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I thought the battery died. Was working fine yesterday. When I first tried it out, the engine had trouble turning over and the clock restarted at 12. I thought for sure the battery had gone dead as one of my door sensors doesn't register all the time and can end up leaving lights on. Tried charging with one of those cigarette battery recharger deals and no charge built up. When I tried again it made no noise when trying to turn engine (sometimes just makes clicking noise under the steering column) and all the electronics, keyless entry, power windows/seats, radio, clock didn't work.

Someone came by to jump my car and it turned over. Left it running 45 minutes and when I went to restart it, same deal -- no attempt to turn over, weird clicking, nothing works.

Can anyone troubleshoot? Is this a fuse, battery, starter, wiring issue? Want to have a sense of whether I should be taking it to AAP/Autozone, a local garage or a scrapyard.

I’m a non-exempt (hourly) white-collar worker in MA. Two/three times a week (or so) my manager asks me to read a report, or mark up a PowerPoint presentation, or think of something work-related (write down ideas about how to do something) on my commute to/from home (45 minute train ride).

Is this legal (with regards to non-exempt work time computation)?

Essentially what I’m being asked to do is work (take personal time to perform job duties), without clocking it, since they are pretending like it’s burned time anyway (ignoring maybe I’d like to do personal reading, or listen to music, or just otherwise do nothing & unwind on the train ride home). I clocked it the first time I was asked to do something, and my manager was like “gee…didn’t know you had your own cube on the train…in the future if you feel like what you’re being asked to do is work just let me know and we’ll save it for later.”…But these same types of requests are given all the time and it makes me feel like if I don’t do it for free, my job is at risk.

By MA law, if I’m being asked to perform work (albeit at a relaxed pace/environment), does MA law regard that as clock-able work time?

Wouldn’t something like this also be at-risk for discrimination (people that drive to work can’t be asked to do this for obvious reasons, and those that do drive themselves tend to be more well-off)

I got a DMV ticket and was told my payment was not received in time. Now they are issuing 2 late fees. One is an official "late fee" for $45 and the other is a "release charge" of $10, which when asked I was told it was an additional late fee (no specific purpose of what is being released, what it entails, etc.) The original ticket was for $35.

Is this legally termed excessive? I thought it was federally unacceptable to charge more than 1 late fee at a time (not a late fee + interest charges, but 2 actual late fees), and furthermore was unacceptable to charge late fees in excess of the original charge. Any legal basis for this this or am I imagining things?

This is in MA.

I'm trying to use an excel web query to get daily historical stock data for a given company. However I can't seem to get the query to capture the entire available stock history.

All the examples I've seen on the web don't really help. If I click the box for the actual price table, I just get however many day's worth of data can fit on the first page, not the entire history. And if I click the box for "download to spreadsheet" all I get is that text. I can't seem to find an option that will actually give me that table that I would get if I downloaded to spreadsheet.

What am I doing wrong?

I have two seperate databases, each with their own switchboard interface. The end users feel like the two databases are somewhat related, and dislike having to interact with two seperate databases. However there is a large amount of data in each, and I don't want performance lag from throwing all the tables into one d-base.

Is there a way to just create a third d-base that only has a switchboard, and link that switchboard to connect to the other d-base's switchboards.

Effect would be like this:

Now:

Dbase1

Main switch - application 1

..................- application 2

Dbase2:

Main switch - application 1

..................- application 2

New system:

Portal dbase - Dbase1 - application 1

.................................- application 2

...................- Dbase2 - application 2

.................................- application 2

I'm doing an internal transfer within my company to a completely different department. Usually our corporate policy is a 3-week transition, and after that the old manager is supposed to stop asking their old employee for help with stuff (ending projects, training the new guy, etc). However out of courtesy, people usually give some leeway and answer questions & training requests for 1-3+ months after the move.

My new role is going to be much more intense than my old role and coupled with other life responsibilities I don't want to be bogged down with old job work (that gets me no pay no less!) when I should really be focusing on making a name for myself in my new role. Plus my old manager sucked and never promoted me (why I went somewhere else), so I think it would be a nice little payback for them to be overwhelmed trying to handle all of what I did for them.

Does the community think I should just stiff them once it's been 3 weeks and say "so sorry, too busy, figure it out yourself"? Or should I be polite and give them the helping hand they never gave me? I want to hurt the management, but not the line level employees who would be picking up my roles. I'd never work with these people again BTW.

I hit a pothole too fast and afterwards my car started making a rattling noise when I made turns. It almost sounded like the muffler had detached and was coming in contact with the back parts of the car (wheel, ground), but I checked the bottom and everything seemed intact.

I took it in and the mechanic told me both "sidebar links" were broken and it would cost $200 to fix.

I googled sidebar links but can't find anything about them on cars, what they do, what's a typical cost to fix and if it is something a layman can do.

Any feedback from the community?

I'm trying to use VBA to login to a website. So far I am able to open a new IE window and have it go to the web page, but I can't seem to get the code right to enter the login information to the fields.

