Luke Bryan leads American Country Awards nominees

EMBARGO 8 AM EDT WED., OCT. 10, 2012 CHRIS TALBOTT STORY - FILE - In this April 2, 2012 file photo, Luke Bryan performs "Running with the Night" at ACM Presents: Lionel Richie and Friends in Concert in Las Vegas. Luke Bryan leads the 2012 American Country Awards nominees with seven nominations; Lady Antebellum and Zac Brown Band each earned six nods; and Eric Church and Taylor Swift garnered five nominations. The American Country Awards will air live from Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas Monday, Dec. 10, 2012 (8:00-10:00 PM ET live/PT tape-delayed) on FOX. (AP Photo/Jeff Bottari, File)

EMBARGO 8 AM EDT WED., OCT. 10, 2012 CHRIS TALBOTT STORY - FILE - In this April 2, 2012 file photo, Luke Bryan performs "Running with the Night" at ACM Presents: Lionel Richie and Friends in Concert in Las Vegas. Luke Bryan leads the 2012 American Country Awards nominees with seven nominations; Lady Antebellum and Zac Brown Band each earned six nods; and Eric Church and Taylor Swift garnered five nominations. The American Country Awards will air live from Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas Monday, Dec. 10, 2012 (8:00-10:00 PM ET live/PT tape-delayed) on FOX. (AP Photo/Jeff Bottari, File)

EMBARGO 8 AM EDT WED., OCT. 10, 2012 CHRIS TALBOTT STORY - FILE - In this Sept. 22, 2012 file photo, Taylor Swift performs at iHeart Radio Music Festival at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas. Luke Bryan leads the American Country Awards nominees with seven nominations; Lady Antebellum and Zac Brown Band each earned six nods; and Eric Church and Taylor Swift garnered five nominations. The American Country Awards will air live from Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas Monday, Dec. 10, 2012 (8:00-10:00 PM ET live/PT tape-delayed) on FOX. (Photo by Eric Reed/Invision/AP, File)

EMBARGO 8 AM EDT WED., OCT. 10, 2012 CHRIS TALBOTT STORY FILE - In this March 18, 2011 file photo, country singer Eric Church performs at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tenn. Luke Bryan leads the 2012 American Country Awards nominees with seven nominations; Lady Antebellum and Zac Brown Band each earned six nods; and Eric Church and Taylor Swift garnered five nominations. The American Country Awards will air live from Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas Monday, Dec. 10, 2012 (8:00-10:00 PM ET live/PT tape-delayed) on FOX. (AP Photo/Ed Rode, File)

(AP) ? Luke Bryan just keeps getting hotter.

The rising country music star is the lead nominee for this year's American Country Awards with seven. He beat out established stars like Taylor Swift and Lady Antebellum in a field announced early Wednesday.

Lady A and Zac Brown Band are next with six nominations apiece, while Swift and Eric Church took five nods each for the third annual fan-voted awards.

Bryan, Swift, Lady A, Zac Brown Band and Jason Aldean are up for the night's top honor, artist of the year. Bryan also has nominations in the male artist, album, single and video of the year categories.

Dierks Bentley's "Home," Church's "Chief," Lady A's "Own the Night" and Blake Shelton's "Red River Blue" join Bryan's "tailgates & tanlines" on the album of the year list. Hit song "I Don't Want This Night To End" nabbed Bryan single and video of the year nominations.

Miranda Lambert's popular trio Pistol Annies is nominated in the new artist category with Lauren Alaina, Hunter Hayes, Jana Kramer and Kip Moore.

Organizers have added a song of the year category in 2012 as well. There are 10 nominees, including two Aldean entries: "Flyover States" and "Tattoos on This Town."

The performance-heavy ACAs will air live Dec. 10 on Fox from Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas with Kristin Chenoweth and Trace Adkins returning as co-hosts. Voting is open on the show's website.

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Colleges? Plan B for Diversity

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Home Buying Simplified | Jeannette Myles Real Estate Blog ...

Buying a home can be a scary and confusing process. It is easy to get confused by all of the homes, locations, and what is truly important to you when buying a home.

First you will want to determine what you can afford. To do that you will want to get preapproved. That means a bank; mortgage broker or credit union will determine how much of loan you qualify for based on your income, debt and credit score. They will give a pre-approval letter stating how much you can afford.

Now it is time to pick a real estate professional to help you find the right home, negotiate on your behalf and help you navigate through the process. It is important that you choose an agent that is reputable; you have interviewed to find a good fit and is willing to listen to your needs.

Many buyers often confuse their needs with their wants. Making a list of what you actually need and what you want or your wish list is very helpful when looking for a home. Buying a home is typically a process of elimination. Many home buyers often dismiss homes that perfectly fit their needs in search for one that has their wants. This doesn?t mean you can have your wish list, but home buying is more often defined by your budget than wish lists.

