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Jay Leno Launches New Jaguar XJ in London
in carzz.org, on July 15, 2009
...oined by a 470HP version of the supercharged unit. Note: Not all options will be available in North America. My affections remain with the traditional XJ but then I'm an old guy who, as Jay Leno c...
Goldman Sachs: behind the numbers
in Sox First, on July 15, 2009
...ldman is back to its old tactics of investing in high-risk trading and investing in everything from mortgages to commodities and underwriting of stock and debt offers. And that raises an obvious quest...
Peanut-Free Hollandia Cookies
in Allergies, on July 14, 2009
...e nut free .
The best part? They are available in many food and convenience stores in Canada and America. Check out the variety of cookies they offer!
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Recession reshapes America
in Sox First, on July 14, 2009
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I have often talked about how the recession will reshape America's geography where cities like Detroit will turn into ghost towns. Without saying as much, demographer Richard Florida seems to...
Closing Uluru?
in Wandalust, on July 14, 2009
WorldHum is among the sources covering a controversial proposal in Australia to make Uluru off limits for climbers. An Australian government proposal is in the works to ban tourists from climbing Uluru, the distinctive red rock monolith that is considered sacred ground by local indigenous groups. ...
The Mercedes Folding Bike
in Wangtam, on July 9, 2009
...-level domain you want: .yourname, .america, .whatever. Don't do it.
• David Hornik on the VC math problem
• No sign of N. Korean backing in bot attacks on U.S. sites, says researcher
• News...
Apple's lack of enterprise ambition
in The CIO Weblog, on July 8, 2009
...thing happened on the way to the bank with the iPhone profits... they started coming from corporate America. The iPhone, it develops, is just the thing for jaded execs. They want 'em, they want to...
Can dope save California?
in Sox First, on July 8, 2009
... California's economy is in deep trouble and threatens to drag the rest of America down with it. So it was hard to go past Advertising Age running this brief commercial from the Marijuana Pol...
Netbooks may be the new mobiles
in The CIO Weblog, on July 6, 2009
...ng iPhone fever, and Blackberries have firmly entrenched themselves as must-have tools in corporate America, the consumer-oriented, scorned netbooks may be the next hot device for businesses.
Althoug...
Satellite Hopes To Make Deadzones a Thing of the Past
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on July 3, 2009
...th orbit with the goal of providing mobile phone service to "dead zones" all across North America.
Owned by Reston, Va.-based TerreStar, the satellite is designed to pick up and relay signa...
Daimler SP250 Celebrates 50th Anniversary, Sidney Gets a Treat
in Classical Drives, on July 3, 2009
...marks the Daimler 250's 50th anniversary and so the Daimler and Lanchester Owners Club of North America hopes to have as many V-8 powered roadsters as possible appear at British Car Day XXIII on S...
The Goldman Sachs-Rolling Stone slugfest
in Sox First, on July 3, 2009
... pull any punches either. He calls it the "Wall Street bubble mafia". He writes: "If America is circling the drain, Goldman Sachs has found a way to be that drain - an extremely unfortu...
Outsourcing Trends
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on July 2, 2009
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Here's an interesting article on outsourcing trends (made more interesting because I am quoted in it).
In any case, I believe that outsourcing could be at the leading edge of the recovery, as careful organizations try to grow their footprints without growing their head c...
It's getting tougher to get a mortgage-broker license
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 2, 2009
...ered homeowners into risky loans, mortgage products such as interest-only loans and adjustable-rate mortgages with artificially low initial interest rates.
It's good, then, to see states such as ...
Is plain vanilla the right goal?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 30, 2009
... cross over into stifling innovation ?
The Post, in its editorial, warns that while plain vanilla mortgages may be fine for many consumers — maybe even most — there are others with the f...
Wanted: Oldest Pontiac Plus Oldest Pontiac With Original Owner
in Classical Drives, on June 24, 2009
... Pontiac, soon to become one of the Lost Marques of America. Just this day I read that GM would shortly discontinue the Solstice and the Vibe. Mind you, the former was a niche car whose image was di...
Did Sonia Sotomayor's mortgage views help send county into recession?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 23, 2009
...preme Court, for the time she served on the board of a New York state agency that provided discount mortgages to low- and middle-income buyers. Sotomayor served on the board from 1987 to 1992.
Carney...
Supply chain education ranking: Penn State becomes No. 1
in Supplychainer, on June 21, 2009
...n Supply Chain Management Review identified Smeal as having the No. 1 supply chain program in North America.
What is surprising me is the relatively low rank of MIT (Number 5) and Georgia Tech (Numbe...
