MONEY? News ? Train for In-Demand Accounting and Payroll ...

CALGARY, ALBERTA?(Marketwire ? Jan. 25, 2013) - Reeves College is now offering the Accounting and Payroll Administrator diploma program at its campus in Calgary North. Opportunities for trained accounting and payroll administrators are growing fast as a retiring workforce leaves openings for new employees. This 43-week immersion program from Reeves College equips graduates with the skills employers need to fill these critical positions.

An accounting and payroll administrator is responsible for managing employee information and payroll processing, making them an essential contributor to any organization?s success. At Reeves College, detail-oriented students who thrive on numbers study the business accounting cycle end-to-end to prepare for this challenging yet rewarding profession.

Today?s accounting and payroll administrators rely on specialized computer software to manage information and money. Hands-on training at Reeves College helps students transfer their fresh knowledge to this computerized environment. In addition, students study more common computer programs used in other accounting and finance jobs like bank clerk and tax return preparer.

Accounting and payroll administrators are also the go-to contact for employees when they have questions about their payroll stub or need to make changes to their contact information. To prepare for this important customer service role, students at Reeves College study a variety of communication methods and explore relevant theories of human behavior. Students practice their new expertise through role playing and case studies.

Reeves College is known for its focus on increasing student?s employability in this increasingly competitive job market. As part of this diploma program, students will test their new know-how in an actual workplace to gain that valuable real world experience they need to impress employers.

Applications are now being accepted for the Accounting and Payroll Administrator diploma program at Reeves College in Calgary North. For more information, or to learn how you can get started, 1.877.404.5848 or visit reevescollege.ca.

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About Reeves College

Reeves College has provided market-driven career training programs in Alberta since 1961. With five college campuses in Alberta, Reeves offers a comprehensive learning and training experience that opens up a world of jobs and opportunities for their graduates. The diverse curriculum and consistently high graduate employment rate have established the career college?s reputation as a leading career trainer.

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Source: http://money.ca/money/2013/01/25/train-for-in-demand-accounting-and-payroll-administrator-careers-at-reeves-college/

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Genes provide clues to gender disparity in human hearts

Jan. 24, 2013 ? Healthy men and women show little difference in their hearts, except for small electrocardiographic disparities. But new genetic differences found by Washington University in St. Louis researchers in hearts with disease could ultimately lead to personalized treatment of various heart ailments.

Generally, men are more susceptible to developing atrial fibrillation, an irregular, rapid heartbeat that may lead to stroke, while women are more likely to develop long-QT syndrome, a rhythm disorder that can cause rapid heartbeats and sudden cardiac death.

While prior studies have clearly established differences in the development of heart disease between men and women, very few studies had looked at the molecular mechanisms behind those differences in human hearts.

Igor Efimov, PhD, the Lucy and Stanley Lopata Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering in the School of Engineering & Applied Science at Washington University in St. Louis, and a former doctoral student, Christina Ambrosi, PhD, analyzed 34 human hearts looking for genetic differences that might explain gender differences in heart disease.

The team took advantage of the unique opportunity at the university to obtain failing human hearts at the time of transplantation from Barnes-Jewish Hospital and non-failing hearts unsuitable for transplantation from Mid-America Transplant Services, a St. Louis-based organ procurement service.

The team screened for 89 major genes in electrophysiology, ion channel subunits, calcium handling proteins and transcription factors important in cardiac conduction and in the development of arrhythmia and the left atria and ventricles in human hearts.

"What was striking in this study is that we expected very large gender differences in expression of genes in the ventricles, but we did not find such differences," says Efimov, also a professor of medicine, of radiology and of cell biology and physiology at Washington University School of Medicine. "Unexpectedly, we found huge gender differences in the atria."

The results showed that women with failing hearts have a weaker system of gene expression than men -- males showed overall higher expression levels of nearly all of the 89 genes than women.

Women showed particularly lower atrial expression levels of several important genes encoding for potassium channels, including Kv4.3, KChIP2, Kv1.5 and Kir3.1. In fact, the atria of women with heart disease had less than half of the KChIP2 mRNA than atria in men.

Results of the research were published in PLOS ONE.

