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1. Set up an apple cider stand on a crisp fall day. 2. Start a gift-wrapping service at the holidays. 3. Sell items from the attic using an on-line auction service. 4. Wear your winter coat one more season 5. Set up an automatic paycheck withdrawal for $2 per week. 6. Hold a garage sale. 7. Barter with neighbors or friends for needed household services. 8. Babysit for neighbors. 9. Mow lawns. 10. Post a flyer at the grocery store offering to help people move. 11. Start a spring cleaning service. 12.Walk dogs. 13. Offer seamstress and tailoring services. 14. Sew instead of buying clothes or home accessories. 15. Provide a taxi service for elderly neighbors. 16. Bike to work. 17. Car pool. 18. Use public transportation. 19. Park in the less expensive lots and enjoy the exercise you get from walking! 20. Conserve electricity at home and estimate monthly savings. 21. Find a student (kindergarten through college) who needs a tutor. 22. Cut out candy and snacks; donate what you save on these purchases and dental bills! 23. Take outgrown kids’ clothes to a consignment shop. 24. Take your duds from the ’70s or ’80s to a vintage shop-everything old is new again! 25. Camp instead of staying in hotels on vacation. 26. Give up cable television for a few monthsor forever! 27. Pet sit for neighbors who are traveling. 28. Make Saturday “Homemade Pasta Night” instead of dining out. 29. Borrow the latest best-sellers from the library instead of buying them. 30. Give up soft drinks for a whole summer. 31. Take a Thermos of fresh-brewed coffee to work instead of stopping for gourmet brew. 32. For your birthday, ask friends and family to make a gift to Mennonite Board of Missions, Commission on Overseas Mission, Commision on Home Ministries or Ministries Commission, Mennonite Church Canada in your name. 33. Give up your gym membership for the summer and exercise in the fresh air and sunshine. 34. Use coupons when shopping, and donate the savings. 35. Shop at yard sales and thrift storesyou never know when you’ll find a hidden treasure. 36. For large household purchases, look for bargains on-line. 37. Pay off credit card debt so no interest collects. 38. Don’t let water run while brushing teeth and turn out lights when you leave a room. 39. Offer your services as an office temp or substitute teacher. 40. Design Web sites for local families and businesses. 41. Buy cost-cutter brands for staples and household supplies. 42. Email friends and family instead of calling. 43. Make your own gift cards for holidays and birthdays. 44. Wear more “hand-me-downs” instead of buying new clothes. 45. Buy clothes that mix-and-match for each season. 46. Start flowers from seeds instead of buying seedlings. 47. Put on a family or neighborhood talent show and charge admission. 48. Use vinegar and water for a general household cleaning solution and save on expensive products. 49. Collect cans. 50. Study your health insurance policy and discover ways to avoid health care costs. 51. Plant a larger garden and sell vegetables at a roadside stand. 52. Instead of taking friends or clients out to dinner, send a donation in their name. 53. Donate your holiday club account and give homemade gifts this year. 54. Instead of buying a new CD every week, trade with your friends. 55. Scale back your vacation this year, or choose a service project instead. 56. Wait another six months for any major household purchase. 57. Postpone an upgrade to a software application you use. 58. Make a choice: Chocolate or coffee. Movies or eating out. Experience the one you choose more fully and donate your savings. 59. Buy a live plant instead of fresh flowers to decorate your table. 60. Love your looksgive up hair color, permanents, and other things that detract from your natural beauty. 61. Learn calligraphy and make money addressing invitations and lettering announcements. 62. For special family nights, plan on a video and pizza at home instead of dinner and a movie out. 63. Take the kids to the grocery store with you instead of hiring a babysitter. 64. Restrict your use of the cellular phone to emergencies only. 65. Choose eyeglasses with a sun clip instead of buying prescription sunglasses. 66. Wait for summer clothes to go on sale. 67. Be creative with leftoversuse them for work lunches. 68. Find loose change and save it in a coffee can for a year. 69. Bathe the dog yourself and save the groomer’s costs. 70. Do your own house painting this spring instead of hiring a professional. 71. Play tennis on the public courts and save fees. 72. Give up golf for a few weekends and hike in a state park instead. 73. Rake lawns in your neighborhood in the fall. 74. Donate your expense checks from work-related travel. 75. Hold a bake sale. 76. Have friends over for parlor games instead of going out to the theater or a concert. 77. Shovel snow for money. 78. Organize a neighborhood car wash. 79. Sell lem During this recession, what do you think of these ideas for saving and making money? 1)Find the orgonal price of a computer if a 2% discount on its orginal price results in a savings of $85. 2)What is the selling price of a refrigerator marked $600 if two discounts of 20% and 5% are given? (First figure 80% of 600.Then 95% of the result.) 3)A dealer offers a computer software program whose list price is $500 at a 19% discount. She will give an extra 3% discount if paid in cash. What is the selling price if payment is made in cash? 4)A real estate agent recieves a commission of 9% on property sold through her.

