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Sunday, September 30, 2012

Saturday's High School Football Scores, 9/29

by Associated Press

KING5.com

Posted on September 29, 2012 at 10:21 PM

Updated yesterday at 11:01 PM

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?? Cascade (Leavenworth) 54, Chelan 19
?? Cascade Christian 60, Bellevue Christian 21
?? Chimacum 28, Life Christian Academy 13
?? Crescent 36, Clallam Bay 20
?? Eisenhower 23, Davis 16
?? Lakes 55, Decatur 18
?? Lopez 46, Tulalip Heritage 8
?? North Thurston 34, Wilson 0
?? Quilcene 48, Rainier Christian 30
?? Sedro-Woolley 54, Bellingham 13
?? Taholah 34, Lake Quinault 20
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Source: http://www.king5.com/sports/high-school/Saturdays-High-School-Football-Scores-929-171965331.html

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Internet Marketing Rules Blog: Using Business Cards To Drive ...

Tell me, do you ever use business cards to promote your internet business? I do. I signed up for Vista Print?s business card bundle and found it incredibly easy to do, and it helps to build my credibility whenever someone asks me what I do for a living. Business cards can be used in your internet business very effectively - but only if you know what you?re doing.

You can definitely use business cards to get the word out about your online business. Even though it?s considered as an ?offline marketing? technique, many online business owners know how to use it effectively to get more new traffic for their website. If you would like to know how also, then keep reading.

If you want to drive people to your website using business cards, you have to do a few things. First of all, don?t leave alot of empty space on your business card. Make sure you have a good headline at the top of your card (not too big though), include a short 1-2 sentence description of what your headline is about, make sure you provide a website address that they can use to learn more, and make sure your email address is listed at the bottom of the card.

Now on the back of the card, you want to include some testimonials of people who have used your service. 99% of the time, people who get your business card will look at the back of it. And when they look at the back of it, you want to continue the selling process. Convince them even more that you?re a highly credible figure, and that you?re someone that they should be doing business with.

So the next time you go out to a special event or an old friend asks you ?what do you do for a living?? tell them your occupation and hand them your business card (always keep a few in your back pocket). This way they can visit your site, see what it?s about, and see if you are a good candidate for someone who they should be doing business with.

The business card is one of the most underrated marketing tools. This is why you see so many bland business cards that most people don?t act upon. I?m willing to bet that if business owners ?jazzed up? their card and made it attractive, they would get more new business from the people who comes across it.

When designing your card, you don?t have to go overboard. Just make it a sales piece like anything else, because it?s designed to get you more sales. You don?t want to give out a card just to give one out? make sure when someone sees it, they are intrigued and that they want to learn as much as possible about what they can do to get a hold on some of the things that your website is all about.

Don?t go out and create bland and boring business cards. Go big or go home. Your goal should be to get as many sales as possible from your card, even if it means getting 1 sale from a group of 200 people. But little do you know how profitable this 1 customer will be to you over the course of the relationship with this person.

People who buy from you from obscure places are VERY valuable. The money is in the backend sales, and you can expect to get alot of backend sales from people like this.

Take these tips and use them to have the success that you?re looking for in your online business.

Good luck with making business cards work for you.

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Saturday, September 29, 2012

Poulter and Rose get Europe badly needed point

European team captain Jose Maria Olazabal watches from the ninth hole during a foursomes match at the Ryder Cup PGA golf tournament Saturday, Sept. 29, 2012, at the Medinah Country Club in Medinah, Ill. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

USA's Phil Mickelson, left, is congratulated by Keegan Bradley after making a putt on the fifth hole during a foursomes match at the Ryder Cup PGA golf tournament Saturday, Sept. 29, 2012, at the Medinah Country Club in Medinah, Ill. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

USA's Phil Mickelson reacts as he makes a putt on the fifth hole during a foursomes match at the Ryder Cup PGA golf tournament Saturday, Sept. 29, 2012, at the Medinah Country Club in Medinah, Ill. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Europe's Nicolas Colsaerts reacts after missing a putt on the fourth hole during a foursomes match at the Ryder Cup PGA golf tournament Saturday, Sept. 29, 2012, at the Medinah Country Club in Medinah, Ill. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

USA's Bubba Watson runs to see his shot on the sixth hole during a foursomes match at the Ryder Cup PGA golf tournament Saturday, Sept. 29, 2012, at the Medinah Country Club in Medinah, Ill. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

MEDINAH, Ill. (AP) ? Ian Poulter came through again, teaming with Justin Rose for a 1-up victory over Bubba Watson and Webb Simpson and giving Europe a point it desperately needed Saturday at the Ryder Cup.

The Americans lead 6-4, but are up by multiple holes in the remaining two foursomes.

Led by Keegan Bradley and Phil Mickelson, who are 3-0 after a 7-and-6 thrashing of Lee Westwood and Luke Donald earlier Saturday, the Americans have been overwhelming.

Europe has had few answers, and captain Jose Maria Olazabal turned to Poulter and Rose to try and stem the momentum. Poulter holds the European record for winning percentage at 10-3-0, and he didn't disappoint Olazabal.

They played just well enough to hold off the Americans, closing out the match when Simpson missed an 8-footer.

