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Tucson’s Hottest Jewelry Designers
01/05/2012

If you live in Tucson, Arizona you love the area because, of the wide varieties of recreational and entertainment opportunities that it has to offer. Other people love Tucson because, of its eclectic culture of artists and jewelry designers who live and work in there. Krikawa Jewelry Designs: 4280 North Campbell Avenue #107, Tucson   [...]

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How to Extend the Life of Your Bra
01/05/2012

In today’s world, bra shopping can be expensive. Thanks to the economic recession, the average woman doesn’t have $30 to $100 to spend on one bra and is doing everything that she can to extend the life of her bras until they ultimately wear out or she can afford new ones. Prolonging the life of [...]

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Jacks get first Division 1 win of season in Brown’s debut
01/04/2012

New men’s basketball coach Dave Brown got a nice reward in his first game as the Lumberjacks’ head coach — a victory. Led by freshman guard James Douglas’ 22 points, the Jacks snapped a three game losing streak and got their first Division 1 victory of the season, an 80-67 win over the Cal State Bakersfield [...]

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Wupatki National Monument
01/04/2012

Archeologist Lisa Baldwin takes us on a tour of the Wukoki site at Wupatki National Monument near Flagstaff. Less than 800 years ago, Wupatki flourished as a meeting place of different cultures. How and why did people live here? The builders of Wupatki and nearby pueblos have moved on, but their legacy remains. By Kent [...]

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Questions surround Adras’ resignation
01/04/2012

Former NAU men’s basketball coach Mike Adras abruptly resigned Friday afternoon, leaving behind 13 years of head coaching experience in Flagstaff. For the most part, Adras compiled a solid career manning the sidelines, finishing with a 193-170 overall record and taking the program to multiple conference championship game appearances, including a berth in the 2000 NCAA [...]

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Upcoming albums of 2012
01/04/2012

Dr. Dre’s Detox will be his first album release since 2001, which came out in 1999. As another year comes to a close, don’t forget to take a minute and reflect on what great music 2011 brought us. Sounds from Adele, Lady Gaga and Blink 182 are just a few artists worth celebrating for their new [...]

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Impressions from latest Dark Knight Rises trailer
01/04/2012

After a multitude of low-resolution bootlegged previews had spread all over YouTube (and were subsequently taken down by Warner Brothers), an HD-quality studio-approved version of the Dark Knight Rises trailer debuted on iTunes and is now finally beginning to go viral. If the months of Hollywood hype surrounding the film’s principal photography, plot synopsis, characters and [...]

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FX’s Archer: the best show you are not watching
01/04/2012

In today’s hypercompetitive world of television programming, comedies are a dime a dozen. They compete using laugh tracks and one-line zingers, all aiming to win a decent percentage of television viewership. Some of the more illustrious comedies out there achieving both critical acclaim and attracting large audiences include The Office, Modern Family, 30 Rock, Parks [...]

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The Sacred Peaks
01/04/2012

The Arizona Snowbowl has been given approval by the U.S. Forest Service and the City of Flagstaff to use reclaimed water to make snow on the San Francisco peaks. 13 Native American tribes consider the peaks to be sacred. These are the voices of some of those involved.

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Saldivar leads Jacks to upset of Sun Devils
01/04/2012

The last time the NAU men’s basketball team traveled to Tempe, Ariz. to take on the ASU Sun Devils was the 2006-07 season, where they walked out with a win. Five years later, history repeated itself. Junior point guard Stallon Saldivar capped off a career day by draining a scintillating 3-pointer from well beyond-the-arc with under a [...]

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Women’s hoops forces Nebraska to double overtime in loss
01/04/2012

What could have been for the NAU Lumberjacks (5–5). Twice the score was tied with a shot to win it and twice the shot would not fall. In their first game at home against a Big Ten opponent, the Lumberjacks pushed the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers (9–1) to the brink before falling 97-88 in the second [...]

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Ah hell! Skyrocketing student loan debt will delay homeownership
01/04/2012

John Burns Real Estate Consulting points out the devastating fact that total student loan debt is now greater than all credit card debt combined! Yikes! Student loans are going to be yet another hurdle for the housing market to overcome. Faced with mounting student loan debt, poor job prospects and stagnant wages, an increasing amount [...]

