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Increase The Worth Of Your Living Space With ... - Energy Efficiency

A fun project to take on is creating a bar in your basement. Homeowners will derive pleasure from designing the bar, as well as actually watching the project unfold before their eyes. No matter how you decide to do it, adding a bar to your home can enhance its value.

Do not sink a whole lot of money into new hardwood flooring, unless you have already consulted with a professional about the condition of existing flooring in your home. You may already have wooden floors that are hidden by old carpet or vinyl flooring that are waiting to be uncovered and refurbished. This can result in you spending less money to wind up with beautiful, high quality floors.

If your home has a deck, there are several things to watch out for that may alert you to needed repairs. Seek for uneven boards in the cracks in the wood. Also, look for dry rot in the deck and do not forget to look for uneven screws and nails.

Try painting stripes on the walls prior to panel installation. Even the most meticulously installed paneling tends to show small areas of the old wall beneath. In order to lessen this showing, measure the meeting point of the panels. Use a color that will match the paneling and paint the areas where the paneling will meet.

Hire a chimney sweep to regularly clean and inspect your chimney. Any fireplace that is used on a regular basis needs an inspection from time to time to make sure the chimney is clean and the airways vent properly. Neglecting this important maintenance can lead to a build-up of unhealthy gases in your home or even a disastrous fire in your chimney itself.

Add motion-detecting lights to your home?s exterior to save money and increase security. Motion sensing lights stay off until they detect motion in their path, and then they turn on automatically. Also, intruders are more wary of lights that turn on because of their movements.

Add newness to any room by adding accessories. A few new pillows or a new wall decoration can create a huge difference in a room. New drapes can also add a little something extra.

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If you are doing home renovations with the plumbing or near plumbing, turn off the main water supply. Prior to working on any plumbing, make sure you locate and turn off your home?s water source.

Use this tip if you are having problems with hard water. Use a water softener to filter your water. These devices separate the source of the hardness, magnesium and calcium deposits, from the water. You can try different types, such as liquid or tablets. Shop around and find the softener that fits your needs.

If you want to get rid of popcorn ceiling, be sure it?s first tested for asbestos. Asbestos is a dangerous building material that was used in the past and requires removal by only licensed contractors. Because of this, you might need to consider hiring a professional to come in with specialized equipment to handle asbestos removal, if your popcorn ceiling contains any.

You should now have a better idea of what is required to become proficient in home improvement. There are lots of information out there and you must know how to use it. Doing so can give you the home you have always dreamed of.

Richie Vee, the site?s editor, is the Chief Engineer of one of the largest Platinum LEED buildings in NYC. His extensive engineering experience helps guide consumers through home improvement projects for the average homeowner. Using home solar energy and roofing repair ideas to save them money.

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John Travolta sued by former cruise worker

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From his dancing days in "Saturday Night Fever" to his dramatic turns in "Primary Colors" and "Face/Off," this actor thrives on versatility.

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By Natalie Finn and Baker Machado, E! Online

John Travolta is facing another lawsuit.?

Fabian Zanzi, the former Royal Caribbean employee who threw his own hat into the accusation arena when two masseurs accused the actor of sexual misconduct during respective appointments, has now filed his own lawsuit against Travolta, claiming inappropriate behavior during a cruise back in 2009.?

"This is another ludicrous lawsuit with inane claims," Travolta's attorney, Marty Singer, said in a statement to E! News. "It is obvious that Mr. Zanzi and his lawyers are looking for their 15 minutes of fame."?

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The graphically worded, 16-page lawsuit alleges that Travolta approached Zanzi on the afternoon of June 9, 2009.?

The plaintiff states that he was appointed the "Grease" star's personal suite attendant during his cruise and, while delivering room service, Travolta complained of discomfort in his neck.?

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When Zanzi reached for the neck of the robe, Travolta instead removed the robe and "proceeded to forcefully embrace" Zanzi while naked, the lawsuit continues. Zanzi claims that he "pleaded" with Travolta to let him go, but that the actor didn't do so immediately, engaging in contact that was "nonconsensual, inappropriate, extreme and outrageous."?

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The lawsuit also charges that Travolta offered Zanzi $12,000 to keep quiet about the incident, after which Zanzi immediately reported the incident to "at least three" superiors. (The suit does not explicitly state whether Zanzi accepted or refused Travolta's money.)?

