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Today, we want to look at the opportunities that single-family rental units present for the small investor.

With house prices inching up and rents skyrocketing, this may be the perfect time to invest in single family residential real estate.

If you do, you won?t be alone. According to the National Association of Realtors? (NAR) 2012 3rd Quarter Metro Area Report:

?Investors?accounted for 17 percent of all transactions in the third quarter.?

More than one out of every six houses sold are purchased by an investor. In the most recent MarketPulse Report by CoreLogic, their Principal Economist, Sam Khater, wrote on the subject in a story titled Roll Tide, or The Rise of the Single Family Rental Market. The major takeaways from the article are:

  • The single-family rental market remained very active in the late summer of 2012 with increases in demand, tightening inventory and rising rents.
  • Nationally, rental leasing volumes were up every month for two years. In August, they were up 7% over last year.
  • Supply was down 11% over the same period.
  • This tightness in supply has caused rents to increase.
  • Rent growth is expected to increase at a ?strong clip? late in 2012 and in 2013.

If a private investor is looking for a great hands-on opportunity, perhaps purchasing a single-family house to rent out makes sense. Check with your local real estate advisor to uncover the opportunities in your region.

To read the original article as published on the KCM Blog on 11/14/2012, please click here.

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Health Workers Killed Trying to Deliver Polio Vaccine in Pakistan

Gunmen in Pakistan have killed six people and wounded several others?who were working on an anti-polio vaccination program, amid accusations that the campaign is part of a Western?conspiracy against Muslims. The five health workers were shot in three?separate?attacks on Monday and?Tuesday,?presumably?by Taliban fighters who have previously denounced their efforts to immunize millions of children across the region.

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In response, the United Nations and the Pakistani government have suspended the eradication program in Peshawar province and in Pakistan's second-largest city, Karachi. More than 24,000 polio workers were participating in the three-day long campaign to deliver the vaccinations.

RELATED: Should the U.S. Threaten to Invade Pakistan?

The latest incidents underscore the dangers of using NGOs as a cover for intelligence operations.?In 2011, the CIA set up a fake vaccination?program?in Abottabad, in the hopes of obtaining DNA samples from members of Osama bin Laden's family, who were in hiding there. After bin Laden was killed in an American commando raid, the Pakistani doctor who helped to orchestrate the ruse was given 33 years in prison, and has?allegedly?been tortured?for cooperating with a?foreign?government.

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While the plan was part of a successful intelligence operation, it only fed distrust of Western organizations among regular citizens and fueled rumors about more nefarious plots involving the U.N. and other relief?organisations,?like the belief that vaccinations are made from pig?products?(which are forbidden by Islam) or are part of a scheme to?sterilize?Muslims. Not only do the rumors undermine the program's effectiveness, they obviously put real health care?workers?in danger.?

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Despite being nearly eradicated throughout most of the word, four nations?Afghanistan, India, Nigeria, and Pakistan?have seen a major resurgence in the disease, in part because of?resistance?to vaccination programs. There have been at least 200 cases of children in Pakistan being paralyzed by polio in 2011, the worst outbreak in 15 years.

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Medical teams in Iraq to help treat Talabani

BAGHDAD (AP) ? Foreign medical experts rushed to Baghdad on Wednesday to assist Iraqi doctors treating ailing President Jalal Talabani, who is said to be in a coma but improving after suffering a stroke.

Talabani, a member of Iraq's Kurdish minority, was taken to the hospital late Monday and doctors worked to stabilize him into the following day. His illness raises new concerns about Iraq's stability, which is being tested anew by a recent spike in tensions between the central government and the Kurds.

Questions remain about the graveness of Talabani's illness. Hospital officials and his office have released few details to the public.

One government official and a medic with knowledge of the situation said he is in a coma. Another official said the president is suffering from a partially comatose state, suggesting he may be responding to some stimuli. All insisted on anonymity because they are not authorized to discuss the president's condition with reporters.

Deputy Health Minister Issam Namiq said medical teams from Iran and Germany arrived to assist with the treatment, and additional experts from Britain are on their way.

He told reporters the president is getting better, though he offered no details about the severity of the illness.

"His condition is stable. And I underline here that there is an improvement in his condition compared with yesterday," he said.

Talabani's doctors have not formally said that the 79-year-old statesman suffered a stroke, though several government officials have publicly confirmed that is the case.

Doctors are considering whether to send Talabani abroad for treatment, but no decision has been made, Namiq said. Neighboring Turkey has offered to send an air ambulance to transport him for care elsewhere.

Talabani is overweight and has undergone several medical procedures in recent years, including heart surgery in 2008 and knee replacement surgery this year.

