Here are some top headlines you may have missed Tuesday: - Ringleaders of illegal Flint-area video poker gambling operation sentenced Flint police officers at the scene Tuesday where bullet casings were found at the corner of Franklin Ave and Delaware around the same time the driver of an suv was shot by a person in another vehicle two blocks away ? (more)
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Catholics were found to be more likely to gamble than Protestants and other religious groups. Catholics were also found to be less likely to disapprove of gambling than other religious groups.
The first airplane flight to Las Vegas was made in May, 1920, with Lieutenant Randall Henderson, editor of the Blythe, California Herald, and Jack Beckley.
In 1911, the state of California ruled that "draw" poker was a skill, and thus could not be banned under existing anti-gambling laws. However, "Stud" poker was still considered illegal at the time.
During the 1950s, the Senate Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce held a number of hearings on criminal influence in the casino industry. The committee was chaired by Senator Estes Kefauver, and the committee is also known by his name.
There are 36 million people in the path of severe storms stretching from Oklahoma all the way up through New England. Weather Channel Meteorologist Eric Fisher reports from White Plains, N.Y.
By Miguel Llanos, NBC News
Updated at 8:05 p.m. ET: Severe storms moved into the Midwest and Northeast on Thursday, including a possible tornado in Elmira, N.Y., where buildings were damaged and thousands were left without power. There was no immediate word on injuries.
Initial reports indicate a tornado touched down in Elmira, the Storm Prediction Center stated. Other towns across?eastern Ohio, western Pennsylvania and upstate New York also reported downed trees.
"Emergency crews are responding to numerous calls, including reported fires and downed power lines," the Elmira Star Gazette reported. "Many streets are impassable due to fallen trees and power lines, as well as traffic signals knocked out by power outages."
Meteorologists expect tonight's powerful storms to bring very heavy rain in a short period of time and flash flooding, which may be a problem in low-lying and poor-drainage areas, NBCNewYork.com reported.
The storms will also produce tremendous amounts of lightning, which can cause a number of problems, including power outages.
NBC New York: Severe storms, possible tornadoes threaten Tri-State area
A tornado watch was issued through Thursday night for parts of?Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania and Vermont.?
The unsettled weather was also causing airport delays along the East Coast.
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A tornado moved through Elmira, N.Y. on Thursday.
"The potential exists for widespread damaging winds from parts of southern New England to Indiana," The Weather Channel reported.?"At least 36 million people are in this zone."
Major cities that could be impacted, the National Weather Service warned, include Cincinnati and Columbus in Ohio; Pittsburgh and Philadelphia in Pennsylvania; and New York City.
Areas from Iowa to New England can expect 3-5 inches of rain, NBC TODAY meteorologist Al Roker reported Thursday.
Rain was dumped on Chicago overnight, NBCChicago.com reported, and the collapse of a hangar wall at O'Hare International Airport left officials wondering if it was tied to the storm. A wind gust of 70 mph was measured in the area around the time of the collapse.
Several thousand Chicago-area customers were left without power, and additional heavy rains and winds were forecast for later Thursday.
NBCChicago.com
Part of this hangar wall at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago crumbled overnight just as a storm blew through.
In the New York area, where daytime temperatures are in the 90s, overnight storms were being followed by a second, potentially more dangerous round of storms starting Thursday afternoon.
"Isolated tornadoes are possible in northern New Jersey and the Hudson Valley," NBCNewYork.com reported.
Consolidated Edison and its union workers announced Thursday afternoon that they had reached a deal after a prolonged lockout, paving the way for crews to be on duty for the storm.
On Thursday morning, a fire possibly caused by lightning destroyed the top floor of a Brooklyn apartment building, displacing dozens of tenants, NBCNewYork.com reported.
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Firefighters battle a six-alarm fire in Brooklyn on Thursday.
Airports in the Northeast were reporting weather delays of more than an hour, according to the FAA monitoring site.
Related story: Worst drought areas rise by 50 percent
In the Midwest, the latest rain has not done much to dent the drought because extreme heat has been quickly sucking up the moisture.
"This drought is two-pronged," Brian Fuchs, author of the U.S. Drought Monitor, said in the weekly update on Thursday. "Not only the dryness but the heat is playing a big and important role. Even areas that have picked up rain are still suffering because of the heat."?
