Home Improvement Advice That Is Sure To Please! - Home Reno

You can do your home improvement projects yourself, without pouring your money into someone else?s pocket. This article will give you the information needed to get that home you?ve always wanted. You?ll find that handling the work yourself can be a lot easier if you heed the following advice.

If your roof has developed cracks, use aluminum tape to repair the cracks. Apply the tape to a dry and clean surface but remember to peel off the backing first. The tape bonds strongly to the roof and provides a waterproof seal that will prevent minor leaks.

Most lampshades are actually quite boring. With stencils, you can brighten them up. Use paint or an ink pad to add designs that be taken from a template, then add them to your boring lampshades. This will add a personal touch, making the room reflect your personality. This can take a boring room and make it more exciting.

Using texturing techniques add interest to your walls and cover blemishes. It is easy to create texture. Simply use a trowel to apply the drywall mud, and use a brush with stiff bristles, a sponge or a plastic bag that is wadded up to dab the drywall and texturize it.

If your door hinges continue to squeak after you have tried every solution in existence, you may have to simply replace them. You can buy one at a hardware store. Removing the old hinge and installing the new one is an easy project. Put the hinge together by sliding in the pin.

It isn?t hard to connect PVC pipes to each other, you just need PVC primer and cement. These products are recommended in order to keep your pipes from leaking, as other cements and glues will not work. Also make sure the surfaces are clean and dry.

Improving the lighting of a room can give it a brand new look. Bright rooms feel much warmer to the homeowners and visitors. Think about getting an additional light fixture. You can improve the overall feel of a house just by bringing some light to one room.

One quick way to change the look of your kitchen is with new knobs and handles on your cabinets. Many people focus on the doors without realizing that simply changing the hinges and handles on cabinets can do wonders. If you do add in new knobs, make sure you clean your cabinets so that everything looks better in the end. All you have to do is screw the knobs onto the cabinets.

An unfinished basement can be lost money. Finished basements add square footage as well as extra enjoyment. You can get what you need at a discount store. Some sources say that your home?s resale value can increase up to 30 percent by finishing your basement.

We hope the information we have presented here has been helpful to you. After reading this, you should be getting ready to make some home improvements. You don?t need a professional to do them, and you can still get excellent results.

Source: http://www.renmenbi.com/home-improvement-advice-that-is-sure-to-please/

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Southern city in Egypt takes on Islamists

Mourners carry the coffin of Mohamed Abdel Hamid Mecca Masjid, who was killed Sunday when gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire on a protests against Egypt's Islamist President, Mohammed Morsi, in Assiut, Egypt, Monday, July 1, 2013. In the city of Assiut, a stronghold of Islamists, gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire on a protest in which tens of thousands were participating, killing one person, wounding several others and sending the crowd running. (AP Photo/Mamdouh Thabet)

Mourners carry the coffin of Mohamed Abdel Hamid Mecca Masjid, who was killed Sunday when gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire on a protests against Egypt's Islamist President, Mohammed Morsi, in Assiut, Egypt, Monday, July 1, 2013. In the city of Assiut, a stronghold of Islamists, gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire on a protest in which tens of thousands were participating, killing one person, wounding several others and sending the crowd running. (AP Photo/Mamdouh Thabet)

ASSIUT, Egypt (AP) ? The southern Egyptian city of Assiut has long been a haven for radical Islamists, and its Christian minority has largely kept a low profile. That all changed this weekend.

An estimated crowd of 50,000 packed the streets this weekend to join protests calling for President Mohammed Morsi's ouster, prompting a violent response that left three people dead.

The show of defiance can only be fairly measured in view of the city's bloody history and the shifts in the local centers of power when Morsi became president a year ago, empowering many of the hard-line Islamist groups around the country, including those in Assiut.

The bloody end of the protest ? 32 people were also injured ? points to the high risks that Assiut residents, particularly Christians, face if they were to join the wave of opposition to Morsi's rule that culminated Sunday when millions of Egyptians came out across the country to demand his ouster.

"I, my kids Mariam and Remon and my husband, Nabil, came out because we miss the Egypt we know and we want it back," Assiut resident Mary Demian said. "These people (militant Muslims) say we are infidels and they terrorize us, but we are not scared. This is our nation and we have always lived with Muslims in peace."

The size of Sunday's rally was nearly five times the demonstration that celebrated the ouster of Hosni Mubarak in February 2011. But what is equally important is that the protesters showed a level of defiance and courage that may have been unthinkable just days ago.

It defined a change of mood in a city of 1 million people where political activism has traditionally been the exclusive domain of the powerful Islamists of Gamma Islamiya, a hard-line group that fought a bloody insurgency against Mubarak's regime in the 1990s. The insurgency left more than 1,000 people dead, including foreign tourists and Christians.

