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Chris Dawber aka "Wagga" & his fridge-freezer starts a series of how to make a cheap introduction backpack for water fed pole use. Chris says "Follow me in my learning curve while I construct a trolley system out of a backpack from what Iv'e learnt from others and forums." The second video deals with the Unger clamp & the 3rd & 4th video talks about adapting the Wagtails.

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Maurice Clemmons, the 37-year-old man wanted for questioning in the killing of four Lakewood police officers Sunday morning, has a long criminal record punctuated by violence, erratic behavior and concerns about his mental health. His criminal history includes at least five felony convictions in Arkansas and at least eight felony charges in Washington. That record also stands out for the number of times Clemmons has been released from custody despite questions about the danger he posed.
Mike Huckabee, while governor of Arkansas, granted clemency to Clemmons nine years ago, commuting his lengthy prison sentence over the protests of prosecutors. "This is the day I've been dreading for a long time," Larry Jegley, prosecuting attorney for Arkansas' Pulaski County, said Sunday night when informed that Clemmons was being sought in connection after four Lakewood police officers were shot dead in what authorities call an ambush. In Pierce County, Clemmons had been in jail for the past several months on a child-rape charge that carries a possible life sentence. He was released from custody one week ago, even though he was staring at eight felony charges in all.
Clemmons posted $15,000 with a Chehalis company called Jail Sucks Bail Bonds. The bondsman, in turn, put up $150,000, securing Clemmons' release on the child-rape charge. Clemmons moved to Washington from Arkansas in 2004. He was placed under the supervision of the Washington State Department of Corrections (DOC) for an Arkansas conviction, according to a department spokesman. The DOC classified him as "high risk to reoffend." His supervision was to continue until October 2015, the spokesman said.
He lives in Tacoma, where he has run a landscaping and power-washing business out of his house. He is married, but the relationship has been tumultuous, with accounts of his unpredictable behavior leading to at least two run-ins with police this year. Read more..

Display creative director Chris Parker puts the finishing touches on the annual Ballantynes Christmas window in Christchurch, NZ. In spite of the recession, Ballantynes would be putting on a great show, Parker said. "The frontage is worth $70,000 to $80,000, but in terms of world standards that is chicken feed. "Bloomingdale's [in New York] spends US$300,000 (NZ$413,000) on a frontage. What we can produce here in Christchurch is every bit as good for the money spent," he said.
The Christmas window has been popular since it began in 2002 and about 2000 people were expected to attend today's unveiling. "I just love seeing all the fingerprints on the glass at the end of the day – the number of kids who've pressed their little noses up," Parker said. In past years the window has needed cleaning up to four times a day – "a sure sign of success".

Tampa Bay Contest Seeking Young Inventors: Elementary and middle school students in the Tampa Bay area are vying for a chance to be named top inventor and take home a $1,000 cash prize. Last year’s finalist inventors created interchangeable shoe covers, a new insulin pump, edible taco tape and an automatic window washer. The contest was the brainchild of Anna Hopen, 10 whose father, Anton Hopen, is a patent attorney. “If a toy broke or an appliance didn’t work right, Anna would have a sketch of an improved product waiting for me when I got home from work,” Hopen noted. “At some point we both realized what a great opportunity this would be to motivate kids towards science and technology.”

Mark Strange of "Beautiful View" from Toronto, Canada gives us another installment with a few more unbiased reviews of products from Window Cleaning Resource in the window cleaners workplace, this week he is examining the opti-loc extension pole from Unger.

Mark's a glass act on the oche: Window cleaner Mark Petchey is preparing to step up to the oche at darts’ most prestigious venue after reaching the quarter-finals of a national competition. The 45-year-old, who lives in June Drive, Winklebury, Basingstoke, got through seven matches to win the south-east section of the John Smiths People’s Darts competition. He will now play on the main stage at Lakeside, Frimley Green, hours before the final of the World Professional Darts Championship. “Playing at Lakeside is a dream come true for me and I am really looking forward to it,” said Petchey. “I have only ever played in pub leagues and never done anything like this before. “I am practising every day now, putting in a couple of hours every night to prepare for the big day.”

If you have looked around for life insurance and have applied for term insurance quotes, you may have noticed that they may differ among the providers. So how do the providers reach their figures? Do they just make a haphazard guess and choose the first figure that comes into heads? Actually, they make the decision based on several different factors concerning you. Factors that may contribute towards your quotes. Usually when applying for term life insurance you are given a general quote based on your age, sex and general health. However if you are interested in the quote, the insurance provider typically then goes into further detail and wants to know a great deal more about you, so they can charge your premiums based on how much of a 'risk' there is of you dying! What you do for a living may be a consideration that determines how much you pay for your term insurance quotes. If you are a window cleaner and clean high-rise tower blocks from platforms, then you may be considered as being a bigger risk than if you have an office job.

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