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Srinagar, July 24: A three-day workshop on English Language Teaching (ELT) began at the University of Kashmir on Tuesday. ?The workshop is organized by the Department of English in collaboration with the Cambridge University Press, New Delhi in order to equip college teachers with effective pedagogy, resources, ideas and activities to make the overall teaching-learning process participatory and interactive. ?The ELT- workshop is a regular feature of the English Department since 2007. According to the organizers, it provides the teachers with opportunities to understand and explore the ways of encouraging student participation and also help them present and practice vocabulary and grammar through learner-centric approaches. This in turn helps students develop effective listening, efficient reading, powerful speaking and professional writing skills, they said. ?In her welcome address, the workshop Director and Head Department of English Prof Lilly Want said that the focus of the workshop shall be on grammar-syllabus recommended at the undergraduate level: The objective is to make college teachers reflect on how to enhance the general communicative competence and the more technical skills of students in their teaching situation, she said. ?She said the existing pedagogy has necessarily led to conventional lecture-based sessions on the part of teachers and rote memorization on part of students. There is a dire need to integrate lecture-oriented theory classes with tutorial classes for reinforcing learning and creative utilization and for acquiring command over language and enriching the students critical and research perspectives to English Literature, she said. ?In his presidential address, the KU Vice-Chancellor Prof Talat said: The aim of such workshops should be to encourage high standards of written and spoken English by resorting to the widely-accepted standards of English grammar, intelligible pronunciation and legible writing. ?While appreciating the teachers and students of Kashmir for their flawless accent in spoken English, Prof Talat said Both the teachers and the students from Kashmir have a very good accent in English language and this is something which is known all over the country. However our students and teachers need to work on their writing skills and participate more in such workshops if they desire to see their works published in international journals. ?Prof Talat suggested the Department of English to organize more such workshops in future with few sessions on professional writing for the benefit of teachers and students. ?Speaking on the occasion Dr CLN Prakash, who is coordinator of ELT workshops from the Cambridge University Press, said: Such workshops provide great opportunity to the teachers to hone their skills and review the methods and techniques of teaching so that they remain in tune with the changing times and new trends in the pedagogy. ?Dr Prakash, who is also the resource person for the workshop, said that the pedagogy of teachers in English literature and language needs rethinking and the present workshop is motivated by this need to provide possible alternatives to the existing rather prescribed pedagogy. ?Dr Nusrat from the Department of English conducted the proceedings of the inaugural event while Dr Tasleem War presented vote of thanks.
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Many use the excuse that real estate investing is ?risky? so that they aren?t challenged to really push towards their full potential for making more money and enjoying more freedom and can ?happily? wallow in their current state of comfortable misery instead.
However, real estate investing doesn?t have to be risky. Yes, it may be true that no form of investment is 110% risk free but doing nothing to improve or secure your financial future certainly isn?t risk free either. In fact it is quite the opposite.
Those who are concerned about risk will actually find 6 simple ways to lower or even eliminate risk in real estate investing?
1. Make Your Money When You Buy Don?t gamble on appreciation or profits you could make if the market keeps on going up. Buy properties with good equity positions or which at least already bringing in income so that you are locking in profit from day 1.
2. Find Buyers First Instead of rushing out to accumulate a lot of inventory and then hope that a buyer can be found sometime soon find buyers for your real estate deals first and then find inventory which matches their needs for rapid flips and eliminating the hazards that come with holding properties.
3. Insurance Insurance may not be the sexiest part of investing in real estate but it is a necessity. Properly insure your properties against fire, vandalism, theft, storms and flooding so that nothing can jeopardize your investments. However, don?t stop there either. Insure your business and maintain proper auto and health insurance as well as periodically reviewing your coverage and increasing it as needed.
4. Keep Your Business and Personal Credit Separate This is one area which new real estate investors overlook and fail at all the time. It is essential to keep your personal and business credit, income and assets separated in order to protect them both. Begin building separate business credit as early as possible and don?t mix the two.
Incorporate to keep your investments distinguished, be wary of signing any personal guarantees and build up your business credit through store cards, credit cards and business lines of credit, all of which can provide more liquidity and emergency funds for your investments.
5. Use Other People?s Money If you are concerned about putting your own savings on the line, then don?t. Eliminate risk by using other people?s money to invest in real estate. Use mortgages for leverage, tap into private lending and partner up for joint ventures. However, remember that just because it is someone else? money on the line there is no excuse for not being diligent and smart with your investment choices, especially if you want to grow your investments.
6. Test Marketing Marketing is one of the biggest expenditures for real estate investing today and almost one of the most confusing areas of the business for those who are new. You are right to be wary of gambling everything on one marketing campaign. No matter how good the strategy there are always outside factors which can affect its success and effectiveness. Start by testing in batches until you have honed you marketing and have some back up reserves for next month.
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