Month: July 2019
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Tallest Building
On December 31, 2004 Taipei 101 opened as the tallest building in the world, just barely edging out Chicago’s Sears Tower, now called the Willis Tower. Since then it has been soundly beaten by the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. The Sears Tower and Taipei 101 were both less than 500 meters in height, while Burj Khalifa…
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Household Relocation
What is the cheapest and safest way to move? According to www.movingscam.com the best way is to rent a truck and do it yourself. With your trusted friends and family and with the aid of the correct furniture dollies and plenty of packing materials and moving blankets, carefully load the truck with the heaviest items on…
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Ozark filming this week
Marty Byrde moved from Chicago to the Ozarks of Arkansas to escape being murdered by a Mexican drug cartel. Marty engages in a series of businesses to launder money, the one thing he can offer the drug cartel to keep his family alive. The dark Netflix serial has been filmed on Lake Alatoona and Lake…
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Lake Lanier Water Levels
Lanier with a planned pool level of 1071′ above sea level is .42″ above full pool. The highest lake levels ever recorded were in 1964 at 1077.15′ above sea level. February of 2019 ended with near high pool levels at 1076.1′ on Feb. 25. On Feb 28 the US Army Corp of Engineers let out…
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Three Brooklyn Movers Fined $1.4 Million for Extortion Scheme
This is what I am talking about. Here is a quote from the article; “The men were convicted by a jury in May following a six-week trial in connection with a scheme to lure customers with artificially low estimates and then later hold their household goods hostage until large additional payments were made. It is…