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Using credit cards had become the norm for many people, however, there are many occasions when using a credit card might not be such a good idea and where you should think twice before pulling out your credit cards. Here are a few times you should leave your credit card in your wallet instead.
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If you can't afford to pay for a purchase in cash, then you really can't afford to put it on your credit card. If you swipe your card knowing you can't pay back what you bought, you could be guilty of fraud. You may not necessarily be arrested, but some creditors may use the fraud argument to keep you from bankrupting that debt later on down the road.
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Sometimes paying cash is better because the seller may be offering a discount on a cash transaction or there may be times when the seller may charge extra for swiping your credit card. In such situations, it's better to use cash if available or a cheque.
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This also applies to fairs and flea markets as these shops are temporary and in case of a dispute, it will be difficult to track them. In such places benefits from using a credit card outweigh the potential dangers.
You're not liable for most fraudulent charges, but it's still a pain to deal with. Don't use your credit card if you think there's a chance your card information could be stolen.
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Moscato In Cupcake Form. Is this Supposed to Smell Like Throw Up??
I have pinned great recipes from Pinterest for over a year and a half now and I haven't had a true fail yet.
In fact, as of late, I had made three to four blogger created recipes via Pinterest a week and they were all amazing.
I was almost waiting for the other shoe to drop.
And drop it did.
A huge thud.It happened when I found this recipe:
Moscato Cupcakes
I wrote underneath the pin, "it's like the mothership is callin' me home".
Because if you really know me, you know I love white wine.
And my weapon of choice is Moscato.
Here is the back story:
My brother introduced me to Moscato a few years ago.
I fell in love with her immediately.
And now we are celebrating our two-year anniversary in May.
So when I saw this recipe?
It's like the wine Gods were smiling down on me.
I mean, really?
You don't hear about Pinot cupcakes or Riesling cupcakes.
So I immediately copied the recipe from here.
Now, I am not in any way trying to say that the above blogger is trying to pull the wool over my eyes and lay down a really bad recipe.
She most likely used a better brand of Moscato.
I won't mention the name of the wine I used because I am afraid they will take me in the night if I smear it on my blog.
However, if you want to know what brand it is, email me and I will be happy to share.
I will tell you my favorite brand is one of the cheapest out there and is also the one they have pictured on their blog: Barefoot.
You can get it at Wal-Mart for $4.95.
Also the Moscato they serve at Olive Garden is magical too.
UPDATE- The Moiselle brand at Aldi is amazing as well as the Blue Fin brand at Trader Joe's. Both cost only $4.99.
I can hear the wine snobs now and you can just seal your lips right now.
I like cheap wine. And I cannot lie.
So I was having a girls night in with my neighbor the other night at her house.
The kids were gone and we were going to eat some fattening food, drink some cheap wine and watch 2009 reruns of Real Housewives of New Jersey.
I remembered the Moscato cupcakes I found on Pinterest and was all like, OMG I am so gonna make these for our girls night in!
And my neighbor was really stoked as well, so it was all excitement and anticipation.
I had the basic ingredients and all I needed to get was buttermilk and powdered sugar for the frosting.
Go here for the full recipe.
So everything was going great; I was mixing it all together and the batter looked like normal cupcake batter.
When I was baking it, it smelled like bread baking.
So that must mean good, right?
I took it out and all the cupcakes were concave.
Apparently, my first mistake was making them without the cupcake liners.
I only sprayed the holes with Pam and saw afterward that she said to use liners.
I was all like, they should be fine.
They weren't fine.
I had to use the above knife to get them out.
And when I did get them out?
Crumbly, disgusting looking muffin tops.
So then I decided to go ahead and make the frosting to try and salvage this dessert.
I didn't have the two sticks of butter they asked for so I decided that instead of running to Hell-Mart on a Saturday afternoon with a four-year-old in tow that I was gonna half the recipe instead.
Oh, and I used margarine instead of butter.
I know it's not the same but I have made the substitution many a time in recipes and usually, it's just fine.
Plus there's the Wal-Mart Saturday afternoon freak show I wanted to avoid.
This is what it looked like when I was done:
It looks like someone threw this up.
And Brooke, I love you so much, I do.
Because anyone who comes up with wine cupcakes is pretty awesome in my little book.
But next girls night, will you come to my house and make them for us?
I will make you some homemade tacos!
Because I know I can't mess that up.
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My comment isnt posting!!
anyhow i just wanna say that is HA-larious…i was gagging as i was reading your post and busting up all at once. I've seen those on pinterest. Thanks for trying them for me.. haha
Kari at A Grace Full Life
OMG it makes me so mad that blogger lets spam comments get on here but beloved readers like you have trouble! UGH!! Thanks for the sweet comment Antonia! And now you know to use the good stuff! 🙂
That is hilarious! I LOVE moscato, too…probably my favorite wine of all times! Bummer that the recipe didn't work out, such a fabulous idea!
Catie @ Catie's Corner
OMG Kari, that is sadly hilarious!! LMAO!! Thanks for sharing your Pinterest fail. =)
~ Catie
This post is hilarious! I am with you…I usually have about 95% luck with Pinterest, but there are some recipes that go oh so wrong!
Kari at A Grace Full Life
I usually have such luck, as I said. But this one was a doozy. I am still shivering thinking about it. < shudder >
Hah! LOVE it. 🙂


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The thing that really brought a lump to my throat at the wedding we went to the other day was the thought of what those two young people were about to embark on. And just to be absolutely clear, I don't mean their first tentative steps of married life together, I mean the fact that they were about to spend a fortnight away from this bitter winter of budgets and flood warnings, traipsing through the spume on some tropical shoreline. It took nearly all my restraint not to sob onto the bride's shoulder and ask if we could come too.
