They’re Giving Away Condos

The Columbus Dispatch reports from Ohio. “It’s an age-old question, one that probably dates back to the mud-brick homes of ancient Mesopotamia: buy or rent? Ken Gold, director of the Ohio State Fisher College of Business Center for Real Estate Education and Research, said there are still good rental deals to be had [more...]

Date: 2008-07-22 17:35:27

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Happy Moo Year.....हम्मा , हम्मा, हम्माहम्माहम्मा, रे हम्मा

I don't know if it has anything to do with the recession, the economic downturn, BIG folks feeling the pinch ( and I mean financially BIG) ... on a lake, the early residents of the area, besides technical humans, were leopards, cows, wild dogs ... by a Prime Minister, should suddenly make them go, particularly since no rehabilitation plans were [more...]

Date: 2008-12-27 13:36:00

Desperate Sellers And Buyers With Money To Spend

The Orlando Sentinel reports from Florida. “More than 2,100 homes in Lake County have fallen into foreclosure through the first half of 2008, ... in April, according to RealtyTrac. Every Treasure Coast community has seen a home left neglected ... , for example, cleaned up the home at 11 Cache Cay in Vero Beach early in the year. But by February, the same [more...]

Date: 2008-07-07 14:50:06

LOOKING AHEAD

Photo by Pete Wuebker One of the nicest things about spending any time at the cabin in Northern Minnesota is that we can ... .  Pete will auger through several feet of ice on the lake, and teach the kids from Georgia how to set ... -poster beds, and we awaken to fresh snowfall viewed through frosty windows. Today we’re home after [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 03:46:57

Scuppered!

I had to take James down to a job visit today in a town called Bubikon (One of our favourite Swiss place names because it sounds like Boobies ... in Dübendorf?), I made some beautiful, wonderful, grand plans to drop James off and then go and sit ... and learned I'd need 12 minutes for the journey.So, half an hour before the trip, we left home [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 14:23:00

Housing recovery at least 1 year off, Insider Q&A told

Shopoff William Shopoff, CEO of the land-investment firm bearing his name, is a real estate man first and foremost ... . Projects range from several home developments in Lake Elsinore to a Riverside County industrial site ... . So when a neighbor made an unsolicited offer to buy his Emerald Bay home for $12 million [more...]

Date: 2008-10-04 07:33:36

Foggy, Grey, Soggy Day

Yesterday the clouds were light, pale mounds of cotton batting rolled across the sky, hinting at snow ... lazily down and powdered-sugar-coating the land around our home. The Evil Genius has been obsessed ... that I am scattered today? A little - I slept alright (for a change), but my mind is full of plans [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 16:45:00

News - Views - Commentary

Uncle Jay Explains the Year 2008Gaza: Leaders Lie, Civilians Die and the Lessons of History Are IgnoredBy Robert Fisk, Independent UK - AlternetQuite a lot of the dead this weekend appear to have been Hamas members, but what is it supposed to solve? We've got so used to the carnage of the Middle East that we don't care any more -- providing we [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 11:37:00

FL in FL: Thursday

Thursday The thing about holidaying with my wife is that because of her insatiable need to experience new things and see, well, everything I rarely get a lie in. “Let’s get up really early and go photograph the dawn. It’ll be fun…” Uh Uh? Alrighty then. So when the opportunity does arise I try and grab has many Z’s* as my tired fingers can grasp [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 13:06:48

We Can’t Give Away Homes At $100,000

The Denver Post reports from Colorado. “Real-estate agents note that resort communities have certain advantages over the Front Range and much of the ... or the wholesale abandoning of value,’ said Doug Landin, managing broker at Eagle Ranch. ‘I think ... Ranch is still selling for at least 90 percent of asking price, Landin said.” “But a 10 percent [more...]

Date: 2008-07-23 17:38:26

Some people get mad, some get angry, some ride bulls. None is inducive to solving any relationship ills.

Fifteen whole days away. Sheesh. If ever someone needed a vacation, it would be me. I had so much going on during my hiatus ... and brother (in town from Cali, yeah!). Coming into a vacation with a well-rounded home-cooked meal ... warm temperatures!) we had dinner in Scottsdale at Bungalow on the PATIO , then spent the midnight [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 14:09:39

Discovery Health looking for Home-birthers

Here is the info I’ve received… just passing it along in case any of you, or anybody you know may be interested…Dear midwives, doulas, ... for Discovery Health Network. The hour long special will feature three mothers having home births and airs ... their birth. In February, my crew and I will be traveling to Salt Lake City Utah to follow another [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 12:15:28

