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I’m Pooped.  With a capital P even. The motivation is still here, but so is all the work, and the projects that went with.  I tell ya, that God of mine… He’s so funny. You know how I saved a boatload of money switching my auto insurance to Geico fixing my own pipes? Tonight I spent that.  On something else that broke. However, due to my new budget plan and savings when the TV

Apparently LeBron’s mom has some issues… LINK old story One of our favorite underreported stories of the last few months was the arrest of LeBron James’ mother for drunken driving. In case you don’t remember the details, Momma LeBron — who, by the way, is the exact same age as Bill Simmons — was placed [...]

It's part one of the amazingly hot Fresh Meat episode from No Good TV featuring the sexiest girls from Penthouse Magazine, Heather Vandeven, Krista Ayne and Andi Valentino, getting down right dirty... This is a summary only. For more of this article please visit mannpill.com

When Mary Gade was appointed the Midwest EPA Administrator in September, 2006 she did something that the Bush Administration obviously didn't expect — She took her job seriously.  After decades of Dow Chemical dumping its toxic products into rivers nearby its Midland, Michigan plant, including Saginaw Bay and Lake Huron. Dow has been avoiding its responsibility in cleaning up dioxin-poisoned soil and sediment in the 50 miles surrounding its plant for years, and after wrangling with Dow, and getting nowhere, Gade invoked "emergency powers" last summer so that she could order Dow to cleanup three of the worst dioxin "hotspots" affected by the dumping.  How bad was it?  Well the reporting in the Chicago Tribune explains: …all along the two wide streams that cut through this o

M’kay? Seriously, this office is TMI Central. I’m just a kid, let me flounce around in my weirdo outfits and devil-may-care grin without having the weight of your problems on my shoulders. Don’t you hate it when people tell you shit without you asking for it? Just when I’d forgotten about my problems with Carl and [...]

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Back pain is a warning cry. Your body is telling you it needs help - your help. When you read this article, you will discover several things you can do to reduce or eliminate your back pain. More: continued here

THE GAME OF DESTINY - Fortune Telling with Lenormand Cards (Paperback)By Mario, dos Ventos Buy new: $35.9519 utilised and new from $32.36 Customer Rating: First tagged “oracle” by L.P. “Leonus Amongus” Customer [...]

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A man and his wife are on vacation in Tibet. While shopping in a small village, the wife asks her husband what time it was, and looking down at his wrist the man realized he had left his watch in the motel room. After a few unsuccessful attempts to find an english speaking local, the [...]

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Originally posted Thursday April 17, 2008 05:00 PM EDTIn a bitter battle of she said/he said, Rob Lowe's former nanny Jessica Gibson is accusing the actor of sexual harassment. Lowe counters that Gibson fabricated the allegations as part of an extortion scheme. Who do you believe? Or do both have credibility problems?

People don’t sneeze when they pick up Aces nor do they flare their nostrils and blink when they are bluffing. Despite Dr. Pavlov’s considerable research, human beings are just not so simple; especially not at the poker table. But sometimes you pick something up. Sometimes there is just something odd about the way someone is [...]

I’ve posted an article on my other Blog. I think everyone needs to read this. Click here for Obama’s Dad, a Marxist? Again, If you’re voting in November or in the primary, you should read this.

As I read a lot of other blogs, I hear playing race card and race tones all over their comment sections. Are we blind to what is going on in America? Why can't we see the real issues and start from there? Whomever gets the nomination from the Democratic party will get my vote and that is all to it. All lies and hate should be put aside and those that are starting it should really look at what is going on in the Democratic party. See Let's Talk ABout It for Obama response. Would you prefer McCain to Obama as our next President, what say you?

If this were just a simple clock shaped like a Rubiks Cube it would be cool. Throw in the ability to twist the top row to switch between time, temperature, alarm and date modes and it becomes awesome. Plus, it is priced at an affordable $24.98 and you never have to endure the shame of being unable to solve it. [What on Earth via GeekAlerts]

I loaned my sister quite a bit of money without telling my husband. I figure she’ll pay it back before he notices it’s gone. Now, I’m feeling a tad guilty. Was what I did wrong? answer: Well, the truth is, if you know something’s OK, you usually don’t have to ask someone if it’s OK. The fact [...]

By: Craig Williams Founder of Rental Real Property.com Finding properties in the MLS, sherriff sales, foreclosures, and looking for signs are common ways to find investment property. A commonly overlooked way of finding investment property is word of mouth. And how do you get that word out there? You tell people, that’s how. [...]

