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Our People Make a Difference www.irt.org.au IRT provides care, services and retirement accommodation to over 4,300 older Australians. Celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2009, IRT employs over 1,600 staff, has assets in excess of $500m and operations from the far south coast of NSW through to the Illawarra, ACT and Sydney. Celebrating 40 years of operation, CARE SERVICE EMPLOYEES - MAINTENANCE/HANDYPERSON WELFARE OFFICER COMMUNITY SERVICES Position no: 20/2010 Position no: 22/2010 IRT's mission is to create Position no: 18/2010 F/T position P/T (16hrs p/w) communities where older people can F/T and P/T positions are available An opportunity exists for an experienced Reporting to the Coordinator, Lifestyle you achieve their optimum quality of life. In these roles you will be working in conjunction handyperson to provide garden and building will be working with management, residents IRT's latest development, Kangara with the Coordinator, Community Services to maintenance along with general cleaning and their families to provide a diverse range assist our clients with activities of daily living, services for the Kangara site. of services and assistance. Duties include the Waters (meaning 'Beautiful View') is ongoing assessment of resident needs along including domestic services, in their own In this role you will be required to develop set to continue the IRT tradition of homes across the ACT region. with the development and implementation and participate in programmed preventative providing quality care services and maintenance, ensure work orders are of appropriate intervention programs. To be successful you will have sound accommodation to older Australians. communication skills (oral and written) and completed within specified time frames and A qualification in welfare or social work your own insured vehicle and mobile phone complete relevant documentation as required. is essential as is previous experience in a Located on 7 hectares on the edge (mileage & call costs will be reimbursed). similar role. To be considered for this position, you will have of Lake Ginninderra, Belconnen, Certificate III in Aged Care, previous previous experience in general maintenance or IRT is able to offer the right candidates Kangara Waters features 150 Self experience in a similar role and the ability to cleaning, a current drivers licence and a fully career development opportunities and Care Villas and Apartments; and a work weekends is desirable. registered and insured vehicle for emergency secure employment in a growing sector. 100 bed Residential Care Facility call outs (mileage costs reimbursed). We are also committed to our staff and consisting of low and high care, CARE SERVICE EMPLOYEES - can offer additional benefits including dementia specific, respite care, and DOMESTIC RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES flexible working hours, above award wages extra services facilities. Position No. 19/2010 OFFICERS (through a Collective Agreement and salary F/T and P/T positions are available Position No. 21/2010 packaging) and a corporate uniform. IRT now has F/T and P/T Working with the Coordinator, Residential P/T position (28hrs p/w) For position no's 18 and 19 please state in Services you will provide domestic support Working with other care staff you will opportunities available for motivated to residents/clients within the facility. Duties your application if you are applying for a be involved in implementing a range of and enthusiastic professionals to join include cleaning, laundry and assistance with F/T or P/T position. For P/T positions also Diversional Therapy programs as directed by the Kangara Waters team. These food services. This position involves working a specify your availability in relation to hours the Coordinator, Lifestyle Services. variety of shifts and may include weekends. and days. pivotal roles will work cohesively The successful applicant will have a genuine in the development of the Kangara Previous experience working in Aged Care interest in Diversional Therapy, previous Position nos: 18/2010 - 22/2010 Waters community. Working at IRT (domestic work), a basic understanding of experience in delivering activity programs with Applications close: 5 February 2010 Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP) older Australians including those with dementia Contact: Valerie Flynn you will join a team committed to and a Certificate III in Aged Care is desirable. and the ability to work weekends. A Certificate making a difference to the lives of Phone: 02 6233 8200 IV Leisure & Lifestyle (or working towards) is Email: email@example.com our residents and clients. desirable. Relevant criminal record and previous employment checks apply for all positions at IRT Australia's largest not-for-profit, community based,. aged care & retirement living provider* *BRW Nov 08
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I spent my autumn holiday here and, reading the reviews presented here, I realize I was the must unfortunate tourist in this hotel. It seems that everyone got a good room, (i.e. in THE BACK of the hotel, AWAY from the street!), but me! I got the room nr. 113, exactly above the reception!
THE ROOM no. 113: is essentially good, large with balcony, clean (designed for disabled persons - which I am not! Because of that there was no bath tube, just a pipe for collecting the water, which did not functioned properly). It has hair dryer/small fridge/kettle for coffee/tea. The beds have awful matteresses, but you can remove them.
