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The project at 907 E. Colorado Ave. in Colorado Springs will provide 41 one-bedroom and 29 two-bedroom units for senior households age 55 and older at 40 percent and 50 percent of area median income. |
The project will be built to Green Communities standards and will include a secure entry, computer lab, exercise room and community kitchen. |
Developer MJT Properties Inc. and its management company Terra Management LLC have successfully constructed and managed six other tax credit, senior- restricted apartments in Colorado. |
Not all home improvement projects will pay off when the house is put up for sale. |
“Consumers need to be aware that cost does not necessarily equal value,” said Leslie Sellers, president of the Appraisal Institute. |
* Emphasize the essentials over the extras by investing in basic upgrades such as fresh paint and new fixtures. |
* Curb appeal is critical. Exterior projects often provide a greater return on investment than interior projects. |
* Avoid over-improvement by sticking to what’s proportional in your neighborhood. |
* Consider adding a bathroom, bedroom or renovating the kitchen. |
The 2010 Flatirons Tour of Homes will showcase new and remodeled homes in the north metro area Sept. 18-19 and Sept. 26-26. |
The deadline to register a home in the tour is July 2. All builders, developers and remodelers are eligible to enter homes, regardless of membership with the Home Builders Association of Metro Denver. |
For information and registration, visit http://flatironstourofhomes.com or call (303) 473-1450. |
Hilarie Cash and Cosette Rae, the founders of the nation’s first residential treatment facility for Internet addiction, say that in an increasingly digital world it’s impossible to be truly abstinent from technology. |
Cash and Rae opened their Washington facility, reSTART, in 2009 and have since treated 500 patients. They are part of a growing number of scientists and addiction specialists who believe it is possible to become addicted to the Internet. |
“The tide is rising in terms of awareness of it as an issue, but it’s just slow, you know, to reach the general population,” Cash said. |
While avoiding all technology on a permanent basis is impossible, Rae and Cash say that people can be more responsible about their technology use by assessing their behavior. |
They've developed a list of signs and symptoms to assess whether someone might be abusing the Internet or have an addiction. Those symptoms are below. |
Click here for reSTART's extensive quiz to further gauge if your online use is more than a bad habit. |
Three to four 'yes' responses suggest abuse. Five or more 'yes' responses suggest addiction. |
Developed by reStart founder Dr. Hilarie Cash, PhD. For more information, click here to visit reSTART Internet Addiciton Recovery Program's web site. |
Digital Domain brought Tupac back to life for the 2012 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. |
May 11, 2012, 12:23 p.m. |
The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival is known for delivering some of the best live performances in the world. This year, the festival featured something that had never been seen before, a digital hologram of deceased rap superstar Tupac. I admit that I had a thing for Tupac’s music back in the 1990s and so I wa... |
Digital Domain is the company responsible for the Tupac hologram and although I hadn’t heard of the company prior to reading up on the Coachella performance, I’d certainly seen their work before. Founded by superstar director James Cameron, Digital Domain is behind so many of the special effects we see on the big scree... |
In this video, we get a glimpse behind the scenes of Digital Domain and how the company has played a major role in the way digital entertainment has progressed over the past two decades. |
The Mobile Technology Association of Michigan and Medical Main Street host this event to highlight what the healthcare sector needs from mobile technologists. Learn what problems they need to solve, and what opportunities that provides for mobile/wireless tech firms. For details, click here. |
Lenore Josephine Bergevin, 95, a resident of Carson City and Gardnerville, died on Jan. 13, 2011, at Evergreen Convalescent Care Center in Carson City. |
Born Nov. 3, 1915, in Fredericksburg, she was preceded in death by her husband, Ted Bergevin; daughter Donna Steele; sons Phillip Bergevin and Teddy Bergevin; grandson Paul Curtis; and great-granddaughter Jessica Curtis. |
She is survived by daughters Marcia (David) Bernard and Linda (Michael) Curtis; seven grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren, two great-great-grandchildren, one niece and one nephew. There will be a memorial service at a later date. Walton’s Chapel of the Valley is in charge of arrangements. |
Gareth Davis Photo A representative from the Portland Health Department carrying out fogging operations at the Port Antonio Police Station yesterday. |