Mr. Brown is cleaning out his closet in a new tattle tell book. Brown dishes the dirt on what really went down between him and Whitney. He claims Whitney turned him out! If Eve convinced Adam...I could definitely believe that.Here are some excerpts from the book:on being a Crack head:“I never used cocaine until after I met Whitney. Before then, I had experimented with other drugs, but marijuana was my drug of choice. At one point in my life, I used drugs uncontrollably. I was using everything I could get my hands on, from cocaine to heroin, weed, and cooked cocaine.”on being a K-Fraud:“It was doomed from the very beginning. Within the first year we separated, with several more to follow. I think we got married for all the wrong reasons. Now, I realize Whitney had a different agenda t

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Read. Discuss."But I thought all witches were wicked," said the girl, who was half frightened at facing a real witch."Oh, no; that is a great mistake. There were only four witches in all the Land of Oz, and two of them, those who live in the North and the South, are good witches. I know this is true, for I am one of them myself, and cannot be mistaken."--L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"I wish they taught magic at school," Jane sighed. "I believe if we could do a little magic it might make something happen."..."I could begin right enough," said Anthea; "I’ve read lots about it. But I believe it’s wrong in the Bible.""It’s only wrong in the Bible because people wanted to hurt other people. I don’t see how things can be wrong unless they hurt somebody, and we don’t want to

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DENVER : NEW MUSIC "Don't Miss this One!"Devotchka's 2008 Album TourTHE BRAND NEW LP FROM THE COUNTRY'SMOST TALENTED MULTI-INSTRUMENTALISTSDeVotchKa is a four-piece fusion band, bringing in elements of folk music from at least six countries to paint a brilliant auditory picture. The band just released their sixth album: the highly recommended "A Mad & Faithful Telling." (Seven if you count the band's heavy presence in the "Little Miss Sunshine" Original Motion Picture Soundtrack - on which they steal the show!) The March release of Mad & Faithful (on the Anti-Records label) has the band embarking on a new World tour. DeVotchKa's Nick Urata and Jeanie SchroderBRAND NEW TRACK:Devotchka - New World DEVOTCHKAWORLD TOUR 2008Apr 4 - Manchester, UK Academy 2 Apr 5 - DublinThe CrawdaddyAp

Today's post is taken from a recent article by Scott Schwertly... the art of storytelling. If your marketing isn't telling a story, then it's not doing what it was intended to.Were you bored with your last keynote speaker? Did they motivate and change lives? Perhaps, they ended lives. That’s why you need to tell stories. You have probably heard the quote: “Tell me a fact and I’ll remember it. Tell the truth and I’ll believe it. Tell me a story and I’ll put it in my heart forever.” Stories are an incredible tool that is often abused in our culture today. Unfortunately, presenters don’t know how to tell or use stories to their advantage. As presenters, here is our biggest challenge: telling an epic story – a story that will surprise, delight, and most importantly

Came across an interesting new Penguin project. Dots and loops blogs: We Tell Stories is a new interactive fiction site from Penguin with 6 stories based on Penguin Classics. The first story online is The 21 Steps by Charles Cumming, based on Buchan’s classic thriller The Thirty-Nine Steps. It is told through narrative bubbles that pop [...]

Went to fortune telling last Saturday. The shop opens at 10-10.15am, guess what we reach before 8am at the morning just to wait the shop to open.TS told me that we need to go early for the fortune telling, until 11am++ will finish. I was wondering why furtune telling need so much time to do. But I was wrong. Going there early was to make sure we can finsh early at 11am, the process was quite fast for 1 person, new comers are like 5-10 minute and those regular customers some could be as fast as less then 5 minites.That sifu was using tarot cards as he ask me choose a tarot card, saying that he could calculate my future.He have told me that my working career is good, but better if I go into business. I asked could I have art or crafts for my business, he say yes. I was glad. Meaning that I c

History repeats itself. During World War Two, Germany's professional military such the Luftwaffa operated many remarkably humane POW camps obeying the Genva Conventions. American pilots in Luftwaffe custody did not have to fear systematic torture. However, Hitler's Nazi Brown Shirts and Gestapo operated under a different secret set of rules and employed many forms of torture. Although Germany had many officers who who did not commit crimes against humanity, it is most remembered for all those who did torture and murder.  ~ from Bush Vetoes Anti-Torture Legislation ~

Each New Testament writer emphasized different parts of Jesus' life and ministry. But two key parts of the story remain in all 4 gospels, Acts, the epistles, and Revelations: Jesus died and rose. There were many differences in how the story was told, even in the early church, but the elemental parts of the story, Jesus' dying on a cross and rising, are clear. There's a great choice to make

Tori Spelling - Tori Spelling Talks About New Book - Tori Spelling sTORI TELLING Book and author Tori Spelling in an interview on JKL that you will not want to miss. Tori Spelling talks about her new book - sTORI TELLING - and about her second baby that she is expecting this summer.

The financial press, and even the network news shows, have begun reporting the price of gold regularly. For twenty years, between 1980 and 2000, the price of gold was rarely mentioned. There was little interest, and the price was either falling or remaining steady.read more | digg storyLiberty Central- Conservatism's Blog of Choice

This video is not really a video at all, it is a static photo of Elizabeth Cotten, but the audio is so delightful. Mrs. Cotten really makes me laugh with her stories. And she ends with a song. I hope you like it.Here is another Elizabeth Cotten post Frieght Train.

