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The Wild Card round of the NFL playoffs begins on Saturday, and there will be four total games throughout the weekend. Eight teams are vying for their chances to get to the divisional round and face one of the top two seeds. Things are looking a little different this year as head into the playoffs and it's time to make sure everyone is caught up.
With the first game of the playoffs (New Orleans Saints Vs. Seattle Seahawks), the NFL will institute a brand new set of overtime rules. No longer are the "sudden death" implications there meaning that 90% of a team's hope is relying on the coin toss. In all actuality, you still kind of want to win the toss to be honest with you, but more on that in a bit. Let's first check out the new overtime rules so everyone knows what's going on.
I'm talking to you Donovan McNabb.
Have you got all that?
There are a lot of questions left unanswered which leads one to believe the NFL has that covered but merely hasn't revealed it all yet. At least, that's the hope we all have so that we're not standing there as confused as the referees when something random happens.
For instance, what happens if a team gets a safety? Does a turnover essentially end a team's chance or will they get another if the team causing the turnover gets a goal? Is there really that much of a difference by going to "sudden death" if each team gets a field goal? Sure you can say that both teams got their chance with the ball, but wasn't that what the first sixty minutes was for?
I'm still curious what happens if the 15 minute overtime period ends and both teams are still knotted up. Does everything start over or is still first team to score wins?
One thing everyone must remember is that the new rule clearly states that each team is guaranteed only "an opportunity to possess the ball in overtime." So say the Jets kick a field goal in overtime and then the Colts' kick returner fumbles the ball during his run back which is recovered by the Jets...that's game over folks and a New York victory.
In all actuality, we may not even have to worry about these new rules, but it's good to at least know them should an overtime period occur within this final month of play. The way this crazy NFL season has gone, you can almost bet that some random occurrence would happen making for a huge controversy. At least now you're prepared.
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Posted 29th Aug 2013 @ 11.01 by GenSTEPSLisa has confirmed on Twitter that she has returned to Dubai. She last tweeted on 4 June where she thanked her bandmates for a fun day in the sun.
Official Steps tweeted on 28 May that Steps had not split and the group were just working on solo projects.
It had been rumoured that Steps will return in 2014 with new music. Lisa's tweet at least suggests there are no imminent plans for the group.
Clips video for Light Up The World
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The music video to STEPS Light Up The World will be a clips-montage as the band have not recorded a music video for the song, says a fragrance launch insider.
STEPS unveil Guilty Pleasure
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STEPS unveiled their fragrance Guilty Pleasure at a press event in central London last night - and also performed their new track Light Up The World.
The fragrance was described as 'fizzy' and "like refreshers" by the band speaking on the Graham Norton radio show last week.
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Posted 24th Sep 2012 @ 09.22 by GenSTEPS
STEPS have announced a new Winter / Festive themed album called LIGHT UP THE WORLD which will be released on 12 November 2012.
They will also embark on a Christmas mini-tour singing some of the hits they didn't perform at their UK Arena Tour.
Plymouth Pavilion - 30 November
Sheffield City Hall - 1 December
London Palladium - 2 December
Manchester Apollo - 3 December
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall - 4 December
Wolverhampton Civic Hall - 5 December
STEPS to perform at Manchester Pride
Posted 7th Jul 2012 @ 00.25 by GenSTEPSSTEPS are to perform at Manchester Pride in August.
The deal was bagged by owner of the G-A-Y brand of night clubs, Jeremy Joseph.
Speaking at the announcement, he said "last year we presented Sugababes and Alexandra Burke. We were determined to top that and when it comes to Pride, there is only one act that can - the ultimate party pop sensations STEPS. It will be a Tragedy if you miss them, so start learning the dance routine because you'll be expected to join in."
Tickets are available at Manchesterpride.com for £15.
Lisa and Faye attend Royal Ascot
Posted 21st Jun 2012 @ 12.03 by GenSTEPS
Love's got a hold on my hat! Lisa and Faye attended Royal Ascot yesterday in some very fetching outfits. Lisa wore a flippin' enormous hat. Amazing.
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SKY Living to show o2 concert
Posted 19th May 2012 @ 08.50 by GenSTEPS
Ultimate Steps are reporting that STEPS' concert at the o2 Arena will be broadcast on SKY Living on 28 May and also on SKY 3D.
The programme will be a chopped down 60 minute concert, losing 45 minutes from the performance.
So what will be cut? After all the attention drawn to Claire's bronchitis and the risk of STEPS spontaneously combusting whilst dancing with flames, we'd hazard a guess that I Surrender and Better The Devil You Know will remain.
STEPS to release Christmas Album and Tour
Posted 14th May 2012 @ 13.59 by GenSTEPS
We heard whispers last week that STEPS are planning a Christmas album and a Christmas tour for the end of this year and now it's being reported in the Daily Star.
It was suggested to GenSTEPS that this will be the "farewell" tour, ending on December 22nd 2012 "the way it should have" ten years ago.
But the Daily Star have gone as far as to attribute a quote to Claire, stating "Weve talked about this and to bridge the gap and keep things ticking over, a Christmas album? You know, pop Christmas songs, like Mariah Carey. Also songs that were big at Christmas, like Stay Another Day by East 17."
Faye is quoted as adding We know that we do want to go forward. We need to find the right team and make the record.
Will this rumour hold up? As yet, STEPS have not recorded any new tracks.
But here's a bit of enjoyable idle speculation; nearly all members of STEPS have had songs they've written submitted (or resubmitted with amendments) to the songwriting database in the last 2 months.
Missing You - by Lee - 4 April 2012
See Me - by Lee - 4 April 2012
Free - by Lee - 26 Apr 2012
Played My Heart - by H and Claire - 24 March 2012
All I Can Say - by Faye - 9 May 2012
Auf Liebe Eingestellt - by Lisa (and Eliot Kennedy) - 4 April 2012
These tracks could be long lost relics from abandoned solo careers, or they could be submissions for an upcoming STEPS album?
And to clarify, we know some of them have been around for a long time, but the point to note is they've been resubmitted, with amendments, in the last three months.
Ian's baby agony
Posted 14th May 2012 @ 13.50 by GenSTEPS
The Daily Star reports that Ian and boyfriend Craig Ryder have tragically lost their baby.
They chose an unidentified woman from America to carry their baby last year but the singer found out she had miscarried whilst touring with the STEPS Ultimate Tour.
He told The People newspaper, "One week were were showing off our new nappy (diaper) bags, the next week it was over."
"I can still remember listening to the baby's heartbeat in a recording from the 12 week scan and thinking 'That's our little one.' We had a due date - October 8."
"We were thinking of names, and we even planned our first Christmas as a family. We were both ready to be dads."
