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San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) February 16, 2012

Luce at the InterContinental San Francisco and the California Culinary Academy (CCA) announce the top five student finalists in Luce?s Culinary Clash program, one of the school?s largest cooking competitions and scholarship efforts to date. Numerous students submitted three-course menus with corresponding recipes for the opportunity to cook with Luce?s Michelin-starred Chef de Cuisine Daniel Corey, a CCA alum. Five CCA students have been selected to showcase their menu at Luce on a designated night starting on Monday, February 27, 2012. The students? menus will be judged by a panel of hotel executives, local personalities and food writers in addition to restaurant guests.

The top three students will receive cash prizes and the first place winner will also be invited to cook with Chef Corey at the prestigious James Beard House in April 2012. A portion of proceeds from each menu sold during the five dinners will go to the California Culinary Academy Scholarship Fund.

The three course dinners are offered at $ 40 per person on the following dates with one student featured each night: Monday, February 27, 2012; Sunday, March 4, 2012; Sunday, March 11, 2012; Sunday, March 18, 2012; and Sunday, March 25, 2012. Wine pairing, tax and gratuity are not included. Seating begins at 5:30pm. The top three winners will be announced during a special event at the CCA on Monday, March 26, 2012.

The five CCA finalists competing in Luce?s Culinary Clash and the date their menu will be featured are as follows:

Monday, February 27, 2012: Sinesipho Baduza

Sinesipho Baduza was raised in East London in the province of Eastern Cape, South Africa, where her first job in the food industry was at a small-scale catering operation she ran with her sister while in college. Baduza decided to take some time away from her studies and traveled to Fort Lauderdale, Florida in 2009, working as a chef on private yachts. It was during this time that she discovered her passion for food. She was inspired to build a firm foundation in the culinary arts and enrolled in the Culinary Arts Associate Degree program at the California Culinary Academy.

Sunday, March 4, 2012: Stephanie Davidovich

Although Stephanie has lived abroad and all over California, she considers San Francisco her hometown. Her inspiration for cooking was sparked at a young age and she credits her mother, who did not do much cooking, as well as her grandmothers with inspiring her to get creative in the kitchen. ?I started exploring the kitchen and cooking here and there for my family,? she says. While working simultaneously as a health counselor, 1st grade teacher, and middle school cooking teacher, Davidovich decided to pursue the culinary world in a more formal way. She is currently enrolled in the Culinary Arts Certificate program at the CCA.

Sunday, March 11, 2012: Bruce Pettit

Bruce Pettit was born and raised in Sarasota, Florida and is currently enrolled in the Culinary Arts Certificate program at the CCA. Before beginning to cook on his own, Pettit drew inspiration from Alton Brown?s ?Good Eats? program. ?I watched his show for years before I ever cooked anything, and I still love his way of thinking about cooking and food.? Pettit slowly started to cook for family and friends and enjoyed the experience so much that he decided to attend culinary school. When he is not in class, Pettit is experimenting in his home kitchen, making all kinds of ingredients from scratch including soda syrups, coconut milk and curry powder.

Sunday, March 18, 2012: Ashley Gates

A native of Thousand Oaks, California, Ashley Gates comes from a family that loved to cook. While her career path led her to work at Apple, Inc., she decided to pursue her passion for cooking after four years with the company. ?When I am in the kitchen and making food for family or guests, I know that I am doing something that brings people together and makes them happy. That alone gives me more satisfaction than eating.? Gates is currently enrolled in the Culinary Arts Certificate program at the CCA.

Sunday, March 25, 2012: Jessica Curtis

A California native, Jessica Curtis grew up in Menlo Park, holding jobs that fit with her interests ? the outdoors, skiing and food. With most of Curtis? family working in the food, wine, and beer industry, it seemed only natural that she would pursue the same direction. Inspired by cooking with her family, Curtis enrolled in the Culinary Arts Certificate program at the CCA. Looking towards her future, Curtis would like to focus on butchery and the craft of working with meats and breaking down animals.

In addition to showcasing their menu in a Michelin-starred restaurant, the finalists will also receive special training on wine pairing with Luce?s Beverage Director John Wight and partners from Treasury Wine Estates including Beringer Vineyards, Chateau St. Jean, Etude, St. Clement and Stags? Leap Winery. Students will spend a full day exploring each winery, meeting winemakers and learning about the varietals. Every dinner will have a designated wine partner, with the finalists pairing wine according to their menu.

