A blonde, a brunette, a movie star, the pope, and a pilot were on a plane.The plane was going down fast, and there were only four parachutes for all five of them.The pilot took one and jumped, then the movie star took one and jumped, and then the blonde took one and jumped.The pope told the brunette to take the last one.The brunette said, "There are still 2 parachutes left! The blonde took my back
There has been quite some discussion this year that a side effect locally of the reduction in consents and builders building spec homes, along with reduced volume of available land, could lead to a shortage in a year or 2.
Nelsons largest valuers, Duke & Cooke Valuers, recently published this article.
It mentioned that back in October [...]
This is a sad story. But it's simplistic to blame the abandoned children solely on poor mental health care. While the statistics are stunning about the incidence of mental illness in these children, another problem involved is the insufficient income of the parents, likely an inter-generational history of neglect and abuse, as well as the stigma of asking for help.
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The demand for Abu Dhabi property units will be met in four years time, said Urban Planning Council General Manager, Falah Al Ahbabi.
Speaking to delegates at MEED Abu Dhabi Conference, Al Ahbabi said that the economy is growing at a rapid pace, but the infrastructure and buildings in Abu Dhabi will take atleast four years.
The developers are being pressurized and we are confident about solving
(Note: This is my twelfth---and final---post under the auspices of the nurse blogger scholarship which I recently received from Value Care, Value Nurses.)It seems that everywhere I turn, someone is telling me that, a) they just applied to nursing school, b) someone they know just applied, or c) they or someone they know was just accepted/rejected from nursing school.New nurses---and those who wish
(Note: This is my eleventh post under the auspices of the nurse blogger scholarship which I recently received from Value Care, Value Nurses.)Well, it finally happened. The nursing shortage received some well-deserved coverage that, in many ways, actually did the subject justice. Now with David Brancaccio, a weekly half-hour television show of investigative journalism on PBS (previously hosted and
Tonight on Now with David Brancaccio on PBS stations around the country, the nursing shortage will be the focus of Now's award-winning investigative journalism. I highly recommend tuning into this important 30-minute broadcast, or watch the online streaming version of the show which will be posted on the Now website after the show has aired.
Sorry. No Monday Morning Coffee this week.One of my dad's sayings was "if you have nothing to say, say nothing." That's kind of what went on this week.This week I'm researching how I'm going to vote. I'll let you know next Monday.
Having blogged earlier on a physical silver shortage and the drying up of gold bullion purchases, recent events in the precious metals markets justify an update that again arrives at the conclusion that last Friday's silver and gold price plunge on COMEX has pretty little to do with the actual physical investment demand for gold and silver. Tim Iacono had a good post with the headline "Gold prices
The Massachusetts Medical Society released a report this week -- the Physician Workforce Study -- highlighting physician shortages including -- but also well beyond -- primary care. This issue was picked up by Les Masterson in the current issue of...
Several cities and communities have been reporting a rental shortage for 1 and 2 bedroom apartments and condos. The areas that are having the shortages right now are the Atlanta area and Vancouver, BC as well as Australia (yep, down under is having a real estate melt down too). The Los Angeles area is also expected to have a rental shortage too.
I first got wind of it when a lender friend of
A shortage of about 28000 housing units in Abu Dhabi is likely this year, with the rents forging up, adding to inflation in the UAE capital.
The current projects that are nearing completion will form only 20 percent of the required housing.
As per the report from Chamber of Commerce, the shortage in housing units will lead to increase in rents, which constitute the largest portion of consumer
Acute Accommodation Shortage in Delhi to house foreign tourists during Commonwealth Games 2010The National Capital's bid to match Beijing in the 2010 Commonwealth Games will prove to be a tough task as the city will struggle to meet the requirement of 18,000 hotel rooms to host foreign tourist."The Commonwealth Games in 2010 is expected to attract 50,000 foreign visitors to Delhi .Approximately 30
I'm wondering how the southeastern gas shortage is going to affect those going to the Feast of Tabernacles in places such as Jekyll Island and Panama City in United Church of God as well as those attending sites of other groups in that area.I had read last week that the shortages were to be cleared up in the next few days. That no longer appears to be the case.A storm-related gas shortage in the S
Can You Live Without Petrol?Looks like a mini 1973 oil crisis happening in Malaysia as I read the news this morning on petrol shortage that happened in most Shell petrol stations. And this is not even as a result of a major war going on. Not even because of oil resources running out. Not even because of oil producers not supplying to us. Not even.Why the petrol shortage?The Shell petrol stations h
Well, it’s certainly true that there’s a shortage of very nice, well kept homes in Vintage Vegas.
