The schools commitment to mens basketball aside, perhaps none of UNOs previously existing programs got a bigger boost with the move to Division I than womens basketball.

Thats because new coach Chance Lindley, who inherited a program that had been offering the equivalent of 10 scholarships, now has 15 full rides to dole out.

CMS launches online compare tools

The Centers for Medicare #38; Medicaid Services has announced the launch of an updated Hospital Compare website and another Web-based tool for consumers.

The agency said the Hospital Compare website now includes information about how well hospitals protect outpatients from surgical infections. It also has data on whether hospitals use proven therapies to treat suspected heart attacks (www.medicare.gov/quality-care-finder).

CMS also launched the Quality Care Finder tool, which provides a one-stop destination for all of CMS compare tools, including Nursing Home Compare, Physician Compare, Dialyses Facility Compare and Medicare Plan Finder.

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Claims processing firm goes private

Emdeon, a claims processing and revenue cycle management company whose systems are sold to physicians, was removed from public stock trading on Aug. 4 after being bought for $3 billion by a private-equity firm.

Blackstone bought a majority stake in the company for $19 per share, or only $3.50 per share more than the $15.50 trading price Emdeon opened with on its 2009 initial public offering. General Atlantic, another private-equity firm that had bought a majority stake in Emdeon for $1.8 billion in 2006, sold its shares in the transaction.

Emdeon has connections to Healthscape, which was founded in 1995 by Netscape co-founder Jim Clark as his next big Internet venture after that company had a hugely successful Wall Street reception after changing its name to Healtheon.

Healtheon, after merging with WebMD in 1999, paid $2.5 billion in 2000 to acquire Envoy. In 2005 — after the Internet stock bubble had burst — Healtheon/WebMD changed its name to Emdeon, and put the WebMD health information business out as a public stock offering.

Analysts said Blackstones interest in Emdeon was likely because it believed that its stock was undervalued at a time when health system reform is creating more demand for the automated services that Emdeon provides.

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This weekend brings several garage sales in the area. Shoppers will find a variety of furniture items, clothes, toys and household items. Specialty items for sale this weekend include golf clubs and tools. 

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Here is a list of the sales advertised for this weekend and their highlights. Be sure to bring small bills and cash ready to bargain when you head out to shop. 

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Cumming

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2370 Ivey Oaks Road, Saturday, 8 am Baby items, toys, clothes and camping tents are among the available items. 

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4050 Derby Drive, Saturday, 8 am to 2 pm Baby items, electronics and more will be available at this huge sale.  

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7880 Robin Road,  Saturday and Sunday, 9 am to 4 pm Furniture, appliances and more will be available. 

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1333 Pilgrim Lake Drive, Saturday, 10 am to 3 pm This is a large garage sale. 

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5416 Bethelview Rd at Goddard, Saturday, 8 am to 2 pm This is a multi-family sale.

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2370 Ivey Oaks Road, Saturday, 8 am to 2 pm Furniture and childrens items will be available.

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4435 Gavira Court, Saturday, 9 am to 1 pm This sale will include electronics, computers, household items and so much more.

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7155 Wynfield Court, Saturday, 8 am to 1 pm This is a huge salesman sample sale with tools and contractor supplies.

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Alpharetta

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8670 Niblick Drive, Sunday, 9 am to 5 pm This sale will have baby items and general household goods.

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12850 and 12925 Morningpark Circle, Saturday, 8 am to noon. This multi-family sale will offer maternity, baby and kid items as well as general household items.

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225 Cheif Vann Dr, Friday. Furniture, art, kitchen items and more will be available. 

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Johns Bridge Subdivision, Saturday, 8 am to 2 pm Kids items, clothes, antiques and household items will be for sale. 

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410 Wood Trace ct., Saturday, 8 am to noon. Back to school clothes in high end brands as well as house hold items will be offered with nothing over $5.

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16605 Westbrook Rd, Saturday, 8 am to 3 pm This sale will include household decorations and antiques.  

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110 Morton Walk Drive, Saturday 8:30 to 5:30 pm This sale will have furniture, kids items and more.

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115 Piney Hill Trace, Saturday, 9 am to 4 pm This is a moving sale and everything must go. 

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300 Antler Way, Saturday 8 am to noon. Furniture, baby items, appliances and car rims are among the items for sale.  

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Harrington Falls Subdivision, Saturday, 8 am to 2 pm This is a multi-family neighborhood sale. 

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5155 Courton Street, Saturday, 8 am. to noon. A swing set, dorm items and video games will be offered. 

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605 Hopewell Oaks Circle, Saturday, 8 am to 2 pm A guitar, video games and a glass patio set are among the items. 

