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28% Older US Citizens Might Loose Homes

28% Older US Citizens Might Loose Homes

New research by the AARP shows that for the six month period ending in December, 2007, 684,000 older Americans (aged 50 and over) were either in foreclosure or were delinquent in mortgage payments. That’s more than a quarter of all foreclosures or delinquencies (28.1%). “The public perception is that older Americans are financially secure in their homes,” said Reinhard. “But the reality is that while many are in fact secure, hundreds of thousands of others are not and face unsettling uncertainty over their futures as homeowners. “Older Americans depend on their homes both for shelter and as a retirement asset,”...

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Regulating Parenthood

One of the things I like about our flexible schedules is the ability to enjoy activities like movies, museums, and hanging out in coffee shops without the over crowding associated with weekend warriors. Friday, 11:30 am we go to watch “Ironman”, loved the movies hated 75% others sharing the theater with us. Why? Kids. I am not talking about teens skipping classes. This is about children under the age of six or seven. They were climbing on the seats, talking, loudly adding commentary and their own soundtracks. The parents, all mothers, could careless. They just fed them junk food...

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Meet Your New Best POIfriend

Meet Your New Best POIfriend

POI (Point of Interest) or POIfriend is a new social networking site for shared interests. This is not the same as MySpace, Friendster, or Facebook where socialization with your established friends/peers are already established. POIfriend enables you to find, create, comment, rate and “go” to places with GPS or printable maps and directions. Share personalized POI groups with the existing POIfriend community or those who have not visited (yet). “The advantage POIfriend has is that you are in the driver’s seat — quite literally,” says Bill McLean, co-founder, POIfriend Inc. “We often don’t realize the sentimental value associated with...

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Digg Public Radio

Digg Public Radio

  If you are a fan of Digg or G4′s “Attack of the Show” with it’s segments of ‘Around the Net’, ‘In the Loop’, ‘The Feed’ and ‘Gadget Pron’ you will enjoy a new show on NPR. That is right NPR, National Public Radio, has a new show called the The Bryant Park Project.The Bryant Park Project is a 2-hour morning multimedia radio newsmagazine from National Public Radio. The show’s name is derived from Bryant Park in New York, which NPR’s New York studios overlook. While The Bryant Park Project (a.k.a. “The BPP“) was originally a working title, the...

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