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Thirty-four. That's the number of years that are now under my belt. And it's also the first time that I've actually felt ...old. Let me explain.
You know how when you were a kid, each birthday felt like an enormous event that required celebrating? How every passing year meant that you were that much closer to being allowed to do certain things that only grown-ups could do? How it felt monumental and colossal and above all else, it was the most important day of the year? As I get older, birthdays have evolved. Sure, there are still those milestone years -- 18, 21, 25, 30 -- and parties are planned with copious amounts of both friends and cocktails. And perhaps for some, every birthday is meant to be celebrated in that grand way. But for me, they've become more subdued, intimate. They're simpler and, to be honest, I'm embracing the whole less-is-more thing.
Wellllll...last week was my birthday and after a celebratory dinner of cheap tacos and boozy margaritas from the no-frills neighborhood family-run Mexican restaurant next door, I'm feeling all the feels as I embark on another year, another trip around the sun. And here are 34 things I've learned along the way.
- Try as you might, time stops for no one. The best thing to do is to keep up with it.
- Friends come and go and when they do, it's ok to say good-bye. In fact, it's sometimes necessary.
- I really hate doing laundry. Loading, washing, drying, folding, putting it away. All of it. I. Really. Hate. It.
- Listening to your kids laugh through a closed door is one of the best sounds in the world.
- There is an art to fighting fair. I am still trying to master it.
- Sometimes, parents disappoint you.
- One day, I will be the parent that disappoints my children.
- A glass (or, let's be real, two or three) of wine at the end of the day can do wonders.
- Cooking alone while the kids are napping and really throwing myself into a meal is my moment of zen.
- I shamelessly enjoy watching 'The Bachelor' / 'The Bachelorette' no matter how many unrealistic helicopter rides and tropical getaways they have.
- I feel incredibly lucky to love and to be in love with my husband.
- My children have tested my patience more than I ever thought possible. There are days when I literally feel like I'm losing my mind.
- After growing up in Florida, I thought it would be impossible not to live near a beach. It's not.
- I can sometimes be an anti-social extrovert, if that makes sense.
- I abhor traffic. Like, really really can't stand it. You guys have no idea.
- Coffee is far superior to tea. Always.
- I still don't think I could ever live in the suburbs.
- I crave living in the city.
- Politics have turned into an enormous shit show that I become more and more invested in the older I get.
- Exercise is actually so important.
- Carbs are NOT the devil.
- Everything in moderation; balance is key.
- Time alone is crucial for personal reflection and growth.
- I'm learning how to bake despite the fact that I'm not a desserts/sweets person.
- Lying down on a picnic blanket in the grass on a sunny breezy day is truly one of life's simplest and best pleasures.
- I believe in cosmic energy, spirits and otherworldly beings.
- ...but I'm not sure about one god and that one god being a man.
- Sometimes, building a blanket fort and hiding in it with your kids is all you want to do all day. And then you actually do it and it feels pretty amazing.
- I'm pretty sure (and by "pretty sure" I mean 99.99999999999% certain( that we are done having children; we already have a boy and a girl and two is great. (In all honesty, we just don't want to be outnumbered.)
- We are a fearless foursome.
- I have dreams of my family spending a summer in a sleepy Italian beachside town. One day, I believe it will happen.
- Music can completely change your mood.
- I'm braver than I thought I was.
- I'm more ready now for whatever happens in life than I've ever been before.
That might've been a little TL;DR, but there it is. It might just be my best year yet.


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The Jimmy Dore Show Nov 9, 2012
:06 Steve Rosenfield reflects on the election
4:10 Tom Brokaw gave his prediction, and it was predictably ridiculous.
5:00 Dick Morriss predicts Ronmey Landslide with data from "secret polling organization".
6:20 Larry Kudlow predicts Romney 332 Electoral Votes! He has a top financial show on CNBC, kinda easy to see how the banks crashed the economy without a warning.
6:43 Rush Limbaugh admits to regularly bullshiting his audience.
11:32: Ann Coulter invents another alternative reality about the Romney Campaign being "magnificent", and Laura Ingrahm talks back down over to earth.
20:57 Bill Orielly tells us that Romney lost because America is now 51% takers that just want the government to "give them stuff", and laments the end of the White Dominance.
23:25 Karl Rove freaks out and gets angry that Obama accurately described Mitt Romney during the election, and he is angry that people who voted for Obama felt like they could relate to him.
24:40 Haley Barber talks funny and whines about the election results.
25:57 HALEY BARBER calls in!
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31:31 Jim Earl reads from hi new book "Mourning Remembrance", funny obituaries of actual dead people.
33:30 Big Government/Small Government DOes it mean anything?
36:50 Michael Steele tells us what the problem with the GOP is, not enough White guys!
37:14 Bill Oreilly tells us how the GOP should try to attract Latino's
38:03 MOre bad news for the GOP from Fox News
40:06 Meghan Kelly asks "why should republicans change their message? (she's dumb).
41:22 Mitt Romney calls in to tell what his plans are.
46:23 Right wIng crack-pot talk-show host Mark Levin not handling the election results well.
51:25: More bad news from Charles Krauthiemer
52:27 Michelle Bachman gets laughed at in public.
53:29 Tom Brokaw in Studio!
Mike MacRae performed the voice of MItt Romney in a sketch written by Robert Yasumura
Ben Zelevansky performed the voice of Tom Brokaw in a sketch written by Frank Conniff,
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If you're like me and are faced with this decision, you really need to know the facts. Which one is better? Well, they both have their ups and downs. It also depends on the type of phone user you are. Do you tend to open apps and forget to close them? Play a lot of games? These are all questions that may determine the type of phone you need.
I'll start by going over the pros and cons for each of the phones.
International Galaxy S3
US/North American Galaxy S3
I know they're very small pro/con lists, but those are pretty much the only differences. How will this affect you? Not too much, unless you're a big gamer and are taking advantage of the better GPU; or if you want the top connection speed possible (LTE).
Android doesn't use the multi-cores as efficiently as it can (yet), but the quad core is marginally faster. The 2GB of RAM is only going to be useful if you have lots and lots of apps open.
