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(BPT) - Your home is a place to kick off your shoes, relax and enjoy precious time with friends and family. Nothing quite tops the feeling you get when you walk through your foyer, close the door behind you and forget the days troubles. But as families expand, promotions require unexpected relocations or a coveted residence down the street goes up for sale, you might find yourself looking for a new oasis to call home.
Your tastes and personal style have created a beautiful setting for your home until now. But as you prepare for house hunters visiting the space, it might be time to let go of emotional attachment and transform your home into a stunning showpiece that any potential buyer would love.
A touch of color
If your walls need painting, applying a neutral color is usually recommended. But dont be afraid to have some fun with a color that will leave a lasting impression on people searching for the perfect, stand-out home. A bold color like Azalea married with the soft subtle hue of Chiffon and Swiss Coffee, all from Pratt & Lambert Paints, can create an energetic atmosphere while still giving your home a comfortable and relaxing vibe. Apply the bolder colors to an accent wall or on minor architectural elements throughout the home, to breathe fresh life into otherwise dull walls.
Painting is a small project that can create the most impact when selling your home. But if your home is large and the thought of taking on a painting project seems overwhelming, never fear. Skilled painting contractors in your area can offer the talent and know-how to get any painting project done quickly, without sacrificing on quality. Ask a family member or friend for a reference, or visit an online resource like AngiesList.com for a verified list of professionals who can turn your vision into a reality.
Take your space from aged to staged
Another way to inspire potential buyers is by showing off a beautifully decorated and elegantly styled home. To get an expertly polished palace, hire an accredited staging professional, who will assess the space and plan a design that will have homebuyers stopping in their tracks. In fact, homes that are professionally staged spend 83 percent less time on the market, according to a survey conducted by The International Association of Home Staging Professionals and StagedHomes.com.
The first thing the stager will do is de-clutter your home. Prospective buyers dont want to be reminded of the homes current owners, so removing personal photographs, over-the-top decorative items or over-sized furniture is an essential part of the process. They might also reconfigure furniture to improve the homes flow and function.
Lighting is an important factor when showing a home, as well. Stagers will find a way to warm up the space and highlight focal points of the room using strategic light sources, creating an unforgettable space. And since more than 90 percent of potential buyers are searching online prior to visiting a home in person, professionally staged spaces are better able to communicate through photographs than generic shots.
If youve already moved out of your house and into your new home, the stager will bring in key furniture and accessories to help house hunters envision themselves living there. Just like a too-cluttered home might turn off some buyers, a blank ho-hum look can give off a lackluster vibe, so staging an empty house can help any buyer see its true potential.
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Boston, MA and London, UK CIMCON Lighting, Inc., the worlds leading provider of intelligent, web-based Wireless Outdoor Lighting Management Systems, today announced that it has been awarded its third patent from the United States Patent and Trademark Office this year. The latest patent, No. 8,820,952 B2 is for an easy-to-install retrofit solution for existing 3-pin NEMA receptacles that enables dimming and adaptive controls for outdoor street lights. The patent describes a new CIMCON Lighting controller housing that allows a set of dimming and sensor control cables to be easily passed from the controller to any light fixture. The new, threaded controller comes complete with all accessories, including the mating threaded receptacle that replaces the standard 3-pin NEMA socket using its existing two fasteners, as well as a set of gaskets that ensure a watertight seal.
CIMCONs street light management system allows utilities, municipalities, ESCOs and commercial customers to easily and intelligently manage and control the status and monitor the health of outdoor lighting fixtures. CIMCONs solutions help reduce energy, repairs and maintenance costs while increasing safety and security.
CIMCON Lighting is very pleased to have been awarded its third patent in 2014, said Anil Agrawal, Director. This achievement further showcases CIMCONs commitment to creating the most technologically advanced solutions that are also easy to install and use in new applications as well as retrofit environments.
About CIMCON Lighting, Inc. With over 25 years of innovation and experience in outdoor wireless applications, CIMCON Lighting is the worlds leading provider of scalable, intelligent wireless outdoor lighting management solutions for traditional, LED and solar-based street lights. Focused on offering solutions that provide the lowest "Lifecycle Cost of Ownership," CIMCON pioneered the concept of "Just in Time Lighting," to ensure that the right amount of lighting is provided where and when it is needed. CIMCONs Just in Time Lighting reduces energy, maintenance and repair costs while improving total ROI. CIMCON's lighting management solutions are appropriate for roadways, parking lots and parking garages, corporate and university campuses and a variety of Industrial applications. For more information please visit http://www.cimconlighting.com
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As Netflix has spread its video streaming services around the globe, the company's been met with curiosity, skepticism and, at times, indifference.
