Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
Chavez, whose office supply store sits a half-block north of the Morley Avenue border crossing, said he told his wife a few months ago: "'I'm not going to tell you not to go, but it's your life, it's your body.' And she decided not to go. As simple as that."
Docuticker (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
Do Reimbursement Delays Discourage Medicaid Participation By Physicians? Source: Health Affairs Policymakers have focused primarily on increasing Medicaid reimbursement rates to increase physicians’ participation in Medicaid, although physicians often complain of payment delays and other administrative burdens associated with Medicaid. Linking state-level data on average reimbursement times...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
Bad news was no news to the battered American economy Tuesday. The government released a triple dose of discouraging data: The economy shrank over the summer even more than previously believed, and consumers reduced their spending by the largest amount in 28 years. During the same period, home prices fell to levels not seen since early 2004.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
WASHINGTON -- Bad news was no news to the battered American economy Tuesday.The government released a triple dose of discouraging data: The economy shrank over the summer even more than previously believed, and consumers reduced their spending by the largest amount in 28 years. During the same period, home prices fell to levels not seen since early 2004."Consumers and businesses were like deer...
The Street (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
New data shows American consumers curbed their spending at a rate unseen in 28 years.
HRM Today Featured Posts (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
My friend who is still looking for a job in Human Resources is about ready to quit the field due to the seven things that many HR departments do to discourage job applicants: 1. Use third parties to screen out candidates. 2. Make the web site application process long and complicated. 3. Instead of a human, use a resume retrieval [...]
ETF Trends (Free subscription) | yesterday
After yesterday’s discouraging one for the markets and exchange traded funds (ETFs), things are suddenly looking up again. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is trading higher as U.S. automakers turn in their plans for Congress. The lawmakers will debate now whether the industry should get a...
Bill Totten's Weblog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Clusterfuck Nation by Jim Kunstler Comment on current events by the author of The Long Emergency (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2005) www.kunstler.com (December 01 2008) A lot of readers are twanging on me for refraining to castigate President-elect Obama for deeds yet undone. They're discouraged by the advisors and cabinet secretaries he's picked, ostensibly because the crew coming in are Washington "insiders",...
USA Today (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
The Staten Island district attorney hopes to discourage shoplifting over the holidays by running mug shots of five convicted ...
TPMmuckraker (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
A just-released report by the Government Accountability Office on how the Treasury Department is using the $700 billion allocated to it by Congress for the financial bailout reaches some discouraging conclusions. It finds that: Treasury has yet to address a...
Business World (Free subscription) | yesterday
THE VALUE of local mineral production dropped for the third consecutive quarter as low nickel prices and high energy costs discouraged miners from increasing their output, the Mines and Geo-sciences Bureau said in its mineral production report released yesterday.
All About Pets (Free subscription) | yesterday
Dogs have a lot of loveable natural qualities, but they also have some not-so-cute behaviors. Digging is one of the latter, but it can persist as they bury bones, create impromptu shelters, and just feel the dirt between their paws. This natural behavior can wreak havoc on your yard and garden if it goes unchecked. What [...]
Acephalous (Free subscription) | yesterday
This post remains 100 percent correct. Doesn't mean I'm not discouraged. (I am.) But the solace normally accorded those who are 100 percent correct eludes me when I think about the disastrous nature of my present and future finances. Not...
Idolator (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
"Doing traditional PR for independent artists is really difficult, and handling PR on a national level is the most challenging and one of the most discouraging tasks I have ever undertaken," writes Ariel Hyatt of Ariel Publicity, and based on a long post at Music Think Tank where she lays out the obstacles to getting an album covered, you can see where she's coming from. 40,000 CDs are released...
Human Security Gateway: All Updates (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
This paper examines how violence in the Second Intifada influences Palestinian public opinion. Using public opinion poll micro data linked to data on fatalities, we find that although Israeli violence discourages Palestinians from supporting moderate political positions, this “radicalization” is fleeting, and vanishes completely within 90 days. We do find evidence suggesting that major political events...
