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A great gift to give on Valentine's Day is a fun coupon! It can be for anything special that your mate really would enjoy - a free slurpee, a free back massage, a free night on the town. It can be for a night of 'chore release' where you do whatever chores your partner normally does. It can be for something your partner has always wanted, but that would be better for him or her to pick out for him/herself, like a new cat or dog.
Just print out this page and then cut out the appropriate coupons!

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Grungepaper, Grungeboard, Foil Tape, Color Wash & Perfect Pearls Mists
New today are Grungepaper, Grungeboard, Memory Foil Tape (in aluminum, brass and copper), Adirondack Color Wash, Perfect Pearls Mists, and the Paper Distresser Tool. I don't have a nice write-up about them as it's late Friday afternoon and summer, so like everyone else I want to get outside! But believe me, these are great products and I know you can put them to fabulous use!
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The New Normal Isn't Normal (Illness Changes Everything)
By Mary Jo Rapini, Licensed Relationship and Family Therapist on December 20, 2011 at 11:15 PM
If you are a care taker for someone, you understand how much their illness has changed your life. Within 24 hours your life takes on a "new normal." This article offers support and helpful hints from a patient in the end stages of cancer. Her insights may help you help care for your loved one. …
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By Mary Jo Rapini, Licensed Relationship and Family Therapist on September 10, 2011 at 7:02 AM
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What Changes When You Almost Die?
By Mary Jo Rapini, Licensed Relationship and Family Therapist on August 3, 2011 at 9:55 AM
No one wants to change. We drag out feet, pay money to a therapist, and still don't willingly make changes. I had an accident, spent less than 2 minutes with God, and everything changed in my life. This article sheds light on what happens when we die, or become very ill. What is meaningful in your life? What do you want to be known for? What are you giving back for someone else? …


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Washington, DC--Common Cause joined Tuesday in calls for quick action on new legislation to require greater transparency and ethical accountability for members of the Supreme Court.
"Our highest court should be held to the highest standards," said Arn H. Pearson, an attorney and Common Cause's vice president for programs. "In doing so, Congress will help the justices take an important step to build public confidence in the impartial administration of justice."
Pearson's comments came at a press conference as Rep. Chris Murphy, D-Ct., announced the introduction of a bill to extend the U.S. Judicial Conference Code of Conduct for judges to members of the Supreme Court. The high court has enforced the code on federal district and circuit court judges but exempts itself.
Murphy's legislation also would require the court to develop a process to consider claims that particular justices have conflicts of interest that require them to disqualify, or recuse themselves from certain cases.
Common Cause has raised conflict of interests questions about the participation of Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas in a landmark campaign finance case, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, decided last year. The group has asked the U.S. Justice Department to investigate whether the justices participated in political strategy and fundraising "seminars" sponsored by Koch Industries, an energy and manufacturing conglomerate that was a major beneficiary of the Citizens United ruling.
The Citizens United decision freed Koch and other corporations and unions to spend as much money as they like on efforts to influence elections. In the wake of the ruling, more than $300 million in "independent" money flowed into last fall's Congressional campaigns, roughly half of it from undisclosed donors.
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Nearly 140 tandem skydiving instructors will have to undergo retraining in the wake of a jump in Northern California that left two dead.
The United State Parachute Association announced Thursday that a number of instructors and candidates will be retested and retrained on proper emergency procedures.
The association's website says two instructors were either not properly taught or certified.
The USPA also says "post-course rating applications may have been submitted with forged signatures since the course examiner was suspended and not authorized to conduct courses."
The move comes nearly a month after 25-year-old Yong Kwon and 18-year-old Tyler Turner died during a jump near Lodi after their parachute didn't deploy on August 6.
The USPA has no records that Kwon was certified. In the wake of the deaths, the organization concluded that a number of candidates who attended tandem instructor courses were not properly certified.


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text: A local soccer match in northern Argentina ended on a violent note on Saturday (October 1) when a fight broke out involving both teams and fans. The incident began at the San Luis stadium when visiting Primero de Mayo kicked a penalty shot permitted by the referee to win the match. During ensuing celebrations, players from the home team, Hertelendy, ran onto the pitch. James Valles reporting (BNO News)


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The Spanish media have claimed that the Merseyside outfit are keeping tabs on Valencia's Paco Alcacer and his contract situation.
Liverpool have had major issues in their attack following the departure of Luis Suarez in the summer, which have been compounded by Daniel Sturridge's injury woes.
With Rickie Lambert not given much of a chance to play consistently and Mario Balotelli failing to make an impression, the consensus is that the Anfield outfit will have an eye on the market this January.
The latest centre forward to be linked with a potential switch to Brendan Rodgers' men is Valencia's Spain international Paco Alcacer.
The 21-year-old has impressed over the last 18 months for the Mestalla side and is currently caught up in a contract stand-off.
Marca today state that Liverpool and AC Milan have both made enquires over Alcacer's availability as he is yet to extend his stay with Valencia.
Negotiations over a new deal are said to have stalled after a number of months of discussions; the centre forward's current contract with his boyhood club is set to expire in the summer of 2016.
Alcacer is highly rated due to his La Liga showings and he has netted three goals in five caps for his country.
The report claims that the forward would prefer to extend his stay with Valencia, but with no agreement reached after extensive negotiations the situation is up in the air.


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Afghan relatives demand local trial for US shooter
Relatives of Afghans killed in a shooting massacre demanded Friday a public trial in Afghanistan for a US soldier expected to be formally charged with 17 counts of murder.
US officials have said that Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, 38, will also be accused of six counts of assault and attempted murder.
He is said to have walked out of his base in the southern province of Kandahar earlier this month and mounted a massacre in two nearby villages, with many of his victims women and children.
The soldier is said to have burnt some of their bodies before returning to his base to surrender.
A senior US official in Kabul said Friday: "I think it's pretty much been decided the case is going to be in the States."
But the killings have put further strains on the already difficult relationship between Kabul and Washington, and relatives of the dead in Panjwai district insisted that Bales should go on trial in Afghanistan.
Haji Samad, an elder who lost 11 members of his extended family, said: "We want the prosecution of this American soldier in Afghanistan not in the US, because he committed the crime in Afghanistan.
"Why he is going to be prosecuted in the US? If this man is prosecuted in Afghanistan, we will be relieved. If he is prosecuted in the US, we will be angry and it will remain a pain in our hearts."
Haji Noor Mohammad, who lost his grandfather, grandmother, a sister and a cousin, told AFP: "I want the prosecution of this US soldier in Afghanistan."
Bales' lawyer John Henry Browne has told reporters that his client — who suffered a brain injury in a road accident in Iraq — has no memory of the event and he could pursue a "diminished capacity" defence.
But Mohammad said: "If he is truly crazy and lost his memory then why is he appointed as a US soldier? Why is he not admitted to the hospital instead?"
The Taliban, who have waged a decade-long insurgency since they were toppled after the September 11, 2001 attacks, said they had no confidence in any US judicial proceedings against Bales.
"We have no faith in any trial for the US soldier," Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told AFP, threatening to speed up attacks on US forces in revenge for the deaths.
"The shooting was not committed by an individual US soldier, many soldiers were involved in the killings," he claimed, calling the trial "an attempt to fool the people of Afghanistan".
Sixteen people were initially reported killed in the shootings. Spokesmen for the NATO-led international forces in Kabul said they could not yet give details of the 17th death.


