Monthly Archives: February 2011

Homes starting at $95500

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In this column, you have noticed a steady activity of properties being placed into escrow. What we have found is that there are three essential ingredients to a listing being sold. First is to be priced realistically and properly. Second is to be strong on commission. Third is to be open to terms (for example, owner paying closing costs or carrying financing). One Read more [...]

Study pinpoints why college students drop out

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<!--Saxotech Paragraph Count: 2-->Depression, a loss of financial aid, increased tuition, unexpected bad grades and roommate conflicts are among key risk factors that lead college students to drop out, according to a study led by Michigan State University researchers.Not so influential: a death in the family, failure to get their intended major, a significant injury and addiction.“Prior to this work, little was known about what factors in a student’s everyday life prompt them to think about Read more [...]

Goffs February: median rises in first session

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The Goffs February sale kicks off the company's auction year   PICTURE: Edward Whitaker (racingpost.com/photos)   Read Ryan McElligott's full sale report and market view in Thursday's Racing Post - download the NEW digital newspaper from 3am or buy it as a PDF from 9am. 6.30pm The first day's trading concludes with 113 horses from 173 offered (65 per cent, compared with 47 per cent in 2010) sold for €926,100 at an average of €8,196 (down by 11 per cent on 2010) and a median of €4,600 Read more [...]

Thorntons warns of poor Christmas sales

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Shares in Thorntons fell 6 per cent on Wednesday after the chocolatier blamed “weak consumer confidence and adverse weather” for poor sales over the Christmas period and a decline in pre-tax profit.

The UK’s last independent, publicly listed chocolate maker after the sale of Cadbury to Kraft said December’s arctic weather had prevented deliveries to many of its 371 shops and 229 franchises.

Guggenheim partners takes 46% in AIM-listed infra India

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AIM-listed investment company Infrastructure India plc, that shifted out of the main market at London Stock Exchange last year, is raising $53 million (£33 million) and has also struck a deal to acquire large stakes in two Guggenheim Partners-backed Indian firms that will give the US-based asset management firm as much as 45.59% in Infrastructure India plc, that focuses on investments in Indian infrastructure assets. According to the plan, Infrastructure India plc will Read more [...]

Here comes cyber bride

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HIDDEN among the weird, wacky and wonderful events listed in this year’s Fringe guide is a wedding invitation. This is no ordinary ceremony, though, and guests have been asked to bring laptops and iPods, not presents. That way they can become part of the cyber wedding (or, ``webbing’‘) of Aiyudot Khom and his bride-to-be, Pixie,  at Blackwood’s Artisan Cafe. The online nuptials are at the heart of the Fringe show, Aiyudot Khom is Getting Married, created by Blackwood resident Read more [...]