320 Wade Road, Liberty, NY 12754
Great property that is semi private and set back from the road. Home features a large great room addition as well as a very large enclosed room for large gatherings. There are some items that...
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Teresa Ryan: 506 Astoria Court VERNON HILLS IL 60061
http://pvt.fm/pub/5B2656C616E9 Beautiful 3 Bedroom home on Cul-de-sac with basement and Large Room addition off back. Beautiful front porch. Large Kitchen. Family Room with Fireplace. 3...
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480 Mountainview Avenue, Valley Cottage, NY 10989
For full details visit RandRealty.com, Web ID: 4416559. Traditional colonial with Smashing 2008 Great Room addition and totally renovated and updated gourmet custom kitchen with huge center...
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Giovanni Room, located in the heart of The Gayborhood at 12th and Pine Streets, is up for sale. The nations oldest LGBT bookstore will celebrate its 40th anniversary if its still open in October. This photograph was taken at Giovanni's Room, in Phialdelphia, September 5, 2013. Daily News Staff / Jad Sleiman
PHILLY AIDS Thrift in Queen Village has always been about preserving precious items, their reps say. And, of course, supporting local AIDS organizations through sales of donated items.
Now, the nearly 9-year-old establishment will be preserving something much more significant - Giovanni's Room, the iconic touchstone of the LGBT community and the country's oldest LGBT bookstore. The organization has signed a two-year lease with the former Giovanni's Room owner to open Philly AIDS Thrift store at Giovanni's Room.
The store will have a soft opening in late September and open officially Oct. 10, in time for OutFest and National Coming Out Day. The iconic "Giovanni's Room" signage will remain, the new leasers said.
"What can be more precious than Giovanni's Room? What better thing to try and keep alive?" asked Christina Kallas-Saritsoglou, co-founder of the Philly AIDS Thrift and manager of the Queen Village store. She added that it was a "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity."
The Center City bookstore, which opened in 1973 at 12th and Pine streets, was shuttered earlier this year by its owner, Ed Hermance, who sought retirement and planned to put the building up for sale.
However, Hermance couldn't secure a buyer. Enter Philly AIDS Thrift, which had been thinking about opening an outpost in addition to its main store, on 5th Street near Bainbridge. The new store will be a different configuration of Giovanni's Room. It will continue to sell LGBT books, stocking 2,000 titles, both new and used, as well as housewares, tchotchkes and "higher end handpicked items" such as vintage clothing and selected pieces of furniture, Kallas-Saritsoglou said.
Philly AIDS Thrift raises $20,000 a month for the AIDS Fund, which distributes the money to 29 AIDS organizations. Since 2005 when it opened, the store has raised $891,000 and hopes that figure will hit $1 million before year's end, said Alan Chelak, who will manage the Philly AIDS Thrift at Giovanni's Room.
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Dylan Zylstra spends a good deal of time in the weight room, especially in the off-season that starts almost as soon as the regular seasonends. (Full-size photo)(All photos)
Read our preview of the upcoming college football season in this special section.
There are days when Dylan Zylstra asks himself, Wouldnt it be awesome to just go toclass?
Just class, nothing else. No endless sessions in the film room, no lifting heavy plates in the weight room and the dining room. No getting knocked on his butt atpractice.
And definitely no bear crawls in an overheated gym room at 11 p.m. inFebruary.
In other words, nofootball.
Noway.
As painful and miserable as it can get sometimes, the feeling of running through the tunnel on Saturday gets you through almost anything, said Zylstra, a senior defensive lineman at EasternWashington.
And when the cheeringends?
Pretty soon, Im going to be looking for a job, and I think Im going to have an edge because I know to work hard, Zylstrasaid.
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By Ian Bauer, Milpitas Post
As expected, City of Milpitas has posted language for the Nov. 4 ballot measure for voters here to consider a gambling establishment up to 70,000 square feet in size and bring in a projected $8 million in new tax revenue annually to the city.
