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EPA Proposes Plan to Remove Contaminated Soil from Nepera Chemical Superfund Site in Orange County, N.Y.; EPA to Hold Public Meeting on June 15 to Discuss Plan
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(New York, N.Y.) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today released a proposed plan to remove contaminated soil from the site of former lagoons at the Nepera Chemical Company, Inc. Superfund site in Hamptonburgh, N.Y. EPA has developed three options to address contaminated soil at the former lagoons and has selected excavation and off-site disposal of the contaminated soil as its preferred alternative. This plan amends EPA's 2007 cleanup plan for the site, which called for excavating contaminated soil and treating the soil on-site to degrade contaminants, but not removing soil from the site. The 2007 plan also included treatment of contaminated ground water at the site. The ground water treatment activities at the site will not change under the amended plan. The public can comment on EPA's plan until June 20, 2011. On June 15, EPA will hold a public meeting to discuss the plan at 7:00 p.m. at the Hamptonburgh Town Hall at 18 Bull Road in Campbell Hall, N.Y.
"EPA's preferred alternative for removing contaminated soil from the Nepera Chemical site is the fastest way to complete this critical phase of the site cleanup," said EPA Regional Administrator Judith Enck. "The contaminants in this soil – especially semi-volatile and volatile organic compounds – are harmful to human health, so removing them as quickly as possible must be a priority."
Subsurface soil at the Nepera Chemical site contains a variety of contaminants, including semi-volatile and volatile organic compounds. People could potentially be harmed if they ingest or come into contact with contaminated soil or water. Ground water samples from nearby residential wells and three public supply wells have not revealed site-related contamination. Additionally, the site is fenced in order to limit the potential for exposure to site-related surface soil contamination.
Three cleanup options for addressing the contaminated soil are described in EPA's proposed plan for the site:
· Excavating contaminated soil which would be disposed of at a permitted off-site facility. This option would take about one year to complete and cost about $3,025,000. This is EPA's preferred alternative.
· Excavating contaminated soil and treating it on-site using techniques to extract and break down contaminants in the soil. This option would take at least two years and cost about $3,119,000.
· Taking no action, which is an option that EPA is required to consider for any cleanup plan.
The Nepera Chemical Company, Inc., Superfund site is a 29.3-acre former industrial waste disposal facility. Nepera made a variety of pharmaceutical and industrial chemicals. Between 1953 and 1967, lagoons at the site received approximately 50,000 gallons of waste water per day from the Nepera Chemical plant in Harriman, N.Y. The six backfilled lagoons cover roughly five acres in total. State inspectors detected leaks from the lagoons in 1958 and 1960, and operations ended in December 1967. About 7,000 people live within three miles of the site.
Contamination at the site has been addressed in two stages: short-term actions and a long-term remedial phase focusing on cleanup of the entire site. Short-term actions have included the filling of the lagoons in 1974, the construction of a fence limiting access to the site and the disposal of three drums found during an excavation in 1991. Ground water monitoring and soil sampling have been a primary component of the long-term remedial investigation. EPA approved a final remedial investigation study in March 2006 and completed its proposed cleanup plan in July 2007. This plan included excavating contaminated soil and treating it on-site to degrade the contaminants. Additional data collected since implementing the 2007 plan showed that less soil than originally expected would need to be removed from the site. The expected costs of removing soil also decreased. EPA proposed removing excavated soil from the site as it will significantly shorten the time needed to complete the site cleanup.
The proposed plan is available on EPA's website at https://www.epa.gov/region02/superfund/npl/nepera/. It is also available at the Hamptonburgh Town Hall at 18 Bull Road, Campbell Hall, N.Y. and EPA's New York City office at 290 Broadway, 18th floor, New York, N.Y.
Members of the public can comment on EPA's proposed plan until June 20, 2011 and send them to:
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New York, N.Y. 10007-1866
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Members of the Churchill family and representatives of Churchill-related organisations joined the congregation at a wreath laying to commemorate the Right Honourable Sir Winston Churchill KG OM CH TD at Westminster Abbey on Friday 30th January.
2015 marks fifty years since the death of the war-time leader, sixty years since his final resignation as prime minister, and seventy-five years since his 'finest hour' leading the fight against fascism in 1940.
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) _ Creighton University plans to cut about 60 nonteaching positions at the Omaha Jesuit institution.
The university president, the Rev. Daniel Hendrickson, informed college workers via a letter sent earlier this week. Some of the cutbacks will come from elimination of open positions, but Hendrickson also said most of the reduction will come from dismissals.
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Ag-tech pot-stock, Roots Sustainable Agricultural Technologies (ASX:ROO), has secured the first sale of its Root Zone Temperature Optimisation (RZTO) heating and cooling technology in the blooming medicinal marijuana market.
The sale follows directly on from promising interim proof-of-concept cooling results on medicinal cannabis planted in greenhouses during July, where cooled plants achieved a substantial increase in size and stem diameter compared to control crops in just two months, thanks to ROO's RZTO technology.
ROO is creating disruptive, modular, cutting-edge technologies to solve major problems in modern agriculture, including plant climate management and the shortage of water for irrigation. Its patented RZTO technology optimises plant physiology for increased growth, productivity and quality by stabilising the plant's root zone temperature.
During its world-first proof-of-concept in northern Israel, ROO's RZTO cooling system was used to keep the root zone of cannabis plants at more than 7 degrees below the root zones of the control crops and kept a favourable temperature range.
This was a collaboration with Canndoc Limited, one of Israel's leading medical cannabis growers. These encouraging interim results look to offer sizeable value to farmers in the medicinal cannabis space — one that's expected to reach US$55.8 billion by 2025.
Meanwhile, the initial order, which is valued at A$47,000, will see ROO installing its RZTO heating technology in four areas within the greenhouse: plant quarantine, mother plant, rooting greenhouse and growing-tables. This will be in central Israel, a fully legalised medical cannabis jurisdiction.
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"We expect this order will be the first of many as we continue to demonstrate the benefits of root zone heating and cooling on cannabis crops in varying climates and growing conditions.
"This sale is a good example of the versatility and adaptability of Roots' RZTO system on various crops, in protected agricultural as well as in open fields. It supports our step-by-step pilot-to-sales marketing approach of conducting pilots on select crops in various conditions to prove its efficiency.
