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Condo sales in Singapore hit by bad news from US  By Fiona Chan, Property Reporter    THE bad news coming out of the United States last week took its toll on property sales in Singapore over the weekend. Two newly released projects sold fewer than 20 units each, as homebuyers’ caution deepened after the collapse of US bank IndyMac [...]

Baseball will never be the same! Here's a story of a poor working secretary...played by Nautica Thorn, being fired from her boss simply because she won't go on a date with him, never mind having sex with him. So she comes up with the plan to play his 'Precious' men's softball team and the bet is if she wins, she gets her job back with a raise , and if she loses...well we all know what she will hav

Welcome to quick hits.  This is a revamped section that Broncotalk has decided to bring back.  This will mainly cover the odd little stories that didn’t make the headlines or the daily links.  They probably deserve more than a line, but probably not an entire article.  (You’ll see why in a minute)  First up, you [...]

June 27 (Bloomberg) -- ``The worst is over.'' One hears some variation of this view constantly when traveling around Asia.It's a comforting one, predicated on the idea that the U.S. economy will avoid the recession that markets have priced in for some time. It's also a view that could be in for some serious revision as the year unfolds, and not in a good way.The latest sign comes from a Harvard Un

By Madlen Read, AP Business Writer New record for oil and bad news in auto, tech, financial sectors send stocks plummeting NEW YORK (AP) -- A barrage of bad news including yet another record high for oil drove stocks sharply lower Thursday, hurtling the Dow Jones industrials down nearly 360 points to their lowest level in almost two years.The market also worried about fresh signs of trouble in the

At dawn the telephone rings. “Hello, Master Carlos? This is Arnaldo your country house caretaker”“Ah yes, Mr.Arnaldo. What can I do for you? Is there a problem?”“Um, I am just calling to advise you, sir, that your parrot died”“My parrot? Dead? The one that won the competition? ”“That’s the one.”“Darn! That’s such a pity! I spent a small fortune on that bird. Oh well

Bad news to Mimi and to all her fans. Mariah Carey's single, Bye Bye has officially bombed! The song drops out of the Top 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart this week. It slides from 19 to 23. Bye Bye failed to make it into the Top 10 On a side note, Mariah Carey will released her second perfume called: Luscious Pink by Mariah Carey <!-- START CUSTOM WIDGETBUCKS CODE --><!-- END CUS

From a post made on The Something Awful Forums, by a user of the name JosephStalin, brought to our attention by a Flagshipped.com regular Andrea (thanks yet again!), what appears to be bad news for players in certain countries in the way of localization and response is coming. According to the poster, who works for Online [...]

The latest bad news comes in the form of tomatoes. A salmonella outbreak has caused a shortage of tomatoes in many areas of the USA. McDonald's announced today that it will suspend using sliced tomatoes in it's sandwiches until further notice. Now if you have started a vegetable garden already this year, good for you. Did you plant enough tomatoes? If you did then you will probably have no

Good News for People Who Love Bad News (Audio CD)By Modest Mouse Buy new: $13.98$8.97100 used and new from $4.04 Customer Rating: First tagged “sony” by M_delacruz “Are You Not Entertained?!” Customer [...]

No matter how many creams you rub on your belly, you can never get rid of stretch marks permanently. That's the latest news. And the news is not encouraging.Today's New York Times featured a story about stretch marks and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. (photo by Getty Images)“There’s not much you can do about these, other than monitor your weight gain,” said Dr. Lau

By: Roshawn Watson Last month, we discussed the coming student loan crunch. Well, here it is. Many lenders have quit offering government-insured loans through the Federal Family Education Loan Program, or FFELP. This program includes Stafford loans (for students) and PLUS loans (for parents). Due to the turbulent credit market, the lenders are no longer making profits on these programs. The remain

I finally got bored of Mmorpg’s il play but less often since i get bored way too fast. On another note i might post stuff about some Mmorpg’s since i noticed most sites with Quest of lineage 2 had downtimes annoying at some points. Starting tommorow…. il be reuploading some missing Marchen Awakens romance episodes. The list [...]

