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== Thinking of buying or selling- Here's how rising mortgag ==

<html>A recent, sharp rise in mortgage-interest rates has raised concerns about whether the housing recovery will soften as home loans become more expensive.
Last week, the average rate nationwide for a 30-year mortgage jumped to 4.46 percent from 3.93 percent ― the biggest one-week increase since 1987 and the highest rate since July 2011, according to the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.
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“Everyone is getting nervous now as the Fed is taking away the Kool-Aid bowl soon,” he said. Rates started moving up after the Federal Reserve said on June 19 that it might end its economic-stimulation program by the end of this year or in 2014.
An increase in interest rates could temper the housing recovery in several ways.
For one thing, higher rates would mean prospective buyers could afford less house, possibly easing demand for new and existing homes. For another, the equity funds that have been buying up foreclosures would likely go looking elsewhere for better ways to invest their money, which would likely limit competition for new listings. Home builders may be pressured by higher carrying costs, even as fewer prospects show up to tour their model units. And homeowners not interested in selling would be less likely to refinance their existing loans.
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Buyers: For home buyers, many of whom have struggled since the Great Recession and global credit crisis to qualify for mortgages, an uptick in rates would also cut into their buying power once they are approved for a loan.
For example, buyers who obtained a $200,000 mortgage when interest rates were about 3.5 percent in April landed a monthly payment of about $900. But if rates head north to 5 percent, buyers hoping to get that same monthly payment would have to limit their mortgage to $170,000 ― or $30,000 less than they could have afforded with the lower loan rate.
In a talk to Congress last month, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke noted that housing’s vital role in the nation’s economic recovery is due partly to the real estate-related jobs it creates “but also because higher house prices increase consumer wealth and promote consumer spending.”
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“With some of the new regulations taking effect soon, such as QM ― qualified mortgage ― I think you will see lenders actually tighten guidelines as opposed to loosen them,” he said.
The qualified mortgage rule, issued by the federal government’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, aims to crack down on loose lending practices. Among other provisions, it does not allow mortgages that would bring a home buyer’s total monthly debt payments, including property taxes and insurance, to more than 43 percent of the person’s gross income.
Investors: Institutional buyers are likely to slow the pace of their distress-sale home purchases if interest rates rise and other investments become more attractive. Whether they also dump the properties they have already purchased or hang onto them would depend on the demand for single-family-home rental properties.
“I think the major equity players, like Blackstone (Group), that brought volume purchases to the real estate industry will retreat from the purchase of individual homes,” said Owen Beitsch, senior principal of Real Estate Research Consultants of Orlando. “This asset class is simply much too management-intensive, and the spread between cost and return is decreasing.”
John Tuccillo, chief economist for Florida Realtors, said he expects the pace of investor purchases to slow “during the next year or so.” He added that, while he doesn’t expect equity funds to sell off their newly acquired houses, he figures they will cut back on picking up new ones.
Diminished demand for investment houses would put pressure on prices to fall, though areas with low inventory would more easily handle an increase in available properties without prices tanking.
Builders: Homebuilders would also have to adjust as prospective buyers grapple with reduced spending power. A certain slice of that group would scale back their search to existing-home listings, said Hunter, the MetroStudy economist. Others would settle for smaller new homes or for developments in more-remote locations, he added. And builders would face costlier carrying costs for land and materials as they wait for enough buyers to close out a project.
In the short term, Hunter said, the jump in interest rates could give the market a boost, as prospective home buyers who have been hesitating to act decide to buy now, assuming rates will only continue to rise.
Homeowners: For those in a home and intent on staying there, refinancing their current mortgage would make less sense if rates continue to escalate, Nunziata said.
The number of refinanced mortgages grew significantly in 2011-12, with home-purchase loans becoming a smaller part of the overall mortgage mix, he said. The last time the refinance market experienced a big boost, he noted, was back in 2001-03, when rates dropped to 5.25 percent from 7.25 percent.
Mortgage lenders who have been specializing in refis are likely to go out of business “sooner than later” if interest rates keep rising, he added.
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== Wimbledon title gives Bryans four straight grand slams ==

