Just received the following text from my oldest son who’s a junior at West Forsyth: “i met rick riley today”.
Apparently ESPN is in town to tape one of their “Homecoming” shows for Chris Paul who’s a West Forsyth alum. His family still resides in Lewisville.
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Update: It went well!
The morning commute on 9/24/2009
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According to Carper the “golden rule” in Congress is that secret back room deals in exchange for advertising buys must be honored."
The auction will be held on Wednesday, October 28, 2009, 1:00 P.M. at the Clarion Hotel Greensboro Airport, 415 Swing Rd., Greensboro, NC 27409. For a free color brochure on the October 28, 2009 Real Estate Auction with terms of sale for all properties you can call Jason Dolph with Chartwell Auctions at 704-831-8983."
Of course, these comments and conversations are already going on, all over the web. What we've done is bring them together in one place. And then we've made it easy for the brand to chime in.
If your brand wants to be in charge of developing this page, it will cost you $400 a month. And once you take the page over, the left hand column belongs to you."
Data from the N.C. Association of Realtors shows that in August, the Triad had 1,034 sales of new and existing homes, compared to 1,249 in August 2008. It was also a 3.7 percent decline from July, when there were 1,074 sales."
In other words, the bill could plausibly defund the entire military-industrial complex. Whoops."
These and many others are our new urban architects. I am not suggesting that the traditional roles of urban planning and architecture aren't still important to our cities. They are and will continue to be."
Quote from Ensign: "In this struggling economy, any industry that is able to thrive should be allowed to do so without meddlesome government interference that could stifle innovation," Ensign said in a statement. "We must avoid burdensome government regulations that micromanage private businesses or that limit the ability of companies to provide what their customers want. The Internet has flourished in large part because of a lack of government interference; I see no need to change that now." Reminder to Ensign: The internet exists because of the government and flourishes despite the monopolistic tendencies of the telecomm companies.
Several groups have accomplished similar feats (see “Other Launches”), but as far we know, we are the first group ever to:
(1) Complete such a launch on a budget of $150 total. All of our supplies (including camera, GPS tracking, weather balloon, and helium) were purchased for less than a grand total of $150."
Dear Winston-Salem Creative Types,
If you're going to promote your projects using mannequins and other lifelike displays around the city you might want to let folks know what you're doing. That's especially true if you put a mannequin on a billboard. If you don't and concerned citizens call 911, which in turn leads to police and EMS responding, then you should be prepared to pay a nice little fine. It's the least you could do for all the "free" publicity.
Best regards,
Jon
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Lutz writes: 'Takeovers are like coups – they both lead to dictators and a loss of freedom…
'It is essential that ‘deny’ and ‘denial’ enter the conservative lexicon immediately,' he writes, 'because it is at the core of what scares Americans most about a government takeover of health care.'”
The Freakonomics blog has a post about the Obama administration's decision to dramatically increase fuel economy standards. I found this part the most interesting:
The new regulations mandate that by 2016 the fuel economy of new cars and light trucks sold in the U.S. increase to a combined city/highway m.p.g. of 35.5, up from about 27.9 under today’s CAFE standards.
Although hybrids and electric vehicles can help automakers meet these targets, enough efficiency can be reaped with internal combustion autos. This can come through improvements to things like tires, engines (e.g. smaller ones with turbocharging), air conditioning, transmissions, and vehicle weight. The administration estimates that this will cost $1,100 per vehicle but that the improvements will pay for themselves with $3,000 in fuel savings over the life of the car.
This caught my attention because my wife just returned from a trip to Richmond and was in awe that our eight year old Saturn got 38 miles to the gallon for the trip. I've been driving the Saturn back and forth to Greensboro pretty much every day and I'm averaging about 32 miles a gallon even with city driving. My Mom has a hybrid and she gets in the 40s per gallon, which is obviously better, but our car's been paid off for years and (knock on wood) hasn't needed any extensive work done on it.
Only negative to the Saturn: I'm 6'2" and when I get in and out of it I look like a circus clown, but that's a small price to pay for keeping my gas tab down.
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