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Sunday, 4 August 2013
Office 365 subscribers get Office Mobile for Android phones
Today, we are launching Office Mobile for Android phones in the United States at no additional charge for Office 365 subscribers. This means that Office 365 subscribers can now work on their Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents from virtually anywhere-using their Windows Phone, iPhone or Android phones.1 Office Mobile for Android phones can be downloaded from the Google Play Store. To use the app, you need a qualifying Office 365 subscription, including Office 365 Home Premium or Office 365 ProPlus (you can find the complete list of qualifying subscriptions here). Office Mobile for Android phones is initially available in the United States, with more countries coming on board over the next several weeks.
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Facebook ad company in bankruptcy court
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Source: www.texasguardian.com --- Sunday, August 04, 2013
Syncapse, a well-known marketing company in the United States has gone into bankruptcy, laying off around one hundred people. Syncapse was a social media marketing management company that had been developing marketing solutions within the social media sphere for companies such as Coca-Cola. A US federal court has heard that Syncapse had been closely aligned with Facebook. Syncapse was ... ...
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Saturday, 3 August 2013
Jury hears about Jackson's likeability, drug use
A look at key moments this past week in the wrongful death trial in Los Angeles between Michael Jackson's mother, Katherine Jackson, and concert giant AEG Live LLC, and what is expected at court in the week ahead:
THE CASE
Jackson's mother wants a jury to determine that the promoter of Jackson's planned comeback concerts didn't properly investigate Dr. Conrad Murray, who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter by a criminal jury for Jackson's June 2009 death. AEG's attorney says the case is about personal choice, namely Jackson's decision to have Murray serve as his doctor and give him doses of a powerful anesthetic as a sleep aid. Millions, possibly billions, of dollars are at stake.
WHAT HAPPENED THIS PAST WEEK
? Consultant Eric Briggs told jurors that projections Jackson would have earned $1 billion or more if he had lived are speculative and not supported by the singer's history of earnings for his previous tours.
? Briggs underwent grueling cross-examination with an attorney for Jackson's mother pointing out that he had billed AEG Live for more than $600,000 worth of work and had compiled only about an inch of research and a couple pages of notes.
? Michael La Perruque, Jackson's former head of security, testified that he was concerned the singer would overdose on prescription medications and he occasionally went into the entertainer's bedroom to make sure he was still breathing. He said he didn't have similar concerns when he worked for Jackson in late 2007 and early 2008.
? La Perruque recounted an incident in a Florida hotel room in 2001 or 2002 in which Jackson's children called 911 after finding their father unconscious in a hallway of their hotel suite. He said he was able to rouse Jackson before paramedics arrived and saw no signs of drugs or alcohol the singer had taken to cause the episode.
WHAT THE JURY SAW
? Briggs struggle to answer questions about his work estimating the value of Jackson's signature asset, a stake in the Sony-ATV music catalog that includes songs by The Beatles and other top-name acts. Briggs only answered the questions after being ordered to by a judge; he cited confidentiality agreements with other clients as the reason he didn't want to answer the questions.
? Survey figures that showed Jackson's popularity in the United States dropped significantly after he was accused of child molestation in the mid-2000s. Briggs said the survey stopped asking questions about Jackson's likeability after 2006 due to his low scores, making it unlikely he would have gotten an endorsement deal for his "This Is It" shows.
QUOTABLE MOMENTS
? "He fought very hard not to be dependent on these prescription medications," La Perruque said of Jackson.
? "We live in a world unfortunately where headlines impact perceptions," Briggs said, explaining why he believes that Jackson would not have been able to secure endorsement deals even though he was acquitted of child molestation charges.
WHAT'S NEXT
Jurors will continue to hear from La Perruque, who will likely recount his recollections of Jackson's relationship with his children. Jurors may also see the videotaped testimony of Jackson's younger brother, Randy.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/jury-hears-jacksons-likeability-drug-155529032.html
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Church outlines plans for former Mueller Elementary building
- Staff Wichita Business Journal
Christian Faith Centre, which bought the former Mueller Elementary School building in Wichita after plans for housing there didn't work, plans to turn the building into a private or charter school.
The Wichita Eagle reports church leaders plan to open the building this fall as a day care and preschool. By next fall, they plan to reopen it as the Urban Preparatory Academy of Wichita. The academy would serve kindergartners through fifth-graders, and it would primarily be tailored to African-American children.
The Eagle report has more details about plans for the school.
