Strategic Human Resources Management to Strengthen the Business

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The human resources department is an essential part of every organisation and acts as its backbone. No matter how much capital one invests in his business, without the support of talented workforce, the business would fail. This is why businesses must pay extra attention to human resource planning and management.

The process of strategic human resources management involves identifying the HR needs of the business, acquiring talented individuals to perform different roles in the organisation and maintaining the workforce. Small, medium and large businesses-all of them need an efficient HR management in order to ensure longevity and growth.

For effective strategic human resource management, the first step is to plan the HR needs. Human resource planning involves the analysis of human resource requirements of the organisation in order to ensure that the right number of talented individuals are hired, at the right salary and for the right position. Other issues related to HR management including training and development, employee benefits, payroll, personnel cost planning, performance appraisal and labour relations are also considered in the stage of human resource planning.

Steps in Human Resource Planning:

While drafting the strategic human resource management plan, different companies follow different approaches. Discussed below are some of the common steps involved in HR planning:

Step 1: Developing the HR management system.

Step 2: Analysing the internal and external environments of the organisation.

Step 3: Forecasting human resource demand.

Step 4: Generating the required human resources.

Step 5: Developing action plans including employee recruitment, appraisal plan, training and development and workforce supply.

Role of Strategic Human Resources Management in Organisational Success

The department of human resources management is no longer considered as a separate entity in the business. The HRM department must adopt a holistic perspective by integrating with every business unit existing within the organisation to achieve the overall strategic goals for the organisation. If the HRM practice is not enmeshed with the overall organisational goals, the company stands to lose effective utilisation of people and lower ROI.

Some of the key functions of the HR manager include:

Recruitment, selection and resourcing

Complying with federal, state and local labour laws and regulations.

Maintaining employee records

Facilitating change management

Conducting performance and behaviour management

Maintaining industrial and employee relations

Learning management

Employee motivation

Conflict management

The human resource manager has to maintain cordial relations with the employees and always ensure that they remain motivated and productive. The possibility of low or/and poor quality of productivity in case of unattended employees. Lack of attention to employee needs can escalate the frustration level among the workforce. There can be many reasons for employees to be dissatisfied with their job profile, besides overwork and low salaries. It is not just about money, when it comes to employee satisfaction and productivity. Lack of training, improper management, biased decisions, outdated work methods and lack of basic amenities can also lead to high level of frustration among employees. Here, the role of the HR manager is very crucial. With the help of staff surveys, the HR manager can get an insight into the psychological perception of the employees about their work, environment, colleagues, superiors and the company as a whole. With the rising staff attrition costs being a major concern, ignoring the conditions of the workforce can cause irreparable damages.

Staff surveys are helpful tools for HR managers to listen to the workforce and collect regular feedback. If conducted in a proper manner, the staff surveys can bring several positive results in employee performance and productivity including increasing staff retention rates, lowered absenteeism, improved customer relations and increased profitability.

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Removal of fibroids that distort the womb cavity may prevent recurrent miscarriages, study suggests

ScienceDaily (Sep. 27, 2011) ? Researchers have found the first, firm evidence that fibroids are associated with recurrent miscarriages. They have also discovered that if they removed the fibroids that distorted the inside of the womb, the risk of miscarriage in the second trimester of pregnancy was reduced dramatically -- to zero.

The study, which is published online in Europe's leading reproductive medicine journal Human Reproduction, is the culmination of 20 years of investigation into recurrent miscarriage by Professor Tin-Chiu Li and his team at the recurrent miscarriage clinic at the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Teaching Hospitals (Sheffield, UK). In addition, for the first time it has given a reliable estimate of the prevalence of fibroids in women who have recurrent miscarriages.

Fibroids in or around the womb (uterus) are benign tumours composed of muscle and fibrous tissue. Although they have been associated with spontaneous miscarriage, until now there has been no evidence of their role in recurrent miscarriages (RM). The prevalence of fibroids has been estimated to be between 3-10% in women of reproductive age, but the prevalence is unknown in women who experience RM, which is defined as three or more consecutive miscarriages.

The researchers analysed data from 966 women who attended the Sheffield RM clinic. The women were scanned for uterine anomalies, including fibroids, via transvaginal ultrasound and radiology, and 79 were found to have fibroids. "This enabled us to calculate that the prevalence of fibroids was 8.2% among women with recurrent miscarriages; this has never been accurately reported before," said one of the researchers, Dr Sotirios Saravelos, who is a clinical research Fellow at the University of Sheffield.

