| Cabela's Announces Baldwin as New Human Resources VP
Cabela's Incorporated (NYSE: CAB), the World's Foremost Outfitter(R) of hunting, fishing and outdoor gear, today announced the hiring of Charles Baldwin as Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer. Baldwin will be responsible for managing Cabela's growing family of employees and attracting, retaining and developing talent for Cabela's. Charles comes to Cabela's after 20 years working for Wal-Mart .
Rock's wholesale run
And that exposure could become much bigger, as other loans to the Rock fall due for repayment. The burden of responsibility this places on the new Chancellor, Alistair Darling, is huge. He has to prop the bank up, for fear of damaging confidence in the banking system. But it will be unnerving for him that all this public money has been provided to a company whose senior management – still in place – was responsible for the crisis, in the way they chose to finance the bank in the first place. It is an unpleasant choice for him. He can continue to provide arms-length loans to a bank whose executives he dare not try to influence, for fear of becoming even more responsible for Northern Rock's ultimate fate as a shadow director. Or he can replace management and admit he is running it as a shadow director.
'It has affected my kids - they're seeing me stressed out all the time ...
When the repossession notice finally came, Richard Wadswell felt crushed. The 46-year-old widower and father of two had worked all his life to pay the mortgage. Now his family home of 16 years was to be taken away. A court order hangs over Wadswell (not his real name), and if he misses a single payment to HSBC it will be enforced and he will be out. Calls to repossession advice lines are flooding in four times faster than this time last year and the number of repossessed homes going under the hammer with the country's leading property auctioneer has doubled. The Council for Mortgage Lenders predicts 45,000 homes will be repossessed this year, 50% more than in 2007. Now it seems only a matter of time before Wadswell's semi-detached home in a cul-de-sac in Tameside, Greater Manchester, adds to the statistical gloom.
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This reporter purchased tickets on Craigslist.com on Saturday afternoon. "Okay, you're the only media in here," Corluka said, a few songs into the concert. "We'll see if you're fair. We'll see." The attempted journalist blockade might have raised the expectations bar a little high. No offense, Mr. Corluka, but musically Perkovic and his band are kind of mundane; they sound, at moments, like the Gipsy Kings doing "Dust in the Wind." The charm of songs like "Geni Kameni" is perhaps in the lyrics -- and they don't translate all that well: Genes, genes made of stone A fire burns within me Genes, genes made of stone That's the way we are born Take it or leave it. This, of course, sounds different to Croatian ears.
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Tim Grobaty: It's too late to be early now
PROCRASTINATION NATION: So all that talk about how we were going to get a jump on Christmas, finally, this year, was just more empty yammering, because already it's too late to get a jump on Christmas. If we were to, say, go out and trim the roses back to make room for a ladder so we could put up the Christmas lights - if we were to do that right now? Which we won't - that would merely be on time for Christmas. You're supposed to have them up now. And shopping? Let's say we went out shopping right now: A. We're not going to do that. B. We wouldn't be getting a jump on Christmas. We would merely be joining the common horde. It's way too late to be early now. Why did we even think we were going to get a jump on Christmas this year? Because we actually did do a little shopping a few weeks ago.
Estate agent jobs go as house sales tumble
One of Britain's biggest estate agents has cut jobs and closed branches as the volume of sales tumble to the lowest level since the country's last house price slump in the late 1980s. Get the latest news and analysis on propertyLSL Property Services, the owner of the estate agencies Your Move and Reeds Rains, has shut 12 branches and eliminated 315 jobs in a move that signals the slowing market will take its toll on estate agents this year. .
City given highest 'AAA' rating on debt issuance
Naperville has great credit. Standard & Poor's Rating Services has awarded the city its highest rating of "AAA" on new debt issuance and also reaffirmed the "AAA" rating on Naperville's existing general obligation debt, the city said Monday in a release. These ratings were awarded in conjunction with a coming debt issuance. "A 'AAA' rating is very hard to receive, and it's even harder to keep current each year," Mayor George Pradel said in the release. This year, however, marked the first time the city was rated under S&P's "Financial Management Assessment," a report card on the city's financial personnel and processes that include City Council oversight. Under this assessment, the city received a rating of "strong," defined by the S&P as being indicative of practices that "are strong, well embedded, and likely sustainable." Proceeds from the general obligation bond are earmarked to finance improvements to the city's electric system and other capital projects.
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