Environmentally-Friendly Homes
Posted on September 2, 2011, under Uncategorized.
8 Reasons why Vinyl Cladding is a Green Choice for the Home
Vinyl was first created back in the 1920’s, and quickly became a common element in many products, including wall siding. Vinyl has since emerged as the world’s second most used plastic, but unlike its counterparts, vinyl has a number of environmentally-friendly features.
Here are 8 reasons why vinyl cladding is a good choice for your house and the environment:
1. Environmentally Sustainable
The main building block for vinyl is Chlorine, which is developed from salt. This makes up just under 60% of vinyl’s chemical structure, therefore it is a sustainable and cost-effective product.
2. Less Energy During Manufacturing
Vinyl cladding manufacturing consumes less than half of the energy required to produce bricks and mortar. Vinyl cladding also uses less fuel in transportation since it’s much lighter than bricks and mortar.
3. Solid Foam Insulated
Prestige Exteriors’ Duratuff Select Vinyl Cladding comes with pre-installed solid foam insulation backing. This CFC-free high-rating insulation helps cut your heating and cooling energy costs, saving money and meaning there is less impact on the environment.
4. Durable
Adding to its environmental credentials, vinyl cladding is very durable, meaning it spends longer on your house than in a landfill. Confidence is so high in Duratuff Select vinyl wall cladding that we offer a lifetime guarantee.
5. Low Impact Maintenance
Unlike other common products available, vinyl cladding never requires painting, which not only saves time and money on labour costs, but avoids the environmental damage from continuous painting. Further, only mild soap and water is required for periodic cleaning which ensures that you are not responsible for releasing harmful chemicals into the environment.
6. Recyclable
Recyclability is a wonderful factor in vinyl’s sustainability. In America, more than 1 billion pounds of vinyl was recycled in the last year. In addition, much of the waste from manufacturing can be recycled straight back into the manufacturing process.
7. Less Waste during Installation
Compared to other types of exterior cladding and exterior materials, the installation of vinyl siding generates very little waste.
8. Releases fewer toxic chemicals than other exterior cladding throughout the life-cycle
Vinyl cladding emits significantly lower levels of toxic chemicals, including mercury and silver, into the environment, compared to other exterior cladding.
Protecting the future of our environment and your home.
As guarding the environment for a sustainable future continues to become a focus in society, vinyl cladding delivers many recognised benefits which make it a green choice for your home.
Prestige Exteriors is a leading supplier of vinyl cladding in Queensland. We choose to install only Duratuff Select vinyl wall cladding, which comes with a 50 year transferable manufacturer’s warranty! We clad directly over wood or fibro to leave a beautiful, colourfast and lasting impression. Available in thirteen colours.
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Sphere: Related ContentAre you considering relationship counselling?
Posted on September 1, 2011, under Uncategorized.
If you feel you have difficulties or problems in your relationship or marriage, the following is a short questionnaire for you which will help focus on the major areas of a relationship that need to be healthy to ensure happiness for you both.
Consideration of these areas will help reveal to you whether you would benefit from relationship help.
THE HART RELATIONSHIP QUALITY QUESTIONNAIRE:
CARING
What degree of affection do you display towards your partner?
How much affection does your partner give you?
How often do you spontaneously give to and nurture each other:
With you giving?
With you receiving?
COMMUNICATION
How well do you:
Talk about and plan practical arrangements?
Share how you really feel?
Feel able to bring up problems of your relationship, and resolve them?
Talk about your dreams and aspirations?
Tell your partner how deeply you appreciate him or her?
What exactly do you believe your partner does or says or doesn’t do that prevents you naturally communicating?
Have you noticed what it is that you do/say or don’t do that prevents clear communication?
Are you aware of times you may jump to conclusions or interpretations regarding things your partner says?
FUN AND ROMANCE
How much do you do fun and playful things together?
What does each one of you do to keep romance alight?
SEX
Is there passion in your relationship?
How fulfilled are you with your sex life?
INDIVIDUAL NEEDS
To what degree do you enjoy your own breathing space and individuality?
To what degree can you accept your partner’s individuality?
To what degree are you happy to be in control of your own needs and wants?
EQUALITY AND RESPECT
Do you, as a couple have a roughly equal share of responsibilities?
Are you fairly equal regarding doing the “liked” and “not liked” roles and responsibilities?
POLARISATION
Are there any habits your partner has that annoys you?
DIFFERENTIATION
Are there any areas in your relationship in which you simply give in without really wanting to, or your partner ends up controlling you in?
Are there areas where you may dominate your partner?
If you have found that several of the above questions have raised problems regarding your relationship, then counselling will most certainly help you examine these and get your relationship or marriage back on track.