As the Ministry of Health steps up its drive against the dreaded Zika virus, 22 prisoners were transferred from the Port Antonio Police Station lock-up to facilitate fogging on the cell blocks. |
The move is part of a joint initiative between the local parish health department and the police, as both parties seek to rid the cell block and other areas in the station yard of suspected mosquito breeding sites. |
Acting commander in charge of Portland division Deputy, Superintendent of Police (DSP) Oral Harrison, said that in light of the spread of Zika virus, the partnership is a necessary one. |
"It is a proactive measure as there are no suspected cases of the Zika among the prisoners," said Harrison. |
"As a matter of fact there are no reports of any incident of the Zika virus among any of our inmates (prisoners) throughout this division. However, we are wary of the threat, and therefore, the appropriate measures are now in place to reduce or eliminate the likelihood of this mosquito borne disease, which, if left una... |
The prisoners were transferred late yesterday afternoon to an existing facility at the new courthouse at Bryan's Bay. |
After the temblor, an accelerated deadline required all unreinforced brick buildings to be retrofitted or vacated within 30 months of Feb. 6, 2007. |
Building owners in Paso Robles acted quickly. The most recent retrofit was completed five years ago, on Dec. 3, 2008. The project repaired and retrofitted the Carnegie Library, which had been a museum before the quake. |
Deputy building official Clyde Ganes said the owners of three buildings have chosen not to retrofit, and the structures are now unoccupied. |
Retrofitting can be costly, he said, depending on the age of the building, how its foundation was laid and other factors. |
“I do know it can run into hundreds of dollars per square foot just to retrofit,” Ganes said. |
Back in 1997, the city of San Luis Obispo had adopted a deadline of 2017 for all unreinforced buildings to be seismically upgraded. |
But in response to the 2003 earthquake, the San Luis Obispo City Council required that owners complete partial earthquake strengthening by July 2007 or meet a 2010 deadline for full strengthening. In 2007, the city put some building owners on a fast track to strengthen their structures before the 2010 deadline. |
City officials eventually extended the deadlines of several other buildings because of planned developments at those locations. |
Some San Luis Obispo property owners have not yet finished their retrofits. Of the 126 unreinforced buildings in the city, 112 have been strengthened or brought into compliance. |
Eight buildings are now under construction, including the Naman building at Higuera and Chorro streets (the former home of the San Luis Obispo Chamber of Commerce) and the future home of SLO Brewing Co. at 736 Higuera St. |
Plans are in place for the remaining six buildings. Three buildings are included in the Garden Street Terraces project downtown, said Joseph Lease, the city’s chief building official. Two others, at 722 and 728 Marsh St., have permits to retrofit. |
One other building, the Springfield Baptist Church on Broad Street, no longer requires a retrofit because it was sold to someone seeking to convert the building into a private residence. |
Old car ownership is fraught with all kinds of strange noises that could signal another costly repair. Whether you ignore the problems for a later date or become overwhelmed with dread, chances are you didn’t think to make an aesthetically pleasing video out of them. Thankfully, YouTuber Рома, Просто Рома and his Lada ... |
All the sounds are in this one, right down to the ones you wouldn’t expect. Yeah, we’re all expecting the exhaust. But the sound of twisting vents? Or closing the hood after topping up your fluids? It’s the little things that make this video so cool. It’s the intimacy of owning a Lada without actually having, y’know, o... |
I personally have never owned a Lada, but my family owned cars from the 60s and 70s. My dad’s Barracuda was one of my favorite playgrounds as a kid—I’d hop in to click the seatbelt, poke at the ashtray, creak the doors open, or push all fun buttons. This video brought my back to that playful place, where I just relishe... |
This Lada sounds relatively healthy, which makes for a much more pleasant listening experience—so buckle up and enjoy the beauty of old car sounds without the weight of old car problems. |
Square's stock price slides after the release of a critical analyst report that points to slowing organic growth for the mobile payment company in 2019. |
Shares of Square Inc. (SQ - Get Report) fell 10% Tuesday following the release of a critical analyst report. |
The mobile payment and financial services firm closed at $68.56 after Raymond James' John Davis downgraded the stock to underperform from market perform. |
Raymond James lowered its price target of $56 for Square's stock, well below its current trading price. |