Escape from Seattle

Depending upon whom you talk to in Seattle, either Seattle never gets snow like this, or they used to get snow like this but don't anymore, or yeah, ... , OP, the pastor of Blessed Sacrament Parish, Seattle, I made it home to Tucson yesterday afternoon ... on an Alaska flight to Idaho Falls, connecting to Salt Lake City, then to Tucson, departing at 11 [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 15:07:30

Top 10 of 2009

So, ten days have passed since this new year began, and I'm starting to feel a little nostalgic for January 1st ... to restore its "home town image," Ford Motors, Inc. revealed plans to update the classic Model T automobile ... pregnant population was away at home for the holidays. Experts expect this phenomenon to be short-lived [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 21:48:00

A two part post: Year in Recap/Mid Century Modern, Cliff May and Me

Whew...what a year! And what a day is today!I hope to later insert links to some of the events that are mentioned in this recap.. ... , and immediately begin to look for work closer to our families. Our house gets prepped for selling; life ... have worked a little harder on that though!)July: We both find jobs in...Salt Lake City! PTL! We put the house [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 02:50:00

The Psychology Has Changed

The Missoulian reports from Montana. “More and more condominiums are emerging in the commercially zoned areas of Missoula, ... of a restored Craftsman-style ‘trout lodge’ near Hamilton decided to cancel Monday’s auction ... and a bidding frenzy for their ranch by choosing a ‘no reserve’ auction. But, moments before the event [more...]

Date: 2008-07-16 15:08:56

Sacramento River Rail Trail

I can’t believe I put off getting bikes for so long.  Not that I didn’t have an excuse, of course ... factor.  He also assured me that the swooped handle bars are kind of cool, as he plans to use them ... .  We started by riding across the dam and ogling the view of Lake Shasta and Mount Shasta in perfect alignment [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 16:02:51

What? It’s 2009 already?

My how time flies when you're having fun! It seems like just yesterday we were ringing in 2008. How did we get here so darn fast? ... . Rich and I were entering the "comfortable" phase of our dating life. My kids were making plans ... in a blur, with kids coming home from all over, tons of activities and events, a house to decorate [more...]

Date: 2009-01-03 05:03:01

Letters To The Editor

Last week's edition of the News-Star included several letters regarding Uptown issues: Concentrated poverty doesn't work: ... to research even 3 minutes more, he would see there are huge and fundamental changes to the original plans ... . We do, however, have a fundamental issue with continuing to add more. There are communities up and down the lake [more...]

Date: 2008-12-16 04:17:16

by Rand Clifford featured writerDandelion Salad January 14, 2009Heaven, and hell, they both shimmer in the neural universe behind our eyes — in the electrochemical flower we inherited in three parts. High in the blossom sparkles transcendence of miseries humans inflict upon the entire biosphere; down in the stem lurk thorns of greater misery [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 02:39:12

Shake-Up at Accredited in Wake of Bear Res Acquisition

Lone Star Funds is shaking things up in its mortgage business after its acquisition of Bear Stearns Residential Mortgage Corporation late last week; Friday, the private equity group announced that Accredited Home Lenders, Inc. CEO Jim Moran ... in Orange, California, Beaverton, Oregon, St. Petersburg, Florida, and Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey [more...]

Date: 2008-06-06 19:44:57

Tiger Woods Set To Break Ground On First U.S. Golf Course

Filed under: Real Estate Developments Tiger Woods may be taking some time off the PGA circuit but he's certainly not taking it easy, ... course empire. We've already profiled his Dubai plans but he is also hard at work on his first golf ... and retire in. The development features a village area that will be home to a spa, inn, fitness center [more...]

Date: 2008-08-15 09:02:00

Landmarks of Religious Rome: Michelangelo's Dome... and Moroni's Trumpet

After years of warming relations with the Catholic world, albeit punctuated by the occasional doctrinal spat, ... in the Pope's backyard, revealing its plans to build a temple in Rome. Announced this morning by church ... a temple following its dedication. On their Utah home-turf, the LDS have a long history of faithful [more...]

Date: 2008-10-05 06:23:34

Long Weekend Ahoy!

I’m a woman of many moods. But the one thing that the many ‘me’s are clear about is that we want to visit the wide open spaces the coming weekend, ... me choose from my shortlist and maybe you’ll find something useful for your plans too! Republic ... resort itself is all about being low-key and eco-friendly, with home-style Maharashtrian cooking, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 04:03:12

Stuck in Seattle

My flight from Seattle to Las Vegas to Phoenix to Tucson was cancelled for Monday. The next flight I can take on USAirways gets me home on 12/26 ... in a prop plane to Idaho Falls, ID to Salt Lake to Tucson. I leave a little later in the morning, so maybe ... have Christmas shopping to do, too! Please pray for people who are stuck in airports, or whose [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 13:54:13

U.S. faces era of water scarcity

By Keith Schneider at Circle of Blue Just as diminishing supplies of oil and natural gas are wrenching the economy and producing changes in ... at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego forecast that within 13 years Lake Mead and Lake Powell along the Colorado River, the two largest reservoirs in the southwest United States [more...]

