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	<title>Ryder Ross - Cambria Real Estate Agent</title>
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		<title>Cambria Real Estate Market Update</title>
		<link>http://www.ryderross.com/2007/01/03/cambria-real-estate-market-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jan 2007 00:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The Cambria real estate market hasn&#8217;t shown a large decrease in sales like some other cities have but in terms of the price of the homes sold, it has. From 11/13/06 to 12/13/06 in Cambria, California there were: 8 New listings, 15 Price Reductions, 12 Pendings and 7 Solds. For those sold properties, the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> The Cambria real estate market hasn&#8217;t shown a large decrease in sales like some other cities have but in terms of the price of the homes sold, it has. From 11/13/06 to 12/13/06 in Cambria, California there were: 8 New listings, 15 Price Reductions, 12 Pendings and 7 Solds. For those sold properties, the Sell Price over List Price average has dropped from last year. Only 1 home out of 7 sold was in the triple digits percentage-wise (100.0%) and one year ago at this time, 4 homes out of 8 sold were above or at 100%. More properties are selling in the mid-range ($601K-$900K) than last year - 5 out of 8 sold homes sold last year were above $900,000 and this year, for the same time period, 1 home out of 7 sold homes was above $900,000. Heres the data to back it up and some graphs too:</p>
<p><font size="3"><span style="font-weight: bold">11/13/06 - 12/13/06</span></font> - 7 Homes Sold</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold">Low End (0-$600K) SP % LP<br />
</span>100%, 98.39%<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold">Mid Range ($601K-$900K) SP % LP<br />
</span>93.55% 98.44% 97.84% 88.48%<br style="font-weight: bold" /> <span style="font-weight: bold">High End ($901K+) SP % LP<br />
</span>95.62%</p>
<p><img alt="Sold Properties in Cambria CA 11/13/06 to 12/13/06" src="http://www.cambriarealestate.info/solds12-13-06.jpg" /></p>
<p><font size="3"><span style="font-weight: bold">11/13/05 - 12/13/05</span></font> - 8 Homes Sold</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold">Low End (0-$600K) SP % LP </span><br />
98.52%<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold">Mid Range ($601K-$900K) SP % LP<br />
</span>101% 97.62%<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold">High End ($901K+) SP % LP<br />
</span>94.87% 100.2% 90.91% 100% 100.28%</p>
<p><img alt="Sold Properties in Cambria CA 11/13/05 to 12/13/05" src="http://www.cambriarealestate.info/solds12-13-05.jpg" />
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		<title>Want people to READ what you spend time on WRITING?</title>
		<link>http://www.ryderross.com/2006/12/05/want-people-to-read-what-you-spend-time-on-writing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Dec 2006 19:07:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ In my technical writing class last year, my professor said our job was to write so that readers don&#8217;t have to read. As crazy as it sounds, its very true. A large part in writing for the web is whitespace. Whitespace can do a lot for an article or online page, but make sure [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> <br/>In my technical writing class last year, my professor said our job was to write so that readers don&#8217;t have to read. As crazy as it sounds, its very true. A large part in writing for the web is whitespace. Whitespace can do a lot for an article or online page, but make sure to use whitespace and not &#8216;huge gaps&#8217;. So what is this whitespace? I&#8217;m talking about separating your content into distinguishable sections/topics and using sub-headings, bold keywords, bulleted lists and images to increase readability. The main goal is to make your page &quot;scannable.&quot;&nbsp;<br />
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Let&#8217;s say someone was reading your page titled &quot;Everything About Cambria.&quot; If you use a combination of sub-headings, topic paragraphs, bold keywords, images, and bulleted lists, that person will have an easy time scanning your content to find the information they want</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> (for example, the &quot;<span style="font-weight: bold;">Current status of Cambria Water Permits</span>&quot; as a sub-heading and the topic paragraph below).</span></p>
<h3>Sub-Headings</h3>
