Garden calendar for March 4
The News Review:
- Garden calendar for March 4
- Looking For A Home? Start With Your Keyboard
- Wired for convenience: Tastefully tech.
- Getting the lead out
- Kennel won’t cut it anymore
Garden calendar for March 4
fredericksburg.com – Mar 4, 2006
This training session in gardening and landscape design includes lectures by regional garden experts, design advice from landscape professionals and hands-on training in gardening skills. Guest speakers include Richard Nunnally, host of “Virginia Home Grown” and Sandy McDougle of Sandy’s Plants. The cost is $60 and registration is required. A Million Blooms, April 8-June 4, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, 1800 Lakeside Ave.
Looking For A Home? Start With Your Keyboard
KOMO – Mar 4, 2006
Already, the industry is dramatically different than it was adecade ago. Besides viewing listings online, Bolanos now regularly visitsZillow. com, a new Web site that provides quick, anonymous estimatesof home values based on county records and other data. Although thesite, which is in test form, isn’t always completely accurate,Bolanos said it gives her a good barometer for judging a home’sworth. Less than a month old, the advertising-supported site alreadyhas become fodder for office gossip and dinner party chatter, inpart because it gives people a voyeuristic look at what theirfriends and neighbors might be able to get for their homes. The company’s chief executive, Rich Barton, said his goal is togive people information that can improve their position when theysit down with a real estate agent or consider bidding on a house. “My motivation, I guess, is kind of power to the people,”Barton said… Murray also expects agents to start spending more money on fancyWeb sites and other online promotions, perhaps at the expense oftraditional marketing such as newspaper advertising. Still, no matter how sophisticated online house-hunting gets,the computer might never be able to fully replace the experience ofwalking from room to room in your prospective house, peeking intocabinets, tapping on walls and trying to figure out how noisy theneighbors might be. Although virtual house-hunting has grown more sophisticated,Geoff Wood, chief executive of the real estate firm WindermereServices Co. , said it’s still extremely rare for someone topurchase a house without ever visiting it. “You can have a ton of pictures, (but) it still doesn’t do itjustice,” Wood said. “You still have to go and look at it andtouch it and feel it. It’s your house, you know?”.
Wired for convenience: Tastefully tech.
Free with registration – Fayetteville Observer – AccessMyLibrary.com – Mar 4, 2006
As your child punches in a security code at the house, your cell phone buzzes with a page saying, “Little Johnny is home safely. ” A remote control that looks like a Palm Pilot cues the speakers to play oldies music in the kitchen but pop music in the den for the teenagers. The thermostat automatically adjusts a few degrees when you come home, when you go to bed and when you leave.
Getting the lead out
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (subscription… – Mar 4, 2006
She called mandatory lead-safe practices “one more tool to get contractors to do the right thing. ”
Those who would be further governed, however, consider proposed rules an unnecessary and intrusive expense. The National Association of Home Builders in Washington, D. , and the National Association of the Remodeling Industry in Des Plaines, Ill. , have objected, saying there’s no proven link between remodeling and lead poisoning. Another industry heavyweight, the National Association of Realtors, appears ready to join the opposition… homes with lead-based paint number 38 million today, down from 64 million in 1996; the number of American children with elevated levels of lead in their blood has dropped to 310,000 from at least 3 million in 1978. Milwaukee has an estimated 30,000 rental units with lead-based paint. The number made lead-safe has grown from 143 in 1997 to 9,723 last year. The proportion of city children under age 6 with elevated blood-lead levels has dropped from 41. • PROPOSED REGULATION: EPA has proposed requirements for lead-safe work practices during contractor renovation, repair and painting activities in most pre-1978 housing.
Kennel won’t cut it anymore
St. Petersburg Times – Mar 4, 2006
There’s room service as well: Sassy, a nearly 3-year-old chocolate Labrador, was hand-delivered a 12-ounce filet mignon dinner at her $125-a-night carpeted suite. The steak was grilled lightly, sliced and served on a gold platter – and set her owners back $22. “I think it’s definitely worth it,” said Sassy’s owner, Christie Graziosi, a Morristown, N. , resident whose husband’s three kids are grown. “Every time my dog has come home from those (boarding kennels) she’s usually hoarse because she’s been barking. You can tell she wasn’t happy there.