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Crayon Candles

How to Make a Candle Using Crayons

Instructions:
Candlemaking can be both fun and dangerous. You should?never?try any projects that use heat and fire without an adults help, and always follow?candle safety rules.

Cut off the top of the milk carton so that you have a "box" with one end open. Next, Melt crayons over medium heat (there are plastic bags available that you can place the wax or crayons in so that you then just place that bag into boiling water to melt). The crayons can be broken and different colors, but the washable type do NOT work well. You can use the wax for candle crafts found at the discount stores and add just a few crayons of the desired color to tint it. Place wick into the milk carton and fill carton will ice. Be sure that the wick is fairly centered and running the entire length of the carton. Now, pour melted wax/crayon mixture into the carton filling to the top. Let sit until hardened and ice has melted, then carefully cut and peel away the carton from the candle.

You will now have a beautiful candle. The ice in the carton caused the wax to quickly harden around the cubes. The result is a "swiss cheese" looking candle. Each one looks a little different! These must be handled carefully after finished as the swiss cheese nature of the candle make it fragile.

***Make sure the ice is crushed well - too large and your candle will not stay together; and two, use a taper candle in place of the candle wick. Taper candles are far easier to acquire than the wicks if you don't have a good craft shop nearby.***

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Handling Distractions While Driving Around Lomita

We?ve all seen people do crazy things while driving to or from Lomita. A guy shaving in the rear-view mirror, a woman applying makeup, people talking on their phones, texting or drinking from an enormous coffee mug. All of these are an accident waiting to happen.

The truth is everyone in Lomita california is distracted when we drive. Traffic, road construction and other things outside the car are beyond our control. But the distractions inside our car are things we can often control.

Here?s some things that?ll give you more control in your car, and help keep your attention on the roads around Lomita california.

• Drivers who are 16 to 20 years old tend to be more distracted by the radio, CD or MP3 player.
• Drivers who are 20 to 29 are more distracted by passengers in the car, including small children.
• And those over age 65 tend to be more distracted by objects or events that are outside of the vehicle.

Other factors like fatigue, stress and lack of sleep make it harder to pay attention to driving ? no matter what age we are. People are also distracted by thinking about relationships, family issues, money and bills. So what can we do to manage these distractions? Well, the first thing is to eliminate as many as we can.

When you get in your car, make sure you?re belted in; that the seats, steering wheel and mirrors are adjusted; and your radio or CD player is ready.

Secure any loose objects in the car that can fall on the floor and interfere with your driving.

If you have a drink, make sure it?s spill-proof and put in a cup holder. Pets should also be contained.

If you?re riding with kids, make sure they?re wearing seat belts or secured in safety seats. You may want to give em some distractions to keep them quiet and sitting in their seats. Don?t get involved in their arguments while you?re driving. Pull over if you need to find a toy or break up a fight.

If you eat while driving, keep it to simple finger foods that aren?t messy.

Learning your car?s controls before you drive is another way to improve your safety. Know how to work the radio by touch. The same goes for heating and air conditioning controls.

If you have to use a cell phone, a hands-free system is best. But remember, the biggest cell phone distraction isn?t the phone itself ? it?s the conversation. Keep conversations brief and light, or pull over if you can. Your reaction time is much slower when talking and driving, so allow more space between you and the car ahead of you. Know your local laws ? it may be illegal to be on the phone or text in the Lomita california area.

And if you really think you have to shave, change your clothes or put on make-up while driving ? you?re wrong. Just start getting ready earlier so you have enough time to finish those things before you drive into Lomita california.

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Remember, driving is probably the most dangerous thing you?ll do all day ? so don?t make it any worse. Use these tips to keep you and your loved ones safer behind the wheel.

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Santorum blasts Obama's motives on power, abortion

Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, left, says the Pledge of Allegiance during a campaign stop at the Maricopa County Lincoln Day Luncheon, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012, in Phoenix, Arizona. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, left, says the Pledge of Allegiance during a campaign stop at the Maricopa County Lincoln Day Luncheon, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012, in Phoenix, Arizona. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden leave the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012, after the president spoke on the importance of the agreement passed by Congress to extend the payroll tax cut and unemployment insurance. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks at a town hall meeting at Eagle Manufacturing Corporation in Shelby Township, Mich., Tuesday, Mich., Feb. 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum speaks at the Maricopa County Lincoln Day Luncheon, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

PHOENIX (AP) ? A surging Rick Santorum is making increasingly harsh remarks about President Barack Obama, questioning not just the president's competence but his motives and even his Christian values.

Mitt Romney also is sharpening his anti-Obama rhetoric. He said Tuesday the president governs with "a secular agenda" that hurts religious freedom. In general, however, the former Massachusetts governor has not seriously challenged Obama's motives, often saying the president is decent but inept.

But Santorum and Newt Gingrich have heightened their claims that Obama's intentions are not always benign, ahead of Wednesday's televised GOP presidential debate and next week's primaries in Michigan and Arizona.

Santorum, the former Pennsylvania senator who suddenly is threatening Romney in his native state of Michigan, says Obama cares only about power, not the "interests of people." He says "Obamacare," the health care overhaul Obama enacted, includes a "hidden message" about the president's disregard for impaired fetuses, which might be aborted.

Santorum even seemed to compare Obama to Adolf Hitler, although he denies trying to do so.

Santorum's remarks have gotten only scattered attention because he weaves them into long, sometimes rambling speeches. Romney's team is monitoring Santorum's comments, privately suggesting they could hurt him in a general election.

But it's difficult for Romney to openly criticize Santorum on these points because Romney already has trouble appealing to the party's socially conservative base. Santorum's remarks could come up in Wednesday's debate in Mesa, Ariz., sponsored by CNN.

Gingrich, campaigning Monday in Oklahoma, called Obama "the most dangerous president in modern American history." Gingrich said the administration's "willful dishonesty" about alleged terrorists' motives threatens the country.

Gingrich has long been known for over-the-top rhetoric, and Santorum's rapid rise in the polls has drawn much of the campaign's focus away from the former House speaker.

