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Iowa winters make it tough to keep homes warm and comfortable. However, performing a few heating and cooling repairs during the fall will prevent the cold weather from causing extra damage to your home.

Seal Leaks: Air leaks are one of the major sources of energy waste during the winter. These small openings allow cold air to flow into your home, reducing the temperature in your home and forcing your furnace to burn more fuel. You can prevent this by maintaining your home?s weather sealing. Update your weather stripping, caulk, and moisture guards to ensure that your home is ready for winter.

Protect Pipes: Your exposed pipes are more vulnerable to freezing during the winter season. Water expands insides as it freezes, which can rupture home plumbing and cause serious leaks. Cover exposed pipes with layers of insulation before the end of fall. This will ensure that your plumbing stays problem-free throughout the winter.

Add Insulation: Insulation materials can be layered for better results, so you should consider adding a new layer of insulation to your home this year. This upgrade could significantly improve your home?s ability to resist thermal transfer.

Upgrade Furnace: An outdated furnace could be the source of your expensive energy bills. That?s why you should have your furnace inspected this fall. A professional will be able to make recommendations on a new, energy-efficient furnace. The professional may also suggest high-efficiency heating alternatives like geothermal heating.

Service Legends Heating & Cooling can be reached by phone at (515) 657-6588. Contact us if you?d like more tips on winterizing your home before winter. We also provide award-winning service and repair for home heating appliances.

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Agent recounts livid reaction to Afghan massacre

JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. (AP) ? A U.S. agent who investigated the massacre of 16 civilians in southern Afghanistan earlier this year recounted the livid reaction from local villagers and said Wednesday that it was weeks before American forces could visit the crime scenes less than a mile from a remote base.

By that time, bodies had been buried and some blood stains had been scraped from the walls, Special Agent Matthew Hoffman of the Army's Criminal Investigation Command said.

Other stains remained, on walls and floors. Investigators also recovered shell casings consistent with the weapons Staff Sgt. Robert Bales reportedly carried and a piece of fabric similar to the blanket prosecutors say he wore as a cape during the killing spree.

Hoffman testified during the third day of a preliminary hearing for Bales, who is accused of slipping away from his remote post at Camp Belambay in the middle of the night to commit the killings.

The hearing, which is expected to feature testimony from some Afghan soldiers and villagers Friday and Saturday nights, will help determine whether his case advances to a court martial on counts of premeditated murder.

Hoffman arrived at Belambay to investigate just hours after the March 11 massacre, but he and his colleagues were unable to reach the two villages where the killings occurred. An angry crowd of local residents gathered outside the post, he said, and any time they could see an American soldier, they became enraged.

Afghan investigators got out to the scenes that day, where they engaged in a firefight. They recovered some evidence and took photos that they turned over to U.S. authorities. But Hoffman and his colleagues didn't visit until April 2, and even then they feared ambush.

"We were fully expecting to be attacked at any time," he said.

He also said Bales tested positive for steroids three days after the killings.

Bales, a 39-year-old Ohio native and father of two from Lake Tapps, Wash., leaned back in his chair at the defense table and betrayed no reaction as an Army doctor, Maj. Travis Hawks, gave clinical descriptions of treating the wounded villagers as they arrived at a nearby forward operating base.

One young girl had a large bullet wound in the top of her head, he said. She was unresponsive at first, but survived after treatment.

A woman had wounds to her chest and genitals, but she and her relatives insisted that the male doctors not treat her. Prosecutors displayed photos of the victims being treated.

Earlier Wednesday, a friend testified that Bales seemed remorseful after being taken into custody. Defense witness 1st Sgt. Vernon Bigham testified by video from Kandahar Air Field in Afghanistan.

A prosecutor, Lt. Col. Jay Morse, has said Bales spent the evening before the massacre at his remote outpost of Camp Belambay with two other soldiers, watching a movie about revenge killings, sharing contraband whiskey from a plastic bottle and discussing an attack that cost one of their comrades his leg.

Within hours, a cape-wearing Bales slipped away from the post and embarked on a killing spree of his own, Morse said. He attacked one village then returned to Belambay, where he woke up a colleague and reported what he'd done, Morse said. The colleague testified that he didn't believe Bales and went back to sleep.

Bales headed out again, Morse said, and attacked the second village before returning once again in the pre-dawn darkness, bloody and incredulous that his comrades ordered him to surrender his weapons.

Bales has not entered a plea, and is not expected to testify. His attorneys, who did not give an opening statement, have not discussed the evidence, but say Bales has post-traumatic stress disorder and suffered a concussive head injury during a prior deployment to Iraq.