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Friday, 2 August 2013
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India wants peaceful relations with Pakistan
India Thursday extended an olive branch to its arch-rival Pakistan, saying it wants to develop "peaceful and cooperative relations" with the neighboring country, but in a "terror-free environment".
"It has always been India's policy to develop peaceful and cooperative relations with Pakistan. Naturally, this pre-supposes an environment free of violence and of terror," the newly appointed Indian External Affarirs Ministry Secretary Sujatha Singh told the media in the national capital.
India had suspended bilateral dialogue with Pakistan after the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, in which over 170 people were killed by 10 Pakistani militants who entered the country's financial capital through sea route from the port city of Karachi. However, the two countries resumed composite dialogue in 2011.
"Dialogue with Pakistan was resumed in 2011. Two rounds have been held since then and we will be picking up the threads. There is a new government in Pakistan now. We will be picking up the threads from where we left off with the old government," said the 59-year-old top diplomat, who took office for a fixed tenure of two years.
Singh, who was earlier Indian Ambassador to Germany and succeeded Ranjan Mathai, also spoke of her immediate priorities.
"My immediate priorities would be in our immediate neighborhood. That is where our immediate interest lies and that is where our most intent interactions are. Beyond that, it is important to strengthen relations with our strategic partners all over the world," she added.
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Syria's Assad lauds his army, says he will win war
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) ? The Syrian president has lauded his military troops, saying they are fighting the "fiercest" war but that he is confident they will win in the country's conflict.
Bashar Assad's comments came in a statement marking Syria's Army Day on Thursday.
Assad says: "Had we in Syria not been confident of victory, we wouldn't" have been able to resist" for over two years.
More than 100,000 people have been killed since the uprising against the Assad family's four-decade rule began in March 2011. The revolt later escalated into a civil war, which has uprooted millions of people from their homes.
Assad's forces have been making significant gains against the rebels on several key fronts recently, mostly in the central province of Homs and near the capital Damascus.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/syrias-assad-lauds-army-says-win-war-074533147.html
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Wednesday, 15 May 2013
Transocean chairman to step down after Icahn attack
By Braden Reddall
(Reuters) - Transocean Ltd
Talbert, a director since 1994 who was also chief executive from 1994 to 2002, told the board that if re-elected at the upcoming shareholder meeting on May 17, he will step down as chairman by November and leave the board no later than the 2014 annual meeting, Transocean said.
Icahn, who owns 5.6 percent of Transocean, has opposed Talbert's re-election. The activist investor has been campaigning for a higher dividend payout for months and is calling for major changes to the Switzerland-based company's board ahead of the annual meeting.
"We find it to be utterly absurd that a Chairman facing the prospect of losing his directorship would be so brazen as to ask shareholders to return him as Chairman so that he and the Board can then pick his successor," Icahn wrote in a letter to Transocean shareholders on Monday.
Talbert's exit strategy caps a tumultuous meeting season for long-serving bosses in the energy business. On Friday, John Hess was stripped of his chairman duties at Hess Corp
Icahn has gone after Transocean over "ill-advised" mergers and "unsuccessful" development strategies. Over the past five years, its shares dramatically underperformed rivals Ensco Plc
Transocean grew out of a series of mergers that started with the purchase by Alabama-based Sonat Offshore Drilling of Norway's Transocean ASA in 1996. Three years later came the takeover of Sedco Forex, spun off by oil services giant Schlumberger
Icahn wants the company to replace three directors, including the chairman, with his nominees John Lipinski, Jos? Maria Alapont and Samuel Merksamer.
Transocean has responded by questioning their qualifications, saying Alapont and Merksamer have no apparent energy experience while Lipinski leads a U.S. refiner - a side of the oil business far removed from exploration.
Transocean also notes that Icahn, in his successful battle to take over the board of refiner CVR Energy Inc
Apart from Talbert, the two directors in Icahn's sights are Thomas Cason and Robert Sprague. Cason had been a GlobalSantaFe director, and previously worked at oilfield services company Baker Hughes Inc
Icahn has said he holds the directors responsible for the value destruction brought about by the takeovers of old assets while rival Seadrill
"We believe that directors Talbert, Sprague and Cason have proven themselves incapable of delivering returns, and therefore, they should be replaced," Icahn wrote on Monday.
Transocean is in the process of shaping up its sprawling global operations. It has promised to cut $300 million of costs by next year, on top of planned reductions of about the same this year from the 2012 operating and maintenance cost figure of $6.1 billion.
Shares of Transocean were down more than 1 percent at $53.94 on Monday. The stock has declined by 65 percent in the past five years, compared with a 33 percent drop for Noble and an 8 percent slide for Ensco. Seadrill is up 38 percent in that time.