Georgia Tech opens a new supply chain center in Costa Rica
in Supplychainer, on June 21, 2009
...n Spain some years ago ( ZLC ) and recently added some new members to this collaboration from Latin America and called it SCALE . I personally think the motivation for such expansions are creating mo...
A new wave of mortgage foreclosures on the way?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 18, 2009
...ld focuses on the plight of homeowners who during the housing boom took out option adjustable rate mortgages . In these type of loans, borrowers can decide to pay less than what their monthly balance...
Do you trust the government to protect you from mortgage lenders?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 18, 2009
...simple terms alongside more complex mortgage products. Borrowers would have to opt out of the plain mortgages if they wanted to go wtih the more complicated mortgage loan products, according to the Jo...
D'oh, I Should Have Paid Attention to My TomTom
in The Gadgets Weblog, on June 18, 2009
... better than those crappy automated computer voices, but there is something warm and inviting about America's most bumbling father getting you to your destination.
"At the end of the road, ...
The Ultimate Fathers Day Gift for a Classic Car Guy
in Classical Drives, on June 17, 2009
...l Eyes on Design concours d'elegance. I'd do so because this event is attended by many of America's car designers and automotive decision makers and is therefore aimed at attracting cars...
Advice to F1. Look at the American Open-Wheel Disaster
in carzz.org, on June 17, 2009
...ax Mosely, promotions boss Bernie Ecclestone, and the FOCA teams. Take a look at what happened when America's open-wheeled series split in a similar dispute. In this case it was Indy 500 owner T...
The slow recovery
in Sox First, on June 16, 2009
...;s happening in the real world. Capital One says credit card default rates have risen to 9.4% and American Express says defaults have risen to 10.4%. Meanwhile, Reuters reports analysts saying t...
How'd the mortgage meltdown happen? NPR knows
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 15, 2009
...he people at NPR routinely present some of the best journalism in the country. Recently, "This American Life," one of the most popular NPR shows, ran a story called The Giant Pool of Money ... ... wanted to know — and then some — about mortgage loans, bad lending practices, subprime mortgages and the reasons why the mortgage industry went so wrong: It's NPR, of course.
For tho...
In Search of a Cool Summer: Lake Baikal, Siberia
in Hidden Travel Gems, on June 12, 2009
One of the least noticed natural wonderlands in the tourist world today is Lake Baikal in Siberian Russia.
During the 52 days between June 20th and August 10th it usually breaks 85F degrees in Ulan-Ude (on the shores of Lake Baikal) less than a dozen times each year. The high temperature is more...
MGB-GT, Yours for Just $20 in Museum Charity Raffle
in Classical Drives, on June 12, 2009
...ish Transportation Museum , an arm of the Society for the Preservation of British Transportation in America. A non-profit organisation, it is raising funds for a building to permanently house the muse...
Dining in Vienna
in Wandalust, on June 12, 2009
It's been years since I've been to Austria. This MSNBC piece made me think about going back.
Vienna is one of Europe's cultural capitals. And while the music and the art and the archetecture and the history are all great, the food is not bad either. Each coffeehouse comes with its own...
Why the Vintage Racing League Should Matter to You
in Classical Drives, on June 10, 2009
...he races are not without spins, rolls, and other unplanned off-track excursions. Returning to North America I witnessed similar competitions at Laguna Seca and Watkins Glen. In mid-July I'll be at...
US President Obama's Eating Habits, BEing Followed By Foodies
in Do you like to cook?, on June 10, 2009
... favorite coffee in th nearest Starbucks.
But what if you are the President of the United Sated of America? The more you get such kinds of photos and stories, Simply because people wanna know what yo...
Are reverse mortgages the next trouble spot?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 8, 2009
...omptroller of the currency, was quoted in a recent Wall Street Journal story as saying that reverse mortgages could be the next financial product to cause serious problems for consumers. In the story,...
Recession Forces More Golf Deals
in Eagle Par Birdie, on June 8, 2009
... theme comes from southern Ontario - which boasts the highest number of golfers per capita in North America.
It plays on the Club Corp theme by offering annual "memberships" for a few hundr...
Wells Fargo accused of pushing bad loans on African-Americans
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 8, 2009
... interests of their clients in mind.
According to the story, Wells Fargo Bank singled out African-American borrowers in Baltimore and suburban Maryland for high-interest subprime mortgages.
Baltim... ...ers couldn't afford to make their payments. Of course, when loan officers originally sold these mortgages, they told their borrowers that they could simply refinance their interest-only loans into...