Tuesday afternoon at approximately 3:26 PM, my cable and Internet were installed.  Sure Comcast was supposed to arrive between 8 and 12, and they called at exactly 12 to say they were going to be late, but who’s keeping score?   Sure I got up at 6:30 to ensure I’d be showered and ready for their possible [...]

For many of you conversation is a big problem during a date. Most of you get stuck while talking. After that silence rules for some time till you find what to say again. Once the flow is broken, the experience suffers. How to make sure that this does Dating

Proud mama TORI SPELLING (and pregnant with baby No. 2) gets candid for ET about her tabloid-worthy life and her all-new memoir, sTORI Telling! "I did the book mostly because people have been telling such false stories about me my whole life," Tori tells ET, "and I thought I might as well tell the real stories [...]

If the medium changes, so does the message - or so the message went in the 1970s. Does anyone still believe that? More likely, the skills, experiences and ingredients of good story telling have actually stayed the same over the years, even if quill pens have given way to computerised word processors. At least, that’s [...]

Telling a girl that you like her is something that the most macho of men fear. Of course, emotions can take over your logic & your actions as well. No matter what, you must be prepared mentally before you do anything at all. More: continued here

If you’re a small business owner, one of your constant headaches is making sure you’re filing your payroll taxes correctly. You have to make sure you’re taking out the right amounts in federal and social security taxes for your employees. You have to make sure you’re reporting correctly to the IRS, and you [...]

A CAPTCHA is a program that protects websites against bots by generating and grading tests that humans can pass but current computer programs cannot.A CAPTCHA is a type of challenge-response test used in computing to determine whether the user is human. The process involves one computer (a server) asking a user to complete a simple test which the computer is able to generate and grade. Because other computers are unable to solve the CAPTCHA, any user entering a correct solution is presumed to be human. A common type of CAPTCHA requires that the user type the letters of a distorted image, sometimes with the addition of an obscured sequence of letters or digits that appears on the screen.The term "CAPTCHA" was coined in 2000 by Luis von Ahn, Manuel Blum, Nicholas J. Hopper (all of Carnegie

A CAPTCHA is a program that protects websites against bots by generating and grading tests that humans can pass but current computer programs cannot.A CAPTCHA is a type of challenge-response test used in computing to determine whether the user is human. The process involves one computer (a server) asking a user to complete a simple test which the computer is able to generate and grade. Because other computers are unable to solve the CAPTCHA, any user entering a correct solution is presumed to be human. A common type of CAPTCHA requires that the user type the letters of a distorted image, sometimes with the addition of an obscured sequence of letters or digits that appears on the screen.The term "CAPTCHA" was coined in 2000 by Luis von Ahn, Manuel Blum, Nicholas J. Hopper (all of Carnegie

Here a small little story for all those marketers who believes that only spending millions on advertising does all the trick, which also helps them to rest their right side of the brain."...about a year ago, when Jamie Leventhal was trying to convince big chain stores to stock his new line of shaving gels for young men, a buyer from Target asked a crucial question: How much would he spend on advertising? “I told him we would not spend a single dollar,” Mr. Leventhal said.The buyer was stunned until Mr. Leventhal pulled a prototype out of his briefcase. The product, called NXT (pronounced NEXT), is sold in an arresting triangular container that lights up from the bottom, illuminating air bubbles suspended in the clear gel. The plastic is tinted blue, and when the AAA batteries in i

TWC founder and global warming skeptic advocates suing Al Gore to expose ‘the fraud of global warming.’ The Weather Channel has lost its way, according to John Coleman, who founded the channel in 1982. Coleman told an audience at the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change on March 3 in New York that he is highly [...]

If you’re a small business owner, one of your constant headaches is making sure you’re filing your payroll taxes correctly. You have to make sure you’re taking out the right amounts in federal and social security taxes for your employees. You have to make sure you’re reporting correctly to the IRS, and you [...]

Yes, there are dozens of reports publishes about segments of teaching or on specific assessments to measure teaching. Yet, what are we left with to direct us to improve education?Where are the improvement committees and how did they get there? At the high school where I teach is a committee to collect improvement ideas and discuss them. There are students, administrators and teachers on the committee. In AZ I know the Governor has assembled a committee, but without researching it I'm not sure who is on it or what they have accomplished. On the national level, I’m pretty sure the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) is the driving force to improve education. You can find that web site here.The measurement to determine if education is improving mandated by NCLB is Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP

John 3:16 is a much loved part of scripture. It's known by fans at football games and is often chosen by families I meet preparing for a Funeral. There's good reason to love John 3:16. Martin Luther said, ...we find rich, excellent, and salutary words in this text. They should be diligently heeded. This Gospel is customarily preached to the congregation every Whitmonday. It is so pregnant

If you told youreself that you really was going to lose weight this year, here are reasons why you havent had any luck with it so far. I think most these tips are things you probably know about, but maybe not enough aware of. Think positive and lets get to work on these suggestions is [...]

