Wednesday, July 27, 2011

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Owner Builder Home Building Services to provide specific services to help you build your own home. In this article I want to focus on select Service Owner Builder RIGHT. For more information about what most of these services provides a look at my article Owner Builder Home Building Service.

How many of you already know that I am an advocate of building your own home. I built mine using a contractor and do some work yourself. It is my opinion is the best way to save money up. However, many of you may not have the time or simply prefer to have services to help you in building your home. This approach is probably the best of both worlds for you to save money and have a professional service to help you. Yes, you will not save much money, but probably the best way for you.
Builder Services owner choose the right person is crucial to the success of the project of building your new home. I would suggest doing the following:


Find at least three construction services that you feel suits your needs and your budget. Ask in advance to schedule.

Gather all the information about each of them before any meeting. Do a search on Google, MSN and Yahoo search engine in each service. You?d be surprised what appears today in the business of rating services on the network.

Call the BBB, Chamber of Commerce and local city, county and state government and inquire about pending and resolved complaints. Also find out if they are in good standing with these organizations.

Once you have found the 3 that passed the original question and you are satisfied that they are a good deal, then go see them. Do not do this before doing research. Do not let the fancy website, brochures and influence subtle art of selling before you have some cold hard facts. Remember past performance with future behavior. If they have a serious problem in the past you may not want to deal with.

Do not make decisions in the first session in a meeting with your choices. Make sure not to sign anything and keep your options open until you have followed through each one and do more research.

Here are some ideas for questions you should ask in your meeting with the prospective Owner Builder Services:

-? What do you charge for your services? Is the cost per square foot when the suspect based on my home? They find that the total square footage (under roof) or the living room? Or, is it fixed? You provide me with a written list of the total cost?
- Do you provide a house plan? Does the home plan custom plans drawn up for you? What is the cost for this plan? How many revisions do you get? What is the fee for each revision (if any)? How long does it take to pull the plan (in writing)? How many copies of the plan of my house get? They are a complete set of plans that cover all business? And if my way is the wrong plan?
-? What kind of financing do you offer? Do you offer a choice of a closing time? Did you run all your financing through a bank? Who is the bank? What interest rates etc ? and what your commission to act as my mortgage broker?
-? You provide a list of approved contractors home? If so, whether they work exclusively for you? They are all bonded and insured? How big is the list, if you have multiple contractors on your list in all the commercials? Can I view a list in his office to check the size before I sign up with you? What if I have problems with the contractor? You talked to contractors and help me solve my problem with them?
-? You come to my local building advice and guidance? How many times have you been? You will find me there so I can learn from your expertise? What exactly will you personally do to help me build my house, which helped me get my foundation plan, discuss the problem of framing, etc.
-? Do you provide support and assistance by telephone, via e-mail or fax? How exactly will you respond to me when I needed you? Can I ask questions when I need to get a response? There will be a qualified construction professionals available to me to be able to speak? What is the average response time?
You, or anyone associated with you, once processed, personal or corporate? (If yes, date, what are the names (s) of person (s) or company being sued.) Do you have professional liability insurance? Please can I have a certificate of insurance issued by the operator that indicates the amount of insurance? Insurance agent can fax to your office.
-? Can I have a copy of your client list both previous clients and current clients? If they are a reputable service that will gladly give you a list of some of their customers so that you can call and ask questions. Back at least three years.
-? Do you provide supervision of works was written during my building process and when I finish building a house?

In a meeting with each service to build a house with a good record to make sure that you can go home and compare to each other carefully. Comparing apples to apples. Try to be as objective as possible. Some services do not mind their tape recordings of meetings and telephone conversations. Save the file hard copies of all e-mail.

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  1. Choosing a Home Builder
  2. Building a home is a big decision
  3. The best time to save money before you begin building
  4. Home Building Plans
  5. Building a custom home is exciting

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Tuesday, July 26, 2011

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Oil falls to near $99 as US debt talks stall (AP)

SINGAPORE ? Oil prices fell to near $99 a barrel Monday in Asia amid investor concern that the lack of an agreement among U.S. lawmakers to raise the country's debt limit could trigger a default and damage the global economy.

