Business, Opinion and Commentary

High School Drop-Out Says Market has Peaked

Author: Peter Grandich
Dateline: Wall, New Jersey (WALL, N.J.)  | Mon, 22 Nov 2010

freeNewsArticles Story Summary: “Peter Grandich, dubbed the 'Wall Street Whiz Kid' on national television for calling the 1987 'Black Monday' market crash, has been making major top and bottom calls for 26 years. Now, Grandich has his bear suit back on, and is calling for a new top.”



A R T I C L E:

Peter Grandich, dubbed the "Wall Street Whiz Kid" on national television for calling the 1987 "Black Monday" market crash, has been making major top and bottom calls for 26 years. Now, Grandich has his bear suit back on, and is calling for a new top.

On November 2 Grandich announced on his blog www.grandich.com: "I've been targeting the 11,300 area on the DJIA and Election Day in the U.S. as a point in time when the 'steroid-craze' rally meets horrific economic, political and social fundamentals and no amount of 'QE' easing can provide enough legs to take this rise much further. My yellow alert is now turning red. The time has come to put the bear suit back on and suggest bearish strategies. Bearish call spreads on major indices and liquidation of most non-metals related equities now appear appropriate in this person's eyes."

Read Grandich's November 2, 2010 Alert "Grandich Returns to the Bearish Camp" at http://www.grandich.com/2010/11/grandich-returns-to-bearish-camp-430pm-est/ .

Despite no high school education or advanced degrees, Grandich has made a career out of stunningly-accurate calls. In addition to calling for the '87 crash, on the very next day he called for a new, all-time high within two years. Since then, he has made numerous accurate forecasts for the stocks, precious metals, currencies and more.

Just two days from the ultimate top in October 2007, he made his most dire forecast ever calling for readers to sell everything but precious metals-related equities and to short the U.S. stock market. (Read Grandich's October 14, 2007 Alert "Man Your Battle Stations" at http://www.grandich.com/2007/10/grandich-special-alert-man-your-battle-stations/ ).

In March 2009, just one day before the market actually bottomed, he said he was removing his bear suit and predicted the greatest bear market rally of all-time. (Read Grandich's March 6, 2009 Alert "Bye, Bye Permabear Camp - It's Been Great" at http://www.grandich.com/2009/03/special-alert-bye-bye-permabear-camp-its-been-great-1100pm-est/ ).

About Peter Grandich:

Though he never finished high school, Peter Grandich entered Wall Street in the mid-1980s with no formal education or training and within three years was appointed Vice President of Investment Strategy for a leading New York Stock Exchange member firm. He would go on to hold positions as a Market Strategist, portfolio manager for four hedgefunds and a mutual fund that bared his name.

His abilities have resulted in hundreds of media interviews including Good Morning America, Neil Cavuto's Your World on Fox News, The Kudlow Report on CNBC, Wall Street Journal, Barron's, Financial Post, Globe and Mail, US News & World Report, New York Times, Business Week, MarketWatch, Business News Network and dozens more.

Grandich is the founder of Grandich.com, Grandich Publications, LLC, and is editor of The Grandich Letter which was first published in 1984. On his internationally-followed blog, he comments daily about the world's economies and financial markets and posts his views on social and political topics. In his first year, Grandich's blog had more than one million views. Grandich also provides a variety of services to publicly-held corporations on a compensation basis.

He is the also the founder of Trinity Financial Sports & Entertainment Management Co. (www.TrinityFSEM.com), a firm with a Christian perspective which he started in 2001 with former NY Giant and two-time Super Bowl champion Lee Rouson. Peter Grandich is a member of the National Association of Christian Financial Consultants, and a long-standing member of The New York Society of Security Analysts and The Society of Quantitative Analysts.

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Opinion and Commentary

Researchers Claim Web 2.0 is a Massive Leap Forward in Human Evolution

Author: World Mind Network
Dateline: Geneva, Switzerland (GENEVA, Switzerland)  | Tue, 19 Oct 2010

freeNewsArticles Story Summary: “The Future Research Group of the World Mind Network, a think tank composed of scholars from the Silicon Valley, Oxford, Harvard, Rutgers, the Universities of Tokyo and Lausanne, and Kansas State University, says that popular Internet and Smart Phone phenomena which have emerged in the last five years represent a quantum leap in the evolution of Homo Sapiens.”