Square's organic growth peaked in the third quarter of 2018 and will "materially decelerate" in the second quarter of 2019, Davis wrote, referencing the company's crucial subscription and service lines. |
Another factor slowing Square's growth will be its acquisitions of "slower growth" website, blog and online store builder Weebly and corporate caterer startup Zesty, according to the Raymond James analyst. Both company's financials will begin to show up on Square's bottom line in 2019. |
Davis also is skeptical on whether Square has any new products that can repeat the success of its Instant Deposit product, which gives users immediate access to their funds. |
"We don't see another Instant Deposit-like growth driver on the horizon and believe significant top-line upside will likely prove more difficult in 2019," Davis noted. |
Square's move into banking could also prove to be problematic, Davis wrote. Square in December began moving forward again with plans to apply for a industrial loan company charter. |
The federal license would free Square to operate freely without going through outside banks, while also getting access to federal deposit insurance. |
Delving deeper into banking will expose Square even more to the cyclical nature of the financial services field, the Raymond James analyst noted. |
"We believe if the company is ultimately successful obtaining an ILC charter, it could prove to be a negative catalyst for the stock as it will likely increase SQ's exposure to credit- and bank- related products/revenue," Davis wrote. |
Scientists at IBM are developing a new computer architecture, better equipped to handle increased data loads from artificial intelligence (AI). |
The IBM team drew on three different levels of inspiration from the brain. |
Scientists at IBM are developing a new computer architecture, better equipped to handle increased data loads from artificial intelligence (AI). The designs, published in the Journal of Applied Physics, draw on concepts from the human brain and significantly outperform conventional computers in comparative studies. Toda... |
Unlike the stovepipe components in conventional computers, the researchers propose that brain-inspired computers could have coexisting processing and memory units. Abu Sebastian, a scientist at the International Business Machines (IBM) in the US, explained that executing certain computational tasks in the computer’s me... |
“If you look at human beings, we compute with 20 to 30 watts of power, whereas AI today is based on supercomputers which run on kilowatts or megawatts of power,” Sebastian said. “In the brain, synapses are both computing and storing information. In a new architecture, going beyond von Neumann, memory has to play a more... |
The IBM team drew on three different levels of inspiration from the brain. The first level exploits a memory device’s state dynamics to perform computational tasks in the memory itself, similar to how the brain’s memory and processing are co-located. The second level draws on the brain’s synaptic network structures as ... |
The dynamic and stochastic nature of neurons and synapses inspired the team to create a powerful computational substrate for spiking neural networks, researchers said. Phase change memory is a nanoscale memory device built from compounds of germanium, tellurium and antimony sandwiched between electrodes. These compound... |
By applying electrical pulses, the researchers modulated the ratio of material in the crystalline and the amorphous phases so the phase change memory devices could support a continuum of electrical resistance or conductance. This analogue storage better resembles non-binary, biological synapses and enables more informa... |
Three top officials are leaving the Democratic National Committee, after hackers made thousands of internal emails public. |
NEWS BRIEF The Democratic National Committee’s email hack has claimed more victims. Just over one week since chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned her post, the organization announced Tuesday that three of its top staffers are leaving: CEO Amy Dacey, whose departure was reported earlier Tuesday by multiple news ... |
In a mid-afternoon press release, the staff changes were framed as part of the committee’s move “into the general election phase of the 2016 campaign.” But that’s certainly not all it is: The three officials had been in the spotlight in recent days for emails they’d sent during the Democratic primary, which were subseq... |
“Thanks in part to the hard work of Amy, Luis, and Brad, the Democratic Party has adopted the most progressive platform in history, has put itself in financial position to win in November, and has begun the important work of investing in state party partnerships,” interim DNC chair Donna Brazile said in the release. “I... |
U.S. intelligence officials strongly suspect the Russian government hacked the DNC, though the American government hasn’t publicly charged the Kremlin with doing so. Somehow, staffers’ emails made their way to Wikileaks, which published them before the Democratic National Convention began last week. The big problem wit... |
