Home Building In Tulsa Has Positive Economic Impact | Tulsa Real ...

According to the senior economist for the National Association of Home Builders, Elliot Eisenberg, home building in Tulsa is a huge economic stimulus because its benefits outweigh its costs. Home building is also similar to large employers like ONEOK Inc. that create jobs. ?If you stack the total employment in construction vis-?-vis the other large companies, it stacks up favorably,? said Eisenberg. It?s just not as noticeable as other industries because crews are so spread out.

Eisenberg recently presented reports to Tulsa City Council members and the Home Builders Association of Greater Tulsa. One of the reports looked at the Tulsa metro?s home building impact on income, jobs and taxes generated. The other report compared home-building costs to revenues for local governments. The reports estimated that the impact after just one year, and 1,761 new homes, is more than 4,800 jobs ? 3,217 of which directly relate to construction with 1,641 jobs indirectly related.

The reach of profit from building these homes goes far beyond the home builder too. Tradesmen, material suppliers, utility companies, furniture companies and many others profit as well. So, based off the report, the one-year impact of new homes brings in $325.3 million in local income. And it keeps paying off. After the home is occupied, the local and ongoing profit for the economy becomes $48.4 million.

Already in Tulsa, from the beginning of 2012 to April, the City logged 783 new homes ? a 32.5% increase from the same period in 2011. Builders are looking for an opportunity to build a house and make money off it by selling it quickly in a neighborhood where people are excited to buy.

Tulsa is full of great neighborhoods. We are local real estate agents and experts on the community. If you would like to learn more about the Tulsa area please contact us.

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Wolverine is one of the greatest comic book characters ever created. He's headlined comic books, animated television shows and four major movies. He once brought an edge to comic books. His past was a mystery, and he wasn't afraid to cross boundaries if it meant getting the job done. He was the badass character everyone wanted to be. Yet over the years, Wolverine's extreme popularity has lead to Marvel including him in any comic book title they can. He is being overexposed.

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The Navy Is Equipping Its Ships With 4G Networks [Military]

Bandwidth on Navy ships is a scarce, expensive commodity. For sailors using non-essential systems, like recreational computers? Dial-up speeds - if they're lucky. But by the end of the year, for the first time, the Navy will put a 4G LTE wireless network aboard some of its ships, giving a whole new communications tool to sailors and Marines: their smartphones. More »

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DNA vaccine and duck eggs protect against hantavirus disease

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Army scientists and industry collaborators have successfully protected laboratory animals from lethal hantavirus disease using a novel approach that combines DNA vaccines and duck eggs. The work appears in a recent edition of the online scientific journal PLoS ONE, published by the Public Library of Science.

According to first author Jay W. Hooper of the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), this is the first time that the DNA vaccine/duck egg system has been shown to produce an antiviral product capable of protecting against hantavirus disease.

Hantavirus causes a condition known as hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS), which has a case fatality rate of 35-40 percent. Currently there are no vaccines, prophylactics, or therapeutics to prevent or treat this highly pathogenic disease.

In this study, the research team used a hamster model of Andes virus, which is the predominant cause of HPS in South America and the only hantavirus known to be transmitted person-to-person. Infection of Syrian hamsters with Andes virus, as demonstrated in earlier studies at USAMRIID, results in a disease that closely mimics human HPS in incubation time, symptoms of respiratory distress, and disease pathology. This makes it an ideal system for evaluating the feasibility of postexposure protection strategies.

Collaborating with Aldevron of Fargo, N.D. and the Universidad del Desarrollo in Santiago, Chile, Hooper and his team first evaluated a natural product, human polyclonal antibody, which was obtained as fresh frozen plasma (FFP) from a patient who survived HPS. Their results indicate that FFP shows promise as a post-exposure preventive treatment for HPS.

The team then vaccinated ducks with a DNA vaccine against Andes virus. This vaccine, initially developed and tested at USAMRIID, uses genetic material, or DNA, that encodes a specific hantavirus gene to elicit an immune response in the recipient.

Next, they purified an antibody called IgY from the yolks of the duck eggs. This purified IgY, as well as a similar version produced in duck eggs, was capable of neutralizing Andes virus when tested in cell culture. More importantly, it also protected Syrian hamsters from lethal HPS?even when administered as a single injection several days after the hamsters had been exposed to a lethal dose of virus.