Efimov says while there are still many questions that need to be answered to explain these molecular differences, one factor that could be contributing to the difference is estrogen.

"When women have the highest levels of estrogen, they are least vulnerable to arrhythmia -- women are protected by estrogen," he says. "But after menopause, women develop atrial fibrillation at the same rate as men. We don't understand this and need to study this in humans."

Another potential factor is circadian rhythm, Efimov says.

"Humans are much more likely to die suddenly from heart disease early in the morning, between 5-7 a.m.," he says. "In the cardiac system in mice, it has been shown that there is an oscillation of gene expression, so certain genes expressed at 5 a.m. could be different by threefold at 5 p.m."

Efimov says the study on human hearts is unique to Washington University, as much cardiac research elsewhere is done mostly in animal models. In the future, the team would like to expand the research into pediatric hearts, taking advantage of Washington University's leading pediatric heart transplant program to learn more about pediatric physiology.

Funding for this research was provided by the National Institutes of Health (R01-HL114395) and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (R-01-HL085369).

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Political Commentator to Present Honors College Convocation | Ole ...

OXFORD, Miss. ? America?s foremost political commentator and conservative columnist will give the annual spring convocation for the University of Mississippi?s Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College.

George F. Will presents ?The Political Argument Today? at 7 p.m. Feb. 5 in the Ford Center for the Performing Arts. The convocation is free and open to the public, and a book signing follows in the lobby.

The author offers penetrating and incisive commentary on the Washington political scene and provides a glimpse into what the future holds for public affairs, public policy and American society. Unmatched in political insight, Will provides witty and informed commentary on politics, the economy and American society.

Honors College Dean Douglass Sullivan-Gonz?lez said he is awaiting Will?s wit and insight.

?We invited George Will to speak to our students given the extraordinary election this nation enjoyed in November 2012,? Sullivan-Gonz?lez said. ?This Pulitzer Prize-winning author has demonstrated successfully the power and weight of his insights through his national columns and many TV appearances.?

Will is one of the most respected and sought-after political commentators on the national scene, offering students an informed view on the current issues and political realities of today.

?George Will?s wide interests ? from baseball to national politics ? give him a great vantage point to reflect on the major challenges our nation confronts.? Sullivan-Gonz?lez said. ?To have our students engage this prominent national voice enables them to participate as citizens and scholars in our great debate about the future of country.?

His popular twice-weekly column for The Washington Post syndicate reaches nearly 500 newspapers throughout the United States and Europe, and he appears regularly on ABC?s ?This Week.? He is the author of ?The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America?s Fabric,? ?Bunts? and ?One Man?s America.? In 1990, Will published ?Men At Work: The Craft of Baseball,? which topped The New York Times best-seller list for two months and was most recently reissued on April 13, 2010 as a 20th anniversary special edition with a new introduction.

Source: http://news.olemiss.edu/political-commentator-present-honors-college-convocation/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=political-commentator-present-honors-college-convocation

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"John Dies at the End" review: Hipster Ghostbusters vs. Flying Mustaches

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - A shaggy-dog story with restless leg syndrome, "John Dies at the End" may not amount to much, but there's no denying its sheer entertainment value. Mixing slacker laughs with inter-dimensional creepy-crawlies, it's a zing-packed horror comedy that coasts by on sheer bravado, twisted wit and endless adrenaline.

Cult writer-director Don Coscarelli ("Bubba Ho-Tep," "The Beastmaster," "Phantasm") drolly adapts the novel by David Wong (a pen name for Jason Pargin), and even if the story's rules and logic seem to be ever-shifting, it never feels like the movie is cheating or pulling the rug out. We're set up for a lunatic funhouse of a plot, and that's exactly what we get.

Dave (Chase Williamson) meets with reporter Arnie Blondestone (Paul Giamatti, who also executive produced) to tell him of his recent extraordinary adventures that saved the universe as we know it. Or something like that. His journey involves a street drug known as "soy sauce," which gives its users superhuman powers of perception and the ability to see the future and to travel between dimensions.

Dave's best friend John (Rob Mayes) takes the drug and then dies (in the middle, actually), only to find other forms in which to exist before manifesting inside a dog and then back into his own corpse, and...

