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The market of commercial properties will continue growing in 2017. Real estate and consulting experts expect that several new office buildings will be added to the offer this year. Since most of the spaces have already been rented during construction, the vacancy rate is not expected to increase significantly, the TASR... |
The growing economy and falling unemployment rate create a good environment for the growth of companies already established in Slovakia, but also for the arrival of new ones. This may result in stable or slightly increased demand for office space, opines Roman Gazdík of Cushman & Wakefield company. |
As for Bratislava, new office premises should be created as part of Zuckermandel, Rosum, Uniq Staromestská, Blumental, Stein and Panorama II projects which will offer more than 100,000 square metres of modern space. More office premises are expected to appear in the market in 2018, TASR reported. |
The real estate companies also expect positive trends in the coming years. Meanwhile, the rental conditions and prices may slightly increase, but the rise should not be higher than 3-4 percent, Oliver Galata of CBRE Slovensko told TASR. |
He also expects the restoration of the rent of offices and the construction of some projects that was halted in the regions. This concerns Košice, Žilina, Poprad, Prešov and Banská Bystrica, especially due to the interest of international companies, Galata added. |
Dalibor Surový of the JLL company predicts a slight drop in the activity of lessees. Most of firms which rent space of more than 2,000 square metres have already signed leases for a longer period. Overall demand will be impacted mostly by activities of small and medium-sized companies, so it is possible to expect a hig... |
Meanwhile, some owners of lower standard buildings have adopted steps to secure their competitiveness, said Ermanno Boeris, head of Colliers International. They will reconstruct the spaces to a higher standard and compete with one another via rental rates. |
The trends coming from the west also indicate that the usage of office buildings may change, for example, they may be turned into residential buildings, he added. |
Maberry threw out the first pitch at the home softball game on April 9 against Lake Ridge. All of the proceeds from the concession stands were donated to the Maberry family. |
A few days early, Faltys threw out the first pitch at Carroll’s home softball game on April 5 against Byron Nelson. Faltys, who has been superintendent since 2006, took a leave of absence in December to be with his wife and children. |
His wife Jen passed away in January after a 12-year battle with breast cancer. |
The softball team will send a donation under Jen Faltys’ name to the American Cancer Society. |
Khloe Brandon, a 3rd grader at Lone Star Elementary in the Keller school district, was diagnosed with Leukemia in December. |
She threw out the first pitch at a Keller Central baseball game last month. |
Keller softball also hosted one during a home district game against on March 14 against Guyer. Each girl from both teams picked a balloon that was the color of what cancer they represented and released it into the sky. |
The Indians performed for one of their moms last season, Jennifer Love, who had been battling breast cancer. |
NEW YORK - NEW YORK (AP) — The stock market fell for the first time in five days and Treasurys slipped after a jump in inflation stoked concerns that the Federal Reserve would be forced to raise interest rates. |
Stocks extended their losses late in the day Tuesday after General Electric Co. forecast that revenue and earnings would be largely flat in 2010. |
Major stocks indexes fell 0.5 percent from 14-month highs, including the Dow Jones industrial average, which lost 49 points. |
Trading was subdued as Fed policymakers gathered for a two-day meeting on interest rates. The Fed isn't expected to raise rates from their record low level, but the day's economic reports brought reminders that the central bank could be forced to raise rates sooner than expected to keep inflation at bay. |
"They're the twin pistons of inflation," said Christopher Wolf, managing partner and co-chief investment officer at Cogo Wolf Asset Management LLC in San Francisco. |
Meanwhile, the Fed said industrial production rose 0.8 percent in November, the biggest gain since August. The rise in production meant factories ran at a higher capacity. The portion of capacity being used remains below average, but if factories start seeing demand increase prices could rise. |
The reports put inflation on investors' screens. If prices start rising and the Fed raises rates, it could choke off a nascent economic recovery. The Fed is expected to release a statement on the economy and interest rates Wednesday afternoon after its meeting. |
"There is a fair chance that the Fed is going to have to start putting some brakes on the economy," Wolf said, adding that he doesn't expect any immediate actions from policymakers. |
Higher rates would help shore up the dollar, which rose Tuesday, but has fallen against other major currencies since stocks began rising in March. It could also trip up the stock market as traders realign their holdings. |