It's entirely possible that I may have become a tiny bit obsessed with hot sunny holidays – we haven't had one for years. Last summer's fortnight in Cornwall was cut short when, for the eighth consecutive morning, I had to fight my natural instinct to start rounding up animals two by two, and as I write this, snow is falling outside in flakes the size of passport stamps. Yes, some readers will remember that I spent a month filming on a tropical island in the autumn but they will also recall how gruelling it was (some of those cocktails took ages to make). But that was different, I was on my own and working. What I am dreaming of is the kind of holiday from which you return fizzing with vim and gusto and thrilled to be alive. And ideally somewhere warm enough to distract the children from this craze that's going around their school for being perpetually ill.
I mentioned this to a friend at the weekend and his eyes lit up; he knew exactly what the answer was. I reached for my iPhone (in whose notebook is a cryptic list of things people recommend in conversations: "Bruichladdich, Kill Your Friends, Hoddinott, Nippon Ant Powder") and waited with finger poised. "Glamping!" he said. The iPhone was discreetly slipped back unfingered. Ah yes, glamping: camping with a log stove and some Cath Kidston bunting. Isn't it funny how little some of our friends actually know us?
If I'm at the shop around the corner I'll cheerfully carry an armful of things home unbagged in the interests of being a good citizen. But then stopping off at the deli last week to buy a cappuccino, as I frequently do, I later discovered that everything I'd put down on the counter (bin-liners, washing-up liquid, matches – all marked up with price stickers) had been dutifully rung through the deli's till despite having come – demonstrably – from a different shop. It's perfectly likely that I've been multi-paying like this for years. Perhaps this kind of enterprising tax on the absent-minded might be what steers us clear of a triple dip. Glad to have done my bit.
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Dock Pilings Are The Trick
I wrapped the week up fishing an afternoon trip today, taking advantage of the last of an outgoing tide. After meeting John Tonetti and his friend Wayne down at the Big Talbot Island Park boat ramp we ran up the Nassau River with plans to fish the same docks that I fished yesterday - where we had an outstanding Redfish catch. After "anchoring" the trolling motor the two anglers began to pitch to some pilings in 10' of water. I think it was the first cast and, FISH ON! Now that's the way to start a fishing trip. Wayne patiently worked the fish in and landed a nice feisty Redfish. John followed that up with one of his on, then they combined for a couple of more. We bumped down a dock or two and again, found fish. They were up under the dock and we lost one or two but we won a few. They landed two Slot Sized Reds and one keeper sized Seatrout, along with a smaller one. The bite slowed so we ran down to Broward Island and fished the very last of the outgoing tide, and had no luck. We made one last stop over in Jackstaff with the sun going down and the breeze easing off - a absolutely great time to be out on the water - but again, no real bites. All this week the Redfish have been under the docks. It was a great way to wrap up another week of fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.
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-- The United States registered a substantial trade deficit in wool and other related animal hair in every year during 1993-97. Wool accounted for over 85 percent of the total value of U.S. imports and nearly 50 percent of the value of U.S. exports of these products in 1997. In that year, U.S. imports of wool exceeded U.S. wool exports by $146 million.
-- In 1997, the value of shorn wool grown in the United States was $45 million. U.S. wool imports were valued at $154 million in 1997, and exports were valued at $8 million. Imports of wool accounted for over 60 percent of U.S. consumption (by quantity) in 1997, and Australia was the principal supplier. In the United States, most sheep are kept mainly for the production of lambs for meat, or are dual-purpose breeds kept for the production of both wool and meat. The United States accounted for less than 1 percent of world wool production in 1997.
-- World wool production declined from 3.8 billion pounds to 3.2 billion pounds during 1993-97, reflecting the decline in the global sheep population in most of the major sheep-producing countries. Other factors contributing to the decline in wool production include depressed world wool markets and changing fashion trends.
-- Australia is the largest world producer and exporter of wool. Other major wool-producing countries include New Zealand, China, the Commonwealth of Independent States, Uruguay, Argentina, and the Republic of South Africa.
-- While most sheep breeds produce wool, each breed's wool fibers are unique with respect to the color, length, diameter and density of the wool fiber. The most valuable wool fibers are derived from sheep that are raised primarily for their fleece, such as the Merino. There are many end uses for wool. Some wool is spun into woolen and worsted yarns and manufactured into finished apparel products such as suits and sweaters. Other wool is made into carpets, furniture upholstery, and other nonapparel goods.
The foregoing information is from the ITC report Industry and Trade Summary: Wool and Related Animal Hair (USITC Publication 3145, December 1998).
ITC Industry and Trade Summary reports include information on product uses, U.S. and foreign producers, and customs treatment of the products being studied. They analyze the basic factors affecting trends in consumption, production, and trade of the commodities, as well as factors bearing on the competitiveness of the U.S. industry in domestic and foreign markets.
This report will be available for downloading from the ITC's Internet server at www.usitc.gov. A printed copy may be requested by calling 202-205-1809 or by writing the Office of the Secretary, U.S. International Trade Commission, 500 E Street, SW, Washington, DC 20436. Requests may also be faxed to 202-205-2104.