Date: 2008-07-09 18:29:30

The Fundamentals

Sam Amick of the Sacramento Bee:  “When he signed with the Kings and explained that Toronto ‘wasn’t where God wanted me to be, ... s Center Court restaurant – declined a request to meet with his family at his home. He also requested ... on the nightlife scene, he heads straight home after practices and games. Even his teammates, many [more...]

Date: 2008-11-23 22:27:43

Can Emily's List Get Its Mojo Back?

I co-wrote today's National Journal cover story about Emily's List, the Democratic women's political action committee, with my colleague (and pal) ... Clinton's failed White House bid. And we ask if Clinton's defeat, in particular, calls into question ... in the political firmament. Although EMILY's List is not to blame for Clinton's narrow loss to [more...]

Date: 2008-06-27 21:23:18

Gingerbread Info

When all was said and done on Saturday there were 7 new homes built, at least 4 sugar coma's and alot of sticky dirty clothes!!!! We even had an unexpected visitor, Santa Claus! He was out roaming the streets of Lake Hiawatha ... , we ordered some take out and were home nice and early. It was snowing again by the time we went to bed [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 16:57:00

Friday Fill-Ins

1. Idle hands are useless. 2. I love to sing in the shower. 3. My favorite time of the day is when hubby gets home from work. 4 ... , tonight I’m looking forward to spending time with my dearest hubby, tomorrow my plans include going to the grocery and finish some online tasks (home insurance, etc.) and Sunday, I want to explore [more...]

Date: 2008-06-06 07:08:46

The 99 Things Meme

I don't know why, it just caught my eye. My life took quite a while to get revved up, but t has, especially in recent years, become very full. From Doug Johnson and Susan Sedro (who draws our attention to the American-European bias ... in the last year.15. Adopted a child. No, and I have no plans to.16. Had food poisoning. Ick, yes [more...]

Date: 2008-12-26 16:49:00

Examples Of Hate Speech

1. "There is a huge gap between us (Jews) and our enemies �*not just in ability but in morality, culture, sanctity of life, and conscience. They are our neighbors here, but it seems as if at a distance of a few hundred meters away, there are people who do not belong to our continent, to our world, but actually belong to a different galaxy [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 20:07:36

Hit of the season

I used to blog a lot from my rocking chair. But last year I decided to replace the rocking chair with an elliptical cross trainer ... anything but making New Year’s plans or playing with their Christmas gifts. We are currently listening ... on Spire. So when last we left off, I had weaseled my way into the Jakes’ Bette Midler vacation [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 06:15:35

Brangelina Becoming Berliner?

Even though Angelina Jolie has been laying extremely low since the birth of her twin babies in France, she and partner Brad Pitt were spotted arriving in Berlin, where they've got plans to stay through ... Lake just south of Berlin. The family arrived via private plane on Tuesday afternoon. A witness [more...]

Date: 2008-09-24 23:58:58

Morning Buzz: Wednesday 7.2.02

When cops help a gang member kill a witness The Times reconstructs the 2003 murder of 16-year-old Martha Puebla, ... Beverly Connection won't build two high-rise towers Plans for luxury condos and an assisted living ... it was given of Edith Isabel Rodriguez writhing for 45 minutes on the floor of the emergency room lobby [more...]

Date: 2008-07-02 16:16:37

Ex Simulacra

By Derek Hardman. He described the action, having been, he believed, only mentioned originally, though expanded previously, in a secondary narration of the woman’s movements; finely, concisely, describing her movement similarly to the most previous narrator as a snip—“at the hem of a pair of blue jeans she was producing from a pattern [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 07:04:25

Midwest Flooding Worsens, Another Sandbag Levee Fails

WINFIELD, Mo. — A makeshift barrier holding back the Mississippi River failed early Saturday, ... , who finally left her mobile home Friday night when her power went out. She called the show of support ... through the night. A handful of residents, like Fox, began to make plans to stay with family [more...]

Date: 2008-06-28 20:38:43

Waterfalls start flowing tomorrow morning-- perhaps as early as 7am, but sadly, the Circle Line tours of the bay don't start until Friday. So if you want a good view (or a good picture) of these babies, you're going to have to view them from land. No problem: we've marked the best viewing spots for each one on the map above. 1 [more...]

Date: 2008-06-26 12:53:00

One Year Anniversary of My Business Today

On the 21st September 2007 I worked my last day as a paid employee and the 22nd marked my first day of freedom - though for the third time ... while I sat under a tree by a lake at a lovely country park. It was a lovely day so I decided to make ... quitting but I didn’t. Plans are good if they are there but I didn’t have one and to be quite honest [more...]

