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Submitted The 2014 Islander is one of the models open for viewing during LeeCorp's open house.

LeeCorp Homes will host a grand opening of the new 2014 Jacobsen Home models on Jan. 18 from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. at their model center at 20251 U.S. 41 S. in Estero. The event will also celebrate LeeCorp Homes 31st year in business. The company has been family owned and operated since 1983. LeeCorp Homes is Floridas largest outlet of manufactured homes.

The six new 2014 Jacobsen Home models will be open for viewing, displaying the newest choices in colors and options. Two previous years models will also be on display.

These furnished two-and three-bedroom double-wide and single-wide manufactured home models range from 864 to 1,400 square feet and are built by Jacobsen Homes of Safety Harbor, Fla. These homes are priced starting in the mid-$50,000s.

Savings will be available up to $20,000 on community models, plus factory direct pricing on custom ordered new homes. In addition, LeeCorp Homes will offer a model clearance sale of the remaining previous years Jacobsen models, as well as model clearance sales at two other communities where LeeCorp Homes offers homes Tall Oaks of Naples and Country Lakes in Fort Myers.

Model interior features include cathedral ceilings; custom painted textured drywall; 18-inch ceramic tile floors; stainless steel GE appliances; maple, chestnut and rustic alder wood cabinetry; wood laminate floors; garden tubs and full ceramic tile showers; and factory built porches, as well as other options.

LeeCorp Homes also offers complete exterior packages including car ports, screen rooms and sheds. Pricing includes installation on customers improved home site, water hookups, central A/C, skirting and steps. Turn-Key packages are available.

Jacobsen Homes, a top-rated custom manufactured homebuilder located in Safety Harbor, Fla., has been building manufactured homes since 1959.

LeeCorp Homes is on the east side of U.S. 41 in Estero, one mile north of Corkscrew Road, and three miles south of Alico Road at 20251 U.S. 41 S. Online at leecorphomes.com.

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"When the economy picks up, we're the first to know it, because we're the first to get work," says Manuel Alguer, the founder of the family-owned Spanish demolition business Control Demeter.

In 2009, the company had revenues of 8.6 million euros, which fell to 1.5 million by 2011 as the economic crisis in Spain tightened its grip. For 2013, with a workforce slimmed down by a third and lower wages for the 40 employees that remain on its books, it estimates turnover of 3.1 million euros. For this year, it is aiming to take in some six million euros, and already has an order book for 80 percent of that figure.

Some work is coming in from construction and real estate companies, while banks, which have acquired old buildings and industrial warehouses as a result of foreclosures, are also starting to appear on the horizon. And despite the ongoing austerity drive, public administrations, which traditionally account for about 60 percent of Control Demeter's business, are putting orders in for demolition work. Barcelona City Hall has contracted Alguer's company to level the road conjunction in Glorias square as part of an urban facelift for the Catalan capital. Control Demeter was also involved in the historic demolition of soccer club Espanyol's old Sarri stadium in 1997.

But according to Alguer, Control Demeter's real future lies outside of Spain. "If we don't look abroad things are going to get very difficult for us," he says. After some of its workers helped in the clear up about 1,000 buildings hit by the earthquake that shook the area around the Marmara Sea in Turkey in 1999, the company decided to specialize in emergency operations and put increasing emphasis on overseas business, which it is hoping will account for about half of its revenues within two to three years.

n Europe, everything has been done, while in Latin America everything remains to be done"

Control Demeter is also looking to work in Haiti on the expansion project for Port-au-Prince's harbor, which will use the rubble from the earthquake there in 2010. It is also hoping to secure contracts in Buenos Aires and Montevideo. "In Europe, everything has been done, while in Latin America everything remains to be done," says Alguer, who points to the experience Control Demeter acquired in preparations for the Olympic Games in Barcelona in 1992 in waste management. It has presented its waste management model to the municipal governments of Wenzhou and Rizhao in China.

The problem with overseas contracts is one of timing. Control Demeter has been waiting to take part in the demolition of Turkish soccer club Galatasaray's stadium in Istanbul but the project has been frozen, hence the need to still rely on Spain as the company's main market, even more so now that the crisis has wiped out a number of rivals in the sector.

Specialized demolitions firms in Spain have also found a potential new client in Sareb, the asset management corporation, or so-called bad bank, set up by the government to absorb the toxic real estate assets of banks that came unstuck during the crisis. The Sareb may decide that the best solution for the huge stock of unfinished housing it has acquired is demolition.

Control Demeter has had no contact with the Sareb, but has dealt with the banks, receiving contracts from them to knock down eight buildings and industrial warehouses they held in the Barcelona area.

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Regional News of Sunday, 12 January 2014

Source: Mohammed Saani Ibrahim -The Accra Times

...As royal family demonstrates against intended demolition exercise Elders and members of the Abbey We family of Kwabenya in the Greater Accra Region have demonstrated against an intended demolition exercise by Nuumo George Ankonu.

According to Nii Okpoti II, Head of the Okpoti We, who addressed the press in Kwabenya, Nuumo George Ankonu once led the family to court at a time their assets were alienated and got judgement in the familys favour, but things turned out different when Nuumo George Ankonu tried to usurp the position of the vacant Kwabenya Kingship.

He enumerated that Nuumo George Ankonu is laying claim to the Odai Ntow Family lands by claiming to have secured a Writ of Possession and a demolition order to pull down all structures that are occupying the 258 acres of land belonging to the family.

However, Nii Okpoti indicated that although Nuumo Ankonu led the family at a time they were facing some challenges as regards their landed property, the Odai Ntow family is made up of four royal houses who are signatories to documents attesting to any transaction entered into by the Odai Ntow family.

