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Phish Auction: Festival 8 Tix & More to Help Delta Gamma

Phish Memorabilia to Benefit the Children of the Delta Gamma Center


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The Mimi Fishman Foundation once again displays its strong support for the Delta Gamma Center for Children with Visual Impairments. This time around, the Foundation’s on-line charity auction concentrates on Phish – and in a huge way. Items range from Phish’s Festival 8 tickets (with a Jon Fishman drumstick tossed in), to Scramble Campbell’s artwork created at one of Phish’s 2009 Red Rocks shows, to a mother lode of Phish Summer 2009 signed posters.

The auction closes for bidding on September 28, 2009.

To view and/or bid on the auction, as well as read about the charities the auction supports, please visit the Mimi Fishman Foundation Auction Page:

www.mimifishman.org/auctions

The Mimi Fishman Foundation is a 501(c) 3 non-profit organization established in 1999 by Miriam “Mimi” Fishman (the late mother of Phish drummer Jon Fishman) and David Shulman, as a vehicle to raise funds for various charities which were important to Mimi. To date the Foundation has been responsible for the distribution of over $310,000 to the organizations such as The Station Family Fund, Rock the Earth, Conscious Alliance, Our Future Now, and The Delta Gamma Center for Children with Visual Impairments. With no paid employees, the Foundation operates solely by the help of unpaid volunteers.


Miley Cyrus eBay Charity Auction

Miley is giving you the clothes off her back.

The teen queen is holding an eBay auction to sell off some personal items to raise money for her family charity, The Pappy Cyrus Family Foundation.
The auction runs through Aug. 13.

Sheldon Filger: U.S. Treasury Sweating Bullets over Financing Swelling Deficits

The warning is crystal clear. Before the onset of the current financial and economic crisis, the U.S. had structural deficits measured in the hundreds of billions of dollars.

Will Kim Kardashian sell ex-beau Reggie Bush’’s Clothes for charity?

While Kim Kardashian and Reggie Bush have called it quits, many are wondering whether the former will sell off her ex-beau’s clothes as part of their eBay charity auction.
The duo, who parted ways amicably, used to sell their goods together on Kim’s eBay site.
And now that the socialite is cleaning out her wardrobe with a [...]

JK Rowling’s chair fetches £20K on eBay

Harry Potter author JK Rowling’s chair, sitting in which she wrote the first two books of the famous series, has been re-sold for a whopping 20,000 pounds.
The value of the chair, which was previously sold for 15,000 pounds, has increased three-fold in the last seven years.
The chair was once merely the most comfortable of a [...]

Ericsson Wins Auction for Nortel Assets, RIM Still Interested

Ericsson won the auction for Nortels wireless business with a $1.13 billion bid, almost twice the amount initially offered by Nokia Siemens Network in June. Officials with RIM, which makes the BlackBerry handheld devices, are holding out hope that they can still get those and other Nortel assets, saying they want to keep Nortel businesses in Canada while expanding their reach in the wireless space.
– The dismantling of Nortel Networks is continuing, with Ericsson winning the
auction for the bankrupt companys wireless business for $1.13 billion and
Research in Motion officials saying they are still interested in other Nortel
assets.
Ericsson won the bidding for Nortels CDMA (Code Division Mul…


What am I bid? Nothing! Watergate Hotel fails to sell

File photo of the Watergate Hotel, 1998

An attempted auction of the Watergate Hotel, part of a Washington landmark made famous by a presidential scandal, has failed to attract any bids.

The opening price on the hotel was $25m (£15.2m), but none of the 10 people registered to bid did so.

The Watergate Hotel is part of the US capital’s Watergate Complex.

It housed the Democratic National Committee headquarters, which were broken into in the scandal leading to President Richard Nixon’s resignation.

Four of the burglars stayed at the hotel before the 1972 break-in.

A company called Monument Realty, which bought the Watergate in 2004, closed the hotel two years ago but ran out of funds while trying to renovate it.

The firm had originally tried to convert the hotel into luxury flats.

Joseph Cooper, president of Alex Cooper Auctioneers, said before the auction started that it was a chance to invest in "one of the city’s most famous landmarks".

The auction attracted dozens of spectators, including journalists and residents of the complex.

PB Capital Corp, which had loaned $40m to Monument Realty, will take back the property and attempt to find a buyer.</p


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Watergate Hotel To Hit Auction Block Tuesday Morning

WASHINGTON — The Watergate Hotel that is part of a complex made famous by a presidential scandal is heading to the auction block.

Alex Cooper Auctioneers is scheduled to start the sale of the landmark at 10:15 a.m. Tuesday. According to…

Circuit City Still In Talks Over Potential Sale

ATLANTA (Reuters) – Circuit City Stores <CCTYQ.PK> concluded the first day of an auction and said it was still in talks with bidders regarding a potential sale of the company or certain assets.
Lawyer Ian Fredericks of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP. which represents Circuit City, made the announcement on a conference call to [...]