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Great Park?s ?Green Home? Completed; Student Builders Honored

Published by fnever on October 23rd, 2012 - in Knowledge Base


Anaheim, (PRWEB) October 21, 2012

Edison?s for years has had the dream of creating an affordable green home with all the bells and whistles?solar powered electrical as a complete energy source, gray water plumbing, insulated windows, a roof and outer walls that have thermal protection and much more. When the dream became a reality, Morton, who serves on an advisory committee for North Orange County Regional Occupational Program () BITA, asked if the high school students could be involved. Program managers and instructors agreed on the spot to have the students frame the walls for the 1700 square foot home.

Students in ROP BITA programs at seven schools — Anaheim, Brea Olinda, Katella, Los Alamitos, Magnolia, Valencia and Western High Schools — built the exterior and interior wooden frames to the architect?s specifications in their construction yards, and the frames were trucked to Irvine?s Great Park building .

The opportunity arose to develop a community classroom for the project, wherein students perform unpaid work alongside professionals who train them, and twelve students enrolled. Building Industry Technology Academy (BITA) students Sunny Kim and Spencer Smith from Brea Olinda High School; Destiny Delatorre and Nicholas Perez from Gilbert High School; and Andy Cruz, Angel Garcia, Astric Gonzalez, Samantha Kelley, James Montero, Valerie Morse, Chad Mullen, and Angel Zuniga from Katella High School helped to build the home this summer while earning credits for school.

Students were involved in every building process, including grading the land and pouring the foundation. They learned wiring, ducting, joining and plumbing skills, and even learned how to sink pylons into concrete. Most important, students learned to work as a team with enthusiastic and willing professionals who showed them the latest methods and materials used in creating energy efficient homes. Students in the community classroom portion of the academy program are required to work eight hours a week and attend class for three hours. BITA students generally worked far more than their requirement, and in fact, liked the work so much that they begged to stay and work (still for free) after the summer school community classroom session ended. During the classroom portion, students learned skills or reviewed skills they already learned. Instructor John Puckett taught the students soldering for plumbing skills, and Lynne MacVean and her employees from Mammoth Electric taught them how to wire three-way switches.

After a year of being showcased in its current location, the home will be cut in half and trucked to its permanent location on a Habitat for Humanity site in Santa Ana, California, where it will house a disabled veteran.

The ribbon cutting and open house event on site at Irvine?s Great Park on October 10 honored all involved in the building process. The chief executive officer of Southern California Edison, the publisher of ABC Green Home Builder, and the Irvine mayor and City members all praised North Orange County ROP students for their part in the construction of the house. Karen Nelson, assistant superintendent at ROP, expressed gratitude on behalf of the program and the students for the opportunity to participate in such a rich learning experience.

ABOUT North Orange County ROP

North Orange County ROP is a collaborative effort in career technical education by five school districts: Anaheim Union and Fullerton Joint Union High School Districts, and Brea Olinda, Los Alamitos and Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School Districts, and serves 15 cities in the north Orange County region. It is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, and its courses are certified by the California Department of Education. About 93 percent of its students are in high school; those remaining are adults who are enrolled in Health Sciences and Technology, Culinary Arts, Accounting, Masonry, or Business Technology classes for the blind and visually impaired. To learn more about North Orange County ROP, call (714) 502-5858, or visit ROP on the web at nocrop.us, or come by the North Orange County ROP Education Center Student Information Services Department, 385 N. Muller Street, Anaheim, CA 92801.







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Seniors Going Green, Not Gray, with Solar Power!

Published by fnever on June 10th, 2012 - in Knowledge Base

Article by AM McElroy

Seniors Going Green, Not Gray, with ! – Family – Seniors

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One of the largest markets for solar power is senior living communities, both those run by private companies and those managed by state or municipal agencies. For the most part, these are solar installations to supplement on-grid power and reduce energy and operating costs.

For communities managed by corporations or government agencies, it’s logical: the cost of running senior living communities, whether post-55 complexes or those providing assisted living or advanced care services, have small profit margins.

Along with lowering operating costs, solar energy programs instituted at senior communities often take advantage of incentives offered by federal and state agencies.

Lessons from Decades Past

Many people who buy and use and solar lighting are part over 55. To some, it may seem surprising that the “older crowd” would be so open to new technologies, even when many renewable subsidies are expiring with an unknown future given the recent debt ceiling and related financial issues in Washington, DC.

The fact is that unlike many younger members of the Green Community, these folks lived through the 1970s energy crisis and know that reliance on traditional fossil fuels will continually be more expensive and that the United States must become to be less reliant on fuel from the Middle East. This certainly does not mean that environmental concerns are not a factor.