It’s not true out in the suburbs where there are whole neighborhoods of practically new homes that are being given away by the banks. The Map shows the density of the foreclosures in Las Vegas. You’ll notice, if you click [...]
Scientists have discovered that people who have a shortage of vitamin B12 have a six times higher chance of that their brain will shrink.
This correlation was discovered by scientists at the University of Oxford. 107 People between the ages of 61 and 87 were physically examined for this research. They also underwent memory tests [...]
NurseWeek/Nursing Spectrum asked Republican presidential candidate U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., how they would address health insurance reform and healthcare workforce issues, as well as asking for more details about each of their plans. Here are the e-mail responses from their respective campaigns. For more details about
If nothing is done to resolve the problem, Florida may face a shortage of RNs by 2020 that is "capable of crippling" the healthcare system and reducing access to quality care for Floridians, according to a new report by the Florida Center for Nursing.
A shortage of just under 11,000 full-time RNs in 2007 is expected to grow to more than 52,000 in 13 years. The number of RNs is forecast to
I am an occasional guest blogger on NurseConnect, and I invite you to read my latest post, Creative Responses to the Nursing Shortage, posted on NurseConnect today. I think the post offers an interesting perspective, detailing ways that individuals, educational institutions, and healthcare facilities are responding to the crisis at hand.
"India’s situation isn’t unique. Worldwide, sugar prices have gained 50% in the last 12 months (33% since the beginning of 2008). But the country may be the canary in the coalmine… or in the sugar refinery, as the case may be." — Stephanie Grimmett
by Stephanie Grimmett
Baltimore — (TFN): India is importing raw sugar [...]
MANILA, Philippines--The current shortage of "knowledge workers" in the United Kingdom is good news for the country's outsourcing push in Europe.A recent report from The Work Foundation, a London-based research and consultancy firm, said that the UK will need to attract more highly skilled workers from overseas for its high technology and "'knowledge intensive" industries.The report's author noted
With the US economy slowdown,it seems all the IT companies affiliated with the dollar are experiencing a pinch.Well maybe thats the reason why they are not recruiting in enormous numbers as compared to last year.Is this the end??Wont there be sufficient jobs in this field?Is IT the wrong field to choose..Well like every bad phase occurs to everything good,this too is just a passing phase.This is t
Mark Silva of the Chicago Tribune's Washington Bureau is writing about the fact that President Bush "will have a chance to spare legions before leaving office in January." Why? Because requests for clemency at the Justice Department have passed the 3,000 pending mark. Writes Silva:... this president's pardons have tended toward lower-profile wrong-doers. P.S. Ruckman Jr., a professor of political
Please be so kind as to click here to read my first post as a Guest Blogger over at NurseConnect.At the invitation of NurseConnect, I will occasionally be posting to their site about issues salient to the nursing profession and the healthcare industry. Thanks for taking the time to read my post, which, for understandable contractual and copyright reasons, will not be available on any other websit
With all the scheduled power outages that we are having in Hyderabad for close to four hours a day and the central government fighting for its survival over getting nuclear fuel to meet our future energy needs here is a club in London that is generating electricity out of a bouncing dance floor. Read the explanation below about how they are generating the electricity.
You can read more about thi
Hello again, faithful readers, OTR Prognosticators, and Viagra Spammers.
The Olympics are upon us yet again, and athletes from all over the world will be turning in the performance of a lifetime. They have eaten correctly, trained for hours on end, and practiced their triple gainer, double flip, with a twist of lime umpteen thousand times. [...]
Nobody knows how to play with the media more than Apple does, even when a bad news can damage their profits Apple turns it into good news and generate more positive buzz than bad.
