'Rich Dad, Poor Dad' author files for bankruptcy

Robert Kiyosaki, author of the bestselling "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" series, has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection after losing a nearly $24 million court judgment to The Learning Annex, The New York Post reports.?

As one of Kiyosaki's earliest backers, The Learning Annex was responsible for arranging the speaking engagements and platform that led to his massive success.?

But apparently the fame went to his head because according to court papers obtained by the Post, Kiyosaki, who published his first "Rich Dad" book in 1994, never paid the Annex its rightful share. Said founder and chairman Bill Zanker: "Oprah believed in him, and Will Smith believed in him, but he didn't keep his promise to us."?

Kiyosaki's Rich Global company was ordered by a U.S. judge in April to cough up $23,687,957.21, which in turn led him to file for corporate bankruptcy on Aug. 20.

Despite the blow to the personal finance guru's reputation, Kiyosaki probably won't feel the pinch in his wallet. Forbes pegs his net worth around a cool $80 million,? and Kiyosaki, who's written 11 books, operates as many as ten other companies. Rich Global was said to be worth a few million when it went under.?

"Rich Dad, Poor Dad" became an overnight sensation when Kiyosaki made the rounds on feel-good daytime TV like "Oprah" and aired his speaking programs on PBS. Cash-strapped consumers identified with his inspirational story of learning how to manage money from one father who struck it big and another who died penniless and alone.?

Of course, not everyone bought into the schtick. As Helaine Olen's wrote in Forbes Thursday, the guru's "tips ran the gamut from ridiculous to illegal and downright hurtful and included advocating for insider trading, arguing for the purchase of multiple real estate properties with little or no money down and telling followers they could purchase stocks on margin via unfunded brokerage accounts."?

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Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49393384/ns/today-money/

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Things We Love (That We Think No One Else Loves) - NYTimes.com

At the magazine?s weekly ideas meeting, not everyone agrees on what makes an interesting story (of course ? that?s why we have an ideas meeting). Outside work, our individual tastes also run counter at times to what our friends or colleagues consider tolerable. Below, some things that staff members say they love, even when they suspect no one else does (or will admit to loving).

FOOD & DRINK:

• I love instant coffee, even when the option of freshly-ground coffee is at hand. What makes it worse is that I actually grew up in a coffee farm. My grandmother was the owner of a very large coffee plantation, so my excuse for substituting instant coffee for fresh out of the plant coffee for most people is confusing. But I just love the taste! Some milk and sugar, and I am set. My mornings simply wouldn?t hold to the same standards if instant coffee didn?t exist. Sorry freshly-ground coffee.

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• Big fruity, oaky chardonnay.

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• Shirley Temples, with extra cherries.

• Pi?a coladas. And not just on vacation.

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• Boston cream pie. Every other middle-American cuisine has had its revival. Why not this?

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MUSIC:

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• I like out jazz, like late Coltrane when he?d stopped worrying about songs and just went off into the stratosphere instead, and Larry Young?s ?Khalid of Space.?

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• I really truly love yodeling music. Especially the Cackle Sisters from the 1930s-40s. They made amazing music.

• The soundtrack from ?Grease.?

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• The idea that it?s O.K. to put on Stevie Wonder?s ?Evil? at a dance party.

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• I listen to a ton of country music ? mainstream Nashville, Top 20 stuff. No one I know personally likes that at all.

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• Kesha. Especially this video:

MOVIES AND T.V.:

• ?Arthur.? The Dudley Moore/John Gielgud movie, not the cartoon about the kid aardvark.

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• I can?t stop watching the ?Real World?/?Road Rules? challenges on MTV no matter how ridiculous it is or ever was.

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• The ?American Pie? movies

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• ?Boogie Nights.? I thought it was a fantastic movie, maybe even a classic. And on top of that I found it incredibly funny. When I tell this to people, I generally get a strange reaction ? most think it?s an average movie that?s terribly depressing . . .

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• Teen dramas, in particular the sort of stuff that runs on the Soap Network over the weekend. ?The O.C.,? ?One Tree Hill,? ?90210? (the original class, not these new kids), ?Veronica Mars,? ?Dawson?s Creek,? ?Felicity.? I love it all.

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• ?The Chronicles of Riddick.? Vin Diesel at his All-Galaxy best.

