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So why match? To be honest, it is kind of a challenge to meet new and interesting people in my day to day, so why not? What's my story? Of course I'm awesome, but I let you figure that out on your own, all in due time.. What you should know about me: - I love having my back cracked.. is that weird? - I also love to sneeze (don't worry, always into my elbow), sadly though I cannot do it on command. - I'm fluent in sarcasm (although I will of course be polite until I'm sure you can handle it). - I may be THE most uncoordinated person you'll ever meet. But not in a gawky baby deer kind of way.. I assure you I hide it well and refuse to let it get the best of me. - More often than not, I'm smiling. - I have a mediocre sense of direction and have learned to fully embrace when it causes me to become completely lost, it's always an adventure. - I prefer the term 'strong willed' over stubborn. - Seriousness only when necessary - and in moderation. - I finish grad school in May. By June I will either have made responsible decisions (as usual) and have it all figured out, or be gallivanting halfway around the world figuring it out as I go - for the summer anyway. Either venture would of course be better with someone to share it with. Who am I looking for? Someone who is going to challenge me, open my eyes to a new perspective and keep me on my toes... but occasionally catch me if I'm about to fall - no seriously you might have to do that sometimes.. Someone who's up for new things is also a plus. Only boring people say they're bored right? No pressure...truthfully I’m really just looking for that mutual intrigue. If you think we might get along, email me! Seriously what is there to lose?

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In addition, one or more of the following features are considered supportive of the diagnosis of Lewy body dementia:

  • REM sleep behavior disorder, a condition in which people act out their dreams during sleep
  • Autonomic dysfunction, which involves instability in blood pressure and heart rate, poor regulation of body temperature, sweating, and related symptoms

No single test can diagnose Lewy body dementia. Instead, doctors diagnose your condition through ruling out other conditions that may cause similar signs and symptoms. Tests may include:

Neurological and physical examination

As part of your physical examination, your doctor may also check for signs of Parkinson's disease, strokes, tumors or other medical conditions that can impair brain function as well as physical function. The neurological examination may test:

  • Reflexes
  • Eye movements
  • Balance
  • Sense of touch

Assessment of mental abilities

A short form of this type of test, which assesses your memory and thinking skills, can be done in less than 10 minutes in your doctor's office but is generally not useful in distinguishing Lewy body dementia from Alzheimer's disease. Longer forms of neuropsychological testing can take several hours, but these tests help identify your condition.

Your results are then compared with those of people from a similar age and education level. This can help distinguish normal from abnormal cognitive aging, and may help identify patterns in cognitive functions that provide clues to the underlying condition.

Blood tests

Simple blood tests can rule out physical problems that can affect brain function, such as vitamin B-12 deficiency or an underactive thyroid gland.

Electroencephalogram (EEG)

If your confusion comes and goes, your doctor may suggest an EEG. This test can help determine if your symptoms may be caused by seizures or Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a rare, degenerative brain disorder that leads to dementia. This painless test records the electrical activity in your brain via wires attached to your scalp.

Brain scans

Your doctor may order an MRI, PET or CT scan to check for evidence of Alzheimer's disease, stroke or bleeding, and to rule out the possibility of a tumor.

Your doctor may order a sleep evaluation to assess for REM sleep behavior disorder or an autonomic function test to look for signs of heart rate and blood pressure instability.

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Trade In Mobile Phone For Gateway To Gaming

Gaming fanatics who would love a handset that combines the technology and titles of a console with all the standard features of mobiles should trade in their used phones and switch to a new device made by Sony Ericsson.

The Xperia PLAY model is said by Graham McAllister, director at Vertical Slice, to be a product that offers users some great gaming experiences.

While he admits it is unlikely to compete with prestigious creations such as the iPhone, the expert suggests it will have a place in the market for those who love to play the latest titles.

"It could act as a bridge for a player who is currently a casual mobile gamer to move towards console gaming," declares Mr McAllister.

He also suggests it has such a large range of controls that it will be able to offer games to users that few such devices have done before.

Sony Ericsson launched the Xperia PLAY at the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona earlier this month.

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From zooplankton to the great whales:
How acoustics can be used to quantify zooplankton and track the whales

Khosrow Lashkari, Ph.D.
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Friday, January 23, 1998
12:00 Noon—Pacific Forum

The food chain in the ocean begins with nutrients which serve as "fertilizer" for phytoplankton, the oceanic equivalent of grassy vegetation. Small shrimp-like animals known as zooplankton feed on phytoplankton. Zooplankton itself is food for larger marine animals from small fish to the largest whales.

