Please see snapshot on the Press page at http://www.kalonskincare.com/ .

Kalon Skincare is a company with a difference. Ecologically clean face products made with luxurious NZ bee venom. Philanthropy is a driving force behind the company as is its ecologically clean philosophy. It is also a new brand launching out of Christchurch, New Zealand, a city recently devastated by large quakes.

Kalon Skincare is a brand new natural beauty product, using the hottest ingredient in skin care, pure NZ bee venom, for those who wish to keep their skin looking fresh, vital and new.Non greasy, Anna’s Pocket Bee Venom Vitality Cream Mask contains the best of nature’s ingredients.

The founder of Kalon Skincare – award winning actress, director and producer Anna Wilding – said that she wanted to create a product that was natural with high quality active ingredients, such as apitherapy products, but also that had a long shelf life. She wanted a product that was of benefit to the skin, no matter which climate or city she was in worldwide. “My company also uses ecologically clean natural ingredients where possible, such as bee venom from New Zealand, which is the best in the world,” says Wilding.

Kalon Skincare believes healthy skin comes as much from the inside as out. Kalon Skincare promotes healthy eating and links to recipes and health tips on it’s website. “Kalon” means beauty – a beauty that is not just skin deep, but a beautiful beauty within as well as just physical.”Look: my weight ever fluctuates, who cares. What’s important is how healthy you are and how good you feel in inside.”

Kalon Skincare’s Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Kalon-Skincare/356087311077929 has up-to-date information and promotions. Bee venom is the “secret weapon” used by many celebrities worldwide, including Kate Middleton who apparently used New Zealand bee venom for her pre-wedding celebrations.

Kalon Skincare’s Vitality Cream Mask is an exclusive luxury blend that hydrates deeply and over time smoothes out wrinkles and fine lines. For refreshingly natural healthy looking skin it can be used as a mask three times a week or daily. No bees are harmed in the collecting of bee venom. In fact, it is less harmful to the bees than collecting honey. Kalon Skincare is bringing advanced skin care and some of natures best sourced active ingredients to women and men on the move worldwide. The Kalon Skincare system enhances both your inner and outer beauty.

Learn more at: http://www.kalonskincare.com/ .

No celebrity endorsement claimed or implied.

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* Your chocolate. Your fans. Your strategy. Social media research made actionable:
Thursday, May 10, 2-2:30 p.m. EDT
By Sourabh Sharma, project manager, SKIM New York.
https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/346273702 .

Join Sourabh Sharma as he presents a social media research case study comparing consumer attitudes regarding a selection of well-known and niche chocolate brands.

Social media research is all about listening instead of asking. When individuals communicate freely and spontaneously online, their comments are often more candid and truthful. Any product or brand that is talked about online can leverage social media to formulate strategies for consumer-targeted marketing, advertising, and channel communication. Illustrated by a real world case study, attendees will learn how SKIM researchers translate social media conversations into actionable insights and marketing opportunities for brands including Toblerone and Hershey’s.

Sharma will discuss:
o “Your chocolate”
* The online competitive landscape
* A brand’s perceived identity
o “Your fans”
* Consumer personas based on online behavior
* Online platform effectiveness
o “Your strategy”
* Consequential actionable recommendations.

Attendees will learn how to use social media to measure brand equity and reach, gauge the competitive landscape, and get closer to consumers by understanding their truthful, candid and current brand perceptions.

* Product portfolio and revenue optimization:
Thursday, May 24, 2-2:30 p.m. EDT
By Juan Andres Tello, director, Consumer Americas, SKIM New York.
https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/353140414 .

In a competitive consumer environment, it is essential to price your product right. In this webinar, Juan Andres Tello will explore ways to optimize pricing and product portfolio composition to maximize overall revenue. Tello will examine various scenarios such as what happens when product prices are adjusted, pack sizes are decreased, or premium/value line extensions are introduced.

