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Are you getting your home improvement 2011 tax credits?

Well, tax season is upon us, so if you?re busy getting your paperwork together to file, make sure you?re doing it as intelligently as possible!

After all, nobody wants to pay more tax than they absolutely have to! If you did home improvements in 2011, there?s good news: you could have a tax credit coming your way to the tune of $500.

That hefty chunk of change is courtesy of the federal Energy Star program and it?s very easy to check to see if any of your home improvement expenses fall under their tax credit guidelines.

Here are just a few home improvements that count in the Energy Star program:

Insulation

This includes all types of insulation including ?retro-insulation? with blown-in material, attic insulation, and even some spray foams with insulation properties.

Water Heaters

Certain water heaters are eligible for the rebate program. If yours is, that?s an automatic $300! To meet the criteria, your new water heater must have an Energy Factor greater than or equal to 0.82 or a thermal efficiency of at least 90%. Check the documentation that came with your water heater to see if yours qualifies.

Windows and Doors

If you replaced or installed new windows in your current home, part of your cost may qualify for the tax credit as long as the windows/doors you installed were Energy Star rated. It isn?t necessary for you to have replaced ALL the windows in your home, even just one will do! Also, if you added a new window where none existed before, it also qualifies.

There are other home improvements that qualify for 2011 tax credits under the Energy Star program. To learn whether or not your home improvement expenses apply, simply visit www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=tax_credits.tx_index.? It?s super easy to claim your tax credits; in most cases, you just need to include Form 5695 along with your tax return.

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Barry! I am constantly amazed by your art every time I see it. Some of your pieces I?ve seen countless times but see something different every time I look at it. Art moves people in many different ways. Your pieces move people in ways that most art can?t. I am looking forward to your upcoming show. All the best, Larry Hales

Barry - I love the paintings. Doorway is absolute mystical genius! It's open.......and it's open for me. I don't have to play with the shadows any more! Something happened to me when I looked into The Doorway. I walked right through that door. All a sudden these dark shackles just fell off me. I literally went from almost tears to laughter. The light that poured out of the art was absolute truth. There is a power in your work that moves me deeply because the interpretations are from the inside out. I can hear the title, look and my spirit flies inside. --Diana

Barry, your artwork is not only pleasant to look at, but spiritually uplifting as well. All the images are appealing at first glance. But the more you study it, the more you find in it to behold. A rare combination of geometric elegance and spiritual depth! --Dr. Joshua Golding

Barry your paintings resonate with my deepest Soul-knowings, and consciously-move heart and mind to heights and depths previously UNknown...The more each is contemplated, the more comes forth to be seen and spiritually-REmembered....Thank you, Barry, for Being all you came here for to Be.... --- Treecia Richie

As a small child I would watch over your shoulder as you created things that I couldnt even imagine. Even then I wondered where it came from. It was clear then and even more now that you have a spiritual gift and purpose here. I have always felt calmed and supported in life by your gentle loving spirit and now feel blessed to see others able to enjoy your gifts and talents. It's pure joy gazing into your creations of heart and soul. --Val Allison

Barry - OMG, is that beautiful!!!!!!! I can't imagine what the real McCoy looks like. --Dave Dutton

I have two of Barry's paintings...I picked them not only for their beauty, but for the way they make me feel. Looking into his works puts me at peace, in a world that seems to always want to do the opposite to people! Barry's personality is reflected in his art, and it's readily apparent that this artist views the world's light through a beautiful, peaceful lens.Every day, I enjoy a slice of what it must be to see as he does. His works attracted me immediately, as I love his play between darkness and light. --Leah Kando

Wow - fabulous. --A.D.Cook

Barry's efforts are breathtakingly beautiful. Anyone thinking of investing in art should take a long look at what he is producing at the moment. I encouraged an East Coast artist who had similar talents and she is now selling out all of her shows and her artwork's value is rising rapidly. Not only would you have a beautiful piece of Barry's artwork to enjoy but a wonderful invest for the future. --Phil Erickson

True art bursts forth like an explosion from our unconscious. Barry's interest in the Superconscious and abstract renderings of Jungian archetypes brings unfettered originality and boldness to his diverse and beautifully conceived explorations in mixed media. His work is fresh and free from the shackles of redundancy, his explorations within shine brilliantly with beauty and versatility. --Sam Krotinger

Your painting "Higher Realms" is absolutely beautiful! Thank you so much for sharing that with us. It certainly reinforces our awareness and awakening of our connection to a higher realm of beauty, peace and light and Spirit. Your paintings are a gift of transformation and transcendence. I love it! ?--Susan and Jim Wiley

At first I thought your studio was on fire, then I realized IT IS! --Kathy Reynolds