The U.S. Embassy in Baghdad expressed hopes for a speedy recovery. Word of Talabani's illness trickled out on Tuesday, which also marked the anniversary of the withdrawal of the last U.S. troops from Iraq.

Talabani's official powers are limited, but he is seen as a rare unifying figure able to rise above the ethnic and sectarian rifts that still divide the country.

Iraq's parliament has the authority to choose a new president should Talabani's office become vacant. The Kurds would likely insist on retaining the presidency to maintain the government's power-sharing balance.

Before he fell ill, Talabani was actively involved in trying to mediate in a crisis between Baghdad and the Kurds, who have their own fighters and considerable autonomy in their enclave in northern Iraq.

The two sides last month moved additional troops into disputed areas along the Kurds' self-rule region, prompting fears that fighting could break out.

Last week Talabani brokered a deal that calls on both sides to eventually withdraw troops from the contested areas, though there was no timetable for how soon the drawdown might take place.

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Associated Press writers Sinan Salaheddin and Qassim Abdul-Zahra contributed to this report.

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Rocking Non-Profit Social Media ? with Mazarine Treyz

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Today, I?m glad to welcome author and non-profit development expert Mazarine Treyz for our next Learn from an Authority interview.? I talked with Mazarine to learn about how charitable organizations can more effectively use social media.? Mazarine is the author of The Wild Woman?s Guide to Fundraising and the recently released Wild Woman?s Guide to Social Media.

1. Mazarine, one of the biggest questions I get from non-profits worldwide is, ?what can social media do for me??? How can being active on social networks benefit a non-profit organization?

Joe, thank you so much for interviewing me!

Non-profits can use social media to become known as having solutions in? their field. They can become a trusted authority, which can lead to more opportunities and donations. You can get more e-newsletter signups, which helps remind donors what you are doing, and that allows you gain a groundswell of support.

Social media has helped me grow my business enormously, and I know it works for lots of nonprofits. This is why I wrote my book, The Wild Woman?s Guide to Social Media.

Take, for example, Wildlife Direct.? They were featured in Beth Kanter?s The Networked Nonprofit. They help preserve wildlife and wild places in various African countries. They raised $350,000 through social media, with people giving who were never going to see the programs. How did they do that? Well, believe it or not, they made 72 blogs, one for each kind of animal that they were protecting.? You can see those 72 blogs here.

I can hear you asking, ?who WROTE all of these blogs??? The answer is volunteers and program staff working with them across the globe. You don?t have to create 72 blogs for your non-profit.? But think about making a blog for each of your program areas.

2. Should every non-profit be using social media, or are there some organizations that should simply focus on other things?

I think every nonprofit should use social media, but you should get email nailed first. And you need to create a marketing budget for social media. You have to invest in it to get a benefit from it. Don?t just treat it like a ?free? marketing channel. It?s not free. It takes time to make it work. And it could be 18 months before you see a donation from it. But it?s a wonderful way to engage your supporters, keep reminding them that you exist, and that you have fun chances for them to get involved. Nonprofits need to focus on stewardship? and social media can help them do that.

3. For a new organization or one that is not yet on social networks, how do they get started with social media?

Start with your e-newsletter. Create a communications calendar and send out one e-newsletter per month. This will help you start to build consistency in your communications. If you?ve already done this, then start to post a link to your e-newsletter on a facebook page or twitter page. Once you?ve done that, think about starting a blog for your nonprofit, highlighting your services, your volunteers, your beneficiaries, your donors, and more.

4. Let?s talk about gaining traction online.? Some non-profit organizations I?ve spoken with are having trouble gaining followers on Facebook and Twitter.? They? are on there, they post and Tweet regularly, but they are showing anemic numbers.? What can non-profits do to boost their follower counts on social media sites?

If you want to increase your Twitter follower count, one tool that I have used is called TweetBig. It?s not free, but it?s pretty cheap, and it tells you what people care about, (so you can find people who care about your cause) and how likely people are to follow you back, as well.

Another thing you can do to increase your follower count is to have conversations on Twitter. Participate in hashtag chats, like #smNPchat run by Pamela Grow, or the #fundchat.? And you can always start your own cause-specific chat as well.

I would recommend dropping Facebook altogether, unless you know for certain that people come to events or volunteer because they saw your event on Facebook. This is why it?s important to do a survey of people who give, as well as your volunteers and event attendees, because then you know which channels are working for you, and which ones you can drop.

