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As with all updates for Polyphony Digital's latest racing simulation, Gran Turismo 6., 1.04 brings with it a number of new features and new vehicles.
The new additions to the Gran Turismo 6 garage include a special Gran Turismo Racing Series iteration of the Mercedes-Benz AMG Vision, a Corvette Stingray Gran Turismo Concept car, and two F1 cars, the Gran Turismo Red Bull X2014 Standard and the Gran Turismo Red Bull X2014 Fan Car. Those last two rides are available as part of the new Red Bull X Challenge, a series of races now found in the game's career mode where players are instructed on how to race an F1 car by current World Champion Sebastian Vettel.
Alongside this handful of cars comes an unexpected but thoughtful present from the developers behind Gran Turismo 6. Following the installation of the 1.04 update, Gran Turismo 6 will scan your PlayStation Network information to determine when you were born. Then, once your birthday rolls around, you'll automatically receive a car created in or near the year that you were born, totally gratis.
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By AISHA DOWJan. 29, 2014, 3 p.m.
3.15PM: A huge slice of the historic Mount Buffalo Chalet will be demolished under a plan to return the once-luxurious residence to its former glory.
A huge slice of the historic Mount Buffalo Chalet will be demolished under a plan to return the once-luxurious residence to its former glory.
The state government wants to reopen the century-old resort by 2015 as a visitor centre and cafe, in a redevelopment they hope with attract future private investors to develop the hotel.
But the plan to spend more than $7.5 million restoring the dilapidated and abandoned property comes hand-in-hand with a significant demolition.
The tennis court, former staff quarters, garage and steam generator house are all on the chopping board. The main lounge, entry lobby, drawing room and ballroom will be saved.
In a letter to Heritage Victoria from the government, land management policy executive director Peter Beaumont said the decision to demolish the buildings had not been taken lightly.
Mr Beaumont said it was no longer economically viable to restore the entire chalet.
The principle of the current proposal is to restore the core of the chalet to its former glory, he said.
It is not feasible to do this while retaining the many ad hoc additions, hence the strategic decision to remove the badly deteriorated fabric to attract investor interest.
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Mikes Flooring was announced as the FAEDFs 2013 Business of the Year during a banquet held Monday. Shown, from left, are owner Mike Parkerson and FAEDF President Mike Gill.
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Shown are the members of the FAEDF Board of Directors. First row, from left, are Mike Gill, Donna Alonzo, Coylean Schloegel and Henry Harrison; and second row, Brad Orman, Wayne Fleming, Matthew Tate, Linda Jenkins, Keith Waddell, Chris Thomas, Claire McGuire, T.J. Butler Jr. and Lavern Jenkins.
Members of the Franklinton Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors are pictured. Shown, from left, first row are Brian Taylor, William Burris, Coylean Schloegel and Claire McGuire; and second row, Barbara Mule, Aubrey Posey, Brad Orman, Linda Crain and Minnie Posey.
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Economic development groups install boards, conduct annual business By Lucy Parker The Daily News The Daily News |
A business of the year was named and new board members for several economic organizations were installed during a banquet held Monday in Pine.
Washington Parish Sheriff Randy Seal served as master of ceremonies for the annual installation banquet, held at Rinos Backwoods Grill in Pine. The event, attended by nearly 100 people, is a combined meeting of the Franklinton Area Economic Development Foundation, Franklinton Chamber of Commerce and Washington Economic Development Foundation.
Board member Coylean Schloegel said FAEDF chooses a business that has impacted the Franklinton area each year and announced that this years Business of the Year is Mikes Flooring.
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Reduces service area's energy consumption up to 80%
Taipei, Taiwan - GlacialLight, a division of Taiwanese technology manufacturer, GlacialTech Inc., is pleased to announce its environmentally friendly LED lighting products are now being used in the redecorated indoor facilities of the Gukeng Freeway Service Area in Central Taiwan, another example of GlacialLight's LED luminaires being used around the world to provide energy-saving light of the highest quality.
