Writer and actress Nia Vardalos is sponsoring a toy drive at Raleigh Studios on Monday, November 26th. The event will take place from 10am-1pm at the Van Ness gate (south of Melrose Avenue). All WGA, SAG, Teamsters, AFTRA, other unions and supporters are welcome.

According to SDLookup, Rancho Bernardo 92128 currently has 310 listings for sale. For a population of 42,728, that gets us a listing per population ratio of 1:138. Should this ratio be lower? Is 92128 also suffering from the phantom inventory phenomenon?

12047 ALTA CARMEL CT #187 SAN DIEGO 92128--5/14: NOD filed--not listed on MLS

En estos momentos se debe estar grabando el discurso que en unos minutos será transmito al país por parte de Leonel Fernández, al cual se ha invitado a todo el gabinete, representantes de los Poderes del Estado, el Cardenal, representantes de grupos religiosos, Síndicos (Alcaldes) y Gobernadores.

Eso me dá mala espina

Here's a challenge, perhaps a dare. Find me a home to rent. It needs to be in View Royal, Langford, Colwood, Mill Bay, Shawnigan, maybe Cobble Hill. It must have 3 bedrooms up, 3 bedrooms (or 2 bedrooms and den / office) down (down is a suite). They must be separate living spaces. The lower suite must be above ground, with minimum 8 foot ceilings and large windows. The house must have a garage and a decent sized yard. The house must be available to rent April 1st or later.

All this for $2500 a month.

If you can find me this house, I will seriously consider renting it. I don't think it exists. I'd love to be wrong.

Thanks to anonymous for mentioning this occasion on Craigslist.

Yes, according to The Globe and Mail, and specifically Douglas Porter, deputy chief economist at BMO Nesbitt Burns Inc., the housing boom in Canada is now officially over. First quarter statistics are what helped him come to that conclusion.

Certainly, we are seeing this in Victoria. Inventory is ballooning and sales are the lowest in years.

Will we follow in the footsteps of our neighbours south of the border? Perhaps. Perhaps not. But the market is definitely not what it was in the previous 2 or 3 years.

Discuss away!

His five goal performance still fresh on the sports highlight shows some 24 hours later, Marian Gaborik is getting rave reviews and comparisons to some of the greats of hockey who also achieved quintuple success on the ice.

Empresario Gustavo Cisneros debe comparecer juicio SPM

POR SILVIO CABRERA

Out of Jim the Realtor's April Actives vs Pendings zipcode comparisons, Rancho Penasquitos is the best out of all of the zip codes with a strong Active vs. Pending ratio 1.80. Sure enough, out of a population of 47,217, there's only 173 listings, translating to a listing per population ratio of 1:273, in stark contrast to 92127's 1:69.

But what about that Phantom/Shadow/Stealth Inventory? Here's Watson Ranch, a smallish development built in late 2002 and 2003 just north of Route 56, we got a single home for sale on Torrey Bella Court:
13878 Torrey Bella, San Diego, CA 92129

The bad blood between the Bruins and Flyers apparently won't be ending anytime soon, this after yet another dangerous hit resulted in yet another Boston player to be helped from the ice, not to return to action on Monday night.

The Colorado Avalanche continued on along their theme of bring em all home, as the NHL West division team signed on Tony Granato for a second tour of duty as the Avs head coach.
Granato coached the Avlanche for a couple of years until the 2004-05 season will succeed the man who replaced him that year, as Joel Quenville chose to move on last month apparently finding philosophical differences with the Avs management team.

Our most recent 'If Only I Waited...' post on Oxnard prompted one irate anonymous reader to write, "What's up with slamming Oxnard? There are places to live that are in worse shape than Oxnard..."

And we wholeheartedly agree!

Case in point, Bakersfield. Here we have a REO going for 33% less today compared to a year and a half ago...

12109 Trackside Dr., Bakersfield, CA 93312

Suddenly Paul Maurice is the reincarnation of Hap Day and John Ferguson Junior is but the ghostly resemblance of Conn Smythe.
Well not quite, but things are certainly much more positive around the Maple Leaf Nation these days as the Blue and White rattled off their third consecutive win, a rather convincing victory over a particularly disinterested looking Nashville Predators.

There was No Luongo, No Bieksa and No Morrison available to suit up and a pair of Moose were called up, but all in all the Canuck’s didn’t seem to miss a beat.

