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Eric Fleiss: Developing a Smart Strategy

How do you make money despite a down market? Eric Fleiss knows. As a partner at Regent Properties he's not just an opportunist, but a strategist, taking a long-term look at the housing market. It's a game that Regent knows well, having been around for 20 years and acquired, developed...

Tags: housing, Regent Properties, strategic planning, Business Operations, Real Estate, Eric Fleiss, Strategy

Videos 2007-12-03

August Housing Starts at 17-1/2-year Low

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Construction starts on new U.S. homes plummeted to a 17-1/2-year low during August as builders scaled back sharply to try to cope with the worst slump in U.S. housing since the Great Depression. The Commerce Department reported on Wednesday that...

Tags: Rate, Housing

News items 2008-09-17

Wallstrip: American Campus Communities (ACC)

Now college students can catch mono in luxurious surroundings! American Campus Communities ACC

Tags: College Student, students, julie alexandria, wallstrip, stocks, investing, campus, communities, college, housing, rent, luxury, university

Videos 2008-09-24

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Nielsen Reports on Consumer Goods Categories That Are Most Immune, Most Vulnerable to Recession

FOOD AND BEVERAGE CLOSE-UP-8 June 2009-Nielsen Reports on Consumer Goods Categories That Are Most Immune, Most Vulnerable to RecessionC2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com As the economic downturn causes consumers to reprioritize their spending habits and forces consumer packaged goods manufacturers and retailers to reevaluate their...

Articles 2009-06-08

Challenging the exclusion of people with mental illness: the Mental Health Housing and Accommodation Support Initiative

Introduction With high hospitalisation rates and widespread social exclusion, mental illness is a profound health and social need that requires an integrated policy approach (Shepherd 2007). In the past, mental health models of support for people with acute mental illness have focussed on clinical symptoms, rather than addressing...

Articles 2008-12-22

Passion for nature: two nature lovers made a business out of what they enjoy doing. Bee Choo and Morten run an outlet selling books, gifts, and souvenirs. They have gone into nature publishing as well

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] NESTLING next to the gushing waterfalls and foliage of the Singapore Botanic Gardens Visitor Centre is a shop specialising in nature books and merchandise. The shop is owned and managed by a husband and wife team, Morten Strange and Ng Bee Choo. As a...

Articles 2008-12-01

The passing of the mama stalls

THE CONVENIENCE stalls that were found along five-foot ways and under staircases of shop houses are a dying breed. Fondly called Mama stalls, they are run by Indian "uncles" who managed to make a living selling everything from condoms to toy xylophones. They are sure to have the daily newspapers...

Articles 2008-12-01

Histogram of intensity feature extraction for automatic plastic bottle recycling system using machine vision

INTRODUCTION A recent study by the Ministry of Housing and Local Government of Malaysia on current recycling practices showed that plastics accounted for about 9.7% of household waste. In addition to that, the National Technical Committee on Management of Solid Waste was studying various proposals on the use...

Articles 2008-12-01

Vase life extension and chlorophyll fluorescence yield of bougainvillea flower as influenced by ethanol to attain maximum environmental beautification as ornamental components

INTRODUCTION Bougainvilleas are popular ornamental plants and used as official flowers in most areas with warm climates, including Australia, India, Malaysia, the Mediterranean region, Mexico, South Africa, Taiwan and the United States in Arizona, California, Florida, Hawaii and southern Texas. Bougainvillea is used to decorate fences and arbors...

Articles 2008-12-01

VOLUNTEER SERVICE AWARD

The President's Volunteer Service Award was presented to Army Reserve spouse Dawnle Scheetz from Sharon, Pennsylvania on Military Spouse Day on May 6, 2008. Scheetz's husband, Major Larry Scheetz, in 2006 deployed to Iraq for a year with the 942nd QM DET in Fort Belvoir, VA. After learning of the...

Articles 2008-12-01

MOTHER, SON JOIN ARMY RESERVE; SISTER MAY BE NEXT

INDIANAPOLIS-When high school junior Brandon Srinamyom sat down with a recruiter and decided to join the Army Reserve, his father, Randy Hacker, was pleased. The father and son had talked about Brandon's joining the military several times, and Randy thought enlisting in the Army Reserve was in his son's best...

Articles 2008-12-01

Tommy Campbell

Thanks for the Tom Campbell story (Better Shooting, July/Aug). Sometime in the mid to late 1980s I attended an IPSC match at the Westfield Sportsmen's Assoc. (I hope I got that right. I just turned 60!) in Westfield, MA. Living in New England, needless to say, I had heard of...

Articles 2008-11-01

Mighty mice guns: Ruger's two new defensive handgun concepts

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A lighter-kicking small frame revolver approaching .357 Mag ballistics holding six rounds instead of the usual five and an ultra-reliable, ultra-small .380 pocket auto. What's not to like? I can remember when. long ago, I sat in Bill Ruger's palatial house in Croydon, New...

Articles 2008-11-01

The RAM 2R Real Action Marker

From Umarex [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The RAM Real Action Marker 2R is a 43-caliber training and gaming rifle. This semi-automatic rifle will fire either .43 caliber paintballs or rubberballs with amazing accuracy at speeds of more than 300 fps. All of the R-series Real Action Markers are...

Articles 2008-11-01

A real MP40? Now that's fun!

[ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] It wasn't enough! It just wasn't enough. I'm talking about the airsoft MP40 full auto BB gun I wrote about (Shooting Iron, Jan/Feb 2008). It's fun to play with, especially when shooting our horses in their big butts when Yvonne turns them into the driveway to...

Articles 2008-11-01

Budget blues

Volquartsen components have an outstanding reputation and the thought of turning my little plinker into a full house tack driver was intriguing. I ordered the black version with sights. This assembly has a stainless steel match-grade barrel and chamber with a machined aluminum receiver and barrel shroud. It's...

Articles 2008-11-01

Utah's poor feeling housing crunch

The nation's economic downturn is making it almost impossible for many of Utah's poorest residents to afford decent, safe housing, according the deputy director of the National Low Income Housing Coalition. Linda Couch said that in Utah, 76 percent of extremely low- income households -- people with...

Articles 2008-10-09

Jail the thieving oligarchs

The House recently questioned Richard Fuld, of the now failed Lehman Brothers' firm, and asked how he could simultaneously dole out multimillion-dollar bonuses to himself and his cohorts while asking the government to bail the company out. All told, he will walk away from this economic disaster that he helped...

Articles 2008-10-09

Cool Obama wins second round

Democrat's measured style earns him debate victory over agitated rival Barack Obama may have come a step closer to the White House if the verdict of Americans on his second televised debate with John McCain, in which both candidates outlined plans to steer the US...

Articles 2008-10-09

Billionaires and bad debts mean 'financial fair play' is an illusion

Analysis Few would argue with a person's right to buy a house if they can comfortably and legally cover the mortgage, and if there is no extreme social reason such as a string of ASBOs, to provoke a "Nimby" reaction from the neighbours. ...

Articles 2008-10-09