Associated Press

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Romney to speak with Israeli PM Netanyahu

PHILADELPHIA (AP) ? Mitt Romney is set to speak by telephone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (neh-ten-YAH'-hoo) on Friday.

The Republican presidential nominee's campaign confirms the scheduled conversation. It would come the same day that President Barack Obama also is expected to speak with Netanyahu phone.

The economy has dominated the presidential contest so far, but both candidates have focused more on foreign policy in recent weeks.

Romney has been critical of Obama's relationship with Israel's leadership.

Netanyahu told the United Nations on Thursday that tougher action is needed to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons. The prime minister argues that an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities may be the only answer.

Obama and Romney support the use of military force if necessary to prevent Iran from possessing a nuclear weapon.

Associated Press

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Friday, September 28, 2012

FOR KIDS: Learning in your sleep

Sleeping people can be taught to make connections betweens sounds and smells

Web edition : Thursday, September 27th, 2012

Sleeping and learning go hand in hand, studies have shown for years. Even a brief nap can boost your memory and sharpen your thinking. But the relationship goes deeper than that. In a new study, scientists report that the brain can actually learn something new during sleep.

Scientists used to believe that a sleeping brain was taking a break. But it turns out it can be taught a thing or two, scientists reported in a scientific journal published in August.

Visit the new?Science News for Kids?website?and read the full story:?Learning in your sleep

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Former Firefighter Shoots, Kills Armed Robber With Legal - The Blaze

A quick-thinking former Houston firefighter opened fire on two robbers, killing one of them, after they invaded his home on Wednesday, police said.

The Houston Police Department said the homeowner, who asked not to be identified due to safety concerns, pulled into his driveway in southeast Houston at around 10 p.m. Wednesday when two armed men approached him and demanded money, KPRC reports.

They forced the man inside and reportedly pistol whipped him before searching the home for loot.

?The two males held him at gunpoint and told him that they wanted money, demanded that they go inside and, once inside, proceeded to search the house,? said Mark Coleman of HPD.

The masked gunmen ordered the homeowner, his sister and her teenaged niece to get on the ground. Unfortunately for the robbers, they failed to realize that the 58-year-old former firefighter carried a legal concealed handgun.

He waited until the time was right and then exercised his Second Amendment right.

?They made us lay down in the dining room. My niece laid on the end, my sister was in the middle and I was on the end. When we were laying there, he was ransacking the bookcase and the dining room, and I figured it was now or never. So when I got my chance, I had to take it,? the homeowner said.

He fatally shot one of the robbers and scared the other one away. The homeowner, who is also a husband and a father, said he merely did what was necessary to protect himself and his family members.

?They were in the process of searching the residence when the homeowner proceeded to use a weapon he had to shoot one of the would-be robbery suspects and exchanged gunfire with the other,? Coleman explained.

?One of the suspects was fatally wounded, detectives said. His name has not been released,? KPRC reports.

The second burglar got away, according to police. The homeowner was unable to give investigators a good description of the second man because he was wearing a mask.

?I heard what happened, and I seen the lady run out of the house, screaming ?Help me! Help me! Somebody?s trying to rob us!,? neighbor Calvin Franklin told KHOU. ?The next thing I know I hear gunshots. I heard more gunshots, and then I seen one of the suspects run around the corner.?

A first in online gaming: Humans team up with AI software

by more news, phys.org
November 18th 2008

The 3D online game, called "GIVE: Generating Instructions in Virtual Environments," is designed to help computers use language more like people do.

Would-be gamers are invited to visit give-challenge.org, where they will team up with one of four AI software systems. Players have from now until January to play the game and provide feedback on how well the systems give instructions for solving the treasure hunt puzzle.

"By collecting information from everyday computer users from around the world, we will be able to improve language processing for different kinds of intelligent agents," says Justine Cassell, director of Northwestern University's Center for Technology and Social Behavior and professor of communication studies and computer science.

The feedback from gamers will be analyzed by the game developers to compare how well each of the four AI systems did in the GIVE challenge, with the goal of making computers better partners in a variety of both virtual and real world tasks.

"The information we get will help to build better pedestrian navigation systems, develop more realistic dialogue for virtual humans in immersive virtual worlds, and eventually improve interaction with mobile robots," says Northwestern's Cassell, who with researchers from the United States, United Kingdom, Australia and Germany, organized the GIVE challenge.

Although computers are getting better at some language-based tasks, such as Web search, they still have difficulty holding a conversation with a person in real time. Following in the footsteps of dialogue agents like NUMACK -- a purple virtual human that Cassell developed to give directions around the Northwestern campus -- the GIVE game will allow AI researchers to learn how computers can generate effective direction-giving commands.

GIVE is a challenge problem for AI software, and the virtual partners that are contestants in the GIVE challenge are state-of-the-art natural language generation (NLG) systems that have been created by research teams from the US and Europe.

The GIVE Challenge is the largest initiative ever designed to evaluate natural language generation systems, and marks the first time that NLG research has been made available for public evaluation. GIVE provides gamers a unique opportunity to explore and improve the current state of the art in artificial intelligence.

