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Causes of HIGH Utility Bills in the Summer
|Posted on June 10, 2014 at 1:50 PM
The "FAN" setting is selected at the air conditioner thermostat..........Instead, it should always be set on "AUTO". Set to cool on FAN, the blower pushes air through the ductwork continuously while the compressor cycles on and off. Moisture removed from the air while the compressor runs is reintroduced to the house when the fan alone runs between compressor cycles. Don't let this happen! Don't set the system on "FAN"! Set to cool on AUTO, humidity is kept lower, costs are much lower and comfort is higher. If your ducts are leaky (and most are) the FAN setting is especially costly to you.
The air conditioner's air filter is clogged...........Air flow is restricted. When air flow is restricted your HVAC (Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning) system runs less efficiently. A clogged filter increases costs, reduces comfort and can lead to costly equipment failures. When air flow is severely restricted, ice grows on the air conditioner's evaporator coils, a condition that can precede "slugging" the compressor with liquid refrigerant. The resulting repair bill can exceed $1,000. Change the air filter religiously! It should be replaced monthly during summer and winter periods of heavy use.
The evaporator coils are clogged with accumulated dust.........Air flow is restricted. Problems that result are much like those described above for dirty filters. If you have central air conditioning, all the air in your house draws through the air conditioner's filter, then through the cooling (evaporator) coils. Generally the filter doesn't clean the air; its purpose is to protect the equipment, in particular the cooling coils. In spite of the filter the downstream coils gather dust and grime over time. Energy efficiency is degraded by about 5% each year as the coils get dirtier! Your costs go up while comfort goes down. Have a service technician check the evaporator coils yearly and clean them if necessary.
The air conditioner thermostat is set too low...........Often its operation is misunderstood. Your air conditioner runs no faster at a lower setting, it only runs longer. The recommended summer setting is 78 degrees. Set it 2 to 5 degrees higher when you're away in the day. Recent research in Florida reveals that home cooling costs increase 12% for each degree setting below 78 degrees. Your cooling costs can almost double if you set the thermostat at 70 instead of 78 degrees!
The central heat pump is simultaneously cooling and heating .............and the cooling cost triples! Overall this is a rare condition, but memorable to all involved because the summer bills get so stunningly high. A variety of thermostat and wiring problems can be the cause. For example, we've found situations where 5,000 watts of supplemental heating strips come on whenever the air distribution fan runs, winter or summer. The auditor detects the problem by running the cooling system alone (other appliances off at the breaker panel) and timing the meter spin to calculate power draw. A 5,000 watt overage is readily detected by this method.
Teenagers...........are full-sized human beings who deserve as much respect as people of other sizes and ages, even if they use a lot of energy per capita but don't yet pay the bills themselves. Small children, by contrast, are low to the floor and relatively comfortable at levels of summer heat that stress many adults.
Central heat strips turn on, off, on, off .......even when the hallway thermostat is set to OFF. With everything in the house off or unplugged and the water heater switched off at the breaker panel, the meter races, stops, races, stops. Because of a thermostat, control wiring or other wiring problem, the central electric heating strips (10,000 to 20,000 watts) are coming on even though the distribution fan is off and all is silent. Without the fan running, heat from the strips is not distributed. Heat builds up around the strips until a high-temperature safety switch is activated, turning them off. They cool. They come on again.........and so on. Another rare problem like #5 above, but costly when it happens.
The thermostat is out of calibration........and so is the thermometer on the thermostat faceplate. The system cools lower than the temperature selected by the resident. For example, the thermostat might be set on 78 degrees, but an accurate thermometer shows that it's actually cooling to 75 degrees. This is an extremely common situation – We've found thermostats as much as 10 degrees off. The simplest solution is to rest an accurate thermometer on top of the thermostat, find out how much it's off, and compensate accordingly when you select the desired indoor temperature.
The ceiling lacks adequate insulation..........Heat from the attic is conducting through to the house below. Improving ceiling insulation is one of the best investments you can make towards lowering your air conditioning costs in summer. If you're not sure what level of insulation you have in your attic, call your electricity provider and ask for an energy audit. The older your home, the more likely it is that its original level of insulation would now be considered inadequate. We still find some older homes with no insulation at all.
Humid outdoor air is leaking into the house........through cracks around doors and windows, electrical outlets, ducts, vents or fireplace dampers that don't seal tightly. In Florida homes about 38% of the air conditioner's work (and operating cost) goes to drying out this moist air leaking in from out of doors. Leaks in the ducts that supply cooled air to rooms will make this situation much worse, because the overall house air pressure becomes "negative' with respect to the out of doors whenever the air conditioner is running. In this condition the house sucks in warm, moist air whenever the air conditioning system runs. The system runs longer to compensate. Even more warm air is drawn in, which needs to be cooled......and so forth in a vicious cycle. Costs rise significantly.
Dogs have pulled air ducts apart beneath the house, cats have bedded for years in the ceiling insulation, possums have tugged open a crawl way where water pipes penetrate the floor and they're living in the hollow wall of the bath tub.........and so forth. Energy wise, the worst of these situations is where supply or return air ducts are disconnected in the crawl space beneath the house. Every summer at least one of our technicians reports finding the family dog comfortably housed in the return air plenum under a customer's house. It costs a lot to cool the outdoors!
The house is equipped with jalousie or awning windows designed for cross ventilation.........Instead the house is closed up for air conditioning. Or almost closed up: Unfortunately, these window types are notoriously leaky. In summer, the air conditioner must toil to dry as well as cool the air, and major air leaks cause major cost increases.
A rooftop power ventilating fan pulls hot air from the attic on summer days.......but a). The fan's thermostatic control is set too low (maybe 95 degrees instead of 115 degrees), so the fan runs more than it should; b). There's a lot of air leakage from the house across the ceiling to the attic, or bathroom and dryer vents open into the attic instead of passing through the roof, so that when the rooftop fan pulls air from the attic it also pulls air (expensively cooled air) from the house. An "Attic Tent" is an inexpensive item that can reduce the heat infiltration due to leaks around attic stairs.
The air conditioning system is not getting enough air returned from the house......for a variety of reasons. We've seen return air grills set in the floor that are partly or entirely covered by a rug, for example. In addition to increasing operating costs, inadequate volume of return air back to the indoor HVAC coil is a major factor in shortening the life of central air conditioners. Too little air across the indoor coil can potentially lower the coil temperature to the point of ice formation on the indoor coil. An air conditioner with its indoor coil covered with ice is in a "destruction mode"
The HVAC filter is located in a return duct plenum under the house.......and because it's so hard to get to, it's never changed. At some time in the past a plastic laundry bag was sucked into the return air system and is now plastered against the filter. Almost every energy auditor can tell of finding situations like this.
The HVAC air handler, located in a hallway closet, is pulling return air from the attic as well as the house........adding considerably to costs. Sometimes this situation is discovered where the resident previously had a gas or fuel oil furnace in a hallway closet. Originally, the furnace pulled its combustion air from the attic through an opening in the closet ceiling. When the resident later switched to a heat pump, the furnace was removed from the closet and replaced with the heat pump's indoor "blower-coil" unit. But the ceiling opening remained. The new closet unit was set up to pull return air through a grill in the closet wall into the closet space, then through a filter mounted in the blower coil unit. But it's pulling air from the attic as well as the house! Most auditors have a story of first finding this problem when, with the air conditioner running, they climbed a ladder, lifted the attic hatch and noticed house air rushing past them into the attic.
The air conditioning equipment is inefficient........for a variety of reasons. First, it may have been inefficient from the start. Equipment ten years old or older is likely to have an original efficiency rating of 7.5 SEER (Seasonal Energy Efficiency Ratio) or less. Today, Federal law requires manufacturers to achieve SEER 10.0 or higher for all split-system units, and SEER 9.7 for package units. What do these SEER ratings imply? You've probably already guessed: If your cooling cost is $600 a summer with a SEER 6.0 unit, your cost would be $300 a summer (for the same amount of cooling) with a SEER 12.0 unit. What other factors affect air conditioning efficiency? The big three are a). dirty coils, which at normal rates of dirt accumulation degrade efficiency by 5% each year; b). duct leaks, which in most Florida homes account for about 20% of air conditioning consumption; and c). improper charge of refrigerant. How common are these types of problems? In 1988 a widely cited Arizona study of residential air conditioners found the following:
75% of the condenser coils were dirty
70% of the units had improper refrigerant charge
55% of the evaporator coils were dirty
45% had dirty blower wheels
35% had significant duct leakage
10% had a wrong motor or fan installed
The HVAC refrigerant charge is low.........or it's high. Either way degrades efficiency. In 1990 a field study of residential central air conditioners found 27% undercharged and 27% overcharged. Overcharging is worse. The unit's cooling ability goes down while the power draw goes up: The unit runs longer to do the job, and costs more per minute to run. Overcharging also stresses the compressor, with serious consequences for its lifespan. The compressor is the most expensive system component to replace
The air conditioner's compressor runs all the time........whether the indoor distribution fan runs or not. Rare.
