December 1, 2014 Middletown Township Committee Meeting
The Committee heard an appeal from someone that was a license to open a business to buy and sell precious metals. A discussion took place regarding the installation of a sprinkler system at...
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School Sprinkler System Winter Blow Out
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TAMPA Hurricane season is over but residents of one luxury Tampa condo tower have been flooded out of their homes by a broken sprinkler system.
Thousands of gallons of water cascaded down stairwells and poured through light fixtures of the Stovall on Bayshore Boulevard on Nov. 4 when a worker, about to fall off scaffolding, broke a sprinkler pipe that he had grabbed to steady himself.
There was so much water in parts of the 22-story tower that it looked like Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean ride, as a Tampa Fire Rescue captain put it.
Electricity remains shut off to all 33 units and residents have spent the past month in hotels, second homes or bunking with relatives.
Despite damages estimated in the millions, "all in all, the building will be whole again before Christmas and hopefully within the next week,'' Gloria Giunta, president of the condominium association, said Thursday.
Giunta said she was away from the Stovall that Tuesday morning when she looked down at her cellphone. "I was getting calls from everyone,'' she said. Giunta hurried home to find that firefighters already had responded to an automatic fire alarm in the building at 3203 Bayshore Blvd.
Jason Penny, a spokesman for Tampa Fire Rescue, said water was dripping from the light fixtures as the fire crew entered the lobby. A security supervisor told them that a person doing drywall work had accidentally broken a sprinkler pipe while helping to renovate an 11th floor unit.
The firefighters headed up and quickly turned off the sprinkler pump. But water already was inches deep in that apartment and flowing down the stairs and into 19 other units.
"You can't turn off gravity,'' Penny said.
Water was shut off to the entire building, and ServPro, a disaster response service, was soon "up and running with blowers and dehumidifiers and everything you could possibly think of to get the building stable,'' Giunta said.
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Eldon Tate will use his AMP scholarship win to develop a cheap water-purification method powered by sunlight.
The lives of almost 800 million people without access to clean drinking water could change, thanks to a $10,000 prize for Wellington PhD student Eldon Tate.
The Victoria University student was one of 15 people to win an AMP scholarship or prize at the Do Your Thing awards ceremony last night.
A nanotech researcher, Tate has already developed tiny molecules that, in the lab at least, have shown they can purify water.
"These nanoparticles are anti-bacterial and they also use the sunlight to break down organic contaminants," Tate said.
"We're not really filtering it, we're using the energy from the sun to break down all the bad stuff in it."
The idea of harnessing the power of sunlight to purify water in developing nations is not a new one but, so far, no-one has cracked the magic formula of an efficient and yet inexpensive system, Tate says.
"One of the problems with the materials they're using at the moment is that they can only use high-intensity UV light but we have [nanoparticles] that use visible light which makes them much more efficient and can be used on cloudy days," he said.
"And one of the good things about them is that you don't have to use a lot of them they're highly reactive."
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Call them China's millennials. They are young, they are plugged into the culture, they are a growing population, but they feel like the economic system they live in is short-changing them. They are thediaosi, a term that loosely translates as "losers." Even though they are gainfully employed, they are getting left behind in capitalist China.
A report by prestigious Peking University's Market and Media Research Center, unveiled in Chinas The Paperin October, was the first to study the term and delve into the actual conditions of life as diaosi. A slang term that originated from Chinas blogosphere, it has now taken on the meaning of "self-aware, self-deprecating loser."
Using a collection of over 200,000 questionnaire responses from people in 50 large, medium and small cities, the study found that being a diaosi means being a single man between the ages of 21 and 25, or a single woman between ages 26 and 30, with little money to their name. But these are not poor people. Distinguishing themselves from Chinas impoverished population, generally speaking diaosiare gainfully employed and making ends meet, but struggling to establish themselves economically and socially.
Diaosi work at the lower level of their jobs, earning an average of 2,917 yuan a month, or $473. By comparison, the average monthly wage of a Beijing resident in 2013 was roughly 5,793 yuan, or about $950. Nearly 75 percent of those who identified as diaosi lived far from their hometowns, with many of them pursuing higher-paying jobs and making money to send back home to family as the reason they left; 71 percent of those surveyed said they sent part of their wages back home.
Others make a lot more money than they do, and that's leaving thediaosibehind in the race to get married. Socially, diaosi hold the reputation of being perpetually single. A repercussion of trying to stay afloat economically, work leaves little time for a social life. Potentially related emotional or mental issues have also been linked to the diaosi, with 37.8 percent of respondents believing they have some sort of undiagnosed mental disorder, with many of them turning to drinking to cope.
While the label sounds like nothing to brag about, it has become a popular moniker that has established itself as a cultural trend. Many who identify say they arent depressed. Instead, they have humble attitudes and enjoy the perceived no-frills, down-to-earth air that goes along with being a diaosi, but dont actually think they are a loser.
After the report was shared online bynews portal NetEase, several commenters found themselves identifying. My base pay is 5000, including commission, I make 100K a year, yet I still feel like I am a diaosi, one commenter wrote, according to the news-blog ChinaSmack. With overwhelming stress, without a house or car, and not daring to buy a house or car, scrimping and saving where I can in my spending, so much that I even think Ive developed clinical depression.
All of China collapsed in tears in the bathroom, another commenter added.
Even Chinas state media has stepped into the conversation, saying that Chinas youth need to reject the increasingly popular diaosi label and the belittling culture that comes with it. On December 2, the Peoples Daily published an editorial called The Belittling of Oneself, Can We Give It A Rest? where the author says that the label is destructive to the mental health of the population.
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Times are still tough in Florida.
They're even tougher in Hernando County.
Those are the findings of a new study commissioned by the United Way of Florida that, as this paper has reported previously, shows a shocking 45 percent of the state's 7.2 million households can barely make ends meet even if the adults in these households are employed.
In Hernando, not unexpectedly, the results are especially grim.
More than half of its households 52 percent are below an income standard established by the authors of the report at Rutgers University-Newark School of Public Affairs and Administration.
Called the ALICE Threshold, it stands for Asset Limited, Income Restrained, Employed and is an estimate, county by county, of the minimum cost of covering such basics as housing, food and transportation.
A family falling below this threshold, obviously, is in trouble. And for more perspective on just how bad things are in Hernando, the rate of ALICE households here is the sixth-highest among Florida counties.
It is higher than our more urban neighbors to the south Pasco, Hillsborough and Pinellas counties. It is higher, considerably higher, than our more rural neighbors to the north and east, including Citrus County, which many of us think of as our demographic twin.
It's not.
The cost of living there is lower housing for a typical family is $140 a month cheaper in Citrus, for example and its residents are better paid. Hernando's median household income, $36,515, is about $2,500 less than in Citrus and about $8,500 less than in Florida as a whole.
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INGRAM, Texas - Infrastructure can often be taken for granted, as many Texas cities have sewers and wastewater systems. Not all, though, have that luxury.
Ingram, a small town located just outside Kerrville, was without a wastewater system for many years.
Now, the town has spent the better part of a decade transitioning from septic systems to community sewer lines.
"It has been a long journey to get here and there's going to be more to come, said Ingram Mayor James Salter.
A long journey may be an understatement. The city first delved into the process in 2002, after receiving a grant from the United States Department of Agriculture. From there, Ingram has faced more than a decades worth of bureaucratic minutiae in a fight to find funding and support.
"Our city secretary is deluged with paperwork, said Salter.
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