AFP - First Ladies Michelle Obama and Laura Bush are
to jointly mark the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks
at the site where the fourth hijacked pl...
John Byrne, granddaddy of rankings, creator of the 1988 Businessweek ranking, which caused (to quote Ghostbusters) "Fire and Brimestone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!...dogs and cats living together...mass hysteria." Schools reacted to that ranking with significant change and improvement to curriculum, faculty training, student selection and corporate education. Now Mr. Byrne has created a new ranking, www.poetsandquants.com, that not only takes into account other rankings, but he also
This year's federal deficit will exceed $1.3 trillion, Congress' official budget analysts projected Thursday in a report underscoring election year perils both parties face as they struggle to balance conflicting demands to trim budget shortfalls, spark the economy and cut taxes.
Eunice Field, 54, allegedly killed her ex-girlfriend's Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor because the woman had reportedly come between the couple.
A legal trade body has backed calls for an increase in the age of criminal responsibility after two 11-year-old boys were sentenced for trying to rape an eight-year-old girl.
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Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay is moving to the next round in his fight against criminal indictments in Texas, where he faces money laundering and conspiracy charges.
Are you thinking about applying to UC Berkeley Haas? Do you have questions about admissions that you need answered? Would you like to benefit from insider information on Haas admissions?
If so, then you won't want to miss Accepted's Q&A with Stephanie Fujii, Haas' Senior Associate Director of MBA Admissions.
During this Q&A event, which will take place TOMORROW, August 25, 2010 at 10:00 AM PST / 1:00 PM EST / 6:00 PM GMT, you'll receive the opportunity to ask Ms. Fujii all of your most pressing Haas admissions questions in our new cutting-edge webinar forum.
Our Q&As this year w...
As reported by New York Lawyer, the American Bar Association has released a report investigating U.S. News & World Report’s law school rankings and its upcoming rankings of law firms.
According to the report, the rankings have a powerful impact on public perception...
Jefferson City -- Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster is no longer seeking to intervene in a lawsuit over the federal health care overhaul.
The Port of Tacoma is settling a paperwork dispute with the Environmental Protection Agency for $137,000. The issue involved the site of a former Kaiser Aluminum smelter on the Tacoma Tideflats that the port bought in 2003.
The state of New Jersey has settled federal civil fraud charges of failing to inform bond investors that it had not met obligations to its largest pension plans, federal regulators said Wednesday.
Thinking about a career in sustainable enterprise? Each year the Aspen Institute ranks MBA programs in their Beyond Grey Pinstripes edition on the schools' ability to provide curriculum, research and careers while looking at the triple bottom line. This list continues to grow, but according to the 2010 rankings, candidates looking at MBA programs that embrace social enterprise and green initiatives should consider the following schools:
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The Congressional Budget Office yesterday (Thursday) reported that extending the tax cuts would result in only short-lived economic benefits.
"[It would provide] a considerable boost to economic activity in 2011 and beyond for a few years," CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf told CNN. "Over time, [however,] the negative consequences of very high federal borrowing buil...
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Filed under: Allergan (AGN)
As the opening bell sounded and stocks got off
to a sluggish start, I decided to take a look for stocks that got
off to a fast start. One of those stocks is Botox-maker Allergan
(AGN).
In early trading, the pharmaceutical firm was more than a
percentage point higher, so I took to digging to find out why.
The biggest news I found for Allergan was that it entered into an
In Part I of this investment series, "Three Ways to Brace for a Double-Dip Recession: Going for the Gold," we discussed ways investors could safeguard against the imminent decline of the U.S. dollar by buying gold.
In Part II, "
Owners of limited liability companies, large and small, call your accountants. Remind them the state had an LLC tax on the books for a year and you may still owe.
AFP - President Barack Obama and his two daughters
went book shopping Friday on the first outing of their 10-day
vacation in Massachuse...
The MBA Resume: Done right, this one-page list of accomplishments can woo the adcoms towards acceptance; done wrong, a resume could be your ticket to ding-hood.
The following 7 fatal resume flaws have been derived from a recent Businessweek article, Applying to B-School? Resume Perils to Avoid:
- Don't view your resume as an afterthought; it should not be your last priority -- -- Your resume is "the only place where you have the entire candidacy on one page, and admissions committees often look at this first and start to for...
