| Dogwood 57: Warm weather draws thousands to 57th annual spring ...
LAKE OF THE OZARKS - Warm weather greeted thousands of spectators at this years 57th annual Dogwood Festival.On Saturday, people flocked to the Camdenton Square to get a glimpse of nearly 100 parade entrants, enjoy a few carnival rides and scarf down festival treats.Jessica Mejia was crowned this year's Dogwood queen Friday night. She joined a number of other contestants in Saturday's parade. .
Rocket City (RCAU) Launches the Next Evolution in Automotive and ...
ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rocket City Automotive Group, Inc. (PINK SHEETS: RCAU), continues to break new ground within the automotive and online auction industries by offering eAutoDrop to automotive retailers around the country. Marketed as a stand alone franchise offering and compliant with UFOC and FTC guidelines, eAutoDrop, an RCAU subsidiary, will give dealers around the country the ability to offer full scale online auction services on behalf of the retail consumer, thereby providing a entirely new retail service and revenue stream to the marketplace. To immediately learn more about eAutoDrop, please visit: (www.eautodrop.com) or take the eAutoDrop Tutorial at (www.eautodrop.com/tutorial.html). THE PRODUCT Consumers will now have the availability of visiting a certified eAutoDrop location inside existing dealership showrooms across the United States.
Nudes of Kate Moss to be auctioned
Nude photographs of Kate Moss will be sold at an auction in London next month among a series of other pictures of the British supermodel. The photos will be auctioned May 31, Christies auctioneers said Monday. Two nude portraits, a 1996 print by Irving Penn and a 6-by-6-foot square image by Albert Watson, are expected to sell for about $44,000 and $30,000 respectively, the auction house said. A set of six prints of Moss without makeup, taken by Chuck Close, could sell for up to $40,000, Christies said. An unpublished photo, being sold by one of the 33-year-olds friends, is expected to sell for about $12,000. The portrait, taken by photographer Corinne Day in 1990, was shot in London two years after Moss was discovered at a New York airport at age 14. Another shot taken by Day in 1993 for Vogue magazine, which features a 19-year-old Moss, is expected to sell for $14,000.
Artists drive a hard bargain now
KOLKATA: Pricing of artworks has become a crucial factor in today's evolving Indian art market. Of late, one has been noticing a resistance, especially to paintings, at the highest levels. Even at the middle level, prices seem to be blowing out of proportion. Although, buyers still appear to be lapping up works at price points which are below the high-end prices. "Anyone buying art wonders about the functionaries who decide the price of the piece. The artists of the earlier times like the Tagores or Nandalal Bose used to gift their paintings because they were shy of mentioning a price for their works. Artist Kshitin Majumdar was taken aback when a painting of his was sold for Rs 5,000 by Chintamoni Kar to the Indian Museum. He was expecting a fraction of the price and needed the money for medical treatment.
ForeclosureS.com: 364000 Homeowners Face Foreclosure So Far This Year
SACRAMENTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The worst of the U.S. housing slump may be over but not the foreclosure nightmare that haunts many of the nation's homeowners. More than a quarter-million (253,803) pre-foreclosures and notices of pending foreclosure auctions were filed nationwide in the first quarter of the year. That means 2.4 out of every 1,000 homeowners faced losing their property to foreclosure in the first three months of 2007, according to new and expanded foreclosure filing numbers now available from ForeclosureS.com, a California-based real estate investment advisory firm and publisher of foreclosure and property information. Those numbers are up 22.5 percent from the 207,128 filings in the fourth quarter 2006. They also don't include tens of thousands more now-vacant properties that actually were lost to foreclosure during that same period.
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