Monthly Archives: April 2009
Apr 24 2009
FW: Zaproot Nominated for Webby: PLEASE VOTE: DEADLINE….

Dear Friends,

As you might know, I produce a green webseries, called www.zaproot.com, (we call it sustainable comedy:) We’ve just been nominated for a Webby for best editing–which is a huge deal for our show.

The winner is decided by popular vote. I can’t tell you how much we’d appreciated if you’d vote for us; it’ll mean a lot for the show if we win:)

I swear this will take you 90 secondsŠ

https://votezaproot.notlong.com

1. click Register now

2. create account

3. check email, get confirmation code, enter it

4. Click Vote now below Online Fllm and Video- (bottom of page, second

tab) (above all the tags)

5. Click Best Editing, the Second category.

6. Vote for Zaproot

7. You’ve gone this far….feel free to make a comment and tell us how much you love our show:)

I am eternally grateful…hope you are well!

Cheers,

Sarah Szalavitz

PS Deadline SOON!

—— End of Forwarded Message

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Apr 24 2009
How to save at the supermarket

Don’t start at the produce section.

Only 1/2 the time are the end caps deals.

ot all head of aisles items are on sale

buying produce in season. most nutritious, best price, when in season.

1/2 pint fresh $4.99

Frozen fish? usually all frozen, , look at different parts.

Seafood must be labled to reflect the country of origin, put in freezer on fishing boat.

Lookin for fish with clear eyes and sking that’s soft to the touch.

Fish should never smell

Flavors vvary state by state based on sweetnes of grass cows ead

to keep chees

tomato pasta sauce

comapre canned foods to fresh by ingredients

tomato paste reduces orifinal flavor

cooked tomato products contatain high levesl of cance fighting lycopene

phil lepert – how to save at the supermarket

SuperMarketGuru.com

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Apr 24 2009
Hulk Hogan Grill – Celebrity Chef Cooking

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Apr 24 2009
Santa Barbara Home Raffle

Is this for real?

FOR THE 1ST TIME EVER YOU CAN WIN:
A SANTA BARBARA BEACH HOUSE, A WINE COUNTRY COTTAGE, OR
$1,000,000 CASH!

Prize Odds
FINAL DEADLINE APRIL 24
Last day to buy–Friday, April 24, until Midnight!
Don’t delay–tickets sold out early all five years! Final Deadline to Enter: Friday, April 24, 2009
All tickets, including the winners of the Early Bird Drawings and the Multi-Ticket Drawings, will be eligible for the Final and Grand Prize Drawings.

This raffle benefits the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum (CAF), a non-profit organization that provides an arena for the presentation, documentation, and support of a broad variety of visual, media, and performing arts representing a wide range of attitudes. Committed to encouraging the creation and showing of new work of the highest quality, CAF promotes the work of local, regional, national, and international artists. CAF also aims to expand and educate the audience for contemporary art and to involve a diverse constituency. CAF seeks to promote critical awareness and stimulate challenging dialogue about aesthetic and social issues relevant to our time.

In accordance with California Penal Code Section 320.5: (1), this web site is intended by the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum (CAF) to be an announcement of its raffle and is not intended to be an advertisement; (2) this raffle is not being advertised, operated, or conducted in any manner by CAF over the Internet; and (3) CAF is not selling, trading, or redeeming raffle tickets over the Internet.
www.sbcaf.org

6th Annual Santa Barbara Million Dollar Home Raffle

Deadline is today. April 24, 2009

Your choice: Santa Barbara  Beach Home

Wine Country Cottage
or as always $1,000,000  cash.

Call today to make sure you get through.

Win the dream

Call to Enter Now! 866.944.2710 now a toll-free call.

Over 1,170 prizes!
– Mini car
– Vacations
– CASH
– Home Theater

Tickets are $150 each.

For more information and a downloadable entry form, please visit

www.sbcaf.org

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Apr 24 2009
Dangers of “The Choking Game”

Teen Tragedy –

Kevin Tork on NBC Today Show –

The Dangers of The Choking Game.

Kathy Tork the mother.

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Apr 24 2009
La Mesa High School Bottled Water Makes Students Sick

Aquafina bottled water makes kids sick at La Mesa High School in Santa Clarita.

Aquafina bottled by Coca Cola, Coke has pulled all the water from the school vending machines.

Reports that the bottle was cloudy and may have contained bleach.

Investigation is ongoing.

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Apr 24 2009
Santa Monica Beach House

The Annenberg Foundation has completed the $35 million beach house located on the previous site of the Hearst Mansion.

https://www01.smgov.net/beachhouse/

Apparently at some point you will be able to make reservations.

April 25: A Great day at the beach.

Everyone’s invited to an open house celebration of the Annenberg Community Beach House at Santa Monica State Beach, an event over a decade in the making.

When. 10 am – 4 pm.First Splash performance by “O™” from Cirque du Soleil at 11.

