Interleukin Genetics Receives Approval To Sell its PST® Periodontal Disease Genetic Test in New York
PR Newswire, Dec 7, 2009
WALTHAM, Mass., Dec. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Interleukin Genetics, Inc. (NYSE Amex: ILI) announced today it has received approval by the State of New York’s Department of Health for the Company to sell in New York its PST Genetic Test that determines predisposition to severe periodontal disease in individuals. The test has been available in all other States in the U.S. However, through its Clinical Laboratory Evaluation Program (CLEP), New York monitors the accuracy and reliability of results of laboratory tests, including genetic tests, on specimens obtained within the state, setting one of the highest accreditation standards in the country for genetic testing companies.
Interleukin Genetics currently distributes its PST genetic test to dentists through a licensing agreement with OralDNA Labs, a subsidiary of Quest Diagnostics, Inc. This approval will further expand OralDNA Labs’ reach to the dentist community with the PST test.
“We are pleased to have met New York’s standard for both our laboratory practices and our PST test. This approval by New York further supports our commitment to provide genetic tests that offer strong clinical value,” said Lewis H. Bender, CEO, Interleukin Genetics. “PST along with our Heart Health now both meet New York State’s unique criteria.”
The PST Genetic Test provides a means of assessing an individual’s genetic risk for periodontal disease, the most common cause of tooth loss
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Moving 101
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A couple months before you move, call the IRS or a tax expert and ask them about possible deductions for moving and moving expenses. This will help you to know how closely you need to keep track of expenses and receipts. Collecting estimates from different moving companies is also a good idea this far in advance. The internet is a fabulous way to learn about the area you are moving into, so spending some time researching can save you time later. For example, knowing the nearest pizza or Chinese place is a very smart search that you will appreciate having the evening you arrive in your new location.
Drawing out the floor plan of your new location and packing accordingly will also save you time in the long run. Knowing that this box is going to the living room or that one goes straight to the attic will make moving in an easy task. One moving expert recommends, “Work your way through each room taking inventory and deciding what to donate or throw away. Start planning a yard sale or contact your local charities.” Also, you will want to use up disposable items such as cleaning supplies and frozen foods. Craigslist is a wonderful resource for finding moving boxes either free or inexpensively.
Pack the items you don’t use as often first. This is also a good time to plan a yard sale if you plan to have one. Another item to check off your list is changing your address with the Post Office. “If you are unsure of your new address, ask the postal service to hold your mail at their office in your new city.” While you are making phone calls, call your local newspaper and set a date to end your subscription. If necessary, schedule your utilities to be disconnected at your old house and connected at your new one
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An Easy Way to Shop
Pies are a widely spread dish in every American state. They are served as deserts or at breakfasts, on different holidays or without particular occasion. One of the most tasty and flavored pie is the pecan pie. Today this piece of culinary art could be ordered easily online and delivered right to your home. Pecan pies online can be found on numerous websites and in a variety of sizes but one would have to say the best is to be found at tannerspecan.com
Pecan pie has its roots deeply in the American history and city folklore. It is said that it was first made by the French and other European settlers that inhabited the area of New Orleans. The pecan trees grow mainly in the Central and Southern part of U.S
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What You Need To Know About Cockatiel Health To Prevent Your Bird From Illnesses
If you will be raising any pet, say for instance a cockatiel, the pet’s health is a very important consideration since it largely affects the creature’s well-being. This makes cockatiel health a big thought for cockatiel owners. The characteristics of a cockatiel indicate how it can be handled and cared for. Well, if you plan to raise one, it is essential to care for them extensively to make them communally and physically dynamic as well as for these pets to live longer.
To maintain good cockatiel health, the key is to provide them with the required essentials to achieve optimum health like a proper diet, a good sleep, and owners who are always aware of their wellness. It is also essential that they should follow a normal daylight schedule so make sure that your pet sleeps in a clean place, away from any interruption
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Sears and Kmart Offer Greater Financial Flexibility With Six Months No Payments, No Interest This Holiday Season
PR Newswire, Dec 1, 2009
Customers spending just $99 on their Sears card qualify for this special financing promotion – another way Sears and Kmart are helping make Christmas shopping easier, more convenient and more affordable
HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill., Dec. 1 /PRNewswire/ — In an ongoing effort to provide budget-conscious customers with greater financial flexibility this holiday season, Sears and Kmart are offering customers the opportunity to wrap up their holiday gift list and take six months to pay. Last-minute shoppers can still make the most of their holidays with special financing at Sears and Kmart. Customers who spend just $99 storewide are eligible for six months no payments, no interest with their Sears card, through Dec. 12 at Sears and through Jan. 2 at Kmart.
“We’re doing our best to give customers more retail savings and more flexible financing options at a time when our customers really need them,” said Aaron Caid, vice president and CMO, Sears Financial Services, Sears Holdings. “With weekly doorbusters, layaway – both in store and online – and now the opportunity to receive no payments, no interest for six months with their Sears card, customers will have more, smart options throughout the holiday season.”
