Nevada - number of foreclosures doubled in 2007

In Nevada, foreclosure filings rose 75 percent from the previous year to 2.2 million. The filings warned owners that their home was slated for auction or for repossession by the bank, or that they were in default. Last year, Nevada had the highest foreclosure rate in the nation. 3.4 percent of its households recieved foreclosure filings, which was more than three times the national average. Nevada, Florida, Michigan and California posted the highest foreclosure rates, said RealtyTrac Inc. Over 1 percent of all US households got to some stage of foreclosure process last year, up from about 0.5 percent in previous year. Before higher monthly payments kicked in, borrowers had depended on getting new loans or refinancing an adjustable mortgage. There were billions of dollars in losses at lenders and Wall Street banks, which made the lenders put the money out of reach for many borowers. Referring to adjustable-rate mortgage loans made to borrowers with poor credit, Rick Sharga, RealtyTrac's vice president of marketing, said: "Assuming nothing else bad happens economically ... we will have exhausted the bulk of the worst-performing loans by the end of June. It does appear that we're seeing a new batch of properties enter the process." He added that a late-year surge in the number of properties reporting foreclosure filings suggests that many are in the initial stages of the foreclosure process and could end up lost to foreclosure this year unless lenders or the government steps in. James Saccacio, RealtyTrac chief executive officer, said in a statement: "Some properties may have just entered the initial stage of foreclosure in 2007 and could be going through the rest of the foreclosure process in 2008 unless lender and government intervention efforts." In Nevada, many mortgages allow lenders to sell a property if an owner defaults without having to file a lawsuit. A lender begins the foreclosure process by recording a notice of default with the county recorder and mailing the notice to the borrower. A borrower or any secondary lender has 35 days from the date the default notice is recorded to pay off the default and stop the foreclosure. If the borrower has not paid off the default amount, the lender can schedule a foreclosure sale, at least three months after recording the notice of default.

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Jeden svet, jeden sen

Toto je slogan 29. Olympijskych hier 2008. Tento rok je organizujucou krajinou Cina, konkretne cinske mesto Peking. Cinania sa uz nevedia dockat Augusta, kedy to vsetko zacne. Hry budu trvat 16 dni, od 8. augusta do 24. augusta. V Pekingu su uz takmer hotovi so vsetkymi pripravami. Na tento ucel uz vybudovali vela ihrisk a stadionov. Iba v Pekingu ich je 31. Jedna z najznamejsich stavieb je Pekingsky narodny stadion. Som si ista, ze uz ste o nom poculi. Je to obrovsky stadion, ktory z vonku vyzera ako vtacie hniezdo. Je postaveny zo specialnej konstrukcie, preto ho stavali 4 roky. Ma tiez velku kapacitu navstevnikov, okolo 80000 sedadiel. Prave tu sa bude konat otvaraci a zaverecny ceremonial. Po otvaracom ceremoniali sa tu budu konat futbalove zapasy a atleticke preteky. Po hrach planuju stadion vyuzivat na sportove a kulturne ucely. Dalsia zaujimava budova, postavena kvoli hram je Watercube & plavecky stadion. Z vonku vyzera ako obrovska kocka plna bubliniek. Na povrchu budovy je material podobny teflonu, ktory jej umoznuje dychat. Po hrach ju chcu prestavat na kulturne, sportove a nakupne centrum. Peking ma uz aj maskotov & Fuwa. Fuwa v cinstine znamena babiky pre stastie. Kazda z nich predstavuje nieco ine. Su to: panda, ryba,Tibetska antilopa, ohen a lastovicka. Maju nieco spolocne s cinskymi elementami, ale skutocne iba nieco. Takze toto leto patri Cine. Dufam za budu mat vydarene hry a ukazu nam, za to nie je o vyhravani, ale o tom, aby ludia boli spolu a boli stastni.

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Obesity and overweight = the epidemic of the New World?

City health officials, in their continuing fight against obesity, proposed a new regulation today requiring chain restaurants to post calorie information on their menus after a federal judge struck down a similar measure in September. It seemed to be an excellent idea to spare the new epidemic, the well-known obesity. The sour truth is that the majority of the New Yorkers doesn't have access to calorie information. Not everyone will use it, but many people will, and when they use it, it changes what they order, and that should reduce preponderance and with it diabetes. Nowadays in NYC, two-thirds of adults suffer from obesity, and the big picture is, that half of children are overweight too. It causes many psychological disorders too. People are depressed, aftermath they gorge on fatty food and comfort themselves with the thought, that they always can put the diet off. It is a vicious circle. Some New Yorkers said they don't need a calorie table to know the difference between a juicy hamburger and a salad. In their opinion this is an unnecessary idea, witch wouldn't modify the eating habits in the country. The others welcomed the news and expect some feedback from the information. The decision was a victory for the New York State Restaurant Association, an industry group which had sued the city's Health Department to challenge the regulation. The new regulation, witch takes affect March 31, will apply to about 10 percent of the city's 23,000 restaurants but which serve about a third of all food eaten outside of the home each year, according to health officials. The main aim was to inspire the folk to require menu with calorie table to recognise their unhealthy influence. Chuck Hunt, a spokesman for the New York Restaurant Association, said that the nutritional information will not have wonder-worker affect. In supermarkets have been provided only labelled products for 13 years, but obesity has not declined.

