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C.J. Barnett has one goal in mind as he closes out his final season as a Buckeye
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Hartnell College sophomore Austin Decker broke two long-standing records during the spring break week.
While competing in the Northern California Decathlon Championship, Decker bested the 36-year-old decathlon pole vault meet record. His clearance of 16-2.25 not only won the event but added over eight inches to the record. With the help of the pole vault point score, Decker placed fourth overall earning Hartnell College five points toward the championship team total. His point total of 5,869 was good enough to qualify for the state championship.
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Eastern Kentucky University - as well as the rest of college basketball - will find out how good it really is on Sunday.
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Roku And 3M Tell Streaming TV Users Where They Can Stick It
Rather than wait for TV makers to integrate streaming capabilities into their sets, the two tech companies developed a portable projector with a 120-inch picture and 2.5-hour battery life for $300.
Roku and 3M threw a joint movie night this morning to announce the launch of a streaming projector, built on 3M technology and powered by the Roku streaming stick.
The projector is small enough to be carried around, bright enough to project a 120-inch picture, and powerful enough to pack over two and a half hours of battery life—"long enough to watch just about any movie," according to Mark Colin, 3M general manager of mobile interactive solutions. It's available for preorder now exclusively on Amazon for $299.99, and the plan is to ship devices in mid- to late-October.
Fast Company spoke with Roku CEO Anthony Wood last week, and while he stayed tight-lipped about the 3M partnership, he spoke at length about the advantages of the streaming stick, which the company launched in late September:
"For a TV company to integrate software into their TV is a multi-year process. Whereas a streaming stick, they can build TVs, [and then] decide at the last minute if they want to make it a streaming TV or not. But even though it's a stick, it does have all the advantages of being integrated. It uses the same remote control, it appears to the user as if it's built in. And it has the other advantage that you don't have with integrated software in that you can upgrade it—faster streaming sticks, more features."
Mobile projectors, of course, have been around for a while. Where this one might have a leg up is content: The Roku streaming stick hosts over 600 channels' worth of content, including Netflix and HuluPlus, and more recently, CNBC and Walmart's Vudu channel, and it works wherever there's Wi-Fi.
This morning's event featured several inspiring tableaux with the projector, including a bedroom scenario with the projector stuck at the end of the bed, a super-fun sleepover where it pointed at the ceiling, and a backyard barbecue, complete with a bedsheet-clothesline set-up in lieu of a screen—emphasis on the flexibility and ease of use you don't get with a traditional projector.
As far as Roku goes, they're aiming at nothing short of being the OS of TV. "I guess I would say Roku is sort of where I thought the world had been heading for a while," says Wood. "It's just taken a while to get here."
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As a future teacher, I find speaking to other teachers that the main obstacle to teaching is most students' attitude toward school and learning. All the technology and money in the world won't help if students aren't motivated. There are countless inspiring documentaries, commencement speeches(Steve Jobs, classic speech by brilliant physics teacher with weeks to live, documentary involving the interview of inspired students learning from their teachers using the free Kahn Academy site and teaching software provided to teachers by the Khan Academy. Access to material available on the internet at such sites as Youtube and ITune University for example would be powerful tools for teachers. Apple TV provides access to ITunes material including ITunes University thru a TV but it's surprising that neither one has provided access to the wealth of material available on major internet video sites as mentioned above. Whoever arrives there first will take a decisive lead although Roku is positioned to leave Apple TV behind with its "tv screen".
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A church in Elkhart is replicating the Tabernacle of Moses.
ELKHART — The First Baptist Church of Elkhart is creating a replica of the tabernacle of Moses, which is open to the public through Oct. 20. Admission is a $5 contribution.
The public can come between 9 a.m. and 8 p.m. Oct. 13-14, 4 to 8 p.m. Oct. 15-17 and 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Oct. 18-20.
The display is a model of the tabernacle that Moses constructed.
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Oh My Tech!: No easy way to replace an iPhone screen
Some people just don't know how to take care of their mobile phones.
My brother-in-law, Danny, and his wife have accidentally smashed the screens on their iPhones six times and on their iPad twice. They've either dropped them, sat on them, cracked them while the phone was in their back pocket, or gasp given them to their baby girl as a play toy.
Then there's my friend's 11-year-old son, who has dropped one iPod touch in the toilet and got it replaced, only to drop the new one and crack its screen. Once, my daughter broke my iPhone 4's back glass when it slipped out of her pocket while jogging. I thought about replacing her instead of the phone.
You would think people willing to pay anywhere from $300 to $800 retail for an electronic device would take better care of it. But the fact is, these kinds of disasters seem to happen to everyone, and it's becoming more common.
If Danny had gone directly to Apple to fix those screens he and his wife cracked, he would have paid at least $900 for replacement phones and probably more (Apple doesn't actually fix the front touchscreens but instead gives you another phone). Or, if you pay $99 for Apple's extended warranty, you can replace the phone for $49 if it's accidentally damaged.
(For Android phones, it's a little more complicated because there are about a half-dozen manufacturers who each make different styles of handsets. How much it would cost to either exchange an Android phone or fix it depends on which model you have.)
After many mishaps with Apple electronic devices, my brother-in-law learned to fix them himself "out of necessity," he says.
Third-party iPhone parts, particulary touchscreens, have become a cottage industry. That's where people can order a new touchscreen part online, such as at Amazon.com, for around $16 to $20 and then install it themselves (the cost of Android parts vary wildly depending on the model). Also, in the classifieds, dozens of people are advertising that they can fix your phone or tablet's touchscreen for anywhere from $50 to $100.
"We're not alone," my brother-in-law said about people who damage their phones. "People are always asking me to fix their iPhones and iPads."
When my friend asked me to replace his son's iPod touch front screen, I called Danny, who's pretty much an expert iPhone repairman now.
But fixing one is a very involved process and not for the faint of heart. So, if you have ever thought of doing this yourselves, keep reading, because I'll give you a rough idea of what to expect. But mind you, this is not a set of actual instructions because no one on Earth could easily describe them to you in print. Search YouTube and there are dozens of do-it-yourself videos that show you how to do it. Just beware that making a fix will instantly void your phone's warranty.
