Dead letter offices: States closing the most mail centers

First-class stamped mail has declined more than 50 percent in the past 10 years, from 52 billion deliveries in 2002 to 26 billion in 2011.

By Michael B. Sauter, Ashley C. Allen, and Charles B. Stockdale, 24/7 Wall St.

The U.S. Postal service plans to close nearly half of the nation?s mail processing centers beginning May 15. The move, which follows a five-month study on 264 of the country?s 461 centers, puts more than 35,000 workers? jobs at stake. 24/7 Wall St. has identified the nine states where the USPS plans to close the most mail centers.

The plan is USPS?s latest attempt to stem mounting losses. At the current rate, the postal service?s debt is projected to reach $18 billion by 2015. The mail center consolidations are part of a plan to save $2 billion per year and $20 billion by 2015.

While it is still not clear exactly how these changes will affect delivery, a recent plan currently under consideration would make overnight delivery for first class mail impossible in many locations.

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The USPS is the first to point out that mail volume has declined precipitously because of electronic mail and the downturn in the economy. This places the postal service in an untenable position as it relies on revenue from mail service instead of tax dollars.

First-class stamped mail has declined more than 50 percent in the past 10 years, from 52 billion deliveries in 2002 to 26 billion in 2011. According to an email from USPS representative Sue Brennan, the drop in mail has resulted in significant excess capacity. She wrote, ?We have an infrastructure that has expanded over decades designed to handle hundreds of billions of pieces of mail and mail volume is no longer increasing. 2006 was our peak year. We need to right-size our infrastructure.?

According to the plan, neighboring facilities will absorb the functions of the 223 targeted centers. The USPS maintains that the 35,000 jobs will be lost through attrition, though employees will be relocated to other facilities initially. When not available, the employees will be offered other work, such as being post office clerks or mail carriers. In some cases, workers could be relocated to different states.

Nine states will see eight or more processing facilities closed. Almost half of the 223 plants scheduled to be shuttered are located in these nine states. For the most part, these states, which include California, New York and Texas, have the largest populations in the country.

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If these measures are allowed to go through, some states will certainly be affected more than others. While unemployment in the U.S. has declined over the past year, it remains high in several states -- a number of which are set to lose the most processing facilities. Five of the nine states set to lose the most centers have unemployment rates above the national average of 8.3 percent. California and Illinois have some of the worst unemployment numbers in the country, and these cuts will only hurt their regional economies even further.

These are the nine states where the U.S. Postal Service wants to close the most mail centers.

1. California

• Proposed closings:?14
• Unemployment rate:?11.1 percent

Fourteen postal centers will be closed in California -- more than any other state in the nation. California is also the most populous state by a significant margin. Centers to be closed include Bakersfield, Industry, Long Beach, Pasadena, Stockton, Petaluma and North Bay. According to USPS spokesperson Augustine Ruiz, as reported by KPBS, overnight mail will be delayed by at least a day if the delivery address is further than 90 miles from one of the remaining processing centers. Ruiz also notes that employees will be given the option to follow their jobs to the centers where the work will be moved.

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2. Georgia

• Proposed closings:?13
• Unemployment rate:?9.7 percent

The USPS plans to close 13 processing centers in Georgia this year, including centers in Acworth, Albany, Athens, Augusta, Cartersville, Columbus, Douglasville, Marietta, Savannah, Swainsboro, Valdosta and Waycross. Some processing duties will be sent outside of the state. For example, some mail processing operations of the Augusta Processing and Distribution Facility will soon be handled by the Columbia, S.C., center, according to the?Augusta Chronicle.

3. New York

• Proposed closings:?12
• Unemployment rate:?8.0 percent

New York?s postal system will see a lot of change this year. The USPS will be shuttering customer service mail processing centers in Amsterdam, Binghamton, Glens Falls and Plattsburgh. A surface transfer center in Binghamton, processing and distribution centers in Brooklyn, Buffalo, Newburgh, Flushing and Garden City, an annex in Melville, a logistics and distribution center in Bethpage, and a delivery distribution center in Monsey will also be closed. New York is the country?s third-largest state by population.

The rest of the list of states closing the most mail centers at 24/7 Wall St.

Source: http://bottomline.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/28/10518920-dead-letter-offices-states-closing-the-most-mail-centers

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Planninga from Nanninga: A Strategic Planning Blog: Strategic ...

THE STORY
Once there was Juan, an owner of a trucking delivery business. Juan took great pride in how efficiently his trucks ran. Whenever there was a lull in his business, Juan would open up a hood and work to make the truck engine was operating as efficiently as possible. He had the heart of a mechanic and saw his mechanical skills as a key to his success. Juan had the best running trucks in the business.

Lately, however, Juan?s business had been seeing a lot more lulls than it used to. In fact, business was virtually non-existent. He popped his head out from under the hood to find out why business was so bad.

Juan discovered that his key customers had stopped shipping their products by truck. They had digitized their product and now sold it exclusively over the internet via downloads. There was no way Juan could operate his trucks faster or cheaper than an internet download.

Maybe if Juan had kept his head out from under the hood of the truck and spent more time looking at the environment, he would have seen this coming and been prepared. Now it was too late. Juan soon went bankrupt.

THE ANALOGY
Based on my observations over the years, it seems that most business leaders tend to have one of two tendencies. Either they have the heart of a mechanic or the heart of a designer.

The ?mechanic? business leader is always trying to tweak the business, to improve the status quo. I?ve referred to this in the past as the ?More-Better? approach?always looking for ways to make the status quo do more or do it better than before. Like a mechanic, this type of manager focuses on the inner workings of the business (what?s ?under the hood?). It?s all about being the best at running the current business model. Juan was this type of leader.

The ?designer? business leader takes a different approach. This leader is focused on trying to invent or design the next business model. Their focus is more external. Rather than starting with today?s model and trying to improve it, they start with the marketplace and look for new ways to serve it. Rather than making incremental improvements, the designer leader looks to reinvent the market to their advantage. Steve Jobs was more like this type of leader.

The problem with the mechanic approach is that eventually the status quo becomes obsolete. It doesn?t matter how well you can tweak an obsolete engine. The best-running obsolete engine is still obsolete. Juan?s best truck could never out-deliver a digital download.

And guess who makes the mechanic obsolete? It?s the designer.

If your strategic planning is dominated by a ?mechanic? approach, you will be like Juan and have your head under the hood?focused on incremental internal improvements and blind to what is happening around you to reinvent the status quo. Although that approach can work for a period of time, it will eventually lead a company to obsolescence.

THE PRINCIPLE
The problem is that most business leaders are caught in a mechanic?s mind set, because the engine of their current business model keeps breaking down. The pressures of the immediate crisis force them to focus on an immediate fix. These fixes revolve around making the status quo work better. After all, production lines are breaking down, customers are yelling about late deliveries, key employees are threatening to leave, and suppliers are raising prices. Under this near-term pressure, the thinking goes like this, ?If I can only get this process to work a lot better and more efficiently, then all these pressures will go away.?

