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KUALA LUMPUR (Sep 8): Roof tile maker and builder VTI Vintage Bhd expects to turn profitable by the first quarter of next year and shed its Practice Note 17 (PN17)company status in the same year, Managing Director Datuk Beh Hang Kong says.

The group fell into PN17 category in 2010. For the six months ended June 30, 2014, VTI Vintages net loss widened to RM3.74 million from RM1.45 million a year ago, as revenue fell 40% to RM4.1 million from RM6.87 million.

Our current core business is in tile manufacturing and roofing. Well be moving away from that into construction projects. Our emphasis will be more on (clinching) bigger construction jobs, Beh told reporters after the groups extraordinary general meeting today.

Nevertheless, the group has no plans to do away with its tile and roofing business totally, he adds.

Beh says VTI Vintage is in the final stages of tendering for at least RM100 million worth of projects, adding that he is confident of securing some of these.

He adds that the projects are located in Klang Valley, Pahang and also Johor, and are mainly residential and commercial properties.

We should be able to announce one or two projects this year, says Beh.

Earlier at the meeting, VTI Vintage shareholders passed a motion to change the groups name to ML Global Bhd.

Beh says the name change is done to create a new image for the group.

Meanwhile, Beh foresees synergies being created between VTI Vintage and its major shareholder LBS Bina Group Bhd, which holds a 21.9% stake in VTI Vintage.

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Part of Vita Serena a protected Estate Section house once owned by Jean Flagler Matthews has been demolished without town permission, after construction workers uncovered termite damage and rotten wood that threatened the buildings integrity.

The two-story center portion of the front or east-facing wall of the home at 105 Clarendon Ave. was taken down in recent weeks.

On Thursday, building officials ordered all work on the 88-year-old house to stop, a day after Landmarks Preservation Commission chairman Bill Cooley brought the issue to their attention.

It was evidently a life-safety issue, project architect Harold Smith said Friday at the site after an inspection by building officials.

Extensive renovation and expansion plans, including a new loggia and two-story addition, were approved by the Landmarks board in October, two months after auto dealer Chuck Schumacher bought the 1926 Palladian-style house. The house was designed by Marion Sims Wyeth and designated a town landmark in 1990.

Those plans allowed for reconstruction, but not demolition, of the facade.

But structural damage has made it unsafe to preserve all sections of the house, Smith said.

When they went to cut out some openings in the hollow tile, I guess the structure started crumbling, and the contractor determined at that point that that center section just had to come down, safely, Smith said. So, its an unfortunate thing, but its just the condition of the structure.

Problems first arose in January, when he and a colleague told the Landmarks board that newly discovered structural problems would require rebuilding the roof on the eastern side of the house and partially reconstructing the homes western-most two-story portion.

Six months later, Smith and contractor John Rossi returned to the board with news that the southwest corner of the homes main-living area had partially collapsed because of horrible termite damage and deterioration. The collapse compelled the team to rebuild one wall of the new loggia, one wall on the southeast corner of the house, and the stairs, they said.

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Lyme More than 100 bargain hunters showed up for an auction in Lyme Sunday afternoon to benefit the towns cherished horse sheds. The event, sponsored by the Lyme Historians, featured scores of donated items, many of them antiques.

We were thinking about an auction because it seemed like a fun thing to do, said Jane Fant, of the Lyme Historians.

The more than $3,500 in sales from the auction will go toward replacing the roof of the horse sheds in the heart of town. The 27 attached sheds are the longest string of horse sheds in New England.

The roof is falling to bits, and a new cedar shingle roof is costly, Fant said.

The cost of replacing the roof is around $20,000. Some of that money will come from a restoration fund containing private donations dating back to the 1980s. While the sheds sit on town property, they are maintained by the Lyme Congregational Church, and rely entirely on private sources of funding for maintenance.

Fant said restoring the sheds is central to the historians goal of preserving the towns treasures.

The horse sheds are Lymes most unique feature, Fant said. Its a focal point of town.

Organizers said they auctioned off about 140 items including old farm equipment, China sets, art, buttons, vases, an iron pogo stick and an eight-foot-long toboggan.

A fitting venue for an antique auction, the event was held at a historic barn owned by Dick and Sallie Ramsden on Breck Hill Road.

