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in Shopping / Fashion Style (submitted 2010-04-08)
Wedge heels are a great addition to your shoe collection, and one that can instantly take your look up a notch, whether you’re out on a casual stroll or a formal dinner date. With a wide variety of styles and colors to meet your needs, these easy-to-wear shoes can be worn everyday to create a polished and trendy style. Feast your feet on our collection of wedge heels and create your own effortlessly stylish look for any occasion.
Clad your feet in a pair of sexy heels with a pair of strappy wooden wedge heels. BCBGeneration’s Belboa Sandal in Flamingo pink is an attention-grabber. Strappy leather upper and leather footbed give it a luxurious look and feel, with a daring 4 ‘ wedge heel. Great with a short denim skirt on a casual summer outing. For more edgy fashionistas, Chinese Laundry’s Call Me Shoes in black or tan is the perfect choice. From a strappy open toe and wooden wedge heel, to the luscious scrunched suede shaft and buckled strap that wraps around, this shoe is packed with the season’s hottest trends.
Who says you need to wear uncomfortable high-heels to stand out from the crowd? Opt for a of open-toe low wedge heels instead. Tory Burch’s ‘Julianne’ peep-toe wedge pumps are a great shoe for day or night. Its stacked wooden wedge heel lends earthy contrast to the snakeskin-embossed leather in a bold pump, with classy logo ornamentation at the peep toe. For a different look, check out Elizabeth and James’ Swoon Woven Wedge Booties. These woven leather open-toe booties are luxurious in both look and feel. With side cutouts and a hidden back zip on a 3.75′ covered wedge heel, this is one hot trend that will make your feet the centre of attention.
There are also plenty of more formal looks in wedge heels for the office, as part of our closed-toe wedge heels collection. Trotters’ Buccheri Pump, part of its Z Collection, is a perfect marriage of business and pleasure. A polished leather band and brushed metal buckle, with a stacked wedge heel and flirty toe create a great fashion-impression. Available in classic black or a beautiful reddish-brown, this is a great shoe if you want to be noticed at your workplace. BCBG’s lovely Emma Wedges in black leather features a cute knot detail in front, comfy padded lining and a heel just over 2-inches. A great buy for the working woman on the go!
One of the great recent trends has been the gladiator shoes, and there are some great styles to be found in our gladiator wedge heels collection. Michael Kors delivers as usual in the Robertson Demi wedge sandal
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Sunday Mirror, Jul 25, 2010 by Anonymous
TO prevent buttons dropping off, put a small drop of clear nail polish on to the thread at the back. When the polish hardens it will be more difficult for the thread to unravel. – Anna Jarvis, Swindon USED herb and spice jars make useful containers for salad dressings and other condiments when going on a picnic.
- Charles Masters, Birmingham ALL traces of rust on kitchen utensils can be easily removed using a wine cork dipped in olive oil. – Kevin Barstow, Edinburgh ADD a teaspoon of salt to your washing powder to rejuvenate coloured clothes that have been dulled by hard water
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There’s a reason football players, wrestlers, and MMA fighters can compete for prolonged periods without getting winded. Despite expending all that energy, they also never lose significant amounts of muscle. That’s because highly intense activities done in short bursts cause your body to release anabolic hormones that help burn fat and build muscle, while still strengthening your heart and lungs.
The best activity to build your wind without eating away your muscles is sprinting. Go to a hill, track, or field and, after a thorough warm-up, run all out for, say, 50 yards. Walk around until you feel you can go again, and repeat. After your first few workouts, add intensity and increase the number of sprints
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‘It’s everyone’s dream to find a bag of cash’
0 Comments | Grimsby Telegraph, Jul 26, 2010 | by Peter Craigpeter
THE Pounds 40,000 Cleethorpes dad Craig Whittle found in a plastic bag was not legal tender, a court heard.
The 36-year-old, of Brereton Avenue, had been hoping to sell it to a collector, which is what he will do with the seized Pounds 8,000 if he gets it back later this month.
Grimsby Crown Court heard Mr Whittle, who was cleared of theft by finding and converting criminal proceeds, found the cash behind Ramsden’s.
Craig Lowe, prosecuting, said the money belonged to someone unknown and Whittle should have reported the finding, made in the week before Christmas, to police.
Mr Whittle carried the cash to a friend’s house, named in court as Terry Woods. They split the haul and agreed to hide it.