A R T I C L E:

The Future Research Group of the World Mind Network, a think tank composed of scholars from the Silicon Valley, Oxford, Harvard, Rutgers, the Universities of Tokyo and Lausanne, and Kansas State University, says that popular Internet and Smart Phone phenomena which have emerged in the last five years represent a quantum leap in the evolution of Homo Sapiens, comparable to far earlier transformations in hominid history.

According to the network's co-director Yannick Wittgenstein, this has enormous implications for business, culture, government, education, the Environment, and sustainability-- and yet almost no one realizes this, because we're too close to the situation to view it comprehensively.

Those who do realize it will be able to change society in days or weeks rather than years, because the power of today's Web to connect brains instantly ensures that ideas can be refined, shared, experimented with, improved, and perfected at warp speed, by hundreds of people in dozens of countries.

A similar transformation occurred two million years ago when our ancestors experienced a major increase in brain size, associated with the appearance of the first tool-making humanoid, Homo Habilis.

The wedding of a powerful brain with infinitely capable hands proved to be a genetic advantage that would eventually lead our ancestors to out-compete all other primates.

But we, according to the researchers, have been given tools in the last five years which are far more potentially revolutionary:

Through social networking sites like Facebook we can spread knowledge and wisdom around the world instantly at no cost.

Through Skype we can talk and even video conference with most people around the world for almost nothing.

Through blogs we can float our opinions and determine their relative value against a myriad of other viewpoints.

Through YouTube we can access complex video and audio content about any subject immediately and at no cost. And we can easily create videos which will be used the same way by others.

Through Wikipedia we can shape the way knowledge is presented, co-editing with thousands of other interested parties.

Through Google and other search engines we can answer millions of questions with access to the world's best experts on anything.

Through Twitter we can know the most intimate thoughts of millions, almost as soon as they utter them.

Through Smart Phones and their 200,000 apps we can-- well, we can do 200,000 things, most of which have never been possible in human history.

We are a species which has been gifted with the powers of comic book super heroes. But for the most part we don't act like it.

Why do most human beings not sense the enormous power of their new tools?

For one thing, according to Wittgenstein, most web technologies are marketed as toys.

Also, the early adopters of Web 2.0 have largely been young people, who tend to be more interested in entertainment than in changing the world. And the trivial and in some cases harmful uses they make of the new technologies do not inspire their elders to explore further.

Additionally, very few people of any age consistently ask what the new tools can do IN COMBINATION.

Right now, World Mind Network students are using a Google map which plots emergency-related text messages from the flood-ravaged areas of Pakistan to speed relief supplies to where they're needed. Others are turning unused cell phone minutes into legal tender for a Kenyan ICT center. Still others are creating new research paradigms for universities, based on a social networking model rather than the old publish or perish model.

Says the World Mind Network's research director Sarah Mendel, "We live in exciting times. And we have the power to make them far more exciting, if we only demand the most from the powerful technologies around us."

For more information contact worldmindnetwork@gmail.com .

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Opinion and Commentary

Veterans Split on Kagan Endorsement

Author: Patriotic Veterans Inc
Dateline: Washington, District of Columbia (WASHINGTON, D.C., )  | Mon, 18 Oct 2010

freeNewsArticles Story Summary: “The endorsement of Congressman Steve Kagan by the Veterans of Foreign Wars Political Action Committee has been called 'preposterous' by the Chairman of Patriotic Veterans Inc due to Kagan's alleged 'consistent lack of support for our troops in the field.'”



A R T I C L E:

The endorsement of Congressman Steve Kagan by the Veterans of Foreign Wars Political Action Committee has been called "preposterous" by the Chairman of Patriotic Veterans Inc due to Kagan's "consistent lack of support for our troops in the field."

Retired Army Colonel Charles Thomann, one of the few surviving combat veterans of three major wars, said Kagan's "relentless opposition to support for our military overseas and missile defense at home" is totally opposed to the majority of American veterans."

Thomann pointed out that, in 2007, Kagan voted against support of the surge in Iraq and for the immediate withdrawal of American forces. In 2010, Kagan voted to restrict funding in Afghanistan to defensive purposes and to withdraw troops, a proposal vehemently opposed by the Democratic and Republican leaders of the House Armed Services Committee alike.

