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As a parent it's important that I monitor my children's screen time and what they are watching and playing. I carefully research each and every app before I download it, my children know they aren't allowed to download anything with out my permission. It has to be mom approved, I love apps that are educational, fun and entertaining but also that are age appropriate.
I was recently introduced to Puzzingo Puzzles, it's an exciting app that is full of puzzles and games and I knew it would be perfect for my children! Puzzingo contains over 100 learning puzzles and popular children's themes like fairies, cars, and pets! It also features puzzles that include core concepts such as shapes, colors, numbers, the ABC's and so much more! Within the app are over 60 mini-games that complement the "fantasies of play" for many of the puzzles.
Puzzingo is 100% professionally illustrated, it also supports different languages such as English, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, and UK English. Puzzingo Puzzles has won several awards including: Dr. Toy's 10 Best Children's Products, Editor's Choice, Best Apps for Kids and more! For 2016 they added new games like Pirates, Music, Bugs, Sports and even Fairytales!
It's the perfect app for children five years and older as well as special needs. The visual an audio cues throughout the app make it easy to navigate and very user friendly! In addition to help building vocabulary, your child will build spatial recognition, memory and even fine motor and cognitive skills.
Within just a few minutes I had Puzzingo Puzzles downloaded to our iPad and I was ready to introduce the app to Big Brother C. He's pretty picky about the apps he will play, but we sat down and played Puzzingo together for almost half an hour! This was an app that had him smiling from ear to ear, and even giggling some, he caught on quickly and was really enjoying every puzzle. It's so hard to find educational games that keep him interested and so far he's really enjoyed playing Puzzingo!
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If you're still mourning David Bowie, and want something to remember him by, then there's one unique piece of Bowie memorabilia you might be interested in. The only drawback? It will cost you the thick end of $6.5m.
The item in question is David Bowie's old three-bedroom apartment in New York, in which he lived from 1992 to 2002 with his second wife, Iman. It is being sold through the real estate firm Corcoran for $6.495m.
It should be said, it's a fairly splendid setup, located in the famous Essex House apartment block on Central Park South. The living room of apartment 915 has panoramic views of the park, "and opens into a stately walnut-panelled office that also faces Central Park – the perfect place from which to close the next big deal, write the next bestselling novel or make into a third bedroom", according to the listing.
The apartment also comes with a Yamaha piano that belonged to Bowie, but which he evidently did not feel the need to remove when he left the property. Or perhaps the removers took one look at a grand piano and refused to take it down nine floors.
When Bowie and Iman lived in the apartment, they reportedly had a panic room installed. That has since been converted back into a master bedroom, removing the opportunity for Bowie obsessives to recreate the cocaine-and-paranoia years from the safety of a sealed box.
The couple left the apartment to move downtown, to a property in SoHo that Bowie had bought in 1999.
The listing for the Essex House apartment reads:
Calling all Central Park and music lovers!
Make beautiful music in this elegant, Central Park-facing condominium home that includes a pristine Yamaha piano that was David Bowie's! This tremendous home offers a gracious limestone entry foyer and generously proportioned rooms with incredible storage space. Large picture windows frame a clear and direct view of the incomparable Central Park. Look on to the perfect landscape, enjoy the serenity of the trees, flanked by the historic and commanding buildings – the view is not to be missed.
The grand-scaled living room measures 28 feet wide and opens into a stately walnut-panelled office that also faces Central Park - the perfect place from which to close the next big deal, write the next bestselling novel or make into a third bedroom. The pass-through kitchen is newly renovated and features top of the line appliances. There are two master-sized bedrooms, with beautifully crafted en-suite baths made of custom marble, porcelain and limestone. The master bedroom offers a separate dressing area and extra large bath with separate deep soaking tub, rain shower and heated floors.

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Unlockables give this jump-physics Flash game some pretty strong replay value. I spent at least 30 minutes tricking out my cart and practicing midair handstands.
The object, bobsled your shopping cart down a hill and then up a ramp, collecting dollars for the distance, height and difficulty of your jump. Use them to buy upgrades such as better wheels, rocket boosters, and ride-along groupies, all of which alter the trajectory and length of your jumps. While you have unlimited lives, crashing will kill any groupies onboard, and you'll have to go back and "buy" them up all over again.
Protip: There doesn't seem to be any performance bonus to hopping in the cart (up arrow) when the game prompts you to do so. And with an engine-equipped cart, your afterburner kicks on as soon as you hop in. Just hold down the run key at the start as long as you can; the guy will hop in automatically, and your jets will stay on longer through midair.
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Target's bathroom fix falls short, boycotters say
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (BP) -- Target's $20 million plan to add single-stall bathrooms in its U.S. stores does not fix its policy allowing bathroom and dressing room use based on gender identity, the leader of a national boycott against the company said.
Target's transgender bathroom and dressing room policy remains in place and needs to simply be reversed, said Tim Wildmon, president of the American Family Association (AFA) that has collected 1.4 million signatures on a petition to boycott Target.
"The point is keeping men out of women's restrooms. That's the point," Wildmon told Baptist Press. "This doesn't solve that, unless Target says our policy is men go to men's restrooms and women go to women's restrooms and all other people can use this family [single stall] restroom. That's a solution."
The addition of the single-stall bathrooms is aimed at pleasing all customers, Target spokeswoman Katie Boylan said, and not an admission that the transgender bathroom policy instituted in April has hurt its business. The new bathrooms will be available to anyone wanting privacy, including individuals and adults with small children of either gender.
"With a retail operation of Target's size and scope there are many, many, many factors that come into account when we look at our results," she told Baptist Press, citing weather, seasonality, holidays, pricing and assortment, among other things. "There are so many variables that it's nearly impossible to isolate the impact of any given one."
Target announced a few months ago its intention to make the lockable, single-stall bathrooms available in all of its stores, Boylan said, and "decided it was prudent to move forward."
"In sharing the bathroom policy we have been listening very closely to our guests' feedback," she said, "and certainly there are guests who feel very strongly in support of the [transgender] policy, others who are less so. At the end of the day, Target wants everyone to feel heard and welcome in our stores. Safety is an absolutely a priority."
All but 300 of the 1,800 Targets in the U.S. already have the single-stall bathrooms available, Boylan said, and by the end of the year, the special restrooms will have been installed in all but 25 U.S. stores. The remaining stores will get the stalls by 2017, she said.
For its second quarter, which ended July 30, Target's sales fell 7.2 percent to $16.2 billion from $17.4 billion during the same period in 2015, according to its financial report. Its second quarter stock earnings fell to $680 million, or $1.16 a share, compared to $753 million, or $1.18 a share during the same period in 2015, MarketWatch reported Aug. 17.
AFA Public Policy Analyst Abraham Hamilton III said the numbers speak for themselves.
"All those numbers mean target is doing pretty bad, and our boycott definitely had an impact on them," Hamilton said in a video posted at AFA.net. "Other retailers sold more; target is continuing to see a downgrade."
Wildmon said the boycott has also been effective in swaying other retailers from following Target's lead.
"The target boycott has been effective in stopping other companies from doing the same thing, because very few … of the national retailers announced they were doing this after they saw what happened to Target," Wildmon said. "Ultimately we hope to win. We hope that Target will announce [a] sensible bathroom and changing area policy and everybody's happy. This is just kind of baffling why they would do something like this and lose all this business over this."
A few major retailers, including Ross, T.J. Maxx, Lord & Taylor and Saks Fifth Avenue, have announced gender-identity-based bathroom and dressing room policies, according to USA Today, and Starbucks and Barnes & Noble follow such policies for bathroom use.
As recently as June 24, a man who identifies as a woman was arrested for felony voyeurism, accused of taking pictures of a woman changing clothes in a Target dressing room in Ammon, Idaho, the Idaho Falls Post Register reported.
"There's a reason we have separate changing areas and restroom facilities, and we've had them around the world forever, because men and women don't want to go to restrooms with the opposite sex," Wildmon said. "That's why we have them separated. People know this. It's intuitive for all kinds of reasons."
AFA's boycott petition is available at www.afa.net/action-alerts/sign-the-boycott-target-pledge/.