The outdoor condenser is located beneath a wooden deck........and air flow is restricted. In summer, whatever heat is removed from the house by the air conditioning system is released to the outdoors from the condenser unit--that big metal box in the back yard. Hold your hand in the hot breeze from the propeller fan--it usually blows upward--and you'll get the idea. To work well it needs plenty of clearance from decks, bushes and folded lawn chairs. By the way, that hot air blowing from the outdoor condenser is not hot air from the house. It's outdoor air heated by passage across the hot condenser coils. The cleaner those coils are, and the easier it is for the heated air to get away from that unit, the better it works. Air conditioners and heat pumps only work well if kept clean!
There's a whole lot of cooking going on..........Meanwhile the air conditioning runs nonstop to cool the kitchen. To avoid this, a lot of folks cook outside in the summer, eat more fruits and salads, eat later in the evening..........or use a microwave oven! For the same cooking job, a microwave costs far less than half as much to operate as a standard electric oven, and doesn't heat the kitchen. Here's a comparison of costs to cook a meatloaf, from a study by Northeast Utilities (adjusted to our utility rates):
Oven Type Cost
Electric oven 17 cents
Electric convection oven 12 cents
Gas oven 10 cents
Electric frying pan 7 cents
Electric toaster oven 8 cents
Electric crockpot 6 cents
Electric microwave oven 3 cents
Someone's doing a mighty lot of clothes drying every day..........during the heat of the day, with a dryer located in an air conditioned utility room, vented to the outdoors. A clothes dryer has a powerful fan that whips air (house air in the case above) past the damp clothes at the rate of 150 to 200 cubic feet per minute (cfm). In a 1,500 square foot house with eight foot ceilings, a 200 cfm dryer can empty one house load of air every 60 minutes of operation. In summer, that's a lot of expensively cooled house air being heated by the dryer and blown out. Just as bad, that's a lot of lost house air that must be replaced by hot, damp outside air leaking in fast wherever it can: Through kitchen and bathroom vents, fireplace vents and dampers, around windows and doors, through recessed ceiling light fixtures, through electric plug and light switch plates, etc. For all the above reasons, it's best to locate the dryer in an uncooled utility room or garage.
The resident is equipped with a so-called "combination appliance" that uses a gas water heater to heat the water as well as the house (or apartment).........and in summer it keeps on sending heat to the house! Rare, but it happens as a result of failed electronic controls or system valves. Electric and gas costs both increase. The electric cooling cost typically doubles. For the energy auditor, higher than expected summer gas cost is often the telling clue.
Leaky supply or return air plenums.......greatly increase the cost of air conditioning. Using blower door technology to test Florida homes for duct leakage, almost all systems are found to be significantly leaky. The most common sites of leakage are the supply air and return air plenums, which are the air collecting boxes on the upstream and downstream sides of the blower-coil unit that distributes air around the house. In the supply plenum, air pressure is greatest; in the return plenum, air suction is greatest. Any leakage from these boxes is exaggerated by the extremes of positive or negative air pressure close to the fan. In the distribution system as a whole, if supply air leakage predominates, the air pressure in the rooms of the house becomes negative with respect to the outdoors. If return air leakage predominates, the air pressure in the rooms of the house becomes positive with respect to the outdoors. A negatively pressured house sucks in warm, moist outdoor air, burdening the air conditioner; a positively pressured house pushes out expensively cooled indoor air, losing it to the outdoors. Usually mere duct tape is inadequate to repair these high pressure plenum leaks--it simply comes loose. Repairs that last use a gluey paste called mastic, typically having a high content of embedded fiberglass fabric and high tolerance for variations in temperature.
Doors need weather-stripping........to prevent significant air leakage. The crack around all four edges of a standard door is 20 feet long. If the crack is 1/12" wide, the total "hole" size is 20 square inches, roughly the equivalent of a softball sized hole in the door! If the house is negatively pressured whenever the air conditioner runs because of supply duct leakage, that size hole admits a lot of warm, moist air for the air conditioner to cool and dry. A wide variety of weather-stripping materials are available at local hardware stores and home supply centers. You'll often find good instructions there too, either from staff or from how-to booklets.
Windows and doors need caulking........to prevent air leakage, for the same reasons discussed above. This is do-it-yourself work. Caulk is cheap, applying it is easy, but it takes time. Caulk cracks around window and door frames; cracks where masonry walls meet wood siding or trim; wall penetrations by pipes, meter box, dryer vent or exhaust vents, etc. Some all-purpose caulks are silicon, silicon-acrylic and siliconized acrylic latex.
Windows on the southwest or west side are fully exposed to the setting sun.......... and they need external and internal shading. In newer Florida homes sun entering the windows accounts for about 20% of the air conditioning load. In older homes, it can be as much as 30%. Use of interior shades, drapes or blinds reduces heat gain across the windows by about 20%. External shade (trees, awnings, sun screens) works even better. Some newer, high tech windows have special tints or films that reduce the amount of heat transmitted across the window into the house. Most window manufacturers now offer high-tech windows with low-E coatings. A low-E coating is a microscopically thin, virtually invisible, metal or metallic oxide layer deposited on a window. In a double paned window the coated surface may be either the outer side of the inner glass or the inner side of the outer glass. In Florida the latter design works better. The coating acts to suppress radiative heat movement across the window by reflecting heat back into the home during cold weather and back to the outdoors during warm weather.
In some apartments and townhomes, the air conditioner's indoor component (the blower coil that distributes air to rooms) is located in a small closet, right over the electric water heater...............which in summer heats the passing air on its way to the a.c. cooling coils and fan. It helps to lower the water heater's thermostats to the lowest appropriate temperature (usually 115 degrees, or 125 degrees if the resident uses a dishwasher) and insulate the water heater.
The HVAC system has moisture in the refrigerant........and efficiency is reduced 5-15%.
The HVAC system draws warm, moist outdoor air through an unsealed PVC chase.......that routes refrigerant lines through the slab. Costs rise as the air conditioner works to cool and dry outdoor air admitted to the system by this and other routes.
Schoolchildren are home from school all summer.........and the bill goes up.
The clothes dryer vents lint onto the air conditioner's outdoor condenser coils........The system, hampered in its ability to release heat, runs longer and longer.
The dryer vent itself is clogged with lint..........and it takes longer and longer to dry a load of clothes. With the vent clogged, the clothes get a hot, damp tumbling, but little moisture is removed.
The small pump on a water heating waste heat recovery unit runs nonstop.........whether the air conditioner is running or not. This can get pretty costly, especially if the water heater is a long way from the air conditioner's outdoor condenser.
The air conditioner's outdoor condenser sits baking in the sun........increasing its operating cost. A north side location for this unit is recommended. It's possible to shade it with trees, but remember that the condenser needs plenty of "breathing room".
The pets have special requirements for cooling.............
Vines, bushes, tall grass, leaves, litter or lawn chairs cover the air conditioner's outdoor condenser unit.........so it can't release heat.
The house is very large.........and so is the cost to cool it. There's more volume to heat and cool. Larger homes generally have higher utility costs, all things considered.
The garage was converted to a family room.........without insulating the walls or ceiling. Now it's the hottest room in the house, and that's where the TV is located and the family spends the most time. To make it comfortable, the family turns down the thermostat setting for the whole house. Costs rise.
The air conditioner is oversized for the house..........so that it cools powerfully but doesn't run long enough to dry the air. The result is a cool, damp interior that doesn't feel right. To improve comfort, the resident lowers the thermostat setting a few degrees and the system runs longer. This dries the air but overcools it. Costs rise. Everyone should know this about air conditioning: Bigger isn't better. An oversized air conditioner cycles on-and-off frequently, removes less moisture and wastes energy. A system correctly sized for your house will run longer for less cost, dry the air better and give greater comfort than the next bigger size. Correct sizing is a particular concern in the low country and coastal Georgia, where we experience a very, very, very damp climate.
