Spiderman rogue gallery is almost as diverse as Batman, although you could provide the argument that his villains are little more tragic since the villains in his case are often science gone mad, not just people mad. Now whether agree with this, is debatable.
Morbius
Michael Morbius was born in Greece. He was originally a Nobel prize-winning biochemist who had attempted to cure himself of a rare blood disease with an experimental treatment involving a sample of Peter Parker's blood, vampire bats and electroshock therapy. However, he instead became afflicted with a far worse condition that mimicked the powers and blood-thirst of legendary vampirism. Morbius now had to digest blood in order to survive and had a strong aversion to light. He gained the ability to fly, as well as strength, speed, and healing abilities. His appearance became hideous?his canine teeth extended into fangs, his nose flattened to appear more like a bat's, and his skin became chalk-white. He also gained the ability to turn others into similar "living vampires" by biting them.
Alistair Smyth
Alistair witnessed his father's failure to destroy Spider-Man (which, as in the comics, caused his apparent death), and was convinced to create spider-slayers to later attack Spider-Man as part of a deal made with the Kingpin. Smythe became Kingpin's primary accomplice for some time, even after Smythe's slayer failed to kill Spider-Man. His association with Kingpin came to an end after the two-parter "Framed/The Man Without Fear", when Spider-Man and Daredevil teamed up to fight the Kingpin, resulting in the arrest of Richard Fisk. Angered at his son's arrest, Kingpin blamed the incident on Smythe's "incompetence" and turned him against his will into the Ultimate Spider Slayer Cyborg with the help of the Kingpin's current replacement partner, Herbert Landon. Breaking free of Kingpin's programming and recovering his father's body (which had been kept alive in stasis by the Kingpin unbeknownst to him initially), Alistair found another employer in Silvermane, who promised to fund research to revive his father. His father was never revived throughout the series.
Sandman
Flint Marko stole to pay for medical treatment for his daughter Penny, who has an unspecified illness. While on the run from the police after escaping from prison, he accidentally fell into an experimental particle accelerator that molecularly bound him with sand, giving him shapeshifting sand abilities.
Man Spider Spider-Man has had to overcome more than just supervillains. He came to discover that his mutation was turning him into something else. At first it seems as though he was simply loosing his powers. This proved dangerous when Doctor Octopus, Shocker, Rhino, Chameleon, Scorpion, and Mysterio joined together as part of the Insidious Six. The Six beat and unmasked him. However, because his powers were fading they believed it was a trick by Peter who wasn't really Spider-Man. Peter went along with this and then beat them while preserving his dual identity. Dr. Connors found that the change in his mutation was another stage in his evolution. Spider-Man eventually went to the Xavier Mansion to seek help from Charles Xavier. He encountered the X-Men while looking for a cure but was told that they simply teach mutants to deal with their powers, not cure it.
Peter begins researching into his disease but attracts the attention of classmate Michael Morbius, who believes Peter is trying to win a contest. Morbius uses a sample of Peter's blood and turns himself into a living vampire. Peter's condition gets more painful and when he tries a cure he grows four extra arms! It gets worse when he turns into a large spider creature. He would eventually be cured thanks to the combined efforts of the Punisher, former adversary Kraven the Hunter, and Dr. Mariah
Crawford. Although they turn him back he is not fully cured.
The last one is quite obscure I admit, but it is sorta true. I watched a lot of the animated series as ya can see ;).
We help the multi-nationals when they cry out protect us. The locals scream and shout a bit, but we don?t let that affect us. We?re here to lend a helping hand in case they don?t elect us. How dare they buy our products yet still they don?t respect us.
