Insurer Allianz sees profit rise 23 percent

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) ? German insurance and asset management company Allianz says net profit rose 23 percent in the second quarter as the company's life insurance business did well.

Net profit rose to ?1.32 billion ($1.63 billion) from ?1.07 billion in the same quarter a year ago. Revenue rose 2.5 percent to ?25.2 billion

Earnings also bounced back from losses on Greek government bonds of ?326 million recorded in the year earlier quarter. Greek bonds lost much of their value due to the country's financial crisis.

Earnings at the life and health insurance business more than doubled, jumping to ?506 million from ?214 million a year ago. The company said Friday premium income was doing well even in countries that have been hit by Europe's economic and financial crisis such as Spain and Italy.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/insurer-allianz-sees-profit-rise-23-percent-072025428--finance.html

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Peacock Keller to Support Washington, Greene, Fayette County ...

Washington County, Pa. Lawyers to Sponsor Fundraiser for Southwestern Pennsylvania Libraries

WASHINGTON, Pa. (August 1, 2012) - Peacock Keller, a full-service law firm in Washington, Pa., will sponsor its 5th Annual ?Off the Shelf?A Celebration of Books? charity event on Sept. 19, 2012, to support libraries in Pennsylvania?s Washington, Greene and Fayette counties. The fundraiser will feature a presentation by Anthony DeCurtis, Rolling Stone Magazine music critic and contributing editor, and will take place from 6 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. at the Hilton Garden Inn Pittsburgh/Southpointe in Canonsburg, Pa.

This year?s ?Off the Shelf? theme is music, which with the written word, fills the shelves of public libraries and resonates throughout history, defining people and cultures. Each table at the fundraiser will choose a book about music and decorate their table accordingly ? as part of a larger contest. Table decorating will be held from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. on the day of the event, with an impartial panel of judges evaluating each table thereafter. Cocktail hour will begin at 6 p.m., providing attendees an opportunity to inspect Chinese auction items. Participants will also be able to support their favorite tables by donating to the ?People?s Choice Award.? In addition to the Chinese auction, a live auction will be held during the event. Dinner will follow at 7 p.m., with DeCurtis taking the podium at 8 p.m.

?Each year the attorneys and staff of Peacock Keller look forward to supporting local libraries through our Off the Shelf celebration,? said Doug Nolin, Peacock Keller Managing Partner. ?Off the Shelf is an evening of good food and fun that enables us to support literacy and say thank you to the communities in which our attorneys and staff live and work.?

All ?Off the Shelf? proceeds will benefit the libraries of Washington, Greene and Fayette counties, most specifically helping to fund the creation and maintenance of a Regional ?One-Card? Network. The ?One-Card? Network will ensure that every resident may go to any library in the three-county region and use one library card, thus increasing convenience and accessibility for library customers while simultaneously facilitating cost savings and efficiencies for the library system.

Sponsorship opportunities are available and live and Chinese auction items are being collected. Individual tickets can be purchased for $75 or tables of eight can be purchased for $600. Corporate tables can also be purchased for $1,000. To support literacy in Washington, Greene and Fayette counties or to learn more about the Off the Shelf event, contact a local library, call 724-222-4520 or visit offtheshelf.info.

About Peacock Keller ? Peacock Keller, located in Washington County, is among the largest and longest established full-service law firms in Southwestern Pennsylvania. The firm provides corporate and individual clients with experienced and knowledgeable legal services at affordable rates, helping to solve legal problems while avoiding future legal issues. Peacock Keller attorneys provide mediation services and sound legal counsel in the areas of business, corporate and nonprofit law; civil, insurance and medical malpractice litigation; coal, oil, gas, shale gas, mineral and energy law; construction law; elder law; employment law; estate administration and planning; guardianship; hospital law; personal injury; real estate law; and school law. To learn about the firm, visit www.peacockkeller.com.

Source: http://www.jlns.com/legal-wire/2012/08/01/peacock-keller-support-washington-greene-fayette-county-libraries

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May I please reserve a girl? Oh, and good job creating an interesting RP!

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I submitted a girl. I hope you love Brie!

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Ill be reserving a male :) He should be up by the end of the day.

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PFT: Fights break out at Patriots' practice

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If somebody tells Derrick Coleman he doesn?t have much of a shot in Vikings camp, he won?t hear it.

Not because he?s unwilling. Because he can?t.

The undrafted rookie running back from UCLA has the added challenge of being hard of hearing, requiring effort most players don?t have to expend, just to know what play to run.

