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By Marina WilliamsJan. 15, 2015, 3 p.m.

If the heat and humidity is getting you down, then keep the summertime blues at bay with these cool ideas.

Stay cool and stylish with Kambrook's retro fan in gun-metal grey. Photo: SUPPLIED.

Fujitsu's new Lifestyle Range is more streamlined and quieter. Photo: FILE.

The Kambrook pedestal fan suits larger spaces and comes with a remote. Photo: SUPPLIED.

Fujitsu suggests considering the space when choosing am air-con unit. Photo: FILE.

Ensuring your home has ceiling, wall and floor insulation is one of the most effective and sustainable ways to trap cold air indoors and keep the home at a comfortable temperature throughout summer.

But in reality not all homes are fully insulated, so it is up to homeowners to find other ways to stay cooler on hot and humid days.

Installing air conditioning, blinds and sealing gaps around doors and windows are one of the most popular choices for keeping the heat out and the cool air in. Whilenot everyone is able to install permanent air conditioning units in their house or rental property, Bunnings Warehouse national electrical buyer Jamie OMeara says doing a few small things such as closing blinds can go a long to creating a more energy-efficient cooler home this summer.

Its time to find affordable and practical ways to cool down and prepare for the sweltering heat of the Australian summer, without the hefty electricity bills, Jamie says.

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The good news is the $273-million renovation of the Minnesota State Capitol is on time and on budget. The bad news is it might not stay that way if lawmakers and the governor can't resolve disagreements over office space allocation in the renovated building.

"I always believed the toughest hurdle to get over would be the actual allocation of the space within the structure," says Gov. Mark Dayton. Under a tentative plan, the amount of space devoted to the governor's administration would grow.There will also be space for both the Senate and House. Most House members will continue to have their offices in the State Office Building. A new Senate office building under construction across the street from the Capitol is supposed to have offices for all 67 state senators. However, some Senators might have a second office in the Capitol.

"There is an issue of offices relative to the Senate (needing) a number of offices for the function of the Senate," says Senate Majority Leader Tom Bakk, (D-Cook). Bakk says most office the Senate needs will be for the administration of the Senate, but he admits there could be some offices for Senators.

Republican Senate Minority Leader David Hann (R-Eden Prairie) objects to that idea. "I don't need two offices," says Hann. "Now maybe some people do, but I don't. In my opinion you build a new office building for Senator, that's where they should be."

That's a reference to the new Senate office building under construction across the street from the Capitol that was strongly opposed by Republicans.

The Capitol Preservation Commission has until next Thursday to approve the final construction plans and avoid construction delays that could cost $680,000a month.

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MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) Minnesota lawmakers are caught in a dust-up over office space at the State Capitol, and its threatening to delay the massive Capitol restoration now underway.

The three-year, $272 million project is on time and on budget. But the tenants in the new building including the governor, the Senate, the House and the attorney general cannot come to agreement over how much space they will control.

The Capitol Preservation Commission overseeing the Capitol work met Wednesday, but failed to reach agreement on who will get how many offices.

This is where we get hung up in, you know, Whos getting this percent more or whatever, Gov. Mark Dayton said. My view is the public space is whats most important, and the rest of us should fit in accordingly.

Daytons office will be larger in the newly-renovated building. Failing to agree is expensive, because if theres no signed agreement by next week, construction crews will slow down or stop their work.

Its estimated it will cost the state $680,000 a month.

Meanwhile, Republican leaders are reviving election campaign complaints about the Senate Office Building, now under construction behind the Capitol.

Theyre complaining that Democrats are holding out for double offices in the new building and in the Capitol.

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Construction could begin this spring on a more than $1 million office building that would provide Howard Hanna real-estate agents with a permanent location again in Sewickley.

A fire destroyed the company's offices on Broad Street in June.

The Sewickley Planning Commission approved the O'Hara-based real estate company's 4,500-square-foot building plan last week, in a 5-0 vote. Members Paul Pigman and Jamie Morrill were absent.

Council is expected to consider the plan at Monday's 7:30 p.m. meeting.

The building, with a planned red brick facade, would accommodate up to 39 agents and include work space and conference rooms, architect Stephen Casey said. It would include a mezzanine level.

The key to the building is to provide a proper terminus to the corner of Broad Street and Thorn, taking minor cues from the library and, because of the setback of the church, we're really in a prominent position here, said Casey, referring to nearby buildings. Hopefully, we're filling it with a building worthy of its prominent position.

Issues surrounding how rainwater would be collected and moved off the site would be worked into a developer's agreement with the borough, Sewickley manager Kevin Flannery said.

Coming up with parking for agents would be handled before the building opens, Howard Hanna property-management director Terry Corbett said.

After construction, the agency would work with the borough's tree commission to replant nearby trees, Flannery said.

The Sewickley real-estate office caught fire June 13, when a lightning strike hit the Sewickley United Methodist Church clock tower. The fire damaged the structure, displaced residents living above the offices and forced real-estate agents to work in temporary locations.

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A small Class C office building, along with an adjacent parking lot, at the west end of Abbot Kinney Boulevard in Venice sold last month for $15.5 million.

The 9,500-square-foot former medical office building at 910 Abbot Kinney was sold by Hanimax Properties of Chatsworth to Santa Monica developer Fogel Real Estate Corp. in an off-market deal.

Sitting at what one might consider the gateway to Abbot Kinney, the stucco-clad building was one of only a few nonretail buildings remaining along what has become a popular shopping stretch between Main Street and Venice Boulevard.

Blake Fogel, founder and president of Fogel Real Estate, said he saw a rare opportunity in the property to gain a retail foothold on what GQ Magazine has dubbed the coolest block in America. The buildings former tenant, Hall Health and Longevity Center, moved out Dec. 31 and construction to convert the medical office space into prime retail storefronts is expected to begin this week.

Theres a lot of upside in that area. Its like being at Main and Main of cool tech companies, as well as cool retail, Fogel said. Its a great place to be. We were just fortunate enough to be in the right place at the right time with a seller.

The one-story brick building with a bow-truss ceiling, built in 1948, was at some point covered over in white stucco. Fogel said the coating was going to be one of the first things to go during renovation.

Right now the property is all but invisible; no one really sees it because its an ugly stucco building, he said. Were going to blast that off and bring it back to being an interesting architectural building with new storefronts.

The soon-to-be retail property was the first building Fogel Real Estate acquired in an effort to invest $100 million in equity in Los Angeles in a span of about two years.

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Corrections were made to this story on Jan. 13, 2015.

Rivanna District Supervisor Ken Boyd will not run for re-election in November.

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