Professionals in consumer pricing, marketing strategy, and research roles will learn how research insights can drive smarter pricing and optimization decisions – even in the most competitive consumer markets. Attendees will learn how to optimize their pricing and product portfolio composition to maximize portfolio revenue.

Tello will discuss:
o Motivations for revenue optimization
o Making the marketing research shift from insight to foresight
o Building blocks of a revenue optimization system
o Sample revenue optimization strategies
o How to deliver optimization results to both internal and external clients.

* Developing winning claims:
Thursday, June 7, 2-2:30 p.m. EDT
By Paul Janssen, director, Communications Research, SKIM New York.
https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/914035246 .

What distinguishes a winning communication strategy from one that falls flat? Paul Janssen will share the results of a SKIM meta-analysis of hundreds of claims across 14 categories. Among the compelling findings, results show that a tangible promise of value is critical to a claim’s success. Attendees will also learn how popular communications tactics (e.g., humor, comparative advertising, jargon) can unintentionally undermine the message and render a claim ineffective.

Janssen will illustrate how re-analyzing large amounts of data across studies and categories can be a powerful tool for generating essential consumer insights. Armed with new insights, marketing and research attendees will be prepared to develop more effective claims, which can be broadly applied to any communications strategy.

SKIM is an expert in the field of new product development, communication and pricing decisions, offering strategic insights and customized solutions to support clients in the development and review of their marketing strategies. To learn more about the research services offered by SKIM or to register for one of the new marketing webinars, visit http://www.skimgroup.com/attend-our-marketing-webinars .

About SKIM:
Founded in 1979, SKIM is a dynamic and rapidly growing market research agency with offices in Rotterdam, Geneva, London and New York. A new San Francisco office will open in July 2012. Combining market-specific expertise and knowledge of advanced research methodologies, SKIM is a valued partner for multinational companies in consumer packaged goods, healthcare, consumer health, telecommunications and financial services. Visit www.skimgroup.com for more information.

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Bringing better solutions for dynamic disk backup and clone, EaseUS makes it easy to backup and restore Exchange Server mailboxes. For EaseUS software, its aim is to provide you a more comprehensive backup solution and protect your data against any danger.

New features and improvements of EaseUS Todo Backup 4.5:
* Exchange mailbox backup and restore;
* Enhancement for dynamic disk backup and clone;
* Fully support windows Server 8 beta;
* Brand-new interface of backup management;
* Backup task can be transferred to a schedule.

Please learn more at: http://www.todo-backup.com/ .

It is good to mention that the brand-new interface of backup management, to a large extent, can simplify your work of creating, modifying or making schedule backup jobs. What’s more, it will work pretty well under Windows Server 8 beta.

Non-stop improvement has made EaseUS Todo Backup become a more and more reliable solution for small and large enterprises. With over 2 million customers, EaseUS Todo Backup is very remarkable in its field and will embrace a bright future.

Pricing and Availability:
EaseUS Todo Backup Workstation with a $39 special for home, home office and small business users is available at:
http://www.todo-backup.com/business/workstation-backup.htm .

EaseUS Todo Backup Server for $199 is available at: http://www.todo-backup.com/business/server-backup.htm .

EaseUS Todo Backup Advanced Server for $299 is available at:
http://www.todo-backup.com/business/advanced-server-backup.htm .

EaseUS Todo Backup Technician now discounted for $799.20 (was $999) is available at:
http://www.todo-backup.com/business/technician-backup.htm .

EaseUS Todo Backup Central Management Console is available at:
http://www.todo-backup.com/business/central-management-console.htm .

About CHENGDU Yiwo Tech Development Co., Ltd.:
The company specializes in data recovery, backup software and partition manager. For Windows OS, its major products are Data Recovery Wizard, EaseUS Todo Backup and EaseUS Partition Master. For Mac OS, it has EaseUS Mac Data Recovery Wizard and CleanGenius. For more information, please visit http://www.easeus.com .

“EaseUS” is registered trademark of CHENGDU Yiwo Tech Development Co., Ltd. All other trademarks acknowledged.

