| Celebrating the re-opening of Clove Road after a long-term water
Running from noon to 4 p.m., it featured discount rabies shots for pets, and other deals on veterinary medications, as well as face painting and swag for dogs, including bandannas and Frisbees. Other merchants and restaurant owners also stepped up to offer coupons and gifts, to drum up business again after a particularly difficult few months, when Clove Road was a chopped-up mess of potholes and traffic cones. "We want everybody to know we're still open and you can park and drive here," said Dr. John Sangiorgio of the Veterinary Emergency Center, who estimated his business dropped about 40 percent during construction and is slowly coming back. "I realize [the project] had to be done, but it's a shame it had to happen here. As soon as they opened the road, it started getting better." Most of Clove has already been repaved, and customers can now navigate through the neighborhood, to start shopping again.
Food festival is a real feast
Events will take place at cafes, shops, restaurants and delicatessens across Chorlton and many of the independent traders involved are also running discounts and special festival offers to help visitors make the most of the occasion. Festival highlights include sticky toffee experts visiting Barbakan deli to show you how to create your perfect pudding and the chance to try authentic Sri Lankan food at Coffee 'n' Chocolate on Wilbraham Road. Customers as Ostara on Manchester Road will also be able to dine accompanied by Halle Orchestra cellist Raymond Lester and Beech Road Eaterie Beggars Bush are also holding a 'gourmet club' evening with the chance to enjoy a five-course meal for a special festival price. Other events include mushroon hunts with naturalist Jesper Evans in Chorlton Ees, cookery demonstrations at North Star Deli , a cupcake naming competition at The Cupcakery on Oswald Road and a 'Roots and Fruits Roadshow' at Chorlton Library with prizes for home-grown produce.
Tone Leisure schools fitness scheme
Tone Leisure offered free quality running shoes to the first 100 members who joined last month, as well as a discounted joining fee. Marketing manager Paula Bleasdale said: “I think it's extremely important that Tone help to provide sporting opportunities for young people by whatever means available to us. “By supporting local primary schools in this way we hope to be encouraging our fitness members of the future. “It's so important that young people keep fit and by providing more equipment there are more possibilities for them to try." .
Big four have too much power, Keating says
''They were able to operate like this because they had recourse to the Reserve Bank's discount window and the fact that the likelihood of the government letting any of them go insolvent was low. "I always believed they were utilities and they took greater risks given the amount of capital. So I made four boxes for them and put each one in it.'' He said there was little of scale the big banks could buy, but with speculation that ANZ could attempt a transformational move in wealth management, Mr Keating said the superannuation industry - a key driver of the Australian economy - needed further protection from consolidation. In the lead-up to the financial crisis there had been calls by several bank chiefs, including from Westpac and ANZ, for the scrapping of the four pillars policy.
Betting on the Steelers to Repeat?
Because unlike college football where the odds makers could discount the chances of some teams against favored teams because of a lack of information, every odds maker in the world is going to make the Steelers around 17 ½ point favorite over the Detroit Lions. So, yes, I do believe that the Steelers will cover more games than they don’t this year, but I’m not ready to sign off on them covering in every game. I say that they end up with a 9 and 7 record or a 10 and 6 record against the spread this year. Tread carefully when it comes to Steelers, is my advice. Tread carefully. Does that prediction make me a guy who makes expert NFL picks? I have no idea, but it does make a me a guy who’s thinking outside of the box and that, my friends, can lead to profits.
Hillgrove Resources (HGO) $28.5c
Even before the global financial meltdown Hillgrove was trading at a discount to its Eastern Star stake, implying a negative worth for Hillgrove's other interests. It sounds a tad dumb, to be honest, especially as Hillgrove has no debt. So we ascribe a speculative buy: the copper price has more than doubled since the start of the year, which gives Kanmantoo a fighting chance. Archer says Hillgrove assumes a copper price of $US1.50 a pound for Kanmantoo to break even, with the metal now trading at $US2.80 a pound. Galaxy Resources (GXY) $1.91 FORGET about iron ore and rare earths: the real flyer is any stock with an exposure to lithium, which is in hot demand as our two biggest economies turn to electric cars and hybrids. Beijing has ordered that 10 per cent of transport should be emission-free by 2013 -- and what cadre is going to argue with that.
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