Earnings schedule for week of 4/23/2012

Major companies tentatively scheduled to report quarterly earnings next week:

Monday

ConocoPhillips reports quarterly financial results.

Hasbro Inc. reports quarterly financial results.

Netflix Inc. reports quarterly financial results.

Dutch electronics maker Royal Philips Electronics reports quarterly financial results.

Tuesday

3M Co. reports quarterly financial results.

Amgen Inc. reports quarterly financial results.

Apple Inc. reports quarterly financial results.

AT&T Inc. reports quarterly financial results.

Hershey Co. reports quarterly financial results.

Reynolds American Inc. reports quarterly financial results.

United States Steel Corp. reports quarterly financial results.

United Technologies Corp. reports quarterly financial results.

Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis AG reports quarterly financial results.

Wednesday

AutoNation Inc. reports quarterly financial results.

Boeing Co. reports quarterly financial results.

Caterpillar Inc. reports quarterly financial results.

Delta Air Lines Inc. reports quarterly financial results.

Lorillard Inc. reports quarterly financial results.

Sprint Nextel Corp. reports quarterly financial results.

US Airways Group Inc. reports quarterly financial results.

Wellpoint Inc. reports quarterly financial results.

Swiss bank Credit Suisse reports quarterly financial results.

French luxury and retail company PPR reports quarterly financial results.

South Korean electronics maker LG Electronics reports quarterly financial results.

Thursday

Aetna Inc. reports quarterly financial results.

Altria Group Inc. reports quarterly financial results.

Amazon.com Inc. reports quarterly financial results.

Chrysler reports quarterly financial results.

The Dow Chemical Co. reports quarterly financial results.

Exxon Mobil Corp. reports quarterly financial results.

Kellogg Co. reports quarterly financial results.

PepsiCo Inc. reports quarterly financial results.

Safeway Inc. reports quarterly financial results.

Starbucks Corp. reports quarterly financial results.

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. reports quarterly financial results.

United Continental Holdings Inc. reports quarterly financial results.

United Parcel Service Inc. reports quarterly financial results.

Zynga Inc. reports quarterly financial results.

Dutch oil and gas company Royal Dutch Shell PLC reports quarterly financial results.

German bank Deutsche Bank AG reports quarterly financial results.

French telecommunications equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent reports quarterly financial results.

Japanese video game system maker Nintendo reports quarterly financial results.

Japanese automaker Hyundai Motor reports quarterly financial results.

Friday

Chevron Corp. reports quarterly financial results.

Ford Motor Co. reports quarterly financial results.

Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. reports quarterly financial results.

Merck & Co. Inc. reports quarterly financial results.

Procter & Gamble Co. reports quarterly financial results.

German automaker Daimler AG reports quarterly financial results.

French oil company Total reports quarterly financial results.

French Drugmaker Sanofi reports quarterly financial results.

Japanese automaker Honda reports quarterly financial results.

Japanese automaker Mazda reports quarterly financial results.

South Korean electronics maker Samsung reports quarterly financial results.

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MTV News' Summer Movie Preview Week

Stick with us for sneak peeks and inside details from the season's biggest films.
By MTV News staff

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Make way for Captain America! Look out for Snow White! Here comes Spider-Man!

The 2011 summer movie season is about to begin, and with it, the return of familiar faces and the emergence of new ones. All week long during Summer Movie Preview Week, MTV News will be bringing you exclusive interviews, clips and photos for the most-anticipated films of the coming months. Get ready to gorge on inside looks at "The Avengers," Robert Pattinson's "Bel Ami," Kristen Stewart's "Snow White and the Huntsman," "The Amazing Spider-Man" and much more!

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Robert Pattinson Goes Shirtless in Exclusive "Bel Ami" Clip
The clip opens in a boudoir with the mostly naked and slightly disheveled Clotilde de Marelle (Christina Ricci) lying in bed, post-tryst, posing a question to her equally scantily clad lover, Georges Duroy (Robert Pattinson).

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One of the most intriguing aspects about the very highly anticipated and superhero-studded "Marvel's The Avengers" is in wondering how much the audience will see of each individual character, as well as what the actor in question has brought to the table in portraying a new side of their respective Marvel hero in the massive film. Director Joss Whedon recently kicked us the inside scoop.

"Bourne Legacy" Director Introduces Us to the Newly Matt Damon-Free Franchise
After seeing the first trailer, you might have thought "The Bourne Legacy" would be just another "spy with amnesia" movie. Director and co-writer Tony Gilroy wants you to know that you're very, very wrong.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt Gets Extreme in "Premium Rush"
Few actors can claim to have a 2012 quite as full of big movies as Joseph Gordon-Levitt. The 31-year-old actor isn't just reteaming with his "Inception" director, Christopher Nolan, for "The Dark Knight Rises," but he's also starring in one of the most talked-about releases of the year, "Looper," and preparing his directorial debut, "Don Jon's Addiction." On top of all that, this summer he'll headline "Premium Rush," an action film about a bike messenger caught up in a conspiracy.

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Vatican and Oxford libraries scan ancient works, let scholars stay in their armchairs

Two of the world's most hallowed libraries are about to get even quieter, having been given $3 million to go with the flow and put some of their oldest collections online. The Vatican Library and Oxford University's Bodleian Library will together offer up 1.5 million pages of hoary text, including Gutenberg's Latin Bible from the 15th Century, a 1,200-year-old Hebrew codex called the "Sifra," and enough Greek philosophy to make even Homer seem succinct. At the end of a five-year flatbed scanner marathon, these digital copies will be accessible to speakers of dead languages everywhere, and hopefully for less than sacrilegious prices.

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Obama, Romney trade blows as fight for White House narrows

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney fired sharp attacks at each other on Wednesday as they opened a seven-month battle for the White House that got ugly fast.

Both campaigns moved quickly to frame the choice for voters one day after Romney's chief rival, conservative Rick Santorum, dropped out, giving the former Massachusetts governor a clear path to the Republican nomination to challenge Obama in November's election.

On cue, the Obama campaign released a video of Romney's more awkward moments on the campaign trail and again portrayed him as a wealthy, out-of-touch conservative.

Romney attacked Obama's economic leadership as a failure and described him as a throwback to the era of "big-government" Democrats.

The exchanges were a sign of things to come in a general election fight for the White House between two candidates who have shown they are willing to throw a punch.

Obama's campaign video entitled "Memories to Last a Lifetime" reminded voters of potentially embarrassing statements from Romney in the Republican primary campaign. Among them were his declaration that "corporations are people" and his claim to have been a "severely conservative" governor of Massachusetts.

