If you are looking for BRAND NEW or, seconds and surplus building materials, Builders Surplus can save you up to 60%. How do we do it? Builders Surplus buys truckloads of BRAND NEW products directly from US and overseas manufacturers and distributors. We also buy their surplus, overruns and discontinued products. THEIR LOSS IS YOUR GAIN!!!

We have the largest selection of products in the Atlanta area. You will find products here that you have never seen before and may never see again. With our mix of BRAND NEW surplus, over-runs, buybacks and special order products, we put our competition to shame. People come from all over Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas and even Africa to buy from us. We would like to think it is our good looks but realistically, it is probably our selection, customer service, price and financing. You be the judge, come visit us.

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Liberty Village address affordable housing in Salt Lake City

By Alex Cabrero

January 29th, 2015 @ 7:21pm

SALT LAKE CITY Even though he's been living here a month, Jesse Myers still can't believe his apartment at Liberty Village in Sugar House is home.

"I didnt expect anything like this at all. Regular countertops, maybe, but not granite countertops, not these nice high-end luxury appliances that Ive never been used to, said Myers with a laugh.

One thing that took him a while to get used to was all the extra space.

"It was a weird feeling at first, because I could actually sprawl out and not be so confined, said Myers, looking around his one-bedroom unit.

Then again, if you lived where he did a few months ago, anything would seem spacious.

"I was living out of my car, said Myers, 31. It was really tough. I mean, it got cold at night. Also, when youre in your car parked somewhere, someone might get upset youre there because they think youre making it look trashy, so they call the cops, and then the police come and ask you to leave, so you dont get a very good nights sleep. Now, I can actually sleep.

Thursday morning, Salt Lake City mayor Ralph Becker and other city leaders announced their 5,000 Doors plan, addressing the need for affordable housing.

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Look familiar? For many of us, closets are catch-all storage units that we all intend to clean up and organize someday. Were not that far into the new year, however, and theres no time like the present. (Dave Bemis / Noozhawk photo)

Look familiar? For many of us, closets are catch-all storage units that we all intend to clean up and organize someday. Were not that far into the new year, however, and theres no time like the present. (Dave Bemis / Noozhawk photo)

By Dave Bemis, Noozhawk Contributing Writer | @NoozhawkNews | Published on 01.27.2015 3:10 p.m.

Most of us struggle to keep our homes organized, and there may be no bigger setback than holiday hosting and decorating especially when it comes to our long-suffering closets. The urgent need to plunge back into work schedules and family routines often means that we jam our holiday decorations into any available hiding place and forget about them for another 11 months.

Knowing that a fresh nightmare lurks behind every door may make winter seem like the worst of all times to de-clutter your closets, but it can be one of the best especially if you can see that holiday hangover of disorganized decorations and unwanted gifts as motivation, rather than an obstacle.

Why do our closets suffer such indignities?

For starters, closets seem like an afterthought ... theyre not seen by friends who come over, said Lindsay Gabbard, a designer with California Closets in Santa Barbara.

From both personal and professional experience, she has seen the difference an organized closet can make. She clearly recalls the days when her closet was nothing but a pole and a top shelf. Its no wonder that people struggle, she notes, when all a closet has is one high shelf and they have to lob stuff up.

Perhaps the biggest obstacle for people who cant get their closets organized, though, is more basic: They dont know theres a better way, she said.

In addition to her design services, Gabbard endorses strategies such as donating things that havent been worn recently.

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Builders Custom Laminate Countertops

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12:02 a.m. EST January 26, 2015

Edward F. Cassidy stands in the warehouse of his South Toms River business, Progressive Dimensions Countertops.(Photo: TANYA BREEN/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)

Edward F. Cassidy ownsProgressive Dimensions Countertops in South Toms River.

When did you decide you wanted to be an entrepreneur?

Ever since I can remember. I always had a job where I could be, somewhat, financially independent. My parents didnt give us an allowance, so I pretty much signed on for whatever I could, like a paper route or snow shoveling.

Why did you start this business?

Well, I like working with my hands. Initially, I landed a job building countertops and cabinets but I left there to work as a general carpenter building decks, putting in windows and doors, etc. I even dabbled in building furniture. It was only when I went back into the cabinet and countertop business as a subcontractor, years later, that I decided to strike out on my own by opening a business in the countertop industry.

Were there any challenges that made you think twice about striking out on your own?

It was a make-it-or-break-it in my situation. I borrowed money from a former employer and rented out a small garage to start. I worked long hours, even though I was a newlywed. We also just bought a house, so it was scary. But, people kept coming back for my services and I started getting a lot of referrals, so I was inspired to keep going.

Whats the best business advice you have ever received?

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We're sitting in a room that's maybe 9 feet wide by 20 feet long, lined with countertops that hold 12 TV monitors. The screens let us spy upon what's normally one of the most private of encounters: the interaction between doctor and patient, taking place in a dozen nearby examining rooms. In three of the rooms, the patient is talking about a worrisome bout of diarrhea. Patients in another three rooms are complaining about their chronic insomnia. Three more are seeking medical advice about shortness of breath, while the final trio (all young women) have been coughing up blood. The white-coated figures in the exam rooms are asking questions. Some take notes. Almost all pull out stethoscopes and listen to hearts and lungs and stomach gurgles. But none of the White Coats is licensed to practice medicine. They're third-year medical students being tested on how well they deal with patients. And none of the "patients" is actually ailing. They're actors who've been trained to serve as both the students' test and their grader.