The first part of this talk describes acoustic methods for quantification of zooplankton fields in the ocean. Various factors such as frequency, acoustic backscatter properties of plankton species, size and orientation, and physical properties of the ocean environment that determine the efficacy of acoustic methods are discussed. Results are presented from data collected during the March ‘97 Western Flyer cruise using MBARI's Simrad EK-500 system. These results are in good agreement with data collected from concurrent net tows and suggest that EK-500 is an effective sampling tool for studying the large-scale spatial distribution of zooplankton.

The second part of the talk describes methods and experiments for passive acoustic tracking of larger marine animals, such as blue and sperm whales and harbor porpoises. MBARI's Ocean Acoustic Observatory system will be described and several applications will be presented. This is a general-purpose system for processing large quantities of data in real-time and can serve as the oceanic equivalent of a radio telescope, an infrared telescope, and an optical telescope combined into one system.

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To believe or not to believe. And to believe what? Exploring religion is not an indication of a lack of faith. Discovering what others believe and don’t believe can strengthen your own beliefs and, yes, sometimes make you question them. Don’t be afraid to learn about different religions. Learning is kinda the whole college deal to begin with.

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Do doctors lie to patients?

Do you think your doctor is open and honest with you?

Maybe not always, according to a new survey.

Researchers from Harvard Medical School and the Mongan Institute for Health Policy at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston surveyed 1,891 physicians nationwide and one-tenth said they had told a patient something untruthful in the last year.

Nearly 20 percent of physicians surveyed said they had not fully disclosed an error to a patient in the previous year because they feared a malpractice case. Doctors feared lawsuits even though research has shown prompt disclosure cuts down on malpractice cases.

Other findings from the study were:

*  More than 55 percent of doctors said they often or sometimes said a patients prognosis was better than actuality to prevent a patient from losing hope.

* Women and minority doctors were more likely to be truthful and stick to the rules

* General surgeons more likely to fudge the truth.

* More than a third of doctors didn't totally agree they needed to disclose financial ties to drug and device companies.

The findings of the survey were published in the February issue of Health Affairs.

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Death penalty repeal clears a key test vote in Senate

The Senate paused its debate of a bill that would make Maryland the 18th state in the nation to eliminate the death penalty after advocates of repeal won a key test vote.

Senators voted 27-19 Friday to reject an amendment that would have created an exception to repeal for especially heinous murders.

Supporters of death penalty repeal expressed confidence that they have enough votes to defeat all the other amendments expected to be offered when the Senate resumes debate Monday. And they expressed confidence they will prevail on the final Senate vote.

"It's clear we have 26 public votes. I don't expect any of them to waver," said Jane Henderson, executive director of Maryland Citizens Against State Executions. It takes 24 votes to pass a bill in the 47-member Senate.

Gov. Martin O'Malley, a longtime opponent of capital punishment, has made repeal part of his legislative agenda for this year. He has received strong support from NAACP President Ben Jealous, who has been a regular visitor in Annapolis since the repeal drive began late last year.

Maryland has five men on death row-- for murders that go back as far as 1983 -- but has not executed anyone since 2005. The state has operated under a de facto death penalty moratorium since 2006, when the state's top court struck down the rules under which executions are carried out.

The repeal bill cleared a barrier last week when it was approved by the Judicial Proceedings Committee, where similar legislation has failed in the past.

Sen. Jamie Raskin, a Montgomery County Democrat and the floor leader for the pro-repeal forces, said the committee concluded the death penalty system is not working. He said  prosecutors seek capital punishment in less than one-half of 1 percent of eligible cases.

Minority Leader E. J. Pipkin, an Upper Shore Republican, said that shows Maryland's existing law is working.

"You can say it's being used judiciously and sparingly," Pipkin said.

Among those on hand for the debate was Kirk Bloodsworth, the former Eastern Shore waterman who was sentenced to death in a Baltimore County murder case and later exonerated by DNA evidence.

The Bloodsworth case figured prominently in the debate, with repeal proponents pointing to it as an example of the danger of executing an innocent person.

"With the death penalty, there's no going back. Death is forever. Death is different," Raskin said.

Sen. Richard Colburn, an Eastern Shore Republican, offered an amendment to keep the death penalty for murders in which arson, rape, serious sexual offenses, robbery or armed carjacking are aggravating circumstances. Colburn recounted in graphic detail the kidnapping, sexual assault and murder of 11-year-old Sarah Foxwell in Salisbury by a repeat sex offender, who later was sentenced to life without parole.

