Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Friday, February 11, 2011
Johnny Damon finally finds new home with Detroit Tigers, but still takes swing at New York Yankees
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VciED34ldGw&hl=en
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Eco-Friendly Arlington VA Condos
How Eco-Friendly Are Condos in Arlington VA?
Arlington Virginia is one of the first counties in the country to develop its own certification of eco-friendly home building, called Arlington Green Home Choice. The program defines a green home as being a "healthy, comfortable, cost efficient home that reduces energy and water usage and protects the environment". Components of a green home (as outlined by the Arlington Green Home Choice website) may include:
Specific construction practices to minimize and recycle construction waste;
Careful insulation practices;
Nontoxic interior finishes (low VOC paint, sealants, and carpeting);
Components made from renewable resources (such as cork or bamboo floors, wheatboard cabinetry);
Recycled content components (such as recycled glass tiles, recycled-content countertops);
Energy efficient appliances (Energy Star rated refrigerator, dishwasher, water heater, etc.);
Photovoltaic (solar) panels;
Water efficient appliances and landscape irrigation (front loading clothes washers and moisture sensing irrigation systems);
Stormwater collection (rainbarrels or larger cisterns);
Careful placement of shade trees;
Careful placement of windows to maximize interior light and ventilation.
The program was originally developed to recognize new homes being built within Arlington County that included these attributes. It has recently evolved to accommodate homes that have been significantly renovated to obtain the Arlington Green Home Choice standards.
Obviously this program pertains to single family homes. What about condos in Arlington VA?
One condominium in Arlington that is especially eco-friendly is the Wooster and Mercer Lofts. Using commercial grade windows and high quality insulation materials, the building is exceptionally tight. Each unit is equipped with a separately housed HVAC system that draws fresh air from the outside rather than recirculating stale air. The result is healthier air quality.
Whether you live in a Wooster loft or another condo in Arlington VA, you can live an eco-friendly lifestyle. One of the wonderful attributes that most condominiums in Arlington share is a walkability. The condominiums existing along the Orange Line metrorail are especially walkable. Whether it be shopping, dining, nightlife or even commuting to work, many Arlingtonians find that they can get by without a car. The less dependent residents are on their automobiles the less taxing they tend to be on the environment.
Arlington has wonderful recycling programs in place for its residents. Single-stream collection means that all recyclable materials can be placed in the same bin without having to be sorted. A recent upgrade to the Arlington recycling program, all of the following materials can now be recycled: plastics 1-7 (yogurt cups, margarine tubs), aluminum foil & trays, milk & juice cartons, paperback and hardcover books, rigid plastics (buckets, flower pots, toys), empty aerosol cans, plastic bags (bag multiple bags in one bag), and wire hangers.
Arlington Virginia based organizations such as Arlington Initiative to Reduce Emissions (AIRE) are doing a wonderful job or raising eco-friendly awareness for Arlington VA home owners. They have programs in place to incentivise car-free living and are helping Arlington residents set environmentally friendly goals in 2010.
Because many of the condos in Arlington VA have been built within the last 10 years, they adhere to higher standards of efficiency when it comes to water conservation, insulating materials, heating / cooling, and improvement of air quality.
By working with an EcoBroker certified Realtor when shopping for a condo in Arlington VA you will have someone to guide you through the home buying process as well as helping you understand the eco-friendly differences between the homes you consider.
Eco-Friendly Brokerage Arbour Realty is a specialist in green, eco-friendly real estate.
Friday, January 21, 2011
Monday, January 17, 2011
Home Based Business Marketing
Having a solid home based business marketing plan or strategy is a major key to your success. Without a well laid out plan, you can rest assured you will end up anywhere except where you "thought" you would land!
If we've read it once or heard it twice over its, "find a mentor (teacher) and duplicate their success". Sounds simple enough but finding the "right" individual to learn from can become a challenge in itself. In order to create a home based business marketing map or guideline, you must first know your desired outcome. Along with that, know who your target audience is to be and tailor your home based business marketing plan to "fit" their needs. A good home based business marketing plan offers a solution to whatever the need or challenge is to your prospect.
I would say the most common first question is "where do I start"? Good question! The answer(s) may be many but if you start by looking at your preferred outcome or end result and work backwards, it may help in solving your first dilemma. For example, if you're choosing to build an Internet business, it makes sense to "start" on the Internet. Where to jump in and how to begin is usually the initial stumbling block for home based business marketers.
It stands to reason at some point (usually early on) you're going to need a website. So START by creating a website (or webpage), even if it's a simple "free" site from myspace.com, yahoo or any of the other thousands of options available to you. Along with a website you will want an email to use for corresponding with others, whom you wish to connect with in your business venture.
Many home based opportunities and/or network marketing companies offer a turnkey or self-replicating website, along with an email address and many other marketing tools upon joining their program. Many of these home based business marketing tools will consist of auto responding messages, banner ads and more, all ready to use right at your finger tips. Most will contain a guideline on how to use the tools and get the best use from the pre-designed company approved material.
Home based business marketing can be done on a shoestring budget or can become an expensive ordeal! Again, it greatly depends upon who is your teacher or from what credible source you are patterning your efforts. For example, you may read or hear that running a solo ad is a great way to develop traffic to your site and get more people interested in your business. Determining "where" or with "whom" to run your solo ad becomes the key choice! A mentor can tell you how they did it or better yet, how NOT to do it!! Saving you time and money with a particular home based business idea.
Keep in mind that home based business marketing is kind of like flying a jumbo jet from New York to London. The pilot knows the desired outcome and makes the necessary adjustments along the way to achieve his predetermined goal. He pays close attention to his instruments (gauges) and "listens" to his superiors on the ground, that give him specific instructions that enable him to fly the plane more accurately and on time. Home based business marketing is similar in that, you must be prepared to may adjustments to your marketing efforts along the way and pay close attention to your gauges (such as, monitoring your clicks or hits), which may tell you to alter your course one way or another. All while "listening" to your mentoring source to help you "fly" your home based business marketing venture more accurately and arrive at your goal as planed.
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Monday, December 27, 2010
Baumann's Road to Rest
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlpnigZukU4&hl=en
Monday, December 20, 2010
The Homecoming of Harold Stalnaker
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w8h6QNktcw&hl=en