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We have two SharePoint farms, the first is used for the Intranet and team sites. The second farm is used for the public facing web site.
Both SharePoint farms have application servers which are underutilised as the number of users and the amount of content is quite low.
When editors were working on the publishing farm they would try and follow content unsuccessfully as the User Profile server was not provisioned, we also had a search server doing very little.
The plan was the streamline the SharePoint infrastructure by removing the application server from the publishing farm and allowing the publishing farm to use the search and application services from the intranet farm.
The first step was to create a trust between the two farms:
1. On the Web Servers on both farms open the SharePoint 2013 Management Shell
2. On the Intranet Farm run the following PowerShell command
$rootCert = (Get-SPCertificateAuthority).RootCertificate
$rootCert.Export("Cert") | Set-Content C:\Temp\IntranetFarmRoot.cer -Encoding byte
3. On the Publishing Farm run the following PowerShell command
$rootCert.Export("Cert") | Set-Content C:\Temp\ConsumingFarmRoot.cer -Encoding byte
$stsCert = (Get-SPSecurityTokenServiceConfig).LocalLoginProvider.SigningCertificate
$stsCert.Export("Cert") | Set-Content C:\Temp\ConsumingFarmSTS.cer -Encoding byte
4. Copy the certificate from C:\temp on the Intranet Farm to C:\temp on the Publishing farm
5. Copy the 2 certificates from C:\temp on the Publishing Farm to C:\temp on the Intranet farm
6. Run the following PowerShell command on the Publishing farm
$rootCert.Export("Cert") | Set-Content C:\Temp\PublishingFarmRoot.cer -Encoding byte
7. Run the following PowerShell command on the Intranet farm
$trustCert = Get-PfxCertificate C:\Temp\ConsumingFarmRoot.cer
New-SPTrustedRootAuthority IntranetFarm -Certificate $trustCert
$stsCert = Get-PfxCertificate c:\Temp\ConsumingFarmSTS.cer
New-SPTrustedServiceTokenIssuer WebPublishingFarm -Certificate $stsCert
Once trust has been created the Service Applications that I wanted the Publishing farm to use had to be published from SharePoint.
Once this process has been completed I needed to add a content source to the search service on the Intranet farm to allow it to crawl the Publishing site. I then removed the application server from the publishing farm.


text: Become a Member of OSPS I'm so glad you've made it to the membership page! We love members! And, I invite you to become a member of OSPS. Why? Since 1989 OSPS has had the mission to educate people about psychoanalysis. We have grown into a vibrant and thoughtful community of clinicians, students, scholars, and all sorts of professionals.There are three great reasons to become a member but I think the best reason to be a member is to connect with friends and colleagues. We hope you will make OSPS your professional home.But our friendliness is not the only reason to join. Members get a discount on all our seminars. We usually offer monthly seminars from September through May. So, join now and get a break on all our seminars.Membership will also allow you free access to our social network. That's right, we have our own social network! Our social network will help you get to know members, make referrals to members, learn about our events, and have discussions about a variety of psychoanalytic subjects. It acts as our space to be together when we're not in the same room.Membership is very affordable and costs just $50 this year for regular members and $25 for associate members. I hope you'll join today and I look forward to seeing you at our next meeting!Sharon Neuwald President, OSPS Society PurposeThe Oklahoma Society for Psychoanalytic Studies (OSPS) is a local chapter of Division 39 (Psychoanalysis) of the American Psychological Association. This chapter was established in 1989 by a group of professionals interested in a forum for the pursuit of the study of Psychoanalytic literature, theory and practice. The intent is to provide an opportunity for interested individuals to develop and expand their knowledge of Psychoanalytic theory. These goals are accomplished through periodic seminars, courses and study groups.As a member of OSPS, you can be actively involved in promoting interest in Psychoanalytic studies in Oklahoma. As a Member you can vote, serve on committees, hold office and participate in all OSPS activities at reduced rates. Associate Members may also serve on committees and participate in chapter activities at reduced rates.Membership Application ProcessPlease fill out the web form to the right or, if you prefer a paper form, please click here and mail the form and check to OSPS, PO Box 12683, Oklahoma City, OK 73157. Checks can be made out to OSPS and please write in the memo section that your check is for membership.Membership ClassificationTwo classes of membership in the chapter are granted according to the following criteria:1. To be eligible for MEMBER status, a professional shall be a member of the National Division 39 of APA or licensed by one of the following:(a) The State Board of Examiners of Psychologists to practice psychology in Oklahoma(b) The Board of Medical Licensure and Supervision to practice medicine in Oklahoma(c) The Counselor Licensing division of the State Health Department to practice counseling and/or marriage and family therapy(d) The Oklahoma Board of Licensure to practice social work in Oklahoma(e) The State Board of Nurse Registration and Education to practice nursing2. ASSOCIATE membership shall be open to individuals who either:a) have a degree in Psychology or a related social science field, but are not licensed to practice independently(b) are students enrolled in a State or regionally accredited college, university or professional school(c) are members of other professions (teaching, research, etc.) interested in psychoanalytic studies(d) are Early career professionals defined as 3 years post licensure Subscribe to our email list Email Address * First Name Last Name Membership List Please click here to see the current and past OSPS Practitioner's Membership List.2018-19 Membership List2019-20 Membership List If you prefer a paper form, please click here and mail the form and check to OSPS, PO Box 12683, Oklahoma City, OK 73157. Checks can be made out to OSPS and please write in the memo section that your check is for membership.


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Despite the development of LED technology, Neon is still alive and well in the signage industry. At Signs4SA we manufacture all of our own neon tubing in our state of the art neon production plant, the raw glass tubing is hand-formed to match computer generated patterns, and installed in many different applications.
Variations include: Open faced channel letters, Neon accent or border tubing, exterior exposed neon lettering, interior displays for wall or window application.
Neon is extremely effective in outlining your building or business or providing an accent to your other signage.
When it comes to signs for your business, nothing beats a brightly glowing sign. You see them everywhere and its warm glow, from windows and bar rooms, demands your attention.
Neon was one of the earliest technologies used by sign makers - and it's still one of the most popular. We are known for the quality of our neon signs - we've been designing neon signs for companies across a spectrum of industries for almost 2 decades.
The first step in creating a custom neon sign is to plot the ideas on a fire resistant stencil. Our master tube bender will then accurately bend neon tubes into the right shape and design for your sign. Once the glass has been moulded, the air is sucked from the tubes and gas is pumped inside to create the glow.
At this point, the back of your sign is dipped into black glass paint to help the lettering and design stand out. Once dry, the lettering is mounted on a black or clear backing and wired to a transformer to power your new sign.
Finally, we double box your custom neon sign with plenty of foam packaging to avoid breakage during shipping. We include hanging hardware with each sign so you can immediately hang your sign right out of the box.


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Merry meet all,
The moon is waxing and is in its second quarter phase, growing to a full moon. The full moon shines on April 4th. I plan to do a powerful full moon rite that night. That is a good time to cleanse your crystals. Use white and silver candles and a white or deep blue altar cloth.
The snow has extended its rude visit. Spring feels far away. I left bird seed for the poor birds who must be having a hard time finding sustenance. My familiars have plenty of food. Penny keeps me on my toes or witch shoes. Speaking of witch shoes, I have vowed to always wear something witchy every day of the year. I put my jeans away, which zap the magic out of me. I plan to buy more witchy attire in the near future. I feel better in my witchy gear. I want to be my true authentic self. I like being authentic and feel better about it. I just bought myself a beautiful pleather coat on sale. I have a pair of black granny boots now that lace up and zipper. I will be rocking it hard core once this cursed snow all mets. I think winter is trying to stick around forever.
I also can't wait to get to have a copy of the upcoming Bast devotional anthology, of which I contributed to. I just adopted a cat named Penny. She is a Norwegian Forest Cat and she is so sweet. Bast is the goddess of all cats. I bought a beautiful magickal black cat t-shirt with a gorgeous print on the shirt and made an altar cloth from it. It is in honor of Penny. The altar cloth is in the photo above.
For those of you who wish to communicate with your loved ones who have passed on and aren't sure how to, then other than reading my blogs, consider reading the book The Witches Book of the Dead by Christian Day. I like him and I like his book. The book tells you in real detail what to do. It is all too much for me to write here. The book is wonderful and will instruct you how to do a ritual to convene with the dead. I see nothing wrong with that. When my grandfather passed, it was an emotional time. But I sensed he was at peace. If I wanted to, I could call on him-respectfully. But the book is a goddess send for those who are serious.
As most of you know, I'm a Witch. I am also a reluctant magnet for the dead. I have been giving things some thought here and decided to write this note. This note is a request for help. I have been thinking a lot over and I couldn't conclude things by myself. Ok…
I have had a few experiences that were freaky and that I can't understand. I hear about people being contacted by their relatives that have passed on. OK all fine and good. When my aunt passed, I sensed a presence behind me that night. When my pets have passed on, they have visited me. When my grandfather passed, I sensed he was at peace. When my father passed, even though the caller was 10000s of miles away and I never knew him, I knew what the caller would tell my mother who was on the phone with him. Yes he had passed away and I hope that that troubled soul found peace. I have sensed presences at the Five Fishermen Restaurant and at the Citadel Hill Ghost Tour. That tour was scary. I don't know if you would like to be exploring a tunnel at night with someone's cell phone light the only light to guide your way and your spine doing the terrified mambo the entire time.
Now. That is all good. OK. But I have had a few freakin terrifying experiences and I wonder why they happened. I would not try to attract that to me. No way. I would not try to do it with intent. But I mean, it was like something out of Poltergeist. The nightmare I experienced during sleep paralysis and please tell me, this was only a result of paralysis during sleep and just a fear from the experience.But the thing' was downright EVIL. So I think what I am asking is if it was a dream or was something evil trying to overpower me or contact me via a nightmare? I was approached by a nasty spirit one night at home after watching a movie. Maybe it is because I can sense energies that they are drawn to me like a moth to a flame? I have completed psychic training but when it comes to somethings, it is not enough. I saw a dark shadow person in my apt, a ghost cat, and I feel the hairs on my neck go up at night in the bathroom. A tenant here told me she sensed something in her room here too.
I do cleanse my house, I do keep good energy, I do smudge and sage and I believed that I had setup enough adequate shields and protections here. But I think if something wants to, it will find a way in. Of course, the next logical step is to perform a banishing and cleansing. I also like to steep sage tea in a teapot and pour it all around the perimeter of the property, something I am behind in doing. Well I don't want sage from Israel, I want locally grown sage. I plan to get some soon at the market.
Not to mention that seeing the dead probably robs you of a chance at a happy relationship. With a living potential partner. I have my familiars. They love me if I feed them.
The top magickal tool to protect yourself with is sage. I just recently picked up some sage. It is good to have around to protect yourself.
Lady Spiderwitch )O(


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14k Rose Gold Branch Necklace
This necklace is made out of solid 14k rosegold. The branch is cast from an actual tree branch. The natural beauty of the branch is intact so you can easily see the node and bark. The gold used to make this branch is recycled 14k rose gold.
Measurements: 4.7 cm in length or about 1.85 inches in length and the chain measures 18" in length.
Necklace comes packaged and ready for gift giving.
Shipping: Please allow 14 - 21 business days for processing. You will be notified when the item ships and will be provided tracking information for orders in the US. I use USPS Priority mail for domestic orders which has a delivery time of 2-3 days and includes tracking and insurance.