Fibroids were diagnosed and grouped into three classifications:

• Submucosal -- these grow in the muscle beneath the inner lining of the womb wall and grow into the middle of the womb, distorting the cavity
• Intramural -- these develop in the muscle wall of the womb and are the most common type of fibroid. They do not distort the cavity and have less than 50% protrusion into the serosal surface -- the outer membrane lining the womb
• Subserosal -- these grow outside the wall of the womb into the pelvis, do not distort the womb cavity, and have a greater than 50% protrusion out of the serosal surface.

Prof Li used minimally invasive surgery (hysteroscopy) to remove cavity-distorting (submucosal) fibroids from 25 women; 54 women with fibroids that did not distort the cavity had no surgery and they were matched with a control group of 285 women whose recurrent miscarriages were still unexplained after all investigations found nothing abnormal; these women also had no intervention.

In the 25 women who had undergone surgery, miscarriage rates in subsequent pregnancies during the second trimester fell from 21.7% to 0%. This translated to an increase in the live birth rate from 23.3% to 52%.

Dr Saravelos said: "This is the first time that it has been shown that removing fibroids that distort the uterine cavity may increase the chances of a subsequent live birth in women with recurrent miscarriages."

The 54 women with fibroids not distorting the uterine cavity and who had had no surgery also did better after referral to the RM clinic. Pre-referral, the miscarriage rate during the second trimester was 17.6% and this fell to 0% after referral. Live birth rates went up from 20.6% to 70.4% in subsequent pregnancies. This was similar to results from the 285 women with unexplained RM; the second trimester miscarriage rate was 8% pre-referral to the clinic, falling to 1.8% post-referral, while live birth rates increased from 20.6% to 71.9% after referral.

Dr Saravelos said: "These results are interesting because they suggest that the finding of fibroids in women with recurrent miscarriage does not necessarily imply that the fibroids are the only cause of the miscarriage. In addition, they suggest that surgical intervention is not the only means whereby patients with recurrent miscarriage benefit from attending a specialised, dedicated clinic. However, for women with fibroids that distort the uterine cavity, our work shows that removing the fibroids can eliminate miscarriage during the second trimester and double the live birth rate in subsequent pregnancies.

"It has been recognised since the 1980s that women with unexplained recurrent miscarriage have very good pregnancy outcomes following referral to a dedicated clinic without the need for any intervention, and with psychological supportive care, i.e. tender loving care, alone. This usually takes the form of regular visits to a dedicated recurrent miscarriage clinic, regular antenatal scans to check the condition of the baby, reassurance to the mother from the specialist that everything is progressing well and specialist antenatal counselling throughout the pregnancy.

"Interestingly, although women may increase their live birth rate by up to 50% after psychological supportive care, the exact underlying mechanisms involved in this process are not entirely understood. In the present study, the fact that women with fibroids not distorting the uterine cavity do so well, suggests that they also do not have an underlying cause for recurrent miscarriage. As a result, they can also be considered as having 'unexplained recurrent miscarriage', and should be counselled that they have very good chances of a successful pregnancy without the need for any intervention or surgery and with the psychological supportive care offered by a dedicated recurrent miscarriage clinic."

The main limitation of the study is that there was no control group for the women who had their fibroids removed and so it is not possible to tell whether they would have done better without surgery, after referral to the RM clinic. The researchers say that their work highlights the need to perform a randomised controlled trial to investigate this.

"The definitive study requires the recruitment of a rather large number of patients to be randomised between intervention and no intervention. This would require the input of several clinics in a multi-centre randomised controlled trial and its success would depend on the support of all clinics along with that of Sheffield," said Dr Saravelos.

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1. Sotirios H. Saravelos, Junhao Yan, Hassan Rehmani, Tin-Chiu Li. The prevalence and impact of fibroids and their treatment on the outcome of pregnancy in women with recurrent miscarriage. Human Reproduction, 2011; DOI: 10.1093/humrep/der293

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Pakistan frees bin Laden bodyguard

Pakistan recently freed a senior al-Qaida commander who was also an Osama bin Laden bodyguard, raising concerns about the country's commitment to tackling terrorism, media reports say.

Dr. Amin al Haq was freed several weeks ago because Pakistani officials could not prove his ties to al-Qaida and because he is not in good health, according to an Afghan Islamic Press report cited by other news organizations.

Haq reportedly was detained in Lahore by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency in December 2008, seven years after escaping with bin Laden, the Daily Telegraph of London reported. Haq served as the security coordinator of Osama bin Laden's Black Guard.

ISI passed Haq, 51, to police in Peshawar in northwest Pakistan before his release, a security source told the Telegraph.

"Amin al-Haq had been arrested mistakenly, therefore, the police failed to prove any charge of his association with Osama bin Laden and the court set him free," he told The Daily Telegraph.