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Madama Butterfly goes Back to the Future
A team from Edmonton Opera saw a time-travelling version of Madama Butterfly in England and liked it so much they decided to stage it in Edmonton for the company's 50th anniversary.
It opens Saturday, April 5 at the Jubilee Auditorium (also running April 8 and 10).
That's right, there's a time machine. Time machines weren't really a thing when Giacommo Puccini got the idea to write the opera: from an 1887 French novel about romantic culture clash in Japan. It would be eight years before H.G. Wells would come up with his novel The Time Machine, 90 years until Back to the Future.
This version of Madama Butterfly opens in ultra-modern present day Nagasaki and then jumps to 1900 and then inexplicably to the 1950s. Purists needn't worry. If you close your eyes, you won't know the difference. The characters don't know the difference. They're not aware they're travelling through time at all. The story is the same. And the music of course is unaffected. The time machine is set dressing: serving to illustrate how timeless the story is, says tenor John Kriter, who plays Goro, an oily pimp who prefers the term "marriage broker."
He says, "One of the things I find interesting is that around the turn of the Century is when the Americans were coming into Japan, and the influence they brought. Then in the 50s, after the war, it comes again, a greater influence." The apparent Japanese obsession with American culture continues to this day.
"I have Japanese friends – I haven't been to Japan myself – and they tell me that when they go back and see the youth in Japan, they're just obsessed with anything North American," Kriter says. "Still. Maybe even more, to the point where they're almost subverting their own culture."
Which is exactly what drives the drama of Madama Butterfly. The beautiful Cio Cio San, nickname Butterfly, falls in love with an American soldier named Pinkerton, and all the exciting American culture he represents, but he spurns her for another woman, driving the young maiden into a downward spiral of desperate hope and heartbreak, along with both cultural and literal suicide. She rejects all things Japanese and converts to Christianity, which particularly irks her uncle, who happens to a Buddhist priest, and Butterfly is shunned by just about everyone she knew and loved. Pinkerton isn't coming back to sweep her off her feet and take her to beloved America. She is utterly alone. Spoiler alert: It does not end well.
"And you know it doesn't end well," says Kriter, who probably knows more about this opera than anyone in Canada, having performed the role of Goro a number of times, including with the Edmonton Opera in 2004. "When Butterfly sings at the beginning of Act II, the most famous aria from the opera called Un Bel Di, which means one beautiful day, she'll see smoke on the horizon from the ship and she'll be waiting for him and meeting him and she tells this romantic story and it just breaks everyone's heart because everybody knows it's not going to happen.
"It's not necessary for it to be a surprise. Most grand operas that people have seen over and over again, you know the ending, but you also forget because it's the music that really carries you."
It's part of why Madama Butterfly is on the top-10 list of the all-time popular operas.
"There's something about Puccini," Kriter goes on. "The music is almost manipulative. It carries you through every emotion, almost like going to a movie. With him there's no extra music, either. It's all for a purpose. The background music in the movie represents everything that's going on and nothing is superfluous."
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Certain Foods May Protect Against Alzheimer's Disease
July 31, 2010
Researchers in New York studied the diets of older men and women and found that certain foods may be especially effective in helping to protect against Alzheimer's. The findings appeared online in the Archives of Neurology, a medical journal from the American Medical Association.
These brain-healthy foods include:
- salad dressing
- nuts
- fish
- tomatoes
- poultry
- cruciferous vegetables (such as mustard and cabbage)
- fruits
- dark and green leafy vegetables
Conversely, particular foods may be bad for brain health and be linked to an increased risk of Alzheimer's. Such foods, the researchers found, include high-fat dairy products, red meat, organ meat and butter.
The researchers studied the dietary habits of 2,148 older men and women living in northern Manhattan. At the study's start, all the participants were age 65 or older and free of memory loss or other symptoms of Alzheimer's. They were given follow-up exams every one-and-a-half years for an average of four years.
Earlier research, including research done by the Columbia group, have shown that a Mediterranean-style diet rich in fish, olive oil, fruits, vegetables and red wine and low in red meat and butter may help protect against Alzheimer's. But many Americans, including the older Caucasians, blacks and Hispanics included in this study, do not follow a Mediterranean style diet.
"Epidemiological evidence linking diet, one of the most important modifiable environmental factors, and risk of Alzheimer's disease is rapidly increasing," wrote the researchers, from Columbia University Medical Center in New York. "However, current literature regarding the impact of individual nutrients or food items on Alzheimer's disease risk is inconsistent, partly because humans eat meals with complex combinations of nutrients or food items that are likely to be synergistic."
Instead, the researchers this time studied the diet in terms of seven main food groups and nutrients that have been tied to Alzheimer's risk. They looked at these key food groups, all of which have been linked to an increased or decreased risk of Alzheimer's.
Foods that may be linked to an increased risk of Alzheimer's include total fats, particularly:
- Saturated fatty acids: Fatty acids are the building blocks that the body uses to make fats. Eating foods high in saturated fats, like red meat, butter and dairy products, are associated with the development of degenerative diseases, including heart disease and Alzheimer's disease.
Increased intake of polyunsaturated fats and monounsaturated fats, on the other hand, may be protective against Alzheimer's:
- Monounsaturated fatty acids: These heart-healthy fats lower cholesterol and may also be good for the brain. Nuts, including walnuts, peanuts, almonds and pistachios, are high in monounsaturated fats. Avocadoes and canola and olive oils are also high in these fats.
- Omega-3 fatty acids: These polyunsaturated fats have increasingly been tied to heart and brain health and a lower risk of Alzheimer's. They include eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexanoic acid (DHA), both found primarily in oily cold-water fish like tuna, salmon, sardines and mackerel. A third omega-3, called alpha-linolenic acid (ALA), is found primarily in dark green leafy vegetables, flaxseed oils and certain vegetable oils.
- Omega-6 fatty acids: These unsaturated fats tend to be much more common in the American diet than their cousins, the omega-3 fatty acids. Most vegetables oils contain omega-6s, as do avocadoes, nuts, poultry, eggs and other foods. Eating them is not unhealthy. But eating omega-6's at the expense of omega-3's, in vastly higher proportions, has been linked to higher levels of inflammation that may be bad for brain health.
Additional nutrients that have been linked to better memory and thinking skills as well as a lower risk of Alzheimer's include:
- Vitamin E: This powerful antioxidant vitamin has been linked to a decreased risk of Alzheimer's in some studies. Good food sources include wheat germs, vegetable oils, nuts, leafy greens and whole grains.
- Vitamin B12: Most people get plenty of B12 in their diets, but older people may lose the ability to absorb it properly. Foods like organ meats, oysters, fish, eggs, meat and cheese, as well as fortified breakfast cereals, are high in B12. The vitamin, along with folate, helps keep levels of homocysteine, an amino acid tied to inflammation, in check.
- Folate: Foods are fortified with this B vitamin to prevent birth defects, and it is also tied to heart and brain health, including a lower risk of Alzheimer's disease. Excellent food sources of folate, or folic acid as it is also called, include green vegetables, beans, whole grains and orange juice.
In the New York study, older men and women were given extensive questionnaires asking about the specific foods they ate daily. During the study follow-up period, 253 of them developed Alzheimer's disease. The researchers controlled for variables like smoking and alcohol use (moderate drinking, for example, may be good for the brain, whereas excessive drinking is not). One dietary pattern was significantly associated with a reduced risk of the disease. This pattern involved high intakes of salad dressing, nuts, fish, tomatoes, poultry, fruits and cruciferous and dark and green leafy vegetables and low intakes of high-fat dairy, red meat, organ meat and butter.
The combination of nutrients in the low-risk dietary pattern reflect multiple pathways in the development of Alzheimer's disease, the authors noted. For example, they write, "vitamin B12 and folate are homocysteine-related vitamins that may have an impact on Alzheimer's disease via their ability of reducing circulating homocysteine levels, vitamin E might prevent Alzheimer's disease via its strong antioxidant effect and fatty acids may be related to dementia and cognitive function through atherosclerosis, thrombosis or inflammation via an effect on brain development and membrane functioning or via accumulation of beta-amyloid."
"Our findings provide support for further exploration of food combination–based dietary behavior for the prevention of this important public health problem," they conclude.
By www.ALZinfo.org. Reviewed by William J. Netzer, Ph.D., Fisher Center for Alzheimer's Research Foundation at The Rockefeller University.
Yian Gu, Ph.D.; Jeri W. Nieves, Ph.D.; Yaakov Stern, Ph.D.; et al: "Food Combination and Alzheimer's Disease Risk: A Protective Diet." Archives of Neurology, Vol. 67(No. 6):(doi:10.1001/archneurol.2010.84), April 12, 2010.


