For healthy food and soil, we need affordable health care for farmers
By Steph Larsen When we talk about local food, it means more than just proximity to a farm ... of farmers, rural communities, and small business owners. The stark reality of health care costs ... , local control, small scale, environmental stewardship, community, and ecological diversity [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 16:00:38
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THE ROYALS HAVE A HABIT OF CALLING A SPADE A SPADE
Royal attitudes to race came under fire again yesterday when it was reported that the Prince Charles and his 2 sons Prince William and Prince Harry Hewitt refer ‘affectionately’ to an Indian family friend as ‘Sooty’. Kolin Dhillon (pictured above with Prince Harry Hewitt) [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 00:11:22
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
Conducting Pre-employment Background Checks
With the infinite amounts of information being passed on the Internet today, ... records, credit records and many more. Under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), some background check ... credit card frauds are happening in the information superhighway at an alarming rate. Though a lot [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 18:24:08
Facebook Music Coming through Lala Deal?
Lala is a small music streaming service in comparison to more prominent sites like Last.fm, but Eric Eldon reports that Lala may be leading the bid for a partnership with Facebook ... between the two could still be in the works. Should Lala find a way to rectify the business model [more...]
Date: 2008-12-29 15:56:37
Posts about Real Estate Market Reports as of January 15, 2009
International Forecaster January 2009 (#4) - Gold, Silver, Economy + More - revolutionradio ... - layofflist.wordpress.com 01/15/2009 Mike: Good day to all. Today’s big jobs report is the Jobless Claims ... , according to a media report late Wednesday Quick! Take That Low-Interest-Rate Holiday - kombrink.com [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 14:24:12
30 Money Sites to Check Out in 2009
There are so many personal finance resources online that it’s hard to know where to start. There are blogs, web applications, news sites and more. This list is a beginning — if you take a look at the sites included here, I know you’ll find something new for 2009 [more...]
Date: 2009-01-01 13:30:06
Fed opens up new loans for car dealerships
In addition to the $17.4 billion loan program announced by the Bush administration last week, ... small-business and consumer lending. The program — called the Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility, or TALF — is intended to help small businesses and consumers get credit. What it means [more...]
Date: 2008-12-24 13:30:53
Advertisements that Work: Lessons from Tissue Pack Marketing
If you’ve been to Japan, you might have noticed the popular practice of tissue-pack marketing. Companies hire agencies to distribute small tissue packages with advertisements inserted in them ... are usually the basic information included in the advertising inserts. Large and small companies [more...]
Date: 2008-12-29 18:12:44
News Content: Newspapers Future Strategy May Be The Aggregation Of News Sources
Should news content be the result of the aggregating and selecting from many and varied sources or the word coming from one single perspective? ... John Blossom analyzes the future of newspapers and openly asks some hard questions in this fascinating and scary article. News_content_newspapers_future_strategy_size485_b.jpg Photo credit: Paul [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 14:24:00
Deflation, Deleveraging, and the Stimulus Effect
Forecast 2009: Deflation and Recession January 10, 2009 By John Mauldin Where are we headed in 2009? We will explore that in detail over the next few issues of Thoughts from the Frontline, but today we will start with some of the larger forces which will have a major impact on the economies of the world, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 12:32:28
Why Didn't Regulation Save Us?
The story being pushed by many is that somehow, George Bush reduced regulation too much, and that was the cause of many of our current fiscal woes ... small businesses. Overall, the final outcome of this Republican regulation has been a significant [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 17:28:10
2008 Terrorism
As 2008 comes to a close we must look back at America's security and terrorism in general around the world ... ) agent, I found the HS ???threat picture??? report inadequate and misleading. In fact, I found the report itself to be a national security threat for America ??? more importantly for the children [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 01:13:07
Small Business Internet Marketing: An SEO Dream Job?
This post was guest blogged by Phil Van Treuren of Contest Blogger ... that I was looking for work, and wondered if I’d be interested in doing some marketing for his business ... bring in new business. I liked the idea of working close to home and having the freedom [more...]
Date: 2008-12-27 08:00:54
Annual Report - Punj Lloyd - 2008-2009
PUNJ LLOYD LIMITEDANNUAL REPORT 2008-2009DIRECTOR'S REPORTYour Directors present the Twenty First Annual Report for the year ended 31 March 2009.FINANCIAL RESULTS: IN RS. CROREParticulars 2008-09 2007-08Total Revenue 6,955.62 4,541.76Profit Befofe Interest, Depreciation & Tax 808.54 567.62(PBIDT) Less: Interest 194.28 [more...]
