The phone card shopping mall!

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These days it makes much more sense to purchase call cards or phone cards before we travel anywhere. These cards, besides allowing us to make the calls from anywhere to any other place in the universe, come with various offers, that your international calls end up becoming dirt cheap.
These guys are what one can possibly term as the 'shopping mall' for all phone card, call cards of any size and shape. You can get the very latest cards with huge offers from these guys. They also have the very latest in call cards, the ones with the ANI recognition, that totally makes 'dialing the pin' totally obsolete. These guys carry about 459 different cards from a variety of vendors, it is like walking into a shopping mall, with so many cards, naturally, these guys are the best in the business and definitely the people to go to if you are in need of a card. Just click on the link above and check out their shop, you will know what I mean.

The News takes a backseat to the Entertainment!

As the winter is on us, one would think that movies like 'The Grinch' would have some impact on both the big studios and the networks. But they are not listening to the common man on the street and what is more, by prolonging the Writers strike, they are only emphasising that they are in this only for themselves.
The sad part of all this is that as a result of this strike, one can say good bye to the Xmas programmes. The winter is blowing hard and cold, the blizzards are on us and the hearts of all the production houses, the networks and the writers has all become solid chunks of ice!

It is the turn of the common man to get affected now as we would soon stop seeing our favorite programmes. The funny part is that the networks are all covering up the upcoming gaps with entertainment shows which they had not telecast earlier and have all given the 'bye,bye' to the news programmes. One would think that this would be the time for the networks to come out with more programmes like Panorama and stuff like that, instead we are going to get stuck with pussycat dolls and the likes of such! It is indeed one bleary Christmas!

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Want to talk?

The new way of meeting new Friends or dates seems to be the chatting on the phone. This site is great in the sense that we can use the chat lines that are available here and talk to anyone and everyone that we feel like 'chatting up' with. The great part is that we do not have to give any of our personal details to who ever we chat up with. Before sites like this, if we had to phone chat, we had to call up the other person on the phone and by this neither our number or the number of the person we would call would be private.
But with this company, that detail is kept private and if you express the desire to chat with, say, person x, all you have to do was to request a chat line with that person and this company would put you in touch with that person. This way, neither of us would have to give out any of our personal details. The best part of all this is that here there is the option of free chat as long as the person we talk to is local. All in all, this does make up for one interesting experience!

The Hollywood strike explores the Gandhi movement!

The writers strike has taken a new turn with the Guild representing the writers pretty much throwing in the towel after the organisation representing the producers have walked out on them. This certainly represents the writers with a dilemma, as to whether they are prepared to cave in and go back to status quo as the producers and the studios would have them do so or to stand up and fight for their rights!

All this strike has managed to do so far is to almost cripple the Hollywood industry as we know it, most of the television shows are fast running out of scripts and soon they would either have to telecast only reruns or cancel the show altogether. At least the serials can telecast reruns whereas the reality shows may even have to be taken off the air altogether. Which is why when the Guild announced to the writers that they would be approaching the production houses with the aim of ending this strike, one way or the other, thereby bypassing the association representing the studios and the producers, the writers and the David Letterman show welcomed the decision whole heartily.

David Letterman, although a member of the association that had been talking with the writers unsuccessfully with regard to ending the strike, has welcomed the decision of the writers Guild whole heartily as this would entail that each and every production house would come to an individual agreement with the Guild. I guess, it all depends on how badly you want a new script altogether. Here is where the saying 'united we stand, divided we fall' comes to my mind. This way of striking by not working or co-operating is not new to us, I guess it all started with Mahatma Gandhi and his non cooperation movement to get the British raj to leave the Indian sub continent and I have to say that it was hugely successful then and it still is successful now. Any such movement with no violence and total non cooperation is bound to get results in the plenty. Personally I believe that the writers do deserve their just rewards and are entitled to what they are fighting for now. I hope that they do get it and that the show goes on!

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The gamers station on online backgammon!

These days games are being played increasingly online and the game of backgammon is not an exception to this. These days all sorts of games are being played online for fun and for real. By that I do mean that these are also games where one can play for real money and lots of people do this on a day to day basis. Online games and online backgammon are attracting a lot of customers not just because they are another source by which one can make easy money but surprisingly because playing backgammon online helps to relieve one's stress.

This site is devoted primarily to this game and I have to say that when compared to a lot of other similar sites, this one is by far the best that I have come across, so far. The design aside, the customer service is very good here, with all of your queries being answered right away. Did I say that one can play this game here for real money, well, one can do so if one wants to or one can play it for free!
The backgammon online is one interesting experience that I am sure that all of you would want to go through so just go to the links above and play this game for free!

Light Crude goes up by 1.90$ !

The common economics states that as the inventory falls, more pressure is exerted on the supply as the demand for that product is constant and ever increasing. What am I talking about? I am talking about the price of Oil and the price tango that it seems to go into each and every time the Energy department announces to the world that the Inventories have either fallen or risen.
The rise in inventory would make the oil prices to swing the other way about and this time around, the inventory stocks in the United states has fallen by at least 700,000 barrels last week, according to the energy dept. Naturally this has started exerting more pressure on the crude supplies and the factors that can effect the supply of Oil to the United states. Naturally as this news broke out, the immediate effect today is the rise in the price for Light Crude for January delivery which has risen by 1.90$ to 91.92$ a barrel on the NY Mercantile Exchange.

The Oil market is tight as it is with the OPEC not really into making more deliverables than the current content. And at times like this if there is any news of a skirmish in the middle east or another Palestine - Israel conflict, that will have a very resounding impact on the Oil prices or if Bush were to get more hawkish on Iran or the entire Middle east, that will most definitely make the Oil reach for fresh pastures beyond the 105$ range.

What one should remember is that inventories rise and inventories fall, but it is when the inventories fall that one should take into account the other factors like the geo political factors. It is at times like this that the price of the Light Crude as well as the entire Oil market is most vulnerable and with the way that the U.S economy is under right now, we most certainly do not need a 'bullish' Oil market as that would only extend undue influence on the already falling Dollar and may even push it into the Nether world!

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The DOW zooms up by 250 points!

Finally the FED has managed to unify its plan with the other central banks and thereby alleviate the current credit crisis. The credit crunch is so bad that getting a car loan is in fact even more difficult than buying a car from the dealer on a standby basis. The markets reacted favorably to the news that all the central banks have managed to get moving on a common plan to alleviate the Credit crunch that is so evident in the markets today.
The DOW which had sagged unfavorably after the recent FED rate cut, seems to have finally shaken off the Bear claws and has started moving in the right direction,up. But of course, as soon as the sub prime disaster had hit the markets, this is what all the banks should have done. It has taken them this long to do what should have been done a long time back, but the investors and that includes me as well are all happy that they have finally show some backbone and have acted. One can only hope and pray that this momentum in the markets will continue on!