<p>Readers don&#8217;t really read a whole lot. They scan. Headings and Sub-headings will allow readers to scan your page faster and help them find what they actually want to read. Give some margin to your H2&#8217;s and H3&#8217;s. Make sure your page looks nice but that it is still easily scannable.</p>
<h3>Topic Paragraphs</h3>
<p>Separate your content into sections and then topics in those sections. Try to only use a single topic in a paragraph. Relating topics between paragraphs is fine, but the bulk of a topic should go in it&#8217;s own paragraph. Don&#8217;t talk about Cambria Real Estate and Cambria Water Permits in the same paragraph if one of them is the bulk of the paragraph. Split them up into two.</p>
<h3>Bold your keywords</h3>
<p>Don&#8217;t forget about &lt;strong&gt;. Along with helping your SEO work, bolding or highlighting your keywords will help scannabilty.</p>
<h3>Images/Graphs</h3>
<p>If you can find a photo or graph that is relative to a certain topic paragraph, float (CSS for align) it on the left or right. A little bit of whitespace around the image will help as well but not a whole lot is needed. While images and bulleted lists are not technically whitespace, they serve just the same purpose by breaking up your page and allowing for more scannability.</p>
<h3>Bulleted Lists</h3>
<p>If you have 3 or more items you want to list, use a bulleted list. BL&#8217;s are very scannable because each item is on its own line.<br />
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<p>So if there is only one thing you take away from reading this is to design your articles/pages to be <span style="font-weight: bold;">SCANNABLE. </span>Using the above tips and your readers will thank you for helping them not read.<br /> 
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		<title>Scrybe Beta Invitation</title>
		<link>http://www.ryderross.com/2006/11/23/scrybe-beta-invitation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Nov 2006 21:18:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Today I received and invitation to join Scrybe&#8217;s First Beta Phase. There will be 3 Beta phases and they expect to be out of Beta within 6 to 12 weeks. So far the interface looks really good. If you haven&#8217;t already, check out the video. The navigation is smooth and I couldn&#8217;t say anything [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> Today I received and invitation to join Scrybe&#8217;s First Beta Phase. There will be 3 Beta phases and they expect to be out of Beta within 6 to 12 weeks. So far the interface looks really good. If you haven&#8217;t already, <a href="http://iscrybe.com/main/">check out the video</a>. The navigation is smooth and I couldn&#8217;t say anything bad about it right now. The Scrybe team has an incredible product on their hands and I think they know it. Heres a screen shots of the calender month view, paper sync and themes.</p>
<p> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ryduh/304444136/"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/116/304444136_cf63f5871f_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a></p>
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		<title>South Africa 2006</title>
		<link>http://www.ryderross.com/2006/09/08/south-africa-2006/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Sep 2006 23:59:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ I just got back from a 2 month trip to South Africa yesterday and I have to say it was one of the best experiences of my life. Seeing a country that is 3rd world but 2 miles away it&#8217;s 1st world is definitely eye-opening. Me and 5 other guys from my rugby team [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> I just got back from a 2 month trip to South Africa yesterday and I have to say it was one of the best experiences of my life. Seeing a country that is 3rd world but 2 miles away it&#8217;s 1st world is definitely eye-opening. Me and 5 other guys from my rugby team went down there to train with a really good coach. Shark diving, bungy jumping on the world&#8217;s highest bungy jump, and hunting for impala were some of the highlights of the trip. I encourage anyone that has a chance to go to South Africa to take it. You will have an awesome time!<img id="image23" src="http://www.ryderross.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/sa%20132.thumbnail.jpg" alt="Petting a Cheetah" />
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		<title>12 Daily Pro</title>
		<link>http://www.ryderross.com/2006/01/11/12-daily-pro/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2006 21:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Warning: 12DailyPro is being shut down by the Feds. Do not trust this program. 
12 Daily Pro is not accepting sign ups and is not paying out.
  
What is 12 Daily Pro ?

