Pyramid Financial Solutions
If you are struggling collecting debt payments from your customers, then you definitely need professional help. This commercial collection agencies that I found called Pyramid Financial Solutions is a full service receivables management and debt collection agency. They offers a wide variety of services [more...]
Date: 2008-12-28 12:08:52
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StockSource.us Reports MNDP Providing State of the Art Solutions World Wide
(EMAILWIRE.COM, September 28, 2009 ) Delmar, CA - From the Brazilian government’s city surveillance agencies to Arnold Schwarzenegger productions, from Environmental Protection Agency data collection compliance to commercial real estate development infomercials for investors and city planners. No... [more...]
Date: 2009-09-28 07:00:00
All the Wrong People Have Self-Esteem
Noted Illustrator Laurie Rosenwald Reads and SignsAll the Wrong People Have Self-EsteemAn Inappropriate Book for Young Ladies, ... . Other chapters include “The PMS Collection Agency,” “Really Extreme Makeover: 25,185 Days ... it could get you kicked out of yoga.Laurie Rosenwald is the world’s most commercial artist [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 19:10:00
A Major Victory for Space Commercialization
Congress has very wisely cancelled the National Reconnaissance Office’s proposed Broad Area Space-Based Imagery Collection (BASIC) satellite system ... satellites whose construction was made possible by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’ [more...]
Date: 2008-10-22 20:57:07
The Road to Zimbabwe
By Terry Coxon, Editor, The Casey Report GoldSeek.com Sprinkled among all the official talk about efforts to end the current recession, you’ll hear assurances, notably from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, that when the economy does revive, it won’t be allowed to blast off into runaway inflation. The Fed, we’re being promised, will prevent such a launch by reabsorbing the hundreds of billions of dollars of excess liquidity it recently created to halt the credit crisis. [more...]
Date: 2009-09-30 12:40:48
Israelis Now Taps ALL US Telephones And Faxes
by Brian Harring, Domestic Intelligence Reporter -from various sources- “It turns out that Israel has had a potential wiretap on every phone in America for years, along with the ability to monitor and record who any person is calling, anywhere in America; information of great value even if one does not listen to the calls themselves. Amdocs, Inc. [more...]
Date: 2009-09-19 15:29:47
Another big test for Chemical Safety Board
by Ken Ward, Jr., cross-posted from Sustained Outrage: a Gazette Watchdog Blog The U.S. Chemical Safety Board is scheduled to release the findings of its investigation into the terrible explosion that killed 14 workers at a Georgia sugar refinery in February 2008. It’s another big test for the CSB, which has been under fire recently. Organized labor harshly criticized the board for backing off a strong recommendation on the need for OSHA and EPA to write new rules to prevent [more...]
Date: 2009-09-24 13:58:25
Reforms Make It Harder To Give Credit Cards To College Students
Due to the latest credit card alterations that are starting up next year, card issuers will have a strenuous time getting teenagers on college campuses to apply for credit cards without their parents’ knowledge. As students arrive on campus, card issuers will be there to meet them at many schools. “Issuers will try to continue to market to college students between now and the time the legislation takes effect,” said Bill Hardekopf, chief executive of LowCards.com, a site that tracks cards. [more...]
Date: 2009-09-13 15:21:17
The Last Roundup
NEWS YOU WON’T FIND ON CNN Send Page To a Friend The Last Roundup For decades the federal government has been developing a highly classified plan that would override the Constitution in the event of a terrorist attack. [more...]
Date: 2009-09-17 12:02:44
From St. Paul to Pittsburgh: Citizen Media is Not a Crime
St. Paul is a window into our future. It is a future where, as one protester told me by phone, “people have been pepper-gassed, thrown on the ground by police who had drawn their weapons, had their documents seized and their tattoos photographed before being taken away to jail.” It is a future where illegal house raids are carried out. It is a future where vans containing heavily armed paramilitary units circle and film protesters. [more...]
Date: 2009-09-21 22:53:28
ITV Communities Gary Andrews an interview
Tell me about your work and your blog? Work-wise, I work as a Communities person for ITV, as part of the Online Engagement team – all two of us. It’s a new role for the company, so we’re still experimenting a lot, but it’s vital that ITV, as a broadcaster and a web portal, knows and understands its audience online and engages with the fans in the spaces they inhabit. It really is one of those jobs where you learn something new every day and there aren’t always right answers. [more...]