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Issues and Future Directions for Water Mist Fire Protection Systems
"Watermist" only became widespread as a formalized fire protection technology in the early 1990s. Initially, it was viewed as an alternative to gaseous fire extinguishing agents, for example the ozone-depleting halocarbon gases such as Halon 1301. At the same time (1990 to 1995), the International Maritime Organization (IMO) mandated the installation of sprinkler systems on passenger ships capable of carrying more than 36 overnight passengers.
This mandate created a second innovation motivator: to develop a new form of sprinkler system that would require less water and weigh less than conventional sprinkler systems of the day. Thus, in the marine sector, water mist systems were simultaneouly developed for deluge-type, total-flooding fire protection systems for machinery spaces, and "water mist sprinkler systems" that were recognized by maritime authorities to be equivalent to automatic sprinkler systems.1,2
Creating and delivering water mist as an effective fire suppression agent demanded different types of hardware than traditional fire sprinkler equipment. The first decade of development saw the adoption of innovative ideas and hardware from non-fire related industries, such as positive displacement pumps from the hydraulics (machinery) field, and the use of compressed gas as an energy source.
By the end of the 1990s there were several distinct types of water mist systems on the world market: low pressure systems operating within the pressure range of conventional sprinkler pumps and fittings; intermediate pressure systems requiring slightly higher pressure than conventional sprinklers, and high pressure systems operating at pressures much higher than conventional sprinklers. The types of nozzles differed greatly, as different manufacturers attempted to "stake out" and patent their preferred atomization methods and lines of equipment.
Along with the innovations in hardware, the regulatory bodies and listing agencies such as IMO,1,2 Underwriters Laboratories, Inc. (UL)3 and FM Approvals (FM)4 began to develop test protocols to confirm the performance of water mist systems and to evaluate the reliability of components used in the systems. Component testing protocols were developed by IMO to test the corrosion resistance, serviceability and reliability of the new types of components being introduced.
Hardware such as positive displacement pumps and pneumatically-released deluge valves came from industries that did not have or need to obtain UL Listings or FM Approval. Therefore, the water mist approval protocols were designed to evaluate an assembly of components as a whole. Even if the individual valves/switches/motors contained in the assembly were not "listed" or "approved," the assembly could be employed in a fire protection system if it passed the comprehensive performance tests.
A number of European testing laboratories became involved in the development of fire tests for water mist systems. Fire testing programs were developed at the Swedish National Testing Laboratory (SP); the Norwegian national fire laboratory (SINTEF); VTT Technical Research Centre and Verbandder Schadenversichen (VdS) to show the performance of water mist against hydrocarbon fires in machinery rooms.2
Fire tests were also developed for Class A combustibles typical of accommodation spaces and shopping areas on cruise ships. The fire test protocols were discussed at meetings of the IMO fire protection committee over a number of years, and finally accepted as formal test protocols described in the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) fire testing document.1
In North America, FM and UL initially borrowed both the component testing and fire test protocols developed for the marine sector, and began to modify them to reflect their own fire safety objectives for land-based applications. By 2005, FM Approvals had developed a water mist approval guide,4 which contains component testing requirements and fire test protocols for a variety of applications, including turbine enclosures, machinery spaces, industrial cookers, light hazard occupancies, wet benches and computer room subfloors.
The NFPA 750 committee was formed in the early 1990s and asked to write an installation standard for water mist systems. At first it was thought that the NFPA 750 document could be modeled on NFPA 13.5 Throughout North America and in several other parts of the world, NFPA 13 is used by all parties involved in manufacturing, designing, installing, approving and testing of sprinklers and sprinkler system components. Along with specifying materials and methods for pipe, fittings and hangers, NFPA 13 provides the design criteria needed to match the sprinkler system to the various occupancy classifications.
A major advantage of NFPA 13 is that it is an easily accessible installation standard. All manufacturers produce equipment that operates within its pressure limits and types of hardware; all engineers and designers refer to it for design criteria; Authorities Having Jurisdiction (AHJs) require compliance with it as the basis for their approval; and installers and maintainers are familiar with the installation and maintenance requirements.
The NFPA 750 committee observed that, in spite of its advantages, opportunities for increasing efficiency through innovation were limited by NFPA 13. If NFPA 13 requires a minimum density of, say, 8 mm/min (0.2 gpm/ft2), to control fire in a specific occupancy, any new technology utilizing less water density must utilize the equivalency or new technology generic sections to be accepted.
NFPA 7506 was written with the purpose of allowing innovative ideas for increasing the efficiency of water-based fire protection systems. It was founded on the premise of performance-based design. NFPA 750 mandates that the application density for each type of water mist system be individually determined by fire testing to a comprehensive, unbiased fire test protocol.
Whereas NFPA 13 dictates that all pumps, pipes and fittings be of a certain type and pressure rating, NFPA 750 allows for a range of pressure regimes, energy sources and piping technologies. To support the use of non-traditional materials and piping methods, NFPA 750 sets only generic requirements, such as those needed for corrosion control and mechanical strength.
The details of how to properly select and install water mist piping and hardware are to be included in a Design, Installation, Operationand Maintenance (DIOM) Manual written by people who understand the cross-over equipment or materials better than NFPA 750 committee members. The DIOM manual is supposed to be reviewed and approved by the same listing or approval agency that conducted the fire tests and component evaluations.
NFPA 750 establishes general design factors applicable to all water mist systems, such as hydraulic calculation procedures, acceptance testing, water quality and duration of protection. It also provides guidance to the testing agencies on what constitutes an adequate fire test protocol – e.g., it explains application parameters that must be taken into account in design of the fire test protocol, such as the geometry and ventilation conditions of the protected space. It relies on the manufacturers and the listing or approval agencies to have the expertise to generate the details needed to provide the design, installation, operation and maintenance requirements unique to the particular technology.