As a result, the tendency is to act like a mechanic and keep one?s head under the hood, looking for ways to make all these current crises go away.

The Problem When Leaders Are Merely Mechanics
Now it is true that crises cannot be ignored. Problems in the business need to be fixed. That?s why such a large percentage of employees work in business operations. You need lots of ?mechanics? on the payroll.

The problem is when your top executives still think of themselves as mechanics. In the story, Juan was running a trucking company, yet he still wanted to spend his time as a mechanic. He was ignoring what leaders need to do?lead their companies into the future.

Leaders need to become less of a mechanic and more of a designer. And this may be a tough mindset to change, since solving near-term crises by tweaking the status quo (mechanic work) is probably what got the person promoted to a leadership position in the first place.

How can you tell when a leader is too much of a mechanic? When times really get tough, a mechanic wants to double down and spend even more effort on trying to fix the status quo so that ?it works again.?

Unfortunately, the reason why the engine of your business isn?t working may be because it has become the wrong engine?it has become obsolete. The best response at this point is not to spend more time trying to fix the status quo, but to move on to the next business model. And you won?t find it by staring under the hood. You will only find the next big thing if you have a leader who is leading the charge to find it.

The Necessity of Strategic Planning to Break the Mindset
Helping leaders spend more time thinking like designers is probably the biggest benefit of practicing the discipline of strategic planning. It helps leaders take time out from working under the hood to see the bigger picture. It forces them to question the status quo. It helps them think like a designer.
In particular, there are two principles that strategic planners can use to help create a designer mindset.

1. Change is Usually Not Incremental
Industries rarely evolve along a steady, gradual line. No, it is often interrupted with great upheaval as one business model is rejected and another replaces it. And no amount of tinkering with the old will get you to the new.

Kodak could never incrementally improve analog film to make it turn into digital imaging. No amount of improvements to manufacturing a gas tank will get you to battery-powered automobiles. A more efficient printing press will not save newspapers from the upheaval of digital media.

Change tends to be radical and requires a radical response. Radical responses need to be designed. You won?t find the answer by tweaking the engine under the hood.

Strategists provide a great benefit when they remind people of how industries radically shift (and why tinkering won?t help you bridge the shift). They provide even more value when they help point the way to where the shift is occurring and how to reinvent the model to stay on top.

2. Even Designers Can Fall Into the Trap of Evolving into Mere Mechanics
Usually, it is an outside firm which upsets the status quo. Because they have no vested interest in the status quo, they can boldly attack the status quo with the next big thing and win.

The problem is that, eventually, the radical new thing of today becomes the status quo of tomorrow. And then something radically different upsets the ?newer? status quo. The cycle never stops.

Computers used to be the hot new thing. Now they are kind of quaint, with iPads, smartphones, and Kindles taking over. And the hot new things did not come from the leading computer manufacturers. No, they came from places like Amazon (Kindle), Google (via Android), and Apple (a minor also-ran in computing).

The problem is that the new company?s success came from pursuing the new business model. Therefore, they get overly attached to that new model. When it comes time to move on to an even newer model, there is a tendency to stay back and act like a mechanic?trying to fix the old new thing instead of designing the next new thing.

Strategists provide a great benefit when they remind people of how the cycle of business model innovation never ends (making your new design eventually become as obsolete as the old design it replaced). They provide even more value when they help point the way to when the cycle is about to turn again and how to turn to stay on top.

SUMMARY
Every company needs ?mechanics? to help keep the current business running. But when senior leaders are overly focused on being mechanics, the company stagnates. They are left behind perfecting the obsolete while the rest of the world is moving forward to the next business model. That is why the strategic planning process is so vital. It helps leaders get a broader perspective, in order to:

a) Perceive in advance when it is time for radical reinvention;
b) Figure out how to reinvent the model in order to stay on top.

FINAL THOUGHTS
You can?t stop change. Therefore, take advantage of the change. After all, that?s when the biggest changes in market share occur in an industry. If you take advantage of the change, then your market share will skyrocket. If you ignore change your market share will plummet.

Source: http://planninga-from-nanninga.blogspot.com/2012/02/strategic-planning-analogy-440-mechanic.html

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Ovarian cancer

Ovarian cancer has its roots in the ovaries. This is regarded to be the fifth most common cancer that prevail among women. Mostly, this kind of cancer arise from the surface i.e. the epithelium of the ovary but in rare cases it can also arise out of the fallopian tube. The other type also originates from the egg or supporting cells and this is called gynecologic cancer.

It is a little difficult to diagnose the early signs of ovarian cancer since the signs are absent on women early on. At times it might be that the disease may prevail for months but has not been recognized or diagnosed. It is often the case that by the time the cancer gets diagnosed, the tumor spreads beyond the ovaries. At this stage ovarian cancer is not to difficult to treat but often fatal as well. Research is however going on so that this cancer can be treated at an early stage.

It is being said that less than one-third ovarian cancers are detected before they have spread outside the ovaries. Only 20% women are diagnosed early. However some of the symptoms of ovarian cancer include:-

• A swollen belly area
• Less appetite or feeling full quickly
• Pain in the pelvis or lower abdominal area
• Frequent urination or urinary urgency
• Unusual vaginal bleeding
• Pain in the leg

Some of the less common problems include:-

• Shortness of breath
• Nausea
• Indigestion
• Gas
• Constipation
• diarrhea

Women who have someone in the family who has had ovarian cancer before run high chances of having ovarian cancer. Treatment in all stages of ovarian cancer requires surgery. Moreover, women who has given birth has a less chance of developing ovarian cancer. Women, who have had cancer of the breast, uterus or the colon, have a higher chance of developing breast cancer. Women who are above the age of 55 have been mostly diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Women who have known to take estrogen without progesterone for a prolonged period of 10 years or more are known to have developed this type of cancer.

For offering the best treatment your doctor first of all requires to know the grade of the tumor and the extent of the disease. It also matters whether the tumor has reached to the nearby tissues and has spread to which other parts and organs of your body. But before opting for the treatment, you must be clear:-

• What is the stage of your disease and has the can cancer spread to other parts of the body?
• ?What is the best kind of treatment for you?
• What are the expected benefits of each of these kind of treatments?
• What are risks and possible side effects of these kind of treatments?
• Will these treatments affect your normal activities?
• What would be the cost of the treatment? Will your insurance cover the cost?
• Will you be able to conceive and have children after the treatment?
• How often will you have to go for checkups after the treatment?

Recently it has been found out that if performed on a regular basis, a vaginal sonogram with CA125 blood test can help detect ovarian cancer at an early stage. Dr. Robert True for years has been engaged in detecting ovarian cancer among women. He also offers vaginal sonograms for patients who are overly concerned. He offers extra tests to women during their yearly visits and though these tests are not covered by their insurance, these can provide them the extra comfort and relief.

