Mazda suffers $327 million quarterly loss (AP)

TOKYO ? Mazda reported its third straight quarter of red ink Friday after vehicle production was hurt by the earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

Automakers from Japan to the U.S. suffered disruption to production when key parts failed to arrive from suppliers damaged by the March 11 disaster in northeastern Japan.

Mazda said its loss for the April-June quarter totaled 25.5 billion yen ($327 million). It had a loss of 2.1 billion yen a year earlier. The latest result was worse than the 22 billion yen loss forecast by a FactSet survey of analysts.

But the Hiroshima-based manufacturer stuck to its forecast for a return to the black in the fiscal year ending March 2012. It expects an annual net profit of 1 billion yen ($12.8 million) and sales to fall 6 percent to 2.19 trillion yen ($28 billion).

Mazda, which makes the Miata and RX-8 sportscars, said in a release it sold 281,000 vehicles worldwide for the April-June quarter, down 11 percent. Sales declined in Japan, North America and Europe, according to Mazda.

For the full fiscal year, Mazda expects to sell more vehicles than the previous year at 1.3 million vehicles, up 2.6 percent on year, with much of the momentum coming from an expected 14.5 percent sales surge in China.

Quarterly sales revenue of 408 billion yen ($5.2 billion) was down 29 percent from a year earlier.

Mazda achieved record sales or market share in Australia, China, Thailand, Mexico, Indonesia and Malaysia, it said.

Mazda acknowledged that concerns remained about a strong yen, which erodes the value of overseas earnings of Japanese exporters, as well as the rising price of raw materials and oil.

Mazda said that an unfavorable exchange rate erased 3.1 billion yen ($40 million) from its bottomline.

Another fear is an electricity shortage in Japan after reactors at a nuclear power plant in northeastern Japan were sent into meltdown by the March 11 tsunami. Another plant is being shut down in central Japan because of quake fears.

Mazda said production has returned to normal at its Japan plants recently.

It said it is banking on growth from the improved fuel efficiency of its gasoline engine Skyactiv car, that it's planning to roll out in various models, starting with the remodeled Demio. The automaker said the Demio was selling well in Japan.

Mazda, which has lost money for the last three fiscal years, is struggling to assert its brand without counting on its longtime partnership with Ford.

Mazda does not have flashy green technologies in its lineup that its bigger Japanese rivals do ? such as the hybrids at Toyota Motor Corp. or electric vehicles at Nissan Motor Co.

Dearborn-based Ford bought 25 percent of Mazda in 1979, raising it to 33.4 percent in 1996. But Ford began cutting ties in 2008, and last year lowered its ownership to 3.5 percent.

Earlier this week, Nissan reported a smaller-than-expected 20 percent drop in April-June profit to 85 billion yen ($1 billion). Chief Executive Carlos Ghosn said the numbers show Nissan is holding up despite huge odds.

Honda Motor Co. reports earnings Aug. 1, and Toyota on Aug. 2.

Mazda stock inched up 1 percent to 213 yen. Earnings were announced shortly after trading ended in Tokyo.

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A Trojan Asteroid Keeps Earth Company

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JOE PALCA, host: This is SCIENCE FRIDAY. I'm Joe Palca. This week, scientists are reporting they've found proof for something that's long been speculated about. Earth has at least one planetary hitchhiker, an asteroid that sits about 50 million miles away from Earth and is sort of riding our gravity as we make our way around the sun.

Astronomers have found these asteroids, called Trojan asteroids, around Jupiter, Neptune and Mars, so it seemed likely the Earth would have one, but no one had found one until now. Joining me now is the leader of the team that found Earth's Trojan. Martin Connors is a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the - sorry - and the Canada Research Chair at Athabasca University in Alberta, Canada. Thanks for talking with me today, Dr. Connors.

MARTIN CONNORS: Well, very happy to do so, Joe.

PALCA: Good. And if you have a question for Dr. Connors and you want to join the conversation, our number is 800-989-8255. That's 800-989-TALK. You can tweet us on Twitter, @ sign followed by scifri. And there's more information about this topic at the website: www.sciencefriday.com.

So, Dr. Connors, let's start. What is a Trojan asteroid?

CONNORS: Well, as you mentioned before, it's one that either follows or leads the planet in its orbit, kind of held in place by the combination of the planets and the sun's gravity. I kind of liked your music there, because this particular one also does a little dance. It's a rather complicated motion, but on average, it's 60 degrees ahead of the Earth and along Earth's orbit.

PALCA: So it's not just - I saw the simulations that you made. It's not just parked in one spot 60 degrees away. Why does it have this additional wobbly-ness in the orbit in a way that Earth or the Moon doesn't?

CONNORS: The eccentricity - that is to say the oval-ness of this orbit - is a little bit more pronounced than that of Earth's orbit, and that makes it slow down when it gets a little bit further away from the sun. And it is also tilted about 20 degrees with respect to our orbit, and that makes it go up and down. So all in all, it ends up doing a little bit of a dance instead of just staying in one place.

PALCA: And why Trojan? Do you know?

CONNORS: Why the name Trojan?

PALCA: Yeah. Why the name Trojan?