Benchmark oil for September delivery was down 81 cents to $99.06 a barrel at late afternoon Singapore time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Crude rose 74 cents to settle at $99.87 on Friday.

In London, Brent crude slid 60 cents to $118.07 per barrel on the ICE Futures exchange.

Talks stalled during the weekend as an Aug. 2 deadline looms for Congress to raise the government's $14.3 trillion debt limit. Without action by that date, the Treasury will be unable to pay all its bills, which could lead to a debt default and undermine the global economy.

Republican and Democratic leaders plan to present government spending and debt proposals later Monday.

"We believe that a last-minute stopgap deal will be reached, averting worst-case outcomes," Bank of America Merrill Lynch said in a report. "But it will fail to provide a credible long-term fiscal solution or lift rating agency concerns."

Bank of America said rating agencies will likely cut the U.S. credit rating to AA from AAA by the end of the year.

In other Nymex trading in September contracts, heating oil fell 2.0 cents to $3.12 a gallon while gasoline slid 1.5 cents at $3.08 a gallon. Natural gas futures for August delivery advanced 1.5 cents at $4.41 per 1,000 cubic feet.

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Monday, July 25, 2011

if Pool is a sport, then define "sport' - AzBilliards Forums

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if Pool is a sport, then define "sport' - Today, 12:16 PM

It seems that too many people who participate in competitive, physical, recreational activities become peeved at the idea of their
game being excluded as a sport.

The most important aspect to my definition of a sport is quite simple,

any game requiring the simultaneous attempt of your opponent(s) to prevent your progress...obviously there would be other requirements as that definition alone would qualify Video Games and other such competitions...but that's the gist...

Football, Basketball, Hockey, Soccer, Boxing, Wrestling etc...would constitute classic examples.

These types of games introduce a level of dynamics and psychology that are simply not present elsewhere.

I believe it is very difficult to understand these concepts unless you have played such games at a relatively high level and/or have
studied sporting competitions of many types over many years.

It is also my belief that these games are the most difficult of all requiring overall skill levels which dwarf those skills required to compete in other games, and generally speaking, the participants of which are derived from the deepest talent pools available.

Billiards obviously would not qualify under my definition,

nor would other games which are most often considered sports
such as Track and Field events, Swiw races, Gymnastics, and many more which in my view fall under the category of "competitions" requiring a certain level of athleticism

I welcome all input (except from bowlers)


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anything that requires full physical movement, an opposition and holds a degree of difficulty that is not met by most.


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Any athletic activity that requires both mental and physical skill to compete, where the individuals mental and physical skills are used to either a) perform the athletic activities prescribed function for score, or b) alter the oppositions athletic activity by direct or indirect means, or c) both a & b.

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Just because there aren't sweaty bodies rubbing against each other doesn't mean it isn't a sport. I've played college sports, and nothing compares to the athleticism it takes to play pool.

Most of the popular sports have similar objectives. In pool, you are trying to project an object at another object, to project it at another object. The execution is what makes it a sport.

On a very basic level, it looks like a small table compared to something like a soccer field, but the table itself, is massive.

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Yep - and Buddy Hall is one of the best "athletes" out there - Pool/Billiards is a game.


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It seems that too many people who participate in competitive, physical, recreational activities become peeved at the idea of their
game being excluded as a sport.

The most important aspect to my definition of a sport is quite simple,

any game requiring the simultaneous attempt of your opponent(s) to prevent your progress...obviously there would be other requirements as that definition alone would qualify Video Games and other such competitions...but that's the gist...

Football, Basketball, Hockey, Soccer, Boxing, Wrestling etc...would constitute classic examples.

These types of games introduce a level of dynamics and psychology that are simply not present elsewhere.

I believe it is very difficult to understand these concepts unless you have played such games at a relatively high level and/or have
studied sporting competitions of many types over many years.

It is also my belief that these games are the most difficult of all requiring overall skill levels which dwarf those skills required to compete in other games, and generally speaking, the participants of which are derived from the deepest talent pools available.

