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<title><![CDATA[LPG Trades &amp; Shipping:Global Prospects to 2018]]></title>
<link>http://researchreport.wordpress.com/?p=2150</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 03:16:23 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Bharatbook.com is proud to announce the new report “LPG Trades &amp; Shipping:Global Prospects to ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bharatbook.com is proud to announce the new report “LPG Trades &#38; Shipping:Global Prospects to 2018” provides the…..</p>
<p>This major new Report provides invaluable independent analysis on the future development prospects for all aspects of the LPG sector. It represents the most up-todate and comprehensive examination of the LPG shipping industry, and is essential reading for all parties with an interest in this sector.</p>
<p>• The LPG sector has seen considerable development in recent years, leading to a current high level of market uncertainty over the real future prospects :</p>
<p>• LPG consumption has increased by an estimated 15% since 2000, with continued growth in demand world-wide, with particular expansion in the Chinese and Indian markets. At the same time, seaborne LPG trades have expanded by 29% since 2000.</p>
<p>• The LPG vessel fleet has expanded by over 19% during this time frame – this increase has been buoyed by the forecast growth in demand for LPG and rising freight rates.</p>
<p>• After large-scale rate escalation in 2004-05, freight rates increased further in 2006, to some of the highest levels recorded since the early 1990s.</p>
<p>• The expansion of the fleet is forecast to take on a new dimension in the near future, as a large number of vessels currently under construction are delivered.The current orderbook stands at 48% of fleet capacity.</p>
<p>• The future of LPG demand is still in the balance. US demand has slowed, as has Japanese and South Korean demand. This is in parallel with increasing LNG imports in these markets. Chinese and Indian LPG imports might also be affected in the future by increased imports of LNG.</p>
<p>• Large-scale fleet expansion will more than compensate for the obsolescence of a significant volume of old vessels. The impact of so many new vessels could have dramatic and significant implications on the LPG shipping market.This detailed Report examines the outlook for all aspects of the LPG carrier market throughout the period to 2018, through in-depth analysis of recent/current developments and extensive future forecasts.Included in the Report are detailed analyses and forecasts in the areas of:</p>
<p>• Trade volumes and patterns;</p>
<p>• Fleet development (incl. newbuilding and scrapping);</p>
<p>• Vessel operating costs;</p>
<p>• Vessel freight rates;</p>
<p>• Vessel demand and supply;</p>
<p>• Vessel profitability.</p>
<p>For more information kindly visit: <a href="http://www.bharatbook.com/detail.asp?id=28607">http://www.bharatbook.com/detail.asp?id=28607</a></p>
<p>Bharatbook, the leading information aggregator. We facilitate and support the business information needs. With over 90,000 reports, you can get instant access and insights on the studies in you for market research, corporate / strategic planning by providing the latest information in the form of reports, journals, magazines and databases on varied industries like automotive, oil and gas, shipping, textiles, pharmaceuticals, energy, banking, finance, insurance, risk management, country intelligence, consumer &#38; durable goods, chemical and more your areas of interest. Contact us at +91 22 27578668 / 27579438 or email <a href="mailto:info@bharatbook.com">info@bharatbook.com</a> or our website <a href="http://www.bharatbook.com">www.bharatbook.com</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Get Out There And Market]]></title>
<link>http://christophercdean.wordpress.com/2008/05/15/get-out-there-and-market/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 03:13:46 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>christophercdean</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Building relationships is the most important part of marketing. If you can go into a place, establis]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Building relationships is the most important part of marketing. If you can go into a place, establish rapport and become friends with everyone, you'll have it made. They'll love to send business your way since they know their customers will be taken care of.</p>
<p>The next most important part is integrity. Don't promise people things you can't deliver. All that does is cause headaches. Clients won't use you if you continually drop the ball.</p>
<p>If you're in the business world, even with minimal business sense, I'm sure you know integrity is important. Go out there and charm everyone with your personality, do what you say you'll do, and success is yours.</p>
<div class="wlWriterSmartContent" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:064db3d5-8d47-4b23-8ac9-107fbb5d4c34" style="display:inline;margin:0;padding:0;">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Marketing" rel="tag">Marketing</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Sales" rel="tag">Sales</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Business" rel="tag">Business</a></div>
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<title><![CDATA[Are These Fakes? All Sorts Of Colorways For The AJ Fusion V's]]></title>
<link>http://sneakersandshoes.wordpress.com/?p=815</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 03:12:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>grownANDsexy</dc:creator>
<guid>http://sneakersandshoes.wordpress.com/?p=815</guid>
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As far as I know, there are only a few official colors for the Fusiion V and these shots above are ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:center;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-816" href="http://sneakersandshoes.wordpress.com/2008/05/15/are-these-fakes-all-sorts-of-colorways-for-the-aj-fusion-vs/arethesefakes-aj_fusion-v-in-greenplaid/"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-816 aligncenter" src="http://sneakersandshoes.wordpress.com/files/2008/05/arethesefakes-aj_fusion-v-in-greenplaid.jpg" alt="" width="441" height="331" /></a></p>
<p>As far as I know, there are only a few official colors for the Fusiion V and these shots above are not one of them. And I really don't think brand new <a href="http://www.offershoe.com/views_pro/Shoes-Nike_Air_force&#38;Jordan-Air_force&#38;Jordan_5-Air_force&#38;Jordan_5-4813.html">Jordan Fusions V's would cost 59.99</a> (hey, what happened to the well over used 79.99? lol) but nevertheless the question is Are These Fakes?</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://www.offershoe.com/views_pro/Shoes-Nike_Air_force&#38;Jordan-Air_force&#38;Jordan_5-Air_force&#38;Jordan_5-4901.html"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-817 aligncenter" src="http://sneakersandshoes.wordpress.com/files/2008/05/arethesefakes-aj_fusion-v-in-pink.jpg" alt="" width="410" height="307" /></a></p>
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<p style="text-align:left;">I actually don't know if Jordan will come out with this colorway for the ladies and for grade school... but selling these Fusions for 54.99 makes me think this 150 dollar shoe is actually fake. I am not good at picking out fakes. I look for simple things like tags, numbers and quality. But I guess even that can be faked too but most fakers don't even bother to do that stuff.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">So anyway the question is Are These Fakes? (as if you don't already know).</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Solar Valley Rises in an Overcast Land]]></title>
<link>http://golyndon.wordpress.com/?p=112</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 03:11:21 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Lyndon</dc:creator>
<guid>http://golyndon.wordpress.com/?p=112</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Solar Valley Rises in an Overcast Land - New York Times
THALHEIM, Germany — This sad stretch of ea]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/business/worldbusiness/16solar.html?partner=rssnyt&#38;emc=rss" target="_blank">Solar Valley Rises in an Overcast Land - New York Times</a></h3>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/business/worldbusiness/16solar.html?partner=rssnyt&#38;emc=rss"></a>THALHEIM, Germany — This sad stretch of eastern Germany, with its deserted coal mines and corroded factories, epitomizes post-industrial gloom. It is a place where even the clouds rarely seem to part.</p>
<p>Yet the sun was shining here the other day — and nowhere more brightly than at <strong>Q-Cells</strong>, a German company that surpassed Sharp last year to become the <strong>world’s largest maker of photovoltaic solar cells</strong>. Q-Cells is the main tenant among a flowering cluster of solar start-ups here in an area known as <strong>Solar Valley</strong>.</p>
<p>Thanks to its aggressive push into renewable energies, cloud-wreathed <strong>Germany has become an unlikely leader in the race to harness the sun’s energy</strong>. It has by far the largest market for photovoltaic systems, which convert sunlight into electricity, with roughly half of the world’s total installations. And it is the third-largest producer of solar cells and modules, after China and Japan.</p></blockquote>