Date: 2009-09-28 07:07:30
Due To New Credit Card Reforms, It Is Rougher To Give College Students Credit Cards
Due to the latest credit card alterations that are starting up next year, card issuers will have a strenuous time getting teenagers on college campuses to apply for credit cards without their parents’ knowledge. As students arrive on campus, card issuers will be there to meet them at many schools. “Issuers will try to continue to market to college students between now and the time the legislation takes effect,” said Bill Hardekopf, chief executive of LowCards.com, a site that tracks cards. [more...]
Date: 2009-09-14 17:33:16
Mr. Sub Surprise Not Everyone Likes Surprises Funny New Commercial Campaign
New commercials for my favorite sandwich shop Mr. Sub, Surprise. The "Not Everyone Likes Surprises" campaign is a collection of three funny commercials featuring a groom who finds his father making out with his bride-to-be; a leather-clad husband trying to spice up his marriage only to shock his wife who happens to be wielding a cast iron pan; and a father of eight who decides to announce his change in sexual preference during an intimate family dinner. [more...]
Date: 2009-09-23 14:49:00
Big Brother “Fusion Centers” Part of US Domestic Intelligence and Surveillance Apparatus
Mammoth Budget: of $75 Billion, 200,000 Operatives by Tom Burghardt GlobalResearch September 26, 2009 Fusion Centers Will Have Access to Classified Military Intelligence Speaking at San Francisco’s Commonwealth Club September 15, Director of National Intelligence Admiral Dennis C. Blair, disclosed that the current annual budget for the 16 agency U.S. “Intelligence Community” (IC) clocks-in at $75 billion and employs some 200,000 operatives world-wide, including private contractors. [more...]
Date: 2009-09-26 14:25:37
The Conscience of the Digital Citizen
A Visualization of the Internet Tell me if you’ve heard this all before. I’d imagine online life was simple back then, back when the The Mentor and his kind discovered the computer, then travelled the electron, and the switch and started to marvel at the beauty of the baud. It was a simpler time because it was a world without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias. It was a world where people judge others for what they say and think, not what they look like. [more...]
Date: 2009-09-25 10:08:14
Words from the (investment) wise 9.27.09
Words from the (investment) wise for the week that was (September 21 – 27, 2009) After hitting its best levels of the year on Wednesday ahead of the Federal Open Market Committee’s (FOMC) communiqué, the S&P 500 Index ran into heavy weather on the realization that the Fed could start scaling back on emergency support of the economy. US equities dropped further later in the week on renewed concerns about the state of the troubled housing market and weaker-than-expected durable goods orders. [more...]
Date: 2009-09-27 12:05:27
Iran nuclear weapons program – clandestine nuclear programs, loosey goosey nuclear / atomic materials security for over 40 years around the world –
When I did a Google search for this - Iran nuclear missiles 1992 It gives a bunch of other very interesting information - http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/iran/facility/lavizan.htm including this - Sources and Resources Iran has up to 4 nuclear bombs By STEVE RODAN Jerusalem Post 09 April 1999 — Iranian Revolutionary Guards official quotes an engineer identified as Turkan as saying that the nuclear warheads are being stored in the Lavizan military camp in the Teheran area. [more...]
Date: 2009-09-26 06:28:37
No surprise here; FBI and likely other federal agencies abuse the use of National Security Letters. Support the JUSTICE Act unless the Republicans can do better.
I have been railing against the Patriot Act (which is anything but) since its passage and I physically protested same back when AG Ashcroft visited Salt Lake City in circa 2003. Numerous provisions of that Act signed into law by the SOB (Son Of a Bush) were and remain egregious. The Patriot Act assailed our rights on so many fronts, not the least of which was broadening the use of National Security Letters (NSL). [more...]
Date: 2009-09-28 19:56:34
Classified: 500,000 More Troops for Afghanistan
Classified McChrystal Report: 500,000 Troops Will Be Required Over Five Years in Afghanistan by Tom Andrews - The Huffington Post/Common Dreams Embedded in General Stanley McChrystal's classified assessment of the war in Afghanistan is his conclusion that a successful counterinsurgency strategy will require 500,000 troops over five years. This bombshell was dropped by NBC reporter Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC's Morning Joe on Wednesday: "The numbers are really pretty horrifying. [more...]