The group, born in Assiut in the 1970s, has since renounced violence and set up a political party after Mubarak's ouster, joining a new political landscape dominated by Islamists. Thousands of its members were jailed under Mubarak's 29-year rule. It is now one of the strongest allies of Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood.

Adding to the combustible mix, Christians in Assiut province make up about a third of its 4 million people. In all of Egypt, Christians make up about 10 percent of the estimated 90 million people.

In that context, Assiut can be a major flashpoint if the two sides decide to fight it out. Islamists across much of the country were mobilizing their supporters Monday night after the chief of the armed forces gave Morsi and his opponents 48 hours to work out their differences. If they don't, warned Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, the military will intervene with a political road map of its own for the nation's future.

In the meantime, millions of Morsi opponents are rallying for a second day in a row, filling Cairo's Tahrir Square, the thoroughfare outside Morsi's presidential palace, and elsewhere in the country.

Sunday's events in Assiut underline the city's potential as a main battlefield in the fight between the two sides.

Significantly, the anti-opposition rally was held in tandem and in close proximity to another one by Gamaa Islamiya, whose members toured the city on motorbikes chanting "Down with the saboteurs!" before they gathered near a government building only 50 yards from the opposition rally.

"Our rally was a message to everyone that we are here on the streets doing what our conscience dictates to us and that we shall not allow saboteurs to do what they wish," said Tareq Beder, the Gamaa official in charge of Assiut.

In the run-up to the opposition rally, several activists also received threatening text messages. "All of you infidels will die," said one, sent to Christian activist Joseph Amin.

The protesters burned posters of Morsi and Assem Abdel-Maged, a longtime leader of Gamaa.

"Oh Assiut, tell the terrorists that Muslims and Christians are united!" they chanted. "Down, down with Assem Abdel-Maged the terrorist!" they screamed.

Abdel-Maged, a native of Assiut, has been taking the lead in a campaign to discredit Morsi's critics, delivering fiery speeches that brand them as communists, extremist Christians and paid Mubarak loyalists.

The violence began soon after the festive rally got underway when a suspected Islamist riding behind another man on a motorbike opened fire on the crowd, killing a 21-year-old Christian man, Abanob Atef, and injuring 11. Protesters used the blood from the fatal head wound to write on the ground "Erhal!" or "Leave!" ? the chant of the Arab Spring protesters now directed at Morsi.

Enraged by the violence, many of the protesters moved to the nearby villa housing the local branch of the Freedom and Justice party, the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Suspected Morsi supporters in the villa opened fire on the protesters, killing two more and injuring another 21, according to security officials speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media. Fighting continued with the protesters pelting the villa with firebombs and rocks. Policemen, angered by the death of one of their own, joined the fight on the side of the protesters.

The fighting continued for hours, with the police occasionally retreating because of heavy gunfire. Morsi's supporters, some wearing construction helmets and homemade body armor, shot at the protesters and police from pickup trucks and motorbikes that came in waves.

Both the Gamaa and the Muslim Brotherhood in Assiut have denied involvement in the violence.

Violence resumed Monday, with about 3,000 anti-Morsi protesters storming and torching the villa housing the Freedom and Justice party.

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Hendawi reported from Cairo.

Associated Press

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Statement of Mayor Bloomberg on President Obama's Climate Action Plan

?The following is a statement released by Mayor Bloomberg on President Obama's Climate Action Plan:

?President Obama is demonstrating the national leadership we need in the battle against climate change with the pragmatic action plan released today. The ambitious roadmap includes proposals to reduce carbon emissions and prepare for a changing climate ? steps we must take to avoid the devastation and loss that come with extreme weather events like Hurricane Sandy. The President?s plan recognizes both the significant cost of inaction and that Washington must support the work of local governments to become more resilient. Our own landmark sustainability program PlaNYC has helped produce major greenhouse gas reductions and our long-term climate resilience strategy, ?A Stronger, More Resilient New York,? outlines the specific steps our City must take to protect against extreme weather. A Federal policy complementing and supporting this work will ensure we can continue to build on these initiatives. It?s encouraging that the President will fulfill the requirement under the Clean Air Act to regulate emissions from existing power plants, which will help address the 13,000 American deaths that coal-fired power plants cause each year. While action from Congress on comprehensive legislation to reduce carbon emissions is still needed, this proposal is a sound national strategy that reflects much of the work already going on in cities around the world.?

Source: http://www.mikebloomberg.com/index.cfm?objectid=7CAC174B-C29C-7CA2-F61A746E01C895E8

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Time to make your UFC 162 picks

UFC 162 is days away, and we want to know who you think will win. On Cagewriter's Facebook page, you'll find polls asking who you think will win for every main card fight that will happen this Saturday in Las Vegas.