One resident of a 12-acre, 318 unit campus in Portland, OR, that “went green” wrote to the facilities’ management to commend them “for their interest is protecting the environment.” The CherryWood Retirement Community in Portland installed a 92.4 kilowatt solar panel system that is estimated to reduce the facility’s main building electric bills by an estimated 25% annually. CherryWood is both a retirement and assisted living community.

Since Oregon is not a known for its sunshine, it shows how far solar technology has come in recent years. Other regions that have or are now “Going Green” with solar include a 36-unit apartment building for moderate and low income senior citizens in Medford, NJ. In fact, the project is presently one of four national finalists for the 2011 award for “best New Senior Housing Development,” granted by Affordable Housing Finance, a national trade magazine/website serving the affordable housing development market.

The Medford, NJ, senior residence was completed in September 2010 and with full occupancy by December 2010. Along with one and two bedroom units, building amenities include a community room, a laundry room, a lounge, a computer room and a wellness room. The new construction included a major solar roof panel installation. Along with communities in Northern and Southern California, the other finalist is located in Pennsylvania.

Even so, the California and the Sunbelt is where solar power took hold years ago and these regions have the most senior residences with hybrid solar systems.

In 2010, the City of Indian Wells, CA upgraded its Indian Wells Villa senior citizen apartment complex. The 90-duplex development with a clubhouse and pool spreads across 10 acres of property was originally built in 1992. In 2010, the owners did an energy retrofit that included new roofing, high efficiency air conditioners, water heaters, and toilets. The solar installation comprised of 1,092 solar panels, 39 inverters, and a web-based, 24/7 state of the art monitoring system.

The system, combined with the other energy-savings measures, is expected to reduce the low-income tenants’ annual electric bill by 80-90%. The .2 million project was funded by the City of Indian Wells Redevelopment Agency, coupled with .8 million from Southern California Edison through Multi-Family Affordable Solar Housing (MASH) incentives and grants. It was designed and installed by Solar Distributors, Inc. of Palm Desert, CA.

As a retailer of solar lighting, one of the author’s first large sale involved a residential community in Florida that was an “over 55″ condominium complex. When they wanted to replace 72 lamp posts, they told me they looked at solar for two reasons: reducing operating costs and environmental impacts; incentives were not available and were therefore not part of the decision making process.

Advocacy Plays a Role

As energy costs rise and both managers and residents of senior complexes become more conscious of energy costs, more solar development seems inevitable. And, website and publications for these communities are a key part of the effort.

For example, USSeniorCitizen.com, “U.S. Senior Citizen Resources for America’s Senior Citizens” continually educate their audience on the benefits of renewable energy. TheAmerican Association for Retired People also actively supports renewable energy through its online resources and magazine.

These and other sites and publications regularly publishes bulletins on the latest in incentive changes and other ways to save energy and articles on off-grid homes, “My Generation: Going Green,” “SolarCity Sees Bright Future for Residential Solar Systems,” and “Which US States Lead in Clean Energy.”

It’s still unclear what the future holds in terms of incentives for renewable energies, a topic deserving of its own article after the dust in Washington, DC settles and details of where spending cuts will occur.

Which means that regardless of your age, it’s a great time to make your voice heard: if renewable energy is an area you want the government to invest in, particularly rather than subsidies to traditional energy sources such as oil companies, now is the time to make your voice heard.

Seniors Are Often Active Advocates

Being an active advocate is easier than you think: phone, write or email your senators and congressional representative. True, the lobbyists spend the money, but ultimately its the voters who make the decision in the ballot box.

And one thing younger generations can learn from senior citizens is how to make their voices heard, a key reason Florida is a “battleground election state.” Senior citizens know very well how to make their interests, and the fact that they vote, known very well to politicians.

Copyright 2011, AM McElroy, SolarFlairLighting.com, SolarLightingSmart.com. All rights reserved.

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An avid fan of solar lights and solar energy, she has an online store, http://www.solarflairlighting.com, that focuses on solar products. In addition to sales, the hopes to educate consumer about solar lighting and other renewable energy as does her blog http://www.solarlightingsmart.com.

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AM McElroy has over 20 years experience in corporate communications and marketing/sales within the banking, civil/environmental engineering, high-tech and natural sciences (physics) arenas.

An avid fan of solar lights and solar energy, she has an online store, http://www.solarflairlighting.com, that focuses on solar products. In addition to sales, the site hopes to educate consumer about solar lighting and other renewable energy as does her blog http://www.solarlightingsmart.com.












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Harnessing The Suns Power

Published by fnever on January 10th, 2012 - in Knowledge Base

Article by James Copper

Solar power technologies, the harnessing of the of the sun for our electrical power, incorporate the of either or implementation of passive solar heating. Lets take a appear at every.

Photovoltaics PV for solar power are solar cells whose objective is to convert the light from the sun directly into electrical energy. These Photovoltaic cells are created of supplies that have semi conductive properties. In their simplest forms these solar power cells energize calculators and watches. The more complex photovoltaics can give the lighting for entire homes and offer solar power to the local electric grid for a large portion of the neighborhood .