The basic model of NFPA 750 is supportive of performance-based design and allows innovation in the design of water-based fire protection systems. However, some potential end-users and manufacturers believe that the document is not an "installation standard" in the same mold as NFPA 13. NFPA 13 contains sufficient information to provide instruction on design criteria and detailed installation instructions for the hardware, that is, the pumps, pipe, fittings and hangers.
The designer may reference additional data sheets associated with special listed items, for example, special application sprinklers, but the majority of the technology associated with conventional sprinklers is contained in the standard itself or its appendices. The NFPA 750 approach is similar in principle, except that, because the content of technology utilized by different water mist equipment manufacturers may be new to the fire protection world, reliance on the external listing data sheet and DIOM manual is greater than with NFPA 13. Information that is necessary to accomplish a design and install the hardware is found only in the manufacturer's proprietary DIOM manual. Water mist DIOM manuals may include instructions on piping or components that require special training by the manufacturer before a third-party engineer could specify a design. Therefore, although the NFPA 750 model is similar to current conventional practice with NFPA 13, the "technology transfer" experience with water mist technology is more involved, which appears to slow the acceptance of water mist systems.
There is interest among proponents of water mist systems in making NFPA 750 a more functional installation standard. Whatever change proposals are made, it is important not to lose sight of the original philosophy of allowing innovative technologies to be used to improve the efficiency of fire suppression systems. It would be a challenge, but not impossible, to incorporate critical design information for specific manufacturers into the document or as annexes. The document would be longer, but more readily useful to designers, end-users, authorities and installers.
A second barrier to the acceptance of water mist systems in land-based applications is that there are not enough approvals for the range of fire hazards encountered in buildings. Water mist sprinkler systems are already installed in accommodation spaces, shopping areas and public areas throughout passenger ships, and are approved under IMO as fully equivalent to sprinkler systems. However, there is limited comparable recognition for water mist sprinkler systems in land-based buildings.
There is growing interest in North America and Europe to have water mist systems installed throughout buildings and to be granted the same recognition under the building code as conventional automatic sprinkler systems. This objective is revealed in a recently released draft of proposed revisions to the European water mist standard, CEN/TS 14972.7 The CEN revision task group notes that in Europe the sales of land-based water mist sprinkler systems, similar in protection purposes to automatic sprinklers, now exceed the sales of machinery space systems, yet "sprinkler equivalent water mist systems" are not clearly identified as a distinct application in either CEN or NFPA water mist documents.
Both in the USA and in Europe there are water mist approvals for "light hazard" and "ordinary hazard" applications in buildings. Buildings potentially contain spaces such as extra hazard occupancies. Because of the limited approvals, the use of water mist to provide protection throughout some buildings may be limited.
Building codes have long recognized the increased safety provided by conventional sprinklers and provide various "trade-off" benefits in the construction of the building. Water mist systems are evaluated through performance-based testing, and have been shown to perform as well if not better than conventional sprinklers in fire tests. If a well designed water mist sprinkler system is installed throughout a building, and measures to ensure equivalent reliability to sprinkler systems are incorporated into the approval, the same building code recognition as conventional sprinklers should be allowed.
Gaining support for sprinkler equivalent water mist systems is likely to be the focus for water mist proponents for the next few years. Manufacturers must obtain approvals for the range of fire hazards in buildings, and they need to convince building and fire officials to grant appropriate trade-off recognition to water mist sprinkler systems as currently exists for conventional sprinklers. In addition, water mist may not be appropriate for all applications without further testing, just as sprinklers must be tested and listed for specific hazards. Examples include window or glazing sprinklers, and attic sprinklers.
On the other hand, sprinklers are sometimes granted a specific trade-off based on "tradition" rather than actual testing. It has occurred that when sprinklers were tested to the test standard to which water mist nozzles are tested, the sprinklers failed to meet the performance criteria demanded of the water mist system. Efforts to create a level playing field for comparison of the performance of conventional sprinklers and water mist systems are underway for the current NFPA 750 change cycle.
There is a further problem with NFPA 750's deference to external fire test protocols for design criteria, and that is the matter of differences between the fire test protocols produced by different authorities for particular hazards. To give anexample, IMO accreditation for total compartment flooding water mist systems for marine machinery spaces is based on the IMO published test protocol.2 In addition, FM grants an approval for water mist systems for machinery spaces, special hazard machinery spaces and combustion turbine enclosures, based on test protocols in the FM 5560 document.3 These two apparently similar approvals for "machinery spaces" are not equal in terms of performance. Explaining the significance of the differences to end-users and to the AHJ potentially contributes to doubts about the technology. It would better serve the users of NFPA 750 if it could provide enforceable language to resolve uncertainties created by inconsistencies between approvals from different organizations.
Widespread acceptance of protecting buildings entirely by water mist systems is potentially limited by people's perceptions of the capabilities of the systems. Many engineers who do not have a full appreciation for the capability of water mist believe that water mist systems rely on sealed enclosures to extinguish fires. In fact, systems that rely on "enclosure effects" are only one category of water mist application.8
Such systems are defined as "total-compartment flooding type" in NFPA 750 and are suitable for Class B hydrocarbon fires in machinery spaces and turbine enclosures. However, water mist also works to extinguish or control fires in Class A combustibles in fully open compartments. The performance of these systems depends on pre-wetting of combustibles and cooling of hot gases, the same control mechanisms as conventional sprinklers, and they do not require sealed enclosures. This is the basis of performance for water mist sprinkler systems approved for accommodation spaces and public spaces on passenger ships.1, 7 Water mist sprinkler systems are tested in environments identical to automatic sprinkler testing and have been found to achieve equal or superior performance using significantly less water than conventional sprinklers.