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Sphere: Related ContentThe Traditional Queenslander Home
Posted on August 30, 2011, under Uncategorized.
To some eyes, Queensland’s distinctive timber and tin homes lent Brisbane, and other Queensland cities and rural areas, a somewhat temporary, insubstantial air. Known as 'A Queenslander’, they seemed so much less solid and permanent than homes of brick or stone. Many Queensland houses were placed high in the air on tall stumps, as the supporting pillars were always called, and seemed likely to simply fly away.
The Queensland house was comparatively inexpensive when wood was plentiful, easy to transport, and, in a relatively calm climate, single skin, unlined walls were all that were thought to be necessary to protect dwellers~people~the dwellers within} from the cold. Strong corrugated iron roofs withstood torrential tropical rain and could be re-used if moved by cyclonic winds.
Verandahs sheltered people from the burning sun and also caught any breeze that may have been passing during the steamy summer. Coverings over window openings meant that windows did not need to be quickly shut when humidity brought rain. Clever little revolving tin cylinders on the roofs pulled out hot air that filled ceiling spaces through decorative fretwork openings.
Although timber isn’t a particularly effective insulator for either heat or cold, air was able to flow down long central hallways in the typical Queensland house and also across the house from an open window on one side through open doors to the open window on the other side. Some exteriors were painted, others were simply oiled. Some verandahs were completed with elaborate and expensive iron lace; others made do with simple timber dowels and carved timber decoration in pediments over the front stairs.
Despite the air of apparent impermanence, the Queensland house has survived since its first appearance in the mid-nineteenth century. However, it has evolved. The simple two-room or four-room cottage has given way to large, sprawling dwellings. The pattern of the Queenslander home could be translated into early types of kit-set houses.
Many were developed by companies in Brisbane and transported long distances almost as flat-packs on trains. Collections of verandahs, tongue and groove boards for walls and sheets of corrugated iron for roofs were ready at the destination for assembly. The public housing movement that produced workers homes adapted the ingredients to differing shapes and sizes suitable for lower-cost housing.
After the war, the Queenslander seemed out of date in a world of modem architecture. Brick houses, American ranch style residences and other imported styles began to populate new suburbs. However, Brisbane is a hilly city and even modem designs often adapted the idea of stumps so that houses could be close to the ground near the top of a rising allotment and high where the ground angled away. In the late twentieth century, the old materials, tin and timber, were given new currency by innovative architects to create distinctly modem, light and airy Queensland houses.
In the 1970s and 1980s, when a drift back to the inner suburbs attracted a new generation, old Queenslanders were discovered by younger owners. They painted them lovingly and added various renovations to bring an old favourite into the modem era.
However they originated, whether from sugar planters houses in the West Indies, bungalows in India or high houses in Malaysia, the Queenslander still distinguishes Brisbane from other Australian capital cities.
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Sphere: Related ContentRGB verses CMYK Colours
Posted on August 23, 2011, under Uncategorized.
To colour print your digital files, you need to supply the graphics and image in the correct colour mode. Many software programmes will let you to work on RGB colour mode or CMYK colour mode. RGB colours or Red-Green-Blue colours are known as the primary colours of the light. This colour combination can be seen on your tv or computer monitors. Digital cameras and scanners also produce images with Red-Green-Blue colour combinations. Red-Green-Blue colour mode should be in use while taking photos that have to be seen on the monitor, emails or CD.
All the colours of the light spectrum are created from the primary colours, but monitors can display only a limited colour range from the visible spectrum. Light is emitted from the monitors, and the ink recognises only specific wavelength of colours. All three primary colours are combined together to create white. If the three primary colours are absent, then the light will show as black. By combining a variety of intensities of RGB colours, each mixture produces various colours. A monitor of a television or a computer consists of small units called pixels. Each pixel contains three units of light, and each unit represents red, green and blue.
We can not see the individual pixels with the naked eye because they are so tiny. But every pixel is developed by applying proper values of RGB, as without the proper values of the colour units, you cannot see anything displayed on the monitor. The values of RGB colours are calculated mainly by three methods. The first method is to set them using different numeric values. The numeric values used for this purpose are the values from 0 to 255, and this is the best method of the three.
The second method is by using hexadecimal notations. This method is mainly used for HTML and other languages of the computer. These notations follow a logical pattern. The hexadecimal notation consists of six characters, and these characters are divided into three. The first pair represents the red, the second pair green and the third pair as blue. Each pair is represented by a hexadecimal number (0-9) and the letters (A-F). The third method is the percentage in which a certain percentage represents each colour. The program translates these percentages into suitable values ranges from 0-255.
