Home Builder Developer - Interior Renovation and Design

266 GARDEN AVE., TORONTO

ASKING PRICE $995,000

SELLING PRICE $1,267,000

PREVIOUS SELLING PRICE $529,000 (2006)

TAXES $4,976 (2013)

DAYS ON THE MARKET Seven

LISTING AGENTS Adrienne, Norm and Tasi Farquhar, Keller Williams Neighbourhood Realty

The Action: Bidding wars are a common affair when purchasing a High Park home, so the sellers of this detached residence were confronted with five offers after enduring more than 50 showings this summer.

What They Got: Over eight years, this more than 100-year-old house was updated in various ways, from a new roof, cooling, plumbing and wiring systems to reclaimed hardwood floors, soapstone and butcher block kitchen counters and a mudroom addition with an exit to the deck, 23-by-118-foot lot and lower-level recreation room with exposed brick walls.

The balance of the house contains a living room with an antique fireplace and a central dining area, as well as two four-piece bathrooms and three bedrooms on the second and third floors.

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Watching sports on TV got a whole lot better with the advent of high-definition video. But as good as the action looks, you still cant feel it. Not yet, anyway, but youll be able to soon enough.

The Guitammer Company, based in my home state of Ohio, are working on a more immersive home viewing experience for sports fanatics. Guitammer is the force behind ButtKicker low-frequency transducers, piston-powered devices that turn audio input into physical vibrations. Theyre used in loads of 4D theaters like the ones at Disney, Universal Studios, and perhaps even your local IMAX.

Now, Guitammer has their sights set on pro sports. They recently finished wiring up the San Jose Sharks rink at the SAP Center with a series of 76 impact sensors. The sensors are embedded into the boards that surround the ice surface. Whenever 6-foot-5 defenseman Brent Burns drives some unfortunate opposition forward into the boards, they spring into action.

Guitammer has come up with a way to transmit a signal from those sensors alongside audio and video for a broadcast. Once it hits your home theater, it gets pumped into the ButtKicker attached to your couch or recliner and gives you a satisfying jolt. Its not quite the same as having seats right behind the glass, but theres also much less risk of someone spilling their beer on you (or maybe not, depending on how rowdy you get when watching hockey at home).

The first successful test of Guitammers 4D Sports system happened on Comcast Sportsnet California just over a week ago when the Sharks faced off against the Florida Panthers. Theres really no better place to test a system like this than San Jose, where the boards are slathered with ads from top tech companies.

Im really hoping this catches on. Im a lot more interested in couch-thumping 4D television than I am 3D TV.

Now read: Avatar robots stand in for real fans at this Korean baseball stadium

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What is a 2-10 Home Warranty Service Agreement
2-10 Home Warranty Service Agreement.

By: Equity Development Corporation

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RubyConf 2014 - Sauron: DIY Home Security with Ruby! by Jonan Scheffler
This is the story of how I built an all-seeing eye with Ruby, and how I use it to defend the sanctity of my suburban home. Using a Raspberry Pi and some homemade motion detection software...

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A ghostly looking image of a mountain lion, pale and blurry, was caught via home security camera by a resident near Beverly Park, east of the 405 Freeway, last week.

Though the photo raises alarm among area residents, it also raises questions for local wildlife experts. This could be the second mountain lion to have crossed the 405.

The image, circulated on Twitter, shows a mountain lion that looks to be at least a year old running down a street about 4:30 a.m, said Seth Riley, wildlife ecologist for the National Park Service.

If the photo was actually shot in the Beverly Park area -- and Riley said there's no reason to assume it was not -- the cat could have crossed over the 405 from the Santa Monica Mountains to reach the neighborhood.

The image was posted Nov. 29 on the account of musician and actor Christopher Stills, son of musician Stephen Stills.

P-22, the resident Griffith Park mountain lion, had been thought to be the first to journey across the 405. Before ecologists were tracking P-22 by radio, it's assumed the big cat crossed two freeways to reach the park.

"It's very likely [P-22] came from the Santa Monica Mountains," Riley said, so "he would have had to cross the 405 and the Hollywood Freeway."

The angle and quality of the photo provides little clues as to the gender and exact age of the mountain lion.

The puma in the photo is part of a small community. Riley said an estimated eight or nine mountain lions, not including kittens, live in the Santa Monica Mountains.

Pumas in the Santa Monicas are trapped on an island of habitat, bound by freeways, the ocean and Oxnard's agricultural fields.

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NEW PORT RICHEY To help clean up the citys image, City Council members put some finishing touches on higher maintenance standards for homes.

A work session produced suggestions for tweaking the proposed ordinance. The concept could come back soon for public hearings before the council takes a final vote.

Councilwoman Judy DeBella Thomas wanted a lower threshold before the city steps in to cut tall yard grass. The proposal once specified grass a foot tall before the city took action. Thomas and others thought that was too high. They want the standard to be grass six inches tall.

City Manager Debbie Manns outlined the changes in a recent memo to council. Additional regulations are needed which will advance a higher property maintenance standard, she wrote.

The city ordinance is modeled after the 2012 International Code Councils International Property Maintenance Code, Manns noted.

Maintenance amendments could require residential owners and occupants to maintain structures in a clean and sanitary condition, including shared or public areas.

Vacant structures and vacant land will be required to be maintained in a clean, safe, secure and sanitary condition and not cause a blighting problem or adversely affect public health, Manns explained.

The proposal specifies that plumbing fixtures and drinking water and wastewater pipes must be in working order.

All mechanical appliances, cooking, heating and cooling equipment will be required to be properly installed and maintained and be capable of performing the intended function, Manns added.

