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Conserving energy helps save the planet, but it also saves you money. The average household spends around $1,300 a year to heat and power the home and $2,800 keeping its two cars fueled up. But prices keep rising: heating is expected to jump 50% for some homeowners this winter, and gasoline is up 25% from a year ago. Here's how to save 10% to 50% of your green by going green...
After the repeal of Prohibition in 1933, the Federal Government changed the rules to permit every household with two adults in residence to make 200 gallons of wine or beer a year. While that sanctioned the work of immigrant winemakers--often Italians and Greeks trying to maintain a liquid connection to the land and traditions they left behind--the amateur vintners usually relied on rustic equipment and grapes they grew in their backyards. Today's garagistes (French for the home enthusiasts who make vintages where they used to park their cars) have gone upscale, using modern equipment, better grapes...
...Doom, who broke out with last year’s collaboration with producer Madlib “Madvillainy,” is infamous, at least partially, for channeling Marvel Comics super villain Dr. Doom in his metal-faced stage persona. Danger Mouse became a hip-hop household name through his unauthorized mash-up project “The Gray Album” (a mixture of Jay-Z’s Black Album and the Beatles’ White Album). Many Adult Swim cartoons borrow liberally from past Hanna-Barbara productions (Aqualab and Space Ghost, in particular). In this way, collaboration...
...front of a video camera taping his martyr's message before being dispatched to Tel Aviv on a suicide mission. Then the sight of one of his handlers munching a sandwich sets him thinking about his mother, and how he has forgotten to give her some last-minute household instructions. "Mom, before I forget," he says, veering from the script, clutching a Kalashnikov rifle, "I saw some good water filters at Al Mokhtar ... buy them there next time." In a film packed with wrenching moments, this one remains one of the most shocking, even for the filmmaker who crafted...
...large number of older, non-traditional students who work half to full-time and also have serious family responsibilities,” Professor of Marketing Soumava Bandyopadhyay wrote in an e-mail. “These students will find it particularly difficult to balance their studies with their household restoration work after school reopens.” The importance of students graduating on time this December outweighs the housing and other difficulties, Nichols added. “Many students already have jobs lined up,” said Michael Jordan, a professor in the Sociology, Social Work, and Criminal Justice...