Date: 2009-09-25 03:02:00
Words from the (Investment) Wise (Sept. 27, 2009)
After hitting its best levels of the year on Wednesday ahead of the Federal Open Market Committee’s (FOMC) communiqué, the S&P 500 Index ran into heavy weather on the realization that the Fed could start scaling back on emergency support of the economy. US equities dropped further later in the week on renewed concerns about the state of the troubled housing market and weaker-than-expected durable goods orders. [more...]
Date: 2009-09-27 14:33:29
Vehicle Repossession: How To Pay The Deficiency Balance
Amazon.de Widgets When you finance or lease a vehicle, your creditor or lessor has important rights that end once you’ve paid off your loan or lease obligation. These rights are established by the contract you signed and the law of your state. For example, if you don’t make timely payments on the vehicle, your creditor may have the right to “repossess” — or take back your car without going to court or warning you in advance. [more...]
Date: 2009-09-22 04:20:47
Daily Mail UK: Drivers’ details sold by DVLA are used in bizarre roadside adverts for Castrol
The Daily Mail UK reports that the car registration data of millions of motorists were sold to an oil company that used the data for marketing. Giant digital billboards from Castrol scanned motorists’ license plates, ran the plates through a database and instantly displayed on the billboards what the best oil was for that specific driver’s car.It’s not surprising that data collected for one use was also used — without the motorists’ consent — for another use. [more...]
Date: 2009-09-28 18:01:56
Words from the (investment) wise for the week that was (September 21 – 27, 2009)
After hitting its best levels of the year on Wednesday ahead of the Federal Open Market Committee’s (FOMC) communiqué, the S&P 500 Index ran into heavy weather on the realization that the Fed could start scaling back on emergency support of the economy. US equities dropped further later in the week on renewed concerns about the state of the troubled housing market and weaker-than-expected durable goods orders. [more...]
Date: 2009-09-27 07:51:48
Words from the (investment) wise for the week that was (September 21 – 27, 2009)
After hitting its best levels of the year on Wednesday ahead of the Federal Open Market Committee’s (FOMC) communiqué, the S&P 500 Index ran into heavy weather on the realization that the Fed could start scaling back on emergency support of the economy. US equities dropped further later in the week on renewed concerns about the state of the troubled housing market and weaker-than-expected durable goods orders. [more...]
Date: 2009-09-27 07:51:48
Press Release :: WIN-INITIATIVE AND DRIPBOOK ANNOUNCE PARTNERSHIP: BUYERS, IMAGE MAKERS TO BENEFIT. LAUNCH PARTY TO FOLLOW ON OCT. 1st .
NEW YORK, NEW YORK, September 23, 2009 – WIN-Initiative, a boutique stock agency, and Dripbook, a web-based promotional service for professional visual creatives, announce today that they are joining forces to provide the imaging industry with fresh, innovative and relevant content. This partnership will offer buyers of creative content new sources of material and offer image-makers worldwide new opportunities to market their work. [more...]
Date: 2009-09-23 13:15:07
Against representation
A couple of international items related -- at least tangentially -- to New Zealand art, which have popped up in my feed reader overnight ... Rees.The title of the exhibition is taken from the partnership arrangements made by commercial airlines ... (he describes it as "double agency"). While the artists in his show have been selected following [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 20:28:00
The Soprano’s Michael Imperioli collaborates with 1800 Tequila for new campaign
Proximo , a leading marketer of premium spirits in the United States , announced the launch of an aggressive new advertising campaign for 1800 Silver Tequila , which sparked the luxury tequila trend and is now setting out to reclaim the top spot in the super premium tequila category. Featuring The Sopranos star Michael Imperioli , the spots call attention to the fact that tequila has lost its way, becoming an overpriced and pretentious spirit. [more...]
Date: 2009-09-29 19:17:21
Nifty regains 5,000 mark
Data showing a surge in growth in the core sector boosted domestic bourses with the 50-unit S&P CNX Nifty settling above the psychological 5,000 level. The BSE 30-share Sensex rose 159.91 points or 0.96%, off close to 55 points from the day's high and up close to 50 points from the day's low. Index heavyweights Reliance Industries and ICICI Bank led the rally which was a part of a rally in most Asian stocks. IT, banking and healthcare stocks rose. But realty stocks reversed early gains. [more...]
