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I. N. for Inspiration Needed! I have some spring green and some chartreuse green/yellow fabric that I am looking for color combos or pattern ideas of how to use them. If you have seen these colors used in a pleasing way, would you mind posting pics? Thanks so much.
This is a quilt top I worked on at Retreat.
Not exactly your colors-except the bright -in-your-face green ~LOL~
It was a Quilt Along by Judy Laquidara from Patchwork Times.
Her piecing instructions were / are straight forward & I like her methods.
She offers free patterns and if you read her blog, she has different EQ renditions using different colors.
Hopefully, this will give you some ideas. (Don't let her chicken stories scare you off!)
This one is Road to Round Rock - not competed. I used all fabric from my stash except the brown border fabric.
Here is a link that might be useful: Patchwork Times Blog/Patterns
Here's a link I've had for some time, to somebody else's flicker. I just look at it now and then. Page back for a close up.
Here is a link that might be useful: Inpsiration Lily of the Valley
Oh, thank you ladies! Both of those are color combos I had never seen but they have me thinking! Donna - I had thought of using purples too.
This is just one of my compulsions - when I find a difficult fabric, I try to figure out how to make it beautiful (or at least interesting!)

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@Mr. Confidence Now that's a man who knows he looks good
Maybe we should send Kunitz out to feebly bounce off of Backes a few times to let the Blues know the Pens won't be pushed around without consequences.
Holy shit, you can see the Sharks' and Kings' shoulder/sleeve numbers from space
@DoorMatt Nope, never does. I'm just sad it took me this long to catch the twin Fleury jerseys that pass behind them at the end of the gif. That couple is even walking the same exact way (drink in right hand, left hand in pocket). So fitting.
I have to conclude that people who incessantly complain about the Pens and their players are the same people who play NHL video games on the easiest difficulty setting as a stacked all-star team against no one but the Carolina Hurricanes. "Waaah, we pay Sid and Malkin a lot of money and they STILL aren't netting a hat trick every game! Sure, we're winning and racking up a lot of points, but what about MY expectations of how the team and its players should perform? Shouldn't our 'so-called stars' be setting NHL records every night?"
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If you can watch the Pens play night in and night out and find nothing better to do than complain about it, then maybe being a hockey fan isn't for you.
Welp, it looks like Stan Savran's about to be all over the news for that attempt at a joke...
Please give us a 3-minute all-out assault on Emery now.
The recent Flyers teams have been like some sick, twisted version of the Pens' first serious crush. No matter how cool and collected you are around anyone else, as soon as you get around your crush, you become a bumbling, embarrassing mess.
Lots of featherweight goalies this year. Can't seem to stay upright.
It's always nice to know that, as long as we still have Sid and Geno, we're never truly boned.... boned boned boned
But what's his hair look like?
@Dennis4022 @2PaekShakur That's good hustle. Definitely made me chuckle.
@dmilesend @PenGeno @cblack66 I had a reply typed out and was ready to hit send, but then I noticed it was almost word for word what you and PensGeno said.
i'm in no way condoning the 20 minute turd the Pens just left on the ice, but booing makes the fans seem like entitled buttholes.
All these people booing can get fucked.
@dmilesend The Caps would still probably back a dump truck full of chicken wings up to his house to get him back behind the Washington bench
Wooo, one game in NY down, and no goal song stuck in my head!
Free shots at the empty net!
@KyleSchroeck @2PaekShakur @dmilesend Shitsburgh
@dmilesend @2PaekShakur The city would collectively shit themselves if he even attempts it after what happened late in game 4 against Columbus.
Fleury empty netter tonight?
Pierre McGuire is like some kind of hockey Rain Man when it comes to NHL player hometowns/colleges/junior teams.
It's mildly impressive and incredibly useless all at the same time.
@ilove_crosby33 I punched this comment into google translate, and it came back:
Credit where credit's due: Letang looks fantastic lately. This is vintage Letang we're seeing.
@KyleSchroeck They are going to have to stop play and get on the horn with Toronto for 3-5 minutes to determine the answer to your question
The posts/crossbar may be the game's second or third star tonight
Henrik Bryzqvist headed to the bench...
sweet jesus can we get a Crosby empty netter
Should the Kings get eliminated from the playoffs this year, I hope they get desperate to regain their championship form and do something insane this offseason like, oh I don't know, re-acquire Rob Scuderi.