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LONDON -- The Bryan brothers got big air at Wimbledon on Saturday.
Yes, there was a little more room than usual between their feet and the ground for their latest version of the Bryan Bump -- the famed chest bump they use to celebrate their victories -- because of what that victory meant.
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 It just feels like we're adding nuts and whipped cream and cherries to our great career, Bob Bryan said. We said that a few years ago: If we retire today, we feel like we've done it all. Let's go have some fun and add to whatever this is. 
They now have 15 Grand Slam tournament victories, improving on the record they broke at the Australian Open when they surpassed John Newcombe and Tony Roche as the most successful men's pairing of all time. It's their third Wimbledon title and the victory made the Bryans the first team to hold all the slams along with an Olympic gold medal.
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But they got a pair of breaks in the second to even things up, then got a break apiece in the next two sets for the win. The final one came when Mike Bryan, the right-hander, hit a forehand down the middle for a clean winner, then high-stepped it off the court to the sideline for one,[http://www.nikenflonlinestore.com/nfl-jerseys-c-598 Cheap nfl jerseys USA], final change of ends.
His brother served out the match and after match point -- a 129-mph ace -- the brothers jumped as high as they can remember while performing their chest bump.
It's a move they borrowed from the Jensen brothers -- the popular 1993 French Open champions who, like the Bryans, had their own rock band and liked to play to the crowd. They Bryans started using it regularly when they played college tennis at Stanford.
 The fraternity guys were calling for it, Mike Bryan said. I think it was on the cover of the Stanford Daily. ... They called it the 'Bryan Bump.' We kept doing it. 
They plan to keep doing it through at least 2016 at the Rio Olympics.
They have 91 overall titles and would like to make it 100.
They've finished first in the rankings for eight years and would like to make that 10.
More urgently, there's that issue of wrapping up the calendar Grand Slam.
The quest starts less than eight weeks from now in Flushing Meadows but they hardly wanted to talk about that after their latest big win.
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== Canadian curling icon 'Shorty' Jenkins passes away ==

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Born in Hanna, Alta., in 1935, Jenkins got into icemaking after serving with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He was the head icemaker at various national and Ontario championships in his career. He also authored a number of instructional manuals on the craft of making ice for the Canadian Curling Association and Ontario Curling Association.
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== Joe Downtown- Does your business fit into a cube- Container ==

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== Movers & Shakers 05-12-13 ==

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== Better have a good reason if you forgot Mother’s Day ==

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 An industry working group brought forward their proposal, which primarily address rationalization of the fishery as the means for bycatch reduction.
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== Butler- Europe counts down and prepares for the season ==

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Three minutes left, Nets down five who wins the game for them?
Contenders have an answer to that question, and four other Eastern Conference teams have at least one sure-fire answer. For Miami it s LeBron James and Dwyane Wade; for Indiana it s Paul George and Danny Granger; for Chicago it s Derrick Rose and a nice combination of Luol Deng and Joakim Noah. The Knicks even have a better answer, with Carmelo Anthony ranking as the seventh-best clutch player in the NBA.
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Pence and the Giants couldn t do much against Nicasio (8-6), who tied a season high with nine strikeouts and allowed four hits. He worked out of a bases-loaded jam in the first inning and pitched around two hit-batters before leaving after 95 pitches.
Nicasio finished his night by striking out Brandon Crawford with runners on first and third to end the sixth.
The Giants spoiled the shutout attempt on Joaquin Arias two-out RBI double off Jeff Francis in the ninth.
NOTES: Fowler left with a left lateral knee bruise. He is day to day. The outfield sprinklers came on briefly while the Giants were in the field in the fourth inning. Colorado SS Troy Tulowitzki (sore oblique) sat out his second straight game. He is expected to be back in the lineup on Tuesday. Rockies RHP Tyler Chatwood (elbow) will make a rehab start with Triple-A Colorado Springs on Tuesday. He is scheduled to throw 75 pitches and could be back in the rotation this weekend. Giants LHP Jeremy Affeldt (left groin strain) threw a bullpen session in Arizona on Monday. He next will go on a rehab assignment. San Francisco OF Andres Torres (left Achilles strain) flew to North Carolina to see a specialist. Giants RHP Yusmeiro Petit (0-0) will face Colorado RHP Chad Bettis (0-2) on Tuesday night.
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== The ice in their veins ==

