Do squirrels really know how to avoid cancer?

Do squirrels really know how to avoid cancer? Posted by Roland Piquepaille @ 10:14 am Categories: Health & Medicine, Science & Nature Tags: Mouse, ... to stop the cancer before it becomes dangerous. Will this self-monitoring anti-cancer mechanism ever ... and sizes As you can see above, “rodents present a wide variety of lifespans and sizes.” (Credit [more...]

Date: 2008-09-21 17:14:18

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Car Repair and Cashback Cards - Big Spender Edition

“Hey man, just put it on your credit card…” That’s the best answer the Honda service manager could give me as I attempted to negotiate with him to cover the repair costs for the air conditioner compressor failure on our Honda CRV. Honda ... they were paying for the replacement parts but I told him that the $600 repair was still a lot of money [more...]

Date: 2008-09-08 04:01:03

Things We Don’t Understand

Kung Pao Chicken, extra hot. Cook the peanuts, don’t just dump them on top at the end. No peapods. No celery. Small pieces of chicken ... for us and get credit with linkage? With the Redskins doing what they did, there’s no way we can afford two grand ... , the demonstration Guitar Hero section, the armada of personal color laser printers, the return and r [more...]

Date: 2008-10-13 16:58:13

Recognizing a Credit Repair Scam

by David Wada Everyday, companies target consumers who have poor credit histories with promises to clean up their credit report so they can get a ... and someone else has your money. If you see a credit repair offer, heres how to tell if the company behind it is up to no good: * Before they provide any credit repair services, the company wants [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 06:24:58

Employment Profile of Those Spending A Lot on Housing

So the economy is not doing very well, and many more homeowners are expected to go into foreclosure due to declining home prices, which of course has ramifications in the credit market. This downturn is also expected to hit ... -PERSONAL AND HOUSEHOLD GOODS REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE9.6%SRV-PRIVATE HOUSEHOLDS9.6%RET-NOT SPECIFIED [more...]

Date: 2008-10-07 04:00:00

Consumers Change Buying Habits, But Will It Last?

Associated Press: Adrienne Radtke plans to keep riding her bike to work even if gas prices drop ... — fueled by higher gas and food prices, tightening credit and a slumping housing market — ... . At the Alexandria Shoe Repair and Leather Service in Virginia, sales have increased 18 percent since [more...]

Date: 2008-07-24 23:16:33

No Credit Mastercard

This aside, for people with a poor credit history, both of these cards will seem remarkably similar and they probably won’t care a great deal which ... ), they will probably begin to see their credit history repair itself in a relatively short amount ... will be more than normal. Although by using the no credit mastercard properly and to guarantee the [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 03:41:01

It's a Miracle How DirecTV Stays in Business

To Whom it may concern Please be advised, how Direct TV treats their "customers" this is to the point and right to the heart of the matter ... to repair. I have a balance of $96.44, that they have placed into collections, after they did ... , only to be given the brush, and told we cant do anything, your all on your own pay us, case closed [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 17:00:00

Paying Down Debt In Your Marriage

Debt can be a real strain on any marriage. Today we’ll take a look at how you can work with your spouse to reduce debt together ... accumulate credit card debt. Before you know it, you’ve racked up $50k in consumer debt, not including ... such as an unexpected medical expense or car repair. Don’t skip step 1! It’s #1 for a reason. Step [more...]

Date: 2008-09-08 13:12:49

Identify Credit Repair Scam in 6 Ways!!

by David Wada Everyday, companies target consumers who have poor credit histories with promises to clean up their credit report so they can get a ... and someone else has your money. If you see a credit repair offer, heres how to tell if the company behind it is up to no good: * The company wants you to pay for credit repair services before [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 06:23:45

Deal with Credit Before Divorce

by Rob Kosberg When you are about to file for divorce, you know that this is a horrible experience no matter how much you want to do it ... . Legal advice may help with this. Finances should be worked out, if at all possible, before the divorce is completed. Credit reports for each partner need to be secured, examined and fixed [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 22:06:48

Fannie and Freddie to Announce Mass Loan Modification Program

re-default. This may also further erode investor confidence in residential mortgage backed securities, ... monies to put towards housing payments. Step 3) Start Improving Your Credit Rating This can take a long ... you pay your bills on time, that you have good credit.  Paying your bills on time only accounts for 30 [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 19:02:07

Deals of the Day: Is BCE the Next Busted Buyout?

