Monthly Archives: December 2011

Missing Fort Wayne girl listed on national website

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A missing Fort Wayne girl has been added to a national website for missing children.A poster for Aliahna Marie Maroney Lemmon is now on the National Center for Missing Exploited Children site at www.missingkids.com.No new information has been released since Saturday about the missing 9-year-old girl, who was last seen Friday morning. Aliahna and her 6- and 8-year-old sisters had been staying with a family friend in a mobile home park near North Clinton Street and Diebold Road because their mother Read more [...]

Culpeper’s Top 10 list of 2011

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1) Shake, rattle and roll: quake Tuesday, Aug. 23 began as a normal end-of-summer day. Area children prepared to return to school that following Wednesday, and Sen. Mark Warner was in town to tour the Library of Congress Packard Campus on Mount Pony. Just minutes before he reached his destination – at 1:51 p.m. – all hell broke loose as “the Central Virginia Seismic Zone” suddenly became very active. Centered in Mineral in Louisa County, just 36 miles away down U.S. 522, the Read more [...]

Music, basketball, First Night & New Year’s Eve events

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By BILL KISERCorneliusNews.net Well, Christmas is over — your family is stuffed on leftovers, and the kids have worn out batteries in their new toys and are reduced to playing with the boxes and torn-up wrapping paper. But the holiday celebrations aren’t over: We’ll ring in the new year Saturday night, at First Night Charlotte and other events. Many local clubs and restaurants — the Brickhouse Tavern and Flatiron Kitchen in Davidson, and the Galway Hooker Pub and the Rusty Rudder Read more [...]

Shoppers flock to Boxing Day sales

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SHOPPING CROWDS: Shoppers in Christchurch's Westfield Riccarton mall looking for a bargain in the Boxing Day sales. Stores opened early but shoppers arrived even earlier - with queues of eager customers a feature of the manic Boxing Day sales. From early yesterday, malls and high street shops were packed with customers looking to cash in vouchers or exploit post-Christmas sales. In Wellington, eager readers Read more [...]

ASIC pushes for more powers as it wants to impose listing rules on ASX

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House Hunt: Flip This!

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“Flipping” houses has become a popular and profitable way to make money through investment buying. Buy a fixer-upper at a cheap price and put a little money into it for repair. “Flipping” or put it right back on the market for a higher price is what makes it a “flipper.” In many instances only inexpensive cosmetic changes are needed to give a home curb appeal and sell faster. The current real estate market slump is the perfect time to buy more home for the money. You must be careful, Read more [...]

Have learnt lessons in politics, says Tharoor

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Listing his major achievements in the last two years as member of Lok Sabha in a `half-term report,' Shashi Tharoor on Monday said he was not disappointed with his work, but had learnt lessons in politics and got rid of illusions. The diplomat-turned MP, who was elected from Thiruvanathapuram constituency, told  a press conference here that he had not yet become a `typical' politician whatever that term meant.  Read more [...]

Thinking of selling? Winter listings have best results

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It’s officially winter and the holiday rush is pretty much over.  Now what? For those who have been pondering the idea of selling, winter – believe it or not – is actually the best time to sell a house.  This is very contrary to what popular opinion holds (and what I thought as well), but online real estate brokerage Redfin dug into the data of home sales from November of 2009 to November of 2010 with stats to show why. They analyzed sales over the four seasons and compared the number Read more [...]

Profits of listed firms fell 10% in 9 months

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by Jenniffer B. Austria The consolidated net income of listed companies dropped 10 percent in the first nine months of the year to P308.8 billion from P343.5 billion year-on-year due to the slowdown in global and domestic economies, data from the Philippine Stock Exchange show. Combined revenues of listed companies, however, rose 15 percent to P2.78 trillion from P2.41 trillion on year, led by the strong performances of the financial, property and mining sectors. The PSE fathered the data Read more [...]

High hopes — and prices — for high-end housing

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It's good at the top. Thanks to Mexican nationals and Eagle Ford Shale millionaires helping drive the market for expensive homes, luxury real estate appears to be outperforming the rest of the housing market. Custom builders are starting more million-dollar spec homes, those built on speculation before a buyer is in hand. And even within luxury neighborhoods, sometimes it's the most expensive homes that are selling the fastest. “Who is the most recession-proof? High-income people. Who Read more [...]