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Jessica marking her property.. song: Secret – Magic credits: Jair & The Crajee Surfers

The ACE Mentor program pairs high school students with volunteers to provide hands on experience.

Learn about using artificial plants for shabby chic design by incorporating flea market finds into your decor in thisfree Bohemian interior design video. Expert: Denise Robinson Bio: Denise Robinson resides in Austin, Texas. She has designed sets for both TV and film for 12 years in California. She believes that you can create beautiful looks for inexpensive prices. Filmmaker: Dana Glover

Installing cedar shingles uses similar tools and methods whether you’re installing to a roof or walls. Nail down cedar shingles in neat rows using galvanized or stainless steel nails without exposing more than five inches per layer withinstruction from an experienced builder in this free video on home repair. Expert: Robert Markey Bio: Robert Markey is an artist who works in several media including painting, sculpture, installation, video and mosaics. Filmmaker: EquilibrioFilms Erik

Reupholstering a chair cushion requires cutting out the top and bottom pieces, including seam allowance, cutting out the side pieces, notching the corners and sewing along the edges. Create a box cushion for a chair with help from an experienced upholsterer in this free video on furniture. Expert: Bubba Austin Contact: www.aandwupholstery.com Bio: Bubba Austin is the owner of A&W Upholstery in Nashville, Tenn. Filmmaker: Dimitri LaBarge

www.mlwebco.com – In this video tutorial, I walk you through the steps for designing a logo using Adobe Illustrator. In the video, I demonstrate how to go about choosing the right font type, tips for combining letters and manipulating colors for proper contrast as well as demonstrate how to design an icon using the vector pen tool. Enjoy! Download work file here www.mlwebco.com If you have any questions, send me an email at mlocke@mlwebco.com. Visit www.mlwebco.com for more video tutorials and web related content.

Persian New Year Nowruz نوروز or Norouz is celebrated at the precise moment that spring arrives. Persian calendar Zoroastrians prepare for their New Year, called Norooz, which occurs at the spring equinox. The Zoroastrian faith began in ancient Persia, now Iran. Estimates vary widely, but some claim that only as few as 115000 Zoroastrians remain, most in India but also in Iran, Europe, and North America. Zoroastrian Persian the Heft-Sheen table is central to the Norooz celebration. Sheen is one of the letters of the alphabet. Items beginning with the letter “sh” or sheen / Shin are traditionally put on the table. This tradition is going on from the King Cyrus great 7500yrs ago. Zoroastrianism teaches that people should do good to help their one God in his cosmic struggle with the power of evil. If you dont want to celebrate it the Islamic way, the heft Seen of garlic, vinegar, and so on. You should ask yourself do you really want to drink gross vinegar and eat garlic in the New Year and other gross stuff. Or should it be celebrated the original Persian/Zoroastrian way? Now you know the true Seven sh (half-sheen) Persian/ Zoroastrian opening table decorations for Nowruz. Zoroastrian has kept in life other Persian tradition and It has not be forgotten. Example; THe Achu Michu Ritual, in which items are placed in a tray called the Sace or Ses, a metallic tray made of stainless Steele or silver. Those accessories are very delicate, and very valuable, they have been passed …

You won’t generally find somebody that has had a major home improvement project performed on their home, who will inform you that the project progressed well and the work was completed on time. The odds and potential for things to go wrong are great, due to the large number of people it takes to complete such a large venture. Nevertheless, with a little advance preparation on your own part, you can avert the most detrimental kinds of home improvement horrors. It is smart to have someone be responsible for the overall home improvement project. Since the general contractor will be aware of everything that will have to be done to finish the project, they are normally the best choice to have in charge and running the show. Developing a good budget can’t be emphasized enough. Following a good budget will help make your life much simpler. If you don’t prepare for everything beforehand, and create a budget that you will not go in excess of, you can quickly find yourself adding things that you have not set aside funds for. You could discover that you cannot find the money for the project after all, if you do not limit your spending. You need to work out a fixed price deal with the contractor, to ensure that no matter how long the project takes them to finish, they’ll be paid a set amount which you have already agreed to. This can keep you from receiving a nasty shock when you receive the final bill, and will also encourage them to finish as quickly as possible. Never commit yourself by signing a contract until you have found a contractor who will agree to do the job under these terms. You may need to obtain several estimates and talk to several different contractors before you locate one that will work with you, but as long as you are prepared to pay a reasonable price, they shouldn’t be too difficult to find. Do not get mixed up with finding a lot of specialty contractors for every single portion of the construction that must be done. Have your general contractor to hire subcontractors for the specialty parts of the project that must be done by someone certified in that field. They will normally have subcontractors that they get to do this kind of thing on a normal basis. For instance, do not hire plumbers and electricians on your own. They will occasionally take a long time to perform the work that is needed done. Allow the contractor to hire his own preferred electrician and plumber instead of finding one yourself. They will recognize the right subcontractors to use, because they do this on a regular basis in their line of work. Try hard to refrain from getting involved with the regular work on the project. Additionally, do not start trying to make changes during the midst of the progress. The more you permit the contractor to do his work, with no interference from you, the better it will be on you both. Try not to get in the way, and have your builder take care of scheduling, and the completion of the different parts of the project as they need done. Considering that they will have already handled this type of situation often times in the past, they are particularly suited to realize when work needs scheduled to be done, and when the actual labor will need to take place. Letting your contractor be the boss will help make certain all the work gets finished on time, and moves along with no problems. You will not look back on your home improvement project with resentment, if you have your general contractor handle all the details, and keep yourself from going beyond your budget by putting in all kinds of additional assorted items. Visit 9×12 Area Rugs to find great deals on hundreds of Area Rugs for Your Home.

Solar lights have many advantages – you save on installation cost as well as on electricity bills, they are safer and more convenient.

Advantages of solar landscape lights

If you go for traditional electricity, there should be a line running from your house to the lights, usually berried in the yard. Solar, on the contrary, don’t require any wires, so there will be much less digging and less installation cost.

Also, if you use electricity, only the first few lights in the chain will be bright, while those at the end will not get enough power to them. So the lights at the back of your garden, where you need them most, will not actually provide enough illumination. Solar lighting systems don’t have this problem; all lights will have the same brightness, no matter how far they are from your house.

Another benefit is safety. If you have a dog who likes digging, you would always worry that it will get to one of the electrical wires. Since solar backyard lights don’t require any wires, your puppy will be safe.

And if you intend to run your lights all night, the savings of going solar are significant. Even though backyard lights are low waltage, if you have twenty of them running for several hours every day it all adds up. But with the solar system the energy will not cost you anything.

Disadvantages of solar lighting for landscapes.

As we all know solar is powered by the sun, so if the day is very cloudy, your lights will not be bright in the evening. Also, you can not place those lights anywhere in the shade, only in open sunny spots.

This problem can be solved by putting the solar panel in the open spot and running a wire to the lights located in the shady aria of your backyard. Of course this requires a bit more work, but nowhere near as much as if you were running the electricity from your house.

Solar lights are particularly useful for larger gardens. You can install them hundreds meters away from your building as long as they get enough sunlight. To collect more power during the day, you should ensure that the panels are facing South. Most people successfully install solar landscape lighting along the paths, around pools and patios. With some planning, your garden could look really interesting at night, with lights inviting people to explore.

The lights are usually designed in a way, that during the day they collect sunlight power, and switch on only when it is dark. Solar energy collected during the day is stored in the batteries. If you invest in a high quality lights they usually have enough solar power to last them till morning.