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"More analysts are urging investors to buy shares in Vestas Wind Systems A/S (VWS) than at any time since October 2010 after the stock soared more than 400 percent over the past 12 months."
"More than 45 percent of analysts covering Europe's biggest wind turbine maker recommend purchasing Vestas stock, versus a September 2012 low of 9.4 percent, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Ten analysts advise clients to buy, five have hold ratings and seven say sell, according to the data. In November, only eight analysts recommended buying Vestas.
The shares are poised for a fivefold jump in value this year after the company reduced, signed a partnership deal with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. and replaced its chief executive officer. Orders surged by more than a third, reaching a record pace in December, according to Nordea AB. Before 2013, Vestas's shareholders had struggled through three years of losses after cuts to government subsides for green energy hurt the company."
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The weather pattern for March has been one where troughing has been prevalent over the eastern United States with a blocking high pressure area over Greenland. This allowed some marginally colder air to bleed south over New England and allowed for the rapid development and slow movement of 3 very strong noreasters. This active weather pattern is expected to continue through most of the remainder of March. This will allow for colder air to filter into New England with the associated storm track being near or through New England. The official National Weather Service 6 to 10 day and 8 to 14 day forecast calls for below normal temperatures and near normal precipitation. ...OBSERVED SNOW DEPTH AND WATER EQUIVALENT... ...NEW HAMPSHIRE... Snow depth across New Hampshire is quite variable and ranges from 10 to 20 inches in the lower Connecticut River Valley up to 1 to 3 feet across the rest of the State. Snow water equivalent ranges from 2 to 5 inches across the lower elevations of New Hampshire. Water equivalent increases rapidly to 5 to 10 inches in the higher elevations. A snow survey done by the Corps of Engineers at an elevation of 1710 feet in the Pemigewasset river basin recorded a water equivalent of 10.2 inches. Moose Falls near the Canadian border reported a snow depth of 48 inches and a water equivalent of 10.0 inches. Water equivalent is generally near normal for the time of year except for northern New Hampshire where they are above normal. ...WESTERN MAINE... Snow depth ranges 1 to 3 feet from the foothills south. North of the foothill snow depth ranges from 2 to 4 feet. Both Moosehead lake and Brassua Lake reported a snow depth of 48 inches this morning. Snow water equivalent ranges from 2 to 5 inches south of the foothills. north of the foothills to the Canadian border snow water equivalent ranges from 5 to 10 inches with locally higher amounts. West Kennebago Mountain north of Rangeley reported a snow water equivalent of 11.5 inches in 3 feet of snow. Water equivalent is generally above normal for the time of year. ...SOIL MOISTURE AND WATER SUPPLY CONDITIONS... Soil moisture anomaly maps from March 14 indicate above normal moisture conditions in western Maine and New Hampshire. The long term Palmer Drought Severity Index from March 10 indicates unusually moist conditions across southern New Hampshire and coastal Maine and normal conditions in central and northern Maine and northern New Hampshire. Reservoirs in the Androscoggin River basin are 50.6 percent full which is 17.3 percent above normal. All reservoirs in the Kennebec River basin are above normal for the time of year. Groundwater levels courtesy of the USGS show that monitoring wells in western Maine and New Hampshire are mostly above normal. ...RIVER AND ICE CONDITIONS... River flows are mostly above normal for the time of year in both western Maine and New Hampshire. Ice has decreased markedly over the past 2 weeks. The ice jam on the Kennebec River at Augusta is now gone due to the help of the Coast Guard and their ice breaking efforts. The ice jam that was on the Saco River at Fryeburg has melted away. All other known ice jams have melted away and are no longer a threat. The only remaining ice is on headwater streams and rivers in the mountains, like the Carrabassett and Sandy Rivers. While we don`t anticipate any further issues with ice we will have to continue to monitor these and other mountain rivers and streams as we move into the spring season. ...IN CONCLUSION... Based on the above information the flood potential is above normal for all of western Maine and New Hampshire. This is due mainly to an increasing snowpack which will likely increase further through the remainder of March. Also we are reaching later into March and as we approach April the chances of a rapid warmup increase. The threat for ice jam flooding is below normal due to the rapid decrease in ice cover. While ice remains on mountain streams and river we do not anticipate any further ice jam flooding this season. However the Sandy and Carrabassett Rivers will continue to be monitored. It is important to note that major flooding does not occur from snowmelt alone. Rainfall, how much and in how short a period of time is the most important factor in determining the severity of flooding. Another Winter/Spring Flood Potential Outlook will be issued March 29. $$ TFH


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Even though Henry is looking forward to going to kindergarten, he is not sure about staying once he first gets there.
Sarah is afraid to start at a new school, but both she and the reader are in for a surprise when she gets to her class.
Llama Llama experiences separation anxiety on his first day of nursery school.
Emily is worried about starting school for the first time, but Foxy waves his magic tail to provide what she needs to be ready.
On the first day of school, Kitty Cat discovers that there are lots of things to enjoy. He plays, he enjoys a snack, he paints, he sings, he listens to a story, and he shares something special during show-and-tell. No wonder he likes school so much.
Ten days before the start of kindergarten, a preschooler can not tie her shoes by herself and fears the worst.
When Chester the raccoon is reluctant to go to kindergarten for the first time, his mother teaches him a secret way to carry her love with him.
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Nervous about the first day of school, Oliver brings an alligator to school for protection.
Fearless Dinosaur takes on new challenges as he starts preschool, from meeting new friends to pasting glitter and googly eyes, but one task requires assistance from everyone.
Rhyming text with rebuses follows a group of animals through their first day of school.
Although kindergarten provides unique challenges for a young buffalo, one who follows the rules and tries his best will get along fine.
In rhyming text based on "The night before Christmas," Billy is too nervous to sleep the night before he begins preschool, but a kind teacher and new friends fill the day with fun.
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After being rebuffed last week with his call for members and the executive director of the embattled Commission on Public Integrity to step down, Gov. David Paterson wants a new ethics commission that would oversee state government (which is now the province of the Inspector General, among others), lobbying (the CPI's domain) and campaign finance (the Board of Elections).
Here's Paterson's release on the topic:
"The Report of the Inspector General released last week indicates that there were serious leaks of confidential information from the Public Integrity Commission that the Commission tolerated by inaction. I was careful not to accuse any one Commissioner of wrongful conduct; I have no information to indicate that any single commissioner was at fault. However, the Commission was notified of unauthorized leaks and in my judgment, and that of the Inspector General, collectively failed to act but should have. As a result, the Commission has been compromised and its public standing is in question.
"The sad reality is that this issue is much larger than the Public Integrity Commission. The general perception is that the ethics process in Albany is broken and I believe it is. This is the urgent challenge that we in government must address. I intend to submit legislation later this week to create a new Government Ethics Commission that would be independent and have jurisdiction over State government, lobbying and campaign finance.
"Government depends on the trust of the public and must be accountable to its citizens. The public's trust is a function of its confidence that government affairs are conducted honestly, ethically and without conflict of interest. It is my intention to put in place an independent commission structure that will restore the public's confidence in our government."


