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Friday, March 29, 2013
Easy Steps For Successful Home Improvement Projects | How To ...
TIP! Use fans to cool your house in the summertime. Ceiling fans are great for increased circulation and cooling.
Learn on your own about home improvement and forget others? inputs. Although it is a time investment, it will help save you some money. In the following paragraphs, you?ll find excellent suggestions and tips.
TIP! Seal grout after you lay tile. The grout you apply will be porous.
If you are looking at renovating your home by yourself compile a list of everything you need to complete the project, then have someone with experience take a look at it to make sure everything is right. You can be very disappointed with the results if you skip a step when planning.
TIP! Keep up with the air filters in your new home. Your system works at its peak when it has clean filters, resulting in lower heating and cooling bills.
Have a look at your home from another person?s perspective if you want to know if it appears inviting. A beautiful yard is a perfect starting point. Opt for easy care plants when landscaping your lawn. See if your patio or deck can be instantly updated with a power wash or stain.
TIP! To give the illusion of space in a room, move furniture out away from the walls. This will make your room look bigger while also giving the room a more contemporary feel.
If you are using gas in your house, make sure that it is turned all the way off. You may not be a smoker, but you can still set off a spark. Also, you may have let some gas get loose, so be careful.
TIP! Mold and rust can turn into a large issue. They are common in a lot of older houses, and can lead to a bigger issue rather quickly.
Changing your window dressing can instantly uplift the look of a room. You?ll find that new curtains can alter the whole feel of a room, and the range of patterns available will let you complement a wide array of design choices. With inexpensive curtain changes, you can easily keep up with the seasons by adding colors and patterns that evoke the feelings of each season.
TIP! Facing your outside lights downward can accent your lawn and show its attractive elements. Try placing accent lighting in a tree for a unusual effect on the surrounding area.
Though it is always rewarding to fix a problem such as a squeaky door, there will come a time when you just need to replace the hinge with a new one. It?s easy to buy door hinges at any home improvement center. Just take apart the hinge and simply attach every side to the frame and door. Align up the hinges and place the pins.
TIP! If you have a handyman working for you, get your contract in writing. When you?ve got a solid contract going for you, you shouldn?t have to be concerned with hidden charges or other unpleasant surprises.
In conclusion, you now have been provided with many helpful tips regarding home improvement. While you perhaps already knew some of this, it is hoped that you did also learn something new or just freshly remembered something useful. Master your success level with the information presented here.
Source: http://www.howtodecorate.us/easy-steps-for-successful-home-improvement-projects/
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Saturn is like an antiques shop, Cassini suggests; Moons and rings date back to solar system's birth
Mar. 27, 2013 ? A new analysis of data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft suggests that Saturn's moons and rings are gently worn vintage goods from around the time of our solar system's birth.
Though they are tinted on the surface from recent "pollution," these bodies date back more than 4 billion years. They are from around the time that the planetary bodies in our neighborhood began to form out of the protoplanetary nebula, the cloud of material still orbiting the sun after its ignition as a star. The paper, led by Gianrico Filacchione, a Cassini participating scientist at Italy's National Institute for Astrophysics, Rome, has just been published online by The Astrophysical Journal.
"Studying the Saturnian system helps us understand the chemical and physical evolution of our entire solar system," said Filacchione. "We know now that understanding this evolution requires not just studying a single moon or ring, but piecing together the relationships intertwining these bodies."
Data from Cassini's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer (VIMS) have revealed how water ice and also colors -- which are the signs of non-water and organic materials --are distributed throughout the Saturnian system. The spectrometer's data in the visible part of the light spectrum show that coloring on the rings and moons generally is only skin-deep.
Using its infrared range, VIMS also detected abundant water ice -- too much to have been deposited by comets or other recent means. So the authors deduce that the water ices must have formed around the time of the birth of the solar system, because Saturn orbits the sun beyond the so-called "snow line." Out beyond the snow line, in the outer solar system where Saturn resides, the environment is conducive to preserving water ice, like a deep freezer. Inside the solar system's "snow line," the environment is much closer to the sun's warm glow, and ices and other volatiles dissipate more easily.
The colored patina on the ring particles and moons roughly corresponds to their location in the Saturn system. For Saturn's inner ring particles and moons, water-ice spray from the geyser moon Enceladus has a whitewashing effect.
Farther out, the scientists found that the surfaces of Saturn's moons generally were redder the farther they orbited from Saturn. Phoebe, one of Saturn's outer moons and an object thought to originate in the far-off Kuiper Belt, seems to be shedding reddish dust that eventually rouges the surface of nearby moons, such as Hyperion and Iapetus.
A rain of meteoroids from outside the system appears to have turned some parts of the main ring system -- notably the part of the main rings known as the B ring -- a subtle reddish hue. Scientists think the reddish color could be oxidized iron -- rust -- or polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, which could be progenitors of more complex organic molecules.
One of the big surprises from this research was the similar reddish coloring of the potato-shaped moon Prometheus and nearby ring particles. Other moons in the area were more whitish.
"The similar reddish tint suggests that Prometheus is constructed from material in Saturn's rings," said co-author Bonnie Buratti, a VIMS team member based at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. "Scientists had been wondering whether ring particles could have stuck together to form moons -- since the dominant theory was that the rings basically came from satellites being broken up. The coloring gives us some solid proof that it can work the other way around, too."