Date: 2009-09-29 15:25:00
Overview of AN – SNAFU – USA money spending and snafu par excellence
*** Secretive spending on US intelligence disclosed Tue Sep 15, 2009 5:00pm EDT By Adam Entous WASHINGTON, Sept 15 (Reuters) – Intelligence activities across the U.S. government and military cost a total of $75 billion a year, the nation’s top intelligence official disclosed on Tuesday, revealing publicly for the first time an overall number long shrouded in secrecy. [more...]
Date: 2009-09-17 17:34:52
More thoughts on an Auckland supercity
Tim Selwyn at Tumeke raises some interesting questions about a supercity, and also helpfully looks a bit closer at Vancouver, ... relaxed about services provided in the short term. Those contracts will probably continue ... services would come up for new proposals or tenders. However, it should also be noted that in terms [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 06:53:00
Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombat: An Interview with Yasmin B. Kafai, Carrie Heeter, and Jill Denner (Part Two)
There's an emphasis throughout the book on user-generated content. One can argue that modding and other user-generated forms of content have made it easier for women to repurpose existing games to better meet their interests. Yet, one could also argue that this reliance on user-based solutions has marginalized female-interests into narrow niches [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 14:31:33
Big Brother “Fusion Centers” Part of US Domestic Intelligence and Surveillance Apparatus By Tom Burghardtf
Mammoth Budget: $75 Billion, 200,000 Operatives26 September, 2009 – Global Research — Antifascist Calling…Fusion Centers Will Have Access to Classified Military IntelligenceSpeaking at San Francisco’s Commonwealth Club September 15, Director of National Intelligence Admiral Dennis C. Blair, disclosed that the current annual budget for the 16 agency U.S. [more...]
Date: 2009-09-27 13:37:00
Children’s Literacy and ReadingNews Roundup – 28 September
Welcome to the first third edition of our reformatted weekly children’s literacy and reading news round-up , brought to you by Jen Robinson’s Book Page and Scrub-a-Dub-Tub , a Reading Tub blog. Jen and I collected plenty of content for you about literacy and reading-related events; raising readers; literacy and reading programs and research; 21st century literacies; and grants, sponsorships and donations. Updated to correct the edition. [more...]
Date: 2009-09-28 08:00:50
Lautenberg Act... The definitions of the applicable terms (that applying to this discussion is presented in bold type) are in Section 922 of title 18, United States Code § 921. Definitions (a) As used in this chapter— (1) The term “person” and the term “whoever” include any individual, corporation, company, association, firm, partnership, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 14:01:08
A Rare Peek At Homeland Security's Files On Travelers
By Sean O'Neill Budget Travel | The oversize white envelope bore the blue logo of the Department of Homeland Security ... passenger records. Since 2002, the government has mandated that the commercial airlines deliver ... my tickets via a Web agency was noted. On the first document image posted here, I've circled in red [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 05:00:01
The Weekly Carboholic: Distributed nuclear a cheaper nuclear solution?
Distributed nuclear “batteries” a solution for expensive nuclear? A brief TVA sludge spill update New definition of seawater to improve ocean modeling UK MET expects warmer 2009, likely record 2010 Food pests expected to thrive in warmer climate Climate to impact port of New Orleans It’s been just over a year [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 13:30:37
Online Databases: These Crusaders Bring Transparency to Government
This LA Times article takes a look at three people and some of the resources they have helped make available online to make the U.S. Government more transparent. We’re happy to report that most of these resources have been mentioned on ResourceShelf in the past. Here’s a quick overview with links to resources from the three “crusaders” interviewed in the article. [more...]
