Richard White: Tips on how to identify a well-managed condo association

Q. Please let us know how one can identify a well-managed condominium association when considering purchasing a unit. Please share your top three or four questions to ask as well as tips to look for in the answers.— J.G.

Q. I read in your column that there are certain requirements for a community to be called an adult community. You referred to the Federal Housing for Older Persons Act of 1995 and the Fair Housing Act in Florida. You said that a census must be taken every other year this intrigues me. Does this apply to mobile home parks where residents pay rent to a landlord? Are these responsibilities incumbent on the owners or the residents?— B.R.

Port St. LucieA. You should be aware of discrimination laws in the United States. They include race, religion, nationality, disabilities, gender, and pregnancy, to name some of the classifications. One of the other classifications is age. In

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Stealthy cellphone software stirs outcry

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Technology bloggers are asking if our cellphones are spying on us after a security researcher said a piece of software hidden on millions of phones was recording virtually everything people do with them.

Amid a broad outcry, Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., is calling for an investigation. A class-action lawsuit has been filed against the software’s maker, Carrier IQ Inc. of Mountain View, Calif.

The software, which Carrier IQ says is used on some 150 million mobile devices, appears relatively innocuous. It does watch what owners of Sprint Nextel Corp. and AT&T Inc. smartphones do with them, including what people type and the numbers they dial. But it doesn’t seem to transmit every keystroke to the company. Instead, it kicks into action when there’s a problem, like a call that doesn’t go through.

“It is software that is developed in partnership with carriers with the intent to improve network performance,” said Tim Wyatt, principal engineer at Lookout, a cellphone security company. Read more…


New business opens in RI

Morten Wabyaombe; his uncle, Kakozi Muzaliwa; and his cousin, Asuma Aoei, have opened Morten Designs, Furniture Creations & Antique Restoration in Rock Island.

 The combination design studio/workshop and retail space at 2125 3rd Ave. is located in the Voss Brothers Warehouse. An open house will be held Monday.

Wabyaombe came to the United States in 1999 as a refugee from political persecution in Africa. He arrived in the Quad-Cities as an American citizen in 2010 by way of Arizona and Texas. 

He is opening his business with the assistance of the city of Rock Island, Project NOW, Rock Island Neighborhood Partners, the Changing Faces: Refugees & Immigrants in Rock Island organization and Rock Island Housing Authority.  

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Searching across the Atlantic for clues

NEW YORK – The euro zone will once again serve as the source of Wall Street’s angst, as investors look to a summit of the region’s political leaders for decisive solutions for the ballooning debt crisis.

Stocks posted their best week in more than two years this week, driven by central bank efforts to provide cheaper dollar loans to struggling European banks.

In addition, the new head of the European Central Bank said on Thursday the ECB stands ready to act more aggressively to fight Europe’s debt crisis if political leaders agree to much tighter budget controls at the December 9 summit.

But Wall Street investors can be forgiven for feeling like they’ve been in this position before. Markets seesawed throughout the fall, guided by prevailing sentiment out of Europe.

“Next week it will be all focused on the upcoming Friday summit.

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Free goodies for Black Friday shoppers (plus, store hours)

CLEVELAND, Ohio — In the spirit of giving, some retailers are making donations to charity for those who patronize their businesses this week, while others are lavishing goodies on Black Friday shoppers who hit their stores first.

The offers include:

J.C. Penney will donate $50 to the Salvation Army, up to $400,000, for every shopper who adopts a Salvation Army Angel online at on Thanksgiving.

It will also donate $25 for every shopper, up to $100,000, who checks in at a J.C.Penney store via foursquare on Black Friday. The store that logs the most checks-in wins a food truck party during the last shopping weekend before Christmas.

Yours Truly Restaurants in Chagrin Falls, Medina, Mentor and Independence is serving pancake breakfasts from 7:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. on Thanksgiving, with all donations going to local charities.

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AT&T, Telekom to press ahead with T-Mobile deal

Deutsche Telekom and ATT vowed Thursday to press ahead with the planned sale of the German company’s T-Mobile USA unit to the U.S. cell phone operator despite concerns raised by American authorities.

Nevertheless, ATT said it plans to take a pretax accounting charge of $4 billion in the current quarter to reflect the break-up fees that would be due to Deutsche Telekom if regulators block the deal.

The two companies said they had withdrawn applications to the Federal Communications Commission regarding the merger and intended to seek its approval again “as soon as practical.”

They took the step to consider “all options at the FCC and to focus their continuing efforts on obtaining antitrust clearance for the transaction from the Department of Justice,” which filed a lawsuit in August to stop the deal, ATT said in a statement.

“Both companies are continuing to pursue the sale of T-Mobile USA to ATT,” Deutsche Telekom stressed.

Both U.S.

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