Haq, a doctor, was a member of the Hizb-i Islami Khalis (HIK), a key mujahadeen group that helped defeat the Soviets during the 1980s, according to Mother Jones magazine. HIK also helped bring bin Laden to Afghanistan after he was ejected from Sudan in 1996. And Haq himself reportedly accompanied bin Laden in his escape from Tora Bora in 2001, the magazine said.

Terrorism support alleged
Haq's release follows accusations that Pakistan supports terrorism.

Adm. Mike Mullen, outgoing chairman of the U.S. military's Joint Chiefs of Staff, last week described the Haqqani network, the most violent faction among Taliban militants in Afghanistan, as a "veritable arm" of Pakistan's ISI spy agency and accused Islamabad of providing support for the group's September 13 attack on the U.S. embassy in Kabul.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Wednesday that Washington was close to making a decision on whether to designate the Haqqani network as a foreign terrorist group.

"We are in the final, formal review that has to be undertaken to make a government-wide decision to designate the network as a foreign terrorist organization," Clinton told reporters in an appearance with Egypt's visiting foreign minister.

Also Wednesday, the Obama administration designated two members of the Pakistan-based group Lashkar-e-Taiba as terrorists. The action bans Americans from doing business with the men and blocks any assets they have in the United States.

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The Treasury Department identified the men as Zafar Iqbal, a senior leader and co-founder of the al-Qaida-linked organization, and Hafiz Abdul Salam Bhuttavi, who it said has served as the LET's emir on two occasions and was in charge of its day-to-day operations at the time of the Mumbai attack in November 2008.

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Mullen's allegations were "something which is nothing new to us. In fact when we were the first to flag this issue earlier, the world didn't believe us."

"Turns out they are disloyal, deceptive and a danger to the United States," Republican Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas, last week. "We pay them to hate us. Now we pay them to bomb us. Let's not pay them at all."

Pakistan denies the charges.

"We are true friends and we count on each other," Pakistani Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani said in an interview Tuesday.

However, he acknowledged tense relations.

"The negative messaging, naturally that is disturbing my people," Gilani said from his office in Islamabad. "If there is messaging that is not appropriate to our friendship, then naturally it is extremely difficult to convince my public. Therefore they should be sending positive messages."

Rahimullah Yusufzai, a Peshawar-based analyst who has interviewed senior al-Qaida figures including bin Laden, told the Telegraph that Haq's release was a puzzle.

"They could only have released him with the say so of America or if maybe there really was no evidence or he was not that important," he said.

Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Many cities imposing broad cuts as revenue shrinks (AP)

WASHINGTON ? More than half of U.S. cities have cut staff, canceled construction projects or raised fees this year, according to a report from the National League of Cities that catalogs the vast damage from shrunken property- and income-tax revenue.

Cities are struggling from the same problems that have left the national economy sputtering: high unemployment, a depressed housing market and weak consumer spending. Those factors have reduced the taxes that cities collect for a fifth straight year. Many have had to make up the gap by laying off employees, freezing pay, cutting services, raising fees or suspending building projects.

Two-thirds of city finance officers said they had delayed or canceled public-works projects this year. Two in five reported raising fees for city services. One in five had cut spending on public safety. Nearly one in three had laid off staffers.

"We hoped the worst would be over at this point, but given where the economic considerations are, that seems to be very unclear here in the fall of 2011," said Christopher Hoene, director of the league's research arm and one of the report's authors.

Cities typically suffer the full force of a recession later than states and the nation as a whole do. That's because many cities rely heavily on property tax revenue, which can take several years to fully reflect falling home prices.

By comparison, states rely mostly on income and sales taxes. Income-tax revenue usually falls steeply within months after layoffs. State sales tax revenue also drops as people spend less.

As states' tax collections fell during the recession, they responded by cutting aid to cities, school districts and localities. Those cuts are expected to peak next year, according to research by the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities cited by the league's report.

Public education is especially hurt because many school districts are funded about half by states and half by property taxes, said Michael Leachman, the center's director of state fiscal policy.

"The bursting of the housing bubble has now caught up with property tax revenues, so that's making it harder for local governments to offset the declines in state aid that they've been seeing," Leachman said.

In Cleveland, the school board was to vote Tuesday night on whether to lay off teachers for the second time this year. The school district says it would have to find more than $10 million in cuts to help balance its budget and save the jobs of more than 300 teachers.

This past summer, the city laid off 319 employees, including 81 police officers.

"Cleveland was chugging along," said Andrea Taylor, press secretary for Mayor Frank Jackson. "It wasn't as if we had a big surplus, but we were managing our share of the budget crisis well. We weren't set to have any layoffs at all."