"Kagan has also voted not once, not twice, but three times in three years to cut funding for our missile defense system," Kagan noted. "Congressman Kagan, by his actions, is one of the leading voices against our military in Congress," Thomann said. It is preposterous that he should get the endorsement of any veterans organization, particularly the PAC for the Veterans of Foreign Wars.

Thomann quoted Congressman Buck McKeon, the senior Republican on the House Armed Services Committee, when the amendment to restrict funding for the troops in Afghanistan supported by Congressman Kagan was debated in the House. McKeon said that passing this amendment "would go far to cripple the war effort in Afghanistan and directly undermine the Commander in Chief."

Thomann pointed out that Kagan was part of a small minority of House members who voted for this amendment that would have "handcuffed our military."

"I urge Wisconsin veterans to take a close look at Congressman Kagan's record on military issues before casting their vote," Thomann said.

Col. Charles Thomann, U.S. Army (Ret.) is the national spokesman for Patriotic Veterans Inc, a 501(c)4 veterans organization formed in 2008. He lives in Annapolis, MD with his wife Joyce.

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Opinion and Commentary

Pet Businesses Are Thriving, Top Georgia Business Broker Says

Author: Bottom Line Management, Inc.
Dateline: Atlanta, Georgia (ATLANTA, Ga.)  | Tue, 12 Oct 2010

freeNewsArticles Story Summary: “The economy may be in the doghouse, but Georgia businesses that pamper pooches and caress kittens are doing well. Last year, top Georgia business broker Loren Marc Schmerler, of Bottom Line Management, Inc., helped owners sell two pet-centered businesses, and says such businesses are bucking the economic trend.”



A R T I C L E:

The economy may be in the doghouse, but Georgia businesses that pamper pooches and caress kittens are doing well. Last year, top Georgia business broker Loren Marc Schmerler, of Bottom Line Management, Inc., helped owners sell two pet-centered businesses, and says such businesses are bucking the economic trend. Although Schmerler, a member of the Georgia Association of Business Brokers' 2009 multi-million dollar club, sells all kinds of businesses, he has noticed that pet-related businesses always generate a high level of buyer interest.

"Every time I get a listing for a pet-related business, I get interest nationwide," says Schmerler, President and Founder of 24-year-old Bottom Line Management, Inc. in Marietta. "We receive multiple offers. At the last sale, we had four parties making offers at the same time for the business. That's unheard of in this business. Usually, we're lucky to get one offer."

The American Pet Products Association estimates that Americans will spend $47.7 billion on their pets in 2010. The APPA's annual comprehensive review shows spending on animals, food, supplies, veterinary care, grooming, boarding and pet sitting jumped to $45.5 billion in American in 2009, up from $43.2 billion in 2008. According to the 2009/2010 National Pet Owners Survey, 62% of U.S. households own a pet, which equates to 71.4 millions homes.

Pet owners take children to daycare, and they take their pets to doggie daycare, notes Schmerler.

Mike Ringuette and Melissa Woodhead worked with Schmerler to purchase Kelsey's Dog House in Buckhead. The partners said they were seeking to buy a business that had a sustainable long-term business model, redeeming society values, and a pre-existing establishment with reasonably sound fundamentals.

There are advantages to buying an existing business, Schmerler said.

"An existing business has a track record and a customer base which allows you to analyze profitability," says Schmerler. "Potential buyers can examine tax returns and financial statements and determine whether the business is profitable."

A general rule of thumb is that businesses are worth two to three times the business' discretionary cash flow. "In today's environment, people are willing to pay three to 3 1/2 times" that for pet businesses, Schmerler says.

Schmerler says, "When I have listings for pet-related businesses, Internet websites, and distributing or service-based businesses, I am always able to sell them quickly and profitably."

"It's amazing how fast businesses priced correctly and realistically sell," says Schmerler. "In fact, often those companies are sold within three to four months."

Ringuette says he enjoyed playing and caring for a variety of dogs, but was pleased to find out "how truly special the employees and customers in this business are."

"Our employees really love animals," said Ringuette. "Their genuine enjoyment at work is infectious both in how they care for the dogs, how they team across different areas of work, and their care and compassion for the dogs."

