Pinto’s Second Manhattan Synagogue Listed For Sale

A PARTIAL LIST: NY Times: A Muckraking Blogger Focuses On Jews Forward 50 Heeb Magazine 100 The Wall Street Journal: "Failed Messiah follows the controversy closely with links to related press articles and judicial records." The New York Times, Page 1: "Shmarya Rosenberg…traced the fraudulent comments on his site to a 5W address." The New York Times: "The legal conflict has revealed a deep tension within the Orthodox community that has been reported in the Jewish weekly press, and has been Read more [...]

Garnerville Arts gets landmark status

President Robin Rosenberg, left, and Executive Director James Tyler of the Garner Arts Center are photographed at the center in Garnerville Sept. 12, 2013.(Photo: Carucha L. Meuse / The Journal News)Story HighlightsThe Garnerville Arts and Industrial Center has been listed to the National Register of Historic Places.The designation, which is largely honorific, will help ensure the former textile factory's long-term preservation.The brick complex was built between 1838 and 1909. It currently houses Read more [...]

Upcoming library events in April in S.W. County

Posted: Monday, March 31, 2014 4:00 pm Upcoming library events in April in S.W. County Roanoke County Public Library will hold a book sale April 12 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and April 14 through April 17 from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. April 16 will be 1/2 Price Day, and April 17 will be Box Day. On Saturday, May 10, from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. the library is sponsoring a bus trip to the Read more [...]

Cheapest house in Vancouver on sale today, listed at $600K

Only in Vancouver would a $600,000 house be considered a deal, but in a city of million-dollar homes, a 100-year-old blue house on Clark Drive stands out. The 1,951-square-foot, three-bedroom, detached house at 2622 Clark Dr. is set to go officially on the market today. It's been listed at $599,000. "It's very rare, and that's why all the excitement," said RE/MAX realtor Mary Cleaver during an open house on the weekend. The 1911 house sits on only a half lot and looks out on a busy street, but the Read more [...]

Citic Leads The Charge For China’s Financial Reform With HK Listing

This past week CITIC Group Corporation (Citic) announced its intention to list the bulk of its operating assets on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKSE). How it will do so raises valuation questions, about which I will discuss more below. But the fact that it is doing this is far more suggestive about the character of China’s new government and its commitment to change. The implications of Citic’s plan is more far-reaching than those recently announced by Sinopec and Read more [...]

Cheapest Vancouver house: $600K 2:22

Only in Vancouver would a $600,000 house be considered a deal, but in a city of million-dollar homes, a 100-year-old blue house on Clark Drive stands out. The home, listed for $599,000, is the cheapest listing in the city right now. (CBC) The 1,951-square-foot, three-bedroom, detached house at 2622 Clark Dr. is set to go officially on the market today. It's been listed at $599,000. "It's very rare, and that's why all the excitement," said RE/MAX realtor Mary Cleaver during an open house on Read more [...]

Police: Woman with house listed for sale discovers burglars

PORTLAND, OR (KPTV/AP) - A woman whose house is for sale in southwest Portland arrived for a showing Saturday afternoon and saw two men inside who weren't supposed to be there. She reported a burglary in progress in the 1400 block of Southwest College Street around 1 p.m. Police say arriving officers caught the men walking away and recovered stolen property. Eighteen-year-old Dustin Shannon and 19-year-old Ryan Wilson were booked into the Multnomah County Jail on two counts each Read more [...]

The Last of Us: Complete Edition listed for PS4 by retailer

Spanish retailer XtraLife.es has listed The Last of Us: Complete Edition for PlayStation 4, days after PlayStation Eurasia's Sercan Sulun outed the game's next-gen re-release.Picked up by AllGamesBeta, the listing allegedly pegged the game for release on June 19, but made no mention of the Left Behind DLC expected to be included with the next-gen game.However, whether XtraLife has inside knowledge on the next-gen version or is simply hazarding a guess at what's to come isn't clear. Last March, the Read more [...]

The return of the listed investment company sector

2013 was the best year for IPOs of listed investment companies since 2007, in terms of both numbers of new funds launched and the amount raised, with 21 London listed investment company launches raising GBP3.5bn, writes Joe Truelove, Director of Carey Group. Secondary issuance in the sector saw existing funds raise an additional GBP2.5bn. The market hasn’t quite reached the boom in launches of the period 2005 - 2007 which saw 215 fund launches in a three year period but this is a return to the Read more [...]