Jim Skamarakas

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In the mail today is my latest gas and electric bill from Public Service Electric and Gas. Now PSE&G supplies both our gas and electric. For those of you without gas, here are the appliances that we use has for:
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As a Wachovia customer you must to the following 10 things to protect themselves today and going forward.
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3 AM I am walking outside, laptop, bags, suit and tie. It is warm and humid. And of course dark.
US Airways flight from PHL to CLT - upgrade, as always thank you USAirways. Grabbed a bottle of water as soon as I sat down, but was not asked for my suit jacket. Read a little [...]

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Checking my phone bill online, I saw this button on the Verizon website. If you have any clue about the environment, pollution, waste, trash costs or being even remotelly green, this little graphic should make you sick to your stomach and tax paying wallet.
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Today, we take a moment of silence to remember the dropping of the atomic bomb “Little Boy” on the Japan city of Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945. Today, after all these years, with so few survivors left, it is still a grime reminder of the power of weapons. And the awesome destruction man can inflict [...]

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US Veterans be wary. When you come across The American War Library http://www.amervets.com you see a long list of links and web resources. One of the items they provide is information to help you determine your military service authorized awards. How do they do this? By asking you to send them some confidential documents with [...]

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Watching Fox News this afternoon, the closing word mentioned a video put together about Obama, who I will not be voting for. But just as Fox News is all about giving equal time for differing views, I went and watched the video.
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-2°F Partly Cloudy Feels Like -26°F is the current conditions in Milwaukee, Wisonsin. Now why wasn’t it like this on Monday when our oldest was here for a college tour of Marquette University. The college tour went very well, and I would guess that this is one of the final schools on her list after [...]

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This weekend Brighid flew to Milwaukee with me to go on a tour of Marquette. She is only here for one day, flying home Monday evening. Or if we get done early enough, Monday afternoon. She was suprised about the free fresh cookies on Midwest Airlines, learned how to do Suduko puzzles, and yacked with [...]

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Can the slow housing market get you fired? In Milwaukee, as in many cities, positions require employees to be residents. Dan Bearss, a beloved science teacher has a requirement to move within the City of Milwaukee as part of his contract as a MPS (Milwaukee Public School) teacher. Bearss lives outside of Milwaukee in the [...]

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