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** Tip Of The Day –  Easy Reading Trick

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** Woman in Business –  Organic Gardening Tips: How to Keep Your Flowers Healthy All Year Long
by Annie Spiegelman

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** "Cooking for the Empty Nest" –  Hamburger goulash

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Easy Reading Trick

Some of the fonts that Web sites are using these days are almost completely unreadable. There is a way however, to change them so you can actually see what you are doing? There are over a million amateur Web page makers to every pro designer, but they may not be to blame. Possibly the reason why so many Web sites seem to be using an ugly font has more to do with your browser than the design skills of the person who designed the site.

You may not know it, but your browser has a default font already set in place. If it happens to be some unattractive, unreadable font, then any Web site that does not have a specified font will use it.

The interface for Internet Explorer and AOL is the same, but you get there in different ways. With Internet Explorer, go to Tools, Internet Options to open the Control Panel. With AOL, go to Settings, Preferences and then under Organization, click Internet Properties.

Down at the bottom of the General page, you will see a button marked Fonts. Clicking this opens a window where you can select the font you want to have as a default.

For readability, keep it simple. Choose either Arial or Times New Roman. For plain text, you can do the same or you can use Courier New for that typewriter look.

In Firefox, go to Tools, Options and click Fonts and Colors under the General tab. You can specify the font size, the color and more here.

Now, with Netscape Navigator, go to Edit, Preferences and then under the Appearance category, select Fonts.

From the "Fonts for" drop down list, choose a character set. For instance, any of you who browse Web sites in Western languages (like English), set default fonts for the Western character set.

Next, select whether proportional text should be Serif (like Times Roman) or Sans-Serif (like Arial). Then specify the font size you want for proportional text. The normal size is a 12 point, but you can go larger or smaller if you want. You can also choose fonts for Serif, Sans-Serif, Cursive, Fantasy and Monospace, but I don't think it will make much of a difference on most sites.

Who knew you had so much control over a Web site's appearance?!

Air Force helicopter pilot rescues Special Forces team

On this day in 1968, while returning to base from another mission, Air Force 1st Lt. James P. Fleming and four other Bell UH-1F helicopter pilots got an urgent message from an Army Special Forces team pinned down by enemy fire.

Although several of the other helicopters had to leave the area because of low fuel, Lieutenant Fleming and another pilot pressed on with the rescue effort. The first attempt failed because of intense ground fire, but refusing to abandon the Army green berets, Fleming managed to land and pick up the team. When he safely arrived at his base near Duc Co, it was discovered that his aircraft was nearly out of fuel. Lieutenant Fleming was later awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions.

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Organic Gardening Tips: How to Keep Your Flowers Healthy All Year Long
by Annie Spiegelman

It's time we started showing some respect and gratitude for the underappreciated earthworm and his boy back-up band, fungi & bacteria. They are the true humble heroes and workhorses who do the necessary dirty work to keep your soil full of nutrients.

Yet, in our home gardens, we're constantly killing earthworms with synthetic fertilizers. We're baking them to a crisp with unnatural, high-levels of nitrogen and salts. Worms don't want to see any neon colored manmade crystals.

Remember, earthworms are garden superstars, but they don't insist on the center-stage spotlight! They thrive in moisture and dark. All they require is some good old fungi, bacteria, a banana peel or two and yesterday's sports page to create nature's best fertilizer in their castings, for free!

5 Dirt Diva Reasons Why Gardeners Should Love Earthworms (Eisenia foetida)

1. Worms help air and water enter and circulate through soil. As they crawl underground they loosen the soil so plant roots have plenty of oxygen and room to spread.

2. They break down organic matter, such as leaves, into nutrients plants can use. Earthworms transport minerals from the subsoil to the topsoil, and they keep the soil's pH level and organic matter content just right.

3. Worms secrete slime, which contains nitrogen, one of the most important elements for healthy plants. Nitrogen gives the dark green color to plants and increases the growth of leaves and stems.

4. They eat and dump, and leave behind those precious worm castings or pure fertilizer. Their castings are rich in trace minerals, plant nutrients and plant growth enhancers. In fact, a recent study by the Rodale Institute showed that worm castings have growth benefits that exceed even those of plain compost.

5. Castings have a NPK (Nitrogen, Phosphorous, potassium) ratio of 3.2-1.1-1.5. These nutrients are readily available to the plants and will never ever burn your plants.

These five dirty diva reasons are exactly why you should build a worm bin for your garden.

How to Create a Worm Bin So Your Flowers Stay Beautiful All Year Long:

1. Get yourself an opaque 10-14 gallon plastic storage bin at least 12 to 16 inches deep, with a tight fitting lid. Drill a dozen pencil sized holes in the top and sides for ventilation.

2. Tear your newspapers into 1inch strips lengthwise for bedding or use your shredded documents that you neglected to show the IRS. No color or glossy paper. Wet the bedding with a garden hose and wring it out like a moist sponge.

3. Buy some red wigglers! You can find it at Suburbanhabitat.com, or check with your local plant nursery. Start with 1 pound. (Eight adult red worms can produce 1500 babies in 6 months!)