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Have you ever thought about what it's like to live with a disability? Have you really thought about it? People who live with disabilities have to find creative ways of performing everyday tasks, such as opening a door, pouring their own cereal, or putting on pants. The fact that these ordinary things are sometimes a struggle is something most of us never think about.
One of my kids was born with a hand deformity which, on the surface, doesn't slow him down at all. But, he's 7 now and as he gets older, I am noticing more and more how he has difficulty with things I would never perceive as being a challenge. Things like, using a pepper mill, gripping a really large hamburger, and buttoning a shirt. Seeing the world through his eyes has opened my eyes in countless ways, giving me insight to life with disabilities that an average person might not possess.
I don't focus on what my limb difference kid can't do. I help him find ways to do what he wants to do and needs to do. Sometimes I push him to do for himself when he'd rather rely on my two hands. I thought I was pretty savvy and sensitive of what life with a disability looked like, but I watched a video this week that opened my eyes to something that might be inaccessible, or at the very least, limited for individuals with disabilities: fashion.
Seriously, have you ever thought of fashion being off-limits or different for people with disabilities? My limb difference kid struggles with buttons. He's a kid, so it's not a big deal for his mom to button his shirt. But when he's older, is he going to choose clothing based on how easy it is to get in and out of versus whether or not it's what he wants to wear or should wear? Seriously, is he going to one day wear a polo shirt with a suit jacket because buttons are too difficult?
Enter Runway of Dreams.
Runway of Dreams was founded in 2014 by Mindy Scheier, a fashion designer and a mother to a child with a disability. Scheier would dress her son Oliver for school in sweat pants because they were easy to maneuver over his leg braces.
It was a great solution, until her 8-year-old came home from school and announced that he wanted to wear jeans. His friends wore jeans and he wanted to wear the same things that other kids were wearing. Makes total sense, right? We all want to belong.
The problem was that jeans didn't fit over his leg braces, and that right there was Scheier's aha moment: "I'm a fashion designer and I can make this work."
And so she did. And she didn't stop there. She realized that if she was struggling with access to fashionable adaptive clothing, then other parents were, too.
This video captures snippets of life of four people who have been impacted by Runway of Dreams. In many ways, their lives are ordinary, but this video shows how the extraordinary vision behind this project impacts real people in a way many of us have probably never considered. Grab some tissues because this will make you cry in a happy way.
Today, Runway of Dreams is a twofold operation. The business side focuses on working with clothing manufacturers to educate them about what adaptive clothing needed to be. The Runway of Dreams toolkit for brands focuses on three components: adjustability, waistbands, and how to get in and out of the clothing. Features such as side openings in pant legs and magnetic buttons (that look like regular buttons on the outside) are used to make adaptive clothing look like … well, any other clothing.
And that's pretty much the idea, right?
Thanks to Runway of Dreams, clothing lines such as Tommy Hilfiger now include a collection of adaptive children's wear. The clothing looks like the rest of the line, but include features that make the clothing easy to take on and off for people with disabilities. And Tommy Hilfiger adaptive clothing looks like Tommy Hilfiger clothing, because that's what it is.
Thanks to Runway of Dreams, other clothing manufacturers will follow. The company's vision includes making lines of adaptive clothing available in department stores alongside the standard lines. And why not? We have plus size, petite, and big and tall. Why not adaptive? Why shouldn't I be able to go into a department store and buy a fashionable shirt with magnetic buttons?
I say it's about time.
I hope major clothing lines are paying attention, because right now this mom of a limb difference kid wants to go out and buy Tommy Hilfiger's inventory for all of my family members. This spirit of inclusion is huge for a child who stands out when he might just want to fit in and wear what everyone else is wearing. It's also huge for the parents making the purchasing decisions.
And it gets better.
Runway of Dreams also has a nonprofit arm that provides scholarships for individuals with disabilities who want to pursue careers in fashion, design, or manufacturing of adaptive clothing.
It's time for inclusion and acceptance everywhere — and the fashion industry is no exception.


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U.S. troops came out of Iraq in 2011 and yet today, the United States is spending $49 million a day in security assistance to Iraq. Over 17, almost$18 billion alone in 2012.
Now, what exactly are we buying with the taxpayers' money in Iraq? Are we buying influence? That's what we are supposed to be using this money for. Are we buying strategic advantage? Well, that's why there is such a program as foreign military assistance. And yet today, the very State Department that is dragging its feet to finally resolve the status of what is now primarily, primarily a foreign policy issue that the State Department has confused to no end is serving as the paymaster to the Iraqi government.
Now, this is the really important part because this security assistance that the United States is providing is being dispensed not by the Department of Defense, not by the Department of Defense but by the State Department.
In other words, the American taxpayer is providing the government of Prime Minister Maliki billions of dollars in aid for as I would state and submit less influence and less diplomatic purpose.
That by any account to a Democrat and Republican would be what anyone would deem is an unfair bargain.
I wonder, I wonder whether this assistance should be provided with no strings attached? After all, the Prime Minister of Iraq is apparently no great friend of democracy in Iraq. Anyone who understands the situation in Iraq would tell you that this man has a blind ambition to create a state that becomes nothing more than a puppet regime to the Iranian government.
I wonder if the American people understood the bargain that they now seem to be receiving from this security assistance. Echoing the remarks that were made by my colleagues here, why not? You have worked so hard. You have banged on the doors of Congress. You have pleaded with our friends in the State Department. You have gone from door to door and spent the money out of your pockets asking the State Department to listen.
Well, I ask the State Department the following question. You seem to be having an extraordinary hard time, an extraordinarily unbearable time determining what is right from wrong here. Let us make this easy for you. Should we not take this issue out of your hands and condition the security assistance to the Iraqi government on its willingness to live up to its bargains and bilateral and international obligations. Including its obligation to commit to preserve the human rights, not of the MeK -- I don't like calling the people of Camp Ashraf or Camp Liberty, MeK. These are asylum seekers. These are people. These are refugees. Hello, State Department. These people are decent people looking for a home in another country.
They make it so easy. When I talk to them, oh, these are the MeK, as if somehow or other they're terrorists. Well, prove it. The court compelled you to prove it and I sat in that court hearing room. And I didn't hear anything. I listened intently. I wanted to hear. Where is the proof? I heard nothing from my friends in the department.
I keep asking the Treasury Department, where is the proof? I get no answer from the Treasury Department. I ask the Justice Department, where is the proof that this is a terrorist organization? I can't even get the benefit of a reply.
You know, after all, Mr. Maliki is no model of a trustworthy American ally. Just two weeks ago the Iraqi central criminal court rejected Americans, the State Department's former request to extradite a Hezbollah commander by the name of Ali Musa Daqduq to face charges of terrorist murder against Americans and British soldiers in Iraq as well for other offenses. This man, this terrorist that the Iraqis seem to be shielding has blood on his hands, he's a Hezbollah Iranian agent.
Why, I ask, if we are providing 48 million dollars a day to the Iraqi government, would they defy turning over a known terrorist that has the blood on his hands of both British and American soldiers. For all Americans, the failure by the Maliki government to turn over such an individual and claim there's inadequate proof represents almost the same type of subterfuge that I see going on here towards the U.S. Government towards the MeK.
Iraq under Prime Minister Maliki is a nation that is taking U.S. taxpayers' money. Iraq is siding with Iran as we have heard, not only on its nuclear weapons program but also in defending the Assad regime in Syria.
Just the other day, Prime Minister Maliki called on other Arab states to cease their interference in undermining the Assad regime.
And it is through Iraq's poorest border that Al-Qaeda has been able to establish a new foothold inside Syria.
Additionally, Iraq is increasingly siding with Iran in its confrontation with Israel. And there's absolutely no doubt in my mind that Iraq is serving as Iran's proxy to punish, to intimidate, to penalize, to subrogate and to harm the refugees and asylum seekers that are now placed in a humanitarian plight that Patrick Kennedy's father as chairman of the Refugee Subcommittee would have condemned as inhumane.
MR. GINSBURG: Respected, I underline respected, human rights UN official Mr. Boumedra decided to become a whistle blower on the conditions at Camp Liberty. He sent a chilling message not only to the United States as well as to the international community. He essentially said the following. The Iraqi government, the Iraqi government has now been able to convert the UN into a tool of its own designs against the refugees and asylum seekers at Camp Ashraf and at Camp Liberty.
What he charged was that Mr. Kobler, the head of the United Nations official, has colluded with the Iraqi government.
Why would the United States, why would Mr. Fried, the representative of the United States on this matter, wish to be party if there was any conceivable chance that Mr. Boumedra charges were correct and Mr. Kobler was engaged in terrible cover-up.
I asked the United Nations to conduct an independent investigation into the humanitarian conditions that would be not only provided to the Human Rights Commission of the United Nations but also to the U.S. Congress. Certainly if the United States taxpayer is going to provide the Maliki government with billions of dollars in U.S. military assistance a year, should we not condition this vital assistance on his government? After all, he's proven not to be are liable ally and we must in effect put these strings.
As the speaker and as Senator D'Amato said and as Senator Kennedy used to tell me and others who work for them, no one should get a free ride when it comes to violating the basic human rights of anyone around the world. And the Maliki government seems to be getting a free ride from the American taxpayer. Enough is enough.
Senator Kennedy and those of us in the Democratic party who understand that this is not merely a political issue but a humanitarian issue, realize that the State Department has a obligation to not only de-list, but also to treat this matter as a refugee and humanitarian issue in the same way that it would have treated the same humanitarian and refugee issue from other people who have suffered in Haiti, from other people's suffered from natural disasters or political disasters around the world. Why should they be treated any differently? After all, there's hardly any foreign military assistance program that the United State funds that doesn't have conditions attached.
When I saw that Senator Carl Levin wrote this letter to Secretary Clinton, he, after all, is Chairman of the Senate Arms Services Committee. He has it within his authority and he certainly has the support by the number of congressmen who have signed these letters, to take when they return back from Congress and to add an amendment to the next piece of legislation working its way through Congress, that they call on the president and obligate the president not to provide any further security assistance to the government of Iraq until the president certifies to Congress that the people of Camp Ashraf and Camp Liberty are going to be expeditiously relocated under a United Nations program and until then that they will be protected or else there will be no additional security assistance to a regime that is not necessarily doing what's best for the American people.
Do not think you are doing anything different than anyone else would have done for the last 50 years. It is part of the political process and I encourage you to seriously think.
Let me close by saying to my friends in the administration who I care deeply about, do not condemn. They are good people from Secretary Clinton to her deputy Secretary, Mr. Burns, to the under Secretary Wendy Sherman, to the assistant secretary, my good friend Beth Jones, to the legal advisor. Let us take this matter out of your hands. The courts clearly want to do that. You have tried your best to negotiate an agreement on Iran's nuclear weapons. You must admit and acknowledge that it is no longer possible to achieve that. You've tried your best not to let the MeK issue give any further justification to the Iranian government as if somehow or other by taking them off this list that would further antagonize the Iranians. It no longer matters to us what Maliki feels about the MeK. After all, we know what his stripes look like.
I think it's time for my friends in the Department to acknowledge that they have a humanitarian obligation in the absence of credible proof to do what's right.
Those of us who want to see this administration succeed believe that the definition of success is not doing what you wanted to do and what you no longer can do. It's doing what's right and what's right for the American taxpayer. Thank you very much.


