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The vibrant family room welcomes the family with cheerful colors and comfortably modern surroundings. The colors in the home are mainly neutral with touches of more trendy greens and grays. Artwork is particularly important as an accessory in this home, and a lot of color is derived from these bold pieces. Views are oriented to the rear of the home to take advantage of the lake lot and the small, but interesting pool area. Window treatments are kept...

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Cellphone Into Your Home Phone

Anyone with a cellphone is familiar with this scenario: You come home, take your jacket off, and set your purse or briefcase down near the door. A few hours later, you get your cellphone out of your bag to use it, only to find that you’ve missed three calls because you weren’t close enough to hear your phone ringing. Cellphones rule in lots of places — we can call for car help when stranded along a highway, find friends in a crowd, and be nagged by co-workers or spouses at any time and place. But the old-fashioned wired phone wins at home. When...

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Planning Homecoming to be Successful

Homecoming can be an event that will bring the community and the school together. However, it must be planned appropriately. Homecoming is a huge event which the whole community often helps put on for high school students. While it is mainly for high school students, homecoming is also often a town event as everyone takes interest in their local basketball or football team. Due to the interest that the community takes in the school around this time, it is a good time for school faculty and students to reach out to the community and build relationships....

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naughty but not trashy

The night was coined the “K*Glam Burlesque Masquerade Party” with the female guests required to don stockings, high heels, masks and vintage clothes as the overriding theme for the party. Many obliged. Many girls spotted corsets and feather boas that added sophistication to the party. “The night was about tease and seduction and we wanted that to show through the clothes,” said the CEO of the magazine, Liz Kakooza. “We wanted to bring out the sexy and naughty side of a woman without looking trashy,” she added. The magazine will be having the...

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beauty unlike any I have seen

The three-hour drive south from India’s capital New Delhi, India, to the city of Agra was quite expensive. Even more disconcerting was the queue, which stretched the entire breadth of the wall around the Taj Mahal, although it took me a little less than one hour to get in. Yet the sight of one of the eight wonders of the world, a piece of architectural finesse whose beauty has apparently not been surpassed to-date, quickly made up for all the hurdles that we went through to get to it. After we entered through the forecourt (the Chawk – I Jilau...

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Pool house: A haven of relaxation

The importanceSwimming pools have become a common feature in many homes and accommodation set-ups. Gone are the days when swimming could only be done in specified hotels or apartments. However, with swimming becoming a sport, an exercise and a way of unwinding, pool houses too are a necessity today. There’s need to have this facility put up by all swimming pool owners. So what exactly is a pool house? The importance According to Sarah, an administrator at Davis and Shirtliff , a pool house is a shelter constructed to protect the swimming pool...

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Build for home now

Basic featuresThere are different aspects that make a house a green building, such as: Energy preservationA green house should have a mechanism to reduce the use of energy. Windows having a high efficiency and a good thermal insulation system can be used to reduce energy waste. For instance, you can use sunlight to light your office during the day without using hydro electric power bulbs. Alternatively, you can use a solar panel to light your bulbs. Using hydro electric power in this case is not being green. When it comes to outdoor lighting, high...

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environmental sustainability

The importance A green building is one that has been designed to have environmentally friendly conditions which efficiently use available resources throughout its designed life. In other words, green buildings conserve the environment and natural resources by using little water and energy, have less waste generation and a healthy living space compared to our conventional existing buildings.Green structures have been adopted purposely to minimise wastage of existing scarce resources like water and energy, eradicate environmental pollution...

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On the Move Design students inject fun into the TTC

OCAD University's Design Competition, presented by the Faculty of Design, is an annual event wherein interdisciplinary teams of 3 to 6 students are presented with a design challenge — usually a real-world issue — and over the course of an extended weekend asked to respond with their solutions. Faculty advisors with expertise relating to the challenge are on hand on Saturday to answer questions about concepts and technicalities, and students must present their designs by the end of day on the following Monday. Many OCAD U graduates cite the challenge...

