India will remain second-fastest growing economy: Chidambaram

New Delhi, Nov 24 2008 India faces a difficult situation because of the global financial crisis and may even witness a slowdown, but its economy was nowhere near a recession, Finance Minister P. Chidambaram said here Monday. “A recession is defined as two successive quarters of contraction of GDP (gross domestic product). I wish to [...]

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Triple-D Month at Joe’s Farm Grill

One of our favorite Gilbert restaurants, Joe’s Farm Grill, is honoring Food Network’s “Diners, Drive-ins and Dives” with this March’s Triple-D month. (The restaurant was featured on the show, hosted by Guy Fieri, in 2008 on its “Real Deal Fast Food” episode.) Throughout the month, Joe’s Farm Grill will feature food specials, cooking demos and fun [...] Related posts: (Hot) Dog Days of Summer at Joe’s Farm Grill Joe’s Farm Grill, in Gilbert, is one of those... Nov. 4: Free Cheeseburgers at Joe’s Farm Grill Who doesn’t love free food? Especially when that free... Gilbert and Chandler Culinary Festivals Even Gilbert and Chandler are getting in on the...

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Industrial Machinery Equipment Manufacturers Trader Should Be Focused On Kimex 2008

Asia huge industrial machinery held in Gyeongnam ChangWon city, as the mecca of South Korea mechanical industry. Korea International Machinery Trade Exhibition held from Nov 19-22, 2008. KIMEX provides industrial machinery equipments & factory...

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P.M. Entertainment Links: ABC's Kate Snow heading to NBC

» Henny Ray Abrams / AP PhotoIn this Nov. 10, 2008 file photo, Kate Snow arrives for the L'Oreal Legends Gala to benefit the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Kate Snow...

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CEO Ken Hall Speaks on the Turnaround of NexCen Brands

NEW YORK CITY —From Nov 2006 through Jan 2008 NexCen went on a buying spree, starting with the Athlete's Foot, altogether acquiring nine brands in 14 months. In the end, NexCen bit off more than it could chew. read more

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Camcorder Microphone, Very Useful - Mar 17th

Eugenia LoliQueru on Sat 21st Feb 2004 11:13 UTC. Eugenia LoliQueru on Sat 3rd Nov 2007 07:17 UTC. NASA ISS OnOrbit Status 11 March 2008.

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City of Refined Oil and Crude People (Houston nickname)

Houston is home to many oil companies. The nickname “City of Refined Oil and Crude People’ (a pun on “crude oil” and “refined people") has been used by Houston (TX) Press writer John Nova Lomax in November 2006 and March 2010. In January 2008, one website stated that New Jersey, “as the old adage goes, is the land of refined oil and crude people.” However, no other citations of either the New Jersey or the Houston usages have been found. Wikipedia: Houston Houston (pronounced /ˈhjuːstən/) is the fourth-largest city in the United States and the largest city in the state of Texas. As of the 2008 U.S. Census estimate, the city had a population of 2.2 million within an area of 600 square miles (1,600 km2). Houston is the seat of Harris County and the economic center of the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area—the sixth-largest metropolitan area in the U.S. with a population over 5.7 million. Houston (TX) Press Fight the Power Could there be a fun, pro-music political action committee in Houston? Why the hell not? By John Nova Lomax Thursday, Nov 16 2006 When you get right down to it, Houston is really just all about one thing—The Car. Every day, we seem more and more like a city fit only for refined oil and crude people. And why not? Our city’s economic engine is oil, so life here in this sprawling concrete bungle seems like nothing so much as a nonstop orgy of petroleum consumption. The New Internationalism Monday, January 21, 2008 Planes, Trains and Automobiles Extended air travel is often nauseating, especially if you can’t sleep through it. To make matters worse, I changed planes in New Jersey. New Jersey, as the old adage goes, is the land of refined oil and crude people. Houston (TX) Press Houston 101: Yet Another New Nickname For The Bayou City, Er, Space City, Um, H-Town... By John Nova Lomax, Tuesday, Mar. 9 2010 @ 8:01AM Unlike, say, the Big Apple or the Eternal City, Houston has never quite settled on one definitive nickname. A Canadian newspaper has just announced that we have a new one, but more on that in a second… (...) And now we are supposedly “the Petro Metro.” No less an authority than newly-elected mayor Annise Parker says so: “We are the Petro Metro but we are also a car city,” she said last month, in remarks introducing Houston’s seemingly-unlikely attempts to spearhead the electric car industry. Electric cars? If those things take off too well, that would kill our own favorite local nickname: “The City of Refined Oil and Crude People.”

