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Wednesday, May 16th, 2012 | Watercrafts - Tips & Important Facts

May is the month when the entire coastline from Connecticut to Maine starts to awaken after a long winter?s rest. The quaint seaside villages slowly become busy with visitors from both summer residents and day trippers alike. The true telltale sign that summer is near is when the marinas become crazy busy with the unveiling of boats from winter storage and slips quickly fill back to capacity. When this starts to happen, it?s a good time as any for you to start your Commissioning Checklist for your watercraft.

The following checklist was provided by Brewers?Yacht Yards and?consists of tips and recommendations to?be used as a starting point to?get any boat ready for a safe and enjoyable season out on the water.

• Documents: Review your license,?registration, insurance and other important documents pertaining to your?boat and trailer and store them in a watertight bag or container. When reviewing your insurance coverage, contact?your agent and ask if you are realizing all the available savings, if your coverage is comprehensive and for them to double-check?that the geographic limits on your policy align with your boating plans for the season.
• Life jackets: Each and every person on?board must have a properly sized life jacket in good condition with no rips or missing parts.
• Fire extinguishers: Check all onboard fire?extinguishers making sure they are fully charged and properly mounted and are?the correct class for your vessel. Turn dry chemical extinguishers upside?down to loosen the powder. Replace or refill any expired units.
• Flares: Replace out-of-date flares?and keep the old ones on board as spares.
• Charts and maps: Review and update electronics as?necessary.
• Plugs: Inspect and tighten drain plugs. Make sure rubber seals or gaskets haven?t cracked or dried out?during winter storage.
• Hoses and clamps: Inspect and replace as?necessary.
• Propellers: Inspect for dings, pitting, cracks and distortion. Damaged props can cause unwanted vibration and?drive train damage. Make sure connectors such as cotter pins are secure,?and grip the prop to check for looseness. If the shaft is loose, consider?replacing the bearing.
• Inboards: Examine the rudderstock to?ensure it has not been bent or compromised.
• Hull: Inspect for blisters,?distortions, cracks and compromised rivets.
• Water intake strainer: Make sure your strainer is secure, unobstructed and corrosion free.
• Large inboards: Check the engine shaft and rudder stuffing boxes for looseness before and after launch. Make sure?through-hulls don?t leak.
• Outboards and outdrives: Inspect outdrive bellows for cracks, dryness or deterioration, paying careful attention to the?folds. Replace questionable bellows.
• Fluid levels: Check all fluid levels, including engine oil, power steering and power trim reservoirs. Replace worn-out zincs.
• Control cables: Inspect the outer jackets and replace cables showing cracks, swelling, corrosion or deterioration.
• Fuel lines: Inspect fuel lines, including fill and vent hoses, for softness, brittleness or cracking.
• Fuel tanks: Check your tanks and pumps and replace filters annually. Consider using a fuel stabilizer.
• Hoses: Inspect cooling, exhaust and?blower hoses and pipes for stiffness, rot and leaks. Make sure hoses are?connected tightly; double clamp them if necessary.
• Electrical connections: Inspect for cleanliness and tightness. Corrosion, especially on battery cables, could indicate a poor connection. Remove the terminals, and wire-brush them along with the cable ends.
• Running and navigation lights: Make?sure all running lights work. Keep spare navigation bulbs on board.
• Emergency lights: Inspect emergency lights?and signal devices and make sure you have spare batteries.
• Ignition kill switch: Ensure it?s working properly
• Bilge pumps: Check for leaks and corrosion?and make sure the float switch works.
• Ropes and lines: Inspect for damage, chafing?and deterioration and replace as necessary. Pay out and thoroughly inspect your anchor line. Keep lines untangled and coiled for ease of use.

Have a safe and worry-free boating season!

