TORONTO, June 19, 2012 /CNW/ - ACE Canada, the Canadian-based operating division of the ACE Group, today announced the launch of ACE Advantage Architects and EngineersSM professional liability insurance. This new product provides domestic and international coverage against the numerous perils faced by design professionals including, professional negligence, pollution incidents, and personal injury.

The challenges faced by today's design professional have proliferated -- broadening contractual requirements, increased emphasis on sustainability, new developments in design technologies and heightened client expectations are but a few difficulties faced by professionals practicing in this industry. In addition to these challenges, any ensuing litigation can threaten a design professional's financial stability and carefully cultivated reputation.

"Canadian design professionals are increasingly called to conduct business in emerging economies," said Michael Trendler, Vice President, ACE Professional Risk. "ACE Advantage Architects and Engineers professional liability policy provides global coverage supported by ACE's worldwide network of offices located in all principal markets."

ACE Advantage Architects and Engineers Professional Liability Coverage Highlights:*

To learn more about ACE Canada's Professional Risk portfolio, please contact Michael Trendler at (416) 594-3073 or michael.trendler@acegroup.com or visit http://www.ace-ina-canada.com.

*Product highlights are summaries only; please see actual policy for terms, conditions and exclusions. Product remains subject to ACE Professional Risk's underwriting criteria.

ACE Canadarefers to ACE INA Insurance and ACE INA Life Insurance, subsidiaries of the ACE Group, and is rated AA- (Very Strong) by Standard & Poor's and A+ (Stable) by A.M. Best Company. ACE Canada, through its underwriting companies, provides insurance products and services throughout Canada. Additional information on ACE Canada and its products and services can be found at http://www.ace-ina-canada.com. The ACE Group is one of the world's largest multiline property and casualty insurers. With operations in 53 countries, ACE provides commercial and personal property and casualty insurance, personal accident and supplemental health insurance, reinsurance and life insurance to a diverse group of clients. ACE Limited, the parent company of the ACE Group, is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (ACE) and is a component of the S&P 500 index. Additional information can be found at: http://www.acegroup.com.

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The Sports Authority store at Santa Fe Place is planning to double its space by moving into part of the old Mervyn's site early next year in what mall owners hope will spark redevelopment of the shopping center.

Sports Authority, a privately held company based in Englewood, Colo., has a 19,000-square-foot store inside the mall. The expansion would double its space and give the store a higher profile, the manager said.

Construction on the 40,000-square-foot Mervyn's space will begin in October, with the opening of a new Sports Authority set for spring 2013, according to a news release from Trademark Property.

The current Sports Authority space is not enough to allow for a full-service store. With the expansion, the sporting goods store will have its own entrance and be able to offer a full line of products, said Tommy Miller, president of the Fort Worth-based Trademark Property Co.

Founded in 1928, Sports Authority operates 450 stores in 45 states and has 7,400 employees, but the only other New Mexico store is in Albuquerque. No one from Sports Authority was available to elaborate on the expansion.

Trademark Property acquired Santa Fe Place with a private equity partner in June 2010. It has since announced redevelopment plans for the mall, which has 571,000 square feet of retail space with Dillard's, J.C. Penney and Sears as anchors. But those plans have stalled due to the economic downturn.

Miller said Sports Authority will take two-thirds of the Mervyn's space on the side by Sears. There is interest in the rest of the space, and the commitment by the sporting goods chain should help recruit new tenants, he said.

The Mervyn's retail chain declared bankruptcy in 2009, and the space has been empty since then.

According to the Trademark Property Co. website, the mall redevelopment would include:

An open-air "lifestyle court" at the main entrance.

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Pictured: The Sanctuary at Kiawah Island Golf Resort built in 2004.

KIAWAH ISLAND, SC -Kiawah Island Golf Resort confirmed via press release that it is currently in the beginning stages of planning a 150-room hotel property. The new structure would be built on the site of the former Kiawah Island Inn, located on the west side of the island.

At the moment, resort officials are determining the economic viability of such a venture and has enlisted the services of three architectural firms not named in the release which will present conceptual designs of the proposed structure.

In addition to the hotel, Kiawah Island Golf Resorts is also considering several four bedroom golf cottages along the area known as The Ocean Course.

In the same statement, Roger Warren (who could not be reached for direct comment at press time) president of Kiawah Island Golf Resort was quoted: Based on the estimated costs of the project and the projected health of the resort vacation market, they will determine if the economic environment warrants moving forward with the construction.

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Thousands Gather for Iconic Architectural Projection Supporting REDD+

Corporate Champions Pledge to Buy Millions of Dollars Worth of REDD+ Emissions Reductions from Innovative Forest Protection Projects around the World.

RIO DE JANEIRO, June 20, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Thousands of people from around the globe gathered at Arcos da Lapa last night to support the launch of Code REDD, an emergency action campaign to save the threatened forests of the world.

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The celebration of the Code REDD Campaign( http://www.coderedd.com ) launch got under way as the historic Arcos da Lapa aqueduct in the heart of Rio was transformed by Obscura Digital with an architectural projection experience of visuals and sound followed by the premier of a Code REDD film that demonstrated Code REDD's solution to stop deforestation now.