"Mitt Romney: A severely conservative nominee. Remember that," the video says, pre-empting any move by Romney to tack to the center to win independents in the coming months.

For the second consecutive day, Obama promoted the Buffett Rule, a plan to ensure that millionaires like former executive Romney pay at least 30 percent income tax.

At an event in the White House, Obama said the Republican Party had moved to the right and recalled the belief of former President Ronald Reagan, a Republican and conservative icon, that the wealthy should pay their fair share.

"What Ronald Reagan was calling for then is the same thing we're calling for now - a return to basic fairness," Obama said at the event, which featured a number of millionaires and their secretaries.

Congress will take up the Buffett Rule, named for billionaire investor and Obama supporter Warren Buffett, next week but the timing of Obama's comments also is part of his portrayal of Romney as an out-of-touch elitist.

The Obama campaign placed a digital calculator on its website allowing Americans to see how their tax rate compares to the 13.9 percent rate Romney paid in 2010. He paid that low rate because most of his income was from investments rather than wages, which are taxed at a higher rate.

Romney, a former head of a private equity firm who has touted his business background, said Obama was trying to change the subject from his poor handling of the economy.

'A THROWBACK'

"He's really trying to divert from the failure of his record, which is that he has not created jobs," Romney said in an interview with Fox News. "I think this president represents a throwback to the old-style Democrats of the past: big government, welfare state Democrats."

Romney's campaign plans to focus on painting Obama as an incompetent steward of a stuttering economy.

But with the primary competition behind him, Romney still must rally distrustful conservatives and unite a party with fresh memories of a divisive nominating battle that featured millions of dollars in negative attack ads from Romney and his campaign allies.

Romney also must repair his image with women voters, which polls show suffered during the primary campaign. Democrats were quick to criticize on Wednesday when three Romney advisers were unable to say during a conference call with reporters whether Romney backed a law signed by Obama on equal pay for women.

The Romney campaign later said he backed the law and released a flood of statements attacking Obama's record on creating jobs for women.

"Of course Mitt Romney supports pay equity for women. The real question is whether President Obama supports jobs for women," said Romney campaign spokeswoman Amanda Henneberg.

Romney said he was confident the party would unite as the campaign moved forward and said he was not concerned about the Obama campaign's charges that he is out of touch with everyday Americans.

"We are getting started with a general election campaign and people will get to know me better and they'll get to know him better as well and they'll look at his record," Romney told Fox. "But the person I am out of touch with is Barack Obama; I am in touch with the American people."

Two other Republican candidates remain in the race for the nomination but they badly lag Romney and have virtually no chance of winning.

One of them, former House of Representatives Speaker Newt Gingrich, had to explain how a $500 check from his campaign to pay for registration in the Republican primary in Utah just bounced.

Gingrich's campaign is suffering from money problems but he said the bounced check was drawn back in December but the account had since been closed and the money moved elsewhere.

"It wasn't that we didn't have enough money in the bank but that that particular account had been closed," he said.

(Additional reporting by Matt Spetalnick, Doina Chiacu; Editing by Cynthia Osterman)

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Iran Nuclear Talks: Can Islam Guide the Way to Peace?

There's all sorts of ways the nuclear talks with Iran might end badly. But it's also pretty clear, even before diplomats gather in Istanbul on Friday, how the talks would manage to end happily: On the foundation of Iran's repeated insistence that atomic weapons are prohibited by Islam.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who wields nearly absolute power in Iran, has been saying for years that nuclear arms are "sinful" and thus off-limits for the Islamic Republic. He said it again as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prepared to call on President Obama in Washington last month: "There is no doubt the decision-makers in the countries opposing us know well that Iran is not after nuclear weapons because the Islamic Republic, logically, religiously and theoretically, considers the possession of such weapons is senseless, destructive and dangerous," the Supreme Leader declared, according to state media.

(MORE: Five Tips for President Obama on Nuclear Negotiations with Iran)

The mullah was right on one point: At least one decision-maker in a country opposing them -- President Obama -- knows very well that Iran publicly opposes nukes on religious grounds, and sees in that stance an elegant way out of a crisis increasingly defined in military terms. Obama brought the point up himself to the Atlantic's Jeff Goldberg during their lengthy interview on the eve of Netanyahu's visit, an expansive discussion that made news for its tough talk -- "I don't bluff" -- but also laid out the President's strategy for a negotiating a peaceful endgame. The pivot point, he said, would be the Iranians' descriptions of nuclear weapons as "un-Islamic" and "sinful."

"The point is that for them to prove to the international community that their intentions are peaceful and that they are, in fact, not pursuing weapons is not inconsistent with what they've said," Obama explained. "So it doesn't require them to knuckle under to us. What it does require is for them to actually show to the world that there is consistency between their actions and their statements. And that's something they should be able to do without losing face."

Face matters in any negotiation, but especially one with Iran, which sees itself not only as the vanguard of the Muslim world, but also of what used to be called the non-aligned nations, scrappy underdogs that chafe at a world order top-heavy with northern, Christian states -- basically, the ones who took charge after World War II and held on. Add to that the longstanding national pride in Iran's own lustrous history of innovation and high culture (much of it assembled under the rubric of "Persia," its other name) and you begin to see the importance of Tehran's walking away from the table with its head held high.

(MORE: Iran Talks: Amid Ticking Clocks and Closing Windows, What Would Success Look Like?)

But a cleric also wants to look consistent, especially on matters ecclesiastical. Khamenei may not qualify as a full-on, old school ayatollah; he was awarded the title as a battlefield promotion by fellow clerics as they settled on him to succeed Ruhollah Khomeini, who fully earned his own title of Grand Ayatollah following years of Islamic jurisprudence. The head of state has final word on all matters: Khamenei is the velayat-e faqih, or guardian of the jurists, ruling in the place of the missing twelfth imam of Twelver Shi'ism. On his website, Khamenei goes about not only affairs of state but also the main business of an ayatollah -- helping believers navigate the dilemmas posed by the modern world. He recently ruled, for instance, that it's permissible to visit websites that compensate people who visit them, so long as doing so "does not amount to propagating corruption, spreading lies, showing wrong subjects or involvement in haram [forbidden] practices." He also says that if you've got to shave your beard, it's okay to have a barber do it.

Gary G. Sick, who followed Iran at the National Security Council before moving to Columbia University, puts considerable credence in the Khamenei's words. "Regardless of his qualifications, he has that job and he takes it seriously," Sick tells TIME. "People may not follow him as their personal ayatollah, but when he makes a statement that has to do with security and the state there is nobody that can contradict him."