On Sunday, January 17, patrolling police officers PCs Simon Duffield and Sean Johnston noticed Mr Whittle walking along Stanley Street, Grimsby, at 4.25pm. He ran off towards Tunnard Street, was trailed and later stopped.
They searched his pockets and found more than Pounds 500 in old bank notes in his pocket and the key to a Vauxhall Vectra, in which they found a red holdall containing Pounds 8,391 in old money.
Detective Constable Hayley Broddle said Mr Whittle told her in interview he found the cash in a bin liner next to a skip at the rear of Ramsden’s at about 10pm, but could not recall the exact date.
In interview, he told how he realised it was old money because the notes did not have a silver print. He said he wanted to find a collector, and told police he gave a lot of it away.
He admitted he swapped Pounds 2,000 with a Polish man in Skegness, for Pounds 500 in legal tender to buy a car for his mother, and claimed he had only used about Pounds 800 of the haul.
When the officer suggested to him it was theft by finding, he agreed.
Giving evidence, Whittle told how he was shocked by the discovery. Mr Whittle said: “It’s everyone’s dream that you find that amount of money. It was unreal.”
Explaining his decision to hide the money, he said: “In this town when you have got that kind of money, you get robbed
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Barges bring replacement bridge
0 Comments | The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star, Norfolk, VA, Jul 27, 2010
A prefabricated 350-foot-long bridge that will replace a 109- year-old span across the Harlem River arrived Monday aboard two barges that were pushed and pulled by tugboats.
The 2,400-ton swing bridge passed under the Brooklyn Bridge at 8 a.m., on its way to its home, just south of the old Willis Avenue Bridge. The new bridge will be tied to the shoreline until it is installed, beginning in two weeks.
– The Associated Press
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The city hopes to have traffic rolling across the span in November.
The new bridge connecting Upper Manhattan and the South Bronx will replace a span that opened in 1901 and carries more than 70,000 vehicles a day
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The fact is, the underlying theme is to take action. You can start now and create an online business (most of you already have) and then improve your site over time. You can go ahead and create a web page about your product, add some testimonials, add a payment gateway, create an autoresponder and pay for your pay-per-click adds and you?re in the game. Better to start now then improve as you go along. The effort you put in for a day or two (for me it?s much longer, I have to be honest) will bring in repeated profits and it?s the best way to leverage your time. Sorry to bore you if you?re more experienced and have heard all the pep talk before.
The principle I want to talk about is the Kaizen principle. It?s the Japanese term for continuous improvement of something, beginning with one aspect, then another and another so that bit by bit the system improves and in time becomes far superior than when it started.
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Meanwhile, lower layers that become exposed will be vulnerable to antibacterial substances in the mouth such as saliva or mouthwash while the biofilm is reestablishing itself.
And it will reestablish itself – no tongue cleaner or antibacterial product will ever completely eradicate the unwelcome organisms in your mouth that are causing bad breath coated tongue and even periodontal disease. It is possible, however to keep the numbers of these organism down with a regular program of good oral hygiene including tongue scraping and the use of a mouthwash that targets the bacteria that cause a heavily coated tongue and bad breath.
R. Drysdale is a freelance writer with more than 25 years experience as a health care professional. She is a contributing editor to
Coated Tongue and Bad Breath, a blog dedicated to the treatment of bad breath..
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Fix humidity, frost first, then take care of mould
0 Comments | Winnipeg Free Press, Mar 20, 2010
QUESTION: In June 2008, my boyfriend and I bought our first home. We did not get a home inspection due to the pressure of the housing market and information that, if we did, we could lose out on the house. The house was built in 1977 and has an electric forced-air furnace original to the house.
Everything was going great for the first four months. Then I noticed on the ceiling corners of the master bedroom, adjacent to the exterior wall, it was a little darker. I got on a ladder and took a better look. It was fuzzy mould. I cleaned the mould and as I was doing so you could tell that there was a large area on the ceiling that had been re-stippled. My mother stated the mould could be due to high humidity levels, yet our humidity levels were between 38 and 50 per cent. Then more mould appeared about a foot away from one corner. We called the previous owners to see if they had this problem and they said no.
My father went up into the attic to see if he could find the reasoning and discovered that we had Zonolite insulation. Later, we had it tested for confirmation and we found out that the previous owners knew about it. My father moved away some insulation in one corner to look at the vapour barrier and couldn’t find anything wrong, except some moisture between the ceiling and vapour barrier. He unblocked a few of the soffit vents to allow more air flow.
