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    <title type="text">The Real Life Survival Guide: Tips for Living</title>
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      <title>Driving fifty five instead of sixty five can save you fifty four cents a gallon</title>
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      <published>2008-06-27T07:00:01Z</published>
      <updated>2008-06-27T12:15:29Z</updated>
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            <name>Bruce Barber</name>
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       Once you get over fifty five or sixty miles an hour, every ten miles an hour faster you go, your fuel economy is reduced by about four miles a gallon ... .

It&#8217;s all about wind resistance and air flow around the vehicle; it&#8217;s just that the faster you go, the harder it is for your car to push aside all that air ... and the build up of air in front of you and that low pressure area behind your car creates something like a suction thats basically pulling back on your car ... .

So for a typical family sedan ... that gets twenty eight miles a gallon on the highway, if you&#8217;re going, let&#8217;s say sixty five to seventy miles an hour, that might drop to twenty four miles a gallon; that&#8217;s roughly equivalent to paying fifty four cents a gallon more for gas.
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    <entry>
      <title>Leave kids alone about bed times once they&#8217;ve hit their teens</title>
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      <published>2008-06-25T07:00:00Z</published>
      <updated>2008-07-03T14:29:00Z</updated>
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       To me this is a natural learning situation, so I would pretty much let &#8216;em go to bed whenever they wanted to.

Now, if they have a little job ... and they&#8217;ve got to be there by ten o&#8217;clock in the morning ... and they sleep through and don&#8217;t go to the job ... then they don&#8217;t hold that job ... .

You want to give kids as much freedom as you can in areas that are not vital to their survival.
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      <title>There&#8217;s no need to call the exterminator for most ant problems</title>
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      <published>2008-06-23T07:00:43Z</published>
      <updated>2008-07-03T14:35:43Z</updated>
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       It depends on two things; what your tolerance is (some people cannot tolerate ants being inside), and the other thing is how bad is your ant problem ... .

I&#8217;m not talking about scouts, where you&#8217;d have three or four you see, I&#8217;d say that&#8217;s not worth doing anything about.

But if you have large trails of ants on a regular basis, that&#8217;s when you have to make a decision. &#8216;Okay, can I live with this and just use soap and water to kill that trail of ants, and then probably have to do it again tomorrow, or, do I need to get somebody out here to take care of this problem&#8217;?
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    <entry>
      <title>Search for opportunities to learn about life when planning a teen&#8217;s Summer</title>
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      <published>2008-06-20T07:00:00Z</published>
      <updated>2008-06-22T15:24:16Z</updated>
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       I certainly get it, that kids feel under pressure for nine months out of the year and they look forward to summer as a time to ... &#8216;chill&#8217; ... .

And certainly you want to allow for some of that. But that the summer is gonna look that way is perhaps not so great.

And it doesn&#8217;t have to be contributing in terms of  work; it could be contributing in terms of their having some experience that&#8217;s constructive for them.

So, actually, Summer is a huge opportunity, if you look at it that way, for kids to learn ... .
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      <title>Make sure the timing (and the people) are right before inviting house guests</title>
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      <published>2008-06-18T07:00:22Z</published>
      <updated>2008-07-03T14:15:22Z</updated>
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       You have to be clear about what you&#8217;re willing to do and what you&#8217;re able to do or not. If you have a lot of obligations, work wise or other family obligations, it just may not be the right time, and it may not work out.

Alternatively ... you can have the house guests who are very nurturing to you, and whose presence is calming and fun.

So you&#8217;ve got to figure out who these people are to you, and whether or not this time works for you.
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      <title>Most serious plane crashes are survivable</title>
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      <published>2008-06-16T07:00:00Z</published>
      <updated>2008-07-01T23:12:41Z</updated>
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            <name>Bruce Barber</name>
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       Know that your behavior matters ... . Most people don&#8217;t realize that, so they tend to get really passive and think that there&#8217;s nothing that they can do, but that&#8217;s not the case; you matter more than you think you do.

And when you know that, you&#8217;re more likely to be proactive. So ... people who study plane crashes for the FAA, they, almost all of them, count the number of rows between their seat and the exit before the plane takes off ... .

You understand your brain will turn to mush in a real crisis, so you need to be able to ... get out easier if you can&#8217;t see anything because of smoke,
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    <entry>
      <title>Don&#8217;t take it personally if you&#8217;re &#8216;dropped&#8217; by your insurance company</title>
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      <published>2008-06-14T07:00:01Z</published>
      <updated>2008-06-08T16:50:37Z</updated>
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       It&#8217;s ... [a problem] if you have a frequency problem that cannot be corrected, like you have a doberman that seems to bite every ... person ... and you don&#8217;t want to get a new dog.

Those things are a problem; liability frequency type issues. Slip and falls on driveways, that&#8217;s a problem. But property things that have been rectified, frozen pipes, you put in a temperature monitor. Your house was robbed, you put in a central station alarm.

Things like that that are fixed just work out great, and other companies are excited to take that risk, with no penalty to do it.
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      <title>A down real estate market is like a buffet for home buyers</title>
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      <published>2008-06-13T07:00:01Z</published>
      <updated>2008-06-13T10:35:16Z</updated>
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       If you try to be your own speculator and try to find the greatest bargain in the world, I think you can really hurt yourself.

