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Debt Resolution Technology to Alleviate Alarming CFPB Findings and Disrupt Debt Settlement Industry

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Snyder's book has received 29 industry awards. His father, pilot of the 'Susan Ruth', was shot down over Europe during WWII. 'Shot Down' is a dramatic retelling of the stories surrounding that event.

Snyder's book has received 29 industry awards. His father, pilot of the 'Susan Ruth', was shot down over Europe during WWII. 'Shot Down' is a dramatic retelling of the stories surrounding that event.

Revolutionary production process allows a simple transfer of a common OPV preliminary product to real customised OPV products

A Florida Supreme Court ruling could change the game for those facing DUI charges. The court heard arguments relating to the discovery of information pertaining to alcohol breath tests.

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4 Eco Services, a local plumbing, heating and air conditioning service company, is reminding homeowners to schedule their annual furnace tune-up in preparation for winter.

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Supertek Camera modules have been implemented in many sectors, such as industrial, security, traffic, home & entertainment, and education. Now it provides customized service for the camera modules.

Humanity Can Be Enslaved Under a Chinese Authoritarian Artificial Intelligence Surveillance State via Drones, Robotics and Bio-Digital Social Programming, Says The AI Organization.

Changes would limit shareholders' ability to file resolutions at annual meetings of public companies

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Snyder's book has received 29 industry awards. His father, pilot of the 'Susan Ruth', was shot down over Europe during WWII. 'Shot Down' is a dramatic retelling of the stories surrounding that event.

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California's most whimsical and enchanting festival of wanderlust and fantasy attracts thousands to the historic downtown with its awe inspiring fire-shooting Wonderland recreations that turns the city into a fantasy world for children and adults.

Oklahoma City-based author, Darlene Franklin is a true prototype of the literary world with her 68 published books and her 2020 goal for #75. That she did this mainly from an assisted living facility isn't even the most impressive part of this story.

DSPEC selected and qualified as a GSA MOBIS contractor to provide management and consulting services that improve federal agency performance and help meet the government's mission goals.

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GRE Alpha expands their popular line of LED power supplies

Actress and TV Personality Kyle Richards and Fashion Designer Shahida Clayton debuted their new women's contemporary fashion brand, Kyle and Shahida, at NYFW with a little help from their friends...

In 1920, as its population began to explode, Los Angeles was a largely pastoral city of bungalows and palm trees. Thirty years later, choked with smog and traffic, the city had become synonymous with urban sprawl and unplanned growth.

Yet Los Angeles was anything but unplanned, as Jeremiah B.C. Axelrod reveals in this compelling, visually oriented history of the metropolis during its formative years. In a deft mix of cultural and intellectual history that brilliantly illuminates the profound relationship between imagination and place, Inventing Autopia: Dreams And Visions Of The Modern Metropolis In Jazz Age Los Angeles (Berkeley: University Of California Press, 2009) shows how the clash of irreconcilable utopian visions and dreams resulted in the invention of an unforeseen new form of urbanism--sprawling, illegible, fractured--that would reshape not only Southern California but much of the nation in the years to come.

At 401 pages, it could seem like a daunting read, but those interested in Los Angeles history, urbanization, or the rise of the automobile will find this enjoyable. It's a great compliment to the Metro Library's historic transit and transportation studies collection. Many of these documents, which date back to 1911, have been digitized and are available on our website in full-text PDF.

Axelrod focuses on the 1920s when Los Angeles was growing at a fast clip. As we noted back in July, the number of automobile registrations in Los Angeles County quadrupled between 1914 and 1922 - making it very clear that the city's embrace of the auto would set the stage for decades of congestion and other issues.

Going back further in history is another equally seminal story about transportation in the West. Acclaimed historian Walter R. Borneman has written a dazzling account of the battle to build the first transportation system across America.

Rival Rails: The Race To Build America's Greatest Transcontinental Railroad (New York: Random House, 2010) is an action-packed epic of how an empire was born—and the remarkable men who made it happen.

After the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in 1869, the rest of the country was up for grabs, and the race was on. The prize: a better, shorter, less snowy route through the corridors of the American Southwest, linking Los Angeles to Chicago.

Borneman lays out in compelling detail the sectional rivalries, contested routes, political posturing, and ambitious business dealings that unfolded as an increasing number of lines pushed their way across the country.

The author brings to life the legendary business geniuses and so-called robber barons who made millions and fought the elements—and one another—to move America, including:

William Jackson Palmer, whose leadership of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad relied on innovative narrow gauge trains that could climb steeper grades and take tighter curves;

Collis P. Huntington of the Central Pacific and Southern Pacific lines, a magnate insatiably obsessed with trains—and who was not above bribing congressmen to satisfy his passion;

Edward Payson Ripley, visionary president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, whose fiscal conservatism and smarts brought the industry back from the brink; and

Jay Gould, ultrasecretive, strong-armer and one-man powerhouse.

In addition, Borneman captures the herculean efforts required to construct these roads—the laborers who did the back-breaking work, boring tunnels through mountains and throwing bridges across unruly rivers, the brakemen who ran atop moving cars, the tracklayers crushed and killed by runaway trains.