The fireplace damper is open, or there's no damper at all.........admitting outdoor air or losing indoor air. Costs rise in either case, especially if there are HVAC duct leaks, and there usually are. One of our energy auditors took an informal survey of his customers last spring, asking those with fireplaces whether their dampers are closed. Among those who thought it was closed, about 50% were wrong: It's open.
Air conditioning supply registers around the house are closed off...........and the house becomes negatively pressured with respect to the out of doors, so that warm, moist outdoor air is pulled in. Additionally, airflow across the HVAC evaporator coil is reduced. The system's energy efficiency and cooling capacity are reduced. That is, for a given amount of cooling work to be accomplished, the system's running cost per minute and the number of minutes required both increase. Don't close off vents. Repeat: If you have a central air conditioner or heat pump, don't close off vents. A lot of older federal and state energy brochures and booklets have advised closing off vents but now we know better. Leave 'em all open.
Bedrooms or other rooms are closed off, with no way for air supplied to the rooms to return (as the air conditioner operates)........Each closed-off room becomes positively pressured while the remainder of the house becomes negatively pressured with respect to the outdoors. The result is exaggerated leakage to the outdoors from positively pressured closed rooms, and from the outdoors into the negatively pressured house areas. Leakage occurs through bathroom vents, fireplace vents and dampers, around windows and doors, through recessed ceiling light fixtures, through electric plug and light switch plates, etc.
An air conditioning supply duct leads to the garage..........where it simply wastes cool air to the "outdoors".
The air conditioning system's return air grill is set low on a wall and blocked by a chair, or its set in the floor where it's covered by a rug...........resulting in restricted return air flow and all the attendant problems.
A small pool or spa is situated literally inside the house........Rare, but unforgettable. Why not do this? Because of the phenomenal moisture problems that result, not to mention high air conditioning costs. Remember, the air conditioner works to remove moisture as well as remove heat. Even in normal circumstances about 38% of the air conditioner's work (and operating cost) is devoted to moisture removal.
The customer is attempting to cool the entire house with a variety of old, inefficient window air conditioners........Here's a topic that deserves a closer look. Our energy auditors have all observed that customers with window air conditioners usually have significantly lower bills than those with central cooling systems. Yes, lower. Why? Because only one or two rooms are being cooled, not the whole house. However, if four or five old window units are operating all summer to cool the whole house, then costs get high. Older window units often have energy efficiency ratings down around 5 EER; newer central systems are at least twice as energy efficient as that.
In the hallway ceiling there's a large whole-house fan with incompletely closed louvers.............It provides a major site of air leakage to or from the attic. If you have one of these fans and never use it, you'd do well to seal it from above and drape it with blankets of insulation.
The air conditioner's thermostat is near some source of heat........like a floor lamp. The thermostat gets fooled, it senses heat and calls for the air conditioner to run.....and run, and run.......Remember, small thermostat adjustments make a big difference to your cost. If your system cools to 73 degrees instead of 78, your cooling cost rises about 60%.
The hallway wall behind the thermostat is hot.......because hot air is being drawn down from the attic through that wall cavity whenever the air conditioner runs. This tricks the thermostat into calling for more and more cooling. Finding the pathway of air leakage and sealing it cures the problem.
The area where residents sit down to eat is heated by morning or afternoon sun streaming through a sliding glass door........and the whole house is cooled to a very low temperature in order to achieve acceptable comfort levels at that spot.
Old casement or awning style windows are deformed out of alignment and will not seal shut............allowing warm moist air to leak in, or expensively cooled air to leak out.
The house lacks shade on the east or west sides, or a mobile home sits fully exposed to the sun...........Shade trees can reduce air conditioning costs by up to 30%, and higher if it's a mobile home.
Summer maternity............usually brings with it a heightened concern for thermal comfort. Just ask any woman who's been pregnant through a summer. Somewhat lower than normal thermostat settings are usually desired.
A shade tree was removed........and air conditioning costs increased by up to 30% compared to last year. Shade is important!
Air conditioning ductwork in a hot attic is poorly insulated.......Attic heat conducts through to warm the cool stream of duct air.
The return air plenum box constructed of sheetrock is uninsulated and leaky and sits in a hot garage.........A fairly common finding.
All the components of the air conditioning distribution system, including the air handler, supply ducts and a long return duct, are located in a hot attic.........Lots of older homes have their air conditioning systems configured this way.
Windows lack inside shading devices (shades, drapes or blinds), or the devices are not consistently operated............These shading devices are tremendously important. Use them to block heat entry during summer days.
A room or wing or extension was added to the house, or a garage or porch was enclosed.........and the overall cooling costs go up.
The air conditioner's thermostat mounted on the hallway wall is not level.........Behind the thermostat's cover plate its operation usually involves one or two mercury-containing glass bulbs that tip left or right as the temperature adjustment lever is moved. When you adjust the lever "downward", calling for cooling, the bulb tilts and a small blob of mercury rolls over to make an electrical connection. If the thermostat is off-level the mercury roll-over is affected, and the thermostat's calibration can be thrown off. For example, maybe you've set the lever to 78 degrees, but because the thermostat isn't level the system cools to 75 degrees. Cooling costs rise by 15% to 24%. (Leveling the thermostat is fairly easy using adjustment screws behind the faceplate, but if you're at all uncertain about it, have it leveled when your unit is next serviced.)
Bathroom power vents are left running...........sending expensively cooled air to the out of doors. Run these vents only as long as needed to clear that one room of its moisture. If the bathroom is 10 feet by 12 feet with an 8 foot ceiling, it holds 960 cubic feet of air. Most bathroom fans remove about 50 cubic feet of air per minute. In the above example, nineteen minutes of fan operation sends out one roomful of air.
The residents left town for a summer vacation and were expecting the next utility bill to be low........but they left the air conditioner at its normal thermostat setting during their absence and the weather was hot. For many folks, the best practice is to set the air conditioner's thermostat up to 83 or 84 degrees when away. The system runs once in a while, preventing indoor humidity from getting too high.
Windows and doors are left open while the air conditioner runs........
While the family is away during weekdays, a laundry maid or housekeeper is at work around the house.........and she (or he) sets the thermostat below 75 degrees.
House has a package-unit central air conditioner at one end, supply and return ductwork beneath the house and a garage converted to an uninsulated TV/family room at the farthest distance from the air conditioner. A couple of ducts are added to the air distribution system to supply cool air to the family room.......This is a recipe for high bills in summer, but even higher in winter. The ductwork has the longest possible run--both ways--to cool the room that gets the most evening use. The walls and ceiling need insulation. The air conditioner's delivery fan is probably not powerful enough to handle the additional area, and the add-on ducts result in an imbalanced system that no longer delivers the requisite 400 cubic feet per minute of air (per ton of cooling capacity) across the air conditioner's evaporator coils. It all adds up to high cooling and even higher heating costs.
The air conditioning system is made up of mismatched components........ resulting in greatly lowered operating efficiency. The condenser section and evaporator section need to be properly matched, as specified by the manufacturer.
A newly added room is hot so the thermostat setting for the whole house is lowered........meanwhile, in the attic, the air supply duct to the new room is laid out and connected to the "boot" above the register, but was never connected into the main system. By an installation oversight, no air is delivered to the new room. Surprisingly, most of our energy auditors have found unconnected air ducts like this at one time or another.
The ductwork "boots" behind the registers are loose, or ducts have fallen away from the boots............and the system is cooling the crawlspace under the house.
Flex duct in the attic is kinked or flattened, diminishing air supply to particular rooms...........and the thermostat setting for the whole house is lowered to compensate. This kind of problem is especially significant if the rooms having insufficient air supply are the kitchen or family room. This is a common problem!
The air delivery system includes some length of panned floor joists which are leaky.......... The spaces between floor joists are sometimes modified for use as return ducts. This cavity is made into a duct by attaching sheet metal over the bottom of the joists and by capping the ends of the joist cavity. A leaky panned floor joist draws in air from the crawl space or basement. To remedy, seal using mastic. The ceiling fans run backwards, breezing upwards. They should breeze downward, so you feel the breeze.
