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Kenroy Waldron - January 5, 2015 by Mr HomeBuilder

At just 24 years old, Kenroy Waldron is a Clerical Assistant at the Division of Settlements and Labour, and the Chief Executive Officer of his own company Kii Dronn Contracting Services.

The company has been in existence for the past three years. Its core vision is to improve the ambiance of buildings, whether residential or industrial. Services offered include the creation of unique, functional architectural and interior designs, painting, pressure washing, building plans and tool rentals. He has obtained numerous qualifications from Trinzuela Technical and Vocational College, including a Technicians Diploma in Constructing, diplomas in Drawing and Surveying, Health and Safety Practice and Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing. Although Kenroy admits his passion lies in the field of business, he also has a love for music and has been playing the drums for 13 years. In the long term, he sees himself broadening his educational horizons to further advance the services he offers to Tobago and in the same vein, expand his company to facilitate the capacity to physically construct commercial and residential structures.

1.Your favourite childhood memory? Flying kites with my brothers at Christmas time.

2.What was your lowest point in life? When I lost my mother. She passed away after accidentally inhaling fumes from a bottle of bright bowl and Clorox mixture.

3. What is your favourite dish? Buss up shut and curried chicken.

4. Which person has been the most influential to you? Or, persons you can credit for your achievements thus far? If I say one person that would be unfair; I have a strong support base. I thank God for them daily they know who they are.

5. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? I am happy with who I am. What you see is what you get.

6. What is the best advice that you have ever gotten? I was chatting with my father, Mr. Beresford Waldron and he told me, Kenroy everyone wont be happy with what you have accomplished thus far, but keep trusting God in all that you do.

7. Where have you travelled thus far? I have been to St Lucia and I loved the time I spent there. I hope to return soon on business.

8. What is your guiltiest pleasure? I love cars. After praying in the morning, I am usually outside by 5:30 am every morning cleaning my car.

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Restoration Hardware building mega-mansion 'gallery' in Tampa - January 5, 2015 by Mr HomeBuilder

Now deeply into construction, Tampas next mega-mansion will rise three stories tall and spread out over a 47,000-square-foot space, roughly half the size of some Publix grocery stores, and likely feature rooftop gardens, fountains, and a dozen bedrooms, bathrooms and living rooms.

Luckily for guests and visitors, the mansion will have an open-door policy and everything inside will be for sale. The couches in the living room, the robes in the bathroom and the wine glasses in the kitchen. Thats because this mega-mansion will be a Restoration Hardware Gallery adjacent to International Plaza mall, one of just four supersites the San Francisco-based home design retailer will open around the nation this year.

While most other retailers are closing stores or shrinking stores to better compete with online rivals, Restoration Hardware is very much going the other direction, building big. Very big. And the retailer thus joins a small pack of companies bucking current trends and going for mega-stores: Bass Pro Shops and Academy Sports among them.

In a kind of video manifesto, RH patriarch and Chairman Gary Friedman told Wall Street investors this month that his new stores are so different that they simply wont fit into the established financial models, and anyone hoping to understand the companys strategy just simply has to visit one of these new mega-sites in San Francisco, Houston or Atlanta.

We created spaces that blurred the lines between residential and retail, indoors and outdoors, physical and digital, Friedman said. We created spaces where guests who visit our new homes are saying I want to live here. Ive been in retail almost 40 years and Ive never heard anyone say they wanted to live in a retail store, until now.

Rumors about Restoration Hardwares plans in Tampa have circulated for some time, particularly ever since the Champps Americana restaurant closed at International Plaza and remained dormant.

The company officially is mum about its current store at Hyde Park Village, but given how top executives speak of smaller, 7,000-square-foot sites, its likely the new International Plaza gallery will replace the current, smaller Hyde Park Village site.

This month, paperwork started to circulate through City of Tampa offices that named Restoration Hardware as the retailer, and company officials confirmed the location to the Tribune.

Restoration Hardware has long zigged when other retailers have zagged. It was one of the first merchants to fully embrace the idea that customers want to buy into a whole lifestyle, a whole aesthetic, a whole social strata, and not just walk in to buy a couch or doorknob.

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Bihar Chief Minister Ducks Shoe, Bouncers on Nitish Kumar - January 5, 2015 by Mr HomeBuilder

Patna: It was a hectic Monday for Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi - ducking a shoe and later the accusation that he was trying to "run out" his boss, Nitish Kumar, by sledging his cabinet colleagues.

