Feb
25
Would Palin fire the Public Safety Commissioner if he had fired Trooper Wooten ?
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CAPTAIN BEAR asked:
Or did Palin have somebody in mind who is less conscientious
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Feb
19
Who is the Date Mentor and How Can He Help your Love Life?
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Wildfire Marketing Group asked:
While in his 20s, there’s nothing Brad Finsilver would have liked more than help from a professional dating coach. Although he had founded two successful companies and enjoyed playing the field, he still managed to have his heart broken. After doing everything possible to pursue an amazing girl, she chose another man, one who treated her poorly and eventually left her. Meanwhile, Brad was left alone, wondering what he had done wrong, and, more importantly what he could do differently the next time. He sold his businesses and devoted his life to learning how to start and maintain relationships with women. After two years of intense research and self-discovery, Brad Finsilver became The Date Mentor.
As The Date Mentor, Brad now coaches other men in the art of meeting and dating women from his offices in Scottsdale, Arizona. He conducts individual and group sessions where clients will learn how to:
• Approach women in any type of environment
• Get out of the “friend zone”
• Attract women to you instantly
Sign up for The Date Mentor’s Visitor’s Package, and out-of-town visitors who fly into the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport to attend one full day of consulting with Brad will receive free limousine service to the Mondrian Scottsdale Hotel and a complimentary bottle of champagne.
If an in-person session isn’t possible for you, Brad offers over-the-phone coaching sessions where the focus is any area you feel you need help with. Whether it’s projecting a more confident image or creating an online dating profile that will attract the attention of the kinds of women you want to date, The Date Mentor can help.
More and more men are employing the services of a professional dating coach because they are realizing that dating is a talent. As with other skills like golf or being more effective at one’s job, meeting and dating women can be learned and perfected. Contact Brad Finsilver today to begin your journey toward fun, successful dating.
Christian
While in his 20s, there’s nothing Brad Finsilver would have liked more than help from a professional dating coach. Although he had founded two successful companies and enjoyed playing the field, he still managed to have his heart broken. After doing everything possible to pursue an amazing girl, she chose another man, one who treated her poorly and eventually left her. Meanwhile, Brad was left alone, wondering what he had done wrong, and, more importantly what he could do differently the next time. He sold his businesses and devoted his life to learning how to start and maintain relationships with women. After two years of intense research and self-discovery, Brad Finsilver became The Date Mentor.
As The Date Mentor, Brad now coaches other men in the art of meeting and dating women from his offices in Scottsdale, Arizona. He conducts individual and group sessions where clients will learn how to:
• Approach women in any type of environment
• Get out of the “friend zone”
• Attract women to you instantly
Sign up for The Date Mentor’s Visitor’s Package, and out-of-town visitors who fly into the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport to attend one full day of consulting with Brad will receive free limousine service to the Mondrian Scottsdale Hotel and a complimentary bottle of champagne.
If an in-person session isn’t possible for you, Brad offers over-the-phone coaching sessions where the focus is any area you feel you need help with. Whether it’s projecting a more confident image or creating an online dating profile that will attract the attention of the kinds of women you want to date, The Date Mentor can help.
More and more men are employing the services of a professional dating coach because they are realizing that dating is a talent. As with other skills like golf or being more effective at one’s job, meeting and dating women can be learned and perfected. Contact Brad Finsilver today to begin your journey toward fun, successful dating.
Christian
Feb
11
bboy244 asked:
Is this a good job?I was told the pay is 15 to 20 dollars an hour.
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Is this a good job?I was told the pay is 15 to 20 dollars an hour.
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Feb
10
Jeff L asked:
i need some ideas over an educational drawing over fire safety
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i need some ideas over an educational drawing over fire safety
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Feb
3
Coming Back to Your House After a Fire
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Kurt Kamm asked:
This advice is controversial and should be followed with care and good judgment, but it may save your house.
If an evacuation has been ordered as a result of an impending fire, send your wife, kids, and pets to the safest possible place. That is usually a spot designated by police or fire authorities. You, however, may consider staying somewhere near your house with the objective of returning when the fire has passed through.
First, let’s discuss fire and firefighting tactics. Fires sweep through areas. A fire may burn for several hours, days, or weeks, but not in the same place. This means that, if your home is in the line of fire, it will burn your house down or not, and move on.
I’ve mentioned the fire strike teams in an earlier article. These guys are working hard, and they’re on the move, chasing or staying in front of the fire. This means that once it has passed by your home, they will move on.
The bad news is that your home can burn down hours after the main fire danger has passed. One of the common risks is that burning embers may have lodged in the eaves of your roof. They could be smoldering for some time before erupting into a fire, and four hours later your home could be on fire when the fire crews are a mile away. Similarly, there may be things smoldering in the ground nearby which could later start a fire at your house.
