HARDminute factoid 29 Top Ten Year-Year home sales

Business Week just released results of fourth quarter sales for last year versus 2007. These are numbers of sales, not prices. However, they do show that the lowered prices have stimulated interest…and several cases of multiple offers.

California has 8 of the top ten, but all are in markets that had risen most quickly, captured many flippers and speculators on the way up, then fallen hardest.

The analysis only used ZIP codes of 10,000 or more households and only one ZIP per metropolitan area.

See the entire article at:
http://finance.yahoo.com/real-estate/article/106700/Signs-of-Life-From-the-Real-Estate-Market



City & Zip / Increase Q-4 8 vs. Q-4 '07

1. Fairfield CA 94533 / 225%
2. Rialto CA 92376 / 170%
3. Sylmar CA 91342 / 149%
4. Mira Mesa CA 92126 / 119%
5. Cape Coral FL 33914 / 103%
6. Simi Valley CA 93065 / 77%
7. San Jose CA 95123 / 67%
8. Surprise AZ 86379 / 65%
9. Fresno CA 93372 / 61%
10. Elk Grove CA 95624 / 56%


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HARDminute factoid #28 Polluted Places

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A Series of “Top Tens”

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Top 10 World’s

Most Polluted Places


1. Sumqayit, Azerbaijan
2. Chernobyl, Ukraine
3. DzerzHinsk, Russia
4. Kabwe, Zambia
5. La Oraya, Peru
6. Linfen, China
7. Norilsk, Russia
8. Sukinda, India
9. Tianying, China
10. Vapi, India

Source: Scientific American



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HARDminute #27 TOP TEN All Time recording artists

This is not to be confused with top singles, top number of number one hits, etc. Billboard Magazine has separate counts for those. This is from their All Time Hot 100 Artists.

The Billboard Hot 100 chart measures airplay and sales information (and more recently digital downloads).



The Beatles
Madonna
Elton John
Elvis Presley
Stevie Wonder
Mariah Carey
Janet Jackson
Michael Jackson
Whitney Houston
The Rolling Stones



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HARDminute #26 Manly Cities

The HARDminute # 26



A Series of “Top Tens”



That Took Forever to Compile



But Requires Only Sixty Seconds



for You to Read.



TOP TEN



MANLIEST CITIES IN AMERICA



Combos, the cheesy pretzel snack, part of MARS Snackfood US, just released its ranking of the manliness of 50 major metropolitan areas.



They take into account indicators such as the number of professional major league sports teams, popularity of tools and hardware and frequency of monster truck rallies. Other factors include the number of U.S.-made cars, number of sports bars and BBQ restaurants, as well as manly salty snacks consumption.


Breaking a pattern, I will show all 50 and their ranking.



1. Nashville, Tenn.
2. Charlotte, N.C.
3. Oklahoma City, Okla.
4. Cincinnati, Ohio
5. Denver, Colo.
6. St. Louis, Mo.
7. Columbus, Ohio
8. Kansas City, Mo.
9. Indianapolis, Ind.
10. Toledo, Ohio
11. Memphis, Tenn.
12. Richmond, Va.
13. Columbia, S.C.
14. Orlando, Fla.
15. Dayton, Ohio
16. Salt Lake City, Utah
17. Milwaukee, Wis.
18. Minneapolis, Minn.
19. Cleveland, Ohio
20. Detroit, Mich.
21. Jacksonville, Fla.
22. Phoenix, Ariz.
23. Birmingham, Ala.
24. Grand Rapids, Mich.
25. Tampa, Fla.
26. Harrisburg, Pa.
27. New Orleans, La.
28. Las Vegas, Nev.
29. Pittsburgh, Pa.
30. Philadelphia, Pa.
31. Louisville, Ky.
32. Atlanta, Ga.
33. Providence, R.I.
34. Dallas, Texas
35. Buffalo, N.Y.
36. Rochester, N.Y.
37. Baltimore, Md.
38. Boston, Mass.
39. Houston, Texas
40. Seattle, Wash.
41. Sacramento, Calif.
42. Miami, Fla.
43. San Diego, Calif.
44. Oakland, Calif.
45. Washington, District of Columbia
46. Chicago, Ill.
47. Portland, Ore.
48. San Francisco, Calif.
49. Los Angeles, Calif.
50. New York, N.Y.

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