FENG SHUI CLOCK RULES

Image source: https://www.shutterfly.com/ideas/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Feng-Shui-Art.png

Did you know the clocks ticking away in your home or business right now can be your best friend or one of your biggest foes according to Feng Shui? A clock lets you know the time and delegates how much of it you have. Knowing what time it is can make you happy or it can make you anxious. Just stop to consider not only how much energy and emotion you get but also give to this simple mechanical object! Each occasion you glance at it, its not just giving you information. Its also adding or subtracting to positive chi flow within you.

What other object in the home can get you to start running around like the rabbit in Alice In Wonderland because youre late? The clock keeps you mindful that time is the one thing in the universe you can never get back. It also helps you maintain your schedule. Because they wield so much power in our lives, their placement should never be considered a simple moving object cure in Feng Shui.

One of the prime rules in Feng Shui is if something is broken, either fix it or throw it out. Where clocks are concerned, not following this rule can really come back to bite you. If it is broken, things will literally freeze in the area its placed in represents. Time will stand still. So, if things have been stagnant in your life lately, maybe you should check to see if your clocks are running correctly.

Conversely if a clock is running fast it can cause chaos in your life. You can be too much ahead of your time. Others, your family, friends, loved ones and employer will not see you in sync and you can miss out on a lot of opportunities as a result. The heart is often referred to as ones ticker. More than once, Ive had clients report to me that when someone in their family died, one or all of their clocks stopped at the exact time of the persons death.

My father had a hobby of making wall clocks from odd things. He had one hideous creation of a timepiece surrounded by a dead fishs jaw. It literally symbolized his heart in the jaws of death. To add to the horror, he hung it in the Fame gua of his bedroom. This gua rules the heart. He would always laugh off any suggestions to take it down. After he was rushed to the emergency ward and had quadruple bi-pass surgery on his heart though, it was soon taken down.

One of the most common mistakes I see doing Feng Shui analysis is the placement of clocks on a wall. They should never be placed so high that you have to strain your neck to see them. To experience a greater sense of ease, control, and be in the flow of life, hang the clock at eye level. Otherwise, time and a balanced existence is always out of reach.

If a clock is the first thing you see upon entering a room, you will always feel short of time. Guests walking into your home will not feel welcome. They will experience restriction upon entering. It informs them they are late or early. They also will feel a sense of limitation as to how long their visit should be.

A clock in a business should never be in a prominent position. If customers see a clock, they get overly anxious, irritated and will be less likely to shop in the store again. Have you ever wondered why they dont have clocks in the casinos in Las Vegas? Its because they want the patrons to lose all sense of time. When customers feel free, they spend more money gambling.

Clocks are metal objects in Feng Shui. Therefore, they should be placed in the metal and water guas children, helpful people, and career. Because metal chops wood, hanging a clock in the family and wealth guas will cause stress in these departments of your life. Timepieces are methodical and accurate. Placing a clock in the correct gua brings structure and rhythmic harmony to the area.

Only one clock in the bedroom is allowed. It should be battery powered. If you have to have an electric clock, keep it as far away from the bed as possible. Too much electricity in the bedroom creates harmful electromagnetic fields. Eventually it will prove to be extremely detrimental to your health.

The Chinese consider it an insult for someone younger to give someone older a timepiece as a gift. It symbolizes to the elderly person their time is running out.

Empress of the North - Columbia and Snake Rivers

Image source: https://www.bon-voyage.co.uk/img/uploads/11427_fit588x588.jpg

The Empress of the North is a sparkling vessel operated by American West Streamboat Cruises, just a little over her first birthday. She is a red and white paddlewheeler with bunting and high, flared stacks (that conveniently fold down for the low bridges) and is four decks high. The huge paddle wheel at the stern is also painted red, while the hull is gleaming black. The art in each of the corridors, neatly listed and described in an in-room guide, is nothing short of spectacular. It is themed for Russian nobility (she spends her summers in Alaska, sailing the Inside Passage). There is a collection of Faberge eggs, matrushka (nesting family) dolls, lacquer boxes and other Russian artifacts opposite the Purser's Office and gift shop. The Romanov Dining Room is similarly decorated from Imperial Russia. Her rooms are spacious and nicely decorated and most have verandahs to watch the scenery and passing ships drift by during the day. The rooms all have TV sets with DVD players, with a lending library of discs in the gift shop available at no cost and clock radios with CD players. There is also satellite TV from most of the networks, CNN and others always available as well as a camera mounted on the pilot house to share the Captain's view with the passengers.

