Tuesday, October 21, 2014

The process that drives plate tectonics today is a result of heat flow from the Earth's interior to the surface.

Continents were created by many events such as the formation of mountains and water.

Feng shui is also constantly changing with the movements of the sky and Earth.

There are two main points I want to make. First, the only constant is change no one or place is evergreen or enjoys kind energy with good fortune forever. Second, the focal point of feng shui is in central China Mount Heng is the origin of Chinese civilization more than five thousand years ago.

The movement of the Earth's crust affected the fate of the East and West Han dynasties. Western Han emerged more powerful and prosperous in contrast to the East due to the feng shui impact from the rivers and lakes in the mountain terrain, or dragon formations.

Initially, the Western Han became powerful due to the gigantic and forceful mountain formations of Sichuan.

The changes that natural processes brought about are termed macro feng shui changes, while man-made activities such as building dams, modernization of townships, lakes and so on are called the micro feng shui changes.

Since the Earth is in a state of constant change, so the fate of each country, dynasty and human being also changes.

The cycle of prosperity depends on the macro feng shui element as well as the micro fen

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Sneakers Over Fences 10.15.2014
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10-19-14 SBU - Colleen Fences
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NORTH Tamworths annual Blue Dog Fences open triples carnival attracted a full field of 42 players from around the city and region.

NORTH Tamworths annual Blue Dog Fences open triples carnival attracted a full field of 42 players from around the city and region.

North Tamworth club president Dick Russell stretches into this delivery at the Blue Dog Fences Tripls. 191014GOI02

The Central North-designated tournament seeing the players roll three games on Sunday with the winners being decided on points rather than a finals series.

West Tamworths Charlie Schumacher, John Coulton and Paul DElboux took the trophy home with a very good last game after being tied with the home team of Paul Eggers, Ian Westbrook and Phil OReilly going into the final match.

Club president Dick Russell said that OReilly and his side had been in top form on Sunday morning.

They beat another Norths team by about 20 shots, Russell said.

It is a good day coming towards to the end of the season.

Norths, like most other clubs, are on the lookout for new bowlers, younger bowler, with a new initiative being rolled out by Bowls Australia to do just that.

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Standard Liege are 11th in the Belgian Pro League after ten matches Fans became furious after conceding to bottom club Zulte Waregem Referee twice stopped play after fans threw seats and broke fences Match was eventually abandoned in the 90th minute, with the score at 2-1

By Ben Nagle for MailOnline

Published: 06:27 EST, 20 October 2014 | Updated: 07:08 EST, 20 October 2014

Standard Liege's Belgian Pro League match against Zulte Waregem was abandoned in the 90th minute after furious fans broke fences and threw seats onto the pitch.

Trouble flared after Theo Bongonda opened the scoring for lowly Zulte Waregem, who sit bottom of the league after six losses from their first ten games.

Liege fans have become frustrated with their side's poor start to the season, and began to throw seats and break fences just metres from the pitch.

VIDEO: Scroll down to see Liege fans' anger over their side's poor performance

A seat is launched towards the pitch by angry Standard Liege fans in the middle of the match

The camera catches footage of broken seats lying just metres from the field of play

Standard Liege fans broke fences and entered the field of play, causing the referee to abandon the match

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If there's an aspect of nursing Audrey Schmidt hasn't experienced, she'd be hard-pressed to name it. Her been-there-done-that career spans five decades and embraces about every duty imaginable -- OB, pediatrics, ER, ICU and CCU, IV therapy, home care, industrial nursing and,well, you get the idea.

She'snot finished yet. At73, a grudging concession to aging prevents hands-on nursing. But she putsall that experience to work as a coordinator in Charleston Area Medical Centerspatient transfer center.In a command post at CAMC General, shejugglesbed assignments, admission reservationsandallsorts of other requests fromall three CAMC hospitals.

She works part-time, three tofour days a week, from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. Who else but a veteran with a sense of dedication would want those hours?

Nursing is her life.From earlygirlhoodon the farm, she dreamedofa nursing career. A fullscholarship to nursing school was like a gift from God.She graduatedin 1962 and neverlooked back.