The redecorated indoor facilities of the 29 hectares Gukeng Service Area boast a wide range of GlacialLight LED lighting solutions, including AR111 lamps, MR16 projection bulbs, Flood Lights, and Down Lights. GlacialLight's lights were chosen for their aesthetic design, energy-saving performance and flexibility. GlacialLight's broad lineup of LEDs and their ability to be customized allowed them to fit a wide variety of lighting applications. Compared to the traditional lighting used previously, the new GlacialLight LED lights reduced power consumption by 80%, making the service area significantly more environmentally friendly.
29 hectares in size, the Gukeng Freeway Service Area boasts extensive indoor facilities used by thousands of people each day. These facilities include an information desk and tourist lounge as well as major retailers and restaurants, all of which have been updated with energy efficient GlacialLight LED lighting.
GlacialLight's wide selection of LED lighting products made it possible for the best LED solution to be used in each application. For example, the bright AR111 lamp and the supplementary MR16 projection bulb were chosen for most storefronts, but the softer illumination provided by GlacialLight Down Lights was selected for the information desk and certain storefronts. GlacialLight Flood Lights provided general illumination in the lobbies and hallways.
GlacialLight is excited to see its products being used to make businesses more successful and at the same time benefit society. With longer service life and better energy performance than traditional lighting, GlacialLight's lighting solutions are more environmentally friendly, emit no harmful UV or IR radiation, and contain no hazardous materials such as mercury.
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About GlacialLight GlacialLight, the lighting division of GlacialTech, manufactures LED lighting solutions for indoor/outdoor applications and both residential and commercial uses. As well as having a wide range of finished LED lighting products, GlacialLight also offers its clients the option of customizing products for specific needs. Please visit the company homepage at http://www.GlacialLight.com.
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Taylor and Sydney McLaughlin are like most teenage siblings.
They like to poke fun at each other and joke around with one another when they the chance. But Taylor, 16, is protective of his younger sister and lends advice. Sydney, 14, leans on her big brother for support and looks up to him as a role model.
Then they get on the track, and the Union Catholic athletes are no longer like most teenagers.
Kids of former track stars Willie and Mary McLaughlin, Taylor and Sydney were born to run, and have continued the family legacy of track and field excellence this season.
"There's some pressure living up to the McLaughlin name,'' said Sydney. "People expect you to break records and set a high standard. But I'm just trying to focus on doing my best, not worrying about what other people are running, and just having fun.''
Fun for the McLaughlin siblings, who live in Dunellen, seems to be taking New Jersey track and field by storm. They are the currently the most potent brother-sister combination in the state and possibly in the nation.
Taylor, a junior, emerged as a star during his sophomore year, running on three national championship relay teams, earning multiple All-American honors, and breaking the state sophomore record in the 400-meter hurdles when he placed second at the NJSIAA Meet of Champions.
Sydney, a freshman, wasted no time displaying her remarkable talent with a stunning debut on Dec. 21, when she smashed the state record in the 300-meter dash in 38.55 at the Bishop Loughlin Games in New York.
Sydney McLaughlin competes at the Union County Championships last week at the Jersey City Armory. (Frances Micklow/The Star-Ledger)
Last Friday, the McLaughlin siblings stole the show at the Union County Championships at the Jersey City Armory. Sydney won the 400 in a meet-record 56.47, the 55 hurdles in a meet- and state-freshman-record 8.16, and anchored the winning 4x400 relay with a sizzling 54.4 to give Union Catholic a one-point victory over Union for its first girls' team county title.
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Jackson Hole, Wyoming (PRWEB) January 29, 2014
The recently completed EarthWall II residence in Squirrel, Idaho, marks Jackson Hole-based Ward + Blake Architects third-ever application of its EarthWall construction technique, patented by Ward + Blake Principal Tom Ward. Ward + Blake Architects was recently named 2013 Firm of the Year by the six-state AIA Western Mountain Region, partly in honor of innovations such as EarthWall, which combines age-old rammed earth construction with modern post-tensioning. Because the Jackson Hole architecture firm is constantly striving to find new applications for its seismically stable and sustainable construction technique, this project also featured in a new book of Ward + Blakes architecture, In the Shadows of the Tetons is particularly meaningful.
