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Understanding The 5 General Facts About Wood Flooring

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One should know the basic facts of wood flooring and they are: solid hardwood flooring is comprised only of wood; you may choose from unfinished or prefinished solid hardwood flooring; it is strongly advised not to install hardwood floors directly over an existing floor or in areas that are usually wet; you can save more with engineered wood flooring compared to solid hardwood; and engineered wood flooring offers many options in its installation process.

Homeowners favor wood flooring from other kinds of flooring for their houses. Rooms seem to look warm and cozy because of the ageless style that wood floors possess. There are many options for wood flooring. That is why; choosing Birmingham hardwood floors or any other wood flooring you would prefer for your home needs an understanding of the essential facts about it.

Solid hardwood flooring comprises of pure wood only

Hardwood floor is the most common reference to solid hardwood. The composition of hardwood floor makes it more expensive than other floor types. Just like any stick of lumber, it is sawn directly from the log and does not have any other material added to it. Hardwood floors can last forever if taken care of properly. Sanding out dents and scratches is also easy to do. Because it is environmentally safe, bamboo flooring has also gained popularity as hardwood flooring.

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Solid hardwood flooring is available as unfinished or prefinished

Two options can be chosen in buying hardwood floor: unfinished or prefinished. After installation, unfinished hardwood floor needs to be sand, sealed and maybe stained, whereas prefinished hardwood can be walked on immediately after installation. This additional work makes unfinished hardwood cheaper than prefinished ones. Many choose to buy unfinished hardwood because they can stain the floor just the way they like it.

It is prohibited to install hardwood floors directly over an existing floor or in soggy places

Hardwood flooring is installed by nailing them over a wooden sub-floor. Its method of installation is different from other wood flooring alternatives because it cannot be directly mounted over concrete or any existing floor surface. Additionally, it is recommended not to install hardwood floors in damp areas like basements or bathrooms. Hardwood floors have a meticulous installation procedure; thus, it is strongly advisable to employ professionals to do the work.

You can save more with engineered wood flooring compared to solid hardwood

The components of engineered wood flooring are finished wood and plywood. The finished wood makes up the surface that you walk on while the plywood makes up the greater part of the lower portion. Because it is not made up entirely of solid wood, this material is cheaper. However, engineered wood flooring can be suited in damp areas because of its plywood composition. The drawback however is that you cannot sand the surface because the top layer is quite thin. Additionally, since it cannot be sanded, hollows and scratches should be avoided as much as possible.

You may install engineered wood flooring in different ways

Installation for engineered wood flooring can be done in many ways. Its installation process is more convenient than that of hardwood since sub-floors are no longer necessary. In fact, you may be able to nail it directly over your existing floor as long as it is stable and level.

It will be of great help for you if you understand the basic properties and characteristics of wood flooring so that it would be more convenient when deciding which one is perfect for your home.

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First plane arrival for more than 10 years to renewed airport in Grozny, Russia

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First plane arrival for more than 10 years to renewed airport in Grozny, Russia

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Grozny, a city of the Chechen Republic, Russia, celebrated the arrival and the later departure of the first passenger aircraft, a Tu-134A-5, for more than 10 years. The renovated Severny (Northern) Airport opened prior to the 30th birthday of the Republican Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov, son of the former PM Akhmad Kadyrov who was killed by terrorists, though no official relation of these events has been confirmed.

The formal opening of Grozny airport occurred under tightened security precautions since the Chechen rebel threat still exists in the region. The airport was used as the base of the 46th Brigade of the Russian Interior troops.

The main building of the airport was heavily damaged by the years of Chechen Wars. Now it has been reconstructed in compliance with international standards.

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Valkyries, Harpies, Angels, And Mother Goose

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Prehistoric survival required knowledge of approximate astronomy, largely based on knowledge of the location of north; at one time true north was not the North Star, but Cygnus, the swan constellation in the Milky Way. This constellation is at the root of many bird mythologies, carried through time with oral tradition, mythologies, and childrens stories like Mother Goose. The importance of this knowledge was preserved in symbol and in tradition feathered cloaks, bird goddesses, and fairies wings are a few symbolic remnants.

It is the location of the Northern Cross, Deneb is its brightest star. During the Paleolithic Era, 12,500 BC, mythologies and oral tradition began to symbolize the human condition. Stories about storks bringing babies, swans nurturing and comforting babies, and taking their young souls to heaven if they died, represented the importance of these animals in the life sustaining cycles of the time. These stories connected birds with true North Cygnus the Swan. Eider Ducks did comfort babies with warm down, and geese both comforted and protected young ones – with down feathers, and by eating dangerous snakes. By 9000 BC, during the Allerd, mother swans appear, anthropomorphic creatures created to symbolize the nurturing and protecting of little ones by nature and mothers. During the Boreal, 7000 BC, the mother-swans became human mothers with beautiful wings; these zoomorphic creatures became goddess-like in their cultural role. By 5000 BC, swan-mothers also comforted, protected, and escorted the souls of dead, brave young men to heaven.