Shank said Maryland needs to allow the death penalty in cases like the Foxwell murder.

"There is evil that walks among us," he said. "We have to leave that option for the worst of the worst."

Two Republicans, Sen. Allan Kittleman of Howard County and Sen. Edward Reilly, joined 25 Democrats in rejecting the amendment. Ten Democrats and nine Republicans voted in favor.

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Man busted, tased after using park tree for gymnastics exercises

Andrew Paul Tremsky, 36, of Boca Raton, was tased and sent to the slammer after cops and a county park ranger told him he couldn't attach his gymnastics rings to a tree in a Delray Beach, reports the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.

"It's probably his constitutional right to be on park property," said Eric Call, director of Parks and Recreation for Palm Beach County. "If he was doing back flips on the ground, that would be fine. But to be using the park's natural features, buildings or structures in a manner that they weren't intended to be used for, that's not a constitutional right."

Cops said, in their report, that the 36-year-old Boca Raton man was "verbally abusive" to the ranger and had approached them in a "threatening manner" with his ID after he was asked repeatedly to show identification.

Tremsky is now jumping through hoops to clear his name: He told the Sun-Sentinel that so far he has spent $3,000 on a lawyer.

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FBI, Justice investigating Bank of America-Merrill Lynch deal

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. _ The FBI in Charlotte and the U.S. Justice Department are among the multitude of agencies investigating Bank of America Corp.'s acquisition of Merrill Lynch & Co., a knowledgeable source told the Charlotte Observer Friday.

The criminal investigation has been under way for about six months, the source said. The probe means an additional layer of scrutiny for the Charlotte-based bank, which bought Merrill on Jan. 1.

Bank of America already faces investigations from the New York attorney general's office, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the N.C. attorney general's office. Those probes have largely focused on the payment of billions in Merrill bonuses before the deal closed and the lack of disclosure of Merrill's ballooning fourth-quarter losses.

The previously disclosed investigations of the bank have appeared to largely involve civil matters that could lead to financial or regulatory penalties against the bank, or fines against some of its leaders.

The FBI involvement opens the possibility of criminal charges, although the scope and possible outcome of the probe remain unclear.

FBI spokeswoman Amy Thoreson and Justice Department spokesman Ian McCaleb said they could neither confirm nor deny the existence of an investigation.

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IRS cases were referred to ‘Group 7822’

McClatchy Washington BureauJune 18, 2013

Tea Party supporters rally in front of the IRS building May 21, 2013 in Washington, D.C., to protest the abuse of power from the IRS in targeting tea party and grassroots organizations for harassment.

— The Internal Revenue Service diverted applications for tax-exempt status from tea party and like-minded organizations to a special track known as Group 7822 for special scrutiny, according to transcripts of an interview by congressional interrogators with a key IRS official.

The lengthy interview with John Shafer, a senior manager in the screening department of the IRS division in charge of tax-exempt designations, was shared with reporters by Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md.

Staffs from several congressional committees have been interviewing employees in the Cincinnati-based IRS office that handles applications for exempt organization status.

Cummings’ aim was to refute assertions by the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., that the special scrutiny was part of a Washington-based conspiracy. Cummings, the top Democrat on the committee, said the transcript of five hours of interviews on June 9 “debunks conspiracy theories about how the IRS first started reviewing these cases.”

Issa said he was “deeply disappointed” in Cummings. He said Cummings “has wrongly argued that questions about IRS conduct are somehow not legitimate. His own previous release of excerpts from this very same transcript undermines his claims that the committee is somehow trying to keep some specific revelation from public view.”

The IRS transcript helped fill in blanks about information that was generally known but not well understood. For example, Shafer confirmed that his boss, Holly Paz, was present when a Treasury Department auditor queried him about treatment of tea party applications. “I wasn’t sure why she was there,” he said. Shafer said her presence did not change his answers.

Shafer described himself as a conservative Republican and explained how applications that met criteria that the IRS has since called inappropriate were selectively screened. The criteria included buzzwords such as constitution, Bill of Rights and other tea party themes referring to the Founding Fathers. These words caused applications to be pulled aside and sent to what’s called Group 7822. He did not say how the criteria were developed or by whom.

He said the tea party cases were called “emerging issues” by agency officials, apparently because they had received media attention.