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Attention! Now you have a chance to win Amazon Gift Card by rating CleanGenius on App Store: http://www.easemac.com/landing/special-offer.htm .

Apple Mac users may see a pop up “No more disk space” warning, especially using a MacBook Air with only 64GB, 128GB or 256GB hard disk. EaseUS offers an easy and comprehensive solution to release disk space, keeping your Mac clean and healthy.

The app combined a totally new design with its previous functions: clean up Mac junk files in seconds, show disk space available, warn when the disk space is running low, and eject drives. CleanGenius 3.0 is based on a dark color layout, and has an improved user-interface, such as in “Clean” window, cancel the check boxes to “select places to scan,” which may be confused with those of “select places to clean.”

New features in CleanGenius 3.0:
* Duplicate finder to find, view and get rid of files with identical content, regardless of name.
* Disk Usage helps you to spot and remove the unwanted large files in a simple way.
* Free Memory increases the free memory by a click.
* Login Item enables you to select the apps to start up during your Mac’s login.
* Brand-new GUI.

“This App allows you to run the cleaner every time the Mac is started to keep your Mac at its top status! This App also scans my Mac and Drives almost instantly, leaving me easy to view information about each drive. I can easily select what I want to remove and it will remember what I chose for next time,” posted Nathan Lee via the Mac App Store.

Pricing and Availability:
CleanGenius 3.0 is at special price of $9.99 (originaly $19.99) in the Mac App Store:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cleangenius-pro/id486153141?mt=12 .

About EaseUS Software:
Established in 2004, EaseUS specializes in backup, partition manager and data recovery software for Windows, now is also focused on providing quality, innovative Mac software for better Mac system performance. More information at http://www.easemac.com .

“EaseUS” is registered trademark of CHENGDU Yiwo Tech Development Co., Ltd. All other trademarks acknowledged.

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This spring and summer, CITYarts will be working with international youth in London during the Olympics to create our 5th mosaic peace wall; as well as a mural in one of the most underserved school and community in East New York.

CITYarts will mark its 44th Anniversary by celebrating “10 Years of Young Minds Build Bridges Program Partnership with ALLIANZ” and honoring five individuals who are truly making a difference in the arts:

* Alberta Arthurs is a leader in the arts and humanities, and a counselor on planning, research, programming and advocacy issues in culture and education.

* Bill Baker is the President Emeritus of Channel 13 whose commitment to arts and culture has influenced people of all ages, races and nationalities.

* Will Barnet is a distinguished artist and recipient of the 2011 National Medal of Arts, his work is collected by major museums internationally.

* David Finn is the co-founder and Chairman of Ruder Finn Inc. and a celebrated photographer, painter, and writer.

* Irwin Jaeger is a passionate leader dedicated to arts education in underserved communities.

In recognition of their accomplishments and inspiration to youth, the honorees will receive awards presented by young people who have participated in CITYarts projects.

“CITYarts is proud to celebrate 44 years of incredible collaborations between artists and young people, which have transformed communities and impacted lives. We believe that our projects encourage our youth to become active participants in shaping their communities and their futures. Thinking globally and acting locally, CITYarts’ Pieces for Peace project is now in 61 countries connecting youth around the world,” said Tsipi Ben-Haim, Executive & Creative Director, CITYarts, Inc.

Many world renowned artists who have supported CITYarts in the past will be included in the benefit auction. Such as Christo, William Wegman, Tony Bechara, among others, as well as emerging international artists.

This year, funds raised will support CITYarts’ on-going efforts to Make a Difference Through the Arts. Since 1968, contributions to CITYarts have enabled us to work with over 100,000 kids in New York and over 5,000 kids internationally, collaborate with over 500 artists, partner with over 1,500 sponsors, and engage over 500,000 volunteers in the creative process. CITYarts has revitalized and transformed the neighborhoods of New York City and internationally through more than 285 public art projects, including murals, mosaics, and sculptures. “I strongly believe that when kids create, they do not destroy,” said Tsipi Ben-Haim.

