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07-09-2010 04:17 How to lay a laminate wood floor: installing trim near a closet door will finish off your project. Do you know where to end your trim at the closet door, once you lay the laminate wood flooring down?....knowing how to do this might be a good idea. Just because you've completed laying your wood flooring down, doesn't mean you are done with your project. Watch as "joe" shows you how he finishes off the trim near a closet door, after the wood laminate flooring has been installed.

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12-05-2011 12:34 Learn how to install carpet tile with Matt Dickinson from BuildDirect.. Guidelines for making special cuts in carpet tile.

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01-03-2010 06:19 About this video: Take a look at this totally renovated terrace level in the Marietta, Gergia area. JPH Properties is a well known builder in the Atlanta area known for constructing quality crafted homes for decades. JPH also specilizes in renovations and remodeling projects as is evident in this video. For more information contact Peter Hungerbuhler at Cotton States Builders at 770-971-6051.

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07-09-2010 09:31 f.lux makes your computer screen look like the room you're in, all the time. When the sun sets, it makes your computer look like your indoor lights. In the morning, it makes things look like sunlight again. This is good for your eyes and also sets the mood depending on what time of day it is. Download: stereopsis.com Music used with artist permission and made by: xerferic.newgrounds.com

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PEACHTREE CITY, Ga., Feb. 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Cooper Lighting, an industry leader committed to delivering innovative products and driving transformational technology in the lighting industry, is pleased to announce that its Halo H4 LED Adjustable Gimbal Series has been named a winner in Electronic House magazine's 2012 Product of the Year competition. Announced this month at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the competition awards products based on their innovation, aesthetics, technological advances and lifestyle benefits to the customer. 

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Winning in the Lighting – Fixtures/LED/Fiber Optic category, the competition recognizes new products and technologies in over 40 different categories that cater to the connected home. Winners were chosen by a panel of industry leaders along with the editors of Electronic House and CE Pro magazines.

"Technology moves at a fast and furious pace, so often consumers find it difficult to know what's really hot and what's not," says Lisa Montgomery, editor of Electronic House magazine. 

This year's winner, the Halo H4 LED Adjustable Gimbals from Cooper Lighting, consists of a combined gimbal-style trim and LED light engine for use in Halo 4-inch LED recessed downlighting housings.  The series is offered in both round and square trim choices and features a 35-degree adjustable tilt and interchangeable reflectors with beam distributions of 25, 35 and 50 degrees. The fixtures are available in three finishes (White, Satin Nickel, Tuscan Bronze), offered in four color temperatures (2700K, 3000K, 3500K, 4000K) and feature a clear glass lens, which may be interchanged with beam forming or colored lens media for added versatility. 

"We are honored that the panel of industry leaders and editors have recognized the Halo H4 LED Adjustable Gimbals as a Product of the Year," said Mark Eubanks, President, Cooper Lighting. "With consumers becoming more receptive to LED technology and energy-efficient choices, we strive to offer the most innovative, high-quality, reliable products that are aesthetically-pleasing and provide cost savings to the homeowner."

Cooper Lighting has made a significant investment in people, resources and technology to ensure the company provides first-class solutions to its customers' lighting challenges. The Company offers a range of indoor and outdoor LED lighting products and controls, all of which are specifically designed to maximize energy and cost savings. For additional information on Cooper's LED product offering, click here.

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Cooper Lighting, a subsidiary of Cooper Industries plc (NYSE: CBE - News), is the leading provider of world-class lighting fixtures and controls to commercial, industrial, retail, institutional, residential and utility markets. As lighting technologies have advanced over the years, Cooper Lighting has been at the forefront of the industry in helping businesses and communities leverage the latest technologies to improve efficiency, reduce costs and enrich the quality of the environment. For more information, visit http://www.cooperlighting.com.

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Cooper Industries plc (NYSE: CBE - News) is a global electrical products manufacturer with 2011 revenues of $5.4 billion.  Founded in 1833 Cooper's sustained success is attributable to a constant focus on innovation and evolving business practices, while maintaining the highest ethical standards and meeting customer needs.  The Company has seven operating divisions with leading market positions and world-class products and brands, including Bussmann electrical and electronic fuses; Crouse-Hinds and CEAG explosion-proof electrical equipment; Halo and Metalux lighting fixtures; and Kyle and McGraw-Edison power systems products.  With this broad range of products, Cooper is uniquely positioned for several long-term growth trends including the global infrastructure build-out, the need to improve the reliability and productivity of the electric grid, the demand for higher energy-efficient products and the need for improved electrical safety.  In 2011 fifty-nine percent of total sales were to customers in the industrial and utility end-markets and forty percent of total sales were to customers outside the United States.  Cooper has manufacturing facilities in 24 countries as of 2011.  For more information, visit the website at http://www.cooperindustries.com.