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• Mostly no one is surprised that I like what I like, except when I tell them how much I enjoyed ?You, Me and Dupree? ? an almost universally panned rom-com. I?ve seen it twice!

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• I love the movie ?America?s Sweethearts.? Rotten Tomatoes gives it a 31 percent approval rating. Among its many charms it has Hank Azaria in a supporting role as a Latin lover named Hector Gorgonzolas.

LIFESTYLE:

• Navy and black together and especially red and pink together. Red and pink is one of my favorite color combinations though everyone else in the world seems to think it?s hideous.

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• I adore algebra. Quadratic expressions, factoring, differential equations, functions and algorithms. Finding the value of variables always brings me a great deal of joy.

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• Khloe Kardashian. My friends can admit she is the lesser of evils, but I love her. I think she?s completely awesome.

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• I really like Teen Vogue Magazine, seven years removed from being a teenager.

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• Joe Frank, the spoken-word artist. (And whoever likes the Cackle Sisters? I like them too. You are not alone.)

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Source: http://6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/11/things-we-love-that-we-think-no-one-else-loves/

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Security official at US Embassy in Yemen killed - officials

By NBC News staff and wire reports

Updated at 9:35 a.m. ET: A masked gunman assassinated a Yemeni security official who worked for the U.S. Embassy in a drive-by shooting near his home in the capital Sanaa on Thursday, officials told The Associated Press.

Yemeni officials told the AP the killing bore the hallmarks of an attack by the al-Qaida offshoot in Yemen, but it was too early to determine whether the group was behind it.

The slain official was identified as Qassem Aqlani, a man in his fifties.

He was walking near his home in western Sanaa, when a gunman on a motorcycle opened fire at him and fled the scene.?The embassy is located in eastern Sanaa.

A senior official at the State Department told NBC News that they were aware an embassy worker had been shot but did not provide further details.?

"We are deeply saddened by this tragic incident involving a Yemeni employee of our Embassy in Sanaa, and we are working with Yemeni authorities," the official said.?

Worked for embassy for 20 years
Aqlani had been working for the U.S. Embassy for nearly 20 years, said the officials who spoke to the AP condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.

Most recently, he was in charge of investigating a Sept. 12 assault on the U.S. Embassy by angry Yemeni protesters over the anti-Islam film.?

Protesters stormed the embassy and set fire to a U.S. flag before government forces dispersed them with tear gas. That attack came one day after the killings of the Americans in Benghazi.

Anti-US protests over Islam film spread in Middle East

The assassination resembles other attacks recently that have targeted Yemeni intelligence, military and security officials.

Those attacks are believed to be in retaliation for a military offensive by Yemen's U.S.-backed government against Yemen-based Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), which Washington considers the most dangerous offshoot of the global terror network.

AQAP has called for attacks on U.S. embassies in a bid to exploit the anti-American sentiment that has swept the Middle East and other parts of the Muslim world in the past month over an anti-Islam film produced in the United States.

Al-Qaida's revenge? Leading Yemen general killed by suicide bomber

Initially, the film was linked to an attack on the U.S. Consulate in the Libyan city of Benghazi on Sept. 11 which left four Americans dead including U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens. U.S. officials said later the attack was not linked to the video.

AQAP praised the killing of U.S. diplomats in Libya, describing it as "the best example" for those attacking embassies to follow.

AQAP had taken advantage of a security and political vacuum created by last year Arab Spring-inspired uprising and seized territories and cities in the south. The government-led offensive has pushed the militants out to mountainous areas from where they have been staging suicide attacks and assassinations inside cities.

Two weeks ago, a top intelligence official, Col. Abdullah al-Ashwal, was also killed in a drive-by shooting in Sanaa.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Source: http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/10/11/14360901-ap-yemeni-security-official-at-us-embassy-in-sanaa-shot-dead-local-officials-say?lite

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Coffin used as flower planter sold for $150K

Roman sarcophagus found in garden

Forget about finding a briefcase full of cash?just hope for a coffin full of flowers.

In a Dorset garden, a Roman marble coffin was detected by auction valuer Guy Schwinge on a routine valuation, the BBC reports. While walking the grounds, Schwinge saw the coffin "peeping out from under some bushes."

