Posted by Sean Cruz | Posted on 13-04-2012
A medicinal marijuana supplier is opening its doors Friday in Washington, D.C.
WeGrow, which has been widely labeled the Walmart of weed, does not actually sell marijuana, but rather provides materials to cultivate and nurture the plants.
“The more that businesses start to push the envelope by showing that this is a legitimate industry, the further we’re going to be able to go in changing people’s minds,” said weGrow founder Dhar Mann.
WeGrow currently has two store locations: one in Sacramento, California, and another in Phoenix, Arizona. In addition to the store opening in the nations capital, the company plans to open stores in Flagstaff, Arizona and San Jose, California.
According to the Washington Posts Time Craig, 28 applications to create and manage medical marijuana cultivation centers were submitted to the D.C. Council a
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Posted by Shannon Myers | Posted on 12-04-2012
LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Goldman Sachs faced an unprecedented assault from one of its own on Wednesday after a banker published a withering resignation letter in the New York Times, calling the Wall Street titan a “toxic” place where managing directors referred to their own clients as “muppets.”
It was the latest blow for the investment bank. The company — dubbed a “great vampire squid” in a 2009 article in Rolling Stone magazine — has been embroiled in the biggest-ever insider trading scandal on Wall Street. And just weeks ago, a top judge criticized Goldman for big conflicts of interest in an energy deal.
In an opinion column in Wednesday’s Times, Greg Smith, who worked in equity derivatives, said Goldman had become “as toxic and destructive as I have ever seen it.
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Posted by Sean Cruz | Posted on 12-04-2012
(CNN) — There’s no question that losing your job can be a jolting experience, as anyone who has had the misfortune of being laid off in recent years can attest. But what if that jolt could be a positive experience?
That’s the suggestion to come out of recent research which looked into the experiences of laid-off mid-to senior-level managers in the United States and Australia.
The participants’ overwhelming response was that the experience of losing their jobs in the previous 12 months had given them a renewed interest in living according to their values.
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Posted by Shannon Myers | Posted on 09-04-2012
A country club and park within a master planned subdivision is an apt description of Deer Creek in east Montgomery.
More than 50 homes are now for sale in the community of several hundred homes, said Jimmy Rutland, vice-president of Lowder New Homes, which helped develop Deer Creek more than a decade ago.
Located just east of Vaughn Forest Church, the main entrance to Deer Creek brings visitors face to face with a busy clubhouse, swimming pool and tennis courts, which help make Deer Creek more than just another group of homes in east Montgomery.
Deer Creek is known for its design that features clusters of neighborhoods within the large development.
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Posted by Heather Ward | Posted on 06-04-2012
Many times, simple is hard.
That’s especially true when we talk about overspending on stuff, which can lead to debt and stress.
It’s easy to say you’d like to simplify your life and buy less. But how do you do that? How do you harness the desire for material things? How can you simplify without feeling deprived?
Danny Kofke’s family of four has lived for years on his teacher’s salary of about $40,000, yet he doesn’t feel deprived.
He has a 50-inch, high-definition flat-screen television, and he has taken his daughters on vacation to Disney World. But he doesn’t have many other things his neighbors do.
It’s a choice, said Kofke, author of the book, “A Simple Book of Financial Wisdom: Teach Yourself (and Your Kids) How to Live Wealthy With Little Money.”
“We have nice things; we just don’t have it all,” he said.
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Posted by Sean Cruz | Posted on 04-04-2012
The Mega Millions jackpot has inspired much media babble about lottery winners, losers, and what to do if you actually win. But how about the effect of lotteries on the poor? Apparently, its a killer “hidden tax”—because households banking less than $13,000 a year spend 9% of their annual income on lottery tickets. Business Insider found the shocking statistic in a PBS interview, and says it raises serious questions—like, are the poor too dumb to avoid odds 17 times worse than your chance of being hit by falling airplane parts?
The likely answer: No, theyre just grabbing at any chance to improve their circumstances. Looking behind the numbers, Business Insider also asks: If the poor are receiving tax breaks, welfare, etc., is that money going straight into lottery tickets? Wou
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