The Fundamentals

Clips Nation:  “There would seem to be seven ’safe’ Western Conference picks - with Dallas and Phoenix being less certain than others ... more than 8 games due to injury was James Jones, who is now in Miami at any rate.” Channing Frye:  “ [more...]

Date: 2008-09-16 14:28:09

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Bubba Raw Radio - For Boys Only

By Don BrowneLame Name Dropping At Its Finest - Bubba Returns To Boring RadioLABELLE, FL. -- A mishmash of not funny talk radio aimed at young males, with Tampa based brash raspy ... in Ft. Myers, auto detailing, an auto repair shop, the monster truck show at the Lee Civic Center [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 12:35:00

52 Ways That You Can Change Your Life for the Better in 2009

Hi,I get Health & Wellness for Life Remedy magazine in the mail and I liked this article. This is about love, family, health, work & money. I like this resource http://www.remedylife.com/By Kalia Doner (REMEDY Winter 2008)Once a week, for a year, resolve to do something to improve your quality of life. Just make a ripple. You’ll reap the benefits [more...]

Date: 2008-12-02 13:06:00

Secretary Gutierrez on the need to care about Cuba

Secretary Gutierrez hoping to convince the younger generation to care about Cuba. I wish I had the transcript of the Q/A that followed. U.S. Secretary of Commerce Carlos M. Gutierrez Transcript of Remarks to the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University September 22, 2008 Cambridge, Massachusetts Thank you very much, [more...]

Date: 2008-09-24 03:58:13

More Riders, High Costs: Transit’s Tough Dilemma

For Release Sunday, September 14, 2008 Citiwire.net By Tom Downs For public transit in America, 2008 has produced a vivid “best” and “worst” of times scenario. After 50 years of sagging ridership and lost stature, buses and transit trains are back in heavy demand. Nationwide ridership is 4 [more...]

Date: 2008-09-11 15:57:36

968 (110). Le Deuxième souffle / Second Breath (1966, Jean-Pierre Melville)

screeened May 14 2009 on Criterion DVD in Brooklyn NY TSPDT rank #928 IMDb Wiki Jean-Pierre Melville’s last feature in black and white is an extended study of a gray terrain: a criminal underworld that’s less dark than cloudy, where truth, loyalty and honor stumble through a mist of greed, distrust and hubris. [more...]

Date: 2009-05-15 13:07:47

The biggest losers

Wink if you didn't win the election Politico runs down the losers, and leaves two major losers out. First, their list: President Bush. Not to pile on, but his unpopularity probably doomed John McCain and has thrown the GOP into its worst identity crisis since 1964. Steve Schmidt [more...]

Date: 2008-11-06 14:26:07

Cuba and the Invasion of the Big-Box Stores

For Release January 11, 2009 Citiwire.net By Richard Louv President-elect Barack Obama is reportedly considering a new American relationship with Cuba. That’s long-overdue good news. But the new administration should consider this cautionary note: “An invasion of one Madonna is equal to ten Marine divisions, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 18:44:04

Articles of Interest, September 26, 2008

Google phone to cost $179, debut Oct. 22 NEW YORK (AP) - The first cell phone running Google Inc.’s mobile software looks something like Apple Inc.’s iPhone and has a large touch screen, but it also packs a trackball, a slide-out keyboard and easy access to Google’s e-mail and mapping programs [more...]

Date: 2008-09-26 12:44:21

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

This Is A Tsunami, And It’s Getting Worse

The Tampa Tribune reports from Florida. “Median home prices in the Tampa metropolitan area which includes Clearwater and St. Petersburg, fell to $180,800. That is more than $40,000 less than the median price in the year-ago period, $222,700, the National Association of Realtors said. The Tampa Bay area wasn’t the hardest-hit region in Florida [more...]

Date: 2008-08-16 14:35:51

200+ Tools for Surviving the Economic Crisis

With Wall Street’s recent decline and the economy in such an uncertain place, many people are fearful of losing their jobs and lifelong investments ... in that it aggregates your different accounts from banks and credit cards, lets you budget and also [more...]

Date: 2008-10-16 22:24:58

200+ Tools for Surviving the Economic Crisis

With Wall Street’s recent decline and the economy in such an uncertain place, many people are fearful of losing their jobs and lifelong investments ... in that it aggregates your different accounts from banks and credit cards, lets you budget and also lets [more...]