Office in the home......This is becoming more common. Here's the power draw of some selected home office accessories, taken from a 1993 article in Home Energy:
Equipment Type Power Draw (Watts)
Idle Active
Copier 6 400
Personal computer 62 62
Video Monitor 62 62
Laser printer 80 200
Fax machine 14 30
Totals 222 752
How much this costs depends on activity levels. Suppose the copier, printer and fax machine are idle 23 hours and active 1 hour each day: Together with computer and monitor (let's say they are active 24 hours/day), monthly cost is about $15.
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I've been reading Karl Barth's Church Dogmatics recently, and I just came across this beautiful section about how to receive revelation (God's word, the gospel) means to receive Jesus unavoidably as our Master. Barth goes on for pages, outlining 6 particular ways that Jesus is our master. The fourth one is this:
"To have our master unavoidably in Jesus Christ is to exist in an ultimate and most profound irresponsibility."
I thought there must be a typo. It must be that we exist in an ultimate and most profound RESPONSIBILITY! And then I thought, oh Barth, you are so great but this time you're a little off track because, you see, I exist in an ultimate and profound responsibility. I could be defined by the word responsibility. What on earth could he mean by saying that we exist in irresponsibility???
This is what he says:
"All other masters and teachers and leaders and lords load and burden us with responsibilities, i.e., with questions which we answer out of our own knowledge, with obligations which we satisfy by our own wish and action, with programmes which we have to fulfill and realise by our own achievements" (Barth, CD I,2 p.274).
But with Jesus as our master we "participate in that work of the Word" but our participation is only "in spite of our unsuitability" and "rests upon the forgiveness of sins" (ibid., 275). This we mostly know– we are saved by grace, but we still hop along and participate, trying to do good works as commanded in scripture. At least, I do, because I feel so responsible all of the time.
And the word irresponsible means literally– not responding. And to this we want to argue that surely God's grace has freed us to respond to God! God saves us, and then we respond, right? Right??? We are responsible! We must be!
As I was thinking about this, I decided to look up the definitions of responsibility. (Cheesy, I know– one of my professors used to joke all the time about how terrible it is when people begin a paper, "Webster's Dictionary defines [some word] as [such and such].") But I thought these definitions were helpful, so here they are, with my responses in brackets:
1a. liable to be called on to answer [we will be called upon to give an answer, but our answer can only be: "Jesus Christ."]
b : liable to be called to account as the primary cause, motive, or agent [Jesus is our primary cause, motive, and agent. Jesus came and died and rose again to become the one who will give an account to God for us.]
c : liable to legal review or in case of fault to penalties [Jesus made himself liable for us]
2 : characterized by trustworthiness, integrity, and requisite abilities and resources [we aren't]
3 : able to choose for oneself between right and wrong [nope, cf. Romans 7]
There is a difference in our being able to respond and our being responsible. One is freedom and grace and the other is crushing enslavement. One trusts God to forgive all our sins, and the other turns us into the Judge of ourself, others, and the world. One lets Jesus carry the government on his shoulders, and the other snatches this role from him.
We really aren't responsible. We are ultimately and profoundly irresponsible. If Jesus is our Master, we are "really free." Barth says that we are free in these areas:
1. "Free from worry about [ourselves]" (ibid.) We are irresponsible! We are free! Free from worry about what we will eat or drink or wear. Freedom from what others will think of us. Freedom from the questions of what we will do tomorrow or the next day, what we will make of our lives. When we become trapped by these questions, when we start bearing this responsibility, we can only turn to Jesus and be reminded that he is our master.
2. "But also free from worry about others" (ibid.) Free from feeling proud if they are doing less than us, free from feeling crushed if they are doing more. Even free from a crushing sense of obligation to help others, to mitigate suffering. Free from guilt about not doing enough. We are free to serve, but we are free not to worry.
3. "And free from worry about the whole development of human affairs in the Church and the world" (ibid.) Now, this book was published in the late 1930s. Barth had already been kicked out of Germany for his resistance. The church was crumbling around him, unable to respond vigorously in opposition to the National Socialist party. Barth lectured and wrote prodigiously trying to convey the theological problems that he saw as responsible for Nazism. He was involved. He participated. But he knew that the government was not upon his shoulders (Isaiah 9:6).
This freedom means freedom from worry about big picture problems in the world and human affairs. It also means freedom from worry problems in smaller spheres. The home. The people in the home. Freedom from worry if crumbs spill on the floor. Freedom from worry if someone breaks something. Freedom to let some laundry be unfolded. Freedom from a pressing need to maintain control and order at all costs. What would it look like for us to be irresponsible homemakers, for Jesus to be the master of the home?
Barth closes this section by saying:
"That the will of God should be done in all things is what [the Christian] can and should pray when the other burden [the burden of responsibility] seems likely to crush him, and then it will not crush him. But the very prayer, Thy will be done, is in fact an admission that I need not worry about it, because that is not my business. The burden, the burden of my own and others' sins, does not lie upon me. It lies solely and entirely upon Jesus Christ."
"When I am bound [to Jesus] in this way I can never again take the burden on myself, I can never invest myself with the dignity of the Word, the dignity of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ alone bears it and can bear it. Our relationship to Him must always consist in our knowing and saying and confirming and attesting and living out this truth: that He careth for you" (ibid.). Amen.

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This is my first book review, so I'll give you a quick run down of how I'm going to do book reviews.
First off, I won't be reviewing books that we all know everyone loves and have been reviewed to death. Harry Potter, for example, I will not review. Actually here's a mini-review (I'm a rebel): everyone loves Harry Potter, and if you don't...well...I just can't deal with that, okay? Everyone loves Harry Potter, I have to believe that or the world is no longer a good place.
So the first book I'm going to OFFICIALLY review is MWF Seeking BFF by Rachel Bertsche. In the review I'll include what I liked about the book, what I didn't like, links for book club info, and anything else that I think would be fun or helpful.
What I liked:
There is so much in this book that I liked. It was a very easy read and had some really relatable stories in it. Rachel basically documents her journey of finding a best friend in Chicago, where she has recently moved. She was a New Yorker her whole life and all of her friends are there. After a few months of not making a whole lot of headway making friends (would go out to lunch with coworkers and do couples nights with her husband's friends but didn't have a great female companion), she decided to do something about it, and write about it along the way.
Along with some hilarious stories of girl-dates gone bad, she also has a lot of research sprinkled throughout the book about friendship and health benefits it brings. Also, she was vulnerable. Who wants to write about how they can't make friends? Not me, but she put herself out there and it was refreshing to see that we're not alone.
Props to Rachel for writing this and make us all feel like less of losers :)
What I didn't like:
Yeah, I get that it's emotionally beneficial to have a best friend and that surrounding yourself with even a few decent friends can provide an incredible support structure...but not everyone needs 5 best friends. Honestly, even having two can be hard to keep up with. AND she says that family and significant others don't count. I actually consider my sister and my boyfriend to be my two best friends, so I guess I have to demote them.
After a day at work, coming home and doing dinner, talking to my boyfriend, and writing -- I have no more time left to cultivate a relationship. Just do it on the weekend? That shit's hard too. The weekend is my time to relax and get stuff done around the house. After talking to my mom, dad, and sister, I really have time for one more person (if I'm lucky). I know that she forced herself to make time for it, but do I really want the other things in my life to suffer? Not really.
I give it a 7. I really like the fact that she wrote in relatable humor, but I question the feasibility of some of the things she did/suggested to make friends.
Actually, I would like to bump this up to an 8, because she'll actually call in or Skype in for your book club meeting if you coordinate with her, how many authors would do that?


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Facing flak from opposition over deteriorating law and order in Bihar, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday told top state police officials that he will not tolerate any compromise on this front, officials said.
He also warned the police officials that they would be held directly responsible for the deteriorating law and order situation in the state and told them to improve it and deal sternly with criminals, the officials said.
Nitish Kumar held a marathon meeting with top officials in the state administration at his official residence here and reviewed the law and order situation in the state, said an official.
The Chief Minister has reportedly slammed police officials for spurt in crime including murder, rape and incidents of mob lynching in the state.
In recent months, serious crimes including murder, rape, extortion, kidnapping, loot and robbery have increased. It has given a readymade issue to the opposition in the state which has been targeting the government over lawlessness.
