Settlement Capital Corporation

The Settlement Capital Corporation web site is a great place to sell annuities as well as commercial contracts, lottery winnings, ... B...Victorian house plansGarant Homes Corporation is providing Victorian house plans and instructions [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 16:37:44

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Weekend Open House Report

The weekend open house slog is nigh, and we're here to help, as always. Agents, have a listing of your very own? Hustle! 2008_12-1-Federal.jpg ... ." Open House: Sunday, 12/14 2008_12-3-Chenery.jpg Location: 3 Chenery St, Glen Park Size ... , transportation, google bus, coffee houses/restaurants. Victorian home has a very flexible floor plan [more...]

Date: 2008-12-13 21:30:04

Inside a Sears Home

I recently spent a weekend in Cape May, New Jersey with a group of friends ... , ornate Victorians. I had not properly prepared myself, however, for the onslaught of Victorian-clad ... design their own homes as well and submit their plans to Sears. The company would cut the pieces [more...]

Date: 2008-10-27 21:56:08

Mansion Musings

I love looking at homes. I suppose I inherited this tendency from my mother who also loves a good open house adventure ... ideas, different floor plans, etc. Our favorite homes to explore were the older homes with character, as my mother calls it. One of her dreams was to purchase a large Victorian style house and turn [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 18:02:00

Charlotte Church Soaking Up Time with Ruby; Planning Second Homebirth

Matt Cardy/Getty Big sister-to-be Ruby Megan Henson, 1, is growing up faster than parents Charlotte Churchand Gavin Hensonwould like! ... on preparing their home in Wales. The Victorian house, which Charlotte "love, love, loves," holds ... according to plan, Charlotte is ready to welcome the new baby in the same quiet, serene setting [more...]

Date: 2008-10-08 15:39:05

Operation Insulation has commenced!

Finally, after months of reading up and getting estimates, and just over a year after I joined the Green Homes scheme and got my home energy audit, my plan to insulate and 'green up' my flat took a step forward today, with the start of the work to insulate under my floor boards. Living in the ground floor flat of a converted Victorian house [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 18:38:00

Canada as a Holiday Destination

Travel to Canada Canada has always been under-rated as a travel destination ... magnificent Victorian houses, which serve as restaurants, shops and homes. If you plan to visit [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 19:27:33

Obama thinks he can win simply by essence of being black ... the old Victorian home, the wooden floor creaking, Obama went on: “I’ll give you one specific ... Obama plans to win the general election based on African American turn out. It is no secret. The Time’ [more...]

Date: 2008-07-13 13:27:48

New Crystal Palace Pictures Released

Original Crystal Palace Crystal Palace, home to cheeky dinosaurs, a floundering football team, and a pair of priapic transmitter towers, could soon boast a rebuilt version of the structure that lent its name to the area. Plans are afoot to resurrect the Victorian cast-iron & glass building (pictured), originally erected for the 1851 [more...]

Date: 2008-10-03 13:32:20

Wedding Plans: The Beginning

The RingSo when the Chem Geek Princess and her Knight Errant arrived home from England via Dallas, the Engineering Geek met them at the airport ( ... , a winery, or a Bed and Breakfast; no southwest decor--Victorian? Guests: Close family and close ... the officiant, plans the honeymoonMother of Bride (MOB): plans with bride (CGP), Groom does not sweat [more...]

Date: 2009-01-03 20:37:00

Preserving Austin

Austin is a city of great historical significance. Residents here adore the older homes and many wish to make at least part of Austin a historical ... to have an 1100 home district deemed worthy of historic preservation. There are no plans to stop ... that began with the destruction of this Victorian-era neighborhood. Martinez, along with several [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 05:03:23

Victorian Christmas and Joel Chandler Harris Birthday Extravaganza Tomorrow!

Hey there!  Remember me?  I’m the one who didn’t go to Salt Lake City to see the outsides of many museums and the insides of a handful.  Not that I’m bitter. I’m writing to remind you of your afternoon plans for tomorrow ... and 4pm for a tour of the home, storytelling, and libations, all for free. Bonus: Birthday cake [more...]

Date: 2008-12-06 19:30:43

taxpayer funded data must be freely available to the public

A recent Guardian newspaper article details the current status of plans in the UK to force local government councils and other public sector, ... and wonderful initiative. I recently argued that the Victorian government has the responsibility ... so it can make informed choices about the food it consumes outside the home. I would love to force [more...]