A three-month limit would apply to tarps as temporary patches on leaking roofs.

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Handyman Services - SP Handyman Services
Here at SP Handyman Services we know that there are odd little jobs that stand in the way of other things getting done. Our handymen are uniformed, professio...

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HARTFORD A defense witness testified Friday that the charges against Tiffany Stevens were the result of a scheme cooked up by her ex-husband and the handyman she is accused of hiring to kill him.

Larry Chace, who maintained the pool at a Simsbury estate where John McDaid worked as a handyman, told the Superior Court jury that Eric Stevens was going to pay McDaid for helping set up Tiffany Stevens.

Tiffany Stevens, 39, is on trial for attempted murder, accused of paying McDaid $5,000 to kill Eric Stevens, 49, in Simsbury in the spring of 2012. Tiffany and Eric Stevens are involved in a prolonged dispute for custody of their now 9-year-old daughter, and control of a large sum of money that goes to the parent who has custody.

Instead of killing Eric Stevens, McDaid told Stevens of the alleged plot and also cooperated with him and Simsbury police in making two recordings with Tiffany Stevens. The state contends that Tiffany Stevens discusses the plot on those recordings, which have been played in court.

Chace's testimony on Friday supported a central theme of defense attorney Hubert Santos' argument that McDaid, who has a long criminal record, assisted Eric Stevens in "setting up" Tiffany Stevens and will be paid for his efforts if Eric gets custody of the couple's daughter.

The conversation between Chace and McDaid occurred in mid-July 2012. Chace testified that he and McDaid talked frequently and would eat lunch together when Chace took care of the pool at the Simsbury estate.

Once he was finished working at the Simsbury property on that day, Chase testified, he told McDaid that he planned to go for a ride on his motorcycle. McDaid replied that he was going to go for a ride, too, prompting Chace to say he didn't know that McDaid had a motorcycle.

"He said, 'I don't have one but I'm going to get one,'" Chace testified. "He said he was going to set up Mrs. Stevens for Mr. Stevens. He was going to be rewarded with a motorcycle and job."

Chace, who is on parole for a 1979 murder in Berlin, told the jury that McDaid said he was going to get a "big Harley."

"He told me Mr. Stevens was going to buy him the Harley," Chace continued. "I didn't really fully understand what he was doing."

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Entertainment of Friday, 5 December 2014

Source: modernghana.com

Hiplife music giants VVIP, made up of Reggie Rockstone, Prodigal and Zeal will lead their fans and friends on National Sanitation Day (NSD), which falls on Saturday December 6, 2014, to clean up drains and other places within Nima and Mamobi after which the group will mount the stage to perform in a live show dubbed 'SANIJAM'.

This was made known to NEWS-ONE when the VVIP trio hosted the Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Julius Debrah, and top management staff of Agricultural Development Bank (ADB), SIC Life and PZ Cussons at the Rockstone Office (Django) in Accra.

VVIP and Friends will also provide 'Kooko and Kose' as breakfast for the expected fans and guests who will converge after the clean-up exercise at Nima Gutter, popularly referred to as 'Bakyin Guta'.

Abdul Hamidu Ibrahim, in a speech to welcome the dignitaries, described the National Sanitation Day as an event which brings back exciting memories of the spirit of volunteerism which was a common thing in the past and which enhanced the welfare of mankind.

Ibrahim, whose stage name is 'Zeal', mentioned that communal services in the past were characterised by the presence of drumming and music adding that VVIP and Friends are equally proud to be associates using their talents in music (hiplife) to influence the community of Nima and Mamobi to achieve cleaner and healthier surroundings.

Reginald Osei aka 'Rockstone' was happy that his father, St Osei the great fashion designer, went on hunger strike over the insanitary conditions that prevailed at the Trade Fair area adding that he is happy to walk in the footprints of his father.

The Executive Director of Agricultural Development Bank (ADB), Abdul-Samed Iddrisu, who was present during the event on behalf of the bank, donated a cheque of GH50, 000 as the bank's support for the NSD, while SIC Life presented GH 25,000 and PZ Cusson, represented by Gazie Decker, Head of Brand Development and Activation, presented disinfectants and cleaning agents worth GH20, 000.

Each of the donors expressed satisfaction that the purpose of the NSD was in line with their respective companies' corporate social responsibilities of ensuring that the communities within which they live and work are kept very clean and tidy to ensure the sound health of the people.

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Dorset dairy farmer Andrew Gould shows James Andrews around his largelyblue machinery shed.

How loyal are you to individual brands?

Well, my grandad had his first Fordson in 1931 and weve been blue ever since. Weve always liked the Fords and New Hollands, and the dealer back-up has been good, so weve always stuck with them.

Who is your favourite dealer?

C&O Tractors is our favourite. Weve dealt with them for years and get almost everything from there now. The Claas stuff comes from Vaughan Agri in Frome and its pretty good, too.

Favourite piece of kit?

The trusty Ford 7840. We bought it new in 1994 and its just nudged over 12,000 hours. It had a turbo fitted at 3,000 hours so it could handle the old Jaguar 75 forager and when we put it on the dyno it pumped out 135hp. We did have to uprate the main bearings to the turbo spec, but its taken the extra power pretty well otherwise. Its still nice to drive and its main duties are maize drilling, grass seeding, slurry tanking and trailer work.

Farmer: AS Gould, Townsend Farm, West Stour, Dorset

Farming:100 acres owned,60 acres rented,150 British Fresians,120 acres first cut silage,34 acres maize

Contracting: Working with a neighbour, they carry out 400 acres silage contracting over four farms.

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