For more information, visit: http://cityarts.org .

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As part of this grant program, Los Angeles-based Neotrope® is providing PR solutions, news dissemination (through its Send2Press® Newswire service), search marketing and advertising for CITYarts Inc. (www.cityarts.org) to help raise awareness to both media and the public regarding their efforts in producing permanent artworks that address important civic, educational and social issues while beautifying the urban environment of New York City’s five boroughs.

“We’re grateful to have Neotrope aboard to assist our efforts to bridge cultural differences within diverse communities and foster cultural understanding internationally,” stated Tsipi Ben-Haim, Executive and Creative Director, CITYarts. “Neotrope has done great work with many other non-profits, and I look forward to working with them in expanding the awareness of our efforts locally and internationally.”

“We’re honored in providing assistance for CITYarts Inc. as part of our grant program,” said Neotrope CEO, Christopher Laird Simmons; a member of PRSA and ASCAP. “As an artist and creative person inspired by the arts in my own youth, I highly value the importance of involving kids in the art process to open young minds to their own possibilities and potential.”

Additional information regarding the Neotrope PR Grants for U.S. charitable non-profits and other 2012 grant recipients can be found at: http://send2press.com/non-profit/index.shtml .

About CITYarts Inc.:
CITYarts, Inc. (www.cityarts.org) empowers children and youth by bringing them together with professional artists to create public art that addresses civic and social issues, impacts lives, and transforms their communities. Thinking globally and acting locally, CITYarts’ projects build bridges of cultural understanding, giving youth the opportunity to take an active role in shaping their own future. Since 1968, CITYarts has created over 284 projects that have transformed communities and impacted over 100,000 kids, collaborated with more than 500 artists, partnered with over 1,500 sponsors, and engaged over 500,000 volunteers in the process. CITYarts’ projects frequently foster community revitalization by galvanizing businesses, schools, and community organizations into developing youth programs and constructing playgrounds and gardens.

View current projects at: http://www.cityarts.org/current-projects/index.html .

“It is our responsibility as adults to open opportunities for our youth and direct their energies into positive activities. Art is vital to the life of New York’s neighborhoods and its youth in particular,” says Tsipi Ben-Haim, Executive and Creative Director, CITYarts. “For that reason, CITYarts created five programs that through art, address the civic, social, and educational issues facing today’s youth. Through these programs they create murals, sculptures and mosaics that impact their lives and transform their neighborhoods into vibrant, beautiful spaces for them to meet, celebrate their achievements, and bridge cultural differences.”

Thinking globally and acting locally, we most recently created the Young Minds Build Bridges program. Through this program we united the youth of New York City and their peers from around the globe around the common purposes of promoting peace and raising awareness of global warming.”

Learn more about CITYarts’ Five Programs: http://www.cityarts.org/our-five-programs/index.html .

About Neotrope:
Since 1983 Neotrope® has delivered services to raise organization awareness including brand identity, marketing, public relations (PR), and SEO services. Neotrope is also an entertainment publishing company involved in books, music, software, and online portals; is listed with GS1 for barcodes, with Bowker for ISBNs, and the RIAA for ISRC codes. The company pioneered the concept of search optimization of press release content back in 1997 (verifiable via archive-dot-org). Neotrope was an Inc. 5000 company in 2009, and has an A+ rating with the BBB. More information: www.Neotrope.com .

The Neotrope® marketing team includes Christopher Laird Simmons, who is an award-winning designer (including a design award from Apple Inc.), photographer, musician and digital artist. He is a member of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA), and ASCAP. Simmons has been widely interviewed by publications as diverse as Entrepreneur, Chicago Post Tribune, PCWorld, Monster-com, and TrendWatch. He has been on the launch team for numerous successful companies including the second PPC company on the net, Findwhat; and the MacMall® mail-order company. He also built Oprah’s first ecommerce solution for her “Begin with Love” video series. Other team members include accredited public relations professionals, working journalists and broadcast veterans.

