Ways to Talk to a Cabinets Company So Your Vision Comes to Life

Designing your very own kitchen is not simply a terrific way to guarantee that your kitchen area fulfills all of your conditions, yet it additionally supplies an enjoyable and also inventive way to enter into the improvement of your home.

If you're organizing to create your kitchen area, chances are good that you have certainly already determined to collaborate with a seasoned internal professional that focuses on custom kitchen area cabinetry. However, there are a few things that you must understand about creating your cooking area that might amaze you. Having cabinets created for the very first time can be alarming and also very expensive. It doesn't matter if you need custom cabinets in Atlanta GA or the high rises of New York proper. If you use these 3 pointers just before you begin your cooking area refurbishing job you'll save loads of hard earned cash as well as remorse. Here are the 3:

You need to ensure they recognize ways to do dimensions. You'll realize why in the toe space area below the cabinets.

You must be sure the kitchen cabinets are custom made as well as custom crafted locally. There are tons of tiny stores which claim to be custom as well as instead just ship in the cabinets. When you ask the right questions you won't get caught by this trap.

You should really examine their references. Call 3 or 4 of their previous customers and also talk to them live. Question them to go over photos. This may seem to be unreasonable however females boast about their kitchen areas as well as likely have certainly presently uploaded a picture gallery online to display to their pals. Merely ask her to email you the link to this picture gallery. Also inquire her just what the experience looked like dealing with this company. Ask her exactly how their customer service and reaction time was.

If the company passes these 3 tests this creeps your foot in the door with an outstanding cabinets business. The following item gets into the strategies of the put in.

Have you ever moved toward a kitchen area counter anticipating to be able to hunker down and concentrate on your job simply to notice that your toes struck the base cabinetry, halting you from hovering as close to the counter-top workspace as you will prefer?

Most likely not.

This is because a lot of custom professional cabinets are designed to provide substantial toe area so that you could obtain an additional couple of inches nearer to your job area effortlessly without needing to bend awkwardly over your work area. Cabinetrytoe area is a cut-out along the edge of the base cabinet that provides a couple of inches of depth as well as clearance for your toes.

If you're like lots of people making their cooking areas for the first time, opportunities are good that you have actually used base cabinet toe room on a routine basis without ever before observing it! Glimpse down at your cabinets next time to watch if you have toe space in your existing set-up.

Heads up: producing your cooking area with base cabinetry toe room in your thoughts is particularly important as you arrange your kitchen tile. You'll wish to make sure that your floor coverings expands adequately into the toe room as well as does not cease at the counter tops line or else this would definitely leave an unattractive gap.

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Starship Troopers Reboot Could Be Less Violent

Paul?Verhoeven's '80s sci-fis tiptoed between kitsch and corrosive with such brass that people are still debating which bits are meant as satire and which bits aren't. His loose triptych of subversive sci-fis - Starship Troopers, Total Recall and RoboCop - are all getting a redo, with the former still in the early stages of development. In the new issue, Empire caught up with producer Toby Jaffe to find out what's planned for the former. "The more expensive a film is, the harder it is now to make it that violent," explains Jaffe, also one of the team behind the Colin?Farrell's Total Recall. "With Recall in particular, we made a conscious choice to keep it tonally closer to something like Minority Report. It gives the studio, and us as producers, the opportunity to reintroduce it in a new way." It's news that will land with a thump in the hearts of bug-hunt purists, but hardly a surprise. It's hard to imagine Verhoeven's gleefully violent RoboCop or Troopers sneaking through the studio system these days, and, explains Jaffe, there's little point retreading old? ground. "Verhoeven took [Robert Heinlein's 1959 novel] from one extreme and made it almost comical, whereas our job is to be a little more faithful to the book, and ground it a little more." What's planned sounds like it will ditch the satire in favour of a straighter action play. "Verhoeven made his movie a critique of fascism," says Jaffe, "whereas Heinlein was writing from the perspective of someone who had served in?World War II. Y'know, one man's fascism is another man's patriotism..." One element that will improve with age is the hardware. If the militaristic elements are less tongue-in-cheek, those nukes will be bigger and better. "Working in a visual-efects renaissance as we are, we have the ability to do so much more now. We can do the Jump Suits [armoured exoskeletons from Heinlein's novel], for example, which I don't think they could have done before." Pick up the new issue of Empire from Thursday for a fresh look at Verhoeven's trippy trilogy and more from Jaffe and co. on the new generation of films.

