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Building owners, occupants, facility managers and building maintenance personnel: If you have not already done so, NOW is the time to take the preventive measures to prevent fire sprinkler systems from freezing, Bend fire officials said Monday.

Here's a news release from Deputy Fire Marshal Jeff Bond:

Weather forecasts anticipate temperatures to stay below freezing for a prolonged period of time. Bend Fire & Rescue responds to several fire sprinkler activations due to pipes breaking from freezing every year. We want to remind you to take action now to prevent costly damage.

Most fire sprinkler systems that do freeze are the result of lack of maintenance. Ensure that all periodic maintenance has been completed. Contact your fire sprinkler service company to schedule service if it is overdue. Frequencies for maintenance vary depending on the type of system that is installed. Contact your local fire department for information related to maintenance.

Often times the cause of a sprinkler system freeze is inadequate heating. While there are a few sprinkler types designed to operate in cold temperatures, the majority of fire sprinkler pipe must be installed in areas that can maintain a minimum temperature of 40 degrees Fahrenheit.

Make sure your heating and ventilation systems are in good working order. Ensure that thermostats are not set below 40 degrees Fahrenheit. When using supplemental heating equipment utilize only equipment that is listed and approved for its intended use.

Always provide at least 3 feet of clearance when using portable space heaters. Low temperature alarms may be used to alert responsible parties, particularly in normally unoccupied areas. That way, if heating equipment fails or the area otherwise drops below 40 degrees, the cause of the failure can be corrected before pipes freeze.

If you have had any recent maintenance repairs or remodeling that may have compromised the insulation above ceilings, check those areas to ensure that the insulation has been reinstalled correctly. Frequently insulation may be removed to accommodate a repair and restoring it to the original condition is often overlooked. Properly insulated and heated areas will prevent your sprinkler system from freezing.

These simple steps can prevent the costly damage from fire sprinkler pipe breaks, not to mention time lost to restore your building back to full operation. Check your fire sprinkler system today. Call your service company to schedule maintenance. Check your heating and ventilation system. Use safe heating practices. Call your local fire department for any questions related to fire sprinkler systems and how to prevent a freeze.

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No, the monster from the movie Tremors is not to blame. It is poor foundation planning.

Whether you are planning a DIY shed installation or hiring a shed installer, the foundation of sheds is important. After all, that is the surface that a shed will be resting on for many years to come. If you were to simply build a shed on top of soil, your shed would eventually look like this one on the left.

Before you make any foundation decisions for your shed, consult a local building inspector to determine what foundation you will need to build. The decision will be related to the height and size of your storage shed building. Regardless of the size of your shed, a building inspector needs to make sure that the storage building is up to code for your local area.

The simple answer is no. Smaller shedsof up to 8 x 6 do not need a foundation. Small sheds can be rested oncrushed stone with either treated wood foundations or concrete foundation blocks. Larger sheds will need to have strong foundations.

Concrete slab shown here

The best type of foundation that you can use for a shed is a concrete slab. In preparation for the shed installation, the site must be properly leveled and should have natural drainage and no standing water. This insures that the shed will remain strong and stable for many years to come.

Concrete Slab Requirements:

First stages of the flooring construction.

Use cement blocks for shed foundations

Wood foundations are typically built using solid cement leveling blocks which are 8 x 16 and no more than 2 high Each block is arranged in evenly spaced rows by placing one in each corner and at each break. These cement leveling blocks will support the floor of the shed. If cement leveling blocks are not used werecommendusing pressure treated lumber to support the wooden shed floor frame.

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I started dreaming up this project in the summer of '09. I had quite a bit of lumber in my garage that I was saving for a future project and decided this was it. I wanted to build a carport but I needed more storage space so I started sketching up ideas and based on the material I had been saving, in come cases up to 5 years this is what I came up with. It had to be heavy duty, with stand high winds and earthquakes and It had to look good. Look good for me and my neighbors. I wanted the sheds to be low maintenance and the used aluminum roofing I used as the siding really made that happen. I bought 65 sheets of 28" x 10' for two dollars each back in 2006. I stored it for a long time and finally got tired of all the extra space being taken up so not only did these sheds free up space I have created tons of storage space in addition to a outdoor office man cave space to relax in and get away. I broke ground on November 1st, 2009 and put up the first shed on Dec 2Nd 2009. I had to work in between the rain storms so the roof had to be sealed. the second shed went up on January 10Th The carport didn't go up until June of 2010. It was a lot of work but Once I figured out what I was going to do in the building process I simply repeated the process so the second shed was basically a no brain-er. I hope you liked the video too, that took me 20 hours to put it together. .Behind the scenes LINK::: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfDWD-... ...........

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ANTHON, Iowa | Authorities are still determining what caused a fire that destroyed several buildings and hundreds of bales at a rural Anthon residents Sunday evening.

Anthon Volunteer Fire Department chief Ryan Baldwin said the fire started in a machine shed at about 5:30 p.m. at 4029 220th St. It and the tractor and feed wagon parked inside were destroyed. The fire then spread to a cattle shed, garage/workshop and a hay shed. Those buildings, plus 300 cornstalk bales were destroyed.

