41 Year Old sets American record in 50 freestyle!

The 41-year-old Torres won the 50-meter freestyle Sunday night with another American record, giving her the chance to swim two individual events in Beijing.

She’s already done what no one thought possible, returning from her second retirement - and just two years removed from having a child - to reclaim her place as America’s most dominant female sprinter. She’ll be the oldest American ever to swim at the Olympics, but she wants so much more.

“I can’t sit here and lie and say, ‘Oh, I’m just glad I’m going,”’ said Torres, who’ll be in her fifth Olympics. “I want a medal.”

Having already won the 100m free Friday, Torres got off to the third-slowest start in the most frenetic lap in swimming. But she was in control midway through, touching in 24.25 seconds to eclipse the mark of 24.38 she set the previous night in the semifinals.

CityBlogUSA Opens California Blogging Network

Phoenix, AZ, December 17, 2007. CityBlogUSA, a division of the e-Partner National Relocation and Brokerage Services Network announced that effective Monday, December 17, 2007, it would begin to market the CityBlog Resident blogging network for California cities to real estate agents.

The Company launched the BETA version of CityBlogUSA in July and has been test marketing positions in selective markets in its 50-State, 25,000+ cities network to real estate agents on an exclusive basis.

Company Vice President, Robert Barringer said, “we created CityBlog with the idea that consumers want to blog about their favorite cities or hometown and to directly post information about lifestyles, real estate, jobs, health care, schools and even politics from an insider’s perspective.”

“CityBlog California allows residents, businesses and real estate industry professionals to open up the local information portals for those seeking to relocate and for those residents who want to post alternative information that the newspapers, TV and magazines aren’t reporting…after all, who knows more about a community than the people who live there?”, said Barringer.

Agents can “Stake a Claim” to their city as its “Real Estate and Relocation Specialist” and hold that position exclusively, interact by posting blogs, talk about real estate and any other local issues they would like to include in the blog.

Barringer said, “The most powerful thing about CityBlog is that any resident can become an author…we are just setting up a network and trying to sell ad space…we believe in the consumer-centricity of the economy, especially when it comes to real estate and local lifestyles.”

People can blog Los Angeles, Riverside, Blythe, Sacramento, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Lakewood, Redding, Eureka, Palm Desert and any other city and have the same blogging experience. You can jump to any California city and be blogging in minutes by going to www.CaliforniaBlogPage.com, this very site.

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CA Chamber - Great Site!

There is a wealth of information located at the California Chamber of Commerce website. The Business Resources section of the site contain numerous links to helpful information, including a list of every local Chamber of Commerce in California, sorted by city and county.

California Wildfires - Values Impact

With the property destruction caused by the California wildfires, we wonder what the real estate value impact will be in the days, months and years ahead. Are there any local statistics or statistical opinions of the real estate values post wildfire? See this blog.