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This encouraging development comes on the heels of ample positive news flow from ROO. Last week, the company revealed it has sold its first RZTO system for use on basil crops in Israel — another situation in which an encouraging pilot has reinforced the efficacy of ROO's razor-sharp tech in diverse conditions, thereby opening commercial doors and playing nicely into the aforementioned strategy.
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Barack Obama's presidential win wasn't just have been a milestone for race relations in America, it may have changed the tone of the Captain America movie, as well. Is there nothing this man cannot do?
The rumor that the currently-in-production Cap movie is feeling Obamania can be traced back to Entertainment Weekly; the magazine having picked up on the idea that Obama's election has made a movie about the ultimate American soldier somewhat more of an easier sell internationally than it may have been under the current administration by quoting Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige:
The idea of change and hope has permeated the country [in the wake of Obama's election], regardless of politics, and that includes Hollywood. Discussions in all our development meetings include the zeitgeist and how it's changed in the last two weeks. Things are being adjusted... If a film called Captain America, with a red, white, and blue color scheme, can be met with anticipation and even with promise around the world, as opposed to skepticism, I'm going to be very happy.
But how much influence will Obama's presidency really have over the cinematic fate of Steve Rogers? After all, the New York Times reported just earlier this month that, despite international disapproval of the Bush regime's decisions, the rest of the world was just as eager - if not moreso - for American movies and television shows, and any talk of "change and hope" is, at this point, still campaign rhetoric until Obama takes office next month. Is Marvel really reworking their movie to match a viewpoint and optimism that could seem dated (or worse yet, naive) when the movie is released in 2011?
The answers are most likely "very little" and "probably not," respectively. Captain America as a character has always been written as an inspirational figure that represents the American ideal much more than any particular political viewpoint (Something that the fan sites have run with), and perhaps more importantly, the movie is rumored to take place entirely in the 1940s, thereby avoiding any clunky references to the current president as a representation of how America can fulfill its promise. The selection of the somewhat-fluffy Joe Johnson as director (announced post-election, but so close that it had obviously been decided pre-) suggests that Marvel were always planning to go relatively light and heroic despite the wartime setting, and that those hoping for a superhero version of Saving Private Ryan may have to look elsewhere.
The election of Obama, and the world subsequently feeling more positive about America as a political power in general, may help a movie about an American hero who fights to make the world a better place seem more timely and contemporary - or not, depending on what happens over the next couple of years - but that has much less to do with any recreation of Captain America's character than it does smart spin on the part of Marvel Studios. After all, if they were really going to try and cash in on Obama, they'd base the movie on Captain America: Truth.


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Reluctantly, I've come to realise recently that the view of happiness presented by Albert Camus in The Myth of Sisyphus comes quite close to my own. Basically for Camus happiness is a product of the condition of the absurd. This is encapsulated in humanity's search for meaning in a world where God does not exist, and where there are no absolute truths or values. Our 'appetite for the absolute and for unity' constantly runs up against 'the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle'. The world is simply not reasonable. So the human project is doomed to failure – we will never succeed in our attempts to apply reason to a state of being that is fundamentally unreasonable. This, in a nutshell, is the absurd.
Does our recognition of the absurd demand suicide as a response, Camus asks.No, we just have to live with the contradiction. Reason and its limits must be acknowledged, without any false hopes. But the absurd must never be accepted: it requires constant confrontation, constant revolt. For Camus, this revolt leads to freedom: when we are no longer bound by hope for a better future or for eternity, we have no need to pursue life's purpose or to create meaning; instead we enjoy 'freedom with regard to common rules'.
In the last chapter of this short work Camus relates the condition of the absurd to the Sisyphus myth. The latter was a character in Greek mythology who tried to outwit Zeus, the ruler of the gods, and in the process committed some pretty bloody crimes. Finally Zeus ordered Death, or Thanatos, to chain Sisyphus up in the Underworld. Cunning as ever, Sisyphus asked Thanatos to show him how the chains worked; while Thanatos was obliging him with a demonstration Sisyphus seized the initiative and imprisoned Death in his own shackles.
In other words, Sisyphus tried to outwit Zeus by abolishing death. This caused such an uproar among the gods that Sisyphus was bullied into releasing Thanatos. He was then condemned to a punishment which most of us can easily recognise from our own day-to-day lives: he had to spend the rest of eternity in the Underworld, rolling a huge boulder up a steep hill; whenever he got near the top the boulder tumbled back down again, forcing Sisyphus to begin the task all over again. (Think, for example, of spending hours cleaning the house, knowing that next week we'll have to do it all over again. Are our more serious tasks any different – do we ever really complete them?).
Camus sees Sisyphus as the archetypal absurd hero who lives life to the full, hates death and is condemned to an utterly meaningless task. His never-ending and pointless toil can be interpreted as a metaphor for human life, full of unremitting drudgery which we are compelled to take seriously, since existence would be unsustainable without it.
According to Camus the truly tragic moment comes when Sisyphus is beginning his task all over again, and becomes conscious of his own miserable condition. He does not have hope, but 'there is no fate that cannot be overcome by scorn'. When Sisyphus acknowledges the futility of his task and the certainty that he will never succeed in it, he is freed to realise the absurdity of his situation and to reach a contented acceptance. 'One must imagine Sisyphus happy'.
A brief postscript: Camus' account of our flailing attempts to apply reason to problems which will never admit of reasonable solutions reminded me of Steven Knight's brilliant film Locke. Ivan Locke thinks that if he just stays calm and remains rational he will work out how to do the right thing in a nightmare situation where there is no right thing that can be done. It's agonising to watch.


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This hilarious NFL ad campaign, titled 'Make your football self happy', promotes the Lowe's chain of retail home improvement and appliance stores. The ad consists of four highly humorous spots put together by the BBDO New York ad agency.
The ad shows men and women -- all staunch football fans -- being urged by doppelgangers representing their football-loving selves to get their home improvement projects done with so they'll be free to watch football on Sunday in a guilt-free manner.
This NFL ad campaign aims to remind consumers that football-watching and home improvement don't have to get in each other's way. Consumers are urged to go to Lowe's on weekdays to purchase products for their home improvement needs, leaving plenty of time to watch football on the weekend.
