Durham, NC (PRWEB) June 06, 2012
The Law Offices of James Scott Farrin was honored to donate Durham Bulls tickets to the Salvation Army Boys and Girls Club of Durham, North Carolina. Thanks to the firm’s gift, the group was able to watch the Durham Bulls square off against the Indianapolis Indians on Friday, April 27.
It was an exciting game for the Salvation Army Boys and Girls Club to see. While the Bulls ultimately lost, the team displayed the same fighting spirit that made them famous in the movie “Bull Durham.”
“The firm likes to do what it can to give back to the community,” said President James S. Farrin. “Durham Bulls’ games are a beloved local tradition, and we were happy to make it possible for the youth with the Salvation Army Boys and Girls Club to become a part of that tradition.”
The mission of the Salvation Army Boys and Girls Club is to enable all young people “to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens” through support from ongoing relationships with caring, adult professionals. The Durham Bulls tickets donated by the firm allowed the boys and girls to spend quality time with their mentors while also enjoying a beloved summer pastime.
About the Firm:
The Law Offices of James Scott Farrin is headquartered in the American Tobacco Historic District, adjacent to the Durham Bulls Athletic Park, in Durham, North Carolina, with 12 additional offices statewide in Charlotte, Fayetteville, Greensboro, Greenville, Goldsboro, Henderson, New Bern, Raleigh, Roanoke Rapids, Rocky Mount, Sanford and Wilson. The firm’s 28 attorneys focus on the following practice areas: Personal Injury, Workers’ Compensation, Social Security Disability, Bankruptcy, Intellectual Property, Civil Rights, Mass Torts and Products Liability. Three of the attorneys are North Carolina Board Certified Specialists in Workers’ Compensation Law, one is a North Carolina Board Certified Specialist in Social Security Disability Law and one is a North Carolina Board Certified Specialist in Business and Consumer Bankruptcy Law. The Law Offices of James Scott Farrin is involved in the community, including sponsorship of local philanthropic organizations and an active employee matching donation program.
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Labour MP: Jubilee stewards left by roadside at 3am in London - ITV
Edward: Duke 'getting better'
The Duke of Edinburgh remains in hospital today after being admitted with a bladder infection on Monday. On Tuesday, his son Prince Edward, the Earl of Wessex, said the Duke was "getting better" after visiting him.
Source: www.itv.com
Business travel key to Cape Town to London flights - Independent Online
More business travellers are needed to increase the economic viability of flights between the city and London, Cape Town Tourism said on Wednesday.
“The business traveller is a major contributor to covering flight expenses, which points to a need to work hard on forging stronger business ties in addition to the leisure market,” CEO Mariëtte Du Toit-Helmbold said.
“Airlines must make economic sense. When a flight is cancelled this is the reason. Decreased business travel, as a result of troubled economies, continues to plague key source markets.”
She said more energy would be directed to making Cape Town a competitive and year-round business tourism destination.
Marketing would need to be consolidated between different spheres of government, agencies and the private sector.
SA Airways announced on Tuesday that it would scrap its 20-year direct route between Cape Town and London from August 15. Instead, passengers would have to catch a flight from Johannesburg.
It cited declining passenger numbers to the United Kingdom and increasing airport taxes in that country as some of the reasons for ending the route.
SAA planned to re-deploy some of it planes to its growing Accra, Mumbai and Perth routes and add Abidjan to the network.
Du Toit-Helmbold said SAA had confirmed it would continue to use Cape Town as a draw card in its marketing promotions and campaigns.
Wesgro, the official marketing, investment and trade promotion agency for the province, said the Cape Town-London route still held strong economic value.
“International airlines identified this and are increasing their capacity during peak season,” Wesgro CEO Nils Flaatten said.
“Many business and leisure travellers from the United States are using London as a connecting flight into Cape Town and we are at risk of losing these visitors, as the travelling time has been extended even further.”
He called for an urgent national debate on flights into Cape Town and other regional airports. - Sapa
Source: www.iol.co.za
New law would close businesses that allow gang activity - jdnews.com
If a new law is passed this year by the General Assembly, property owners who allow gang activity at their place of business may soon find themselves shut down.
“It could be a convenience store, bar or nightclub, or apartment building, but if the owner continues to allow illegal gang activity at their establishment after being put on notice we will be able to take civil action,” said Jacksonville Police Chief Mike Yaniero, chairman of the N.C. Metro Coalition of Chiefs of Police, the organization which is pushing for the bill.
In an attempt to stem crime caused by gangs, metro police chiefs have asked the legislature to pass the N.C. Street Gang Nuisance Abatement Act, which would make it easier for police departments to sue property owners and gangs as a means of preventing crime.
The bill appears on track to become law this summer, having passed the N.C. House and on schedule to be reviewed by the Senate during the current short session.
“The purpose of a nuisance abatement lawsuit is not to show or prove that the property owner is guilty of illegal acts, but rather to prove that the property owner allowed the illegal activity to occur on the property or failed to make reasonable attempts to stop it,” said Yaniero, who is also director for Region VIII of the N.C. Association Of Chiefs Of Police.
The law is modeled after anti-gang legislation in 16 other states, he said.
Some civil rights experts said they are leery the law could trample constitutional rights.
“The Supreme Court has essentially said that being a member of a gang is not, in and of itself, a crime,” Sarah Preston, policy director for the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina, recently told The Fayetteville Observer. “So we want to make sure people aren’t being punished for activity that is not criminal in nature, but simply because law enforcement is fearful that a crime might occur.”
Fayetteville police recently employed a similar tactic in obtaining court orders to bar gang members from attending April’s Dogwood Festival. In the days leading up to the festival there were several gang-related incidents, but after the papers were served and during the festival there were no reported incidents, according to the Fayetteville Police Department.