Pet grooming and boarding businesses are popular because "pet owners need to have some way for pets to be cared for while they are at work," says Schmerler. "People who enjoy traveling want to be sure pets can be well cared for in their absence."

"The reason that this type of business is desirable is that it's fun," says Schmerler. "You're not sitting behind a desk all day."

Woodhead has worked with animals ever since she started working for a veterinarian when she was 11. She previously owned a full-service veterinary hospital, but decided that she enjoyed doggy daycare and grooming the most.

"There's nothing like seeing a happy, satisfied client pick up their dog after playing with their friends and sparkling after their groom," says Woodhead.

"We've been approached by many clients and competitors about how we have been able to enjoy double digit growth the past several years during these very challenging economic times," says Woodhead. "Our response has been by remaining true to our core values of hiring the best employees that have a collective passion to always provide the best experience for our clients' dogs and their families."

"Many people are out of work and thinking of going into business for themselves," said Schmerler. "Pet-related businesses have weathered the recession better than other businesses, and, if managed well, ought to thrive when the economy turns around, as it appears ready to do."

More information: http://www.BOTLINE.com .

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Opinion and Commentary

Protege of Nobel Prize Winner Robert Edwards Carries on his IVF Legacy

Author: Sher Institute for Reproductive Medicine
Dateline: Las Vegas, Nevada (LAS VEGAS, Nev.)  | Mon, 04 Oct 2010

freeNewsArticles Story Summary: “Dr. Geoffrey Sher of the Sher Institute for Reproductive Medicine (SIRM) applauded the selection of Britain's Robert Edwards, recipient of this year's Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. Edwards' work led to the first 'test-tube' baby, Louise Brown, born in July 1978 in Britain. Since her birth, more than 3 million children have been conceived worldwide with the aid of in vitro fertilization.”



A R T I C L E:

Dr. Geoffrey Sher of the Sher Institute for Reproductive Medicine (SIRM) applauded the selection of Britain's Robert Edwards, recipient of this year's Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. Edwards' work led to the first "test-tube" or IVF baby, Louise Brown, born in July 1978 in Britain. Since her birth, more than 3 million children have been conceived worldwide with the aid of in vitro fertilization.

"For the Nobel Prize to go to the founder of IVF, albeit 30 years later, shows how far we have come as a society to accept this alternative as a treatment for those struggling with infertility," said Dr. Sher, who trained with Edwards and his partner Dr. Patrick Steptoe at England's Bourn Hall Clinic in the early 1980's.

Sher, the longest active practitioner of IVF in the U.S., credits Edwards and Steptoe for sharing the technology with him and helping him establish the first private In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) clinic in the U.S. in 1982. "This recognition will hopefully open doors and offer hope to the millions out there still struggling to conceive." It is reported that infertility affects more than one in six couples worldwide.

On a personal level, Sher expressed his gratitude for the guidance Edwards and Steptoe gave him to help him launch his own career. "He is truly an innovator and a brilliant scientist. I am thankful to him and to his partner, the late Dr. Patrick Steptoe, for sharing their insights with me when I was first starting in the field." Dr. Sher gives additional insights into his relationship with Edwards and Steptoe in a blog entry posted at: http://www.ivfauthority.com/2010/10/congratulations-on-receiving-nobel.html .

Patrick Steptoe passed away in 1988. It is assumed that he would have shared the award if he were alive today.

About the Sher Institute for Reproductive Medicine(R) (SIRM(R)):

The Sher Institute for Reproductive Medicine is a national network of fertility clinics specializing in cutting-edge technology, personalized treatment and compassionate care. SIRM Founder Dr. Geoffrey Sher established the first private In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) program in the United States. Dr. Sher and his colleagues have been influential in the development of dozens of important breakthroughs in the field of reproductive care.

Further information about the Sher Institute for Reproductive Medicine can be found on the SIRM Web site at www.haveababy.com .

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Opinion and Commentary

African Governments Should Initiate Taxation from Onset of Business Start-Ups, Aggregate Taxes Over 5 Years, says Henry Oliver Ford

Author: World Food Association Organization S.A. Inc.
Dateline: West Palm Beach, Florida (WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.)  | Thu, 09 Sep 2010

freeNewsArticles Story Summary: “WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Mr. Henry Oliver Ford is a man that most people have never heard of before. Mr. Ford spends every moment of the day working to create a better world. Henry works to provide food to West Africa. Ford helps to run World Food Association. Mr. Ford founded this company with one vision in mind.”



