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

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How To Contact Creditors To Help With Credit Repair

Good credit has become nearly a necessity these days. Credit has become almost essential to buying a car or a home ( ... , and getting a mortgage may be impossible. It’s important to repair your credit as soon as you notice a problem because you’d be surprised at what kind of credit repair you can accomplish by being [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 23:57:12

Reading POSt: Case study on a sales culture

Reading POSt: Case study on a sales culture Cash generation largely through accelerated but informed selling is the name of the current game (of course, companies may opt for cost-savings but that's another matter all together) so the story ... many a depositor from entering a branch (NAVPU, debit/credit, GRT, etc.) Think of the potential [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 04:54:31

Choosing a Credit Repair Firm

Credit repair is a million dollar industry with a lot of scams. Finding a loan with poor credit isn’t hard, getting a decent interest rate can be ... in interest charges. We strongly recommend you learn what you need to do to repair your credit legally ... fraud if you do it, and can make you subject to legal repercussions * Do read the Fair Credit [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 18:49:38

Five Questions About the Stimulus

Now that a group of economists, including well-known Marxists Martin Feldstein and Larry Lindsey, have recommended that the stimulus package reach in the neighborhood of $1 trillion (with a "t") dollars, a few questions come to mind: Who will run it? Conceivably, the stimulus "package" could actually be a series of discrete pieces, [more...]

Date: 2008-12-17 18:41:49

The Truth About Credit Repair

The Truth About Credit Repair This is a guest post from Debt Lead, who has a debt consolidation website by Kimberly Credit Counseling ... they are able to “repair your credit”. Time is the only way to heal your credit report. By making consecutive ... on your credit report, you can follow these simple steps: Contact the local credit bureaus. Obtain a [more...]

Date: 2008-06-12 15:30:25

Why Is It Essential To Have A Good Credit Score?

by Jason Bishop A healthy credit score is principal in our financially driven order ... are entirely wiped clean, an individual can begin obtaining a no credit or bad credit Master Card ... . This will enable you to use your credit card to purchase luxury items like holidays. There are free ways [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 19:41:17

On Credit Repair

Credit cards and other loans are really good. It can help you get through any financial difficulties or even assist you for additional capital needs ... into a positive record by availing credit repair services. This can help you establish a good name ... repair you credit record but not all has good testimonies from many clients. DSI Solutions [more...]

Date: 2008-08-19 14:50:00

Full Text: Barack Obama on Economy | Economic Recovery and Reinvestment | January 8, 2009

(Source: Office of the President-Elect) Throughout America’s history, ... from a troubled past, and set a new course for our nation. This is one of those years. We start 2009 ... ’t believe it’s too late to change course, but it will be if we don’t take dramatic action as soon [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 18:00:11

I Have a Dream

Obama's Hopeful Economic Speech copyright ? 2009 Betsy L. Angert. BeThink.org I have a dream. I dream of a day when Americans will separate themselves from a difficult past. I dream of a time when partisan politics will not divide us. In my dream, I see a nation united; one in which Black children, white, Brown, yellow, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 00:55:47

Recognizing Credit Counseling Company Scams

People across the country are finding that they have used their credit unwisely and owe creditors a great amount of money that is increasing every ... to their financial problems, many people contact credit counseling companies that promise to repair their credit ... the risk of being taken advantage of by a dishonest credit counseling company. Telling [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 05:23:38

75 Tips to Survive a Down Economy

I originally titled this post, “75 Tips to Survive a Recession,” but since there is still some dispute from economists on whether or not we are actually in recession, I just stuck with the phrase, “down economy.” Regardless of how economists refer to it, people are hurting, financially. $4 [more...]

Date: 2008-06-15 15:22:41

Credit Repair After Bankruptcy

by Matt Douglas If you have a bankruptcy on your credit report you probably feel like there is no way to escape a low score ... . People frequently ask if credit repair is legal. It is not only legal but this act explicitly says ... is that this mark does not have to remain on your credit for 10 years. To remove it we suggest [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 23:54:48

Do-it-yourself Credit Repair

There are many consumers which are being lured by companies which promise them to clean their unappealing credit history ... as the company has not yet completed the service. According to Credit Repair Organization, any ... of these companies would do nothing to improve their customers’ credit background and would eventually [more...]

