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Spend some cash on these books to save some cash
If you're like a lot of folks this book targets, you're already thinking, "ugh, not another money book." Sorry. Another money book.But this one is different, I swear. A lot of financial advice books are aimed at people who have enough disposable income that they can choose both the plasma screen TV and the Bahamas cruise.
This book is aimed at people who have student loan debt, are buying their first house and regret that last round of tequila shots not only because of the headache but also that it was on the MasterCard. .
Wimbledon-Longest match finally ends after six hours
LONDON, July 5 (Reuters) - Canada's Daniel Nestor and Mark Knowles of the Bahamas won the longest match in Wimbledon history on Wednesday when they took six hours nine minutes to win a men's doubles quarter-final.The third seeds beat Sweden's Simon Aspelin and Todd Perry of Australia 5-7 6-3 6-7 6-3 23-21 in a match that had started on Tuesday. The final set lasted 193 minutes.
The previous record for a men's doubles was five hours five minutes in 1985, a quarter-final that was completed in a day. .
Atlantic City's success a safe bet
But their wagers are dwarfed when weighed against those placed on the idea that people would chase money, booze and sex on a barrier island in South Jersey.The city got ahead, nearly lost everything, then rallied. As a compelling drama should, the city's story had a unique setting that will be forever linked to its rise and comeback -- a four-mile seaside walkway called the Atlantic City boardwalk.
Though legendary for most of its history, the boardwalk had a subservient beginning. A hotelier and a train conductor thought it up as a way to keep the beach sand visitors were tracking inside from ruining fine carpets and stuffed chairs.
The first boardwalk, laid across dunes and mosquito marsh in 1870, consisted of flimsy 12-foot sections that could be taken up after the summer.
Floridians have fun, will travel for holiday
Millions of Floridians will board planes and hit the roads this holiday weekend, despite rising prices in gasoline and airfare. By ROBIN PEGUERO AND KATHLEEN McGRORY rpeguero@MiamiHerald.comThe three Tenreiro kids lounged at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport Saturday, after their holiday trip to the Bahamas hit unexpected turbulence.
The youngsters -- Joanisa, 17; Kristin, 14 and Zoe, 12 -- had left behind travel documents at their Naples home, temporarily jeopardizing their trip to join some 40 family members in Freeport to celebrate Independence Day and their grandmother's 70th birthday.
''When our mom was young, she used to go to the Bahamas,'' said Kristin Tenreiro. ``We're just going to see how it was when she was young.''
Their 2:20 p.m.
Teachers participate in report card day
Grand Bahama teachers ignored the Bahamas Union of Teachers' instructions to boycott National Report Card Day on Thursday as reports indicate they were out in full force."The teachers lived up to their responsibility," said one government school official yesterday.
A check on the majority of government primary and high schools in the Grand Bahama District yesterday revealed that the teachers were in place to hand out report cards and conduct one-on-one sessions with the parents.
Yesterday, BUT President Ida Poitier-Turnquest revealed that the 3,500-plus members had decided not to participate in the distribution of report cards.
That, she explained, meant that instead of the parents receiving the report cards from the teachers, they would have to either go to the office or comply with whatever option the school had put in place.
As restaurants turn to technology, Delray Beach's Siva Corp. has a full plate
When Dennis Hoynack boots up his laptop at night relaxing in front of his television with a snack, he's not planning to surf the Internet. Instead, Hoynack, who supervises the operations of five area Denny's restaurants, is tweaking menus, checking food inventory and remotely peeking at what his staff is doing via cameras mounted in the restaurants.Hoynack uses software created by Siva Corp., a Delray Beach company that deploys technology to help restaurants run more efficiently.
"It's user-friendly," said Hoynack, operations director with Denny's franchisees Orlando-based Den 8 LLC and Boca Raton-based Dynamic Restaurant Operations of Florida Inc. "It streamlines our operations and helps the business control costs and improve customer service."
With restaurant operators facing intense challenges from rivals and demanding consumers, more and more operators are turning to technology.
ACM Managed Income Fund Releases Monthly Portfolio Update
NEW YORK, June 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ACM Managed Income Fund, Inc. (NYSE: AMF - News; the "Fund") today released its monthly portfolio update as of May 31, 2006.
The foregoing portfolio characteristics are as of the date indicated and can be expected to change. The Fund is a closed-end U.S.-registered management investment company advised by AllianceBernstein L. P.
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