Thanksgiving is a time for all of us, as a country and as individuals, to Give Thanks for the blessings that have been granted in our lives. I am particularly thankful for the many friends I have made here. ActiveRain is a major part of many of our lives and we are at a good place. Here is wishi
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11/24/2010
Elephant Odyssey At San Diego Zoo Wins People's Choice Award Each year, the San Diego Architectural community holds it's annual Orchids and Onions awards. This year, there were two people choice awards and one of those awards was given to the San Diego Zoo for it's Elephant Odyssey attraction as
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11/22/2010
Rumors fly this time of year especially when it comes to Apple products and the iPad in particular. We can't know for sure who starts those but I read an article by Bloomberg News this morning and it seems that the specific items mentioned would make a lot of sense. The article referenced an imor
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11/20/2010
San Diego Home Sales Fall 25% October 2009 through October 2010 The October San Diego Housing Market report indicates that while the median sales prices for resales have increased slightly, the number of sales last month have dropped and over the last year they have done so rather significantly
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11/19/2010
Ornathological Species of Identical Plumage Tend to Congregate in Closer Proximity Early this morning, the wonderful sound of the cooing of about a half dozen of Morning Doves filed my back patio. Wanting to capture at least one I proceeded to get my camera. Typically through the Spring and early
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11/18/2010
Allow me to introduce you to Jim Thorpe the town named after the man. High up in the Poconos Mountains in Pennsylvania is a town named Jim Thorpe that it seems is magical. The town that was founded as Mauch Chunk in the early 1800's and at one time claimed that 19 of the 26 wealthiest millionair
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11/14/2010
Today is Veterans Day and we all express our individual pride at the sacrifice of these men and women. I do not write about politics or on topics that would raise eyebrows here in Rain but I am going on record today to say that I am indeed mad as hell and here is why. I believe America is th
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11/11/2010
Can Too Many Different Key Words in Your Posts Dilute Your Overall Effectiveness in Googleor Re-PhrasedMy Own Wall Of Words At the bottom of this post are the tags or key words that I have used in my posts since I started here on ActiveRain. They showed up when I was editing a post using Safari a
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11/09/2010
Victorian Homes in Heritage Park Getting a Makeover and Re-purposed. They will serve as Inns to be rented out nightly for guests and visitors to San Diego. Heritage Park's nineteenth century Victorian Homes are being transformed from a Park to an enclave of hotel guest room as part of a multi-mil
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11/06/2010
Go For The Grass Ring: Carousel Turns 100 There probably isn't one of us here in the Rain that as a child wasn't told by our parents at one time or another to " Go For the Brass Ring". As Children we had a fascination with The Carousel, or Merry Go Round when the local fair would come to our comm
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11/06/2010