(Reporting by Braden Reddall in San Francisco and Sakthi Prasad in Bangalore; Editing by Matt Driskill, Marguerita Choy and Chris Reese)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/transocean-chairman-step-down-icahn-attack-171916035.html
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Tuesday, 14 May 2013
Budget cuts pare real-time monitoring of volcanoes
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) ? Scientists monitoring Alaska's volcanoes have been forced to shut down stations that provide real-time tracking of eruptions and forgo repairs of seismic equipment amid ongoing federal budget cuts ? moves that could mean delays in getting vital information to airline pilots and emergency planners.
The Alaska Volcano Observatory can no longer seismically monitor five volcanoes with real-time equipment to detect imminent eruptions. Such equipment is especially important in helping pilots receive up-to-the-minute warnings about spewing ash that can cause engine failures and other problems.
Alaska has 52 active volcanoes, with many of them located on the Aleutians Islands along international air routes between Europe, North America and Asia.
Alaska Airlines officials said the observatory, funded by the U.S. Geological Survey, provides a crucial service, including early warnings of seismic changes that may portend an impending eruption. Monitors need to be operating all the time, not just during major eruptions, said Betty Bollert, an Alaska Airlines dispatcher.
"I think the public gets kind of complacent when nothing exciting is happening ... and think, 'Oh, why should we throw money at that?'" said Bollert, who was on duty in 1989 when the Redoubt Volcano blew 115 miles from Anchorage.
Following that eruption, several aircraft experienced damage from ash ? including a Boeing 747-400 carrying 231 passengers that lost all four engines after flying into an ash cloud. The plane dropped more than two miles in five minutes before the crew was able to restart the engines and land safely in Anchorage.
Worldwide, hundreds of flights are diverted each year because of volcanic activity. In 2010, an eruption in Iceland spread debris over Northern Europe, threatening most flight routes from the East Coast to Europe, and within Europe itself.
The Alaska volcano monitoring system, first created in 1988, is intended to help pilots avoid such problems. But it has regressed over the past few years because of shrinking finances, and now the across-the-board spending cuts known as sequestration are further squeezing operations.
For example, gone is a plan to install seismic monitors at Cleveland Volcano, a remote mountain on an uninhabited island in the Aleutians. The volcano experienced a low-level eruption earlier this month that continues to discharge steam, gas and heat, although no ash clouds have been detected in the past week.
"Because our budget has been declining for so long, we have no hope of actually addressing the Cleveland eruption in the way that it really should be," said geophysicist John Power, the USGS scientist in charge at the Alaska Volcano Observatory.
A second Alaska volcano began heating up Monday. Pavlof Volcano, 625 miles from Anchorage, does have seismic instruments, which picked up tremors signaling a possible eruption. Satellite imagery also showed a lot of heat in the mountain.
In Alaska, 32 volcanoes once had 200 working seismic instruments. Now 80 of those instruments have fallen into disrepair and can't be fixed due to the USGS budget cuts. That means five of those volcanoes aren't monitored electronically at all, and the number could rise if more instruments go without maintenance.
Cuts also have reduced the number of days helicopter crews can fly to repair equipment in remote locations, from 140 days in 2008 to 36.
The observatory still uses satellite data, infrasound and reports from pilots and others to detect eruptions. But none of those offer real-time information. Sound waves picked up the Cleveland eruption, but it took 40 minutes for the data to reach scientists in Anchorage, 940 miles northeast of the volcano.
Decreasing funds, once boosted by $2.5 million in now-defunct congressional earmarks, also have forced staff reductions. These days, the observatory is operating on $4 million annually, roughly half of its heyday budget.
Four other observatories in the U.S. ? in Wyoming, California, Washington and Hawaii ? also have faced cuts, leading to a reduction in lab research, studies of eruption histories and lava survey flights. In Hawaii, lava flyovers of the Big Island's Kilauea volcano were reduced from once a week to once every two weeks.
It's still early in the federal downsizing process, and resources already are spread thin, said Tom Murray, chief of the five USGS observatories. And while these types of cuts may not be immediately felt by the public ? unlike the furloughs of air traffic controllers that caused flight delays nationwide ? they are just as damaging, said Murray.
"The challenges with what we do is that it doesn't happen all the time," he said. "But when it does happen, then the ramifications can be very large."
