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Jun 10, 2024 | 
finance.yahoo.com | Chris Green
In 2003, Rockford resident Kris Ducett and her husband bought a spacious 5-bedroom, 2.5-bath home on Jonquil Place for $145,000. The home was ideal for the family of six. But by 2014 the couple was among millions of others in the country whose homes were underwater and among thousands of homeowners experiencing the same in Rockford, which was named the underwater mortgage capital of the U.S. in 2013.
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Feb 7, 2024 | 
heritagetribune.eu | Chris Green
Europa Nostra and the European Investment Bank (EIB) institute have announced the shortlist for this year’s 7 Most Endangered campaign. The advisory panel chose these 11 most endangered monuments and heritage sitesin Europe for 2024’s shortlist.The final list of 7 sites wil be selected later by the Board of Europa Nostra.
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Jan 23, 2024 | 
medium.com | Chris Green
HL Mencken, whose writing career spanned almost the entirety of the first half of the twentieth century, is perhaps the most prominent of all modern libertarians whose views on war and civil liberties have found common ground with those of liberals and leftists. Mencken was a commentator for the Baltimore Sun and Evening Sun from 1906 until his permanent disablement by stroke in 1948. He also edited the magazines The Smart Set (1914–23) and The American Mercury (1924–33).
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Oct 25, 2023 | 
britsafe.org | Chris Green
A recent Crown Court health and safety prosecution brought by a local authority’s environmental health department has been dismissed by a judge. In an unusual procedural application, the Crown Court Recorder refused to allow three health and safety charges against a company director to proceed and stopped the case from going before a jury at a trial which had been scheduled for later this year.
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Sep 20, 2023 | 
northscottpress.com | Chris Green
Kevin D. Miller, age 65, of Dixon, passed away on Friday, Sept. 8, 2023, at Wheatland Manor with his wife by his side after a courageous 28-month battle with Glioblastoma IV, a brain …Funeral services celebrating the life of Janice Schebler, 92, of Davenport, were held at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 19, at the Halligan-McCabe-DeVries Funeral Home, Davenport. The …A funeral service for Evelyn A. Gullion, 86, of Davenport, will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 28, at the Runge Mortuary, Davenport.
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Sep 11, 2023 | 
insidesmallbusiness.com.au | Chris Green
It seems that every second news story is about how another business has gone bust. For SMEs, this can be terrifying but when you drill down into the statistics things aren’t necessarily as they seem. I have heard that four out of five small businesses fail in the first five years, but the facts simply don’t support this myth when you examine the numbers. Business failure is real and something we should be very aware of…or is it?
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Jul 17, 2023 | 
tinyurl.com | Samantha Peters |Liam Jagger |Pinsent Masons |Chris Green
At the British Safety Council, we encourage employers to invest in workplace health and wellbeing. Our aim is to create better working lives. Doing so, can, we believe, reduce staff turnover, and improve performance. Evidence to support this is expanding. But as we say, in our 2018 review of the literature on wellbeing at work, this is about more than just free fruit!The good news is that employers have picked up the baton. Interest is growing worldwide.
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Jul 13, 2023 | 
news.yahoo.com | Chris Green
No one needs to tell Eli Durante boarded-up houses do a lot more than drag down property values. He was home last weekend when squad cars descended on his 10th Avenue neighborhood, bringing with them the news that a little girl had been killed. Police say a man plucked her up from outside her home in the middle of the day, strangled her and left her lifeless body in a secluded area by one of the vacant, run-down homes that pepper the street.
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Jul 5, 2023 | 
msn.com | Chris Green
The Philadelphia gunman who left five dead has been unmasked as a cross-dressing Black Lives Matter supporter who made chilling Facebook posts about 'evil spirits.'Kimbrady Carriker, 40, shot dead four men and a 15-year-old boy in the Kingsessing neighborhood on the eve of the Fourth of July. The killer has now been unmasked exclusively by DailyMail.com as a cross-dressing computer nerd who was obsessed by firearms - even posting video a few days ago of children at a shooting range.
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Jun 18, 2023 | 
msn.com | Chris Green
The King has sent Prince Harry an olive branch in the form of a old sweet picture of him with his two sons to celebrate Father's Day today [June 18]. The Royal Family's official Twitter account has spread the message to "Dads everywhere", with a selection of pictures to celebrate the day. The account also shared a picture of Charles with his own father, the late Prince Philip, and one of Queen Camilla with her late father.
