Plan On The Run: Last Minute Vacations

Plan On The Run: Last Minute Vacations Many things happen in life which cannot be predicted. Depending on certain employment situations, or unforeseen events in scheduling, vacation time can be granted with short notice. In the grand scheme of things, it does not matter why, but is important to be able to take advantage of the time allotted [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 11:52:05

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How Freddie Mac Raises Money: Insult Shareholders. Then Run Back to Them.

When Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson outlined his three-point plan for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac this week, ... and funded exclusively with private capital.” Freddie’s plans to sell more shares to the public ... roughly $5.2 trillion of U.S. home mortgages, have capital cushions of only $81 billion. They also [more...]

Date: 2008-07-18 14:01:35

West Seattle snow and ice: Saturday morning/afternoon updates

(This post covered morning/afternoon/early evening; go here for the rest of the night - SATURDAY CLOSURES/CHANGES: Libraries closed at 4, ... of the home page): Had a request to start another post with road info etc. — so here ... Lake Park that while there is ice on the lake, it will not bear weight, and is not safe to walk [more...]

Date: 2008-12-20 18:31:09

125 Million Free 3-D Specs for Monsters Super Bowl Blitz

Ooze_350 DreamWorks Animation plans to give away more than 125 million pairs of 3-D glasses so Super Bowl viewers can catch a sneak preview of ... 3-D experience to home viewers, he told the Associated Press. The free glasses will be handed ... with NFL players. "The spot features a modern interpretation of the famed ballet Swan Lake [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 18:52:31

Documenting Chicago's Lakefront: An Interview with Geoffrey Baer

Geoffrey Baer is writer, producer and narrator for several documentaries taking viewers on tours of Chicago's neighborhoods and characters. He sat down with GB to discuss his most recent program, "Chicago's Lakefront." We've all been watching your documentaries for several years now and enjoying the great deal of knowledge you posses about [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 06:10:50

6 Curious College Donations

Universities are always looking for cash from their alumni (or anyone else with a big enough checkbook) ... and a current plan to raise an additional $1.75 billion, Princeton knows how to bring in cash ... , an alumnus of Princeton University and its varsity crew team, described the crowded narrow canal [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 14:54:00

Restoration Weekend live-blog: says speaker calls Obama most anti-American president ever elected

Governor Tim Pawlenty says is needed, applying Repubican principles to the 21st century in the way he governs for people, not partisans ( ... fields and meadows on Lake Erie at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River. As the head of Friends ... expansion plans by the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority. … Known as “Citizen Hauser” and the “ [more...]

Date: 2008-11-15 23:31:15

Rite tonu te mahi ( Similar Role)

I have always tried to be quite clear in these writings that while the Ruahines are a mountain range that has become MY spiritual place they are not ... in places I have now been 15 or 20 times. They are my Spiritual Home. I never expect anyone else ... on Earth that means the same to them, a mountain, a river, a lake, the forest, or sea, it doesn't matter [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 23:44:00

Election Developments & Problems in FL, GA, VA, IN, OH, NM, TN, WV

Guest blogged by DES This week, Broward County, Florida, Elections Supervisor Brenda Snipes said, with a straight face, "No one could have anticipated that this election would be so historic and draw as much attention as it has," and defended her choice to oppose expanding early voting hours next week due to "logistical problems [more...]

Date: 2008-10-25 22:55:39

Last Day At SKP Saguaro Co-Op - (Benson, AZ)

I was up and bouncing around this morning. I was labeled as "chatty" and "jovial" - descriptions not usually thrown in my direction. :) Hmm ... ? Definitely! :) I was out and about firming up some golf plans and dinner plans for the day ... with more handshakes, hugs, and "See ya laters". Back home, Linda continued her beading while [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 13:40:53

Johnson Ranch Community - Queen Creek AZ

Nestled close to the San Tan Mountains, Johnson Ranch is designed in a desert style – open spaces, mountain views, friendly neighbors, ... popular master plans for quality and value, Johnson Ranch was recently ranked eighth among the 20 top ... affordable real estate, and great weather.  Johnson Ranch is located in the southeast community [more...]

