Beginning March 9 during National MS Awareness Week and culminating ten weeks later in New York City, We Keep Moving will seek to unite millions of people affected by multiple sclerosis through a series of online video stories that chronicle the lives of real people across the country living with MS. For every person living [...]
Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA) President and CEO Camden R. Fine spoke out today against a harmful interchange amendment in the Senate’s Wall Street reform bill. During a press conference, Fine reiterated that the interchange amendment will be hazardous to Main Street community banks and their customers. “First, and I believe most importantly, this [...]
Oceania Cruises celebrated two milestones on Friday, February 26, at the Fincantieri shipyard near Genoa. The building dock for its new 1,258-guest, flagship Marina began filling with water and the first steel was cut for Riviera, a sister ship. Marina is scheduled to sail her maiden voyage on January 22, 2011; plans call for Riviera [...]
Nineteen year old racing sensation, Dion von Moltke is roaring into Miami for the Grand Prix of Miami, March 5-6, 2010 at the Homestead Miami Speedway. As the GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series returns to Miami, all eyes will be on Dion as he returns to Doran Racing, driving with Memo Gidley. Dion will be [...]
The anguish of losing a home to the ravages of Hurricane Katrina was replaced by the joy of winning a new home when Myra Lewis learned she was the winner of the 2010 HGTV Dream Home, an enchanting, contemporary Pueblo-style home, located near Santa Fe, New Mexico. Lewis, assistant director of Dillard University’s Deep South [...]
Proposed across-the-board risk retention provisions for home mortgages in the House Financial Reform bill and the draft Senate bill are no substitute for good underwriting, strong documentation standards and safe product design, according to a new study released today by the Community Mortgage Banking Project (CMBP). The analysis of the loan performance data in the [...]
The average price of a hotel room was 14% lower in 2009 than in 2008, according to the Hotels.com(R) Hotel Price Index(TM) (HPI(R)). Travelers spent 13% less on hotel rooms in Europe during 2009 than in 2008, 14% less in the U.S., 16% less in Asia and 21% less in Latin America. In fact, the [...]
Consumer lawsuits against debt collection agencies are on the rise, but who’s to blame? Fair debt attorney Sergei Lemberg is livid that the debt collection industry points the finger at consumer attorneys and websites, and says the spike is the result of increasingly aggressive tactics by debt collectors who often violate the federal Fair Debt [...]
A majority of Californians have taken initial steps toward earthquake preparedness but more than 60 percent of Californians have not done enough to make their homes safer and guard their personal finances in preparation for an inevitable, large-scale earthquake, according to a recent California Earthquake Preparedness Survey. Although state and local public safety and emergency [...]
In March, team spirit at the office may be more about whose favorite college is in the NCAA basketball tournament than how well coworkers collaborate. OfficeTeam recently asked more than 1,000 managers whether March Madness activities, such as watching game highlights or engaging in friendly competitions, affect morale and productivity. Forty-one percent of those surveyed [...]
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