What Your Eyes See, Holds The Key To More Consistent Putting By Jonathan Yarwood All golfers have a dominant eye and in putting, it affects how you see the putting line. Some people are left eye dominant and others right eye dominant. This difference affects ball position and putting set up. A golfer must know whether they are left or right eye dominant to be a consistent putter. To determine your dominant eye, do the following. Stand in front of a mirror. Make a circle with your thumb and index finger. Do this on both hands. Put those circles on […]
Top 10 Green Design Trends for Your Home By Jim Soda As the green movement gathers steam, many homeowners, and soon-to-be homeowners, are exploring ways to become environmentally conscious within their living spaces. Greening your home is not only a responsible thing to do but can also boost your home’s value when it comes time to sell. These days, there are an increasingly wide range of products that purport to offer a variety of environmental values but fall short when it comes to style. Robin Wilson, a pioneer in eco-friendly design, and Vickie Gilstrap, vice president of color and […]
Design Lines: Houses with Boats By Pamela Hughes What could be more fun than having a house on one of our many beautiful Sarasota waterways and having a boat with the house as well? Well, not much, as long as the house is in Sarasota or some other gorgeous locale. For this month’s column, I thought it would be entertaining to write about a project we are completing in the British West Indies. The project is 19 Deckhouses at The Ritz-Carlton, Grand Cayman. These are individual luxury homes with all the services of the nearby Ritz-Carlton. Each home includes an […]
Go Global International Retirement Destinations By Patricia Tan Ask any American where they plan to retire to, and you might expect to hear Florida or Arizona. You might be surprised however, at the many different answers you will hear today. A growing number of Americans are becoming disenchanted with the thought of retiring to a warm and sunny location in U.S.A. Many are looking at alternative destinations outside the country – some driven by politics, some driven by economic reality, and some wooed by the thought of a better lifestyle at a fraction of the cost. Baby boomers and affluent […]
Communication Is Key By C. J. Coury Now more than ever it is critical to communicate with your buyers who are purchasing with the assistance of mortgage financing. Mortgage lenders have developed many new processes with the intent of eliminating as much fraud as possible. This increased scrutiny includes the utilization of electronic resources to help verify much of the information contained in the loan application. It is therefore paramount that the mortgage applicant is as honest, open and thorough as possible with the lenders Loan Officer. It is also imperative that the Loan Officer take the time to conduct […]
The International Buyer And Currency Exchange – A Predictable Trend? By Laura McLoughlin The anticipated report ‘The 2010 NAR Profile of International Home Buying Activity’ has just been released and provides interesting reading. Anyone involved in the real estate market over the past couple of years would probably have been looking to diversify their service offering and marketing efforts given the slow down in the housing market and general economic conditions. More and more real estate professionals looked globally, recognizing that ‘foreign nationals’ represented a big market share. The National Association of Realtors also recognized the buying power of non-residents […]
The Fairway Bunker Shot By Jonathan Yarwood This shot is a shot which is rarely practiced, yet is a vital recovery shot from a fairway bunker. There are two ways to play it, but in both cases, you need to make contact with the ball first in order to advance it a long way. Take a look at the lip of the bunker first. If there is a lip, use a more lofted club and lower your distance expectations. People often use too little loft and hit it into the lip. In the first way to play the shot and […]
Design Lines – Let’s Frame It! By Pamela Hughes In past columns, I’ve written about lighting, color, furniture placement and other elements of successful interior design. In this column, I’d like to write about the how’s and why’s of framing artwork. But first, let me share with you an adventure which brought me to this column’s topic. It was difficult to leave Sarasota and fly to DC rather than spend some well-deserved time at the beach. But I did, and it was for a good cause. I had been asked to assist The Prince of Wales Foundation in their endeavor […]
Old World Craftsmanship By Clifford M. Scholz Let’s try and define “Old World Craftsmanship”. Obviously, it is a talent that has a very long history. It is international, and it has to do with quality. It is something that we hold dearly and, unfortunately, is getting harder and harder to find. There is more to Old World Craftsmanship that makes defining it somewhat difficult. It embraces the talent of an artist and the desire to define that art in the built environment. It is prolific in larger metropolitan areas where there were projects that attracted the most talented of […]
TAG – Bridge The Technology Gap And Grow Your Brand By Angela Massaro-Fain Phone TAG has a whole new meaning in today’s world. This next generation in marketing has arrived through the introduction of TAG technology. All brought to you through the device central to our daily lives – our mobile phone. So what is TAG? Microsoft TAG is a new kind of customized bar code that will bridge the technology gap by integrating offline and online campaigns across web, mobile and print media. Business owners are always looking for new ways to grow. And as people increasingly demand instant, […]
Go Global Dubai, The Pearl Of The Persian Gulf By Patricia Tan As a real estate professional working to bring overseas investors, retirees and part time residents to Florida I find competition for those investment dollars coming from many other parts of the globe. The world today is indeed very small, as the saying goes. In recent months, my attention was drawn to find out more about real estate in Dubai, as it came up in conversations with clients from Europe in particular. Some had already invested there, spent vacations there or were anticipating some property bargains becoming available in […]
Lessons You Can Learn From Watching Golf On TV By Jonathan Yarwood It is easy to get blasé to golf on TV each week. But if you make a conscious effort to pay closer attention to the events unfolding, there are some great lessons to learn from what can be seen. Pre and post shot routine: All great players have a consistent pre shot routine. It is a bubble that allows them to go into auto-pilot when the pressure comes. It can help you in making your game more routine and automatic. Watch some of the things that they do, […]
Mortgage Underwriting Guidelines Beginning To Ease By C. J. Coury I have been looking forward to writing about this topic for months now – the time has finally come! Over the past 2 years or so we have been witnessing the end of a much too liberal lending era. Unfortunately, the change in direction went too far and stayed too long. To quote the top mortgage professional Penny Hill “the pendulum has swung too far in the other direction and is stuck on stupid”. I am pleased to announce that it is finally beginning to swing back to the level […]
Design Lines – TV, Or Not TV…. By Pamela Hughes Whether we like it or not, televisions are here to stay. They are in our lives, for some of us, from the moment we wake up to the last thing we hear or see at night. And all through the day, it seems there is hardly a place where there isn’t a screen flickering with some urgent image. Whether it’s your lifeline to the world and staying in touch, or following your favorite program, they are everywhere. We, of course, as designers try to find ways to make televisions accessible, […]
How Does Illumination Influence The Atmosphere And Energy Usage Within Your Home? By Clifford M. Scholz Lighting adds drama and dimension in any room of the home- inside and out. The play of light and shadow, both natural and artificial, is a part of the core curriculum in every architectural education. Light instinctively effects a person’s emotional state through differing levels of brightness, color and texture. There are essentially three main categories of artificial illumination-ambient, task and accent lighting. Each illumination type should be carefully analyzed and support architectural design decisions. For example, placement of artwork and collectibles is […]
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Monday, October 25, 2010
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