Photovoltaics operates at any time that the sun shines, though you will get a lot more solar power when it is a bright sunny day and when the rays of the sun are shining perpendicularly on the . In contrast to a solar power system that is used to heat water, the technologies of Photovoltaics doesn’t use the rays of the sun to make the electricity. What it does instead is generate the electrical power right from the electrons that are freed by the sunlights interaction with the PV cells semi conductive materials.

Its not essential for you to be a whiz at physics, however, for you to implement this solar power and take benefit of all its positive aspects. Investing in PV provides you the likelihood to produce your own power noiselessly, pollution-free of charge and with no any moving parts to be concerned about. Solar power is a renewable power resource that is entirely clean. Not only that, your solar power system wont run out of fuel unless we run out of sun in which case youd run out of life as would every person and everything else on the planet.

Solar power will also aid the United States or whichever country you are in decrease its dependence on foreign countries for its energy supplies. Several manufacturers of solar power panels and other merchandise might be right in your house town, or at least a nearby community. You can typically support neighborhood firms for the batteries, glass and other parts that make up your photovoltaic solar power supply.

The second source of solar power, passive solar power, can heat or your residence and light it as nicely. Residences and commercial buildings that have implemented this passive solar power use straightforward techniques such as windows that face south and materials that absorb the heat of the sun and then release it slowly. Passive solar power is not about mechanical implementations.

With these basic passive processes and implementations residences can understand a reduction of up to half of their house heating bill. Natural ventilation to cool that is also element of passive solar power as nicely.

The simple and most crucial premise of home solar power implementation is that the longest wall of your newly constructed property must be built to face correct south inside 15 degrees. This will supply the most get in winter solar heating power and the greatest benefit for summer solar power cooling.

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Novogradac & Firm Names New Principals

Published by fnever on December 20th, 2011 - in More About Green


San Francisco, Calif. (PRWEB) December 16, 2011

Novogradac &amp Organization LLP a national CPA and firm headquartered in San Francisco with 13 offices nationwide, right now welcomes seven principals. The firm, which specializes in reasonably priced , and is proud to announce the promotions of Gregory Clements in the firm?s Dover, Ohio , Nick Hoehn in its Austin , Keith LeBlanc in its Boston and Eric Barnett, Elaine Chang, Jeff Nishita and Thomas Stagg in its San Francisco .

?My partners and I are really pleased to announce the promotions of Gregory, Nick, Keith, Eric, Elaine, Jeff and Thomas and to see these incredible specialists continue to prosper with our firm,? said Michael J. Novogradac, CPA, managing partner in the firm?s San Francisco office. ?We are delighted to recognize their accomplishments with these nicely-earned promotions. They have demonstrated leadership and expertise and have proved their dedication to our function in reasonably priced housing, community development and renewable power and the partners and I are searching forward to operating with them in their new capacities and to their contributions to the firm?s continued growth and good results.?

Gregory Clements joined Novogradac &amp Firm?s Dover office as a staff accountant in 2004 and swiftly built on the accounting knowledge he had gained while operating for a nearby CPA firm throughout his college years. Mr. Clements specializes in the new markets tax credits, renewable energy tax credits, historic tax credits and low-earnings housing tax credits and has worked closely with genuine estate developers, community development entities, syndicators and investors on structuring of new markets tax credit transactions, in addition to providing standard audit and tax services. He received a bachelor?s degree in finance and accounting from Walsh University in North Canton, Ohio and is licensed in Ohio as a certified public accountant.

Nick Hoehn has far more than ten years of skilled experience in cost-effective housing and provides audit, tax, and consulting services, specializing in genuine estate partnerships, investment firms and not-for-profit organizations. Prior to joining Novogradac &amp Company, Mr. Hoehn was a senior accountant with a Chicago certified public accounting firm. He received his bachelor?s degree in accountancy from Eastern Illinois University and is licensed in Illinois and Texas as a certified public accountant.

Keith LeBlanc has far more than 12 years of encounter in delivering tax, accounting and consulting services to developers, syndicators and investors of genuine estate as nicely as other tax credit investments. He focuses considerably of his attention on multi-state reporting troubles for some of the largest syndicators of low-earnings housing tax credits in the market. Prior to joining the firm he was a director of tax services for a national firm, focusing on servicing real estate customers. Mr. LeBlanc received a bachelor?s degree from Bentley College in Waltham, Mass. and is licensed in Massachusetts as a certified public accountant.

Eric Barnett offers audit services to several organizations, which includes investment firms, genuine estate firms, corporations and not-for-profit organizations. Prior to joining Novogradac &amp Organization as a staff accountant in 2000, Mr. Barnett received a bachelor?s degree in company economics with an accounting emphasis from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is licensed in California as a certified public accountant.

