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Quarterly Real Estate Report: Cottage Lake Beach Club

Michelle Blue: Real Estate Agent in Woodinville, WA

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The quarterly Market report for the Woodinville neighborhood of Cottage Lake Beach Club has now been published. This report summarizes the real estate activity over the last 12 months - showing what is Active, Sold and was on the market and cancelled in the last 12 months.

Click here for the Cottage Lake Beach Club Report January 2009 (in PDF Format)

If you would like more information on this report - or would like to see a report on your neighborhood, please let me know.

by Michelle Blue
Your Guide to Woodinville Real Estate, Community & Neighborhoods
www.WoodinvilleGuide.com

Brookside Country Club - Quarterly Market Report is now available (January 2009)

Michelle Blue: Real Estate Agent in Woodinville, WA

The quarterly Market report for the Woodinville neighborhood of Brookside Country Club has been published. This report summarizes the real estate activity over the last 12 months - showing what is Active, Sold and was on the market and cancelled in the last 12 months.

Click here for Quarterly Report - Brookside Country Club (PDF Format)

If you would like more information on this report - or would like to see a report on your neighborhood, please let me know.

By Michelle Blue
Your Guide to Woodinville Real Estate, Neighborhoods, & Community!
www.WoodinvilleGuide.com

Brooktrails Estates - Quarterly Market Report is Now Available (January 2009)

Michelle Blue: Real Estate Agent in Woodinville, WA

The quarterly Market report for the Woodinville neighborhood of Brooktrails Estates has been published. This report summarizes the real estate activity over the last 12 months - showing what is Active, Sold and was on the market and cancelled in the last 12 months.

http://michelleblue.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/neighborhood-re-update-bte-january-2009.pdf

If you would like more information on this report - or would like to see a report on your neighborhood, please let me know.

By Michelle Blue
Your Guide to Woodinville Real Estate, Neighborhoods, & Community!
www.WoodinvilleGuide.com

Education Task Force Report is Available!

Michelle Blue: Real Estate Agent in Woodinville, WA

binder_012000151.jpgThe Washington Legislature's Joint Task Force Report on Basic Education Funding has been completed and it is endorsed by the Washington State PTA. This isn't a Woodinville or Northshore report - it impacts every school district in Washington, but I am posting it here to help keep the active and caring parents in the Northshore School District up to date. We escaped a school closure last year, but we don't know what will happen this year that will impact next year. Keep up to date and make sure your voice is heard!

Definition of Basic Education

  • Includes the implementation of Core 24.
    Which is an increase in the number of courses required to graduate from the current 19 to 24. These 24 courses are deemed required to enable all students to graduate from high school ready for post-secondary education, apprenticeship programs or other job training.

  • Includes the programs required to enable all students to achieve the higher goal of Core 24. Including pre-school for children from low-income families, specialized instruction for English language learners and students with disabilities, and extra time and teaching for struggling students.

Task Force Recommendations:

  • Revised System of Funding Allocation-that will provide (1) smaller class sizes, (2) additional days for teacher development, (3) increased funding for counselors, teacher-librarians, other specialist professionals, classified staff, school administration and other costs. Allocations to be based upon the number of students served.

  • Early Learning program to be funded based upon the federal Head Start model.

  • Demographic adjustments for funding based upon % of students in a school that come from low-income families at the school. The funds will then be utilized to serve all students who need the extra help, regardless of family income.

  • New system of teacher Compensation where increases in pay is tied to increases in classroom effectiveness - residency, professional and master teacher categories. Additional salary will be allocated for mentoring of new teachers by master teachers, a regional leveling to non-education salaries, school-wide bonuses for improvement in student learning and special incentives in subject shortage areas.

  • New system of teacher preparation and a new career ladder.

  • Simplify and Standardize Funding. Requirement for all schools districts to use a new common fiscal accounting and budgeting system, new statewide student data system, and simplifications in the allocation models that are currently very complicated.

  • Continued use of local levies to enhance education - but with limits and equalization to ensure basic equity across the state.

  • Timeline: Phase in over 6 years.

For your reference, here is the link to the full report

by Michelle Blue
Your Guide to Woodinville Real Estate, Community & Neighborhoods!
www.WoodinvilleGuide.com

Are You Fulfilling Your Destiny?