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Mr. Henry Oliver Ford is a man that most people have never heard of before. Mr. Ford spends every moment of the day working to create a better world. Henry works to provide food to West Africa. Ford helps to run World Food Association. Mr. Ford founded this company with one vision in mind. Henry Oliver's vision was to help the impoverished indigenous populations of countries such as Sierra Leone, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Togo, Burkina Faso and Ghana. Mr. Henry Oliver Ford goes days without rest.

Often his restless nights stem from his discontent of the disproportionate quality of life of Africa's inhabitants from the vast global economic benefit that other countries have received from Africa's rich natural Resources.

Africa is a continent that other continents have pilfered for years. Other countries of the world have gone to Africa to capitalize of the natural resources such as gold, diamonds, bauxite, silver and many other minerals. However, the lack of structured government and unenforced economic regulations have allowed international business conglomerates a privilege of profit independent of professional and ethical public policy.

Most businesses set-up business and take advantage of the system of economics in the African countries. One example of this is the Five year tax waiver on minerals from foreigners that form new domestic corporations in Africa. These waivers are used frequently in West African Countries to stimulate the development of new business sectors to perspective businesses.

The growth in new business start-ups has doubled in the last three years imparts because of this however so the amount of new business "turnover." has The reason for the increase in turnover is due to the fact that most of these "new start-ups incorporate the exit strategy of Fourth year closure.

This exit strategy allows businesses to generate huge and unmitigated profits for four consecutive years and "close their doors," prior to paying the much needed taxes that would help the governments of these West African countries.

Mr. Henry Oliver Ford says, "The African Governments should initiate taxation from the onset of new business start ups and allow the taxes to aggregate over the five year time frame and release the accrued tax revenue in the fifth year to the new start-ups."

Ford feels this would "weed out" these corporations that have poor social policies that are predicated on self vilification. Henry Oliver says that if the West African countries accrued this revenue base and converted to a "Holding Company" form of economic strategy; the funds accumulated would create an innovative form of self-finance that would propel African Countries forward at an astounding rate. Other countries such as Dubai have implemented this strategy.

Although Dubai is now "debt ridden," from this strategy; Ford feels that these strategies in conjunction with a strong Agricultural back bone would stimulate sound growth that would be sustainable. He has many concepts that work towards "the greater good on all mankind."

For more information, you can write WFAO at 777 S. Flagler Drive, West Palm Beach, FL 33411 or visit www.wfao.us .

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Opinion and Commentary

Henry Oliver Ford on New Finance for Africa

Author: World Food Association Organization S.A. Inc.
Dateline: Miami, Florida (MIAMI, Fla.)  | Tue, 07 Sep 2010

freeNewsArticles Story Summary: “MIAMI, Fla. -- Mr. Henry Oliver Ford of WFAO announces a new finance structure for West Africa. This new plan for structured finance is to help the socio-economic infrastructure. The plan that Mr. Ford has developed encompasses agriculture development, employee wage generation, Government tax base creation and the use of in-ground assets as a hedge to collateralize development. Henry Oliver is a well organized person that has practiced investment banking for years.”



A R T I C L E:

Mr. Henry Oliver Ford of WFAO announces a new finance structure for West Africa. This new plan for structured finance is to help the socio-economic infrastructure. The plan that Mr. Ford has developed encompasses agriculture development, employee wage generation, Government tax base creation and the use of in-ground assets as a hedge to collateralize development. Henry Oliver is a well organized person that has practiced investment banking for years. Mr. Henry Oliver ford is well known throughout the world of international banking.

Mr. Ford has a practical train of thought that allows him to use derivatives and synthetic structures for basic and sustainable business growth. Mr. Ford's philosophy revolves around the need for investment safety. He often says, "Why take a chance if you don't have to?" This philosophy is something that Henry holds very high. Unfortunately many of his past colleagues did not share the same philosophies and thus suffered great individual and collective losses in the recent economic down turn that has left many countries poverty stricken.

The Finance structure that Mr. Henry Oliver Ford has used has been a myriad of ideas and concepts that have melded into one sound business model. This model is a form of Social Engineering that has its roots in the foundation of America. Henry is a strong proponent in self-produce. The only belief Mr. Ford has that he advocates more passionately than "self-production" is individual control of your "self-production." Today's global trade policy is fiercely competitive.

