Some essentials for home improvement

Posted June 29th, 2012.

If you are planning to undertake home improvement, Hammerite metal paint is a great choice for all kinds of metallic surfaces. Its direct to rust formulation is ideally suited for the protection and transformation of different types of metal surfaces both inside and outside your home. Create the kind of look you desire while protecting metal from rusting with the Direct to Galvanised Metal paint. Be it a radiator or a fireplace, a garage door or a barbecues, it refreshes and helps you impart an all new look in and around your home. What?s more, you need not use a primer or undercoat as with other paints; just apply Hammerite directly onto the metal.

Home improvement can prove to be a trying task if you decide to take it up yourself. In case of uncertainty however it is always better to call in a professional for the task at hand. But if you are familiar with suck tasks or have a liking towards them then the whole experience could be a lot of fun, not to forget all the money you could save as well. It is important to have the basic tools that can help you fix most things with considerable ease. The dck210s2 is a great combo kit, very useful to have. You would need pliers, a hammer, measuring tape, a level, a utility knife with an assortment of blades, a straightedge, a square, a mill file and protective equipment. For welding tasks, a Welding helmet & welding mask are absolutely essential.

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Flaming Lips break 24-hour record for live shows

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Chuck Norris: Obama wants 'pro-gay' Boy Scouts

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By Randee Dawn

According to Chuck Norris, President Barack Obama and his administration are working behind the scenes to create a "pro-gay Boy Scouts of America."

On Tuesday, the action star published an article on AmmoLand.com, a shooting sports news site, accusing the Obama administration of paying Scouts' national board member, James Turley (who is the retiring global chairman and CEO of accounting firm Ernst & Young), to effect change in the organization, which has banned gay Scout leaders and Scouts.?

Turley recently said that he would "work from within" the board to overturn the policy, but as Norris asked, "Is Turley working on his own initiative, or has the White House prodded him with perks and favors? Is it a coincidence that Turley came out swinging against the BSA's century-old policy to ban gays from leadership and that he has such close affiliations with the pro-gay Obama administration?"

He went on to list Turley's associations with the current president and his administration (Turley has attended state dinners hosted by the president; he was nominated to the president's Export Council, for example) and noted that Turley himself "just came out of the closet in his position against the BSA's position."?

Norris noted that the BSA is "as integral a part of American life and culture as hot dogs, baseball and Grandma's apple pie."?

This is hardly Norris' first swipe at the Obama administration. In?2010, he wrote a column for World Net Daily criticizing an executive order regarding Interpol, claiming that Obama signed the order so he can hide records on the war on terror from the public. ?

Norris posted a clarification of his comments on Facebook Wednesday evening: "I was not criticizing the gay community," he wrote. "What I tried to convey in my article is that no private organization operating within the bounds of the law should be forced to change its principles and traditions based on outside pressure.... (The BSA) should be able to continue to live by traditions that have worked and served the organization well for a century."

The issue of gay members and leaders in the Boy Scouts of America came to a head in 2000, when the Supreme Court ruled that since the BSA was a private organization, it could restrict its membership. But in April of this year, a resolution that would permit individual units to accept gays as leaders was presented at the May Scouts national meeting, along with a petition from Change.org with over 275,000 names protesting the removal of a lesbian den mother.

GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) released its own statement commenting on Norris' article, noting: "Chuck Norris should talk to Mitt Romney, who Norris endorsed for President and who has said on the record that all Americans should be able to participate in the Boy Scouts of America regardless of sexual orientation....?Celebrities who support gay Americans are enjoying popular careers while Chuck Norris appears to be a fame-hungry has-been with poor research skills."

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Who Would Have Thunk It: A Higher Education Preference for Microsoft?

Part I: ?Bill Gates

A decade or more ago when I began work in higher education administration, many a nose looked down on Microsoft. For some time now that perspective has been changing. Mtechnicals temped up technical security to patch its reputation for vulnerability. ?Research and development embraced broad thinkers, such as daynah boyd, and more open models in software computing, albeit grounded in copyright protected, widely used software programs. ?Far outpacing competitors such as Apple, Google or Amazon, Microsoft pioneered accessibility. ?Once Mr. Gates moved from the Microsoft Corporation to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Microsoft has proven itself to be the gold standard in charitable giving among Internet companies. ?None of the other Internet companies (or their respective foundations) even begin to come close to what the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has accomplished in the last five years.

Perhaps because as recently as five years ago American higher education did not consider it self to be in need of charity, it might have look kindly upon the efforts of the Gates foundation in faraway places such as Africa, but in the main it did not think of itself to be, hat in hand, in need of a donation. ?A gift for a new building or unrestricted monies, sure, but not "charity" per se. ?When the New Learning Initiatives emerged a few years ago, elite institutions considered the grants something for struggling community colleges, especially those in urban or rural areas addressing the needs of students at risk for access and completion.