Date: 2008-09-22 17:31:10

Nightly Ramble:Christmas is Coming; Snow; Charity; More

First, some housekeeping: Given the Christmas Eve is on Wednesday, this is going to be a shortened week, for the Nightly Ramble. We’ll run the Ramble on Monday and Tuesday, and then perhaps again on Friday…. Friday entirely depends on personal plans that day, and how they time out. Unfortunately the same thing is going [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 21:01:43

WANDA: "I AM PROCESSING..."

ANOTHER POST BY MILTON:For new readers to this site, I am writing since Kristy's battle with a GBM brain tumor and her passing on July 21 ... that brought me in the evenings after returning home from a day of ministry and work. Everything ... that used to be a home you can only imagine the hurt, loneliness, and pain that follows. Wanda [more...]

Date: 2009-01-03 12:00:00

Obama denied beer by Secret Service

Our president-elect, well-documented here as a beer drinker, has been denied his beer of choice, apparently for security reasons! Check this out from Chicago Business News:Piece Brewery & Pizzeria's celebration plans ... . Jacobs' trip to D.C. "We couldn't do it, so we'recelebrating at home," he says. The restaurant's [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 15:17:00

Book Review: BEST LAID PLANS by Anne White

Review by Guest Blogger: Cheryl at Cheryl’s Book NookBook Info• Paperback: 220 pages • Publisher: Hilliard & Harris Publishers (April 30, 2006) ... White’s Lake George mystery series. I have not read the other books in this series but Best Laid Plans ... season, someone else has plans on how to go about it. Ideas like a dead body stuffed in a display [more...]

Date: 2008-09-08 07:00:00

DrumBeat: December 29, 2008

Gazprom, Once Mighty, Is Reeling MOSCOW — A year ago, Gazprom, the Russian natural gas monopoly, aspired to be the largest corporation in the world. Buoyed by high oil prices and political backing from the Kremlin, it had already achieved third place judging by market capitalization, behind Exxon Mobil and General Electric [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 14:06:30

Review - Real Vampires Don't Diet by Gerry Bartlett

Real Vampires Don’t DietGlory St. Clair, Book 4Gerry BartlettBerkleyJanuary 6, 2009ISBN# 978-0-425-22564-6Book blurb from the author’s site: ... . Then a moonlight boat ride on Austin's Lake Travis with newly turned vampire, rock star Israel Caine (Ray) goes horribly wrong. Who knew there was a Siren lurking in the lake just waiting for her chance to [more...]

Date: 2008-12-13 19:09:00

Passing Thoughts Evoked by a Croatian Music Video (of Petar Graso)

Years ago, I was living in Italy and quite homesick. I had a very vivid dream in which crossing a street took me across the ocean ... . In the dream, I was back home. But even at home I was an alien. The dream had a despairing quality ... . It gives me a serenity as I look to the future, knowing that the ice over the lake of my tomorrow [more...]

Date: 2008-12-19 05:14:25

Pet Advice - Pet News - Pet Photos

MY DAYI didn't want to get out of bed this morningI woke up with a stiff neckI washed my hair but couldn't do a thing with itMade breakfast for the ... lessonsand the girls to tap and balletWhen we got home, all they wanted to do was watch TVand, sing ... for someone to take them home. NEW YORK -- While animal shelters are designed to serve as rest stops [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 08:27:00

BLIZZARD SNEAK ATTACK

It was a sneak attack. The weather had been warmed by Chinooks and today was looking like a good prospect for venturing as far as the county seat to ... between cold from the north and moisture from the west. All plans are abandoned. The road report ... weather. Polar bear weather. By tomorrow it will be much safer on the lake for the ice fishermen [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 18:41:00

UPDATE ON HONOR KILLER YASER SAID AND HIS LIFE IN THE MUSLIM UNDERGROUND, PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR BILL WARNER PROVIDES YASER SAID BACKGROUND.

Yaser Abdel Said is wanted for murder. On January 1, 2008, Said took his two teenaged daughters for a ride in his taxi cab, under the guise of taking them to get something to eat. He drove them to Irving, Texas, where he allegedly shot both girls to death. They died of multiple gunshot wounds. Said may have fled to New York (he did) [more...]

Date: 2009-01-03 11:20:00

Travels Abroad: Adventures in New Zealand’s Lake Wanaka, Mt. Cook, and Fox Glacier [photo slideshow]

As a recent graduate from the University of Colorado, I was faced with what some might consider a challenge: ... cultures, but I had no set plans of where I wanted to go. I knew I needed to start saving money ... in this strange world-my friend had visa problems and had to head home, so I decided [more...]

Date: 2008-11-18 00:40:37

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