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October 2009

Diabetic Supplies

Tue, 10/27/2009 - 06:07 — admin

All forms of diabetes have been treatable since insulin became medically available in 1921, but there is no cure. The injections by a syringe, insulin pump, or insulin pen deliver insulin, which is a basic treatment of type 1 diabetes. Type 2 is managed with a combination of dietary treatment, exercise, medications and insulin supplementation.

Patients (usually with type 1 diabetes) may also initially present with diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), an extreme state of metabolic dysregulation characterized by the smell of acetone on the patient's breath; a rapid, deep breathing known as Kussmaul breathing; polyuria; nausea; vomiting and abdominal pain; and any of many altered states of consciousness or arousal (such as hostility and mania or, equally, confusion and lethargy). In severe DKA, coma may follow, progressing to death. Diabetic ketoacidosis is a medical emergency and requires immediate hospitalization.

Diabetic Supplies

Spanish Opel unions, Magna reach deal on job cuts

Tue, 10/27/2009 - 03:49 — admin

MADRID (AFP) –
Unions at the Opel factory in Spain on Thursday reached a preliminary deal with Canadian auto parts maker Magna International on the plant's future, the government and unions said.

The CCOO union said Magna has agreed to cut a maximum of 900 jobs at the factory in Figueruelas, less than the 1,300 it had sought when the talks began last week.

The unions said that Magna also pledged to maintain the bulk of the production at the plant of Opel's five-door Corsa, Merival and other models. Unions had feared some of the production would be moved to Germany.

"Magna is committed to maintaining two production lines and with production capacity of 478,000 units per year," the UGT union said.

Industry Minister Miguel Sebastian hailed the deal, saying "the future of the factory is guaranteed for 10 years."

Struggling US giant General Motors last month announced the sale of a majority stake in its European arm Opel to Magna and its partner, Russian state-owned lender Sberbank.

The deal was supposed to be finalised last week but was then criticised by the European Commission owing to a clear preference by Berlin for Magna's bid over several alternatives.

Sources in Germany said Wednesday the final signing of sale could take place by the weekend if talks with unions and the European Commission bear fruit.

Magna is reportedly planning to cut 10,500 jobs across Europe.

Spanish unions said they are maintaining plans to hold two 48-hour strikes for late October and early November until they can vote on Thursday's deal.

Senate panel passes bills to recognize 7 tribes

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 21:00 — admin

WASHINGTON – Seven Indian tribes in North Carolina and Virginia would gain federal recognition and become eligible for federal aid under legislation approved Thursday by a Senate committee.
The Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina and six Virginia tribes would be eligible for up to $800 million in federal funds under two bills passed by the Senate Indian Affairs Committee. The bills, which bar the tribes from building casinos, have already passed the House.
Lawmakers said Congress does not have the expertise to determine federal recognition of tribes, but noted that they have faced lengthy delays in accessing federal funding for housing, education and health benefits.
In some cases, it has taken 20 or 30 years for their federal recognition to be processed through the Interior Department and that needs to be fixed, said Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., the committee's chairman.
"The administrative process is broken," he said.
President Barack Obama has pledged support for the Lumbee Tribe, which has sought federal recognition for more than a century. The administration has not said whether it will support recognition of the Virginia tribes.
Regarding the Virginia tribes, Interior Department spokeswoman Kendra Barkoff said "in most circumstances we prefer the uniformity and certainty provided by the existing administrative process."
The six Virginia tribes, which have around 3,000 members, have been seeking recognition since the 1990s. They are the Eastern Chickahominy, Chickahominy, Upper Mattaponi, Rappahannock, Monacan and Nansemond tribes.
Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine told lawmakers earlier this year that the identities of tribal members were stripped away by Virginia's Racial Integrity Act, a state law in effect from 1924 to 1967. Racial identifications of those without white ancestry were changed to "colored" on birth certificates during that period.
There are an estimated 55,000 Lumbee Indians in North Carolina's Robeson, Cumberland, Hoke and Scotland counties. Congress has been considering federal recognition for the tribe since before the first bill was introduced in 1899.

