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Heroes of the Fall content pack for Battlefield Heroes makes its debut

Battlefield Heroes is a completely free to play game so it was generally assumed that EA wouldn’t be putting much effort into release additional content for it. However, considering the game’s success EA has gone ahead and released the Heroes of the Fall content pack for the game. The change list, included after the break, is quite long with some notable features being the all new Riverside Rush map, new items and a whole slew of bug fixes. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-30 22:03:01

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How to Replace Bad Financial Habits With Good Ones

This is a guest post from Leo Babauta of Zen Habits. His first book, The Power of Less, was recently published by Hyperion. It was Aristotle who said, “We are what we repeatedly do … Excellence is therefore not an act ... situation? Some ideas: Impulse spending. Overuse of credit cards or other debt. Spending without tracking [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 13:00:09


Just another poly-trickster who happens to be black?

Point of order: I was asked by the Publisher of the News weekly I serve as Senior Op-Ed writer to write a piece suggesting that given Obama centrist ... . It was based losely on a post early this week called: No End in Sight.I feel bad for the next ... GDP, without any strings attached or requirements supposedly to "free up credit markets [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 23:38:00


No Costs Are Fixed

My first year in business was bewildering. The various services necessary to run a business took some effort to figure out and pull off at the right time. Insurance, credit card processors, telephone and Internet, payroll and accounting, and even ... guys handled. A smart company has IT report to finance because techies are like kids in a candy [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 08:01:00


Short Term Loans No Credit Check Hassle free loan approach for urgency

Author : David Williger Need a quick fix solution for your short term financial crisis? Your credit status is not perfect due to which you have faced many loan disapprovals? Stay calmed and avail the assistance of short term loans no credit check These loans are designed accordingly for your needs and desires As its name refers, it is a short term duration loans that meet your small and temporary financial emergency within shortest span of time It avails you the short term loan amount that [more...]

Date: 2009-10-01 04:36:01


Bernanke Casts Doubt on Stimulus, Says Fed May Buy Toxic Assets to Loosen Credit

Warning that the timing of an economic recovery is “highly uncertain,” Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said yesterday (Tuesday) ... about the continuing chokehold banks have put on credit to companies and households than he is about offering ... of the economy where liquidity has dried up for “credit easing”, reported the Guardian. “Credit sprea [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 14:57:59


Blocking, Tackling & Running: Leveraging a Crisis Into Real Change

There's a fairly well known cartoon of two scientists working out a problem on a chalkboard covered with complex equations and down in the circle is a little circle with the key step inserted in small print - "and then a miracle occurs". Wouldn't it be nice if we could take the same short-cut to fixing the horrendous shopping list of significant [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 20:07:11


MortgageNewsClips: Catching Fraud, HSH on Fixed Rate, Super Human, Stephanie Pomboy, Reverses Go Live, Tom Brown, Mod Section 6 links, FDIC Highlights, Accounting

Discussing Loan Reviews with Andy Hall  - John Clapp - MortgageOrb chats with Andy Hall, ... that it will take consumers at least five years - and probably more - to recover from the credit crisis ... Oversight Panel’s First Report: Unfortunately, Just What We Expected  Elizabeth Warren seems determined [more...]

Date: 2008-12-20 12:53:02


The Honeymoon is Over for Social Media

On my latest episode of Managing the Gray I made the statement that “the honeymoon is over for social media.” ... are broken, fix them! Sure this is over simplified, but every day someone new pops up with instant ... it is just beginning. Get out there. Work hard. Deliver results. Satisfy your clients. Photo Credit to klf [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 18:23:31


Consumed by Consumerism

The market is talked of as a neutral impersonal force that must be unquestionably followed, rather than as a human creation driven by a particular view of life. If there is demand ... s history. But then again, Ireland owes 3.1 billion on credit cards.After reading this, my first thought [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 19:25:00


Public Relations Expert in major client FAIL/WIN

Mr Mashable, Pete Cashmore, caught this interesting exchange between two companies relating to Twitter and I wanted to bring it to your attention. If you ever wanted an example of the power of mobile-enabled-communications, here’s one. Are you ready? In the red corner, James Andrews is Vice President of marketing and PR firm Ketchum [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 23:49:34


