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  • Protests against property tax to continue ahead of deadline

    A series of car cavalcades and rallies are taking place in Dublin and around the country this weekend in protest against the property tax.It comes just a few days ahead of next Tuesday's deadline to pay the charge.Revenue officials say over 1.1 million homeowners have filed their returns, and that anyone still wishing to do so can log on to www.revenue.ie.However, the Campaign Against Home ...

  • Commercial property markets take an early holiday

    Yields in the European commercial property investment market gathered pace in the second quarter of 2008 rising to their highest since 2006, according to Cushman & Wakefield. The real estate firm found that investment volumes are down 63 per cent on the same period in 2007, and that trading volumes fell to €25.6bn in quarter two, which is their lowest since 2003. Prime yields on ...

  • Fidelity International Real Estate Business expands into Germany

    Fidelity International’s Real Estate Business is planning to expand into the Continental European market with the opening of a dedicated Fidelity Real Estate Business office in Munich. The new office, which is currently going through its regulatory notifications, will provide a strategic base for Fidelity’s director of European Real Estate, Keith Sutton. From here he will ...

  • Another barrier falls in American sports

    according to ESPN , he is also "the first active openly gay male athlete to compete in an American professional team sport." Rogers came out in February with a moving post on his personal blog, saying "Secrets can cause so much internal damage. People love to preach about honesty, how honesty is so plain and simple. Try explaining to your loved ones after 25 years you are ...

  • Improving economy alters political landscape

    FILE - In this May 15, 2013, file photo, President Barack Obama speaks on the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups for extra tax scrutiny in the East Room of the White House in Washington. The economy is clearly, if slowly, recovering on Obama s watch and robbing Republicans of a central argument against Democrats. But the alleged misbehavior by the Internal Revenue ...


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Antwone Fisher

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Antwone Fisher, which tells the story of a man who survived abuse, neglect, racism, and other horrors, is a generically uplifting movie, filled with the kind of bluntly life-affirming feel-goodness you expect to see on a Sunday-night TV movie. This doesnt make it bad in any particular way, merely unsurprising. Oscar-winning actor Denzel Washington, in his directorial debut, has crafted a n ... ...

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  • Fears that Detroit will sell off jewels to pay debts

    Detroit Institute of Arts , sparking fears in artistic and philanthropic circles that he means to auction off the city's artistic jewels. Orr was appointed in March by Michigan's Republican Governor Rick Snyder to tackle the shrinking city's long-term debt problem, which the emergency manager estimated at $15 billion in a recent report on the state of Detroit. Orr's ...

  • NFL team gets more than it bargained for

    As for the speed part of that height/weight/speed equation well, Brown's still working on that. At his pro day, he ran the 40-yard dash in 5.80 and 5.88 seconds, but it was his raw measurements that set NFL teams off. Brown measured in with 38-inch arms and a 92 3/8-inch wingspan, far above the norm, even by NFL standards. That said, if he makes the Rams' roster, Brown would not ...

  • How Canadas housing downturn threatens to shake up real estate commissions

    The power of the Internet was going to shatter the grip that realtors have on house sales in Canada, driving down commissions and empowering consumers.The Internet failed.The Competition Bureau waded in to overcome the industry's stasis, attempting to create a market where consumers pick which services they want and data are more widely ...

  • Lawsuit alleging racy Brett Favre texts settled

    View Photo FILE - In this Dec. 7, 2008, file photo, New York Jets quarterback Brett Favre reacts to a missed pass during the second half on an NFL football game against ...

  • 401 balances soar but theyre still not enough

    hit a new record high of nearly $81,000 in the first quarter of 2013. That's a 75% jump from the scary-low levels of March 2009, when the stock market bottomed out. Older workers are in considerably better shape. The average 401(k) balance for people 55 and over who are still working rose to $255,000, Fidelity says. That's a 95% jump from the dark days of early 2009, when workers ...

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