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2nd Call for Papers: 3rd worldwide online Climate Conference CLIMATE 2010

The Hamburg University of Applied Sciences is pleased to inform that the call for papers for the third Worldwide Online Climate Conference CLIMATE 2010/KLIMA 2010 (www.climate2010.net - 1-7 Nov 2010) has just opened. Be part of this worldwide climate-friendly event and use this unique opportunity to present and discuss your work with fellow researchers, practitioners, NGOs and the interested stakeholders from all around the world. CLIMATE 2010 is being organized in cooperation with UNEP, IPCC, WMO, FAO and further world bodies. Building on the success of the previous online conferences CLIMATE 2008/KLIMA 2008 and CLIMATE 2009/KLIMA 2009 with more than 1m visits and over 100 peer-reviewed scientific papers, this year's interactive, free of charge online event will specifically focus on "Climate Change and the Sustainable Management of Water Resources". We encourage researchers from around the globe, in particular researchers from developing countries, to submit their scientific abstracts online at www.climate2010.net until 31 March 2010 at the latest to the unique CO2-friendly virtual conference, relating to one of the four following categories: · Category 1: Geochemical and physical impacts of Climate Change · Category 2: Socio-economic aspects of Climate Change (relating to water supply and use) · Category 3: Climate Change, policy-making and sustainable water use · Category 4: Projects on Climate Change and sustainable water use, in particular education and awareness-raising initiatives All submissions will be subject to peer review - we would welcome the chance to receive a paper from you. Visit the conference home page at http://www.climate2010.net/ to send in your abstract and get a first glimpse of what the purely virtual conference is all about. The deadline for submission of abstracts is 31/3/2010. Finally, in addition to the on-line publication throughout the conference week from 1-7 November 2010, the best English papers will be considered for publication in the "International Journal of Climate Change Studies and Management" or the book publication "Climate Change and the Sustainable Management of Water Resources" as part of the Climate Change Management Series (Springer). Check it out: http://www.climate2010.net/

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Small Investors Remain Wary After 69% U.S. Stock Bounce

Retail investors can't win. A year ago, they watched with horror as their portfolios and the stock market hit a 12-year low. The broad Standard & Poor's 500-stock index plunged 57% from Oct. 9, 2008, to Mar. 9, 2009. Now, individual investors appear to have missed out on an explosive, yearlong stock market rally. Recent market data suggest large institutional investors, and not small-time individuals, have fueled the stock rally, which has pushed the S&P 500 up 69.3% since Mar. 9, 2009. Retail investors have stayed on the sidelines, according to measures of money flows into and out of mutual funds, which are a popular investment tool for individuals. According to TrimTabs Investment Research, investors have pulled $8.7 billion from U.S. equity mutual funds in the past 12 months. In the same period, they pushed $13.8 billion into bond funds. Polls of individual investors show persistent levels of skepticism about the outlook for stocks. According to weekly surveys conducted by the American Association of Individual Investors, 33.2% of members have been "bearish" over the past four weeks, and another 31% neutral, even as the S&P 500 gained 7.8% in that time period. And, when stocks turn lower, investors appear prone to panic. As recently as Feb. 4, when the S&P 500 was down 4.7% for the year, bearishness in the AAII survey hit 43%, the highest level since Nov. 5 and the second-highest level since Mar. 4, 2009, when bearishness reached 70.5%. Stock AversionProfessionals who work with individual investors have noticed their aversion to stocks. "They've lost a lot of confidence in the asset class," says Jeff Layman, chief investment officer at BKD Wealth Advisors in Springfield, Mo. For Layman's "typical client," the rebound in equities is seen as an opportunity to sell, not buy, stocks. He says they would rather take profits and move into safer investments like bonds -- despite the low yields now offered by fixed-income instruments. Ronald Kiddoo, chairman and chief investment officer at Cozad Asset Management in Champaign, Ill., says clients are reluctant to put new money into stocks. They get alarmed whenever stocks fall -- as they did in late January and early February. "I see much more anxiety in them than before the big meltdown," Kiddoo says. Despite the yearlong rally, Ed Yardeni, president and chief investment strategist of Yardeni Research in New York, says "sentiment has been bearish, with most investors convinced that 'this will all end badly.' " Based on the data, Yardeni wrote Mar. 8, "Individual investors remain especially cautious on the stock market." For all investors, safe investments remain popular. According to the Investment Company Institute, $3.17 trillion remains in money market funds. That's less than the $3.9 trillion in cash on Mar. 4, 2009, but it's still 52% above the average amount -- $2.1 trillion -- in money markets over the last decade. Pros Are BuyingProfessional investors appear far more willing to take risks. Fund managers are buying so many stocks that the portion of cash in their funds fell to 3.6% in February, according to the Investment Company Institute. The decline from 5.7% in January is the quickest drop since 1991, Bloomberg News reported on Mar. 8. The Bloomberg Professional Global Confidence Survey, released Mar. 10 and based on responses from Bloomberg users, shows confidence in U.S. stocks at a reading of 47.8 in March, up from 35.6 in February. Milo Benningfield, of Benningfield Financial Advisors in San Francisco, says his individual investor clients remain fearful of stocks. "Nobody believes the rally is real," he says. After major corrections for stocks at both the end and the beginning of the last decade, many retail investors have come to the conclusion that the stock market is not for amateurs, Layman says. "They look at this stock market as a place that operates outside their control," he says. Perhaps that is an appropriate lesson to take from the past few years, Benningfield says. Individuals are "wiser," he says. "They're being smarter about their ability to take on risk." Go SignsWhat could cause investors to change their mind and embrace stocks again? "It's a slow process," Kiddoo says, but first individual investors need to see the U.S. economy creating jobs. Layman believes it could take a couple of years of positive stock market returns before individuals return to equities. Unfortunately, by then, he says, "they've missed a fair amount of the return." After the last few years, many investors seem to have decided they're perfectly willing to miss out on gains -- as long as they're spared unexpected losses.