CONNORS: It would appear that - I mean, here's another great name. It's Max Wolf. There's a really good name for an astronomer. And in 1906, when he found the first one, they were sort of giving out names from classical history, and it just happened, as far as I can tell, that the first one was given the name Achilles - of course, the Greek warrior who went to the Trojan war.

Then when they found another couple of asteroids that were very similar, they gave them Trojan-themed names, Patroclus and Hector. And then that tradition picked up, so they're now about 5,000 known for Jupiter. So they've gone through all the names in the Iliad.

(SOUNDBITE OF LAUGHTER)

PALCA: There are quite a few names in the Iliad.

CONNORS: Yeah.

PALCA: So I'm curious, though. Why - what's special about this position, 60 degrees ahead? I mean, is that the sweet spot for finding these things?

CONNORS: Yeah. I think you could call it a sweet spot. You have to think of people thinking these are dire times, but Lagrange was basically working during the French Revolution, and he did some mathematical proofs that there could be these so-called Lagrange points, or sweet spots, where a small body could stably exist going around with the large body.

PALCA: And there are several of these Lagrange points, as I remember.

CONNORS: Yes. There are also others that are called the Collinear Lagrange points. For Trojan asteroids, they form a triangle and they're called the Triangular Lagrange points. But Lagrange points are used for spacecraft between the Earth and the sun and that's mainly for looking at the sun and then, on the other side, if they're looking out into deep space, it's a good place to park them is at that Lagrange point.

There is yet another Lagrange point on the other side of the sun and this asteroid spends a little bit of time there, but it's not a stable point, so it's a fairly little bit of time.

PALCA: We're talking with Martin Connors about an asteroid called a Trojan asteroid that he's reporting that's been discovered in Earth's orbit and we're taking your calls at 800-989-8255. And let's take a call now, and go to Darren in Chicago. Darren, welcome to SCIENCE FRIDAY. You're on the air.

DARREN: Thank you very much. Appreciate you taking the call.

PALCA: You bet.

DARREN: I'm fascinated by the fact that we've been looking at the solar system for so long in so many ways and yet, still, discoveries like this are being made. And I'm curious as to why this one has been so elusive and are you now expecting, by virtue of the way you discovered this, to find others? Or what's the significance of this as far as proximity and other ways to track it?

PALCA: Great question there.

CONNORS: Thanks, Darren. That's a good question. And the trouble is that this situation of 60 degrees from the planet as seen from the sun. It also means that the asteroid kind of sticks near 60 degrees from the sun as seen from the Earth because it's an equilateral triangle and that really isn't that far from the sun in the sky.

So as a result, if you wish to do a search with a telescope, which we have done in the past, you're restricted to a very short period of time, near sunrise or just after sunset and while the sky is still dark, however. So the opportunity to actually look for these with ground-based telescopes is very restricted in time and you have a lot of sky to cover. The sky is actually a pretty big place.

So the game changer here was a NASA satellite called WISE, which was looking a little bit closer to the sun than most asteroid searches occur and, therefore, it could find this asteroid.

PALCA: And was WISE designed to look for this or is this just an ancillary benefit from WISE?

CONNORS: WISE was a general survey of infrared bright objects, which does include asteroids and so there was also a part of WISE called NEO, for Near Earth Object WISE, which was specifically looking for near earth asteroids, including Trojans.

PALCA: Okay. Let's take another call now and go to John in Indiana. John, welcome to SCIENCE FRIDAY. You're on the air.

JOHN: Thank you. My question is primarily related to these objects that they found around the moon. The photos were released back in January or February, allegedly by NASA. Is there any link or ties to that and these Trojan asteroids? Are there any similarities or perhaps were these objects discovered out of the program that discovered the asteroid?

PALCA: Dr. Connors?

CONNORS: John, I'm afraid I'm drawing a blank on that one. I didn't hear about these objects associated with the moon.

JOHN: They're all around the sun. You can see them in the corona of the sun in near orbit to the sun, but then they've also found some that they've seen, or they've photographed around the moon towards the dark side. We're unable to really see them plainly from Earth, but they've - like I said, I don't know. I don't even know if there's any legitimacy to these photos. They were allegedly released by NASA and they're all over the Internet everywhere.

PALCA: Wow. John, I think you might have stumped us on this one, unless that rings a bell for you, Dr. Connors.

CONNORS: Definitely not. And I don't really know how you even tell if things are genuine NASA, so sorry. I really can't be of any help.

PALCA: Okay. Well, let's see if we can do better, not that you should feel bad. It's a little bit outside of your knowledge base, but let's go next to Scott in Wild Lake, Michigan. Scott, welcome to SCIENCE FRIDAY. You're on the air.

SCOTT: Hello. I love your show. I'm calling to inquire if the discovery of this Trojan could maybe make a better model for how we move to the solar system, much like the discovery of Uranus kind of changed the model a little bit of how we view things.

CONNORS: Yes. Well, thanks for that question. I think that the dynamics or the way that these bodies move has been known for quite a long time. And recently, there is a new model of the early solar system called the Nice model and it has implications as to why material piles up at these Trojan or Lagrange points.

But we do know it's there and we're now kind of trying to explain that it's there. It's, of course, interesting to know that it is also there for the Earth, as well as for Jupiter.

PALCA: Okay. Scott, thanks for that call. Let's go next to Wyatt in Michigan, also. Welcome to SCIENCE FRIDAY. You're on the air.