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"Don't believe everthing you think..."
There are a few basic concepts that make up the foundation of this dictionary. One such concept, best formulated by the american philosopher Abraham Maslow, has to do with fundamental being values built into our genetic material. That there is a predilection for good, for positive being values and for our pleasure response to those. We are pleased by and attracted to truth, to justice, to the lively, to beauty, to humour, to balance, to order and likewise we are repulsed by nitpicking, by the boring, by the dead and lifeless, by ugly, by abuse and injustice, by fake and falsehood and by lies. Maslow made the observation that positive being values could only be defined in terms containing all the other positive being values. If not they would be perverted such as the idea of beauty and cruelty having anything in common.
A positive being value is something we show preference for if healthy and having a choice not insignificant IFs though. Many childhood wounds result in neurotic responses to situations neurotic feelings that seem to negate the validity of our reactions to positive being values. For example if truth is associated with a cruel father, who demanded incriminating truth and measured out harsh punishment if his "truth" wasn't adopted, the chance of a neurotic response to truth is very likely resulting in a neurotic pleasure in lying and a life of secrecy (as in Ingmar Bergmans Fanny and Alexander).
Some research seem to suggest that there is more to the idea of a gut-feeling than "just a feeling". It seems to place a center of billions of nerve cells in the stomach area, connected to motoric actions and as the author of an article on the subject phrased it - another feeling - brain in the stomach to rival the cortex-fed "thinking-brain" in the head.
Yet other researchers at Oxford University say that feelings now are thought to account for at least 50% of the learning information as opposed to the idea that all learning is entered through cortex in the head-brain as the portal.
Feeling healthy and unrushed, thoughts and feelings are inter-twined in a beautiful interactive network tool --- how sad that this brilliant tool isn't given nearly enough service and maintenance to serve us the way it is able to. For example, when we give (or sell) our time to an employer, only a very small piece of this capability is wanted and I believe that the consequence too often is that we downplay the spectrum of ourselves that are "not paid for" for the sake of seeming more useful (especially in a very competitive situation). If we are paid to write programs for a banking system it is easy to remake ones persona to become 95% programer and cram into the remaining 5% every other aspect of ourselves ... at a great cost to our general well being. *
This site is about feelings -- not because I think that feelings are more important than thoughts -- but maybe because thinking has been given an inordinantly high position in the hierarchy of human qualities. "He or she is so smart, very intelligent -- a quick thinker". Seldom do we hear as expressions of genuine appreciation that someone is very intuitive, sensitive and discerning. I feel that we learn far more accurately through our feeling-system than from our thinking-system. One of the ideas that will come back on these pages is that someones thinking is easier to manipulate than the feelings. The feelings can be misinterpreted by imposed thinking and again, this is the reason for why this dictionary is needed and important.
Either way, we can easiely see that the "knowledge" we can get through reading and accepting other peoples thinking or instructing, is supremely vulnerable to manipulation by unscrupulous intent. Hence the power of myth, stories and (mis)information. Some fairytales, for example, were written and used as instruments of manipulating kids into certain behavior: "remember what happened to Hans and Gretchen when they didn't obey their parents". Other fairytales and myths were written as metaphorical journeys through our lifes where felt experiences play an essential role in the interpretation of how the mind goes through a metamorphasis from child to an older persons' wiser mind, enriched with experiences. It is no small thing that intentional misinformation is fed children in pre-school and later through school books -- many being little less than politically, religiously and generally interest-motivated propaganda. This is the age when children are the most vulnerable to lasting formations of beliefs.
At a time when technology is rushing away at breakneck speed, it is even more important to recognize the brilliance of the intuitive mind and how crucial it is to give ourselves time to stop and feel where we are... where we want to go ... and how we want to go forward. Otherwise we will be carried forward on a wave of automated default responses and opinions to a, no doubt, fully automatic funural home. The question "what did I do with my life?" is one that we better start to feel out and then think about as soon as we can grasp that concept. "A wasted life" is to me the most sad of all human concepts. On the other hand, it is not a question of other peoples opinions of how someone should live their life. It is the subjective judgement that counts. If someone has spent their life always putting their own mind second and always served another person, ideology or religion and then reaches the end of their life with regret --- that is a horribly sad realization. To have participated in raising a healthy family and to have given a lot of self to others and felt the reward of mutual exchange is a profoundly fulfilling feeling and a note that can be in harmony with an ending life. Fear of death is so often tied to regret, to have lived an empty or damaging life that never got to heal itself.
I also sometimes ponder that if I lived under the inquisition, this writing would be banned by the church and never allowed to be published actually, that could still happen :-) and if it does it would be the confirmation that accurate feelings, well understood, is maybe still the greatest threat to any totalitarian power hierarchy. It was not very long ago (about a century) that "serfs", in any of the several mining towns in Sweden, had to take their hats off and bow their heads when the "patron" (the owner of the mine) travelled by. So displeasing was it to the often abusive powerholders to see the real feelings of the people they mistreated and provoked to be angry. This was true then and is true today.
*Then again, I know people who given all the time in the world would spend all or most of their active time in front of a computer, because they love to do just that. Some would say I'm one of those...