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Google is rolling out the ability for people to use its Google Docs and Google Apps hosted applications even when they aren't connected to the internet.
The first application to get this offline access will be the Google Docs word processor, said Ken Norton, Google Docs product manager. "The design goal is to create a seamless experience, with or without an internet connection," he said.
Over the next three weeks or so, Google will turn on the feature for all word processor users, giving them the ability to view and edit documents while offline. During the same time period, Google Docs' spreadsheet will gain offline ability for viewing, but not editing, documents.
Google Docs' third component, an application to make slide presentations, will remain for now without offline access. However, Google has plans to extend the offline access to it and to other hosted services in the Google Apps suite, of which Docs is part. Apps also includes Gmail, Calendar, Talk and others.
"Offline access of [hosted] apps is the next step in making the web as a whole a lot more reliable," Norton said.
Expectation for offline access in Docs and Apps had been building since Google introduced its Gears open-source technology in May of last year. Until now, Google had only built Gears offline functionality for its Reader RSS feed manager.
By allowing Docs and Apps users to work offline, Google is addressing one of the biggest objections to web-hosted applications. So far, offline access has required that users export their Docs files to third-party file formats, such as Microsoft Office.
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To access their Docs files offline, users need only install the Gears plug-in and type in the regular Google Docs URL: docs.google.com.
Work done offline will be automatically synchronised with the Google Docs servers when users connect to the internet.
As an open-source technology, Gears can be used by developers outside of Google.
The offline access will be turned on "in batches" over the coming weeks in consumer Docs accounts and in the administrator consoles of Apps.
Gears is currently supported in Internet Explorer 6 and above and Firefox 1.5 and above for Windows XP and Vista, according to Google. Firefox 1.5 and above is also supported on Mac OS X 10.2 and above and Linux. Gears also runs on Microsoft Windows Mobile 5 and above in Internet Explorer 4.01 and above.


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WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — Moreover, Obama and Merkel also discussed ways to further bolster the economic relationship between Europe and the United States, according to the White House.
"On Ukraine, the president and the chancellor underscored their firm commitment to accelerate the full implementation of the Minsk agreements by all sides," the read-out stated on Thursday.
The two leaders also discussed the European Union's response to the refugee crisis, including the upcoming Syria donors' conference in London on February 4, the read out said. They agreed to try and "galvanize" global efforts to address the humanitarian crisis.
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A sub-plot to today's high drama was the "Has Fred been shredded?" episode. An online report said that Sir Fred "The Shred" Goodwin, the chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland was being forced to leave the bank as part of the price of the government rescue, along with his chairman Sir Tom McKillop. RBS says it didn't even discuss the possible departure of its top two men.
Perhaps not, but everyone else has been talking about it for months, and the volume has been turned up since the recent arrival of Stephen Hester on the RBS board.
Hester is best known for helping rescue Abbey National, which ran up hundreds of millions of pounds of toxic debt a few years ago, before it was even fashionable. He is obviously a possible successor to Goodwin.
Fred committed a spectacular act of self-sabotaged by pressing ahead with a costly and risky takeover of ABN Amro in the teeth of the credit crunch. One of its partners in that venture, Fortis, has succumbed to a rescue by the Benelux governments. Executives at Barclays, which was also trying to buy ABN, are wandering around their Canary Wharf headquarters talking with open relief at what they now see as their lucky escape in being outbid.
Goodwin's reputation rests on his successful takeover of Nat West and his supporters think he should be kept in place as the best man to integrate ABN and to get the bank back on its feet - a version of the pro-Gordon Brown spin in the political sphere.
Conspiracy theorists reckon there is some kind of tartan stitch-up going on, with Brown and Alistair Darling backing their fellow Scot. Personally, I wouldn't go long on Fred. He might remain in situ for a little while, if only to avoid destabilising the situation further, but the golf course must be beckoning.


