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If you are one of the 18 percent of drivers in the United States who drives a car with a clutch, taking good care of that clutch is important. You could conserve thousands of dollars by taking a check out your driving practices. It is easy to extend the lifetime of your clutch. Just taking a take a look at three of the biggest clutch-driving mistakes and fixing them can extend the life by months, if not years.

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Motor Vehicle Safety Act Of 2010 - Giving The NHTSA Teeth

Congress is considering the first major change in U.S. car safety regulations with Motor Vehicle Safety Act in a decade. This act is scheduled for hearing by subcommittees next Thursday. California Democrat Henry A. Waxman introduced this legislation.

NHTSA budget upped by legislation

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When Cairns 89.1FM applied to the Australian Communication and Media Authority (ACMA) for the renewal of its broadcasting licence it did so in the midst of several CCBI members' complaints about various breaches of its Code of Practice.

ACMA, after serious deliberation, agreed to renew 4CCR's licence on the 1st December 2009. It was not plain sailing for 4CCR as ACMA imposed 7 conditions, titled AGREED MEASURES.

Condition 7 imposed the requirement that 4CCR:

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The Friends meeting of 27th April 2010, decided to send the below attached letter to 4CCR's solicitor for their urgent attention. To this date no response has been received by the Friends or Michael Hyams.

For readers who are not familiar with the events surrounding this issue it concerns the revoking of Michael Hyams' membership of 4CCR on spurious grounds and his appeal rights.

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Sorry Ross for the delayed response to your invitation for my comment on the reform plan for 4CCR. I’ve put quite a bit of thought into this and I keep coming back to the same conclusion. The essence of what makes a community station stand out above the average is its primary focus on community involvement.

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The President of Cairns FM 89.1 Mr Rodney Coutts is playing Russian Roulette with 4CCR's radio station licence and in so doing is thumbing his nose at the Australian Communications and Media Authority(ACMA). As Mr Coutts is already skating on thin ice, ACMA will not take too kindly to Mr Coutts' inept and bungled attempt at changing the Constitution.

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As Chairperson of Friends, I was handed the below quoted letter. The letter has been sent to ACMA by Mr Michael Hyams a member and presenter of CCBI who had his membership terminated capriciously and without proper redress to appeal procedures.

It should be noted by readers that Mr Coutts' Management Committee that revoked Mr Hyams's membership was the very body that was going to hear Mr Hyams'appeal.

I will let you form your own opinion on procedural fairness and the application of natural justice as administered by Mr Coutts.

To: Alexander.ash@ACMA.gov.au

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Greetings to members of CCBI and Friends.

Since February, I on behalf of the Friends of 4CCR have been trying unsuccessfully to make contact with Mr Coutts so that we could have a chat on the various proposals I believe would restore harmony to and the community’s trust in a besieged radio station.

Features that distinguish humans from other creatures are our intelligence, our ability to rationalise and to communicate. Once we abandon these attributes and become insular and/or mute we are doing mankind a profound disservice.

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This web site use TAGS to help tie related content together, ie. the 'Transmitter site' tag would list all posts about or related to the transmitter site. Tags, also known as 'categories' or 'key words', are used extensively for this purpose on major web sites like http://abc.net.au/ and http://flickr.com/. I recommend that you have a look there to further your understanding of 'Tagging'.

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