Date: 2008-08-23 04:47:53

How long does credit repair take?

Filed under: DebtWe've been getting a lot of desperate comments from people who are seeing their credit destroyed as their personal financial lives ... . So how long does it take to fix your score, if your score is down dramatically after a credit ... will it take to get a clean credit record? Most of the negatives on your credit report will drop off [more...]

Date: 2008-11-03 21:30:00

WEDNESDAY JANUARY 13, 2009

THIS SITE SUPPORTS ALL THE MEN AND WOMEN OF ALL POLICE DEPARTMENTS, EMS CREWS, IN ADDITION TO ALL SERVING IN THE CANADIAN ARMED FORCES, ... ANIMATED DOPPLER STORM RADARNortheast Next Snowstorm CANADA WEATHER WARNINGSNEW BRUNSWICK & MAINE BORDER WAIT TIMESALL OF ATLANTIC CANADA STORM WARNINGS:This Site GIVES you the news as it happens, 24 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 00:21:00

How to Resolve Credit Bureau Reporting Errors

Photo courtesy of neoliminal A couple months ago my wife and I started a passive search for a new home ... it resolved through the credit bureau. Write a letter to the credit reporting agency.  In the letter ... idea to check your credit report to make sure things are being reported correctly.  Inaccuracies [more...]

Date: 2008-10-23 11:00:30

Top Ten Credit Repair Tips

by katie George Starting Your Credit Repair Project Credit Repair is not hard. Take the time to plan your effort and the results will be fantastic. Here is a list of our favorite credit repair tips. Try them together, or pick the ones that look ... are one of the best credit repair tools available. If your credit is poor and you cannot get approved [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 12:21:39

Top Ten Credit Repair Tips

by katie George Starting Your Credit Repair Project Credit Repair is not hard. Take the time to plan your effort and the results will be fantastic. Here is a list of our favorite credit repair tips. Try them together, or pick the ones that look ... are one of the best credit repair tools available. If your credit is poor and you cannot get approved [more...]

Date: 2009-01-03 18:13:04

Provident Living: Practice Thrift and Frugality

"Practice thrift and frugality. There is a wise old saying: “Eat it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.” Thrift is a practice of not wasting anything. Some people are able to get by because of the absence of expense. They have their shoes resoled, they patch, they mend, they sew, and they save money [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 18:13:00

Do You Feel Stimulated?

Speaker Nancy Pelosi has released a draft of the proposed stimulus package that is now standing at around $825 billion.  It didn’t take too long to grow $50 over what Obama was asking for (read draft here).  Needless to say, that in order to get bi-partisanship off on the right foot, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 22:54:11

High Quality Prenatal Vitamin

High Quality Prenatal Vitamin When pregnant please be sure to take a high quality prenatal vitamin - not all prenatal supplements are created equal Information below is courtesy of nutritionist and my mentor Barbara Lagoni Company Difference: Our nutrition products are tested for purity, potency, safety, [more...]

Date: 2008-10-21 20:32:10

Do you need Credit repair?

In these hard economic times, the credit cards seem to get a little more use than usual ... to improve credit scores, or repair credit. It can't hurt to read and get information if you think ... recently to repair credit, it looked to have a ton of info on the subject. I find it helpful just to read [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 21:48:00

News and Commentary

Children Heavily Represented Among 917 Dead, Say Officialsby Michael Jansen - Irish Times / Common DreamsHealth officials in Gaza said yesterday that the Palestinian death toll since Israel began its offensive against the Strip on December 27th had reached 917 and the number of wounded 4,100 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 08:42:00

January 10 2009: Hornswoggled Absquatulation

Russell Lee Tobaccy Candy 1940 Pool hall, Shasta County, California Ilargi: The revolving doors between Washington and Wall Street are swinging like never before. Lawrence Summers and Robert Rubin are the finance powerhouses in the upcoming Obama administration. They were in the exact same place 10 years ago [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 16:28:00

DrumBeat: January 1, 2009

Blackout fear for EU as gas row escalates Jose Manuel Barroso, the European Commission president, called on Moscow and Kiev to solve the dispute as soon as possible. While Gazprom, the Russian ... , there are fears that Germany, Italy and other customers could eventually be hit if the dispute escalates [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 13:44:53

The Wall Street Bailout Plan, Explained

By DAVID STOUT Published: September 20, 2008 WASHINGTON ? News reports about the upheaval in the world of finance have been full of esoteric terms like ?mortgage-backed securities? and ?credit-default swaps,? but the crisis has resonated for people [more...]

