F.O.B means 'free on board', it's the all up cost of the vehicle to the point where it is put on board ship in Japan bound for NZ. Included, are the vehicle purchase cost, auction fee, trans- port & handling within Japan, de-registration and document processing fees and the export agents fee. C&F is same as FOB but with the freight pre-paid.CIF is FOB costs plus marine insurance.

Japan-side procedure costs (in-land transportation, customs & shipping procedure, administration, inspection, documentation etc.) Japan-side procedure costs (in-land transportation, customs & shipping procedure, administration, inspection, documentation etc.) In this shipping term, the customer pays the ocean freight to the destination port shipping agent.

It stands for cost and freight and it is a pricing term in which the exporter/supplier pays for cost and freight. In another word, the cost of freight is also included in the stated price of the goods.

Generally, Comments & Critiques (or Criticism). Some writers put this in the header of their post (i.e. "Lazy Day Poem - C&C Please") to indicate that they want comments on their poem. However, since the group is devoted to comments, posts may receive a reply of some kind even without the C&C designation.

Burn (a CD): Burning a CD is the same as recording a CD. The word "burn" means "record" when discussing recordable CDs. CDs are recorded with a high-powered laser that literally burns the information to the underside of a CD. Track: A track is an individual group of information. This can be a single song on an audio CD or a group of data on a data CD. Audio CDs are made up of several tracks (each song is a track).

CIF means Cost, Insurance and Freight. If our quotation states CIF LOS ANGELES, the quoted prices include insurance coverage and freight up to Los Angeles.

It is nothing but a directory containing the image files. It can be found at $KDEHOME/share/apps/ScanImages/.

Programs such as the Chart-O-Matic and the rdann-O-Matic display annotations using these and other codes. When these codes are used to annotate ECGs, N is a normal sinus beat, V is a ventricular ectopic beat, S is a supraventricular ectopic beat, and F is a fusion of a normal beat and a ventricular ectopic beat. These and many others are described here.

C&D materials are mixtures of inert and non-inert material. The inert C&D material comprising rocks, concrete, asphalt, rubbles, bricks, stones and earth is collectively called "public fill". Since the material will not decompose and is therefore suitable for use as fill in reclamation projects. The non-inert C&D material comprises bamboo, timber, plastics and packaging material. It is collectively called "C&D waste" and is disposed of at landfills.

Book sizes are based on the practice of folding a large sheet of paper to create several pages. A traditional sized sheet (e.g., 25 x 38) which is folded twice to create four pages yealds a quarto (4to) sized book (measuring 12.5 x 19), a sheet folded three times to create eight pages yields an octavo (8vo) sized book (measuring 9.5 x 12.5), and so on. If you're mathematical, you'll notice that the number of pages is two raised to the number of folds (2**3 = 8).

The Department interprets "varied times" as at least 1 hour apart and "varied conditions" to mean during shift changes, meals, or bath time, etc. In cases where a facility's system is capable of running silently in the building while still transmitting a signal to the monitoring station or fire department verification of the receipt of signal should be concurrently documented as in all other drills.

This is to select BULB or Normal mode for the shutter. Bulb mode will hold the shutter open for as long as you have the shutter release pressed. Normal will open the shutter for ~1/100th of a second. This is a new one. Someone asked this question and someone else said their Holga does it too and it was ok.

Surrender your license to the Bureau of Certification and Licensing, Federal Maritime Commission, 800 North Capitol Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20573. Advise your financial responsibility provider, and if you are an NVOCC, your tariff publisher, that you no longer are operating as an OTI. The Commission will issue you a letter of voluntary surrender and the surrender will be effective the date your license was received by the Commission.

We can only do "To Collect" if the Japan local agent verifies the arrangement. Currently, RORO shipments that do not need verification are in the UK, Mauritius, New Zealand & Fiji. For other destinations & for all Container Shipment, please inquire.

CBC and CFC = Childfree By Choice, meaning we really Really want no children. Most people who post to alt.support.childfree are not only proud of being CBC, we're smug about it. The following terms may appear in message headers, to help categorize messages. If you use these terms in your messages headers when appropriate, many people who just skim the newsgroup will appreciate it. XP = crosspost, between alt.support.childfree and alt.support.childfree.moderated.