A mother told her daughter: If someone sexually harass you by touching your top part, you must shout DON'T! and if he does it touching your low part you must shout STOP!'' Next day, the daughter... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

I had a chance to visit Stew Leonard's this week during the snowstorm and enjoyed an ice cream cone! This hugely successful retail store is different from many other stores in the country.1. There was a single aisle that forced you to visit all of the store.2. Very few items in the store - The lack of assortment provided greater display area and visual weight to individual items. Also, I am sure this is a tecnique to keep the store stocked of product.3. There are signs everywhere. Most look handmade, telling and selling a story on the store, product, or history of an item.The ice cream cone was awesome.

While Christmas Shopping this weekend at the mall...I noticed a Giant Poster in the perfume section about some new exotic perfume and its story. The display included a silk cloth and other exquisite pieces around this perfume bottle and it took up a large space. Have you noticed the large perfume stands at the entrances to the big Mall stores? They are large area's to tell their story of the wonderful products that have all kinds of benefits and attributes for you the consumer. The booths have uniformed technicians servicing and selling the latest and greatest smell good products. The question that occurred to me is "how are you telling your story to your consumers? It is vital that you have a method and componet to tell and share your products story. As I mentioned earlier, a sing

Ravelled Sleaves: artists book copyright Vivien BlackburnThere isn't any painting going on at the moment. I have to get on and finish Sam's Christmas present book and I've been busy present buying as I've been totally disorganised this year .... ok ... disorganised as usual. I'm nearly there :) thanks in part to Amazon and Ebay!I thought I'd show you some old digital work - an artists book I made during my degree . I'd chosen a module called Integrated Imaging, which was about photography, video (I gave that a miss) and digital imagery - not that the tutors had a clue about digital imagery or photoshop! they were a painter/photographer and a film maker. I had already started using photoshop and playing with digital imagery and saw it as an ideal opportunity to explore it further. The rest of the group worked in photography or video.I was working part time, doing the degree part time and my daughters were at senior school so life was really hectic. The family were fairly underst

I've been thinking a lot about the farm in Missouri lately. On my way home from work I remembered that collection of arrowheads he'd found out there. [singlepic=163,200,200,,left]Even though I haven't been to the farm in awhile I started imagining them hunting in the woods there. I'm sure it looked similar to how it still looks, roll ridges and creeks in a deciduous forest, but who knows how long the arrowheads had been there? I'm sure an archaeologist could guess better than me, but anywhere from 200-15,000 when people made it to North America. I can only imagine the hunt, but the amount of skill they must have had to actually kill something...[continued]

Jordan Fox, a soldier that lost full vision in his right eye and suffered injuries to his back after getting blown up in Iraq, has been contacted by the military and told to return $3,000 of his $10,000 signing bonus because he will not be able to finish the last three months of his tour of duty because of his injuries.Here's the original report from KDKA, a local tv news station in Pittsburgh.The Pentagon also failed to classify at least 20,000 troops that have brain injuries as being injured.How's that for supporting the troops?

We fight a lot. I don’t love him but he’s always telling me how much he loves me. I don’t want to see him anymore but I don’t know how to tell him. I still want to be friends.Just a friend. Answer: It doesn’t sound to me like you love this guy at all -which means that [...]

Next weekend, along with Elliot's second birthday party, I'll also be baptised, confirmed and given first communion. I'm not sure why I haven't spoken about it before, but I feel weird about it. Only because I don't know any one else who's gone through a similar experience. It feels strange to be baptised at the age of 25. It's something I'd been thinking about doing for awhile, so I'm not regretting my decision. I'm just feeling a little awkward about standing in church in front of a bunch of strangers. When I decided to take tutorials with my local priest, I honestly thought the process would be a lot longer. I thought I'd have to study, prepare a bit more. I'm still feeling as if there are things about the Catholic faith that I don't fully understand or appreciate at the moment. The last time I spoke to the priest he said I'd need to find a sponsor, someone to stand up with me. I've asked my mother-in-law and I do feel slightly better knowing I won't be up

By: Andrei MyersThe swing of the pendulum brought back the grandfather clocks. The new breed of clocks retains the old charisma but have new interesting features. These are surely must-haves for the incurable romantics.Step back into timeMans compulsive need to know the time dates back to ancient eras. This was dictated by the seasons and his need to hunt, plant, and harvest. Before the grandfather clocks took its important place in the history of horology, people told the time by the shadow of the sun on the meridian line or by the rate that water dripped from a vessel with a tiny hole.Until the 1500s, people had to rely on inaccurate time telling devices. Galileo Galilei opened the way to the improvement of mechanical time devices. He hit upon the idea of using the pendulum to provide a better way to keep time. This idea and was later improvised by Christian Huygens, a Dutchman, but his clock erred by one minute less a day. Being able to detect this was already a huge advancement in

OK. Here it is. The most aggressive Spanish King since Phillip II. At least one drop of El Cid flows through this guy. By the way, standing up to bullies is always a good idea. The king didn't use a hose like Chavez does with his protesters, but it's still good.