The iPhone's touchscreen is not held in a frame but actually glued to the phone. To get it off, you have to heat it with a hairdryer. Then carefully pry away the broken screen with a cutting knife. Inside you see a metal plate that covers the phone's electronics. Unscrew that with a special screwdriver.
Then you have to remove the phone's rear camera in order to partially remove the motherboard, and disconnect the touchscreen's cable from the motherboard. Reconnect the new touchscreen's cable to the motherboard, then screw the metal plate back on and reconnect the camera.
The company that sold you the new part also should have included double-sided sticky tape that's already pre-cut to be applied to the sides of the touchscreen. You put the tape on and then press the new screen into place. It took my brother-in-law about an hour and a half to do the job, which was about as painstaking as open-heart surgery.
It takes meticulous work with tiny plastic tools that also should have been shipped with the new touchscreen. In this instance, it still wasn't a perfect fit. The screen appeared to be slightly warped, enough that light was leaking through part of the device. That's largely because the part wasn't made by an actual Apple supplier but by a company that makes copycat parts.
But it beats paying up to $199 to Apple to replace the whole phone for just a cracked front screen.
Since the introduction of the first iPhone in 2007, touchscreen phones have become more sophisticated pieces of electronics, where the tolerances for constructing them are razor-thin. Companies such as Apple, Samsung, Motorola and HTC have made them more complex, yet they haven't made them more durable.
Maybe that's the point. Think about how much those handset manufacturers are making from people replacing their phones.
If you have a tech question for Vince, email him at firstname.lastname@example.com, and he'll try to answer it for his column in The Salt Lake Tribune or on its website. For an archive of past columns, go to http://www.sltrib.com/topics/ohmytech.


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I think you are venturing into your own post hoc fallacy here. Based on the publicly available information, I don't think we can safely conclude anything about whether glossy has fueled sales, or whether matte would have sold more.
It could be that the majority of buyers are completely indifferent to the issue but just want a Mac and that Apple's marketing and image have made it an increasingly compelling choice irrespective of the type of display. It could be that people are attracted to the glossy screens but, then, annoyed by them after living with them for a while. It could be that most people actually love the glossy screen and aren't bothered by it at all.
About the most we can safely conclude is that, for those who bought a glossy Mac, is that the glossy screen was not a deal breaker for them at the time of purchase -- i.e., they bought it with a glossy screen.
Um, if you'll reread the post I was quoting, I was just paraphrasing that, which was making a completely incoherent assertion that we could account for rising sales after Apple went glossy by noting that that's all they offered-- conflating the ideas of "sold more glossy screens" with "sold more computers."
I then dismissed out of hand an anticipated rebuttal (which was promptly made) that Apple could have sold even more computers over all, had but they offered a matte option, by noting that assertions like that are impossible to prove one way or the other and thus meaningless.
I don't think glossy screens account for rising Apple sales and I don't think a matte option would have increased those sales, if you got that impression. I don't think it's possible to know, which is what I said.


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Jose Ramirez was somebody's son, somebody's friend. His death days ago from a bullet fired into a car off Guerneville Road was a tragedy.
But Jose, 16, was not what some of his friends have described him as: a regular kid who "liked blue" but wasn't a gang member and never looked for trouble.
Police disgusted and alarmed by the shooting of Jose recognized him as a gang member. Nobody's saying that means he deserved to die.
But as we try to understand and do more to counteract the gang problem, we need to deal with it straight on. In the long run, pretending that Jose was a complete innocent in the wrong place at the wrong time won't help anything.
CARLOS SANTANA nodded proudly from a table in back at Railroad Square's Last Day Saloon as the Latin/jazz/rap band led by his son, Salvador, played a strong set Tuesday night.
"I'm just grateful to God that the musical river keeps moving along," Santana said during a smoke break.
"He doesn't want to sound like me," he said of his son, who's 23 and whose band opened for Santana's European tour earlier this year. "They're developing their fingerprint, their identity."
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Botswana - Botswana's central bank said it will stick to its accommodative monetary policy to help support economic growth that's set to slow because of power shortages.
The economy of the world's biggest producer of diamonds will probably expand 5.1 percent this year, Kealeboga Masalila, the head of monetary and financial stability at the Bank of Botswana, told reporters today in the capital, Gaborone.
The economy grew 5.9 percent last year.
"Electricity and water challenges will hinder growth," Masalila said.
"Diamond production and an accommodative monetary stance will help to support economic activity via interest-rate adjustments."
The central bank has kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged since lowering it by half a percentage point to 7.5 percent in December.
Inflation in the landlocked nation located north of South Africa will probably remain inside the 3 percent to 6 percent target band in the medium term, Masalila said.
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The Kansas volleyball team hosts the Jayhawk Classic this weekend in the Horejsi Family Athletics Center. KU (4-3 overall) is slated to play Friday against St. Peter's (noon) and Wyoming (7 p.m.) and will wrap up the tournament Saturday in a noon match versus Morehead State.
A Glance At the Jayhawks
The Kansas volleyball team will enter the Jayhawk Classic on a two game winning
streak and 4-3 overall record. KU opened its 2007 home season last Tuesday
with a 3-0 sweep over UMKC. Savannah Noyes led the team with 10 kills.
Freshman Karina Garlington added seven hitting a team-best .462.
Newcomer Jenna Kaiser continues to lead KU for the third straight week averaging
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Jayhawk Classic History
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The First 30
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Congressional investigators say the Food and Drug Administration has allowed drugs for cancer and other diseases
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Today's report from the Government Accountability Office also shows that the FDA has never pulled a drug off the market due to a lack of required follow-up about its actual benefits -- even when such information is more than a decade overdue.
When pressed about that policy, agency officials said they have no plans to get more aggressive.
The GAO says the FDA should do more to track whether drugs approved based on preliminary results actually have lived up to their promise.
The FDA says the report paints an overly negative picture of its so-called "accelerated approval" program, which is only used to approve drugs for the most serious diseases.
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Album Rating: 4.0In the words of Borat: "Does he have a retardation?"
Digging: Silencer (SWE) - Death - Pierce Me
Album Rating: 4.0Eh, I want to get into this album but it's been a month and I still can't. I think it may be the vocals that annoy me, as I can't really complain about everything else. It's just tha nothing grabs me.
