2009 has certainly been a year of consolidation. Those that recognize their financial problems may seek help from a third party, but consumers should be aware certain tell tale signs of what companies are best to work with.
You are going to ask point blank questions, and you expect professional and point blank answers. If a [...]
Buying drugs on the Internet just got a little scarier. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning the public about criminals posing as FDA special agents and other law enforcement personnel as part of an international extortion scam.
The criminals call the victims — who in most cases previously purchased drugs over the Internet or [...]
It appears that the powers to be at Facebook are lactose intolerant after banning dairy products from being promoted on the world’s largest social networking site.
A recent update to Facebook’s guidelines state that no promotions are permitted if the “objective is to promote any of the following product categories: gambling, tobacco, dairy, firearms, prescription drugs, [...]
Five miners died and six others were missing Monday in a mining accident in China’s Yunnan province. This is the second mining accident reported out of China in as many months, but mining accidents are certainly not exclusive to China.
The recent waive of accidents has safety on the minds of every miner, or at least [...]
Non profit airline consumer group, FlyersRights.org, is applauding the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) efforts to improve airport security in the wake of this week’s incident aboard a Northwest flight bound for Detroit. However, the group warned that a large number of its members have expressed concerns that the new TSA procedures, including the ‘one-hour rule’, [...]
According to Bankrate.com’s weekly study, the average conforming 30-year fixed mortgage increased this week to 5.24 percent. The average 30-year fixed mortgage has an average of 0.45 discount and origination points.
The average 15-year fixed mortgage moved higher, to 4.62 percent while the larger jumbo 30-year fixed rate inched upward to 6.16 percent. Adjustable rate mortgages [...]
President Barack Obama and his family have again selected Paradise Point Estates in Kailua, Hawaii to serve as the official Obama Winter White House during the 2009 holiday season. The President, First Lady, daughters Malia and Sasha, and First Dog Bo are enjoying the elegant Plantation Estate, the centerpiece of Paradise Point Estates.
“The Winter White [...]
In the new blockbuster Avatar, humans visit the habitable – and inhabited – alien moon called Pandora. Life-bearing moons like Pandora or the Star Wars forest moon of Endor are a staple of science fiction. With NASA’s Kepler mission showing the potential to detect Earth-sized objects, habitable moons may soon become science fact. If we [...]
Housing for naval training simulators is the next big project rolling out the doors of one small company located in Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania.
Mobile Concepts by Scotty, a specialty commercial vehicle and trailer manufacturing company, completed the first of two Department of Defense contracts for ocean shipping container modification December 18— a project turned away by [...]
Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A. and the Coalition to Salute America’s Heroes™ have partnered to bring 20 severely wounded American veterans to the Konica Minolta Gator Bowl on January 1, 2010, where West Virginia University will play Florida State University to a sell-out crowd. This is the third consecutive year that Konica Minolta has donated game [...]
