must be retained for legal purposes.

Some records must be kept or archived for legal or economic causes, for future administrative demands or since of historical significance. Retention periods for other records may be determined by university policies.

An efficient document management software is much more crucial in today?s modern day pc age, since a lot of the perform students do is on a computer. Rather of having to turn every assignment into a paper-based document for grading, CDs, DVDs and other formats are now mediums that are permissible for assessment. Such documents can also be stored in this same format, which reduces the volume of paper wastage and the amount of space needed for such storage.

At the end of every year, files can be sorted, stored, archived or destroyed as necessary. The document management software that is used can track throughout the life-cycle of the files.

Simply because the management of any filing method is complicated, universities usually have employees that are accountable for making certain all filing is carried out appropriately.

It would be a large job when very first converting to a a lot more effective document management program since particulars about all files would have to be entered into the pc and a standardized labeling method implemented to reduce duplication which can very easily occur due to several teachers dealing with the exact same students.

Typically departments are responsible for their personal filing and every little thing must be coordinated so it really is completed the exact same way for the whole university, even if there is more than 1 campus.

E mail is a necessary component of university life. A huge proportion of a university?s operational communication is carried out through email. It is extensively utilized for: contact with students, advice of meeting arrangements, directions, negotiations, authorizations, development of policies, employment matters, university announcements and circulation of reports and committee minutes.

Because most of these emails are deemed to be official records, it is necessary to make sure they are efficiently and effectively managed.

E mail transmissions could also be requested as evidence in legal proceedings or criminal investigations. It?s vital that emails be filed properly and be simple to locate if urgently needed.

It is vital that university record keeping is effective, since it assists meet legal and financial obligations, and saves time and cash when filing, and particularly, when in want of locating files.

Source: http://www.bnr.co/reference-and-education/college-university/it-really-is-essential-that-university-record-maintaining-is-effective/

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