The last two tracks are really good, but that's about it.
Album Rating: 5.0sorry but as the ultimate fanboy of this album, i must say:
stfu about the amazing vocals
and I've said before if you want to hear some of these songs done with brutal vox download the 1991 roadrunner demo
/my all time favorite albumThis Message Edited On 02.25.08
Album Rating: 4.0I didn't say the vocals were bad, I just can't get into them.
Album Rating: 4.5At least you don't go around whoring The Human Abstract.
Album Rating: 5.0
I didn't say the vocals were bad, I just can't get into them.
Album Rating: 5.0lol i'm getting confused a bit here, but my quote from the previous post was from bodominflames.
Album Rating: 5.0just got this album, and it's really awesome but those electronic vocals simply annoy me...
Album Rating: 4.5it took awhile for me to get used to them.
Album Rating: 4.5I crave the remastered album by all means... each song is a huge musical blowout... and praying that the new album comes soon. Y`ll should check out there live performances on You tube.
Album Rating: 5.0I've seen all the original lineup performances but the Hovestivalen performances aren't as great for obvious reasons.
remastered version is better
that Hovestivalen concert is still great
Album Rating: 5.0yeah it is, don't get me wrong, but the Berkeley? performance was unbeatable. Fuck that makes me want to go watch it.
Album Rating: 4.0I just picked up a used, original copy of this and the production is a bit weak. But I've been digging this album alot lately. Not quite as good as I had hoped for. All aboard the Sputnik Hype Train......Toot toot!
Album Rating: 5.0Hell yea lol. Sputnik makes shit seem so awesome and then you get so excited and its not as great as everyone said *cough* *cough* Colors by Between The Buried And Me. This album is good, but not classic.
Digging: Paysage d'Hiver - Kerker
I just picked up a used, original copy of this and the production is a bit weak.
Sputnik makes **** seem so awesome and then you get so excited and its not as great as everyone said
Album Rating: 5.0Because people make some albums seem so awesome and you get them and they're not that great.
Album Rating: 5.0Oh gnoes biased exaggerations are such a tragedy!
Album Rating: 5.0Im not saying that this album isnt good, im just saying people talk it up so much that i was expecting a masterpiece and i dont think it is.
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As my assignment to Libya has continued, I've fallen into the routine of a day in the city followed by a day on the checkpoints with the latter involving a lot of waiting and a lot of guns. When I say a lot, I mean a LOT. I'm continually expecting to see Mel Gibson and Tina Turner wandering through the gatherings as the NTC have converted all of their cars and pick-up trucks into weapons of war. While some are armed with the right gear for the job, others have rocket launchers from the underside of military jets while the most scary of the lot seem to be drainpipes stuffed with high explosive rockets.
The biggest fear out of here is that of friendly fire. While Kadhafi's dwindling forces are essentially trained mercenaries and soldiers, the NTC is an army of the public with former lawyers fighting side-by-side with heavily armed teenage boys. In the week that I've been here, I've heard of a guard at our hotel taking most of his hand off through lack of basic safety protocol while an NTC fighter on the frontline managed to lose his front teeth (but thankfully not his head) after using a live bullet as a hammer.
After all that gung-ho stuff, I had a short burst of normality when the political roadshow rolled into town. British Prime Minister David Cameron and French President Nicolas Sarkozy became the first world leaders to visit Libya since Tripoli's fall causing much excitement and general security panic. As they were holding the press conference in our hotel (handy, that), we simply had to wait for the show to start. In a bit of a busman's holiday, I found myself waiting with Pete Nicholls from The Times, Stefan Rousseau from PA and Jamie Wiseman from The Mail for the PM to rock up; basically a regular day in Downing Street! For once, it was nice to actually be able to feel my fingertips though due to the lovely 35 degree heat.
With the day of politics over, it was back to the frontline. With news coming through that the fighting in Sirte had begun, we gathered up our armour and hit the road. To break up the seven hour journey to Kadhafi's hometown, we stopped off briefly in Misrata, the city that was absolutely destroyed during fighting earlier in the month and the place where Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros were killed. I cannot begin to explain how much damage there was to see. Block after block of homes and businesses were riddled with bullet holes and whole streets had been burned to the ground. Due to it's strategic importance in connecting roads between Tripoli, Bani Walid, Sirte and other major cities, the Pro-Kadhafi forces had fought tooth and nail to keep it, totally destroying it in the process.
Outside the remains of a shopping street, a temporary exhibition has now been set up to show the range of weapons and firepower that was unleashed on this urban non-military area. Truly horrifying.
So that was the "relaxing break" over with and we got back in the car to complete our journey. As we got further from the capital, the checkpoints became more "Wild West" with massive shipping containers filled with sand blocking the dual carriageway at random points. Heavily armed soldiers guarded each one with some waving you through without a glance while others searched the car, inspected our papers and demanded extra forms and letters to prove that our vehicle was worthy of handling off-road driving. As it was, we were in a Chrysler PT Cruiser; an adults equivalant of one of the 50p-a-go Noddy Cars that kids ride in supermarkets. Miraculously, we were eventually allowed to pass as long as we wore our body armour from that point onwards.
As we passed through the final checkpoint, the guard waved us through with a smile, saying something to us as we passed. On asking for a translation, Mohammed Ali, an Arabic-speaking AFP journalist explained that he'd said "Welcome to Sirte. I hope you don't die here".
By now, I'm hoping that I've managed to give you even the smallest idea of how I was feeling. This really wasn't much fun. As we progress down the road, we stopped as we passed every group to see how much further we could go. For some reason, I always thought of a frontline as being something more "solid" than how it actually is. As we got closer, we were told that just 30 minutes before, the area that was now filled with soldiers relaxing and eating had been the frontline and could just as easily be the scene of fighting again in another thirty minutes. After a tentative approach, we finally reached what we knew to be the final "safe point" where fighters and medics were gathering after brief probes into the centre.
