HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Investing in Maryland Real Estate in 2013 ...

$107,000 - 656 Specks Run Rd
Bunker Hill

3 beds, 1 full bath

Home size: 1,352 sq ft

Lot size: 32,104 sqft

Year built: 1950

$189,900 - MLS # CH7983777
Waldorf

3 beds, 2 full, 1 part baths

Lot size: 1,840 sqft

Year built: 1998

$499,850 - 2018 Troy St N
Arlington

2 beds, 2 full baths

Lot size: 1,794 sqft

Year built: 1939

$399,000 - 35771 Chapel Hill Ct
Round Hill

4 beds, 3 full, 1 part baths

Lot size: 10,890 sqft

Year built: 2002

$549,900 - 6703 Hallwood Ave
Falls Church

3 beds, 2 full baths

Home size: 1,430 sq ft

Lot size: 10,400 sqft

Year built: 1947

$435,900 - 8540 Monticello Ave
Alexandria

2 beds, 2 full baths

Lot size: 8,000 sqft

Year built: 1930

$550,000 - 40326 Lovettsville Rd
Lovettsville

5 beds, 3 full, 1 part baths

Home size: 3,427 sq ft

Lot size: 3.58 ac

Year built: 2001

$229,000 - 5057 Bristle Cone Cir
Aberdeen

3 beds, 2 full, 1 part baths

Lot size: 1,720 sqft

Year built: 2003

$229,000 - 58 Saint Roberts Dr
Stafford

5 beds, 3 full baths

Lot size: 8,124 sqft

Year built: 1993

$152,000 - 106 Bayland Dr #2p
Havre De Grace

2 beds, 2 full baths

Year built: 1996

$359,900 - 7111 Woodmont Ave #612
Bethesda

1 bed, 1 full bath

Home size: 626 sq ft

Year built: 2000

$89,911 - 1642 Roundhill Rd
Baltimore

3 beds, 2 full baths

Year built: 1942

$134,900 - 35129 Sara Ct
Locust Grove

2 beds, 2 full, 1 part baths

Lot size: 2,178 sqft

Year built: 2005

$74,911 - 5805 64th Ave
Riverdale

3 beds, 1 full bath

Lot size: 6,016 sqft

Year built: 1942

$559,900 - 13108 Limetree Rd
Silver Spring

4 beds, 3 full, 1 part baths

Lot size: 8,847 sqft

Year built: 1999

$74,900 - 7597 Gales Ct #7a-204
Manassas

1 bed, 1 full bath

Home size: 625 sq ft

Year built: 1974

$524,900 - 13412 Birch Bark Ct
Fairfax

4 beds, 2 full, 1 part baths

Home size: 2,184 sq ft

Lot size: 10,616 sqft

Year built: 1985

$238,000 - 3523 Covered Bridge Ln
Woodbridge

3 beds, 2 full, 1 part baths

Home size: 1,642 sq ft

Lot size: 1,651 sqft

Year built: 1987

$45,000 - 930 Carrollton Ave N
Baltimore

0 beds, 0 baths

Year built: 1920

$179,000 - 204 Chesterbrook Ct
Stafford

3 beds, 3 full, 1 part baths

Lot size: 1,651 sqft

Year built: 2006

$135,000 - 1200 Stratwood Ave
Oxon Hill

3 beds, 2 full baths

Lot size: 10,080 sqft

Year built: 1959

$97,000 - 11265 Kettering Pl
Upper Marlboro

3 beds, 1 full, 2 part baths

Lot size: 1,670 sqft

Year built: 1986

$49,944 - 6711 Park Heights Ave #411
Baltimore

1 bed, 1 full bath

Home size: 903 sq ft

Year built: 1974

$199,000 - 2008 Rolling Rd
Baltimore

4 beds, 2 full baths

Lot size: 8,976 sqft

Year built: 1962

$689,900 - 8637 Saddleback Pl
Laurel

5 beds, 3 full, 1 part baths

Lot size: 8,912 sqft

Year built: 2005

$500,000 - 10884 York Rd
Hunt Valley

5 beds, 1 full, 1 part baths

Home size: 2,103 sq ft

Lot size: 4,775 sqft

Year built: 1920

$369,500 - 184 Falcon Dr
Pasadena

4 beds, 2 full baths

Lot size: 16,000 sqft

Year built: 1958

$377,500 - 8411 Meadowsweet Rd #8411
Baltimore

3 beds, 2 full, 2 part baths

Home size: 4,184 sq ft

Year built: 2005

$94,950 - 6813 Haven Ave
Oxon Hill

3 beds, 1 full bath

Lot size: 5,685 sqft

Year built: 1955

$399,000 - 25413 Clearwater Dr
Damascus

3 beds, 2 full, 1 part baths

Lot size: 25,500 sqft

Year built: 1964

$48,500 - 1912 Payson St N
Baltimore

3 beds, 1 full bath

Year built: 1920

$379,500 - 8551 Wyngate Manor Ct
Alexandria

3 beds, 2 full, 2 part baths

Home size: 1,840 sq ft

