Bin Laden Arrested — Well, Not Really
A lawyer who revealed President George W. Bush’s long-ago drunken-driving arrest during the 2000 election campaign has been arrested in Maine for a Halloween stunt.
Thomas Connolly, 49, was taken into custody after South Portland confronted him on an Interstate 295 overpass at about 9 a.m. wearing an Osama bin Laden outfit, complete with a realistic-looking assault rifle and a dynamite belt.
South Portland Police Chief Ed Googins told TV station WMTW that two officers went to the area after someone reported seeing Connolly waving a sign that said “I love the Taliban.”
The sign actually read “I Love TABOR,” referring to the Taxpayer Bill of Rights initiative on the Nov. 7 ballot, Googins said.
According to Googins, the officers repeatedly ordered Connolly to put down the gun, then drew their weapons when Connolly moved toward them.
Police said the gun turned out to be fake and that Connolly told them he was on the overpass to protest TABOR and didn’t mean to cause any trouble.
Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Connolly explained that his actions were part of a weeklong protest against TABOR. He said he was originally supposed to wear a George Washington costume on Tuesday, but the mask was too tight, so he grabbed the bin Laden costume.
Connolly was arrested and charged with criminal threatening, a misdemeanor. He is free on $540 cash bail.
FOX12 Oregon
Nurse Next Door
It took a troubling personal experience with a home health-care provider five years ago to prompt Nurse Next Door co-founder Ken Sim to conclude that homecare for seniors was a great sector in which to start up a business.
“My wife needed emergency bed rest with our first child,†Sim said in an interview.
“We had someone come to our house and we interviewed her. But she informed us that she had faxed her resume to the company just two days before, and hadn’t even had an interview. There was no reference check and no criminal record check.
So we researched for three months and then launched our company. Since then, Nurse Next Door has grown into a business that services more than 1,000 clients.
Sim and partner John DeHart were awarded the 2006 Ernst and Young Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year Award for their efforts in building their company into one of the province’s most recognizable homecare service providers.
The Best Place to Advertise in Your Town
Better resources for locating newspapers, magazines, radio, television stations, and other potential offline advertising opportunities in most major cities? Here is a list of places in your town that you might consider testing for ROI.
- Church bulletins
- Public Library bulletin boards
- Coffee shop bulletin boards
- Grocery store bulletin boards
- School sports programs
- Delivery service ride along flyers
- Hotel rack brochure boxes
- Pizza boxes
Feel free to add your favorites.
Google Docs and Spreadsheets
From Google’s acquisition of Writely coupled with Google Spreadsheet comes Google Docs and Spreadsheets. A hosted, Gmail-like service which provides (you guessed it) a hosted document and spreadsheet editor.
Just login with your Google/Gmail account to get started.
All your documents are in a nice, clean, hosted centralized location allowing you, or colleagues to access them from anywhere. You can even upload existing doc(Word)/rtf/xls(Excel)/csv etc documents to the repository.
The collaboration stuff really is nice. Send invites, track revisions, chat (IM-like, right in the window) while you work together on a doc, etc. (It’s similar to Writeboard only with richer collaboration tools). You can also invite folks to view, but not edit.
You can also export your creations to common formats (doc/rtf/xls/csv/pdf/html/open office). PDF export is a pretty darn cool feature.
Has a very nice spell check.
The spreadsheet (doc too?) allows you to autosave periodically to keep you from losing work (nice touch).
You can also post word docs to your blog (nice clean drop-down+click setup for Blogger, WordPress, LiveJournal, SquareSpace, BlogHarbor, Blogware). And you can manually set up other services, including TypePad and Moveable Type, but it takes a bit more finessing.
Works in IE and FireFox (haven’t tested others, although I suspect all modern browsers work.)
Bike Furniture
Andy Gregg may not have reinvented the wheel, but he has reinterpreted it.
Gregg owns Bike Furniture Designs, which transforms recycled bicycle parts into sleek, eco-friendly furniture.
Combining skills developed in art school — he is fascinated by early-20th-century furniture design — with mechanical chops he began polishing at age 10, Gregg sells his pieces on bikefurniture.com and through a smattering of retailers.