Billy Bragg - The Marching Song Of The Covert Battalions
FILE - In this Jan. 27, 2010 file photo, Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Director Douglas Elmendorf testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. Will President Barack Obama?s health care law increase the government?s huge deficit or reduce it? How many people will it really cover? How much will it cost taxpapers? Congress? nonpartisan budget scorekeepers release their findings, the first in-depth look at the law since the Supreme Court ruled it constitutional. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
FILE - In this Jan. 27, 2010 file photo, Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Director Douglas Elmendorf testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. Will President Barack Obama?s health care law increase the government?s huge deficit or reduce it? How many people will it really cover? How much will it cost taxpapers? Congress? nonpartisan budget scorekeepers release their findings, the first in-depth look at the law since the Supreme Court ruled it constitutional. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
President Barack Obama waves upon his arrival, Tuesday, July 24, 2012, at the 142nd Fighter Wing Oregon Air National Guard Base, in Portland, Ore. President Barack Obama has arrived in Oregon to raise money for his re-election campaign. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
FILE - In this Feb. 17, 2012 file photo, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. David Camp, R-Mich. walks to his office on Capitol Hill in Washington. Will President Barack Obama?s health care law increase the government?s huge deficit or reduce it? How many people will it really cover? How much will it cost taxpapers? Congress? nonpartisan budget scorekeepers release their findings, the first in-depth look at the law since the Supreme Court ruled it constitutional. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
FILE - In this March 24, 2010 file photo, Rep. Sander Levin, D-Mich., ranking member on the House Ways and Means Committee, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Will President Barack Obama?s health care law increase the government?s huge deficit or reduce it? How many people will it really cover? How much will it cost taxpapers? Congress? nonpartisan budget scorekeepers release their findings, the first in-depth look at the law since the Supreme Court ruled it constitutional. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg, File)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama's health care overhaul will shrink rather than increase the nation's huge federal deficits over the next decade, Congress' nonpartisan budget scorekeepers said Tuesday, supporting Obama's contention in a major election-year dispute with Republicans.
About 3 million fewer uninsured people will gain health coverage because of last month's Supreme Court ruling granting states more leeway, and that will cut the federal costs by $84 billion, the Congressional Budget Office said in the biggest changes from earlier estimates.
Republicans have insisted that "Obamacare" will actually raise deficits ? by "trillions," according to presidential candidate Mitt Romney. But that's not so, the budget office said.
The office gave no updated estimate for total deficit reductions from the law, approved by Congress and signed by Obama in 2010. But it did estimate that Republican legislation to repeal the overhaul ? passed recently by the House ? would itself boost the deficit by $109 billion from 2013 to 2022.
"Repealing the (health care law) will lead to an increase in budget deficits over the coming decade, though a smaller one than previously reported," budget office director Douglas Elmendorf said in a letter to House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio.
The law's mix of spending cuts and tax increases would more than offset new spending to cover uninsured people, Elmendorf explained.
Tuesday's budget projections were the first since the Supreme Court upheld most of the law last month but gave states the option of rejecting a planned expansion of Medicaid for their low-income residents. As a consequence, the budget office said the law will cover fewer uninsured people.
Thirty million uninsured people will be covered by 2022, or about 3 million fewer than projected this spring before the court ruling, the report said.
As a result, taxpayers will save about $84 billion from 2012 to 2022. That brings the total cost of expanding coverage down to $1.2 trillion, from about $1.3 trillion in the previous estimate.
The Congressional Budget Office has consistently projected that Obama's overhaul will reduce the deficit, although previous estimates aren't strictly comparable with Tuesday's report because of changes in the law and other factors.
At the time it was approved in 2010, CBO estimated the law would reduce the deficit by $143 billion from 2010 to 2019. And CBO estimated that last year's Republican repeal legislation would increase deficits by $210 billion from 2010 to 2021.
That may sound like a lot of money, but it's actually a hair-thin margin at a time when federal deficits are expected to average around $1 trillion a year for the foreseeable future.
When the law is fully in effect, 92 percent of citizens and legal residents are estimated to have coverage, as compared to 81 percent now.
Democrats hailed Tuesday's estimates as vindication for the president. "This confirms what we've been saying all along: the Affordable Care Act saves lots of money," said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.
Actually, the government will spend more. It just won't go onto the national credit card because the health care law will be paid for with a combination of spending cuts and tax increases.
GOP leaders sought to shift attention from claims about the deficit and focused instead on the additional spending. "What we know from today's CBO report ... is that the new health care law is dramatically increasing health care spending and costs," said Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.
Republicans said they remain unswervingly committed to repealing what they dismiss as "Obamacare." When combined with other budget-cutting measures, GOP leaders say that repeal will ultimately reduce deficits. Romney says if elected he will begin to dismantle the law his first day in office.
