Top commercial, residential real estate deals of the week | TribLIVE

By Sam Spatter

Published: Saturday, December 1, 2012, 9:02?p.m.
Updated 13 hours ago

DEALSOF THE WEEK

A quick look at recent retail, commercial and industrial projects, sales and leases of note in Western Pennsylvania:

$4.7 million (combined price)

Properties sold: 922 Brush Creek Rd., Cranberry; 14200 Rt. 30, North Huntingdon.

Seller: Bridge Construction, Pittsburgh

Buyer: Guardian Storage Solutions, Pittsburgh

Details: Two Lock-Up Storage Centers, with Cranberry having 511 storage units and North Huntingdon, 411 storage units.

Comment: ?Bridge Construction built our local storage units, and decided to sell these two to us, giving us locations in areas we did not previously have,? said Steven H. Cohen, Guardian owner/president.

$3.9 million

Property sold: 610 Alpha Dr., RIDC Park, O?Hara

Seller: Regional Industrial Development Corp., Pittsburgh

Buyer: Penhurst Realty II LP, a unit of Tsudis Chocolate Co., Pittsburgh

Details: Acquired building it has occupied, following receipt of a $1.56 million loan from Pennsylvania Industrial Development Authority, which allowed Tsudis to reconfigure space for expansion, hire 75 employees for a total of 275.

Comment: ?Tsudis Chocolate had been leasing the building and decided to buy it, and make some improvements as it expands its operation there,? said Don Smith, Jr., RIDC president.

$2 million

Property sold: 150 Lake Dr., McCandless

Seller: Frank and Virginia Pelly, Pittsburgh

Buyer: Lake Drive Realty Partners LLC, Pittsburgh

Details: Two-story, 26,650-square-foot building, 90 percent leased.

Comment: ?A group of local investors purchased the building as an investment, and I still have 6,400 square feet available for lease,? said Jessica Jarosz of Colliers International/Pittsburgh who worked with Paul Fedorko of Marcus & Millichap?s Pittsburgh office who represented the seller.

TOP DOLLAR HOMES

Recent home and condominium sales that brought top prices in Western Pennsylvania:

$675,000

Property: North Strabane

Seller: William Ripper

Buyer: Perry and Kyle Dick

Details: Custom brick and stone Provincial, on 5.25 acres, two-story family room with wall of windows, stone fireplace, private den with French doors, master suite with Corian counters, jet tub, his-and-her vanities, extended level aggregate driveway and parking pad.

Comment: ?The buyers loved that this was in a private five-acre setting, yet close to Donaldson?s Crossroads. They liked the floor plan, two-story family room, huge gourmet maple kitchen and first floor master suite,? said Tim Ulam with Sue Franz of Coldwell Banker Real Estate.

$642,500

Property: Adams

Seller: Christopher Schueller

Buyer: Michael and Jennifer Zatchey

Detaisl: Brick Provincial with open family room, paneled study with built-in bookcases, mud room with large pantry, five bedrooms, four and a half baths, second-floor laundry, patio off kitchen/family room.

Comment: ?Buyers loved the neighborhood and flat back year, yet wooded, liked the finished lower level with a media room, the bedroom and the ?school room? for children,? said Kim Marie Angiulli, Coldwell Banker Real Estate.

$580,000

Property: Point Breeze

Seller: Sidney and Sylvia Busis

Buyer: Jeffrey Peterson and Roberta Miller

Details: Contemporary-style house on a cul de sac with second-floor office, all bedrooms with vaulted ceilings, shower for pet or clean off muddy feet, private back yard with patio, two-car garage with extra wide driveway.

Comment: ?Buyers found this a wonderful home, built by and loved by the sellers. They loved the contemporay archecture with great space and spacious indoor,? said Tamara Skirboll, Coldwell Banker Real Estate.

Sam Spatter is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. He can be reached at 412-320-7843 or sspatter@tribweb.com.