"Finding out our surrogate had miscarried was like being hit in the face. It was the worst thing that has ever happened to me. I just feel empty and helpless."
He added "I appreciate a lot more what we have together, and what having this child means. When we do finally get there we'll know how lucky we are."
STEPS On The Road Again: Episode 2
Posted 1st May 2012 @ 22.24 by GenSTEPS
On this week's STEPS On The Road Again, the band's tour was plagued with technical problems. Will they ever make it on stage? (Yes. They did.)
Here's what you missed! Click the player for more.
PICTURE: Claire Reveals Biography Cover
Posted 24th Apr 2012 @ 08.32 by GenSTEPSClaire has revealed the cover for her autobiography 'All Of Me'. It's one of two covers that the book will come with when it is released on 5 July 2012.
In STEPS On The Road Again last night, we saw Claire attend a top secret photoshoot for the autobiography. Not so secret now!
STEPS On The Road Again: Episode 1
Posted 24th Apr 2012 @ 00.16 by GenSTEPS
STEPS returned to Sky Living with their new series STEPS On The Road Again last night. As we've come to expect, it was must-see TV.
Here's what you missed! Click the player for more.
STEPS kick off their Ultimate Tour
Posted 3rd Apr 2012 @ 00.57 by GenSTEPS
STEPS opened their Ultimate Tour in Belfast last night, and the set list did not disappoint. No spoilers here though, if you want to know what songs were performed you'll find all the info on the Ultimate Tour page.
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Astros savor Opening Night victory over Rangers
HOUSTON -- The Astros were off Monday, which gave them another day to bask in the glow of Sunday's 8-2 season-opening win over the Rangers that was their first in the American League and the 4,000th in franchise history.
Rick Ankiel, who came off the bench to hit a three-run home run that broke the game open, said his phone didn't stop ringing or vibrating with text messages.
"Everybody in the baseball world was watching," he said. "Pretty much my whole contact list was [messaging me]. It was fun and I enjoyed it, and I was looking forward to tonight."
Astros pitcher Bud Norris, who threw 5 1/3 innings to earn his first win of the season, had a similar reception from his family and friends.
"I think I had 70, 80 text messages from friends and family and Facebook blew up," Norris said. "It was really, really nice. The people who helped me along my career to get here, my family and my friends, and the support has been outstanding from my teammates and everybody in the clubhouse. It's been a long couple of years, but that one feels special to me."


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The Nissan Juke is more fun, proportionally, than a bulgy crossover its size should be. In AWD trim it competes admirably with more expensive rivals like the Mini Crossman. Enter IMPUL and their mild tuning package.
Although the company is a little vague on what they're doing, the additional body kit does nothing to detract from a design so polarizing it's possible to admire it while simultaneously bleeding a little out of your anus.
All we know is this vehicle gets an ECU tune, clever new grille, mostly useless rear diffuser, and a rear-wing that makes an Escort Cosworth RS look understated. There's also a stainless steel "sport" exhaust, high performance brakes, and a sport-tuned suspension.
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AUSTRALIAN cricket chief James Sutherland has expressed fond memories of his playing days in Lancashire after accepting an honorary life membership from Chorley Cricket Club.
The committee at Windsor Park handed him the honour as a reward for the continued work he has done for the club.
A professional player at Windsor Park in 1991, he was later appointed chief executive of Cricket Australia after a successful career in cricket administration after his playing days had ended.
While playing for Victoria cricket team in Australia, he twice claimed the wickets of Justin Langer and also dismissed Ricky Ponting.
Sutherland was more recently in Chorley during the Ashes tour last summer after he agreed to speak at a fundraising event at the Little Hong Kong restaurant.
The appeal proved to be hugely successful, helping the club raise enough funds to build a new pavilion and dressing room.
He said: "I have always been very proud of my association with Chorley Cricket Club.
"The club and its members have always remained close to my heart and the summer of 1991 was a season that I remember with great affection and happiness.
"I have no doubt that the primary reason for that is the manner in which the Chorley people welcomed me to their town and their club."
The clubs pre-season nets resume on Wednesday, January 29 from 8pm – 9.30pm at Bishop Rawstorne High School, Croston.


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He Bangs The Drum
Valencia 3-0 Real Sociedad (07:05:11)
Kenny Legg is normally one for Adventures in Tinpot. But today, rather splendidly - and after months of negotiations, he has agreed to write for European Football Weekends. Giving up a spot on the terraces of his beloved Weymouth FC, Legg headed to Spain and waltzed straight into one of the best football bars in Europe....
CP Cacereño, FC Copenhagen, Barcelona, CD Guadalajara, Kalimotxo Athletic, Bad Durenheim, River Plate, Royal Antwerp and eh....Port Vale.
No, its not Danny Last's travel plans for the 2011/12 season but a few of the hundreds of scarves that hang from the celling of the shrine to football that is the Tu Museo Deportivo bar in Valencia. If you've seen Spain play football any time since 1982 you've seen its drum bashing celebrity owner, Manolo el del bombo. By working week a mild mannered bar owner; by football fixture a drum thumping, sombrero sporting, bonkers barmy maniac; and, at all times, available for a photo.
Sadly lacking a Weymouth FC scarf. I will rectify this.
In the time spent in the bar, eh 'researching' this blog Manolo spent his time posing for pictures and in those few hours had more people behind the bar than the entire history of the Queen Vic, The Rovers Return and The Woolpack combined. For each one he wore his trademark hat, posed happily and even found time to pull a couple of cervezas. A doff of the AiT sombrero to you señor.
Note to self – purchase mega sombrero, bar and drum.
Its fair to say the man loves a picture. There's not a space on the wall that isn't adorned with his mug. Here's Manolo posing with a Manchester policeman, over here an article from Sport Bild magazine, to your left the King of Spain bows down before Manolo.....you get the idea. He's a big noise in Spainish football – literally. Essentially if Michael Aspel and the 'This is Your Life' crew kitted out pubs instead of dishing out red books it'd look like this. Want a souvenir of your visit? Of course you do! How about a mini football, key ring, some Manolo wine (with mug shot on the bottle, of course) or even some, what appeared to be, Manolo white asparagus.
Mo Manolo Mo Problems
My trip coincided with a land rights dispute which meant that the plain on which the rain in Spain mainly falls was unavailable and it had been agreed that Valencia was to host any precipitation this weekend. With a ticket purchased for the huge open stand it was fair to say I wasn't best pleased when a ferocious thunderstorm broke ninety minutes before kick off. The rain wasn't just biblical, it also included passages from the Qu'ran, the Torah, Gavin Peacock's theology lecture notes and a couple of pages from 'The Robots Rebellion' by David Icke and meant that a massive waterproof poncho suddenly became the early evenings fashion must have.