Neotrope’s annual Non-Profit PR Grants™ Program was originally launched in 2000 by company founders Christopher Simmons and the late Dr. JL Simmons, with the goal of providing a “better donation” for worthy U.S. charitable 501(c)3 non-profits than simply writing a small check; instead utilizing the company’s capabilities to grow awareness to media and the public, attract halo sponsors/donors, and bring together disparate resources not generally affordable to small organizations.

Past recipients of the Non-Profit PR Grant Program include Children Awaiting Parents, Girls Write Now, Paws of Life Foundation, Special Equestrians, The Bob Moog Foundation, The Starlight Children’s Foundation, The Native Voices Foundation, World Savvy, and many others.

About Send2Press:
Send2Press® (a service of Neotrope) offers best-in-class affordable Direct-to-Editors™ news distribution to working print and broadcast media, online and social media, and deep into search engines using proprietary Neotrope ContextEngine™ technology. Send2Press is unique because it was the first newswire service with staff entirely comprised of accredited public relations professionals, published authors, working journalists, and marketing experts. Originally launched as MindsetNetwire in 1997 exclusively for Neotrope’s corporate clients, the service became Send2Press® in 2000. Learn more about Send2Press at www.Send2Press.com .

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PGMs are universally present in the catalytic converters in motor vehicles, in disc drives, oil refineries, glass manufacturing, medical devices and implants such as pacemakers and dental crowns, and a host of other applications. Some are also highly valued in jewelry and investment. PGMs are also rare, and quite costly.

Like most natural resources, PGM supplies are inherently limited, but to a greater degree than other important minerals. PGMs are produced in just a few countries; the U.S. imports 95 percent of the PGMs it consumes.

The limits of those supplies are now becoming clear. Already, Russia, the largest palladium producer, has announced that its palladium supplies are dwindling.

Industry analyses indicate that known PGM reserves are sufficient for another 360 years at present rates of production and consumption. However, that figure drops to 15 years if rising demand, particularly from growing industrialization and automobile sales in emerging economies, is taken into account.

Growing demand is fueled by a range of factors including accelerating motor vehicle sales around the world, a rising industrial sector in many regions and a growing consumer preference for white metals in jewelry. As demand exceeds available supplies, prices will rise significantly.

In the recent past, limited supply in the face of changing demand has produced extreme volatility. Rhodium, for example, went from over $6,000 per ounce in mid-2007 to $10,000 per ounce in mid-2008 and dropped to a little above $1,000 before the end of that year.

On the other hand there are technologies already on the market, and some near commercialization, that will alter the picture just as dramatically in the other direction, by replacing PGMs at much lower cost, and by relieving supply and price pressure through improved recovery.

While some PGM applications, such as jewelry, investment and electronics, are relatively immune from substitution at this time, most PGM applications are vulnerable to replacement by nanotechnology-based solutions available at a fraction of the cost. Such alternatives can partly or completely replace the PGM content in critical applications like catalysts in the automotive, energy and industrial markets.

Other new methods will eventually, in effect, bring new supplies to market through improved recovery. New techniques for recycling catalytic converters and similar products are able to recover far more PGM content than was possible earlier. In addition, once-inaccessible PGM content in copper and nickel mine waste and slag can now be exploited. The availability of literally mountains of mine waste and slag throughout western North America and other parts of the world, will soon set off a “gold rush” to exploit those resources.

Today, platinum group metals are at an extraordinary intersection of market forces. The confluence of growing demand, limited and/or dwindling supplies, and growing availability of alternatives and new supplies, will likely create a period of extraordinary volatility before things stabilize.

Much of this decade will witness a transition of PGM markets to adjust to a new reality of price volatility and tightened supplies, while others move to take advantage of the new opportunities presented in PGM recovery and replacement.