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Some Thoughts on the Missing from the Psychic Realm

Morgan Dana Harrington disappeared in real life, but if the police can't moonlight as models and Psychology may leave your advice to an answering machine with the rest of us. On TV, cops are good looking and Psychology did not believe, but only their views actively sought. Ms. Harrington is a student of Virginia Tech, where a purse and mobile phone batteries, fewer were found in the parking lot near John Paul Jones Arena Mon October 17 Metallica concert. She is still missing. “During the course of the investigation we have been contacted by individuals claiming to have psychic readings abilities,” said Corinne Geller, Virginia State Police spokeswoman. “Their information is accepted and recorded like any other tip we receive, but unfortunately has not provided any significant leads at this time.” Ms. Geller has talked to some of them herself. “I know of at least four that have contacted me so far,” she said. “I don’t know how many others have called in the VSP Tip Line or sent in e-mails.” Television cops can easily solve crimes in an hour — minus commercials. While it can take real-world cops days, weeks or months to solve a crime, television psychics can solve crimes in an amazingly short time with clear and concise clues. Clues for most real-world psychics, however, are often sparse and enigmatic. Helen Legotti, of Queens, N.Y., is a psychic medium who specializes in helping to locate missing people. As often happens in psychic investigation, she has clues but isn’t sure what they mean. “Many of my clues come in letters and shapes and dates,” she said from her home. “I keep getting a ‘B,’ very strongly, and I believe [Ms. Harrington’s] location begins with a G.” Ms. Legotti knows little about the case, other than what she read in news clipping providing by a secretary. That’s OK, because she is credited with leading searchers to a Maine fisherman’s body in 2008 while sitting at home, using the clues ‘R’ and a diamond. “They used a map that I didn’t have and were able to locate a buoy that had a diamond on it and a location that began with an ‘R.’ I get the images and the clues, but I’m far away and don’t know how to interpret them,” she said. Ms. Legotti also sees two men involved in Ms. Harrington’s disappearance. “One of them has the initials A. and P. and, if I’m right, he’s in his late 20s,” she said. “There’s another gentleman who looks like he’s in his middle 30s. I think the man with the initials A.P. is a landscaper because I see flowers with him. There may be a gas station attendant involved. I think it’ll [be solved] between Nov. 2 and Nov. 5.” Exactly what any of that means, Ms. Legotti isn’t sure? She just wants to put the information out there in case it gives someone else a clue. “I hope it jogs someone’s memory. I just want to help in any way I can,” she said. “It’s what I do.” Source: http://www2.dailyprogress.com/cdp/news/opinion/columnists_bryan_mckenzie/article/some_thoughts_on_the_missing_from_the_psychic_realm/4831/

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