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Source: http://truemd.com/2012/02/ovarian-cancer/

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On Court Radio at 7 am Sunday: A Criminal Law Guide with Special ...

R. Seth Williams, Philadelphia?s district attorney, will appear live on the weekly ?Court Radio? show at 7 a.m. Sunday to discuss the city?s recent efforts and initiatives to fight violent crime involving firearms.

The program will discuss criminal law and some of the basic things that citizens need to know about the system of criminal justice in the Delaware Valley.

One of the topics Williams will discuss is the city?s new reward program that aims to pay citizens substantial cash rewards of $20,000 to provide information that leads to the arrest and conviction of criminals who commit murder with a firearm in the commission of a crime in the City of Philadelphia. The reward program was announced in January by city Mayor Michael Nutter, Police Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey and Williams in a joint effort to stem the rising homicide rate here, according to a story in The Philadelphia Inquirer. There were 30 homicides in Philadelphia as of Jan. 25, which was ?significantly higher than the 15 or 16 that had been considered typical for that month in previous years,? the story reported.

R. Seth Williams, the district attorney for the City of Philadelphia. Photo courtesy City of Philadelphia.

In addition, anyone who reports another person who is illegally carrying a firearm in the city can earn a $500 reward upon the arrest and conviction of the suspect for a firearms violation, Williams said.

The live Court Radio broadcast will be hosted by MyPhillyLawyer managing partner, Dean Weitzman, and his co-host and fellow attorney, David Rapoport.

Court Radio is broadcast live every Sunday morning on Philadelphia?s WRNB 100.3 FM, with a simulcast on Magic 95.9 FM in Baltimore. You can also listen live on the Internet at WRNB 100.3 or on Magic 95.9 via streaming audio.

In an interview, Williams said he will talk about how the reward program is going so far, though it will be six to 12 months before any real results can be measured. ?I know that people have called in and that information on guns used in violent crime has already come in,? he said. But because cases take some time to go through the court system, no convictions have yet occurred where rewards have been paid out.

Williams said he will also detail another upcoming initiative ? a plan to ask the courts to forbid a suspect in a case involving firearms to be released from jail after simply signing a note promising to return for trial. That practice, where suspects are released on their own recognizance (ROR), is outmoded today when gun violence is so prevalent and it must be changed, Williams said.

?I will be asking for only cash bail for all defendants who are arrested for possession of a firearm,? he said.

Also joining the criminal law program will be Larry Greenberg, a Baltimore attorney who will discuss the criminal justice system and its operation, including the recent case of a former University of Virginia lacrosse player, George Huguely V, 24, who was convicted last week of second-degree murder in the 2010 death of his former girlfriend.

The jury in the widely-publicized Virginia case ?decided [that] Huguely did not plan to kill his onetime girlfriend Yeardley Love on May 2, 2010, when he kicked through her bedroom door, shook her violently, wrestled with her and left her bloodied in her bed,? according to a story in The Washington Post. ?The 22-year-old was found dead by a roommate hours later.?

Greenberg will discuss the differences between first-degree and second-degree murder charges, as well as detail manslaughter charges. ?Prosecutors had sought a first-degree murder conviction, while Huguely?s attorneys were hoping for the lesser charge of manslaughter,? according to the Washington Post story.

Williams is serving his first term as the city?s District Attorney, having been elected in 2009 as the city?s and Commonwealth?s first African-American district attorney. He earned his law degree from Georgetown University and his bachelor?s degree from Penn State University. He joined the DA?s office after law school as an assistant DA, where he created and led the Repeat Offenders Unit with the goal of reducing the high percentage of crimes committed by repeat offenders, according to his city biography. His extensive trial experience includes 37 jury trials, more than 1,500 bench trials and more than 2,500 felony preliminary hearings.

In 2005 Seth was appointed Inspector General of the City of Philadelphia and worked to investigate all allegations of corruption, fraud, waste, abuse and employee misconduct among municipal workers and companies doing business with the city. He left that post in 2008 to work for a Center City law firm before running for District Attorney.? Williams and his wife live in West Philadelphia and have three daughters.

Baltimore attorney Larry Greenberg. Image courtesy Greenberg Law Offices.

Greenberg earned his law degree from the University of Baltimore and his bachelor?s degree in Sociology and Political Science from Boston University. He is the vice president of the Maryland Association for Justice, where he is an active member of the Board of Governors. He is also a member of the American Bar Association, American Association for Justice, Maryland State Bar Association, Bar Association of Baltimore City and the Maryland Criminal Defense Attorneys? Association. Greenberg is a Captain and Legal Officer JAG of the Maryland Defense Force where he provides legal support for the Maryland Army National Guard and the Maryland Air National Guard. He is married and has?two children.

Don?t Forget the Special Two-Hour Legal Call-In Show Tonight from 6 to 8 p.m. on Praise 103.9 FM, hosted by MyPhillyLawyer?s Dean Weitzman

Tonight from 6 to 8 p.m. MyPhillyLawyer?s Dean Weitzman will also host a special two-hour legal advice call-in radio program on Praise 103.9 FM radio in Philadelphia.

Callers can dial in to ask a skilled personal injury attorney for advice on just about any legal question for free during the show.

Weitzman will be joining Praise 103.9 FM for the special two-hour Sunday night radio program to highlight the upcoming ?Praise 103.9 Inspiration & Music Conference? that will be held March 10 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Center City Philadelphia.

Weitzman will answer your legal questions on the special Sunday night radio show about a wide array of topics, including personal injury accidents, slip and fall injuries, estate law issues and what to do when a death occurs in your family.

Callers can dial (215) 263-1039 during the radio program to ask a legal question. ?Co-hosting the special program will be Praise 103.9 radio personality Cece McGhee.

During the Sunday night radio show, Weitzman and McGhee will be giving away tickets for the upcoming Praise 103.9 Inspiration & Music Conference, where Weitzman will be hosting a question and answer session to provide legal advice. ?The March 10 conference runs from 1 to 10 p.m. on March 10 and features workshops on music, relationships, faith, law and more

Weitzman will be also giving tickets away for the Praise 103.9 Inspiration & Music Conference during his Sunday morning Court Radio program.

Tickets for the Praise Conference are $50 for attendees to attend just one workshop, or $119 to be able to attend multiple workshops.

To purchase tickets for Weitzman?s legal workshop, see this Web page. ?A workshop ticket also lets the ticket holder attend the finale concert at the event. The 8 p.m. finale concert will feature performances from musicians including Marvin Sapp, Israel Houghton, Earnest Pugh, William McDowell, James Fortune, Jessica Ready,?JJ Hairston, and Smokie Norful.

About Court Radio

Listeners can call in with their legal questions to 800-539-1479 or they can email their questions to AskDean@CourtRadio.com. Participants are asked to only ask or submit ONE question each time so that all callers have a chance to discuss the legal topics that are on their minds.