If your concern is that 1 single app is going to require a lot of memory, worry not; android has a memory cap of 16-64 (more as newer/faster phones come out) per app. This is a limit placed on a per phone basis; so, older phones will have a cap of 16MB per app. What does this mean for you? It means that you won't have to worry about 1 single app exhausting your memory/RAM.
How much faster is the LTE vs the non-LTE? It can be quite a lot faster, but there isn't much you can do with that speed unless you're downloading very large files on your phone - but that's just my opinion. The non-LTE is fast enough to do everything comfortably, and you won't notice that it's slow at all.
So, I decided to go for the International version, simply because I feel I'd get more out of it. The 1 extra GB of RAM isn't very beneficial at the moment; and by the time it is, you'll probably have a new phone. If your sole concern is your internet speed, then I'd say go for the US version; but I don't believe the extra increase will be noticed as much. And if you're outside of North America, you're probably not in an area that supports LTE, so no point in getting it.


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London street artist makes hit - and money - with dog sketches
By Daan Kaur
LONDON (Reuters) - A former homeless man's sketches of his dog George, a Staffordshire Bull Terrier he credits with changing his life, are commanding rising prices in a London gallery and have earned him a show in Los Angeles.
John Dolan, 43, who used to sell his sketches for pocket change and now gets 3,000 to 4,000 pounds ($6,800) for them, said he had descended into a life of poverty, drugs, crime and homelessness until a homeless woman got George, then a puppy, in exchange for the price of a can of beer and gave the dog to Dolan.
He started drawing the dog and the scenes around him while begging on the street, and soon passersby were buying his sketches, he said.
"The drawings that I do of him are quite simple but I've done one that's been in most of the papers, it's the very detailed one, it's quite a big drawing," Dolan said, while sitting in his favorite spot on an east London street.
He can now afford his own lodgings but still prefers to draw outdoors.
"I've captured him magnificently in that, but these little ones that I do, I basically try and capture his personality if I can in all of them," he said.
His success in part comes from a chance meeting with Richard Howard-Griffin, who runs street art tours in East London, owns a gallery there and mounted a first show of Dolan's work.
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Ok folks I need some help, have done alot of research but just wanted to get opinions here also.
I have a 89 TBI 350 out of a van in my rig, I bought it with it in and the motor always ran great. Well in 2007 I broke the adapter to the t-case right in half (sm465-np205) at this point motor ran great. Well my rig sat until 09 do too babys and other life issues well I desided to put a summit fuel cell in the rig. now up to this point the guy I got the jeep from installed the entire wiring from the van including the fuel tank ( he put in the back seat).
So I installed the cell, and a inline electrical fuel pump, (same wiring) motor ran great. Got to the mounds on 3/15/09 and made it to the drive and the motor started knock very bad, so I figured I lost a bearing or rod or something. Well I had brain surgery 2 days later so my rig sat for a while again. Well come to find out the crankcase filled with gas, so the motor lost all LUBE causing the knock. I think the injectors were bad and leaked thats the only thing I could think of.
So I have now put in new injectors, new fuel pressure regulator. motor fires up knocking is still there not as bad ( I plan on rebuilding that) however now the motor runs like shit. It start and idols ok, but try and put it in gear and move it, it juist wants to stall like its getting to much fuel, starts to bog down and sputter. Push the clutch in give it some gas and you can get it to clear up a bit and start to run alittl bit better, but its not good at all.
The fuel pressure is reading 9-12lb which is correct, oil pressure is good also 32-34lbs at idol.
Just looking for some trouble shooting ideas, i know the basics, just looking for ideas in regards to sensors, vacum issues, ecm ideas etc. `Not real expericed in the Chevy motor area.
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if the crank case filled with gas all the fuel had to go past the rings wich probly "washed" the rings, you probly have low or no compression on some cylinders, i would pull all the spark plugs and squirt some motor oil in the holes and roll the engine over by hand a few times, let it sit for a hour or so and reinstall the plugs if they are not also fouled from all the gas, start and run will smoke bad at first but will clear up should solve problem
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well if it starts and runs the rings may be questionable? but I would think it has bigger issues. the knocking is driving your timing back. unplug the knock sensor down by the engine mount. if it clears up then you know its the knock causing the problem. secondly if it spun a bearing it will be binding the crank bad. use a timing light on the fuel spray to see if its dripping while running. is its not a nice cone shape then you have other issues.
something just accurd to me. check for a cracked throttle body. if its dumping fuel for no reason it maybe from the tbi body being split inside some where. try unplugging the injector while running and see if it stays running and smooths out
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The knock sensor could be retarding your timing. Best thing is tear it down and fix the knock. Then deal with running problems. If it knocks then who cares how it runs. Fix the main problem and tune it later.
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When Health Canada tested possible new warnings for cigarette packages, a deathly image of Barb Tarbox, the lung cancer patient who used her last months to speak out about the perils of smoking, was rated by focus groups as one of the most compelling. The government, however, shelved the whole plan to replace existing warnings with fresh ones.
Now, Ms. Tarbox's face has turned up among dramatic
by U.S. authorities for tobacco packaging there.
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it would require cigarette manufacturers to fill the top half of their packages with coloured, graphic alerts, and a photograph of a drawn, emaciated Barb Tarbox is among 36 it has proposed.
An FDA spokesman said he was not sure how the picture came to be part of the American program and the officials involved were not available for comment yesterday. Gar Mahood of the Non-smokers Rights Association, however, said he assumed that the FDA had consulted Canada. Mr. Mahood said he hoped the U.S. plan would help convince the Harper government to reverse its decision to abandon renewal of the anti-smoking messages.
"I think it's a chance for Health Canada to once again, at least with respect to the health warnings issue, show leadership internationally," he said. "There are all kinds of positive health reasons to bring this forward: the new system will save lives."
Ms. Tarbox died in 2003 at age 42, after 30 years of smoking. She spoke to about 50,000 school children during the last eight moths of her life. The image used in the proposed FDA warning was taken by Greg Southam, an Edmonton Journal photographer, shortly before Ms. Tarbox died.
Health Canada has said it was putting the warnings on hold so it could concentrate on fighting contraband tobacco, and that more evidence was needed to determine the impact and effectiveness of such warnings.
