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July 14 - August 1
We have completed our review of all the Slightly Creaky links (34,000), making over 1,500 corrections and additions.
Suggested Reading
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July 31
The 10 Types of Consumers Who Inevitably Overspend
" If your behavior fits one of the ten consumer categories below, then there's your explanation for why you don't have more money in the bank."
Europe Without Hotels
"I wasn’t in a hotel. Nor was I in some vacation rental. I was in the home of Julien Szeps, a 26-year-old chef whom I met through a new kind of short-term rental service called AirBnB.com. And the studio apartment was only 65 euros a night, about $80 at $1.23 to the euro. Not bad for an entire apartment with a full kitchen and bathroom, less than 10 minutes by foot from the Louvre. "
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July 29
The Technology for Monitoring Elderly Relatives
"In the last few years, a series of technological developments has given parents and their adult children some new options. Devices and Internet-based solutions are becoming available that allow caregivers to keep an unobtrusive, high-tech eye on their family members, ensuring that they’re safe, healthy and well cared for. "
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July 25
Light and Moderate Physical Activity Reduces the Risk of Early Death
"Although more activity is better -- the benefits of even a small amount of physical activity are very large in the least physically active."
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July 22
A Guide to Financial Overhaul Law
"Two years after the global financial system nearly collapsed,
a vast revamping of regulation has been signed into law. The
measure targets the risky banking and oversight failures that led to
the last crisis. The goal is to make another crisis less likely -- and,
if it does happen, less costly for taxpayers."
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This Month's Featured Columns
"Retired and Living in Colombia."
Part 29 - July, 2010
"Results of Elections and Commentary"
All of Bill's articles can be found on his own page.
"With All Due Respect"
Active Living Columnist, Nancy Dickerson displays her wit and knowledge in her latest article on the SC Active Living Page
Human Memory and Memory Loss
Senior Living and Health Column presented by Emeritus Senior Living
In The Home: Yellow Jacket Woes
Current Featured Recipe: Bulgur Chicken Salad
Medical & Health: "Probiotics: "Good" Bacteria to the Rescue? "
Consumer Info: Seeing is Not Believing
Part 3: Bait & Switch
Contents
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Active Living. Home page for activities. Not sure what to do today or looking for a new hobby? We provide hundreds of ideas.
- Life Styles. There are many environments in which to live: urban, rural, overseas, on a cruise ship, traveling in a motor home, or in a care facility. We provide basic information about all these places so you can research the possibilities.
- Travel. Specific vacations, cruises, tours, and similar activities.
- Recreation. Indoor and outdoor activities to give you ideas of things to do. Many of them you have never considered but are easy and fun. Others are quite challenging. Have you tried geocaching, locating places using GPS devices, a wonderful way to find new locations in your area? Interested in learning bocce?
- On The Road. Whether you travel by train, bus, car, motorcycle, or motor home, there are destinations you do not want to miss. We have a huge listing of both the popular and the unusual.
- E- Learning. Electronic Learning includes formal university classes, lectures, how-to guides, and hundreds of other topics. We rovide some of the most polular as well as links to online collections of E-classes.
In the Home. Home page for activities around the house.
- Entertaining. Whether you have one person visiting or five dozen, we provide links to sites to make entertaining easier and unique. There is also a suggestion about planning events outside your home, in your yard, a park, or a formal banquet hall.
- On the Table. Providing a listing of web sites that provide generalized or specific recipes and cooking suggestions. Each week we also feature a viewer's Favorite Recipe. Send yours (original only, not copied) to info@slightlycreaky.
- Leaky Pipes. Covering many types of household (and outside the house) repairs.
- Pets. Mice, horses, cats, fish, dogs, and dozens more. We provide information about care and feeding, boarding, medical and health. Have you ever thought about putting a GPS tracer in your dog or cat (or iguana)?
- Hobbies & Interests. Indoors or out, this section looks at the way people spend their leisure time. Designing model train layouts, knitting, gardening, collecting, exercising, and even creating web sites. We also have a special page for Online Games. There are 20 separate hobby pages, and some bonus pages.
- News, Information & Literature. Newspapers, news magazines, books (print and audible) are now available online. If you are interested in reading the New York Times, looking up what is showing on TV, or checking out information in an encyclopedia or dictionary, there are a huge amount of resources here.
- Virtual Communities. This is a Slightly Creaky exclusive, bringing you web cams from around the world. Watch cruise ships, traffic, take tours of zoos, and peek into nightclubs and resorts.
