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Independence Day is just around the corner and if you’re planning on celebrating with a backyard firework display there are some things you should know.

In all of St. Joseph County and in Elkhart, there are some strict rules surrounding fireworks. The 4th of July holiday is one of the only times it’s legal to set them off.

From June 29 through July 9, fireworks can be set off from 5 to 11 p.m. But on the 4th, hours are extended to 10 a.m. to midnight.

“Just make sure you’re using fireworks with an adult, you’re in an open area not enclosed, make sure you’re on your own property when lighting them off and buy them from a licensed retail vendor,” Gerard Ellis, public education officer for the South Bend Fire Department.

Parks and streets are off limits as places to set off fireworks. 

If someone is caught setting fireworks off in the wrong place or time, they can face a $100 fine for the first offense and $500 for the second offense in St.

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I wanted to gauge how all of you fine young professionals were feeling about retirement age.

Not the pie-in-the-sky estimate. Im talking about when you REALLY think youll be able to retire (for reference, the average retirement age in the U.S. is between 63 and 64).

You know how I feel about retirement. If you dont, check out my retirement is dead post. In it, I highlight how I think that traditional 65 and done retirement is a thing of the past and wed all benefit by expecting and preparing for the new retirement.

So, three questions for you, and Ill throw in polls for good quantitative measure:

1. At what age do you expect to partially retire (the new retirement)? This is when you become financially independent and scale back from a full-time gig out of necessity to pursuing personal interests.
2. At what age do you expect to completely retire?

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Is it morning in America? Or is now a time for blood, sweat, toil and tears? As the United States warms up for the presidential elections, the choice between those two narratives will be the most important decision each party makes and may determine who wins in 2012.

Both are ways of talking about the economy — the issue that polls show overwhelmingly preoccupies U.S. voters. The morning-in-America storyline is that the financial crisis is over, the economy is healing and the country’s innate powers of renewal, reinvention and innovation are already asserting themselves. The blood, sweat, toil and tears view is that the U.S. economy is still sick and that it will take a significant, arduous and collective effort to nurse it back to health.

For now, the White House is committed to morning in America.

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For those who have located your way onto this page, then probabilities are which you are on the having to finish of telephone calls or emails from your collections agency asking for settlement on an old debt. You possibly wish to know about your protection under the law and the laws available to defend you in this difficult situation.

In the segments below, legal factors about some of the most regarding areas of debt collections are defined, particularly for people inside the state of Florida.

The Florida state governments along with the Attorney General have applied many different procedures, regulations, and legal guidelines to safeguard customers in Florida from loan companies. The legal guidelines in place incorporate below.

The only time a collector may possibly make contact with you is in case you are behind in paying your debts or debts to a creditor on a family, personal, or household debt. The bill requirements to be legitimate.

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