When a voluntary or mandatory evacuation is called, law enforcement officials will set up a perimeter and try to keep everyone on the safe side of it. In addition to assuring the safety of the evacuees, it will keep looters and unauthorized people away from unoccupied homes.
Here’s the problem - once you are outside the fire perimeter, you cannot go back for the duration, which could be several days.
If you can find a safe zone within the fire perimeter, you may consider waiting there for the fire to come through. Fire officials do not encourage this, as their first concern is human safety and life, and they don’t want you hampering the work of the fire crews. Second, understand that a firestorm may have flames 50 - 100 feet high. Embers from fires may blow up to a half mile, causing what are known as spot fires. Further, a phenomenon called “preheating” may cause an area to burst into flames in advance of the fire itself. For these reasons, you must be in a place of safety. Standing in someone’s vacant lot is not going to protect you.
You must find a wide-open area that will not burn - a large shopping center parking lot, or the edge of the ocean or other sizeable body of water, or somewhere which is surrounded by cement or dirt. These areas will be safe. Standing in the middle of an open area of wildland grass is not safe, grass burns.
Also, note that you should keep a good dust mask in your car. These are the same masks that plasterers and other workers use, and can be bought at any hardware store. In the hours after a fire, the air is going to be full of soot and ash and you don’t want to be breathing it.
Once the fire has moved through, go back to your house. In the first hours of a fire, if you are behind the lines, it is unlikely that anyone will stop you. Once you get to your home, no police or fire official is going to order you out. PS - watch for downed power lines on your way home. Getting electrocuted can ruin your whole day.
Start looking around the house for things which are still burning. When I returned to my home, railroad ties two feet from my back door were smoldering! Look around the roofline, under the eaves, and walk around the house several times to see if any stumps, wood, brush, patio furniture pads, or anything else could be burning. The odds are that your water pressure will have returned. Use your hose. If you have no water pressure, use a shovel. Throw dirt. Smack the embers.
Keep looking and watching. If you spend the night at your house and the power is out (it probably will be), you can see glowing spots where things are still smoldering. Sometimes fire in wildland areas can smolder under the brush for a day and then erupt. If your fire department is sophisticated, you will see them, 24 - 48 hours after the fire, flying over in helicopters doing aerial infrared mapping, looking for hot spots.
As I have said, this is controversial, but there are many, many people in Southern California who have returned home to find their decks or backyards burning after the fire crews have moved on and have saved their homes themselves. You may be the only person who can save your house.
Alvin
This advice is controversial and should be followed with care and good judgment, but it may save your house.
If an evacuation has been ordered as a result of an impending fire, send your wife, kids, and pets to the safest possible place. That is usually a spot designated by police or fire authorities. You, however, may consider staying somewhere near your house with the objective of returning when the fire has passed through.
First, let’s discuss fire and firefighting tactics. Fires sweep through areas. A fire may burn for several hours, days, or weeks, but not in the same place. This means that, if your home is in the line of fire, it will burn your house down or not, and move on.
I’ve mentioned the fire strike teams in an earlier article. These guys are working hard, and they’re on the move, chasing or staying in front of the fire. This means that once it has passed by your home, they will move on.
The bad news is that your home can burn down hours after the main fire danger has passed. One of the common risks is that burning embers may have lodged in the eaves of your roof. They could be smoldering for some time before erupting into a fire, and four hours later your home could be on fire when the fire crews are a mile away. Similarly, there may be things smoldering in the ground nearby which could later start a fire at your house.
When a voluntary or mandatory evacuation is called, law enforcement officials will set up a perimeter and try to keep everyone on the safe side of it. In addition to assuring the safety of the evacuees, it will keep looters and unauthorized people away from unoccupied homes.
Here’s the problem - once you are outside the fire perimeter, you cannot go back for the duration, which could be several days.
If you can find a safe zone within the fire perimeter, you may consider waiting there for the fire to come through. Fire officials do not encourage this, as their first concern is human safety and life, and they don’t want you hampering the work of the fire crews. Second, understand that a firestorm may have flames 50 - 100 feet high. Embers from fires may blow up to a half mile, causing what are known as spot fires. Further, a phenomenon called “preheating” may cause an area to burst into flames in advance of the fire itself. For these reasons, you must be in a place of safety. Standing in someone’s vacant lot is not going to protect you.
You must find a wide-open area that will not burn - a large shopping center parking lot, or the edge of the ocean or other sizeable body of water, or somewhere which is surrounded by cement or dirt. These areas will be safe. Standing in the middle of an open area of wildland grass is not safe, grass burns.