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Preprints (rote Reihe) des Fachbereich Mathematik
A polynomial function \(f : L \to L\) of a lattice \(\mathcal{L}\) = \((L; \land, \lor)\) is generated by the identity function id \(id(x)=x\) and the constant functions \(c_a (x) = a\) (for every \(x \in L\)), \(a \in L\) by applying the operations \(\land, \lor\) finitely often. Every polynomial function in one or also in several variables is a monotone function of \(\mathcal{L}\). If every monotone function of \(\mathcal{L}\)is a polynomial function then \(\mathcal{L}\) is called orderpolynomially complete. In this paper we give a new characterization of finite order-polynomially lattices. We consider doubly irreducible monotone functions and point out their relation to tolerances, especially to central relations. We introduce chain-compatible lattices and show that they have a non-trivial congruence if they contain a finite interval and an infinite chain. The consequences are two new results. A modular lattice \(\mathcal{L}\) with a finite interval is order-polynomially complete if and only if \(\mathcal{L}\) is finite projective geometry. If \(\mathcal{L}\) is simple modular lattice of infinite length then every nontrivial interval is of infinite length and has the same cardinality as any other nontrivial interval of \(\mathcal{L}\). In the last sections we show the descriptive power of polynomial functions of lattices and present several applications in geometry.
On derived varieties (1996)
Derived varieties play an essential role in the theory of hyperidentities. In [11] we have shown that derivation diagrams are a useful tool in the analysis of derived algebras and varieties. In this paper this tool is developed further in order to use it for algebraic constructions of derived algebras. Especially the operator \(S\) of subalgebras, \(H\) of homomorphic irnages and \(P\) of direct products are studied. Derived groupoids from the groupoid \(N or (x,y)\) = \(x'\wedge y'\) and from abelian groups are considered. The latter class serves as an example for fluid algebras and varieties. A fluid variety \(V\) has no derived variety as a subvariety and is introduced as a counterpart for solid varieties. Finally we use a property of the commutator of derived algebras in order to show that solvability and nilpotency are preserved under derivation.
It is shown that Tikhonov regularization for ill- posed operator equation \(Kx = y\) using a possibly unbounded regularizing operator \(L\) yields an orderoptimal algorithm with respect to certain stability set when the regularization parameter is chosen according to the Morozov's discrepancy principle. A more realistic error estimate is derived when the operators \(K\) and \(L\) are related to a Hilbert scale in a suitable manner. The result includes known error estimates for ordininary Tikhonov regularization and also the estimates available under the Hilbert scale approach.
Let \(a_1,\dots,a_m\) be independent random points in \(\mathbb{R}^n\) that are independent and identically distributed spherically symmetrical in \(\mathbb{R}^n\). Moreover, let \(X\) be the random polytope generated as the convex hull of \(a_1,\dots,a_m\) and let \(L_k\) be an arbitrary \(k\)-dimensional subspace of \(\mathbb{R}^n\) with \(2\le k\le n-1\). Let \(X_k\) be the orthogonal projection image of \(X\) in \(L_k\). We call those vertices of \(X\), whose projection images in \(L_k\) are vertices of \(X_k\)as well shadow vertices of \(X\) with respect to the subspace \(L_k\) . We derive a distribution independent sharp upper bound for the expected number of shadow vertices of \(X\) in \(L_k\).
Let \(a_1,\dots,a_n\) be independent random points in \(\mathbb{R}^d\) spherically symmetrically but not necessarily identically distributed. Let \(X\) be the random polytope generated as the convex hull of \(a_1,\dots,a_n\) and for any \(k\)-dimensional subspace \(L\subseteq \mathbb{R}^d\) let \(Vol_L(X) :=\lambda_k(L\cap X)\) be the volume of \(X\cap L\) with respect to the \(k\)-dimensional Lebesgue measure \(\lambda_k, k=1,\dots,d\). Furthermore, let \(F^{(i)}\)(t):= \(\bf{Pr}\) \(\)(\(\Vert a_i \|_2\leq t\)), \(t \in \mathbb{R}^+_0\) , be the radial distribution function of \(a_i\). We prove that the expectation functional \(\Phi_L\)(\(F^{(1)}, F^{(2)},\dots, F^{(n)})\) := \(E(Vol_L(X)\)) is strictly decreasing in each argument, i.e. if \(F^{(i)}(t) \le G^{(i)}(t)t\), \(t \in {R}^+_0\), but \(F^{(i)} \not\equiv G^{(i)}\), we show \(\Phi\) \((\dots, F^{(i)}, \dots\)) > \(\Phi(\dots,G^{(i)},\dots\)). The proof is clone in the more general framework of continuous and \(f\)- additive polytope functionals.
This paper investigates the convergence of the Lanczos method for computing the smallest eigenpair of a selfadjoint elliptic differential operator via inverse iteration (without shifts). Superlinear convergence rates are established, and their sharpness is investigated for a simple model problem. These results are illustrated numerically for a more difficult problem.
This paper develops truncated Newton methods as an appropriate tool for nonlinear inverse problems which are ill-posed in the sense of Hadamard. In each Newton step an approximate solution for the linearized problem is computed with the conjugate gradient method as an inner iteration. The conjugate gradient iteration is terminated when the residual has been reduced to a prescribed percentage. Under certain assumptions on the nonlinear operator it is shown that the algorithm converges and is stable if the discrepancy principle is used to terminate the outer iteration. These assumptions are fulfilled , e.g., for the inverse problem of identifying the diffusion coefficient in a parabolic differential equation from distributed data.


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Italian alphabet
The Italian alphabet is typically considered to consist of 21 letters. The letters j, k, w, x, y are traditionally excluded, though they appear in loanwords such as jeans, whisky, taxi, xenofobo, xilofono. The letter ⟨x⟩ has become common in standard Italian with the prefix extra-, although (e)stra- is traditionally used; it is also common to use of the Latin particle ex(-) to mean "former(ly)" as in: la mia ex ("my ex-girlfriend"), "Ex-Jugoslavia" ("Former Yugoslavia"). The letter ⟨j⟩ appears in the first name Jacopo and in some Italian place-names, such as Bajardo, Bojano, Joppolo, Jerzu, Jesolo, Jesi, Ajaccio, among others, and in Mar Jonio, an alternative spelling of Mar Ionio (the Ionian Sea). The letter ⟨j⟩ may appear in dialectal words, but its use is discouraged in contemporary standard Italian.[72] Letters used in Foreign words can be replaced with phonetically equivalent native Italian letters and digraphs: ⟨gi⟩, ⟨ge⟩, or ⟨i⟩ for ⟨j⟩; ⟨c⟩ or ⟨ch⟩ for ⟨k⟩ (including in the standard prefix kilo-); ⟨o⟩, ⟨u⟩ or ⟨v⟩ for ⟨w⟩; ⟨s⟩, ⟨ss⟩, ⟨z⟩, ⟨zz⟩ or ⟨cs⟩ for ⟨x⟩; and ⟨e⟩ or ⟨i⟩ for ⟨y⟩.
The acute accent is used over word-final ⟨e⟩ to indicate a stressed front close-mid vowel, as in perché "why, because". In dictionaries, it is also used over ⟨o⟩ to indicate a stressed back close-mid vowel (azióne). The grave accent is used over word-final ⟨e⟩ to indicate a front open-mid vowel, as in tè "tea". The grave accent is used over any vowel to indicate word-final stress, as in gioventù "youth". Unlike ⟨é⟩, a stressed final ⟨o⟩ is always a back open-mid vowel (andrò), making ⟨ó⟩ unnecessary outside of dictionaries. Most of the time, the penultimate syllable is stressed. But if the stressed vowel is the final letter of the word, the accent is mandatory, otherwise it is virtually always omitted. Exceptions are typically either in dictionaries, where all or most stressed vowels are commonly marked. Accents can optionally be used disambiguate words that differ only by stress, as for prìncipi "princes" and princìpi "principles", or àncora "anchor" and ancóra "still/yet". For monosyllabic words, the rule is different: when two identical monosyllabic words with different meanings exist, one is accented and the other is not (example: è "is", e "and").
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This Sunday, June 12 marks the debut day for the TV One film "Love Under New Management: The Miki Howard Story." Outlining her career from an early age, the biopic takes the viewer through many stories behind the life of the multitalented singer and songwriter.
Joining Sway in the Morning, along with the woman portraying her in the film, Teyonah Parris, and Darius McCrary who plays Gerald Levert, the three speak on how things came together. While Darius has known Howard as well as Levert for some time, Parris speaks on meeting Howard just a few weeks before filming. Speaking on Howard's infectious energy, she admits that she had a lot of work to do to prepare for the role.
As the interview progresses, we hear Howard and the crew open up much more as they laugh and joke with each other about their friendship. As Sway begins to dig deeper into the story, Howard takes the reins and fills us in on many details of her life and career. From her previous marriages to drug addiction to dating Eazy E, she holds nothing back and the whole room bonds together. You're going to want to check out the interview above.


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Gigi's Mashed Up Manhattan Adventure
Gigi Hadid was spotted leaving the New York subway in a mixed trend outfit. A mid-rise cigarette trouser and cropped Adidas tee are brought together by a biker jacket. Leather jackets mismatched to non-moto pieces serves athleisure and health goth street style.
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I think it will be a while before anyone sees this blog but I feel silly having it and not having anything on it. In this blog you will see things that are interesting to me. Maybe they interest you too. You are sure free to comment and together we may create a useful and interesting place.
Today I was in the car and a talk show host was speaking to my newly re-elected State Attorney General, he said that the first thing he was going to do was file a law suit against the BCS for not ranking the University of Utah #1 in the BCS rankings! Can you believe it! My tax dollars hard at work making sure the college football rankings are fair! I am sure glad the world is peaceful enough to allow this to happen, Ha Ha. Frankly if he does this I will be outraged. Well I have to go.