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<title><![CDATA[Container Port Strategy]]></title>
<link>http://researchreport.wordpress.com/?p=2149</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 03:08:21 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>researchreport</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Bharatbook.com announces a new market research report “Container Port Strategy” provides the….]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bharatbook.com announces a new market research report “Container Port Strategy” provides the…..</p>
<p>The container port and terminal business is changing rapidly. Against a background of globalisation-driven rapid demand growth, the sector has been attracting massive new inward investment - both from operating companies and external investors.</p>
<p>This means that the pressures on terminal operations and development strategies are changing very rapidly. In addition, the general political environment within which terminals are operated is becoming much more environmentally sensitive. All these factors combine to place very great pressures on the sector.</p>
<p>This new study - prepared from the perspectives of both objective economic appraisal and from operations - defines the issues that will determine the correct strategies for terminal development in the coming period.</p>
<p>The study includes a review of :<br />
The major trends shaping the market and the implications for port and terminal development</p>
<p>Forecast demand growth by region and type</p>
<p>The impact of new industry structures</p>
<p>An analysis of productivity and regional trends</p>
<p>A definition of changes in the terminal market place</p>
<p>An analysis of port-wide service and cost levels - the true position</p>
<p>The effects of emerging new rules and regulations</p>
<p>Tendering approaches to container terminals</p>
<p>A guide to reducing the environmental impact and congestion levels in container terminals</p>
<p>OSC, and our associates, have unrivalled expertise in the container terminal sector and can bring together objective economic appraisal of demand growth with specific experience in the fields of terminal marketing, operations and development.</p>
<p>Key specialists in these fields have prepared this study and it is designed as a tool for those involved in developing and positioning existing and greenfield ports and container terminals.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>For more information kindly visit: <a href="http://www.bharatbook.com/detail.asp?id=40574">http://www.bharatbook.com/detail.asp?id=40574</a></p>
<p>Bharatbook, the leading information aggregator. We facilitate and support the business information needs. With over 90,000 reports, you can get instant access and insights on the studies in you for market research, corporate / strategic planning by providing the latest information in the form of reports, journals, magazines and databases on varied industries like automotive, oil and gas, shipping, textiles, pharmaceuticals, energy, banking, finance, insurance, risk management, country intelligence, consumer &#38; durable goods, chemical and more your areas of interest. Contact us at +91 22 27578668 / 27579438 or email <a href="mailto:info@bharatbook.com">info@bharatbook.com</a> or our website <a href="http://www.bharatbook.com">www.bharatbook.com</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Containerport Markets in the Middle East &amp; South Asia to 2020 ]]></title>
<link>http://researchreport.wordpress.com/?p=2148</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 03:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>researchreport</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Bharatbook.com released the market report “Containerport Markets in the Middle East &amp; South As]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bharatbook.com released the market report “Containerport Markets in the Middle East &#38; South Asia to 2020 ” that provides information related to the various companies and sectors around the world.</p>
<p>Containerport demand growth in the Middle East and South Asia has accelerated in recent years. Strong oil prices have boosted trade in the Middle East, whilst a measure of deregulation and investment has generated strong economic growth and rapid expansion in containerport demand in South Asia.</p>
<p>Whilst demand is very strong in India, despite ongoing investment, the capabilities of its ports and terminals remain limited, and the connectivity of these facilities with major hinterland markets is under mounting pressure. Major investment will be needed to accommodate anticipated growth, and coping with congestion will require a transformation of terminal productivity. The availability of regional transshipment facilities in meeting Indian subcontinent demand will be vital.</p>
<p>In the Gulf, by contrast, investment in new container facilities is running at very high levels, with oil wealth being directed into intense infrastructure programmes. Here, the danger may be of overcapacity. The development of new terminals must be correctly phased to match actual demand.</p>
<p>Aside from these issues, the integration of the region into the major east-west trades continues to drive demand.</p>
<p>This new study from OSC analyses both import/export and transshipment markets. It provides forecasts of regional containerport demand to 2020, based on expected economic expansion and the anticipated growth of transshipment. An "increased-risk" scenario is included to reflect the possibility of protectionist measures or other shock to trade brought about by concern about the US trade deficit and indebtedness.</p>
<p>The overall outlook is, nevertheless, for strong long-term demand growth, based on regional economic expansion and increasing transshipment.</p>
<p>The major regions covered in this study are:</p>
<p>Middle East:                                           </p>
<p>Arabian Gulf / Gulf of Oman                      </p>
<p>Arabian Sea / Gulf of Aden                       </p>
<p>Red Sea.                                                 </p>
<p>South Asia:       </p>
<p>India          </p>
<p>Sri Lanka         </p>
<p>Pakistan                    </p>
<p> Bangladesh.</p>
<p>On the supply side, current investment projects and plans are reviewed in detail. The resultant prospective development of port capacity is quantified to 2015. This provides the basis for comparing demand and supply, in order to identify potential surplus capacity or shortfalls. The level of capacity utilisation will indicate the likely direction of container handling prices.</p>
<p>Container port productivity is analysed by country or seaboard, in terms of TEUs per metre of container quay, and TEUs per quayside container gantry crane.</p>
<p>For more information kindly visit: <a href="http://www.bharatbook.com/detail.asp?id=51227">http://www.bharatbook.com/detail.asp?id=51227</a></p>
<p>Bharatbook, the leading information aggregator. We facilitate and support the business information needs. With over 90,000 reports, you can get instant access and insights on the studies in you for market research, corporate / strategic planning by providing the latest information in the form of reports, journals, magazines and databases on varied industries like automotive, oil and gas, shipping, textiles, pharmaceuticals, energy, banking, finance, insurance, risk management, country intelligence, consumer &#38; durable goods, chemical and more your areas of interest. Contact us at +91 22 27578668 / 27579438 or email <a href="mailto:info@bharatbook.com">info@bharatbook.com</a> or our website <a href="http://www.bharatbook.com">www.bharatbook.com</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Dairy India (For Foreign Customers)]]></title>
<link>http://researchreport.wordpress.com/?p=2147</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 02:56:48 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>researchreport</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[The research report “Dairy India (For Foreign Customers)” provides the…..
A handy desktop refe]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The research report “Dairy India (For Foreign Customers)” provides the…..</p>
<p>A handy desktop reference sourcebook, Dairy India 2007 presents an in-depth profile of the emerging dairy scenario. What the Indian dairy industry needs and what it has to offer is the main theme. Also presented are market trends and investment prospects that this dynamic industry offers in abundance. The assessments and projections given provide the basis for planning by dairymen, nationally and internationally. It is widely consulted for locating new markets and sources of supply of inputs and services. Dairy India is recognized as the standard work of reference for professionals in every sector of dairying. A new Section, Dairy Asia, providing coverage of the Asian dairy scene has been introduced.</p>
<p>THE BIGGEST ABOUT THE BIGGEST</p>
<p>India now has indisputably the world's biggest dairy industry—at least in terms of milk production; last year India produced close to 100 million tonnes of milk, 15% more than the US and three times as much as the much-heralded new growth champ, China. Appropriately, India also produces the biggest directory or encyclopaedia of any world dairy industry.</p>
<p>For more information kindly visit:  <a href="http://www.bharatbook.com/detail.asp?id=51277">http://www.bharatbook.com/detail.asp?id=51277</a></p>