Bales has not participated in a medical evaluation known as a "sanity board," because his lawyers have objected to having him meet with Army doctors outside their presence.

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Johnson can be reached at https://twitter.com/GeneAPseattle

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/agent-recounts-livid-reaction-afghan-massacre-013537748.html

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PressNewsRoom ? Blog Archive ? Financial Advisor Richard Jordan ...

Financial Advisor Richard Jordan explains how you can proactively protect your family in the case of a sudden tragedy.

Plano, TX - November 7, 2012 ? Each and everyone of us at some level has dealt with the tragic loss of a loved one, or has watched a person we care about deal with the pain and suffering of a long term disability. Death is inevitable and (according to studies by AARP, Met Life and GE Financial) disability affects one in two Americans over the age of 65 on a long-term basis. With these unpleasant realities so certain, estate and disability planning in America should be well designed and well developed, enabling families to avoid the hardship associated with having a poor plan or no plan at all.

Richard Jordan, Founder of Fortress Estate Solutions, recently discussed three things that every American over the age of 65 should be considering about their estate and disability planning:

  • Lawyers can create great legal estate planning documents, but if your assets are not ?funded? into the trusts ? or if you have documents that are poorly defined in a disability situation, you can end up with a very IN-effective plan. Here are some significant problems to look out for:
    • If you have a trust and none of your accounts are tied to it, the trust will not help your estate avoid probate. ?A well-prepared legal document can help your family avoid the cost of probate, (AARP reports average probate costs annually are 3-5%) but if your bank and investment accounts are not held in the name of your trust, it will not help.
    • It is also important to make sure your real estate is tied through newly created deeds to transfer the property into the trust.
  • Long-term care can wipe you out financially. ?Newly enforced Filial Responsibility laws may end up costing your kids their savings to pay your nursing home bill. This may be hard to believe, but that is the new reality of healthcare. ?With home health care aides costing $15-30 per hour and Assisted living facilities?costing from $4,000 to $8,000 per month in many parts of the country, nursing homes can cost well over $100,000 per year. ?Developing a long-term care plan is critical. ?There are a variety of ways to use leverage with specific financial products to help you protect your hard earned retirement savings beyond traditional long term care insurance. ?Being proactive and planning for these future tragedies can spare your loved ones the stress of trying to ?figure it out.?
  • Divide and BE CONQUERED. ?All too often financial advisors rely just on financial solutions to solve a client?s long-term care risk. ?Likewise, lawyers look to their legal documents to solve the problem. ?The best advice is to seek out a ?team approach?. ?A well-prepared financial plan addressing death and disability, designed in tandem with coordinated and well-drafted legal documents, will yield you the very best results. ?Two professionals working ?independently? can actually cancel out the effectiveness of one another?s work. Be proactive by insisting that the advisor(s) and lawyer(s) you trust work collaboratively.

For more information on how Richard Jordan can help, please visit?www.fortressestatesolutions.comor call 1-888-682-5952? .

About Richard Jordan:

Richard Jordan is the Founder of Fortress Estate Solutions and has been in the financial field for more than 20 years. Right out of college, Jordan started working with ITT?s corporate financial group, which included Hartford Insurance. In just five years, he rose within the company from district to regional and then multi-stage manager.

Two years ago, Jordan started to share his views on financial planning on the radio. He started at a local station in Dallas and after tripling the audience for the show in six months time, he started doing a show for CBS radio in Dallas for KRLD 1080.

Fortress is one of only 4 percent in the United States that is a pure fiduciary investment advisor firm. The remaining 96% of registered advisors work for or are broker dealers who collect commissions on investment products, which creates a conflict of interest for their clients.? Fortress is strictly fee-based and cannot make more fees if their client doesn?t make more money.

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Pressure is on for players trying to keep cards

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) ? The final PGA Tour event of the year is a lot like the final stage of Q-school, one last chance for so many players to earn their full cards for next year. The field at Disney looks like Q-school, too.

The only player from the top 50 in the world ranking is Robert Garrigus, who checks in at No. 42.

Only five players from the top 50 on the PGA Tour money list are at Disney ? Garrigus (26), Ben Curtis (30), Jonas Blixt (35), Brendon de Jonge (39) and Charlie Wi (45). And six players have won on tour this year ? two against weak fields in the Fall Series (Blixt and Tommy Gainey) and two against even weaker fields at opposite-field events (Scott Stallings and George McNeill). The others are Curtis at the Texas Open and Ted Potter Jr. at the Greenbrier Classic.