GIVE is the first online game in which your partner in the game is the AI software itself. The challenge adds to a growing movement among AI researchers that allows Internet users to participate in the development and assessment of intelligent software.

Some online games, including Cyc, 20 Questions and The Restaurant Game, entice online players to make the game smarter by contributing to its store of facts or common sense. The ESP game -- in which players team up to teach the AI software how to solve a difficult problem -- aims for long-term benefits but does not allow the players to interact with any AI software directly.

As an open challenge problem, GIVE is similar in spirit to the well-known RoboCup initiative, in which researchers are challenged to build teams of soccer-playing robots.

Anyone interested can play the game at www.give-challenge.org from now until late January 2009.

Source: Northwestern University

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Thursday, September 27, 2012

In NFL ref woes, key role of expertise spotlighted

FILE - In this July 17, 2012, file photo Members of the Utility Workers Union of America Local 1-2 participate in a march and rally in support of locked out Consolidated Edison workers at Union Square in New York. The NFL referee strike puts the spotlight on a nebulous notion that is often overlooked when it works as it's supposed to: the question of expertise. Consolidated Edison locked out 8,000 workers in July and brought in replacements from other states to work power lines and operate the grid. It ended just as severe storms hit and threatened power outages. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

FILE - In this Monday, Sept. 24, 2012, file photo, an official, rear center, signals for a touchdown by Seattle Seahawks wide receiver Golden Tate, obscured, as another official, at right, signals a touchback, on the controversial last play of an NFL football game against the Green Bay Packers in Seattle. The Seahawks won 14-12. The NFL referee strike puts the spotlight on a nebulous notion that is often overlooked when it works as it's supposed to: the question of expertise. (AP Photo/Stephen Brashear, File)

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) ? If good help is hard to find, just how expendable is expertise?

In a year of strife between worker and manager, NFL referees found themselves with a bargaining chip that Chicago teachers, striking bulldozer builders and locked-out sugar makers lacked: a staggering blunder by overmatched replacements, resulting in a worst-case, told-ya-so fiasco laid bare for millions to watch in disbelief on national television.

On Wednesday, the NFL and the referees' union appeared on the brink of ending a three-month stalemate, two days after the Green Bay Packers lost a game they would have won if not for a less adept crew of replacement officials.

The whole mess ? and pretty much everyone involved agrees it is precisely that ? puts the spotlight on a nebulous notion that is often overlooked when it works as it's supposed to: the question of expertise.

Workers leverage theirs by going on strike, while lockouts are a bet by management that they can make do without it. It's an impasse that usually plays out on picket lines and private bargaining tables, and the fight has trended in recent years toward management.

But few unions have benefited as much as the NFL's striped shirts from such a high-profile validation of the value of expertise. From the Atlantic to the Pacific, from rank-and-file laborers to the most senior of American managers, this one has hit home.

"The big difference is that 100 million people can see football on TV, so the mistakes are glaring," said Mark Froemeke, who's been locked out of his job as a loader-operator at an American Crystal Sugar Co. plant in East Grand Forks, Minn., for 14 months. "The mistakes that the scabs are making in the factories are behind closed doors."

Froemeke said he knows the people hired as replacements for the 1,300 locked-out union workers inside the plants are bumbling with beet slicers and unable to dry pulp in techniques passed down through generations. "If the farmers and the management want to be like the NFL owners and deny it, that's what they're going to do. But nevertheless, it's the reality."

Ken Margolies, a senior associate at the Worker Institute at Cornell University, said the instant upper hand that NFL referees commandeered this week is increasingly rare for uniquely skilled workers in labor disputes. One major culprit is technology: tool-and-die workers in the auto industry couldn't be replaced easily before automation, and management can now outsource jobs like customer service to overseas.

The NFL referee lockout, he said, is most recently comparable to the 2007 writer's strike in Hollywood in terms of profile. But Margolies said he couldn't recall such a "blatant example" where a labor standoff turned on this kind of debacle.

"It's just so obvious that people couldn't be replaced and get the same result," he said.

Attitudes about expertise can also make it a risky hand to play in a negotiation, depending on who's on the other side of the table. The idea that no one is irreplaceable and there's always a guy next in line willing to do the job runs deep in America. Professing expertise can also bring on suspicions of elitism and scratch an itch to knock someone down a peg.?

Other work stoppages around the U.S. this year also illustrate the role of expertise, albeit in varying ways:

? In Houston, Adrianna Vasquez makes $8.60 an hour doing what she knows people think is the world's most replaceable job: She's a janitor. When the 37-year-old returned in August to resume cleaning the 100 toilets on 10 floors in a downtown Chase Bank tower after a citywide janitor strike that won a 12 percent raise, Vasquez said the bathrooms cleaned by replacement crews looked like stalls in a seedy bar. "I just wanted to cry when I saw it," she said.

? In New York, Consolidated Edison locked out 8,000 workers in July and brought in replacements from other states to work power lines and operate the grid. It ended just as severe storms hit and threatened power outages. "Not enough people that knew what they were doing," said John Melia, a spokesman for the Local 1-2 of the Utility Workers Union of America.

