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August 17, 2009-- Home Textiles Today,
A couple of years ago, "affordable luxury" was a term used by chain retailers looking to elevate (slightly) their top tier price points by bringing in (somewhat) better quality goods.
Today, "affordable luxury" is a concept true luxury suppliers are promoting. It's a $279 queen set at Peacock Alley as opposed to the company's $652 queen duvet. It's a $305 queen ensemble at Sferra to create an opening price point less than half of its $760 ensemble. It's a $400 queen set at Scandia Down versus the company's $1,000 jacquard silk bed.
To be sure, luxury suppliers are still producing plenty of high-ticket goods. Each of the pricier items mentioned in the preceding paragraph is showing at the New York International Gift Fair/Home Textiles Week alongside the more economically minded luxury goods. There are still over-the-top luxury goods to be had, such as Frette's gold-dipped, white mink throw ($28,000) or some of Pratessi's Italian-made duvet covers ($1,100).
But clearly, things have reach the place where even well-to-do shoppers need some options.
On the other end of the spectrum, the race to the bottom continues. Last week, three major retailers were fairly upbeat about their second-quarter performance. Here's the kicker – their earnings. Wal-Mart Stores: 88 cents per share. Kohls: 75 cents per share. J.C. Penney: 0 cents per share.
Everything is relative, of course. While these powerhouses made out better than they anticipated, each reported that their customers remain very cautious about spending. These companies are no longer talking about affordable luxury; now it's simply about what's affordable.
Back-to-school for most retailers is getting off to a later start, so the big question for the second half is holiday. Will consumers give it up? Will they unleash their inner deal glutton and spend, spend, spend?
During previous economic downturns, consumers have pledged to rein in their holiday spending — only to shop at the same or slightly elevated levels as they had the year before.
The recessionary environment of holiday 2008 was dramatically worse than the recessionary environment of holiday 2002, and yet the 2008 year-over-year sales gain of 2.2% outpaced 2002's gain of 1.3%.
We'll find out the answer to the holiday 2009 question shortly. When we do, I wouldn't be surprised to see this headline: "Family Dollar Reports Its Best Holiday Ever."
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Blackaddr released a new version of the Xbox 360 SMC I/O Config Utility – a simple utility to reconfigure output pins on the SMC that are used to execute the JTAG transaction to the GPU. It is used to research and fix problems caused by sharing SMC output pins, or caused by the bit timing of the JTAG data. What's new/fixed: * Linux version is now included. Compiled with G++ on Ubuntu. * This version has very minor updates. I've added an interactive mode for those who like multiple choice. This is to be more newbie-friendly. * The program now supports modifying SMC files that have already had the I/O changed, so you don't need to keep feeding it the original when testing different configurations. Official Site: n/a, by Blackaddr Download:...
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Various terms are used to describe different types of revenue; for example, the revenue earned by a real estate might be called Sales Commissions Earned, or alternatively, Commissions Revenue. In the professional practice of lawyers, physicians, dentists, and CPAs, the revenue is called Fees Earned. A business which sells merchandise rather than services (General Motors, for example) will use the term Sales to describe the revenue earned. Another type of revenue is Interest Earned, which means the amount received as interest on notes receivable, bank deposits, government bonds, or other securities.
When to Record Revenue: The Realization Principle When is revenue recorded in the accounting records? For example, assume that on May 24, a real estate company signs a contract to represent a client in selling the client's personal residence. The contract entitles the real estate company to a commission equal to 5% of the selling price, due 30 days after the date of sale. On June 10, the real estate company sells the house at a price of $120, 000, thereby earning a $6, 000 commission ($120, 000 x 5% ), to be received on July 10. When should the company record this $6, 000 commission revenue in May, June, or July?
The company should record this revenue on June 10 the day it rendered the service of selling the client's house. As the company will not collect this commission until July, it must also record an account receivable on June 10. In July, when this receivable is collected, the company must not record revenue a second time. Collecting an account receivable increases one asset, Cash, and decreases another assets, Accounts Receivable. Thus, collecting an account receivable does not increase owner's equity and does not represent revenue.