"Nitish is my captain and he has given me the chance to bat, so I'm doing the batting and at a time, four players can't bat at the crease," Mr Manjhi told reporters at the weekly Janta Durbar - the public meeting he holds every Monday at his home in Patna.

Yesterday, accusing some of his cabinet colleagues of doubting his ability to perform, Mr Majhi had said some people say he was playing test cricket and others say One Day International and T20. "But I'll deliver on my promises irrespective of whatever version of the game I get to play," he had said.

"Only when I get bowled out, the Captain will think of replacement. But it remains to be seen whether I will get out or not," Mr Manjhi further said today.

Amid this, a man was arrested after he threw a shoe at the Chief Minister, which missed its mark. The man has been identified by the police as Amitesh, who is from Chhapra.

As he was being led away by the police, Amitesh reportedly alleged how his grievances had not been addressed despite attending the meeting for the last two years. The man was also accusing politicians of indulging in casteism, said Senior Superintendent of Police Jitendra Rana.

After initial interrogation, police sources said he had been involved in two cases. Once he had even been sent to jail for travelling on train without a ticket. It is possible that he is mentally disbalanced, an officer said.

The 'Janta Darbar' was started by Mr Manjhi's predecessor Nitish Kumar a few years ago, where the chief minister listens to grievances from the public.

Confirming that a slipper was indeed thrown, Mr Manjhi said an inquiry will "reveal the truth".

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Spartanburg's 2014 to-do list to get done this year - January 5, 2015 by Mr HomeBuilder

Published: Sunday, January 4, 2015 at 11:14 p.m. Last Modified: Sunday, January 4, 2015 at 11:14 p.m.

In the first quarter of the year, city officials expect the new Wall Street development, with storefronts on the lower level and nine residential units on top, to open this month. A juice bar a first for downtown plans to open in the next few weeks, and Hub Diggity Dog is also expected to locate in the development. There is also a third storefront in the building.

Not far from the Wall Street development, Dottie's Toffee founder Nick Belmont plans to open a retail storefront in February. The new location at 155 W. Main St. includes an exhibition kitchen where people can watch the candy-making process. Using his grandmother's toffee recipe, Belmont and his staff currently make milk and dark chocolate toffee in small batches out of a small commercial kitchen on Spring Street.

City Communications Manager Will Rothschild said the Wall Street festival street concept will be completed in January.

The street is being reconfigured from a vehicular street to a festival street with brick pavers and space for outdoor seating. The street will have no curbs or sidewalks, and pedestrian and vehicular driving lanes will be distinguished by different colors and paver patterns.

After the completion of Wall Street, the city will begin work on Magnolia Street improvements. Wall and Magnolia street plans are part of $2.3 million in streetscape, biking and pedestrian improvements City Council approved in late 2013. The city's plan to improve Magnolia Street includes removing the street trees that are in the sidewalk and opening up that section.

The city will wrap up work on its $2.5 million parks and recreation improvement plan with a new playground installation at Happy Hollow park, the last one to receive a play structure, and work will start on a new Stewart Park activity center.

The city will open its new multipurpose athletic field at the C.C. Woodson Community Center the field was partially financed by a National Football League grant. Rothschild said completing work at the field, along with the new outdoor playground equipment installed in November, is the final piece of the puzzle for C.C. Woodson.

The city plans to make headway on daylighting the Butterfly Creek in the Northside community. There is no official timeline yet, Rothschild said, but some preliminary work could be done on the creek that runs through the community. The city, the Northside Development Group and other partners are working to secure a $30 million federal grant to help with revitalization efforts on the Northside.

City officials are optimistic the Hub City Cooperative grocery store board of directors will be able to raise $350,000 to open the state's first cooperative grocery. In May, City Council agreed to offer the group a $200,000 zero-interest loan and provide a $150,000 operations assistance grant that would be paid out monthly during the first four years of operation.

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Roofing Ventilation from CertainTeed – Video - January 5, 2015 by Mr HomeBuilder

Roofing Ventilation from CertainTeed
CertainTeed #39;s director of contractor programs, Jay Butch, explains why ventilation is a key component to any functional roof system. Get more information on ...

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