Medicaid has been one big question hanging over the future of Obama's law since the Supreme Court ruled.
Some GOP-led states, such as Texas and Florida, say they will not go forward with the expansion. Others are uncommitted, awaiting the voters' verdict on Obama in November.
Although the federal government would bear all of the initial cost of that expansion, many states would have to open their Medicaid programs to low-income childless adults for the first time.
CBO analysts did not try to predict which specific states would jump in and which would turn down the Medicaid expansion. Instead, they assumed that many states would eventually cut deals with the federal government to expand their programs to some degree.
As a result, the budget office estimates that more than 80 percent of the low-income uninsured people eligible under the law live in states that partially or fully expand their programs.
The big coverage expansion under the law doesn't start until 2014, with middle-class uninsured people signing up for subsidized private plans and more low-income people picked up through Medicaid.
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Associated Press writer Laurie Kellman contributed to this report.
YKK AP is on a mission to reduce energy consumption by enhancing the performance of commercial building envelopes
AUSTELL, Ga.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--YKK AP America, the leader in manufacturing high quality architectural products, today announced the launch of its nationwide Energy Saving Tour. Rather than just spreading the word about its enerGfacade? product line and using advanced framing systems to design low-energy buildings, YKK AP is on a mission to educate architects on the latest energy codes affecting building design and strategies available to obtain low-energy, high efficiency commercial buildings.
?Our goal with the Energy Saving Tour is to educate architects and advocate the use of high thermal performance facades to reduce energy consumption, with the ultimate goal in achieving net-zero commercial building construction?
Architects can request a one-on-one visit on the Energy Saving Tour route by signing up at http://www.ykkap.com/energysavingtour/. A sneak peak video featuring some of the advanced facades available can be seen at http://youtu.be/LqXCbZjx43I.
?Our goal with the Energy Saving Tour is to educate architects and advocate the use of high thermal performance facades to reduce energy consumption, with the ultimate goal in achieving net-zero commercial building construction,? said Mike Turner of YKK AP America. ?We?re going from city to city telling the story about saving energy and the benefits of high performance building facades and advanced framing. This is an exciting time in the industry, and we think this nationwide tour is a fantastic way to spread the word!?
YKK AP?s line of products meet and exceed the new 2012 International Energy Conservation Code (IECC), which has been approved and awaiting adoption by each state. The US Department of Energy (DOE) estimates that the 2012 IECC will achieve a 30 percent increase in energy savings compared to its 2006 predecessor ? capturing a goal pursued for the last several years by the DOE. Beginning July 1, Maryland?s state law now requires all counties to follow the 2012 IECC. The 2012 IECC requires a fenestration assembly U-factor for storefronts of 0.38 BTU/hr?ft2??F (2.16 W/m2?K) in climate Zones 4 and 5. Other states will soon follow suit.
The Energy Saving Tour is a campaign to not only educate the market on these new building codes, but to show architects just how they can specify products and advanced framing strategies to meet the codes for low-energy commercial building designs.
?The IECC 2012 levels will require a change in the way architects specify fenestration products and our Energy Saving Tour will help educate architects on how to ensure compliance,? said Turner.
YKK AP launched its Energy Saving Tour in Washington, DC at the AIA 2012 Design Expo with the latest addition to its enerGfacade? product line, YUW 750 XT unitized wall system.
About YKK AP America
YKK AP America Inc. manufactures a complete line of aluminum entrances, storefronts, curtain walls, sunshades, and windows for use in commercial and institutional construction. YKK AP aluminum products are manufactured in ISO 14001 certified facilities in Dublin, Georgia ? a standard for businesses that operate in a sustainable manner by reducing pollution and waste. The company has also been recognized by the U.S. Department of Energy for Exceptional Leadership in Industrial Energy Efficiency. The company is also a leading producer of window products for use in new construction and replacement in homes and light commercial structures. Its residential products are manufactured in a highly automated manufacturing facility located in Macon, Georgia. YKK AP America is based in Austell, Ga. It is a subsidiary of YKK Corporation of America, whose parent company is global manufacturer YKK Corporation of Japan. For more information, visit www.ykkap.com.
