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"Bring your toothbrush, I'm picking you up." It was 1:30am and I was buzzed. After we got ready for bed, he basically pushed me in the shower.I really wanted to go on a date at least... but he declined it for "another time." I found out later, the boy "hates games.. if [he] likes it, [he] goes for it." Literally, apparently.I hung out with him a couple of days before, he stole a kiss after I fli

I'm not going to complain about a 40% gain on my NKE puts, however, NKE is weak on a day when the market is up. That coupled with the larger players selling (see my initial NKE post below) could be a signal that their earnings release will be disappointing.It is not really consistent with my risk appetite to buy puts but I hope some of the readers of this blog followed the NKE trade alert and are

Salman Khan may look tough on the exterior but he has a weakness and Katrina Kaif knows well about it. Often we hear of people who have worked with Salman praising him to heights. But none (presumably) knows the actor better than the gorgeous Katrina Kaif. She knows not just the actor’s strengths but also his weaknesses. Speaking to a tabloid, Katrina revealed her beau’s biggest weakness. &quo

As the holidays approach, Mommy has an itch… Nagging. Burning. Want. Cute new shoes now on Mommy’s feet - ahhh, that’s relief. All is well again.

As the contradiction I'll give you additional stories about Atkins Diet which curiosity and famous as the best weight loss programs in short term.for what I said before.There are thousands of low carb and Atkins Diet products on the marketplace. This continues despite the warnings from medical authorities. It is truly amazing how advocates of the low carb and Atkins Diet have managed to mislead mi

I have been receiving many emails about youth football defenses.  And many of the emails ask about specific weaknesses of the 6-2 and 7 Diamond Defenses.  Like most things in life, one size does not fit all.  Every defense has a chink in its armour.  If the offense finds this weakness then you must adjust and [...]

Well, I've made a few changes to my blogger layout. O.K., well A LOT of changes. I really was not happy with my previous template. The Indian Bride picture was too big, clashed with my background,... I'm a 23 year old college student who loves to write about anything or anyone. I call it writing, you might call it rambling.

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This article originally appeared on The DIV-Net September 12, 2008.All investors have weaknesses that prevent them from achieving their long term goals. Some like to chase hot technology stocks while others tend to use excessive leverage in order to magnify their expected risks and returns. My biggest weakness as a dividend investor is that I am easily attracted by higher yielding instruments stoc

All investors have weaknesses that prevent them from achieving their long term goals. Some like to chase hot technology stocks while others tend to use excessive leverage in order to magnify their expected risks and returns. My biggest weakness as a dividend investor is that I am easily attracted by higher yielding instruments stocks, bonds and mutual funds.In our society of instant gratification

Yahoo! (YHOO) moved close to its five-year low yesterday, trading down at $17.75. It really has not been so long ago that Microsoft (MSFT) made its $33 bid for... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

In yesterday's show Thom made a profound point about the conservatives in this country. I have often wondered what the deal is with people speaking over and over about a 'liberal media bias' and the 'drive by media', because frankly I dont see it. Thom pointed out that in the very well known book 'The art of war' it is stated to make your greatest strength seem like your greatest weakness so

Showing Strength: Walmart   $59.59 Procter and Gamble   $70.42 Invesco   $25.50 Time Warner   $16.50 GAP   $19.69 Home Depot   $27.94 Lowe's   $26.21 Exposing Weakness: iShares Emerging Markets   $38.74 iShares China 25 Index   $59.59 Natural Gas   $32.65 Sirius XM Radio   $1.34 Micron Technology   $4.22 Sun Mi

Over the weekend I posted a chart regarding the sudden weakness in the NASDAQ, well that is precisely what we saw happen today. The S&P was down .62% while the NASDAQ or QQQQ was down 1.24%. You'll notice in the above chat that the NASDAQ closed below its 50 day moving average on a range expansion day. In the lower pane is a ratio chart which compares the NASDAQ to the S&P. I think its

The driving force behind the dollar’s comeback, after six years spent mostly in decline: the perception that, even though the U.S. economy is struggling, things are rapidly getting much worse in other countries. Currencies tend to reflect the strength of their home economies, so the buck now is gaining at its rivals’ expense.