Cap Cana

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 20:06 — admin

http://www.capcanaluxuryvilla.com/capcana.html

Cap Cana is located in the Eastern region of the Dominican Republic known as Juanillo. The site was founded as a new and more ambitious touristic site with contributions from international investors and strategic partners such as Ritz-Carlton, Sotogrande, Donald Trump and many others. The site has a Marina, Large resorts, beaches, and many others. Primarily founded as a site to attract international visitors. The Cap Cana Championship, a Champions Tour golf tournament, is held at Punta Espada Golf Club in Cap Cana, a course designed by Jack Nicklaus.

Cap Cana's area includes more than one-hundred and twenty millon square meters of land, of which twenty-five million will be developed in its first phase. It also includes 8 kilometers of beach and coasts, 5 of which are considered to be among the most spectacular in the Caribbean, locally considered to be neck-in-neck to the beaches of Bahia de Las Aguilas (literally, Bay of the Eagles) located in the southwestern municipality of Perdernales- often referred by past visitors as some of the most beautiful in the world.

Business Valuations in NJ

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 17:36 — admin

Business Valuations in NJ

A business (also called firm or an enterprise) is a legally recognized organizational entity designed to provide goods and/or services to consumers. A business needs a market. A consumer is an essential part of a business. Businesses are predominant in capitalist economies, most being privately owned and formed to earn profit to increase the wealth of owners. The owners and operators of a business have as one of their main objectives the receipt or generation of a financial return in exchange for work and acceptance of risk. Notable exceptions include cooperative businesses and state-owned enterprises. Socialistic systems involve either government, public, or worker ownership of most sizable businesses.

In some specialized businesses, there may also be licenses required, either due to special laws that govern entry into certain trades, occupations or professions, which may require special education, or by local governments who just want your money. Professions that require special licenses run the gamut from law and medicine to flying airplanes to selling liquor to radio broadcasting to selling investment securities to selling used cars to roofing. Local jurisdictions may also require special licenses and taxes just to operate a business without regard to the type of business involved.

Vonnie Holliday helping bolster defense in Denver

Fri, 10/16/2009 - 13:46 — admin

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. – When Vonnie Holliday was shopping for a new team, the defensive lineman received all sorts of suggestions from family and friends, even random strangers.
The message was basically the same: Be sure to check out the New England Patriots, they're the front runners with Tom Brady back.
And stay clear of Denver!
Still, Holliday couldn't cross the Broncos off his list, even if they had a defense in disarray and a new coach who began his tenure by quarreling with his Pro Bowl quarterback and receiver.
Something just intrigued Holliday. So he signed on with Denver in early September, eschewing other potential suitors like Carolina, San Diego and New England.
That decision has now left him feeling like he cashed in a winning lottery ticket.
"We've been the talk of the country," said Holliday, whose undefeated team travels to San Diego on Monday night. "This defense is playing well."
Holliday has been an integral part of Denver's 3-4 alignment, filling up space in the middle as the Broncos now boast one of the top defenses in the league.
This is precisely what he envisioned when he selected Denver.
"I remember watching Denver playing Seattle in the preseason and the local bartender is like, 'Hey, you don't want to go there,'" Holliday recalled. "Everybody gives you advice."
Holliday didn't want to rule out any options. He couldn't afford to after coming off right knee surgery in January.
The 33-year-old wasn't even sure if he'd be ready in time for the season. He spent the first 1 1/2 months after the operation running on an underwater treadmill. Only gradually did he increase his fitness level by taking spinning and yoga classes.
To friends and family, the 12-year veteran expressed confidence in making it back to the field.
Silently, though, he was wondering if that was even realistic.
If he did come back, who would sign him with his knee?
"I'm sitting there watching preseason games and looking at these guys, thinking, 'I can play better than that guy,'" said Holliday, who has two sacks and a forced fumble this season. "But it's frustrating. As August kept creeping along, I thought I may be sitting (out) opening week of the season ... I kept working and waiting for my opportunity."
Just before the start of the season, the calls came. Teams were expressing an interest, including Denver.
Yet he was wary.

Like the rest of the country, Holliday read the reports of Josh McDaniels' feud with Jay Cutler that ultimately lead to the rocket-armed quarterback's trade to the Chicago Bears. Then came the suspension of receiver Brandon Marshall for insubordination in training camp.

"All we see or hear about is all the negative stuff that's coming out," Holliday said.

So Holliday spoke with Denver defensive backs Andre' Goodman and Renaldo Hill, former teammates in Miami.

