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Have you heard about the Dockers contest? The Dockers TV Commercial Contest is an exciting contest over a product that everyone loves. You can submit your own Dockers commercial. If you are selected as a finalist then the commercials that get the most votes can win a chance to see their commercial run live during the Tonight Show with Jay Leno. You must create a thirty second commercial for Dockers. This is only available to legal residents of the United States of America over the age of eighteen and not affiliated with NBC or participating companies or related to any of their employees. The submission deadline ends on May 29, 2008 so get your video in quickly. Finalists will be announced around June 1, 2009 with the Grand Prize Winner announced by June 13, 2008. Submissions must be in Quick Time .mov format, Windows .avi format, or .mpg format. It is interesting that Windows Media .wmv is excluded as are other formats. I did not see any quality requirements. Please visit the web site for full rules and details.

I will definitely be entering this contest as I love the Tonight Show with Jay Leno and I love Dockers. My favorite video submitted so far is this one. I am sure there will be many more to come though.

What started out as a good day was smashed after the Fed meeting. The Fed did cut the key interest rate. The cut was .25 which was expected. At first the market reacted strongly after being up nearly 1 percent for the day prior to the meeting. Things quickly turned south however. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended down 11.81 points down .09 percent giving back all gains. The NASDAQ was more of the same loosing gains ending down 13.30 points down .55 percent for the day.

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The stock marked ended mixed for the day. The Fed rate decision Wednesday caused some obvious anxiety. The job market is still doing poorly. Countrywide reported an 893 million dollar loss in the first quarter. Will Bank of America Still buy them? The global food shortage and global inflaction continues. Things are looking rough. The Dow ended down almost 40 points. The Nasdaq was up about 1 point.

The markets started down today. Consumer confidence is at the lowest level in five years. The home forclosure rate has increaqsed one hundred and twelve percent and home prices are down almost thirteen percent. The Fed meeting is coming up soon. President Bush yelled at Congress over the economy. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 26 points with 3 hours left in trading for the day. The Nasdaq was down 6.9 points with three hours of trading left.

Online safety is pretty tricky. It really just boils down to one thing though and that is never giving out personal contact information. If you teach your kids how to sign up for and create multiple email addresses, enter fake addresses, fake phone numbers, and then to never give out personal contact information online they will be much safer. It will teach them how to handle the endless barrage of signup forms requesting phone, address, etc required info that they will constantly be hit with. There are many other tips and safety precautions but this is the most important and the first step.

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Tax rebates are going out early. If you have not yet heard tax rebates are going out early to those Americans who filed their taxes on time and have direct deposit information on file. As early as Monday many will receive deposits electronically. I am looking forward to this tax rebate as I am sure many are. It will be very helpful.

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