WYATT: Yes. Thank you for having me on the air. I love your show and just a question, Mr. Martin Connors. I'm a graduate student at Oakland University and I'm also President of Engineering Intelligent Solutions. And I wanted to know, what's the impact of these Trojan asteroids on the Earth? Like, watching them, what's the reason behind it? I know there's Lagrange points that maybe tell you the distance of these objects, but like for technology and space sake, what's the impact on the Earth?

CONNORS: Well, to me, one of the interesting aspects of these asteroids - and I hasten to add that, because of the tilt of the one we have found, it is not a suitable target for what I'm about to talk about. But if we could find other Trojan asteroids that actually just stayed in the plane of the Earth's orbit, then they and other related objects could be extremely easy to get to with a spacecraft. In fact, the previous discussion was about how to land on Mars and do it gently. One advantage of an asteroid is, as is happening with the current mission to Vesta by the Dawn spacecraft, you don't have much gravity to contend with that's going to suck you in and make you crash on the surface. So you can just kind of gently pull up to it.

So, in fact, asteroids could be very advantageous things for space missions. And, indeed, it's part of the U.S. space plan to send astronauts, rather, to asteroids.

PALCA: Really? So it's a little bit more like parallel parking than landing on another planet.

CONNORS: Exactly, yeah. In fact, your biggest problem is once you're there, you might drift off. So what do you? Lasso it or shoot a harpoon into it, or whatever? But you don't need to worry about crashing into it, because the gravity is so weak.

PALCA: Interesting set of problems. OK. Let's go next to Darren in Virginia. Darren, welcome to SCIENCE FRIDAY.

DARREN: Hi. Thanks for having me. I've got a question about the size of the asteroid, and also what kind of material it's made out of.

PALCA: Hmm. OK.

CONNORS: OK. Well, the basic answer to your second question is we don't actually know what it's made out of, so we just kind of guess that it's kind of the average color and darkness of other asteroids. And in that way, we can guesstimate that the size is a few hundred meters. So there would be - more detailed investigations can be done from the ground, particularly with spectroscopy or detailed study of the color that might be able to tell us what it's made of. But, for the moment, we just have a rough guess as to how dark it is. And that allows us to judge the size to be a few hundred meters.

PALCA: OK. Darren, thanks very much for that.

DARREN: Thank you.

PALCA: You're welcome. I'm just wondering: Why is it so hard to predict the motion of these guys?

CONNORS: Well, this particular one is very subject to the effects of chaos. The old views in the time of Lagrange and back in the time of the French Revolution was that if you could get all the rules down, then you could predict the universe forever. But we now know that, in fact, there are so many bodies out there - and some of them are in sort of precarious situations - that are subject to small influences from others that can actually change their behavior quite a bit.

This turns out to be one of those. So just small shoves from Jupiter and other planets can actually make it very difficult to predict the future of this asteroid with any precision, so it is actually a chaotic orbit.

PALCA: We're talking with Martin Connors. He's a professor in the department of physics and astronomy and the Canada research chair at Athabasca University. That's in Alberta, Canada. This is SCIENCE FRIDAY, from NPR. I'm Joe Palca. Let's take another call now, and let's go to Jerry, if I can push this button. Yes, Jerry in Rochester, New York. Welcome to SCIENCE FRIDAY. You're on the air.

JERRY: First time caller, big fan. I actually have my iPod set to go off, so I can to listen to the show. I'm very excited because back in the 1970s, there was the physics was applied to the idea of Lagrange points here on Earth, between the Earth's moon system, and they had actually talked about building 10,000 - at the time, they were all aglow with the Apollo program and all that, and they were thinking about building a colony that would exist in L5. Do you recall hearing anything of that? And I'll take my answer off the air.

PALCA: OK. Thanks, Jerry.

CONNORS: Yes. I believe that O'Neill was a big proponent of these space colonies. And, obviously, for those of us, for example, going further back who were big fans of "2001" and expected amazing things to happen in space, they haven't quite happened that way. So I believe that you're referring to O'Neill's work, and a very interesting work, but performing major engineering feats of the magnitude that he was talking about in space has eluded us. Obviously, we're proud of the accomplishments of the space station, but it's not quite on the scale that the futurists of the era that you're talking about were thinking of.

PALCA: Thanks for that question. Let's go now to Corey in - or is it Kerry(ph) in Menlo Park, California. Are you there?

TERRY: Hi. Yes. This is Terry in Menlo Park.

PALCA: Terry. Sorry. Go ahead.

TERRY: My question is: Do they know, or have they considered how these things end up there?

PALCA: In other words - I was interested - that's an interesting question, because I was wondering: How do these get captured and brought into these stable points in the orbit?

CONNORS: Yes. That is, of course, an extremely good question, and it has a rather unfortunate answer, which is that we don't know in great detail. So the answers range all the way from they were there at the beginning of the solar system - and that would be very interesting - to, well, things kind of move around, and if there's a place for junk to pile up, it'll be one of these Lagrange points. And that may be what's happening.

So that may be a little bit of an unsatisfactory answer. But with this particular object, we really have difficulty predicting the motion or back - going backwards with the motion for very long because of the chaotic nature. So this is an open research question. And it might be partly answered if we could go and get materials, et cetera. And then we would be able to say if it was made of sort of similar material to the Earth that might argue for it having been there a very long time.