Subprime and racism
in Sox First, on June 7, 2009
... that has disturbed me the most about the subprime crisis is the impact it's had on the African American and Hispanic communities, and the way banks had targeted these people for predatory and tox... ...reports of Well Fargo being targeted in a federal lawsuit alleging it steered blacks into subprime mortgages. The New York Times reports that Well Fargo employees employees referred to blacks as &quo...
Banks fight to keep accounting tricks
in Sox First, on June 6, 2009
...unting rule, They have called in the Chamber of Commerce, the Mortgage Bankers Association, and the American Council of Life Insurers to write to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner trying shelve the ... ...he banks to take that lying down. Up until now, the banks had kept assets and liabilities including mortgages and credit-card receivables off their balance sheets and regulators say the change will re...
LG GD910 Wristwatch Phone available in July
in The Smart PDA, on June 5, 2009
...ropean region exclusively on Orange Network. It will also be available in Asia, Australia and Latin America laster this year.
Here are the details:
Dimensions: 13.9mm
Network: 7.2Mbps HSDPA
Displ...
Mortgage giant Mozilo charged with fraud
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 5, 2009
... rates adjusted to higher levels, brought the company down. It has since been bought out by Bank of America.
Mozilo was charged by securities regulators earlier this week with insider trading and reg...
Apps adoption not so terrible
in The CIO Weblog, on June 5, 2009
...data say they are doing just fine. Google Enterprise president David Girouard, in a talk at Bank of America and Merrill Lynch's US Technology conference ( available here ) says the division is pro...
Self Foot Examination Against Needless Diabetic Amputations
in Daily Diabetic, on June 4, 2009
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With nearly 25 million Americans already diagnosed, America is in the throes of a diabetes epidemic that's quickly gaining in momentum. According to the Centers for Disease Co...
Is manufacturing dead?
in Sox First, on June 3, 2009
...gets and software that can now do almost any routine task. This goes well beyond the factory floor. America also used to have lots of elevator operators, telephone operators, bank tellers and service-...
Be honest with your finances before taking on a mortgage
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 2, 2009
...loan payments if they lost their jobs. Others just aren't bringing home enough income to handle mortgages of certain sizes.
It may seem painful for borrowers to have to pass on what they think is...
Blame the recession on Reagan: Paul Krugman
in Sox First, on June 1, 2009
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Some fascinating comments from Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman blaming America's economic woes on Ronald Reagan. Basically, Krugman says deregulation, the piling up of debt and t...
Spotify to make it portable?
in Digital Music - The Future, on May 30, 2009
...ple voice based ads? I'm honestly unsure... plus there's the whole, like, being launched in America issue....
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More housing woes
in Sox First, on May 29, 2009
...in sight. According to those figures, "the percentage of mortgage holders not current on their mortgages, was 12.07 percent on a non-seasonally adjusted basis, the highest ever recorded in the MB...
Mortgage interest rates went up. Don't panic!
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on May 28, 2009
...rate of 5.45 percent. That's up from 5.24 percent a week ago.
Rates rose on 15-year fixed-rate mortgages, too. Those rates jumped to 4.86 percent, according to Bankrate, from 4.74 percent one wee...
Vote for America’s Best Loved Recipe
in Do you like to cook?, on May 27, 2009
... Taste of Home's America's Best Loved Recipe Contest is coming to a close with four selected finalist who are competing for the grand prize of $25,000 and a feature on Good Morning Americ...
Vera Wang Jewelry
in The Jewelry Weblog, on May 27, 2009
...ar, shoes and housewares. In June 2005, she won the CFDA (Council of the Fashion Designers of America) Womenswear Designer of the Year . On May 27, 2006, Wang was awarded the Andre Leon Talley Lifeti...
Loan modifications not always helping homeowners
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on May 26, 2009
...the higher number holds true - that 75 percent figure - that still means that 25 percent of failing mortgages did not go into delinquency again.
That may seem like a small percentage, but to the fami...
Happy Memorial Day
in WebKinzBlog, on May 24, 2009
...ed Forces and related ways. Thanks to everyone who helped play a role in the safety and security of America!
Amidst all the parties, cookouts and fun I had to do a bit of shopping at the estore... I ...
Hanalei Bay in Kauai
in Hidden Travel Gems, on May 22, 2009
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Hawaii's Hanalei Bay on the island of Kauai has been named Best Beach in America according to a guy "who calls himself Dr. Beach ," the The Inquisitr said today.
Step...
Palm Pre Knows How to Successfully Launch a Product
in The Gadgets Weblog, on May 22, 2009
...hese numbers assume that you live in a high sales area on one of the coasts. If you live in Middle America, you can pretty much count on not seeing a Palm Pre until the rest of America cares less. Hey...
