U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon Schools (ED-GRS) and its Green Strides outreach initiative share promising practices and resources in the areas of safe, healthy, and sustainable school environments; nutrition and outdoor physical activity; and environmental and sustainability education. To bring additional attention to honorees’ practices, ED-GRS has conducted an ... Read More »
It’s back-to-school season for much of the country, but for some students, school is never out. For some, classes are in session all year long: About 3,700 K-12 public schools across the country operate on a year-round calendar — approximately 4 percent of all U.S. schools in 2011-12, according to ... Read More »
During an interview with the FOX Business Network’s Maria Bartiromo, legendary country singer Dolly Parton discussed how she has remained successful for decades. “The music business is completely different than it was when I started. But I also feel like I’m as old as yesterday but as new as tomorrow, so ... Read More »
In Bangalore, the year 2015 ended with hopes and expectations rising that the New Year would bring fresh impetus to the flagging real estate sector. The real estate sector in the city was a bit of a mixed bag with the demand for commercial real estate in the city being ... Read More »
Today, the Chicago Fire Department recognized Siemens and the Chicago Chapter of the Society of Fire Prevention Engineers (SFPE) for donating a new, state of the art, fire alarm panel to the Robert J. Quinn Fire Academy. The new system will be used to train the city’s fire fighters on ... Read More »
We hear so frequently about the players behind Manhattan’s billion-dollar real estate projects and how foreign investors are pouring a global vault’s worth of currency into New York City property, often shielded by LLCs. It’s illuminating to get a closer look at the city’s larger real estate landscape–one that has changed ... Read More »
Science teaches us a lot about the world, but sometimes it gives us more questions than answers. Our understanding of the natural world is filled with estimates, guesses, and predictions based on a shifting landscape of technology used to measure what’s around us. And as technology has changed, the definition ... Read More »
Long before anyone worried about drones crashing through the front window, winemaker Paul Masson built a chateau in the hills above Saratoga. Now it’s for sale. You can have it for $7 million — not bad in the Silicon Valley real estate market, where paying upwards of $5 million for ... Read More »
A change is coming at the end of the month in the way stock indexes are classified. Real estate, now part of the broader financials category, will go out on its own. But before you yawn and say that the change seems akin to moving the deck chairs around on ... Read More »
THE Bangladesh Bank heist in February this year really brought home the role of technology in committing fraud. Although the use of technology including malware to commit crime or fraud is not new, the case of Bangladesh Bank made people sit up because of the amount that was lost. US$101mil ... Read More »
WITH complaints from flat buyers against unfair practices by real estate firms piling up from across the state, a proposal to appoint multiple housing regulators is now under consideration, sources said. At last count, about 37,000 such cases were pending in the consumer redressal forum, official data shows. Mumbai, the ... Read More »