Nor can he airily contradict himself, even though his fellow mullahs took the trouble to assemble a mechanism to allow him to. Consider the wonderfully named Expediency Council, designed to manage the tension inherent between a worldly parliament and the council of clerics who serve as a kind of religious supreme court. The same spirit of pragmatism allows the Leader all sorts of freedom. "Ayatollah Khomeini introduced a new reading according to which, for an Islamic state the first priority is to conserve and sustain itself," says Mehrdad Mirdamadi, an Iranian-born analyst now working at Radio Free Europe. "To do so it can even suspend the shari'a law. This later became known as the expedience of the system principle, based on which the Expediency Council was formed."

(MORE: Is Iran Dangerous -- or Desperate? Both)

This means Iran could justify pursuing even "sinful" nuclear weapons if doing so was reckoned necessary to survival of the state -- something Sick says the mullahs felt was indeed in question during the 1980s, when they secretly revived the Shah's nuclear program and explored weaponization. (That narrative is the subject of a coming post). Publicly, however, the fatwa against nukes remained operative, and with it the opportunity for concerned foreign powers to engage the issue.

"I'm glad the US government has finally realized that that gives them a basis for starting negotiations," says Sick. "We say, 'Okay, we take you at your word, you don't want to make nuclear weapons, and we want to have assurances that you're not. So we've got something to talk about here.'"

MORE: Weighing the Benefits of a Preventive War Against Iran

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Boeing bears down on 737 fuel-savings target

(Reuters) - Boeing Co on Wednesday put some finishing touches on a make-over of its popular 737 aircraft as the U.S. planemaker battles with European arch-rival Airbus to deliver fuel savings to airlines hammered by near-record oil prices.

The company unveiled several design choices meant to lower weight and wind-resistance for its upcoming 737 MAX. The planemaker said it had decided on an 8-inch nose gear extension to give ground clearance for a larger engine fan.

The world's largest planemakers are revamping their workhorse models with bigger engines to offer double-digit percentage fuel savings in one of the most competitive market battles of the last two decades, affecting a vital source of cash generation at both companies.

"My feeling about it is what they're saying is plausible. And I'll just wait until we see the results," said Hans Weber, president of technology management consultancy Tecop International.

More decisions about the design are expected, and Boeing said on Wednesday that it would have a firm configuration for the plane next year.

Last year, Boeing unveiled plans to put new engines in its existing 737 design, providing fuel savings of up to 12 percent over the current 737. Boeing named the aircraft the MAX and said it would enter service in 2017.

Weber said the announcements shed light on the MAX program and gave clarity to the design. He said he did not expect the decisions to add to the undisclosed cost of the MAX program.

In its 40-year history, the Boeing 737 has become the world's most-sold aircraft and the backbone of airline fleets worldwide. But Boeing has taken several months to finalize the design of the upgraded 737 MAX while juggling engineering considerations, market opportunities and costs.

The airplane will compete with the Airbus A320neo, which also will feature new engines and offer fuel savings of 15 percent over the current A320.

UPDATING A BEST SELLER

Boeing said it would improve the aircraft's aerodynamics by extending the tail cone, update its flight controls and strengthen landing gear, wings and the fuselage to accommodate the weight of the larger engines. Boeing said the decisions were within the scope of the original design goals.

Wednesday's announcement, which had been eagerly awaited by investors and the industry, came after months of deliberations over engine improvements and aircraft design.

Engineering experts said Boeing's response had been hampered by the fact that there was comparatively little space to place the industry's bigger and more efficient engines under the wing of the 737, which was initially designed low to the ground to speed up baggage loading and aircraft turnaround times.

To fit inside the available space, the current engines already have a squashed appearance underneath to give the engine housing adequate ground clearance.

"Based on design work and preliminary testing results, we have even more confidence in our ability to give our customers the fuel savings they need while minimizing the development risk on this program," said Michael Teal, chief project engineer and deputy program manager of the 737 MAX program.

The MAX will be powered by engines made by CFM International, a joint venture between General Electric Co and Safran .

BOEING PUSHES BACK

In 2011, Boeing had 36 percent of new plane sales, while Airbus stacked up record sales of its revamped A320neo.

Now Boeing, based in Chicago, is hitting back with strong sales of its own redesigned narrowbody and is aiming to win the order race in 2012.

Boeing has taken more than 1,000 orders and provisional orders for the MAX since winning its first provisional order for the plane from AMR Corp's American Airlines last year. Southwest Airlines will be the first operator of the plane.

Boeing has reported firm contracts for 451 of the 737 MAX 15 customers. The company said that when provisional orders were factored in, the total exceeded 1,000. Airbus has reached definitive agreements to sell 1,289 A320neos, making what it describes as the fastest-selling new aircraft in history, and reported provisional deals for an additional 266.

Boeing is working to get performance guarantees in place for its MAX customers as it attempts to convert hundreds of provisional orders for the MAX to firm this year.

It is also spotlighting performance of its current 737 as a key selling point. The company illustrates 737 reliability with data showing the 737 family of planes has a higher rate of reliability than the A320.

Boeing's internal data show that 99.68 percent of the current generation of 737 flights are ready to depart within 15 minutes of schedule. That compares to the A320's reliability of 99.35 percent, according to Boeing.

Based on these figures, the company said a fleet of 100 737 MAX airplanes flying five flights a day would have 590 fewer delays and avoid disrupting an estimated 66,600 fewer passengers.

"The reliability of the 737 has always been higher than the competitor," said Beverly Wyse, general manager of the 737 program.

"There's more and more attention in this industry paid to protection of the passenger and passenger rights," Wyse said, noting the cost of rebooking and penalties airlines sometimes must pay customers for delays.

Both Boeing and Airbus routinely claim to have the edge in the crucial 150-seat category. According to the Airbus website, the A320 delivers "unmatched efficiency plus the best in technology for operators".

"No one can reasonably challenge the reliability of the Airbus A320," said Airbus spokesman Clay McConnell. "If you look at similarly sized and similarly aged fleet, the data would not support Boeing's claims."

(Reporting By Kyle Peterson; additional reporting by Tim Hepher; editing by John Wallace and Gunna Dickson)

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New investigaiton sought of state workers' comp pool (AUDIO)

The state?s biggest worker?s compensation insurance company is drawing scrutiny from state legislators who wonder if it should be sold.?

The legislature established Missouri Employer?s Mutual in 1993 when many small businesses could not afford workers comp insurance. and when competition was limited. The state put up five million dollars? to establish the company. The majority of its board is appointed by the governor. But it operates as an independent non-profit company and controls sixteen percent of the Missouri worker?s comp market.?

