Maxine T. Blewett
Visits should be short, like a winter's day.

I have always had a dream to live in Las Vegas and now I am about to make it happen. After looking for job openings in the area for over a year, I finally managed to get hired and I will be starting my new job pretty soon. It is all rather excited, and I can’t wait to get started. But I need an apartment and I have been looking at Alicante Villla as a place where I might live, but I do not know enough about it yet. I have gone to their website to look at floor plans and some of the other details.

One thing that is important to me, is that I want to learn more about the area. I am going to look online to see what is close to it in terms of dining and shopping options. But I would also like to go visit the place for myself and see what it looks like and get a feel for the area in that manner as well. Read more

I have been disappointed in the United States for some time now. With our politicians locked in a battle with each other which has only driven our country further apart in ideologies or understanding, I realized that I wasn’t happy here. It bothered me to such a degree that I began to feel like the only way to find some sort of content would be to move somewhere else for a time so I could gain some insight. A close friend of mine told me about the Condo Gallery in Singapore, a place that he had recently moved into, and suggested that I might find Singapore more to my liking.

Due to the mobile nature of my career, I have the luxury to move whenever I desire. I’ve never quite gone to such a length to move myself or my career but with the mounting frustration and stress that I’ve been experiencing through the past five years, I was desperate and ready for something else. I needed a breath of fresh air. I wanted to feel like my home wasn’t going to crumble around me into rioting. That’s how it feels for some of us who live in the United States.

Singapore isn’t like that. There is a sense of control here – they don’t have much in the way of social programs like America does. Instead they encourage the individual to be able to provide for themselves and for those that are unable to do that they offer them education, a place to live and opportunity to improve their lives. It has completely changed the way I see social programs; they are both good and bad programs. I have realized that what people need more than anything else is opportunity to improve their lives and the tools in which they are able to utilize to take advantage of that opportunity.

My boyfriend and I have been dating for a year, and this past week we decided to move in together. Neither one of us has lived with a significant other before, so we had to decide what kind of changes we need to make. Because we were moving into my place, my guy told me that we needed to look into DSL in Montpelier where I live. I kept trying to hold off because I assumed my Internet service was fast enough and I already had a monthly fee that I was comfortable with. But once he moved in, I quickly learned why he was so firm about me getting faster service.

My guy loves video games. Read more

My kids were complaining about our Internet service. The holidays added two more laptops and two more tablets to our already strained bandwidth. I was okay with their complaining until my wife started in. When your wife complains, you do something about it. If you have teens or preteen kids, you probably have already learned how to ignore their complaining since they were five. With our Internet service being so slow I checked online to see what the local CenturyLink broadband connection would cost. Our old DSL had outlived its usefulness to us as a bandwidth hungry family who is always online.

I looked at what we had connected to our Internet. Read more

After buying a new house, I have been trying to think of different things that I need to get done. I know that having a new house is a big deal, and I have already taken care of a lot of things. I just had a home owner’s insurance policy put on the house. That was one of the first things I needed to get done. Now, I need to get a security system for the house. That is one of my top priorities, and I need info on olive branch security services and companies that install home security systems in this area.

I have never had a home security system before, but my wife has convinced me that it is a good idea. Especially, since we have a new house. Our old house was not very impressive, and I am not sure that anyone would have bothered breaking into it, just based on its appearance. This new house, looks several times nicer than the one we used to live in. Read more

Of course in theory it is not that hard to figure out what sort of house payment you can afford. In my case it is roughly what I am paying in rent now, but the problem is that you have to come up with a big down payment and you have to convince a bank to lend you the hundred thousand dollars that you need. Then you have to pay the home insurance companies for home insurance, which you are required to have if you borrow the money to get a house. It is a lot tougher to figure out all of the little details that you have to figure out to know what you can afford. There is more to it than just the house payment itself. In effect you have to think about what it will cost you to get in the house after you buy it as well. Read more

My husband and I kept going back and forth with where we wanted to live. We both agreed that we wanted to live in Columbia, but we could not decide between an apartment or a house. He thought if we moved to an apartment, we would be able to save money for a nice house down the road. I had never lived in an apartment though, and my impression of one was not all that favorable. I wanted a house, but I changed my mind when he did a search for luxury apartments in Columbia SC and showed me the kind of apartment we would be able to get.

It is still hard for me to believe that the apartment that we ended up getting is a lot nicer than any of the houses that I had looked at online. I guess my impression of apartment living is what I had seen on TV shows growing up, and nothing further could be from the truth. Read more

Whenever I fly I suffer from severe jet lag. This often leaves me nearly incapable of driving which is why I will typically hire airport transportation in Bergen County NJ in order to compensate. I’m not a huge fan of limousines but when it comes to something like this where my state of mind has been impaired to a degree that I feel is unsafe to operate a vehicle, I am going to do what needs to be done to keep myself and the other drivers on the road safe from me. A limousine is the best way to do this!