In the other extreme, manufacturers or vendors who are enthusiastic about their water mist system may exaggerate its applicability. For example, the use of water mist as an alternative to gaseous extinguishing agents in computer rooms is subject to debate. For a computer room containing electronic equipment, there are many factors to consider in selecting an appropriate fire suppression agent. These factors potentially include the user's objectives, the potential for certain types of electronic circuits to be irreversibly damaged by wetting or by corrosive products of combustion, the capability to extinguish a fire concealed in a computer cabinet, and both capital and life-cycle costs.
Water mist systems have been approved by FM Approvals for computer room subfloors and inside electronic cabinets, which may cause no more collateral damage than a gaseous clean agent. However, a different type of water mist system (i.e., sprinkler equivalent) will be required for general computer room protection. The use of water mist as an appropriate technology for protection of electronics is not clearly established in either NFPA 750 or the CEN standard. Further open discussion on this application, with input from approvals agencies such as FM Approvals, is needed.
It is in the interest of proponents of water mist systems to prevent harm being done to the credibility of the technology by spread of misinformation and inappropriate performance claims of water mist. Reported successes and demonstrated capabilities provide a foundation upon which confidence in water mist systems will rest. Successful control of fires by water mist should be documented for all types of water mist systems, including land-based systems and marine systems similar to automatic sprinkler systems. Failures in badly designed fire protection will potentially occur, as they do with all fire protection systems. Accurate reporting of such incidents is needed.
One avenue for improving general understanding of the capabilities of water mist systems is to invest in technology transfer opportunities, such as conferences and webinars, to provide accurate information about the successes and uses of water mist systems. This is where a strong industry organization of manufacturers could play a valuable role, in reporting incidents where water mist systems have successfully controlled fires, and at the same time providing a degree of control over the types of claims made by its members. This type of self-managed quality management among competing manufacturers would benefit all.
Maintenance of water mist systems is vital to the long-term reliability of the protection. If not properly maintained, the potential for plugging of small orifices in nozzles is higher for water mist systems than with conventional sprinkler systems. Therefore, it's important to monitor water quality and evaluate the functionality of components.
Certain maintenance needs will be unique to a manufacturer's particular water mist system. This may limit the competition for choice of maintenance contractors, or special training will be needed for maintenance personnel within the organization. The on-going costs of the level of maintenance needed for a water mist system must be reflected in the presentation of life-cycle costs for a water mist system.
Some organizations have a well-established culture of maintenance of fire protection systems. One large industrial end-user of water mist systems with a well-trained staff dedicated to maintenance identified the following factors that increased the costs of maintenance and the skill required to accomplish it, over what they had expected:
• Some type of water mist system releasing valves proved to be difficult to reset after annual activation tests, increasing labor costs for servicing the systems over original estimates.
• It is useful to have a borescope (video camera on a flexible probe) to inspect the interiors of water storage cylinders to evaluate the condition of liners.
• Maintaining the quality of stored water in tanks is reported to be difficult, with accumulations of "gunk" showing up on strainers and screens after annual activations.
Based on their experience, this end-user increased the frequency of maintenance inspections and specified details of the procedures. A borescope is now routinely used to inspect the interior of water storage cylinders or tanks; water tanks are drained and refilled with water of a specified quality semi-annually rather than annually, and screens and filters are inspected more frequently than was recommended in the manufacturer's DIOM or in NFPA 750.
In discussing the possibility for installing water mist sprinkler systems in US embassies abroad, the advantages of a system requiring less water than conventional sprinklers were viewed favorably, but facilities managers were concerned about the ability of local contractors to install or maintain the systems. From their perspective, the reliability of the fire protection system should not depend on skills that are likely to be absent in the local work force.
The next edition of NFPA 750 (2013) will hopefully strengthen the message that water mist systems require quality maintenance to remain reliable over time. Inspection, testing and maintenance procedures must be frequent, thorough and sustained over the service life of the system. The true cost of maintenance should be factored into the life-cycle cost of the systems.
Jack Mawhinney is with Hughes Associates, Inc.
- MSC/Circ. 800 (19), "Revised Guidelines for Approval of Sprinkler Systems, Equivalent to that referred to in SOLAS Regulations II-2/12; Appendix 2. Fire Test Procedures for Equivalent Sprinkler Systems in Accommodation, Public Space and Service Areas on Passenger Ships," International Maritime Organization, London, England: 1995.
- MSC/Circ. 728, "Amendments to the Test Method for Equivalent Water-Based Fire Extinguishing Systems for Machinery Spaces of Category A and Cargo Pump Rooms Contained in MSC/Cir. 668, Appendix B," International Maritime Organization, London, England: 1996.
- UL 2167, Standard for Water Mist Nozzles for Fire Protection Service, Underwriters Laboratories, Northbrook, IL, 2002.
- Approval Standard for Water Mist Systems, Class Number 5560, FM Global Technologies, LLC, Norwood, MA, May 2005.
- NFPA 13, Standard for the Installation of Sprinkler Systems, National Fire Protection Association, Quincy, MA, 1991.
- NFPA 750, Standard on Water Mist Fire Protection Systems, National Fire Protection Association, Quincy, MA, 2010.
