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29 February 2016 10:31 ET

JEAN Touitou spent his childhood under the roofs, streets hot sun shade of palm trees and fragrant markets of Tunis, Tunisia. However, the atmosphere of the exuberant city has no influence on the aesthetics.

"My whole family has been influenced by Nordic Design", Touitou said. His family was in the leather business, which his father often took place in Sweden. "I drank the milk minimalistic from the age of 6 months." And when he was nine, the family North Africa Touitou left for a new home in Paris.

Today the brand based in Paris Touitou, APC (short for Production and Development Workshop), is known for its rigorous approach to clothing. They are militaristic in its functionality, but its roots in the concept of traditional elegance. Since its founding APC Touitou placed outside the currents of the world of fashion, but they are connoisseurs of fashion label to look for day day, for a total of $ 60 million in revenue last year, according to a representative. Next month Touitou open two new branches in Paris and Brussels APC. A business in San Francisco will open for a total of 67 worldwide in May.

"If you want to be fashionable at the end, is lost," says Touitou, 64, who dresses casually with young, use the sleeves Cotton rolled. "My design was not damaged by 30 years."

A cold afternoon in January in Paris, Touitou ends a late lunch on Sunday with his 11-year-old daughter, Lily, and his wife Judith, the artistic director of the PCA is monitored and the design team. The dining table in white marble, decorated with three glasses of glass lilies and purple orchids, including dissemination with apple pie, lychees and brioche in as much pain as the head of a calf dishes. "Work is not a taboo subject at home," says Touitou. "We do not say," We're going home, so we do not talk "Is creativity is everywhere, so I could talk to when it comes ..."

The family apartment is located in the 7th district, near the border of the 6th situated. The first for its aristocratic wealth and the second for the bohemian execution confluence is known Paris, APC also describes a one-stop-shop for classics like sweaters Breton and seasoned as shirt dresses Leopard basis. The business and the brand's flagship Studio are both a few blocks from Lady Street, and just around the corner of the kindergarten is founded by Touitous, Talleres called early childhood, or EPA

Touitou studied history at the Sorbonne, to become a teacher. After graduation, he spent a year in South America take new career goals in 1977 to Paris and back. "I understood that I take the train at 7:00 am and go to the suburbs and teach children who do not," he said. Instead, almost by accident, he began at Kenzo work, then was a young label the talk of Paris. "I met people who work at Kenzo," he said. "And I thought, what these guys, I want to connect them. It was modern, but is not supported if it were the restoration. I learned everything."

He stood up APC in 1987 as the brand of men their own money and investments seeds with friends. Under the medium brash 80s atmosphere, the clothes by their simple atmosphere, unisex. Touitou added a line for women next year. In the mid-90s, the company had a cult attracted following of the premium denim, which provides a good alternative to jeans pale blue Seinfeld. Each pair of solid fabric, Indigo home in Hiroshima, Japan (where the brand still buys his Denim). "I did not wake up one day and say:" Let's jeans are so steep, and itching and so dark they could sell a million, "he said." One can not have a good pair of jeans that could find on the market. Everything was washed with acid and the cup was terrible. I just went to the hand. "

APC instructions carefully expressionless suggested that her jeans are not washed, or for a party, rub on the beach and sand wash in the sea. The company also has a buyback program, supported in the jeans APC could be exchanged for a new pair for 50 percent off. then add the pair, treated (the exact method is a secret) is washed and resold.

For most of the existence of APC, which was aware of anonymity unit. "I wanted to be a successful team effort," says Touitou. If it had been a "name" in question guest contributors, like Kanye West. The producer and rapper in conjunction with APC inspired a collection fall of 2013 by the military surplus files Touitou, and again in 2014. Designer long APC leader Louis Wong, a "brand within a brand" time fashion line for men Louis W. ( Touitou has also created products with companies such care line TangoLeike Australia Aesop and dancing shoes Argentine officials.) spent Touitou the last mark and sold APC's Voices carry in outdoor sports line marks of the United States that he is "smart" tracksuit thinks pants.

APC also includes a label and a studio and was one of the first retailers music, candles, and other bric-a-brac licensed branded clothing for sale page. Touitou plays guitar and writes music (his last song "Samba de Merda" was written in response to the Charlie Hebdo attacks in the last year) and says he. More interested in music mode Recently producer and musician Bill Laswell 63 hours a playlist for CPAs in order shops, including the music of Miles Davis and Glenn Gould. These efforts could be lost on most customers, but is confident that they appreciate subliminally Touitou. "You think people do not realize, but you can say it is not the quality," he said.

In the second part the identity of the APC by the stubborn approach Touitou merchandising featured. "Sometimes we get things on the market that do not necessarily not sell," he said. "You can do all the blockbusters of the time. It is very annoying for everyone."

Previously Touitou, owner flat APC is pleased with his slow and steady growth. "How you could multiply by 10," he said, snapping his fingers. ".. I know exactly what to do huge are to be comfortable that we are" on income, he said, "I did not add another zero."

After lunch Touitou around the apartment goes, he had a quiet room, which dominates plates of blond elm. Any resemblance APC is not surprising, since the space was designed by the architect, Laurent Deroo, Touitou, who worked with the last 15 years in the design of the store. exposed Parant common walls of the living room are framed for 1966 Poster Andy Warhol "Inevitably explosion Traversal plastic with the Velvet Underground and the hanging wall material by the younger sister of Jean in Tunisia (parts of your home merchandise online, The list of Tunisia sold, APC will soon) made. The Touitous lived here for 12 years but the master bedroom is a new addition, there was an adjoining office and bought, if the tenant moves. now it has been transformed into something that resembles a Scandinavian cabin driftwood in an apartment in Paris covered. sliding shutters made of wood, you can also on the window draw the chamber seal.

Touitou take a map of the Mediterranean and carried out on a table. Lily wrote paths colors on it with markers. For six years the Touitous traveled by sea on his boat, which is more like the modest Gilligan's Island a luxury - Yacht. Sometimes Touitou hooked his own jeans on the back and drive for hours. "Salt and sand can actually age the tissue in a gentle way," he said.

In these moments Touitou seems to feel more comfortable. "If someone asks me," Where are you? 'I say that I am from the French culture? "He said." I do not mean that I am French, because technically I'm not. "He and Judith recently bought a house in the small Italian island of Pantelleria, off the coast of Sicily, near Tunis." this is a width of Africa, this type of vegetation, "says Touitou." There are no beaches, and you have to go through the mountains to the sea. There is no is. "

Deroo supervised the renovation of the residence. He said: "John loves beautiful things, but the criteria is based on excess, but on the idea of balance." APC Each store will be adapted to your location. "I tend to think that every project is the past," said Deroo. "It is also the philosophy of John. We work on the basis of informal discussions." The Harajuku, Tokyo, branch wood looks like a mysterious cave, while business Silverlake in Los Angeles is a raw take on modern mid-century.

