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    Where you live impacts the winter fate of your Intex above-ground pool. If you live in an area with mild winters, you can winterize the pool and cover it for the season. If, however, you live in an area where freezing occurs, you'll have to drain your Intex pool and take it down for the winter. Luckily, these pools are some of the easiest above-ground pools to collapse and store. Complete Removal Take the ladder, pool pump, filter and all related hoses out of your pool. Clean them all and allow

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    Phar Lap Essay Questions

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    Phar Lap the movie, produced by John Sexton, is relatively accurate to historical fact. This is largely due to the good representation of the horse himself and those closely involved with him. History is not conclusive itself and the film is vague in the corresponding areas. The producers showed the horse very accurately. Phar Lap, played by Towering Inferno, is a very similar colour of reddish chestnut. As seen in the later part of the film at Agua Caliente, he is shown to be taller than most of

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    double as a seat when turned upside down. The amount of fishing equipment brought along can be sizeable or minimal, depending on your needs and resources. The necessities, however, include an ice auger or a spud bar to make a hole in the ice. An ice skimmer should be present to clear the hole of ice chips and keep the hold from quickly freezing back over. Other obvious indispensable items are fishing poles, bobbers, lures, bait, and

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    The barrier islands of Louisiana are vital for the protection of Louisiana’s coastal communities and its natural resources. They are the first line of defense from summer’s hurricanes and winter’s storms. However, barrier islands are no longer building naturally. The previously-illustrated cycle has been interrupted by “reoccupation” to the natural processes that drive it. For “reoccupation”, stage five of the barrier island termination model, to occur, completely natural conditions that allow the

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    Target Breach Case Study

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    After the Target breach affected millions of customers, Trend Micro released an article in October of 2014 regarding of a 2014 survey conducted by Creditcards.com on how data breaches affected brand reputation with consumers. The survey was rather informative on how consumers felt about making purchases again from a retailer with a prior data breach. The article revealed that customers still felt an impact of the breach in the 2014 holiday season, in that approximately half of those surveyed stated

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    It is safe to say that I am an Inspectional reader, I read with my imagination, and This is something I am not proud, as I know that I can do better. A book that I can fully remember reading like a pro, is The Catcher In The Rye. I read this book my sophomore year, with Mrs. Iselin. I started and finished that book with my thoughts marked in from front to back, and that was the only reason why I long to reach out to her to purchase the book for my own keeping. Not only because I enjoyed it, but because

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    Everybody is affected by oil spills… including the person reading this. People as well as animals are either killed or seriously injured every time a spill occurs. The leading cause of oil spills is careless mistakes caused by people and equipment malfunctions. “As of 2013, 10,000 (oil spill) incidents are recorded (due to tankers) (Roser 6) As a result, freshwater oils spills pollute the environment and come with nothing but negative side effects. Oils spills are often fatal for marine animals

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    Odysseus barks at my skimmer Bemus as he stomps toward his post with a slight slouch, exploding into me and inconsiderately disregarding me as he continues on. He hands something to my fellow crewmate Bemus and they ration a laugh as he turns and gallops straight towards me. “Basil, put this in your ear. The beeswax should protect your hearing from the sirens taunt.” Odysseus says as he puts some in his own ears. I glance at my mate Bemus dramatically trudging towards the upper deck to man his

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    Over one hundred million gallons of crude oil saturated the Gulf of Mexico after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon drilling prospect on April 10th, 2010. The explosion killed eleven people, resulting in one the worst local oil spills in U.S. history. For the next eighty seven days, sunken barrels continued to release oil into the Atlantic Ocean. The oil spread from the coast of Louisiana to about one hundred and forty miles into the gulf. The U.S. is trying to reduce the use of foreign oil by

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    Background: The testing by Joelle Charbonneau, is a book about Cia Vale. Cia has tried her hardest in school and it has paid off. She gets chosen for the testing, all she has ever wanted, but her father warns her that the testing isn’t what it seems. He shares his dreams of which he thinks are his memories of the testing, because his mind had wiped of all testing memories. Cia sets off to the testing and watches loads of her friends die and even some of them turn on her. Near the start, Cia leaves

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