After reading my previous post about the new service available from Wellsphere to access nutritional information on menu items from chain restaurants, you may be in for some bad news.If the following article in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer is accurate, that is.According to their report, many of these chain restaurants are guilty of misrepresenting the actual nutrient data contained in their &quo

Last night I was browsing around on XBL marketplace and I saw that the new Penny Arcade game: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness was available! It is 1600 points, which isn't bad considering its not your standard arcade game. But when I tried to download the trial I was given the message that the game is not available in our region! I was really looking forward to trying this game out, but

Oppenheimer now puts out a negative report on banks stocks every other day, like clock work. Today's reports says that money center financial firms "may write... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Newspapers continued their march into oblivion with one tiny bright spot, the internet revenue for The New York Times. Reporting April numbers, NYT said the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

A 22-year-old IT professional Rahul Krishnakumar Vaid has been arrested by Pune Police for writing vulgar posts in an orkut community called “I hate Sonia Gandhi.” He is charged under section 292 of Indian Penal Code and section 67 of the Information Technology Act. However, the owner of the community can’t be proved guilty as [...]

HUGE Oil Field in Montana is Good News for Consumers--Which Makes it Unpalatable for the Mainstream MediaWhile Jeroen van der Veer, Shell’s chief executive, fears for the future of oil supplies after 2015--maybe he's confusing Shell's oil supply with the rest of the world's--Newsmax has just released information on the HUGE oil discovery in Montana: the Williston Basin or "Bakken" field.About 47

It's another great day of story selection on the Sun website. Yesterday we spotted the big news of Lily Allen skinny dipping just above a story of 'Sexiest Women Alive' Megan Fox also skinny dipping. Poor Lily. (To read the Lily Allen one click here)And here's today's Sun website...Bottom left we have Australian Penthouse Pet of the Year Kobe Kaige who poses naked for a PETA photoshoot in Melbo

- Agriprocessors Are Bad Corporate Citizens -Bad Managers Plus Illegal WorkersEquals = BAD PRODUCTPollutersAUGUST 2006: The company agrees to pay $603,086 to settle a complaint by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Federal prosecutors had accused the owners of discharging pollutants into Postville's city water treatment system.UnsanitarySEPTEMBER 2006: The U.S. Department of Agriculture iss

Here's a screen shot from today's Sun website.I've put it here because a while back I signed up to get their news alert email, and I just got one. I saw who it was from and I was thinking, "Oooh, it must be some important news. Is it about the earthquake, or maybe some political thing? What is it!"And you know what it was? Lily Allen has taken her shirt off.Well, hold the front page!Admittedly

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The Chinese tell the story of an old man who owned a bony plow horse. One spring afternoon the horse ran away. The old man's friends, trying to console him, said, "We're so sorry about your horse, old man. What a misfortune you've had." But the old man said, "Bad news, good news-who knows?" A few days later the horse returned home leading a herd of wild horses. Again the frien

So doggers, I came across an article on THE FOODS our humans are NOT SUPPOSED TO GIVE US cause these foods are really TOXIC TO US DOGS. And even though lots of people know about these foods, I figured it never hurt to REMIND our humans about these cause sometimes they think they're givin us JUST A GOOD TREAT when it may really BE DEADLY!So here's the list....Avocados Contain a toxic component cal

Crude has bumped up against $120 several times in the last month. It wants to go higher, and it will. Price was pushed down by the Fed's action and some... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

First, there was announcement on impending price hike for gunpla (Gundam-Plastic model kit) beginning from May onwards. Now, it seems that the same thing is going to happen to hobby supplies. New packaging it seems, & new pricing as well. damn! According to Ngee Khiong, Mr. Hobby has reported that their price for aqueous paint series will [...]

Apparently if Google updates Page Rank with your website offline for the whole thing, you get a big fat zero. Last week despite being semi-functional and not even posting once I had one of the best weeks ever for readership.

The Bad News So, yeah. Yesterday. It was, in a word, ugly. And it got even uglier, if you can imagine, after I dashed off my last post in a fury. The Poo was asleep when I got home from the doctor, as rare an event as ever there was. Mr. C went upstairs to watch sports [...]