PALCA: Is there - are you going to look for any more? Or do you think this is it, for now? I mean, around Earth that is.

CONNORS: Well, I am a big proponent of the idea that there are more of these, and that we have simply not been able to observe them very much because of the difficulty of observing them. So I hope that actually having an object will stimulate searches. I certainly will be trying to get telescope time to do so. Big telescopes are difficult to get time on, and you have to argue strongly, and hopefully this will strengthen the argument, and then we can find more.

PALCA: Any thoughts about looking at other planets, or are you going to stick with Earth?

CONNORS: Well, it does turn out - and sorry for not mentioning this earlier. Jupiter, of course, has a huge collection of them. What actually stimulated my interest in Earth was the discovery about 20 years ago that Mars has Trojans. So there are a handful of those known. And then much more recently, it was found that Neptune has Trojans, as well. So I have written papers about Mars Trojans and Jupiter Trojans, in fact. So I am interested in the whole general topic.

PALCA: OK.

CONNORS: But I think, for now, the hot thing is Earth Trojans.

PALCA: You got it. All right. Well, Dr. Connors. Thanks very much.

CONNORS: Thank you.

PALCA: Martin Connors is a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the Athabasca University in Alberta, Canada. When we come back, we'll be moving out to one of those outer planets, Juno - Jupiter, about - and we're going to talk about the new Juno mission that's heading there next week. We'll be right back after this short break.

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The Best File Management App for iPhone [App Directory]

iOS doesn't exactly allow for much file browsing, as the file system is pretty locked down, but there are some great apps for management. We love Air Sharing because it supports practically every protocol you'd ever need and works with tons of file types.

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• Transfer essentially any kind of file to your iPhone.
• Supports tons of different file transfer protocols, such as WebDAV, FTP, SSH, Dropbox, MobileMe iDisk, HomePipe, FilesAnywhere, and many more.
• Provides a familiar OS X Finder-like browsing experience.
• Easily view PDFs, images, iWork files, RTF files, Microsoft Office documents, and more directly from the app.
• Easily open files in other apps on your iPhone.
• Print files from your iPhone without any additional software.
• Browse ZIP archives without unzipping.
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If you need to get files on your iPhone, Air Sharing is basically the best way to do it. That's primarily because it provides practically every way imaginable to do it. You can transfer files using just about every file transfer protocol and file sharing service. It lets you download files directly from URLs so you can add just about anything. While Air Sharing can't view every file you could open on a computer, it does support a wide variety of document types. Most of the media you'd want to view on your iPhone is supported. The pro version even lets you print directly from your device. Air Sharing was designed to easily get files on your iPhone, view them, and interact with them. It does all of those things exceptionally well.

There's very little worth complaining about, but you could argue the interface could be a little more compelling. While it feels familiar, as it looks a lot like an OS X Finder window, iOS is known for it's beautiful, sweeping animations. Air Sharing's interface can feel a little dull at times, but that's hardly a downside in light of the excellent functionality it provides.

Dropbox is free and may be sufficient for users of the service. It can handle viewing documents easily, and transferring a file to your iPhone is as simple as adding it to your Dropbox.

Briefcase ($5) is similar in functionality to Air Sharing but costs a little more and doesn't have as many features. So why mention it? You can easily connect to other iPhones running the app to transfer files between them. If you often share files with your iPhone-wielding friends, this can be a really helpful feature.

There are many other apps with similar feature sets to Air Sharing, but, in our opinion, not quite as well (and often at a higher cost). There are also specialized apps, namely for documents that you read (like GoodReader and ReaddleDocs), but we're aiming a little broader here. If you've got a favorite you love, however, share it in the comments.

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Lifehacker's App Directory is a new and growing directory of recommendations for the best applications and tools in a number of given categories, each week with a different focus.

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UK shops launch Christmas displays - with 149 days to go (AFP)

LONDON (AFP) ? With 149 days still to go before Christmas, London's Harrods and Selfridges department stores have launched their earliest ever Christmas displays.

"Sales in previous years have proved that customers are ready to start thinking about Christmas in the summer, especially visitors from overseas," Selfridges said.

"This year, Selfridges? international visitors have already increased by over 40 percent (from the same period last year), which has encouraged Selfridges to reconsider its traditional August Christmas shop opening, bringing it forward to July for the first time."

Last year Selfridges? Christmas section doubled it sales compared to 2009 in its first week of trade, when more than 2,000 baubles were sold.

"Tourists from countries including China, Russia, Asia, India and USA see choosing a beautiful Christmas decoration as the perfect memento from a foreign trip flock to Selfridges during the summer months," said the company, which has its flagship store on Oxford Street.

Geraldine James, Selfridges Christmas shop buying manager said: ?Christmas is coming earlier each year. I can see a time when we offer a capsule Christmas collection throughout the year."

London's Evening Standard cited Selfridges as saying many tourists from the Middle East had asked to buy Christmas decorations before going home for Ramadan, the Muslim month of fasting, starting on Monday.

A Harrods spokesman said its Christmas display, which like Selfridges' mini shop opened on Thursday, aims to respond to demand from tourists visiting the UK from June to August.

To mark the launch of Christmas World, the Kensington store's Father Christmas served ice cream in a choice of 12 "yuletide" flavours.