In addition to the dining room, there is a show lounge (which is also the lecture hall during the day), the Paddlewheel Bar, serving evening drinks and appetizers before dinners (two seatings, but no assigned tables) with dancing before and after the evening meal and the Calliope Lounge which serves light breakfasts and lunches each day.

The first night, always a little awkward, features a "Welcome Aboard Dinner" and usually indicates that the standards of the kitchen are high indeed. Each night's menu had a choice of hot or cold appetizer, two soups, two salads and four entrees, one of which was vegetarian. Two or more desserts plus fruit or ice cream ended each meal. Overall, most have only wonderful experiences with all of the cuisine. Staff is young and enthusiastic, cordial and eager and very personable. Whether they did or not, they certainly seemed to be thoroughly enjoying themselves, from the deckhands to the cabin stewards and stewardesses to the waiters.

The first full day on the Empress provides a stop at Stevenson, Washington and a visit to the Columbia Gorge Interpretive Center, an excellent museum of the history of the Gorge, its settlement, growth and progress including a commercial salmon fishing wheel, lumbering machine and railroad memorabilia. At the fish hatchery by the Bonneville Dam, perhaps the best-known dam and power plant on the river, passengers have a view of the sturgeon pond and Herman, the sturgeon, who was more than 200 years old and still growing as sturgeons do, a living link with the area's past. Finally, passengers are able to view the spectacular Multnomah Falls, a trademark beauty of this part of the river.

The next day brings the Empress to Umatilla Landing, again in Washington, with visits to Fort Walla Walla. The Whitman Mission at Fort Walla Walla is where the Whitman family of missionaries were the first of the non-Native Americans to settle. They might have remained had not a measles epidemic - to which the natives had no immunity - cost them their lives when they were blamed for the deaths that resulted. The passengers may also enjoy a visit to the Three Rivers winery (Washington and Oregon produce wonderful wines, though not nearly as well-known as their neighbors in California) and a magnificent lunch at the beautifully restored Whitman Hotel before returning to their waiting river home.

Overnight, as the passengers are sleeping, the ship leaves the Columbia to enter the Snake River. She continues upriver and through the last remaining locks to Lewiston, Idaho, the easternmost point on the voyage. This is a much anticipated adventure as the entire ship's complement of passengers are moved to a fleet of jet boats, the only commercial craft that can navigate this rugged river and its terrain. They proceed up about thirty miles to where the Snake meets the Salmon River. This is beyond any roads and accessible only to intrepid rafters and canoeists and a few float fishermen plus hikers and backpackers. One can also find some petroglyphs made hundreds of years ago by area natives and view some mountain sheep. At that point, one meets the confluence of three states, Oregon, Washington and Idaho and it's where the jet boats reverse to a takeout point from which the passengers are returned by bus to the ship.

The next day the river tour stops near Klickitat, Washington, to make a trip to the Maryhill Museum, the creation of an eccentric millionaire which houses an impressive array of art. It has the largest collection of Rodin work on the West Coast, native art, beautiful chess sets of exquisite artistry, a sculpture and a floral garden overlooking the river below. This is where the Empress of the North closes in on the final stop of the voyage. It was the destination and goal of Lewis and Clark at Astoria, Oregon, at the mouth of the Columbia River basin and adjoining the Pacific Ocean.

Here the steamboat overnights and spends a second day. Buses take the passengers into the beautiful town of Astoria, Oregon. The town is full of wonderful restaurants and shops and it has the Astoria Monument. The monument is a column full of art and chronicles of the town's history. It also features a spiraling stairs with a climb of one hundred sixty-two steps and a viewing platform with three hundred sixty degrees of vista of Washington State and the ocean. Cape Disappointment is where the Lewis and Clark Expedition finally found their goal of the Pacific Ocean, but spent three weeks here in continuous rain. Fort Clatsop, on the Oregon side, is where they built a shelter and prepared to leave for the east and their homes. The tour buses provided by American West stop at some excellent National Park Service centers in the immediate area, each dedicated to explaining still more of the incredible journey made by Lewis and Clark and their Corps of Discovery two hundred years before. It was an amazing journey in which their estimate of distance was only twenty-six miles off, without any instruments of measurement. The nation is indebted to these men for exploring and mapping the entire passage, together with the flora and fauna found along the way.

The buses return the passengers to the Empress and it sails back to the starting point to disembark the passengers.

Dont Rush While Installing Ceramic Wall Tile In Miami

Image source: https://cdn-webimages.wimages.net/051634ddb49c5626498251c01dc6cade6dfb96.jpg?v=3

Its not that tough to personalize and install ceramic wall tile Miami in your bathroom. A bit of dedication and patience will go a long way while installing the ceramic tile in bathroom that youve always wanted to have.