Date: 2009-01-03 13:15:16

Doctor, Heal Thyself

I’ve been inspired by posts on Vulpes Libres and the Victorian Geek to note down a few thoughts on self-help literature, ... in a pile of abandoned file copies, and it was the work of a moment to give a poor orphan book a home ... of a man I worked with in the customer accounts part of the factory that a little evil plan stirred [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 11:47:03

The Concept of Non-Ownership (by Phila)

I've been thinking lately about the form that architecture takes in an economy based on land speculation rather than, say, industrial productivity ... would have their sovereign acre of prairie (and a Wright house planted squarely on it), to Frank Gehry ... . Is there a certain type of building, or building style, that becomes dominant during a real [more...]

Date: 2008-11-01 16:49:43

Old homes get smart

Smart metering is coming. Within a decade, you’ll know exactly how much every flip of a switch or turn of a knob costs in monthly utility charges ... of a typical Victorian house. The Marchants were always energy-thrifty, but instant feedback ... , these systems can help reduce peak power demand. (In March 2008, Worldchanging covered Boulder, Colo.'s pla [more...]

Date: 2008-07-29 22:43:46

Deja Bloody Voo

You couldn’t make this up.As I said last week, I’m working on a sort of mini-series telling the whole Tinman blackout saga, ... department should have a 5-minute “huddle” every morning, to discuss our plans and issues ... like going home any time I like, so down I sat, but when my turn came to speak I was half-way through [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 15:08:35

Q&A with Ray Caesar

1.Name, Age, Occupation, (formality) Raymond Tiberius Caesar, Age: 50, Occupation: Sin Eater …not very formal but look good in a tux 2 ... ! my answer to this is always “I dunno!” I never make plans but things always seem to be in the works ... is and whether there is a possibility I will just never come out of my home because I can make all the [more...]

Date: 2008-11-12 18:30:01

Catching Up

Read Peter Hitchens only in the Mail on Sunday This week, I'll limit myself to responding to the debates which have carried on while I've been travelling. I'm afraid it's physically impossible to answer every point and every contributor, but I hope to deal with most of the questions raised. How do I select the contributions to which I respond? [more...]

Date: 2008-12-10 12:14:09

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

it's a good day

Some of you may remember a while back me going off on the city approving the demolition of a house that had seen better days ... the typical Mediterranean style home commonly found in the newer developments on the outer fringes ... funny. I wonder if they even tried? The curious can check out the thwarted plans here.What follows [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 20:40:00

2008: The One Hundred

(In reverse order:)Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage - Alfred Lansing. A must-read for everyone, and next summer when you're looking for the perfect Father's Day gift, remember what Bybee told you.The Oregon Trail - Francis Parkman. I found this to be dull reading, but I'm sure it was on-the-edge-of-your-chair reading back in the 1840s, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 08:00:00

motherhood

I love my kids. I'm glad that they're part of my life. There is no doubt that I'm a kinder, more patient, better person because they are in my family. But motherhood has turned out to be a much more ambivalent experience for me than I expected. I have heard other parents say things like, "Yes, it's hard, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 16:43:00

12 Unusual College Football Trophies

As the college football season kicks off, teams are ready to vie for the two national championship trophies. But that’s not the only hardware that will change hands this season, since many intercollegiate rivalries have their own special trophies. Some are pretty standard silver cups or plaques, while others are a bit more esoteric [more...]

Date: 2008-08-28 21:26:16

The State of Welfare

By Guest Author Chris Grayling MP, Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary So that’s it. Consensus has been reached ... Victorian times. A life expectancy gap between the rich and the poor that is as wide as it has been since ... that provides people with effective help to get into work, but no longer permits them to sit at home [more...]