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How to Stop Viruses from Crashing Your Computer

Last month, the social-media team at Russia's Kaspersky Lab decided to run a contest leading up to Halloween.

It asked Kaspersky's Facebook friends to share their scariest stories about computer crashes caused by malware. The prize was a year's free subscription to a Kaspersky Lab security product.?

Seventy-four people participated, and five were declared winners (or losers, depending on how you look at it) and awarded their prizes.

Kaspersky Lab shared three of the winning stories, as well as tips and lessons learned, to educate the public on ways to prevent these scenarios from happening again.

Jean's Story

Trying to keep up with two pre-teen children during the 1990s, Jean quickly needed to learn the basics of the computer in order to know what her kids were getting into online.

As part of her getting up to speed, her boys thoughtfully bought her a "Civilization"-type game.

As she was building her Egyptian empire, her screen suddenly went blue. Not knowing anything about the infamous Windows "blue screen of death," Jean popped the game out of the CD drive and rebooted the computer, thinking the game had some kind of glitch.

Not so much. Unfortunately, Jean was then informed that she had contracted the Bugbear email worm and in less than a minute her computer was going to shut down.

[10 Computer Threats You Didn't Know About]

Tips & Lessons Learned

The Bugbear worm (also known as Tanatos) is still active today in different variations. It infects computers through malicious email attachments, which is how Jean got infected, according to Kaspersky.

You can protect yourself from the Bugbear worm by never opening any suspicious emails, either as previews or by opening the whole message, according to Kaspersky researchers.

Instead, install and run a strong Internet security suite that includes anti-virus software and anti-spam and exploit-prevention capabilities.?

Pam's Story

Pam got her first computer in the mid-1990s, but, unfortunately, she didn't do all her due diligence before she bought it.

Without any anti-virus software or spyware downloaded, and without any files backed up, Pam was totally out of luck when her computer crashed. With money from a tax refund, she bought a brand-new computer.

But despite Pam's past experiences, her new computer eventually crashed as well, resulting in more lost files. Pam next bought a laptop, and then another new desktop, and then another.

Several computers later, Pam claims she's finally learned her lesson.

Tips & Lessons Learned

Pam should have made sure that all her software, including browsers, plug-ins and operating system, was updated with the latest security settings to stop malicious websites from exploiting vulnerabilities.

A trusted anti-virus software suite with a two-way firewall, which screens incoming and outgoing network traffic, will also help protect the user by blocking certain malicious subdomains. Anti-virus software can also issue warnings to the user before he or she points a browser to a malicious website.

Every user should back up all his or her files. That's another piece of good advice that most people ignore, according to Kaspersky researchers.

But if the day comes when your computer is hacked into, lost or destroyed, you will jump for joy when you realize a that lifetime's worth of photos, music, resumes and Web bookmarks aren't lost forever.?

There are plenty of online backup options available. Alternately, you can buy an external hard drive that's a bit bigger than your computer's hard drive, and "clone" your computer's drive to the external drive once a month.

Larry's Story

Larry was doing the usual stuff on eBay, browsing items and doing some shopping.

But this time, things seemed different. While he was looking at an item, he was whacked with a fake security scan. In a fraction of a second, his PC went black and he couldn't do a thing with it.

Tips & Lessons Learned

Don't be fooled by rogue or fake anti-virus pop-ups that claim your system is infected. These fraudulent notifications can come from multiple sources on the Internet.

Generally, fake anti-virus programs will try to scare you, which is why they're also called "scareware."

Usually a pop-up will appear, notifying you that your system is infected with a virus and inviting you to click and remove it.

But when you click on the pop-up, you in fact download malware. Bingo ? your computer is infected and you've been scammed into giving your credit-card information to continue with the fake "removal process."

The number of rogue anti-virus programs is huge. Kaspersky Lab detects hundreds of thousands of them every month.