“Each case is again reviewed and the determination is made on the facts and circumstances within that case,” he said. Asked what caused an emerging issue, “I 100 percent do not know, OK?” he answered. “What I would do is go into the electronic system and I would transfer these cases to Group 7822.”

That lack of knowledge remains at the heart of the IRS scandal. Shafer’s testimony makes clear that the criteria seemed to be set in Washington. Cummings claimed the transcript shows there was no concerted White House involvement in the targeting of political opponents, while Issa maintains there is still insufficient detail to make that assertion.

Under questioning, Shafer pushed back on the original IRS explanation that a couple of “rogue” agents in Cincinnati were to blame for the targeting of tea party groups.

“We do have a number of checks and balances that would lend me to believe that whatever the definition of a rogue agent is, which I don’t know, it would be difficult for me to believe that,” he said.

The White House has maintained nobody from the executive office was involved, but spokesman Jay Carney has changed his story several times over who learned about the scandal in the White House, when and how.

On Washington involvement, Shafer said an IRS worker he supervised was looking for guidance about a tea party case. Shafer referred the matter to his bosses in Washington and said that Paz, a former top official in the IRS’ exempt organizations division, “elevated it” and said that the agency wanted to “see this case.”

The IRS has acknowledged using inappropriate criteria to ensure that new political players were in fact educational groups performing a social welfare purpose as required by law. Republicans charge the groups were targeted and their applications delayed until after the 2012 elections.

The transcript shows that in early 2010, Shafer recalled media attention concerning a tea party application and that he “had concerns about this being a high-profile case.”

It was “normal business” to be concerned with a case that could be described as high profile, Shafer said. If cases appeared similar, it was important they be reviewed by the same agent or group.

Much of the questioning from congressional staffers focused on Lois Lerner, who headed the exempt organizations division and refused to testify before Congress. She has been placed on administrative leave while congressional, Justice Department and Treasury Department probes play out.

During a recent House Ways and Means Committee hearing, a former Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate told lawmakers that Lerner, then a lawyer at the Federal Election Commission, offered to stop investigating his campaign if he promised never again to run for high office. It was Lerner who triggered the IRS scandal by apologizing for inappropriate treatment of tea party groups in an attempt to get ahead of a Treasury Department auditor’s report that days later would criticize the agency.

Much of the transcript is full of the kind of bipartisan bickering that has soured the American public to politics, with interrogators sniping at each other in front of Shafer and trying to score points in a document they knew would become public.

“This is, like, the fifth or sixth time that you’ve now interrupted our questions. You’ve had an equal amount of time to ask the witness questions,” barked one of Shafer’s questioners. “I’d respectfully ask that you respect the witness’ time and stop interrupting.”

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Amazon Announces Kindle Unlimited, $10 Monthly Access to More than 600,000 Books

Safari001.pngAmazon today announced Kindle Unlimited, a $10 per month all-you-can-read subscription to Kindle e-books. Amazon touts “unlimited access to over 600,000 titles and thousands of audiobooks on any device for just $9.99 a month.”

I alluded to this a few days ago, when Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited webpage was prematurely leaked. I’m not sure what the value of this type of service is. As I pointed out in my article, more than 600,000 books does not mean that you will always find books that you want to read. Amazon highlights a number of books that are available via Kindle Unlimited. These include the Hunger Games series, the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and the Harry Potter books. Amazon also shows a number of popular novels and non-fiction books, and lets you browse what’s available. But they don’t offer any books from the big five publishers, so those books that are highlighted are part of a small selection of popular titles.

Taking a quick look at the Literature & Fiction category, I noticed that certain subcategories are very well represented: Action & Adventure (25,121), Erotica (34,703), Horror (19,312), and Short Stories (28,614). The Romance genre contains 35,571 titles, and Mystery, Thriller & Suspense has a whopping 46,293 titles. Let us not forget Science Fiction & Fantasy, which reaches the astounding number of 50,245 titles. These are genres where self-published books tend to lurk. And the genres I cited just above make up, together, more than 300,000 titles, or about half of what’s available from Kindle Unlimited.

What is more interesting about Kindle Unlimited is the access to audiobooks. However, there are currently only 1,704 titles available, which is a very small number. Amazon calls these “books with narration,” rather than audiobooks, which makes me wonder if these are indeed audiobooks, or just books that allow you to use the text-to-speech feature on a Kindle or other device.

Kindle Unlimited is only available in the US for now, so I won’t be able to try it out. I’m very interested to see how well this works; as I pointed out in my article the other day, given the amount that I read, this could be useful for me.