The work demonstrates the feasibility of using DNA vaccine technology, coupled with the duck/egg system, to manufacture a product that could supplement or replace FFP. Furthermore, the new approach can be scaled as needed and eliminates the necessity of using blood products from HPS survivors, which may be in limited supply.

According to Hooper, another advantage of this technique is that duck IgY naturally loses a part of the antibody that has been associated with "serum sickness" when animal antibodies have been used in humans, making the product potentially less reactogenic.

"This antiviral product, if fully developed and manufactured, has the potential to be used in future outbreak situations," Hooper said. "It also could be used to treat health care workers and others who have close contact with HPS patients."

In addition, the authors suggest, the flexibility of the DNA vaccine/duck egg system could be applied to the production of antibodies against other infectious agents and toxins.

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NAACP backs same-sex marriage as civil right

MIAMI (AP) ? The NAACP passed a resolution Saturday endorsing same-sex marriage as a civil right and opposing any efforts "to codify discrimination or hatred into the law."

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's board voted at a leadership retreat in Miami to back a resolution supporting marriage equality, calling the position consistent with the equal protection provision of the U.S. Constitution.

"The mission of the NAACP has always been to ensure political, social and economic equality of all people," Board Chairwoman Roslyn M. Brock said in a statement. "We have and will oppose efforts to codify discrimination into law."

Same-sex marriage is legal in six states and the District of Columbia, but 31 states have passed amendments to ban it.

The NAACP vote came about two weeks after President Barack Obama announced his support for gay marriage, setting off a flurry of political activity in a number of states. Obama's announcement followed Vice President Joe Biden's declaration in a television interview that he was "absolutely comfortable" with gay couples marrying.

"Civil marriage is a civil right and a matter of civil law. The NAACP's support for marriage equality is deeply rooted in the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution and equal protection of all people" said NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous, a strong backer of gay rights.

Gay marriage has divided the black community, with many religious leaders opposing it. In California, exit polls showed about 70 percent of blacks opposed same-sex marriage in 2008. In Maryland, black religious leaders helped derail a gay marriage bill last year. But state lawmakers passed a gay marriage bill this year.

Pew Research Center polls have found that African Americans have become more supportive of same-sex marriage in recent years, but remain less supportive than other groups. A poll conducted in April showed 39 percent of African-Americans favor gay marriage, compared with 47 percent of whites. The poll showed 49 percent of blacks and 43 percent of whites are opposed.

The Human Rights Campaign, a leading gay rights advocacy group, applauded the step by the Baltimore-based civil rights organization.

"We could not be more pleased with the NAACP's history-making vote today ? which is yet another example of the traction marriage equality continues to gain in every community," HRC President Joe Solmonese said in a statement.

Associated Press

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Usher Kicks Off 'Today' Summer Concert Series

R&B superstar serenades a lively crowd with tracks from his upcoming album Looking 4 Myself.
By Miranda Johnson

Usher performs on "Today"
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Usher kicked off the "Today" show's summer concert series Friday morning (May 18) in front of a lively crowd. Fans filled midtown Manhattan's Rockefeller Plaza to watch the ATL singer serenade them with singles off of his upcoming album Looking 4 Myself..

Even though Usher performed bright and early, there was no shortage of energy as the singer rocked the crowd with his new hits "Take You There," "Climax," "OMG," and "Without U." The audience stayed on their feet as Usher soulfully connected to fans (especially when he removed his jacket).

On Wednesday's "American Idol" winner and runner-up.

The concerts will occur every Friday morning for the remainder of the summer. The next performer scheduled to grace the NBC stage is Latin megastar Pitbull on May 25.

Did you catch Usher's "Today" show performance? What did you think? Leave your comment below!

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DEA proposes tracking all cars on Utah highway - is your street next?

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Devin Coldewey

Law enforcement officials have been systematically tracking license plates for a long time ? at the border, for instance. But a DEA project in Utah may be overstepping the bounds of good governance, tracking every vehicle on a major highway and sharing the data with thousands of other agencies.

Using official or hidden cameras to snap pictures of license plates isn't a new technology by any means, though it is proliferating rather quickly. In fact, this writer got a ticket from one just last week. But they are usually restricted to monitoring traffic or borders. Recently, however, police have begun centralizing records in a number of places: Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Washington, D.C. So now a state would not only know when you crossed the border, but when you entered a city, when you turned at various intersections and which way, and it is holding all that data for up to three years.