Can you imagine an NHL team doing something so stupid?
@Mr. Confidence @dmilesend @2PaekShakur He donates them all to the recently orphaned children of Rangers players he slaughtered during the game.
GIbbons is back? Pens win tonight 56-2. Gibbons earns first star with 45 goals and no assists.
"Assists are for pussies" - B. Gibbons, postgame.
Malkin looks like a goddamn tank tonight
Fleury's shrink is already waiting...
Oh Marc...
I think he's saying "I've got 8 beers in me and a sheet of plexiglass *this* thick that lets me act like a tough guy to try and impress my girlfriend, who would undoubtedly leave me in a heartbeat if she knew how badly you could kick my ass were we actually face to face!!"
I'd be more upset about that call if we weren't gifted about 3 in this game already. You get enough gift calls, you gotta expect one to go against you.
@Bilbo Gibbons NEVER STOP
Edit: SEE?! It's working!
Suck it, Bryz!!
Looked like Sutter got a piece of that maybe?
Oh great, now we need 3 more goals from our D-men to win this game
@Bilbo Gibbons Don't stop! Keep calling him Bryz. It seems to be weakening Bobrovsky somehow.
Of all the motherfuckers you'd expect to score tonight...
@brendannn Seriously. These refs must have each gotten a case of wine from Mario's private cellar before the game. Too bad the Pens haven't been able to take advantage of all the unwarranted PP time they've received.
@Bilbo Gibbons It'd take one hell of a shot to get a puck by him all the way on the bench in Minnesota
@axelflow @jovi0055 I bet that's something you never, ever thought you'd write.
The scary thing is you're right.
Pissed off James Neal = Goal scorin' James Neal.
Nice to see Dastyuk back.
Even nicer to see Letang back.
Go Pens. Make the Wings sweat out that playoff birth a little while longer.
Sid should respond with "Wow, you really think so? IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOU THINK!!"
In my very humble opinion, that's just a good hockey hit with an unfortunate consequence. I hope it's nothing serious and Toews is good to go sooner rather than later.


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Hi pretty people, so many things happened in the last days, Brazil lost against Germany, Argentina is at the final, this World Cup looks like a horror film without end . So let´s talk about nice things like Baku - Azerbaijan . Only to think about it, it makes me happy. It's just so hard to find words to describe something when we like it a lot, right?! It's too much responsibility for me and even if I tried, I could never explain how wonderful this city is. Not even the most beautiful pictures can show the beauty of this city that won my heart. So I will start telling you how and why I had the opportunity to meet this city.
Some of you might know, that I work in a company that organizes film festivals. I'm kind of "responsible" for the communication of a committee that has about 17 tourism film festivals around the world, it is called CIFFT. One of those festivals is the Baku International Tourism Film Festival.
Now imagine how happy I was when they invited me to take part in their festival. I was so excited with the idea, that I did a one-week research about what to do, where to go, history, curiosities and in the end I knew more about Baku than the people that live there. hahhahahha - I'm crazy I know, everybody knows that, since when I have something in my mind I turn into a freak and I want to find and know everything about it. But for those who do not know: Baku is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan on the Caspian Sea, it consists of two parts: The Downtown Area and the Old Inner City. Baku´s name is believed to be derived from a Persian word which means "city of winds". And believe me, pretty people, the wind is so strong that the trees are staked in cement; so strong that the hotel roof with it´s wonderful panoramic view is closed, so that people do not fall out of the balcony; so strong, that I could not have one picture of me without my hair blown in my face. But this is another thing which made the stay there even more special - I mean - not the photos with the hair in my face of course, but the wind. Every day we had an average temperature of about 32°C/90°F and imagine that without wind, that´s not so comfortable, right?!
At my first day I went for a walk at the Caspian seaside, I was like a crazy hip girl doing thousands of pictures of everything that I saw in my front, amazed by the mix of modern architecture and luxurious buildings. Some may say that Baku wants to be the second Dubai, but I think that Baku is Baku. Yes, It is beautiful, it is imposing, but at the same time it is simple and affordable. And this is another important thing that I want to point out here: Visit Baku, Visit Azerbaijan! Open yourself for new routes, visit different places, go out of the conventional travel plans that everybody do. Baku is ready to receive you. You just need to find your way to there.