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Daktronics (DAKT)
has been stuck in a trading range between $7.25 and $9.50 for a
year and a half now. All it does is bounce back and forth between
support and resistance. However, Tuesday's earnings announcement
may change all of that.
Daktronics released a surprise quarterly profit of $2.4 million, or 6 cents a share, compared with $1.4 million, or 3 cents a share, last year and anno...
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Peter Anthony Ferrulli, who owns and operates Spectrum Therapeutic Services Inc.
Reuters - Julayna Smith has a problem. Over the
years, she has accumulated eight cell phones in trying to keep up
with the latest models. Her boyfriend has also started a small
Blackberry pile of his own.
</...
AP - President Barack Obama and his family are
delivering so far on the low-key summer vacation promised by White
House aides.
AFP - US President Barack Obama Saturday urged
Republican leaders in Congress not to block a bill aimed at
reducing the role of b...
Today, the last reform provisions of the Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility and Disclosure (CARD) Act – also known as the Credit Card Bill of Rights – took effect. The CARD Act of 2009 marked a turning point for American consumers, putting an end to the days of unfair rate hikes and hidden fees.The President released the following statement on the CARD Act implementation:
The move underscores South Korea's determination to double its oil output by 2012 and increase its energy security. It also shows that South Korea will not be denied energy assets, despite being outbid by Chinese companies in several instances.
KNOC took the $2.9 billion (1.87 billion pound) bid to Dana's shareholders a...
A Virginia man accused of killing a camp counselor nearly two decades ago in northeastern Pennsylvania was acquitted Tuesday.
Filed under: Major Movement, Management, Options, Technical Analysis, Commodities
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Coal Corporation (Filed under: Intel (INTC), Nokia Corp. (NOK)
The
big problem with smart phones is the small form factor. Yet,
companies like Apple (AAPL)
and Motorola (MOT)
have found creative ways to maximize things.But what if there was a way to create holograms, which would be 3D images that spring from the phone? Of course, this is pr...
The doctor charged in Michael Jackson's death is set to attend a court hearing in Los Angeles Monday which will determine when prosecutors will publicly present some of their evidence.
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Ed. Note: Building on the President’s commitment to address issues important to rural Americans, Administration officials are visiting state fairs all summer. See a map of where we've been so far, and hear from SBA Deputy Administrator Johns about her recent visit to the Indian State Fair:
Having grown up in Indiana, I know firsthand that there is much debate over what a “Hoosier” is, but I can tell you for certain that there were many at the Indiana State Fair. From the young 4-H and FFA participants that I met at a pancake breakfast, to the small businesses selling...
Today, 10 applicants have won grants in the second phase of the Race to the Top competition. Along with Phase 1 winners Delaware and Tennessee, 11 states and the District of Columbia have now been awarded money in the Obama Administration's groundbreaking education reform program that will directly impact 13.6 million students, and 980,000 teachers in 25,000 schools.
The 10 winning Phase 2 applications in alphabetical order are: the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, and Rhode Island.<...
Today the President spent some time around the kitchen table with the Weithman Family in Columbus, Ohio. Ohio natives Rhonda and Joe Weithman live in Columbus with their two children, Rachel (9) and Josh (11). The President talked to Joe and Rhonda about the challenges that they’ve had to go through; Joe runs a small Architectural firm that saw a drop in business during the economic slowdown and Rhonda lost her job.
The Common Application was posted for download on August 1 just after midnight. At 3:30 AM, NYU had received its first application, mere hours after the form went live, reports a New York Times The Choice blog post. The applicant, Cree Bautista, 17, of Austin, Texas, said he wanted to get the application done quickly and that he wanted to prove his interest in NYU by being the first to submit an application.
This caused a number of top adcoms to speak out against rushing college applications.
For many undergraduate programs, applications are...
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A Coeur d'Alene woman convicted for defrauding the state Medicaid program has been handed 80 hours of inmate labor and ordered to repay the state more than $3,000. First District Judge Barry Watson handed down the sentence this week in the case of 53-year-old Barbara Buvel.
A western Pennsylvania agency has disciplined an unidentified number of employees over the handling of a child abuse complaint against a man now accused of killing a toddler.