Lot size: 1,837 sqft

Year built: 2004

$380,000 - 5405 Richardsons Endeavor Dr
Bowie

4 beds, 3 full, 1 part baths

Lot size: 11,782 sqft

Year built: 2003

$175,000 - 812 Booker Pl
Capitol Heights

4 beds, 2 full baths

Lot size: 4,778 sqft

Year built: 1963

$1,050,000 - 11404 Seymour Ln
Spotsylvania

5 beds, 4 full, 2 part baths

Home size: 4,760 sq ft

Lot size: 29,185 sqft

Year built: 1997

$175,000 - 4502 Furman Rd
Silver Spring

2 beds, 1 full bath

Home size: 948 sq ft

Lot size: 5,950 sqft

Year built: 1946

$449,000 - 4409 Norwood Rd
Baltimore

3 beds, 1 full bath

Lot size: 9,761 sqft

Year built: 1925

$349,000 - 225 Telegraph Rd
Stafford

4 beds, 3 full, 1 part baths

Home size: 4,848 sq ft

Lot size: 30,000 sqft

Year built: 2003

$319,000 - 815 Calhoun St N
Baltimore

4 beds, 3 full, 1 part baths

Year built: 1920

$367,500 - 12004 Ashley Dr
Rockville

3 beds, 2 full baths

Home size: 1,872 sq ft

Lot size: 6,331 sqft

Year built: 1953

$459,900 - 9666 Potters Hill Cir
Lorton

3 beds, 2 full, 1 part baths

Lot size: 2,335 sqft

Year built: 2003

$1,150,000 - 433 Lee St S
Alexandria

4 beds, 3 full baths

Lot size: 1,697 sqft

Year built: 1775

$174,900 - 2592 Merrywood Ct #3
Woodbridge

3 beds, 1 full, 1 part baths

Home size: 1,139 sq ft

Year built: 1975

$1,350 - 1807 Gough St
Baltimore

3 beds, 1 full bath

Year built: 1900

$625,000 - 519 Hanover St S
Baltimore

4 beds, 3 full, 1 part baths

Year built: 1980

$109,900 - 1264 Ridgeview Rd
Brightwood

2 beds, 1 full bath

Home size: 1,224 sq ft

Lot size: 1.45 ac

Year built: 1943

$1,195,000 - 612 Ayrlie Water Rd
Gibson Island

5 beds, 3 full baths

Home size: 2,380 sq ft

Lot size: 31,155 sqft

Year built: 1957

$169,000 - 335 Kingsbury Way #D13
Westminster

2 beds, 2 full baths

Home size: 900 sq ft

Year built: 1993

$959,000 - 7020 Braeburn Pl
Bethesda

3 beds, 3 full baths

Lot size: 17,234 sqft

Year built: 1951

$615,000 - 10532 Patuxent Ridge Way
Laurel

4 beds, 3 full, 1 part baths

Lot size: 16,552 sqft

Year built: 1985

Source: http://hibanism.com/2013/01/01/happy-new-year-investing-in-maryland-real-estate-in-2013/

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Autism/Speech Therapy/auditory training/learning ... - My Very Healthy

-PLEASE DO NOT USE LONG VERBAL INSTRUCTIONS! she has troubles in remembering the sequence

-art and computer programming are talent areas should be encouraged. Talents can be turned into skills that can be used for future employment

-Use concrete visual methods? to teach number concepts

- Neat handwriting is hard. This can totally frustrate her., so to reduce frustration , let her type on the computer.

Source: http://myveryhealthy.com/todays-healthcare/autismspeech-therapyauditory-traininglearning-sounds.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=autismspeech-therapyauditory-traininglearning-sounds

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Create a Lasting Morning Routine by Making Two Key Changes

Buffer cofounder Joel Gascoigne takes his morning routine seriously. In fact, he calls it his "most rewarding habit." Here, Joel shares the two most important changes you should make to kickstart your own consistent routine.

Those who know me know that I love my morning routine. I'm always making adjustments to it, and at its core it revolves around waking up early (before sunrise), working on something important for 90 minutes, and then hitting the gym. I recently shared my most recent routine in a blog post about creating new habits.