The new law would allow authorities to sue gangs directly. The pending law states that any gang with members who commit five crimes in a year is to be considered a public nuisance. A judge could then order gang members to stop their criminal activities and impose preventive measures to prevent the gang from engaging in future crimes.
A similar law has been in place for two decades in Los Angeles where the city has had 44 injunctions against 72 gangs, according to The Associated Press.
Examples of possible restrictions include rulings that gang members cannot:
- Be together except while attending school classes.
- Engage in illegal activities.
- Sell drugs.
- Carry weapons.
- Consume alcohol in public.
- Disregard a curfew.
Contact Daily News Senior Reporter Lindell Kay at 910-219-8456 or lkay@freedomenc.com. Read his crime blog, "Off the Cuff," at http://onslowcrime.encblogs.com. Follow him on Twitter and friend him on Facebook @ 1lindell.
Source: www.jdnews.com
London 2012: Team GB athletes will learn anthem - head coach - BBC News
British athletes will definitely know the words to the national anthem before the London Games, says UK Athletics head coach Charles van Commenee.
The Dutchman believes the step is necessary to head off potential criticism over "plastic Brits" - or athletes who have switched allegiance to represent Team GB at the Olympics.
"They know the words, or they will," said Van Commenee.
"If they don't, somebody will make an issue of it."
Asked if it should matter whether athletes know the words to the national anthem, he added: "That's a different question.
"I'm not going to rehearse everybody because we have 90 athletes, but people that matter... let's say the relevant ones, the ones on your radar (will rehearse the anthem)."
Van Commenee's choice of United States-born Tiffany Porter as team captain for the World Indoor Championships in March sparked the "Plastic Brits" row after she declined to sing God Save the Queen at a news conference ahead of that meeting.
Porter, who qualifies for Britain through her London-born mother and has held a British passport since birth, said she knew the words but questioned her singing ability.
Charles van Commenee“This is nothing compared to what football managers have to go through, but at least it tells me that athletics is worth talking about”
"I do know the first lines," she said at the time. "I know the whole of God Save the Queen."
Van Commenee, who insists he would only know the first two lines of his own national anthem, believes the "Plastic Brits" row is not important in the scheme of things.
"I know in Olympic year all sorts of rubbish comes up," he said.
The 53-year-old claims he had far more important matters to deal with when he was technical director of the Dutch Olympic Committee for the Beijing Olympics in 2008.
"In the lead up to Beijing, there were lots of issues around Taiwan, Tibet, smog, human rights, not having the ability to express yourself in public, child labour," he said. "All these things had to be addressed by me.
"The issues I deal with now are partly not serious, but it comes with the job. This is nothing compared to what football managers have to go through, but at least it tells me that athletics is worth talking about.
"When you are in the spotlight then yes, you get issues to talk about."
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
London Luxury-Home Price Gains Slow After Property-Tax Increase - Businessweek
Luxury-home prices in central London rose the least in nine months in May, after the British government increased a tax on purchases of 2 million pounds ($3.1 million) or more, Knight Frank LLP said.
Values of houses and apartments costing an average of 3.7 million pounds climbed 10.7 percent from a year earlier, the London-based broker said in a report today. That was the smallest gain since August 2011. Prices rose 0.7 percent from April, bolstered by buyers from mainland Europe.
Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne raised the tax, known as stamp duty, to 7 percent from 5 percent in March. The threshold for the new tax rate is now the average asking price of a home in Kensington and Chelsea, one of London’s most affluent neighborhoods, property-listings website Rightmove Plc said when the government announced the change.
“The market has absorbed the 7 percent duty rate fairly well,” Liam Bailey, head of residential research for Knight Frank, said in the report. Prices for homes valued at more than 2 million pounds rose 1.6 percent in the past two months, while those for all luxury properties gained 2.7 percent, he said.
Europe’s debt crisis has prompted overseas investors to acquire real estate in London to preserve their wealth. Luxury- property prices in the city have increased about 12 percent since the market’s peak in 2008, including 4.7 percent this year, as a scarcity of homes for sale drove up values.
German Buyers
“We are now seeing a noticeable uptick in interest from France, Italy, Spain and even German-based purchasers,” Bailey said in the report. That contributed to the 19th monthly price increase in a row.
The crisis, now in its third year, threatens to destroy Europe’s 17-nation currency union as Greece contemplates exiting the euro and Spain sees its bond yields rise and banking industry falter. The euro zone’s collapse could cause prime central London property values to fall as much as 50 percent, Development Securities Plc (DSC) said in a May 31 report, as capital flows out of the city to less expensive markets.
“The ‘safe-haven’ effect has clearly played its role in attracting foreign money into London’s most desirable post codes,” Chief Executive Officer Michael Marx said in the report. “However, the property industry knows -- perhaps better than most -- that nothing goes on forever.”
Foreign Residents
Foreign buyers accounted for about 60 percent of home purchases in London’s most expensive districts in the four years through 2011, according to London-based Development Securities. As a result, more than half of the residents of Kensington and Chelsea and the City of Westminster are from outside the U.K.
House prices across the country rose in May for the first time in three months as a lack of homes for sale supported values, Nationwide Building Society said May 31. Values gained 0.3 percent from April and fell an annual 0.7 percent to an average of 166,022 pounds.
Knight Frank compiles its luxury-homes index from its own appraisal values of a sample of the same properties in the 13 most expensive neighborhoods of central London, including Belgravia and Knightsbridge.
To contact the reporter on this story: Chris Spillane in London at cspillane3@bloomberg.net.
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Andrew Blackman at ablackman@bloomberg.net.
Source: www.businessweek.com
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