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Sales lead Generation

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:10:53 GMT

clipped by: callbox
clipper's remarks: Callbox is a b2b lead generation company that provides business to business sales leads and appointment setting services. Callbox provides telemarketing leads such as IT sales leads, janitorial leads, financial leads, accounting leads, medical leads, software leads and marketing leads.

Clip Source: www.callboxinc.com

Maximize Your Sales from Longer-term Sales Leads

Monday, October 20th, 2008 Posted in by an author | No Comments »

- by Mac McIntosh - Want to learn how capture and nurture three-quarters of the sales lead market through effective communication efforts? First, you must learn to slow down. Remember the story of the tortoise and the hare? The same principles learned ...

Clip Source: www.callboxinc.com

Business Lead Generation through Referrals

Sunday, October 19th, 2008 Posted in Lead generation and appointment setting | No Comments »

Sales lead generation marketing prepares and informs candidates, accumulates data about them, and utilizes that data to produce still greater targeted, extremely pertinent marketing content. Sales lead generation transforms contacts into prospects. In the ultra-competitive business lead generation industry, a company ...

U.S. Children, Adults Celebrate Halloween

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:26:50 GMT

clipped by: FancyDress
clipper's remarks: Great article by the US Government on the celebration of Halloween in the USA.

Clip Source: www.america.gov

30 October 2008

U.S. Children, Adults Celebrate Halloween

Washington — While not an official holiday, the traditional October 31 Halloween celebration is much beloved by children in the United States, for whom the day is a chance to don costumes — often depicting ghosts, goblins and other "supernatural" creatures — and to collect candy and other treats from adults.

Plenty of adults also celebrate the occasion by attending costume parties, although their garb often depicts celebrities, political candidates or other public figures.

Most Americans consider Halloween a festive occasion, but its roots long predate the United States and its meaning has changed greatly over time. Even today, many other nations observe their own versions of this festival.

Tags: celebrating halloween us style

Accounting and finance jobs in Australia

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:08:40 GMT

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Clip Source: redgiraffesearch.com

Recruitment

• Accounting & Finance: At a time when most recruitment firms have struggled to source capable accounting and finance candidates, Red Giraffe successfully maintained a fill rate of 100% in the 2008 calendar year. More than 72% of all placed accounting and finance candidates were sourced through a proactive approach.

• Banking & Financial Services: Identifying talent in the Banking and Finance sector requires a deep network and hands-on approach – two attributes that Red Giraffe has taken care to foster over the past few years. This is evidenced by our success in this accounting and finance field.

Tags: graduate jobs, accounting and finance, recruitment

online BSNL JTO exams Results 2008 – Results reports free

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:09:57 GMT

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clipper's remarks: SNL JTO exams Results 2008 – Results declared

after much delay its relief for candidates waiting for the results of the JTO exams 2008, BSNL declares Junior Telecom Officers Examination Result 2007.

Clip Source: mixxfun.com

BSNL JTO exams Results 2008 – Results declared

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SNL JTO exams Results 2008 – Results declared

after much delay its relief for candidates waiting for the results of the JTO exams 2008, BSNL declares Junior Telecom Officers Examination Result 2007.

Tags: bsnl jto exams, bsnl jto exams 2008, bsnl jto results, bsnl results, jto results, results 2009, results declared

Latest Kabuki Production From Team Obama's Manufactured Support for Government-Run Health Care

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:00:45 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Dr. Tracy Nelson: $1,500 in donations to Barack Obama.

Dr. Stanton McKenna: $1,000 in donations to Democrats since 2001.

Dr. Jason Schneider: $600 in donations to Democrats since 2001.

Dr. Biron Baker: $500 donated to Barack Obama last year.

Dr. Nick Perencevich: $500 in donations to Democrats since 2008.

Dr. Elaine Bradshaw: $500 in donations to Barack Obama last year.

Who unveiled “Doctors for America” earlier this spring?

No, not ordinary citizens outside the Beltway.

YouTube (0:28)

Clip Source: michellemalkin.com

DFA “senior adviser” Jacob Hacker is an Obamacare architect who laughed at criticism of the plan being a Trojan Horse for single payer coverage. “It’s not a Trojan Horse, right” he retorted at a far Left Tides Foundation conference on health care. “It’s just right there! I’m telling you. We’re going to get there.”