Date: 2008-10-18 10:55:50

Miami: Take Back the Land

29 November 2008 Greetings: As the government continues to bailout the mega corporations responsible for this economic crisis- by taking our tax ... kids. Now she has a three-bedroom, two-bathroom, sky-blue house on a tree-lined street in Miami’ [more...]

Date: 2008-11-30 06:14:58

FTC Crackdown on 36 Credit "Repair" Companies

sweep.jpg Ever wonder if those TV ads claiming to help you repair your credit are legit? ... they are able to scrub your credit reports of accurate, negative information for a fee are lying - plain ... information from consumers' credit reports, even if that information is accurate and timely. The FTC [more...]

Date: 2008-10-28 11:15:52

How Serious Is Identity Theft Really?

Yearly Reports of Identity Theft to the Federal Trade Commission: In 2007 identity theft accounted for 36 percent of the 674, ... consumer should know: - Credit card fraud (26%) was the most common form of reported identity theft ... - the top 10 metropolitan areas affected by identity theft include: Phoenix, AZ; Las Vegas, NV; Miami [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 02:54:21

Breaking News: Reagan Endorses Obama!

(Scroll down to calculate your Obama vs McCain tax cut)Today's Feature Story:Five Million More Unemployed?by Douglas McIntyre - MSN ... the dilemma. Credit is rarely given to those with such substantial leverage, although it was common in 2005 [more...]

Date: 2008-10-26 07:03:00

APologies

We are incredibly sorry that we have to share all these listings for awesome events and announcements in December.1. December 3-7 :: Release of Proximity #3 in Miami at NADA Art Fair2. December 5th :: TEN YEARS ... for participation///////////////////1.Proximity Issue #3 released in Miami at NADA art fair.December [more...]

Date: 2008-12-03 06:26:00

Tarnished pols look to burnish images

The end of a marathon presidential campaign cleared space in the news cycle this week for buffeted politicians to try to rehab images scarred by ... marked the start of crucial campaigns to repair their personas. Both former Democratic presidential [more...]

Date: 2008-11-16 12:04:54

Courthouse blunder puts me at risk for getting thrown back in jail

Update: I went in to the Department of Motor Vehicle  to clear my suspension with the D6 Clearance Form they gave me at the courthouse yesterday and ... sent me a notice, but the Miami-Dade court system informed me that the reason my license was suspended [more...]

Date: 2008-12-04 06:09:47

The Home Builder Implode-O-Meter, by gimleteye

Surfing The Home Builder Implode-O-Meter is like rubbernecking a traffic accident. The website names 40 homebuilders and another 14, including Miami's biggest, on its watch list. So what's the deal with the county commission moving forward on Parkland anyway, the Lennar project in far West Dade outside the UDB? [more...]

Date: 2008-08-12 17:19:51

An Economic Education In Florida

WJXT Jacksonville reports from Florida. “In the latest byproduct of the widening global financial crisis, Citigroup Inc ... and they paid a fortune for it.”’ “On his May 2007 conference call, Thompson said that ‘credit quality [more...]

Date: 2008-09-30 14:00:35

Is FEMA a "turkey farm"?

While I was in south Florida in 1992 working on the rescue and recovery from hurricane Andrew, I was aware of the criticism of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, including their slow response and their difficulty in rendering aid to the victims of the hurricane. Sound familiar? [more...]

Date: 2008-12-12 16:19:00

Fighting Visa and MasterCard

In the ongoing quest to lower Interchange Fees, some small US biz owners have banded together to lobby for lower card fees ... s bank. Take, for example, a driver who pays for a $1,000 car repair with a credit card. The bank ... Credit Card Fees - NYTimes.comSmall-Business Owners Lobby to Cut Credit Card Fees By JANE BIRNBAUM Small [more...]

Date: 2008-11-06 19:38:00

Media & Politics

Media & Politics 25-Nov-08 Permanent link to MTA daily media news Normally I would say “So what?” (by myiq2xu at The Confluence) From Politico: “OBAMA SKIPS CHURCH, HEADS TO GYM”… Now I don’t really care if Barack Obama attends a church, temple, mosque or gym every weekend [more...]

