Monthly Archives: April 2012

Big Brother camera firm snapped up for £8 million in Olympic swoop

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Laurie Frost has sold Camera Corps to listed photography and broadcasting firm Vitec Group, which said it was keen to buy it before the 2012 Olympics.Camera Corps operates an array of sophisticated remote camera technology including Q-Ball, which provides high-definition images using small, highly flexible devices.The company, based in Byfleet, Surrey, has worked on previous Olympics and its bespoke cameras have been built into a swimming pool float, an archery target and a ski slalom pole. Camera Read more [...]

NASDAQ-listed Prospect Capital to tap market for USD130m via sale of …

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US closed-end investment company Prospect Capital Corp (NASDAQ:PSEC) said that it was planning to launch a public offer of USD130m (EUR99m) in senior unsecured convertible notes that would fall due in 2017. The company said also that the initial investors who buy the notes will receive an overallotment option to purchase up to an additional USD20m in aggregate principal amount of notes. Only qualified institutional investors will be able to buy the notes. The notes, which mature on 15 October Read more [...]

Heritage buildings to be listed soon

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The State government will notify the first list of heritage buildings in the Chennai Metropolitan Area (CMA) this year.The Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority (CMDA) will complete the work on assessment, evaluation, documentation and listing of heritage buildings and precincts in all parts of CMA in two years. The work, according to the procedures prescribed in development regulations, commenced in 2010 and the delay in documentation was attributed to the slow pace of work done by the teams Read more [...]

Mhada flats out of aam admi’s reach

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Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA), which claims to be the state government’s sole nodal agency constructing affordable houses for the last six decades, will announce this year’s sale of affordable houses on April 17. But the prices listed by the agency for these houses are no way affordable to the aam admi.Mhada will sell 3,000-odd flats to people belonging to the Economically Weaker Section (EWS) and Lower Income Group (LIG). While the tentative cost Read more [...]

BC student athletic events up in the air

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A major track-and-field meet for Surrey high school students has been cancelled and other sporting events risk the same fate as more B.C. teachers withdraw from voluntary activities, including coaching, to protest a law intended to end their contract dispute.Around the province, student athletes are on tenterhooks as they wait for teachers to vote later this month on a mass protest plan, which was drafted by their union and recommends all members stop extracurricular activities to signal their unhappiness Read more [...]

Chalet partly owned by DuProprio co-founder listed with broker

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A renovated Laurentian chalet - partly owned by a founder of a major Canadian for-sale-by-owner network - is about to be sold by a realestate broker charging a fiveper-cent commission.Nicolas Bouchard, a cofounder of DuProprio - which operates as Com-Free outside Quebec - is a shareholder in a numbered company selling the fourbedroom home on Robert St., in touristy St. Sauveur, Multiple Listing Service data and provincial financial records show.A neighbouring 10,000square-foot site owned by the same Read more [...]

Blues G Elliott injured, listed as day to day before playoffs

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Paradise Gardens Listed in the National Register

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Paradise Gardens Listed in the National Register Tony Potts04-10-2012 Paradise Gardens in Chattooga County, was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on March 27, 2012. The property was listed at the national level of significance because it is an exceptional and largely intact example of a 20th-century visionary art environment. Visionary artists often work on a large scale in an attempt to transform the environment into an alternate world or to transcend the physical world Read more [...]