Fast Facts

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• San Francisco Real Estate – SOLD!

  
  Luba's San Francisco Real Estate Blog — Authority: 419
  Want to know know what sold in San Francisco in the last 30 days? Sign up for The City Update(TM) – San Francisco’s Friendliest Newsletter . You’ll get the details, and then some, in your inbox (almost) every Friday. If you just want the round numbers, you can check them out below. Sold Listings 11/09/09 – ...
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• Resources for Covering, Understanding Winter Storms

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 660
  Resources for Covering, Understanding Winter Storms We are experiencing sweater weather down here in Florida, but it’s nothing compared to Calgary and Regina, Canada, where I was working with the CBC last week. Having been there, I’m feeling ever so slightly more qualified to pass along some snow-coverage ...
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• San Francisco Real Estate – Sold!

  
  Luba's San Francisco Real Estate Blog — Authority: 419
  Want to know know what sold in San Francisco in the last 30 days? Sign up for The City Update(TM) – San Francisco’s Friendliest Newsletter . You’ll get the details, and then some, in your inbox (almost) every Friday. If you just want the round numbers, you can check them out below.   Sold Listings 11/04/09 ...
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• Holiday mailing/shipping deadlines — Circle these dates on your calendars

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 660
  Circle these dates on your calendars With the winter holidays looming, retailers and delivery services are urging consumers to act fairly soon if they want their packages to arrive in time for Hannukah (Dec. 11), Kwanzaa (Dec. 19), and Christmas (Dec. 25). To give you a heads up, we scoured the deadlines of dozens ...
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• Reporting on Cancer Research

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 660
  Reporting on Cancer Research Welcome to Reporting on Cancer Research, a Web site for science writers and the public with definitions of terms and brief overviews of how things work in the world of oncology research. Tip sheets (PDFs) include: + Number glossary (absolute risk, relative risk) + Statistics ...
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• California Real Estate Fast Facts from CAR and Freddie Mac – October 2009

  
  San Francisco Real Estate Blog — Authority: 137
  California Association of Realtors just released its report for  October 2009  real estate activity. Calif. median home price - October 09: $297,500 (Source: C.A.R.) (note: compared to $296,090 last month) Calif. highest median home price by C.A.R. region October 09: Santa Barbara So. Coast $970,000 (Source: ...
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• Educators Before They Were Lawmakers

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 660
  Educators Before They Were Lawmakers (PDF; 3.4 MB) From our nation’s classrooms to the halls of Congress, many of America’s top lawmakers began their careers in (and around) the classroom. During American Education Week, NEA salutes the members of Congress who were educators before they were elected to public ...
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• Two Compilations of Fast Facts: Thanksgiving 2009

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 660
  Here are two compilation of holiday facts that will have you wowing them (-: at Thanksgiving Dinner. The content comes from the U.S. Census and the U.S. Department of Labor. This ResourceShelf post has a few examples of what you’ll find along with links to the fact-filled documents. Source: U.S. Census; U.S. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Fast Facts About Thanksgiving 2009

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 660
  We have two documents to share. 1) Of course, the Thanksgiving 2009 “Fact for Features” compilation of statistics from the U.S. Census. Here are a Few Examples of What You’ll Find: 709 million pounds The forecast for U.S. cranberry production in 2009. Wisconsin is expected to lead all states in the ...
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• Fast Facts — Current US motorcycle and bicycle helmet laws

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 660
  Current US motorcycle and bicycle helmet laws Twenty states and the District of Columbia have motorcycle helmet laws that require all riders to wear a helmet. Twenty-seven states have a motorcycle helmet law that only require some riders to wear a helmet. Three states (Illinois, Iowa, and New Hampshire) do not ...
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• Three Quarters of Adults are Reading Newspapers, in Print or Online

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 660
  ThreeQuarters of Adults are Reading Newspapers, in Print or Online (PDF; 144 KB) Three-quarters (74%) of U.S. adults, or nearly 171 million people, read a newspaper — in print or online — during the past week. This is according to the latest Integrated Newspaper Audience (INA)* finding from Scarborough ...
  3 weeks ago

• Early Decision I Deadline is November 15

  
  Stevens Institute of Technology: Admissions Blog — Authority: 99
  Don’t forget – the Early Decision I deadline is right around the corner! If you are applying EDI, make sure your application is submitted by November 15 and all supporting documents are received by December 4. Did you know?... If you applied Regular Decision and now would like to apply Early Decision, simply ...
  4 weeks ago

• San Francisco Real Estate Fast Facts – October 2008 vs. October 2009

  
  Luba's San Francisco Real Estate Blog — Authority: 419
  For those of you that like your SF real estate market data without commentary, here ya go. Take a look, check it out, come to your own conclusions. (Editor’s Note : Set forth below are Unit Sales/DOM/Monthly Supply charts for the month of October for single-family homes, condominiums and 2-4 units, as well ...
  4 weeks ago

• San Francisco Real Estate – Sold!

  
  Luba's San Francisco Real Estate Blog — Authority: 419
  Want to know know what sold in San Francisco in the last 30 days? Sign up for The City Update(TM) – San Francisco’s Friendliest Newsletter . You’ll get the details, and then some, in your inbox (almost) every Friday. If you just want the round numbers, you can check them out below. Sold Listings 10/13/09 ...
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• The New York Times Serves Up Some “Fast Facts” About the New York Public Library

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 660
  In a brief article titled, “Secrets of the Stacks,” the NY Times offers up a bunch of “fast facts” about the NYPL. They include: + The NYPL (research libraries and branches) have a total of 20 million books, 50 million cataloged items. + Only the Library of Congress and the British Library are larger. + ...
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• A Big, Bike-Parking Robot? Only in Japan.

  
  The Green Life — Authority: 477
  Rows and rows of bikes parked on the sidewalk can make any greenies heart swell with pride. But what happens when there are too many bikes and not enough parking spots? A Japanese company has come up with a phenomenal solution: the robotic bike tree . The bike tree is a mechanical system that stores bikes in a ...
  5 weeks ago

• Fast Facts Compilation: Veterans Day 2009 (November 11th)

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 660
  Once again, the U.S. Census is online with another useful compilation of facts that include direct links to the sources where the facts are found. This time we’re posting a “Fact for Features” about Veterans Day which will take place next Wednesday. Access the Complete Document Here is just a small ...
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• Resource of the Week — Frequently Requested Statistics on Immigrants and Immigration in the United States

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 660
  Resource of the Week: Frequently Requested Statistics on Immigrants and Immigration in the United States By Kirin K. Kalia, Editor, Migration Information Source, Migration Policy Institute Our just-published article, Frequently Requested Statistics on Immigrants and Immigration in the United States , covers ...
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• San Francisco Real Estate – Sold!

  
  Luba's San Francisco Real Estate Blog — Authority: 419
  Want to know know what sold in San Francisco in the last 30 days?  Sign up for The City Update(TM) – San Francisco’s Friendliest Newsletter .  You’ll get the details, and then some, in your inbox (almost) every Friday. If you just want the round numbers, you can check them out below. Sold Listings 09/30/09 ...
  6 weeks ago

• Daylight Savings Time Ends This Weekend: Saving Time, Saving Energy

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 660
  Saving Time, Saving Energy Spring forward…Fall back…. It’s ingrained in our consciousness almost as much as the A-B-Cs or our spelling reminder of “i before e….” And it’s a regular event, though perhaps a bit less regular than the swallows coming back to Capistrano. Yet in those four words is a ...
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