Here are some tips to help you protect you against malicious pop-ups:

? Don't click on pop-up windows, even if they haven't been blocked by the browser security or other security solutions. Only your legitimate, installed anti-virus software should be giving you security warning messages. As for infection warning messages that appear randomly while you're browsing the Internet, ignore them.

? Legitimate programs designed to combat malware will never first scan a computer and then demand money for activation. You should never pay for a product that does this, according to Kaspersky researchers. Rather, install a genuine anti-virus solution developed by a well-known anti-virus company and use it to scan and clean your computer.

This story was provided by TechNewsDaily, a sister site to LiveScience.

Copyright 2012 LiveScience, a TechMediaNetwork company. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/stop-viruses-crashing-computer-204026777.html

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Scientists create roadmap to metabolic reprogramming for aging

Friday, November 30, 2012

In efforts to understand what influences life span, cancer and aging, scientists are building roadmaps to navigate and learn about cells at the molecular level.

To survey previously uncharted territory, a team of researchers at UW-Madison created an "atlas" that maps more than 1,500 unique landmarks within mitochondria that could provide clues to the metabolic connections between caloric restriction and aging.

The map, as well as the techniques used to create it, could lead to a better understanding of how cell metabolism is re-wired in some cancers, age-related diseases and metabolic conditions such as diabetes.

"It's really a dynamic atlas for regulatory points in mitochondrial function -- there are many interesting avenues that other scientists can follow up on," says John Denu, professor of biomolecular chemistry and leader of the Epigenetics theme at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery (WID). "It could take years for researchers to understand what it all means, but at least now we have a list of the most important players."

In previous experiments, it's been shown that consuming less food increases the life span and health span in a range of organisms, from yeast and flies to mice and non-human primates. But pinpointing where and how caloric restriction affects cells at a molecular level remains the challenge.

So far, mitochondrial proteins, the molecules that command specific actions in the cell's powerhouse organelle, are at center stage of metabolic reprogramming.

Denu and colleagues conducted earlier research on the mitochondrial protein Sirt3, where they suggested a link between Sirt3 and the benefits of caloric restriction in situations such as the prevention of age-related hearing loss.

The new research, published in the Nov. 29 issue of the journal Molecular Cell, more broadly identifies pathways in mitochondria that could be behind the re-wiring of metabolism. Their work uncovered regulatory processes that maintain mitochondrial health, control cells' ability to metabolize fat and amino acids, as well as stimulate anti-oxidant responses. This re-wiring involves the addition or removal of two-carbon (acetylation) chemical groups within regulatory molecules called proteins.

In the study, scientists looked at liver tissue from groups of mice -- both with and without the ability to produce Sirt3.

Some received a calorically restricted diet and some did not. After one year, they compared protein and acetylation changes among the groups of mice. They found Sirt3 was essential for many of the metabolic adaptations that occur during calorie restriction. These results suggest that therapies, including diet or drugs that enhance Sirt3 function, might provide novel interventions to fend off age-related illnesses.

Joshua Coon, professor of chemistry and biomolecular chemistry at UW-Madison and co-author of the paper, crafted a new technique to find these molecular sites. While the genome plays a key role in an organism's health, he points out that studying proteins -- the molecular machines that carry out an organism's original genetic instructions -- can be more accurate in revealing how a gene functions.

"We've taken dozens of primary tissues and profiled their protein content with depth to learn how they vary," Coon says. "With that information, we have direct knowledge at the molecular level of how an organism is dealing with adaption to diet, or potentially, a given disease state."

He says using mass spectrometry to look for acetylated proteins from tissue samples is a more fruitful approach to identify relevant physiological changes. The study, he says, is one of the first of many that will create descriptive maps for other disease models.

To expand access to these enabling technologies across campus, Coon plans to launch the Wisconsin Center for Collaborative Proteomics in 2013. The center has received significant support from the UW and is pending further support via federal funding.

