We share progress photos of our work in the About.com Cross Stitch Forum all the time. It is so neat to watch someone’s work progress from a few stitches to a lovely design whether it is a geometric design, a little cartoon character, or, as in this case, a holiday treasure. Kelly has been stitching on Santa quite a while and he’s turning out to be a gorgeous fellow

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Photo of the Week: Santa Forum SAL

Science news in the media today is full of stories about Fermilab finding no less than five Higgs particles: God Particles Breeding Like Bosons, The ‘God Particle’ may exist in five forms, Large Hadron Collider’s rival project finds, US experiment hints at ‘multiple God particles’, Fermilab Experiment Hints at Multiple Higgs Particles. The source of these stories can be traced back to this preprint, whose authors then appeared on this radio program, leading to this Symmetry Breaking story….

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God Particles Breeding Like Bosons

The Govt of India, Ministry of Labour and Employment vide Notification No: S-38025/04/2010-S.S.1 DT 20-04-2010,has amended Rule 50 of ESI (Central) Rules, 1950, enhancing the wage ceiling for coverage of employees under ESI Scheme from Rs. 10000 to 15000 with effect from 01-05-2010

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wage limit for coverage of ESI scheme enhanced from 10000 to 15000

Let’s talk some more about trying to stay healthy and fit as freelance writers. More specifically let’s talk about workout buddies, the different kinds, and why you might want one.

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Freelance Fitness: Get a Workout Buddy

(Cross Posted from OpenLeft.) It looks like MoveOn.org members are just as excited about Elaine Marshall as DFA and the rest of North Carolina. Over 70% of MoveOn.org’s NC members supported Elaine in for the runoff on June 22. The vote will determine which candidate will run against incumbent Sen.

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Following DFA’s lead, MoveOn.org endorses Elaine Marshall for Senate in NC

Last month, Wider Opportunities for Women (WOW) hosted its second annual blog day, “America’s Budget Matters (So Does Yours)” . People from across the country blogged about fiscal responsibility on the federal and state levels and shared their personal insight on budget matters

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WOW’s Blog Day A Success!

Recently, I posted a list of 12 Things Good Bosses Believe . Now I’m following up by delving into each one of them. This post is about the third belief: “Having ambitious and well-defined goals is important, but it is useless to think about them much

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Hey Boss — Enough with the Big, Hairy Goals

When Google launched its G Apps Marketplace, Zoho was one of the chosen few launch partners . We presented our integration of Zoho CRM and Zoho Projects with Google using GData API and were chosen to be one of the featured applications in the newly launched marketplace.

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Zoho Invoice & Zoho Creator Helpdesk integrate with Google Apps

If you see a CE Mark (an acronym for ”Conformité Européenne”) on any electronic gadget (including toys and medical devices), it is basically a guarantee from the manufacturer that the product meets all the safety requirements of the European Union.

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The CE Mark Can Have Another Meaning

(Editor’s note: This post forms part of the month-long HBR Debate, “Finance: The Way Forward.” It is the second post on this week’s topic: “Do we really need banks — and what might take their place?”) ” Neither a borrower, nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry ” If only bankers had followed their Shakespeare , we wouldn’t have had a subprime crisis. But then there wouldn’t have been any banks, and take away the banks for the 400 years since Hamlet and we would still be riding horses, mixing eye of newt and toe of frog to cure our toothache and generally living nasty, brutish and short lives. But banks are not only useful for innovation and wealth generation; they also make excellent scapegoats when things go wrong .

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Why We Need Banks

On the set of Creative Juice ~ making ribbon crafts! Scrap Ribbon Sachets A simple sewing technique turns ribbons into sweet smelling lavender sachets perfect for drawers and linen closets. Supplies: 12” of 2 ½ ” wide ribbon 12” of 2 ” wide ribbon Lavender or potpourri of choice Matching thread Sewing machine Hand sewing needle Small artificial flowers (optional) 1. Layer and center the narrower ribbon onto the wide ribbon, so that both sides are facing up

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Make it: Ribbon Sachets

Wow! Thanks to the Blogger Team for highlighting my Health Care Law Blog as a Blogs of Note on Blogger Buzz , the official buzz from Blogger at Google, for Monday, June 14, 2010. More on the Historie of Blogs of Note . Welcome to all stopping by the Health Care Law Blog for the first time.