Billiards obviously would not qualify under my definition,

nor would other games which are most often considered sports
such as Track and Field events, Swiw races, Gymnastics, and many more which in my view fall under the category of "competitions" requiring a certain level of athleticism

I welcome all input (except from bowlers)

Your definition would also exclude golf which I think is the most difficult "sport" on the planet. It's true you don't have bodies banging into each other but golf at a high level requires tremendous physical and mental stamina. Think about a sport where you can play almost perfectly for 63 holes and then blow the entire tournament on one bad swing.

I'm not sure whether pool could be considered a sport but it is certainly a very challenging and beautiful game. It is underrated and under appreciated because it takes someone with a fair amount of knowledge of the game to understand the skill required.

Just IMO...

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I don't define words, I let other people do it:

dictionary.com:

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an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc.
I think long sessions on the table constitutes a certain level of "athletic activity."

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Definition of SPORT
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a : a source of diversion : recreation b : sexual play c (1) : physical activity engaged in for pleasure (2) : a particular activity (as an athletic game) so engaged in
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a : pleasantry, jest b : often mean-spirited jesting : mockery, derision
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a : something tossed or driven about in or as if in play b : laughingstock
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a : sportsman b : a person considered with respect to living up to the ideals of sportsmanship <a good sport> <a poor sport> c : a companionable person
Comparing any two sports is like comparing apples and oranges. I don't know why we bother. There's room enough in the world for all of them.
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Yep - and Buddy Hall is one of the best "athletes" out there - Pool/Billiards is a game.

oh yeah? what the hell is speed walking?!

Ever see a pool player train?

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a sport is - any competitive undertaking that requires mental strategy and physical dexterity.

basically the definition of pocket billiards !

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It seems that too many people who participate in competitive, physical, recreational activities become peeved at the idea of their
game being excluded as a sport.

The most important aspect to my definition of a sport is quite simple,

any game requiring the simultaneous attempt of your opponent(s) to prevent your progress...obviously there would be other requirements as that definition alone would qualify Video Games and other such competitions...but that's the gist...

Football, Basketball, Hockey, Soccer, Boxing, Wrestling etc...would constitute classic examples.

These types of games introduce a level of dynamics and psychology that are simply not present elsewhere.

I believe it is very difficult to understand these concepts unless you have played such games at a relatively high level and/or have
studied sporting competitions of many types over many years.

It is also my belief that these games are the most difficult of all requiring overall skill levels which dwarf those skills required to compete in other games, and generally speaking, the participants of which are derived from the deepest talent pools available.

Billiards obviously would not qualify under my definition,

nor would other games which are most often considered sports
such as Track and Field events, Swiw races, Gymnastics, and many more which in my view fall under the category of "competitions" requiring a certain level of athleticism

I welcome all input (except from bowlers)

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Perhaps we need a way to separate a game from a sport. - Today, 03:28 PM

perhaps, by defining the difference between a game and a sport would be a good start. ie all sports are not games and all games are not sports.

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I think long sessions on the table constitutes a certain level of "athletic activity."

Miriam-Webster is even more permissive:

Just a note about dictionaries. Dictionaries are sociological reports--they don't offer prescriptive or authoritative definitions for words, they simply report on actual usage. It is how a word is actually used within a linguistic community that determines what a dictionary reports as its definition. This is why what we think of as a word's meaning can change over time.
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We got up early to do stretches on the tracks and exercises. Then we did laps because bobby came late. Then bobby would miss by a few seconds and we did more laps. Bobby came on time sometimes. I hate Bobby and coach. Sometimes it was fun when we scrimmaged, but most of pre-season was endurance training.

"You're as strong as our weakest link, guys"---coach

Then we hit the weights after training every other day for an hour. Yip we had boyish figures for the entire summer, then it goes away.

Training for pool--Once you're there, it's never gone. Those guys are still beasts.

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Sex can be a sport, can't it? Also, I'm calling bs for giving bowling a free pass.

If this were a poll, I'd vote yes for billiards being a sport. However, the label is not that important.

You could also call it gambling, thereapy, recreation, whatever.

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Fitness | Five Points Fitness A Corte Madera Fitness Center ...

Five Points Fitness will partner with MedaFit to provide trainer-based small group exercise programs for individuals with medical illnesses.