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Have Your Say To comment on this, and all articles, register for free or login now. Advertisement Well atleast we will get crap CGI "jump packs" Who cares if they remove a large chunk unique factors of what made Verhoeven's film unique and a success in almost every regard outside of gross. I would probably be more concerned if I believed this film was a sure thing but I am having a hard time believing this remake will happen. Total Recall 2012 looks average at best, and the details so far for Robocop also come off as "meh". More Posted by bjbdigital at 06:25 on 28 June 2012 | Report This Post Starship Troopers - pure cinematic pleasure The f/x is amazing and those spider bugs are awesomely realistic and dangerous looking. Won't be beaten. Jaffe can go fuck himself... non-violently and non-ironically of course. More Posted by BatSpider at 23:05 on 27 June 2012 | Report This Post RE: non dimensional So wait, this is going to be a watered down cash in on a familiar name? NO WAY!! More Posted by UTB at 21:10 on 27 June 2012 | Report This Post non dimensional Really hope this is in 3D...which will give me even more of a reason NOT TO GO AND SEE THIS!!!!!! More Posted by MaxRenn at 20:41 on 27 June 2012 | Report This Post RE: A word about the VFX L: Galahadfairlight The comment from the producer to suggest they couldn't do the jump suits back in 1997 is patent nonsense, Verhoeven removed them largely to stop the Humans from being virtually indestructable, and to make them have a believable weakness against the bugs. The VFX for Starship Troopers still stands up today as being excellent, and I very much doubt that the VFX for the new incarnation are remotely going to make the old movie look silly! couldn't agree more. More Posted by Rich Empire at 17:12 on 27 June 2012 | Report This Post May the Bugs kill this! How on (or off) earth can they even be considering this?! Verhoeven's movie is just pitch-perfect even now! More Posted by olirog at 17:04 on 27 June 2012 | Report This Post RE: Starship Troopers wasn't an 80s sci-fi... Let's face it, a p Troopers could hardly be ] violent. One of the most underrated, misunderstood and t of the 90s, if anything, Starship Troopers is even more subversive than the sublime how the Verhoeven version was a merciless piss-take of Heinlein's po-faced fascist tract - I will take the sight of Doogie Howser dressed like Herr Flick and solemnly intoning "There's a brain bug on Planet P!" with me to the grave. How could you love a movie where the baddies are Nazi 90210/Melrose Pla More Posted by chris kilby at 16:57 on 27 June 2012 | Report This Post RE: Starship Troopers wasn't an 80s sci-fi... And neither was Total Recall, which came out in 1990. Empire, if you can't get this sh*t right, what hope is there for the rest of us? More Posted by Nicky C at 16:24 on 27 June 2012 | Report This Post RE: L: Dropje "Y'know, one man's fascism is another man's patriotism." Does this mean that, 15 years later, at least one American has realized that this Dutch director had been taking the piss out of them? More Posted by waltham1979 at 15:31 on 27 June 2012 | Report This Post I WOULDN'T LIKE TO KNOW MORE! More Posted by LSJShez at 15:20 on 27 June 2012 | Report This Post A word about the VFX The comment from the producer to suggest they couldn't do the jump suits back in 1997 is patent nonsense, Verhoeven removed them largely to stop the Humans from being virtually indestructable, and to make them have a believable weakness against the bugs. The VFX for Starship Troopers still stands up today as being excellent, and I very much doubt that the VFX for the new incarnation are remotely going to make the old movie look silly! More Posted by Galahadfairlight at 15:09 on 27 June 2012 | Report This Post "Y'know, one man's fascism is another man's patriotism." Does this mean that, 15 years later, at least one American has realized that this Dutch director had been taking the piss out of them? More Posted by Dropje at 14:58 on 27 June 2012 | Report This Post Starship Troopers wasn't an 80s sci-fi... ...it came out in 1997. Just sayin'. More Posted by Primus at 14:48 on 27 June 2012 | Report This Post bs Everything about this is just wrong. No offense to the fans, but I thought the novel was rather boring, but I absolutely adore the film, especially Poledouris score and the annoying teens getting DESTROYED by the Bugs. Fuck this guy and fuck this remake. More Posted by presidentcletus at 14:32 on 27 June 2012 | Report This Post

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Saudi jails Qaeda militants over planned attacks

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Dinosaurs Might Have Had Warm-Blooded Animals' Fast Metabolism

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Evidence is mounting against claims that dinosaurs could not have been endothermic, including a new analysis of fossil microstructures found in ruminants, lizards, dinosaurs and crocodiles

By Brian Switek and Nature magazine ?| June 27, 2012?|

Studying modern mammals can provide insights into the metabolism of dinosaurs. Image: Walter Myers /Stocktrek Images/Corbis

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From museums to Hollywood films, dinosaurs are portrayed as highly active animals, but how they maintained this lifestyle isn?t clear. For decades, palaeontologists have debated whether the physiology of non-avian dinosaurs was akin to that of today's cold-blooded reptiles or warm-blooded mammals. An important clue has now been uncovered ? not in Triceratops and its relatives, but in herbivorous mammals.