Some of Santorum's remarks echo attacks on Obama during the 2008 presidential race, when critics portrayed him as a mysterious politician with hidden motives and questionable allegiance to the United States. More recent examples include:

?Saturday in Columbus, Ohio, Santorum criticized Obama for requiring health insurance plans to cover prenatal testing. He said such tests lead to "more abortions and therefore less care that has to be done, because we cull the ranks of the disabled in our society. That too is part of Obamacare, another hidden message as to what President Obama thinks of those who are less able than the elites who want to govern our country."

Obama campaign spokeswoman Lis Smith said "prenatal screenings are essential to promote the health of both the mother and baby and to ensure safe deliveries."

?On Monday in Steubenville, Ohio, Santorum said Obama "talks about how he's going to help manufacturing, after he systematically destroyed it. You pick any area. Financial services. One after another, where he has this ideology of government-centralized control. Not worried about the interests of people. He's worried about the interest of power so he can dictate to people what he believes is best."

Independent analysts say U.S. manufacturing was in steep decline before Obama took office in 2009. Many economists credit Obama's stimulus packages with keeping the job losses from being considerably worse.

?At the same Ohio event, Santorum said Obama and his fellow Democrats have raised unfounded fears about hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," in which pressurized fluids are pumped into the ground to extract natural gas. Santorum said Obama wants to unfairly regulate fracking "as if this is some new technology out there that we don't know anything about, and we have to be worried about." Santorum said the administration tells Americans, "Ooh, we've got to be scared, we've got to be scared of this technology that's producing the cheapest natural gas and oil....Why? So we can get your dollars, turn it to politicians who can win elections so they can control your lives."

?Also in Steubenville, Santorum said Obama encourages a trend in which the church, religious-affiliated colleges and civic institutions grow weaker while government grows stronger.

"We all know that one of the ways that government has been able to accumulate power is to do so by weakening the institutions that people rely upon," he said. "When they can rely upon them, these stable, mediating institutions in our culture, they don't need government."

"That's why it's not surprising to see the president's assault on, first, charities," Santorum said. "You recall one of his first tax proposals was to limit charitable deductions ? charitable deductions to those mediating institutions," which include colleges, churches and civic organizations.

?Speaking Sunday at First Redeemer Church in Cumming, Ga., Santorum said people who shrug off troubling signs about Obama are like those Americans who ignored the growing fascist menace in Europe before World War II. "Your country needs you. It's not as clear a challenge," Santorum said. "Obviously, World War II was pretty obvious. At some point, they knew. But remember, the Greatest Generation, for a year and a half, sat on the sidelines while Europe was under darkness, where our closest ally, Britain, was being bombed and leveled, while Japan was spreading its cancer all throughout Southeast Asia. America sat from 1940, when France fell, to December of '41, and did almost nothing.

"Why? Because we're a hopeful people. We think, 'Well, you know, he'll get better. You know, he's a nice guy. I mean, it won't be near as bad as what we think. This will be OK.' Oh yeah, maybe he's not the best guy, and after a while, you found out things about this guy over in Europe, and he's not so good of a guy after all."

Asked by a reporter Monday if he was comparing Obama to Hitler, Santorum said "No, of course not."

White House spokesman Jay Carney declined Tuesday to get drawn into a point-by-point rebuttal of Santorum's comments. He said Obama "is focused on his job as president, getting this country moving in the right direction, ensuring that the recovery, which is under way, continues forward."

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Associated Press writers Kasie Hunt in Michigan and Ben Feller in Washington contributed to this report.

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How Hypnosis Can Make You Stop Smoking ? The Queen of ...

There are some individuals who are more prone to getting addicted to substances.Their personalities are easy to sway and easy to depend on outside forces to make them feel good. Cigarettes also contain nicotine which is a powerful mind altering drug that triggers the brain. Once a person takes it, they feel an improved mood. It makes you feel calm and more alert. People get addicted due to this reinforced sense of exaltation and perceiving. This leads to dependency?a person needs cigarette to feel relaxed and the more cigarettes are used the higher is the need for more to fill up the nicotine levels.

Why Smoking is Hard to Let Go for Some People

People who stop using cigarettes will normally have headaches, depression, anger, anxiety and insomnia that is what makes it harder to let go of the habit. It is a mind battle that has to be won by thinking deeper and having better perspectives. This state is not easy to reach, which is why some people would need to resort to hypnosis stop smoking procedures in order to succeed.
Some smokers simply don?t have that will power. They are too troubled, obsessive and have self-defeating thoughts. They believe they can do nothing about their situation; that?s why they end up going back to their smoking habits.

How can hypnosis stop smoking?

There are some people who have tried all they can to get rid of the habit, but just end up going back to hypnosis stop smoking therapies.

Hypnosis can help smoking stop by enforcing individuals deal with withdrawal symptoms. A person can feel happier and more contented due to positive affirmations and imagery. When their mind is relaxed and well trained to think they do not need smoking, they have better chances of recovery. Hypnosis is effective for curing insomnia, depression, anxiety, removing anger and headaches by allowing the body to calm down and relax.

Positive Affirmations and Effects on a Person

Hypnosis stop smoking works by speeding up the recovery process. A person no longer needs to feel helpless and lost. They no longer need to believe that smoking is what brings them life. Hypnosis affirmations can help them come up with better ways and hobbies they can focus on in order to feel more energetic and alive.

Hypnosis provides imagery and lets a person fall into the state of easy suggestibility. Instead of thinking that smoking is a source of comfort; the hypnotic trance can help them focus on self-improvement instead. It goes to the core of the problem and addiction in order for the person to let it go.

Positive affirmations and hypnotherapy techniques empower hypnosis to help smoking stop. By merely watching the CD or listening to the audio, a person can stop smoking. A sense of freedom as well as accomplishment will flood the person who has been able to let go of the habit. Due to this, the quality of their life would improve. Going through hypnosis stop smoking therapies can help you build up a new sense of self worth without the need to smoke.

