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Friday, August 24, 2012
Fresh Ideas And Tips For Home Improvement Projects
What is your skill set like? Is what you're using working with your home? Are you sure you are installing things properly? If you cannot answer these questions confidently, look at the tips below.
Cleaning your decanter can be made quite easy with the following steps. Fill up your decanter up with hot water halfway and add several drops of dishwashing liquid inside. Add two or three tablespoons of vinegar and one cup of raw rice (doesn't matter what type). Swirl the concoction in your decanter until clean. The rice helps rub off the excess dirt while you're swirling the liquid.
Use family members and friends as great aids in your home improvement projects. With family and friends, you can cut the need for help from a professional that could cost quite a bit, while you also get a great deal of fun from the project. Also, you will find that they come in handy in the clean up portion of the project.
Use scribe pieces to fill in any gaps that you may have when installing cabinets. Use them along the wall to make sure that the drawers are not going to get hung up on the wall or cause a gouge in your wall. This allows for a neat finish along the wall, and will help disguise any curves in the wall.
Protect surfaces with a covering during any home improvement projects. Floors should be covered with a tarp or painters plastic if you are painting. For other projects that involve hammering or tearing down walls or cabinets, cover all surfaces to protect them from scratches and damage, including the walls.
Windows
Older awnings over porches and windows can greatly detract from the appearance of your home. By removing them, you are updating your house with a more modern look that allows its distinctive character to shine through. Furthermore, you will find that more natural light enters your house through the windows, brightening the mood.
Always select energy-efficient windows for home improvement projects. Modern windows conserve energy in a variety of ways, from special glass coatings to tight-sealing gaskets. The most efficient of modern double-glazed windows even have noble-gas-filled glazing cavities to prevent heat transmission. High-tech windows can help the homeowner realize significant savings on heating and cooling.
Interesting information for you could be the one about Velfac Fenster.
Before rolling paint onto walls or ceilings, cut in the edges with a brush. Tape off trim, moldings, windows, ceiling edges and fixtures. By painting the few inches closest to the edges using a brush, you do not have to roll right up to these obstacles which may prove too cumbersome with a full-sized paint roller.
Are you more informed when it comes to home improvement? Do you have plan that works now? Have your skills improved? Can you now use things that work with your home? Do you know how to properly install things? With any luck, the tips above should have helped you answer these questions.
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Researchers probe invisible vacancies in fuel cell materials
ScienceDaily (Aug. 22, 2012) ? Knowing the position of missing oxygen atoms could be the key to cheaper solid oxide fuel cells with longer lifetimes. New microscopy research from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory is enabling scientists to map these vacancies at an atomic scale.
Although fuel cells hold promise as an efficient energy conversion technology, they have yet to reach mainstream markets because of their high price tag and limited lifespans. Overcoming these barriers requires a fundamental understanding of fuel cells, which produce electricity through a chemical reaction between oxygen and a fuel. As conducting oxygen ions move through the fuel cell, they travel through vacancies where oxygen atoms used to be. The distribution, arrangement and geometry of such oxygen vacancies in fuel cell materials are thought to affect the efficiency of the overall device.
"A big part of making a better fuel cell is to understand what the oxygen vacancies do inside the material: how fast they move, how they order, how they interact with interfaces and defects," said ORNL's Albina Borisevich. "The question is how to study them. It's one thing to see an atom of one type on the background of atoms of a different type. But in this case, you want to see if there are a few atoms missing. Seeing a void is much more difficult."
In research published in Nature Materials, ORNL scientists used scanning transmission electron microscopy to determine the distribution of oxygen vacancies in a fuel cell cathode material below the level of a single unit cell. The team verified its findings with theoretical calculations and neutron experiments at the lab's Spallation Neutron Source.
"Even though the vacancy doesn't generate any signal in the electron micrograph, it's still a big disturbance in the structure," Borisevich said. "You can see that the lattice expands where vacancies are present. So we tracked the lattice expansion around vacancies and compared it with theoretical models, and we were able to develop a calibration for this type of material."
By providing a means to study vacancies at an atomic scale, the ORNL technique will help inform the development of improved fuel cell technologies in a systematic and deliberate fashion, in contrast to trial and error approaches.
Beyond its relevance to applications in fuel cells and information storage and logic devices, ORNL coauthor Sergei Kalinin explains that the team's research is also building a bridge between two scientific communities that traditionally have had little in common.
"From my perspective, it is physics marrying electrochemistry," Kalinin said. "The idea is that vacancies are important for energy, and vacancies are important for physics. The materials that physicists like to study are exactly the same as the materials used for fuel cells, and unless we understand how vacancies behave at interfaces, ferroic domain walls, and in thin films, we will not be able to fully appreciate the physics of these systems."
The team's research is also reinforced by a parallel study published in Physical Review Letters, with Borisevich and Kalinin as coauthors, that explains how to obtain parameters that describe vacancy-ordered systems from electron microscopy data.
Coauthors on the Nature Materials paper are ORNL's Young-Min Kim, Jun He, Michael Biegalski, Hailemariam Ambaye, Valerie Lauter, Hans Christen, and Stephen Pennycook; and Vanderbilt University's Sokrates Pantelides. The work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science. Portions of this research were conducted at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences and the Spallation Neutron Source, which are both also sponsored at ORNL by DOE's Office of Science.