Elaine Chang joined Novogradac &amp Company?s San Francisco workplace as a staff accountant in 2003. Her knowledge has been in affordable housing and community development, including new markets tax credit and low-earnings housing tax credit transactions, and she has worked extensively on economic statement audits, tax return preparation, final cost certification audits and new markets tax credit allocation applications. Ms. Chang has contributed articles to various publications which includes the Novogradac Journal of Tax Credits. She received a bachelor?s degree in finance from Walsh College.

Jeff Nishita, one of the founders of the firm?s LIHTC Working Group, a membership organization that addresses technical concerns in the low income housing tax credit program, performs several services in the reasonably priced housing and renewable energy industries, such as audit and tax services, consulting, forecasting, and coaching. In addition, he is in charge of maintaining the firm?s Financial Forecast Model on CD-ROM. Mr. Nishita also works in the defeasance industry, offering services to borrowers and lenders. He speaks at a variety of cost-effective housing conferences throughout the year and is a technical editor for the firm?s different Unique Reports. Prior to joining Novogradac &amp Business LLP, Mr. Nishita worked with many start-up businesses and small corporations in a variety of executive positions. He graduated at the leading of his class from Santa Clara University, receiving an MBA with highest honors with concentrations in operations, entrepreneurship, managing technology and innovation, and finance. He also received a bachelor?s degree in economics with a concentration in accounting from the University of California at Santa Barbara. He is licensed in California as a certified public accountant.

Thomas Stagg joined the firm?s San Francisco workplace as a staff accountant in 2003 and specializes in audit and tax services for real estate partnerships. His a standard contributor to the Novogradac Journal of Tax Credits, writing on the complexities of IRS Section 42 tax credit property compliance, and has taught property compliance and tax credit application workshops at Novogradac &amp Firm cost-effective housing conferences and to private organizations. Mr. Stagg received his bachelor?s degree in accounting from Brigham Young University in 2003 and is licensed in California and Washington as a certified public accountant.

Novogradac &amp Firm LLP was founded in 1989, and has given that grown to much more than 300 employees and partners in offices in San Francisco and Long Beach, Calif. Metro Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Ga., Detroit, Mich. and Kansas City, Mo. Boston, Mass. Austin, Texas Dover, Columbus and Cleveland, Ohio New York, N.Y. and Portland, Ore. Specialty practice locations consist of tax, audit and consulting services for tax-credit assisted multifamily and affordable housing, community revitalization and rehabilitation of historic properties. Other areas of expertise consist of military base redevelopment, preparation and analysis of marketplace studies and appraisals of multifamily housing investments and renewable power tax credits.

For extra details on Novogradac &amp Company LLP?s personnel and areas of expertise, visit http://www.novoco.com or telephone Jane Bowar Zastrow at (415) 356-8034. Photographs are readily available on request.

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Explore Talent Announces Result of New Poll, “When it Comes to Dating, What is Much more Essential to You – Dollars and Luxury, or Personality and Chemistry?”

Published by fnever on December 18th, 2011 - in Commercial

, (PRWEB) December 17, 2011

ExploreTalent.com, a premier online social-network for talented people in the entertainment business, announced outcomes of a poll nowadays on the , “When it Comes to Dating, What’s Far more Important to You – Cash and Luxury, or and Chemistry?” is a skilled site that connects actors, models, musicians and dancers in the United States. The on-line has been responsible for new collaborations and company ventures in entertainment. is responsible for countless models and actors finding out about acting auditions and modeling auditions via casting calls. Explore Talent also assists aspiring entertainment specialists further their careers with contests that showcase their profiles to members of the social media community. Moreover, the Explore Talent site capabilities celebrity videos, exclusive interviews with actors, actresses, and musicians, such as Joan Rivers, Akon and T-Pain.

When asked, “When it Comes to Dating, What’s Much more Essential to You – Funds and Luxury, or Personality and Chemistry?”, 56 people responded. Most folks voted for personality and chemistry.

Facebook’s mission is to give men and women the to share and make the planet far more open and connected. Facebook users communicate and share data by way of the social graph, the network of connections and relationships between men and women. With far more than 800 million active users, Facebook is the fourth-most trafficked website in the United States.

In 2007, Facebook Platform was launched to empower developers and entrepreneurs about the planet make the Internet more social for users. Millions of Facebook users return to the site each and every day, providing unparalleled distribution prospective for applications and the chance to create a enterprise that is very relevant to people’s lives.

Discover Talent’s proprietary computer software and vast infrastructure is the most advanced entertainment-based technologies of its sort. The site’s popularity is based on the truth that there are a lot of techniques for talent to network, make friends and connect with other industry players, participate in wide range of contests and earn prizes for being active on the web site. The effortless access to a pool of more than six and a half million members attracts industry players who are posting each and every month about 50,000 new auditions and job openings, which is 30 occasions a lot more than any other web site.