Within five minutes, we were united with the other AFP team in the area including AFP's Lisbon photographer Fransisco Leong. After a brief hello, the fresh arrivals got into their pick-up truck while they stayed behind to wire their work and headed to the front. As soon as we arrived on the main street to the airport, I could see that the far end was just a mass of smoke as both sides fought to take control of the strategic point. Most of the fire was outgoing so after a few minutes, we began to move forward to see what was happening. Suddenly, the tide turned and the NTC were in retreat. We ran to the pickup and dashed back to the safety point.
After gathering our thoughts, we headed back in, following a massive convoy of post-Apocalyptic trucks and cars, mounted with every sort of gun. On reaching a major roundabout, they drew to a standstill and seemed to begin classing it as a safepoint. Then the incoming fire began. Coming from the Sirte police headquarters nearby, the roundabout was less than a kilometre away and everyone rushed to turn their vehicles around to return fire. The sound was unbelievable with rocket launchers firing over our heads as anti-aircraft cannons tore through the foliage between where we were and the headquarters. The expected clatter and whoosh of weapons was joined by other screeches and metallic tearing sounds as ultra-high speed cannons began firing.
As we worked our way between the trucks, the pro-Kadhafi started to fire on us from behind and a two seperate sprays of bullets zipped over our aheads and into the vehicles around us. Everyone dived for cover with the advice to take cover behind the bulk of the car's engine thankfully coming to mind at the right time. Within a few minutes, the sheer amount of firepower unleashed on the police building was enough to silence the return fire and we were able to regroup and head to the safety point on the outskirts.
When I got back to the drop-off area, I downloaded my images and looked through them to find just how lacking they were in telling the story of what I'd just been through. The thing about shooting this kind of thing is that it's nearly impossible to capture the sights, sounds and chaos of what's going on with a still image. While I shot frame after frame of people shooting and returning fire, inevitably, they'd be someone in the foreground, walking across the shot, looking as though they were heading to the shops on a Saturday afternoon. When I came out to Libya, I had no intention of covering the bangbang aspect of the story but due to the fluid way things were happening, I found myself putting my life in danger on the frontline. Not good. Speaking to people who actually enjoy shooting this kind of thing afterwards, they all agreed that it mainly lends itself to video and that a strong action picture from a firefight is actually incredibly rare.
With my stress levels just about returning to normality, we jumped in the car to begin the long drive back to Misrata before nightfall due to security concerns on the roads. Halfway along the journey, we were running low on fuel so stopped off at a garage in the middle of the desert to fill up. Since the fighting began, Libya's largest petrol company has been providing free fuel to the rebel forces as was the case here with journalists also allowed to take advantage. Due to the high demand, rather than fill up the forecourt tanks, a man was standing with a hosepipe, straight out of the back of a fuel tanker. On the end, was an empty water bottle, acting a funnel and when he turned the hose over to go into the vehicle's tank, fuel was spilling everywhere freely. Basically, it was a direct line to the whole reservoir in the truck. Yikes. I got out of the car on seeing this and casually sauntered away while filling took place. On returning to the car, my initial relief at getting through the re-fuel turned to panic as I noticed that the guy doing the filling was actually smoking a cigarette. My jaw dropped and I didn't know whether to run away or towards the car. I started waving frantically at him, gesturing for him to stop. His response? He smiled at me, took his cigarette from his mouth…
…and tapped the burning ash into the end of the main fuelpipe.
When they say that cats have nine lives, I hope humans have many more as I just managed to use up at least four in a single day.
I have no idea why but, for some reason, this post went out without the part that I added onto the end before hitting "publish" so here it is as an update. On returning to Tripoli, I decided that I wasn't prepared to risk it again and so informed AFP that I'd be unable to cover the frontline stuff any more. A beautiful girlfriend and the magnificent Max are two very good reasons as to why I'm not prepared to risk my life for a picture. I'm based in the capital for the rest of the assignment. Relax, Mum!
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who still spends time on this section of the internet?
anyone still around?
what up RM??
on upn for anyone else?
Chrit, ur safe.
He's a rappverse and RB cat I believe, recently got banned from RB for biting as well.
Against windsprizzle, you called him out for flipping this line:
I'll crush you with a thunderous lecture...
Prove youre not dope, tho you'll crack...
lookin pretty cool imo
some up and comers, who is ren, wind? and damn@ that serv cav battle, i think cav killed that, but good to see some dope...
dog ur wack as fuck.
if u were ever a legend, it was a joke, Dough is sidin with you because he doesn't like Nasty. He knows ur shit is fuckin...
yo man u signed out this week?
im pretty sure it was us two this week if you hadn't.
is so sick.
anyone else heard this? i just heard it for the first time last night
nice battle bro, we'll do it again soon
how u just gonna jack that shit lol.
that's my the incredible hulk...
No offense, but E tha Real and Nasty are both saying you're the only reason that my verse won't stand. E wants it to go down, and so do I.
First, sorry for the 15 minute wait after the deadline.
Nasty says I'm DQ'd. I'm assuming you guys are wanting this battle to ride out though.
Nobody's gonna wanna vote on 32 lines for each verse, that's 96 lines to read, critique, and breakdown. Rev, no extensions, 32 lines...I can't let...
check ur pm's dudes.
mad busy man, no excuses obviously, i shouldn't even have been signed up the last couple weeks. spring break, movin my shit back to school.. pretty...
dropped 20, so whenever ur ready.
sign up you twats [chicken]
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PreSchool Recordkeeping
Most of the "school work" done in the preschool years are hands-on activities, therefore most Preschool Portfolios in the pre-writing stage, only consist of the child's artwork. Keeping a comprehensive portfolio that covers all skill areas in Preschool can be a challenge. For example, how do you record what a child learned during a waterplay floating/sinking activity?
It is helpful to keep the Portfolio in mind when planning activities for the various subjects and skill ares. Hands-on activities can be adapted or supplemented by paper activities and simple worksheets that could go into the portfolio. For example, sorting objects in trays can be adapted to sorting shape-cutouts and glueing them in preprinted blocks on a page.
A great way to incorporate other skill areas in the portfolio is to take photographs of the child's participation in science explorations, dramatic play, construction projects, etc. A short description of the activity and some quotes of things the child said while engaged in the activity, can be included.