But she said Ohio's recently enacted budget slashed state aid to the city by 25 percent in fiscal year 2011 and 50 percent in 2012. The budget was adopted in late June and enacted in July ? a timeline so quick that Cleveland couldn't react without laying off workers, Taylor said.

The combination of state cuts and falling tax revenue amounts to a "double-whammy" for city residents that's likely to persist for years, said Scott Pattison, executive director of the National Association of State Budget Officers.

"States really are not in a position to go back and restore those cuts," Pattison said. "Money is so tight, they don't have it to start giving it back."

Over time, the cuts tend to dampen growth by making companies reluctant to spend and hire, said Mark Vitner, senior economist at Wells Fargo Securities.

"If it becomes tougher for business to get done because of government cutbacks, or if businesses have a harder time finding skilled workers as the education system crumbles, it can create a nasty feedback loop that can go on for years," Vitner said.

In South Carolina, cities and counties are receiving 35 percent less from the state than in the 2008-2009 budget year. To close the gap, Clinton, S.C., had to cut 10 workers from its roughly hundred-person payroll this year. Three of the 10 worked in public safety.

Interim city manager Frank Stovall said Clinton can still provide basic services. But he said some services like recreation and community policing had been cut and utility rates increased.

"We have a plan to build bike paths and green spaces and parks," Stovall said. "It's been sitting on our shelf now since 2003 with no hope of implementing it."

In the Columbia, S.C. suburb of Cayce, garbage collection has been reduced from twice to once weekly. And Greer, S.C., near Greenville, has eliminated mosquito spraying and reduced leaf collection pick-ups.

The hardest-hit cities have been those that depend most on income from property taxes, the report said. Many are in the Northeast, Hoene said. By contrast, Midwestern cities tend to have steeper income taxes. And cities in the West, South and Southeast typically rely more on sales-tax revenue.

All three categories of tax revenue are expected to decline in 2011, Hoene said.

The report is based on a survey taken this spring and summer, before worsening economic data and fears about Europe's debt woes hurt consumer confidence and caused wild swings in the stock market.

"There may be a reconsideration of that as this year continues to unfold," said another co-author, Michael Pagano, dean of the College of Urban Planning at the University of Illinois and Chicago. "We're looking at at least another two or three years of very troubling fiscal signals for cities and municipalities."

The report is based on an annual survey of finance officers from cities and municipalities with more than 10,000 residents.

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Associated Press writers Seanna Adcox in Columbia, S.C., and Kantele Franko and Andy Brownfield in Columbus, Ohio, contributed to this report.

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Timberlake to be honored for environmental efforts (AP)

NEW YORK ? Justin Timberlake has been lauded for his work in music, TV and film. Now he's about to get an accolade for trying to better the environment.

The Environmental Media Association says Timberlake will receive its Futures Award, which represents future environmental leaders in entertainment.

The group cited Timberlake's attempts to reduce his carbon footprint during his tours, his advocacy for environmental issues and his eco-friendly golf course outside of Memphis, Tenn.

EMA President Debbie Levin called Timberlake "a great example of how you can lend your voice for positive change."

Others who have received the award include Edward Norton, Rosario Dawson and Maroon 5.

The Environmental Media Awards will be held Oct. 15 in Burbank, Calif.

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Availing Social Media Marketing Firm | World And World

A business venture always banks upon the brand visibility. Today, with the massive popularity in the domain of internet, business houses have been keen in promoting their services and products in the online periphery. Herein, the online marketing has evolved to benefit the business houses in the best way. With each passing day, web marketing has transformed itself for the good and eventually widened the scope to farthest extent. The concept of social media marketing soon evolved as internet became a prospective platform of sharing and initiating informal dialogues. Conjointly evolved social media marketing companies that offer comprehensive online marketing services. These companies incorporate different online marketing ideas and strategies and the social media marketing packages differ from one another.

With the deterioration of the popularity of print and broadcast media as an advertising media, social media marketing has become the most sought after alternative. A professional social media marketing firm renders all encompassing SMM service, implemented to meet your business requirements to the best. The SMM services not only seek to enhance your web visibility but also aim to generate traffic to your site and turn a visitor into potential lead.

Social media marketing (SMM) is evolving at such a rapid rate because of the popularity of the social media sites. A social media marketing firm is dedicated in offering the service that will evoke interest among the online audience and lead them to your website. Companies create fan pages and business pages on social networking websites, feed in information to a targeted set of audience and in the process boost up their online presence. Marketing through these online platforms help a business to create a buzz in the online domain, in the process make them popular amongst the online users.