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May 13 (Reuters) - Leading money winners on the 2013 PGATour on Monday (U.S. unless stated): 1. Tiger Woods $5,849,600 2. Brandt Snedeker $3,388,064 3. Kevin Streelman $2,572,989 4. Billy Horschel $2,567,891 5. Matt Kuchar $2,493,387 6. Phil Mickelson $2,220,280 7. Adam Scott (Australia) $2,207,683 8. D.A. Points $2,019,702 9. Steve Stricker $1,977,140 10. Graeme McDowell $1,910,654 11. Jason Day $1,802,797 12. Webb Simpson $1,759,015 13. Dustin Johnson $1,748,907 14. Hunter Mahan $1,682,939 15. Charles Howell III $1,561,988 16. Russell Henley $1,546,638 17. Martin Laird $1,531,950 18. ...
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Rolls-Royce to back supercar project
13 May 2013
Last updated at 05:45 ET
Watch the Bloodhound's EJ200 engine on the testbed
Aero-engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce is to sponsor the British Bloodhound project to drive a car beyond 1,000mph.
The company will provide financial as well as technical support.
Its major involvement is to oversee the supercar's EJ200 jet engine, a Rolls power plant normally found in a Eurofighter-Typhoon.
Bloodhound will use this jet to raise its speed to about 350mph before igniting a rocket motor to take it supersonic.
The intention is to break the current land speed record of 763mph (1,228km/h) next year, and then push it beyond 1,000mph (1,610km/h) in 2015.
The running of the car will take place on a dried-out lake bed in South Africa.
Bloodhound includes key personnel from the team that set the existing mark back in 1997, including driver Andy Green and project director Richard Noble.
It is in part this experience that has prompted Rolls to waive its usual reluctance to get involved directly in speed record attempts.
"In general, we have a pretty robust policy about using our power plants in applications for which they were not designed," explained Colin Smith, the manufacturer's director of engineering and technology.
"The reason we're prepared to relax this policy in this case is because Bloodhound is a professional organisation," he told BBC News.
"I am impressed by Richard Noble's design process and his safety process; and he has a track record."
Light and swiftThe car project has been loaned three EJ200s from the Ministry of Defence. Two for running, one for spare parts.
The plants are development engines and although they have only a few hours' operational life left in them, this is more than adequate for the purpose of a Land Speed Record bid.
And as part of its involvement in the project, Rolls has put one of the engines on its testbed facility in Bristol.
This proved not only that the engine was in good working order but allowed also the Bloodhound engineers to trial the car's management and control system.
"The EJ200 was designed with one aircraft in mind - the Eurofighter-Typhoon. It lives within the Typhoon control system, so we've had to mimic a lot of the Typhoon inputs so that that engine still thinks it's in a Eurofighter," said Bloodhound's chief engineer Mark Chapman.
Green's and Noble's previous car, Thrust SSC, set its Land Speed Record using Rolls' Spey 202 engine, which was originally designed for Phantom and Buccaneer military planes.
But the advance in capability in the EJ200 is immediately evident just from its supremely compact size.
Whereas the Spey had a thrust to weight ratio of about five to one, the Eurofighter engine has a thrust to weight ratio of nine to one. The newer engine is incredibly power-dense.
The huge mass saving should make a big difference to Bloodhound as it seeks to better its predecessor's top speed.
Rolls-Royce has plenty of indirect history in the sport, notably with Malcolm and Donald Campbell, but it is very rare for the company to back projects quite so overtly as it is doing with Bloodhound. The famous "RR" badge will sit on the supercar's engine cowlings.
Rolls-Royce says one significant reason for its interest is Bloodhound's commitment to education.
The project was originally envisioned by former defence and science minister Lord Drayson as a means to inspire children to engage in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) subjects.
Today, the Bloodhound Education Programme involves more than 5,000 schools, using curriculum resource materials based on the science of a supersonic car.
Although, Rolls has no problem filling its graduate-entry and apprenticeship schemes, it is concerned for the wider engineering base in the UK, and believes initiatives such as Bloodhound are needed to channel young people's interests into technical subjects.
"We're very fortunate in being oversubscribed for those graduate and apprenticeship roles by a factor of 10, but we have a big supply chain in the UK and some of those companies are struggling to get the right calibre of skills," explained Mr Smith. "We need to encourage more people to do useful and scientific degrees in the UK."
Richard Noble said Rolls-Royce's direct backing was a tremendous fillip to the project and would help to bring on board the final sponsors needed to fully fund the construction of the car.
"A lot of companies are doing this education thing but sometimes the subject matter isn't exciting enough," he told BBC News. "What you need is a flagship inspiration machine, and that's what we are."