It is Soap Dish time again my friends and this week I am dishing on the fantastic news that hunky Mark Consuelos is joining American Horror Story, woohoo! ? I have been a Mark fan since back in the day when he was heating up my TV screen on All My Children. It has been awhile since I have seen him do anything other than be Mr. Kelly Ripa, so I am thrilled that he got the new gig on American Horror Story. In all honesty I don?t even really watch that show but in light of this news I will for sure being tuning in for season two. Mark is going to play a patient committed to an institution for the criminally insane back in the 1960?s. That is pretty much all we know about the character he will be playing and I gottta say I am ok with not knowing. I am just happy that I will get to see him on TV again. Side note here Adam Levine is also joining FX show for the second season. As I said above I have been a long time fan of the former soap opera hunk. In fact it [...]
Benefits of HIV drugs rise -- but less than previously believed, Penn study showsPublic release date: 22-Jul-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Holly Auer holly.auer@uphs.upenn.edu 215-200-2313 University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
HIV patients whose infections are tightly controlled increased by 60 percent over past decade
PHILADELPHIA The percentage of HIV patients taking antiretroviral drugs who experienced the full benefit of the drugs jumped from 45 percent of 72 percent during the past decade, a figure that is lower than previous estimates. The findings, considered important for HIV prevention efforts, since patients whose virus is in tight control are less likely to transmit the infection to others, are published this week in JAMA by a team of researchers led by the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. The issue's publication coincides with AIDS 2012, the annual international AIDS conference, being held in the United States for the first in over 20 years this week in Washington, D.C.
The researchers analyzed 32,483 HIV-infected patients cared for in 12 clinics across the United States between 2001 and 2010. patients in the U.S. During that time, the percentage of patients taking antiretroviral drugs who exhibited sustained viral suppression having no detectable HIV virus in the blood every time the virus is measured -- increased from 45 percent to 72 percent. The authors point to new drugs and fixed dose combination tablets as factors in improving the efficacy and safety of antiretroviral drug regimens, as well as decreased side effects that make patients more likely to adhere to their treatment. Better access to care during this time period may also be a contributor to the improved viral suppression rates observed in the study.
Despite this increase, the number of patients with tightly controlled HIV infection was significantly less than the 77 percent to 87 percent figures reported in prior studies, which were based on one-time only measures of HIV virus in the blood, rather than considering every time the virus was measured. According to the study's lead investigator, Baligh Yehia, MD, MSHP, MPP, a fellow in the division of Infectious Diseases at Penn Medicine and HIV specialist, "if the HIV virus is not fully suppressed, individuals are at risk of transmitting HIV to others in the community." Yehia says that while significant advances in HIV therapy have occurred over the past decade, consistent adherence to medicines and outpatient care remains a major hurdle for many people living with HIV. The findings come on the heels of the Food and Drug Administration's approval this month of the first drug to prevent HIV infection. Similar to people living with HIV, healthy individuals without HIV infection who chose to take this preventative medication need to have strict drug adherence and frequent HIV testing in order to achieve benefit.
Overall, sustained viral suppression was lower for black patients and injection drug users, while older patients and those with private insurance were the most likely to have sustained viral suppression. "Our analysis showed that HIV care providers need to closely monitor younger patients, African-Americans, injection drug users, and individuals without health insurance to ensure that they have access to HIV drugs and adhere to therapy, since those patients appeared to be least likely to have their infection in tight control," said the study's senior author Kelly Gebo, MD, MPH, an associate professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University.
"There is no denying the progress we have made over the past decade," says Yehia, "but, more resources and new technology are needed to ensure that more patients have access to HIV therapy and obtain the full benefits of these drugs."
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Funding for the study came from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) (290-01-0012), and the National Institutes of Health (K24 AI073957, K24 DA 00432, R01DA11602, and R01 AA 16893).
Penn Medicine is one of the world's leading academic medical centers, dedicated to the related missions of medical education, biomedical research, and excellence in patient care. Penn Medicine consists of the Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (founded in 1765 as the nation's first medical school) and the University of Pennsylvania Health System, which together form a $4.3 billion enterprise.