CMYK colours or Cyan-Magenta-Yellow colours are subtractive colours, whereas RGB colours are additive colours. Additive colours are referring to light, whereas subtractive colours refer to inks, paint or pigment. CMYK mode is used for printing as all kind of printers use subtractive colours to result in differing colours. When three additive colours are combined, the combination will produce white colour. But when three subtractive colours are combined, the combination produces black. This difference develops a large diversity between the resulting print and the onscreen display. Additive colour throws light from the monitor, and if more light is projected from a particular pixel, it will be closer to the pure light. Regarding printer inks, they will absorb light and reflects only the wavelengths of light that is associated with the colour of the ink.
The inks of the printer are subtracting the non-essential wavelengths from the light that falls on the ink. The remaining light will return to our eyes, giving the impression of a variety of colours. If you are mixing several colours, then more light will be absorbed by the ink and a lesser amount of light will get reflected to your eyes, which results in darker colour. Black ink produced by the CMYK colours is not a strong black. So you have to add black ink to get the best results for printing true black. If you would like to have a darker variety of a colour, you have to add black in CMYK mode.
What about the lighter shade of colours? As white ink cannot be created using CMYK colours, you have to work under the hypothesis that you are printing the colours on a white paper. Because small dots of ink are used to print images you have to use the inks in a lower percentage to produce lighter shades so that more white is visible among the dots. The values of CMYK colours are calculated with the help of four different percentages. The values of each percentage should be between 0 and 100 so that the total percentage of the ink values can be up to 400%. But if the total percentage reaches 400%, the ink takes more time to dry. And so, the total percentage of the ink should not be more than 300% in CMYK mode.
Both colour modes have limitations. The images created using RGB mode cannot be converted smoothly into CMYK mode because of the brightness of the RGB colours. Similarly, CMYK colours can not be translated to RGB mode as the sharp look of RGB colours is missing in CMYK mode online. This is the reason why RGB colours are used in monitors and CMYK colours are used in printers.
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Sphere: Related ContentMoodle Learning Management System (LMS)
Posted on August 18, 2011, under Uncategorized.
Moodle is a learning management system (LMS), a piece of software designed using sound educational principles, to assist people create effective web-based learning experiences. Moodle has a large and diverse user community with over 1,000,000 registered users on the Moodle Community site, speaking over 75 languages in 200 countries.
This user base includes developers, educators, system administrators and business users. Validated registration statistics indicate there are more than 35 million end-users of Moodle software, across the world.
Moodle is provided freely as Open Source software. This means Moodle is copyrighted, but the software can be edited and customised to suit your organisational needs. Due to this, Moodle has an active web community of developers who contribute additional features to the system as requested by educators, administrators and business. Benefits include:
1. Promotion of social constructionist pedagogy through learning activities such as blog, chat, comments, forums, messaging, rss, tags and wiki;
2. Enables web-based user activity monitoring, assessment, feedback and grade book functionality;
3. Suitable for 100% online education as well as endorsing a blended learning approach by supplementing face-to-face classes;
4. Simple, lightweight, efficient, flexible, scalable and highly compatible;
5. The software is open source. This means no licensing costs or vendor lock-in. Therefore lowering the total cost of ownership and enabling your organisation to invest resources to ensure a successful deployment.
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Sphere: Related ContentCan Marriage Counselling help you recover from an Affair? Perspectives from Gold Coast to Melbourne, Australia.
Posted on August 15, 2011, under Uncategorized.
In Australia, there are between 22-40% of married men and between 11-25% of married women who have been involved in an affair at least once. On the Gold Coast, with its large population and a glittery lifestyle on offer, the estimated figures are considerably higher.
Secrecy and minimisation are what it’s all about when an affair is occurring, and so if it’s discovered, the betrayal of the trust in the relationship is the most difficult issue for a partner to cope with.
Can a relationship or marriage survive an affair? Yes, a marriage or relationship can certainly be repaired after an affair, but it will take much work by both partners, particularly the partner who has cheated. Marriage Counselling over at least the medium term is essential to help restore the trust and the relationship.
Marriage counselling must address the following five points in order to fully recover from an affair:
1. The affair must stop. The partner involved in the extra relationship must commit to having no more contact, in any form, if the marriage is to survive and rebuild.
2. The partner who has been deceived needs to be given the chance to express their feelings while it is necessary for the affair partner to listen, accept and validate those feelings, and also to reassure their partner that he or she does want and value this relationship.
3. The partner who has been involved in the affair must take on the responsibility to rebuild trust by being honest and accountable. This means that comings and goings are knowable at all times and they be willing to have phone and emails checked at any time. This will need to continue for as long as it takes for the partner to feel that the trust has been rebuilt, usually up to about six months.