About Thintri, Inc.:
Founded in 1996, Thintri, Inc. (www.thintri.com), is a full-service consulting firm, based in New York and directed by J. Scott Moore, Ph.D.

Thintri’s services include business intelligence, market research, technology transfer and technology assessment, and in-depth, off-the-shelf market studies on promising emerging technologies. Topics of focus have included medical and industrial imaging, optical networks, materials and coatings, semiconductor devices, manufacturing, industrial logistics, security, thermal management, energy, and a host of others.

For more information, visit http://www.thintri.com or call 914-242-4615.

Media Contact:
J. Scott Moore
+1-914-242-4615
smoore@thintri.com.

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“Most companies realize they need to travel in order to stay competitive and grow their business,” said Tom Ciccone, Director of Corporate Sales for Fare Buzz. “The paradigm becomes how efficient can we execute the travel program within our company. In other words how can we fly smarter?”

According to a recent study from the U.S. Travel Association, companies have spent roughly $246 Billion each year over the past few years. Taking the time to travel and meet with customers, or potential customers, face-to-face has been shown to increase the return on investment of travel expenses. The study also found that excluding business travel can cause a company to lose up to 17 percent of potential profits.

“We actually see an increase of business travel from our smaller companies in economic down turns,” said Ciccone. “This stems from a need to offer a more competitive edge in the face to face interaction with new or existing clients to help them compete with their larger rivals.”

Fare Buzz aims to make corporate travel effective for the company, but convenient for the person actually doing the traveling. They work with corporations of all sizes to stay in compliance and make sure each client is getting the best value for their business travel needs. Fare Buzz helps develop travel programs for companies that do not have a traditionally managed travel program in place. In addition, their Account Managers assist companies to maximize the benefits of managed travel program currently in place within their organizations.

About Fare Buzz:
Started in 1994 in New York City, Fare Buzz is one of the leading travel providers in the industry. The company has created affiliations with vendors of various travel products. Due to Fare Buzz’s buying power, the company is able to negotiate aggressive deals on air, hotels, car rentals and now vacation rentals to pass the savings on to the consumer.

In addition, Fare Buzz also specializes in discounted business class fares and offers an attractive rewards program for customers. For additional information, please contact Margaret Yekulis at margaret@farebuzz.com.

For more information please visit: http://www.farebuzz.com .

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Additionally, we offer you an absolutely free recovery tool: EaseUS Mac Photo Recovery Free to get your precious photos back.

EaseUS Mac Data Recovery Wizard provides advanced Mac data recovery solution under Apple(R) Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) and 10.6 (Snow Leopard); and 10.5 (Leopard). With four different recovery options – Photo Recovery, Deleted File Recovery, Deep Scan Recovery, Lost Partition Recovery – EaseUS Mac Data Recovery Wizard aims to enhance the recovery process by retrieving data under almost all data loss situations and ensure data security without modifying the originally saved data on your hard drive(s).

Key features of EaseUS Mac Data Recovery Wizard:
* Recover data from deleted, lost, formatted, and/or corrupted Mac hard drives; and any other media storage device(s).
* Preview your recovered photos, audio and videos.
* An interactive interface for better user experience.
* Offer safe recovery without overwriting, modifying, or re-indexing existing data.
* Deep scan recovery makes sure all data possible is retrieved.
* Support HFS, HFS+, HFSX, HFS Wrapper and FAT file system.

“EaseUS takes its first step in Mac data recovery field at the beginning of 2012 and will bring people more comprehensive data solution in the rest of the year,” said Mr. Liu, CEO of EaseUS Software.

Pricing and Availability:
EaseUS Mac Photo Recovery Free is available at:
http://www.easeus.com/mac/mac-photo-recovery-free/ .

EaseUS Mac Data Recovery Wizard for $89.95 is available at:
http://www.easeus.com/mac/mac-data-recovery/ .

EaseUS Mac Data Recovery Wizard Technician for unlimited usage for $399 is available at:
http://www.easeus.com/mac/mac-data-recovery-technician/ .