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photograpy art

Taking the fair into this new era, Julien Frydman has been appointed Director of Paris Photo. He was head of the renowned photography agency Magnum Photos in Paris since 2006, and has been a consultant of the LUMA Foundation for Le Parc des Ateliers in Arles since January 2011. He takes over from Guillaume Piens who ensured the success of the fair for the last three editions. The 2011 edition will mark the 15th anniversary of Paris Photo. Artists...

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the firm that branded Britain

Alone!-- google_ad_client = "ca-pub-5238707065956913"; /* Dhecah */ google_ad_slot = "9280158654"; google_ad_width = 300; google_ad_height = 250; //--> script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> In design, those ambitions came to a head in 1951's Festival of Britain. The idea of celebrating the centenary of the 1851 Great Exhibition had been in the air for some time. In 1946 Misha Black drew a fantastical plan for the South Bank site, exhibited at the Cubitt, that makes it look like the Crystal...

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Laura Oldfield Ford

This month Oldfield Ford's work has been cropping up around Bristol city centre's Broadmead area in Poster Sites, a project commissioned by Arnolfini. A recent mall development nearby is promising new money to the neglected shopping district, but her posters suggest capitalism is an empty dream. Window displays flaunt images of interior design offset by the huddled homeless, while people absent-mindedly wander shopping arcades, haunted by pawn-shop ads. A banner of dates running from the 14th through the 21st century tops each poster, pointing...

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Light is right at the Brit Insurance Design awards 2011 today

The only object in the exhibition that stands out as a potential overall winner is in the product design category: the iPad. So successful has this game-changing piece of technology been that it should have its own category – indeed it pretty much does, since most of the entries in the interactive design section are apps for the iPad, displayed on iPads. But it's possible that the judges will avoid the obvious, popular, zeitgeisty choice and stick it to Apple – especially since one of the judges confessed, to me, "I don't like the internet". I...

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Properly Prepared

Many people also opt to have water and lighting equipment stored for these eventualities, as well as cooking supplies. There is no real limit to what can be arranged, but there is a given set of things that can be arranged in order to make sure that the elements that are stored are useful and practical to have around. Additionally, there is a certain hierarchy to the proceedings that may exist based upon the preferences of the person. Usually, these preparedness supplies include supplies for either day long, three day, or week long scenarios....

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How Many Dog Portraiture

According to a source in New York City, it was in the 1800s that dog portraiture became popular. People wanted their dogs to be painted then and many responded to the need. 20 million to 30 million people reside in Great Britain and from this there were about 6 million animal painters. Even the amateurs were able to sell their work today. Many collectors preferred these kinds of paintings according to this art consultant. It was not unusual to have the pets in the picture with mix breed. The pictures of pure bred dogs would usually be highly collected...

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Lower Along With The Risk

he thinking here is simple. It is necessary that past price fluctuations should not influence future ones, but it isn’t sufficient to make markets efficient. For this scenario the rise in volatility is proportionate to the square root of time, hence the volatility of fortnightly change is the same as the square root of two multiplied by the weekly volatility. If we test the volatility of actual to random walk, we can see whether a price follows random walk or not. When random walk volatility is higher than actual volatility then falls in one period...

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The Ability To Receive Cash For Your Mobile Phone

As mentioned above, the fluctuation in selling and buying phones has greatly increased over the past few years. Most people buy a new phone every 18 to 24 months, sometimes even quicker if they are a tech junkie. Imagine ALL the phones you could be taking to these mobile phone recycling places instead of just throwing them out in the trash! Spend a little, find a sell your mobile site that has a compare option (so that you get the most money for your phone) and sell mobile phone right online! You could be getting top dollars depending on the site...

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Consider the Costs before Looking at Funeral Insurance Quotes

This particular type of policy is similar to life insurance in that it is offers a payment to a deceased person’s loved ones when they die in order to reduce their financial burden. Unlike life insurance, however, the funds are given to the family specifically for the purposes of paying for a funeral. People almost always have the option of signing up for this type of coverage, regardless of their age or their condition of health. Despite all of this, it is important for people who are thinking about signing up for a policy to realize that the...