Stocks have slowed their nine-month advance in December as traders look to lock in gains for the year and seek clues about what might be able to drive the market in 2010. The benchmark Standard & Poor's 500 index has jumped 63.8 percent from a 12-year low in March on relief that the economy appears to be stabilizing. A... |
The Dow fell 49.05, or 0.5 percent, to 10,452.00. The S&P 500 index fell 6.18, or 0.6 percent, to 1,107.93, and the Nasdaq composite index fell 11.05, or 0.5 percent, to 2,201.05. |
The Dow and S&P 500 index closed Monday at their highest levels since October 2008 as concerns eased about global debt problems. |
The dollar rose to its highest level in two months against the euro, while gold prices fell. |
Crude oil rose $1.18 to settle at $70.69 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange and break a nine-day slide. |
Investors turned cautious after GE's forecast. CEO Jeffrey Immelt said the conglomerate is making a rebound after a difficult year and that it is looking to rely more on its energy and health care businesses and less on its financial arm for earnings in 2010. The stock fell 20 cents, or 1.3 percent, to $15.75. |
Meanwhile, Best Buy Co. said its fourth-quarter profit margins will face pressure as shoppers look for less expensive items. The comments came as the electronics retailer said its third-quarter earnings more than quadrupled. Best Buy fell $3.84, or 8.5 percent, to $41.53. |
Three stocks fell for every two that rose on the New York Stock Exchange, where consolidated volume came to 5.1 billion shares, compared with 4.5 billion Monday. |
Britain's FTSE 100 fell 0.6 percent, Germany's DAX index rose 0.2 percent, and France's CAC-40 added 0.1 percent. Japan's Nikkei stock average fell 0.2 percent. |
Penguin, the publishing house, will release new "ebooks" at the same time as it produces a print edition in order to feed a growing demand for digital books. |
Pearson, the UK media group which owns Penguin, said that books from the publishing house, from its travel division and from the Dorling Kindersley brand, will be available to download from its website and from digital retailers from September. |
The electronically-available books will come out at the same time as the print editions and will cost the same. |
Work has already begun to ensure that Penguin's back catalogue of some 5,000 titles is published in ebook form this year and next. |
Genevieve Shore, Penguin digital director, said: "We have seen in other markets that the digital bestsellers are the same books making it to the top of the bestseller lists and we know our readers expect both editions to be available at the same time." |
Penguin said that among the first books to be made available in ebook format will be The Believers, Zoe Heller's follow-up to Notes on a Scandal, and Things I Want My Daughter to Know by Elizabeth Noble. |
Alan Greenspan's The Age Of Turbulence will be published as an ebook, while Penguin Classics will publish new editions of The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas and Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin. |
Penguin's announcement is the latest in a series of publishing moves to take advantage of the digital market. |
Bloomsbury, which publishes the Harry Potter books in the UK, recently signed a deal with Microsoft to be part of its Live Search programme, where users can find books and have them printed on demand. |
The publisher hopes that the print-on-demand market, in which customers can have one off copies of out of print titles printed, bound and posted to them, will give older books a new lease of life. |
North Carolina lawmakers are considering a bill that would clear the way for students to attend the public school of their choosing, at no cost. |
The "open-enrollment" bill would eliminate many of the barriers that limit student enrollment choices in the state and instead mirror the state's charter-school enrollment process, according to a Raleigh News & Observer story. A draft of the bill was sent to the Joint Legislative Program Evaluation Oversight Committee ... |
School districts would be mandated to establish a process to allow parents to seek enrollment in a school anywhere in the state. Denials would be permitted for a variety of reasons, including classroom overcrowding, according to the News & Observer story. The bill would not require districts to provide transportation f... |
Currently, North Carolina families must pay tuition and receive permission from their home district to attend traditional public schools outside their district's enrollment boundaries. |
Republican Sen. Fletcher L. Hartsell, who helped develop the legislation, told WUNC public radio, that the bill creates a "level playing field" among traditional public schools and charter schools. |
But Leanne Winner, director of governmental relations for the North Carolina School Boards Association, told WUNC that its members had financial and logistical concerns about the bill. |
