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To ensure that your issues are delivered to your Yahoo Inbox (not the Bulk Mail folder), you can instruct Yahoo to filter it to your Inbox. Here’s how:

• Open your Yahoo mailbox.
• Click Mail Options.
• Click Filters.
• Next, click Add Filter.
• In the top row, labeled From header:, make sure contains is selected in the pull-down menu.
• Click in the text box next to that pull-down menu, then enter newsletter@eaglequestproperties.com At the bottom, where it says Move the message to:, select Inbox from the pull-down menu.
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If you are using Hotmail, you can ensure that your issues are delivered to your Inbox by adding newsletter@eaglequestproperties.com to your Safe List. Here’s how:

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• Click Next until the Save button shows up at the bottom.
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Other Email Applications

Many popular e-mail programs, including Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora, and Netscape Mail, don’t provide a convenient way for you to white-list the addresses of the people you want to receive e-mail from. If you’re using this sort of e-mail system and you either aren’t getting your issues or want to make sure you continue to receive them in the future, you can do the following:

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• Our IP Address: If they ask for our sending IP address, tell them 76.74.137.144.

Add a name to your Safe Senders or Safe Recipients List

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On the Tools menu, click Options.
On the Preferences tab, under E-mail, click Junk E-mail.
Click the Safe Senders or Safe Recipients tab.
Click Add.
In the Enter an e-mail address or Internet domain name to be added to the list box, enter the name or address you want added, and then click OK.
Repeat steps 4 and 5 for each name or address that you want to add.

Notes:

If you want your Contacts to be considered safe senders, select the Also trust e-mail from my Contacts check box on the Safe Senders tab. All e-mail addresses in your Contacts folder will then be used by the Junk E-mail Filter to evaluate messages.

If you want people who are not necessarily in your Contacts but are people you correspond with regularly to be considered safe senders, select the Automatically add people I e-mail to the Safe Senders List check box on the Safe Senders tab. By default, the check box is selected. This check box is introduced with Microsoft Office 2003 Service Pack 1. To get Service Pack 1, go to Downloads on Office Online. Under Office Update, click Check for Updates.

If Automatic Picture Download is turned off, messages from or to e-mail addresses or domain names on the Safe Senders and Safe Recipients Lists will be treated as exceptions and the blocked content will be downloaded.

If you have existing lists of safe names and addresses, you can import the information into Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 by saving the list into a text (.txt) file with one entry per line, and then importing the list.

To quickly add a sender, domain name, or mailing list name to the Safe Senders or Safe Recipients Lists, right-click the message you consider safe, and then on the shortcut menu, point to Junk E-mail, and then click Add Sender to Safe Senders List, Add Sender’s Domain (@example.com) to Safe Senders List, or Add Recipient to Safe Recipients List.

If you are using a Microsoft Exchange Server e-mail account, names and e-mail addresses in the Global Address List are automatically considered safe. (The Global Address List is the address book that contains all user, group, and distribution list e-mail addresses in your organization. The administrator creates and maintains this address book. It may also contain public folder e-mail addresses.)

If you are using an Exchange Server e-mail account and working online, you must be using Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 or later. If you do not know what version of Exchange server your e-mail account is using, contact your Exchange administrator.

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“Prices have moved up 10 per cent in the last six months, so people are worried that if they wait for the perfect house, it won't be affordable,” says Mr. MacKay, whose client offered $62,000 over the asking price on the Commercial Drive home, but landed near the bottom of the pack because her offer was contingent on getting two weekdays to finalize the financing. “So if someone is offering on a house that's $950,000, but they can afford $1.1-million, they think they'd better pay it now because that house will cost $1.75-million before they know it.”Still, experts say that even though Vancouver posted record sales in August – a whopping 117 per cent over the previous year – the overheated market is not likely to last. The backlog of buyers will purchase homes, and more sellers will enter the market, marking a return to a more balanced situation.

via The bidding war is back – The Globe and Mail.

Google is disappointed with the lack of breakthrough investment ideas in the green technology sector but the company is working to develop its own new mirror technology that could reduce the cost of building solar thermal plants by a quarter or more.

