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You Owe Money! (Advice Goddess Blog)

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:05:34 GMT

... is the fifth FDIC-insured failure of the year. The last FDIC-insured failure in California was the Southern Pacific Bank, Torrance, on February 7, 2003. And then some people who were depositors are paying, too: At the time of closing, IndyMac Bank, F.S.B. had about $1 billion of potentially uninsured deposits held by approximately 10,000 depositors. The FDIC will begin contacting...

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The Early History of Bungee Jumping (The mental_floss Blogs)

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 03:47:55 GMT

Talk about a serious leap of faith. The first land divers plunged head first toward hard soil, all in the name of agriculture. The Jump and Grind If all your friends jumped off a cliff, would you do it, too? Chances are, if you’re a Vanuatan male and hoping for a really spectacular yam crop this year, the answer’s yes. Vanuatu, an archipelago in the Southern Pacific perhaps best known...

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IndyMac Bank 33rd to Fail Since October 2000 (Bob McCarty Writes)

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:11:18 GMT

... 22, 2005 The First National Bank of Blanchardville, Blanchardville, WI May 9, 2003 April 28, 2008 Southern Pacific Bank, Torrance, CA February 7, 2003 April 28, 2008 The Farmers Bank of Cheneyville, Cheneyville, LA December 17, 2002 October 20, 2004 The Bank of Alamo, Alamo, TN November 8, 2002 March 18, 2005 AmTrade International Bank of Georgia, Atlanta, GA September 30, 2002 September...

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Supreme Court, Inc.: Supremely Pro-Business (Indybay newswire)

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:45:47 GMT

Supreme Court, Inc.: Supremely Pro-Business - by Stephen Lendman Pro-business Supreme Court rulings are nothing new, and it's likely most damaging one ever occurred in 1886. In Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railway, the High Court granted corporations legal personhood. Ever since, they've had the same rights as people but not the responsibilities. Their limited liability status...

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Supreme Court, Inc.: Supremely Pro-Business (The Intelligence Daily)

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:07:39 GMT

) -- Pro-business Supreme Court rulings are nothing new, and it's likely most damaging one ever occurred in 1886. In Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railway, the High Court granted corporations legal personhood. Ever since, they've had the same rights as people but not the responsibilities. Their limited liability status exempts them. They've profited hugely as a result and have...

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Southern Pacific Resource Corp.: Independent Resource Report Confirms Significant Project Area on Southern Pacific Lands (Market Wire - Energy and Utilities)

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:00:00 GMT

CALGARY, ALBERTA (MARKET WIRE) Southern Pacific Resource Corp. ("Southern Pacific" or the "Corporation") (TSX VENTURE: STP) is pleased to announce that an independent evaluation of the Corporation's oil sands leases in Athabasca has confirmed the identification of two significant project areas at McKay and Long Lake.

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Toxic Pacific (Straddling The Atlantic)

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:28:00 GMT

I wrote about this a little while ago , but I thought I'd point out that the VBS series on the giant plastic conglomeration in the southern Pacific gyre is now up to view. Here's part one. And I must stress, VBS's journalism just isn't the same creature as VICE magazine - which I find to be steadily deteriorating - and shouldn't be pre-judged on the magazine's merits. Give it a chance,...

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Shuttle Discovery Undocks From Space Station (Space.com)

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:09:51 GMT

"We wish them the best with their expedition and we hope we left them a better, more capable space station than when we arrived," Kelly said of the station's three-man crew, saying goodbye after delivering Japan's Kibo lab. "Sayonara."Discovery as the two spacecraft flew 214 miles (344 km) above the southern Pacific Ocean, just east of Australia. The spacecraft is due to land Saturday...

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Snakes in San Diego: Potent, Powerful Venom Cause for Concern (YubaNet.com)

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:29:45 GMT

For the second year in a row, UC San Diego Medical Center toxicologists are reporting unusually powerful snake bites and unusually extreme patient reactions to those bites. Since January, several patients have suffered bites with severe symptoms, such as difficulty breathing, often after a bite from the Southern Pacific Rattlesnake.

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Lehman’s criminal cover-up (NakedShorts)

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:39:03 GMT

Seems to be underway in the UK: ...The bank has, however, not taken the big US hits that have shredded its rivals’ balance sheets. Just how bad Lehman’s experience [in UK sub-prime lending] has been cannot yet be judged because both Southern Pacific Mortgage and Preferred Mortgages have still not filed their accounts for the period since November 2005. The 2006 accounts were due in September...