The relaxed approach Touitou concerns everyone who works with him, including designer Vanessa Seward, launched has a line of the same name with the support of Touitou in 2015. "Before I met John and Judith, I for casual wear was not very good," Seward, who was previously in Azzaro, where he was said to known glamorous evening dresses. "It was not my specialty, and in my personal life, I have always been something special. Thanks to them, are a little cooled." His line has inspired vintage pieces of denim and and even "now she's Touitou and opened two stores in Paris to follow a third this summer in Los Angeles.

"John loves to work, that is, happy to combine what you think of the world, with the thought of another person," says the artist and photographer Collier Schorr, the shot APC spring 2016 campaign, a male model with a megaphone with might should be a main or demonstrators policy; Ambiguity is intentional. Despite the sociability of Touitou provides Schorr that developed in solitude. "This is a man who has a boat and get into and out of the summer with his family. It is not a big boat. This is not a social adventure. It's time alone."

The next day Touitou is with his 26 - year old daughter, Haidee, Store tape APC wedged between Gucci and Chanel in the Rue Royale. If Touitou saw the room for the first time in 2011, I knew it was perfect. "It was fun, in addition to Chanel's just for the joke," he said. On the ground floor there is an underground space, regularly shaken by subway rumbling home CPA files, a mixture of pieces of own brand and vintage clothing used for inspiration.

iPhone Touitou, balanced in a glass on a table, plays a dark Rockabilly 1,972 Italian song, stores in the Loop. The fashion week for men is slightly more than a week, and he sings three songs at the party after the APC. Haydee, journalist, his daughter from his first marriage (his brother Peter, is a chef based in Jose Ignacio, Uruguay); He would meet every week with his father. The pair worked in the transmission, a book published next year, which is both a retrospective of the brand and Touitou personal visual diary and album.

He walked through the spiral pattern. One side has a photo of his mother in his youth and other childhood in Tunisia. Here is a charcoal drawing of irregular, abstract deposits and a blur of chaos, the father works Touitou, who served in the French Army during World War II, fighting shown in Normandy and Germany. There is also a 1945 picture of his father in Hitler's mountain cabin.

Touitou guidance through the doors, the neatly lining concrete space. The garments are sorted by colors and a wide green band consists mainly of military surplus parts. He pulls a heavy coat dress stiff leather from, that looks like a time capsule. He belonged to a pilot of the First World War. Touitou eliminates a delicate strand of tissue, yellowed by the time the bag. "That does not look like a handkerchief of a warrior, right?" I said. "I thought maybe it was the girl or girlfriend. You feel the past."

The APC team examined his coat and vegetable tanned leather recreated. The processing required by oranges and blueberries. The finished product is selling well, it was obviously very good Touitou.

"Okay, not to be famous and not a billionaire and his to be happy. If that's what it is, I'll be happy, but I know it's a bit idealistic." On the question of whether c is the way he sees his legacy, he said, "what do you mean I had an influence on jeans?"

Lenovo announced in Tab3 series with three new Android-based tablet for the home and work

Lenovo in Tab3 8

Lenovo announced three new Android tablets at MWC. The new series includes Tab3 in Tab3 10 in Tab3 7 and 8 in Tab3.

model	TAB3 10 cases	TAB3 7	TAB3 8
processor	1.3GHz quad core	1.0GHz quad core	1.0GHz quad core
display	10 Full-HD (1920x1080) IPS "	7 "SD (1024x600) IPS	8 HD (1280x800) IPS "
memory	Up to 3 GB	1 GB	1 GB
storage	Up to 64 GB internal	Internal 16GB	Internal 16GB
cameras	8 MP rear 5 MP before	5MP rear, 2MP front	5MP rear, 2MP front
audio	Dolby Atmos, 2 speakers	Dolby Audio 1 President	Dolby Atmos 1 President
Network Options	Wi-Fi Dual-Band AC; LTE	LTE	Wi-Fi only; LTE
battery	Up to 12 hours	Up to 9 hours	Up to 8 hours
Starting MSRP	$ 199	$ 129	$ 99

The in Tab3 10 is for the company with the company's key equipment and software developed and support for Android 6.0 Toffee. It comes with Google Play for Android for work and job applications. These applications provide solutions for the point of sale, in the classroom and administrative eHeath in full screen mode also allows its users to configure Tab3 10 as an interactive terminal.

Lenovo in Tab3 10 cases in Tab3 10 features a quad - core - 1.3GHz, 10 - inch 1920 x 1080 IPS - display with Gorilla - glass 3, an auto-focus - Camera 8 megapixel rear and 5 - megapixel - Focus solid front camera. The unit is weatherproof with a repellent coating liquids. Connectivity options include NFC, dual-band Wi-Fi and GPS, in addition to the complete LTE 4G option.

Tab3 tablets in 10 companies have additional security functions at the enterprise level software including hardware encryption, policy control and remote capabilities. Lenovo has also included in Tab3 10 cases with persistent protection terminals and geo-fencing technology, so the company to follow a device safely and to protect their internal networks. The device can also be remotely locked.

The business Tab3 10 comes in three versions: Wi-Fi model 2 GB of RAM and 32 GB of memory only sports for $ 199; an LTE version with 2GB of RAM and 32GB of storage reaches $ 249; and Tab3 10 with LTE connectivity 3 GB RAM and 64 GB of internal memory for $ 299th

7 and 8 in Tab3 are designed for home users with known functions, concentrated dedicated inter alia, as "way of children" multi-user and parental controls with options to surf the Internet and use the planning mode safely.

Lenovo in Tab3 7 Tab3 both Tab3 function 7 and August 1 processor MediaTek quad - core clocked at 1.0 GHz, 1GB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage, plus the same Gorilla - Glass 3, sealing and Android 6.0 as a marshmallow on 10 Company Tab3.

For consumers of the potentially harmful blue light from the screen affected, 7 and 8 come in Tab3 with Adaptive Display technology that can filter out harmful blue light, a viewing experience safer for young users.

The in Tab3 7 is the only one with its lack of optional features; The device comes as a $ 129 Wi-Fi variants such as supply TAB3 8 and 10. The Wi-Fi in Tab3 8 unique models such rings to $ 99 and LTE counterpart will cost $ 149.

Lenovo plans in Tab3 10 cases in July, published in June in Tab3 7 and 8, to make available.

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Affected by labor shortage, Germany tried based immigration on points

Berlin (AFP) - Germany has begun to test a scoring system for immigration Friday, the most qualified foreign and win a chronic shortage of labor, which devastated the largest economy in Europe, despite an influx at the end of recording of the applicant.

The prosperous southwestern region of Baden-Württemberg, the home of the major car companies and equipment, welcomes the pilot project inspired by immigration systems of New Zealand and Canada.

"Our future quality of life depends on how many people are working in Germany and contribute to our prosperity," said Labour Minister Andrea Nahles.

"We need to mobilize all our potential, but we know that this is not enough, and we need more trained foreign workers. Therefore, a new method to try," he added.

This fall, a number of qualified professionals from non-EU countries a work permit for three years would be granted under the points system in Baden-Württemberg, with knowledge of the German language is an important criterion.

The scoring system gives top marks to 100 people with a high level of competition from Germany, while others with more fundamental levels must demonstrate that they also in English or French, so combines skills Germany.

