Apply these tips and get affordable Toronto Bed and breakfast deals ...

If you are postponing your trip plan just for economic reason, this is for you. By applying few tips you can also enjoy good tours with your family.

These days no surprise if you are planning a good trip with your family. After all a good life and time spending with family is everyone?s right but such planning mainly get full stop by people generally at time when people take a glance on number of zeroes leading by numbers required to spend in terms of travel package deal to get such. Such big amount generally gives a thought to people that good travel packages are only meant people having creamy economic layer. However such thought proves wrong if you pay concentration on some fact. Let me explain you step by step. Just let you have planned to visit location of Toronto then what you should do.

Firstly try to prefer online travel and Tour Company because there you can find low price deals for trip as well as good bed and breakfast Toronto there during trip. Online such deals comes in low price because by offering such low price they also do by one way their travel company?s promotion with aim to attract other tourists. Secondly if the travel company you contacted is they might help you in finding good Toronto Bed and breakfast at good places there because they use to have tie up with B& B Toronto restaurants, hotels etc.

Secondly you should choose such season when such tourist place like have no much tourist there; in off season. In off season online as well as offline too you can get good deals in very less price.

After such pay concentration to fact that what you have to carry during your trip because your belongings with you during travel can also save money of you. Let me explain in detail. If you will carry few essential medicine of some minute health problems like headache, stomach ache, etc you will not be required to spend there money in firstly finding the medical store and then buying such. In this way you can save money as well as your effort too. Extra some spare cloth is also required to be kept if you are with your children because there they are not going to hear you at time of enjoying such location. At such time no doubt they will not take care of their cloths too so only spare cloths can save you from extra spending on buying cloths for then just because of having nothing in hand to use instantly.

And last but not the least few cookies, chocolate with you so that at demand of your children you can give them immediately and so they do not get chance to demand to buy few more things in addition of such cookies there.

In short by applying these tips you can be sure that travel packages are also meant for you and can enjoy without any bar of economy.

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Motorola Droid Razr Maxx HD (Verizon Wireless)

Wouldn't it be nice to just pluck your phone off the charger in the morning and not have to worry about it again until the end of the day? That's what you get with the Motorola Droid Razr Maxx HD, which turned in the best battery results we've ever seen on a smartphone. It also features a large 4.7-inch 720p display, along with a powerful dual-core processor and fast data speeds on Verizon's 4G LTE network. At $299.99, it's $100 more than the near-identical Droid Razr HD, but the Maxx gets you double the storage capacity and a few extra hours of battery life. If you need a phone you can use all day, it's worth it.

Editors' Note: The Motorola Droid Razr Maxx HD and the Motorola Droid Razr HD are extremely similar, so we're sharing a lot of material between our reviews. That said, we're testing each device separately, so read the review for your carrier of choice.

Size and Design
The Droid Razr Maxx HD looks almost identical to the Razr HD. Both phones measure 5.19 by 2.67 inches in height and width, but the Maxx is just a little thicker, at .37 inches compared with the Razr HD's .33 inches. It's also a little heavier, at 5.54 ounces compared with 5.15 for the Razr HD. To the naked eye, this difference is virtually imperceptible. Even when holding the phones it's hard to tell which one is which. So if you're worried about the Maxx being much larger, don't.

The phone is made using the same Kevlar material as the original Droid Razrs, which gives it an expensive, luxurious feel. Compared with the plastic?Samsung Galaxy S III?, the Razr Maxx HD feels much more solid. And it's protected by a water-repellant nanocoating, which doesn't make it waterproof, but a little more durable than the average smartphone.

The angular corners of the original Razr have been smoothed out for a sleek new look. Those colors only appear around the display; the back of each phone is the same gray and black patterned Kevlar, with an aluminum band running around the middle. There's a 3.5mm headphone jack up top, a Power button and volume rocker on the right, and a charging and micro HDMI port on the left, along with a hidden microSD card slot.

Design aside, keep in mind that this is still a very large phone. I have average size hands, and when I hold the Razr Maxx HD in one hand I can't reach high enough to drag the notifications bar down with my thumb. So if you have small hands or tiny pockets, you may want look at the 4.3-inch Droid Razr M, which is significantly smaller and easier to hold.

True to its name, the Razr Maxx HD is packing a 4.7-inch 1280-by-720 HD Super AMOLED display. It gets very bright and colors look super saturated, but I'm not a fan of the PenTile pixel layout, which, despite the 312 pixels per inch,?causes text and images to look a bit fuzzy upon close inspection. Function keys are displayed onscreen, and the large display means there's plenty of room for a big software keyboard that's very comfortable to type on.

Call Quality and Battery Life
The Razr Maxx HD works on Verizon's 3G and LTE networks, and can roam across the globe on GSM. It also integrates 802.11a/b/g/n Wi-Fi on the 2.4 and 5GHz bands.?Verizon's 4G LTE network is very fast, and received top honors in our?Fastest Mobile Networks?tests earlier this year. The Razr Maxx HD has good reception, and averaged 5.5Mbps down and 6Mbps up in our speed tests.

Call quality is good. In my tests, voices sounded rich, though a little bit muddy, in the phone's earpiece. I do wish the volume level went just a little bit higher; it was difficult to hear everything outside on a busy city street. Transmissions sound clear, with good noise cancellation. Calls sounded fine through a?Jawbone Era?Bluetooth headset and Motorola's voice command system worked well over Bluetooth. The speakerphone also sounds fine, but isn't loud enough to use outdoors.

The most important feature here is the battery, and to that end, the Razr Maxx HD delivers. The nonremovable 3,300mAh battery was good for 18 hours and 51 minutes of talk time, which is the best result we've ever seen from a smartphone. Compare that with the Razr HD, which got 14 hours and 48 minutes, and the Galaxy S III, which was good for 10 hours and 43 minutes, and the Razr Maxx HD is well ahead of the competition.

We also tested battery life while streaming a video over 4G. The Razr Maxx HD lasted for just about 9 hours, with the Razr HD coming in at 7 hours and 1 minute, and the Galaxy S III at 6 hours and 57 minutes. All of these results are respectable, but if you need a phone that's guaranteed to make it through the day, the numbers speak for themselves.

Processor, Android, and Apps
Powered by a 1.5GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 MSM8960 processor, the Razr Maxx HD is built around the same processor you'll find in the Razr M and the Razr HD. It's starting to become somewhat standard among the upper echelon of smartphones, but that doesn't make it any less powerful. The Razr Maxx HD turned in similar benchmarks to the Galaxy S III, which is powered by the same chip. It's powerful enough for any apps or games you throw at it, and should keep things moving at a steady clip for some time to come. Keep in mind that gaming frame rates are actually higher on the Razr M, because its lower-resolution display means it's pushing fewer pixels.