Renewed weakness in oil prices and a break of 1.4850News and Events: The Dollar rallied to an almost six-month high against the Euro on Thursday amid growing concern over euro zone economic weakness and accelerating inflation in the United States.Traders sold the Euro after reports showed contraction in the Euro zone's economy in the second quarte

The other day the League had what was probably our most loaded meeting yet. Aside from blog business, we had notes to share on three feature length scripts and one outline. My feel good sports movie was the last order of the night, but apparently it didn’t make my peers feel as good as I had hoped it would. Not that the script got trashed. I think I executed several elements very well, but our m

Hot video of Aishwarya with various clips set to the song Weakness.

Author: Linda LowenIt's a "thou shalt not" rule carved in stone that every woman carries in her heart: You can't cry at work if you expect to be taken seriously and advance your career. In the game of life, the act of shedding tears is akin to drawing the 'Do Not Pass Go, Do Not Collect $200' card in Monopoly. This belief has been so thoroughly drummed into us that we won't even risk crying in the

“Try to specify your weakness as your strength and also highlight it as a benefit.” Your answers can be: 1) One of my weaknesses as I perceive is occasional compromise on time for quality and perfection. 2) I feel I am not very detail-oriented. I’m a person that wants accomplish as much as possible. I realized this hurts quality and therefore I‘m trying hard to find a balance betwee

Late in the trading day, the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange's benchmark TA-25 Index was down 1.41% at 1082.40, and the TA-100 Index shed 1.57% to 984.64. The Tel-Tech Index of 15 top technology issues lost 3.43% to 220.20, and the Real Estate 15 Index gave up 2.3% to 444.07. On Thursday, the TA-25 finished 2.17% down. The tumble followed woes on Wall Street Thursday and Friday, when the Dow Jones

Although many considered this mobile phone as one of the best mobile phone existing in the market today, like any other brand and models of mobile phones, it also has its own weaknesses. If you are really choosy and peaky, you may find this phone somehow problematic because of certain instances that you really have [...]

The take-up rate for new launches plunged sharply from 82.9% in 4Q07 to 54.4% in 1Q08 (Chart 2), the lowest since 2000. While developers continued to cut back on their launches in 1Q08, the lower number of units launched still could not be absorbed by the market. A further breakdown of the take-up rate according to different regions showed that the weakness in 1Q08 was in the Outside Central Regio

by Steven Waldman, president & editor-in-chief of Beliefnet.com on the WSJ Political Perceptions: Conventional wisdom holds that John McCain is struggling to win evangelical voters. Evangelical leader Mark DeMoss predicted last week that he’d run weaker than any Republican since 1976 . . . Sen. McCain has been criticized by prominent Christian leaders such as [...]

It’s a the story of one 10-year-old boy who decided to study judo despite the fact that he had lost his left arm in a devastating car accident. The boy began lessons with an old Japanese judo master. The boy was doing well, so he couldn’t understand why, after three months of training the master had [...]

STRENGTH AND WEAKNESS A 10-year-old boy decided to study judo despite the fact that he had lost his left arm in a devastating car accident. The boy began lessons with an old Japanese judo master. The boy was doing well, so he couldn't understand why, after three months of training the master had taught him only one move. "Sensei,"(Teacher in Japanese) the boy finally said, "Shoul

Professor Duy released the U of O Index of Economic Indicators for April this week and Oregon’s economy continues to slump.The University of Oregon Index of Economic Indicators™ extended its decline in April, falling 0.9 percent to 101.0 (1997=100). Only two indicators—the interest rate spread and core manufacturing orders—improved.Remaining indicators held roughly steady or deteriorated.

Cameron Diaz says her biggest weaknesses are burgers and fries.

Some people talk to you only when they need you to do them a favor. You don't hear from them in months, then all of a sudden they get all interested in you - just because they enjoy your company. Right! They, usually, disappear of your life completely as soon as they've got what they wanted to never re-appear until the next time they need something out of you. I met one of these today who wants

by Dave MindemanI sometimes wonder if this country is simply incapable of overcoming its basic weakness -- inept energy policies.President Bush, the one who stated that this country is "addicted to oil", opposes the climate bill. And he states that it is because of economic considerations.I'm not sure anyone in Congress really understands this, but if you are going to address climate is

Hezbollah's ties with Iran and particularly Syria may not be that strong. From today's Wall Street Journal Europe