Countries that comprise the members of NAFTA must continually promote innovation in technology and stifle unwanted deterrents that promote non-productivity if they want to continue to remain viable.

"Our economy is now global and any pretext of one country monopolizing the flow of trade is preposterous," says Mr. Ford, "The playing field is now even and no one country will be permitted to 'run the show.'"

Africa's leaders agree whole heartedly with Mr. Ford. Henry Oliver's business model has stimulated billions in developmental funds for countries. However, Mr. Ford is a prudent financer. He elects to do business with countries that have a balanced political climate that is managed by leaders that have "the heart of a steward." The responsibility of handling money is the responsibility of handling lives. With each monetary note that transfers from country to country a portion of a person's life is also transferred.

People in some societies are viewed as disposable depending on their social cost and financial standing in their community. These people's lives are considered worthless to some. However; Mr. Ford disagrees with this whole heartedly. He feels that any human life is more important than any financial gain. Humankind is perpetual, currencies come and go. Some leaders have either forgotten that or they never really knew or understood it.

Henry Oliver Ford is a man that has learned that lesson overtime and has never forgotten the importance of properly handling finance. To contact Mr. Henry Oliver Ford or any of his team members, please contact World Food Association Organization / World Food Ghana Ltd at 561-515-6015 or please visit the Web site at http://www.wfao.us .

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Past Time to Legalize Ferrets in California says LegalizeFerrets.org

Author: LegalizeFerrets
Dateline: La Mesa, California (LA MESA, Calif.)  | Tue, 27 Jul 2010

freeNewsArticles Story Summary: “LA MESA, Calif. -- According to Ferrets Anonymous, legalizing pet ferrets affects hundreds of thousands of Californians, even though many citizens may be unfamiliar with the State's 77-year-old ferret ban. The California Veterinary Medical Association has long agreed that pet ferrets should be legal.”



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According to Ferrets Anonymous, legalizing pet ferrets affects hundreds of thousands of Californians, even though many citizens may be unfamiliar with the State's 77-year-old ferret ban. The California Veterinary Medical Association has long agreed that pet ferrets should be legal. State legislators agreed six years ago.

But the Governor blocked ferret legalization, when he vetoed the Ferret Amnesty Bill (9/30/2004). Schwarzenegger said: "I love ferrets. I co-starred with a ferret in Kindergarten Cop. However, this bill is too bureaucratic and it legalizes ferrets prior to conducting an environmental impact report."

The requested Environmental Impact Report (EIR) is nearly complete, and the evidence clear. Leading SSU researcher, G. O. Graening PhD, reports: "None of the questionnaires, [which were sent to] every wildlife agency, health department, and agricultural department in the 50 U.S. states and Canadian Provinces, received to date have documented the establishment of any feral breeding populations, or negative interactions with wildlife, or significant impacts on human health or safety."

The political climate surrounding ferret legalization puts the Department of Fish and Game (DFG) at center stage. The DFG has gone to great lengths to resist ferret legalization, by identifying domestic ferrets as "wild animals." That's like saying your Yorkie dog is dangerous because his origins trace back to the wolf family.

The DFG has gone so far as to invent a subgroup of ferrets that do not even exist, which they call: "Free-roaming domestic ferrets." According to the DFG, these "free-roaming domestic ferrets" are dangerous to poultry and infants. However, no "free-ranging domestic ferrets" have ever been documented, as confirmed by SSU's current findings. This false logic has been perpetuated by the DFG since 1933.

Let's face facts too: Ferrets live in the homes of over 100,000 Californians. California's vets are allowed by law to treat pet ferrets. However, the climate of illegality undermines access to proper care.

Castro Valley Vet Rene C. Gandolfi said: "I have been treating ferrets here in California for over twenty years. In that time I've seen all sorts of problems resulting from the ban on ownership." Ferret owners delay treatment or must travel vast distances to get veterinary help, according to Gandolfi. "I've seen pet owners traveling hundreds of miles to find a veterinarian who was willing to see them. In a couple of severe emergency cases , ferret owners had to make hour long trips to see us because they couldn't be seen at a vet closer to home. That's like making a human drive to Sacramento to get to the ER after having a heart attack in San Francisco."