?I never let it hold me back,? Coleman told Chip Scoggins of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. ?Not once.?

Coleman was diagnosed with the condition, caused by a missing gene, when he was 3 years old. He wears hearing aids, but any situation with a lot of ambient noise (like a football game), renders them not much help and requires him to read lips. Sometimes in a huddle, that means grabbing the quarterback after a play call to double-check. He told Scoggins he only had three communication problems on the field, and two of them were as a high school freshman.

?I always know what the play is going to be,? he said. ?I don?t move until the ball moves so I shouldn?t have a false-start incident.?

His parents never let him use the condition as a crutch, and to this day he?s become a master at adapting. He wears a pair of skull caps under his helmet; one to keep his hearing aids dry and one to keep them in his ears.

He?s also been willing to talk to hearing-impaired students, trying to erase any stigma bullies might latch onto by pointing out that kids with less-than-perfect sight wear glasses all the time.

?It really serves as an inspiration to those kids because what happens is those kids tend to go into their own shell,? said Coleman?s father, Derrick Sr. ?They think, ?Well, I?m different. I?m not like the other kids.? Derrick helps dispel that.?

Whether he makes the Vikings roster or not, that makes Coleman?s story worth following, and admiring.

Source: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/08/02/fights-break-out-at-patriots-practice/related/

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Obama, Romney push economic themes in key states

WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama is launching a tough new tax-equality pitch in a television advertisement asserting that Republican rival Mitt Romney's economic proposals would mean cuts for the wealthiest Americans and higher bills for everyone else.

The latest offensive comes as Obama and Romney take their respective election campaigns to three of the most contested states ? Florida, Colorado and Virginia ? and as a bitterly divided Congress pushes toward a summer recess with votes that center on front-burner issues like taxes and spending but which are mostly symbolic place-holders for November.

The Obama campaign ad, which will be aired in eight states including the two the president was visiting Thursday, cites a report by the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center that argues Romney has paid a lower proportion of his income in taxes than many people of lesser means. "He pays less, you pay more," the ad says.

Obama was traveling to Florida and Virginia on Thursday and Romney was headed to Colorado, where he was to appear with 10 Republican governors, some mentioned as potential running mates, at an event near Aspen.

In the capital, the Republican-controlled House on Wednesday cast partisan votes on tax measures that also underscored Washington's political stalemate. Led by the GOP, the House approved a universal extension of Bush-era tax cuts, just a week after the Democratic-controlled Senate voted in favor of Obama's plan for continuing current tax rates only for households earning less than $250,000 or for individuals under $200,000.

With the tax issue dominating the current debate, Obama was visiting two states that represent the bookends of the national economy. Florida is among the states hardest hit by the housing bust and has an unemployment rate of 8.6 percent, higher than the national average and tied for 39th among the 50 states. Virginia, on the other hand, has the 10th lowest unemployment at 5.6 percent.

Colorado, where Romney was to give a campaign address at a fairgrounds in Golden before joining Republican governors at high school in Basalt, has been struggling with a jobless rate equal to the national average of 8.2 percent. For Romney, the trip west is his first political campaign appearance since returning from an overseas trip heavy on foreign policy.

As if to emphasize the challenge facing the presidential contenders, the Federal Reserve on Wednesday said the U.S. economy was losing strength. The Fed took no new action to boost the economy, but it appeared to signal an inclination to take steps to stimulate job creation if the economic deceleration continued.

The next major marker of economic health comes Friday, when the government announces July hiring and unemployment trends.

Economists forecast that U.S. employers added 100,000 jobs in July. That would be slightly better than the 75,000-a-month average from April through June but still below the healthy 226,000 average in the first three months of the year.

Romney's appearance with governors would not only create a show of force, but it also would underscore his own role as a former governor of Massachusetts. And it would tease speculation about his pick for a running mate, as those with him will include governors such as New Jersey's Chris Christie, Louisiana's Bobby Jindal, South Carolina's Nikki Haley and Virginia's Bob McDonnnell, all of whom have been mentioned as possible Romney picks. Absent will be two of the most often mentioned possibilities, Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio and former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty.

Obama was headed to Orlando to make up for an appearance he postponed last month after the shooting tragedy in Aurora, Colo. Orlando is in the middle of a Florida swath that separates the Republican-leaning north of the state and the Democratic-leaning south.

