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  • Lone Star Tops Property Raising With $6 Billion Target

    Lone Star Funds, the biggest buyer of delinquent mortgages, is leading the fundraising pack for real estate private equity with a $6 billion target for a pool to buy distressed commercial-property debt and equity. The firm, based ...

  • Lenders Loosen Their Purse Strings

    willing buyers matched by a big supply of willing sellers. Plus generous, easy-going lenders. Lenders, though still kind of stingy , are loosening the purse strings a bit, and ...

  • Woman sues McDonalds over how she was paid

    WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) -- A single mother who worked briefly at a northeastern Pennsylvania McDonald's franchise is suing the owners after she said she was given a fee-laden debit card and told that she must use it to access her earnings. A lawyer filed a lawsuit Thursday in Luzerne County on behalf of Natalie Gunshannon and other ...

  • This is now the worlds thinnest smartphone

    LONDON (Reuters) - China's Huawei unveiled its flagship smartphone, the Ascend P6, at its first standalone launch event on Tuesday, underlining its ambitions to compete with Apple and Samsung in the top tier of mobile technology. The company says the device, at 6.18 mm thick, is the world's slimmest. It has a 5 megapixel front-facing camera, designed for taking "selfies", ...

  • Man plays entire soccer match with wild injury

    , the 51-year-old completed the match, but soon complained of a stiff arm and had difficulty speaking. He was driven to a local hospital, where doctors were shocked to see that a 9mm bullet was clearly lodged in his skull. Krtalica was immediately transferred to the department of neurosurgery and the bullet was removed. A hospital spokesman said the operation was a success and he is now in a ...


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The Firemen's Ball (Horí, má panenko) [DVD]

The Firemen's Ball (Horí, má panenko) [DVD]

Filmed in 1966 and released in 1967, just a few weeks before Soviet tanks rumbled in Czechoslovakia, Milos Forman's The Firemen's Ball (Hor, m panenko) was a political bombshell barely disguised as a seemingly innocuous comedy of errors. Its brilliance is its multifaceted take on human silliness, as it plays on one level as a hilarious setpiece about the disasters that befall a befu ... ...

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  • How to Make Your Home Ready for Retirement

    The majority of seniors live in conventional housing, as opposed to a senior citizen facility, according to science writer Rachel Adelson, author of "Staying Power: Age-Proof Your Home for Comfort, Safety and Style". Some of the benefits of staying in your own home, or aging in place as it's sometimes called, are: It costs less, keeps you in familiar surroundings and offers ...

  • US STOCKS-Wall St extends rise investors see no change in Fed policy

    Tue Jun 18, 2013 4:33pm EDT * Fed expected to try to soothe markets over stimulus * Industrial and tech shares rally, 3M at 52-week high * Boeing shares hit 5 1/2-year high * Indexes up: Dow 0.9 pct, S&P 0.8 pct, Nasdaq 0.9 pct By Ryan Vlastelica NEW YORK, June 18 (Reuters) - U.S. stocks advanced for a second straight day on Tuesday as investors bet the Federal Reserve would temper statements ...

  • Slight rise in commercial property investor optimism

    Christchurch, Queenstown and Auckland commercial property market participants are once again the most optimistic about the investment climate. That's the finding of the latest Colliers International commercial property investor confidence survey. Spokesman Alan McMahon says overall, the quarter has seen a slight rise in confidence. "Industrial property investors like the look of the ...

  • 5 Things You Must Know Before Renting Overseas

    retirement overseas , I strongly recommend that you plan to rent a place to live rather than buying a home of your own. Renting first wherever you relocate overseas gives you a chance to try the place on for size and to confirm or reconsider. My husband and I have done this for each of our international moves, and, in each case, we've been glad we did. Arriving in Ireland about 15 years ...

  • Miss Utah USA gets second chance at question on The Today Show

    Miss Utah USA, Marissa Powell, quickly garnered national attention where attention is never wanted. But on Tuesday morning, Powell was given a second chance to answer the question that caught her off guard in the Miss USA pageant this past ...

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