You can?t afford to be
Jul 29th
You can?t afford to be messing around with cheapskates and tightwads. And you can?t afford to be messing around with people that aren?t serious.
Finding steady clients and charging the right rates for your services and not cheating yourself is so very, very important for a successful IT consulting career.
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We have a 21-step checklist that will take you through your first 90 days. We also can help you adapt to a sudden launch of your IT consulting career. But in the meantime, you should make the most of your moonlighting opportunities to make it build toward something.
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GM raising eyebrows, questions with purchase of AmeriCredit
Jul 29th
GM raising eyebrows, questions with purchase of AmeriCredit
0 Comments | Buffalo News, Jul 24, 2010 | by David Welch
General Motors, the automaker 61 percent owned by the U.S. Treasury, is facing criticism over its decision to pay $3.5 billion to buy a lender that specializes in auto loans to shoppers with less than top-notch credit.
While GM plans to use its new lending arm to write auto leases and provide a “modest” boost in subprime loans, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, asked the watchdog of the government’s bank- rescue program to investigate the purchase. And a member of a think tank questioned the wisdom of a company that is majority-owned by the government lending money to people with poor credit after a financial crisis was sparked by risky loans.
“If GM has $3.5 billion in cash to buy a financial institution, it seems like it should have paid back taxpayers first,” Grassley said in a statement on his Web site. “After GM’s experience with GMAC, which left GM seeking a taxpayer bailout, you have to think the company and, in turn, the taxpayers would be better off if GM focused on making cars that people want to buy and stayed clear of repeating its effort to make high-risk car loans.”
GM and Fort Worth, Texas-based AmeriCredit Corp. announced the deal Thursday that is intended to help the automaker sell to more customers with damaged credit ratings or who want to lease a new vehicle.
AmeriCredit is also profitable. It has made money in nine of the last 10 years, earning $1.8 billion. The purchase will be made with some of the $30 billion in cash GM has on hand, said Chief Financial Officer Chris Liddell, who called the deal a “building block” toward an initial public offering.
GM’s former lending arm, now known as Ally Financial Inc., lost $16.5 billion in its mortgage business from 2007 to 2009. GM sold 51 percent of Detroit-based GMAC to private-equity firm Cerberus Capital Management in November 2006 as the nation’s biggest automaker ran low on cash. Since then, GM has had to rely on outside lenders, including Ally, which is 56 percent owned by the U.S.
“The thing that brought down GMAC was its ResCap subprime mortgage business,” said Joe Phillippi, principal of AutoTrends, a consulting firm in Short Hills, N.J. “But I think they will manage this smartly
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But it is more than that. Customer service
Jul 29th
But it is more than that.
Customer service should not be done merely to give customers reasons to come back. It should not simply be an attempt to provide for the material needs and wants of those who come into your business. Its intention should not be just to demonstrate a pleasing personality or a disarming disposition. Customer service, in other words, is not just a pleasant process that you put people through with the expectation that beneficial results ? for both customers and the company ? will be assured.
Certainly, customer service is all of that, but if it was only that then it would only be a means to manipulate customers into thinking well of us and buying what we had to offer simply by performing generic and expected civil behaviors. No, customer service is more than acting nice and saying that the customer is always right, even when clearly in the wrong. Customer service is a purpose, not just a process; it is a decision, not just a disposition.
The true intention of front line employees ? those who deal with customers day in and day out ? is revealed and demonstrated by the decisions they make throughout the day regarding:
1) how they will treat customers all day long
2) how they want to feel about themselves at the end of the day
3) how they want their customers to feel about themselves and about the company at the end of each interaction with them
4) how they see the purpose of their job and the steps they will take to accomplish it throughout the day
5) how they will work together with others on the team to perform at the highest level of caring and competence for their customers
This true intention is what customers are left with when they leave the establishment.
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Woman arrested after crying to police officers
Jul 29th
Woman arrested after crying to police officers
0 Comments | Charleston Daily Mail, May 3, 2010 | by FROM STAFF REPORTS
A Charleston woman was arrested after allegedly driving under the influence and then crying to officers to take her to jail.
South Charleston Patrolman J.K. Halstead was on patrol early Thursday morning when he caught sight of a dark-colored vehicle heading west on MacCorkle Avenue without its headlights on.
The vehicle, a Hyundai with Maryland license plates, pulled into the Riverwalk Mall and stopped near the BB&T bank followed by the South Charleston officer.
Halstead approached the vehicle and the driver, later identified as Tammy L. Rowe, 44, of Swarthmore Avenue, opened the driver’s side door and began crying, telling the officer to take her to jail, according to a complaint filed in Kanawha Magistrate Court.
Rowe told the patrolman that her driver’s license was revoked, which the officer later confirmed.
The officer also noticed a strong odor of alcohol coming from the inside of the vehicle, the complaint said. He noted in the complaint that while he was checking the woman’s drivers license she began stumbling around, telling him again to arrest her
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A Happy Energy person knows that they
Jul 29th
A Happy Energy person knows that they
are worth all the good that comes their way and that by receiving good (over bad),
they have more to pass on to others.