Sallie Ramsden said she was glad to host the auction in her barn because she wants to help preserve the horse sheds for future generations.

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The NFL has endured a myriad of issues in recent years that threatened to bring down Americas Game. Players reached unprecedented levels of strength and speed in part with the help of performance-enhancing drugs. There are suspensions, including the occasional Pro Bowler like Von Miller and Brian Cushing, but mostly America yawns and demands more violence. Baseball PED use on the other hand is apparently a reprehensible crime against society. There has been a rash of suicides by former NFL players with many traced to brain injuries. Nine out of ten retired NFL players face physical problems, and the concussion epidemic threatens to keep kids off the football field. No worries says most of the public.

Players pop up on police blotters for assault, marijuana possession, DUI and everything else under the sun (check this database of NFL player crimes). Pittsburgh Steelers running back, LeVeon Bell, recently lamented: I didnt know you could get a DUI for being high. Through it all, the NFL reinvents itself every year and produces record TV ratings and sky-high franchise values. The average NFL franchise is worth $1.43 billion with the Dallas Cowboys on top at $3.2 billion.

Ray Rice has likely played his last NFL game.

But now the Teflon league may have met its match with Ray Rice after a video was released by TMZ of the former Baltimore Ravens running back punching his then fiance, now wife, Janay Palmer, in February in an elevator at the now shuttered Revel Casino in Atlantic City. Rice was suspended a paltry two games by the NFL in July after an earlier video showed Rice dragging an unconscious Palmer out of the elevator. The latest video caused the Ravens to cut Rice and the NFL to suspend him indefinitely Monday.

We requested from law enforcement any and all information about the incident, including the video from inside the elevator. That video was not made available to us and no one in our office has seen it until today, according to a statement from an NFL spokesman.

After the original two-game ban, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell came under fire for the light sentence. He wrote a mea culpa letter to NFL owners, saying, I didnt get it right. He added: My disciplinary decision led the public to question our sincerity, our commitment, and whether we understood the toll that domestic violence inflicts on so many families. I take responsibility both for the decision and for ensuring that our actions in the future reflect our values. The league subsequently implemented a new policy on domestic violence with a six-game ban for a first infraction and a lifetime ban for a second offense.

The NFLs new policy and the Ravens cutting Rice after strongly backing him, is too little, too late for some football fans. How did the NFL and the Ravens think that Janay Palmer was rendered unconscious in that AC elevator? Seeing the footage is something that cant be unseen. Many players and former players reacted strongly after Mondays video release byadmonishing the NFL and the original punishment. Respected NFL columnist, Peter King, previously reported the NFL saw the second video before rendering its verdict, but King backed off that claim Monday. The fallout for the NFL will get worse if it is not being straight with its fans on what it knew.

NFL die-hards let a lot slide in favor of supporting their favorite game. It is now a $10 billion business fueled by fans and companies spending wildly on tickets, sponsorships, merchandise, luxury suites and TV contracts. But has the NFL reached its zenith and is it destined for a fall? Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban thinks so. He critiqued the league in March after the NFL announced plans to expand its TV offerings. I think the NFL is 10 years away from an implosion, Cuban said. Im just telling you: Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered. And theyre getting hoggy.

Influential ESPN columnist Bill Simmons took Goodell to task this week in a 2,500-word story to kick off the season. There have been moments when Goodell made Gary Bettman look like the next Steve Jobs, Simmons wrote (that was not meant as a compliment to regular Simmons punching bag Bettman).

There is nothing set in stone that says the NFL must be Americas most popular sport. It is a non-factor outside the U.S., where soccer reigns and the NBA has the best prospects of the big four U.S. leagues. Boxing has seen huge declines over the past 50 years as people woke up to the brutality of the sport. The NFL isnt going anywhere anytime soon. The leagues bread-and-butter constituency, gamblers and fantasy players, will continue to fuel massive interest in the sport and the Super Bowl will be an unofficial holiday. In addition: it is the perfect TV sport, which is why it gets to divvy up $5 billion a year from its network partners.The Michael Vick dog-fighting incident is now merely a blip on the NFLs radar despite the outrage it caused at the time of the scandal and when Vick returned to the league after being incarcerated. PEDs, concussions and labor stoppages also werent enough to slow the NFL down.

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