Home - Mars One. Woman Who Couldn’t Be Intimidated by Citigroup Wins $31 Million. Sherry Hunt never expected to be a senior manager at a Wall Street bank.
She was a country girl, raised in rural Michigan by a dad who taught her to fish and a mom who showed her how to find wild mushrooms. She listened to Marty Robbins and Buck Owens on the radio and came to believe that God has a bigger plan, that everything happens for a reason. She got married at 16 and didn’t go to college. After she had her first child at 17, she needed a job. A friend helped her find one in 1975, processing home loans at a small bank in Alaska. On her days off, when she wasn’t fishing with her husband, Jonathan, she rode her horse, Cody, in Wild West shows.
In November 2004, Hunt, now 55, joined Citigroup (C) Inc. as a vice president in the mortgage unit. Sherry Hunt, who worked at quality control at Citi's mortgage unit for eight years, routinely filed reports on flawed mortgages to her bosses before suing the bank. Close Open Photographer: Wesley Mann/Bloomberg Markets. Pipeline spill sends 22,000 barrels of oil mix into Alberta muskeg. A huge spill has released 22,000 barrels of oil and water into muskeg in the far northwest of Alberta.
The spill ranks among the largest in North America in recent years, a period that has seen a series of high-profile accidents that have undermined the energy industry’s safety record. The Enbridge Inc. pipeline rupture that leaked oil near Michigan’s Kalamazoo River, for example, spilled an estimated 19,500 barrels. The most recent spill was discovered May 19 emanating from pipe belonging to Pace Oil & Gas Ltd. , a small energy company that produces about 15,000 barrels a day, roughly half of that oil. The spill has yet to be contained, although “we’re very close,” Pace chief executive Fred Woods said in an interview Wednesday. The spill took place roughly 20 kilometres southeast of Rainbow Lake, which is 165 km south of the Northwest Territories border. The company is now setting up a 50-person camp near the spill site, and has hired contract workers to clean it up. Health - Brian Fung - It's Not Just You: 'Old Person Smell' Is Real. Many young people can correctly identify the age of a person based on their scent.
Remember when you used to go to your grandparents' house and whenever you walked in, your nose detected a change in the air? You're not imagining it -- there really is such a thing as "old person smell," and your ability to detect it may have evolutionary roots. In a study published today in PLoS One, researchers report that young people aged 20-30 are able to accurately guess when a scent comes from an elderly individual aged 75-95. While study participants were also able to determine when a smell was associated with someone in middle age or in their youth, they were much better at smelling old people than young people.
How did the scientists collect the smell samples in the first place? In their new study, Lundström and his colleagues sewed absorbent nursing pads into the armpits of T-shirts and asked volunteers of different ages to sleep in the shirts for five consecutive nights.