Before you commence the installation of Buschinelli Tile Miami, get your tiling tools together. You will require the following tools for the project. A tile cutter, tape measure and a pair of pliers and tile nibblers, sand paper, a rubber grout and a trowel is required. To install ceramic tiles in the best way possible, you will also require a strong material such as tiling thinset mortar, or any of a wide range of tile adhesives. You will also require tiling grout for filling the gaps between your tiles. Be sure to match your setting material color with the grout.

Sponges, rags and bucket will also be required for cleaning the excess grout from the tiles and other debris, after youre done. And dont start to install Travertino Porcelain Tile without these requirements. You will also require a pair of safety glasses, long sleeved work clothes, and heavy leather gloves. Are you ready to start the work of your ceramic bathroom wall? Follow the tiling instructions below and start working on your ceramic tiled bathroom.

You can start by getting the center of your wall. Utilize the level of a carpenter, or long plumb pieces to mark intersecting horizontal and vertical lines. These will be your reference lines for your tiling project. The place where both lines intersect is the starting point for your very first row of ceramic tiles. From that point, you might then be able to working your way to both ends of your bathroom wall. Regular checks is necessary while installing ceramic wall tile Miami, so that your tiling work is consistent and can be placed in a slanting direction.

There are two types of bathroom walls you might be working on. One is the common concrete wall, and the other is a special type known as a green drywall. A green drywall is designed for utilization in bathrooms and showers as it is designed to resist intrusion of moisture. Make sure that you clean the walls of debris and dust, and also repair the cracks and fill in the holes and gaps. Scarify or roughen up the wall so that your tiling mortar has some grip for bonding. Thus, when you start installing the Buschinelli Tile Miami and you wont have an issue with your bonding material or tiling mortar.

You might now start the installation of Travertino Porcelain Tile once the walls are laid out. Start from the intersection point. Apply a coating of the tiling mortar. Put your tile over it and press the tile down firmly in position.

A cement porcelain tile is a better product for LEED and green building projects. It is 30 per cent stronger and is durable and denser than ceramic tile. It adds value and beauty to a home, regardless it is installed on counters or flooring and back splashes in the bathrooms, kitchen and utility.

Does Santa Really Exist

Image source: http://www.traditionalcatholicpriest.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/IMG_9051.jpg

?

There reaches a time in a child's life where the existence of Santa Clause needs to be proved, like alien life forms and the tooth fairy. Some parents eventually hold up their hands and say "Ok kiddo, Santa doesn't exist we've been lying to you for 8 years! Ha, ha! Sike!" Others will do anything to save their youngsters imaginative minds and do anything in their power to help their children collect evidence of Santa's chimney break in.
http://www.find-me-a-gift.co.uk/christmas-gifts/unusual-christmas-presents-ideas.asp

The decorated tree is surrounded by family Christmas gifts in budget store wrapping papers with various degrees of wrapping skill. A small coffee table is situated by the chimney breast, laden with a mince pie and brandy for Santa and of course a carrot for Rudolph. This set up was fine for most kids. They would hop down the stairs at 3am, too excited to sleep, see that a bite had been taken from the carrot, the brandy had been drunk and there were but a few crumbs on the mince pie plate. Santa had been, there was the proof, let's sit down and play Bamboozle on Teletext whilst waiting for kids TV to come on. Job done. Not for me. I needed hard evidence.

Whilst rummaging through my stocking fillers one Christmas Day I suddenly had a notion. What if mum and dad had eaten the mince pie and drunk the brandy? That still didn't explain the carrot, but the seed was now planted in my brain. Was Santa a sham? I queried my parents the following year and we dusted the fireplace with flour like I had seen on Inspector Gadget. A fool-proof plan to capture the very footprints of the big man himself.

It worked! There on Christmas morn was indeed the boot prints of Santa. My little mind was saved from any suspicious activity from my parents and I happily opened my Christmas presents and played with my A la Carte Kitchen with gusto. But what about the kids of today? Children of the millennium seem to be less taken in by stories of tooth fairies, Father Christmas and the Sandman. Have they lost the imaginative part of the brain that the 80's child revelled in? Sifted flour and mince pies are now no longer enough for today's kids, they need spy gadgets and booby traps. Thanks to watching Most Haunted and CSI Miami with mum and dad, a bite out of a carrot doesn't prove anything. They need DNA samples, ultra violet light scans and night vision footage. Christmas Coke Cola ads were enough proof at one stage, now we need to check the chimney for beard hair, red fibres and skin deposits.

