Good News Everyone! The Crowne Plaza Cherry Hill has extended the Philcon Hotel Rate registration period to the beginning of Philcon itself. That's right, You can register right now and still get our great discount rate. With a rate this good, the rooms will go fast so if you are planning to stay on-site (highly recommended), go to our hotel reservation page and get your room now! Additionally...
Health minister Akira Nagatsuma recently disclosed that the nation's relative poverty rate in 2007 was 15.7 percent. What are the implications of roughly one in six citizens living in "poverty"? Let us introduce a Tokyo man in his 30s, a university graduate, who makes his living as a dispatched day laborer. He works himself ragged delivering packages or sorting warehouse inventory, and ...
...Directly to the Droid I marched. Firm and sturdy in my hand... slightly weighty. Big screen, nice colors. Good one-finger action, but not as snappy as an iPhone. Quick interface connection and refresh rates that made the idea of actually using a Google app while walking from dinner to club almost made sense. Or whatever. Did I mention it looked really sturdy? Snapped open the case to view the ...
...460 for the week, about 40% of high-season rates. Luckily I "chose" today to start running good again.... imply the QE will be unwound before interest rates go up? That seems to be the macro-economists' assumption, implying that interest rates will stay super-low for another two years at ... mortgage (defends against five years of low interest rates, low inflation, followed by whatever). I've decided ...
... Killeen isn’t much nicer : it has one of the nation’s lowest median incomes and highest crime rates. Earlier this year, a 20-year-old Fort Hood soldier was killed by a Killeen cop who claimed he ... are today . And he’s not the first soldier at Fort Hood to protest the war. Desertion rates have soared since the Iraq invasion, and Fort Hood has had some high-profile objectors making the news ...
...27 weeks and over) was little changed over the month at 5.6 million. In October, 35.6 percent of unemployed persons were jobless for 27 weeks or more. According to the BLS Regional and State Employment and Unemployment Summary for September 2009, the local unemployment rates then were: D.C. 11.4% Maryland 7.2% Virginia 6.7% Best off is North Dakota at 4.2% Worst off is Michigan at 15.3%
...carry trades as the Fed has kept interest rates on hold and is expected to do so...assets are not just borrowing at zero interest rates in dollar terms; they are borrowing at very negative interest rates – as low as negative 10 or 20 per...traders are borrowing at negative 20 per cent rates to invest on a highly leveraged basis ... yen carry trade, back when the japanese government set interest rates to 0
...on. In a recent application to the state, Pacific Gas and Electric asked to raise service rates by 5 percent for their best energy conserving customers, typically smaller households. The reason? So ... five-tier system to differentiate their customers, which is supposed to promote efficiency by charging lower rates to customers who use the least amount of energy. But the company, with profits up ...
...Im slowly getting results back from my lab work. Its strange reading my value and whats supposed to be normal. So far, my blood work shows that I have inflammation somewhere in my body. My sed rates are over 10 (points?) than what is normal and that I tested high on my monocytes levels as well. I wish my primary would tell me something. I emailed her this morning, hopefully ill get something ...