Gregg has been making the furniture since 1991, but it wasn’t until 2004 that revenue picked up enough to allow him to quit his carpentry job and focus on his business, based in Marquette, Mich. Last year, he says, revenue hit the “low five figures.
50 Most Powerful Women In Business
Call it the year of the Most Powerful Woman CEO. As a matter of fact the top seven positions on the 2006 list are held by chief executives. And the winners are…
See also Ten Highest Paid Women in Business
| Rank | Name | Company |
| 1 | Indra Nooyi | PepsiCo |
| 2 | Anne Mulcahy | Xerox |
| 3 | Meg Whitman | eBay |
| 4 | Pat Woertz | Archer Daniels Midland |
| 5 | Irene Rosenfeld | Kraft Foods |
| 6 | Brenda Barnes | Sara Lee |
| 7 | Andrea Jung | Avon |
| 8 | Oprah Winfrey | Harpo Inc. |
| 9 | Sallie Krawcheck | Citigroup |
| 10 | Susan Arnold | Procter & Gamble |
| 11 | Christine Poon | Johnson & Johnson |
| 12 | Judy McGrath | Viacom |
| 13 | Anne Sweeney | Disney Media Networks |
| 14 | Ann Livermore | Hewlett-Packard |
| 15 | Ann Moore | Time Inc. |
| 16 | Ginni Rometty | IBM |
| 17 | Susan Desmond-Hellmann | Genentech |
| 18 | Abigail Johnson | Fidelity |
| 19 | Zoe Cruz | Morgan Stanley |
| 20 | Susan Ivey | R.J. Reynolds Tobacco |
| 21 | Ellen Kullman | DuPont |
| 22 | Charlene Begley | General Electric |
| 23 | Amy Brinkley | Bank of America |
| 24 | Lois Quam | UnitedHealth Group |
| 25 | Heidi Miller | J.P. Morgan Chase |
| 26 | Carol Meyrowitz | TJX Cos. |
| 27 | Ursula Burns | Xerox |
| 28 | Martha Stewart | Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia |
| 29 | Linda Dillman | Wal-Mart |
| 30 | Shelly Lazarus | Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide |
| 31 | Mary Minnick | Coca-Cola |
| 32 | Pat Curran | Wal-Mart Stores |
| 33 | Lisa Weber | MetLife |
| 34 | Mary Sammons | Rite Aid |
| 35 | Joanne Maguire | Lockheed Martin |
| 36 | Doreen Toben | Verizon |
| 37 | Colleen Goggins | Johnson & Johnson |
| 38 | Cathleen Black | Hearst Magazines |
| 39 | Carrie Cox | Schering-Plough |
| 40 | Paula Rosput Reynolds | Safeco |
| 41 | Amy Pascal | Sony |
| 42 | Dawn Hudson | PepsiCo |
| 43 | Deirdre Connelly | Eli Lilly |
| 44 | Ellyn McColgan | Fidelity |
| 45 | Claire Watts | Wal-Mart Stores |
| 46 | Catherine West | J.C. Penney |
| 47 | Nancy Peretsman | Allen & Co. |
| 48 | Diane Gulyas | DuPont |
| 49 | Christina Gold | Western Union |
| 50 | Stacey Snider | Viacom |
See also Ten Highest Paid Women in Business
Call-In-Sick
We’ve all been there before. In need of a mental-health day. In need of a couple more hours to sleep off that horrible hangover. Or just plain in need of a day away from thinking.
But who wants to wake up at the crack of dawn to avoid talking to the boss and pretend to sound sick?
Now you can plan in advance and leave the early mornings to a message service — call in sick from any place at any time.
Alan and Jill Lougher of West Palm Beach, Fla., launched Call-in-sick.com Oct. 1 as a “cool gimmick†to promote their new business, a message broadcast system. Four days later, their Web site was swamped with requests.
Call-In-Sick is a revolutionary new FREE service that allows you to call in your sick message to your boss or employer from anywhere, any time.
Picture the scenario: You stay out too late on a workday night and decide to call in sick the next day. The next day you drag yourself out of bed at 5am because you know your boss won’t be there to answer the phone.
With Call-In-Sick you can record your sick message the night before then schedule it to be sent directly to your boss’s phone early in the morning without you even getting out of bed!
