SCOTTSDALE ARIZONA is a golfers paradise, partially due to the weather, but even more so because of the quality and majestic beauty of the courses and the areas dedication to provide the nations finest golf resorts.
One course that stands out in the crowd with so many magnificent courses to choose from is The Golf Club at Eagle Mountain. It was declared “Best New Public Golf Course” by the Arizona Republic in 1996.
It had the distinction of being named best public golf course in 2006 by the Phoenix New Times and also #1 public golf course by Ranking Arizona Magazine, 2006 – 2007.
Located only minutes away from Scottsdale in the rugged McDowell Mountains of Fountain Hills, Eagle Mountain Golf Club radically interweaves its way through shaded box canyons and around majestic mountain peaks unique to this scenic corner of the Sonoran desert.
Eagle Mountain offers striking views into untouched desert landscape and area landmarks, such as Camelback and Red Mountain. The course offers 18 holes and four sets of tees and has a range of playing yardage from 5,065 to 6,800.
Eagle Mountain is not what you would normally expect from a typical desert course because many holes feature grass from tee to green. Another stunning feature is the natural box canyon. A lake comes into play on two holes. With four sets of tees, this course will challenge any skill level.
Another premier course not to be ignored is The Orange Tree Golf Resort. It is one of Arizona's finest luxury golf vacation destinations. At the heart of Orange Tree is a beautifully maintained Parkland-style 18-hole championship golf course, long considered one of Arizona's most renowned traditional golf courses.
At Orange Tree Golf Resort in Scottsdale you will also find a variety of dining and entertainment choices, over 14,000 square feet of meeting and banquet space, a fitness center, a crystal clear pool amidst cascading waterfalls, towering palms and flower-filled gardens.
Designed in 1957 by Arizona legend Johnny Bulla, Orange Tree is has long been considered one of Arizona’s most renowned traditional golf venues. This PGA rated golf course boast 6,762 lush yards of tree-lined tranquil beauty and strategic challenges. The course par is 72, with a slope rating of 122 and a course rating of 71.3.
When you are looking for elegance and playability you have to look at The Camelback Golf Club. It features thirty-six holes of championship golf in a parkland setting that promises a demanding and dynamic adventure.
The 6,903-yard, par 72 Arthur Hills-designed Padre Course features multiple lakes, towering trees, subtle landforms and strategic bunkering to sharpen your game.
The Camelback Golf Club promises a knock-you-off-your-cleats golf experience, and the new Arthur Hills designed course is a classic course layout in lush splendor.
The 7,014-yard, par 72 Indian Bend Course offers lush palm- and eucalyptus-lined fairways, secluded bunkers, gently rolling terrain, and spectacular vistas.
The 36,000 square-foot pueblo-styled Clubhouse offers golfers an expansive golf shop, dining, meeting and banquet space, and the finest amenities in the Valley.
Scottsdale has so many wondrous courses to choose from. Narrowing down the choices is no easy chore. But Eagle Mountain, Orange Tree, and Camelback are three of the most luxurious and amazing courses you can find in the whole state of Arizona.
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Friday, October 19, 2007
Bond Types published by Legal Docs Online
There are many different kinds of bonds out there. Although they all have many similarities, they also have many elements that make them unique, and should you consider investing in bonds you should know the different kinds of investment options available and the level of risk and potential return on investments involved. Below is a breakdown of five of the most popular bond options available.
Junk bonds are bonds that the experts believe have a greater than average chance of being defaulted on. Also commonly known as high yield bonds they pay higher yields to bondholders because the borrowers have a poor credit rating.
Junk bonds have a bad reputation because back in the '80s, junk bonds were invented to enable smaller companies or big investors to use bonds and bond markets to finance and plan takeovers of large corporations, also in fact a famous study completed in1989 showed that 34% of junk bonds default.
They pay a higher yield simply because the risk is greater, and also the potential reward is greater as well, sometimes as high as 50% more. A risky investment unless you are bond savvy and able to take chances with your investment dollars.
