Dream home down drain deal made for man who bought at LandAuction com The Intelligencer Mustafa "Steve" Keser bought property in Warrington last year with ,400 and dreams of a suburban family home. 

Dreams of a quick profit dashed home flippers become landlords Chicago-area home flippers, who once reaped the benefits of a hot housing market with little money down, some elbow grease and a quick sell, are increasingly becoming something that wasn’t in their original business plan — landlords. And many who weren’t prepared or willing to hold their once-hot investments for the long-term are losing their profits, or worse, facing foreclosure. “We went through a long stretch where it was hard to rent [investment properties], so people said ‘OK, let’s sell 

DrumBeat April 6 2008 Rockets fired at villas housing US oilmen in Yemen SANAA (AFP) — Three rockets were fired late on Sunday at villas where US oil experts live in Yemen's capital, next to a residential complex for other Westerners, residents said, in the latest attack to hit a country plagued by Al-Qaeda-linked violence. Security officials confirmed that rockets had been fired but gave few other details. One security official was quoted by state media as saying there were no casualties. Residents told AFP  

Dyson Spheres Detection and E T This past Friday I participated in a discussion on Paul Gilster’s blog Centauri Dreams. Paul concentrates on mainstream astronomy, real-science interstellar travel and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI or ETI). Believe it or not, I hang out there often and sometimes manage to throw in an intelligent comment or two. The post in discussion was Dyson Spheres: Hoping to be Surprised. The discussion was not only should we be searching for radio signals from ETI (looking more and mo