The Razr Maxx HD ships running Android 4.0.4 "Ice Cream Sandwich," which is nearly a year old at this point. That's kind of crazy considering Google now owns Motorola, and Android 4.1 "Jelly Bean" brings a host of improvements over ICS. An update is planned before the end of the year, but it should be there to begin with.

(Next page: Multimedia, Camera, and Conclusions)

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Live Review - Scissor Sisters and Bright Light Bright Light at The Roundhouse in London, October 23rd 2012

by Raj Rudolph

There are good gigs and then there are dream gigs.

Last night at The Roundhouse was most definitely a dream gig indeed. Scissor Sisters rocked up into Londontown last night on their Magic Hour tour for a two night sold out engagement with none other than EQ favorite Bright Light Bright Light in tow and let me tell you this, it was a pop explosion of epic proportions.

Kicking off the night at 8pm, Bright Light Bright Light took to the stage for a live PA which featured all the magnetic poignant pop hits from his debut album "Make Me Believe In Hope". This kind of exposure for Rod Thomas couldn't be more appropriate as Scissor Sisters fans packed in the house early to get a glimpse of the pop wunderkid in action and to experience what all the fuss is about in the pop blogoshere.

Not only did Rod effortlessly deliver his most notable tracks like "Love Part II", new single "Feel It" and my favorite song of last year "Disco Moment", he was later joined onstage by Del Marquis himself for the lovely track "Cry At Films" in which Scissor Sister and Bright Light came together and united on this duet which was absolute pop magic and was truly one of the best moments of last night for me.

Fresh from his appearance at the Poptronik Festival this summer, Scissor Sisters Tour DJ Sammy Jo warmed up the crowd and gave EQ readers a cheeky smile - we love Sammy Jo!

What was most fun about last night's Scissor Sisters gig was the realization that the band are quickly approaching their "greatest hits" era. Jake Shears and Ana Matronic WERKED the crowd with more choreography than ever before during "Shady Love", "Skin This Cat" and the highlight of the evening for most people - their outrageous and full-o-attitude routine for "Let's Have A Kiki". I might add this song is most definitely in the running to be EQ's best track of 2012 as every time I hear it, I become a total dancing fool nutjob as did each and every person at The Roundhouse last night.

Ana Matronic proved to be the band's new spokes-sister and kept the crowd in stitches with her witty dialogue in which she cleared up some of the international confusion surrounding the word "kiki" to the crowd. She reminded us that "kiki" does not mean "penis", "vagina" or "drug taking" but it does in fact still mean "a party for calming all your nerves". The stunner then went on to explain that what happens after the kiki is what they like to call the "comedown" (I wonder what they mean here...) in which the band whipped us up into a frenzy with their first UK smash hit "Comfortably Numb" and epic mind-fuck "Invisible Light" in which Ana breathed a whole new life into Sir Ian McKellan's memorable dark dialogue.

Del Marquis smiles for EQ all the while looking fly as ever.

The fun didn't stop there, with mega hot stompers like "Don't Feel Like Dancin", "Kiss You Off", "Any Which Way" and "Take Your Mama Out" peppering the setlist with glitter and gold dust, the band closed out the evening with encores of "Only The Horses" and "Filthy/Gorgeous". Truly one magical night with the Scissor Sisters on their Magic Hour tour. Whilst not their biggest production to date, the show was simple, magnificent and exactly what you expect any time you see them live - a total fucking blast.

It's so refreshing to know that Scissor Sisters have had such amazing success. They are truly one of pop's brightest. Their clever songs and ability to marry the balance of rock pop and electronic music are second-to-none and if you still have the opportunity to catch them on tour as they rock into Spain and Italy - all I can say is just go. If you're going to their second show tonight in London - well, you're in for quite the treat.?

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Advanced cancer patients overoptimistic about chemotherapy's ability to cure, study finds

Public release date: 24-Oct-2012
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Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

BOSTONFindings from a nationwide study led by researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute suggest that patients with advanced lung or colorectal cancer are frequently mistaken in their beliefs that chemotherapy can cure their disease.

The study, published in the Oct. 25 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, found that 69 percent of patients with advanced lung cancer and 81 percent of patients with advanced colorectal cancer did not understand that the chemotherapy they were receiving was not at all likely to cure their disease. Their expectations run counter to the fact that although chemotherapy can alleviate pain and extend life in such patients by weeks or months, it is not a cure for these types of advanced cancer except in the rarest of circumstances.

The findings come from the Cancer Care Outcomes Research and Surveillance Consortium (CanCORS), a large nationwide study sponsored by the National Cancer Institute to understand many facets of cancer care in the United States. The study's lead author is Jane Weeks, MD, MSc, who is the CanCORS Consortium's scientific chair and is director of the McGraw/Patterson Center for Population Sciences at Dana-Farber, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Harvard School of Public Health.

The study was conducted by surveying 1,274 patients at hospitals, clinics and treatment centers across the country and by undertaking comprehensive review of their records. Study participants had been diagnosed with metastatic lung or colorectal cancer at least four months earlier and had received chemotherapy for their disease.

While previous studies had polled cancer patients about their perceptions of chemotherapy, this was the first to involve such a large and varied cross-section of the population. The study revealed that inaccurate expectations about the role of chemotherapy were found among patients from varied backgrounds treated in many different health care settings across the U.S.

Weeks noted that "If patients do not know whether a treatment offers a realistic possibility of cure, their ability to make informed treatment decisions that are consistent with their preferences may be compromised. This misunderstanding may pose obstacles to optimal end-of-life planning."

Surprisingly, patients who rated their communication with their physician highly were the most likely to hold overoptimistic views about chemotherapy's curative potential. While there is no doubt that communication about prognosis in advanced cancer is challenging, a sizeable minority of study participants did grasp the incurable nature of their cancers. Study co-author Deborah Schrag, MD, MPH, said that "skilled clinicians can set realistic expectations without their patients' losing either hope or trust." However, further research will be necessary to identify strategies to help physicians more consistently set realistic expectations and thereby help patients make good decisions about their care.

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Other study co-authors include Paul Catalano, ScD, Angel Cronin, and Jennifer Mack, MD, MPH, of Dana-Farber; Matthew Finkelman, PhD, of Tufts University; and Nancy Keating, MD, MPH, of Brigham and Women's Hospital.