Mr. Mahood said the department has already spent millions of dollars on researching and developing the new alerts, including holding focus groups, consulting experts, contracting with advertising companies and dedicating "enormous" staff time to the project.
"The current position is inexplicable," he said. "The warnings are finished. They cost a small fortune to produce, they're being wasted … Even a modest decrease in smoking will lead to an enormous number of preventive deaths."
Public health advocates say the warnings need to be renewed because the existing ones have been in place for a decade and studies suggest they are losing their impact.
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- 1/2 pound reduced-fat fully cooked smoked sausage, cut into bite-size pieces
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A plain extrapolation of recent political developments in Russia leads one to regard outright war with NATO as a still improbable, yet possible scenario. It is not unlikely that Russian public discourse will, during the coming years, continue to move in the same direction in, and with the same speed with, which it has been evolving since 2000.
What is in store for the world is not only a new "cold," but also the possibility of a "hot" and, perhaps even, nuclear war.
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Five of the Democratic candidates for mayor debated for the first time on network television Tuesday night. In a campaign season that's been packed with almost daily mayoral forums, the candidates are well-practiced when it comes to laying out their positions on the issues. But with less than four weeks until the primary, they're sharpening their attacks on each other.
The first question to the candidates was on the topic of the NYPD's use of stop and frisk. Council Speaker Christine Quinn said her administration would end what a federal ruling deemed unconstitutional stops. Next week, she said the Council will override Mayor Bloomberg's veto of a bill that would create an independent Inspector General for the NYPD.
It's one of two police reform bills passed by the Council. Public Advocate Bill de Blasio criticized her for not supporting both bills.
"She voted against a ban on racial profiling," said de Blasio citing the other bill that passed the Council. He also attacked her willingness to keep Ray Kelly on as the police commissioner calling him, "the person who is the architect of the overuse of stop and frisk that's caused such harm in this city."
The only candidate who has consistently called for an all out ban of the practice is City Comptroller John Liu. He took a swipe at former comptroller Bill Thompson, who has been speaking out more against racial profiling, citing the death of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin. Thompson has stopped short of calling for an all out ban on stop and frisk. Liu used the debate stage to seize on his nuanced position.
"Now we have some Billy-come-lately's who now say they're against stop and frisk when in fact they continue to support the status quo, that there needs to be some stop and frisk," charged Liu.
The candidates also collectively went after Quinn for overturning term limits, allowing Mayor Bloomberg a third term.
"Speaker Quinn betrayed the people of the city New York and undermined democracy and that's a fact," said Thompson who narrowly lost to Bloomberg in 2009.
Quinn acknowledged that some people opposed her decision on term limits, but she consistently tried to bring the focus back to her accomplishments in City Council, and she let loose on the records of her opponents.
"Bill Thompson doesn't want us to remember that when he was comptroller our pension funds performed worse than similar pension funds across the country, in the bottom third," said Quinn.
WABC moderator Bill Ritter attempted to cut her off, but she wasn't done.
"Bill de Blasio doesn't want you to remember that he never passed a bill that would help schools or to create a job," Quinn added saving her most stinging attack for former Congressman Anthony Weiner. Quinn said, "there's just a whole lot of things he doesn't want us to remember."
Weiner tried to strike out as the independent, who would bring change to City Hall, and lashed out at the current front-runners saying that the only difference between Quinn and de Blasio was that Quinn was more successful.
"They made the same promises to the same people. She was elected Speaker and Bill hasn't gotten over it," Weiner said.
Weiner is now a polling in a distant fourth place in the latest Quinnipiac poll. Quinn dropped to second, six points behind de Blasio, who's currently in the lead.
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I live in Texas... it is legal for me to carry as i will in about 8 1/2 hours when i go to church
This is a discussion on Church Carry within the Concealed Carry Issues & Discussions forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; Originally Posted by adric22 That is not true. The law was changed a couple of years ago in Texas and now it is legal to ...
I live in Texas... it is legal for me to carry as i will in about 8 1/2 hours when i go to church
Believe you can't carry in churches in Virginia, FWIW, but--IIRC--only during worship services. Bingo night is all right, I guess. (Better check the law yourself, though, of course.)
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I am a member of the Episcopal Church in West Virginia. As far as I know, there are no regulations against concealed carry into the Church. The wife and I pretty much do it all the time. Several of our members from OH and KY also have carry permits and I suspect they do from time to time. Kind of the "don't ask, don't tell" thing.
I do it especially when I get the offering ready for deposit. Our Church office is located in another building and you have to walk to it with the monies from the Collection Plate. That makes you a target for the local rif-raff that wanders about our neighborhood. Nowadays the area around our church is rampant with that sort of activity. We even had the police arrest a drug dealer plying his trade on our parking lot. So it's no wonder some of us carry when we go to Church.
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Actually, you can carry in Texas churches AS LONG AS they are not posting the 30.06 sign. It is wierd wording in the law....they give a list of PROHIBITED places, then follow up with a list of places that must post the proper signage in order for it to be prohibited, like a place of worship. ( I am guessing this was because some of these places, such as a place of worship, are flat prohibited in other states). Section 46.035(b)(6) prohibits carry by a licesnse holder in a place of worship...however, Section 46.035(i) it states "Subsections (b)(4), (b)(5), (b)(6), and (c) do not apply if the actor was not given effective notice under Section 30.06."
Sorry, I too was verifying my intel before responding. Looks like the cat has already been skinned.
I carry everywhere I can, and that includes church. does anybody in the church know...I have no idea, I have not said anything, however anytime there is a need for security (or to carry heavy things) I always get called. If i am not mistaken there was a shooting in a church in Fl not too long ago.
You can carry in MO in a church and it is only trespass if they ask you to leave. Only a few people know I carry despite my involvement with "security" mainly b/c there are some antis in the church. Howeer, one of the trustees asked my wife if she knew if I planned to carry my sidearm to a recent event because he had "concerns". She said she would ask him. Since I never told him, I suspect he saw some of the targets I posted on my FB account. Anyhow, they just elected me a trustee and according to the statute, trustees can give permission.
Yes there was a shooting in a Florida church about 6 weeks ago. I have been carrying in church before that, and definitely since. I carry everywhere I go, as long it is allowed.