*dons poncho*
The Mestalla is fantastic, with the stands scientifically proven to be the third steepest thing in football, after the price increase in Champions League final tickets and the angle that Alan Shearer's hair is receding at. I made my way up to my seat without the aid of oxygen and settled back for the pre match entertainment. A brass band. The band have clearly spent hours working on their perfectly regimented 1-2-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7 -3 formation, deployed as they walk in perfect alignment around the pitch, stopping periodically to receive applause.
Most of the fans in attendance are sheltering at the back of the stands, making the Mestalla look emptier than the Spanish Governments rainy day savings account. Even higher up in the clouds than me are the Real Sociedad fans, about eighty or so; below me about thirty Valencian Danny Dyer wannabes and in the far corner a colourful flag wavey bunch of Valencian Ultras. After a minutes silence for Seve Ballesteros, the match gets under way in glorious sunshine.
Valencia set about Sociedad like a bull set loose from it's unexpected rummage in a china shop and it's only 17 minutes before the announcer can give it the first "Gooooolllll" of the day when Soldado taps in about half a mile below me. The 25th minute sees the second goal, Bruno is given all the time he wants by the siestaing Sociedad back line and he is able to chip it across (or as the Spanish say 'patatas bravas it across') to the on rushing Jonas, who nods it in.
Heaven up here.
Soooooolllldddaaado scores another goooooollll after more poor Zaragoza defending on 37 minutes and the rest of the half is played out to the sound of polite applause and the contented chomping of the obligatory sunflower seeds.
Half time comes and the brass band aren't the only thing walking round as the main Ultras group goes all non league and moves behind the goal that Valencia are now attacking. This creates a great atmosphere as they get the whole ground cheering and clapping along as the team plays football slicker then Enrique Iglesias' hair. With Albelda breaking up play, feeding the superb Banega, who in turn brings in the tricky Mata and Joaquin the football played by Valencia is sublime stuff. Much better than when I saw them against Schalke earlier on this season (a truly shameless plug).
Valencia park the brass.
The second half is comfortable for Valencia, as Sociedad are as threatening as a kitten in a bull ring. The fans entertain themselves by indulging in a paper aeroplane flinging contest, which poses more of a threat to the Valencia goal than Sociedad, and the eating of sunflower seeds continuing a pace. So much so that by the final whistle the huge piles of discarded shells give the Mestalla the look of a bird cage belonging to a budgie that's been comfort eating.
What's wrong with a hot dog? Messy bugers.
Valencia is a beautiful city, the Mestalla a unique stadium and the team play football as glorious as the Valencian sunshine. All of which means the city should be high on your list of places to visit and make sure you pack a scarf for Manolo. And a raincoat, just in case.
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Crowd Funding
Kickstarter crowdsourcing numbers starting to dip
After a strong couple of years, it appears the Kickstarter craze appears to be slowing.
Crowd Funding headlines
Star Citizen funding closes with $6.2 million
Star Citizen has completed its crowd-funding period with a record-breaking $6,271,458 raised.
Distribution fees for successfully crowd-funded titles waived for 90 days on Origin
EA has announced it's to waive distribution fees for 90 days on Origin for any developer with a "successfully crowd-funded, ready-to-publish downloadable PC game."
Fargo calls on Kickstarter developers to give back
InXile boss brian Fargo has asked successful developers to consider pouring profits back into other Kickstarter efforts.
UKIE report aiming to make crowd funding legal in UK
UKIE has said it's to publish a report next week that will outline the specifics on how crowd funding in the UK should be legal.
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While having a think about the interference problems that can arrise, I though that maybe we could use some sort of frequency hopping scheme.
Now I've just had a look at the spec sheets of the HopeRF module and looks like we can program in any frequency within the selected band, so therefore some sort of hopping could be feasable. Any thoughts?
I've put a few of my thoughts about it up on a blog entry http://blog.everythingrobotics.com/2007/11/16/more-challenges-but-getting-there/


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The latest on real estate recordings and new technology from the Middlesex North Registry of Deeds in Lowell
We've moved the LowellDeeds blog to a new location - www.lowelldeeds.blogspot.com - but will keep this site active for archival purposes. Please bookmark the new site and change your "Favorites" so you will continue to receive the most up to date news and information from the Middlesex North Registry of Deeds.
Again, the new address of our blog is www.lowelldeeds.blogspot.com
Articles in yesterday's Boston Globe and New York Times both suggest that the nation's housing market is slowly starting to rebound. Both total sales and median price for sales in both June and July when compared to a year ago show a slight increase.
Locally, evidence of a market turnaround is more elusive. Looking at sales with prices above $75,000 and below $750,000, we find the following: For Lowell, in July 2009, the median sales price was $179,000 while in July 2008 it was only $173,500. That represents an increase of 3%. In the towns, the median price in July 2009 was $305,750, but in July 2008, the median was $316,450. That represents a 3% decrease.
Despite these figures, I believe the real estate market in the towns is bouncing back slightly, while Lowell remains troubled due primarily to the high inventory of foreclosed properties. Still, the situation is much better than it has been. For example, here's what I wrote on August 14, based on mid-month recording statistics:
Besides the continuing trend of fewer foreclosures, the most important observation we can make is that homes in the towns seem to be holding their values pretty well. This conclusion is based on the significant increase in the number of suburban mortgages being recorded. In Lowell, on the other hand, the number of mortgages being recorded is down slightly, but it's down nonetheless which suggests that any rebound in home prices has not yet reached the city of Lowell.
So many many memories, so many many years ago…
Homeowners often contact us asking us how they might determine the year in which their homes were constructed. Here's an inquiry I received yesterday by email:
Hi. A fellow old-home owner in Lowell referred me to your website as a good source of historical info about our house. When I do a search on the address, I only see info going back to 1990. I'm looking for info back to 1890! Does the system contain old info? I'm trying to determine the actual year the house was built. I've seen conflicting dates on various documents, from 1860, to 1880, to 1905, to even 1917!
Here's my reply:
All of the land ownership documents (deeds, mortgages, etc) going back to 1629 are available on our website (www.lowelldeeds.com) although they are in several places, depending on their age. The more recent ones are on masslandrecords.com while the older ones - before 1950 - are on www.lowelldeeds.com. Unfortunately, the name index used to find these documents only goes back to 1976 online. We have it all the way back to 1629 but that's only available here at the registry. It is in electronic form, however, and if you bring in a 16 gigabyte flash drive (also known as a "thumb drive") we will give you a copy at no charge. The files for the index are so large that we have not yet been able to get them on the internet.
