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General Mills sees 'no merit' in age discrimination lawsuit
2015-02-17 22:45:50| Agriculture - Topix.net
US attorney: 'The Project Refuel employee terminations predominantly adversely affected employees aged 40 or over, while General Mills disproportionately retained younger employee' General Mills has been sued by a number of former employees over alleged age discrimination, but the cereal giant says the claims have no merit. In 2012, General Mills laid off around 850 employees under its 'Project Refuel' restructuring program, around half of which were from its Twin Cities plant in Minneapolis.
Tree-ring science reveals Edenton home's age
2015-02-15 21:09:04| Steel - Topix.net
Because radiocarbon dating can be compromised by metal emissions in the air, dendrochronology, or tree-ring dating of wooden objects, beats it in accuracy "by miles," said Michael Worthington. British-born Worthington, of Oxford Tree-Ring Laboratory in Baltimore, has worked on Westminster Abbey, Salisbury Cathedral, and the Tower of London in England; and on Mount Vernon, President John Quincy Adams' Massachusetts birthplace and other historical sites in the U.S. In the Carolinas, he has dated more than a half-dozen buildings, mostly for private clients .
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'Digital Dark Age' Imminent Warns 'Father of the Internet'
2015-02-14 01:07:39| TechNewsWorld
"Old formats that contain documents, photos and other data may not be readable with the latest version of the software," warned Vint Cerf, vice president and chief Internet evangelist for Google. Cerf added that backwards compatibility is not guaranteed, and over time there could be vast archives of digital content that becomes lost because it simply can't be accessed.
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Age of cow to determine implications of latest BSE case
2015-02-13 22:04:59| Livestock - Topix.net
The impact on Canada's beef industry will depend on the age of the animal. If the animal is over 11 years old, there will be very little impact on the beef industry.
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General Mills accused of age discrimination in lawsuit
2015-02-13 18:35:21| Agriculture - Topix.net
More than a dozen former General Mills Inc. employees are suing the company claiming age discrimination after they were laid off in 2012. The Golden Valley-based company laid off about 850 people in June 2012, and more than 400 of those were 40 years or older, said attorney Stephen Snyder of Snyder & Brandt, a Minneapolis law firm representing the 14 former employees suing General Mills.
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