        12DailyPro is a paid autosurfing program and traffic exchange website. Upgraded members earn money [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2 style="color:red">Warning: 12DailyPro is being shut down by the Feds. Do not trust this program. </h2>
<p><font style="color:red">12 Daily Pro is not accepting sign ups and is not paying out.</font><br />
  <br />
What is 12 Daily Pro ?</p>
<p>
        12DailyPro is a paid autosurfing program and traffic exchange website. Upgraded members earn money for viewing the websites owned or promoted by other online professionals. 12DailyPro was started in April 2005 and currently has over 208,000+ (as of January 1st, 2005) members and grows by 2,000+ new members each day. They have millions in membership funds, they are ranked on  <a href="http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?&#038;range=6m&#038;size=large&#038;compare_sites=&#038;y=r&#038;url=12dailypro.com">Alexa.com</a> in the top 800 websites and are climbing every single day!  12DailyPro is registered as a legal, tax-paying business in the state of North Carolina, USA, under the title  <a href="http://www.secretary.state.nc.us/Corporations/Corp.aspx?PitemId=7820076">“Life Clicks, LLC”</a>.</p>
<p>        12DailyPro has <strike>never missed a payment to anyone EVER!</strike><font style="color:red">12 Daily Pro is not accepting sign ups and is not paying out.</font> Every single member, large or small, are paid on time. You can make up to $720 a day without ever having to recruit anyone, advertise, or sell anything (although you do get paid more if you refer others). This is a great program, with an honest, hard working owner and staff, and you will soon see this once you join.</p>
<p>	    Through this program you will make  144% of your investment!</p>
<p>
	    Here is how this works.</p>
<p>	    1.  Your investment can be bought in what is called “Upgrade Units”.<br />
		2.	Each Upgrade Unit is $6, hence, 10 Upgrade Units = $60, 15 Upgrade Units = $90, 100 Upgrade Units = $600.<br />
		3.  For 12 days, you will make 12% of your investment (or “Upgrade”) for each one of those days of Auto-Surfing just 12 sites alone.<br />
		4.  Auto-Surfing = When you click on “Start Surfing” tab you will automatically visit these (predefined) websites without having to do anything yourself.<br />
		5.  Lets say you have upgraded to 15 Units for starters, which would be $90.</p>
<p>		6.  You multiply $90 by 0.12 (12%), that comes out to be $10.80, and that’s what you make each day.<br />
		7.  You would make $10.80 each day you surf. Do this for 12 days, and the total return on your $90 investment would be $129.60! (Profit of almost $40!)<br />
		8.  To figure out your return, you can do this; Investment (”Upgrade”) x 0.12 (12%) x 12 (12 days) = [Your Return] after 12 days of ‘Autosurfing’.<br />
		9.  You can also make Referral Commissions of 12%(1-on-1) when YOU have an ‘active Upgrade’, …or a commission of 3% when You Do Not Have an ‘active Upgrade’.<br />
		10.  Active Upgrade = When YOU have at Least a $6 (1 Unit) Upgrade being used in the same time as your Referee has an Upgrade working. </p>
<p>		If you want to see how much you can be making with12DailyPro, try using this 12DailyPro Calculator :</p>
<p>		<a href="http://www.teamrequest.com/12calc/">http://www.teamrequest.com/12calc/</a></p>
<p>		If you would like to research a bit more on 12DailyPro, search <a href="http://www.google.com">Google</a> for “<a href="http://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-a&#038;rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial_s&#038;hl=en&#038;q=12dailypro&#038;btnG=Google+Search">12DailyPro</a>” or click the link. </p>
<p>		Got questions? Contact me<br />
		 Email: ryross at gmail.com<br />
		 AIM: ryduh</p>
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		<title>Interview with Tom Kasmer, Inventor of the Hydristor</title>
		<link>http://www.ryderross.com/2005/09/01/interview-with-tom-kasmer-inventor-of-the-hydristor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2005 16:28:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ I have had a chance to talk to the inventor of the Hydristor, Tom Kasmer, and here is what  he had to say about the Hydristor and its production.

Ryder: First off, could you give us a quick overview of how the hydristor works and how it&#8217;s expected to change the way we use [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> I have had a chance to talk to the inventor of the <a href="http://www.hydristor.com" target="_blank">Hydristor</a>, Tom Kasmer, and here is what  he had to say about the Hydristor and its production.</p>
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<b>Ryder: First off, could you give us a quick overview of how the hydristor works and how it&#8217;s expected to change the way we use gas in the US?</b><br />
Tom: The Hydristor is based on the traditional dual pressure balanced vane pump invented by Harry Vickers in 1925. A rotor with slots containing radially moving, spring loaded vanes resides within an elliptic shaped internal cutout housing called a &#8216;cam ring&#8217;. As the rotor and vanes turn in the cam ring , the vanes extend out at the high point of the ellipse and are pushed in at the low point. The difference in radial vane extension gets pumped out or is drawn in the 4 kidney shaped port cutouts located between the high and low points of the ellipse and on the axial end of the rotor vanes. You can see some of this in the picture on my website. The solid part between the kidney cutouts (item 30 in my patent 6022201) has to be a little wider than the space between two adjacent vanes on the rotor. This kidney port system forms a rotary sliding valve system. The vane tips sliding against the internal elliptic cutout create a substantial friction and that is speed squared dependent. The isplacement per revolution is fixed and the working pressure is also linmited because high pressure gets between the rotor end clearance and the flat housing end, causing it to bulge with drastic blowby. That is history. Your power steering pump is probably like this.</p>