As the challenges to traditional, not for profit higher education, including small liberal arts colleges and elite research universities, mount daily, perspectives not only on what constitutes "need" but the means by which even the best colleges and universities achieve their missions has begun to change radically. ?Recent events at the University of Virginia illustrate this point.

Mainstream colleges and universities recognize that they to need an influx of money to radically change the means by which they deliver instruction. ?Methods such as MOOCs and blended instruction, once considered necessary only for at risk student populations, are rapidly emerging as the new teaching and learning standard. ?The speech that Bill Gates gave on Tuesday in commemoration of the anniversary of the Morrill Act, and companionate video interviews with Jeff Young of the Chronicle of Higher Education, leave no doubt that higher education has crossed the Rubicon. ?It might seem ironic that the man who has only a high school degree should become the leader for higher education in the 21st-century, but perhaps there is nobody better than one for whom traditional, elite, not for profit higher education paled. ?I, for one, do not doubt his sincerity for a second, and am in fact moved by his authenticity in the space.

Today's blog is an introduction. ?In a future blog I will explain how Microsoft is blowing Google out of the water in higher education applications.?

Source: http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/law-policy-and-it/who-would-have-thunk-it-higher-education-preference-microsoft

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China's Hu Arrives in Hong Kong

BY JEFFREY NG

HONG KONG?China's President Hu Jintao kicked off a three-day visit to Hong Kong on Friday urging solidarity among different sectors of the city, and praising the city's development in the years since the former British colony's handover to Chinese rule.

Mr. Hu is visiting the city for the first time since 2007 to mark its 15th ...

BY JEFFREY NG

HONG KONG?China's President Hu Jintao kicked off a three-day visit to Hong Kong on Friday urging solidarity among different sectors of the city, and praising the city's development in the years since the former British colony's handover to Chinese rule.

Mr. Hu is visiting the city for the first time since 2007 to mark its 15th ...

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Duke Energy to absorb Progress Energy

RALEIGH, N.C. - North Carolina utilities regulators on Friday approved the long-planned takeover of Progress Energy by Duke Energy, clearing the last major hurdle to creating the largest American electric company.

The combined company will serve about 3 million customers in North Carolina and 4 million more in Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Florida and South Carolina. South Carolina regulators still must approve the merged company's plan for operating its combined electrical generation system, but they are not weighing in on the merger. They have scheduled a meeting Monday.

The deal initially valued at $13.7 billion will give it the most customers, power capacity and market value in the U.S.

"This is a blockbuster. It creates a very large entity that should be pretty stable," said Steve Piper, an energy consultant at SNL Energy.

The company led by Charlotte-based Duke Energy will be able to borrow money more cheaply as it sheds more coal-burning power plants, builds facilities able to burn cheaper natural gas, and considers more investment in nuclear energy, Piper said. If the Southeast is able to return to heady economic growth rates that preceded the recession, the combined company can maintain stable and even declining power rates, he said.

Raleigh-based Progress also operates in heavily regulated states and has been more protected from the recent decrease in wholesale power prices than Duke, which operates in deregulated states like Ohio.

Regulators saw the deal as the best possible in an environment of energy industry consolidation, North Carolina Utilities Commission chairman Edward Finley Jr. said.

"It seems far preferable for Progress Energy to merge with North Carolina-headquartered Duke Energy than with a company in another state," he said.

Conditions North Carolina regulators placed on the deal include the combined company passing along at least $650 million in savings to state customers. The merger also is expected to result in operating efficiencies that will mean lower future rate increases, the commission said.

Any costs related to completing the merger can't be passed on to North Carolina utility customers, the commission said. That includes severance costs of about $230 million as Duke and Progress shed up to 1,900 jobs.

The combined company will depend on borrowing for its plant updates. The need for lower borrowing costs was also behind Exelon Corp.'s $7.9 billion takeover of Constellation Energy Group earlier this year, said Phil Adams, a senior bond analyst at Gimme Credit LLC, which provides the financial industry with independent research into corporate bond borrowing.

"We have a very fragmented utilities industry in this country and when you're making multi-billion-dollar capital decisions for assets that are expected to be used for the next 35 to 40 years, bigger is better. It helps your access to capital markets," Adams said.

There are significant challenges facing the combined company, Adams said. They include coping with the costs of a shutdown at Progress Energy's Crystal River nuclear plant in Florida, $1.3 billion in cost overruns at a Duke coal-gasification plant in Indiana, and Ohio's deregulated market, Adams said.

The merger announced in January 2011 has been approved by a series of state and federal agencies, the most significant coming earlier this month when the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission gave its blessing. The FERC twice rejected the merger because of concerns it would reduce competition for wholesale electricity in the Carolinas.

Duke Energy says it plans a reverse stock split once it completes its Progress purchase, giving shareholders one share in the expanded company for every three shares they now own. The stock price for each share will triple, so that the overall value of the shares remains the same.

Shares of Duke Energy Corp. rose 2 cents to $23.08 Friday. Progress Energy Inc. stock fell 1 cent to $60.17.

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