This is the login form of the site from the source.

function login()

{

baseMessage = 'You must supply the following to log on to the system: \n';

message = "";

if ((document.forms[0].user != null) &&

(document.forms[0].user.value == ""))

{

message = ' - User ID';

}

if ((document.forms[0].pass != null) &&

(document.forms[0].pass.value == ""))

{

if (message != "")

message += "\n";

message += ' - Password';

}

if ((document.forms[0].servername != null) &&

(document.forms[0].servername.value == ""))

{

if (message != "")

message += "\n";

message += ' - Server';

}

if (message != "")

{

alert(baseMessage + message);

return false;

}

else

{

return true;

Please help, I don't know what I am supposed to put in to make it work.

My wife was a canadian and went to school in Ontario. While there, she got OSAP assistance. When she finished school she came back to the US to marry and has no plans of going back to Canada.

She forgot about the OSAP loan and it has now been a few years. She made a call to find out it is pretty large, and is already in default since no payments have been made as of yet.

What are the consequences of failing to repay the OSAP? The OSAP site mentions they can withhold Canadian tax returns, and would be reported to credit bureaus. If it would have hit her credit in the US, I would figure it would be on her report already (which it isn't). Since she is not planning a return to Canada, can they try to seize assets in the US to collect? She doesn't have anything under her own name (everything is titled to me), could they try to come after me? At what point (if any) is the loan discharged?

Thanks!

How injured do you have to be to be awarded a US purple heart? Who makes the judgement call of whether or not a purple heart is awarded, and what are the factors for the decision?

If a US citizen owned a foreign corporation (i.e. in Panama), and that corporation had a US-based brokerage account, could the foreign nation seize it?

I know Casto seized all US assets when he communized Cuba, but those were real assets located in Cuba (land, buildings, etc). If a nation decided to communize, could they legally take brokerage assets owned by a corporation incorporated in their country? Would the brokerage have to consent, or could they tell them to piss off and give the assets to the owners of the foreign corp who actually owned those assets?

My girlfriend who is living with me got a dog and has not bothered to train it. It's been a year now, and it still isn't even housetrained. It digs through the garbage and chews on stuff when she lets it out; shoes, electrical cords, and even the walls! (on top of going to the bathroom).

Anyway, our lease is up in a bit and I wanted to buy a condo, but I don't want to bring him along to destroy it. I've brought up the idea of giving the dog to a friend who wants one, so that she can still see him on a regular basis, but she refuses.

Does anyone else have any good suggestions?

I'm trying to rebalance my portfolio, taking full advantage of tax-sheltered accounts (401k, IRA, 529, etc).

I've heard conflicting views on which assets are more tax favored. Could you please rank the tax favorability of the following classes?

Domestic Large-cap equity

Domestic Mid/Small-cap equity

International/Emerging Markets equity

Fixed Income/MM

Real Estate

Thank you!

I thought for salaries employees it meant 9am - 4:30pm M-F (7.5 * 5 = 37.5), and that only hourly had to work 7.5 working hours plus a 1 hour unpaid lunch M-F (so like 8:30 - 5, or 9 - 5:30, etc).

Anyone know which it is?

Thought I'd throw a poll out to YahooAnswer users -- feel free to expand beyond yes or no.

Do you think a company/manager should have the right to tell employees to work through an evening in which you have part-time grad classes if those classes occur well outside the scheduled work day (assuming they do not pay anything towards the program)?

Even if they agree to such coursework and are aware of the schedule in advance?

Does your view change if the company is paying for part of the tuition? All of the tuition?

Anyone know any free (training) certification programs (for any kind of subject)? Preferably on-line stuff.

Thanks

So I interviewed at this place, and they called me up saying that they wanted me and that I was a great fit for the position. They said that I had the job, pending a background check, which I agreed to. I have only once in my life been arrested, but it was a wrongful arrest (mistaken identity, @$$hole cop thought all asian people look alike).

Even still, on the form when they asked if I have ever been arrested, I answered truthfully and put down that I had been arrested under mistake identity and cleared of the charges.

Now the company has pulled the offer and said that my experiences were lacking and that they didn't actually feel I would be a good fit. But this is a complete turnaround from what they explicitly told me, prior to hearing of my false arrest.

Is that illegal? I didn't try to cover it up. Has that arrest really made me open to being denied jobs based solely on a false arrest? What should I do?

I heard there were alternatives to the old drill & fill methods for handling tooth decay. I know there is air abrasion using lasers, but I also heard about some new technique where they actually repair the decay part (using a gel and ultraviolet light or something) instead of drilling it.

Anyone have any information on these techniques? I can't find anything on it, and my dentist said that doesn't exist. Something tells me he's a bit biased though.

I have a friend who is a "Financial Manager and Comptroller" in the Air National Guard. I'm wondering what his chances are of being sent overseas. I know we're at war, but some people need to be around to get things done locally.

Any ideas?