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January 2009 OLYMPIC TRADER - www.OLYTRADER.COM

January 2009SERVING THE OLYMPIC PENINSULA SINCE 1995 Volume 19, Issue 1

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Gardening 5Food & Drink 6Puzzles 7Business 8Technology 9To Your Health 10Travel 12

Trivia Question #1:

Who lived at 1313 Mockingbird Lane?

a) The Addams Family b) The Partridge Family c) The Munsters d) Elmo

(answer on page 12)

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Gerties Farmer’s Market of Clallam County, Est. 1978 1016 East First Street one block east of Race Street. Open every Saturday 9 - 4 all year.____________________

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VOLUNTEERS NEEDED: Veterans and non-veter-ans are being sought as volunteer drivers for the Disabled Veterans Van. The van transports ab average of 30 veterans per week to the VA Medi-cal Center in Seattle for medical appointments. Transportation is provided for veterans living from Forks to Pt. Townsend. Anyone with a valid drivers licsence and good driving record may become a driv-er. Call (360) 457-5251 for more information.____________________ Cedar Armoire Clothes Closet $75.00Sofa & loveseat nice and fairly new $200.00 cash360-681-8509____________________

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PORT HADLOCK: 3 bed-room, 2 full baths, den, din-ning room, 2 car garage, built in vacuum, automatic sprinkler, wooden storage sged. Chimmicum Creek Estates, large lot. Near schools,library, bus and shopping. Desirable neigh-borhood. $320,000 (360) 385-0130 RUS0508__________________PORT TOWNSEND: Rental or Great Starter Home. On city lot, view, Castle Hill, 2 bedroom, 1.75 bath. large living room, wood burning heat, can use TLC. Near schools, shopping, doctors & hospital. $137,000 (360) 385-0130 RUS0508

SEQUIM: $175,0001.28 acre level lot moun-tain views underground utilities installed; water, phone, electric, registered septic. CC & R’s Call for brochure (360) 582-9982____________________

BREMERTON: $350,000 4 Bedroom and 2.75 Bath 2097 Sqft. Here’s another opportunity to join this Great New Neighborhood! This beautiful just-like-new 4 bedroom, 2 3/4 bath, 3 car garage home has been well cared for by its only owners! Listed at the lowest price in Esquire Hills for this particular floor plan, the house speaks for itself! You always hear It’s all about Location, well here’s your chance at a wonderful home in a won-derful neighborhood, on a manicured, fully-fenced, corner lot with a View! Come see for yourself! Karin Kay Properties (360) 479-7653

Roommate wantedOne or two folks desired for house in the country near Sequim. Quiet location. Hostel style living. Pets ok. $275.00. Includes utili-ties. (360) 681-8509, eve-nings best.

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Trivia Question #2:

Who was the first African American to have a music video air on MTV?

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17,824 18,880,792 11/30/08BUILDINGS BUILT SQUARE FEET AS OF

Financing based on 11.5% interest, O.A.C.. Actual rate may vary. Prices do not include permit costs or sales tax & are based on a fl at, level, accessible building site w/less than 1ʼ of fi ll, w/85 MPH Wind Exposure “B”, 25# snow load, for non commercial usage & do not include prior sales & may be affected by county codes and/or travel considerations. Drawings for illustration purposes only. Prices good through 1/31/09.

4” Concrete fl oor w/fi bermix reinforcement & zip-strip crack control, (1) 10ʼx12ʼ & (2) 9ʼx9ʼ raised panel steel overhead doors, 3ʼx6ʼ8” 24 gauge PermaBilt door w/self-closing hinges & stainless steel lockset, 4ʼx3ʼ dou-ble glazed vinyl window w/screen, 7/16” LP T-111 plywood siding, 30 year architectural composition roofi ng, 18” eave & gable overhangs.

RV GARAGE / STORAGE 30’x28’x12’

4” Concrete fl oor w/fi bermix reinforcement & zip-strip crack control, (1) 10ʼx12ʼ & (1) 9ʼx8ʼ raised panel steel overhead door, 3ʼx6ʼ8” 24 gauge PermaBilt door w/self-closing hinges & stainless steel lockset, 2ʼ fi berglass eavelight, 10ʼ cotinuous fl ow ridge vent.

GRID BARN 30’x30’x10’

(1) 10ʼx9ʼ & (1) 4ʼx3ʼ Metal framed sliding door w/cam-latch closers, (2) 4ʼx8ʼ split opening unpainted wood Dutch doors, 3ʼx6ʼ8” 24 gauge PermaBilt door w/self-closing hinges & stainless steel lockset, 18” eave & gable overhangs, 2ʼ fi berglass eavelight, 10ʼ continuous fl ow ridge vent.

$25,982$26,927 $304/mo.15 yr.

$19,207$20,101 $224/mo.15 yr.

LARGE MACHINE STORAGE SHED 24’x48’x9’

2” Fiberglass vapor barrier roof insulation, 17 sidewall & trim colors w/45 year warranty*.

MONITOR BARN 30’x36’x9’/16’

(1) 10ʼx8ʼ & (1) 4ʼx3ʼ Metal framed split sliding door w/cam-latch clos-ers, (3) 4ʼx8ʼ split opening unpainted wood Dutch doors, 2ʼ fi berglass eavelight, 10ʼ continuous fl ow ridge vent.

$10,996$11,763 $128/mo.15 yr.

DELUXE 2 CAR GARAGE 20’x24’x8’

4” Concrete fl oor w/fi bermix reinforcement & zip-strip crack control, 16ʼx7ʼ raised panel steel overhead door w/mitered corners, 3ʼx6ʼ8” 24 gauge PermaBilt door w/self-closing hinges & stainless steel lockset, (2) 4ʼx2ʼ double glazed cross hatch vinyl windows w/screens, 18” eave & gable overhangs, 24” cupola vent w/weathervane.

$12,392$12,864 $145/mo.15 yr.

$15,852$16,456 $185/mo.15 yr.

MODIFIED GRID BARN 30’x36’x10’

10ʼx9ʼ Metal framed split sliding door w/cam-latch closers, 4ʼx3ʼ metal framed cross hatch sliding door w/cam-latch closers, 3ʼx6ʼ8” 24 gauge PermaBilt door w/self-closing hinges & stainless steel lockset, 2ʼ fi ber-glass eavelight, 10ʼ continuous fl ow ridge vent.

$18,165$18,957 $212/mo.15 yr.

DELUXE 2 CAR GARAGE / SHOP 24’x28’x9’

4” Concrete fl oor w/fi bermix reinforcement & zip-strip crack control, 16ʼx8ʼ raised panel steel overhead door, 3ʼx6ʼ8” 24 gauge PermaBilt door w/self-closing hinges & stainless steel lockset, 18” eave & gable overhangs, 2ʼ fi berglass eavelight.

$14,058$14,627 $164/mo.15 yr.

$16,985$17,693 $198/mo.15 yr.

$21,278$22,089 $249/mo.15 yr.

$9629$10,012 $112/mo.15 yr.

4” Concrete fl oor w/fi bermix reinforcement & zip-strip crack control, 12ʼx7ʼ raised panel steel overhead door, 3ʼx6ʼ8” 24 gauge PermaBilt door w/self-closing hinges & stainless steel lockset, 2ʼ fi berglass eave-light.

$29,448$30,570 $344/mo.15 yr.

GARAGE / EQUIPMENT STORAGE 40’x60’x14’

12ʼx13ʼ Metal framed split sliding door w/cam-latch closers, 3ʼx6ʼ8” 24 gauge Permabilt door w/self-closing hinges & stainless steel lockset.

$22,604$23,466 $265/mo.15 yr.

RV GARAGE 28’x36’x14’

4” Concrete fl oor w/fi bermix reinforcement & zip-strip crack control, (1) 12ʼx12ʼ & (1) 10ʼx8ʼ raised panel steel overhead door, 3ʼx6ʼ8” 24 gauge PermaBilt door w/self-closing hinges & stainless steel lockset, 5/12 roof pitch, 18” eave & gable overhangs, 2ʼ fi berglass eavelight.

$22,293$23,142 $261/mo.15 yr.

GRID STYLE GARAGE 28’x36’x12’

4” Concrete fl oor w/fi bermix reinforcement & zip-strip crack control, (1) 10ʼx11ʼ & (2) 9ʼx8ʼ raised panel steel overhead doors, 3ʼx6ʼ8” 24 gauge PermaBilt door w/self-closing hinges & stainless steel lockset, 5/12 roof pitch, 18” eave & gable overhangs.

$8761$9094 $103/mo.15 yr.

HAY STORAGE 20’x36’x8’

Decorative steel cross hatch wall, 2” fi berglass vapor barrier roof insula-tion, 17 sidewall & trim colors w/45 year warranty*.

$20,867$21,662 $254/mo.15 yr.

(1) 12ʼx9ʼ & (1) 4ʼx4ʼ Metal framed sliding door w/cam-latch closers, 3ʼx6ʼ8” 24 gauge PermaBilt door w/self-closing hinges & stainless steel lockset, (2) 2ʼ fi berglass eavelights, 10ʼ continuous fl ow ridge vent.

$6423$6678 $91/mo.10 yr.

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2” Fiberglass vapor barrier roof insulation, 17 sidewall & trim colors w/45 year warranty*.