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Poor release schedule hits HMV's sales

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Poor release schedule hits HMV's sales

HMV's sales have declined 11.6 per cent for the 20 weeks ending September 15th, 2012.

It's disappointing and is in line with how the retailer has been performing all year.

HMV says a quiet summer of releases, plus a combination of The Olympics, The Queen's Jubilee and the Euros, has impacted the firm's performance. And the statistics from The Official Charts Company and Chart-Track backs up that claim, with retail sales significantly down over the summer across all entertainment sectors. Despite the declines, HMV did increase its market share in music, DVD and games, the firm says.

Whereas games, music and DVD struggled during the period, the firm's technology products continued to grow. But it couldn't hide an entire Group sales decline of 14.8 per cent.

The firm's new chief executive Trevor Moore said: “These numbers reflect the challenging markets in which we operate. However, the like for like decline was less marked towards the end of the period and we should be helped in the remainder of the year by a strong pipeline of new releases in the music, DVD and games markets ahead of Christmas.”

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Rampage film adaptation hires writer

New Line Cinema appears quite serious about bringing an adaptation of 80’s arcade smash ‘em up Rampage to the big screen.

The studio has hired writer Ryan Engle to pen the film, according to The Hollywood Reporter. John Rickard had already been picked up to produce the King Kong style flick.

New Line announced back in November that it was had secured the rights to the adaptation, with the studio ‘hoping to make an Independence Day-style picture on a smart budget.’

For those unaware, the game revolves around three mutated humans who are transformed into giant creatures that take on the military while climbing up buildings, eating unsuspecting civilians, and pretty much obliterating whatever (or whoever) is in their path.

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Blockbuster: Games retail would not survive without pre-owned

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Blockbuster: Games retail would not survive without pre-owned

Specialist games retailers cannot survive without second-hand, says Blockbuster.

The firm’s UK commercial director Gerry Butler has hit back at trade-in critics, and told MCV that the current new release business model is broken and in need of a radical overhaul.

“If you’re a specialist you need certain margins to run your business,” he said. “When you are in a commoditised industry, those margins evaporate.

"And supermarkets use games as potential loss-leaders, so specialists can’t survive. That’s why there are less games shops than there were three years ago. Without pre-owned, those companies cannot survive.

“When the market was growing, nobody spoke about trade-in. It didn’t matter. Everyone was hitting their numbers. But as soon as someone starts missing the numbers, they are like: ‘Well this trade-in is killing us. How do we stop it?’”

Butler says the key to hitting the numbers again is by changing how video games are sold into stores.

“I think the distribution strategy employed by the publishing world is broken and needs to be fixed,” he added.

“It is the whole way the industry is structured. Just think about consumer brands like Coca-Cola and how they are built. You create huge pre-awareness and then make sure you have full availability in the marketplace.

“In video games, the publisher has to pay substantial royalty payments to the platform holder upfront, which makes the cost of games high. Then they go to the retailer, and the retailer has to guess the number of units it is likely to sell. Then the marketing begins, and it might turn out we don’t have any stock left.

“It’s not a good situation if the TV ads are running and you’ve no stock.

“Let’s come up with a model that is fair and equitable and long-term and sustainable. This current model is not long-term and sustainable.”

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In my last installment of this blog, I wrote about how uncertainty, primarily driven by politics, is stifling the national economy.  While we might have to wait for November (or beyond) for some of that uncertainty to subside, there are some indicators that our local economy is turning around:

  • Georgia's tax revenues are up approximately 7% versus last year and are up in every category (individual, sales and use, corporate).  This is not because of raised tax rates, but rather a sign of a healthier economy.
  • Georgia’s unemployment rate finally fell below double figures in November.  While the uncertainty noted above is still impeding employment efforts, firm revenues and profits are encouraging enough to add on employees judiciously.
  • Consumer confidence appears to be on the rise.  Black Friday and Cyber Monday experienced large increases in sales over last year.  People appear to be more willing to spend discretionary income which is a positive sign for the Cobb economy which depends significantly on retail and the hospitality industry.
  • Firms have strengthened their balance sheets and processes such that they are now investing more on meeting their customers’ needs rather reducing costs, positioning themselves for success as the recovery accelerates.

We are by no means out of the woods.  The uncertainty caused by the politicians in Washington continues to stifle the growth anticipated from a recovery.  In addition, the specter of the European debt crisis and its potential collateral effects hang over us.  However, when those obstacles are removed, Georgia, Cobb, and its businesses are poised for success.