Customers calling in to Canon USA's customer support centre this week are being advised that an upcoming firmware update for the EOS 40D will fix an incompatibility between that camera's RAW CR2 files and Adobe's Camera Raw plug-in, Photoshop Lightroom and DNG Converter software. The incompatibility - which prevents the CR2 files from being processed - apparently affects only EOS 40D bodies with firmware v1.0.4 inside, and v1.0.4 only recently supplanted v1.0.3 as the firmware being installed at the factory. Version 1.0.4 has not been made available for download from a Canon website, so only newer cameras, and those who may have had the firmware installed during a service visit, are impacted by this. The new firmware, presumably to be called v1.0.5 or higher, is expected to be released for download by the end of November 2007. More information on the problem, and a link to a utility that purportedly corrects the incompatibility by altering the metadata in v1.0.4 CR2 files, is in th

Worldwide stocks are sending us a pretty clear message that surging oil prices will not lead to the return of the 1970's, as far as the economy goes. But because most of the people in the MSM haven't escaped the legacy of Great Society liberalism, they keep telling us that high oil prices mean that we are back in the stagflation years (that their policies re-created). These people simply cannot... Click the Headline Link to Visit Copious Dissent and Read the Full Story.

As human nature would have it, we love hearing stories in narrative form. From our evolutionary history, story telling has always been a way of passing on the past to future generations. We are good at this. In fact, that is why we thrive in reading novels and movies with a consistent arc and are able to quickly empathize with a lifetime of events and emotions in a book in 2 weeks or 2 hours via a movie. When we read enthralling stories our mind quickly can see the potential future for characters. “Don’t go there!” as we try to warn a character facing doom. Any good author has the ability to lay enough groundwork to keep you hooked. It is the art of foreshadowing. Getting the palette ready for the reader. Ask us to predict the actual future, and this is where we run into problems. Nostradamus realized quickly that vague premonitions serve better than explicit predictions. For example, he used numerology and astrology to provide rather accurate premonitions of the future

Today’s Come Out & Play post spotlights telling your parents. Of everything that I have learned about the world of coming out, there is one thing that is the most consistent. The anticipation of a parent’s reaction. Whether it’s Mom, Dad or both - it’s always the same. We expect the worst. We fear the worst. And sometimes, it’s so much better than we could have ever expected. Other times, it is far worse. I was lucky. My experience in telling my parents was far better than I could have ever imagined. When I had the conversation with my mother and father, I expected my mother to freak and my father to be OK. Well, that’s the way it went - at first. Then my mother was more than OK and my father had his turn to freak out. All in all, it was a positive experience because they continue to love and appreciate me to this day. I was never disowned or kicked out of the house. I was never told that I was going to go to hell. I was never told that they coul

I am not going to give you tips on how to make or write "Tips Articles" as i am not good in giving tips.. :)Well, i see a lot of bloggers who have tons of tips and tricks for their readers. And i do appreciate them as i need those.You see, when i am online, mostly of my time is spent reading posts of other bloggers. Well, of course i only read those posts with valuable informations. But i also love to read blogs about the everyday life of the author or blog owner.When i stumbled upon a great blog site while browsing Google, i will bookmark it and add it on my list f Noted Blogs so that i can visit it again as many times as i want.As you can see, my blog does not have a targeted niche. I mean, i will write anything i want here in any topic i like. For me this is much easier than having a niche on where i need to write articles related and relevant to what i am imposing to my readers.In having a freelance style of writing, i can easily write a post about "Cockroaches" without having a fe

Skeleton costume: $44.99 Adult store item purchase (I’d really rather not know what it was): $136.83 Gucci dog backpack (to have dog carry adult store item purchase discreetly out of store so important celebrity status isn’t marred by sex scandal due to store purchases): $410.00 Obligatory too-large-for-anyone’s-face-sunglasses:  $237.00   Throwing a tantrum because the Adult store you’re shopping at is promoting your sex tape: Priceless… …because no matter how much you threaten them not to release the store surveillance tapes of you having that tantrum, they promptly sell it to the highest bidder after you leave, even though you sent your manager in to warn them not to. For everything else though Paris, there’s MasterCard!

