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Idea Flight is a new tool to share ideas, presentations and documents more easily from one iPad to many. It also takes professional networking to the next level with an intuitive LinkedIn integration. With Idea Flight, meeting attendees can connect on LinkedIn directly in a meeting without ever leaving the presentation.

Idea Flight enables one person (the Pilot) to control the screens of multiple iPads (the Passengers).

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IOWA CITY, Iowa, July 2 (UPI) — Several retailers said they would no longer buy pork from Iowa Select after a video of animal abuse was made public.

Costco Wholesale of Issaquah, Wash., said its supplier, JBS Swift, a Colorado company, would no longer be buying pork from a farm where a video showed piglets castrated without painkillers and thrown across a room, The Seattle Times reported Saturday.

Retailers Safeway and Kroger also said they would boycott Iowa Select products.

In a statement, Costco said it would “insist … through an ongoing audit that all such humane procedures are being followed.”

Iowa Select called the video clip “unacceptable animal handling.”

In the film, an employee says, “Pigs are very bouncy. I

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Lots of websites offer information on the SOL “statute of limitations” for debts and credit reports but often these lists can change. If a state has ammended its laws, then the SOL can change. If you’re dealing with old debts or trying to figure out what the SOL is for a debt then the safest way to do so is by going right to the source.

The NAAG – National Association of Attorneys General has a list for each state. The list has links to each state’s website where you can research your state law and get the correct and current date. If you are going to begin negotiating with a collection agency or put them on notice to cease contact because of an expired statute of limitation then you better be sure you’re right. Keeping a b

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The court ruled in favor of former employee Anthony Mitten, who is white and worked as a supervisor at Lockheed’s plant in Marietta. Mitten was fired in May 2005 after he received and then forwarded to his supervisor a racially insensitive e-mail about blacks. Mitten sued Lockheed in 2006 after he learned that two black employees had transmitted racist e-mails targeting whites but had only received temporary suspensions.

CHICAGO, July 1 (UPI) — Grain futures closed mixed Friday on the Chicago Board of Trade as most contracts rebounded slightly from Thursday’s tumble prompted by a stockpile report.

Corn was off 41 1/4 to up 11 3/4, soybeans were up 13 1/4 to up 18 1/2, wheat was off 23 to up 5 1/2 and oats were up 5 1/2 to up 6.

September corn plummeted Friday, although July made gains with weather conditions seen as neutral and concern rising of long liquidation pressures. The U.S. Department of Agriculture said 1.14 million metric tons were sold to an unnamed destination Friday. Wheat prices also traded up and down as Russia said it would life an export ban that went into place in August 2010 due to a severe drought.

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NEW YORK, June 29 (UPI) — Crude oil prices headed higher in New York, topping $95 per barrel Wednesday with the market looking suddenly stronger.

The Energy Information Administration said U.S. oil inventories dropped by 4.4 million barrels to 359.5 million barrels in the week ending June 24.

The drop exceeded expectations, punching the price of West Texas Intermediate crude 2 percent higher on the New York Mercantile Exchange to $95.03 per barrel.

Early Wednesday, Greece secured passage of critical austerity measures, a positive sign for those worried Greece could fall into default, as the budget bill all but guarantees the European Union will cooperate with international assistance for the debt-burdened country.

In New York, home heating oil prices added 0.53 cents to $2.94 per gallon.

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