He mentioned that, Nuumo George Ankonu took the judgement the family got from the court to his house and refused to consult the four ruling houses on further developments as far as issues surrounding their land is concerned.

.Nuumo George Ankonu took the judgement to his house and he is yet to meet with the members of the seven houses that form the Abbey We, to brief them on the implications of the judgement and the way forward, he said.

Nii Okpoti also noted that Quiet unfortunately and disgracefully, the presiding judge ordered him and his legal Counsel to do the right traditional thing by going back to Abbey We Queen mother for the traditional introduction and her acceptance of him before being accepted or having the Abbey We headship conferred on him, he stated.

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Several photos of the disgusting spill were posted to Twitter by the likes of Ryan Seacrest and Cosmopolitan magazine. "Huge water leak on #goldenglobes red carpet...Bev Hills fire trying to clean up," Seacrest tweeted at about 5 p.m. (Photo: Ryan Seacrest via Twitter)

Hours before Hollywood's most famous faces took to the red carpet of the Golden Globes, a sewage leak left organizers scrambling to clean up the entrance to the Beverly Hilton Hotel, according to reports.

Several photos of the disgusting spill were posted to Twitter by the likes of Ryan Seacrest and Cosmopolitan magazine.

"Huge water leak on #goldenglobes red carpet...Bev Hills fire trying to clean up," Seacrest tweeted at about 5 p.m.

The Hollywood Reporter said in an online post that the sewage came initially during an alarm that went off at 12:20 p.m.

The Beverly Hills Fire Department was reportedly still cleaning up the mess sometime after 4 p.m.

"Could be bad for long gowns #eredcarpet," Seacrest also tweeted.

Contact Brian X. McCrone at 215-854-2267 or bmccrone@philly.com. Follow @brianxmccrone on Twitter.

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A teenager is in an induced coma after allegedly being punched outside a McDonald's in Sydney's west.

Alexander McEwen, 19, and his brother Lance McEwen Henderson, 21, were standing on top of a one-metre-tall retaining wall at the fast food restaurant's car park in Penrith when they were allegedly approached by a man about 1.30am (AEDT) on Saturday.

Police say the man punched both brothers, knocking the younger McEwen over the wall where he struck his head and lost consciousness.

The teen was rushed to Nepean Hospital where he is in critical condition with a fractured skull and damage to his spine.

His brother Lance suffered injuries to his face, including a cut lip.

Their alleged attacker, Corey Beard, 21, appeared at Parramatta court on Sunday where he was granted conditional bail.

Beard was charged with offences including recklessly inflicting grievous bodily harm to the teenager as well as assaulting his brother.

He was also charged with possessing steroids after police allegedly found 13 vials of the drug during a search of his home on Saturday.

During the bail application, Sergeant Belinda Laughton told the court the alleged assault had been captured on CCTV and there was a strong prosecution case.

But the Legal Aid lawyer representing Beard said he had told police that he had acted in self-defence.

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Charlotte Mayor Patrick Cannons parking management company, E-Z Parking, says it will change how it pays its city taxes after the Observer questioned why the company incorrectly filed business licenses on the roughly 20 lots and decks it manages.

A parking management company is required to pay a Business Privilege License tax annually on each lot or deck it operates. But E-Z Parking has licenses only for its headquarters and two decks in the past year and hasnt obtained separate licenses on all of its decks or lots for several years, according to a review of county tax records.

Cannon, the chief executive, and Jeff Feemster, the chief operating officer, said E-Z Parking wasnt aware it needed individual licenses for each lot or deck.

But both men said the company has paid its taxes on all of its revenue, and they said they are certain they dont owe the city of Charlotte any money. Ultimately, they say, the companys only error is the technicality of not obtaining a license for every lot.

We accounted for 100 percent of the revenue Im sure of that, Feemster said. We want to do things the right way, but sometimes you dont get things right.

County records show that E-Z Parking paid the tax on its home office at 312 W. Trade St. and two other decks.

Feemster and Cannon said they believed they were only required to have a Business Privilege License where they have an office.

The countys tax collector, Neal Dixon, said a business such as a parking management company would need to pay the tax on each lot it manages, regardless of whether it has an office there.

We are in the process of doing that now, Feemster said.

Revenue from the tax helps the city pay for police, fire, roads and sidewalks, among other services.

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Lexington town leaders want landscaped medians along U.S. 378 and S.C. 6 to help control congestion and beautify roads used by commuters and shoppers.

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LEXINGTON COUNTY, SC Lexington leaders are taking a second step to improve traffic flow on and beautify two thoroughfares known as the towns front porches.

A plan for 10 miles of landscaped medians on U.S. 378 and S.C. 6 is included in projects that Town Hall hopes will be paid for by a proposed penny-on-the-dollar sales tax increase.

Both roads are evolving into retail strips, intensifying congestion on a pair of major commuter routes that state counts say carry more than 50,000 vehicles daily.

U.S. 378 known locally as Sunset Boulevard is the main eastern entry into the steadily growing community of 18,000 residents while S.C. 6 known locally as Lake Drive is the main northern entry.

Town leaders want medians in place before more commercial development increases traffic jams significantly.

Medians will limit left turns, encouraging motorists instead to use a series of side roads connecting stores, officials say. Breaks in the medians will allow turns, mainly at signalized intersections.

Putting medians in place is one of two steps town leaders say is vital to alleviate traffic bottlenecks. The other is a network of signals that adjust with congestion, slated to debut in spring 2015.

Adding trees plants and shrubs to the medians also will improve the towns image, officials say.

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