25-05-2012 08:04 Garland, NC residents, be aware of the fact that your home is open to Fire Damage thanks to Electricity and bad weather. If it happens, look into Fire Damage Restoration by contacting Water Damage Local to get the professionals to work on it.
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24-05-2012 21:33 The music in the beginning and the end I got from an Android app called Jazz Ringtones and it is called Home. :]
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My Bedroom Tour and Room Remodeling "Before." - Video
If you are anything like me, picking out paint colors when you are remodeling or freshening up your home can be perplexing. I swear the color never looks the same on the walls as it did on the color cards in the store. One painting business in San Diego offers a nifty website tool that allows you to play with room color online.
Chism Brothers Painting has a webpage set up with a room and a wide variety of colors to choose from. By simply placing your mouse over the color you change the color of the room to get a more realistic idea of how a color might actually look on walls.
If you need even more help, the company also employs a color consultant who will work with you and to determine not just favorite color schemes, but what rooms are high-traffic areas and whether the color selected will compliment your furniture. The company's website states there are over 2200 colors to choose from. Sometimes another point of view can help when selecting colors for painting jobs.
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AUSTIN (KXAN) - Gina Hinojosa lives in a Central Austin home built in 1936, which presents its challenges for the conscious mother of two always striving for efficiency in all aspects.
"But then it also has some advantages," she said. "The walls are really thick, so really, it keeps in some cool air. We updated a lot of the windows to keep it insulated. So really, in some ways, it is already energy-efficient."
Still Hinojosa said she does what she can around the home to make sure she's not being wasteful -- keeping lights off and consistently aware of the thermostat temperature.
Plus, the old home came with some big bonuses: tall trees that keep the lot and home shaded. That's something energy officials said is a great way to shield the sun from coming inside your house, especially if it's on the west side.
"It's already very hot, and ... when you save energy, you ultimately save money on your electric bill," said Austin Energy spokeswoman Leslie Sopko.
"There are some things, like the doors could be better sealed," said Hinojosa. "One thing I want to do -- and if I get around to it -- I would like to insulate the attic."
Hinojosa did that at the house she was in before, also an older home. And that was a big help during the summer.
"It cut down our [air conditioning] bills by about 20 percent," said Hinojosa. "Not only does it save money, but you feel better about not wasting that energy that you don't need to."
"Insulation is a real huge way to save energy inside of your home," said Sopko. "What Austin Energy has learned is that most older homes in Austin have little or no insulation."
In fact, the average home only has 4 inches of attic insulation. Sopko suggests you have 12- to 13 inches.
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by Conrad Wilson, Minnesota Public Radio
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BRAINERD, Minn. When people in Brainerd run the dishwater, or take hot showers, they not only use energy, they create it.
The water they use and the waste they flush down toilets all flows to the sewer, which not surprisingly can be a pretty warm place - and heat can generate energy.
Brainerd officials say that unconventional source of energy to heat holds huge energy potential for heating and cooling buildings, likely starting with the city police station and a school building.
Under the right conditions that could save the city, the Brainerd School District and residents money.
"Everybody heats water," said Scott Sjolund, technology supervisor for Brainerd Public Utilities. "That's potential energy that could be extracted."
The idea for the project comes from Brainerd-based Hidden Fuels, a company that has been creating a thermal energy map of the city. In 2009, the company began working with the city and the Brainerd School District to seek a $45,000 grant from the federal stimulus package.
In 2010, a team led by Peter Nelson a principal of Hidden Fuels, installed sensors in the city's sewers. For more than a year they measured the temperature and the amount of sewage running through them.
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Homeowners who are planning to outfit their kitchens with state-of-the-art fittings and appliances, looking for remodeling ideas or simply just checking out cutting-edge kitchen trends can find inspiration when the Palace Theatre hosts its eighth annual Kitchen Tour, on Sunday, June 3.
This event features six kitchens in Manchester and Bedford.
Tour-goers can get inspired by the fabulous kitchen designs in the featured homes. They may start wherever they like, explore one or all of the homes and stops along the way and finish when they want, said Kerri Christopher, director of public relations at the Palace Theatre.
Its a self-guided tour. Attendees first start the process at Granite State Cabinetry at 384 Route 101 in Bedford. Registration starts at 9:30 a.m., where maps will be distributed to guide attendees to each home. Attendees may view the homes and featured stops on the tour from 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Christopher emphasizes that, far from being just places of food preparation, the kitchens on this tour are works of art in and of themselves.
These newly-remodeled kitchens demonstrate how you can maximize the utility of a small space, while other, larger kitchens are showcases for displaying the latest and greatest appliances and design trends, she said.
The houses on the tour are designer showcase homes. Granite State Cabinetry and Barons Major Brands will be showcasing at a number of locations on the tour this year.