? In Illinois, where the Chicago teachers' strike kept 350,000 students out of class for a week this month, a lesser-known strike began in May at a Caterpillar Inc. plant. The heavy machinery manufacturer hired replacement workers and the strike ended in August in what was widely seen as a victory for the company. John Hunt, 51, said he saw what appeared to be empty and lightly loaded shipping trucks leaving the plant under the replacement workers, but he never saw it as a turning point. "The company's line was, 'Doing great and we're not hurting production.'"

The NFL referees' union wants improved salaries, better retirement benefits and resolution of some other logistical issues. The NFL is proposing a pension freeze and a higher 401(k) match; the union is balking because of the greater risk to the nest egg that comes with the loss of a defined benefit.

For American Crystal Sugar, which locked out employees in five factories in three states, vice president Brian Ingulsrud acknowledged that the union workers are "very skilled" and said it was a "big challenge" to bring in replacements. He said the company worked hard at training the new workers in the months when the plants were not processing beets.

"It was a learning curve, there was no doubt," Ingulsrud said. "Last year we did have some bumps in terms of working through that. We feel we're on the right side of the curve right now."

The sugar executive, by the way, thought the right call was made at the end of the Monday night football game.

"When I saw the replay," Ingulsurd said, "it was really the case where the tie goes to the offensive guy."

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Associated Press reporters Deepti Hajela in New York, David Mercer in Champaign, Ill., Dave Kolpack in Fargo, N.D., and Juan Carlos Llorca in El Paso, Texas, contributed to this report.

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Bad Piggies (for Android)

Bad Piggies, Rovio's buzzworthy follow-up to Angry Birds, will probably not appeal to the same casual gaming crowd that's addicted to catapulting birds, but it's a very good game in other ways. It's slower, more thoughtful, more skill-based.

Bad Piggies features the same green pigs you were probably trying to knock down inAngry Birds, and the same UI sensibilities. However this time, your goal is to build a vehicle to propel your pig through an obstacle course, collecting crates and stars along the way.?

If you enjoyed the physics element in Rovio's other app Amazing Alex, then Bad Piggies will leave you hooked. Personally, I found it frustratingly difficult and switched to the brainless Angry Birds for a break.

Gameplay
At the start of each level you're given a toolbox of items?wooden boxes (identical to the ones in Angry Birds obstacles), umbrellas, balloons, wheels, and more?from which you can build a vehicle that ideally takes your pig through all the stars and points-based items in your landscape. You swipe to drag the items into a grid formation to build your vehicle, tap a checkmark, and watch your Rube Goldberg machine set off. You can redo a level as many times as you like. Just like in Angry Birds and Amazing Alex, you can earn one to three stars. One star will let you move on to the next level, and there are 90 in all, though most of you will probably aim for a perfect score.

Bad Piggies is slow-moving, even slower than Rovio's other physics game, Amazing Alex. The vehicles roll through landscapes rather slowly (compared to flung Angry Birds, anyway) so if you need to rebuild your vehicle, it can take several minutes finishing a level. That's a long time in casual gaming land. If you simply can't figure out how to build the right vehicle, you can power up by tapping Hire a Mechanic (in Angry Birds the equivalent is the Mighty Eagle). A mechanic simply builds the contraption for you. You get 3 mechanics for free just by liking the Bad Piggies Facebook page, but after that you'll need to open your wallet. However, you can keep hiring mechanics, starting from $1.99 for ten.

I never made it to the four promised sandbox stages, which apparently let you use any sort of item to build a vehicle and collect crates.

Fun, But the Pigs Are No Birds
Bad Piggies is a high-quality game, but it won't replace Angry Birds. Instead of half-attentively catapulting birds like in the latter, Bad Piggies requires your complete attention to solve puzzle after puzzle. A lot of people try to draw comparisons to Angry Birds, but it's much more similar to Amazing Alex, and will appeal to the same crowd that would rather solve a puzzle than race to the finish line.

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Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Understanding the brain by controlling behavior

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

In the quest to understand how the brain turns sensory input into behavior, Harvard scientists have crossed a major threshold. Using precisely-targeted lasers, researchers have been able to take over an animal's brain, instruct it to turn in any direction they choose, and even to implant false sensory information, fooling the animal into thinking food was nearby.

As described in a September 23 paper published in Nature, a team made up of Sharad Ramanathan, an Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, and of Applied Physics, Askin Kocabas, a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Molecular and Cellular Biology, Ching-Han Shen, a Research Assistant in Molecular and Cellular Biology, and Zengcai V. Guo, from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute were able to take control of Caenorhabditis elegans ? tiny, transparent worms ? by manipulating neurons in the worms' "brain."

The work, Ramanathan said, is important because, by taking control of complex behaviors in a relatively simple animal - C. elegans have just 302 neurons ?we can understand how its nervous system functions..

"If we can understand simple nervous systems to the point of completely controlling them, then it may be a possibility that we can gain a comprehensive understanding of more complex systems," Ramanathan said. "This gives us a framework to think about neural circuits, how to manipulate them, which circuit to manipulate and what activity patterns to produce in them ".

"Extremely important work in the literature has focused on ablating neurons, or studying mutants that affect neuronal function and mapping out the connectivity of the entire nervous system. " he added. "Most of these approaches have discovered neurons necessary for specific behavior by destroying them. The question we were trying to answer was: Instead of breaking the system to understand it, can we essentially hijack the key neurons that are sufficient to control behavior and use these neurons to force the animal to do what we want?"

