From the Seattle Times and found on Google News; Business A third of mortgaged Seattle-area homes worth less than what’s owed http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2014166638_zillow09.html …”While the percentage of houses with negative equity in the Seattle area is climbing, it still doesn’t compare with Sun Belt markets that have become poster children for the housing bust. About 82 [...]

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The Seven Deadly Sins, also known as the Capital Vices or Cardinal Sins, is a classification of the most objectionable vices that has been used since early Christian times to educate and instruct followers concerning (immoral) fallen humanity’s tendency to sin. The final version of the list consists of wrath, greed,sloth, pride, lust, envy, and [...]

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The People’s Republic of China (PRC), “the Party”, rules under a “Mandate of Heaven”.  Understanding that in Chinese terms and cultural history is not easy. Basically it means rulers rule as long as they keep their contract with heaven to be good rulers.  Like the knights in medieval England with another’s colors on their helmet. [...]

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GROUPON & Small Business We are concerned about the GROUPON tide for small business because: Few small business margins are at 40-50% therefore a GROUPON program costs more than it generate sin revenue. There are other alternatives for low-cost guerrilla marketing and advertising. Looking at the cost loss as cheaper than traditional advertising is a [...]

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USA CHINA Myth 2: ommunism is not going away. The Chinese are not going to politicize the army. The PRC is the People’s Republic of China (the separate government apparatus, the country), the CCP is the Chinese Communist Party by some or CPC which is the Communist Party of China (ultimate power); the People’s Liberation [...]

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rong, Wrong, Wrong!  The Party now controls most of the Internet in China. They also control their market. They have no desire to share their burgeoning market with others.  At 1.34 billion people and 5,000 years of cultural, governmental, and language history they want all that others have but in their way in their world.  [...]

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Laozi Confucius Risk, Return In Confucianism, human beings are teachable, improvable and perfectible through personal and communal endeavor especially including self-cultivation and self-creation.  . Taoist propriety and ethics emphasize the Three Jewels of the Tao: compassion, moderation, and humility, while Taoist thought generally focuses on nature, the relationship between humanity and the cosmos (天人相应); health [...]

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With the Mandate from Heaven they can rule forever. What is the Mandate of Heaven? The Chinese concept of heaven is not the same as the deified Heaven of westerners.  The westerner needs to think of Heaven in the Chinese context as the “big sky” over all without all of the religious overtones of the [...]

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