Index: Office furniture showing weakness - MLive.com Index: Office furniture showing weaknessMLive.com, MI - 18 hours agoThe current industry forecast from the Grand Rapids-based Business and Institutional Furniture Manufacturers Association calls for a 0.6 percent decline in … Fort Lauderdale's Dream House furniture store going out of business - Sun-Sentinel.com For

Trust but verify Security researchers have identified possible weaknesses in quantum cryptography implementations. A team from Linköping University in Sweden has also come up with suggestions about how the attack could be blocked.… Read more…

Menopause and muscle weakness is an inescapable fact of every aging woman's life and dealing with the accompanying symptoms is an achievable goal through proper health management. Menopause and the problems that come along with it is largely dependent upon a woman's genetic make-up, but equally responsible is the way she has led her life.Her lifestyle, family history and the amount of exercise, diet balance and emotional well being she has maintained, are all contributing factors that determine her possible menopausal issues.Menopause and Muscle Weakness: CausesThe years after menopause can be happy and productive, if negative consequences, such as, muscular weakening, reduced bone density, irritability and joint pains are avoided through preventive measures. Muscular weakness is a comm

Menopause and muscle weakness is an inescapable fact of every aging woman's life and dealing with the accompanying symptoms is an achievable goal through proper health management. Menopause and the problems that come along with it is largely dependent upon a woman's genetic make-up, but equally responsible is the way she has led her life.Her lifestyle, family history and the amount of exercise, diet balance and emotional well being she has maintained, are all contributing factors that determine her possible menopausal issues.Menopause and Muscle Weakness: CausesThe years after menopause can be happy and productive, if negative consequences, such as, muscular weakening, reduced bone density, irritability and joint pains are avoided through preventive measures. Muscular weakness is a common

From the Register Guard:Home inspectors in Lane County endured an anxious winter, and the early spring real estate sales figures are offering little to sooth their nerves.Closed and pending sales were each down about one-third in March, compared with March 2007, according to the Regional Multiple Listing Service.Cumulatively, Lane County’s several dozen home inspection companies — which are hired by buyers or sellers to inspect properties and report on their condition — had a potential pool of 547 fewer houses to inspect since last September, compared with the same period during previous year.That’s a loss of as much as $200,000 in revenue to inspection firms.“The inspection business goes hand-in-hand with real estate sales,” said Sylvia Duerksen, executive director of the Amer

Our product will help you regain control about your masculinity! Find out how to become more manly now! financial markets through monetary restraints. He had attracted theway Soros has. While others were reading about these leaders, SorosWilliam Dodge, a senior vice president for equity research and chief William Dodge, a senior vice president for equity research and chieffinancial markets through monetary restraints. He had attracted theway Soros has. While others were reading about these leaders, Soros

I just finish to read a nice product review about AIR, Flex, Silverlight, Curl and Prism at the Emerging Tech Blog of eweek.com Generally the article points to the weakness and strengths of each of the programs, although, maybe you will not agree with some of the used terms or sentences. Read article [...]

The uprising in Tibet is the latest in a long series of developments in India’s neighbourhood that has exposed India’s congenital inability and lack of desire to get itself to be counted as even a small player, forget a major one, in the region.The ongoing protests against Chinese oppression in Tibet have seen India bend twice over backwards like a little nation so that the Chinese are not annoyed at all. All the cacophony about “morality” that accompanies other developments to influence India’s response - national interest be damned - is conspicuous by its almost total absence. This time, it is neither morality nor national interest which is determining India’s official and even media response to what China has been doing in Tibet for 60 years. This time, it is an unashamed, u

The uprising in Tibet is the latest in a long series of developments in India’s neighbourhood that has exposed India’s congenital inability and lack of desire to get itself to be counted as even a small player, forget a major one, in the region.The ongoing protests against Chinese oppression in Tibet have seen India bend twice over backwards like a little nation so that the Chinese are not ann

There is a sense things are getting a little toppy in the Bullish Percents. The S&P Bullish Percents have moved to a 'Sell' trigger at a resistance level marked by December highs. Unlike December, the S&P is above its 50-day MA, so it may simply be a blip on the road to higher levels. But it is a warning sign: Bullish Percents for the Dow and Nasdaq were flat and haven't yet marked future weakness.

