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Librarian Fired for Refusing to Reveal Her Weight

Aug 6th

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Bureacracy at its finest! Lisa Bonifas, a city library circulation clerk in Urbandale, Iowa, was fired for refusing to reveal her weight. Why was the city asking in the first place? It’s printing the information on new city ID cards.

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AIG’s making money but when will it pay back the government?

Aug 5th

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As American International Group gears up to announce its latest quarterly performance on Friday, the elephant in the middle of the room is staying put. When will the insurance giant — now a shell of its former self — repay the $102 billion it still owes American taxpayers?

…The government decided to bail out AIG when the company was on the verge of collapse in September 2008. So far, the government has given out $136.5 billion in loans and direct payments, of which AIG (AIG, Fortune 500) still owes $102 billion. AIG rejected a deal earlier this year that could have helped the company cut its debt to taxpayers in half. Two months ago, talks to sell its Asian insurance unit AIA to British insurer Prudential (PUK) collapsed after the two companies haggled over a $30 billion price tag. On Friday, analysts think AIG will likely say it’s on track to raise a significant amount of cash from an initial public offering of AIA in the fall, but they don’t expect AIG to throw out any estimates as to how much it might raise through an IPO.Still, the IPO is clearly plan B for AIG. David Merkel, head of Aleph Investments, a money management firm, said AIG is unlikely to raise any more than $30 billion through an IPO. Merkel used to work for AIG as a life actuary about 20 years ago. The AIA…

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From the NYPD to JetBlue

Aug 5th

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Some airlines try to hire flight attendants who are young and attractive. JetBlue Airways has a type, too: cops and fire fighters.

…his take-charge manner and calm under fire were crucial and his corny jokes and upbeat nature were infectious.JetBlue decided from the beginning that hires didn’t have to have airline experience and it wanted to hire locally. When Mr. Spivey showed up, it dawned on recruiters that people who had been through emergencies routinely wouldn’t panic onboard airplanes. Fire fighters and police officers come from careers where they dealt with the public and provided customer service, jetBlue officials say. They’re used to working holidays. They knew how to handle people in stressful situations and could take command of an aircraft cabin. “Past experiences are predictive of future behavior,” Chief Executive David Barger says. “People who don’t get too high and don’t get too low, you want that in areas where decisions have to be made.” Spivey Family Leonard Spivey at his retirement party from the NY Fire Department in February 1995. Vicky Stennes, jetBlue’s vice president of inflight experience, notes that the…

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Google, Verizon Said to Have Deal on Web Traffic

Aug 5th

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Verizon Communications Inc. and Google Inc. reached a deal on how to handle Internet traffic, striking their own accord on policy being weighed by U.S. officials, two people briefed by the companies said today.

…T Inc. and other companies on rules proposed by Chairman Julius Genachowski to regulate how phone and cable companies handle Web traffic such as Google s YouTube videos. Regulations or legislation that result would bind Google and Verizon as well.
We ve been working with Google for 10 months to reach an agreement on broadband policy, said Verizon spokesman David Fish. We are currently engaged in and committed to the negotiation process led by the FCC.
Nothing to Announce
Google has nothing to announce at this point, said Mistique Cano, a Washington-based spokeswoman, in an e-mail.
The two companies have become business allies through Verizon Wireless, the largest U.S. wireless carrier, which is co-owned by Verizon. Mobile phones that use software from Google, owner of the largest Internet search engine, helped Verizon s profit this year.
New York-based Verizon s earnings beat estimates last month after its wireless unit introduced phones running on Google s Android software, including Droids from…

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Small Business and Hard Facts (Infographic)

Aug 5th

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Collectively, America’s largest employer is small business. Small businesses in the U.S. employ more than half of the private workforce in the country and are the primary exporters

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States That do not Nickle and Dime You on Taxes

Aug 5th

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Want to make your retirement dollars go further? Move to these states to reduce your tax bite.