"The story they're giving me doesn't match up with the story I'm reading and seeing every day on the news and in the paper," Holliday said.

He decided to check things out for himself, arriving in Denver and chatting with players in the cafeteria.

Soon after, Holliday was sold.

"I called my wife up and said, 'Look, I think this is going to be a good situation,'" Holliday said.

So far, it's worked out.

Despite a knee that took most of the offseason to mend, Holliday hasn't missed a step. He's coming off a season in which he started 15 games for the Dolphins last season and led the team's defensive linemen with 46 tackles.

His role is reduced in Denver, entering the game primarily in long-yardage situations and nickel packages.

That's just fine with Holliday — he still plays a big part in bolstering a defense that's been bullied around the past two season. This isn't that unit any longer.

"The great thing about this team and this defense is knowing your role and doing your job," Holliday said as the Broncos are off to a 5-0 start for the first time since 1998. "Right now, my job is to come in and back those guys up and not let there be any drop-off."

He's also taken on a leadership role, providing a veteran voice in the locker room.

Is that why the Broncos brought him on board?

"Nah, that isn't the reason," McDaniels said. "I mean, we love that part of it. We want all of our players to have the same type of leadership qualities that Vonnie Holliday does. But we knew that Vonnie Holliday could still be an active, productive player in our scheme."

As for all the advice he received when contemplating his choices, Holliday said he's glad he tuned it out.

"I've been fortunate, no doubt about it," he said.

UN vote sends Gaza war report to Security Council

Fri, 10/16/2009 - 08:13 — admin

GENEVA – The U.N. Human Rights Council voted Friday to endorse a Gaza war crimes report and send it to the Security Council, possibly setting up international prosecution of Israelis and Palestinians accused of war crimes.
The council approved a Palestinian-backed resolution after two days of debate on the Goldstone report, which it had commissioned following the Dec. 27-Jan. 18 conflict in which almost 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis were killed.
The resolution passed 25-6, with mostly developing countries in favor and the United States and five European countries — Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Slovakia and Ukraine _opposing.
Eleven mostly European and African countries abstained, while Britain, France and three other members of the 47-nation body declined to vote. Russia and China, two permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, were among those voting yes.
"The clock on the report starts now," said Ibrahim Khraishi, the Palestinian Authority's U.N. ambassador in Geneva, adding that he hoped the Security Council in New York would take up the report.
If the report is considered by the 15-member Security Council, the U.S. is likely to use its veto to block any call for getting the International Criminal Court involved in the dispute over Gaza or taking action against Israel.
The 575-page report, compiled by an expert group led by Judge Richard Goldstone, concluded that Israel used disproportionate force, deliberately targeted civilians, used Palestinians as human shields and destroyed civilian infrastructure during its incursion into the Gaza Strip to root out Palestinian rocket squads.
It also accused Palestinian armed groups including Hamas of deliberately targeting civilians and trying to spread terror through rocket attacks on southern Israel.
In Ramallah, a spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, welcomed Friday's vote.
"What is important now is to translate words into deeds in order to protect our people in the future from any new aggression," Nabil Abu Rdeneh said.
Israel and the U.S. called the Goldstone report "flawed" because it ignored Israel's right to defend its people from Palestinian rocket fire. They warned that the vote could jeopardize Middle East peace prospects.
Israel's foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, also said endorsing the report could have far-reaching consequences.
"Whoever votes in favor of endorsing the report must understand that next time it will be the soldiers and officers of NATO in Afghanistan, and then Russian soldiers and officers in Chechnya," Lieberman said late Thursday.
U.S. diplomat Douglas M. Griffiths told the council that Washington was disappointed with the outcome of the vote.
"We're focused on moving forward in the peace process and we feel that this is a distraction from that," Griffiths told The Associated Press.
The resolution — which also condemns recent Israeli actions in the Palestinian territories and East Jerusalem — endorses the report's recommendation that both sides in the conflict should show the Security Council within six months that they are carrying out credible investigations into alleged Gaza abuses. If they are not, the matter should then be referred to prosecutors at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands.
ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo had no comment Friday on a possible war crimes probe into the Gaza conflict.
Prosecutors are analyzing a declaration in January in which the Palestinian Authority accepted the court's authority over territory it controls — something only sovereign nations are allowed to do.