Detalles y vídeos, pulsar:

El Mundo (video completo)

Daniel Ortega contra arremete y el Rey abandona el plenario (vídeo)

With its beaches, restaurants, and shops, La Jolla's desirability is second to none. It doesn't hurt that you are guaranteed that 315% increase in property value over 10 years either. So if you have a lot of cash lying around burning a hole in your shorts, what are you going to do?

JMS fell in mad love with La Jolla and decided to buy it up big time. Here are three properties that JMS purchased in 2003 and 2004. Keep in mind that these are just 3 out of 22 properties JMS owns in and around La Jolla.

Something's very different on the picket line.

Since Thanksgiving, the energy on the picket lines has fallen off. One picketer was even seen reading a book while he walked the picket line.

It seems like only yesterday that we were chanting to stop trucks from crossing the picket line or "2-4-6-8, Why won't they negotiate." The turnout and the energy paid off. The AMPTP rejoined us at the negotiating table and that was great.

But now....we wait....in a news blackout.

Getting the agreement to restart the negotiations felt climactic, because so much energy had to be expended to get the AMPTP to do the right thing, but "restarting" the talks didn't mean "concluding" them.

Ooopsie, a little preview of the NHL Awards slipped out of the NHL head office on Friday as the NHL on line shopping portal, shop.nhl.com , apparently provided a sneak look at what the best dressed fans of what will be this years Hart Trophy winner will want to be wearing. .In what passes for the best that they could think of for damage control the NHL is busy denying that anything of such nature took place..
The NHL clothing marketing line will apparently include a lovely medium blue tee shirt emblazoned with the likeness of Alexander Ovechkin, who if the leaked material is any indication is this years NHL MVP.

Responding to my post ("The Faces of the Strike") earlier today, Anonymous said what a lot of us have been thinking. I think it's worth reprinting in its entirety.

Anonymous said...

Not "some accountant in one of the AMPTP companies"...every single company has done extensive financial analysis on this situation, and it's what will drive all decisions made from the AMPTP side.

Business decisions from executive management are based almost exclusively on finances...and often short term finances over long- or medium-term finances.

AMPTP knows exactly when this strike will end.

Dress for success; is this the key to a winning broadcast this year?

The first thing that jumps out as we settle in for these seven hours of the circles of hell known as the trading deadline, is that we should make sure that the coffee urn is always full, this may be a long, long morning.

As the big network shows get underway though it seems that fashion statements are going to be the most obvious thing to talk about in the early rounds.

If we are to judge our content by the way it looks, then all business is taking on casually informative as the opening hour gets underway.

Ties it seems are not only frowned upon in the new NHL, they’re also an optional fashion accessory at Sportsnet. As the first hour of the trading shows winds down, it would seem that like prisoners heading for lock up, the ties and loose clothing have been collected at the door.

NFC CHAMPIONSHIP
NY Giants at GB Packers

I'm not quite sure if it seems like only yesterday, or if it seems like ages ago that Patriots Linebacker Tedy Bruschi suffered a stoke and experienced a brush with death. I was just thinking about this just the other day and I couldn't believe that the media was too busy talking about Tom Brady's ankle to give a great story like this some pub.

The new executive director of the NHLPA will have no shortage of places to drop into on his next vacation that is if he feels like traveling to Canada.

Competition may soon be coming for the NHL and with it may begin the greatest drain of players in league history.

Bush and Paulson rushed out with a plan to freeze the ARM reset...
Hillary is pushing for a moratorium on foreclosures...

...but none of them are addressing the main issue. The price gain over the last 6 years was un-natural. The price gain from 2001 to 2006 left millions of Americans unable to afford a home. And as the prices finally start rolling toward affordable range, these guys are trying to put a stop to it!

Here's two homes in a development built circa early 1970 in Encinitas:

Con los resultados ofrecidos por el Tribunal Supremo Electoral de Guatemala se oficializa el triunfo de Alvaro Colom como Presidente de ese país para el perío

The people of Shippagan, New Brunswick are distraught with grief, the sadness overwhelms the faithful of the Manitoba Moose where young Luc Bourdon played the bulk of his still young career last year and in Vancouver where the popular defenceman was destined to shine for years, the empty feeling of loss is still being digested.

Across Canada today, shock greeted the news of Bourdon’s passing, the tragic victim of a traffic accident just miles from his hometown. The news crossed the country rapidly on Thursday of the horrific accident that took place on the outskirts of town, when his motorcycle collided with tractor trailer late at night.

If the Flames want to get on the good side of their head coach, a couple of victories over divisional rival Vancouver would probably go a long ways to earning some points with the coach.