Weak global markets dampened investor sentiment and triggered a sell-off in metal, capital goods, information technology and oil stocks on the major Indian bourses today. Select bank stocks bucked the trend. A few stocks from power, pharma and PSU sectors also found support.Even as a majority of large cap stocks struggled in the red, a host of stocks from midcap and smallcap segments progressed to higher levels on strong buying support. The market breadth, thanks to a fairly decent show by mid and smallcap stocks, was positive when trade ended today.While the Sensex ended the day with a loss of 169.46 points or 1.08% at 15,587.62, the Nifty eased by 51.55 points or 1.08% to 4709.65. The Sensex touched a low of 15,479.42 in intra-day trades while the Nifty plunged to 4677.80.Engineering and

Many lenders are taking comfort from the initial assessment that the UK market will experience a soft landing for house prices in 2008.However, the overall picture is likely to disguise a wide variation in house price growth and transaction volumes across sectors and regions. Localised sharp falls in demand could result in house prices for certain types of property falling by around 10%.These localised and more limited falls can translate into significantly higher levels of arrears and losses for lenders.The importance of maintaining consumer and business confidence cannot be understated as increased price volatility is inevitable as volumes slow to much lower levels.Lenders now have a declining appetite for risk. The credit crunch has resulted in lenders reducing their overall exposure to

How would you like to send your commercial emails to people you do not know, but are expecting to receive such mail from you? Wait a minute. That does not sound right. How can this be?It is simple, if you know what is really going on. Everybody who is on these lists, also known as safe lists, knows that they will be receiving emails from other members. This is possible because that is one of the conditions of their “safe list” membership.And those who join these lists are willing to agree to this condition because they themselves would want to send out their own commercial emails to the others on the list.The result: everyone is sending emails to each other but no one is reading them!It gets worse when some savvy members sign up for the membership using a free or less-frequently-used a

Some people say there’s no such thing as a low blood pressure. But the common  belief is that blood pressure below the normal range of 120/80 may result in  fatigue and weakness. Blood pressure in the normal range is rare. Either the  systolic or the diastolic reading is liable to show lesser than the normal [...]

Women are very strong individuals who deal with many natural changes during a lifetime such as pregnancy, menopause and the monthly inconvenience of the menstrual cycle. Due to the fact that all these factors are natural many women simply put up with the symptoms and other discomforts during these stages. However, all natural occurrences in a woman's natural course of life have different influences on her body such as an hormonal imbalance, which can lead to depression at times. Women always try and put a strong front, but women's mental health is fragile and can easily be disturbed should any of the natural factors go out of hand. Between Facts and Myth Many women even today simply put up with many daily discomforts because they were told this is a natural thing and they have to deal with

The Sensex ended on a dismal note last week with a massive loss of over 9 per cent (1,603 points). The index, which started the week and the month with a negative gap of 351 points, could not recover... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Are you playing to the strengths of your sales team, or trying to correct weaknesses? If you’re like most sales managers you’re training weaknesses and, as a result, you have almost no chance of improving performance. More: continued here

February 06, 2008 Wall Street saw another stock trading day of disaster as report came unexpected tightening in the service sector as confirmation the US economy is dipping into recession. Heavy sell off seen at Wall Street plunged the Dow Jones industrials down 370 points. It was the Dow's biggest percentage drop in almost a year. The report from the Institute for Supply Management washed

International Business Machines Corp., which disclosed stronger-than-expected preliminary fourth-quarter results earlier this week, said net income for the period surged 12% despite a slowing U.S. economy. It also gave a 2008 earnings forecast that was above Wall Street’s expectations. IBM, regarded as a barometer of capital spending, reported net income of $3.95 billion, or $2.80 a [...]

International Business Machines Corp., which disclosed stronger-than-expected preliminary fourth-quarter results earlier this week, said net income for the period surged 12% despite a slowing U.S. economy. It also gave a 2008 earnings forecast that was above Wall Street’s expectations. IBM, regarded as a barometer of capital spending, reported net income of $3.95 billion, or $2.80 a [...]

International Business Machines Corp., which disclosed stronger-than-expected preliminary fourth-quarter results earlier this week, said net income for the period surged 12% despite a slowing U.S. economy. It also gave a 2008 earnings forecast that was above Wall Street’s expectations. IBM, regarded as a barometer of capital spending, reported net income of $3.95 billion, or $2.80 a [...]