No transparent curtain, just 2 curtains which block the sun and being seen from the opposite building (some filthy hostel).
Moreover: the A/C is set so that it works only as long as the balcony door is closed. If this one opened, the A/C stops all by itself! If I closed the balcony door, I had to set the A/C to 30 degrees C, but no noise at least; if I wanted fresh air, I had to stand the car noise and no A/C! It was terrible!
THE TV: don't wait for too much, just ZDF in German and BBC in English, Fashion program and some 3-4 channels in Greek, all of them working like hell!
THE RESTAURANT: The breakfast is rich, pretty British like, but enough to suite every taste, in my opinion (good croissants!).
I payed 12 E/day to have lunch or dinner... big mistake, the prices of the restaurant of the hotel are very high and it's 99% fast food; go downtown to eat: plenty of places!
Overall, the hotel looks and is OK, very clean, the stuff not so helpful, they try to please everyone, (including the group of young tourists who made a lot of noise in the hotel, as if alone on the planet, singing and playing the accordion at 1 A.M., being encouraged by the receptionist!)
You can have a wonderful holiday in this hotel, JUST ON THE CONDITION to get a room in the back!!! This insures a good night sleep! Possibility to get such a room??? Just 50-50%!
As for me I would not recommand it, I will NEVER go back there because of the noise! Plus: this hotel does NOT have a swimming pool, being a city hotel!
Advice to the manager of the hotel: ask the police to nail down on the ground 2 sets of rubber carpets to limit the cars' speed, so that cars would not make so much noise at night and disturb your clients!
TIP: Despite the great fuss about them, Finikoudes and Makenzy beaches are not the best beaches in the world. They look just like wetty plots of land with no crops, poor children hardly have some sand for playing.
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The real issue to be taken with Fever to Tell and with the Yeahs in general, however, is Karen O's use of vocal histrionics, which, when hyperbolically overwrought, as they are on many of the tracks, sound like the shrill whine of Chloe Webb's Nancy Spungen in Sid and Nancy or a dog's squeak toy run over by an 18-wheeler. It's only when she restrains herself, as on "Maps," "Modern Romance" and "Y Control," wherein she channels Siouxsie Sioux, that her singing is downright sultry. It resonates much louder than the shrieking.
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Replacing 14 windows in my house, including 2 75" tall bay windows. I am including several casement openings and trying to do outside grids in a dark color, so I have some premium wants. Because of the size of the bays, been advised to focus on fiberglass.
Got a quote yesterday from dealer on something he calls Owens Corning "V Class". Quote was around 22K incl. install. He said this line is between their Solace and Innovision lines. I cannot find anything about it online. Does anyone have feedback for me about this? Anyone familiar with this particular window. Thanks!


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I have a question about the recipe "Lacto-Fermented Pickles with Garlic Scapes" from WinnieAb. Can you reduce the salt? I have to follow a low-sodium diet. I can cheat a little, but 2 T. of salt is way too much. Please advise.
I have been patiently waiting for your question to be answered and finally did some research myself. Pickles are high in sodium, and Oregon State University posted some recipes for low salt pickles and they said "Salt cannot be reduced when making brined or fermented pickles and salt substitutes cannot be used". So the answer is no, you cannot use less salt in WinnieAb's recipe.
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I've looked for bamboo towels for several months - for a reasonable price of course. These are the ones. They are extremely soft, very absorbent, and the perfect size for bath towels. Luxurious, is the best adjective to describe these towels.
The towels are beautiful and very soft, but they're not thick plushy towels, and that's what makes them so "green." I love them, would highly recommend them to anyone, but people should expect a thinner material that dries quickly, never smells (even after a week of showers), and makes you feel good for buying something green.
My husband requested I buy these towels after he used one at a friends house. They are now the only towels he will use. I'm not as picky and will continue to use the other towels in the house.
While these towels look fine and were reasonably priced, they do not dry as fast as my cotton or cotton/bamboo towels, nor do they seem more absorbent as bamboo is claimed to be. They are very soft and have not shed, piled or snagged.
Great towels--super soft, and absorbent. I like that they are not puffy towels, but not everyone does. My only con is that they do shrink, so you have to be careful not over dry them. I will buy more of them.
They dry quickly which is what I was looking for. Absorbent.
A little pricey for towels but very soft, very absorbent. Looks thin but very effective. Went through one wash without trouble. Can't speak for longevity.
