A sign of the times? I hope not
2009-05-23 04:43:00 I don’t have a lot of experience in signs. I know some of the basic guidelines, like for billboards (simple message, under five words) and a few others. What I am pretty comfortable with is the English language — especially in writing (okay, typing). If you are into signs or any type of similar public display, let me offer a little PSA with a couple “don’ts” for you. The first one (right) is a simple improper use of apostrophe. Use apostrophe s — ’s — only to show that something possesses something else. Don’t use an apostrophe because you don’t like the way an s looks at the end of a word. Unfortunately, there are plenty other examples of apostrophe abuse. The other one (below) also is pretty basic mistake. Even my 2nd grade son knows that when you write or read, you do so left to right, or up to down. Not, bottom to top. (If you happen to recognize this one, please know that it was done by a volunteer parent, not the scho...
By: Mike's Points
GMAC: A Sign of the Times
2008-12-31 15:26:00 WASHINGTON — The Treasury Department said Monday that it will provide $5 billion to GMAC Financial Services LLC, the ailing financing arm of General Motors Corp., from the $700 billion bank rescue program.(The Huffington Post) GMAC will also potentially receive up…
By: Jutia Group
A Sign of the Times
2008-10-21 06:03:00 Something that hasn't been seen since The Great Depression... Tent Cities.
By: Dyre Portents
A Sign of the Times?
2008-07-08 15:03:00 A sign of the times maybe?? I have got to get me one of these. And if any of you want to use this image, please do, just link back, and I have to say thanks to my neighbor, he reads the blog and will see this, thanks man, this is a good one. Trackback URL: http://texasfred.net/archives/1-331/trackback/ ...
By: TexasFred's
A sign of the times.
2008-06-04 05:15:00 I know market conditions are slow and time on the market is longer than usual. As Realtors, we need to step up to the plate and make our listings shine. Time and time again I see our signs looking far less than professional. Name riders hanging on one side, posts slanted, and other issues. We may not be able to put the needed coat of paint on our listing but, our signs should always look like they are installed correctly and properly maintained. With the over abundance of foreclosures, short sales, etc. we still need to maintain our professional standards. The signs never were up long enough in good times to look tacky during the good times. Now that they are up longer we need to make sure they look great the entire time the home is on the market. Make sure your home is "SOLD by Friday!" Joel Friday Homes
Sign of the times, from Tupperware Parties to Gold Parties
2008-05-24 15:26:00 From BSB:While you won’t come home with something to store food in, you will come home with a check or cash if you decide to let go of your gold belongings. With foreclosures, tight credit and tough times seeming inevitable, people are giving up gold for dollars. Homes around America are allowing people in a hard situation or looking to have more liquidity, cash in with their unwanted gold. In
A Sign of the Times
2008-05-10 09:01:00 L thought this looks like a sign of the times, and I had to agree. If you have MLS access, check out #2895409. It looks like the granite countertop business isn’t what it used to be: $200,000.00 PRICE REDUCTION !GREAT LOCATION/ GOOD INCOME BUSINESS. HIGHLY POTENTIAL GROWTH GRANITE COUNTERTOP AND CABINET RETAIL AND WHOLESALE STORE. ...
By: HousingDoom
Sign of the times? Three classes this semester, an Iraq War veteran in each
2008-05-06 22:25:00 Sign of the times? Three classes this semester, an Iraq War veteran in each.
Sign of the Times: RE/MAX Partners With RealtyTrac To Add Foreclosure Data
2008-04-24 15:08:00 With a large percentage of homes that are selling being ones in foreclosure across the country, RE/MAX Regions has decided to partner with RealtyTrac and add foreclosure data to their websites. I can not find the report I read saying nearly one in three resales in California are foreclosures, but it is not surprising (found – via Inman News). Doug Quance has noticed the same issue here in Atlanta. But for some RE/MAX brokers to put foreclosure information on their listing page in competition with their full listings is intriguing. What it tells me is that foreclosures are the dominant housing product on the market and that even full service real estate firms are having to focus on the market to remain viable. This new feature is the result of a strategic partnership between RealtyTrac (http://www.realtytrac.com), the national leading source of foreclosure data; Reliance Network, a leading developer of Web-based applications for real estate companies and four indep...
A Sign Of The Times To Come: Terry McAuliffe, Hillary "BILLARY" Clinton's C
2008-04-07 17:48:00 The pictures you see are of Terry McAuliffe, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee and now chairman of Senator Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, holding up Obama signs. A sign... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
By: Osi Speaks!
Sign of the Times in Franchising
2008-03-24 13:17:00 The path to choosing the right business concept is often a long and arduous one. Just ask Todd and Bambi Stringham. Hilary Maynard reports in the Business Examiner that the Stringhams profiled more than 30 franchisors from across the nation before finding their business match in Maryland-based Signs by Tomorrow. Both Todd and Bambi knew the ...
A sign of the times for the GOP?
2008-03-09 07:09:00 In a contest of candidates backed and supported by Obama versus McCain, GOP loses Illinois seat of former U. S. House Speaker, Dennis Hastert. Read the story. Is this a sign of the times for the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
By: Osi Speaks!