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Ga. manufacturing improves on employment, supplier delivery time
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Georgia’s manufacturing activity for December experienced a mixture of growth and weakness.

Employment rebounded 8.3 points representing the strongest sign of sustainable growth, as it offset a 7.3 point drop in new factory orders, according to the Purchasing Managers Index released Jan. 2 by Kennesaw State University’s Econometric Center in the Michael J. Coles College of Business.

The PMI provides a snapshot of manufacturing activity in the state. A PMI reading above 50 indicates that manufacturing activity is expanding, while a reading below 50 indicates it is contracting.

The Georgia PMI for December increased by 1.6 points to 53.9 as the National PMI for December decreased 0.3 of a point to 57.0.

The weakness and volatility for the last four months is somewhat more sensitive to seasonal influence. December’s increase in employment and supplier delivery time and the PMI’s fourth quarter’s higher average of 53.3 versus third quarter’s 49.1 average suggests Georgia manufacturing is trending higher as we enter 2014, according to Don Sabbarese, director of the Econometric Center and professor of economics at KSU.

“Georgia’s PMI survey question regarding respondent expectations of production for the next three to six months also supports sustained higher growth as 39 percent expect higher production,” Sabbarese said.

Other highlights from the December PMI —

► New orders were down 7.3 points to 47.2, which was 2.4 points below its six-month average;

► Production was down 1.8 points to 52.8, which was 3.5 points above its six-month average;

► Employment was up 8.3 points to 58.3, which was 4.8 points above its six-month average;

► Supplier delivery was up 11.1 points to 61.1, which was 7.4 points above its six-month average;

► Finished inventory was down 2.3 points to 50, which was 0.3 of a point above its six-month average; and

► Commodity prices were up 7.3 points to 52.8, which was 3.1points below its six-month average.

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Building permits drop 32% across Cobb for April
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MARIETTA — New residential construction in Cobb took a sharp drop for the first time this year, after three months of rising numbers.

Across Cobb and the county’s six cities, there were 84 housing permits issued for April, a 32 percent decrease from the 124 permits granted in March.

In February, 131 single-family housing permits were approved across Cobb, and 91 got the go-ahead in January.

Still, the 84 single-family housing permits listed last month is well above the 68 granted in April 2010 and 27 granted in 2009. The amount of development in unincorporated Cobb remained steady at 66 permits in April. Unincorporated Cobb reported 65 permits in March and 59 permits in February.

Once again, Marietta was a hot spot for residential developments with nine housing permits reported for April.

Marietta was also at the top of the six cities in March, after two months of Smyrna taking the lead in February and January. For April, Smyrna reported five single-family housing permits.

Rusty Roth, who has been Marietta’s planning and zoning manager for 16 years and lives in east Cobb, said most of the permits approved this year are for housing projects that stalled during the down economy but now have new developers “aggressively moving forward.”

“They are all in really good locations,” Roth said. “They were just primed to be restarted.”

Roth said each city and area of Cobb has something unique to offer. Marietta’s recent spurt in housing developments aligns with an interest by residents wanting to live near Marietta’s historic square for the “town center” feel.

While the high numbers beginning the year seemed to be an indication of a rebound in the housing sector, Roth said he is not concerned about the dip.

“We can’t figure it out, either,” Roth said about the decline of permits in April, adding there is “still a bit of uncertainty in the market.”

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Suze Orman: What House Payment Can You Afford?

I happened to watch a bit of CNBC's Suze Orman Show last night. As is her custom lately, Suze focused her entire show on a specific topic. Last night's topic? First-time homeowners.

Because Google regularly brings me visitors who are searching for house-payment guidelines (i.e., "What house payment can I afford?"), I thought it a good idea to use this post to spell out Suze's guidelines as she related them on the show, and in her latest book. (See below, if you're one of the 4 people in the U.S. who are unfamiliar with her work.)

I've covered David Bach's house-payment guidelines elsewhere (they're staggeringly misguided, in my opinion). And I've mentioned my fondness for Dave Ramsey's "25 Percent" house payment rule a time or two. So it's only fair that I dole out a little IYM screen time to Queen Suze.

(You can quit calling my cell phone now, Suze. Like I told you, I'd get around to you when I had time. Sheesh.)

Here you go, Dear Reader. Grab a notebook and pencil and some hip waders, because this will get a bit muddy.

If you're wondering how big a house payment you can really afford (which will almost certainly not match what your lender tells you), then Suze Orman makes this suggestion:

Suppose you can afford whatever you're paying in rent now. Is that what you can target for a house payment? Suze answers with an unequivocal NO.