4. Fill your bin with the wet newspaper and 2 big handfuls of garden soil. Mix it up and gently add the worms in, covering them in the paper. Add a handful of food scraps under the newspaper. Cover the bin and keep it sheltered from heat or cold. You could keep the bin under your sink or in the garage shed.

5. Feed them fruit, vegetable scraps, coffee grounds, tea bags, eggshells, leaves, grass clippings, yard waste. No meat or dairy. Chop up food items into smaller pieces.

6. Check on your earthworms once a week to make sure the bedding is still damp. Don't feed them more food till they finish everything on their plate! They will eventually eat the bedding so add more as needed.

7. In 3 months you will have rich crumbly soil-like material. These are worm castings!  To harvest, move all of the bedding and castings to one side of the bin. Put fresh bedding and food on the empty side of the bin. Give the worms a few days to move on over to the new side. You can then harvest the old side of the bin. Dig the castings into garden beds or sprinkle them on top of your soil.

For those organic gardeners and divas who don't have the time, space or guts to build and maintain your own worm bin, products like TerraCycle Worm Poop can become your new best friend. It's all natural, eco-friendly plant food made from organic garbage.

Fertilize your yard with worm poop each season and I guarantee your flowers will stay healthy all year long. Try it! It's fun.

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Master gardener and author Annie Spiegelman, attracts a whole new generation of women, girlfriends & moms to the joy of working in nature. With a spirited tone mixed with effervescence, The Dirt Diva will influence you to make an ethical commitment to the environment in your own backyard. For more tips on how you can keep your flowers healthy all year long while building a better future, one shovel full of compost at a time, go to http://www.dirtdiva.com
 
 

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   A Little Humor to Start the Week 

Windy?
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Three old guys are out walking.

First one says, "Windy, isn't it?"

Second one says, "No, it's Thursday!"

Third one says, "So am I. Let's go get a beer."

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  A twenty-one year old girl tells her Mom that she has missed her period for two months. Very worried, the mother goes to the drugstore and buys a pregnancy kit. The test result shows that the girl is pregnant.

Shouting, cursing, crying, the mother says, "Who was the pig that did this to you? I want to know!"

The girl picks up the phone and makes a call. Half an hour later a Ferrari stops in front of their house; a mature and distinguished man with gray hair, impeccably dressed in a very expensive suit, steps out of the car and enters the house.

He sits in the living room with the father, the mother and the girl, and tells   them, "Good morning. Your daughter has informed me of the problem. I can't   marry her because of my personal family situation, but I'll take charge.

If a girl is born, I will bequeath her two retail stores, a townhouse, a beach villa and a $1,000,000 bank account.

If a boy is born, my legacy will be a couple of factories and a $2,000,000 bank account.

If it is twins, a factory and $1,000,000 each. However, if there is a miscarriage, what do you suggest I do?"

At this point, the father, who had remained silent, places a hand firmly on the man's shoulder and tells him, "Then you try again."

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A man is stumbling through the woods totally drunk when he comes upon a preacher baptizing people in the river. He proceeds to walk into the water and subsequently bumps into the preacher. The preacher turns around and is almost overcome by the smell of alcohol, whereupon he asks the drunk, "Are you ready to find Jesus?" The drunk answers, "Yes, I am."

So the preacher grabs him and dunks him in the water. He pulls him up and asks the drunk, "Brother have you found Jesus?" The drunk replies, "No, I haven't found Jesus."

The preacher shocked at the answer, dunks him into the water again for a little longer this time. He again pulls him out of the water and asks again, "Have you found Jesus my brother?" The drunk again answers, "No, I haven't found Jesus."

By this time the preacher is at his wits end and dunks the drunk in the water again--but this time holds him down for about 30 seconds and when he begins kicking his arms and legs he pulls him up. The preacher again asks the drunk, "For the love of God have you found Jesus?"

The drunk wipes his eyes and catches his breath and says to the preacher, "Are you sure this is where he fell in?"

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Riddle

You have nine coins. One of the nine is counterfeit. The counterfeit coin can only be distinguished by weight --- it is heavier than the rest. Using a balance scale "only twice", find the counterfeit coin.

Do you know the answer? If not, look for the solution later in this newsletter.

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Alcohol is not the answer,
it just makes you forget the question.

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"Cooking for the Empty Nest"
Recipe of the Week
by Susan Kemp

Hamburger goulash

1lb hamburger
1 can of stewed tomatoes
1 medium onion chopped
1 green pepper chopped
rice
salt & pepper

Brown hamburger, drain & put aside. Cook onions & green pepper until tender. Add cooked hamburger & tomatoes. Stir together & heat until hot. Add salt & pepper. Serve over cooked rice. I use one of the quick rices, the kind you can microwave. I put the rice in the microwave while I am cooking the hamburger mixture. It takes 15-20 minutes to fix the meal. I fix a salad with it.

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Yours in cooking - Sue

Create three groups of three coins. Groups 1, 2 and 3. Balance Group 1 against Group 2. If the two groups balance, the bad coin is in Group 3.  If one group of coins weighs more than the other, the bad coin is in the heavier group.

Once you have determined which group contains the counterfeit coin, take any two coins from the bad group and weigh them against each other. If they weigh the same, the bad coin is the third coin. Otherwise the bad coin is the heavier coin of the two.

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