About CHENGDU Yiwo Tech Development Co., Ltd.:
The company specializes in data recovery, backup software and partition manager. For Windows OS, its major products are Data Recovery Wizard, EaseUS Todo Backup and EaseUS Partition Master. For Mac OS, it has EaseUS Mac Data Recovery Wizard and CleanGenius. For more information, please visit http://www.easeus.com.

EaseUS(R) is a registered trademark of CHENGDU Yiwo Tech Development Co., Ltd. All other trademarks acknowledged.

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Many of the properties that began the foreclosure process in the third and fourth quarters of 2011 will become bank-owned properties in 2012, and many will also end up as short sales. Lenders continue processing more of the 2011 delayed delinquencies, plus new foreclosures caused by high and extended unemployment. Homeowners with severely underwater mortgages push smaller but continuous surges of foreclosures also depressing home prices.

Increasing foreclosures will likely drive foreclosure inventory higher, generating bidding wars with buyers, investors and real estate agents waiting for more choice properties to become available.

The recent number of bank foreclosures filings decreased 28 percent, and home prices increased 12 percent over 2011. Many people are without good-paying jobs and have settled into lower-paying positions, thereby exasperating the situation.

Unemployment numbers recently reflected a hiring of some 264,000 new employees, but there are hundreds of thousands of others who have stopped looking for work, a classification different from the unemployed, known as jobless.

The Obama administration said it was expanding eligibility for its Home Affordable Modification Program, known as HAMP, to borrowers with higher debt loads and tripling the incentives it pays to banks that reduce principal on loans using some of the $29 billion set aside for the program. The opponents say that this intervention further prolongs the depressed housing market, and suggest that the market could correct itself more effectively by allowing bankruptcies and foreclosures to bottom-out, permitting the market to then begin rebuilding with a clean slate.

President Obama wants Congress to approve a $5 billion to $10 billion program to help U.S. homeowners refinance their homes as part of a vast package of proposals to support the depressed housing market, including a tax on banks to pay for the plan.

Bank Foreclosures Rates Change:
AL: 13.85 percent.
AR: -32.81 percent.
AZ: -44.25 percent.
CA: -42.57 percent.
FL: -35.23 percent.
GA: 20.62 percent.
IL: 18.12 percent.
IN: -4.35 percent.
KS: -8.24 percent.
KY: -24.63 percent.
LA: 16.98 percent.
MI: -11.83 percent.
NC: -31.99 percent.
NJ: -19.80 percent.
NV: -30.32 percent.
NY: 12.20 percent.
OH: -34.22 percent.
OK: -17.37 percent.
TN: -8.95 percent.
TX: -33.98 percent.
UT: -36.74 percent.
VA: -36.50 percent.
WA: -15.90 percent.
U.S. Average: -28.36 percent.

Foreclosure Prices Change:
AL: 19.60 percent.
AR: 0.26 percent.
AZ: -9.82 percent.
CA: -12.65 percent.
FL: 8.79 percent.
GA: -26.90 percent.
IL: -25.09 percent.
IN: 14.15 percent.
KS: 2.88 percent.
KY: 27.48 percent.
LA: 9.38 percent.
MI: 24.72 percent.
NC: -16.31 percent.
NJ: -12.10 percent.
NV: -32.07 percent.
NY: -35.95 percent.
OH: -10.88 percent.
OK: 21.63 percent.
TN: 6.52 percent.
TX: 43.45 percent.
UT: -8.61 percent.
VA: -8.53 percent.
WA: -7.76 percent.
U.S. Average: 12.54 percent.

Data from Bankownedproperties.org shows that Arizona, California, Florida, Texas, and Georgia foreclosures actually decreased by thousands of properties, while Colorado increased by over 5,000 properties, and were higher priced, as were homes in Texas. All of these states have been among the most affected by the economic meltdown in the last four years, as families cope with lost jobs and reduced incomes.

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