What about LinkedIn? I managed to get attendance at a nonprofit job fair up from 500 to 1,500 people in one year through social media outreach, as well as radio, a banner, and TV ads. However, this wasn?t a major fundraising event, this was free to attendees. We raised our money through sponsors and vendors, and only raised about $45,000. Most attendees who came said they found us through LinkedIn. I think this is a special case, because it was a career fair, and Linkedin is the perfect place for people to look for jobs. However, if this is something that your nonprofit does, I would recommend that you go to LinkedIn to promote your events. The vendors at our career fair said it was the most qualified pool of applicants they had seen in years, AND they called it the best career fair in 8 years. So that was gratifying.

The main thing to do is to survey your donor list and see where people are active. Are they on Twitter, are they on Facebook or Linkedin? If not, then don?t worry about trying to reach them in those places. It?s better to keep the donors you have, and email them on a regular basis, than it is to try to find new donors on these social media channels. The level of noise is so high on these social media channels that if you don?t mention someone by name, they are apt to forget that your nonprofit twitter account even exists. I?ve followed a lot of foundations and discovered that their tweets were not improving my life in any way, so I unfollowed them. You can still keep foundations you?re looking for funding from in a list, but you don?t have to follow them to do that.

You need to get email nailed before you try to do social media platforms. Why? Because email is where people start their day.

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5. Many non-profits that have tried to be active on social media become frustrated when trying to turn that activity into financial support.? What is the best way for an organization to use social networks for fundraising?

The thing they should remember is that these sites are going to go away. So the best thing to do is to drive people to sign up for your nonprofit e-newsletter, and every activity you do on any social media platform, whether it?s LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, etc, is to drive people to do that.

If you are driving people to Facebook and to Twitter, you are building their businesses, not your own nonprofit audience. For example, Facebook is going to start charging you for access to your own fans now so you have no way of interacting with them unless you?ve gathered their email addresses.

Nonprofits should have a social media strategy, and a way to benchmark that strategy to see if they are achieving their goals, as opposed to just tracking how many followers or likes they have.? Are you sure that your social media efforts are effective?? If you?re relying simply on follower counts, you may be missing am more important metric: action.

For example, BJ Mendelson, who has 735,000 followers on twitter, announced he was going to do a fundraising campaign, and asked each of his followers to give $5, to help him raise a million for a cause. And then, he raised $1. So he wrote a book called ?Social Media is BS.? Even Beth Kanter, who has almost 500,000 followers, tried to raise money for two months on Twitter, and managed to raise $16,000. So?. $16,000 isn?t bad, but is it worth two months of strenuous effort?

Social media is an excellent way to keep in contact and thank your supporters, it is excellent for stewardship, if your donors are on the site anyway, but again, you need to make sure that they are there, and that they don?t mind being thanked there. Some people want to be anonymous.

6.? How long should a non-profit be spending per day on social networking sites?

Try to spend 15-30 minutes, just checking in. You can use HootSuite to schedule tweets/facebook posts/linkedin posts weeks or months in advance, and if there are influencers that you?d like to gain the attention of, you can use the free tool If This Than That to automatically post their blog posts to your Twitter stream.

Influencers, in my world, are people who have over 2,000 twitter followers, and who have a large audience for their website. How can you tell if they have a large audience? Install the free? SEOBook plugin for Firefox, it will show you how many incoming links a website has. The more incoming links, the more popular the site is. For example, my site, which has 21,000 monthly readers, has 54,000 backlinks. You can see the evidence here.

7.? You?ve put together a great resource for non-profits in your new book, Wild Woman?s Guide to Social Media.? Are there any other projects you are currently working on that you??d like our readers to know about?

Yes! I?m working on a place for people to go and get fundraising help, resources, gain community and more, it?s under wraps right now, but I?ll be announcing it in 2013 so stay tuned!

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Paging Indiana Jones

Indiana Jones is still getting mail (photo: UChicago Admissions)Indiana Jones is still getting mail. (University of Chicago admissions department)

Last week, a mysterious package arrived at the University of Chicago. Addressed to Henry Walton Jones Jr., the brown-paper-wrapped package featured Egyptian postage and was tied with old-fashioned string. At first, the University's admissions department didn't know what to make of it?there was no Henry Jones on staff. But then a movie buff pointed out that that's the name of the great (and fictional) archaeologist, Dr. Indiana Jones.

So, why the heck was Indiana "Don't call me Junior" Jones getting mail at the University of Chicago? It turns out the package was actually a replica of a journal written by "Raiders of the Lost Ark" character Abner Ravenwood. This particular replica was created by a "Raiders" enthusiast who then sold it online. Apparently the journal fell out of its box at some point (it was supposed to go to a buyer in Italy), and the mail service assumed the decorative package was the real thing. (In the films, Jones attended the University of Chicago, where he met Ravenwood.)