Court Radio is the place to ask your legal questions and get real answers from lawyers with a deep background in the law, from personal injury to contracts and estates, insurance and much more.

Most weeks, Dean brings in a special guest to answer your legal questions and provide information on a dizzying array of legal topics, all with humor, good advice and at no charge to callers. You can even listen to past shows and their featured guests by downloading or listening to stored podcasts.

A production of WRNB-FM radio in Philadelphia, Court Radio is brought to you each week by the law offices of Silvers, Langsam & Weitzman, P.C., which is known throughout the Philadelphia area as MyPhillyLawyer.

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Iran's Nukes - Harvard to Host Conference Calling for an End to Israel

It is shocking, but perhaps not surprising. On Saturday and Sunday, March 3 and 4, Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government will host a conference entitled "One State Conference: Israel/Palestine and the One-State Solution." The goal of the conference is "to expand the range of academic debate on this issue. Thus, our main goal is to educate ourselves and others about the possible contours of a one-state solution and the challenges that stand in the way of its realization." Notice how delicately it is put: "to expand the range..." To be sure, this conference will discuss ending the State of Israel. Nothing more and nothing less. A so-called "one state" solution means the end of Jewish sovereignty in Israel. Harvard knows it. Anybody with a brain knows it. The only question is, how has it come this far?

Caroline Glick argues that the academic elite is now leading the charge of Jew-hatred. Consider the long list of "professors" who will be speaking at the conference. My sense is that the reason the Holocaust was more successful in killing Jews on a genocidal scale than say the Russian czars' pogroms is because the Holocaust was fueled from above - from elitist anti-Semitism and elitist xenophobia. It wasn't the feudal lords who organized the murder machine. Those lords just let their Cossacks murder couple hundred Jews to get their bloodlust satisfied for the year. Most of the surviving Jews were permitted to pack their suitcases and run away.

The Holocaust was different. It wasn't the peasant class or their landed gentry lords that instigated the crime. And the Holocaust wasn't perpetrated principally to satisfy their taste for Jewish blood. In the decades before the Holocaust, an evil wind blew through academia and other elite quarters throughout the Western world. The doctrines of race and eugenics became all the rage of the anointed intellectuals. Even an otherwise liberal thinker like Oliver Wendell Holmes was drawn to the fashionable concept of killing mentally disabled in the name of eugenics. These doctrines gave the German intellectuals the philosophical underpinning for their so-called "anti-Semitism." That itself was a pseudo-scientific term for regular old Jew hating just like "anti-Zionism" is a progressive, politically correct term for regular old Jew hating today. That is, anti-Semitism was an elitist way of masking intolerance, even genocidal intolerance for Jews and making it socially acceptable to seek our annihilation. And this is the precise function that the term anti-Zionism serves today.

And here's Richard Baehr: University political activity feeds off identifying victim groups and fighting for their cause. The Palestinians are now in the upper tier of such groups. Some students may tune out the venom toward Israel that is routinely directed at them in far more classes than just Middle East studies or modern history. But others will absorb some of the toxin. It is not surprising that the graduates of America?s elite schools are far less sympathetic to Israel than graduates of other universities, and much less so than the rest of America?s adult population. In essence, anti-Zionism has become completely acceptable at the top of the academic ladder, and from there, over time, it has been and will continue to permeate the rest of mainstream society - in leftist churches and synagogues, and the mainstream media in particular. You cannot slander gays, women or Muslims, but Israelis have become fair game.

Ladies and gentlemen, you should be scared. When the nation's top university hosts a conference dedicated to discussing ways to wipe Israel off the map, well, Boston's Jews may be next.

Gerlad Burstyn writes for World Jewish Daily, from where this article is adapted.

Source: http://www.thecuttingedgenews.com//index.php?article=72158

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Development in medical field has enhanced treatment procedures for various ailments. Patients with disabled limbs do not have to rely on other people to move. People with disability can move their legs and hands by using custom prosthetics. These items have been created to help people with disabilities to move and enhance their lifestyle.

Individuals involved in accidents suffer from body injuries which lead to amputation. This means the injured person will need an item to support motion on a certain body part. Prosthions are constructed in different techniques depending on a patients need. Although the task of constructing prosthions is difficult, patients experience many benefits.

Specialists construct these equipments to provide people with support. The design of these equipments offers people with support to maneuver broken or amputated limbs. Patients experience comfort when wearing replacement limbs due some factors. Replacement limbs are made to fit perfectly on the patients body.

These artificial limbs come with different colors. People are allowed to choose colors that suit their natural skin tone. You can have your limbs created with colors that match your skin. This feature makes these items unique and appealing to use for mobility.

Replacement limbs offer maximum efficiency on different patients. Artificial limbs are designed to meet your specification. People with disabilities should consider these limbs to gain self confidence. Keep in mind that replacement limbs are created with colors that match your skin. This means it will be difficult for people to recognize your disability on various body parts.

Individuals do not have to use maximum effort for mobility. This is because custom prosthetics are easy to use. Artificial limbs make mobility easier if they fit on your body properly. This means you should know the type of limb you need. You should choose the correct size to have an easy time moving. Custom Prosthetics

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In a very time in which more than 0.5 of all Us citizens are regarded as obese and obesity is to the boost the wellness and physical fitness company is booming. Despite the inadequate wellness of our culture as being a entire, a giant portion from the population is getting an fascination in eating habits, training and physical fitness developments. Whereas getting an fascination in these physical fitness methods and approaches is not possible to lead to improved wellness, genuinely employing many of these methods and approaches is one particular method of put on your own to the trail into a more healthy you.

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Diet regime is one particular amongst the foremost well-liked facets of the physical fitness market. There are a variety of prevalent diets obtainable today for the people which have been intrigued. You can find diets which can be superior in protein and excess fat and reduced in carbs, diets which have been superior in carbs, diets that require sophisticated mixtures of vitamins, diets which involve the usage of pre-packaged meals as well as diets that reduce the dieter to 1 or two meals all the way through the study course of all those diets. In deciding on a eating habits you must employ common sensation to determine whether or not a eating habits is almost certainly to help you obtain preferred benefits. Some eating habits strategies like people who are overly restrictive can possible be eradicated promptly all the way through this process. You ought to also choose into consideration how simple the eating habits might be to stay to right up until you shed the necessary amount of excess weight. Considering these elements can help you to determine which diets is often finest for you.

Exercise for Health And Fitness is another common element in the physical fitness equation. Most of the people observe they should be carrying out some kind of cardiovascular training and power coaching however there is a good deal of contradicting data referring to the number and kind of training which is needed for weight reduction or physical fitness routine maintenance. Just before starting any physical fitness program, dieters should consult with with their health care provider to help make positive they?re suit enough to begin an training program. Those who haven?t exercised prior to may possibly think about quick walks of ten-fifteen minutes after they get started their training program. The duration and intensity of such walks might be increased because the physical fitness amount boosts.