A corporate bond simply put is a bond issued by a corporation. The term is usually applied to longer-term debt instruments, generally with a maturity date falling at least a year after their issue date. Sometimes, the term "corporate bonds" is used to include all bonds except those issued by governments in their own currencies.
Strictly speaking, however, it only applies to those issued by corporations. And corporate bonds are often listed on major exchanges and some corporate bonds have an embedded call option that allows the issuer to redeem the debt before its maturity date. A pretty safe long term investment option.
Treasury Bonds are government bonds issued by the United States Treasury Department through the Bureau of the Public Debt. They are the debt financing instruments of the U.S. Federal government, and are often referred to simply as Treasuries.
There are four types of treasury securities: Treasury bills, Treasury notes, Treasury bonds, and Savings bonds. All of the Treasury securities, with the exception of savings bonds are very fluid and are heavily traded on the secondary market. A low risk, but low gain solid investment option.
Municipal bonds, also known as munis, are debt securities issues by states and local governments looking to raise money to build new roads, schools or to pay for other programs. The interest paid to investors over the course of the muni is tax free at the federal level.
And, if the investor resides in the city or state that issued the debt, state and local taxes are normally waived as well. However, if you sell the muni for a profit, the capital gains from the sale are taxable. A low risk investment with tax advantages.
International bonds come in the same general types as those of U.S. issuers. Most foreign governments have a finance department similar to the U.S. Treasury that issues bonds.
These government bonds, sometimes known as sovereign bonds, are similar to any other bond; they pay interest at regular intervals, and at maturity, they pay the principal amount back to the owner. Most of these bonds are issued in the currency used by the country that distributes them.
Just as with American bond funds, there are risks. A rise in interest rates will bring down the price of an international bond fund. And a drop in the value of the foreign currency can also affect international funds. Some international bond funds can have returns as high as 14 percent or better.
Junk bonds are bonds that the experts believe have a greater than average chance of being defaulted on. Also commonly known as high yield bonds they pay higher yields to bondholders because the borrowers have a poor credit rating.
Junk bonds have a bad reputation because back in the '80s, junk bonds were invented to enable smaller companies or big investors to use bonds and bond markets to finance and plan takeovers of large corporations, also in fact a famous study completed in1989 showed that 34% of junk bonds default.
They pay a higher yield simply because the risk is greater, and also the potential reward is greater as well, sometimes as high as 50% more. A risky investment unless you are bond savvy and able to take chances with your investment dollars.
A corporate bond simply put is a bond issued by a corporation. The term is usually applied to longer-term debt instruments, generally with a maturity date falling at least a year after their issue date. Sometimes, the term "corporate bonds" is used to include all bonds except those issued by governments in their own currencies.
Strictly speaking, however, it only applies to those issued by corporations. And corporate bonds are often listed on major exchanges and some corporate bonds have an embedded call option that allows the issuer to redeem the debt before its maturity date. A pretty safe long term investment option.
Treasury Bonds are government bonds issued by the United States Treasury Department through the Bureau of the Public Debt. They are the debt financing instruments of the U.S. Federal government, and are often referred to simply as Treasuries.
There are four types of treasury securities: Treasury bills, Treasury notes, Treasury bonds, and Savings bonds. All of the Treasury securities, with the exception of savings bonds are very fluid and are heavily traded on the secondary market. A low risk, but low gain solid investment option.
Municipal bonds, also known as munis, are debt securities issues by states and local governments looking to raise money to build new roads, schools or to pay for other programs. The interest paid to investors over the course of the muni is tax free at the federal level.
And, if the investor resides in the city or state that issued the debt, state and local taxes are normally waived as well. However, if you sell the muni for a profit, the capital gains from the sale are taxable. A low risk investment with tax advantages.
International bonds come in the same general types as those of U.S. issuers. Most foreign governments have a finance department similar to the U.S. Treasury that issues bonds.
These government bonds, sometimes known as sovereign bonds, are similar to any other bond; they pay interest at regular intervals, and at maturity, they pay the principal amount back to the owner. Most of these bonds are issued in the currency used by the country that distributes them.
