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New Jersey-based Stone Creek Builders LLC and Visionary Home Redevelopment have announced they are collaborating on a new project in Hazlet, NJ. Representatives for Stone Creek Builders have stated that this will be the first of many joint projects between the two leading New Jersey home contractor entities, each to take full advantage of both companies formidable professional resources. The Hazlet project, which has already entered the renovation and demolition stages, concentrates on a property located at 61 Nevada Drive in the New Jersey town, tapping into Visionarys buying, renovating, selling and renting prowess while adding to Stone Creeks successful project management accolades.

Stone Creek Builders is committed to impeccable quality and personalized customer service, says a Stone Creek senior project manager. The relationship we build with every client is the foundation for a successful project; the same applies to relationships we build with other entities in the realty world, such as Visionary Home Redevelopment. This latest collaboration in Hazlet merely strengthens these relationships based on excellent communication, integrity, quality craftsmanship and client satisfaction.

Stone Creek Builders LLC boasts residential, commercial and insurance restoration divisions, providing such contracting services and commercial construction applications as bathroom remodeling, additions, kitchen design, basement remodeling, handyman services, home office, painting services, tile installation, custom carpentry, cabinet installation exterior remodeling, whole house remodeling, custom home building and more.

Visionary Home Redevelopment prides itself on being a local real estate solutions company, states a Visionary company representative. Whether our clients are looking to buy, sell or invest in a property, we can help. We work to assist anyone with fulfilling their hopes of being happy homeowners, dedicated to making things easier for homeowners, buyers and sellers. In working with Stone Creek Builders on the property at 61 Nevada Drive in Hazlet, we are thrilled that we could dynamically fuse these qualities with Stone Creeks sophisticated approach to contracting.

Visionary Home Redevelopment renovates previously sold houses and performs upgrades to allow new families moving into the home to come full circle, providing everyone a new tomorrow. Calling itself an inspired real estate company in New Jersey, the firm buys houses, fixes houses, sells houses and even works with investors.

Stone Creek Builders LLC is located in Matawan and can be reached by calling (732) 566-0395. For more information visit http://www.stonecreekbldrs.com.

Visionary Home Redevelopment can be reached by calling (732) 595-9571. For more information visit http://www.visionaryhomeredevelopment.com.

About Stone Creek Builders

The founder of Stone Creek Builders has been a leading provider of building, remodeling and restoration services for over 20 years. Stone Creek Builders provides general contracting, remodeling, insurance restoration, house lifting, and storm reconstruction services to clients in central and shore regions of New Jersey. Contact us at (732) 566-0395 or visit our website at http://www.stonecreekbldrs.com for more information.

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Enlarge / Peter Jackson's second The Hobbit film is here, giving nerds on the Internet something else to argue about.

Before going forward, an important spoiler warning: this article assumes that you've seen both The Hobbit films and read the book and takes no pains to avoid spoilers for any of it. As such, it will spoil not just the movie and the book, but probably also many elements of the next Hobbit film. If you haven't read the books and want to be surprised by the next movie, do not pass beyond this point.

Let me begin by saying that I didn't dislikeThe Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.

This was emphaticallynot the case with last year'sAn Unexpected Journey, which has a whole pile of structural and thematic problems.Peter Jackson and crew took what could have been a reasonably watchable two-hour fantasy film and padded it out to three hours with interminable chase sequences, memorable-for-all-the-wrong-reasons rock monster battles, and pointless Elijah Wood cameos.

The new movie inherits a few of these problems. There are still more than a few chases, and the scenes thataren't chases are often overly talky sequences where ominous figures drone on ominously about an ominously ominous Coming Evil. Most of this is done to set up the third movie, which will wrap up the story ofThe Hobbitbut also bridge the gap between these prequel movies and theLord of the Rings films. These ponderous speeches and jumps away from the main action still drag Desolationdown, but the storyline is more straightforward (and, at a mere two hours and 40 minutes, moves more briskly) than the previous film.