The study was funded by grants from the National Cancer Institute (U01 CA093344, U01 CA093332, U01 CA093324, U01 CA093348, U01 CA093329, U01 CA093339, U01 CA093326) and by a grant from the Department of Veterans Affairs (CRS 02-164), which support a research consortium of eight grantees to measure the quality of cancer care and associated health outcomes in the U.S. CanCORS recruited approximately10,000 patients with newly diagnosed lung cancer or colorectal cancer. Participants were recruited from geographically diverse populations and health care systems in order to systematically evaluate cancer care delivery in the U.S.

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (www.dana-farber.org) is a principal teaching affiliate of the Harvard Medical School and is among the leading cancer research and care centers in the United States. It is a founding member of the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center (DF/HCC), designated a comprehensive cancer center by the National Cancer Institute. It provides adult care with Brigham and Women's Hospital as Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women's Cancer Center, and it provides pediatric care with Boston Children's Hospital as Dana-Farber/Children's Hospital Cancer Center. Dana-Farber is the top-ranked cancer center in New England, according to U.S. News & World Report, and one of the largest recipients among independent hospitals of National Cancer Institute and National Institutes of Health grant funding. Follow Dana-Farber on Twitter: @dana-farber or Facebook: facebook.com/danafarbercancerinstitute.

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Contact: Bill Schaller
william_schaller@dfci.harvard.edu
617-632-5357
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

BOSTONFindings from a nationwide study led by researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute suggest that patients with advanced lung or colorectal cancer are frequently mistaken in their beliefs that chemotherapy can cure their disease.

The study, published in the Oct. 25 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, found that 69 percent of patients with advanced lung cancer and 81 percent of patients with advanced colorectal cancer did not understand that the chemotherapy they were receiving was not at all likely to cure their disease. Their expectations run counter to the fact that although chemotherapy can alleviate pain and extend life in such patients by weeks or months, it is not a cure for these types of advanced cancer except in the rarest of circumstances.

The findings come from the Cancer Care Outcomes Research and Surveillance Consortium (CanCORS), a large nationwide study sponsored by the National Cancer Institute to understand many facets of cancer care in the United States. The study's lead author is Jane Weeks, MD, MSc, who is the CanCORS Consortium's scientific chair and is director of the McGraw/Patterson Center for Population Sciences at Dana-Farber, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Harvard School of Public Health.

The study was conducted by surveying 1,274 patients at hospitals, clinics and treatment centers across the country and by undertaking comprehensive review of their records. Study participants had been diagnosed with metastatic lung or colorectal cancer at least four months earlier and had received chemotherapy for their disease.

While previous studies had polled cancer patients about their perceptions of chemotherapy, this was the first to involve such a large and varied cross-section of the population. The study revealed that inaccurate expectations about the role of chemotherapy were found among patients from varied backgrounds treated in many different health care settings across the U.S.

Weeks noted that "If patients do not know whether a treatment offers a realistic possibility of cure, their ability to make informed treatment decisions that are consistent with their preferences may be compromised. This misunderstanding may pose obstacles to optimal end-of-life planning."

Surprisingly, patients who rated their communication with their physician highly were the most likely to hold overoptimistic views about chemotherapy's curative potential. While there is no doubt that communication about prognosis in advanced cancer is challenging, a sizeable minority of study participants did grasp the incurable nature of their cancers. Study co-author Deborah Schrag, MD, MPH, said that "skilled clinicians can set realistic expectations without their patients' losing either hope or trust." However, further research will be necessary to identify strategies to help physicians more consistently set realistic expectations and thereby help patients make good decisions about their care.

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Other study co-authors include Paul Catalano, ScD, Angel Cronin, and Jennifer Mack, MD, MPH, of Dana-Farber; Matthew Finkelman, PhD, of Tufts University; and Nancy Keating, MD, MPH, of Brigham and Women's Hospital.

The study was funded by grants from the National Cancer Institute (U01 CA093344, U01 CA093332, U01 CA093324, U01 CA093348, U01 CA093329, U01 CA093339, U01 CA093326) and by a grant from the Department of Veterans Affairs (CRS 02-164), which support a research consortium of eight grantees to measure the quality of cancer care and associated health outcomes in the U.S. CanCORS recruited approximately10,000 patients with newly diagnosed lung cancer or colorectal cancer. Participants were recruited from geographically diverse populations and health care systems in order to systematically evaluate cancer care delivery in the U.S.

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (www.dana-farber.org) is a principal teaching affiliate of the Harvard Medical School and is among the leading cancer research and care centers in the United States. It is a founding member of the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center (DF/HCC), designated a comprehensive cancer center by the National Cancer Institute. It provides adult care with Brigham and Women's Hospital as Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women's Cancer Center, and it provides pediatric care with Boston Children's Hospital as Dana-Farber/Children's Hospital Cancer Center. Dana-Farber is the top-ranked cancer center in New England, according to U.S. News & World Report, and one of the largest recipients among independent hospitals of National Cancer Institute and National Institutes of Health grant funding. Follow Dana-Farber on Twitter: @dana-farber or Facebook: facebook.com/danafarbercancerinstitute.

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Two Italian Researchers (and the Italian MS Society) Close Their ...

First put forward by Italian vascular surgeon, Palo Zamboni, in 2009 CCSVI?s connection to MS has been a controversial ? to say the least. The general theory of CCSVI is that blocked veins in the neck cause blood to back-up into the brain and cause MS symptoms. If these blockages are removed, MS symptoms reverse.

Studies continue around the globe into the possible validity of the theory and the restorative procedure dubbed the ?liberation therapy?. Two Italian researchers have, however, closed their books on research and their findings have prompted the Italian MS Society to recommend against further tests to diagnosis and procedures to correct the condition.

?CCSVI is not a disease connected to multiple sclerosis.? Read their statement, and it continued, ?there is no need [in clinical practice] to carry out additional tests to diagnose CCSVI, nor is vein surgery required.?

The impetus for such strong wording came from a study that looked at over 450 MS patients - from 33 MS centers in Italy - who have had treatment for CCSVI.

While over half (53%) of patients reported subjective improvements in MS symptoms, only thirty (that?s 30 people, not 30%) showed improvement in their EDSS scores and just over half of the people had stable scores after 6 months. The remaining people had scores that worsened (by at least 0.5points) during the same follow-up period.

Looking at 171 patients with pre- and postsurgical MRI scans, new lesion activity was seen in 36% (with new gadolinium-enhancing lesions were seen in 26%). About 20% of patients with relapsing MS developed relapses during a median 29 weeks of follow-up.

Comparing objective EDSS scores with reported improvements presented researchers with stark contrast. Even though only 6.4% of people showed clinical improvements, over half of the total cohort reported some improvement and 47% reported definite improvements in their condition. And, while 20% of the patients had clinical relapses in the follow-up period, only 13% reported that their MS had worsened.