The Perelman School of Medicine is currently ranked #2 in U.S. News & World Report's survey of research-oriented medical schools. The School is consistently among the nation's top recipients of funding from the National Institutes of Health, with $479.3 million awarded in the 2011 fiscal year.
The University of Pennsylvania Health System's patient care facilities include: The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania -- recognized as one of the nation's top 10 hospitals by U.S. News & World Report; Penn Presbyterian Medical Center; and Pennsylvania Hospital the nation's first hospital, founded in 1751. Penn Medicine also includes additional patient care facilities and services throughout the Philadelphia region.
Penn Medicine is committed to improving lives and health through a variety of community-based programs and activities. In fiscal year 2011, Penn Medicine provided $854 million to benefit our community.
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Benefits of HIV drugs rise -- but less than previously believed, Penn study showsPublic release date: 22-Jul-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Holly Auer holly.auer@uphs.upenn.edu 215-200-2313 University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
HIV patients whose infections are tightly controlled increased by 60 percent over past decade
PHILADELPHIA The percentage of HIV patients taking antiretroviral drugs who experienced the full benefit of the drugs jumped from 45 percent of 72 percent during the past decade, a figure that is lower than previous estimates. The findings, considered important for HIV prevention efforts, since patients whose virus is in tight control are less likely to transmit the infection to others, are published this week in JAMA by a team of researchers led by the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. The issue's publication coincides with AIDS 2012, the annual international AIDS conference, being held in the United States for the first in over 20 years this week in Washington, D.C.
The researchers analyzed 32,483 HIV-infected patients cared for in 12 clinics across the United States between 2001 and 2010. patients in the U.S. During that time, the percentage of patients taking antiretroviral drugs who exhibited sustained viral suppression having no detectable HIV virus in the blood every time the virus is measured -- increased from 45 percent to 72 percent. The authors point to new drugs and fixed dose combination tablets as factors in improving the efficacy and safety of antiretroviral drug regimens, as well as decreased side effects that make patients more likely to adhere to their treatment. Better access to care during this time period may also be a contributor to the improved viral suppression rates observed in the study.
Despite this increase, the number of patients with tightly controlled HIV infection was significantly less than the 77 percent to 87 percent figures reported in prior studies, which were based on one-time only measures of HIV virus in the blood, rather than considering every time the virus was measured. According to the study's lead investigator, Baligh Yehia, MD, MSHP, MPP, a fellow in the division of Infectious Diseases at Penn Medicine and HIV specialist, "if the HIV virus is not fully suppressed, individuals are at risk of transmitting HIV to others in the community." Yehia says that while significant advances in HIV therapy have occurred over the past decade, consistent adherence to medicines and outpatient care remains a major hurdle for many people living with HIV. The findings come on the heels of the Food and Drug Administration's approval this month of the first drug to prevent HIV infection. Similar to people living with HIV, healthy individuals without HIV infection who chose to take this preventative medication need to have strict drug adherence and frequent HIV testing in order to achieve benefit.
Overall, sustained viral suppression was lower for black patients and injection drug users, while older patients and those with private insurance were the most likely to have sustained viral suppression. "Our analysis showed that HIV care providers need to closely monitor younger patients, African-Americans, injection drug users, and individuals without health insurance to ensure that they have access to HIV drugs and adhere to therapy, since those patients appeared to be least likely to have their infection in tight control," said the study's senior author Kelly Gebo, MD, MPH, an associate professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University.
"There is no denying the progress we have made over the past decade," says Yehia, "but, more resources and new technology are needed to ensure that more patients have access to HIV therapy and obtain the full benefits of these drugs."
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Funding for the study came from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) (290-01-0012), and the National Institutes of Health (K24 AI073957, K24 DA 00432, R01DA11602, and R01 AA 16893).
Penn Medicine is one of the world's leading academic medical centers, dedicated to the related missions of medical education, biomedical research, and excellence in patient care. Penn Medicine consists of the Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (founded in 1765 as the nation's first medical school) and the University of Pennsylvania Health System, which together form a $4.3 billion enterprise.
The Perelman School of Medicine is currently ranked #2 in U.S. News & World Report's survey of research-oriented medical schools. The School is consistently among the nation's top recipients of funding from the National Institutes of Health, with $479.3 million awarded in the 2011 fiscal year.