Senator Scott Rupp of St. Charles, who has sponsored the bill calling for the new committee, says MEM is a complicated business with a unique status as a government-formed independent agency.

Senator Jim Lembke?s special committee investigated the company last year. He says it?s a mutual company that has never behaved as one

MEM did not pay a dividend until this year?two million dollars.? Senator Eric Schmitt, who favors the sale of the company, says it has $163 million in reserves at a time when the industry standard is $39 million.? He says MEM has outlived its usefulness.

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Kidney "living donations" favor some patient groups

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Americans who receive a kidney from someone who is not a relative tend to be white, highly educated and live in wealthier neighborhoods, according to a new study that calls for wider outreach to promote living donation.

Researchers say the findings demonstrate that financial and educational barriers to donating a kidney make it harder for the poor and minorities to give or receive an organ.

"We're not doing enough in this country to remove disincentives to living donation," said Dr. Gabriel Danovitch, senior author of the study and director of the kidney and pancreas transplant program at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Although medical costs for a live donor are typically covered by health insurance, additional expenses -- such as travel, lodging and time off of work -- are not.

The kidney is one of the few organs a person can give away, yet still lead a healthy life afterwards with one remaining kidney.

Since the 1990s, advances in immune-suppression have made it safer to receive an organ from someone who is not biologically related. Less-invasive surgery techniques also make it easier to give a kidney.

To see who is most likely to take advantage of that opportunity, Danovitch and his colleagues looked back on information about all 39,000 adult kidney transplants in the U.S. from 1997 to 2007 that occurred between a patient and a live donor.

They gathered up data on education, race, insurance type, zip code and whether people were related.

Spouses and immediate family were considered related, while distant relatives, friends, colleagues and others were considered unrelated.

Danovitch's group found that kidney donations from non-relatives have become more common, rising from seven percent of live donations in 1997 to 26 percent in 2006.

In most cases when patients seek a live donor, they look for a match among close family first, and non-relatives second.

Sometimes there is no relative able to offer a healthy kidney, however, because a common condition that leads to kidney failure -- polycystic kidney disease -- tends to run in families.

Danovitch said that in a few cases organs came from volunteers who had no relationship at all with the transplant recipient, but the vast majority of the time the unrelated donors had an emotional relationship with the patient -- mostly they were friends.

His team also found that both unrelated donors and recipients were generally older, likely to live in slightly higher-income neighborhoods than related donors and recipients and more likely to have completed a college degree.

Unrelated-transplant recipients were about 20 percent more likely than the related pairs to be in their 40s or 50s than to be under 40, for example. And they were about 25 percent more likely to be white, than to be black or Hispanic.

Thirty-nine percent of kidney recipients who were unrelated to their donors also had college degrees, compared to 35 percent of related recipients.

Patients with higher socioeconomic status are probably more likely to have access to potential donors who have similar means and resources, Danovitch's group writes in their report, published in the Journal of Urology.

"It's not because (people in lower socioeconomic-status groups) care about their loved ones any less, but because they can't pay for the flight, the hotel, or losing their job," he told Reuters Health.

Kidney donors typically have to take six weeks off work after the transplant, said Dr. Arthur Matas, the director of the Renal Transplant Program at the University of Minnesota, who was not involved in the new study.

Matas said that informational barriers might explain the finding that recipients of organs from unrelated donors are more likely to have had more formal education.

"If you don't know how to get access to healthcare, then you're not going to get referred to the tertiary centers that do (living donor) transplants," Matas told Reuters Health.

"Formal education level may correlate with awareness of the benefits of living donation, which can affect the willingness to donate and receive a kidney," Danovitch's team writes.

Cultural differences could also factor in to the results, they note.

Dr. Amber Reeves-Daniel, the medical director of abdominal organ transplant at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, said she's made a similar observation at her center -- that African American transplant recipients almost always receive a live donor kidney from a relative.

"I think there's a sense of closeness in the African American family structure of, 'we're going to make this work,'" said Reeves-Daniel, who was not involved in the study. "If that doesn't work out, then they say, 'I would just get a kidney from a deceased donor,'" rather than seek out a kidney donor outside of the family.

The trouble with waiting for a kidney from a deceased donor is that hopeful recipients far outnumber the availability of organs. According to the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, 91,000 people are waiting for a kidney.

The United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) is in charge of the waiting list for deceased-donor organs.

UNOS would not comment on the study because the organization does not allocate living-donor organs.

"One of the great benefits of living kidney donor transplant is you don't have to wait," said Dr. John Friedewald at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, who did not participate in the research.

While there are health risks for people who donate a kidney, Danovitch said he'd like to see more people have the chance to donate if they want to.

That might include finding ways to reimburse people for the costs that insurance companies typically don't cover, such as time off work.

Low-income organ donors can seek some financial help from the National Living Donor Assistance Center, a federally-funded program to help cover the costs of providing an organ.

Danovitch said in addition to the financial hurdles, the educational barriers also need to be addressed to make sure all kidney donors and recipients have an equal opportunity to share.

SOURCE: http://bit.ly/HXPXRn Journal of Urology, online March 15, 2012.

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Are you planning to tour somewhere in near future? We would recommend you to think once about to go to?Norfolk. Why? Because?Norfolk?is enriched with tourist places and have all necessary and advanced facilities for the tourists including accommodation.

When you plan a tour the first thing that strikes then in your mind is to get a safe, clean accommodation to live in. Nothing is wrong in that, as you can enjoy your tour while you are safe and healthy only. When its comes on accommodation facility in Norfolk, you need not to be a bit worry, as most of the accommodation places in the city are safe and clean and are available for people from all walks of life i.e. your budget is whether low or high you can expect a better place to stay in the city.

Norfolk?holiday cottages are there in the city where you can expect a comfortable and secured life. The important fact which has compelled us to mention these cottages is that both economy and luxury rooms are available in these cottages. So, whatever your budget is you can stay in these cottages. One more thing which makes these cottages special is their ambience and surroundings which are splendid and mesmerizing. ?Food services in the cottages are also very good. Veteran chefs are there to serve the guests.

In addition to?Norfolk?holiday cottages,?there are many hotels, inns, hostels in the city to accommodate you and you can choose them as per their availability and your budget.

Overall,?Norfolk?is the place where you can enjoy your life as much as possible because you get peaceful, vibrant, safe place to sleep in and amazing places to look for. Holiday Cottages In UK

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Catering Small business Advertising Tips | villeple

Ahead of you begin to put in writing a promotion method for the catering organization it is best to perform some research from the sector to learn what your possible competition are giving. Additionally you should know particularly what possible purchasers are seeking.