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District lending conditions continued to remain tight for both consumers and small businesses during the second quarter of 2009. Contacts continued to cite a lack of commercial loan demand, uncertainty of real estate values, and heightened credit analysis as factors restraining the current lending market.
Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey
For the week ending June 19, the 30-year fixed mortgage rate averaged 5.38 percent, a decline of 21 basis points from the previous week, but 56 basis points above the month-earlier rate. At this time last year, the rate averaged 6.42 percent. The Mortgage Bankers Association's weekly survey of mortgage bankers, commercial banks, and thrifts indicated that the volume of total mortgage loan applications and refinance applications increased slightly from the previous week but has fallen significantly from the high levels reached in January and April.
Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey
The Federal Reserve Board's April 2009 Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending Practices (which reflects activity during the first quarter of 2009) showed that demand for loans from businesses and households continued to weaken for nearly all types of loans over the survey period. About 60 percent of domestic banks reported a further weakening of demand for commercial and industrial (C&I) loans over the previous three months, a proportion similar to that reported in the last survey.
Survey results also indicated that the rate of tightening for loans to businesses edged downward for the second consecutive survey. About 40 percent of domestic respondents reported tighter standards on C&I loans to large and midsize firms during the first three months of 2009, and around 42 percent of respondents reported tighter standards on loans to small firms. The average percentage of domestic respondents who reported tighter credit standards on C&I loans fell to about 40 percent compared with nearly 65 percent from the last quarter of 2008. The April survey marks the first time since the January 2008 survey that the proportion of banks reporting tighter standards on C&I loans fell below 50 percent.
The April survey showed a slight tightening for residential real estate lending during the first quarter of 2009. Compared to the January survey, somewhat more respondents reported having tightened their lending standards on prime and nontraditional residential mortgages, with about 50 percent of domestic respondents indicating they had tightened their lending standards on prime mortgages over the past three months. Approximately 65 percent of the 25 banks originating nontraditional mortgage loans during the survey period reported tightening their lending standards on such loans.
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Boris Johnson yesterday unveiled the new budget, cheapo, shoestring Olympics - the easyGames. The mayor was speaking to the Commons culture committee, one of whose members asked if it was true that after watching the first five fireworks at the opening ceremony in Beijing, Seb Coe turned to him and remarked: "That's half our budget gone."
The mayor replied by saying that by contrast with the grandiose Chinese games, with their "vast, intimidating, soulless piazzas", ours would be warm and intimate.
In fact, the Olympic park would be "cosier, as the estate agents say".
That's the problem with Boris: he is always undercutting himself. There are so many layers of irony in everything he says, it's impossible to know exactly what he means.
Listening to him is like eating your first artichoke - you're unsure what bits you're supposed to consume, and which to leave on the side of your plate.
For example, he said he was "passionate" about the games, but he said it with a floppy-haired, Borissy twinkle, so you didn't quite know if he meant it.
And he sort of paid tribute to Ken Livingstone, who had got the planning started. "Apart from his other merits, which I can't quite remember ... my illustrious predecessor was not passionate about sport."
Yikes! It turned out that Ken had also been an incredible wastrel.
Boris was personally saving the taxpayers' money. Apparently there had been a wall-to-wall, 24/7 party at London House, Beijing, during the games. He had cut the bill for that by one third. Since the saving alone was £1.3m - well, do the maths.
He and his team had flown out "not exactly steerage, but not club class either, saving many thousands of pounds!" he said.
Forgoing champagne and smoked salmon roulade! Is there no privation this man will not suffer for our benefit?
And no limousines. "I am very anxious to increase the number of bicycles!" he said. "London is going to be a festival city, and the centre will be a party area."
The only extra expense he mentioned was a plan to give every spectator "a BlackBerry gizmo" which would allow them to find out what was going on and catch instant replays.
MPs were anxious to make sure that visitors from the rest of Britain and from abroad would not be rooked when they got to London.
What steps had Boris taken to prevent profiteering?
The answer was none. "There are no plans yet to discourage profiteering. At the moment we are trying to maximise the economic benefit of the games."
So now we had a clear idea of what Boris called "the spectator experience".
Visitors will cycle to the West End from £1,000 a night hotel rooms with the kind of carpets your feet stick to, and get thoroughly bladdered while catching replays of key taekwondo moments on the tiny screen. But it will hardly cost us a penny.


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Festival On The Square 2011– Kyle Park Spotlight
Kyle Park's brand new album 'Make or Break Me' recently hit the shelves of your favorite place to buy music including iTunes (click here to download it) and he will be heading to the brick streets of downtown Tyler this Saturday for Festival On The Square. Other performers that night include Josh Abbott, Curtis Grimes and Kylie Rae Harris.
Kyle dropped by Radio Texas Live recently and for his RTX-clusive live performance it was an RTX-first, we left it up to fate whether he would sing a new or old song, yep that's right we flipped a coin. Check it out!
Kyle's latest single released to radio is the title track off his album 'Make or Break Me' –out today and I've got your first listen (if you haven't all ready heard it) right here.
And I've also got the first video from the Kyle Park camp here's the 'Make or Break Me' Official Video and be sure to download or buy 'Make or Break Me' today and we'll see y'all Saturday night for the biggest party to hit the brick streets, it's Festival on The Square.


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Creative Business Cup 2014
Creative Business Cup
Monday, November 17, 2014 at 9:30 AM - Wednesday, November 19, 2014 at 5:00 PM (CET)
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Creative Business Cup is a global competition held in more than 60 countries. A winning team from each country is send to the international finals "The World Championships for Creative Entrepreneurs" held each year in November in Copenhagen. More than 400 international guests will during three days (November 17 - 19, 2014) in Copenhagen participate in workshops, plenary sessions, pitch-training, mentoring, investor-pitch, matchmaking- and networking events.
We invite investors to join the CBC Investor Day, November 18 and the CBC Award Show on November 19, 2014.
It is a unique opportunity for investors:
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Just want to do a quick update tonight as it is getting late and I'm tired.
