Shopping for an appliance?
06.02.10
"The most important thing to consider when buying an appliance is the size of the space in your home," says Lisa Lanteigne of Alpha Appliance Solutions on Halifax Street.
Lisa says other major considerations are energy efficiency and warranties, which will both ensure your money is well spent.
The average lifespan of an appliance is between 10 and 18 years, and to ensure your new addition stays shipshape throughout the years, Lisa suggests performing regular maintenance.
"A lot of people don't do preventative maintenance," she says. "For a washing machine, all it takes is to put it through a clean wash cycle once a month to avoid clogging the pump."
With all the available colours, styles and features, it can be difficult to find the appliance that's right for you. Here is a guide to the basic must-know features of all major appliances to help you make the right choice.
Washing machine: Today's washing machines come in an unimaginable number of colours and can pack a big punch with high-tech features to make your chores easier and more efficient.
Source: Times and Transcript
Four North Carolina A&T freshmen sitting at a luncheonette in 1960 helped ...
07.02.10
GREENSBORO, N.C. -- The sign still says F.W. Woolworth Co. in bright gold letters running across the building on South Elm Street, just as it did 50 years ago. And within that two-story structure, the same stainless steel dumbwaiters and commercial appliances line the mirrored walls. The lunch counter, which includes a bowling-alley-long tabletop that must dwarf any currently in use, is largely intact; the original chrome and vinyl chairs are still mounted in the floor. This site is an authentic, half-century-old relic, a remnant of the mundane, the insignificant, the quaint.
But one of the achievements of the International Civil Rights Center and Museum, which opened last Monday in that former Woolworth building, is that you begin to understand how such a place became a pivot in the greatest political movement of the 20th century.
In the museum's 30,000 square feet of exhibition space, the mundane luncheonette reminds us that a cataclysmic social transformation took place over the right to be ordinary. For that was what was at stake -- not subtle and arcane matters of law or obscure practices that challenged eccentric codes of behavior, but the basic acts of daily life: eating, drinking, sleeping, working, playing. It was here, at this luncheonette counter, that four 17-year-old freshmen at the all-black Agricultural and Technical College of North Carolina -- Joseph A. McNeil, Franklin E. McCain, David L. Richmond and Ezell A. Blair Jr. -- arrived on Feb. 1, 1960, sat down and ordered some food.
Source: Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Four North Carolina A&T freshmen sitting at a luncheonette in 1960 helped And within that two-allegory shape, the same stainless steel dumbwaiters and commercial appliances lead the mirrored walls. and more »