He investigated and discovered the coffin wasn't your ordinary, everyday pine box. "As I drew closer I realized I was looking at a Roman sarcophagus of exceptional quality," Schwinge explained to the BBC. Experts believe it dates to the second century. Cha-ching!

The coffin had apparently come into the possession of the owner's family a century earlier when, according to an auction catalog from 1913, it "was imported to Britain by Queen Victoria's surveyor of pictures." Experts believe it was originally used as a final resting place for a high-ranking Roman official, according to the Daily Mail. The owners were apparently unaware of its value.

And indeed, it's worth a lot of money. The family auctioned off the flower pot/coffin for about $150,000 and are (not surprisingly) "utterly delighted" by the turn of events.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/coffin-used-flower-planter-sold-150k-141219997.html

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Yemen holds US citizen for suspected al-Qaida ties

SANAA, Yemen (AP) ? A Yemeni security official says authorities have detained a U.S. citizen suspected to have links to al-Qaida.

The official said Wednesday that the American was arrested in a hotel in the southern city of Shabwa, a onetime stronghold of al-Qaida militants, later pushed out into nearby mountains by a military offensive. They say he was holding two U.S. passports and one German one.

The official declined to give further details. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the press.

Yemen has detained a number of Westerners, Asians, and other foreigners over alleged links to al-Qaida.

Washington considers Yemen's Al-Qaida branch to be the terror network's most dangerous offshoot.

The U.S. Embassy could not be reached immediately for comment.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/yemen-holds-us-citizen-suspected-al-qaida-ties-104515802.html

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Internet Marketing Presentation at Automation Alley, October 23, 2012

Posted by pvteam at 01:40 pm | Thursday, October 11th, 2012 | Filed in Pure Visibility

Join Dunrie Greiling, COO of Pure Visibility, and two other top Internet marketing executives as they discuss the topic ?Build or Buy? Best Practices for Staffing or Outsourcing Internet Marketing Teams? on Tuesday, October 23, at Automation Alley headquarters in Troy, Michigan.

Additional panelists are Ryan Eisert, Sales Director of Digital Solutions at MLive Media Group and Eric Kushner, Director, Marketing Strategy at Compuware. The panel discussion will be led by PV?s own Linda Girard, and will take questions from the audience after a brief introductory presentation.

A press release about the presentation was issued last week, if you?d like to know more about the speakers or their companies.

Internet Marketing Panel: Topic Summary

Don?t imagine the web is only for e-commerce. Many business-to-business companies are using their websites and the Internet to generate leads and garner new business. This panel discussion covers some key questions in the decision to hire in-house or outsource Internet marketing.

The best approach for your search engine optimization, web analysis and reporting, and paid search advertising (e.g. Google AdWords) will depend on your needs, your existing team, and, of course, your budget. You will leave with an understanding of the time commitment, budget commitment, and trade-offs in this decision.

The wealth of experience from the panelists will be shared with participants as they explore such topics as:

• How should I go about recruiting and selecting Internet marketing staff?
• What are the short-term and lifetime costs with building a team vs. outsourcing the work? What are the other pros and cons for each approach?
• How do I manage an Internet marketing team? What is the proper care and feeding of in-house Internet marketing staff?
• What should I look for in an agency if I decide to outsource a portion of my Internet marketing efforts?
• What about internationalization or other corporate initiatives that come down the road? How can I forecast and plan to handle these with my Internet marketing team?

Register Online to Attend, the Event is Free

Networking and registration begins at 9:00 a.m., the panel discussion is from 9:30 to 10:30. Register online at http://purevisibilityatautomationalley.eventbrite.com.

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Israeli leader calls early elections

JERUSALEM (AP) ? Israel's prime minister has ordered new parliamentary elections in early 2013, roughly eight months ahead of schedule.

In a televised address, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was forced to order the vote after his coalition could not agree on a budget.

But conditions are ripe for Netanyahu's re-election. Riding high in opinion polls, he faces no serious challenger and could be eager to win a new term ahead of what is expected to be an economic slowdown next year.

Netanyahu began his address Tuesday with a list of his accomplishments, saying his government had boosted security and improved the economy.

He did not set a date, but said it would be "preferable to have as short a campaign of possible" and hold the vote in the minimum three months.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/israeli-leader-calls-early-elections-182319893.html

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