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Easter starts with the blessing of the palm leafs, people are meeting at Castle Saalhof at 9.45 am. An altar is built up and decorated by our family. The previous day the farmer's wife arranges little bunches of catkins, every guest child is welcome to arrange their own bunch and decorate it afterwards with salt pretzels and coloured tapes. The Pinzgau dialect has funny names for late risers: On Palm Sunday you are called, for example, a palm ox, on Maundy Thursday a "stinking egg" ("stinkats Oa"). On Maundy Thursday we traditionally colour and decorate the Easter eggs with the first flowers and some grass ... All guest children are invited to help! We avoid eating any meat from Maundy Thursday until Easter Saturday lunch time; these are strict dietary days; then the Easter roast follows. In the afternoon at around 4.00 pm, the priest blesses our dishes for dinner; in the evening we enjoy the blessed food (home-baked Paschal Lamb, bread, bacon, cheese, Easter eggs, horseradish and salt)...
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Once you have decided which wedding dress you wear to your wedding, the next thing you have to think about is your hair and makeup. To help you in this difficult decision, here are some tricks to make your perfect bridal makeup and getting the big day be bright.
It is essential to choose a makeup that suits your personality and way of being for the big day look like yourself. In MJ Hairdressers have the best treatments and professional. Get the bride makeup right for you by following the best beauty tips for brides:
1. It is important to use the products that ensure that your make-up lasts the entire day. Your tears, sweat and perspiration should not affect your make-up in any manner.
2. Make sure you tell your make-up expert what exactly you need. The expert would complete your make-up in accordance with your preferences and personal choices.
3. It is crucial to use high quality blushes and highlighters. Wedding day is a long day and your make-up has to be perfect so it lasts the entire event much to your contentment.
4. If you are short of lashes you would do well to pick the make-up item that can create false lashes on your eyes.
5. Use make-up items like concealers and skin foundations too in order to get your decoration resplendent and long lasting.
6. Shadow: best used for light colors will help you highlight your look. You can combine them with the color of your wedding dress or your accessories, like the bridal bouquet or earrings. If you are carrying the line in the eyes, watch the intensity that you give so you will not darken your eyes and you remove brightness.
Effect smoky eyes for your eyes
7. Trend 2011: to give a modern look to your face, you can apply makeup with smoky eye with dark shadows.
8. Tabs: If you've always wanted to wear false eyelashes and have never found the time, now is the time. Today you can buy at any store and you can choose from several models.
9. Blush: If you pursue a touch light and fresh to your bridal makeup is your perfect partner, but be careful and do not abuse. Find the shade that best matches your skin tone and apply it to favor the shape of your face.
To make your lips do not call more attention to your eyes, you can apply a shimmery gloss
10. Boca: use a strong tone to highlight them if you will not take your eyes heavily made up. But if instead you want to draw attention to your eyes, you should opt for a simple gloss shine to your lips.
11. Permanently attaching your lip: If you want to make your lips last as long as possible the day of your wedding, you have to apply lipstick or gloss with a brush and then profile them into shape.
12. Permanently attaching your makeup: makeup when they are finished, you get asked about makeup fixative to keep it longer.
Basically this is a simple wedding make-up and a good tip to consider. I like the idea of using the lip liner to make a perfect lip shape and serves as a guide to make lipstick be perfectly made up. It must be well coordinated with the other Cosmetics applied for make up, and the skin tone of the bride-to-be, to highlight and enhance the lip.Use of Lip gloss to make a shimmer effect after the lip stick application is another magic trick to consider.
Make up is an essential part of the Wedding. This is a Once in a lifetime, a special day for both the bride and the groom. It does not only enhances the beauty, but also makes the day a date to remember. Of course, make the most of this special occasion by making the day perfectly beautiful, special and worth remembering.


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January 20, 2013
So many people use the weather as an excuse not to work out, but as the weather's always rubbish in England, using the weather as an excuse means you probably won't ever work out.
So today it's snowing and it's that cold that I'm even lacking the motivation to go to the gym (yes I'm actually not going to the gym today and no the world isn't going to end lol).
that does not mean I can't do a little home workout.
Why not try today's ab workout which consisted of:
Russian twist
– Sit on the floor with your knees bent like a "sit-up" position. Your upper body should be straight off the ground at a 45 degree angle. In a twisting motion, swing your arms from side to side touching the floor on each side. To make it harder lift your feet off the floor using your core for balance.
Side crunch
– Lay on the side of your body, placing your hands behind your head so your fingertips just touch each other as they rest behind your head. Bring your torso up and your side will bend as your shoulder lifts into the crunch. To make this harder lift your leg up as you lift your torso up.
Repeat on other side.
Leg raises
-Lie on the floor on your back and place your hands to the side, behind your ears or under your lower back for support. Make sure your back stays flat on floor and yours abs are tight.
Keep your legs close together and your knees straight. Slowly raise your legs until they are pointed straight up in the air then slowly lower them back to the starting position.
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– Rest your body on your forearms and toes and hold this position. Keep your body in a straight line with no sagging and make sure your bum is not in the air. To make it harder lift one leg 5-8 inches off the floor.
Try and complete as many reps as you can in 30 seconds for the side crunch and russian twist and 60 seconds for the leg raises plank and toe reach. All 5 exercises make up 1 set so aim to do between 4-6 sets.
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Former Criminal: I Was Brutally Tortured at Judong Women's Forced Labor Camp for Following Falun Dafa to Become an Honest Person
(Minghui.org) I pursued nothing but pleasure before I came across Falun Dafa. In order to make money, I engaged in illegal activities and I ended up being arrested and thrown into prison.
Learning about Falun Dafa in Prison
Fortunately, I was held with Falun Dafa practitioners in prison. Having stayed with them for some time, I was surprised by their unselfishness and great forbearance by not fighting back or swearing.
I had all sorts of bad habits then, and I never spoke or acted properly. Practitioners did not look down on me, nor did they shun me. They often kindly guided and helped me. They helped me understand many principles of being a good human being. For the first time in my life, I understood why I should become a good person. They touched my heart. I saw the strength of Dafa through these practitioners.
I deeply believed that practicing Dafa was the only way to get rid of my bad habits and become a genuinely good person. I longed to become a good person from the bottom of my heart. Despite the horrible environment in the prison, I started practicing Dafa with no hesitation.
Arrested after Turning into a Good Person
I continued practicing Dafa by myself after I was released. I was illegally arrested for being involved in making informational materials about Falun Gong, and was sent to the Judong Women's Forced Labor Camp in Jiangsu Province for a year. The camp was infamous for torturing practitioners, and I suffered all kinds of cruel and inhuman torture.
In the past, I was held in prison for the crime that I committed. I deserved that. But now, I was arrested for trying to become a good person who considers others first. What kind of crime was I committing by practicing Dafa? I was innocent! Falun Dafa is good! Dafa thoroughly remolded me and I started a new life. I promise that I would follow Master only. I would not cooperate with the unlawful persecution of Dafa practitioners and the CCP's slander of Master Li.
I recited Master's Hong Yin and other articles in my heart every day. I refused to be "transformed." I would not sign any papers agreeing quit Falun Gong.
Guards directed collaborators to torture me because of my "disobedience." Once, they punched my head with a two-foot-long abacus. I shouted, "Falun Dafa is good!" They pinched my face and tore my mouth and my face bled badly. I was not afraid at all and I shouted louder, "Falun Dafa is good! Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good! Restore Master Li's reputation!" The torturers were afraid of me. They sealed my mouth with tape and locked me in solitary confinement where I was tortured even more heinously.
Deprived of Sleep and Jumped on
Just like those in the infamous Masanjia Forced Labor Camp, the guards in the Judong Women's Forced Labor Camp resorted to cruel methods of torture in order to meet the quota of "transformed" practitioners to earn more bonuses for themselves.
Once when guards and collaborators were torturing a practitioner, I shouted without a second thought to deter them, "Falun Dafa is good! Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good! Restore my Master's reputation!" The guards ordered me to stop. I was not afraid and told them, "Those who practice Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance are good people. Heaven will punish you for persecuting Falun Dafa practitioners."
They hated and feared me even more. They put me in solitary confinement again. The solitary cell was especially built to torture practitioners--it was the place where the cruelest torture occurred. The cell was pitch black with impenetrable rubber walls, so that even the most piercing screams could not being heard outside. Protected by this setup, guards could commit whatever atrocities they could think of. In an attempt to destroy my will, they played songs that defamed Dafa at full volume day after day.
Several thugs viciously insulted and tortured me on a full time basis. They ignored their conscience so as to get their terms reduced. They spat their phlegm on my face, forced me to stand all day long, and deprived me of sleep. Again and again, they lifted me up, threw me down, then threw themselves on top of me.