Just as with American bond funds, there are risks. A rise in interest rates will bring down the price of an international bond fund. And a drop in the value of the foreign currency can also affect international funds. Some international bond funds can have returns as high as 14 percent or better.
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
First Published Article / published by Wheelscene.com
I wrote an interesting article about the practicality of owning and driving SUV's in today's economy. It was purchased by Wheelscene.com
To view my article entitled :SUV's: ARE THEY WORTH IT?
Please follow this link http://www.wheelscene.com/car-buying/car-reviews/suvs.aspx
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To view my article entitled :SUV's: ARE THEY WORTH IT?
Please follow this link http://www.wheelscene.com/car-buying/car-reviews/suvs.aspx
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Salmon Fishing in the Northwest / Published by Auspicious Concierge
When I was a kid the highlight of my summer was going salmon fishing with my older brother and cousin Alvin. At the time I lived in rural Oregon and we would drive about three hours to get to the Oregon coast.
We would always leave before daylight and look for a quaint little pancake house along the way to fuel up for an intense four hours of battling Coho and Sockeye salmon. For some odd reason the fish would almost never bite after about 12:00 noon.
We would travel along the coastal highway through Salem, which is the capital city of Oregon, and take the Tillamook exit. Yes, Tillamook, where they make all that famous, delicious cheese!
But, our fishing spot was actually located just outside a sleepy little town called Garibaldi. Our favorite spot was called “The Ghost Hole.” It was supposed to a haunted inlet from the Pacific Ocean the legend dated back several hundred years and the locals avoided it like the plague. I never saw anyone else ever fishing there so it was a prime place to catch huge salmon.
We never saw any spooks, just huge salmon and lots of Sturgeon which we caught on occasion as well. The general rule of thumb with sturgeon however was under three feet or over six feet had to be released because they were juveniles and old timers.
The ghost hole was a horseshoe shaped inlet that was about a half of a mile in length and very deep. The fish would swim from the ocean and hang out there for some reason. And we were very happy about that because the fishing was fantastic. We never went out in a boat, we just fished from the shore.
Salmon are very intelligent and not easy to land. To start with they are huge and strong, and when you hook one they fight like no other fish in the world with the exception of a marlin. They break the surface of the water, sometimes as high as three feet. They twist and shake with such power and determination, its breathtaking to watch.
Their strategy of course is to break your line, and until we learned from our mistakes and started using thicker test line we lost a few beauties. I once stupidly brought a trout pole with very thin line and a big ornery salmon snapped my pole clean. I was the object of much teasing over that one for quite a while.
It was very difficult to decide what bait to use because they were very fickle and what worked one day, didn’t necessarily work the next. We brought night crawlers of course, and we even had lots of success with cocktail shrimp as bait believe it or not! Alvin had some custom made lures that an old fellow custom made for him that worked the best of all.
We were not always successful at catching our salmon, sometimes we went home disappointed and very tired. Over the many years since that time I’ve been fishing in many different parts of the country, but have never seen more beautiful views with such pure unspoiled glory like the Oregon coast. It seems like a distant dream to be standing upon that pristine shore without rubbing shoulders with twenty others fishermen.
The Pacific Northwest is so clean and pure because of the relatively meager population and lack of factories and pollution that other states have to deal with. That was over twenty years ago, but things have not changed very much. I would one day like to return to the “Old Ghost Hole” and try my luck once again.
We would always leave before daylight and look for a quaint little pancake house along the way to fuel up for an intense four hours of battling Coho and Sockeye salmon. For some odd reason the fish would almost never bite after about 12:00 noon.
We would travel along the coastal highway through Salem, which is the capital city of Oregon, and take the Tillamook exit. Yes, Tillamook, where they make all that famous, delicious cheese!
But, our fishing spot was actually located just outside a sleepy little town called Garibaldi. Our favorite spot was called “The Ghost Hole.” It was supposed to a haunted inlet from the Pacific Ocean the legend dated back several hundred years and the locals avoided it like the plague. I never saw anyone else ever fishing there so it was a prime place to catch huge salmon.