Take for example the recently launched iPhone 3G, with bigger demand than devices to supply the impressive costumers reception for the new [...]
(Note: This is my inaugural post under the auspices of the nurse blogger scholarship which I recently received from Value Care, Value Nurses.)The nursing shortage is here to stay. At least that's where the signs all seem to be pointing. From reports of teachers doing the work of school nurses to a profound lack of nursing faculty, the shortage---predicted for years by many in the know---is an ines
According to the independent, there’s an escargot shortage that is threatening French life as we know it. OH NON! Most of the snails people eat in France are from Eastern Europe. Gasp! Oui oui. It’s true. But now the snail harvesting profession there is frowned upon. NOT very glamorous. How will they supply this year’s [...]
Food shortage usually happens when food supplies within an area do not provide the energy and nutrients needed by that area’s population. Food shortage is a problem created by production. If a certain country does not produce enough of a certain product, of course there will be shortage. In the Philippines, a lot of people [...]
Where has all the fuel gone? Nobody knows the answer to this question but the fact remains that major cities like Delhi and Bangalore are running short of fuel. The condition in Bangalore and rest of Karnataka is expected to worsen.The scenario in Bangalore is expected to deteriorate in next few days. From the past two-three days, the most running fuel stations in the city are being shut down much
Mostly by seeing impressive figures of growth people start believing that things are very fine in India and everything is only growing here. However, there are certain basic things which are actually going in the reverse direction like availability of electricity and fresh drinking water. Hardly, summer has knocked the doors of north India and people here have started witnessing long electricity c
On June 26 and 27, 2008, AARP, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the U.S. Department of Labor will hold a summit at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City in Arlington, VA to discuss the shortage of nurses and the shortage of nurse educators. The goal is to find solutions to the shortage of nurses and to improve nursing education capacities throughout the country.Every year thousands of qualified nu
One of the things that I’ve noticed lately, is that most of the “normal” sellers, that is, those who aren’t in foreclosure, not in trouble, and that aren’t bank owned aren’t on the market.
I’m meeting a couple from San Francisco about an hour from now. They DON”T want a fixer upper. That ruled out [...]
“There in the window was a rather fetching kilo bar of silver. It looked destined for a role as doorstop in the Frisby household. ‘How much for that kilo bar?’ I asked. ‘ £425,’ came the reply.” — Dominic Frisby
by Dominic Frisby
Baltimore – (TFN): I was [...]
Sarawak is facing an alarming shortage of doctors, with less than half of the vacant medical officer posts filled at the moment.
Out of the 1,334 vacancies, only 510 of them are taken, which represents a mere 38.2%. 90 of them are houseman officers. The statistic is worse for health and outpatient clinics as only 22% [...]
Nintendo has confirmed that it is working on a solution to the issue of storage space available on its Wii console after receiving complaints from disgruntled users of the firm's WiiWare service.click here
Toyota is struggling to keep up with booming demand for hybrid vehicles because it is unable to make enough batteries that are key components of the popular “green” cars, a senior executive said Monday.
The battery crunch is likely to continue for the rest of the year, since new lines cannot be added to increase production until 2009, said Takeshi Uchiyamada, executive vice president
“There’s no argument that water is much more necessary to life than oil. Without water, we die. Without oil, well, we learn to use biofuel… or bicycles.” — Mike Burnick
by Mike Burnick
Baltimore and Florida – (TFN): Commodity prices have been going through the roof for years, thanks to a [...]
In one of the starkest examples of why immigration is necessary to fill the job slots Canadians won't do, a group representing the owners of 53 stripper clubs in the Ontario area has announced the need to modify visa requirements for foreigners--so as to allow exotic, exotic dancers an easier trip to the Canadian stage."Up to 98 per cent of foreign exotic dancers who apply for visas get turned dow
If the availability check is carried out without the cumulative confirmed quantities or requirement quantities being taken into account, this can lead to more being confirmed than is available. The system checks whether ATP quantities arise in the period before the delivery date. If so, the new sales order reduces the ATP quantities if the ATP dates come befor the delivery date.If a planned inwa
There is a tremendous disconnect between what the professionals in the economic development community and the human resources community know about the job situation versus what the typical man or woman in America believes about jobs in our country.