For sheer entertainment, the best bet might be at one of Disney's theme parks.

For the pressure of trying to perform with so much at stake, few regular PGA Tour events can match the tension of a golf tournament held on the expansive property of a resort that bills itself as the "Happiest Place on Earth."

The Children's Miracle Network Hospitals Classic gets under way Thursday on the Palm and Magnolia courses at Disney, with the opening two rounds a pro-am format.

The top 125 on the money list keep full exempt status on the PGA Tour next year, with Billy Mayfair smack on the bubble at No. 125. He has a lead of $2,665 over Trevor Immelman, who already is safe next year from his five-year exemption for winning the 2008 Masters. Mayfair is only $3,504 clear of No. 127 Gary Christian, a 41-year-old rookie from England.

"It's kind of nice to get to that stage now where you have to perform," Christian said Wednesday. "This is it. You've got one more chance, and do good or you go home."

Or in his case, go to the California desert at the end of the month for Q-school.

Christian felt remarkably relaxed. His wife and children were joining him Wednesday night and planned a week at the theme parks. Christian, who once held a job selling knives door-to-door, took a long time to reach the big leagues. He was on the Dakota Tour for six years, and the Nationwide Tour for seven years. He still appreciates the perks of the PGA Tour, from the courtesy cars to the pristine condition of golf courses like Pebble Beach and Bethpage Black.

The highlight of the year was playing a practice round with Tom Watson at The Greenbrier, and playing the third round with Tiger Woods at The Barclays. The lowlight? He couldn't think of anything, except for the usual aggravation that golf can cause on any level.

No stress?

"I'm sure there is if you've been on tour for 10 years," he said. "I can understand if you've been used to making seven figures every year and you're on the outside look in, or on the inside hoping to hang in there. I've really got nothing to lose. If it all goes wrong, I assure you my wife still loves me and the kids still love me. And it just allow me to go and play with hopefully a lighter heart and go play great.

"I think it makes a man of you if I come through this and get into that top 125," he said. "Then I think going forward, you use that as something very positive to fall on where you have one opportunity to perform and you did."

These guys on the bubble have had more than one opportunity.

The players from No. 120 to No. 130 on the money list averaged 25 starts this year, and their own play put them in this predicament. Everyone through No. 122 ? that would be 48-year-old Jeff Maggert ? have enough of a cushion that they should be safe. That's not the case for Kevin Chappell at No. 123 or Rod Pampling at No. 124.

And that's certainly not the case for those beyond No. 125, such as Justin Leonard.

Leonard is one of the more under-appreciated players on tour. He got his card out of college without ever having to go to Q-school, and he has never come particularly close to losing his card. Despite being a peashooter in an era of bazookas, his 12 wins include the British Open and The Players Championship, and he lost two majors in playoffs.

But this has been a year to forget, and Leonard finds himself at No. 138 going into the last tournament.

Leonard had to be told that.

"I've made it a serious effort not to look," he said. "I don't know where I am. I don't know what I need to do ? just go out and play and do the best I can every day."

Asked for his thoughts on the week, the Texan smiled.

"The kids are having a blast," he said. "Usual Disney week, shuttling between the parks and the golf course."

Leonard found himself consumed with the money list in the late spring, when he wasn't getting much out of his game. He stopped worrying about results and tied for fifth at the Reno-Tahoe Open and tied for 19th at Greensboro. But when he returned six weeks later and opened with a 64 in Las Vegas, he again was consumed of trying to make the most out of a good start and stumbled.

"I got caught up in what I needed to do," Leonard said.

He's not that bad off. If he loses his card, Leonard is No. 9 in career earnings at just over $31 million, and he can use a pair of one-time exemptions for being in the top 25 and the top 50 on the money list. He plans on using only one of them, and that depends on this week.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/pressure-players-trying-keep-cards-221739943--golf.html

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CVS Caremark 3Q profit up 16 pct. as sales rise

FILE- In this Feb 7, 2012 file photo, pedestrians walk pass a CVS store in Chicago. CVS Caremark Corp. said Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, that its third-quarter earnings climbed 16 percent. The drugstore operator and pharmacy benefits manager posted revenue increases in both businesses, benefiting from new customers won from rivals, and raised its full-year earnings outlook. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)

FILE- In this Feb 7, 2012 file photo, pedestrians walk pass a CVS store in Chicago. CVS Caremark Corp. said Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, that its third-quarter earnings climbed 16 percent. The drugstore operator and pharmacy benefits manager posted revenue increases in both businesses, benefiting from new customers won from rivals, and raised its full-year earnings outlook. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)

CVS Caremark Corp. said Tuesday that its third-quarter earnings climbed 16 percent. The drugstore operator and pharmacy benefits manager posted revenue increases in both businesses, benefiting from new customers won from rivals, and raised its full-year earnings outlook.