Work out tools is another side from the physical fitness trade which confuses many. You will find a good deal of kit presented which assortment is often overwhelming. In model pieces of tools incorporate treadmills, stationary bicycles and elliptical trainers. These pieces of equipment allow the user to realize a cardiovascular exercise routine but none of them are necessary for the physical fitness program. Dieters can run, jump, swim, engage in a sport, dance or get involved in any exercise although not the utilization of sophisticated and highly-priced tools.

Pilates tools is often particularly complicated for could be training lovers. Pilates has only become extraordinarily well-liked from the former few of many years. Despite the fact that many have jumped to the Pilates bandwagon to the recommendations of celebs, many people you should not use a entire understanding of what Pilates quite is as well as tools involved in training this kind of training. Nevertheless you will discover complicated pieces of equipment like reformers and trapeze tables most novices will merely acquire a ground mat and a DVD to begin their journey into Pilates.

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NH jury chosen in Rwanda genocide case (AP)

[unable to retrieve full-text content]AP - The trial of a New Hampshire woman charged with lying about her role in the 1994 Rwanda genocide is expected to transport jurors back almost 18 years to a roadblock outside a family owned hotel in Butare where prosecutors say the defendant decided who would live and who would die.

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Glee Recap: On My Way

Shockers in tonight’s episode, people. Seriously. And guess what? It was the winter finale and we won’t get our Glee fix until April. Yes, you heard me right. April. Sigh. And wouldn’t you know it, they give us one helluva cliffhanger. I did not see that one coming. Okay, without further ado, here’s what happened on Glee. So Dave Karofsky is outed thanks to the kid who saw him at Breadstix with Kurt last week, and said kid sprayed his locker with an anti-gay slur, prompting Karofsky to head home with a myriad of emotions. He goes online and sees more anti-gay messages directed towards him. Overwhelmed by everything, he puts on a suit and tries to hang himself in his closet. I was in absolute shock. Even after everything he had done to Kurt, my heart broke for him. We learn that Dave’s father found him and he is in the hospital. On a side note, Max Adler was amazing tonight. Simply ahhh-mazing. The kids at McKinley can’t believe what has happened, especially Kurt, who feels responsible for not answering Karofsky’s texts or phone calls. Even bad boy Sebastian wants to put the Warblers’ and New Directions’ differences aside [...]

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Santorum's False Environment: Bible Remarks Were About 'Radical Environmentalism' (ContributorNetwork)

[unable to retrieve full-text content]ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | After his words at an Ohio tea party gathering made headlines and he was roundly criticized for stirring up the conspiracy theory that President Barack Obama might not be a Christian, Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum backtracked and attempted a clarification of his assertions Sunday on CBS' "Face The Nation."

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Designers save a few fashion surprises for Oscars (Reuters)

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Reuters - Big films. Big stars. Big Fashion. When the red carpet rolls out for the Oscars Sunday night, it won't only be the biggest night in Hollywood, it will be a major night for celebrity designers.

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Jersey Boys News - Kiss My Arts - Posterous

The four guys playing The Four Seasons arrived in New Zealand last night and had a bunch of media appointments today. They also stopped by BOX Caf? & Bar for morning tea with a lucky group of winners from Suburban Newspapers. Check out the themed cupcakes? and excellent posing!

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DION BILIOS is Frankie Valli

Dion has been involved in stage and performance since the age of four, training in all aspects of performing arts.? His stage credits include the roles of Gavroche in Les Miserable, Sammy in Jolson and Captain in Oliver.? In 2008, he toured with the Australian production of Altar Boyz, where he performed the role of Mark and has most recently been part of the award winning Australian production of Mary Poppins.? Dion has also featured in numerous television commercials and series including his role as ?Bud? in the AFI Award winning film Soft Fruit.? He has also had the chance to work with many of Australia?s finest Choreographers including Kelley Abbey, Matt Lee, Leah Howard, Cameron Mitchell, William A Forsythe and The Squared Division.?

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DECLAN EGAN is Bob Gaudio

Declan is thrilled to be making his professional theatre debut as Bob Gaudio in Jersey Boys.? In 2010 he graduated from the Diploma of Music Theatre course at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA).? Declan also graduated from the Talent Development Project in 2011 and performed in the TDP-Start Me up Concert at the Sydney Entertainment Centre.? Since graduating Declan has performed with the corporate act Boys in the Band with SMA productions.? Prior to NIDA, Declan studied Voice at the Newcastle Conservatorium of Music and performed in the 2010 season of Encore at the Sydney Opera House.?

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ANTHONY HARKIN is Tommy De Vito

Anthony Harkin graduated from the Western Australia Academy of Performing Arts in 1999 and has since gone on to a successful career in Theatre and Television.? Anthony?s recent theatre credits include Rock of Ages (Newtheatricals), Avenue Q (Arts Asia), Shane Warne the Musical and Wind in the Willows (Australian Shakespeare Company).? Other theatre credits include the A Month in the Country (Sydney Theatre Company), The Last Five Years (Echelon Productions), Cabaret (IMG), and The Internationalist (The Practical Theatre Company).? Anthony also toured Australia nationally with Miss Saigon.? Television and Film credits include The Alice, Network Seven?s All Saints and Mark Lee?s feature film The Bet.? Anthony recently directed A Midsummer Night?s Dream in Sydney?s Centennial Park for WildRumpuS Productions.

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GLASTON TOFT is Nick Massi

Glaston graduated from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in 2005.? Prior to WAAPA, he studied Classical Voice at the Queensland Conservatorium and trained in Commercial Dance and Music Theatre at DLDC Studios.? In 2008, he performed in TML Enterprises? production of SHOUT- the Legend of the Wild One (Peewee understudy- the Delltones? iconic frontman).? Glaston then commenced the national tour of Opera Australia?s My Fair Lady (The Cockney & Servant Quartets).? His other performance highlights include Little Me and Camelot for The Production Company.

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Broadway?s gritty smash hit musical, JERSEY BOYS ? The Story of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons, is the story of how four blue collar boys from the wrong side of the tracks became one of the biggest American pop sensations of all time.? Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi joined forces to become The Four Seasons, writing their own hits and developing their unique sound to sell over 175 million records before they were 30!?

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Written by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, with music by Bob Gaudio, lyrics by Bob Crewe, choreography by Sergio Trujillo and directed by two-time Tony Award winner Des McAnuff, JERSEY BOYS ? The Story of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons features 20 Four Seasons hit songs including ?Sherry?, ?Big Girls Don?t Cry?, ?Rag Doll?, ?Oh What a Night? and ?Can?t Take My Eyes Off You?.

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Personal Finance Is A Fashion These Days | Pro Advertising ...