The DEA is proposing such a system for the Utah portion of the?Interstate 15 highway, citing installations in California and Texas "drug trafficking corridors" and border use. The ACLU and?Utah's legislators are skeptical that such a measure is lawful or well-advised.

There are already automatic license plate recorders in place in Utah, but the DEA would centralize the data and make it accessible to law enforcement around the country. Data would be kept on record for two years.

Now, argues the ACLU, it's one thing for an intersection to record traffic violations and license plates??after all, you're in public. And it's another for a police department to monitor state highways?for a known and wanted plate or vehicle. But a federally?run program that appears to be created with the object of disbursing the information nationally is a serious step up in scope, and there doesn't appear to be much in the way of limitation or documentation, contends the civil liberties organization.

The DEA says the tracking data would only be used in the pursuit of drug traffickers and for investigation of "serious crimes." But as the ACLU points out, and as history has shown when other valuable data (like GPS, internet records and DNA) has been made accessible to law enforcement, the cases for which sensitive data is used tend to multiply over time ? and create new privacy concerns.

Devin Coldewey is a contributing writer for msnbc.com. His personal website is coldewey.cc.

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Summer Organization ? Homesteading In The Burbs

As summer vacation approaches I find myself furiously planning out the days ahead.? Ninety(ish) days of total freedom.? No work.? No school.? Okay, maybe that?s a little overstated.? I tutor and work a very part-time job over the summer and I do a relaxed homeschool schedule with the boy-child.? But after that, baby, it?s all fun and sun.

Some people plan big vacations in the summer.? Personally, I find vacations to be stressful.? The packing, the traveling, the stress of navigating a new location, the spending exorbitant amounts of money.? In my opinion, there is a very short period of time in which said vacation is enjoyable and more often than not, it?s just not worth the hassle.? Thankfully, my husband feels the same way and my son, while he loves dreaming of going away and doing things, is really a dyed in the wool homebody at heart.? As a family, we decided a few years ago to compromise and do a larger family vacation biennially.? In the off years, however, we opt for a quiet ?stay-cation? at home.

While the idea of having nothing to do and endless hours to lounge and laze around does sound appealing, it would get old after awhile.? Really.? Really.? Old.? In all honesty, I would go out of my mind.? I need some structure.? So, what in the world do you do with three months worth of freedom when you want to keep your budget reasonable but still have a memorable summer?

Early on I will typically spend some time researching special events that will occur throughout the summer and write them on the calendar.? Then, as a family we will sit down together and make a list of local attractions that we would like to visit.? This year we?ve also compiled a ?100 Things of Summer? list, which includes some personal goals for each of us, home projects, day trips and fun free things to do at home.? Finally, we purchase season passes for places that we will frequent many times.? Every year our season passes include a State Park pass, Philadelphia Zoo and Plumpton Park Zoo a small, locally owned zoo where we sometimes volunteer.? While it may seem redundant, we get our money?s worth and then some from both of these zoos.? I love the Philadelphia Zoo pass because of its fantastic Reciprocal Zoo and Aquarium program.? In recent years we have also added a fourth pass to the mix though it has changed each year.? A local museum was usually the choice, however, this year we have decided to go with a private pool that is less than 5 min. from our home.? To say that they boy-child is excited would be an understatement.? I can?t even begin to count the number of times that he has asked, ?how many days until the pool opens??

At the beginning of the summer I lay out a basic template for each week:

Monday ? library
Tuesday ? park/$1 movie day
Wednesday ? zoo
Thursday ? stay-at-home, board games, movies etc.
Friday ? misc. outings

Sometimes the weather dictates that we swap days here and there but this gives me a general idea of what I want to accomplish in a given week.? My husband has off every other Friday throughout the year and in the Summer, he will typically take off those other Fridays using his vacation days.? This gives us one day as a family to head off to places I might not necessarily drive on my own.? Making Thursday our ?stay-at-home? day is perfect then since we are able to get the house clean before my husband?s day off.? The other days are pretty self-explanatory.? We go to the library each week for new books, CD?s and movies.? We hit a state or town park each week and sometimes participate in the $1 Regal Summer Movie Express.? I am excited since this year the theater will be playing plenty of movies that?we haven?t seen in the Summer Movie Express.? On zoo day we visit our small locally owned zoo and oftentimes volunteer.? On weeks that we don?t volunteer we make sure to take bags of produce and herbs for the animals.? Last summer the boy child and I were able to feed Jimmie the Giraffe some of said herbs.