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The final (conference) version of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (H.R. 1) totals $787 billion in spending and tax cuts over the period of 2009-2019.[1] (The earlier House version totaled $819 billion, while the Senate version totaled $838 billion.[2]) Lawmakers had estimated the cost of the final package to be $789 billion, but the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said the plan would cost a total of $787 billion and increase the federal deficit by $185 billion this year and by $399 billion next year.[3]
The bill provides an estimated $575 billion in appropriations and direct spending. This includes: [4] [5]
- Direct aid to people affected by economic downturn
- Increase unemployment benefits by $25 per week
- Increase food stamp benefits by 13 percent per month
- 60 percent subsidy for up to nine months for those laid off to help cover price of continuing coverage of health care under COBRA
- $4 billion for job training
- Health care
- $87 billion in expanded Medicaid coverage to the poor
- $19 billion for updating health information technology
- Education
- $500 increase in maximum Pell Grants (to $5,350 in 2009 and $5,550 in 2010) for low-income students
- $54 billion to states and local school districts
- $12 billion for special education
- $1 billion for Head Start
- Infrastructure
- $29 billion to modernize roads and bridges
- $18 billion for clean water, flood control and environmental restoration
- $8.4 billion for transit
- $8 billion for high-speed rail
- $7 billion to expand broadband coverage, mostly in rural areas
- $5 billion to improve Defense Department facilities, including housing for troops
- $4.5 billion to make federal office buildings more energy-efficient
- Energy
- $30 billion to update power grid
- $6.3 billion to improve energy efficiency in federally-assisted multifamily housing
- $5 billion to weatherize low-income homes
Tax cuts
The bill provides an estimated $212 billion in tax cuts, including: [6] [7]
- One-time payment of $250 to those who receive Social Security or government disability
- Tax credit of up to $400 for individuals who earn less than $75,000 per year, and up to $800 for families who earn less than $150,000 per year
- $8,000 credit for first-time home buyers if home purchased between January 1, 2009 and December 1, 2009
- Tax credit of $2,500 for higher education
- Tax credit of up to $1,500 for homeowners who make homes more energy efficient
- Car buyers can deduct sales tax from taxable income if car purchased in 2009
- 24 million people exempted from Alternative Minimum Tax in 2009
- Earned Income Tax Credit expanded to low-income families - that pay no taxes - with three or more children
- Expansion of $1,000 per child tax credit to more low-income families
- The remainder of the tax cuts are geared toward business, with about $20 billion for renewable energy tax credits
The bill also included provisions that would cap executive pay at $500,000, limit bonuses, and eliminate "golden parachutes" at any bank receiving federal money.[8]
Bill passage
The House took up consideration of H.R. 1 on January 27, 2009 and proceeded to makes changes to the original proposal. Among the modifications were:
- The removal of a provision to increase Medicaid family planning coverage. Republicans argued that the provision did not qualify as economic stimulus.[9]
- The removal of $200 million in proposed spending to renovate the National Mall.[10]
- An amendment sponsored by Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) increasing funding for mass transit by $3 billion, which passed on a voice vote.[11][12]
The House also rejected the following three amendments:
- An amendment by Rep. Randy Neugebauer (R-Texas) that would have stricken out all of the appropriations measures from the bill.[13] This amendment was defeated by a vote of 302-134.
- An amendment by Rep. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) that would have taken out funding for Amtrak.[14] This amendment was defeated by a vote of 320-116.
- An amendment by Rep. Dave Camp (R-Mich.) in the form of a substitute that proposed an economic package consisting mainly of tax breaks.[15][16] This amendment was defeated by a vote of 266-170.
The amended bill passed the House on January 28, 2009 by a vote of 244-188. No Republican voted in favor of the bill.
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- Name of bill: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
- Chamber: U.S. Senate
- Roll call number: 47
- Congress number: 111th
- Session number: 1
- Vote link: U.S. Senate record vote 47, 111th Congress, Session 1
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Org. position: Nay
"On February 5, 2009, the Senate defeated an amendment offered by Senator DeMint (R-SC) that would have removed religious liberty protections from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (H.R. 1) by a vote of 54-43. The ACLU opposed the DeMint Amendment because it was at stark odds with the Constitution's Establishment Clause, as well as Supreme Court precedent. It would have removed a provision from the economic stimulus bill that reinforces constitutional protections by prohibiting the government from providing "green-building" federal funds for the construction or repair of buildings used for worship or other religious purposes."