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Easter is right around the corner! Still just dipping your eggs in some dye? Try something a little different this year with your Easter egg decorating. I've rounded up 14 creative Easter egg decorating ideas for you to try.
Easter Egg Decorating Ideas
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These pretty eggs are made from 3D scrapbooking stickers from Ladies Home Journal
Dip Dyed eggs by Oh Joy!
Monogrammed Easter eggs from Lil' Luna
Stamped & dyed eggs from Lovely Indeed
Faux gilded Easter eggs from Just Paint It
Banded egg dyed Easter eggs – uses a rubber band from Better Homes & Gardens
Botanical eggs from Martha Stewart
Hand painted Easter eggs from Sugar and Charm
Water color eggs from Spoon Fork Bacon
These use temporary tattoo transferpaper from Country Living
Reverse silhouette Easter eggs from Le Papier Studio
Subway art Easter eggs from Lil' Luna
Animal Easter eggs from Family Circle
Aren't these just amazing! Whimsical Easter eggs using permanent pens and acrylic paint from Alisa Burke
Which idea is your favorite? I like the simplicity of the dip dyed eggs but wish I had the talent (and time) to draw on eggs like those from Alisa Burke.
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How are you all doing? I hope you all have great plans for the weekend 😉 I was really happy with the fact that prints have come back in fashion and the sole reason why I like it is, it hides all those problem areas that we guiltily try to shy away from most of our lives. Nothing makes heads turn like the perfect print. But knowing which designs enhances your figure and learning how to style them flawlessly are some of the key factors to revamp your closet. So let me take you through a few prints which are my favorites.
This has been always my favourite favourite print. From dresses to tops to even my underwears have been filled with polka dots when this fashion had just come in . HAHAHAA. TMI!!
But always make sure to go for smaller polka dots as BIG polka dots make you look childish and a little at the bulkier side too. My suggestion would be to opt for darker shades of clothing with a contrast polka dots color and then you watch how the spotlight will be on you 🙂
My second favorite has to be the pretty floral prints. This is the best print to style up for your summer and spring season. But don't think that florals can only be a girly thing. You can make it look all sophisticated and chic by teaming up with the right accessories, shoes and even outer wears like blazer and coats. But be very very careful as this print can make you like huge and wide if the right print is not chosen according to your body frame. If you have a broad figure, do not wear long sleeved clothes as this will accentuate all the wrong areas and make you look bulky. Team it up with some statement pieces like a nice golden bib, a cuff and a thin belt to cinch that figure and you are good to go. 😀
If you are broad and short like me, then this is the best print for you. But as per the stylists, never go for horizontal stripes, as this will only make you look shorter and add weight to your body. The best option is to go for vertical stripes or even zig-zag or horizontal stripes. They make an illusion of a slimmer body and draw the eyes up and down, giving the illusion of height. Be sure that your clothes are tailored to fit you perfectly. If they are too tight or baggy, it can make your stripes lumpy and uneven, making you to look weird.
Though I'm not a big fan of this print when it comes to clothes , but it's been one of the most styled prints among celebrities, be it HOLLYWOOD or BOLLYWOOD. The most iconic one is the famous leopard print. You can find this print on handbags, shoes, leggings and dresses. If you plan to wear a leopard legging, keep the top plain and the vice versa applies as well. It can look a bit tacky, but if you think you carry off that style, go ahead girl!!! I like this style usually in bags, belts and even hair accessories.
This is one pattern that is just universally flattering. Be it a petite woman or a curvy one, this just makes you stand out in the crowd. The reason behind it is, there's so much design and pattern in it that there's no part of the body where one can concentrate separately. My style tip would be to make sure the accessories and your shoes match up with the color of the outfit. This print is best if you want to flaunt a classy look. 😉
And the last one is the sailor-inspired stripes. They give you a very retro look and if you like to add some ooph to your appearance, this is the right print for you. This print just screams SUMMER in all its true sense. Classic black and white stripes have been around for ages, as one of the most beloved patterns in fashion history. Ever since Coco Chanel sported the timeless pattern on a boat neck shirt, it has become a popular summer choice for fashion-forward women all around the world, not just for young men catching fish on a boat. Pair a good nautical striped tee with your jeans or shorts to go for a sporty look. But if you want to play all quirky, wear a crop top with this pattern with some flared skirt and pumps and see what magic you do to the crowd.
So these were some of the major prints that are in vogue and I'm sure there are many other prints as well. If you guys know about other prints, do let me know in the comments window so that I can try them too. You see, there's nothing exciting than gaining some knowledge about FASHION from my readers. I'm no fashion expert and these are just my personal choices and I hope you like some of these at least 🙂
Happy weekend 🙂


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Wednesday, January 12, 2005
Cops As Art Critics
Tres Chicas has the story of Texas cops masquerading as art critics.
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Posted by Gritsforbreakfast at 6:08 PM
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- The Ghosts of Blogs Past said...
Once again, Grits does Tres Chicas a big favor and gives it a little publicity. What a cool guy. Please send him some money -- he works hard for you. (I don't have money because I'm a law student.) - L
- Gritsforbreakfast said...
I appreciate it, Lauri, but you're putting up good stuff at Tres Chicas, and you've earned every link.
As for giving money, maybe one day I'll set up a Grits open records fund, but for now if folks want to support work on the issues Grits is writing about every day, I'd encourage them to join the ACLU of Texas, and help them out when they ask, like with the Harris County action alert posted yesterday. Grits is just a media project. That's where a lot of the important political work on these subjects is happening.
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Florida is one of the few states that recognizes the need for additional education when it comes to building awareness about the effects of alcohol on your driving ability. The DHSMV requires that very first time drivers license applicant, regardless of age, registers for and completes a 4-hour drug and alcohol course and takes an extensive test at the end of the class. Some students find the drug and alcohol test to be much harder than an actual DMV written test, since it requires you to remember a lot of statistical information, while the permit test covers primarily common-sense traffic rules and road signs. To help you tackle the exam, we have prepared a series of practice tests that contains all 2019 Florida drug and alcohol test answers and this is the quiz to start with!
The drug and alcohol practice test is very similar to other DMV sample quizzes on the website. It contains 20 multiple choice questions with 4 answers provided for every question. Only one of the answers is correct and you will not be able to make any changes to the test - as soon as you click on one of the provided options, your answer is accepted and you're told whether you are right or wrong. That's right, just like any other Florida permit practice test on the website, this sample test is graded on the fly - you do not need to finish the entire exam just to find out what questions you have missed! However, you will get a chance to review all of the questions you have missed at the end of the exam, the practice test does give you that option. While the passing score for the sample quiz is set at 80% (this is what you need to score on the real Florida drug and alcohol test), we recommend that you do not stop working on the exam until you can answer at least 90% of all questions correctly. You really want to have a safety buffer when it comes to taking the final test in a commercial DATA/TLSAE course - some programs will charge you a retest fee if you don't pass the exam the first time! Working on these Florida DMV drugs and alcohol test answers is free - so why not take a few extra minutes and really nail each and every one of the questions?
Keep in mind that passing the drug and alcohol test does not mean that you automatically get your drivers permit - you must still take and pass the permit test that covers rules and signs. Teenage license applicants enjoy the opportunity to take the permit test online, while someone who's 18 years old or older will need to visit a local DMV outlet to take the exam. Don't worry, through, as we have a practice test for every occasion and we have an amazing DMV cheat sheet loaded with Florida learners permit test answers you could work on before you head over to the office! We also stock the latest version of the drivers handbook, so you don't have to search hundreds of websites for answers - we have everything you need to study right here! However, that will come later. For now, just concentrate on this Florida drug and alcohol practice permit test and good luck with the program!