- CEN/TS 14972, Fixed Firefighting Systems – Watermist Systems – Design and Installation, European Committee for Standardization, Brussels, 2011.
- Mawhinney, J.R., "Principles of Water Mist Fire Suppression Systems," Fire Protection Handbook, National Fire Protection Association, Quincy, MA, 2008.


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Ranger post rescue prior to being portaged
back to the trailhead.
I had been a volunteer dog walker at the Oregon Humane Society (OHS) for a couple of years while at the same time working my way up a few peaks with my fellow Mazamas. One day, I was chatting with one of the other dog walkers, describing the training I was going through in Intermediate Climbing School (ICS). She mentioned that it sounded a bit like what the OHS Technical Animal Rescue team (known as OHSTAR) does and encouraged me to check them out. Intrigued, I applied for a spot on the team and started to attend their training and got a look at their "3:1 mechanical advantage rescue haul system". The hardware is different: bigger, heavier, and a bit more complex, but it still seemed like a fancy name for a crevasse rescue "Z-system" to me. I guess mountaineers are just in the habit of shortening everything, including the names of things, if they think it will lighten the load in their pack.
During their once-a-month trainings I melded with the team and "learned the ropes" (pun intended). OHSTAR uses rescue procedures similar to many SAR groups (the group's technical advisor is a long time PMR member). The basic skills overlap a bit with some of the mountaineering techniques learned in the Mazamas: knot work, wrap three pull two, being mindful of your angles, don't step on the rope, etc. Added to these familiar items is more complex gear and procedures such as mirrored rope systems, mechanical ascenders and friction devices. There is a lot of cool gear that would make a gear head's eyes light up (at least until they realize that they would have to divvy up an extra 50 pounds of group gear amongst a climb team). Since dogs are not people (despite what many of their owners believe) there are also extra skills involved with animal rescue, such as animal harnessing, that go beyond the
A dark and stormy night: rescuer (center in white helmet)
makes final preparations before lowering down to Eagle Creek.
Once on the team I started to assist on a few rescues: scouting locations, schlepping gear, setting up, and hauling rope and a couple of times I got the nod to be the rescuer (i.e. the guy on the pointy end of the rope). We've done rescues both in the backcountry and within the Portland metro area. I've done technical roped ascents into trees to rescue distressed cats, helped capture injured geese for treatment at the Audubon society, and have done joint human/animal rescues with PMR and PNWSAR. There have been many memorable moments but a couple rescues stand out in particular.
Sandy's Christmas Miracle
A Christmas miracle: Sandy is retrieved from Eagle Creek.
Coincidentally the dog had fallen only about 50 yards from a point where we did another rescue just a month earlier. That other site, at a bend in the trail with convenient stout trees for anchors and a good work space to set up the haul system, was a decent place to operate. This one, with a cliff down one side, a steep slope up the other, and a narrow trail in the middle… not so much. The team tossed around some ideas and eventually came up with a feasible plan based on some anchors I'd once helped build while assisting a BCEP class at Horsethief Butte. A teammate and I went back down the trail where the slope was a bit less steep and scrambled up above our rescue site. While trying not to knock loose rocks (or ourselves) down upon our teammates below, we rigged up an anchor with one of our ropes to a couple of fir trees. After rappelling down the rope back to the trail we made anchor points for the haul systems and were then able to lower J.T., the rescuer, who was then able to harness and secure the dog. That was the easy part (relatively speaking). We had a very narrow working space for our mechanical advantage setup (the "Z") and it was a short hand over hand pull, pull, "reset"... over and over again until at last the dog and rescuer were back up on the trail. Miraculously (a Christmas miracle you might say) the dog was without serious injury and was able to walk back (now securely leashed) down to the trail head.
Ranger's Happy Ending
It was neither dark nor stormy, it wasn't even night. It was a rare occasion for OHSTAR as the usual callouts happen after a person and their animal out enjoying some daytime fun in the forest get into trouble. By the time someone can get to where they have phone reception and the call goes through the emergency response system and the rescue team is assembled at the trail head, night has fallen.
|Ranger, post-rescue and post-surgery stops
by OHS to show the author some gratitude.
Once I reconnected with the dog I signaled to the team to bring me back up. Ranger was very compliant, harnessed up and hooked to the ropes, as we dangled beneath an overhang at the bottom of the cliff while waiting for the team to reset the haul system. However, I smelled trouble in the air.
More specifically, I smelled skunk in the air and started praying that the team would quickly reset and get us out of there before someone decided that we were unwelcome guests in their home. Luckily it turned out to be a non-event. We got Ranger safely to the top of the cliff and littered him back to the trailhead. His owner later told us that after about $10,000 worth of surgeries he was again a happy dog.
It is a very rewarding feeling being part of a team and providing relief not only to an animal in distress but also the people who care for them. The best advice I can give to people who travel with dogs in the back country is that if you are traveling in hazardous or unknown terrain keep your dog leashed (it's like putting yourself in a position to be lucky).
Whether it is front country or back country, contact the Oregon Humane Society Technical Animal Rescue if your pet, or someone else's, is trapped or stranded and needs help. Trained OHSTAR volunteers can evacuate injured pets from wilderness areas, retrieve pets stranded on cliff sides, river banks, and other areas and structures that can only be accessed safely using ropes, climbing gear and other technical rescue equipment or extricate animals trapped in enclosed spaces whose lives are in danger.
Contacting OHSTAR
Monday-Friday, daytime hours: 503-416-2993
Evenings and weekends: 503-849-5655
In cases of emergency, please call your local police department.