Baldwin said a second hay shed containing about 300 hay bales was just catching fire when firefighters arrived. That fire was extinguished before it could damage the bales.

The fire did not spread to the owners' home. Baldwin said there was no estimate on the amount of damage, but that the owners have insurance. There were no injuries.

Anthon firefighters were on the scene for about 18 hours, Baldwin said. A total of 58 firefighters from the Anthon, Correctionville, Cushing, Danbury, Pierson and Healey Werks fire departments responded to the fire. -- Nick Hytrek

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When a rapidly-growing cell divides into two smaller cells, what triggers the split? Is it the size the growing cell eventually reaches? Or is the real trigger the time period over which the cell keeps growing ever larger?

A novel study published online in the journal Current Biology has finally provided an answer to this long unsolved conundrum. And it's not what many biologists expected.

"How cells control their size and maintain stable size distributions is one of the most fundamental, unsolved problems in biology," said Suckjoon Jun, an assistant professor of physics and molecular biology at UC San Diego, who headed the research study with Massimo Vergassola, a professor of physics. "Even for the bacterium E. coli, arguably the most extensively studied organism to date, no one has been able to answer this question."

Finding a solution was more than a basic-science pursuit for the scientists, who pointed out that learning more about the triggers of cell division would enable researchers to better understand such processes as the runaway cell division that leads to cancer. To conduct the study, Jun and his colleagues developed a tiny device to isolate and physically manipulate individual genetic materials.

"It turned out that we can use this device to also follow the life history of thousands of individual bacterial cells for hundreds of generations," he said. "We looked at the growth patterns of the cells very, very carefully, and realized that there is something really special about the way the cells control their size."

"In our study, we monitored the growth and division of hundreds of thousands of two kinds of bacterial cells, E. coli and B. subtilis, under a wide range of tightly controlled steady-state growth conditions," said Jun. "This produced statistical samples about three orders of magnitude, or a thousand times better, than those previously available. We could thus pursue an unprecedented level of quantitative analysis."

The scientists found through their development of mathematical models that matched their experimental data that the growth of cells followed the growth law, essentially exponential growth based on a constant rate. But they also found to their surprise that cell size or the time between cell divisions had little to do with when the cells divided. Instead, to keep the distribution of different sized cells within a population constant, the cells followed what the researchers termed "an extraordinarily simple quantitative principle of cell-size control."

"Specifically, we showed that cells sense neither space nor time, but add constant size irrespective of their birth size," said Jun. "This 'adder' principle automatically ensures stability of size distributions."

"E. coli and B. subtilis are one billion years divergent in evolution, and they are the textbook examples of the diversity of molecular details for biological controls in different bacterial species. Thus, their sharing the same quantitative principle for size maintenance is a textbook level discovery."

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Zhao Lei

China Daily

Publication Date : 30-12-2014

There is no room for cliques and factions within the Communist Party of China, top leaders said on Monday as they pledged to persist in the fight against corruption.

The Party has used determination and heavy measures in the past year to push forward the crackdown on corruption and the building of clean governance, according to a statement issued after a meeting of highest-ranking officials that was presided over by President Xi Jinping. This has already achieved much and won approval from the public, the statement said.

Though once-rampant corruption and other misconduct by officials have been curbed, the entire Party must keep a sober mind and realise that the anti-graft battle still faces grave challenges, the statement added.

"The Party's disciplines must be complied with. The Party has never allowed cliques and factions within it," it said. "In addition, those who still have a bad work style and extravagant deeds will be given severe punishment, and their leaders will also be held accountable."

It urged the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, China's top anti-graft watchdog, to deepen the reform on anti-corruption mechanisms and to launch more in-house inspections of local governments and State-owned enterprises.

The condemnation of cliques and factions can be read as the latest warning that officials should not follow in the steps of Zhou Yongkang, Xu Caihou and Ling Jihua, all once-influential political figures who had enormous power.

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Three men were arrested over the weekend after a woman in a basement condominium found a bullet hole in the ceiling of her 4-year-old child's room. The bullet also went through a TV and ended up on the child's dresser.

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COTTONWOOD HEIGHTS Three men were arrested over the weekend after a woman in a basement condominium found a bullet hole in the ceiling of her 4-year-old child's room.

The bullet also went through a TV and ended up on the child's dresser.

The incident allegedly started Friday night at the Waterside Cove Condos, 1227 E. 7370 South. There was a dispute in the condo above the child's room, said Cottonwood Heights Police Sgt. Corbett Ford. The exact nature of the dispute was not immediately known.

Investigators were still trying to sort out stories Monday, Ford said, but from what they could ascertain, several people pistol-whipped a man inside the upstairs condo. That man responded by pulling out a gun and firing two shots, Ford said.

It was not known Monday whether the gunman was aiming at someone or firing "warning" shots, police said. One round went through a wall and outside the condo. The other went through the floor into the condo below.

"It's a bedroom of a 4-year-old that was not home at the time. But it goes through and lands on the dresser," Ford said.

The man who allegedly fired the shots and was pistol-whipped ran away, Ford said.

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