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Portia's election no-go
It was a dark moment in Black River last Sunday night.
Comrades had poured into the St Elizabeth capital, the first town in Jamaica to have electric light, in 1893, for the meeting before the Big Meeting when the date would be announced. They left stunned.
The comrade leader's unidentified Master had touched her and quietly whispered in her ear, "My daughter, it is not time to go." But that could mean it is time to go.
Portia's pullback at later than the eleventh hour from what was clearly an election campaign, with soundings coming from other leaders in the party for a 2015 election, has to be one of the riskiest political decisions ever taken by a party leader. The reasons for not going which were fed to the faithful in Black River were like pouring water into broken cisterns.
Despite the cantankerous brayings of the business class against an election in the Christmas season, on six previous occasions, out of 16 past general elections, it has been demonstrated that the Yuletide and elections can peacefully coexist.
One is never certain who the business voices are speaking for in the very diverse community. Certain categories of business benefit greatly from election campaigns. Just think of media and transportation and food and beverage, and T-shirt printers and vuvuzela sellers, road fixers and gully cleaners. And with an election combined with Christmas, they enjoy a double whopper.
In a peaceful election campaign with money flowing like water, why can't businesses just get on with business and stop behaving as if they specially own the political process and the Government? There isn't even any risk of any ideological shift and change of course if the government changes.
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The Christmas that Comrades wanted, having been fired up for it for weeks, was victory at the polls before it gets too late, not ham and sorrel with the sword of Damocles hanging over their heads.
Portia Simpson Miller suddenly developed a deep maternal empathy for newly registered voters, particularly those who have just come of age and should not be disenfranchised. "The youth of Jamaica," she told the Black River party crowd, "should be given an equal opportunity to have a say in the way their country is governed."
We don't know the age composition of the 37,000 newly registered voters. We do know that youth 18-24 make up the highest proportion of those who tell pollsters they won't vote. We do know that there was an unusual rush of people to register before the September 30 cut-off date.
Not only has the ECJ cleaned up the political system so that elections are no longer physical tribal wars, the bipartisan agency has given us continuous voter registration every working day of the year. A rolling voters' list is published every May and November to include new registrations done up to two months before publication of the list. A six-month-old list is current, very current. And the truth is, any election date is going to exclude the most recently registered.
One thing more we know. The Jamaican electorate votes out governments that they have grown tired of, not vote in the Opposition party because they are pleased with its promises. Surveying international trends in political behaviour, I have been suggesting that an era of one-term governments and lower victory margins may have been ushered in for us with the ushering out of the one-term JLP Government in 2011. We'll see. But the rush to register should bring no comfort to the party incumbent in Government. The JLP has its completely non-altruistic reasons for wanting these new votes included.
So apart from the touch of her Master, what will determine the right time for the prime minister to call the election to her party's advantage? We know that governing parties call early preterm elections either to avert defeat from further slippage or to seize an advantage that presents itself. We have seen no particular spike-inducing advantage since the parties were polled in dead heat with low voter support in September. Soon after this, the PNP took to the campaign trail.
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Drawing sudden brakes now is signalling that the party is judging the slippage to be so bad that unless a build-back can be achieved, things don't look very good for electoral victory.
But what could give the governing party the desired bounce in the next few months, since "the hour is at hand"? People are hurting from economic hardship, a constant of Jamaican life since forever, but easy to blame on an incumbent Government. The IMF relaxation of the primary surplus target could allow greater responsible public spending, not run-wid-it electioneering spending. The primary surplus means that revenues are exceeding spending not taking into account interest payments on debt.
Cynical Jamaicans who may have already made up their minds are masters of 'nyam dem out and vote dem out'. The, leader of the JLP in Opposition who has been promoting this strategy, should remember that the "same knife weh jook sheep, jook goat". And the seasoned people do not need his foot-in-mouth advice.
Even among PNP party faithfuls, the Black River let-down is going to be hard to rebuild. The accumulated weight of negatives like the dead babies issue can only get bigger, not smaller, with time.
One of the biggest assets to the PNP for election victories past can be broadly described as the 'Seaga factor', a combination of leadership conflicts within the JLP and public distrust outside stoked by the PNP. Andrew Holness' leadership of the party had begun to appear incurably infected with the Seaga factor. But if the leadership of the party can shake the factor, the PNP could be in even bigger trouble.
The party president's intention "to do the reaping at the right time in the New Year", and the expectation that "the party will win the election when it is called at the right time because the PNP has been working in the interest of Jamaicans" is really very politically naive coming from such a seasoned pol. Political history, our own and others', is strewn with a multitude of cases of one planting and another reaping and cases of the 'ingratitude' of the people. A defeated Bustamante called Jamaicans "Judas people". And a stunned D.K. Duncan on the night of the 1980 general election that handed power to the JLP after the heady years of democratic socialism, bawled out, "What happen to black people vote?"
Portia continues to await her Master's 'go' touch. One good thing about this is that she will be obliged to humbly accept the election outcome, lose or win, as "thy will be done". Her last prophecy-inspired 'go' based on the mystery number 7 for the 2007 election turned out to be 'pack your bags and go'. But we'll see what 2016 brings. Practice may improve accuracy.
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The new official WoW fanfiction forum has been live for a little while now, and it's starting to fill up with a variety of stories for the interested reader. There you can find tragic tales of fallen heroes, tongue-in-cheek vignettes, and even some chronicles devoted to filling in the gaps of Azerothian history. Really, even after only a few days of existence, there are more than enough stories to keep a fanfiction enthusiast busy for quite some time.
In the spirit of drawing some attention to the forum as a whole, I've spent some time reading through a number of the threads there and picked out a few of my favorites. Mind you, this isn't necessarily a comprehensive list, because I simply don't have the time to give every single posted tale the attention that it deserves. The ones I've chosen caught my fancy for any number of reasons--the originality of the concept, some aspect of the writing, or the effect of the story. They are listed below in no particular order. Do click on over to check them out, and feel free to add favorites of your own in the comments!