Simple checklists of the steps in a hands-on activity can also be created and placed in the Portfolio, and/or assessment sheets covering the developmental milestones for various skill areas.
The objective of each activity can also be included so that an outsider can read the portfolio and understand the purpose of the activity. For example, "Math: Sorting by Shape, Literacy: Retelling a story.
A short note assessing the child's performance may reflect whether the child achieved the objectives of the activity, or whether the child is working toward developing the skills.
Portfolio Format
Portfolios can be a scrapbook, a folder or any other form that displays the child's work. A binder with a clear pocket on the front cover can be used for each homeschool student. The child's name, age and a photograph can be placed on the front cover. The child's work can be placed in clear sheet protectors to allow the child to flip through their book to look at all their photos and work.
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Seen the new Holy Word: Sanctuary spell graphic yet? That's what it'll look like, in the screenshot above, after patch 4.1.
We're going to talk about panicking today. It is a common occurrence among healers, especially during raids. I have been known to lose my cool. But there are different types of panicking, and it helps to recognize them so that you are both aware of it and how you can best react to it.
First, some additional healing changes and additions have been announced.
Upcoming healing changes in patch 4.1
Nature's Swiftness now also increases the healing done by the affected nature spell by 50%.
Holy Word: Sanctuary healing done has been increased by 35%.
Cleansing Waters now has a 6-second internal cooldown.
Nature's Swiftness now also increases the healing done by the affected nature spell by 50%.
Holy Word: Sanctuary healing done has been increased by 35%.
Cleansing Waters now has a 6-second internal cooldown.
My thoughts after the jump.
It is nice to see both Nature's Swiftness and Holy Word: Sanctuary get a little love. I know a number of druids and priests opt not to use those spells for a variety of reasons, but both spells are becoming increasingly attractive. Nature's Swiftness not only makes the next spell instant but way stronger -- it makes me wonder if the shaman version of Nature's Swiftness is going to need it (but my gut feeling says no).
Holy Word: Sanctuary was another spell that needed some improvements. Pound for pound, it didn't quite match up to Healing Rain. One of the arguments against it was that the AoE healing of priests would become much more powerful, as well. Either way, it wasn't being used much simply because it wasn't cost-effective. I'm not sure if the change will stick; we'll have to wait and see.
The change to Cleansing Waters actually surprised me. An internal cooldown on the talent? Was the healing component of it too overpowered relative to the other healing buffs that are slated to arrive in the next patch?
The art of calling wipes
Chaotic situations are one of those times when the players around you can see who can clutch out the heals and who can't. Players are dying. Healers are doing what they can, jumping from one player to the next. I know my mind shifts into overdrive when a tank dies.
As one of the raid leaders, though, it's a little different for me. The call to immediately wipe the raid depend on my immediate assessment of what healers we have still alive, what the incoming damage is like and whether or not we can salvage the situation. First, I analyze which tanks are still alive and measure their incoming rate of damage. It's purely a graphical check (how much their health bars are dropping from boss hits versus increasing from healing).
The next check is DBM spell timers on the side of my screen telling me what cooldowns players have available. If I see that Tranquility, Divine Hymn, Pain Suppression or other such spells are free, I can either decide to save the cooldowns for the next attempt or use them now to stabilize the raid.
Lastly, I look at where we are on boss health. Calling a wipe at 2% is just silly. Calling a wipe at 98% and just restarting it is a no-brainer. The hard calls to make come at the 30% - 70% range. On the one hand, you can make the call to keep going and get additional practice time in on phases or abilities. On the other hand, you can stop it now and not waste any further time. It's all about probability. The higher the casualties, the higher the failure rate.
Now, try doing all of that in the space of 1 second.
The worst thing you can do is freeze up and not give a command. You've got 24 (or 9) other players looking to you and wondering if they should keep going or ease off the gas pedal and turn it into a wipe. You can rest assured that whoever makes the call on what to do is going to get second-guessed.
"We could have had that!"
"Just a few more seconds longer!"
"Urgh, why was that call made?!"
The death of indecision about death
Deal with it. You can't predict what's going to happen. As the raid leader or healing leader, you can only make an educated guess. Just make a call. Being indecisive is the worst thing you can do. You're either going to make the right call or a bad one; either way, you'll learn from it. Speed is of the essence here because you can't tell Deathwing to pause his attacks for the moment while you measure everything that's going on to determine whether your raid should wipe it.
I'm going to reiterate one more time: Indecision is the worst thing for a raid healer in this situation. If you're not sure whether to keep going or wipe, just keep going, because you'll wipe eventually if your raid can't pull it off.
Healers are going to panic. Give them some direction. Ultimately, continued practice will help cut down on panic as they settle in on their groove.
If your raid leader tells the raid to keep going, that's the cue to the rest of the healers to keep healing. Start blasting those cooldowns one after the other. Your healers are waiting for the green light to use their cooldowns. On spells that require targeting like Power Word: Barrier, let the healers determine where to best use it. Spend less time micromanaging.
The priority is to stabilize the raid. Use the Tranquility you have available -- heck, use two if you need to. As a priest, I'll snap off a Pain Suppression on the tank if I have it free and peel off to help with the raid healing for a few seconds. Have your DPS druids exercise their Rebirths (or get your death knights to do it, after the next patch).
We'll come back next week and take a closer look from a micro perspective on who to heal and how to best make that determination on the fly.
Need advice on working with the healers in your guild? Raid Rx has you covered. Send your questions about raid healing to firstname.lastname@example.com. For less healer-centric raiding advice, visit Ready Check for advanced tactics and advice for the endgame raider.


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Warrior for Workplace Safety and Health Honored
There are few people who have had a greater impact on the safety and health of American workers than the late Tony Mazzocchi.
Tony was a labor leader in New York City, who eventually became Legislative Director and then Vice-President of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union (now part of the United Steelworkers). Through his association with the environmental movement, Tony became one of the first in the labor movement to recognize how dangerous it is for workers to be exposed to toxic chemicals day in and day out. His tireless advocacy for worker safety and health played a major role in convincing Congress to pass the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970.