EU citizens from these criteria immigration because they are allowed to work already block in Germany under the freedom of movement agreement.

However, some sectors have difficulty finding in Germany, workers, and with a rapidly aging, the major economic actors in the country, the government has encouraged reform its immigration rules for skilled workers populations.

Although the country has only 1.1 million asylum seekers in 2015, experts have warned, it would take years until the rate on the language skills necessary skills to get employed or to occupy a large number of vacancies Germany.

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Rethinking work and equation

P Hyllis Moen, a sociologist who is widowed when her children were small, made a career that challenges the full study - time work while starting a family. It was a voice early to ask the government to provide paid maternity leave available and provide the benefits for part-time workers available, but eventually, if he saw no sign of progress, they began the place specified in that enterprises could to re-examine working to address the realities of modern people, it was to be a single parent or a part of a couple with two incomes more likely than ever. '' We wanted to make a field experience at a company that has reduced its hours, '' he said, '' but no one realized that we do that. We thought it would be more willing to give more control workers to experiment. ''

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Moen, professor at the University of Minnesota, and Erin Kelly, now professor of work and organizational at MIT, eventually took with other colleagues in a large research effort by NIH CDC funded and investigate the interaction between work, family and health. In 2005, she began to study a pilot program that Best Buy has launched alone to life itself, the workers, which ensures almost total control over their schedules. established recently, Kelly Moen and another study in the IT department of a company that has chosen to remain anonymous, but they call TOMO in an article published in the journal American Sociological Review article months.

The document Tomo, half of the IT department employees were randomly assigned to a control group that under the usual corporate policy further drives (flexibility at the discretion of the Director issued). Other technology staff involved in what they thought was a new initiative, but was actually a part of the experience in the field of Moen and Kelly. The new policy was both radical and in concept, simple: the workers in the experimental group, where they could work, and each time, as projects selected and concluded in time goals have been achieved; the focus would be on results, rather than spent on the number of hours in the office. Managers were trained to support the personal problems of employees and officially recommended their own priorities, to open outside of work - a sick parent or a child that his mother wants to see their football matches. Manager received iPods sums twice a day to remember, different ways of thinking that they can support their employees as they performed their work and family life.

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The thesis: Reinventing office

The thesis: Reinventing office

The investigation revealed that the employee achieved in the experimental group their goals as reliable as the control group and were ultimately much happier: They slept better, were healthier and have less stress. Other studies found that workplace Kaskadierungseffekte down also to the children of employees who reported less volatility to their own daily stresses; Teenager saw the quality of their sleep improved. One year and three years employees of the experimental group reported leaving less interest in the organization than the control group.

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The manager asked to recognize the demands outside of work to open, Moen and Kelly were digging some office culture conventions. For years, is an image of professionalism are closely linked, perhaps especially for women, the strict limits - to self-expression, in the office, committed as someone completely from the complexity of life's house. These limits, the proposed work Moen and Kelly were perhaps counterproductive.

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Most companies have come to see that the flexibility for the recruitment and retention of employees is important: allow 63 percent of employers now '' some '' employee to work occasionally at home, according to a major study, compared to only 34 percent in 2005. Moen and Kelly study saw significant results in a workplace which in fact already had a flexible policy. But Moen believes that '' the mother-may-I approach '' of flexibility - which is based on manager's discretion - also maintains the people in politics to act. Instead, we want to reform the corporate culture, so that the flexibility of the living, breathing, important aspect of the work is a standard mode, rather than a privilege. In its focus on execution, unless specifically his approach, which is accompanied by a number of academics and professionals who try to answer the same question: How companies do who believe the workers more control over their schedules I make it really ?

Moen and others have recognized that the first step is to think about the way the employer used on flexible working to the language changed in the movement to describe why they need. For years, employees and human resources professionals discussed the widespread desire for "work-life balance. '' But how Marcee Harris Schwartz, which is within the auditing firm BDO national USA responsible for the flexibility says, '' if you balance think it is working on one end of the rotation and the life of others, and if one is the other, down -. it is like a zero-sum game "the best, the balance being an unrealistic goal be a state of grace in which everything is oriented. '' Balance is something you want, but never '' Cali said Yost, whose specialty helps companies to implement flexible strategies. She started with respect to "the work and life in the form '' to detect, as workers try together to recreate the disparate elements of her life. (The American Psychological Association and began the Society for Human Resource Management also use this term.)

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The term is not sexual in the way that everything '' family '' is reminiscent provided. Part of the evolution of culture in the workplace to promote flexibility, Yost argued is what makes gender neutral. Flexibility, he said, should not be considered as an advantage to avoid the disadvantage that some people have children, but as a means to improve performance (and luck) of men and women, parents and the big guy.

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'' Many of these issues in the cultural subtlety, '' said Rachael Ellison, a manager, employee and employer specializes in helping it to manage the license and the transition back to work. As companies reinforce the idea that flexibility is open to all and not restricted to a few, the privileged, or hopeless? In a national survey, as much as 96 percent of employees said they have a degree of flexibility, but only 56 percent believe that their company is very much for this option. E families and the Institute for Work carried out in the past year examined, 40 percent of respondents said they agree that the workplace, people for a permit or hours of alternative working application to meet personal or family needs were less likely to forward to go.

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In 2008, BDO was one of the organizations that 'had' flexibility, but people do not use it "," Harris said Schwartz. He was not normalized in culture, especially for non-parents. A research company conducted previously found that single, childless men are those who feel less able to manage their work-life setting, probably because they feel on a license less entitled that is offered.

Partly for recruitment purposes, wanted BDO to change that. Harris Schwartz began with Yost and BDO worked has devoted considerable resources to make the new culture. BDO a campaign of internal training, employee participation in meetings with executives, where has launched is, in the way in a flexible workspace to the company's performance reflects improved could. They hung dozens of posters happy employees work remotely - catch in Oregon, another ballroom dancing. ( 'To find my passion my energy so I feel not only better, function better for the dance.' '') Stories flexible rules will be published on its website internal social networks and encourages managers to be flexible just if they spoke publicly , '' My name is Jack Weisbaum '' then CEO of the company announced a year of the initiative, a team of senior managers '' and I'm a flexible workers. '' I was almost every day to work on the road a week, but if it was not, all domestic business office home runs in Florida.

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Since the initiative BDO employees asked how they perceive that flexibility in the company can be seen. At this time, believe only 32 percent of them that '' employees who are in a chapter of the management or leadership the opportunity to leave the track and return when finished. In 2013 '', five years after the initiative, the number who thought that the increase of 66 percent.