Fifty-two years and counting ...

"I grew up in the country on the family farm next to Kanawha State Forest. We had cattle and I had to learn to milk the cow. I can remember making butter. We moved from the farm when I was about 11. My father was employed at Libbey-Owens Ford and was an electrician who wired a lot of homes in South Hills.

"They used to give me nursing kits atChristmas.I thought I wanted to be a little nurse. Then my brother was involved in an accident when he was 16 and was hospital-bound for several months with a crushing kneeinjury. He ended up in a rehabilitation center. He was four years older. I was with him a lot at the hospital. I thought then that I definitely wanted to be a nurse.

"I graduated fromStonewall Jackson in 1959 and was a candy striper all through high school. Sarah Ethel Rose was our teacher at Stonewall. She knew I was faithful and liked the hospital. The day before graduation,the phone rang. Shewantedme to come back to the school. She asked about my plans. I said I wanted to go to nursing school but hadn't heard if I'd beenaccepted. I told her I had been accepted to a scrub technician school at Memorial and could always go there and work my way through nursing school.

"She said she had solved my problem. Shehad a full nursing scholarship for me. I almost passed out. I got my firstacceptance at Kanawha Valley Hospital. I got a call later from General, but I was already committed.

"When the Kanawha Valley school closed,we had seven months of classes left, and they transferred us to General.

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Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) October 20, 2014

Plastering and drywall services have a buyer power score of 1.7 out of 5. According to IBISWorld procurement analyst Ian Buchanan, this score represents weak buying power resulting from rapidly increasing prices and a low availability of practical substitutes. Low market share concentration, however, provides buyers with a bit of negotiation leverage.

Over the three years to 2014, the price of plastering and drywall services is expected to rise rapidly. Due to improving economic conditions, the construction sector has experienced a boom in activity during this period. Consequently, residential and nonresidential construction markets have increased their demand for plastering and drywall services. As a result, suppliers have felt reduced pressure to lower prices to remain competitive and buyer power has decreased. In addition, gypsum building materials, such as drywall and plasters, are estimated to experience accelerated price growth during this period. Because these materials are the primary input costs for suppliers of this service, providers are expected to face rising operating costs during this three-year term. Suppliers will raise the price of their service further to cover expanding costs. Unfortunately for buyers, both demand and input costs are anticipated to be highly volatile over the three years to 2014, says Buchanan. As a result, suppliers will be less willing to negotiate lower prices to mitigate the negative effects of sudden, unexpected cost fluctuations or declines in demand.

The lack of practical substitutes to plastering and drywall services further hampers buying power. There are multiple alternatives to using plaster and drywall, but these substitutes will often result in much higher costs. Armed with the knowledge that buyers have a limited number of options, suppliers gain pricing leverage and buyer power is reduced. The market, however, has a large number of suppliers with no major player controlling significant market share, so vendors are highly competitive. The high level of competition forces suppliers to offer incentives and bid down competitors to try to secure contracts, slightly uplifting buying power. The largest players in the market are KHS&S Contractors, Performance Contracting Group, Precision Walls Inc. and Standard Drywall Inc.

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This report is intended to assist buyers of plastering and drywall services. Suppliers provide drywall installation and repair as well as plaster installation services. These services are used in commercial and residential construction projects, whether they are new builds or renovations. This report excludes insulation services.

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DUBLIN, Ohio (PRWEB) October 20, 2014

For more than 100 years, poured-concrete foundation walls have been the industry standard for residential homes in the United States (U.S.). Times are changing, however, with the introduction of patented Epitome quality foundation walls from Composite Panel Systems (CPS).

The new foundation walls were designed with the builder and contractor in mind ensuring simple installation and minimal training for anyone skilled in the trade. Walls are delivered to a job site altogether in one trip and typical installations take less than two hours. The composite walls also decrease moisture and mold issues common with traditional foundations, and provide homeowners a warmer, drier, more energy-efficient and ready-to-finish basement.

On October 14, 2014, CPS was recognized during the Composites and Advanced Materials Exposition (CAMX) for cutting-edge innovation and for shaping the future of composites and advanced materials in the marketplace. This award makes Composite Panel Systems an elite member of leaders and visionaries within the composites and advanced materials community.

