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The Emerald Triangle – Running Down The Mountain

| Lifestyle, Opinion

In 1958, Jack Kerouac’s book Dharma Bums was first published. It is a semi-fictionalized account of his introduction to mountaineering and Buddhism. Throughout the book, Kerouac grapples with the duality of his "city life" soaked in jazz, partying and emulating Tibetan Buddhist tantric Yab-Yum rituals with the contrasting "simply life" of the outdoors with its […]

IAS360 House Price Index Marks One-Year Anniversary

| Business, US

Integrated Asset Services®, LLC (IAS®) (www.iasreo.com), a leader in default management and residential collateral valuation, this month celebrated the first anniversary of its IAS360 House Price Index (http://www.iasreo.com/ias360_update.html).   The IAS360 HPI remains the only index to track U.S. housing trends at a county level. The index tracks monthly change in the median sales price […]

Beatblogging, Mashable and BootUpNYC on GroundReport

| Media & Tech

Our hyperlocal citizen media platform has seen a flurry of coverage in recent days. Here’s the latest: In BeatBlogging piece GroundReport is hyperlocal gone global — but will it work?, Lily Q digs deep for a well-researched piece that weighs GroundReport’s strategies and interviews other innovators like Charlie Sennot of GlobalPost on the potential of […]

How to Find Reputable Credit Counseling Agencies

| Business, Lifestyle

  Credit Counseling Agencies help people through debt consolidation, financial education, and by teaching good credit practices. They will contact creditors to reduce interest rates, extend loans, eliminate finance charges, and educate consumers on ways to prevent future problems. If you are facing bankruptcy or foreclosure, contacting a Credit Counseling Agency is a way to […]

Stimulus Replay of the 80’s

| Opinion, Politics

This week immediately after signing the death knell "stimulus" spending package in Denver, Mr. Obama made an overnight stop in my former state of Arizona, the state I left now almost two years ago after being one of the early victims of the housing and mortgage crisis, and also after having been the victim of […]