Now, we all know that EDSS scores are not the be-all and end-all of MS presentation. Symptoms such as cognitive impairment (cog-fog) and fatigue are not measured by this scale and are often reported as responding well to the liberation therapy.

In addition to the limited benefits, 15 serious adverse medical events occurred in patients who underwent treatment.

You can read more detail about this report from MedPage Today for further details. One such, which will undoubtedly be sited by those who support CCSVI treatment, is the fact that the researcher who compiled the data from across Italy has ? in the past ? received funding from pharma companies.

I look forward to more information due out in the next few months on studies here in North America.

Does this change your thoughts about CCSVI? Is the slight risk of serious damage worth the possible improvement in subjective symptoms? If you?ve had the liberation treatments, what are your thoughts of this research (please, not the guy reporting on the research? I?m kinda done being a whipping boy on that front)?

Wishing you and your family the best of health.

Cheers

Trevis

Don?t forget that you can also follow me via our Life With MS Facebook page, on Twitter, and our new group on MS Connection.org. Check out our bi-monthly blog for the UK and look for our Very Special new monthly blog for the National MS Society.

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Iran says may stop oil sales if sanctions tighten

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran said on Tuesday it would stop oil exports if pressure from Western sanctions got any tighter and it had a "Plan B" contingency strategy to survive without oil revenues.

Western nations led by the United States have imposed tough sanctions on the Islamic Republic this year in an attempt to curb its nuclear program that they say is designed to produce an atomic bomb. Tehran says its nuclear plans are peaceful.

"If sanctions intensify we will stop exporting oil," Iranian oil minister Rostam Qasemi told reporters in Dubai.

Qasemi's statement is the latest in a series of threats of retaliation by Tehran in response to the sanctions, which have heightened political tensions across the Middle East and, analysts say, led to a sharp drop in Iranian oil exports.

"We have prepared a plan to run the country without any oil revenues," Qasemi said, adding, "So far to date we haven't had any serious problems, but if the sanctions were to be renewed we would go for 'Plan B'.

"If you continue to add to the sanctions we (will) cut our oil exports to the world."

Iran has in the past said it could shut the vital shipping lane of Hormuz at the head of the Middle East Gulf, through which much of the region's seaborne oil exports pass.

Earlier on Tuesday, Qasemi said Iran was still producing 4 million barrels per day (bpd), rejecting reports the country's output has fallen to around 2.7 million bpd.

According to the latest secondary source estimates published by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, Iran pumped just 2.72 bpd in September, and Iran's own data submitted to OPEC showed the country produced 3.75 million bpd in August.

But Qasemi said Iran was pumping oil at full capacity:

"It is currently 4 million barrels per day," Qasemi said, declining to give export figures.

"Iran has been facing U.S. sanctions for 30 years while successfully managing its oil sector," he said.

Qasemi said Iran was now consuming much more of its own oil thanks to a rapidly rising refining capacity.

He said Iran's refining capacity was now 2 million barrels per day (bpd) with another 200,000 bpd of capacity to be added before the end of Iranian year next March.

The increase in refining capacity had already ended Iran's need to import vehicle fuel and could soon drive a boom in fuel exports, the minister said.

"Our daily consumption of petrol (gasoline) is 90 million liters ... Earlier, a big portion of that was being imported but we no longer import products," he said.

"Right now, we not only don't import but we also export some products ... there are always customers for Iranian oil.

"By the end of the Iranian year they will reach their maximum capacity and then we can export more Iranian oil products," he said.

(Reporting by Daniel Fineren and Amena Bakr; writing by Christopher Johnson; editing by Keiron Henderson)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/iran-says-may-stop-oil-sales-sanctions-intensify-091808820.html

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9 Things You Didn't Know About Microsoft Surface

Microsoft Surface is now a known quantity. It?s sold out on pre-order and has been tested to the hilt by tech pundits across the U.S (including this one). The Surface is an exceptional Windows tablet that, with its Touch Cover, can masquerade as a touch-screen Ultrabook. We know so much, but not everything. Here are nine behind-the-scenes secrets about the new Microsoft product, which I learned from those who built it.

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1) It Really Was a Secret

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Microsoft?s Surface team worked in secret at the company?s Studio B building in Redmond, Washington. Word has it that many at Microsoft had no idea what this team was doing. When I took a special tour of the building and all the rooms where Surface was designed and tested, we typically passed through two locked barriers and always under the watchful eye of some very stern-looking security guards. Those working on and testing the product were not allowed to take it outside. Though hundreds tested Surface, it was always in ?locked offices, with the curtain down.?

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The outside world was certainly in the dark. As Surface lead Panos Panay put it ?We had the great advantage of nobody was looking.? In other words, we were all looking at Apple, a company known for secrecy and always expected to deliver some fresh innovation to our doorstep. Microsoft innovates, but rarely gets credit for it. Yet it?s never been this secretive, and certainly no one expected a Microsoft tablet. So we weren?t paying attention. Panos said that during the Surface development cycle, they had ?zero industrial espionage incidents.?

Even so, the June 18 announcement date came about because Microsoft realized they were getting to a point where it would be virtually impossible to maintain secrecy and chose to tell the story before someone else did.

2) The First Surface Was Cardboard

The Surface Tablet concept was conceived, in part, with the idea of ?opening a book,? sort of like the long defunct Courier (though no one at Microsoft ever mentioned that dead project). I actually touched the first cardboard mockup, which was held together with Scotch tape and is surprisingly close to the final design. From that early stage, Microsoft?s small team of Surface designers spent months refining the Surface concept and progressed through ?boxes? full of 3D-models, most of which were built with a Polyjet 3D printer. ID Studio?s Designers told me they ?iterated until there wasn?t any 'ink' left in the 3D printer.?

3) Surface Almost Had a Lucite Keyboard

Microsoft Surface is a tablet, but it?s also one with a very close relationship to its snap-in keyboard. The product ships with a urethane-covered one ($599 bundle model) and a real keypad option ($129). That keyboard was almost a shiny Lucite panel, but studies on how users find home keys quickly proved that idea wouldn?t work. The resulting polyurethane is, Microsoft promises, ?no shrink and super durable.?

4) Microsoft Had to Invent

Microsoft was so demanding about the size, shape, look, feel and tolerances of the magnesium-clad Surface tablet, that designers said they had to invent some new machinery to build it. The Windows RT-based product is designed in the U.S., but like most tech these days, it?s built in China. As a result, team members made more than half a dozen trips to China over the last year.