Telling the Gender with Ultrasound Many families rely on ultrasound to tell the gender or sex of their new baby. How accurate that report is will depend on many factors including the age of the baby, the equipment used, the technician, and the cooperation of the baby. One of my pet peeves is that people take ultrasound for granted when it comes to gender determination. Not only can ultrasound be inaccurate, but there is also what I call the "Absence of Penis = Girl" theory. This theory states that if the ultrasound technician fails to find a penis the baby is automagically a girl. Here are some ultrasound of different "parts" for your viewing. You will see that clearly a girl is more than the absence of a penis.Erect Penis Penis From Beneath Penis From Beneath 35 Weeks Labia Labia at 34 Weekssource:about.com

I have spoken to people that are not having much luck with contacting their lender in an effort to work out a payment plan in order to help them get back on track. They call their bank as soon as they miss a payment and try to put together a forbearance agreement, loan modification, or other repayment plan.    They are running into a great deal of double talk, slow walk, and hold ons -- then to be told.... send in all this information and we will review it and get back to you.  Homeowners who rely on only this option to save their homes must often wait weeks or months for the bank to review their application, finding out at the last minute that they have been turned down and are now facing the sale of their homes at the foreclosure auction. The foreclosure process still goes on as scheduled (90 days + 21 days then auction).  Some if not most are finding out at the last minute that they are being denied and find auction right around the corner. While a

Today’s Come Out & Play post spotlights Telling your fraternity When I think of fraternities, I think of a collection of preppy, cargo-short wearing boys with polo shirts who drink far too much and bond over endless games of bear pong and video games. This, of course, is a stereotype. But it is, for the most part, what I saw frequently on my former college campus. I went to a small school in the south in which the campus was five minutes long as it was wide. Our main source of entertainment were the frats and sororities. There’s a street dubbed “fraternity row” in fact, where you can stumble from one house to the other on any given Friday or Saturday night. In my four years at Randolph-Macon College, I never met one fraternity brother who was gay. I never met anyone who was gay for that matter, at least anyone who would be brave enough to admit it out loud (including myself). The small, conservative methodist campus was not the place for us to come out. I

Recently, we’ve spent time catching up on some reading. There have been a number of good articles on reverse mortgages published recently by respected sources like Kiplinger and others. A new book on reverse mortgages (The Complete Guide to Reverse Mortgages), has also hit bookstores within the last couple of months and we’re [...]

Today, once again, entering the Montreal subway aka The Metro, I was confronted with something that boggles my mind. This person, this employee is sitting there on a stool behind the turnstiles looking at us go buy. No clipboards to take notes, no clicker to increment to count the passengers, nothing, just sitting there. Sitting [...]

© 2007 Sandra Jean-PierreWhitish-grey smoke curled around the tar-black shards of wood. The heat was just beginning to cool enough to allow anyone near the rubble. She squat down near the seething mass. Maybe trying to inhale the last living bits of what was, maybe trying to make sure it was all done. Being there in either case.It was then that she knew it was time for her to give up Voice. For what would it serve now? The people around busied themselves, tamping out flare ups, dousing drenched mounds of smoking burn, anything to keep from looking at her. Maybe they were afraid of looking into her eyes, of asking what would be next because they didn't know, they couldn't imagine what she would say or think. She caught someone's eye - they looked down. She said nothing. Reaching her hand into a cooled pile, she brushed aside the soot, ash, debris. Beneath, a char-edged picture lingered; bright gap-tooth smiles emerged: an impromptu picture of when they all moved into the house. Brot

Dating is hard and establishing a basis for a lasting relationship is no easy feat. There are so many things to look at and many hurdles to overcome. Just when you think you may have landed a prince, you wake up and realize you have kissed a frog. YUCK!!!Hard decisions are a part of life. Here are 7 more in my list of behaviors and attitudes you should never ever tolerate in any man. You know in your heart you should drop him. There is always that nagging sense of doubt. With this list that follows my previous seven signs, again I am going to reference a song that covers the sentiments of dealing with and breaking off a relationship with a loser. Paul Simon sang it best in his hit song from the mid 1970 era called 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover.If the guy you are involved does any of this, it is time to re-evaluate fast!1. Does he listen to you? Does your opinion matter? Does he respect what you think? If not, let the relationship go.2. Is he one to humiliate you? Does he think it is funn

When I was a young girl, I was fascinated by psychics.Not fortune tellers, tarot card readers, and the 98% of people making a living calling themselves "psychic" (and aren't by any stretch of the imagination). We are talking the real deal.Looking back I understand why I was so interested at such a young age, and that is a story for another time. Or another blog for that matter.Anyway, I personally knew two really outstanding psychics. I started visiting them on a whim when I first went to college.The interesting thing about these two people was that they didn't charge an arm and a leg. Also you could tape the conversations. I was both a skeptic and a believer, and over time I became more impressed at the specific accuracy of their readings.I saved some of those conversations. And listened to one recently (I hadn't in maybe 15 years or so). If you want a serious trip, listen to yourself on a tape from when you were 19 years old. lol.Anyway, my favorite was Mr. Dee. He was an older ma