For far more information on Discover Talent, go to http://www.ExploreTalent.com.

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altE Launches New Solar Showcase Allowing DIY Consumers to Share their Renewable Power Projects

Published by fnever on December 9th, 2011 - in Home Solution

Hudson, MA (PRWEB) October 26, 2011

, a leading distributor of and solar goods, has recently launched a new Solar Showcase as portion of a their continued efforts to promote the . altE?s Solar Showcase is a devoted portion of the company’s website where Do-It-Yourself (DIY) enthusiasts can show off their projects by uploading images and videos, contribute in forums and very easily produce their own blog.

?altE has often been passionately focused on helping our customers make renewable energy projects do-in a position and we are excited to offer you this new chance to the whole community. Our Solar Showcase makes it possible for people to easily share their projects with others,? stated Sascha Deri, CEO of altE. ?We built the infrastructure of our new web so that clients can share their projects with really small effort and at no cost to them. We know the vast majority of our DIY clients are really passionate about their projects and really like to share their experiences with other people. The Solar Showcase now provides a convenient and simple-to-use way for anybody to share and showcase their renewable power project.?

For much more details on altE?s Solar Showcase pay a visit to: http://www.altestore.com/solar-showcase/

For extra info about altE go to: http://www.altEstore.com

About altE

Founded in 1999, altE, Inc has catered to consumers on every single continent of the globe. A 2006 Inc. 500 awarded company, altE aims to continue to fulfill its motto, “Producing Renewable Do-able,” by providing price competitive, high-high quality renewable energy related goods and educational services to a broad spectrum of the public. atlE’s headquarters is located at 43 Broad St, Suite A408 in Hudson, Mass. For a lot more information go to their internet site at http://www.altEstore.com or contact Toll Totally free (877) 878-4060.

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Cross County Shopping Center Celebrates Completion of $250 Million Redevelopment

Published by fnever on December 6th, 2011 - in More About Green

Yonkers, NY (PRWEB) October 12, 2011

The , Westchester County?s first center, celebrates a new chapter in its impressive history with a series of events throughout the week to mark the completion of a $ 250 million redevelopment project. The extensive renovation and remerchandising of the property positions the 1million-square-foot outdoor center as one of the ?s most productive and enduring retail developments.

Events to be held this week as component of the mall?s ?RE-Launch Celebration Week? contain a VIP Reception for Yonkers civic and leaders and business experts, followed by a series of exciting programs which includes a restaurant tasting occasion, public art sculpture installation, live concert,fashion shows, beauty makeovers and much more.

?The redevelopment of Shopping Center is total and following more than five years of renovations, we could not be much more pleased with the outcome,? mentioned James Stifel, chief investment officer for Benenson Capital Partners, LLC and executive vice president for the property?s owner, Brooks Shopping Centers, LLC. ?The center has been transformed into a modern destination with nationally-known retailers, beautifully landscaped gathering spaces and valued amenities which includes cost-free parking. The 1 factor that has remained consistent is the connection Shopping Center has with the neighborhood community ? our history with Westchester residents are what set us apart from other shopping centers. We are so pleased to welcome our shoppers back to what we believe to be a brand new Shopping Center and a brand new shopping knowledge.?

?Cross County Shopping Center is an integral part of the fabric of our city. We have been pleased to perform closely with Macerich and Brooks Shopping Centers to bring this revitalization to fruition. This project has developed much more than a thousand construction jobs and hundreds of new permanent jobs for our community, and Cross County is one of the city?s biggest income generators. Congratulations to all involved,? mentioned Yonkers Mayor Philip A. Amicone.

“Westchester loves to shop locally and the Cross County Shopping Center has been filling that need to have for close to six decades,” said County Executive Robert P. Astorino. “Its redevelopment positions it as a go-to destination for shoppers for years to come and is a sign of confidence in the county’s continuing economic growth.”

Located in Yonkers at the junction of the Cross County Parkway and New York State Thruway, the Cross County Shopping Center capabilities much more than 100 retailers including noted national brands Macy?s, A?X Armani Exchange, Swarovski, bebe, GUESS, H&ampM to name a couple of. Because the redevelopment project began in 2007, 32 retailers representing 155,288 square feet have opened new stores and/or renovated or expanded current retailers at the center.

As part of the redevelopment project, each and every of the 15 buildings that comprise the center received architectural enhancements which includes new canopy details, updated lighting and much more window frontage for retailers to showcase their merchandise.