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This is nuts! I made 165 posts in December 2006!
01/04/2012

165 posts in one month? That’s a little scary, actually. I guess I was new at blogging 5 years ago and trying out different strategies. 165 posts in one month was not a successful one. It’s interesting to me to see how short many of my posts were back then, they were almost like Tweets. [...]

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How to find Arizona homes for sale
01/04/2012

I got a call yesterday from a gentleman in Houston who had some questions about how to use a website of mine to find Arizona homes for sale (and, yes, you can find the actual property taxes paid on my websites). I have dozens of websites where you can find homes for sale. Most of [...]

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How would increasing Phoenix home prices affect bank foreclosures?
01/04/2012

1) Economic Answer. The banks may slow down a bit on the speed of foreclosing because they expect/hope their Phoenix homes will be worth more later. 2) Organizational Answer. The banks have created and staffed, over several painful years, a bank foreclosure bureaucracy and that bureaucracy will not want to slow things down and become [...]

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Phoenix home price appreciation???
01/04/2012

From Mike Orr at The Cromford Report; For the monthly period ending December 15, we are currently recording a sales $/SF of $84.47 averaged for all areas and types across the ARMLS database… The current price level is 1.4% higher than last year on December 15. I probably need to say that again to let [...]

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Phoenix home price up in November, against seasonal trend
01/04/2012

Dr. Jay Butler of Realty Studies at Arizona State University came out with his Phoenix area residential real estate sales and median home price numbers for November 2011. Greater Phoenix – Median Home Price (Single-family resale homes. Excludes repossessions but includes sales by banks after they repossess. ASU calls these “Traditional Sales”) November 2011: $130,000 [...]

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Phoenix Home Price Index by Price Level – thru October 2011
01/04/2012

Case-Shiller released data this week for Phoenix that splits the price index into three price level indices. This Case-Shiller index is the best data available for estimating actual appreciation (or depreciation). The downside to the Case-Shiller Index, however, is that it runs a little old, the most current data is only through October 2011. Tier [...]

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One perma-bear says buy real estate
01/04/2012

John Talbott at Seeking Alpha; I have been waiting for more than five years to offer this advice. It is now time in most cities across the country to buy a new home or refinance your existing home with thirty-year fixed rate mortgage debt. And this from the author of The Coming Crash in the [...]

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Arizona No. 8 in population growth
01/04/2012

From the Phoenix Business Journal. Arizona Population Growth Arizona added 90,000 residents between April 1, 2010, and July 1, 2011. That equates to a 1.42 percent growth rate. Both in raw numbers and percentage terms, Arizona ranked eighth for growth. Arizona’s population as of July 1, stood at 6,482,505. It is the 15th most-populous state. [...]

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Protecting Your Clock from the Tucson Climate
12/29/2011

Some people find it to be a clever turn of phrase to say you live in “Arid-zona”. Those who actually live there understand it to be funny, but oh, so true. The capital, Phoenix, tends to be not only hot as a griddle, but also dry as a bone, with annual rainfall averages of less [...]

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Tucson’s Hottest Jewelry Designers
12/29/2011

If you live in Tucson, Arizona you love the area because, of the wide varieties of recreational and entertainment opportunities that it has to offer. Other people love Tucson because, of its eclectic culture of artists and jewelry designers who live and work in there. Krikawa Jewelry Designs: 4280 North Campbell Avenue #107, Tucson   [...]

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Finding Enhancements in Tucson
12/29/2011

We all know about the wonders of male enhancements. There is so much to be said on the matter that the talk is continuous. Do you know what the most important part of any conversation on the subject is though? Why, where to get them, of course. Male enhancements can make any man more confident [...]

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How to Extend the Life of Your Bra
12/29/2011

In today’s world, bra shopping can be expensive. Thanks to the economic recession, the average woman doesn’t have $30 to $100 to spend on one bra and is doing everything that she can to extend the life of her bras until they ultimately wear out or she can afford new ones. Prolonging the life of [...]

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Are You Ready for Some Poker Tucson?
12/29/2011

What is the great thing, is there are several places you can now play poker. Some are free, but for those of you people that have some hardcore poker skills, you can play with the casino and win money. I Need To Find A Site To Play On Finding the perfect online casino might be [...]

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