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Women protest 'land grab' by military : Tamil News Network (TNN)

Women activists in northern Sri Lanka have strongly protested a move by the military to construct a new army camp in Eluthoor, Mannar.

The Women Rural Development Societies from nine villages in eastern Sri Lanka say they held a meeting to discuss their concern over the allocation of land along Tharavanlottai road.

The army camp is to be constructed adjacent to a tank constructed by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) to be used by resettled families from the surrounding villages especially for washing and bathing.

"The UNDP constructed this tank that gets rain water flowing through a canal from surrounding villages," said a statement issued by the (WRDS).

The activists, in a petition to Sri Lanka government, have appealed not to construct the camp in the allocated land and move it to any other part of Mannar.

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China's unofficial lending falters, savers protest

BEIJING (AP) ? Ms. Zhang, a schoolteacher in the central city of Anyang, lent $43,000 last year to entrepreneurs who couldn't get loans from state banks. Now as growth cools and Beijing cracks down on informal credit, Zhang and thousands of other small lenders are unpaid and angry.

Underground lending by ordinary Chinese like Zhang flourished over the past decade, providing trillions of yuan (hundreds of billions of dollars) needed by private companies that create China's new jobs and wealth.

Its popularity reflects public desperation for an alternative to China's banks, which pay low deposit rates that fail to keep up with inflation and channel savings to government companies.

But the high cost of underground credit ? interest rates of 70 percent a year or higher ? and a slump in global demand caused a wave of business failures last year, prompting owners in cities such as Wenzhou in the southeast to flee.

The shockwave is now hitting the Chinese savers who put up money for those loans. Protests erupted in Anyang and other areas as lenders demanded officials get back their money.

"We have no other investment options and bank interest rates are too low," said Zhang, who asked not to be identified further. Hopes of getting back the 270,000 yuan ($43,000) she lent are pinned on the courts so long as the government is willing to let a case proceed.

Rising defaults threaten to aggravate social tensions as the Communist Party tries to enforce calm ahead of a once-a-decade handover of power to a younger generation of leaders due late this year. The public already is fuming over inflation, corruption, product safety scandals and pollution.

Leaders including Premier Wen Jiabao, the top economic official, have repeatedly promised more credit for small companies. But most loans still go to state enterprises that have close ties with banks and form the power base of officials. Experts say there have been slight improvements but the situation hasn't changed fundamentally.

"It always has been hard for small Chinese companies to borrow money from banks," said Guo Tianyong, director of the Banking Research Center at Beijing's Central University of Finance and Economics. He said the situation has worsened in the past year.

Entrepreneurs were struggling with slumping global demand when Beijing clamped down on a credit boom to cool its overheated economy. State banks cut the small amount of private sector lending they were doing while continuing support to state industry. Private companies failed and the survivors cut payrolls.

Only 19 percent of bank lending last year went to small businesses, while total loans fell 6 percent from 2010 to 7.5 trillion yuan ($1.2 trillion), according to the official Xinhua News Agency.

The underground credit market is estimated by China's central bank and private sector analysts at 2 to 4 trillion yuan ($325 to $650 billion), or as much as 7 percent of total lending. In some areas, informal lending exceeds that of official banks.

The communist government allowed it to grow over the past decade, apparently seeing it as necessary to support entrepreneurs.

Borrowers range from manufacturers and traders to real estate developers who want to evade credit curbs imposed to cool surging housing prices. Middlemen, some of them state companies, put borrowers in touch with lenders for a fee.

Yao Yafei, a manager of a chemical company with 20 employees in the central city of Linfen in Shanxi province, said it has used informal lenders since 2004. He said that in its latest round, the company borrowed 500,000 yuan ($80,000) in July and repaid it two months later with 2 percent monthly interest.

"Underground banking is popular here," Yao said. "They offer really good service and send the money to you just one minute after you ask. They even send the cash to your place if you want.

Beijing launched a crackdown as it tightened economic controls after the 2008 crisis.

Regulators started to worry about underground lending after high returns drew state companies and civil servants into the business, blurring the line between banks and informal lending, according to Guo.

"They could easily borrow from banks and earn a profit by re-lending the money," he said. "If a problem happened, it would become destructive."

In Zhejiang province on the southeast coast, an export center hit by an avalanche of bankruptcies, 11 people have been sentenced to death since 2009 on charges of "illegal fundraising," according to news reports.

Among them was a 31-year-old woman, Wu Ying, who once was praised by state media as one of China's most successful businesswomen.

The penalty prompted an outcry on Internet bulletin boards by people who said it was too severe. All death sentences must be confirmed by China's supreme court, but in an apparent effort to mollify critics, the court took the unusual step of announcing it was reviewing Wu's penalty "with care."

Across the country, borrowers have been arrested after failing to repay loans running to billions of yuan (hundreds of millions of dollars).

Ordinary Chinese savers still have powerful incentives to take part.

Banks pay 3.5 percent on deposits, while inflation stood at 4.5 percent in January and was as high as 7.1 percent in July. Food prices are rising by double digits, adding to the urgency of earning a better return.

Zhang, the schoolteacher in Anyang in the central province of Henan, said she lent money last March to five local companies after friends put her in touch with the owners. She said such arrangements have been routine in Anyang for more than 10 years.

"There were no problems in the past two or three years, so people believed they could make money from it," she said by phone from Anyang.

The borrowers paid 4 percent interest each month but when the six-month loan came due in September, they said they had no money left, she said.

"It was just gone," Zhang said.

Thousands of frustrated lenders in Anyang took to the streets on New Year's Day, demanding the government recover their money, according to Hong Kong news reports.

Police blocked some who tried to board trains to Beijing to complain to the central government and authorities in Anyang are investigating hundreds of people suspected of involvement in investment schemes.

The propaganda department of Anyang's Communist Party branch said investigators have detained 160 people and recovered 1.8 billion yuan ($290 million) out of 4.6 billion yuan ($741 million) sought by lenders.

Chinese experts and state media say small-scale informal lending is legal and the limits of what is prohibited are fuzzy.