Harrods was bought last year by the investment arm of Qatar's soverign wealth fund and the

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A Flower A Day Keeps The Doctor Away | Home and Family |

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Gourmet food is delicious expensive not only for its quality ingredients and taste but also for its aesthetics. Aesthetics in foods is a big comeback in restaurants today, and rightly so. An experiment involving an unconscious sense involves more than one. So while we eat, we believe that the taste is all that our brain is processing, but it is a much richer experience than that. The smell and sight of food are important points of the experience of eating. One of the ways the most natural and attractive to brighten and embellish a dish is the simple addition of an edible flower! There are many varieties are edible and add a subtle flavor to your dish. Cooking with flowers, however, is a meticulous process that you must be sure that what you earn is not toxic or chemically treated. Once you?ve chosen your flowers safely, the options for cooking, is very broad.

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Surely the most important factor when you decide to cook the flowers is sure that the variety is edible and poisonous. Although this article is to provide general guidelines, do not confirm prior to use plant food that is actually edible. The safest bet, edible flowers are those that eventually grow vegetables and fruits that we already know and love. Often the flowers of vegetables, fruits and herbs to provide a reminder of the plant from which they come, is a more subtle flavor. Examples include basil, chives, garlic and lemon blossom. These seals are good for hand dishwashing detergents that can be used for fruit over the flowers. Chamomile flowers is very sweet and pleasant, too. Other flowers are the plants that we know flowers arugula, mustard flower, pumpkin flowers (which can also be fried and eaten on its own), and sunflower. Edible flowers are not only those that bloom later in fruits and vegetables.

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There are important rules that must be followed when using flowers in cooking. Importance of safety in the safety of the flower is of special importance. Never use an ingredient in your kitchen, you are not sure, for sure. Remember that many flowers are poisonous, so be sure of the identity of the flowers you choose for cooking. Once this has been checked, we are ready to proceed to the next rule in the kitchen of the flowers. This rule is where you get your flowers from. Do not buy flowers for cooking florists, unless grown for food. Most of the flowers for a florist not increased as edible and therefore are not treated as edible. The products of these flowers are treated should not be consumed.

Now we are ready to cook, keep the ideas rolling in! The use of flowers is so varied, that can accompany something for dessert snacks. Flowers are perfect for packing dishes savory and sweet, and the petals of a pleasant taste and turn to salads. Try a mixture of salad vegetables and fruit, and throw some flowers too. This will add to the beauty of a salad, and adds a unique flavor to the combined sensation of sweetness and saltiness. Herbal butters have never seen more beautiful with flower petals mixed in them, and most hitters will be updated with a flower mixed in them. Imagine the beauty of pancakes with some lavender flowers spread everywhere! Drinks Look Sharp with flowers frozen in ice cubes, while the teas are delicious with fragrant flowers. Add the jam went to the tea is also an option to sweeten the tea delicious, so I think the jam can be made from the flowers.

Once you begin cooking with flowers, can be much more creative in the kitchen, with results that all notices and love.

Every chef wants to add his experience and always looking for new ways to improve and change. The flowers are wonderful in this passage, because they are easy to cook, add beauty and flavor, and helps the flow of imagination to create even more interesting recipes. The flowers have long been used in cooking, and that luck is coming back into fashion. Our food should be tasty, attractive, and a richer flavor. Learn that the flowers can be cooked, and when you buy them, make sure that they have been grown and eaten to use the petals of flowers. Remember that many of the flowers used for side dishes are often the only decoration. For example, many live flowers to decorate the wedding cake is not for consumption. However, if you cook with the flowers you know you are good to eat, let your imagination and create a myriad of dishes that are enhanced and embellished with flowers from the garden they?ve added!

So either find a florist that specializes in growing flowers for food or grow your own! Growing your own flowers for food involves essentially the same rules that grow flowers for aesthetic pleasure, but be sure to avoid pesticides and use natural methods to repel insects, planting a wide variety of flowers near the other, then this balance can help ward off the bugs, remember that ladybugs are good bugs that eat a lot of parasites, so know your friendly error; burrs some grounds for garlic and coffee in the ground often prevents pests in check, because they hate the sharpness and bitterness of these foods. Finally, use only the leaves of flowers, the pollen can cause allergies and are often bitter. Especially for the first time cooks flowers use small amounts, like any new food to the digestive system should be introduced slowly and easily.

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This process is more difficult for a company. There are many potential hosts to choose from, and many offer attracting programs and packages. It is not easy for company to choose the best program but here are some ways a company might choose.

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Set up Residual Program Schemes: This can provide extra money as each time a client pays every month, you will receive money. In addition to this, for hosting their page you earn money. The same is for true for each new client that signs up via you.

The Web Hosting industry has been constantly on the expanse. With the packages an support programs they provide, it is very essential that you choose the one that most suits your needs.

Doing this is now much easier than it used to be. With so many Web Hosting servers competing with each other, one can easily verify which has a more or less consistent track record and choose accordingly. Having a stable online server is a must for your company?s profits to multiply.

You need to have stability. A 100% return is impossible but you can have a 99.9% online record. Being online is vital because if you are offline you cannot make money.