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Date: Thursday, May 24, 2012
Contact: Dustin Terpening, WSDOT communications, 360-757-5997 (Burlington) Chris Damitio, WSDOT project engineer, 360-788-7403 (Bellingham)
BELLINGHAM The Samish Way on-ramp to northbound Interstate 5 in Bellingham has been closed since April and will remain closed one more month while crews finish building a retaining wall to support and lengthen the ramp.
The Washington State Department of Transportations contractor, Vetch Construction, is building a 900-foot-long retaining wall so that the Samish Way ramp can be lengthened to help make it easier for drivers to get up to speed and merge with traffic.
We had hoped to open the longer ramp by the end of this month, but the retaining wall is taking longer to complete than anticipated, said WSDOT Project Engineer Chris Damitio.
There were 15 anchors (out of 112) in the retaining wall that did not pass a strength test and have to be repaired. The repairs have added a few additional weeks of work to the closure. Anchors are long pieces of rebar that are drilled and cemented into the hillside to hold the wall in place.
Crews are repairing the anchors now, said Damitio. We cant lengthen the ramp without a strong retaining wall, and the anchors are what hold the wall in place.
The Samish Way on-ramp is now expected to open by the end of June. When completed, the ramp will be an additional 950 feet longer than it is today.
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New Delhi, May 23: Parliament will soon have Bosch digital audio-conferencing systems that will enable UN-style simultaneous translation of speeches made in the House in six languages, including Bengali.
The Supreme Court today cleared the last legal hitch in the way of awarding a contract to Bosch, a German company. Bosch will replace the Brahler ICS systems that have been in place for 18 years in the House as well as at 7 Race Course Road and Vigyan Bhavan.
The new system will have digital conference, digital simultaneous interpretation, digital automatic voice vote recording, voting display system, digital recording and transcription, sources said.
At present, speeches in Parliament are translated manually and notice has to be given in advance that an interpreter will be required on a particular day.
Brahler, also a German company, lost out despite its long track record because it does not have a permanent office in India. It has supplied audio systems for the Bhutan Parliament and several Assemblies in the country.
Brahler admitted that its franchisee AKG Acoustics India, which had installed the equipment, had some problems in 1999-2000 and had turned irregular in its performance.
But Brahler alleged that the CPWD kept the manufacturers out of the servicing scheme, handed out tenders to other companies and later blamed it for not responding to requests for services or spares.
The tender floated by the government clearly specified that any company that would bid would have to have a Delhi office for the last seven years to facilitate smooth maintenance and service. The seven-year specification was later changed to two years.
The tender said applications of a company without an India office would not be considered and would be rejected at the pre-qualification stage itself.
Danish company DIS Danish Interpretation Systems is the other company that lost out in the tender process as it did not have an India office. Both Brahler and DIS relied on Indian dealers for their service and maintenance.
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SEATTLE, May 24 (UPI) -- The flight decks and avionics of the U.S. and NATO Airborne Warning and Control System aircraft fleet will be modernized under a $368 million Boeing contract.
The Engineering, Manufacturing and Development contract for the E-3 707s was given by the Electronic Systems Center at Hanscom Air Force Base in Massachusetts.
"This move from analog systems to a digital flight deck will enable the U.S. and NATO AWACS fleets to meet current and identified future air traffic management requirements for flying in worldwide airspace," said Jon Hunsberger, AWACS program manager for Boeing. "They also provide growth capability for any future requirements and solve the problem of diminishing manufacturing sources for flight avionics."
Boeing said it will integrate new and existing avionics and communications systems; develop a design for installation of new equipment; upgrade one aircraft for each AWACS fleet; flight-test the new systems; develop logistics support data; and train flight crews and maintenance personnel.
The upgrade on the first NATO aircraft will begin next year, while work on the first U.S. E-3 707 will begin in 2014. Completion of the work on the initial aircraft is expected to be completed by 2015.
Boeing said production contracts for the remainder of the U.S. and NATO AWACS fleets will be given in the future.
Rockwell Collins will supply the flight management system suite, Boeing said. Telephonics of New York, Thales of Belgium, EMS of Canada and Raytheon of Maryland will also contribute to the upgrade program.
May 24 2012
Joint strike fighter
NEW JUMP jets could melt the decks of Navy aircraft carriers, it is claimed.
Tests in the US found that exhaust fumes from the Joint Strike Fighters damaged the ships when they landed vertically.
Now its feared the Navys 6.2billion new warships will suffer the same problem.
It follows David Camerons humiliating U-turn over which planes to fly from the carriers.
Hed wanted to adapt the ships so that they could carry the conventional version of the Joint Strike Fighter, which cost up to 500million each.
The PM had already cancelled an order for Harrier-style jets placed by the last Labour government.
But he was forced to abandon his plans when costs soared. His bungling has cost taxpayers up to 250million.
Now the UK will have to go cap in hand to the Americans, who are developing a new super-tough deck coating to deal with the problem.
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