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Airzona and Hawaii do not observe daylight savings time.

Although not punctual in the modern sense, ancient civilizations adjusted daily schedules to the sun more flexibly than modern DST does, often dividing daylight into twelve hours regardless of day length, so that each daylight hour was longer during summer.[12] For example, Roman water clocks had different scales for different months of the year: at Rome’s latitude the third hour from sunrise, hora tertia, started by modern standards at 09:02 solar time and lasted 44 minutes at the winter solstice, but at the summer solstice it started at 06:58 and lasted 75 minutes.[13] After ancient times, equal-length civil hours eventually supplanted unequal, so civil time no longer varies by season. Unequal hours are still used in a few traditional settings, such as some Mount Athos monasteries[14] and all Jewish ceremonies.[15]

Benjamin Franklin satirically suggested firing cannons at sunrise to wake ParisiansDuring his time as an American envoy to France, Benjamin Franklin, author of the proverb, “Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise”, anonymously published a letter suggesting that Parisians economize on candles by rising earlier to use morning sunlight.[16] This 1784 satire proposed taxing shutters, rationing candles, and waking the public by ringing church bells and firing cannons at sunrise.[17] Franklin did not propose DST; like ancient Rome, 18th-century Europe did not keep precise schedules. However, this soon changed as rail and communication networks came to require a standardization of time unknown in Franklin’s day.[18]

G.V. Hudson invented modern DST, proposing it first in 1895.Modern DST was first proposed by the New Zealand entomologist George Vernon Hudson, whose shift-work job gave him leisure time to collect insects, and made him aware of the value of after-hours daylight.[2] In 1895 he presented a paper to the Wellington Philosophical Society proposing a two-hour daylight-saving shift,[19] and after considerable interest was expressed in Christchurch, New Zealand he followed up in an 1898 paper.[20] Many publications incorrectly credit DST’s invention to the prominent English builder and outdoorsman William Willett,[21] who independently conceived DST in 1905 during a pre-breakfast ride, when he observed with dismay how many Londoners slept through a large part of a summer day.[22] An avid golfer, he also disliked cutting short his round at dusk.[23] His solution was to advance the clock during the summer months, a proposal he published two years later.[24] The proposal was taken up by the Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) Robert Pearce, who introduced the first Daylight Saving Bill to the House of Commons on 12 February 1908.[25] A select committee was set up to examine the issue, but Pearce’s bill did not become law, and several other bills failed in the following years. Willett lobbied for the proposal in the UK until his death in 1915.

Starting on 30 April 1916, Germany and its World War I allies were the first to use DST (ger.: Sommerzeit) as a way to conserve coal during wartime. Britain, most of its allies, and many European neutrals soon followed suit. Russia and a few other countries waited until the next year and the United States adopted it in 1918. Since then, the world has seen many enactments, adjustments, and repeals.

Now is a good time to buy San Diego Real Estate

Anytime is a good time to buy San Diego North County homes. Contact Gary Harmon, your top North County Realtor, to see homes today. Gary services all of the San Diego North County real estate areas including Carlsbad homes, Oceanside homes for sale, Encinitas homes, Vista, San Marcos, and Escondido real estate.

Current Real Estate Listings of Vista CA Home for Sale 

 927 Parkwood Avenue, Vista, CA 92081 is a regular listing, but priced to compete with foreclosures and short sales of San Diego North County Homes.  This home is in a gated community on a half acre view lot.  It has 5 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms including a bedroom on the main floor.  In addition it has a loft/den.  The kitchen features an island and granite countertops.  There are 2 spacious paito areas for entertaining.  There is also gated RV or boat parking.  Esf = 3646.  Enjoy the photos in the YouTube.com video below.

For more information on Vista Ca Homes for Sale, contact Gary Harmon, your Real Living Lifestyles real estate agent.

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The median Vista homes value in July 2011 is $342,190. The total inventory of Vista CA homes for sale is 381.   The National median home value is only $175,100.  See the chart below for a ten year average of median Vista homes values and how they stack up against the City, County and the Nation. There is also a chart of Vista homes appreciation for the same ten year period.

If you would like to see Vista homes for sale and take advantage of this great San Diego North County real estate market, contact Gary Harmon, your Real Living Lifestyles Real Estate agent.

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Listing of the Day – 970 Thomas

