Silver my top tip for 2008 as ABBA returns! « Peter J. Cooper’s Weblog

Silver is often over looked. Consider last week’s gain in the gold price which hit the headlines, up two per cent. Silver was up five per cent in the same week but you will not see that in a newspaper headline.

Toddler's bodies found in German freezer

 In a gruesome incident Police in Germany have recovered bodies of three toddlers kept in freezer. What a shame " Police have discovered the bodies of three dead babies in a freezer of a family home in western Germany, authorities said Monday.Prosecutor's spokesman...

Tip Us on Your Restaurants Hits & Rip Offs for Valentine's Day

It is fine to have The Guardian (Nibbles)  offer suggestions  of a few places in the UK worth a visit on February 14 for some Food of Love.  For those of us who do not live in the UK that will not be much help.  This inspired me to ask everyone who has a...

Transparent String Envelopes as a Travel Organization Tool

The envelopes also do not take much space, they are just a bit larger than the papers themselves and not much heavier either. If you place the most important one (like the schedules, flight codes, maps) on the outside you do not even have to take the paper out, you can see...

Newspaper ask for local gossip in attempt to solve airport real estate mystery

An online newspaper in Rockhampton, Australia, has asked its readers for their gossip in what seems to be a new way of researching stories. In this case the newspaper is investigating a story that property around the Rockhampton, Airport is being bought up by outside mystery...

Wet Phone: How to Help save a ATT 8525 cell phone that fell in the toilet.

How to Help save a ATT 8525 cell phone that fell in the toilet.

Mob suspect nabbed: Tip from local informant led to capture

"Toms River mobster, killer, and federal songbird Thomas Ricciardi's tunes continue to delight prosecutors and confound those with whom he once shared the vow of "omerta," silence.Information Ricciardi provided more than a decade ago led to the arrest Friday of reputed...

Walter Reed 'Tip of Iceberg'; White House Vows to Do Very Little

So Bush's answer to the Walter Reed hospital scandal, in which wounded veterans are mistreated or ignored, is to conduct a "full inquiry". In other words, form a panel to tell us, a year from now, what we already know: that the White House neglected to care for soldiers...

TIP DU JOUR: Report all tips as taxable income

"The tips you receive as an employee from those and other services is taxable income, according to the Internal Revenue Service. Some tips about tips: Tips are subject to federal income, Social Security and Medicare taxes, and may be subject to state income tax as well. You...

AGLOCO Tip No 2: Early members get more

"Why is it better to join earlier, if all members have the same value? Simply because the more members AGLOCO has, the bigger its value. Let’s suppose you joined now"

AGLOCO Tip No 1: members get online shopping commissions

"If you are an online shopper, then this is for you. AGLOCO officials say that the members will be credited with commissions for shopping online. This will be possible with the help of the Viewbar"