A social media marketing firm also utilizes e-mail marketing in the best way to optimize websites. Then, there are other related services that help the business houses enhance their online presence. Social media optimization (SMO) service is one of the key aspects of SMM. SMO services incorporate a plethora of activities that seek to improve the brand visibility of the business houses. Article submission, classified advertisement, video promotion, PPT campaigning are some of the most common aspects of Social media optimization service.

A social media marketing firm also undertakes Pay-per-click (PPC) campaigns in order to generate more traffic to your business. Social Media experts also promote discount coupons and employ other innovative measures to retain your company?s client base. It is undeniable that right kind of SMM services requires expert guidance and while you look to hire social media marketing firm, you need to make sure that they are providing you an all-inclusive service. Though social media marketing packages will definitely differ from one firm to another, the services aim to serve the same common purpose, that is, to enhance the web visibility of the business and generate web traffic.

Browse the internet to find a SMM company and ask for some references of the clients they have served. After validating the reputation, shortlist some of the SMM firms and ask for quotes. SMM does not demand extravagant expenses, so it is recommended to opt for the company which offers the most cost-effective social media marketing packages.

Social Media marketing is one of the most effective ways of promoting your online business and enhancing the web visibility, at large.

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Cops: Couple's copper theft for wedding netted $18

ELLWOOD CITY, Pa. (AP) ? Police say a western Pennsylvania couple desperate for money to pay for their wedding netted just $18 for the stolen copper wire they cut from more than a dozen utility poles.

North Sewickley police say 23-year-old Joseph Russell and 24-year-old April Cater cut down the wires on August 9, four days before their wedding.

Russell says he was desperate for money because he'd just lost his job and lost a $1,000 deposit after his reception hall abruptly closed down.

Sgt. Jeff Bezce says the couple clearly expected to get more money than they got from the scrap where they sold the copper.

Russell tells WPXI-TV he will pay for the damages. Utility officials say it will cost about $400 to repair the 18 poles that were damaged.

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Surfing Accessories | Pass A Quote

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Amnesty: Most casualties in Thai south civilian (AP)

BANGKOK ? Amnesty International is calling on Muslim guerrillas in Thailand's southern border provinces to stop targeting civilians.

The London-based rights group says that noncombatants have accounted for two-thirds of the nearly 5,000 people killed since insurgents took up arms in 2004.

Bomb blasts or shootings are reported every few days in the far south, and the London-based rights group says many of the attacks constitute war crimes that should be prosecuted under international law.

Most of the violence has taken place in three southern provinces dominated by ethnic Malay Muslims who are a minority in the mostly Buddhist nation.

Amnesty said in report Tuesday that at least 4,766 people have died and 7,808 have been wounded in the conflict.

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Business Cards ? The Importance of Good Design and Business ...

Business cards remain an important part of our business lives, despite the digital revolution. Sure we can exchange details on our Blackberrys or iPhones, but a card represents more than just our contact details. Business cards are an essential piece of our business brand, using color, graphic design and perhaps a well thought out tagline to make you and your business memorable to your new contact.

A lot is expected of this small piece of card. Your business card needs to:

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2. Represent your business brand
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All this on one not very large piece of card stock, it?s a lot to ask, but there are more and more creative solutions to choose from now than ever before.

You can design and print your cards yourself, or download design software from the internet, but in most professions, corporate or creative, where branding is key, it makes sense to go for professional graphic design and printing to get that creative and polished edge..

When your business card is all a new contact takes away with him or her, the impression it gives has to be as smooth and professional as your business image. After a networking event or conference you may come home with a pocket full of cards. The ones that stand out, look individual, jog your memory of the person they represent, those are the cards you?ll keep. Anything scruffy, dull and unmemorable is likely to go in the recycling bin.

So when you need new business cards, go to a professional for the design and printing. If your business brand is well-developed, they will only have to re-interpret your existing branding to suit the card format. If you haven?t yet developed your business branding, this is your chance to get some design input and work out the graphic style and colors that best represent your business.

Whatever you do, it is important that the design and branding you use on your card ties in with your whole business look, including website, e-mail footer, stationery, flyers and so on. A card isn?t a stand-alone piece of design. It should be a little piece of yourself and your business that goes out into the world as your ambassador and brings people back to sample the rest of your business offering. So good design only starts with your business cards ? it should also extend to all your marketing materials, including your website ? that?s the beauty of business branding.

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Five found dead in rural Indiana, police say

LAUREL, Ind.?? Five people were found dead on Sunday afternoon in two rural southeast Indiana homes after police were called to check on a small child wandering near the road.

Some of the five had been shot, and autopsies to confirm the cause of death are planned for Monday, state police said.

Police said it was not clear if any suspects remained on the loose or were among the dead, and warned residents of the sparsely populated, wooded area near the town of Laurel to be careful.

