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Apr
07
2006
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by Dan Veaner
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Friday, 07 April 2006 |
 If you have been looking for a good local source of Eastern European foods, you will want to stop by AJ's Delights in the Triphammer Mall. The shop is just a month old, but already the Russian speaking community and people of Eastern European heritage are finding it. "We accept everybody, not only the Russian speaking community," says Inna Vishnevskaya, who owns the shop with her husband Mikhail Abramyan. "Americans with German background, Hungarians, Poles, Czech... they come and they say there used to be a store downtown. People say they miss it and they're glad that we opened."
The couple opened AJ's Delights on March 6th, but have been working on the project since last September. Originally from Azerbaijan, they saw a need for an Eastern European food source in Ithaca. " It took a month to write a business plan, because we had no idea what a business plan is," says Vishnevskaya. "So we took all the books from the library and our oldest daughter, big thanks to her. She typed it. Her English vocabulary is much better than ours. We worked on it for a month. Numbers we can do, it's universal. It's just English that took a long time."
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Apr
07
2006
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by Dan Veaner
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Friday, 07 April 2006 |
 Dr. Digit 'Splains it All
As I watch other people use Windows programs I can't help but notice that they do it differently from me. A lot of people click on the File menu, then click through the choices. For example, to open a new file you would click File, then Open, then scroll through the choices until you find the file you want before clicking the "Open" button to load the file.
"What's wrong with that?" you may ask. Nothing, really. It works. But here's what I do: I press the Ctrl key and the O (the letter, not the zero) key at the same time, then type the beginning of the file name. Windows presents me with a list of files that begin with what I typed. I choose the right one and press Enter. Is my way better? Not especially, but it is a lot faster.
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Mar
31
2006
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by Dan Veaner
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Friday, 31 March 2006 |
 The place is all ripped up. Workmen are busy working from room to room, digging trenches for electrical wiring in the concrete floors, removing some walls, putting up new ones. Meanwhile some quiches are coming out of the oven and will arrive hot at a catered event. There is constant motion in the dining room, kitchens and all around. And there is an undeniable sense of excitement as Hope's Way is hurrying to complete a major transformation in time for an April 3 reopening.
In the middle of the flurry is Hope Rich, directing the construction and her catering business from a crowded office. She is a bundle of energy, keeping on top of everything from furniture to electrical and plumbing, to a meat slicer delivery to a catering business that continues to operate in the chaos. "We have always had the cafe as well as an off-premises catering component," she explains. "What we wanted to do is create a meeting place, not only for catered events on-premises, but also for overflow from the cafe."
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Mar
24
2006
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by Reprinted with permission of Invstment Representative Celine Richardson of Ithaca's EdwardJones
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Friday, 24 March 2006 |
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If you have several years to go until retirement, now is the right time to determine about how much annual income you can count on as a retiree. And if it looks like you might be coming up short, you'll want to take action soon. Even if you've been investing for many years, you may not be able to count on a typical portfolio of stocks and bonds to provide you with the income you'll need to enjoy a comfortable retirement lifestyle. Consequently, you may want to consider these two moves: purchasing an immediate annuity and delaying your Social Security payments. Let's examine both these options.
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Mar
24
2006
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by Dan Veaner
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Friday, 24 March 2006 |
Dr. Digit 'Splains It All
I got one of those indoor-outdoor thermometers that communicates with a sensor that is placed outside. They both run on batteries, and communicate by radio waves. I thought this was a pretty good arrangement. I could put the main unit on my desk somewhere and not have cords dangling from it. I could hang the sensor on a tree in the yard and wouldn't need a long wire to make it tell my desk unit how cold it is outside.
In one part of the manual it says to put two AAA alkaline batteries in the outside sensor. So I did. I got everything working, then went back to reading the manual for pleasure. (You see, it doesn't take much to please me...) Whoops! I found a warning not to use alkaline batteries in sub-freezing temperatures, because they freeze. It said not to worry, though, because when the weather warmed up the batteries would unfreeze and start working gain. They suggested lithium batteries for cold climes, because they don't freeze until you get to -40 degrees Fahrenheit.
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