So do we fuel this new age child with Christmas gifts such as Mini Spy Cameras and Digital Voice Recording Spy Pens to prove Santa's existence, or should we just tell them straight? How do you tell a child you have been lying to them for years? Do we carry on pretending that the guy who smells of Febreeze and wee in the shopping centre grotto really is Father Christmas? Yes, because Christmas is about gifts, eating, the Queens speech, annual trips to see family members you don't like and lying to your children about Santa to keep them happy.
http://www.find-me-a-gift.co.uk/seasonal-gift/christmas-stocking.html

Let them play detective, knock down their theories with magic and mystery. No evidence? Then you cannot be proven guilty either way. Carry on with the Christmas stocking fillers, carrots, pies and brandymaybe hold up on the flour and let Santa always remain one of life's great mysteries like the Bermuda Triangle and Katie Price's dress sense.

Regards
Jessie Jones
Find Me A Gift

Because giving feels good......
Jessie Jones joined Find Me A Gift in May 2008 and has been writing fabulous articles for us ever since!

Do You Really Need New Labor Law Posters

Image source: http://prodimages.hrdirect.com/EFEDSTATE-Illinois-Federal-and-State-Labor-Law-Posters_xl.jpg

If you run a business and have employees, there are a slew of federal and state labor law notices you're required to post where employees can see them each day. These are often called labor law posters, or compliance posters. They include things like minimum wage laws, the federal USERRA, non-discrimination notices, and more.

Keeping up with everything that ought to be posted and making sure that the most current notices are posted in the workplace can be a real chore for big and small businesses alike. What's more, posting a collection of paper notices can make your office look messy.

To solve the problem, a number of companies sell labor law posters that combine all the state and federal regulations on one or two posters.

The posters, in general, are a good thing. They tidy up offices and help businesses stay in compliance with labor laws.

But unfortunately, some of the companies that market labor law posters by mail use hard-sell marketing tactics to get you to replace your labor law posters before you really need to. In fact, some of the marketing materials that get sent in mail seem somewhat misleading and deceptive.

One ploy that's been used in various parts of the country is a mailing that has the word FINAL NOTICE in all capital letters on the top of the page of an official-looking document. Below the "Final Notice" headline was text stating that the employer must comply with the new labor posting requirements and that failure to do so could lead to government fines of up to $17,000 and other possible dire consequences.

Other tactics include mail-merging the name of the recipient company into the letter and using text in the letter such as a Notice Number, Reference Number, and a Reply By date designed to make recipients think the mail is somehow an official warning.

If your business gets a notice like that, take the time to look at who it really comes from. If you see the words poster service, or compliance service, or if you see an out-of-state address, you can be sure the official-looking "Notice" is just a sales letter. Another dead giveaway: the letter will tell you how to order labor law posters from a private company.

If you're unsure when labor law notices you need to post were last changed, check with the US Department of Labor and your state labor department to find out if there have been any changes in required postings. Remember, too, that no matter what the labor law poster companies tell you, you don't need to buy a new poster just because it's a new year. You only need to replace your posters when the state or federal laws listed on them change. For a list of the latest changes in state and federal labor law posters see http://www.businessknowhow.net/posters/updates.asp

Online reprints of this article must be left intact as written and include the author's byline, copyright and resource box in their entirety. You must get permission from the author to reproduce the article in print publications. 2008 Attard Communications, Inc.

Do You Plan to Design a New Bathroom

Image source: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/ef/86/de/ef86defee86cc9bc59d3413b2f7464ac.jpg

I adore my bathroom. I look forward to the solace and peace I feel every time I spend time in that part of my home. I know many people can relate to my perspective about the bathroom. Taking a shower in the bathroom rejuvenates you at any time of the day. Many bathrooms are designed explicitly with warm colors that help you relax while soaking up the warm, soothing water after a long day at work.

 It is common to feel the need to remodel your bathroom after a while; this decision might be based on changing preferences or a picture you saw. Redesigning the bathroom is an exciting change anyone will look forward to experiencing. Some of the factors to be considered during this project will be the space you have to work with, the users and your design.

 Creating a unique bathroom layout

 Your choices for a bathroom layout will be made from the three general plans for wet wall layouts. This arrangement includes marking out the part of your bathroom where the plumbing fittings will be run through to supply water to the toilet, shower, basin, etc. The choices for wet wall layout are one, two or three layout patterns for the wet wall.

The layout of a one wet wall system will have the toilet, sink and shower plumbing run along the same side in your bathroom wall, it is a simple plumbing system which is also affordable. However, your bathroom suite choices will be limited to this plumbing system.