Say your current monthly rent is $1,000. Suze suggests that, in order to get your aspirations more aligned with reality, you take that rental amount and add 45 percent to it. This is a the figure for what a home with a $1,000 mortgage payment (principal and interest) is actually going to cost you on a monthly basis. In this case, obviously, the math would give you a calculation of $1,450.

What Suze is saying, in her special glittery roundabout way, is that if you can't afford housing expenses of $1,450 per month, then you can't afford a basic principal-and-interest house payment of $1,000. Time to ratchet down your housing budget ... and expectations.

Suze reasons that that extra 45 percent will encompass your property insurance, property taxes, private mortgage insurance (if applicable), and monthly maintenance costs. Judging from what she says in her
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, this will also cover any extra expenditures you'll have for utilities and such in your new home.

Real estate agents, rich friends, and maybe even your parents are going to try to talk you into stretching to buy a bigger house than you can afford right now. Their well-intentioned philosophy is that your income will grow in the coming years, and so the mortgage payments will become easier to handle. Un-uh. That's just way too much pressure. ... Go for a house that leaves you room to breathe. If in five years your career has taken off and you can afford a bigger place, then that's the right time to buy it — not now, when you can't really afford it.

And I'm thankful that Suze makes this absolutely vital point, because not many people pay attention to it:

Knowing how much lenders will let you borrow is simply not the same as knowing how much you can afford. You need to make sure that you can truly afford the total costs of owning a home.

And this, regarding that famous mortgage-interest tax deduction we all know and love:

I don't want you to base how much house you can afford on the size of the mortgage interest deduction you will receive. If the only way you can afford the house is with the tax break, then I think you are cutting it really close. You should view that tax break as a nice bonus, but not a necessity.

Now Practice Making Those Payments

Once you think you know what you can afford — using the ((Principal + Interest) + 45 Percent) calculation — Suze instructs that you ought to practice squeezing that expense into your budget.

Consider the $1,000 rent payment we used above. For the next three to five months, you would make your normal rent payment and set aside another $450 in a savings account somewhere. How does this affect your budget? Can you pull it off easily, or does strangle your cash flow and leave you clutching for your credit cards within a few weeks?

If the latter, then you're back to the drawing board. Lower your housing budget and expectations, and try again.

If you can handle the extra expense easily, then you're ready to begin looking for homes in earnest. And you can use those extra few months of "practice" savings to pad your down payment. Or pay for some of your closing costs.

I Plugged In My Numbers And ...

Not being quite satisfied with Suze's formula, I applied it to my own situation. I wanted to see how accurate it would really be.

The answer? It's pretty close.

Our 15-year, fixed-rate mortgage payment (P&I) is a nudge over $500. Add 45 percent to that, and I end up with roughly $738. Would this $738 cover my total housing costs?

Add property taxes and home insurance to my mortgage payment (P&I), and we're pretty near $650. With Suze's formula, that leaves us just $88 to cover PMI (if it were applicable; we don't have it) and utilities (over and above what we'd already be paying if had been renting) and home maintenance each month.

Given, say, maintenance costs of 10 percent of our P&I per month ($50, in this case) and theoretical PMI of ~$40, we'd be tacking on another $90. Which is pretty close to the $88 that Suze's formula left us to work with.

Suze's "45 percent allowance," though, since it's based on principal and interest, would be lower if our mortgage were of the 30-year variety rather than the 15-year. The problem with this is that no matter the mortgage term, the property taxes remain the same, as do the necessary monthly maintenance dollars. The PMI would be marginally higher, I believe, due to the longer loan term. So I'm thinking that in the some cases, Suze's allowance could be a bit optimistic.

Anyhow, there you have it. Yet another Financial Guru's take on "what it takes" to afford home ownership.

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— Posted by Michael @ 6:50 PM

Not only is this a great article...I like how you tailored it to your Google visitors. That's smart!

Thanks, Tim, for the kind comment. Got to feed the Google monster, you know.

This post is great, and timely for me as I've been wondering if I bought TOO LITTLE house. Our payments, including principle, int, insurance, and taxes, are only about 15% of our monthly gross. I've been wondering if we should have been willing to cut corners in other areas in order to buy a house that might have appreciated faster. But at the time, job situation was different, and two years later it's still a little shaky, so I guess we made the right decision. If I lose my job and the payments become suddenly 25% of our monthly gross or an even bigger percentage, I'll sure be glad I shot so low to begin with!