The new composite foundation wall system employs a high-performance composites technology developed by Composite Panel Systems, LLC. With the help of their panel-systems fabricator, Fiber-Tech Industries, Inc., and fire-retardant resin-systems supplier, Ashland Performance Materials, a commercial unit of Ashland Inc. (NYSE: ASH), CPS launched the clean, engineered solution to replace vertically installed concrete walls during the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Convention and Expo in June. The system solution combines strength, integrated stud cavities for mechanicals, insulation, the top plate and a vapor barrier all in a single step. The technology is currently approved for use in Wisconsin and is expected to be compliant on a national level with International Building code and International Residential Code later this year.

In addition to all of the other builder and homeowner benefits, the composite technology is designed to withstand six times a sand backfill load, and can be installed in any soil type suitable for backfilling. Each 24 feet of foundation panel can withstand 600,000 pounds of downward force, resulting in a maximum allowable house load of 8,900 lbs/linear foot after the safety factor is applied.

It thrills me to win this award knowing how much hard work it took the CPS team, my father and I to bring this product to market, said Glenn Schiffmann, founder and president, CPS. This is the most exciting thing the residential building industry has seen since the introduction of plywood. Composites offer incredible performance, and having gained the trust of engineers in aviation many years ago, we knew that when it came to basements, we could develop a better performing alternative to concrete using high-performance composite materials.

Epitome quality foundation walls offer better energy efficiency with an inherent R-16.5 insulation value. There is an airtight transition between the floor and foundation that makes it more efficient than a standard concrete foundation. They also pass the National Fire Protection Associations 286 room corner burn test and therefore do not require covering with a thermal barrier such as drywall prior to occupancy. This allows homeowners flexibility to finish their lower level at their leisure and save money upfront.

Ashland is using good chemistry to make great things happen and were proud to collaborate with cutting-edge companies and entrepreneurs like CPS. said Ted Harris, president of Ashland Performance Materials. We encourage innovation and applaud the work of CPS particularly in light of the outstanding competitors in the building and construction composites industry. Were thrilled they have earned industry recognition.

From deep below the ground to 40,000 feet above and beyond, composites have become the material of choice in many critical industrial, infrastructure, aerospace and military applications. Composites offer high strength, dimensional stability, corrosion resistance, durability and longevity. Most importantly, composites are used to raise performance levels, address traditional material design limitations and enable the development of new solutions like Epitome quality foundation walls.

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BOONTON -Boonton Avenue will be closed in both directions from Main Street to at least Wootton Street from 6:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. from Tuesday, Oct. 21 to about Friday, Oct. 24, as the road is being milled and paved.

At times, the entire length of Boonton Avenue to Sheep Hill Road will be closed.

The Town of Boonton Police recommend that motoristsplan on using an alternate route if possible, such as Route 287.

When Boonton Avenue is completely closed at Sheep Hill Road, southbound through traffic will be detoured from Boonton Avenue in Montville, making a left onto Taylortown Road, and then a right onto Route 202 to continue straight until Main Street in Boonton. Northbound traffic from Main Street will be detoured to Route 202 (Myrtle Ave), making a left on Taylortown and a right onto Boonton Avenue.

To accommodate this construction, emergency parking regulations will also be in effect.

Parking will be prohibited on Boonton Avenue from Main Street to Sheep Hill Road from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. each day of the construction. Additionally, the Boonton Avenue parking lot near the intersection of Main Street will be subject to closure from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Oct. 21 and Oct. 23.

Vehicles must be removed from the parking lot prior to 6 a.m., or they may have to remain parked until roadway construction has ceased in the area.

Residents who park in a private driveway and will need to get out during the days of construction should make alternate arrangements, such as parking on an adjoining or parallel street, as there may be delays in accessing driveways depending on the roadwork being performed at the time.

There will be police personnel on scene during the project, and if a motorist faces difficulty in accessing a particular residence or location, or has any questions about access, they should speak to a police officer first, especially before proceeding around any barricades or cones.

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