Deals of the Day gathers all the biggest news of the morning related to mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcies, financing and private equity ... billion into ailing credit markets, much of it directly from the Fed. The central bank plans to buy ... governments to move rapidly to recapitalize their countries’ banks to repair financial markets. WSJ [more...]

Date: 2008-11-26 13:47:54

Green Ink: There’s an Energy Plan Here Somewhere

Renewed violence in Nigeria and tough talk from Iran and Turkey pushed oil up from a seven-week low, Bloomberg reports ... terms of credit to a gaping hole in the oil distribution system, both in the WSJ (sub reqd.). Gaping ... fewer gasoline taxes, and even less money to repair decrepit infrastructure—and those investments “ [more...]

Date: 2008-07-28 12:13:17

Circuit City To Close All Stores in the United States

Big-box technology retailer Circuit City is asking for court approval to liquidate after two failed attempts at acquisition. The Richmond, Va ... Circuit City’s Firedog repair service and 700-plus Canadian retail and outlet stores may be next ... when the poor economy led vendors to impose restrictions on payment terms and credit for the company [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 17:09:50

Bad Credit Loans

Are you short of money? Scared that you may not be able to buy your own house you promised your wife this birthday? ... to know more visit the site. They also have extensive material on how to clean up and repair bad ... Planning to apply for a loan but don't have a good credit to get one? Then stop worrying. Bad [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 16:38:32

Managing High Gas Prices: Launch your own Green Business and Deduct Business Miles

Like the rest of nature that evolves remarkably to stresses in the environment, people will be able to adapt to high gas prices. Really ... and center. Another trend: the explosion of people starting their own green business as an ecopreneur ... to the mushrooming energy costs, how much of business was done in the period of relatively inexpensive oil [more...]

Date: 2008-07-03 01:21:49

The Gasoline Tax And The Renaissance Of The Bicycle

With the rise of the US automobile industry, the bicycle almost disappeared as a means of transportation in America ... -guzzling ways." It's better to use the money for mortgage payments, credit card debt, or a rainy day ... American public roads in good repair. They determined that the deficit between revenue and expense [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 00:31:42

Extended warranties: Trade group predicts a drop in sales

A smaller proportion of consumers are expected to buy extended warranties for electronics items in the months to come compared with the recent ... in the year prior to the study's release. In an interview with Channel Web, a business website ... with little or no problems for their useful life." In general, Consumer Reports' repair histories for [more...]

Date: 2008-09-11 18:38:50

Credit-crunch Christmas treat freezes in blizzard of complaints

It started as just a few flakes, but by yesterday a blizzard of complaints was swirling around what had seemed the perfect credit-crunch Christmas ... manager, told the Echo: "It's been a very bad first day. I'm a bit ashamed." He confessed that staff were struggling to repair the ice rink, and added that one of the santas had phoned in sick [more...]

Date: 2008-12-02 02:45:47

Argentina's bankruptcy—still proceeding

THE AMERICAS: "Argentina: Better late than never; Ms Fernandez tries to charm the markets by revisiting the 2005 debt swap," The Economist, ... in from the cold. Fernandez does this to repair the country's credit perception as she seeks to float ... 27 September 2008. When Argentina went through its IMF-sort-of-approved sovereign bankruptcy [more...]

Date: 2008-10-20 12:35:58

Off Label Use of HGH to Treat Tendon and Ligament Injuries Remains Illegal

Dr. Richard Rydze is a vocal advocate of the use of recombinant human growth hormone (rHGH) for the treatment of tendon and ligament injuries. Dr ... with performance-enhancing drugs and the legal restrictions on legitimate medical research by anti ... had purchased $150,000 worth of HGH and anabolic steroids from Signature Pharmacy with his credit card [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 08:33:55

CARDIN BACKS BAILOUT OF US AUTO INDUSTRY

From the Office of Ben CardinThank you for contacting me about ongoing efforts in Congress to aid the ailing U.S. automotive industry ... and the constriction of credit resulting from the global financial crisis, have brought the industry ... and suppliers, repair shops, and dealerships, as well as significant revenues for local governments [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 13:36:00

Blessing Amidst the Chaos

Today is the first day in weeks that I feel like I'm standing on solid ground ... couple of weeks.I credit that to the support all of you have been giving me though emails, comments both ... to my house to stay with my kids so she can follow me, and then bring me home, from the car repair place [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 17:42:00

The Real Credit Crisis

The US is at a “strategic inflection point,” with the opportunity to re-assume global leadership on both diplomatic and economic fronts or to become ... . It transcends the stock markets, the credit crisis, proliferation of terrorism and warring nuclear powers ... our persistent budget deficits in particular. This is the real credit crisis facing the US. [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 15:18:39