Zocor joint pain can be challenging to deal with. What are the facts about Zocor and potential problems that can develop from taking this medication? Zocor is a prescription drug that is used when diet and exercise have proved inadequate in combating high cholesterol. This drug is prescribed to reduce risks associated with coronary heart [...]

Benjamin Netanyahu has rightfully taken Ehud Olmert to task for his pathetic act during the Annapolis farce: "Arabs do not respect a weak prime minister," opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu said Thursday following the Annapolis summit, which he described as "a failure." He said there was "a virtual element" to the conference. "It was as if we were talking peace with a courageous partner but (

Hey Folks, Welcome to Goal Setting Lesson Five. What Position Do We Start From Very often when we set goals that we dream about, it involves doing something that we have little or no competency in accomplishing. Hence, it is my opinion that most of the time, we begin our journey to our dream from a position of weakness. That is the very reason why many people fail to take the first step after they set their goal. They could not even begin to do what they set out to do due to the lack of competency. For those who manage to get started with their limited competency, most manage to turn around in circles after a while and give up their dreams in frustration. So is there any solution? In my opinion, it either your improve your competency or outsource the task that you need to get done (this not applicable in all cases). Outsourcing What are the cases that you can apply outsourcing? Here are some examples: - Getting your household chores done with minimum intervention (don’t laugh, t

My mother loved children. As the secretary of a small Catholic elementary school for almost two decades and the aunt of a dozen nieces and nephews she had lots of opportunities to engage in some serious 8 year old dramas and lots of boo boo kissing. The kids in "her school" loved her in return and from the moment they started school they learned to call my mom by her first name and forget that

Credit card debt consolidation help before delving into the topic, let us first know about credit cards and their benefits. Its a fact that in this material world, everyone wishes to look slim and smart, even on our pockets. Thanks to this era of these cards, we not only have slimmed down our bulging pockets but have also become powerful enough to boast about the huge values they hold. Dont you feel proud to hold these cards in your hand that enable you to shop beyond the capacity you ever imagined? Now there is no need to worry about cash as these smart plastic cards are with you all the time. Their sleek presence gives you immense confidence to barge into any glitzy showroom and shop for the best. Revolution That Gave Birth To Our Weakness No doubt, credit cards are a revolutionary aid for those who need to carry large amounts everywhere, at any point of time. The cash problem has almost vanished. But, many other problems have come up too. The huge capacity to shop leads us to over

Credit card debt consolidation help before delving into the topic, let us first know about credit cards and their benefits. Its a fact that in this material world, everyone wishes to look slim and smart, even on our pockets.

Fred Thompson needs to back out of the race. Maybe he can do so on Letterman.He has shown nothing that would inspire conservatives as many predicted. You don't enter a major campaign...late...and then just coast along on cruise control. He needed to have a strong and in-your-face type of first month. I'm disappointed. Not because I planned to vote for him, but because I was excited by all the hype to hear what the man had to say. So far he hasn't offered anything.That's why I wish he would now just back out of the race nice and quietly. In an already crowded field, we need to be narrowing the field of candidates down. Two categories of candidates need to be remaining:1) those with a chance of winning the 2008 Presidential Election, and 2) those with the ideas that need to be heard (important or different).I've been listening and waiting for #2 from Fred Thompson for a long time. He has yet to deliver. Oh, he'll say something here or there that I agree with, but he never offers an

The LSU Tigers (6-1), (3-1) had two double digit leads of 17-7 and 27-14 in the 2nd and 3rd quarters, but could not hold on for a victory at Lexington against a rallying Andre’ Woodson-led squad, that came off a tough loss (38-23) at the hands of Steve Spurrier’s South Carolina Gamecocks (21-15 win at North Carolina).  Kentucky (6-1), (2-1), a team known for pulling out impressive comebacks (Louisville, Arkansas), scored the final 13 points in regulation to force an overtime, after Kicker Colt David was wide left on a potential 57-yard game-winning FG.   In the first overtime, UK benefited from a roughing of the passer call en route to a 1-yard TD run from Freshman RB Derrick Locke, a replacement for their injured starting RB Rafael Little.  LSU  quickly answered back, with a fake FB, Halfback toss to back-up RB Richard Murphy, one of many talented backs that the Bayou Bengals have stacked in their program at the arsenal of Head Coach Les Miles, who has trouble ch