Last year we took a wide-ranging look at many aspects ofAn Unexpected Journey, but this year let's focus on one aspect of the new movie that has some of the Tolkien faithful up in arms: it changes the story. It changes it kind of a lot. And these changes run deeper than the ones made to expand material from Tolkien's other writing and shoehorn Sauron (a present-but-unnamed and largely backgrounded figure in the book) into the main action.

The movie's many changes have been compared to the biggest and most egregious change in theLord of the Rings trilogy (if you don't count the absence of "The Scouring of the Shire"): Faramir's behavior inThe Two Towers. In both the book and the film, Boromir's brother Faramir is presented with the opportunity to capture Frodo and take the Ring from him by force. Book-Faramir chooses to help Frodo along in his quest and give up the Ring, an action that drives home for the reader the fact that Faramir is in many ways wiser and better suited for leadership than his brother Boromir (who failed the same test). Movie-Faramir is so desperate for his father's approval that he captures Frodo and Sam and tries to bring them back to Gondor, letting them go only after a close shave with a Ringwraith.

It was a change made because theTwo Towers film ended earlier in the timeline of events than theTwo Towers book and because Faramir's brief internal struggle probably wouldn't have thrilled a mainstream audience as much as an Orc battle and Ringwraith encounter. But it changed Faramir for the worseit took one of the book's better characters and more important character moments (seriously, being able to reject or let go of the Ring of one's own volition is a big deal) and tossed it out because it wouldn't have looked cool.

The Desolation of Smaug makes changes and additions as large and larger than these, and unlike the first Hobbitfilm, the events of the second one depart from the booksignificantly. Still, I'm more inclined to defend changes toThe Hobbit's story becauseThe Hobbit's story is less complex and less satisfying thanThe Lord of the Rings'. Too much happens by chance or by accident. Too many characters are left undeveloped. To make a story that's satisfying to adults and not just children, you've got to give the source material some help.

An Unexpected Journey was pretty faithful to Tolkien's source material, which meant that it imported some ofThe Hobbit's less-plausible turns of events. The most noticeable of these are the story's manydei ex machina, the times when Bilbo, Gandalf, and the dwarves are saved from certain doom through coincidence and luck rather than their own skill and resourcefulness. Any time an eagle has to fly in from nowhere to save the day, you should realize you've written yourself into a corner.

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A piece of history in Evansville has been getting a facelift on its exterior. Now, the downtown icon will also see some changes inside the building.

Over recent months the city funded renovations for new roofing, painting, and window replacement to the old post office. Now, construction will be taking place inside the walls.

The Evansville Redevelopment Commission says a division of social security offices will be put in the building. And the city has agreed to pay up to $1 million of subsidy for the project.

President of the the Redevelopment Commission Ed Hafer says it's important to keep Evansville's historic structures functioning.

"It's a historic building that the city owns," said Hafer, "and certainly wants to preserve as part of our heritage it keeps and adds to jobs downtown which are an important part of it all."

A contractor for the project should be selected near the beginning of January, and the offices should be open in May or June.

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GREEN BAY - The Green Bay Area Public School District opened the doors to the two middle schools listed on its $20 million spring referendum Tuesday.

The proposal includes renovations to Franklin and Washington middle schools, as well as four elementary schools: Tank, Nicolet, Fort Howard, and Chappell.

In Mr. Huisheere's math class at Franklin, things can run hot or cold.

It's very cold in the morning until about 7:30. By the time the kids roll in, it's ok, he said, in between an algebra lesson. In the fall and early spring it can get up to 80 or 90 unbearable degrees with no air conditioning. It's stifling.

The school district facility manager says that's because this boiler system is the original one from 1957.

It's a top priority on the referendum, along with HVAC systems at Washington Middle School, and four elementary schools.

The typical life of a mechanical system is 25 to 30 years, so we're well past the length almost double the life, said Mike Stangel, the director of facilities for the district.

The district says the time has come to fix other things that are literally falling apart--or just inefficient, like windows.

Beyond heating and air conditioning systems at Washington Middle School, they're also looking at renovating this lobby. It's currently in the back of the building. But the office is in the front and they need to update security.

We've had all these buildings on a list for several years, Stangel explained. We try to take as much as we can at a time and not raise taxes.

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