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The Rockingham County Planning Board approved a rezoning request, by a 5-3 vote, for a new subdivision at the intersection of Bethany and Moore roads despite more than a dozen people who came out against the development. Planning board member Anthony Brown abstained. The property up for rezoning was a 25-acre tract just north of the new Bethany Elementary School in the southwestern part of Rockingham County. Ken Ferguson, owner of Ken Ferguson Construction Co., said he plans to build 15 homes on 15 lots. Ferguson said the homes would be designed with a minimum of 1,600 square feet, not including planned two-stall attached garages. "Our purpose is to build homes $180,000 to $220,000," Ferguson said. "No modular, track or mobile homes. We plan to build custom stick-built homes that will be an asset to the county." Moore Road, a power line and a 150-foot utility easement all cut through the property at different angles, creating difficulties in forming the residential lots.
Energy security shaped up as a key issue in the Second Committees (Economic and Financial) general discussion on sustainable development today, with delegates arguing that a combination of higher efficiency, more renewable sources and better technology was urgently needed to avert global warming and other climatic consequences of uncontrolled energy use. .
Swipe-free credit cards are gaining in popularity, but there are significant information security risks associated with the cards' radio frequency identifier (RFID) technology, a group of Massachusetts researchers have determined in findings released this week. Using built-in radio transponders, the cards require no contact, only proximity, with a reader and are billed as faster and more reliable than conventional credit cards whose magnetic strip must be swiped to register. But the cutting-edge technology may easily allow attackers to lift personally identifiable information off the cards, according to results of the study, headed by researchers at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and RSA Laboratories in Bedford. The study employed two readers purchased from independent manufactures and about 20 RFID-enabled credit cards issued last year by the three major providers - Visa, MasterCard and American Express - and several banks.
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