Personal finance and financial planning is a very good aid in evaluating your financial status before going for any kind of loan.?Every person wants to lead a luxurious life. He wants to have his own house and his own car. The rates of property and vehicles are going up so high up that it?s not possible for everyone to save money and buy them. Instead taking a home loan or a car loan is a better option and most people are opting and benefitting from it. Apart from having a house and a car there are other luxuries or necessities which require a considerable amount of money. Before taking a loan for fulfilling these requirements, people tend to use the Personal finance services offered by banks and other financial firms.

Personal finance?is the process of applying the financial principles on the economic decisions of an individual or a family. It is important for an individual or a family to know that where he stands in his financial terms and how much loan he can take. In case he is unable to re-pay the loan, what he can do and how, is calculated through Personal finance assessment.

Personal finance assessment deals with the individual?s or family?s earned and uses their monetary resources in a particular course of time. It also considers the future of life and financial jeopardy. The process of Personal finance may include checking of savings account, any type of personal loans, credits cards, stock market investment, insurance plans and tax management.

The most important process of Personal finance procedure is financial planning. It involves the following the steps:

Assessment of Personal finance:?It involves construction of a simple income statements and balance sheet which displays the assets and liabilities of an individual or a family. Assets include property, house, cars, stock, bank account etc. Liabilities include loans, credit cards, mortgage etc.

Goal Setting:?The objective of the Personal finance process should be clear. They can be mixed also, short term or long term. The main objective of goal setting is to fulfill certain financial requirements.

Plan Creation:?This process includes the planning as to how the goal will be achieved. It includes decreasing the unnecessary expenses or liabilities and increasing the personal income through various means.

Plan execution:?As the name suggests, working on the plan execution for the achievement of the set goals is done in this process.

Re-assessment and monitoring:?Personal finance and financial planning is not just a onetime process, it requires regular check-up and monitoring for obtaining the upto date values of Personal finances.

Taking a personal loan may be a just luxury for someone and for another person it may be a necessity. But the conditions applied by the bank for the loans is same for every individual and there is no relaxation in the ROI in any case, hence it become important for individual to get his Personal finance assessment done.

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How to earn a seat at the Oscars

Philippe Falardeau is the one getting all the headline-grabbing Oscar buzz 'round these parts, but he's not the only Montreal filmmaker up for an Academy Award this year. Patrick Doyon is also in the Oscar hunt and, in sharp contrast to the seasoned Falardeau, 32-year-old Doyon has been invited to the biggest show in the movie business with his very first professional film.

Doyon's beautiful nine-minute, 54-second meditation on childhood memories, titled Sunday, is nominated for the best-animated-short Academy Award. It's one of two National Film Board productions in the category, alongside Wild Life, an offbeat tale of a British fellow in Alberta in 1909 made by former Montrealers Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis.

In a recent interview at the fabled Caff? Italia in Little Italy, Doyon still sounded a little taken aback that his film is headed to the Oscars.

He found out about the nomination at around 8: 40 the morning of Jan. 24, right as the Oscar nominations were being unveiled. He was in front of the computer with his girlfriend and their 2?-year-old daughter, and it was a pretty intense moment.

"We were real happy," said Doyon. "We were shouting, we were so happy. But my daughter didn't understand and she started crying.

"We knew since the beginning of December that we were on the 10-film short list (for best animated short)," Doyon added. "In fact, both films from the NFB were on the short list. I was pretty sure one of the two NFB films would be nominated. I had seen the 10 films in Los Angeles in January, and I felt our two films deserved to be on the nomination list."

Doyon had made one film prior to Sunday, but the animated short Square Roots is not considered a fully professional film because it was made as part of Hothouse, the NFB's apprentice program for emerging filmmakers, back in 2006. That one took three months to make.

Sunday, on the other hand, is the fruit of two years of full-time work at the NFB studios in St. Laurent. What's cool about the film is that it doesn't look anything like the mainstream animated flicks produced by Hollywood giants like Pixar and DreamWorks - movies where the latest software is used to make the animation look as real as possible.

Doyon actually sketched all of the original drawings on paper using regular pencils, working on a slanted luminous table. The result was 15 boxes overflowing with sheets of his sketches. Then he scanned all of them onto the computer, colourized them and began editing.

"Technically, it's not a film that revolutionizes animation," said Doyon, who is also in the midst of providing drawings for a kids' book titled Le voleur de sandwich.

"But that wasn't my goal. For my first film, I really just wanted the film to work as a story. It's really kind of classic animation. The goal of an animated film is to get away from reality. The danger of computerized animation is to recreate reality, which is of no interest to me."

Doyon's film tells the story of a young boy who goes to his grandparents' house in a small town after church on a Sunday morning. Bored with the adult world, he wanders out to the nearby train tracks to fool around. Doyon says it's inspired by his own life growing up in the small town of Desbiens in the Lac St. Jean region.

"But it's not an autobiographical film," said Doyon. "My memories are exaggerated and transformed. It's a way of making a film about boredom without it being boring for the viewers."

Shortly after our interview, Doyon headed to California, where he's set to spend almost two weeks. All of the filmmakers nominated in the animated-short category are invited to tour the Pixar and Dream-Works animation facilities in the San Francisco area, and then it's off to Los Angeles, where Doyon has a jam-packed agenda.

It's all a bit of a shock for a quiet, unassuming guy who's more used to working on his animation or drawing magazine illustrations alone in his studio.

"I certainly wasn't thinking of the Oscars while I was making the film, and I can't expect that every time," said Doyon.

Sunday is part of a program of Oscar-nominated shorts that screens nightly at 8: 30 through Thursday at Cin?ma du Parc, 3575 Parc Ave. It also screens as part of a Rendez-vous du cin?ma qu?b?cois program Thursday at 9: 30 p.m. at the NFB Cinema, 1564 St. Denis St. You can also watch it on YouTube; search "Patrick Doyon Sunday."

The 84th Annual Academy Awards are broadcast live Sunday at 8: 30 p.m. on ABC and CTV.

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Text messages ? The actual National Dinosaur | OMNIAEVO.NET

Globally, Text message text messages is regarded as the chosen method of communication among business executives. Rating final on this class are generally National business executives. Exactly why? Difficult to explain thinking about Text message could be the quickest type of communication at any time created, as well as the many under the radar type of digital communication around. You might believe these types of business owners would certainly grasp the benefit as well as immediacy regarding text messages especially right after staying horribly served by the cellular telecom industry for years. Bad mobile phone models, poor coverage, poor solutions, undesirable prices as well as inferior interconnectivity are already normal for that cellular sector because the creation. Using this profits giant carrying on with to build, the success of Text message text messages is difficult to disregard. In ?06 the service created 50 billion dollars money regarding profits throughout the world that?s while cash loans up to full Artist box place of work, plus full music business plus full games, mixed.