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Cold, mold loom as hazards in Sandy disaster zones

NEW YORK (AP) ? A month after Sandy's floodwaters swept up his block, punched a hole in his foundation and drowned his furnace, John Frawley still has no electricity or heat in his dilapidated home on the Rockaway seashore.

The 57-year-old, who also lost his car and all his winter clothes in the flood, now spends his nights shivering in a pair of donated snow pants, worrying whether the cold might make his chronic heart condition worse.

"I've been coughing like crazy," said Frawley, a former commercial fisherman disabled by a spine injury. He said his family doesn't have the money to pay for even basic repairs. So far, he has avoided going to a shelter, saying he'd rather sleep in his own home.

"But I'm telling you, I can't stay here much longer," he said.

City officials estimate at least 12,000 New Yorkers are trying to survive in unheated, flood-damaged homes, despite warnings that dropping temperatures could pose a health risk.

The chill is only one of the potential environmental hazards that experts say might endanger people trying to resume their lives in the vast New York and New Jersey disaster zone.

Uncounted numbers of families have returned to coastal homes that are contaminated with mold, which can aggravate allergies and leave people perpetually wheezing. Others have been sleeping in houses filled with construction dust, as workers have ripped out walls and flooring. That dust can sometimes trigger asthma.

But it is the approaching winter that has some public health officials worried most. Nighttime temperatures have been around freezing and stand to drop in the coming weeks.

New York City's health department said the number of people visiting hospital emergency rooms for cold-related problems has already doubled this November, compared with previous years. Those statistics are likely only the proverbial tip of the iceberg.

Mortality rates for the elderly and chronically ill rise when people live for extended periods in unheated apartments, even when the temperature is still above freezing, said the city's health commissioner, Dr. Thomas Farley.

"As the temperatures get colder, the risk increases," he said. "It is especially risky for the elderly. I really want to encourage people, if they don't have heat in their apartment, to look elsewhere."

Since the storm, the health department has been sending National Guard troops door to door, trying to persuade people to leave cold homes until their heating systems are fixed. The city is also carrying out a plan to spend hundreds of millions of dollars helping residents make emergency repairs needed to restore their heat and hot water.

Convincing people that they could be endangering themselves by staying until that work is complete, though, isn't always easy.

For weeks, Eddie Saman, 57, slept on sheets of plywood in the frigid, ruined shell of his flooded Staten Island bungalow. He stayed even as the house filled up with a disgusting mold that agitated his asthma so much that it sent him to the emergency room.

Volunteers eventually helped clean the place up somewhat and got Saman a mattress. But on Sunday the wood-burning stove he had been using for heat caught fire.

Melting materials in the ceiling burned his cheek. A neighbor who dashed into the house to look for Saman also suffered burns. The interior of the house ? what was left of it after the flood ? was destroyed.

Two days later, another fire broke out in a flood-damaged house across the street, also occupied by a resident trying to keep warm without a working furnace.

Asked why he hadn't sought lodging elsewhere, Saman said he didn't have family in the region and was rattled by the one night he spent in an emergency shelter. He said it seemed more populated by homeless drug addicts than displaced families.

"That place was not for me," he said.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency offered to pay for a hotel, but Saman said he stopped looking because every inn within 100 miles of the city seemed to be booked solid through December.

Saman's case may be extreme, but experts said it isn't unusual for people to hurry back to homes not ready for habitation.

After Hurricane Katrina, medical researchers in New Orleans documented a rise in respiratory ailments among people living in neighborhoods where buildings were being repaired.

The issue wasn't just mold, which can cause problems for years if it isn't mediated properly, said Felicia Rabito, an epidemiologist at Tulane University's School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. There was simply so much work being done, families spent their days breathing the fine particles of sanded wood and drywall.

People complained of something that became known as the "Katrina cough," and while it subsided once the dust settled, researchers later found high lead levels in some neighborhoods due to work crews ignoring standards for lead paint removal.

