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Tap into your talents as a writer, artist, photographer, woodworker, even. You might be surprised at what you can produce – and how much money you can save, especially around Christmas.Starting your own dating agency? Begin with your friends, keep details of them, and then set free your matchmaking talents. Charge a small annual membership fee and you never know where it might lead. Using the skills that you have to teach? Can you draw well? Teach it. Can you play the piano? Teach it. Are you good at book-keeping? Teach it. Great at yoga? Teach it. Good on computers? Teach "how-to" courses. Are you good at interior design? Help out friends and offer your services. Or needlework? There is a shortage of seamstresses now, why not teach it – or set yourself up to mend things (for a small fee)?Buying protection .
TOP 10 LOCAL BUSINESS STORIES: Look out below Housing bubble bursts ...
Thousands of jobs lost in the home-building and finance industries helped push local and state unemployment rates past the national average for the first time since 2002. Job creation also skidded, dropping several percentage points from 2006 levels. Those faltering indicators generated a $285 million revenue hole through November in the two-year state budget. While gaming executives pointed to the treasury shortfall as evidence of the need for a broad corporate-income or gross-receipts tax, special-interest groups targeted the resort sector for fresh funds. The Nevada State Education Association mounted a petition to raise teachers' salaries through a higher gaming tax, while local lawyer Kermitt Waters launched a drive to triple the levies against the industry. Gaming remains a popular bull's-eye for additional revenue because it is still the state's best-performing economic driver.
Resolve to avoid credit pitfalls
Here's a different spin on financial New Year's resolutions. It's what you should not do in the new year, provided by the National Foundation for Credit Counseling and the Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Northeastern Ohio. These are resolutions you SHOULD break: • Apply for every credit card you receive in the mail. (This makes your credit score lower.) • Charge everything, even those items that you could easily pay for with cash. (This runs up a large debt load.) • Don't open the monthly statements from your creditors in a timely manner. Instead, wait until it's convenient for you. (This equals late charges.) • Open store charge accounts simply because they'll give you 10 percent off today's purchases.
Shanth Sreesanth vows he won't back down
Why should we?" he said. "We have players who can give it back with interest. "What's the worst that can happen? Six sixes? I can always come back next over. All I need is just one ball to get him (the batsman) out." Share this article What is this? .
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To consign VVS Laxman back to number six after his fluent display at first drop at Sydney would be unfortunate. At the same time, demoting Dravid to below the first four in the line-up would mean ignoring his full potential. Kirsten was candid. Rahul is probably more suited to batting at number 3, he said. Now that the Test has become a must-win for India, if they are to avoid defeat in the series, the composition of the bowling attack has assumed even greater importance. Apart from captain Anil Kumble, Rudra Pratap Singh and Ishant Sharma can be safely pencilled in. But whether the Indians will opt for the experience of Harbhajan Singh or the horses-for-courses package of Irfan Pathan is the question. Not surprisingly, Kirsten remarked: I am not sure. Without setting Australia on fire, Harbhajan has bowled well enough from the 2nd innings of the 1st Test to retain his place in the side, whereas Pathan was steady rather than penetrative at Canberra.
Oraw, Smith seek city council spot
Graduate of Montana State University, Western College of Auctioneering and Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary. Married to wife, Virginia Hanson, for over 36 years. Have two children, a daughter, Holly, married to Ryan Meagher, West Des Moines, Iowa, and a son, Joel, Minneapolis, and two grandchildren Alison and Logan Meagher.Work experience Oraw: Assistant Richland County Extension agent, executive vice president of the Sidney Chamber of Commerce, KGCX radio station manager, started Cal Oraw Auction Co. in 1973, general manager of Sidney Insurance/AIM and started Cal Oraw Insurance in 1993.
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