"This flooding has already affected more people than the Indian Ocean tsunami, the Haiti earthquake, and the 2005 Pakistan earthquake combined," Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said yesterday during an address to the United Nations. Over 20 million Pakistanis have been affected during this humanitarian crisis and as the rains relentlessly fall the risk of expanded flooding continues. Shortages in food, shelter, clean drinking water, and medical supplies face families across the region and as the water continues to rise, it may get worse before it gets better.
...Authorities in Michigan's Genesee County were jubilant when Atlanta police arrested a suspect in a spate of serial stabbings that left five people dead.
COLUMBUS, Miss. -- The state attorney general's office says a Columbus nurse has been charged with the felony abuse of a vulnerable person for allegedly burning someone in her care with an iron The Commercial Dispatch reports that 53-year-old Sherrill Culpepper was arraigned Friday in Lowndes County Circuit Court.
MIT and ISB signed an agreement in early April that will establish collaboration between the two top international business schools.
The following plans have resulted from the partnership:
- In about a year and a half from now, two professors from the ISB campus in Hyderabad, India will join the Sloan faculty for a year of teaching in Cambridge, while two to four MIT professors will transfer to ISB. The professor exchange will enable the professors to conduct research abroad and to build relationships with the faculty and students at the partner school.
- MIT Sloan professors will help ISB establish ...
AP - Talat Hamdani traveled to Mecca to pray that
her missing son, an EMT, was saf...
Authorities say the man who led police on an hour-long car chase that ended beside a Dallas airport runway is facing charges including evading arrest, criminal mischief and aggravated robbery.
Frontline
Ltd. (FRO),
which I first discussed here
on April 28, 2009 at a price of $19.17, appears to have
weathered the U.S.'s deepwater offshore oil drilling moratorium
reasonably well, but given sector uncertainty, it's perfectly
reasonable for more-cautious investors to close their FRO position
now, and take the roughly $7 gain.However, those investors who can tolerate high-risk can retain their full positi...
Filed under: Earnings Reports, Amazon.com (AMZN)
When there's uncertainty to a thesis, I'm not inclined to
buy. That might seem obvious on the surface, but I know there are a
lot of individual speculators out there who would disagree with me.
Take a roll of the dice, they might say. Uncertainty can lead to
huge gains, they might counter. Well, it depends on the situation,
I suppose. In the case of Barnes & Noble, Inc. (
Republican candidate for governor Carl Paladino said he would transform some New York prisons into dormitories for welfare recipients, where they would work in state-sponsored jobs, get employment training and take lessons in "personal hygiene." Paladino, a wealthy Buffalo real estate developer popular with many tea party activists, is competing ...
I’ve spent the last few days here in Iowa, a state that I was honored to serve as Governor for eight years. Yesterday, I walked the grounds of the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines. The fair is refreshingly the same each year, but also a snapshot of changing rural America. The food stands, midway and cattle barns are in the same place that they’ve been for years. We’ve sculpted a "Butter Cow" since the early 1900s, but now the young people all have iPods and Blackberry phones. Their parents have cell phones.
Like the state fair, rural America is changing each year in subtle ways. Many of our grandparents and great grandparents made their homes on small farmsteads and...
Existing home sales plummeted by a record 27% to their lowest level in 15 years in July and inventories soared, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) reported yesterday (Tuesday). Home re-sales, which account for 90% of the total market, dropped to an annual rate of 3.83 million in July....
AP - The seemingly recession-proof smart phone
is...
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AFP - Japanese electronics giant Panasonic said
Friday it will boost its plasma panel production i...
The federal job safety agency fined SeaWorld Orlando $75,000 on Monday for three violations uncovered while investigating the February death of a trainer who was grabbed by a killer whale and dragged underwater.
Filed under: Google (GOOG), Dell (DELL)
For
investors, Dell, Inc.'s (DELL)
latest moves have been somewhat puzzling. Of course, it looks like
the company will engage in a
bidding war for 3Par (PAR),
w...
The Affordable Care Act is working to help bring down the cost of prescription drugs for seniors enrolled in the Medicare Part D prescription drug program and today, we got more good news for our seniors.