Date: 2008-07-29 08:43:53

The Twilight Zone: How Stephenie Meyer Created the Most Irresistible Vampire Since Brad Pitt

Rose Marie Walano GUEST WRITER By the time we hit third grade, we all wanted to be Melissa Joan Hart ... . Author Stephenie Meyer had other plans for me. She combined Clarissa’s uncanny ability to break ... Musical - sans the show choir. Seemingly, Edward is impossibly perfect. He is a post-Victorian musician [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 22:00:00

No Time like the Present: Repurposing Christmas Decorations

It may be a new year, but that doesn't mean there's nothing to salvage from the old one! ... , and plans ahead. So today I thought I'd show you a few of the post-Christmas sale finds I'd gotten ... seemed just right at home in my house...Here are a couple of purple and silver tree-topper-type stars [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 12:00:00

Square Today, Octagon Tomorrow

Orson Squire Fowler was determined to be a preacher. At the tender age of 17 he walked 400 miles from his small town of Cohocton, New York to Massachusetts so that he might be tutored in the ways of the ministry. When Fowler enrolled in Amherst he made fast friends with another minister-to-be, [more...]

Date: 2008-10-14 04:45:17

By flying car to Timbuktu

I'm impressed to read of plans to launch a 'flying car' - by taking it from London, UK to Timbuktu, Mali! ... of a parachute and a giant fan-motor, Neil Laughton plans to soar over the Pyrenees near Andorra, before taking ... " reputation since the heyday of Victorian exploration.The daredevil 42-day expedition will pass 4,000 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 04:21:00

In Depth: The Great Ocean Walk offers an intimate look at how climate change may be affecting Australia (By Christy Harrison )

Having grown up in California’s Bay Area, I know this terrain well: winding two-lane coastal road, ocean far below, steep hills threatening mudslides at every turn. Eucalyptus and pine rustle under partly foggy skies; rain forms sheer curtains dividing one clear expanse from the next [more...]

Date: 2008-07-24 13:05:40

"Tigerheart" by Peter David w/Bonus Q

Official Peter David WebsiteOrder “Tigerheart” HERE Read An Excerpt HERE Read An Interview with Peter David HERERead Reviews via Fresh Fiction, ... Spider-Man, The Incredible Hulk and The Gunslinger Born/The Long Road Home (co-writer) prequel mini ... of action he can take to dispel the darkness that has entered his home and make things right again [more...]

Date: 2008-06-16 01:49:03

Steve Jones explores the obscure chapters of Charles Darwin’s life

Charles Darwin, as every schoolchild knows, saw the finches of the Galapagos in the years he spent there while employed as official naturalist on HMS Beagle. Each island had its own species, and Darwin soon worked out that they shared descent from a common ancestor; that they were a product of evolution [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 12:04:13

Pooch Pops Pills

Headline: Stressed pets becoming pill-poppersFrom: news.com.auDate of clip: 2.1.9 Caption: Pooch pops pillsVETERINARIANS are being pressured by pet owners to prescribe pills to counter a range of physical and mental conditions in cats and dogs. Brisbane veterinarian and former Australian Veterinary Association president Diane Sheehan said [more...]

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

become infamous for its ballooning costs, which have swollen to four times the original estimate in just three years. The velodrome and main stadium are also bulging beyond the confines of their original budget. That said, CLM can perhaps take credit that they're far from the greediest kitten at the teat [more...]

Date: 2008-07-18 16:12:03

Thus I Chuse

Jenny Thornton had not allowed herself much time to ponder the exigencies of the situation—for, after all, weren’t the nervousness and anticipation brought on by such great changes best embodied by their very mystery?–but she really had expected it to be more exciting. Not that it wasn’t, of course [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 20:40:37

Preparing the home for the Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year is an important festival in my family as I was previously a Taoist/Buddhist who placed strong emphasis on doing everything right to ... ones, send old books and toys to the recycle centre and etc. In the traditional Chinese homes ... hardly follow the tradition and with the price increases, many homes also do not change curtains [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 17:03:37

Reflecting on 2008 and looking to 2009

Best wishes for 2009 to all readers of this blog. Nick over on Brockley Central has done an excellent recap on the main local events in 2008 ( ... out against plans to expand Heathrow while the Mayor of Lewisham chose to remain silent. By the end ... for the expansion plans. January saw the publication of Lewisham's Sustainable Development Committee's [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 17:51:00

CITY OF GLASS by Cassandra Clare - REVIEW

Coming March 2009 The third and final installment in the Mortal Instruments trilogy definitely lives up to the reputation of the first two – CITY OF ... is the ancestral home of the Shadowhunters.  It is known as the City of Glass because ... have ever had to face.  Valentine’s evil plans are in the final stages and everyone is on full alert [more...]