<p>Bharatbook, the leading information aggregator. We facilitate and support the business information needs. With over 90,000 reports, you can get instant access and insights on the studies in you for market research, corporate / strategic planning by providing the latest information in the form of reports, journals, magazines and databases on varied industries like automotive, oil and gas, shipping, textiles, pharmaceuticals, energy, banking, finance, insurance, risk management, country intelligence, consumer &#38; durable goods, chemical and more your areas of interest. Contact us at +91 22 27578668 / 27579438 or email <a href="mailto:info@bharatbook.com">info@bharatbook.com</a> or our website <a href="http://www.bharatbook.com">www.bharatbook.com</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Offshore Support Vessels: Global Prospects to 2020]]></title>
<link>http://researchreport.wordpress.com/?p=2146</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 02:51:15 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>researchreport</dc:creator>
<guid>http://researchreport.wordpress.com/?p=2146</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Bharatbook.com is proud to announce the new report “Offshore Support Vessels: Global Prospects to ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bharatbook.com is proud to announce the new report “Offshore Support Vessels: Global Prospects to 2020” provides the…..</p>
<p>The international offshore support vessel sector has enjoyed large-scale growth in recent years. In addition, day rates have risen to some of their highest ever levels. Future prospects for the offshore support vessel sector look to be positive in the near-term, although current newbuilding orders may place a downward pressure on day rates in the near future. However, continued exploration and development of new and regenerated offshore oil and gas discoveries are forecast to maintain interest in the offshore support sector well into the future. This detailed Report examines the current/recent supply and demand conditions in each of the main offshore support vessel markets, covering:</p>
<p>AHTS Vessels</p>
<p>AHT Vessels</p>
<p>Platform Supply Vessels</p>
<p>Offshore Supply Vessels</p>
<p>Survey/Seismic Vessels</p>
<p>Standby Vessels</p>
<p>Diving Support Vessels</p>
<p>This Report examines the outlook for the offshore support vessel sector throughout the period to 2020, through in-depth analysis of recent/current developments and extensive future forecasts.</p>
<p>Included in the Report are detailed analyses and forecasts in the areas of:</p>
<p>Fleet Development</p>
<p>Scrapping Levels</p>
<p>Charter Rates</p>
<p>This major new Report provides invaluable independent analysis on the future development prospects for the offshore support vessel sector. It represents the most up-to-date and comprehensive examination available of the offshore sector, and is essential reading for all parties with an interest in this sector.</p>
<p>For more information kindly visit: <a href="http://www.bharatbook.com/detail.asp?id=70022">http://www.bharatbook.com/detail.asp?id=70022</a></p>
<p>Bharatbook, the leading information aggregator. We facilitate and support the business information needs. With over 90,000 reports, you can get instant access and insights on the studies in you for market research, corporate / strategic planning by providing the latest information in the form of reports, journals, magazines and databases on varied industries like automotive, oil and gas, shipping, textiles, pharmaceuticals, energy, banking, finance, insurance, risk management, country intelligence, consumer &#38; durable goods, chemical and more your areas of interest. Contact us at +91 22 27578668 / 27579438 or email <a href="mailto:info@bharatbook.com">info@bharatbook.com</a> or our website <a href="http://www.bharatbook.com">www.bharatbook.com</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Functional Contact points]]></title>
<link>http://wowability.wordpress.com/?p=14</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 02:46:31 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Imran</dc:creator>
<guid>http://wowability.wordpress.com/?p=14</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Functional Contact Points are contact points that are directly related to the functional aspects of ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="Normal1" style="background:white;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:windowtext;font-family:Verdana;">Functional Contact Points are contact points that are directly related to the functional aspects of the product and hold mostly functional value. The best way to increase the value of these contact points is to increase efforts taken for research &#38; development or innovation that would improve the inherent technology. However, the market that we face today replicates technology easily such that any Wowability created is easily eroded. Thus, to maintain the Wowability that a brand has, it has to tap into other groups of contact points to gain a stronger hold on its Wowability. But having said that functional contact points are essential. Some of the more generic functional contact points include features, quality, convenience, and even location. Brands need to understand this group of contact points and how to create Wow points out of them.</span><span style="color:windowtext;"></span></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Offshore Rigs: Global Prospects to 2020]]></title>
<link>http://researchreport.wordpress.com/?p=2145</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 02:46:31 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>researchreport</dc:creator>
<guid>http://researchreport.wordpress.com/?p=2145</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Bharatbook.com has announced the addition of “Offshore Rigs: Global Prospects to 2020” to their ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bharatbook.com has announced the addition of “Offshore Rigs: Global Prospects to 2020” to their offering.</p>
<p>The international offshore rig sector has experienced several years of sustained growth on the strength of high global demand and restricted supply of suitable and available rigs. Day rates have risen to some of the highest ever levels. Future prospects for the offshore rig sector look to be positive in the near-term, although current newbuilding orders may place pressure on day rates in the near future. Nevertheless, continuous growth in offshore drilling and production for oil and gas is forecast to maintain interest in the offshore rig sector well into the future.</p>
<p>This detailed Report examines the current/recent supply and demand conditions in each of the main offshore rig markets, covering:</p>
<p>• Jack-ups</p>
<p>• Semi-submersibles</p>
<p>• Drillships</p>
<p>This Report examines the outlook for the offshore rig sectors throughout the period to 2020, through in-depth analysis of recent/current developments and extensive future forecasts.</p>
<p>Included in the Report are detailed analyses and forecasts in the areas of:</p>
<p>• Fleet Development</p>
<p>• Scrapping Levels</p>
<p>• Day Rates</p>
<p>This major new Report provides invaluable independent analysis on the future development prospects for the offshore rig sectors. It represents the most up-to-date and comprehensive examination available of the rig markets, and is essential reading for all parties with an interest in this sector.</p>
<p>For more information kindly visit: <a href="http://www.bharatbook.com/detail.asp?id=71306">http://www.bharatbook.com/detail.asp?id=71306</a></p>
<p>Bharatbook, the leading information aggregator. We facilitate and support the business information needs. With over 90,000 reports, you can get instant access and insights on the studies in you for market research, corporate / strategic planning by providing the latest information in the form of reports, journals, magazines and databases on varied industries like automotive, oil and gas, shipping, textiles, pharmaceuticals, energy, banking, finance, insurance, risk management, country intelligence, consumer &#38; durable goods, chemical and more your areas of interest. Contact us at +91 22 27578668 / 27579438 or email <a href="mailto:info@bharatbook.com">info@bharatbook.com</a> or our website <a href="http://www.bharatbook.com">www.bharatbook.com</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Random World War Two Timeline!]]></title>
<link>http://amazingscott.wordpress.com/?p=43</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 02:41:49 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>scott777</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Yes, very random but pretty interesting. Of course if you like history like I do. From This site
I d]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes, very random but pretty interesting. Of course if you like history like I do. From <a href="http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/ww2time.htm">This site</a><br />
I did not write any of this, I'm just hosting it in a different format on this site. This came from<br />
<a href="http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/ww2time.htm">http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/ww2time.htm</a></p>
<p><strong>1918</strong></p>
<li>Nov 11 - World War One ends with German defeat.</li>
<p><strong>1919</strong></p>
<li>April 28 - League of Nations founded.</li>
<li>June 28 - Signing of the Treaty of Versailles.</li>
<p><strong>1921</strong></p>
<li>July 29 - Adolf Hitler becomes leader of National Socialist 'Nazi' Party.</li>
<p><strong>1923</strong></p>