Xinhua said in a Dec. 16 report that making a private loan directly to a borrower is legal, though courts will not enforce interest more than four times the rate charged by official banks.

"There were differences between illegal fundraising and private lending, but no distinct boundaries were drawn," said Guo. "It's still not clear where the boundary is."

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AP researchers Fu Ting, Yu Bing and Zhao Liang contributed.

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Lots Of New Opportunities From Undertaking An Online English ...

There are masses of online English courses available and some of them are even offered for free. Lots of non-English-speaking people would like to learn English since it is widely used in most states. It is thought of as the second language in many countries, and children and adults alike are learning this language for a number of different reasons. Many decide to learn thru online means, especially those who have busy schedules. Though it sounds extraordinarily convenient, before choosing online English courses , there are a few things that you have got to consider first.

An online English course is truly convenient and is also effective only if it suits your lifestyle and interests. Teaching and learning methods change, so you should select the one that matches your interests and your availability. If you're the sort of person who is independent, self-motivated, and self-directed, then an online English course is good for you. Taking web courses requires discipline and one must also be computer-savvy. If you're not so technically-inclined and don't want to spend some time in front of your computer, then maybe online learning isn't for you.

If you're one of those thousands of people who like to spend most of their time in front of their PC, you may as well take online English classes and learn English as your 2nd language in an enjoyable way. An online English course offers different techniques so that you could learn the language simply. You'll choose between online studying (internet-based) or using CD-ROMs (computer-based). You'll learn English thru printed materials, ebooks or audio/visual materials, or you may use them all if you would like.

Though one of the benefits of taking an online English course is you can learn wherever and whenever you like, you need to still have the willpower to allot a particular quantity of time to be online and to study your lessons. That way, you may learn fast and won't forget what you've learned already. Participating in forums, if these are available, is also strongly recommended in order not just to have fun, but in addition to practice the talents that you want to master. When taking an online English course, you may either study alone or join a group with an instructor. When you join a group, do not hesitate to pose questions if you need to and to interact freely with your group friends.

Having an online English course brings many prospects. You don't just learn English but who knows, it may open up better opportunities for you. You could consider taking an online English degree too. Though it is done in a virtual demeanour, participating in discussions is still practicable. You won't just read your online lessons but you may also write essays and other reports. You need to also meet certain requirements to complete the course. Different online English degrees might require you to read and study certain literary works from different time periods.

When you've successfully bought your degree from taking an online course, you're now a step nearer to a good career or a promotion in your present job. A teaching career is what most individuals seek as their first job after finishing the course. But apart from education, your online English course can also give you opportunities in the field of writing ?be it in technical or creative writing, or in advertising. If you also dream about changing into a counsel, taking a degree from an online English course can provide you with an edge.

Learning a whole new language can make the world a far smaller place.Taking anOnline English courseis beginning to become hugely popular. Many languages can be learned in just ten days. We at Online Education Courses enjoy providing info on language and other well-liked and handy programs.

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Cymbalta Withdrawal: The Main Characteristics And Potential Medical

Cymbalta could be a miracle drug for many folks who are suffering from depression, but it could also cause some cymbalta withdrawal problems, some insignificant in nature and some more heavy in nature. There are actually two types of cymbalta withdrawal symptoms: physical and psychological.

The physical withdrawal symptoms from Cymbalta can be major or minor and will vary significantly by patient. Some of the more common of the physical withdrawal signs of Cymbalta of those people who do suffer with symptoms can include woozy spells, sensations of being nauseated, headaches, uncomfortable sensations like shivering or burning, and regurgitating surprisingly. Most of these symptoms are only essentially experienced in a fairly tiny portion of the people, with less than 12 percent of the overall cymbalta takers having such symptoms.

The psychological withdrawal symptoms from Cymbalta can include irritability, nightmares, trouble sleeping, and physical pain which is really psychological in nature. The psychological withdrawal problems that a Cymbalta user may experience are actually regularly the return of depression symptoms that the drug had been helping to alleviate.

Cymbalta shouldn?t be stopped abruptly, since it can cause hard withdrawal complications. If a patient decides to cease taking Cymbalta, or if a doctor suggests that a patient should stop taking Cymbalta, the health care practitioner will often tell the patient a schedule to cease taking the drug slowly. Patients who abruptly stop taking the drug are in all likelihood to have some withdrawal symptoms in as much as 44 percent of the cases.

Withdrawal symptoms are generally a lot less difficult to cope with when folks slowly wean off the drug. Patients will often be told to slowly and easily wean themselves from the medicine, gradually bringing down the dose over a period of time. This time period to wean off the Cymbalta medicine is usually between two weeks and 1 or 2 months. This could change by patient and the weaning off period might be extended if the patient has sudden symptoms.

Joshua Harmon is a health and medical writer. He has been working as a correspondent in the medical and health fields for a decade and works for a spread of print and Web publications. Harmon regularly writes on various subjects including stopping cymbalta and other mood depressants of all kinds, withdrawal symptoms of cymbalta, and the effect of other medications.

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Trusts ? Better Robust Than Bust ? MS Estate Planning | jeremypinc ...

Not all trusts are created equal, especially when it comes to protection in a divorce.

Trusts are like pocket knives, in a way. Even a fairly basic pocket knife can make your life immensely easier, especially in a pinch, but a particularly well built and expansive pocket knife is an actual survival tool.

When it comes to trusts, however, why settle for a basic trust when a robust trust can provide essential protection for your loved ones?

While surfing my news sources I discovered yet another, renewed, lesson in the robust set of provisions that can be crafted into a single trust, here. In addition, this article illustrates the difficult space between divorce and the trust, and that?s one more area where a robust trust can make all the difference.

Depending on how you?ve structured it, a trust can last for varying lengths of time and offer the beneficiary/child various ways of accessing those funds. You might use this to teach lessons, for example, but don?t forget that you?re not always planning for the budding child but also the future adult. Unfortunately, that future adult may have creditors who could attempt an attack on the trust funds.

