| Capitalism and breast milk
Just as I'm wrapping up my day, I decided to take a quick look at some stories getting a lot of hits. A story that posted recently on azcentral.com about mommies selling breast milk online to men is getting quite the curiosity readers. Stories about breast milk auctions have circulated since 2005, and lactation groups are quick to advise against buying it. This has nothing to do with auctions, but when I was looking on the Web for info on breast milk sales, I came across an article about one Los Angeles-area company, Prolacta Bioscience. The company found a way to commercialize breast milk for the benefit of critically-ill and premature infants in the neonatal intensive care. What do you think? .
Putting the right options on your car can impact used values
Motorists should take more care with the options they fit to their new car as making the right decision could improve used values by hundreds of pounds according to a Manheim Auctions survey. Worryingly, making the wrong decision can cost drivers literally thousands.
Manheim, which has 19 auction sites across the UK, quizzed nearly 100 of its top used car buyers for their views on the impact of optional extras on the second hand values of cars in the Family, Compact Executive and Executive car sectors.
Desirable options, now expected on virtually all types of car include leather, metallic paint and a decent sound system. Satellite Navigation is increasingly sought after and healthy premiums are paid for cars with this as a factory fitted option.
Not surprisingly it's the luxury cars in the Executive sector which are most sensitive to the right specification.
New Zealand: Amending A Resource Consent Application Post ...
Situations often arise during the resource consent process where an applicant may wish to change its application after the application has been notified. The changes may result from concerns raised in submissions, a request for further information from a consent authority, or at the suggestion of the consent authority itself. The applicants own advisers may even suggest that the application be amended to incorporate changes to better serve the applicants needs. This raises the question of whether an applicant can amend an application after it has been notified, without the need to re-notify the application. In appropriate cases, an applicant can make changes to an application for resource consent after public notification of the application, without having to re-notify the application....
Billionaire Bidding for Tribune Company a Friend of Bill, Former ...
Just in time for the 2008 presidential race, a certified "Friend of Bill" is bidding to acquire the Tribune Company, which owns the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune. As reported in this New York Times article , FOB Ronald W. Burkle and Eli Broad sumbitted their bid yesterday to Tribune management.According to his Wikipedia entry:Burkle is a well-known political contributor and longtime Democratic fundraiser. He supported the Black Panthers in the Sixties. Burkle has supported California State Treasurer Phil Angelides and employed former San Francisco Mayor Willie BrownBurkle is a close friend of former President Bill Clinton, who calls Burkle's Boeing 757 private jet "Ron Air." Clinton, who is a senior adviser to Burkle's company, Yucaipa, wrote in his memoir, "My Life", that Burkle "became one of my best friends." Burkle and Steve Rattner helped finance Al Gore's cable Current TV network.
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