| Local company plans to heat up the real estate market
Doner also said the auction company is very active in working with conventional real estate agents. He said "every property in the auction will offer the professional realtor the same commission structure as the conventional listings. This way the property owners have the benefits of the auction plus the support of all realtors."Every property in the auction will be available for inspection during the three auction open house tours on Feb. 10, 17 and 24 and will have inspection reports, surveys and title work available at most properties. The company will also conduct a bidder seminar on Feb. 22 to fully educate potential bidders on the auction process, answer questions and do mortgage approvals. The seminar is open to the public, but seating is limited, and the company recommends pre-registering on their Web site at www.summitauctiongroup.com.
BRAC 'gold rush' sets in
Real estate agents offering to help defense workers find homes. Law firms peddling their expertise in negotiating military contracts. Management and sales consultants tendering advice on how to sell to the government or contractors.
The huge nationwide military base shuffle has spawned a cottage industry of businesses and entrepreneurs hoping to cash in on the influx of up to 60,000 jobs and 28,000 households to Maryland. If the almost weekly conferences, seminars and workshops aren't enough, there are newsletters and Web sites offering the lowdown on how Maryland will be affected by the Pentagon's Base Closure and Realignment Commission's 2005 decision to shift thousands of mostly civilian, high-tech defense workers to military installations here.
The swarm of businesses around BRAC is hardly surprising.
Techbooks Acquires Whitmont Legal Technologies, Inc.
FALLS CHURCH, Va., Sept. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Techbooks, Inc., a global leader in integrated content transformation solutions, has signed an agreement to acquire Whitmont Legal Technologies, Inc. (Whitmont), a leading litigation support and eDiscovery services company. This purchase places Techbooks squarely in the rapidly growing market for electronic data discovery (EDD) services driven by the move toward outsourced legal services. The EDD market alone is estimated to be growing at a compounded annual rate of 50% and is expected to reach $2.9B in 2007, according to the 2005 Socha-Gelbmann Electronic Discovery Survey. Techbooks purchased Whitmont's assets to strengthen its content transformation solutions and expand its domain expertise into the outsourced legal services market.
Gambling deal foes bicker over state's take
Depending on whom you ask, the four gambling deals up for a vote in the Feb. 5 election will generate more than $400 million a year or create a net loss of $60 million for the state.Supporters of the gambling agreements struck by four Southern California tribes, including the Pechanga band near Temecula, have aired TV commercials saying their deals would generate more than $9 billion for the state. The tribes hoping to expand their casinos say that money could help the state close the multibillion-dollar budget gap. One of their TV ads features Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger saying the agreements would mean "billions and billions of dollars over the next two decades."In a study released Monday, the tribes increased their estimate to $16 billion over the 22-year life span of the agreements by adding a few extras, such as additional tax revenues and revenue-sharing payments for poor tribes with no casinos."We've been trying to be very conservative with our numbers," said Roger Salazar, a spokesman for a coalition of tribes supporting the agreements.
TRAM UPDATES: Service returns to Bury
We'll continue to monitor the situation and are advising passengers that they may still need to allow extra time for their journeys." For Bolton Traffic News click HERE, for Bury HERE and Leigh HERE. Latest train, tram and bus service updates, including live departure times for all local rail stations, are HERE. 12:08pm Friday 25th January 2008 Print Email this Comment .b_box { border: 1px solid #D7D7D7; background-color: #EEEEEE; color: #000000; padding: 5px; width: 307px; } .b_box img { border: 1px solid #D7D7D7; padding: 5px; background-color: #ffffff; } .b_box a, .b_box a:visited .b_box a:active { color: #000000 !important; } .b_box a:hover { color: #FF0000 !important; } .msg_div { padding: 0px; width: 307px; clear: left; } .entry { border-left: 1px solid #D7D7D7; border-right: 1px solid #D7D7D7; padding: 5px; width: 307px; } .entry2 { border-left: 1px solid #D7D7D7; border-right: 1px solid #D7D7D7; padding: 5px; min-height: 80px; } .b_entry { border-left: 1px solid #D7D7D7; border-right: 1px solid #D7D7D7; border-bottom: 1px solid #D7D7D7; padding: 5px; width: 307px; } fieldset { margin-top: 10px; border: 1px solid #D7D7D7; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding: 0px; } legend { padding: 2px 6px; color: #000000; background: #EEEEEE; border: 1px solid #D7D7D7; font-weight: bold; margin-left: 10px; } .headcell { text-align: center; color: #000000; background: #EEEEEE; border-bottom: 1px solid #D7D7D7; } .headcell a:link, .headcell a:visited, .headcell a:active { color: #000000; } .headcell a:hover { color: #FF0000; } .caltab { border: 1px solid #D7D7D7; margin-top: 5px; } .year_daycell { text-decoration: underline; text-align: center; } .year_fullcell { background: #EEEEEE; border: 1px solid #D7D7D7; } blockquote { border: 2px outset #D7D7D7; } .buttonclass { background: #EEEEEE; color: #000000; } .
Excerpt from `Defying Dixie'
During the 1920s white Southerners' depictions of black life contested those of black writers in the Harlem Renaissance in a battle between Harlem's New Negro and white Southerners' fictive Old Negro. The Great Migration created an audience for southern white cultural production of black life as northern whites came into daily contact with southernborn blacks. By the 1920s minstrelsy, based on highly stylized images and played by white actors in blackface, was offering northern whites few clues about their new black neighbors. As minstrel shows faded (and it was a slow fade) light musicals, such as Harlem at the Apollo, starring actual black people, flourished. Both forms continued alongside the dramas and musicals that white Southerners staged.51 White Southerners' work packed Broadway theaters in the 1920s and swept up five Pulitzers.
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