Palaeontologists have often examined bone microstructure in their investigations of dinosaur growth and physiology. Key to arguments on the subject are lines of arrested growth (LAGs) that represent an annual slowdown ? typically tied to a cold or dry season during which resources are scarce. These rings are seen in dinosaurs, as well as in creatures such as lizards and crocodiles, whose body temperatures are regulated by the external environment, but have not often been observed in the bones of endotherms ? creatures such as mammals that maintain high, constant body temperatures. But in a study published today in Nature, palaeontologist Meike K?hler at the Autonomous University of Barcelona in Bellaterra, Spain, and her colleagues report that LAGs are present in ruminants from the tropics to the poles, greatly altering the context of the dinosaur-physiology debate.

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Although LAGs have been found in mammalian bones before, K?hler notes, this is the most comprehensive study of the structures in modern mammals across a range of latitudes. The herbivorous, hoofed mammals all slow their growth when faced with harsh conditions. This is the best way to cope with a cold or dry season, K?hler says ? ?to shut down the energy demands of the body?. The slowdown produces LAGs, even in endothermic organisms, and is an ancient mechanism for coping with lean times.

This means that ?LAGs cannot be used as an argument that dinosaurs could not have been endothermic?, K?hler says. In fact, the type of bone tissue seen in between dinosaur LAGs indicates the animals grew rapidly and sustained high metabolic rates. Dinosaur bone tissue is indistinguishable from that of today?s endothermic ruminants, K?hler says, meaning that dinosaurs were endothermic, too.

Anatomist John Hutchinson of London's Royal Veterinary College says that the study ?puts a nail in the coffin for the idea that mammals do not routinely exhibit LAGs as a natural part of their growth?. And Hutchinson agrees that the study may help us to better understand dinosaur physiology.

Although he notes that the argument over dinosaur physiology involves a number of factors ? including histology and adaptations for rapid movement ? Hutchinson says that K?hler's study provides additional evidence for dinosaur endothermy. ?The growing weight of evidence has been winning over scientists, myself included, to the view that endothermy evolved quite early in dinosaurs and was inherited by birds,? he says

This article is reproduced with permission from the magazine Nature. The article was first published on June 27, 2012.

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Health ruling to end campaign mystery, unleash ads

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney campaigns at Carter Machinery Company, Inc., in Salem, Va., Tuesday, June 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney campaigns at Carter Machinery Company, Inc., in Salem, Va., Tuesday, June 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

A view of the Supreme Court in Washington, Wednesday, June 27, 2012. Saving its biggest case for last, the Supreme Court is expected to announce its verdict Thursday on President Barack Obama's health care law. The outcome is likely to be a factor in the presidential campaign and help define John Roberts' legacy as chief justice. But the court's ruling almost certainly will not be the last word on America's tangled efforts to address health care woes. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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WASHINGTON (AP) ? Barely four months before the nation votes, one of the biggest factors in the fight for the White House still is a mystery. That will change on Thursday.

The Supreme Court's expected ruling on President Barack Obama's sweeping federal health care law will shape the contours of the presidential campaign through the summer and fall. Both Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney are primed to use the ruling ? whatever it is ? for political gain.

Obama expresses confidence the court will uphold his signature legislative initiative. But he won't be shocked if a conservative majority overturns the most controversial provision, those familiar with his thinking say. Romney aides say the Republican candidate will get a political boost if the court strikes down the measure. But they don't want celebrations that could alienate voters who could lose health care benefits through the decision.

Neither candidate has any direct influence over the decision. The court may uphold the health care law, strike it down or deem the requirement that most Americans carry health insurance unconstitutional while keeping other aspects in place.

The ruling is expected to be followed almost immediately by a barrage of advertisements and fundraising appeals from Democrats and Republicans, with both sides trying to cast the decision in the most advantageous light for its candidate.

