You might not be able to pull off all these legal tricks but even if you can’t, rejoice in the fact that someone, somewhere will. AGREE TO A WARRANTY TO CUT PRICES, THEN CANCEL BUY electrical goods and sales staff often try to flog you over-expensive and under-performing warranties. Tell them you’ll agree only if they reduce the product’s original price. Then buy the warranty and cancel it in the    .. more …

By Kevin Gibbons , Search Engine Watch, Jul 28, 2010Too many companies and search agencies pour all their creative juices into organic search campaigns and neglect the copy on their paid search ads. Yet even the short space you get in paid ad needs some real attention if you’re going to get any clicks and — more importantly — the right kind of clicks. So here are seven golden rules for great    .. more …

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) – The state has released hundreds oftext messages sent by a North Carolina Highway Patrol secretary toher trooper boss after several media organizations sued theagency.But Secretary of Crime Control and Public Safety Reuben Youngdidn’t release all the messages sent by the secretary, saying heleft out the ones staffers felt were personal and didn’t concernstate business.Young    .. more …

Hell hath no fury like a man in a boring suitI’d like to thank Julia Gillard for appointing me to be head of Australia’s first Office for the Status of Men. Her own elevation was trailblazing in gender terms and so, I believe, is mine. Here are some of the disparities and stark prejudices against men I’d like to confront in my first year in the role.Why are young Australian women now so tall?    .. more …

Can’t control your finances? Get yourself a coach.Financial coaching is a relatively new concept, and it’s available — free — to folks who realize they’re headed for trouble as well as to those in crisis situations like collections or foreclosure .Other programs don’t have income limits. After all, it isn’t only the working poor who have financial problems. Tiffany, a 33-year-old Connecticut    .. more …

If Missouri legislators had cut the state’s aid to summer school this year, what would have been the cost? For Jonathan Jones, a quiet, 15-year-old sophomore, it could have cost him big.”I wouldn’t have graduated,” Jones said.Jones is spending the summer in Randall Arthur’s English class, trying to make up the half credit he did not receive last year, which he hopes will allow him to graduate on    .. more …