“We've been looking at very unusual materials for the mirrors both for the reflective surface as well as the substrate that the mirror is mounted on,” the company's green energy czar Bill Weihl told Reuters Global Climate and Alternative Energy Summit in San Francisco on Wednesday.

via Google plans new mirror for cheaper solar power.

British Columbia's multi-family investment market is starting to stabilize as investor confidence grows and prices return to levels seen 18 months ago, according to Avison Young's Q2 2009 BC Multi-Family Investment Report, released today.”The market stumbled through the latter part of 2008 and the beginning of 2009 with barely enough sales to indicate new realistic market pricing,” comments Avison Young Principal Rob Greer. “Now, that seems to have completely changed. The market is currently very active with a sense of renewed confidence on the part of investors.”

via AVISON YOUNG CANADA INC. | British Columbia’s multi-family investment market begins to stabilize as prices slowly return to normal levels.

As energy costs continue to rise, an increasing number of companies and organizations are turning to energy managers in an effort to maintain costs.

“In the last number of years the private sector, which is more financially driven, and other large institutional and industrial groups and property landlords have hired energy managers,” said Carman Travis, an energy consultant with the Moncton office of consulting firm MCW Maricor.

“Companies recognize that some smart decisions from a good building operator, trained with some of the appropriate understanding to identify energy conservation strategies is good business. Depending on your site – a large industrial site, for example – they could pay for themselves in a day or in a couple of days.”

via nbbusinessjournal.com – Innovative way to improve efficiency: hire an energy manager | Dave MacLean – Breaking News, New Brunswick, Canada.

Data centres consume 10 to 30 times more energy per square foot than regular office space, and at the extreme, up to 100 times more electricity. And the power consumed by data centres is rising exponentially.

Not only are companies adding more servers, the servers consume more power. The power consumed by an average server jumped from 150 watts in 1996 to 400W in 2006; total electricity consumed by data centres doubled between 2000 and 2005. By 2011, lifetime energy costs for powering and cooling servers will equal 71% of the server hardware costs.

via Upgrading data centres can slash electricity costs.

A controversial 42-storey condo building that will be built without permanent parking spots cleared a key hurdle yesterday.

The Toronto-East York community council overruled city staff skeptical about the dearth of parking to allow a plan that provides for only nine car-share rental spots, plus 315 spaces for bicycles.

The condominium would go up on the site of the century-old Royal Canadian Military Institute on University Ave. near Dundas St., which would be demolished, with elements of its facade preserved at the base and a thin tower above.

“If you look at the evidence of what sells downtown, the majority of units under 750 square feet in the downtown core sell without parking,'' said Stephen Deveaux, a vice-president with the developer, Tribute Communities. Parking spots typically add $20,000 or more to the cost of a downtown condo.

via TheStar.com | News & Features | ‘Car-free’ condo: 42 storeys, no parking.

The tax credits are big and the salesmen are out, promoting vinyl window replacement as the best way to cut your heating bills. No matter that on a cost-effectiveness basis it is just about the last thing you should do, or that the new windows don't outlive the payback time, or that they never suggest fixing what you have, or that it can significantly reduce the value of the house. It is a real worry for anyone concerned about historic buildings, about reuse and repair instead of replacement, and about vinyl and PVC in our environment.

And the National Trust for Historic Preservation is fighting back. They have produced a terrific weatherization guide for older buildings that tells you what to do and why.

via “Weatherization” Window Salesmen Overselling Savings And Wrecking Historic Buildings : TreeHugger.

Will the continent out of necessity become a distributed Micro-Grid Power? Off-Grid reports:

Lacking the billions of dollars necessary to expand creaky national electricity grids and build large power plants, Africa’s political and economic leaders are experimenting with alternatives. Electricity is increasingly being generated by microdams, solar cells, and microturbines. “Off-grid electricity could be the next great technological leap forward in Africa,” says Mark Hankins, a consultant in Nairobi who specializes in alternative power supplies.

In Kenya, one million households use car batteries as their main source of electricity. From Lagos to Nairobi, even the poorest slum dwellers are driven to purchase fuel that can create power to charge cell-phone batteries and provide light.

via Timbuktu Chronicles: African Micro-Grids.