Finance - Books on Personal Loans

by Jorg Maurer Personal loans and all the terminology that goes with it can make your head spin after awhile ... issues including fixing up homes, then this book will give you calibre information in both areas ... , there have been a couple of which yield we report upon how to compensate off debt, together with credit [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 02:40:29


Actor’s Tool Kit #22

Over the last couple of years, and with his permission, I’ve been re-publishing many of the Actor’s Tool Kit columns by Bob Fraser ... for my partner and I. We wanted more money - they offered us a “better” credit. Leonard got us a lot more money and that unofficial credit.) Anyway, Leonard represented some “heavy hitters” in those days [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 14:05:52


It Wuz Always 'Bout Tha Numbahs

With apologies to Herbert Kornfeld for the robbed title.I'm really busy, but the bottom line is that we are beginning to see some positive signs ... debt. There's nothing you can do to fix it. You just have to go down with it or work it out.A lot ... & the like) over the next sixteen months than we have seen in the last few recessions.US credit [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 19:11:00


Denise Richards...acts nice?

I used to be a huge Denise Richards fan. I used to think she was one of the hottest stars in Hollywood, a great actress, ... , but it looks like she's trying to fix things. She just called a truce with Charlie's wife Brooke, for the sake of the kids that are caught in the middle.Well, I guess I have to give her SOME credit [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 12:11:00


Debt

This isn’t a new years thing, just a … “fuck, I need to get a handle on this” thing. And I’ve been working on this for a while anyway ... . (Theoretically, I could try to get my credit line increased and pay off with everything with that, but … I’m not convinced that getting MORE credit is the solution to my problems.) Anyway, because I’ [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 18:26:57


Lawmakers rolling into Richmond...

There's a buzz around the Capitol right now as state lawmakers prepare to get started on the 2009 General Assembly session which open up at noon ... shortfall, and fixing this shortfall must be the focus of the next 45 days. With this in mind ... for the democratic process. I have proposed a modest tax credit for the purchase of school supplies [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 16:38:23


Suze Orman’s Free Book - Fixing Your Finances in 2009

Barack Obama’s speech warning of devastating unemployment levels and a lengthy recession was no surprise to most Americans ... into the history behind the economic downturn, the book has 7 main sections: Credit Retirement Investing Saving ... to do this year. For example, the general Credit advice for 2009 is: Make it a priority to pay off your credit [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 13:29:00


GWAS Playlist

This week's pick of pop culture, magazines & pretty things...1. The Confessions of a Shopaholic publicity machine is in full drive with Isla Fisher battling it out with the babes of Bride Wars (Kate Hudson for Australian InStyle and US ELLE), He's Just Not That Into You (Scarlett Johansson for US Harper's Bazaar) and Gossip Girl ( [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 00:50:00


Recession Gets Worse - The Fix Won’t Kill Ya

Recessions have a ripple effect on countries. Problems that start in one sector quickly spread to another ... and the real estate bubble, is now affecting job (the highest unemployment level in 16 years), credit ... released a report today highlighting the crisis. Here’s the key finding: Nationally, to maintain [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 22:08:39


Hillary Clinton Re-Imagined

Hillary Clinton Re-ImaginedHillary Rodham Clinton will serve in a non-partisan role as secretary of state, which may provide her an opportunity to recast her legacy.Hillary Rodham Clinton's confirmation hearing today in front of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee marks a turn in the legacy of a family that has dominated Democratic politics for [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 20:05:21


Fight Fire With Fire!

“Yes, one right at the back, red tie, just underneath the cabinet rack,” said Ben Bernanke.   The Fed chief was giving a speech at the London School of Economics on Tuesday. When time for questions came, our old friend, Terry Easton, wearing a red tie, raised his hand. Aren’t you just making the situation worse, Terry wanted to know [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 18:19:54


Don't Blame the Internet

Credit: Technology ReviewLast year, after the social-networking site MySpace found that its members included some 29,000 registered sex offenders, the nation's top state prosecutors demanded a technological fix, asking that the industry "explore ... to any significant degree," says the report, written by the Internet Safety Technical Task Force [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 18:44:00


Fix Housing First

By: Dennis Norman fix-housing-first1 Fix Housing First is a coalition that has been pushing Congress for a housing stimulus package that they ... . Fix Housing First says the solution is “foreclosure prevention coupled with short-term, targeted ... and maximize lender recoveries enhance the Home Buyer Tax Credit as follows: make ALL primary [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 16:24:03


