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CICLOMONTAISMO PATIOS RUTA LAGUNA DE SAN RAFAEL
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HOUSTON, TX The Houston Housing Authority is cleaning up the air, at least in its public housing properties.

Starting in March, residents have to stop smoking in agency-owned apartments, on patios, or within 25 feet of apartment front doors.

In elderly buildings, smoke from one unit can travel to the other units through the ventilation systems, so people were actually getting second hand smoke in their units. And so we are particularly concerned about the health impacts on the elderly, the disabled and the children, said Tory Gunsolley, President & CEO of the Houston Housing Authority.

Residents in 6,000 Houston Housing Authority units will be affected, but how will the policy be enforced?

As it escalates, we will then provide smoking cessation and reminders of the policy, but ultimately somebody could be evicted for not following the lease, explained Gunsolley.

You cant smoke in your own place??

Niceli Jones, a Cuney Homes resident said, People got problems, people got stress, Im not fixing to have all that. I got to smoke.

I do have an 11-year-old son and he lets me know that the neighbors smoking, or he can smell the smoke, so Ive been informed about the smoking from my son, so I can understand from a childs point of view, according to Cookie Gibson, who also lives in Cuney Homes.

Assata-Nicole Richards, Houston Housing Authority Vice Chair said, Ones individual right does not supersede the good and the right of quality and healthy environments for everybody.

Depending on which side of the smoke screen you choose to stand on, this new policy could be breath of fresh air, or could leave you out in the cold.

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Dear New Frugal You,

I always do my best to keep the electric bill down in our home. I'm constantly turning off lights and appliances and reminding my family to do the same, yet our electric bill never seems to decrease. Am I missing something? Where does electricity waste happen normally in homes? Is there something more I can be doing? I've noticed a lot of cable companies are now providing services to manage energy usage in homes. Is this something worth looking into?

- Jaxon

Dear Jaxon,

Good question. For most of us the electric bill is one of the larger bills that we pay each month. So it's only natural that we'd want to reduce it if possible.

So let's look at your question three ways. First, how does your bill compare to the average. Second, what makes the average electric bill so high. And, finally, what can you do to reduce your bill.

We'll begin by learning a little about the typical electric bill. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) the average New Mexico home uses 656 kWh per month and spends $74.62. That's lower than the U.S. average energy consumption of 903 kWh and $107.28.

You don't say how high your bill is, but if it's concerning you, I'd have to assume it's above average. Of course, the difference could also be explained by an above average sized home.

FYI, the EIA published a short-term energy forecast that electric will increase modestly to about 12.3 cents per Kwh in 2014. So expect that your bill will increase a little in coming months.

Next, let's take a look at what devices consume the electricity we pay for. The EIA released a paper in 2013 that answers that question.

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'The idea is to hang your window treatments up as high as possible so they are closer to the ceiling than to the window frame, ' interior decorator Susan Keefe says. 'That makes the windows look bigger, it draws the eye up and it lets in as much light as possible.'

Keefe reworked this Oakland living room, strategically placing accent lights and using window treatments to take advantage of the natural light.

You've got an overhead light fixture. You add a few table lamps. Maybe a floor lamp. Flick on the switches and you're done, right?

Wrong. Bad lighting decisions and poor lighting layout can ruin a room, lighting designers and interior decorators say, making dining rooms gloomy, kitchens hard to work in, and living rooms hard to live with. But there are simple solutions that require a little time, planning, effort and money.

One of the most common lighting mistakes is to rely only on already-installed recessed downward-facing lights in the ceiling, said Darryl Tucker, a lighting designer and owner of Fort Lee-based Helicon Hall Design Associates. Installing dimmers on those types of lights is one way to fix the problem.

"You want to arrange the lighting in the room so you have light and dark areas," Tucker said. "The light should not be all the same, or else it has that cafeterial look."

If you can't install hanging ceiling lights to give a room lighting depth, another solution is to use sconces on the walls, Tucker said. Several years ago, Tucker worked with Tenafly homeowner Myra Genn on her living room.

"I don't want to say that it was gloomy, but ... it was gloomy," Genn said. "We had table lamps scattered around, but no overhead lights, and the lamp light was just not doing the trick to illuminate the entire area."

The solution was to add a series of nine spotlights in different sizes in the ceiling. One points toward a cherished piece of art above the fireplace. Another lights a favorite reading spot. All are on individual dimmers.

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A new breed of buyer has taken over the auction world. John Albrecht, managing director of Leonard Joel in Melbourne, has defined this part-investor, ''part-interior decorator'' species as ''the collectorator''.

This is, as he outlines in Leonard magazine, ''the new dominant buyer in the marketplace once dominated by the traditional collector - the collectorator is the new buyer that combines sophisticated aesthetics with an eye for all periods and designs.

''The collectorator treats his or her entire living environment as an opportunity to showcase visually fascinating and stimulating items with utility and space in mind.''

Albrecht says this new demographic - younger and very savvy about what they do and don't want - has emerged during the past two years.

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Females of the collectorator species are now more likely to be bidding on the floor, with great confidence, and are obviously after a signature piece for a room.

''They are after a look as well as a history,'' says Albrecht. This explains the increasing popularity of modernist furniture and post-1950s design objects.

Leonard Joel has embraced this scene during the past decade while, in Sydney, Shapiro Auctioneers specialises in it.

In December, Shapiro sold a 1953 Grant Featherston Z300 chaise longue for $8800 IBP, and a Piero Fornasetti ''Zebra'' cabinet for $19,200 IBP.

In the same issue of Leonard is Albrecht's list of ''twelve interesting things we sold in 2013''. These range from a Matchbox model of a 1967 Mercury Cougar (sold for $5612 IBP) to a pair of Joe Colombo 1963 Elda black leather chairs (sold for $9760 IBP).

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BEIJING (TheStreet) -- Shares in Chinese luxury-goods suppliers fell Tuesday as the Communist Party's campaign against lavish government spending turned against a businessman who made a fortune selling marble and chandeliers for public buildings.

Zhu Xingliang's arrest on bribery charges was announced by his company, Golden Mantis Building Decoration, which for years has been riding a wave of costly building construction projects financed by government agencies eager to flaunt their wealth. It was unclear whether Zhu would continue serving as the company's president.

Leaders in Beijing have been telling the nation's bureaucrats to curb frivolous spending or incur the party's wrath since President Xi Jinping took office in late 2012.

On the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, Golden Mantis shares fell 3.3% Tuesday to close at 19.13 yuan, a competing supplier Guanfu Modern Household Wares lost 1% to end the day at 4.74 yuan and platinum jewelry maker Ming Jewelry declined 3% to close at 23.66 yuan. On the Shanghai exchange, shares in bone china and jade porcelain maker Glarun Technology declined 4.4% to end at 41.53 yuan a share.

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