The University of Pennsylvania Health System's patient care facilities include: The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania -- recognized as one of the nation's top 10 hospitals by U.S. News & World Report; Penn Presbyterian Medical Center; and Pennsylvania Hospital the nation's first hospital, founded in 1751. Penn Medicine also includes additional patient care facilities and services throughout the Philadelphia region.
Penn Medicine is committed to improving lives and health through a variety of community-based programs and activities. In fiscal year 2011, Penn Medicine provided $854 million to benefit our community.
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If you?re new to real estate investing and you want to get started fast, side-step the pitfalls, learn what really works and how to make millions, I?m glad you?re here. I wish there had been such a place when I first got started. Although many real estate investing courses proclaim to be step-by-step so that the beginner can easily follow along, very few of them actually are; And because they aren?t, they fail to deliver as an investing for beginners resource. For the last few years, it has been my commitment to create a place where beginners could not just learn some tips or tricks, or how to flip a house or two, but to learn how to get started right and how to make millions investing in real estate.
Investing for beginners and investing for experts aren?t as different as many might want you to believe. Real estate investing is a simple business. It?s simple in the fact that the primary objective is to buy low and sell high. Many will complicate the business by losing site of this basic tenet of investing. Regardless of market conditions or the state of the economy, there is always a low price of which you want to make your purchases and a high price of which you want to sell. Simple.
To monitor your progress, there?s a simple calculation that allows you to measure the performance of your investment. This calculation is ?return on investment? (ROI). You?ll want to get very familiar with this formula. To calculate your ROI, the return of your investment is divided by the amount of money you put into the investment with the result? being expressed as a percentage.
ROI Formula:
In this formula ?gain from investment,? refers to the annual proceeds or profit?the investment generates. ROI is a a popular metric because of its accuracy and simplicity. If your ROI is negative (-), you are losing money. If your ROI is positive (+), you are making money. Simple.
Further, you?ll constantly want to monitor the ROI from your investments and look for opportunities to increase your return, or exchange your investments for investments of a higher return. This simple strategy of monitoring and increasing ROI is how to make millions investing in real estate.
There are three common traps that ensnare beginners and keep them from making their millions. Follow these three tips and avoid these investing traps.
Stay focused! Pick one acquisition strategy whether it be Real Estate Owned (REO) properties, auctions, tax deeds, expired listings, pre-foreclosures, and there are plenty more from which to choose, but whichever one you choose? choose one and stick with it. Avoid jumping around from strategy to strategy. That?s a formula for frustration and a quick exit from real estate investing.
Move at the speed of instruction. When you learn something, go do it. Don?t wait to learn everything before you take action. The primary reason is, you?ll never know everything. So, don?t wait. Get going.
Keep going. Regardless of which strategy or market you choose to get started in, real estate investing is a skill. Skills take time to develop, and they develop with lots of practice, drilling, rehearsing and repetition. In the beginning, it will take time to see results. Be patient. From my experience, it?s not so much the investor that gets off the bus at the right stop, but rather the investor that stays on the bus the longest.
I admire you for seeking an ?Investing for Beginners? resource. In fact, I envy you a bit. When it comes to real estate investing, there?s certainly some bliss in ignorance. It may sound a bit funny, but stay ignorant for as long as possible and simply move at the speed of instruction. You?ll learn more of the ?right stuff? that way.
It?s easy to over-think this this business. So, as a beginner I recommend you do everything you can to keep it simple. If you do, and you stick to it, you will be successful. I?ve created a free and simple real estate investing course to get you started right away and ultimately teach you how to make millions. Yep, millions. You can access that free course instantly by clicking here.
"Here?s a post that I found very interesting by my friend Tim George. It opens up a lot of questions about the nature of insanity. That?s a topic I?ve wanted to write about for years, and I have tried, with two completed but unsuccessful novels to show for it. The problem is, I wanted to explore what?s happening inside an insane mind, but to reveal a person?s thoughts in a novel the first person point of view is usually required, yet first person from an insane point of view is nearly impossible for a reader to understand or follow. After all, If one could fully understand a crazy person?s thoughts, that would mean one was also crazy.