Luce offers a dining experience that is the perfect marriage of local flavors and global inspiration, focusing on New American cuisine. In addition to sourcing the best sustainable products as possible, Chef Corey is committed to crafting many items in house, including pastas, desserts and pickled ingredients. Luce has been recognized with a Michelin star since 2009 and this year?s accolade marks the first Michelin star under Chef Corey?s direction. Luce is also the recipient of the Wine Spectator ?Award of Excellence? for two consecutive years.

Located on the lobby level of the InterContinental San Francisco in the South of Market district, Luce offers a modern and sophisticated dining atmosphere. The restaurant is open for breakfast, lunch and dinner and serves brunch on weekends. For reservations, please call 415.616.6566 or visit http://www.lucewinerestaurant.com.

For more information on Luce at the InterContinental San Francisco and further details on Luce?s Culinary Clash, please visit http://www.lucewinerestaurant.com.

ABOUT INTERCONTINENTAL SAN FRANCISCO

The InterContinental San Francisco opened in February 2008 at Howard and 5th streets next to Moscone West Convention Center. The hotel towers 32 stories above the heart of the City and features 550 rooms, 14 suites, 43,000 sq. ft. of flexible meeting space with natural light, the Michelin-starred Luce restaurant, Bar 888, a ten-room treatment spa, full-service fitness center, and an indoor pool. Most recently, the InterContinental San Francisco received its LEED EBOM Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. For more information and to make reservations, contact the InterContinental San Francisco, 888 Howard Street, San Francisco, Calif. 94103, at 415.616.6500 or 888.811.4273 or by visiting http://www.intercontinentalsanfrancisco.com.

ABOUT CALIFORNIA CULINARY ACADEMY

The California Culinary Academy has been creating culinary excellence in San Francisco for over 30 years. One of the West?s first culinary schools, they have been committed to providing high standards of culinary arts, pastry chef and personal chef training since 1977. Each student of the cooking school receives a comprehensive, challenging training in classic culinary techniques combined with modern innovations and the latest in global cuisine. They learn through demonstration by experienced chef instructors followed by hands-on, practical application. The Le Cordon Bleu curriculum of California Culinary Academy includes important theoretical concepts and industry-relevant general education courses. For more information on the California Culinary Academy, please visit http://www.chefs.edu/San-Francisco.

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Irvine, CA (PRWEB) February 10, 2012

Jamboree Housing Corporation, one of California?s largest affordable housing developers, today announced the grand opening of Bonterra Apartment Homes ? along with Brea Mayor Don Schweitzer, County of Orange and city officials, U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development, Bank of America and Brea city officials. Interview and photo opportunities are available.

Bonterra provides workforce housing for families who earn between 30% and 60% of the area median income (AMI) and consists of 94 garden-style apartment homes for lease within the new Blackstone master-planned community, currently under development by Shea Homes and Standard Pacific Homes. The new property encompasses seven three-story buildings arranged around central courtyards and are linked by tree-lined, pedestrian-friendly landscaped walks. It provides 21 one bedroom, 34 two bedroom, and 39 three bedroom apartments for rent. The Spanish-inspired architecture features private garages for each apartment home along with additional surface parking areas for residents and guests.

“The City of Brea is excited to have partnered with Jamboree Housing to bring an attractive, energy-efficient and well-planned housing development to an important master development site,? says Mayor Don Schweitzer. ?It speaks to the City?s values for quality and sustainability by integrating affordable housing throughout our community ? for residents embarking on their careers and for those who have experienced setbacks in the economic landscape of recent years.? Schweitzer points out that an estimated 7,500 workers are within 1.5 miles of the site, noting that the master developers, Shea Homes and Standard Pacific Homes, showed leadership by seamlessly integrating Bonterra with other housing choices in the community.

Jamboree Housing worked closely with the City of Brea, Brea Redevelopment Agency, the County of Orange, the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee (TCAC), Bank of America, and Merritt Community Capital Corporation to bring this new neighborhood from planning to reality, according to Laura Archuleta, Jamboree Housing?s president. As a critical component of the Blackstone master plan, Bonterra was built as a requirement of Tonner Hills? Affordable Housing Implementation Agreement with the City of Brea.

In fact, securing all necessary approvals, preparing the site and developing the property is a long and challenging process that took nearly a decade. ?Our City, County, lending and development partners stayed the course, committed to Jamboree?s mission to provide quality affordable housing with impactful resident services,? continues Archuleta. ?This is what public/private partnerships are all about and we are pleased to provide affordable workforce housing for the City of Brea and the Blackstone master-planned community.?