The Bloodhound project is currently assembling the car at its new technical centre in Avonmouth, Bristol.
Other major aerospace companies are contributing to the build. The last big structural item is about to be released by the design team.
This is the fin, which has recently had its configuration changed. It is now cruciform rather than T-shaped.
The fin is integral to the stability of the vehicle at high speed. It is also the part of the car that will carry the names of all the individual members of the public who have sponsored the project.
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Monday, 13 May 2013
Video: Terminal Snooping at Bloomberg
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Sunday, 12 May 2013
Cops find body presumed to be missing Kansas baby girl Lana Leigh Bailey
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Riders on horseback search culverts and drainage ditches along Kansas Highway 68 for 18-month-old Lana-Leigh Bailey, Friday.
By The Associated Press
Franklin County Sheriff Jeff Richards said early Sunday that remains believed to be those of Lana Leigh Bailey ? who had been presumed dead ? were found Saturday in Osage County in eastern Kansas.
"It is with great sadness that I report a body found in Osage County, Kansas, is believed to be the remains of 18-month-old Lana Bailey," Richards said in a statement he emailed to The Associated Press.
He said the body was found by an Osage County sheriff's deputy who was scouring an area for items that could be connected to the deaths reported at the farmhouse May 6 in nearby Franklin County. The evidence collected Saturday when the body was found led investigators to believe it was the infant's body, his statement said.
"We hope that a forensic examination will make a final identification," Richards added.
Richards told The AP by telephone that he would not have additional information beyond his statement early Sunday.
The search crews had been using boats and sonar equipment but Richards did not say in his statement exactly where the body was found. Earlier authorities had said investigators were scouring ponds and other waterways in the area looking for the body of Lana Leigh Bailey.
Kyle Flack was charged Friday with capital murder in the deaths of Lana Bailey, her 21-year-old mother, Kaylie Bailey, and 30-year-old Andrew Stout. The 27-year-old convicted felon was also charged with multiple counts of first-degree murder in their deaths as well as the death of 31-year-old Steven White.
The investigation has included searching the farm and other rural areas in the 50-mile stretch between Ottawa and Emporia, where Kaylie Bailey's car was found Tuesday.
Franklin County Attorney Stephen Hunting said Friday that a firearm was used against the victims recovered at the farm, but didn't elaborate on whether that meant they were fatally shot. Authorities have not commented on a motive.
Richards said previously that the extensive investigation has taken a toll and that members of the investigative team have required medical attention after searching in difficult areas. Others have sought counsel from a chaplain.
Related: Kansas man arrested, suspected of murdering three or four people
This story was originally published on Sun May 12, 2013 3:59 AM EDT
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War spawns new approaches for wounded service members' pain care
May 11, 2013 ? Better body armor and rapid aeromedical evacuations enable American service members to survive blasts that would have proved fatal in Vietnam or even the first Gulf War, but they pose new challenges to military medicine -- how to deal with the excruciating pain of injuries, especially severe burns from IED blasts that body armor can't protect.
In fact, U.S. military doctors say the wars are inflicting injuries among the most painful known to medicine. Department of Defense scientists working at the U.S Army Institute of Surgical Research (USAISR) at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, Texas, spoke at the American Pain Society's annual scientific meeting and reported on progress in addressing pain management challenges for treating service members returning from the war front with severe burns.
"Soldiers with severe burns, such as those on 20 percent of their bodies or more, are often hospitalized for months and they endure agonizing pain every day -- not just from the first wound but also from repeated washings, dressing changes and multiple skin graft surgeries," said DOD Scientist Marcie Fowler, Ph.D. "Many also have polytraumatic injuries and have received several levels of treatment from the battlefield to the hospital, and brain trauma adds a cognitive impairment component to the rehabilitation of burns and polytraumatic injuries."
Opioids have been a mainstay for treating pain in badly burned warfighters, but extended use increases the risk for respiratory side effects and possible addiction. "There aren't many great alternatives to opioids but they do work and we have to deal with the side effects," said Fowler. "However, we are exploring several alternatives that might help reduce opioid use."
Dayna Loyd Averitt, Ph.D., a researcher at the USAISR, reported that the Army is conducting extensive research with novel therapeutic options for treating pain, such as using complementary drug therapy regimens, multidisciplinary pain
management strategies, and even virtual reality to help decrease pain during procedures. She reviewed current projects evaluating the potential benefits of the synthetic analgesic tramadol to treat pain with a reduced emphasis on opioids and in using an injectable agent, resiniferatoxin (RTX), to temporarily deactivate nerve endings. The RTX project is in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health.