The most common misperception in the United States, is there is an abundance of people for the [...]
“At the same time supplies are dwindling, demand is taking off. Let’s do the math: Supplies are down 4% and demand is up 8%.” — Sally Limantour
by Sally Limantour
Baltimore – (TFN): Power shortages, strikes and soaring input costs have killed the production of platinum.
At the same time supplies are dwindling, [...]
Thursday June 5, 2008
Idris: There's no global fuel shortage
By WONG SAI WAN
ISTANBUL: There is no shortage of oil in the world and its present price
level was driven up by unreal speculation, said Malaysia Airlines managing
director and chief executive Datuk Seri Idris Jala.
He said the present oil price at over US$135 was unrealistic and based on
certain global events that might have caused a
For a growing number of British residents, do-it-yourself(DIY) dentistry is the only option. Sadly, Britain’s state-financed dental service is stretched to its limit - no longer able to care for a significant portion of the British population. The dire situation is easy to explain: Britain simply has too few dentists to properly care for the [...]
For a growing number of British residents, do-it-yourself(DIY) dentistry is the only option. Sadly, Britain’s state-financed dental service is stretched to its limit - no longer able to care for a significant portion of the British population. The dire situation is easy to explain: Britain simply has too few dentists to properly care for the [...]
World powers must act quickly and boldly to control soaring food prices that threaten nearly 1 billion people with hunger and could trigger global social unrest, the United Nations said yesterday.
At a three-day emergency food summit UN officials urged nations to eliminate trade barriers, expand research into biotechnology, and boost production with an annual investment [...]
A common complaint leveled against soccer is that it's boring. Meanwhile, nobody bothers issuing the same critique about baseball, where the guys hawking Amstel get more of a workout running up and down the aisles plying semi-conscious onlookers with cheap suds than the various mesomorphs manning the field and where the play -- which is about as frenetic as a Van Gogh still life -- is interrupted
Rice, something that most Asian countries consider as a main part of their meal, has joined the ranks of oil as far as shortages and rising outrageous prices in the world today. To most, rice is like bread. In the better off countries like the United States and Europe, you will rarely see rice as [...]
Looking at the history of Nintendo product launches, you can see that it’s not the first time they have had shortages and as the latest “Must Have” product, the Nintendo Wii Fit has hit a massive shortage. Having looked around at local stores, wherever you go they all tell the same story when asked if [...]
Wii Fit is getting hot everywhere, not only in the Japan but too in the states. The Wii Fit was told to be launch on May 19 in the states but wait, not everywhere in the states but only at the Nintendo World Store in New York City. Nintendo knows how to make their statement.
At [...]
Mumbai, May 19 (IANS) The Indian animation industry is expected to double its revenues to nearly $1.5 billion by 2010 but is still hampered by lack of skilled manpower, mainly due to lack of facilities and preference for traditional career options.
This seems to be a must do thing in this generation of consoles.
Initially it was the Nintendo Wii that was (and still is) suffering a shortage, then in the beginning of this year the Xbox 360 went through a stock shortage that is only ending now.
I guess the PS3 was feeling left out because [...]
The rise in price for rice and wheat does not translate into increase for farmers.
On the contrary, inflation across the board has added to their costs. They have to fork up more, upfront, for fertilizer and fuel.
It is making less sense for them to continue just when the world needs them most. Many of them [...]
The domestic market is facing shortages of several different types of paper despite increases in imports and local production, industry insiders said.
Although prices were raised 10 to 40%, shortages have still been reported on the local market, making it difficult for publishing houses and printers to purchase supplies.
However, representatives from two major paper producers, Bai Bang and Tan
I think the rice problem is not as serious as the government would overstate it. Even if there is food crisis all over the world, I believe that Philippines is not as hardly hit as the other developing and really starving countries. Rice crisis is just created by the administration to divert attention from the real problem of the nation. Our country's problem is not rice shortage but the appalling
As the green building movement in India gathers steam with growing numbers of real-estate developers adopting eco-friendly construction methods, it is trying to overcome a huge shortage in green-friendly industry professionals.
The Indian Green Building Council (IGBC) - the nodal body for eco-friendly construction - has some 190 buildings registered with it for certification and is [...]