Date: 2009-10-01 14:55:00
Cameron offers savings tax cut plus clamp on public spending
David Cameron took the side of savers hit by tumbling interest rates yesterday and promised to abolish tax on the savings income of all basic-rate ... constraints on departments such as the Home Office, Ministry of Justice, business department [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 00:06:23
Reasons behind the Nose-diving Blog Income
If you have been going nuts over the continuing downtrend of your blog income, here are the reasons. Pubmatic, the ad optimization service, has published a report on the Ad rates trend for the past ... (and blogs) suffered the biggest loss in the eCPM rates over the past one year. Business & Finance sector [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 21:16:06
Great Recession Roundup — January 13, 2009
Items of Interest:Chairman Ben S. Bernanke / federalreserve ... institutions and shook investor confidence in credit markets. However, although the subprime ... larger and more encompassing credit boom whose impact transcended the mortgage market to affect many [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 04:51:00
Thoughts for a Wednesday Morning
Gaza City, 14 January: An Israeli air force attack Photograph: Abid Katib/Getty ImagesComfortable ConspiraciesAs this new year dawned, ... for the average American, occupied with the business of living in a collapsing economy, to gain a clear [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 13:14:00
Posts about Home Sales as of January 14, 2009
It’s Time For Girl Scout Cookies! - lakelandlocal.com 01/14/2009 photo credit: jrayfarm1980 This is a good time of year for cookie lovers … . The pushers ... out on his own some time, … for the Nintendo DS and took advantage of the Toys R Us sales [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 14:24:35
New Media Trends And Predictions 2009: What Independent Web Publishers Should Expect - Part 1
Here my new media predictions for 2009: what to expect when it comes to new media, professional web publishing and learning, ... in this two-part report opening today. new-media-trends-and-predictions-2009-Robin-Good-MasterNewMedia-456b.jpg Photo credit: Giancarlo Mazzaro - 7th Floor I have prepared this report, which gets published [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 15:30:57
Storm over planned ocean fertilization experiment (updated)
Storm over planned ocean fertilization experiment (updated) ... UN Convention on Biological Diversity adds to the controversy. ‘Small-scale’ scientific experiments in ‘coastal waters’ are exempted from the moratorium, it reads. But ‘small-scale’ is a relative term [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 16:21:35
Citigroup To Shed Its Financial Super Market Model
The year 2009 will see Citigroup getting back to basics for survival ... and the company's private-label credit-card business, and scale back on the trading the company does ... and insurance company Travelers in 1998. Citigroup grew from a small consumer-finance business [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 06:52:03
End of the Week Earnings - January 16, 2009
As the earnings season begins to heat up, there were several announcements today before the opening bell concerning some of the top financial ... of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 15:55:00
Top seven issues facing CPAs in business and industry
Rising health care costs, workforce development, ... . Here is the report from our session. DSC00674 CPAs in business and industry represent half ... in business and industry, according to a survey conducted recently by the Maryland Association of CPAs [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 11:17:56
Obama's first plan
Obama's first plan The House Appropriations Committee introduced its version of the Obama administration's American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan ... Depression. Credit is frozen, consumer purchasing power is in decline, in the last four months [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 22:16:25
Palin: Crazy or Crazy Like a Fox?
Palin: Crazy or Crazy Like a Fox?Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's interview for a forthcoming documentary about the way in which she was covered during her bid for the vice presidency in 2008 has once again catapulted her into the middle of the national political conversation [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 18:25:00
Business Pundit’s Biggest Winners and Losers of 2008
If one sentence comes to mind regarding this year, it is “Good riddance ... Like the stock market, this former fortress of savings crumbled after the credit crisis creamed its foundation [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 17:16:12
Amazon Web Services Explained
Amazon Web Services Kalen Delaney is having a tough time getting her arms around Amazon SimpleDB as a concept, ... on the internet are: Instant scalability needs. When you sign large hotel chains as a client, you don’ [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 09:46:24
Posts about Real Estate Market Reports as of January 14, 2009
Caprock Analytics Stock Ratings for Selected Stocks - caprockanalytics ... estate acquisitions were … is what I wrote for my company’s annual market report. It’s a bit heavy on the jargon so if GCC Fixed Income Report - Markaz - crealis.es 01/14/2009 (Crealis) — The GCC [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 14:24:38
Insider Q&A: O.C. bank president on his $5 million in TARP funds
Simmons Commerce National Bank in Newport Beach is the latest O.C. bank to get funds from the U.S ... and Fullerton and 32 employees. We’re running a real business here. We approve all the bills, for heaven’ [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 10:00:55
It Was Getting Like California
The East Valley Tribune reports from Arizona. “The mortgage crisis is emptying out East Sierrita Road. Families are leaving the homogeneous neighborhood south of Queen Creek by desperation [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 15:18:09
A Chance to Grab Your Share of the Credit Solution of 2009
p {margin-bottom: 1em;} The Penny Sleuthfeatures:Penny Stocks, Optionsand High-growth Opportunities!Authors | Archives| Contact UsA Chance to Grab Your Share of the Credit Solution of 2009By Jim NelsonJanuary 16, 2009On an otherwise normal evening in 1964, a woman known as "Miss Witness" received [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 19:35:00
The RIAA in 2008: highlights
p2pnet news view | P2P:- We have become irrevocably involved with, and responsible for, each other ~ Marshall McLuhan : ... about 35,000 people since 2003,” says the story. The score is probably more like 40,000, and without [more...]