4. Uncover the fundamental causes. Both partners must explore why the affair has happened so that it doesn’t occur again in the future.
5. Forgive. In order for this to occur, the partner who has had the affair needs to feel absolutely sorry for what he or she has done, as well as feel true empathy for the hurt the partner has been put through.
In addition, there must be a commitment and planning for a more shared future together. Only then is it possible for the other partner to be able to forgive fully.
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Sphere: Related ContentBlood in Crime Scene Investigation
Posted on August 13, 2011, under Uncategorized.
At the scene of a violent crime, the examining officer is likely to discover blood and evidence of other bodily fluids. These can tell a lot about what happened, not only about details of how the crime was committed, but also about the people involved.
These days, nearly everybody knows his or her blood type, whether it is A, B, AB, or 0, and Rhesus negative or positive. This division of blood into types was first done by Austrian physiologist Karl Landsteiner at the end of the 19th century. In his experiments, he took small amounts of blood and separated the red cells from the liquid, called the serum. He managed this by spinning the blood at high speed in a centrifuge. Then he took the serum and added red cells from different people. They responded in two different ways: either the cells mixed with the serum, or they clumped together (clotted), (”agglutinated”).
Many attempts at blood transfusion had been made in the past, but this observation explained for the first time why many had failed. When the blood was not of exactly the same type as that in the body, it produced the clumping of red cells, and the patient died. Tests of blood samples to discover whether agglutination will occur is now made before a transfusion is performed.
DIVIDING BLOOD INTO GROUPS
Red blood cells carry substances called antigens. These help make antibodies which fight infection and disease. Landsteiner suggested that his experiment showed the presence of two specific antigens, which he labelled A and B. The discovery of these antigens enabled him to divide human blood into 4 basic groups:
Group A: antigen A present; antigen B absent
Group B: antigen A absent; antigen B present
Group AB: both antigens A and B present
Group 0: both antigens absent
The particular blood group of each person depends on the genetic inheritance from both parents. Known as ABO typing, it has been used, for example, to help identify the biological father in paternity cases. How common each group is varies from one national population to another. In the United States, for example, the relative proportions of ABO groups are roughly 39 percent A, 13 percent B, 43 percent 0, and 5 percent AB.
In 1927, Landsteiner discovered two other antigen types, labeling their occurrence as M, N, and MN. In 1940, working in the United States, he and A.S. Wiener discovered the Rhesus factor, named after the Rhesus monkeys they investigated. Since then, other researchers have introduced more than a dozen further group systems. Different proteins and enzymes associated with specific blood groups have also been identified.
WHAT THIS MEANS FOR FORENSICS
The ability to identify blood type is a powerful tool to reveal crucial evidence in a forensic investigation. If, for example, a victim’s ABO type is 0, and bloodstains of this type are found on clothing of a suspect whose type is A, there is a likelihood that they have come from the victim.
Making use of the many other blood typing systems now available, this probability is increased greatly. If blood of type O occurs in 43% of the population, the substance haptoglobin-2 in 36% of these, and the enzyme PGM-2 in 5%, then the probability of an individual having these three blood types together is 43 x 36 x 5 = 7,740 in one million. In other words, around 8 people in every thousand will have this specific type of blood. It is still insufficient to obtain a conviction on this evidence alone, but it can help to narrow the number of suspects.
In 1925, another valuable discovery occurred. Around 80% of people are ’secretors’. This means their saliva, urine, perspiration, and semen contain the same substances as their blood, and are able to be used for typing in much the same way. In 1940, two British researchers discovered that it was possible to distinguish between female and male body cells, particularly the white blood cells and those of the lining of the mouth. Blood typing has now become so precise that recently one scientist showed that he could distinguish between the blood of his twin daughters, who were genetically identical, because one had suffered from chicken pox and the other hadn’t.
SPLASHES OF BLOOD
At the scene of a violent homicidal attack, blood may be present in great quantities. Not only will it be on the victim, but also on the weapon and the surroundings. Indoors, the floors, walls, and even the ceilings may be splashed. Careful observation of these bloodstains can provide valuable clues about what took place. Bloodstains and splashes are classified into six basic types.
Round drops are found on horizontal surfaces; depending on the height from which they fell, they can spray out into a starlike shape. Splashes of blood are shaped like an exclamation mark; they show that blood has flown through the air and hit a surface at an angle. While a victim is still alive, spurts of blood come from the pumping action of the heart. A major artery can spray the blood a considerable distance.