<li>Nov 8/9 - The Beer Hall Putsch.</li>
<p><strong>1925</strong></p>
<li>July 18 - Hitler's book "Mein Kampf" published.</li>
<p><strong>1926</strong></p>
<li>Sept 8 - Germany admitted to League of Nations.</li>
<p><strong>1929</strong></p>
<li>Oct 29 - Stock Market on Wall Street crashes.</li>
<p><strong>1930</strong></p>
<li>Sept 14 - Germans elect Nazis making them the 2nd largest political party in Germany.</li>
<p><strong>1932</strong></p>
<li>Nov 8 - Roosevelt elected President of the United States.</li>
<p><strong>1933</strong></p>
<li>Jan 30 - Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany.</li>
<li>Feb 27 - The Reichstag burns.</li>
<li>March 12 - First concentration camp opened at Oranienburg outside Berlin.</li>
<li>March 23 - Enabling Act gives Hitler dictatorial power.</li>
<li>April 1 - Nazi boycott of Jewish owned shops.</li>
<li>May 10 - Nazis burn books in Germany.</li>
<li>In June - Nazis open Dachau concentration camp.</li>
<li>July 14 - Nazi party declared only party in Germany.</li>
<li>Oct 14 - Germany quits the League of Nations.</li>
<p><strong>1934</strong></p>
<li>June 30 - The "Night of the Long Knives."</li>
<li>July 25 - Nazis murder Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss.</li>
<li>Aug 2 - German President Hindenburg dies.</li>
<li>Aug 19 - Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany.</li>
<p><strong>1935</strong></p>
<li>March 16 - Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles by introducing military conscription.</li>
<li>Sept 15 - German Jews stripped of rights by Nuremberg Race Laws.</li>
<p><strong>1936</strong></p>
<li>Feb 10 - The German Gestapo is placed above the law.</li>
<li>March 7 - German troops occupy the Rhineland.</li>
<li>May 9 - Mussolini's Italian forces take Ethiopia.</li>
<li>July 18 - Civil war erupts in Spain.</li>
<li>Aug 1 - Olympic games begin in Berlin.</li>
<li>Oct 1 - Franco declared head of Spanish State.</li>
<p><strong>1937</strong></p>
<li>June 11 - Soviet leader Stalin begins a purge of Red Army generals.</li>
<li>Nov 5 - Hitler reveals war plans during Hossbach Conference.</li>
<p><strong>1938</strong></p>
<li>March 12/13 - Germany announces 'Anschluss' (union) with Austria.</li>
<li>Aug 12 - German military mobilizes.</li>
<li>Sept 30 - British Prime Minister Chamberlain appeases Hitler at Munich.</li>
<li>Oct 15 - German troops occupy the Sudetenland; Czech government resigns.</li>
<li>Nov 9/10 - Kristallnacht - The Night of Broken Glass.</li>
<p><strong>1939 </strong></p>
<li>Jan 30, 1939 - Hitler threatens Jews during Reichstag speech.</li>
<li>March 15/16 - Nazis take Czechoslovakia.</li>
<li>March 28, 1939 - Spanish Civil war ends.</li>
<li>May 22, 1939 - Nazis sign 'Pact of Steel' with Italy.</li>
<li>Aug 23, 1939 - Nazis and Soviets sign Pact.</li>
<li>Aug 25, 1939 - Britain and Poland sign a Mutual Assistance Treaty.</li>
<li>Aug 31, 1939 - British fleet mobilizes; Civilian evacuations begin from London.</li>
<li>Sept 1, 1939 - Nazis invade Poland.</li>
<li>Sept 3, 1939 - Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand declare war on Germany.</li>
<li>Sept 4, 1939 - British Royal Air Force attacks the German Navy.</li>
<li>Sept 5, 1939 - United States proclaims neutrality; German troops cross the Vistula River in Poland.</li>
<li>Sept 10, 1939 - Canada declares war on Germany; Battle of the Atlantic begins.</li>
<li>Sept 17, 1939 - Soviets invade Poland.</li>
<li>Sept 27, 1939 - Warsaw surrenders to Nazis; Reinhard Heydrich becomes the leader of new Reich Main Security Office (RSHA).</li>
<li>Sept 29, 1939 - Nazis and Soviets divide up Poland.</li>
<li>In Oct - Nazis begin euthanasia on sick and disabled in Germany.</li>
<li>Nov 8, 1939 - Assassination attempt on Hitler fails.</li>
<li>Nov 30, 1939 - Soviets attack Finland.</li>
<li>Dec 14, 1939 - Soviet Union expelled from the League of Nations.</li>
<p><strong>1940</strong> </p>
<li>Jan 8, 1940 - Rationing begins in Britain.</li>
<li>March 12, 1940 - Finland signs a peace treaty with Soviets.</li>
<li>March 16, 1940 - Germans bomb Scapa Flow naval base near Scotland.</li>
<li>April 9, 1940 - Nazis invade Denmark and Norway.</li>
<li>May 10, 1940 - Nazis invade France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands; Winston Churchill becomes British Prime Minister.</li>
<li>May 15, 1940 - Holland surrenders to the Nazis.</li>
<li>May 26, 1940 - Evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk begins.</li>
<li>May 28, 1940 - Belgium surrenders to the Nazis.</li>
<li>June 3, 1940 - Germans bomb Paris; Dunkirk evacuation ends.</li>
<li>June 10, 1940 - Norway surrenders to the Nazis; Italy declares war on Britain and France.</li>
<li>June 14, 1940 - Germans enter Paris.</li>
<li>June 16, 1940 - Marshal Pétain becomes French Prime Minister.</li>
<li>June 18, 1940 - Hitler and Mussolini meet in Munich; Soviets begin occupation of the Baltic States.</li>
<li>June 22, 1940 - France signs an armistice with the Nazis.</li>
<li>June 23, 1940 - Hitler tours Paris.</li>
<li>June 28, 1940 - Britain recognizes General Charles de Gaulle as the Free French leader.</li>
<li>July 1, 1940 - German U-boats attack merchant ships in the Atlantic.</li>
<li>July 5, 1940 - French Vichy government breaks off relations with Britain.</li>
<li>July 10, 1940 - Battle of Britain begins.</li>
<li>July 23, 1940 - Soviets take Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.</li>
<li>Aug 3-19 - Italians occupy British Somaliland in East Africa.</li>
<li>Aug 13, 1940 - German bombing offensive against airfields and factories in England.</li>
<li>Aug 15, 1940 - Air battles and daylight raids over Britain.</li>
<li>Aug 17, 1940 - Hitler declares a blockade of the British Isles.</li>
<li>Aug 23/24 - First German air raids on Central London.</li>
<li>Aug 25/26 - First British air raid on Berlin.</li>
<li>Sept 3, 1940 - Hitler plans Operation Sealion (the invasion of Britain).</li>
<li>Sept 7, 1940 - German Blitz against England begins.</li>
<li>Sept 13, 1940 - Italians invade Egypt.</li>
<li>Sept 15, 1940 - Massive German air raids on London, Southampton, Bristol, Cardiff, Liverpool and Manchester.</li>
<li>Sept 16, 1940 - United States military conscription bill passed.</li>
<li>Sept 27, 1940 - Tripartite (Axis) Pact signed by Germany, Italy and Japan.</li>
<li>Oct 7, 1940 - German troops enter Romania.</li>
<li>Oct 12, 1940 - Germans postpone Operation Sealion until Spring of 1941.</li>
<li>Oct 28, 1940 - Italy invades Greece.</li>
<li>Nov 5, 1940 - Roosevelt re-elected as U.S. president.</li>
<li>Nov 10/11 - A torpedo bomber raid cripples the Italian fleet at Taranto, Italy.</li>
<li>Nov 14/15 - Germans bomb Coventry, England.</li>
<li>Nov 20, 1940 - Hungary joins the Axis Powers.</li>
<li>Nov 22, 1940 - Greeks defeat the Italian 9th Army.</li>
<li>Nov 23, 1940 - Romania joins the Axis Powers.</li>
<li>Dec 9/10 - British begin a western desert offensive in North Africa against the Italians.</li>
<li>Dec 29/30 - Massive German air raid on London.</li>
<p><strong>1941</strong></p>
<li>Jan 22, 1941 - Tobruk in North Africa falls to the British and Australians.</li>
<li>Feb 11, 1941 - British forces advance into Italian Somaliland in East Africa.</li>
<li>Feb 12, 1941 - German General Erwin Rommel arrives in Tripoli, North Africa.</li>
<li>Feb 14, 1941 - First units of German 'Afrika Korps' arrive in North Africa.</li>
<li>March 7, 1941 - British forces arrive in Greece.</li>
<li>March 11, 1941 - President Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act.</li>
<li>March 27, 1941 - A coup in Yugoslavia overthrows the pro-Axis government.</li>
<li>April 3, 1941 - Pro-Axis regime set up in Iraq.</li>
<li>April 6, 1941 - Nazis invade Greece and Yugoslavia.</li>
<li>April 14, 1941 - Rommel attacks Tobruk.</li>
<li>April 17, 1941 - Yugoslavia surrenders to the Nazis.</li>
<li>April 27, 1941 - Greece surrenders to the Nazis.</li>
<li>May 1, 1941 - German attack on Tobruk is repulsed.</li>
<li>May 10, 1941 - Deputy Führer Rudolph Hess flies to Scotland.</li>
<li>May 10/11 - Heavy German bombing of London; British bomb Hamburg.</li>
<li>May 15, 1941 - Operation Brevity begins (the British counter-attack in Egypt).</li>
<li>May 24, 1941 - Sinking of the British ship Hood by the Bismarck.</li>
<li>May 27, 1941 - Sinking of the Bismarck by the British Navy.</li>
<li>June 4, 1941 - Pro-Allied government installed in Iraq.</li>
<li>June 8, 1941 - Allies invade Syria and Lebanon.</li>
<li>June 14, 1941 - United States freezes German and Italian assets in America.</li>
<li>June 22, 1941 - Germany attacks Soviet Union as Operation Barbarossa begins.</li>
<li>In June - Nazi SS Einsatzgruppen begin mass murder.</li>
<li>June 28, 1941 - Germans capture Minsk.</li>
<li>July 3, 1941 - Stalin calls for a scorched earth policy.</li>
<li>July 10, 1941 - Germans cross the River Dnieper in the Ukraine.</li>
<li>July 12, 1941 - Mutual Assistance agreement between British and Soviets.</li>
<li>July 14, 1941 - British occupy Syria.</li>
<li>July 26, 1941 - Roosevelt freezes Japanese assets in United States and suspends relations.</li>
<li>July 31, 1941 - Göring instructs Heydrich to prepare for the Final Solution.</li>
<li>Aug 1, 1941 - United States announces an oil embargo against aggressor states.</li>
<li>Aug 14, 1941 - Roosevelt and Churchill announce the Atlantic Charter.</li>
<li>Aug 20, 1941 - Nazi siege of Leningrad begins.</li>
<li>Sept 1, 1941 - Nazis order Jews to wear yellow stars.</li>
<li>Sept 3, 1941 - First experimental use of gas chambers at Auschwitz.</li>
<li>Sept 19, 1941 - Nazis take Kiev.</li>
<li>Sept 29, 1941 - Nazis murder 33,771 Jews at Kiev.</li>