To help with this process it is typically helpful to make a list of needs and wants.

Examples of NEEDS Examples of WANTS
Reasonable square footage for comfortable living Paint, carpet, counter tops, accessories.
Bedrooms to accommodate your family Pool or Jacuzzi (unless for medical reasons)
Adequate number of bathrooms Wood floors
Eat-in kitchen Bay windows, skylights
Garage or basement for storage needs Entertainment centers,? moldings, decks and patios
Lot size to accommodate children?s play area Upgraded lighting fixtures
Adaptation for Handicapped View
Proximity to a specific school
Single floor living for health reasons

Each individual will have a different list of needs and wants. Your own list will help you evaluate homes as you go through the process. Sharing this list with your real estate professional will also help narrow down your search. The goal is to find a house that includes all of your needs and meets as many of your wants as is practical in your budget.

Source: http://www.medfordmahomes.com/blog/home-buying-simplified

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The Top 10 Most Expensive Classic Cars Sold At Auction | AutoTribute

[unable to retrieve full-text content]A great way to save money when you buy a used car is to visit an auction. If you choose well and avoid getting caught up in a bidding frenzy, it's easy to. ... to walk away with a real bargain. At the other end of the scale, if your car is something special, selling it at auction is the perfect way to generate the kind of buzz that could see the price soar. Feast your eyes on 10 of the most expensive classic cars ever sold at auction. Impressed by the numbers? We certainly were!

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UK teen hospitalized after swigging nitrogen drink

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Skype botnet scam targets Windows users

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A worm with its sights?set on Windows computers is making its way across the Internet through Skype instant messages, security experts warn.

The message contains a shortened link and a garden-variety phishing scam line: "Lol is this your new profile pic?"

Clicking the link triggers a .ZIP file to download. Once the file is unzipped, a Trojan copies itself to the hard drive, opens up a backdoor and loads malware known as the Dorkbot worm from a remote server. Once on board, the worm enlists the compromised computer into a botnet.

The worm also has the potential to lock PC users out, holding their files for ransom unless they agree to pay the extortionists within a short period of time, Forbes reports.

According to related posts in the Skype community support network, the malware takes advantage of Skype's programming interface in order to automatically blast the malicious link to all of the compromised accounts? contacts.

The Dorkbot attack has been spreading over Facebook and Twitter for the past year, Sophos' Naked Security blog reported. The attack can also spread via USB drives and other instant messaging services.

No matter what service, application or website you use to communicate, always do so safely. While we usually know who's at the other end of a conversation, there's no way to know for sure. Even messages from people you trust could contain malicious links. Your friend may not wish to harm you or your computer, but someone else with access to their account might.

Follow Ben on Twitter @benkwx.

Copyright 2012 TechNewsDaily, a TechMediaNetwork company. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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PureData ? Meet IBM?s New Big Box For Big Data

ibmTwo worlds exist when it comes to the enterprise. The new generation of cloud services represents one space. They rely on distributed infrastructures on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the rest of the vendors in that world. They don't buy hardware until it makes sense to move off a cloud service and into their own data center. By that time, they have such high workloads that it makes more sense to develop an infrastructure of their own.

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Tucson Median Home Prices Up Over 23 ... - Tucson Real Estate

October 8th, 2012 by Michael Oliver

Tucson housing stats just came out recently and for the first time in a very long time prices are up (a lot) across the board. Median home prices jumped up 23.36% from September 2011 to September 2012. Average price also jumped a lot up 20.80% over the same time. Active listings were down 25.41% during the same time frame with only 3,845 active listings available on the open market which is a low point not seen since the last real estate boom of 2005-2006 ended. Those were up from August which only had 3,564 homes available during that month.

As I have been mentioning since January the market here in Tucson has changed drastically and we are now in a seller?s market which has been the case since this summer and will continue to be the case until active listings go over at least 5500 homes for sale. As long as interest rates stay as low as they are now (low 3% range) and homes on the market stay under 4500 homes available Tucson prices are headed up for the next 12 months at least. My guess if these things stay constant prices have another 20% to go up from here before it will start to kill off buyer demand. Going into 2013 looks to be very strong for Tucson home sellers as well as buyers able to take advantage of super low interest rates allowing them to buy more home then they otherwise would be able to do.

Another dynamic which has changed things a lot is foreclosures are not playing no where near as much of a roll as they had been from 2007 through 2011. Foreclosures are slowing down and fewer are hitting the market the ones that are generally coming up for sale need a lot of work.

If you have questions about the real estate market here feel free to call or email me.

-michael

Source: http://www.sellingtucsonrealestate.com/blog/tucson-median-home-prices-up-over-23-from-2011/

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