But none of the Silicon Valley giant's adventures abroad generated the mix of fear and anxiety that it has stirred in film-loving France before its launch this month.
In a country of proud cinephiles, Netflix has been bashed by national politicians, vilified by cultural leaders and brushed off by potential broadcast partners who have instead beefed up their own competitive video offerings. These groups worry that Netflix will undermine the complex system created by broadcasters and the government to protect a French film industry that is central to the country's identity, and a significant part of its economy.
As the headline in Le Monde put it on the eve of Netflix's launch in France: "Let the Carnage Begin."
Aware of how it is being perceived, Netflix spent months wooing the French, both in public and behind the scenes. The stakes for the company are high.
Netflix is increasingly dependent on international markets for growth, analysts note, and France is one of the largest countries left to conquer. Yet appealing to local consumers is costly, and the company is promising big investments to acquire and produce local content. To ease cultural fears, executives have tried to make the case that the company will expand consumer choice and film production.
For now, though, the French are skeptical.
"We want to say welcome to Netflix," said Dante Desarthe, co-chairman of France's Guild of Authors, Directors and Producers. "But we want them to be respectful of the rules we have created here in France to protect our cinema."
Last weekend, tucked in the shadows of the Basilica of St. Sernin, a 12th century church that defines the Toulouse skyline, was an irreverent symbol of the French people's consuming passion for film.
Created in the middle of this southern French city was an encampment called Grovillage, the site of a weeklong film festival dedicated to a cult satire about a fake country called "Groland."
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ST. JOSEPH, MI St. Joseph police are asking for the public's help in locating a 14-year-old girl last seen Sunday, according to a press release issued by the St. Joseph Department of Public Safety.
Investigators said Brianna Marie Hardin was reported missing from her home at 2809 Sunnydale Dr. around 7:17 p.m. Sunday.
Hardin's parents told officers that they last saw their daughter mowing their backyard and that she was upset over family issues prior to her disappearance.
Officers said no foul play is suspected in Hardin's disappearance since she is believed to be a runaway.
Hardin is described as a white female who stands around 5-foot-3, has long light brown hair, hazel eyes and weighs approximately 190 pounds. She was last seen wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt, three-quarters length black yoga pants white a blue stripe down the sides and black shoes with bright green trim and yellow laces, the release stated.
Hardin suffers from bi polar disorder and anxiety, police said. She is not believed to have a phone or money with her.
St. Joseph police are asking anyone with knowledge of Hardin's whereabouts or knowledge of her disappearance to contact them at 269-926-2538. Tipsters can also call anonymously at 269-985-0301.
Alex Mitchell covers county government and taxes for the Kalamazoo Gazette. Email him at amitche5@mlive.com or follow him on Twitter.
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Last week The New York Times, in alliance with the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation, put out a call for names of the invisible women who "built New York." Other than midcentury urbanist Jane Jacobs, well known for fighting tooth and nail against vast urban renewal projects, early designers (read: pre-WWII) credited with New York City's urban fabric is a list of white men: Robert Moses, Edward Durell Stone, Frederick Law Olmsted, and more.
California had Julia Morgan and Ray Eames. France had Charlotte Perriand. England had Eileen Gray and Alison Smithson. The Midwest had Marion Mahoney Griffin. Brazil had the wildly talented Lina Bo Bardi. New York had Norma Merrick Sklarek, the first licensed African American female architect, until she left for the West Coast because no one would in New York would hire her. That's not to say that women didn't play a huge role in building NYCsimply that they did so under the radar. Many are interns, daughters, wives, or clients. Their influence was ingeniously negotiated; they've been listed as "unknown," they've created parks, and they've shuffled into interior design. A few examples:
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When she died in 1918, The New York Times wrote in Fay Kellogg's obituary that she was the "foremost woman architect in the United States." Kellogg began her study of architecture under a German tutor, who taught her drawing and math. After her father talked her out of becoming a doctor, she went to Brooklyn's Pratt Institute for two years and then to Paris, where she fought to get admitted to the Ecole des Beaux Arts, which at the time only accepted men. She was unsuccessful for herself, though her protests are thought to have cleared the path for its first female graduate, famed California architect Julia Morgan, who graduated from the institution in 1902. She came back to the U.S. and began working with architect John R. Thomas, designing, among other things, the grand staircase in the city's Hall of Records (now known as the Surrogate's Court). What's more, she opened her own firm in 1903, and established "specialist in steel construction" (also according to the obituary) by renovating and building seven buildings for Manhattan's American News Company. This was all before she died at 47a very young age for any established architect.