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terror on the eurostar for mcnab's sas vet
Few authors can have had as adventurous a life to draw on for inspiration as Andy McNab.
Abandoned as a baby on the steps of Guy's Hospital in London, he was a teenage delinquent before becoming a boy soldier in the British army.
He subsequently joined the SAS and has seen action-filled operations against dictators, terrorists and drug cartels.
On leaving the services he wrote three hugely successful non-fiction books about his military career before turning to fiction and penning 14 bestselling Nick Stone thrillers.
Red Notice is the first in a projected new series featuring SAS operative Sergeant Tom 'Posh Boy' Buckingham. The scion of a wealthy land-owning family, Tom prefers the rough and tumble camaraderie of the barrack room to the officers' mess.
And in Red Notice he gets plenty of action when a Paris-bound Eurostar express and its 400 passengers are seized by South Ossetian terrorist paramilitaries.
Buckingham, a passenger, must delay the terrorist plan until his comrades can come to the rescue. Heart-pounding action all the way.
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With the increasing congestion on roads and the resulting carbon footprint, we need next generation vehicles which are environment friendly too. Usage of ecofriendly materials like recyclable polyethylene can help in production of environment friendly automobiles. One such invention of a pedicab is being coined as Eclipse. This has been a great hit on streets of New York to the lanes of Shanghai.
Rickshaw is the primary mode of transportation in many South American and Asian countries. And this also makes it the source of livelihood for many people in these countries. Designed by Kenneth Cobonpue, he is the mastermind behind this high tech version of three wheeler. This vehicle makes its brand owners the trend setters as this is the future.
The innovative three wheeler is made of aluminum and recyclable polyethylene woven together to give it the requisite shape. It has a light weight structure with a curvy top woven in an insulated fabric. What's more, adding to its green attribute hand stitched weather proof vinyl is used to create comfortable seating arrangements, combined with handlebars and headrests.
Other user friendly and attractive features include bewildering indulgences like a cup holder on either sides or an Ipod docking station, a cooling fan along with cool set of speakers to keep your spirits high at all times and fully closable panels on all side. With elegance taking over Cobonpue's design, it gives a clean green alternative to its modern day counterparts.
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Planning the Perfect Bali Wedding
Bali, Indonesia is a traveller's paradise. As its tourist value increases, people discovered that they could do so much more in this piece of haven other than having a vacation. To meet the growing demands of couples who made this destination a dream wedding location, Bali wedding planners come up to meet the challenge. They hope to provide soon-to-be-wed couples the realisation of their dream wedding against scenic views and picturesque landscapes.
Fuss Free Wedding Planning
Planning a wedding is a daunting task, much more if you are locating it far from home. There are various challenges you have to overcome and making the milestone within budget but extraordinary is one of them. To help ease your burden, Bali wedding planners are available to give you some bright ideas that will make your dream wedding come true without having to break the bank.
Apart from organising the wedding in general, the use of planners is useful in helping you find good deals from wedding suppliers. You will have a good chance at finding the cheapest dressmaker, caterer, florist, and others to help you put together a stunning wedding minus the unbelievably high costs. Bali wedding planners are in touch with the best and cheapest suppliers to help you save on your wedding without compromising the quality of every aspect at any point. They can also connect you with the most reliable people who will be able to pull off a stunning event minus much pressure.
If you want to still look fresh and gorgeous on your wedding day, make sure that you keep a close connection with a credible organiser who will mind every aspect of a stunning wedding in Bali. You will only have to pay minimal costs but save a good amount of stress. With an expert planner in command, you can arrange a wedding even if you are far away.
All you need to do is to define your dream wedding. This is required so your organiser can easily locate the best wedding venues in Bali to match your ideals. Do you want it on the beachfront or inside a closed venue? Afterwards, your wedding planner will have to find other suppliers to make the ceremony and the reception eventful.
You want a wedding in Bali? It seems ambitious at first sight. But, if you have reliable and reputable suppliers by your side, you can surely pull it off. Don't worry because the wedding planners in Bali have done a lot of this in the past. They can easily pull off a stunning celebration of your union for a reasonable price.
If you are going to wed in Bali, then more to hire a wedding planner. Check out http://yourbaliwedding.com.au/.


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Building on the basics, learn how to use LinkedIn to highlight career accomplishments; put your best foot forward; and research companies, people and job opportunities.
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Beautiful, sweet and loving Fonteyn was humanely euthanized because of a severe abscess behind her eye.
She had recently been adopted by Jessica, a SaveABunny volunteer and her husband, Ryan. They deeply loved Fonteyn and gave her a wonderful life with them, though it was cut short.
Our hearts go out to Jessica and Ryan, as well as our gratitude for the love an dcare they gave to precious Fonteyn.
Hi. My name is Fonteyn.
I am named after Dame Margot Fonteyn de Arias, DBE, the British prima ballerina assoluta, who was considered by many to be the greatest English ballerina, and one of the greatest dancers of the 20th Century.
Marcy at SaveABunny gave me this special name because she recognizes my true nature of beauty, joy and the exquisite freedom of dance and self-expression. It's true. I really long to feel the playfulness and grace of being a bunny.
You see, I am recovering from extreme neglect that left me emaciated, filthy and with painful abscesses and sores all over my feet and body.
Please don't look away. My story is important. I am doing Ok now, but rabbits everywhere still need your help to keep them cruelty and harm.
While my story is sad, it also shows how different organizations with caring people can work together to make a difference.
San Francisco Animal Care and Control and Dr. Bing Dilts gave me refuge and the emergency medical care I really needed. The San Francisco SPCA made a generous donation to help with my medical expenses and SaveABunny is providing me with a safe and loving place to heal both physically and emotionally.
If you would like to make a donation towards my care and that of the other bunnies in need at SaveABunny, we would be very grateful for your compassion and generosity. That is how a volunteer run group like SaveABunny can continue to help deserving rabbits, like me.
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Everything was neatly done in order of importance as it was scheduled. My, but that sounds like it was a horribly dull day....it was, mostly. I had other tasks to get on with as well, there was laundry and a bit of cleaning, but most of the morning was devoted to completion of a pair of barefoot sandals made ever so slightly larger.
I also took the time to out together a second charm necklace. I haven't photographed or listed this one yet. That will be on tap for today. I know I mentioned a slave bracelet a few times, but I still haven't gotten properly motivated to work out the significant adjustments needed to make the design work on a wrist. I'm sure I'll get around to it sometime.
The only other fun thing I did yesterday was play with my new hot fox crystal applicator. I recently acquired a ...we'll call it a unique t-shirt that I already modified to fit my small frame. Since it was crying out for bling, I decided to add this little goody and some crystals to my last supply order. It is oddly addictive and I kept searching for something else to add crystals too. I might try adding them to a bit of scrap lace just to see how they hold up as it is way easier than sewing on montees. Of course the montees are way nicer looking, so it likely won't replace them at all. Most likely my daughters will end up with sparkly skulls or other such nonsense on their belongings. Hey, at least its not a bedazzler...this is a grown ups toy, I mean tool.
So today I have the charm necklace to get listed and after that I find myself again without direction. Sure, the house could use some cleaning, but it's hard to look forward to that. Hopefully today will see an order or two that gives me something to tat. Well that or perhaps some unexpected inspiration.
Thursday, August 4, 2011
On Chains And Crystals
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Flares across the sun
This image showing numerous flares across the sun was taken on March 30, 2010. In addition to solar flares and coronal mass ejections, the sun's activity includes solar energetic particles and high speed solar winds.
Solar energetic particles are "released by shocks formed at the front of coronal mass ejections and solar flares." Coronal holes in the sun's atmosphere, or corona, are where high-speed solar winds originate. NASA notes that when these holes are near the sun's equator, they may impact the Earth. Likewise, when a solar wind combines with a coronal mass ejection, solar energetic particles may find their way to our planet.


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Ah Haa School for the Arts
Located in Telluride's historic train depot building, the Ah Haa School for the Arts is a community center for the arts, offering year-round classes for children and adults in a variety of artistic mediums including painting, ceramics, mixed media, photography, writing, cooking, wellness, and more. Other programs include the prestigious American Academy of Bookbinding, and the Telluride Painting School, providing concentrated painting classes each summer and fall.
For a full calendar of events and classes, click here.
All children are budding artists! Nurture their creativity with No School Art Days, After School programs, and Four-Day Art Camps and Fabulous Fridays during the summer months. Each class brings a new and exciting topic for a variety of age groups, whether throwing bowls on a wheel, creating mixed-media sculptures, or painting in the style of a famous artist. Ah Haa's art curriculum is designed to instill confidence, creativity and proficiency in a fun and exciting atmosphere.
Art Anytime allows students of all ages to design classes during convenient times that work well with their schedules. Explore just about any medium – jewelry, ceramics, painting, printmaking, photography, mixed media, cooking and more!
View all of Ah Haa's youth art options here.
Ah Haa has a full schedule of incredible workshops and opportunities for adults of all levels – from one-day workshops to ongoing classes – taught by experienced teachers and well-known artists alike. Learn painting or ceramics in once-a-week classes, or immerse yourself in a more specialized workshop, such as shibori silk dyeing, encaustic painting or landscape photography. Whatever your interest, Ah Haa is sure to inspire a new level of creativity.
We have a full calendar of classes and events available online. If you have something different in mind, consider creating your own class with our Art Anytime option.
Visiting Artists
The Ah Haa offers a variety of dynamic classes taught by noteworthy visiting artists each season, and through our Telluride Painting School in particular. View the Visiting Artist bios and programs here: http://www.ahhaa.org/adult/visiting-artists/
Weddings, Conferences, & Meetings
Celebrating a special day, holiday party or birthday bash? Need to organize a meeting or conference? Set along the San Miguel River and surrounded by towering evergreens and brilliant aspens, the Ah Haa School's Depot building is an elegant, yet intimate, venue unlike any other location in town. With two spacious galleries, an outdoor deck and patio, a kitchen work space, and more, the Ah Haa School provides the ultimate setting to celebrate your special day or achieve the tasks at hand for your next meeting.
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Investors await BOE and ECB policy decisions as market looks to Draghi for plan B
04/Απρ/2013 • Currency Updates•
Sterling regained some of its footing on Tuesday, with the GBP/USD climbing back from a weekly low. This move was in spite of PMI Construction data printing 47.2 in March, below market expectations of 48.0, but an improvement from the three year low seen in February. The PMI has remained below 50.0, and therefore indicates a contraction in construction activity, for the past five consecutive months. However, this morning we have seen a large move lower in cable ahead the Bank of England's meeting.
As the Bank of England (BoE) is widely expected to maintain its current policy today, we should see the Monetary Policy Committee refrain from releasing a policy statement once again, and the meeting minutes due out on April 17 may show another 6-3 split as above-target inflation in the U.K. limits the central bank's scope to expand the balance sheet further.
The euro climbed yesterday, making its biggest weekly gains, as the headline reading for euro-area inflation grew an annualized 1.7% in March amid forecasts for a 1.6% print, while the International Monetary Fund (IMF) announced it would contribute about EUR 1B to the EUR 10B bailout for Cyprus.
In response, Cyprus Finance Minister Haris Georgiades pledged to implement the deal fully and without derogations, and will seek a swift ratification of the rescue package as the banking crisis renews the threat for contagion.
Markit Services PMI for March from Germany, Italy and the Euro Region are expected to print lower today. We are also expecting volatility around the ECB interest rate decision. Although the ECB is widely expected to keep the benchmark interest rate at 0.75%, President Mario Draghi may sound more cautious this time around as the on-going turmoil in the peripheral countries raises the risk for a prolonged recession. As the economic downturn threatens price stability, we may see a growing number of ECB officials show a greater willingness to push the interest rate to a fresh record-low, and the central bank may continue to carry out its easing cycle over the coming months in an effort to steer the region out of recession. Draghi may look to unconventional tools, as analysts are looking for him to offer a plan B, as credit struggles to flow to small and medium size companies in the peripheral nations despite records low central bank lending rates.
The greenback lost ground yesterday morning as the U.S. Dollar Index slipped towards the weekly low, this move was due to the drop in the ADP Employment report which fell short of market expectations as private payrolls increased 158K in March amid forecasts for a 200K print. Yesterday, the ISM Non-Manufacturing report showed service-based activity expanding at a slower pace as the gauge fell back to 54.4 from 56.0 during the same period.
This morning the US dollar Index has increased more than 2% as Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda began his campaign to end 15 years of falling prices by doubling monthly bond purchases in a bid to reach 2 per cent inflation in two years.
Eyes will be on Fed Chairman Bernanke today as we anticipate initial jobless claims which are expected at 350k from 357k the previous month, positive data would prompt central bank officials in scaling back their willingness to expand the balance sheet further.


