Assemblyman Wants Drug Offenders to Get Food StampsNBC Bay AreaA term in jail or state prison means a lifetime ban from public assistance programs like food stamps. This means the 30000 inmates to be released from the state's overcrowded prisons have yet another barrier to reentering society to overcome: they …
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A post office in Scott County could shut its doors for the first time in more than a century, according to residents in the Parks community. More: continued here
Read More »Assemblyman Wants Drug Offenders to Get Food Stamps
A rapist released from prison can receive food stamps but someone busted for marijuana cannot. An Oakland lawmaker wants to change that. More: continued here
Read More »Ebay plans fulfillment centers; may rival Amazon – TechFlash
BBC News Ebay plans fulfillment centers; may rival AmazonTechFlashAccording to news reports, the eBay fulfillment service is similar to that offered by Amazon's Marketplace, one of eBay's competitors in the e-commerce industry. The eBay service will start with pilot programs with some US and China-based sellers this …EBay Plans Fulfillment …
Read More »Former eBay exec, movie producer lands major award – USA Today
Former eBay exec, movie producer lands major awardUSA TodayJeff Skoll helped create difference makers in the world of tech (eBay) and films (An Inconvenient Truth). But it is his work in charitable causes that just landed him a major humanitarian award. Skoll, eBay's first president … More: continued here
Read More »Software as a service: Separating the bells from the whistles – Register
Software as a service: Separating the bells from the whistlesRegisterSo says Adrian Steel, head of infrastructure and management at the Royal Mail. He is perhaps uniquely qualified to talk about these sorts of things, having moved the Royal Mail's IT, lock stock and all 30000 barrels, into the cloud. …Is …
Read More »In the West Bank, passport stamps come before statehood
A Palestinian man has taken it upon himself to design a passport stamp for the ‘State of Palestine’ that he offers to people entering the West Bank. More: continued here
Read More »Royal Wedding guest admits fraud – The Sun
Daily Mail Royal Wedding guest admits fraudThe SunHasmukh Shingadia ran a Spar convenience store and Post Office near the Middleton's family home. He landed himself in court after falsely declaring he had more cash at the sub-Post Office than he really did — in an attempt to cover up a …
Read More »Bippus Post Office temporarily closed
Flooding concerns have caused the United States Postal Service to issue an emergency suspension of the Bippus Post Office. More: continued here
Read More »Skype: See no vesting, hear no vesting – Fortune (blog)
Business Insider Skype: See no vesting, hear no vestingFortune (blog)Lee says that he joined Skype in March 2010, shortly after the company was carved out of eBay (EBAY) by Silver Lake Partners, Andreessen Horowitz and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. His job was to help make the Skype app …
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