"In our research with tramadol, we are evaluating the potential of using dual mechanism therapeutics that act on both opiate and neurotransmitter receptors," explained Averitt. "The drug's activity with neurotransmitters involved in pain modulation, such as serotonin and norepinephrine, could be helpful in treating pain while decreasing opioid use and lowering risk for addiction. The anti-depressive mode of action also can help treat burn patients who are dealing with PTSD and mood disorders.
Averitt said that preclinical studies with RTX show that treatment significantly reduced pain sensitivity from burns.
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Obama calls on Congress to help more homeowners
WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama says Congress must give more homeowners the chance to refinance their mortgages to save money.
Obama says more than 2 million people are saving about $3,000 a year after restructuring their loans under his administration but that more deserve the same chance.
In his weekly radio and Internet address, Obama also calls on the Senate to confirm "without delay" his choice of Democratic Rep. Mel Watt to lead the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which oversees government-controlled mortgage lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Obama says the North Carolina congressman helped enact rules to protect consumers from dishonest lenders.
In the Republican address, Alabama Rep. Martha Roby discusses legislation passed by the GOP-controlled House to give private-sector workers the right to trade overtime pay for additional time off.
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Online:
Obama's address: www.whitehouse.gov
Republican address: www.youtube.com/HouseConference
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Whole Foods mixes up chicken, vegan salads
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) ? Whole Foods Market Inc. said that labels on a chicken salad and those on a vegan version were reversed at some of its cold food bars in the Northeast.
The mislabeled salads ? a curried chicken salad and a vegan curried "chick'n" salad ? were sold in 15 stores in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey and New York, Whole Foods said. In some locations, the company said the salads were sold in the cold food bars where customers can scoop food into containers, which are then weighed at the register. In other locations, it said the salads were displayed in the prepared food sections behind glass. The salads were sold on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The Food and Drug Administration noted the vegan salad contains soy, and the curried chicken salad contains egg. It said people who have an allergy or severe sensitivity to soy or eggs run the risk of serious or life-threatening allergic reaction if they eat the salads.
The company, based in Austin, Texas, said no illnesses have been reported.
Libba Letton, a spokeswoman for Whole Foods, said the salads were mislabeled at a company-owned commissary that supplies food to the stores. She said the mixup was discovered by an employee in the prepared food section at one of its stores. Whole Foods is issuing a recall in line with guidelines set by the FDA and plans to post signs in stores Friday alerting customers about the mislabeled salads, she said.
Whole Foods has about 330 stores in the U.S. and is known for selling a wide array of organic products.
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Reclaiming an old tradition - Nashoba Publishing Online
Nashoba Publishing/Dina Samfield Home funeral guide and consultant Peg Lorenz is certified in end-of-life care from the University of Southern Maine, and serves on the Board of Directors of the National Home Funeral Alliance. Lorenz will be conducting two workshops on caring for deceased loved ones at home on Saturday, May 18, at First Parish Church of Groton, beginning at 10 a.m.
SHIRLEY -- Peg Lorenz is an interior house painter who moved to Shirley from Groton three years ago. She and her partner, Trish Garrigan, live in the former house of Earl Tupper's (of Tupperware fame) sister Ruth.
What is unique about Lorenz is neither her profession nor her historic home. Rather, it is her capacity for compassion and her ability to make one of the most stressful events in a family's life into a loving tribute to the one they love.
She is one of many in a growing movement to take back death, to relearn what it means to care for one's own dead.
Her journey to becoming a home funeral guide and consultant began 20 years ago when she became a hospice volunteer.
"I just got a certificate of appreciation for 20 years of service," she said recently in her cozy Hazen Road home. Nashoba Nursing Service & Hospice, located in Phoenix Park, bestowed the award.
"Twenty years ago, no one in my family had died and my parents were already in their 70's, and I thought somebody in my family ought to know how (their deaths are) going to feel -- what the experience could be like. And then I saw the ad in the paper that they needed volunteers and I went through training."
"Imagine that for 20 years you are volunteering and meeting all kinds of people doing respite care, which means I sit with the dying person while the primary care person takes a break," Lorenz said. "I love it. You sit, and just be with the person."
Lorenz said
that learning how to listen and "just be" with a person as he or she is dying is a big part of the hospice care experience.From hospice to home funerals
"After the death, I would sometimes be invited to the memorial service weeks later. I would see the family again, and there was a nice bond there," Lorenz recalled.