Customers without a Sears card can apply in any Sears or Kmart store. It takes just seconds and when approved, customers will get an additional $10 off their purchase as a statement credit. Additionally, when customers receive their Sears card in the mail they will get $20 in coupons toward their next purchases.
Other smart solutions include Sears’ personalized and convenient shopping options through ShopYourWay(TM), which allows for shopping to revolve around the customer 24/7. With innovative options such as Web2Store and Sears’ Personal Shopper, customers can get what they want, when they want and how they want when they shop in store or online. ShopYourWay provides the best of what Sears and Kmart can offer its customers – great prices everyday and a large assortment of brands, products and services online or offline through Sears.com and Kmart.com, Web2Store and personal shopper, 1-800-4-MY-HOME and in-store visits.
Also, Real Time Price Check, which is available through the Blue Christmas Crew for Sears customers, means you’ll have no regrets, and you’ll always get the best price. We check the competitors’ prices and meet or beat them. The pricing is current and Sears will match competitors’ advertised prices on the same product giving the customer the lowest prices available.
Visit http://www.sears.com/ and http://www.kmart.com/ for more information on special store hours, in-store deals and online sales to find the best value and savings for this holiday season.
*IMPORTANT DEFERRED INTEREST PROMOTIONAL OFFER DETAILS (when offered):
FINANCE CHARGES accrue on a promotional purchase from the date of purchase at the rate in effect from time to time and all accrued FINANCE CHARGES for the entire promotional period will be added to your account if the purchase is not paid in full by the end of the promotional period or if you default under the card agreement. Making the minimum monthly payment will not pay off your promotional purchase in time to avoid FINANCE CHARGES. With credit approval, for qualifying purchases made on a Sears card (Sears Commercial One[R] accounts excluded). Sears Home Improvement Account (sm) valid on installed sales only. Offer is only valid for consumer accounts in good standing and is subject to change without notice. May not be combined with any other credit promotional offer. Promotional offers of 14 months or more require minimum monthly payments as disclosed in the offer.
SEARS CARDS: APRs up to 26.49%, but if your account has a variable APR, the APR is up to 29.99% as of 09/07/09 and may vary. Lower rates may apply. Minimum FINANCE CHARGE: up to $2
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Viterra Provides Update on Issued and Outstanding Chess Depository Interests (CDIs)
Market Wire, December, 2009
Viterra Inc. (TSX: VT) (ASX: VTA) has been advised by its transfer agent in Australia, Computershare Investor Services Pty Limited, that as of November 30, 2009, 32,988,088 CDIs remain issued and outstanding on the Australia Securities Exchange (ASX), which represents approximately 9% of the Company’s 371.6 million total issued and outstanding shares.
On September 23, 2009, Viterra issued 68,629,939 CDIs to CHESS Depository Nominees Pty Ltd (CDN) on behalf of ABB Grain Ltd (ABB) shareholders, as partial consideration for their ABB shares. In September, Viterra acquired ABB, a leading agri-business in Australia and New Zealand via a shareholder-approved Scheme of Arrangement. Viterra purchased all of the issued and outstanding ABB shares for a mixture of cash and scrip on September 23, 2009.
Since that date, a number of CDI holders have converted their Australian-listed CDI holdings to Viterra shares, which trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) under the stock symbol VT. Viterra currently has approximately 15,000 CDI holders.
CDIs are units of beneficial ownership of Viterra shares held and registered with a depository clearing house in Australia. CDIs can be bought or sold on the Australian exchange and are convertible at any time into Viterra common shares.
Viterra intends to provide quarterly updates regarding its issued and outstanding securities within the Liquidity and Capital Resources section of its Management’s Discussion and Analysis which is publicly released and filed with Canadian regulators quarterly and subsequently lodged with the ASX.
About Viterra
Viterra Inc. provides premium quality ingredients to leading global food manufacturers. Headquartered in Canada, the global agribusiness has extensive operations across Western Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, with Adelaide, Australia as the base for Viterra’s Southeast Asian operations. Our growing international presence also extends to operations in the United States, offices in Japan, Singapore, China, Switzerland and India
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Liberty Mutual Encourages Families To Be Fire Smart By Preventing Home Fires This Winter – The Most Dangerous Home Fire Season
PR Newswire, Dec 3, 2009
Liberty Mutual Research Uncovers Fire Safety Misconceptions and Offers Tools and Resources to Be Safe This Winter Season at www.BeFireSmart.com
BOSTON, Dec. 3 /PRNewswire/ — If the 2010 Farmers’ Almanac is an accurate prognosticator, three-quarters of the U.S. will shiver through below-normal temperatures this winter. As families combat the cold by turning up the space heaters, stoves and other sources of warmth, many are doing so unaware that about one-third of home fires and deaths happen in the months of December, January and February, according to the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), most of them caused by heating equipment. And, according to past research by Liberty Mutual Insurance and the International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF), there are other deep knowledge gaps when it comes to preventing home fires. To help families learn how to spot potential hazards and prevent fires in their own homes, Liberty Mutual created BeFireSmart.com as a go-to resource for parents and children to be fire smart.
