Daily Dose - 030122 - 1943 Guide to Hiring Women, BIZARRE NEWS, HARASSMENT, DDL,
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From the 1943 Guide to Hiring Women

Eleven Tips on Getting More Efficiency Out of Women Employees

There's no longer any question whether transit companies should hire women for jobs
formerly held by men. The draft and manpower shortage has settled that point. The important
things now are to select the most efficient women available and how to use them to the best
advantage. Here are some helpful tips on the subject from western properties:

1. If you can get them, pick young married women. They have these advantages, according
to the reports of western companies: they usually have more of a sense of responsibility than
do their unmarried sisters; they're less likely to be flirtatious; as a rule, they need the work or
they wouldn't be doing it -- maybe a sick husband or one who's in the army; they still have the
pep and interest to work hard and to deal with the public efficiently.

2. When you have to use older women, try to get ones who have worked outside the home at
some time in their lives. Most transportation companies have found that older women who
have never contacted the public, have a hard time adapting themselves, are inclined to be
cantankerous and fussy. It's always well to impress upon older women the importance of
friendliness and courtesy.

3. While there are exceptions, of course, to this rule, general experience indicates that
"husky" girls - those who are just a little on the heavy side - are likely to be more even-
tempered and efficient than their underweight sisters.

4. Retain a physician to give each woman you hire a special physical examination - one
covering female conditions. This step not only protects the property against the possibilities of
lawsuit but also reveals whether the employee-to-be has any
female weaknesses which would make her mentally or physically unfit for the job. Transit
companies that follow this practice report a surprising number of women turned down for
nervous disorders.

5. In breaking in women who haven't previously done outside work, stress at the outset the
importance of time -- the fact that a minute or two lost here and there makes serious inroads
on schedules. Until this point is gotten across, service is likely to be slowed up.

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BIZARRE NEWS.......

If At First You Don't Succeed...

TUCSON, Ariz. - Fugitive Scott A. Kline was finally taken into custody after his first attempt to
turn himself in was denied. Authorities refused to take Kline into custody when he
surrendered at a federal prison because they didn't have court documentation that he was
indeed a fugitive.

Kline waited outside the building for an hour before finally leaving.

He tried again two days later, and was granted his request. He was hauled off to jail for
violating his parole.

Most criminals aren't too bright, but at least this one was honest.

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Dung From Above

FREEPORT, Pa. - A couple in western Pennsylvania was forced to stay in their home to
avoid being hit by falling debris.

The woman resident said she found purple, black and blue ice clumps on her house,
sidewalk, swimming-pool cover and her mother-in-law's car. The strange matter apparently
fell from out of the sky.

What those clumps contained was human waste from an airplane bathroom that had been
released at high altitudes.

Although it is illegal for planes to dump lavatory waste in flight, the FAA says it's quite
possible for what's known as "blue ice" to break away from planes as they descend to
warmer altitudes.

Such an occurance is unlikely to be predicted on The Weather Channel.

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HARASSMENT

Recently, California ran an e-mail forum (a question and answer exchange) with the topic
being "Community Policing".

One of the civilian email participants posed the following question: "I would like to know how it
is possible for police officers to continually harass people and get away with it?"

From the "other side" (the law enforcement side) a cool cop with a sense of humor replied:

"It is not easy. In California we average one cop for every 2000 people. About 60% of those
cops are on patrol, where we do most of the harassing. One-fifth of that 60% are on duty at
any moment and available for harassing people.So, one cop is responsible for harassing
about 10,000 residents.

When you toss in the commercial, business, and tourist locations that attract people from
other areas, sometimes you have a situation where a single cop is responsible for harassing
20,000 or more people a day.

A ten-hour shift runs 36,000 seconds. This gives a cop one-second to harass a person, and
three-fourths of a second to eat a donut AND then find a new person to harass.

This is not an easy task. Most cops are not up to it day in and day out. It is just too
tiring.What we do is utilize some tools to help us narrow down those, which we harass. They
are as follows:

PHONE: People will call us up and point out things that cause us to focus on a person for
special harassment. "My neighbor is beating his wife" is a code phrase we use. Then we
come out and give special harassment.Another popular one on a weeknight is, "The kids next
door are having a party."

CARS: We have special cops assigned to harass people who drive. They like to harass the
drivers of fast cars, cars blasting music, cars with expired registration stickers and the like. It
is lots of fun when you pick them out of traffic for nothing more obvious than running a red
light. Sometimes you get to really heap the harassment on when you find they have drugs in
the car, are drunk, or have a warrant.

