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9:39 a.m. EDT, May 7, 2012

GLASTONBURY

After twice failing to win final approval for his plans for a 13-acre parcel in North Glastonbury, developer John Sakon is submitting yet another proposal, this time for a hotel and retail space.

The newest proposal calls for the construction of a 93,615-square-foot hotel and 27,890 square feet of retail space on the land, located to the east of Main Street and west of Route 2. The plan will be presented Tuesday during a joint public hearing of the town council and town plan and zoning commission. The meeting will be held at 8 p.m. in town council chambers of town hall.

More than a year ago, Sakon received approval for a 67,690-square-foot project that would have included retail space, a 2,000-square-foot coffee shop and 5,600-square-foot and 4,135-square-foot "white napkin, upscale" restaurants. The plan never moved forward.

Sakon has been trying to develop the parcel along Main and Griswold streets for years. Plans in the past included a hotel, a lifestyle center with upscale shops and restaurants and a shopping mecca.

Traffic and the size of the development have always been a concern of residents along Griswold Street. Members of the Glastonbury Coalition for Sensible Growth, a grassroots effort by residents, have fought any large-scale projects.

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Groundbreaking ceremonies will be held Tuesday for a $15 million mixed-use development project featuring affordable senior housing and retail space - The Arbors at Oak Park.

The Arbors at Oak Park, at Broadway and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, will include 55 senior apartments, a manager's unit, library/multipurpose room, fitness center, a garden area and more than 4,000 square feet of market-rate commercial space.

It's Related California's first development project in Sacramento region.

Irvine-based Related California is an affiliate of The Related Cos. real estate firms in New York. Related California, which specializes in the development of urban and affordable housing throughout California, has been a member of the California Redevelopment Association since 1998.

Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, state Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg and other officials are scheduled to attend Tuesday's ceremonies at 11 a.m.

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HAUPPAUGE, N.Y., May 8, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Veteran photo editor and producer Andrea Maurio has become Agency Access' newest expert consultant.

Ms. Maurio's two-decade professional career includes stints at some of the nation's most popular and prestigious publications. She'll work primarily on Agency Access' Campaign Manager Pro program, overseeing personalized editing and marketing services for commercial photographers.

"After almost 20 years in the photography business, I'm taking my career in this slightly different direction because I want to work more directly with photographers," Ms. Maurio said. "My goal is to help them achieve marketing success and further their careers, and I believe the best way to do that is through Campaign Manager Pro."

Agency Access is a consultancy and direct-marketing agency for commercial photographers, illustrators, artist reps and stock agencies. Campaign Manager Pro, an all-inclusive program that plans and executes photographers' marketing programs, combines Agency Access' data, editing and promotional services under the guidance of a specialized marketing team, including a campaign manager, graphic designer, cold-calling expert and a supervising artist consultant like Ms. Maurio.

"Agency Access really shares my passion for photography and my commitment to helping artists succeed," she said. "I can't think of a better place to apply everything I've learned about this industry."

Ms. Maurio comes to Agency Access after serving over five years as photo editor and shoot producer at Runner's World magazine. She's worked as a freelance photo producer for high-profile magazines including Maxim, Stuff, Shape and Women's Wear Daily, and as a photo editor for New York magazine, Hers magazine, Who magazine (Australia's weekly version of People magazine) and the former online beauty resource Gloss.com.

She's also been a photo editor for book publisher Rizzoli/Universe Publishing and has worked on special photography projects for Men's Health, Parents, People and Entertainment Weekly magazines, among others.

Ms. Maurio earned a bachelor's degree in photography from the Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, Calif., and an associate's degree in video production from Mercer County College in Trenton, N.J.

In addition to consulting through Campaign Manager Pro, Ms. Maurio will be a regular contributor to The Lab, Agency Access' interactive blog where industry experts answer artist's marketing and creativity questions.

"We're very excited to add someone with Andrea's experience to the team," said Agency Access CEO Keith Gentile. "Her desire to help freelance artists succeed is directly in line with our corporate mission, and her talent and personality are perfect matches as well."

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Salines DesignHub Develops New Web Site for Process Results: DesignHub Inc. of Saline has designed and developed the new website for Process Results, Inc., an engineering services firm also based in Saline. The new site, http://www.processresults.com, describes Process Results ervices across a range of industries commercial, industrial, municipal, educational, and more. The company provides consulting engineering and technical know-how to clients in chemical processing, pharmaceutical, green technology, automation and controls, energy management, facilities/industrial, commercial/architectural, forensic engineering, and other application areas. Visitors to the new site learn about Process Results work on high-profile projects. Case studies tell how the company has helped clients meet engineering challenges and solve business problems in specialized areas such as research and development, wet and dry laboratories, HVAC, electrical study, hazard analysis, and others.The site outlines Process Results eight-stage approach to engineering projects. The companys professional credentials and affiliations are detailed. Other site highlights include a brief history of the company and profiles of the companys principals. News from Process Results appears on the home page and is archived within the site. There are also answers to frequently asked questions about the company and its services. DesignHub built the site upon its own content management system, called ContentHub, based on open-source software tools. ContentHub lets authorized site administrators at Process Results make day-to-day changes to the sites variable content themselves. Process Results was founded in 1991. The company today employs 25 consulting engineers and other professionals. DesignHub is a creative services and marketing firm. It works with clients on website design and development, brand development, brochures, annual reports, newsletters, advertising, public relations, direct marketing, search marketing, social media, packaging designs, signage, and trade show displays, as well as marketing strategies and plans. The company was founded in 1999. More at http://www.design-hub.com.