In a 2006 national survey, Liberty Mutual and IAFF found that one in four adults consider space heaters to be “safe,” when, in fact, most home heating fire deaths (73 percent), injuries (43 percent) and half (51 percent) of associated direct property damage that same year involved space heaters, according to the NFPA. To help keep homes safe from fires this winter, Liberty Mutual’s Be Fire Smart Program offers the following fire safety tips:
-- Keep portable heaters at least three feet away from all combustible
materials and never leave them unattended
-- Do not leave a stove or oven on unattended
-- Do not overload power strips
-- Turn holiday lights off when not at home
-- Never leave burning candles unattended or near combustible materials
-- home fires caused by candles have doubled in the past decade
-- If a fire alarm sounds, or smoke is visible, evacuate first and then
call the fire department
-- Plan an escape route that shows two ways out of each room
-- Practice an escape plan -- during the day and night -- at least twice
a year
-- Buy a fire extinguisher, mount it, and learn how to use it. Revisit
the instructions every six months.
“At the start of the most dangerous home fire season of the year, families need to get the facts on fire safety and take extra precaution in protecting their homes,” said Greg Gordon, Senior Vice President of Consumer Marketing at Liberty Mutual. “Through the Be Fire Smart program and BeFireSmart.com, Liberty Mutual aims to arm people with the resources to effectively prevent home fires.”
Additional Liberty Mutual/IAFF survey findings indicate there is ample opportunity to improve upon our home preparedness:
-- 20 percent of Americans do not own a fire extinguisher
-- 27 percent of Americans do not have a fire escape plan
-- 7 in 10 parents report that their children are less than fully
prepared to escape and survive a fire
-- Only 6 percent of adults know that having working smoke alarms in the
home can more than double their chances of surviving a fire
-- Only 3 in 10 adults would evacuate their house first before calling
the fire department
About BeFireSmart.com
There are vast resources for parents at http://www.befiresmart.com/ to help them prepare their families about fire safety and to prevent home fires from occurring. The site includes games, instructional videos, interactive fire safety quizzes and a tool to build your own fire escape plan. The fast and fun kids’ section also features a downloadable coloring book that tells a story about the importance of never hiding from a firefighter during a fire. The site also offers classroom lesson plans for teachers, and resources for firefighters.
About Liberty Mutual Group
“Helping people live safer, more secure lives” since 1912, Boston-based Liberty Mutual Group (Libertymutualgroup.com) is a diversified global insurer and fifth-largest property and casualty insurer in the U.S. based on 2008 direct written premium. Liberty Mutual Group ranks 86th on the Fortune 500 list of largest U.S. corporations, based on 2008 revenue. The company has over 45,000 employees located in more than 900 offices throughout the world.
The eighth-largest auto and home insurer in the U.S., Liberty Mutual (libertymutual.com) sells full lines of coverage for automobile, homeowners, valuable possessions, personal liability, and individual life insurance
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Iraqi journalist turns tables on shoe thrower
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PARIS (AFP) A protester who presented himself as an Iraqi journalist in exile hurled a shoe Tuesday at the colleague who one year ago found fame hurling his own footwear at then US president George W. Bush.
Television reporter Muntazer al-Zaidi was in Paris to promote his campaign for the “victims of the US occupation in Iraq” when a fellow Iraqi critic turned the tables on him, shouting: “Here’s another shoe for you.”
The thickset man with an Iraqi accent made a brief speech in Arabic during the question and answer session, defending US policy and accusing Zaidi of “working for dictatorship in Iraq,” before throwing his shoe.
The missile was thrown hard at Zaidi’s head, but he managed to dodge it and it bounced harmlessly off a curtain erected behind the…
Atlas of shiatsu; the meridians of zen shiatsu
SciTech Book News, Dec, 2009
Atlas of shiatsu; the meridians of zen shiatsu.
Rappenecker, Wilfried and Meike Kockrick. Trans. by Johanna Schuster.
Elsevier Saunders
2009
180 pages
$57.95
Hardcover
RM723
Rappenecker (founder and director) and Kockrick (teacher, both Hamburg Shiatsu College, Germany) not only illustrate, but also explain their understanding of the anatomically extended meridians of Zen Shiatsu as described (verbally but never written down) by Masunaga. The meridians are drawn onto monochrome photographs of the relevant part of the body, with accompanying textual explanation of the location and details that cannot always be illustrated in two dimensions
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TOP TIPS
0 Comments | Sunday Mirror, Dec 6, 2009 | by Anonymous
SAVE potato water after cooking and use it to remove tarnish from silver – Frank Sainsbury, Tooting, South London REVITALIZE discoloured lace by leaving it to soak in cold tea. This will turn it a traditional creamy beige. – Edna Barrington, Liverpool TO revive flat tened upholstery, hold a hot steam iron over your sofa arms for a few seconds to instantly plump it up.
- Kas Martin, Stirling IF you are going away for a few days, a simple way of ensuring that you return to a fresh-smelling kitchen is to leave out a cut lemon in a dish – Tara Baxter, Norwich SEND us your tips and we’ll give you a name check.