Yost and Ellison believe that most companies do the flexibility of implementation and allow initiatives devote not helping enough resources employees, effectively, in order to effectively use these policies. Ellison was eager to give credit to a small company in Harrisburg, Pa., Saw an example of this was well done. De CreamosTuWeb.Com.Mx is one of 100 new companies are increasingly trying the management of employees has to facilitate work-life balance. There are a few years, general manager of the company, William Craig, began to think about parental leave, when the first wave of workers' Millennium children began. Craig focused on how your company could use technology to transition to and facilitate from the outset. Communication about a project, for example, has moved from individual e-mail accounts to a common data platform, could so that employees begin to return immediately. '' It was very good choreography, '' Ellison said. '' They have created a system that seamlessly people to work quickly, our randomly to share and work that key. ''

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Flexibility is built into the culture of the company, with clear guidelines. '' It is possible that family members leave every day at 4 to 8 when they come and do not take breaks during the day, '' says a policy. '' Long Lunch must be taken, '' reads another site online wiki serves, the company manual. Every employee is one hour automatically granted a week flexible schedule can ask for more, so if it takes an hour (plus lunch) at a race or meditate or to see a therapist, who can freely and make time to any point that the is convenient. An employee of the company has created for people with Swiped stimuli a program as they entered and left the building to sign an internal Web site, which I. In and out of the office at any time

'' Millennials as transparency, Craig, of His approach to flexibility is 37th, in many respects, very disciplined and in stark contrast to the preferred Moen approach based on the assumption that the strict surveillance in real undermined hours said, a result-oriented Philosophy. However, the underlying message of these two approaches is the same: The company realizes that his life outside the office and want to be the host.

W trav stress often more accurate than guilty described in the workplace, is a particularly corrosive form of anxiety: It is a sentiment that blames a noise in the office, sweating, knowing that it is too late, or slip into a '' meeting '', which is actually a much needed haircut appointment. '' What people have told us repeatedly that the new policy was guilt away, Kelly, Moen TOMO employees in the study. '' We have heard a lot of this word. ''

Not all companies are willing to years of reflection to invest that made BDO or make made the kind of cultural change in fat TOMO (and Best Buy already made earlier, until the new management has done undisputed political work from home and flexible hours in 2013). But sometimes it's a little more that the tradition of holding organizations make significant changes that bring tremendous peace to their employees.

For years commuted Sara Adams from his home in Connecticut to his job on Wall Street to MEC (formerly Committee promoting social commitment), a consortium of profit Fortune 500 companies in the promotion of social change employed. The company had, so that people can work a policy of flexibility on the same day of the week from home, she did. But the other four days of Adam, senior director of communications and marketing CECP have endured a journey of about 90 minutes, not quite anxious to make it to the office before the start time 9:00, as stated in the manual MEC.

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She and her colleagues have the manual for further changes talked about the setting, allow greater flexibility - perhaps the start time or streamlining a form to work relax needed at home - but not until the company hired a new strategic director, Barb Short who came from a more flexible working environment which found Adams and his colleagues, such as return to the office to work with. The organization was booming, and physical space was tight. What if CECP a pilot program attempts, where all employees are encouraged to two days a week to work with the management to retain, whether the objectives are still achieved at home in one eye? No one would feel either privileged or annoying; it would be a security policy that is good for society as a whole, not just for individuals. And she made it clear to the employee with a written document and in personal conversations that management assumed they were very efficient - and that the staff just could assume that no one was watching the clock, as' the days before 10 showed everything worked finished the day and their missions?

In December, the company has launched a pilot program in place that explicitly encouraged their employees to carry out a kind of substitute program - working two days a week at home, come and go, sooner or later, or a combination of both. Night, Adams felt to have just lost before the day even started from this chronic sense of liberation; It was spared days of exhausting travel. "" I would have liked to try, our stress levels before and after the start pilots '' he said. Around the office, the computer, the objectives more visitors meet with less stress and more appreciated breakfast with their children, to the gym, more time with his elderly parents, less time in the subway.

Adams is surprised by the ease with which the transition was. It is also known that in spite of its leading position in a progressive organization, although they did not have the vision - to rethink things, provided CECP finally did - until the moment of institutional growth. Once the change has come, the rewards were immediate. As Adams told his daughter to work from home two days a week, he said, '' It was a lot of cheering in my house. ''

What you need to know, to be legal and profitable if you work at home

More than half a million small businesses are created every month. And this, more than 50 percent are outside the house.

This week is National Entrepreneurship Week, and if you own or are thinking about starting a current business, there are to consider many legal issues.

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More than half a million small businesses are created every month. And of them, over 50 percent are generated outside of the house.

This week is National Entrepreneurship Week, and if you own or are thinking about starting a current business, there are to consider many legal issues.

Business lawyer Alan Crone is to explain to what to do to ensure that your business can survive and thrive in today's marketplace.

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conflicting advice of health authorities can be confusing,

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Find the patient health care services at home, will be thrilled when they check the feedback of Brookdale Senior Living federal government. medical social organizations four at home - in Florida, North Carolina, Ohio and Rhode Iceland - won five stars, the highest score in quality, primarily on the basis of the review, how many Medicare patients they have improved.

However, further research could lead to confusion. also to show Medicare Star stations, as patients agencies evaluate their care once completed. It uses the same four agencies Brookdale to win no more than two stars.

"We understand that we have work to do on the results of our perception of the patient," Kristin Puckett, a spokesman Brookdale said in an e-mail. "It is important that the exercise of care for our patients is also positive that the results of the quality of care they provide."

These discrepancies between how patients perceive health authorities in Germany and how the government evaluates they are nothing extraordinary. One in five agencies had clinical scores and patients differed by two or more stars, an analysis of the Kaiser sign health news official documents.

Health services to eligible Medicare housing sends nurses, assistants and physiotherapists and occupational therapists in the homes of these will keep more important amid the pressure of homebound to go hospital patients. To choose doctors and patients from more than 12,000 agencies, Medicare star ratings in 2015 published by the clinical quality of their health at home comparison website, and in January, said the number of stars, which all reflect the views of patients.

Medicare was liberal to give the opinion of the patient scores maximum points, taking the award four or five stars for 74 percent of the agencies noted. Of 2152 agencies won five stars.

However, for clinical quality, Medicare uses a different formula that would three stars guarantees frequently. Only 27 percent of the agencies received four or five stars. Only 286 organizations received the maximum five stars.

Only 30 organizations received five stars from two rating systems, found the analysis of the Emperor.

In a statement, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said that the different number of stars are not confused. "CMS stresses that users of the site must look available at all the different types of measures for specific types of providers, including health care organizations in the homeland," the statement said. "Provided by the two measures and is based on a survey of clinically based CMS expects the public a series of views and information that consumers can judge to inform its decision on an agency."

Since the number of quality measures have increased, followed by the number of stars other efforts by Medicare to distill complex assessments in a consumer format. Medicare also has stars to the dialysis center quality, home care patient experience and various aspects of nursing.

Some of the differences between the health experiences of patients at home and clinic-star quality can be attributed to the fact that focus in the home on the various aspects of health care. see clinical quality measures how quickly the agency began attention; it improves patient mobility and out of bed and bathroom; the amount of pain and shortness of breath and reduces the number of patients who end up in hospital.

examining surveys of patients, as explain the health workers to patients how to care for themselves, and if patients treated with kindness, courtesy and respect. The questionnaires also investigated whether workers observed patient medication side effects and explain how and why they made correctly.