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One world One dream

This is the slogan of the 29th Olympics Games 2008. This year the organizing country is China, exactly Chinese city Beijing. Chinese people can't wait to this August when everything starts. The Games will last 16 days, from August 8 to August 24. In Beijing, they are almost ready with all the preparations. They built many sport stadiums and places for this. Only in Beijing there are 31 Olympic venues. One of the most famous is Beijing National Stadium. I'm sure that you have already heard about this building. It's huge sport stadium, which looks like a bird nest from outside. It has very special construction and it took 4 years to build it. It has also a huge seating capacity, about 80000 seats. The opening and closing ceremony will be hold there. After opening ceremony it will be place for soccer games and athletics. They are planning to use this stadium after the Games for sports and cultural activities. Another special building, built exactly for these games is Watercube & swimming pool. From outside it looks like a huge cube full of bubbles. At the top of the building is Teflon-like material, so this allows the building to breathe. After the Games, they want to rebuild it for shopping, sport and culture center. Beijing has already mascots & the Fuwa. Fuwa literally means Good luck dolls. Every one represents something else. They are: fish, fire, panda, Tibetan antelope and swallow. They have something in common with Chinese elements, but only roughly. So this summer belongs to China. I hope they will have great Games and show us that it's not about winning, but about people being together and happy.

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Like a star

Many Hollywood movies have something in common with space. Aliens, space ships or dangerous space objects. In Armageddon it was a huge asteroid, which they were able to destroy before it could destroy anything on Earth. In Deep Impact the asteroid landed on Earth and caused big flood and killed many people. As you can see it's usually an asteroid. Today one of these is coming close to the Earth. This one isn't dangerous; it won't be close enough to hit the planet. Thank God. But it will be close enough to be watchable with medium size telescope. Next time you can see asteroid big like this one, is in 2027, so don't hesitate. For you to know what are you going to see: asteroid is a kind of astronomical object, which can be composed from carbonaceous, silicaceous or metallic. The name asteroid comes from Greek word and it means star-like. You can also hear the names minor planet or planetoids. In our solar system there are millions of them that orbit around the Sun. They can orbit alone or in the groups or like a family of asteroids. Groups are looser as families, which can be result of one damaged parent asteroid. If you want an easy explanation, asteroid is a big flying piece of stone looking substance. First discovered asteroid is called Ceres and it's the biggest one we know so far. It's so big that it's even classified as dwarf planet. Every month are discovered about 5000 asteroids. Not all of these have names, only few of those which can be visible have one, the others have only numbers.

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SigEx Ventures : Investors are becoming increasingly interested in green technologyby Corina Ciubotaru

As climate change becomes a reality we are all responsible for, and governments start raising awareness, venture capital investors seem to be increasingly attracted to clean tech. In 2006, $2.9 billion were invested in this field in the US, compared to $1.6 billion in 2005, and a big part of this money went into energy-related ventures. This figure increased by nearly 60% in the first quarter of 2007 making the clean tech venture market the third most significant after biotechnology and software. GE was a big investor in clean tech in recent times; in the beginning of the year, they invested in a company that researches batteries for hybrid vehicles, and the American giant probably won’t stop here, aiming to invest $4 billion in renewable energy by 2010. Other companies have also announced they want to join the race: Citigroup is willing to invest $50 billion in the next ten years in companies that address climate change issues, while Bank of America intends to invest $20 billion in the same area. In Europe, the level of investment is significantly lower and it’s decreased in 2006 compared to the previous year. What should concern European leaders even more is that not only are they significantly behind the US when it comes to investments, but that the Americans have invested more in European ventures than the actual people benefiting from them. Part of this problem is due to insufficient state involvement in the issue, but some potential investors consider that there aren’t enough opportunities for them in Europe.

related story: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070606-clean-tech-investments-pull-in-10-percent-of-us-venture-capital.html

by Corina Ciubotaru for SigEx Ventures (http://sigexventures.com)

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SigEx Ventures : Private equity companies going publicby Ioana Madalina Tantareanu

As a result of the tech-bubble bear market, most asset classes outside of U.S. large cap stocks, U.S. government securities, and municipal debt have been deemed "non-traditional" or "alternative" in some way.One of the biggest beneficiaries of this trend was private equity and the investors have flooded firms such as Blackstone and KKR with cash.Opportunities in the marketplace are researched by private equity. They are different from the standard stock analysis,which tends to focus on relatively arbitrary quarterly earnings per share estimates, because they analyze companies to determine whether the lines of business are worth more together or apart and they try to find unexploited opportunities. Richard Gere's character in "Pretty woman movie" would be the personification of today's "private equity." There are many options in having and managing a company. Sometimes it`s the best thing to do to tear the company apart and sell it, but sometimes you may leave it whole and shake up the business model.Going public doesn't necessarily take away these company`a flexibility.Warren Buffet's company Berkshire Hathaway has as it`s core business insurances.Geico and General Re are some of the primary lines of business.This hasn`t stopped Berkshire Hathaway from investing in, or acquiring, a host of other companies, like companies from high-tech electronics to making candy. Investors buy shares of the holding company, not the private equity subsidiary, refering to taking the private out of private equity.These will be publicly traded companies who engage in private equity portfolio management as their primary line of business, in order to cash in on the recent boom and successes and to provide liquidity for the firm's shareholders.

by Ioana Madalina Tantareanu for SigEx Ventures (http://sigexventures.com)

SigEx Ventures's matrix of properties are quickly becoming leaders in digital telebroadcasting, free content delivery allowing people to easily talk, view, upload and share through free online TV broadcasting, free unlimited global calls, video blogs and SMS. SigEx Ventures invests in projects deploying "free" to add-on royalty revenue models