Corte Madera, CA (Vocus/PRWEB) July 22, 2011

The partnership is specifically catered for people who have recently been hospitalized for heart disease, cancer and stroke. The partnership also provides a dedicated area for training that allows for an intimate, non-threatening environment for clients. There will be a 12-week program and participants need not be members of Five Points Fitness to take part. Each group will consist of five to ten people and will help improve personal fitness levels through a strength and cardiovascular conditioning program. Five Points Fitness has certified trainers that are also considered clinical exercise specialists.

?If you need a personal trainer Corte Madera Five Points Fitness can help. We offer well qualified personal trainers able to work with a varied population from young athletes to older adults with health issues and no workout history,? says Bryan LeFebure of Five Points Fitness.

Conveniently located at the Paradise Shopping Center in Corte Madera, Five Points Fitness is a health center with universal appeal. Five Points Fitness prides itself in being able to offer fitness solutions to meet all needs in a reasonably priced, pleasant and professional environment. Whether it is someone looking to get fit or a seasoned ?gym-rat,? the nonjudgmental environment appeals to everyone. They offer a personalized service and each personal trainer is held to the highest standard, required to meet specific training criteria and is nationally certified.

For more information on Five Points Fitness and their services, contact Bryan LeFebure at (415) 413-4154 or visit their website at . Five Points Fitness is located at 5651 Paradise Drive, Corte Madera, CA 94925.

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Sunday, July 24, 2011

Book Review ? Madre: Perilous Journeys with a Spanish Noun by Liza ...

Liza Bakewell takes us where we may never have thought to go:? Down Mexico?s dusty back roads and cobblestone alleys, across neighborhood plazas lined with madre-derrogatory grafitti, through bustling markets, in a high speed car zig-zagging the wrong way down a one-way street, in provocative conversation with wise and deferential men, sequestered on the coast of Maine deep in contemplation, in lively debate with feminists, and befuddled and amused by encounters with people at all social and economic levels, including one?s own children.

Madre: Perilous Journeys with a Spanish Noun is not your everyday discussion about Mexico ? her culture, history, politics, women?s issues (and men?s, too), language, social structure, and how a people come to define and understand self. ?Yet it includes all of this! ?Bakewell?s premise is that language informs culture and vice versa. ? After reading this book, I understand and agree.? It opened my eyes.? Mexico is an idiomatic maze and ?madre? plunges us into the cultural and linguistic depths, revealing the mysteries and idiosyncracies of this most beloved and maligned noun. ?And, this most beloved and maligned country!

Some have described this book as a ?memoir,? and in some limited respect that is true.? Yet it is much more than that because the academic discussion (Bakewell is a professor of linguistic anthropology at Brown University) about the etymology of ?madre? prevails throughout.? But the book is flavored with slang, the vernacular, curse words, and romance. ?It describes her personal and professional quest to understand this most complex of Spanish nouns. ?It is human, engaging and real.

Most importantly, this book is entertaining, witty, clear and insightful.? It is a must-read for anyone who is thinking about visiting Mexico or who is living there.? Understanding the culture helps one enjoy the travel, and this will definitely bring you enjoyment before or during your stay.

Bakewell examines what the word ?madre? conjures up in Mexican society, and how it defines manhood and womanhood.? She takes us on a journey to explore gender roles, relationships, customs, traditions, church doctrine, and stereotypes.? The perilous journey is a metaphor, I believe, for the evolution of the word ? one small, simple word now infused with powerful emotion: manhood, womanhood, honor, obedience, pride, machismo, ?fight to the death,? and identity, plus all that is disparaging, insulting and base.

I love Bakewell?s discussion about the dualities and conflicts of Mexican identity and womanhood as exemplified by ?The Malinche? and her alter-ego counterpart, Dona Marina. ?They are one and the same woman, the first ?bad and forbidden? and the second ?baptized, good and pure.?? I see this drama danced out every year in the Danza de la Pluma that reenacts the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs.? Through this description, we come to understand who is the whore and who is the virgin, the themes that recur in the recesses of the language and icons hanging from every rear view mirror.

