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August 27, 2014 - Featuring 5.6 (81) K factor, Model VK482 is cULus Listed for both Light and Ordinary Hazard occupancies. Unit's fusible element can be recessed up to in. above ceiling, making sprinkler suitable for freezers, where possibility of forklift damage is potential concern. Offered in 165F and 205F temperature ratings, quick response pendent sprinkler is available with optional insulating boot assembly, which can be used to satisfy NFPA 13 code requirements. Viking Corp., The 210 N. Industrial Park Rd. Hastings, MI, 49058 9706 USA Press release date: August 20, 2014

Hastings, Michigan, USA Viking Corporation, a global leader in fire protection and life safety systems, announces the availability of its new Model VK482 recessed flush dry sprinkler. This new quick response pendent sprinkler, which has a 5.6 (81) K factor, is cULus Listed for both Light and Ordinary Hazard occupancies. The VK482 provides an aesthetically pleasing alternative to a concealed dry sprinkler for protecting unheated areas in many types of structures including nursing homes, restaurants, schools, and freezers.

An innovative feature of the new VK482 is that the sprinklers fusible element can be recessed up to inch (12 mm) above the ceiling. This is an important advantage for many applications, including insulated freezers, where the possibility of a forklift damaging the sprinkler is a potential concern.

The new sprinkler is available with an optional insulating boot assembly, which can be used to satisfy NFPA 13 code requirements for sealing around the barrel of a sprinkler when protecting an insulated freezer with a wet pipe system. Viking has performed extensive testing to verify that the new VK482, when installed in this manner, still meets the requirements of a Quick Response sprinkler. The key to achieving the required response time is that the sprinklers fusible element is exposed within the protected area, unlike with a flat plate concealed dry sprinkler.

The new VK482 recessed flush dry sprinkler is available in 165F (74C) and 205F (96C) temperature ratings. The 205F (96C) temperature is important for accommodating defrost cycles that are part of the regular maintenance schedule for freezers. The VK482 also includes an innovative escutcheon that hangs from extrusions on flush sprinklers body helping to ensure the escutcheon does not fall off due to vibrations, such as from a forklift or from someone walking above the ceiling of the protected structure.

Viking is a global leader in the manufacture and distribution of innovative fire protection and life safety systems. For over 90 years the companys products and services have protected lives and property worldwide from the devastating effects of fire. For more information on Vikings complete line of quality fire protection products and services, please visit http://www.vikinggroupinc.com or call 800-968-9501.

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Meredith Vieira Sheds Light on Her New Show
"The Meredith Vieira Show" will have an all-female house band, a first for daytime TV.

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Small freshwater yabby sheds shell. I have capture just the last few moments before it flicks itself free from the old shell. Its a challenge to capture this process on video - best so far.

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Highwoods Properties Inc. ( HIW ) reaped $40.7 million in total proceeds and $17.7 million in gains from the sale of 11 multi-customer office buildings in Richmond in two separate deals. The asset sale comes as part of the company's strategy to shed its non-core, non-differentiating properties.

Spanning over 359,000 square feet and most of them single-storey, these properties were leased 90.6% on average. Presently, the company owns or has stake in 26 Richmond-based office properties, covering 2.3 million square feet and having an average occupancy rate of 95%.

As a matter of fact, Highwoods is making concerted efforts to expand its footprint in the high-growth markets through premium-assets acquisitions and developments. To support its growth needs, the company is disposing non-core assets and investing the proceeds for further expansions. Consequently, the company sold $103.4 million of non-core buildings, realizing a gain of $29.4 million year-to-date.

Such moves have helped the company to build a portfolio largely concentrated in the high-growth Sun Belt markets, which have long-term favorable demographic trends and are expected to drive above-average job growth.

Notably, after dampening results in the prior quarter, Highwoods repositioned itself on the winning track with encouraging second-quarter results. The company posted a positive earnings surprise of 9.6% on the back of higher revenue growth, a rise in occupancy rate and substantial leasing activity.

In particular, this real estate investment trust (REIT) declared funds from operations (FFO) of 80 cents per share, surpassing the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 7 cents and the prior-year quarter figure by a dime.

Highwoods currently carries a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold). Investors interested in REITs may consider other stocks like, DCT Industrial Trust Inc. ( DCT ), Extra Space Storage Inc. ( EXR ) and Gladstone Commercial Corp. ( GOOD ). All these stocks have a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy).