The department's Tumblr account described the book/prop's craftsmanship: "The book itself is a bit dusty, and the cover is teal fabric with a red velvet spine, with weathered inserts and many postcards/pictures of Marion Ravenwood (and some cool old replica money) included. It's clear that it is mostly, but not completely handmade, as although the included paper is weathered all of the 'handwriting' and calligraphy lacks the telltale pressure marks of actual handwriting."

Also included: photos of stars Harrison Ford and Karen Allen (who played Marion Ravenwood, Abner's daughter), maps and a host of other Indiana Jones treasures. University spokesman Garrett Brinker said the props usually sell for around $200. "Apparently, it takes [the creator] two weeks to make one of these replicas, and then he sells them to people all over the world," he said.

Oddly, the package was delivered even though it had no real postage. The stamps were photo-copied replicas. We like to think the U.S. Postal Service could tell the? fate of the Ark of the Covenant was hanging in the balance. And we can't let the Nazis get it now, can we?

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Abnormals, A Love Story

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You're a supernatural and you've been invited to spend a week in the countryside, so you can learn about other non-humans for college credits... Something isn't quite right about that creepy mansion.

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Could you do a five day 'Better Death' programme during Twixtmas ...

Over 500,000 people in the UK will die during 2013. It is a sad fact. Yet, could you use the Twixtmas break ? the five days between the Christmas and New Year holidays ? to be better prepared for the inevitable, reduce emotional stress for your loved ones, and also ensure your final wishes are met?

The Dying Matters Coalition aims to help transform public attitudes towards dying, death and bereavement in England. Check out their web site at www.dyingmatters.org

In a time poor age, where people use the excuse of not having enough time to do things for themselves or others, the Twixtmas break could be an ideal time to help you and your loved ones to face up to something we all want to avoid.

Many of us have specific wishes about how we would like to die, or how long we want doctors to try to keep us alive, or what we would like to happen after our death.
There may be important matters you want to address now rather than when time is short. Sorting out a will, or signing up for organ donation can be done idiscretly by yoursellf. Important issues, such as how you?d like to be cared for, you do need to sttart talking to family or loved ones about your wishes.
Less than a third of people have discussed their wishes around dying and only 4% have written advance care plans. Around 70% of people would prefer to die at home, yet around 60% die in hospitals.
The ?5 day be better prepared for dying? programme supports the wider non-commercial Twixtmas campaign which is launching a ?University of Twixtmas? ? encouraging everyone to do and learn 5 new things to make the world a better place. Further details at www.twixtmas.com
Here is your five day programme to be better prepared for that fateful day.

Day 1 ? Make a will

Day 2 ? Record your funeral wishes

Day 3 -? Plan your future care and support

Day 4 ? Register as an organ donor

Day 5 ? Tell your loved ones your wishes

The Dying Matters Coalition is led by the National Council for Palliative Care, and has 28,000 members including charities, care homes, hospices, GPs, funeral directors and legal and financial organisations.

?By following these five tips for each day of the Twixtmas break you can be a better prepared for he inevitable to ensure your wishes are met and you loo after your loved ones.? said a spokesman for the Twixtmas campaign.

The ?University of Twixtmas? is a new initiative launched by the Twixtmas campign which aims to encourage everyone to do 5 socially good things during the 5 days of Twixtmas between Christmas and New Year holidays.

Can you create 5 easy things to do to help your cause when, in a time poor age, people have lots of free time? Visit www.twixtmas.com

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For further details please contact Andy Green on behalf of Twixtmas on 07815 884 525 or e mail andy@andygreencreativity.com

Your Five Day ?Better Death? programme for the five days of Twixtmas
Day 1 ? Make a will
??Make a will, get legal advice if necessary
??Think about the costs, consider insurance, a funeral plan
??If you need financial help to support you and your family with care costs, transport
??Plan for the care of dependents
Day 2 ? Record your funeral wishes
??What do you want, burial, cremation, green funeral, or other type?
??What service, memorial service, wake, celebration of your life do you want?
??What songs, messages, themes do you want?
??Who do you want to attend?

Day 3 -? Plan your future care and support
??The type of care you would like towards the end of your life?
??Where you would like to die?
??Whether you have any particular worries you would like to discuss about being ill and dying?
??how long we want doctors to try to keep you alive?

Day 4 ? Register as an organ donor
If you want to donate any organs to save other lives or leave your brain or body to medical research, e.g. to help with dementia ,write it down and tell your family

Day 5 ? Tell your loved ones your wishes
??What would you like people to know before you die?
??Are there messages, memory boxes, videos for loved ones you want to leave?

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