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12540 Crabapple Tree Court, Saturday, 9 am to 1 pm A treadmill, fish tank, mens clothes and baby items will be for sale.  

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15335 Thompson Rd, Sunday, 11 am to 2 pm Golf clubs, kitchen items and furniture will be for sale among general household items. 

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Johns Creek

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Aberdeen Subdivision, Saturday, 8 am to 2 pm This is a huge basement cleaning out sale. 

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4845 Camberbridge Dr, Saturday, 8 am to noon. This sale has a lot of winter items and household goods.

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Roswell

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960 Tyrone Place, Saturday, 8 am to 1 pm This is a multi-family sale including furniture, golf clubs and dinnerware.

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Hawkins Cove Subdivision, Saturday, 8 am to noon. This sale will offer maternity and kids items, electronics and furniture.

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4414 Lake Chimney Place NE, Saturday, 8 am 12 noon. This multi-family sale will have garden items, furniture and household goods. 

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120 Twinspur Close, Saturday and Sunday, 9 am to 6 pm This sale wil include guitars, music, electronics and more. 

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5025 Gunners Run, NE, Saturday 9 am to 5 pm This is an indoor sale that will be including a lot of furniture. 

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100 Gunlock Trace, Saturday, 8 am to 1 pm They will offer kitchen items, household items, books, electronics and more. 

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630 Sailwind Drive, Saturday, 9 am to noon. This is a down sizing sale for soon to be empty-nesters. 

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825 Cranberry Trail, Sunday, 8 am Included in the sale are jewelry, clothing, purses and electronics. Tools will also be available. 

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3972 Dunbarton Way, Saturday, 8 am to 4 pm Sporting goods, housewares, and antiques will be offered.

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This list was compiled from Craigslist listings.

Tabulate You might remember a service called BridgeURL which we talked about here. It basically facilitated the sharing of multiple links all at once by combining them into a single link. Tabulate is a Chrome extension that uses this service to create a single, all-in-one BridgeURL link for all the open tabs in the current Chrome session. Read more: Tabulate: Share All Open Tab Links At Once [Chrome]

MT. PROSPECT, Ill., Aug. 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — SKIL Power Tools announces it will be the official tools sponsor for the USA Pro Cycling Challenge, a professional cycling competition bringing together 136 of the worlds top athletes to race more than 500 miles through the high altitudes of the Rocky Mountains August 22 28, 2011. SKIL Tools will be used to help build start and finish line trusses, course-side fencing barriers, start line and sign in stages and the finish line podium. The brand also will have an on-site presence with an interactive gaming opportunity featuring SKIL Tools located at the festivals in the finish line cities of Aspen and Denver, and at the time trial location in Vail.

(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110810/CG50148LOGO)

The high-profile race will feature 17 teams, including the 23 cyclists on the SKIL-Shimano team from the Netherlands, who recently had one of its own, Marcel Kittel, make history for the team with his victory at the opening stage of the Tour of Poland in July 2011. This was the SKIL-Shimanos first WorldTour win since the team formed in 2005.

Fans can follow the SKIL-Shimano team by tuning in to watch live coverage of the race on the Versus Channel, NBC and the USA Pro Cycling Challenge online Tour Tracker. News and coverage updates will also be shared on SKILs Facebook page and Twitter handle (@skiltools) throughout the seven-day race.

For additional editorial information about SKIL Tools and high resolution images, please visit the SKIL newsroom.

About SKIL Power Tools

SKIL Power Tools is a leader in portable electric power tools and accessories serving the consumer do-it-yourself and professional construction markets. Founded in 1924 with the invention of the worm drive SKILSAW, SKIL now delivers a complete line of power tools designed and engineered to help DIYers achieve home project success, while providing professionals durable, cost-effective tools for the jobsite. For more information about SKIL Power Tools including information on where to buy, visit www.skiltools.com, www.facebook.com/skil or call toll-free 877-SKIL-999.

SOURCE SKIL Power Tools

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DENVER, Aug. 10, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ –
ID Watchdog Inc. (tsx.v:IDW), provider of identity monitoring and preservation tools, today announced the relocation of its corporate headquarters to 621 17th Street, Denver, Colorado. Anticipating near-term growth deriving from recently announced distribution partnerships in PC security and anti-virus software space, the new facility will allow the company to expand to approximately 70 employees, with an option on additional space that will expand capacity to up to 140 employees. The move is expected to be completed in mid- September of this year.

“Our new facility provides the space necessary for us to rapidly scale our call center, customer service, and technology teams, allowing us to continue providing the highest quality services and support to our customers and our distribution partners alike,” said Mike Greene, ID Watchdog’s CEO.