(Original scorecard available at: http://action.aclu.org/site/VoteCenter?page=voteList)
The Senate received H.R. 1 on January 29, 2009 and proceeded to develop its own version of the legislation. After a week of discussions and amendments increased the size of the bill to an estimated $900 billion, negotiations began to center on a group of Senators, led by Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Ben Nelson (D-Neb.), who sought to make $100 billion in cuts to the proposal.[17] An agreement was eventually announced on February 6, 2009.[18] The following day an amended version of the bill, co-sponsored by Senators Collins and Nelson, was introduced in the Senate.[19]
Cloture was invoked on the Collins-Nelson amendment on February 9, 2009 by a vote of 61-37.
Two more votes were required to pass the Collins-Nelson version of the bill. Both took place on February 10, 2009. First, the Senate voted to waive pay-as-you-go budget rules with respect to the amendment by a vote of 61-37.
Finally, the Senate passed the amended bill by a vote of 61-37, sending it into conference with the House.
After a day of intense negotiations, House and Senate leaders came to an agreement on February 11, 2009.[20] A few additional changes were made on February 12, 2009, after which the text of the final version of the bill was posted online at 10:45 p.m.[21] The negotiations reduced the size of the bill to $787 billion, smaller than either the House or the Senate versions.[22][23]
Both chambers passed the conference version of the bill on February 13, 2009.
In the House, the vote was 246-183. As in the first House vote, no Republican voted for the bill.
The Senate voted first to waive pay-as-you-go budget rules by a tally of 60-38.
Then the Senate approved final passage of the bill by the same margin of 60-38.
Bill becomes law
President Obama signed the bill into law on February 17, 2009.[24]
Articles and resources
See also
- ↑ Open Congress' info page on American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
- ↑ David M. Herszenhorn, "Senate Approves Stimulus Plan," The New York Times, February 10, 2009
- ↑ Douglas W. Elmendorf, "Conference Agreement for H.R. 1 (the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009)," Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog, February 13, 2009
- ↑ Gannett News Service, "What's in the stimulus package," Detroit Free Press, February 13, 2009
- ↑ Michael Grabell and Christopher Weaver, "The Stimulus Plan: A Detailed List of Spending," ProPublica.org, February 13, 2009
- ↑ Jeanne Sahadi, "Stimulus: How it may affect your wallet," CNNMoney.com, February 13, 2009
- ↑ Stephen Ohlemacher, "Stimulus bill offers workers, businesses tax cuts," The Associated Press, February 12, 2009
- ↑ Pallavi Gogoi,"Stimulus bill's CEO salary caps affect small banks, too" USA Today, February 16, 2009
- ↑ Jackie Calmes and Carl Hulse, "Obama, Visiting G.O.P. Lawmakers, Is Open to Some Compromise on Stimulus", New York Times, January 27, 2009.
- ↑ Jackie Calmes and Carl Hulse, "Obama, Visiting G.O.P. Lawmakers, Is Open to Some Compromise on Stimulus", New York Times, January 27, 2009.
- ↑ Elana Schor, "Mass Transit Scores Big Win in House Stimulus", TPMDC, January 28, 2009.
- ↑ Text of H.AMDT.15 from Thomas.
- ↑ Text of H.AMDT.16 from Thomas.
- ↑ Text of H.AMDT.18 from Thomas.
- ↑ Liz Sidoti, "House OKs $819B stimulus bill with GOP opposition", The Associated Press, January 28, 2009.
- ↑ Text of H.AMDT.22 from Thomas.
- ↑ Carl Hulse, "A Diverse Group of Senators at Center Stage in Economic Debate", New York Times, February 5, 2009.
- ↑ Carl Hulse and David M. Herszenhorn, [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/07/us/politics/07stimulus.html?pagewanted=all "Senators Reach Deal on Stimulus Plan as Jobs Vanish", New York Times, February, 6, 2009.
- ↑ Thomas' info page on H.R. 1.
- ↑ David M. Herszenhorn and Carl Hulse, "", New York Times, February 11, 2009.
- ↑ David M. Herszenhorn, "Even After the Deal, Tinkering Goes On", New York Times, February 12, 2009.
- ↑ David M. Herszenhorn and Carl Hulse, "Details of a Trimmer Stimulus Emerge", New York Times, February 12, 2009.