More to your inquiry, records here at the registry of deeds are primarily concerned with who owns the land and not what is built upon the land, so nothing we have would tell you precisely when your home was built. The best you can do with our records is draw inferences from the various deeds and other documents. For instance, if someone bought the property for $1000 and a year later sold it for $5000, you could infer that something had been built upon it in the interim.
If you decide to come to the registry to conduct your research, we're open from 8:30 am to 4:15 pm Monday thru Friday. On whatever day you do make it to the registry, please stop by our Customer Service desk and ask for me. If I'm available, I'll show you how to use the computers; if I'm not, just ask anyone at the Customer Service desk to help you.
Sorry I can't be more helpful than that, but if you have any more questions, please let me know.
Three Lowell High School Interns paid by the Lowell Career Center finished their employment at the Middlesex North Registry of Deeds last Wednesday. The assignment I gave them was straightforward and clear…"actuately scan as many of our old records books as possible".
Here is a little context…Before July we had one volunteer employee scanning these books and one full time employee preparing them to be scanned. During a normal week these two working (without interruption) would scan 20-25 books.
Truthfully, the prep work for these old books is far worse than the scanning.
When the interns arrived our permanent employees we working on record book number 500, moving backwards. Scanning 20 books a week meant the project still had rough another six months before completion.
Today there are 250 books left to scan. In a short five weeks these student workers finished 50% of the project (250 books)…we couldn't be happier.
It is difficult in the summer to make significant progress in long-term projects. This is mainly due to employee vacation schedules, so the accomplishment by these interns was a welcome development for us.
Thanks for a great job.
August is a popular month for vacations here at the registry, so I usually spend more time than usual working at our Customer Service Counter which gives me a valuable opportunity to assist customers who call or visit the registry of deeds. Those in the real estate related professions typically have straight forward questions, but members of the public often have more complex inquiries.
This summer, many of these calls are requests to "take a name off of a deed" or make some other change to the ownership of property. These calls make it clear that much of the public is under the impression that we here at the registry maintain some kind of master list of who owns what property and that we either cross out or write in names as ownership circumstances change. In response to these questions, we try to provide a simple explanation of the role played by deeds in land ownership. We then explain that to change ownership, a new deed must be created. That leads to the inevitable question, "can I do that myself?" That's a tough question to answer. Technically, the answer is yes, but we emphasize that real estate law is complex and that one or two words in a deed could completely change the meaning of the document. Because the asset involved - a home, typically - is worth so much money, it's reckless for anyone to put it at risk by trying their hand at deed drafting to save the cost of hiring a lawyer to do it. Some people see the wisdom of that approach and call an attorney. Others insist that they can't afford an attorney and will have to do it themselves. At that point, all we can do is suggest they visit a law library for further assistance.
Happy Anniversary to Hawaii. Our fiftieth state joined the union fifty years ago today on August 21, 1959.
Now that the Middlesex South Registry of Deeds in Cambridge has been recording documents electronically for a couple of weeks, it's an appropriate time to review some electronic recording statistics from Middlesex North were the system has been in use for several years. While processing electronically recorded documents has become a routine part of our operation here in Lowell, the percentage of documents being recorded by that means remains capped at about 12% of our total daily intake. My sense is that number is artificially low because many real estate practitioners have held off on adopting electronic recording until more registries of deeds allow that process. Now that Cambridge is open for business, perhaps our volume will rise.
For now, here are the stats for 2009 up to the end of July: In those seven months, we recorded 4889 documents electronically which accounted for 12% of our total of 41282 documents. The monthly volume of electronic recording rose steadily from a low of 344 in January to a high of 805 in July. On seventeen days, we recorded more than 50 documents electronically. The five highest volume days were April 13 (107 e-docs), Feb 24 (78 e-docs), Feb 23 (75 e-docs), July 21 (73 e-docs) and July 1 (68 e-docs). As for document types recorded electronically, 59% were discharges, 20% were mortgages, 3% were deeds and 18% were other types of documents.
And has been the case from the very beginning, electronic recording from the registry end has been a fast, efficient and trouble-free means of recording documents.
For months now attorneys have been telling me that as many as two-thirds of the sales or refinancings that come through their doors are scuttled when the appraisal comes back with a lower than expected value. Recent comments, and our own statistics, suggest that this phenomenon is more often true for properties in Lowell than for those in the towns in this registry district, but it remains a system-wide obstacle to the recovery of the real estate market.
While many of the properties being valued have certainly lost considerable value, there may be more going on here. Today's New York Times carries a front-page story detailing how the appraiser's profession was upended by a new "Code of Conduct" that went into effect in May. The main feature of this code is that the lender, and not the real estate broker or the mortgage broker, selects the appraiser.
The intent of this rule was to insure the independence of the appraiser by eliminating any incentive he had to shade his valuation upward for the benefit of the broker or mortgage originator who both get paid only if the deal goes through. But with the lender making the decision, many local appraisers have been forsaken by major lenders who have turned to larger, centralized appraisal firms to do the work. The concern now is that the appraisers working for these firms are inexperienced and not locally based and are therefore less likely to accurately value the property. At least those are the concern raised by the article. Still, based on the comments of local attorneys, there is some validity to these concerns.
The New York Times reports today that foreclosures are rising in some parts of the country, not because of homeowners falling behind on their mortgages, but because they have failed to pay their real estate taxes. This situation is somewhat foreign to us here in Massachusetts where the philosophy and the practice by municipalities is to encumber the property with a lien and then to wait until the present owner sells or refinances and brings the taxes current. In other parts of the country, however, governmental entities (usually towns or counties) routinely sell tax liens to private investors who charge interest of up to 18% and aggressively foreclose on homeowners who are in arrears. These investors are quite sophisticated ("you don't get 18% return on a CD!") and have their own organization - the National Tax Lien Association - complete with a sophisticated website.
The governmental entities find the practice of selling tax liens attractive because it results in a rapid infusion of cash into the treasury. But this practice also results in more foreclosed and vacant homes which causes further deterioration of the neighborhood. It would seem that a better approach would be to work with the homeowners to find ways to make the taxes current.
We're in the midst of a study of home sales in Lowell during the month of June that we hope will provide a sense of what is going on in the real estate market. Looking at the prior sales history of the 146 properties sold in Lowell during June confirms that real estate values remain considerably lower than when they reached their peak during the 2003-2006 bubble. On the other hand, the current value of properties that last sold in 2000 remains higher than the earlier purchase price.
Here are some examples of bubble property sales:
In 2005, 119-121 Livingston St sold for $415,000. In 2009, it sold for $180,000.
In 2005, a condo at 16 Merrimack St sold for $142,100. IN 2009, it sold for $75,000.
In 2005, 52 Kinsman St sold for $240,000. In 2009 it sold for $135,000.