<li>Oct 2, 1941 - Operation Typhoon begins (German advance on Moscow).</li>
<li>Oct 16, 1941 - Germans take Odessa.</li>
<li>Oct 24, 1941 - Germans take Kharkov.</li>
<li>Oct 30, 1941 - Germans reach Sevastopol.</li>
<li>Nov 13, 1941 - British aircraft carrier Ark Royal is sunk off Gibraltar by a U-boat.</li>
<li>Nov 20, 1941 - Germans take Rostov.</li>
<li>Nov 27, 1941 - Soviet troops retake Rostov.</li>
<li>Dec 5, 1941 - German attack on Moscow is abandoned.</li>
<li>Dec 6, 1941 - Soviet Army launches a major counter-offensive around Moscow.</li>
<li>Dec 7, 1941 - Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor; Hitler issues the Night and Fog decree.</li>
<li>Dec 8, 1941 - United States and Britain declare war on Japan.</li>
<li>Dec 11, 1941 - Germany declares war on the United States.</li>
<li>Dec 16, 1941 - Rommel begins a retreat to El Agheila in North Africa.</li>
<li>Dec 19, 1941 - Hitler takes complete command of the German Army.</li>
<p><strong>1942 </strong> </p>
<li>Jan 1, 1942 - Declaration of the United Nations signed by 26 Allied nations.</li>
<li>Jan 13, 1942 - Germans begin a U-boat offensive along east coast of USA.</li>
<li>Jan 20, 1942 - SS Leader Heydrich holds the Wannsee Conference to coordinate the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question."</li>
<li>Jan 21, 1942 - Rommel's counter-offensive from El Agheila begins.</li>
<li>Jan 26, 1942 - First American forces arrive in Great Britain.</li>
<li>In April - Japanese-Americans sent to relocation centers.</li>
<li>April 23, 1942 - German air raids begin against cathedral cities in Britain.</li>
<li>May 8, 1942 - German summer offensive begins in the Crimea.</li>
<li>May 26, 1942 - Rommel begins an offensive against the Gazala Line.</li>
<li>May 27, 1942 - SS Leader Heydrich attacked in Prague.</li>
<li>May 30, 1942 - First thousand bomber British air raid (against Cologne).</li>
<li>In June - Mass murder of Jews by gassing begins at Auschwitz.</li>
<li>June 4, 1942 - Heydrich dies of wounds.</li>
<li>June 5, 1942 - Germans besiege Sevastopol.</li>
<li>June 10, 1942 - Nazis liquidate Lidice in reprisal for Heydrich's assassination.</li>
<li>June 21, 1942 - Rommel captures Tobruk.</li>
<li>June 25, 1942 - Eisenhower arrives in London.</li>
<li>June 30, 1942 - Rommel reaches El Alamein near Cairo, Egypt.</li>
<li>July 1-30 - First Battle of El Alamein.</li>
<li>July 3, 1942 - Germans take Sevastopol.</li>
<li>July 5, 1942 - Soviet resistance in the Crimea ends.</li>
<li>July 9, 1942 - Germans begin a drive toward Stalingrad in the USSR.</li>
<li>July 22, 1942 - First deportations from the Warsaw Ghetto to concentration camps; Treblinka extermination camp opened.</li>
<li>Aug 7, 1942 - British General Bernard Montgomery takes command of Eighth Army in North Africa.</li>
<li>Aug 12, 1942 - Stalin and Churchill meet in Moscow.</li>
<li>Aug 17, 1942 - First all-American air attack in Europe.</li>
<li>Aug 23, 1942 - Massive German air raid on Stalingrad.</li>
<li>Sept 2, 1942 - Rommel driven back by Montgomery in the Battle of Alam Halfa.</li>
<li>Sept 13, 1942 - Battle of Stalingrad begins.</li>
<li>Oct 5, 1942 - A German eyewitness observes SS mass murder.</li>
<li>Oct 18, 1942 - Hitler orders the execution of all captured British commandos.</li>
<li>Nov 1, 1942 - Operation Supercharge (Allies break Axis lines at El Alamein).</li>
<li>Nov 8, 1942 - Operation Torch begins (U.S. invasion of North Africa).</li>
<li>Nov 11, 1942 - Germans and Italians invade unoccupied Vichy France.</li>
<li>Nov 19, 1942 - Soviet counter-offensive at Stalingrad begins.</li>
<li>Dec 2, 1942 - Professor Enrico Fermi sets up an atomic reactor in Chicago.</li>
<li>Dec 13, 1942 - Rommel withdraws from El Agheila.</li>
<li>Dec 16, 1942 - Soviets defeat Italian troops on the River Don in the USSR.</li>
<li>Dec 17, 1942 - British Foreign Secretary Eden tells the British House of Commons of mass executions of Jews by Nazis; U.S. declares those crimes will be avenged.</li>
<li>Dec 31, 1942 - Battle of the Barents Sea between German and British ships.</li>
<p><strong>1943</strong>  </p>
<li>Jan 2/3 - Germans begin a withdrawal from the Caucasus.</li>
<li>Jan 10, 1943 - Soviets begin an offensive against the Germans in Stalingrad.</li>
<li>Jan 14-24 - Casablanca conference between Churchill and Roosevelt. During the conference, Roosevelt announces the war can end only with an unconditional German surrender.</li>
<li>Jan 23, 1943 - Montgomery's Eighth Army takes Tripoli.</li>
<li>Jan 27, 1943 - First bombing raid by Americans on Germany (at Wilhelmshaven).</li>
<li>Feb 2, 1943 - Germans surrender at Stalingrad in the first big defeat of Hitler's armies.</li>
<li>Feb 8, 1943 - Soviet troops take Kursk.</li>
<li>Feb 14-25 - Battle of Kasserine Pass between the U.S. 1st Armored Division and German Panzers in North Africa.</li>
<li>Feb 16, 1943 - Soviets re-take Kharkov.</li>
<li>Feb 18, 1943 - Nazis arrest White Rose resistance leaders in Munich.</li>
<li>March 2, 1943 - Germans begin a withdrawal from Tunisia, Africa.</li>
<li>March 15, 1943 - Germans re-capture Kharkov.</li>
<li>March 16-20 - Battle of Atlantic climaxes with 27 merchant ships sunk by German U-boats.</li>
<li>March 20-28 - Montgomery's Eighth Army breaks through the Mareth Line in Tunisia.</li>
<li>April 6/7 - Axis forces in Tunisia begin a withdrawal toward Enfidaville as American and British forces link.</li>
<li>April 19, 1943 - Waffen SS attacks Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto.</li>
<li>May 7, 1943 - Allies take Tunisia.</li>
<li>May 13, 1943 - German and Italian troops surrender in North Africa.</li>
<li>May 16, 1943 - Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto ends.</li>
<li>May 16/17 - British air raid on the Ruhr.</li>
<li>May 22, 1943 - Dönitz suspends U-boat operations in the North Atlantic.</li>
<li>June 10, 1943 - 'Pointblank' directive to improve Allied bombing strategy issued.</li>
<li>June 11, 1943 - Himmler orders the liquidation of all Jewish ghettos in Poland.</li>
<li>July 5, 1943 - Germans begin their last offensive against Kursk.</li>
<li>July 9/10 - Allies land in Sicily.</li>
<li>July 19, 1943 - Allies bomb Rome.</li>
<li>July 22, 1943 - Americans capture Palermo, Sicily.</li>
<li>July 24, 1943 - British bombing raid on Hamburg.</li>
<li>July 25/26 - Mussolini arrested and the Italian Fascist government falls; Marshal Pietro Badoglio takes over and negotiates with Allies.</li>
<li>July 27/28 - Allied air raid causes a firestorm in Hamburg.</li>
<li>Aug 12-17 - Germans evacuate Sicily.</li>
<li>Aug 17, 1943 - American daylight air raids on Regensburg and Schweinfurt in Germany; Allies reach Messina, Sicily.</li>
<li>Aug 23, 1943 - Soviet troops recapture Kharkov.</li>
<li>Sept 8, 1943 - Italian surrender is announced.</li>
<li>Sept 9, 1943 - Allied landings at Salerno and Taranto.</li>
<li>Sept 11, 1943 - Germans occupy Rome.</li>
<li>Sept 12, 1943 - Germans rescue Mussolini.</li>
<li>Sept 23, 1943 - Mussolini re-establishes a Fascist government.</li>
<li>Oct 1, 1943 - Allies enter Naples, Italy.</li>
<li>Oct 4, 1943 - SS Reichsführer Himmler gives speech at Posen.</li>
<li>Oct 13, 1943 - Italy declares war on Germany; Second American air raid on Schweinfurt.</li>
<li>Nov 6, 1943 - Russians recapture Kiev in the Ukraine.</li>
<li>Nov 18, 1943 - Large British air raid on Berlin.</li>
<li>Nov 28, 1943 - Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin meet at Teheran.</li>
<li>Dec 24-26 - Soviets launch offensives on the Ukrainian front.</li>
<p><strong>1944</strong>  </p>
<li>Jan 6, 1944 - Soviet troops advance into Poland.</li>
<li>Jan 17, 1944 - First attack toward Cassino, Italy.</li>
<li>Jan 22, 1944 - Allies land at Anzio.</li>
<li>Jan 27, 1944 - Leningrad relieved after a 900-day siege.</li>
<li>Feb 15-18 - Allies bomb the monastery at Monte Cassino.</li>
<li>Feb 16, 1944 - Germans counter-attack against the Anzio beachhead.</li>
<li>March 4, 1944 - Soviet troops begin an offensive on the Belorussian front; First major daylight bombing raid on Berlin by the Allies.</li>
<li>March 15, 1944 - Second Allied attempt to capture Monte Cassino begins.</li>
<li>March 18, 1944 - British drop 3000 tons of bombs during an air raid on Hamburg, Germany.</li>
<li>April 8, 1944 - Soviet troops begin an offensive to liberate Crimea.</li>
<li>May 9, 1944 - Soviet troops recapture Sevastopol.</li>
<li>May 11, 1944 - Allies attack the Gustav Line south of Rome.</li>
<li>May 12, 1944 - Germans surrender in the Crimea.</li>
<li>May 15, 1944 - Germans withdraw to the Adolf Hitler Line.</li>
<li>May 25, 1944 - Germans retreat from Anzio.</li>
<li>June 5, 1944 - Allies enter Rome.</li>
<li>June 6, 1944 - D-Day landings.</li>
<li>June 9, 1944 - Soviet offensive against the Finnish front begins.</li>
<li>June 10, 1944 - Nazis liquidate the town of Oradour-sur-Glane in France.</li>
<li>June 13, 1944 - First German V-1 rocket attack on Britain.</li>
<li>June 22, 1944 - Operation Bagration begins (the Soviet summer offensive).</li>
<li>June 27, 1944 - U.S. troops liberate Cherbourg.</li>
<li>July 3, 1944 - 'Battle of the Hedgerows' in Normandy; Soviets capture Minsk.</li>
<li>July 9, 1944 - British and Canadian troops capture Caen.</li>
<li>July 18, 1944 - U.S. troops reach St. Lô.</li>
<li>July 20, 1944 - German assassination attempt on Hitler fails.</li>
<li>July 24, 1944 - Soviet troops liberate first concentration camp at Majdanek.</li>
<li>July 25-30 - Operation Cobra (U.S. troops break out west of St. Lô).</li>
<li>July 28, 1944 - Soviet troops take Brest-Litovsk. U.S. troops take Coutances.</li>