Today, I want to share a couple of things I've neglected to mention in previous articles about my routine. These two aspects have enabled me to create a morning routine that has lasted several months, and it's through my morning routine truly becoming habitual that I've seen massive benefits. I hope that these two insights can help you, too.

Why wake up early in the first place?

Before I jump into those two key insights that helped me, I want to share some of my thoughts about why you might want to wake up early at all.

First, I've observed that many of the most successful people wake up early. In fact, I don't know anyone who consistently wakes up before 6 AM and isn't doing something interesting with their life. Some of the top CEOs are well known for waking up super early, many of them at 4:30 AM.

Additionally, I feel that waking up early sets the tone for my day of "making a choice." If I leave it to fate as to when I roll out of bed, then I feel like that's the outlook I'm taking in general. On the other hand, if I choose to get up early and do amazing things in those quiet hours, that's when I feel like I'm grabbing hold of my life and controlling where I go. That's the choice I want to make.

So, if you're thinking about starting starting an early morning routine, here are two things which took me a while to notice:

Craft your evening routine to get enough sleep

One of the most important things I've found when I've attempted to keep up an early morning routine for several days and weeks in a row, is that if I let my daily sleep amount get much below 7 hours for too many consecutive days, I'll burn out sooner or later.

The best way I've found to counteract this is to decide how much sleep I need (for me it's about 7.5 hours a night) and then figure out the exact time I need to be in bed. Once I've done this, I set up a 30 minute winding down ritual (for me, it's going for a walk) which allows me to disengage from the day's work and not have work in my head when I hit the pillow.

The key thing I've found is that in order to wake up early over a sustained period of weeks, this evening ritual is just as important as how much I think about my morning routine.

Wake up early during weekends too

Another key aspect I've found to having a consistent early morning routine over a long period of time is to pay particular attention to the weekend as well as the week. I certainly believe that allowing imperfection and some slack at the weekend is important, but I personally made the mistake of having a weekend wake up time which was too divergent from my week day wake up time. Only once I started to think about the weekend, I hit a chain of many days of early mornings.

Once you've decided when you want to wake up during the week, I recommend that you don't wake up much more than one hour later at the weekend. This also probably means that you still need to go to bed quite early on Friday and Saturday night. The problem arises when you wake up several hours later on Saturday and Sunday, and then want to wake up super early again on Monday.

The most likely thing is that Monday will be a little later, and Tuesday too. Perhaps by Wednesday you are back to your early morning waking time, but you won't feel that magical state of gliding along, having several days in a row of early mornings and productive quiet hours. If you don't try to wake up at a similar time at the weekend, it is similar to giving yourself jet lag every weekend. By waking up at a similar time at the weekend, you don't stretch your body, and therefore you can achieve long term consistency with your morning routine.

Two important and often overlooked aspects of creating a lasting morning routine | Joel.is

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13 Semantic Markup Tips For 2013: A Local SEO Checklist

One of the least-tapped areas of local business website optimization continues to be semantic markup. Semantic markup can increase chances that information from your website will be highlighted in search engine results pages via rich snippets, attracting greater attention and clickthroughs. So, read on and use this checklist to see if you?re exploiting all elements possible for your local business website.

While special markup likely may not directly improve your rankings in search, it does apparently increase clickthrough rate or ?CTR,? as consumers are more drawn to your site?s listings. The increase is reportedly 15% on average, and potentially higher!

Just this increase in CTR alone could benefit your rankings over time, as clickthroughs can influence rankings; so, there are a few reasons why semantic markup is worthwhile. Semantic markup optimizes for Google, Bing, and Facebook search, too.

If you think most Microformats/RDFa/Micro Data/Schemas don?t apply to your local business website ? think again! While only a few of these may impact your listing in the local 7-pack or in Google Maps, your site can also attract customers via the regular, keyword search results pages; and, regular listings can and do appear on the same results pages as the 7-pack!

So, check to see if you?ve added the following semantic markups to your local website (if applicable). Improving your traffic, even on search results which are not directly related to something you sell, can help benefit all the rest of your website as your overall popularity becomes augmented.

1. ?Authorship Markup

The number-one, best semantic markup is likely authorship ? it allows your personal photo to appear with pages you author, and your website, when they are listed in search engine results.

For instance, check out listings of articles from Search Engine Land, and you?ll frequently see icon pics and names of authors paired up with their article listings.

