Awesome Basement Remodel in Broadview Hts. Ohio
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ROCKDALE COUNTY, Ga. - Two home-improvement workers say they were deceived by a lie, and then attacked at gunpoint. Tina Deluna-Salazar and her husband told Rockdale County Sheriff's Deputies they had been laying tile at the home of Zachary Ellis. When Ellis asked them to return for more work, the couple says they agreed. However, when they arrived at his home, Deluna-Salazar says Ellis confronted them with a gun, unhappy with the work they had done.

Deluna-Salazar says they offered to fix the problems, but says Ellis tried to force them at gunpoint to return his money. The couple was able to escape the home and call 911. Deputies arrested Ellis when they arrived. According to a police report, Ellis told deputies it was actually Deluna-Salazar's husband who was demanding more money. He also told deputies he got his gun to get the couple out of his home. Despite that, Ellis also told deputies "he should have shot them, he really should have."

Ellis was arrested and now faces two counts of aggravated assault. He was booked into the Rockdale County Jail where he has since posted bond. Deluna-Salazar says this ordeal should be a warning to other home-improvement workers to never work alone at an unfamiliar job site.

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The Architects Apprentice

by Elif Shafak

Viking, 452 pp., $27.95

The Architects Apprentice is as intricate and lovely as the tile work in the magnificent mosques its protagonist helps build.

Elif Shafaks new novel, a fantastical tale rooted in history, follows a boy named Jahan in 16th-century Istanbul at the height of the Ottoman Empire. He arrives at Sultan Suleimans palace a maze of rooms within rooms and paths that drew circles, a serpent swallowing its tail escorting Chota, a white elephant that is a gift to the sultan. Through the course of the novel, inquisitive, plucky Jahan grows from an illiterate 12-year-old to one of the trusted apprentices of Chief Royal Architect Sinan to a respected master of his craft.

Written in English, Architect was first published in author Shafaks (The Bastard of Istanbul) native Turkey. Through Jahans journey, she addresses weighty topics such as the conflict between art, science and politics; the crossroads of faith, superstition and fundamentalism; destiny and self-determination; and the many permutations of love.

Jahan, with his poets soul and eggshell heart, has three great loves: Chota, his dearest friend; Master Sinan, a brilliant and gentle father figure; and Princess Mihrimah, the Sultans daughter, who is drawn to Chota, the latest addition to her fathers menagerie, and grows fond of his keeper.

Animal lovers will relate to the bond between Jahan and Chota. With Jahan at his side or on his back, the elephant entertains at the sultans celebrations, does heavy lifting on construction sites and, with sharpened, lethal tusks and to Jahans horror, goes to war.

After their initiation into battle, it is Chief Royal Architect Sinan who brings a traumatized Jahan back from the brink, presenting him with a small carved wooden elephant whose tusks have been replaced with flowers. Sinan, a convert to Islam with an expansive world view, intertwines his knowledge of human nature and architecture as he imparts his wisdom: God has built the palace of our body ... Remember, even a beggar owns a palace.

And it is Sinan who deems that Jahan be educated in the sultans academy. But the menagerie remains Jahans favorite spot, as he awaits visits from Princess Mihrimah, beautiful as the meaning of her name the sun and the moon.

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Work that i #39;ve done throughout the years.
A compilation of Faux painting, furniture, tile work mics work that I have done.

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The foundation was laid. The walls went up. The roof went on and the finish work finally ended.

The wait was nearly a year. But the day finally arrived.

All that was left was to move into their new home, which they started doing in stagesin late February.

Its life-changing, said Clover Jacobs, who moved into the new Southside home with husband Tim and sons Ranen, 2 and Azaiah, 6 months. Its a huge step in a direction we didnt think wed be able to go for several years at the very least.

The home was made possible through Habitat for Humanity of Northern Arizona, and it is the first one built in Flagstaff since 2012.

The organization has a focus of enriching communities by building, renovating and repairing simple, affordable homes for qualifying families and individuals in need.

Eric Wolverton, executive director for Habitat for Humanity of Northern Arizona, said the organization provides assistance to people who cant get a conventional loan. The people who qualify are low- to middle-income families who must meet certain criteria to ensure they can afford the mortgage with all other expenditures based on their income.

GROWING FAMILY

Tim is a nurse and Clover works part-time for the Arizona Childrens Association.

Before they moved into their new home, they were renting a one-bedroom home, which didnt provide much room for their growing family.

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When Stacey Lopis' friends see the bathroom in her 1960-vintage Hawthorne ranch, they all say the same thing: "You have to get rid of the pink tile."

Pink bathrooms.

They were built by the millions in 1950s and 1960s ranches, Capes and split-levels, but they get no love from today's home buyers -- even the young buyers who are drawn to other midcentury styles in architecture and design.

"As much as the midcentury modern look is back, it's still something that people are not going to find appealing," said Gary Silberstein, a real estate agent with Keller Williams in Woodcliff Lake, N.J. "Barbie's not back."