The Woonsocket, R.I., company said it earned $1.01 billion, or 79 cents per share, in the three months that ended Sept. 30. That compares with earnings of $868 million, or 65 cents per share, in last year's quarter. Adjusted earnings were 85 cents per share, 2 cents better than analysts expected. That excluded $121 million for the gradual writedown of acquisition-related assets.

Revenue jumped 13 percent to $30.2 billion, above the $30.09 billion analysts expected.

CVS said revenue from pharmacy services climbed 22 percent to $18.1 billion, mainly because of new client starts, growth of its Medicare Part D prescription program and higher medication prices. The segment processed about 255 million prescription claims in the quarter, up 11 percent.

Revenue from drugstores rose 5.5 percent to $15.5 billion, as revenue at stores open at least a year rose 4.3 percent from a year earlier. They filled about 210 million prescriptions in the quarter, up 12 percent, when counting 90-day prescriptions as three monthly prescriptions.

The retail and pharmacy services segments have some overlapping revenue, so their total exceeds company revenue by a few billion dollars.

CVS Caremark got a significant bump from millions of Walgreen Co. customers who migrated to CVS stores during a nearly nine-month split between Walgreen and Express Scripts Holding Co., which runs drug plans for employers, insurers and other customers as a pharmacy benefits manager, or PBM. Walgreen fills prescriptions for Express Scripts, but the two let their contract expire at the end of 2011. They resumed doing business Sept. 15.

The new customers added about 3.5 cents per share to third-quarter results and should add another 2.5 cents in the fourth quarter.

Besides the many new clients and higher drug prices, CEO Larry Merlo cited improved operating profits due to productivity measures, more flu-related prescriptions, an uptick in patient visits to doctors and more patients taking their maintenance medication as scheduled ? because new generic versions of several widely used drugs has made them more affordable. Several blockbusters taken daily by millions have gotten U.S. generic rivals since last Nov. 30, including cholesterol fighter Lipitor, blood thinner Plavix, Singulair for asthma and allergies and blood pressure treatment Diovan.

Merlo said CVS now anticipates retaining at least 60 percent of the prescriptions gained during the impasse, up from a prior forecast of about 50 percent. More than 80 percent of those new customers have enrolled in the CVS Caremark loyalty program, called ExtraCare.

"The outstanding service that customers received, the ExtraCare card, the strong (store brand) offering, combined with the convenient locations" could drive the 60 percent retention forecast even higher, Citigroup analyst Deborah Weinswig wrote to investors.

Optimism about that let the company to raise its 2012 profit forecast. It now expects adjusted earnings of $3.38 to $3.41, up from its previous forecast of $3.32 to $3.38 per share, and net earnings per share of $3.15 to $3.18.

Merlo noted that more then 1,100 CVS stores were closed at the peak of Superstorm Sandy, but all but 20 have reopened. Those lost sales could reduce fourth-quarter earnings per share by a penny.

CVS Caremark runs the second-largest chain of drugstores in the U.S., after Walgreen's, with 7,423 pharmacies, including more than 40 new stores opened during the quarter. The company also operates about 600 MinuteClinic locations and six mail-order pharmacies, plus a dozen mail-order pharmacies and 31 retail pharmacies devoted to specialty drugs. Those are very expensive, usually injected drugs for complex chronic health conditions ? a category that is driving overall spending on medications.

Revenue from the specialty pharmacy segment jumped 34 percent.

Merlo said CVS saw significant jumps in the number of PBM clients requiring their members to get maintenance drugs via mail order, which saves those payers money, and more people enrolled in CVS "pharmacy adviser" plans that help patients with diabetes and heart disease stick to their medication schedules and avoid expensive complications. Those programs are to be expanded to more diseases next year.

Shares rose 25 cents to close at $46.88 Tuesday.

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Linda A. Johnson can be followed at http://twitter.com/LindaJ_onPharma

Associated Press

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Kerry Way Walk makes great strides for cancer research

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Kerry Way Walk makes great strides for cancer research

Monday, November 05, 2012

The Kerry Way Cancer Research Walk, which took place across stunning Kerry Way trails in July, was once again a tremendous success, with over 200 walkers from counties all over Ireland participating, and collectively raising an amazing ?62,508 towards cancer research programmes at Cork Cancer Research Centre (CCRC).

