Archive for December, 2008

Improve Your Credit Rating

Sunday, December 21st, 2008

Purchasing a place could be a difficult affair, but it becomes a nightmare if you have bad credit.
There are a great many ways to go about improving credit history, and the simplest way is to repay old liabilities that are hanging over your head. You can commence with the little ones, and then work out something with the bigger obligations. You may attempt to send payments each month. The company will be asking you for the full amount, but you can tell them a payment is the best you can do. They may not appear content about it, but if that is all you are able to do, there’s nothing they can do about it. This may help our rating move up, but will not get you out of the woods. This might take a bit, so do not get upset if they are not marked as such right away. If something is paid and some months go by with no update, then you must take action to be certain the reports are updated and correct.

Also remember that something marked as paid will look better than something that was accepted in a lesser amount. Don’t settle unless you suspect you’ve got to do so, or suggested this is the way to go for you.

As you attempt to go about improving credit rating, ensure you are not doing damage by employing cards to pay down the debt. Things you have not paid for are not the sole things that look bad on a credit rating.

If you have good debt, but too much of it, that will go against you too. Improving credit status with good debt like loans that are up to date, but they should not be so much that it seems like you are battling to pay your debts every month. Strike a fair balance between clearing your old debt and guaranteeing you do not get any new ones.

Steve Prefontaine: Track Athlete

Saturday, December 20th, 2008

The great interest in track athletics in the 1970s was mostly impressed by Steve Prefontaine. Fans loved his go for it style, sitting back wasn’t for him and he elected to lead the race from the front.

He was born in Coos Bay, Oregon in 1951 and began his running career collaborating in cross-country events at high school.

He continued cross-country at the Varsity of Oregon and ran track races too. A record run in the five thousand meters led to his selection for the US team to go to the Munich Olympic Games in 1972. He came really close to winning a gong and finished a respectable fourth in the grand final. After graduation from College , his next goal was to play a role in the 1976 Olympic Games at Montreal. It seemed that Prefontaine was an amazing sportsman, even in events outside of his specialty.

Sadly, his actual potential wasn’t realized and he never made it to his 2nd Olympic Games . It was said that Fontaine could have been drinking over the limit and a 2nd automobile was concerned.

There are several commemorative sites to laud his memory. One of these is known as Pre’s Rock, a reference to his nickname. It’s a plaque placed at the location of the crash, containing his picture and a dedication. Runners who admire him leave souvenirs at the commemorative in remembrance. A race meeting, called the Pre Classic is arranged each year to revere Steve Prefontaine. In 1997, the film Prefontaine was released, starring Jared Leto as the runner. Billy Crudup played Steve Prefontaine in the 1998 film, Without Boundaries . The documentary is aptly titled, Fire On the Track.