Jason had a very good day today, and it started with a quick breakfast and then off to the OT and PT treatments at the MATC. Max set him up on the electrical stimulus device that he has put on Jason's arm several times now, and Jason's arm was shocked for about 45minutes - this is to help with the "rewiring" of the nerves in Jason's right arm with the muscle functions. It seems to be working well, though we're not sure when Jason will be back to 100% - or even if he will be able to get there. He has already made greater strides with this than first thought was going to happen. Afterward, he went over to see Mike at the PT table and he had Jason work on his cardio exercises. Jason basically lays on his back for about 20 minutes turning the hand crank for this machine, and that gets his heart and full respiratory system moving. The one thing is that once he is done with this, he is tired.
After that we went on over to Wound Care where they monitor the progress of his wounds healing and they were all very happy with the progress. The one large wound is now two smaller ones, meaning that there has been enough healing to form a solid separation and the skin growth continues. All around, the wounds are looking much better and we're all happy about the progress. They put on fresh new dressings and we headed off to take care of a couple of errands (took less than an hour) and then back over to the apartment.
We both wanted to get Jason laying back down because tonight we were going to dinner with the group over at the Washington Press Club. We actually didn't get to leave until after 17:15 (5:15pm), about 1/2 hour later than planned, but that was okay it allowed for some of the traffic to die down. There were about 45 people there, and of those only about 12 got the Mahi Mahi, Jason and I were two of them... ;-) Throughout the entire meal Jason was enjoying himself and he remained that was the entire night. This is actually a first for him, and I was quite pleased. We returned to the apartment and again got him laid down and me over to the laptop. I went through my emails, called Linda and wrote the blog. Next step... go to bed.
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Matty Hunter on Fox
Watsonville, CA October 12, 2010 – FOX Racing Shox announced today that they've added freerider Matt Hunter to their roster of world-class athletes. Riding for 23 of his 27 years, Matt's experience comes through in his seemingly effortless defying of gravity.
"To say I'm excited to be joining the FOX Racing Shox team is a bit of an understatement," said Hunter. "This is so much more than just a sponsorship deal; I'm becoming part of a family that supports me and a team that includes so many great riders that I admire."
"They're fully behind my love for filming and photo projects and started lining up shoots for me before the ink even dried on the contract," Matt went on to say.
Hunter lives to put you in the action through the film projects he participates in. His most recent films include Life Cycles, which is due to drop next month, and Follow Me — released earlier this year. Good thing this is the case because FOX Racing Shox is wasting no time in putting his talent to work. His first filming projects are already scheduled begin in October with a crew of his new FOX Racing Shox teammates.
"Hunter's talent and passion for the sport is as big as the air he catches," said Mark Fitzsimmons, Mountain Bike Race Manager at FOX Racing Shox. "We're all very excited to have him join the FOX Racing Shox family."
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Scientology ("knowing about knowing"), a new religion founded in 1954, was based upon the evolving thought of American writer L. Ron Hubbard.
Though Dianetics and Scientology were founded by L. Ron Hubbard, he acknowledged drawing on the speculations and observations of many earlier thinkers.
The founder of Scientology was 20th-century author and former U.S. Naval officer L. Ron Hubbard, who spent much of his early adult life considering the human predicament and its remedy.
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The written and spoken words of L. Ron Hubbard on the subject of Scientology collectively constitute the scripture of the religion. He detailed the Scientology theology and technologies in millions of words, scores of films, and more than 3,000 recorded lectures.
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Short description: Structural analysis of an intermediate filament protein reveals how an asymmetric dimeric coiled-coil assembles into a symmetric tetrameric structure.
The mammalian cytoskeleton is composed of filaments assembled from three different protein families. While microfilaments and microtubules are assembled from globular actin and tubulin protomers, respectively, intermediate filaments (IFs) follow a different structural paradigm and are assembled into coiled-coil (CC) oligomers from elongated protomer structures. As a result, IF proteins have biophysical properties that make structure determination challenging; to date no structure of an intact IF is available. Numerous IF proteins are expressed in tissue and development-specific patterns, highlighting the need for structural characterization of this diverse protein family.
FitzGerald, Hunt and colleagues (PSI NESG) have investigated the assembly and structure of two human IF protein vimentin domains using electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography. Sequence analysis of the central region of vimentin indicated four rod domains (1A, 1B, 2A and 2B) containing a heptad repeat pattern characteristic of a-helical coiled-coils. Small non-CC linkers interrupt the repeat pattern between the rod domains, although the exact boundaries and flexibility of these linkers was not obvious from the primary sequence.
The authors used EPR and exhaustive site-directed spin-labeling (SDSL) to investigate the dynamical properties of the vimentin linker 1 (L1) connecting rod domains 1A and 1B. They found that while L1 does indeed deviate from the CC structure it is not disordered and maintains a relatively rigid connection between the rod domains. Electron microscopy analysis of filament assembly by L1 mutants supports the conclusions from the EPR experiments.
To address the assembly of vimentin at atomic resolution, the authors solved the crystal structure of an L1-1B construct to 2.8-Å resolution (PDB 3UF1). The structure displays a homotetrameric assembly in which the subunit interactions are consistent with earlier EPR experiments. The tetramer is composed of two asymmetric parallel CC dimers with minor deviations from canonical CC geometry. Two conformationally inequivalent protomers form an asymmetrical parallel coiled-coil homodimer, and two of these associate in an antiparallel geometry to form a homotetramer with proper two-fold symmetry (i.e., perpendicular to the coiled-coil axis). The authors note that the asymmetry of the constituent dimers is essential for formation of the tetramer and for preventing further oligomerization. They further suggest that the vimentin sequence has evolved to exploit protein plasticity to favor the tetramer as the physiologically relevant assembly. As IF proteins are among the most abundant in eukaryotic cells and are associated with numerous diseases, future structural studies on vimentin and other IFs will explain the effects of pathogenic mutations.
A. Aziz et al. The structure of vimentin linker 1 and rod 1B domains characterized by site-directed spin-labeling electron paramagnetic resonance (SDSL-EPR) and X-ray crystallography.
