Katy Perry unfollows Russell Brand on Twitter

Katy Perry is cutting Russell Brand out of her life in more ways than one.

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The 27-year-old "Firework" singer has unfollowed her soon-to-be ex-husband on Twitter. As of Friday, Perry is still one of the 78 people Brand subscribes to via the social networking site.PHOTOS: Katy's crazy cleavage

It's not surprising, given that Perry is only communicating with Brand, 36, via phone or email. "She's limiting those interactions," a source tells the new issue of Us Weekly (out now). "He's being so atrocious that she feels like she never really knew him."

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Perry has been keeping Brand off her mind by focusing on her career: she performed in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Thursday, and she recently shot an Adidas ad in Santa Barbara, Calif.

"She doesn't want to look battered and have people for sorry for her," a Perry source tells Us. "She's very strong and confident."PHOTOS: Katy and Russell's zany romance

For much more on the couple's nasty split -- including Brand's plans for a tell-all book documenting his 14-month marriage to Perry -- pick up the new issue of Us Weekly, out now!

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Grant helps students stay in Ariz., start business

by Betty Beard - Jan. 7, 2012 07:49 PM
The Republic | azcentral.com

What started as a University of Arizona class project for two graduate students has now become a unique company that can help truckers all over the U.S. earn more money.

And the story behind the creation of the Tucson-based company, Post Bid Ship, shows not only that it can be a good idea to get innovative-minded people to come to Arizona but also to encourage them to stay and start a business.

The company was one of eight that received Arizona Innovation Challenge grants last year from the Arizona Commerce Authority. It snared $137,000.

Post Bid Ship sells unused space in semitrucks.

Trucks taking a product from Point A to Point B typically have to return with empty trailers about 70 percent of the time, which is an inefficient use of diesel fuel, driver time and wear and tear on the truck and roads, CEO Micky Thompson said.

So using an Internet-based automated system, the company lets shippers like Shamrock Foods Co., Safeway and others find empty spaces in trucks going the direction they need, when they need it.

The company already has about 600 trucking companies representing about 100,000 trucks involved. Post Bid Ship receives 1 percent of what the truck owner receives for carrying a load, such as $18 on a $1,800 cargo.

And the idea started as homework.

Thompson, now 37, moved from Tennessee three years ago to attend the McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Arizona's Eller College of Management to earn a master's of business administration degree. There he met fellow student Jarret Hamstreet, now 29, who had worked for a family trucking business in Oregon.

Together they developed a business plan for Post Bid Ship.

"We wondered why this had never been done before," Thompson said.

They graduated in May 2010 and received job offers in other states. But Thompson said Paul Portney, the dean of the Eller College, persuaded them to stay and to start the business.

"He stopped Jarret and I and said, 'We didn't bring you all the way to Arizona and educate you so you could leave and go to other states,' " Thompson said.

The pair landed about $300,000 of investments within months of graduating and last August began charging for their services and going commercial. They have 11 full-time employees.

"We own houses so we are pretty much settled," Thompson said. "We are staying."

Source: http://www.azcentral.com/business/articles/2012/01/07/20120107arizona-business-grants-starters.html

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Water pipe repair in Denver to slow traffic on University Blvd. over the weekend

A main water pipe project in southeast Denver this weekend will likely knot traffic as the work is done.

Workers will repair a section of pipe at the intersection of East Belleview Avenue and South University Boulevard, according to a Denver Water media release.

The work is scheduled to start at 8 p.m. Friday and run through 5 a.m. Monday.

Southbound lanes of traffic on University will be closed and lengthy delays are expected between East Hampden and East Belleview avenues.

Drivers are asked to use alternate routes and avoid the construction area if possible.

Kieran Nicholson: 303-954-1822 or knicholson@denverpost.com.

Source: http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_19674745?source=rss

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Letter airs harassment claims against HP's ex-CEO (AP)

SAN FRANCISCO ? Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd's efforts to impress an HP event hostess included showing her his checking-account balance holding over $1 million, according to a letter detailing the sexual harassment allegations that led to his ouster.

The letter was obtained late Thursday by The Associated Press after the Delaware Supreme Court ruled that Hurd's lawyers, who had attempted to keep it confidential, didn't show that disclosing it would violate California privacy rights. The ruling said information that is only "mildly embarrassing" is not protected from public disclosure.

The letter, it added, does not contain trade secrets about the Palo Alto-based technology company or non-public financial information. Some sentences concerning Hurd's family were ordered redacted.

Celebrity attorney Gloria Allred sent the letter last year on behalf of Jodie Fisher, who was hired as a contract employee to help with HP networking events and who later accused Hurd of sexual harassment.

Although an HP investigation did not find any evidence to support the harassment claim, it uncovered inaccurate expense reports for his outings with Fisher. Hurd was ultimately forced out in August 2010. He now works as co-president at rival Oracle Corp.

Allred alleged in the letter that, while Fisher was ostensibly hired an HP event hostess in late 2007, she was really brought on to accompany Hurd to HP events held out of town. Throughout 2008 and 2009, Hurd made it clear he expected to have a sexual relationship with Fisher, using his "status and authority as CEO of HP," Allred alleged.

Allred claimed that Hurd made several sexual advances toward Fisher, which Fisher rejected. In 2008, while walking with Fisher in Madrid, Hurd stopped at an ATM and showed her his checking-account balance "to impress her," according to the letter.

After Fisher rejected him a final time in October 2009, she was not hired for any future HP events, Allred alleged.

Allred also alleged that in March 2008, Hurd told Fisher that HP was likely to purchase technology services vendor EDS. HP announced the $13 billion acquisition in May of that year.

HP shareholder Ernesto Espinoza had sued to have the letter unsealed. Hurd's attorney, Amy Wintersheimer, said his lawyers had requested that the letter be kept confidential because "it is filled with inaccuracies."

"The truth is, there never was any sexual harassment, which HP's investigation confirmed, and there never was any sexual relationship, which Ms. Fisher has confirmed," Wintersheimer said in a statement.

Both Allred and Hewlett-Packard Co. had no comment on the letter's contents.

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Ortutay reported from New York.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20111230/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_mark_hurd_letter

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