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Charmingfare Farm has been providing horse-drawn carriages since 1989. We are confident a horse-drawn carriage will create lasting memories and add richness to your special occasion.
The carriage is a black, single horse-drawn, eighteenth century recreated vis-a-vis. The black carriage will contrast with the lighter colors brides tend to wear. This will enhance the pictures, giving photographers a perfect background. A resplendent patent leather harness and chrome appointments complete the picture.
The carriage is drawn by an impressive black Percheron draft horse, weighing over two thousand pounds. The carriage is driven by a coachman dressed in proper livery apparel.
We understand each event is unique, and we will work closely with you to meet all your expectations. We will be delighted to work with the limousine service of your choice to coordinate a worry-free day. Regardless of distance, most events can be coordinated to provide you with a horse-drawn carriage.


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Archive for August, 2015
- Who Do You Think You Are? Sir Derek Jacobi – Wills and more on August 30th, 2015
- A visit around a top supplier of Family history products on August 23rd, 2015
- Who Do You Think You Are? Paul Hollywood on August 16th, 2015
- The History & Heritage Handbook on August 9th, 2015
- Norfolk Parish records to go online. on August 2nd, 2015


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Radiator Booster Turbo Logic
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Place the Radiator BOOster Turbo Logic on the top of a standard domestic water filled radiator, plug it in, and away it goes.
- Cut your energy bills
- Reduce carbon emissions
- Easy to use straight from the box - no installation needed
- Could save an average household £70 to £140 per year!
- Running cost of just 30p per annum
- Usuallly pays for itself in 8-10 weeks!
- Thermostatic Control turns fan on at approx 30 degrees C and off when radiator cools
- Costs less than £1 a year to run
- Powerful, quiet, efficient fan
- Radiator Booster 3m extension cable available
QQ How does Radiator BOOster™ 2 actually work and save energy?
This ingenious device works in 2 ways; 1) Your central heating boiler will use around 15 kilowatts of energy every hour (some even more). The clever fan arrangement within the Radiator BOOster™ draws heat from your radiator, heating your room in up to half the time, allowing your boiler to shut down much sooner. If you could save just one hour a week of your boiler working, you would save 15 kilowatts of energy. You could easily find the savings more than this, between 7 and 14 hours/week (over 100 kilowatts) during the colder months. 2) As your radiator heats up, the 'rear' surface normally radiates heat onto your wall, heating this up, which in turn is lost through the wall structure due to conduction. The Radiator BOOster™ sucks most of this wasted heat and fires it into your room, significantly reducing the losses, saving you even more energy. It really is as simple as that!
QQ How much energy does it really save?
This will depend on how you use the Radiator BOOster, and for how long. But UK energy providers state that reducing your thermostat setting by one degree Celsius could save the average home £70/year or 10% of your heating bills. Most tests carried out with Radiator BOOster™ have achieved more than 2 degrees reduction.
QQ Can it be used with Radiator Covers?
YES. Most definitely. Provided you can fit the device in place under your cover, you will save up to 3 times as much energy. Covers prevent a radiator from 'radiating' its heat, relying solely on 'convection'. Radiator BOOster™ enhances that convection at least three fold, distributing huge amounts of trapped heat.
QQ Can I leave it running 24/7?
YES. As the new Radiator BOOster™ 2 has in built thermostat that switches on at around 32 degrees Celsius and switches off when the radiator temperature drops below this point. Should I turn it off when my radiator cools down? This is an option, but is not necessary as the thermostat control will automatically control the use of the integral fan.
QQ Could I plug it into a timer unit to avoid me remembering to turn it on/off?
Yes. A standard 'event timer' could be used, although it's not really necessary (see above).
QQ Surely the materials used to manufacture the Radiator BOOster™ themselves impact on the world's resources?
Yes, this is true. But we have designed the product to use the absolute minimum of materials and substances, and in return achieve huge energy savings over many years. The 'trade-off' is well worth doing. The Radiator BOOster™ 2 is also fully recyclable.
QQ My radiator is very long. Do I need to use two of these?
You can do, but it should not be necessary. The simple movement of air created by Radiator BOOster™ will normally lead to good convection in your room.
QQ Where should I place it on my radiator?
As far to the back and centralised along the length of your radiator should optimise the performance. However, if you place it to one end, it should still work adequately. On some radiator designs you will find that the device will drop down slightly behind the top of the radiator. This further enhances the performance.
QQ Can I use it on oil filled radiators, electric storage radiators, or electric convection radiators?
NO. These types of radiator reach far higher surface temperatures than water filled radiators. These higher temperatures will distort and damage the housing and fans of Radiator BOOster™.
QQ Can I use it in my bathroom, shower room, sauna room, outbuilding, etc?
NO! Radiator BOOster™ must not be used in a damp or humid environment under any circumstances.
QQ How much electricity does it use, and is it safety approved?
The Radiator BOOster™ has been tested and approved by an independent laboratory, and conforms to all aspects of CE Certification. Each fan is rated at < 1.0 watt, 12v DC, and each unit is supplied complete with a full set of instructions. Should you operate a Radiator BOOster™ for 500 hours, is should use approximately 1kW of electricity (less than 13p for most homes).
QQ Will I need to put one of these in every room?
We would recommend you place one in each room that you regularly use, but it shouldn't be necessary for other rooms. After all, you could unplug and move one very easily if necessary.
QQ My nearest power socket is a long way from my radiator.
Each unit comes fitted with a 1.8metre power lead, which should suit most situations. However, there is a 3 metre Radiator Booster extension lead available, Part.No. EL-RB1
QQ Do I need to clean the device?
Yes. As with any fan, dust will build up on various surfaces, which will seriously impair the performance and reliability of the device. You will need to clean it periodically using a lint free cloth. Take care with the fan blades as they are very delicate and can break easily.
QQ Can you hear it working?
Yes, but it is not loud or intrusive. The small fans used in Radiator BOOster™, like any fans, make an audible humming noise."The fans used in Radiator BOOster are similar to those used in home computers and operate at around the same audible level." During the summer most of us use large noisy desktop/ pedestal fans to help keep us cool, and in the winter noisy electric fan heaters to help keep us warm. Radiator BOOster™ costs virtually nothing to run and is considerably quieter than either of these.
QQ Sometimes it is quieter than other times. Why is this?
The fans can take some time to settle down and perform at their optimum, and they are also very sensitive to temperature.
QQ I'm allergic to house dust. Will this make things worse?
For the first few times Radiator BOOster™ is used it may stir up a little loose house dust from around your radiators, but within a couple of days this should settle down, and the situation return to normal.
Savings will vary considerably from home to home due to differing heating requirements, outside temperatures, building insulation, room temperatures preferred, heating boiler age and efficiencies, room sizes, and so on. Any figures and suggested savings quoted are for guidance purposes only, however we are confident that in most standard cases, all these savings are achievable when using Radiator BOOster throughout your home/building.
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