"We really are talking about very different types of measures," said Teresa Lee, Director of the Alliance for the quality of home health and Innovation, a research nonprofit. "It's unfortunate, but it is perhaps true that the patient experience and the quality of medical care do not go together."

Adding to the confusion, summarized 41 percent of the number of stars that are the views of patients unreliable - by including the government - because fewer than 100 questionnaires were, records show. Home Health Compare consumer warn annexed to use the marks "with caution, since the number of surveys may be too weak to say exactly how an agency works." Medicare has not Agencies star no less than 40 questionnaires were distributed.

Brookdale Puckett said it was difficult to get the patient to the polls, which he described as "complex", especially for very sick. "It is important that our patient population had an average age of 86 and is based on family members, parents and / or guardians to complete often" the research said.

Some specialists in the care of older people have to ask broader reasons, the assessments in question.

Dr. Joanne Lynn, a geriatrician at Altarum Institute, a committee of inquiry and profit, said that much of the health of a patient beyond the control of the health of workers in the home was, you can often visit less than once every two weeks.

"The health services in Medicare-covered home are so limited, and this measure includes a number of things that can not be repaired are for many people," he said, referring to the evaluation of the frequency of patients improved in their daily work.

Instead, he said, bad marks an agency may reflect a lack of other important services in an area. "If you are in an area without a lot of advance planning, has a waiting list of one year for the meals at home, and there are no doctors who are able to visit people at home'll stuck with sending patients to the hospital," said Lynn ,

Margaret Murphy, a staff member of the Center for Medicare Advocacy Director, a nonprofit organization that Medicare beneficiaries services health help he said fears that organizations avoid, in particular, patients can better assessments.

"We found that organizations do not want these people to have," he said. "One can someone just to find a hospital, perhaps after a heart attack and have a little look back on your feet, you may need a little therapy. But they will come back to normal life, to as in Parkinson's disease person over losing power and losing his balance. they are a heavy burden on the agencies. "

It is not known how many patients using the rating of insurance, and if they understand. Lee said: "If you patients who are very ill, is the extent to which it is to be able, because of his health, really a lot of this type of information."

On feedback on this article and experience to share with a health agency a qualified home, you can contact Kaiser Health News. Send an email to patients@kff.org.

10 companies now hiring jobs to work from home,

John Matarese, exclusive KING 5 News February 22, 2016 16:32 PT

More and more large companies hiring workers paying jobs that can be done at home. (Photo: REY)

Work at home jobs used risky to be low-paying opportunities.

But now more and more large companies do recruit workers for high-paying jobs at home in your bathrobe and slippers.

Working balances, new baby

Lelia Wendel had arrived a kindergarten teacher to her little Austin. He soon realized that he could not be away from it all day standing.

But she did not leave her house.

"I work anywhere from 1-3 hours per day to do my job, and I am voluntarily about it because I'm a stay at home mom and want to focus on."

joined Wendel, work the millions of Americans who "Fix 21 Day" at home, coaching and sales staff for the weight loss program.

He said, deserve to about $ 1000 per month while playing Austin or napping.

"I do not think I will be able to home to the check-in work," he said. "There are so many incredible opportunities."

Earn up to $ 100,000 house

Andy Powers is a father older children work full-time at home, winning nearly 6 figures.

"I have my friends say that I have the shortest route in the city," Powers said "about 15 feet every morning."

He left the morning rush hour, as his task software company from a stand at the dining table in his sales work released.

"I want peace and solitude really, and the ability to focus on the lack of an office distractions," he said.

High-speed Internet allows

Thanks to advances in smartphone technology, Skype and high-speed Internet, more and more companies say: "Why do we need people to come here in the office, then you could do anything at home?"

Angie is Grilliot with UnitedHealthcare, an insurance company 10 list of the best work of employers Forbes magazine at home in the year 2016th

"We are like instant messaging to use in a position things and WebX technology and teleconferencing, where you can see people in need."

Chu said Grilliot of 25% of the workforce at home workers increases, on the basis, because it do less overhead and a better job at home.

"They love it," he said. "We see higher values commitment of our employees who work from home, usually, if you compare this with the company's employees."

And they continue to customers through home from $ 25,000 to $ 75,000 per year, depending on Salary.com to transact with service stations.

"We currently have more than a thousand publications, the options Tele" Grilliot said.

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Forbes Top 10 list includes:

LiveOps

TeleTech

Sutherland global

Amazon

Dell

IBM

working solutions

united healthcare

Humana

Aetna

Most job offers customer service and back-office support for teleworkers.

Other companies are working from home

Other companies, though not in the final list, which also offer work from home the following options:

Alpine Access / Sykes Home

Convergys

Some jobs are multi-level marketing. These are legitimate companies, but have to make friends, to join the company and work together, or "beneath" you. You may need to have parties at home.

This includes:

pure romance

Avon

Pampered Chef

scentsy

jamberry

Mary Kay Cosmetics

Even more companies are WAHM, work at home Mom.com.

Wendel said, despite the pay cut it .... pays to know it will be able to see the first steps of the baby.

"If he has a bad day, I can close up to him as he give his nap, and the time. It was a blessing!"

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Lenovo announced in Serie Tab3 New with three tablets based on Android and professionals

Lenovo Tab3 8

Lenovo announced three new Android-based tablets at MWC. The new series includes Tab3 in Tab3 10 Tab3 7 and 8 in Tab3.

model	TAB3 10 cases	TAB3 7	TAB3 8
processor	1.3GHz quad core	1.0GHz quad core	1.0GHz quad core
display	10 Full-HD (1920x1080) IPS "	7 "SD (1024x600) IPS	8 HD (1280x800) IPS "
memory	Up to 3 GB	1 GB	1 GB
storage	Up to 64 GB internal	16 GB internal	16 GB internal
cameras	8 MP rear 5 MP before	5MP rear, 2MP front	5MP rear, 2MP front
audio	Dolby Atmos, 2 speakers	Dolby, a President	Dolby Atmos 1 President
connection options	Wi-Fi dual-band CA; LTE	LTE	Wi-Fi only; LTE
battery	Up to 12 hours	Up to 9 hours	Up to 8 hours
Starting MSRP	$ 199	$ 129	$ 99

The essential in Tab3 10 for business equipment for the company and the software and support for Android 6.0 marshmallow. It comes to work with Google Play and applications for applications. These applications provide solutions for POS, class and Management eHeath Besides full-screen mode, so that users configure their in Tab3 10 as an interactive terminal.

Lenovo Tab3 Tab3 10 cases in 10 features a quad-core processor with 1.3 GHz, 10-inch 1920 x 1080 IPS display with Gorilla Glass 3 is an autofocus camera 8 megapixel rear and 5-megapixel fixed focus front camera. The device is also weatherproof by a liquid-repellent coating. Connection options include NFC, dual-band Wi-Fi and GPS, in addition to the complete LTE 4G option.

Tab3 tablets in 10 companies have additional security features the enterprise level, including software encryption hardware, tax policy and remote capabilities. Lenovo has also included in Tab3 10 cases with lasting protection terminals and geo-fencing technology, so the company to follow a device safely and to protect their internal networks. The device can also be remotely locked.

