| Toothpaste is a bright idea to fix scratched CDs
Dear Billy: Compact discs can scratch easily, but the good news is that many scratches can be wiped away with ordinary white toothpaste. Gels won't work -- just plain, white toothpaste. Squeeze a small amount of toothpaste onto a clean sock or any lint-free cloth and apply to the CD, starting from the inside and working outward like the spokes of a wheel. Remember to wipe it from the inside out, never back and forth. Once the underside is coated, take the clean, dry part of the sock and wipe away the toothpaste, again using spokelike strokes -- from the inner edge to the outer edge. Don't use water. Just continue wiping until the paste is gone. This should work great on minor scratches on DVDs and game discs, too. Dear Heloise: I put two frozen waffles in the toaster.
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Let's get you right. There was no multiple sects or denomination, only one, the UCC, more than 2mm membes divided into thousands of congregations.The UCC (the only denomination) said that it did not have a creed and that its congregations could have their own standards. And, Dubs, you can't tell UCC what their doctrine "has to be." It doesn't work that way.That is why Christianity and Mormonism both are masses of confusion.I understand that, what your not undertanding is your claim that they belive a certain way is bogus, because don't have an official creed. So there is no way for you to verify your claim.Let's get you straight. You want them to say that they teach all non-Christians are going to hell. But they don't teach that.Really? So show me what they teach on the subject. Well that would depend on the sect...And since there's so many sects, and they don't have a creed for their beliefs, you can't claim they teach anything really.
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In any event, it provides us all with a forum to voice our opinions and concerns, and as a way of keeping up with the latest information regarding the Cape Wind debate. I consider CCToday an excellent source of info about Cape Cod in general and appreciate their commitment to providing this site for all of us. .
Saturday Talk
Jim Wooten condemns water conservation measures as "absurd," relying on data that is not only misleading but irrelevant to the needs of Georgians in communities downstream from metro Atlanta ("Streetcars, pools and tax 'rebates'," @issue, Feb 1). The experts he quotes say that Atlanta's water use accounts for only 2 percent of the flow in Florida's Apalachicola River during droughts. This statement is true only for annual average statistics. I'm reminded of claims by Olympic boosters that Atlanta's annual average temperature was 72 degrees, information that was clearly irrelevant to athletes competing in the 90-degree weather of August 1996. Likewise, annual average water statistics calculated hundreds of miles downstream are equally irrelevant to the ongoing water crisis in North Georgia and the aggressive actions that must be taken now to improve the way we manage our limited water supplies.
Shalmy leaving post as exec at Sierra Pacific Resources
When Walt Higgins, chairman of Sierra Pacific Resources and a former submarine officer, encountered the "perfect storm" six years ago, he turned to Donald "Pat" Shalmy. Shalmy was a former Clark County manager and former president of the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce but had no experience with electric utilities. Higgins told Shalmy the company already had plenty of electrical engineers, accountants and regulatory experts. The utility chief wanted Shalmy to help the company restore good relations with major customers such as Strip casino operators, state regulators and political officials. And he wanted Shalmy to boost employee morale. Shalmy joined the company as senior vice president of public policy and external affairs. Within two months, he was given added responsibility as president of subsidiary Nevada Power Co.
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