Monthly Archives: June 2011

Area events for Fourth holiday weekend – Champaign/Urbana News

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Here's The News-Gazette's by-no-means comprehensive list of area Independence Day events, organized by date (you can find your town in alphabetical order within the dates). The schedule and other information for the Champaign County Freedom Celebration is online here. Here are maps of the parade route and parking for the fireworks, which are scheduled to be at Parkland College. (There is no rain date for the Champaign fireworks show.) This information was submitted for inclusion in e3 magazine. Read more [...]

Top 10 U.S.-Listed Chinese Stocks with Highest Return on Equity: VALV, SCEI …

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Top 10 U.S.-Listed Chinese Stocks with Highest Return on Equity: VALV, SCEI, JKS, GPRC, CEA, BIDU, CYOU, CPGI, CDM, SPRD (Jun 28, 2011) Best-Rated Chinese Stocks; Highest-Upside; Fastest-Growing; Top 10 Lists; Analyst Actions Below are the top 10 U.S.-listed Chinese stocks with highest Return on Equity (ROE) ratio for the last 12 months, UPDATED TODAY before 4:30 AM ET. ROE shows a company's efficiency in making profits from shareholders' equity. It is equal to net profits divided Read more [...]

Dilnot report set to call for more spending on care for older people

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When Andrew Dilnot was interviewed by Society Guardian last autumn, his personal interests were listed in one word: "numbers". Reading this, one of his daughters told him he was a very sad man. But it is the economist's obsessive mastery of figures that, by lunchtime next Monday, will have enabled him to deliver to government on schedule, and to likely acclaim, a blueprint for meeting the challenge of funding the care and support of our rapidly ageing population.Whether that blueprint will Read more [...]

North Iowa Today for Tuesday, June 28

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For other fun events, go to www.globegazette.com and click on the Entertainment link. To suggest events to be listed here, please e-mail specifics to judy.delperdang@globegazette.com. You can also post them in the online Events Calendar by following the posting prompts. • CLEAR LAKE — Adults and teens are invited to discuss the 2011 All Iowa Reads selection, “Sing Them Home” by Stephenie Kallos, Read more [...]

The Most Affordable and Most Expensive Housing Markets in Maryland

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What's the most affordable housing market in Maryland? Hint: It's two and a half hours to the west. Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC has released a list ranking more than 2,300 markets in North America. Its rankings used four-bedroom, two-bathroom houses that were listed for sale between September 2010 and March 2011. The markets had to have at least 10 such properties to be included on the list. The cheapest of the 32 markets in Maryland is Cumberland, which is located in Allegany County. Its average Read more [...]

Renovated Gothic folly looking over nine counties for sale – for a sky-high price

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In 2005, Kemeys Folly stood crumbling in isolation on its lofty Monmouthshire hilltop. Now, after an extensive restoration and a spot two years ago on Channel Four’s Grand Designs programme, the grade II listed property is up for sale at an eye-watering £2.75m – more than three times the £830,000 banker Dean Berry and his public relations executive wife Sarah paid for it. Six years ago, damp stonework, ugly modern extensions and a waterlogged interior meant Dean and Sarah would have their Read more [...]