Date: 2009-09-29 16:37:47
FCC Chairman Kevin Martin Announces Resignation
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 15, 2009 NEWS MEDIA CONTACT: Robert Kenny: (202) 418-2668 Email: robert.kenny@fcc.gov CHAIRMAN KEVIN J ... on the edges of these networks and deliver lower prices, improved services and greater choice ... of serving at the Federal Communications Commission for almost 8 years, including 4 years as the agency’ [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 01:04:52
Incidental #909
more the engrish! YOU MIGHT HAVE NOTICED WHERE, OVER RECENT DAYS, THE TITLES OF THESE ITEMS HAVE BEEN IN THE VEIN OF "INCIDENTAL #X"--and I suppose you're wondering how it came about. It just came to me preparing this particular essay, and has reached a point where I've taken a fancy to it [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 01:45:00
Unaccompanied minors
No, it’s not a silly Chistmas-themed tween power flick. “Unaccompanied minor” is the stale legal term for a kid or teen that makes the journey over the border by herself. Or the kid or teen that originally came with a parent but ends up on their own somehow before ICE gets ahold of them [more...]
Date: 2008-12-28 04:23:14
FCC's Plans to Boost Public Safety Wireless Interoperability Face Obstacles.
Government Technology recently published my latest article on the FCC's plans for a national public safety network. Here's the text: Emergency communications save lives. The unfortunate corollary to this maxim: Communication failures kill. More attention is being focused on how to improve communication, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 02:16:47
A rare peek at Homeland Security’s files on travelers
The oversize white envelope bore the blue logo of the Department of Homeland Security ... records. Since 2002, the government has mandated that the commercial airlines deliver ... my tickets via a Web agency was noted. On the first document image posted here, I’ve circled in red the I.P. [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 02:08:13
Social Media and Social Networking by the Numbers
Account Manager at Edelman Digital in Toronto This week's WIR curator is Leona Hobbs. She tumbles at tumbleona. Seen Around the Blogosphere David Gordon from Cohn & Wolfe offers dating tips for clients and PR shops. Micheal Bispo calls b.s. on a silly agency job title. Over on The Client Side Blog [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 19:29:11
September 27th: The Phobos LIFE Experiment
Date: September 27, 2009 Title: The Phobos LIFE Experiment Podcaster: Mat Kaplan and Bruce Betts Links: http://planetary.org/radio http://raybradbury.com Description: Mat Kaplan and Bruce Betts discuss the Planetary Society's Phobos LIFE Experiment: Living Interplanetary Flight Experiment that will take organisms to Mars’ moon Phobos and back again. Bio: Mat Kaplan hosts and produces Planetary Radio, the weekly public radio and podcast series from the Planetary Society. [more...]
Date: 2009-09-27 11:00:41
Stuff I didn't get around to posting.
Inspired by Korea Beat's post about things they didn't get around to translating in 2008, here's a collection of stuff I have in my "blog fodder" folder but never got around to posting. ** The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency message board is there for netizens to provide tips about crimes they'd like investigated. However what's posted [more...]
Date: 2009-01-03 11:48:00
Social Media Marketing: Video Examples Of Corporate Uses And Applications
If you want to get some ideas and inspiration about how you could use online video to significantly increase your company social media marketing ... _b.jpg Photo credit: Elizabeth Engle Video marketing on the web is positively one of the most ... has grouped on his own web site a terrific collection of social media marketing examples, providing [more...]
Date: 2008-12-23 11:44:00
Real Estate and Construction Management Companies
Real estate and construction management is one of the services that are provided by the top management companies specializing in the management of ... kind residences, condominiums and commercial or office buildings, your company shall take care ... and construction management agency can also provide you with complete monthly operating systems during [more...]
Date: 2008-12-23 14:32:17
What’s in Homeland Security’s extensive files on air travelers
January 7, 2009 — Stefan Fobes A rare peek at Homeland Security’s files on travelers 12.22 ... handed over passenger records. Since 2002, the government has mandated that the commercial airlines ... to buy my tickets via a Web agency was noted. On the first document image posted here, I’ve circled [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 14:30:45
30 Excellent Resources for Graphic Design Freebies
You can find a variety of useful and creative graphic design resources on the web the offer downloadables such as stock photos, textures/patterns, brushes, icons, and fonts that designers have decided to share with others in the community. In this article, you’ll find some of the best websites to visit for graphic design resources [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 01:10:19
Grief from commercial sales agents Bag A Business and Knightsbridge Business Sales
Last week we told how commercial estate agent, RTA (Business Consultants) Limited, charges hefty fees even when it fails to sell a business ... previous firm SBS Commercial is in administration. The firm tells us it has apologised to the Ahmeds for passing the demand on to its debt collection agency and is fully committed to the sale [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 19:10:07