Something else that we do in the summer is a modified summer homeschooling but that is fodder for another post.

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Huge Marilyn Monroe statue arrives in Palm Springs

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MCU: The Trouble with Informants

To best understand the background of the content contained here in and the nature of the MCU [Mythical Crimes Unit] please visit Monogatari: The Unseen World.
This is a scene between myself (Izoi) and Mr._Crow. Please do not post if you are not a participant in the scene.

Sitting in the small cafe, Catherine couldn't help but think of a number of things she would rather be doing than this. It also didn't help that the man they were supposed to be meeting had said he had information that they'd been after for some time now. Flicking through various bits of paperwork she'd taken with her to complete while waiting, nothing terribly important or secretive. Just various intraoffice bullshit that she'd have to handle at the end of the week. "Informant.. nark..fink.. rat..." She mumbled to herself thinking that this was a bad idea in the end. Informants were and had been nothing but trouble. The last one had landed the whole agency in so much hot water it wasn't even mildly amusing now that she looked back at it.

To say that Catherine was in a good mood was the understatement of the year. She had just spent the night dealing with a dispute between the Bronson sisters, both of them MCU members. One had ended up arrested in the end, the other was too busy trying to figure out ways to aid in the former's escape Catherine suspected. They both served their uses, Molly more so than her "sister" Karato; Karato had been hot headed, impatient, and most of all angry at everything. This combined with the MCU's restrictions had more than likely lead to the arrest last night.

Taking a moment to check the time on her watch, she went back to her coffee and paperwork. If the informant was late that wouldn't be necessarily a first or even really surprise her. After all so many years in the business, certain things ceased to phase her. Most of it in the end was a mild, if not moderate annoyance that could be swiftly dealt with under proper circumstances.

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Obama raises $44M for campaign, Dems in April

WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama raised a combined $43.6 million in April for his campaign and the Democratic Party as he faces a unifying Republican effort around Mitt Romney for the White House.

Obama's April fundraising haul fell short of the $53 million he raised in March. That's as his campaign said more than 400,000 people contributed to the campaign last month, including 169,000 new donors.

"This election is going to be close, given the historic challenges this country faced when the president came into office," campaign manager Jim Messina told supporters in a YouTube video released Wednesday.

Obama's fundraising announcement came the same day the Republican group Crossroads GPS said it would spend $25 million on ads critical of the president. Crossroads is the non-profit arm of American Crossroads, a "super" political committee backed by former George W. Bush adviser Karl Rove that has raised about $100 million this election to defeat Obama.

Indeed, Messina's message pointed to the millions of dollars being spent on anti-Obama ads by so-called special interests and oil company executives ? specifically calling out the Koch brothers, who founded Americans For Prosperity. That group has spent about $5 million on ads so far critical of Obama.

While Romney and the Republicans have super PACs working in their favor, so does Obama. Priorities USA Action on Tuesday released a video critical of Bain Capital, the firm Romney once headed. But Democratic super PACs have raised and spent less on average than their GOP counterparts, including Restore Our Future, which supports Romney.

Obama's campaign and the Democratic Party had about $124 million cash on hand at the end of March, while Romney and the GOP reported $43 million left in the bank at the end of March, federal reports show.

Presidential campaigns and super PACs have until midnight Sunday to file their fundraising reports with the Federal Election Commission.

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Disease Management Care Blog: Health Insurance Rebates: A $1.3 ...

The Disease Management Care Blog has a lingering weakness for garden statuary. It thinks that nothing quite compliments phlox and snapdragons better than a weenie cherub or squatting amphibian.

The skeptical DMCB spouse disagrees. Tired of? kneeling trolls disturbing her carefully laid mulch, she questions whether her husband's admiration for?toadstools, rabbits or fairies projects the right level of curbside sophistication.?

Skepticism may also be a reaction of 16 million Americans who are about to discover a health insurance garden gnome rebate check in their mailbox.? According to The Hill, the commercial insurers that haven't met the Affordable Care Act's 80 to 85 percent medical loss ratio rule will have to give back a total of $1.3 billion in premium rebates this summer. What's more, the checks will have to be accompanied by a statement that they're the result of Affordable Care Act.

The DMCB thinks this will turn out to be a non-event for four reasons:

1) What Does This Really Mean to an Individual?

