Monthly Archives: June 2012

Events, Festivities Mark MLB All-Star Game in Kansas City

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The 2012 Major League Baseball All-Star game comes to Kauffman Stadium on July 10 in Kansas City. The 40th anniversary of the stadium will be celebrated as MLB's best puts on a showcase for fans in the Midwest. There are plenty of events for fans to take in while enjoying the festive atmosphere. All times listed are local for Kansas City, which is Central Time. Fan Fest The 2012 All-Star Fan Fest kicks off the celebration Friday, July 6, at the Kansas City Convention Center. Billed as the "world's Read more [...]

Report: Distressed properties selling in 20 days

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Orange County distressed properties -- 18% of homes listed for sale and 41% of the residences recently put into escrow -- are so scarce that buyers snap them up at a pace equal to selling in just 20 days. Steve Thomas of ReportsOnHousing.com publishes every two weeks a report on the supply of local homes for sale and the share of that inventory that's distressed properties -- foreclosures and short sales. His latest report -- as of June 21 -- says ... Read more [...]

Facebook changes everyone’s listed emails to ‘@facebook.com’

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Without asking for permission, Facebook has changed users' listed email address to one ending in "@facebook.com."The changed was discovered Saturday, and has resulted in either users having their @facebook.com address being listed or simply having all of their other addresses be hidden, as happened in my case.The @facebook.com email service was announced in 2010, Read more [...]

Top trends listed from National Restaurant Association Show

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The 93rd Annual National Restaurant Association Restaurant, Hotel-Motel Show and 5th annual International Wine, Spirits Beer Event, held in May, showcased emerging trends driving the restaurant and foodservice industry. The NRA has identified the five biggest trends from this year's show, including: Healthful Alternatives: In response to consumers' growing interest in health and nutrition, the Organic and Natural Pavilion featured a host of wholesome, nutritious food products. For example, Mara's Read more [...]

Elvis Presley’s former crypt pulled from auction

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Elvis Presley's former crypt has been pulled from an auction in Los Angeles. Just one day before bidding was set to open on the singer's tomb, Julien's Auctions bowed to fans' complaints that the site should become a memorial.Presley's body spent just two months at Forest Hill cemetery, in Memphis, Tennessee, before he and his mother were disinterred and buried at Graceland. But the private mausoleum attracted considerable interest when it was listed for sale in May; bidding was scheduled to Read more [...]

Loyd Grossman on VAT changes

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The changes to VAT on listed-building alterations strike at the heart of one of our greatest national assets, argues Lloyd Grossman. We must act now, before it's too late On a recent visit to New York, I was delighted to see that pictures from the Government-funded Great Britain campaign were boldly splashed around Grand Central Station and throughout subway carriages. Our heritage is globally recognised as one of the assets that make Britain great, and inspiring images of that heritage are Read more [...]

Owners Of Melbourne’s Palace Theatre Update Status Of Venue’s Sale

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Hot on the heels of this morning’s news that a brand new music venue is opening in Melbourne, there’s been an update to the public sale of Palace Theatre which was put up for public auction last week, with concerns that it would most likely to be razed for a ‘high-density residential project.’ The 2000 capacity venue which has played host to the likes of The Darkness, The Dandy Warhols, Queens Of The Stone Age, Kaiser Chiefs, and will host Splendour sideshows for Lana Del Rey and Miike Snow Read more [...]

Monitise eyes new bankers and US listing

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Combining the two companies will give Monitise, whose head office will stay in London, access to more than 13m registered end consumers at banks including Lloyds TSB in the UK and PNC Bank in the US. Mr Lukies confirmed to The Sunday Telegraph that it was looking for bankers: “We’re looking for advisers that empathise with our growth story, and not just those looking for fees.” But he stressed that a possible decision on changing its listing would only be made once the Read more [...]