| Attempted suicides up in 2007 in Clark County
Things have been depressed — foreclosures, the stock market, those things play a role," he said. Clark County was ranked sixth in the state for foreclosure filings in 2006, one for every 127.5 people, according to Policy Matters Ohio. In 2005, Clark County was eighth. Data for 2007 is not yet available. Layh said his office has seen a rise in people seeking psychological services. "We added two new psychologists to the staff last year," he said. Dr. James Perry, CEO of the Clark County Mental Health, said his organization hasn't noticed an increase in patients in the past year. But he agreed that hard times can have an effect on a person's mental well-being. "We see it when the economy is poor, jobs are a problem," he said.
1. Bonds are fancy IOUs
Companies and governments issue bonds to fund their day-to-day operations or to finance specific projects. When you buy a bond, you are loaning your money for a certain period of time to the issuer, be it General Electric or Uncle Sam. In return, bond holders get back the loan amount plus interest payments. 2. Stocks do not always outperform bonds. It is only in the post-World War II era that stocks so widely outpaced bonds in the total-return derby. Stock and bond returns were about even from about 1870 to 1940. And, of course, bonds were well in front in 2000, 2001 and 2002 before stocks once again took charge in 2003 and 2004. 3. You can lose money in bonds. Bonds are not turbo-charged CDs. Though their life span and interest payments are fixed -- thus the term "fixed-income" investments -- their returns are not.
Nehemiah Corporation of America Reaches $1 Billion Milestone in ...
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Jan. 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Nehemiah Corporation of America, the oldest and largest provider of private downpayment assistance in the United States, today announced that the non-profit has provided more than $1 billion in mortgage downpayment assistance through The Nehemiah Program(R). Initiated in 1997, The Nehemiah Program(R) has helped over 250,000 minority and low to moderate income families become homeowners to date. The Program reported substantial growth in 2007 as banks and mortgage lenders abandoned risky products once promoted to low and moderate income families and returned to the stability and affordability of mortgage products offered in conjunction with FHA loan insurance. The Nehemiah Program provides private downpayment assistance to homebuyers who qualify for FHA-insured mortgages but are not able to make the downpayment necessary to secure the mortgage.
Wall Street's Tumultuous Week Ends Down
The week, which started with a 465-point drop in the Dow soon after the market opened Tuesday, showed that the stock market is still fractious but may be going through healthy process of trying to establish a bottom following weeks of sharp declines.
Investors had an initial burst of enthusiasm Friday, sending each of the major indexes up more than 1 percent, after upbeat profit reports from big names like Microsoft Corp. and word of a possible buyout of a trouble bond insurer. But the advance proved short-lived and the eventual decline wasn't surprising given that investors putting down bets ahead of the weekend were coming off two days of big gains -- including 400 points in the Dow.
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MITCHELL THE FORGOTTEN MAN
The West Ham star might be about to make the leap into our top ten sooner rather than later with promoter Frank Warren claiming after the fight that he wants to keep Mitchell busy and see him box at least five times this year. Mitchell, a classy, accurate box-puncher who has been forgotten somewhat due to the emergence of Amir Khan, is also setting his sights high in 2008. "I want to win the British, European and world titles this year," he explained after the fight. I'm not sure that he'll earn a world title crack in the 11 and a bit months that remain in 2008 but there is every chance he could lift the British belt as his rescheduled clash with Johanesson could take place on March 8 when David Haye and Enzo Maccarinelli collide. On the British beat this month former British, European and Commonwealth super-bantam ruler Esham Pickering scored an exciting stoppage win over Sean Hughes at Burton's Meadowside Leisure Centre.
Election Watch 2006 (Session I)
A Guide to the Electoral College (AEI Press, 2004). He coauthored Presidential Succession and Presidential Leaders, in Catholic University Law Review (Fall 2004); and President Bush: Legislative Strategist, in The Bush Presidency (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003). He is a frequent radio and television commentator on the presidency, Congress, and elections. James K. Glassman is a resident scholar at AEI and editor in chief and executive publisher of The American magazine. He is cofounder of TechCentralStation.com (now TCSDaily.com), an online journal started in 2000 that focuses on the nexus of science and public policy. For ten years he wrote a syndicated weekly column on investing for the Washington Post and the International Herald Tribune. He currently writes a monthly column for Kiplingers Personal Finance.
E-mail? C ya ltr; it's a txt world 4 teenz
And teens instinctively gravitate to what is not part of their parents' world. "I text my dad sometimes, but my mom doesn't really understand how it works," says Emily Saunders, a sophomore at Atlanta's Marist School. She says she averages about 50 text messages every day between the time she gets out of school and bedtime, about six hours. She has a Gmail account through Google, "but I haven't used that in a year or so," she adds dismissively. She got the account mainly because an e-mail account was required to register for iTunes. There can even be a little element of rebellion in teens preferring technology that is not part of their parents' lives. "There's not as much of a generation gap today on some things between teens and their parents," says Iconoculture's Robinson, "but there's always going to be a element of 'This is mine and you can't possibly understand it.'" E-mail not as intense Young communicators also view Facebook and Myspace as being more interesting and intense than old-fashioned e-mail.
UPDATE 3-Potash Corp profit jumps, CEO downplays recession
(Adds CEO comments from interview and from conference call with analysts. Adds closing share price. In U.S. dollars unless noted.) By Roberta Rampton WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Jan 24 (Reuters) - Potash Corp of Saskatchewan (POT.TO: Quote, Profile, Research) reported a steep rise in fourth quarter profits on Thursday, and its stock jumped more than 6 percent on the healthy figure and a rosy 2008 forecast. The world's largest fertilizer producer said it expected bigger profits in the year ahead, and its chief executive shrugged off concerns about a downturn in the U.S. economy. Bill Doyle said the growing world appetite for protein-rich diets amid dangerously tight global grain stocks would continue to push record crop prices higher, spurring fertilizer use.
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