These are some amazing shots. A bear was walking across Rainbow Bridge (Old Hwy 40 at Donner Summit, Truckee California) on Saturday when two cars also crossing the bridge scared the bear into jumping over the edge of the bridge. Somehow the bear caught the ledge and was able to pull itself to safety. Authorities decided that nothing could be done to help Saturday night so they returned Sunday morning to find the bear sound asleep on the ledge. After securing a net under the bridge the bear was tranquilized, fell into the net, lowered, then woke up and walked out of the net. More pictures and an explanation: 

One of the most common queries I come up against time and time again from my clients is the confusion surrounding the difference between visitors and hits on sites. It’s a common misconception that is used to great effect in marketing and PR to dazzle target audiences with mid boggling statistics on the huge amount of hits a newly launched sites have received during its first month.Working in the SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) and New Media field as a whole for many years, this has long been a bug bare of mine and I hope to dismiss some of the myths surrounding it in the hope of educating consumers when deciphering their own webstats in the future.First of all, Website owners should be most concerned with Visitors whom account for individual activity on a site. The difference between a Visitor and a hit is that a hit is created every time an action on a webpage is recorded or a page is loaded up.For example logo’s, images, files, and graphics loaded as HTML, CSS and Java Script a

I love reading the funny searches that bring visitors to people's blogs. I don't usually write about the interesting googles that bring people to my blog, because honestly, it's usually something like "Amy Carmichael biography" which brings them to this post, or (several times a week) "Penderwicks discussion questions", which leads them to request this resource, or something along the lines of "

Discovered on Passive-Aggresive Notes via Laughing Squid, a blog, whereby readers can submit pictures of the post-it notes they leave for their room mates or colleagues, or email correspondences which, more often than not, would rile a person, but for us, makes a funny read. Like this for example: [Link to the Passive-Aggressive Notes blog]

The decision to tell your family and friends about to multiple sclerosis, is a very personal one. The people who need to know most are those that you live with, because they are the people who will be affected the most. When and how much to tell your children will depend on the age of the children, and their level of maturity. You know your children best; trust your judgment about what they can handle Your spouse or life partner can help you research and decide upon a course of treatment. The treatment that you choose will affect your lifestyle and potentially have the lifestyle of your mate; therefore, it is important to involve them in making that decision. It is also suggested that you have your spouse attend doctors appointments, support groups and read any books or web sites that you use to learn about the disease. Be sure to share with your spouse when you are having symptoms, what they are, and how they affect your daily activities. Depending on the amount of emotional support y

Model shown with optional time-travel equipment packageThat perennial Northern Irish industrial anecdote, the DeLorean DMC12, is coming back. The Texas-based De Lorean Motor Company (no affiliation to the original) announced recently that it will start producing hand-built copies of the original at a rate of approximately two per month. The firm was founded in 1995 and until now had specialised in manufacturing spare parts and restoring original DeLoreans. The new car will have some modern accoutrements not found on the original such as MP3 compatibility and airbags and will retail for just under $60,000. There are no plans to sell it in Europe at the moment. There are about 6,000 of the original production run of DeLoreans still in existence, including about 80 in Ireland.

Although many gamers and developers alike are declaring that games need to be telling more open-ended, complex stories, Ken Rolston and Bob Bates figure that's exactly what they shouldn't be doing. Not because it's a bad idea, but because there just isn't a good enough way to do it at the moment. Speaking at GCDC, Rolston, lead designer for Oblivion, and Bates, author of Game Design: The Art and Business of Creating Games, discussed the difficulties in creating games with complex storylines that gave the player a variety of options. Part of the problem, as Rolston sees it, is designers' "inability to pay off on all the choices that there should be available. It's so difficult to make a genuinely complex dramatic choice." Bates agreed, pointing out that providing the necessary content to support each and every possible decision the player might make is a "logistical nightmare." It sounds like game narratives are in an uncanny valley of their own. What we get in games looks an a

Today may be the turning point in the Michael Vick dogfighting case.  A source with direct knowledge acknowledged and Michael Schmidt of the New York Times reports that defense attorneys for the Falcons quarterback are advising him to accept a plea deal as soon as possible.  Vick reportedly until 9:00 AM (Eastern time) to accept any plea deal offered to him, with the likely recommendation form the prosecutors being that Vick serve anywhere from one to two years in jail.  Now it looks like a decision must be reached by the end of the day. If Vick does not choose to accept the plea deal, then more charges against him will be forthcoming; Vick currently faces 3 charges related to dogfighting and could face up to 5 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.  I would say if he is smart, Vick accepts the plea deal, serve his time, then continue his football career (what’s left of it) in a football league that doesn’t start with National Football in the title.  Meanwhile

This is a tough question to answer because although there is an RDA (recommended daily allowance) for vitamin E, it is impossible to determine just who that "average" person is. The only honest answer that any doctor or health practitioner should give you is that vitamin E needs totally depend on multiple variables. Let us take body size for example, the more you weigh and the heavier you are, the more vitamin E you will need to consume. Another variable to consider is whether or not you are getting enough vitamin E in your diet from certain plants and fish. And also note that if you are eating more fat than the average person, then you will need more vitamin E in your daily diet. What is the recommended daily allowance of vitamin E based on? The RDA of vitamin E is structured from what is called the natural alpha tocopherol. Tocopherol is the most active form of vitamin E. While scientists prefer to count the vitamin E in terms of international units, or IU for short, nutri