DAYLIGHT GARAGE 24’x30’x10’

4” Concrete fl oor w/fi bermix reinforcement & zip-strip crack control, (2) 9ʼx8ʼ raised panel steel overhead doors, 3ʼx6ʼ8” 24 gauge PermaBilt door w/self-closing hinges & stainless steel lockset, 18” eave & gable overhangs, 2ʼ fi berglass eavelight.

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$16,452$17,079 $200/mo.15 yr.

2 CAR GARAGE / WORKSHOP 24’x36’x10’

4” Concrete fl oor w/fi bermix reinforcement & zip-strip crack control, (2) 9ʼx9ʼ raised panel steel overhead doors, 3ʼx6ʼ8” 24 gauge PermaBilt door w/self-closing hinges & stainless steel lockset.

$13,732$14,255 $161/mo.15 yr.

GARAGE / EQUIPMENT STORAGE 22’x30’x9’

4” Concrete fl oor w/fi bermix reinforcement & zip-strip crack control, (2) 10ʼx8ʼ metal framed bypass sliding doors w/cam-latch closers, 3ʼx6ʼ8” 24 gauge PermaBilt door w/self-closing hinges & stainless steel lockset.

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469 Homes For Sale

469 Homes For Sale

469 Homes For Sale

469 Homes For Sale

Bethel Corridor Opportunity! Port Orchard 220’ Bethel frontage. Zoned Commercial/Mixed use. Own and live at your business or rent out the house and run your business from the out buildings or ...? Heated shop with office space, RV barn and garage. Home is newly updated.Call Danny at 1800 784 5635 x2002 Prudential Nw Real Estate. 0808

Relax and spread out in this fine Gig Harbor home. Whitley Hills location with over 3300 sq ft & a daylight basement. Room for everybody and everything! Call Danny at 1800 784 5635 x2142 Prudential Nw Real Estate. 0608

Great location for the Seattle Commuter, walk to the Ferry! Brand new home w/ 9’ceilings, hardwood floor-ing, 3 beds, 2.5bath on a half an acre. Priced to sell! Call Danny at 1800 784 5635 x2132 Prudential Nw Real Estate.. 0608

Water, Bremerton lights, Olympic Mt, Views plus a fine house on 1+acre . Large daylight rambler and a possible 2nd dwelling unit downstairs. Beautifully landscaped and provides easy access to PSNS, Port Orchard, Bremerton and hwy 16.Call Danny1800 784 5635 x 2052 Prudential Nw Real Estate 0608

BREMERTON: $350,000 4 Bedroom and 2.50 Bath 2533 Sqft. Pride of owner-ship shows here! Enjoy the marine and Mtn views. RV Parking/elec hook ups. Fully fenced yard. Remodeled bathroom. Secret room (office/shop)with separate entrance. Single car garage with 2 car carport. New furance 3/2008, heat pump ready. Location is convenient to shopping. Penny’s Team (360) 779-7229

BREMERTON: $350,000 3 Bedroom and 2.50 Bath 2107 Sqft. Come see this turn-key home located in the great new community of Esquire Hills. Home has large rooms, tall ceil-ings, oversized windows. Modern floor plan revolves around a great room con-cept with a corner-gas fireplace in living room and oversized kitchen island. Large master suite has a 5-piece bathenjoy those long soaks after a hectic day. If you have kids, they will enjoy 3 private parks with BBQ’s, sports court, and large play toys.RE/MAX Platinum Srvs/Silverdal (360) 613-0822

____________________BREMERTON: $355,000 5 Bedroom and 1.75 Bath 2321 Sqft. ONE OF A KIND VIEW HOME! Classic Manette masterpiece is full of surprises. As you enter from the charming wrap around covered porch,you’ll see this 5 bdrm,2300+sf hm includes TONS of high quality extras. Gourmet kitchen w/ceramic tile flrs,custom granite ctr tops and abun-dant cabinetry. Soak your cares away in the main bath’s antique 6’claw ft tub. Entertain guests on the deck w/stunning views of the Puget sound & Ma-nette. There’s so many wonderful characteristic it’s a must see to believe. Genesis Infinity Real Es-tate (360) 692-0779BREMERTON: $357,000 4 Bedroom and 2.50 Bath 2097 Sqft Come join this great community! This Home Boasts Beautiful floors throughout the Liv. Rm, Din. Rm. & Kitchen! All Appliances are staying with the house including washer and dryer! Enjoy the Quartz Countertops throughout your kitchen! The Stove has been con-verted to gas for your cook-ing pleasure! The Five piece Master bath is the prize piece on the upper level! You need Storage Space? Enjoy your three-car Garage! Also enjoy your fully fenced yard or the Community Park just out the front door! Karin Kay Properties (360) 479-7653____________________BREMERTON: $357,500 3 Bedroom and 1.00 Bath

2358 Sqft. This charm-ing, lovingly-maintained home is so much larger inside than it looks from the street: over 2300 sq. ft. of very livable space! Enjoy water & mountain views from inside &, of course, from your deck. Coved ceilings, hardwood & built-ins of the era w/new windows & gas forced air of today. Convert upstairs into a master suite. Fin-ished basement hosts a cozy family room w/fire-place & wet bar. Awesome 24x27 garage w/loft built in 2005. Bus line & ferry minutes away. RealEstate.com (425) 453-9111BREMERTON: $359,000 4 Bedroom and 1.75 Bath 2624 Sqft. Beautiful low maintenance brick home w/tile roof in desirable E Bremerton neighborhood close to shopping & ship-yard. Quality Olympic Mtn & territorial views. Plenty of room for extra garage shop, & garden. Updated kitchen and baths. 3 year old high end premium furnace & water heater. Stainless Steel applianc-es, lots of real wood-oak mahogany & cherry. Very nice plastered walls. This solid house was built to last! One family owned. John L. Scott, Inc. Silver-dale (360) 692-9777____________________BREMERTON: $359,500 4 Bedroom and 2.50 Bath 2247 Sqft. This Beauti-ful and Charming home has been redecorated & updated, and looks Springtime fresh. New

Hardy-Plank siding, new floorcoverings, paint & Granite counters.Main Level Master Suite is very spacious and the upper level has 3 other bdrms & Large Bonus/Family room with closet.This home will delight your buyers with a covered porch, large back deck , vaulted ceil-ings and wonderful yard.This is a 5 star home in a safe cul-de-sac. John L. Scott, Inc. Silverdale (360) 692-9777BREMERTON: $359,750 3 Bedroom and 2.50 Bath 1946 Sqft. Motivated seller wants an offer on this ex-traordinary home, exqui-sitely kept and maintained. Newer furnace & water tank, carpeting & roof; Large patio with hot tub; huge family room with wet bar - even comes equiped with a pool table!!!! Check out the huge attached ga-rage and 24 x 32, heated and insulated detached garage. Wonderful shy acre grounds. John L. Scott, Inc. Port Orch. (360) 876-7600

Prowse and Company (360) 779-2888

Trivia Question #4:

In Gilligan’s Island, the Skipper’s actual first name was?

a) Jonasb) Santoc) Captain Cookd) Sinbad

(answer on page 12)

It’s a stark irony of the Western calendar that the odometer turns oversmack dab in the middle of winter - the one time of the year whenmost people can’t rouse themselves to clean their bathrooms,much less make an ambi-tious, life-changing, be-havioral U-turn. Ifyou’re the type who likes to ring in the New Year with an engraved listof resolutions, read on for hints about how best to keep them.

1) Aim low. It goes without saying that most New Year’s resolutions are easier announced (or writ-ten) than done - butif you set the bar too high, you’re doomed from the start. Instead of a sweep-ing declaration like “I will lose 30 pounds by April and finally fit into that dress,” target a goal that’s more attainable, like losing 10 or 15 pounds.

2) Don’t overload yourself. It’s difficult enough for the average person to follow through on one ambitious New Year’s resolution; why on earth would you saddle yourself with three or four? Choose the most pressing issue at hand - losing weight, improving your relationship with your parents - and concentrate on that. Trying to do ev-erything simultaneously practically guaranteesfailure across the board.

3) Tell everyone you know. One school of thought says that New Year’s resolutions are best kept to oneself, but look atit this way: the more people to whom you announce your resolution (say, to get out of your dead-end job by spring), the more people there will be to prod you along if you fall behind.There’s no shame in seek-ing help if you can’t ac-complish your resolution on your own.

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4) Reward yourself. Fol-lowing through on a New Year’s resolution is rarely easy, so a little Pavlovian conditioning goes a long way. If you’ve resolved to shop less, stroke your-self for not buying those shoes by springing for a steaming hot cappuc-cino at the mall. If you’ve resolved to be nicer to people, buy yourself a nice jacket after enduring that tedious cocktail party without delivering any insults.

5) Wait until spring. Sometimes the best way to accomplish a New Year’s resolution is to make it at a time of year of your choosing, rather than the one dictated by the calendar. May 1st is a good alternate date, since the change of sea-son will neatly coincide with the change you’re hoping to accomplishin yourself.

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Trivia Question #3:

In 1935, what was Bugs Bunny originally called?

a) Funny Bunnyb) Doc c) Wuzz Up d) Happy Rabbit

(answer on page 12)

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Starting your own veg-etable garden can be a great idea. Window boxes are one way to start a simple vegetable garden that can easily be accessed from a window, deck, or patio. Get some fall and summer window box ideas about start-ing your own vegetable garden and learn about window box gardening. As more people turn to organic and whole foods, gardening will continue to grow in popularity. Window box gardening makes learning how to garden fun, simple, and convenient and it gives you some ideas on how to use your window boxes year round.