1. Eventide, by Tickee.
"Eventide" is the story of gnome warlock Tickee and her relationship with her sister. It spans a great deal of time, from before the Third War all the way through to the events of Cataclysm, but does so in a way that doesn't feel clunky. I like this one for how it frames a few large-scale events through Tickee's eyes, and focuses on Azeroth's oft-neglected gnomish people. Though the tale is bleak, and the twist at the end a bit obvious, I thoroughly enjoyed this story. Perhaps you will too!
2. The Gundersson and Hammerstein Chronicles, by Gundersson
There's no way around it, this is one of the oddest and most entertaining WoW fanfictions I have ever read. The writing isn't perfect, and more than once it gets a little difficult to tell who various pronouns are referring to. However, all that is worth overlooking because this story takes a fantastic risk with its point of view character. The source of the voice telling the story isn't immediately obvious, and the author respects readers enough to let us figure it out on our own. I don't want to spoil it, because the small mystery is a good chunk of the fun. I am utterly charmed.
3. Pox, by Lilfeathers
I have a soft spot for Garrosh, and this story set during the days of the Old Horde on Draenor hits just the right note for me. Some of the descriptive passages get a little clunky, but the dialogue really shines. Lilfeathers lets the characters' interactions do the storytelling's heavy lifting, which I appreciate. Considering current events in WoW, this one's a bit of a heartbreaker, in the best way.
4. The First Paragon, by Deedle
Here I must admit to at least a little bit of a bias, because the author of this story is in my guild. Thus, personal disclaimer taken care of, onto the praise: I really enjoy this tale of of how Korven the Prime, many, many years ago in Pandaria, became the founding member of the Klaxxi Paragons. The story takes a couple paragraphs to get its legs under it, but manages to capture the atmosphere and mindset of Mantid society pitch-perfectly.
5. Incidentally Heroic, by Aedilhild
This one's an interesting bit of a throwback, because the author states up-front that it was an entry for Blizzard's 2010 Global Creative Writing Contest. To be perfectly honest, I consider this one to be the weakest of the five I've listed, but only because the story overreaches itself in its latter half, and goes on far longer than it needs to. The writing is sharp, entertaining, and engaging. I mean, check this out:
I can't remember the last time I read a better description of a chest-puffing, mustachioed windbag. The entire story is full of these wonderful descriptive passages, and they make it a joy to read despite the rickety second act. Definitely worth a look!
Garrulus was a burly, square-jawed, cleft-chinned man clad in plate armor that looked like it had once been a soup kettle. He spoke at one volume, loud, occasionally patting his steel warmace. His red handlebar moustache flapped and twitched when he talked as if two squirrels were standing on his lip doing the jitterbug rump-to-rump.
I hope you enjoy some of these recommendations, and if your tastes differ vastly from mine, may the links at least lead you to give the "Seat of Knowledge" a once-over. There's a lot of stuff there, and only more to come, so there's bound to be something for just about everyone.


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From prehistoric pueblo comes modern-day find: Women empowered
It was one of the most spectacular finds from prehistoric North America: 14 people buried with a wealth of jewelry and fine pottery at a colossal pueblo in New Mexico. After more than a century of questions, scientists have finally identified the dead, revealing that women were at the heart of one of North America's most complex native cultures.
The buried men and women were members of an elite dynasty that held sway at this ancient site, according to new DNA data and other evidence. This was a dynasty with a difference: Exalted status was passed down not from father to son but from mother to both daughters and sons, according to a study in this week's Nature Communications.
The work "really (shows) the importance of women," says Barbara Mills of the University of Arizona, who was not associated with the study. "They definitely had religious and political prominence, and probably economic, too."
The crypt holding the 14 dead lies in a secluded section of Pueblo Bonito, a multi-story stone complex with 650 rooms in New Mexico's Chaco Canyon. At its height, Pueblo Bonito was a bustling ceremonial and political center and one of at least a dozen such "great houses" in the canyon. Most scholars agree that the Chaco culture was one of the richest and most highly developed in pre-Columbian North America.
But who was in charge? The answer to that question will illuminate what it takes to form a complex society. Some experts argued chiefs must have run Pueblo Bonito all along. Others contended the pueblo was a largely egalitarian place that functioned quite nicely without strong leaders. The men and women in the crypt held the key to understanding power in the pueblo.
Even to a modern eye, the crypt's richness signals prestige. Interred with the skeletons were 11,000-plus turquoise pendants and beads — more turquoise than the total haul from every other prehistoric site in the Southwest — as well as wooden flutes and the remains of scarlet macaws, the latter imported from thousands of miles away.
Researchers were able to test nine skeletons for a kind of DNA handed down only from mother to child. All nine had identical stretches of this maternal DNA, meaning they owed their aristocratic status to dear ol' Mom. More extensive DNA testing of six people in the crypt implied two were mother and daughter and an additional two were grandmother and grandson.
Other tests showed the skeletons had been interred in the crypt at regular intervals from 800 to 1130. The pueblo itself flourished over the same time span, emptying out by 1150. The dynasty dominated the site for more than three centuries, longer than our own nation has endured, says study co-author Douglas Kennett of Pennsylvania State University.
Scholars had long thought that Chaco developed a complex social structure in its latter days, perhaps 1030, and that an influx of immigrants triggered that complexity. But the new results suggest "this society, on its own, became complex much, much earlier than people expected," says study co-author Stephen Plog of the University of Virginia. "What appears to be a fairly powerful family … probably controlled most of what happened in Pueblo Bonito for a long period of time."
The new work is "remarkable," says Stephen Lekson of the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, who was not involved with the study. "It eliminates some of our older thinking (including mine) on who was in the crypt, and really pushes Chaco toward territory that Southwestern archaeology may not be ready for: a state or polity."


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Kohler Co., to increase its expanse in the design and manufacturing of products for kitchen and bath has announced the launch of the KOHLER Experience Center (KEC), the concept of which revolves to offer the experience of their products on a global level. The first KEC in India was inaugurted at Lajpat Nagar IV, New Delhi on June 30th, 2017. The space has functional samples of Kohler's global product line on display and has been designed by Studio Lotus.
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Our Kohler Experience Centers signify a paradigm shift in our retail experience globally. With the launch of the Kohler Experience Center in New Delhi we are elevating our retail experience allowing end consumers, architects and designers to have an interactive and immersive experience with Kohler's global range of products, said David Kohler, President and CEO of Kohler Co.