One of Tony's greatest contributions was recognizing that scientists and rank-and-file workers shared the same goal of reducing workplace chemical exposures, and that both groups could learn from each other. He involved physicians and public health scientists in researching the health effects of workplace chemicals and sharing the results with workers. He also enlisted workers to teach medical and other students about how change occurs on the shop floor.
In doing that, he changed the lives of countless people: workers who learned how and why to protect themselves, and physicians and scientists who were exposed to the world of industrial work. Many of the country's leading occupational health scientists and clinicians were introduced to the field by Tony directly, or in one of the programs he started.
Tony's legacy also lives on today in worker health groups across our nation, in which workers, unions, activists and professionals come together to prevent workplace hazards.
As a tribute to his unparalleled efforts to protect the lives and livelihoods of workers, the U.S. Department of Labor will be inducting Tony into the Labor Hall of Honor today.
The Labor Department is pleased to recognize Tony Mazzocchi for his tireless commitment to the safety, health and welfare of America's workers. Tony's extraordinary efforts and leadership helped pave the way for vital reforms like the OSH Act, and it's time he takes his rightful place in the Labor Hall of Honor.
Dr. David Michaels is assistant secretary of labor for occupational safety and health.
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The former Southampton shot-stopper is looking to build on last year's total of 14 shut-outs and is hoping he will be celebrating his first of the new campaign this weekend.
He told the club's official website: "For every goalkeeper, keeping a clean sheet is massive and I want to keep as many as I can.
"I want to improve my number from last season and I'm looking forward to keeping my first clean sheet of the season.
"I want 20, maybe, and if we manage to keep 11 players on the pitch in every game, that's a realistic target for me.
"It's a long season and I'm confident that we can have a good season because I believe in this team.
"I believe in the coaching staff because every day they're trying to improve us. I believe that we will be competitive and do really well."
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The South Central Pennsylvania Genealogical Society will meet at 2:15 p.m. Sunday to discuss Camp Security.
Camp Security is the only undeveloped Revolutionary War prison encampment site in the United States and was established at the end of July 1781 on land presently located in Springettsbury Township. The prison camp housed as many as 1,500-2,000 British privates, and their noncommitted officers and their families, captured at the pivotal battles of Saratoga and Yorktown.
Jonathan Stayer has been studying Camp Security for more than 30 years and will be the featured presenter at the meeting.
The society will meet at Good News Free Will Baptist Church, 530 Locust Grove Road, York PA 17402.


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(Closed as of March 2014) Taqueria Del Sol is a small Mexican restaurant chain that recently opened up its first NC location over in Cary Crossroads. Located across from Dickey's Barbecue, Taqueria Del Sol sports a nice sidewalk patio and a very large, open dining area. While the interior is a bit spartan, the place just opened up so let's focus on the food here! Order up front at the counter and your food gets brought out to you, I go with a couple of tacos and can't resist the queso and chips. I grab a self-serve drink, plop myself down at a table and scan the place. Couple of things to note at Taqueria Del Sol, they've got a full liquor bar but unfortunately, no salsa bar. At least not yet. My food comes out lickety-split, probably didn't even take five minutes.
The queso is a thick, dense cup of melty cheese and peppered with jalapeno slices. Dip one of the nicely salted chips and bam! A very nice version of queso, Taqueria Del Sol's has got some kick. You get a nice-sized basket for $3.80 and it should definitely be shared. My tacos look decent: warm flour tortillas with plenty of filling. I like the fish taco, two lightly browned pieces of whitefish with jalapenos and a cream sauce, yum! The brisket taco is a bit less impressive. Reminds of a barbacoa with some pico de gallo. I wish there was a salsa bar to add some flavor to this one. So overall the food at Taqueria del Sol is good, although they've got a very small menu here. Maybe six taco choices, four on the enchilada side, expect to pay $6 – $10 for lunch. My biggest concern about the place is the single cash register and the likelihood of very high noise levels. Even with the space at maybe 1/4 full, Taqueria del Sol is a bit noisy. Think high ceilings and echoes, I'm pretty certain this place will be a popular choice so beware! But Taqueria del Sol certainly delivers good Mexican-American eats in a refreshed space so check it out next time you're shopping in the area.
Taqueria Del Sol
204 Crossroads Boulevard
Suite 212
Cary, NC 27518
Menu at Taqueria Del Sol
Location on Google maps (Across from Dickey's)


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News flash: My parrot hates me
By Gina Spadafori
May 13, 2008
Eddie is a black-headed caique, a species of parrot known for their playful, outgoing behavior. He's all that and a handful of change, holding his own in a multispecies household where even the rabbit is bigger than he is.
We've had our issues. When he reached sexual maturity, he decided I was his mate, and that I wasn't behaving as he expected me to. That led to tantrums, biting (him, not me) and "marriage counseling" with my "Birds For Dummies" co-author, avian specialist Dr. Brian Speer (pictured with Eddie), who is one of only a handful of veterinarians certified in avian medicine in both North America and Europe. More importantly, Brian's a funny guy and a great communicator.
Anyway, Eddie and I worked through our issues with Brian's help, with me being very careful to handle Eddie in a gentle, confident way that reinforced the idea that I wasn't the missus, but rather the boss. Also, lots of trick training, which is not only fun — and dead-on easy for the genius of a parrot — but also again gets things right in the avian mind. Oh! Her? Nah, she's the boss. Pretty easy boss, but still.
Pretty smooth sailing ever since, for the most part. Now and again, we have flare-ups of nasty behavior. But that's life with a parrot, which is really like living with a three-year-old. Parrots can be sensible, snuggly and focused one minute, and throwing a screaming tantrum the next. Although in all fairness, he really gets snotty only when I get busy and he doesn't get as much time as he deserves. (Yeah, I have parrot guilt at such times.)
Aside from his issues, Eddie is darned entertaining. Caiques aren't known for talking, but he manages a couple of phrases. Most commonly: "What are you doing?" Most endearingly, he whistles "Here she is, Miss America!" when I come into the house. (Yes, I know I should be embarrassed to admit I taught him that. I'm not.) He also does the Florida State war chant, although in a wimpy whistled version that would never strike fear into the heart of any UofFlorida Gator.
The morning, Eddie is truly on the war path. Why? Because last night he got his toenail caught in toy.