"I would say, 'So how was it at the end?,' because we are never there. It happens in the middle of the night.
"From a few families I heard that they loved hospice, but then at the end they felt abandoned," she said. "A nurse pronounces the death, and then they leave and nobody is there."
Once the funeral home pays a visit, "two strangers arrive, and they put their loved one in a plastic body bag and on a gurney, and take them out. These families said that they were traumatized by that.
"At that moment, (family members) are in an altered state, really in shock. It is like you are thrown into a totally different state. And then these people come and whisk the loved one away."
Lorenz said she decided that there must be another way. She did some research and "poked around" about after-death care.
She saw the beginnings of a small movement of people saying that you could keep loved ones who had died at home. At the same time, she happened to see a PBS documentary called "A Family Undertaking," a movie about home funerals.
The movie, which interviews funeral directors, home funeral guides and four families, is available on Netflix.
Eventually, Lorenz and a friend went to Connecticut to take training in home funerals from Elizabeth Knox, a Maryland mother who was interviewed in the movie. Knox started a home funeral and green burial resource center called Crossings after her daughter died at age seven.
At the time, Knox says on her website, www.crossings.net, the hospital told her that her daughter's body could only be released to a funeral home. That turned out not to be true.
Knox says that she cared for her deceased daughter at home for three days, bathing and watching her, and gradually coming to terms with her grief, sharing the experience with friends and family.
Peaceful passage
Lorenz decided that if she was going to get trained in being a home funeral guide, she might as well start her own business. Becoming a home funeral guide is a specialization that has been around on the east and west coasts for some time, she explained. Her business is called Peaceful Passage at Home.
"It is really a service to educate families about the in-home vigil after death, and anybody can do it anywhere in the country. There are no restrictions about that. You can keep the person at home, and in those restrictive states the restrictions are generally about transporting the body and doing the paperwork.
"In Massachusetts the family can do everything themselves if they want. It's not for everybody, but some families really, really want it. Others do not, and that's fine; it's just that you have that choice."
Some people choose to have home funerals for economic or environmental reasons as well as to pay their respects to their loved ones on their own terms.
The average American funeral costs about $6,000 for the services of a funeral home, not including the costs of cremation or burial.
A home funeral can be as inexpensive as the cost of pine for a coffin for a backyard burial, or a few hundred dollars for cremation or cemetery costs. Embalming is not required.
"There is no health risk associated with a home burial," said Lorenz. "There is no reason you have to have a body embalmed or call a funeral home unless you are in one of the restrictive states.
"You're in the privacy of your own home. There is a silence that is there; it is respectful, it's sacred, and within that context, the body is beautiful. I have not heard one family not say that the body is beautiful."
That the body is somehow not something to be viewed without the administration of a funeral director is among many misconceptions around the body of the deceased, said Lorenz.
"People have this idea of it being really awful, and I have to tell you that the body changes, but very gradually... What families report, and I have felt it too, is that there is sort of a spirit that lingers, and I think most religions do say that for a few days it is customary to feel some presence."
A home wake, said Lorenz, allows the time for those closest to the deceased to slow down, gather the family, and "have those wonderful conversations in the presence of the person."
Reclaiming a loving tradition
During and after the Civil War, the U.S. began to drift away from the home funeral tradition. Until that time, most people died at home; thus, most funerals were home funerals. Bodies remained unembalmed and were usually placed in pine caskets and buried in pesticide-free cemeteries.
But the war and the need to transport bodies from the South to the North led to widespread embalming, and with the rise of modern hospitals, death became much less a part of daily life.
As a home funeral guide, Lorenz said she feels "like a bridge of information from our great grandparents to now, because in that interim, we lost that knowledge of how to do this.
"The families I have helped nearly all will say that at the end of this experience they are less afraid of death. And you know, if our culture were less afraid of death, it would be an incredible change. We would not be so afraid to have end-of-life conversations, call hospice sooner or be more forthright in discussing our end-of-life decisions. We would be more like, 'I see how this goes, and it's OK.' That's what families report to me."
Lorenz plans to share more of her expertise on caring for deceased loved ones at home during two free workshops on Saturday, May 18, at First Parish Church of Groton, located at 1 Powderhouse Road.
The first workshop, from 10 a.m. to noon, is an introduction to home funerals. It will describe the personal benefits that come with beginning the grieving process in the privacy of one's home, and include the legal facts and logistical details of home funerals.
The second is a hands-on workshop, from 1-4 p.m., for those interested in the details of performing a home funeral. A basic knowledge of home funerals or attending the first workshop is recommended.
