Archive for March, 2008
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[?]Submitted by Dr.Kattlove’s Cancer Blog
It must be frustrating for a woman with breast cancer to learn that after she has had surgery, she is only part way through her treatment. Often there will be hormone treatment or chemotherapy or both; and, if she has had a lumpectomy (about half of all […]
Oprah, Going to the Dogs - Puppy Mill Dogs!
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[?]Submitted by For The Love of the Dog
If you’re an Oprah fan, dog lover, dog advocate, this is one show you’re not going to want to miss!! On April 4, Oprah is doing a segment on puppy mills and this should really help to bring more awareness to this horror. The […]
Newly Identified Eye Disease In Dogs Can Be Easily Treated
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[?]Submitted by For The Love of the Dog
Sinisa Grozdanic, assistant professor of veterinary medicine at Iowa State University, has identified and named an eye disease not previously known. The disease, Immune-Mediated Retinopathy, or IMR, causes loss of function in retinal cells and, in some cases, blindness in canines.
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Pet Dog Thrown from Overpass - VIDEO
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[?]Submitted by For The Love of the Dog
Someone please tell me what kind of a sick person lures someone’s pet dog and then throws it from an overpass to the ground, 15′ below?
Well, that’s what happened to Haley Savage’s one year old boxer, Seven, last Wednesday. Witnesses reported seeing a […]
Hunting, like all animal abuse, simply should not be
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[?]Submitted by ANIMAL RIGHTS MALTA’S BLOG
Mark Mifsud Bonnici, secretary of the “St Hubertus” hunters, writes a letter in today’s The Sunday Times (entitled “Hunting as it should be”) in which he both seeks to defend the practice of legal hunting by correctly claiming that the meat bought from supermarkets is also […]
Eating Clean? What Is That?
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[?]Submitted by My Fitness Hut Blog
Eating clean is a buzzword that’s out there in the fitness industry. Rest assured that it is nothing new and different people define it in different ways. Much of it is just common sense. Eating clean is basically a healthy way for you to reach your […]
Can Women Use Turbulence Training?
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[?]Submitted by Turbulence Training Blog
Yes, women can use Turbulence Training. Here is another fat loss workout success story from a woman, this time from Japan!
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fat loss lunch break - interval training and fat burning
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[?]Submitted by Turbulence Training Blog
Have you heard the ‘buzz’ about interval training and fat burning? Well, my friend Kyle Battis asked me about fat loss and and if you want to hear my take on this topic check out Kyle’s Fat Loss Lunch Break audio tip here:
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Gold’s Gym 2-for-1
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[?]Submitted by Turbulence Training Blog
Got a good workout in at Gold’s Gym in downtown LA on Friday night. Did a random session of Olympic squats, RDL’s, DB Rows, and Narrow-grip Seated Rows. Good stuff. Busy gym. Lots of upper body work going on…didn’t see much squatting though, as is the case […]
Prospects for Banks and Financials
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[?]Submitted by A Dash of Insight
Readers of “A Dash” know that for the last year we have been contributing to RealMoney, a subscription service from TheStreet.com (free trial available). Before contributing, we subscribed for many years, finding the site to be a useful source of ideas and discussion.
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Alien arguments
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[?]Submitted by EconWeekly
It’s again that time of the year when some people fill out a lot of forms and everyone gets mad at the government. No, it’s not taxes; it’s the visa program for skilled workers.
April 1st marks the beginning of the annual application period. The government sets a general quota […]
“Antarctic Ice Shelf Disintegration Underscores a Warming World”
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[?]Submitted by Econbrowser
From Antarctic Ice Shelf Disintegration Underscores a Warming World, March 25.
Satellite imagery from the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder reveals that a 13,680 square kilometer (5,282 square mile) ice shelf has begun to collapse because of rapid climate change in a […]
NCAA basketball: Round 3
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[?]Submitted by Econbrowser
And after Round 3 of the 2008 NCAA Bracket Econbrowser Challenge we have not one but two entries (from N. Klingenstein and H. Parsley) that correctly picked all of the Elite Eight finalists. How they knew Davidson would get there is beyond me.