Look, there's no way to really explain this story without note cards and a flow chart; suffice it to say that Dave and John encounter a variety of bizarro occurrences, including a bratwurst that acts as a cell phone, teenagers possessed by what look like fruitflies, a flying mustache, a monster made of frozen meat, an infomercial psychic (played by Clancy Brown) who may hold the keys to the mysteries of existence, and a cop (Glynn Turman of "Gremlins") who wants to set everyone and everything that's been exposed to the drug on fire before they can create any more trouble.

"John Dies at the End" seems to be designed for multiple viewings, as it pretty much dissolves inside your brain the second it's over, but there's no denying the little pops of pleasure it provides along the way. Relative newcomers Williamson and Mayes make charismatic tour guides in this crazy world, and their ability to anchor material this flimsy and seemingly unmanageable speaks well for their futures as actors in more narratively stable films.

Giamatti gets the relatively thankless as-told-to role, but he's clearly having a ball in his ill-fitting schlub costume; if nothing else, he does "And then what happened?" about a hundred times more interestingly than Rafe Spall does in "Life of Pi."

This movie may, in the final analysis, be nothing but stoner silliness with the occasional gross-out. But if you happen to be in the market for stoner silliness with the occasional gross-out, "John Dies at the End" does it particularly well.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/john-dies-end-review-hipster-ghostbusters-vs-flying-011159143.html

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Astrophile: Split personality tarnishes pulsars' rep

Astrophile is our weekly column on curious cosmic objects, from the solar system to the far reaches of the multiverse

Object: Pulsar (pulsing star)
Behaviour: Erratic

A split personality can be disturbing, especially when it affects someone you least expected it to. Now it seems stars, too, can have disturbingly fractured personas. The discovery of the first pulsar that shines at different frequencies at different times is tarnishing the reputation of this class of pulsing dead star. Until now, pulsars have been relied upon as cosmic timekeepers, but perhaps we can't take their regularity for granted any longer.

We had thought of pulsars ? the dense remnants of exploded stars ? as emitting radio waves, X-rays or gamma rays in bursts of such regularity that you could practically set your watch by them. Pulsars are spinning neutron stars, with strong magnetic fields that emit beams of radiation from their poles. The poles are offset from the axis of rotation ? just as the magnetic poles on Earth do not line up with true north and south. This offset means the beams sweep around like a lighthouse as the pulsar rotates, giving the star's radiation a distinctive pulse when viewed from a distance.

Individual pulsars can emit radiation at a range of frequencies, from radio waves to gamma rays, and some radio pulsars have been seen to dim or even stop broadcasting all together. That finding had previously cast some doubt on pulsars' otherwise impeccable reputation for dependability.

The latest discovery takes that to a new level, though. When Wim Hermsen of the Netherlands Institute for Space Research in Utrecht and colleagues took the first simultaneous measurements of both the radio and gamma radiation from B0943+10, a pulsar known to emit at both frequencies, they got a shock.

Radio flip

Rather than shining continuously as the team expected, B0943+10 flips at the drop of a hat, toning down its radio emissions for a few hours while pumping out extra X-rays, before switching back as if nothing had happened ? a totally new type of pulsar behaviour. "This variability has never been seen before," says Hermsen.

The pulsar's first personality is similar to that of its more stable siblings. In this mode, the pulsar emits a beam of radio waves from its pole and rotates every 1.1 seconds, while also emitting low-level background X-rays in every direction.

Every few hours though ? exactly when seems random ? the pulsar switches to its second personality. The main radio beam strength halves, though its timing remains the same, and is accompanied by another, even weaker radio signal just before the main pulse. Meanwhile the X-ray output doubles and pulses in time with the star's spin. Some time later, it switches back.

Astronomers already disagree over whether pulsar emissions are created by annihilation of particles close to the surface or further out but still within the pulsar's magnetic field. B0943+10's quirks throw a further spanner in the works because they don't fit either picture. What could be going on?

Cosmic act

One explanation is that what looks a radio-to-X-ray pulsar personality transplant is actually just an act. The object basically remains a radio pulsar, but whenever the radio beam halves in strength, the pulsar's magnetic field switches on a second radio beam in a different direction, which does not sweep past Earth.