<html>Here, and in other parts of country Victoria, there are fears about methamphetamine and the damage the highly addictive drug is doing to communities that have traditionally been among the state's most conservative.
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 For the past 12 months newspapers in Geelong, Bendigo, Horsham, Mildura, Morwell and Warrnambool have featured reports of court appearances by ice users who cannot remember doing 150km/h in a 60km/h zone, holding a knife to their mother's throat or stealing from work colleagues.
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 Brendan Scale, a co-ordinator with the Wimmera Drug Action Taskforce, says a member of one of the most conservative farming communities in Victoria's west recently told him that "you would be gobsmacked by how far ice is reaching into the remotest communities''.
 Why is country Victoria in the grip of this ice epidemic? Long-time residents of small country towns believe cheap housing and a negligible police presence is attracting manufacturers and dealers.
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 It is reactions like this that have left some of Victoria's top police officers extremely worried about methamphetamine use and its effects on the community. Ice has been linked to a host of murders, rapes, assaults and robberies. It is getting people with no criminal history into serious strife.
 "It's probably one of the most harmful substances we've come across in recent years in terms of impact on community and it's really challenging us,'' says police assistant commissioner Steve Fontana. ''It's not just the police, it's emergency services, the hospital system. People are off their heads on this stuff, they're violent, aggressive and really hard to control.''
 Last year, Dean was trying to deal with breaking up with his girlfriend when a friend introduced him to ice. A highly addictive drug, he was soon hooked and would go days, sometimes weeks, without sleeping or eating. He was angry, anxious and would sometimes drive for hours while high as a kite.
 "I lost all care and hope and everything. You feel like everyone's against you even when they're not," he says.
 Dean was a heavy user of ice for several months in 2012. His family did not know what to do. Was there any way out of this?
 Melissa was driving her car to nowhere in particular one day when she just burst into tears. It was a turning point.
 She ended up driving to a health service in a regional city some distance from her farm. There she spoke to a drug counsellor she had never met and the months of anguish flooded out.
 "From then on it got a bit easier,'' Melissa says. ''You can't talk to anyone here. Not even family, no one gets it.
 "You think of drugs and druggies, but this is my son, not some bloke on the street shooting up in an alley, and it was really hard to find someone for us just to bounce off."
 Since then, with counselling and the support of his family, Dean has been able to get off, and stay off, methamphetamine. Even so, he still has bad days and is nagged by an underlying depression.
 "I still find it hard,'' he says. ''I have my days where I think what the f--- am I doing? I've still got problems to deal with. But I think if you haven't got a good family you've got no chance of getting out of this."
 Dean is not alone. Methamphetamine is being pushed heavily into some of Victoria's most vulnerable communities where many users do not have the resources or family support that have helped people like him.
 In Mildura, a six-month campaign has just been launched to reach out to the region's youth to educate them about ice. Of particular concern is targeting of the local Koori community by dealers. Anecdotal reports have linked recent youth suicides to ice.
 The Murray River city campaign is being led by the local council, police, health services and Aboriginal support agencies. Such groups are also being brought together in cities and towns across the state, with Bendigo police, health services and other agencies holding a forum next month to address ice use in their community.
 Raelene Stephens, nurse unit manager of the Mildura District Aboriginal Service's alcohol and other drugs program says ice use has reached epidemic proportions over the past two years, with children as young as 12 being exposed to the drug.
 She says dealers have been targeting Aboriginal youths who have an income through jobs in food or hospitality. They are sold large amounts of ice in the knowledge they will rack up large debts. "Then they come after the families for payment," Stephens says.
 Victoria's new Commissioner for Aboriginal Children and Youth, Andrew Jackomos, warned in July that ice use was reaching a crisis point. He says various Koori groups comprising senior indigenous community leaders want the Napthine government to convene a forum.
 "People are frustrated that they can't do anything They don't know where to turn to. Ice is a huge problem in our community," Jackomos told Fairfax Media in July.
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 Crios O'Mahony has a keen sense of humour enhanced by a gentle Irish lilt. Sleeve tattoos and years of experience treating crack addicts in London add street credibility.
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 O'Mahony is a project leader at Anex, a not-for-profit group based in Carlton that is at the forefront of drug education and harm reduction programs.
 Anex's presenters have conducted almost 50 forums across Victoria since late last year to provide information on methamphetamine to more than 2000 drug and alcohol workers, police, ambulance crews and child protection workers.
 O'Mahony and his colleagues say that despite there being widespread concern about ice there is little understanding of how the drug affects the brain, even among many health workers trained to help affected people.
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== Another Seinfeld election for Australia ==

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== Samsung Galaxy Note 3- hands on review ==

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