Gandolfi explains why the CVMA backs ferret legalization: "It is bad medicine and bad public health policy to have a pet species that isn't receiving regular and competent veterinary care."

Gandolfi dismissed suggestions that ferrets are dangerous to humans: "For over two decades we have been providing veterinary medical and surgical services for ferret owners. I have yet to meet a ferret that I felt posed a significant danger to any humans who might handle it. I have often told my staff that I am more concerned about being bitten by a hamster than by a ferret." Gandolfi explained that the dangers he sees are not due to ferrets, but to the fearful and unsafe legal climate. Ferret owners are "constantly worried that their cherished companion will be confiscated."

Inadequate access to medical care stands at odds with the reality of widespread ferret ownership in California. A leading pet industry trade group confirms that 27% of the nation's ferret supplies are purchased in California.

Owning ferrets is legal in 48 other states. veterinarians, scientists, elected officials and pet owners have effectively advocated for legalizing ferret ownership. The Governor's questions have been answered by the EIR. Encourage the Governor and your representatives to support the Ferret Amnesty Bill, and enable sound scientific reason to trump politics once and for all in the ferret debate. Ferret owners have waited long enough: its past time to overturn the 1933 ferret ban.

About Ferrets Anonymous:

Pat Wright founded Ferrets Anonymous in 1993 and LegalizeFerrets.org in 2005. He can be reached at 619-303-0645 or cell (619) 757-7426 or by email at CLIFFNotes@legalizeferrets.org . More information: www.legalizeferrets.org .

Additional links related to above text:

- EIR link:
http://www.ferretsanon.com/EIR/1st_Quarter_Report.pdf .

- 1933 law link:
http://www.dfg.ca.gov/wildlife/nongame/nuis_exo/ferret/ferret_issues_4.html#CA1933 .

- Poultry link:
http://www.dfg.ca.gov/wildlife/nongame/nuis_exo/ferret/ferret_issues_4.html#Poultry .

- Infants link:
http://www.animallaw.info/cases/causca2003lexis8091.htm .

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The Not-So-Silver Lining of Cloud Computing: Intuit Goes Dark for Two Days, Giving Pause to the Small Business Owner

Author: Desktop Guerrillas
Dateline: Norwalk, Connecticut (NORWALK, Conn.)  | Mon, 21 Jun 2010

freeNewsArticles Story Summary: “NORWALK, Conn. -- Things did not go as planned when Joe Presto of the Norwalk-based IT consulting firm Desktop Guerrillas tried to send out his monthly invoices last Tuesday night. After error messages kept popping up, Presto did a Google search and quickly determined that the issue was with Intuit's system, not his own. The next morning he learned the full scope of the outage: 300,000 of Intuit's clients had been affected.”



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Things did not go as planned when Joe Presto of the Norwalk-based IT consulting firm Desktop Guerrillas tried to send out his monthly invoices last Tuesday night. After error messages kept popping up, Presto did a Google search and quickly determined that the issue was with Intuit's system, not his own. The next morning he learned the full scope of the outage: 300,000 of Intuit's clients had been affected, most using online versions of office mainstays like TurboTax(R), QuickBooks(R), and QuickBase(R).

Desktop Guerrillas' clients could certainly wait for their bills, and Presto was able to get them out later in the week, but the outage had a far more debilitating effect on some other users relying on Intuit's products, which provide critical line-of-business applications. As the comments on Intuit's blog in reaction to its apology indicated, an extended outage like this can cripple a business.

Intuit's trip-up is the downside of what many IT professionals dub the "Year of the Cloud," in which more and more companies have moved their services to third party providers rather than running them in-house. Joe Presto is not surprised by the outage, nor the outrage. "To many businesses, 'The Cloud' is a magic place where issues and maintenance are a thing of the past," he says. "In reality, these services can be just a prone to outage as an internally-run product."

He brings up several points to consider:

How resilient is your cloud service's infrastructure? "Clouds are a perfect description to these outsourced services," says Presto. "Because there's typically zero visibility into their architecture and operation." A sharp web page or even a trusted name can easily mask a poorly implemented service, as Intuit's case last week showed. "As Intuit described it, an accidental power failure brought down main and backup systems and resulted in a two-day outage," says Presto. "This begs the question of why a backup system was so closely linked with the primary system. And why would a power outage take so long to recover from? That's not to say that clients that host their own servers are without danger, but at least it's within their control to design a disaster recovery plan."

