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Texas Log Homes have added to its range of custom cedar homes a new series of modular log home plans aimed squarely at first home owners and those looking for an affordable log home as a vacation getaway. Scott Steele, General Manager of Texas Log Homes added, We have worked on producing a series of modular log homes that meet the needs of new home owners and second home builders. These modular log homes are affordable without compromising on quality, which has long been the hallmark of Texas Log Homes. Features of the range include one level and two story models ranging from under 1000 square feet to over 4000 square feet . While customers looking for the look of rustic, hand hewn logs will not be disappointed, there is still plenty of other siding options to pick from.
Imagine this. You put your name in a drawing. You win a fully-furnished new home. You have keys in hand, but you can't move in. That's the dilemma facing a Bay St. Louis couple. George and Susan Outten won the new home in a drawing during the Governor's Recovery Expo. It's sitting on their property, but Hancock County officials won't allow them to move in. They consider it a mobile home, and the Outten's property isn't zoned for that. "It devastates you. I just can't believe with them trying to rebuild the coast that they would forbid anyone to move into a nice home like this," George Outten said. The Mississippi Manufactured Housing Association agrees. The group held a news conference this week to help support the couple's claim that their cottage-built home is built far better than a trailer.
UTICA -- Elementary students in the North Fork School District may have two new buildings for the 2008-09 school year. Parents, students, faculty and administrators gathered Sunday afternoon for two groundbreaking ceremonies, one at Utica Elementary School, 145 Mill St., and another at Newton Elementary School, 6645 Mount Vernon Road. .
NASHUA, N.H. — Viega North America opened its first educational facility Sept. 18 in grand style before a turnout of nearly 350 attendees. Contractors, industry partners, city officials and Viega personnel gathered to celebrate the official opening with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and champagne toast. Viega CEO Dan Schmierer, Training Director Mark Parent, Vice President/ Sales and Marketing Dave Garlow and Nashua Mayor Bernard A. Streeter welcomed guests. Joining them were the two cousins who own Viega, Heinz-Bernd Viegener and Walter Viegener, and the company's export manager, Karl-Heinz Maier. The 16,000-sq.-ft. training center, under Parent's direction, is equipped with a computer lab for plumbing and heating takeoff applications, multiple presentation rooms and a hands-on interactive shop area.
Karl Moore strides along Ste. Catherine Street, a phalanx of foreign executives keeping pace, chatting amiably, looking up and around as Moore proudly points out landmarks. The motley crew of Canadians, Indians, Koreans, Germans and Danes has just spent an intensive two weeks learning to become even better managers than they were when they left home. They've heard McGill University management guru Henry Mintzberg describe management strategy as art, craft and analysis; they've sat through lectures and participated in workshops on everything from accounting to marketing to financial valuation; they've visited local corporations to glean best practices. They will take this knowledge back to their companies, where they will presumably rise ever higher through management ranks, or for those already in the top echelon of their organizations, continue to lead by example with a fresh set of skills.
Friday morning I flew down to the Symantec southern California site in Santa Monica. They flew me down to the site as a security professional and as a blogger. We had agreed ahead of time that this trip carried no expectations of a blog entry (like I'd really pass on a chance to blog on the experience) and no expectations of a positive review. I spent the day talking to the management of their Security Response Center, their DeepSight and their Research Labs. My one regret from the day was that the time spent with Carey Nachenberg and Steve Trilling from the Symantec Research Labs was cut short because I had to run to catch my flight, literally. I made it, but just barely. First thing in the morning I met with Vincent Weafer and David Cole . These two gentlemen see more of the virus activity going on in the world on a daily basis then most of us will ever see. Our conversation centered around the evolution of viruses and phishing; what we're seeing today is radically different from the malware world of two or three years ago, and the world of one or two years from now will be radically different from today. The days of pandemic virus outbreaks are almost entirely gone, with the viruses of today being quieter, aimed at stealth rather than volume. The threats are becoming more modular every day, often starting as trojans from malicious web sites, then once the computer's been compromised, the bulk of the attack being downloaded one piece at a time. The ability to be updated automatically is also much more common in the attacks; one example was a piece of malware from Brazil that was being recompiled and downloaded to compromised computers over 100 times a day.
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