Tuesday night is track workout for San Diego Track Club. The past few times I have gone, we ran horse trails and dirt hills. This last Tuesday, we did one of my most feared hills—the last hill of the America’s Finest City Half Marathon’s (aka: the hill of hell). I came to the workout, not knowing it would be that hill. IDIOT! I got there late (thank you traffic). I jogged to the meet-up area at the tail end of the warm-up and stretching. I knew I was not getting enough of a warm-up and stretch (because of my tardiness). My eagerness to get to the workout and my excitement of being out without responsibility (i.e.:domestic joys) got the best of me. I headed out down the enormous grade without a thought. I did not even know we were soon going to trek back up the same hill. Up and up we went, up Sixth Avenue, and back down, through the edge of Balboa Park. We all bunched up at the bottom of the hill and did it again. Five times. FIVE. The trail was about .6

Here is a snippet from a great article I read:"The first time I was in Sweden, one of my colleagues picked me up at the hotel every morning. It was September, bit cold and snowy. We would arrive early at the company and he would park far away from the entrance (2000 employees drive their car to work). The first day, I didn’t say anything, either the second or third. One morning I asked, “Do you have a fixed parking space? I’ve noticed we park far from the entrance even when there are no other cars in the lot.” To which he replied, “Since we’re here early we’ll have time to walk, and whoever gets in late will be late and need a place closer to the door. Don’t you think? Imagine my face.Basically, the [slow down] movement questions the sense of “hurry” and “craziness” generated by globalization, fueled by the desire of “having in quantity” (life status) versus “having with quality”, “life quality” or the “quality of being”. French people, even thou

I bought a couple of stocks and sold one today. The two I bought, HOC and BLUD, are both stocks that I have successfully traded in the past. The one I sold, PPC, was a trade that worked out beautifully but it had reached my target price so it was time to sell it.I began buying PPC on 8/3/07 and my average cost per share was $33.49. I sold today for $39.49 for a gain of 17.7% (annualized return of 269%). Here's where I bought PPC off a BOB that bottomed at its 200 day moving average. I loved the setup when I bought it and it worked out even better than I'd hoped.HOC began bouncing over a week ago but the chart looks to me like it has the potential to go a whole lot higher. I bought it at $64.75 today and will conservatively be ready to take profits at its 50 day moving average of around $69. If it happens to plow straight through that average I may look to hold it into the mid $70s. I also picked up BLUD at $32.61. I view this one as a shorter term trade and I will be happy to extract

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Recently, I attended a running expo prior to a road race and took the photo below. (Please disregard the bad photography skills as it was taken with a cell phone.)Anyhow, this picture is of a booth one of the exhibitor's, which just happened to be for chiropractic care. The dry erase board in the center was what I was trying to capture, as it certainly got me to notice (and chuckle). What caught my attention was that the written sign read something like: "We will give you $100 cash if we cannot find a weak muscle on you!"Does anybody else find this funny or ridiculous? Given the fact that I have treated numerous runners/athletes all with an injury, they all have presented with some lower extremity muscle group weakness. And I am sure, that if I did not find any deficits with the larger muscle groups, I would most likely find at least a 4+ somewhere. That counts as weakness right? And, don't most healthy people have some weakness somewhere? (Abductor digiti minimi anyone?)My

NEW Zealand rugby coach Graham Henry has admitted the All Blacks did not perform at their best during their 20-15 loss to Australia in Melbourne. After numerous taunts from the Australians that the All Blacks were not unbeatable, coach Henry took the unusual step of acknowledging his team’s mental weaknesses, dismissing a lack of match practice as the reason for the All Blacks defeat at the MCG. "We were off the pace. I don’t think we’ve played insufficient football to be more…

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The last time the British pound was worth more than $2, the elder George Bush was waging a losing U.S. presidential campaign against Bill Clinton and the Eurotunnel linking Britain to Europe was...