Checking Bandwidth Limit and Storage Space: Both are essentials, primarily the former if your site involves a lot of uploading/ downloading and uses a lot of audio-visuals. You should also check on the storage space and accordingly choose a server that provides a considerably large storage capacity.

Technical additions: These are vital for any firm and your web host should supply PHP5, MySQL and POP email facilities. These are supplied by the majority of firms in addition to other services, as well as cPanel.

Having a number of sites: You should be aware of this and it is something many people want to do. If your host has a number of sites you can host, you need to be aware of it. Placing your sites on the same server can save you cash and reduce the time you need to maintain them. It can also make linking sites much easier.

A reminder:

Publicity, earning money, providing support to customers, bandwidth limits, storage room, being online, technical support, money making schemes and hosting multiple sites are all factors you need to be aware of.

Providing these services will improve your variety and give you more opportunities to make money. A referral should be considered as it is a good way to make money, sometimes earning up to $60 in one go. If you have an NGO or community welfare service, this additional revenue stream can be vital.

The world is becoming more technically aware and wants to move online.

There is no definite service leader in this trade, not yet anyway. This can be quite beneficial to you. As Web Hosts themselves are constantly in need of publicity, you can put this to the use to earn extra cash. All you need to do is place as many referrals as you can. Often Web Hosts just pay you for the number of people who just visit their server through the link on your page, without necessarily signing up for their service.

As always, research has to be undertake for this to work and knowledge always helps. Sometimes you can be lucky but a referral scheme is a strong way to make cash. Think about it, if your client remains on the host, you will continually receive money.

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Focus Business Management Institute to Attend IJO Show in Nashville

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HENDERSON, NEVADA, July 21, 2011 ? Focus Business Management Institute, the market expert in retail fine jewelry consultation, yesterday reported that they will definitely be attending the IJO 2011 Show being held in Nashville, TN from July 30 ? August 3, 2011.

Focus BMI is going to be promoting their exclusive customer diagnostic research that provide a thorough look at every aspect of your retail jewelry store?s procedures. Furthermore, they shall be talking about their personalized, one-on-one business consulting and mentorship offerings that guide the retail jeweler establish goals and sustain accountability. Focus has demonstrated outstanding results in aiding IJO members as well as other retail jewelers diminish merchant debt and improve net income in addition to enhancing profitability, improving personal revenue for the shop owner, and consequently providing these individuals solid peace of mind.

?The IJO show in Nashville is an excellent show for our team,? declares Mike Derby, Senior Management Consultant and Operations Manager for Focus BMI. ?Our customer base contains nearly 20% of all of the IJO members, and so the IJO Show in Nashville allows our company the ability to talk to them face-to-face to talk about their purchasing options for the last quarter of the fiscal year. Moreover, we end up getting to communicate with a select collection of retail jewelers and we know that, on average, we can easily boost their net profitability by 10% of total sales. Having our clientele triumph and boost their individualized net worth by hundreds of thousands of dollars is extremely pleasing.?

Focus Business Management Institute is the market leader in retail jewellery consultation. Built by Don Greig, a 30-year industry expert, Focus BMI provides high quality support and education for jewellery industry professionals. The company?s thorough diagnostic programs, joined with their industry-leading knowledge and counselling, give their clients a competitive edge in the retail jewelry market.

The IJO Show is being held July 30 ? August 3, 2011 in the Gaylord Opryland in Nashville, TN. Focus Business Management Institute will be taking part in as a sponsor and will most likely be situated at a sponsor table towards the front part of the exhibition hall floor.

Focus Business Management Institute certainly is the nationwide leader when it comes to retail jewellery company advisory packages. By means of a custom-made research package that?s been enhanced during the last three decades, Focus BMI are able to offer just about anyone a pinpoint article on the inventory you need with your company as well as what cost points, for you to boost your success.

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Making Quick Cash Through Real Estate Investing

There are certainly various moneymaking opportunities in real estate, allowing investors to generate profits through property investing even in a declining market.

One of the most common ways to earn quick cash through real estate is to buy distressed properties. Distressed properties are those that are part of a short sale, bank owned or homes that are up for foreclosures. These properties can be rehabilitated to increase their value, allowing you to generate a significant amount of money in profits.

Purchasing homes that are up for foreclosure is steadily becoming popular among investors. These properties are typically sold through public auctions and most of them need to be repaired or renovated. Most foreclosed homes have tax or creditor liens and on some cases, homeowners are still living in the property until they are forced out by the sale.

It is important for investors to determine the real cost of the foreclosed homes they want to purchase. Note that removing liens or evicting homeowners could turn into a tedious, expensive and time consuming task. However, if you manage to find a house, which has been vacant for months and carry no liens, then it is an excellent investment.

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On the other hand, bank owned properties is more expensive than foreclosed properties. However, investors have the chance to negotiate the removal of liens with the creditors. Additionally, the bank will handle the eviction of homeowners, in case they still live in the property. Because bank-owned properties are bought with clean titles, it is cheaper than foreclosed properties.

One of the most popular ways to generate profits quickly through real estate investing is to buy properties held in probate or buying bank portfolios consisting of multiple properties. This type of investment option is often referred to as wholesaling.

Investors purchasing wholesale properties buy them in ?as is? condition. This means they do not renovate or repair the property. They simply buy the property and sell them off for profit. Typically, wholesale investors earn 10% to 40% profits per property.