Apple has reportedly agreed to purchase microprocessor design company P.A. Semi, according to China's Xinhua news agency and a story on Forbes.com. The stories quote Apple's Steve Dowling as saying that P.A. Semi is known for its design of sophisticated, low-power chips, which will be used in future iPhones and maybe iPod products. "Apple buys smaller technology companies from time to time,

Apple has reportedly agreed to purchase microprocessor design company P.A. Semi, according to China's Xinhua news agency and a story on Forbes.com. The stories quote Apple's Steve Dowling as saying that P.A. Semi is known for its design of sophisticated, low-power chips, which will be used in future iPhones and maybe iPod products. "Apple buys smaller technology companies from time to time,

My lady, she’s nothing more than a melody Whistlin underneath my skin And pourin through my blood veins Absorbing all the brain waves Overtaking all my dreams. And i could never be unfaithful My everything is far too much to risk And girl you’re so extraordinary But she’s the only reason i exist I’m bad news baby, i’m gonna break your heart I burn my [...]

AT&T (T) had a good quarter, powered by its wireless service. For the quarter ended March 31, 2008, AT&T’s revenues totaled $30.7 billion, up 6.1 percent... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

There’s good and (probably) bad news about Virtua_LM’s Prototype C mod for rFactor. The good news is that the team has released plenty of new previews on rfactorcentral, including new cars, new liveries and a first look at the Mercedes Benz pace car. Bad news is that the progress bar of the mod has significantly [...]

By Gonzalo Vina and Alison Fitzgerald April 13 (Bloomberg) — Finance chiefs from the U.S. and Europe said the eight-month credit squeeze is still festering and urged banks to take steps to relieve it. “The chain of bad news may not have come to an end,” Italian Finance Minister Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa said yesterday as the International Monetary [...]

Have you ever had something happen in your life that, at first glance, looked like a terrible misfortune but looking back you see that it was actually a valuable experience, which taught you... Achieving anything is not just hard work. Maybe there is something you need to change in between your ears...

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By Daniel Kruger and Sandra HernandezApril 7, BloombergFor the first time since December, the bond market is closing the credibility gap with Ben S. Bernanke and signaling its agreement with the Federal Reserve chairman that an economic collapse has been averted and that interest rates are bottoming.Treasury yields rose 0.33 percentage point on average through April 4 from this year's low of 2.49 percent on March 17, according to Merrill Lynch & Co. indexes. The increase is the first since December, when the Fed cut its target rate for overnight loans between banks and said lower borrowing costs ``should help promote moderate growth.''The Fed's unprecedented support for JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s takeover of New York-based Bear Stearns Cos. on March 16 is restoring confidence in Bernan

Ok people, you might have noticed that many pictures are down. It looks like the guys over at Shareapic fucked some major things up, but they are working on a solution. Very bad news: there is a big chance that the pics are lost forever, because fucked up nothing less than their hard drives. Reuploading will take months. Needless to say, we're very pissed off.

The day after his wife disappeared in a kayaking accident, a Canadian man answered his door to find two grim-faced Mounties. 'We're sorry sir, But we have some information about your wife,' said one Mountie.'Tell me! Did you find her?' the anguished husband sobbed.The Mounties looked at each other. One said, 'We have some bad news, some good news, and some really great news. Which do you want to hear first?'Fearing the worst, the ashen husband said, 'Give me the bad news first.'The Mountie said,'I'm sorry to tell you, Sir, but this morning we found your wife's body in the bay.''Oh my God!' exclaimed the husband. Swallowing hard, he asked, 'What's the good news?'The Mountie continued,'When we pulled her up, she had twelve 25 lb. snow crabs & 6 good-size lobsters clinging to her.'Stunned

An article in Reuters claims the Brunello scrutiny is in response to claims of tainted wine in the low end of the makret. While I hope none of you would pay £2 for a bottle of Brunello… this development underlines why InterWined.com only review wines that are priced above £5. Anything cheaper, we feel, can [...]