"Dostoevsky learned this too, when he wrote Crime and Punishment, which was originally written in first person. It was a total failure, so unsuccessful that he burned it. Then he converted it to third person, and of course it became one of the great classics. Maybe some day I?ll do the same thing and resurrect those two unsuccessful novels in a different format. Even so, insanity is a very difficult topic for a novel, but in this post Tim has offered us a fascinating glimpse into the fact that madness doesn?t always look like what most of us expect. Enjoy!"
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In The Professor and the Madman, author Simon Winchester tells an amazing tale of two men born worlds apart but brought together by their common love for words. One was an uneducated bank clerk whose love for words eventually made him the driving force of the seminal reference work for the English language. The other was a highly educated Civil War Surgeon whose descent into madness left him with little else but his love of reading and one outlet to share that love with the world beyond his asylum?s walls.
James Murray ? Professor and Editor
Born in 1837, James Murray was the oldest son of a tailor whose formal education went no farther than his 14th birthday. In spite of this, by the age of 20 he was headmaster of a village school. School was soon left behind as he had to move to London for his sick wife. In spite of this, he never lost his thirst for learning. Though he worked as a bank clerk Murray became somewhat of an expert on the English language. Self taught, he was proficient in a number of languages and soon was lecturing on various literary and philosophical topics. It was in these circles that the bank teller who never went to college came to be recognized by men with Oxford credentials as the logical choice for the monumental project they had in mind. So on April 26, 1878, James Murray was tasked with overseeing a project that would outlive him many years over ? The Oxford English Dictionary.
William Chester Minor ? Wordsmith and Madman
Unlike James Murray, Minor was Yale educated and became a doctor. Raised by his missionary parents in what is now Sri Lanka, Minor was beset by inner demons he managed to somehow keep under control throughout his teenage years and medical school.
It was only when he entered the Union Army half way through the Civil War that the demons finally broke their chains. North and South had been at war 800 days when William Chester joined the Union Army. A few months later he found himself a surgeon during the Battle of the Wilderness, America?s first and only experience with systematic destruction. Weary of war, General Grant abandoned age old methods of prisoner exchanges and sanctioned Sherman?s ?March to the Sea?. This was war on a scale and with results neither side had ever seen before.
The horrors William Minor saw left him a broken man. His paranoia and obvious mental instability eventually caused him to be discharged from the Army after which he traveled abroad in the hope that he would find a cure. Sadly, his anticipated cure never materialized. Instead he murdered a man in a fit of paranoia, thinking that someone was trying to break into his room to murder him. Before long he was sentenced to an institution for the criminally insane which would be his home for many years to follow.
The Professor and the Madman
When work on the Oxford English Dictionary began, advertisements were placed in various periodicals for readers everywhere to submit entries for the work. The idea was not to just give a definition of the word but rather to also add uses of the word in literature and common language. One applicant that ultimately caught James Murray?s attention was a Mr. Minor from the countryside of England.
For seven years Mr. Minor contributed thousands of entries for the new Oxford English Dictionary ? more entries by far than any other person on the planet. So many entries that 17 years later, James Murray decided it was time he met this most scholarly and dedicated wordsmith. But William Minor offered one excuse after another for not coming to London. Finally, James Murray took it on himself to go to the man who would not come to him.
The meeting that followed must have been one to remember for both men. For 17 years James Murray had received entries for the seminal work of the English language. He assumed they came from an elusive elderly scholar who loved his books too much to travel to London. Instead he found a man who had gone through years of cycles of brilliance and madness so intense, hope for a cure had been lost.
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In this formula ?gain from investment,? refers to the annual proceeds or profit?the investment generates. ROI is a a popular metric because of its accuracy and simplicity. If your ROI is negative (-), you are losing money. If your ROI is positive (+), you are making money. Simple.
Stay focused! Pick one acquisition strategy whether it be Real Estate Owned (REO) properties, auctions, tax deeds, expired listings, pre-foreclosures, and there are plenty more from which to choose, but whichever one you choose? choose one and stick with it. Avoid jumping around from strategy to strategy. That?s a formula for frustration and a quick exit from real estate investing.