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Friday, September 21, 2012
The iPhone 5 Has Arrived: But Which iPhone Is The Best Value?
The iPhone 5 is now on sale in most launch markets starting today, and as daylight approaches on the U.S. west coast, the coveted device will be hitting that market as well. According to early reviews, it's a great device, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's the right one for everybody. Even if you're still a potential iPhone buyer, the lineup has never looked so good. The iPhone 4 and the 4S remain on the market, and they both have a lot to offer, too, at a considerable discount.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/AWONzFSXMS4/
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REAL ESTATE: KB Home size up for 3Q reports a stronger market in ...
Posted on | September 21, 2012 |
KB Home has reported a third-quarter profit of $3.3 million, or 4-cents a share, for the quarter ending Aug. 31, news representing a turn-about from a net loss of $9.6 million or 13-cents a share from the year before.
The homebuilder delivered 1,720 homes during the period, with an average selling price of $245,100. In the sales department, that represents a 7 percent increase from the third-quarter of 2011; and an average home selling price bump-up of 8 percent.
Total revenue rose from $367.3 million in 3Q of 2011 up to $424.5 million.
KB Home has also reported that the West Coast is showing signs of strength. Net orders are up for the nine months, as is the backlog on homes and home values.
The West Coast delivered 1,180 homes, up from 1,101 over the same time frame in 2011. The company reported 23 more net orders over the same period, and the sales price has risen from $321,800 up to $377,200.
?It is clear that the recovery in housing is gaining momentum across the country, as inventory levels are declining and home prices are on the rise,? Jeffrey Mezger, president and chief executive officer, said in a statement released this morning.
?In particular, we are seeing dramatic improvement in California,? he said. ?Continued strengthening in the coastal markets is now spreading inland to Sacramento, the Central Valley and the Inland Empire, he said.
The earnings call starts at 8:30 a.m. today.
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Thursday, September 20, 2012
Ori Feibush, Philadelphia Real Estate Developer, in Hot Water After ...
A Philadelphia businessman took $20,000 from his own pocket to transform a trash-filled city-owned lot overgrown with weeds into a beautiful outdoor mini-park. Long-frustrated neighbors sang his praises for his deed -- but the city calls him a trespasser and is threatening to take him to court, the Philadelphia Daily News reported.
Ori Feibush (pictured at left), a real estate developer, had tried to buy the neglected 1,600-square-foot lot for years, but the city wouldn't let him. According to ABC News, Feibush was preparing last month to open his own coffee shop adjacent to the rundown lot -- with its cracked and broken sidewalks -- and that's when he decided to take matters into his own hands."I didn't wake up one morning and spend tens of thousands of dollars to remove blight that was a danger to residents and customers," he told ABC News.
Feibush did go to the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority to reveal his plans for the space before initiating the $20,000 venture. He said that the agency told him that it would take care of cleaning the lot and that he did not have permission to enter it.
"They promised they would get around to it," Feibush said. "I did not believe I could open up a coffee shop when people couldn't traverse the sidewalk."
After getting frustrated when the lot was not tended to, Feibush used his money to clear out what he estimated to be 40 tons of debris, including removing weeds and trash. He also had a new sidewalk poured and brought in a bench and a picnic table. He said that families frequent the property now.
"This was a lot of garbage," resident Elaine McGrath told the Philadelphia Daily News, referring to the old, neglected lot. "Now it's gorgeous. I'm excited."
The city doesn't see it that way.
"Like any property owner, [the authority] does not permit unauthorized access to or alteration of its property," Paul D. Chrystie, director of communications at Philadelphia's Office of Housing and Community Development, told the Daily News in an email. "This is both on principle (no property owner knowingly allows trespassing) and to limit taxpayer liability."
Chrystie added that the agency is "actively reviewing its options at this time" against Feibush.
"They said we need to return it to the condition we found it in immediately," Feibush said. "They don't like nice things."
The city contends that the lot Feibush refurbished was one of many city-owned properties up for sale but that it has no record of Feibush's interest in buying the land. Feibush said that he has filed seven written requests and made 24 phone calls to the city to take over the property.
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Michael Bisping kicks ?disrespectful? fan out of UFC 152 workouts
Michael Bisping has a fight with Brian Stann at UFC 152 on Saturday night, but before that, he found a fight with a fan who disrupted his workout on Wednesday. He explained why he threw the fan out of the open workouts to MMA Fighting. (The explanation is at the beginning of the video.)
"I was just trying to do my pads and stuff, and the guy's got no respect. He annoyed my boxing coach more than anything. My boxing coach got a little upset. I could see it in his eyes," Bisping said.
"I was trying to get a workout in, and he's just disrupting the whole thing. He's upsetting my boxing coach, and so I'm like, you gotta go. You gotta go. If you can't have respect ... we're here. We're putting on a display for you guys. If you can't respect it, you have to go outside with the naughty children."
During big fight weeks like this one, the UFC will often offer three free events to fans: open workouts, the press conference and weigh-ins. Open workouts are undoubtedly the best option, because it lets fans get close to fighters to take pictures and see how they train.
The fans and media being there make the workouts more casual than a normal pre-fight training session, but it's still a workout. Fighters are cutting weight and thinking about their bout and should get to do that without being heckled. Even someone like Bisping, who loves to jaw with anyone and everyone, deserves to work out without distraction.
