| Chasing a dream of wealth
IT'S the great Australian dream: living the easy life in early retirement with no worries about money. Now, more than ever, Australians are looking at ways to secure their financial future with shrewd investment plans. This hunger for investment advice has created a vast financial services industry, and armies of "experts" ready to offer their tips . . . for a fee. While property and shares are still the preferred options for more conservative investors, others have been seduced by the lure of exotic schemes offering dazzling returns. From art collections and wine to African artefacts and emus, investment strategies can take some unusual turns. The Sunshine Coast's Stefan Uhrig and his family have pinned their financial future on dolls.
Easter Blessings Realized As Coastal Vacations Members Are Reborn ...
Easter and Spring are synonymous with rebirth, renewal and a fresh start. Members of the 12-year-old Coastal Vacations home based business are being reborn with an ultra-successful Coastal Vacations business model that was introduced over 2 years ago and has taken the entire home based business industry by storm. Over the last 12 years, many joined the Coastal Vacations program because of the high quality lifetime travel memberships they offer. Many who joined tried their hand at reselling the Coastal Vacations travel packages to try to earn money with their home based business program. Reselling the Coastal Vacations lifetime travel memberships seemed simple enough. After all, it is widely recognized that the Coastal Vacations travel packages offer a tremendous value.
Four March literary events
Long live the memory of Spalding Gray. His darkly funny stories, obsessive fears and hilarious self-observations, which are compiled in the traveling show, "Spalding Gray: Stories Left To Tell," virtually brought their author back to life at the Paramount Theater March 29. Except, of course, when they referred to suicide, reminding the roughly 950 people in the audience that death, especially the self-inflicted variety, was never far from Gray's thoughts. (His mother killed herself when he was 25 and the author chose the same exit strategy in 2004, a few years after a car accident left him incurably depressed or brain damaged, or both.) Readers Carmelita Tropicana, Jonathan Ames, Shawn Colvin, Turk Pipkin, Calvin Johnson and Reno made the audience laugh often and hard as they took turns sharing pieces from the beloved monologuist's personal letters, journal entries and published work.
'It's like family'
"It's like family," said Sanders, who has been a member for more than a year. "It's like a relief. I'd rather be here than home." There are more typical tales, of course. Ira Tanz of Somerset has suffered from Parkinson's disease for 19 years. Two days a week, he goes to the Adult Day Center and participates in multiple activities. His wife, Barbara, gets some time for herself, peace of mind that Ira's in a happy haven and her husband back at the end of the day -- all without the need for a nursing home. "He's been my guy for a long, long time and I want him here with me," she said. "The Adult Day Center certainly makes it easier. The people there I cannot praise enough. They are absolutely incredible." Efforts recognized For its efforts, the center is being honored with the Quality of Life award by the Somerset County Business Partnership on May 2.
Over-by-over: Sri Lanka's innings
Afternoon everyone. It's time to pick a side, to decide how you like your cricket. Here's the choice: on the one hand you've got the brutal, bullying and clinically efficient South Africans. They're all muscular fast bowlers and straight-batted big-hitters, staring you down or knocking you out of the way. Or, you've got the Lankans: a craftier team, with more guile and more joy about their game, they may irritate you with their incessant on-field enthusiasm, but they'll charm you too. Brawns or brain folks? .
Woman Seeking Money For Return Trip To Knoxville Is Scam
The Bradley County Sheriff's Office and several other law enforcement offices in the area have been contacted about a woman who is soliciting money to help her return home to Knoxville.
"Based on our investigation this appears to be a scam," said Sheriff Tim Gobble. The woman has been seen in Cleveland and Chattanooga. She tells people that she left her wallet at home and needs money buy gasoline to get back to Knoxville. A young child has been seen inside the automobile.
The woman is described as being well-dressed, approximately 25 to 35 years old, medium build, with long brown hair and brown eyes. She drives a green Saturn automobile with a Knox County license, 858-POP.
Sheriff Gobble said several people have given the woman money, including one who later saw her in Chattanooga asking motorists for money.
A fight for all her life
BRADLEY Tracey Earl quickly scans her 7-year-old sons spelling homework, in which he was supposed to circle the correct spelling of a word, and finds one mistake he had circled "Aqril" instead of "April." After encouraging Zachary to find and make the correction, Earl ushers him and his younger brothers, twins Garrett and Justin, outside their home to play in the sun, with balls and bugs to keep them entertained. The afternoon is typical for Earl, a 32-year-old stay-at-home mom. Usually this is the time of day she tries to run the vacuum and tidy up the house before her husband gets home from work. This day, however, she sits on the front porch, barefoot with pink-painted toenails, watching her boys play in the grassy front yard that overlooks a huge valley.
Honda sends some CR-V production south of the border
In 2008, 50,000 CR-Vs will be cranked out of Honda's assembly plant in Guadalajara, Mexico. Currently, the plant is used to build Accord sedans, to the tune of about 30k per year, but when CR-V production begins, they'll be no more hecho en Mexico Accords finding their way north. Instead, production of Honda's midsize sedan will move to their plant in Marysville, Ohio.The move, which reportedly cost Honda over $8 million in upgrades, is due to a high level of demand for the 'lil 'ute in the U.S. that isn't being met by the automaker's plant in East Liberty, Ohio.Of the 50,000 CR-Vs to be produced annually, half will head into the States, while the rest will remain south of the border. The production shift will begin this fall.[Source: Automotive News – Sub. Req.] .
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