About ID Watchdog

ID Watchdog and its partners provide consumers with identity monitoring and preservation tools that provide the only real protection against identity theft: active knowledge about your online identity. Using these tools, consumers watch their credit reports and receive warnings about significant changes as first alerts to possible identity theft. ID Watchdog and its partners empower consumers to play a role in defending their online identity by remaining vigilant about changes to and inaccuracies in their credit reports and resolving any issues that do arise with the help of personal information agents.

ID Watchdog (tsx.v:IDW) was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Denver, Colorado. All of the Company’s services have been developed with input from industry experts; national consumer advocacy groups; federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies; consumer protection agencies; and adhere to guidelines published by the Consumer Federation of America. For more information, please visit
www.IDWatchdog.com .

Forward-Looking Statement

This news release includes certain “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 which address future events and conditions which are subject to various risks and uncertainties. The actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in such forward-looking statements as a result of numerous factors, some of which may be beyond the Company’s control. Although the Company believes that its expectations reflected in these forward-looking statements are reasonable, no assurance can be given that actual results will be consistent with these forward-looking statements. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ from these forward-looking statements are disclosed in the Company’s filings with Canadian regulators at
www.sedar.com . ID Watchdog assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking statements of management beliefs, opinions, projections, or other factors should they change. Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.

ID Watchdog Contact:Jay LewisChief Financial Officer303-820-3333InvestorRelations@idwatchdog.com
www.idwatchdog.com

Media Contact for ID Watchdog:Jennifer Roane104 West Partners720.407.6065jennifer.roane@104west.com

SOURCE ID Watchdog Inc.

Copyright (C) 2011 PR Newswire. All rights reserved

For a VMware administrator diving into Microsoft Hyper-V, it can be hard enough understanding Hyper-V
featuresand licensing.
But don’t tire yet. You still need to learn about Hyper-V
management tools for backup, performance monitoring and disaster recovery.

Hyper-V management tools go beyond the core functionality you get out of System
Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) alone. These virtualization management tools provide the
extra capabilities that unlock virtualization’s full potential: backup
and recovery, performance and capacity
management

President Obama, breaking his silence on the downgrade of federal debt, said the main obstacle facing the US is the lack of political will in Washington to solve the countrys problems.

Mylyn-Based Tasktop Sync Aims To Bring Together Agile ALM

• By John K. Waters
• 08/09/2011

Most enterprise software developers working in organizations that have adopted Agile today are dealing with heterogeneous ALM environments that mix and match solutions from different vendors and open source projects. Thats a real problem for companies with more than a few developers, says Mik Kersten, CEO of Tasktop Technologies, because this increasingly commonplace mix of tools creates a disconnect between development, QA and management.

Often when we walk into large organizations and ask them what their ALM stack is like, they say, its like a bottle of Heinz 57; its got everything in it, Kersten said. Heterogeneous ALM stacks are now the norm, and the result is problems with communication and a critical lack of traceability across the software lifecycle… And it just drives developers crazy.

The IRS has long sought to increase its ability to pursue US taxpayers who invest abroad and fail to report their foreign income.  The new Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), which will take effect in 2013, provides more tools for the IRS, not only to pursue non-complying US taxpayers, but also to more severely penalize those taxpayers it prosecutes.  Additionally, the new law will make the accountants who prepare and file domestic tax returns share the responsibility for meeting the requirements of the law.  In her article, “Start Preparing Now For New Foreign Bank Account Reporting Rules” published at the Wealth Strategies Journal, Laura Barooshian covers the basics regarding the changes expected under the new law.

For years, many Americans have used the bank secrecy laws of countries such as Switzerland or Liechtenstein to avoid paying taxes on foreign investments.  However, given new developments in case law, this previously impenetrable barrier in secrecy is giving way to increased pressure from the US government.  In 2006, in a case against billionaire Igor Olenicoff, the IRS succeeded in leveraging the Swiss banking giant, UBS, to release data on thousands of bank accounts held by Americans.  Consequently, the IRS created a voluntary disclosure program, which brought in over $400 million in additional tax revenue.  After the expiration of that program, the IRS has created a new voluntary disclosure program, with increased penalties, in order to force some of the stragglers to cooperate.

Returning to the new FATCA law, US taxpayers will be required to report foreign assets with values exceeding $50,000 on special returns.  The new requirements will involve intricate details on the banks where the accounts are held, the life span of the accounts, and even the extent of communications between the taxpayer and the bank.  Furthermore, the IRS will be permitted, under FATCA, to prosecute cases up to six years after the initial noncompliance.  This is double the three year statute of limitation previously mandated by federal law.

Please stay tuned for more changes to come as the IRS issues guidance on FATCA this year and in 2012.  Many changes are on the horizon and it’s a fair bet that they will be stricter than ever before.

Lew Saret, with assistance of Matthew Engler.