Предсказания Кюнстлера на 2009 - США, Нефть, Геополитика, Путин

Спонсор месяца - #1 RX pharmacy affiliate program!Сайт дня (как попасть) - http://www.business-magazine.ru/There are two realities "out there" now competing for verification among those who think about national affairs and make things happen. The dominant one (let's call it the Status Quo) [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 07:59:00

When Frugality Isn’t Enough

The following guest post is from Trent Hamm of The Simple Dollar. I’ve been a fan of Frugal Dad for quite a while ... high school (drug use, mostly) that left him with a poor local reputation, a poor credit history ... - the power company doesn’t tolerate him being late even a day on his bill because of his poor credit [more...]

Date: 2008-09-16 11:00:37

Buy a New Car or Fix the One I’ve Got?

I knew it. I just knew my car was in bad shape. I’ve talked about it before, and I knew it was going to happen ... looking at about €4,000.” We don’t have €4,000. Not only that, but we won’t get approved for a loan ... of money, it’s going to have to be through tapping the open line of credit at a gazillion percent [more...]

Date: 2008-10-17 10:00:17

Back to Basics: Start doing the little money-saving things again

I’ll admit that when I get a little bit of breathing room in our budget, I get lazy. I’ll go out with friends to lunch, or head to the vending machine for a snack. I don’t plan finances as much as I should. And it costs me more than if I did plan and went the cheaper route. Doing these little money-saving things takes time [more...]

Date: 2008-11-02 05:58:15

Does It Pay to Re-Finance?

Does It Pay to Re-Finance? Refinancing your mortgage can be an excellent opportunity to save money and get better terms on your home loan ... of re-financing. These situations include when rates of interest drop, when the householders credit ... t be longer than the householder plans to retain the property. Credit Score Improvements [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 14:49:52

Money Mailbox Friday - Scam Checkup

Last week, I decided to take advantage of a mail offer to receive literature of the luxury resort package a company is ... the bonus gift of Zagat Survey’s 2008 Golf Guide. I logged onto the website, and entered my offer code ... a little excited to see what the Zagat Survey’s Golf Guide was about.  I open up the package [more...]

Date: 2008-07-04 15:30:36

Deals of the Day: Wachovia and Juliet

By Stephen Grocer and Heidi N. Moore Deals of the Day includes all the major news of the morning related to mergers and acquisitions and financing ... steps to repair ailing financial markets: guaranteeing billions of dollars in bank debt ... forecasting survey. WSJ Haunting Europe: Europe’s credit markets remain seized, increasing fears [more...]

Date: 2008-10-10 11:34:10

Text offered for Obama speech on economy

Following is the text of the speech President-elect Barack Obama made about the nation's economy Thursday:Thank you so much ... break from a troubled past and set a new course for our nation. This is one of those years.We start ... it's too late to change course, but it will be if we don't take dramatic action as soon as possible [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 11:43:00

Eight people that would love a netbook for the holidays

Lee Mathews is a computer technician in Manitoba, Canada. He’s a regular contributor to Download Squad, and the proud owner of an MSI Wind U100 netbook. Thanks to Asus, just about everyone knows what a netbook is. With major retail stores like Radio Shack and Best Buy pushing ultraportables like the EEE and Acer’s Aspire One this season, [more...]

Date: 2008-11-28 22:22:27

Ruud Questions … a lot

I have a lot of ideas (or opinions, depending on how you look at it) on how search really works ... back because they’re secret — no, in the sense that SEO is a lot like DIY home repair: everybody ... causing mass credit card defaults. When I started to talk with Chris Brogan I realized its within [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 17:19:02

Stimulus Package 2009: Lightning Round Reactions

The Democrats in the House of Representatives introduced legislation this week containing $825 billion in new tax credits and government spending, ... cuts for clean, renewable energy including a new enhanced tax credit for research and development ... extension of the production tax credit for wind, hydro, geothermal, and bioenergy.  Ditto.  Go to hell [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 15:30:30

The Power of Apologizing

Uniqlo t-shirt Creative Commons License photo credit: MShades “An apology is the superglue of life.  It can repair just about anything.  ~Lynn Johnston” One way we can begin the new year with a clean slate is to apologize and make amends to someone we’ve offended. With this simple action we can let go of old issues and the same [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 17:12:16

Forecast for 2009

Introduction       There are two realities "out there" now competing for verification among those who think about national affairs and make things happen. The dominant one (let's call it the Status Quo) is that our problems of finance and economy will self-correct and allow the project of a "consumer" economy to resume in "growth" mode [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 03:33:57

Recovery Parks, Free Geeks and Plasma: Vancouver Debates Zero Waste

Can we imagine a day when, having sorted out our recyclables and compost-ables, then responsibly earmarked our "still perfectly good" stuff for reuse, we'll have no trash left to drag to the curb? What are the solutions that will take the developed world from our current rates of over-consumption to zero waste? [ [more...]