5) Surface Is 3D

Microsoft relied heavily on 3D printing to model virtually every part in the Surface tablet. All those parts are the created in the real world on hundreds of Computer Numerated Control machines. These are essentially computer-controlled vertical millers (kind of like Dremels). Studio B has a handful of them, but there are hundreds in Chenzou, China, where Surface is manufactured. Unlike human-controlled milling, these babies are precise to 0.5 microns.

6) Touch Cover Keys Labels Are Not Printed White

The 3mm-thick Touch Covers are almost as stuffed full of technology as the Surface tablet itself. Each Touch Cover is built in layers, with a carbon-fiber base, a thin layer of pressure sensors (that respond to grams-per-inch of pressure), a layer of white material and then the polyurethane cover. Microsoft showed me how a laser carves through the black cover to reach the white layer and label all the keys. Microsoft also spent a year figuring out how to develop a keyboard that would shut off when you folded it against the back of the Surface tablet. They settled on something they called ?Flux Fountain,? which creates a mechanical interference and turns the keyboard off at just the right point in the rotation to the back.

7) Surface Display?s Resolution Is Lower Than the iPad by Design

Microsoft Surface Tablet?s screen is 42% larger than the iPad?s, but it has far fewer pixels. The company?s display expert, however, told me that the JND (or just noticeable difference) between the screens is far lower than one might assume. Since Microsoft focused on squeezing the LCD, touch sensor and Gorilla Glass 2 cover closer together, so the spaces between the three drop to 0.5mm (as opposed to 1 mm in competing devices), the refraction is far, far less on the Surface display. In the lab-based demo I saw, this appeared to be true. However, as I said in my review, the Surface display does not look appreciable better than Apple?s iPad Retina screen.

8) Surface Is Custom

There are over 200 custom parts in Microsoft?s Surface Tablet and it?s all squeezed together to remove pretty much all the space and air that might otherwise exist. For example, when Microsoft went looking for hinges for the signature, built-in kickstand, it ended up building new ones from scratch. The three hinges have built-in dampers that keep the stand from snapping against the back of the Surface. This picture shows a semi-translucent, large scale model of one of them.

9) You?ll See Surface?s 22-Degree Chamfer Everywhere

Microsoft is pretty proud of the sharply tilted edge you see on the Surface. It?s exactly 20 degrees and, if you visit a Microsoft store, you?ll see that same 22-dgree angle repeated over and over again.

Microsoft Surface Powered Up

This is the Surface tablet with Touch Cover in place.

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This story originally published on Mashable here.

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New York lesbian couple accuses wedding venue of discrimination

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York lesbian couple said they were barred from booking an upstate farm for their wedding because they are gay and filed a discrimination complaint against the venue.

Melisa Erwin and Jennie McCarthy of Albany, New York, said in their complaint with the state Division of Human Rights that Liberty Ridge Farm in Schaghticoke refused to allow them to book the venue next summer after learning they were lesbians.

"That's when she said, 'Now we have a problem,'" Erwin told WNYT, a local news channel. The couple could not be reached on Monday for comment.

Same-sex marriages were legalized in New York in July 2011.

Robert Gifford, owner of the farm, did not respond to interview requests on Monday, but a spokesman said he and his wife object to same-sex marriage on religious grounds.

"What's happening here is that the Giffords are being discriminated against for their religious beliefs," said the spokesman, Jason McGuire, who is executive director of Christian lobbying group New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms, which opposes same-sex marriage.

"If religious freedom doesn't extend beyond the four walls of a church, then you really don't have religious freedom at all," he said.

Under state law, it is generally illegal for a business to discriminate on grounds of sex, race or sexuality. Certain religious institutions, however, are allowed to refuse to accommodate the weddings of same-sex couples.

"A public business doesn't get to do that," said Susan Sommer, senior counsel for the civil rights organization Lambda Legal. "You can't open a business, a public accommodation, advertise it as a wedding venue and then in violation of state non-discrimination laws turn some people away at the door."

A spokeswoman for the Division of Human Rights said it does not discuss cases until they are resolved.

If the couple wins, the human rights commissioner could order the Giffords to change their policy or to pay a monetary award to Erwin and McCarthy.

In August, an inn in Vermont paid $10,000 to the state's Human Rights Commission and $20,000 into a charitable trust to settle a lawsuit brought by a lesbian couple after the innkeepers refused to host their wedding reception because they oppose same-sex marriages. The inn also stopped hosting weddings of any kind. (Editing by Ellen Wulfhorst)

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Be on the look out for projects integrating primary, oral health care ...

When AHCJ Executive Director Len Bruzzese shared this Grantmakers in Health report with me, I thought it provided great food for thought for health reporters anywhere in the country. The paper ? ?Returning the Mouth to the Body: Integrating Oral Health and Primary Care? (PDF) ? summarizes weaving together these two varieties of basic, essential health care.

Mary Otto, AHCJ?s topic leader on oral health is writing blog posts, editing tip sheets and articles and gathering resources to help our members cover oral health care.

If you have questions or suggestions for future resources on the topic, please send them to mary@healthjournalism.org.

The whole idea might ring a bell for those of you in states such as Washington, Colorado and Michigan where officials have examined the concept. The rest of you might want to stay tuned. A pilot project may be coming to a community near you.

As the Grantmakers in Health brief points out, combining primary and oral health care systems can potentially save money as well as pay off in streamlined information sharing and improved chronic disease management and prevention. Ultimately, integrated services might also get oral health care to at least some of the millions of Americans who are unable to get it.

?According to the American Dental Association, an estimated 30 percent of the population has difficulty accessing dental services via the predominantly private practice delivery system,? the brief points out.

?By expanding entry points into the dental care system, integration of oral health into primary care has the potential to improve access, especially for at-risk and underserved populations that typically have greater access to primary care professionals than to dental care.?

There are, however, barriers and challenges. The country suffers from a severe lack of oral health providers, particularly in poor and rural areas. Oral health care has long been financed separately from primary care. Primary and oral health providers have not communicated across disciplines.

Still, models are being explored.

In an ?Oral Health Disparities Pilot? sponsored by the Health Resources and Services Administration, for example, four health centers experimented with the full integration of dental and primary care services. Other models have encouraged varying levels of cooperation between oral health and primary care providers working in separate locations.

Evidence so far supports some approaches, while others are untested but show promise.

In these days of increased demand for systemic effectiveness and efficiency, the idea of trying some of them seems to be catching on.

An August Capitol Hill event entitled ?Oral Health: Putting Teeth into the Health Care System? encouraged legislators and policymakers to open their minds to the possibilities.

Moderator David Krol, a pediatrician and program officer with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation suggested that working through the larger health care system to tackle the challenges of oral health care delivery would make a lot of sense.