For local search, this may be even more compelling in Google, making your listing appear far more interesting and professional in the 7-pack. In the search below for personal injury attorneys in Seattle, the first two listings sport pics of the attorneys:

To enable this to happen, you must have a Google+ profile for the business proprietor, link to it from your website including a querystring with rel=author:

<a href=?[profile_url]?rel=author?>Google</a>

Then, link back to your site from your Google+ profile in the ?Contributor To? section. It?s also a good idea to have a good author photo for Google+.

2. ?Local Business Schema and Geotag

Schema.org provides a few different types of semantic markup that I?ll be listing in this article, and the prime one is for describing local businesses. Essentially, you can use this to markup your address and contact information on your site, although there are additional fields you can include such as hours of operation, payment types accepted, and more.

Example markup:

You can also geotag your location (or ?Place? in Schema.org lingo) by including your geocoordinates with your LocalBusiness code. As I?ve noted before, if you?ve been using hCard Microformat for this purpose, you can continue to do so, although Schema markup has become more preferred.

If desired, you can use both simultaneously, such as what I?ve done with my business address on my homepage at Argent Media. For LocalBusiness Schema instructions, go here.

3. ?Testimonial

Testimonials on a business website can often aid in persuading visitors to become customers.

Because of this, Google allows local businesses to disclose that they have a testimonial by using semantic markup for reviews, and Google sometimes will display that information in conjunction with the business?s listings in SERPs. I believe tagging your testimonials can increase their chances of being displayed in the snippet text beneath your listing, and in the sample text callouts shown variously in the cached image of your webpage.

For instance, check out the EagleLift foundation repair company in Los Angeles which has a testimonial page marked-up with the Schema for testimonials ? and that testimonial text now shows up in both the description snippet and the cached page callout:

4. ?Breadcrumbs

Many sites I run across neglect to use breadcrumb navigation, despite it being highly useful, according to usability experts. Even on relatively small sites, breadcrumbs can help a user orient themselves in the site?s hierarchy, and provide them with related pages that they might wish to visit.?For this reason, Google began bubbling-up this data to display in rich snippets as additional links beneath the hyperlinked page name.

Simply from a statistical perspective, having additional links to your site on search results pages increases the odds of you having users click through over time ? so, breadcrumb links are highly desirable! Google does a fair job of automatically detecting these, but there are times when a page?s breadcrumb code isn?t interpreted successfully by them in order to be displayed in the snippet. To increase your chances, use the breadcrumb markup on your site pages.

For local sites targeting a few local city names or with multiple offices around a metro area, breadcrumbs are very worthwhile. For example, here?s a breadcrumb from my company site:

Once you?ve coded your page, check the code in Google?s Structured Data Testing Tool, which should reflect the breadcrumb links properly. The tool shows a search listing preview for my page at Argent Media, in addition to the extracted structured data.

5. ?Events

If your company participates in some events or provides special services at different times/dates during the year, you might consider incorporating the Events Schema markup. If you are too intimidated to do structured data on your site, or you don?t feel confident at doing the coding necessary, Google does give you another option for Events at this time.

In your Webmaster Tools account, Google has provided a beta service called the Data Highlighter for Events. Using this interface, you can highlight elements of events and tell Google which data item is which event element ? Name, Date, Venue, Address, URL, etc.

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*If Google deems the Data Highlighter to be successful, they?ll likely expand it to include other types of rich snippets as well. I hope they do ? this would be a great boon for small business websites!

6. ?Coupons/Offers

If you have coupons or special offers, use the Offer Schema. It?s not clear to me that Google or Bing does any special snippet treatment for coupons or offers at this time, but they included it in Schema.org, and it would make sense for them to consider incorporating it more visibly at a future date, since they?re obviously interested in it, and it would be the sort of thing that end users would like a lot.

7. ?Videos

Google recommends that you use the VideoObject Schema to help them to better interpret and represent your video content in search results. If you?re not using videos on your site, you should ? video listings in search results take up more room in search results and are more attention-grabbing.

Consumers apparently like seeing videos of products or of businesses providing services, so this can help with conversions as well. Here?s an example video page listing in search results from the Wasp Barcode Technologies company in Plano, Texas:

8. ?Recipes

Recipes get tons of searches on the net, and for that reason search engines highlight the presentation of their listings in search results.

Most local businesses don?t feel that they really lend themselves to food themes, so it might not occur to them to show a recipe or two on their site and mark it up for search engines. True, recipes may make more sense for a restaurant, hotel, caterer, or even a coffee shop, but there?s no reason why a business couldn?t publish some favorite recipe and get some extra traffic and ranking power by doing so.