Bakewell explores the mixed messages and signals, expected behaviors, and role definitions for women and what constitutes femininity.? ?She describes Malinche, the translator for Cortes, and how her name became synonymous with traitor and betrayal. An indigenous woman from the southern coast of Mexico enslaved since childhood, passed from one tribal group to another, she was given to Cortes by her captors.? She was multilingual because of her circumstances.? Yet, she was redefined during the 1857 revolution as the antithesis of the good Mexican woman.? Mexican feminists are branded as Malinchistas.

Madre is about paternal creation and the power of the church to define and control.? It explores the subtle meaning of Virgin and Eve, and what constitutes purity.? The dilemma of madre in Mexico, according to Bakewell, is that the church believes the bride, once married is Eve, not the Virgin, and vulnerable to all the transgressions put before her.? Like Eve, Malinche was the mother of the first mestizo (indigenous Indian and Spanish blend), child of Cortes.? While Eve listened to the snake, Malinche listened to Cortes, betraying her people.

I imagine Liza Bakewell asked me to review this book because of my association with Oaxaca and love for Mexico.? In 2009, she spent the year there on sabbatical as a single mom with her twin daughters finishing up the manuscript in preparation for publication.? She talks about it being a warm, welcoming, safe and nurturing place for herself and her young children where she could bring her madre journey to a close.

Here, while she wrote, she also discovered that the liberal revolutionaries of 1857 ? Benito Juarez, Melchor Ocampo, and Justo Sierra ? politically reinterpreted what it meant to be a woman in Mexico. ?In their endeavor to liberate Mexico from the stranglehold of the Catholic church they replaced one set of padres for another.

Ocampo, in his ?Epistle,? defined the virtues of woman to be ?self-abnegation, beauty, compassion, shrewdness and tenderness, and must give and shall always give her husband obedience, affability, attention, comfort, advice and treat him with reverence due to the person who supports and defends us.?? Ocampo?s ?Epistle? became required reading at state civil marriage ceremonies? until 2007, when Mexican feminists asked individual?states to replace it.? Most have, but Oaxaca has not. ?The Epistle outlines perfection and impossible expectations for women to achieve.

The quest for the meaning of ?Madre? was not a straight path.? Just like the taxi driver zigzagging the wrong way down a one-way street, ?Madre? the book takes one turn and then another, to describe how ?madre? the word came to include derogatory meanings in the Mexican Spanish language.? It caused me to sit up and take notice about our own gender slurs and how we casually use them until they become embedded in the vernacular and we are no longer conscious of the meaning.

Just as you are beginning to think that you understand, Bakewell starts a discussion about the articles ?el? and ?la? and ?los.?? Spanish is organized by the system of la and el,? she says. ?If you are confused about which article to use, consider? el amor (love), el sexo (sex), el matrimonio (marriage), el prenado (pregnancy), el embarazo (pregnancy), el parto (childbirth) and el nacimiento (birth).? Why are these words ?masculine?? she asks.??? A friend of Bakewell?s who studied Indo-European languages, traces it to the concern about descent lines ? the patrilineage.?? Culture and language are powerful padres.

Finally, Bakewell asks us to consider the origins of madre and padre.? She delves into the sounds of mmmmmm and ppppppp.?? MMMMMmadre.??? PPPPPPPPpadre. ?She takes us to the very essence of birth, identity, survival and continuity.? She describes the mmmm sound as internal, humming, soothing, nurturing and nourishing.? Pppppppppadre is the force of spitting out, putting one?s imprimatur in the world, the first attempt at aggressiveness for what we must do to make our way as human beings.? One is internal and the other external, almost synonymous with how our bodies and reproductive organs are purposed. ??She describes how the sound origins across languages and cultures are consistent.? Fascinating. Try these sounds and you?ll see what I mean.

Anyone who travels to or lives in Mexico, studies Latin American culture, history, art, Spanish language, or anything related MUST read this book.? Furthermore, there are no madre insults in Italy and very few in Columbia, Chile and Argentina.

Madre IS made in Mexico.

And, if you want to know the expletives, you?ll have to read the book! ?They are plentiful.

Madre: Perilous Journeys with a Spanish Noun, by Liza Bakewell, W.W. Norton & Company, 2011.? ISBN 978-0-393-07642-4. ?You can order the book director from Dr. Bakewell.

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