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Ditch the clammy chamois and rep the classic scorpion in comfort and style with the Castelli Men's Armando Short Sleeve T-Shirt.
Contrary to what some may say, chamois time isn't training time if you're just sitting around after the race in a stinky kit trying to eke a few more hours of sponsor promotion out of the day. Ditch the clammy chamois and rep the classic scorpion in comfort and style with the Castelli Men's Armando Short Sleeve T-Shirt. Made from a downy soft blend of cotton and polyester, this shirt features vintage styling and a screen-printed logo for a pop of Castelli flair as you taunt your friends with beer hand-ups and cowbell choruses.
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Hello, world! This blog began on September 28, 2007, and so far nobody has come looking for me
with tar and feathers. On my honor, I will do my best not to bore you. All comments are welcome
as long as your discourse is civil and your language is not blue.
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Monday, October 15, 2012
Se habla Español aqui
So far, things seem to be going well. After only a few days, I'm already at level 6. I have no idea how many levels there are, though. Probably 157.
We Level 6 virtuosos can say many useful things in Spanish that are sure to come in handy every single day. Here are a few actual sentences I have learned:
1. Nosotros no tocamos la cebolla. (We do not touch the onion.)
2. ¿Oyes caballos? (Do you hear horses?)
3. Yo bebo vino blanco mientres como pollo. (I drink white wine while I eat chicken.)
4. Mi perro duerme sobre mi camisa. (My dog sleeps on top of my shirt.)
5. La niña bebes jugo de naranja. (The child drinks orange juice.)
Once I have mastered Spanish, I am definitely planning to learn German and take a refresher course in French.
After all, the price is right and I have a lot of time on my hands.
8 comments:
- Shooting Parrots said...
It will be interesting to see at what level you are allowed to touch onions, or get your dog off your shirt for that matter.
- October 15, 2012 at 8:29 AM
- Rubye Jack said...
At our local library they have these Spanish immersion classes for free -- one of these days, one of these days...
- October 15, 2012 at 10:18 AM
- Helsie said...
They say learning a new language is a great way of exercising the brain and warding off the dreaded Alzheimer's.
We're planning a holiday in France and Switzerland next year so it's French and German for me though I think the German will be a hard call after all these years away fron schoolgirl German.
BUT ... I hope I don't end up speaking about my dog's sleeping arrangements or whether or not we touch onions !!
- October 15, 2012 at 6:40 PM
- Reamus said...
RWP: Sometimes your thirst for knowledge, in this case about onions, concerns me.
- October 15, 2012 at 7:05 PM
- rhymeswithplague said...
Thank you, one and all, for coming over to my li'l ol' blog and reading my li'l ol' post and leaving your li'l ol' comment and making my li'l ol' life so much richer.
- October 16, 2012 at 8:07 AM
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- October 16, 2012 at 1:35 PM
- rhymeswithplague said...
And thank you, too, Srta. Ruiz de Chavez, for playing the part of Spanish teacher. The only Ruiz I know of is Rosie (the actress) and the only Chavez I know of is Hugo (the socialist). As you may suspect, I don't get out much.
- October 16, 2012 at 2:28 PM
- Yorkshire Pudding said...
It is vital that you master Spanish as this is now the USA's first language. You would also look nice in a sombrero and poncho.
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Little has changed for the Gilmore Girls in Year in the Life's "Winter"
By Chelsea Hensley
Do you ever think about David S. Rosenthal, the showrunner who replaced Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino and was responsible for Gilmore Girls's awful, awful final season? No? Me either because I try not to think about season seven. That being said, oh my goodness, does he know what he did? But I digress because we're not talking about it. We're talking about A Year in the Life, which doesn't require you to remember that dark time.
But that dent in the show's charming run makes the revival both necessity and novelty as the Palladinos return to wrap things up and wipe season seven from our memories (not that there's anything worth remembering).
If you weren't a fan of Gilmore Girls before, the revival won't change your mind. It's everything the original series had and then some, a nostalgic return to the land of Stars Hollow, down to the folksy la la la. As the first installment, "Winter" has less plot and more exposition, primarily concerned with reorienting us to this world. But after so much time as passed, and with so little time to revisit the show's quirks and characters, it always threatens to be too much, and "Winter" occasionally is (Lorelai's ex actually asks if she's "happy" at her father's funeral). There's little that's actually new, but since we didn't wait all this time for an all-new revival, it's not the worst thing.
"I smell snow"
It's fitting we return to Gilmore Girls in Lorelai's favorite season, when Stars Hollow closely resembles a snow globe. And, of course, when Emily is frosty following Richard's funeral.
As a new widow navigating the world, Kelly Bishop gets more to work with than she has in the past (and she got plenty in the past). She compensates for Richard's absence with new maid Berta and her family. It's all Emily can do with Rory flitting from place to place and she and Lorelai not speaking, but it's deeply sad to watch even as it's shrouded in humor. When she sits on her sofa and despondently remarks that she "doesn't know how to do this", it's heartbreaking.
As is the fight between Emily and Lorelai at the funeral. We've seen many conflicts between them (their troubled relationship is just as essential as Rory and Lorelai's close one), and even before we see this one we watch Lorelai badger Emily until she angrily admits a mistake on her part is to blame for Richard's massive portrait. It's residual angst from their funeral blowout, where a drunken Lorelai, asked for memories of Richard, instead offers ones that are insensitive (at best) and insulting (at worst).
I could have come up with plenty of stories, like the time Richard found Lorelai sneaking out of her window at dinner but said nothing because he knew how bored she was. That's a pleasant memory. Him leaving her hiding in a trunk while he jets off to Croatia? Not so much. But Lorelai would rather play duck duck goose than try to remember this! It's an understatement to say that this is a bad look for our plucky heroine. Lorelai's crass, even cruel, and she only breaks Emily's heart further.
Gilmore Girls has never hesitated to make Emily and Lorelai's relationship as painful as possible, but this is excruciating. Both are grieving, and an already bad situation is made worse when Emily declares Lorelai "couldn't care less" that her father's died and throws her out. But not before calling Lorelai selfish and promising Lorelai will ruin things with Luke, a blow so low only Emily could have landed it.
If there's a plot in "Winter", this is it. Emily and Lorelai at odds is an easy and familiar entry point back into the Gilmore's world and is easier to latch onto than Rory's middling journalism career (more on that later). There's a chance the revival will end up burying the hatchet between them, but we've got a ways to go, and Emily and Lorelai return to being tentatively fine as Emily tricks Lorelai into coming to therapy. Which probably should have happened eons ago.
Nothing makes this clearer than Lorelai's reaction to Emily's words. Convinced Luke is unsatisfied and secretly wants kids, she insists on finding a surrogate. For a moment I worried that this whole revival would trace the birth of Lorelai and Luke's baby, but Luke (who really is happy) nipped that in that bud. But he can't do anything about Lorelai's worry that she's limited him in some way, which seems more likely the storyline where we're headed.
But this momentarily terrifying surrogacy story does gift us with Paris Gellar. How she came to be showing off surrogates to hopeful couples, I'm not certain. But who cares because Liza Weil is in perfect form as Paris. Since Weil took up her role on How To Get Away With Murder I'd forgotten about her ability to nail Paris's unflinching intensity and caustic humor, but she slips right back into the role. Putting her up against Lauren Graham and Scott Patterson, who play it straight against Paris's declarations of love for Lorelai and promises of "mondo discounts", makes it all the more hilarious.
"Super proud!"
I expected little to have changed in the ten years since we last saw the Gilmores but the one thing I knew wouldn't ever change (even with Donald Trump as president-elect and Prince dead) is that everyone would be boringly proud of Rory Gilmore. This isn't to say this pride is undeserved. It's just…okay, it's sort of undeserved.
Rory's character has always consisted more of what people expect of her than what she actually does, and A Year in the Life is no different. Everything Rory does is golden, even when it's not all that much. Three phones aside (why does she have three phones? All a writer needs is an email address), her journalism career is little more than coasting off the glowing reception to a New Yorker piece, down to co-writing a biography with her eccentric and drunken subject, which we can already guess will end badly. But Rory isn't pitching any other publications, despite a meeting with Conde Nast (like…all of Conde Nast?) and is definitely not looking hard for steady work. If you ask Rory, she's "rootless", but Emily's right: Rory's homeless, zipping from one guest room to another. (She flies back and forth from London to Connecticut way too much for a person with no steady income). But everyone's just so proud and are acting like Rory is Roxane Gay.
She's not Roxane Gay.
And Rory's personal life is no better. But that at least, we expected. There was no way we'd find her in a healthy relationship. She definitely wasn't going to be like soon-to-be-divorced-with-children Paris (her and Doyle will totally get back together, right?). Whatever Rory's relationship with boyfriend Paul is, the Palladinos make it clear we aren't supposed to care. No one, not even his own girlfriend (of two years!), can remember him or anything about him. And while he doesn't stack up to Rory's other boyfriends in terms of eye candy (sorry, Paul) he's probably a better boyfriend than all of them were (sorry, Dean/Jess/Logan), and he can likely do better than Rory, who literally doesn't remember him enough not to start dating Logan again.
Seriously, Rory, that's just jerky. But everyone's "super proud!" so it's fine.


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In this series, we follow a group of students, a school nurse and a young girl as they struggle to survive in a world that has fallen to the dead in a matter of hours. And falls to the living with their nuclear holocausts, shortly after that. Hectic. The action scenes are great, covering sword and gunplay, it's got a bit of everything.
Not to detract from it's awesome plot, character dynamics and overall animation style, the first thing you will probably notice is.. The fan service. For those not familiar with anime, wikipedia defines fan service as the following:
In Japanese manga and anime, Fan service (ファンサービス fan sābisu), fanservice, or service cut (サービスカット sābisu katto),is material that is designed to amuse or excite the audience with especially derived content. It is about "servicing" the fan - giving the fans "exactly what they want" – and usually refers to "gratuitous titillation".


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LEE McCULLOCH last night apologised for a Ramsdens Cup embarrassment he labelled worse than liquidation.
The Rangers skipper held his hands up for the shocking performance that saw Ally McCoist's men lose Sunday's final against Raith Rovers in extra time.
But he was banned from commenting on the after-match "party" at Ibrox that featured manager McCoist singing Meat Loaf. Instead he laid bare what he branded the lowest point of his career – and that includes the insolvency events which rocked Ibrox two years ago.
McCulloch said: "It was the lowest point in my football career. And I'm factoring in administration. The lot."
The 35-year-old apologised to McCoist and the fans for the Easter Road display and insisted they will up their game for Saturday's Scottish Cup semi-final clash against Dundee United.
He said: "The players obviously owe the manager for the support he has shown us, myself in particular, over the past couple of years since the club went into administration.
"It would be great to give him something back when we play against United in the Scottish.
"Also, after the support we took to Easter Road last Sunday, it would be great to give the supporters something to shout about after what has been a tough week for them.
"We want to produce a better result than we did last week in the final. That much is obvious.
"We owe it to each other as players. We owe it to the management and we owe it to the fans.
"Hopefully we can get the result that we need.
"But we are going to need men and we are going to need leaders.
"What a chance we have as players to show we have those attributes."
McCulloch was at Ibrox yesterday to launch the sale of season-ticket books.
He was asked pointedly if he would buy one after the result that embarrassed the fans who went to the capital and those far beyond.
"Why not?" he replied. "If you're a Rangers fan you want to be there to see the team progress.
"I was delighted to pledge my long-term future to Rangers when we played in Division Three last season and I want to play my part in our rise back to the very top of Scottish football."