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Just a few years ago, house flipping is the most preferred way investors earn profits in real estate. House flipping refers to buying an undervalued property, renovating the property, and selling it off for a higher price. However, due to bad economic climate, many investors are thinking twice of buying a property and then spending thousands of dollars rehabilitating the property. The best way to generate profits through house flipping is to have connection to the right people, like joining a real estate club.

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Implementing a Successful B2B Email Marketing Campaign : Internet ...

B2B Email Marketing is still considered a very effective marketing approach when creating a buzz about your company, product, or services.? When planning any B2B email marketing campaign, several considerations need to be addressed.

Without a Vision, Campaigns Perish

Any successful campaign needs to have a well thought plan of action. ?What are the goals of your campaign?

• What businesses are you targeting?
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Direct email targeting is effective.? When specializing in a type of industry or product, you will need to look at the types of businesses, their size, and their location.? Think of a business as a prospect with its own unique characteristics and demographics.? You cannot send out the right messages and offers to those people who will not benefit from its purchase.? Taking the time to research your perfect audience will bring a guaranteed return on your investment.

Use your competitors? knowledge for your own advantage.? Your competitors, like all other marketers, are using social media tools for their power and effectiveness.? Get on their websites, blogs, and forums.? See what they are talking about ? what issues they deem important.? If your product or service is not considered a type of specialized niche, you will have to see what gaps are in your competitors? products or services, an area that you can fill, an area that may be unrecognized and neglected.? Utilize your email marketing campaigns to distinguish yourself from the crowd, beyond the act of pure competitiveness.

• Do you have the right resources?
• Have you built a solid email database list of interested prospects?
• What is your bait? ? What is your hook?

Every strategy and marketing mix needs the right foundation.? What are your available resources?? Do they fit your marketing mix and strategies?? One of the most important foundations for any business, service, or campaign is your in-house database lists.? Every email marketing campaign needs a starting point of reference.? Client lists, newsletter subscribers, and prospects, that have opted-in, or have expressed a genuine interest in furthering their knowledge of your company, is worth more than gold.

Build your e-campaigns on specific demographics and behavioral statistics.? Every response and outcome of your email marketing campaigns is another step and opportunity to closing the gap between you and your recipients, as you collect the data needed to build accurate and specific behavioral patterns.? That type of data can only be obtained with the help of good email campaign software; which enables you to track every campaign from start to finish. Smart marketersadapt their campaigns according to the facts and stats they receive.? People are not the same, and their lives are constantly changing.? Many people marry; move, change jobs, and have children.? Life changes paralleling new priorities and different needs.? Information and services that may have been relevant and meaningful before may not be anymore.? Make sure you are maintaining an accurate database, applying the appropriate updates and changes. ?Having too many of your email campaigns returned, bounced, or trashed, can unfortunately lead to the label of spamming, culminating in unwanted results.

A call to action must be compelling.? How will they benefit from clicking on your call to action?? Offering free rewards is effective.? Giving away eBooks on relevant topics of interest, free software, newsletter subscriptions with coupons, anything, and everything that you are convinced is meeting some relevant need.? That is why you need your campaign results to guide you.? Finding out what people want, is always the key.? Be consistent in providing value at all times.? It is your prospect?s perception and opinion not yours, that you need to address.

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Whether joining your newsletter, watching your video, or clicking on your call to action, make it easy for your prospects to find you and communicate with you.

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What&#39;s a book? It&#39;s whatever you want it to be | TechDiem.com

As we?ve mentioned a number of times, the evolution of the book-publishing business has been accelerating recently, with more authors doing an end run around the traditional industry by self-publishing ? or even setting up their own e-book stores, as Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling has done with her new Pottermore site. Now media companies seem to be showing an increasing interest in publishing their own e-books using content that they have already created, moves that are taking them into the growing market in between full-length books and magazine-style pieces.

The latest move in that direction comes from Ars Technica, which is part of the Conde Nast magazine empire that includes Wired magazine and The New Yorker. The technology blog, which has become well known for its exhaustive reviews of new Apple hardware and software by author and programmer John Siracusa, is offering its latest review ? an in-depth look at Apple?s new operating system, code-named OS X ?Lion? ? as an e-book using the Kindle Single program. The book (which is really just a long magazine article) costs $5, and is more or less identical to the version that is on the Ars website.

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So why would someone want to pay $5 to read something that they could read for free on a website, or download via their browser and read offline via Read It Later or some other service? That?s a good question (Fortune tried something similar with a recent feature on Apple, but it wasn?t available online at all). Whatever the answer might be, Ars Technica editor Ken Fisher told the Nieman Journalism Lab on Friday that more than 3,000 people had decided to do just that within 24 hours of the review being available online. Said Fisher:

I was surprised by how many people told us they read the review online and they just wanted their own copy to go back to. Or they just bought it as a tip-jar kind of thing.

It may have helped that Siracusa?s review is a lot closer to being a book than it is just a regular review in an online magazine ? it is more than 27,000 words in length, which is split up over 19 pages. That?s a lot of text to read on a website, and some readers said that they downloaded the Kindle single just to save themselves from having to read all those pages on a computer. Fisher said the magazine also saw some new users sign up for its $5-a-month premium subscription plan, which disables advertising and lets users download any of the magazine?s articles as PDFs.