<li>Aug 1, 1944 - Polish Home Army uprising against Nazis in Warsaw begins; U.S. troops reach Avranches.</li>
<li>Aug 4, 1944 - Anne Frank and family arrested by the Gestapo in Amsterdam, Holland.</li>
<li>Aug 7, 1944 - Germans begin a major counter-attack toward Avranches.</li>
<li>Aug 15, 1944 - Operation Dragoon begins (the Allied invasion of Southern France).</li>
<li>Aug 19, 1944 - Resistance uprising in Paris.</li>
<li>Aug 19/20 - Soviet offensive in the Balkans begins with an attack on Romania.</li>
<li>Aug 20, 1944 - Allies encircle Germans in the Falaise Pocket.</li>
<li>Aug 25, 1944 - Liberation of Paris.</li>
<li>Aug 29, 1944 - Slovak uprising begins.</li>
<li>Aug 31, 1944 - Soviet troops take Bucharest.</li>
<li>Sept 1-4 - Verdun, Dieppe, Artois, Rouen, Abbeville, Antwerp and Brussels liberated by Allies.</li>
<li>Sept 4, 1944 - Finland and the Soviet Union agree to a cease-fire.</li>
<li>Sept 13, 1944 - U.S. troops reach the Siegfried Line.</li>
<li>Sept 17, 1944 - Operation Market Garden begins (Allied airborne assault on Holland).</li>
<li>Sept 26, 1944 - Soviet troops occupy Estonia.</li>
<li>Oct 2, 1944 - Warsaw Uprising ends as the Polish Home Army surrenders to the Germans.</li>
<li>Oct 10-29 - Soviet troops capture Riga.</li>
<li>Oct 14, 1944 - Allies liberate Athens; Rommel commits suicide.</li>
<li>Oct 21, 1944 - Massive German surrender at Aachen.</li>
<li>Oct 30, 1944 - Last use of gas chambers at Auschwitz.</li>
<li>Nov 20, 1944 - French troops drive through the 'Beffort Gap' to reach the Rhine.</li>
<li>Nov 24, 1944 - French capture Strasbourg.</li>
<li>Dec 4, 1944 - Civil War in Greece; Athens placed under martial law.</li>
<li>Dec 16-27 - Battle of the Bulge in the Ardennes.</li>
<li>Dec 17, 1944 - Waffen SS murder 81 U.S. POWs at Malmedy.</li>
<li>Dec 26, 1944 - Patton relieves Bastogne.</li>
<li>Dec 27, 1944 - Soviet troops besiege Budapest.</li>
<p><strong>1945</strong></p>
<li>Jan 1-17 - Germans withdraw from the Ardennes.</li>
<li>Jan 16, 1945 - U.S. 1st and 3rd Armies link up after a month long separation during the Battle of the Bulge.</li>
<li>Jan 17, 1945 - Soviet troops capture Warsaw.</li>
<li>Jan 26, 1945 - Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz.</li>
<li>Feb 4-11 - Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin meet at Yalta.</li>
<li>Feb 13/14 - Dresden is destroyed by a firestorm after Allied bombing raids.</li>
<li>March 6, 1945 - Last German offensive of the war begins to defend oil fields in Hungary.</li>
<li>March 7, 1945 - Allies take Cologne and establish a bridge across the Rhine at Remagen.</li>
<li>March 30, 1945 - Soviet troops capture Danzig.</li>
<li>In April - Allies discover stolen Nazi art and wealth hidden in salt mines.</li>
<li>April 1, 1945 - U.S. troops encircle Germans in the Ruhr; Allied offensive in North Italy.</li>
<li>April 12, 1945 - Allies liberate Buchenwald and Belsen concentration camps;<br />
President Roosevelt dies. Truman becomes President.</li>
<li>April 16, 1945 - Soviet troops begin their final attack on Berlin; Americans enter Nuremberg.</li>
<li>April 18, 1945 - German forces in the Ruhr surrender.</li>
<li>April 21, 1945 - Soviets reach Berlin.</li>
<li>April 28, 1945 - Mussolini is captured and hanged by Italian partisans; Allies take Venice.	</li>
<li>April 29, 1945 - U.S. 7th Army liberates Dachau.	</li>
<li>April 30, 1945 - Adolf Hitler commits suicide.	</li>
<li>May 2, 1945 - German troops in Italy surrender.	</li>
<li>May 7, 1945 - Unconditional surrender of all German forces to Allies.</li>
<li>May 8, 1945 - V-E (Victory in Europe) Day.</li>
<li>May 9, 1945 - Hermann Göring is captured by members of the U.S. 7th Army.</li>
<li>May 23, 1945 - SS Reichsführer Himmler commits suicide; German High Command and Provisional Government imprisoned.</li>
<li>June 5, 1945 - Allies divide up Germany and Berlin and take over the government.	</li>
<li>June 26, 1945 - United Nations Charter is signed in San Francisco.</li>
<li>July 1, 1945 - U.S., British, and French troops move into Berlin.</li>
<li>July 16, 1945 - First U.S. atomic bomb test; Potsdam Conference begins.</li>
<li>July 26, 1945 - Atlee succeeds Churchill as British Prime Minister.</li>
<li>Aug 6, 1945 - First atomic bomb dropped, on Hiroshima, Japan.</li>
<li>Aug 8, 1945 - Soviets declares war on Japan and invade Manchuria.</li>
<li>Aug 9, 1945 - Second atomic bomb dropped, on Nagasaki, Japan.</li>
<li>Aug 14, 1945 - Japanese agree to unconditional surrender.</li>
<li>Sept 2, 1945 - Japanese sign the surrender agreement;  V-J (Victory over Japan) Day.</li>
<li>Oct 24, 1945 - United Nations is officially born.</li>
<li>Nov 20, 1945 - Nuremberg war crimes trials begin.</li>
<p><strong>1946</strong></p>
<li>Oct 16 - Hermann Göring commits suicide two hours before his scheduled execution.</li>
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<title><![CDATA[Buying Art at Auction &amp; Estate Sales Proves Lucrative]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 01:59:20 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Daryle Lambert</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[From Daryle Lambert&#8217;s 31 Club Blog

What a great radio show I had with Auctionwally. I have be]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_sozZZCWv_aU/SCxeExKnnqI/AAAAAAAAAwk/pQ3y3yMlQig/s1600-h/20061109auction%5B1%5D.jpg"><img style="display:block;cursor:hand;text-align:center;margin:0 auto 10px;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_sozZZCWv_aU/SCxeExKnnqI/AAAAAAAAAwk/pQ3y3yMlQig/s320/20061109auction%5B1%5D.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></p>
<p>What a great radio show I had with Auctionwally. I have been answering the phone ever since. In this increasingly more difficult economy, people are beginning to listen more closely to what we are saying, and discovering it makes great sense and might be a solution for their financial dilemmas.</p>
<p>Our Member, William called the show, and I was so glad to hear from him. He is eager to be the winner of the 31 Club race to the million dollars. We speak with one another often on the phone or by e-mail, and he is learning at a very quick pace. Being a newcomer to this industry, he wasn’t sure how long it would take to master the skills for success. But, he simply went out, on perhaps, his first treasure hunting venture and promptly purchased a painting for $40. We’ve discovered it has a retail value of $3,500. Not bad for a newbie.</p>
<p>This is exactly why I make every effort to preview the paintings before I go to an auction or even a house sale if I am able. I can learn more about it and make an offer or bid based on knowledge. I truly believe that it is in the area of paintings that you can find the one treasure that can change the way you are living. So often, I’ve found that sellers do not have the resources to truly evaluate a painting. This can apply to individual sellers or auction houses. If they don’t subscribe to an art service, but only depend on book guides like “Davenports”, they may come no where near the true value of the painting they’re trying to sell.</p>
<p>Let’s go to the call I got yesterday from our member, Cecil R. and use this as an example to see how this kind of thing plays out. A friend of Cecil’s, who knew he had an interest in paintings, called him to tell him about two Charles Partridge Adams paintings up for sale through an auction house in Owensboro, Kentucky. In the Davenport’s guide, Adams is listed, but the price for his works are moderate. When we went to a service like Ask Art, we found that within the last month or so, a small oil on canvas of his sold for $12,000.</p>
<p>So, now you’ve got two paintings by Charles Partridge Adams listed in the local paper, and I’m fairly certain they were listed in the Antique Trader as well. Wouldn’t it seem like everyone, including their aunt and uncle, would know these were being sold and would surely show up and outbid a newbie? Well, everyone must’ve stayed away thinking that these fine paintings would surely sell for more money than they were willing to spend, especially with the market for paintings being so strong. Yes, indeed, everybody stayed home, and this opened the door for Cecil, to snatch those two paintings for (drumroll………………………) $700 apiece!!! Cecil might just have made himself about $18,500 -- conservatively.</p>
<p>With that example, let me stress a couple of things. First, Don’t presume that just because a painting is listed in an estate sale ad or an auction ad, that it’s priced just right.</p>
<p>Second, consider that the name of the artist, alone, might keep many buyers away. Buyers will often stay away when they’ve had a “rational” conversation with themselves that goes something like this: “Since it was listed in the ad, everyone and their uncle will now know it’s for sale. So, there will be plenty of interested and capable buyers lined up to buy. They will all bid the painting up beyond my reach, so I’ll just stay home and not waste my time. In that way, I’ll save on gasoline and be able to sit on the couch and watch TV today, since it’s raining anyway.</p>
<p>Third, never presume that you know what is going to happen at a sale, whether auction or estate sale or house sale. You might be right, but – what if you’re not? What if you’re completely wrong, and you never even bothered to step foot out of the house?</p>
<p>Fourth, before you decide not to go at all, take my experience into your mind before you decide. You see, II have found that even when I’ve gone for a particular piece and it’s been bid up or priced higher than I’m willing to pay, I have usually stumbled upon other treasures that I would have missed, had I decided to stay home.<br />
