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Bobby Jindal Has Been Sworn In As The Youngest Governor Of US State Of Louisiana

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HOUSTON: Indian-American Piyush Bobby Jindal, a conservative Republican, recreated history on Monday as he was sworn in as the youngest Governor of once racially segregated US state of Louisiana.

He promised a "New Louisiana" that will be a magnet for the dreamers, the risk-takers, the adventurers, the leaders of America's new economy, Jindal said immediately after being sworn in as Louisiana's 55th Governor.

Alongside with his wife Spriya and three little children, Piyush recited the oath of office, holding his hand to his family's Bible, and became Louisiana's first immigrant Governor.

Pascal Calogero, chief justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court, administered the oath, making Jindal the first non-white governor in Louisiana and fourth Republican state chief executive since Reconstruction.

He is the first Governor from Baton Rouge since the 1920s. He was born in Baton Rouge and raised in the Kenilworth neighborhood.

Jindal said an overhaul of the state's ethics laws and reduction in business taxes would make Louisiana a beacon for current residents and those who have left the state to seek opportunity elsewhere.

"For reasons none of us can understand or fully appreciate, history has placed all of us -- every living Louisianian, those within her borders and without -- in a position previous generations could only envy," Jindal said.

New Book On Boomer Retirees

Book: Hardback | 235 x 159mm | 208 pages | ISBN 9780670066889 | 30 Dec 2007 | Viking Canada | Price $26.00
Review from: http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/StockNews/987036/

In The New Retirement, global economic strategist Sherry Cooper explains that the boomer generation will be reaching traditional retirement age very soon and the enormous wave of boomer retirees will crest in 2025. This phenomenon will profoundly affect the labour markets, the economy, and financial markets for decades. But will boomers retire they way their parents did? Will they work longer and transition gradually into semi-retirement?

Cooper tells us that boomers will redefine retirement with great energy and creativity, working well beyond age 65 and mostly by choice. With the dramatic rise in their longevity, healthy goal-driven boomers will seek purposeful leisure—focusing on regeneration, rejuvenation, and low-stress contributions to society and their own personal wealth.

Follow Cooper through her own journey to discover the route to financial security in this engaging and insightful read. Learn how the new retirement is about living well while achieving both monetary security and your personal goals.

Selected Excerpts:

Health and Achievement
- The increase in longevity provides the opportunity for boomers to do so much more after age 60 than earlier generations did. - Late-life can be active and pain-free. You can be accepting of natural physical and mental weakening, while enjoying the enhanced wisdom, selflessness, and peacefulness that aging can bring. - Success in life varies from person to person, but it is much broader than simply success in work. - Boomers have strived for self-actualization all their working lives. In retirement, they will do so by giving back and leaving a legacy.

Canadian Boomers in a Global Context
- Labour shortages will mount in the developed world - especially Canada - as aging boomers leave the workforce. - Potential growth in advanced economies will slow unless the decline in the growth of the labour force can be offset by rising productivity growth, increased immigration of skilled workers, additional outsourcing, and later retirement for boomers. - Productivity growth is essential to raising living standards. We need more appropriate corporate tax policies to encourage investment to boost productivity.

The Aging Population
- Large numbers of retirees will strain the pension and health-care systems in most industrial countries. - Governments will be torn between the needs of boomers (health care, pensions, safety, public services) and those of young families (schools, highways, affordable housing, daycare). There could be significant conflict between age groups. This requires immediate action and planning.

Lifestyle and Health Planning
- Develop a lifestyle plan for retirement. It will help determine (and be determined by) how much income you will likely need (and have) in retirement. Develop this plan long before retirement and test it out - what you thought was ideal may not be so. - Your health is paramount. Do what is best for your health and well-being. Make sure you have easy access to good health care. - Stress is a killer, so is obesity. Premature illness and death can be mitigated by lifestyle and nutritional choices. - The like between body and mind is well established. Healthful emotional development is a life-long process and adds life to your years as well as years to your life.

The World’s First Self-Refrigerating Cans
POSTED: Monday, January 14, 2008
FROM BLOG: Got2BeGreen –

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Created by Tempra Technology and Crown Holdings, the world’s first self-chilling can is near completion to commercialize and market to top beverage companies.

Also known as I.C.Can™, the self-contained can uses the latest in insulating, thermal and vacuum heat pump technology. There is no need for this cold beverage to sit in a refrigerated vending machine. Each of the cans are able to take the form of a 500 ml beverage can to include both the integral self-refrigerating device and the beverage.

In just three minutes, the latest breakthroughs in technology drop the can’s temperature to a minimum of 16.7° Celsius or 30° Fahrenheit. When activated, the desiccant contained within a vacuum draws the heat from the beverage through the evaporator into an insulated heat-sink container. The patented vacuum power that lowers the temperature so quickly is what leaves the beverage cool.

The cans are non-toxic, 100% safe and eco-friendly. Per the company, they are also easy to operate, transport and store, using no carbon dioxide, CFC, HFC or any other compressed gas.