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Our Emerging Artists picks for the Aug. 23 chart week are notable for two reasons: each video is not only thought-provoking, but adds to the overall context of the song, making this week's picks well-worth a peek.

Fences featuring Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, "Arrows": Fences' new track with its high-profile guests was released on July 29 via Sound Cloud, through Elektra/Atlantic. The song, from Fences' album Lesser Oceans, due Oct. 14, has already charted on Billboard's Hot Rock Songs chart (No. 24, Aug. 16). Its video was the catalyst for Fences to debut on the weekly Billboard + Twitter Emerging Artists chart this week at No. 4. The concept for the clip was created by Jason Koenig, Chris Mansfield and Macklemore and Lewis. The video is as inventive as the song is catchy.

Young Kato, "Sunshine": The fun track is the newest single from the six-piece U.K. indie-pop band. It ranks at No. 13 on this week's Emerging Artists chart after its video was released on Vevo on Aug 3. As the video suggests, the song encourages listeners to live free, dance if you feel like dancing and, of course, enjoy the sun.

Years and Years, "Take Shelter": The song by the London trio caused waves on Twitter when its video dropped on Aug. 3. The release spurs a re-entry for the act at No. 14 on the Emerging Artists tally. "Take Shelter" is the lead single from the band's self-titled EP, due Tuesday (Aug. 19). The vibrato in lead singer Olly Alexander's voice gives the song power and depth and the feel of the song is aptly conceptualized in its video.

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LOCKPORT Attaching a padlock to a fence or railing has become a symbol of love and commitment in some quarters, but on Saturday Lockport promoters hope it will become a symbol of Lockport.

At the Lockport Community Market on Canal Street on Saturday, the new Lockport Beautiful group will offer padlocks for sale for $5, in hopes that buyers will decorate them with decorations available at its booth, and attach them to one of the fences overlooking the Flight of Five, the original Erie Canal locks. Then, buyers will be encouraged to take a photo of their lock and post it on Twitter or Instagram, using #lockthelocks.

People may bring their own padlocks instead of buying them at the market.

Brian S. Smith, vice president of the Greater Lockport Development Corp., said participants will be randomly selected to win prizes ranging from free food to gift cards at Lockport businesses.

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Following more than a year of volunteer work to provide assistance both financial and physical to flood-affected Marseilles residents, the Long Term Recovery Committee of La Salle County has released statistical details of its efforts.

Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Lukasick, who also is the pastor of Marseilles Methodist Church, told The Times individual and corporate donations "eventually totaled more the $60,000 (including $12,000 raised by Shakers Lounge in Ottawa alone).

"Because most of those residents affected by the floods did not have (proper) private insurance to cover damages, the committee interviewed 85 households to judge need and, of those, the committee gave 53 homeowners financial assistance of various amounts depending on the particular circumstances," said Lukasick.

Lukasick explained many of the households used Federal Emergency Management Agency monies (from $100 to the maximum grant of $31,900) and personal savings to provide material costs resulting from destroyed property (drywall, trim, flooring, appliances, furniture, etc.), but "most resources often didnt stretch to cover labor costs."

Assistance provided from these funds ranged from professional mold remediation to bathroom and kitchen replacement and furnace installation.

She said LTRC also referred households to other agencies that could assist the families, including United Way of Eastern La Salle County, Tri-County Opportunities Council's emergency Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program to replace furnaces, and U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development for low-interest repair loans and senior citizen repair grants.

She credited Golden Rule Lumber in Ottawa for being instrumental in determining actual needs, contributing and/or discounting building supplies and providing free delivery.

The Marseilles Southern Baptist congregation fed and housed more than 150 volunteers who were in the city for five weeks performing more than 6,300 hours of "mucking out and gutting homes."

Other companies and organizations which helped residents included Wal-Mart, Seattle Sutton's Healthy Eating, Morris Hospital, Marseilles Lions Club, the Marseilles Nursing Service, Marseilles Food Pantry, the Marseilles American Legion, James Hardie Building Products in Peru, Salvation Army, American Red Cross,Gleason Furniture & Hardware in Marseilles and many area churches.

At least 22 volunteer crews came from out-of-town churches or organizations, many from other states working more than an estimated 4,000 hours. Their work varied from the minor (painting, mold remediation) to more complicated repairs of floor and drywall replacement. Local churches fed the volunteer hot dinner every night and the Marseilles Rotary fed each crew at least lunch during their stay.