Zanzi's lawsuit claims the ship's human resources manager, Lorena Alvarez, instructed him to fill out paperwork regarding what happened, but said that if he was "not bleeding or bruised," he was not eligible to seek treatment "or any other type of attention." He also noted that he requested to fill out the paperwork in his native language, Spanish, but that Alvarez said he must do it in English.?

Afterward, Zanzi claims, he was forced to stay in a room for five days until Travolta left the ship, then was placed on indefinite "sick leave" following the cruise. The suit states that Zanzi pursued his complaint with Royal Caribbean through 2011, but was continuously told to check back at a later time.?

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He is asking for unspecified damages for claims of assault and battery and intentional and negligent infliction of emotional distress.?

Travolta's attorney, meanwhile, says he is prepared to fight Zanzi's lawsuit and win.?

"The lawsuit's ridiculous claims are completely contradicted by what Mr. Zanzi told his employer back in 2009 when he was being disciplined for his own violations of company policy," Singer's statement to E! News continued.?

"In his handwritten report three years ago, the only physical contact he claimed occurred was allegedly touching my client's neck. The inappropriate conduct he alleges in his lawsuit is absent from his written report he submitted at the time. That glaring omission speaks volumes.?

"Also calling his credibility into question is his dubious allegation that his employer supposedly restrained him in a room on the cruise ship for five days, yet after that supposedly occurred, Mr. Zanzi continued to work for Royal Caribbean for years, on multiple ships. Now, after waiting three years...Mr. Zanzi has filed this absurd lawsuit.?

"We are confident that my client will prevail on the merits and that he will be completely vindicated in court," Singer concluded.?

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Futurity.org ? For super fast data, give light a twist

Twisting light to send data at dramatically increased speeds maybe used to build high-speed satellite communication links or be adapted for use in the fiber optic cables that are used by some Internet service providers. (Credit: "optical fiber" via Shutterstock)

USC (US) ? Twisted beams of light are able to transmit more than 85,000 times more data per second than broadband cable, a new study shows.

The work might be used to build high-speed satellite communication links, short free-space terrestrial links, or potentially be adapted for use in the fiber optic cables that are used by some Internet service providers.

?You?re able to do things with light that you can?t do with electricity,? says Alan Willner, electrical engineering professor at the University of Southern California. ?That?s the beauty of light; it?s a bunch of photons that can be manipulated in many different ways at very high speed.?

As reported in the journal Nature Photonics, Willner and an international team of researchers used beam-twisting ?phase holograms? to manipulate eight beams of light so that each one twisted in a DNA-like helical shape as it propagated in free space.? Each of the beams had its own individual twist and can be encoded with ?1? and ?0? data bits, making each an independent data stream?much like separate channels on your radio.

Their demonstration transmitted the data over open space in a lab, attempting to simulate the sort of communications that might occur between satellites in space. Among the next steps for the research field will be to advance how it can be adapted for use in fiber optics, like those frequently used to transmit data over the Internet.

The team?s work builds on research done by Leslie Allen, Anton Zeilinger, Miles Padgett, and their colleagues at several European universities. ?We didn?t invent the twisting of light, but we took the concept and ramped it up to a terabit-per-second,? Willner says.

Jian Wang, the lead author, left USC after completing this research and is now a professor at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China.

Researchers from the US, China, Pakistan, and Israel contributed to the research that was funded by the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA) under the InPho (Information in a Photon) program.

More news from USC: http://uscnews.usc.edu/

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The new stars of reggae are nothing like the old ones

Earthly music just ain't enough for reggae / rock band Echo Movement. In search of extraterrestrial inspiration, they hooked up with researchers at Georgia Tech's Sonification Lab, which specializes in turning ugly numbers into beautiful music. Using data from NASA's Kepler telescope and its search for Earth II, SonLab generated "sequences of sonified musical pitches" from fluctuations in a star's brightness (meet Kepler 4665989). Echo Movement got their loop on and composed a harmony from the sequences, adding a tremolo effect from another star's pattern for a softer sound. Unfortunately, the finished track isn't out til September, but in the meantime you can hear the six-second celestial hook at the source link -- just don't blame us if you get pangs of Nokia-stalgia. Also, if you want to imagine how Echo Movement might use the sample, we've embedded one of their rarer songs -- that doesn't involve Spider-Man's girlfriend -- after the break.

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