The Kerry Way Cancer Research Walk is a 70km fundraising event that has gone from strength to strength in the past seven years, contributing over ?500,000 to CCRC, which will help researchers to translate lab discoveries into new cancer treatment opportunities for poor prognosis and incurable cancers.

At the recent presentation of funds raised from the event, Dr Declan Soden, CCRC general manager, led a minute?s silence for everyone who has lost loved ones to the disease, which takes the lives of 7,500 people annually in Ireland.

This was followed by the release of more than 100 balloons in their memory at a barbecue held at Tom Crean?s Fish and Wine Bar in Kenmare.

The Kerry Way Cancer Research Walk has earned the support of many famous names over the years, including Se?n Kelly, D?ith? ? S?, John McHenry and Kevin Kehily, and this year Pat Falvey and Pat Spillane led the way.

Dr Soden said: "On behalf of the staff and patients of the centre we would like extend our sincere gratitude to all participants and supporters of the Kerry Way Cancer Research Walk, without whom this event would not have been possible.

"A huge thank you to a number of people who give their time annually on a voluntary basis, including the organising committee, walk leaders, sweepers, ground crew and civil defence."

The Kerry Way Cancer Walk was founded by Cobh Walking Club and has grown to become one of the centre?s annual signature events.

The centre does not have any source of annual state funding and is therefore reliant on the voluntary fundraising efforts of the public and events such as the Kerry Way walk.

Dr Soden said that in terms of research activities, CCRC continues to focus on developing treatments for poor prognosis and incurable cancers. Over the last 10 years it has brought five cancer treatments from laboratory to clinical trial, with three more in preparation over the coming months.

"Lung cancer is the number one cause of cancer death in Ireland and we are working to change these statistics through three research programmes targeted to improve survival rates from lung cancer," Dr Soden said.

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Accounting Leads Generation: How to Find ... - Business 2 Community

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Accounting and bookkeeping services branch out to many different fields namely cost, financial, forensic, fund, management, and tax. The harsh reality of companies within the industry is that they need to generate quality interests from targeted prospects. Furthermore, the business needs to create the need for ALL the classifications under accounting and bookkeeping.

Lead generation and appointment setting has been a very difficult endeavor for existing industries, especially for the accounting sector. Business prospects tend to keep their financial information close to the chest. Therefore, entrusting said data to complete strangers is not a definite possibility.

However, though the path towards business-to-business marketing success may be rough, firms within the business industry can still make the most out of their accounting leads generation campaign. After all, it is stated that it is not a definite possibility but it is certainly not an impossible feat.

There are many methods that can be implemented for better results at b2b lead generation and appointment setting for this sector of business. The following are some tips one can spearhead for their marketing strategies.

  1. Acquire a business mailing list. Such a database can be purchased from credible list providers. Procuring this enables accounting leads generation and appointment setting campaigns to get in touch with laser-targeted prospects. The storage of contact information contains pertinent and verified phone numbers and addresses of targeted decision makers.
  2. Practicing proper lead management and nurturing. It does not mean that once the lead is qualified that they should be left alone until the time comes when the sale is completed. Doing so is a surefire way of achieving failure. Hence, it is of utmost importance to keep the interest levels of generated b2b leads to be at an all time high, at all times.In order to do this properly, bookkeeping firms have to keep their potential client?le interested through feeding them updates and other brand new information about the company from time to time. Things like what is currently happening with the company, or even promotions on upcoming discounts are great ideas to keep probable clients attracted to the upcoming purchase.
  3. Hire seasoned professionals to do the job.If the firm could not afford the manpower or the time to handle the marketing campaign, they can always outsource to experts. More specifically speaking, getting the aid of adept outbound cold callers.With the acquisition of business call center services, the business gains speed, precision targeting, expertise, and a whole bunch of other benefits. Such advantages will help the campaign by achieving more profitable results. Curious accounting and bookkeeping services can always contact a reputable contact agency for their accounting leads generation and appointment setting aid.

Getting more out of an accounting leads generation course is not limited to the above items. One can always explore other options. However, this can take a while; ergo, wasting time will ultimately lead to competitors getting the business leads and appointments that should have fallen into the hands of the firm.

Source: http://www.business2community.com/b2b-perspective/accounting-leads-generation-how-to-find-more-prospects-0325857

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