Every publishing house declined to print Ira Trivedi’s debut book. Luckily, Penguin obliged. Today, after three books in eight years, every leading publisher wants a bit of her young, contemporary way of story-telling! After knowing about what she is now working on, the number of houses chasing her might just multiply. |
Coming to her first book, ‘What Would You Do To Save the World’, (Also the quintessential question asked at the beauty pageants), which she wrote at the age of 19 is inspired from her experience at the Miss India Beauty pageant, where she was one of the contestants. Her second book, There’s No Love On Wall Street mirro... |
Ira is glad about the literary scenario in India wherein a lot of first-time writers are getting breaks through publishing houses. “But at the same time, quality should not be compromised with. With so many authors, readers too have become selective about books; they can’t be fooled.” As is true with so many successful... |
From the intense Pasupathi in the Telugu super-hit Arundhati to the chivalrous Rajkumar Sujamal in Jodhaa Akbar and the rustic, vengeful Chhedi Singh in Dabangg, he has juggled myriad of challenging roles in his career spanning a few years. |
Born at Patiala, brought up in Moga and having spent a substantial amount of his childhood at his aunt’s house in Jalandhar, Sonu Sood’s Punjabi roots still regulate his life and career. He borrows his humility from his mother, a professor whose childhood lessons taught him to stay grounded ‘no matter what.’ All set to... |
When I was a child, I had never even dreamt that I would be an actor one day. While pursuing an engineering degree at Nagpur, I got an offer for an amateur modelling show. I got noticed and soon made it to shows in Delhi. Then I was offered a film Down South and after this first Tamil film, other assignments started po... |
What are you more of – the gun-brandishing, tattooed rowdy Punjabi or the more humble guy that you are usually perceived as? |
I am a bit of both. I proudly flaunt my Punjabiat, but when it comes to temperament, I like things more grounded. Glamour is attractive but humility has its own charm. |
You have thrived in your roles and been associated with the best of productions as well as entertainment houses. Maybe even more than some lead actors. Has it been a conscious choice? |
Yes I have been very choosy about by roles. Whatever the nature of the roles, I have chosen to work with big banners and acclaimed production houses. I have always wanted to learn. There were times when I sat idle for months, as I did not get a role of my choice, but in the end I have loved my decisions. |
Do you like the way your career is shaping up? |
Some of my characters like Chhedi Singh and Sujamal became household names. Arundhati was one of the biggest super-hits in the Telugu industry. What more does an actor need? |
What has been your favourite role so far? |
I love the role of a cop that I am playing in my upcoming film Maximum. It was a great learning experience working with Naseeruddin Shah. |
A baddie or a supercop - what’s your pick? |
A challenging role, be it good or bad, is what excites me the most. |
Maximum, Shootout at Wadala and some movies Down South. |
How is it playing Dawood Ibrahim? |
It took loads of research. I really worked hard for it. It’s going to be different project altogether. |
Will you be there in Dabangg 2? |
Nope. There have been a lot of changes. The director has changed and the spirit of this one is different, so I opted out of the project. |
“Indian theatre and films have retained the elements of social activism and express it directly to audiences and that’s what makes this genre the most powerful media,” observed Shashi Ranjan well-known Bollywood actor, producer, director and above all a socio-cultural campaigner. |
An alumnus of the Film and Television Institute Pune, Shashi had earlier done well in youth festivals of Kurukshsetra University while representing his Vaish College, Rohtak but never did professional theatre. |
Coming from a humble background of academicians, he entered the film world via Haryanvi films when filmmaking in Haryana was a rarity. He, along with his friends, produced a film called Bahurani and played the lead role. |
Later, he was featured in Phool Badan and another film opposite Rama Vij. He acted in and produced many more films like Prem Geet, Zakhmi Sher, Saheb and Gali Gali Mein Shor Hai to name a few. |
Shashi, who was in Chandigarh for receiving a state-level honour conferred on him by the Haryana government, shared his journey from his home town Bhiwani to Bollywood. |
“Siyasat was probably the first movie dealing with politics with larger implications on the governance and the governed. I shot a violence scene with a15,000-strong crowd and the venue was my birthplace Bhiwani,” said Ranjan. |
The crowd was so involved that they braved the harsh sun to take part in the shoot while some crew members and actor Hangal fainted while doing that, he shared. |
Talking about his many firsts, he claimed to be a pioneer in introducing the first ever talk show with Shatrughan Sinha which made records on Zee TV and Star. |