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Trade Forex At Home

An eforex trader asks for refining his fundamental knowledge and technical usage. Currencies underline the strength or weakness of a country’s economy. Awareness of macroeconomic fundamentals is significant for getting involved in the trading of any kind of foreign currency. Japan is one example of a country put on an economic halt, which has bound its nominal interest to zero percent. A trader needs to know that a strong yen is not a solution to these problems. As a result, when the yen strengthens, traders ought to be careful of a central program...

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Movers – Safety First

It is wise to insure your goods with the company just in case; it also guards you financially from natural disasters, which cannot be ruled out. Charges differ with ground level moving and relocating from one high floor to another. The charges depend on certain factors like the goods (household or office or factory), distance to be travelled, time taken, and number of items, size and weight of the items. Some companies even have storage facilities to store your shipment till you are ready to move them in to the new place at extra costs and extra...

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Health Rules Are Waived More Often

Concerned about the potential disruption that would be created by enforcing the new rules, the administration has granted dozens of additional waivers and also made clear that it would modify other rules affecting these policies. Last week, the Department of Health and Human Services issued more guidance, saying it would use a different method of calculating spending for these plans so they would be able to meet new regulations dictating how insurers should use the premium dollars they collect. While critics say these moves could water down the...

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Adding Clarity to Health Care Reform

Unfortunately, it is hard to have the popular features without some version of the mandate. A health insurance system cannot work unless most healthy people participate. The major source of uncertainty arises not from the bill itself, but rather from the lawsuits filed by states that object to the mandate. The legal issue is subtle, given that states have long imposed mandates of various kinds themselves, including those requiring children to go to school or requiring drivers to have liability insurance. So the states are not questioning the legality...

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Guarding the Family Fortune

With economic pain and suffering on the rise, how do the senators justify a big tax cut for multimillionaires? By asserting that an estate tax cut is just what struggling Americans need. Senator Blanche Lincoln, a Democrat of Arkansas, co-sponsored the measure with Senator Jon Kyl, a Republican of Arizona. She said it was critical to creating jobs through small businesses. “With all the money we’ve spent to help the economy, very little of it has filtered down to Main Street and family-owned businesses,” she said. The implication is that upon...

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It’s a Tough Time for Tax Strategies

“I don’t think there’s anything more significant than the estate tax,” said Catharine V. Fairley, a tax planner and partner at Draper & McGinley in Frederick, Md., citing its wide implications for wills, gifts and trusts. “No one saw this coming — that they let the estate tax sunset.” Another unknown is what will happen to the large tax cuts of 2001 and 2003, enacted under President George W. Bush. The cuts produced current income-tax rates of 10 to 35 percent that are due to expire at the end of this year. While it seems a good bet that they...

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Some Tax Considerations to Keep

HOME SWAP One of the central concerns in the early part of the financial crisis was homeowners’ ability to pay their mortgages. Now, the federal government is giving people a tax credit for buying a home. People who sell one home and buy another for less than $800,000 by April 30 (June 30 if you’re in contract) will get a $6,500 tax credit. There are four caveats to this: the total value of the house has to be under the limit (an $805,000 house would not qualify), the buyers’ adjusted gross income has to be less than $245,000 a year for a couple,...

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In Using Software to Write a Will, a Lawyer Is Still Helpful

QUICKEN WILLMAKER PLUS 2011 This program felt like the most substantial, given the sheer amount of information it provided throughout the form-filling process. Because the program is actually written by Nolo, which publishes do-it-yourself books and software for legal matters, it appears that Nolo is drawing from its vast instructional library. If you have a question about a specific issue, like how to choose an executor, you can dive into its easy-to-read legal manual. And before you choose whom to leave your property to, the program encourages...