Democrats in Congress Prepared to Defer to Obama

Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) A trusting Congress might be setting itself up to be burned again. Last week, even as he introduced legislation to bolster Washington oversight of the Wall Street bailout, Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) all but proclaimed his own proposal unnecessary. [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 11:00:16


7 Quick Takes- The For Shame Edition

And now for Seven Quick Takes Friday, published on a Thursday night but WHATEVER. 1. I've started drinking coffee again ... , I was desperate for any quick fix and I quit coffee on the spot. I kept a coffee pot for guests ... . And it's not the caffeine fix, because I only have decaf in my house (just in case!) I drank two cups this morning [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 05:55:18


Where were you when the world ended?

Being a spoiler-filled (except for the final issue) narrative of your Winter Men reading experience, in nine (somewhat lengthy) parts. Part the First. Sometime around 10 August 2005. Your trip to the local comics-purveying establishment rewards you with a new comic written by a Mr. Brett Lewis and drawn by a Mr [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 16:25:10


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


House Dems Reduce Obama’s Tax Cut to $230B - and Falling

There seems to be a minor debate going on in the comment section to my last post on Obama’s stimulus plan, ... billion more. That’s because he will include the annual ‘AMT fix’ in the bill. This will reduce ... taxpayers despite concerns from his transition team that it won’t boost the economy… Making that fix [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 20:16:57


How To Break Away From The Debt Prison, Forever!

By Tom Graneau Americans are plagued with personal financial problems ... dictated to by an invisible being telling me what to do, and how to do it. I prefer to have the freedom ... finance is the most common platform for human errors. Many of us have purchased more “stuff” on credit [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 18:03:11


Be safe on the Internet: You are your own worst nightmare

Credit: Sloane In this age of the Internet (the “Information Superhighway” for you old-timers) securing your computer is very important. However, even more important is securing you from the Internet. Here’s the rub: in this era of heavy encryption and computer security, the easiest thing to crack in the chain of computer security isn’t the computer itself, but the human sitting in front of it. [more...]

Date: 2009-10-01 17:35:57


Procrastination Makes for Easy Frugality

We’re used to thinking of procrastination as a bad thing ... a purchase on credit, paying more than sticker price when all is said and done. With a little ... and extend their utility in just the same way. Some people will argue that fixing up something broken [more...]

Date: 2008-12-26 13:30:00


Britain fails the Crockery Shop Rule in Iraq

There are various versions of the Crockery Shop (or Pottery Barn) test but the essence is: If you break it, you own it ... , credit should go to President Bush for rejecting two years ago the report by the bipartisan Iraq Study ... had entered Iraq we had a responsibility to fix the chaos that ensued. Portillomichaelst Former [more...]

Date: 2008-12-21 07:13:00


Information trickle down

UPDATE: 7:45PM NZDT:ODT reporting:ANZ and National Bank have announced they are dropping their fixed-term mortgage rates ahead of the next Official ... fall in line with what the RBNZ does on 29 January.-- UPDATE ENDS RNZ reporting that the S&P credit rating downgrade has affected our dollar. I have always said that credit rating agencies will trigger [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 22:43:00


Oregon Governor Flips Wig

The Salem Lookout reports that Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski is having religious visions regarding global warming. They quote Strange Ted: Gore is like John the Baptist in the Christian gospels, Kulongoski says. “He’s the prophet that tells you what’s coming.” Teddy the Torch has never been all that mentally stable [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 02:01:01


Less Than the Sum of Their Auto Parts

Being in the auto-parts business these days has a bit of a “gerbil on a treadmill” quality to it ... Credit-default swaps of TRW (green) and American Axle (blue) have widened dramatically. (Source ... , TRW Inc.’s credit-default swaps reflect a cost of $583,000 to insure a similar amount of debt [more...]

Date: 2008-06-25 16:00:33


Birthday Campaign Reflection: Will Your Nonprofit Embrace Free Agent Fundraisers?

