According to feng shui expert Phung Phuong, the main door is the place to attract wealth, so when you want to enter the house, you must first go through the main door. However, along with the main door, there is another equally important area that we often ignore or think that it has no definite location. That is Huyen Quan. What is Huyen Quan? Huyen Quan is the reconciliation area, also known as the buffer area from the main door to the living room. In feng shui, Huyen Quan is a place to prevent murder, helping to reduce the impact of conflicts from the outside into the house. Because of that, Huyen Quan has the role of a place to protect vitality, helping wealth not to be lost out. This is also a mandatory road to pass through to bring air into the house. Therefore, the reasonable layout of Huyen Quan can directly affect the feng shui of the house. Accordingly, in order for the Huyen Quan area to maximize its mission, you need to pay attention to the do’s and the taboos in feng shui of the parts that combine into Huyen Quan. Mainly there are the following 5 big points: ceiling The ceiling should be high, not too low, easy to create a feeling of oppression, difficult to flourish. The ceiling is high, the air in Huyen Quan circulates smoothly, which is beneficial for the fortune of the house. Another note is that if there are lights on the ceiling in this area, choose square and round lights to symbolize unity and stability. Avoiding triangle-shaped lights or installing 3 light bulbs to form a triangle will form a situation of “3 incense sticks plugged in backwards”, which is detrimental to the family. Walls and floors Walls and floors in the Huyen Quan area should be flat to help the air flow smoothly, avoiding using stones for decoration will create convex and unevenness. Since then, the fortune-teller encountered many difficulties. Besides, the underground drainage pipe should not pass between the main door and Huyen Quan, to avoid when the water resources inside and outside interact with each other, Huyen Quan is polluted, leading to poor health of the people in the house, loss of life and loss of life. escape fortune. Mirror Usually, houses install mirrors in Huyen Quan with the desire to make the space brighter, more spacious and convenient to look at when going out. But if the mirror is placed opposite the main door, it will cause a reflection of prosperity and wealth to flow in through the main door and out. At the top of Huyen Quan, you should not stick a mirror, as soon as you step in, look up and see your reverse image, feeling that your head is under your upper foot, the world is upside down. This is a great cavalry layout in feng shui, must be avoided. However, if you hang a mirror of Bagua Tiger Phu outside in front of the main door of the house, it is very good because this is the leading mascot in protecting and repelling the killing intent that rushes into the house, bringing peace to the residents. member of family. Shoes Cabinet At Huyen Quan, placing a shoe cabinet is completely reasonable, convenient for changing shoes and storing shoes. However, placing a shoe cabinet in Huyen Quan also needs to pay attention to a few things: such as the shoe cabinet should be low, not higher than the owner. Moreover, feng shui values ​​air flow, so it is necessary to find a way to reduce the odor in the shoe cabinet to avoid the smell spreading around, forming unclean air that affects the house atmosphere. Trees Placing bonsai in Huyen Quan’s place helps to green the indoor environment, increase vitality, increase benefits, reduce evil. But pay attention, put bonsai where Huyen Quan should use broad-leaved trees as the main, such as magnolia tree, fortune tree, … As for thorny plants such as roses, rhododendrons… taboo placed in Huyen Quan to avoid ruining the feng shui layout. Those are the 5 points in the transit area between the main door and the living room that need to be paid attention to feng shui to catch fortune and prevent iron from entering the house. This is the leading point of qi, so homeowners should check their home to have the most favorable feng shui way to welcome prosperity and good sand energy into the house. * Information for reference and contemplation.