?There are racial and ethnic and geographic disparities, challenges with access to care. There are financial challenges and issues of determining and maintaining quality of care. There are workplace controversies, just like with overall health,? he said.

?There is a great opportunity for all makes and models of patients, providers, and policymakers to play a role in improving oral health.?

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Union Bank and KCET Honor 2012 Local Heroes

Local Heroes Program culminates with 15th Annual Awards celebration.

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) October 23, 2012

As part of its ongoing commitment to cultural diversity and responsible banking, Union Bank, N.A., has partnered with KCET to honor 13 extraordinary individuals at the 15th Annual Local Heroes Awards. The honorees are announced as part of the 2012 Local Heroes Program, which recognizes and pays tribute to exemplary leaders who are making a difference and enriching the lives of others by improving their workplace, profession, community, region and the world. The year-long celebration of diversity culminates with an October 23 awards ceremony, where recipients will be formally recognized. The event will air for the first time on Nov. 19, 2012 at 8 p.m. on KCET.

The 2012 Local Heroes honorees are: Shirlee Smith and Dr. Samella Lewis (Black History Month); Bea Cohen and Billie P. Weiss (Women?s History Month); Stewart Kwoh and Bill Yoshiyuki Watanabe (Asian Pacific American Heritage Month); Abner D. and Roslyn Goldstine and Annette Shapiro (Jewish American Heritage Month); Ivy Bottini and Steven Michael Llanusa (LGBT Pride Month); Joel G. Leal and Carlos H. Vaquer?no (Hispanic Heritage Month).

?We are excited to celebrate the 2012 Local Heroes honorees who bring leadership, dedication and creativity to their work and communities,? said Union Bank Senior Executive Vice President Pierre Habis, head of Community Banking. ?We are proud of our expanded partnership with KCET and look forward to celebrating the achievements of many more heroes as part of our

15-year tradition in Los Angeles.?

?KCET joins Union Bank as we recognize thirteen incredible individuals for their remarkable achievements in their respective communities,? said KCET President and CEO Al Jerome. ?We are pleased to introduce them to our viewers through the video profiles currently airing on KCET and we are delighted to announce that the Local Heroes Awards will be broadcast for the first time next month on our station.?

The 2012 Local Heroes honorees are:

Black History Month

Shirlee Smith is the president and CEO of Talk About Parenting with Shirlee Smith, Inc. The Pasadena-based nonprofit organization specializes in parenting issues. Smith provides parenting workshops including sessions for mothers who are for incarcerated, is a popular public speaker, writes an award-winning newspaper column and is host of the cable television show, Talk About Parenting ?LIVE" with Shirlee Smith. She is the author of ?They?re Your Kids Not Your Friends,? and the Spanish version, ?Son tus Hijos, no tus Amigos.? Smith received the 2006 Angel in Adoption Congressional Award and was recently named chair of the Pacific Clinics Family Programs advisory board. She is a graduate of UCLA.

Dr. Samella Lewis is professor emeritus of art history at Scripps College of The Claremont Colleges, where she became the first tenured African American professor in art history and has worked for more than 40 years. Named a Distinguished Scholar by the Getty Center for the History of Art and Humanities, she founded the Los Angeles Museum of African American Art in 1976 and was its curator until 1986. She also founded and edited landmark publications that helped increase recognition of African American art and artists, including ?The International Review of African American Art.? Dr. Lewis earned her doctorate degrees in art and art history from Ohio State University.

Women?s History Month

Bea Cohen, the oldest World War II veteran in the state of California, has spent her life advocating for her fellow soldiers. During the war, she worked at Douglas Aircraft Company and became a living ?Rosie the Riveter,? and a U.S. Army soldier. During her career, she worked in the communications department with top-secret documents and fed the soldiers while on kitchen patrol. At age 102, Ms. Cohen is an essential member of many organizations, among them the Jewish War Veterans Auxiliary and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Hospital. She believes our Veterans are America?s real heroes, and hopes people will honor, remember and thank them for their service and sacrifices.

Billie P. Weiss, M.P.H., is founder of the Violence Prevention Coalition of Greater Los Angeles and associate director of the Southern California Injury Prevention Research Program at the UCLA School of Public Health. For the past 31 years, Ms. Weiss has dedicated her life to building safer communities. Ms. Weiss is the author of numerous literary works, and co-authored the ?Advanced Project Report on Reducing Gang and Youth Violence in Los Angeles.? She has received numerous awards, including the California Peace Prize from The California Endowment and Courageous Leader by Women Against Gun Violence in 2008.

Asian Pacific American Heritage

Stewart Kwoh has been co-founder, president and executive director of the Asian Pacific American Legal Center since 1983. The center offers legal services in Khmer, Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean and Vietnamese. Mr. Kwoh is an undergraduate lecturer at UCLA?s Asian American Studies Department and editor and co-author of ?Untold Civil Rights Stories: Asian Americans Speak Out for Justice.? He is board chair of the Los Angeles Methodist Urban Foundation and vice-chairman of the Asian American Justice Center. He is also a board member of the Pat Brown Institute of Public Affairs of California State University, Los Angeles, United Way of Greater Los Angeles, and Southern California Public Radio.

Bill Yoshiyuki Watanabe has served as founding executive director of the Little Tokyo Service Center since 1979. The center provides a comprehensive program of social services and its staff has grown to more than 150. Mr. Watanabe has served as president of the Asian Pacific Policy & Planning Council and the Asian Pacific Health Care Venture, and he founded the Asian Pacific Community Fund, which has awarded more than $2 million in grants. Mr. Watanabe has also served as chairman of the Nonprofit Policy Council of California and as a board member of many organizations, including the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy and the UCLA Center for Civil Society. He is one of the 2012 recipients of Japan?s highest civilian award, the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Rays for his contribution to the development of Japanese American society and the enhancement of friendship between Japan and the United States.

Jewish American Heritage Month

Annette Shapiro is founder of the board of Beit T?Shuvah, a Los Angeles-based drug treatment center. She has raised millions of dollars for several causes, including drug rehabilitation, diabetes and cancer research. Shapiro and her husband established the David Alan Shapiro Memorial Synagogue Center at American Jewish University in memory of their son, David Alan. Shapiro is on the board of advisors for the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. She is also a member of the board of governors for Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and co-chaired its $15 million campaign for cancer research. Shapiro?s remarkable journey is illustrated in Goldye Harris? 1994 biography, ?Annette Shapiro: Professional Volunteer.?