What is her commission on a sale of $42,000? 5)A telemarketer sells subscriptions for magazines and recieves a commission of 20% on his sales. How much would his commission be if he sells $375 worth of subscriptions? More math problems please help&&Show work? I started a new job a little over a year ago at a descent sized software company, and part of the offer was a guarantee of a set amount in commission. The offer reads, “Annual sales of $500,000 will result in $37,500 in commissions which will be paid on a monthly basis. We understand that these are new products to the North American market and for the first year, we will match any short coming of sales that fall below $500,000 as long as best efforts are given (i. e. – guarantee you will make at least $37,500 in commissions. )” They didn’t make up the difference. Now, they are laying people off, including myself. The company is not filing bankruptcy, just downsizing in a big way. Do I have any recourse? Thanks Is a guarantee in an employment offer letter enforceable? GEOEYE BEGINS SELLING IMAGERY FROM ITS NEWEST SATELLITE By TURNER BRINTON Space News Staff Writer WASHINGTON GeoEye has begun selling imagery from its newest and most capable satellite to non-U. S. government customers following an extended test and checkout period during which the spacecraft experienced pointing problems due to a software glitch, according to a Feb. 5 press release issued by the Dulles, Va.-based company. Sales of GeoEye-1 satellite imagery have yet to begin to GeoEye’s biggest and most important customer, the U. S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), but company officials expect that to happen over the next few weeks, the press release said. GeoEye-1 was launched Sept. 6, 2008, and is touted by the company as the world’s highest-resolution commercial imaging satellite, capable of distinguishing ground objects as small as 0.41 meters across. The NGA financed $237 million of the satellite’s $502 million in construction and launch costs under a program called NextView, which also funded a similar satellite built by GeoEye competitor DigitalGlobe of Longmont, Colo. GeoEye originally expected its satellite to become operational around 45 days after launch, but on-orbit testing revealed a problem with the software interface between the satellite and its star tracker system, which allows it to properly orient itself in space. The problem affected GeoEye’s ability to precisely determine the ground location of GeoEye-1 imagery. The software glitch, coupled with programmatic and launch schedule issues that delayed GeoEye-1′s launch by a year and a half, resulted in a down year for GeoEye, which through the first nine months of 2008 had a 23.6 percent decrease in revenue compared to the same period in 2007, according to filings with the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission. GeoEye currently derives most of its revenue from sales of imagery from its aging Ikonos satellite, launched in 1999, which is less capable than GeoEye-1. In the press release, GeoEye Chief Operating Officer William Schuster said GeoEye-1 was built to “extremely exacting requirements” that proved difficult to meet during the satellite’s test phase. “Additional improvements can still be made, but we have succeeded in attaining our performance objectives,” he said. The company has thus begun selling GeoEye-1 imagery to government customers in Europe, Asia and the Middle East as well as commercial users. GeoEye is submitting the latest GeoEye-1 imagery to the NGA for certification, which is expected to take a couple of weeks, company spokesman Mark Brender said in an interview. Once GeoEye-1 imagery is certified for use by the NGA, which procures commercial imagery on behalf of U. S. military and intelligence community users, GeoEye will begin receiving payments of $12.5 million per month for one year under a contract modification signed with the NGA in December 2008. After that contract expires, the company and the NGA will have to negotiate a new contract if sales are to continue, Brender said. Meanwhile, GeoEye is pressing ahead with plans for its third-generation imaging satellite, GeoEye-2, which will be similar to its predecessor but have some increased tasking capabilities and better ground resolution, Brender said. The company has ordered $28 million worth of long-lead components for the GeoEye-2 sensor from ITT Space Systems of Rochester, N. Y., which built GeoEye-1′s imaging camera, Brender said. GeoEye has not said whether the GeoEye-2 satellite platform will be procured from General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems of Gilbert, Ariz. , which built GeoEye-1. GeoEye anticipates launching the satellite as early as 2012. The U. S. government has yet to make clear whether it will underwrite construction of additional commercial imaging satellites as it did under the NextView program. Pentagon plans last year to build up to two commercial-class imaging satellites to be operated by the U. S. National Reconnaissance Office and serve military and intelligence users were squashed by Congress. The Pentagon has not yet revealed the details of its budget request for 2010. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Please tell me the main details and what this article means and what it is saying. I’m doing this news and I need to know what’s the deal with this article. :) thank you.