The bathroom in the middle of the house is often considered bad feng shui. Because according to feng shui, the center of the house is the heart of nothingness, also known as the yin and yang point. To neutralize bad feng-shui for this bathroom you need: – Keep the bathroom clean and tidy. – Add candles or flowers to the bathroom. – Put some types of air purifier plants in the bathroom. If the room does not have a window you can add a switch to adjust the lighting in the bathroom. Bathroom is facing the main door The bathroom facing the main door is considered bad feng shui because cosmic energy (chi) enters the house through the front door. If the bathroom was facing the main door, most of the good energy would escape through the bathroom, with little or no good feng shui energy in the home. To neutralize bad feng-shui for this bathroom you need: – Close the bathroom door. – Create good feng shui in the bathroom. – Create accents near the entrance to direct energy out of the bathroom. – Gather good feng-shui in the entrance area to boost the energy in the bathroom. Bathroom in fortune area Booking bathrooms in the fortune area can be challenging. Keeping the bathroom tidy and clean will suck wealth into the house. Also, decorate this bathroom to neutralize bad feng-shui: – Decorate bathroom with trees. – Add pleasant fragrance, fresh flowers and candles in the bathroom. – Decorate your bathroom with pictures of natural landscapes. – Add water or a mirror for good feng shui. The bathroom door faces the kitchen The kitchen and bathroom door are facing each other is bad feng shui. When the two doors face each other, the feng-shui energy flows faster and out of the spaces protected by doors. The best way is to create as much division between the two areas as possible and apply the following tips: – Close the bathroom door. – Keep the bathroom clean and filled with good feng shui energy. – Use a screen, bamboo blinds or tall trees to define the boundary between the two rooms. – Paint kitchen and bathroom door walls with different paint colors to define the rooms. – Create a highlight between the two rooms. The bathroom is above the bedroom The bathroom located above the bedroom is not good feng shui. To neutralize bad feng-shui for this bathroom you need: Limit your use of upstairs bathrooms, such as the guest bathroom. Put the bed back on if it’s just below the bathroom. – Paint the bathroom upstairs in a gentle color. – Designing bedroom ceiling: crown or medal can be decorated around ceiling lights. The bathroom is under the stairs If you place the bathroom under the stairs, you need to pay attention to the following to neutralize feng-shui to avoid accumulation of qi and negatively affect the family: – Make sure there are enough light under the stairs – Paint under stairs in bright colors – Put crystal chandeliers at the bottom of the stairs for good feng shui. – Always close the bathroom door. Southeast bathroom If the bathroom is in the southeast, you need to close the bathroom door and close the toilet lid, making sure the bathroom is clean and tidy. In addition, to improve the feng-shui of this room you need: – Put some types of air purifier plants in the bathroom. – Hang a mirror on the bathroom door Use a carpet of gold, silver, or gray, preferably round. – Hanging metal wind chimes in the bathroom. Light candles often in the bathroom. The bathroom is in the Northwest direction The Northwest bathroom was not too bad. Avoid cluttering the bathroom and don’t place toilet mirrors. Replace leaky faucets to prevent money from “flowing” out. In addition, please: – Decorate bathroom with trees. – Put a water tank in the bathroom. – Put a blue carpet on the bathroom floor. – Never use a metal bell in the bathroom. *This information is only for illustration purpose .

Sleeping under the crossbar does not always make the sleeper feel depressed, poor sleep affects psychology, health and relationship between husband and wife. In addition, a crushed bed can lead to unintended disasters, even danger to life. Everyone needs to be especially vigilant about the horizontal beams in the bedroom. To handle the above errors, Dai Nam feng shui advises the best way to move the bed to another position or otherwise we can make a flat ceiling to cover the beams (beams) to neutralize. Or overcome this situation by hanging 2 bamboo flutes, tied on the flute 2 red silk tape to form two diagonal edges, matching the beam into a bowl of bowl to help transport vitality under that area. . Some notes when decorating the bedroom space First: Many families have a hobby of making high-level plaster ceilings to decorate the bedroom space. However, it is not advisable because when you make the leveling plaster ceiling inadvertently create ridges across the body or let the dirt inside the drop slots fall onto the bed for a long time, you are the victim. receive all those dirty gases. So if you want to make plaster ceiling in the bedroom, you should make the ceiling flat. 2nd, Many families want the presence of chandeliers and ceiling fans in their bedrooms. However, if you want to put these items into use in the bedroom space you should avoid the bed area, especially the head of the bed. Above are some notes when decorating the bedroom space and how to deal with when the bed is crushed. You can refer and choose for yourself a beautiful and standard feng shui bedroom space to help your family have a good night’s sleep to recharge for a new working day. * Information is for reference only.