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Architects hired to brainstorm about Cubberley
Future of Palo Alto community center will be subject of community meetings in 2012

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City and school leaders have engaged architects to do informal, preliminary work on ideas for the Cubberley Community Center, Palo Alto school district Superintendent Kevin Skelly said Tuesday, Jan. 31.

In a report to the Board of Education on the progress of talks about the future of Cubberley, located at 4000 Middlefield Road, administrators said the architects -- Gelfand Partners and Group 4 Architecture, both of San Francisco -- are "coming up with some very rough and preliminary notions of how that site would be used."

Group 4 has worked on the city's libraries, and Gelfand has designed renovations of many campuses in the current facilities-bond program, including the new, two-story classroom building at Ohlone Elementary School.

City and school staff members were to have a conference call with the two architectural firms Thursday, school facilities and bond program manager Bob Golton said.

"It's just to kind of warm them up, get a notion of ideas for what might go on that site," Golton said.

Skelly said he's been meeting monthly with City Manager Jim Keene and Assistant City Manager Steve Emslie on the city's and district's joint interest in the former Cubberley High School, currently leased by the city for use as a community center.

They plans to convene a "community advisory committee," probably in mid-March, with broad representation of interested parties, including neighborhood associations, recreational users, PTAs, sports leagues and the senior citizen community, Skelly told the school board.

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Posted by Not-Happy-With-Group-4, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood, 19 hours ago

There is something wrong with the City's continued association with Group 4. It's time to use another architect. The library that is being constructed on Middlefield is certainly looking like it will be more ugly, and vastly too large, than not.

It's time that someone take a long, hard, look at the cronyism that seems to be well developed between the City Manager's officer, and Group 4.

Posted by Paul Losch, a resident of the Community Center neighborhood, 19 hours ago

I am on the City of Palo Alto Parks and Recreation Commission. While this matter is still in relatively early stages, it is clear that it will be a proverbial elephant in the room. Our Commission talked about it briefly at a recent meeting, and the surface was hardly scratched.

The school district is largely in the driver's seat on this issue, since most of the property is PAUSD owned. The use of the campus as a school site again has not been thought through, and there are alternatives that can potentially serve the need for a 3rd high school and conccurrently provide community services would be a great outcome.

Posted by Resident, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood, 19 hours ago

I don't understand how architects can decide how Cubberley could be used. I thought architects were given instructions on how to design a building with a list of what facilities were required. Have they been given a list of requirements? This sounds like the cart leading the horse to me.

Posted by JA3+, a resident of the Crescent Park neighborhood, 18 hours ago

Perhaps it's wise to demolish any and all existing structures and start anew on a small scale, with two story structures suitable to PAUSD's current use.

I'd likely suggest selling all remaining land -- that is, all land other than that needed to satisfy the siting of the buildings discussed in my preceding sentence -- and using the proceeds to construct additional two-story buildings on existing PAUSD school sites, including, but not limited to, Cubberly.

Posted by Doesnt pass smell test, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood, 17 hours ago

Not-Happy says it clearly, something doesn't smell right in the City Manager's office connection with Group 4.

They just rehired a company that had a FOUR MILLION DOLLAR COST OVERRUN on Mitchell Park Library.

Something really really is not right. Newspapers should investigate this.

Posted by Mark, a resident of the University South neighborhood, 17 hours ago

Could they explore the possibility of using the new site (whatever they build on it) as an alternate Emergency Operations Center in case of disaster? (i.e. Essentially, if there is a conference room, they make sure to wire it up and have a backup generator.) Might help to build some redundancy for preparedness.

Posted by another resident, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood, 3 hours ago

Resident, No, it was the cart leading the horse on the high school construction, school board officials have said as much -- trust the professionals to tell us what to do. That whole interaction was far more suspicious than the library, I think. This s a different architect. Seems to me they did a pretty good job on the library. And there's nothing wrong with getting ideas. I thought this architect was far better at taking ideas and incorporating them in a good design. I think the cost overruns are the contractor's issue, or is it that much overrun on the design? (Of course the contractor is going to try to blame the architect, but a contractor at that level should have enough experience to question a serious omission from the start.)

Posted by Mom, a resident of the Greenmeadow neighborhood, 3 hours ago

Please make the third high school, but a special one. A high school for STEM and/or Art at Cubberley. There are quite a few of that kind in other area in CA and in other states. Just not here yet.

Some PA teacher told me that PA parents would push their students even more if we had such a school, but I don't think PA parents are that foolish.

I just want my kids to have a real lab available in/after school with proper adult supervision. At this moment, due to all the regulations, they have to apply for competitive applications in order to get an intern position in far away universities. Science summer camps are so expensive. My kids are not disadvantaged enough or smart enough to get into the Stanford programs. We are not Stanford professors who can let their kids to work in their labs.