Date: 2008-09-21 16:18:13

Stiles' Photo Journal: ASU Football Practice Dome Destroyed

Some things seem bad until you put them into proper context ... , it has been reported that it will cost an estimate of $1 million dollars to repair. From the looks of it, it might cost more than that just to clean up the mess. The Town of Tempe is in shambles. Power [more...]

Date: 2008-08-29 23:57:51

Credit Repair After Bankruptcy

by Matt Douglas With a bankruptcy mark on your report your score will be lowered considerably ... repair, and you should know you will never be fined, prosecuted, arrested, or face any legal action ... . However there is hope, you can remove this mark and by building some positive credit [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 12:44:30

McKinney, Nader debate

Democracy Now! played some of the questions and answers from the last Presidential debate with McCain and Obama, followed by a two minute reply by Green Party nominee Cynthia McKinney and Ralph Nader The host, Amy Goodman stopped the candidates when they were headed down the way-over-two-minutes path [more...]

Date: 2008-10-20 04:33:33

Foreclosure : What You Can Do

Debt management No one wants to face foreclosure, however there are some instances where it cannot be avoided. When facing this particular financial issue, there are a few things that you can do. Budget mismanagement and buying a home that cannot be reasonably afforded are some reasons people face foreclosure, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 06:04:04

Climate News Roundup: June 13 - June 19, 2008

Friday, June 13, 2008 SOLAR THERMAL POWER: In Israel's Negev Desert blooms a field of 1,640 robotic mirrors that behave like sunflowers. It is the world's 'highest-performing, lowest-cost' sun-energy system. says the company testing it. Los Angeles Times, California. 13 June 2008. INTERNATIONAL: U.S [more...]

Date: 2008-06-19 20:38:00

Franklin D. Roosevelt - July 2, 1932

I appreciate your willingness after these six arduous days to remain here, for I know well the sleepless hours which you and I have had. I regret that I am late, but I have no control over the winds of Heaven and could only be thankful for my Navy training [more...]

Date: 2008-08-28 13:45:00

Bike Week 2008

Bicycling can make you healthy and hot… er… hotter. Bicycling with even light effort (10-12 miles per hour) burns 400-500 calories an hour. To shape her legs for the Miss Universe competition, Miss Korea, Lee Ji-seon, started getting her workouts on a bicycle. Apparently, Miss Universe 2007, Zuleyka Rivera of Puerto Rico, is of a similar mind [more...]

Date: 2008-06-13 12:28:36

Friday Digest - Vol. 09 No. 02

Friday Digest — Vol. 09 No. 0216 January 2009THE FOUNDATION"We should never despair, our Situation before has been unpromising and has changed for the better, so I trust, it will again. If new difficulties arise, we must only put forth new Exertions and proportion our Efforts to the exigency of the times [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 17:15:00

House Dems Detail $825 Bln. American Recovery & Reinvestment Plan

Jan 15: According to information posted by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) ... . - More than $20 billion in tax cuts for clean, renewable energy including a new enhanced tax credit ... Appropriations and Ways and Means Committees “Chairman’s Mark” contains targeted efforts in: Clean [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 21:10:00

The Top Franchise Trends For 2009

Two words will be dominating the franchise landscape for 2009: cautious optimism ... credit score, and low personal debt, will increase the chances of getting a franchise loan.  More tips ... entrepreneurial ventures. Franchise Loan Availability The financial institutions are still going through [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 07:30:34

From the Kitchen to the Car: DIY Fryer Fuel

This article was written by Sarah Rich in March 2007. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. ... At first glance, you wouldn't know this place from the many other European auto repair shops around [more...]

