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New Jerseys Largest & Most Highly Referrenced Fabricator of Natural & Man-Made Stone Products.
We at Stone Surfaces, Inc. hope you will find our website to be a helpful tool in making decisions for your building and home improvement projects. Stone Surfaces, Inc. is one of New Jerseys largest fabricators of natural stone and quartz countertops. We, as a leading granite fabricator in New Jersey, pride ourselves in our work and our craftsmanship is second to none in the industry. We are honored to be able to providegranite for many of the tri-state areas top kitchen & bath designers, builders, contractors and interior designers.
While most of our clientele are affiliated directly with the Building & Design trade, retail customers are welcome to come in and visit our facility to view our extensive granite and marble stone inventory in New Jersey and other tri-state areas. Our knowledgeable staff is here to help educate you and guide you in finding the proper Resources to make your experience with Stone Surfaces a pleasurable one. Please view our marble and granite counters and stones gallery to see the pristine work Stone Surfaces, Inc., along with our extensive resources, have created.
100% Natural and is one of the hardest stones next to diamond. Nonporous and extremely durable, it can hold its own against hot pots. The varieties are endless, and no two slabs are exactly alike. We get new granite in from all over the world and only a visit to our showroom in New Jersey will show you all the varieties of granite counters that are available.
A re-crystallized limestone, usually heavily veined and shows lots of grains. It is heat-resistant and a highly decorative stone ranging in many colors including beautiful exotics. Slate is a cousin to marble and is great for shower stalls, floors and walls.
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Updated today at 5:41 PM
PORTLAND Its only January but remodeling and landscaping shows, with an eye toward spring, have already begun pop up.
The Build, Remodel & Landscape Show at the Oregon Convention Center, for example, is a one-stop source for ideas on home improvements from roof to basement. Its a great place to start before you tackle a remodeling project.
The remodeling industry has seen tremendous growth in the past several years.
Last year alone, with home sales up, over $150 billion was spent to spruce up kitchens and baths. This year looks to be another good one for an industry that always likes to come up with something new.
For example, one vendor at the convention center was displaying floors made out of ordinary craft paper.
I took the decoupage process, which is obviously centuries old, and I translated it into a large surface like a floor or countertop, said Lisa Raymer of Decoupage Floors. It can be colored anyway you want.
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Dating website Zoosk found that ifwomen post photographs that were taken inside, they receive 60 percent more attention. Men, meanwhile, receive 19 percent more attention if their photo is taken outside. This is just the beginning of the gender divides for this study: Women are more popular if they post a selfie, while men are less so. Only women can mention actionable things like dinner, drinks, or lunch in their first message. Regardless of gender, everyone loves somebody who says they love exercising andreading. Just a regular Renaissance dater over here, physical and intellectual, no big.
The most amusing part of this survey regards the subtle analysis of emojis. A smiley face rendered thusly 🙂 gets 13 percent more attention, but 🙂 gets 66 percent fewer responses. The biggest take-home message from this thorough examination is the popularity of the full-body shot. These increase attention to profile by about 203 percent. That buys you the ability to use the 🙂 emoji dozens of times before turning everyone off.
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Supports company commitment to increasing energy efficiency
New Bedford, MA - Aerovox Corp. is encouraging use of dual-level (bi-level) HID lighting in parking and other exterior applications as well as indoor warehousing to enhance performance and reduce energy consumption. HID lighting systems are a significant portion of the lighting load in the commercial and industrial sectors. Dual-level operation saves energy by maintaining the lamp in warm-up mode, eliminating the energy-consuming warm-up time.
"While regulations mandating energy efficiency in lighting are already in place in California, we anticipate similar minimum energy performance standards will soon be required by other states," said Jim Faughnan, President & CEO. "Aerovox's dual-level HID lighting capacitors are already widely used and have proven to be effective and reliable in these applications."
Aerovox's dual-level HID capacitors are made to order in 1-3/4 or 2 inch oval metal cases with three-terminal construction in any combination of two capacitances. They are suitable for use up to 100C and rated for 60,000 hour duty at 90C. They are easily retrofitted into existing HID fixtures.
