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Kerry & Pakistan Drones

August 2, 2013 by · Comments Off on Kerry & Pakistan Drones 

Kerry & Pakistan Drones, Following talks with the Pakistani government, Secretary of State John Kerry said the United States is making progress in the war on terror, and hopes to end the use of drone strikes “very soon.”

The secretary of state told a Pakistani television station that President Barack Obama has a “very real timeline” for ending the strikes.

He did not provide specifics on the timeline.

We hope it’s going to be very, very soon,” Kerry said Thursday, according to a transcript provided by the State Department.

“I believe that we’re on a good track. I think the program will end as we have eliminated most of the threat and continue to eliminate it,” Kerry said.

He added that the cessation depends on “a number of factors” and that Washington is working on it with the Pakistani government.

A State Department statement later addressed Kerry’s remarks.

Henry John Heinz III

March 8, 2012 by · Comments Off on Henry John Heinz III 

Henry John Heinz III, Henry John Heinz (October 11, 1844 – May 14, 1919) was an American businessman who founded the H. J. Heinz Company. Heinz was one of eight children born to John Henry Heinz and Anna Margaretha Heinz. Both parents had emigrated from Kallstadt, Germany and settled in the Birmingham section of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-today known as the South Side.

When Henry was six, the family moved several miles up the Allegheny River to the little town of Sharpsburg. There, at age six, young Henry (called Harry by his family) started helping his mother tend a small backyard garden behind the family home. At age eight Henry was canvassing the neighborhood with a basket under each arm selling vegetables from the family garden door to door. By age nine he was growing, grinding, bottling and selling his own brand of horseradish sauce, based on his mother’s recipe. At ten he was given a ¾-acre (3,000 m²) garden of his own and had graduated to a wheelbarrow to deliver his vegetables. At twelve he was working 3½ acres (14,000 m²) of garden using a horse and cart for his three-times-a-week deliveries to grocery stores in Pittsburgh. At seventeen he was grossing $2,400 a year-a handsome sum for the times.

Heinz attended public schools and then Duff’s Business College. After graduating from college, he started employment with his father’s brick manufacturing business, eventually becoming a partner in the firm. During this time he continued growing and selling fresh produce.

John Kerry’s Wife

March 8, 2012 by · Comments Off on John Kerry’s Wife 

John Kerry’s Wife, Teresa Heinz says she is being treated for breast cancer discovered through a mammogram and wants younger women to keep undergoing the tests despite a federal panel’s recent recommendation to reduce their frequency.
The 71-year-old wife of the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee, Sen. John Kerry, of Massachusetts, told the Associated Press that the cost of mammography is far lower than the physical and personal tolls women ages 40 to 60 face if their cancer goes undetected early and they later have to be treated with aggressive chemotherapy.

“Chemotherapy is serious. It also costs a lot of money. It’s very painful. And it’s very destructive of people’s — most people’s — lives for a while, anyway. So why put people through that instead of just having a test that’s done, and it’s done?” Heinz told the AP during an interview this week. “So that’s why I was so upset about that decision of this panel.”

She recalled nurses in a hospital where she was receiving a magnetic resonance imaging procedure, or MRI, being “so livid” when they heard the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommend last month that women start receiving mammograms at age 50, rather than the long-standing practice of 40.

“They said, ‘We’ve taken all these years to teach women to do preventive mammograms, and now look at this,'” Heinz said.

President Obama’s administration later backed off the recommendation amid criticism from many medical and women’s groups. It said the government’s policies “remain unchanged.”

Kerry helped launch Obama on the national political stage by giving the then-Illinois senator the keynote speaking role at the 2004 Democratic National Convention.

Heinz — the widow of Sen. John Heinz, heir to the Heinz ketchup fortune — said she found out in late September that she had cancer in her left breast after having her annual mammogram.

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