Prague for the Young
in Wandalust, on May 22, 2009
I've always associated Prague with youth for some reason. Now here's a story that confirms my suspicions...
MSNBC ran a piece yesterday on how Prague is a good place to take your kids. There are more than 80 museums and 70 theaters in Prague. Kids will like taking the funicular train to t...
Oprah Hearts Skype
in The VoIP Weblog, on May 21, 2009
...dian town near the North Pole, and from a submarine. She also talks to somebody flying in a Virgin America plane that offers Wi-Fi service - although Virgin warns they don't allow us normal peop...
Virgin America Gets Wi-Fi Fleetwide
in The Wireless Weblog, on May 20, 2009
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Virgin America today announced that it's the first airline to offer Gogo in-flight Wi-Fi access on every flight and every airplane in its fleet.
"The airline beat out several othe...
Vancouver All British Show Highlight No. 2: The Elegant AC Ace
in Classical Drives, on May 20, 2009
... the 2009 Vancouver All British show. After all, they're scarce in numbers, especially in North America.
The manufacturer, however, was not adverse to offering the Ace with several different engi...
President at the Pump
in carzz.org, on May 20, 2009
... Imagine. In just seven years all new cars sold in America will be required to average 35 mpg. The auto industry (or what's left of it) will not go down without a lot of screaming and hair-teari...
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in Wangtam, on May 19, 2009
...Killer App for Local Businesses
• Nokia N97 For North America Arriving June 2nd
• Acer's next-gen Aspire One Netbooks available now
• Stand Firm Craig (and Jim)
• Site Lets Writers Sell Di...
1957 年款 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa
in Wangtam, on May 19, 2009
官方新闻稿：
MARANELLO, Italy, May 17 /PRNewswire/ - RM Auctions, in association with Sotheby's made history at the Ferrari factory in Maranello today as a 1957 Ferrari 250 TR, chassis no. 0714TR sold for € 9,020,000 at the third-annual Ferrari Leggenda e Passione event to set a new world record...
Military joins climate change battle
in Sox First, on May 19, 2009
...pendence on oil weakens international leverage, undermines foreign policy objectives, and entangles America with unstable or hostile regimes. Inefficient use and overreliance on oil burdens the milita...
Will federal mortgage loan assistance hurt your credit rating?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on May 18, 2009
For homeowners struggling to make their mortgage payments, the federal government's new Making Home Affordable program — which lets homeowners refinance their existing mortgage loans or modify them to make their payments more affordable — might be a blessing.
The federal governme...
Amali Jewelry
in The Jewelry Weblog, on May 18, 2009
...esigner Sara Freedenfeld discovered her passion for making jewelry while backpacking through South America. Sara launched her company, Amali, in the spring of 2006, and has quickly become a favorite...
Vancouver All British Show Highlight No. 1: Morgan Three-Wheeler
in Classical Drives, on May 18, 2009
...d by Ken Douch. It kicks off our coverage of the annual All British event, one of the best in North America. For today and for the next half-dozen blogs, I'll be showing you the British classics t...
Corporate social responsibility and recession
in Sox First, on May 15, 2009
...rtunity in this climate because there is such an enormous amount of anti-corporate feeling in North America and Europe and the legitimacy of business is being tested as never before. CSR is unlikely ...
Financial crisis winners to hurt banks
in Sox First, on May 15, 2009
... savers pool money and lend to borrowers. Some good examples are Prosper which calls itself "America's largest people-to-people lending marketplace" and which has garnered more than 79...
More bad news: Housing foreclosure activity remains at record levels
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on May 14, 2009
You can always count on RealtyTrac for bad news, at least these days.
The online provider of foreclosure data didn't disappoint this month, when it released its April foreclosure report . The report showed that housing foreclosure activity remained at record levels during the month.
Acc...
Monica Vinader Jewelry
in The Jewelry Weblog, on May 14, 2009
...collecting curiosities and tales the world over. From her native Spain, to Mexico, and across South America, Monica finds inspiration in color, adventure, and culture. From this inspiration come piece...
Daewoo: GM's Secret Weapon?
in carzz.org, on May 13, 2009
...r in a world-wide conglomerate. Volkswagen/Audi/Porsche says it plans to become number one in North America. The Chinese intend to conquer the automaking world, even if some of its offerings are copyc...
Why stricter laws won't work
in Sox First, on May 13, 2009
...y. Longstaff says there is a need for regulation, but not too much. He warns that the experience in America with Sarbanes-Oxley showed that harsh laws could backfire and produce something far worse. O...
