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“The Alchemy of Air: A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler” Audiobook Now Available from Audible.com

July 25th, 2011

The Alchemy of Air: A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler is available as a digital audiobook from Audible.com. The title, provided by Audible, Inc and authored by Thomas Hager, has also become an American Consumer News favorite..

The digital audiobook The Alchemy of Air: A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler, narrated by Adam Verner, has received an average rating of 0 stars on Audible.com.

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Getting Over the Jitters of Graduation and the Real World

July 25th, 2011

Finishing finals week of your senior year in college is an exciting time – a lot of celebration, feelings of accomplishment and just an overall joy for completing school. This past May, I graduated from Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with my bachelor’s degree in corporate communications. Walking across the stage with my name blaring in the background was one of the greatest moments of my life… it was euphoric almost.

It was after that moment where the celebrations began to die down, that the realization of not coming back to school next fall, and the constant questions of my future began to create a hazy uncertainty in the back of my mind. I wil

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Reader Mailbag: Fishing

July 25th, 2011

What’s inside? Here are the questions answered in today’s reader mailbag, boiled down to five word summaries. Click on the number to jump straight down to the question. 1. Getting started as a writer 2. Graduate school impact on savings 3. Pre-set spending limit question 4. Great advice 5. Challenging religious beliefs 6. Re-entering the workforce 7. Student loans or down payment? 8. Justifying expenses 9. Collecting problem 10. Outdoor games

Every once in a while, I get a desire to go fishing. For me, that means casting a line in the water, leaning back against a tree, and dozing until the pole twitches in my hand.

I want to go fishing.

Q1: Getting started as a writer I currently work at a law firm. Law

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Economic fundamentals strong: PM

July 25th, 2011

Prime Minister Julia Gillard believes Australia’s underlying economic fundamentals are strong and ripe for reform despite unease in Europe and the US.

Ms Gillard was in Sydney on Monday to continue her hard sell of the government’s carbon price scheme against the backdrop of plummeting voter support and an uncertain global economy.

“There are European nations still struggling with big debt and high unemployment, and there is some nervousness in the American economy as well,” she told reporters.

“But when we look at Australia’s economy, we are in the part of the world that is continuing to grow strongly.”

There was underlying strength in the economy, Ms Gillard said, pointing to $430 billion of investment in the resources sector alone, along with a low unemployment rate and a strong budget position.

“We have those strong underlying fundamentals today because governments in the past have had the courage to step up with the big reforms that the nation needed,” she said.

Floating the dollar, reducing tariffs and introducing superannuation were not popular and were bitterly contested at the time.

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Jean-Claude Trichet, President of the ECB, Lucas Papademos, Vice President of the ECB 8 April 2010

July 24th, 2011

Interest rates at: 1.00%

Trcihet’s Speech Cloud with the 150 main words of the conference

Introductory statement with Q&A

Ladies and gentlemen, the Vice-President and I are very pleased to welcome you to our press conference. We will now report on the outcome of today’s meeting of the Governing Council, which was also attended by Commissioner Rehn.

Based on its regular economic and monetary analyses, the Governing Council decided to leave the key ECB interest rates unchanged. The current rates remain appropriate. Taking into account all the information and analyses that have become available since our meeting on 4 March 2010, price developments are expected to remain moderate over the policy-relevant horizon. T Read more…

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Group of Saab creditors demand debt be paid

July 24th, 2011

STOCKHOLM – SWEDEN’S state-controlled debt collector says that it has been asked to collect debt for eight of automaker Saab’s creditors.

Cristina Lindberg says that last week the agency reviewed 42 debt cases involving the insolvent automaker and eight creditors asked the agency to collect the debt.

Ms Lindberg could not say on Tuesday how much the debt is, though she added the agency would begin searching for ways to recover the money starting next week.

Saab was given a chance to resurrect production after the European Investment Bank earlier this month approved a US$40 million (S$48 million) deal to free up working capital.

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