Date: 2008-07-01 21:04:17

Fed Talk "Slaves 'R' Us"

Bernanke: More bank bailouts neededNEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Tuesday that President-elect Barack Obama's proposed fiscal stimulus package could help the economy, but he added that additional bailouts of financial institutions may also be needed to bring about a sustained economic recovery [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 17:12:00

DrumBeat: September 17, 2008

Oil spikes $6 on safe-haven buying, weak dollar NEW YORK - Oil prices shot up $6 a barrel Wednesday, rebounding as fears of a spreading crisis in the U.S. financial sector sent skittish investors scrambling out of stocks and into hard assets. The big rally at least temporarily halted crude's steep, [more...]

Date: 2008-09-17 13:50:07

Bill Clinton Campaigning for Obama in Orlando Today

NOTE FROM PAM: I added some video clips below the fold. Former President Bill Clinton spoke at a Obama for President rally in Orlando, Florida today ... who are not at this rally. We have to elect a president who will rebuild the American dream, repair a badly ... , incomes declining, heathcare costs of doubled, college costs up 75 percent -- credit card [more...]

Date: 2008-10-02 01:31:07

Strike 3

I missed Siren's burlesque class last week, due to being sick. I emailed LeAnne (the owner) a couple of time and she replied, the next day, that it would be no problem to start with week 2. Yesterday morning, I double-checked the SirenDance schedule - and happily discovered that my Burlesque class was at 9:15, not 8:45 (as I had thought) [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 02:12:47

Assessing Your Debt Situation (6)

Different plans have different requirements for borrowing and withdrawing money. Withdrawing money early from a tax-deferred account is expensive ... Out, by Twila Slesnick and John C. Suttle (Nolo). d. Obtain a Home Equity Loan or Credit Line Many banks, savings and loans, credit unions and other lenders offer home equity loans, also called second [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 05:03:05

Pajiba Love 12/17/08

See My Movie ... Please? Pajiba Love / Stacey Nosek Tom Cruise is having a humble pie eating contest and pulling out all the stops to try to repair his image before Valkyrie inevitably tanks. (WIMB) And in more "Nazi News," I shit ... !) As much as I love me some Cute Overload now and then (OK, all the time) this website is the funniest thing [more...]

Date: 2008-12-17 17:01:07

PFBlogger Spotlight: Green Panda Treehouse

What color is US currency? It’s green. What’s one of the most content creatures on the planet? Well, one of them is a panda ... of it. I got a credit card in college and like many of my friends, I charged on it like crazy ... some of my friends (who would return the favor and use their credit card next time). I also thought [more...]

Date: 2008-08-07 16:28:03

Advice To Pres. Obama (#2): Yes We Can, But Will We?

The below post/letter is very important to me, and brings together much of what I have worked on the past few years ... particular issue runs the risk of creating more long term harm than good. In this letter, I attempt ... . In this letter, I would like to explain what some of these things are. In addition [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 16:49:43

Courtney Sends Letter to Obama, Pelosi Outlining Stimulus “Principles”

Rep. Joe Courtney has sent a letter to the president-elect and Speaker Pelosi today outlining a set of principles he believes will help create jobs and move the country out of recession. You can read the full letter here. Courtney’s principles ... . We can also spur local jobs by supporting urgent maintenance, repair, environmental remediation and [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 04:57:34

AIG Gets All the Free Beer and Hot Dogs It Wants

The Troubled Asset Relief Program was renamed over the weekend to Troubled American International Group Relief Program ... billion in preferred shares. It will also cancel the bulk of AIG’s credit default swap agreements ... In the case of ruined firms like AIG, management no longer has the capacity to repair the broad damage [more...]

Date: 2008-11-10 14:12:21

Read This Guide Before Buying Lionel Trains Online

by Zach Hersa Unfortunately, we are in a time era where so many hobby stores are closing their doors for the last time ... . Learn step by step the ultimate guide to lionel train repair and get a rare collection of lionel train ... if possible should be credit cards, or even via Paypal, although not interpreted as safe. Being [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 00:39:38

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