This afternoon, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that Medicare prescription drug plan premiums for 2011 will stay similar to rates beneficiaries are currently paying this year. The average premiums in 2010 were $29 per month -- in 2011 we expect average monthly premiums to be just a dollar more. All beneficiaries should check to make sure that the plan offerings that will be available in 2011 are right for them when information on those plans becomes ava...
It's a crucial question.
And the answer will guide your investment decisions for the next 20 years.
To find out the best investments to be making right now, please read on...
When it comes to the auto companies, we often focus more on the lake than the streams and rivers.
That is, much of the attention to how this critical sector is faring focuses on the end-of-the-line assembly plants, and less on the suppliers that provide the parts to be assembled.
You might think that’s because in employment terms, the end-of-the-line is most important. But in fact, for every worker in the assembly plant, there are three workers in the supply chain.
So if you want to assess the health of the auto industry, you’ve got to look beyond the factories that build the cars and trucks and examine how the suppliers are doin...
China's holdings of long-term Treasuries fell by $21.2 billion in June to $839.7 billion, a U.S. government report showed recently. Total Chinese investment in U.S. debt declined 2.8% to $843.7 billion, the smallest in a year, following a 3.6% slide in May.
The shift comes as President Barack Obama increases U.S. debt to record levels, making it harder...
The state is set to switch to a new Medicaid computer billing system Sept. 1 -- a move designed to replace a system that never complied with federal rules.
AP - Nearly half of the 1.3 million ...
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Police have appealed for victims of domestic violence to come forward and "break the cycle of abuse" after a man who strangled his wife to death was convicted of manslaughter.
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There's a downside and an upside to news regarding Intel's
(INTC)
$48-per-share
successful effort to acquire McAfee (MFE),
first discussed here
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The state's next economic and revenue forecast, scheduled for Thursday, will contain more bad news for the state budget.
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This fall, 228,994 veterans will attend 4,400 colleges and universities using new federal benefits, as well as taking advantage of new school-sponsored tuition assistance programs, reports a Washington Post article.
1,100 colleges have teamed up with the Department of Veterans Affairs to offer veterans tuition reductions. Different schools are pledging different amounts for subsidies. For example, Harvard plans on offering 50 undergrads $3,000 each and 20 law school students $20,000 each for the upcoming school year. Texas A&M will contribute 25 ...
AP - Even rain and darkening skies didn't keep
President Barack Obama from another appointed round of golf...
A member of Kansas' Westboro Baptist Church agreed Monday to drop federal lawsuits against Nebraska authorities in exchange for a prosecutor dismissing charges against her stemming from her 2007 protest outside a soldier's funeral.Shirley Phelps-Roper had been scheduled to face trial in Nebraska's Sarpy County Court on Monday on charges of ...
Fond du Lac County prosecutors have filed 20 misdemeanor charges against a Portage man accused of neglecting 178 cats and keeping dead kittens wrapped in foil in his refrigerator.
Court records released this week say that an Elkhart Lake man arrested for drunken driving last month had a blood-alcohol level nearly five times the legal limit.
Filed under: Earnings Reports, Wal-Mart (WMT), Target Corp. (TGT)
Big
Lots (BIG)
has had something of a tough time after peaking in April. The
one-year chart is a sad graphic for shareholders to look at.
As can be seen, the stock, ...
This is not the time to be loading up on defense stocks. The
department of defense's fiscal year 2012 budget request will be
submitted in February and the discussions leading up to it will
pressure the defense stocks. Also, given a shrinking backlog for
many of the companies within the sector, I believe that consensus
estimates remain meaningfully too high and will be revised downward
throughout the 2nd half of 2010, particularly if current pension
assumptions (i.e., interest rates and asset returns) hold.
Yesterday, President Obama joined families from the Columbus area to answer their questions on topics ranging from health care to Wall Street reform and Social Security. The discussion took place in Joe and Rhonda Weithman’s backyard after President Obama spent some time around the Weithman’s kitchen table talking about the challenges they have faced over the past year.
Check out to full video of the discussion or use the links belo...
An amusement park ride operator hit himself in the head with his fists once he realized a young girl had fallen about 100 feet from the ride without a safety net, according to police reports released Monday.