The changes at the DNC come as the Clinton campaign is moving to take greater control of party headquarters in Washington and in states across the country. |
Democrats are also trying to get ahead of the disclosure of more emails and internal documents from hacked computer systems, fearful of more embarrassing revelations. |
Reddit, the popular aggregation website which is the source of most of the internets viral videos and incorrect terrorist identifications has done something nice with the profits it made in 2014 – donating 10% of them to ten worthy charities. |
Each of the charities will be getting $82,765.95 each – with the ones most relevant to TechDigest’s interests being the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the WikiMedia Foundation, Free Software Foundation and the Tor Project. |
The EFF is the leading organisation that fights for ‘digital rights’ – such as online privacy, opposing censorship and for fairer copyright laws that will let digital types remix copyrighted works more easily. WikiMedia meanwhile is the organisation that runs Wikipedia, and the Tor Project runs anonymous browsing tool ... |
The Free Software Foundation is the organisation that advocates in favour of free and open source software – arguing against proprietary standards such as MP3 in favour of the likes of OGG for music. |
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the rest of the winning charities are exactly what you’d expect from Reddit: The Pro-Choice group Planned Parenthood, Doctors Without Borders, the Freedom From Religion Foundation, and two groups that study/advocate for the legalisation of drugs. We’re just surprised that they’re not being paid ... |
Its a savvy move as far as Corporate Social Responsibility goes – buying a tonne of user good will, which is essential for any website that tries to create communities. |
Is there a HTC One M9 *PLUS* on the way? |
I think it is nice to see groups like the Freedom From Religion Foundation get rewarded for the hard work that they do on keeping the government out of religion. It also reflects a notable gulf between the Reddit crowd (mostly under 40) and the talk radio crowd (mostly over 60). A social change is brewing and Reddit is... |
Prior to every successful military mission or operation, there is a period of time for gathering information, drawing up battle plans and weighing out options. Within the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, the S-2 holds this responsibility. |
I departed on a Sunday morning in May from Okinawa’s Tomari Port (see sidebar below), which was crowded with tourists of different nationalities. I could hear them speaking English, Chinese, French, Korean, and Japanese. Some held snorkeling gear, while others had underwater cameras in hand. |
Twelve years ago, Tabitha Soren began shooting baseball players as tintypes—photographs made on a sheet of metal with no negative—when she discovered that baseball and tintypes were created around the same time, circa the mid-1800s. These limited editions of one from Soren’s Fantasy Life series are soaked with nostalgi... |
Stefano de Stefano is a primary challenger to Ted Cruz. He's a Houston energy attorney. |
With no heavy hitters in the Texas Republican hierarchy emerging to challenge U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz for the party's nomination in 2018, a Houston energy attorney is stepping forward. |
Stefano de Stefano, who bills himself as a jilted voter and "free market Republican," represents a challenge from the center of the Republican firmament, a demographic that has felt increasingly left out of the state's GOP. |
A long shot against Texas' tea party champion? |
Sen. Ted Cruz's new book 'A Time for Truth' offers some new insight into the mind of the GOP presidential candidate. It also has angered some of the Texas senator's rivals. |
"I have every citizen's chance in a democracy, although it doesn't hurt than I'm running against one of the most ineffective legislators in the Senate," de Stefano said in a statement. "There are millions of jilted voters like me across Texas. I believe, like many of my friends and colleagues, that we'd be better off w... |
De Stefano, who supported Cruz in his 2012 Senate run, is now taking aim at the former presidential candidate as a national show horse rather than a Texas work horse. He says he will offer a "reasonable method of leadership" over an "extreme one." |
A Cruz spokeswoman declined to comment on de Stefano's run Wednesday. |
De Stefano cites Cruz's role in the 2013 government shutdown over funding for the Affordable Care Act and what he calls a history of promoting his personal brand over Texas interests. |
As a first-time candidate, de Stefano plans to run on his own business record brokering deals in the world of oil and gas as a corporate counsel for Diamond Offshore, a deepwater drilling contractor. |
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