Anderson Silva vs. Chris Weidman
Frankie Edgar vs. Charles Oliveira
Tim Kennedy vs. Roger Gracie
Mark Munoz vs. Tim Boetsch
Dennis Siver vs. Cub Swanson

Take the poll, then tell us why you think your fighter will win in the comments of the poll. The best comments will be featured right here on Cagewriter with picks from Kevin Iole and me. It will be lots of fun.

Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mma-cagewriter/time-ufc-162-picks-134734999.html

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President Obama 'deeply humbled' on visit to Robben Island

Mr Obama, who flew from Johannesburg to Cape Town today, is paying tribute to the ailing 94-year-old throughout the day.

The president and his family visited Robben Island, where the anti-apartheid leader spent 18 years confined to a tiny cell, including a stop at the lime quarry where Mandela toiled and developed the lung problems that sent him to the hospital for most of this month.

The White House said Mr Obama's guide during the tour was 83-year-old South African politician Ahmed Kathrada, who also was held at the prison for nearly two decades and guided Mr Obama on his 2006 visit to the prison as a US senator.

The president also saw the prison courtyard where Mandela planted grapevines that remain today, and where he and others in the dissident leadership would discuss politics, sneak notes to one another and hide writings.

"On behalf of our family, we're deeply humbled to stand where men of such courage faced down injustice and refused to yield. The world is grateful for the heroes of Robben Island, who remind us that no shackles or cells can match the strength of the human spirit," Mr Obama wrote in the guest book in the courtyard.

During the tour, which took place under sunshine and clear, blue skies, Mr Obama, first lady Michelle Obama and daughters Malia and Sasha took in the expansive view of the quarry, a huge crater with views of the rusty guard tower from where Mandela was watched.

Mr Obama commented on the "hard labour" Mandela endured and asked Kathrada to remind his daughters how long Mandela was in prison.

Michelle Obama asked how often Mandela would work and was told he worked daily. As the family turned to leave, Mr Obama asked Kathrada to tell his daughters how the African National Congress, the South African political party, got started.

After the tour, Mr Obama will visit retired archbishop Desmond Tutu before delivering what the White House has billed as the signature speech of his week-long trip, an address at the University of Cape Town that will be infused with memories of Mandela.

Mr Obama will use the address to unveil the "Power Africa" initiative, which includes an initial seven billion dollar (?4.6bn) investment from the United States over the next five years. Private companies, including General Electric and Symbion Power, are making an additional nine billion dollars (?5.9bn) in commitments with the goal of providing power to millions of Africans crippled by a lack of electricity.

Gayle Smith, Mr Obama's senior director for development and democracy, said more than two-thirds of people living in sub-Saharan Africa do not have electricity, including 85% of those living in rural areas.

"If you want lights so kids can study at night or you can maintain vaccines in a cold chain, you don't have that, so going the extra mile to reach people is more difficult," Smith said.

The US and its private sector partners initially will focus its efforts on six countries: Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria and Tanzania, where Mr Obama will wrap up his trip later this week.

Former President George W Bush, who supports health programmes throughout the continent, will also be in Tanzania next week, and the White House did not rule out the possibility that the two men might meet.

Mr Obama will also highlight US efforts to bolster access to food and health programmess on the continent. His advisers said the president sees reducing the poverty and illness that plague many parts of Africa as an extension of Mandela's example of how change can happen within countries.

The former South African president has been in hospital in critical condition for three weeks. Mr Obama met members of Mandela's family yesterday, but did not visit the anti-apartheid icon, a decision the White House said was in keeping with his family's wishes.

Mr Obama's trip, which opened last week in Senegal, marks his most significant trip to the continent since taking office. His scant personal engagement has come as a disappointment to some in the region, who had high hopes for a man whose father was from Kenya.

The president said he was eager to bring his family with him to Robben island to teach them about Mandela's role in overcoming white racist rule, first as an activist and later as a president who forged a unity government with his former captors.

He told reporters he wanted to "help them to understand not only how those lessons apply to their own lives but also to their responsibilities in the future as citizens of the world, that's a great privilege and a great honour".

Mr Obama will speak at the University of Cape Town nearly 50 years after Robert F. Kennedy delivered his famous "Ripple of Hope" speech from the school. Kennedy spoke in Cape Town two years after Mandela was sentenced to life in prison.

Source: http://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/president-obama-deeply-humbled-on-visit-to-robben-island-8680475.html

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Ecuador president: Snowden can't leave Moscow

PUERTO VIEJO, Ecuador (AP) ? Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa has told The Associated Press that National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden is "under the care of Russian authorities" and can't leave Moscow's international airport without his U.S. passport.