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Alachua County Board of County Commissioners Gainesville, FL, United States
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NOTE: TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS VACANCY, ALL APPLICANTS MUST APPLY ONLINE AT: http://agency.governmentjobs.com/alachua/default.cfm Salary: $22.84/Hour Bachelor's degree with major course work in environmental science, environmental engineering, chemistry, natural science, or a related field, and three years of professional level environmental related experience; or any equivalent combination of related training and experience. Must possess and maintain a valid State of Florida driver's license. Applicants within six months of meeting the education/experience requirement may be considered for trainee status. Position Summary: This is a professional position that may supervise work in any of the following areas depending on the hiring division: inspection, testing and enforcement of air and water pollution control ordinances, hazardous waste management or collection, as well as protection, evaluation, stewardship and/or management of natural and historic resources for Alachua County. The employee assigned to this classification may be responsible for coordinating and supervising field and laboratory activities related to water quality, air quality or other environmental monitoring and assessment, technical review of contaminated site remediation, public education program coordination, regulatory activities regarding natural/historic resources, hazardous materials, hazardous waste collection, and/or land stewardship activities. Responsibilities will vary according to division assignment within the Environmental Protection Department (Natural Resources, Water Resources and/or Pollution Prevention and/or the Parks and Conservation Lands Department (Land Conservation). Work is performed under the direction of a higher level professional supervisor and is reviewed through conferences, reports, and observation of results obtained. Examples of Duties: ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS Conducts and supervises field collection of samples and/or data and/or observations for environmental analysis, evaluates data, prepares reports and recommendations. Coordinates with other regulatory agencies. May supervise and coordinate the activities of subordinate employees including determining work procedures and schedules; issuing instructions and assigning duties; reviewing work; recommending personnel actions; conducting performance reviews; and conducting departmental training and orientation. Receives complaints regarding violations of environmental regulations and/or solid waste regulations and/or site-specific rules, plans, and guidelines; investigates complaint for corrective action and makes recommendations. Provides guidance and oversight and enforcement of federal, state and local environmental regulations. Evaluates inspection and monitoring data from multiple sources. Depending on the hiring division, examples may include water monitoring wells, solid waste management sites, wastewater treatment plants, and hazardous materials management facilities, photopoints, transects or data from other agencies as appropriate. May coordinate and/or assist with stewardship activities such as natural resource restoration, controlled burns, exotic plant control, field inspections, and environmental monitoring and assist with land acquisition. Prepares reports and recommendations. Prepares and conducts public education programs and compliance assistance training programs. Designs and establishes environmental monitoring programs as needed. Testifies, as needed, at administrative hearings as a technical witness and/or to support enforcement actions. Assists the supervisor in the preparation of periodic operating reports and presentations to various Boards; provides input into area budget needs. Operates, as required, motor vehicles (including departmental motor vehicles and four-wheel drive vehicles), as well as small equipment and machinery, in order to conduct job duties that, depending on the hiring division, may include field tests, inspections, evaluations, prescribed burns, exotic species control, and investigations to obtain data for use in determining code compliance, sources of, and methods for controlling County-wide environmental pollutants, performing on-site evaluations, plant and animal surveys, and other ecological monitoring as appropriate. Performs related work as required. Land Conservation Division: Plans and implements land stewardship activities on Alachua County natural areas including exotic plant control, prescribed fire, forestry, restoration and site development. Develops projects, coordinates and oversees contractors performing land stewardship activities such as: invasive plant and animal control, site preparation, planting, timber harvesting, site maintenance, site development, natural and cultural resource monitoring, restoration and prescribed burning. May coordinate prescribed burning activities on County owned or managed properties, through preparation, review and implementation of burn prescriptions. May serve as burn boss or burn crew member on prescribed burns. May plan and implement maintenance and creation of firebreaks and preparation of areas for burning. May coordinate with the Florida Division of Forestry, contractors and other agencies on prescribed burning and other stewardship activities. May perform environmental assessments of properties nominated for acquisition through the Alachua County Forever Program to identify natural resources, physiographic and ecological characteristics, hydrological resources, manageability, and public accessibility. Analyzes environmental considerations and prepares evaluation reports. Responsible for land acquisition and stewardship activities such as controlled burns, exotic plant control, field inspections, and environmental monitoring, preparation of base-line monitoring reports and development of management plans. Natural Resources Division: Analyzes environmental characteristics of development applications and administrative permits and may provide recommendations on land use, zoning and site plans. Performs compliance inspections for development projects to determine consistency with environmental code requirements and development order conditions. Responds to citizen and agency inquiries and complaints related to natural and water resource issues. Receives complaints regarding violations of environmental regulations and/or site-specific rules, plans, and guidelines; investigates potential enforcement situations for corrective action and resolution. Coordinates and conducts natural resources outreach and education. Performs environmental assessments of special planning areas to identify natural resources and historic resources and physiographic and ecological characteristics. Assists in developing and implementing elements in the County's Comprehensive Plan and land development regulations. Pollution Prevention Division (includes Petroleum Management, Hazardous Materials, and Hazardous Waste Collection): Coordinates operations programs for solid waste, household hazardous wastes, used oil collection and waste reduction/recycling alternatives so as to maintain compliance with appropriate regulations. Performs periodic compliance and enforcement inspections of regulated facilities, contaminated sites, remediation sites, and other environmental sites to ensure compliance with and enforcement of local ordinances and state and local regulatory programs; reviews permits and compliance status. Manages remediation activities at environmental sites, including technical and/or cost oversight of engineering contractors for compliance monitoring, contamination assessments and remedial actions arising from groundwater, surface water, soil or ambient air contamination with hazardous or toxic materials and petroleum products to ensure compliance with program regulations and local ordinances. Prepares and reviews purchase orders or work orders and reviews invoices for work performed or services or goods provided by contractors and vendors in support of county or state contracted regulatory programs or hazardous materials and waste management programs. Performs emergency spill response as required for hazardous materials or petroleum product spills in support of first responders to coordinate remediation of spills. Assists in developing pollution control, air pollution and hazardous and solid waste elements of land development regulations, County Comprehensive Plan, and ordinances and regulations. Oversees and enforces compliance with federal, state and local regulations for the proper storage, handling, transportation and disposal of hazardous materials. Prepares and revises procedures and implements staff training on various hazardous materials safety policies and procedures including proper documentation and training records. Assists with fiscal budgeting, scheduling, communication and logistical details of hazardous waste collection grants, special projects and neighborhood collection activities. Water Resources Division: Coordinates and conducts water resources outreach and education. Monitors and performs wastewater treatment facility inspections. Conducts training on erosion and sediment control. Prepares, coordinates and manages contracts and grants. Collects groundwater and surface water samples and ensures data quality assurance and quality control procedures and targets are met. Analyzes water quality and hydrologic data and prepares technical reports. Oversees and enforces compliance with federal, state and local water resources regulations. NOTE: These examples are intended only as illustrations of the various kinds of work performed in positions allocated to this class. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related or a logical assignment to the position. KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES Thorough knowledge of the technical methods and procedures involved in the administration of environmental regulations, programs and policies. Depending on assigned division, this may include: technical methods and procedures involved in land management and acquisition; theories and practices of ecology and land management, including restoration, weed science and prescribed burning; knowledge of the flora, fauna and ecology of North Central Florida; general environmental programs such as solid waste management, hazardous waste disposal, petroleum cleanup, air and water monitoring, natural and historic resource protection, land acquisition and land stewardship. Considerable knowledge of environmental sampling procedures and equipment. Knowledge of local, state, and federal rules, regulations, and ordinances related to environmental protection. Knowledge of word processing and data management programs and Geographic Information Systems. Knowledge of effective supervisory techniques and modern principles and practices of supervision. Skill in the operation of motor vehicles, small equipment and machinery. Ability to apply engineering and scientific principles and methods. Ability to effectively supervise and coordinate the activities of subordinate employees. Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing. Ability to create concise, clear and succinct technical reports. Ability to research technical problems, formulates recommendations, and compiles related reports. Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with co-workers, the general public and other County agencies. Water Resources Division: Working knowledge of GIS, graphics design software, website management, MS Access, data management and data validation. Natural Resources D i v i s i on : Working knowledge of GIS, MS Word and Excel, SharePoint, and data management. Requires considerable skill in the identification of local flora, fauna and natural communities, and wetland delineation. Land Conservation Division: May require considerable skill in the identification of local flora, fauna and natural communities, operation, maintenance and transportation of heavy trucks, farm tractors, brush trucks, pumps, chain saws, mowers and trimmers used in preserve maintenance, fuels management and restoration. Working knowledge of GIS and data management. PHYSICAL DEMANDS: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls. The employee frequently is required to talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; and taste or smell. The employee must lift and/or move up to 80 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. WORK ENVIRONMENT: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee frequently works in outside weather conditions. The employee is occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles and toxic or caustic chemicals. The employee may perform field work in inclement weather and harsh conditions such as wet areas and dense brush with biting insects, venomous animals or irritating plants. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. Land Conservation Division: The employee may regularly work near moving parts, are regularly exposed to fumes or airborne particles, extreme heat and a loud work environment.