In 2005, 590 Pine St sold for $305,000. In 2009, it sold for $228,000.
In 2002, a condo at 18 Hampton Ave sold for $210,000. In 2009 it sold for $168,000.
Here are some examples of pre-bubble sales:
In 1998, 809 Chelmsford St sold for $128,000. In 2009, it sold for $199,000.
In 1999, 73 Magnolia St sold for $138,000. In 2009, it sold for $223,000.
In 2000, 25 Putnam Ave sold for $165,000. In 2009, it sold for $214,900.
In 2000, 250 Butman Rd sold for $230,000. In 2009, it sold for the same price.
In 1999, 16 Wetherbee Ave sold for $194,000. In 2009 it sold for $334,900.
These are just a few examples that illustrate the variability of prices during the past decade. If you bought ten years ago (and refrained from refinancing to extract increase equity during the boom), your house is probably worth considerably more than you paid for it. If, on the other hand, you bought five years ago, your house is worth less than you paid for it.
As we reach the half way point of this month, it's time to look at the number and type of documents being recorded to help us spot any trends. Today, I've compiled stats from Lowell as one group and then stats for the other nine towns in the district as a second group. This differs from our previous practice in which we looked at Lowell in isolation but also looked at the entire district including Lowell. Because current trends in the towns differ significantly from those seen in the city, separating the two groups will provide a more accurate picture.
When recordings for the first two weeks of August 2009 are compared to the same two weeks from August 2008 for the nine towns, we find that the number of deeds recorded is up 13% and the number of mortgages recorded is up 27%. Foreclosure deeds declined by 38%. The picture in Lowell is different. While foreclosure deeds are down an impressive 63%, the number of deeds and mortgage recorded are also down (2% for deeds and 14% for mortgages).
The second major comparison we'll make is for year-to-date recordings for the same groups. When the number of documents recorded from January 1 to August 14, 2009 is compared to the number of documents recorded from January 1 to August 14, 2008, we find that in the towns, the number of deeds recorded is down 4%, mortgages are up 34%, and foreclosure deeds are down 44%. In Lowell, deeds are down 12%, mortgages are down 4%, and foreclosure deeds are down 40%.
Besides the continuing trend of fewer foreclosures, the most important observation we can make is that homes in the towns seem to be holding their values pretty well. This conclusion is based on the significant increase in the number of suburban mortgages being recorded. In Lowell, on the other hand, the number of mortgages being recorded is down slightly, but it's down nonetheless which suggests that any rebound in home prices has not yet reached the city of Lowell.
Yesterday I travelled to Worcester for a meeting with representatives from other registries of deeds, from the Secretary of State's office and from ACS, the company that provides computer services to many of the registries. Our purpose was to review feedback that's been received about the new masslandrecords site. Not surprisingly, the feedback has been mostly negative – that's usually the case when you propose something new – and much of it was of the "new site is horrible" variety. But other comments were specific and we focused our attention on those. Rather than compile all comments and then try to make one big fix, fine tuning the new site will be an evolutionary process with gradual change implement in small doses over time. Two upgrades that will be implemented fairly soon will be to convert them format of document images viewable on the site from TIFF to PNG which should improve the speed of performance considerably without sacrificing image quality (and printed or downloaded images will continue to be of a very high quality that will yield a clear print). The other change will be to make a popup image viewer the default setting. A number of people found that having the image appear in the right half of the viewing window (the data retrieved in the query was in the left half of the screen) made it difficult to navigate around the image. The pop up viewer can be easily repositioned to allow the user to see as much of the document as the user's screen will permit. Another change that should be implemented fairly soon is to add the ability to print multiple pages of a document rather than just the first page or the entire document. Other possible changes remain under consideration.
Is the age of free newspaper information over?
If you believe the media baron Rupert Murdoch it is…
"Quality journalism is not cheap and an industry that gives away its content is simply cannibalizing its ability to produce good reporting. The digital revolution has opened many new and inexpensive distribution channels but it has not made content free. We intend to charge for all our news Web sites".
Some may say "them there's fightin words".
But will a public used to free access to newspapers now pay to read them?
That is the question all financially strapped newspapers are pondering?
This will be difficult for Murdoch to accomplish, billionaire or not. Paying for newspaper content has been tried before in some form or another and it has failed.
In this technology age information gushes out all around us. You literally can't stop it.
As Internet search becomes better and better it becomes easier and easier to find out about whatever interests you, using the Internet. And it is not just newspapers providing the result of these searches…its bloggers, twitters, vloggers, forum participants etc.
These free sources of information make it difficult for Murdoch's payment concept to become areality…but we'll see.
Hollywood arrives at the Lowell Superior Courthouse…
Lights, cameras, actors, actresses, trucks, wires…it is all here. I'll do more on the making of the movie The Fighter later in the week.
Yesterday around 4:00PM fire trucks came roaring up Gorham Street. Some took a quick left turn onto a narrow street named Auburn while others remained parked by the Xtra Mart Gas Station across from the Lowell Superior Courthouse. Within minutes smoke became visible bellowing from a house one street over from our location. I never do this, but yesterday I had parked my car in the lot diagonally across from the courthouse. I did this to free up the back end of the employee lot to prepare for filming of the movie "The Fighter". Where I parked was within two hundred feet of the house engulfed in fire. As police cruisers and fire trucks kept arriving on the scene, I went out to move my vehicle back to the employee parking lot away from the congested area. The speed at which the "scene" materialized amazed me. When I arrived at the parking lot to move my car I was shocked. The smoke turned from gray to a deep black color and streamed out of the roof of the building. More and more fire trucks, ambulances and police cars sped to the scene as I returned to the courthouse. By the time the registry of deeds closed all of Elm Street was blocked to traffic. I exited the courthouse into a fog of heavy smoke. I saw one person ushered to an ambulance on a stretcher. The main exit/entrance to the employee parking lot was blocked by a huge fire truck. Fortunately, I managed to maneuver my way through a second exit around a police car and out onto Gorham Street. In all I counted six fire trucks, two ambulances and numerous police cruisers. The Lowell Sun is reporting this morning that no one was seriously injured by the fire.
Back in January we noticed that many of the foreclosure deeds being recorded had been signed many months before they were brought to the Registry of Deeds. We never could figure out the cause of the delay. Recently, we examined all foreclosure deeds for Lowell recorded between January 1, 2009 and June 30, 2009 to measure the date intervals between the various events in the foreclosure process. There were 121 foreclosures in this group. Because a handful seemed to have extremely long time intervals, I chose to calculate the median (the middle number of the group with half the numbers greater and half less) rather than the average. Here is what we found:
From the recording of the order of notice to the foreclosure auction: 54 days.