Weather you’re a beginner or a pro, a window box is a simple and convenient way to maintain a miniature gar-den. Depending on the season, different plants and techniques are recommended to best optimize your garden. As summer comes to an end and fall approaches, your window box garden will need some additional considerations to pro-duce a healthy garden crop.

The first consideration is root space. A window box will be somewhat confining and depend-ing on the size of your window box there may be a few limits as to what you can grow in your garden. A window box should be at least 6 inches tall and deep to grow most vegetables, flowers, and plants. Most window boxes can be used for landscaping during the spring as well, so getting a window box large enough for plants and flowerswill give you more op-tions year round.

Late Summer and early Fall is the time to try to plant some vegetable seeds for the fall har-vest. A perfect late summer window box idea is to plant some peas, spinach, lettuce, endive, beans, carrots, turnips, swiss chard, and beets are all excellent late summer plantings that do not need tons of root space. These vegetables thrive in cool and humid temperatures also.

If you’re new to garden-ing you may wish to harvest your vegetables when they are young and beginning to show signs of ripeness. This will make leave them tender when cooking, but more importantly this will increase your yields and extend your har-vest and give you more experience to learn from. Be on the lookout for insects and treat without pesticides if possible. Monitoring plants for in-festation from a popular window will be much easier and will allow you to quickly remove and plants should they become infested.

With high rainfalls in the summer, you will need to give your garden an extra boost of fertilizer. Rainfall leaches the nutrients from the soil and robs the plants of vital nutrition needed to produce. This is espe-cially true for window box gardening. Now is a perfect time to side dress the plants with granular fertilizer or to water with liquid plant food. Make sure the window box has drainage holes and consider adding a drip ir-rigation kit that will make the window box self-wa-tering. This will give you one less thing to have to focus on for your mini garden project.

You will have vegetables in your freezer or on your shelf to enjoy long after frost ends the season. Almost everything you plant can be frozen or canned. Blanching or steaming is very im-portant in freezing all vegetables. All vegeta-bles need to be heated to kill the bacteria and then cooled immediately before freezing.

And of course, even a window box needs weed prevention and care to make sure you are maximizing your efforts. The weeds are robbing your plants of moisture and nutrients and are encouraging insects and diseases in your garden. After the garden is weed-ed and side-dressed with granular fertilizer, water thoroughly and apply Preen or Concern to prevent weeds from returning. These weed killers will help keep your window box garden free of weeds.

Window box gardening is fun and most importantly simple. It’s a great way to start a garden and learn the basics in a way that is convenient and time saving. It also gives you ideas of how to use your window boxes when the seasons begin to shift so that you can enjoy them year round. With proper use, window boxes can be used all year long for a variety of reasons. Starting a miniature garden is just one summer window box idea that will help spice things up.

Starting a Summer Window Box Gardenby: Matthew Buquoi

Don’t DIYKitchen upgrades can be very costly at times. You can easily spend tens of thousands of dollars on a high-quality job, and the truth is, there is no room for amateurs here. In order to assure that your kitchen will be done right, you need help from the experts. You can easily find a reputable contractor on the web. Or if you don’t have regular access to the Internet, you can look in the telephone book or take a trip to your local Home Depot or Lowe’s store. Both offer con-sulting and contractor services. Regardless of your choice, check out local references on the people who will actu-ally be working on your property.

While designing your own kitchen may seem like a great idea, and it can save a few bucks, it will probably be worth a little extra to hire a professional designer, even an architect if your kitchen is, say, 600 sq. ft. or more. You are already spending a tidy sum for the hardwoods, the brass fittings, the marble, the terrazzo floor and ev-erything else, so do not muck it up with your own new Do-It-Yourself (DIY) horror story. Professional designers and architects are trained to give you the look you desire and even help direct the contractor and craftsmen in their work.

The final movesWhen you finally choose your contractor, you then begin the process of choosing colors, textures and the specific design that you want the end re-sult to be. If you have an older kitchen, you don’t necessarily have to tear the whole room apart. Perhaps all it needs is a good remodeling.

Of course, even at a somewhat reduced scale, this is still a huge undertaking, and a licensed contractor is still a requirement. It is more likely, however, that you and family members can “pitch in” with the work if the job requires just the contractor and a tradesman or two. This will depend on a number of things, including quite possibly the terms of your homeowner insur-ance.

New cabinets, floors, a fresh coat of new paint, new appliances and new lighting are just a few of the things that can turn an old outdated kitchen into a brand new one for a lot less than a com-plete rebuilding project. However, it all depends on your wishes, and your budget. It is not quite realistic to think you can plan a complete kitchen remodeling, especially a complex one, as an ongoing project or one done in “phases.”

Your kitchen is a center of activity (and suste-nance) in your home, so it cannot be out of commission for long. You should plan your kitchen project as a “get in, get it done, get out” sort of enterprise. There’s no reason to rush, so a steady, productive pace is ideal.

Despite any wishes for a dream kitchen that you may entertain in your imagination, you may have to balance practi-cality with your desires. Still, as long as you take the time to get every-thing in order before the work begins, things should run smoothly. Do the research, do the math, set the money aside and then get to work. If you take the right steps, there is no reason that your dream project has to become a nightmare, and noth-ing to keep your favorite kitchen dream from com-ing true.

Bring Nature In-doors with Cop-per Fountainsby: Amber Liddel

Are you looking for some unique design ideas? What about an indoor water fountain? For many, many years water fountains have been popular outdoor decor and used often in the landscaping of homes and businesses. In the last 10 years or so water features have become very popular indoors as well. There are many benefits to fountains that is just makes sense people want to incorpo-rate them in their homes and offices. With so many fountain styles to choose from just how do you pick?

I always start with recommending copper fountains. I think copper helps to bring the look of nature indoors with the natural material of cop-per. Many fountain artists

use copper because of its beauty, low main-tenance and ease of cleaning. You will find that most water fountains made of copper have a powder coating over the copper to protect it. Typically the copper goes through a heating process to force age it and then a powder coat is applied to protect it from aging. The copper will still age over time but of course, this is part of its beauty.

Copper fountains come in all sizes and styles. You can find copper table fountains, copper wall fountains and even hand sculpted cop-per outdoor fountains. The most popular wall fountain styles are those that have a copper hood and basin. The face is typically a slate, marble or lightweight slate, creating a very natural, earthy, warm look for your home. Tabletop fountains made of cop-per typically have a cop-per basin that the water sits in. Slate is also commonly incorporated with these fountains as well so that water flows down the slate face or tiers into the copper basin. Whether you are looking at a wall foun-tain or a tabletop style, fountains have several benefits. Humidifying the air, drowning out an-noying noises and stress relief are just a few of these benefits.

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Designing Your New Kitchenby: Mike Phillips

Its been said time and time again, by experts in both real estate and the craft trades, that among the best ways to increase the value of your home is to upgrade the kitchen. Sure, we all know that any top-quality improvements that you want to make to your home can get pricey. Marble, rosewood and good craftsmanship don’t come cheap.

There are a few things that you should know before making any big decisions or plunking down your hard-earned dough. The fact of the matter is, you need to have all your ducks in a row before you set out on your designing adven-ture because you will have to live with the results for a long time. Unless you own other homes to escape to, or have vast sums avail-able for ongoing projects, you will need to get this right because a first-rate job will likely last the rest of your life.


Pairing wines with food is fun, entertaining and downright tasty. Many of my 2007 milestones, memories and seasonal celebrations included great food and wine. Here are some of my fa-vorite picks and pairings from last year.

Winter

January is our favorite time to have a party. The holidays are over, everyone is relaxed and there is no better way to spend a snowy night than with good friends. Chinese New Year is a great seasonal theme and everyone likes Asian food. The higher acidity and tropical fruit notes of Rieslings and Gewurztraminers help offset the heat of this spicy cuisine.

Bill’s picks: Chateau Ste. Michelle Eroica Riesling, Washington State, $18; Fitz-Ritter Gewurztramin-er, Germany, $17.

Then comes February, and romance is in the air as we celebrate Valen-tine’s Day. Start with an expensive French Champagne and finish with a port, paired with chocolate of course.

Bill’s picks: Ruinart Blanc de Blancs Champagne, France, $60; Rosenblum Desiree Chocolate Port, California, $21.

Spring

Just a hop or two away, Easter is upon us and the traditional Easter ham. We like to serve either a Chardonnay or a Pinot Gris.

Bill’s picks: Trimbach Pinot Gris “Reserve” Alsace, France, $19; Tapestry Chardonnay McLaren Vale, Australia, $14; Elk Cove Pinot Gris, Oregon, $18.

With the weather warm-ing, we often serve Rosés. Lighter colored Rosés pair well with fish, salads and soft cheeses, while darker red Rosés can stand up to spicy barbecue and Asian cuisine.

wine to Fit All Sorts of Occasions From January to Decemberby: Bill Garlough

Bill’s picks: Chateau De Trinquevedel of Tavel, France, $16; Cabernet d’Anjou, Loire Valley, France, $9.

Summer

As picnics and barbe-cues dominate July, we break out the Zinfandels, Syrahs and Shiraz. Their jammy and slightly sweet fruit is the perfect coun-ter to barbecue’s bold flavors.