Retail Venues Complemented by Substantial Landscaping

The 71-acre center has also undergone substantial landscaping to complement the retail venues and restore the center?s beautifully manicured outdoor setting. The typical region has been transformed into an attractive pedestrian-friendly centerpiece with new brick pavers, colored concrete, new planters with seasonal and local flowers and trees that line the primary promenades and entrances. The outdoor shopping encounter has been enhanced with the addition of new outdoor gathering spaces with graceful fountains, comfy seating vignettes and outdoor play places for children.

Two new youngsters?s play locations were opened last year to enrich the loved ones expertise at the center. The Zoo Zone play region capabilities an animal theme, total with eight play pieces and a tree-house/slide as the centerpiece. A second youngsters?s play location includes two ?park pet? sculptures which are modeled soon after the Alice and Wonderland statutes seen in New York?s Central Park. Both play areas are open to the public at no charge.

Last year the center opened a new indoor soft seating lounge and public restrooms. The new restroom facility consists of a family members restroom as well as two private nursing rooms. Restrooms are situated to the north of A?X Armani Exchange. Also in this location is a new centralized security which assists shoppers with services such as Lost &amp Identified, mass transit schedules, taxi get in touch with assistance and shop directories.

Significant Improvements to Parking and Traffic Flow

A key element in the redevelopment project is the improvement of parking and site visitors flow at the center. A new direct entrance into the shopping center from the Cross County Parkway enables shoppers to circle proper into the property, although on-going site visitors continues on Kimball Avenue. The exit ramp off the Cross County Parkway onto Midland Avenue has been widened to permit much more traffic to flow toward the shopping center. There is also a new entrance into the center off Central Park Avenue that leads shoppers directly into a new parking deck with 685 free of charge parking spaces on five levels and direct access into Macy?s on two levels. The center has far more than 5,000 cost-free parking spaces.

Macy?s, the largest store in the center, has expanded by an additional 75,000 square feet of new retail space. The $ 30 million expansion and renovation by Macy?s brings its total square footage at the center to over 400,000 square feet.

Far more Retailers Slated to Open Soon

Additional restaurants are slated to open at Cross County, which includes a free-standing TGI Friday?s and Red Lobster restaurants as properly as Chipotle, BGR The Burger Joint, Noodle and Sarku Japan. A lot more fashion retailers are also planned to open including Adidas, a renovated Gap, Call it Spring and GNC. Future plans call for replacing the existing eight-story workplace building at the center,potentially with a new hotel with around 150 beds, meeting space and ground-floor retail.

In addition to its a lot of retail offerings, the Cross County Shopping Center is property to an extension center of Westchester Community College which has re-located and expanded to a lot more than 12,000 square feet at 8510 Mall Walk. The extension center, which serves a lot more than two,500 students, provides a assortment of credit and non-credit courses. WCC has also formed a partnership with AARP to help the demands of region seniors.

Original Center Featured Gimbel?s and John Wanamaker?s

When it opened in 1954, the Cross County Shopping Center was Westchester?s first shopping center and featured as its original anchor retailers such legendary retailers as Gimbels, John Wanamaker and F.W. Woolworth. The property was created by Sol Atlas and subsequently acquired by Brooks Shopping Centers LLC. The group?s majority partners contain Benenson Capital Partners, LLC, the New York-based firm dating back to 1905 whose holdings consist of more than 200 properties throughout the United States, Canada and Europe and Merchant?s National Properties, Inc., a prominent actual estate development company.

The Cross County Shopping Center is professionally managed by the Macerich, a completely integrated self-managed and self-administered real estate investment trust, which focuses on the acquisition, leasing, management, development and redevelopment of regional malls all through the United States. Macerich now owns around 72million square feet of gross lease-in a position area consisting mainly of interests in 70 regional malls. For more info about the Cross County Shopping Center go to http://www.crosscountycenter.com.

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World?s Largest Genealogy Service Selects Tessella to Preserve Family Connections

Published by fnever on November 20th, 2011 - in More About Green

Oxford, UK (Vocus/PRWEB) five April 2011

Tessella, the international provider of science-powered technologies and services, is pleased to announce that International has selected Tessella?s Safety Deposit Box () to preserve the digital records that allow individuals to connect with their ancestors.

Russell Remain, senior vice president for the Details Division of FamilySearch, stated: “FamilySearch is dedicated to preserving the records of the family members of mankind. Its purpose is to merely connect people with their ancestors by way of effortless access to historical records.?

Stay added, ?As portion of this mission, we ought to capture and preserve huge numbers of digital records. Tessella?s SDB provides FamilySearch a powerful technical platform and most importantly the capacity to share greatest practices and workflows with the active and noteworthy Tessella SDB user .?

Stay continued: ?We see Tessella as a fantastic partner in pushing digital archiving technologies beyond the existing early adopters. We feel their commercial model that combines a professionally supported core with shared open source tools for certain micro-services will be quite appealing to the community, and we look forward to employing our experience and investment to allow the whole archiving globe to benefit.?