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Neither an architect nor engineer, designer Florence Knoll never technically "built" anything, but is still largely responsible for the look of midcentury (read: Mad Men) Manhattanclean lines, geometric patterns, splashes of color. She trained under the likes of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Eero Saarinen, Walter Gropius, and Marcel Breuer, but never joined their ranks. Still, her influence cannot be overstated. She convinced her husband Hans Knoll, with whom she founded midcentury furniture megalith Knoll, to work with Europe's expat architecture community, as well as curated New York's new minimalist aesthetic. What's more, she famously refused to be pigeon-holed as anything but a creator: "I am not a decorator," she said. "The only place I decorate is my own house."
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As NYC's Chief of Tree Plantings, a position she nabbed in 1936, landscape architect Clara Coffey brought greenery to the Hutchinson River Parkway and swapped out the fences and hedges of the Park Avenue Malls with flowerbeds and kwanzan cherry trees.
The adage "anonymous was a woman" is especially pertinent to Doris Dreyfussor, as she was known in her husband's office, "Mrs. Marks." The secret wife of skilled industrial designer Henry Dreyfuss, Doris was unlicensed for the entirety of her career, despite the fact that Henry once remarked, "I wouldn't have a business without her."
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SOUTH Lismore is set to become a home repair hot-spot after Bunnings got the go-ahead for a $5 million improvement to its existing store that will roughly coincide with the opening of a new $11.5 million Masters Home Improvement store, right next door.
The new look Bunnings will have an extended timber trade sales yard and nursery, while the general warehouse will also be expanded to include kitchen and bathroom displays, Bunnings chief operating officer Peter Davis said.
"We have been part of the Lismore community since 2001 and we're looking forward to bringing an even better store," he said.
"As part of the expansion the total store area will grow to almost 10,000 square metres.
"The existing building materials and landscape yard will be fully enclosed to create a weather proof timber trade sales area, a canopy will be added over the nursery and extra covered floor space will allow for a wider range of products," he said.
The expansion is expected to be complete by early 2015 and will include implementation a number of energy and water saving design features.
Bunnings will continue trading through the upgrade period.
Late last year the Council approved a new $11.5 million Masters Home Improvement store, now under construction next to the Bunnings store on Bruxner Highway, south of Three Chain Road.
The Masters store will be 10,000 square metres in size and create more than 250 retail and construction jobs.
The store is due to be open a few months after Xmas.
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Efforts include providing an ICT test-bed, co-developing cybersecurity master class, providing internship programmes and participating in a security challenge.
Security provider Symantec has partnered Nanyang Polytechnic (NYP) in an effort to nurture the next generation of cybersecurity talent in Singapore and strengthen the republic's cyber ecosystem.
Under a three-year Memorandum of Understanding, the two organisations will jointly undertake four key initiatives.
Firstly, the Infocomm Infrastructure Security and High Availability Centre - which is jointly established by NYP and Symantec - will be equipped with an infocomm technology infrastructure test-bed. The test-bed will provide a platform for students and industry to design, validate and test secure ICT systems that can guard against the latest cyber security attacks. The platform will double up as a training environment for students to hone their cyber defence and response skills through realistic simulation of real-world cyber attack scenarios.
Secondly, NYP and Symantec will co-develop a cybersecurity master class.
Thirdly, Symantec will open an annual internship programme for NYP students to allow them to gain a broader understanding of the security industry.
Finally, NYP will be participating in Symantec's Cyber Readiness Challenge, a competition that models scenarios after the current threat landscape using realistic, virtualised IT infrastructure. As part of the challenge, students will be tasked to step into the shoes of hackers to better understand them and their thought processes. This virtual immersion is hoped to enable students to gain a better understanding of the global threat landscape and critical security intelligence needed to improve an organisation's security posture.
"Today's cybersecurity landscape is evolving at an incredible rate and the requirement for cybersecurity talent pool is rapidly increasing," said Tan Yuh Woei, Symantec's senior country director for Singapore. "Through this partnership with NYP, we hope to attract, develop and nurture future generation of cybersecurity talent by providing them with appropriate training and knowledge."
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