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A wreath on the Memorial Day

Tuesday, May 30th, 2006

I have read this story on the US Embassy website of Stockholm: It was mid-19th century. When all became quiet after the Civil War and surviving soldiers started returning home, a drugstore owner in Waterloo got the idea of Memorial Day for the first time. He proposed that all the shops in the town remain closed for the day to honor the souls who could not return from the War. It was May 5, 1866.

During the same time, Retired Major General Jonathan A. Logan thought out another plan for those who survived the war. He guided the veterans to the cemetery to decorate comrades’ graves with flags. The day was name Decoration Day at that time.

The two ceremonies were combined in 1868 and in 1882 the name Memorial Day was coined. The day is not for celebration only; it is the time to offer our respect to those who dedicated their lives for the nation.

Situation becomes worse in Australia

Friday, April 21st, 2006

Citizens of Australia are scared of filing bankruptcy. The price of oil has crossed the level already. Oil is such an important commodity that controls the price of almost everything. With the existing amount of debt and the heightened rate of interest for mortgage, people are anticipating a hardship. But what is the solution?

The number of bankruptcy suits has started to increase already. Paul Leroy, a partner with chartered accountants Hall Chadwick is of opinion that people with low income group might fall behind with mortgage payments in near future. A similar trend is not impossible in the corporate world even.

Where will we end up ???
Source: The Advertiser

Possible reasons behind Gas Price Hike

Wednesday, April 19th, 2006

Dr. Satyajit Ghosh, professor of Economics at the University of Scranton has been studying the influencing factors of Gas price. He has mentioned three crucial points that are controlling the cost of Gas and oil nowadays.

1. Increasing demand of Gas from the Asian countries, like India and China.

2. The present situation of the world and what the industry anticipates about the Oils and Gas market. Obviously he pointed out the instability of Middle East here.

3. The third factor is the use of ETHANOL instead of MTBE as an additive in the oil in USA. ETHANOL is more costly, but oil refineries have been instructed to use it in place of MTBE for the sake of pollution control.

Then there are state and federal taxes. However, the economist has forecast that Gas price might go down a little once all the refineries switch over from MTBE to ETHANOL.

If they can then why dont we

Monday, April 17th, 2006

There are websites where people post their feedback on different companies, services and products. If those sites can publish negative feedbacks, then why don’t we?

http://www.my3cents.com/ is such a site that maintains a Company Review Catalogue. Needless to say there are positive and negative comments as well.

IMO, this type of feedbacks could help business houses to identify where exactly they are lacking. They can also understand how to satisfy customers in future. So instead of asking for removal of such posts they should listen to what people are saying. Hence this is a golden opportunity for Cashtoday/Heathmill, Riscuity, Wilshire Credit Corporation and many more to restructure their business and come up with a superior corporate house in their respective fields.

http://www.debtconsolidationcare.com/legal/index.html

Obviously I’m talking about legitimate companies that want to do business indeed. People intended to continue with bad practices, will suppress the voice raised against them invariably.

Set out to design a better world

Monday, February 27th, 2006

Hi, this is Stan. I joined Debt Consolidation Care Community September 30, 2005 and got immense support from this board. I started reading the threads minutely. One day I found, I can answer to the query posted here and I put my points. This way I started my journey, so casually. Now this is an addiction, trust me. I cannot stay off of this site for long.

Today, I came here and found myself as a Moderator. It was a great feeling. I will try my best to help others with my expertise. Now it’s a challenge 8)

I have tried all the features offered by Debt Consolidation Care. I frequently use the software, I read the e-books, I have written my story, I watch the video and today I have created my blog. I have been trying to contact my local news paper to visit this site and publish a coverage, so that more and more people come to know of this place.

I am thankful to all of my forum friends. It’s such a great feeling to get together with you. Let’s celebrate the success with some cream-