Bill’s picks: Rosenblum “North Coast” Zinfandel, Washington, $12; St. Francis “Old Vine” Zin-fandel, California, $15; Cycles Gladiator Central Coast Syrah, California, $12; Mr. Riggs “The Gaffer” Shiraz, Australia, $24.

The oppressive heat of August calls for San-gria. While a couple of pre-bottled varieties are available, nothing beats the taste of homemade Sangria. Shiraz is recom-mended for red Sangria, while Muscat, Riesling and Gewí¼rztraminer are all good bases for white Sangria.

Bill’s picks for pre-bottled Sangria: Real Sangria, Spain, $8; de la Costa Sangria, California, $10.

Fall

Autumn brings Oktober-fest. Riesling’s low alco-hol level and high acidity make it an ideal wine to pair with bratwurst, schnitzels and even sauerbraten.

Bill’s picks: Ress Kabi-nett Riesling, Germany, $13; Dr. Loosen Riesling, Germany, $32; Studert-Prí¼m Riesling, Ger-many; $20.

With our traditional Thanksgiving dinner, I serve the food friendly Pinot Noir

Bill’s picks: A to Z Pinot Noir, Oregon, $18; Jig-saw Pinot Noir, Oregon, $17; Fiddlehead Pinot Noir “Oldsville” Reserve, Oregon, $42.

Champagne Cocktails are a festive way to usher in the holidays. For a more affordable “champagne” cocktail, use either an Italian Prosecco or Spanish Cava. Just add a little of your favorite fruit juice, sweet liquor or aperitif to the sparkling wine and you have a grand start to your celebration.

Bill’s picks: Zardetto Prosecco, Italy, $12; de Marques Gelida Cava, Spain, $13; Mionetto Prosecco di Valdobbia-dene, Italy, $16.

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Quick and Easy Dinner Recipesby: Barbara Pena

Sometimes getting din-ner on the table seems like a daunting task, but with a little pre-planning, it can be quick and easy and even save you money. These quick and easy dinner recipes make getting dinner on the table faster than ordering take-out!

This first recipe is great for the Mexican food lover. The soup and sour cream combine with the taco sauce and chilies to create a creamy but flavor filled sauce. The chips add a simple but nice contrast. You can control the spiciness of this dish by using either a hot or mild taco sauce.

Chicken n’ Chips

1 can cream of chicken soup8 ounces sour cream2 tablespoons taco sauce1/4 cup chopped green chilies3 cups cubed chicken12 slices American cheese slices4 cups broken tortilla chips

Stir together the soup, sour cream, taco sauce and chopped chilies.

In a shallow 2 qt bak-ing dish layer 1/2 of the chicken, soup mixture, cheese and tortilla chips. Repeat Layers.

Bake uncovered at 350 degrees for 25-30 min-utes or until bubbly.

Serve the Chicken n’ Chips with Spanish rice, refried beans and a fresh, crisp salad.

The second recipe is an easy spin on the traditional comfort food of Beef Stroganoff. The aroma of the garlic cooking is fabulous. The flavors meld together very nicely.

Quick and Easy Beef Stroganoff

1 pound beef round steaks - cubed1 onion chopped1 4-ounce can mush-rooms do not drain2 teaspoons minced garlic3 teaspoons beef bouil-lon3 cups water4 cups medium egg noodles1 cup sour cream

Spray a large pot with cooking spray. Cook beef, onions, mush-rooms and garlic over medium high heat. Stir occasionally until meat is cooked through.

Add water, beef bouillon, egg noodles and sour cream to the meat mix-ture. Turn the heat up to high and bring to a boil.

Once boiling, turn heat down to low (do not cover). Cook on low for 5-7 minutes until pasta is desired doneness, stir-ring occasionally.

Remove from heat. Let sit 4-5 minutes before serving. Sauce will thicken as it stands.

To round out this meal, serve with fresh rolls that are warmed in the oven and canned or frozen peas.

This third recipe is a stick to your ribs kind of meal. The stuffing gives this recipe a nice change of pace from your tradi-tion meat and potatoes type dinner. This recipe is also very budget friendly.

Hearty Hamburger Cas-serole

1 pound ground beef1 19-ounce can chunky vegetable soup1 6-ounce package instant stuffing mix1/2 cup shredded Ched-dar cheese

Brown beef in a large skillet until no longer pink. Drain any fat and stir in soup. Set aside.

Prepare stuffing mix according to package directions while beef is cooking.

Spray a 2 qt baking dish with cooking spray. Spoon half of the stuff-ing into baking dish. Layer with beef mixture, cheese and remaining stuffing.

Bake, uncovered, at 350 degrees for 30-35 minutes or until heated through.

This is pretty close to a one-dish meal, but to make it complete, serve with fresh, warmed rolls and a side salad.

These quick and easy dinner recipes should provide some variety to your dinner repertoire and at the same time get dinner on the table fast!

Matching Cham-pagne and Foodby: Louise Truswell

Champagne is regularly served as an aperitif or as a toast at the end of a meal, so it is often over-looked when it comes to food. However, because Champagne is naturally acidic, it makes a really good food match - and not just for oysters and caviar as you might ex-pect, but for a number of different foods.

Non Vintage Cham-pagne

This is the cheapest and probably most common type of Champagne available. Non-vintage Champagne is blended from wines from several years and, in doing so, this ensures that a con-sistent style is achieved. Non-vintage Champagne is younger and, gener-ally, fruiter than other Champagnes, so is a perfect match for slightly lighter foods, such as egg or mushroom based dishes, hard cheeses, pasta or risotto (par-ticularly with a cream or mushroom based sauce), vegetables, fish and seafood. Strange as it may seem, non-vintage Champagne also goes really well with fish and chips, as the acidity of the Champagne helps cut through the oiliness.

Vintage Champagne

Vintage Champagne is made from a blend of wines from a particular year, when the qual-ity of the wine is good enough to declare a vintage. Because it has been aged for a few years, it has as slightly more complex struc-ture than a non-vintage Champagne, so can stand up to stronger, fuller flavours. For ex-ample, all types of fish and seafood, especially when accompanied with a creamy sauce are a perfect match for vintage Champagne, as are lightly smoked foods, cheese, duck, caviar and poultry with a rich sauce.

Blanc de Blancs

Champagne is made from Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier, which are red grapes, along with Chardonnay, which is a white grape. Blanc de Blancs, howev-er, is Champagne which is made exclusively from the Chardonnay grape. This is a rare style of Champagne and goes well with lighter style foods and, in particular, sushi, oysters, goat’s cheese, gently flavoured white fish and vegeta-bles.

Blanc de Noirs

This is Champagne made from just the red grapes, Pinot Noir and / or Pinot Meunier. If you come across a bottle, try teaming it with full flavoured foods such as meat and cheese.

Demi Sec

Demi sec style Cham-pagne is sweeter than traditional brut cham-pagne and is a good match for foie gras or foods that have a slight edge of sweetness to them. It also goes well with desserts (as long as they aren’t too sweet), as well as red berries - particularly strawberries.

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Time to Sell…or Time to Buy?We’re in a recession, which could be severe. Several financial services companies have either collapsed or been bailed out by the government. And the stock market is down about 45 percent since hitting its peak in October of 2007. Is this a “perfect storm” that should blow investors out of the market — or is it actually an opportunity for investors to jump back in?

If you’re an investor, your first impulse might be to join the “get out while you can” camp. After all, it’s no fun seeing the market plunge hundreds of points one day — and then hun-dreds more the next day. And we keep getting hit by waves of bad economic news. What possible rea-son could there be for remaining invested in the market, or even adding more dollars to your cur-rent investments?

Actually, you might be surprised. Some strong historical evidence sug-gests that, during a period such as we are now in, you may indeed benefit by not only staying invested, but also increasing your investment dollars in the fi-nancial markets. Consider this: In nine of the last ten recessions, dating back to 1949, the S & P 500 had moved up by at least 29 percent just 12 months after hitting its lowest point during the recession. Of course, as you’ve no doubt heard, past performance is no guarantee of future results, but it’s interesting to note that the market eventually recovered after each recession.

However, no one can really predict when stocks will reach that low point. It’s possible we’ve already hit it, but it’s just as likely that we’ll see further drops.

And yet, even if you can’t say that we’ve hit a market low, should you sell your stocks to “cut your losses” and use the proceeds to buy what you perceive as less risky investments? Before making this move, you need to consider some important facts. For example, if you pulled out of the stock market and purchased certificates of deposit (CDs) from a strong financial institution, you could reasonably ex-pect that your principal will be safe and that you will receive the interest

payments promised to you. But the interest rate you receive may not even keep up with inflation, so, over time, your investment could end up costing you purchasing power.

On the other hand, if you were to remain invested in the stock market, and if it does follow historical patterns, you do have a chance of making up your losses. Will there be continued volatility in day-to-day price move-ments? Almost certainly. But keep in mind that, over the long term, a portfolio that contains a reasonable amount of stocks, along with bonds, government securities and other in-vestments, gives you the best chance of achieving your financial goals.

And here’s another rea-son to keep investing: As measured by the price-to-earnings ratio (P/E), stocks are currently inex-pensive. If you buy more shares when prices are down, your increased ownership stake should become more valuable when stocks recover — as they have done following every bear market in the past.