Congrats on the 15 year loan. I didn't quite have enough chutzpah. Our loan is a 20 year fixed, but by God it'll be paid off in 15.

Ok, Michael, you piqued my curiousity and I had to run our numbers. We have a 30-year 5/1 arm at 3.99%--we have been diligently paying extra w/ the goal of being mortgage-free by the end of 2008 (and before the mortgage would adjust to 5.99%). Here are our figures by MONTH: Mortgage $670 (plus my discretionary principal payment); RET $435; HO $50; maint. $175. I'm including several items in this maintenance figure: garage door repair; furnace/a/c service; painting supplies; flowers & fertilizer; batteries; propane refills; etc. Basically, anything that we incur that relates to the homestead. So for us, Suze's 45% figure doesn't hold up. Obviously, our payment is low, so that's part of the issue, as you pointed out. However, for those who live in higher RET-areas, the percentage would be a difficult benchmark to hit.

Note to Claire: don't rue over not having "more house". Save,save, and pay down that mortgage! I'm a believer in principal paydown, but not for a fee (unlike Bach's biweekly mantra--you'll save more interest than you'll spend in fees so do it!) You can pay extra principal ON YOUR OWN and it's FREE! I do agree w/Bach's Automatic Millionaire premise to make it automatic. Just set up a recurring principal payment every payday, at the end of the month--whatever's attainable--and JUST DO IT! Your mortgage balance will melt away! Good luck!

This was a great post. My guys is looking into buying a house and I fancy myself his financial muse so I will pass on this post. Thanks!

The problem is that you can't count on always earning the same salary. My mortgage payment was fine for my income at the time I bought the house. When I lost the job in 2002, I had a terrible time trying to make payments. Still do as I've never been able to find a job that payed that well. When I bought the house, I was the sole wage earner. I felt that we could both work and make payments if the worst happened. That was true. We didn't count on a continuing increase in property taxes. House payment is $600 but taxes are another $200 every month. The house is up for sale. We're moving back to where we used to live, buying property with an owner contract and simple interest. And I've yet to be able to use the mortgage deduction as it's never as much as the standard deduction

I like Suze's rule of thumb it works well in most cases. But in high COLA it doesn't. When rents are running $1800 anyway and a mortgage is $2200, no biggie, your going to spend, spend, spend on rent or mortgage.

You have to have an EF for job loss and realize what you'll do if you need to take a paycut. Another issue is the fact that buying a home isn't cheap, thus why people say to "stretch". But too much stretch will put you on the fast lane to BK.

Our first place we bought it was 50% of our gross, but gee we made $40k/year gross in San Diego. Our mortgage was less than our rent at the time, go figure. With refinancing we came out ahead. Now we make more, have more home but the rent/buy is still in the equation. Rent was ridiculous so we bought.

I can't decided whether or not I'm onboard with everything Suze says, but this is definitely a good point. I try to catch an episode or 2 and she does have some good advice for saving, but just because she's a professional doesn't mean she knows all. Each situation has it's own circumstances, but nicely written!

Wow, amazingly helpful piece of advice. Good job to you and Suze!

Anonymous Anonymous
, at 3:49 PM, October 30, 2008

Two people that have never failed me...Suze, and Joel Osteen! I love the way Suze gets you to focus on the "whole" picture. Thinking "down the road" is so important for everyone now. To be able to enjoy that "homeowner" feeling has got to be incredible. I'd hate to lose it due to unseen events that I didn't factor in. This was very helpful, Thanks again

Please help, Suze. I will be 52 in 2 weeks and trying to make some very immportant decisions so I can retire comfortably. Divorced 3 years ago and was left with a huge mortgage-$2113. Bought the new home in '05. Pay 5 3/4 % and owe about $304,000. The house is valued at about $450,000.
I make about $80,000 a year, have approximately $172,000 in ladder CDs, a Roth that I contribute $500 a month and a 403b in place where I save an addt'l $100 a month. I own a 2nd home outright. It is valued at about $210,000.
My question is...w/ 25 more years to pay off my mortgage, is it best for me to keep the house, pay down the principle with my savings & invest the money saved in my Roth OR should I get from under this new house, invest the extra $2000 and call it a day!? The other house is old and not in the best area--just okay. The current home is in a nicer area that will appreciate at a greater pace.
I have 2 adult children whose interests I want to protect in the event of my death-son,24; daughter,29. Please advise.

Linda, DE

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