The Business Tab3 10 is available in three flavors: Wi-Fi model 2 GB of RAM and 32 GB of storage for $ 199 Sport; LTE version with 2GB of RAM and 32GB of storage reaches $ 249; and Tab3 10 internal with LTE connectivity 3 GB RAM and 64 GB of memory $ 299th

7 and 8 in Tab3 Home-like setting, including how focused multi-user and Parental Control as "children's fashion" dedicated options secure web browsing and use planning are for home users, developed.

Lenovo clocked TAB3 7 times 7 functions in Tab3 and Tab3 August 1 processor quad-core MediaTek at 1.0GHz, 1GB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage, plus the same Gorilla Glass 3, seal and Android 6.0 Marshmallow and Tab3 10 companies.

For consumers across the screen with blue light concerns potentially harmful in Tab3 7 and 8 are filter with Adaptive Display capable harmful blue light, a viewing experience safer for young users technology.

The in Tab3 7 is the only one with its lack of optional features; The unit comes as variants Wi-Fi $ 129 as in Tab3 8 and 10 August only offer cycles to $ 99 models in Tab3 Wi-Fi and costs $ 149 LTE counterpart.

Lenovo plans in Tab3 10 cases in July, published in June in Tab3 7 and 8, to make available.

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Longview nursing home can be rebuilt, but remains in the families of patients

One day a week, leaving the house retired Eddie Strother Longview, before the sun rises and grows almost 300 miles Graham her daughter 54 years visit.

She is on a ventilator, which held a number of years of life since the last episode of pneumonia.

Until last year, Strother saw her daughter every day, when she specialized in Eden supply outside Eastman road was on the other side of town. That was until 9 April when a tornado swept through North Longview, seriously damaging the 45-year-old nursing home.

Strother, her daughter said at least 70 patients was transported Eden special care facilities by the state, by the lack of health facilities in East Texas dependency care in life-support systems.

"There is no nursing homes who need them, and the reason is that they do not want the responsibility," he said. "You do not want to help these people who are on life-support systems."

Damage to specialized care Eden could not report him missing. City managers and lawyers of ownership of the nursing home say that they are working with insurers to determine whether the structure of the patient repaired and reopened, depending on whether the insurance product that covers the cost of repairs.

"The owners are with Johnson and the pace of technical work and the city Longview to determine what the scope of the reconstruction, the code improvements are necessary, and ultimately the cost of all that it is," said attorney Bruce Smith , "Then there is the question of insurance products to try. While all of these questions have been completed, the decision to rebuild or not can not rebuild."

Strother want ownership specialized Eden provision located in Houston September JV owners to destroy the structure and rebuild 34,000 square meters.

The Department of Aging and Disability reported that six houses known elders in the eastern part of Texas loaded dependent fan compensation and accept Medicare / Medicaid. Kim Strother was Graham Oaks Care Center sent after the tornado, and she has been there, his father said.

If a nursing home is damaged or faced other emergencies and is not able services to residents, the inability to seniors and persons to provide the opportunity to visit with the owners, the residents and their families to find the beginning of the work suitable place for each resident to your needs, Gale Agency responsible for informing the public Melissa.

"Examples of other service options, other nursing homes in the region, medical centers and clinics in the area, daycare or other options in the town include," Gale said in an e-mail. "The decision for the inhabitants will leave and their families, but this choice depends on the kind of services each resident needs."

For several months after the tornado, the owners have brought the state authorities and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid specializing in the intention of reopening Eden supply in contact. Gale said the approval of the organ with aging and disability services expires March 22 and presents no license renewal.

However, said the city spokesman Shawn Hara the owner of the equipment maintenance services for the development and implementation of the Code of Business Services Weekly on what is needed for the reconstruction. They met on Friday and on February 2, the day officials said a small part of the overall fire Eden specialized care. The boy was arrested on a charge of arson.

Gale said at a meeting on 30 October, the doctor said the center would not open. Smith said that it was not true and probably told state authorities by an employee of the management of health services.

"You do not have to talk to the owners. The owners have not taken this decision," Smith said.

Strother said he does not understand why there is not a nursing home in North Texas for ventilated patients.

"It would be a good income to Longview. Patients were friends, and going to visit," he said. "It is not enough that was about the patient. There are other permanent residents, some had many cooks with Alzheimer's disease and dementia. There, nurses, suppliers, people, patients took to medical appointments. It Trafficking" now without work.

Eden back to specialist care, or you can find another institution fan near the house, Strother said Graham will continue his weekly training.

Governor: Unlimited coverage in terms of assets; Premium based on the result is not yet on the list of Medicaid

Premium burden for private show options with an income above the poverty line and require some adults who are eligible for Medicaid employer-sponsored plans receive coverage through subsidized by changes Governor Asa Hutchinson legislator said Wednesday nor intended as part of a review of the Arkansas Medicaid program " expanded propose.

But Hutchinson told reporters that he will not limit coverage suggest or invite higher premiums than registered significant assets under the renewed program, which became known as Arkansas is working, because the idea of a "non-starter" with representatives of the government of President Barack Obama ,

set within the limits of the federal government meeting of the Working Group on Reform of the Law Health, Hutchinson said Arkansas must improve to make changes the Medicaid program, as much as possible be removed.

When a new president takes place office next year, the state can have more flexibility to make the change, he said.

"Since changes in federal policy, we will adjust accordingly," Hutchinson said the working group. "So powerful and have we found, we can not change the health policy of the federal government, only to be stubborn."

In a letter dated Tuesday, Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia Burwell, who met Hutchinson its proposed changes to 1 February, the ideas of many Hutchinson said "very innovative", although some "reaching the limits of what is allowed by federal Medicaid law and concerns about possible impacts on the beneficiaries. "

She said she is hopeful that they can agree on changes that the state helps to encourage their objectives, working, registered increasing ownership under, increasing program integrity and support to achieve coverage for the employer and communicated with their "colleagues in other organizations options for vocational training and employment work more attractive for participants to discuss Arkansas. "

At the request of Hutchinson, Parliament created the working group last year to consider possible changes to the private option and other parts of the state's Medicaid program.

Among the private option, buy Medicaid coverage of the federal election health divide for Arkansas residents with low incomes.

The state created the program in 2013 as the primary means coverage for adults with incomes up to 138 percent of the poverty line to expand: $ 16.243 for one person, for example, or $ 33.465 for a family of four.

More than 250,000 Arkansans by Medicaid were extended to 30 November

Hutchinson said the state must continue to provide such coverage, as long as changes are made to encourage registrants to become financially independent and take responsibility for their health.

The carrier also depends on the state of the slow growth of spending in traditional state's Medicaid program from enough to save the state about $ 50 million annually.

A protrusion in the past year for Scottsdale, Arizona -. Based Optumas an actuarial consulting firm by the Department of Human Services employee is the approximate net cost of the extended state's Medicaid program from 2020, when the state appears for the payment of 10 percent of the cost of the program is responsible.