Vista, the new OS from Microsoft (MSFT) was supposed to be so good that every customer and business using Windows would want to upgrade as soon as possible.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

I’m going to start this by recapping the basic situation Brian’s back is in. His L2 vertebrae was injured at a young age via the radiation treatments he received as a treatment for his neuroblastoma. His body adapted to the malformation remarkably well and he stands up straight. However, [...]

Invalid transfer of Florida Homestead with do it yourself deed leads to unintended consequences! Man wants his second wife to have a life estate in his homestead after his death with the remainder to go to his children and not...

A political battle over the regulation of Italy’s famed Brunello di Montalcino has blocked the shipment of hundreds of thousands of bottles of wine and effectively holds the region’s leading producers hostage in a paperwork prison. Brunello di Montalcino is a popular wine from Tuscany, though it is unloved by some, for its smooth tannin [...]

Rally caps were out in force yesterday with the Dow moving up almost 400 points. How and why it did that in a day of predominantly bad news is hard to fathom.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

For those of us financial, debt and credit experts it is just so easy to drift to one side and see things with alarm. Every bit of new news seems like yet another bit of bad news that spells doom and gloom for consumers. The press, media, and yes, maybe even this blog, have run [...]

Good NewsMarch was the busiest month ever on the site. 289,501 visitors, and over 2.05million pages viewed, which makes us - by my reckoning - the busiest website in Manchester. (Ok, the Manchester Evening News is probably busier but I cant find stats for them).Bad NewsWhathappenedlastnight will still cease to exist, soon.Whathappenedlastnight Manchester

Even though it is not a far walk to the doctor, I was sure glad when Pedro and Charlie stopped to give me a ride. Pedro said there was a change in plans for tomorrow night the pasta cook off is going to be held off until next week and that British High Commissioner John Yapp is supposed to be there instead.When I got to the doctor the waiting room was empty and I got seen right away. Dr Teresa gave me my 3rd shot - good news it was in the side that does not hurt - bad news she wants me to come back again tomorrow for another one which means it is going to be ouchy. She said she is keeping a close eye on me to make sure this does not get worse. I got a different kind of cough medicine today and did the nebulizer again to help clear my bronchial tubes.Colette came by to bring me a big bag o

A recurring theme of this season seems to be our form players being struck down with significant injuries, from RVP early on, to Eduardo and Rosicky later on, and now Bacary Sagna who is likely to be our for around three weeks with a rather unfortunate ankle injury. With three huge games against Liverpool coming up and a rather big fixture at Old Trafford all within the next three weeks, Bacary

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By Laura Mandaro A further drop in commodity prices is likely to bear down on the stocks of companies in sectors such as agriculture, mining machinery, energy equipment and alternative energy, said Citigroup on Monday. “Investors may be focused on the headlines regarding specific commodity prices such as copper, gold, or oil,” said Tobias Levkovich, chief U.S. equity strategist at [...]

No matter how much Detroit would like to change the math, the total always adds to 100%. Over the course of the last week, management from GM (NYSE:GM), Ford... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

by Ben SteinLet me be the first to agree: The finance news lately is bad.The collapse of venerable firm Bear Stearns in the past few days has been dazzling. The company was supposed to be worth a bare minimum of $80 per share. It turns out to have been worth one-fortieth of that -- a catastrophe for its employees, whose fortunes lay largely in Bear's stock (a super-good lesson in diversification for everyone).That a business with a stellar reputation for measuring risk got it so wrong is a bad augury for other Wall Street firms. It turns out that the Street has been run largely as a gigantic casino, only a casino in which the house could lose big.Waiting for the Other ShoeObviously, we're all wondering when the next shoe will drop, or if there will be another one at all.In this environment

Dish Network made its first public statement regarding issues surrounding the AMC-14 satellite launched on Friday, March 14th. In a form 8-K filing today with the SEC, the satellite TV provider confirmed what had been speculated on over the last few days. The satellite made it into orbit, but is lower than it should be, [...]

"In 2007, the total number of property transactions was 788,518, a drop of 13.93 per cent over 2006," the CRE, an organisation that collects data on property transactions, said in a report.The largest drop was in sales of older homes, which saw a decline of 15.05 percent, compared to 12.41 percent in new properties, it said.In the fourth quarter, the decline was even more pronounced, with transactions plummeting 21 percent from 203,993 in 2006 to 161,906 in the same period in 2007.