Before Ramanathan and his team could begin to answer that question, however, they needed to overcome a number of technical challenges.

Using genetic tools, researchers engineered worms whose neurons gave off fluorescent light, allowing them to be tracked during experiments. Researchers also altered genes in the worms which made neurons sensitive to light, meaning they could be activated with pulses of laser light.

The largest challenges, though, came in developing the hardware necessary to track the worms and target the correct neuron in a fraction of a second.

"The goal is to activate only one neuron," he explained. "That's challenging because the animal is moving, and the neurons are densely packed near its head, so the challenge is to acquire an image of the animal, process that image, identify the neuron, track the animal, position your laser and shoot the particularly neuron ? and do it all in 20 milliseconds, or about 50 times a second. The engineering challenges involved seemed insurmountable when we started. But Askin Kocabas found ways to overcome these challenges"

The system researchers eventually developed uses a movable table to keep the crawling worm centered beneath a camera and laser. They also custom-built computer hardware and software, Ramanathan said, to ensure the system works at the split-second speeds they need.

The end result, he said, was a system capable of not only controlling the worms' behavior, but their senses as well. In one test described in the paper, researchers were able to use the system to trick a worm's brain into believing food was nearby, causing it to make a beeline toward the imaginary meal.

Going forward, Ramanathan and his team plan to explore what other behaviors the system can control in C. elegans. Other efforts include designing new cameras and computer hardware with the goal of speeding up the system from 20 milliseconds to one. The increased speed would allow them to test the system in more complex animals, like zebrafish.

"By manipulating the neural system of this animal, we can make it turn left, we can make it turn right, we can make it go in a loop, we can make it think there is food nearby," Ramanathan said. "We want to understand the brain of this animal, which has only a few hundred neurons, completely and essentially turn it into a video game, where we can control all of its behaviors."

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Astronauts may play role in Mars robotic missions

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Cities where home prices not rebounding

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Home prices have been slow to rebound in many recession-battered U.S. cities.

By Michael B. Sauter and Alexander E. M. Hess, 24/7 Wall St.

?Since home prices peaked in the beginning of 2006, the U.S. median home price is down by a third. And though the market has begun to show signs of bottoming out, prices are still down nationally by 1.9 percent from last year and are expected to fall an additional 1 percent from the beginning of this year through 2013.

24/7 Wall St.: The 10 states with the strongest housing markets

Of the 384 largest housing markets measured by real estate data company?Fiserv, 69 have seen home prices fall more than the national average. 24/7 Wall St. reviewed the markets with the worst home price declines from their pre-recession?peak. Of those metro areas, we identified the markets where the median?price did not improve in any of the periods measured by Fiserv as of the first quarter of 2012. The?10 worst are housing markets that have fallen at least 55 percent and have yet to recover.

While the drop in home prices in these markets has slowed, the local economies have been devastated. July unemployment rates in the worst housing markets were all above the national rate of 8.1 percent. Eight of the 10 have rates of at least 10 percent, and five are above 12 percent. Merced, Calif., one of the?10 worst-off cities, had an unemployment rate of 17.8 percent in July, the fourth-highest in the country.

According Fiserv chief economist David Stiff, the unemployment rates and languishing home prices in these markets are indicative of the underlying problems in these states as a whole. ?The reason the job markets are so weak in these metro areas is that during the boom more than half of the growth was generated either directly or indirectly by residential real estate, and so now the reverse has happened,? Stiff explained.?

Further evidence of the economic troubles heaped on these cities, three of the housing markets ? San Bernardino, Vallejo and Stockton ? have filed for bankruptcy since the recession began. Stockton?s Chapter 9 filing represents the largest such case in U.S. history.

Continually depressed home prices also have led to unusually high foreclosure rates in these markets. According to foreclosure data from RealtyTrac, a site that tracks housing data, these cities had among the worst foreclosure rates in the country as of the second quarter of 2012. Of the 10 cities, eight are among the 20 with the highest foreclosure rates out of the 212 metro regions with populations of 200,000 or more.

Of the cities with the worst home price declines, some have begun to recover. In the Detroit metro area, which did not make the list, the median home price has declined by 55.8 percent from the first quarter of 2006. However, between the first quarter of 2011 and the first quarter of 2012, the median price went up by 8.6 percent, one of the largest increases in the country.

Like Detroit, many of the the 10 worst-off markets appear to be about to recover because buyers see bargains. Home prices in seven of the 10 metro areas were lower than the national median of $159,000. Fiserv projects that of the 10 housing markets on our list, five will increase by more than the national rate of 5 percent between the first quarter of 2013 and the first quarter of 2014. This includes the Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach region, which Fiserv projects will have more than 10 percent growth in median home value in that time. Stiff confirmed this: ?Investors, who were part of the problem back in the boom years, will be trying to jump into these markets at a low.?