About the Author: Bruce Wyse retired from the Army, returned home to the Pacific Northwest, and considers himself on permanent vacation. He started volunteering with the Oregon Humane Society in 2009. He joined the Mazamas in 2010. When not out with these fine organizations he can usually be found exploring in the wilderness with his Red Heeler, Sasha.


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Don't Let Bed Bugs Take Over Your Home
Bed bugs, unfortunately, have made quite the comeback. This pest, once nearly eradicated from the continental United States, has in the last two decades become a nuisance for millions of Americans. Here at Ray Pest Control, we want all of our fellow Greensboro residents to be protected from bed bugs. While getting rid of bed bugs once they are in your home is our specialty, we felt that it would be a good idea to provide you with some tips to help prevent bed bugs from infesting your home in the first place. Continue reading below to learn more.
Bed Bugs Hide in Many Places
Bed bugs are highly adept at infiltrating people's homes. These tiny bugs can latch onto clothing, furniture, appliances, and any other object that is typically associated with the home. Below, we have listed a few things that you can do right this moment to help prevent these pests from turning your home into their home.
- Cover Your Outlets: Believe it or not, power outlets are one of the most common places that bed bugs tend to hide. These outlets provide a perfect safe haven and, if you aren't careful, these fountains of power could become your worst nightmare. To help ensure that bed bugs aren't using your power outlets as apartments, we suggest that you cover any outlets that are not in use. Power outlet covers are available from a large number of retailers and are a cheap and effective way to protect your home.
- Vacuum: Despite their name, bed bugs can be found in many areas that are nowhere near the bedroom. Consistent vacuuming is a great way to ensure that bed bugs do not hide in your carpet, rugs, or along the baseboards of your home. While vacuuming will not eradicate an infestation once it happens, it is a great preemptive measure to take.
- Get Rid of the Clutter: While homes naturally have a certain amount of clutter, it is important to remember that excessive clutter can turn into a bed bug's favorite place to hide. When decluttering your home, we recommend that you remove any unnecessary items away from your walls as bed bugs are more likely to congregate around items that are closer to your home's baseboards.
- Cover Your Mattress: We're sure you are already well aware of this, but bed bugs love beds. Our beds, unfortunately, provide bed bugs with the perfect place to live, feed and reproduce. To deter bed bugs from setting up residence in your mattress, we suggest that you wrap both your mattress and box springs in mattress safe covers. Not only do these mattress covers help to protect your mattress and box springs from damage, they prevent bedbugs from being able to get inside either of them.
- Monitors: In this instance, we aren't referring to the monitors that most people are used to. Monitors, in reference to beds, are small, plastic, circular devices that are placed under the legs of a bed frame to make it more difficult for bedbugs to climb towards your mattress and box springs. Monitors most commonly have a small lip on the inside of the circle that traps bed bugs as they try and make their way towards the legs of your bed frame.
- Seal Your Baseboards: While your baseboards may be an attractive accent in your home, they are also one of the most common places that bed bugs tend to hide. Because of this, it is important that you make it as difficult as possible for bed bugs to work their way into these tight places. A small weather strip barrier for rooms with carpet or clear caulk for rooms with wooden floors should be enough a deterrent to any bed bug who might be curious about how comfortable your baseboards are.
If after trying out all of these tips you are still worried about bed bugs in your home, call the experts at Ray Pest Control. We have been helping Greensboro area residents effectively prevent and eliminate bedbug infestations since 1973, and we would love to help you protect your home. Visit our website today and get a free quote for any of our extermination services that you may have need of.


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Read Crossfade's full feature article "The Spastic Science! Girl Talk Is All About Confetti, Sweat, and Scientific Rigor."
Gearing up for the Girl Talk experience at the Fillmore Miami Beach this Thursday and Friday, we've slipped into our wettest jeans, bought a bunch of contraceptives, guzzled a gallon of Red Bull, downloaded a free copy of the mashup master's new album All Day, and even taken his two-part English lesson on tricky sayings and DJ slang.
Now get out your notebooks. Today, we discuss the finer points of Top 40 tuneage, sampling songs he hates, and aspiring to be as bombastic as Kiss.
Crossfade: Most of your work has a totally free, anarchic quality to it. But it's so deeply structured too.
Girl Talk: I listen to a lot of different music. And a lot of songs I listen to I don't sample. It's not even because I don't think it'd be interesting. I try to be open to sampling almost anything. But I do have some walls up as to what I think works for what I'm trying to do. And I like to work within that Top 40 spectrum.
For me, it's always been about being open-minded. A lot of [traditional DJ culture] culture is based around being cool and knowing the new song. And that's all good. I'm not dissing it at all. But I've always thought of my project as being counter to that. I'm going to take the songs that people are embarrassed to like. And I'll sample anything. I'll sample Fugazi and Aphex Twin and all those things that are eternally cool songs. But I'll put it back to back with Kelly Clarkson.
To me, all of these things are under the same roof. I don't see any reason for these divisions, like, "This is inherently cool" and "This is inherently uncool." It frustrates me. And I think the whole music industry loves to put those walls up. It's just a constant cycle of people defining things and being scared to go out of the boundaries. And I do my best to break that down.
Do you also have a chronological cutoff? It doesn't seem as though you'll reach back much farther than the '60s.
It's not set in stone. But it's just from my own personal experience. I feel like '60s music is still surrounding us. It's still in commercials. It's still being played in the grocery store. And I do use some '50s songs. But it's more rare. All of the songs are ones that people could love or hate. But they're just surrounding us. Especially a young kid coming out to the show, some 16 year old, he might not know this George Harrison single from the '70s. But he probably heard it in the grocery store once.