I'm not even going to talk about last night's game because that outcome was too predictable. The Canucks lack of size and finish became evidently clear. And yes, the Ducks are good.The big news today is that Mattias Ohlund's season is officially over. He will have season-ending surgery to remove the bone chips from his knee. "After further consultation with our team doctors it was determined that surgery was the best course of action," said general manager Dave Nonis in a statement. "The best long term decision for Mattias and our hockey club is to have this addressed immediately." Ohlund had 9 goals and 15 assists in 52 games for Vancouver this year. I am disappointed with this news. Why couldn't it be Bieksa? Ohlund's presence will be missed.I recieved an email from GZ Expat today about

I like any question that you cannot Google to cheat and find the answer, because you actually have to STOP and THINK about it, and came across this one yesterday:Where have you seen this before?5¢, $1.00, 15¢, 80¢, 35¢, 60¢, 20¢, 40¢, 75¢, 55¢, 95¢, 50¢, 85¢, 30¢, 65¢, 10¢, 45¢, 70¢, 25¢, 90¢No hints because it will give it away -- but if you lived in the USA at any point in the last thirty years I guarantee you have seen this.CLICK HERE FOR THE ANSWER

Ok, I have bad news, Jon is quitting, idk what happened, I wasn’t there, so can you comment and maybe say what caused this or what happenened! - Thats Jon saying hes quitting. ~Game~ Fishguitar11: Ugh, big mis-understanding. Nevermind that. Anyway if you can make it to me and snow’s war tomorrow (war time and stuff on ) [...]

Good lord. The Canucks' season has yet another obstacle to climb, as it has been discovered that Mattias Ohlund has bone chips in his knee. According to TSN:He will then be given four to six days to see if the swelling has gone down (using anti-inflammatory drugs) enough to return to play.If Ohlund has not recovered enough to play at that time he will undergo arthroscopic surgery, ending his season. It is unsure if Ohlund would be available to the Canucks during the playoffs. Luc Bourdon has been recalled to take Ohlund's spot.While I like Ohlund's stability on the blueline, he can't hit the net with his shots.....at all. I was getting sick of seeing his point shots miss the net. Bourdon won't do that. Luc will add some youth to the blueline and maybe some LIFE, which the Canucks could use

One of my biggest beefs with the blogosphere is the lack of balance among many blogs, which pick an agenda and stick to it and deliberately ignore news items which contradict their missions; whereas big newspapers have multiple layers of fact-checkers and editors, blogs are the unedited musings of individuals. While this is certainly the strength of blogs -- which can quickly break important stories often much faster than newspapers -- it's also the concept's weakness, as objectivity can be clouded by specific agendas (i.e., even The Drudge Report tends to lean to the right rather than the center). To be sure, mainstream media also has their agendas, such as the New York Times' Left-of-center reputation or Fox News' rather obvious embrace of the Right, but when covering issues such as ec

Andrew Symonds beat guy Australia's Andrew Symonds, foreground, prepares to check a pitch invader to the ground during the second final of their tri-nations one day international cricket series against India at Brisbane, Australia, Tuesday, March 4, 2008.

The market has been ignoring all the bad news and absorbing them very well with the index keep heading higher. It baffled me and i was so tempted to turn long because as a rule of thumb, if the market doesn't go down with bad news, it means it will turn up. But looking at the market, i notice many rallies had no decent follow through and hence held back. I told myself, if market really is turning up, the next sell-off will be well absorbed and we move higher. The price actions thus far has not been that of a typical bull market. The profits from Chartered becomes very precious because i had to cut loss on Allgreen when it threatens to break 1.30... so it became eat pig pay dog. The most boring part is.... there was a sell signal on 20th Feb in the market (4g1r on STI) and according t

Advertisers working with a pay per click platform will not be pleased to hear the most recent findings from a recent study done by comScore, Starcom Media, and Tacoda. The study has found that about half of all clicks generated on display ads are generated by only 6 percent of Web Surfers. This information, however, does [...]