Or stop by on April 24 from 10 am – 4 pm for a sneak preview docent tour. No reservations or rsvps required. Ride your bike and use our free bike valet service.

What.

A day of free family-friendly beach fun, including:

Power volleyball exhibition match, followed by volleyball and beach tennis clinics. / Kite flying, including an opportunity to make your own. / Majestic sand sculpture and demonstration. / Ballroom dance competition. / Special beachy session of Downbeat 720, followed by Lahula Polynesian dancing. / Synchronized siwmming. / Storytelling. / Santa Monica Conservancy docents. / Unveling of the 36 x 27 Stories of Santa Monica Beach photo exhibit.

Make a great day better – pre-order a picnic from Fred Deni’s Back on Broadway cafe. Menu

Where. 415 Pacific Coast Highway, Santa Monica, California. Map
How.

Walk along the bike path or take one of many footbridges from Palisades Park.

Bike to the Beach House and enjoy free bike valet service on site. (Don’t have a bike? Rent one from Perry’s.)

Shuttle from the Civic Center Parking Structure (4th & Olympic, just off the 10 Freeway), running throughout the day from 10 am – 4:30 pm. It’s free and easy!

Note: There will be no public parking on site on April 25.

Starting April 26, the Beach House will be open to the public – no membership required. The pool will be open on weekends beginning in May. Information on renting the Beach House for your special event will be available in June, for events starting in October. Back on the Beach will reopen soon. Photos . FAQs . Contact Us
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Apr 23 2009
Foreclosure Trends Update RealtyTrac April 23, 2009


RealtyTrac

Foreclosures are the fastest growing sector of the real estate market. And, RealtyTrac is the #1 source for foreclosure data in the country. Consumers are interested in foreclosure information – an extremely hot topic that everyone is talking about – but you can rest assured that the content we provide is the most trusted, real-time dynamic data available. Enjoy seamless integration with the content we provide, enticing them to stay longer – and come back more often.

“RealtyTrac released its U.S. Foreclosure Market Report™ for Q1 2009, which shows that foreclosure filings — default notices, auction sale notices and bank repossessions — were reported on 803,489 properties in the first quarter, a 9 percent increase from the previous quarter and an increase of nearly 24 percent from Q1 2008. One in every 159 U.S. housing units received a foreclosure filing during the quarter.”

Foreclosure filings were reported on 341,180 properties in March, a 17 percent increase from
the previous month and a 46 percent increase from March 2008. The March and Q1 2009
totals were the highest monthly and quarterly totals since RealtyTrac began issuing its report
in January 2005 despite a decrease in bank repossessions (REOs), which were down 13
percent from the fourth quarter of 2008 and 3 percent from February totals.

“In the month of March we saw a record level of foreclosure activity — the number of
households that received a foreclosure filing was more than 12 percent higher than the next
highest month on record. Since much of this activity was in new foreclosure actions, it
suggests that many lenders and servicers were holding off on executing foreclosures due to
industry moratoria and legislative delays,” said James J. Saccacio, chief executive officer of
RealtyTrac. “It’s also likely that the drop in REO activity can be attributed to these processing
delays, rather than to any of the foreclosure prevention programs currently in place. It’s very
likely that we’ll see the number of REOs increase again now that most of the moratoria have
been lifted.”

“On a positive note, it appears that demand is up in some of the harder-hit areas, particularly
on bank-owned REO properties that first time homebuyers and investors see as bargains,”
Saccacio continued. “But it’s unlikely that this increased demand will be enough to offset the
growing number of foreclosures in the pipeline, accelerated by rising unemployment rates.”

With the foreclosure market gaining speed and the recent announcement that Fannie revised investment property guidelines by loosening its loan restrictions for real estate investors and second homebuyers last week.