But according to revised estimates submitted on Wednesday to the Working Group, the net cost is only $ 10 million for the fiscal year ended 30 June 2021st

Figures published by Stephen Group of Manchester figures, NH, Arkansas this year it would be $ 218 million, but this would by $ 137 million in spending cuts in the traditional Medicaid program, a reduction of $ 45 million from the balanced be government spending on health care for the uninsured and $ 27 million in taxes on premiums in the stock option plans of the private purchase.

John Stephen, deputy director with Esteban Group, hired a consulting firm by the Working Group, the revised forecast said considered the evidence, the expanded Medicaid program covers a larger than expected number of registrants. Already entitled to the insurance even without enlargement

For example, the traditional Medicaid program covers costs associated with pregnancy and birth for women with incomes up to 200 percent of the federal poverty level.

If a woman is already enrolled in the private choice, as she becomes pregnant, but your costs will be obtained by the plan of private choice.

Cover expenditure by the private storage option the state money because the federal government is to pay the full cost of the coverage of the expanded Medicaid program.

The state will begin paying 5 percent of the cost of the program next year. increase State participation each year until it reaches the maximum of 10 percent to 2020th

In comparison, the state pays 30 percent of the cost of traditional Medicaid program with the federal government pays the rest. The traditional program includes women who are pregnant at the time of application for Medicaid.

Stephen said that government agencies also more experienced than in Arkansas expected eligible for funding under the traditional Medicaid program in question when they start to get sink federal disability benefits.

In the past, some people have applied for these services with the aim could qualify for Medicaid, said Stephen. Now no longer need to apply for disability benefits because they qualify for Medicaid coverage in qualified extended depending on your income alone program, he said.

Once the effect of the government revenue from the tax increase will be taken into account, showing the revised estimates that the expansion of Medicaid, will save the state budget of $ 637 million US dollars from 2017 to 2021, said Stephen.

The company had estimated in August that the program would save the state $ 438 million in the same period.

the cost of Medicaid state reduction expected $ 50 million per year will mean lower overall spending programs, including federal funds, $ 167 million per year or five years $ 835 million over.

Hutchinson, the Working Group said Wednesday that he will also identify further savings to wants services to provide at least some of the 2,900 Arkansans with intellectual disabilities that are available for services at home on the waiting list available to the tasks of daily living support.

The list contains 125 Arkansans who had been on the list since 2007, Hutchinson said. Move from the list cost about the state $ 6 million per year to pay $ 1.9 million.

"I urge you to work with me to create a specific savings to reduce the waiting list" that was created, "too long," Hutchinson said.

Program Arkansas, Hutchinson said the working group, registered with an income above the poverty line premiums of $ 19 would pay per month - the equivalent recorded 2 percent of the poorest income in this group.

Registrants have small co-payments when medical care gets.

Registrants to continue to receive no payments coverage, but suffer a debt to the state.

Hutchinson said he also supports below the poverty line with an income financial contributions require the name, but spokesman JR Davis said Wednesday he will not be part of the proposal the governor of Arkansas work.

Currently, about 80 percent of registered private are options have an income below the poverty line and do not have to contribute to the cost of care.

Those with an income above the poverty line should be small co-payment when services takes, if they contribute up to $ 15 for the "Accounts of independence."

Hutchinson said it will be authorized part of the cost of coverage for eligible employees whose companies to pay for expanded coverage Medicaid.

Enterprises should benefit plans under the Affordable Care Act and the Patient Protection 2010 and a cost comparable plans private options offer, Staatsintendant Medicaid said Dawn floor.

The state should also most of the staff to cover premiums and out of pocket costs, would be similar so that the coverage of the private option offered to cover.

Employees of companies who sign up for the program receive Employer contributions plans instead of private choice.

Hutchinson said the state also:

• Keep a maximum of three months of medical expenses by private options, pay incurred before registered application for coverage. Instead, begin reporting again to the candidates registered.

• Allow the consent Arkansas to terminate work within 30 days, if the state decides it no longer wants to support the program.

• Valid See admission to vocational training programs have been.

It is expected that the Working Group make a recommendation works in Arkansas next month. Lawmakers then vote on the matter at a special session Hutchinson said he wants to appeal to April.

The state then the proposed amendments to the federal waiver to submit for approval the private option in the Department of Health and Human Services to allow the United States.

Metro on 02/18/2016

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Harper Lee leaves him questions about his life and work

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NEW YORK (AP) - Harper Lee is dead, but the conversation about his life and work is just beginning.

"I think the retrospective is more useful than what was said during his lifetime, because there are many things are, we can move on to the things that were possible previously," friend Wayne Flynt Lee, a historian based Alabama, he told the Associated Press.

Lees death Friday in 89 years comes almost exactly one year after his publisher HarperCollins, surprised the world by announcing that a second novel by the author of "Kill a Mockingbird To" would be solved, ending what many thought was a permanent literary silence and urgently desired.

Lee confined to a nursing home in his native Monroeville, Alabama, and communicate through press releases that many asked if they ever on the debate on her mood and in the second book did "a vigilante go", he took without them. Probably, when the family to grow finally speak and learn more about what, if any, other writings he left behind.

"Each of the traders at the till at the local Minister is lovingly remind Harper Lee or personal interest, depending on how they were treated," said Lee biographer Charles Shields, including "Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee" it was in reissued in 2006 and released this year.

Flynt, who gave the eulogy at the private funeral Saturday in Monroe Lee belongs to which account for a memory.

Lee retreat from public life in the last fifty years has created a secret; the publication last summer of "Go vigilant", another began. Millions of people who thought they "knew" Atticus Finch, the named his sons with him and lawyers was because an apparently other man he over in the new book, the course lasted 20 years later but in fact it was written before Lee back what has become "to Kill a Mockingbird".

The bold lawyer who defended accused in 1930 a black man of rape in "Mockingbird" to prohibit in a devil's condemnation of the 1954 Supreme Court decision at the age of segregation in public schools reactionary. Atticus was "Mockingbird" a romantic figure Atticus "vigilant" about the truth? No Atticus who exactly Lee's father reflected, really changed or was simply a convenient patrician with the old rules, when all the forces are among the whites?

Ralph Eubanks, former editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review and currently a visiting professor at Southern Studies in Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi, the brilliance of "Mockingbird" said, is how to make someone a north or south they identify the problems and the characters ,

"On" a guard go ", had you support person," he said. "That to me has changed the dynamic."

In an email to The Associated Press, award-winning historian Isabel Wilkerson Lee said two legacies had created worthy.

"Harper Lee has given us a great gift: a beloved vision of our best efforts in" To Kill a Mockingbird "and sensitive reflection of what is below the previous handwriting:" Go vigilant, "Wilkerson wrote, best known for" the heat of other suns "that traces the black migration from the south in the 20th century.

"In the meantime, she gave us brave the history of our country we think in generations."

James McBride, winner of the National Book Award in 2013 for his novel "God bird" and author of the forthcoming nonfiction "Kill 'em and leave' James Brown said that the inscription" To Kill a Mockingbird "as a child on their was desired, you are an author and "crystallized" for him a racism that "floating" consciousness. Nobel prize Toni Morrison and others had been, the book marks a "white savior" novel but McBride believes that "Mockingbird" is the best History Lee might have said.

