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Viking Appliances

May 18, 2010 by · Comments Off on Viking Appliances 

Viking AppliancesViking Appliances:There are still vestiges of the good, old-fashioned American-made round, and a great example is the company Viking Appliances. There are few companies that make kitchen appliances that match the quality of the Vikings and iconic status. The company is struggling to maintain its place as a giant home-grown production, like so many products that are manufactured abroad and imported. Viking products can go to recover a bit faster than their counterparts, but you know that the money was.
Viking Appliances: old-fashioned success

White Viking began when the founder Fred Carl was constructing a house, and his wife wants a trading range-style stove and oven, according to the website Viking White. She had been particularly enamored of the Chambers stove his mother had had, and stainless steel construction of a restaurant stove attracted. So he began to design a commercial-style oven that was practical and safe for the home. Nobody else was doing one, which would create.
Viking plunders kitchens

After years of perfecting the design, Fred Carl finally had an approved design, and production began in January 1987. Viking Range has become the creme de la creme of kitchen appliances since. After shuffling around the factory, a production plant was finally built in Greenwood, Mississippi, the hometown of Fred Carl. Viking Appliances are sold in over 80 countries, and the products are top shelf in oven and stove selection, ventilation, refrigerators and outdoor grills covered with high-end to cover only the tip of the iceberg.
The struggles with the modern world

Many manufacturing sectors in the United States have struggled in recent decades, and Viking White is no exception. The company is not exactly in danger of collapse, but is struggling. A recent MSNBC article detailing the struggle of the company since the housing crisis that the collapse of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac saw the demand for luxury is going to fall. The output is about half what it was in 2005, but the company does not provide detailed financial information. Companies like Viking Appliances are success stories worth hearing about and examples to hold in high esteem. Hopefully in the Vikings can continue plundering for a long time to come.

Anacostia River

May 17, 2010 by · Comments Off on Anacostia River 

Anacostia RiverAnacostia River:The “historic” cleaning solution that Bay Chesapeake Bay Foundation announced earlier this week with the Environmental Protection Agency covers much ground. It commits the federal government to address a multitude of ills scale estuarine waters, including urban, suburban and agricultural runoff and the effects of vehicle exhaust and power plants. The agreement also requires the EPA to deal with chemical pollutants in the Bay watershed of 64,000 square miles, something that the feds have not exactly been wanting to do with age.

The 27-page agreement adds that in the fight against toxic pollution, the government “to maintain a particular focus” on the banks of the Elizabeth River in Hampton Roads, and the Anacostia River in the Washington area. They were identified as long ago “Regions of concern” in the Chesapeake Bay, because decades of shipbuilding, manufacturing and other industrial activities have left hazardous metals and other chemicals in the background, posing risks to fish health , wildlife and even people.

But for some reason, the agreement does not mention the third region in question, “widely recognized in the bay – the lower Patapsco River, also known as Port of Baltimore. The bottom sediment is also surrounded with long gone polluting factories and shipyards.

And the base holds the bay remains toxic pollution into the waters surrounding Sparrows Point – is threatening to sue Severstal, the owner of the steel mill. FSC senior scientist dredging some foul-smelling black mud of waters near the plant (seen to the right, at the bottom) to show reporters.

“We have not changed our areas of concern,” said J. Charles Fox, EPA’s principal adviser on the bay, and the Anacostia River, this week when asked. He said the language of toxic pollution solution was prepared by the Bay Foundation.

Jon Mueller, vice president of environmental group for litigation, could not explain why Baltimore did not mention. EPA noted that initially did not want to reach an agreement to do something about the toxic contamination at all, that almost sunk the settlement talks.

“Certainly it is our radar screen, and I doubt that it is not the EPA,” said Mueller.

Hopefully not. Anacostia and Elizabeth rivers have been both get a good deal of government attention lately, with the development of an ambitious restoration plan for the river basins of the DC area and the dredging of toxic substances “pasta” in Hampton Roads . None of this seems to be happening around here – that could be why Baltimore managed to overlook this week?

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