RUNNERS: Some people take off running just at the sight of a police officer. Nothing is quite
as satisfying as running after them like a beagle on the scent of a bunny. When you catch
them you can harass them for hours.

CODES: When you can think of nothing else to do, there are books that give ideas for
reasons to harass folks. They are called "Codes"; Penal, Vehicle, Health and Safety,
Business and Professions... They all spell out all sorts of things for which you can really
mess with people. After you read the code, you can just drive around for a while until you
find someone violating one of these listed offenses and harass them. Just last week I saw a
guy smash a car window. Well, the code says that is not allowed. That meant I got
permission to harass this guy. It is a pretty cool system that we have set up, and it works
pretty well.

I seem to have a never-ending supply of folks to harass. And we get away with it. Why?
Because the good citizens who pay the tab like that we keep the streets safe for them. Next
time you are in my town, give me a single finger wave. That is a signal that you wish for me
to take a little closer look at you, and maybe I'll find a reason to harass YOU. Looking
forward to meeting you."

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DDL

An intelligent whore from Albania,
Read books and grew steadily brainier.
Yet it wasn't her science,
That brought her male clients,
But her quite uncontrolled nymphomania.

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Don't worry if your job is small, and your rewards are few. Remeber that the mighty oak was
once a nut like you!

*******

the only consistent factor in your failing relationships is you.

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Two blondes were walking down the road and the first blonde says, "Look at that dog with
one eye!"

The other blonde covers one of her eyes and says, "Where?"

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Rotten News... (true)

Friday 13th December 2002 12:30pm

French up in arms as @ sign sparks fury

C'est la vie as we say in England...

Controversy has erupted in France where the renaming of the '@' sign, as commonly used in
email addresses, has sparked furious debate.

The government has told French citizens to stop using the two words in common usage -
some favour the English 'at', while others opt for a more continental 'arobase', derived from
Spanish - and start using a newly coined French word, 'arrobe'.

The move is part of an ongoing drive to protect the use of the French language and prevent
further infiltration of English and American-English phrases, but many see it purely as
pointless legislation for legislation's sake.

The constantly evolving lexicon of technology terms, which is almost entirely English-based,
has proved to be a constant challenge for the French government.

For many years new words and phrases have been coming into popular usage faster than
the French government could translate them and disseminate the approved versions to the
population.

Among the few successes in common usage are 'ordinateur' (computer) and 'internaute'
(internet user). However the government has been powerless to dissuade French citizens
from adopting words such as 'email'.

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Boffins find 1.2 trillion pieces of pi
December 08, 2002

A TEAM of researchers at a leading national university have set a world record by calculating
the value of pi to 1.2411 trillion places, one of the researchers says.

Professor Yasumasa Kanada and nine other researchers at the Information Technology
Centre at Tokyo University calculated the value for pi with a Hitachi supercomputer over 400
hours in September, project team member Makoto Kudo said.

The new calculation is more than six times the number of places in the record currently
recognised by Guiness World Records - 206.158 billion places - which Kanada also helped
calculate in 1999.

Kanada's team spent five years designing the program used to calculate pi in the September
experiment to test the efficiency of the supercomputer, Kudo said.

The Hitachi supercomputer is capable of 2 trillion calculations per second, or twice as fast as
the one used for the current Guiness record calculation.

The Associated Press

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Wednesday December 4, 12:42 AM
Italian found dead 44 years after "trip to U.S."

MILAN (Reuters) - An Italian man who packed his bags 44 years ago and told friends he was
leaving for America was found dead inside one of the walls of his home on Tuesday.

An American woman who recently bought the house near Lucca in northern Tuscany
discovered the body as she was carrying out renovations, police said.

Inside a thick wall in the cellar the woman found human remains, two packed suitcases, a
trowel and other equipment to make a wall, a rusted rifle and a bottle with a suicide note.

The note, on paper headed with the name Nemo Cianelli, explained that the man had
discovered he had an incurable disease and had decided to kill himself. He said he had
invented the tale of going to America to avoid upsetting his family.

Local newspapers reported in 1958 that Cianelli was missing, and speculated that he might
have gone to America, but after a period of rumour and mystery, the story was forgotten.

Police said it appeared Cianelli had packed his suitcases, written the suicide note, built a wall
up around himself and then shot himself.