<p>What I did was to replace the fixed cam ring with a concentric nesting of flexible and endless metal belts which surround the vane tips and I located 4 curved pistons at the former high and low points of the cam ring ellipse, at 12,3,6, and 9 o&#8217;clock like the face of a clock. The historical vane tip friction now causes the belt to rotate at rear the rotor and vane speed and that in turn creates a &#8216;hydrodynamic oil bearing float&#8217; between the piston curved faces and the flexible belt cradleing against that curved surface, not to forget the creation of a self minimizing and perpetual efficient oil seal preventing high pressure oil from slipping by this rotating interface. This virtually eliminates metal to metal contact and thus the high efficiency of 94.7% reached at Tecumseh test lab. The normal centripital force created by the vanes at high speed limits the historical device to 6-7,000 Rpm. The Hydristor belt fully contains these forces and much higher speeds are possible. I have also solved the pressure limitations of vane devices and the Expedition will operate at 5,000 psi. I am working on a 10,000 psi device design too.</p>
<p>Packaging two thin, large diameter Hydristors in the form factor of an automobile torque converter to fit in the bell housing using adapters to enable a single size Hydristor to fit many vehicles will enable a total retrofit of all existing vehicles on the road. Slowing engine speeds to idle at level cruise conditions will more thab double the fuel economy of most vehicles on the road. This will be a 100% improvement in existing vehicles as opposed to a wimpy bill by Congress to force the industry to make new vehicles in 2011 get 6% better economy. What are they thinking? The change could be accomplished in 5 years and the auto industry could have new vehicles available by then. And, the oil in the Earth will last a hundred years instead of running out in 20 years!</p>
<p><b>Ryder: How did you come about inventing/designing the Hydristor?</b><br />
Tom: I had owned a 1963 Buick Riveria with variable pitch Dynaflow transmission and I tried for years to come up with better gas mileage. I eventually thought of the early Hydristor and have been refining for a long time. It will eventually be recognized as one of the premier technologies of the 21st century. It will change everything. </p>
<p><b>Ryder: What part of the process of developing/marketing the Hydristor are you currently in?</b><br />
Tom: I have completed 3 US and international patents and a fourth soon to issue with a fifth going in soon. I have designed and built a John Deere 4 wheel drive riding lawn tractor which demonstrates the technology. I have also completed a first prototype for a bicycle, an earth mover, and I have to finish the Ford Expedition converter for which monies are needed at the machine shop. As soon as I find those monies, the Hydristor will reverberate in history. I am looking for an angel who is not out to own the technology and who recognizes the fantastic potential of this device. I personally have no money and I have done this on my own for 15 years because I recognize that our kids need this to happen, now! </p>
<p><b>Ryder: How long are we looking at before technology like this could be included in  modern cars?</b><br />
Tom: This can be in new cars OEM in 5 years. I plan to make jobs for American workers! No outsourcing crap! This can also be had in your new car by forcing your new car dealer to install a Hydristor as a condition of purchase. This technology makes regular cars perform like the hybrids and will certainly outrun them. The Hydristor will obsolete the current hybrids.
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<p>If you would like to contact <a href="http://www.hydristor.com" target="_blank">Tom Kasmer</a>, you can reach him at (607)-763-1607 or <a href="mailto:tkasmer@yahoo.com">tkasmer@yahoo.com</a></p>
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		<title>Extreme California Gas Prices</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2005 17:22:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ If you live in California, you already know about the high gas prices. Here is a photo of one of the extremes. This was taken today 8/31/05 around 10:10 AM in Cambria, California. I live in San Luis Obispo but I work in Cambria and its about a half hour commute. Anyways, comment away [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> If you live in California, you already know about the high gas prices. Here is a photo of one of the extremes. This was taken today 8/31/05 around 10:10 AM in Cambria, California. I live in San Luis Obispo but I work in Cambria and its about a half hour commute. Anyways, comment away with your local gas prices.<br />
<img src='/wp-content/gas.jpg' alt='Gas Prices in Cambria, CA' /></p>
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		<title>Real Estate Tools</title>
		<link>http://www.ryderross.com/2005/07/29/real-estate-tools/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2005 03:11:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ What would make your life easier as a real estate agent? Let me know. I might be able to program a tool to make your job easier. Our office edited a Word document everytime we opened escrow to produce a schedule of important dates. We had to count the number of days till escrow [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> What would make your life easier as a real estate agent? Let me know. I might be able to program a tool to make your job easier. Our office edited a Word document everytime we opened escrow to produce a schedule of important dates. We had to count the number of days till escrow closes and contingencies are removed and hope we got it right. This is how the Escrow Timeline Generator came to be. Instead of editing a word document and counting the number of days, all we have to do now is enter the number of days on a form for each item and it will automatically find the date for you and produce a nice PDF file with all of the dates on it. I wrote a program to expedite that process. Now everyone&#8217;s life is just a little bit easier at the office.
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