I had to wrap him in a towel, spend a few minutes trying to disentangle him, cut off the toy and finally realize that his nail was so jammed into the jingle bell inside that there was nothing to do but cut the nail off, cutting well back into the quick. Yes, I know that hurt. Lots. Bloody, too. The dogs and cats ran from the room, because Eddie was screaming, first in pain and then in righteous anger. Fortunately for my own safety, he was so snuggly wrapped so he couldn't return the favor by drawing blood from me. Ohhh, though he wanted to!
He's fine this morning, eating well. I know his foot hurts. And I can tell he's still itching to make me hurt.
This is going to take some time to resolve.
Sorry, Eddie. I had to do it, unless you really wanted to go through life with a toy on your foot.


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Robert Raymond Chadwick, 91, of Fort Collins and Cheyenne passed away at Columbine Nursing Home on June 5, 2013. He was born one of six sons and two daughters to Henry Lloyd Chadwick and Clara Emma Carter on the 19th of January, 1922 in Craig, Colo. His sisters, Emma and Ina, survive him.
He worked in the coal mines near Craig before moving to Carr to manage a cattle ranch in 1950. In 1952, he purchased a farm north of Fort Collins in the Rocky Ridge area. While farming he worked for the Union Pacific in Cheyenne and during the spring, in his spare time, sheared sheep around northeastern Colorado.
He is survived by four children by his first wife, Blanche Naomi Ellgen, Raymond Dale Chadwick (Dorothy) of Lancaster, Pa., Robert Gale Chadwick (Judy) of Fort Collins, Naomi Kay Payton (Mike) of Fort Collins, and Richard Kent Chadwick (LuAnn) of Choteau, Montana. They were married from 1941 to 1963. In addition, his progeny include 18 grandchildren and 48 great grandchildren.
After marrying his second wife, June Martella, and moving to Cheyenne in 1967, he continued with the Union Pacific Railroad until his retirement. He also developed a decorative iron business and was well known for his Union Pacific themed clocks. During his retirement, he pursued a lifelong passion for fishing. He and June traveled widely in the United States and overseas. June preceded him in death on July 8, 2005. After her death, he returned to Fort Collins to be near family.
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{best part of every day: dipping our feet in the mountain runoff}
We arrived home from Telluride late last night, exhausted but still running on fumes of excitement after an absolutely amazing few days with good company and great music. We made the seven hour drive from Boulder over West and down South to spend three days at The Telluride Bluegrass Festival, and our time spent there could not have been better; we kicked back in the sunshine with some of our closest friends, had the incredible opportunity to spend time getting to know their family and close family friends, and even managed to log some hours with some adorable new additions. We had a big group – running twenty or so deep – and the weekend more than surpassed any and all expectations that I had in the weeks leading up to the trip.
Telluride is a really special place, and I have plenty of pictures and more thoughts coming soon. For now, here are a few bits and pieces of an amazing weekend…
{making the seven hour journey}
{good morning telluride}
{trainspotting on I-70 West}
{oh so very happy}
{watch that eight ball}
{basking in the mountain sun}
{a souvenir}
{keeping current}
{sounds gross….actually pretty good!}
{in-between sets}
{best group ever}
{if you look closely, there's a sliver of moon up there}


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Cactus Classic Trail Race
Date and Time:
Saturday March 14th 2015, 8:30 AM start
Sand Ridge State Forest, near Manito, IL
-10K (actual distance is approximately 6.4 miles)
-HALF MARATHON (actual distance is approximately 13.4 miles)
-MARATHON (2 loops of the half marathon course)
Secure online registration for 2015
Course Records as of the 2014 race:
10K - Mike Heffron - 42:01 (2014)
Half Marathon - Mike Heffron - 1:23:30 (2012)
Marathon - John Knudson - 3:25:21 (2013)
10K - Gina Fick - 53:23 (2010)
Half Marathon - Rachel Furman - 1:51:13 (2011)
Marathon - Catherine Pinkston - 6:12:21 (2012)
-2012 MARATHON Photos by Brian Coates.
-2012 HALF MARATHON Photos by Brian Coates.
-2012 10K Photos by Brian Coates.
-2012 Photos by David Shaver.
-2011 Photos by Brian Coates.
-2011 Photos by Bob Padilla/Fujimo Sports Photography
-YouTube Video of 2012 Race Start by Brian Coates
Race Director:
Greg DeKeyser
pre-registered participants will get a gear item. those who
register late or on race day are not guarenteed an item but the price
will remain the same. 10K participants will receive a
commemorative shirt with race logo, 13.1 participants will receive a
moisture management hooded sweatshirt
place Male/Female for 39 and under (Open)
place Male/Female for 40 to 55 (Masters)
place Male/Female for 56 and up (Grand Masters)
Half and Full Marathons
Overall Male/Female for each distance
FINISHERS MEDALS FOR ALL FINISHERS with special inscription for age group winners
*due to the wide range of finish times, awards will be handed out as runners cross the finish line.
Time Limits:
Given the challenging nature of the course and distance,
Marathon-distance runners may be blocked from begining their 2nd loop
of the course if they have taken longer than 3.5hrs for the first loop or at the race directors discretion.
Course Description:
runs through the pine forests of Sand Ridge State
Forest. It begins and ends at the "Oak Campground". The
trail is has many flat runable section with several rolling
sections. The
trails themselves consist of loose sandy soil for which the park is
named. Running these trails is similar to running on a
beach. This race is named for the variety of cactus which grows
wild throughout the park. Keep your eyes open and you should be
able to spot them.
-10K Course:
course in green is
run clockwise on the map below. The first road crossing and aid
station (#1
on the map) is at mile 2.1 on the GPS. Road crossings are
unassisted, use caution! The 2nd road crossing is mile
3.44 on the GPS. The 3rd road crossing and 2nd aid station (#4 on the
map) is at
mile 4.4 on the GPS. The 4th and last road crossing is at mile
5.75 and the finish line is at mile 6.4
-NOTE: Please
note the distances between aid stations (above). Most people who
chose to run the half marathon may find that they need to carry
a handheld water bottle or a water pack of some sort. Please
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These are just some of the real estate agents that have offices in suburbs close to the University's Crawley Campus.