"Observing the rings and moons with Cassini gives us an amazing bird's-eye view of the intricate processes at work in the Saturn system, and perhaps in the evolution of planetary systems as well," said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist, based at JPL. "What an object looks like and how it evolves depends a lot on location, location, location."
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The visual and infrared mapping spectrometer team is based at the University of Arizona, Tucson.
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- G. Filacchione, F. Capaccioni, R. N. Clark, P. D. Nicholson, D. P. Cruikshank, J. N. Cuzzi, J. I. Lunine, R. H. Brown, P. Cerroni, F. Tosi, M. Ciarniello, B. J. Buratti, M. M. Hedman, E. Flamini. The radial distribution of water ice and chromophores across Saturn's system. Astrophysical Journal, 2013; (accepted) [link]
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Thursday, March 28, 2013
eBay's Sell it Forward splits auction proceeds with Goodwill
eBay's latest initiative is a little different from its more recent efforts that have focused mostly on re-branding and expanding the reach of PayPal. Sell it Forward encourages users to sell their used clothes and donate half the proceeds to Goodwill. The pilot program is currently only available in San Francisco, San Mateo, and Marin, though the company is going out of its way to make the process as painless as possible for those in eligible areas. Instead of creating listings for each item, wannabe auctioneers need only fill the pre-paid mailing bag (provided by eBay) with the clothes and accessories they wish to sell. Everything else will be taken care of for them. Employees will decide if your wares are in decent enough condition to sell, create a listing and, if the item is sold within 14 days, split the proceeds between the "seller" and Goodwill. If the item remains unsold for 14 days it becomes a straight donation to the charity. If you're in one of the trial areas and want to give Sell it Forward a go yourself, hit up the source link.
Filed under: Internet
Via: The Verge, Business Insider
Source: eBay
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/03/27/ebays-sell-it-forward/
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Junior dos Santos says Alistair Overeem is a joke, but admires opponent Mark Hunt
Junior dos Santos was supposed to face Alistair Overeem at UFC 160, but an injury forced Overeem out of the bout. Now, dos Santos will fight Mark Hunt. JDS talked to a Brazilian radio station, and said he admired one of those opponents but found the other to be a joke.
"I think it was great the UFC have scheduled Mark Hunt. I admire him very much for having accepted because he just fought. I admire and appreciate because I want to fight May 25 and this will happen thanks to him. When Overeem jumped off I thought it was great that the UFC came by with another opponent. [Overeem] isn?t a champion, he?s nothing. If he was a champion, I would wait."
So JDS is a fan of Hunt, and doesn't think it's worth waiting for a bout with Overeem. But how does he feel about Overeem?
"I think [Overeem] is a joke. He is very big, he's on steroids and he talks a lot of [expletive]. But I don't care about him. He can go on with his career and do what he thinks is the best for him, I will do the same. If some day we face each other and he runs out of problems, we fight."
Overeem and dos Santos were set to fight last May, when dos Santos still held the UFC heavyweight championship belt. The fight was canceled when Overeem failed a PED test. He was found to have excessive levels of testosterone, more than double of that the athletic commission in Nevada allowed.
Overeem was suspended, and then lost to Antonio Silva on his return to the cage. With dos Santos fresh off losing his belt to Cain Velasquez, it seemed like a perfect opportunity for the two rivals to square off.
Thank you to Yahoo! Brazil for translation.
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Ex-Iron Maiden drummer Clive Burr dies at 56
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Clive Burr, left, Bruce Dickinson and Janick Gers of Iron Maiden.
By Randee Dawn, TODAY contributor
Clive Burr, best known for his years drumming in the heavy metal band Iron Maiden, died at his home on March 12 according to a statement on the band's Facebook page. He was 56.
Burr suffered from Multiple Sclerosis, and according to the statement "had suffered poor health for many years." The treatment left him in debt, but the band staged concerts to form the Clive Burr MS Trust Fund, which had raised over $350,000 by 2007 to assist.
He had been a member of the band Samson before joining Iron Maiden in 1979, then played on three of their albums before leaving in 1982.?
Maiden bassist Steve Harris said in the statement, "This is terribly sad news. Clive was a very old friend of all of us. He was a wonderful person and an amazing drummer who made a valuable contribution to Maiden in the early days when we were starting out. This is a sad day for everyone in the band and those around him and our thoughts and condolences are with his partner Mimi and family at this time."
Singer Bruce Dickinson added, "I first met Clive when he was leaving Samson and joining Iron Maiden. He was a great guy and a man who really lived his life to the full. Even during the darkest days of his M.S., Clive never lost his sense of humour or irreverence. This is a terribly sad day and all our thoughts are with Mimi and the family."
Check out Burr and the band performing "Run to the Hills" off the 1982 album "Number of the Beast":
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Rdio on iPhone now shows which friends are listening, web streaming hits seven countries
Listen enough to Rdio on the desktop and you'll know your friends' taste in music when they're fellow subscribers. As of a fresh update to the iOS app, you'll also appreciate any musical kinship while on the road. iPhone users receive an overhauled playback view that shows just which friends have listened to that favorite album or playlist. They'll also have a more pleasing view in mid-play that blows up the album art and downplays the interface. There's no word on similar treatments for the Android app, but the odds have increased that you'll at least have the web fallback for social listening: Rdio has quietly added web streaming for Austria, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania and Mexico, bringing desktop access to a total of 24 countries.
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Via: Rdio Blog, The Next Web
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/03/11/rdio-on-iphone-now-shows-which-friends-are-listening/
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