A group of occupational health experts in New York City, including doctors who run programs for people sickened by World Trade Center dust after 9/11, warned last week that workers cleaning up Sandy's wreckage need to protect themselves by suppressing dust with water, wearing masks and being aware of potential asbestos exposure.

"There are clearly sites that you don't want children at ... and it is very challenging for homeowners to know whether it is safe to go home," said Dr. Maida Galvez, a pediatrician and environmental health expert at The Mount Sinai Hospital who is part of a team evaluating hazards in the disaster zone.

U.S. Rep. Jerrold Nadler has urged FEMA and the Environmental Protection Agency to develop a testing program that could give residents an indication of whether their homes were free of mold, sewage and other hazardous substances.

Farley, New York City's health commissioner, said people entering rooms contaminated by floodwater should wear rubber boots and gloves, and exercise care in cleanup. The hazard posed by spilled sewage is a short-term one and experts say the disease-causing bacteria found in it can be wiped out with a good cleaning. But they say anything absorbent that touched tainted water, like curtains or rugs, should be thrown out.

As for the bitter cold, there was no test needed to tell John Frawley that his home is no place to be spending frigid autumn nights.

"A couple of days ago, I was shivering so badly, I just couldn't stop," he said.

Yet with winter nearly here, he still had no plan for getting his heat working again or his ruined electrical system restored, although he also has passed up some of the programs designed to help people like him.

And he has no intention of heading to a shelter.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/cold-mold-loom-hazards-sandy-disaster-zones-164536193.html

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CFT's Predictions 101: Believe in 'Bama

CFT's Predictions 101: This SEC championship game doubles as a national semifinal, but in our mind it?s also for all the marbles. Either the No. 2 Crimson Tide or No. 3 Bulldogs will earn the honor of winning the SEC?s seventh consecutive BCS title with a victory over No. 1 Notre Dame in Miami on Jan. 7.

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Imporant Tips For Beginner And Expert Internet Marketers ...

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Use the signature line in forums and email to promote your business. If you participate in forums, place a link to your site in the signature of your posts. You should always post a link within your signature block of all the emails you send out. That way, you will be able to generate awareness of your site among your entire group of contacts and also potentially boost your search engine rank. Write a catchy sentence just before your link that makes people want to see your site.

Consider reading about psychological studies that have been done on web page design and online marketing. Colors and themes can have a drastic impact on the way readers perceive your site, regardless of content. If you understand the negative and positive ways these factors can affect a person?s judgment, you can use the information to maximize your website?s appeal, thereby increasing your potential for profit.

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Find other businesses that would be interested in your products, and offer them promotional discounts of product or service bundles. You can link together accounts and make your sales go up. An excellent example is an online agent who will do the booking for people. This person can help people decrease their prices on airfare, hotels and car rentals, by putting them all in a single transaction. This technique works very well for companies who offer complementary products without being rivals.

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If you know the right way to apply what you learn, internet marketing is a great way to promote your business. Make Internet marketing part of the way you advertise your business, and make good use of this article?s suggestions when you do it.

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Kuwait election boycott shifts drama to streets

KUWAIT CITY (AP) ? The drama of Kuwait's parliamentary elections has nothing to do with the ballot count. It's what may come afterward that has the country on edge as a broad coalition of conservative Islamists, liberal reformers and others vow to boycott Saturday's vote.

The election snub pushes the strategic Western ally closer toward the kind of standoffs that have unraveled other countries, including nearby Bahrain, during the Arab Spring: opposition groups possibly taking to the streets and the ruling establishment facing critical decisions about how hard to lash back.

The disputes flow from a complicated chain of events over the past six months, including the dissolution of the opposition-led parliament and its replacement by a pro-government legislature, followed by a decree from the emir to amend voting rules that appeared to favor his critics.