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Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0821224875, Hardcover)Linda McCartney, wife of Beatle Paul McCartney, was a passionate vegetarian. Shortly before she died, she left a legacy with this beautiful book of 200 meat-free recipes from all over the world. Linda McCartney on Tour is illustrated with stunning photographs guaranteed to start you salivating--the tastes, colors, and textures leap off the page. You can almost taste the Crispy Vegetable Wontons (China), Asparagus Crepes (France), Minted Pea and Spinach Soup (U.K.), Vegetable Kichdi (India), Warm Chocolate Souffle with Bittersweet Sauce (France), and Fragrant Coconut Rice (Thailand). If you like pizza, choose from recipes of the U.K., U.S., Thailand, or Greece, or invent your own pizza with a page of creative topping selections. Although many of the dishes sound esoteric, the ingredients won't send you searching in ethnic stores--you can find most in your supermarket, though you will need to frequent a natural-foods market for a few, such as organic eggs and vegetarian sausages. The recipes have no nutritional information, unfortunately--you know you're getting plenty of vitamins and fiber, but you don't know fat content. Whether you're a confirmed vegetarian looking for new recipes or you just want to improve your health by eating meat-free a few times a week, this book will entice you. --Joan Price
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TECH{dot}MN Podcast with Justin Porter
Jeff Pesek and I recently interviewed Justin Porter who works with the University of Minnesota Office of Technology Commercialization. The OTC harnesses some great innovation that comes out of the University and helps bring it to market by either licensing it, or finding the right people to help start a new company to develop it.
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8:00 Registration and welcome coffee
9:00 Chairman's Opening Remarks
Ralph Gunness, Field Environmental & Sustainability Manager, GLNG Project, Fluor Australia
9:10 10th Anniversary CSG 2012 Welcome Address
Martin Smith, Sales Manager, Clarke Group
9:45 CSG-15 years of upstream development
- Brief history of CSG developments in Eastern Australia
- Gas reserves and resources
- CSG production
- Gas infrastructure
- LNG developments and impacts
- Shale and other unconventional gas developments
- Gas pricing
- Current community issues such as land, water and fraccing
- The future
Grahame Baker, Senior Advisor, RLMS
10:20 Morning refreshments
10:50 CSG in the Media
- An analysis of how the CSG industry is perceived (and reported on) by the wider Australian media
- What can be done to move forward in the future?
Paddy Manning, Senior Writer, Fairfax Media
11:30 Considerations for Stimulating Unconventional Gas Resources in Australia's Low-Permeability Sandstone, Coal Seam and Shale Reservoirs
Unconventional gas resources, defined as low-permeability sandstone, coal seam and naturally-fractured shale oil/gas reservoirs, represent an emerging Australian resource base. Because low individual well-production rates from vertical wells are often the norm, unconventional reservoir development requires optimised lateral drilling, completion and stimulation strategies to enhance the economics. Often, stimulation costs are the most significant well expenditure, thus cost-effective methods of completion and stimulation are necessary in these technically challenging reservoirs. This presentation will discuss the trends in technology and stimulation strategies instrumental in progressing unconventional projects.
Ray Johnson, General Manager, Exploration & Production, Armour Energy
12:10 Finding, developing and monetising shale-gas in Australia's centre
- Central's shale-gas prospects and security, environmental and social aspects of remote shale-gas developments.
- experience with hands-on shale-gas development in the USA and how shale-gas has changed the way Americans consider their 'energy future'
- Monetisation scenarios for shale gas inclusive of LNG, GTL and methanol.
Dr. Mike Clarke, Senior Consultant, Infrastructure Development, Central Petroleum Ltd
Dalton Hellgren, Chief Operating Officer, Central Petroleum Ltd
12:50 Lunch
2:00 Exploration and project approvals in South Australia – A regulator's perspective
Barry A Goldstein, Executive Director – Energy Resources, Department for Manufacturing, Innovation, Trade, Resources and Energy, State Government of South Australia
2:40 Development of a CSG Industry in NSW
- What is the case for action to introduce a CSG industry of scale in NSW?
- What are the critical success factors?
- What are the current impediments?
- What type of CSG development is Dart Energy itself proposing in NSW.
- Dart's broader role in Australia and beyond.
Robbert De Weijer, Chief Executive Officer, Australia, Dart Energy
3:20 Afternoon tea
3.40 Comet Ridge
- Outline of Comet Ridge's exploration and CSG appraisal drilling programme for 2012
- Explanation of the recent transaction to divest all or part of Mahalo CSG asset
- Discussion of the potential for the Galilee Basin to become a major CSG producing basin
- Update on Comet Ridge activities in New Zealand and the NSW Gunnedah Basin
Tor McCaul, Managing Director, Comet Ridge
4:20 CSG Water Treatment – Dissolved Oxygen Removal
- Technology review of De-aeration processes for water
Tristan Holland, Senior Process Engineer, Flour
5.00 Closing remarks from the chair
5.00 Networking drinks
Wednesday 18 April 2012
8:30 Welcome coffee
9:00 Chairman's Opening Remarks
Grahame Baker, Senior Advisor, RLMS
Infrastructure and Engineering
9:10 Pipelines and completions – New ideas for CSG
Don McMillan, Principal Engineer, Oil Gas CBM Services
9:50 Overcoming supply chain challenges to deliver successful CSG-LNG projects
- Counter intuitive outcomes
- Mathematics has a role to play in supply chain modelling
- Risk! How can you manage it without visibility over status?