Ballard Benefit Works Selects Online Techs HIPAA Cloud: Ballard Benefit Works, a Howell-based full service employee benefit and health care finance consulting firm, has selected Online Techs independently HIPAA audited cloud system. By partnering with an independently HIPAA audited data center, companies can be assured their data and applications are hosted in facilities that operate and implement HIPAA compliant controls and security measures. Like many companies in the employee benefit and health care industry, Ballard Benefit Works biggest concern was the integrity and protection of their data and clients data. In addition, they were required to adhere to all HIPAA privacy and security regulations. While searching for a HIPAA compliant cloud provider that would meet their high standards, Ballard Benefit Works found many companies claiming to be HIPAA compliant and secure, but without documentation from an independent auditor to back it up. One of Online Techs biggest attractions was they put forth the effort to receive third party audit reports from qualified assessors and put it in writing they are HIPAA compliant, says Justin Spewock, Ballard Benefit Works CEO. Online Tech is the only independently HIPAA audited managed cloud provider. Their HIPAA compliant cloud meets 100 percent compliance across all 54 HITECH citations with no exceptions as determined by an independent Certified HIPAA Security Specialist (CHSS). Online Tech meets all of the HIPAA requirements including meeting the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) rules and regulations 164.308, 164.310 and 164.312. Compliance with the HITECH Act requires policies that protect the availability, integrity and confidentiality of PHI (Protected Health Information), Business Associates Agreements, and preparedness to report any violations of PHI misuse to the Office of Civil Rights (OCR). Online Tech signs a BAA (Business Associate Agreement) with every client in the healthcare industry that clearly defines the obligations and responsibilities of both parties to ensure PHI is protected. Ballard Benefit Works cloud is hosted in Online Techs high availability data center infrastructure with rigorous physical and network security safeguards and warm site disaster recovery options to ensure PHI is private, protected, and always available. More at http://www.onlinetech.com or http://www.ballardbenefitsworks.com. Ballard Benefit Works Selects Online Techs HIPAA Cloud: Ballard Benefit Works, a full service employee benefit and health care finance consulting firm, has selected Online Techs independently HIPAA audited cloud system. By partnering with an independently HIPAA audited data center, companies can be assured their data and applications are hosted in facilities that operate and implement HIPAA compliant controls and security measures. Like many companies in the employee benefit and health care industry, Ballard Benefit Works biggest concern was the integrity and protection of their data and clients data. In addition, they were required to adhere to all HIPAA privacy and security regulations. While searching for a HIPAA compliant cloud provider that would meet their high standards, Ballard Benefit Works found many companies claiming to be HIPAA compliant and secure, but without documentation from an independent auditor to back it up. One of Online Techs biggest attractions was they put forth the effort to receive third party audit reports from qualified assessors and put it in writing they are HIPAA compliant, says Justin Spewock, Ballard Benefit Works CEO. Online Tech is the only independently HIPAA audited managed cloud provider. Their HIPAA compliant cloud meets 100 percent compliance across all 54 HITECH citations with no exceptions as determined by an independent Certified HIPAA Security Specialist (CHSS). Online Tech meets all of the HIPAA requirements including meeting the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) rules and regulations 164.308, 164.310 and 164.312. Compliance with the HITECH Act requires policies that protect the availability, integrity and confidentiality of PHI (Protected Health Information), Business Associates Agreements, and preparedness to report any violations of PHI misuse to the Office of Civil Rights (OCR). Online Tech signs a BAA (Business Associate Agreement) with every client in the healthcare industry that clearly defines the obligations and responsibilities of both parties to ensure PHI is protected. Ballard Benefit Works cloud is hosted in Online Techs high availability data center infrastructure with rigorous physical and network security safeguards and warm site disaster recovery options to ensure PHI is private, protected, and always available. More at http://www.onlinetech.com or http://www.ballardbenefitsworks.com.

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Careful real estate investors get a Commercial Building Inspection or Property Condition Report prior to buying a commercial asset. There are multiple grades of commercial building inspections and there are a lot of different types of professionals performing theses services, all of which are appropriate for one situation or another.

A few of the classes of professionals that perform commercial building inspections are:

1) Due Diligence Firms. These firms usually call their commercial building inspections Property Condition Assessments or Property Condition Reports. My firm Partner Engineering and Science, Inc. is included in this group. The better of the due diligence firms employ registered engineers and architects and have a specific engineering inspection practice. I am not saying that the best inspectors are necessarily engineers or architects; rather that quality inspectors can work under the responsible charge of an engineer or an architect very effectively.

2) Home inspectors who do commercial too. This group varies widely in my opinion. Some are very good no doubt.