Pools form around the body of a bleeding person. If there is more than one pool, he either crawled, or was dragged, from one area to another before dying. Smears are likely also found in this case. Trails are left when a bloody body is moved. There will be drops found if the body was carried, and smears if it was dragged.
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Sphere: Related ContentSugar Daddies
Posted on August 11, 2011, under Uncategorized.
Sugar, has been known to raise blood glucose causing a significant rise. Many experts believe that too much sugar does not cause a man to go blind.
Babe, is a really attractive person, especially a woman, termed with endearment. Again not a real cause for men to go blind, unless they avoid the Babe, and take up the handshake. Daddy, From Middle English dadd, perhaps of Celtic origin, compare Welsh and Gaelic dadf. Some of these Daddies may already be blind, or induce blindness with substances. Others avoid blindness with Sugar and Babes.
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At Sugar-Daddy we offer a social experience for the genuine gentlemen. We have Sugar Babes for your forthcoming Corporate Functions, Cinema, Theatre, Sporting Events, Dinner, Shopping Trips, Weekend Travel, Holidays, or if you are here from Interstate and simply missing a date for an event. Dinner Dates are also most welcome, as our upmarket ladies will wine and dine in the classy environment that you will provide. We offer Sugar Babes from 3 hours up to 24 hour periods. Why be alone when you can have conversation, laughter, and fresh perspective to add to your day or evening.
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Sphere: Related ContentUniforms and Promotional Clothing
Posted on August 9, 2011, under Uncategorized.
Uniforms are the same set of clothing worn by members of an organisation while participating in an activity. Common to us are school uniforms, which many academic institutions require pupils and even staff to wear. They are said to be equalisers that remove any differences among the wearers. Other sets of uniforms are for office workers. Since professional impressions are essential to the corporate image and reputation of a company, uniforms are required in order to make the company look orderly and professional.
Sports uniforms are a familiar sight. They are commonly worn for sporting events and games. And, although it’s important that a sports team is shown orderly and even professional as with the previous types of uniforms, athletic uniforms are focused on providing comfort to the players. They must allow them to move with ease.
Things to consider when using Sports Uniforms for Promotions
One of the things to be considered when using Sports Uniforms for promotions is the type of material used. Ideally, the fabric should be lightweight and comfortable. They also need to be designed of fabrics that are breathable and provide protection against skin complications. The materials should also withstand sudden movement and lunging stretches. And it also should be durable enough that it won’t shred.
You may see athletic uniforms that show corporation logos. These show us that these companies support unity and teamwork. Uniforms may become a symbol of unity and source of pride to each member of the team.
Uniforms as Promotional Tools
Companies usually put on corporate functions, team-building exercises, and even sporting events. These events can provide a great opportunity for employers and employees to relax and enjoy every activity. It’s also a great opportunity to promote the business. The company can take advantage of this chance to increase team spirit through the use of Sports Uniforms. They can be gifted to staff as promotional sportswear. They may be simple gifts, but can be appreciated by your employees.
Sponsoring Sports Uniforms is also becoming a great means of advertising and promotion of company brand and logo. You may have noticed that on various parts of the uniform are logos of sponsoring companies. Just like any other promotional gear, athletic uniforms have logos that depict a sponsoring company. As sports uniforms are expensive, it is practical to allow companies to sponsor their uniforms in exchange for logos to be printed on them. During competition, uniforms are used thus logos are widely seen.
Companies can offer to sponsor uniforms, obviously especially to winner teams. This allows them to be associated with successful teams, which is good for the image of the business establishment. It evokes an idea that they are both winners in their own fields.
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Sphere: Related ContentWhat is a Shade Sail?
Posted on August 5, 2011, under Uncategorized.
In a nutshell Shade Sail’s are a length of fabric held up by fixing points to offer shelter from the sun.
A Little More Detail Shade Sails are made from strong, shade cloth -which is a fabric (usually a mix of high density polyethylene with a filler thread or tape), that has a stainless steel wire sewn into the edge. Shade Sail’s are suspended between posts or wall/roof hooks to offer protection from the sun. Designs are based on ‘sails’ from ships, and are able to be made in almost any shape but are commonly available as triangles or variations of rectangles/squares.
Ancient History
The ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans were the first to use large pieces of fabric to provide shade. The Coliseum in Rome was shaded with a great number of large canvas ‘sails’ which were pulled into place by Roman sailors.
Recent History
Modern Shade Sail was developed to a commercial level in Australia in the 1980s, when experimentation brgeoned with people using different shade cloth materials and installation techniques.
Although the original concept of a shade sail is simple, the differences in designs, components and manufacturing processes can largely affect your end result.
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