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- Young-Min Kim, Jun He, Michael D. Biegalski, Hailemariam Ambaye, Valeria Lauter, Hans M. Christen, Sokrates T. Pantelides, Stephen J. Pennycook, Sergei V. Kalinin, Albina Y. Borisevich. Probing oxygen vacancy concentration and homogeneity in solid-oxide fuel-cell cathode materials on the subunit-cell level. Nature Materials, 2012; DOI: 10.1038/nmat3393
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Thursday, August 23, 2012
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Saturday, May 5, 2012
Adam 'MCA' Yauch, Remembered: My Ill Devotion To The Beasties
Gen Y super fan recalls stumbling upon Beastie Boys' 'So What'Cha Want' and falling for 'three men from New York who rapped and rocked.'
By Rya Backer
Adam Yauch
Photo: Bertrand Guay/ Getty Images
On Friday (May 4), news broke that Adam "MCA" Yauch had died at age 47 and I found myself working on what is easily the most difficult piece I've ever had to write. Because it's something I've never wanted nor intended to write.
You see, the Beastie Boys are my favorite band of all time. I stumbled upon the "So What'Cha Want" video when I was very young and impressionable and maybe a little too mature for my age, and remained steadfastly obsessed with the three men from New York who rapped, rocked and sometimes just played their instruments.
They were my band, and I related to them, perhaps at the most base level: We're all New York City Jews who would've been described as "eccentric" growing up — Ad-Rock and I had even shared a history teacher, which was a really big deal to my 6th grade self. Needless to say, my devotion to them soon became a part of my identity.
And while they've now been woven into the fabric of our country's pop-cultural identity, to me, the Beastie Boys are also quintessentially the Great American Band. Yes, they helped bring hip-hop to the suburbs with their debut, Licensed to Ill, you've heard that part before. But their body of work was incomparable, often cited and never replicated. Moreover, they never broke up, even after more than 30 years together (their first gig was at Yauch's 17th birthday), a rare feat for most any popular act. And their influence was absolutely singular.
I'm certain I'm not the only one who loves Sonic Youth, Beck, Bad Brains or Tribe Called Quest because of the Beasties' seal of approval. They were the cool, older brothers you didn't have, serving as barometers of what was hip and why you should care. I guess what I'm trying to say is — like Yauch — I'm an only child, and I don't know what kind of person I would've become if it weren't for the Beastie Boys' direction. I can say with confidence that I wouldn't be here working at MTV News.
"Charity" is an interesting word when it comes to the Beasties, and especially when it comes to Yauch, because he gave so much to others. (At one point, he expressed a desire to relinquish his royalties to the cause of a free Tibet.) I remember being devastated when my bat mitzvah fell on the exact date of the 1998 Tibetan Freedom Concert, where the trio was performing. Three years later, I was devastated for a very different reason, when our city was under attack. I attended the New Yorkers Against Violence concert with my mother, who wanted to finally see for herself just what it was about the Beastie Boys that was so vital to me. We posted up against the railing that separated us from the the VIP area, and while I rocked out to the likes of Rival Schools and Cibo Matto, my mother took to playing with an adorable baby who was being held by her mother in VIP.
At one point, the baby's father came out and my mother's jaw dropped. She grabbed my wrist: It was MCA. In a moment that would be forever etched in my memory, I registered seeing him for the first time as a man with a family. My mother (as only a sweet Jewish mother could do) tapped him on the shoulder and assured him that his #1 fan was but inches away. I honestly don't remember much of what I told him, except how incredibly grateful I was for his work ... and I'm pretty sure I cried.
I saw MCA again just last year at a screening of "Fight for Your Right Revisited." He looked frail but, once again, he was there with his wife and daughter. He looked whole and happy in their company, and that's all that mattered.
When I first joined MTV News in January 2008, my only goal was to interview the Beastie Boys. Nearly four-and-a-half years later, I assisted in writing his obituary. Later, I'd even work on a live MTV tribute show dedicated to him, "Adam Yauch: Remembering a Beastie Boy." I wish that wasn't the case, but these things happen, right? So what can we learn from this? Yes, Cancer is a horrible disease capable of cutting through no matter what sort of lifestyle you've adopted. But I also hope we've learned that people need to be enjoyed and appreciated while they're still here.
I've made a point to listen to a Beastie Boys album every week, even when, let's face it, it wasn't that hip to like them. I particularly made sure, following his 2009 diagnosis, because I knew this day might come. You're never ready for it but, like I said, these things happen. And I'm sure Yauch would assure us that this lesson applies to so much more beyond his band.
When I first heard the news of Yauch's passing, I cried a different set of tears. I was sad that a part of myself that I'd so long been connected to is gone and I can never get it back. I was sad that I didn't see them that one last time at a 2008 fundraiser, and sad, too, that we'll never hear anything else from a group that has already given us so much. Mostly though, I was sad because I know that Yauch's daughter will never again have that moment of familial bliss between a daughter and her dad.
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