You will be able to install a variety of bathroom suite models with the two wet wall system. In this case, the plumbing for the shower is fitted on one side your bathroom, and the layout for the toilet, basin, etc. are on another side of the bathroom wall.

You will have the freedom of flexibility in making remodeling decisions with the three wet wall layout here the plumbing is run on any of the three walls in your bathroom. It is quite expensive, but you will have more remodeling options to achieve the best bathroom design.

 Choosing the best lighting for your bathroom

The considerations for a good lighting pattern will include the position of your sink, toilet, and shower area. Your goal is to create a spectacular ambiance while ensuring that essential parts of your bathroom are well lit. Most modern bathroom designs have the lights set above at strategic positions.

 Bathroom lighting options are quite vast; you can get more tips on our Bathroom lighting buyers guide.

 Remodeling Your Bathroom

The common experience many homeowners have is managing the space effectively while remodeling the bathroom. It should be a simple modern design with a walk in shower.

In the UK, the space constraint has compelled many homeowners to install a simple walk-in shower in their bathrooms, if you are lucky, you can find a decent tub, especially if you know you will be soaking in it often.

 Depending on your budget, you could also have a quadrant shower enclosure installed. This way, your floors will be protected from spills, and these enclosures look very appealing in different designs. If you are not sure of what will fit in your bathroom, a professional assessment by an architect will help you make the best decisions.

Alternative wall finishing

We are so used to tiles on bathroom walls, but if you need something different and durable, you should consider using bathroom wall panels. They come in various designs and colors; you will also get the shower boards and shower wall panels for your bathroom. They are non-porous, easy to maintain, adequate for dry and wet areas and hygienic. Our bathroom wall boards are tongue and groove which makes installation an easy process. Bathroom wall boards are an excellent alternative to tiles, they can be used in every part of your bathroom, and the easy maintenance makes them a favorite option to give your bathrooms a new and unique look.

Flooring

The floor of your bathroom must be slip-proof for the safety of every user. Even on a tight budget, flooring options such as vinyl and laminate flooring materials will give you the perfect finishing without compromising your desired style.

 Tiles are commonly used for bathroom floor finishing because they are durable even when exposed to moisture and steam from hot water.

Different Functions And Types Of Kitchen Hood

Image source: https://cdn.homedit.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/modern-kitchen-island-hood.jpg

If you want to design your kitchen, it is important to first think about how the air as well as smell from the hob is going to extracted. There is variety of Hob and Hood in Singapore is available in market which varies in size, design as well as finishing. When doing this, there fewchoicestrusting on your selections such that where the hob will be installed and how much you budget have to spend on buying such kitchen appliances. Another point to be included is that how the air will be fumigatedas well as cleaned.

There are different types of cooker hoods and extractors which are highly used and available in the market for your kitchen.

1.Chimney Hoods
This type of hood is very famous in kitchen. It is highly appreciated for itsexceptional features.This is a tall chimney that extensively reaches the ceiling to facilitate extraction of the cooking smells and warm hair. This can use recirculation system to deal with odours as well as smells.

2.Integrated Hoods
These hoods are similar to canopy hoods as it fit reliably into your cooking area. In any case, these products need their own space in your kitchen between twoexistent wall units. Once fixed, a door is then attached to the front of the integrated hood unit so it blends in with whatever residue of the kitchen. The door then allows you to pull open the unit, which facilitates for escaping air or odours to be captured as well as dealt with.

3.Canopy cooker hoods
This type of Cooker Hood in Singapore is an enormously basic and helpful way for exorcising odours or smells from your cooking space. The canopy installsefficiently on the underside of a kitchen unit and is for all intents and purposes unnoticeable, aside from the controls on the underside of the unit. These accessories can use both the recirculation as well as extraction systems to deal with odours and bad smells.

4.Kitchen Island Hoods
These kitchen accessories are huge and very expensive, but in case you have the space for a kitchen island and you are forestalling doing all the cooking on it then you will need an island hood.Some of these kitchen island hob extractors also accompany with external ventilation and air recirculation models.

5.Downdraft Extractors
These types of extractors are perfectly installed in your cooking space without any hassle. These products take small space for installing.The offered products are highly appreciated among customers due to their exceptional functionality. These extractors are fitted into your kitchen worktop and will pop out when required at the touch of a button.

Conclusion:
These are some of the cooker hoods, which are best in use and suitable for your cooking space. These not only make air in your kitchen fresh but also provide an eye catchy lookto your kitchen. So, why are you waiting for? Come and purchase the unmatched quality kitchen accessories at an affordable price without any second thought in mind.