Another feature of this centre is the design and display in seven exclusive designer suites, which are conceptualised to project the possible combinations that one could use in their bathroom space revolving around a theme. Some of the architects and designers who have contributed to this are: Christopher Benninger and Ramprasad Akkisetti of CCBA, Sarabjit Singh of Fabinteriors, Husna Rahaman of Fulcrum etc.
The next cities in line for the same project are- New York, London, Los Angeles, Singapore, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Bangkok and Taipei.


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Actor/Comedian Carlos Mencia, in partnership with the Restaurant Resource Management Group will open Maggie Rita's Mexican Grill & Bar in early July at 111 Tremont (23rd Street) in historic downtown Galveston. Santiago Moreno and David Quintanilla own Restaurant Resource Management Group which operates several Ninfa's restaurants in Houston and Serranos in Austin.
"Maggie Rita's is a fresh new concept we developed for the enjoyment of our guests where they can feel free to relax, eat, drink and become part of the island's carefree attitude," says Mencia. "Maggie's will be an oasis to escape the heat of summer or a place where guests can enjoy the outdoors by sitting on one of our three spacious patios, overlooking the beautiful Galveston Harbor, and sipping one of our award winning margaritas."
Maggie's will be open from 11 a.m. – 9 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and from 9 a.m. – 10 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays. The restaurant will serve Mexican favorites like chips and salsa, enchiladas, fajitas, burritos, tacos and nachos as well as hamburgers, chicken sandwiches and chicken tenders.
"If you want a great patio, friendly staff, fun drinks, delicious food, easy parking and a convenient downtown location with a fabulous harbor view Maggie Rita's is the place for you," says long time restaurateur Moreno. "Who knows, you may even run into celebrity owner Carlos Mencia or one of his many Hollywood friends just hanging out greeting people."
Maggie's will be located in the three-story Armour & Co. Building which is part of Mitchell Historic Properties. The building dates to 1912 and offers indoor and outside dining with views of The Strand or Galveston's historic harbor. The restaurant is adjacent to Saengerfest Park and was formerly Fuddruckers.
"Maggie Rita's is a wonderful addition to The Strand District and nearby Pier 21 complex," says Bill Ross, senior vice president and general manager of Mitchell Historic Properties. "It will enhance our visitors and locals downtown shopping and dining experience by being the only Mexican restaurant located in The Strand District. Plus they are known for great food and tasty margaritas."
For additional information on the Galveston location of Maggie Rita's, please contact Santiago Moreno 281-507-5662.
Mitchell Historic Properties oversees Galveston properties owned by George Mitchell and the Mitchell family, including its commercial and residential properties located downtown. During the past 30 years, the Mitchells have invested more than $175 million in rehabilitating historic properties in The Strand National Historic Landmark District. For commercial and residential leasing information, visit www.mitchellhistoricproperties.com or call (409) 763-5806.


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While perusing a journal in which I have collected quotes and copied favorite things read I found the following wisdom, written by my dear departed friend Norma, whose birthday month was October and who received her heavenly promotion six years ago. I feel as close to her as ever as spiritual friendships are for eternity and thankfully not limited by either time or space. It was good to be reminded of this advice on each occasion when I heard it, whether for my encouragement or her own, especially as she lived it out before my eyes during some extremely difficult times in her own life. I hope it will encourage you as well!
"It's always harder to do the right thing vs the easy thing but it's worth it in the end."
–Norma Lindquist, gone to be with God on September 1, 2005


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This week might well mark a new pessimistic high among U.S. military and Pentagon leaders about the war in Afghanistan, as well as an attendant new willingness to deal with some of the Taliban. It sure looks like the military brass most deeply and directly involved in the war are sending signals to the White House. Most certainly, it isn't that they're just thinking out loud. The question, as always, is whether the Obama team is listening—and what it is hearing.
"[T]here's been enough fighting," said General Stanley McChrystal, the U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, in a stunning interview in The Financial Times. "What I think we do is try to shape conditions which allow people to come to a truly equitable solution to how the Afghan people are governed." Asked about Taliban leaders participating in a future government, he responded: "I think any Afghans can play a role if they focus on the future, and not the past." The general's openness to dealing with the Taliban sits well with the international conference on Afghanistan set for Thursday in London, where America's allies and others like the idea of trying to settle with the Taliban.
Whatever the Obama team is hearing from these recent public commentaries by military and Pentagon leaders, it should hear this: When July 2011 arrives, don't expect any of your military and civilian brass to favor any significant American troop withdrawals from Afghanistan.
Kai Eide, the outgoing U.N. special representative in Afghanistan, pushed even harder on opening the door to the Taliban. He pushed hard and publicly on the government in Kabul to do what it has been trying to do for a year, but to do it in a way that might succeed. Eide urged President Hamid Karzai to take steps that would open the way for face-to-face talks between Afghan officials and Taliban leaders. "If you want relevant results," he said, "then you have to talk to the relevant person in authority. I think the time has come to do it." It's unlikely he would go this far without first discussing it with American leaders in Kabul.
Defense secretary Robert Gates seemed to support a power-sharing arrangement last week when he described the Taliban as part of Afghanistan's "political fabric."
• Patrick Hennessey returns to Afghanistan • Bruce Riedel: Hitting bin Laden Where He Lives Then, even more riveting, General David Petraeus made a comparison between the ongoing surge in Afghanistan and the successful surge he led in Iraq in a way that will surely set off warning lights in a politically nervous Washington. "I have not assessed that Afghanistan could be turned as quickly as Iraq was turned," the U.S. regional commander said, "that it will be difficult to assemble all the same factors that we were able to bring together in Iraq to reduce the violence as rapidly." This highly sophisticated general knows that Washington politicians will hear his message: This war is going to last a lot longer than we've been hearing, and he knows we aren't about to march in the streets in favor of 10 more years of combat. The general was somewhat more cautious about talking to the Taliban than the others: "It's…not something that I would anticipate…'[c]oming soon to a theater near you.'" This is not quite up to what McChrystal said, but it's further than where Petraeus has gone publicly before.