The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has said that there was no shortage of oil in the world market and the organisation would act if the market shows need for any measures, a news agency reported on Friday. "The organisation will continue to strive for a stable and balanced market, with prices that reflect fundamentals, and are favourable to both producers and consumers," OPEC Secretary General Abdalla Salem El-Badri said Thursday. He added that the petroleum prices had become increasingly volatile in recent months, mainly because of financial market developments and the increased flow of speculative funds into oil futures. "The turmoil in some global equity markets and the considerable depreciation in the US dollar have encouraged investors to seek better returns in c
Reuters - Baghdad's crumbling roads, burst sewage
pipes and chronic water shortages are casualties of war that
get little attention amid the daily litany of gunfights, bombs
and bloodletting in Iraq.
A few weeks ago I read an interesting article on the topic of the shortage of physicians in the United States. Apparently, the increasing population and the baby boomers entering retirement is going to put a huge strain on this country. In terms of Social Security and Medicare, it already is. There is no doubt [...]
NEW DELHI - Shilpa Goel is going through a rite of passage. The 20-year-old engineer is facing a barrage of recruiters from Indian outsourcing companies. Today, she has her first interview with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). Of the 20,000 potential graduates from the Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology, Ms. Goel is one of the lucky 57 to get to this stage. She is eager to please, and tells the three panelists that she would move anywhere in the world - even Pakistan. But despite her nervous demeanor, Ms. Goel knows her high marks and strong English will bring offers. She and her classmates go so far as to tick off the qualities they are seeking in an employer: "good job security," "good working environment," "good growth rate" and diversification into "business solutions, BPO, and cons
Less than two weeks since they cut £100 from the price tag of an 8GB iPhone, UK stocks of the model at retailer The Carphone Warehouse have been completely sold. The news was first broken by the store, carrier O2’s official retail partner for the handset, and later confirmed by O2 themselves who have only [...]
KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer on Thursday sought to calm the frayed nerves of consumers, saying there was no shortage of rice in the United States even as a major outlet limited sales.
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This worldwide rice shortage is something I'm sure that causes panic in Asian countries where rice is the main food staple. I question just how much of a shortage there actually is and how much is speculative in nature to raise the price. The price of rice, along with basically all food, is increasing simply because of increased cost of fuel. Violent protests have broken out in some Asian
Remember all that fuss about iPhone shortages? The ones that had people convinced—convinced—that a 3G iPhone was all but imminent? Well, the shortages are certainly real, as Apple Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook acknowledged in yesterday’s financial results conference call, though only in the US. The European markets are still...
By Ken McLaughlinMercury NewsArticle Launched: 04/24/2008 02:19:23 AM PDTAt the Asian supermarket 99 Ranch, the price of jasmine rice has already doubled this year. Across the street, Costco is rationing its 50-pound bags of discounted rice - if you can get them at all. And some Asian restaurants are even reconsidering their longstanding policy of refilling rice bowls for free.The worldwide rice shortage has come to Silicon Valley."There is no rice," said Rita Patel of San Jose, a native of India who couldn't find any at Costco on Hostetter Road in northeast San Jose on Tuesday night. In a valley where nearly 30 percent of residents are of Asian descent, people are increasingly frustrated by the soaring cost of the staple of Asian cuisine. Economists blame the price increases on everything
Solving the rice shortage the PASALI wayABS CBN NewsBy LOUI GALICIA A group of seafarers in The Netherlands is urging the Philippine government to look at how they solved a rice shortage in a small town in ...Fears of rice shortage seen to be globalTV3 News, New ZealandOne of the biggest food wholesaling companies in the United States is to limit sales of several types of white rice - the latest sign that fears of a rice ...Rice Shortage Felt Round The WorldNBC 4.com, USASome major retailers have even begun to ration rice, NBC Correspondent Noelle Walker reported. Experts said a shortage in Asia and a drought in Australia is ...Rice Shortage in Philippines May Mean More Trouble for ArroyoBloombergAfter the price of rice rose 41 percent in the past year, only the youngsters get three meals
There have been many in the medical blogosphere who have (correctly) predicted the soon-to-be disaster of a shortage of primary care physicians. I, of course, agree with my primary care and family physician brethren on this point. Well, now, there is new data from the University of Washington stating that General Surgery as a specialty is soon going to be in a world of hurt because - frankly, there are no medical students going into it. Obviously, this is part of the super-specialty revolution where generalists - whether they be general medicine physicians or general surgery physicians - are going to be more rare.I find it ironically funny (in some strange way) that the quote below used to describe the shortage for general surgeons is vaguely familiar and kind of deja vu like when I rememb
“Water stress was a link between rising food prices, disease and conflicts such as the one in Darfur.” — Chris Mayer
by Chris Mayer
Baltimore – (TFN): I’ll start in the tiny Swiss resort of Davos, the site of the World Economic Summit’s annual conference. Davos has long been a [...]
