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17:22 02 February 2015

Keep an eye on your home when you're away!

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The perfect gadget for anyone wanting to keep their home safe and secure.

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The Samsung Smart Home Security Camera not only gives you peace of mind that your home and precious belongings are safe when youre not there the free smartphone app allows you to stay connected to your home and your precious belongings when youre not there.

The camera detects motion and sound and sends an alert direct to your smartphone, so you can see exactly whats going on, wherever you are in the world. Everything can be viewed directly through your smartphone or tablet, and all footage can be recorded to a 32GB SD card.

Great for security purposes, allowing you to keep an eye on your home and garden, or vehicles and bikes kept outside.

The latest camera to be launched in the Samsung SmartCam range also has Two-Way Talk and Night Vision as well as Motion Zone Select which gives you the option to designate up the three areas to monitor and detect movement. Keep up to date with all the Samsung Smart Cam products and news here:

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is calling for the gradual phasing out of R-22 production, with production allowances gradually decreasing from now until reaching 0 in 2020.

R-22, whose full name is virgin hydrochlorofluorocarbon (HCFC)-22, is a refrigerant traditionally used in heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) systems. It's also a highly-powerful greenhouse gas, which is why many developed nations are gradually phasing it out in pursuit of alternative refrigerants.

According to The News (12/30/2013), the EPA's phaseout timeline establishes an R-22 production allowance of 30 million pounds in 2015, 24 million pounds in 2016, 18 million pounds in 2017, 12 million pounds in 2018, 6 million pounds in 2019 and eventually zero in 2020.

Jeffrey Vitt, Vice President of Vitt Heating & Air Conditioning Co., Inc., says the EPA's phaseout timeline will have drastic impacts on the HVAC industry as a whole due to its long-time reliance on the refrigerant.

"A large majority of HVAC systems utilize that type of refrigerant," Vitt says. "It has been widely used for over 50 years, so to have zero R-22 all of a sudden would drive the cost of the remaining R-22 through the roof."

However, Vitt says his company has been working toward adapting to alternative refrigerants for a long time, meaning Vitt Heating & Cooling plans on being prepared for the R-22 phaseout.

"For the last 10 years, we have been instructing customers to go with the new environmentally-friendly refrigerant," Vitt says. "New refrigerant is lower in cost, because the supply is plentiful."

For HVAC customers who still have systems that use R-22, Vitt recommends getting a full replacement of their heating and cooling systems sooner rather than later.

"Ultimately, the best option long term for the customer who has a system that leaks refrigerant is to upgrade their system," he says. "It will save them money in the long run, as they won't have the inflated cost of R-22, as well as the savings on utilities they'll enjoy by utilizing more energy-efficient products. We also offer replacement refrigerants for units that utilize R-22, but they affect the capacity of the units slightly. In most cases, this won't be a problem, but the customer should be aware either way."

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VP of Vitt Heating & Air Conditioning Co., Inc. Offers Insight Into EPA's R-22 Phaseout

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The Florida Department of Transportation has announced the following road work in Highlands County this week and asked motorists to exercise caution:

U.S. 27 from Sebring Parkway to College Drive: Crews are reworking the shoulders and cleaning ditches during the day. Watch for northbound lane closures from 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. today through Thursday.

U.S. 27 from Valerie Boulevard to Hal McCrae Boulevard: Crews will be cleaning ditches and reworking shoulders on the northbound travel lane. No lane closures are expected but motorists should use caution and watch for workers close to the road.

S.R. 70 from Greenbrier Lane to C.R. 721: Watch for periodic lane closures with flaggers directing traffic from 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. today through Thursday. Crews will be cutting brush around guardrails and making erosion repairs.

S.R. 17 Memorial Drive to Ed Carter Street: Crews are replacing poles along the east side of the road. Use caution and watch for workers close to the road.

South Main Avenue from Phoenix Street to Hibiscus Street (Lake Placid): Watch for workers close to the road along the southbound lane as crews work on punch list items and clean up the project. This Safe Routes to Schools project and includes adding sidewalk, curb and gutter along the west side of the roadway. Estimated completion is early 2015. The contractor is Excavation Point Inc.

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If a client wants to create a new meadow from an area of good soil, Pam has found that the most effective way to create it (in areas under a quarter of an acre), is to isolate (rather than removing) the over-fertile topsoil. This she does by covering it with a layer of Terram, Mypex, old carpet (whatever suits the budget and size best) and then spreading a depth of 150-200mm of substrate: limestone chippings or other nutrient-poor material (sand, gravel, rubble, chalk) on top.