- You can't "just build it" without an aligned supply chain
Liam Stitt, Managing Director, EsSCO Pty Ltd
10:30 Morning refreshments
Social License to Operate, Stakeholder Engagement and Land Access
11:00 Mapping for sustainable futures: Extending the use of GIS – Geospatial Information Systems – in Coal Seam Gas and mining projects to minimise conflict and project timelines – A PhD Research Project
- Stakeholder engagement
- Participatory GIS
- Sustainable livelihoods
Jennifer Joi Field, Doctoral Research Project, Mapping for Sustainable Futures, Western Australian School of Mines
11:40 Strategies to better engage stakeholders and resolve conflicts
Barbara Sharp, Managing Director, PaxPopulus
12:10 Lunch
1:00 Native title and Aboriginal cultural heritage compliance for CSG project approvals
- Legislative requirements and recent developments
- Negotiating, drafting and concluding an Indigenous Land Use Agreements (ILUAs) and Cultural Heritage Management Plans (CHMPs) for project compliance – useful terms
- Developing negotiation processes for long term relationships
Sunil Sivarajah, Senior Associate, Gilkerson Legal
Cassie Lang, Lawyer, Gilkerson Legal
1:40 Salaries and employment trends in today's global oil and gas industry: Strategies for successful hiring in a skill short market
Matt Underhill, Managing Director, Hays Oil and Gas
2:10 Safety – the first priority
Stephen Matheson, Chief Inspector, Petroleum and Gas Inspectorate, Safety and Health, Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation, QLD
2:40 Afternoon coffee
Associated Water Issues
3.00 The Growing Significance of Water Desalination in Oil & Gas Industry
- In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the use of desalination technology to produce "designer" water for Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) or Chemically Enhanced Oil Recovery (CEOR) projects
- This paper will demonstrate the significance of water desalination in Oil & Gas Industry and in particular for drilling, production, EOR, and in CSG extraction
Christopher Hertle, Global Market Leader, Water, GHD
3:30 Water management strategies
- Chemical and physical nature of CSG water
- Issues affecting management options
- Legislative requirements and recent developments
- Attributes of viable management options
- Advantages and disadvantages of key management options
- Case study of beneficial use for irrigation
- Stakeholder engagement opportunities from CSG water management
Dr Glenn Dale, Managing Director, Tree Crop Technologies
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Survivors remember Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor 70 years ago
By Harriet McLeod
MOUNT PLEASANT, South Carolina (Reuters) - Four survivors of the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor were honored aboard the USS Yorktown in Charleston Harbor on Wednesday, the 70th anniversary of the battle that brought the United States into World War Two.
The sneak attack in Hawaii in 1941 killed nearly 2,400 American service members and wounded more than 1,100.
Don Ralph, 89, said was an Army private first class and an X-ray technician at Hickam Field near Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, when the attack began early in the morning.
A self-described "hillbilly from Kentucky," Ralph lives in Manning, South Carolina. He said he has never seen another day like the attack, and "thank God, I hope I never do."
"I drove an ambulance," he said. "I picked up people and brought them to the hospital. The old saying is 'All gave some, and some gave all.' The American people remember and appreciate it."
Survivor George W. Denton, 89, who lives in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, said a hotel now stands on his Army unit's parade ground near Waikiki Beach. A tech sergeant, his unit fired two 14-inch guns on Japanese ships, he said.
When asked what this anniversary means to him, Denton's eyes teared up and he could not speak.
David "Buck' Morris, 86, a signalman aboard the destroyer Phelps at Pearl Harbor in 1941, said he went on to serve "five years, two months and 10 days" in the Navy. The anniversary "just brings back so many memories for those of us who were there," he said. Continued...


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"Wild Forest: A Lego Safari" opens on Saturday, July 7, at the Bronx Zoo
"Wild Forest: A Lego Safari," a show featuring a menagerie of wild animals built from Legos, opens on Saturday, July 7, at the Bronx Zoo.
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Bronx Zoo's "Wild Forest: A Lego Safari"
Starting this Saturday, July 7, you and the kids can check out a special summer event at the Bronx Zoo that aims to connect young minds to nature and inspire visitors to help build a future for wildlife. "Wild Forest: A Lego Safari, " featuring an amazing display of Lego-brick animal sculptures including lemurs, rhinos, flamingoes, gorillas, a zebra and a giraffe, can be found along the wooded path near the Zoo Center. Families can easily spend a day learning how the Lego Master Builders' creations compare to their real-life counterparts at the zoo. Kids can also check out hands-on activities in the Construction Zone, where they can make their own wildlife sculptures (daily 11am--4pm), or they can work with professional builders on the Reptile House lawn (Sat July 21, Sat Aug 11). There will also be workshops with the Museum for African Art, where crafty youngsters can make African animal puppets (Sat July 14, Sun July 15 11am--3pm) or animal prints (Sat Aug 11, Sun Aug 12 11am--3pm). The fun continues with Wildlife Theater performances along the safari path (showtimes are at 11:30am, 1:30pm, 2:30pm, 3:30pm on Saturdays and Sundays), while kids can run, dance, jump and crawl on the Animal Activity Trail. For must-see entertainment, don't miss the original production of Avenue Zoo, onstage at Asia Plaza, featuring a guest performance by Kate Monster, the puppet star of the Tony Award--winning musical Avenue Q.
"Wild Forest: A Lego Safari" runs from July 7 to Sept 3 at the Bronx Zoo Wildlife Conservation Society. Free with museum admission. All ages.


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I don't really think satin is proper for Princess Serentiy. I think a flowy cotton (very light weight version) would be nicer and then a thin layer of chiffon or something that's just very airy and light.
But if you want satin, I would go with bridal satin. It's a good weight and I hear it doesn't wrinkle as much.
Also progress update!
Worked on Small Lady again today. :}
Fixed up the bottom layer skirt and made my back bow. Now I just need to make the top layer with my chiffon and buy beads and attach it all together. The bottom layer of the skirt is now hemmed better and even, and it doesn't show the pleating tracks up top. (I don't have photos, sorry)
Chiffon is such a flimsy fabric that I really don't like working with it, and even ironing doesn't help too much. So Small Lady is slowly coming along.
Also, need to start on Sailor Moon! I already have my fabric, gloves, and need to buy foam for the rolls and some lycra/swim material, and a leotard. To get started. (Leotard being the key portion so I can get accurate measurements). I also am planning on getting my brooch/choker/hair gems commissioned by the same person. :}
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U.S. court wary of Apple request to block Samsung
By David Ingram
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Friday showed few signs that it was prepared to support a request by Apple Inc to block immediately the sale of some Samsung Electronics smartphones and tablets.
In a high-stakes patent dispute, the court heard arguments about whether a federal trial judge acted correctly in December when she ruled that Apple failed to provide enough evidence to support an injunction of Samsung's Galaxy product line.
The court's judges reacted with skepticism to a premise put forward by Apple's lawyer that for the purpose of getting an injunction, Apple does not need to show a causal link between patent infringement and a loss of customers.
