The Company Predicted That In 2011, Istanbul Will Be The Town With The Biggest Expansion In Tourism Expenditures — Up 30.1% Compared To The Year Before.

July 20th, 2011

Istanbul was named as one of the planets top-performing visitor destinations in 2011, based on Mastercards new Worldwide Index of Global Destination Cities, released on Wednesday. The company anticipated that in 2011, Istanbul will be the town with the biggest expansion in tourism expenditures up 30.1% matched against the year before.

The Greek administration concluded on Monday (June 6th) to sell its 10% stake in Hellenic Telecomms (OTE) to Germanys Deutsche Telekom for 400m Euro dollars. After the deal, Greece will hold 10% plus one voting share in OTE, while Deutsche Telekom will control 40% and one vote. The remaining fifty percent are in the hands of global and Greek institutional stockholders.

The Albanian lek hit an all-time new low Monday (June 6th), changing hands at 142.55 lek per Euro dollar.

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Pulaski Tech to Launch Film, Digital Content Training

July 20th, 2011

Pulaski Technical College said Friday that it has partnered with Arkansas’ motion picture leaders “to launch targeted training” to meet the needs of the state’s film and digital content production industry.

The initial training curriculum will launch in spring 2012 and focus on two areas: scripted film and digital content production management; and nonfiction production.

The school said Craig and Brent Renaud, founders of the Little Rock Film Festival, are helping develop the program.

“We are fortunate that the Renaud Brothers – Little Rock’s own globally recognized, innovative leaders in the world of nonfiction production – will lend their expertise to our program,” David Durr, dean of Pulaski Tech’s Information Technology Division, said in a news release.

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Tags: Digital Content, Pulaski Tech, Training

Dow Rises 202: Best Day of 2011

July 20th, 2011

Strong profits and a bipartisan plan to lift the US debt limit drove a stock market rebound today. Stock indexes rose after Coca-Cola, IBM, and other companies reported rising second-quarter earnings. The three major indexes added to their gains after President Obama praised a proposal by six senators that would cut debt by $3.7 trillion over the next decade, raising hope of avoiding a default. The Dow climbed 202 points to 12,587, the NASDAQ rose 59 to 2,827, and the S&P 500 rose 21 to 1,327. Its the Dows best day of 2011, notes MarketWatch.

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Is It A Wrong For A Christian To Use Debt Of Any Kind? Is Being In Debt Sin?

July 19th, 2011

Yesterday an interesting discussion started in the comments section of a mortgage company review on this site.  A regular reader was asking the question of whether or not it was OK for a Christian to take on debt of any kind, or whether debt should avoided at all costs as being biblically a bad idea.

There was a bit of back and forth, and I think we agreed on some points, but not on others. So today I decided to open the topic up for further discussion.

Heres how the question was framed by Matt from DiscipleshipGuy.com:

Before I get to my comment I want to say that I currently have a house that we use to live in that we have outgrown and since have turned it into a rental due to not being able to sell it.

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