Almost an hour away to the north is the City of Southfield Michigan, which is outside of Detroit, there is an art gallery that specializes in Auctions called Park West Gallery They don’t just stop there though as far as selling and displaying fine art. They arrange for auctions all over [...]

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I’m not a huge Facebook user, but I was aware of the new ad system on Facebook called Beacon and I wasn’t impressed. It’s probably one of the few things I can say I really, really agree with MoveOn about, as covered in MoveOn Saves Christmas From Facebook. Nor does it look like [...]

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Many are surprised by this one, as the title from Wired tells us, Pigs Fly, Hell Freezes Over and Verizon Opens Up Its Network — No, Really:
It’s not the kind of announcement you’d expect from Verizon Wireless. But the notoriously protective carrier known for crippling many of the devices running on its network, as well [...]

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Sure I took a bit of creative license with the title, since you technically don’t search the bushes for furniture unless it was some type of a strange scavenger hunt, and Bush furniture is too nice to leave outside. In a nice sun room or three season room, of course. Or basically in [...]

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Lately my family has had some bad luck when it comes to cars and having them either hit or be broken into. While thankfully no one has been injured and none of the girls have been cited for any of the accidents being their fault or the car that was broken into damaged beyond [...]

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I’ve personally always been more of a target/trap and skeet type person as opposed to hunting, though I grew up in a family where hunting was a regular part of their yearly adventures. It should come as no surprise with the way advances have been made in technology that the Hunting Blinds of my [...]

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I guess I’m not seeing how it is earth shattering news that Active parents make for active kids. It stands to reason that if you as a parent are more active and are involved in physical activity that your children will join you or at a minimum watch you and be encouraged as they [...]

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I’ve written some quotes that I shared on my main blog, Glass City Jungle, but I wanted to extend holiday wishes to my readers here. I came across this interesting older cover that some of you might enjoy…

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China is not waiting for the official release of the iPhone, they are heading for the blackmarket in large numbers according to this Wired Report, China’s New ‘Love Craze’ where the iPhone is called what translates into “Love Craze”. It’s obvious it has to be a craze given here in the US we wouldn’t [...]

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Enlightening article at CNN, Destination of ‘recycled’ electronics may surprise you which points out those of us who make it a point to try to responsibly recycle our old computers and other electronic devices may have good intentions but not enough attention is paid to who is actually ending up with this old electronic [...]

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According to this New Scientist article a link has been established between changing global temperatures and conflicts between nations, War has historic links to global climate change.
“Our basic model is that deviations in temperature can hamper crop production,” says Peter Brecke of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, US. This, in turn, [...]

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One of my daughters recently moved into her first apartment which mean various trips to lighting stores since she was convinced she had to have just the right lighting for her apartment. The same experience was repeated for just the right rug and just the right dinner ware. However, she seems very happy [...]

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Winter for many is the time they look forward to more basketball then finishing as spring comes to the season known as March Madness, here locally there are a surprising number of people who really follow this tournament. Sports bars become crowded, people stay up late at night to watch the end of a [...]

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I’ve never been a big fan of make up mainly because I didn’t like the chemicals used to put on my face, I was more of a “natural” type girl then woman. Yet there are many product lines out there now like Jane Iredale that are based on a more natural/mineral approach that has [...]

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One thing I’ve learned as a new grandmother is there is an amazing amount of new products out there that did not exist when my children were babies, like amby baby. It’s based on a similar design of a jumper that did exist but has been extremely enhanced and now starts out as a [...]

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I realize it’s something that at times can be a hard thing for a family to budget, but you should considering trying to include family insurance in your financial goals. No one wants to consider the loss of a child even a possibility but it is something unfortunately that some families do have to [...]

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Thought provoking story from Wired that focuses on an earlier Columbus Dispatch article. the Wired piece is titled, Teachers Should Blog, Tweet and Flirt Online Like the Rest of Us and it disagrees with the suggestion made from the state teacher’s union that teachers should avoid social networking sites, I recommend reading the whole [...]

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As I’ve stated before, I prefer window blinds to curtains, in my household with children and pets, especially cats who like to try to sit on window sills, window blinds work out much better for me from a cleaning and a longer life span than traditional curtains. For some of my windows with blinds [...]

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It will be interesting to see how much market is captured by Microsoft with the release of the new Zune on Tuesday, it’s being marketed as an alternative to the iPod with wireless ability to update music, photos and videos when placed near a user’s computer. They do have a pretty cool website.

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Having five children you experience the same scenarios more than once which does better prepare you for these types of situations and coming up with a plan that works. My youngest daughter is in the 7th grade and she just got her first grade card, ironically due to peer pressure she was not happy [...]

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