Putting a potted plant in the living room helps the living space become more fresh, helping to bring more oxygen. However, not all feng shui plants are suitable for placing in the living room. The thing to note when choosing to place a feng shui bonsai in the living room is that you have to choose the kind of fortune tree. Besides, you also need to choose the tree that suits your destiny. 2. Indoor columns Ancient Chinese science held that columns were the factors that generate negative energy. The pillars in the house will not be good for the homeowner’s career no matter where that column is located. To neutralize evil air is not difficult, you just need to place a pot of ivy or shrub in front of the column. This way is both simple but also helps decorate the space more beautiful. 3 bedrooms Many people like to put plants in their bedroom but this is absolutely not recommended. At night, ornamental plants release carbon dioxide instead of oxygen. Meanwhile, humans need oxygen to breathe. If you go to bed in a room with many bonsai, it will be difficult to get a good night’s sleep due to lack of oxygen. Therefore, placing ornamental plants in the bedroom is not only bad for feng shui but also harmful to health. So in the bedroom it is best not to put any plants. 4. Kitchen room Feng shui thinks that the kitchen is where money flows in, so placing bonsai in the kitchen will create positive energy. Placing a high pot of bonsai in the corner of the kitchen is not only good for feng shui, but also helps purify the kitchen air – where there is a lot of grease. 5. Desk To maintain positive and good energy indoors, place your plants in the places where you value most, represent you and support you best. The desk is one of the most suitable positions. Put a pot of feng shui feng shui on the desk to help your work always be happy, career goes up. Take care of them healthy, everything will go well. According to the Reporter

KTS AD + studio said that when receiving the project, the architect realized many disadvantages in the construction context. First, the project is located on the ramp that connects two major roads in the area and has no setback space.

Second, the three sides around the house are obscured by neighboring houses with an average height of three stories. The third is to ask the landlord to wish to arrange multiple private rooms for a family of five in limited space of 36 m².

The architect has overcome the limitation of the location of the project to ensure there is a separate function room for a family of five.

With a high usage density of 10 main spaces including five bedrooms and a number of extra spaces just arranged around the traffic axis.

First, KTS AD + studio offers a solution to divide the building into two parts by height, pushing back the upper architectural block backwards.

This setback will change the elevation of the front façade, the rear part not visible from the street, keeping the house in the neighborhood proportionally.

The recoil of the above volume also increases the natural contact area for the stratosphere, optimally exploiting the light from the east façade.

The architect pushed back the upper architectural block to the back of the house.

With a fairly narrow area, the architect designed a medium-sized kitchen that is arranged on the ground floor, enough for family use.

Functional space is pushed back.

The space in front of the house is planted with many trees.

Next, two floors are arranged in the middle and the end of the building. The rear floor is almost just the ventilation road, which helps to correct the angular ground. The main floor in the middle is only allowed to occupy a small area out of a total of 36 m² of floor area.

The SHIFT concept of functional space towards the East of the architect will create an oblique space, maximizing sunlight for the kitchen and dining area in the morning. This is the most active time of the day.

This procedure is also used for the rear floor clearance, increasing ventilation efficiency, taking in light, and at the same time unifying an overall architectural shape reaching forward.

Two floors are arranged in the middle and the bottom of the house.

A solution to compose the vertical space will not guarantee the intensity of the light, so the architect implements the concept of translating.

That is translating

The functional space faces east to create an oblique void, maximizing sunlight for the kitchen and dining area in the morning.

The stairs change flexibly according to the height and corresponding position between the floors, depending on the oblique direction of the floor pine core.

The ladder body and tread surface use a material that has partial light penetration, allowing light to creep in, creating a shadow effect on the surrounding surfaces.

The ladder body and tread have plenty of gaps to allow light to penetrate to create a shadow effect.

The bedroom has a large, well-ventilated door

KTS AD + studio shared: “The construction site is located next to Cholon, an area full of Chinese culture in Saigon.

With the effort to create a new architecture but not too unfamiliar with the surroundings, the combination of details, selection of materials, colors and decorative lines of the building are inspired by us. from this perspective. ”

An old phosphorus mine in Florida.

According to information from the BBC, China uses rare earths as a trump card in the trade war with the US. China has signaled that it could limit exports of rare earth minerals to the US as the trade conflict between the two countries escalates.

By far, China is the largest producer of raw materials vital to many US industries including high-growth industries such as electric vehicles and wind turbine manufacturing. The US Geological Survey has determined these minerals are very important to the economy and defense of this country.

Restricting exports to the US, if implemented, could have a major impact on major US industries worth trillions of dollars that rely on rare earth minerals.