Finally, and most devastating of all, was what Gates heard from Pakistani leaders in his recent visit. They told him that they would not resume the military offensive against the Taliban in the border region with Afghanistan for at least six months, which for them means more than a year. Gates and the generals know better than anyone else that the U.S. and NATO's chances of making real and sustainable military progress in Afghanistan depend very heavily on the Taliban's ability to keep its safe havens across the border in Pakistan. "It's disappointing, but not entirely surprising," a senior Defense Department official told The New York Times. Said Gates: "Pakistani leadership will make its own decisions about what the best timing for their military operations is, about when they are ready to do something or whether they are going to do it at all. The way I like to express it is, we're in this car together, but the Pakistanis are in the driver's seat and have their foot on the accelerator. And that's just fine with me." Gates may have said the Pakistanis being in the driver's seat was "just fine with me," but obviously it was not fine by him or any other American.
The Defense secretary and the two generals are not, by any stretch of the imagination, trying to tell President Obama to reconsider his decision to send more than 40,000 new American troops to Afghanistan. What they seem to be saying—and they do not want to be any clearer publicly than what they've said this week—is that the president needs to realize that security in Afghanistan is not likely to be much better by July 2011 than it is now, and that he will probably have to forgo his desire to start removing some American troops at that time. They're also suggesting that the only chance they foresee for a significant improvement in the situation on the ground is if a breakthrough can be achieved with at least some of the Taliban. They continue to hope, of course, that their military efforts will weaken the Taliban and make them more amenable to serious negotiations. They don't expect miracles in readying the Afghan army or police for combat, but they have some modest hope that the Taliban gambit might work instead.
Obviously, it is impossible to predict how the Taliban will react. For some time, U.S. intelligence has reckoned that a large portion, perhaps even a third or more, of Taliban fighters are less interested in the Taliban's ideological extremism than in earning a living. McChrystal and the others' hope is that the United States will be able to outbid the Taliban leadership for the services of some of these fighters. It's also clear that neither President Karzai nor the Americans will know if this gambit will work until it is tried, and until they see that these fighters do not return to the Taliban's fold in six months' to a year's time.
As for the Taliban leadership, the generals and the intelligence officers are pessimistic about co-opting them into peaceful political competition. The U.S. position now is that the leaders should not be approached politically until they agree to stop their violence and accept a nonviolent political road. For sure, calculations of the Taliban leadership will be affected by what the Pakistani military and intelligence operatives do to help or hurt them. But for now, they're safe on this account.
Whatever the Obama team is hearing from these recent public commentaries by military and Pentagon leaders, it should hear this: When July 2011 arrives, don't expect any of us, your military and civilian brass, to favor any significant American troop withdrawals from Afghanistan. You may not realize it, Mr. President, but you are committed to a very long war, and your only hope of shortening this war is a lucky break with the Taliban.
Leslie H. Gelb, a former New York Times columnist and senior government official, is author of Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy (HarperCollins 2009), a book that shows how to think about and use power in the 21st century. He is president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations.


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Oreo Truffles
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Found this recipe recently and just had to make it happen! Oreos were immediately on the list and we were off to the races!
This is a wonderfully easy and fabulous recipe, and a winner when you have to feed guests!
Oreo Truffles
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- 1 package classic Oreos
- 1 (8 oz.) brick cream cheese, softened
- 8 oz. (about 2 cups) dark or semisweet chocolate chips, melted (*see note below)
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- Add the Oreos to a food processor, and pulse until evenly crumbled.
- Add the cream cheese and pulse until the mixture is smooth and well-blended, stopping to scrape down the sides of the food processor once or twice if needed.
- Use a 1/4-cup ice cream scoop to portion the dough into 1/4-cup balls. Then roll by hand into egg shapes. (Personally the eggs shape was not that exciting, i think the ball shape works just fine!)
- Place the eggs on parchement/silpat-lined baking sheets, and chill in the freezer until hardened.
- Once the eggs have chilled, microwave the chocolate until melted and smooth. (*If the chocolate is too thick, add in a few teaspoons or shortening or coconut oil to thin.)
- Dip the egg in the melted chocolate, and roll around until it is evenly coated.
- Allow the eggs to cool.
- Repeat with remaining eggs. Then transfer to the freezer once more to cool until the chocolate has hardened.
If you are feeling like making them pretty
- Melt the almond bark in a separate bowl, then either drizzle on the eggs with a fork or use a piping bag to pipe the chocolate on in your desired design.
- Serve immediately or freeze in a sealed container.
- I did not like the texture of the refrigerator truffles, i like them frozen, then defrosted for 20-30 minutes prior to eating.
150 cal
10 g
2 g
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Consumer Debt & Bankruptcy (Albuquerque)
Get answers to questions about repossessions, foreclosures, collection issues, bankruptcy and more. The free presentation includes a presentation by a volunteer attorney, an open question and answer period and a one on one consultation with an attorney. The workshop will be occuring in December 5th at 6 p.m. at the State Bar Center (5121 Masthead NE, Albuquerque, NM 87109). To register please call (505) 797-6094
For more information, visit the State Bar of New Mexico's website page on the workshop


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New study supports mammography screening at 40
Women in their 40s with no family history of breast cancer are just as likely to develop invasive breast cancer as are women with a family history of the disease, according to a study presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). These findings indicate that women in this age group would benefit from annual screening mammography.
The breast cancer screening guidelines issued by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force in November 2009 sparked a controversy among physicians, patient advocacy groups and the media. Much of the debate centered on the recommendation against routine annual mammography screening for women in their 40s.
"We believe this study demonstrates the importance of mammography screening for women in this age group, which is in opposition to the recommendations issued by the task force," said Stamatia V. Destounis, M.D., radiologist and managing partner of Elizabeth Wende Breast Care, LLC, in Rochester, N.Y.
For the study, Dr. Destounis and colleagues performed a retrospective review to identify the number and type of cancers diagnosed among women between the ages of 40 and 49with and without a family history of breast cancerwho underwent screening mammography at Elizabeth Wende Breast Care from 2000 to 2010. The researchers then compared the number of cancers, incidence of invasive disease and lymph node metastases between the two groups.
Of the 1,071 patients in the 40 49 age group with breast cancer, 373 were diagnosed as a result of screening. Of that 373, 39 percent had a family history of breast cancer, and 61 percent had no family history of breast cancer. In the family history group, 63.2 percent of the patients had invasive disease, and 36.8 percent had noninvasive disease. In the no family history group, 64 percent of the patients had invasive disease, and 36 percent had noninvasive disease. The respective lymph node metastatic rates were 31 percent and 29 percent.