More likely, however, is that a divorce and an ex-spouse will come into play, perhaps also children and child-support. How the courts treat your trust depends on numerous factors best considered at the formation and worthy of your consideration at that time.

For more ideas (and at least one promising court case) read the original article. In the end, as with so many planning devices, everything hinges entirely on you, your family, and your unique circumstances.

Reference: Financial Planning Magazine (February 1, 2012) ?Trust, But Verify?

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Current in Carmel ? Refs, umps, grout: Unnoticed unless ?

I can?t think of a single time one of our custom home-improvement customers looked at a finished tiling job ? whether floor or wall, kitchen or bath ? and their first comment was, ?Wow, that?s outstanding grout!?

No, they notice the tile?s material, texture, color and pattern. They experience the positive energy of the tile?s visual, functional and design elements. They bask in the freshness of a new look and feel in an area of their home. They say, ?Wow!?

Grout, while critical to the appearance and function of a good tiling job, usually isn?t part of that initial ?Wow!? equation. In fact, grout can be compared with basketball referees or baseball umpires: They are generally only noticed when they aren?t perfect.

Early last summer, we redesigned and rebuilt a walk-in, tiled master bath shower in a very nice north side Indianapolis home. The finished shower (grout, too) looked great, was completed on time and on budget and the customers wrote a nice letter to Angie?s List ? kudos to all.

Then in December, the homeowners noticed the grout in their newly-tiled shower floor was disappearing in spots ? big spots. They called us, we immediately traced both the materials used and who did the installation, reviewed all the information we had and realized this specific batch of commercially-manufactured grout had, for reasons we still don?t know and probably never will, failed.

So, we completely removed and reinstalled the grout. The homeowners noted their appreciation we didn?t just put new grout on top of the old, or try to blame the grout and claim our innocence, or bill them for the do-over.

What I like about the story is these homeowners knew who they were working with, knew who to contact with questions or problems, and when the need arose, were professionally responded to with a responsible solution.

That was a good call.

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INSIDE & OUT
By David Decker

Source: http://currentincarmel.com/refs-umps-grout-unnoticed-unless

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Barbara & Shannon Kelley: Single Women: More Of Us Than Ever Are Living Single. Here's Why.

Flying solo is in -- in a serious way. A New York Times Q&A with Eric Kilnenberg, NYU sociology professor and author of the new book "Going Solo," leads with the facts:

In 1950, 22 percent of American adults were single. Now that number is almost 50 percent. One in seven adults lives alone. Half of all Manhattan residences are one-person dwellings.

Kilnenberg has done his research. He spent a decade studying the phenomenon while working on his book, and he has all kinds of good explanations for those numbers. There's less stigma than there once was around being single. People crave privacy and personal space -- tough to preserve when you're sharing a bathroom.

In another piece published several weeks ago, Kilnenberg wrote:

Living alone comports with modern values. It promotes freedom, personal control and self-realization -- all prized aspects of contemporary life.

And Kilnenberg's not the only one digging in. Melanie Kurtin enumerated what keeps her from committing here?and?Dominique Browning did so here, while Kate Bolick's much-discussed piece in The Atlantic, "All the Single Ladies," began with a simple confession:

In 2001, when?I was 28, I broke up with my boyfriend. Allan and I had been together for three years, and there was no good reason to end things. He was (and remains) an exceptional person, intelligent, good-looking, loyal, kind. My friends, many of whom were married or in marriage-track relationships, were bewildered. I was bewildered. To account for my behavior, all I had were two intangible yet undeniable convictions: something was missing; I wasn't ready to settle down.

And this, I think, really gets at the truth behind our reluctance to commit: to borrow -- and tweak -- a phrase from a long-ago presidential campaign, It's too many choices, stupid!

When we're told that we can have it all, that everything is on the table, why would we ever commit to anything? Even if we know we love the thing to which we're committing, we can't help but wonder about all the things we didn't choose.

And I'm not just talking about relationships.

Too many options applies to commitment of the romantic sort, sure, but also to jobs and where we should live and what kind of life we should have. Passion or paycheck? Security or freedom? Long hair or short? High heels or hiking boots?

Deciding, by definition, means "to kill." Choosing one thing means you're killing the possibility of having the other. And when we're raised on the idea that anything's possible -- and every option is available -- we see choosing anything as settling. And, of course, it is -- it's settling for something less than everything.

When you decide to take one path, there's a risk of missing out on something -- something we often imagine to be glorious, the proverbial greener grass -- waiting for us at the end of another. As Hannah, a woman we profiled in Undecided, put it:

The grass is always greener. Like, do I want to move to San Francisco? Colorado? South America? Will life be any better in any of those places? Probably not. But it might be, so there's that risk that I'm taking by not moving.

This mindset is so prevalent, some worry we have an entire generation of commitmentphobes on our hands. Psychologist Jeffrey Jensen Arnett is trying to get the in-between stage -- the years when we try different jobs/relationships/cities/hairstyles on for size -- designated as a distinct life stage, one he calls Emerging Adulthood.?People don't spent their entire career with one company anymore -- the very idea sounds Flinstonian. Nor do they generally marry their high school sweethearts. To paraphrase Hannah, There's that risk we're taking by not checking out what else is out there. We have the whole world to explore first!

For women in particular, it's excruciating. Because, in addition to that message -- that we can do anything! -- we were fed another, often from the women just a generation or two older than us, who weren't afforded the same opportunity: that we're so lucky that we can do anything. And combined, they leave many of us shouldering a load of responsibility.

From a post I wrote some time ago,

This bounty of opportunity is so new that we were sent off to conquer it with no tools -- just an admonishment that we'd best make the most of it.

We know we're blessed to have all of these options. We get it. And so is it any wonder we want a shot at each and every one of them?

But therein lies the rub.