3) Architectural firms. Architects know buildings and building codes well. They are a very good choice when you are planning to do a major renovation after purchasing the building.

4) Structural engineering firms. Structural engineers tend to focus on structural issues as opposed to all building systems, but there are no doubt plenty of structural engineers with broad building systems knowledge.

5) General Contractors. GCs generally know buildings well too. Contractors also run the gamut from very good to less so. A general contractor is great at providing cost data for a renovation, and GCs tend to be a practical group A GC generally does not want to produce a long narrative report.

As my firm is an engineering due diligence firm, I would recommend the first choice; however, I have seen all five of these types of commercial building inspectors yield high quality work. I have also seen due diligence firms, especially firms that are really environmental firms trying to add this service to their offerings, produce really low quality work.

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CEDAR RAPIDS A restoration that is breathing new life into a historic pipe organ at Coe College took a major step forward last week, when the lungs of the instrument were reinstalled after a year of repair.

The airtight maze of metal ducts and two large turbines were installed in the new environmentally controlled blower room beneath the Sinclair Auditorium stage. The blower provides the air, or wind, that makes the sounds for the Skinner organ.

Doug Cornell from Climate Engineers checks the fit of segments of pipe as he works in the organ chamber in Sinclair Auditorium at Coe College. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette-KCRG)

This is the lungs of the colossus, said Jeff Weiler, a 1981 Coe graduate and organ curator based in Chicago who is leading the restoration. What this represents is the first major phase of a multiphase, multiyear project that will restore this instrument to its 1929 condition.

Its important for the college and the Cedar Rapids community to understand that they are home to one of the most important pipe organs in the world, Weiler said.

Its an enormous cultural asset, he said. Its iconic in terms of its heritage value.

Constructed by esteemed builder Ernest M. Skinner, considered the best of the best in American organ building, it will be one of few Skinner organs in the country to be fully restored upon completion of this project in several years, Weiler said. And the Coe organ represents the work of the Skinner firm at the zenith of the company, he said.

Skinner organs are no longer made. To build something like this today would cost millions of dollars, and certain materials used in the instrument are no longer available, said Weiler, a Traer native.

The old blower room was located in an unsuitable environment, next to where steam entered the building, he said. Burst steam pipes on several occasions caused water and mold damage to some of the old blower components, so a few portions were rebuilt with new materials.

But the rest of the blowers original parts were restored in this project, Weiler said. The blower also will be restored to full voices, since the instruments power was tamped down in the move to Sinclair Auditorium in 1952.

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BEIRUT: Tens of people caused heavy traffic for approximately three hours Tuesday morning in a protest against the government's failure to construct an alternative bridge to the one it dismantled earlier this year.

Metn residents holding Lebanese flags blocked the Beirut-Jounieh highway in an on-and-off manner Tuesday morning while motorists were left stranded in their vehicles.

Some protesters distributed Kanafeh to drivers while others sat down on mats, smoking nargileh and playing cards.

During the protest, which saw the closure of the highway several times, many drivers left their cars on the side of the highway and walked to their workplace. Others took out portable chairs from their cars and took shelter on the sides of the roads from the blinding sunlight.

Motorists have asked security forces to reopen the highway.

Several MPs participated in the protest with Change and Reform bloc MP Ibrahim Kanaan signing the protesters' proposal for an alternative bridge.

The Jal al-Dib Bridge, north of Beirut, was built shortly after the start of the Civil War in 1975 and dismantled earlier this year following warnings by various officials that it was at severe risk of collapsing.

The government said it would build an alternative bridge to replace it but no plans have been implemented yet.

Local media quoted Interior Minister Marwan Charbel promising protesters to discuss an alternative bridge in the Cabinet session scheduled for Wednesday.

This is the third protest since Metn residents vowed to take to the streets if their demands for an appropriate exit and entry system to the Metn from Jal al-Dib are not met.

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Students wait in the lunch line at Clarkston High School recently. The Clarkston School District is the subject of a $20 million bond issue that raises annual taxes by 1 mill per year for Clarkston residents. The Oakland Press/TIM THOMPSON

Residents within the Clarkston School District will have a decision to make on Tuesday, May 8 whether to support the $20 million school bond proposal.

The bond would be used for remodeling, equipping and furnishing school buildings; acquiring and installing educational technology in school buildings; and developing and improving athletic facilities and sites.

Every student and teacher within the school district would have access to a handheld technology device, such as an iPad, according to administration.

The current enrollment of the school district is about 8,100 students. The bond series would provide the district with $10 million in 2012 and $5 million each in 2016 and 2020.

Supporters, who call themselves Clarkston Kids First, stressed that this bond will allow the school district to catch up with surrounding districts.

Clarkston Kids First member Aimee Baker, mother of a fifth-grader and a ninth-grader, said, Were not trying to lead the way. Were just trying to catch up.

George White, former principal of Pine Knob Elementary and former Clarkston High School teacher, said, Were trying to provide an opportunity for our kids to be competitive when they leave Clarkston Schools and go into the work force so they have similar skills and a similar background to move forward.

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