Almost unheard of 25 years ago, such actors are now a fixture at every medical school in the United States, according to Peggy Wallace. She heads the program that hires "standardized patients" (as the actors are known) on the UCSD campus. Wallace says med schools have embraced this approach in part because two years ago the board that licenses U.S. doctors began requiring candidates to pass a day-long evaluation of their clinical skills. In that grueling marathon, the aspiring doctor sees a dozen standardized patients who might complain of anything from dizziness to depression.

The licensing board's insistence that would-be MDs demonstrate interpersonal savvy with patients reflects a sea change. Wallace says doctors once thought that a good bedside manner was something one was born with. "They thought you either had it or you didn't." But research over the past two decades has shown that winning patients' trust is "a teachable skill," she asserts. It's not one most people learn in the course of their normal social interactions because "the interaction of a doctor with a patient is not a normal social interaction," Wallace points out. In a normal social setting, you don't let anyone examine your body. You'd be startled and affronted if another person asked about the color of your feces or how many people you were having sex with. But doctors do. Practicing on simulated patients can help them learn to appear both professional and caring, according to the current thinking.

The UCSD School of Medicine's use of standardized patients seems designed to squeeze every iota of insight from the contrived encounters. Consider the third-year students' midterm exam that I observed from the room with the TV screens. Each of the 12 students that afternoon saw one patient who was short-winded, one with diarrhea, one who was sleepless, and one coughing up blood. Although three different actors played each type of patient, each of the three was depicting the same person (based on a real case), and he or she had learned that patient's personal and medical history in detail.A number of different problems and/or diseases might be causing each symptom, the student doctors knew. But their grades for the midterm would not depend on whether they came up with the right diagnoses. The point instead, Wallace explained, was to assess their clinical skills -- the tools they would need to arrive at correct diagnoses time after time. They would have to examine the relevant parts of each patient's body. To know what those were, they would need to interview the patients about their current complaints as well as their medical and family histories. To get the most out of the interview, "There's a whole series of things we teach the students," Wallace says. "For instance, you want to ask open-ended questions at the beginning. If they're coming in with chest pain, you might say, 'Tell me about your chest pain.' You might say something empathetic like, 'That must have been quite frightening for you. Tell me about it.' You want to give the patient an opportunity to say what they're experiencing. What that does is to give the patient a sense that the doctor cares about more than just what the doctor needs. And that builds trust. 'This guy cares about me. I can ask him the question I'm most worried about, which is, "Is my headache a brain tumor?" ' My satisfaction with this encounter is going to be different if I can't get that question out."

In the midterm, every time a student doctor said good-bye and left the exam room, the actor/ patient hurried to a computer and filled out a 30- to 40-question form assessing everything from whether the physical exam included all the requisite maneuvers to whether the med student "listened actively, [paying] attention to both my verbal and nonverbal cues; used facial expressions/ body language to express encouragement; avoided interruptions; asked questions to make sure s/he understood what I said." The student's grade for the exam would be based on this checklist. But Wallace makes it clear that grading the students is only part of the exercise.

The midterm, which features different cases every year, was also designed to be a learning experience, so while the patients were filling out their questionnaire, the students were doing the same thing -- enabling comparison of the two perspectives. Then the students came back into the exam rooms and spent ten minutes talking to the actors (no longer in character). "How did you think it went?" the actors began that interaction. They ended the feedback session by asking what the student would take away from the experience. Wallace said the hope was that the students would go into the next exam room and practice working on the skill they had just identified as needing improvement. "What we know from the research is that you have to practice it immediately or you lose it," she told me. "And it takes about three months of using something before it becomes part of your behavior."

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12:02 a.m. EST January 26, 2015

Edward F. Cassidy stands in the warehouse of his South Toms River business, Progressive Dimensions Countertops.(Photo: TANYA BREEN/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)

Edward F. Cassidy ownsProgressive Dimensions Countertops in South Toms River.

When did you decide you wanted to be an entrepreneur?

Ever since I can remember. I always had a job where I could be, somewhat, financially independent. My parents didnt give us an allowance, so I pretty much signed on for whatever I could, like a paper route or snow shoveling.

Why did you start this business?

Well, I like working with my hands. Initially, I landed a job building countertops and cabinets but I left there to work as a general carpenter building decks, putting in windows and doors, etc. I even dabbled in building furniture. It was only when I went back into the cabinet and countertop business as a subcontractor, years later, that I decided to strike out on my own by opening a business in the countertop industry.

Were there any challenges that made you think twice about striking out on your own?

It was a make-it-or-break-it in my situation. I borrowed money from a former employer and rented out a small garage to start. I worked long hours, even though I was a newlywed. We also just bought a house, so it was scary. But, people kept coming back for my services and I started getting a lot of referrals, so I was inspired to keep going.

Whats the best business advice you have ever received?

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