Our answer illustrates a generally accepted accounting principle called the realization principle. The realization principle states that a business should record revenue at the time services are rendered to customers or goods sold are delivered to customers. In short, revenue is recorded when it is earned, without regard as to when the cash is received.
Expenses are costs of the goods and services used up in the process of earning revenue. Examples include the cost of employee's salaries, advertising, rent, utilities, and the gradual wearing-out (depreciation) of such assets as buildings, automobiles, and office equipment. All these costs are necessary to attract and serve customers and thereby earn revenue. Expenses are called the "costs of doing business", that is, the cost of the various activities necessary to carry on a business.
An expense always causes a decrease in owner's equity. The related changes in the accounting equation can either (1) a decrease in assets or (2) increase in liabilities. An expense reduces assets if payment occurs at the time that the expense is incurred (or if payment has been made in advance). If the expense will not be paid until later, as, for example, the purchase of advertising services on account, the recording of the expense will be accompanied by an increase in liabilities.
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Timing is an important factor in matching (offsetting) revenue with the related expenses. For example, in preparing monthly income statements, it is important to offset this month's expenses against this month's revenue. We should not offset this month's expenses against last month's revenue, because there is no cause and effect relationship between the two.


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Version of Record online: 19 APR 2012
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.27536
Copyright © 2012 American Cancer Society
Volume 118, Issue 21, pages 5432–5440, 1 November 2012
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Brodin, N. P., Vogelius, I. R., Maraldo, M. V., Munck af Rosenschöld, P., Aznar, M. C., Kiil-Berthelsen, A., Nilsson, P., Björk-Eriksson, T., Specht, L. and Bentzen, S. M. (2012), Life years lost—comparing potentially fatal late complications after radiotherapy for pediatric medulloblastoma on a common scale. Cancer, 118: 5432–5440. doi: 10.1002/cncr.27536
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- Issue online: 19 OCT 2012
- Version of Record online: 19 APR 2012
- Manuscript Accepted: 14 FEB 2012
- Manuscript Revised: 13 FEB 2012
- Manuscript Received: 14 DEC 2011
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- life years lost;
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- late effects;
- secondary cancers;
- risk modeling
The authors developed a framework for estimating and comparing the risks of various long-term complications on a common scale and applied it to 3 different techniques for craniospinal irradiation in patients with pediatric medulloblastoma.
Radiation dose-response parameters related to excess hazard ratios for secondary breast, lung, stomach, and thyroid cancer; heart failure, and myocardial infarction were derived from large published clinical series. Combined with age-specific and sex-specific hazards in the US general population, the dose-response analysis yielded excess hazards of complications for a cancer survivor as a function of attained age. After adjusting for competing risks of death, life years lost (LYL) were estimated based on excess hazard and prognosis of a complication for 3-dimensional conformal radiotherapy (3D CRT), volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT), and intensity-modulated proton therapy (IMPT).
Lung cancer contributed most to the estimated LYL, followed by myocardial infarction, and stomach cancer. The estimates of breast or thyroid cancer incidence were higher than those for lung and stomach cancer incidence, but LYL were lower because of the relatively good prognosis. Estimated LYL ranged between 1.90 years for 3D CRT to 0.28 years for IMPT. In a paired comparison, IMPT was associated with significantly fewer LYL than both photon techniques.
Estimating the risk of late complications is associated with considerable uncertainty, but including prognosis and attained age at an event to obtain the more informative LYL estimate added relatively little to this uncertainty. Cancer 2012. © 2012 American Cancer Society.