For instance, a lawyer recently made headlines by filing a Freedom of Information Request with the government in order to obtain President Obama?s beer recipe (?White House Honey Ale?). The lawyer was likely satisfied that the recipe is now published on the White House?s website, but he?s missed out on the opportunity of publishing the recipe on his own website and marking it up for search.

The White House?s recipe is actually very non-optimal, because it was published in a couple of images instead of in text, and it won?t look as pretty in search results as recipes at the Food Network or AllRecipes.com.

Your reason for publishing a recipe doesn?t have to be dramatic, though ? just do it to interact with the Web community more and your business may benefit.

9. ?Individuals

I?ve written before on how highlighting your employees can help with local search rankings. In addition to displaying author information, you can also mark up information about executives and employees on your site as well by using the Schema for a Person.

10. ?Tables & Bulleted Lists

This doesn?t really require any special semantic markup ? but, if you have tabular data or content that lends itself to presentation in a list, providing this on your website can again make your listing in search results get more attention, and it affords you the opportunity to display more info about your products and services before potential customers have even reached your website.

Example ? rental cabins in Gatlinburg, TN: The Cabins of the Smokey Mountains webpage presents their rental properties and features in a table, and Google has featured that below their listing. To enable this to happen, consider whether you have any information that might lend itself to a table or bullet list format, and create a page for it.

For example, this could work great for many restaurants, if they put their menu in an HTML table ? preferable, compared with the Flash/PDF/image formats that many eateries use instead.

11. ?Products

If your business sells products, seriously consider incorporating data about them on your site and marking it up with the Product Schema. The product markup can enable your listings to show price, ratings, and availability in the search results: Note that the Product markup can be particularly effective in combination with breadcrumbs! (Shout out to Zachary Palmer for reminding me of this one.)

12. ?Meta Descriptions

While it doesn?t involve Schema, Meta Descriptions have been one of the earliest and longest surviving semantic markup elements. They?re possibly the most-influential as well, since they often appear as the entire snippet text in search results.

Despite all this, the Description Meta Tag is still frequently neglected on many small business websites. The Meta Description should briefly describe what a particular page is all about, incorporating good keywords. You should not use the same description for all pages, or even more than one page on your site!

Don?t just parse the first sentence of a blog post into the description field, either ? make them custom, describing the page. Twenty-five words ought to do it. Check in your Webmaster Tools and see if any changes are recommended, too ? warnings about being too short or duplicated tags should alert you to adjust.

13. ?Facebook Open Graph

Instead of cooperating with the search engines to make life easier for millions of webmasters and developers, Facebook uses the Open Graph protocol. To help ensure your site?s pages are presented well in Facebook search and various interfaces, incorporate Open Graph for local businesses as I suggested previously. Use it simultaneously with Schema.org protocol ? the two do not conflict with one another.

Each time you insert semantic markup, be sure to check it using Google?s Structured Data Testing Tool (previously called the ?Rich Snippet Testing Tool?). I?ve seen many instances where designers and programmers think they?ve incorporated semantic markup, but instead it?s incorrectly configured and erroneous.

So, go through this checklist and add any of the semantic markup options you can, and it may help you achieve a very rosy year for your website and business in 2013!

Opinions expressed in the article are those of the guest author and not necessarily Search Engine Land.

Related Topics: Local Search | Schema.org

Source: http://searchengineland.com/13-semantic-markup-tips-for-2013-a-local-seo-checklist-143708

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IEEE RAS News - January 2013 issue of T-ASE is now available ...

Posted on December 31, 2012

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The January 2013?issue?of the IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE) is now available online:

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/tocresult.jsp?isnumber=6387323&punumber=8856

This page has the Table of Contents link, which allows free access to Editorials, Abstracts of all papers, and to the full text of "Open Access" papers (via the .pdf links).

Details on T-ASE, info for authors, and upcoming Special Issues:?http://www.ieee-ras.org/tase

IEEE CASE will be in Madison WI in August, deadline is 1 March:?http://www.case2013.org/

This Special Issue on Automation in Green Manufacturing was Guest Edited by Li, J.; Morrison, J. R.; Zhang, M. T.; Nakano, M.; Biller, S.; Lennartson, B.

Special thanks to Jingshan, James, Mike, Masaru, Stephan, and Bengt for taking the initiative!

Source: http://www.ieee-ras.org/news/january-2013-issue-of-t-ase-is-now-available-online.html

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Hugh Hefner and Crystal Harris: Married!

Source: http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2013/01/hugh-hefner-and-crystal-harris-married/

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