The next report sets out some options to take into consideration while you continue to place jointly your catering company marketing and advertising approach.

What exactly are you Offering?

Prior to you may commence your advertising prepare you need to initially have the ability to evidently outline particularly what solutions and providers you happen to be promoting. Previous to you are able to strategy your menus and companies you may need to be aware of what the men and women inside your goal marketplace want.

There are various distinctive catering market markets these kinds of as wedding ceremony receptions, seated supper occasions, company features, barbecues, boxed lunches and picnics to call some.

When deciding on the type of meals that you just would love your catering provider to concentrate on you need to try out to pick a place that may be now becoming below served. Otherwise you could focus on space that is certainly so preferred that there?s a good deal of room with the current market for your new player. In case you do your homework and speak to sufficient persons you are going to have the ability to expose what these parts are.

Branding Suggestions

A brand name will not be only about your firms visual representation from the current market. Positive you will need a fantastic catering enterprise identify and emblem design and style but there?s a lot more to a brand name than that. Your model is all about your track record with the industry, the claims that you just make to consumers as well as criteria that they count on. If buyer perceptions of the model are beneficial then it should make your advertising and marketing attempts considerably simpler.

Set higher expectations for ones enterprise and go out to fulfill consumers with terrific support where ever feasible. Often test to over-deliver along with your support and you also will discover that you may have developed a powerful brand name very quickly.

Pricing and Packaging Catering Expert services

The following stage from the practice of developing your marketing and advertising prepare is usually to package deal your merchandise or providers into marketable models with pricing that is definitely desirable and successful.

Develop some promotional components for ones catering organization. Just about every time you cater an celebration remember to get images from the dishes that you simply have geared up. It is possible to rely on them in your own brochures, facts packs, menus or on your own site to point out buyers how your meals is offered.

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Try out to enter a place that you simply possess a aggressive edge in since you have exclusive expertise or since you have use of one of a kind suppliers by way of example. If no place jumps out right here just test to consider how one can supply precisely the same provider as other caterers but inside a way which makes you get noticed from them. You may need to acquire a ?unique offering proposition? that sets you other than what your rivals are giving.

Marketing and Promoting Procedures

Exploration and put into practice a advertising and marketing technique that brings together standard marketing techniques, internet marketing of one?s site, immediate promotion and shopping for sales opportunities. It is possible to also experiment with other types of promoting these kinds of as ?word of mouth? or networking.

Exam each procedure and monitor them properly where ever probable to find out which solutions justify the prices and time concerned.

Product sales ? Closing the Offer

When heading together to satisfy with possible shoppers usually just take some modest samples of one?s foods, whether or not it is actually only a several hors d?oeuvre?s for them to test. Discover the way to market your solutions to a client and just how to inspire them inside a polite approach to shell out a bit more than what they initially prepared.

Do the job out a consultation and profits procedure that may be refined through time till perfected. Some caterers want to talk the natural way when many others get the job done predominantly off a revenue script. Discover out what performs finest to suit your needs.

Prosperous catering home business proprietors establish marketing and advertising devices which have been consistently bringing new prospective customers to their organization. They then take advantage of the sales opportunities that they get and understand how to maximise gross sales. Mastering the artwork of catering organization advertising and marketing is among the most critical elements foremost to a ?six figure? money on this organization.

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KSBC and 'bad English' | PG's Pensieve

Today?s newspaper reports that the 13 members present in a special meeting of the Bar Council of Karnataka (KSBC) unanimously adopted a resolution to remove its chairman Anandkumar Appu Magadum. They voted against him for ?bad English? as he was not even able to properly read out the farewell speech for former Chief Justice Jagadish Singh Khehar and welcome speech for Chief Justice Vikaramajit Sen.?Senior advocates said the KSBC president?s speeches had brought disrepute to the organisation, which controls the entire legal fraternity in the State. ?? you have made a mockery of the entire legal fraternity by your bad pronunciation and speech,? the members have said in their letters written since November 8, 2011.

This is for the first time in the 51-year history of the Bar Council that its chairman has been removed through a no-trust motion.

Business of teaching spoken English seems to be doing well, as demonstrated by the growing number of such schools and their big claims advertised in poor English. Google search on ?teaching spoken English? gives about 23,600,000 results?(0.25 seconds.) The fresh ex-Chairman of the bar council could start a new institute to teach English.

Some businesses do better not because of their effectiveness, but because many people drop out without completing the term. People are hooked by the promises and are disenchanted when they realise that they have to be committed and need to put own efforts to learn anything.

Often we meet people who say that their English is not good as their medium of instructions in the school was not English, but their mother tongue. Such people are often poor in expressing anything clearly in their mother-tongue either. Formulating ideas with logical thinking and a desire to share knowledge are the core ingredients to make one proficient in speaking any language. If one develops these skills, learning a new language would become easy. Language is only a tool to translate our ideas in to words. Ideas develop in our minds, talk and writing. The tool itself does not come with ideas; we have to use the tool to model our views.

Seven Languages in Seven Weeks is a book that teaches seven programming languages in seven weeks. It is possible to dabble with seven new languages in seven weeks only if we already knew seven other programming languages. If this is our first book on programming, we can?t learn even one of the languages in seven weeks.

Dr. Richard P. Gabriel is a?Consulting Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, a researcher at IBM Research,?lead guitarist in a rock ?n? roll band, a poet and a writer. His website, Dream Songs, gives very interesting insights on how software profession relates to other disciplines. He states:

?Writing code certainly feels very similar to writing poetry ? ?It?s the same kind of concentration ? if you look at the source code of extremely talented programmers, there?s beauty in it ? Yes, writing code and writing poetry are similar.?

Richard Gabriel has launched a program named Master of Fine Arts in Software similar to programs that offer MFAs in creative writing.

The real problem with many is not their problem with English or one specific language. It is a lack of interest in modelling our thoughts. This is a skill we can learn. ?Speaking in English is like speaking in Kannada or Tamil or Telugu ? Head of some other august body may as well get unseated for being unable to speak his or her mother tongue. Disgrace would be equal for ?bad pronunciation and bad speech? in any language.

The great British 18th century writer Samuel Johnson once said that ?the greatest part of a writer?s time is spent in reading, in order to write.?