Remarks: Dream home in exquisite Edgehill Ranch Estates. Very private and elegant with a Mediterranean charm. Shows like a model with upgrades galore. Gourmet kitchen with granite counters, GE Monogram appliances, oversize bonus room or optional 5th bedroom. First Level includes Master bedroom suite and second bedroom. Very large covered loggia, ideal for entertaining. Lush custom landscaping /garden, gas fire pit, solar energy system, spa and more. See virtual tour and supplement. This is a Regular Sale Edgehill Ranch Estates is a gated community of 17 custom homes. Elegant upgrades with designer touches throughout compliments this stunning move in ready home. Gourmet kitchen with walk in pantry, Stainless Steel G.E. Monogram appliances, including 42 inch side by side refrigerator, double oven conventional/convection, compactor,and warming drawer. Granite kitchen counter tops with tile back splashes, upgraded fixtures, and more. Huge master suite includes a retreat which could be an office, reading room, or exercise room, opening to lanai with large private spa and spectacular garden. Staircase leads to two bedrooms and a oversize bonus room that could be converted to 5th bedroom, second family room, game room or office. Elegant courtyard with fountain off the dining area. Home includes security and fire sprinkler system, cat 5 wiring, dual zoned air conditioning and heat, retractable screens on 3 French doors, built in wine cooler and gas logs in both fireplaces, ceiling fans, two water heaters, Therma True entry door, high ceilings and crown molding. Floors are Travertine and Carpet. 4 car garage has epoxy coated flooring and ample storage. Attractively landscaped throughout with over 200 rose plants, various fruit trees, fountains, evening lights, and automatic sprinkler system. Designed to easily change, landscape/garden area could be reconfigured to meet your needs, including the addition of a pool. Large garden shed with tile roof and windows. Outdoor entertainment area includes over 1000 sq ft loggia with natural gas grill island, build in refrigerator and storage. This large private outdoor room overlooks a stunning backyard with lush landscape/garden and is ideal for entertaining. Drapes in kitchen, Family Room, Bedrooms and do not convey. Wooden fire surround in living room fireplace is not attached. Annual sewer fee of 533.00.

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Above Vista listing of the day was provided by Gary Harmon – DRE #01007062.
Information courtesy of Prudential California Realty is subject to verification and is not guaranteed.

According to a National Association of Realtors survey of buyers and sellers, first-time homebuyers accounted for half of all home sales from July 2009 through June 2010.  That’s the highest share of first-time-buyer purchases in the history of the survey.  This large number of first-time home buyers was due to the generous incentives offered by both Federal and State Governments.  The survey dates back to 1981.

The typical first-time buyer was 30 years old (compared to a median 49 years old for repeat buyers and 39 years old  for all buyers) and planned to stay in their home for a median of 10 years. Repeat buyers planned to stay for 15 years. Typical sellers had remained in their previous home for eight years.

87% of home buyers started on the Internet

Almost half (48 percent) of buyers found their agent through a referral from a friend, relative, or neighbor; the next highest percentage, 10 percent, used a website.  According to the National Association of Realtors, over 87% of home buyers started their seach for a home on the Internet.

The most valuable website feature for San Diego North County buyers was the presence of photos: 85 percent said they found photos “very useful.” Detailed property information was very useful for 83 percent and virtual tours were very useful for 61 percent.  That is why this blog, www.GaryHarmon.com and my main website, www.HomeInfoSanDiego.com, offer a plethora of great photos.

On the main website you can search by using the main search buttons: Foreclosure Search, MLS Search, Over 55 Homes, Ocean Hills C C, Ocean View Homes, La Costa Homes, and Contact Gary.  If you want know more about the San Diego North County real estate communities you can go to the community buttons of: Oceanside, Carlsbad, Escondido, Vista, San Marcos, or Encinitas.  Your search possibilities only start with the main search buttons.  There are over 200 pages of custom, relevant, San Diego North County homes real estate content available on “HomeInfoSanDiego.com.”  Many communities, such as “Ocean Hills Country Club Homes,” have their own websites within the main website.

Enjoy this San Diego North County real estate resource, and for personal attention, contact Gary Harmon, a top North County real estate agent.

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Just a friendly reminder to set your clocks back one hour this Sunday morning at 2:00 am, November 7, 2010.  This is the end of daylight savings time for us here in San Diego North County.  Back to standard time.  Remember the old rule of Spring forward and Fall back.  If you would like to know a little history (or a lot of history) about the time change, read on below the photo. 

More than you ever wanted to know

Although not punctual in the modern sense, ancient civilizations adjusted daily schedules to the sun more flexibly than modern DST does, often dividing daylight into twelve hours regardless of day length, so that each daylight hour was longer during summer.[12] For example, Roman water clocks had different scales for different months of the year: at Rome’s latitude the third hour from sunrise, hora tertia, started by modern standards at 09:02 solar time and lasted 44 minutes at the winter solstice, but at the summer solstice it started at 06:58 and lasted 75 minutes.[13] After ancient times, equal-length civil hours eventually supplanted unequal, so civil time no longer varies by season. Unequal hours are still used in a few traditional settings, such as some Mount Athos monasteries[14] and all Jewish ceremonies.[15]

 
Benjamin Franklin satirically suggested firing cannons at sunrise to wake ParisiansDuring his time as an American envoy to France, Benjamin Franklin, author of the proverb, “Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise”, anonymously published a letter suggesting that Parisians economize on candles by rising earlier to use morning sunlight.[16] This 1784 satire proposed taxing shutters, rationing candles, and waking the public by ringing church bells and firing cannons at sunrise.[17] Franklin did not propose DST; like ancient Rome, 18th-century Europe did not keep precise schedules. However, this soon changed as rail and communication networks came to require a standardization of time unknown in Franklin’s day.[18]