Date: 2008-12-19 22:57:37

brought to you by the letter "G"

Gracious good greetings from the Great White North....a glacial gem on our globe......where growth gleefully germinates under the glistening glassy ice of its geologic tundra and gigantic glaciers,where gortex and galoshes are granted fashion status by the guys and girls who gather the gumption to go gallavanting out into the great outdoorswhere [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 17:00:00

Gooney Bird’s long journey to the Big Apple

Gooney Bird’s long journey to the Big Apple January 4, 2009 by zellyanks91      First off..if you are wondering who “Gooney Bird”  is. ... make it home for Christmas. But Larsen was stranded with countless other travelers whose plans were ... to be a routine journey for Don Larsen, a trip from his home in Idaho to New York and back two days later [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 03:43:02

Blu Homes Launches Convenient, Green, Affordable Abodes

So I have some renderings and information on Blu Homes, and I've also spoken with the folks in charge of this company ... of the homes are large in size. They're just right for the occupants, featuring open floor plans that are smartly and passively designed. Picture_1 Picture_4 Each home can be individually [more...]

Date: 2008-07-17 19:00:11

Fall TV: Highlights from new and returning shows

SUNDAY New night/new twist: "The Unit" (9 p.m. CT, Sept. 28, CBS). Within minutes of the opening episode, the stakes increase dramatically for the Army's elite command unit. A coup attempt on the U.S. government has all the marks of an inside job, which means everyone is potentially at risk, including the families of Jonas, [more...]

Date: 2008-09-14 14:07:08

First, You Get Mad

Wow. It’s kind of unbelievable, really. You take something away from people, and they get angry. Take away hard won rights, and equal protection for those they love, and people get really angry. In the week since, California has seen an outpouring of demonstrations ranging from quiet vigils to noisy street protests against Proposition 8, [more...]

Date: 2008-11-14 16:00:16

First, You Get Mad

Wow. It's kind of unbelievable, really. You take something away from people, and they get angry. Take away hard won rights, and equal protection for those they love, and people get really angry. In the week since, California has seen an outpouring of demonstrations ranging from quiet vigils to noisy street protests against Proposition 8, [more...]

Date: 2008-11-14 19:52:07

Eagan’s Staycation Marketing Behind the Curve

Apparently the Eagan’s Visitor’s Bureau is targeting those that are interested in saving money in 2009 by catering to the “Staycation” crowd, ... the lake, and enjoy the cooler air, I doubt that they’d do anything but head further north or west ... an actual “staycation” right at home that are much better than the “Gateway to the Mall of America” [more...]

Date: 2009-01-03 16:50:45

Bopper's Casket: 1950s pop star's used coffin is going on eBay

By Ron Franscell Rock 'n' roll's most macabre historical artifact will go on the block when the family of the late 1950s pop star J.P ... in the crash of a small plane in a field near Clear Lake, Iowa, that also killed 1950s rock stars Buddy Holly ... , plans to sell the empty casket on eBay to raise money for a musical show about his father and to keep [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 05:37:23

Ohio gun rights improved in 2008; Much more still to be done

By Jim Irvine Recently I helped our treasurer go through line by line all our donations for a campaign finance report. It struck me how many of you had donated, and how much some people donated. Thank you. It means a great deal that you put such trust in our group of leaders - who I promise will continue to work and earn that trust [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 05:10:00

Breaking News - Political Commentary

U.S. Could be Facing Debt 'Time Bomb' This YearBy Lori Montgomery - The Washington Post / MSNBCInvestors' thirst for American securities could finally be quenchedWASHINGTON - With President-elect Barack Obama and congressional Democrats considering a massive spending package aimed at pulling the nation out of recession, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-03 13:25:00

Interview with a Maniac: Maniacles

Those of you who read my blog regularly know I always talk about my running Ohana. This amazing group of runners introduced me to the concept of traveling to marathons and have allowed me to become a member of the Hawaii running circuit. The person I consider to be central to our Ohana is known as Maniacles (Maniac Les) [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 04:06:00

When You Shrink The Gold Mine In California

The San Francisco Chronicle reports from California. “As home values continue to plunge, the real estate valuation service Zillow said that 20 ... homeowners with negative equity. He and his partner owe about $610,000 on their bungalow in Oakland’s Maxwell Park neighborhood; the home now is worth about $100,000 less. In their 94619 ZIP code, 23.8 [more...]

Date: 2008-11-12 22:06:39

Chronic Illness = 75% of Health Care Spending

Fighting Off Depression By PAUL KRUGMAN - The New York Times“If we don’t act swiftly and boldly,” declared President-elect Barack Obama in his latest weekly address, “we could see a much deeper economic downturn that could lead to double-digit unemployment.” If you ask me, he was understating the case [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 12:15:00

Isaiah, Bloomberg, Larry Jones

Isaiah's The World Today Just Nuts "Princess Brat's Big Plan" went up yesterday and I know you will enjoy it as much as I did. And Rebecca reminded us all not to forget Kat's "Kat's Korner: The really best of Janis Ian"This is from Nicholas Johnston and Andrew Harris' "Burris Expected to Be Seated in U.S. Senate This Week (Update5)" ( [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 04:00:00

Tomorrow Never Memes

I saw that both TheMom and DGuzman did this meme. Since I've got nothing else to do today (thanks, school district, for canceling my job at the last minute), I'll play to. This is another one of those memes were you bold the things you've actually done.1. Started my own blogObviously.2. Slept under the starsSure.3 [more...]