To register or obtain more information, contact Peg Lorenz at 978-425-6602 or peglor@comcast.net. Her website is http://www.peacefulpassageathome.com.
Source: http://www.nashobapublishing.com/shirley_news/ci_23214468/reclaiming-an-old-tradition
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Saturday, 11 May 2013
FTSE LIVE: Footsie extends winning run after Japan stocks soar overnight; BT the biggest riser
By This Is Money Reporters
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10.25: The Footsie climbs a little further, up 22 points now (0.34 per cent) to 6,615.
BT's better-than-expected results have boosted its shares 10 per cent now, up to 304p. Read our full report here.
British Airways parent company International Airlines Group edged lower after reporting a bigger first quarter loss, driven by the poor performance of its Iberia business. Shares were 4.05p lower at 276.45p.
Outside the top flight, Ocado shares jumped 14 per cent after Goldman Sachs upgraded the stock to buy and the internet grocer's management said they were encouraged by progress so far this year.
Eye on the ball: BT just announced a free sports deal for broadband customers; its shares have shot up today
The stock, which fell sharply yesterday on fears a distribution deal with Morrisons will fall through, rose by 31.1p to 239.65p to place the stock at the top of the FTSE 250 index.
Alastair McCaig, market analyst at IG, said: 'The FTSE has been dragged to new five-year highs by buoyant European markets, which continue to climb.
'In Asia, the Nikkei continues to demonstrate the fine form shown in April, and with US dollar finally breaking the psychological 100 yen level the Japanese index could be set for new highs.
'BT have followed up yesterday?s aggressive pricing policy by posting impressive full-year figures. Many UK armchair sports fans will be hoping that they can instigate a pricing war with Sky. With a host of well-known sports personalities endorsing them, BT will hope to improve their market share of broadband users. However, if BT don?t have the product to back up the hype customers could be hard to hang onto - as both Des Lynam & Setanta will testify.
'The UK high street's banking market could be thrown into fresh chaos after the Co-op's credit rating was slashed by Moody?s overnight. Any lingering hopes the UK government had that the Co-op would acquire its 632 Lloyds branches have now surely dissipated.'
Read more on this here.
08.15: The FTSE 100 has extended its winning run into a seventh straight session, led by telecoms group BT on robust results and with some traders forecasting more market gains to come.
The Footsie was up 14 points, or 0.2 per cent, at 6,607 in early trading, having risen 0.1 per cent yesterday to record its highest close since October 2007.
The UK benchmark has risen around 12 per cent this year as interest rate cuts and injections of liquidity by central banks around the world have lifted equity markets in spite of a stuttering global economy.
'I still think the fundamentals (aren't good enough) to warrant the current stock prices, (but) the central bank intervention has more than offset that,' Nick Xanders, head of European equity strategy at BTIG, said.
'At some point that will give and the fundamentals will matter again, but it isn't today.'
BT jumped 8.5 per cent, rebounding from a 2.3 per cent drop on Thursday, as it raised its outlook after cost cuts and strong consumer demand helped it to beat annual forecasts. Its shares are up 23.5p to 299.2p.
BofA Merrill Lynch, describing BT's results as 'very strong', upgraded its rating on the stock to 'buy'.?
08.00: Japanese equities soared to five-and-a-half year highs overnight, with the dollar sailing past the symbolic 100 yen level and beefing up the outlook for corporate Japan, but shares elsewhere in Asia retreated as global equities paused overnight from recent rallies. ?
Financial spreadbetters predicted London's FTSE 100, Paris's CAC-40 and Frankfurt's DAX? would open up as much as 0.2 per cent.
Yesterday the pan-European FTSEurofirst closed flat overnight to stay near five-year highs.
US stock futures were up 0.1 per cent, suggesting a slightly firmer Wall Street open after American stocks slipped from record highs yesterday.
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The dollar was buoyed after Thursday's weekly US data showed initial jobless claims fell to the lowest level in more than five years, following last week's much stronger-than-expected monthly non-farm payrolls report for April.? ?
'What you need to understand about what is going on in the United States is that we're growing, this recovery is real. There may be some bumps, but the fundamental push forward is there,' said Carl Larry, president of the Houston-based Oil Outlook and Opinions.
The yen's resumed downtrend bodes well for Japanese exporters, and expectations of robust earnings drove the Nikkei stock average up 3 per cent to its highest since January 2008.
The index is up 6.4 per cent, on track for its biggest weekly gain since December 2009 when it jumped 10.4 per cent.
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