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Signal Hill, CA (PRWEB) November 03, 2014

Mark Grisafe, owner of M. Grisafe Architects, received the Chai Award for Outstanding Voluntary Service from the Alpert Jewish Community Center of Long Beach, Ca. The Alpert Jewish Community Center presented the volunteer service award to Mr. Grisafe on September 7, 2014, at a community-wide meeting brunch. Members of the M Grisafe Architects team, volunteers and staff, and residents of the Long Beach community attended the annual event at the center.

The more than 2,300 member Alpert Jewish Community Center (AJCC) offers programs and services for individuals of all faiths throughout Long Beach. Grisafe has volunteered his architectural expertise at the AJCC for the past several years.

Grisafe's work at the AJCC includes small construction projects and serving as the architectural resource for the AJCC's Facilities Task Force. In this capacity, the AJCC recognizes Mr. Grisafe as instrumental to a number of the AJCC's recent and upcoming architectural improvement projects.

For Grisafe, who points to his family as having instilled in him a tradition of community service, the Chai Award for Outstanding Voluntary Service is an honor, "but the real reward is having had the opportunity to meet so many good people." On the connection between community service and building a successful small business, Grisafe says, "building the charitable spirit into the company's business model was an obvious choice."

News of the award and its connection to the work and mission of M Grisafe Architects was first reported on the company blog and has received a large and enthusiastic response from the companys clients, contacts, friends and members of the community online via social media and offline.

About M. Grisafe Architects

M. Grisafe Architects is a full service commercial and residential architecture firm based in the Long Beach, Ca area. Grisafe provides a broad range of commercial architectural services including expertise in building design, tenant improvements, commercial interior design and more. The firm also provides residential architectural services including construction documents, landscape and yard design, and interior design. Learn more about the firm at http://mgrisafearchitect.com/long-beach-architects-architectural-design-firm/

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BAY CITY, MI Bay City is filled with historic homes, but there are a few that stand out from the rest.

Patricia Drury's 132-year-old Victorian-era home, 813 N. Sheridan St., just off Center Avenue, isfeatured in the December edition of "Old House Journal," a national magazine that focuses on the restoration of historic homes. The 10-page spread highlights the home's manyantique pieces, as well as itsrich history, including a story about the timeSusan B. Anthony stayed the night there in the early 1900s.

"It's a great honor being in the magazine," said Drury, 85. "It's very unusual that any home like this in Bay City gets this type of recognition. What's so unique about this home is that it's so unchanged. There is almost no alteration to these rooms. It's filled with history."

After purchasing the home for $36,000 in 1982, Drury started researching its history.

Aretired history teacher who taught at Bay City Junior College and later Delta College, Drury said her research of the house introduced her to John Wesley Knaggs and his wife May Stocking Knaggs. The couple built the home in 1882. Through her research, Drury came across portraits of the couple, which hang on the wall in her living room today.

John Wesley Knaggs was a Civil War veteran who lost his arm in battle. He would go on to open an insurance business in Bay City.

His wife May Stocking Knaggs, who was inducted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame in 2002, was a well-known leader in the women's suffrage movement. Described as a "logical and convincing speaker" by the Detroit Free Press, she believed that men and women should be viewed as equals in responsibility and opportunity to vote.

She heavily campaigned for Susan B. Anthony, who actually stayed overnight in the house during one of her trips to Michigan. The room Anthony slept in now has her initials etched into the corners of the door frame. It also features a $4,000 antique bed.

"It's probably one of the greatest pieces of history that is a part of this house," Drury said on Anthony's stop in Bay City.

Drury learned much of the house's history through a memoir written by Helen MacLennan Rambow, the granddaughter of John and May Knaggs.

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Norman Baker has launched a fresh attack on Theresa May, saying he resigned as a Home Office minister after facing a constant battle to introduce policies in the face of a Tory lurch to the right in pursuit of Ukip voters.

Nick Clegg was making plans to replace him with a woman. The deputy prime minister has faced intense criticism for failing to appoint any women to one of the Lib Dems five cabinet posts. Bakers replacement will have the title of minister of state one rung below a cabinet minister.

The preparations for the mini-reshuffle came after Baker resigned. He had likened his experience working under the home secretary to walking through mud. The former minister expanded his attack on May on Tuesday morning as he accused her of failing to allow him to develop policies.

Baker told the BBC News channel: The home secretary was reluctant to let me have my head and it was a constant battle to try to get things through. That is unfortunate not just for the Home Office but actually for the government.

The former minister dismissed criticism from Damian Green, who was sacked as a Home Office minister in the Tory summer reshuffle, that he had acted as a Lib Dem home secretary on a par with May.

Baker said: We are in a coalition government and therefore it was right that I took an interest in matters right across the department which is no different to how I behaved in the Department for Transport.

But he said that his battle was complicated by the Tories lurch to the right in response to the Ukip threat.

I have done it for a year, it is very hard work, the Home Office is probably at the cutting edge of the coalition, he said. It is where most policy issues are difficult, whether it is Europe or immigration. It has not been helped by the lurch to the right from the Conservative party as they chase Ukip off to the fringes.

