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Dad is excited his son is giving his thesis for doctorate in Math at Stanford U. Son passed.
"Cool as a Cucumber"
In the wisdom of King Solomon he once said that "When you hear the first side of a story you tend to believe it until you hear the other side"...
Dan Price, CEO of Gravity Payments, made news last April when he raised all employee salaries to at least $70,000.
He claimed his motive was based on research that shows increased wages increase happiness up to about $75k per year.
But according to a recent Bloomberg article this may have been a smoke screen.
Karen Weise found Dan Price has been fighting with his co-founder Lucas Price over Dan's salary for years, and that his co-founder served him with a lawsuit weeks before the pay raises were announced.
Apparently Dan had been paying himself nearly three times the salary of CEO's of similar sized companies in his industry, over the strong objection of his co-founder.
The lawsuit was not officially filed until after the announcement, making it originally look like the pay rise caused the lawsuit.
Now it appears to be the opposite. Since the lawsuit is trying to force the CEO to buy out his co-founder based on the CEO's prior greed, lowering the short term profitability of the company while boosting his positive PR seems to be a likely motive for the pay hike.
Seems like every governing body is greedy and corrupted in one way or another these days...
Federal civil rights officials at the Department of Justice are launching an effort to combat widespread constitutional abuses in U.S. courts in the hope of ending budget-driven policies that cripple those unable to afford fines and fees for minor offenses, the Huffington Post reports.
The DOJ's focus on court fees and bail practices follows the Ferguson report which found officials had colluded to raise revenue when they hit residents with exorbitantly high fines and fees, regardless of their ability to pay, and jailed people to extract the money.
The Sunlight Foundation and MuckRock recently launched an audit to see how widely the practice has spread.
How the Hybrid Sports Bicycle Works
I have been watching this unfold for awhile now. I noticed that when the locals started to resist this project the powers that be started to use high pressure systems to ward off any major sources of rain in the area.
The Hawaiian Supreme Court has pulled a construction permit for the Thirty Meter Telescope project.
A vocal minority of Hawaiians has vehemently protested the construction
of the telescope for religious reasons.
Now, they have been successful
in contesting the construction permit.
The ruling
reads in part:
"The process followed by the Board here did not meet
these standards.
Quite simply, the Board put the cart before the horse
when it issued the permit before the request for a contested case
hearing was resolved and the hearing was held.
Accordingly, the permit
cannot stand."
Do you visit coffee shop WiFi often?
"I think that what we have seen and how they were equipped, there had to be some kind of planning in this," Burguan said...
"It is interesting to note that the local swat team was on full tactical exercise just 4 minutes away when the crime took place."
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