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Deck Demolition Part 1 - GoPro Time Lapse
It was time to take the deck out so me and Carie turned on the GoPro Hero 3+ Black and went to work. The GoPro stopped taking images for some reason after 1740 of them. Had plenty of battery...

By: Billy Madrid

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A small section of the demolition industry has been dumping earthquake waste illegally and giving the industry a bad name, Environment Canterbury (ECan) says.

A review by The Press of offences since the February 2011 earthquake shows a raft of demolition contractors have been prosecuted by ECan for offences including burning, burying and dumping earthquake waste illegally.

Earthquake waste can include hazardous material such as asbestos, arsenic and other toxins.

Nearly a dozen directors and/or companies have been fined about $300,000 by ECan and the courts for offences against the Resource Management Act since February 2011.

ECan has also served a number of abatement notices and investigations are continuing.

In one of worst examples brought to light by the prosecutions, 5000 cubic metres of earthquake demolition waste was used to form a half-metre-deep farm track about 1000 metres long and 10m wide on Coutts Island Holdings land.

It was delivered to the site by Canterbury Greenwaste Processors.

The waste had not been screened for contaminants and contained asbestos from several inner-city buildings.

The farm property is on land adjacent to the Otukaikino Stream, which runs into the Waimakariri River.

In July, Judge Jane Borthwick warned of an "emerging trend" of illegal disposal by contractors when fining Tom Thumb Ltd shareholder Aaron Cooper $33,750 for burying 30 truckloads of earthquake demolition material.

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Billings Public Library Director Bill Cochran is laying 50-50 odds that the parking lot will indeed be constructed on the site of the old Parmly Billings Library before cold temperatures this fall preclude the laying of asphalt.

Removing asbestos from the building is expected to take about two more weeks, he said on Friday. That work will be immediately followed by a Department of Environmental Quality inspection, after which construction work on the parking lot which was originally scheduled to open this summer can begin.

Im cautiously optimistic this time that we will see the start of the (demolition) work the week after next, he said.

Last Monday, the Billings City Council unanimously approved an emergency demolition order for the old building, at 510 N. Broadway. The order calls for the demolition to occur ASAP or as soon after is possible after all environmental impacts have been remediated from the building.

At the same time, the council approved a payment of about $404,000 to Safetech, the citys asbestos abatement contractor, to complete the removal of asbestos before demolition work can proceed. Payment to Safetech for this required work, Cochran wrote in a memorandum to council members, does not constitute acknowledgement by the City that all or any of these costs are the responsibility of the City and reimbursement will be pursued with the responsible parties.

Before the demolition work can resume, debris that fell into the buildings basement must be removed. After that, a vacuum truck will be brought in to clean out the basement.

Then, after the DEQ inspection indicates the site is asbestos-free, the demolition can begin.

The demolition work will proceed faster than it did this spring, Cochran said, because asbestos abatement wont be going on

simultaneously. He said he expects the demolition process to take about three weeks.

If asphalt for the 100-space parking lot cant be laid this fall, there are alternatives that could still allow for the opening of the parking lot in 2014, Cochran said. One option is to use the gravel base for the asphalt lot to park on until next spring, when temperatures warm up.

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Let the demolition begin soon

By: Melissa Randall mrandall@abc6.com

Demolition crews at Warwicks Rocky Point have some catching up to do. They lost 4 days making repairs to vandalized equipment. Friday morning shards of glass from the smashed windows still covered the ground.

Must have been, maybe kids trying to have a good time. Some sort of twisted good time though, said Mike Garofalo, Supervisor of HK&S.

Garofalo discovered the damage Tuesday morning. He says 8 of the 11 trucks had the glass windows smashed, a trailer was broken into, and items were stolen. The timing puts the men between a rock and a hard place.

We are on a tight time line. 75 days total for the project and we're creeping up on it September 8th so it was very, very frustrating to come in and see that kind of damage when we are trying to accelerate schedules as fast as we are, he said.

While a portion of the walking path down by the water is open to the public the construction site is owned by the state and is off limits. The area is patrolled by both DEM and local police. It is also surrounded by chain link fence. Even still the spot is prone to mischievous behavior.

Police were called to the site and a report was taken. They said the damage appears to be malicious. Officers dusted for finger prints. The investigation is ongoing.

You're really hurting the city of Warwick to be honest with you. Because this is there project basically and their place to enjoy when it's done so you're hurting everybody not just us, said Garofalo.

DEM calls the incident an unfortunate, yet minor setback. Demolition crews say they are doing everything they can to keep with their deadline. The official grand reopening of rocky point is still planned for sometime next month.

