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Picture of our North Bay Home. There is still lots of snow -- Our next door neighbor Dan C. took this picture. The main reason we are at WaterOak   ,Florida for the Winter 

  Until a study by the University of Florida actually counted Canadians coming into the state each year, U.S. officials had only a notion of just how big the winter invasion of Canucks really was. The study by the University’s Bureau of Economic and Business Research revealed that Florida’s five-million population over 55 swelled by more than a million people every winter, and 82 per cent of these snowbirds came from Canada. The study’s author, Professor Stanley K. Smith, says that not only are the number of snowbirds continuing to increase, encouraged by a dollar at par and cheaper real estate, they’re also getting younger as baby-boomers hit retirement. But one key finding of the study undoubtedly pleased Florida officials: 81 per cent of snowbirds spending their winters in Florida actually own their secondary home in the sunshine state. Canadians are the biggest foreign purchasers of U.S. residential real estate and own an estimated $50 billion worth in Florida alone.

Flood of retirees makes Villages fastest-growing metro area in U.S. The Villages — Florida's largest retirement community — is also the nation's fastest-growing metropolitan area, according to Census Bureau. The unincorporated community of 107,056 residents grew 5.2 percent from 2012 to 2013. In that year, The Villages gained more than 5,300 new people. It was previously classified as a micropolitan area, which has a population of less than 50,000. The Villages prospered with steady growth of retirees at a time when migration to other Florida cities slowed during the recession. In 2012, the retirement community that sprawls over Lake, Sumter and Marion counties. The Villages' pace of growth seems unrelenting to residents, but the pattern of growth — each new residential development gets its own golf courses, pools, restaurants, and other amenities — means the impact of more people moving in isn't significantly felt by other areas of the community. The un

  This is what a hand scanner looks like.     The Information They Can Receive If You Do Not Have A Tough To Crack Password  

  ALL YOU IRISH   AND WAN AN BEE'S   GET OUT AND CELEBRATE

                               Portable wi-fi Starbucks are set up and wait for the suckers to connect.  They plant password sniffers and sit-back while the PC e-mails ssh passwords to them.  •Unauthorized access to a computer network becomes a felony – Even casual access to an unsecured wireless network in a hotel can destroy your career.  You can be arrested on-the-spot, even if you have no criminal intent (other than stealing their bandwidth, of course).  In Canada, it’s called  Theft of Telecommunications.    •Sue the hapless wi-fi homeowner - Hacking victims now have a cause-of-action against the owners of wireless networks that have been used as access points to commit crimes.  If you manage a computer network, (even if it’s ole Aunt Sara’s) the wi-fi cannot serve as an open-relay for bad guys.  It’s called “negligence”. OK, are you paranoid yet? This should serve as a sobering note for unsecured wi-fi owners.  If someone taps-into your

  What the United States and Canada are experiencing right now is making global warming alarmists such as Al Gore look quite foolish. The following are Al Gore's stupidest global warming quotes... - In 2008, Al Gore boldly declared to a German audience that "the entire North 'polarized1 cap will disappear in 5 years." (Needless to say, that did not happen. In fact, the ice cap in the Arctic actually got larger this year.) - "CO2 is the exhaling breath of our civilization, literally.... Changing that pattern requires a scope, a scale, a speed of change that is beyond what we have done in the past." (Actually, without carbon dioxide life on earth would not exist.) - During a speech at NYU Law School in 2006, Al Gore made the following statement: "Many scientists are now warning that we are moving closer to several "tipping points" that could — within as little as 10 years — make it impossible for us to avoid irretrievable damage to th