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Healthy Super Bowl Snacks

By Taylor | Published: February 3, 2012
It’s easy to go overboard when it comes to snacking during the Super Bowl. Studies show that Americans eat about 44 percent more in social settings than when dining alone. It is recommend to use salad bowls and plates for main dishes and going easy on or entirely skipping fatty dips and chips, which pack [...]
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The Mega-machine of Super Bowl Commercials

By Taylor | Published: January 31, 2012
The Super Bowl has become much more than a sporting event and the culmination of the NFL season. It’s become a cultural phenomenon, a pop culture bellwether that more than 111 million Americans watched in 2011. That’s more than one third of all the people living in the U.S. at the time. If you have [...]
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Stone Soup: A Truckee Community Event

By Taylor | Published: January 27, 2012
The first Stone Soup of the 2012 season took place Sunday, Jan. 22, 5-7 p.m., at the Community Arts Center, 10046 Church St., Downtown Truckee, Stone Soup is a community based, volunteer staffed evening of soup and friendship. A different business or organization sponsors this weekly event, the volunteer group chopping, dicing, sautéing and cooking [...]
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The Snow Is Here, Be Avalanche Aware!

By Taylor | Published: January 23, 2012
Mother nature has finally decided to bring us some of that fluffy white stuff. Naturally, it’s a race to the gates to get the freshest tracks. As responsible snowsport enthusiasts, we should all have an awareness of the prevention and safety of avalanche emergencies.  Here is a link to a video of a real burial [...]
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Ghostly Morals

By Taylor | Published: January 20, 2012
A recent featured blog post on ActiveRain.com brought up the topic of selling a home with a morbid history. The blog post was this… “I was doing a staging consultation for a Realtor I work with and as I walked through the home taking notes the homeowner, Karen, a very nice woman talked about the [...]
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‘Dream Big’ Artist Creates from Rubix Cubes

By Taylor | Published: January 19, 2012
Dream big For his artwork Dream Big Peter Fecteau used 4.242 Rubik’s Cubes to make a portrait of Martin Luther King Jr. Technicals: The mosaic is made of 4,242 officially licensed Rubik’s Cubes. It measures 19′ x 8’6″ x 2.25″ (5.8m x 2.6m x 5.7cm ). It weighs roughly 1000 pounds (454kg). Each cube has [...]
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Futuristic and Innovative Homes for Sale Right Now

By Taylor | Published: January 17, 2012
Here is a selection of futuristic abodes that challenge traditional McMansion layouts.  These homes are handpicked as the sleekest, most avant-garde, in some cases zaniest, homes currently or recently on the market. They conjure images of science fiction lore, and in many cases, have actually been rented out by movie and television studios for that [...]
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Coldwell Banker 2011 Year End Real Estate Market Report

By Val | Published: January 12, 2012
Coldwell Banker 2011 Year End Real Estate Market Report North Lake Tahoe-Truckee Region MLS Residential Properties – Single Family Homes and Condominiums 2011 Year End Summary: Sales Summary 2011: Overall, residential sales for 2011 were up 7.1% from the 2010 calendar year which was encouraging for the Tahoe-Truckee real estate market. Total Sales: For 2011, [...]
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Debunking the Rumors of Squaw

By Taylor | Published: January 9, 2012
For all the non-Squawpine pass holders, here is an email from Andy Wirth, President and CEO of Squaw Valley, in an attempt to debunk all those nasty circulating rumors. Last year was a record breaking season for snowfall as most of you will fondly remember. This year is also record breaking, but for lack of [...]
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Biggest Scientific Breakthroughs of 2011

By Taylor | Published: January 5, 2012
A new year has officially begun. As we embrace 2012 and a new beginning, here are a few of the most amazing scientific breakthroughs of 2011. The World’s Lowest Density Material With a density of less than one milligram per cubic centimeter (that’s about 1000 times less dense than water), this surprisingly squishy material is [...]
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