Your success will be based upon the number of items you have the opportunity to buy. So if you don't get out of the house to buy, your chances of success are very limited. Get out of that house. Your treasures are awaiting you.</p>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">For more information, visit my web site at http://www.31corp.com.</div>
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<link>http://gracefulflavor.wordpress.com/?p=1242</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 01:56:02 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Jeff Ventura</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[New information is coming to the surface that implicates Comcast in blocking BitTorrent traffic on i]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>New information is coming to the surface that implicates Comcast in blocking BitTorrent traffic on its network.  This is bad enough on the surface, but it gets a triple badness score when you consider it told the FCC the contrary this past February.</p>
<blockquote><p>Ben Scott, policy director of Free Press, said in a response: “Consumers have no reason left to trust their cable company. This independent study confirms that Comcast is still blocking its customers from using popular applications — despite the FCC’s investigation and widespread public outrage. And worse, the harmful practice appears to be spreading through the marketplace.”</p>
<p>After being pressured by the press and thousands of upset customers, Comcast has announced that it will stop targeting BitTorrent transfers, (somewhere in the future) and promised to invest in its network capacity. For the time being the company will continue to throttle BitTorrent users.</p>
<p>We have asked the FCC for a response, but they had not yet responded at time of going to press.</p></blockquote>
<p>I have Comcast and hate them.  Their TV sucks, they can't fix some of my HD channels (which really makes my new <a href="http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/B001413D94/105-8474929-8249262?SubscriptionId=1MG1X7E5CAV3QRW9NMG2" target="blank">Samsung LN46A650</a> angry) and I know for a fact they throttle my BitTorrent traffic.  As soon as I get a new place, I'm done with them if I have any say in the matter at all.</p>
<p><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/comcast-lied-to-fcc-blocks-bittorrent-traffic-247-080515/" target="blank">Link</a></p>
<p>(via <a href="http://daringfireball.net/linked/2008/may#thu-15-comcast" target="blank">DF</a>)</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Christian Group: Starbucks Logo Too Smutty]]></title>
<link>http://coolaggregator.wordpress.com/?p=36</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 01:52:58 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>valdoor</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Starbucks&#8217; new retro logo is too hot to handle for one Christian group, the Star Tribune repor]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Starbucks' new retro logo is too hot to handle for one Christian group, <a href="http://www.startribune.com/nation/18969709.html?location_refer=Most%20Viewed:Homepage">the Star Tribune reports</a>, as it "has a naked woman on it with her legs spread like a prostitute..."</p>
<p>Here's the logo: <a href="http://coolaggregator.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/3starbucks.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-37" src="http://coolaggregator.wordpress.com/files/2008/05/3starbucks.jpg" alt="" width="440" height="320" /></a></p>
<p>What do you think? Coffee porn?</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Shortcut to Getting PageRank Quickly for Free]]></title>
<link>http://easyas321.wordpress.com/?p=50</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 01:51:30 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>easyas321</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Shortcut to Getting PageRank Quickly for Free
The one thing that helps this blog to attain PR4 is th]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3>Shortcut to Getting PageRank Quickly for Free</h3>
<p>The one thing that helps this blog to attain PR4 is the backlinks from http://wordpress.com/tag/….</p>
<p>In order to get these backlinks, you will need to categorize each of your posts. You will need to categorize your post according to the WordPress.com tags.</p>
<p>For example, I will put this post under the category of <strong>pagerank</strong>. When I do this, my blog post will be added to wordpress.com/tag/pagerank which is a PR5 web page. So I will get a PR5 backlink to this post.</p>
<p>And I will also put this post in the category of <strong>blogging</strong>. The page, wordpress.com/tag/blogging is PR7 and this new post very likely will be spidered by Googlebot within hours.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[McAfee Shows Shoppers Your Site's Safe and Secure]]></title>
<link>http://novascotiagirl.wordpress.com/?p=110</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 01:29:12 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>auroragg</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[McAfee&#8217;s e-commerce service provides help with payment card industry compliance and tests and ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>McAfee's e-commerce service provides help with payment card industry compliance and tests and scans daily for threats. Plus, news on its partnership with Yahoo.</p>
<blockquote><p><em><a href="http://novascotiagirl.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/mcafee.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-111" src="http://novascotiagirl.wordpress.com/files/2008/05/mcafee.jpg" alt="McAfee Secure for Web Sites " width="150" height="68" /></a>"The new service, while useful on any Web site, is especially beneficial on e-commerce sites where shopping carts are frequently abandoned when a consumer doesn't feel the site is completely secure. At the same time, the service offers online businesses daily managed security scans that help them meet Payment Card Industry (PCI) security standards."</em></p></blockquote>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.ecommerce-guide.com/news/news/article.php/3745396">McAfee Shows Shoppers Your Site's Safe and Secure</a></strong><br />
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<title><![CDATA[Teddy Bear Parties]]></title>
<link>http://1sugar1spice.wordpress.com/?p=6</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 01:12:42 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>gourmetalex</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[I am an indepenent consultant with a company called Bears &#8216;N&#8217; Buddies.
I am also a birth]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am an indepenent consultant with a company called <a href="http://alexandria.bearsnbuddies.ca" target="_blank">Bears 'N' Buddies</a>.</p>
<p>I am also a birthday party consultant. I get to go to people's homes and help them with their Bears 'N' Buddies birthday parties. It's a lot of fun. I will show up and do some crafts with the children. We stuff their new teddy bears and/or animals. Next we decorate their take-home bags.</p>
<p>It's quite a lot of fun for the children as well as for me.</p>
<p>If you're interested, you can always check out my personal website <a href="http://myfavouriteteddy.webs.com" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Color Properties]]></title>
<link>http://shoutvmovies.wordpress.com/2008/05/16/color-properties/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 01:09:37 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>shoutvmovies</dc:creator>
<guid>http://shoutvmovies.wordpress.com/2008/05/16/color-properties/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Hue
Hue is one more vocable for color. Red, blue, and yellow are the preparatory hues, and when comb]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hue
<p>Hue is one more vocable for color. Red, blue, and yellow are the preparatory hues, and when combined in equal amounts they create the secondary hues orange, green and violet. When primary and proxy hues that are adjacent on the color wheel are combined, you get the tertiary hues. These flag are shown in the color wheel diagram. When you mix the primary colors in different amounts, you get a limitless number of colors.</p>
<p>&#62;<img src="http://img161.imageshack.us/img161/4176/71924916lg8.jpg" />The Color WheelHSV Color<b>Hue</b>SaturationValue
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<title><![CDATA[Types of Speakers]]></title>
<link>http://tvmoviesusa.wordpress.com/2008/05/16/types-of-speakers/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 00:49:36 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>tvmoviesusa</dc:creator>
<guid>http://tvmoviesusa.wordpress.com/2008/05/16/types-of-speakers/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The most adroitly keynote speaker or entertainer is someone who will suit a corporate event&#8217;s ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The most adroitly keynote speaker or entertainer is someone who will suit a corporate event's objectives, themes, audience and messages match the event objectives, themes, audience and more. What are the more popular speaker categories today and who are some of the professional speakers hired close to event planners for corporate and confederation events?A.
