Many consumers, and others, are having trouble finding the official website that lists licensed home inspectors for the state of Washington. This has led to frustration on the part of people trying to find licensed inspectors -- that includes realtors and other inspectors. To be most effective, l
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07/24/2011
Anyone else experiencing speed and performance issues with Active Rain? The last few days, when I go to the site or write a post, there are long delays. When I send a blog post up, the little "working" wheel chugs away but it takes forever to post. In a couple situations, like when I first wrote
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07/24/2011
Well, the wet and cool northwest summer has been a big story in this area. Nationally it is, certainly, not the big news that the heat has caused in other parts of the country. In the past week, the Seattle weather forecasters said that, defining summer as 80 degrees F or better, then Seattle has
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07/24/2011
Those were the good times -- the 1960's. Rock and pop music was just about as good as it would get -- ever. Between the artists from England and the bands and solo artists in the United States, the 60's were full of hot wax and spinning vinyl. The 1960's produced innovative sounds and huge hit
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07/23/2011
The next full (120-hour) home inspection training course will be held at Bellingham Technical College beginning on October 17, 2011. The 40-hours of state approved field training work follow, beginning on November 4, 2011. This will be the last such course offering, at BTC, in 2011. The BTC inspe
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07/22/2011
Music that is popular at a given time and place helps us form indelible memories. Much of that music, and the events that were memorable for me, came from what was popular on the radio. In the course of a lifetime, there are historic moments that will be remembered until a person's dying day. In
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07/22/2011
The Pacific Northwest made the national news today. I was listening to the radio, network news, and one of the major stories, right after a piece describing the heat wave in other parts of the nation, was a story that involved the lousy year we are having in western Washington. If you live on the
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07/21/2011
President Kennedy had been killed the previous year, 1963. By July 1964, Lyndon B. Johnson was fully ensconced in office and his term would be among the most controversial in U.S. history, largely based on the country's direction, and his leadership during the Vietnam War. Vinyl was still king
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07/19/2011
One of the groups that has been classified as, perhaps, the most all-American of all singing groups, had a #1 single for two weeks in July 1964. The song hit the #1 slot on July 4th and it stayed there for two weeks. As a result of the British Invasion, the single had the distinction of being th
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07/17/2011
When a deck or a landing, outside or inside the house, is 30" or higher above grade or the floor, there should be a guardrail. And, to provide safety benefits for children and adults, it has to meet certain requirements. First, and pretty basic, it needs to be secure -- not wobbly. If a 200 pound
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07/17/2011