If I were an ordinary person, my bones would have been fractured. With protection from Master Li, I did not even feel any pain. I knew that Master endured the suffering for me. I thought about the saying "one's kind Master is like one's father." Tears ran down my cheeks. I became even more firm in my heart.
In the camp, I was constantly put into solitary and tortured horribly. I did not have any fear at all. The lines of Master's poems from Hong Yin often came into my mind. Sometimes they noticed that my mouth was moving. They said, "You are reciting the Dafa book," and they'd beat me to the ground. They would force me to stand for several days straight without any sleep. They did not allow me to use the toilet. I could not hold it any longer, and I had to soil my pants. The collaborators then put my soiled pants into my food box, pushed my head on top of it, and forced me to eat the food.
I started a hunger strike to protest the persecution and while I was on the hunger strike, I still kept reciting Hong Yin and Master's articles.
Tortured in the "Training Team"
To force me to give in and renounce my practice of Falun Gong, the guards put me in the "Training Team" that specially targeted practitioners. The team members were strong, cruel, cold-hearted thugs who focused on torturing us. They could use whatever vicious method they wanted. They did not allow me to wash for long period of times. Four times every day, they forced me to take off all my clothes, searched me, and then made me stand for a long time. I shouted again and again with a determined heart, "Falun Dafa is good! Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good! The world needs Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance!" They covered my mouth, tore at my face, and almost suffocated me. My mouth constantly bled and my face was badly swollen.
They also stuffed my mouth with rags that had been used to mop the floors and they'd violently slap my face non-stop, leaving my face swollen and covered with bruises. They then stomped on my toes and kicked my knees. They used the bottom of a shoe to slap my face. They pinched my nipples and body with all their might. They wore themselves out torturing me. I was covered with blue and purple bruises that have not completely disappeared even to this day. I kept shouting, "Falun Dafa is good," until they stopped torturing me.
I was put into solitary and went on hunger strikes many times. While I was on a hunger strike, they'd insert a thick tube into my nose that went down to my stomach. They deliberately inserted the tube and pulled it out, again and again, just to torture me. Sometimes they simply pried my mouth open and force-fed me. This cruelty made me more clear-minded, and I realized Dafa's preciousness more than before. I shouted "Falun Dafa is good!" every day. I did not have any fear of the guards or collaborators. I seized every opportunity to do the exercises and explain the facts about Falun Gong.
Obscene Sexual Abuse
They sexually abused me with vicious and obscene methods to try to force me to give up my faith. Directed by the guards, collaborators inserted a long handled toothbrush into my vagina to scrape and brush it inside me. At the same time, they directed men to throw themselves on top of me so that I was not able to resist. I kept shouting "Falun Dafa is good!" despite their weight making my legs numb and insensitive, or their beating and cursing me. I kept shouting until they got tired and untied me.
With an unshakable faith in Dafa, I finally got out of the Judong Women's Forced Labor Camp.
Falun Dafa saved me. I became a new person as a result of practicing Dafa. I cultivated my character and worked to become virtuous. The cruel torture that I endured is a reflection of the inhuman nature of the Chinese Communist Party(CCP). By choosing to persecute Dafa, the CCP will ultimately destroy itself. Falun Dafa practitioners' future will definitely be the most wonderful.
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An 8-meter sculpture fashioned from girders reclaimed from the World Trade Centre site is to be erected on Potters Fields Park outside the new City Hall in London's Southbank. The sculpture designed by American, Miya Ando will incorporate girders from sections of the ruined skyscrapers. They have been donated by the New York Port Authority for the project. This will commemorate the 10th anniversary of 9/11 and be unveiled at the precise time of the atrocity, creating a permanent tribute to honour the attack's 2,977 victims.
Ando has stated, "In my work, I create quiet, abstract, meditative environments with metal. Ultimately I am interested in the study of subtraction to the point of purity, simplicity and refinement. I am currently working on large-scale public and private commissions for nondenominational meditative spaces, having completed site-specific works for nondenominational chapels in Brooklyn, San Francisco and Louisville, and a nonsectarian Buddhist meditation space in Los Angeles. My intention is to put forth quiet and transcendent environments which come from a place of sincerity and compassion".


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Once installed, WebDoubler acts as a gateway between users on the school's network and remote web servers. WebDoubler can also block students' access to inappropriate sites by using PICS, the leading industry standard for rating web site content.
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'Alto' is our first taste of the trio's debut album, which is due for release sometime next year.
Buttrich, Squillace and Tanzmann had until now been focused more on sharing the decks as a DJ trio than putting out music, but "Alto" is the first material to come from an as-yet untitled Better Lost Than Stupid album, which is due out sometime in 2018. Featuring vocals from an unnamed collaborator, the track will be released on digital formats through Skint/BMG, alongside another cut, "Dynamite," that was shared for free back in February.
Listen to both tunes below.
01. Alto
02. Dynamite
Skint/BMG will release Alto on October 27th, 2017.


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How can I easily transfer a Youtube video file to Facebook account?
How can I easily transfer a Youtube video file to Facebook account?
download your youtube video and upload it to your facebook account. or copy the link of your youtube video and post it on your FB timeline
You need to download the youtube FLV videos and them convert it to the MP4 video format which is right for Facebook.
I have ever done that, here is the guide I follow.
Thanks to respondents for your valuable efforts
download the youtube video then transfer it to facebook. But how to download? go to keepvid.com
you cant transfer any video from youtube to Facebook you can share by clicking the share button or simply copy and past the link in facebook
How to Transfer YouTube Video to Facebook Profile
The procedure mentioned in your weblink reference highlights the youtube video for user's timeline only. For friends it is seen same
if you want to share a video that you uploaded into youtube, just use the sharing option provide by youtube! you cannot embed videos in facebook. the other solution is, ( assuming that 'you' uploaded the video into youtube ) upload the video again into facebook. these are the only solution that is there!
Why you want to transfer Video files to facebook?
You cannot.
But if you want to share, you can find the share button in the video bottom.
Well said! Maybe that what he was trying to say.
Kindly appreciate that English is not a mother tongue for anyone here in India. :) :P
Haha, it is also not my language. I just learning to use it better.
Youtube allows you to directly share the videos to Facebook and other sites, unless the sharing has been disabled by the uploader. There are different ways of doing it :
1. Simply copy and paste the video url link to the Facebook wall.
2. Below the youtube video, there is a share button. Click it, and you will find youtube create a short url to copy and paste.
3. Also here you will find the direct share button to Facebook.


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Caster Semenya, a two-time Olympic 800m gold medallist, and Intersex athlete has joined a South African women's football team, JVW after losing her landmark case against rules regulating testosterone in female athletes.
The 28-year-old is prohibited from competing as a runner without taking testosterone-reducing drugs following a rule change by the IAAF, athletics' governing body.
Back in May, she lost her landmark case against rules regulating testosterone in female athletes.
For her to continue competing as a woman in any running event between the 400m and the mile, Caster Semenya must take testosterone suppressants like the contraceptive pill to stay under the permitted level. She is currently fighting the rule change through the courts.
While the case is still on, Caster has joined Gauteng-based women's football club, JVW.
The three-time world champion is currently training with the club and will start playing for JVW when the 2020 season starts.
"I am looking forward to this new journey, I appreciate the love and support I already get from the team," Semenya told the club website.
Club founder and South Africa captain Janine van Wyk said: "I am absolutely honoured that out of all the other women's clubs around the world, she has chosen JVW as the club where she would like to start showcasing her football skills."


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Here is an example for Keil C51. User should get similar result on ARM Cortex M devices with GNU ARM toolchain.


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Things settled a bit more at work and I am feeling more energetic, so I got a good bit of writing done today. This is all to the good, I hope.
I enjoyed writing the scene, which is for A Friend To The Watch. It flowed pretty easily from mind to page... I hope that's not a sign it's shit.
Tomorrow, Isabelle's got a game early, so I am done for the night.
Next week: World Fantasy Convention!


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land from the Barry family and sold, rented, or leased it to black folks
to raise money for higher education—especially for the newly created
Howard University. Black families could purchase one-acre lots and
enough lumber to build a house for between $125 and $300 and repay
it in installments of $10 per month. Families relocated from run-down
alley dwellings in the central city to renovated former military barracks
near their new lots, where they could live while they built their homes.