Aerovox is a leading provider of film capacitors for industrial, medical and specialized applications serving original equipment manufacturers (OEM) and distributors. The company has world-class design, manufacturing and testing facilities in New Bedford, Massachusetts and global manufacturing facilities in China and India to enable quick turn-around for shipping and delivery worldwide. Aerovox capacitors are among the world's most reliable components. The company's extensive custom design and development capabilities coupled with its broad, standardized product offerings allow it to provide intelligent capacitor solutions that meet or exceed customers' application requirements.
Aerovox Corp. 167 John Vertente Blvd. New Bedford, MA 02745 Contact: Constance Mussells Tel: 401-331-1743 Fax: 401-886-4318
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Generally speaking, architects are brilliant and creative people with a wide range of talents. That sort of versatility is part of what makes them good architects in the first place. But let's be honest. Just because some people are good at a lot of things does not mean they're good at everything. Take yachts, for instance.
For whatever reason, architects like to design yachts. It doesn't matter if they know anything about how boats work or what actually makes a vessel seaworthy. They like to design yachtsespecially superyachtsand they like them flashy. What tends to ensue is an elastic set of assumptions about the balance between form and function. Or lack thereof.
Let's look at a few examples, and try to discern the yachts that can actually float from the yachts that look like the architect's design software got a virus and just mashed up a bunch of volumes into a single alien form.
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Here's a great example of a famous architect who likes forms that seem highly incompatible with nautical engineering. Hadid recently designed this "concept superyacht," which, to be frank, looks like a cross between a moth-eaten cigarette and an alien turd. Boatbuilder Blohm+Voss said in a press release that Hadid "created an intense connectivity between the various decks and elements of the design." She created something intense alright.
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It's almost hard to tell if this is even a boat. Shaped like some sort of ray, Timon Sager's futuristic ship, dubbed the Bairim, features a no-resistance design that's meant to let it zip through the ocean with efficiency. The wide open cabin makes for a comfortable living space, with floor-to-ceiling windows on either side and, apparently, a movie theater. Because that's what everybody wants to do with then get on a boat: watch Jaws.
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You probably know Norman Foster's style from "The Gherkin" in London or the Hearst Tower in New York City. Believe it or not, his firm's aesthetic carries over into its nautical work. The 120-foot-long Ocean Emerald was christened in 2009 and is currently shared by a bunch of multi-millionaires. The outside looks like a chrome-plated cocoa bean. The inside looks like a Norman Foster museumsince he literally designed every surface and object on the boat.
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Office tower on hold
Completion of a $300 million two-tower office and retail space project on the heel of San Bruno Mountain was postponed due to leasing problems, it was announced the week of Jan. 3, 2014.
San Francisco-based Myers Development made the postponement announcement days before the 12-story tower, which began development in April 2008, was set to be complete. Postponing construction of the second tower was prudent in the economic climate, said Jack Myers, chairman and CEO of Myers Development Company.
With lease negotiations, our progress is slower than we would like, he said. Building a second building without leasing the first seemed like a bad decision, Myers said.
Visa moves headquarters to S.F.
Foster Citys largest employer, Visa USA Inc., signed a 10-year lease to move its headquarters to San Francisco, it was announced the week of Jan. 3, 2009.
Visa was moving its headquarters into the top three floors at 595 Market St. in San Francisco. The move meant the companys administrative offices were moving to San Francisco but other employees were to remain in Foster City.
Manufacturing index drops to 28-year low
The week of Jan. 3, 2009, signs grew that the economy could turn even weaker, as an index of December manufacturing activity sank to its lowest point in 28 years. Every corner of the sector was down, from bakeries to cigarette-makers to aluminum smelters.
The Institute for Supply Management, a trade group of purchasing executives, said on Friday of that week that its manufacturing index fell to 32.4 in December, a greater-than-expected decline from Novembers reading of 36.2. Wall Street economists surveyed by Thomson Reuters had expected the reading to fall to 35.5.
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