Ars Technica isn?t the only one to see the value of real-time (or close to real-time) publishing of e-books based on its content: as Jeff Sonderman of the Poynter Institute noted recently, some traditional media organizations have also been going this route with quick e-book versions of some of their long-form features ? in some cases, published to take advantage of the frenzy of interest around a news event. The Washington Post and ABC News, for example, both published e-books based on the killing of Osama bin Laden, and the Boston Globe published a three-book series based on the arrest of notorious gangster James ?Whitey? Bulger.

Newspapers and other media companies have been publishing quickie books to take advantage of news stories for some time now ? but the ease with which content can be turned into a Kindle single via Amazon?s platform means a book can be produced within hours instead of days or months. Prices for an e-book might be a lot lower, but if more are sold because the news is fresher in people?s minds, then it can still be worthwhile. It may not be a huge source of revenue, but it?s something.

Costs of publishing are far lower

Not only that, but the costs of producing these books are orders of magnitude lower: the Globe executive in charge of the Kindle offering told Poynter that the Whitey Bulger book was produced from stories that had already been written for the newspaper, and all it took was someone to format the content in the right way for Amazon?s system, some light editing, and the creation of a cover image. The newspaper ?easily recovered those costs in a few days? of selling the book, the Globe VP said.

This kind of ?format shifting,? in which a newspaper or magazine takes content that has already been published and reformats it for the Kindle or some other device, makes a lot of sense. That content can theoretically reach readers who might never have picked up the newspaper or magazine, or who missed it when it was first printed, or who want to read it in book form while sitting on their couch or at the beach rather than on a computer. And if the cost is low enough, they will be willing to pay for that convenience.

The ?single?-length e-book is a market that seems to be growing, with new entrants such as the Byliner service and LongReads. In many ways, it?s just a recognition of the different ways people are reading now, with Kindles and iPads and other devices. Instead of being a discrete object, the book is becoming much more of a fluid concept, and there is opportunity in that transformation for those who want to discover it.

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Nokia's N5 makes Symbian-powered procession through the FCC

There's something bittersweet about watching a Symbian phone march through the FCC knowing that Nokia is slowly thinning the herd. This particular model, the N5, made its requisite Mr. Blurrycam debut last month and now we've got some details about what the glossy white exterior is hiding. You'll find Bluetooth and WiFi radios inside, which isn't surprising, as well as NFC for all the contactless purchasing your Finland-loving heart can handle. On the mobile broadband side of things, there's support for the 850MHz, 1700MHz, and 1900MHz bands, which means it'll work with either T-Mobile or AT&T. Besides price and release date, the big question on our minds is whether or not anyone will buy a Symbian phone knowing the platform is destined for extinction?

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By Kim, on July 20th, 2011

Wahanda is a great site for health, beauty and wellness, with listings of great spas, salons and health centers around the world, with the best deals for you. The site has expert tips and advice on everything you will need to know about treatments, trends and therapies at your fingertips!

?Wahanda is a Native American word for ?great spirit and creator?. We think it sums up our energy and passion for health, beauty and happiness?

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Chiropractic Care ? Check Out This Out! | Your Short Sale Partner

Just in recent times a review provided by medical and health care professionals outdoors the chiropractic profession concluded that chiropractic treatment had a lot of usefulness for prevalent work connected lower back again pain in comparison to therapies by doctors or bodily therapists. In whole La Jolla Chiropractor individuals demonstrated decrease medical bills, significantly less ailment repeated episodes and shorter initial durations of ailments.
The review &amp;amp;amp;quot;Health Routine maintenance Care in Work-Related Low Back again Soreness and Its Association with Disability Recurrence,&amp;amp;amp;quot; appears in Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, April 2011, quantity 53.
Researchers had in contrast incidents across health and fitness treatment suppliers who treat claimants with new incidents of work connected decrease back again pain. Right after comprehending 894 workman?s damages scenarios, the actual final outcome ended up achieved that precautionary healthcare, generally and especially propose by medical doctors of chiropractic, is connected with decrease ailment repeated episodes. As stated with this review frequent disability stands out as the revival of at the very least 15 sequential times of momentary whole ailment fees following the health and fitness maintenance stage that?s the time period soon after a patient?s data recovery and patient brought back to optimum health and fitness.

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Senate pretendant inside California June Democratic key are coating up to function as a one particular to boost the economy without having missing the drained finances. The party leaders depend on professional politicians to gain assistance for their careers agenda inside 22nd district in Los angeles and then the 40th district in San Diego. The two votes are dear on the Democratic Celebration.
The 25 Democrats inside sandiego employment lawyers the present role for federal government in career creation and economic advancement. The district incumbents, Gil Cedillo and Denise Moreno-Ducheny, together have greater than 19 decades state legislative practical knowledge. Finances and appropriations duties were handled by the two.

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Video: Lil Wayne & Rick Ross live perform at ?I Am Still Music? Afterparty

This past Saturday, DC?s Love nightclub was taken over by YMCB and Maybach Music heavy hitters Lil Wayne, Rick Ross, and Wale for the ?I Am Still Music Tour? CIROC afterparty. Check out videos from the party below: Lil Wayne feat. Rick Ross ? John (Live Performance) Ciroc After Party: Lil Wayne from 1st Impressions [...]

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