| Lose the posters, give your space a trendy style
Despite tight budgets and landlord limitations, college students in cramped quarters have plenty of interior decorating options.
"Nobody understands how powerful your space is to you, your psyche,"said Beth Minnich, interior designer for Leanne Snyder Interiors. Especially for many college students who, for the first time in their lives, have an apartment they can call theirs. It's a high making your place your own."
To give yourself the opportunity for personal expression you have to get organized.
Focus on horizontal storage ideas such as raising your bed on cinder blocks and using your own shelving above the mini-fridge and microwave. Once you can see your walls they can become your palette.
Hang a tapestry as an alternative to wall painting.
Valley business week in review
"I love balancing nature with my developments," said Lennon, president and chief executive officer of Stone Eagle Development LLC, a subsidiary of Lowe Destination Development. "The Retreat is no exception." Built by Indian Wells-based Ministrelli Homes, the $2.2 million to $3 million homes are nestled in a cove at the foot of Stone Eagle Golf Club, a private membership golf course designed by Tom Doak offering members a unique golf experience and an Eagle's-nest-view of the valley from its open-air pavilion, "Aerie." Lennon, who showcased the project for 225 real estate brokers this week, said the homes are designed to be spacious, comfortable vacation properties for discerning buyers. Automaker unveils its hydrogen fueled SUV What comes first: the chicken, the egg or the hydrogen fueling station? .
CDC issues guide on influenza pandemic
ATLANTA -- States should be prepared to keep children out of school for three months, businesses should be ready to operate with skeleton workforces, children should be prepared to play mostly with their siblings, and parents should be ready to lose income as they skip work and cobble together child-care arrangements. That is the picture sketched yesterday by the federal government in guidance it issued for how to fight pandemic influenza in the months before a vaccine becomes available -- if one ever does. "We have tools in our tool kit that we can use now to slow down pandemic flu," said Martin Cetron, the director of global migration and quarantine at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the country's chief public health agency. "These are tools we just are not used to using in recent decades, when all the attention has been on magic bullets." The 106-page document released yesterday by the CDC is the government's latest effort to help prepare the United States for a global flu epidemic that most specialists say is inevitable.
SF police recover $1 million painting, other stolen valuables
(01-22) 17:23 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- San Francisco police say a 42-year-old man has confessed to masterminding the holiday heist of millions of dollars of artwork and antiques from a Presidio Heights home. Burglary Inspector Denise Fabbri said that James Reem, a San Francisco man, confessed last week to gathering a group of thieves who were able to steal several valuable antiques, including a book of etchings, coins, furniture and a John Singer Sargent portrait of a gray-haired woman valued at over $1 million. The painting, along with a smaller portrait and two antique chairs are now being stored safely in the Hall of Justice where burglary detectives continue their investigation. According to Fabbri, a scheme to burglarize the Jackson Street home of Robert Kendrick began in September when Reem snuck into the mansion and stole jewels and other small items.
Weather hampers dousing of sawmill fire
REEDSVILLE What's left of Gene Gerhardt's sawmill is frozen with icicles hanging off every edge of charred material. Late Tuesday, firefighters from 10 departments doused a blaze that leveled Gino's Sawmill, 6216 County G. Firefighters battled near-zero temperatures and winds that fueled the fire, said Reedsville Fire Chief Bill Schuh. "(The cold weather) made it very, very challenging," Schuh said. "A lot of equipment was freezing up. We had enough equipment out there that once something froze up we swapped it with fresh equipment." The temperature when firefighters arrived at about 10:40 p.m. was 1 degree with 8 mph winds, creating minus 15-degree wind chills, according to the National Weather Service. Gerhardt said he heard the crackling of burning wood before calling authorities.
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