We never saw any spooks, just huge salmon and lots of Sturgeon which we caught on occasion as well. The general rule of thumb with sturgeon however was under three feet or over six feet had to be released because they were juveniles and old timers.
The ghost hole was a horseshoe shaped inlet that was about a half of a mile in length and very deep. The fish would swim from the ocean and hang out there for some reason. And we were very happy about that because the fishing was fantastic. We never went out in a boat, we just fished from the shore.
Salmon are very intelligent and not easy to land. To start with they are huge and strong, and when you hook one they fight like no other fish in the world with the exception of a marlin. They break the surface of the water, sometimes as high as three feet. They twist and shake with such power and determination, its breathtaking to watch.
Their strategy of course is to break your line, and until we learned from our mistakes and started using thicker test line we lost a few beauties. I once stupidly brought a trout pole with very thin line and a big ornery salmon snapped my pole clean. I was the object of much teasing over that one for quite a while.
It was very difficult to decide what bait to use because they were very fickle and what worked one day, didn’t necessarily work the next. We brought night crawlers of course, and we even had lots of success with cocktail shrimp as bait believe it or not! Alvin had some custom made lures that an old fellow custom made for him that worked the best of all.
We were not always successful at catching our salmon, sometimes we went home disappointed and very tired. Over the many years since that time I’ve been fishing in many different parts of the country, but have never seen more beautiful views with such pure unspoiled glory like the Oregon coast. It seems like a distant dream to be standing upon that pristine shore without rubbing shoulders with twenty others fishermen.
The Pacific Northwest is so clean and pure because of the relatively meager population and lack of factories and pollution that other states have to deal with. That was over twenty years ago, but things have not changed very much. I would one day like to return to the “Old Ghost Hole” and try my luck once again.
The BARF DIET published by SpoilSpot.com
No it doesn‘t sound overly appetizing does it? But actually this clever acronym means “Biological Appropriate Raw Food or Bones and Raw Food”
This ground breaking but still controversial canine diet comes to us from down under, developed by Australian veterinarian Ian Billinghurst.
The basic idea and concern which led to the inception of the BARF diet is the fact that we have so completely domesticated our canines and have completely forgotten that their nutritional needs are drastically different from our own. Before processed pet foods were common fare our dogs were routinely fed cooked table scraps and leftovers.
It is Billinghurst’s philosophy that a biologically appropriate diet for dogs must consist of raw whole foods much like what our canines’ wild relatives have consumed for millennia. This includes muscle meats, bones, fat, and small quantities of raw vegetables, along with necessary supplements.
Supporters of the BARF diet claim that to maintain optimum health, dogs must consume foods that they are evolutionarily suited to eat, and that commercially prepared dog foods lack the proper enzymes and other vital dietary necessities.
Another one of the BARF supporters criticisms of commercially prepared dog foods is that they contain numerous additives, unhealthy preservatives, and a high percentage of grain products, all of which may affect your dogs proper digestion and are unhealthy for your canine.
The resent pet food scare also has pet owners wondering just how closely the commercial pet food industries are regulated? Many pet owners are questioning the safety of the types of foods they have been feeding to their pets for years.
Some of the major criticisms of BARF are the very real risk of contamination if proper cautions are not taken due to the lack of preservatives especially where poultry is concerned. And also the costs associated with the BARF diet are substantially higher then commercially processed pet foods, and this can be a big consideration for breeders and kennel owners alike who have to prepare meals for multiple canines.
The BARF diet claims to be designed with the unique nutritional needs of your domesticated canine in mind. The fillers, chemicals, coloring, grains, and preservatives have been eliminated from your canines diet and only ingredients that promote healthy assimilation of proper sustenance are added.
The controversy rages on and everyone seems to have their own opinion on the subject. I suggest consulting your regular veterinarian and doing research of your own before making a leap of faith and jumping into a new nutritional program , you must be careful these days where your canines health is concerned.
The BARF diet is growing in popularity but has not yet to become a recognized household brand name like PURINA DOG CHOW or KIBBLES N BITS and not everybody agrees with Billinghurst’s way of thinking as well, especially the dog food companies that stand to loose millions if the BARF diet becomes the standard for breeders, kennels, hunters, and millions of dog owners around the globe.
