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Hydrant testing may disturb the sediment that naturally occurs in the water piping system. Water from your faucets and toilet may appear rust colored from this disturbance. Rust discoloration may last for several hours after the tests have been completed. Discolored water does not usually present a health hazard, however; it is recommended that anyone who has doubts about the rust colored water should not drink it. If you do not have bottled water, you may wish to store tap water in your refrigerator for the day of the test...
Quadlings no longer have to wait “16 in” until the next shuttle. The shuttleboy text message system – a lifesaver for the many quad residents who have misplaced their shuttle cards on a rainy day – has changed its text message lingo. The once bootleg responses that abbreviated minutes as “in” instead of “min” and often ended with an ellipsis of four periods has started to respond to texts with far more normal parlance...
...crucial moment. He has had a near perfect record of conservatism on social and foreign-policy issues since then. The tall, drawling former prosecutor questioned Obama's citizenship this past February, and when Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner first unveiled the Administration's sweeping plan to reform the financial system in June, Shelby said of its goal to expand the Federal Reserve's regulatory power, "I personally believe this represents a grossly inflated view of the Fed's expertise...
...Senator doesn't like the Administration's proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency, though he's willing to support enhanced protections of some sort. But he is firmly against an Administration proposal to let the Federal Reserve designate which financial institutions qualify as most important to the stability of the system...
Threading that political needle - while trying to stitch together a complex reform bill on which the stability of the entire financial system depends - is a long shot. But at least everyone involved has a reason to make...