Piger’s Recession Probability Index for Jan. = 0.04
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[?]Submitted by CARPE DIEM
The chart above shows University of Oregon economics professor Jeremy Piger’s “Recession Probability Index” from 2000 to January 2008, based on the 4 monthly variables used by the NBER to determine U.S. recessions: non-farm payroll employment, the index of industrial production, real personal income excluding transfer payments, and […]
Dark Ages: Earth Hour Here, Earth Decade N. Korea
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[?]Submitted by CARPE DIEM
Dear Mr. Roberts, President of World Wildlife Fund:
You and members of your organization worry that industrialization and economic growth are harming the earth’s environment. I worry that the intensifying hysteria about the state of the environment - and that the resulting hostility to economic growth - might harm […]
Forget Canadian Healthcare, Let’s Go to Mexico
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[?]Submitted by CARPE DIEM
Mexico Builds Hospitals to Lure Medical Tourists From America
Grupo Empresarial Los Angeles, Mexico’s largest private hospital chain, is spending $700 million to build 15 hospitals over the next three years. Oca Hospital, a family-owned company in Monterrey, is building a 200-bed facility there.
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Conventional Wisdom: Ethanol Is A Complete Scam
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[?]Submitted by CARPE DIEM
Time Magazine now joins the Christian Science Monitor, NYTimes, WSJ, IBD, Reason, and Rollingstone Magazine, in coming out against ethanol and biofuels in its most recent issue:
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Medical Tourism: 92% Savings in India
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[?]Submitted by CARPE DIEM
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Sticky Home Prices Finally Start to Get Less Sticky
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[?]Submitted by CARPE DIEM
Houses are almost perfectly engineered to trick owners into overvaluing them. For both economic and psychological reasons, there is no asset more conducive to hopeful overvaluation. That means real estate slumps tend to grind on for years, until sellers submit to reality and reduce their prices.
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Cell Phones for Cubans, But On $10-20 Per Month?
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[?]Submitted by CARPE DIEM
HAVANA–Raul Castro is revolutionizing his brother’s island in small but significant ways — the latest in a decree Friday allowing ordinary Cubans to have cell phone service, a luxury previously reserved for the select few.
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Penny Stocks to Watch by Stock Analyzer
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[?]Submitted by Stock Analyzer
Penny Stocks to Watch
Here are some stocks to watch going into this coming week.
XSNX continuation, if we can break .44 which is the resistance we called on friday, then we could test .50 .56 .59 ahead.
HTOG showing it has found a base at .04 and a break […]
NOBL: Shares Plummet on Larger Losses and Cut FY08 View
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[?]Submitted By Knobias ClipReport
Noble International, Ltd. (NOBL) is a leading supplier of automotive parts, component assemblies and value-added services to the automotive industry. As an automotive supplier, Noble provides design, engineering, manufacturing, program management and other services to the automotive market. Noble delivers integrated component solutions, technological leadership and product innovation […]
Boating Industry IS Sensitive to the Economy
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[?]Submitted by Businomics Blog
In Businomics, I used the boat building industry as a case study for estimating an industry’s vulnerability to recession, and also for an example of an early warning system. (You can view the vulnerability study or the early warning system example.
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Lose Lower Belly Fat & Get Lower Abs
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[?]Submitted by Turbulence Training Blog
The latest TT workout of the month is built to give you amazing lower abs. It combines unique lower ab exercises along with lower belly fat burning intervals. Toughest ab workouts I’ve ever put together. Your lower abs will be punished by the ab circuits.
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THE CAKE IS BAKED
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[?]Submitted by The Capital Spectator
It’s been tempting to think that maybe, just maybe, the U.S. could avoid recession. Perhaps some divine financial power might intervene and pull the economic coals out of the fire. But such hope, however remote in the first place, should now be packaged away in the file […]