“I had ventured to organise Indian Television Academy (ITA) as the founder president and introduced TV awards. Our contributions to social work on female foeticide project Beti now is in the 10th year. For creating awareness on female feoticide we have involved youngsters by giving them prizes on one-minute film on the... |
On the plight of regional cinema, especially in Haryana, he observed that the move has to be supported by the state government and influential organisations. “People appreciate quality cinema in their mother tongue. In the South regional cinema is more powerful than the Hindi cinema,” said Ranjan. |
History repeats itself — probably each one of us has borne the brunt of this line year after year during our school days! There wasn’t any respite from history for it would repeat itself after every semester. This time, however, Punjabi singer and actor Gippy Grewal goes on to tweak history or just a part of it with hi... |
Mirza, The Untold Story…what is that we don’t know about Mirza? |
The name of the movie is Mirza, The Untold Story but it is an entirely different film; it is a story of modern-day Mirza and a romantic action thriller. It definitely has some very basic resemblance to the Mirza, but it is a modern-day concept placed in a modern setting. More than half of the movie has been shot in Can... |
So where does Gippy Grewal relate to the modern Mirza? |
This is a movie that has a lot of fictional elements. I relate to Mirza’s bravery, to his strength and determination. As far as the movie goes, I had to train a lot for it. I learnt martial arts and how to use weapons. Personally, I believe in the policy of ‘live and let live’, all the same I would never back-off if th... |
Punjabi cinema is doing well in the Steeple Chase (read evident hangover of Paan Singh Tomar over the audiences and Bollywood both). Will Mirza contribute something in the race? |
(Gippy laughs) Yes it will. Mirza, The Untold Story is going to be the most technically sound project of Punjabi cinema. The entire team of technicians is from abroad. The movie has been shot in Canada and movie-makers abroad have helped a lot. Baljeet Deo, the director, has treated the subject in a grand manner and th... |
Doesn’t it sound like something interesting? |
Let’s get this over. Agent Vinod is no James Bond. Sure he is suave, chic even witty and undeniably good looking. But a Casanova who can charm women out of woods and who sleeps around with voluptuous beauties, he certainly is not. Rather the first and the only woman that appears in his life, he pops off the big questio... |
However, action is one department in which our spy matches the good old Bond….bullet for bullet. And come to think of it mind blowing action is what the movie is all about in any case. Of course, there is a narrative that begins on a promising rather menacing note in Afghanistan. Raghavan who showed great potential in ... |
But before you think here’s Bollywood’s answer to Hollywood, it meanders around. Bombs and terrorism are what it zeroes down to. And nuclear bomb, the new threat hovering over mankind, is what our indigenous agent is after. So, you have him tracking it all over the world from Russia to Morocco to Pakistan and finally I... |
In between, of course there are moments and characters that keep you engrossed. Ram Kumar, the burly new passionate romantic of small screen, gets a new avatar and almost pulls it off as baddie. Adil Hussain and many others like the evergreen villain Prem Chopra are good. The lead pair surprisingly displays no chemistr... |
The romance angle, the Pakistan connection and the overzealousness to clear its involvement in terror attacks go on to create a potpourri that’s different and yet not refreshing enough. Watch it if action has your adrenaline pumping. Only remember this one comes with Bollywood tadka. |
The story begins with a series of seemingly unconnected events, all over the globe. In Uzbekistan, an Ex-KCG officer is murdered. In Cape Town, a group of international business tycoons discuss a rumour that the dead KCB officer had a nuclear suitcase bomb hidden away. In Moscow, an Indian secret agent is exposed. |
The agent is shot dead while trying to send a red message to India. In India, the head of RAW sees the incomplete message. All it contains is a number 242. Agent Vinod (Saif Ali Khan) is the kind of agent who first kicks the door open and then finds out what’s behind it. His unconventional approach puts him in dangerou... |
The movie is full of suspense and action; and you feel if blink, you would miss something. Both Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor do justice to their roles. |
The on-screen chemistry between the real life couple Saif and Bebo is electrifying. Saif looks tough and cool, playing a spy. The movie has a Bond touch but overall it is a fun ride. |
The music is entertaining and so is the concept of the movie. Saif Ali Khan plays his character with elegance which makes it more powerful. Kareena looks gorgeous as usual and now it feels she has learnt a bit of acting as well. |
Fresh, fun and spirited are the key words for Lemon Tree Hotels, and, a brief visit to their newly-opened branch at Industrial Area I, confirms that. |
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