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TIPS FROM SHORELINE AWNING AND PATIO
BETTER THAN BLINDS
To keep the heat and glare of sunlight from entering your home, consider installing exterior retractable solar screens. Made of a vinyl woven mesh, they can block 90 percent of the sun’s rays. Best of all, they allow you to see out your windows while enhancing privacy.
KEEP YOUR VIEWS
When designing an awning or patio cover, keep in mind where your best views are. Design the size and placement of the cover to retain views from your house.
WEATHER THE WIND
If you live in a high-wind area and have a retractable awning, avoid costly damage by investing in a wind sensor to close it automatically on windy days. If you choose a fixed-frame awning, pass on fancy scalloped valances which will flap noisily in the wind.
Summer days mean more time in the sun—but hopefully not while you’re sitting in your living room.
Russ Meznarich believes he has the solution to shielding porches and patios as well as a home’s interior from the sun’s rays. As owner of Paso Robles’ Shoreline Awning and Patio, he has been manufacturing and installing both commercial and residential awnings for 18 years. Recently, his products —which include shade structures and patio covers—have captured more attention among homeowners.
One reason is environmental awareness. Meznarich claims that shading windows can decrease air conditioner energy use by 25 percent or more. And don’t count on window shades do the trick. By the time sunlight has hit the window, heat has already been transferred to the house, regardless of what covering you have on the inside.
Meznarich also cites increased awareness of the damaging effects of the sun. On the more innocuous side, this can mean faded fabrics and décor. But a more serious matter is skin cancer. Shading a patio allows you to enjoy outdoor time without worrying about suffering a sunburn.

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The post that follows isn’t likely to make anyone happy.
It is our third recent post about Freakonomics.com’s RSS feed. Here is No. 1 and here is No. 2.
For the readers who have no idea what a feed is and don’t care, this post is probably of zero value. Feel free to skip it.
The people who do read the blog via feed, meanwhile, and prefer the old full feed to the current partial feed, won’t be receiving the outcome they wanted.
After a lot of deliberation, here’s the deal: we still won’t be offering a full feed of our blog, at least for now. Yes, this is a result of our new partnership with NYTimes.com. You can blame the Times if you want, but that would be unfair and imprecise, since this is a partnership, which means that you should also feel free to blame us. There are quite a few things worth mentioning here, so I’ll lay them out:
1. Over the past two years, we have built up a substantial feed readership, and from the sound of these readers’ comments, many of them will be unsubscribing. To all of you, we say: sorry we’ve disappointed you; we’re sad you’re leaving; thanks for reading in the past; and I hope you’ll come back if we ever resume full feed. In the meantime, we hope you’ll visit the site, but as some of you have made brutally clear, that option doesn’t work for you.
2. Since this situation is a direct result of our move to NYTimes.com, let me start by clearing up a couple of things. We have not sold our blog to the Times, as has been widely reported. What we did is create a partnership, moving our formerly independent blog onto The New York Times‘ website. As for the business model, it’s pretty straightforward: the Times sells ads on its web pages; Freakonomics.com is now one of its web pages; we get some of the money from the ads sold on our pages. I will address below some of the benefits of this partnership, and why we welcome the chance to have some of that money. But let me start by addressing a couple of the perceived deficits:

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