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A 27-year-old woman heading home from work at Cousins Subs rolled her truck Friday morning when she slammed into a retaining wall near Rumsey Park.

Mike and Shelly Kraus, who were headed to Walmart around 10:30 a.m., witnessed the wreck.

Mike said as he headed north on McLane Road, the womans Dodge pickup pulled up behind the couple's minivan. Mike kept an eye on the truck from his rearview mirror, the woman on his tail.

Suddenly, the womans blue truck veered west, slammed into the concrete block retaining wall near Rumsey Park and flipped.

The crash gave the Krauses quite a fright. They turned around to see if the driver was all right and. The woman reportedly climbed out of the crumpled cab, crying, but okay.

I felt bad for her, Mike said.

The womans mother, who arrived on the scene shortly after the wreck, said her daughter had complained to her earlier of being hot at work.

Paramedics took the driver to Payson Regional Medical Center.

Her license plate read "Sea Yaa."

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Former prime minister Anand Panyarachun said that coup-makers should ensure that the problems that led to the coup in the first place do not return.

"We should not let problems such as corruption or complete control of power to return, otherwise people will ask what the coup has achieved. We should ensure this doesn't happen," he said.

Anand, who was appointed prime minister after the 1991 coup, said a military power seizure was not always a bad thing, though he did not support it.

"I insist, I don't want to see another military coup in Thailand. But, if there is a government that offers space for the people to take part in politics and the economy, and also returns power to the people, then the military will have no reason to stage a coup," he pointed out.

He was speaking at an interview entitled "Ask Khun Anand about Today's Issues" conducted by media personality Pinyo Trisuriyatamma at the Montien Hotel on Thursday night.

After much pushing, Anand finally said he was not afraid to voice his thoughts about the latest coup, but his answer would not change what had happened, adding that there was no point in discussing the power seizure.

"I was not a democratically elected prime minister, but what did I do that was not right while in government?" he asked.

"I don't think democracy is just about elections. Democracy entails several other things such as democratic values, organisations set up to ensure checks and balances, transparency, a fair judicial system, the right to express opinions.

"An election gives us our representatives. But once elected, these representatives try to make personal gains while claiming they are honorary representatives. This is worrying, as people get tired of democracy. People become sick of politicians even though there are many good politicians."

Yet, the former PM appeared to be optimistic about post-coup politics.

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ACTUAL treating of mold at the ceiling of an office

How do you rate the health of your work environment? Is your workplace making you sick? Perhaps you have complained about mysterious itching, irritation of eyes, nose, and throat, or even asthma. And its not just in your office that you encounter these problems. Sometimes, when you stay in hospitals or even libraries, you experience sudden headache, tiredness, shortness of breath, wheezing, dizziness and loss of concentration.

If so, chances are you may be suffering from sick building syndromeused to describe situations in which building occupants experience acute health and comfort effects that appear to be linked to time spent in a building, but no specific illness or cause can be identified.

Complaints usually involve buildings or establishments where windows are sealed shut and fresh air is scarce. In the United States alone, so many cases have been reported that the Environmental Protection Agency states that one out of four new or renovated buildings may be classified as sick buildings. These building-related illnesses have already cost billions in lost productivity every year due to absenteeism after workers have fallen sick.

The US National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health has revealed that occupants in buildings where the ducts have never been cleaned are 60 percent more likely to develop respiratory ailments. Clean ducts can help improve air delivery systems. Furnishings, carpets and fabrics stay clean longer and even the energy efficiency and service life of HVAC equipment can improve.

I recently discovered that the excellent service to cure sick buildings is now offered in the Philippines. Piahstreams Philippines managing director Charlie Carmona introduced me to the company that has been in the country for several years now.

DECONTAMINATING at the source, ventilation system

Piahstreams Consultant Services (Piahstreams) and its partner, Remediation and Decontamination Solutions Corp. Inc. of Valentin Prieto Jr., are the experts at protecting lives against symptoms of sick building syndrome and other cases. Since 2001, Piahstreams has been providing consultation services to analyze contamination issues and recommend effective solutions to address various special niche market demands.

Piahstreams, via its professional affiliation in the United States, takes pride in its three independent yet highly sophisticated linked business coresrestoration and recovery, environmental remediation, and hazardous waste management.

The restoration and recovery core utilizes state-of-the art technology and proven industry methods to restore emergency support functions of post-disaster areas to maximize the survival of lives and the use of remaining assets.

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