"In the 40 49 age group, we found a significant rate of breast cancer and similar rates of invasive disease in women with and without family history," Dr. Destounis said. "Additionally, we found the lymph node metastatic rate was similar."
According to Dr. Destounis, these results underscore the importance of early detection and annual screening mammography for women between the ages of 40 and 49 whether or not they have a family history of breast cancer.


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Frankoma Pottery Artware Collection
Rainbow Trout
This Rainbow Trout is designed by Cindy Cushing who grew up in the wonderfully talented Rozart Pottery family (George and Rose Rydings).
The current owner of Frankoma Pottery loves to fish for trout in Missouri rivers.
The Trout is 5.5″ long and 3.5″ tall
Available in Ocean Mist glaze.
Price: $22.99
Mini American Bison
This creature was designed by Cindy Cushing of Rozart Pottery fame. The bison (it is not a buffalo!) stands just 2 and 1/8″ tall and is 3 and 1/4″ long. Very lovely.
Colors include Ocean Mist (as pictured) and Winter's Fog. Limited quantities of other colors.
Ink marked with the letters "FPC" underneath the hooves.
Price: $39.99
Elephant FPC
This new elephant is another design by Cindy Cushing of the Kansas City
The raised trunk symbolizes good luck!
It is 6″ long and 3.75″ tall
Available in Black and Winter's Fog glaze
Price: $29.99
NEW Buffalo Wall Plaque
4.5″ tall
Designed by Lacy Green
Available in Rubbed Bisque and Ocean Mist
Order yours today!
Price: $29.99
Bee Happy
Bee Happy is another attractive design from Cindy Cushing.
You will want to smile when you hold it in your hands!
The bee stands 3″ tall.
We emphatically promise it will make you very happy and definitely not sting!
Available in White, Yellow, and Bisque
Price: $29.99
Miniature Fan Dancer
One of Frankoma Pottery's best-known pieces has been re-created in a smaller form.
The original Joe Taylor designed piece is 8.5″ tall, while this new miniature stands at 3.5″ in height.
The first 50 pieces are numbered and come in 2 glazes:
Winter's Fog, and Ocean Mist.
Very beautiful!
Price: $49.99
Sequoyah's Cabin
The Oklahoma Cherokee tribe has graciously allowed Frankoma Pottery to re-make Sequoyah's Cabin from an original Cherokee Pottery mold. The cabin is 3.5″ in height. The bottom of this piece contains both the Frankoma Pottery mark and a new Cherokee mark.
Available glaze colors: Rubbed Bisque, White and Winter's Fog
Price: $34.49
Cherokee Water Spider Ornament
The Oklahoma Cherokee tribe has graciously allowed Frankoma Pottery to re-make the Water Spider ornament from an original Cherokee Pottery mold. The spider is 3.5″ across. The bottom of this piece contains both the Frankoma Pottery mark and a new Cherokee mark.
Available glaze colors
Rubbed Bisque, White, Winter's Fog, Turquoise, Navy, Grand Canyon
Price: $19.99
Orville Knight Vase
Each vase is individually numbered
and production limited to 250 vases total
Includes a certificate of authenticity.
Price: $29.50
The Tufted Titmouse
The tufted titmouse (Baeolophus bicolor) is a small songbird from North America, a species in the tit and chickadee family (Paridae).
Add this little songbird to your Frankoma Pottery collection!
Size is 1.5″ tall and 3.5″ long
Available glaze colors
Red, Navy, Winter's Fog, Gun Metal
Price: $22.49
Turtle Paperweight
Another Frankoma Pottery Classic!
Available glaze colors
Winter's Fog, Grand Canyon, Gun Metal, Turquoise, and Rubbed Bisque
Order yours today!
Price: $24.99
94TP – Toothpick Holder
This wonderful Wagon Wheel pattern toothpick holder stands approximately 2.25 inches tall.
It shows Frankoma mold number 94TP on the bottom.
Frankoma Pottery will provide a random colored toothpick holder.
Order yours today!
Price: $19.99
The C15 is a Frankoma Pottery Classic!
Patterned after a real auger bit used to drill for oil,
this mug has been a Frankoma Favorite for a long time.
5″ tall
Available in
Order yours today!
Price: $35.00
Vintage Dealer Sign – Desert Gold
Order yours today!
Price: $39.99
Vintage Dealer Sign – Prairie Green
Order yours today!
Price: $64.99
Mom's Old Train Money Bank
Each train is numbered and initialed by the developer Ben Chronister
and comes with a story about Mom's Old Train.
Price: $34.99


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Artist, Researcher, Teacher
A History of Modern Russian Art. Collection of Viktor Bondarenko
Benozzo Gozzoli, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Roy Lichtenstein, and Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Vase Painting
Mona Lisa 500
German Number
State Museum of Oriental Art
Poster: The Best Gift
Poster: Delivery by Mail
Poster: To be Framed and Put under Glass
Poster: Art Belongs to the People
Poster: Good Value
Would be good to publish…
A Biennial of Creative Video. Guggenheim Museum and YouTube
Would be good to publish…
Would be good to publish…
My phone rang
Who is that, please? It's Elephant
Vodka is defined as a strong alcoholic beverage obtained by mixing rectified ethyl alcohol produced from comestibles with specially treated water, with this mixture being subsequently treated with activated carbon or modified starch and carefully filtered. Allowed to be consumed in small quantities on celebratory events.
Fly Aeroflot
The set comprises 12 board games (or wall games?), two dice and six aluminum counters
A blue collar that doesn't dream of being white is a poor collar
Diaries are interesting things. Medieval and Renaissance poetry and fine arts
Diaries are interesting things. Fragments from some of the best adventure novels
Diaries are interesting things. Clubs for a victorious people
Advertising posters for the MENATEP bank. There did exist such a bank - before Yukos. Works dating back to 1995
For the Social Posters exhibition in Lahti, Finland
Series of advertising posters for DIAL Electronics, a well-known company a while ago; 1995
Advertisement page for the Reklamny Mir (World of Advertising) magazine. Won some prizes but it's impossible to recall which; 1998


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Payments for Local Ordinance citations (white tickets) can be accepted at the Police Department during regular business hours. Payments can also be mailed to 10 Civic Center Avenue, attention Records. We accept personal checks, money orders and cash in exact amounts only (partial payments are not accepted).