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Randy is a chubby ninth grader with a Cub Scout hair cut who guesses M&M colors with his eyes closed and makes up words. He's also a chess whiz who has defeated his older brother Zeke in nine of their last ten matches. Zeke is a high school senior, a soccer champ, and a chess natural who can beat just about anyone if he decides to really concentrate. So why
Randy is a chubby ninth grader with a Cub Scout hair cut who guesses M&M colors with his eyes closed and makes up words. He's also a chess whiz who has defeated his older brother Zeke in nine of their last ten matches. Zeke is a high school senior, a soccer champ, and a chess natural who can beat just about anyone if he decides to really concentrate. So why is his loser little brother the better athlete, the better chess player, and the first to have a girlfriend?
The competition heightens when both Randy and Zeke qualify for the Northeast Regional of the Pennsylvania High School Chess Championships (Randy is seeded, Zeke is not)—and play their way right into a brother-tobrother final round. Told in alternating points of view between brothers, Rich Wallace's new novel brings to life one of America's favorite pastimes in a suspenseful story about competition and family loyalty.
Rich Wallace is the author of several books for young adults, including One Good Punch, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults; and Wrestling Sturbridge, an ALA Quick Pick. He lives in Pennsylvania.
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Brothers Zeke and Randy differ in their physical appearance, in their attitudes, and in their relationships with their dad, with girls, and, most significantly for this story, in their approaches to chess. Zeke, a senior, seems made in Dad's hypercompetitive, decidedly obnoxious image. He shows prowess in soccer and tennis as well as chess, but is a bit too full of himself. Randy, a pudgy freshman, has developed his game quickly and now beats Zeke pretty consistently. In Scranton for the Northeast Regional of the Pennsylvania High School Chess Championships, thoughtful and relatively laid-back Randy faces his big brother in the semifinals, but not before each boy works his way through several interesting matches in which the author develops both the game strategies and the personalities involved as tensions escalate during the weekend tournament. While their climactic match is not the end of the story, the siblings have begun to see one another as allies while perceiving their father in a different light. This slim book capitalizes on dualities throughout, from the optical-illusion cover illustration to the brothers' transformed relationship, as well as the family crisis to which the title may most aptly allude. Given an untenable position, does one retreat, attack, or concede? Wallace cleverly positions Randy and Zeke for a win-win conclusion in this satisfying, engaging, and deceptively simple story.-Joel Shoemaker, Southeast Junior High School, Iowa City, IA
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Several Moves Ahead
They're barefoot, moving silently along the carpeted hallway, searching for some clue to which hotel room might be Jenna McNulty's.
217? 219? All of the doors look the same. What were they expecting to tip them off? Some definitive prep-school snore?
Pramod puts a finger to his lipsLike I don't know enough to be quiet, Zeke thinksand kneels by a room-service tray someone had shoved into the hall. He lifts a silver-colored cover to reveal a sprig of parsley swimming in a congealed smear of steak grease and blood at the edge of the plate. He sticks his tongue from his open mouth and grimaces.
There's a half-full bottle of Heineken on the tray, recapped and upright. Pramod carefully puts two long, nimble fingers on the neck and raises it from the tray.
Zeke gives him a look that says, No way you're drinking that.
Pramod walkswith the beera few feet away, so he's equidistant between the doors of rooms 219 and 221. He leans against the pale striped wallpaper and motions Zeke over.
"He didn't drink from the bottle," he whispers.
"Who didn't?"
"Whoever's in that room." He points to the tray. "He used a glass, see?"
There's a clear drinking glass on the tray with an obvious trace of dried beer foam. In other words, the bottle holds untouched Heineken. Warm, certainly, and probably flat.
Pramod checks to make sure the cap is on tight, then puts the bottle in the pocket of his loose green gym shorts and starts walking toward the elevators. His T-shirt says JESUIT LACROSSE, and his straight black hair is badly mussed.
Zeke checks his watch. It's 1:09 a.m. The Round of 16 starts in less than eight hours.
The elevator floor is cool on their bare feet, and it takes a long time for the numbers to change from 2 to 3 to 4. They stop and the door opens and they walk along the hallway. Pramod takes his room key (actually, it's more like a credit card), opens the door, and they go in. Zeke reaches into his own pocket quickly and fishes around, then pulls out his empty hand.