24/7 Wall St.: Cities with the most homes in foreclosure

24/7 Wall St. reviewed data from Fiserv?to determine the 10 metropolitan areas that had no annual improvement in their housing markets from the first quarter of 2007, the first quarter of 2009 and the first quarter of 2011, all through the first quarter of 2012. We relied on RealtyTrac for data on foreclosure rates and foreclosure sales (both for second quarter of 2012). We also obtained seasonally adjusted unemployment rates for July from the Bureau of Labor Statistics

These are the?10 towns that cannot turn around.

1. Merced,?Calif.

?Decline in home prices (peak to Q1, 2012):?-69.7 percent
?Unemployment rate:?17.8 percent (fourth highest)
?Median home price:?$110,000 (32nd lowest)
?Foreclosure rate:?One in 90.3 housing units (eighth highest)

Nowhere in the U.S. have home prices taken the beating they have in Merced where the median price of a home has fallen at an annualized rate of 19.2 percent in the past five years. That's?the highest rate in the country. Sadly, prices are not expected to begin to rise in 2012, as Fiserv predicts home prices will fall another 4.4 percent between the first quarter of 2012 and the first quarter of?2013. Though home prices were possibly overvalued at their peak, when the median mortgage payment cost 51 percent of monthly income, they would appear to be undervalued now; the median mortgage payment costs just 10 percent of monthly income. The decline in home value has been especially costly for some homeowners, as one in every 90.3 homes was in foreclosure, and 55 percent of all home sales were foreclosure sales. The massive decline in home prices has also caused significant damage to the local economy ? the unemployment rate in Merced was 17.8 percent, higher than almost all other metropolitan areas.

2. Modesto, Calif.

?Decline in home prices (peak to Q1, 2012):?-64 percent
?Unemployment rate:?15.7 percent (ninth highest)
?Median home price:?$139,000 (83rd lowest)
?Foreclosure rate:?One in 68.7 housing units (third highest)

Over the past five years Modesto?s median home price has fallen from 7.5 times median family income to just 2.5 times median family income. Though homes in the area have become more affordable, such price declines have devastated present and current homeowners. The area had the third-highest foreclosure rate in the nation at slightly higher than one in every 69 homes, and 57 percent of all homes sold were foreclosed properties. In few places has the economy been weakened by a housing collapse more than in Modesto, where the unemployment rate stood at 15.7 percent, the ninth highest rate nationwide.

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3. Stockton,?Calif.

?Decline in home prices (peak to Q1, 2012):?-62.8 percent
?Unemployment rate:?15.0 percent (12th highest)
?Median home price:?$170,000 (76th highest)
?Foreclosure rate:?1 in 66.2 housing units (the highest)

When Stockton filed for bankruptcy in June, it became the largest-ever U.S. city to do so, according to The Wall Street Journal. The city?s economy has been plagued for years by constantly falling?home prices, which declined at an annualized rate of 16.6 percent between the first quarter of 2007 and the first quarter of 2012. Stockton also has one of the nation?s highest unemployment rates of 15 percent and a foreclosure rate that leads the nation with one in every 66.2 homes in foreclosure. Though Fiserv projects home prices will rise at an annualized rate of nearly 6 percent between the first quarter of 2012 and the first quarter of 2017, the housing market remains weak.?Fifty-four percent of all second-quarter home sales were foreclosure sales, and the number of property listings in July was down more than 40 percent year-over-year.

4. Las Vegas-Paradise,?Nev.

?Decline in home prices (peak to Q1, 2012):?-61.6 percent
?Unemployment rate:?11.7 percent (32nd highest)
?Median home price:?$137,000 (79th lowest)
?Foreclosure rate:?One in 95.9 housing units (11th highest)

No metropolitan area outside California has seen as large and unabated decline in home prices as Las Vegas. While home prices in other metro areas on this list are expected to improve in the near future, home prices in Las Vegas are projected by Fiserv to decline through at least the first quarter of 2014. Home prices in the area are already low enough that the average discount for purchasing a foreclosed home was just 15.2 percent, less than half the 31.7 percent average discount nationwide.

5. Vallejo-Fairfield,?Calif.

?Decline in home prices (peak to Q1, 2012):?-60.1 percent
?Unemployment rate:?10.2 percent (56th highest)
?Median home price:?$200,000 (47th highest)
?Foreclosure rate:?One in 71.4 housing units (fourth highest)

The Vallejo-Fairfield, Calif., metro area home price drop of more than 60 percent since the first quarter of 2006 was the sixth-worst decline during the housing market collapse of the 384 regions measured by Fiserv. Despite the decline, the area?s median home price was still in the top 15 percent, largely because the area contains California?s famous wine region, the Napa Valley. Median family income was among the top 40 in the country at $76,100. Despite this, one in every 71.4 homes was in foreclosure as of the second quarter of this year, the fourth-highest rate in the country.

Click here to read the rest of 24/7 Wall St.'s Towns that cannot turn around

Source: http://bottomline.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/26/13831186-recession-battered-cities-where-home-prices-not-rebounding?lite

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Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Launch Your Small Business Like The iPhone 5 | Small Business ...

You know who knows how to bring the hype and launch a product? Yep, you guessed it. Apple. Apple just recently launched their newest smartphone to rule them all called the iPhone 5.

Like most big Apple launches (iPad, Macs, iPod, etc?) they know that if you just do one thing, you can get everybody talking about it. And that one thing is?