"We have five dead people and we're trying to find out how they died," said Sgt. Jerry Goodin, spokesman for the Indiana State Police. "Some of the victims had gunshot wounds, or what appear to be gunshot wounds."

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The Marion County coroner's office in Indianapolis was scheduled to perform autopsies Monday.

Police did not immediately release the identities of the victims, pending notification of family members. Goodin said Sunday he did not know "if the shooter or shooters could be among the deceased."

Lone child found wandering
A multi-agency investigation into the killings began after the Franklin County Sheriff's Department responded to a call Sunday afternoon about a child wandering along a road near Laurel, about 50 miles southeast of Indianapolis, according to a state police statement.

A deputy spoke with the child and neighbors, then called for backup to search the two homes. Police found a dead male inside a recreational vehicle and the bodies of two males and two females at the other home across the street. The statement didn't say if the dead were adults.

Goodin told The Associated Press that it was too early in the investigation to rule out the possibility that one or more suspects were on the loose and cautioned neighbors until that could be clarified.

"They should be vigilant," Goodin said. "They need to make sure they keep the doors locked. If they see any suspicious people, absolutely they should dial 911.

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President Barack Obama stressed the importance of quality education in a speech Friday when he announced that any states willing to commit to higher standards of education can get a waiver from the No Child Left Behind law.

Obama said the measure, introduced by President George W. Bush in 2002, had ?admirable? goals but that, in practice, ?teachers are being forced to teach to a test,? and that important subjects like science and history have fallen by the wayside.

Obama also emphasized that improving and investing in America?s public schools is an important step to economic recovery. He promised that his jobs bill, should Congress pass it, would update 35,000 schools and put thousands of teachers back to work across the country. ?BF

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President Barack Obama said improving the nation?s public schools is crucial to the U.S.?s economic recovery as he highlighted his decision to let states sidestep the No Child Left Behind law by raising education standards.

?Education is an essential part of this economic agenda,? the president said [Friday] in a weekly radio and Internet address that urged Congress to pass his $447 billion jobs plan that includes money for teachers and schools. ?It is an undeniable fact that countries who out-educate us today will out-compete us tomorrow. Businesses will hire wherever the highly skilled, highly trained workers are located.?

If the U.S. is ?serious about building an economy that lasts? and strengthening the middle class, ?we had better be serious about education,? Obama said. ?We have to pick up our game and raise our standards.?

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Cuba to Florida swimmer pushes through 2nd night

U.S. swimmer Diana Nyad begins her swim from Cuba to Florida at the Hemingway Marina in Havana, Cuba, Friday Sept. 23, 2011. Endurance athlete Nyad will attempt for a second time to swim from Cuba to Florida in hopes of setting a world record at the age of 62. The Los Angeles woman fell short in a previous attempt at the swim last month, calling it off after 29 hours in the water and about halfway through the 103-mile (166-kilometer) journey. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)

U.S. swimmer Diana Nyad begins her swim from Cuba to Florida at the Hemingway Marina in Havana, Cuba, Friday Sept. 23, 2011. Endurance athlete Nyad will attempt for a second time to swim from Cuba to Florida in hopes of setting a world record at the age of 62. The Los Angeles woman fell short in a previous attempt at the swim last month, calling it off after 29 hours in the water and about halfway through the 103-mile (166-kilometer) journey. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)

ALTERNATIVE CROP TO XJG103 - U.S. swimmer Diana Nyad greets her support team before beginning her swim from Cuba to Florida at the Hemingway Marina in Havana, Cuba, Friday Sept. 23, 2011. Endurance athlete Nyad is preparing for a second attempt to swim from Cuba to Florida and set a world record at the age of 62. The Los Angeles woman fell short in a previous attempt at the swim last month, calling it off after 29 hours in the water and about halfway through the 103-mile (166-kilometer) journey. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)

U.S. swimmer Diana Nyad waves to journalists as she is driven to the dock to begin her swim from Cuba to Florida at the Hemingway Marina in Havana, Cuba, Friday Sept. 23, 2011. Endurance athlete Nyad began on Friday her second attempt to swim from Cuba to Florida and set a world record at the age of 62. The Los Angeles woman fell short in a previous attempt at the swim last month, calling it off after 29 hours in the water and about halfway through the 103-mile (166-kilometer) journey. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)

U.S. swimmer Diana Nyad gives a press conference to announce her swim from Cuba to Key West, Florida, in Havana, Cuba, Friday Sept. 23, 2011. Endurance athlete Nyad is preparing for a second attempt to swim from Cuba to Florida and set a world record at the age of 62. The Los Angeles woman fell short in a previous attempt at the swim last month, calling it off after 29 hours in the water and about halfway through the 103-mile (166-kilometer) journey. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)

MIAMI (AP) ? Endurance athlete Diana Nyad pressed on despite painful jellyfish stings and kept swimming treacherous ocean currents beneath the stars early Sunday, about halfway through a grueling course from Cuba to Florida.

