Tweeter Home Entertainment Group announced a massive "restructuring" of its operations on March 22. The chain will close 49 stores, including all operations in California, New York, Alabama, and Tennessee, and trim its workforce by 20%. The chain's remaining 104 stores will be remodeled to conform to the chain's current "CE playground" theme.
In a move some industry analysts characterized as "an uncertain experiment that could backfire," Circuit City Stores, Inc, the nation's second-largest electronics retailer, laid off 3400 employees, about 8% of the company's workforce, on March 28 because they earned too much money. Company spokesperson Bill Cimino told <I>Bloomberg.com</I> that the jobs that were eliminated were paying "well above" market rates, adding that the fired employees can re-apply for their jobs at lower pay after a 10-week delay. Cimino declined to give the wages of either the fired employees or the wages being given to new hires. He said it would vary "depending on the market."
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I am<br>
I got wishbone in my pocket
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I got a rabbit's foot 'round my wrist
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You know I'd have all the things these lucky charms could bring
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If you'd give me just one sweet kiss, rowr, rowr, rowr
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Baby, I ain't askin' much of you
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Just a big-a big-a hunk o' love will do.
Bagheera tires of Huckleberry's theatrics.
Revisiting Stanley Miller's 1953 experiment about the creation of life on Earth.
"While in residence at the Baltimore Museum of Industry during the last two years, Catherine Wagner was given access to their 50,000+ collection of historic light bulbs, one of the premier collections of vintage and antique light bulbs in the United States, with lights dating from the early 19th century. The resulting series of photographs titled A Narrative History of the Light Bulb embodies both sculptural installation and photography. Wagner creates arrangements of bulbs that she then photographs with an 8 by 10 view camera in order to record the glass enclosures and the delicate filaments in stunning detail. Wagner’s work has long been noted for its investigation of the dissemination of knowledge and the construction of culture and these new works follow in her trajectory of providing access to the close scrutiny of scientific objects."
<I>BBspot</I> claims to have obtained the super-duper-secretest-ever legal decision flowchart used by the RIAA. Everything now makes so much sense!
More proof, as if needed, that the true definition of a gentleman is someone who can play the bagpipe, but won't.
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John Atkinson sends along this link to <I>The Vintage Knob</I>, which shows the naughty bits of some classic '70s gear.