Bonterra is located within the Blackstone community master plan area, which is located along the 57 Freeway in Brea. This 800-acre master plan will include seven new neighborhoods, a new city sports park, and extensive preserved open space.

Bonterra features a 3,500 square-foot community recreation center for use by Jamboree residents as well as landscaped community spaces for outdoor recreation. The building amenities include property management offices and classroom space designed for onsite resident services provided by Jamboree?s

Resident Services Group. Offered at more than 38 of its properties, Jamboree Housing?s onsite resident services are tailored to the specific needs of Bonterra families ? that foster learning, healthy lifestyles, and community building to enrich their quality of life. Additional amenities include community meeting rooms, a computer lab, a swimming pool with patio area, a tot lot, barbecue/picnic areas, and a central laundry facility. Each apartment home features ENERGY STAR appliances and lighting.

In Jamboree Housing?s ongoing commitment to sustainability, the property is designed as its first development to achieve a LEED (Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design) for Homes Silver rating. The LEED Green Building Rating System is the nationally accepted benchmark for the design, construction, and operation of high-performance green residential buildings. LEED promotes a whole-building approach to sustainability by recognizing performance in five key areas: sustainable site development, water savings, energy efficiency, materials selection and indoor environmental quality. Features of exceptional rating at Bonterra include water efficiency in all homes and an outstanding landscape irrigation system as well as the development?s overall project density that preserved open space.

Michael Massie, Jamboree?s housing development director, points out that the Blackstone community is ideally situated for residents living in the new Bonterra community as it is located near major retail, entertainment and employment centers. Residents will also have exceptional views of surrounding cityscape and open space including the future Wildcatter Park located across the street from the Blackstone neighborhood. A central landscaped paseo connects the neighborhood?s residential homes and community center to the main thoroughfare, Santa Fe Road.

KTGY Group, Inc. of California is the architect of Jamboree?s newest affordable housing development and Advent Companies of California is the general contractor. The John Stewart Company provides onsite property management.

More information about Jamboree Housing is available online at http://www.JamboreeHousing.com

Property Fact Sheet available upon request.

About Jamboree:

Founded in 1990, Irvine, CA-headquartered Jamboree Housing Corporation is an award-winning, broad-based nonprofit housing development company that develops, acquires, renovates and manages permanently affordable rental and ownership housing throughout California for working families, seniors and people with special needs. HOMES, Inc. and Housing with HEART are 501(c)(3) organizations and comprise Jamboree?s Resident Services Group. A leading nonprofit developer, Jamboree is committed to sustaining excellence with high quality affordable housing that is good for the environment, the economy and local communities. It currently has about $ 250 million in affordable housing projects in its development pipeline and a $ 1 billion asset portfolio that includes the development of and/or ownership interest in more than 6,600 homes in more than 65 California communities. Currently, Housing with HEART programs and

(Vocus/PRWEB) February 17, 2011

The Nursing Home Complaint Center says, “The symptoms of severe nursing home abuse and neglect include continuous sepsis type infections for the patient, septic shock, which both typically lead to hospitalizations, and or broken bones.” The group says, “if a loved one, or family member nursing home patient has been severely mistreated, or abused, especially in California, Florida, Washington, or Arizona, we want to know about it immediately, so we can try to get help, and assistance to these families on the spot.” They say, “the most important thing we want family members, or loved ones of nursing home patients to do nationwide is to keep very good records of how your family member, or loved one is doing. These records, and or diary should include times, and dates, you saw, or spoke with your family member, or loved one who is, or was a patient in a nursing home.” For more information about the Nursing Home Complaint Center’s world class free service for victims of severe nursing home abuse, please call the group anytime at 866-714-6466, or contact the group via their web site at http://NursingHomeComplaintCenter.Com

Signs of Severe Nursing Home Abuse, or Neglect Anywhere in The United States:

Continuous hospitalizations for sepsis type infections
Continuous hospitalizations for septic shock
Broken bones
Assaults involving other patients, or staff members, and your loved ones

The Nursing Home Complaint Center says, “with a million plus US nursing home patients, and with nursing homes being short staffed, or under staffed more often than not, we cannot even begin to describe how serious elder abuse, or neglect in our nations nursing homes is-but take our word it is off the charts.” They say, “we are urging all family members of nursing home patients to start keeping records, including how your Mom, Dad, or family member was the last time you talked with them. We can’t even begin to tell you how important these records, and or journals can become in the event something happens to your loved one in a nursing home.” http://NursingHomeComplaintCenter.Com

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