| Small Business winners announced
The Delaware State Chamber of Commerce's Small Business Alliance has selected the winners of the 2007 Superstars in Business Awards.The Marvin S. Gilman Superstars in Business Awards, named for one of Delaware's leading small business entrepreneurs, honor businesses and nonprofit corporations for their outstanding achievements and model approaches to business and management. They are presented to companies that have been in business for at least three years, have no more than 150 employees, and are members of the Delaware State Chamber of Commerce. Awards of Excellence are also granted to deserving companies."The quality and depth of the applications received for this year's Marvin S. Gilman Superstars in Business Award made selecting recipients very difficult," says Baron Schlachter, Bank of America Vice President and 2007 Superstars in Business Selection Committee Chair.
Straight from the Horse's, Uhh ... Mouth
Ben Bernanke told us five years ago he would inflate to no end. Now he's making good on his word. Ever wondered why long term interest rates are so conveniently falling in sync with the official need to avoid troubled-loan ARMs to reset significantly higher in early 2008? Ever wondered why in an environment of increasing raw material prices and dropping US currency values that must surely lead to higher price-inflation in the future, long term US treasury rates would fall (which normally indicates rising treasury prices due to increased investor-demand)? In 2002, the horse's front-end spoke thusly (leaving widespread doubts whether the words might actually have come out of the other end, maybe): “The Congress has given the Fed the responsibility of preserving price stability (among other objectives), which most definitely implies avoiding deflation as well as inflation.
Guy Clifton book excerpt: Dempsey takes a 'six-week' rest in Reno
The late 1920s dealt Jack Dempsey a number of setbacks, and his two losses to Gene Tunney were comparatively minor among them. In 1928, at age 33 and a multi-millionaire, he announced his retirement from the ring, citing an eye problem that doctors said could lead to blindness if it was injured again. (Reno optometrist J.B. Gasho used Dempsey's eye problems to promote his business, running an advertisement in the Reno papers that included the pitch: "Due to defective eye muscles, Jack Dempsey is forced to give up boxing. Are your eyes forcing you out of the ring? Let us examine your eyes now.") But Dempsey received a golden opportunity to stay involved in boxing. Tex Rickard, who had broken away from the Madison Square Garden Corporation after Gene Tunney's title defense against Tom Heeney on July 26, 1928 at Yankee Stadium was a financial failure, asked Dempsey to become his partner.
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