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These are good towels, especially usefully for the summer as they do not get musty. We were very glad to find regular bamboo bath towels at a reasonable price! Like a lot of fabrics, the absorption gets better after they've been wet once.
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Exactly one month I brewed a dubbel, all grain, pretty standard one with 1 pound of home made candy sugar, initial gravity 1.064, 5 gallons batch.
I re used yeast from a previous batch(US-05), but I think I probably underpitched(first time I used slurry)... well the thing is that after 5 days the kraussen dropped and fermentation stopped, I did a gravity test and it was 1.024 after three days I did another one, again 1.024... I gave it a good swirl and moved it to a warmer place. After that I waited 1 week, and again 1.024... at this point I bottled another batch, so I had a healthy yeast cake in my other fermenter so I dumped my stuck beer on it, and waited a week. Nothing, still is at 1.024. what do you recommend me, should i just bottle it? discard it? any other method I should try?
I suspect you have a high quantity of unfermentables in your beer. Maybe the mash temp was too high. Maybe there was a problem with the "homemade candi sugar". You have done all you can do to get the gravity down. You warmed it up, swirled it, and even "re-pitched" by racking onto a new yeast cake. If it is still 1.024, then that is probably as low as it is gonna go.
If it were me, I would bottle it. 1.024 is higher than ideal, but I don't think it is a deal-breaker based on your information. I would be very surprised if you got bottle bombs, considering the efforts you have made to drop the gravity with no results.
Probably the only other thing I might try is to boil about 1/2 pound of candi sugar (or cane sugar) in a few cups of water. Cool it to room temperature and add to the fermenter. This will hopefully "kick-start" the yeast into activity again. They may (or may not) drop the gravity a few more points after they eat the simple sugar. I suspect that this will yield limited results, but it may be worth trying.
"Give a man a beer, and he will waste an hour. Teach a man to brew, and he will waste a lifetime!" Bill Owen
The expected FG at 1.064 OG and 75% attenuation would be 1.016, and 1.024 isn't THAT far off from 1.016. Either way, you wouldn't expect bottle bombs at that FG, you are just going to have a malty Dubbel. I'd go ahead and bottle.
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You dumped it onto another yeast cake? Wouldn't that oxygenate it up pretty well? Hopefully you don't have cardboard after bottling
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Keg #2: Empty :(
Kegs 3-5: Empty :(
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Quebec foie gras production an abomination
During ancient times, farmers reputedly immobilized ducks and geese in order to more easily force-feed and fatten them by nailing their feet to the floor. You would think that we had progressed beyond such barbarism, but a recent PETA investigation at a foie gras farm in Quebec has revealed conditions that are depressingly archaic.
At a farm located outside Montreal and owned by Palmex Inc., which is part of Rougie, the self-proclaimed "world's No. 1 producer of foie gras," PETA documented ducks lined up in rows of coffin-like cages that encase their bodies like vices. The birds' heads and necks protrude through small openings, which makes force-feeding easier. The birds can do little more than stand, try to lie down and turn their heads. They cannot so much as spread a single wing.
Ducks are waterfowl. In their natural habitat, they spend almost their entire lives in or near water — swimming, bathing, diving and feeding. On foie gras farms, ducks never go near ponds or streams — ever. In their final weeks, they are confined to cages or pens and several pounds of mush is pumped down their throats through a metal pipe up to three times a day. This is done until the birds' livers grotesquely expand to up to 10 times their normal size, which is the symptom of a painful disease called hepatic steatosis. Some people call it a delicacy.
Similar conditions to those at Palmex have been documented on French foie gras farms, even though shoebox-style cages were supposed to have been eliminated there after the Council of Europe passed regulations in 1999 that require foie gras farms to provide birds with enough space in which to move, preen, interact and eat and drink normally. Existing farms were given until the end of 2010 to comply with the regulations, but at least one of the French farms where these cages were documented was built after the law went into effect.
Both France and Canada export foie gras all over the globe, including a corner of the world that recently banned the production and sale of foie gras: Hermosa Beach, Calif., Palmex supplies foie gras to Hot's Kitchen, a restaurant in Hermosa Beach that continues to sell foie gras in flagrant violation of a statewide ban. PETA has filed a lawsuit against the restaurant's owner.
