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MANTOLOKING Another of the defining images of Superstorm Sandys destruction at the Jersey shore is disappearing as the state cleans up and struggles toward normalcy.

Works crews on Thursday began demolishing a house in the tiny town of Mantoloking that was washed into Barnegat Bay by the violent surge from the Oct. 29 storm. It was one of eight virtually intact homes that the storm washed into bays around the state, including four in Cumberland County; work on removing the others will begin soon.

But the house in Montoloking owned by David Roberts, a former mayor of Hoboken, was the most famous of them all, coming to rest 200 feet from shore in the middle of the bay. His house once sat not far from where the ocean cut a new channel that chopped the town in half during the storm, necessitating a massive emergency construction project to fill in the breach.

Today one of the unfortunate icons of Mantoloking and Superstorm Sandy is going to be dismantled, Mayor George Nebel said, moments before workers on several barges began tearing away at the house and depositing rubble on their vessels, to be floated away and eventually trucked to a landfill. During the storm, if we were standing where we are today, we would be standing in 12 feet of water. We hope this state will never withstand the sight of a house in the bay again.

Mantoloking was the hardest-hit Jersey shore community during Sandy; all 521 of its homes were damaged or destroyed, including 58 that were swept into Barnegat Bay, either whole or in pieces.

Demolition work on 50 houses damaged too badly to save should begin next week.

Robert Martin, New Jerseys environmental protection commissioner, called the demolition of the Roberts house an important day in the recovery of this state.

Two other virtually intact homes were washed into Barnegat Bay in Mantoloking, and one in Union Beach, a hard-hit blue collar enclave in Monmouth County, was washed into Raritan Bay. Four others in Lawrence Township wound up in Delaware Bay, virtually intact, Martin said. Those remaining houses should be removed from waterways within the next few weeks, the commissioner said.

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These homes, just like the Jet Star roller coaster swept off Casino Pier and sitting in the ocean off Seaside Heights, have become iconic images of just how powerful and devastating Sandy was and how this historic storm changed so many lives, Martin said. The removal of these homes marks a symbolic benchmark in the progress weve made as New Jersey moves into a new phase of long-term recovery and rebuilding.

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BELDING, MI After standing watch over the city for 123 years, the iconic Belding silk mill clock towers final days are winding down quickly.

Little besides the tower remains of a once-hulking factory complex that has undergone demolition since late March in the middle of downtown Belding.

Belding Mayor Ron Gunderson said the clock tower the focus of a two-year legal battle that ultimately failed to prevent its demise would most likely come down in the next two weeks, although that timeline could change.

How much of it can be saved is difficult to know yet, said Gunderson, the lone dissenter last November when the city agreed to let property owner Electrolux demolish the tower.

The Swedish appliance giant has sought to demolish the entire property over concerns about environmental contamination liability since reacquiring the factory complex in September 2010.

The November agreement ended a David v. Goliath-type lawsuit between the city and the company. It stipulates the top portion of the tower should be preserved, although the company is bound only by reasonable efforts to dismantle, preserve, donate and deliver the top of the historic structure to the city.

Gunderson said the wrecking crews are planning to move the top portion of the tower from the top of the highest window with a crane, but its hard to know whether the structure can survive the process intact.

They are not held liable if anything happens, he said.

Historic machinery that was part of the clock and bell mechanisms in the tower will soon be delivered to the city, he said. Detroit-area consultant Golder Associates and Midland contractor Bierlein Companies are managing the demolition work.

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THE camp of Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano allotted P10 million to bankroll the demolition job against fellow senatorial candidates in Team PNoy who are doing good in the surveys.

According to sources, the fund is being used in a so-called Operation Plan Destroy the Queen, Prince and Princess targeting Senators Loren Legarda, Francis Escudero and neophyte Grace Poe-Llamanzares.

The source even identified the businessman Louis Biraogo as one of those who benefited from the fund after he reportedly agreed to expose the supposed property of Legarda in the United States.

The main purpose of the Cayetano camps operation against Legarda and two other top senatorial candidates is for him to be able to get the most number of votes in the May 13 midterm elections, the source claimed.

The demolition job is being carried out through text blast messages containing false information against fellow Team PNoy and even opposition United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) candidates.

The camp of Cayetano wants to bring down the survey ratings of other candidates in order for him to get the number 1 post in all pre-election surveys and eventually translate to more votes for him.

The negative campaigning is aimed at bringing down those who are on top of the surveys in order for him [Cayetano] to grab the post, the source noted.

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India, May 4 -- Local residents clashed with police and Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon (MCG) officials on Friday during a demolition drive along a 900-metre-long stretch near Ashok Vihar Phase-3.

A team of senior MCG officials reached the locality around 9am to demolish two houses, which were illegally constructed and had been razed by the MCG a few months ago. According to a high court order, no new construction is allowed on this stretch as this is a restricted defence area in proximity to the air force ammunition depot.

As the residents came to know about the drive by MCG, they rushed to the spot and staged a demonstration. They also pelted stones at officials. About 300 police personnel were deployed to control the mob, resulting in a clash. Many were injured in the stone-pelting and the police lathi-charge that followed.

Ashok Vihar residents also blocked the road leading to Sector 5 near the police commissioner's office, thus throwing traffic out of gear for hours. MCG vehicles were also vandalised.

Two policemen and an old woman were seriously injured in the clash and were admitted to the civil hospital in Gurgaon. DCP (west) Surender Pal Singh said, "The residents became violent during a routine drive and attacked MCG officials. Some residents have been arrested." He added that a case had been registered against residents by Veena Hooda, joint director of MCG.

Meanwhile, local councillor Gaje Singh said: "The MCG is being too strict with the proceedings and the residents are not being given an opportunity to be heard before demolition drives are conducted. People were protesting peacefully when the lathi-charge started. This angered the residents and they resorted to stone-pelting."

Published by HT Syndication with permission from Hindustan Times.

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Published: Thursday, May 2, 2013, 12:01 a.m.

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The most widely accepted cleaning method is hot water extraction.

"The high temperature of the water kills bacteria and extracts the dirt out of the carpet," said Tony Solis of All Points Carpet Care in Mooresville, N.C. "It's a very deep cleaning compared to dry cleaning."

Solis uses truck-mounted equipment that injects water heated between 180 and 250 degrees into the carpet under pressure and then rinses out a pretreated solution he sprays onto the carpet.

Steam cleaning removes bacteria, dust mites and odors. The most common drawback is a long dry time. Done well, carpet should dry in just a few hours.

"Drying time on a carpet should be four hours, not 44 hours," Solis added.

If inferior equipment is used for steam cleaning, dry times can take more than a day -- resulting in a mildewy smell -- and soap can be left behind, attracting more dirt.

"The way soap works is, it attracts itself to dirt," said Gil Patterson of A-1 Chem Dry in metro Kansas City, Mo. "If you don't rinse it, it will stay in the carpet and continue to attract soil."

Patterson's company uses a hot carbonation cleaning process that requires about one-fifth the amount of water as steam cleaning.

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