Why? Well, it allows me to actually catch up on some sleep. It might not be much, ten to thirty minutes typically but that is often enough to help me begin feeling better. I have no idea why I’m always left so crippled by jet lag but every time that I come home to New Jersey I am a mess. Read more

I am considering switching to direct tv, but I am not really sure about it at this point in time, and I am going to need to read up some more about the service. My oldest son is really pushing Direct TV on me hard, but I do not want to just give into him, without knowing the facts. I guess that there are some channels that we would get, if we were to switch to satellite, that we do not currently have. I suppose that he really wants these channels, because of the nature of the programming that they have.

I do not care much one way or another, from my own perspective. That is because I do not actually spend that much time watching television. Read more

We live in a small, rural town. It is quiet, the people are very friend and caring, and our surroundings are beautiful. I often spend the weekends planting or harvesting food from our very large vegetable garden and tending to our goats and chickens. My husband likes to fish and watch sports games on the weekends. But our children pooled their money together and surprised us with a computer. This meant we needed Internet service, and we set out to find out what type of service we could get through Allegiance cable locally.

Let me just say that my husband and I have been retired for many years, and we know very little about using computers before receiving one as a gift. Read more

My lease is about to be up, and I am finally going to be free of this terrible apartment that I am currently living in. I guess that I shouldn’t phrase it like that. It implies that the management is bad, when in fact, my biggest issue is with my neighbors. I will be glad to be rid of them and to never see them again. So I am looking for apartments and in particular, what i want to try to find is the best deals that are out there on single bedroom apartments. Because I do not want to get a studio apartment, because they are too small to accommodate all of the furniture and other stuff that I own.

I suppose that there might be a few studios out there that are of above average size. But really, what I am looking for, is a single bedroom apartment, because that is what makes the most sense for my current needs. Read more

2. Why is music for brass instruments and woodwinds usually written in flat keys such as B-flat major and E-flat major and sometime F-major? Does it have something to do with the instrument itself?
   

   Answer by ¡live out loud!
   i play a Bb clarinet, so i understand what you mean. these 2, sometimes 3, scales, are the least complex. for the clarinet & trumpet, the Bb major scale has no flats or sharps. the Eb major has 1 flat on B, and the F major has 1 sharp on F. these scales are easy to play and not hard to learn.

   when you start putting 3 or 4 sharps in there, it gets real hard to play actual music. that’s why the music is written in the B, E, and F major scales so frequently. :]

3. I’ve noticed that a lot of energy vitamins have B vitamins or niacin instead of caffeine. Do these give the same effect as caffeine, or am I better off buying a pack of vitamins with caffeine?
   

   Answer by Jared
   B Vitamins are co-factors for cellular energy. That is they are essential for us to turn our food intake into ATP (our energy within the cell).

   Caffeine is a CNS stimulant. It directly stimulates the nervous system and rather quickly. It has nothing to do with energy production.

   Niacin is a B-vitamin, it is B-3.

   Unless you are deficient in B Vitamins, they will have no effect on you. It is more hype or marketing gimmicks with the 1000+ % of B-vitamins. The effect you feel off energy supplements is the Caffeine, Sugar, and some of the other directly stimulatory CNS ingredients. It isn’t the B-Vitmains.

   You would be better off going with just Caffeine, but B-Vitamins are cheap to manufacture so it surely doesn’t hurt you to take them in excess. Your body will excrete whatever it doesn’t need in the urine.

   Take care,

4. A and B have a race on a circular track of 510 meters.A who runs faster meets with B in the middle of the 5th round.
   Now in a 3 kM race how much start A must give B so that the race ends dead heat, i.e. A and B reach the goal at the same time.
   

   Answer by kuiperbelt2003
   what do you mean by the fifth round, do you mean the fifth lap?

   I am interpreting your question to mean that A completes 4.5 laps when B completes 3.5 laps. This means that A travels 45/35 or 9/7 faster than B.

   Thus, we can write the distance equations for A and B as:

   A must travel x+3 km in the same time as B travels x km; A travels at 9/7v and B travels at v, so:

   x+3=9/7 vt
   3=vt =>t=3/v

   substitute this expression for t into the first equation and get:

   x+3=9/7v*(3/v)=27/7
   x=27/7-3=6/7 km

   A must start 6/7 km farther back; or A must travel 9/7 farther than B to finish at the same time, and 9/7x 3 = 3 6/7 km