But one lover of 1950s design says pink bathrooms deserve more respect.

"Pink bathrooms are emblematic of the design of the period," said Pam Kueber, who started the websites Save the Pink Bathrooms (savethepinkbathroom.com) and Retro Renovation (retrorenovation.com) after buying a 1950s ranch in Lenox, Mass. "If people could get their heads around pink bathrooms, they'd understand why something that looks so shocking today is actually a very appealing and wonderful thing."

Kueber said developers of suburban tract homes started installing pink bathrooms after Mamie Eisenhower popularized the color when she wore a rhinestone-studded blush ball gown to her husband's presidential inauguration in 1953.

Kueber started Save the Pink Bathrooms after watching people rip them out with "sledgehammer glee" on TV home-improvement shows.

"They'd throw the toilets out the window and guffaw. I was appalled. That's disrespectful," she said. "That bath was put in by somebody who loved that color."

Pink wasn't the only pastel used in postwar home design, as the nation's mood turned sunnier. Builders also put in bathrooms that were yellow, blue or green, often with black trim.

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SUNBURY - In addition to structural repairs at the historic Northumberland County Courthouse, veteran court administrator Brandy Yasenchak believes heating problems at the facility have forced employees to work in an uncomfortable and unhealthy environment at times.

Yasenchak took a News-Item reporter on a tour of the courthouse Wednesday morning to illustrate some of the problem areas.

She pointed out cracks in the tile, which are slanted downward in some areas of a narrow second-floor hallway outside Courtroom No. 1, next to a stairwell leading to the third floor. Also, there are tiles that are recessing near the steps leading to the second floor, and there is ceiling and stairwell dam-

age in the foyer of Courtroom No. 1 at the front of the courthouse, which has kept the stairwell closed for several years.

The cracks in the tile on the first and second floors and the uneven floors that have surfaced during the past year concern Yasenchak the most, she said, because they indicate the building must be shifting or otherwise settling.

Those structural concerns are what county Commissioner Chairman Vinny Clausi cited last month when he expanded the county's consideration of construction of a new prison to include talk of a new courthouse, too.

The county prison was destroyed by fire Jan. 14, and Clausi has proposed building a new prison, a pre-release center and courthouse at the former Knight-Celotex plant owned by Moran Industries in Sunbury.

In the next two or three weeks, Clausi said the commissioners will make an announcement on which direction they will proceed in terms of the prison proposal. Clausi said a feasibility study by CGL Companies of Columbia, S.C., to determine the appropriate options and solutions to the prison crisis should be completed next week.

'Fire trap'

Yasenchak showed area sof the fourth-floor attic that have been damaged by water over the years and other upper sections of the courthouse, which was built in the mid-1860s.

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Tile, the lost item tracker that you can attach to purses, keys, luggage, bikes or anything else that tends to go missing at times, is today rolling out a new feature designed to make it easier for people to get help finding their items. In an update to the companys iOS and Android applications, users will now be able to share their Tiles with others, including friends, family, roommates, or anyone else they choose in order to increase the chances that their Tile and whatever its attached to gets found.

The Tile tracker, by way of background, originally began as a crowdfunded device before raising $13 million in seed and Series A funding to fuel its growth. The company had sold over half a million of its small, white square-shaped devices as of last fall, but declined to provide any updated numbers today. Instead, CEO Mike Farley references a different metric: he says the Tile community is finding over 250,000 items every day.

That includes those who are using the Tile devices to locate lost items still in Bluetooth range, as well as those wholeverage Tiles larger network. The way the Tile works is that its able to tap into itscommunity of users who have the companys app installed on their smartphones in order to help peoplewith missing items locate them, even when that item is no longer nearby.

However, relying on a network isnt always as helpful as just asking a friend to help you find something. Thats where Shared Tiles comes in. Not only does it mean you can ask your own micro-community for help, it also means that a single Tile can be used among a group, too.

You may be out of town or just at the office, but someone else in your household or who you trust can help you find something youve lost just by installing the app on their phone. That way, couples can search together for missing keys, for example. Or if you go out of town, your roommates can still locate the remote that got lost in the sofa cushions, even though the Tile attached to it was originally associated only with your phone and account.

Lost items play a little melody while youre hunting for them, which makes it easier to find them when misplaced.

The feature is a minor onefor Tilesapp, but speaks to the companysability to make its hardware more usable by way of software upgrades. In the future, Farley says there are plans to do more with the software, too, including adding the ability for users to thank the strangers who helped them locate a lost item. He even hinted at the possibility of adding a reward option, which could encourage users to join in the lost item hunt for something of value to a Tile user.

But in the near future, Tile is focused on developing its business model which will involve a subscription-based business. Unlike a number of other lost item trackers, Tiles dont include a user replaceable battery. That means yourTile will eventually stop working, but the decision to go this route was deliberate. Farley felt that users would simply abandon the devices after the battery dies that its too much hassle to replace it. Plus, by eliminating the need to allow the Tile to open up, the design of the dongle can be improved, too.

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