Date: 2008-11-25 18:30:56

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

Redland, the Wades, and the armies of compassion: Part 5 ... by gimleteye

.fullpost{display:inline;}"It is a joy to be here with members of the armies of compassion ... performed most poorly at places where the pressure of growth was most intense. Not once has The Miami Herald or other media in Miami, for instance, featured the volunteerism that has operated [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 17:57:00

Misunderstanding Credit and Housing Crises: Blaming the CRA, GSEs

"It's telling that, amid all the recent recriminations, even lenders have not fingered CRA ... has been the meme that the entire housing and credit crisis traces to the the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) of 1977. An alternative zombie myth is the credit crisis is due to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. A 1999 [more...]

Date: 2008-10-02 11:00:00

Media & Politics (one section only today)

Media & Politics (one section only today) 02-Oct-08 Permanent link to MTA daily media news Israel Insider Court demands Obama produce real birth certificate. (by J –SOM at Liberal Rapture) Court says Obama must produce real birth certificate in 3 days. 72 hours…. hmmmm…..this is an interesting turn. Does he have a real birth certificate? [more...]

Date: 2008-10-02 17:27:57

Congrats Battle E Winners!

As promised, here are the results of the 2008 Battle E. For an explanation of what the Battle E is, please see last year's post.CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WINNERS!First, the COMSUBPAC message:UNCLASSIFIED//R 010001Z JAN 09FM COMSUBPAC PEARL HARBOR HI//00//TO SUBPACMSGID/GENADMIN/COMSUBPAC//SUBJ/BATTLE EFFICIENCY [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 12:08:00

Nov 25 2008

Somewhat boring and mildly profitable day. Just 5 trades, 4 of them wins, 1 stop. Couple worked nicely, particularly UAUA for 40 cents. Boring though ... , $500B IN MORTGAGE SECURITIES; EXTENDING $200B IN LOANS UNDER CONSUMER CREDIT FACILITY 08:31 {Threei [more...]

Date: 2008-11-25 21:07:21

Eye on Business Riverview

Pinch A Penny Celebrates Two Years Pinch A Penny Boyette/FishHawk, located at the intersection of Boyette Rd., Bell Shoals Rd ... not only supplies and expertise at our retail store, but on-site repair and cleaning at your swimming [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 21:59:34

How to Make Millions and Not Pay Taxes!

Today's Feature Story:The Great Corporate Tax HeistBy Robert L. Borosage, Huffington Post - AlternetWant to learn how to make $50 million and not pay taxes? More than a quarter of large U.S. corporations do it every year.Remember the old Steve Martin routine on how to make a million dollars and not pay taxes: "First, make a million dollars. .. [more...]

Date: 2008-08-15 06:42:00

Latest News in Credit Repair and Credit Score - Nov 5, 2008

Key is to pay bills on time - Baltimore Sun 1 Nov 2008 at 4: ... LLC in Tampa federal court, seeking the asset freeze and … How long does credit repair take ... to prime credit without credit repair. Largo, FL, October 29, 2008 –( PR.com )– There is a financial and … [more...]

Date: 2008-11-05 14:13:40

Send2Press Weekly Summary of Entertainment and Tech News Copy - Sept. 26, 2008

LOS ANGELES, Calif., Sept. 27 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- The weekly Send2Press Newswire summary of business and tech news includes this week: The Houdini Museum nominates magician David Blaine for first Houdini Award; former 'Pope of Pot,' author, and actor, Pastor Craig X Rubin to run for Los Angeles Mayor; and Insight Research Corp [more...]

Date: 2008-09-27 12:57:29

Posts about Real Estate Market Reports as of January 14, 2009

Caprock Analytics Stock Ratings for Selected Stocks - caprockanalytics.info 01/14/2009 Caprock Analytics highlights selected stocks from the over 4,000 stocks tracked and analyzed by Caprock Analytics. These stock selections include a recent Caprock Analytics Strength metric and a brief description of the company [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 14:24:38

AAR Corp. Earnings Moderate, Outlook Slows

There is a definite slowdown in AAR Corp’s. (NYSE: AIR) ... ; Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul (MRO); Structures and Systems; and Aircraft Sales and Leasing. Through ... and logistics support, to the actual maintenance and repair of aircraft at its 4 MRO facilities [more...]