My son (James) managed to get himself into trouble at school in the last week of term, tripping another child during a PE lesson resulting in a broken arm for the poor boy he tripped. James is heartbroken to have caused this injury to one of his friends, but his punishment seems inappropriate.After speaking to the school, my wife and his teacher have decided he should stop training in Taekwondo. I'm absolutely devastated - James really enjoys Taekwondo, and I love doing a sport with my son, but I'm not the kind of father who won't support decisions made by his mother and his school. I would understand this if he'd used a technique learned in a Teakwondo class but this just wasn't the case - he was just involved in a game another child had started. James, through no fault of his own, is quite a bit bigger and stronger than his peers at school.Hopefully this will blow over soon - I'm going to try and speak to the teacher myself in the new term and let her know just how important I

This year is going to be one of the coldest on record.  With record colds in the Southern Hemisphere reaching new lows and snow in some parts that have not seen snow in over 50 years.  But that doesn't stop the Goracle and his Disciples. They just had a big shindig at Bali and were chastising the US over Kyoto and "climate change".  And now scientists are saying that the Sun activity is at its lowest they've seen in years.  Hmm   I wonder how that could be???  Maybe the climate has something to do with the SUN.Year of global cooling By David Deming December 19, 2007 Al Gore says global warming is a planetary emergency. It is difficult to see how this can be so when record low temperatures are being set all over the world. In 2007, hundreds of people died, not from global warming, but from cold weather hazards.Since the mid-19th century, the mean global temperature has increased by 0.7 degrees Celsius. Th

Things wasn't going thru so smooth lately.Two of my kids were sick simultaneously for the past week.Ashley was feeling pretty good today.She is getting better but still need to take medication.Lately,I've been doing a lot of the same-taking care of my 2 little girls and have to take better care of my health.Over the last few days, my husband and I have been doing some heavy cleaning of our home and keep away all those stuffed toys.Clean clean clean....I hope this could help!I haven't been writing much here.I know that I have been getting alot of messages of support and prayer from my lovely blogger readers.But I hope you guys don't mind if I don't have a chance to reply your comments.Thank you so much for you support.I'll write more later and I hopefully I've got more good news to write for this coming new year!:)

When will countries like France figure out that price controls are bad for the economy and totally unfair to the consumer? Probably not for a long time, if the ludicrous assaults on Amazon.com and eBay are any indication of the economic wisdom of those in charge there. European consumers suffer greatly from this kind of thinking, and that's a real shame. Amazon.com may not offer free delivery

UK house prices fell for the third consecutive month in November according to data released by Halifax. According to the UK’s largest mortgage lender, home prices fell by 1.1% for the month, following declines of .5% in October and .6% in September. The rate of housing price increases for the full year had fallen to 6.3% through November. That’s down from a high of 11.4% in August and 8.9% in October. The housing news has been highlighted in major media outlets recently, including the BBC and The Guardian.

Today was kind of a good-news/bad-news day. Actually, it was the very definition of a good-news/bad-news day. Exhibit A: You won your motion! Now you have to go to trial!Exhibit B: Remember how you asked for a trial date of January 28? Nope, that's doesn't work. How about January 15?Exhibit C: You get to be out of the office for at least three weeks! Holed up in a hotel in Newark, NJ.So, that's the sum of it. Three weeks (or more!) in Newark in January. At least it's not somewhere really cold -- to go along with the crappy.This afternoon, my coworker sent me a lovely e-mail. In sum, he told me that I get to be the quarterback for the trial team. Of course, I took the metaphor too far. "Great," I wrote. "Hope I don't get intercepted too often -- or sacked." Heh, heh. So, that's the sum of it. It's a good thing I'm Jewish, because otherwise, my Christmas plans would totally be screwed. I've got a ton of work to do between now and mid-January. And, despite lea