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Business Management Software For Brand Promotion
Just take a look on what is brand management and what is brand management software. Brands are created to satisfy certain target market customers. Those with similar needs and wants. The process of creating business management software and managing them for long term success is called branding. Brand management is a process of used in marketing, this means that the brands of the company have to be managed so as to create a encouraging image about the brand management software and the company in the minds of the customers. Seek the help of reputation business management software professionals for enhancing your brand reputation online. What if you had a complete platform of small business management software tools that provided you with a powerful web based system that would improve your work flow and business management software? Quite a number of brand management software are there which are in success and are capable. Consider some methods which you need then these methods marketing information you can get. Enterprise performance brand management software also includes a work flow layer. The work flow layer is mandatory for managing the complex interactions of individuals engaged in sustainability activities. Sending files via email can spoil a nice day. According to experts many if not most meta files are too large to make it through email channels. And another thing that makes this brand management application convenient is the fact that it will be very easy for the software to deploy the tasks once the auditing proposal has been approved. Extra software can be utilized to control brand management and develop subject material. Whether you are calculating a solitary position with under 20 monitors or a multi-site network with thousands of screens it is worthwhile knowing how the brand management software elements work collectively. Brand management increases the overall productivity of the company with efficient management of information. Websites can help build brands, maintain connections with customers and vendors and get feedback. Brand management has become an essential part of modern brand management because nobody nowadays can afford to lose business for the sake of miss coordination. Regarding this brand management software new version the main focus has been on creating capacity for producing records video and audio using the latest formats .Aprimo works hard to help you protect your management. The company monitors your online reputation, investigates your Business and they work following a strategy and ensure protection of your online brand.

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In The Balcony Movie review: The Three Stooges The Movie ? The ...

Posted on April 7, 2012 by Jueseppi B.

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Do we really want anyone remaking the old Saturday morning favorite, The Three Stooges?

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The Three Stooges?is an upcoming slapstick comedy film based on the early to mid-20th century comedy shorts?of the same name. It was produced, written and directed by the?Farrelly brothers?and co-written by Mike Cerrone. It stars?Chris Diamantopoulos,?Sean Hayes, and?Will Sasso.

After over a decade and casting problems,?principal photography?took place from May to July 2011. The film is scheduled to be released on April 13, 2012.?The film is rated PG for slapstick action violence, some rude and suggestive humor including language by the MPAA rating system.

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While trying to save their childhood orphanage, Moe, Larry, and Curly inadvertently stumble into a murder plot and wind up starring in a reality TV show.

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Conundrum Entertainment?s Bradley Thomas became attached to?The Three Stooges?around 2000 with?Columbia Pictures. In March 2001,?Warner Bros.?bought the feature rights from C3 Entertainment and?Peter?and?Bobby Farrelly?became involved.?They along with co-writer?Mike Cerrone?completed the script in mid-to-late 2002 and began shopping it. In 2004, with no talent being attached to the project, their rights expired and it was acquired by?First Look Studiosand C3 Entertainment.

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In November 2008,?MGM?boss?Mary Parent?picked up The Farrelly?s Warner Bros. scripts and the rights from C3 Entertainment, and was given a budget of $40 million with a release date of November 20, 2009.?In March 2009, after struggling with casting delays, the release date was pushed to 2010, but the filmmakers still did not have a cast set.?In November 2010,?MGM filed bankruptcy?and the following month the project was taken over by?20th Century Fox?in hopes to have released the film on March 14, 2011.

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The Farrellys said that they were not going to do a biopic or remake, but instead new?Three Stooges?episodes set in the present day. The film will be divided into three segments with a stand-alone story, each being 27 minutes long.?The Farrelly?s aim to receive a PG (Parental Guidance) rating from the?MPAA, while still incorporating?physical comedy. The Farrellys have also said it would have ?non-stop slapping, more in the tone of?Dumb and Dumber?than we?ve done. Our goal is 85 minutes of laughs in a film that will be very respectful of who the Stooges were. It?s by far the riskiest project we?ve ever done, without question, but it is also the one closest to our hearts.?

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In March 2009,?Benicio del Toro?was in talks to play the lead role of?Moe Howard,?but then later dropped out. He was replaced by?Chris Diamantopoulos?in April 2011.?Hank Azaria?was considered for the part.?Sean Penn?was already set to play?Larry Fine?but dropped out to concentrate on his?charitable efforts in Haiti.?Sean Hayes?was chosen to play Larry.?Jim Carrey?was set to play?Curly Howard?and gained 40 pounds for the role but ultimately dropped out because of not wanting to endanger his health gaining 60 to 70 pounds.?The role went to?Will Sasso.?Johnny Knoxville,?Andy Samberg?and?Shane Jacobson?were all on the?short list?to play Moe, Larry and Curly, respectively.

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In December 2010,?Richard Jenkins?was in talks to play Mother Superior in the film.?In February 2011,?Cher?was considered?but?Jane Lynch?secured the role.?Larry David?plays another nun in the film called Mother Mengele.?Sof?a Vergara?was cast as Lydia.?Stephen Collins?was cast as Mr. Harter?and?Carly Craig?as his wife, Mrs. Harter.?The cast of?Jersey Shore?(Nicole Polizzi,?Michael Sorrentino, Paul DelVechhio,?Jennifer Farley, and Ronnie Ortiz-Magro) will have cameos in the film.

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On a reported budget of $30 million,?principal photography?started on May 9, 2011 in?downtown Atlanta,?Georgia?and?wrapped?on July 20, 2011.^?Scenes were shot at the?Fairlie-Poplar Historic District?around 5 Points Sports Building on the corner of?Peachtree St., Edgewood Ave., and Decatur St. on the evening and night of May 13 and wrapped the next day.?On May 26, filming took place at?Stone Mountain Park?in Atlanta.?Other locations included?Piedmont Park?and?Colony Square.?In June production moved to?Cartersville?and shot scenes near?Woodland High School.?After the cast of the?Jersey Shore?arrived on July 18, 2011, they shot scenes at the?Atlanta Civic Center.?During the last two days of filming, scenes were shot at an?Ansley Park?home.

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We are Greater than the Sum of Our Parts | Not For Sale Fellowship ...

?Justice denied anywhere diminishes justice everywhere.? ? Martin Luther King Jr.

During my university experience, I spent four years in a state of incessant wide-eyed wonder, completely bewildered at the plethora of opportunities to learn.? Electives were an academic smorgasbord, allowing me to register for classes on everything from the social impact of 9/11, to the art of motion pictures, to social justice movements in developing countries.

Gradually, gender became a focal point of my studies.? Being a slightly na?ve first-year student, I expected to study nothing much beyond women?s rights.? But when my gender studies classes began discussing ?other? justice issues like poverty and race, I started feeling as though these classes were getting off course.? Why were these considered distinctively ?feminist issues??? Nobody ever explained to me in a clear, explicit way why these topics had intrinsic relevance in the feminist dialogue.