She finds this creates an instantly gratifying solution which sorts out a challenging weed burden and is more effective than the more usual method of removing the top soil. It is also a useful ploy to establish patches of wildflowers (say 4-6m square) within a larger area; creating a sort of nucleus seed source.

Next, Pam sows the wildflower seeds onto the substrate, occasionally adding some leaf mould (this has low fertility) as a carrier for the seed. Rarely does she include grass, though occasionally a small proportion of sheeps fescue may be added.

While it is establishing it might need hand weeding to remove more invasive weeds such as willow herb. Then the maintenance is an annual mow and removal of the growth, usually after seeding. A patch will be left unmown to allow later seeders to disperse. It also acts as a source of fresh seed and, very importantly, is left for wildlife. This unmown patch varies annually.

One of Pam's meadow projects

Generally, Pam far prefers to use seed than plug plants. Plugs she finds especially difficult to establish in existing grassland, though there are a few exceptions. The devils bit scabious does well from plugs in substrate, for example.

Gravel areas (driveways and paths) are excellent areas to go wild with. Pam scatters seed on these, usually a mix of yarrow, self heal, birds foot trefoil, autumn hawks bit and white clover as they endure being driven and trodden on. It looks a little like a weed-infested path in the very early stages but as it establishes it looks good.

As to making your lawns richer, the simplest way is just to mow them with the blades set higher, which means you can mow less frequently. Grass grows faster when it is short and slows down as it gets longer. Longer grass also conserves more moisture as it provides more shade, and the roots grow deeper allowing it to reach more moisture in times of drought.

Equally importantly, buttercups, daisies, self heal and other flowering plants can jostle in amongst the grasses, helping keep the lawn green. Tighter mown paths can create interesting differentiation too.

Pam has been developing an old horse meadow, on fertile soil. She has reduced the fertility by taking hay crops and then grazing it (removing the droppings, if horses) initially. She then added yellow rattle seeds (which reduces the vigour of the grass and lessens competition). She finds (as I do) that this can be tricky to establish. Other wildflower seeds that she has collected locally were just scattered over the top. The wildflowers have multiplied - suddenly, after 20 years, she has even found that pignut (Conopodium majus) has arrived.

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MYERSTOWN >> Jackson Township Supervisors approved Monday a resolution to submit its grant application to the Department of Conservation and National Resources for the second phase of Fairlane Avenue Park.

If approved, the matching grant will provide half of the estimated $433,000 the township will need to complete what township engineer Steve Sherk calls Phase 2B. This phase will construct the recreation areas of the park that include basketball, pickle ball, and bocce courts; a playground, soccer and baseball fields. Phase 2A of the project will focus on the excavation and grading of the land and construction of a parking lot and grass overflow parking; as well as general seeding and landscaping. Phase 2A is scheduled to begin this spring and will cost an estimated $364,000 making the total estimated cost of the second phase of Fairlane Avenue Park, $797,000.

In related business, the supervisors authorized Sherk to submit the plans for a building to be constructed at Rager Field at Fairlane Avenue Park for code approval. Some controversy surrounds this project as it will be built on a concrete pad that no one seems to know anything about. This concrete pad was a major point of contention with resident Ann Gruber at last month's meeting. During the public comment section Monday, Gruber again raised the question of how the concrete pad can be built without the township's knowledge. She apologized to the supervisors for interrupting Chairman Thomas Houtz last month when he tried to explain the situation and waited for his response Monday night.

Clyde Deck, township secretary, addressed residents' concerns regarding the surveying taking place along route 422. Deck reported that the survey is conducting traffic studies along the route 422 corridor, specifically at the Ramona Rd and routes 645 & 501 intersections. Deck said that the survey is required by Penn Dot to see if a round-about is suitable for the area and also to help traffic move more smoothly through the Eastern part of Lebanon County.

Supervisors authorized Sherk to begin the plan and design of a new maintenance building for the township that will replace the one that was destroyed by fire last year. The estimated cost of the build is $375,000 and will be located on Washington Avenue; the same site as the previous building.

Township solicitor Paul Bametzreider, briefly discussed a letter the supervisors received from the ACLU regarding the township's "Conduct at Meeting" ordinance. The supervisors authorized Bametzreider to review the letter and draft a response.

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