From backroom deals in Washington, D.C., to armed robberies of trains in the wild deserts, from glorified cattle cars to streamliners and Super Chiefs, all the great incidents and innovations of a mighty American era are re-created with unprecedented power in this new work destined to be a classic.

Turning now to urban planning, author Patrick Condon discusses transportation, housing equity, job distribution, economic development, and ecological systems issues and synthesizes his knowledge and research into a simple-to-understand set of urban design rules that can, if followed, help save the planet.

Seven Rules For Sustainable Communities: Design Strategies For The Post Carbon World (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2010) clearly connects the form of our cities to their ecological, economic, and social consequences. This book takes on a wide range of complex and contentious issues and distills them down to convincing and practical solutions.

Of particular importance is how city form affects the production of planet-warming greenhouse gases. The author explains this relationship in an accessible way, and goes on to show how conforming to seven simple rules for community design could literally do a world of good. Each chapter in the book explains one rule in depth, adding a wealth of research to support each claim. If widely used, Condon argues, these rules would lead to a much more livable world for future generations—a world that is not unlike the better parts of our own.

In Last Exit: Privatization And Deregulation Of The U.S. Transportation System (Washington, D.C.: Brookings, 2010), Clifford Winston reminds us that transportation services and infrastructure in the United States were originally introduced by private firms.

The case for subsequent public ownership and management of the system was weak, in his view, and here he assesses the case for privatization and deregulation to greatly improve Americans satisfaction with their transportation systems. How can this be done?

Writing in the New York Times, Harvard University economics professor Edward L. Glaeser points out that:

Because the public sector controls almost all roads, airports and urban transit, we see the downsides of public control on a daily basis, but we don’t experience the social costs that could accompany privatization. A private airport operator might try to exploit its monopoly power over a particular market or cut costs in a way that increases the probability of very costly, but rare, disaster.

The complexity and risks of switching to private provision means that Mr. Winston is wise to call for experimentation rather than wholesale privatization. An incremental process of trying things out will provide information and build public support.

Yet many of Mr. Winston’s recommendations are incremental and can be done without privatization or much risk.

The book covers privatization and deregulation of roads, airports, air traffic control, mass transit, intercity buses and railway networks.

Kator redesigned the traditional model of micro-finance to work for Nigerian entrepreneurs

Chris Trimble, Tuck School of Business faculty and coauthor of "Ten Rules for Strategic Innovators: From Idea to Execution."

Alan Murray, assistant managing editor of the Wall Street Journal and author of "Revolt in the Boardroom."

Paul Saffo, technology forecaster and author of the HBR article "Six Rules for Effective Forecasting."

Darrell Rigby, partner at Bain & Company and author of "Winning in Turbulence."

Gregory Unruh, director and professor of the Lincoln Center for Ethics in Global Management at the Thunderbird School.

Francis Ford Coppola, acclaimed film director.

Julian Birkinshaw and Jordan Cohen, coauthors of the HBR article "Make Time for the Work that Matters."

Ron Friedman, Ph.D., author of "The Best Place to Work," on how to structure your day to get the most done.

Gareth Jones, author of "Why Should Anyone Work Here?", explains the things managers know, but struggle to do.

Joel Peterson, chairman of JetBlue Airways, has spent a career leading teams, building businesses, and managing people at every level. Along the way, he's learned valuable lessons about the best ways to bring on new talent – as well as when and how to let people go. He also teaches at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and is the author of the book “Entrepreneurial Leadership: The Art of Launching New Ventures, Inspiring Others, and Running Stuff.”

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Implementation of KAMs in true spirit will certainly strengthen the faith on Chartered Accountants and also add value to the organization having strong foundation of transparency and corporate governance.

The budget talks about taxing “stateless people” who game the system, hop around from country to country and do not pay tax in any other jurisdiction. The government has assured that “bona fide workers” will not be taxed.

It’s the lack of clarity that makes one wonder if the note was a knee-jerk reaction, or a well-thought-out strategy.

Now all domestic airlines, including government-owned Air India, have announced a waiver on re-booking charges in case a customer does not want to travel on the designated date. Wadia group-owned private carrier GoAir, which was earlier offering free cancellation, has said it will now allow people to only reschedule their flights for no charge.

They have also asked for the suspension of the Optional Practical Training (OPT) programme which lets foreign students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) work in the United States for up to three years after graduating. In 2019, over 223,000 people had their OPTs approved or extended.

FDI flows from neighbouring countries will be affected due to new screening rules: Shardul Shroff

"The apprehended extremists include the recruitment module operational head Lankeshwar Koch alias Lambu, a Myanmar-trained self-styled area commander of Lower Assam. Four Bangladesh-trained militants and two newly recruited cadres were arrested," the spokesman said.

Nepal's Foreign Affairs Ministry in a statement said the government "has learnt with regret" about the inauguration of the link road connecting to Lipulekh pass, which Nepal claims to be part of its territory. The 80-Km new road inaugurated by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday is expected to help pilgrims visiting Kailash-Mansarovar in Tibet in China.

A Brooklyn, New York, tax return preparer was sentenced to 15 months in prison today for preparing false returns for his clients and himself, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Richard P. Donoghue for the Eastern District of New York.