From the foreclosure auction to the signing of the foreclosure deed: 23 days.
From the foreclosure auction to the recording of the foreclosure deed: 66 days.
From the recording of the order of notice to the recording of the foreclosure deed: 148 days.
These numbers should provide some context when our readers look at the foreclosure statistics we publish from time to time.
President John Quincy Adams has joined the ranks of Ashton Kutcher, Shaquille O'Neal and John Mc Cain. He was/is a Twitterer…or something close to one. No, unlike the modern day communcators the sixth President of the United States did not have a Blackberry or iPhone, but he did write short daily summaries of "happenings" in his diary. Adams wrote these one line diary entries for over thirty years giving accounts of trips, visits and routine occurrences. And they are so short they fit within the 140 character restriction of Twitter. The Massachusetts Historical Society has come up with great idea that will bring these summaries/tweets to the public. The society created a JQAdams_MHS Twitter account and each day beginning August 5 they will publish one of these short diary entries as a tweet. This morning I signed up to follow the president. You can do the same here.
The new version of masslandrecords.com continues to be available for testing by customers. When you go to that web address, the old (a/k/a "classic") version displays and is fully operational. There is also prominent language inviting customers to "click here" to try the new site. Unfortunately, many customers are interpretting that as a command and not an invitation and are clicking through to the new site and becoming discouraged by what they find.
My sense is that the criticism falls into three general categories: The first is that the new site is more difficult to use which is true, at least for the first few times you use it. Once you become familiar with it, however, the added functionality of the new site should be readily apparent. Every time we've deployed new technology at this registry, it has resulted in a negative reaction from users, but that negativity only lasts for as long as it takes for them to get acquainted with the new system. Ironically, when "classic" masslandrecords first came out, the reaction to it was quite negative. Now that folks have grown comfortable with it, the reaction is much more positive.
The second area of criticism is the speed (or lack thereof) of the new site. I have to agree with this. For someone pulling up a random document, it might not be too bad, but when you have to do a title search and retrieve dozens of documents, it's aggravatingly slow.
The third area of criticism is the layout of the front page. The page is dominated by instructions and other non-functional items with the search boxes and links to advanced search funcitons tucked away in the upper 20% of the page. The functions available on this new site are an improvement over the "classic" version. I'm just concerned that no one is going to get to them to discover this on their own.
Sometime next week there is a meeting of all the registers of deeds who utilize the masslandrecords site. More information about whether it will be fully deployed or sent back for a re-configuration will be available then. I'll keep everyone posted.
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Use Your DNA to Rediscover Your Irish Heritage
A painless commercial ancestral Y chromosome DNA test will potentially provide one with the names of many hundreds of individuals with whom one shares a common male ancestor, but what often perplexes people is how one can match many individuals with different surnames? The answer is quite simple. Roughly 1,000 years ago one's direct medieval male ancestor, the first for example to call himself 'Bowes' was living in close proximity to others with whom he was related but who assumed other surnames like Carroll, Dooley and Kelly. Given that 1,200 years have passed since paternally inherited surnames first appeared, there will be many descendants of those individuals, some of whom will today will undergo commercial ancestral DNA testing. Hence the Surnames of one's medieval ancestor's neighbours will be revealed in today's DNA test results.
Since Irish surnames can still be found concentrated in the area where they first appeared, one can examine the distribution of the surnames that appear in ones DNA results (see: surname distribution maps) and identify an area common to all and pinpoint a 'Genetic Homeland.' The Genetic Homeland is the very small area, usually within a 5 mile radius where one's ancestors lived for hundreds if not thousands of years. It is the area where one's ancestors left their mark in the placenames of that area and in the DNA of its current inhabitants. Since modern science can pinpoint a Genetic Homeland it can also be used to confirm it by DNA testing individuals from the pinpointed area. To view a short You Tube video tutorial demonstrating how to make sense of your DNA results click here, or you can read my own 'Bowes' case study! Not had a DNA test? Then purchase a YDNA test by clicking here.
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Hailed by some Christian scholars as potentially the most significant discovery since the Dead Sea Scrolls, 70 metal books are set to be the center of an international legal showdown of biblical proportions.
When a British team unveiled in March metal texts believed to date back to the final days of Christ, biblical scholars were abuzz with possibilities: early Christian diaries, secrets of the Bible, the sealed texts of the book of Revelation.
The question of ownership of the credit-card-sized books, which may bear the earliest likeness of Jesus Christ, and just how they ended up with an Israeli Bedouin truck driver have raised doubt over whether the messages allegedly sealed in lead some 2,000 years ago will ever be decoded.
A father of four from an Arab village in northern Israel, Hassan Saeda approached British experts four years ago with books that he claimed were inscribed in ancient Hebrew. After detecting religious symbols on the texts and a metallurgy report dating the books to the early 1st century AD, the books went from a probable hoax to potential treasure-trove, says David Elkington, author and member of the British team. "I fundamentally believe that what we have are the earliest-ever Christian documents."
Mr. Elkington says the texts' supposed origin – a cave on the eastern bank of the Jordan River where early Christians are believed to have sought refuge from Roman persecution – added weight to the theory that the codices may shed light on the birth of Christianity.
While the nature of the texts has been debated by scholars, how and when the books were unearthed have proved to be an even greater point of contention. Mr. Saeda claims his grandfather stumbled upon them in 1920 while tending to his flock. But Elkington and the Jordanian government have a different theory.
"We have scientific evidence that the codices were illegally excavated from Jordan and sold to Mr. Saeda by a Jordanian Bedouin, and we [will] set out to prove just that," says Ziad al-Saad, director of the Jordanian Department of Antiquities. Jordanian authorities claim to have found additional texts on the black market and are taking them for further testing.
Since the controversy erupted, Saeda has returned to Israel and has refused scholars further access to the codices, while the Jordanians and Elkington have joined efforts to repatriate the texts to Jordan. Since Jordan announced that it will pursue diplomatic channels to "retrieve" the texts, Israeli antiquities officials have expressed willingness to meet with the Jordanian side, although they deny any involvement with the texts. Their previous lack of response was a source of anxiety in Amman rooted in an ongoing legal contest over the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Although Jordan officially severed ties with the West Bank in 1988, it has retained its claims to the scrolls – believed to be the oldest Hebrew Bible ever discovered – alleging that the texts were annexed from sovereign Jordanian territory during the 1967 war, a claim Israel refutes.
According to Moawiyam Ibrahim, archaeologist and Jordan's representative to the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, this historical sense of "loss" of the scrolls triggered a sense of "urgency" in Amman when news of the codices emerged.
More than just a matter of national pride, tourism is also at stake. Tourism is a major pillar of Jordan's and Israel's economies, generating $2.1 billion and $4.3 billion, respectively, in 2010, and both countries compete for the lucrative pilgrimage market.