Date: 2008-12-21 07:43:36

Old desires and new lessons

The picture above hangs in my tiny "Victorian" bathroom. It is a Mary Engelbreit "poster" (cut from her magazine) ... out the poster a couple years ago, very soon after reading the magazine (and finding an extra frame I had "put back" to frame it) so I could look at the words every day.When my husband and I were first [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 13:48:00

Sex work, figure fixing and Victorian philanthropy

The work of government-funded anti-prostitution group The Poppy Project is ‘incoherent’ and ‘dangerous’, according to British experts ... in the wake of Home Secretary Jacqui Smith’s plans for a massive crackdown on the ‘blight’ of prostitution in the UK. The Home Secretary’s proposals, based largely on the dubious work of The Poppy Project [more...]

Date: 2008-10-22 11:17:37

Amusing: SanFran Activist Fights PC, Anti-Car Cyclists; Do Bike Lanes Cause Pollution?

By Debbie Schlussel While San Francisco activist Rob Anderson was once a draft dodger, I find his opposition to San Francisco's anti-car, pro-cyclist plans, very amusing. I think you will, too. (And, as for the draft-dodging, at least he served prison time for it--13 months, whereas draft dodging chickenhawk Ted Nugent made millions [more...]

Date: 2008-08-20 14:56:31

Make your Christmas Magical: Simple ways of draping your house in dazzling decorations

It is that magical time of the year again when kids dream about Santa, ... are busy buying gifts and making plans, others are still searching for ways to turn their home ... out there that will be custom crafted to suit both Christmas and your theme. If you want than you can even bring back [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 14:29:48

“What it’s going to mean for us is a new name. It’s really the same concept."

State officials scrap Trans-Texas Corridor1/7/09By Tim WoodsWaco Tribune-HeraldCopyright 2009Some local and state officials expressed relief at ... that was threatened by the original corridor route.Pilant’s Victorian house was built in 1881 and was the childhood ... Tuesday’s announcement that plans for the Trans-Texas Corridor have been called off, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 01:09:00

The Choice of Hercules

Two attractive women approach you. Introducing themselves, one tells you that she is the personification of Duty, and invites you to follow her down the road of virtue, piety, sacrifice and hard slog. The second beauty represents Pleasure: she wants to guide you down a path of indolence, vice and hedonism. Which do you choose? [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 20:42:36

Interview: Someone Once Told Me's Mario Cacciottolo

Photo site Someone Once Told Me, the brainchild of journalist Mario Cacciottolo, has been catching the attention of many a curious Londoner as well as web-savvy folks and photography fans from around the world. The Guardian, described it as: "Whether it was a text message from a mate or words of wisdom from a grandparent [more...]

Date: 2008-12-10 13:38:41

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band: An article from 1967

The Messengers The cover on a new LP album called Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is a photomontage of a crowd gathered round a grave. And a curious crowd it is: Marilyn Monroe is there, so are Karl Marx, Edgar Allan Poe, Albert Einstein, Lawrence of Arabia, Mae West, Sonny Liston, and eight Beatles.Eight? [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 11:13:00

MIND MELD: Is Science Fiction Responsible for the Lack of Public Interest in Space Exploration?

It's not often that our real life science heroes utter disparaging remarks against science fiction. In fact, the opposite is usually true; science fiction is often cited as a source of inspiration and interest. Enter Buzz Aldrin, who caused a stir recently with some comments he made [more...]

Date: 2008-10-29 07:28:56

Historic Jefferson

Historic Jefferson January 16, 2009 – 4:34 pm Jefferson, Texas has a population of 2,000, a historic downtown, a famous ghost walk, ... I’m home, but in the meantime, tell me what you’re doing and if you’ve got any plans ... is historic and I can’t get over the wealth of beautifully preserved houses, hotels, and stores.  Many [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 23:34:59

This Week

We’re heading into a line of key dates in the development of you, the people you know, and the people across the world that you’ve yet to meet. The first kahuna falls on Monday in the shape of the first of this year’s five Eclipses. If there’s a something that’s stuck or a breakthrough that’s been a long time coming, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 00:36:00

The Pittsburgh - Happy Catholic Connection

Many's the time that I have thought the perfect vacations would be to go to various spots in the United States to meet people that I have become friends with through this blog.You wouldn't normally put Pittsburgh at the top of that list but let's take a closer look at what we can find there [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 15:22:00

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