Filed under: Estates

Today’s home in the ritzy Tuxedo Park area of Atlanta was once the home of Robert Woodruff, former president of Coca-Cola. The five-bedroom home was built in the 1930s but has a new pool and pool house. The home is done in a sweeping Regency style, and decorated in that gracious, slightly old-fashioned style that fights with bare contemporary spaces for page space in Architectural Digest. All seems to be in perfect charming order except for that kitchen. This is one home that should not have black stone countertops. The home sits on seven well-landscaped acres. It is listed at $13.9 million.

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Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping

Today’s estate is a rather curious one, a bit of faux Provence tucked into the hills of Palm Springs, CA. The home belongs to Suzanne Somers and Alan Hamel and sits on 65 acres of desert land. Les Baux de Palm Springs. The couple purchased the land way back in 1977 and it came with a small home that the couple eventually enlarged and added to, also including guest houses an amphitheater and an updated pool to the property. The decorating style is a wee bit confusing with some sort of charming French country touches which keep company with velvet couches, giant chandeliers and more than one zebra skin rug. It’s all a bit crazy but sort of endearing. Even the Real Estalker Mama, who is famous for dishing out the harsh words seems oddly touched by the overblown earnestness of the home. Is it worth $35 million? It’s hard to tell but I suspect the price might be a wee bit overlown too.

[via Palm Springs Life]

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Filed under: Estates, Charity

Michael Vick may have sold his infamous Virginia home which was used in a dogfighting ring last Might but the home’s infamy lives on. The home was appraised at $747,000 but sold for bargain price of $450,000 (don’t feel too sorry for Vick, he paid $34,000 for the 15 acres of land in 2002 and built the house). Since then the home has been put up for auction but last month at the auction real estate developer Wilbur Ray Todd Jr. rejected a final bid of $747,000. Todd says he put another $50,000 into fixing up the home which had been vandalized. The property includes the main home,a basketball court, four outbuildings and many dog cages. The main house has two master suites, a media room and a two-car garage. It is now listed at $1.1 million and an animal advocacy group wants to turn it into a shelter for abused dogs. Jalie’s Butterflies, has raised over $11,000 so far. They state that if the don’t raise enough money to buy the house donations will got to the ASPCA. You can donate at The Vick House Project.

[via Baltimore Sun]

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Whenever you are doing collaborative work, it is important that every player communicates with each other. To do that, you can simply email each other. Or you can use Basecamp.

Basecamp has improving communications between team members, making it easier to collaborate on a single project. Simple to setup, simple to use and very flexible, Basecamp streamlines the way the team works together.

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With the free plan, you get to have 1 active project going only. For the subscription, you can have more than 1 project, depending on what plan you paid for. Video tutorials teaching you how to get going with Basecamp is available to get you started. Creating entries in its many tabs is just a point and click affair. With Basecamp, collaboration just became a whole lot simpler.

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What’s with all this extra nose hair?  I mean, one day my nose looks fine.  The next morning it looks like I’ve got a hibiscus growing out of my nostrils.  A swift glance at my ears to see a long strand sticking out of my ear lobe and fuzz coming  out of the ear holes.  What’s with this?  Does growing older require more insulation for my ears and nose?  Maybe it’s just put there to challenge my eye sight and my physical acuity when I have to trim it all.  Amazing.

One good quality trimming scissors, priceless.

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