Jon Tilbury, the director responsible for developing Tessella?s digital archiving capabilities, said: ?Both Tessella and FamilySearch are committed to making of this relationship and the capabilities it yields to broaden the availability of digital archiving technology to a significantly wider range of organisations. With the backing of FamilySearch and the incorporation of the tips and drive from the academic community, we hope to make SDB the platform of choice where budgets and know-how have, so far, been unable to stretch in this emerging discipline.?

CEO at Tessella Inc., Grant Stephen, commented: ?I am very pleased that FamilySearch chose Tessella as the remedy for their digital records. We are seeking forward to working with FamilySearch to demonstrate the capability of SDB to scale to the levels necessary by their specification.?

Mark Evans, the Practice Head of Tessella?s U.S. Digital Archiving team, added: ?The FamilySearch digital archiving facility will be massive in terms of archive size and throughput. We are seeking forward to operating with the FamilySearch specialists to solve these challenges and are delighted they have placed their confidence in our software program and our team.?

FamilySearch joins the SDB community of archives and libraries such as the UK, Swiss, Malaysian, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, and Austrian state archives, as properly as the Rotterdam Regional Archives, the Wellcome Trust Library and most recently the Minnesota Historical Society and the Library of Congress.

Tessella?s SDB technology is the leading platform for the preservation of lengthy-term digital records in archives around the world. FamilySearch chose the latest version of Tessella?s Safety Deposit Box (SDB4) as the greatest obtainable remedy to manage the ingest approach for their archives. SDB4 has been developed to help memory institutions (including libraries and archives), who are already skilled at preserving paper material, to overcome the difficulties posed by preserving material stored in digital formats.

Tessella?s Safety Deposit Box was created out of work performed in partnership with The National Archives of the UK to assist confront the issue of digital preservation. The software, which has already been in use at The National Archives for over six years as the basis of their award-winning Digital Archive program, has been significantly enhanced as component of The National Archives? Seamless Flow programme.

Notes to the Media

Recent related press release: US State Entities use Tessella?s SDB to advance their learning on digital archiving.

About Family members Search

FamilySearch International is the largest genealogy organization in the world. Millions of individuals use FamilySearch records, resources, and services to understand far more about their loved ones history. To in this wonderful pursuit, FamilySearch has been actively gathering, preserving, and sharing genealogical records worldwide for more than 100 years. FamilySearch is a nonprofit organization sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Patrons could access FamilySearch services and resources totally free on-line at FamilySearch.org or via more than four,600 loved ones history centers in 132 countries, which includes the renowned Family members History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Further info is offered at familysearch.org.

About Digital Archiving at Tessella

Tessella are globe leaders in the provision of Digital Archiving technologies, working with key governments in 7 countries across 3 continents. Tessella’s Digital Archiving offerings cover software program, consulting, research and support and place us at the cutting edge of this emerging discipline. Our core technology, SDB, is now in its fourth generation and gives stable professionally supported platform with the flexibility to deliver individual consumer needs.

For further info go to our devoted microsite on http://www.digital-preservation.com/

About Tessella

Founded in 1980, Tessella is the international provider of science powered technology and consulting services. Globe leading organizations decide on our unique blend of science, engineering and sector expertise to deliver innovative and price-powerful solutions to complex actual-globe commercial and technical challenges. Our men and women are high achievers from leading universities and are passionate about delivering value to clients.

For further details go to our devoted internet site on http://www.tessella.com/

Media Contacts

Tessella

Christina Tealdi | Public and Analyst Relations Executive

Telephone: +44 () 1235 555511 | Mobile: + 44 () 779 9346453

christina(dot)tealdi((at)tessella(dot)com

FamilySearch

Scott Bean, Strategic Relations

Phone: +1 (801) 240-4123

Mobile: +1 (801) 999-8644

sbean(at)familysearch(dot)org

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Oubei Li Together “solar Capital” To Generate A Green Expo – Solar Energy – Solar Energy

Published by fnever on November 18th, 2011 - in Conferences

Oubei Li Strategy Director Mr. Cao Hongbin and Freiburg, Dr. International Daleman launched Oubei Li “Green Expo.”

Solarbe PV network, the Chinese “Light” magazine reporting from Shanghai on Could 7, at the museum of Freiburg , the strategic director of Mr. Cao Hongbin Oubei Li and Dr. Freiburg widespread international Daleman Commence the Ou Beili “Green Expo.” From about the globe Oubei Li VIP customers and friends the world’s major news media witnessed this historic moment.

Oubei Li “2010.five.1 Declaration” and the Green Expo counterparts, as the Platform for Action and the World Expo, will promise to give 20 sets of zero-power green eco-property, supplying value to clients ten years of be concerned-totally free merchandise high quality assurance, determined for the peoples of the world continuing to give clean Power To ensure that each year up to 51 million tons of the Earth. All guests can see Oubei Li will be optimized photovoltaic resolution provider’s image appeared Expo.