Pramod unwraps two plastic hotel cups by the sink and pours about three ounces of beer into each.
He drinks his in one swig and stands there waiting for Zeke to empty his.
"Tastes like crap when it's warm," Pramod says.
"It's better cold?" Zeke immediately realizes that he's tipped his hand.
Pramod smirks. "Much better."
"I mean, I never had Heineken before. I usually drink other brands."
Pramod rolls his eyes. "Like apple juice?"
"Sometimes. Or vodka." Zeke's never even tasted vodka.
"You bring any with you?"
"No. I forgot."
"Sure you did."
When Zeke was six, his father decided that he was smart enough to learn to play chess. He didn't go easy on him. After about two weeks of getting his butt kicked, Zeke asked, "Dad, when do you think I'll be able to beat you?"
Mr. Mansfield smiled and rubbed the whiskers on his chin. "Well, Ace," he said, "if you keep learning and working at it, I think you'll probably be giving me a good game by the time you're fourteen or fifteen."
Three days later, Zeke got lucky and beat him. Soon after that, it wasn't luck at all. He was simply better than his dad. He had the ability to plan several moves ahead. His father didn't.
Zeke always found it amusing that he could regularly beat someone so much older than he was. Until the same thing started happening to him.
Last year, Zeke was the top-ranked player on his high school chess team. You won't hear him bragging to his friends about it. He doesn't use it to try to pick up girls. He doesn't have a letterman's jacket with an embroidered rook or a bishop sewn onto the sleeve.
But he likes the game and he's good at it, and the competitive chess season is basically all winter, fitting between his other sports of soccer and tennis.
The problem for Zeke is "my fat-ass little brother, Randy."
Randy is a freshman, so he's on the team this year. And he beats Zeke nine times out of ten. So that was the end of Zeke's top ranking.
The poker game had lasted about two hours, then a bunch of them roamed the halls for the rest of the evening. Just Zeke and Pramod were left by midnight.
Zeke's not surprised to see a chessboard on the table near the window in Pramod's room, set up as if in midgame. Most of these chess guys are constantly reviewing moves and tactics, reading about it, playing it online, practicing their openings and attacks over and over.
Zeke boned up a little this past week, but he usually doesn't even think about chess except when he's got a match. There's a lot on the line this weekend, though.
They're at the Lackawanna Station Hotel in Scranton for the Northeast Regional of the Pennsylvania High School Chess Championships. Sixty-four players got invited here, and they played two rounds earlier tonight, leaving sixteen to decide the regional title tomorrow. They gave the sixteen who advanced free dinner and rooms.
The regional winner gets a thousand-dollar scholarship. The overall state championto be decided next weekend in Philly among the eight regional champions and runners-upgets five thousand.
"We never did figure out which room was hers," Pramod says, taking a seat on the edge of his bed.
"Who?" Zeke asks, though he knows Pramod is referring to Jenna McNulty. She's the top seed in the tournament and also the best-looking player, by far. And she knows it. About both things.
"Right. Like you don't know who I'm talking about," Pramod says. "You stared at her between every move tonight."
"And you didn't?"
"We all did. That's why she's so hard to beat. Instead of concentrating on our chess moves, we're dreaming about what other moves we could be putting on her."
Zeke's face gets a little flushed, and he nods. If he wins his first match in the morning, he'll be playing against Jenna in the quarterfinals.
Earlier that night, Zeke forced a stalemate in his first game against a guy from Carbondale but beat him quickly in the rematch. And his second-round game was over in about five minutes.
His little brother, Randy, won both of his matches easily. Randy's ranked fifth overall. The tournament officials seeded the top eight based on their computer ratings, and the rest of the players were plugged into the brackets at random.
It's set up like a basketball tournament. If there were no upsets in the early rounds, then the quarterfinals would have the first seed against the eighth, second versus seventh, third against sixth, and fourth versus fifth. But a couple of ranked players have already been knocked out.
