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Son's dorm room smaller than most prison cellsDebbie Travis' House to Home column is produced by Debbie Travis and Barbara Dingle. Please e-mail your questions to house2home read more. Ohio prep insiderO.J. Mayo is gone, and Bill Walker can't play this season. The Ohio Division III basketball tournament is no longer an exercise in futility for non-North College Hill teams. "O.J. and Bill leaving couldn't happen at a better time for us," said Jeoff Gabbard, coach at D-III school Deer Park. "We return five pretty good lettermen, so we should be good. It's an open state championship again." Jim Reynolds, coach at perennial D-III contender Madeira, was among many rival coaches displeased with the NCH situation. Nationally ranked stars Mayo and Walker arrived in 2003 and drew plenty of other talented transfers to NCH, which breezed to D-III state titles in 2005 and '06. . read more. The 20 smartest companies to start nowAsking venture capitalists for great startup ideas is a little like asking Curt Schilling what pitch he's going to throw next. When we posed the question to dozens of VCs and investors around the country, more than a few indignantly shot back, "Are you out of your mind?" But after some friendly prodding from our reporters, a surprising number of them couldn't help but start jawing about companies they would love to build - if only the right people could be found to perfect the technologies or the business plans and make them seem possible. . read more. Ask TomMy wife and I are flying to Australia in November with a two-night stopover in Bangkok. We have a full day plus a morning to look around the city. Would you please tell us which are the 'must do' things which that short time will permit two people in their late seventies to undertake. Brendan Sadler, via email Chances are you'll find Bangkok a little overpowering at first so don't try to do too much. Hail a taxi for airconditioned comfort or a tuk-tuk for an alfresco journey and get it to drop you at Santichaiprakan Park to stretch your legs. From nearby Khlong Banglamphu you can catch a Chao Phraya Express boat heading to Tha Wang Lang, where there's a great market. The temple of Wat Rakhang is one of Bangkok's oldest and gets a fraction of the tourists who visit other temples. End the day in one of the many riverside restaurants. read more. Living without cable TVOn a recent rainy Saturday afternoon, all I wanted to do was eat a peanut butter sandwich and watch some TV. After flipping for half an hour between a rerun of "The Outer Limits" and an infomercial for ProActiv acne solution, I realized I need cable. Scratch that. I want cable. No one really needs cable, but it feels that way sometimes. For two years, I've been forgoing cable TV, mainly because of the cost. For just a bare-bones cable package in my area, it's about $60 a month, or $720 a year. Considering my salary, it just didn't seem worth it. . read more. Remodeling the right wayWhen I started planning to remodel my bathrooms, I had visions of pointing at pictures in magazines and saying with a flourish, like Jean-Luc Picard on Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Make it so!" I expected contractors to swoop in, rip out our ugly 1985 builder-installed oak cabinets and swirly cultured-marble countertops, install gorgeous new everything, and clean up at every stage. Instead, I learned that remodeling, even when you hire it out, requires patience, diligence and occasional do-it-yourself work - unless you want to blow your budget and possibly end up with unpleasant surprises. . read more. Specials At Historic HotelsHistoric Hotels of America, a program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, is offering special rates for the fall season at many of its designated locations - more than 200 hotels that have maintained their historic integrity, architecture and ambience. The Phoenix Park Hotel in Washington, D.C., for example, has a Thursday-through-Sunday package with rooms at $109 per night, single- or double-occupancy, available Oct. 5 through Nov. 26. The Mohonk Mountain House in New Paltz, N.Y., is offering discounts on midweek spa services from Monday through Nov. 30. . read more.Weeding through the information that is not useful can become quite a spiritless process. The most prominent channels for trustworthy info are effortlessly identified. Spending the time suitable to track down the best Luxury Concrete Block Home Plans details is a sacrifice that will reward in a large-scale way. I want to invite you to return sometime soon and look over the new information we'll have. The documents handy since the internet was started has grown in merit.
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