ARDELL DellaLoggia: Real Estate Agent in Seattle, WA

This is a Destiny Reading for one of my Twitter Friends. I come from some gypsy lineage (tiny bit of Mongolian blood from my mother's side) with a knack for Tarot Reading, etc... I didn't pay a lot of attention to it until my children were losing focus on the meaning of life in their pre-teen and teen years :). I often had a house full of young girls who only worried about which boy liked them this week, so I started doing Destiny Readings. It created a major transformation among the young women, my daughters and their friends, to think they had a personal real Destiny to fulfill. Their self image was no longer about who liked them...how they acted...what they wore...what they looked like...

It's a combination of Chinese Astrology, Tarot, Birthday Analysis and Destiny Era charts...all rolled into one. A bit of intuition/talent blends them together into one basic "Destiny" and primary purpose. I do believe there is one big thing we come here to "complete". And if you don't look for it...you will leave this earth without having done it and will keep coming back until the job is done. Of course I am also very grounded in the Catholic Faith and Judaeo/Christian teachings. I don't view any one way as the ONLY way, and I roll everything into one until it blends into a world of great compassion and understanding.

It's never a bad thing to FOCUS on something, so whether you believe that THIS is truly your Destiny...it really doesn't matter. Improving focus on accomplishment is always a good thing.

The Destiny of this person is so very different from my own, that it has taken me a bit of time to blend into a primary purpose. Your purpose is usually the OPPOSITE of what you do naturally and comfortably, day in and day out. You may have heard the saying "What you RESIST...PERSISTS." If you are an introvert, as example, your Destiny is likely about interaction outside of your personal world. If you are an extrovert, then the reverse is likely true.

Sad to say that while generally speaking for this person, Spring and Summer are normally the best times to progress toward her ultimate destiny (vs. Fall and Winter), 2009 is the WORST year since 1997, and will not get a lot better until 2011 and 2012. On the bright side, that imposes less urgency to change in the near future :)

It is not surprising that her WORK has nothing at all to do with her destiny. Her work encompasses a wide territory and many people on a daily basis. Her Destiny is VERY PERSONAL. She is here to work on herself. She is not here to invent or create something for others, She is here to find contentment with her inner self.

In this Year of the Ox, that will be an exceptional struggle. She will be pulled to areas that create self doubt and to some extent, even self loathing. For some that could create a year of great personal advancement IF they fight through it...but this person is not likely going to fight through it, so she needs to do a few things in 2009:

1) Surround yourself with people who truly like you for Who You Are.

2) Avoid people who put you down in any way shape or form...just move away from them, hang up on them, refuse to engage with them, tune them out and nod if you must and get away from them as soon as humanly possible.

3) Declutter the area you spend most of your time in. Remove anything that does not make you smile and add things that do make you smile, and keep them there and in the same place for a full year. Don't keep changing your space. Make it most comfortable and leave it alone until your birthday in 2010.

4) Expect the tendency to undervalue yourself to be the strongest this year...and fight it by ignoring it. Anytime you feel you didn't do "good enough", take a walk or better yet, indulge in an "escapist" activity like an uplifting movie that refocuses your thoughts. Don't try to reverse the feeling by "doing" (which is your natural tendency)...move away from it.

YOUR PRIMARY AND ULTIMATE DESTINY is to disassociate your feelings of self worth from your work. But that is difficult because you are work driven, and the more you stay in the driver's seat and refuse to be a passenger of life, the worse it gets.

YOUR PRIMARY TALENTS ARE NOT IN THE AREA OF FINANCE. Understand that you are not meant to be good at that which you are not good at, and don't perceive those things as "your weaknesses". Of the many things you can be good it...you are not meant to be good at all of them for a reason.

You feel a strong sense of needing to do something important for others...but the reality is, you are meant to be content with yourself. All the other things will COME to you, when you find yourself, contentment with yourself, maximum self esteem...all the things you seek you will actually drive away, until you come to a full understanding of your self and know that ultimately it is not what you DO, but Who You Are, that is most important.

To Thine Own Self Be True...the rest will fall into place once you ALWAYS honor only yourself. Your sense of duty, ethics and fairness, which are very strong...will cause you to think this cannot be true...but it is also why it IS true.

Oddly, many on your Kharmic Path will try to fulfill their need to improve self-worth with "the need to be needed" by many, and at all times. To make the most progress, make sure your non-work times of which there are few, are filled with non-work people and non-work activities. On the bright side, becasue you don't indulge in pleasures enough...when you do...the pleasure from the activity is magnified.

If there was ever a year to balance work with relaxation...this is it! If you don't...you will be much worse for the wear by the first new moon of 2010.