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☆ It was only after my mom died that I truly learned how to have compassion for her — and myself
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-17 | by ( Tracey Yokas | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Theo and Bob set up beach chairs. I'd been journal-writing, reading, thinking, and talking more to my therapist about compassion, and I'd realized that she was right. Similar to how I'd never learned how to repair communication, talk about difficult feelings, or set healthy boundaries. I handed a single flower to Theo, Faith, and Bob, and kept one for myself. At the water's edge, we spoke about my mom, Lauraine: mom, grandmother, partner, friend, survivor, vilomah — parent whose child died.

Persons: —, Bob, who'd, Theo, we'd, Faith, he'd, I'd, overachieving —, vilomah, Lauren, you've, it's, Tracey Yokas Organizations: Service, Business, Faith Locations: New Jersey

☆ ‘Infested’ Review: Bugging Out
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-25 | by ( Jeannette Catsoulis | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

There are no fresh ideas in the French creepy-crawler “Infested,” yet this first feature from Sébastien Vanicek scurries forward with such pep and purpose that its shortcomings are easily forgivable. Add a handful of eager young actors, a sociopolitical slam and a claustrophobic location swarming with venomous spiders and you’ll be hunting for the DEET long before the credits roll. His latest acquisition is a spider that, unbeknown to Kaleb, was smuggled from a Middle Eastern desert after rendering one of its captors agonizingly kaput. In less time than it takes to say “arachnophobia,” it will escape, reproduce like a bandit and send its deadly progeny scampering into every unsealed nook and cranny. Woe betide anyone not wearing a hoodie.

Persons: Vanicek, Kaleb, Théo Christine, agonizingly kaput Locations: Paris, Kaleb

☆ 'Stoneman Willie' Beloved Pennsylvania Mummy Gets Burial, Real Name
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-07 | by ( Oct. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +2 min

By Julio-Cesar Chavez and Rich McKayREADING, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - A leather-skinned mummified man - a longtime curiosity lying in an open coffin in Reading, Pennsylvania and known only as "Stoneman Willie", got two things Saturday he went without for 128 years - a burial and his real name. A group of funeral home employees and well-wishers, said in unison, "Rest in peace, James," as they unveiled his tombstone, with his real name in small letters below large type reading, "Stoneman Willie." Because Murphy gave a fake name when arrested, local officials were unable to locate relatives, said local historian George Meiser. "Weeks passed, months passed, years passed and no one claimed the remains," Meiser said at the service. (Reporting by Julio-Cesar Chavez in Reading, Pennsylvania, writing and additional reporting by Rich McKay in Atlanta; editing by Diane Craft)

Persons: Julio, Cesar Chavez, Rich McKay, Stoneman Willie, James Murphy, James, Murphy, Kyle Blankenbiller, Theo C, George Meiser, Weeks, Meiser, Stoneman, Pastor Robert Whitmire, Diane Craft Organizations: Reading, Auman Inc Locations: Pennsylvania, Reading , Pennsylvania, New York, Reading, Atlanta

A group of funeral home employees and well-wishers, said in unison, "Rest in peace, James," as they unveiled his tombstone, with his real name in small letters below large type reading, "Stoneman Willie." Because Murphy gave a fake name when arrested, local officials were unable to locate relatives, said local historian George Meiser. "Weeks passed, months passed, years passed and no one claimed the remains," Meiser said at the service. Pastor Robert Whitmire told the gatherers that to those who may have known him, "Stoneman Willie...at one time may have been a beloved friend and family member." Reporting by Julio-Cesar Chavez in Reading, Pennsylvania, writing and additional reporting by Rich McKay in Atlanta; editing by Diane CraftOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: James Murphy, Stoneman Willie, James, Murphy, Kyle Blankenbiller, Theo C, George Meiser, Weeks, Meiser, Stoneman, Pastor Robert Whitmire, Julio, Cesar Chavez, Rich McKay, Diane Craft Organizations: Reading, Auman Inc, Thomson Locations: Reading , Pennsylvania, U.S, Pennsylvania, New York, Reading, Atlanta