Medical & Health. Home page for information about "the human condition." You can link directly to subcategories below.
- Medical Information. Links to medical information, dictionaries, encyclopedias, drugs and home remedies, advocacy, and groups that support many conditions.
- Support Groups. Six pages of annotated links to sites that support people and families with specific medical ailments and conditions. From the most common such as heart disease, diabetes, and vision problems, to orphan conditions that get very little attention. They are all here. Links to Support Group pages:
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L - M N - O - P - Q R - S T - Z - Family & Relationships. We choose our friends, but not our family. Relationships are difficult, whether between spouses, parents and children, and siblings. This section provides links to sites that offer suggestions to improve and repair such situations.
- Nutrition. From the food pyramid to calorie counters, nutrition guides for general living or specific medical conditions, you can find links to helpful sites here.
Consumer Information. Information about things we buy and use. Each section contains annotated links to appropriate web sites so that you do not need to use a search engine. You will probably find things here that you never considered researching.
- Consumer Assistance & Scam Watch. Links to consumer information pages on the Internet where you can find product reviews and comparisons, safety suggestions, and product recalls. Includes links to scam recognition and assistance locations.
- Finance. Making handling money just a little bit easier. Our links and articles include writing and probating wills (and how to avoid problems), providing for a power of attorney, investing, scams, living wills, and dozens more topics. It also includes links for tax preparation and Social Security.
- Energy. Every day electricity, gas, and heating fuel get more expensive. There are alternative ways you can provide for these modern needs without having to depend on the mega-corporations. If "green" is the energy word of the 21st century, you'll find information here.
- Legal Information. With every state, county, town, and city having conflicting legal rules, we can not possibly provide all the information you might need. We do, though, have links to general law sites that update their information as needed. Also provided are dictionaries of legal terms. (We provide the links, but do not guarantee what you find is accurate. Consult a lawyer.)
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Just For Fun. Well.... it's just for fun.
This Month's Featured Article
(July , 2010)
Retired and Living in South America Part 29
Results of Elections and Commentary
Testerday I took Gloria to the bus and noticed a very strong military presence. There is no ready distinction between soldiers and police, they both wear cameo uniforms and carry automatic weapons. There must have been 30 or more uniforms with guns in town on Saturday and I am sure today but I can't check that out due to my promise to Gloria
I have been following the the new Arizona Immigration law. Here all citizens MUST carry their National ID card called a cedula. Foreigners must either carry a copy of their passport/visa or a special Cedula Estrangera all the time. You cannot carry on any significant business without producing it. Nobody complains about it and the police can and do stop people and ask them to produce it. There are roadblocks frequently where you must produce the cedulas of all passengers as well as the documents for the car and driver's license. It is an unusual trip to Bogota without at least one reten. I would think that yesterday and today there are many more. The retens stop every vehicle including buses and everybody has to produce the cedulas. This is so much more stringent that the Arizona law.
I am continuing the narration after the final election and the winner is Juan Manuel Santos. He won by a very impressive margin of 65% while Antanas Mockus garnered 26%. There is an option here of voting “en blanco” which is to vote against all candidates with a blank ballot. This blank ballot accounted for the 9% not cast for the 2 candidates.
It is interesting that I have not spoken to anyone pro Santos, that could be because Mockus appealed to the upper middle class. Both extremes voted for Santos or the status quo. In my personal opinion I am glad he won. I am not permitted to vote in National Elections, I am however able to vote in local elections.
The voting process is the voters go to a central location. Here in the country this is the town of Somondoco. In Bogota with 11 million people, there may be over a hundred locations. Each location has a large number of tables to which the voters are directed. Each table has the lists for a particular group of voters and distributes the physical paper ballot to be marked. This is then returned to a sealed box on the table.
There are some photos I took Sunday of the voting process. The area was cordoned off so I could not really show the tables which were arraigned inside the covered coliseum. The atmosphere is like a Fiesta and there are food booths and lots of socializing. Since the Carrot Law is in effect there is no drinking in public so the behavior is more orderly than during a fiesta. The photos are pretty self explanatory and show the day of the final voting.
Bill & Gloria Turley
Somondoco, Boyaca
Colombia
All of Bill's articles can be found in his archive area.
Articles 1-15
Articles 16 - ??
(To contact Bill, please send an E-mail to w_turley@yahoo.com)
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