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Stunningly located in the heart of the Garfagnana with the most wonderful views of open countryside and mountains, is this beautiful stone cottage and chestnut house which have been converted into three clean, light, airy, spacious and well equipped holiday homes sharing a pool. We rent them all together to give you full privacy and a real sense of freedom. Be together when you wish but have privacy between your groups. Ideal for friends or large families.
The apartments are individually equipped, with personal entrances and personal eating out areas with BBQs. There is a large terrace to all eat together.
This is an ideal spot for groups of couples and families looking for a totally peaceful holiday with amazing views, yet within easy reach of local tourist activities, and rarely in this area within walking distance of 2 restaurants!
Enjoy this amazing location and the beautifully kept properties which are split as follows:
One house split into 2 x 2 bedroom properties sleeping 4 plus 2 each.
One little metato/barn converted into romantic one bedroom detached house sleeping 2 plus 1.
All accomodation is fresh, clean and well loved, with traditional chestnut windows, traditional flooring and a character feel. Two have the benefit of beautiful original beamed ceilings and all have a pristine shower room and they are all individually equipped.
All properties have beautiful views and overlook the garden/pool.
The private pool is 10M x 5M and is situated to make the most of the jaw dropping mountain views.
We booked all three apartments for a family holiday. They were very clean and well looked after with all the facilities we needed. The pool was great with an amazing view. Loriano was helpful and kind offering us fresh tomatoes from the garden and home made cakes. A brilliant week.
We spent a week at Agriturismo La Foce late August. We rented out all three of the locations on site.
The surrounding views are outstanding.
A retreat for anyone wishing a quiet relaxing time away from it all. Nearest supermarket is in Gallicano, a 20 minute drive down the mountain.
It was a little difficult to find. It's 800 meters high and only road is narrow and very windy. Blink and you will miss the turn to La Foce. but the magnificent views once there make it worthwhile.
Villa Edera and Villa Eden is one house split in two with identtial layout on both floors. Two double bedrooms, one bathroom, double sofa bed in living area which includes kitchen facilities including dishwasher.
Villa Edera, the lower floor has very large patio area.
Villa Eden has smaller patio area to the front.
The metado is located next to the pool and has one double bedroom and one single sofa bed. Very quaint. Our breakfast view in the morning was stunning.
The pool was lovely, slightly on the cold side for me but the kids loved it and it was hard to rear them away.
Loriano, the owner was on hand on arrival to welcome us and explain the facilities to us.
Everything is catered for. A couple bikes and helmrts. There's even bbq.
Washing machine & iron is located in laundry room, which serves all three apartments.
Everything was very clean.
Enough outside table chairs and sun loungers for all.
There is room for 2 cars on site with additional parking a few metres away.
Thank you to Loriano and his wife for having such a delightful place.
We highly recommend and would definitely look at staying again!
Magnifique propriété, entourée d'un grand jardin bien entretenu, au calme et sans vis à vis. Belle exposition et très beau panorama.
Les trois appartements, indépendants, sont confortables, bien agencés, pourvus de tout le nécessaire (BBQ, four, lave vaisselle....).
Belle piscine dotée de nombreux bains de soleil.
Un propriétaire discret et disponible à tout moment si nécessaire. Un grand merci à son épouse pour les deux gâteaux de bienvenue. Ici pas de caution ni d'état des lieux, seuls la confiance et le respect mutuels sont de mise.
A voir absolument : Lucca et ses remparts, Pise, sa tour "pendente" et sa cours des miracles. A faire dans le parc naturel d'Orrido di Bottri : remontée du cours d'eau pour arriver sur une piscine naturelle (prévoir de bonnes baskets).
Seul bémol, premiers commerçants à 20mn (routes de montagne sinueuses et très étroites - ne pas oublier le beurre...).
Situated in the heart of the Garfagnana, in the depths of the countryside, with mountain views, but only 1km from the closest village and restaurant, this property offers both total peace, yet is within easy distance of the fully walled, Medieval City of Lucca, 1 hour; Pisa 90 min; Florence 1 hr 40 min and the medieval town of Barga 20 minutes
The local town of Gallicano is less than a 15 minute drive, and here one can find a train station for easy exploring, shops, bars, restaurants, weekly market and a hypermarket.
The market town of Castelnuovo with its famous Thursday morning market, and various bars and restaurants is only a 20minute drive too.
The real beauty of this area however is the stunning scenery and hundreds of beautiful hilltop villages to explore…..
Perfect for walkers, this property is within walking distance of the most famous Mountain Peak in the area – Pan del Croce.
|No additional mandatory fees
|Stay tax
|$1.23 per night, per person. This amount will be due to the manager upon arrival. Does not apply to children under 14 years.
NB - The Stay Tax of €1 per person per night, is applicable for a maximum of 5 nights and is payable in cash on arrival.
Bedding, towels, initial and weekly clean included in price as well as all utilities with the exception of heating which is payable locally.
Cot and highchair can be provided free of charge


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This chapter describes the main security mechanisms offered by Oracle VM. Its users are administrators, who rely on Oracle VM Manager and the CLI to configure and maintain the physical and virtual environment. The essential elements that define the level of security in Oracle VM, are:
installation into a default, secure state, as described in Chapter 2, Performing a Secure Oracle VM Installation
strict control of administrative privileges
network segregation and host isolation to prevent exposure of all but the required services
separate end user access to virtual machines, and isolation of virtual machines from the underlying Oracle VM infrastructure
Oracle VM itself does not provide role based access control. If your environment requires it, use Oracle Enterprise Manager to manage your environment and all access to its physical and virtual resources.