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Speak with Bankers tonight
Wednesday 14th of October 2009 10:47 AM
I will be speaking with area bankers in Salina tonight. The topic is supposed to be Communicating with the American Consumer-It's part of our job. Seeing how I almost never have notes, we will see what I end up talking about.
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Seven homes are competing in CNBC's Super Bowl of million-dollar homes. And the champion is ...» Read More
Bravo, to all of you for writing in, and may I just say that perhaps the politicians should be reading this, because if they think a government bailout would be popular, they'd better think again. We got about 57 emails to the realty check site in the hour after I did the bailout piece on TV, and I can't find even one post that supports a bailout.
I'm interested in getting some opinions on a story I'm reporting today because I'm not sure I agree with any of it. As the subprime crisis continues to unfold, and tightening lending standards bring the already sluggish spring market to a crawl, the blame game is heating up on Capitol Hill. Some lawmakers want to hold the big banks accountable. Bear Stearns, UBS, Lehman Bros., Merrill Lynch, they buy the loans, pool and securitize them. It is estimated that mortgage backed securities issued in 2007 will top 2 trillion dollars, not all of them consisting of subprimes of course.
I'm reporting a story on Lennar today. The sixth largest public homebuilder in the nation sent out an interesting letter to its contractors a few months ago offering them two choices: (A) Reduce your unpaid invoices as of 1-26-07 by a minimum of X [many have reported up to 20%]… or (B) Not reduce your unpaid invoices and be excluded from bidding future work for a minimum of 6 months. Those companies who choose to participate in this request and/or can exhibit the best price possible will continue to have every opportunity for future business with Lennar.
I'm not going to talk about mortgages today. I'm not tired of the topic; I just want to remind myself that there are other stories playing out in the real estate market. Lest we forget, people are still buying and selling homes, legally and responsibly, and I want to focus on that for a minute.
Ok, I want to take a little space here to respond to a number of complaints you readers have been sending to the RealtyCheck mailbox. Don't get me wrong, I love it that you're riled up, I love it that you disagree, most of all I just love it that you read all this stuff, so here goes:
I'm working on this story today about the ripple effects of the subprime crisis on the wider mortgage markets, specifically something called an Alt-A loan. What's an Alt-A? Well, I did a little net-search and found a wide variety of definitions:
With anxiety over the subprime mortgage market, calls for tighter lending standards, continued high inventory of unsold homes and home prices dropping from coast to coast, to call Tuesday's housing starts number curious is an understatement. The U.S. Department of Commerce reports housing starts in February jumped 9% from a month ago but are still 28.5% below February 2006. This is the biggest jump since January of last year and comes off a 14% drop in starts in February.
Anxiety over trouble in the subprime mortgage market has home builders changing their vision of a recovery in the housing market. After a slow and steady rise from a low in September, the monthly survey of home builder confidence from the National Association of Home Builders slipped three points in March.
Continuing in the blame game … today we took a look at all the potential litigation, which will inevitably be the next bit of ooze in all this subprime seepage. Yesterday lawmakers on Capitol Hill were pointing fingers, then today, in New York City, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, asked about the subprime market, jumps on the bandwagon, "We're looking at that market as well." Then in DC, at about the same time, Sen. Hillary Clinton says, "This market is clearly broken, and if we don't fix it, it could threaten our entire housing market which in turn would threaten our entire economy."
Since I received so many responses to my blog yesterday on Subprime Subterfuge, I thought I'd post them here for everyone to see. Thanks to all for writing in!
Today the Mortgage Bankers Association released its quarterly "National Delinquency Survey." Delinquencies and foreclosures rose across the board, across each sector of the mortgage marketplace, prime and subprime alike.
If you're at all interested in the housing market, then you've probably heard the sound from yesterday's webcast of a Citigroup homebuilder conference. Donald Tomnitz, CEO of D.R. Horton, the nation's largest homebuilder by volume, said, "I don't want to be too sophisticated here, but '07 is going to suck, all 12 months of the calendar year."
The Pending Home Sales Index fell 4.1% in January from December and is 8.9 percent lower than January of 2006. This number comes after a 3% jump in sales in January, those of course based on contracts signed in December. And the Realtors say it's all about the weather.
Existing home sales are up and new home sales are in a despair spiral. What's up with that? Two days and two completely different reports on the US housing market. The National Association of Realtors reports existing home sales in the month of January jumped 3% and then the next day the US Commerce Department reports sales of new homes in January plummeted 16.6%. I repeat, what's up with that?
There's a lot of data out today on existing home prices across the U.S., and I want to quickly make a little sense of it for you. First we get results from the National Association of Realtors, which reports that the median existing home price in the U.S. is $210,600, down 3.1% from January of 2006.
I'm getting frustrated with two words: "Housing Market." For weeks now I've been getting the questions from my friends, the pitches from so-called housing experts and the assignments from my bosses: How is the Housing Market this Spring??
An interesting note popped to my inbox today: the final tally from the International Home Builders Show. The National Association of Home Builders, which runs the show, reports this year's show was the largest in history, by number of exhibitors - more than 1,900 - and by space - one million net square feet of exhibits. Attendance did not break last year's record, just over 105,000, but it only missed it by a thousand or so.
A bright spot in today's earnings report from KB Home, one of the nation's largest home builders: prices on their homes are coming down this quarter. While the company posted some nasty earnings for the fiscal fourth quarter and is showing a 48% cancellation rate, that fact bodes well for the usually busy spring season.
Kermit the Frog may think, "It ain't easy being green," but the 10-foot-tall frog on the placard welcoming you to the Bosch display at the International Home Builders Show in Orlando, Fla., might beg to differ. Bosch has long been at the forefront of energy-efficient, or "green" appliances, but the company now stands at the front of a very long line of companies turning their attentions to energy conservation.
I want to share a conversation I just had with my friend Nancy Taylor Bubes, a top realtor in D.C., who has helped transfer literally hundreds of millions of dollars worth of property in the coveted Georgetown neighborhood. ...For the past year she's been bemoaning the market, showing me homes that have been sitting on the market for months without so much as a sniff. So I visited her at a small townhouse in Georgetown that just sold for a touch over a million dollars.