Be Awesome!

It?s no coincidence that Apple?s stock jumps up and down during and before a big product launch. When they launch a new product, the world reacts. Fans clamor over how soon they can get their hands on it. Tech sites scramble to for the early scoops and instant updates on features. It?s a big deal.

But it?s only a big deal because the product is good; more than good.

Case in point, you can go ahead and try to launch anything, but if it?s not worth talking about; if it?s not amazing? then well, nobody?s going to talk about it. It?s like the people who still send out press releases announcing their CEO is speaking at an event in Idaho. Big whoop. Nobody cares about that. It?s a complete waste of time. It?s not news.

To do a launch correctly you have to make sure you have something worth talking about. ?And that?s the hard part. What?s worth talking about at your business?

Remember, your audience isn?t everybody, it is probably more like the people in your industry. You don?t have to impress the world like Apple does. You just have to impress your target market.

So again, what?s new and amazing with your business? Don?t know? Can?t think of anything?

Then it?s time to start thinking about how to cook something up. What does you product or service do that nobody else can? There has got to be something unique about your business that your competitors can?t do? This is called your unique value proposition (UVP). Figure out what this is and say it loudly, otherwise, why will your customers choose you over your competitors?

Once you have your UVP figured out, you can begin to start thinking about how to leverage a launch of your product/service. Think of a launch like a Hollywood movie trailer. They put out a teaser video enticing us about something that is coming. Then, when the movie is released, we all go running to the theater to see it, thus creating a large opening weekend profit number which pretty much defines the success of a movie nowadays.

Plan your big launch day a few weeks or a few months out and tease your customers with your big news. Create videos and podcasts around the launch and release them on YouTube and your blog or website. Leak out small bits of information ahead of time for the media to grab on to. Build hype!

Then, on your launch day, hold a launch event like Apple does. No, you don?t have to invite 50,000 people. You could do the entire event virtually through a live webinar, or Google hangout. It doesn?t have to be complicated. Invite the media to join the launch and answer questions for them and your customers. Have fun with it! Make it an event that people want to be part of.

Oh yeah, and don?t forget to be awesome.

Source: http://smallbiztrends.com/2012/09/launch-small-business-like-iphone-5.html

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Vegans: Put a Pumpkin in It! | LC Radar

It is time. The air is getting crisp, leaves are changing colors, and my love for a certain fall flavor has been rekindled. Every year I?m faced with the same question: ?How do I incorporate pumpkin in every single thing I consume?? And I mean everything.

When I started transitioning to a more vegan diet, I worried that I would need to give up my dearest orange love. But actually, pumpkin lends itself very well to vegan recipes! Part of its versatility comes from its thick consistency and earthy, sweet flavor when cooked. Let?s go through the day of a person pumpkin-obsessed,* and maybe be thankful that this vegetable is in season only once a year.

Breakfast: The day has just begun and you?re ready to get your pumpkin on. Though Starbucks does offer their seasonal pumpkin spice latte with a soymilk option, the drink still includes a milk derivative that makes it (sadly) non-vegan. Why not make your own vegan pumpkin spice latte at home? Or just brew a cup of pumpkin spice coffee, like Trader Joe?s. Better yet, serve up some super easy pumpkin spice pancakes with maple syrup to go with it!

Lunch: You can have sweets for lunch too, right? Try these baking pumpkin scones. If you don?t have time to bake from scratch, pick up a pumpkin bread mix and veganize it using a few replacements! Maybe even stir up and add this pumpkin spread to make it doubly flavorful. Top it all off with a glass of your favorite pumpkin spice dairy-free milk, offered in soy from Silk and (newly-released) coconut from So Delicious.

Snack: After you?re done scooping out and carving your Halloween pumpkin (or at least attempted a squiggly black cat), take those raw seeds and roast them for a tasty health snack!

Dinner: Now it?s time to balance all the sweetness of the day with something savory. Grab some vegan wonton wrappers (or make your own) and cook these innovative pumpkin dumplings! If you?re feeling really adventurous, try to make your own pumpkin juice (and feel like a Hogwarts student?or a house elf, depending on your perspective). For those of you of age, consider this pumpkin ale from Brooklyn Brewery.

Dessert: For the traditionalists, here?s a vegan twist on the classic pumpkin pie (cashews are so versatile, they can even be used to make vegan ?cheesecake?). But for those who crave chocolate, these tried and true pumpkin brownies have never let me down. Mix up and add a dollop of vegan pumpkin whipped cream, or just eat it straight from the bowl.**

*This article is not responsible for any pumpkin-induced overdoses that occur as a result of following this diet. Be crazy about pumpkin, just not that crazy.

**Or sugar-induced overdoses, either.

-Bobina Vander Laan, Food Blogger

Source: http://www.lcradar.com/2012/09/25/vegans-put-a-pumpkin-in-it/

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Monday, September 24, 2012

Qatari man critically ill in UK with new SARS-type virus

LONDON (Reuters) - A Qatari man struck down with a previously unknown virus related to the deadly SARS virus and the common cold is critically ill in hospital in Britain, the World Health Organisation said on Monday.

The United Nations health body said it is urgently seeking more information about the new virus, which comes from the same family as the SARS virus that emerged in 2002 and killed 800 people.