We want to travel, but can't take off whenever we feel like it if we're also going to get our business off the ground -- and featured on?Oprah. We want a family, but that'd mean that packing up and moving to Cairo or New Orleans on a whim is pretty much off the table. We want to be there for our daughter's every milestone, yet we also want to model what a successful career woman looks like. We want torrid affairs and hot sex, but where would that leave our husbands? We want financial security and a latte on our way to the office every morning, but sit in our ergonomically correct chairs daydreaming about trekking through Cambodia with nothing but our camera and mosquito net. We want to artists but have gotten rather used to the roofs over our heads. We want to be ourselves, fully and completely, but would like to fit in at cocktail parties, too. (And when on earth are we going to find the time to write our novels??)

We want to do it all, to try it all before we buy! And that, I believe, is what's at the root of the cold feet. Choices are hard. Damn hard. And every one of them entails a trade-off. The work is in accepting that -- and in finding out who you are right down at your core, and figuring which of those trade-offs you can live with.

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How to Choose a Houston Realtor - CPZ Real Estate, LLC

As of February, there are more than one million licensed Realtorsin the United States, and over 20,000 in the Houston? metro area. In theory, you wouldn?t expect it to be very hard to find one Houston Realtor.?That is, unless you?re picky about finding the best one to help you make the best deal when it comes to selling your own home.

Before we go much further, I should mention that the ?Realtor? name itself is the copyright-protected term for a dues-paying member of the National Association of Realtors. Although Texas grants the license that allows agents and brokers to conduct business, the NAR minds the store for internal trade matters. But they don?t answer the original question, ?Where is the agent with the expertise to help ME right now??

Making this choice is vital. After all, millions of Americans decide that it?s pretty smart to pay 6% of the sales price to the Realtorwho helps them sell a home. All they ask in return is for the agent to determine the home?s market value; to list it attractively in the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) so other agents know about it; to devise and execute an advertising campaign that will market the home to the public; and then to conduct the safari that leads all parties through the thicket of paperwork and processes that complete the typical real estate transaction.

So then ? how do you find a Houston Realtor? Here are a few tips:

This is the most effective way to find a good Realtor^?. Ask family, friends, neighbors and folks at work. Ask the lady at the grocery store checkout, your hair stylist, people at the gym. Try to put together a list of at least three candidate Realtors^? ? more is better.

This need not be as time-consuming as it sounds. It?s easy to be clear and honest when you speak with the candidates. Let them know that this is a preliminary interview, not a request for a listing presentation. In fact, the interview can take place over the phone.

There are lots of questions you may want to ask the Realtor^? during the interview, but one is the most important: the names and phone numbers of at least two former clients and three current clients.

This is the time-consuming part, but it will be worth it. Call each reference for every agent. Questions to ask past clients include:

• How effective were the agent?s marketing efforts?What was done to market your home?
• Did the agent communicate with you frequently throughout the process?
• Would you use this agent again?

Questions to ask current clients:

• Why did you choose this particular Realtor^??Do you feel you made the right choice?
• Was the agent easy to reach by telephone?Were your calls returned promptly?
• How effective do you feel the Realtor?s^? marketing efforts?What changes would you like to see, if any?

Request a Presentation

Call back the agents who get good reviews and request a listing presentation. This should be a two-step process: the agent views the house and returns after crunching the numbers and compiling a comparative market analysis (a ?CMA?).

Take a good long look at the agent?s CMA. Not only is this report an explanation of how he or she determined your home?s current market value, it?s also really the agent?s calling card. This is their only chance to impress you with their expertise, so it?s also your back-door way of checking their marketing skills in action. Is the CMA bound? Is it customized ? or merely a bunch of MLS printouts thrown together?

Bottom line: did the agent knock it out of the park with this presentation? Remember, marketing is everything in today?s tough market.

Selling a house is big business. It?s a truism that it?s just about the most important transaction anyone makes. It?s also the reason you will never regret taking your time to find the right Realtor.

Source: http://www.cpzrealestate.com/how-to-find-your-houston-realtor-in-the-sea-of-faces/

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An Effective Nonprofit Organization Needs Social Media ...

Nonprofit organizations are concentrating more on social media management and online marketing than ever before. Social media management companies have been growing in popularity the past few years and are exploding onto the nonprofit scene. Social media management can help nonprofits reach a wider audience and communicate their message faster and more effectively. The whole basis of a nonprofit is that it is people based. The mission of a nonprofit is different from the mission of a business because nonprofits are focused on a unique cause while businesses are focused on making money. Social media management and social media agency professionals are taking on nonprofits because they have a lot to gain from it.

Social media management helps nonprofits manage their campaigns and fundraising efforts. Most nonprofits want to track relationships, track influence, understand impact and sub-groups, build opportunities, and enhance community empowerment and growth. Social media management can streamline the jobs that need to be performed to reach these goals. Social networking sites do not have office hours like companies do. A nonprofit with a social network presence can communicate with its activists when the office is closed. Updates, advice and information can be communicated between the nonprofit and the masses in the middle of the night if necessary. Productive discussions and debate relative to the cause can take place online and include everybody, versus having a meeting in a conference room where only a few dozen people can fit.

Social media management professionals can gather data for the nonprofit by tracking Facebook ?likes?, ?follows,? and Tweets on Twitter. Then they can send this information to everyone in the nonprofit?s email chain and social network. Social media management can link a nonprofit to specific advertisements and websites that relate to its cause. People usually will not seek out a cause to be a part of but will participate or volunteer if the cause seeks them. Social media professionals can decipher which people may be interested in volunteering based on what they ?like? and ?follow.?

Like any successful organization a nonprofit has to have a presence on social networking sites so it is possible to recruit and expand leadership roles through social networking. Social media management professionals can look at who ?shares? their cause the most and who attracts the most business to their site. Tracking who has the most influence is important because information and updates can be aimed at those people and they will disseminate it. Hashtags and keywords can be developed and implemented for the nonprofit?s content according to how people share their data online. The benefits of social media management for nonprofits are basically limitless.

Social media and online marketing are particularly critical for nonprofits because its cause is dependent on people talking to people and sharing information. Money also helps because nonprofits have expenses that need to be covered. However people power is what really helps a nonprofit?s cause. Social media is the best tool for online marketing and recruiting because sites like Facebook and Twitter are free and will continue to be free for the foreseeable future. The ability to track people?s interests and communicate day or night and where ever they are located is an invaluable asset of social media that nonprofits cannot afford to pass up.