Date: 2008-12-02 13:07:00

Latest News in Home Insurance - Jan 19, 2009

NHL Standings - Cleveland Plain Dealer 18 Jan 2009 at 4:10pm Calgary at Colorado, 8 p.m. Columbus at Vancouver, 8 p.m. Phoenix at Edmonton, 9 p.m ... , proposing insurance to underwrite mortgage-backed debt and toxic assets and reversing plans to shrink Northern Rock Plc’s … Home woes spread unequally - Record Searchlight 18 Jan 2009 at 11:56pm [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 08:21:18

Yankees announce spring schedule

Here’s a release from the Yankees on spring training. I’ll post my third-annual spring training travel guide sometime next week. It’s never too early to make plans. —————— The 26-time World Champion New York Yankees ... at 1:05 p.m. vs. the Toronto Blue Jays at Knology Park in Dunedin, Fla. The Yankees’ first home spring [more...]

Date: 2008-11-26 04:39:46

Senseless

.fullpost{display:inline;}Everyday no one is spared by reports about children killed by preventable diseases, natural calamities, traffic accidents, military and rebel operations and criminal elements who continue to roam the streets even after they were identified by witnesses as the main culprit [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 23:29:00

Out of sight, out of mind

Out of sight, out of mind January 15th, 2009 For those of you who don’t know, Pennsylvania Avenue is ripe pickin’s for the homeless of DC ... It wasn’t until the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City, where officials opened shelters and welcomed homeless people with warm food, that a more humane precedent was set, Stoops said. The District plans [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 12:57:28

Tell Simmer: Diana McMillen, Midwest Living Senior Food Editor

As senior food editor at Midwest Living magazine - Meredith Corporation’s popular regional glossy - Diana McMillen literally spends her ... , supervises photos and plans stories. Diana likes to do things like, say, set up a food photo shoot on the shores of Lake Superior - working from the trunk of a car.  A seriously creative and capable [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 05:32:46

Old Devil’s Lake Bouldering Photos: The Keymaker (V11?)

repeat and subsequent downgrade of Walk Of Life. AllClimbing is currently running a poll on what your favorite brand of climbing shoes is ... up. Steve has some better pictures posted of the hard problems at Devil’s Lake that I was talking ... , not all the bouldering on the West Bluff at Devil’s Lake is spread out and hard to find.  A short [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 14:17:47

Things Were A Lot Different Two Years Ago

The Rocky Mountain News reports from Colorado. “Home prices in the Denver area fell by 4 ... -Shiller Home Price Indices released today. ‘The overall real estate market continued to slide in May,” ... The Daily Sentinel from Colorado. “The time for rapid home building in the Grand Valley is becoming [more...]

Date: 2008-07-29 17:56:47

The Fundamentals

Benjamin Hochman of The Denver Post:  “Each season, a new name or two will pop up on the NBA’s top-10 scoring list, an unexpected party crasher, like Mickey Rourke at this month’s Golden Globes or Charles Barkley in a holding cell.  Last season, it was Sacramento’s Kevin Martin, who has a career 15 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 23:19:51

Disrupt Lake City Project

Disrupt Lake City is creating a situation in which our friends and allies can directly confront this wellspring of US militarism ... Lake City on the map, and expose just what the “Heart of America,” looks like. —- What is lake city ... - at home and abroad. Soldiers, supplies, transportation, communication, weaponry and ammunition [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 10:02:44

Keshava temple at Somanathapura

coracle ride in Nanjanagud few months ago, now it was time for more fun on those floating metals. Those floating objects ('kupparike') ... Kabini) and Sphatika (a mythical spring or lake) - similar to the mythical river Saraswati which joins ... (Right click & select save target to download) Background Photo: A lake on the way back [more...]

Date: 2008-12-21 18:06:03

plans for a dream house

Every parent dreams of giving all the best for their children. We all strive hard to make lives easy and comfortable for them ... . One of the things we want them to have is a decent home to grow up in. Right now, we still have no house of our own. We have so many plans about it, but, as of the moment, nothing has materialized yet [more...]