Date: 2008-12-17 02:07:09

Skyline on pause: Credit crunch leaves Spire, other towers short

A big chill is about to hit the city of big shoulders. In the wake of the global credit crisis, Chicago's once-superheated skyline—radically ... the city's lakefront. The credit crunch has staggered the city's condominium market. Although developers [more...]

Date: 2008-11-03 13:10:25

2009 Michigan Football, Position by Position: Cornerback and Cornerback Recruiting

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Date: 2009-06-29 17:28:28

(MRO) AAR Corp. Earnings Moderate, Outlook Slows

There is a definite slowdown in AAR Corp’s. (NYSE: AIR) ... ; Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul (MRO); Structures and Systems; and Aircraft Sales and Leasing. Through ... and logistics support, to the actual maintenance and repair of aircraft at its 4 MRO facilities [more...]

Date: 2008-12-19 04:20:04

Latest News in Goverment Grants and Debt Relief - Dec 16, 2008

IDB doubles grants to Haiti to US$100 million for 2009 - Reliefweb ... Haiti grant money - Miami Herald 14 Dec 2008 at 1:00am Hurricane-ravaged Haiti will receive ... , the bank’s chief announced Sunday. IDB President Luis … Timeline: U.S. Credit Crunch & Financial [more...]

Date: 2008-12-17 03:43:51

Interop spotlights green IT

Is green IT about saving money or social responsibility? ... . "It's cyclical," said Paul Dunn, senior network analyst for Miami-Dade Public Schools, about the push ... devices by 40 percent, Johnson said. That's what Miami-Dade Public Schools did. The school has 120,000 [more...]

Date: 2008-09-18 19:13:10

Tips for Buying Condo Bargains this Winter

To buy while others are selling has long been celebrated as a savvy way to shop ... , have dropped substantially within the past few months - even in world class destinations like Miami [more...]

Date: 2008-12-11 20:40:52

Top 10 Foreclosure States

The Top 10 Foreclosure States (as of October)Luke Mullins - U.S. News & World ReportRealtyTrac has released its U.S. Foreclosure Market Report for October:Foreclosure filings — default notices, auction sale notices and bank repossessions — were reported on 279,561 U.S [more...]

Date: 2008-11-14 13:03:00

It’s Still the Economy, Stupid (Guest Voice)

This is a Guest Voice post by journalism professor and author Walter Brasch who is also a syndicated ... because of the outlook for the economy and thus for credit quality, remains uncertain.” Market Watch [more...]

Date: 2008-07-17 22:18:56

Latest News in Credit Repair and Credit Score - Oct 8, 2008

Thumbs up for FICO revision - Baltimore Sun 2 Oct 2008 at 9:17pm F air Isaac Corp. is revising the formula for its widely used FICO credit score for the second time in a year ... A good credit score matters a lot now if you’re in the market for a home loan and don’t want a 10 [more...]

Date: 2008-10-08 15:27:58

Blame Barack? Consumer’s Tapping Out, The Google and Apple Stocks of Tomorrow, and More!

by Addison Wiggin & Ian Mathias Markets plummet post-election… blame Barack? ... reasons to sell stocks came back into vogue,” recounts Eric Fry. “Corporate earnings stink, credit remains [more...]

Date: 2008-11-06 18:54:59

The Buckerine Files: 2008 Arbitrary Bowl Predicitions- Part 2

If you can pick which of these college football uniforms you prefer then you have all the skills you need to utilize the Capn's Arbitrary Bowl ... credit to Hawai'i for avoiding the plight of Notre Dame by ditching their older, more "colorful [more...]

Date: 2008-12-20 06:37:00

Monday, July 21, 2008

Best Bets New History Detectives (PBS, check your local listings) New The Closer (TNT, 8pm and 11pm) New The Middleman (ABC Family, 9pm and 11pm) New Weeds (Showtime, 9pm, 10pm) New Saving Grace (TNT, 9pm and midnight) New Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations (Travel Channel, 9pm, 10pm, 1am) [more...]

Date: 2008-07-21 16:51:45

Crunks 2008: The Year in Media Errors and Corrections

Editor’s Note: This site doesn’t accept advertising ... To Plagiarists Sports writer Rick Reilly deserves credit for having produced work of such brilliance that two [more...]

Date: 2008-12-16 12:01:30

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