It’s tough to stay positive during a gloomy market environment. But the most successful investors are often the ones who have the courage to be optimis-tic when everyone around them is not.

Look for Post-election Invest-ment Opportuni-tiesOver the past few weeks, the country’s attention has been riveted on the presidential election. Of course, we didn’t exactly forget that we’re in difficult economic times, but we did have something else on which to concentrate our thoughts and ener-gies. Now, however, the election is over, and, for many of us, it’s back to focusing on the economy and our investments. By taking a closer look at the current state of affairs, you may find that the situation is more promising than you remembered, back before your thoughts were diverted by polls and prog-nostications.

To begin with, let’s look at what’s been happening to an economic indicator that, while actually quite important, may not be well known to you or many other investors.

LIBOR (London InterBank Offered Rate) is the inter-est rate that banks charge each other for one-month, three-month, six-month and one-year loans. This rate is initially charged by London banks, and is then published and used as the benchmark for banks rates all over the world. The LIBOR rate can matter to you in several ways. First, if you have an adjustable-rate loan, such as a mort-gage, and your rate resets, it is usually based on the LIBOR rate. Even if you have a fixed-rate loan on, say, a credit card, and you pay it off each month, an in-creasing LIBOR will affect you by making all types of consumer and business loans more expensive. This reduces liquidity, which slows economic growth.

And that’s why it’s such good news that LIBOR has fallen steadily for the past few weeks. A lower LIBOR can significantly ease the flow of credit — and, as you’ll recall, the frozen credit market was one of the chief culprits of the financial meltdown.

Apart from a falling LIBOR, what other positive devel-opments have we seen in the financial markets? For one thing, talk about a coming “depression” has largely faded from the scene. Furthermore, stock prices, while still volatile, have shown some up-ward movement in recent weeks. Before the two-day plunge of November 5 and 6, the S & P 500 closed 17.7 percent higher than its low of 848.92, reached on October 27. A 20 percent rise would have technically marked

the end of the current bear market and the beginning of a new bull market. But even after the sharp two-day drop, the S & P 500 was up nearly 10 percent from its October 27 low point.

Still, no one can say that the stock market has already hit bottom. With the economy struggling, it’s unlikely that corporate profits will be robust in the months ahead — and corporate profits are a key driver of stock prices.

But there may be a bright side to this picture: Based on traditional measures of value, stocks are now rela-tively inexpensive. Much of the poor economic news may already be reflected in current stock prices, so, based on today’s price levels, high-quality stocks could well provide attrac-tive returns in the long run. Over the short term, though, be prepared for continued volatility, pos-sibly including large day-to-day price drops.

These are challenging times for investors, but good opportunities are out there. To take advantage of them, you need courage, discipline and patience. Remember, tough times don’t last — but smart investors do.

emphasized so much that there are special Team Building training institutes that conduct team work-shops.

And if we talk about busi-ness firms, Team Building is an effort that is highly emphasized, and there is a correct need to do so. Today, a company’s manpower is so large, hundreds and thousands of people working to-gether, sometimes even geographically apart, that Team Building becomes as much important as difficult to achieve.

To help learn Team Build-ing lessons, companies conduct Team Building activities periodically. The highlighted aim of such activities is to let all the employees participate equally, share the respon-sibilities and understand the essence of Team Build-ing. To create a positive impact on organizational growth, there are various institutions that conduct Team Building workshops. These workshops empha-size the team’s effective-ness in achieving the goals, and hone the team’s armament.

Great teams make great organizations, and this is precisely the reason of the mounting popularity of Team Building corporate learning institutes. There are many success stories of such institutes who have converted ‘a group of people’ into ‘a team’, and reaped huge benefits. Remember, alone you can win a game, but together you win championships!

The Key to Productivityby: Tirena Jones

What? Most of us have so many things on our mind every-day, and to top it off we are more accessible than ever before with our mobile devices, e-mail and phone. With all of these commu-nication devices we are unable to stop at the end of a workday physically and mentally. Even if we do turn off our cell phone at the end of the day and vow to stay away from e-mail at home, work’s still there many times at the forefront of our thoughts. You may be having dinner with your spouse and although engaged in conversation, your mind is somewhere else. You may be read-ing your kids a story and yet you are rehearsing tomorrow’s presentation in the back of your mind or mentally planning your day.

So What? Have you ever been

doing something really fun or been somewhere that is breathtaking such as the Grand Canyon? And in that place, you couldn’t enjoy it as much as you should have because you were thinking about something else. I have, many times. That is until I heard of the concept of “right now”. It’s a simple concept really, but it can dramatically change your life. When your mind is not focused on your actions, you lack harmony and you cannot truly do either one very well.

Developed by Chris Crouch, author and cre-ator of the Go System, the concept of “Right Now” simply states that by using a cuing phrase such as “right now” you can bring your mind back into con-gruence with your actions. I’ve tried it and it works. On the weekends, I take my 2 kids to the park and often have found myself mentally drifting back to work, deadlines, clients, and so on. After learning the technique, I am able to catch myself and think “right now I am enjoying time with my kids”. After that I can focus on what I am doing at the moment and enjoy it so much more.

This is extremely helpful during work as well. When you just need to focus and get something done, this technique can help you limit all of the other distrac-tions that can knock you off course. Think “right now I am working on the ABC project” or “right now I am focusing on this meeting”. You may have to keep mentally repeating it as other things come up but the effect can be amaz-ing. Every distraction we encounter while trying to complete a task only increases the amount of time we have to spend on that task. I know that when I am trying to focus on a bookkeeping task it’s critical that I focus on what I am doing at the moment so I do not make a mistake or lose my concentration.

Now What?Try this technique during the next week and it will dramatically alter the way you see the world. My two year old has the right now concept down pat. He thinks “right now I want a cookie” and subsequently all of his worldly efforts will be directed at that cookie and nothing else is on his mind. As a parent, that sometimes can cause a struggle, but I admire his unwaivering focus and determination. Right now, just imagine how much you could get done if you could focus completely.

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Team Building: win Champi-onships, not gamesby: Vibha Babbar

There was a fable which most of us would have heard in our raw ages- how a sparrow was caught in a net by a chaser, tried hard to do break free, when other sparrow friends came to her rescue. They all got together and flew away to the forest along with the net. In the for-est, a rat friend bit away the net with his teeth, and saved the sparrow. Moral: Together, a team can cross all hurdles. Such Team Building Aesop’s fables are commonly used today.

Team Building isn’t marked by the concepts of age, time or space. It’s some-thing that is taught to us since nursery, is on the top-most-agendas list in management schools, and is given due importance in companies and corporate firms. The importance of Team Building is


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Capture Every Detail with the Olympus Mjuby: Jason Dion

A leading manufacturer of digital photographic equip-ment, Olympus has led many innovations in the fields of imaging with their extensive market research and implementation of new technologies. Olympus, a Japanese company, was formed in 1919, and has since enjoyed consider-able success and rapid growth. Previously known as Takachiho Seisakusho, the first optical product by Olympus was a micro-scope.

Their first photographic product was the Semi-Olympus I launched in 1936. It was a 120-roll film camera with a fixed Zuiko 75mm F4.5 lens, again an Olympus prod-uct. Olympus introduced the world to the first half-frame Single Lens Reflex (SLR) camera. With trend-setting products in the field of imaging, Olympus has subsidiaries in many coun-tries of the world including Europe.

The Mju series also known as Stylus or Stylus Epic includes some of Olym-pus’ best-selling camera models to date. With a clamp-shell closing mech-anism, these cameras are compact, lightweight, stylishly designed and come in different colours with varied specifications. Olympus Mju cameras are water resistant and shock proof.

The Mju 820 is a digital camera from Olympus. It comes with 5x optical zoom and an eight mega-pixel resolution that lets you capture every minute detail. The Mju 820 gives you an excellent preview in dim as well as bright lighting owing to its giant 6.9cm HyperCrystal LCD technology. The Bright-Capture technology en-sures your photos turn out perfectly even in low-light conditions. You can liven up your memories with the Mju 820’s movie-recording feature that offers up to three hours of video. This camera is available in blue, black, red and silver.

With a stunning 12 mega-pixel resolution and 3x optical zoom, the Olympus Mju 1200 ensures you don’t miss out on even the smallest detail and your pictures are crystal clear. The face detection technology results in

perfectly focused faces with the correct light ex-posure. The HyperCrystal LCD along with the high ISO setting allows you to review and share blur-free shots with friends. The Olympus Mju 1200 has 20 scene modes to capture photos in different situations. Moreover, the TruePic III image proces-sor enables faster image handling with excellent quality.

Other Olympus cameras include the Mju 770, the Mju 840, the Mju 1030, the Mju 1010 and the Mju 800. Olympus Mju cameras are user-friendly and easy to operate and so can be used by amateurs as well as professionals.

getting Nintendo wii is Now Every Family’s Affairby: Jay Davis

Many parents have been wanting to get some video games them for their kids since they were released. These parents believe that by giving their kids these video games, they will have lesser troubles in dealing with their kids’ bad habit of going to the arcades to spend long hours of play.

Ever since, Nintendo has been one of the names that pops up first as far as game console marketing is con-cerned and has been one of the first names that gets into the mind of parents considering safer gaming experience for their kids. Now, future for Nintendo will surely be even brighter with its Wii System in line. The name Nintendo will mark even more on the mind of parents.