Your painting "Higher Realms" is absolutely beautiful! Thank you so much for sharing that with us. It certainly reinforces our awareness and awakening of our connection to a higher realm of beauty, peace and light and Spirit. Your paintings are a gift of transformation and transcendence. I love it!? ---Jewel and Jan"

Awesome! -- JeanMarie Chapman

It's so huge. The art that you make, the effort that goes into it. The goal I guess. It's something really really big. Whether you ever made a piece of art in your life... your intention and your ideas are inspiring in themselves. Your will to create is enormous. And that doesn't just say something about you and your ambition, which I find to be so motivating... it says something about what else is out there. What else is making up this universe, this reality... and even more than this reality. I am incredibly happy that you do this. That this is all part of you. Knowing you feels very very lucky. --Sarah S.

You are fabulous... GORGEOUS paintings... breathtaking!!! with heart and love, --Lynn

Barry Mack?s work is beautiful, and artistically accomplished, all at the same time. It?s a real challenge, I?ve found, to convey concepts and emotions of a higher nature and have the work remain strong and unsentimental. He has succeeded! ??Astrid Fitzgerald

WOW! All I could think of is Going Home. Breathtakingly beeeuuutiful! I wish there were more spiritual places & people I could see & meet. But I journey there in my heart and mind; thanks to people like yourself that share such beauty on theirwebsites. They are all so beautiful and say so much about you the painter. To me it reflects the brilliance of your soul; the divinity within you, bursting through and expressing itself through your paintings. --Elaine

Absolutely gorgeous! --Debbie Smith

Thank you for deeply connecting us all to the universal spirit that helped you create this stunning display of virtuosity and amazing fecundity! There's something masterful in the body of your work that is thrilling and awe inspiring. Right on! --Ted Knerr

A spiritual journey is what your work transfers to the psyche of all, the emotion and the depth speaks in volumes. A visual delight once viewed, leaves the imprint forever. -- Parys (Australia)

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Awakening looks like TERRA FORMING to me!!!Mamma mia! It is all so breathtaking, so ?familiar? so GALACTIC!!I am deeply moved and excited at the same time ? how wonderful to channel through this expression...the art form. I truly am completely awed by the depth of your vision, the incredible energy that pours from the canvas...I celebrate your gift and it is clearly a memory ? either of the future or the past ? there is no difference, in the end. --Patricia Cori - Italy

I want you to know that your art is so strong and powerfull that can reach unknown places and minds, so far in distance but so close in feelings. Someone that can do such things can consider it self as a great artist. -- Laura Olivera - Uruguay

Barry Mack?s art images convey a power of abstraction that welcomes one into space. His breadth of subtle colors invoke space within the mind as well as vast space of the universe ??Emily L. Young, Professor Emerita, Art Dept., Portland State University

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    Liskeard's Easter Parade

    An audio slideshow of Easter celebrations in my home town.

    Organised by the town traders, the events brought many people out onto the streets and subsequently into the shops. It was great to see a town - which has been in steady decline over recent years - so busy.

    Like hundreds of other towns across the UK, Liskeard will find out if its Portas Pilot bid has bee successful at the end of May.

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    Afghans, US sign deal on night raids

    KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) ? The Afghan government and the U.S. signed a deal Sunday governing night raids by American troops, resolving an issue that had threatened to derail a larger pact governing a U.S. presence in the country for decades to come.

    Night raids involve U.S. and Afghan troops descending without warning on homes or residential compounds searching for insurgents. They are widely resented in this deeply conservative country.

    Afghan President Hamid Karzai had called repeatedly to stop the raids, saying that they make civilian casualties more likely and that international troops are disrespectful in the way they conduct the operations. The U.S. military has said such operations are essential for capturing Taliban and al-Qaida commanders.

    The resolution of this dispute is a key step toward finalizing a long-term "strategic partnership" to govern U.S. forces in Afghanistan after the majority of combat forces leave in 2014. The long-term pact is seen as important for assuring the Afghan people that they will not be abandoned by their international allies.

    The memorandum was signed in front of reporters by Kabul's Defense Minister Gen. Abdul Rahim Wardak and the commander of U.S. forces, Gen. John Allen. It appeared to give important benefits to both sides: the document gives the Afghans authority over the raids and gives the Americans an Afghan partner that will now be held equally to account if there are civilian casualties or allegations of mistreatment.

    It also was a sign that Karzai may be willing to compromise on some of his conditions for a long-term pact. Americans and even some of his own advisers feared that his unyielding bargaining style would endanger the entire agreement, and along with it Afghanistan's long-term security.

    Similar agreements with other NATO nations would also have been endangered if one had not been signed with the United States.