Certainly these types of executives don?t have to increase text messages on the large list of ?Things My personal Adolescent Can Do Which i Can not.In . All teenagers in most nations can send text messages without even looking at his or her mobile phone. They actually do this being a gymnast really does a new onward spin: effortless. 48% regarding United kingdom teenagers admit to be able to texting since they speak with another person. A third regarding Southerly Korean teenagers typical One hundred txt messages each day! The particular Belgian attend Catholic School regarding Leuwen found that more than half teenagers regularly wake to be able to incoming text messages off their close friends.

Cell phone a reality verify: the typical e-mail will be popped inside Two days.

A long time.

The message will be quick. Quick. Bang! It?s right now there, in your mobile phone, incontrovertible.

In 2002 virtually all United kingdom business owners utilised Text message within function linked marketing communications. Take into account; Manchester business executives are generally more conventional than Nyc law firms as well as purchase brokers. Exactly what are we all missing out on?

By 2008 Text message text messages took over as the many chosen business communication strategy. Ahead of e-mail, voice-mail as well as voice cell phone calls. Text message text messages amid business users could be the chosen ways to talk within ultra conventional Great britain! Perhaps the Estonian authorities sends the diary for the conferences through Text message. The particular Finnish Leading Minister?s voicemail messages introduction claims, ?don?t keep myself voicemail messages; send us a message as an alternative.In . The particular Singapore authorities offers determined just about all e-government will be SMS-enabled.

Words cell phone calls are generally barely a choice ever again. Look at the which it takes to connect to anybody you are contacting. Over half some time you contact somebody, you find yourself within voicemail messages imprisonment. See your face might enable your contact to enter voicemail messages on purpose while using full set on intending to call you back. But conferences, a bath room crack, a negative sign, another contact, his or her arms full just about all prevent in which from truly taking place. The particular circumstance of having direct via and being able to speak to your version is certainly under 25% and can be underneath 10% of all cell phone calls.

Whatever the case, you?ll be able to send a new message and it comes instantly. Quickly into the assembly wherever cell phones are on muted. Quickly when he will be actually talking to the opponent on the other instrument range. The guy can read the concept when he will be continuing another chat. Even though in which person?s mobile phone will be deterred, as soon as it comes down on once again, the message comes. You don?t need to verify voicemail messages. Only read a simple take note.

There are 2.Several Billion dollars mobile phone users. You will find One.8 billion dollars Lively users regarding Text message text messages. In Europe Text message usage is finished 80% every capita along with The united kingdom it can be 85%.

To be fair, there exists much we can?t carry out within Text message that we will use e-mail pertaining to. But also for the quickest type of online messaging but for the many critical business elektroauto marketing communications, genuine Text message text messages.

On another note, you will find the discernment regarding text messaging. You can state things on Text message you are unable to state in public areas. Text message will be exclusive, concealed, as well as effective. You can present a great deal of information that isn?t effortless on voice cell phone calls. Get yourself a telephone number, url, a new reservation code. Whenever you have to have a pen as well as papers, it is a great deal much easier to transmit in which information through Text message.

Text message text messages is like the communication in the top notch. You get to the leading in the range; the top heap, the Text message concept comes just before virtually any voicemails might be restored. Text message is like a Very important personel minute card, the right to try in the range, to reduce traces prior to the queue. That of a freedom to own the communication dealt with because the most significant!

As there are another product that we just about all need more regarding nevertheless no one can acquire: Occasion. Great britain survey through the MDA unveils that the many appreciated utilization of fast loans Text message by simply IK business executives is to deal with his or her time. One of the most beneficial tool to deal with his or her time will be Text message text messages.

Norwegians and the Irish within Europe typical A couple of messages each day. Malaysians, 4 messages each day. Koreans 12, Singaporeans 14 as well as Malaysia 15 each day.

As there are the National Old. Away from People in america today, according to the most recent information through the CTIA, 42% regarding People in america send text messages, and so they typical Zero.Half a dozen text messages every mobile phone individual throughout the complete nation. This really is totally in line with the United kingdom five years previously or perhaps Finland 8 years back. People in america ought to observe text messaging being a company effectiveness communication tool, rather than just the next adolescent great factor.

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Cheap and Affordable Home Improvement Projects to add Value to your Home

Home improvement projects (even small ones) although significantly improve your living area, but even better, they are able to increase the need for your home. Sometimes, however, the efforts and charges connected with remodeling your home are overwhelming. Try not to give on enhancing your surroundings quite yet, because listed here are five easy and budget-friendly projects that may improve your house's value making your home much more beautiful along the way.

• Consider fundamental enhancements before jumping into large projects, this type of fixing a leaking roof and eliminating every other structural or mechanical problems. Within the bathroom, replace taps (from $20), mirrors (from $50), and towel rods (from $20). In the kitchen area, consider refacing or changing the cabinetry. These small projects make an instantaneous effect on your home's beauty without emptying your wallet.
• Painting: If you're able to only afford one home transformation, here it is. With over a 300 % payback, a painting project reaps immediate profit also, freshening your fresh paint is certain to encourage you to definitely enjoy your home much more. When painting exterior walls, think about the neighborhood atmosphere and select stylish, current colors. Even when you repaint or add decoration to simply one room, take time to make sure that all work looks professional, particularly if you do-it-yourself. From $25 per bucket.
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• Landscape designs: The way you take proper care of the outside of your home reflects the way you take proper care of the inside, which project does not need to be time-consuming or pricey. Fancy gardens, stone pathways, and elaborate fences look good, but they may be time intensive and pricey. A far more effective and economical option would be to mow the lawn regularly. Trimming any shrubbery getting rid of weeds constitutes a great first impression. Also, when you are being careful from the landscape, a great project to attempt is the home exterior to kill mildew and make certain it does not return. Make use of a garden sprayer and Environmental protection agency-approved mildewcide, after which repaint with mildew resistant brands. From $35 per gallon.
• Setting up decking or upgrading an outdoor patio is easily the most cost-efficient method to add sq footage for your home and it is always an excellent, lengthy-term investment of remodeling dollars. Even though this is the greatest home improvement within the list, other patio projects include adding a sunroom or awning for an already established outside living area. A typical price of a brand new deck and patio is $10,000, however, you can recoup around 85% from the value whenever you sell and revel in more living area inside your home.

Upgrading your home does not need to be pricey or time-consuming. It is the small things that sometimes result in the difference, so consider a number of of those small enhancements.

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Be strategic about matching employees' 401(k) dollars ? Business ...

Maybe your company has always offered a 100% match on the first 2% of income that an employee contributes to a qualified retirement plan like a 401(k).

But this practice might result in a good outcome for your employees. How about offering to contribute a 25% match to the first 8% that each employee defers to his or her account? It will cost your company the same while encouraging employees to save more. It might even move some nonparticipants off the fence. ?

Note: Anti-discrimination rules can restrict contributions of highly paid employees, like the owners of the company. Therefore, it may be in your personal best interest to encourage higher contributions by the rank-and-file.

