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Scented candles burn slower because they have fatter wicks.

To clarify: I had an old closet door, with a large mirror on it, propped up behind my bedroom door. My dogs were playing in the bedroom and must have shifted the mirror behind the door because when I closed my bedroom door behind me, I heard the mirror slide down and then fall... The door has a lever-type handle, with the lever turned vertically up instead of being horizontal (to keep the dogs from opening the door). The mirror seems to have fallen on top of this, and being that it's quite heavy, I can't move the handle at all. Also, about as far away from the door as the mirror is wide, there is a very large cabinet. Anyone have any idea how I can fix this, short of trying to climb through the second story window??

Habitat accessible by strong-flying, wind-dispersed adults and conducive to creating, depositing and hatching eggs in food-filled, mating-friendly niches is what causes fruit flies. The insects in question need access to decaying, organic-rich sweets, such as fermenting fruit, for feeding larvae and to dry darkness for protecting pupae. They then need opportunities, after four days each in larval and pupal stages, to mate two days after emerging from pupation.

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Because you live in North America. No, really. Our electric current is 60 hz AC. the fan runs at a multiple of that for example 7 * 60 is 420... which is very close to A flat ( G sharp) (415.305 Hz).

If you lived in Europe you wouldn't think of this note since they use 50hz AC.

Start with a clean dry, neutrally painted wall.

Get your dimensions accurately measured and on a piece of graft-paper, draw your design for the wall. Make sure it is to scale.

If you have a projector, use it to project your drawing onto the wall and using chalk outline the drawing.

If you do not have a projector, and can not borrow or rent one, use a chalk line from the hardware store or use a long level and tape measure to draw a grid on the wall and manually draw your picture onto the wall using your scale drawing as reference.

There are even people with enough confidence and talent to use chalk and draw the outlines of their design directly onto the wall, without a preliminary drawing, but this can lead to problems with composition and perspective down the road. If you are just starting out or relatively new to doing murals, it is wisest to work from a scale drawing.

Once your outline is finished, take a good look at the drawing and make whatever final adjustments you feel are necessary. Then start painting.

Use a good quality acrylic paint, that is light fast and permanent. If you are using brushes be sure to use good quality brushes of a large enough size to cover the large areas you are painting. The smaller brushes will be used for the finish and detail work, so don't forget them. Many mural artists use air-brushes (or even air-guns for very large walls) but I recommend you have lots of practice with an air-brush before undertaking a mural. This is no place to be "learning".

If you are right handed, start in the upper left corner, (for lefties, start in the upper right, moving down and away from your starting point. Work on any background areas that will have subjects in the middle and foreground that will over lap them. Work carefully and try not to smudge the chalk lines of the areas you have yet to paint.

Move on to your middle ground and then your foreground, only painting over things that are already dry.

Once the basic painting is finished, go back and add your finishing touches (shading, highlights and fine details).

Remember to step back regularly to see how the overall wall is progressing. Often when you scale a picture up you will fine the small areas that have no detail in them become much bigger and feel empty. You may want to add more texture or detail to these areas.

Take your time, murals need to dry before you can paint over things. Working standing on a step ladder or even a chair is fatiguing, so take regular breaks to walk around or stretch. Look after yourself too, eat, drink lots of water and occasionally change your focal distance to keep your eyes from tiring.

Once the wall is finished, have one last look at it, check for things you forgot, make all of your last minute changes and walk away to let it dry. One of the hardest things is to know when to stop, the bigger a painting is, the more temptation there is to keep adding things. This can result in a mural that is cluttered or too "busy." Know how close the viewer is going to be from the mural when it is finished. The closer they will be, the more fine detail the mural can support. If your Mural will be on an exterior wall ten feet off the ground, it is wasted time energy and talent to do features that are two inches high.

Finally if the wall will be in a high traffic area or a high moisture area it is a good idea to seal it. Give the wall two to three days to dry fully, then use a low-luster or mat finish polyurethane, applied with a roller, to seal the entire wall.

*Please note, many polyurethanes will yellow over time so read the can carefully.

I do know some mural artists who use a professional grade air-gun to spray the sealer on, but this requires better knowledge of the workings of an air-gun than most people have. Not to mention over-spray and the need to work in a room that is properly prepared for the use of spay sealer.

Detailing the exterior and interior and keeping all compartments clean and orderly are the ways to eliminate gnats from a car. Both the inside and the outside need to be scrubbed and sprayed with vinegar water since gnats will gather wherever food sources and shelter are guaranteed.

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It is not recommended that you attempt to take apart a 1 Million aftershave bottle. The contents are under pressure and could explode or become a projectile if punctured. They are not intended to be refilled.

this varies depending on culture and/or occasion - be careful not to offend. some Asian and eastern cultures will get very upset about etiquette regarding children.

Fans generally don't produce dust, but they do stir it up quite a bit, which is why it collects on the fan.

I use wd forty spray.Just spray on,work in with finger then scrape with razor.After getting it all off you can use a soapy dish cloth to remove the WD40 residue,then windex.

I had the same experience. If the fan turns on/off with its pull chain but the light doesn't, then the switch behind the light's pull-chain is broke and needs to be replaced.

You think its alot. But i will show you alot. 70 gallons a day. And if u live in a house for 5 years. It is 127,750 for 5 years living in a house.

If you save the old cans youre original gel came in, just fill them 3/4 full of 70 o/o rubbing alcohol and put a 1/2 piece of wax in them you will have a cheaper way to fuel youre gel fireplace, also put them in the refrigerator over night this adds 10 to 30 more life to them.

The best way to waterproof a garden parasol is to spray it with a water sealant. You can buy this sealant at any hardware store.

For the price of a cup...Throw it out, buy a new one.

When I was looking for one I found a good site. Check it out, in the last few days they've been adding a lot of stuff. See the Related Link shown below.

There are products that can be purchased at any home improvement store (Home Depot - Lowes) or at most well stocked hardware stores. It is a pre-formed piece of flexible weatherstripping that is bonded to an aluminum channel that is screwed to the bottom of the door (not the actual underside of the door slab, but on the bottom inch or two of the face of the door). Cut it to length and screw it in position.

Just use a bucket to pour water directly into the bowl and then replace the anti freeze. That way it is only that bowl and not the tank that needs to be dealt with.

It's perfectly safe to add your own touch to fabric window coverings by painting them with fabric paint. You can purchase fabric paint at any craft store.

Yes, noodles can go into a home compost bin. But they must be plain-cooked and lacking in any dairy, greasy or oily inputs.

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