This ground breaking but still controversial canine diet comes to us from down under, developed by Australian veterinarian Ian Billinghurst.
The basic idea and concern which led to the inception of the BARF diet is the fact that we have so completely domesticated our canines and have completely forgotten that their nutritional needs are drastically different from our own. Before processed pet foods were common fare our dogs were routinely fed cooked table scraps and leftovers.
It is Billinghurst’s philosophy that a biologically appropriate diet for dogs must consist of raw whole foods much like what our canines’ wild relatives have consumed for millennia. This includes muscle meats, bones, fat, and small quantities of raw vegetables, along with necessary supplements.
Supporters of the BARF diet claim that to maintain optimum health, dogs must consume foods that they are evolutionarily suited to eat, and that commercially prepared dog foods lack the proper enzymes and other vital dietary necessities.
Another one of the BARF supporters criticisms of commercially prepared dog foods is that they contain numerous additives, unhealthy preservatives, and a high percentage of grain products, all of which may affect your dogs proper digestion and are unhealthy for your canine.
The resent pet food scare also has pet owners wondering just how closely the commercial pet food industries are regulated? Many pet owners are questioning the safety of the types of foods they have been feeding to their pets for years.
Some of the major criticisms of BARF are the very real risk of contamination if proper cautions are not taken due to the lack of preservatives especially where poultry is concerned. And also the costs associated with the BARF diet are substantially higher then commercially processed pet foods, and this can be a big consideration for breeders and kennel owners alike who have to prepare meals for multiple canines.
The BARF diet claims to be designed with the unique nutritional needs of your domesticated canine in mind. The fillers, chemicals, coloring, grains, and preservatives have been eliminated from your canines diet and only ingredients that promote healthy assimilation of proper sustenance are added.
The controversy rages on and everyone seems to have their own opinion on the subject. I suggest consulting your regular veterinarian and doing research of your own before making a leap of faith and jumping into a new nutritional program , you must be careful these days where your canines health is concerned.
The BARF diet is growing in popularity but has not yet to become a recognized household brand name like PURINA DOG CHOW or KIBBLES N BITS and not everybody agrees with Billinghurst’s way of thinking as well, especially the dog food companies that stand to loose millions if the BARF diet becomes the standard for breeders, kennels, hunters, and millions of dog owners around the globe.
Monday, September 24, 2007
possible copywriting job
UPDATE!!! DIDN'T WORK OUT! THEY HIRED SOMEONE ELSE!! THAT'S HOW THE COOKIE CRUMBLES!!
I was recently contacted by a large media firm called MediaRich out of Texas. They saw my work at Helium.com and are interested in hiring me to do some copywriting for them, the work will consist of writing some headlines for some of their clients. Very exciting stuff, haven't started yet but will keep my blog updated with current news.
Also one of the companies RezHub.com that I've posting small travel articles for is interested in hiring a full time writer for their site in a couple of months. I was told recently that I was the forerunner for that position. So the excitement continues!!!!
I was recently contacted by a large media firm called MediaRich out of Texas. They saw my work at Helium.com and are interested in hiring me to do some copywriting for them, the work will consist of writing some headlines for some of their clients. Very exciting stuff, haven't started yet but will keep my blog updated with current news.
Also one of the companies RezHub.com that I've posting small travel articles for is interested in hiring a full time writer for their site in a couple of months. I was told recently that I was the forerunner for that position. So the excitement continues!!!!
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
writing career continues to blossom
I have had three of my articles published recently. I have been posting them on Helium.com where publishers come to look for talented writers to write the kinds of articles they need. I am doing it!! No more dreaming and wishing, but taking a serious approach to my future as a writer.
Friday, September 7, 2007
WRITING CAREER
MY WRITING CAREER IS TAKING EXCITING TURNS, I AM NOW WRITING WEB CONTENT FOR SEVERAL ONLINE FORUMS. THE SKY IS THE LIMIT BABY!!
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