When the DMCB does the math, $1.3 billion spread over 16 million eligible Americans works out to $81.25.? This article says the amount will be higher at $127.? While the DMCB thinks any free cash is?always welcome, its inner behavioral economist doesn't think a check for around a hundred bucks is going to generate much buzz among health care consumers, especially among a population segment that can already afford to buy commercial?insurance.?

2) Remember the Tax Rebate Checks of 2008?

Neither can the DMCB. But tracking polls at the time suggested they did little to capture America's imagination or boost consumer confidence. That doesn't mean that Washington DC doesn't continue believe that giving something for nothing will generate gratitude and votes. All the better if it's done just prior to a major election and humiliates health insurers.

3) Speaking of Which....

Why aren't the health insurers pushing back by pointing out that the rebates pale next to the cost of the ACA's mandates and that a one-size-fits-all medical loss ratio rule is unfair to the individual insurance market? Could it have something to do with?$1 trillion in new business?or the threat of being resurrected as an anti-progressive bogeyman? The DMCB calculates that $1.3 billion?will be viewed by consumers as the?price of doing business with a hostile federal government.?

4) Plus, Is A Billion A Lot?? Really?

The DMCB looks forward to hearing our chattering politicians extol the rebate of "$1.3 billion." While that used to sound like a lot, our unending budget fiasco has since taught Americans that the term "billion" is now synonymous with a federal budget rounding error. Who can forget Harry Reid's quote that the billions saved in passing tort reform was insignificant?

Next stop for the DMCB will be a bunch of solar powered lamps and a volleyball-sized mirrored gazing ball.? What the Administration has planned for our health insurers is another matter.

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by Matthew Morisset, Online Auto Insurance Articles Team
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Thursday, May 17, 2012 9:00 am

Recent negative economic trends have impacted virtually everyone in one way or another. Many people are looking for ways to decrease spending, but for vehicle owners, auto insurance is a necessary expense that unfortunately may only be increasing. An economy with rising health care costs, ballooning car costs, and a bad job market usually translates into higher coverage costs overall. If an insurer suffers greater-than-expected financial losses because of fluctuating prices in other industries and bad investment performance, these losses may be passed on to policyholders in the form of higher premiums. In addition, consumers? eroding credit may push their individual costs upward.

When an insured motorist is involved in an accident, an insurance company is usually the one that pays for vehicle repairs. And when the cost of cars goes up, the amount that those insurers have to pay for repairs also increases. Recent information gathered by TrueCar.com places the average transaction price for a new car in April 2012 at $30,303, up 4.2 percent from April 2011.?Higher vehicle value and improved technology has made modern cars increasingly expensive to repair, resulting in greater losses for coverage providers when they have to pay out on individual claims. According to the Insurance Information Institute (III), the average cost of property damage, collision, and comprehensive claims went up 17 percent, 10 percent, and 28 percent, respectively, between 2000 and 2010.

Another trend that has impacted the price of vehicle coverage is the rising cost of health care. Automobile accidents often lead to bodily injuries, which are commonly covered by insurers. Unfortunately, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services have found that national health expenditures reached over $2.5 trillion in 2010, nearly twice as high as the $1.3 trillion in expenditures in 2000. Of these expenditures, hospital care accounts for over $800 million. And according to the III, bodily injury claims rose a whopping 43 percent between 2000 and 2010.

The cause of skyrocketing health care costs and the resulting car insurance premium?inflations?remains a heavily debated subject. Some institutions, including the Kaiser Family Foundation, accredit these price increases to a combination of technology, prescription drug, and administrative costs which have all steadily increased in recent years. If emergency medical procedures and medication costs increase, it means that policy providers may lose revenue, and motorists are charged more to compensate for this economic loss.

Personal Economic Troubles Can Mean More Expensive Coverage

Apart from changes within the insurance industry, lifestyle changes for individual motorists can also lead to higher premiums in an economic slump. When times are tough, many people are forced to turn to credit cards to cover their expenses. When drivers begin to borrow excessively, their credit scores begin to drop. In states where credit scoring is a common rating practice, a poor financial history could easily translate into a higher priced policy.

To counter the rising price of coverage, one of the best actions that a motorist can take is to shop around to find one of the top insurance companies that are willing to provide adequately priced protection. Although there isn?t much that a motorist can do to impact industrywide changes, drivers are still capable of exploring all of their options to find cheaper alternatives.

Source:?http://www.onlineautoinsurance.com/companies/ratings/

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