In "Cubberley high school for STEM" I hope they have a project based science class with capable and willing teachers for the purpose.

Posted by Not-Happy-With-Group-4, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood, 1 hour ago

> I think the cost overruns are the contractor's issue, or is

> it that much overrun on the design?

Yes, and no. In the construction industry, there are always many players having input into decisions. The architect is supposed to provide a complete plan to the initiating party (a plan that can be constructed without OMGs [Oh My God] popping up). The party funding the construction project has an obligation to check the plans, because once they are "signed off", then the project is now the initiating party's problem. The contractor, of course, needs to do a comprehensive plan check, in order to estimate the project--expecting to make a profit when it is completed.

In the case of the library, the initiating party was the "City" (which is staffed with unaccountable individuals) who assume that all of their mistakes/errors/omissions will be ignored by the taxpayers, who will simply dig deeper into their pockets to put good money after bad.

Clearly the City of Palo Alto P/W officials failed to do adequate plan checking, prior to signing off when the Architect/Mechanical Engineers claimed that the "design is complete".

Most construction projects include a hefty "contingency" line item (15%-25%), which allows for cost overruns that do not end up being overly obvious. Unfortunately, there is no easy way to tack how often these contingency funds are used, since most construction projects are in the private sector, and the books closed to the prying eyes of the public.

Posted by Casey, a resident of another community, 1 hour ago

Don't forget the important campus bike connections!

Posted by Paul Losch, a resident of the Community Center neighborhood, 1 hour ago

My understanding from City Staff is that despite the change orders, the Mitchell project will be done under the original budgeted amount, and have improved traits environmentally. This is due to the lower costs of materials and construction as a result of our wonderful recession.

Until Main Library renovation is completed, it will not be clear what the final cost of the entire endeavor will be. At this point, despite cjange orders, we are getting for our money what we voted for. And if it turns out that the total bill is less than what the bond initiative called for, the difference will be returned to the taxpayers.

Posted by Deep Throat, a resident of another community, 1 hour ago

How much is each public agency paying for each of the contracts and how much would be paid for any work beyond the "informal, preliminary work" covered by the current contracts? Follow the money.

Posted by landuse, a resident of the Professorville neighborhood, 58 minutes ago

Supporters of more playing fields in Palo Alto had better keep a close watch on the design plans of the Cubberley site to ensure that those that are there now are not lost.

Posted by Doesnt pass the smell test, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood, 52 minutes ago

Paul Losch seeks to cover the city's and contractor's mistakes:

"from City Staff is that despite the change orders, the Mitchell project will be done under the original budgeted amount"

Irrelevant. The Architects and the City made FOUR MILLION DOLLARS worth of mistakes.

Now the city is hiring them again. Collusion to cover up? Pretend it never happened by pointing to savings that should have been OURS.

Posted by Not-Happy-With-Group-4, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood, 43 minutes ago

> the difference will be returned to the taxpayers.

This statement is not exactly true. Not spending money that was authorized is not the same thing as "returning money" to the taxpayers.

And .. there is always the possibility that someone on the City Council will suggest that since $XXXX were authorized and not spent, then the City has a right to spend those dollars. We have seem that, from time-to-time, in the past.

> Irrelevant. The Architects and the City made

> FOUR MILLION DOLLARS worth of mistakes.

This comment is spot-on.

The problem here has to do with a failure to both plan and estimate the materials necessary for building this building safely. Hiring the same outfit again certainly does not pass the "smell test". Unfortunately, people like Paul Losch are more interested in spending other people's money, than operating a well-managed, honest, and cost-effective government.

It's clear that the City Manager is more interested in moving construction projects along, than dealing with the best design/construction outfits.

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The Herald’s former six-acre digs in Boston’s South End could be revamped into a new four-building “Ink Block” that includes 475 apartment units and 85,000 square feet of retail space, under a proposal filed by property owner National Development.

“What we hope through all this is this becomes much more pedestrian-oriented area. It hasn’t always been the most heavily populated pedestrian space,” Ted Tye, managing partner at National Development, told the Herald. “By putting some real density here ... we really hope to make it a much more comfortable space for people to walk the streets with lots of activity.”

The project would require demolition of the Herald’s storied Harrison Avenue building, better known as One Herald Square, “from the ground up,” Tye said, adding that construction for the $100 million-plus project would begin at the end of the year following completion of the permitting process and would last nearly 18 months.

The new buildings, which would span Harrison Avenue from Herald Street to Traveler Street and range from five to nine stories, would be designed by Elkus Manfredi Architects.

A 30,000-square-foot to 40,000-square-foot grocery store is envisioned for one building, with restaurants and smaller stores encompassing the remaining retail space. All four buildings would include apartments, but rents have yet to be determined, Tye said.