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Planning for Income and Estate Taxes in an Uncertain Time

Now, in the midst of a flurry of tax proposals, not to mention the Republican gains in the midterm elections, legislators have only five weeks to act on the estate tax before the holiday recess. And taxes — both the estate tax and the income tax — are far from the only issues on Congress’s agenda. Few tax planners and lawyers are willing to speculate on what will happen in the last months of 2010. They learned their lesson last year. But Alfred Peguero, a personal finance partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers, said his firm believed the weeks of Dec....

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Courts Vow Legal Aid in Housing

The report, “Estate Planning: Dealing with Death and Taxes,” looked at estate planning online tools, resources and specialized services, as of last summer, at the various brokerage firms it tracks. According to David Rosenberg, senior analyst for brokerage firms at Corporate Insight, the top group of firms highlighted in the report include Fidelity, Merrill Lynch, Edward Jones, Charles Schwab, Wells Fargo Advisors and Ameriprise Financial. “These firms stand out from the others highlighted because they offer better mixes of estate planning services...

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Estate and Some Clarity, for Now

That cleared up a good deal of confusion: There was no estate tax at all for people who died in 2010, but if Congress hadn’t acted, the estate tax would have been reinstated this year at a $1 million threshold — $2 million for married couples — and with a top rate of 55 percent. The new thresholds are in effect through 2012. Yet for all the attention given to the estate tax, a less widely noticed change in the law could affect more families. That is the lifetime gift tax exemption, now also $5 million — or $10 million for married couples. While...

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Housing Market Looks Sickest today

In the last year, home prices in Seattle had a bigger decline than in Las Vegas. Minneapolis dropped more than Miami, and Atlanta fared worse than Phoenix. The bubble markets, where builders, buyers and banks ran wild, began falling first, economists say, so they are close to the end of the cycle and in some cases on their way back up. Nearly everyone else still has another season of pain. “When I go out and talk to people around town, they say, ‘Wow, I thought we were going to have a 12 percent correction and call it a day,’ ” said Stan Humphries,...

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Apple Offers Subscriptions for Apps now player

Apple’s announcement appeared to do little to assuage those concerns at the nation’s three largest magazine publishers. All three — Time Inc., Hearst Magazines and Condé Nast — declined to say on Tuesday whether they planned to sell subscriptions under Apple’s new terms. “This is an important step, but it really needs to go further,” said Nina Link, chief executive of the Association of Magazine Media. “There’s probably some sense of frustration because publishers would like it to be more flexible. I think everybody realizes it’s early in the...

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Companies Warn That Higher Prices Are Looming

Cotton prices are near their highest level in more than a decade, after adjusting for inflation, and leather and polyester costs are jumping as well. Copper recently hit its highest level in about 40 years, and iron ore, used for steel, is fetching extremely high prices. Prices for corn, sugar, wheat, beef, pork and coffee are soaring. Labor overseas is becoming more expensive, meanwhile, and so are the utility bills to keep a factory running. “There are cost pressures from virtually everywhere,” said Wesley R. Card, the chief executive of the...

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Uses Force Against Protests as Region Erupts

The size of the protests in Iran was unclear. Witness accounts and news reports from inside the country suggested that perhaps 20,000 to 30,000 demonstrators in several cities defied strong warnings and took to the streets. The unrest was an acute embarrassment for Iranian leaders, who had sought to portray the toppling of two secular rulers, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali in Tunisia and Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, as a triumph of popular support for Islam in the Arab world. They had refused permission to Iranian opposition groups seeking to march in solidarity...

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Perfect Menu. Now Change It.

When this new restaurant, Next, serves its first customers on April 1, its menu will be painstakingly reproduced from the classical French repertoire: whole lobes of foie gras baked in brioche, clear turtle soup with Madeira, duck pressed and sauced with its own blood and marrow, as served at the Tour d’Argent in Paris for more than 200 years. These dishes, which Mr. Achatz has been refining for a year, will be served for all of three months. Next will then morph into an entirely different restaurant, and again three months after that. Just to...

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