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By 450 AD, during the Hun wars (pledged destruction of all Romans/Germans from Iberia to the Urals, ending in Bohemia), these swan-ladies became Valkyries, beautiful war-like loyal women at the battlefield, fighting alongside the men, taking the souls of dead soldiers to heaven. Valkyries are associated with the bright rays of the sun – the Fire of the Valkyries; this ties them to the Sun-Child. Golden-haired women, with dazzling white arms and armor; they accompanied the brave fighters on the battlefield, riding swift horses or wolves during conflicts and wars. During more peaceful times, Valkyries became family-oriented beings who married, had babies, and nurtured the good.

These golden haired ladies of the battle became legendary warriors, with swords and spears, and could decide the course of a battle, escorting heroes to Valhalla over Bitfrost (the rainbow). The heroes received mead (ambrosia) and were dressed in shining robes which are associated with clouds. Over time Valkyries became the ones to decide who was slain. Nymphs from Wotans (Odins) palace, messengers of the gods, and war-leaders, these beautiful women incited heroes to battle by their love and bravery, guided the soldiers, and tended to the wounded and the souls of the dead. They became known as Odins Warriors of Asgard (now lake Azov, north of the Black Sea), and are often compared with the more recent Amazon women, although by reputation Valkyries were less cruel.

(During wars, women and girls were captured and taken to breeding facilities called bitch-barns. The males were either killed or castrated and enslaved; the young boys were sometimes sacrificed to Moloch. The captive women revolted, uniting together to form a militia of fighting women. They rescued those they could. Over time they gained the reputation of strength; rumored to be cruel to their enemies, they became a powerful matriarchal culture. The origin of the word lesbian is from Lesbos – their home).

During centuries when the Church was struggling to gain power and unite straggling, diverse religious beliefs, many symbols and mythologies of prior millennia were changed, eliminated, or adopted for Christian mythology. Harpies appear about 300 AD, a result of the hatred of Valkyries by the Christian culture and, along with Pandoras Box, they became purveyors of fear and evil. The beautiful brave Valkyries of the battlefield became the fearsome Harpies winged, evil monsters with the bodies of birds, the heads of women, sharp claws, and a foul smell, who tormented souls with spite. The name harpie means snatcher, and they supplied the Underworld with souls of those who died before their time. Harpies – storm goddesses – were robbers and spoilers raging over battlefields, carrying off weak and wounded, and stealing children. Originally imaged as beautiful, winged goddesses (Valkyries), they became monsters half-birds, half-females. Angels became, in Christian mythology, what the Valkyries were for the goddess cultures. Winged and now male, angels are messengers of the gods, protectors of the innocent, escorting the souls of the righteous to heaven. One scripture does mention females with wings: Then lifted I up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came out two women, and the wind was in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a stork: and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heaven. Zechariah 5:9. There is an interesting connection here between storks, women, wind, and Odins Valkyries. In some mythologies Valkyries maintain their ancient honor and duties.

About the Author: Michelle Snyder, MPhil, speaker, author, columnist, blogger. Her post-graduate degree at the University of Wales is in decoding ancient symbols, and believes they are the key to lost civilizations. She is co-owner of White Knight Studio with her husband Jay.

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Brazil forbids previous release of statistical data

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BRASILIA, Brazil —The Brazilian government announced on January 28 that the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) will have to provide the Ministry of Planning and Budget with all research data 48 hours before it is released to the press. The ministry will be responsible for checking the data before it becomes public. All government employees with previous access to IBGE data will be required to keep it private or face prosecution.

According to the announcement, the objective is to organize the flow of information according to practices adopted in several other countries. Both the government and the IBGE deny claims of censorship and data manipulation.

IBGE is an independent public agency responsible for research in Brazil.

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U.S. Senate passes landmark health care reform bill

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U.S. Senate passes landmark health care reform bill

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The United States Senate has approved a hard-fought measure to overhaul the health care system. The vote will be followed by the difficult process of reconciling the Senate-passed bill with one approved by the House of Representatives, in order to get a final measure to President Barack Obama.

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“The yeas are 60, the nays are 39. H.R. 3590 as amended, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is passed,” Vice President Joe Biden announced. Senator Jim Bunning of Kentucky did not show up for the vote leading to the 39 nays. Mike Reynard, a spokesman for Bunning, said in an e-mail that “The senator had family commitments.”

The vice president presided over the Senate at the time of the vote in his role as President of the United States Senate.

As expected, Republicans voted against the bill while all Democrats and two Independents, Joe Lieberman of Connecticut and Bernie Sanders of Vermont, voted for it.

At an estimated $87 billion, the measure would expand health insurance coverage to about 30 million more Americans currently without it, and create new private insurance marketplaces, or exchanges, to expand choice.

