Houston, TX (PRWEB) March 12, 2014

For years Home Exterior Systems, a home improvement company based in the Houston area, has been racking up the awards for its exceptional service. And in 2014, the companys recognition continues; Home Exterior Systems has recently received a Best of Houzz 2014 Service Award for Client Satisfaction from Houzz.

Houzz awards Client Satisfaction designations based on a variety of factors, which include the number and quality of the client reviews received regarding companies in 2013. A platform for home design and remodeling, Houzz connects millions of homeowners online. At the Houzz website, homeowners put up pictures of their house interior and exterior features, showcasing the work that the home improvement companies have performed. Houzz records 16 million usersfondly known as "Houzzers"on a monthly basis, and the website currently has over 230 million photos. The Houzz platform prides itself on being the largest residential home design database on earth.

Founded by Houston resident Jay Sanchez, Home Exterior Systems has built a reputation for providing outstanding services. Currently, at its Houzz profile, the company has a 5-star cumulative rating, the highest possible. With its focus on the Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land metropolitan area, Home Exterior Systems has been around since 2003 and has been a member of the Better Business Bureau (BBB) since 2005. The company provides a 12-year personal warranty on their workmanship and labor, and it is licensed through the Texas Residential Construction Commission.

Upon receiving the award from Houzz, the recipient can display a Best of Houzz 2014 badge on the company website. The badge also appears on the company's profile at Houzz.com. That way, homeowners looking for home improvement services can easily spot the very best Houzz has to offer. Home Exterior Systems was recently honored with the Best of Houzz 2014 Service Award for Client Satisfaction for their excellence.

About Home Exterior Systems provides a variety of exterior home improvement services. These services include window and door replacement, roofing, HardiePlank lap sliding, power washing, and deck and patio construction. Based in the Houston metropolitan area, Home Exterior Systems won the 2010 Super Service Award from Angies List, as well as the 2010 Home Pro of the Year Award from ServiceMagic (now HomeAdvisor). The company is also a BBB Excellence Award winner for 2011 and 2012. For more information or to receive a quote, Home Exterior Systems can be reached by phone at 281-542-9577.

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Population Services International (PSI) is a leading global health organization with social marketing and social franchising interventions in Vietnam to address HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis C, Safe Water/Hygiene, Tuberculosis and Hypertension. PSI uses private sector approaches to improve the health of Vietnams low-income and vulnerable communities in close to 20 provinces.

Working in partnership with the Government, private sector and civil society partners, PSI harnesses the power of markets to empower underserved populations to lead healthier lives. For more information: http://www.psi.org

PSI currently seeks an experienced training and outreach professional to join our dynamic, results-focused team in Hanoi. Are you passionate about participatory training techniques? Do you believe in the power of face-to-face communication to motivate behavior change? Get us to notice you and join our inspiring mission.

Job Title: TRAINING & OUTREACH SPECIALIST Report to: Marketing Manager

Job purposes:

The Training/Outreach Specialist is responsible for identifying, implementing and actively promoting best practices in face-to-face communication including outreach, medical detailing and provider counseling - as a key component of integrated, multi-channel behavior change communication campaigns implemented by PSI and other partners to motivate healthier behaviors including consistent use of low dead space syringes, safe water treatment, hand-washing with soap, improved maternal and child nutrition and others.

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Interested candidates are requested to submit detailed curriculum vitae (CV) with a letter of interest indicating the position you are applying for as well as copies of relevant certificates/degrees no later than 17:00, 21 March to HR Department, PSI Vietnam; Address: 11th Floor, VINAFOR Building, 127 Lo Duc Street, Hai Ba Trung, Hanoi; Email:hr@psi.org.vn.

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for interviews. Please do not contact via telephone. Dossier will not be returned

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The tilt in the economic policy to facilitate urban sectors under the Nawaz Sharif government got a positive response from industry and services, which were somewhat unnerved by the PPPs policy to reverse the process of transfer of resources from the rural to urban sector.