Apple's lawyer, Michael Jacobs, said it is enough to show that Samsung likely infringed on Apple patents used in products such as the iPhone, and that Apple is likely to be hurt. The trial judge found those things but not enough evidence of a causal link.
Judge William Bryson on Friday asked about a hypothetical case in which an automaker copied the design of a cupholder from a second automaker. Under Apple's argument, if the second automaker later lost market share, it could ask for an injunction against sales by the first automaker, Bryson said.
"Can that possibly be right?" he asked. Bryson is one of three judges who heard the case before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Judge Sharon Prost said some evidence of a link is important. Harm such as lost customers, she said, "could have been for reasons completely different from the infringement."
The Apple-Samsung dispute is scheduled to go to trial in July in federal court in California. Continued...


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There was great expectation when Mohamed Morsi became president of Egypt that years spent in the United States of America would have made him sensitive to the rights of women. Instead of displaying attitudes a person who has spent his life with those of diverse backgrounds and sex, Mr. Morsi stands revealed as a small village type of Muslim filled with the bias and prejudice that all too many Egyptian men display towards women. Amensty International blasted Morsi for attitudes and actions that violate the rights of women.
"Horrific, violent attacks on women including rape in the vicinity of Tahrir Square demonstrate that it's now crucial that President Morsi takes drastic steps to end this culture of impunity and gender-based discrimination, and for all political leaders to speak out,"said Hassibas Hadj Sahraoui of the organization. Women are being assaulted regardless if they wear or do not a wear Islamic headscarf. Mohamed Morsi is simply a bigoted man whose social attitudes towards women reflect his 15th century mentality.


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Soccer Club Lets Fans Borrow Its Players, Coach & Stadium
A team in the Netherlands lends out valuable items and athletes to keen football enthusiasts.
Havas and MediaMonks in Amsterdam partnered with with PSV in Netherlands to offer fans a once in a lifetime chance to 'borrow' items from the club. Items range from the stadium, to the coach and players, the UEFA Cup, and even the mascot. The 'Freo Loan League' invites fans to pick out an item they want to borrow in a virtual PSV stadium, and then explain why they want to claim it. A panel of judges consisting of players and Havas employees will select the best requests and award the fan with the item.
Coert Buiting, art director at Havas Worldwide Amsterdam, explained that, "Usually, football sponsors focus on name awareness and sales. 'The Freo Loan League' is a money-can't-buy, once in a lifetime opportunity that gives something back to the fans, for free."
Bart Weerkamp from Freo, added that, "With 'The Freo Loan League' we are giving fans access to parts and people within PSV Eindhoven that are normally out of their reach. The campaign mirrors the Freo philosophy: making dreams possible, making the impossible possible."
The campaign kicked off on Saturday and will run until the end of the season in May 2013.


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Motel One Saarbrücken
Affärshotell i topp
Schillerplatz 4, Saarbrücken, Saarland
0,1 km från
634 kr+
Good experience. went especially for the Molin Rouge Room - wife thought it was brilliant! Bathroom was great as well.
Exellent accomadtion very helpfull really funky rooms Nothing
Trés chic. Difficult to find - but normal route beside river was flooded ;-(
Room (Moulin Rouge decor) was very special! Car park was very tight.
design furniture
Loved the downtown location; one block from christmas market. Room was small but comfortable. Tons of character in the building. Staff was pleasant and helpful. Queen bed is two mattresses together in a frame - sleeping towards middle of bed means youre falling into the crack! €5,90 for a bottle of water.


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debby812 Review
This was a beautiful bikini on , the skirt hides just enough for us a little older or little heavier gals. Fabric is very good quality. Be aware, this is the reason I'm writing the review......I have ordered 2 and sent them back. Swimsuit top is 38DD not 38D as advertised the bottom is size 16. There are tags on the top for both sizes.
- How did the color on site compare with the actual product? prefect
- Please tell us about the quality of the product. Quality is great , nice fabric
- How accurate was the sizing? sized wrong 2size tagson product
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Maintaining clean aluminum and fiberglass window screens helps your screens to last longer, and makes them easier to see out of from indoors.
Clean your screens at the beginning and end of every season and be amazed with how transparent they can be.
Before the soap can begin to dry, turn on the hose to run at a low pressure and rinse the screen clean. If you have a nozzle set to a powerful setting, you risk loosening the screen from the spline (especially with fiberglass screens) rendering the screen saggy or creating gaps between the screen and the frame. If you don't have a hose, you might consider running the screens through your bathroom shower with the shower head on a gentle setting to rinse them off.
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Section 47C of the Fire Service Act 1975 allows the New Zealand Fire Service Commission to charge for fires outside urban fire districts. There are 2 types of fire that may incur a charge and these are outlined here.
Rural fire event
A fire on publicly or privately owned land in an area which is within a Rural Fire Area controlled by the Department of Conservation or a Rural Fire Authority.
Fire outside urban and rural fire district
A fire on a boat in a marina, or on vessels arriving or departing New Zealand waters.
How the charge is calculated
We charge a Rural Fire Authority (RFA) in order to recover our costs associated with fires outside urban fire districts. The charges are calculated on an hourly basis, using this formula:
(Incident departure time + station departure time) + (incident arrival time – station departure time)
For rural fire events where a specified Section 15 agreement exists with the RFA, we do not charge for the first hour. Charging for the incident starts 1 hour after the first responding appliance leaves the fire station. If an appliance leaves the station more than an hour after the incident begins it will be charged out for the whole time it is away from its station.
The Rates
The rates used for attendance are approved by the New Zealand Fire Service Commission every year and reflect the cost of attendance of our staff, volunteers, and equipment and appliances used.
Download our current rates for attendance at incidents outside of urban and rural fire districts
Download our current rates for attendance at fires inside rural fire districts
What is charged
Any time we attend a fire outside an urban fire district it is likely there will be a charge. This includes, but is not limited to, structure fires, hedge fires, vegetation fires, or forestry fires.
The Chief Fire Officer, or a person they delegate, may make provision to discount up to 50% of the cost of the fire in a situation where some of the response relates to the protection of 1 or more structures inside a Rural Fire District.
Fires Outside Urban Fire Districts