And, like the slightly more expensive measure passed by the House of Representatives, the Affordable Health Care for America Act, it would end a practice by private insurance companies of denying coverage to individuals with existing health problems.

Both the Senate and House measures would require nearly all Americans to purchase some form of insurance, while lower-income Americans would receive help from federal government subsidies.

	This is a victory because we have affirmed that the ability to live a healthy life in our great country is a right and not merely a privilege for the select few.

In remarks before the vote, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Democrat from Nevada, said opponents had done everything they could to prevent the vote from taking place.

Speaking to reporters, Reid and others hailed the vote as a victory and a major step toward providing millions more Americans with access to health care. “This is a victory because we have affirmed that the ability to live a healthy life in our great country is a right and not merely a privilege for the select few,” Reid said.

Reid and others including Robert Byrd, the 92-year-old Democrat from West Virginia, paid tribute to Senator Edward Kennedy, who died this past August after spending decades of his career in the Senate pursuing health care reform.

When casting his vote Byrd said, “Mr. President, this is for my friend Ted Kennedy. Aye.”

Victoria Reggie Kennedy, the widow of Senator Kennedy, watched the proceedings from the Senate visitor’s gallery, as did Representative John Dingell, Democrat from Michigan, who has been a long time advocate of health care reform and who sponsored and introduced the House version of the health care reform bill.

In the final hours of debate on the Senate bill, Republicans asserted it would be ineffective and add sharply to the U.S. budget deficit.

	Mr. President, this is for my friend Ted Kennedy. Aye.

Senator Jeff Sessions, Republican from Alabama said of the bill, “This legislation may have a great vision, it may have a great idea about trying to make the system work better. But it does not. These are huge costs [and] it’s not financially sound.”

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell vowed to defeat the bill when the Senate reconvenes in January saying, “This fight is not over. This fight is long from over. My colleagues and I will work to stop this bill from becoming law.”

Senator Olympia Snowe, a moderate Republican from Maine who helped approved the Senate Finance Committee’s version of health care reform, the America’s Healthy Future Act, earlier in the year and who remarked she may not vote on the final bill, said, “I was extremely disappointed,” noting that when the Democrats reached their needed 60 votes to overcome a filibuster, “there was zero opportunity to amend the bill or modify it, and Democrats had no incentive to reach across the aisle.”

Ahead are difficult negotiations with the House of Representatives to craft a final bill President Obama would sign into law. These talks, which will formally get under way early in the new year, will take place amid anger among many liberal House Democrats the Senate bill failed to contain a government-run public health insurance option.

	This fight is not over. This fight is long from over. My colleagues and I will work to stop this bill from becoming law.

Members of the House Progressive Caucus have vowed to fight to keep this public option in any final legislation that emerges, along with other provisions they say are needed to protect lower and middle-income Americans and hold insurance companies accountable.

In a statement, the Democratic chairmen of three key House committees said while there are clear differences between House and Senate bills, both will bring fundamental health care coverage to millions who are currently uninsured.

Obama administration officials have been quoted as saying they anticipate negotiations on a final bill would not be complete until after the President’s State of the Union Address in January, and could slip even later into the new year.

	If passed, this will be the most important piece of social policy since the Social Security Act in the 1930s, and the most important reform of our health care system since Medicare passed in the 1960s.

President Obama issued a statement to the press in the State Dining Room in the White House saying that the vote is “legislation that brings us toward the end of a nearly century-long struggle to reform America’s health care system.”

He also pointed out the bill’s strengths, noting, “The reform bill that passed the Senate this morning, like the House bill, includes the toughest measures ever taken to hold the insurance industry accountable. Insurance companies will no longer be able to deny you coverage on the basis of a preexisting condition. They will no longer be able to drop your coverage when you get sick. No longer will you have to pay unlimited amounts out of your own pocket for the treatments you need. And you’ll be able to appeal unfair decisions by insurance companies to an independent party.”

He also noted how historic the bill is, saying, “If passed, this will be the most important piece of social policy since the Social Security Act in the 1930s, and the most important reform of our health care system since Medicare passed in the 1960s.”

Obama noted the potential social impact, saying, “It’s the impact reform will have on Americans who no longer have to go without a checkup or prescriptions that they need because they can’t afford them; on families who no longer have to worry that a single illness will send them into financial ruin; and on businesses that will no longer face exorbitant insurance rates that hamper their competitiveness.”

Obama afterwards made phone calls to various Senators and other people, including Victoria Kennedy and David Turner of Little Rock, Arkansas. Mr. Turner had his health insurance rescinded in January of last year, after his insurance company went back into his record and alleged that he failed to disclose his full medical record at the time he applied for coverage. Turner was First Lady Michelle Obama’s guest during her husband’s speech to a joint session of Congress on health care reform back in September.

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