Romney, running on a pledge to repeal Obama's overhaul as a costly federal power grab, has focused more than usual on the Supreme Court ruling this week. In campaign appearances in Virginia, New Jersey and New York, he offered supporters and donors a preview of his likely response to the decision.

At a Tuesday evening New Jersey fundraiser, Romney declared that if the Supreme Court lets the law stand, "it will make it very clear to the American people that they must elect someone who will stop it." If the high court overturns the law, "then the first three and a half years of the Obama administration will have been entirely wasted, because that's where he devoted his energy and passion," the Republican said.

Romney's campaign also is running new ads this week in Virginia, North Carolina and Iowa promising he would move to "repeal Obamacare" on his first day in office.

Obama, while recently avoiding mentioning the impending court ruling directly, has vigorously defended the overhaul as critical to the public's health and well-being in his own campaign events this week.

"I think it was the right thing to do. I know it was the right thing to do," he told supporters in Boston.

The White House also published a blog post Wednesday touting the benefits of the overhaul, including free preventive services for people on Medicare and health insurance rebates for nearly 13 million Americans.

Both Obama and Romney were scheduled to be in Washington on Thursday. Romney planned to comment on the ruling during an event on Capitol Hill, and Obama was certain to address the decision as well.

Obama advisers say the Supreme Court showed reasonableness earlier this week in a ruling on an Arizona immigration case, and they see it as a hopeful sign for how the court might rule on health care.

If the court upholds the law, Obama could get an election year gust of wind at his back, with his vision and leadership validated. If the court strikes down the overhaul, the White House would seek to cast the decision as detrimental to millions of Americans by highlighting popular elements of the law that would disappear, such as preventive care and coverage for young adults on a parent's plan.

Romney, who as Massachusetts governor signed a health care law on which the Obama's federal law was modeled, is expected to use the health care law ? or what remains of it ? as a defining issue going forward in the presidential contest, regardless of which way the court's ruling goes.

Aides say that that Romney will hold up the law either as a symbol of Obama's ineffective leadership or as federal overreach that only the Republican can stop.

The campaign has coordinated its response directly with the Republican National Committee and House Republicans, who have agreed not to "spike the ball" ? as one Republican put it ? should the law be struck down. Romney's campaign worries that an over-celebratory tone may turn off voters affected by the decision.

Still, both sides will use it to raise money and motivate supporters. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee issued a fundraising appeal for a "health care rapid response fund," telling supporters in an email Wednesday that however the court rules, "Democrats are in for a tough fight."

A flood of advertisements is also expected from outside groups. The conservative group called Concerned Women for America pre-emptively launched a six-state, $6 million advertising campaign this week claiming Obama's overhaul results in delayed and denied care, as well as skyrocketing costs.

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Associated Press writer Ben Feller contributed to this report.

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Want terabit internet? Get light to do the twist

If you want ultra-fast wireless internet, just get light to do the twist.

The wireless and fibre-optic links that make up the internet use electromagnetic waves to carry data as a series of pulses at a specific frequency. It is possible to increase the amount of data transmitted at a given frequency by twisting light beams in different ways. Each beam has a different angular momentum and acts as an independent channel in a larger, composite, beam.

Now Jian Wang, Alan Willner and colleagues at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles have used the twisting technique to transmit over a terabit of data per second. By comparison home WiFi routers typically run at around 50 megabits per second.

Because there are many ways to twist light, the team was able to combine beams with eight different types of twist, each carrying its own independent sequence of pulses.

Willner says the technique could be used between satellites in space, or over shorter distances on Earth. "It's another dimension by which you can transmit data."

Right now, it works only in free-space as current fibre-optic technology distorts twisted light.

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ORNL home to new battery manufacturing R&D facility

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Future automotive batteries could cost less and pack more power because of a new manufacturing research and development facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

The $3 million Department of Energy facility allows for collaboration with industry and other national labs while protecting intellectual property of industrial partners. The laboratory is attracting battery manufacturers, chemical and materials suppliers, system integrators and original equipment manufacturers.

"We're able to integrate advanced material components into a complete battery, analyze how it perform and better understand how to improve it," said Claus Daniel, deputy director of ORNL's Sustainable Transportation Program. "With this capability, we can isolate and evaluate a material or process and quantify any advantage that each would provide."

Through the nation's largest open access battery manufacturing R&D facility, American businesses could gain a competitive advantage in the global market.

"R&D facilities such as these are critical in the development of advanced battery technology that is more affordable and more durable than today's batteries," said Patrick Davis, program manager of DOE's Vehicle Technologies Program.