Well, it looks like the market surprised me a little, and moved higher today. It was up 5 points to 2668. Despite such a small increase, the move really helped the technicals out a lot. The RSI is now above 50, and the MACD made the bullish crossover. If the market can move positively again tomorrow, we may see a little short term run. I would say to 2720 at least. This is actually good timing for me, as clients may have a decent amount of cash tomorrow. Which brings me to the bad news.TTGL filed their 10K today. While the earnings looked horrible, that wasn't the problem (they were not expected to show anything great until the Appco acquisition was accounted for). The problem was this:http://xml.10kwizard.com/filing_raw.php?repo=tenk&ipage=5307131If you read the filing you will see that TTGL will be doing a reverse split in a range of 1-for 1.5 to 1-for-3. This is not the best news. However, I think the reason behind the split is to get a NASDAQ listing. The company has applied for o

Abbot Labs (ABT) is trying to get into the stent business. The market has been dominated by Boston Scientific (BSX) and Johnson & Johnson (JNJ). Stents are... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

The Investor Business Daily Had This on News From Iraq:For the first time in months - in fact, since the U.S. troop surge was put in place in June - coverage of U.S. policy in Iraq does not rank among the top 10 news stories as tracked by the Project for Excellence in Journalism.The percentage of news stories devoted to events in Iraq, moreover, has shrunk to 3%, the lowest since September and barely half the 2007 average. In only three other weeks this year has Iraq coverage been so scanty.All this in a period when word managed to get out through other sources that: U.S. troop casualties have plunged to their lowest level since February 2004, as rocket, mortar and suicide bomb attacks have all hit two-year lows. Iraqi civilian casualties are down two-thirds from their peak in December 2006. Iraq's government and the U.S. military say al-Qaida has been vanquished in Baghdad, as thousands of Iraqi families return to the capital to rebuild their lives. Iraq's government has signed up

Falling viewership for CBS, falling ratings for CBS Evening News, the CBS News writers vote to strike and visions of poor Katie, shivering in the shadows: will it come to that?From Reuters CBS News Writers Authorize Union to Call Strike:CBS News writers, producers and editors voted to authorize their labor union to call a strike after working without a contract for two years. Meanwhile, some are saying this is a horrible time for a strike--especially for Katie Couric. From Bloomberg, "CBS Writers Authorize Negotiators to Call Strike:"``That couldn't come at a worse time,'' said Brad Adgate, research director at Horizon Media, an advertising agency in New York. ``Katie Couric has been struggling. CBS is in last place in the evening news. It's in last place in the early morning. This isn't going to help.'' The writers have been working somewhere around two years without a contract. It makes one wonder how long the news anchors would do that. So, lastly this from the LA Times, "CB

Dr. Madfred Gerstenfeld of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs was interviewed recently by Israel Insider and talks about how, in his view, Holland, and even a couple of other countries, are much darker than they seem. To do this, he began a blog called Bad News from the Netherlands. And since he began it, a few other, similar projects began, including Bad News from Britain, Bad News from

Well, as you know the Nationals are opening up their new park in 2008, and they are having an exhibition game on March 29th in Washington D.C.For those of you who do not have Nationals' season tickets, I have some bad, bad news for you all. It sucks even more if you're an Orioles fan and live in the Washington area.It seems you cannot get tickets.From the Washington Post via the 'Nationals Journal'The March 29 game against the Orioles: It will be free to season-ticket holders, which is a change from previous years. But there will be no tickets available for the game. Kasten described it as a "dress rehearsal," and said, "We don't need to have the park full." The idea, it seems, is to get a healthy crowd in there to test such things as flushing all the toilets, etc., and give the staff a dry run. The club will work with the city to see if it can donate banks of free tickets to kids, etc., and they'll round out the crowd that way.Considering the Nationals and Orioles share overlapp

By Larry Seltzer - eWEEK You wouldn't go surfing to just any site. You're careful about where you go. You only go to sites you trust. But who are you trusting? A series of recent attacks has resulted in seemingly respectable news sites serving malware and redirecting users to sites that serve malware. The problem is in the ads on those news sites. The ads are served by advertising networks that weren't careful enough with their own security. When you trust a Web site you have to trust everyone it's in bed with.The first one I became aware of was YNet, an Israeli news site. Don't go to that site just yet. The Ynetnews.com site I read is in English. The Hebrew site at ynet.co.il is far more popular, in fact the most popular news site in Israel. It is the Internet site for Yedioth Ahronoth, a very large Israeli newspaper. About two weeks ago I noticed that after going to the page from a bookmark that had only the domain nam