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A boy can guess m&m colors with his eyes closed and he also makes up words. That is all im going to say lol :)
This has a hart warming ending an exiting beginig and always a page turner. Even though I dont play chess I still enjoyed it. WARNING contains bad words that can be disturbing to kids. But over all it was good.
Two brothers. One championship. Both Zeke and Randy Mansfield have made it to the Northeast Regional Pennsylvania High School Chess Championship. Zeke, the overly confident senior who succeeds in soccer, baseball, and tennis, was the top chess player in their school before Randy entered as a freshman. He's the one their father calls "Ace," and their father's obsessive coaching has turned Zeke's bravado into a weapon that he intends to wield during the tournament. For Randy, the slightly overweight freshman who makes up words for fun, chess is something that comes naturally, and he doesn't let the fact that he's beaten his older brother nine times out of ten effect his expectations for the tournament. As the championship progresses, and more talented players are eliminated, it becomes clear that the Mansfield brothers will be facing off against each other in the semifinals. With their father on the sidelines, more excited and competitive than both of them about this match, each brother begins to realize that perhaps their strategies toward chess - and life - aren't so different and incompatible after all. No matter who wins, this tournament is bound to bring them closer, and offer an understanding that each of them had never thought possible. I honestly never thought that I'd find a story about a chess match so exciting and compelling. Although one does not need to be a skilled chess player to enjoy this quick, endearing read, it would help the reader to have a basic knowledge of the pieces and workings of the game to increase their enjoyment of this tale.


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Resale shop. No consignments. Weekly specials.
Deerpath Golf Course
Deerpath Golf Course in Lake Forest opens for play in March and closes for the season on or about December 15. This 18-hole public course, measures 6,255 yards with a par 70 and 5,487 yards with a par 72 for women. The course has spectacular mature trees, high quality naturalized areas and beautiful water features including ponds and streams. The Deerpath Golf Academy offers the finest golf instruction on the North Shore. Golfers of all abilities will realize immediate and sustainable improvement for a lifetime of better golf.
CITY:Lake Forest
Marytown National Religious Shrine of St. Maximillion Kolbe
One of the nation's most beautiful religious sites features beautiful stained glass windows and seven-foot mosaics decorating the chapel, as well as seven types of marble.
Port Edward Gift Shop
Nautical binnacles, sextants, ship models, barometers, blown glass, kaleidoscopes, fog horns, compasses, Chelsea clocks, Bulova, Janmark and more.
Red Robin Restaurant
Home of the smiling burger.
Trackside Waukegan
Trackside Waukegan offers a casual, comfortable setting to wager on horse racing from around the world, broadcast on 250 television monitors. Watch and bet on races in the Finish Line Restaurant and Lounge, Grandstand Bar, Teletheater or Backstretch Deli.
Lovells of Lake Forest
Lovells of Lake Forest is a fine dining restaurant located in a beautiful French-styled mansion along Chicago's North Shore. A majority of our menu items are deeply rooted in the American culinary tradition. Private dining for events is also available.
CITY:Lake Forest
Writers' Theatre
Over the past twenty seasons, Writers' Theatre has become a major Chicagoland cultural destination with a national reputation for excellence. The company – known for the finest interpretations of classic and contemporary theatre – has garnered critical praise for the consistent high quality and intimacy of its artistry. Throughout the season Writers' will be offering post-show discussions on select Wednesday evenings following the performance in our Tudor Court space. In the Books on Vernon space they will be offering post-show discussions every other Wednesday evening.
Willow Glen Golf Club
The Willow Glen Golf Club is home to a picturesque 18-hole layout that provides an enjoyable challenge for all skill levels. The new clubhouse is home to Buckley's Restaurant and Pub making Willow Glen one of the finest golf and dining experiences on the North Shore. Open to the public!
CITY:Great Lakes
Haeger Potteries
This fourth generation, family-owned pottery company features an on-site museum and a factory store that holds an annual summer sale.
