My “Retirement” Story

Within the last year, my husband and I both left our teaching jobs at a university. I had been there off and on for 6.5 years, while he had been there 16. Someone who tried to contact him was told by the university that we had “retired.” We found that quite amusing and even slightly offensive. Retiring is what old people do. I’m the gal who keeps throwing away membership pitches from AARP and coloring my hair so I never see any gray. Like most baby boomers we refuse to grow old, and saying we’

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Are European banks too big to fail? (Financial Times)

Some banks are bigger than governments: their assets are greater than their home countries’ economies. The chart below shows the size of major European banks as a proportion - or multiple - of their home countries’ GDP. This measure illustrates the comparative sizes of business and governments.

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L.A. Times: Enough change, or too little, too late?

The good news is, LATimes.com is getting 20 million uniques a month — and that is “about double what it was this time last year,” according to Meredith Artley, executive editor, LATimes.com. The bad news is, they still haven’t fully merged the newsrooms (and the financial crisis might drive Sam Zell to do something drastic, but that’s another story). Russ Stanton, editor of the Los Angeles Times, said multiple silos interfere. Right now they are “trying to eliminate vertical silos and make th

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Guess Who the Best MLM Home Based Business Leads Are?

Have you ever wondered who would be the best mlm home based business leads for you business? I mean let’s face it, without leads, we might as well pack up our bags and go home because business would be no more. There’s is and always will be a need to have prospective persons viewing your business opportunity on a regular basis.

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Swanky Paper Puts Quality Back Into Stationery

Although many people may try to tell you that the internet killed the old fashioned letter, that’s just simply not true. Many people still get out their pens and stationery to write short notes or letters to friends. It’s because of them that wonderful businesses like Swanky Paper are able to do so well. Heather Cowdell is the woman behind this creative business. Where most stationery businesses have a hard time separating themselves from mass printers and their competition, Swanky Paper has

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Janet Is In Trouble. She Says “I’ll Be Out Of Money Soon. What Should I Do?”

Janet wrote to me through the GetOutOfDebt.org site and asked the question below. If you have a question you can write to me as well. Visit GetOutOfDebt.org. “Dear Steve, I bought my first home, moving from Pennsylvania to Florida, the only place I knew all my life, following the death of my beloved mother. I was able to put a down payment on a house in a beautiful community in Florida, & live rather cheaply as compared to Pennsylvania. Unfortunately, the job market has not been kind to m

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4 Killer Steps For Home Based Business Opportunity Keyword Research

By Juhani Tontti

The internet keywords must fulfil these criterias: they mus be related with your work at home opportunities niche, they must be realistic and they must have a moderate competition. The target is to rank high on the search engine result page with the used keyword, i.e. to be better than the competing ones in the eyes of the search engines.

1. Use Goog Internet Keyword Tool.

This is, what makes it possible to make the research for your home based business opp….

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Local salons cutting through current economic slump (Tooele Transcript-Bulletin)

Even with the economy in a slump, local nail and hair salon owners say their business is only seeing a slight slowdown. Bonnie Bryan, owner of Bon & Company in Tooele, said it’s only natural for hair salons to decrease a little in business when the economy goes downhill.

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Local salons cutting through current economic slump (Tooele Transcript-Bulletin)

Even with the economy in a slump, local nail and hair salon owners say their business is only seeing a slight slowdown. Bonnie Bryan, owner of Bon & Company in Tooele, said it’s only natural for hair salons to decrease a little in business when the economy goes downhill.

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Local salons cutting through current economic slump (Tooele Transcript-Bulletin)

Even with the economy in a slump, local nail and hair salon owners say their business is only seeing a slight slowdown. Bonnie Bryan, owner of Bon & Company in Tooele, said it’s only natural for hair salons to decrease a little in business when the economy goes downhill.

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Local salons cutting through current economic slump (Tooele Transcript-Bulletin)

Even with the economy in a slump, local nail and hair salon owners say their business is only seeing a slight slowdown. Bonnie Bryan, owner of Bon & Company in Tooele, said it’s only natural for hair salons to decrease a little in business when the economy goes downhill.

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Local salons cutting through current economic slump (Tooele Transcript-Bulletin)

Even with the economy in a slump, local nail and hair salon owners say their business is only seeing a slight slowdown. Bonnie Bryan, owner of Bon & Company in Tooele, said it’s only natural for hair salons to decrease a little in business when the economy goes downhill.

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Local salons cutting through current economic slump (Tooele Transcript-Bulletin)

Even with the economy in a slump, local nail and hair salon owners say their business is only seeing a slight slowdown. Bonnie Bryan, owner of Bon & Company in Tooele, said it’s only natural for hair salons to decrease a little in business when the economy goes downhill.

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RELATED ARTICLES (Cape May County Herald)

COURT HOUSE — A local dentist, who lost his son July 21 to an allegedly intoxicated driver, is looking for public support to ensure the driver is prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

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I Need Your Articles - Links Allowed $0.50

I Need Your Articles - Links Allowed $0.50 September 30th, 2008 I have just converted one of my old static sites in to a content blog. But instead of writing all the content myself, I decided to let the DP members benefit from it due to my laziness :) So here’s what I’m looking for: - Articles between 300-500 words - Just the article, no resource box/signature/author bio - You can have one link in the article going to your site or an affiliate program (using anchor text) - You can

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