Its amazing to think that the owners originally envisioned a Tuscan villa for the site, says Tom Ward. When we started pushing our environmentally responsive design approach, they loved the idea so much that we ended up literally using the soil in the walls.
The reinforced EarthWall concept won Ward + Blake Architects a Newton Foundation research grant. When the method held up in university tests as the first seismically stable rammed earth wall, a patent for the construction method soon followed and architect Ward put his theories to a real-world test with the construction of his own 3,000-square-foot Jackson Hole home overlooking the Snake River. The idea was further tested when Ward presented his ground-breaking construction technique to a skeptical county design review board, winning approval to use it in the county-funded Teton County Childcare Center.
Ward and his fellow Ward + Blake Principal Mitch Blake found a further residential application with the recently completed EarthWall II Residence, where the earthen walls help to reinforce the horizontality of the homes low-slung design. As extravagantly spare as its high plains setting, the EarthWall II residence is literally grounded on its 160-acre Idaho site with rammed earth walls and a sod roof that invoke the historic context of the sod homes known as soddies built by early settlers.
While the innovative EarthWall rammed earth construction method has been embraced in the Rocky Mountain West, winning the firm a host of awards, Wards interest continues to be in its international application.
"The thing that is exciting to me," Ward says, "is the potential for worldwide application of this process. Perhaps if the Earthwall process is one day adopted in developing nations, it will save not only homes from collapsing, but lives as well."
Working with a congregation in Honduras, Ward designed a rectory where locally-sourced materials and local labor could be combined with post-tensioning to provide a low-cost, seismically stable facility. Likewise, Ward has been in discussions with a Sudanese developer about the application of his socially-oriented construction technique for affordable housing.
Uniting 20th-century post-tensioned steel technology with ancient rammed earth construction, Wards design technique combines low embodied energy and high thermal mass for a seismically stable building thats eco-friendly and socially responsible.
Established in 1996, Ward + Blake Architects was built on a distinctive vision: to be provocative in thought, flexible in nature and disciplined in execution. The firm regularly earns recognition for architecture that is sensitive to its environment and successfully integrated with its surroundings. Ward + Blake creates buildings that are tactile, modern, bio-climatically responsible, honestly expressed, technologically sound and artfully crafted.
What was once an Ethan Allen store in Wheaton
As a shopping center landlord or retail developer, you might find yourself with a big empty retail space you need fill especially if you had Borders or Circuit City as a tenant. Finding a single tenant to occupy all that space in todays economy can be challenging, so the smarter and more feasible move is to hire a retail construction contractor that can provide you with the various pre-bid commercial construction budgets needed for subdividing that big box into a multi-tenant space.
We frequently get asked the question, How many tenants do we need before a general contractor can give us commercial construction budgets for a shopping center construction job? The answer is none. Because Englewood Construction has been in the retail construction and shopping center construction field for so long, we have pricing models based on square footage, level of finish and geographic area for virtually every retail and restaurant construction concept.
became a multi-tenant commercial construction job
As long as you know what type of tenants you might want, the best commercial construction firms should be able to give you a pre-construction services construction budget. Case in point cellular phone places always look for 1,500 square feet, sandwich shops are typically 2,000, fast-casual restaurants want 3,500 and outlet stores are 6,000 to 8,000 square feet.
What typically happens is the first tenant dictates how the rest of the space is divided. Say a big tenant signs a lease that leaves you with 7,500 square feet. You should then ask for construction pricing models for the different ways the remaining space can be used, whether its a fine dining restaurant, a mix of middle and high-end retail or even simple office space.