Available freshwater supplies are dwindling across the country due to droughts, increasing sprawl and population. At least 36 states are expected to face water shortages within the next five years, according to U.S. government estimates. Available freshwater supplies are dwindling across the country due to rising temperatures and droughts, while increasing sprawl, population and inefficient resource usage are leading to rising demand. California uses about 23 trillion gallons of fresh water per year. The United States as a whole uses more than 148 trillion gallons for all purposes, including agriculture, manufacturing and other uses. Other threatened regions include the Midwest, where the Great Lakes are shrinking, and upstate New York, where reservoir levels have fallen to recor
Many people always ask “What is the key to world water shortage? “How can we help the world water shortage? And of course “Is the water really drying up?
These questions obviously are concerns all over the world and need answering, the main concerns of the world’s supply of precious drinking water is something we should [...]
From Cheftonio.blogspot.com - Regarding the Cover up of the ZTE scandal.There are two things in this strategy.1. You are thinking only about yourself. Covering up the issue to save yourself.2. You want the Philippines to be the worst country in the world.We are one of the top, if not the top, rice producers in the world. how
the hell did that rice shortage happen? Have you seen one of those
lines leading to those NFA rice stores? Looong man.. looong! Not only
that, those line combined with the scorching heat of summer and empty
stomach of the poor makes it worst!--Yes, this is so bad. I guess there is some truth to that personal blog of his. If you think about it, a few months ago, it was the hottest issue. Now, it is so low that I don't think they people care anymore. Gloria successfully
“With an economy that’s advancing at an average annual clip of better than 11%, $1.7 trillion in currency reserves, and an emerging middle class that will soon be the world’s largest, China represents the future to globally focused investors and businesses alike. But there’s always been a concern about just how [...]
Once again the idol of Cebu Provincial criminal prison inmates blamed “politics” and the senate in particular for their “failure” to walk with the “anointed” one in putting food on the Filipino masses table. Pure bravado I should say of Madame de NBN y de la ZTE in recognizing the problem of putting food on the table but she is missing the point...
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NAHAN: Navratri fairs were in full swing at Trilokpur Shakti Peethof Mahamai Shri Tripur Bala Sundri and more than six other places in the district, residents of the district were facing acute shortage of cooking Gas [LPG] for the past ten days in this Navratri festival season due to short supply of LPG from Indian [...]
By Muluken Yewondwossen (Capital, Addis Ababa) - A study conducted by the Addis Ababa City Water Sewerage Authority (AAWSA), indicates that there is a problem of water supply and distribution in Addis Ababa City.The enormous amount of migration of people to the capital city, growing number of investments and construction works are some of the reasons stated for the shortage. According to the study document that was prepared last month it is indicated that for the last six months the Authority has increased production of water from 235 thousand to 256,000 m3 per day but demand is increasing at faster rate.AAWSA has laid out short, medium and long term plans to solve the problem. 40 water wells the Authority has drilled will be connected to the main water supply system soon. When these wells
This morning, as I watched Unang Hirit, the first news of my day was about Rice Shortage in the Philippines which I have been hearing and lamenting for more than a month. Apparently, the class C and D consumers who are largely depending on NFA Rice are alarmed by the rumors that there will be [...]