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Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Sony Xperia T for AT&T achieves FCC victory
We witnessed the Sony Xperia T make its way through the FCC approval process a few days ago, but there was still something drastically missing: compatibility with AT&T LTE. But as some images published by UK retailer Phones4U attested to, we figured it was only a matter of time. Now that time has come, as the FCC pushed through the Xperia Mint Amy LT30at (the global Xperia T is the Mint Rita LT30p, if you're keeping track) today. Not only does the Amy sport the requisite AT&T-friendly bands (4 and 17, with support for bands 2 and 5 as well), some of the docs specifically call this device out as the AT&T version. We've always admired Sony's bluntness around FCC docs when other manufacturers attempt to hide as much information as possible. To do some digging of your own, have a look-see at the source link.
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Budget Hero - Election Edition: Popular Budget Game Updated for 2012 Election and "Fiscal Cliff"
WASHINGTON, Sept. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The creators of "Budget Hero," the popular serious game which helps people of all ages understand the federal budget and the trade-offs involved in the budgetary process, have launched an Election Edition to illuminate the budget impact of policies championed by President Barack Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney as well as those related to the impending "fiscal cliff."
The updated version contains 27 new policies in all, including the Ryan Medicare and Medicaid Plans; Taxing Sugar-Sweetened Beverages; Changing Distribution of Social Security Benefits; and many more.
The Election Edition was made possible by a grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. It includes the latest numbers from the Congressional Budget Office and a wide variety of other sources, such as the Congressional Research Service.
"With well over 1 million plays, Budget Hero has already helped bring the American public into the debate about fixing our federal budget," said Michael Van Dusen, executive vice president and COO of the Wilson Center. "The election edition provides an engaging way for citizens to learn more about the budgetary proposals of each Presidential candidate, using nonpartisan resources that allow them to make informed decisions."
Nearly 20,000 comments have been submitted through the game, with the majority of commenters saying it changed the way they think about the federal budget. Many players also noted the tradeoffs they were willing to make, and showed a willingness to make choices that were not in their self-interest.
"Budget Hero is allowing us to gather perspectives and insights from America on what role government should play and to help journalists tell a whole new dimension to the federal budget story," said Mike Reszler, vice president for digital media at American Public Media. "The game goes to the core of what the Public Insight Network is about: a belief that technology coupled with great reporting can add diversity, depth and context to important issues and spark meaningful public dialogue."
Read What Budget Hero Players are Saying About the Game
How it's Played
"Budget Hero" invites players to explore the financial and social impact of proposed cuts and expenditures as they create, test and compare their own federal budgets. Players can earn "badges" by "playing" policy cards that correspond with their values.
Play the Latest Version of Budget Hero
Player Data
Through August 2012 Budget Hero has been played 1.3 million times, with 75 percent of players playing a complete game. Demographic data from the game shows wide support among players across age, household income, gender, and party affiliation for reforming and simplifying the tax code and increasing the amount wealthy seniors pay for drugs.
The top 10 most frequently played cards over the last year were:
- Rapidly cut troop numbers in Iraq and Afghanistan (most played card every year since original version of Budget Hero debuted in 2008)
- Reform and simplify the tax code
- Slow the increase of social security benefits
- Raise the social security eligibility age
- Increase drug costs for wealthy seniors
- Cut discretionary spending
- End tax breaks for big oil
- Cut Medicare waste and payments
- Require drug companies to give deeper Medicare discounts
- Limit malpractice torts
Players across all demographics - ?including elder players - demonstrated a willingness to reduce the benefits going to the elderly including increasing the cost of drugs for wealthier seniors, raising the Social Security age, and slowing the increase of Social Security benefits.
More Analysis of Budget Hero Data available upon request.
Media Contact:
Drew Sample
Media Relations Coordinator, the Wilson Center
202-691-4379?
drew.sample@wilsoncenter.org
Mary Sutherland
American Public Media
651-290-1373?
msutherland@mpr.org
Notes to Editors:
The Budget Hero Election Edition was made possible by a grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. The grant also is funding a full-time American Public Media (APM) reporter whose job is to mine game-play data along with insights gathered through APM's Public Insight Network (PIN) to report on matters of public policy. Nearly 50,000 PIN sources have played the game since July, and several thousand have offered their insights on the budget and related issues.
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation supports creative people and effective institutions committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world.?MacArthur is one of the nation's largest independent foundations. Through the support it provides, the Foundation fosters the development of knowledge, nurtures individual creativity, strengthens institutions, helps improve public policy, and provides information to the public, primarily through support for public interest media.
The Wilson Center provides a strictly nonpartisan space for the worlds of policymaking and scholarship to interact. By conducting relevant and timely research and promoting dialogue from all perspectives, it works to address the critical current and emerging challenges confronting the United States and the world.
American Public Media? (APM) is one of the largest producers of public radio programming in the world, with a portfolio reaching over 17 million listeners via more than 800 radio stations nationwide each week. Programs include A Prairie Home Companion?, BBC World Service, Marketplace?, Performance Today?, The Splendid Table?, On Being?, American RadioWorks? and many others. American Public Media is the parent organization for Minnesota Public Radio, Southern California Public Radio and Classical South Florida. ?APM's 170,000-member strong Public Insight Network? uses intelligent sourcing, community engagement and innovative technology to assist journalists in strengthening connections with the communities they serve and creating news coverage that is credible, relevant, in depth and diverse. For more information, visit PublicInsightNetwork.org.
SOURCE The Wilson Center
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