Monthly Archives: February 2011
Martins listed in Blues’ squad
Birmingham boss Alex McLeish has confirmed that Nigeria striker Obafemi Martins will go straight into the squad for the Blues' English Premier League game against Manchester City tonight.
The on-loan striker, who on Monday signed for Blues until the end of the season, flew out to Nigeria to resolve some visa issues before he returned to the UK later Tuesday night.
"We'll check how he (Martins) is in the morning (today), but he's listed in the squad. We'll await medical Read more [...]
Dell Venue Listed at Rs. 28499 for India
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On the other hand, Venue Pro carries the same hardware but in a slider form factor and runs Microsoft Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system. Price of this handset could be around the same as that of Venue else it would just raise eyebrows. Windows Phone 7 clad HTC HD7 was introduced for Rs. 31,790 and now available at Rs.. 28,499. So we can anticipate the Dell Venue Pro to be priced higher than Rs. 31,000 and expect Read more [...]
Wildcat Ranch property fetches $17.75 million
ASPEN — An unnamed buyer purchased the Wildcat Ranch property in Pitkin County for $17,750,000, according to a news release issued Monday. The seller was American music executive Tommy Mottola, who was represented by Aspen realty firm Joshua Co. and Natasha Saypol of the law firm Garfield Hecht P.C. Kathy DeWolfe of Chaffin Light Real Estate in Snowmass Village represented the buyer.The approximately 11,000-square-foot, custom-log residence and two guest houses are located on 324 acres within Read more [...]
It’s a bungle out there…
A WEBSITE highlighting the country's worst crime hotspots was dubbed
CRIMEBOTCH last night - after statistics were often wrong and it crashed on
its first day.
The site, www.police.uk,
cost 300,000 to develop and uses online maps for residents to see recorded
crime levels in their streets.
The Home Office claims it will make police chiefs more answerable to the
public.
But cops admitted many of the figures shown were false or misleading - and
angry residents feared falling Read more [...]
Homes make different impression in person
If you're actively looking to purchase a home, especially if we have exceptional weather as we did on Saturday, you've got the perfect scenario for going out and looking at open houses.
It's one thing to see photos of a home on the Internet, but seeing it personally gives you a whole new perspective. So many times I've heard people at open houses remark that the pictures online didn't do the home justice.
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Peterborough Civic Society: Preserving the city’s history
By John Baker
Published on Tue Feb 01 14:28:58 GMT 2011
Peterborough Civic Society celebrates its 60th birthday in 2012. John Baker met its chairman and learned about the society’s history, and the city’s good, bad and ugly structures:
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Saskatoon house sales, price up during January
Both the number of sales and the average price of homes sold in the Saskatoon region last month rose at nearly the same rate, new numbers show.The 2011 sales year started off on a positive note, The Saskatoon Region Association of Realtors (SRAR) says 195 houses were purchased in the city last month. That figure, the group said Tuesday, is up 10 per cent from January 2010 when 178 homes were sold in the Saskatoon area.At an average selling price of $300,353, January’s residential average is Read more [...]
Q&A: Historic Tax Credit Recapture Basics
By Charles A. Rhuda III, CPA, Novogradac Company
Question: What can cause recapture of federal rehabilitation (historic) tax credits? How is recapture calculated?
Answer: A historic building that has been subject to a "qualified rehabilitation" may be required to recapture all or a portion of the rehabilitation claimed if a recapture event occurs. The following are considered recapture events:
the building is sold,
the building ceases to be "business Read more [...]
Anti-Zionist Organizers Attack Critics in Rutgers Protest Aftermath
Never Again for Anyone, the national speaking tour that honors International Holocaust Remembrance Day by equating the modern state of Israel to Nazi Germany, is now responding to criticism of its event at Rutgers University this weekend. In a controversy that has captured widespread Internet attention, event organizers turned away hundreds of protesters who, so far, have been accused of nothing more than attending.
Several points stand out in Never Again for Anyone’s version of Read more [...]