Sunday, October 31, 2010

Workshops about grief coming to a 'happy' place - The Free Lance-Star

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Workshops about grief coming to a 'happy' place

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Lloyd's series of free workshops, dubbed Grief 101, will be held the first Saturday of each month from 3 to 4 pm in a private room at Joseph-Beth ...



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Friday, October 29, 2010

Hansen Out Of Hospital, Solder Among 16 NFF Winners - CUBuffs.com

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Hansen Out Of Hospital, Solder Among 16 NFF Winners

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The NFF National Scholar-Athlete Award includes an $18000 post-graduate scholarship and a trip to New York for the announcement of the overall winner and ...



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Thursday, October 28, 2010

Facebook grows as MySpace cuts back - Orlando Business Journal:

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Reports from comScore and the Conferencr Board this week both showedPalo Calif.-based Facebook has grown larger than it Los Angeles-based rival. The comScorde report for May showed Facebookwith 70.278 milliojn unique visitors in the U.S. compared to MySpace'sa 70.255 million. The lead is even bigger with MySpaceat 123.2 million unique visitors last montj compared with Facebook's 307.1 million. The Conference Boar d report on first quarter online userz inthe U.S. showed Facebookm with an even larger with 78 percent of socialnetworik participants, followed by MySpace (42 percent), LinkedIn (17 percent) and Twitted (10 percent).
Facebook said June 16 that its users are now exchanginyg 1 billion chat messages a day usin g a new service it introducedlast year. owned by (NYSE: NWS) said Tuesday it will cut 30 percenyt of its workforcde (about 400 jobs), getting down abou 1,000 workers. Jonathan Miller, CEO of Digital Media at News said, “MySpace grew too big considering the realitiesof today’s

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Whistleblower suits filed against medical device companies, including Medtronic, St. Jude Medical - San Francisco Business Times:

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A Houston court unsealed documents related to the legal complaintzson Tuesday. Other companies namec in the suitinclude , a Natick, Mass.-baseed firm with operations in Maple Grovwe and Arden Hills, and , of San Ramon, Calif. Endoscopidc has agreed to pay $1.4 million to settle a claim filed bythe U.S. Justice Fridley-based Medtronic said in a statementr that the unsealing of the document isa "normal step in the process set forth in the statute for the handlingf of these kinds of cases." "As with all litigationh matters, this case will run its course throughy the judicial process, where Medtronicc will file its responses and argue its the company stated.
Officials from Boston Scientifif andLittle Canada-based St. Jude Medical couldn’g immediately be reached for commentWednesday morning. The recentf allegations accuse the device companies of marketingy products used to removre scar tissue as treatments for atrial an abnormalheart rhythm. Federal regulators had not approved the use of the devices as a means to addressatrial fibrillation.

Saturday, October 23, 2010

Telcos target rural phone fee - Dallas Business Journal:

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billion , which helps pay for phone servicwfor poor, rural areas and schoolw and libraries. They are facing oppositionb from rural phone companies over the question of how to move the which was formed in in the 1930sx and expanded with the Telecommunicationsd Actof 1996, into the Internet age. “It’s workedc for voice telecom,” says Dan Mitchell, vice presidentf of the legal and industruy division ofthe Arlington, Va.-based National Telecommunicationss Cooperative Association, a trade groupp representing rural telecommunications providers. “It needs to be transitionedf to broadbandand high-speed Internert communications.
That’s the $64 million questionm — how the ( ) will do that The fund is paid for by telecommunications companiew through what amounts to a tax on thei r revenue for internationaland long-distance Not surprisingly, that tax is passed on to the customers. Consumers, for instance, typicall y pay $2 or $3 per monthh for the Universal Service Fund ontheirf long-distance bill.

Friday, October 22, 2010

Google 2.4% rate shows how $60 billion lost to tax loopholes - Washington Post

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Google 2.4% rate shows how $60 billion lost to tax loopholes

Washington Post


Oct. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Google Inc. cut its taxes by $3.1 billion in the last three years using a technique that moves most of its foreign profits through ...


Google's 'evil' tax dodge

The Week Magazine


Google saves $3.1 billion through tax loophole

The Hill (blog)


Search: Tax Breaks - Artful Dodger Google Saves $3b in 3 Years

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