As long as you are working with a general contractor who has shopping center construction experience, your GC will know its construction pricing models should include vanilla box budgeting as well as tenant budgeting, based on the type of tenants you are pursuing. Of course the best Chicago commercial contractors will also factor due diligence with municipalities into their budgets. And if its a Chicago commercial construction project, the Mayor Daley black iron fence rule should also be noted by your GC. If your GC doesnt know that rule, dont work with them.
that leased attractive tenants such as Koenig & Strey Real Living
Another benefit to working with a GC early on for construction budgeting is that most architectural fees are based off of square footage or the cost of construction. So not only can the right construction firm help determine your square footage rental rates with its construction pricing models, but it can also help figure out your soft costs, too.
When it comes to the physical construction of subdividing your retail space, its always smart to dance with the one you brought. Use a GC that provided you with pricing models because the firm is already familiar with your project so there isnt the additional cost and time of getting another commercial construction firm up to speed.
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CARBONDALE A proposal was made for a new residential/retail building in downtown Carbondale on Tuesday night at the Carbondale City Council meeting.
Tartan Reality Group and OKW Architects proposed a new building to be located at 710 S. Illinois Ave. in Carbondale, which would be filled with retail opportunities and student housing.
Michael Fitzgerald of OKW Architects said the ground floor of the building would be available for retail shops and the rest of the building mainly for residential.
Fitzgerald said there would be four upper floors of apartments with a proposed 358 beds that would include one, two and four bedroom apartments.
The proposal included 86 parking spots for residents.
The retail portion of the proposal included 4,000 square feet of retail space, said Fitzgerald. There were 38 retail parking spots included.
Fitzgerald said parking would be hidden with access off of Illinois Avenue and Freeman Street.
Council members brought up concerns about having enough parking for residents and shoppers along the downtown business district.
Tartan President Douglas Reichl said this is always a concern with these projects, but their plan should be able to cover any concerns with the on-site parking as well as remote parking lots close to the proposed building.
I am confident we will have more than adequate parking for the project, Reichl said.
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The developers who bought the land that The Globe and Mails Toronto headquarters sits on will soon be filing plans with the city for the creation of a new neighbourhood that they are calling The Well.
If the $1.4-billion project is approved, the site, which stretches across nearly eight acres west of Spadina Avenue, between Front Street and Wellington Street, would be home to seven buildings. More than half of the development would be retail and office space, including restaurants and entertainment venues, and a little less than half would be residential. The latter would likely include both condos and rental apartments, as well as some townhouse units. One of the buildings would be a 34-storey office tower.
The propertys owners are RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust, which specializes in shopping centres and retail projects; Allied Properties Real Estate Investment Trust, an office developer; and Diamond Corp., which focuses on residential development. Some of the buildings on the site would incorporate all three uses.
I dont think there has been a new community built in the city with that kind of mix in many, many years, says Steve Diamond, the CEO of Diamond Corp.
The team flew to England about a year ago to study projects such as Butlers Wharf in London for inspiration.
In England theyve done a good job of creating complex mixed-use projects that are pedestrian-friendly, Mr. Diamond said.
All of the parking on the Toronto site would be underground, and the proposal features wide sidewalks as well as a park dubbed Wellington Plaza. The plans changed over time as the developers met with local residents, who were worried about the implications for the area.
The developers are just beginning to market the location, and are looking to attract a range of retailers including lifestyle stores, grocery stores, restaurants and smaller department stores. Mr. Diamond said the Concord Adex project (CityPlace) to the south of The Well has brought an abundance of residential space to the area without any significant office or retail component.
He said he hopes that Toronto residents will see the site as a unique neighbourhood, and say lets go for a drink in The Well.
The developers will need permission from Metrolinx, the regional transit authority, to put in a walkway that it envisions on the south side of Front Street. As they seek to win over the city, the projects backers are emphasizing that the new office space could provide a location for about 4,000 jobs and the retail space, more than 1,000. If approved, construction would begin in 2016 and take five to seven years to complete.
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