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Saturday, September 02, 2006

Opportunity knocks for downsizers

Downsizing doesn't have to be a dirty word — it can be a reward for a life well spent.Whatever the reason — empty nests with kids gone off to jobs and university, or retirement from a long and successful career — life can be a whole lot simpler with a condo.At The James Club in Etobicoke, Trevor Kruse of Hudson Kruse aimed to design a model suite for the downsizing couple: low maintenance and comfortable for those who are no longer in need — or want — of a large home... (more)

TheStar.com - Opportunity knocks for downsizers

‘Let’s get out there and see what’s real’: Do numbers tell us the real story?

A person working 40 hours per week at a minimum wage job with one dependent is almost $2,500 below the poverty line with an annual salary of $10,712 per year. A worker with three dependents would have to make more than $9.62 to rise above the poverty level. And even then, a missed paycheck or a missed day of work can send someone spiraling down to a point that’s difficult to climb out of.

The Times West Virginian - ‘Let’s get out there and see what’s real’

Hmmm...what does it cost to live another year longer? What it's value to me?

BOSTON - Despite exploding costs, most Americans got sizable life-extending bang for their medical bucks over recent decades, says one of the most sweeping studies ever of health-care value. That might come as a surprise to anyone who has ever shuddered over a medical bill, and the report itself raises doubts over how quickly costs have escalated.However, the study calculated that Americans of all ages spent an average of $19,900 on medical care for each extra year of life expectancy gained over the last four decades of the 20th century. And that cost is worth it, the study authors say."On average, the return is very high," concludes study leader David Cutler, a Harvard University health economist. "But it's getting worse for ... in particular, the elderly."... (more)

Americans may get medical money's worth - Yahoo! News

Designing Your Backyard

See your yard like an interior designerBy MAUREEN GILMERDIY NETWORKIn garden design, the hard palette refers to constructed elements. The soft palette is strictly plants. Separating these two palettes makes designing your yard a lot easier. Put them together properly and you have a near perfect garden... (more)

See your yard like an interior designer

Walt Disney: The Creative Genius!

Paul Anderson, a Disney historian and a professor at Brigham Young University teaches a course called "Walt Disney and American Culture." Anderson spent years studying, interviewing, and reading about Walt to determine the source of Walt's genius. The six factors they concluded are...  (more)

Idea Sandbox Blog

Master of Your Domains

By Rick Aristotle Munarriz (TMFBreakerRick)August 29, 2006

If you're Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), that warm breath you're feeling on the back of your neck isn't a surprise anymore. You don't even need to peek over your shoulder. You know it's Google (Nasdaq: GOOG), sneaking up on you again.This week's new threat -- the launch of Google Apps for Your Domain -- allows domain owners the ability to incorporate several organizational features like Google Mail, Google Talk, Google Calendar, and Google Page Creator into their actual domain names... (more)

Master of Your Domains [Fool.com: Commentary] August 29, 2006

The Economics of Attention by Richard A Lanham

If there's one thing the internet has not brought about, contrary to all prediction, it's the destruction of literature. As the author of this consistently interesting argument notes, we have been liberated into a bibliotopia almost unimaginable to previous generations, with Amazon selling millions of second-hand books at cut-price rates, and Google digitising university libraries for (hopefully) free usage. It's not literary or artistic values that are under threat, but the opportunity to pay even the most cursory attention to what lies before us. Our true scarcity is attention, not culture... (more)

Independent Online Edition > Reviews

Soundings essay on 'Power of Play'

Small update from earlier this year - my lecture at the Brisbane Festival of Ideas has been turned into an article in the excellent culture and politics journal Soundings, slightly adapted and extended. I'd very much recommend you buy the publication, particularly for Zygmunt Bauman's essay on utopia, and a few others. In the meantime, here's a PDF of my own essay, with thanks to Soundings... (more)

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Designing Your Backyard

See your yard like an interior designerBy MAUREEN GILMERDIY NETWORKIn garden design, the hard palette refers to constructed elements. The soft palette is strictly plants. Separating these two palettes makes designing your yard a lot easier. Put them together properly and you have a near perfect garden... (more)

See your yard like an interior designer

Opportunity knocks for downsizers

Downsizing doesn't have to be a dirty word — it can be a reward for a life well spent.Whatever the reason — empty nests with kids gone off to jobs and university, or retirement from a long and successful career — life can be a whole lot simpler with a condo.At The James Club in Etobicoke, Trevor Kruse of Hudson Kruse aimed to design a model suite for the downsizing couple: low maintenance and comfortable for those who are no longer in need — or want — of a large home... (more)

TheStar.com - Opportunity knocks for downsizers

 

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