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Whitney Houston remembered at NJ hometown funeral

A coffin holding the remains of singer Whitney Houston is carried into the New Hope Baptist Church before her funeral services in Newark, N.J. on Saturday, Feb. 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)

A coffin holding the remains of singer Whitney Houston is carried into the New Hope Baptist Church before her funeral services in Newark, N.J. on Saturday, Feb. 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)

The hearse carrying the body of Whitney Houston leaves Whigham Funeral Home in Newark, N.J. for a short ride to the New Hope Baptist Church for her funeral Saturday, Feb. 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Rich Schultz)

Candles burn at a memorial at a memorial to Whitney Houston outside New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, N.J., early Saturday, Feb. 18, 2012. Whitney Houston's funeral will take place later Saturday at the church where she sang in the choir as a girl. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

Singer Bobby Brown, left, is seen outside during the funeral of his ex-wife Whitney Houston at New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, N.J., Saturday, Feb. 18, 2012. Houston died last Saturday at the Beverly Hills Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif., at the age 48. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

Fans sing Whitney Houston songs as they gather a few blocks from the New Hope Baptist Church before the singer's funeral in Newark, N.J., Saturday, Feb. 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) ? Clapping hands and swaying to gospel hymns in the church where Whitney Houston's powerful voice once wowed her congregation, the biggest names in entertainment sang along with the choir to remember the pop superstar at her hometown funeral Saturday.

"We are here today, hearts broken but yet with God's strength we celebrate the life of Whitney Houston," the Rev. Joe A. Carter told the packed New Hope Baptist Church after the choir behind him sang "The Lord is My Shepherd."

Mourners including singer Jennifer Hudson and Houston's mother, gospel singer Cissy Houston, stood, swayed and clapped along in the aisles as gospel singers BeBe Winans and the Rev. Kim Burrell joined with pop stars like Alicia Keys in paying tribute to the 48-year-old pop superstar who first began singing in the Newark church.

"You wait for a voice like that for a lifetime," said music mogul Clive Davis, who shepherded Houston's career for decades.

Others were more mournful; singer Ray J., who spent time with Houston during her last days, broke down crying. His sister, singer Brandy, put her arm around him. Cissy Houston and Houston's daughter, 18-year-old Bobbi Kristina, clutched each other in the front of the row.

Actor Kevin Costner, her co-star in "The Bodyguard" that spawned her greatest hit, remembered a movie star who was uncertain of her own fame, who "still wondered, 'Am I good enough? Am I pretty enough? Will they like me?'"

"It was the burden that made her great and the part that caused her to stumble in the end," Costner said.

Filmmaker Tyler Perry praised Houston's "grace that kept on carrying her all the way through, the same grace led her all the way to the top of the charts. She sang for presidents."

Stevie Wonder and Oprah Winfrey were among the biggest names gathered to mourn Houston, along with Hudson, Monica, Brandy and Jordin Sparks ? representing a generation of big-voiced young singers who grew up emulating her. Houston's voice, a recording of "I Will Always Love You," was to close the funeral.

Houston's cousin Dionne Warwick presided over the funeral, introducing speakers and singers and offering short comments about Houston between them.

Houston's mother was helped by two people on either side of her as she walked in and sat with her granddaughter and other family to begin the service. Houston's ex-husband, Bobby Brown, briefly appeared at her funeral, walking to the casket, touching it and walking out. Security guards said Brown was upset that he would have to sit separately from the people he arrived with, and left. A Brown representative didn't immediately comment.

Mourners fell quiet as three police officers escorted Houston's casket, draped with white roses and purple lilies. White-robed choir members began to fill the pews on the podium. As the band played softly, the choir sang in a hushed voice, "Whitney, Whitney, Whitney."

Close family friend Aretha Franklin, whom Houston lovingly called "Aunt Ree," had been expected to sing at the service, but she was too ill to attend. Franklin said in an email to The Associated Press that she had been up most of the night with leg spasms and sent best wishes to the family. "May God bless and keep them all," she wrote.

A program featuring a picture of Houston looking skyward read "Celebrating the life of Whitney Elizabeth Houston, a child of God." Pictures of Houston as a baby, with her mother and daughter filled the program.

"I never told you that when you were born, the Holy Spirit told me that you would not be with me long," Cissy Houston wrote her daughter in a letter published in the program. "And I thank God for the beautiful flower he allowed me to raise and cherish for 48 years."

"Rest, my baby girl in peace," the letter ends, signed "mommie."

The service marks one week after Houston, one of music's all-time biggest stars, was found dead in a Beverly Hills hotel in California. A cause of death has yet to be determined.

To the world, Houston was the pop queen with the perfect voice, the dazzling diva with regal beauty, a troubled superstar suffering from addiction and, finally, another victim of the dark side of fame.

To her family and friends, she was just "Nippy." A nickname given to Houston when she was a child, it stuck with her through adulthood and, later, would become the name of one of her companies. To them, she was a sister, a friend, a daughter, and a mother.

"She always had the edge," the Rev. Jesse Jackson said outside church Saturday. "You can tell when some kids have what we call a special anointing. Aretha had that when she was 14. ... Whitney cultivated that and took it to a very high level."

A few fans gathered Saturday morning hours before the service as close as they could get to the church, some from as far away as Washington, D.C., and Miami. Bobby Brooks said he came from Washington "just to be among the rest of the fans."

"Just to celebrate her life, not just her death," said Brooks, "just to sing and dance with the people that love her."

Others were more entrepreneurial, setting up card tables to sell silk-screened T-shirts with Houston's image and her CDs. But only the invited would get close to the church; streets were closed to the public for blocks in every direction. But their presence was felt around the church, with a huge shrine of heart-shaped balloons and personal messages that covered the street corner around the church entrance.

Houston's death marked the final chapter for the superstar whose fall from grace while shocking was years in the making. Houston had her first No. 1 hit by the time she was 22, followed by a flurry of No. 1 songs and multi-platinum records.

Over her career, she sold more than 50 million records in the United States alone. Her voice, an ideal blend of power, grace and beauty, made classics out of songs like "Saving All My Love For You," ''I Will Always Love You," ''The Greatest Love of All" and "I'm Every Woman." Her six Grammys were only a fraction of her many awards.

But amid the fame, a turbulent marriage to Brown and her addiction to drugs tarnished her image. She became a woman falling apart in front of the world.

Her last album, "I Look To You," debuted on the top of the charts when it was released in 2009 with strong sales, but didn't have the staying power of her previous records. A tour the next year was doomed by cancellations because of illness and sub-par performances.

Still, a comeback was ahead: She was to star in the remake of the movie "Sparkle" and was working on new music. Her family, friends and hard-core fans were hopeful.

The funeral is for invited guests only. Houston is to be buried next to her father, John Houston, in nearby Westfield, N.J.

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Contributing to this report were Global Entertainment and Lifestyles Editor Alicia Quarles and Mesfin Fekadu.

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Nekesa Mumbi Moody is the AP's music editor. Follow her at http://www.twitter.com/nekesamumbi

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