Here at Donald J. Medeiros Insurance Agency our goal is to try to help our viewers by suggesting solutions for all insurance needs. By no means can we address each reader?s specific concerns in every incident. So, we strongly advise to check with an insurance representative to address your specific needs. However, you can also contact us for any questions or concerns and we will be happy to help you. We are able to offer a complete line of personal & commercial insurance products for all of Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New Hampshire.

Come visit us at www.donmedeirosinsurance.com or give us a call at 508-678-1271. We look forward to hearing from you! If you have a Facebook account, fan us at http://www.facebook.com/donmedeiros.

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TB patient charged in Calif. for not taking meds

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? Authorities in California took the unusual step of jailing and charging a tuberculosis patient who they say refused to take medication to keep his disease from becoming contagious.

Health officials said Armando Rodriguez, 34, of Stockton, has active pulmonary tuberculosis, which can include coughing up blood or phlegm and can spread through the air.

Rodriguez has been noncompliant with his treatment and could become contagious as a result, Ginger Wick, nursing director for San Joaquin County, said in a letter requesting a warrant for Rodriguez's arrest.

After failing one time to give himself the drugs, Rodriguez told a nurse he had gone on an alcohol binge and taken methamphetamine and didn't want to hurt his liver, Wick said in her letter.

Rodriguez was arrested Tuesday and is expected to be arraigned Thursday on two misdemeanor counts of refusing to comply with a tuberculosis order to be at home at certain times and make appointments to take his medication.

He will likely be appointed a public defender.

Tuberculosis is a bacterial infection that usually attacks the lungs. Many people have a latent form, and the active form usually only affects adults whose immune systems are compromised, which can happen from drug use.

Public health experts are divided on the issue of mandatory treatment and criminal charges for patients who don't comply with treatment orders.

Many of those who do support criminal prosecution in the rarest of cases when public health is in jeopardy oppose the jailing of patients.

"I think it's an error to confine someone in the criminal justice system for a public health crime," said Lawrence Gostin, a Georgetown University public health law professor who drafted a model law adopted by several states struggling with the issue. "The whole intention is to protect the public's health. It's not to lay blame on someone."

Implementing mandatory treatment should be a last resort, and prosecuting someone for disobeying a public health order is unhelpful and sends the wrong message if protecting public health is the intent, Gostin said.

Instead, the afflicted should be given incentives such as transportation to and from treatments rather than punishment as an incentive to take their medicine, he said.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said laws to control the spread of tuberculosis have been in use for more than a century, though regulations differ in each state.

As many as 12,000 new cases of tuberculosis are reported in the country each year, the CDC reported. California recorded 2,317 new cases in 2011, a low since records have been kept.

Nonetheless, officials throughout the nation continue to struggle to stop the spread of tuberculosis, with several drug-resistant strains emerging in recent years.

Federal and state officials don't keep records of the number of people prosecuted for refusing to take their medicines. But some say it's exceedingly rare to file criminal charges in such cases.

San Joaquin County has had more than 30 tuberculosis prosecutions since 1984, prosecutor Stephen Taylor said, noting the county is more aggressive than other jurisdictions in prosecuting patients to get them to take their medication.

"The criminal cases we're dealing with generally involve drug users who are harder to treat and manage because the TB medicines conflict with street drugs," he said. "We have to throw these people in jail and treat them as in-patients. They don't cooperate as out-patients."

Karen Furst, San Joaquin County public health officer, said the county arranges transportation and other services to help patients stick to their drug regimen and turns to the legal system only as a last resort.

"I have to make sure that if I'm aware that somebody is in a position that could possibly be spreading a disease to another person, that I take steps that are necessary to prevent that from happening," she said.

Rodriguez was discharged in March from San Joaquin General Hospital with four medications for active tuberculosis and agreed to take the drugs under observation by a county health official on weekdays and on his own on weekends, authorities said.

He allegedly refused to take the drugs on another day and then was not at home on three occasions and missed an appointment.

Each charge against Rodriguez carries a maximum penalty of a year behind bars. In her letter, Wick said Rodriguez would need nine months of treatment.