Headline GDP for the first quarter of this fiscal was pleasantly surprising. The reported 5pc growth was better than most optimistic economic forecasts so far. The SBP, in its first quarterly report for 2013-14, released late last month, did raise questions about the sustainability of the trend and hinged the growth prospects on the implementation of structural reforms in the fiscal and energy sectors.

With fertiliser and paint industry leading, the large-scale manufacturing (LSM) sector posted an impressive growth, and with the help of the services sector, enabled GDP to grow by 5pc in the period under review. They also more than made up for the lag in growth of the agricultural sector.

Construction, retail and communication sectors are believed to have contributed to growth in services sector. According to the SBP report, nothing significant can be inferred about services till detailed information is available.

Experts attribute the better-than-expected performance of urban sectors primarily to two factors: better energy supply (gas/electricity) to industry, and the confidence of the business community in the Nawaz Sharif government. Their mistrust of the PPP manifested in the slow business expansion during the partys tenure of office.

During the PPPs rule (2008-13), the performance of the agricultural sector was way better than its mean annual growth over the preceding decade from 1998-2008.

The fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) sector is said to have immensely benefited from the rural growth, as the purchasing power of the neglected population increased on the back of higher support prices of wheat and sugarcane. The demand for basic consumer items like soaps, toothpaste, washing powders, etc. is said to have risen dramatically.

The rural prosperity was also shared by businesses dealing with farm inputs like fertiliser, seeds etc., as a result of price hikes. Mechanisation of farming got a boost from increased subsidised tractor sales.

The freeze in the support price of wheat, besides other factors, experts believe, contributed to the underperformance of agriculture in the first quarter of the current fiscal.

Meanwhile, the State Banks first quarterly report for FY14 says, industry and services were the major drivers of growth as agriculture underperformed.

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LAKE OF THE WOODS, Calif. People in the mountain town of Lake of the Woods, which straddles the San Andreas Fault, are used to scrapping for water. The lake for which it is named went dry 40 years ago. Now the tiny community is dealing with its most unsettling threat yet: It could run out of water by summer.

As of last week, two of the five wells drilled into the dry lake bed that serve the towns 300 homes were producing water. The mountains of the nearby Los Padres National Forest got their first dusting of snow and it was a light one last week; it is the winter snow that feeds the wells come spring.

People are watering trees with discarded dishwater, running the washing machine once a week and letting carefully tended beds of flowers and trees wither into patches of dusty dirt.

There are scenes all across California that illustrate the power of the drought. A haze of smog, which normally would be washed away by winter rains, hung over Los Angeles this week. Beekeepers near Sacramento said the lack of wildflowers has deprived bees of a source of food, contributing to a worrisome die-off. Across the rich farmland of the San Joaquin Valley, fields are going unplanted.

But for 17 small, rural communities in California, the absence of rain is posing a fundamental threat to the most basic of services: drinking water. And Lake of the Woods, a middle-class enclave 80 miles from downtown Los Angeles, a mix of commuters, retirees and weekend residents, is one of the most seriously threatened. Signs along its dusty roadways offer red-on-white warnings of a Water Emergency, and plead for conservation.

I didnt think it would come to this, said Diane Gustafson, manager of the Lake of the Woods Mutual Water Co., as she greeted a team of county and state officials reviewing the communitys request for emergency funds to drill more holes. Our wells are so deep. I have lived here for 40 years, and this is the first time weve had a problem like this.

Nothing has helped ease the water crisis: not the yearlong ban on watering lawns and washing cars, not the conscientious homeowners who clean their dishes in the sink and reuse the gray water on trees, not even the 3 inches of rain that soaked the area last weekend. Three attempts to drill new wells, going down 500 feet, have failed.

For a while, Lake of the Woods bought water from Frazier Park, 5 miles up the road, but that community halted sales as its water table dropped. Now the community is trying to line up alternatives, and fast. State officials predict the existing water supply will last no more than three months.

The town, which covers an unincorporated square-mile of Kern County and has a population of about 900, says it is prepared to truck in water should the wells run dry, an expensive remedy it employed briefly during a dry spell last year and which now looms as a potential fact of life.