Appreciation
A Gratitude Attitude brings blessings.
Happy Energy people often express
appreciation for the everyday things in their lives ? the beauty of nature (something
as simple as the sun), the food they eat (no use in beating yourself up about your
food), all the good things … I encourage you to make a list. I?ll bet you?ll be
surprised at how much you have that you truly appreciate. Make the list and check-
in to see if you feel lighter ? and happier.
No matter what we have going on in our lives, we always have the choice to
choose happiness.
I used to get so angry when I would hear things like that ?
don?t tell me to be happy, I?m miserable. Then one day, things were so bad I figured
I had to start somewhere, so I chose to just take 5 seconds to think about
something that made me happy.
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Tuesday on TV
Jul 28th
Deseret News (Salt Lake City), Jul 20, 2010 by Scott D. Pierce Deseret News
Wipeout (7 p.m., Ch. 4): Contestants face the Slide Shape Shifter and the Diving Board Planks.
Warehouse 13 (7 and 9 p.m., Syfy): Team members find themselves in the middle of a B-movie, complete with cowboys, gladiators and robots.
HawthoRNe (7 and 9 p.m., TNT): Tom undergoes surgery; twins each need a kidney transplant.
America’s Got Talent (8 p.m., Ch. 5): Another 12 acts perform. By the way, the act from Idaho Falls — LDS sisters Ali and Christina Christensen, who are both affected by cystic fibrosis — advanced to the next round in last week’s episodes
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CEIS – Renault to sell electric Zoe less than 15,000 euros
Jul 28th
Renault to sell electric Zoe less than 15,000 euros
0 Comments | Xinhua News Agency – CEIS, Jul 26, 2010
Renault to sell electric Zoe less than 15,000 euros
PARIS, July 26 (Xinhua) — Renault-Nissan alliance will fix the price of its new electric car Zoe, expected to be sold in mid-2012, less than 15,000 euros (19,482 U.S. dollars), but the match battery will be separately charged, French daily newspaper Le Figaro reported on Monday.
Zoe will be sold at a price “less than 15,000 euros,” given the government subsidy of 5,000 euros (6,494 dollars) is deducted, Le Figaro quoted an anonymous source with the French manufacturer on its website.
Renault group refused to give comment on the report but confirmed that Zoe’s price will be close to similar models running on the road.
As the Zoe, a 21-inch-wheeled mini electric car with four seats, is developed on renovations of diesel-engined supermini car Clio, one of the French carmaker’s best-seller, French media deduced that Clio’s price of 15,000 was likely to be the baseline
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Pectoral implants or
Jul 28th
Pectoral implants or pec implants are also sought by body builders, who want a phenomenal chest growth. The reality is that although the pec implants will add some mass to your chest they cannot transform you into a muscle man; they don?t define your muscles, only add bulk.
Like plastic surgery procedures for women, male plastic surgery is an art form perfected by modern surgical advancements. But it is different from the procedures performed on women. Giving a better body contour to man is quite different from liposuction on female body, and male breast reduction is quite different from female breast reduction. The same is true in the case of male chest implants.
Men are not lagging behind in getting a beauty surgery. They have realized looking fit and youthful pays in business and society. Men know how to boost their self-esteem and confidence by getting a pec implant done. They know achieving a herculean look is just two procedures away – a male breast reduction surgery and a pectoral implant.
Male breast reduction is performed to cure gynecomastia (a condition of having female like breasts).
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Colorectal cancer is
Jul 28th
Colorectal cancer is one of the most common types of cancer in the United States. While colorectal cancer is highly treatable in its incipient stage, when it is diagnosed late, the disease becomes life-threatening. Statistics indicate that there are more than 150.000 new annual cases of colorectal cancer diagnosed in the United States. Although this type of cancer can be effectively prevented, it accounts for more than 50.000 deaths among the American population each year.
Colorectal cancer has the highest incidence in people with ages over 50 and it is more commonly seen in obese, smokers and physically inactive people. Although it can occur in all ethnical groups, this type of cancer is very common in African Americans. Statistics indicate that in the last few years, both the incidence and the mortality rate of colorectal cancer have known a pronounced increase among African American people.
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E-retailers flock to sign up for e-Christmas.com as gift buying surges; Top 10 gift ideas for him, for her, for everyone.
Jul 28th
M2 Presswire, November, 2003
M2 PRESSWIRE-21 November 2003-IMRG: E-retailers flock to sign up for e-Christmas.com as gift buying surges; Top 10 gift ideas for him, for her, for everyone(C)1994-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:11212003 London, UK — E-Christmas.com is continuing to attract the best and brightest names in online retail, as consumers get into full swing for the festive season.
Among the latest retailers to support the initiative, spearheaded by IMRG and main sponsor VISA, is ASOS (info@m2.com)).
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