"Yes, I would like to see show black characters more dimension," he said. "But Harper Lee gave everything I had. She has nothing left, and that's everything you could ask for."

McBride re-read "Mockingbird" a few times, capture important new details with each reading, and gave the book to their children, also.

It does not read "go a vigilante."

"I prefer to remember" To Kill a Mockingbird "and Atticus Finch and all these signs that Harper Lee wanted us to remember them. I think it is not strong enough to was at the end of his life, to make informed decisions about their making work, "he said.

"There is no doubt in my mind that Harper Lee is a great American writer with the best intentions. You have somewhere to start conversation on race, and Harper Lee is an ideal place to start."

Flint waterline corrections should not be linked to the value of homes, officials say

Flint, MI - The rider leads for the replacement of water pipes to a Flint home may be higher than the houses are actually worth.

But officials say that money may be the only way to ensure that damage all city residents with clean drinking water and repairing the economic caused by the water crisis is the city.

State data shows more than 600 homes have been tested in the city a positive impact on the water levels of lead above the limit of 15 ppb federal action. However, affected households are not limited to a specific area.

High levels of lead have been and some carefully arranged in a section of luxury homes along Miller Street Tudor to recognize the city Cultural Association. However, high concentrations were also found in some parts of the traditional working class mainly affected by the industrialization of the city, the population decline and rampant crime.

A house on the east side of the city, which was mainly affected by arson in recent years, was purchased for $ 5,000 in August 2014, a few months after the city began the river as Flint and source complaints of drinking water has started to the water quality. In January it was determined lead levels more than 12 times the federal limit for action.

State officials said it could be about $ 4000 cost per household leads to replace, it would be for a little less help estimate the city. The total replacement cost is estimated at between $ 50 million and $ 60 million.

But despite the cost, the officials leads in the city say to set a priority for the people of Flint and the financial future of the city must remain.

"The value of a house is not measured by the price," said the representative. Dan Kildee, D-Flint Township. "Home is the place where a family where their children increase life. I think it would be a mistake to base the question of whether we someone's home to invest in clean water base, if the property is of particular value because is given day. "

Pipe replacement and the crisis should remain a priority, as it has an effect on the people of Flint and Genesee County unproven high levels of lead, Flint real estate sector, whose homes Lucy Ham said.

Ham said that potential buyers of Flint begin to move away because of the water crisis, some financial lenders began to demand evidence of water to households in Flint, and order before the money is released to buy a house.

This reluctance of lenders could eventually lead to a halt in all new funding for home sales Flint, and cause homes are not for sale in the city.

"We need to be done quickly," Ham said. "If the lender loans cut here, we're in trouble."

Gov. Rick Snyder until Wednesday, February 17 a press conference he said that the supply lines expected from at least 30 high risk, replaced, a study on the study of the water supply line and the reliability of the water infrastructure of professional services in Flint Rowe 15 . March base are completed.

Rowe has been selected by the State under a contract, not covered at $ 500,000 provide the water system of the city to evaluate manager to help guide what the water infrastructure can be done town for the crisis to end city water.

Ministry spokesman environmental quality Mel Brown said Rowe for the study was chosen because it. A lot of work on the infrastructure in recent years for the city

Rowe is also a plan asset management associated completed for mid-May.

"Right now the focus is on the location of pipelines and determination, which are made of lead, and then continue with a plan to replace them with lines with a high risk, high priority considered the beginning," said Dave Murray, newspapers Snyder. "The mayor (Karen) Weber stressed that the removal of the tubes is a priority, and we are working with our partners in the city."

The city is the national honor to the lead content of blood changed so high in some children Flint, after the city its water source Lake Huron from the water system Detroit Flint River bought in April 2014 decision, while the city was of an emergency manager by the State, the city will run appointed to connect to the water authority Karegnondi.

state regulators never demanded that the river water to be treated to make it less corrosive, lead pipes caused to leak into the water supply.

Although the city of Detroit connecting serve in October, the local authorities and the state have pregnant women and infants warned against the use of water, if it has already been tested lead levels remain higher than what can be treated through a filter.

called for work to begin next week Review and reach all the resources available to start lead service lines in the homes of those who most strongly to eliminate from lead exposure, including pregnant women, children and people with autoimmune.

Thursday announced Snyder that the lines of several hundred homes $ 2,000,000 to replace the city.

Snyder also set aside $ 25 million in additional funds as part of its 2017 budget for infrastructure, but the budget is not approved by the legislature.

There was of Snyder $ 3,000,000 for infrastructure as part of a $ 28 million loan signed last month, included the money for additional nurses, buy testing costs and bottled water and filters.

"A right to separate? France proposes that the emails work after hours to ignore

Firing updates on the work of the cheese may soon the past in France, the government is considering to bring their defense to attack in the famous life in harmony.

The "right to separate" at dinner - the prohibition of the answers by e-mail request to work - is part of a package of labor market reforms that France hopes its faltering economy to revive, while the defense of French culture technological invasion, and Amiel Sandrine   Alanna Petroff CNN reported.

The prohibition of mail, and the reform of the controversial 35-hour week, are part of a published by the French daily Le Parisien bill. only commercial law in France and have been a difficult place for investment and the bill is designed to strengthen the ailing economy, are reacted with reforms in July 2017th

But not at the expense of the settlement of French life.

French unions say that digital technology effectively destroyed the 35-hour week and created an "explosion of undeclared work", the report to be tempered by the rule of the "trigger" CNN.

"The law behind the realities of business is lagging," Jean-Luc Molins, the head of the CGT-UGITC for engineers and technicians, CNNMoney said.

The avalanche of emails at night - and even in the early morning hours - has too many know in the United States. In a CareerBuilder survey of 1,000 workers of the company in the United States, half said they meet outside the office to work regularly with 24 percent check e-mail from work during the activities with family and friends.

Most American workers said they are still connected by design, with 70 percent of those older than 55 and 56 percent of students say that the option is email her to the land of the review.

If true, the solution of France prove not popular on this side of the Atlantic. Work psychologist and author suggested Ron Friedman in an opinion piece for CNN that Company employees more flexibility to allow selective work of a personal incident, free for work and personal time:

Patagonia, a successful manufacturer of outdoor clothing just ask. Staff at the company's headquarters in California have the power to set their own hours, have access to daycare on site and are encouraged to practice regular breaks during the day ....

In the past five years profits have tripled in Patagonia, while the volume reduced to a fraction of the industry average. In terms of employee satisfaction? In the words of Billy Smith, a product tester Patagonia 26 "Landing this job was probably the best thing that ever happened to me."

In France, employers are already deleted in the night their own bans "disconnect" with some even the e-mail server. Lafage Frederick, director of a French engineering company, told CNN that workers are more productive stand by for a good evening.

Supporters of the new law say it is a good start, and will continue looking for ways to wear high constant connection to protect workers, reported the local French newspaper.

"One of the biggest risks is the balance between private and professional life behind this constant connectivity," Bruno Mettling, general manager of mobile giant orange and author of the report, with the law, said the local based.