Free Merchant Account Services

Traverse Global Communications Corp is now an authorized private label reseller for Wells Fargo and Authorize.Net merchant account services to provide online real time e-commerce transactions.

By offering private label merchant accounts through it's Credit Plus (http://www.creditplus.net/) subsidiary, Traverse Global will be able to leverage the depth of quality services that their new partners offer to their existing client base. For just $29.95/mo, clients of Traverse Global will be able to process credit cards in real time through their own website and receive free web hosting along with a free shopping cart to conveniently process their orders.

In the world of online community, one authoritative man can dictate ...

She has balls!: Thank God someone finally had the balls to write about the CCA ["Burnt Chefs," June 6]. I nearly fell off the curb when I saw Eliza Strickland's article on the cover of the newspaper. I graduated from the California Culinary Academy in 1992 when it was still considered a respectable, although suspect, rival of the Culinary Institute of America in New York. I was in the first class that actually received an accredited AOS degree, so that gave us extra credibility. Not that it mattered. I went on to work in the kitchens of Venticello, Bistro Don Giovanni, and Il Fornaio. I lasted in the food industry for five years before I left, in debt, and ultimately ended up filing bankruptcy a few years later. The most I ever made in one year was $20,000, and that was because I was the assistant manager of a cafe.

Construction Threatens Danube's Natural Paradise

But excavation work, industry and ambitious transportation plans threaten the idyllic setting. Money from the European Union is accelerating the construction as part of the bloc's so-called Trans-European Networks initiative. The transformation of the Danube into a shipping waterway with a consistent depth of 2.5 meters is on the EU's economic development wish list.

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