On the other hand, if you&#8217;ve got some cash squirreled away, if you do have some way to access money, whether it&#8217;s relatives or whether you just sold a house, this is a wonderful time, with so much &#8216;product&#8217; on the market to take a look at.

It&#8217;s as if you&#8217;re going to a buffet, and there are things presented out there where you can really get a sense of what&#8217;s going on.
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      <title>Get control of a young adult&#8217;s access to money if there are signs of problem gambling</title>
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      <published>2008-06-12T07:00:00Z</published>
      <updated>2008-06-05T14:43:44Z</updated>
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            <name>Bruce Barber</name>
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       Make sure that the young person, if you&#8217;re the parent, can&#8217;t get at your money somehow, like with the use of a credit card, because ... obviously one&#8217;s ability to gamble is limited by one&#8217;s access to money.

So a lot of young people ... if they&#8217;re still living with their parents ... they have an inherent limitation there ... .

The best thing is not to get in trouble to begin with.
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      <title>Be sure to ask important questions at the beginning of a doctor visit</title>
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      <published>2008-06-11T07:00:01Z</published>
      <updated>2008-06-11T14:46:43Z</updated>
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       One of the findings ... in the physician patient literature is something called &#8216;doorknob comments&#8217;; that patients don&#8217;t talk about their main concern with their physician ....  And then as the physician is leaving ... they say, &#8216;Oh, but there&#8217;s this one other thing&#8221;. And usually that one other thing is the most serious of all ... .

So then the physician has to get back in, because usually by this point the physician has mentally closed down the file ...  is walking to leave, and now has to come back in ... .

Get those comments in earlier, so that you have time to talk about them.
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      <title>You can do anything that a &#8220;credit repair&#8221; company can do yourself, for free!</title>
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      <published>2008-06-10T07:00:00Z</published>
      <updated>2008-06-10T13:15:27Z</updated>
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       If you are having money trouble, you&#8217;re much better spending your money to pay off your debts rather than give it to someone who will be sending letters, because that&#8217;s basically what they do, and what consumers can do on their own.

It&#8217;s a letter wring service ... .

They ... know tricks, like disputing negative information.

Maybe some people might not know that they have the right to do that ... .
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    <entry>
      <title>Spray on tans provide a safe alternative to sun exposure and tanning booths</title>
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      <published>2008-06-09T07:00:00Z</published>
      <updated>2008-06-09T11:53:36Z</updated>
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       Some time ago, products were developed which provided a &#8216;sunless tan&#8217;, and very early on gave you this orange glow. It looked like you were a carrot ... .

But the technology has improved a great deal, and there are now many products out there that provide a sunless tan ... .

They&#8217;re safe, both the products you buy in the store and the spray on tans ... . Certainly they represent a great alternative to the tanning parlors. In fact, ANYTHING is a great alternative to tanning parlors because tanning parlors are dangerous.
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    <entry>
      <title>An addition might help you sell your house in a down real estate market</title>
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      <published>2008-06-07T07:00:00Z</published>
      <updated>2008-06-02T18:46:06Z</updated>
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       The addition of finished heated space might not get you net money, but it will get you, in this market, net buyers ... .

It&#8217;s like a tree falling in the woods; if there&#8217;s nobody willing to buy your house at any price, then you&#8217;re never gonna sell it.

But if there&#8217;s a modest addition, or some sort of thing you can do that will &#8216;detox&#8217; the house, and make people look at it as an opportunity versus as a threat, I find that sometimes putting &#8216;good money after bad&#8217; makes a lot of sense.
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    <entry>
      <title>Contemporary architecture can exploit the limitations of a difficult site</title>
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      <published>2008-06-06T07:00:01Z</published>
      <updated>2008-06-09T11:54:01Z</updated>
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       You can make a case that the reliance of contemporary architecture on materials to shed water and to resist rot is inherently flawed, because ... traditional architecture used gravity and shadow and operable windows to actually defeat the aging and rotting process.

But ... contemporary architecture is special because it is the triumph of the human mind to overcome the natural limitations of a site, but then exploit them.

And if you can find your way clear to living, really, in the mind of a designer ... . If you can feel comfortable having this dynamic dance with somebody&#8217;s conception of what a house, or any architecture, and be, then the things you discover in the years you live in a contemporary house are continually enriching your life every day, and reinventing how you look at the world; because you&#8217;re seeing it through a lens which, intentionally, has never been looked through before.
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    <entry>
      <title>The ranch is a good option for first time home buyers and aging baby boomers</title>
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      <published>2008-06-05T07:00:00Z</published>
      <updated>2008-06-06T10:26:19Z</updated>
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       Ranches ... are desirable by many different types of buyers.

They are an entry into single family living for first time home buyers. They give people a little more elbow room than they&#8217;ve had in an apartment.

And these days, given the fact that we of the &#8216;baby boomer&#8217; generation are doing our aging thing, people love the fact that they have first floor living again ... .

They are adaptable to many different types of family ... (but) the interesting thing about a 1952 aged garage is it&#8217;s small, it&#8217;s narrow, and it&#8217;s not as deep as we need.

And I have people come in with tape measures to see if their van or their SUV will fit.
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