Another Sign of the Times: Orange County Tax Defaults & Property Auctio
2008-03-01 08:51:00 Mortgage default notices in Orange County are up 128% from a year ago, and bank foreclosures in Orange County are up 568% from a year ago (Source: DataQuick, Orange County Register). These numbers are all signs of the times. And here is one more: 48% more first installment property tax dollars were unpaid than were ...
Sign of the Times - Olive 8 Offers A Price Guarantee
2008-02-13 21:40:00 The Olive 8 condominium (website) and Hyatt hotel project is progressing full steam ahead with construction now exceeding 22 floors. The project is 80% sold with occupancy of lower level homes slated for January 2009 while the Hyatt at Olive 8 is expected to open this coming December. A model home within the ...
Spam as a sign of the times
2008-02-06 08:01:00 I usually get my best spam from M and from L, who are inundated by real estate flyers on a daily basis. Today however, I thought I’d post three that arrived yesterday in my personal email. It’s a bit of a change from the online pharmacies and Nigerian millionaires: Dear Customer Are you tired of seeking loans ...
By: HousingDoom
What do Apple and Avon have in common??
2008-01-10 22:37:00 What’s Apple up to now? Seems that they are going into a new direction, the question is, what is it? The news on the wired is that Andrea Jung, CEO of cosmetics giant Avon Products, has been recruited to Apple’s Board. Some speculate that Andrea Jung will bring Apple to more women ...
By: Moore Blog
Same Store Sales: A Real "Sobering" Sign Of The Times?
2008-01-07 16:32:00 Posted By:Margaret BrennanThe gifts are unwrapped and now the bills for those presents are arriving in the mail. It is also time this week for stores to sober up, take a big breath and look at how sales tallied up this holiday. On Thursday, the nation's biggest stores will report their same store sales results for the month.   Read More Topics:Advertising | Marketing | Stock Picks | Stock Market | Stock Buybacks | Stocks on Sale | Consumers | Retail SalesSectors:Personal and Household Goods | RetailCompanies:Cache Inc | bebe stores inc | Aeropostale Inc | Nordstrom Inc | JC Penney Company Inc | Jones Apparel Group Inc | Costco Wholesale Corporation | Target CorporationMEDIA:PHOTO Permalink
By: Retail Detail
Sign of the Times...Sad but Humourous.
2007-12-26 03:30:00 Sliding U.S. Dollar Packs a Wallop to Wallets WorldwideThe dollar, once one of the world's strongest currencies, has fallen dramatically in recent years -- a development impacting attitudes from corporate boardrooms to the sets of music videos where artists are choosing to flash the euro over American cash.Read the article here.
Sign of the Times - The Foreclosure Dog
2007-12-24 01:34:00 This is a sad sign of the tough foreclosure market across the country, the Foreclosure Dog. There has been a large upturn in the amount of dogs that are being turned into animal shelters across the country as people are forced to give up their homes and the ability to care for their pets. Both dogs ...
Sign Of The Times.
2007-12-18 22:45:00 People are always coming into our shop or calling us up and asking us if we make signs. We don’t, and we used to recommend people to the sign place around the corner from us. Unfortunately, they closed a few years ago, so now we just tell people to check their local phone ...
Sign of the Times: Bankruptcies, Foreclosures, Chaos
2007-12-09 18:29:00 I am currently working on a 2-part article about the experience I went through last year while selling a rehab house I had. Since it still is incomplete, I wanted to submit a quick article about something that happened to one of my friends on December 5th. One of my friends is currently in Chapter 13 ...
A Sign of the Times [Digg]
2007-12-06 06:14:00 Youngdale?s, an appliance store and 85-year fixture in downtown Turlock, is closing its doors. Store owners Joe Bonander and Sonia Caldeira, whose grandparents founded the store, told Youngdale?s employees Tuesday morning that the decline in real estate led them to conclude that the business should close.
Halloween Sign of the Times: Half-Trillion Dollar Beasts and Google Monster
2007-10-31 14:15:00 Kiss those stodgy old companies goodbye . . . I just saw something that blew my mind a bit and I thought I’d share. Below is a list of the largest US Companies By Market Capitalization. Other than seeing that there is now a beast of a business with a whopping half-trillion dollar market-cap ...
My Truth: A Sign Of The Times
2007-10-25 23:20:00 The old phrase that goes, "the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth" has reached its expiration date. Like the milk in the old carton way back in the refrigerator, truth has been sniffed on and succinctly discarded. I saw this relativistic mentality so poignantly demonstrated in the book display in the picture you see here. No longer, so we are told, should we refer to the truth but should refer to it as "my truth".I have no gripe with Stephen Colbert per se it's just that his attempt at humor represents something that has gone horribly wrong with our values system. What's really scary is that its not just non-Christians who accept this view of truth. The "my truth" philosophy has its claws deeply entrenched in the Church and in the family. It takes a soul that is sensitive and alert to Satan's subtle encroachments to see how the Christian milk carton is also starting to sour.The only means for preventing this spoilage in our families and churches is to be pasteuriz...