The event was designed to enlist widespread grassroots support for the Campaign. The film asked the crowd to demonstrate support by going online to coderedd.com/glow( http://www.coderedd.com/glow ) to make their phones flash red with a digital "emergency code." The experience drew a parallel between the digital transformation of Arcos da Lapa and the way Code REDD aims to transform how corporations, landowners, governments and the general public unite to save the threatened forests of the world.

"Deforestation is an economic problem," stated Karin Burns, Executive Director of the Code REDD Campaign. "REDD+ is a viable economic solution that can scale to meet the massive scope of this challenge."

Earlier that day, on the eve of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, Rio+20, Burns and Mike Korchinsky, Founder of Code REDD, hosted a press conference at the Royal Tulip Hotel in Rio de Janeiro. UNESCO, major multinational corporations, REDD+ project developers, and representatives of indigenous forest communities came together to announce their participation in the global launch of the Code REDD Campaign.

At the press conference, Gretchen Kalonji, UNESCO's Assistant Director General for Natural Sciences stressed the urgency of action against deforestation worldwide and the importance of public-private partnerships, such as the CODE-REDD Campaign. UNESCO's network of Biosphere Reserves provides a platform for collaboration and exchange among local communities on novel models for climate change mitigation, protection of bio-cultural diversity and local economic development.

Other stakeholders from Corporate Champions to community leaders expressed support for the Code REDD Campaign and REDD+ as well:

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The vacant big white house on Bernel Road in State College, Pa., shown here in November 2011, was the first home of The Second Mile charity founded by Jerry Sandusky to help disadvantaged kids.

By Lisa Riordan-Seville and Hannah Rappleye NBC News

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- Those who know the house on Bernel Road will tell you its behind Beaver Stadium, near the airport on the outskirts of town -- a town still trying to piece itself together in the wake of one of the biggest scandals in college football history.

The two-story white colonial home represents the past, and future, of The Second Mile, a charity founded by Jerry Sandusky. It was on this land that Sandusky first realized his dream to create an organization for disadvantaged children.Until last November, it was also to be the home of The Second Miles most ambitious project to date a multimillion-dollar Center for Excellence intended to help those kids pursue big dreams.

Instead, it now sits quiet and empty on the edge of about 60 acres of overturned earth, a reminder of the crushed aspirations attributable to a criminal case unfolding less than a dozen miles to the north.

And the existence of the well-respected charity cuts to the heart of the central question in the criminal case: Was it the lifes work of a man who genuinely cared about the well-being of disadvantaged kids, or merely a cover for his illicit appetites?

As Jerry Sandusky's lawyers plan to argue that alleged victims are motivated by money from civil lawsuits, they are also weighing the possibility of taking the biggest risk of all putting their client on the witness stand. NBC's Michael Isikoff reports from Bellefonte, Pa.

Last week, eight of the alleged victims -- two remain unknown to prosecutors -- offered tearful testimony in a small-town courthouse in Bellefonte, Pa., about the sexual abuse they say they endured at the hands of Sandusky.

Sanduskys defense began presenting its case on Monday, calling several former coaching colleagues and others as character witnesses.

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Like Stephen Harpers controversial omnibus bill, Ontarios proposed budget legislation is a Trojan horse, one chock full of unexpected surprises.

Under the guise of implementing Finance Minister Dwight Duncans March budget, the Strong Action for Ontario Act would casually whittle away at environmental protection.

More alarmingly, it would appear to give Premier Dalton McGuintys cabinet extraordinary authority to restructure or privatize public institutions such as hospitals and schools without consulting the legislature.

McGuinty and Duncan are furious that the opposition New Democrats, having agreed to the broad strokes of his budget, are balking at this bill a bill that at one swoop would amend or create 69 statutes.

But the real question is why Andrea Horwaths NDP didnt dig their heels in earlier.

So far, most attention has focused on McGuintys threat to call a snap election if his budget bill isnt passed intact.

Given that no party including McGuintys Liberals wants an election, thats a hollow threat.

The more interesting and largely unexamined issue is what happens if the bill is passed.

First, Ontarios budget bill aims to weaken environmental regulations that might interfere with resource activities such as mining and forestry.

It would amend the Crown Forest Sustainability Act to let cabinet exempt timber companies from their current obligation to prepare management plans every five years. And it would give the cabinet broad authority let such companies ignore cutting limits.

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And what is so rare a day in June? wrote the poet James Russell Lowell. Then, if ever, come perfect days. Except in Ottawa, where the fairest month is primarily a time to speculate about the entrails of power. Whos up, whos down and whos out in the cabinet shuffle expected before the fall session?

This season, as in the past, Prime Minister Stephen Harper is holding his cards preternaturally close to his vest. However, he is expected to put a new face on the government beginning in early August with a deputy-minister shuffle, then continuing in late August or September at the ministerial level.

Conservative insiders expect this remix will be substantial, as the government seeks to re-calibrate following a first year in majority during which it was repeatedly buffeted by controversy, ministerial missteps and scandal. Though the final roster will remain known only to the PM and perhaps his wife and chief of staff until shortly before it is unveiled, a few names recur.

