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• Statute of Limitations Talk at FTC. Tricks of Collecting on Out of SOL Debt Described.

  
  How to Get Out of Debt - Free Help — Authority: 157
  On December 4, 2009 the Federal Trade Commission held a roundtable discussion, actually it was more of a big U) about protecting the consumer in debt collection litigation and arbitration. As they said, “These events examine consumer protection issues in debt collection proceedings against consumers.”If you are ...
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• Youth get in bed together on Lennon anniversary

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  It was 29 years ago today that a lone gunman assassinated John Lennon and the anniversary was the spur behind a youth "bed in" at the COP15 conference center. Socres of young folks from around the world used the day to remember Lennons famous bed-in protest of the Vietnam War and to put their own spin on it. They ...
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• Thank you, EPA: U.S. solar companies

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  Many businesses chafed on Monday at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s declaration that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health. But executives at the two largest U.S. solar power companies took a shine to the statement, which clears the way for federal regulation and came as a global climate ...
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• Fossil of the Day Award: And the winner is…

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  The UN Conference on Climate Change is a weighty gathering of serious folks looking for a way to cut carbon emissions. Its also a great place to bring some much-needed humor and along the way hammer a few perceived laggers in the fight against global warming. Enter the Fossil of the Day Awards, a tongue-in-cheek ...
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• Icebergs, Copenhagen hot topics in Southern Ocean

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  The Southern Ocean is toying with us, like some killer whale tossing its prey before devouring it. The small French research ship l’Astrolabe is being battered by 55 kmh (35 mph) winds and tossed like a cork in icy, three metre (9 feet) waves. Many onboard have retreated to the safety of their bunks where, ...
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• Sarkozy ‘threatened by lothario French politician over sex smear campaign’

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  London, December 6 (ANI): Nicolas Sarkozy was reportedly threatened by the head of the International Monetary Fund who alleged that the French President’s men were out to discredit him as a potential rival in the next presidential election with a dirty tricks campaign.Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a French Socialist ...
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• Taking the Tesla for a spin

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  We took a short spin in a Tesla to see what an all-electric sports car was like. The Roadster Sport wasn’t totally silent, but it wasn’t loud — and it was fast (zero to 60 miles per hour in under 4 seconds). We got lots of looks, too. Tesla calls it “performance with a clean conscience” but building the ...
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• U.S. says no to Arctic fishing

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  (Reporting by Yereth Rosen in Alaska) There is currently no commercial fishing conducted in U.S. Arctic waters, and now there won’t be: a formal ban on commercial seafood harvests in U.S. waters north of the Bering Strait went into effect on Thursday. Environmentalists and fishery managers applauded the move as a ...
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• Forest carbon schemes – new hope for the Amazon?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  By Stuart Grudgings In the tiny settlement of Boa Frente on the banks of a tributary to the Amazon river, bright blue butterflies flitting through trees and the constant squawks of parrots add to the feeling of a paradise on earth. The poverty endured by most of its residents quickly shatters that illusion, but ...
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• What to do while the world burns

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  A firefighter puts out a fire at a village near Bangkok March 31, 2008. REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang This opinion piece by Mort Rosenblum originally appeared in GlobalPost . The views expressed are his own. For the full article, click here . PARIS, France — Back when primal-scream therapy was the rage in ...
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• Sailing into an icy cauldron

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  Reuters employee Pauline Askin has sailed for the Antarctic  for a six -week expedition on the icy continent where she will help restore Mawson’s huts named after Australia’s most celebrated Antarctic explorer on Commonwealth Bay, the windiest place on earth. During the expedition, Pauline will report on ...
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• Ladyblog Commenters Ruin Everything [Dirty Tricks]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 810
  God, can you believe these party-pooping chicks? Everyone who counts loved Methods "Shiny Suds" video, until some "commenters on one blog" killed their buzz. At least, thats what youd think reading between the lines of an Advertising Age account : Last week, household cleaning company Method apologized for ...
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• Brits Going Dirty to get Greener

  
  Recycling, Green, and Environmental News — Authority: 437
  With the environment on the mind of the world people and businesses are looking for unique ways to make their industry or their home greener.  Some businesses have done environmental audits to see where they can get greener and households have done the same by looking for ways that they can reduce waste and increase ...
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• After 25 years impact of Bhopal leak lingers

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  Controversy still surrounds one of the worlds worst industrial accidents 25 years after an estimated 8,000 people died in the immediate aftermath of a toxic gas leak in Bhopal, India. At around midnight on December 3, 1984, a leak at a Union Carbide plant of methyl isocyanate gas -- a chemical compound used ...
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• Five bureaucrats under scanner in Madhu Koda case

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Ranchi, Dec 1 (ANI): The Rs 4,000 crore money laundering scam involving former Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda has taken a new turn today with the Enforcement Directorate pointing fingers at five Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers.Out of the five officers, three are still serving.Income tax sleuths have ...
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• Video Shows Romanian President Hitting Boy

  
  Taegan Goddard's Political Wire — Authority: 742
  Romanias government "has collapsed and its economy is in shambles but its presidential campaign has been dominated in recent days by a video that appears to show the president striking a 10-year-old boy in the face," the AP reports. The five year old footage "appeared just over a week ahead of a Dec. 6 runoff ...
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• Koda sent to 14-day judicial custody

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Ranchi, Nov.30 (ANI): Former Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda, who is allegedly in the Rs 2,000 crore money laundering scam, was on Monday evening sent to 14-day judicial custody. The State vigilance bureau arrested him on Monday morning. Koda, who is presently MP of Chaibasa, is faced with investigations from the ...
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• Jharkhand Police arrests former CM Koda in Chaibasa

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Ranchi, Nov 30 (ANI): Jharkhand Police arrested former state Chief Minister Madhu Koda in Chaibasa District on Monday.Koda, who was facing charges of having disproportionate assets, was also charged for misutilisation of over Rupees 4,000 crore when he was chief minister.Earlier, the Enforcement Department (ED) had ...
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• Cleaning Company Pulls "Shiny Suds" Video, Apologizes For "Any Offense We Caused" [Dirty Tricks]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 810
  Cleaning products company Method has apologized for its controversial "Shiny Suds" video, which depicted fratboy-like chemical bubbles harassing a bathing woman, and has pulled the video from all "controlled sources." Weve still got it, though, plus a statement from Method. The video was part of a campaign the ...
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• Comfortable conservation and global warming

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  -- John Kemp is a Reuters columnist. The views expressed are his own -- Energy efficiency will have to make the single most-important contribution if policymakers are serious about limiting greenhouse gas emissions and dampening growing demand for fossil fuels. Energy efficiency will not remove the need to invest ...
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