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And here’s a brief political donation history of other top DFA docs compiled by Brian Faughnan at theconservatives.com:

Dr. Hershey Garner (who stood on stage with Obama at the White House event): more than $10,000 in donations to Democratic candidates since 2001.

Dr. Winfred Parnell: More than $5,700 in donations to Democrats since 2001.

Dr. Michael Newman: $4,550 in donations to Democrats since 2001.

Dr. Boyd Shook: $3,500 in donations to Democrats since 2002.

Dr. Jan Sarnecki: $3,400 in donations to Democrats since 2004.

Dr. Amanda McKinney (who also flanked Obama at the White House event): $2,750 in donations to Democratic candidates since 2001.

Tags: tides foundation, soros, team 0bama's manufactured support, 2008 campaigners, astro-turfing doctors, doctors for 0bama, organizing for america

New Obama Indoctrination Song For School Children: THE OBAMA SONG

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 06:08:07 GMT

clipped by: merrie
clipper's remarks: We began to write the song after watching the Inauguration. Our school day is packed bell to bell with academics, but were usually able to spend the last five minutes of singing songs as short ELD (English Language Development) activities. Day by day we used this tiny window of time to brainstorm lyrics. As the song took shape, the children became more and more proud of their accomplishment. It soon morphed into a tribute to MLK and others honored for their work towards social justice.

By February the song was done. We got requests to come and perform from adjacent classrooms that heard it coming from our room at the end of the day. Their egos boomed. I decided to make it something they'd never forget by producing the video. Nobody forced the children to participate--in fact a few sat it out. When it was finished, they were hoping the President himself would see it and wanted to be able to show it to friends and relatives.

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

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The Teacher Who Uploaded This Video Writes: On November 4th 2008, we held a mock presidential election in my third grade classroom. Students spoke their minds about the candidates, and I facilitated making sure all sides were heard. Secret ballots were cast, and Barack Obama won getting 18 out of 20 votes. John McCain and Cynthia McKinney split the remainder. Later that night of course history was made.

The students arrived the next day absolutely glowing. We talked about the historical significance of Obama's victory, and they then imagined what it would be like to run for office themselves. Each student made a poster portraying him or herself as candidate and the issues they would address in the year 2048.

Tags: change, "social justice", indoctrination, praise, school children, sing for barack obama, youth

Top Obama fundraiser charged with defrauding Citigroup

Sun, 20 Sep 2009 01:34:35 GMT

clipped by: Antara
clipper's remarks: shakes head

Clip Source: atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com

, "Amazing. The hits keep on coming. Yet ANOTHER corrupt "bundler" of donations to Obama and Hillary has been arrested, for enormous bank fraud. Are ANY Democrats honest? I'm not sure. Especially those with money".

NEW YORK, Sept 18 (Reuters) - A fund-raiser for Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and other Democrats who was charged last month with defrauding Citigroup Inc (C.N) is being sued by HSBC (HSBA.L) for deceiving it into lending him $100 million.

The lawsuit filed in New York State Supreme Court in early September accused private equity firm head Hassan Nemazee, 59, of engaging in an elaborate scheme to make HSBC Bank USA believe that its loan was secured by collateral in the form of U.S. Treasury Notes when it was not.

Nemazee, who sits on the board of the Iranian American Political Action Committee, typically donates more than $100,000 annually to Democratic political candidates.

He is listed as one of the top "bundlers" of contributions to Obama's 2008 presidential campaign

Tags: corruption, obama, democrats

Interesting Lobbying figures

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:27:28 GMT

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clipper's remarks: make your own conclusions

Clip Source: www.opensecrets.org

Lobbying Database

In addition to campaign contributions to elected officials and candidates, companies, labor unions, and other organizations spend billions of dollars each year to lobby Congress and federal agencies. Some special interests retain lobbying firms, many of them located along Washington's legendary K Street; others have lobbyists working in-house. We've got totals spent on lobbying, beginning in 1998, for everyone from AAI Corp. to Zurich Financial.