Note: FFO, a widely used metric to gauge the performance of REITs, is obtained after adding depreciation and amortization and other non-cash expenses to net income.

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Not only has 40-year old Aishwarya Rai, also known as Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, established herself as a leading actress in Bollywood and Indian film, the 1994 winner of Miss India World also does her own stunts.

Rai last appeared in Sanjay Guptas film Guzaarish in 2010, in which she played a nurse caring for a quadriplegic with whom she falls in love. She was nominated for Best Actress at the Filmfare Awards.

Now, after four years of maternity leave from her acting career, Rai is in the process of Guptas new film, Jazzba. However, despite her comeback, this has not seemed to keep her critics at bay.

Like many women do after giving birth, Rai gained a bit of weight. At the 65th Cannes Film Festival in 2012, the public was not satisfied with the speed at which she losing weight, comparing her to others in Bollywood and Hollywood who got in shape faster than Rai. Since then, fans and critics have both continued to talk about it.

Finally Gupta, who was tired of the talk, took to Twitter to silence the chatter.

The photo was taken on Saturday when Rai arrived in Jaipur with her daughter to attend the Kabaddi match of her husband Abhishek Bachchans team Jaipur Pink Panthers.

Rai has been married to to fellow actor Bachchan since April 20, 2007. They first met while filming Dhoom 2. Their relationship is often described as being more famous than Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, or Brangelina.

Immediately following the completion of Jazzba, Gupta will also be directing Rais husband in the film Khottey Sikkay.

Jazzba will be showcased at the Cannes film festival in 2015.

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What is a gnat?

Basically gnats are very small flies that belong to several species. There are several types of gnats that will get into homes.

Fruit flies (Drosophilidae)

Fruit flies are usually found in the kitchen, where they feed and breed on food spilled in out-of-the-way places such as behind or under appliances. These small flies have distinctive red eyes, which you can see with a hand lens. They are tan or brown in color and about 1/8-inch long. They are also known as pomace flies and vinegar flies.

They can be serious pests in food-handling establishments as they breed in and feed on fruits, vegetables and any moist, decaying organic material. They have been known to cause intestinal problems and diarrhea when fruit containing their larvae is eaten.

They will also breed in discarded fruit juice and soft drink cans and in unsecured bottles of wine. They are also very prolific.

In your home, you can control fruit flies by eliminating all breeding material. They are attracted to vinegar, so put drops on duct tape or glue boards. Or you can fill a small paper cup with vinegar and the flies will dive in.

Hump-backed flies (Phoridae)

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In addition to books, he said, the store will offer many of the same sorts of items found at Philly AIDS Thrift.

"It's going to be some clothes, some shoes, also . . . camp, pop-art collectibles, kind of hipsterish," Brennan said. "We're just going to fill the shelves."

He said his group was committed to keeping $15,000 in inventory of new lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender books at all times, adding that about a third of the store would be devoted to books.

"The aim is to keep its original vision and focus as a significant part of the store, which is that it's the United States' oldest gay bookstore," Brennan said.

Brennan said his group would also take over the bookstore's online business, queerbooks.com.

All Philly AIDS Thrifts' profits are donated to the AIDS Fund, a Philadelphia group that distributes money to organizations devoted to HIV/AIDS-related issues. Profits from the bookstore also will be donated to the fund, Brennan said.

Giovanni's Room, which is named for the 1956 novel by James Baldwin, prospered for many years. It wholesaled books to Europe, Australia, and New Zealand and had $100,000 in inventory in the early 1990s.

As with many other bookstores in recent years, Giovanni's Room's profits dwindled amid Internet-based competition, said Ed Hermance, the founder and former operator of the store.

Hermance said the new operator had a good chance of succeeding because of the array of items the store will offer.

Brennan said that Giovanni's Room would open in a few weeks, but that its grand reopening would be Oct. 10, 11, and 12 to coincide with Philadelphia Outfest, the city's annual gay block party.

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A new emergency room expansion is currently under construction at McDonough District Hospital and is scheduled to be finished in late 2015. It is estimated to cost $32 million.

There are bonds that will be paid back by hospital revenue over the next number of years, said John Maguire, Leader of Public Relations and Fund Development at McDonough District Hospital.

