Your investments have disappeared. Your vacation fund has vaporized. New clothes for spring are only a daydream. But you have to eat.

Clara knows what she’s talking about. She was born in 1915 in Chicago, and says she quit high school to work in a factory as a teenager.  These days, she shares her wisdom from upstate New York. Some Los Angeles residents

• Breathe Responsibly, Enter the Walk-in Cocktail Bar Are you sick of been bombarded about drinking responsibly. Well customers entering a new cocktail bar where they are literally enveloped in a mist of alcohol are warned to breathe responsibly. Just 40 minutes inside the venue - which delivers an intoxicating vapour of gin and tonic - will leave......
• Facebook Worm - Facebook Gets New Strain of Koobface Worm [ad#news] Yes it had to happen. Facebook the largest community on the planet has had a battering by a worm. The koobface worm is a type of web application virus. Security experts warn the users of the massively popular online social networks to be watchful and use caution when on......
• Short Legged Pony Prompts 999 Calls A pony with very short legs and a long body called Mayflower has caused many people to call the 999 services in the mistaken belief that the pony is stuck in the mud. Hampshire's fire crews were last alerted on Tuesday as Mayflower was grazing by the River Test in......
• The New York City Department of Education Has Closed Almost all NYC Public School Closings [ad#news] The New York City department of education has closed almost all NYC public school closings for the first time in 5 years due to a major snowstorm hit the city. NYC board of education blamed snow and wind for the decision. NYC dept of ed offices were not officially......
• Wakefield Trinity Walk Shopping Development Bank Pulls out of Prestigious £200m Expansion deal York-based Shepherd construction working on a prestigious £200m shopping centre in Wakefield UK, has confirmed that the Anglo Irish Bank had declared it would no longer fund the scheme. On Tuesday morning 185 workers at the Wakefield Trinity Walk shopping development being run by York-based Shepherd Construction stopped work. Shepherd......

• New York is ‘safest city’ as murders fall to record low [/caption]New York is ‘safest city’ as murders fall to record low New York City, despite a sharp economic downturn, is set to end the year with the lowest number of murders since record-keeping began almost half a century ago. Figures up to December 27 show that the city had recorded......
• BofA Names Top Banking Business Heads - Mergers, Acquisitions, Venture Capital, Hedge Funds -- DealBook - New York Times Bank of America announced the names of the senior business heads for its corporate, commercial and investment banking operations on Thursday in an internal memo, obtained by Reuters. The changes go into effect after the company completes its acquisition of Merrill Lynch, which goes to a vote among shareholders at......
• Padded Pensions in New York Do you need another reason not to live in the state of New York? Read on and you will discover one.  Pension abuse is rampant in government and no one cares. Final year overtime padding drives the size of the pension benefit to be much larger than the highest working......
• Lil Wayne's 'Nino Brown Story 3' Screens In New York Weezy's conversations with Drake, Justin Bieber are among the highlights of DJ Scoob Doo's new DVD. By Shaheem Reid Scoob Doo Photo: MTV News NEW YORK — For Lil Wayne, you have to do it big. On Thursday night in New York City, DJ Scoob Doo unveiled his DVD "The......
• Review of The Ultimate New York Body Plan The author of this diet is already quite well known thanks to the ABC series, Extreme Makeover. David Hirsch has quite a reputation as being the go-to guy when you want to lose weight and celebrities swear by his plans. This online book/site received its fare share of hype and......