| House prices up 2.3 percent
Housing market research company Hometrack said house prices rose 2.3 percent on a year ago in January, down from 3 percent in December and the weakest rate since June 2006. On the month, prices fell 0.3 percent, the fourth consecutive monthly fall. The figures are not adjusted to take seasonal factors into account. The survey adds to a growing body of evidence showing the once red-hot housing market is cooling fast as past interest rate rises and the global credit crisis deter buyers. "Weak confidence among would-be purchasers continues to put downward pressure on house prices although the scale of the recent falls is relatively small when put in the context of gains over the last few years," said Richard Donnell, Hometrack's Director of Research.
Companies Launch Gadget Buyback Services
We think a lot about getting new gadgets, but not so much about getting rid of old ones. The result: old cell phones, defunct laser printers and Pentium III computers gathering dust. A couple companies want to help us clear out those old gadgets, while feeding our upgrade habit, helping the environment and making a buck for themselves. .
Monday wild card
That's Life is giving out more good sites to go for searching for your relatives.
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And if you aren't cooled off enough yet...
Here is Calicogirls home in the winter
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Popular eatery adds niche
It's more than just the desserts that have kept people coming back to the Galley Hatch for more than 35 years. A family business through and through, the Hampton restaurant is owned by John Tinios, whose parents opened the eatery in 1970. With its wooden booths and New England quaintness, the Galley Hatch Restaurant and its bar, The Tap Room, provide a kind of shelter-from-the-storm quality that brings you back to the heart and soul of what the restaurant business is all about. .
Five ways to enjoy winter
Not long afterward, images remembering lost relatives became just as fashionable, resulting in a social and visual tidal wave of works incorporating often intimate expressions of bereavement. This show features 60 examples of this powerful 19th-century trend, including numerous pieces of schoolgirl needlework, as well as professionally produced ceramics, textiles and other objects. It also explores the symbols of mourning, many of which were based on the late 18th-century taste for urns, temples and other neoclassical forms.
Bare Witness: Photographs of Gordon Parks
Friday-March 30. Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk. Few photographers created such an indelible and varied record of late 20th-century America as the late Gordon Parks. Born in Kansas in 1912, Life magazine's first African-American photographer captured crime, poverty and the civil rights struggle as well as Hollywood celebrities and fashion trends — all with a straightforward yet sympathetic eye capable of creating genuinely revealing pictures.
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