As of the latest update before sunrise, her crew said the 62-year-old swimmer had completed 49 miles (79 kilometers) of the 103-mile (166-kilometer) passage of the treacherous Florida Straits and was swimming beneath a nighttime sky bristling with stars. If all goes well, she hopes to complete her sea swimming odyssey Monday morning.

Updates have been coming from her handlers via Internet posts, and already Nyad has been in the water longer than her aborted attempt at a Florida Straits crossing last month, when she lasted 29 hours before a crippling asthma attack forced her to call it quits.

Her latest attempt also has been fraught with difficulties.

Nyad suffered a weekend jellyfish sting that painfully affected her face and eyes and was treated late Saturday aboard a support vessel. But her team tweeted early Sunday that she hit the water again and was continuing her methodical strokes toward her goal. Her website said she had completed more than 34 and a half hours in the water soon after 4:30 a.m. EDT (0830 GMT) Sunday ? or more than 93,000 strokes.

An independent observer said she could still pursue her attempted record-setting swim from Cuba to Florida despite seeking treatment.

Nyad's team said early Sunday in a post on her website that the record would still be valid as long as she was on the boat only for treatment and not to rest. It didn't elaborate on the specific treatment she received or how long she was out of the water, but a team blog update posted before dawn said she resumed swimming at the "exact spot" where she had paused.

"The rules say she is now going for a record staged swim rather than a non-stop swim," the updated noted.

Her organizers said making it through the second night would be a key test to completing her swim as she struggles with the physical and mental challenges of such a distance. Her website said she was breaking up the swim into manageable blocks of time and getting through difficult nighttime hours by recalling favorite songs and thinking upbeat thoughts.

"Tonight, her second night in the open water, may be the most critical," Nyad's website said.

The latest blog update before dawn included a photograph of the stars and said "for now, no news is good news" as she took aim for the Florida Keys.

"At this moment, Diana might be playing Neil Young in her mind or contemplating Stephen Hawking's theories of the cosmos," the team blog update said.

Nyad is making her second attempt in as many months at the Cuba-Florida crossing, a lifelong dream that she first tried as a 28-year-old back in 1978, when she swam inside a steel shark cage for about 42 hours before ending the attempt. A cageless attempt this past August fell short 29 hours in when, gasping for breath, Nyad threw in the towel after an 11-hour asthma attack she blamed on a bad reaction to a new medicine.

This attempt was fraught with more than just one sting. Earlier in her trip, Nyad had a run-in with a Portuguese Man o' War that she called "scary" and which left her with stings on her face, arms and side. Complaining of difficulty breathing, she received oxygen and a steroid shot from her doctors and trod water while she recovered from that earlier Man o' War sting.

On Saturday, handlers spotted barracudas in the area and she got a visit from a curious Oceanic white tipped shark that was shooed off by a support diver. Three so-called "shark divers" served as her security detail in the water early Sunday.

Without a cage to protect her, Nyad is relying on equipment surrounding her with an electrical field that is harmless but deters most sharks. Her divers are there to gently discourage any who make it through. But not all encounters with marine life were unpleasant. Earlier in her journey, 10 pilot whales emerged in the distance ahead of the swimmer, according to one team tweet.

The Los Angeles woman normally pauses every 45 and 90 minutes to rest and refuel on food that her assistants pass to her in the water, but without getting on the boat. For strength she is regularly being fed with pasta, bananas, bite-size pieces of peanut butter sandwiches and high calorie and high carbohydrate liquid refreshments. Her website reported that at one point when her energy appeared to flag, she picked up the pace soon after consuming blended chicken soup.

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"What would you name a new worm?" asks UK museum (Reuters)

LONDON (Reuters) ? What name would you give to a species of Antarctic, sea-dwelling worm that spends its time 2,000 metres below the water's surface, wriggling in the rotting carcasses of whales?

The British public will get to name five newly discovered species of this deep-sea worm, the Natural History Museum in London said on Friday, as it opens its doors to explain that taxonomy -- the practice of naming new species -- is not taxing, but fun.

"Our goal is to show that taxonomy, the scientific discipline of naming new species, is interesting, fun and crucial to the advancement of science," zoologist at the National History Museum, Adrian Glover, said.

The unnamed worms are known as annelids, a group that also includes the familiar garden earthworm, as well as more unusual critters such as the giant hydrothermal vent tubeworm.