…Source: sxc.hu Photo: ctoocheckOne of the things that can eat into your retirement funds is taxes. No matter where you live in the U.S., you will have to pay federal taxes. However, state income and sales taxes are a completely different matter. These taxes vary according to where you live, and can make a big difference how much money you have to use at your disposal during retirement. Kiplinger offers a really great interactive map that offers insight into states where the tax situation can make retirement more desirable. Here are some of the results:No income taxesIf you want to avoid income taxes altogether, you can try moving to Washington, Nevada, Alaska, Texas, South Dakota, Wyoming or Florida. It is also worth noting that New Hampshire and Tennessee only tax interest and dividends, so other income is safe. These states can provide you with a way to avoid paying state taxes on your hard-earned income. Watch out, though: Only New Hampshire and Alaska have no sales tax to go with their lack of income…

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Google to Stop Developing Wave

Aug 4th

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Google doesn’t plan to continue developing Wave as a standalone product, but will maintain the site at least through the end of the year and extend the technology for use in other Google projects.

…and enabling third-party developers to build new tools like consumer gadgets for travel, or robots to check code. But despite these wins, and numerous loyal fans, Wave has not seen the user adoption we would have liked. We don’t plan to continue developing Wave as a standalone product, but we will maintain the site at least through the end of the year and extend the technology for use in other Google projects. The central parts of the code, as well as the protocols that have driven many of Wave’s innovations, like drag-and-drop and character-by-character live typing, are already available as open source, so customers and partners can continue the innovation we began. In addition, we will work on tools so that users can easily liberate their content from Wave.Wave has taught us a lot, and we are proud of the team for the ways in which they have pushed the boundaries of computer science. We are excited about what they will develop next as we continue to create innovations with the potential to advance…

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How to Build a Better Rocket

Aug 3rd

Posted by WakRekBeext in News

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Sony and the rocket clubs worked with a group of high school students, to build rocket with a Sony VAIO laptop as its “avionics package” (i.e. the rocket’s brains).

…There are many things that could go wrong when you launch an entire laptop as part of a rocket. A laptop needs to be able to handle some serious Gs (especially when the parachute deploys–the G forces greatly increase for a brief moment when the parachutes open). Second, a notebook adds considerable weight to the rocket, which can prevent the rocket from flying as high as it otherwise could….

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Praying Outside Clinic Gets Man Disorderly Conduct Charge

Aug 3rd

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The law, passed in October, states that a person cannot approach within 8 feet of another person without consent “for the purpose of passing a leaflet or handbill to, displaying a sign to, or engaging in oral protest, education or counseling” within 50 feet from any health care facility.

…The law, passed in October, states that a person cannot approach within 8 feet of another person without consent “for the purpose of passing a leaflet or handbill to, displaying a sign to, or engaging in oral protest, education or counseling” within 50 feet from any health care facility….

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Homeless man to lose inheritance to child that isn’t his

Aug 1st

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On July 28, 2010, the California Supreme Court declined to review a Court of Appeal decision that forced Hari Wilburn, a homeless man, to pay tens of thousands of dollars in child support for a child even though DNA excludes him as the dad and he never acted as the dad.

…California Courts Uphold Order Making Homeless Man Pay Child Support and Lose Inheritance, Reports National Coalition For Men
For Immediate Release
LOS ANGELES/EWORLDWIRE/July 30, 2010 — National Coalition For Men (NCFM) attorney Marc E. Angelucci reports that on July 28, 2010, the California Supreme Court declined to review a Court of Appeal decision that forced Hari Wilburn, a homeless man, to pay tens of thousands of dollars in child support for a child even though DNA excludes him as the dad and he never acted as the dad. On August 17, the probate court in San Diego will hear the mother’s request to intercept Wilburn’s inheritance from his deceased mother in order to pay the child support order. Wilburn was represented at the appellate level by Angelucci. NCFM is a nonprofit organization that addresses how sex discrimination affects men and boys and that helped change California law in 2005 to help protect men from false paternity claims. In 1991, Cathy Tate named Wilburn as the father of her…

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