The Wii System is a sev-enth-generation console and a primariy competitor of Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and Sony’s PlayStation 3 in the market. Last year it has conquered the mar-ket, was first and actually received great support from people, particularly from parents. It got higher sales than its other afore-mentioned competitors. According to the NPD Group, the Wii sold more units in the United States than the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in the first half of this year. At the end of this year, its sales are anticipated to increase even more, being even far better than last year.

Parents have been sup-porting the Wii System last year because of its good features and good effects on their kids. It was noted that their kids with use of Wii System have given lesser attention to brows-ing the internet, texting their friends and most especially have refrained from going to arcades to play.

Features basically include system being more ef-ficient to use without any other devices needed, and games being better and being even greater than past console games. The games include games fa-miliar to everyone just like bowling, baseball, and ten-nis. They are really helpful not only for the kids as they get a work on their eye co-ordination but also for dads and moms as well as they get a workout program. They are totally playable too even by small kids as they are in simple settings or set up. Kids can easily play the games. Some other familiar games are also available. Other ad-venture-related games for the system will be released soon. Thus, kids will have some other great game options.

Also, Wii offers legendary Nintendo franchises like Zelda, Mario, and Metroid, as well as all new classics such as Wii Play and Wii Sports. Creating own Mii character to star in Wii games and playing with friends online over Nin-tendo Wi-Fi Connection are also possible. Not to forget use of the Internet Channel to surf the internet from the comforts of your sofa and even download Nintendo games using the Wii Shop Channel.

Because of the its good features, it has been one of the best-sellers on the gaming market and so has been causing some parents great trouble as they always seem to have their names listed on the waiting list. They still need to use a tracker in order for them to check list of merchants that have some Wiis on stock.

At present, Nintedo’s Wii System has proven its worth on the market and its worth to both parents and kids. Right now, both parents and kids are after to having it for them to enjoy, thus becoming a true family affair.

Touchscreen Mobi le Phones Go to War - Blackberry Storm Vs Nokia 5800by: Matt Sharp

It’s time for what may seem to be an odd match-up today, but when you think about it, these two particular mobile phones are actually pretty evenly matched, and pitting them against each other DOES make sense. So, let’s settle down watch the action as the Blackberry Storm takes on the Nokia 5800.

Nokia 5800 - touch, feel, play

The first phone in this bat-tle’s a totally new member of Nokia’s Xpress range of music mobile phones, the gorgeous Nokia 5800. This phone is quite obvi-ously made for music and media, as it has a separate XpressMedia button that pops up a list of links to mu-sic, videos, the web, and more. Then, of course, the Nokia 5800 has a 3.2 inch touch-sensitive display, to let you use all your media files. Essentially, the Nokia 5800 was created to be a little handheld jukebox and movie player, and as mu-sic devices go, this is just about the prettiest. The Nokia 5800 also has, built-in, a 3 megapixel camera, HSDPA internet access and sat-nav, making it a wonderful all-rounder, as well as a brilliant media box. Oh, and it has a strap to fasten on a fake guitar plectrum. That rocks.

It’s also the first mobile phone to use the new Symbian S60 Touch plat-form, making it the first of a generation. So, with that in mind, let’s pit it against another phone that uses a brand new, touchscreen platform: the gorgeous Blackberry Storm.


Blackberry Storm - more than just a storm in a teacup

Up against the Nokia 5800 is the new Black-berry Storm, and although it might seem an odd match-up, in fight terms, it’s not actually as daft as it sounds. For example, both the Nokia 5800 and the Blackberry Storm are the first mobile phones to feature the touch ver-sions of their respective operating systems, with the Blackberry Storm be-ing based, obviously, on the Blackberry OS (well, the touch version of it, anyway). The Blackberry Storm also has a 3 mega-pixel camera, similar to the 5800, and it has a wealth of multimedia options. Both mobile phones also forgo a physical keyboard, but the Blackberry Storm adds something new to its virtual keyboard (well, to its interface as a whole): a moving, clickable screen. That’s right, the whole screen is clickable like a giant button, making ‘accidentally starting ap-plications by touching the wrong icon’ a thing of the past. Of course, like all of its predecessors, the Blackberry Storm lives for email, as well, and its push email, just like its ancestors, lets you keep in touch with your emails, no matter where.

Nokia 5800 vs Blackberry Storm - which one should YOU buy?

So, which of these two mobile phones should you go for? Should you go for the more media-oriented Nokia 5800? Or possibly you like the email capa-bilities of the Blackberry Storm? Well, to a certain extent, it WILL come down to what you wan to use it for. The Blackberry Storm is undoubtedly the more capable of the two mobile phones for email. Well, come on, it has Blackberry email access, surely that was never in doubt! However, when it comes to media, the Nokia 5800 is clearly the more capable, with more colours no screen, smoother play-back, better music quality, and so on. However, there is one thing you need to know about the Blackberry Storm, because its biggest strength is also its biggest flaw: that clickable touch-screen. It’s innovative, it completely removes the possibility of catching the wrong icon on screen, and it’s not been seen on any other mobile phones before, giving it cool factor. BUT (and it’s a big but), you have to really press down on it; when typing out an email on the Black

berry Storm, it’s going to absolutely destroy your thumb muscles after a while, and quite apart from tiring your hands quicker, it also makes it marginally slower to type that email. So, given the fact that it may well physically hurt to use the Storm after a while, the winner, for me, has to be the Nokia 5800.

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Healthy Eating Habits is the Key to a Healthy Heartby: Ted Brumby

A large number of people around the world are suf-fering from different types of heart conditions and dis-eases. The most common cause of heart problems is eating unhealthy, fatty foods. Food rich in satu-rated fats reduces the ab-sorption of cholesterol in the body. High cholesterol leads to deposit of fatty acids in the body, which in turn reduces the blood flow to the arteries and causes severe heart problems. It is therefore important to eat healthy food because healthy eating is the key to healthy heart.

It is a general assump-tion that healthy eating means giving up your favourite foods like meat, pastas, cakes and pud-dings. But, this is not so. In fact, healthy eating is more about a balanced diet. It involves choosing foods from different food groups.

A great example of bal-anced diet is one that includes lean meat, poul-try, fish, eggs, pasta, rice, noodles, lot of vegetables and salads. A vegetarian person can take meat alternatives like beans, nuts, legumes or lentils. One should plan a sen-sible meal for a healthy heart. All fats are not bad for our heart and body. So, use oils such as sun-flower, canola, soybean, olive, peanut rather than coconut oil and palm oil for cooking or frying. Similarly, consume skimmed or low fat dairy products, milk, yogurt and cheese and not full fat dairy products. If you like meat, you can eat lean meat but try not to eat sausages, offal, kidney or liver as they contain high levels of cholesterol.

If you are fond of pastas and pizzas, you can enjoy them too. But, use low fat products to prepare healthy heart recipes. These days, you can find a number of companies that sell low cholesterol products in the form of spreads and oils that are good for heart. You can use them to prepare some healthy heart recipes such as creamy mushroom fet-tucine, creamy chicken pasta, tuna and carrot pasta bake, lentil and to-mato soup with spices,

baked salmon with rice, roasted vegetable lasa-gna, muffins, date cake and many more delicious foods without worrying about high cholesterol intake.

For healthy heart, try to adopt low fat cook-ing methods like baking, poaching, grilling, steam-ing or using the micro-wave. At the same time, drink lots of fresh water or diluted juice to quench your thirst. Avoid soft drinks and energy drinks as they can be harmful for the body. You can follow this simple and healthy eating schedule and as-sure yourself of a healthy heart and therefore, a longer life.

Top Facial Skin R e j u v e n a t i o n Tips and Treat-mentsby: Ray A. Rubio

Looking young is one of the greatest desires of any human being, espe-cially women that want to look attractive not just in their teenage years but in their senior years. Facial skin rejuvenation treat-ments have been in great demand from people that wan to recover the youthful looking skin.

There are many anti aging products and treatments that have been devel-oped through the years that have been proven to reduce the visual signs of aging especially in the face.

Some of the most impor-tant parts of the face that need a rejuvenation treat-ment are the forehead, neck, dark circles around the eyes and mouth. Those seem to be the more sensitive parts that make people look older if they don’t have a skin care routine and proper anti aging products.

Facial skin rejuvenation treatments

Some of the most popular facial rejuvenation treat-ments are Botox, chemical peels, laser resurfacing, cosmetic surgery, face lifts, etc.

The problem with those treatments is that they are invasive and have some degree of risk. Also those treatments are very ex-pensive and not affordable for the average person.

On the other hand there are some non invasive facial skin rejuvenation treatments that are made with anti aging creams or radio wave frequencies. There is a new facial treatment called thermage that uses only radio wave frequencies to relax wrin-kles, without any invasive procedure.

Anti wrinkle skin care products are another great option if you want to im-prove your skin appear-ance without invasive procedures, however not all skin care products are created equal, there are a lot of very ineffective creams in the market that can even be harmful for your skin.

The best anti aging creams for facial rejuvenation are made of natural ingredi-ents found in plant ex-tracts, seeds, water, etc.