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Bathroom fan venting into attic -- is this okay?
I actually have a bunch of attic questions.
Background: I have an attic about 35 or 40 feet long and about 4 feet high. One end of the attic has a set of louvers (sized about 3 feet by 3 feet) that are currently open. The other end of the attic has what I can only describe as faux-louvers. It's a rectangular window that looks like louvers but is in fact all plastic and with no ventilation at all.
First off, I have two bathrooms with bathroom fans. Each fan vents into its own white plastic tube which runs the length of the attic and ends up near the open louvers. However, the end is just hanging there, inside the attic, but next to the louvers. Is this okay, or will it cause a build-up of moisture and what not? Furthermore, is this up to code?
Secondly, I assume it's important to have the louvers always open. So, why is there only one set of functional louvers? It seems like they'd work a lot better at keeping the attic cool in the summer and cold in the winter with openings on both ends of the attic.
Thirdly, how can I keep birds from building their nests in the open louvers? There is wire meshing up against the louvers to keep birds and squirrels out of the attic, but it allows the birds to nest with impunity on the actual louvers themselves.
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Actually, fourth question: the louvers are currently open because I went up to the attic and removed the spring holding them closed. Why are they designed to stay closed constantly? There didn't appear to be any mechanism to allow them to remain open with constantly tugging on the handle, hence my removal of the spring. Is this an unusual design for louvers or are they broken in some way?
Thanks for all replies! I am no good at this home improvement/maintenance stuff. I wish I lived in a condo.
Generally speaking you don't want to vent your bathroom fans into the attic. The moisture build-up can cause mold problems and can also cause the wood holding your roof up to rot, and then when your roof starts to collapse you've got a really major problem on your hands instead of a minor one.
That said, I think the real issue here is how close is "close" when you say the vent is close to the louvers? If it is close enough that all of the moisture ends up basically venting out through the louvers anyway then it's probably good enough as-is.
Another issue is what is the climate like where you live? If you someplace where the air is regularly hot and humid anyway then venting a little hot and humid air into space that already has hot and humid air isn't worth worrying about.
ETA: A fake owl on the roof nearby may keep other birds away. It worked on my mother's house.
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the plastic tube/duct should go to a vent through the wall, otherwise it leaves moisture in your attic especially when the attic is cold.
attics are best constantly and well ventilated, this helps both summer and winter.
place some chicken wire on the outside of the louver.
Was the spring holding the louvers closed attached to anything that would indicate there was supposed to be an exhaust fan in front of the louvers? There's no reason for holding the louvers closed unless there's a way for opening them for venting.
The exhaust tubes are hung right next to the louvers, but perpendicular to them, so the air probably stays in the attic instead of going out. I live in New England, so it's plenty humid, but I don't want to leave the status quo if it's not up to code. I want to sell this house, and I don't want the home inspection to turn up possible mold problems.
So, how ARE you supposed to hook up the exhaust tubes? I assume everyone has a bathroom fan, but I haven't noticed any dryer type exhaust ports on any of my neighbors' houses. Do I have to buy something and install it? I can't wedge the hoses in the louvers because of the aforementioned wire mesh.
Exhaust vents are usually in the roof. They're easily installed by a roofer, and he can connect your bath exhaust to them (or might make you hire a plumber for that part). If your ducting is now running the entire length of the attic, it's probably too far to be effective. If you're having a roofer come over to install the vents, have him put in new flexible ducting to them by the shortest route possible.
As far as "up to code" goes... my house is a new construction (I've only been here a couple of weeks) and it had the same thing but they put in roof vents and fixed them before closing. I've read long threads on forums for home inspectors and, frankly, they don't even seem to know.
Vented to the outside is always best, however, many building codes consider the attic to be "outside" if it is well ventilated and some inspectors in the forums I read said they rarely see them vented to the roof on new houses anymore. Looking at the houses in my neighborhood, a lot of them have no visible vents.
I think mine would have been ok because the house has continuous soffit vents and can get breezy in the attic, but if in doubt, you can't go wrong venting to the roof.
Venting vertically (through the roof) is best.
Venting horizontally (through a side wall) is OK, better than just into the attic.
Venting into the attic is bad.
Solid (metal or PVC) vent pipe is best.
Flexible metal vent pipe is OK (but real metal, not tinfoil coated plastic).
Flexible plastic is bad.
Louvers should be open generally. On both ends, so you can get ventilation (a breeze) moving through the attic. But they aren't as necessary if there is a good amount of overhead venting through the roof. (But if it's 120ºF in there in May in New England, you don't have enough.)
This may be a regional thing. I'm in Austin, TX where it's often hot even in February. I needed to get some of my rental properties to meet Section 8 (subsidized housing) standards, and one thing I had to do is add vent fans to each bathroom. The cheapest and easiest to install were those that vented directly into the WALL! Even in an uninsulated wall you've go a pretty small space to disburse the air. I even called the Section 8 people and told them I didn't think that was a very good idea, but they assured me that it passed the local codes and was OK.
I ended up installing them in the ceiling where they vent directly into the attic. Reading this thread has got me worried about even that. Of course this is Texas and I can't remember ever being cold in the attic.
Thanks everyone for all the replies. Unfortunately, I probably don't have the money to do this right, but I will ask some roofers how much it would cost to do this. I think I remember some vents already in place on the roof, but I don't think they're currently being used. I don't have a tall enough ladder to get on the roof to check.
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Russell Brand: Bill O'Reilly defends Trump as if he was an elderly woman fighting her landlord
Bill O'Reilly came perilously close to self-awareness in his defense of Donald Trump, comedian Russell Brand said on his latest commentary for The Trews, saying the Factor host was "tantalizingly close" to becoming Howard Beale, the newsman at the center of the seminal satire Network.
"You think for a moment, 'Oh my God, Bill's on the precipice of telling the absolute truth, of saying, I'm part of the problem, I work for Fox News day after days, I've been representing corporate interests, I've been sticking up for Rupert Murdoch, Donald Trump, unseen figures whose name you'll never know because they're so ensconced in power, their power continually veiled, but I'm mad as hell and I'm not gonna take it anymore,'" Brand argued, adding that O'Reilly settles for telling critics, "Be nicer to Donald Trump."
Brand showed footage of the Factor host arguing that the press was trying to undermine Trump because he showed "no fear," a notion Brand dismissed.
"I once interviewed Donald Trump," Brand recalled. "It took him an hour to prepare that bizarre thing that he wears on his head. No fear, you just go, 'I'm ready to be interviewed, Brand,' rather than construct an elaborate breakfast cereal domed up on the top of your bonce."
In sticking up for the former reality star and GOP frontrunner, Brand said, O'Reilly took on the sort of indignant tone other people use to defend "hat poor little old lady is being continually wronged by her landlord. But he's protecting Donald Trump — a billionaire who's a billionaire on the basis that he inherited a load of money and sort of fallen through life on a series of beautiful, convenient tax breaks."
In hyping Trump as an individualist, Brand said, O'Reilly was harkening back to the 1980s, and a philosophy that didn't work.
"It ruined everything. It destroyed the planet," the comedian said. "And Bill O'Reilly and Trump are sort of trying to keep the '80s alive. This is 2015. That's the old days now; it's nearly half a century now. We can't carry on like this."
Watch Brand's take on the Trump/O'Reilly relationship, as posted online on Wednesday, below.


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We have two ears and one tongue so that means we are wired to listen more and talk less.
We all want to be listened to. It is a beautiful gift, to be a good listener. It gives a power to your personality and a trust of you from other people around you.
There is nothing more discouraging than talking with a few people and they don't make eye contact.
People nowadays don't know how to actively listen to another person. They'll ask you a question but by the time you answer, they are talking to someone else. No eye contact, no following along, checking their cell phone. ~ Moe Margetts
A lot of people are only quiet while they're preparing the next thing they want to say. How many times have you asked somebody a question and they don't answer you as they didn't even hear the question because they're were planning what they wanted to say next? ~ Karl X
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52 More Unique Business Card Designs
Hey All,
After the success of 42 Awesome Business Card Designs (With Links to 100s More) and Fourty-Two More Creative Business Card Designs, we are back with 52 More Unique Business Card Designs. Enjoy!
Hey All,
After the success of 42 Awesome Business Card Designs (With Links to 100s More) and Fourty-Two More Creative Business Card Designs, we are back with 52 More Unique Business Card Designs. Enjoy!
Good post, haha love the designs.
These business card designs really rock. Thanks for sharing.
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The radio presenter business card is absolutely one of the most original ideas i've ever seen.
I think people would like your blog because I once conducted searching about this topic before and people would think your points are good.
I'd like to get one of those candy cards 🙂
Great collection of Unique Business cards. Thanks for the great ideas on creating a good Brand!
Inspirational collection. Keep up the good work.
The edible ones look tasty! Are they really edible though? Like the cookie one with the filling? Creative but then it can't be kept by your client for very long..nor can they put it in their wallets. I'd stick with the others that are made of plastic or paper but with really great design.
The Sound Envision translucent plastic card and the Bentley metal business card were both created by http://www.plasmadesign.co.uk/plasticbusinesscards.htm .
Anyone know where the wooden cards are produced?
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