Shoplifters? Studies Say Keep an Eye on Workers

Employee fraud involving gift cards appears to be growing sharply as retailers struggle to contain overall theft, now estimated at $36 billion a year in the industry,

Wow!

Miles for Nothing: How the Government Helped Frequent Fliers Make a Mint

Well maybe not at the cost of the mint but at the cost of the airline or whoever else was in charge of the free miles offer. This is the thing, you buy $1 coins from the US Mint, it is delivered free of shipping to you [usually there is a shipping charge] and you use the credit card that offers you free miles [if you have one of course] and when the coins arrive drop it at your bank into your account [hopefully their bank doesn't have a a co...in drop charge] with which you pay your credit card bill when the coin charge comes later. And you now have free miles. Really free miles.

Possibly one of the most successful military lift aircraft.

Pilots who missed airport were busy with laptops

“Both said they lost track of time,” the report stated. It also said the pilots had heard voices over their cockpit radios but ignored them. The pilots passed breath analysis tests to check for alcohol use, and had a 17-hour break between the San Diego-to-Minneapolis trip and their previous flight.

Well at least one pilot was teaching the other about airline policy. Their airline had been taken over by Delta and so you know new procedures and stuff that can only be discussed in the cockpit while in the air, instead of say during their 17 hour break on the ground.

Uptil 1998 the US used to make their 25¢ coin the famous quarter in one design only. Then by an act of Congress since 1999 they started issuing 5 quarters every year with a unique design on each, in this case commemorating each of the US states in ascending order of their joining the US. This was called the 50 State Quarters^® programme [complete with the ® mark;-)] At the rate of 5 per year they ran through the various states by 2008. However earlier on the people of Washington DC protested or requested that they too be accepted in the programme. The US Mint agreed for this and so in 2009 DC, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, The U.S. Virgin Islands and The Northern Mariana Islands where added. No no they are not US states at all, and I don't think they protest/requested but it made a nice 5 coin set.

Very obviously the US Mint found this entire programme very profitable. Why do I say so? I am saying so since they are now introducing the National Sites Quarters Program - America the Beautiful Quarters™ [Yes with the ™ mark] They start issuing from year 2010 at the rate of a nice 5 coin set BUT in 2021 they have only one coin being issued. Hopefully by then someone might protest/request 4 other sites to be added;-)

Since about 2007 they started issuing the US President dollar coins called the The Presidential $1 Coins [no ™ or ® mark for this] this was in addition to the Sacagawea 1$ coin that they started issuing since 2000. For now this programme runs till 2016 with Gerald Ford. Since this is in the order in which they served [and not died] Carter, Reagan, Bush Sr, Clinton, Bush Jr and Obama will join it regardless.

Maybe someone from the Franklin Mint joined the US Mint in 1999;-)

United States Mint America the Beautiful Quarters™

In 1999 the US Mint announced their 50 state quarters programme where they issued 5 quarters every year commemorating each US state till 2008. This year they commemorated 5 more ie DC, and four other US territories like Guam. Apparently this was a very successful programme ie in raking in the moola by selling it to the coin collectors.

And so now we have the so called Beautiful Quarters programme which will run from 2010 to 2021.

Jeez!

McDonald's loses trademark fight against McCurry
Malaysia's highest court rules that McDonald's does not have monopoly on ‘Mc' prefix

Trust McDimbulbs to go to court on this rubbish case. Trust the McLowercourt to grant McDonald's McWishes. McThank the appeals court for overruling the 2006 McLowerCourt McJudgement.

McCurry lawyer Sri Devi McNair said the ruling means McDonald's does not have a monopoly on the prefix ‘Mc,' and that other restaurants could also use it as long as they distinguish their food from McDonald's.

We are very much relieved. We hope to expand. This is what we wanted to do from the beginning and we were stalled for eight years.
A.M.S.P. McSuppiah, owner of McCurry.

McCongrats McCurry;-)

Jeez!

Thanks to n2kaja who posted this on FB.

Speckled Trout is the name of this KC-135E Stratotanker of the USAF, [which is about 50 years old as per Airliners.net] converted as VIP transport for the use of the Secretary of the Air Force and the Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force.