On May 19, 2010, after nearly a six week trial, a New York jury awarded a record $250 million in punitive damages, the largest of its kind in a sexual discrimination case, to a class of female sales employees in the U.S.

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Novartis Reaches $152 Million Dollar Settlement in Gender Bias Law Suit Filed in New York Federal Court

I received the Best in Show award again this year at Hiawatha Music Festivals Artists in the Round!  I had a great time meeting many of my customers from online and people who have seen my jewelry at The Garden Bouquet and Design! Read this article in the local paper, The Mining Journal to find out more about Hiawatha Music Festival 2010!

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‘Best in Show’ at Hiawatha’s Artists in the Round

A Denver Post article offered a brief glimpse into the health benefits of corporate leaders, on the unusual occasion of a former CEO now in legal fight for the health benefits in the style to which he had become accustomed: Poor Joe. He’s not getting the health-care benefits he was promised.

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Not Your Average Joe’s Health Plan

I always seem to have the supreme misfortune to draw the letter W when playing Scrabble in French, as there’s barely one-quarter of a page in the French dictionary devoted to words that begin with that letter. People use “Wu” for Chinese money; although I allow them, it’s not in the French dictionary so I’m not sure that’s in the official rules.

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The Basic Recipe for these bars is: One part beeswax One part butter – cocoa, shea or other nut butter One part oil – any oil soft at room temperature The goal in creating the recipe is to have a bar that melts at skin temperature. The beeswax melts at about 160 degrees, the cocoa butter at about 120, and the oils are soft at room temperature…so the combination will create your bar. The butter you use will also determine any adjustments to the ratio

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Cocoa Butter Massage Bars

I have two delicious blogs for you to check out this morning, little darlings. The first I learned about from Drugmonkey and is written by frequent commenter Namnezia. On Take it to the Bridge, in an entry titled “Of Color”, Namnezia writes: In fact, I am the only minority in my department, and one of a handful in my entire division

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Blogrolling – Laboratory Goddess Style

“If you are in a senior position in politics or at the very top in business, it is probably as well to assume that life is on the record. When the organisers of any event you are speaking at tell you it is being held under “Chatham House rules”, and that everyone in the room is utterly discreet and trustworthy, it is best to nod and smile

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Quote of the Week: Alastair Campbell

As all of the people reading this article probably know, BGP can be a beast that very few network engineers and consultants ever really battle, as it is used only on a specific type of network. This type of network is that of ISP’s and large enterprises with multiple external connectivity points. So why is it used in this way

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Cisco BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) Basics

There’s a scene in the animated series Futurama that cracks me up every time I think about it. The show’s characters are at the horse track of the future, but there’s controversy when a race ends very, very closely — so closely that the race officials need a powerful electron microscope to judge the “photo finish.” The track loudspeaker eventually announces, “And the winner is … Number Three, in a quantum finish!” And Professor Farnsworth, who had bet on the other horse, tears up his tickets in a rage and yells, “No fair! You changed the outcome by measuring it!” Didn’t get the joke? Don’t worry, neither did most of the viewers

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The Insider Guide to Creating An Audience of Raving Fans

If you are looking to buy the latest iPhone 4 in India through the official channels, you might have to wait until Diwali. An Airtel executive recently confirmed to Reuters that the company is planning to launch iPhone 4 in India but around the September or October timeframe.

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iPhone 4 Coming to India in October

This is a guide for people living outside the U.S. who would like to order products from U.S. based online stores (like Amazon.com or Best Buy) and get them shipped to a non-US address even if the store offers no international shipping

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Shop at Online U.S. Stores from Outside the States

The latest version of Google Docs appears to have removed the ability to add words to the spell-check dictionary. The Google Docs spreadsheet doesn’t have a simple way of displaying just the month and year of a date. You can write a formula that will do that, but Excel allows you to specify custom display fields easily

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Google does many things right, but not these

Hello girls and boys, Sorry I haven’t been around much lately – combination of lots of work and various niggles (like two evil burglars nicking my laptop). I’m also having a few thoughts about how to manage the blog in future, following an inspirational session at the Romantic Novelists’ Association conference.

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And now for something completely different… My Soviet Kitchen

The touchpad provides full mouse functionality to your laptop but there are instances when you may actually feel more productive without the touchpad. For instance, if you have attached an external mouse to your laptop, you may not need an alternate input mechanism which is the built-in touchpad. Sometimes your thumbs or palm may accidentally touch the touchpad while you’re typing and this may inadvertently move your mouse cursor to a different location in the document.

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Disabling the Touchpad on your Laptop

A Mumbai Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) has found that Linklaters should pay income tax in India on all India -related profits after applying a retrospective Finance Bill 2010 amendment to section 9(1) of the Income Tax Act, …

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Foreign firms to pay Indian Income Tax on work done outside India …

I looked in the mirror and said to myself “You’re fine.” water based resist with procion dye on paper I am suddenly tired. I feel distanced from what used to be my normal life, and look forward to returning to it. Even as it opens up, a rose already knows about dying down

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The art tour is over

It seems like everyone is marketing things online these days, but some of the internet marketing tips you find online or in marketing strategy books just don’t seem to fit with your site or your marketing plan.

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Discover These Proven Internet Marketing Tips For Your Website

An announcement has recently been made by the Cabinet Office minister, Francis Maude, of the Government’s plans to introduce new legislation to cap redundancy pay for civil servants .  Under the new legislation, compulsory redundancy payments will be capped at 12 months’ pay and voluntary redundancies at 15 months’ pay.  Current redundancy entitlements within the civil service give outgoing redundant employees up to an astonishing six years’ worth of pay.  This far surpasses the benefits available to the masses under the statutory scheme and also the vast majority of enhanced redundancy schemes in the private sector.  It was described by Maude as “untenable”. The new legislation will override previous case law in which the unions successfully challenged the Labour Government’s previous attempt to limit civil service benefits.   It is said that the new measures are to be introduced “as soon as possible”.

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Civil Service Redundancy Payments to be Capped

Etsy and The Creative Connection , a three-day conference and crafting extravaganza taking place in Minneapolis, MN, September 15-18, 2010, present Launching a Business — a live workshop on Tuesday, July 20th at 5 p.m. ET with Cathie Filian in Etsy’s Virtual Labs

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Kids of Finnish heritage and their fellow travelers usually remember just a few words and phrases of Finnish by the time that they’re adults. One such phrase, haista napa or “smell my belly button,”survives long after it makes sense. Anyway, a recent study indicates that the location of the belly button, if not its fragrance, is an important indicator of sports performance.

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Additional meaning to " haista napa"