In an interview with the AP Sunday morning, Correa said he had no idea Snowden's intended destination was Ecuador when he fled Hong Kong for Russia last week. He said the Ecuadorean consul in London committed "a serious error" without consulting any officials in Ecuador's capital when the consul issued a letter of safe passage for Snowden.

Correa said "the case is not in Ecuador's hands" and said Snowden must assume responsibility if he broke U.S. laws. But Correa said the broader legitimacy of Snowden's action must be taken into consideration and Ecuador would still consider an asylum request.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ecuador-president-snowden-cant-leave-moscow-145434970.html

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Bill Haas pulls away to win at Congressional

BETHESDA, Md. (AP) ? Bill Haas won the AT&T National on Sunday and joined some distinguished company.

Haas pulled away from a crowd of contenders with three straight birdies, two key pars and one good hop out of the rough. It led to a 5-under 66 on a muggy day at Congressional and a three-shot win over Roberto Castro.

As many as six players had a share of the lead at some point until Haas rolled in a 10-foot birdie putt on No. 8. Worried about a splotch of mud on his ball, he hit his approach to just inside 12 feet for birdie on the par-5 ninth, and then hit a 5-iron to 10 feet for another birdie on the 10th.

Haas led by at least two shots the entire back nine, though he never allowed himself to think about winning until he stood over a 3-foot par putt on the 18th hole and realized he had three putts to win.

"I just kept the ball in front of me," Haas said. "Nothing too crazy."

Haas has won at least one PGA Tour event in each of the last four years, joining Phil Mickelson, Dustin Johnson and Justin Rose. And with a half-dozen players trying to win for the first time on tour, Haas kept a high pedigree of winner at the AT&T National. In the seven-year history of the tournament, Rose was the lowest-ranked player to win. He was at No. 35 in 2010 at Aronimink.

The 31-year-old won for the fifth time in his career, and this was the first one with Tiger Woods on the property ? not to play, but to hand out the trophy. Woods sat out this week with an elbow injury and won't play again until the British Open, though he was impressed with what he saw.

"He played beautifully today," Woods said. "He handled his business through the tougher stretch of holes and pulled away."

Castro, part of a four-way tie for the lead at the start of the final round, made Haas work for it.

The other leaders fell away. Andres Romero had a double bogey on the fourth hole and shot 75. James Driscoll didn't make a birdie in his round of 74.

Jordan Spieth, the 19-year-old from Texas who needs a win to become a PGA Tour member and be eligible for the FedEx Cup playoffs, started his day by holing out from a fairway bunker for eagle and chipping in for birdie to tie for the lead. He dropped a shot at No. 11 ? the hardest hole at Congressional ? about the time Haas was on his critical run of birdies. Spieth had a 69 and finished sixth, pushing his earnings for the year over $1.1 million.

Castro bogeyed the opening hole, and that was his only mistake. He was one shot out of the lead at the turn, couldn't match birdies with Haas at the par-3 10th, and then stuck with him the rest of the day.

"It helped that Roberto played so well," Haas said.

Haas, who finished on 12-under 272, never allowed himself to think about winning, even after he seized control around the turn. Congressional wouldn't let him. Even though he made 15 birdies on the weekend, he remembered the triple bogey on the 11th hole Saturday that temporarily derailed him.

This time, he found the fairway, hit onto the green, took two putts for par and exhaled.

Haas saved par from a bunker on the par-3 13th with a 6-foot putt that swirled 360 degrees around the cup before falling, and then picked up an unlikely birdie on the 14th when his 9-iron was drifting toward a mound covered with shaggy rough to the right of the green. It hopped off the mound to about 10 feet, and he went from a possible bogey to a birdie when he made the putt.

He made one more birdie with a wedge that checked up a foot from hole on the par-5 16th, and Haas was on his way.

The biggest struggle after that was hoisting the silver trophy of the U.S. Capitol over his head in the stifling heat of the closing ceremony on the 18th green.

Haas was still smarting over losing a three-shot lead in the final round at Riviera, making five bogeys in a seven-hole stretch in the middle of his round. He had the 36-hole lead at the Memorial until a 76-71 weekend.

He was solid on Sunday at Congressional, and the win moved him to No. 7 in the FedEx Cup standings with the playoffs about two months away. That's important to Haas, who won the FedEx Cup in 2011 and failed to qualify for the Tour Championship last year.

D.H. Lee made nine birdies to match a tournament-best 64 and tied for third with Jason Kokrak, who briefly shared the lead on the front nine and had a 69. Stewart Cink closed with a 67 and finished alone in fifth, his best finish on the PGA Tour since he reached the quarterfinal of the Match Play Championship in 2010.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/bill-haas-pulls-away-win-congressional-193633107.html

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