Total Lobbying Spending

1998		$1.44 Billion
1999		$1.44 Billion
2000		$1.56 Billion
2001		$1.64 Billion
2002		$1.82 Billion
2003		$2.05 Billion
2004		$2.18 Billion
2005		$2.43 Billion
2006		$2.62 Billion
2007		$2.86 Billion
2008		$3.30 Billion
2009		$1.63 Billion

Number of Lobbyists

1998		10,662
1999		13,234
2000		12,703
2001		12,045
2002		12,325
2003		13,136
2004		13,364
2005		14,353
2006		14,660
2007		15,137
2008		14,800
2009		12,553

Tags: lobby, lobbists, lobbying, money, follow the money

ACORN: No Business Like Poverty Business

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:00:18 GMT

clipped by: merrie
clipper's remarks: ACORN proves the axiom of the modern welfare state " that there's no business like the poverty business. Although ACORN runs a large conglomerate of social-activist anti-poverty front groups out of a New Orleans hub, it is registered as a nonprofit corporation in Arkansas, which does not require financial disclosure. This has allowed it keep its own finances shielded from public scrutiny, while demanding transparency from all others.
The group's nonprofit status refers only to its corporate form. That is, ACORN must be organized for a public purpose and have no stockholders, unlike a regular corporation. However, it is not tax exempt under federal law, since it does advocacy and lobbying that would run afoul of IRS restrictions, such as endorsing political candidates.

ACORN was started in 1970 by Stephen Wade Rathke, a former SDS radical and Boston-based community organizer. The group now consists of so many interlocking associations, corporations, and affiliates . . .

Clip Source: jerrybreen.blogspot.com

Someone asked me "You can't really hold Obama responsible for ACORN, can you?" More like the other way around - ACORN created Obama, in a way. Part of the "community organizing" of which Obama boasted was for ACORN. He also represented ACORN in court as an attorney. For years, he volunteered as a trainer for ACORN's voter registration workers. When he ran for the Illinois State Senate in 1996, Obama was a member of a fringe political party, the New Party, which was co-founded by ACORN. Obama's Presidential campaign hired a division of the "non-partisan" ACORN to "get out the vote" in the Democratic primaries. The new director of "non-partisan" ACORN officially endorsed Obama for President! (How non-partisan can you get?) - Jerry Breen www.newbreen.com

Oct. 23, 2008

Tags: got $832, 000 from obama campaign, acorn, citizens servicesinc., corruption, project vote, taxpayer funded, voter fraud indictments

US is slipping toward Plutocracy: Money rules

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 18:18:20 GMT

clipped by: BobbyRutan
clipper's remarks: Latest example is healthcare reform. In the second quarter of 2009, the health industry spent $133 million on lobbyists, reckons the Center for Responsive Politics.

That doesn’t count lobbying by associations. The US Chamber of Commerce alone spent $26 million on lobbying in the first half of this year, “a good chunk” on the health issue, says Dave Levinthal, spokesman for the center.

Polls show the public wants healthcare reform and a public-insurance option. So the health-insurance industry is pretending to be in favor of reform while trying to kill it through campaign contributions, ads, and lobbying, says Wendell Potter, who until recently led corporate communications at CIGNA, a major health-insurance company.

Moreover trade unions provide some balance of power to the might of business and wealth. In Sweden, 85 percent of the labor force is organized; in other major nations 35-40 percent. Compare with 7.4 percent of workers in the private sector in the US.

Clip Source: features.csmonitor.com

Is the “Land of the Free” becoming the Land of the Moneyed, a plutocracy where the rich and powerful have disproportionate political influence? Consider:

•Last year a record $3.3 billion was spent on lobbyists, roughly twice the 2001 amount. This year, despite the worst recession since the ’30s, the total is on track to reach a new high.

•The 2008 presidential candidates raised more than $1 billion for the first time.

•In a 2007 global survey of anticorruption measures, the US ranked high in almost all categories except reining in the influence of money on politics. There it rated a special negative mention along with Canada, Bulgaria, and Latvia. (The index, by Global Integrity, measures the safeguards in place, not how often or effectively they’re used.)

The US is slipping toward plutocracy because of rising inequality of income and wealth, warns Greg Palast, author of “The Best Democracy Money Can Buy.” Business buys Republicans and rents Democrats on each major issue, he adds.

Tags: politics, corruption, power, money

Uncouth Facebook postings closing doors for job candidates

Sat, 22 Aug 2009 06:51:40 GMT

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Clip Source: arstechnica.com

Uncouth Facebook postings closing doors for job candidates

By Jacqui Cheng | Last updated August 20, 2009 3:02 PM CT

Some of us had the luck of doing stupid things online before most employers knew what social networking was. (I'll admit it: in my early working days, I said some not-nice things online about some of the people I worked with.) These days, however, those looking for jobs have had many years to build up an unsavory history across the Internet, and employers now know how to do their homework. In fact, nearly half of the employers in the US now search for job candidates on social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace, according to survey results from CareerBuilder. The job-finding firm said that the numbers reflect a twofold increase over those who reported doing so in last year—45 percent in 2009 versus 22 percent in 2008—and cautioned that many employers choose not to hire based on information they find online.

