Monthly Archives: December 2013

Former Flint Journal building listed on National Register of Historic Places – The Flint Journal

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FLINT, MI – With its neighbor reduced to a giant pile of rubble, the former Flint Journal building has been granted a historical designation that guarantees that the exterior of the newspaper's longtime home will remain unchanged.The National Park Service has placed the former Flint Journal building on the National Register of Historic Places, a move that makes current owner, Uptown Reinvestment Corp., eligible to receive federal tax credits to renovate the building.  “That was the primary Read more [...]

Historic 1890 “Nelson House” in Fremont, still stands today.

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This beautiful old home in Fremont is called the Victor Nelson house, and was constructed about 1890. Two years earlier the Swedish immigrant Victor C. Nelson and his wife arrived in Seattle and moved to the Belltown neighborhood. Nelson drove a horse drawn wagon delivering laundry for Cascade Steam Laundry, the largest laundry in Seattle. By the end of 1889, he mortgaged some property in Fremont to finance the construction of a house. By spring 1890 the Nelsons moved into the house. Read more [...]

Kensington and Chelsea has most expensive streets

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28 December 2013 Last updated at 00:04 GMT Egerton Crescent is close to department store Harrods The London borough of Kensington and Chelsea has six out 10 of the most expensive streets in England and Wales, according to a new report. Egerton Crescent, in South Kensington, was named the country's most expensive place to live for the second year running by Lloyds Bank. Many properties on the Read more [...]

Govt. employees not game for sports

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In front of a sparse gathering, the district-level sports meet of the government workers kicked off in the city on Friday. The competition, organised by Karnataka State Government Employee’s Association, will see nearly 18 athletics events for men below the age of 45 years, seven events for men above 45 years of age, 13 events for women below the age of 40 years, seven for women above 45 years of age, wrestling competitions, six team sports competitions, swimming competitions in various categories Read more [...]

St. Paul Hotel listed among best hotels in world

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St. Paul, Minn.(Photo: KARE)ST. PAUL, Minn. -- The St. Paul Hotel has earned the rare and prestigious honor of being named as one of Travel + Leisure Magazine's top 500 hotels in the world for 2014.General Manger David Miller got the good news a couple weeks ago."Any hotel can have fancy furniture and nice carpet and fantastic food and beverages, which we do have all those things, but the people, the employees, really make the difference," Miller told KARE 11.Only a handful of hotels in the Midwest Read more [...]

Weather highlights of 2013: Quiet hurricane season and relatively mild summer …

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A quiet hurricane season and relatively comfortable summer temperatures, mixed in with quite a few rain events, marked the top ten weather events for 2013 listed by Louisiana State Climatologist Barry Keim and a month-by-month summary of weather events issued by the Slidell office of the National Weather Service. "The year 2013 will go into the record books as a rather quiet year, at least regarding Louisiana's weather," Keim wrote in his annual summary. "We were hurricane free, had a summer free Read more [...]

Why London is streets ahead for the wealthy property buyer

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Withinlee Road in Macclesfield, Cheshire, was the only street outside southern England to make the top 50, coming in 48th with homes at almost £1.9million.Spicers Field in Oxshott, Surrey, has the highest average price outside London, with homes typically costing £3.5million, and coming 19th on the list. The most expensive street in Wales is ­Gannock Park in Conwy, with an average house price of £655,000.Lloyds used Land Registry house sales figures. Nitesh Patel, an economist at the bank, said: Read more [...]

Rules on Minimum Public Holding as a Continuous Listing Requirement

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December 27, 2013, 8:37 pm These general rules are applicable to all Public Listed Entities which have their equity listed on the Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) subject to the Transitional Rules specified under Rule 7 and shall be effective from 01st January 2014. A sizeable public holding is a necessity for a transparent and liquid market. It is perceived that greater the public holding less is the potential for market abuse. Therefore, a minimum Read more [...]

Engagement rings among common items being re-gifted

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