Date: 2008-09-16 18:33:20

Penn & Teller: Al Gore is an EPA -- 'Egregiously Pushy A**hole'

I bet you thought EPA stands for Environmental Protection Agency ... . You may be a carbon sinner, but now you can buy yourself a clean, green conscience for cash ... bears are drowning, and trees are doing something. We f***ed up the environment beyond repair [more...]

Date: 2008-07-27 16:39:41

Credit Repair Methods

If you think that all credit repair methods are the same, you have got it all wrong. There are a number fraudulent credit repair firms that advocate the use of illegal methods to clean your credit report of damaging information in order to get a higher credit score. These firms operate under the guise of ... [more...]

Date: 2009-09-25 18:07:39

Stop Struggling Because Of Poor Credit And Improve Credit Rating Now

Stop Struggling Because Of Poor Credit And Improve Credit Rating Now Did you apply for a personal loan only to be turned down by a bank or ... with and a clean credit report be in place after all the discrepancies in the credit report have been removed. People with a bad credit report that have a need to clean up their credit have the law [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 09:00:05

143rd Festival of Frugality:

Welcome readers to the 143rd Festival of Frugality!  I’m LAL, host of LivingAlmostLarge and a new blog called LAL musings! LAL Musings is where I write about life, love, and everything else not financial so please check it out.  This is my first time hosting, and I hope you learn as many frugal tips as I do [more...]

Date: 2008-09-16 13:00:46

Who's Who: Unmasking the LSU/VA Team

In 2009, the fights to reopen Charity Hospital and save Lower Mid City from demolition will come to a head. The proposed $1.2 billion plan to remake Lower Mid City into a biomedical district anchored by an LSU teaching hospital and a renovated VA hospital has been in the works for many moons [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 23:10:00

DrumBeat: December 8, 2008

Oil rises on talk of auto bailout, stimulus NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Oil prices rebounded from a nearly 4-year low Monday as U.S ... a banking and financial crisis. Further, we do not know how in the world of climate change [more...]

Date: 2008-12-08 13:37:28

11 Productive Things To Do When You Can't Access The Internet

Written on 8/28/2008 by Abhijeet Mukherjee. You can catch him at Jeet Blog where he blogs about different Web 2.0 apps and online tools and how they can help you become more productive.Photo Credit: noii's ... importance too. And yes, it's always offline too :) Clean your computer The perfect time to unplug [more...]

Date: 2008-08-28 20:17:48

President-elect Obama’s Economic Speech

President-elect Obama’s Economic Speech Here’s highlights from the speech (full video here) ... that mark a clean break from a troubled past, and set a new course for our nation ... of what the future will hold. I don't believe it's too late to change course [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 02:14:29

Perfect Optimizer v4.0.12.18

Perfect Optimizer v4.0.12.18 | 5.5 MB Perfect Optimizer is a simple and easy-to-use program which will optimize your PC and fix computer ... its powerful functions only by clicking on the button of "Start Scan", "Repair All" and "Clean" etc ... of your computer. - Perfect Optimizer will repair the bugs that cause IE malfunction, clean up all IE [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 10:58:12

Explainer: How the Senate Rescue Bill Is Different

Explainer: How the Senate Rescue Bill Is Different By Ben Pershing Two days after the House failed to pass a financial rescue bill, sending the stock market into free fall, the Senate will take its own shot tonight by voting on a measure with extra sweeteners designed to attract additional votes [more...]

Date: 2008-10-01 17:10:57

Millions at risk of foreclosure fraud

Angela Carter outside the Chicago home she may lose because, she says, she fell for a foreclosure rescue scam. ( ... . The problem is so bad that in Portland, Ore., local police now automatically send a letter [more...]

Date: 2008-09-22 09:00:00

Where Do You Get Your Credit Repair Advice?

Where Do You Get Your Credit Repair Advice? 15 January 2009 Big banks, mortgage brokers, credit repair companies, ... , they may advise speaking to a credit “repair” company. They “must” know what they are doing. Credit repair companies are shady at best. I have yet to find one that offered anything beyond [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 16:20:29

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