But the looming legal battle may prevent the books from ever reaching a museum. With mounting pressure from the Jordanian government and the media exposure generated by the claims, Elkington and Mr. Saad say Saeda is looking to make a quick and easy sale. "If these books are sold to private collectors, the world will never see them," says Elkington.
Saeda admits he has fielded offers, but claims a "higher calling" has prevented him from cashing in on what may be the greatest discovery in biblical archaeology. "I could sell these texts right now, but I believe these are the words of God."
He has a solution to the international feud over the codices: Place them in a permanent worldwide exhibition. "These manuscripts don't belong to just one country. They belong to all the countries in the world and all the faiths of the world."


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Why do I enjoy doing monsters? They are tons of fun and so different. Going to Wikipedia notes, The Lizard (Dr. Curtis "Curt" Connors) is a fictional character, a supervillain in the Marvel Comics Universe. He is an enemy of Spider-Man. The Lizard first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #6 (November 1963), and was created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. In 2009, the Lizard was named IGN's 62nd Greatest Comic Villain of All Time. Now we have an anticipated, blockbuster movie "The Amazing Spiderman" reboot coming this summer (3D too) July 3, 2012.
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DWTS Season 11 – Weekend Media Updates & Prediction Question
Two more days until our Semi-Final DWTS Show!! Even as whacked and frustrating as this Season is, this is getting more exciting by the day. So, if you were to rank how this Season is going to turn out for who will win right now (not who your favorites are) in order, how would you rank the final four? Get your predictions in now and then at the end of this Season in two weeks, we can look back and see who was right.
Here's how I would rank them;
1st place: Jennifer and Derek
2nd place: Brandy and Maks
3rd place: Kyle and Lacey
4th place: Bristol and Mark
The inspiration for this question comes from a prediction Kelly Osbourne made on The Ellen Show yesterday. From Zap2it.
"You never know with that show," says Osbourne. "It's crazy you don't always see what the people see at home and why they vote. You never really understand, but I definitely think that Jennifer Grey is going to be in the finals. As for the winner, I really feel like Bristol Palin is going to give everyone a run for his or her money…I have to say this you have to separate the person from the family. She's out there and she's trying."
Here is another prediction from Telly Cafe.
Anyways, the final 4, as of now, stands as:
1. Bristol Palin
2. Jennifer Grey
3. Brandy
4. Kyle Massey
Jennifer Grey, alongside her partner, has been doing a phenomenal job and has earned applause from all quarters. She is one of the likely finalists and has a hefty chance of picking the trophy.
While Bristol Palin is unlikely to make it to the finals, Brandy is likely to make the cut unless Kyle Massey comes up with a better show. Though, a lot may transpire in the final few episodes, Jennifer and Brandy seem the two hot favourites at the moment.
Maks' new blog is up on TV Guide. He writes that everything is fine with Carrie Anne. He also writes on the backlash. It's sad how people have sent him "hate" tweets. Go ahead and disagree with him or any of the dancers. But, to sign up at Twitter just to send them "I hate you" tweets is just sad and low in my opinion. Be sure to read more on everything Maks says at the link. Here are some takes on he and Brandy's upcoming dances and what he says about the "hate" tweets and negativity. (Heidi Editorial Note: He's definitely not the only one who has people signing up just to send hate. He should read Derek's or Mark's @replies once in a while – or any other pros. As such, I don't know if it can really be labeled "backlash" against a specific person – more like a hazard of the internet, sadly. Relax Maks – it's not just you.)
We have the paso doble and the Argentine tango next week. We've finished the paso and are working on the tango now. We're dedicating the paso to everybody who's been bullied. I thought it was great for that particular message. We're taking a risk with our interpretation. Will the audience get it? Will the judges get it? I don't know. But it's something Brandy and I clicked on. We spoke a lot about it and we went through tough, tough moments in our lives, but we came out on top. I want kids to understand that you have to speak up — let your voice be heard. Don't be silent and wallow. Talk because there are people who care and who will listen. Our Argentine tango will be traditional. I think it's going to be fun. We just want to do a good tango. The paso — we want to get people out of their seats.
Right now, Brandy and I are just focused on the semifinal. We're not thinking about the final yet. if we go through to the finale, it would be cool and it's definitely our goal, but we can't look too far ahead. I need to take everything one step at a time because, as I've mentioned, this season has been very tough on all of us pros. Yesterday, I was at my worst. I was ridiculous. I was mentally and physically done. It's really hard. No one — absolutely no one — understands what we go through no matter who you are. You haven't been in our shoes. You have no idea how difficult it is. When you get to the final, you are so drained that you become a shell of a person. You're on complete autopilot. Once it's over, you go, "I have absolutely no idea how I did." I love our fans. I love my fans. I love seeing what they like, bad or good. The positive stuff gives me a good reinforcement and tells me I'm doing something right. Most of the negativity I laugh at because it's so stupid or unreasonable since these people clearly don't know anything about ballroom dancing or what we go through. It's funny to me that there's so much negativity spewed at everyone. Why don't you get up and try to do what we do? People judge me for being a certain way. Honestly at this point, I really don't care. I only care about what Brandy thinks right now. I know what my past partners think and how good our relationships are — and people are still speculating about how we supposedly "hate" each other and whatnot. I love when I get tweets from people who say they created a Twitter account just to tell me they hate me. If you hate me, why waste your time making an account to tell me? If I hated someone, I would never waste time doing that. It's really amazing the lengths people go to behind the protection and anonymity of the Internet to be mean. But I'm not letting those people get to me. I'm just focused right now on Monday. I'm tired. Brandy's tired. But I know we will bring our best next week.
Oh, and I ran onto this fun interview with Len Goodman at the Daily Mail on how he got into dancing. He traded his welding career in for dancing…and yes, to meet GIRLS. lol Here is an excerpt. Be sure to read more at the link. And isn't this a fun picture of him and his wife Cherry? lol (Heidi: Hey! They're both "squeezing the egg"!! Just like in Dance Center. LOL!!)
How, I wonder, did he get into ballroom dancing? Did girls play a part, by any chance?
'I was 21 and working as a welder, but had hurt my foot playing football. The doctor recommended ballroom dancing, of all things, to strengthen it. My first reaction was "Not on your nelly", but someone told me there would be girls there and I thought, "Ah-ha". I went into the class with a winklepicker on one foot and my dad's carpet slipper on the other.'
He was a natural, and was paired with the dance-school owner's daughter, Cherry. There was no shortage of enthusiasm – either for Cherry, who became his first wife, or for the dancing.
