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EFFICIENT OR DESPERATE? Parents Can Rent XMas Toys At New Website

When you are a kid on Christmas morning, it’s all about volume. But when you are a parent, cruising the aisles of the toy-store in December, it’s about trying to balance a happy holiday with a reasonable budget.

Paul Reinsmith of Boston has found a great way to have plenty of toys under the tree, and all year, without breaking the bank.

Paul and his wife Pam discovered what they call the ‘Netflix’ of toys. It’s called Toygaroo, a website that lets parents rent toys for a fraction of what they would cost to buy.

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A Video Metaphor of the ECB and the Euro

Something is definitely wrong, but we will keep on pushing along…

[youtube://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tICWkAPL1eM 450 300]

The fate of the Euro…

[youtube://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF76E8taGdg 450 300]

 

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Best Place to Live: Vienna, Worst: Baghdad

Vienna’s excellent infrastructure, safe streets and good public health service make it the nicest place to live in the world, consulting group Mercer said in a global survey which put Baghdad firmly in last place.

German and Swiss cities also performed especially well in the quality of living rankings, with Zurich, Munich, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Geneva and Bern in the top 10.

The Austrian capital, with its ornate buildings, public parks and extensive bicycle network recently reduced the cost of its annual public transport ticket to 1 euro a day.

Serious crime is rare and the city of around 1.7 million inhabitants regularly tops global quality of life surveys.

But Mercer warned that top-ranking European cities could not take their position for granted in the survey, which assessed more than 200 cities.

“They are not immune to any decrease of living standards should this (economic) turmoil persist,” Mercer’s senior researcher Slagin Parakatil said on the company’s website.

Mercer, which also ranked cities according to personal safety, gave Athens a poor score because of clashes between demonstrators and police and political instability.

“In 2011 Athens is ranked in Europe among the lowest in the personal safety ranking,” Parakatil said.

Oslo also fell to 24th place in the separate safety survey because of Anders Breivik’s mass killings in July. It would usually be in the top 15, Mercer said.

Baghdad’s political turmoil, poor security enforcement and attacks on local people and foreigners made it the worst place to live in 2011, both in terms of life quality and safety, Mercer said.

Political and economic unrest in Africa and the Middle East also pushed down scores in those regions.

“Many countries such as Libya, Egypt, Tunisia and Yemen have seen their quality of living levels drop considerably,” Parakatil said.

“Political and economic reconstruction in these countries, combined with funding to serve basic human needs, will undoubtedly boost the region.”

He said that while the outlook is uncertain for most of the world because of economic and political turmoil, cities in Asia-Pacific look set to benefit thanks to political stability and solid growth.

Auckland, Sydney, Wellington, Melbourne and Perth made it into the top 20 for quality of life in 2011 while Singapore was the highest-ranking Asian city in 25th place.

Top 10 in Mercer Quality of Living survey

1 Vienna Austria

2 Zurich Switzerland

3 Auckland New Zealand

4 Munich Germany

5 Dusseldorf Germany

5 Vancouver Canada

7 Frankfurt Germany

8 Geneva Switzerland

9 Bern Switzerland

9 Copenhagen Denmark

Full city rankings: bit.ly/syDUPF

(Reporting by Sylvia Westall)

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C’mon Man

Just saw this on the Monday night pregame show, LOL. I wouldn’t want to mess with the guy on the left.

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Convicted Wall Street Trader Wants to Find Love from Behind Bars

Ladies, take note: His scheduled release date is Dec. 11, 2013.

An imprisoned Wall Street trader who has admitted to running one of the biggest mob-linked stock frauds in US history is searching for a lady willing to overlook his sleazy past.

Although currently housed in a federal prison, former millionaire fallen trader Roy Ageloff has posted a smarmy online dating profile promoting himself as an aristocrat of finance and announcing his quest to find a woman with “an honest heart.”

“What good is it to be king if you have no queen?” Ageloff, a Brooklyn native, asks on the Web site Prison Inmates Online.
Read more: http://trade.cc/kvw

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{SHOCK VIDEO} COLD FINGER WAR: Russian Anchorman Gives Obama the Middle Finger

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=E7jKKZTpzh4

Online footage of the incident, which occurred earlier this month during an afternoon news bulletin on the privately held REN TV channel, is being avidly viewed in both Russia and the United States.

In the footage, Tatyana Limanova, an award-winning senior newsreader at the channel, can be seen briskly reading out an item about how Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has just assumed the rotating chairmanship of the Asia Pacific Cooperation organisation.

She is then heard to say that the post “has (previously) been held by Barack Obama” before mechanically and unambiguously raising her left arm and showing the camera her raised middle finger in an offensive gesture that is sometimes known as “flipping the bird.”

The channel, which goes out to 120 million people across Russia, has declined to comment. But sources close to it have tried to defuse the row by claiming that the newsreader had believed she was off camera at the time and merely providing a voice-over for a report. According to the same storyline, the rude gesture was intended for studio technicians who had been trying to put her off her stride.

REN TV has traditionally been perceived as a more liberal channel in a country where TV content is tightly controlled by the state. But it is now controlled by structures owned by a close ally of Vladimir Putin, the prime minister, and has been criticised for allegedly becoming more slavish to the Kremlin.

The scandal comes at a time when US-Russia relations appear to be getting worse after President Obama’s much-heralded attempt to “reset” them.

The United States has announced it is to stop supplying the Kremlin with regular details about its military presence in Europe in retaliation for a similar Russian move four years ago. Moscow is also frustrated it is not being given a say in Nato’s nascent European missile defence system.

Sources at REN TV said Ms Limanova would not be punished for her slip-up despite the embarrassment it has caused the channel.

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WSJ: EZ spreads now even spread-ier

Lol, read here:

Along with the traditional showering and shaving, MarketBeat has added to its list of morning rituals the daily checking of the euro-zone bond spreads.

This morning finds spreads wider across the board, particularly in Spain, which just elected a new government. So much for votes of confidence.

Spanish 10-year debt yields 6.53% this morning, or about 4.63 percentage points above German bunds, yielding 1.90%. That spread against bunds is about 26 basis points wider today.

Italian debt, meanwhile, yields 6.65%, 11 basis points wider against bunds.

French debt yields 3.45%, 5 basis points wider against bunds.

Austrian debt yields 3.37%, 7 basis points wider against bunds.

Belgian debt yields 4.78%, 9 basis points wider against bunds.

This all means an unpleasant morning is in store for risky assets generally.

The euro is down to $1.3465. Dow futures are down 143 points, S&P futures are down 16 points and Nasdaq futures are down 20 points.

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