10 Steps to get a Good Night’s Sleepby: Sean Green

Everyday, your body is ex-posed to pollutants around you. At night, when you rest, your body repairs it-self of the damage caused by pollutants during the day. Studies show that an average adult needs about 8 hours of sleep a day for the body to get sufficient rest and repair. However, most of us find it difficult to obtain the necessary hours of sleep. Worse, some of us resort to mak-ing do with as little as 4 to 5 hours of sleep daily, not knowing what a detrimen-tal position we are putting ourselves in. Besides not allowing the body to repair itself from daily wear and tear, not having enough sleep can also risk our personal safety and the lives of others (e.g. driving with your loved ones in the car), lower the quality of work put into our jobs (e.g. making mistakes while

drafting a detailed pro-posal) or even negatively affect our relationships with others.

In view of the importance of having the right amount of rest to us, here are 10 pointers on how you can achieve better sleep qual-ity and quantity:

1. Drink less caffeine. This means drinking less or avoiding altogether tea, cola and non-decaf coffee. Caffeine takes up to 8 hours to wear off (so, yes, drinking decaffein-ated coffee is also a way to get around this). Drink less of or avoid drinking completely caffeine about 6 hours before bedtime. This will help you fall asleep more easily.

2. Avoid alcohol. For some people, drinking alcohol may induce sleepiness to set in, but it can also cause one to have less restful sleep. Consuming alcohol can cause you to more likely wake up during the night.

3. Chill out before bedtime. Stress makes it harder to sleep. Putting aside some time to wind-down each night can help separate the day’s stress and the night’s resting time. For most people, 10 minutes is sufficient. Alternatively, write down the thoughts that are stressing you. This will allow you to get a better night’s sleep. Deal with the problem only the following morning, when you are fresher and have better ability to think straight.

4. Exercise. Ever heard of a Beatle’s song that went “It’s been a hard day’s night, I should be sleep-ing like a log”? Lack of physical exertion leaves you with unspent energy and little motivation to fall asleep. Regular exercise (requiring actual physical exertion) increases the chance of you getting deeper and more restful sleep. Just don’t exercise right before bedtime.

5. Have a good sleeping location. The bedroom should be cool, quiet, dark and comfortable. To achieve this, use window blinds, curtains, air con-ditioner or any other item that can help create the ideal environment for rest-ful sleep. Choose room colours that help reduce stress and allow you to sleep more easily. Colours such as blue are usually good choices. Colours like red and orange tend to have the opposite effect.

6. Eat sufficiently. Avoid going to bed hungry, but do not eat anything heavy before bedtime. Eating too much will keep you awake. Allow at least 3 hours after meals before going to sleep. Certain foods contain a high level of tryptophan, a substance which promotes sleep. These include milk, tuna, bananas, turkey, yogurt, ice cream and peanuts.

7. Restrict smoking. Al-though having a smoke may feel relaxing before bedtime, it actually in-creases stimulants in your bloodstream. Nicotine has the same effect as caf-feine; it should be avoided as it can cause you to wake up in the middle of the night. This means it is advisable to reduce or even avoid smoking in the evening so that you get some uninterrupted sleep during bedtime.

8. Avoid long naps. If you do need to nap in the afternoon, keep it short to about 20 minutes – this is usually sufficient to feel rejuvenated. Anything longer could potentially disrupt your nightly sleep routine.

9. Keep pets off the bed. Do your pets sleep in the same bed as you? If they do, their movements or allergic reactions might awaken you at night. Pets are better kept off the bed and on the floor.

10. Dress comfortably. Choose to wear loose-fitting pajamas made of material which are high-ly air-permeable. Avoid wearing tight clothes, as this will affect your blood circulation and can cause you a restless night.

Dieting: Fast Food Do’s and Don’tsby: Lauren S Johnson

With our busy schedules we just can’t help but to stop at a fast food restau-rant once in a while. Taking kids to school, working a 9 to 5 shift and maintaining a clean household can put quite a strain on our time. That is why a drive-through food service seems very appealing at times. When we find ourselves in this particular situation, is there anything on the menu which will not make our waistline plump?

When you are at a fast food restaurant, there are certain factors to take into consideration. Of course anything fried should be immediately eliminated from your list of choices. We all know that fried food is laden with calories, cholesterol, sodium and numerous other preserva-tives. And keep in mind that your kids should also stay clear from anything fried. French fries, onion rings, sodas, and super-size meals are all bad news. They will quickly rob you of your health and of your slim waist. While at the drive through window, you should opt for a salad with dressing on the side or a grilled chicken sand-wich without the works (no mayo, bacon, etc.).

If you decide to skip the drive through and head to a sandwich shop, there are also certain valuable tips to keep in mind. First of all choose the best bread (whole grain is by far the best). You should also opt for lean meats, such as turkey breast or chicken breast. And instead of mayo and bacon, try adding more veggies to your sandwich. However, the most important thing to remember about fast food is to never make it a daily habit. If the diet you are currently consuming consists of more than one visit to your local fast food joint, you should rethink your meal plan. Because if you want to lose weight, no diet pill will help you do so with bad eating habits such as this one.

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Who is the host of Show Me the Money?

a) Regis Philbin b) Alex Trebek c) Paul Reubens d) William Shatner

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3 Bedroom and 1.50 Bath 1264 Sqft. on 10.00 acres 1264 sq ft stick built rambler sited on 2.27 acres. Tiled kitchen,new carpet,wood trim & fresh paint. Porch wraps half the home with seasonal pond, willow trees and territorial views. Detached 1008 sq ft 3-stall garage. All this plus 3 other lots, approx. 2.5 acres each included in the price. John L. Scott, Inc. Kingston (360) 297-750____________________KINGSTON: $395,000 i3 Bedroom and 2.50 Bath 2582 Sqft. Like new 2006 Kingston area home. 2582 sq Ft, .26 acre lot, 3 large bedrooms and bonus room on second level. 2.5 Baths, 2 Car Garage. Master suite with shower and separate soaking tub. Custom wood blinds. Coffered dining room ceil-ing. Hardiplank exterior. Hardwood floors. Walk-in closets for each bedroom. Matching stainless steel kitchen appliances. Fully enclosed backyard with 6 Ft privacy fence. Beautiful porch and deck. Immedi-ately adjacent to private community park, beach, and boat launch. Better Properties Real Estate (253) 589-2680____________________KINGSTON: $399,000 4 Bedroom and 1.75 Bath

2384 Sqft. on 2.50 acres Seller might take back a 2nd mortgage.PRIVACY PLUS. This level entry home with basement is located on a level 2.5-acre lot located at the end of the road just 2 miles from downtown Kingston. Detached double garage has a workshop area in the back. Large barn that could be used as a large shop or extra parking. Peek-a-boo view of the Olympic Mountains that improves as the trees shed their leaves in the winter. The kitchen, bath-rooms, floor coverings, decking, and basement area all newly remodeled. Cunningham Real Estate Service (425) 778-7827____________________KINGSTON: $399,000 3 Bedroom and 2.00 Bath 1080 Sqft. Come see the awesome 200 degree view that includes the Cascade Mountains, Mt. Baker, Kingston/Edmonds ferry. This .49 acre lot has a 1,080 sq ft manufactured home with power, water and 3 bdrm septic. Come build your dream home with one of the best views available. It has been a rental property and now the value is in the land. The home is being sold as-is! This site also includes beach access. MLS4own-ers.com (253) 460-1900KINGSTON: $399,000 2

Bedroom and 2.00 Bath 2184 Sqft. on 2.50 acres Private & serene home tucked away on 2.5 acres amongst ponds, gardens & nature. So private no one would know it’s there, yet seconds from schools, shopping & ferry. Artistic 2 bedroom plus den home, with an abundance of glass doors, windows & wrap around deck for enjoying the surround-ings. Daylight basement offers additional living area & work space. Two car garage & covered carport plus garden shed. Garden-ers delight, a must see! 3 bedroom septic. John L. Scott, Inc. Kingston (360) 297-7500____________________KINGSTON: $399,950 4 Bedroom and 2.25 Bath 2114 Sqft. on 2.09 acres This well maintained, 4 bdrm mini-farm on 2 acres is just minutes to Kingston. Features in-clude large living areas, 2 fireplaces, master suite w/ private bath, fam-ily rm, oversized garage, new decks & newer vinyl windows. Outside is level acreage used for pasture or farming. An irrigation well makes watering on the farm economical. A separate shop building is included that was once a stall barn & tack room. Move-in condition & great location make this home a fabulous find. Windermere RE-Kingston, Inc. (360) 297-2661____________________PORT LUDLOW: $355,000 4 Bedroom and 2.00 Bath 2916 Sqft. Light and bright. Plenty of room for a fam-ily or guests. Partial view of the Cascades. Large cooks kitchen open to the family room with fireplace. Three bedrooms up stairs and one down. Living room with formal dining. Game room and office or den downstairs with additional fireplace. Comes with all of Port Ludlow’s amenities. Coldwell Banker Town &

Country (360) 385-4111PORT LUDLOW:$363,000 2 Bedroom and 1.00 Bath 1370 Sqft. Hood Canal and Cascade mntn views from this Paradise Estates home in Port Ludlow. Great vacation rental opportunity. Community beach access directly across street. 2-bdrm ram-bler features a fenced back yard & an additional lot. Great views from kitchen, living rm & dining area off kitchen. Propane stove in living room. Attached garage w/storage room. Community boat ramp & beach. Feel like you are always on vacation in this view home near the Hood Canal Bridge & the Port Ludlow golf course. Coldwell Banker Town & Country (360) 437-2278____________________PORT LUDLOW: $365,000 2 Bedroom and 2.00 Bath 1955 Sqft. Huge Price Re-duction!! Plus, a 2-year full purchase price buy-back program. One-level living open floor plan. Large landscaped lot. Located in quiet neighborhood. Tile counter-tops, maple cabinets and flooring, in-formal eating area, pantry, skylights. Large bedroom suite with walk-in closet and double sinks. Den/office. Covered porches. A terrific new home and priced so well that inves-tors should look at this one. In heart of Port Ludlow! John L. Scott/Port Ludlow (360) 437-9434____________________