If you’ve hatched the idea to take an extended period of time off after school, or quit your job to travel the world, though are nervous to tell your parents or loved ones, than this is the post for you. 1. Pick a Public Place - Your parents will be much more likely to respond in a dignified manner if you’re sharing the news in a public setting. I let the news slip out at a delicious dinner with my parents at L’Auberge Chez Francois, a popular French restaurant in Great Falls, VA. 2. Share Your Plans During a Celebration - You are excited about your news. You may have been living with the dream for several years already, however your parents may not have a clue. By choosing a celebratory time, such as during a holiday get-together, you are automatically countering a certain degree of anxiety which will naturally arise. After all, your news may be against the backdrop of love, laughter, wine drinking, and presents. The aforementioned dinner with my parents at Ch

Women's mixed martial arts rocks! When is this going to get it's own prime time TV show? If you don't believe me check out this and this and this and this ... I could go on and on. This is the next big thing folks. And now we come to find out that the Royce Gracie's family tree has a sweet piece of fruit on it.From our favorite female mixed martial arts blog, Female Mixed Martial Artists:Kyra Gracie is a 5 Time Brazilian Champion (98,99,00,01,04); 5 Time State Champion (98,99,00,01,02); World Champion (2004); ADCC Champion (2005); 4 Time Pan American Champion (01,02,03,05).What I would pay to see a little Kyra Gracie/Gina Carano action! And seeing them fight would be cool too.Here's a little of Kyra in action:STUB HUB: The Safe Way to Buy & Sell Tickets Online

Clocks today are subject today more than ever to the question of why we need them for telling time. Your cell phone, whether a new Iphone by Apple, a Smart Phone by Treo, or one of the contract give-away phones from major providers like Verizon, AT&T or T-Mobile, all have the built in feature of time, frequently tied to the time of an atomic clock. Even a Sony PSP or a Nintendo DS Game System gives super accurate time. So why do people still want clocks, or even watches? The answer is fairly straightforward, particularly for clocks - whether grandfather clocks, wall clocks or mantel clocks - and wristwatches that are well made by established high-end brands. A timepiece in the history of clocks and watches has always been an extension on one’s personality, or one’s home decor or office ambience. Tourneau, one of the major retailers of watches, used to run an ad campaign selling watches cleverly talking about something like your “other face”. In the hist

Quote from commercial for home decorating show: Quote from commercial for home decorating show:   “There are no wrong colors, only poor color choices.”    Translation:   “There are no wrong colors, only wrong people.  People like you.  You are wrong.  Also, stupid.  Go stand in the corner and think about what you’ve done.”    

We just got a call yesterday telling us that the father of one of Jo's classmates was killed in a really bad car accident. He wasn't even 40.The phone call was to ask if we wanted to donate to a group donation in the daughter's name. Then we got another phone call today asking if we wanted to come to a big birthday dinner for the daughter. I guess her dad was planning a huge bash for her.It's so sad.I want to do something for the family that's a little more personal, and that might help with with what they really need the most, like making dinners or taking Jo's classmate out with us to the zoo for the day or something. But I feel awkward asking, since we really didn't know the family besides Jo going to last year's birthday party.What do you think that family needs most? Money? Food? Time alone? Fun time? Right now, I'm just praying for their peace.

Run don't walk Sept. 18, 2007 to buy the Monk & Neagle CD. I got it in the mail yesterday, and I have been listening to it....YES THEY ARE THAT AWESOME. God's fingerprints are all over their songs! (Dad this means you too, I think you would really like them).You can listen to a sample of them here, I have to tell you I liked the sound when I listened to the "sample" but I am telling you IT DOES NOT DO IT JUSTICE!! Go here to read more about them. I will be back closer to the date to reminder you to get the CD!!Oh and keep watch, I have another CD to tell you about and she also has done a great job....

Do you think that BIPS require that people tell them the truth more than "normal" folks? It's something I've wondered about for years. Ever since I was a kid, I've hated it when people lie to me. I would rather someone say, "I really can't be your friend any more," rather than ignoring me.While being truthful is a quality I admire, it's not one I could always engage in. I used to think it was better to "walk away" than to tell someone something unpleasant. I used to find it impossibly difficult to say, "I have a problem with your behavior," or "I can't do that (whatever) because it's not consistent with my morals and values."I believe I was able to change for two reasons. The first is therapy. While my therapist never diagnosed my illness, she did help me learn how to express my emotions honestly and openly. The second is surviving 120 depressive episodes. During the worst of these periods, I felt like each time I "came back," it was if I had survived a death-like experien