The facility features two chambers totaling 1,400 square feet of space along with state-of-the-art battery manufacturing equipment. One chamber allows researchers to maintain relative humidity levels of between 0.5 and 15 percent. This room houses equipment that allows for mixing of various slurries, stabilization, coating and drying.

The second chamber provides a dew point of minus-40 degrees Celsius, which translates to a relative humidity of 05 percent. This is necessary to prevent moisture from entering and degrading battery cells. In this chamber, electrodes, cathodes and anodes are assembled automatically into pouches that are filled with a precise amount of electrolyte. The pouches are then trimmed and sealed through a heating and vacuum process.

Researchers can make batteries with up to 7 ampere-hours capacity, a size that provides good demonstration capability but requires less material, reducing the burden on smaller companies that lack large-scale production capacity.

Working with others, Daniel looks forward to many successes.

"ORNL's combination of equipment and expertise allows collaborators to develop and optimize processes, manufacturing schemes, perform diagnostics and maximize yield," Daniel said. "Working with industry, we're advancing the field and moving closer to creating a battery that will allow automobiles to travel longer distances on a single charge."

ORNL has a dozen contracts with eight battery-related companies in their quest to compete in a global marketplace.

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Funding for this project was provided by DOE's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.

UT-Battelle manages ORNL for the Office of Science. The Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit http://science.energy.gov/

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Future automotive batteries could cost less and pack more power because of a new manufacturing research and development facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

The $3 million Department of Energy facility allows for collaboration with industry and other national labs while protecting intellectual property of industrial partners. The laboratory is attracting battery manufacturers, chemical and materials suppliers, system integrators and original equipment manufacturers.

"We're able to integrate advanced material components into a complete battery, analyze how it perform and better understand how to improve it," said Claus Daniel, deputy director of ORNL's Sustainable Transportation Program. "With this capability, we can isolate and evaluate a material or process and quantify any advantage that each would provide."

Through the nation's largest open access battery manufacturing R&D facility, American businesses could gain a competitive advantage in the global market.

"R&D facilities such as these are critical in the development of advanced battery technology that is more affordable and more durable than today's batteries," said Patrick Davis, program manager of DOE's Vehicle Technologies Program.

The facility features two chambers totaling 1,400 square feet of space along with state-of-the-art battery manufacturing equipment. One chamber allows researchers to maintain relative humidity levels of between 0.5 and 15 percent. This room houses equipment that allows for mixing of various slurries, stabilization, coating and drying.

The second chamber provides a dew point of minus-40 degrees Celsius, which translates to a relative humidity of 05 percent. This is necessary to prevent moisture from entering and degrading battery cells. In this chamber, electrodes, cathodes and anodes are assembled automatically into pouches that are filled with a precise amount of electrolyte. The pouches are then trimmed and sealed through a heating and vacuum process.

Researchers can make batteries with up to 7 ampere-hours capacity, a size that provides good demonstration capability but requires less material, reducing the burden on smaller companies that lack large-scale production capacity.

Working with others, Daniel looks forward to many successes.

"ORNL's combination of equipment and expertise allows collaborators to develop and optimize processes, manufacturing schemes, perform diagnostics and maximize yield," Daniel said. "Working with industry, we're advancing the field and moving closer to creating a battery that will allow automobiles to travel longer distances on a single charge."

ORNL has a dozen contracts with eight battery-related companies in their quest to compete in a global marketplace.

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Funding for this project was provided by DOE's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.

UT-Battelle manages ORNL for the Office of Science. The Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit http://science.energy.gov/

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Raytheon Picks Brandywine To Make Navy GPS Timing Tech; Gary ...

Raytheon has awarded a subcontract to Tustin, Calif.-based Brandywine Communications for a time and frequency component on a Navy GPS system, Brandywine announced Monday.

Raytheon is developing a GPS position, navigation and timing system for Navy surface ships under a four-year $32.2 million contract.

?Brandywine?s Time and Frequency Distribution System] has been operational with the submarine fleet since 1997,? Brandywine CEO Gary Smith said, adding that the Navy uses a similar system on its P-8 Poseidon aircraft fleet.

According to Brandywine, the new timing and frequency component will replace multiple pieces of equipment with a single modular system that is customized for each individual ship.

The component is based on the company?s High Performance Timing System, which delivers both analog and digital signals.

Raytheon holds a contract to link an Air Force polar satellite with a Navy satellite terminal.

Posted by David Barton on Monday, June 25th, 2012. Filed under News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry

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