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Scott, Inc. Kingston (360) 297-7500____________________PORT LUDLOW: $369,500 2 Bedroom and 2.00 Bath 1875 Sqft. Custom home in Port Ludlows Resort Community. Spacious Bedrooms,2 full baths on one level, formal living room/dining area,kitchen with island cook top and bar seating,breakfast nook & pantry.Den/bonus room off kitchen offers privacy for reading or use as media room.Propane fireplace in the living room.Spacious partially covered deck with space for barbque.Beau-tifully landscaped extra large private lot located on a sunny knoll. Amenities include golf,marina,Bay Club,pool,tennis,trails and more! Windermere RE/Port Hadlock (360) 385-9331____________________PORT LUDLOW: $379,000 2 Bedroom and 1.75 Bath 1730 Sqft. A beautiful home in both design & its woodland park-like landscaping that together create a private oasis. Lo-cated near the Port Ludlow Marina & the Beach Club Resort. Enjoy vaulted ceilings, hardwood floors & an open, galley kitchen. The great room features a wall of windows as well as a built-in propane fire-place. Access to private patio from either of two ensuites. Extra large tiled shower in master bath. Pellet stove in insulated garage. Holding tank w/pump drainage system in front yard. Coldwell Banker Town & Country (360) 437-2278P O R T H A D L O C K : $350,000 3 Bedroom and 1.75 Bath 2720 Sqft. Situated on a large lot w/filtered water views of Port Townsend Bay, this bright home features a large deck, a skylighted entry, hardwood floors & island kitchen. The walk-out lower level is ready to transform into a rec or en-tertainment area & is also plumbed & constructed for additional bathroom & bedroom space. Large windows take in wooded

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Which TV show was the first to air a toilet?

a) The Simpsons b) All in the Family c) I Love Lucy d) Leave it to Beaver

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TRAVELWashington State has everything to offer RV lovers - pristine old-growth pine forests, snow-capped mountain peaks, rain-forests, glaciers and a coastline unlike anywhere else in the United States. And, right in the middle of it all is the city of Seattle, a great jumping off point for your motor home ad-ventures.

You’ll find a wide variety of natural beauty and outdoor activities in Wash-ington State.

The Olympic Peninsula has quite a variety to of-fer, for such a small area. There are beautiful coast-lines that zigzag back and forth. You can see giant meadows where glaciers are slowly melting off and joining the ocean. And there are valleys where you can enjoy America’s only rainforests.

Here are a few of the most popular motor home parks in the area:

Crescent Beach and RV Park in Port Angeles puts you an easy half-mile from a great, sandy beach. This area is fully equipped with hook-ups and modern facilities, and there are a number of activities you can enjoy on the beach, including kayaking, kite flying and good surfing.

Fort Worden State Park in Port Townsend is fully equipped with everything you’ll need, and it has two separate sights for you to choose from. You can choose a spot in the middle of the forest, or out in the open where you can see

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the Straits of Juan de Fuca. There are many activities in walking distance of the site, including museums, an aquarium and nature hikes.

At Old Fort Townsend Sate Park in Port Townsend, you get a great view of the port and the island. It’s right next to the water, so you’ll hear the ocean waves rolling in. They do not accept reservations, however, so it’s sometimes hard to get a spot.

At The Edge of the Volcano - Mount St. Helens

No trip to Washington would be complete without seeing America’s biggest volcano. In 1980, St. Hel-ens erupted, sending ash into the air, lava over the ground and destroying the nearby communities. But don’t worry, they’re keep-ing tabs on her, and they’ll let you know if it looks like it’s going to happen again!

Now you can see the after-effects of the eruption. There are giant pieces of ruptured rock, lava beds, and the majestic cinder cone itself, looming in the distance.

St. Helens is located in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest, and there are many activities there, includ-ing camping, hiking and other outdoor recreational pursuits. Here are a few of the best motor home spots in the area.

Mt. St. Helens RV Park at Castle Rock is an RV site favored by the locals be-cause of its friendly, helpful staff and close

proximity to all the things to do.

Toutle’s Eco Park Resort is as close as you can get to the mountain, and still sleep in an RV. The entire space is 90 acres, and it is full of activities such as horseback riding, hiking, wildlife viewing and heli-copter tours.

Lush Woodlands And Melting Glaciers - Mount Rainier

How about another great volcano that has less chance of exploding? The 14,410 foot Mt. Rainier is a volcano just like Mt. St. Helens, but the almost 40 square miles of glaciers and snow help keep a cap on it. The mountain is surrounded by miles of forests and meadows. There are hiking trails and campgrounds throughout the area, where you can be surrounded by whisper-ing pines with the snow-capped mountain peaks in the distance.

Mt. Rainier National Park has quite a few options for accommodations and is the closest you can get to everything. It offers sights such as hot springs, glaciers and geysers, and there is biking, fishing, horseback riding, skiing and auto touring.

Rainier View RV Park in Graham is a great spot for those who would rather get a view of the mountain than be at the base of it. It is located on a high hill where every site has a great view of the mountain and surrounding forests.

With it’s wonderful coast-line, lush forests, sub alpine meadows and tow-ering mountain peaks, Washington is a great destination for your motor home.

Let’s Go Ride a (mountain) Bike in Seattleby: Ella Simpson

So if you know anything about Seattle, you know that it is beyond well-known for its outdoor activities. Mountain biking is just one those activities that is a natural fit for the northwest.

Trails EverywhereThere are a ton of reasons why Seattle is such a great place to mountain bike, but one of the main reasons is the landscape itself. I mean, you’ve got the the Olympic National Forest, the Cascades, and every-thing in between. And all these are home to trails for all types of skill levels.

There are trails suitable for kids, as well as those that are more complicated for more technical riders. What’s great, too, is that there are a ton of clubs and associations around the area that are really big into getting people out and about mountain biking on some of these great trails. One of these clubs is the Backcountry Bicycle Trails Club. These guys are not only into mountain biking, but, as the name suggests, love anything to do with the outdoors. Plus, they’re really helpful to anyone interested in getting some more information on Se-attle mountain biking.

Popular TrailOne of the most popular trails for mountain biking (as well as for roller blad-ers, road cyclists, and any-one interested in getting out and enjoying Seattle) is the Burke-Gilman Trail. The Burke-Gilman trail ac-tually links different parts of Seattle together and is a great way for people to get around. The trail is a fairly long one and even passes by Lake Wash-ington. There are some great views of the Seattle area from the trail, so you’ll want to make sure that you at least spend some time checking it out.

Mountain Biking as a VisitorIf you’re visiting the area for a few short days, you might not have your mountain bike with you, but don’t worry. Since Seattle is such a haven of outdoor enthusiasts, there are plenty of shops in and around Seattle that are more than happy to rent you a mountain bike while your there. What’s even better is that these places can also point you in the right direction and give you a heads up on some trails suitable to your skill level.

Medicines From the Deepseaby: Brayan Peter

The discovery of novel chemical compounds from deep-sea marine organ-isms often takes us to new and exciting locations. One of the first steps in planning such an expedi-tion is to thoroughly review the scientific literature about a new target site. This includes reviewing surveys and literature on the biology and geology of a region by environmental consulting firms, govern-ment agencies, such as the Minerals Management Service, National Marine Fisheries Service, and U.S. Geological Survey, and various research institutions. This will help us determine whether an area is worth spending precious time and funds to explore.

Our research expeditions have taken us throughout the Caribbean; to the eastern Atlantic, includ-ing the Azores, Canary Islands, Cape Verde and western Africa; to the Pacific Ocean, including the Galapagos Islands, Samoa, Papua New Guin-ea, and Australia; and to the Indian Ocean, to the Seychelles and Thailand. Our target organisms are often associated with hard-bottom habitat and include sponges, octo-corals, bryozoans, tuni-cates, and algae. Detailed bathymetric charts are also useful in determining whether the “right” bottom type is present to provide essential habitat for ben-thic organisms. Little is known about the deep-sea environment in most of the places we have explored, so we always have to start with our best guess.

Over the past quarter-century, more than 10,000 compounds have been reported from marine-derived organisms. These compounds encompass a wide variety of chemical structures including aceto-genins, polyketides, ter-penes, alkaloids, peptides and many compounds of mixed biosynthesis. A number of excellent books and reviews document the diversity of both structures and bioactivities that have been observed for marine-derived compounds At least 12 marine-derived compounds are currently under clinical investiga-tion for use as anticancer agents. These include ecteinascidin, from the tunicate Ecteinascidia tur-binata, which is in Phase III clinical trials; aplidine, from the ascidian Aplidium albicans, which is in Phase II trials; dolastatin, from the sea hare Dolabella aura-tium, which is in Phase I trials; and bryostatin, from the bryozoan Bugula neritina, which is in Phase I/II trials.

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