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Associated Press writer Paul Elias in San Francisco contributed to this report.

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Multitasking on the HTC One X isn't broken, it's customized

There's been a bit of fuss over the way the HTC One X (and One XL) handles multitasking, with some folks saying the phone is broken when talking about the way it handles tasks in the background. While it certainly is different than what we see on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, or other devices running previous versions of Android, it's not broken at all -- HTC has just tweaked it. Like everything else in the Android source code, the way the kernel and system free memory from background tasks is wide open and subject to the whim of whoever does the software building. In this case, it's an area we're pretty familiar with, and something we've been hacking at since the days of the lowly HTC Hero -- the minfree settings and kernel low memory killer. 

What's happening is that the settings have been adjusted to keep more memory free for Sense 4 to gobble up, at the expense of applications running in the background. It's not a big edit, but with the One X's big screen and Sense 4's big footprint, it's a big enough edit to force things to close in the background more aggressively than we're used to seeing. Apps that have a bit of priority (ranging from the important things like the phone dialer to the less-important like the music player) seem to act just fine, but bigger applications, like Chrome beta for example, seem to suspend and need to re-open whenever they are returned to from the application switching menu.

For the more nerdly among us, I've looked and found one set of changes in the One X's boot image. The Stock AOSP build of 4.0.4 writes these values to the minfree settings:

8099, 10132, 12165, 14213, 16245, 20295

The AT&T HTC One X uses these settings (as we're using the system, anyway):

7746, 9720, 11694, 13742, 15715, 24709

Our Tegra 3 version of the HTC One X is showing the following, again, as we're using the system:

8192, 10240, 12288, 14336, 16384, 20480

It's very likely that there are other changes in the kernel source as well. 

The real issue here is that it's different than what we're used to seeing. Many seem not to like it, and would prefer the "old way". If you're riding the root train, that's a possibility -- our own Senior Developer Beezy is looking at things, and working on a few edits. If you're not into hacking your device, you're going to have to realize that HTC has built the One X their way. It's not wrong, it's just not stock Android.

Source: Android Central forums

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Verizon to Kill Grandfathered Unlimited Data Plans. This Is Bullshit. [Verizon]

Unlimited data on Verizon is dead. The death rattle just wheezed out during Verizon Communications CFO Fran Shammo's dream-killing presentation at the JP Morgan Technology, Media and Telecom conference. Everyone with a grandfathered unlimited data plan will be forced to switch to a tiered plan when they upgrade to LTE. It's absurd, warrantless, and sadly, typically, aggressively anti-consumer. More »

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Choosing accessories for the bathroom | Home improvement center

Was in the bathroom is a private, and comfort is one important thing in planning the bathroom. The bathroom has become a basic necessity in modern life that is more stylish, with a good design plan, the bathroom not only has the basic functions just like to take a shower, or urinate, but also a place to bathe, ornate, and prepare to go to outside the home.

In accordance with the higher level of comfort in modern living, comfort the bathroom to be essential for the bathroom in the house include a room that we use most often. When combined bathroom with the master bedroom, for example, the bathroom needs a representative to be bigger. Maybe now we know the bathroom shower screen or shower screen.

For that, the bathroom can be equipped with various accessories which will make the bathroom feel more comfortable, but it is also more aesthetically pleasing as most bathroom fixtures are now the better eye. Between fixtures and bathroom accessories are always in a good bathroom is the tub (usually for the traditional bathroom), bath, closet, towel rack, storage rack (cabinet), soap, trash, clothes hanger, or a shower screen and so on.

A good bathroom should be planned from the outset since prior to development, or to make renovations. An important part of the shower must be available, such as a bathtub or a bathtub, shower or bathroom is also a screen, as well as the closet. Traditional bathrooms typically have both these facilities.