The Goldstines established the Abner D. and Roslyn Goldstine Fund for Holocaust Survivors in 2007 through the non-profit organization, Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles (JFS). The fund provides hope to aging, low-income Holocaust survivors who need food, shelter and health services. Mrs. Goldstine is on the executive committee of JFS, Sinai Temple and the Jewish Vocational Service of Los Angeles (JVS); she?s also a member of the advisory board of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies of American Jewish University. Mr. Goldstine has served as president and board member of Sinai Temple and JVS. He is also on the board of The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles and the Executive Service Corps of Southern California.

LGBT Pride Month

Ivy Bottini is a passionate activist who has dedicated more than 50 years to defending the rights of women and the LGBT community. Ms. Bottini is currently spearheading the creation of an AIDS memorial in West Hollywood and Los Angeles? first LGBT museum. She is also writing an autobiography about her life. Ms. Bottini has been at the forefront of numerous organizations including the Los Angeles Lesbian/Gay Police Advisory Board, Gay & Lesbian Elder Housing, AIDS Network LA, the first chapter of New York?s National Organization for Women (NOW), and AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA), and she has co-chaired the Lesbian and Gay Advisory Board for the City of West Hollywood.

Steven Llanusa is a teacher, father, husband and an activist who is committed to increasing awareness about gay families in schools and communities and campaigning for gay parenting rights. Mr. Llanusa and his husband Glenn Miya were among the first same-sex couples to complete a joint adoption in California. He has spearheaded community events for several organizations, including the Pop Luck Club, Family Pride Coalition of Pomona Valley and the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center?s Family Services. He is currently working with the Human Rights Campaign on Welcoming Schools and is developing a workshop aimed at eliminating bullying of students who are LGBT. In addition, Mr. Llanusa is a teacher at Smith Elementary School and board member of the Claremont Unified School District.

Hispanic Heritage Month

U.S. Army Sergeant Joe G. Leal is the founder of Vet Hunters Project (VHP), a nonprofit organization dedicated to preventing and ending homelessness among veterans and their families. VHP's efforts have helped more than 1,200 veterans and their families, and advocates for veterans through its cross-country bike rides and community outreach events. Sgt. Leal?s passion comes from his own experience of being homeless as a youth and serving in the U.S. Army in the Bosnian conflict and Iraq war for four years, where he was injured. He has continued his service in the U.S. Army Reserve for the past 13 years by providing support services to military members and their families, and helping veterans transition from combat to civilian life. Sgt. Leal has been decorated with several medals, including the Global War on Terrorism Medal, Iraq Campaign Medal, NATO (Bosnia) Medal, and the National Defense Service Medal.

Carlos Antonio H. Vaquer?no is a human rights activist and a legal and social justice advocate for Central Americans and Latinos. In 1980, during El Salvador?s civil war, Mr. Vaquer?no fled to the United States after three of his brothers were murdered. This event helped fuel his desire to

empower people and inspired him to create the Los Angeles-based nonprofit organization, Salvadoran American Leadership and Educational Fund (SALEF), where he has served as its executive director since its inception in 1995. SALEF encourages civic participation, advocates

educational opportunities for Central American and Latino students, and focuses on school reform. Mr. Vaquer?no is currently board president of Cl?nica Monse?or Oscar A. Romero and board secretary of the California Hospital Medical Center. He also served on Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's transition team and Education Advisory Council, Rebuild L.A. and Habitat for Humanity.

In 1998, Union Bank and KCET created the Local Heroes Awards to help celebrate the national commemorative heritage months for various communities throughout Los Angeles. The awards honor outstanding individuals who strive to enrich the lives of others.

Throughout the respective commemorative heritage months, KCET aired video profiles of each honoree highlighting how they have made a difference in their community. The 2012 on-air profiles can be viewed on the Web. KCET showcases the rich, vibrant history and cultural diversity of our region with special programs during the respective heritage months and throughout the year. For more information about the Local Heroes program, please also visit Union Bank Local Heroes.

About UnionBanCal Corporation & Union Bank, N.A.

Headquartered in San Francisco, UnionBanCal Corporation is a financial holding company with assets of $87.9 billion at June 30, 2012. Its primary subsidiary, Union Bank, N.A., is a full-service commercial bank providing an array of financial services to individuals, small businesses, middle-market companies, and major corporations. The bank operated 402 branches in California, Washington, Oregon, Texas, Illinois, and New York as well as two international offices, on June 30, 2012. UnionBanCal Corporation is a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd., which is a subsidiary of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. Union Bank is a proud member of the Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group ,one of the world?s largest financial organizations. Visit http://www.unionbank.com for more information.

About KCET

On-air, online and in the community, KCET plays a vital role in the cultural and educational enrichment of Southern and Central California. KCET offers a wide range of award-winning local programming as well as the finest public television programs from around the world. KCET currently produces the Emmy?, duPont-Columbia and Peabody Award-winning SoCal Connected, a hard-hitting prime-time weekly television news program that examines the issues and people of Southern California. Throughout its more than 47-year history, KCET has won hundreds of major awards for its local and regional news and public affairs programming, its national drama and documentary productions, its quality educational family and children's programs, its outreach and community services and its website, kcet.org. KCET is a donor-supported community institution. For additional information about KCET productions, Web-exclusive content, programming schedules and community events, please visit kcet.org.

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Pet Dog | Does Your Pet Dog Suffer From Heartworms? | Puppy Dog

The worms, especially on worst cases, seriously impair the heart?s operations. Worse, they could also clog your dog?s blood vessels. These infections result to body weight losses, chronic cough, dropsy, breath shortness, chronic heart failure, vision disturbances, and ultimately, death.

Since the symptoms of heartworm disease vary among dogs, it would be best that a veterinarian check your dog to evaluate a final analysis. Most dogs show visible symptoms only when the disease has reached the point where it would be almost improbable to be cured by treatment. To help you see early symptoms and to hopefully save your dog, look out for these signs:

- Dogs that have been quite active usually tend to be tired easily.

- Dogs that would have been otherwise healthy usually gasp for breath.

- Coughing of your dog has suddenly become a common occurrence.

- Dogs bred for hunting could no longer keep up with rapid chases and usually fall from exhaustion.

- In some rare instances, the dog experiences convulsions, jaundice, and problems in the vision.

- Before it dies, the dog experiences emaciation. often precedes death.

Who gets infected by the heartworm infection?

Previously, it was thought that only dogs that were long-haired were more resistant to heartworms because of the high difficulty of mosquitoes (which bring the worms) to penetrate through the dogs? hair. Since then, it has been proven that this was not true. Mosquitoes even have a hard time penetrating through short-haired dogs. Actually, mosquitoes feed on the abdominal region of the dog. That is why both long-haired and short-haired dogs are susceptible to an infection, since both types have little hair on this region. Some mosquitoes also feed on the muzzle area or the ears where the dog?s hair is quite matted down.