Once I began working for?Not For Sale, though, it began making sense.? I remember in my first week of orientation at Not For Sale, the social ventures team spoke to us about our?international projects.? I was desperately trying to draw the connection between some of our projects and how they related to human trafficking.? Why are we working alongside seven indigenous communities in the?Peruvian Amazon?? Why are we developing an agricultural business in?Romania??Why are we bringing soup to women in the heart of the Red Light District in?Amsterdam???Why are we partnering with a for-profit manufacturing company in?India?

Over the course of my next few weeks, I became further immersed in a culture of deeply holistic thinking.? It dawned on me that?especially as a non-profit organization?we cannot talk about justice for one group of people without discussing justice for another group.? Justice is intersectional.? Justice is multidimensional.??Justice denied anywhere diminishes justice everywhere.

It cannot be about emancipating people from slavery alone.? That is why Not For Sale aims to fulfill a?broad spectrum of survivors? needs?beyond aftercare and safety, including opportunities to develop life skills and acquire job training, long-term employment, and viable incomes that create a sustainable future.? Moreover, Not For Sale has gone ?upstream? to proactively mitigate susceptibility to forced labour through creating?social enterprises?that offer dignified employment, encourages ethical supply chains, and creates self-sustainable revenue flow.?? For example, in order to prevent tribes in Peru from becoming trafficked, Not For Sale established a relationship with the leaders of seven communities to create a social enterprise where locals earn a living wage in a cooperative to craft jewelry made from seeds harvested from the Amazonian rainforest.

We, as a whole, are greater than the sum of our parts.? From the secular perspective, structural functionalists believe that society is a complex system of interrelated parts that must work together in solidarity to promote stability and cohesion.? In a more spiritual sense, some Christians believe that the church must behave like the body?if one part suffers, every part suffers; if one part is honoured, every part rejoices. There should be no division; instead, every part should have equal concern for each other.

Unification, therefore, is an avenue for achieving justice?through pooling our resources, relying on each others? expertise, building cross-cultural relationships.? Not For Sale understands this, which is why we partner with communities and businesses across the globe, knowing that cross-sector collaboration contributes to the vitality of the abolitionist movement.

Justice is holistic.? When we talk about empowering women, we need to talk about race, poverty, economics, politics, religion?all of the connected issues.? When we talk about survivors of human trafficking, we must also discuss innovative, replicable, and sustainable solutions that mitigate the risk of vulnerable communities becoming enslaved.

Justice will prevail only when it is accessible to everyone?from the women behind the windows in?Amsterdam, to stateless children in?Thailand, to communities in the rainforests of?Peru. ?Every sector of society is needed in this quest for justice.??Everyone has a role, a skill to contribute?educators and students, musicians and athletes, Christians and Muslims, business leaders and grassroots activists.? We are all part of the solution.

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Obviously you might have go to this web site to discover more on this kind of home decorating request generally known as Feng Shui. The significance for you to decor is beneficial but it?s much less in relation to design instruments since it is of a life-style associated with thinking and related actions.

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Even though unknown to our European lifestyle many experts have practiced inside the Japanese hemisphere for hundreds of years and is also far more outstanding versus the oversimplification we?re also using right here.

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The standard fundamental energy source inside of Feng Shui is the Yin as well as Yang connected with A few Elements: Timber, Hearth, Globe, Precious metal and Mineral water and that is believed to be worldwide energy that works as a result of close to everything and everybody.

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The middle opinion of people who exercise Feng Shui is truly one of understanding this kind of harmony of one?s to all elements of existence. By rehearsing the procedures you will not only end up being designing your house yet aiming living energy raises prosperity, increase health, and get tranquility within your intimate connections.

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Some could look at this a sort of faith : others some sort of psychic self-control. Since you go through these pages you opt. Undoubtedly, Economical just isn?t wanting to teach but rather flying insects you to definitely the property design and style principles within study regarding Feng Shui.

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Let?s move on simply by understanding Qi Vitality ( space ) your Feng Shui strength that goes amongst many physical objects. The two primary kinds:

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Sheng Chihuahua Power ( space ) The actual positive electricity. This is the very good, healthy, positive energy. Delight is abundant in as well as with no. You?re feeling sorted, light-weight along with airy. Fresh flowers, oxygen, vivid happy the sun?s rays is a superb impression with regard to Sheng Qi strength.

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Sha Chihuahua Strength : While everything seems for being failing along with the dominate mood is truly one of rage, misery or even affliction. You sense ill a lot more instances these days along with nature looks bland as well as dull. Family and friends search gloomy in addition to frustrating.

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Inside these kinds of Two principal identifying powers the primary purpose involving Feng Shui is usually to attract this Sheng Chihuahua in to us similar to a magnets to metallic.

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To get this done visit must introduce a couple of permanent magnetic makes which can be regarded as from the home layout arena.

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Entrance doors : the placement, color, ailment, route regarding opening, dimensions and type most customize the amounts of Qi at your residence.

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Plant life ? Using dried out flowers of any type is a robust magnetic field with regard to Sha Chi (bad electricity). Don?t use anything but clean or stay plant life during the house. Never ever work with a cactus being an feature, It really is thought to be by far the most ?unlucky? of flowers.

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Are now living in Your Bedrooms ( space ) suites specified for less than special events construct rarely used get old energy and may fight a lot more positive rooms at home. ?Dead energy? may have to put out a bad have an effect on and will cause health issues to the people that dwell right now there.

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And decorative mirrors ? placement of decorative mirrors within your household ought to be considered thoroughly. One example is, an image won?t be used in a bed room ? the idea disrupts peaceful slumber. Conversely it might set up a smaller foyer to make a lot more place the light. Perfect for kitchen or maybe lobby.

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Manage in addition to Declutter * My way through your own home should offer an intention and also be with very good operating purchase. A lot of material as well as the energy cannot move simply. Cracked food, burned out bulbs, mend and also change or your electricity methods tend to be assets apart.

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Keep your Restroom Front door Sealed plus the Bathroom Top Straight down ( space ) Truth be told this really is just about the most important guidelines to getting and maintaining money. China believe a person practically cleanse the wealth out if you don?t maintain toilet lid lower or your toilet door sealed!

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Receive a Family pet! Domestic pets move and also help distribute the power. Almost any healthy living canine: canines, cats and kittens birds, goldfish produces very good strength right into a residence. Yet, if you can?t take time to address these properly * the idea can bring in Sha Chi.