Blankenbiller said at the funeral that Murphy’s real name was known to the original Theo Auman, director of the funeral home in 1895. The once unidentified man was in jail accused of being a thief, and he was accidentally mummified by a mortician experimenting with new embalming techniques. "Weeks passed, months passed, years passed and no one claimed the remains," Meiser said at the service. Pastor Robert Whitmire told the gatherers that to those who may have known him, "Stoneman Willie...at one time may have been a beloved friend and family member." Reporting by Julio-Cesar Chavez in Reading, Pennsylvania, writing and additional reporting by Rich McKay in Atlanta; editing by Diane Craft私たちの行動規範：トムソン・ロイター「信頼の原則」

Persons: James Murphy, Stoneman Willie, Stoneman Willie ”, James, Murphy, Kyle Blankenbiller, Theo C, Blankenbiller, Theo Auman, George Meiser, Weeks, Meiser, Stoneman, Pastor Robert Whitmire, Julio, Cesar Chavez, Rich McKay, Diane Craft 私 Organizations: Reading, Auman Inc Locations: Reading , Pennsylvania, U.S, Pennsylvania, New York, Reading, Atlanta

☆ Consumer Reports urges dark chocolate makers to reduce lead, cadmium levels
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-23 | by ( Jonathan Stempel | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

NEW YORK, Jan 23 (Reuters) - Consumer Reports on Monday urged four chocolate producers to commit by Valentine's Day to reduce the amounts of lead and cadmium in their dark chocolate products, after testing revealed harmful levels of the heavy metals. Last month, Consumer Reports said 23 of the 28 dark chocolate bars it tested included potentially harmful levels of lead, cadmium or both for people who eat more than one ounce of chocolate a day. Consumer Reports said many consumers eat dark chocolate for its potential health benefits and relatively low sugar levels, but "there's nothing healthy about ingesting heavy metals." Consumer Reports did not immediately respond to a request for additional information. Trader Joe's has been sued at least nine times by consumers over its dark chocolate since Consumer Reports released its study.

☆ UK bond dealers see jump in gilt issuance for 2023/24 - Reuters poll
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-16 | by ( David Milliken | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

However in the 2023/24 financial year, gilt issuance is expected to jump to 238 billion pounds, according to the median poll forecast, the second highest ever after the 486 billion pounds of issuance in 2020/21 to fund COVID-19 support measures. “It feels like there shouldn’t be too many surprises, but the gilt market remains febrile, and even small news could create oversized reactions,” he said. Gilt issuance is distinct from public sector net borrowing (PSNB), the main borrowing measure forecast by Britain’s Office for Budget Responsibility. Here GEMMs expect PSNB, excluding public-sector banks, to rise to a median 187 billion pounds, almost double the 99 billion pounds forecast by the OBR in March. Next year it is forecast to fall to 142 billion pounds, versus an OBR forecast of 50.2 billion pounds.

☆ UK gilt yields rise after plunging on BoE action
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-29 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Thirty-year gilt yields , which surged to a 20-year high above 5% on Wednesday before dropping by more than 100 basis points after the BoE intervention, were up about 2 basis points at 3.96% at 0904 GMT. Twenty-year gilt yields rose about 6 basis points (bps) to 4.20%, having earlier hit a high of 4.309%, also reversing only a small part of their fall on Wednesday. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterShorter-dated gilt yields rose more strongly with two-year yields adding about 13 bps to 4.38%, having risen as high as 4.48%, though they remained well below a post-2008 peak of 4.761% hit on Tuesday. Theo Chapsalis, head of UK rates strategy at Morgan Stanley, forecast on Thursday that the BoE action would help 10-year yields stabilise at a level below 4.1%. At its first auction on Wednesday, it accepted offers of 1.025 billion pounds of gilts out of 2.587 billion pounds of offers submitted.

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