| Busting up loan schemes
Scam artists are looking to steal your money and are coming up with new ways to do it. I-Team 10 is tracking a scheme that preys on people looking for loans. Melvin Ross from Newark was struggling financially. "We were behind in our mortgage. We needed our car fixed. There were some other problems, financial issues, and we were trying to get it all caught up," says Ross. But with poor credit he and his wife were unable to get a bank loan. So when he saw an ad in the local Penny-saver he thought it was the answer to their prayers. He called the number and the company, Morgan Financial Institute, offered to loan him $5000. They faxed a loan agreement to Ross. But there was a catch. Before he could collect, he had to pay some fees. "They said they needed the money up front to insure the loan," says Ross.
You should be cheering the Liberal on then if you think calling this ...
The Truth from Wherever You Need Me to Be, Canada writes: Dear Liberal Party.
It doesn't matter what you think or what you want. You're not in power. Now shut up and let a real leader, Stephen Harper, lead. He may not always get it right but at least he has a back bone and acts decisively. Something I haven't seen the Liberals do in a very long time.
Here is something you clowns who support the Liberals might want to give to your leader....'Lead, follow, or get out of the way, and following isn't an option.'
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA...dude, your misconceptions are killing me. I bet you have a picture of harper on your desktop. Perhaps you dress up to look like him?
Leadership is certainly not what Canadians are seeing....look up the term in the dictionary.
Who wants to know what the top quiz is?
The children's favourite Blockbusters was voted to have spawned the best catchphrase of all time – "Can I have a P please, Bob?" Other favourite phrases included "You are the weakest link. Goodbye", as Anne Robinson bids farewell to failed contestants on The Weakest Link, and "I've started so I'll finish", from the long-running Mastermind.Appropriately, two of the best-known catchphrases are from the show Catchphrase – "Say what you see" and "It's good, but it's not right", used even when contestants are nowhere near guessing the answer.The favourite theme tune was from darts-based Bullseye, and the top ten also includes the bouncy tune from 1970s favourite It's A Knockout and the catchy lyric from Blankety Blank.According to the research, 35 per cent of viewers want an intellectually challenging game show and only 32 per cent care if the presenter is charismatic.Only 1 per cent believe a show needs celebrity contestants, as featured in the most recent series of Family Fortunes and special editions of The Weakest Link and Who Wants to be .
Lisa Feldstein
Lisa Feldstein is a consultant as well as a Ph.D. student at the Department of City and Regional Planning at UC Berkeley. She is formerly the Senior Policy Director with the Public Health Law Program, in which capacity she directed the organization's Land Use and Health Program. The project engage advocates in the land-use decision-making process throughout California, develops tools for training advocates about the relationship between the built environment and public health, and provides technical assistance for creating and implementing land use policies that support healthier communities. Lisa has worked on affordable housing and land use issues, with a focus on low-income communities, for more than 16 years. From 2000-2005, she worked as an independent consultant providing technical assistance to local governments and nonprofits on a broad range of housing, community development, and land use-related issues.
One Woman's World
BOCA RATON, Fla. -- Drive by your favorite section of Palm Beach County and keep in mind that recently-released figures show that one in every 250 homes you pass is in foreclosure. All of South Florida hugely exceeds national averages on foreclosures, but so far Palm Beach County's go-go, hot, flipping, speculative, and irrationally exuberant market takes the cake with foreclosures four times the national average. But wait! All can't be doom and gloom if on the same day we were told by a national mortgage trade association that new mortgage applications are up for the first time in three months nationwide? What gives? First, a disclosure. I am not a Realtor and I don't play one on tv, yet I hold the distinction of being the first person in my entire Palm Beach County neighborhood to actually "go to contract" and sell his house this summer - the first sale in four months in my area.
Elementary students learn the value of money management
Children dream of being rich someday, and third-grade students at Liberty-Eylaus C.K. Bender Elementary School on Thursday learned the secret. Mark Lingle, Red River Employees Federal Credit Unions student loan administrator, shared with children some of the keys to smart money management. You are the future generation. If we can get you to save, you may not have to borrow as much when youre older, Lingle said. If you start saving now, youll see your money grow and grow. He told several classes of third graders how to build a nest egg. The first is to pay yourself first, or to save money in a consistent manner. Lingle said Americans save less than one-percent of their yearly income. When he asked third-graders why most people do not save, several had answers that ranged from credit cards to advertising.
MITCH ALBOM: NHL's oldest player refuses to relent against players ...
Chelios admits that when Steve Yzerman and Brendan Shanahan left the team after last season, "I lost a lot of my conversation.
"Thank God I still have Dominik (Hasek) and Nick (Lidstrom). And guys like (Kris) Draper and (Kirk) Maltby, sometimes I feel like they're my age, they've been around so long.
"If it hadn't been for a few guys here like that, I think I would have moved on, I really would. That's what happened in Chicago. They went with a youth movement and I felt really uncomfortable."
Crisscrossing the generations
The year he became a sports fan, his heroes were Ernie Banks and Stan Mikita. The first car he remembers was a 1968 Cadillac. The older boys on his block graduated from high school and went to fight in places like the Mekong Delta.
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