A good bathroom should also have other equipment such as shower (usually located in a box or given a specific area), cabinet storage objects such as hygiene kits, glass and dressers, and other trinkets like a toilet, water heater regulator and , soap, and so forth.

Tips for choosing bathroom fixtures:
* Choose from bathroom fixtures to fit your bathroom, the bathroom did not seem to be too narrow. When the size of a bathroom large enough, then the choice of fixtures bathroom accessories are also more and more.

* Select equipment and accessories that suit your needs function, for example, you do not need the shower bathtub as preferred, then the bath does not need to exist.

* Think about the safety of children and parents, for example by making the handle side of the closet, and on the bathtub because it is sometimes necessary. Nothing wrong with sliding shower screen is also used to add to your bathroom facilities.

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Read These Tips For A Home Improvement ... - Energy Efficiency

Always personalize your goals when it comes to home improvement. Choose home improvement projects that really reflect your own personality and sense of style.

Make sure you have the safety gear that is necessary to complete heavier projects. Invest in a good back support, safety goggles, steel-toed shoes, gloves and a helmet.

One important home improvement tip is to make sure that water runs away from your house when it storms. Ways to do this include putting a hill between your house and the stress, and making your downspout longer so the water exits further away.

Interested in doing a little updating? Look at what is already in your home for good artistic inspiration and personalize your space while saving money. Purchase neat frames that coordinate with your decor.

Have a tiny organizer that is filled with many different fasteners handy. Keep an assortment of tools and hardware ready for any project that might come up.

Before you hire any contractor, make sure they are licensed and bonded in your state. You can find this out through government websites, or by making a few phone calls. Unlicensed contractors are either bad at their job and lost their license, or aren?t real contractors at all.

Build a toolbox with your neighbors that everyone can borrow from, you can also save some money. Find a neighbor who enjoys home improvement projects, and borrow tools from him or her instead of purchasing tools for a single use. The best part is that the two of you can share tips.

When the rainy season comes, a gutter clog changes from a minor annoyance to a serious threat. You can easily avoid basement leaks by keeping your gutters clean. Before this happens, be sure to clean your gutters.

Start preparing for your planned remodeling project, even if it?s still a ways in the future, by collecting ideas as you come across them. If you immediately start exploring all of your options, you will be able to build up a wider and more carefully chosen array of possibilities. When trying to decide on the perfect color palette, rushing through your decision is the last thing you want to do.

Putting in heated tile floors is an inexpensive way to add value and enjoyment to your home. If the flooring is being replaced anyway and you?re thinking about adding tile, you should discuss the possibility of adding radiant heat with a sales person. The sales person will be able to guide you on which type of flooring should be used as well as the options available for radiant heating. If you sell your home in the future, potential buyers will be impressed with the luxury option.

Before you remodel anything in a room think about painting it. It is a good idea to paint rooms before you install any flooring in those rooms. No matter how well you try to protect your new floor, it will be almost impossible to avoid getting paint on it.

If your home requires major repairs, it is best to consult a professional. Architects, designers, and contractors earned their titles. These people are professionals, who are highly skilled at their jobs. Don?t go it alone. Get the help of a professional on large home improvement jobs to avoid the hassle and expense of ?do-overs.?.

Keep the balance in your house. Eliminate unnecessary noise from your home. If you have a fan that is wobbling or noisy, it probably needs to be balanced. Tighten all the screws on your ceiling fans. When you are adjusting the screws to your fan blades, also clean them; the dust can lead to imbalance which can cause noise.

Most people gain skills and confidence after accomplishing a few projects. This is a very good thing. A homeowner with motivation and skills can accomplish anything while saving money.

Richie Vee, the site?s editor, is the Chief Engineer of one of the largest Platinum LEED buildings in NYC. His extensive engineering experience helps guide consumers through home improvement projects for the average homeowner. Using home solar energy and roofing repair ideas to save them money.

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The Best Thing Regarding Observing Live Football Within an Online ...

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