The ballot measure on the card room question has been assigned as "Measure E."
Milpitas City Council voted unanimously Aug. 5 to place the measure on the fall ballot that if approved by voters would allow a card room in the city, likely to be San Jose's Casino Bay 101, along with imposing a tax on the operator.
If the ballot measure is approved by voters, the city expects an operator like Bay 101 to locate near the western edge of the city near North McCarthy Boulevard and generally between state Route 237 and the Newby Island landfill, west of Interstate 880.
The ballot question is written as follows:
"Shall one licensed gambling establishment in which any controlled games permitted by law, such as draw poker, low-ball poker, panguine (pan), seven-card stud, or other lawful card games or tile games, are played, be allowed in the City of Milpitas and shall that card room establishment pay a tax of 10.5% on gaming revenues?"
According to the city, implementing Ordinance No. 285 is Exhibit A to the resolution, and is available on the city's website -- http://www.ci.milpitas.ca.gov -- and a copy may be obtained from the Milpitas City Clerk's office.
The proposed ordinance will be published in full in all sample ballot pamphlets mailed to Milpitas voters by the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters.
Ballot arguments in favor or opposed to the ordinance, limited to 300 words, were to be submitted by Tuesday.
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Dylan Zylstra spends a good deal of time in the weight room, especially in the off-season that starts almost as soon as the regular seasonends. (Full-size photo)(All photos)
There are days when Dylan Zylstra asks himself, Wouldnt it be awesome to just go toclass?
Just class, nothing else. No endless sessions in the film room, no lifting heavy plates in the weight room and the dining room. No getting knocked on his butt atpractice.
And definitely no bear crawls in an overheated gym room at 11 p.m. inFebruary.
In other words, nofootball.
Noway.
As painful and miserable as it can get sometimes, the feeling of running through the tunnel on Saturday gets you through almost anything, said Zylstra, a senior defensive lineman at EasternWashington.
And when the cheeringends?
Pretty soon, Im going to be looking for a job, and I think Im going to have an edge because I know to work hard, Zylstrasaid.
And smart. Somehow, for going on five years, the 22-year-old Zylstra has balanced a 40-hour-a-week football season with a full class load, a girlfriend, a social life and a black lab named Asher who loves to go pheasanthunting.
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VOL. 129 | NO. 162 | Wednesday, August 20, 2014
Some time in October, lovers of local craft beers could enjoy a cold brew in a new tasting room at Memphis Made Brewing Co.s facility in the Cooper-Young district.
Carpenters Dave Harris, left, and Eric Fields sand and stain baseboards inside what will become Memphis Made Brewing Co.s new taproom.
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Memphis Made Brewing, which launched its line of local libations last October, is adding a roughly 2,000-square-foot tasting room inside its 6,400-square-foot space at 768 S. Cooper St. In addition, Memphis Made Brewing is building a roughly 1,000-square-foot covered patio facing York Avenue.
Andy Ashby, the head of sales for the local beer maker, said the new additions, which will cost around $150,000, will allow Memphis Made Brewing to make deeper connections with beer lovers.
The tasting room will really allow us to reach out to the community, he said. It will allow folks to come up here and get a pint of beer, or half pint of beer, and drink it on the premises, or they can get a growler to go. Well also have events so we can meet the people who like our beer.
In addition to providing a place where people can enjoy a beer onsite, the new taproom inside the old Keathley Pie Factory building will give the public a better opportunity to understand the brewing process, Ashby said.
You go in, see the equipment and talk to the brewers and learn about the process, he said. Were really excited that when we open our taproom well be bale to educate more people in Memphis about brewing and the brewing process.
The additions come after Memphis Made Brewing doubled its production capacity. Earlier this summer, the brewery added three 30-barrel fermenters, which can each hold 930 gallons of beer.
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The Arab woman was eventually evicted from the hotel after two months (File/Shutterstock)
The management called the police after the woman refused to allow hotel staff to clean her room even once during her two-month long stay.