There are those who, even after seeing photos of lethargic, barely conscious ducks with red-rimmed eyes, filthy feathers, drooping heads and bloody injuries to their necks and bills, will insist that there's nothing wrong with foie gras, but experts disagree. "Ducks need to be able to move, walk, stretch, preen, bathe ... and exercise," says avian veterinarian Anthony Pilny. "This housing denies and frustrates the ducks' basic, biological needs, and it is cruel and inhumane. These animals feel pain, grief, and loss. It is unjust to treat them in this way."
There's a reason foie gras production has been outlawed in more than a dozen countries (and California), why chefs like Charlie Trotter refuse to serve it, and why Prince Charles refuses to allow it on royal menus: It's an abomination. We may no longer be nailing birds' feet to the floor, but we haven't progressed much beyond that in the past millennium.
Dan Paden is a senior research associate with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
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Yosemite Home Decor Aspen Grove Canvas Art
47" H x 31" W x 1" D Size
72" H x 48" W x 2" D Size
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Yosemite Home Decor Aspen Grove Canvas Art
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47" H x 31" W x 1" D Size
72" H x 48" W x 2" D Size
|Product Type: Original painting
|Subject: Landscape and nature
|Medium: Acrylic paint
|Artist: Alicia Bogenschutz
|Orientation: Vertical
|Style: Modern
|Shape: Rectangle
|Color: Multi-colored
|Hardware Finish: Chrome
|Primary Art Material: Canvas
|Additional Materials: Wood
|Hardware Material: Iron
|Number of Items Included: 1
|Gloss Finish: Yes
|Lightweight: Yes
|Wall Hook: Yes
|Glass Component: No
|Framed Art: No
|Wrapped: Yes
|Textured: Yes
|Time Period: Modern
|Region: Central America
|Gender: Unisex/Both
|Compatible Surface Type: Flat surface
|Room Use: Bedroom; Living room
|Commercial Use: Yes
|Eco-Friendly: No
|Product Care: Wipe clean with a dry cloth; do not use strong liquid cleaners
|Country of Manufacture: China
|Size: Oversized 41" and above
|Assembly Required: No
|Installation Required: Yes
|Additional Parts Required: Yes
|Product Warranty: 1 Year
About the ManufacturerLocated in the Central Valley of Fresno, California, Yosemite Home Décor has set out to become the premier leader in lighting and other unique home products. The extraordinary beauty and unsurpassed quality of the Yosemite line, is guaranteed to transform any home's decor into a one of a kind masterpiece.
Yosemite Home Decor Aspen Grove Canvas Art
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Carol from Loveland, CO– Verified Buyer
I absolutely love the colors in this canvas art. It looks fabulous in my Aspen Tree House and personifies the theme.. Arrived perfectly packaged and delivered.
Valued Customer from Arizona– Verified Buyer
I really like this aspen grove art. It is just what I was hoping for from the picture and description. The colors are nice and vivid, and it really goes well with the other decor in the room.
OUR SKU # YHD2171Aspen Grove Canvas Art is also sometimes listed under the following manufacturer numbers: FCD5949E-1, FCD5949E-1YM


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LoL At this post. This guy is a riot. No pun intended.
Guuys. why dont u get it like plz help me. MYMBN!!!!!!!! OMq like this has been going on fo sooo long. If no one uses him, then NERF HIMMMMMMMMMMM!!!! Cause the poeple who do jungle like A NOOOBLOARD and just bring terroor. His ap elevel is too high. I need help like for a levl 30 person, i shouldnt be looosing to level 5s who just think there so cool and slam everyone with op character. THen they start to bm us. Plz help me talk to developers. INEEED HELP. MYMBN!!!
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Every champion can be OP if they get enough LH or Kills ive seen Sona's who I couldnt take on alone. Its all about shutting them down. And honesly Master Yi isnt the most OP champ look at Darius, Xin Zhoa, Shaco, Ezreal, Lux, Rengar, Kha Zix, Dr. Mundo, Jayce, Teemo, Sion, Lee Sin, and thats just a handful.
Junior Member
Greetings all honorable league players,
I don't think he needs any nerfing or buffing as he seems pretty balanced to me.
I play him quite a bit.
I don't get tons of kills. But I usually end up with the majority of the towers and some inhibs.
It is how you play and build him and how you have your runes and all setup.
Heres hoping we meet on the honorable fields if justice my friends,
Thoughtful wander
eVo Wablamuffin
Shh...I just bought Yi and Soraka...I want to play broken Yi, no nerfing unless I hate him plz! LOL
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