By: Two Institutions
Sign of the Times: Southern California home sales down 30 pct in September
2007-10-17 11:32:00 A new report about housing in Southern California doesn’t look good. Sales of houses and condominiums in the most populous Southern California counties fell 29.9 percent from the previous month and 48.5 percent from a year earlier, DataQuick Information Systems said on Tuesday. The report covers the counties of Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego, Riverside, San ...
Airline passenger perishes while in police custody
2007-10-01 00:06:00 This sickens and saddens me. I am a lover of Aviation, and I can’t believe the state of the whole thing…. This is just a terrible terrible accident, that will now shift attention to the condition passengers are forced to endure. Yes, becoming Irate at an airport is uncalled for, but so is dying WHILE ...
By: Moore Blog
Queensryche - Sign Of The Times: The Best of Queensryche (Deluxe 2CD Editio
2007-09-28 15:42:00 See More MP3 Collection at www.rapidalbums.blogspot.com Tracklist: 01 Queen of the Reich 02 Warning 03 Walk in the Shadows 04 Take Hold of the Flame 05 The Lady Wore Black 06 I Don't Believe in Love 07 Eyes of a Stranger 08 Silent Lucidity 09 Bridge 10 Jet City Woman 11 Another Rainy Night (Without You) 12 Sign of the Times 13 I Am I 14 Real World 15 Some People Fly 16 Until There Was You 17
By: Rapid Albums
A Sign Of The Times Astrology.
2007-08-27 09:24:00 Astrological Horoscopes And Birth Charts. Free Astrological Chartwheel For Every Visitor.
By: The Mall Blog
Sign of the Times
2007-08-12 07:29:00 As I drove my trusty Toyota Prius into the parking lot at the Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge, I noticed this sign reserving the best parking spot.A sign of the times? I certainly hope so.Peace and good bird watching.
Sign of the times [Gene Expression]
2007-08-10 02:02:00 Hung with old college friends last night. We kept referring to South Park episodes to illustrate a point or make an analogy so as to clarify an issue. Interesting that this is a common touchstone for my generation. Read the comments on this post… Original post by http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/-ScienceblogsCombinedFeed/~3/142-612952/sign_of_the_times.php
It must be a sign of the times in Hollywood that ...
2007-06-26 18:28:00 It must be a sign of the times in Hollywood that I can't find too many good films to watch when I go to the video store. I end up getting odd documentaries on Religion and kids. The last one was about Jesus Camp, this round it was a film about the Roman Catholic Church pedophilia crisis. The film is called "Deliver Us From Evil." I was raised a Catholic, went to Catholic school until fourth grade. Until the age if eight or so, I was sure I was going to be a nun. Although I left the Church in my teens, I have no animosity toward it. In fact, I appreciate that I grew up one as in the 60's it was the only religion in the Midwest that I knew of that had a highly developed ritual component and some recognition of the feminine in it. Sexuality and Spirituality are the two topics I spend most of my mind pondering. Where and how the two interesect are my greatest areas of interest and academic study. My BA is in Religious Studies and I have lots of training in wholistic approaches to Sexu...
AIGA's Center for Sustainable Design: A Sign of the Times
2007-06-01 14:24:00 AIGA Center for Sustainable Design web site Sustainability has become a buzz word in the design industry. Graphic design industry magazines such as HOW and Communication Arts are publishing articles (and even entire issues) devoted to green design regularly. Designers are starting to pay attention and change the way they work. Sustainable and eco-conscious design has been a long time in the making, but the proliferation of web sites and resources on the subject in recent years and months shows that momentum is building. One growing resource, AIGA Center for Sustainable Design, represents, to me, a benchmark in the green design movement.
By: Green Options
sign of the times
2007-05-23 04:25:00 greetings and small talks involving the weather usually bore me, but this week, it's been an activity i've happily participated in.and the grey clouds that've been hanging around, usually a source of much groaning and moaning, have been welcomed with open smiles.it's raining!you see, australia is suffering from its longest and most severe drought in recent history, with things turning so drastic that gardens are made to turn into dust bowls, neighbours dobbing in each other for alleged wasteful water use, and talks of septic runoffs being recycled into drinking water. yes, things are looking decidedly grim.but the last few days have brought much-needed rain, and with it a change in the normally clime critical melbourne populace.instead of scurrying for cover, people are casually walking in the downpour.at the local playground, mums are happily watching their kids jumping into puddles.and at the oval near my house, young men, drenched and half-naked, are running around in their m...
A Sign of the Times?
2007-02-26 18:37:01 [Copyright notice this is my stuff and carries with it jws blogprint] There are an awful lot of churches out there these days whose signs need a bit of diciphering. I find it a bit overwhelming. If you were an ‘unchurched’ seeker, would you go into this church? How would you decide which service to go to? I understand the desire to make a church appealing to all, but does this dividing up into cliques help or hinder? Read on –> In a recent interview about ‘religion and technology’ a reporter from Marshall University’s Parthenon student newspaper asked me about traditional services versus ‘technologically enhanced’ services. When I saw the above sign, I had to stop and take a picture because it illustrated the point I made in my answer to her, which was this: “I feel that if there is a need to divide a church into a group that worships ‘traditionally’ and another group that worships in ... |
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