I work for a large company at a call center. We take and process calls from employees and private citizens reporting malfunctioning equipment. IP work a 12 hour shift on what they call a "Texas Two Step" schedule. This means that I work a 2 week rotating schedule. If I work on Mon and Tue one week then the next week I have Mon and Tue off. Same with 3 day weekends (Fri, Sat, Sun). We are required to follow specific instructions to process a call and can be disciplined if the exact procedure (flow chart) is not followed. There are several policies in place that I am questioning. This following has been Copied and pasted. The Supervisors log all vacation, holiday, sick, tardy, and other times a Controller is absent from work. Tardiness 1. If you are late, (tardy) for your shift start, your Supervisor will log the date, amount of time, and reason. 2. If the amount of time is small you may be allowed to work late to make it up. 3. If the amount of time is several hours you will be charged vacation or holiday time for it in the same manner as running out of sick time. 4. If you are tardy several times and unable to make up the time by working late and the amount of time reaches ½ day you will be charged vacation or holiday time for it. 5. If the Controller has no vacation or holiday time remaining then the absence will be unpaid 6. Remember chronic and excessive tardiness reflect poorly on your time management skills. Chronic tardiness can not only jeopardize your PMP evaluation but could also jeopardize your continued employment with the [company]. 7. Tardiness disrupts the operations of the Support Center, placing undue added work and stress on your colleges. Early Quits 1. In the event a Controller must leave early or be absent a short period of time for an unexpected reason not due to illness. The amount of time will be logged by the Supervisors and handled in the same manner described for handling tardiness time. 2. Requests to leave early for planned events will not be allowed. If it is a planned event schedule holiday or vacation time. Or swap shifts with another Controller, but remember you are responsible to insure that your absence from the desk during your assigned time is covered. end of copied text Every employee that is under the scope of this "Manual" is an exempt employee. Time sheets are maintained and I have personally been verbally counseled about what time I am logging in to my station (it is tracked electronically) even though all the times were before my actual start time of 1800 but after the required "15 minutes prior to the start of your shift".

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2.Peripheral equipment such as a printer connects via a cable to a __.on the system unit? a.switch b.port c.plug d.box 3.Processing is the computer's use of the data either through arithmetic or comparison operations. a.true b.false 4.What makes it unnecessary to press the ENTER key on the keyboard at the end of very typed line a.line wrap b.new line c.next line d.word wrap 5.Which of the following storage devices uses laser beams to read and write? a.cd drive b.hard drive c.floppy disk drive d.tape drive 6.Which of the following is the primary permanent storage device? a.dvd drive b.floppy disk driver c.hard drive d.tape drive 7.Which type of chip retains data even when the computer is off? a.BUS b.RAM c.ROM d.VGA 8.Which type of software includes the operating system and system utilities? a.application software b.database software c.presentation software d.system software 9.Which utility keeps track of where your documents, spreadsheets, and presentations reside? a..backup b.compression c.file management d.scan disk 10.which of the following operating systems uses a command line interface? a.DOS b.MAC c.UNIX d.both a and c 11.which type of application would you use if you want to create a budget? a.database b.text editor c.presentation d.spreadsheet 12.what is the name for the intersection of a row and column in a spreadsheet? a.box b.cell c.intersection d.none of the above 13.another name for the spreadsheet is an Electronic ledger. a.true b.false 14.which of the following is not a reason for using a spreadsheet? A.keeping track of your grades B.creating a presentation C.creating a formulas to perform calculations D.keeping track of employees' hours worked 15.what feature enables you to display a graphical representation of data in a spreadsheet? a.chart b.drawing c.database d.flow chart 16.which type of application would you use to store data in an organized manner using fields and records? a.database b.presentation c.spreadsheet d.word processing 17.what is the smallest unit of data in a database? a.cell b.field c.record d.tables 18.how many tables are in a relational database? a.2 or more b.only 1 c.at least 3 d.at least 5 19.which type of application should you use to create a multi-media file that conveys an idea or concept to use when giving a speech? a.word processing b.database c.presentation d.spreadsheet 20.you can organize information in any format you want using A.word processing and spreadsheet applications B.database and presentation applications C.both a and b D.neither a nor b 21.which device must the computer connect to in order to use dialup to access the internet? a.ethernet b.keyboard c.mouse d.modem 22.all information you retrieve from the internet is valid. a.true b.false 23.what software must you have to connect to a search engine on the internet? a.database b.presentation c.spreadsheet d.web browser 24.computer designs have to evaluate the ___ effects of their products on people. a.emotional b.lasting c.mental d.physical

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