He then will take his message of higher taxes for rich Americans to Leesburg, Va., in the nation's wealthiest county, near Washington, D.C. Obama carried the county in 2008, the first time a Democratic presidential candidate won there in four decades.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/obama-romney-push-economic-themes-key-states-064423148.html

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N.C. Gov. Bev Perdue, Industry Leaders Call For Action To Stop Sequestration Budget Cuts

More Than 29,000 North Carolina Jobs At Risk Under Sequestration Cuts To Defense Department, Domestic Programs

CARY, N.C., Aug. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --?N.C. Governor Bev Perdue met today with North Carolina business leaders to discuss the approaching danger of $1 trillion in federal sequestration budget cuts set to begin on January 2, 2013.? The Governor met with aerospace and defense industry leaders to discuss the upcoming sequestration crisis at a roundtable briefing at LORD Corporation headquarters in Cary.

Sequestration includes $500 billion in cuts to military and defense priorities, plus an additional $500 billion in cuts to NASA, FAA and other domestic priorities. Economists predict these cuts will eliminate 2.14 million U.S. jobs in 2013, including 29,329 in North Carolina and shrink America's 2013 GDP by $215 billion.

"Military installations and defense-related businesses are thriving in North Carolina -- together they have an impact of more than $23 billion on the state's economy," Gov. Perdue said. "We need to protect this vital area of the state's economy, so Congressional leaders should work together to avoid the impact of sequestration by crafting a comprehensive, balanced debt reduction package that preserves jobs, protects schools, and addresses our long-term security and budget needs."

LORD Corporation chairman, president and CEO Rick McNeel explained the danger that sequestration poses to employers in North Carolina. "Businesses need to know what they are dealing with before they can make investments and hire new workers," he explained. "Sequestration is a giant question mark hanging over North Carolina businesses. It is hurting the economy and North Carolinians every day it remains unanswered."

Aerospace Industries Association President and CEO Marion C. Blakey pressed Congress to move quickly.? "Everyone in Congress says they want to grow jobs. Sequestration is the biggest threat to jobs and the economy in this country right now and repealing sequestration and developing an alternative is the single most important thing Congress can do for jobs this year."?

"The cloud of uncertainty from the threat of sequestration has had a profound impact on the way our industry deploys its capital and invests in facilities, jobs and new product development," said John Suttle, senior vice president of Communications for BAE Systems. "If we stand by and let sequestration occur, it will be harder for defense and aerospace companies to invest in new jobs like the ones created by BAE Systems here in North Carolina at the Charlotte-based resource center."

Lance DeSpain, executive director of the N.C. Military Foundation observed that "defense makes up less than 20 percent of the federal budget, but it bears half the brunt of sequestration cuts. Our Military's leaders are committed to responsible cuts commensurate with drawing down from a long campaign in Iraq and Afghanistan, but this sequestration process forces cuts on our military that are too large and not tied to any real strategy, which ultimately puts our National Defense in an intolerably compromised position."

Ray Jones, president of the North Carolina Aerospace Alliance also addressed the event. "It is not just military aviation that is at risk," he warned. "Cuts to the FAA will put our civilian aerospace economy at risk, including the Next Generation air traffic upgrade that will finally take our airports into the digital age and save billions along the way. Sequestration means a 30 to 50 percent whack to NextGen, costing billions more in the long run than we could ever save up front."

About LORD Corporation:
With global reach and extensive technical capabilities,?LORD has the ability to work on complex formulations, balancing contradictory property and process requirements to deliver the solutions that meet customer and market demands. LORD builds on its more than 85 year history with a track record of successful long-term partnerships with technology leaders in industries ranging from aerospace to automotive, electronics to industrial heavy equipment.??

Founded in 1924, LORD Corporation is a privately-held company that designs, manufactures and markets mechanical devices and electromechanical systems to control vibration, motion and noise; formulates, produces and sells general purpose and specialty adhesives, coatings and electronic materials; and develops products and systems utilizing magnetically responsive technologies. With global headquarters in Cary, N.C., and sales in excess of $789MM, LORD has manufacturing facilities in eight countries and more than 90 sales and support centers. LORD Corporation employs more than 2,800 worldwide. Visit www.lord.com for more information.

About AIA
Founded in 1919 shortly after the birth of flight, the Aerospace Industries Association is the most authoritative and influential trade association representing the nation's leading manufacturers and suppliers of civil, military and business aircraft, helicopters, unmanned aircraft systems, space systems, aircraft engines, missiles, homeland and cybersecurity systems, materiel and related components, equipment services and information technology.

More information about AIA's Second to None campaign is available at www.SecondToNone.org.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/n-c-gov-bev-perdue-industry-leaders-call-202900945.html

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