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Utilize Water Fountains or A Fish Tank ( space ) This specific elixir to every one life?s an enormous magnet regarding obtaining wealth. Location a tiny bubbling upwards water fall in your house place of work ? it is likely to bring results!

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Steer clear of Artwork that indicates Disappointment or maybe Aloneness Place pics which may have more than one person or canine. Solo timber as well as bouquets can be avoided above countryside as well as floral arrangements. Consider life, lasting love and sharing portrayed inside your retaining wall highlights.

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Now that you?ve got an idea as to the area aspects of Feng Shui fully grasp this is just the ?tip of the iceberg? and to definitely make use of these types of lifestyle styles you must combine the more detailed issues with this specific self-discipline as well as applications of the force sources as listed above.

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In conjunction with energy flows all around all of us, it is usually assumed many of us employ a good luck Kua range and a main route associated with Distance or even West which in turn forcefully has a bearing on this constructive experience with our lives. The career in our areas ? the placement of home furniture : each of our retaining wall shade ( space ) the actual features we pick just about all substantially influence the action in our homes.

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In summary, on the chance of uncouth oversimplification, Feng Shui would be the looking at of that is energetic, living along with fresh new in addition to cleaning from all of that will implies distress, darkness, despression symptoms as well as passing away.

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Feng Shui meets perfectly to your requires along with dreams of every center of which would like to generate a home a home. However sincerely you think the faith based aspects,the huge benefits found in their software are generally home noticeable.

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Nokia town faces dim future as jobs shift to Asia

SALO, Finland (AP) ? Tomi Marjuaho repaired mobile phones for 10 years in the town of Salo in southern Finland, where Nokia, the world's top cell phone-maker, set up its wireless operations in the 1980s.

He took a severance package in 2010, as Nokia started hitting hard times, and has not found work since.

"I was the breadwinner in the family, and now it's difficult making ends meet," the 39-year-old said, at the local metal workers union club which is used by the town's unemployed as a meeting place. "It's the same story for so many people I know from Nokia days."

Salo ? along with other Finnish towns inextricably linked to Nokia ? is facing an uncertain future as Finland's most famous corporation shifts its mobile phone assembly to Asia.

Squeezed by fierce competition from Apple Inc.'s iPhone, Samsung Electronics and cheaper brands running Google Inc.'s popular Android software, Nokia has been forced to slash costs, primarily affecting its operations in Europe.

Nokia has already closed plants in Germany, Hungary and Romania; and now it's the turn of the Finnish assembly plant. Some 1,000 of the 3,500 jobs in Salo ? which until recently was Nokia's flagship assembly hub ? are being cut this year. The once-thriving technological center has already become a town of dusty, empty storefronts.

"The latest layoffs will hit us hard," said Salo's mayor, Antti Rantakokko.

He has a shiny office in a glass-plate and metal building that opened four months ago, partly paid for by Nokia's local taxes, which accounted for 95 percent of the town's corporate tax income that peaked at ?60 million ($78.85 million) in 2010.

"Nokia has been a status symbol for us, but more than that it has been a major source of income," Rantakokko said.

The company began as a paper-maker in the 1890s, and later made rubber products, cables and televisions before it came to Salo ? a center for Finland's electronics industry since the 1920s ? in 1983.

Nokia formed an alliance with a local radio and TV manufacturer, which led to the formation of Nokia Mobile Phones in 1989. Two years later, the company produced its first cell phone.

Steered by chief executive Jorma Ollila, Nokia became the world's top cell phone maker in 1998 when it overtook Motorola Inc. in terms of sales ? a major source of pride for a country that had struggled to rebuild itself after fending off Soviet invasion during two wars against Stalin's Red Army.

Nokia became Finland's largest firm, overtaking the paper and wood industry as an export earner and provided work for thousands. In 2007, it paid out a record ?1.2 billion ($1.57 billion) in corporate taxes to the government.

Nokia reached 40 percent global market share in 2008. However, sales quickly started to lag as the company suffered under the onslaught of inventive mobile technologies from the U.S., the world's biggest wireless market.

Profits swung to losses and the struggling company's tax payment dipped to some ?2 million last year.

"There's no denying it has been a great shock to the government, but there's not much they can do," said Jyrki Ali-Yrkko, from the Research Institute of the Finnish Economy.

Nokia's importance to the vulnerable, export-dependent economy was illustrated by the flood of aid the government swiftly earmarked to regions hit by the company's cutbacks.

Finnish President Sauli Niinisto, who hails from Salo, visited Nokia's plant here on March 20 in a display of support for the laid-off workers.

"We won't abandon our friends and we won't give up," Niinisto told reporters.

To the dismay of many Finns, Nokia has gradually loosened its ties to its home nation.

It remains headquartered in Espoo, outside Helsinki, but in 2010, it appointed a non-Finn to head the company for the first time when it named Canadian Stephen Elop as chief executive. That led to a major strategy shift last year as it joined up with Microsoft Corp., Elop's former employer, to replace Nokia's platforms with Windows software in its cell phones.

Nokia still employs 12,000 people in Finland, one-fifth of its global work force, and the company will maintain research and development, production planning and smartphone customization for corporate clients in Salo and two other plants in Finland, Nokia spokesman James Etheridge said.

"Finland has been and will continue to be critical to our success. The majority of the Windows Phone engineering and development team is in Finland," Etheridge said.

Nonetheless, Nokia has stuck to its decision to move all assembly jobs to its factories in Asia, where it has two plants in China, and one each in South Korea and India.

Neil Mawston, from Strategy Analytics in London, said Nokia was one of the last big cell phone makers to shift assembly to Asia from Europe, following in the footsteps of Samsung, Motorola, and Sony Ericsson.

"It's the way things are heading right now, doing production in developing markets where there is the biggest pool of users on the planet, and R&D in developed markets," Mawston said Thursday. "Nokia has a good history of designing mobile phones in Finland for the past 30 years, so to continue to do that makes sense."

In 2008 Nokia employed 5,000 people in Salo ? nearly 10 percent of the population ? and provided work for 2,000 others among those in the IT industry who supplied it with components.

Mayor Rantakokko expects this year's corporate taxes to drop to ?14 million, mostly because of Nokia's decline.

Still, he is hopeful. The government has provided the municipality with an extra ?5 million over two years to deal with the impact of Nokia's downsizing.

"The layoffs are a bitter blow but we can't let it get us down," Rantakokko said. "Nokia will still have 2,500 workers here and will remain important to us."

"There is a technical pool out there, soon out of work, and the challenge will be to find a use for it," Rantakokko said.

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