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Credit card industry tries to hook young people
All major banking institutions pay big money to colleges and universities for on-campus recruiting rights, offering students low initial interest rates and/or other sweetheart deals if they accept a credit card. The rest of us get solicitations through our phone or the mails.Seductive sales campaigns focus on high school graduates and for all kinds of items that TV, movies or society has told them they want, need, should have because they deserve it and others have, so why don't they? Car dealers offer "one-time sales events" to first-time wage earners, high-end electronic stores give 90-day-same-as-cash deals and guarantee that no one will be turned down, furniture showrooms offer newlyweds "no payments 'til next year," cell phones, Internet providers, cable companies, satellite dish outfits all make it sound as if you can't have a decent life without their help.All this has given birth to an additional parasite - the debt-consolidation, paycheck-cashing, payday-loan, instant-refinancing-of-your-car (and you get to keep your car - 'til they come to take it away) industry.Public schools teach kids how to drive, play sports, fit a condom, take birth control pills, find an abortionist or fill out a job application at McDonald's.
Britons Face Billion-Pound Interest Payback
One in four people is struggling with their debts as Britons collectively face a 93bn annual bill for interest. At the same time, around three million people have taken out a debt consolidation loan to try to get on top of their borrowings. Borrowing through credit cards, loans, overdrafts and mortgages has hit almost 1.4 trillion, according to comparison website uSwitch.com. An estimated 9.5m people had "maxed out" on one form of credit during the past six months, while 38% have had a credit card application rejected, the group claims. But nearly two-thirds of these failed to close down their existing credit facilities, and instead went on to rack up a further 2,300 of debt on average. Overall, the research found that the average household has now amassed unsecured debts of 4,281.
Annual “Lambs to the Slaughter” ritual has begun
It's that time of the year again. Holiday spending was up another 5% this year to …. get this….. $457.4 Billion. As reported By Parija B. Kavilanz, CNNMoney.com staff writer in the article found here. That's right, billion with a “B". And, once the credit card bills begin to get delivered…. the slaughter will begin. Many might be thinking that I'm going to drone on about the high cost of credit, how long it will take to pay off those credit cards, fees, penalties, etc… Not this time. The ritual that I'm referring to is mortgage refinancing. Every year thousands of homeowners find themselves in a little trouble with last years spending habits. And this year many people are going to get the old Double Whammy with roughly 12% of adjustable mortgages coming due. Scratching their heads trying to figure out how they will make ends meet, refinancing (or debt consolidation) begins to look appealing.
Crime busters keep a vigilant eye
Sub Inspector (SI) Lakmal Jayawickrama and his team of police officers were doing their customary rounds in the Mirihana Police area of the Nugegoda Police Division at night. They were part of the new mobile unit deployed under newly established ‘Security Eye’ programme. Suddenly their CDMA phone started ringing. It was an operator from the emergency 119 centre on the other end. He alerted the team of a call the emergency centre had received from a resident who said he had spotted his Toyota Hiace van, which was stolen way back in 1997, roaming around the Kotte area. .
Stumbling Goliaths, dithering Davids: unpicking the mythology of the ...
Most experts predicted multiple failure, but their pessimism turned out to be a blessing in disguise for Murdoch. The complacent UK broadcasting industry woke up too late. It had wrongly assumed that the unquestioned quality of four-channel regulated television at the price of a fixed licence fee would be an impenetrable barrier for this tacky upstart. Still, Murdoch almost failed. News Corporations borrowings to support Sky took him to the edge of losing the company. But BSBs shareholders, also haemorrhaging cash, had launched second but cracked first, initiating a 50:50 merger that gave Murdoch operating control of what became BSkyB (British Sky Broadcasting). Between them, the two companies had lost nearly £2 billion, with continuing weekly losses after merger running at £10 million.
Docs Across America: Can Michael Moore Save the Theatrical Nonfiction ...
Will Moore's plan take off? And if it does, is it a good or bad thing for documentary releasing? Reactions to the plan are largely split between documentary filmmakers, who welcome any initiative that helps get their work out to the world, and industry insiders, who are skeptical about the plan's feasibility and disturbed by what they see as a further ghettoization of the documentary form. But everyone agrees on one thing: they want more information. (Calls and emails to Michael Moore's people were not returned.) Documentary filmmakers and insiders have several astute questions that the program will have to address before it moves forward: - Who will select the documentaries that are chosen? And on what basis will they be chosen? - Will the documentaries already have distributors or not? Or will there be a mix? - Will participating filmmakers pay a fee? Or conversely, will they get a split of the ticket sales? - If most multiplexes are film-only, and the majority of documentaries are finished in a high-definition digital format, how will they be screened? Will expensive projectors be rented? Or will filmmakers need to pay for costly film transfers? - Will Moore's next film also go out through the program? Even with such questions, however, doc director Doug Block ("51 Birch Street") admitted, "I think any initiative that tries to do something about the hellhole of documentary distribution is better than sitting back and whining." Other filmmakers welcome the potential of such a program to garner much-needed press.
Miller struggles but Marlins beat Red Sox 3-2
You get a little wild, and how soon can you get out of it? It took me obviously way too long today." Miller pitched three hitless innings. Daniel Barone, the fourth of six Florida pitchers, was the winner and Lee Gardner worked the ninth for the save. Alexis Gomez's RBI single drove in Paul Hoover in the seventh to put the Marlins ahead to stay against Justin Masterson. .
Percussionists drum up interest among orchestra fans
Theatricality is a basic aim of John Corigliano's music. He once wrote a flute concerto inspired by the Pied Piper legend in which the flutist leads a chorus of children off the stage, and a violin concerto based on the film "The Red Violin." But a request a few years ago for a percussion concerto left him stumped. "All I could see were problems," says the Pulitzer Prize winner. Corigliano says that while he loves to feature the percussion section in his symphonies, he feels that percussion concertos sound "like orchestral pieces with an extra-large percussion section." The soloist is incapable of playing a real melody and his or her identity is lost amid the myriad bangs, crashes, and splashes of the percussion arsenal. Nevertheless, a consortium of six orchestras had commissioned the composer to write a piece for Evelyn Glennie, the formidable Scottish percussionist.
Aptera's Super-MPG Electric Typ-1 e: Exclusive Video Test Drive
It's nothing new and good luck to the person who thinks they're buying something with nascar style safety characteristics... In a just world, we'd add a laugh track to their eulogy for this. Ditto with this big hype about "And this area in the front rolls gently out from under you in a crash, and blah, blah.. " That's been a standard to a long time too.. Under IDEAL ( 500. RE: Aptera's Super-MPG Electric Typ-1 e: Exclusive Video Test Drive Website: http://www.somberi.com It definitely appeals to me. Hope they sell it here in GA soon. I would want to buy one and use it for all my local driving. I would still have an SUV for all those out of town trips. 499. RE: Aptera's Super-MPG Electric Typ-1 e: Exclusive Video Test Drive A couple problems with this vehicle of which some have been stated already.
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