- ↑ David M. Herszenhorn, "Recovery Bill Gets Final Approval", New York Times, February 13, 2009.
- ↑ Sheryl Gay Stolberg, "Signing Stimulus, Obama Doesn't Rule Out More", New York Times, February 17, 2009.
External resources
- "Times Topics: Economic Stimulus," NYTimes.com
- "ShovelWatch"
- "The Stimulus Bills: House vs. Senate", ProPublica, February 10, 2009.
- "State-by-State Breakdown of the Economic Stimulus Plan?", ProPublica, February 17, 2009.


text: The Conductor Constance Fee Artist-in-Residence, Associate Professor of Voice Email: firstname.lastname@example.com Cox Hall, Rm 205 | (585) 594-6368 Performer's Certificate in Vocal Performance, Curtis Institute of Music M.M. in Vocal Performance, Indiana University School of Music B.S. in Music Education, Westminster Choir College Professional Memberships: National Association of Teachers of Singing Alliance Francaise Opera America International Congress of Voice Teachers Lyrica Society of Harvard University Soprano Constance Fee has collaborated with conductors Lorin Maazel, Leonard Slatkin, Sir Charles Mackerras, John Nelson, Jesus Lopez-Cobos, Maurizio Benini, Nicholas McGegan, Patrick Summers, and the late Robert Shaw; and with stage directors Colin Graham, John Cox, David Alden, GianCarlo del Monaco and Robert Wilson. She has performed leading roles with the Opéra de la Bastille, the Opéra Comique, and the Theatre du Châtelet in Paris; the Netherlands Opera in Amsterdam; the New Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv; the Welsh National Opera in Cardiff; l'Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Ghent, Antwerp and Liège, Belgium; the Vienna Volksoper; the opera houses of Stuttgart, Cologne, Kassel, and Bremen, Germany; Lucerne, Switzerland; Lyon, Toulouse and Angers, France; and in the US with the Houston Grand Opera, the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, the Long Beach Opera and the Lyric Opera of Kansas City. Her repertoire of over fifty soprano and mezzo-soprano roles includes the title roles in Puccini's Tosca, Bizet's Carmen, Rossini's La Cenerentola, Donizetti's La Favorite, and Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss, as well as Brangäne in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia and Isolier in Le comte Ory by Rossini, Ascanio in Benvenuto Cellini by Berlioz, Giulietta and Nicklausse in Les contes d'Hoffmann by Offenbach, and Marina in Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov. On the concert stage she has performed as soloist with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra at the Rudolfinum in Prague; the Orchestre Symphonique Français at Salle Pleyel in Paris; the Orchestre Symphonique de la Radio Télévision Moscou at the International Festival of Besançon, France; the Internationale Musikfestwochen in Lucerne, Switzerland; the New York Philharmonic at Lincoln Center; the Saint Louis Symphony; the Milwaukee Symphony; the Indianapolis Symphony; and the San Diego Symphony in works including the Verdi Requiem, the Mozart Requiem, Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, Mendelssohn's Elijah, Bach's St. Matthew Passion, Handel's Messiah, the Poulenc Stabat Mater, La damnation de Faust by Berlioz, Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, and Mahler's Kindertotenlieder; and with pianist Rudolf Serkin at the Marlboro Music Festival. Ms. Fee received the Master of Music in Vocal Performance from the Indiana University School of Music in Bloomington, Performer's Certificate from the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, and Bachelor of Vocal Music Education from Westminster Choir College in Princeton, NJ, from which she also received the Alumni Merit Award for Distinguished Achievement in Vocal Performance. A life-long student of soprano Margaret Harshaw, she also prepared operatic repertoire with Marilyn Horne, Renata Scotto, Sena Jurinac, and Fedora Barbiere. Courses: MUS 1003 Applied Voice MUS 309 Diction for Singers MUS 310 Musical Stage Performance


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I've been hoping to start keeping bees for some time and hopefully will be able to start in a couple years. I'm moving across country and for at least the first year will be in a rental, so no bee keeping while my duration is unknown.
I think it is an awesome way to make mead making a more affordable hobby. Every time I start a new batch of mead my wife asks me how much money I dropped on the honey...
The MBA student in me also is thrilled at how you have vertically integrated your supply chain...
I bought a top bar hive this year, it's currently baited with lemongrass oil, but no one's moved in yet.
