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Home sales are rising in some U.S. areas where lenders have cut prices on foreclosed properties, amid overall weak sales.

Americans’ love affair with real estate may be cooling, but — thanks to falling home prices and the weak dollar — attention is heating up from another group of suitors: foreign investors.

One way of getting more for your money this summer vacation: hit the Internet to find a vacation rental instead of a hotel room, gaining space and possibly saving a couple of bucks.

The cathedral-ceilinged “great room” is losing favor. Owners say these double-height rooms are expensive to heat and cool. They can be drafty and reverberate noise. Moreover, growing numbers of home buyers think these soaring rooms waste space.

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Winners of the door prizes, graciously donated by Precision Camera and Video, at the first meeting of the CapMac Advanced Photography SIG.

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After an 11 hour car ride with a very unhappy cat overdosing on Xanax, and 10 rather miserable days sharing a tiny den with Sara sleeping on a futon, we finally have a house to ourselves in Austin. I will be here until August. I’m ready to eat Mexican food, melt in the sun, bother the doorman at Casino El Camino, see some rawk shows, buy Day of the Dead figurines on South Congress, and drift from one coffee shop to another trying to turn my dissertation into a book.

This sign is from local favorite Tex-Mex joint Chuy’s, where Jenna Bush was famously arrested for drinking underage.

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I think they were about to mate. I don’t remember. Haha. I wish I could’ve gotten a closer picture of them, but man those beautiful buggers are so fast!

Don’t Lose Your Lunch posted a photo:

from Vegan Explosion.

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1, 2, 3…

and go!

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