Bob Stowell, a general contractor who is the unpaid chairman of the board of the water company, promises that no faucets in Lake of the Woods will go dry.

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Wilmington, Del. (PRWEB) March 06, 2014

DuPont and Procter & Gamble Company (P&G) are the joint winners of the 2014 Sustainable Bio Award for Bio-Based Product Innovation of the Year. The two companies were recognized today at the 2014 World Bio Markets Conference in Amsterdam for their pioneering work to achieve the previously impossible: the cleaning power of warm-water clothes washing at cold-water temperatures.

This collaboration brought together DuPont a world leader in science and innovation and P&G a world leader in consumer products to develop the next generation of cleaning technology. DuPont applied an unprecedented scientific process to build a new enzyme technology that delivers better cleaning power at lower wash temperatures. This innovative engineering method discovered an optimal enzyme, also known as a protease, which matches the performance of detergent at 60F as the previous generation of product at 90F. This new protease improves cold water wash performance allowing consumers to reduce energy use by washing in lower temperatures the most energy-intensive aspect of laundering clothes. DuPont worked with P&Gs scientists to incorporate this protease into their liquid detergent products, which they are marketing around the globe.

This protein has the potential to become one of the most widely used engineered enzymes in the world, said William F. Feehery, president, DuPont Industrial Biosciences. With Procter & Gamble, we were able to combine the resources and talents of our global teams to completely re-imagine this product from the ground up. The result is a breakthrough for consumers that delivers superior fabric cleaning in cold water.

The new product enables unprecedented environmental benefits for the detergent industry. Approximately 45 billion loads of laundry are cleaned in U.S. homes annually, producing roughly 40 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions (CO2). If all of those loads were run in cold water, the energy saved from not heating the water would reduce CO2 emissions by 32.3 million metric tons the equivalent of the annual electricity use of 3.7 million U.S. homes. For consumers, that means lower energy bills and more money in their pockets.

DuPont and P&G received the award at the 9th annual World Bio Markets Conference. The conference brought together industrial, academic and policy experts to provide a comprehensive look at the opportunities in the bio-based economy, including end-user markets for renewable fuels, bio-based chemicals and bio-based products.

DuPont (NYSE: DD) has been bringing world-class science and engineering to the global marketplace in the form of innovative products, materials, and services since 1802. The company believes that by collaborating with customers, governments, NGOs, and thought leaders we can help find solutions to such global challenges as providing enough healthy food for people everywhere, decreasing dependence on fossil fuels, and protecting life and the environment. For additional information about DuPont and its commitment to inclusive innovation, please visit http://www.dupont.com.

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Published: 8:29AM Tuesday March 04, 2014 Source: ONE News

After a day of being battered by southerly gales and heavy rain, coastal areas around and north of Christchurch are battening down the hatches for more of the same. People in 2,500 homes face a night without power while others in some low-lying areasare being warned about possible overnight flooding.

As the storm moves up the country,rocks and debris are washing upon coastal roads in Wellington and police arewarning drivers to take care.

Heavy rain and gusts of up to 120kphwere forecast for the capital this evening, MetService forecaster Tuporo Marsters said.

The storm swept in to Christchurchjust after daybreak, 120 kilometre-an-hour gales with gusts up to 160kph battering boats in Lyttelton.

But as the day developed it was toppled trees keeping emergency services busy.

"We've still got a bit of leafy growth on the trees which is causing the wind to have an affect on them, and the soft ground as well causing them to be uprooted," says John Herriott, Christchurch City Fire Station Officer.

Bruce McDonald and his daughter were two of the lucky ones in the storm, unharmed after a tree brought live powerlines onto their car.

Mr McDonald says they had just come out of a camp ground, noticed the tree and heard the big crack.

"And she come off, hit the powerlines and ended up on top of the car. Burnt a hole on the roof of the car and on top of the bonnet. Yeah, a bit scary," he says.

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This is manual work requiring physical strength in maintaining and upgrading parking garages and parking lots.