Peter Openshaw, director of the Centre for Respiratory Infection at Imperial College London, said the virus was unlikely to prove a concern, but experts would watch out for any sign of it spreading.

The 49-year-old patient has symptoms of an acute respiratory infection and kidney failure, the WHO said, without giving details of which hospital he was staying in.

"The patient is still alive but, as we understand, in critical condition," Gregory Hartl, spokesman for the Geneva-based WHO, told Reuters.

"We are still investigating this. We're asking for information from whoever might have seen such cases, but as of the moment we haven't had any more notifications of cases."

The WHO issued a statement late on Sunday through its "global alert and response" system saying tests on the Qatari man had confirmed the presence of a new, or novel, coronavirus.

"Given that this is a novel coronavirus, WHO is currently in the process of obtaining further information to determine the public health implications," the statement said.

Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses which includes the common cold and SARS.

SARS, or Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, appeared in China in 2002 and infected more than 8,000 people around the world, killing around 800 of them before being brought under control.

The WHO said the Qatari patient had gone to the doctor on September 3, 2012, suffering from the symptoms of an acute respiratory infection. It did not say in which country the diagnosis was made.

On September 7, he was admitted to an intensive care unit in Doha, Qatar and on September 11, the man, who had also recently been in Saudi Arabia, was transferred to Britain by air ambulance from Qatar.

It did not say why the ill man had been moved to the UK.

"The Health Protection Agency (HPA) of the UK conducted laboratory testing and has confirmed the presence of a novel coronavirus," the WHO said.

It said scientists at the HPA compared gene sequences of the virus from the Qatari patient with samples of virus sequenced by Dutch scientists from lung tissue of a fatal case earlier this year in a 60-year-old Saudi national.

The results showed a 99.5 percent identity match, it said.

Openshaw said the fact the two cases found so far are apparently unrelated suggests "that what has been picked up is just some rare event that in past times might have been undiagnosed".

But he added: "Any evidence of sustained human-to-human transmission or of contact would be more worrying, raising the worry that another SARS-like agent could be emerging."

(Reporting by Kate Kelland; Editing by Andrew Heavens)

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Suicide bomber kills 2 at Nigerian church

Suicide bomber kills 2 at Nigerian church
US-NIGERIA-VIOLENCE:Suicide bomber kills 2 at Nigerian church

By Funon Inusa

BAUCHI, Nigeria (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber blew himself up outside a Catholic church in a remote part of northern Nigeria on Sunday, killing himself and at least two other people and wounding several, a Reuters witness said.

Police cordoned off the area after the blast, which caused minimal damage to the church but killed at least two people in a market area of Bauchi city called Wunti. A Reuters journalist saw emergency services bring out three bodies, and police identified one as the occupant of the car that blew up.

Several wounded were being taken out on stretchers.

"I was just coming out on my way to church and I saw a car speeding towards the church entrance. It hit the fence and there was a huge 'bang' and pieces of metal flew into the air," Manan Yara, a housewife who lives opposite the church, told Reuters.

"I thank God I'm still alive," she said, her hands shaking.

National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) spokesman Yushua Shuaib said he had only confirmed reports of three wounded, with no known deaths.

"Three injured victims were rushed to the hospital for medical attention," he said.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility. Islamist sect Boko Haram has claimed several attacks on churches and other Christian gatherings this year, part of wider efforts to destabilize President Goodluck Jonathan's government.

Boko Haram has killed hundreds of people since 2009 in attacks on security forces, government offices and churches, and three of its senior members have been designated as 'terrorists' by the United States.

The sect, which says it wants to revive an ancient Islamic caliphate in northern Nigeria that would practice strict Sharia law, has become the number one security threat to Africa's top oil producer, replacing militancy in the oil-rich southeast.

A military crackdown appears to have weakened Boko Haram, whose militants have not reproduced the kind of large-scale, coordinated attacks they carried out earlier this year. At least 186 people died in attacks across the city of Kano in January.

But almost daily shootings and bombings blamed on the Islamists have continued.

The militants have made no public pronouncements since security forces said they killed their spokesman Abu Qaqa in a gun battle in Kano last Sunday.

Security analysts say Boko Haram has forged links with other Jihadist movements expanding across West Africa, such as al-Qaeda in the Islamic Magreb, an Algerian-born outfit based in northern Mali.

But apart from an attack on the U.N. headquarters in the capital Abuja last August, Boko Haram's focus has been mainly on local targets.

(Writing by Tim Cocks; Editing by Giles Elgood)

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Washington woman admits to embezzling from tribe

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho ?

Federal prosecutors say an Eastern Washington woman has pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $20,000 from the Coeur d'Alene Indian Tribe.

Forty-six-year-old Debora J. Zimmerman of Spokane, Wash., admitted to diverting the money between 2008 and 2010 while serving as Finance Operations Director for the tribe's housing authority. Investigators concluded she took the money by issuing unauthorized paychecks to herself, making unapproved purchases and other schemes.

Zimmerman pleaded guilty to felony embezzlement Friday in U.S. District Court in Coeur d'Alene and sentencing is scheduled for Nov. 30.

She faces up to five years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000.

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