<p>Professional speakers and corporate entertainers fall into the following popular categories:</p>
<p><b>Change:</b> </p>
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<li>Gary Bradt
<li>Linda Edgecombe
<li>Robert Kriegel</li>
</ul>
<p><b>Innovation/Creativity:</b></p>
<ul>
<li>Dewitt Jones
<li>Mick Fleetwood
<li>Joel Zeff</li>
</ul>
<p><b>Excellence:</b></p>
<ul>
<li>John Foley
<li>Afterburner Seminars
<li>Vince Poscente</li>
</ul>
<p><b>Customer Service:</b> </p>
<ul>
<li>Doug Lipp
<li>Jackie &#38; Kevin Freiberg
<li>Don Peppers &#38; Martha Rogers</li>
</ul>
<p><b>Motivation:</b> </p>
<ul>
<li>Keith Harrell
<li>Tony Alessandra
<li>Tommy Lasorda</li>
</ul>
<p><b>Sales:</b> </p>
<ul>
<li>Sue Ershler
<li>Terri Sjodin
<li>Duane Cashin</li>
</ul>
<p><b>Personal Growth and Development:</b> </p>
<ul>
<li>Steve Rizzo
<li>Amanda Gore
<li>John Cassis</li>
</ul>
<p><b>Generational Issues:</b> </p>
<ul>
<li>Cam Marston
<li>Lynne Lancaster &#38; David Stillman
<li>Robert Wendover</li>
</ul>
<p><b>Leadership/Management:</b> </p>
<ul>
<li>Ram Charan
<li>Steve Farber
<li>Ben Zander
<li>Marcus Buckingham</li>
</ul>
<p><b>Current Events/Journalists:</b> </p>
<ul>
<li>Ken Burns
<li>Linda Ellerbee
<li>Deborah Norville</li>
</ul>
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<title><![CDATA[Earthquake Insurance]]></title>
<link>http://tvmoviesusa.wordpress.com/2008/05/16/earthquake-insurance/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 00:49:33 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>tvmoviesusa</dc:creator>
<guid>http://tvmoviesusa.wordpress.com/2008/05/16/earthquake-insurance/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Insure Your Business Against Earthquake Damage
Earthquakes are devastating natural events. From the ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Insure Your Business Against Earthquake Damage
<p>Earthquakes are devastating natural events. From the business insurance point of view, earthquakes role the worst congenial of risk - the one that everyone &#34;knows&#34; is going to happen &#34;someday.&#34; Earthquakes cannot be prevented or stopped. Building codes can be updated to lift protect buildings, but this has only helped in recent years. In the 1994 California Northridge earthquakes, insurers saw claims exceeding $12 Billion according to the California Department of Insurance. Even in the face of such gamble, at worst 12% of California homeowners purchase earthquake coverage.</p>
<p>Earthquakes are also regional events fixed to known liability zones. These are piercing risk areas, but can go decades with no activity. Out of sight, peripheral exhausted of mind - in 1996, 30% of California homeowners purchased earthquake protection, one decade later, that number has fallen to 12% straight though the risk is the same.</p>
<p>Because of the nature of the risk, insurers exclude and do not sufficient for earthquake losses tipsy standard residential or business assurance policies. This includes the standard vocation owners policy.</p>
<p>Because the losses of a new quake in populous California, the state has set close to up the California Earthquake Authority. Property and Casualty Insurers commit up to $1.3 billion for the fund. Californians salary more than half of all of the earthquake insurance premiums in the United States.</p>
<p><b>The Earthquake Endorsement</b><br /> Earthquake coverage is purchased as an ratification to the standard business owners policy. The endorsement covers damage caused by shaking during an earthquake including structural edifice damages and the devastation to fortune. The endorsement obligation be purchased from the business insurer although California businesses can slip through the California Earthquake Authority for coverage.</p>
<p><b>As a Separate Policy</b><br /> Earthquake insurance can be purchased as a separate policy. This makes sense for larger businesses seeking to save premiums blanket on their business protection coverage. However, for smaller businesses it may prove awkward - in the event of a loss - to make claims with separate insurers for damage. For example, ardent damage caused by a gas explosion is still a covered fire shrinkage - not an earthquake loss - but, the small business owner may submit the claim to the separate earthquake insurer. It would be easier to submit the claim to one insurer and have the insurer allocate the loss to fire or earthquake.</p>
<p><b>Costs and Deductible</b><br /> Earthquake insurance is purchased as a premium per $1,000 of valuation. Premiums vary from location with the Western United States having premiums ten times as high as those in the Eastern United States. The premiums also take into account age of the buildings and types of structure with wood frame buildings being cheaper than brick and stone. The Insurance Information Institute states (using residential figures) premiums run thirty to sixty cents per $1,000 in the East, while similar coverage runs three to fifteen dollars per $1,000 in the West.</p>
<p>Earthquake insurance carries a percentage deductible ranging from 10 - 15%. This means if the business suffers an earthquake loss of $1 million, the business would be responsible for the first $100 - 150 thousand.</p>
<p><b>Other Business Policies That Cover Earthquake Losses</b><br /> Other common business insurance policies may cover earthquake losses without additional endorsement:
<ul>
<li>Commercial Auto - Most standard commercial auto policies cover loss or damage from earthquakes. This can include damage from falling debris, fire, or other events.</li>
<li>Workers' Compensation - Injury to employees at off by earthquake effects is a covered loss under workers' compensation insurance.</li>
<li>Business Interruption - Some business interruption policies do not exclude earthquakes as covered events, but stoppage with your insurance professional.</li>
</ul>
<p>If you do business in an at risk area (especially California or the West), you may scarceness to consider a separate earthquake policy or consider an endorsement adding such protection. This is one risk that you know will encounter someday.</p>
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<link>http://jtaplin.wordpress.com/?p=594</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 00:39:58 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Jon Taplin</dc:creator>
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The tough go shopping. Just as we were running out of steam on our Socratic dialogue on happiness, ]]></description>
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<p><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;">The tough go shopping. Just as we were <a href="http://jtaplin.wordpress.com/2008/05/12/natures-revenge/">running out of steam on our Socratic dialogue on happiness</a>, the Wall Street Journal weighs in on <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121081365150393885.html?mod=hps_us_inside_today">the joys of shopping</a>.</span></p>
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<p class="times">A study to be published in the June edition of Psychological Science magazine found that research subjects who viewed a "sad" video of a boy mourning the death of his father offered to pay four times as much for an item than those who were shown a "neutral" nature video.</p>
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<p class="times">In other words, if you shop to fight depression, like Carrie Bradshaw in "Sex in The City", you are going to end up with a closet full of stuff you don't need.</p>
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<p class="times">Research shows that people often do get a high from shopping -- the brain releases chemicals such as dopamine or serotonin when a person is stimulated by discovering something new, such as a handbag. In 2006, a paper in the American Journal of Psychiatry noted that a survey of 2,500 adults showed that 6% of women and 5.5% of men displayed symptoms consistent with a compulsive buying disorder.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Innovative Recycling Solution for a Common Layout Problem.  ]]></title>
<link>http://modelrailroading.wordpress.com/?p=73</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 00:34:41 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Author of Interacting with Model Railroading</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Most of us enjoy beverages that come in Aluminium, &amp; Glass. Fizzy beverages are too often seen o]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Most of us enjoy beverages that come in Aluminium, &#38; Glass. Fizzy beverages are too often seen on layouts, crushing scenery, hindering operations, and add to clutter, especially if they're abandoned by their owners after having been consumed. For the solution to a folding layout cupholder, go here: <a href="http://www.newrailmodels.com/Products/Accessories/CupHolder/Default.htm">http://www.newrailmodels.com/Products/Accessories/CupHolder/Default.htm</a></p>
<p>What happens if cans have nowhere easy to go when you're done with them? Here's an interesting solution that the guys at the Niles club came up with: A can &#38; bottle chute disguised as a scale gas storage tank!</p>
<p><img src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o297/MilesWestern/1Candrop.jpg" alt="" /> </p>
<p><img src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o297/MilesWestern/2candrop.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>You can use a small office trashcan for personal layouts, or for clubs, use a full-sized trashcan.</p>
<p>By taking all those pre-sorted cans to a recycling center, it will probably pay for itself in a couple of trips! Who would have guessed an industry on the layout could actually make you money?</p>
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