This raises another question: How safe is your data? "Clients who use hosted applications need to assume that their data could very easily be gone tomorrow and they should plan accordingly," says Presto, a former IBMer who started Desktop Guerrillas in 2004. Many cloud vendors, he says, don't provide an easy way to export data, which could represent a major exposure. "If businesses don't have a way to personally ensure the availability of their data, they may want to look at other solutions," Presto states. "For instance, although our ticket management system is hosted, we download data at least twice a day. Losing that data could cost us tens of thousands of dollars, so we guard it with our lives."

Still, cloud computing is not all doom and gloom. "Cloud services can provide great value and are a valued part of any solution we provide to our clients, but we don't make any claims about availability that the cloud vendor won't back up with a service level agreement. The false sense of security can result in a business whose core processes are less protected than if they offered them in-house."

About Desktop Guerrillas:

Desktop Guerrillas provides IT support to small and midsize businesses in Fairfield County, Connecticut. More information can be found at www.desktopguerrilas.com .

Media contact: Jennifer Wulff, Desktop Guerrillas, (203) 842-4043.

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Muscle Mechanics Promotes Positive Health in Negative Economic Environment

Author: Muscle Mechanics
Dateline: Houston, Texas Tue, 16 Mar 2010

freeNewsArticles Story Summary: “HOUSTON, Texas -- The current state of the economy continues to be on the minds of many. And, while the primary focus is on the financial bottom line, an even more worrisome impact of a poor economy is poor health. Muscle Mechanics works to alleviate some contributing stressors. Today, people are faced with some of life's toughest challenges.”



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HOUSTON, Texas /Neotrope News Network/ -- The current state of the economy continues to be on the minds of many. And, while the primary focus is on the financial bottom line, an even more worrisome impact of a poor economy is poor health. Muscle Mechanics works to alleviate some contributing stressors. Today, people are faced with some of life's toughest challenges.

"Our goal is simple," says John Aaron Villarreal, founder Muscle Mechanics. "It is to change the way people think about work and life and to find a delicate balance between the two. As a small business owner, I understand that in order to take good care of my clients, I have to take good care of myself."

Now, more than ever, it's essential that people exercise and eat right. Mental and emotional stress are higher than ever and exercise is one of the best medicines.

As reported in USA Today, a landmark Gallup-Healthways poll, the largest of its kind, includes more than 350,000 people and shows how emotional well being shifts with economic changes.

The survey revealed that people in their prime earning years - between 30 and 55 - are suffering the most from bad economic news and times. This same group is also busy with raising families and balancing careers so the amount of time left for exercise and good nutrition is limited or even non-existent.

An Emotional Health Index (EHI) was also produced from the survey. This measures and weighs problems such as depression, worry and stress against positive feelings. For instance, states with lots of open space or sunshine - Hawaii, Alaska and Wyoming - had some of the best emotional health, even as the economy sank. Some of the poorer states such as West Virginia, Ohio and Kentucky - were worse off.

And, with emotional stress often comes depression which can lead to an increase in drinking, smoking and less motivation to exercise.

"People really can't afford to be sick and unproductive right now," explains Villarreal. "Job markets are tight and competitive, so it's essential that people maximize their productivity. Plus, like it or not, if a potential employer sees a person as a health risk, another candidate may get the job."

Muscle Mechanics encourages people to take some personal time each day; to nourish the body with healthy food; to exercise; and to try yoga and stretching.

"Stress management is a positive choice that will lead to a healthy dose of positive energy," adds Villarreal. "People will not only feel better, but their new found positive energy will likely spill over into other areas of their lives so others will also be affected."

About Muscle Mechanics:

Muscle Mechanics offers uniquely-designed programs, seminars, events and strategic alliances with other like-minded businesses and organizations that are specifically tailored to individual needs.

John Aaron Villarreal is a Houston resident, business owner, personal trainer, public speaker and published writer. He is available for candid and informative interviews.

For more information, visit: www.musclemechanics.com .

For more information contact:
John Aaron Villarreal, of Muscle Mechanics, 713-963-0899.

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