You can’t be a customer and a protester at the same time, the manager said.
What about the 1st Amendment? – Ed.
Category: News and Views
20 Riskiest Business Moves Of 2011 | Slideshows
Military Dad Surprises Daughter At Spelling Bee After She Nails ‘Sergeant’ | CNN
Weekly Economic Update | LAEDC
THIS WEEK’S HEADLINES:
- Sign of Recovery: Demand for U.S. Capital Goods Climbs Most in Three Months
- U.S. Manufacturing Activity Edges Up in September
- Top Ten Counties by Employment
- California State Tax Revenues Rise 6.9% in Second Quarter
- Events of Interest
- SAVE THE DATE! November 3, 2011: The 16th Annual Eddy Awards®
- November 10, 2011: 23rd Annual Southern California Visitor Industry Outlook Conference
Swiss Brides Buy Cover Against Wedding Crash | Bloomberg
Corina Suter can’t afford to take any chances as she plans her wedding on a Swiss mountaintop next June. Should disaster strike, her insurance kicks in.
Scientists Reconstruct Brains’ Visions Into Digital Video In Historic Experiment
UC Berkeley scientists have developed a system to capture visual activity in human brains and reconstruct it as digital video clips. Eventually, this process will allow you to record and reconstruct your own dreams on a computer screen.
Faster than light particles found, claim scientists | Science | The Guardian
Scientists at the Gran Sasso facility will unveil evidence on Friday that raises the troubling possibility of a way to send information back in time, blurring the line between past and present and wreaking havoc with the fundamental principle of cause and effect.
Microsoft Anti-Malware Tool Mistakenly Snuffs Google Chrome | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com
Microsoft’s Security Essentials anti-malware tool has mistakenly identified Google Chrome as a password-pilfering trojan — and actually removed the browser from many users’ machines — but a fix for this rather amusing false positive is now available.
My wife and I have an inside joke for unwanted assistance. We say ‘Stop helping like Microsoft’ – Ed.
California and Bust | Business | Vanity Fair
The problem with police officers and firefighters isn’t a public-sector problem; it isn’t a problem with government; it’s a problem with the entire society. It’s what happened on Wall Street in the run-up to the subprime crisis. It’s a problem of people taking what they can, just because they can, without regard to the larger social consequences.
Weekly Economic Update | LAEDC
THIS WEEK’S HEADLINES:
- Leading Economic Indicator Report for August
- California Home Sales & Prices in August
- California New Home Construction Up in August
- Nonresidential Construction Up 13.6% in August
- The U.S. Current Account Deficit Decreased Slightly in Q2
- Travel & Tourism Spending On the Rise
- Events of Interest
- September 29, 2011: Los Angeles NABE Luncheon with Dr. Marcy Zwelling, Economist and Healthcare Professional
- SAVE THE DATE! November 3, 2011: The 16th Annual Eddy Awards®
- November 10, 2011: 23rd Annual Southern California Visitor Industry Outlook Conference
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