In the 1950s, though, the area was known primarily for its rows of flat
garden apartments, much smaller than the houses of our community,
public housing projects that were called, in a curious shift of the letter
s, Barry Farms. An area where, in my view, some of the poorer, tougher
black kids in our elementary school lived.
Those kids came up Sumner Road—from Stevens, Eaton, and Wade
Roads—past the recreation center that anchored the huge playground
that swept down behind it and Birney Elementary School. My brother,
sister, and I would come with other kids up Nichols Avenue, across a
bridge that passed over Suitland Parkway, which effectively separated
Barry Farms from our more middle-class neighborhood, at one time
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Independence Celebration & Fireworks
July 5, 2019 @ 5:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Enjoy an evening of food, music, and fireworks. Festivities begin at 5pm in the Pell Gardens with food and music.
Fireworks Display – starts around 9pm. Best Viewing is anywhere along the canal on either the north or south sides of town.
The rockets will once again show their red glare over the C&D Canal from Chesapeake City on July 5th. There will be food vendors and pushcarts plus light sticks and other like items available for sale on both the north and south sides of the canal – in Pell Gardens area on the South Side and at the base of Lock Street at the C&D Canal Trailhead area on the North Side. In previous years, parking has been allowed on the levees, but it is no longer available along the North Side of Chesapeake City since the new canal-side Trail is permanently closed to all types of vehicular traffic.
The Fireworks Extravaganza takes place at 9pm and is an awesome sight over the canal waters. The lengthy fireworks show is sponsored by the Town of Chesapeake City, the Chesapeake Inn and Marina, and Schaefers Restaurant and Canal Bar.
So, gather up the family. Pack up your folding chairs. Bring a blanket or two. Come to the town of historic Chesapeake City and have fun under the stars. Rain date, Saturday, July 6th.


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CLERK, Sir George, 6th Bt. (1787-1867), of Penicuik House, Edinburgh.
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Family and Education
b. 19 Nov. 1787, 1st s. of James Clerk, E.I. Co. service, by Janet, da. of George Irving of Newton, Lanark. educ. Edinburgh h.s.; Trinity, Oxf. 1806; DCL 1810; adv. 1809. m. 13 Aug. 1810, Maria, da. of Ewan Law*, 8s. 4da. suc. fa. 1793; uncle Sir John Clerk as 6th Bt. 1798.
Offices Held
Ld. of Admiralty Mar. 1819-May 1827, Sept. 1828-July 1830, clerk of Ordnance May 1827-Aug. 1828; member of ld. high admiral's council Feb.-Sept. 1828; under-sec. of state for Home affairs Aug. 1830-Nov. 1830; sec. to Treasury Dec. 1834-Apr. 1835, Sept. 1841-Feb. 1845; vice-pres. Board of Trade Feb. 1845-July 1846; PC 5 Feb. 1845; master of Mint Feb. 1845-July 1846.
Clerk's youth and inexperience made him a surprising and controversial choice to step into the 2nd Earl Melville's shoes as Member for Edinburghshire in 1811, despite the undoubted respectability of his family; indeed he was regarded in opposition circles as a mere creature of Melville's family, holding the seat until Lord Chief Baron Dundas's son came of age. He survived contests in 1811, 1812 and 1818 thanks to the strength of the interest that sponsored him, and though reported in 1816 to be a source of dissatisfaction to his sponsors, retained the seat, for which they did not provide a family candidate, until his defeat in 1832.1
In Parliament he could be counted on to support government. In his maiden speech he unsuccessfully proposed a clause in the distillery bill to prevent English distillers defrauding the revenue to the disadvantage of Scotch distillers, 22 Jan. He voted with ministers against the abolition of the sinecure paymastership, 21, 24 Feb. 1812, and against the motion for a stronger administration, 21 May. At his re-election in October 1812 he promised to continue in the same line, espousing the principles of Pitt, though opposing parliamentary reform and Catholic relief, against which he voted on 2 Mar., 11 and 24 May 1813, also on 9 May 1817.2 On 10 May 1814 his proposal for a committee to standardize weights and measures, for the particular benefit of Scotland, was readily agreed to: the bill he proposed on 28 Feb. 1816 was lost in the Lords and on 13 Mar. 1818 he complained that nothing had been done by government to deal with the problem. He spoke in favour of the Corn Laws, 16 May 1814. On 5 June 1815 he failed to carry the Scotch game and fish preservation bill. He stood by government on the Regent's expenditure, 31 May 1815, on the army estimates, 6 and 8 Mar., and on the property tax, 18 Mar. 1816, after interpreting the county petition he presented as favourable to it. On 11 Apr. he took a month's compassionate leave. He voted with ministers on the composition of the finance committee, to which he was named, 7 Feb., and on the question of the lords of Admiralty, 25 Feb. 1817. On 19 May he took six weeks' leave. He further supported ministers on the operation of the suspension of habeas corpus, 10 and 11 Feb. 1818, and, at their invitation, on the grant to the Duke of Clarence, 15 Apr.3
On being re-elected in 1818 he praised the record of the government in war and peace.4 In that Parliament he remained a member of the finance committee and became a lord of the Admiralty. He was in the government majorities on the question of Wyndham Quin*, 29 Mar. 1819, against Tierney's censure motion, 18 May, and for the foreign enlistment bill, 10 June. He was in the minority against the Marriage Act amendment bill, 26 Apr. 1819. He spoke against the reform of the Scotch burghs, 1 Apr., 6 May. He was one of the Members who remained in town as late as 23 Dec. 1819 to support government measures against radicalism, twice acting as teller for them. His subsequent public career was dominated by his friendship with Robert Peel, his contemporary at Oxford. He died 23 Dec. 1867.


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Drakki wrote:Mars pattern class battle-cruiser: Change its battery range to the proper 9000 units (as it is suppose to be) and seriously make an option to remove the nova cannon in favour or torp launcher for a point price reduction.
Tell me what you think of this bellow, cheers.
I am in favor of this simply because making the game closer to the Lore is better in my opinion. I don't remember about the switching of nova and torpedoes in the table top, but I do like having more options to customize a fleet, so I do kind of like the idea.
I am indifferent about everything else in your post.


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Dr Harwood emailed me directly this morning and confirmed I definitely wouldn't need a lift if I used the nuance implants. Does anyone have these implants? Are you happy with them?
I'm arranging to do some Skype consultations within the next few weeks. Hopefully I might get some definite answers then. Also when Dr Harwood's office got back to me they said he recommended the Nuance implants for me and told me to email them back with pictures of the type of outcome I was looking to achieve....so surely if I needed a left he would've told me straight up like the Breast Academy did.
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Thanks ladies. I'm still waiting to hear back from one surgeon, will be interesting to see what he says. i didn't even think about posting a question on here for a surgeon, great idea, I might just do that. Living remote makes it so hard, I just wish I could have a face to face consult to know for sure.
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Bec29 posted a topic in Breast AugmentationHi ladies, I'm a mum looking to have a B.A next year. I live in a remote town so at the moment I've only been able to email photos through to surgeons and in the middle of organising phone/skype consultations. I'm in Qld so have been dealing with surgeons in Brisbane/Gold Coast. I'm a bit confused as Dr Ali Hussain and Dr Harwood have said I'm a candidate for a straight forward B.A whereas The Breast Academy said I'd benefit from a lift as well and referred me to Dr Layt who gave me a quote which included a lift. I was hoping I wouldn't need a lift (due to having a family & mortgage I was hoping not to have to spend a fortune). So now I'm questioning who is correct? Any advice? Thanks
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Bec29 replied to Boobiejourney's topic in Breast AugmentationI loved reading your post too. Glad you had a great experience. Enjoy your new boobies.
Nanniepoo, I've sent my photos to Dr Ali Hussain and he said I'm a good candidate for a b.a too. Since I live in FNQ we are going to organise a time to do a face time consult in the next week or so. I'm so tempted to apply for finance through Mac and get it done this year but hubby can't get time off work. AMGreaves, TCI were the first that I contacted. I'm actually not that put off with everything I hear in the media. Going by photos I've seen they have fantastic results and do heaps and heaps of b.a surgeries. You're right, every surgery has risks.
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Bec29 replied to Emxoxo's topic in Breast AugmentationI loved my boobs before having kids, never even thought about getting implants because I didn't need them. 3 kids later and I hate my boobs now and booking in for surgery next year.