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Fitch Affirms 4 classes from 1 Southern Pacific 1997 Subprime Transaction (Business Wire)

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:48:00 GMT

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fitch Ratings has taken the following rating actions on 5 mortgage pass-through certificates. Unless stated otherwise, any bonds that were previously placed on

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Southern Pacific Resource Corp.: Southern Pacific Announces Formation of a SAGD Project Team (Market Wire)

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:51:00 GMT

CALGARY, ALBERTA (MARKET WIRE) Southern Pacific Resource Corp. ("Southern Pacific" or the "Corporation") (TSX VENTURE: STP) is pleased to announce that several key positions have been finalized to initiate the planning and preparation of its first oilsands project. During the past winter, Southern Pacific drilled a total of 32 core holes on its 59 section block...

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IA Global Announces the Closing of the 100% Acquisition of Asia Premier Executive Suites, Inc. (Business Wire)

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:15:00 GMT

... bandwidth and technical support 365 days a year. IA Global intends to use Asia Premier as its Southern Pacific hub to which future BPO acquisitions will be added. IA Global confirmed that it has taken immediate action to merge the operations of Shift Resources, the BPO business it acquired on April 10, 2008, into the Asia Premier facilities and business. The combined business will...

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Faces in the crowd: Western landscapes get dab of the East (with photo) (Houston Chronicle)

Thu, 29 May 2008 07:54:56 GMT

... during the years she raised her children, moving throughout the United States with Don's job with Southern Pacific Railroad.In 1984, Doyle began lessons with Diana Kan in the technique, philosophy and materials of Oriental brush painting in Lafayette, La., and started selling pieces at outdoor markets.Her work got recognition and was exhibited at the Sumi-E Society of America Annual...

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Fijian Honeymooning (Frejas Blog)

Wed, 28 May 2008 05:28:18 GMT

Fijian accommodations offer sun drenched beaches, friendly attitudes and crystal clear water. For a honeymoon, Fijian accommodations are simply one of the best options available for romance, seclusion and sun. Fijian Honeymooning Fiji is a group of islands that are officially known as the Republic of the Fiji Islands and it is located in the southern [...]

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Big donation may help save Pioneer Park locomotive (Arizona Republic)

Tue, 27 May 2008 18:05:12 GMT

... who visited Mesa this month to see the train his late father drove more than half a century ago.Southern Pacific Railroad donated the locomotive to Mesa in 1958. For decades it served as a focal point in the Pioneer Park playground and for generations of Mesans it is embedded in childhood memories.But it was fenced off for safety reasons in the 1990s and has been deteriorating ever...

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Rattlesnake bite victims' symptoms growing more extreme (Dallas Morning News)

Sun, 25 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT

... to recover.In each state, the snakes responsible for the bites have been different. It's the Southern Pacific rattlesnake in California, the prairie rattlesnake in Colorado and the Mojave in Arizona.In letters last week, Arizona authorities notified hundreds of physicians and emergency rooms of the extreme symptoms, which can be mistaken for other ailments and delay the injection...

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Boarding a night train at Kiddieland. Kiddieland Amusement Park. Melrose Park Illinois USA. September 2006. (Eddie's Rail Fan Page)

Fri, 23 May 2008 18:18:00 GMT

... train is painted in the orange, red and black color scheme used during the 1940's and 50's on the Southern Pacific passenger trains on the west coast. This color schemes was called the "Daylight" color scheme, and was used primarilly on the Southern Pacific's mainline limiteds.

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Barons, bananas: books for summer (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)

Thu, 22 May 2008 03:04:00 GMT

SINCE SUMMER VACATION is coming a little early this year, so is your summer reading list of books with business and economic themes:The Associates: Four Capitalists Who Created California, Richard Rayner. The Big Four -- Leland Stanford, Collis Huntington, Mark Hopkins, Charles Crocker -- organized and built the Central Pacific and later the Southern Pacific railroads, in...

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Progress M-63 successfully (Russia News Net)

Sat, 17 May 2008 09:23:12 GMT

MOSCOW, April 7 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's Progress M-63 space cargo ship was successfully 'buried' on Monday at a spaceship cemetery in the southern Pacific, a Mission Control spokesman sai...

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