In this scenario, the second radio beam is accompanied by increased X-ray emissions. Since they are produced in all directions, they are visible from Earth. If that's true, it would be rather like ascribing a friend's odd behaviour to a personality problem ? only to discover that there was in fact an explanation for the behaviour that was consistent with the person as you normally think of them.

Even this explanation raises obvious questions, such as why a second radio beam is triggered and how that boosts the pulsar's X-ray emissions. That's a problem, given that pulsars are used to search for the effects of gravitational waves - these ripples in spacetime should change pulsars' apparent frequency - and have even been touted as replacing satellites in a kind of GPS for deep space. "Whatever is creating this beam in one mode stops in the other mode, and for that you need something drastic," says Hermsen. "None of the known models can explain it."

Journal reference: Science, DOI: 10.1126/science.1230960

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TQ ? Would You Let Your Partner Have An Affair?

To most, it sounds completely crazy and wouldn?t even be a consideration but a marital affairs website has claimed that nearly half of their members have been given permission by their partner to have an affair or their partner knew about the affair.

Incredibly, 30 per cent told martialaffair.co.uk that their partner had given them permission and 18 per cent said they thought their partner know about the affairs they?d be having.

Not only are these findings quite shocking to the general public, but the sites founder said this wasn?t something he was expecting.

Paul Graham said, ?This wasn?t what we expected with the research. We expected only a fraction of members to say that their partner knew about their affairs but it was a near 50-50 split.

?We all assume that the majority of people would be horrified at the thought of their spouse or partner having a fling with someone else. But it seems that people now recognize that a marriage can?t answer all our needs all of the time.?

Online Daters Lie Their Way to Getting a Date

The question is, would you let your partner have an affair?

The initial thought of it seems repulsive and many would say no on the grounds that it can tear a relationship apart.

From the survey, 22 per cent said they are terrified their partner would ever find out because it would ruin their relationship, and rightly so.

Once someone has cheated, all trust has been dissolved but does that mean we should be honest about our needs and tell our partner upfront?

One of the most common reasons for seeking an affair is sex, but sex is only one part of a marriage so can it make sense to allow your spouse to go elsewhere for it instead of breaking up a marriage?

Some would say yes, it can work. There are obvious benefits, your partner gets have sex with another person, whilst still being married to you and being a loving, doting husband and still fulfilling that role.

It has also been said that this can actually improve a marriage. If your partner is feeling much happier due to the affair then it?s bound to reflect on your married life.

Of course, there are cons. What if your partner ends up falling for their affair? Would you blame yourself and be left with the decision of whether to let him go, or would that decision even be yours to make any more after you let the affair go on?

It?s different for every couple but the main point here is that it?s better to be honest. If you?re not happy with an aspect of your relationship then say so, you never know what the solution could be.

Would You Stay Together For Your Children?

Source: http://tchadquarterly.com/would-you-let-your-partner-have-an-affair/

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Kids Prefer Cheese: Fatherhood Premium

A Reconsideration of the Fatherhood Premium: Marriage, Coresidence, Biology, and Fathers? Wages

Alexandra Killewald
American Sociological Review, forthcoming

Abstract:
Past research that asserts a fatherhood wage premium often ignores the heterogeneity of fathering contexts. I expect fatherhood to produce wage gains for men if it prompts them to alter their behavior in ways that increase labor-market productivity. Identity theory predicts a larger productivity-based fatherhood premium when ties of biology, coresidence with the child, and marriage to the child?s mother reinforce one another, making fatherhood, and the role of financial provider in particular, salient, high in commitment, and clear. Employer discrimination against fathers in less normative family structures may also contribute to variation in the fatherhood premium. Using fixed-effects models and data from the 1979 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79), I find that married, residential, biological fatherhood is associated with wage gains of about 4 percent, but unmarried residential fathers, nonresidential fathers, and stepfathers do not receive a fatherhood premium. Married residential fathers also receive no statistically significant wage premium when their wives work full-time. About 15 percent of the wage premium for married residential fathers can be explained by changes in human capital and job traits.

Nod to Kevin Lewis

Source: http://mungowitzend.blogspot.com/2013/01/fatherhood-premium.html

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