Tags: facebook, unemployment, uncouth postings

Freddie & Fannie PAC Spending

Sat, 15 Aug 2009 01:11:31 GMT

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clipper's remarks:

In the 2008 cycle, Fannie Mae PAC has contributed a total of $617,900 to congressional members; Freddie PAC gave $202,997 to members of Congress. More than half of that total — $489,998 — was designated for persons in leadership positions or who sit on either the House Financial Services Committee or the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.

Clip Source: www.publicintegrity.org

Freddie and Fannie political spending takes many forms

over the last two congressional cycles, PACs for both groups, which started donating in 2004, have contributed a combined $1,842,297 to federal candidates, according to data gathered by the Center for Responsive Politics.

The 2005 Center for Public Integrity PowerTrips investigation highlighted instances of Freddie and Fannie-sponsored travel in an examination of five-and-a-half years of congressional documents.

The Center found that during the period between January 1, 2000, and June 30, 2005, Freddie Mac paid $16,939.52 for 11 congressional staff trips. Fannie Mae nearly doubled that total, picking up the tab for 21 trips at a combined fee of $32,643.62.

Freddie Mac’s big-spending ways have already come in for some scrutiny. In 2006 the corporation agreed to pay a record $3.8 million in settlement fines for violating federal election law after channeling money into the campaigns of more than 50 congressional members.

Tags: government

Do you have what it takes to become a us citizen?

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 04:33:38 GMT

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Clip Source: www.msnbc.msn.com

Do you have what it takes to become a citizen?

When immigrants want to become Americans, they must take a civics test as part of their naturalization interview before a Citizenship and Immigration Services (INS) officer. The questions are usually selected from a list of 100 sample questions that prospective citizens can look at ahead of the interview (though the examiner is not limited to those questions). Some are easy, some are not. We have picked some of the more difficult ones.

NOTES: The INS plans to revise its list of questions in 2008 (a pilot program is using these new questions at selected INS sites). Also, the questions in the test below are as asked on the official United States Immigration and Naturalization Services Web site. Candidates are not given multiple choices in the naturalization interview, which is conducted orally.

1. How many stripes are there on the U.S. flag?

2. Who is the chief justice of the Supreme Court today?

Tags: usa'citizen'test

Chicken voting for Col. Sanders?

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:02:45 GMT

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clipper's remarks: If we knew then what we know now...

Clip Source: snopes.com

Origins: Skewering a political candidate with an apropos comment is a time-honored way of making a point. Of late, we're seeing this tradition expand into the online world of blogs and message boards but also into the offline world via signage on businesses.

The sign pictured above was displayed outside the Mandeville, Louisiana, office of State Farm Insurance agent Bud Gregg. The sign actually bore different legends on each side, one side displaying the "chicken" message shown above and the other side referencing an apocryphal quote attributed to Senator Obama about his hoping to change "the greatest nation in the history of the world":

A State Farm representative said that Bud Gregg's office sign bore these messages until 3 July 2008 and that the company had requested the sign be removed as soon as they became aware of it because the sign was inconsistent with State Farm's policy of not endorsing candidates or taking sides in political campaigns.

Join Deepak Chopra: Tell Presidential Candidates to Propose Real Global Warming Solutions!

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:43:45 GMT

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Clip Source: www.thepetitionsite.com

Join Deepak Chopra: Tell Presidential Candidates to Propose Real Global Warming Solutions!

It's about time American politicians stop paying lip service to global warming and start proposing real solutions!

Our 2008 presidential candidates will have to deal with the greatest environmental problem we have ever faced. As citizens of a country that is one of the world's biggest polluters, we must make sure that they don't just talk about it, but actually have a detailed plan for combating it.

An aggressive plan to combat global warming must include:

Imposing a cap on CO2 emissions across the country and sticking to it, without special rules for rich companies.
Increasing fuel efficiency standards dramatically for commuter vehicles as well as commercial trucks.
Cleaning up our current electric and other power plants.
Investing in alternative, cleaner energies such as wind power, and providing incentives for companies who develop and use these technologies.

Sign Petition!