Baker said there was no point in hanging on to office. We dont always have to cling to office as ministers. If we think there is a time to go, there is a time to go. I want a break. I want to spend more time with my family, more time in my constituency, more time doing stuff I want to do, like my music.

The Lib Dem president, Tim Farron, accused the home secretary of insulting the electorate by acting as if the Conservatives had won an overall majority at the last election in her high-handed treatment of Baker.

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Employees work inside The Building Center on Jenkins Dairy Road in Gastonia, which is in the process of a $500,000 expansion project at the site.

How do you know the housing market continues to recover? Try the recent expansion of a local building supply company.

The Building Center recently launched the second phase of its four-year expansion plan, President Skip Norris said. The more than $484,000 project will install more than 6,000 square feet of space at its Jenkins Dairy Road building in Gastonia, which Norris said will be used to create and store additional roof and floor trusses produced by the company.

Norris said the companys local expansion plans began last year with the installation of 10,000 square feet of storage space for building materials. Next year, portions of the property will be raised to allow for the installation of better storm drains, and Norris said a new production facility will open at the site in 2016.

Our business made it through the downturn in housing, and we feel like were in a pretty strong position right now, Norris said. Were projecting an increase in sales over the next year at roughly 20 percent.

The region lost some of its building supply companies during the recession, Norris said, which offered his company a chance to grow as the market started to rebound. The company has expanded some of its current facilities, like the one in Gastonia, but its also expanded to new markets, most recently Burlington and, later this week, Mebane.

Founded in 1977, The Building Center has six locations throughout North and South Carolina. It opened its Gastonia location in 1997. It offers framing, treated and engineered lumber, trusses, roofing, siding, windows, custom entry doors, millwork, railing systems, decking, columns, hardware and other supplies.

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DALLAS, TX (PRWEB) November 04, 2014

Mid-term elections will have its share of winners, losers and surprises. In The Anatomy of An Ideal Candidate, Dale Tyler, President of National Roofing Partners (NRP) and member of The Political Insiders Council (PIC), which consists of major donors to NRCAs political action committee, ROOFPAC, outlines the four issues essential to the roofing industries:

1. Regulatory Reform

We want to support candidates who are pro-business. The amount of regulation that has crept into our industry is daunting. A massive amount of nickel and dime red tape is tied up in all of it, says Tyler.

2. Taxation Reform

Members of the National Roofing Contractors Association fall squarely into two groups: C-corporations, which pay a 35 percent corporate tax rate, and pass-through businesses, which pay at the individual tax rate. Tyler also believes that a simplified tax code - designed to promote business, protect individual rights and eliminate confusion - would make the most sense for taxpayers.

3. Illegal Immigration Reform

Demand for workers is outpacing available labor. By 2020, The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates the roofing industry will have added 18% more jobs, which US workers alone will not be able to fill. A number of conditions contribute to the problem, including an aging roofer population and a younger generation choosing college over the roofing trade. In this environment, illegal immigrants have sometimes filled the gap.

To address the chronic problem, the commercial roofing industry needs a temporary worker permit program, which would allow foreign workers to relieve some of the work-force vacancy pressure.

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Google has announced enhancements to the networking stack, a partnership with Bitnami, support for the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution from Canonical and storage price drops at its Google Cloud Platform Live event in San Francisco.

Google hosted its second cloud event under the GCP Live brand to announce new features, services, partnerships and customer wins.

The announcements came just a few days before AWS re:Invent, where its closest rival Amazon is expected to make a splash.

Earlier in October, another cloud giant, Microsoft, revealed its enterprise cloud strategy and new features on its Azure platform.

Though Google has a superior technology stack to its two rivals, it lacks the sales and marketing muscle of Amazon and Microsoft. Microsoft has a decade-long engagement with fortune 500 companies, while Amazon is aggressively moving in to win the enterprise customers. Googles focus has always been on the developers.

Google App Engine, one of the first cloud platforms announced in 2008 attracted many developers and startups. But with solid investments in Google Compute Engine, the infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) component, and BigQuery, a scalable database engine optimised for big data and aggressive hiring, Google is getting ready for the enterprise battle.

Todays announcements underscore the enterprise focus of Google Cloud Platform.

Google Compute Engine (GCE) became generally available in December 2013. Since then, Google has been constantly adding features to bring it on par with the competition. When compared with Amazon EC2, GCE delivers better performance. Scalr, the popular multi-cloud management platform, has published a series of benchmark reports that prove the point.

Todays announcements widen the choice of operating system (OS) supported on GCE. With the availability of Ubuntu, Google customers can now launch the most popular Linux distribution on the cloud. Canonical, the company that ships Ubuntu, claims that 85% of Linux workloads run on its distribution.

Though GCE supported Debian Linux, which is compatible with Ubuntu, getting the official distribution makes more sense. This makes GCE one of the complete IaaS offerings, with support for CentOS, CoreOS, Debian, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Suse, Ubuntu and Microsoft Windows Server.

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