I was too late in the season to get on any swarm lists and the package bees are all sold out. You don't have any way of hooking a brother up do ya?
If anyone is considering keeping bees, I recommend doing some research about beekeeping, and seeking out other beekeepers in your area for lessons or just an introduction to the hive.
damdaman, it's great you have a hive, finding bees can be tricky, one: look carefully for feral swarms in trees on houses even bbq grills, two: pest control/exterminators get calls every year for honey bee removals, three: I have heard of people finding bees (to remove from a home, or for sale) on Craigslist.
Making mead for cheep I think has led many to this rewarding hobby or even business, the benefit is more in the quality and knowledge of the honey going into the mead more than cost savings.
We are in our locust tree flow right now, hoping the tulip poplar starts soon, so much stuff blooming right now. We are using foundationless in Lang supers and have a couple top bar hives for fun, they make pretty pictures of combs full of honey. We got one of the Mann Lake top bar hives this year, only 100$ for everything plus they use Lang length top bars which makes switching back and forth easy. WVMJ
My aunt planted 2 or 3 acres of wild flowers on her property last year as part of a state funded project to bring more bees. I was thinking of asking to put hives there next year, where is a good place to start my research on bee keeping
if i like mead i'll probably start beekeeping.
my fater was a beekeeper and still has the honey sligers/suits and everything really.
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Osaka castle guest house
Osaka, Kinki, Japan
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2-2-14-1208 uchihonmachi chuo-ku, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
our apartment near osaka castle & subway tanimachi4chome station.
Meeting Locations(to meet you on under place easy for you to check in) but please call from airport or station before you take train.
when you are in osaka then take subway to tanimachi4chome station & get off exit 3, will meet you at there to help to check in by walk 5mins,
just call frist before take subway.
from kansai airport take JR train to tennoji station then get off central gate then change to subway tanimachi-line 4stops to tanimachi4chome station & get off exit 3, can meet you here to help to check in by walk 5mins, just call from airport first.
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Nearest airport: kansai airport
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My wife and I spent the final week of our honeymoon in Fanghetto. It was October, cool and quiet. The village was completely empty except for a handful, about five, local residents, which made the setting perfect for us. The home Richard has built is beautiful. The view overlooks the Roya river, and distant, mountain perched villages. Marisa's, a small convenience store located at the turn-off to the village, makes fantastic espresso based drinks. Menton, Ventimiglia and Breil are close, and have great restaurants/markets. Regarding day trips, everything, spanning from Provence through Imperia/Liguria is accessible. As Richard recommends in his guide to the region, making day trips and returning to either local meals in Airole or homemade is the best way to maximize the experience. The trattoria in Fanghetto was getting fixed up during our stay, so we missed out on that, but I spoke with the owner and it seems like that is a very nice experience as well. Anyhow, Fanghetto is a great experience. Richard's home is a perfect setting to relax and enjoy a peaceful vacation and a beautiful region.
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Thank you for a fantastic week in Fanghetto (August 2011). We have had the most relaxing time - it's so easy to get into a very comfortable, relaxed way of life here! Unfortunately we didn't get to eat at the village trattoria - but we did go to your recommends in Ariole, Venti (Marco Polo - although my fish soup was a huge disappointment, G's pasta di fruittimere was fantastic!), Colla Bassa and Sospel. It was so nice to visit a new place and not have to hunt around for the perfect restaurant, as you've done all the work with your 'guide book' on where to eat. The food in this region is very very good! We swam just about every day in the river - the water was definitely "fresh", but it was perfect to wake us up from our lunch stupor! We love it here and hope to return one day soon. Thanks once again.


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Local amazing filmaker Millefiore Clarkes made this beautiful film of last summer's Art in the Open. It captures beautifully what I think is the most magical night in Charlottetown each year. Extra points if you can spot me! (hint: I might be hugging a toadstool)
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the draft strategic plan submitted by the Department of Labor, as required by the Government Performance and Results Act, and the draft strategic plans of the Employment and Training Administration (ETA), Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), and Employment Standards Administration (ESA), as submitted by Labor.