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L'Oreal says net profit up, heiress leaves board (AP)

PARIS ? French cosmetics giant L'Oreal on Monday reported a solid increase in sales and profit for 2011, driven by growth in emerging markets, which the company said would surpass western Europe as its most important region this year.

Separately, the cosmetics giant announced the end of an era, saying 89-year-old L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt, France's wealthiest woman, is being replaced on the board by her 25-year-old grandson, Jean-Victor Meyers.

With sales in Europe suffering amid the global economic slowdown and the continent's debt crisis, the company behind Maybelline cosmetics and Garnier hair products has aggressively pushed into Latin America and Asia. The company's 2011 sales for "new markets" came in just behind those in western Europe, traditionally the core of L'Oreal's business.

"2012 will be a symbolic year, as the New Markets are set to become the group's number one geographic zone," CEO Jean-Paul Agon said in a statement Monday.

Monday's announcement praised Bettencourt for her curiosity, entrepreneurial sense and attachment to the company, which was founded by her father Eugene Schueller in 1907.

Last fall, Bettencourt was placed under the guardianship of her only child, daughter Francoise Bettencourt-Meyers, with whom she is in a protracted legal dispute, and her two grandsons.

Shareholders must approve the nomination of Meyers, with whom Bettencourt maintains a close relationship.

The company reported that its net profit amounted to euro2.44 billion ($3.23 billion) in 2011, up 8.9 percent from a year earlier.

Sales rose 4.3 percent to euro20.34 billion ($26.96 billion), edging past the consensus estimate of analysts surveyed by FactSet of euro20.31 billion.

Sales in "new markets" were euro7.22 billion, despite a slump in eastern Europe. By comparison, western Europe pulled in only slightly more revenue with euro7.25 billion. Growth in emerging markets was in large part driven by Asia, where sales grew 13.4 percent last year. Latin America was up 10.8 percent.

The company's luxury lines, which includes such brands as Lancome and Yves Saint Laurent Beaute, also performed well, part of a trend in luxury products that have bucked a looming recession in Europe and sputtering economic recoveries elsewhere. Sales were up 6.5 percent in luxury.

Agon had promised that L'Oreal would outperform the market in 2011 and record increases in sales and profits ? though those are relatively modest goals for a company known for regularly clocking double-digit profit growth. He set out similar goals for 2012.

"The good quality of these results means that we are more confident than ever in the group's ability to achieve sustainable and profitable growth," he said.

The company said the Board of Directors would propose a euro2 per share dividend at its annual meeting in April.

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Motherhood: The Most Difficult Job I've Ever Had ? Simple ...

I?ve had many non-glamours jobs over the course of my life?

• washing dishes for my neighbor?s?catering?company?when I was in middle school
• cleaning offices at night for another neighbor?s company
• busing tables for a local bar/pub when I was 16
• folding clothes for American Eagle {probably the most?ridiculous?job ever!}
• stocking shelves and working the checkout lanes at various grocery stores
• janitorial work for Calvin College {this is how I met Dave ? so it was worth it!}
• cleaning houses to make money for college

?and the list could go on!

But now that I?m a mom, I feel so blessed to finally have a job that I love, that doesn?t involve washing dishes, clearing tables, folding clothes, cleaning toilets, stocking pantry shelves, grocery shopping?. eerr well, never mind

All kidding aside, motherhood is definitely not the most glamours job in the world? and it?s probably the most difficult job I?ve ever had. There are even days when I?d rather be busing tables, cleaning offices, or doing pretty much anything else but working from home with my baby.

Yes, I?m sure some of you now think I?m the most horrible person in the world for wanting to clean offices instead of care for my baby? and that?s OK! I can?t change how I feel, and just because I?m somewhat overwhelmed by motherhood, doesn?t mean I love Nora any less.

In fact, I love her so much that it sometimes makes things worse. I?ve never felt such an overwhelming sense of responsibility before, I?ve never felt such a strong desire to do everything ?right?; yet at the same time, I?ve never felt so helpless and unsure of what I?m supposed to do.

I?m sure I?m not only new mom out there who bawled the entire ride home from the hospital thinking? what in the world am I going to do with her when we get home. I have no idea how to do this! Don?t we need a manual, some instructions, a live-in nurse, or at the very least, someone to show us what to do?

Just knowing that Nora depends on me for everything is sometimes more than my?independent?spirit can handle. Yes, I?m willing to work hard, do?unpleasant?things, and make sacrifices. Yes I love a good challenge, but I also love my sleep? and eating with both hands!

I?ve never had a job that required constant 24/7?availability, I?ve never had a job that I felt so unqualified for, and I?ve never had a job that didn?t involve some type of training {or at least a small instruction manual}.

Yet, I?ve never had a job that mattered so much!?

I?m the type of person who likes to be good at everything I do. I?m a fast learner, I work really hard, I?m willing to do things I don?t want to do, make sacrifices, deal with difficult situations, push myself to be better? and I LOVE a challenge.

So I should excel at motherhood? right?

But for some reason, I feel like I?m barely staying afloat. I feel like I can?t do this.

I think it all boils down to the fact that for the very first time in my life, I don?t have FULL CONTROL! As much as I try {and believe me friends, I?ve tried} I can not control when she takes a nap, how long she sleeps, when she decides to go to bed at night, when she needs to eat, or when she decides to start screaming for no apparent reason at all.

Dave and I read the books, we followed the books, we took advice from so many people who have their kids on a schedule, we?ve tried this, we?ve tried that, we?ve tried everything again and again? but so far, nothing has worked.

And we REALLY want something to work!?

It?s been almost 3 months of?desperately?trying to get her to go to bed before 1:00am, trying to get her to take any sort of an afternoon nap, trying to calm her down during her lengthy screaming sessions EVERY. SINGLE. NIGHT? but we can?t.

Nora is definitely still the boss over at our house? and I?m pretty sure she likes it that way!