Len quickly established himself as one of the characters of the ballroom-dancing scene. He fizzes with anecdotes about those days, laughing himself silly about the day he tried to bribe the lighting people to shine the spotlight on him for an entire routine.
'It backfired. I had a cold that day and spent most of the dance with a drip on the end of my nose, sparkling away.'
Lastly, we have more details to share on the upcoming Results Show from ABC.
Featured TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16 (9:00-10:01 p.m., ET), on "Dancing with the Stars the Results Show," renowned singer/songwriter Annie Lennox performs two breathtaking songs, "Little Bird" and the single "Universal Child" from her new holiday themed album. On November 16 Lennox releases her sixth solo album and first-ever holiday recording, A Christmas Cornucopia. A stunning collection of new and inspired interpretations of eleven traditional festive songs, the disc is rounded out by her new composition and first single, "Universal Child." The CD will be released on Decca in the U.S. and everywhere else November 15 on Island Records. In her 30-year career, both as a member of the groundbreaking Eurythmics and as a solo artist, Lennox has amassed sales of more than 80 million albums worldwide. Her towering achievements also include 34 hit singles, four Grammy Awards, 11 Brit Awards and five Ivor Novello Awards, The Award of Merit from the American Music Awards. Lennox has also won an Academy Award and Golden Globe. The SING Campaign, www.annielennoxsing.com, is a humanitarian organization she founded to raise awareness and support for the AIDS/HIV pandemic in Africa.
Also on Tuesday, red hot Latin artist Enrique Iglesias is set to perform his smash international hit single, "I Like It," from his newest album Euphoria. With its combination of pop and driving hip hop beats, Euphoria is Iglesias' first album to feature songs sung in both Spanish and English, with guest performances by such VIP guests as Akon, Nicole Scherzinger, Usher, Puerto Rican reggaeton duo Wisin and Yandel, Juan Luis Guerra and the legendary Lionel Richie. In the U.S., Iglesias is one of the biggest-selling Spanish artists of all time, with over 12 million albums sold and 19 #1 Billboard Latin hits across the Americas. Meanwhile, in the UK, he has sold 2.2 million albums and 1.6 million singles, the biggest of which – the inimitable "Hero" – spent four weeks at #1 and is now a staple of teary X Factor scenes. Iglesias has had 12 top 20 singles and six Top 10 singles in the UK, including "Bailamos," "Could I Have This Kiss Forever," "Escape," "Not in Love" and "Do You Know."
In the final "Macy's Stars of Dance" performance of the season, the Macy's Design-a-Dance will feature the song, dance style and pro dancers selected by voters. For the first time, viewers this season also had the chance to submit concept design entries for the performance, which fans also voted for on abc.com.


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CRN's 2010 Annual Report Card takes Product Innovation into consideration when it compiles IT vendors' scores. VARs rate vendors by:
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- (Product) Technical Innovation
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Despite a partial government shut down last month, resulting in hundreds of thousands of people being out of work and with no paychecks, retail sales in the U.S. unexpectedly increased.
The 0.4% jump in October from the month before, according to a new report from the U.S. Commerce Department, comes as it also upwardly revised September's performance from a first reported 0.1% hike to a 0.5% gain.
One poll of economists was predicting a consensus October increase of just 0.1%.
The October level is also 3.9% greater than from the same time a year ago.
The gain was led by a strong increase in auto sales. Retails sales, excluding autos, increased 0.2%.
"Consumers appear to be willing to spend beyond what the tepid job creation and minimal income growth over the past several quarters would suggest," said Lindsey Piegza, managing director and chief economist with the investment firm Sterne Agee. "In part, consumers are feeling wealthier thanks to record gains in equities coupled with falling prices at the pump and a slew of better-than-expected data reports which at least on the headline suggest things are improving."
She said going forward, sustained job creation and bigger income checks are needed to maintain heightened spending patterns, but at least for the moment short-term optimism may result in more than coal for retailers this holiday season.
Meantime, sales at the wholesale level increased 0.6% in October, beating economists' expectations and the fourth increase out of the last five months
Another part of the reason for the increase in retail sales last month is that consumer prices dipped 0.1% due to falling gasoline prices, while over the past year inflation is up just 1%.
The U.S. Commerce Department, in a separate report, said the unexpected decline in consumer prices last month follows a 0.2% gain in September.
Excluding the volatile energy and food sectors, consumer prices rose 0.1% in October, the same as the previous two months, while over the prior 12 months, the "core" price index was up 1.7%, below the Federal Reserve's annual inflation target of 2%.
Housing services costs rose 0.1% in October while energy prices overall fell 1.7%, the largest monthly decline since April. Year-over-year energy prices are down 4.8%. Excluding energy, the Consumer Price Index rose 0.1% in October. Excluding food, the CPI fell 0.1% in October.
"As [Federal Reserve] Vice Chairman Janet Yellen emphasized in her testimony last week before Congress, with the unemployment rate stubbornly above 7% and inflation well below the Fed's threshold, the Fed will retain their commitment to accommodation today in order to propel the economy back to normal in the future," said Piegza. "This report coupled with Chairman Bernanke's comments Tuesday night regarding the disappointing nature of the latest employment reports, all but assures that tapering is now a 2014 or beyond event."
Finally, another separate report shows sales of existing homes in the U.S. fell in October by 3.2% from the month before.
The National Association of Realtors reports this puts the annual level at 5.12 million, the lowest level since June. Despite the drop sales were 6% higher in October compared to the same month in 2012. Sales have remained above year-ago levels for the past 28 months.
Lawrence Yun, NAR chief economist, said a flattening trend is expected. "The erosion in buying power is dampening home sales," he said. "Moreover, low inventory is holding back sales while at the same time pushing up home prices in most of the country. More new home construction is needed to help relieve the inventory pressure and moderate price gains."
The national median existing-home price for all housing types was $199,500 in October, up 12.8% from October 2012, which is the 11th consecutive month of double-digit year-over-year increases.


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since im in NYC at the moment, I thought i'd share this very neat blog i ran across.
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- Immediately adjacent to any hot dog stand.
- Madison Square Garden during moments of Linsanity.
- Tim Tebow's new apartment building.
No really though, let's measure some stuff.
Facts: (1) New York City is the most populous city in the US and (2) Manhattan streets are arranged on a rectangular grid. We have already seen how cities, airports, and even streets can be identified using geotagged tweets – here we use more than a half million messages from 2011 to investigate the happiness of NYC streets and avenues (clearly visible in the image below, as is Central Park).
Binning tweets by avenue and street, we use the labMT word list to measure happiness in tweets as a function of avenue and street number:
The results suggest that the west side is slightly happier than the east side, and that happiness actually declines as one moves further uptown. Next we bin by intersection…
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