GAO noted that: (1) Labor elected to submit a strategic plan overview that addresses some Results Act requirements at the Department level, and it also submitted individual plans for certain agency component units; (2) Labor's overview does not comply with guidance to integrate information from individual strategic plans of its components into a single agencywide strategic overview document; (3) while Labor's overview contains a mission statement for the agency, as required, the statement itself does not appear to be sufficiently descriptive of Labor's basic purpose; (4) Labor's strategic plan overview also does not meet the guidance that it contain an overall statement of departmental goals; (5) Labor's draft overview and supplemental unit plans cover the five areas of major statutory responsibility; (6) Labor's strategic plan overview recognizes the roles of other organizations and the importance of establishing partnerships in carrying out functions; (7) Labor's overview could be improved by recognizing the importance of other participants, namely the other 14 federal agencies involved in one major area of responsibility--job training; (8) the overview does not acknowledge that the nation's federally funded employment training system is a patchwork of multiple programs, many of which are in departments and agencies other than Labor; nor does it set forth strategies pertaining to the development of a cohesive, integrated, and coordinated system; (9) Labor's capacity to provide reliable information for use in its agencywide management is questionable; (10) its overview plan recognizes the importance of additional information to ensure timely and sound evaluations to assess agency progress in meeting goals; (11) its overview does not describe its strategy for ensuring that such information is collected and used to assess progress and performance; (12) Labor's strategic overview plan could be improved by including a discussion of its technology investment control process, a process that can help agencies reduce the risk and maximize the net benefits from their information technology investments; (13) the strategic plans of ETA and OSHA address most of the elements in the Results Act; (14) improvements could be made by including more detailed discussions of evaluation strategies, crosscutting activities, and generating reliable performance information; (15) both plans could benefit by including more results-oriented goals and objectives; and (16) because ESA did not prepare an overall strategic plan, it may not be in the position to address common themes among its four program agencies.
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My little sister, Jess. This shot was taken on a day out at Adelaide Zoo.
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Your sister has gorgeous skin and eyes – not forgetting the perfect teeth. This is a really lovely shot of her, I bet she is very happy with it :)
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Thank you… and yes they are both my sisters!
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The Rubus genus, part of the rose family, includes blackberries, raspberries and Scandinavia's golden cloudberry. Blackberries range from red to black and are in season from late December to January. Considered a weed in much of Australia due to their rampant growth, they're cooked in pies, crumbles and cakes, and preserved in jellies and syrup.
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Mulberries are a part of the Moraceae family, which includes figs. Unlike other berries, they grow on a small tree, often found in Australian backyards. The fruit is either black or white: black are used for desserts, jams, wine and cordial; white are mainly grown for their green leaves, used to feed silkworms. In season from October to February, mulberries aren't grown commercially in huge quantities as they tend to deteriorate quickly and are difficult to harvest.
Currants and gooseberries, native to the northern hemisphere, vary in colour from white to red and black, the latter having the most intense flavour and prized for its high vitamin C. Blackcurrants are used in cordials, liqueurs (crème de cassis, for example), syrups, jams, jellies and other desserts. Redcurrants are lower in vitamin C, while white currants are sweeter than red. Currants are grown in small quantities in Australia, mainly in Tasmania and Victoria, with a brief season from December to January.
Gooseberries ripen slowly, needing a cold winter and a cool summer. Scotland and Tasmania provide the best conditions for gooseberries. They taste quite tart, and are great in desserts and jellies as sugar enhances the flavour. They're in season from December to January.
Strawberries are possibly the most popular berries. They're best served simply with cream, or used to make jam, sauces, ice-cream, cakes and tarts. They are grown year-round in Australia: in winter in Queensland and in summer in Australia's southern regions. Their peak season is from September to January.
How to buy, store…
If possible, berries are best picked straight from the bush, vine or tree as is now possible in many areas of Australia. Otherwise choose berries which are unblemished and have no signs of mould or juice, and have a sweet fragrance. Store in the refrigerator unwashed until needed and bring to room temperature before eat
Apple, banana, fig, grapes (cardinal, muscat, sultana, waltham cross), guava, kiwifruit, lemon, lychee, mango, mangosteen, melons (honeydew, rockmelon, watermelon), nectarine, orange (Valencia), passionfruit, peach, pears (Williams, red sensation), plum, rambutan, rhubarb, tamarillo.
Avocado, beans (borlotti, butter), capsicum, celery, chilli, choko, cucumber, daikon (white radish, pictured), eggplant, fennel, leek, lettuce, okra, onion, peas, radish, sweetcorn, tomato, zucchini, zucchini flower.
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