I took a look at a handful of pricing metrics for Orange County and I have to say that even as a died-in-the-wool housing bear, I was pretty shocked by what I found. Let’s start with our three key metrics:% of ZIPs with median price down year on year: 77.3%% of ZIPs with median price down from 2006 median: 80.0%% of ZIPs with price per square foot down: 62.7%.Astounding. Fully four in five ZIPs show price declines between February and all of 2006 and nearly that number on a year on year basis. Four-in-five. I can remember not long ago when that number was closer to two in five. Things certainly have changed.Looking at the data another way, fully 92% of OC ZIPs showed weakness in at least one of the three above metrics, with five lonely ZIPs having been spared the from pricing contagion: Laguna Beach’s 92651, Trabuco Canyon’s 92679 , Fullerton’s 92835, Newport Beach's 92660 and Villa Park’s 92861. If you don’t live in one of those four ZIPs, PRICES IN YOUR AREA ARE FALLING

A problem in the way Windows PCs obtain network settings could let attackers hijack traffic, security researchers said Saturday. The problem occurs because of a design bug in the system used by Windows PCs to obtain proxy settings, researchers with security firm IOActive said at the ShmooCon hacker conference here. As a result, [...]

Today I wandered into darkness, my past. I weakened during a moment of dismay over "Love" I have been fighting these demons for months now. Unwilling to except defeat in my thinking it will all come back as it once was. I am talking about my past relationship & the love for him that resides deep inside me. We failed as companions, both sharing a wicked passion for drinking & gambling. It was a time of great discomfort in our lives, a time when all that should have been sacred to us was not. Fun became addiction, addiction became madness & through that rage we became distant, each blaming one another for bad times & poor living. Today I lost my battle & indulged once again in booze & the filling of the club coffers, with no respect for myself or anyone else. I let my emotional state cloud my judgement & walked away penniless & even more dismayed. It doesn't matter how confident I feel, how much I think I have won the battle. It only takes the smallest of heartbreaks, th

As most have now seen or heard, the Conservatives launched a largely baseless and tasteless attack ad campaign in an effort to delay an election and retain control of their minority government.The first set of ads take aim squarely at Liberal leader Stephane Dion, while a second wave will hit the French language channels shortly. Money is no object for the Tory spin doctors on this one.Mr. Kenney (Secretary of State for Multiculturalism) refused to discuss the Tory budget for this negative-advertising campaign, saying only that his party will spend "as much as it takes to drive our message home.”A more realistic assessment of the situation came from deputy Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff, "They're running scared”.Scared and rudderless. The irony is that the Tories would have nothing to fear if they would just show some political skill. The environment is the number one issue with voters, and every other party in Parliament has recognized this and taken a strong stand on t

"America's greatest strength, and its greatest weakness, is our belief in second chances, our belief that we can always start over, that things can be made better." Anthony Walton A report this week shows that China is leading all nations in investment in renewable energy development. Of the $38 billion spent worldwide in 2005, China was responsible for $6 billion or nearly 16% of the total. The US was a distant third despite boasting a GDP almost six times greater than that of China. In addition to their investment in renewable energy, China already has legislated renewable energy targets while an expanding number of their wealthiest businessmen are heading companies that produce clean power, including the sectors richest citizen. The story is similar in Brazil where earlier this year the country attained energy independence, largely through committing their economy to domestically produced ethanol from sugar cane, ensuring a lower carbon impact for their developing e

If someone were to ask me what I thought the sexiest colour was i'd have to say white...I know the usual response is either RED (Lingerie) or BLACK (Leather) but to me there just something irresistible about a chick in a white top...And NO the top doesn't HAVE to be soaking wet, however it does help step up the sexy meter!!! :p Why am I blogging about this nonsensical topic? Because I just promised to buy a certain sweet individual a top of her choice PROVIDED its white!!!! hehehe (yes I have evil ulterior motives) I've actually done this before....Quite a few times if i'm not mistaken...OK so it puts me down by a few hundred bucks...But its worth the investment! Have you noticed how tiny tops look when you pick them up?!?!?...Its scary...Their ABSOLUTELY skimpy!!!!! I mean if you buy a shirt or a tshirt, its always of considerable size...I mean you have to spread your arms to see the whole thing properly...But you pick a top off the shelf and you immediately think "shes willing to

Nay, make that ‘obsession’.  I absolutely adore cool, funky, functional things that belong either in a home office, or normal work office.  It all started a few years ago, when a colleague of mine (when I was in the corporate travel industry) went on extended leave for 3 months. Now while that was stressful, as I [...]