Work requires skill in the operation of small to medium equipment and sweeper truck and special events set up. Work involves maintaining parking garages and lots while performing light mechanical, light construction, and plumbing repairs. Work also involves removal of trash, debris removal, lighting, sweeping and mopping garage offices and restrooms, washing, landscaping and sanitizing restrooms and regular inspections of parking facilities.

Work is performed under general supervision and reviewed through efficiency, productivity, policy adherence, observation of work and through performance evaluations. Performs routine maintenance to parking garages and lots including the removal of containerized trash, sweeping and mopping, dusting, trash removal, sanitizing restrooms, washing windows and inspection of facilities and perimeters; also includes power sweeping of garages and lots with backpack blowers and dump bed sweeper truck; and treats garages and lots with chemicals during winter for weather conditions such as snow and ice.

Performs light mechanical repairs in replacing electrical receptacles, fixtures and switches, emergency lighting and exit signs including asphalt patching and repair and caulking concrete cracks; replaces signage, HVAC air filters, wall boards, and door locks. Performs light plumbing repairs including replacing pipes, drains, and restroom fixtures. Performs landscaping duties including removal and trimming of branches, grass mowing, weed eating, excavating, grading, raking leaves and spraying herbicides and pesticides.

Assist in remodeling of offices such as construction of partition walls, laying tile, painting cabinets, baseboards, walls and handrails. Works with the Vehicle Maintenance & Services Coordinator, as needed, to assist in simple maintenance and repair tasks, such as replacing bulbs, adding fluids, etc., for public transit vehicles. Assists in the delivery and pickup of vehicles at repair facilities, internal and external cleaning of vehicles and facilities, inspection of taxicabs and other related work as needed.

Operates sweeper truck, lawnmower, weed eater, paint sprayer, core drill, jackhammer and skill and circular saw while performing essential functions. Requires regular and prompt attendance plus the ability to work well with others and work well as a team. Sets up barricades, safety cones, banners, signs and special signage for events. Removal and replacement of ticket booths and meter post. Places de-icer in the case of snow accumulation. Performs related work as required.

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Work is performed inside and outside, the employee is exposed to adverse weather conditions, chemicals, fumes, dust, high noise and hazards associated with working around traffic. Work requires the physical ability to perform heavy manual laborer and the ability to repetitiously climb on and off machinery, ladders or scaffolds. Work also involves walking, standing, lifting, stooping and bending.

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Japans inflation, as measured by consumer prices, is rising steadily about a year after a policy shift by the Bank of Japan yet few economists believe it will reach the banks inflation target by the mid-2015 deadline.

One reason is their different understanding of what the yens recent stability means to the price outlook.

Core consumer prices are getting closer to the central banks 2% target. Data Friday showed they rose 1.3% in January from a year earlier, the eighth straight month theyve risen. The core gauge tracks a basket of goods and services but excludes fresh food, whose costs are volatile.

But economists arent so impressed by the data. Roughly half of the current inflation in consumer products is due to the dramatic drop in the yen from late 2012 to mid-2013, they say. That has sharply inflated the costs of imports, which have partly been passed on to consumers.

Significantly, core CPI does include energy, where the yen effect has been particularly acute. According to the BOJs import price data, the costs of liquid natural gas now a main resource in Japan for generating power were 17% higher in January in yen terms.

The Japanese also saw sharp rises in prices of foreign-made home electronics, which they increasingly import: Prices of washing machines were up 13%, while prices of audio equipment and refrigerators both rose 16%.

Barring another major drop in the yen, however, those exchange-rate effects will start to fade from this spring. Friday morning, the yen was trading around Y102 to the U.S. dollar about the same level it was last May.

Core prices will peak out by March, said Toshihiro Nagahama, chief economist at Dai-ichi Life Research Institute. Core CPI will then fall over the summer, he said, ultimately reaching 0.7%-0.8% by September.

BOJ officials see things differently. They expect core inflation to stay around 1.3% until summer and then pick up pace as a stronger domestic economy creates new inflationary pressures to offset the fading currency effect.

As evidence of improved domestic demand, BOJ officials point to core-core consumer prices, which exclude food and energy. They rose 0.7% in both December and January, their highest level since 1998.

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