Arlington Heights Historical Museum
The Coach House, a replica Log Cabin, the 1882 home of F.W. Muller and the 1908 Banta House tell the story of Arlington Heights over the last 150 years. Tour guides introduce you to the life of early residents. Tours: Sat. & Sun. 2pm & 3pm Heritage Gallery & Gift Shop: Fri.-Sun. 1:30pm-4:30pm
CITY:Arlington Heights
Adventure Inn & Suites
Located midway between Chicago and Milwaukee. Over 130 rooms which range from jacuzzi suites for couples to comfortable family-style rooms.
Autumn Drive in McHenry County
Welcome to a different kind of fall festival! Spend a leisurely day with family and friends on the country roads of McHenry County. Family farms in rural McHenry County open to the public for three days the third weekend in October. Each stop along the way offers a unique country experience with antiques, arts & crafts, pumpkins, apples, pottery and more. Pick up your map at 16105 Garden Valley Road, Woodstock, then start exploring.
Northbrook Historical Society Museum
Enjoy the main floor museum with antiques and a replica of an 1890s home. Open the first Sunday of every month, or by appointment.
Viper Alley
Viper Alley is a revolutionary private event venue in Lincolnshire where our factory "plush" interior meets today's demand for flexible event environments that are both casual and upscale with complete staging and private boutique bowling. Viper Alley can meet any A/V needs with our state-of-the-art, concert quality equipment, including 20 LCD screens. The Chef's beautifully-prepared and delicious cuisine includes everything from appetizers and gourmet pizzas to beef tenderloin. We individually customize your menus, table/furniture arrangements, lighting and more to meet the personal and specialized needs of every one of your events and programs. With 15,000 square feet of flexible, modular floor plan, we provide on-site catering for up to 500 people with endless possibilities.
Taylor Stevens Salon and Spa
Hair and nail service, esthetics, spa body treatments, bridal services, massage therapy.
Fuego Mexican Grill & Margarita Bar
A taste adventure beyond traditional Mexican cuisine, featuring specialty Mole sauces, recipes right from Grandma Paula's kitchen and fresh guacamole prepared tableside. Full service bar serving an endless selection of Margaritas, Tequilas, and Cervezas.
CITY:Arlington Heights
Drink Nightclub
Drink is the perfect place to join your friends for a few cocktails, have your next event, or dance the night away with Chicaog's hottest DJs.
Residence Inn Chicago Lake Forest Mettawa
The Residence Inn by Marriott Lake Forest/Mettawa hotel in Chicago is ideal for extended stay business travelers and is within easy reach of both downtown Chicago and North Shore businesses and attractions. Conveniences, too, like grocery shopping and dai
Artistic Florals by Michelle
Florals and custom made silks.
CITY:East Dundee
Raue Center for the Arts
Theatergoers love that every seat is a great seat at The Raue Center for the Arts in downtown Crystal Lake. Since its restoration a decade ago, Raue Center has attracted the finest stars, Broadway shows, musicians and artists. Raue Center has become a destination in the heart of a bustling downtown area chock-full of pre- or post-show dining and shopping options.
CITY:Crystal Lake
Shepherd's Crook Golf Course
This 18-hole, par 72 public golf facility, designed by Keith Foster, opened in August, 1999 and has earned rave reviews as a course that is both challenging and exciting to play. Its design reflects the golden era of golf course architecture of the 1920's and 30's with bentgrass fairways, tees, and greens. Individuals, tournaments and golf outings welcome. Enjoy a sandwich and beverage in the full service clubhouse grill or enjoy refreshments on the veranda overlooking the 9th and 18th holes. The Eden Room is also available for events, golf outings and banquets, please call for more information.
Oh, Olive!
Providing the unique opportunity to sample some of the freshest and finest extra virgin olive oils in the world. Extensive selection of the finest aged vinegars from Modena, Italy. Specialty green, white, rooibos and oolong teas - Tiesta Tea. Natural Rossi Pasta and Galena Garlic Co. spices, rubs and rubs that complement our oils, vinegars and teas.