I flop into bed every night and wonder how on earth single moms and military wives do this ? and don?t even get me started on teen moms. But then, every morning when I?m changing her diaper and she?s still so sleepy, she opens her eyes and she smiles. In that brief moment, I feel like eveything is going to be OK and I realize I CAN do this for another day.

But it?s still not easy.

Especially for someone like me who thrives on productivity, being ?in control?, and having all my ducks in a row. Frankly, I don?t even know where half my ducks are right now? and they definitely aren?t?in any type of a row!

Everyone says that Motherhood is the greatest job in the whole world ? and while they are probably right, I have to wonder if the women who say that are already well past the baby-stage and have simply pushed the overwhelming,?exhausted, and over-tired memories out of their brains!

Or maybe they all had perfect babies who were never colicky at night and actually took naps during the day

Motherhood is not for the weary?

And if you are a strong Type-A person like myself, it might just be one of the most difficult jobs you?ll ever have.

Good thing she?s so darn cute!

And honestly, I don?t want you to think I?m not enjoying motherhood? because I am. It?s just A LOT different and A LOT more challenging than I thought it would be!

As you can see by all the pictures, we are definitely having lots of fun with little Nora ? it?s also helpful that Dave is one of the most patient, low-key, go-with-the flow people I?ve ever met {they say opposites attract right!}. He reminds me {daily} that I AM a good mom and that I CAN do this.

I can do this!

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And to all the other type-A moms out there? you can do it too!

Source: http://www.simpleorganizedliving.com/2012/02/14/motherhood-the-most-difficult-job-ive-ever-had/

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Chinese company to seek ban on iPad import, export

A man walks past an iPad2 advertisement in Shanghai, China, Monday Feb. 13, 2012. A Chinese company said Tuesday it will ask customs officials to ban imports and exports of Apple Inc.'s iPads due to a dispute over ownership of the trademark. (AP Photo) CHINA OUT

A man walks past an iPad2 advertisement in Shanghai, China, Monday Feb. 13, 2012. A Chinese company said Tuesday it will ask customs officials to ban imports and exports of Apple Inc.'s iPads due to a dispute over ownership of the trademark. (AP Photo) CHINA OUT

FILE - In this file photo taken on Jan. 26, 2011, a man stands near Apple's iPad advertisement in Shanghai, China. The official said Monday, Feb. 13, 2012, that investigators in Shijiazhuang, southwest of Beijing, started seizing iPads last week at the request of a company that filed a complaint with the government accusing Apple Inc. of violating its rights to the iPad name. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)

FILE - In this file photo taken on Sunday, May 8, 2011, Chinese customers learn to use the iPad 2 inside Apple's Sanlitun retail store in Beijing, China. Authorities have seized Apple iPads from retailers in a city in northern China due to a dispute with a domestic company that says it owns the iPad name, an official said Monday, Feb. 13, 2012. The Chinese company said it is asking for similar action in more than 20 other cities. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

BEIJING (AP) ? A Chinese company said Tuesday it will ask customs officials to ban imports and exports of Apple's iPads due to a dispute over ownership of the trademark.

All of Apple's iPads are manufactured in China, meaning global sales of the popular tablet computers might be affected if authorities agreed to enforce such a request by Shenzhen Proview Technology.

The dispute with Proview, which won a court ruling that it owns the iPad name in China, has resulted in authorities seizing iPads from retailers in one city. Proview said it has asked for enforcement in 30 other cities.

"We are now working on a request to China Customs to ban and seize all the import and export of the iPad products that have violated the trademark," said Xie Xianghui, a Proview lawyer. He gave no indication when the request might be filed.

Apple, based in Cupertino, California, defended its ownership of the iPad name.

"We bought Proview's worldwide rights to the iPad trademark in 10 different countries several years ago. Proview refuses to honor their agreement with Apple in China," said an Apple Inc. spokeswoman in Beijing, Carolyn Wu.

Wu declined to comment on the possibility of Proview requesting a ban on iPad imports and exports.

China is Apple's fastest-growing market. Its iPads and iPhones are manufactured by a contractor, Taiwan-based Foxconn Technologies Group, at factories in southern China.

Shenzhen Proview Technology registered the iPad trademark in China in 2001. Apple bought rights to the name from a Taiwan company affiliated with Proview but the mainland company says it still owns the name in China. A Chinese court rejected Apple's claim to the name in China last year. Apple has appealed.

"Our case is still pending in mainland China," Wu said.

Chinese rules allow trademark owners to request seizure of goods that violate their rights, according to Stan Abrams, an American lawyer who teaches intellectual property law at Beijing's Central University of Finance and Economics.

The rules were enacted partly in response to foreign pressure for Beijing to stamp out rampant unlicensed copying of foreign movies, music and designer clothes. Abrams said exports can be seized under rules meant to prevent manufacturers in China from sending unlicensed copies to other markets.

"All of these things that Proview can do, whether it's going to court or Customs, these are the things that we want to see," Abrams said. "So it's definitely ironic."

Chinese news reports say Proview, which makes computer displays, is deep in debt and needs a big settlement from Apple.

Proview has yet to make an offer to settle, said Xie, the company's lawyer.

"We are now focusing our work on upholding rights and haven't made negotiation proposals to Apple yet," he said. "As for the reasons, you should ask Apple."

Shenzhen Proview Technology is a subsidiary of LCD screen maker Proview International Holdings Ltd., headquartered in Hong Kong.

Apple bought rights to the iPad name in 2009 from a Taiwan affiliate, Proview Taipei, that registered it in various countries as early as 2000.

A Chinese court ruled in December that Proview is not bound by that agreement. It rejected Apple's complaint that Proview was violating its rights.

Apple might be able to sue the Taiwan company on contract grounds for selling name rights it didn't own, Abrams said. But he said a victory in such a suit would not give Apple rights to the name on the mainland.

"This kind of thing happens, but it's a mistake and it's a really bad one in this case," Abrams said. "They're paying for it now."

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AP researchers Yu Bing and Zhao Liang contributed.

Associated Press

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