Nanniepoo I'd love to hear how you get on with your surgery, you must be so excited. I have also enquired with Dr Ali Hussain at Esteem. I've still got to send my photos off to him. I get pangs of mummy guilt too about spending that sort of money on myself when I could use it to take my family on a holiday or something but I hardly spend anything on myself, always buying for my kids etc so I keep trying to remind myself that it will be worth it. I do panic about if something goes wrong and I get a botchy job and have to fork out more money to correct it. Fingers crossed nothing like that happens to us.
It's money that is stopping me too. I need to wait until after I get my tax return next year.
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Bec29 replied to LaurenR's topic in Breast AugmentationI've just started enquiring through them and would love to hear other people's thoughts too.
I'm thinking mid year too or September school holidays. I'm impatient though and wish I could get them done now.
I'd love for hubby to come with me but seeing as we live so remote with no family around we don't have anyone to watch the kids. When next year are you looking to have your surgery?
lisaH, no consultation just yet, still just enquiring at this stage, what about you? Plus I live in a remote town in FNQ so I'd either have to do a phone consultation first or tea it up to have my consultation a day or two before surgery. I also want to lose 10kg before my surgery so looking at doing the surgery next year at this stage. Need to look at when hubby can get time off work to look after the kids while I get it done.
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At least 1.5 million children in this country are affected by a potentially life-threatening peanut allergy and many of them will never outgrow it.
But help may soon be on the way. A new drug which can help build up a person's tolerance to peanuts is expected to be approved by the FDA in the next few months.
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It's late spring and we're eight days shy of when summer "officially" begins. Thoughts of summer usually conjure up images of sunshine, the beach, berries, and melons, at least for me. If you're lacking in the imagination department and you can't think up of what summer is about, here, let Google images help you.
These past few days, decked out in cool weather clothes, I've come close to making a live offering to various ancient sun gods and goddesses, just for a bit of sunshine. I've even made appeals here and there to Ra. This is how my appeal went…
Ra, Ra, he's our man. If he can't do it, no one can. Yeah! Ra!
It's important that you flail your arms around and leap around with joy. There is no other way to speak to Ra.
For those of you in cities suffering a lack of sunshine, please feel free to use the cheer. I mean, appeal. Yesterday, my sun god, Ra, came through. Even a few hours of sun and warmth felt like heaven.
Under normal conditions (meaning any other season but summer), I enjoy the grayness and cool weather here, but when we're closing in on summer and there's nothing but "showers", "mostly cloudy", and "partly cloudy" (why can't they even call it "partly sunny") in the forecast (I mean, just look at the chart below!), it makes me feel like the gods are laughing at us. And surely Ra laughed at my attempts to get his attention. On the sunny side, we get three days of sunshine six days after summer begins.
I had good reasons for leaving the Golden State and choosing to live (temporarily) in the Evergreen State, but with the weather being the way it is, all I can think of is California. California with its sunshine. California with its over 840 miles of coastline. California with its beaches. California…


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Is it possible to drink alcohol when taking antibiotics?
Alcohol and antibiotics.
Everyone knows that drinking is not allowed when you take medicine, but some people do it anyway.So what actually happens to the body from the combination of antibiotics and alcohol? Is it really harmful? Here are all the answers.
Then the question arises: Is it permissible to drink alcohol when taking antibiotics?
Do they make a mistake? Does it destroy the effect of antibiotics? Does it destroy the liver?
Or have they avoided all these years in vain? Since this is one of the most common questions, Exactly what happens to the body when taking drugs and not giving up the beer, and why is that forbidden?
What is the problem with the combination of antibiotics and alcohol?By the end of the 19th century, certain substances were interacting with alcohol, causing a severe reaction in the body.
The first material - commonly used in industry - was called disulfurm. disulfurm is used as a treatment for alcohol withdrawal because after consuming it all alcohol drinking leads to symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, excessive sweating, headaches and accelerated heartbeat.
In the mid-20th century, a combination of alcohol and antibiotics called metronidazole has similar symptoms of disulfurm, so the combination is not recommended.
metronidazole is an antibiotic given in many diseases related to the digestive system but not only.
metronidazole is an antibiotic given in many diseases related to the digestive system but not only.
metronidazole is not the only antibiotic that has been reported to have a reaction with alcohol.
There are also very common antibodies that have been reported to have milder reactions with alcohol, such as the cephalosporin drugs used to treat respiratory, skin and urinary infections.
So all the antibiotics are problematic with alcohol?No. Surprisingly, the vast majority of the drugs do not cause alcohol interaction. Antibiotics are very common, such as Augmentin, Aznil, Zefi and Ciprofloxacin do not have warning against the combination with alcohol.
While there are no studies proving that consuming alcohol during an antibiotic treatment is a completely safe thing, but apparently the potential for interaction is relatively low.
So can you drink a glass of wine during an antibiotic treatment?Looking at the broader picture of the context in which antibiotic treatment is often given, it seems that alcohol consumption is not recommended, and not necessarily Because of the antibiotics.
In general, it is not advisable to drink and certainly not to get drunk during acute illness, whether you are under antibiotic treatment or not.
Acute infectious disease is a condition characterized by an increase in energy requirements of the body, increased body temperature and decreased appetite - a problematic combination that may lead to dehydration.
Dehydration is a condition that may worsen after consuming alcohol, which is a substance diuretic.
Another problem is that during acute illness, people take drugs other than antibiotics, such as painkillers, various types of fever, and over-the-counter drugs.
A combination of these drugs and alcohol may be problematic, and thus worsen the side effects or cause liver damage and therefore not recommended.
Always Consult a Doctor/Professional.


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Bronx leaders are calling for proposals for the first full-service hotel near Yankee Stadium and the borough's civic center since the Concourse Plaza's heyday more than 50 years ago.
The Bronx Overall Economic Development Corporation has released a Request for Expressions of Interest for the redevelopment of a 2,411 parking-space garage next to Heritage Field that is currently half vacant during home games at Yankee Stadium.
The request calls for the creation of a LEED-certified hotel and conference center that would include at least one penthouse-level restaurant complementing the Hard Rock Café at Yankee Stadium. It may also include a Latino Baseball Hall of Fame, as well as suites for teams coming to town to play the Yankees, and retail space, according to the RFEI.
Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. and BOEDC president Marlene Cintron made the announcement that RFEIs, which aren't final proposals, are currently being accepted, at a press conference in front of the garage at River Avenue and East 153rd Street on Monday, September 19.
"A major hotel and conference center has been a priority of the people of the Bronx for decades, and we are getting closer and closer to seeing that dream become a reality," Diaz said. "For years, my office and the BOEDC have heard from both developers and hotel operators expressing their desire to develop a new hotel and conference center in the vicinity of Yankee Stadium."
The RFEIs are due for submission to BOEDC by Tuesday, November 15. Diaz had specifically called for the creation of major hotel near Yankee Stadium in his 2011 State of the Borough address, and said his office is leading the effort to bring a hotel to the location.
"BOEDC is delighted to spearhead this historic effort in the development of the Bronx's first full service hotel and convention center at the foot of Yankee Stadium," Cintron said. The project should add about 125 jobs and help to increase the value of other parcels of land located nearby.
Joining Diaz and Cintron at the announcement were Senator Ruth Hassell-Thompson, Assemblyman Carl Heastie, Assemblyman Jeff Dinowitz, Assemblyman Michael Benedetto, Assemblyman Marcos Crespo, Assemblyman Jose Rivera, Assemblywoman Carmen Arroyo, Bronx Chamber of Commerce CEO and president Lenny Caro, and Community Board 4 chairman Wenzell Jackson.
"We built the greatest stadium in the world, and because of this we have become a tourist attraction," Caro said. "The borough of the Bronx has so many tourist attractions to offer. By building a hotel here, we will be the diamond of the five boroughs, creating jobs and boosting the economy."
When asked about the possibility of a Community Benefits Agreement for the project, Diaz said that it was still premature to be thinking of one, and that he and BOEDC are looking for the one, right developer. He also said that it was his office, and not municipal bondholders, who are leading the effort to build the hotel.
One of the goals of the project is to stabilize the financial situation of Bronx Parking Development Company, said BPDC vice-president Chuck Lesnick. BPDC runs parking garages around Yankee Stadium on land leased from the city, the RFEI states.
"The new hotel will be located at a midpoint in the recreation corridor between Times Square and the Empire City Racino at Yonkers Raceway, and will attract tourists, along with visiting ball clubs, to this vital area," Lesnick said.