| UPS grant lets center remodel kitchen | | Posted Thursday, February 01, 2007 3:00:58 PM by Blog57 Team | | As most homeowners can testify, a kitchen that hasnt been upgraded for 31 years can make meal preparation more a chore than a pleasure. Plymouths own version of Extreme Makeover helped turn an outdated, dark maple kitchen into one thats more modern and functional for 16 residents with developmental disabilities at Community Opportunity Centers home on Deer Street in Plymouth. .... | |
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| | | Carbon flight crew hangar passes code inspection | | Posted Thursday, January 25, 2007 1:11:57 PM by Blog57 Team | | A new office for a St. Luke's Hospital medical helicopter crew at Jake Arner Memorial Airport in Mahoning finally meets building code requirements and can be occupied. The flight crew has worked out of a temporary trailer since last summer and was supposed to occupy the new office three months ago. The crew will move into the new office within two weeks, said Paul Smith, chairman of the Carbon County Airport Authority. .... | |
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| | | Buy a big house, get a free pool | | Posted Wednesday, December 27, 2006 3:01:57 PM by Blog57 Team | | With home sales continuing to sputter and rumors swirling that construction-company layoffs are coming in January, area homebuilders are employing increasingly creative strategies to move existing inventory. Pacific Union Homes is tempting prospective buyers with offers of a free pool or "no payments for six months" at one of its projects in Porterville. At its Bella Vista subdivision in Tulare, McMillin Homes is offering a $5,000 credit on dirt lots and a $25,000 credit toward the purchase of one of the company's three, 3,300-square-foot, two-story homes. .... | |
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| | | ASK THE EXPERT: Look before you hit Print | | Posted Monday, November 27, 2006 1:10:40 PM by Blog57 Team | | QUESTION: When I print off the Web there are words lost at the right-hand margin. This does not happen when I print out e-mail. I have asked family and friends. They tell me the same thing happens to them and they don't know how to correct it. -- Betty Bock ANSWER: Instead of selecting Print, select Print Preview. You'll be able to see whether the page fits. If it does not, you'll see a box that lets you adjust things so it does. The newest version of Internet Explorer adjusts the size of a Web page automatically so it fits. Q: I was notified by my antivirus publisher, without warning, that my subscription had expired. I dug out your article about Grisoft and went there, and there was no free antivirus labeled AVG Free Edition. The same for Spybot. I purchased commercial programs for this, and they were so outdated that I had to spend nearly six hours installing them, then downloading the latest edition on both.... | |
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| | | Like its star, Will Ferrell, 'Stranger than Fiction' is odd and eccentric with whole lot of heart | | Posted Monday, November 13, 2006 7:00:21 PM by Blog57 Team | | Rated PG-13 for some disturbing images, sexuality, brief language and nudity; starring Will Ferrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Emma Thompson, Dustin Hoffman; directed by Marc Foster; opening Friday at ShowPlace 8 in Carbondale. "Stranger than Fiction" forms a sort of trilogy with "Adaptation" and "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," two smart, literate, narratively challenging films written by Charlie Kaufman.Only it's better than either of those movies. Scripted by first-timer Zach Helm and directed by Marc Forster ("Monster's Ball," "Finding Neverland"), ""Stranger than Fiction" is less infatuated with its own clever complexity than with the struggles of a human heart. This is typical of Forster, a director far more interested in plumbing a story's emotional currents than in showing what he can do with a camera.In what is essentially a straight role, Will Ferrell plays Harold Crick, a Chicago-based IRS auditor whose world has been largely reduced to mathematical certainties and probabilities.... | |
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| | | Couple makes short move to the 'country' | | Posted Saturday, November 11, 2006 3:19:37 PM by Blog57 Team | | PLAINVILLE - Scenic, serene, and oh-so-convenient is the setting of the four-bedroom Colonial at 29 Rhodes St.Situated high on a sloping one-acre property along a winding country road, the home offers views of custom landscaping and bordering forests as well as a nearby meadow and the rolling green fairways of the Wentworth Hills Golf Club.It's a setting that Nick and Gail Prestera say they have very much appreciated since they moved from a downtown location in North Attleboro six years ago to take up residence in the newly-built home."We've always wanted to live in the country," Gail said. "We only moved five miles away, but this has a whole different feel out here. We're still so close to everything, but coming down that road, it's just a peaceful feeling. And, we love playing golf at the golf course.Gail and Nick, a business manager for AT&T, have also added to the scenic view by creating the custom landscaping that surrounds the entire property, including a variety of flowering perennial plants and ornamental trees.... | |
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| | | ON TV | | Posted Thursday, November 09, 2006 7:22:05 AM by Blog57 Team | | At 5:30 p.m. today on DIY Network's "Rock Solid," learn how to construct stylish concrete kitchen countertops. Follow the step-by-step process, from mixing the mud to installing and the polished finish. Repeats at 11:30 a.m. Sunday. Are you a baby boomer hesitating about buying a two-story home or condo? Watch WLIW Create's "For Your Home" to see how to install and care for a stair lift at 11:30 a.m. and 5:30 and 11:30 p.m. tomorrow and at 5:30 a.m. Saturday. .... | |
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| | | Beware of kitchen redo deals too good to be true | | Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 3:11:29 AM by Blog57 Team | | We recently came across a newspaper advertisement inviting readers to take advantage of an "unbelievable" kitchen remodeling "package" for just under $10,000! The display showed a photo of a lovely kitchen, and even offered to throw in a free sink with presentation of the ad. Upon closer examination, we noticed a small asterisk next to the price that referenced some very fine print at the bottom of the ad. It said the special "base package" included: removal and disposal of existing cabinets and countertops; installation of up to 12 cabinets; two 8-foot slab granite countertops with a bullnose edge and 4-inch backsplash ; cutouts in the slab for a sink and faucet; and installation of a sink and faucet. Sounds pretty good, right? Wrong! What stood out to us as veteran remodelers and consumer advocates were all the missing details.... | |
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| | | Demand drives Luxe II launch | | Posted Monday, November 06, 2006 1:23:06 PM by Blog57 Team | | With a location that is equally convenient to downtown and York region, Menkes Luxe II is being promoted to both subway and car commuters, according to the project's marketers. "We have many buyers who are young couples, with one person taking the subway downtown and the other driving north," says Mimi Ng, director of marketing for Menkes Developments. "Luxe II is close to downtown and the suburbs." Luxe II, at Yonge St. just north of Finch, follows the successful first phase of Luxe, which is now more than 65 per cent sold. In fact, the high demand for Luxe prompted Menkes to release Luxe II earlier than planned. Both buildings have been designed to complement one another, and feature sleek, modern exteriors of luminous glass and sophisticated interiors from Bryon Patton, of Bryon Patton and Associates.... | |
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| | | Going Green With Bamboo | | Posted Saturday, November 04, 2006 11:02:58 PM by Blog57 Team | | Tom and Joanne Sullivan's kitchen has bamboo countertops, something the Sherman Oaks, Calif., couple hope will someday become a staple in "green" households across the United States. As a rapidly renewable resource, bamboo - which is actually a woody-stemmed perennial grass that can grow to heights of 30 feet - long has been used by builders of environmentally sensitive kitchens for everything from flooring and cabinets to cutting boards and window treatments. Only recently, however, have manufacturers like Sullivan come up with a way to make the hardwood usable for countertops. .... | |
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