We also discovered that the new bathroom exhaust fan the previous owners installed was not insulated correctly, causing all the exhausted air to expel into the attic space. We’ve corrected that problem, already.
After the first cleaning of the two ceiling corners the mould did not come back, but in the other area came back over and over. I even removed the damp stipple, hoping that would dry out the area and figured that this problem had been occurring for years. The area is cold to the touch and if you move a few inches away the ceiling isn’t cold. One day I noticed frost on the ceiling in that area, which would disappear and reappear later. I also noticed the pantry ceiling corner has condensation.
I’m in desperate need for an answer to what is causing this problem and concerned about repairing it due to the fact that I have Zonolite insulation in the attic. Do you have any answers to the problem?
Thanks, Rachael Hanischuk
ANSWER: To offer answers to your problem we will have to look at both of your issues — the mouldy ceiling and the difficulty with entering and doing work in an attic insulated with Zonolite. Both are intertwined due to the location of the moisture and mould issues.
The first thing that must be discussed is the root cause of the ceiling issue. You have correctly made the assumption that excessive moisture is the culprit for the mouldy ceiling. The difficult thing to determine is whether the moisture is coming from the living space or from an outside source. In many cases, the answer is not clear-cut and the moisture is from both areas.
You may have corrected the majority of the problem by fixing the bathroom-fan ducting and opening up the soffit vents. That will take care of the excessive moisture issues in the attic, but may not prevent reoccurrence of the mould.
Electrically heated homes often have a tendency to be damper than those with older gas furnaces, due to the lack of a chimney, which is an excellent method or removing large quantities of moist air from the home. Without a chimney, bathroom and kitchen exhaust fans become more important and may be needed more frequently and for longer periods of time.
A mechanical ventilation system, such as a Heat Recovery Ventilator (HRV), may be installed to further eliminate excessive moisture in the home. Once you have a handle on reducing the relative humidity inside the home and attic, you can deal with the mouldy drywall issues
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Business Wire, July 27, 2010
New Salon Owners Seeing Green Much Faster in 2010 with Fantastic Sams
New 20/20 Franchise Sales Program
SEATTLE — In this struggling economy and tight credit market, Fantastic Sams is
making a radical change by offering some sizable incentives for new
business owners in most markets throughout Fantastic Sams Rocky Mountain
Region. For a limited time, new Fantastic Sams franchisees have the
opportunity to buy a new franchise license for only $5,000 which is a
$20,000* savings over the standard cost of a license and they can also
save an additional $20,000* in related salon opening expenses. These
savings can total as much as a 40% to 50% cost reduction when opening
new locations. Several new salon owners have already taken advantage of
this program and become a part of the 35-year-old Fantastic Sams family
of full service hair salons.
With the depressed retail real estate climate, better locations are
available at significantly lower lease rates than we have seen in more
than a decade and we can help pass these savings directly on to our new
franchisees, said Scott Baird, Director of Market Development for
Fantastic Sams Rocky Mountain Region. Its often touted that the hair
care industry is recession resistant and we want to do everything we can
to leverage this opportunity and expand our full service, family hair
salon concept.
For qualified candidates, Fantastic Sams will support the entire
start-up process without the normal, up-front costs that are typically a
part of opening a new salon. This support includes site selection, lease
negotiations, salon space plans along with a host of other support
systems to help new franchisees take full advantage of this unique
opportunity.
Fantastic Sams has been such a great business opportunity for so many
of our owners over the years, says Brent Christensen, a Fantastic Sams
Rocky Mountain Regional owner. For the right qualified candidates, in
select markets, we have developed this comprehensive program that lowers
the initial franchise license fee by 80%, as well as significantly
lowering other start-up costs such as special supplier discounts and
reduced fees
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A loans scare tactic by the bankers?
0 Comments | Evening Standard; London (UK), Jul 15, 2010 | by Anthony Hilton
THE knee-jerk reaction from bankers to almost any proposed increase in regulation is to say it will make it harder to lend.
If they are made to hold more capital, they will have less money to lend. If they are obliged to apply less leverage, they will have less money to lend. If government aid is withdrawn too quickly, they will have less money to lend. And just in case we don’t understand the threat, they spell out how being forced to starve small businesses of credit will inevitably damage economic growth.
Their message is that the more constraints we put on them, the less they will be able to meet the needs of the economy
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