Is there a song you hate so much that you'd never use it? Or are you truly open to sampling almost anything given the right circumstance?
I do sample things in very different ways. Sometimes I'll take a melody from a song. But other times it might just be a snare sound. Obviously, I like certain songs more than others. But theoretically, even a song I really have a hard time getting into, there could be something in there. But at the same time, there's so much pop music that I truly love. It's endless. I've been doing this for ten years and I'm still like, "Oh, man. Why have I never sampled that Nada Surf song 'Popular.'" So I don't really dwell on stuff that I have a difficult time getting into. But to me, there really is no limit. There are a lot of times a song I might not love. But I love the production on the drums or it has this perfect little transition.
Right now, you're playing a lot of theaters. And it seems as though the 3000- to 5000-person party is the perfect scale for this kind of crossover concert thing. But in the future, do you think Girl Talk will go bigger? Go arena?
I don't know. On the past tour, there were some shows that were a little bigger. Not even necessarily bigger than 5000 capacity. But there were some rooms that were small arenas. Of course, I've done this at festivals where it could be up to 30,000 people and it's been fine there. But naturally, it's kinda like any show ... You can see Bruce Springsteen play an arena and it's gonna be a really great show. But also, if you saw him playing at a bar back in the day, it would've obviously been something very special.
So I could see this working on a larger level. But naturally, at every level, there are some things lost and other things gained. For the time being, it's really just been about keeping up with the fans. The live show's continually evolved over the years, adding new people and new ideas. And I feel like it could go any size. If the demand was there to do it at a stadium and pack in 20,000 people every night, I feel like there are many different places we could take the show visually.
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So in that way, I feel like there's no limit. But even five years ago, I was very comfortable at 600-capacity venues. And if you would've said, "You're gonna do a tour of 2000-plus people every night," I may have been skeptical. But I feel like you can always be skeptical. But it could go anywhere. And it's been a really exciting creative project for me and my friends who helped develop it, saying, "Alright, now we're playing venues of this size. What do we have to do to make this a special show here? And make it actually translate at this level?"
And just making the show bigger, more of a spectacle, closer to Kiss is exciting for me.
Girl Talk with Max Tundra. Thursday, May 19, and Friday, May 20. Fillmore Miami Beach, 1700 Washington Ave., Miami Beach. The party starts at 9 p.m. and tickets cost $20 plus fees via livenation.com. Call 305-673-7300 or visit fillmoremb.com.
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ACE OF CUPS, STRENGTH & KNIGHT OF COINS REDUX in a Review of The Masonic Symbolic Tarot
Phew! What an intense and, at least to me, wee bit scary Ace of Cups. By the way, I actually like the snakes (snake?), it's that almost demonic hand that disturbs me. (It also resonates with a very recent dream of mine. Here's the dreamku I wrote on it: dispersed by power/radiating from my palms/demonic twister. Hm...) In a way, my response feels like the sort of fear felt at the beginning of a brand new journey we intuit will be an extremely important one. That comment might explain why I was drawn to this card, as I'm starting on a new path that will make some tremendous changes in my life if I continue along it. The intriguing thing about this deck's cups suit: both the Two of Cups and Three of Cups also have these odd hands on them, with the rest of the suit just plain suit symbols. None of the other three minor suits have anything comparable, i.e. all of the Ace through Ten of wands, swords and coins are basically plain suit symbols. I'm tempted to suggest its because the suit of cups represents intuition and it is via intuition that we grasp the deepest, highest, and most awesome awareness.
Here's the Ace of Cups in the Rider/Waite/Smith deck for comparison:
[To read my previous post on The Ace of Cups, click here.}
The deck is based on Freemasonry so that Masonic symbolism abounds in all of the cards, but especially the Majors. The Major Arcana are much more interesting than the Minors. Some being rather striking and powerful. For instance, here's The Strength card, followed by the Rider/Waite/Smith version for comparison (Click here for my previous post on Strength):
The Court cards are rather unexceptional, like the pips. Here's the Knight of Coins (Pentacles), followed by the Rider/Waite/Smith version for comparison (Click here for my previous post on the Knight of Pentacles):
BTW, as I drafted this post I realized the three cards I chose to use here can act as a three card reading: Ace of Cups = past; Strength = present; and Knight of Pentacles = future. I know what I got from this as a reading, what do you think? I'd be delighted to hear.
The accompanying booklet is not a typical Little White Book ("LWB"), as it has illustrations for the Majors, does attempt to teach a bit about Freemasony, and is somewhat larger than the ordinary LWB. But, it has very little information on the Minors and Courts, and then only in a general way. I.e., they are only addressed as categories (e.g. what water and cups are about in general but no specific information on each cup card itself). The deck is colorful with some gilding on the cards, is a good size (tall and slim), and of good card stock.
The upshot is I personally do not relate well to this deck, though as its structure is that of a traditional Tarot deck I could read with it. However, I can most definitely imagine it being "just the ticket" for a Free Mason, or someone versed in Freemasonry symbolism or interested in learning about it. It's art might also simply resonate better for others than it has for me.
I could not locate publication information for the deck in the LWB or on googling other than that it was published by Grimaud in 1987. The cover of the LWB says it is by Jean Beauchard, translated by Leon Shoolingin.
Resource: The Masonic Symbolic Tarot on Acelectic.net.
'til next time, keep enjoying The Tarot,
[aka: Patricia Kelly]
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