Traffic citations fines are NOT accepted at the Montgomery Police Department. The fines must be paid in either Kane or Kendall County depending on where the citation was issued. The county is listed on the top of the traffic citation.


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Hasbro, Inc.
November 19, 2001
2003 7.95 bonds are trading at 101.75 with an YTM of 6.523. BB rated. Graham Ratio without intangibles is G1 of 124.26 and G2 of 62.13. Intrinsic value getting slightly better from a year ago. As always watch the debt to equity, inventory levels and debt ratings. Watch for continued cost savings from cost reduction program. Something else to watch is the share outstanding which have decreased over the years (much of the debt was caused by the Dutch auction last year at around 17 per share. Stock price definitely has the appearance of being pricey, but if earnings and operations can get back to a more stable environment, this could be a long-term hold. At this point the focus will be on keeping this position under weighted with a < 2.5 % portfolio position.


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Oculus may not have made the first web browser for the Gear VR, but it certainly has made the best one so far. It gives everyone access to 360-degree videos from services that don't currently have Gear VR apps, lets you browse the web just like you were on your phone, and makes reading in VR a whole not nicer. Here's how to get the most out of it.
Using the Gear VR Browser
Instead of existing as a separate app, the third tab in the bottom of the Oculus Home screen lets you access the browser any time you are on this screen labeled Internet. The biggest benefit to this setup is being able to open multiple browser tabs and have them stay open even when you leave Oculus Home and start another app. This means you could, for example, keep a guide from your favorite VR blog open in a tab and use your other apps and games without needing to take the headset off for a refresher.
The interface for this browser is simple. It floats in the same virtual room as Oculus Home, with a floating curved square just far enough away to fill your field of view but not close enough to make you move your head a lot to see the whole window. The landing page has links to the most popular sites people will probably go to in VR, with a standard navigation bar at the bottom of the window so you can go to whatever address you want.
Tapping in that text field will enable the virtual keyboard, which will float just underneath wherever your cursor clicks to fill in text. The keyboard is slightly more curved than the rest of the window, so you can quickly jump from one letter to another with head tracking. This is obviously much faster if you're using the Gear VR Controller, but you can use either input method and it works just fine.
Watching 360-degree and 3D videos in the Gear VR Browser
One of the biggest reasons this browser exists is to be able to quickly watch videos on YouTube and other 360-degree sites (yes, including the Adult ones) when there are no native VR apps for those experiences. You can browse these sites just like you would any other website, and when you find a video you want to watch you click the play button just like you would if you were watching a regular 2D flat video on your phone.
Once the video has started playing, click on the option to full screen your video. Everything around the window will get darker, and you will notice a new bar of options appear at the bottom of the screen. These choices allow you to change the video from a flat 2D video to a 180, 360, or 3D video. Click on the option you want to enable, and the image will immediately move to fit. The darkered room will fill with the video you are loading, and you'll be able to experience everything as though you were using a VR video app.
The 3D mode on this app allows you to choose between side-by-side 3D or top/bottom 3D as well, so you can watch any kind of 3D video you'd find streaming on the internet. If you click on the wrong thing, you can quickly click another option on the bar and change how the video you are watching looks.
Always there when you need it
Arguably the most important feature of Oculus Internet is its ability to keep your tabs open through just about anything. If you leave Oculus Internet and go play a game, those tabs will still be there when you come back. If you leave the Gear VR entirely, and spend a day using your phone like your normally would, those tabs will still be there later when you go back into the Gear VR. Which is great, especially if you're using the browser to watch something in VR and aren't able to finish it in one sitting.
Closing tabs is super easy, you just click on the tab icon in the bottom right corner of the floating window and click the X next to the tab you want to get rid of. If you close all of the tabs you have opened, Oculus Internet will close and return you to the Oculus Home menu. When you go back to the Internet tab from Home, a new browser window opens just like the first time you used this app.
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Getting LEED-certified is one way of quantifying a building's green credentials. Architect Mark Smith is a LEED-accredited professional who takes projects through the LEED certification process…
"When a building goes through the process of becoming certified through the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED program. Different things that a facility needs to do, starting with the basic certification–and then going through silver, gold, platinum–points achieved."
Smith says a lot of building green is just common sense.
"The cheapest bang for the buck in hot humid climates like us is the basic orientation of the building. You can instantly probably achieve ten to twenty percent lower energy usage. You know, the most vicious sun in Houston in the summer is that west, the afternoon sun. So if the area of the building that faces west is very small, and if it doesn't have a lot of windows on it, you're in much better shape. It's either free or virtually free up front, and so those big paybacks start immediately."
As for structures that already exist, Smith says retro-fitting can help reduce energy costs, for both commercial and residential buildings.
"There have been retrofits on buildings that come in and put shading devices on the exterior. You see homeowners that come in and put up awnings or some sort of external device to try to mitigate some of that bad initial design."
David Murrah is a real estate inspector who LEED-certifies residential construction.
"My job is to help the builder and designer to work through this LEED for Homes program, and then I also do some verification, as well, to make sure that they are doing what they say they're going to do."
Murrah says there are two areas that, when optimized, can save energy.
"In our climate, windows that have a very good insulating value, as well as–since we are such a cooling-dominated area–having an air conditioner that performs at the optimal level can really save a lot of energy. Just going to energy-efficient appliances as well as compact flourescent bulbs–that can save a tremendous amount."
Murrah says energy savings are a good motivator, and demand is being pushed by consumers and builders.
"A builder that learns one building technique for a LEED project–he may have another one that wasn't necessarily a LEED project, but he can use that technology again and apply its efficiencies. Just using that for a guideline, it's a very good tool to use to help you understand all the different things that go into building a green home."
In tomorrow's report…
"Local political champions, of course, Mayor White should be commended for his support of the green building community."
…the mayor plans an update of the commercial energy code for buildings. Ed Mayberry, KUHF Houston Public Radio News.
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