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Oct. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Louise T. Blouin MacBain, the multimillionaire arts publisher and patron, opens a London institute today with a show by the Arizona-based contemporary artist James Turrell, ``A Life in Light.'' The institute, a former 1920s car-body factory located in an underdeveloped area north of London's Notting Hill, was inaugurated with much fanfare last night at a party for some 1,000 people. Such were the crowds that bouncers briefly kept guests waiting behind security cordons before letting them in. Among those attending were singer Grace Jones, a brown cap lowered over her plucked eyebrows; human-rights campaigner Bianca Jagger, who stepped out of a chauffeur-driven limousine wearing dark glasses; and designer Ron Arad, who wore a large, lopsided baseball cap.
Police charged a Cedar Rapids man with burglary and assault after he allegedly displayed a knife to a resident inside a Coralville apartment. The resident then chased the man outside, where the attacker allegedly attempted to run the resident over with his vehicle on Oct. 1, authorities reported.
A resident at the apartment told police he and his roommate were inside their apartment, 953 Boston Way, when Mitchell Gallo, 27, came to the apartment to pick up some belongings, according to a police complaint signed Oct. 1.
Gallo was told to wait in the hallway, but he entered the apartment and, reportedly displaying a knife, attacked one of the men, officers reported.
That resident then chased Gallo from the apartment, police said. Gallo then got into his car, allegedly attempted to run over the resident, and crashed into the stairs of the building, authorities said.
WHITE PLAINS - A handful of residents came to the Post Road Elementary School gym yesterday to get a better look at the $66.5 million, 25-year school bond that will go up for a vote Tuesday. A construction project totaling $69.9 million would replace the school with a new one on fields near the school. It would also create artificial turf fields at the high school and middle school, and repair infrastructure across the district. "I still don't understand how we arrived at these numbers," said resident Linda Gillespie, as officials went over charts and drawings. Gillespie, who said she handles multimillion-dollar bids in the software business, said she'd been frustrated at previous meetings by the "smooth, politician's response" to questions about the cost. District officials maintained they had made the best guess possible using information on current school construction projects.
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Officials involved in the construction of the Washington Nationals' new ballpark in Southeast said yesterday work on the stadium is progressing on time and hailed the arrival of the ballpark's steel framework as an indication that things are moving swiftly.
More than 300 workers from the joint venture involving the Clark, Hunt and Smoot construction companies have toiled at the site since April and last week began raising the first sections of steel -- a key stage in determining whether the project is on schedule to open in 17 months.
"To put it very simple, we are on time, on budget and we expect to have the ballpark open by April of 2008," said Allen Lew, chief executive officer of the D.C. Sports and Entertainment Commission, which has oversight of the project.
The contracts were signed on June second and a check for $6,500 was given to the Bill Buza and Sons Construction Company. Charles and Connie Florczyk took out a home-equity loan to pay for a $20,000 home renovation project updating their windows and even adding windows to the home they've lived in for more than 20-years.
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12 October 2006- Having completed investigations on the Gelephu land case last month, the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) has now shifted its focus to the Royal Insurance Corporation of Bhutan Limited (RICBL) and the Thimphu City Corporation.
According to insurance employees who spoke to Kuensel, the RICBL case is one of misuse of public money through fabricated claims on TA/DA, medical bills, improper sanctioning of construction loans, preferential car and RICB card loan among others. Sources told Kuensel that many employees, from general managers to drivers, had claimed more than what they were entitled to. A shareholder of the company complained that most employees saw going for medical treatment as a perk to make extra money. In the case of preferential car loan, RICBL officials were allegedly involved in sanctioning loans to their acquaintances without complete documents or security.
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