It took the intervention of the Dubai Polices Tourist Security Department to convince an Arab woman to vacate a hotel room after she refused to allow hotel staff to clean her room even once during her two-month long stay.
The elderly woman was reportedly in a state of depression following her husbands death.
The hotel management called the police, who convinced the woman to open the room. The room was found to be extremely dirty and the carpet and some furniture in the room were found damaged.
Colonel Mohammed Rashid bin Saree, Director of Tourism Security, said the department supervises all the 550 hotels and 350 hotel apartments in the emirate, in addition to rental car offices that are linked with the department.
He said the majority of the complaints lodged by hotel managements against tourists is related to the ruckus created by families, especially those with many children. The department intervenes when parents ignore warnings given by the hotel management.
Other complaints tackled by the department include non-payment of charges. Colonel bin Saree cited the example of a European, who failed to pay Dh80,000 he owed a hotel in the emirate, claiming that he was waiting for someone to transfer money to his account from his homeland. He later confessed that he had no money, following which legal action was taken against him.
The department works round the clock to ensure that tourists are comfortable and safe, Col bin Saree said. One of the main problems tackled by the department is regarding hotel bookings, especially those made on the Internet.
People use credit cards without getting confirmation and when they arrive here, they find that there are no reservations, he said. These problems arise when hotels are fully booked.
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By Wendy A. Jordan August 14 at 11:00 AM
Two years ago, Diane Harris moved out of her longtime home and moved in with her daughter, Rachael, and Rachaels spouse, Wendy Harris. Now Rachael and Wendy have created a home of Dianes own under their roof in Springfield.
Because health issues made it unsafe for Diane, now 78, to live alone, Rachael and Wendy moved Diane into their guest room in 2012. But the split-level house had steps between rooms that were risky for Diane to negotiate, and the guest room was tight quarters for Diane, Wendy says.
The Harrises hired Moss Building and Design of Chantilly to build a 1,000-square-foot addition that incorporates a new kitchen and a great room as well as an in-law suite where Diane enjoys the comfort, privacy and personal touches of her old home, all without stairs.
The suite features a spacious bedroom-living area and an attractive bathroom equipped for safety and ease of use. The bathroom has a large, low-curb shower with ramp entry, a hand-held shower head, a built-in bench and stylish grab bars. Although it is close to the kitchen and great room, the suite has a door that provides nice privacy, Diane says. Doorways are wide for accessibility.
Furniture and collectibles from Dianes old house bring a sense of home and the familiar to her new space. There are bedroom and other furnishings, glassware, paintings and family photographs, decorative hats that belonged to her mother and a tall, antique corner cabinet positioned under a 10-foot-high ceiling section specially designed for it.
Diane loves ice cream, and now she can easily visit the kitchen for late-night ice cream snacks. The new kitchen includes a chair-height counter near the refrigerator and ice cream parlor chairs brought from her house. The suite and other new rooms are working really well, she said.
Demand for in-law suites is growing, says Rodney Harrell, an AARP senior policy adviser and housing expert. With baby boomers aging, the U.S. population of people 65 or older is expected to burgeon from 39.6 million in 2009 to about 72.1 million in 2030, according to federal Administration on Aging data. Thus, more families are looking to provide space in their homes for an elderly relative.
Joe and Janie Mack remodeled their house in Annandale recently to create an in-law suite for Janies mother, Dunny. She was happy as a clam in the suite, Joe says of his mother-in-law, who called it my castle. Dunny, who has since died, regretted only that she had not made the move sooner.
Michael Winn, owner of Winn Design + Build in Falls Church, handled the Mack project, adding an accessible first-floor bedroom and a bathroom suite next to a new family room that replaced a carport. All the new rooms are on one level, with flush thresholds and wide doorways between them. The sitting area of the suite is big enough for a couch and chair. It adjoins a porch, so that it has plenty of natural light and views of the yard where the Macks four children play.
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