Rare earths are a valuable resource that plays an important role in the industry.

Rare earth is a group of 17 elements used in many fields, including renewable energy technology, oil refining, electronics, … Called “rare” because they are difficult to exploit. This raw material is believed to be in the Earth’s crust. There are very few places in the world that exploit or produce rare earths because rare earth exploitation is both difficult and potentially harmful to the environment.

Rare earth exploitation is very difficult and poses a risk to the environment.

Currently, Chinese mines account for about 70% of global rare earth production. Myanmar, Australia, the US and some other countries only exploit a small amount, accounting for the remaining 30%.

According to US government data, about 80% of imported rare earths come from China. Estonia, France and Japan also supply treated rare earths to the US, but the original ore is from China.

The US mines rare earths and sends ore to China for processing, but China has imposed a 25% import tax. Consequently, the United States considered developing its own rare earth refining industry.

Information from the New York Times and Bloomberg said that the US is seeing the potential to exploit rare earth from old phosphorus mines in Florida. The process of handling leaked waste here helps to protect the environment and is an opportunity to reduce dependence on rare earths from China.

China is holding back most of the world’s rare earth supply.

A sewage leak at an old phosphorus mine in Florida prompted authorities to issue an evacuation order and declare a state of emergency near the Tampa area amid a potential collapse of the mine’s radioactive waste. Cleaning up the forgotten giant pile of phosphorus scattered in Florida and other parts of the southeastern United States could help resolve America’s dependence on important imported raw materials, while eliminating Threats of environmental disaster are lurking in the local people.

Phosphorus is a byproduct of the production of fertilizers from phosphate rock. For every ton of organic phosphoric acid produced, more than five tons of phosphorus are produced. This waste is worthless in its raw form due to the concentration of uranium, radium and other heavy metals making it radioactive toxic, unable to be used as soil amendment or building material.

According to the study, there is a large amount of rare earths and radioactive metals present in phosphorus piles in Florida. However, those are not the only scarce metals that can be found in phosphorus ores. Rare earths are a collection of elements that are important for high-tech applications such as magnets and lasers. A 2017 analysis by the US-China research group showed that rare earths are present at a rate of about 0.2% in a waste pile of about 1 billion tons in Florida, equivalent to two million tons of rare earths, enough to cover global demand for a decade.

Many laboratory studies have been done to look at phosphorus recycling processes. However, prices for phosphorus, rare earths and uranium have been mostly curbed in recent years to limit the commercial appeal of phosphorus recycling around the world.

Every year, the US government spends a substantial amount of money monitoring and managing risks at the old phosphorus mine in Florida. The US plans to spend about $ 111 billion to clean water pipes and water infrastructure.

Under the Donald Trump administration last year, the US environmental protection agency authorized the use of raw phosphorus as road construction materials. However, the cost of waste treatment here is so high that investors are still afraid.

The US government has to spend a lot of money on the treatment of the phosphorus mine in Florida.

Huge open-pit ponds the size of the entire city block, filled with toxic wastewater, and underneath there is a lot of radioactive waste.

Recently, local officials allowed residents to return home after an urgent effort to pump millions of gallons of water out of ponds and into inland waterways. The environmental impacts of releasing large amounts of polluted water have not been evaluated. But in the past week, the “ghost” of a great cataclysm caused the government to evacuate hundreds of households from the dangerous area.

Researchers fear that, when giant puddles collapsed, radioactive waste will leak, it will lead to unpredictable dangers. The environment will be affected by the emergency discharge of polluted water, which contains many substances that can cause harmful algae to bloom and kill fish.

Wastewater in the area near Wilmington in North Carolina.

Florida is considered the largest producer of phosphorus in the world, accounting for about 80% of phosphorus mining in the US – where the exploitation and consumption of about 23 million tons of phosphorus per year.

When coal-fired power plants generate electricity, they leave hundreds of thousands of tons of toxic sediment known as coal ash, mixed with water and dumped into ponds within the plant.

Across the United States there are more than 700 landfills and large bodies of water still store coal ash discharged from coal-fired power plants. Under the Obama administration, there were regulations to close coal ash ponds in 2018. Currently, the North Carolina region authorities also began requiring power companies to dig coal ash ponds under the new law. state, also requiring the closure of all coal ash ponds by 2029./.