Photo emailed from Cambodia by Elephant, Sharing Foundation's in-country director In this post, I share some learnings as a free agent fundraiser (an individual who uses personal fundraising to raise money for a charity) who is leveraging their personal network to support a nonprofit's programs that help children in need [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 15:42:28


Emily’s List: Model behavior edition

Today is the birthday of English supermodel Kate Moss, Hungarian model Michelle Wild and British fashion model Lauren McAvoy ... -up of the best credit card-related blog posts. Celebs love credit cards too 1. Get Rich Slowly finally took the time to read his 63-page credit card agreement and found something he wasn't expecting. Models [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 14:30:59


Top 10 at 10: MAF warned last year (by Carter); PGC and Jacks Point; Norris attacks Kiwibank; Dilbert

Here are my top 10 links from around the Internet over the last couple of days. My apologies to regular readers disappointed by the non-appearance of the Top 10 at 10 yesterday and today’s late appearance. I was simply swamped with the news, tips and interviews from the Crafar story, where the wider economic and financial implications are now becoming apparent. [more...]

Date: 2009-10-01 00:26:58


Bad Credit Loans - Much Needed Money in the Most Testing Times

For people who do not know much about bad credit, it will often be incomprehensible as to why a financial product has been devoted solely to cater to the class. Nonetheless, the proportions that bad credit people constitute of the population, justifies the creation of a separate loan category. It is however, contestable if bad credit loans [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 22:20:13


The Nation’s Alterman: “If Jeebus is truly my amigo, Marcy Kaptur runs…wins”

In Eric Alterman’s column today, Sort of Slacker Friday at The Nation, he provides a round-up of thoughts, ... of a YouTube phenomenon. For this, she will get no credit from Democratic party leaders. That’s too bad, as her record on economic issues–especially trade and agricultural policy– [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 03:05:44


Credit Crisis Watch: Gaining Positive Traction

In order to gauge the progress being made to unclog credit markets and restore confidence in the world’s financial system, ... in this “Credit Crisis Watch” review, one can ascertain to what extent the various central bank liquidity ... of the credit crisis in August 2007. 14-jan-1.jpg Source: StockCharts.com Importantly [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 13:30:49


Can the TARP be Fashioned into a Safety Net?

Good Evening: As the U.S. stock market heads into earnings season, one immediate question on the collective minds of investors is whether the correction in equity prices since the January 6 highs has run its course. The Dow, S&P, and NASDAQ have all corrected 8% or so (from high print on 1/6/09 to the low print today) [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 05:04:06


State Secession and the Coming Civil War

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution. –Gilbert Keith Chesterton It’s not only because a Russian former KGB and current Professor suggests so, but also because it’s been a topic of recent conversation among family, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 13:17:29


Transcript: President George W. Bush Final Press Conference - January 12, 2009

(Source: White House Press Office) 9:17 A.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. Tapper. We have been through a lot together. As I look through the room, I see Jake, Mike, Herman, Ann Compton. Just seemed like yesterday that — that I was on the campaign trail and you were analyzing my speeches and my policies [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 20:41:57


Fight Fire with Fire!

Fight fire with fire! "Yes, one right at the back, red tie, just underneath the cabinet rack," said Ben Bernanke. The Fed chief was giving a speech at the London School of Economics on Tuesday. When time for questions came, our old friend, Terry Easton, wearing a red tie, raised his hand. Aren't you just making the situation worse? [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 04:04:25


7 Habits to Financial Success - Part V

In this section I need to back up a little. Something we learned in the 7 Habits seminar was that private victory must come before public victory, which actually comes between parts 3 and 4, but for my purposes here fits between 4 and 5. The meaning behind private victory BEFORE public victory is that you cannot help others change if you cannot [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 13:33:15


by Dr. Ellen Hodgson Brown featured writerDandelion SaladEllen’s postwebofdebt ... is repelled.”  If banks can create money, why are we suffering from a “credit crunch”? Why can’t banks ... billion in taxpayer money to reversing the credit crisis, and the Federal Reserve has already fanned [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 22:30:40


Coming apart at the seams?

Ensuring equality and uniformity in education.(This is reposted from my place because I haven't had time to come up with another one tonight.)Something odd is happening.Following on the heels of the lie that state schools are producing better results than public schools, Ed [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 01:35:00


Only Tighter Regulation Will Stem this Crisis of Confidence

“I have a funny feeling that we’re not in Kansas, anymore ... as to how we got where we are – not to mention about who and what caused the housing bubble, the credit ... reprise of the Great Depression. All the opinions and bad directions aside, we would not have crashed [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 15:45:30



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