Motorola and FIRST Inspire Next Generation of Engineers
Motorola has a Philanthropy Division that is helping children from around the world make a positive change in the world. Through their financial contributions and personal mentors, they are giving hope to children all around world.
Schaumburg, Ill., 17 April 2008 – For nearly 20 years, Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) and FIRST (For Inspiration and [...]
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The Best Entertainment Value
San Diego, CA — What can a family do for free? Not only at no cost but as great entertainment? If you have never been to a FIRST Robotics competition, come to the San Diego sports arena on Saturday… and find out! Children of all ages will be competing in a variety [...]
Lunacy — Robots In Space
San Diego Sports Arena — The FIRST Robotics regional competition is being held at the San Diego Sports Arena. High school teams from across the country came to Southern California to compete in one of the challenges leading up to the national championships in Atlanta, GA.
It was unusual for the Ambler, PA Wissahickon team [...]
In a Downturn, a Growth Opportunity?
By JAN ELLEN SPIEGEL, New York Times
Published: February 13, 2009
THE curving hilltop farm fields of the Hickories, which would seem to explain how this town got its name, are snow-covered the first week in February, with only skeletons of peach trees and raspberry canes as reminders of their summer abundance. This means it is the [...]
Jim Rogers Buys Land, Starts Farming
By: CNBC.com | 03 Mar 2009 | 05:35 AM ET
Commodities are still the best play for the long term, legendary investor Jim Rogers told CNBC,
confessing that he has been buying farmland himself.
“We’re still going to eat, probably; we’re still going to wear clothes, probably. Farmers cannot get loans
for fertilizers right now. So the supplies of [...]
Big Bank says “No more money!”
Don’t give money to deadbeats.
“Stephen Green, HSBC’s current chairman, said the London- based bank regrets the 2003 purchase of Prospect Heights, Illinois-based Household International, which added almost 50 million U.S. clients, many with spotty credit histories.”
Don’t give money to thieves, either.
“HSBC also confirmed that it lost about $1 billion in the alleged investment fraud by [...]
The State Of Advertising
If you search for “NASCAR sponsorship problems” at Google, there are over half-a-million results. NASCAR has seen a huge decline in advertisers. So much so, that entire race teams have been laid-off. It’s not just racing that is being hurt in this economic downturn. Most professional sports, such as the [...]
The Ever Shrinking Economy
Washington, DC — The Commerce Department released its report on the 4th Quarter GDP. Though it was expected to be bad, it came in even worse — down 6.2 percent on an annual rate.
FDIC Changes Charges
In 2007, there were 3 bank failures. In 2008, there were 25 bank failures. So far in 2009, there have been 13 bank failures.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation expects bank failures will cost the insurance fund $65 billion through 2013.
In response, the FDIC is raising fees on banks, as well as, adding emergency [...]
Insured Banks and Thrifts Lost $26.2 Billion in the Fourth Quarter
from the FDIC
Commercial banks and savings institutions insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) reported a net loss of $26.2 billion in the fourth quarter of 2008, a decline of $27.8 billion from the $575 million that the industry earned in the fourth quarter of 2007 and the first quarterly loss since 1990. Rising [...]
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