Date: 2008-11-27 02:58:00

Attention Real Estate Investors: Know The Difference Between Going Fishing And Catching Fish

A reminder, as we’re beginning another year. The pictures on most of my posts are there for my pleasure, and hopefully yours ... s the answers to the questions you didn’t know to ask that can derail the best of plans. Sailing ... , returning home the way you came, that is, sans fish, ain’t cool. Laboriously searchin’ your local market [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 06:11:43

2008 - The Year My Life Exploded

One of the reasons I started this blog back in 2004 (I believe it was actually earlier, in various forms) was to enable me to chronicle the intellectual things I came across throughout life. This year has been such an amazing year for me, experiencing the birth of my son (which we Twittered and Ustreamed), the birth of 2 identical twin nieces ( [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 06:26:11

'A Destroying Wind'

-- by Dave Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will raise up against Babylon and against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against me, a destroying wind.. [more...]

Date: 2008-06-01 16:01:07

Car Key Jams Teen Drivers’ Cell Phones

Jump to CommentsUniversity of Utah engineers developed a new Key2SafeDriving system to prevent teenagers from using cell phones while driving and to reduce cell phone use by adult motorists. Each driver of a car would have their own special key. When the key is extended from the wireless device (sample shown at left) [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 06:19:34

Curriculum Vitae Sheri L. Clary

Learn more on the power of coordinated brainwaves. Vijay Eswaran practices this while running the conglomerate QI Group, a company less than 10 years old that is approaching $1 billion in annual sales. A Hindu Indian born in Malaysia, he starts each day monk-like with an hour of silence, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 01:40:29

The Bush Years, as Told by The Onion

I remember snickering at the once-amusing, now eerily-prescient classic article in The Onion titled Bush: Our Long National Nightmare of Peace and Prosperity is Finally Over:   What better day than on the last day of the Presidency that made a virtue of willful ignorance to present a catalogue of George W [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 20:00:00

From A Buyer’s Perspective, The World Is Their Oyster

The Denver Post reports from Colorado. “While there are plenty of resale and foreclosure options out there, ... In response, the 50-year-old company, one of the nation’s largest homebuilders, is downsizing floor plans ... homebuilders are enticing buyers with brand-new smaller and less expensive homes. Floor-plan sizes [more...]

Date: 2008-11-16 17:33:07

Getting That Chump Factor Out Of The Market

It’s Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. “The number of residential homes for sale through the Coeur d’Alene MLS has topped 4,000. At the same time, home sales remain soft. ‘They are, but we’re still in what would be considered ... returned to 2002 levels, the year before the rapid escalation of home prices.’” “‘ [more...]

Date: 2008-06-13 19:59:24

Is China's Growth Story Coming Unglued?

Something is going on in China that simply does not add up. Let's start with the GDP ... for the national economy. However, auto and home purchases ebbed notably in the first half, adversely ... , Hebei province: A man collects dead fish in Donghu lake, where officials say an estimated 30,000kg [more...]

Date: 2008-08-26 05:34:31

Tuesday Recruitin'

Tuesday Recruitin' By Brian — October 21st, 2008 at 10:49 AM — 15 comments Update 10/21: Linked to articles on FL RB commit Vincent Smith, ... , will visit Colorado, California, Minnesota and Florida, with the Gophers holding the home-state ... , and inside word is that it will be hard to pull him out of his home state now. Some think Michigan [more...]

Date: 2008-10-21 14:49:06

Rahm to McCain: How about Great Lakes?

By Amanda Erickson and updated. Sen. John McCain, you picked the wrong issue to mess with, Rep. Rahm Emanuel says.. Rep. Emanuel, so did you, McCain replies. The point that Emanuel (D-Ill.) was trying to make with a letter he sent to Republican McCain today was asking the presidential nominee to support a ban on oil drilling in the Great Lakes [more...]

Date: 2008-06-20 23:33:20

Getting Their Butt Kicked, Too

The Seattle PI reports from Washington. “There was no denying the Seattle-area’s real estate funk at Williams Marketing’s annual forecast breakfast ... , with the median sales price of a King County house dipping below $400,000 for the first time since February 2006 ... . Seattle’s median house price was $416,000, also the lowest since February 2006 — and [more...]

Date: 2008-11-09 17:24:22

Hannah Grace

My Review:Hannah Grace is the first book in the Daughters of Jacob Kane series. Hanna, the eldest of the three sisters is a strong and fiesty woman who finds herself practically engaged to the town phsycian Ralston Van Huff. Some people in the family feel that Ralston is not going to be the love of her life but it seems like Hannah is feeling [more...]

Date: 2008-12-12 08:01:00

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