Article of the Month:
RealtyTrac® (www.realtytrac.com), the leading online marketplace for foreclosure properties, today released its U.S. Foreclosure Market Report™ for Q1 2009, which shows that foreclosure filings — default notices, auction sale notices and bank
repossessions — were reported on 803,489 properties in the first quarter, a 9 percent increase from the previous quarter and an increase of nearly 24 percent from Q1 2008. One in every
159 U.S. housing units received a foreclosure filing during the quarter.
Foreclosure filings were reported on 341,180 properties in March, a 17 percent increase from the previous month and a 46 percent increase from March 2008. The March and Q1 2009
totals were the highest monthly and quarterly totals since RealtyTrac began issuing its report in January 2005 despite a decrease in bank repossessions (REOs), which were down 13 percent from the fourth quarter of 2008 and 3 percent from February totals.
“In the month of March we saw a record level of foreclosure activity — the number of households that received a foreclosure filing was more than 12 percent higher than the next highest month on record. Since much of this activity was in new foreclosure actions, it suggests that many lenders and servicers were holding off on executing foreclosures due to industry moratoria and legislative delays,” said James J. Saccacio, chief executive officer of
RealtyTrac. “It’s also likely that the drop in REO activity can be attributed to these processing delays, rather than to any of the foreclosure prevention programs currently in place. It’s very
likely that we’ll see the number of REOs increase again now that most of the moratoria have been lifted.”
“On a positive note, it appears that demand is up in some of the harder-hit areas, particularly on bank-owned REO properties that first time homebuyers and investors see as bargains,”
Saccacio continued. “But it’s unlikely that this increased demand will be enough to offset the growing number of foreclosures in the pipeline, accelerated by rising unemployment rates.”
RealtyTrac (www.realtytrac.com) is the leading online marketplace of foreclosure properties, with more than 1.5 million default, auction and bank-owned listings from over 2,200 U.S. counties, along with detailed property, loan and home sales data. Hosting more than 3 million unique monthly visitors, RealtyTrac provides innovative technology solutions and practical education resources to facilitate buying, selling and investing in real estate. RealtyTrac’s foreclosure data has also been used by the Federal Reserve, FBI, U.S. Senate Joint Economic Committee and Banking Committee, U.S. Treasury Department, and numerous state housing and banking departments to help evaluate foreclosure trends and address policy issues related to foreclosures.

Tip of the Month:

It’s a big season for foreclosures. And we’ve collected some stats and information that you’ll find very helpful. Read more about this in our press release or on our blog.

National numbers

  • A total of 341,180 foreclosure filings were reported nationwide in March
  • Foreclosure activity increased 46 percent from March 2008
  • The foreclosure rate was one foreclosure filing for every 159 households during Q1

State highlights

Nevada, Arizona, California post top state foreclosure rates in first quarter:

  • Nevada continued to document the nation’s highest state foreclosure rate in the first quarter, with one in every 27 housing units receiving a foreclosure filing — more than five times the national average. Foreclosure filings were reported on 41,296 Nevada properties during the quarter, an increase of 19 percent from the previous quarter and an increase of nearly 111 percent from Q1 2008. Bank repossessions in Nevada were down 3 percent from the previous quarter, but defaults increased 27 percent and auction sale notices increased 35 percent.
  • Arizona posted the nation’s second highest state foreclosure rate for the first quarter, with one
    in every 54 housing units receiving a foreclosure filing, and
  • California posted the nation’s third highest state foreclosure rate, with one in every 58 housing units receiving a foreclosure filing.
  • Other states with foreclosure rates ranking among the top 10 in the first quarter were Florida, Illinois, Michigan, Georgia, Idaho, Utah and Oregon.

Five states account for nearly 60 percent of nation’s first quarter total:

  • California, Florida, Arizona, Nevada and Illinois accounted for nearly 60 percent of the nation’s
    foreclosure activity in the first quarter, with 479,516 properties receiving foreclosure filings in
    the five states combined.
  • With 230,915 properties receiving foreclosure filings during the quarter, California accounted
    for nearly 29 percent of the nation’s total. The state’s foreclosure activity increased 35 percent from the previous quarter and 36 percent from Q1 2008, and the first-quarter total was state’s highest quarterly total since RealtyTrac began issuing its report in the first quarter of 2005.
  • Despite a 12 percent decrease from the previous quarter, Florida’s first quarter total was still second highest in the nation. Foreclosure filings were reported on 119,220 Florida properties,
    a 36 percent increase from the first quarter of 2008. The state posted the nation’s fourth
    highest state foreclosure rate during the quarter, with one in every 73 housing units receiving
    a foreclosure filing.
  • Foreclosure filings were reported on 49,119 Arizona properties in the first quarter of 2009, the
    third highest total among the states, and 41,296 Nevada properties received a foreclosure
    filing in the first quarter of 2009, the fourth highest total among the states.
  • Illinois posted the nation’s fifth highest total, with 38,966 properties receiving a foreclosure
    filing during the first quarter — a 32 percent increase from the previous quarter and a 68
    percent increase from the first quarter of 2008. With one in every 135 housing units receiving
    a foreclosure filing, the state’s foreclosure rate also ranked fifth highest among the states.
  • Rounding out the states with the 10 highest foreclosure activity totals in Q1 2009 were Michigan, Ohio, Georgia, Texas and Virginia.
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Apr 23 2009
Depeche Mode to hold free concert in Hollywood

(Left-to-right) David Gahan, Martin Gore and Andrew Fletcher of British group Depeche Mode

Depeche Mode to hold free concert in Hollywood

LOS ANGELES (AFP) — The British electronic music trio Depeche Mode will likely bring Hollywood Boulevard traffic to a halt Thursday when they hold a free street concert, a city official has confirmed.

Tens of thousands of people are expected to cram the famed intersection of Hollywood and Vine Street, in the historical film district, to attend the launch of Depeche Mode’s new “Sounds of the Universe” album, their 12th since 1981.

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Apr 23 2009
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