    Karzai had originally ruled out any type of night raid and his willingness to accept them in any form indicates that he is willing to sacrifice some of his political capital with other Afghans to prevent the agreement from falling apart.

    "This is a landmark day in (the) rule of law," Allen told reporters. He said that Afghans are now "in the lead on two of the most important issues: capturing the terrorists and ensuring they remain behind bars."

    "This is another important step in strengthening the sovereignty of Afghanistan," Wardak said.

    The Afghans say that foreign-led raids lead to the mistreatment and the accidental killing of civilians, but the Pentagon disputes this.

    The Americans say 89 percent of night operations occur without a shot fired and fewer than 1 percent result in civilian casualties.

    Washington also says that the foreigner-dominated raids that Karzai so frequently condemns are already a rarity. More than 97 percent of night operations are combined operations involving Afghan forces and almost 40 percent of night operations are now Afghan-led.

    "This formalizes what has been the working standard," Pentagon spokesman, Navy Capt. John Kirby told BBC News. "They will be making these decisions and they will be making the decisions of what support they want from us."

    However, it's unclear whether Afghan forces have had much authority even in operations that are nominally "Afghan-led." Sometimes this designation means only that an Afghan soldier is the first one through the door, or that officials have given a rubber-stamp to the mission just as it starts.

    According to the document, all "special operations" will have to be reviewed and approved by a panel pulled from the Afghan military, government and intelligence services. The definition of a "special operation" is left vague, but appears to apply to night raids as well as other operations that involve going into Afghan homes.

    Any disagreements will be resolved by a joint U.S.-Afghan committee including the defense minister and the U.S. forces commander, the agreement says. It does not specify how this higher-level committee would make its decisions.

    The agreement says Afghan forces will conduct home searches and that U.S. forces will be allowed to enter private compounds "only as required or requested."

    It's unclear if a higher level of Afghan authority will actually mean that the targets of raids will be treated more humanely. There have been instances of villagers complaining that when Afghan forces conduct raids they also loot houses. Also, the U.S. military stopped transferring detainees to a number of Afghan prisons after the U.N. discovered evidence of torture at the facilities.

    But it is clear that the memorandum brings a strategic partnership closer.

    "It opens the way for the signing of the strategic partnership agreement which we hope our two presidents will be able to sign in the near future," said Janan Mosazai, a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry. Both U.S. and Afghan officials have said that they expect to sign the full partnership deal in time for a NATO summit in Chicago in May.

    The night raids deal follows an earlier memorandum signed on the transfer of authority over detentions to the Afghans ? another issue that had threatened to derail the strategic partnership talks.

    The detention pact sets forth a timetable to give Afghans operational control of facilities used to hold Afghan detainees, but leaves decisions on who to release to a panel that includes American military officials that must come to a consensus before any detainee is let go ? essentially giving the Americans the ability to veto any release.

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    #SciAmBlogs Friday - near-death on Titanic, invention of modern physics, PIN numbers, lousy social networks, planet-eating stars, and more.

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    The views expressed are those of the author and are not necessarily those of Scientific American.

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    Getting appliance repairs done - Kusiquyllur Home Improvement Tips

    1593028016 fcb628cbea m Getting appliance repairs done

    Now-a-days we use a lot of appliances in our homes. In fact, life seems quite incomplete without appliances. From an ordinary iron to iron our clothes every day, to a television set for entertainment, the list of appliances is endless.

    Unfortunately, these appliances do give trouble from time to time and need to be repaired in order to function again. Many of us consider ourselves experts in the field of appliance repairs and end up causing much more damage due to our ignorance. Self repair is not advisable because it is dangerous. We do take pride in bluffing ourselves that we are able to do the basic repairs of small appliances in the house. However, only a trained person can actually repair an appliance successfully. So we need to take the trouble to get professional appliance repairs done and not meddle with the repairs ourselves.

    Of course while we are getting professional help to repair our appliances, we must also have the basic knowledge of what has to be done and how it will be done, so that the professional will not be able to cheat us. A basic knowledge of the parts of that appliance as well as a simple circuit diagram will definitely help. This information can be obtained from a manual or even the internet which has sites to help people with basic queries. Professional appliance repairs can be done on the same day that you call them up. Same day appliance repair is available online if you find the correct site and the correct professionals to help you out. Same day appliance repair professionals will quote the amount they will be charging you for the job they have to do. Also, they do not charge by the hour but for the job as a whole. They give guarantee information on their website. The professionals will clean up the house before they leave it when the job is done. In fact, you can do a background check on every professional that enters your house and even put him through drug screening if you so wish.

    Customer Service is very good if you want appliance repairs done on the same day. The professional will provide an honest opinion of the repairs that need to be done and the cost of the repairs as well. They can fix any appliance in your house, no matter how big or how small.

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