Palestinians filed their recognition in the hope that if the court accepts it, Moreno Ocampo would then have jurisdiction to launch an investigation into war crimes committed by both sides during the Gaza conflict even without an order from the Security Council.

Israel does not accept the court's jurisdiction.

The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, urged both sides earlier this week "to carry out impartial, independent, prompt and effective investigations into reported violations of human rights and humanitarian law."

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Associated Press Writer Mike Corder in The Hague and Aron Heller in Jerusalem contributed to this report.

Bank of America loses $2.24B as loan losses rise

Fri, 10/16/2009 - 05:52 — admin

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Bank of America Corp. said Friday it lost more than $2 billion in the third quarter as loan losses kept rising, providing further evidence that consumers are still struggling to pay their bills.
The nation's second-largest bank, which lost $2.24 billion after accounting for preferred dividends, said its losses for failed loans came to almost $10 billion during the July-September period, up almost $1 billion from the second quarter. The bank also added $2.1 billion to its reserves to cover bad loans, bringing its total reserves to $11.7 billion.
Bank of America's results were aided by profit from investment bank Merrill Lynch, including income from bond, stock and currency trading.
Its earnings follow the pattern set this week by Citigroup Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co., which also reported more loan losses during the third quarter as consumers struggled to keep up with their credit card and mortgage payments. Both JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. reported big gains from their trading operations.
Bank of America said it lost $2.24 billion, or 26 cents per share, after accounting for the preferred dividends of $1.24 billion. That compared with earnings of $704 million, or 15 cents per share, a year earlier.
Revenue in the quarter increased 33 percent to $26.04 billion.
The loss was 5 cents more per share than the 21 cents forecast by analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters Inc. Investors sent Bank of America shares down 59 cents, or 3.3 percent, to $17.51 in premarket trading. Shares closed Wednesday at $18.10.
"Obviously, credit costs remain high, and that is our major financial challenge going forward," CEO Ken Lewis said in a statement accompanying the earnings report. "However, we are heartened by early positive signs, such as the leveling of delinquencies among our credit card numbers."
Bank of America is considered particularly vulnerable to unemployment, which climbed last month to 9.8 percent in the U.S. Economists predict the jobless rate will pass 10 percent in the coming months.
The bank's massive portfolio of credit-card loans could be an for how well the industry at large will fare. The bank has about 53 million consumer and small business customers, making it vulnerable to delinquencies and defaults, yet also ready to thrive when the economy recovers.
Bank of America's global card services unit loss widened significantly to $1.04 billion from $167 million a year ago.
The loss in the bank's home loans and insurance division grew to $1.6 billion from $54 million a year ago, as credit costs continued to rise.
The bank, which being investigated by federal authorities for its Merrill acquisition, has received $45 billion in bailout funds as part of the Treasury Departments $700 billion financial rescue package. It's not known when it will repay the government.
Lewis, who is retiring at year's end, has agreed to give up his salary and other compensation for 2009.
(This version CORRECTS Corrects amount added to loan loss reserves in 2nd graf. UPDATES with more detail. Moving on general news and financial services.)

Obama and elder Bush team up on call to service

Fri, 10/16/2009 - 01:43 — admin

SAN FRANCISCO – President Barack Obama, who has called on Americans to perform more community service, is joining former President George H.W. Bush in urging citizens to volunteer.
Bush on Friday was to host a forum on volunteering at Texas A&M University, to be attended by Obama, who initiated a "United We Serve" call to service in June that culminated in a national day of service on the eighth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
The forum is affiliated with the Points of Light Institute, an organization that honors people and groups who participate in community service. Bush created the Daily Point of Light Award in 1989 to honor volunteers. The forum will be held at the A&M campus at College Station, Texas, where Bush's presidential library is located. It was expected to draw students, faculty and Points of Light award winners. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, a former president of the university, was planning to attend as well.
As a candidate, Obama promised to make a call to public service a cornerstone of his presidency.
On the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday this year, on Jan. 19, the day before Obama's inauguration, the president-elect, Hollywood stars and thousands of other Americans volunteered across the country.
In April, Obama signed into law the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act, which tripled the size of the AmeriCorps community service program.
And in late June, when Obama kicked off the call to service program, he and his family worked with other volunteers at Fort McNair in Washington and helped load 15,000 backpacks with books, healthy snacks and toys for children with parents in the armed forces.
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