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Coming up with simple, one-size-fits-all answers to serious problems is so tempting and so satisfying. Look at autism, for instance: a mysterious disease with a wide range of expression, so wide that it is more properly called Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), and the popular press and various celebrities all want it to be pegged to a simple cause: it’s vaccines, or it’s mercury, or it’s the dose of the vaccines, and all we have to do to fix it is not vaccinate, or reduce the number of vaccin…

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Autism and the search for simple, direct answers

Is Mary Midgley supposed to be the epitome of philosophical confusion and bungling incomprehension? She’s like the Emily Litella of science criticism, always going off on harebrained tangents of her own invention, but unlike Litella, nothing ever compels her to offer a meek “Never mind”. Midgely has done it again with another tirade against the New Atheists.

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Bumblin’ Midgley babbles again

Govt plans new norms to tax profits by Indian firms abroad Vrishti Beniwal / New Delhi June 14, 2010, 0:22 IST The finance ministry plans to introduce Controlled Foreign Company (CFC) rules to check outbound investment in tax havens for avoiding or deferring tax.

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Govt plans new norms to tax profits by Indian firms abroad

By now, you might have heard about the kerfuffle between Nature publishing and the University of California (also here, here, here, and here). Basically, the University of California has accused Nature of raising its prices for institutional journal subscriptions by 400%; the university system, which has significant purchasing power, has threatened a boycott that would not only forbid purchasing their journals, but would also forbid publishing and reviewing for Nature.

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Nature’s Bubble Business Model

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has decided that the personalized DNA tests sold by companies like 23andMe are medical devices subject to government regulation, and the federal agency says the tests must be vetted by regulators if they are to remain on the market. Alberto Gutierrez, director of the Office of In Vitro Diagnostic Device Evaluation and Safety at the FDA’s Center for Device and Radiological Health, sent letters on Thursday to 23andMe, Navigenics, DeCode Genomics, Knome and…

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Personalized DNA testing kits should be regulated as medical devices, the FDA says

The World Bank has been engaging a wide variety of policy advocacy CSOs on the issues of access, rights, and financing of urban water and sanitation programs over the past five years. Of particular concern to CSOs have been the issues of water privatization, cost-recovery approaches, and lack of affordable water services for low income populations in Bank-financed water and sanitation projects. For its part, the Bank has welcomed this dialogue because it clearly shares with civil society the goal of extending universal coverage to the poor in developing countries and improving delivery effectiveness

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Bridge over Troubled Waters: Navigating the Policy Divide

The BP oil spill has devastated the Gulf of Mexico, pummeled the oil company’s market value, and created a lingering problem for the Obama Administration, which has been criticized for responding too cerebrally, without sufficient forcefulness or authenticity . The spill has also provided an interesting historical footnote: during an interview with Matt Lauer on NBC’s Today Show last week, Obama declared that one of his goals during meetings on the crisis has been to determine ” whose ass to kick .” As profanities go, “ass” is a relatively mild one — it’s been commonly used on network TV shows for years now

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Should Leaders Ever Swear?

June 11, 2010 Important Announcement Attention: IPCC / ATC Examinees of May, 2010 term of CA Examination In continuation of announcement dated February 23, 2010, we wish to bring to the notice of IPCC/ ATC examinees who have appeared in May, 2010 examination but not yet registered for 35 hours Orientation Programme and 100 hours Information Technology Training (ITT) and unable to complete both the requirements latest by 10th July, 2010 so as to submit the same to Examination Division latest by 15th July, 2010 for declaration of their results are advised to contact the nearby regional / branch office positively by 15th June,2010 in order to get the training completed. All such candidates may note that any request thereafter may not be entertained under any circumstances. Please note that non-completion of even one of the two programmes will result in cancellation of the results of the May, 2010 examination

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Attention: IPCC / ATC Examinees of May, 2010 term of CA Examination – (11-06-2010)