Also, note that you should keep a good dust mask in your car. These are the same masks that plasterers and other workers use, and can be bought at any hardware store. In the hours after a fire, the air is going to be full of soot and ash and you don’t want to be breathing it.
Once the fire has moved through, go back to your house. In the first hours of a fire, if you are behind the lines, it is unlikely that anyone will stop you. Once you get to your home, no police or fire official is going to order you out. PS - watch for downed power lines on your way home. Getting electrocuted can ruin your whole day.
Start looking around the house for things which are still burning. When I returned to my home, railroad ties two feet from my back door were smoldering! Look around the roofline, under the eaves, and walk around the house several times to see if any stumps, wood, brush, patio furniture pads, or anything else could be burning. The odds are that your water pressure will have returned. Use your hose. If you have no water pressure, use a shovel. Throw dirt. Smack the embers.
Keep looking and watching. If you spend the night at your house and the power is out (it probably will be), you can see glowing spots where things are still smoldering. Sometimes fire in wildland areas can smolder under the brush for a day and then erupt. If your fire department is sophisticated, you will see them, 24 - 48 hours after the fire, flying over in helicopters doing aerial infrared mapping, looking for hot spots.
As I have said, this is controversial, but there are many, many people in Southern California who have returned home to find their decks or backyards burning after the fire crews have moved on and have saved their homes themselves. You may be the only person who can save your house.
Alvin
Feb
1
Extended Coverage Insurance Helps Ensure You are Fully Protected
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Alan Jacobson asked:
Extended coverage is a term used by brokers and insurance companies to denote coverage that goes beyond the basic policy. All basic insurance policies have exclusions, or specific losses or reasons for losses that are not covered by the insurance policy. However, an Extended Coverage (EC) policy covers these exclusions.
Oftentimes we feel that we are fully covered because we carry many types of insurance, but how many of us truly read the fine print. While a person who lives far from the coast would think that basic insurance that includes hurricane provisions would be enough, they might be surprised to learn that damage from “flash” flooding away from the shore due to the rainfall associated with a hurricane may not be covered.
Types of extended coverage include:
- Flood insurance, including floods caused by hurricanes which are usually not covered
- Hailstorm insurance unless hail is explicitly covered by the basic policy
- Earthquake insurance
- Extended Title insurance, because there are many things not covered by basic title policies
- Extended medical insurance for illnesses and lengths of stay not covered by the basic policy
- Extended dental insurance for some dental surgeries
This is certainly not an exhaustive list. In fact, there are some extended coverage policies where your unique needs can be specifically tailored into the policy.
The term “Extended coverage” also can be used to describe financial coverage above and beyond what the covered amount is. For example, if you live in an area where wildfires are common, you can buy Extended Coverage insurance for such an event to provide additional money or more complete restoration than your regular homeowners policy would pay for
If you think there are areas where extended coverage could benefit you or your family, call your broker or consult with your insurance company. You can also start by reading the policies you currently have - what are the exclusions or limitations, and how likely are those events to happen to you and your family. Often your broker can do this as well, and he or she will have information about the kinds of coverage problems that have happened to others in your area.
Gertrude
Extended coverage is a term used by brokers and insurance companies to denote coverage that goes beyond the basic policy. All basic insurance policies have exclusions, or specific losses or reasons for losses that are not covered by the insurance policy. However, an Extended Coverage (EC) policy covers these exclusions.
Oftentimes we feel that we are fully covered because we carry many types of insurance, but how many of us truly read the fine print. While a person who lives far from the coast would think that basic insurance that includes hurricane provisions would be enough, they might be surprised to learn that damage from “flash” flooding away from the shore due to the rainfall associated with a hurricane may not be covered.
Types of extended coverage include:
- Flood insurance, including floods caused by hurricanes which are usually not covered
- Hailstorm insurance unless hail is explicitly covered by the basic policy
- Earthquake insurance
- Extended Title insurance, because there are many things not covered by basic title policies
- Extended medical insurance for illnesses and lengths of stay not covered by the basic policy
- Extended dental insurance for some dental surgeries
This is certainly not an exhaustive list. In fact, there are some extended coverage policies where your unique needs can be specifically tailored into the policy.
The term “Extended coverage” also can be used to describe financial coverage above and beyond what the covered amount is. For example, if you live in an area where wildfires are common, you can buy Extended Coverage insurance for such an event to provide additional money or more complete restoration than your regular homeowners policy would pay for
If you think there are areas where extended coverage could benefit you or your family, call your broker or consult with your insurance company. You can also start by reading the policies you currently have - what are the exclusions or limitations, and how likely are those events to happen to you and your family. Often your broker can do this as well, and he or she will have information about the kinds of coverage problems that have happened to others in your area.
Gertrude