The opposition coalition then decided it would not participate in the election and deemed the new parliament ? certain to be dominated by pro-government lawmakers ? as illegitimate. The tensions also raise worrisome questions for allies such as the U.S., which seeks to keep thousands of American soldiers in Kuwait as part of the Pentagon's military counterweight to Iran.

"The core demands of the opposition are more participation and more partnership in government," said Shafeeq Ghabra, a political affairs professor at Kuwait University.

Anti-government lawmakers ? mostly Islamists and their allies ? have made almost a cottage industry of lodging corruption accusations and other charges at officials and even members of the ruling family. In the past year, the foreign minister and central bank governor resigned under pressure from the opposition bloc in the 50-seat parliament.

Such dissent would be unthinkable in much of the tightly ruled Gulf, including Saudi Arabia or the United Arab Emirates. The decision to boycott the Kuwaiti elections now closes off parliament as a forum for a wide spectrum of opposition voices and could stir more street protests, which touched off serious clashes this month.

"The only thing certain is that we are not going to back down," said Mohammed Qassem, a leader of the election boycott movement.

That leaves the oil-rich country deeply divided. The showdown, stripped to its essentials, is over whether the final word on the country's political affairs rests with the people or the ruling dynasty.

There is still no clear sense on Kuwait's direction and whether the political stalemate could flare into unrest. All sides are "working blind" at the moment, said Mary Ann Tetreault, a Gulf affairs expert at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, in an interview with Al Jazeera.

On Friday, more than 15,000 protesters rallied in the first government-authorized demonstration in Kuwait City since a ban on political gatherings earlier this month. Banners proclaimed: "We are boycotting."

There was no violence and at the end of the rally, the crowd dispersed peacefully. But the protest was closely watched for any signs of breakaway groups trying to confront security forces. The apparent strong turnout by youth groups and liberal factions also was important as an indication the unusual boycott coalition is holding together.

Their alliance of convenience with Islamists and conservative tribal leaders is among the most unexpected developments of the political meltdown. For the moment, they are united by the claims that the emir, Sheik Sabah Al Ahmed Al Sabah, overstepped his authority by changing the Kuwait's unusual multi-vote system to the standard one-vote-one-person.

Previously, Kuwaitis could cast ballots for four candidates. Critics of the change say it gives authorities a greater hand possibly to bribe voters or control candidates.

The presence of Western-oriented Kuwaitis in the protest group poses added challenges to the ruling system, which had generally counted on liberal support in the past. The emir had been lauded for standing firm against demands for stricter Muslim codes by hardliners, including calls to impose the death sentence on anyone convicted of insulting Islam.

Whether the broad-based opposition holds together remains one of the critical wild cards immediately after Saturday's election.

"The government and the opposition seem to be in a mood to escalate this further and neither side appears prepared to back down," said Kristian Coates-Ulrichsen, a research fellow who follows Gulf affairs at the London School of Economics. "Kuwait may be entering the most dangerous and volatile period in its history."

It got to this point through political brinksmanship and a series of gambits ? with each one appearing to dig the country deeper into crisis.

In February, Islamists and their tribal allies won parliament elections and immediately pushed for greater clout in policymaking affairs, including more seats in the Cabinet.

After a few tense months, the Constitutional Court disbanded the parliament amid claims of flaws in the electoral district map, and reinstated the former government-friendly chamber from elections in 2009. That group of lawmakers, however, never managed to convene a session.

In September, the country's highest civilian court rejected the government's assertions about problems in the electoral map, forcing the emir to call new elections.

Kuwait also has been hit by a wave of labor unrest and strikes earlier this year, including walkouts that grounded the state carrier, Kuwait Airways, and temporarily closed customs posts and left several hundred trucks stranded at the border.

Calls for better working conditions have grown louder in the wake of the Arab Spring uprisings. Kuwaitis are used to well-paid government jobs and cradle-to-grave benefits that increasingly have become a burden on state finances despite the huge oil wealth.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/kuwait-election-boycott-shifts-drama-streets-055739680.html

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