TOP DOGS

Jim Flaherty is not expected to budge from Finance, as he remains the mainstay of the Tories economics team. Three other names top Conservatives lists of senior ministers whove consistently outperformed and have earned their pick of jobs: Jason Kenney at Immigration, John Baird at Foreign Affairs and James Moore at Heritage.

Any one of these three could be airlifted into Defence to clean house there. The drawback would be that each is helping the government appreciably now in a key portfolio. Kenney is two-thirds of the way through his overhaul of immigration. Baird is hitting his stride as a foreign minister, having spent the better part of the past year outgrowing his old attack-dog persona. Moore has managed to ride herd on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation without a major upheaval for a Conservative, a feat of ineffable dark magic.

RISING STARS

The acknowledged up-and-comers, in no particular order, are Chris Alexander, Ajax-Pickering; Michelle Rempel, Calgary-Centre-North; Candice Hoeppner, Portage-Lisgar; Kellie Leitch, Simcoe-Grey; and James Rajotte, Edmonton-Leduc.

Rempel is bright, a good communicator and holds Jim Prentices former seat. Leitch, a pediatric surgeon and frequent pinch-hitter in Question Period, holds the seat once held by Helena Guergis. Rajotte, respected in caucus and chair of the Commons finance committee, has long been deemed a shoo-in for promotion, but has been held back by the preponderance of strong Alberta MPs, including the PM, already in cabinet.

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"And what is so rare a day in June?" wrote the poet James Russell Lowell. "Then, if ever, come perfect days." Except in Ottawa, where the fairest month is primarily a time to speculate about the entrails of power. Who's up, who's down and who's out in the cabinet shuffle expected before the fall session?

This season, as in the past, Prime Minister Stephen Harper is holding his cards preternaturally close to his vest. However, he is expected to put a new face on the government beginning in early August with a deputy-minister shuffle, then continuing in late August or September at the ministerial level.

Conservative insiders expect this remix will be substantial, as the government seeks to re-calibrate following a first year in majority during which it was repeatedly buffeted by controversy, ministerial missteps and scandal. Though the final roster will remain known only to the PM and perhaps his wife and chief of staff until shortly before it is unveiled, a few names recur.

- Top dogs:

Jim Flaherty is not expected to budge from Finance, as he remains the mainstay of the Tories' economics team. Three other names top Conservatives' lists of senior ministers who've consistently outperformed and have earned their pick of jobs: Jason Kenney at Immigration, John Baird at Foreign Affairs and James Moore at Heritage.

Any one of these three could be airlifted into Defence to clean house there. The drawback would be that each is helping the government appreciably now in a key portfolio. Kenney is two-thirds of the way through his overhaul of immigration. Baird is hitting his stride as a foreign minister, having spent the better part of the past year outgrowing his old attack-dog persona. Moore has managed to ride herd on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation without a major upheaval for a Conservative, a feat of ineffable dark magic.

- Rising stars:

The acknowledged up-and-comers, in no particular order, are Chris Alexander, Ajax-Pickering; Michelle Rempel, Calgary-Centre-North; Candice Hoeppner, Portage-Lisgar; Kellie Leitch, Simcoe-Grey; and James Rajotte, Edmonton-Leduc.

Rempel is bright, a good communicator and holds Jim Prentice's former seat. Leitch, a pediatric surgeon and frequent pinch-hitter in Question Period, holds the seat once held by Helena Guergis. Rajotte, respected in caucus and chair of the Commons finance committee, has long been deemed a shoo-in for promotion, but has been held back by the preponderance of strong Alberta MPs, including the PM, already in cabinet.

- On the banana peel:

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19-06-2012 10:05 Cathy from Needham, Massachusetts, is very pleased with her family's remodeled kitchen and family room addition. Award-winning Tibma Design designed and built a new kitchen and added a spacious family room to their Cape Cod style house that gives an open and airy feeling that she and her family love.

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TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire -06/20/12)- Labrador Iron Mines Holdings Limited ("LIM" or the "Company") (LIM.TO) today reported its operating and audited financial results for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2012.

The Company is also pleased to report that it continues to successfully deliver results on a number of key initiatives for the start of the 2012 operating season, including three shipments and sales of iron ore totalling 515,000 tonnes.

Pre-Production Highlights

During the pre-production planning period from January 1 to March 31, 2012, LIM carried out a number of initiatives in support of a successful 2012 operating season:

John Kearney, LIM's Chairman and CEO, commented: "Our strategy during the off-production winter months was to carry out key objectives in order to build a strong foundation for the 2012 mining season. These objectives were designed to address both the operational and organizational requirements critical for the success of our business as we enter the first full season of mining operations in 2012."

Recent Highlights

Full-scale mining operations re-commenced at the James Mine on April 2, 2012 in its first full season of production. To date, the Company has executed key deliverables as follows:

"Given the strong start and progress made to date, we fully expect to achieve our two million tonne production target in 2012" commented Rod Cooper, LIM's President and COO. "With the groundwork at hand, we will continue to focus on optimizing and expanding our operations to achieve excellent results in 2012 and beyond."

Outlook: On Track in 2012

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