Deep sea annelids are an incredibly diverse group and scientists believe they perform vital recycling of nutrients on the seabed.

"These five species of worm are ecosystem engineers that hoover up the ocean floor, which is very important for the ecosystem. We know virtually nothing about these worms -- they don't even have a name yet," Glover told Reuters.

The scientific names given to animals must be comprised of two parts -- the genus and the species -- and must have a Greek or Latin origin.

The genus for these five worms is Ophryotrocha, and scientists will ask visitors to the museum's event, "Science Uncovered," to examine the specimens and come up with a name for each species.

Taxonomists often consider the shape, pattern, or location of origin of a creature when deciding on a suitable name.

The worms waiting for names were discovered in a variety of marine habitats, including volcanic vents on the seafloor and even rotting carcasses of dead whales -- sources of nutrients in a vast underwater environment where food is scarce.

"The names don't have to be serious, but they have to be the unique. Although the genus is fixed, you can be a bit more imaginative with the species," Glover said.

"For example, we discovered a group of worms in the Pacific Ocean that, when grouped together, looked like the Greek, shaggy pile carpets you can buy in IKEA, so we named it "flokati,"" he said.

Some scientists have even looked to showbusiness for inspiration in naming new species.

Calponia harrisonfordi is a type of spider named after Harrison Ford, to thank the Hollywood actor for narrating a documentary for London's National History Museum.

Musician Frank Zappa also has a spider named after him, Pachygnatha zappa, because its unique markings resemble his famous mustache.

However, the importance of classifying the worms is not to be laughed at -- taxonomy plays a fundamental role in scientific research.

"Taxonomy gives names to new species linked to actual specimens held in museums, which means we can continue to develop the database of biodiversity on Earth," Glover said.

"It provides a link between species, so biologists can communicate and know they are working on the same animals," he said.

"There are strict rules to taxonomy, and we want to explain how it happens and how we link it to specimens in museums. What is crucial is that the name is unique and backed up by data, such as DNA sequences, fundamental descriptions and specimens," he said.

The London National History Museum collection alone contains roughly 70 million specimens, many of which are smaller animals such as worms, Glover said.

With scientists yet to discover about 90 percent of the estimated 9 million plant and animal species on earth, according to a recent study, this collection of jarred curiosities can only increase with future exploration of the deep seas.

"We don't even know what's down there, let alone what role it plays in the ecosystem," Glover said.

"Exploration of the deep sea is akin to what rainforests were to scientists about 200 years ago, where they discovered lots of new species every day," he said.

"And the first step to take when you find new species is naming them."

The free event, "Science Uncovered," takes place on Friday, Sept 23 from 4-11pm.

Suggestions for naming the worms can also be sent via twitter to @NHM_London, using the hashtags #nameaworm and #SU2011.

(Edited by Paul Casciato)

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It is inevitable that problems will Payday loan Mesa AZ always turn up up while a person least expects them?or is least primed for them. Various describe it Murphy?s Law. Murphy?s theory states that ?Anything that Cash Advance Mesa can go wrong?will go wrong.? It looks that this law applies to pretty much all monetary state of affairs a person will come across themselves twisted up in. A good number people don?t possess a huge savings account, and the currency they do have saved is ordinarily attached up in retirement accounts or accounts that they don?t have direct access to. What transpires when things go incorrect in a situation like this? Well, a individual can either let the situation get worse, or they can make a claim for a payday loan.

Payday loans are a great way to get the cash desired as immediately as possible. All a person needs to obtain this sort of loan is a checking account in good standing and a supportable source of earnings. They can be used for every situations that appear in a person?s life. Whether a person wishes to pay rent, pay expenses, otherwise make a foremost repair, there is a payday loan business out there that can help relieve a tad of the financial burden that can seize a person Cash Advance Mesa AZ by surprise.

What comes about if a person doesn?t have decent credit and they still call for a modest assistance? That?s the beauty of receiving a loan. Companies do not check a clientele credit ranking, therefore even if a person?s credit isn?t precisely the best, a payday loan company should still be adept to assist. Payday loan companies commonly don?t even necessitate a clientele social security number to process the information. All a payday loan company needs is a postdated check, if applied for in person, or a person?s checking account information if applied for online.

Payday loans are a great means to help a person move through some difficult times, but it is good to take into account that loans be supposed to be used as a end choice. They are exceptionally useful tools, but if a person takes in a fondness of always refinancing loans just to pay previous loans, that can be just as risky as the problem they had been trying to prevent by getting a loan in the first place. Terrible things frequently seem to happen when a person least expects them, so when problems come up that are unsolvable by conventional means, loans are a good alternative to get a person during these demanding times.

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