 
G.V. Hudson invented modern DST, proposing it first in 1895.Modern DST was first proposed by the New Zealand entomologist George Vernon Hudson, whose shift-work job gave him leisure time to collect insects, and made him aware of the value of after-hours daylight.[2] In 1895 he presented a paper to the Wellington Philosophical Society proposing a two-hour daylight-saving shift,[19] and after considerable interest was expressed in Christchurch, New Zealand he followed up in an 1898 paper.[20] Many publications incorrectly credit DST’s invention to the prominent English builder and outdoorsman William Willett,[21] who independently conceived DST in 1905 during a pre-breakfast ride, when he observed with dismay how many Londoners slept through a large part of a summer day.[22] An avid golfer, he also disliked cutting short his round at dusk.[23] His solution was to advance the clock during the summer months, a proposal he published two years later.[24] The proposal was taken up by the Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) Robert Pearce, who introduced the first Daylight Saving Bill to the House of Commons on 12 February 1908.[25] A select committee was set up to examine the issue, but Pearce’s bill did not become law, and several other bills failed in the following years. Willett lobbied for the proposal in the UK until his death in 1915.

Starting on 30 April 1916, Germany and its World War I allies were the first to use DST (ger.: Sommerzeit) as a way to conserve coal during wartime. Britain, most of its allies, and many European neutrals soon followed suit. Russia and a few other countries waited until the next year and the United States adopted it in 1918. Since then, the world has seen many enactments, adjustments, and repeals.

Now is a good time to buy San Diego Real Estate

Anytime is a good time to buy San Diego North County homes.  Contact Gary Harmon, your top North County Realtor, to see homes today.  Gary services all of the San Diego North County real estate areas including Carlsbad homes, Oceanside homes for sale, Encinitas homes, Vista, San Marcos, and Escondido real estate.

Listing Price:  $860,000
Size: 4282 esf
Bedrooms: 4+1
Baths: 3.5
Comments: Dream home in exquisite Edgehill Ranch Estates in San Diego North County. Very private and elegant with a Mediterranean charm. This North County home shows like a model with upgrades galore.  Gourmet kitchen with granite counters, GE Monogram appliances, oversize bonus room or optional 5th bedroom.  First Level includes Master bedroom suite and second bedroom.   Very large covered loggia, ideal for entertaining. Lush custom landscaping /garden, gas fire pit, solar energy system, spa and more.    Edgehill Ranch Estates is a gated community of 17 custom homes.   Elegant upgrades with designer touches throughout compliments this stunning move in ready home.   Gourmet kitchen with walk in pantry, Stainless Steel G.E. Monogram appliances, including 42 inch side by side refrigerator, double oven conventional/convection, compactor,and warming drawer.  Granite kitchen counter tops with tile back splashes, upgraded fixtures, and more. Huge master suite includes a retreat which could be an office, reading room, or exercise room, opening to lanai with large private spa and spectacular garden.  Staircase leads to two bedrooms and a oversize bonus room that could be converted to 5th bedroom, second family room, game room or office.   Elegant courtyard with fountain off the dining area.  Home includes security and fire sprinkler system, cat 5 wiring, dual zoned air conditioning and heat, retractable screens on 3 French doors,  built in wine cooler and gas logs in both fireplaces, ceiling fans, two water heaters, Therma True entry door, high ceilings and crown molding.    Floors are Travertine and Carpet.  4 car garage has epoxy coated flooring and ample storage. Attractively landscaped throughout with over 200 rose plants, various fruit trees, fountains, evening lights, and automatic sprinkler system.  Designed to easily change, landscape/garden area could be reconfigured to meet your needs, including the addition of a pool.  Large garden shed with tile roof and windows.   This Edgehill Ranch Estates home has outdoor entertainment area includes over 1000 sq ft  loggia with natural gas grill island, build in refrigerator and storage. This large private outdoor room overlooks a stunning backyard with lush landscape/garden and is ideal for entertaining.   Drapes in kitchen, Family Room, Bedrooms and do not convey.  Wooden fire surround in living room fireplace is not attached.  Annual sewer fee of 533.00 MLS#: 100046413 970 Thomas Pl LP: $860,000  Edgehill Ranch Estates is a gated Community Equipment: Dishwasher, Disposal, Fire Sprinklers, Garage Door Opener, Microwave, Range/Oven, Shed(s), Solar Panels, Trash Compactor Prepared by: Gary Harmon Information is not guaranteed. Sunday, September 26, 2010.

For more information about this great Vista listing, contact Gary Harmon, your top Vista Realtor.

Vista CA home sales have been exceeding the new inventory for several weeks.  It is still a buyer’s market, but prices seem to be responding by moving upward.  If the demand for Vista homes continue, we can expect Vista home prices to keep marching in an upward direction.

Vista Home Prices

This week saw very little price change from the last few weeks in Vista Ca homes for sale.  However, prices continue to demonstrate a nice up trend in general over the last several weeks.

The Vista Homes for Sale Market conditions & statistics report is being brought to you by Altos Research and Pickford escrow, one of Gary Harmon’s winning team members.  For more information on Vista CA homes for sale, contact Gary Harmon, your Vista Realtor.  If you are considering moving closer to the coast you might want  to check out Oceanside ocean view homes, Carlsbad ocean view homes, or Encinitas ocean view homes.

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