I frequently read the Environment section on Yahoo! News. Normally it's filled with horrific or political news, such as "30% of bird species extinct by 2050" or "Fisheries collapse by 2040" or "Environmental organization sues to stop construction of coal plant." Over the past months I've often seen articles on wine production and climate change dotting the section. The first one, okay. But then it got to be a pattern, and I got a little annoyed. Wine drinkers, by stereotype, tend to be at least in the richer segment of the world's population, if not among the richest of the rich, depending on the wine. I thought, there must be more important, actually environment-related (as opposed to product-related) news to put in the section. Now they're talking about beer. Wine shortages might be a pr
REGULATORS TELL SCHUMER: BEAR STEARNS’ CASH SHORTAGE WAS UNKNOWN UNTIL IT WAS TOO LATE, SHOWING NEED FOR REGULATORY REFORM
Washington, D.C. - Under questioning today by U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer (D-NY) at a Senate Banking Committee hearing, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke and other top regulators admitted that none of them knew of the [...]
From Bloomberg:Rice climbed to a record and corn traded near its highest ever on speculation the 3 percent annual increase in global demand for cereals will outstrip supply as governments curb exports to prevent protests. Rice, the staple food for about 3 billion people, rose 2.4 percent in Chicago trading today after doubling in the past year. Soybeans advanced for the third day and wheat gained. Crop supply has been reduced by drought in countries including Canada and Australia and a U.S. freeze followed by excessive rain last year.I have no idea about why the price of rice would rise, even I, as a Hong Kong person, eat rice everyday. Again, "thanks" to the currency peg of HKD with USD, the purchasing power of my hard earned money is shrinking. Maybe Jim Rogers was right, i
It is now clear that there is an iPhone shortage, since AT&T has been busy clearing out their refurbished iPhone stock while Apple stores seem to run short of iPhones no matter which part of the country you're in. Pundits and Apple fanboys will def...
If you listen to the spin of La Gloria yes there is a shortage but she is on top of it with her brilliant rice half a portion solution and through her geniuses in the NFA (National Food Authority) and DA (Department of Agriculture) has struck a memorandum of Agreement with rice exporting countries to augment the temporary shortage. The Increase in...
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After a year and a half of the Nintendo Wii being released inside the United States, it may finally become possible for anybody to get their hands on one. Nobody knows for sure why the Nintendo Wii was so hard to find here in the states, but one reporter, Victor Godinez of the Dallas Morning News, thinks the fault lies in the weakness of the declining value of the U.S. dollar.
CNN has finally picked up coverage of the OTR Tire shortage on their “Money” site.
While Forbes and the WSJ have been covering this beat for a few years now, CNN has been slow to give the story exposure.
They cover the typical points: Low supply, High prices and demand.
They also quote a Bridgestone Rep. saying that [...]
If the availability check is carried out without the cumulative confirmed quantities or requirement quantities being taken into account, this can lead to more being confirmed than is available. The system checks whether ATP quantities arise in the period before the delivery date. If so, the new sales order reduces the ATP quantities if the ATP dates come befor the delivery date.If a planned inward movement of goods is delayed to a desired date after the confirmed date, then the confirmation of the sales order remains in place without a stock coverage being given. This is because a change to inward movement of goods does not necessarily change the order. In this situation, a newly created order could be confirmed because of the delayed inward movement of goods and lead to more being confi
So when you hear about a South Korea fire you may read the news and think “well its miles away and does not affect me”, but this will not be the case for many computer users. The fire was at LG Chem’s Ochang laptop battery plant and this has now caused a laptop battery shortage, [...]
Thank God, my weekend alone is over. I have to say, as weekends go, this one sucked more than usual. This was going to be my first time to sleep in (even just a little) since the time changed last weekend. But did I get to sleep in??? Hell, NO!PS: Would anyone like to purchase a cat? He's a fine cat, a great mouser, very personable. His only fault is that he gets lonely when his children are gone and then feels the need to suck on ones pajamas and purr loudly at 6 AM. No amount of cursing and physical abuse will deter him. (Interested takers, contact me soon.) OK, have any of you people happened to meander into a store to buy flour lately? Dammit, I just have to buy a bag of flour for the first time in three weeks, and it's like the world has suddenly gone crazy. IT COSTS TWICE AS MUCH AS
