The Big Picture

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• Images that defined a decade

  
  Doobybrain.com — Authority: 574
  Photo: SETH MCALLISTER/AFP/Getty Images The Big Picture is running a series of photos that were newsworthy during this decade and a few of them of course are related to 9/11. I can’t think of a single event in the past 10 years that has stood stronger in my memory than 9/11. Everytime I see the image above, I ...
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• Calculated Risk: Mortgage Insurers Loosen Standards Slightly

  
  Mortgage online — Authority: 161
  Mortgage insurance giant MGIC Investment Corp. (MTG) announced, Thursday, that the Office of the Commissioner of Insurance for the State of Wisconsin approved the companys revised business plan and agreed to waive minimum regulatory ...
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• Barry Ritholtz: Dollar Rally?

  
  GreenLightAdvisor Views — Authority: 142
  Barry Ritholtz shares an interesting note on the rally in the dollar. The MACD has turned up and crossed over, signalling that traders and U.S. dollar carry-traders are nervous about their short positions in the dollar. With the Japan-easing underway, its possible that during the course of the year, the yen will ...
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• Calculated Risk: MBA: Mortgage Purchase Applications Flat, Rates Rise

  
  Mortgage online — Authority: 161
  Also - most lenders are quoting mortgage rates back above 5% this week. MBA Purchase Index Click on graph for larger image in new window. This graph shows the MBA Purchase Index and four week moving average since 1990
  4 days ago

• Arts Roundup: Big Bubble in the Sky Edition

  
  Arts Desk — Authority: 143
  Hello! Hirshhorn director Richard Koshalek wants to put a giant bubble on top of the museum. Wuh? Writing in the New York Times , architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff details a plan for a blue, 145-foot inflatable structure (he describes it as a multipurpose meeting hall) that would bloom from the ...
  5 days ago

• 2009 from the Big Picture

  
  Rhondda's Reflections - wandering around the Web — Authority: 114
   As the school year has closes here in Australia, we are looking back at the year 2009. Pictorial records are great and one site that I have always found interesting to look at is The Big Picture (Boston Globe) , news stories in photographs.  The editors have begun to look back at 2009 in pictures.   This post ...
  5 days ago

• The Boston Globe s Year in Giant-ass Pictures [Things We Actually Like]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 863
  Everyone loves the Boston Globes ginormous, online-only "The Big Picture" feature. Now theyve launched the first part their three-part "2009 in Photos" series. Very cool, very big pictures; its...
  5 days ago

• Uncluttering isn’t for everyone

  
  Unclutterer — Authority: 596
  On Friday night, my dear friend Clark and I were discussing how easy it is to want rules to guide out behavior. As humans, we want a series of checkboxes to tell us that if we mark off X, Y, and Z, we will be happy or good or whatever it is we’re trying to achieve. Although human nature makes us crave this kind of ...
  6 days ago

• When you feel sad… feel bad…

  
  Gay-Christians.org — Authority: 99
  I wasn’t feeling very good today. I am not sick or anything, I simply feel down and not in the mood for anything. The rain wasn’t helping either. It’s very rare for me to feel this way but when I do, it’s quite heavy. I can’t put my finger on it and I can’t even say that I am depressed for there is no ...
  6 days ago

• NGC 6302

  
  Muhlberger's Early History — Authority: 131
  From the Big Picture Hubble Telescope Advent Calendar.
  1 week ago

• Why is the Tory party having an outbreak of the jitters?

  
  thetorydiary — Authority: 639
  Andrew Grice uses his column in todays Independent to report on the background to the "outbreak of the jitters" going on inside the party. It comes after a series of opinion polls saw the Tory lead reduced to single figures (something which Tim considered here a couple of weeks ago). Grice points to a number of ...
  1 week ago

• Ask Unclutterer: Drowning in clutter

  
  Unclutterer — Authority: 596
  Reader Miriam submitted the following to Ask Unclutterer: I’m overwhelmed by everything at work and at home. Have you ever gone swimming in the ocean and you look back at the shore and realize you went farther than you meant to go? The shore is sanity and I’m no where near it. There is clutter everywhere and my ...
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• Calculated Risk: Q3 2009: Mortgage Equity Extraction Strongly Negative

  
  Mortgage online — Authority: 161
  The Feds Flow of Funds report showed that the amount of mortgage debt outstanding declined in Q3, and this was partially because of debt cancellation per foreclosure sales, and some from modifications, like Wells Fargos principal ...
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• PEEP: A place for everything and everything in its place

  
  Unclutterer — Authority: 596
  Reader Alexandra introduced us to the post “ The NICU goes Lean ” on the Running a Hospital blog written by Paul Levy who is the president and CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. In the article, Levy details how the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in his hospital used Lean 5S process improvements ...
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• Calculated Risk: Expected Mortgage Rates

  
  Mortgage online — Authority: 161
  Using their calculator and a Ten Year Yield of 3.42%, we would expect the 30 year Freddie Mac fixed mortgage rate to be around 5.38%. Of course it is lower than expected - as it has been from most of the year - and some of the ...
  1 week ago

• Calculated Risk: MBA: Mortgage Refinance Applications Increase

  
  Mortgage online — Authority: 161
  The Market Composite Index, a measure of mortgage loan application volume, increased 8.5 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis from one week earlier. ...
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• Extreme minimalist living

  
  Unclutterer — Authority: 596
  Voluntarily living in less than 175 square feet is a skill. It is not a skill I possess or wish to possess, but I have respect for the people who do and am inspired by their way of life. They find a way to do without traditional conveniences of a home. They sacrifice a great deal of comfort to pursue whatever it is ...
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• Wrap Up On Project Homeless Connect Minneapolis

  
  But You're A Girl.com — Authority: 424
  I had a great time volunteering again this December! Get out there and make a difference http://www.homelessconnectminneapolis.org Click here to view the embedded video. Twice a year, I spend an entire day volunteering for Project Homeless Connect Minneapolis. It means a lot to me because we shouldn’t ...
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• Hyperlocavore Book Club – The Transition Handbook by Rob Hopkins

  
  Hyperlocavore — Authority: 92
  Welcome everyone! Read about the book club and our first choice – The Transition Handbook by Rob Hopkins. Introduce Yourself Intro and Chaper 1 Discussion Began December 7th, 09 Ongoing Posted in hyperlocavore book club, localize, neighborhoods, the big picture
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• Meet Shawn and Change The World [VIDEO] #homeless

  
  But You're A Girl.com — Authority: 424
  Today I’m heading down to help with Project Homeless Connect Minneapolis . Twitter Hashtags #PHC #homeless Click here to view the embedded video. Here is Shawn. I’ve written about him on my blog before. I met Shawn in 2007 when he was one of the students in my A+ certification course at the ...
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