Several materials, including glass, brick and metal shingle will be used, along with a variety of window styles to distinguish each building.

“The idea is to create the feeling of four very different buildings on the block with a little bit of variation in height and a lot of variation in materials,” Tye said.

National Development filed its plans with the Boston Redevelopment Authority after conducting numerous meetings with the agency and community members. The company said it pitched an initial redesign plan six months ago that was categorized by both community members and the BRA as not being dense enough, high enough or following the standards envisioned by the Harrison-Albany Corridor Study.

“We chose to be good listeners. We kind of went back to the drawing board and tried to come up with a program and design that was more responsive to what we were hearing,” Tye said. “The result is a much better project than the one we had started with.”

Other featured amenities of the project include a roof-level outdoor area with pool, a theater, a fitness center and a cyber lounge. A transportation center would also be made available with bicycle storage, shared car service and electric car charging stations.

The term “Ink Block” reflects both the newspaper’s storied history at the site for more than 50 years, and is a reminder that the block that is bounded by Harrison Avenue and Herald, Traveler and Albany Streets, Tye said.

Locally, National Development is the co-developer of The Kensington, a 27-story residential tower currently under construction, and Longwood Center, a life-sciences building slated to start construction this year in the Longwood Medical Area. National Development also owns and manages several properties at Constitution Center in Charlestown, in the Financial District and in the Fort Point Channel areas.

The Herald’s print, interactive and administrative offices are now located at 70 Fargo St. in South Boston, occupying 51,000 square feet in the Seaport Center as part of a 10-year lease.

Following the paper’s move, the Harrison Avenue building will remain vacant and will not be re-tenanted prior to redevelopment.

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AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Drexel University and American Campus Communities (NYSE: ACC - News) will transform Chestnut Street between 32nd and 33rd Streets into a new gateway for Drexel and University City featuring approximately 361,200 square-feet of mixed-use student housing and retail space. The groundbreaking event for the estimated $97.6 million project is scheduled for February 21, with a targeted construction completion date of September 2013, announced Drexel University President John A. Fry.

“This innovative partnership combining dynamic urban retail with high-quality student housing will serve as a catalyst in continuing the revitalization of our campus and surrounding community,” said Fry. “We look forward to partnering with American Campus Communities to create a more vibrant gateway to University City.”

The development was structured via American Campus’s American Campus Equity (ACE®) program under which the company will develop, own and manage the project through a 70-year ground lease structure and make annual ground rent payments to Drexel.

“We are thrilled to be partnering with such a prestigious institution of higher learning such as Drexel and assisting President Fry in achieving his vision for the University,” said Bill Bayless, American Campus CEO. “This transaction stands as an example of a premier university benefiting from private sector investment to deliver world-class housing to its students while preserving its own debt capacity for core capital projects.”

Designed by internationally acclaimed Robert A.M. Stern Architects, the development will include two eight-story buildings that front Chestnut Street while maintaining an open entry corridor to the adjacent Creese Student Center. The broad use of glass at the street level combined with limestone will continue Drexel’s progress toward creating a pedestrian-friendly, mixed-use campus district enlivened by retail amenities.

The building design will also include a 19-story residential tower at the corner of Chestnut and 32nd streets. The two-story street-level space will include retail outlets, neighborhood restaurants, and a new corner entry into the Barnes and Noble – activating student life in an urban setting. Upper floors feature student apartments with both shared and private accommodation options.

“At a time of tremendous growth in our residential student population, this development will allow us to continue to offer Drexel students the very best in quality housing, dining, and services, while transforming Drexel’s Chestnut Street corridor into a community destination,” said James R. Tucker, senior vice president for Student Life and Administrative Services.

About 860 beds of high-quality housing will be available for students. Student residents may select from a variety of unit types, including shared accommodations in a two-bedroom/two-bathroom design or private accommodations in two unit options – a four-bedroom/two-bathroom apartment and an innovative four-bedroom/two-and-a-half-bathroom townhome configuration with in-unit washers and dryers.

The development includes a 14,800-square-foot community center with space for residence life operations and student amenities that include a social lounge with gaming area, a fitness center furnished with modern workout equipment, meeting space, a theater and laundry facilities.

About American Campus Communities

American Campus Communities, Inc. is the largest owner and manager of high-quality student housing communities in the United States. The company is a fully integrated, self-managed and self-administered equity real estate investment trust (REIT) with expertise in the design, finance, development, construction management, and operational management of student housing properties. American Campus Communities owns 119 student housing properties containing approximately 74,100 beds. Including its owned and third-party managed properties, ACC’s total managed portfolio consists of 149 properties with approximately 98,000 beds. Visit http://www.americancampus.com or http://www.studenthousing.com.

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