Freiburg, Germany is renowned for the green capital of the world, with Europe’s largest solar power technologies and supplies study institutions?? Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Program Study Institute (ISE), in the world of sustainable environmental technologies, solar power technologies, biotechnology and other power field, has highlighted the decisive position the exact same time, Freiburg, or the (ISES) and the presence of solar energy enterprises associated to also a number of international exhibitions and conferences of the Host.

Mr. Cao Hongbin delivered a warm speech, “First of all, on behalf of New Power Technology Co., Ltd. Oubei Li busy to attend Oubei Li” Green Expo “launch activities, guests and friends to express my sincere thanks! to the development and expansion in recent years Oubei Li provides fantastic support and support partners to express our sincere thanks! to the trust and support Oubei Li career development community friends to express my heartfelt thanks!

Response to global warming, the world’s nations have attached great significance to the development and utilization of new energy, “low carbon” concept came into getting, I believe the close to future, application-based solar power industry will be the new option to conventional power sources business has turn out to be a global financial development support new industries. So, grasp the historical chance to develop low-carbon model, to create low-carbon economy, improve energy structure, to obtain sustainable development, is incredibly critical.

Value the occasion of World Expo, let “Carbon Expo” from Shanghai, starting from the Freiburg city hall, to the world, into the future to allow the greater for mankind than “low-carbon Green Life”

Oubei Li New Energy Technologies Co., Ltd., is 1 from the Nantong Hailin Group in January 2006 established set of investment in solar cells, modules, systems engineering and application product development, manufacturing, marketing and advertising and service in one high-tech enterprises. Set up four years ago, in the community care support, Oubei Li were consistently fighting, innovation, Oubei Li gradually grow and become world-class provider of PV solutions.

Has since organization founder, Oubei Li has to minimize carbon dioxide emissions worldwide total to much more than 17,800 tons. Oubei Li will completely introduce BIPV green zero-energy , built in China woban plot for energy saving in China and contribute to the cause of all mankind.

Festival in the world, Oubei Li New Energy Technologies Co., Ltd. had the pleasure of Freiburg together to ride out the international occasion, we are honored. We will “2010.5.1″ Declaration for the Programme of Action, the new energy economy go hand in hand with the sustainable development path, to strengthen academic and solar energy technologies exchanges and cooperation, to create green cities of mankind, to defend the Earth each effort to green their had been. Our frequent vision is to: of green energy, develop green cities.

Right now, the community’s full support of pals, Oubei Li International Company and Freiburg in the hands tightly together, it is our turn “green city house of mankind,” the beginning point is that we as a corporate citizen to the community to offer greater, much more green value of the beginning.

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Olson Houses Village Walk Community in San Lorenzo Receives U.S. Green Creating Council’s LEED Certification for Developing Green Houses

Published by fnever on November 16th, 2011 - in Conferences


San Lorenzo, CA (PRWEB) March four, 2009

These days, The Olson Company’s home Village Walk in San Lorenzo was awarded LEED certification by the U.S. Green Building (USGBC) for achievement in green homebuilding and sustainability. Green houses have substantially and may possibly qualify for advantageous financing, lower insurance rates and government incentives. Via their commitment to green homebuilding, The Olson Firm is helping to preserve homeownership affordable while keeping an environmentally sustainable living environment.

“Great style and green functions were definitely causes why we decided to get,” mentioned Fran and Lee, new residents at Village Walk. “The solar panels, energy-efficient functions and saving funds every month on our utility bill were all very appealing to us we are now a lot more conscious of our impact on the atmosphere than ever ahead of, and these Village Walk functions make it easier to live green.”

LEED-certified houses, like those at Village Walk, complete a technically rigorous process that contains a property power rating and on-website inspections to verify that the residence is built to be power and water effective, environmentally sound, and a healthier place to live.

“The U.S. Green Developing Council is proud to celebrate The Olson Company’s commitment to greener living,” stated Michelle Moore, Senior Vice President of Policy &amp Market place , U.S. Green Developing Council. “Their leadership demonstrated at Village Walk is at the national forefront of quality and their example can aid us all to live much better by decreasing our environment footprint, cutting our utility bills, and coming property to a healthier place to live.”

Village Walk features eco-friendly, two-story condominiums with two floor plans ranging from 1,463 to 1,769 square feet, three to four bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths and attached two-auto garages. Village Walk homes are specially developed to assist make residents’ carbon footprint as tiny as doable with houses that are among the most power efficient obtainable. Houses supply low energy and water bills, decreased greenhouse gas emissions, and much less exposure to mold, mildew and other indoor toxins.

Village Walk green capabilities incorporate integrated solar panels, low-emittance windows, tankless water heaters, pre-fabricated walls, Energy STAR

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