Date: 2008-12-26 15:34:58
Small Business Credit Card - Credit Card Services For a Business
If you are a new business and looking for a credit card, chances are you want a small business credit card ... so that they will offer discounts when using my business credit card? - Is my account accessible online so I can manage ... for that new card, you should consider the credit card services for a business that the issuer [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 09:15:42
VF Corp Q4 Guidance And 2009 Outlook
Eric Wiseman, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, ... at the 11th Annual ICR XChange Conference at 8:25 a.m. PST. The presentation will be simultaneously webcast and can be accessed via the VF website at http://www.vfc.com. Here’s the press release [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 15:23:19
Four at Four: Bank of Whatever
Never underestimate the power of the market to confound. Citigroup Inc ... , on the other hand, is now planning on divesting of various pieces of business, dismantling the loud-and-proud [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 16:04:41
THE FINTAG NEWSLETTER @ 14 January 2009
FINTAG COMMENT Junk. Interest rates are nearly zero; equities, real estate, ... Experts who are making a killing valuing things (read the small print). Tire kicking is the new black [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 11:53:57
The U.S. as a Banana Republic?
Plane Ditches in New York River, All Aboard are SafeReutersNEW YORK (Reuters) ... Air Force fighter pilot with 40 years flying experience, according to the website of a safety [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 15:10:00
The Recession
Okay, so is there a recession? In the strictest sense, no we are not in one, ... ’t want to cook tonight. That is what the Media does, when it supposedly reports the news [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 08:02:09
National Business Capital Services LLC Victim of False Reporting
National Business Capital Services LLC, Strick Hullender, ... and Bradstreet is the most trusted name in obtaining business, reliability and credit worthiness reports on companies. To obtain the full report on National Business Capital Services, LLC, as well [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 11:11:30
Live-Blogging the Hearings for Obama’s SEC Chairman Pick
Mary Schapiro, President Barack Obama’s vaguely controversial pick to head the Securities and Exchange Commission, ... is live-blogging the confirmation hearings. You can watch the Schapiro hearings online at the Senate [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 15:16:09
Live-Blogging the Hearings for Obama’s SEC Chairman Pick
Mary Schapiro, President Barack Obama’s vaguely controversial pick to head the Securities and Exchange Commission, ... is live-blogging the confirmation hearings. You can watch the Schapiro hearings online at the Senate [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 16:37:43
Weekly Insider: Jan 16 (Guest Column, Cleantech & VC)
FORBES/WOLFE Weekly Insider:JAN.16.2009 by Josh Wolfe (email: nanotech@forbes.com ) ... , I expect cleantech’s coming 2009 reset in this financing tundra to force scores of flimsy companies [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 19:56:00
DrumBeat: December 28, 2008
With gas falling, trucks come back NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) ... Threat of Rising Sea Level: Report Projects 4-Foot Rise in Global Sea Level by End of Century [more...]
Date: 2008-12-28 14:31:34
GOPUSA ILLINOIS Daily Clips - January 15, 2009
Articles of interest to Illinois Republicans recently posted by ABC7, NBC5, CBS2, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Crain's Chicago Business, Daily Herald, Suburban Chicago News, Suburban Life [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 15:06:29
Wayne Root: ‘California Nightmare: Why California leads the nation in deficit, debt and out-migration’
By Wayne Root RootForAmerica.com The latest reports are out- and there’s good news and bad news for California. The good news is that California leads the nation. The bad news is that California [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 14:04:13
Smaller banks still making loans
Boston Globe reports on local conditions for small businesses: Even as consumer loans become harder to get, ... executives report a continued flow of borrowing by small businesses, despite the credit crisis ... many small businesses in Massachusetts report they are still able to borrow money.In Franklin [more...]
Date: 2008-12-02 10:00:00
Headline News - January 7, 2009
Hypercom Appoints Stuart Taylor Vice President, Global Marketing New Mercator Advisory Group Report: Small Business Credit Card 2008 Update: ... in credit card terms Economix Blog - NYTimes.com: Crisis Comparisons: How Bad Might It Get? Laru ... from Credit Cards, Could Save Consumers $500 Million Annually Over Competing Prepaid Cards Get Rich Slowly [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 13:30:03
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Showing off your elegant neckline is an excellent way to draw attention to your well-formed upper body, and to bring a natural glow to your face. Oftenitmes we forget dreams as soon as we wake up. Small business credit cards are unsecured ... copy of my credit report? Yes. - Avoid shaving as much as possible; while shaving takes care to avoid [more...]
Date: 2009-01-17 00:34:22
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