Can heartworm infection be treated?

Heartworm infection can be treated through chemical therapy if diagnosed early. Most of the chemical treatments kill the worms over some period of time. Killing all the worms in one swoop is no better: If all the heartworms were killed in just one treatment, the dead bodies would deposit in the lungs and kill the dog.

Remember also that the chemicals used in treating the worms are also as dangerous to your dog as the worms. That is why treating the disease using chemical therapy should be used with utmost care and should be handled by a veterinarian.

There also cases when surgery is needed. In most cases, this could be a feasible option. Consult with the veterinarian if surgical correction or any other method that can cure the infection.

There are also drugs that cold prevent your dog from getting heartworms. These drugs attack the parasite in its early stages and stop the worms from being full-blown adults later. This doesn?t mean that your dog would be free from infection. This only means that dogs can still get infected during the season of mosquitoes and yet remain unscathed of heartworms.

Preventative medication using drugs, on the other hand, can cause serious complications if your dog has already heartworm infections in a higher level. That is why the use of drugs should be under the supervision of veterinarians. Taking drugs are also combined with regular blood texts. This has shown to be quite effective in saving many dogs with heartworm infection.

In order for your dog to avoid heartworm infection, protect your pet from mosquito bites especially if there is a high mosquito population in your area or if it is mosquito season. You might want to screen the sleeping quarters of your dogs to avoid repeated bites. Repellent sprays can also be used, but these only have limited effects.

You might also want to consult your vet fro preventive medication. In addition, you might want regular blood tests on your dog to assess early symptoms of infection. This is quite tricky, especially that the symptoms of heartworm infection could not be seen immediately.

In short, your pet dog which looked healthy may be having early symptoms of heartworm infection. It would be best that you checked. There?s nothing wrong in doing that, especially if that is for your pet dog.

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Psst, taxes go up in 2013 for 163 million workers

WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama isn't talking about it and neither is Mitt Romney. But come January, 163 million workers can expect to feel the pinch of a big tax increase regardless of who wins the election.

A temporary reduction in Social Security payroll taxes is due to expire at the end of the year and hardly anyone in Washington is pushing to extend it. Neither Obama nor Romney has proposed an extension, and it probably wouldn't get through Congress anyway, with lawmakers in both parties down on the idea.

Even Republicans who have sworn off tax increases have little appetite to prevent one that will cost a typical worker about $1,000 a year, and two-earner family with six-figure incomes as much as $4,500.

Why are so many politicians sour on continuing the payroll tax break?

Republicans question whether reducing the tax two years ago has done much to stimulate the sluggish economy. Politicians from both parties say they are concerned that it threatens the independent revenue stream that funds Social Security.

They are backed by powerful advocates for seniors, including AARP, who adamantly oppose any extension.

"The payroll tax holiday was intended to be temporary and there is strong bipartisan support to let that tax provision expire," said Sen. Orrin of Utah, the top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee. "The continued extension of a temporary payroll tax holiday has serious long-term implications for Social Security and, frankly, it's not even clear that it has helped to boost our ailing economy."

The question of renewing the payroll tax cut has been overshadowed by the expiration of a much bigger package of tax cuts first enacted under President George W. Bush. The Bush-era tax cuts also expire at the end of the year, and Congress is expected to try to address them after the election, in a lame-duck session.

The payroll tax cut could become part of the mix in negotiations that could go in many directions. But lawmakers in both political parties say they doubt it.

"I think there's a growing consensus that Congress and the president can't continue to divert such a critical revenue stream from Social Security," said Rep. Kevin Brady of Texas, a senior Republican on the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee. "I think more and more Americans understand that that payroll tax cut, while politically appealing, is endangering Social Security."

Before he was named as Romney's running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., disparaged the payroll tax cut, calling it "sugar-high economics" that wouldn't promote long-term growth.

Social Security is funded by a 12.4 percent tax on wages up to $110,100, rising to $113,700 in 2013. Half is paid by employers and the other half is paid by workers. For 2011 and 2012, Congress and Obama cut the share paid by workers from 6.2 percent to 4.2 percent.

A worker making $50,000 saved $1,000 a year, or a little more than $19 a week. A worker making $100,000 saved $2,000 a year.

The beauty of the tax cut is that is shows up in weekly paychecks, giving workers more money to spend or save. The downside is that some workers may not notice a $19-a-week increase in pay, making them unlikely to credit the politicians who made it happen.

Under the law, Congress is reimbursing Social Security for the lost revenue, estimated at $103 billion in 2011 and $112 billion in 2012. But Congress didn't cut spending or raise other taxes to offset the lost revenue, so the payroll tax cut is being financed with borrowed money, adding to the national debt.

Democrats are more willing to defend the tax cut, saying it helped prop up the economy during a rough stretch while providing what amounted to a 2 percent pay increase to millions of middle-income workers. But they, too, are concerned about maintaining Social Security's source of revenue.

"I think people realize that was a temporary thing," said Sen. Mark Begich, D-Alaska.

Rep. Richard Neal of Massachusetts, a senior Democrat on the Ways and Means Committee, said he thinks there is evidence that the tax cut helped the economy. But, he added, "I'm not sure that it met expectations."

House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of California said she, too, wants to let the tax cut expire.

Larry Summers, Obama's former economic adviser, is a lonely voice in Washington calling to extend the payroll tax cut. He said in a recent speech that the economy is too fragile to reduce workers' incomes.

Obama pushed for the tax cut in late 2010 as a way to increase workers' take-home pay to help boost consumer spending and provide a spark for the economy. Economists were divided on the economic benefits. Many said it probably helped increase consumer spending but there was no consensus on the magnitude.

The initial tax cut was for only a year, and many Republicans in Congress wanted to let it lapse at the end of 2011. But Obama and Democratic lawmakers successfully fought to extend it through 2012.

Obama, however, didn't include the tax cut in his 2013 budget proposal, and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told Congress this year that he saw no reason to extend it again.

White House spokeswoman Amy Brundage wouldn't rule out an extension but wouldn't commit to one, either.

"The president fought extremely hard last year in the face of Republican opposition to ensure that the payroll tax cut was extended," Brundage said. "There are a number of tax issues that Congress will have to deal with at the end of the year, this being one of them, and we will continue to evaluate all of the options available to us at that time."

Romney's campaign hammers Obama almost every day for proposing to let Bush-era tax cuts expire for individuals making more than $200,000 and married couples making more than $250,000. But Romney's tax plan would let the payroll tax cut expire, an issue he doesn't mention on the stump.

Romney's campaign declined to discuss the issue.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/psst-taxes-2013-163-million-workers-134512956--election.html

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