There are also donated funds that will be used for the geriatric psych portion. There was a trust gift to the hospital many years ago that was designated to serve seniors and the funds from that gift are being used to pay for that portion of the renovation.

The new expansion will be three stories and will include: 10 large private treatment rooms, a comfort room for family and friends during a crisis situation, relocation of rehabilitation services to the third floor of the new addition, direct access to diagnostic technology and construction of a new geriatric psych wing on the second floor of the new edition.

There is supposed to be substantial completion by June of 2015, Maguire said. There is a specific part of the new structure that is supposed to be ready for patient occupancy and usage no later than July 1, 2015, and thats the new geriatric psych inpatient unit that will be on the second floor.

When it came time to add new space for the emergency room there were some other features that were deemed beneficial to add, Maguire said. The geriatric psychiatric unit will be inpatient care for people who are 65 or older who may have mental illness issues that need to be addressed in an inpatient setting. The third floor of the new addition will enable to take our services for rehabilitation and physical therapy that are currently in the basement and move them to the third floor, which will allow them a better physical space for that type of activity.

Currently the emergency patient entrance will be rerouted to the hospital main entrance.

The current emergency main entrance we are using can be inconvenient at times; it can get a bit crowded, but it will be better once the new expansion is finished, said Eric Mccleery, a paramedic for McDonough District Hospital. The new expansion will allow for a lot more patient privacy.

There will also be other new changes coming with the construction of this new expansion, which includes renovations of current rooms to private, single patient rooms, relocation of the heliport pad, expansion of the parking lot and changing the traffic flow to two-way.

Our current emergency room is what I would describe as an open area, which means there is no audio privacy, Maguire said. If Im treated in bed one, the only thing that separates me from bed two is a curtain and if you dont want to know what your neighbor is having done or you dont want them to know what youre having done, patient privacy is non-existent. Logistically, the setup needs to be modernized. In order to do that and to keep your current emergency room running, you need to add new space.

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Carlos Delfino may not be with the Clippers long. (USATSI)

USA Today reports that after the Los Angeles Clippers traded Jared Dudley to the Milwaukee Bucks for Carlos Delfino Tuesday, LA plans to waive Delfino immediately using the "stretch" provision allowed in the last CBA:

Yet according to a person with knowledge of the Clippers' situation, it's likely that Delfino - who is owed $3.25 million next season and has a team option for the 2015-16 campaign - will be waived using what's deemed the "stretch provision." The provision allows the payment of a player's contract (and the related salary cap hit) to be stretched out over several years, and would allow the Clippers to make another addition via free agency (or perhaps even two). Because the Clippers used their non-taxpayer midlevel exception on center Spencer Hawes in July, they are operating with a hard salary cap and have less than a million dollars remaining to work with because of it. The person spoke to USA TODAY Sports on the condition of anonymity because the moves had not yet been made.

One strong free agent possibility is 27-year-old shooting guard Chris Douglas Roberts, though he can't sign until the aforementioned moves are made. Roberts averaged 6.9 points and 20.7 minutes for the Charlotte Hornets last season in 49 games. Another possibility is big man Ekpe Udoh, the 27-year-old who visited with the Clippers on Tuesday. Udoh, who was taken sixth overall by the Golden State Warriors in the 2010 draft, spent the last three seasons coming off the bench for the Milwaukee Bucks. Raduljica is also likely to be waived by the Clippers, and his possible buyout (he's owed $1.5 million) could also create more salary cap space.

via Clippers trade Jared Dudley to Bucks.

Delfino is a productive forward and a crack shooter, but surgeries have gone badly and his healing process has been complicated. He may not be able to play any time soon.

Delfino worked tirelessly with Bucks trainer Scott Barthlama during spring and summer. But bone not healing properly after 2 surgeries.

In related news, the Clippers reportedly worked out free agent center Ekpe Udoh on Tuesday.

In other Clippers news, I'm told free agent big man Ekpe Udoh is on a visit in Clipper Land today.

Udoh would be a supreme fit for what the team needs. They added Spencer Hawes in free agency but they desperately need a bench rim protector. Udoh has failed to generate playing time in several stops, but maintains a very healthy defensive efficiency on/off differential (compared to teammates), indicating he's got some value. We'll see what the Clips do to generate space and how they use it.

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