I have some interesting news for myself. First the bad news, my old jewelry supplier is no more! Seems they bit the dust about 3 years ago. It was mostly costume stuff but they did have a really nice line of gold plated silver jewelry which I sold at very nice profits. After that news I had to get away from the computer and went into town.In town today there were several early Holiday craft fairs and I went to 2 of them. I was talking to several people about me looking for something to get involved in to make a living. Several of them started out just like me and now they are doing very well. It got my confidence up again.I got back home and went straight to the internet to find a supplier of a product that I could sell at the local Holiday Bazaars. I found an ad on craigslist.com and ended up talking to the owner of a Sterling silver jewelry distribution company. She was really nice and very helpful. It turns out she supplies several of the local florists and bridal boutiques in the l

By Rick Haglund Chronicle Detroit Bureau DETROIT — Michigan’s troubled economy is taking another unwelcome hit as Chrysler LLC slashes as many as 12,100 jobs and eliminates four vehicle models. The Auburn Hills-based automaker said Thursday that between 8,500 and 10,000 hourly jobs, 1,000 salaried jobs and about 1,100 contract positions would be cut through 2008. “This is a shockingly big announcement. It’s not a good sign for Michigan,” said Sean McAlinden, chief economist at the Center for Automotive Research in Ann Arbor. McAlinden said Michigan will lose 5,000 hourly jobs and most of the 2,000 salaried and contract jobs in Chrysler’s latest downsizing. Michigan has lost 285,000 net jobs since 2000, mainly because of the shrinking auto industry. The state has the highest unemployment rate in the nation at 7.5 percent. “It’s not inconceivable that you could have a whole decade of (net) job losses in the state,” said University of

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A lawyer goes in to the cell where his client is being held. "Okay, I've some bad news, and some good news.""Right, what's the bad news?""It's DEFINITELY your blood at the scene of the crime.""So what's the good news?""Your cholesterol is way down!"

The last report I had was over the weekend that Lisa had dropped her petition on Friday. This morning I received news that she re-filed it this week. This makes no sense, because we have had no communication. There was no “trigger” for her to do this. The only thing I can think of is [...]

I got some disconcerting news for any Catholics who believe this is a miraculous appearance of Pope John Paul. If this is he trying to communicate from the beyond....portraying himself as a fiery being emerging from the earth....he ain't in Heaven. Sorry about that.

Blair’s obsession with Audrey Hepburn and Breakfast at Tiffany’s makes its appearance early on - until an appearance from Serena rears its ugly head in Blair’s dreams. Blair’s mother, Eleanor arrives from Paris. Blair finds her chatting with Serena about her new fashion line. Eleanor is predictably judgmental about Blair and her weight. Blair excitedly reports to her mother that she has lost two pounds. Chuck throws a decadent post-Ivy Week party that begins at the Palace and travels other places. Connor Baizen, an old friend of Nate’s, shows up at the party. Once a hard core party-hopper and drug user, Connor claims to be a changed man. After traveling the world, he began filming documentaries. Nate is intrigued but Chuck is bored. Blair and Serena try to work things out by shopping the morning away. Serena runs into Dan on the street and they make a date to make a date (sort of). Eleanor looks for her new face for Waldorf Fashion. Her assistant

  Fumbles,bad calls,and not going for the win made for a bad game against the Bears.First one fumble then another gave me the feeling of here we go again.But I still thought ok,maybe this is just a little hiccup and the Packers will start playing right again.Then the Bear get a field goal but a ref throws a flag,penalty against the Packers.The refs make a bad call,give the Bears back the ball and they get a touchdown. But the Pack rally the game is tie 20-20.What happens now the Packers Let Brett win the Game.No they get conservative start running the ball and play for the tie to go into overtime.That was the nail in the coffin and serving up the game to the Bears on a silver platter.

Microsoft (MSFT) says it will continue to ship is old-world OS, XP, for another six months. It is... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]